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*singing*
*laughter*
Come on man, what are you waiting for?
No, sorry, I was thinking...
*laughter*
The melody, but...
Didn't come out.
*coughing*
Oh, shit!
Water!
Alright.
So, we're still in...
*coughing*
Are you okay, man?
Yeah, I'm fine.
I'm fine.
Okay, this is a bugger.
Okay.
What was the episode?
Alright, so...
*coughing*
Uhhh...
Kuse!
Yamerarenai kuse!
Okay.
I have one...
One.
It's not "kuse".
Kuse is something that you do unconsciously.
Yes.
But this is something that I do, do consciously.
But, but I, you know, can't...
Can't help it.
Right.
Okay.
It's...
Go for it.
You might know about that, but...
Like...
How do you say "kaidan"?
Stairs?
Stairs, right.
So, when you...
Walking at the stairs...
Uh-huh.
You know, last step.
My last step...
Has to be...
My left leg.
Why?
I don't know.
What?
I don't know, but that's my...
Kuse.
It's not "kuse", but...
Because I do this consciously.
It's your religion.
Yeah.
It's my...
It's my religion, maybe.
That's your religion, right?
It's your belief.
Yeah.
You...
What...
Do you think something bad is gonna happen?
Or...
Do you...
What...
Maybe.
What's going through your mind?
When...
That's important to me.
When it might...
Land in your right leg.
I don't know, because I've never landed...
On my right legs.
So...
What...
You know, that keeps me...
You know, stable.
Maybe.
What?
I can realize that I...
You know...
That I...
I'm okay today.
I'm...
I'm...
Stable today.
I'm myself today, you know?
Wait, how did...
Do you know when...
When did that start?
When I was...
First...
Grade of elementary school, maybe?
I don't remember, but...
Was there an event that happened that made you do that?
Yeah, I invented...
At the beginning, actually.
I was thinking that I...
I...
Was thinking that I...
You know, it was pretend...
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It was to avoid...
The huge earthquake.
Oh.
Or...
Toshi-densetsu?
No, that was me who invented...
It was you.
You invented that for yourself.
Yeah.
That was to avoid...
Us having...
The huge earthquake.
Or my parents...
Going away.
Or any bad things that you can imagine will happen to me.
Wow.
At the beginning.
That's how it started.
Yeah, when I was a very little kid.
I mean, kids do those kinds of things.
I understand that.
I understand the feeling of that.
Okay.
Like...
So you're saying that I'm a kid?
No, no, no, no, no.
That started when you were a kid, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I understand how that starts.
Okay.
When I was a kid, I...
Oh, you did that?
Yeah, I didn't do the stairs shit, but like...
Stairs shit.
I didn't do...
But I understand how the...
Right.
The concept behind it.
Right, you have to carry the little "nui gurumi".
Yeah.
Maybe that's the same thing.
It's a little "kodawari", right?
Yeah, I understand that.
It's bigger than "kodawari" to me.
That's what's important.
Okay.
You know, you haven't had any of huge earthquake, right?
Like your house...
Yeah.
Broke.
Okay, no.
That's thanks to me.
Alright, you have to thank to me.
What?
It's because you landed on your left leg.
Yes.
Every day.
Every day.
Left, right?
Left.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Wait, so you didn't really answer my question there.
So you started doing that in elementary.
Okay?
And then it...
What?
It transformed into your habit?
Maybe.
Like now, I don't think anything.
Okay.
But it's not pray even.
But I just do.
That's my...
Maybe unconsciously I pray to avoid these kind of bad things, maybe.
So if you landed on your right leg, you might be met with an earthquake or a tragic accident or something like that.
That's what you're hedging.
That's what you're afraid of.
Yeah, might be.
That's interesting.
Might be.
But I really never ever think, thought that my right foot will land at the last step of the stairs.
So if the stairs were aligned in a way that naturally let you land on your right leg, what would happen?
Do you...
I have to change my steps.
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You have to change your steps between and along the way.
Right.
Okay.
Okay.
Do you have a religion or something?
I mean, I would say Shintoism, Japanese Shintoism maybe.
Is that the most popular one in Japan, Shintoism?
