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Hello Yamachan. Hello Kevin. Hey, do you have anything you want to talk about today?
Oh yeah, of course. Okay, all right. I'm gonna start the program, okay? Okay, okay. Okay.
Welcome to Kevin's English Room podcast.
Wow, it's so great to hear your echoing through the earphones.
Wow, that's fantastic. It's really the real thing. Glad you liked it. You know, so today it is
our first time we're trying out a enkaku shuroku. Yay! I'm at my house, Yamachan you're at your house.
Yeah, I'm connected online and trying to do a enkaku renais. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because we haven't been able to connect together, you know, haven't been able to meet together.
So it's gotta be a good idea to have some content out. I know it might be better,
I don't know, it might turn out to be great but I'm feeling like being together in the same
atmosphere, in the same room, we're getting into better content maybe but it's better than
nothing, right? Right, of course. Yeah, right, right. So we decided to do them online. Okay, so
what do you got for us today? Yeah, oh, can you hear me? I can hear you just fine.
Happy birthday to you. Oh, shit, man. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Yamachan.
Happy birthday. Yeah, sorry about that.
Happy birthday to you.
Yay! Thank you. So this is your birthday today. Yes, it is my birthday today.
His birthday today. Thank you.
Send some messages to him. Oh, yes, thank you, thank you guys, thank you guys.
Reading messages. Guys, no, it's okay, you don't need to send me anything.
I'm already grateful that I'm alive.
You are alive. I'm a grateful man. I'm a grateful person, you know? I'm humble.
So how do you feel about that? I feel nothing, man. Like honestly, I feel nothing at all.
Until I was like a high school student, I was always excited for my birthday. And ever since
around like after graduating college, maybe I started feeling nothing about my birthday.
Like, today, like today, I spent my birthday just ordinary as every day, you know, like,
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yeah, I went to a family restaurant and I did some work with my computer, right? Yeah.
Right. So it's nothing like the other days. But I am done. I am planning on having a little treat
for myself, you know, have some maybe a little bit smaller birthday cake. Right. A little for me,
probably too much for you. Because you don't find out you don't like sugar. Right. But some chocolate.
Yes, yes. Maybe chocolate birthday cake made for myself from Cozy Corner or something like that.
But I have turned 26. And I'm grateful that I got here. I'm able to live in Japan.
Yeah, just I feel like so many people have helped me. And I feel grateful. Thank you.
Yeah, I'm so honored to to spend the time with you recording this podcast with you on my on my 26th
birthday. Wow, that was touching. Yeah. Thank you. Well, thank you. And your birthday song was
unbelievably great. So thank you very much. Thanks for being with me. Oh, that's that was a touching
words, by the way. Yeah, yeah. For real, man. For real. Yeah. Oh, you're 26 now. I am 26 years old.
Yes, I am 26. You are a man. Right. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. I feel like I am at the midst of my
of my adventure hood. I feel like, like, you know, career wise, you know, like, I'm even
what was that? What did you say? My career hood, you know, like, midst of my career hood, like, I'm at
the very middle of my career ages, very middle of my working days, you know, I'm, I have the energy
to go all in on my work. I'm doing everything I can to to continue this influencer business. I'm
still running my restaurant. And yes, and heads up, things are going to change a little bit. I have
decided to to switch off a little bit. I decided to maybe sell off my restaurant business maybe.
Oh, really? Yeah, maybe. Yeah. First time I said this to you guys, but maybe I will. And maybe I'm,
I might want to start something new with this influencer business. I will talk to you guys
about that later privately. Yes, but things are changing and I feel like I'm going all in at it.
I feel great for it. And thank you. Well, that's thanks for being being with me. Yeah, I'm a child.
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That's what I want to tell you. Wow, that's, that's really nice.
True. We are in the middle of the real careerhood. I'm so happy that I can spend time with you right
now. You know, that's, that's kind of really precious in life. It is, it is, you know, it is.
Right. We're doing the best we can, you know. True. So what do we have for today? Yeah, we're trying.
Okay. Let's see. Some, we've got some lines as usual. Lines as usual. I know we're opening up
our lives, aren't we? You know, we have to change something. Always surprised. You know? All right.
So, okay. Okay. We've got some requests.
Uh huh. Okay. Let's go with this. Okay.
What a question.
Well, the first thing that popped into my mind was like, I have zero interest in kids right now.
I have absolutely zero interest.
Wait, someday, someday I probably will have kids, but right now I am going all in on my job so much
that I have no clue what my kids, I have no image, no,
no kodawari right now for my kids and marriage life and all that stuff. Yeah. But, uh,
as I was talking, I was thinking a little bit what the possibilities might be. I was thinking like,
but is it going to be like Japanese name or American name? Probably Japanese name. Okay. Yeah.
I'll probably marry a Japanese woman. So it's probably going to be like a Japanese kid. Yeah.
So Japanese would be very likely. Uh, I don't know. I don't have, I don't really have any kodawari for
names. You know, like maybe it's, maybe it's because I'm at my stage right now at a point
where I have no interest in kids. That's why I don't, I don't, I'm not coming up with names, but,
I mean, have you ever like felt that someone's name is so cool or, or like,
wow, his name is really cool. Like soundly. Uh, no, I have not. No. Uh, I can get Ichiro.
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No. Well, I mean, I, I can probably say that I will not go with any of the Kira Kira names.