Yeah.
Okay.
I think so.
And people don't realize, but it's quite deeply related to Japanese customs.
Customs?
Yeah, like when you say "Itadakimasu," that's...
Shintoism?
Yeah.
Based on that.
Based on that.
Okay.
So when I met with some other, you know, the people from the United States maybe, and they asked me, "What is your religion?"
My answer would be Japanese Shintoism.
But I don't say this to Japanese people.
Yeah.
It's too natural and too, you know, that's culture.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
So that's your habit.
Yeah.
Quote, unquote, habit.
Right, right.
Do you have any?
I don't think I do.
But I know you have one yamerarenai kuse.
Yeah, I know what that is.
What's that?
Let's say it at the same time.
Okay.
Seeno.
Pants.
Chocolate.
Oh!
Chocolate!
Pants, eh?
Yes, yes.
That's not a normal habit.
Walking around without, you know...
That's not a habit.
Putting your pants on.
I mean...
This is what...
I hardly ever do that.
First of all, that only happens during summertime, okay?
And even during the hard days of summer, I rarely ever do that, dude.
I have...
No, you don't have to...
I have pants on.
Like, you would be...
No, maybe you...
You would be flabbergasted.
You carry too much peer pressure, maybe.
You would be amazed on how much...
How many people have never seen my underwear.
I rarely ever show my underwear to people.
Yeah.
Nightly.
Have you?
How many times have you seen me in my underwear?
Uncountable, but...
More than...
20?
That's a lot.
Yeah.
But you, you come in my house a lot, so it's different, right?
Yeah.
Is...
Okay, when someone's in their house, is it weird for them to be in their underwear?
Do you think it's weird?
Like, society?
Like, culturally weird?
I don't think it's weird, but do you?
I think that...
Not weird, because we are, you know, guys.
Yeah.
In one room.
So I don't think that's a weird thing, but I don't do.
You don't do it.
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I certainly wear my pants on.
Got it, got it, got it.
But I don't think that's a weird thing.
Yeah, I think a lot of people does that.
They walk around in their underwear when they're in the room.
Not only guys, but like, females too.
Oh yeah, yeah, right.
Because it's more comfortable that way.
Because it's more convenient that way.
Convenient.
You don't have a lot of...
You don't have a lot of laundry, right?
Yeah.
You don't...
Pajamas are a lot of laundry, right?
Of course, of course.
The less laundry, the better.
The more convenient, right?
Yeah, it's more convenient, but...
It's, you know, less...
I don't know how to say this, but less...
Like, dignity thing?
Dignity?
Yeah.
Well, yeah, I mean...
Like, a little bit less humanity.
I don't wanna, you know, be aggressive to anybody, but, you know...
It's a little bit less...
How to say that?
Not naughty.
Yeah.
Not naughty.
Right?
You know what I mean?
So, okay.
It's like having your room messy.
Having a messy room is like that.
Right, right.
Or like, not closing your...
Your closet.
Right.
Something like that.
You know, that's not a bad thing.
And it's not a weird thing, but...
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, the one I realized was that it's me eating chocolate.
Yeah, that's...
Or like, eating sweet food after every single meal.
Jesus Christ, can somebody help me out?
Or do you think you wanna...
Like, stop eating chocolate?
Well, occasionally I do.
Occasionally?
Okay.
Like, I know it's bad for my body.
So, if I had the ability to stop, I would.
You have the ability to stop that bad habit, absolutely.
I just don't...
I can't win.
I can't...
I always lose.
Okay.
On my desire to...
It's an addiction, right?
It's a...
Yeah.
It's an addiction.
But...
It's exactly the same thing.
If somebody's addicted to a drug, they can't win.
They can't...
They lose with their...
With their fighting.
If it was an addiction...
Yeah.
You can't even fight against them.
Just, you know...
Automatically your hand will move to the chocolate and have that.
Okay, if that's an addiction, then I'm not addicted to it.
But...
Light addiction, I guess.
Very light addiction.
Of chocolate, having chocolate.
Yeah, because when you eat a meal, when you eat lunch, it comes from nowhere.