Right. You know, like the Kira Kira names. Yeah. Jurietta. Yeah. Something like that.
Yeah. I'll probably go with a more orthodox names. Like Talo maybe. That's a little bit too
back in the old days kind of names. I'll probably go with the more modern names.
Like not the old name. I'll probably go with the more modern names. Like, uh,
like what? Like, like, or like, or like, or like, is that modern for you? Yeah. It's modern for me.
Or like, or like modern for me. That's very modern for me. Uh, yeah. Is it not for you? Like,
yeah, but it's not that modern name. It's a kind of common name. What's a modern name for you? Like,
uh, uh, Joe. Joe. Joe. Never heard of that name before. Tell me something else. Is there any
other names you can think of as modern? Uh, uh, show. Uh, okay. Okay. I, I, okay. I think I understand
that. You know, it's like, like soundly. It's a, you know, like, like it's a little bit cool and modern.
Yeah. Like, yeah. I agree with you with, with the show. How about K? Oh, that's K. K. Yeah. That's
not bad. It's pretty modern, right? How about you? Do you have any preferences on names? Well, uh,
actually I don't, but, but when I was a elementary school student, I, uh, I spent a lot of time
thinking about, about this topic. Okay. Elementary school, right? Yes. Yes. Okay. Pretty early. Right?
Yeah. And, uh, my conclusion was using the, the Miyabi word. What do you mean? You know,
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Miyabi, the, uh, ga, masa. Do you know that word? No. Yeah. Like you got no ga.
Is that a Miyabi word? Yeah. It's read as Miyabi. It's what do you mean?
It's a Japanese calic. I've never heard of, I don't have no idea what you're talking about, sir.
Like, I don't know what you're talking about here. Like, what? Okay. No, no, no. All right.
Too complicated. Yeah. Walking with you through this system. Yeah. So walk me through what you're
talking about here. Like the whole concept of Miyabi. No, they are. I liked the, the shape of
the word. Yeah. There's a Kanji. Right. You want to use this Kanji that's read Miyabi. Yes. Ah, okay.
That's completely like Japanese, you know, style. So I got it. Got it. Got it. So Kunyomi, it's Miyabi.
And Onyomi, there's different ways. Oh, I'm so surprised that you know about Kunyomi and Onyomi.
Yeah, I know a lot about Kanji, man. I went to a Japanese high school. Struggled a lot, man.
Wow. Learned a lot. Yeah, so I know what Kunyomi and Onyomi is. That's right. So, okay. I want to use
some Japanesey word. Okay. Like "Wa" or you know, some kind of Japanesey Kanji. So what is a non-Japanesey
Kanji? To me, like all of them are very Japanesey. Oh, really? Yeah. Like what are some of the non-Japanesey
Kanji? Like "Shun" and "Kei". What was that? "Shun" and "Kei". You know, these are, of course, these are all
Japanese words, but what's "Shun"? "Shun"? "Kei"? Like, like, like "Shun". "Shunkan no Shun"
Ah, that's not Japanesey? Right. Like, you know, of course, these all are Japanese, Japanese words, but
you know, especially "Miyabi", "Wa" or, like, there are some especially Japanesey characters.
So, I guess they're like Kanji that represent the Japanese culture. Right, right. The Japanese
spiritual state. Right. Yeah. Okay, okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. Well, what's the meaning of "Miyabi", by the way?
That's "Miyabi". Like, something like "Ojouhin". Oh, okay.
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Japanese mannerism. Right. Japanese beauty. Beautiful. Like, manner. Right. Tell me one thing that's very
Miyabi. Wow, like, do you know Heian Jidai? No. I heard of it, though, but I don't know the
characteristic of a Heian Jidai. Like, back in, like, 700 in Japan, there was the era called
Heian Jidai. Yes. And at the time, people were like, they were called "Kizoku" people. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
They enjoyed reading poems. Yes. Like, Japanese poems. Uh-huh. And did some little "Kemari"
things. "Kemari", okay. Yeah, I don't know if you heard about that. No.
And wearing, you know, gorgeous kimonos. Oh. And a huge, like, like, house. Uh-huh.
You know, that's kind of Fudu Miyabi. Oh, gotcha, gotcha. Maybe the word I used, "gorgeous", wasn't
the best word for explaining that Miyabi concept. Japanese beauty. Right. It's, yeah, Japanese
beauty. Like, beauty, like, wabi-sabi things. Ah, right, right. Not being over-selfish. Not
caring about the other person quietly. Right, right, right. Those kinds of beauty, right? Like,
beautyness of silence, maybe. Ah, gotcha, gotcha. Ah, very Japanesey. Yeah. So that's Miyabi,
I guess. So, so your name would maybe involve kanjis like "Miyabi". Right, but it also can be
read as "ga" or "masa". Ah. You know, if I can use that word, then maybe "masayuki" maybe,
or "masaki" maybe, but. Ah, yes, yes. Maybe "yugakun" maybe, but I don't know. Is that
applicable for girls? Masako-san maybe? Masako? Yeah. Ah, okay. Okay, it was okay name to use.
The reaction, kind of. Yeah. Okay. So you would use Miyabi as your name. Right. And for me,
I would use a modern. Modern. In my dictionary, very modern kind of name. Okay. And there you go.
That's our answer. Right. And thank you for listening again to our podcast. And happy
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about this to you. Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We will see you again
on the next episode. Bye bye, guys.