It like automatically my brain sets into sugar mode.
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Wow.
And...
Yeah, it's unbelievable, right?
Like, it comes from nowhere.
It's just a...
It's just a routine.
It's like a...
It's really natural for my body to intake sugar after a meal.
It's natural that way.
What will happen if you don't have any sugar?
Nothing, nothing.
Nothing would happen.
It's just...
You just have to...
You'd be craving for it.
You'd...
You'd just be...
You know, empty.
Oh.
Your sugar desire is just empty.
And you will be like angry?
No, no, no.
Or mad?
No.
Just desiring sugar is all you want.
I would be opening the refrigerator every five minutes to see if there's something inside.
Something inside that I can eat.
Oh, that would be a problem.
Right, it's not the...
And it goes away in like an hour.
Okay.
Right.
Okay.
After I'm finished eating my dinner or lunch or...
Not breakfast.
That doesn't really happen in breakfast.
But like after lunch, I...
For the first hour or so where I really want to take in sugar and I...
I...
I wonder about...
I imagine myself going to the convenience store right now.
Like, I balance myself.
Do I want to take the energy and the money to go take myself to the convenience store and buy chocolate?
Or...
First is, do I withstand the sugar desire and save the time and money and energy?
And I always lose.
Okay.
Okay, not always lose.
Yeah.
Let's be real here.
It's about...
Out of ten.
Out of ten, I go to the convenience store.
Yeah.
I'm going to be very honest.
Yeah.
That's important.
This week, I would say...
Four.
So four times you went to the convenience store?
Yeah.
Okay.
Last week, the week before, it was like six.
Oh.
It differs.
There's a cycle, right?
What are you talking about?
Cycle?
There's times that I want, I desire sugar at a higher level.
And there's times I can, I can come on.
I can come up for sugar.
It's a cycle.
Okay.
Yeah, I don't know how that happens, but it does.
So, but you win.
You've won six times in this week.
I've won six times this week.
That's great.
That is great.
Great, Kevin.
Thank you.
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I'm doing a good job, man.
Yeah.
Great.
Well, keep up.
Thank you.
Yeah.
But it differs, because the convenience store is so far.
Right.
Right now.
A little bit far.
I'm going to be moving to a different location in several months.
Okay.
Just like you.
You're going to be moving out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, the, I haven't decided the exact location yet, but like I'm hoping there's a convenience
store nearby so I can go buy chocolate whenever I want to.
No.
I'm hoping that I'm going to be going out eight out of ten times.
No, no, no.
In that case, you have to choose a place where convenience stores are really, really far from
your house so that you can win every time.
That's inconvenient though.
Yeah, but you're more healthy.
But I want to, see that's where I'm losing right now.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm losing in the long term.
Right.
Right.
That's a big, you know, big battle.
Yeah.
So the best one is to, to be living near a supermarket because there all the ice creams
are 100 yen.
If it's a convenience store, it's like 150 yen or like, like 200 yen.
No, no, no.
I can save 50 to 100 yen every time.
I'm not talking about the money.
I'm talking about healthy.
Healthy matter.
Yeah.
What would happen if I continue eating ice cream at this rate?
What, what disease or what health condition will I be met with?
Like, possibly.
Tohnyoubyou?
Tohnyoubyou maybe.
What is a Tohnyoubyou?
Oh, you take too much sugar.
And then what happens?
And then, that means in the blood, there's too much amount of sugar inside.
Okay.
And that will cause many problems to your, uh.
Kidney.
Yeah, kidneys.
Bladder.
Bladder.
Bladder.
What is it?
What?
Bladder?
Yeah, maybe.
Yeah, but, but it's more kidney disease.
Okay.
And you can't make, you know, the right blood.
Right amount of, you know, blood.
Okay.
And the kidney will die.
Okay.
And your blood will be.
Disgusting.
It's gonna go bad and bad.
And you will die from something.
That's not good.
Yeah.
I can stop this by not eating as much chocolate?
I think so.
Oh.
Well, it's, uh.
It's my, ooh, my.
I may consider it.
Okay.
We've been talking a lot.
Yeah, that's good.
All right, thanks for listening again, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
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