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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Yay!
We've received a gift, you know what I'm talking about?
This right here.
Um... Blue.
Yeah.
Yes, blue.
And let's look inside.
Is that the brand name?
I don't know, I've never actually heard of this brand before.
Inside, we have a...
I think it's like a...
Must be...
Incense. So like, "oko" maybe?
Yeah, intense.
Right.
And we've got a letter here.
We're not going to read this out loud because it's a little private, but it's from...
Miyuki-san.
Miyuki-san.
Yes.
Arigatou gozaimasu.
Miyuki-san.
Can I read this?
Of course.
Thank you.
So this...
It talks about what the product is.
So maybe we can read that.
Oh.
Smell of this paper.
Wow.
Is it coming from this?
Because it has the same smell, I think.
Yeah.
Yeah, right.
So can you talk to me about the product that's written on the letter here?
Yeah.
It's an intense.
Yes.
These are intense.
She bought from the shop that, you know, of her favorite.
Okay.
She's been going to the shop like for like long years.
Mm-hmm.
And she loves that smell.
Okay.
And...
Yeah.
So she's saying that she's hoping that we like that smell.
Okay.
Yeah.
Why don't we try one?
We should try one.
Yeah.
So we've got...
Miyuki-san sent us two smells.
Oh, different?
One is sandalwood.
The other is jasberries.
Wow.
I don't know either one of them.
Sandalwood, I've heard about.
About sandalwood.
Oh, sandalwood.
You've heard of what?
Yeah, but I don't know what is in Japanese.
Sandalwood.
Ah.
The package looks really neat.
It looks sort of like a...
Like it has a Jamaican taste, maybe.
Or like a tropical Jamaican taste.
Uh-huh.
But the...
Like East Asian...
Yeah.
But it looks like it's got Russian on it.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
So sandalwood was byakudan.
What's that?
Okay, what's that?
It's a kind of wood.
Okay.
Byakudan.
We have...
Like, in Japanese intents, we have byakudan smell too.
Okay.
So which one do you want to...
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What you want to...
What was it, the other one?
Jas...
Jasberries.
Jasberries.
That I've never heard of it either.
Jasberries.
J-A-Z-Z berries.
Mm-hmm.
Jas...
Or it says...
Jasberries.
Don't know what that is.
That is a Jasberry.
That is a Jasberry beer too.
Beer.
Beer.
Yeah.
Jasberry.
Wow.
Must be some kind of...
Berry.
Right, I can smell...
I can sort of smell the berry here.
Uh-huh.
Like little, this kind of red berry...
Jasberry.
Mm-hmm.
Did it not...
Did it not have a description of what jasberries were?
No?
No.
Okay.
Jasberry fruit.
Oh, this is Jasberry.
It looks like a raspberry.
Yeah.
Maybe raspberry?
Raspberry.
Smells like this.
I don't know.
It doesn't...
It doesn't smell like raspberry though.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, but it looks like...
Why don't you write Jasberry Toa?
Mm-hmm.
In Japanese?
Sure.
Mm...
I think it's not a...
The fruit name, maybe.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
But...
It's maybe some kind of mixed up berry.
Okay.
But basically it's raspberry.
Got it.
Got it, got it, got it, got it.
Jasberry.
Mm...
Okay.
So...
Mm...
What does it say?
Like, there's no result.
Oh, there's no result?
Yeah.
Wow.
Like, there's a Jasberry Ram.
Or Jasberry Beer.
Okay.
Or Jasberry perfume.
Mm-hmm.
But there's no...
Description of...
Fruit called Jasberry.
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It's something like...
Something mixed or...
Mm...
Yeah.
Okay, let's take a look at the smell then.
Yes.
Let's go for the Jasberries then.
Right.
Since it's, like, rare.
Let's see.
The Jasberry Ram...
Mm-hmm.
Is an independent Canadian brand based in Vancouver.
Okay.
It's a name of a brand.
Maybe that's...
Yeah.
Jasberry.
Jasberry.
What is Jasberry?
How about in English?
Oh, right.
Jasberry.
Yeah.
The biggest...
That's a...
Mm-hmm.
I don't think that's a...
No.
Oh, yeah.
How about you Google, "What are jasberries?"
What are jasberries?
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Raspberry, Jasberry.
What does Jasberry Jam mean?
No, they don't have it.
Wow, I guess they don't have it.
Yeah.
It's a mystery.
The mystery smell.
Yeah, mystery smell.
Like, it's not on the...
So, it's not on the web.
Jasberry Jam.
What?
I don't even know what the page is.
Like, it's like...
This is hibiscus.
Oh, the botanical name is hibiscus.
Oh, this could be a really close...
So, the denotation is Jasberry Jam,
and the botanical name is hibiscus.
Yeah.
So, this could be like a hibiscus-ish kind of thing.
But I can kind of smell the hibiscus to try it on.
Like, if I tell you that it's a hibiscus...
Like, it's...
It feels like a hibiscus, doesn't it?
Not for me.
No?
Let's try the smell, dude. Let's try it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wow.
If you open it up, it...
Wow, if you open it up and smell inside,
it's a really different smell.
Wow.
It has a really sweet smell to it.
Okay, let's try one.
Really excited for this.
All right.
You have, like, a lighter or something like that?
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Sure, sure.
And...
Do you have something that's compatible with this lawn?
Yeah.
Oh, nice.
Yeah, I don't think it's going to...
Yeah, it's a little bit too, you know...
Okay.
It's going to...
Yep, it's a little too long.
It's not going to hold on, I guess.
Oh, then...
Put it in here.
Yep, yep.
Like, this in...
Oops.
Okay.
All right, we got it.
Thanks.
Oh, sorry, it wasn't much.
Oh, guitar pick.
Oh, you have guitar pick, sorry.
Do you have...
Let me...
Maybe I can snap my finger with...
Like, a spark or something.
Let's just try here.
I think we're good.
I think we're out of lighters.
Here we go.
Oh, we got one?
Oh, thank God.
Here we go.
Okay, let's go.
All right.
All right.
You know, but, you know, Oko itself is...
Okay, there you go.
Yeah, it's the smell of the burnt.
Yeah.
Oko really has a common smell.
Right.
No matter what the flavor or what the smell is,
it has the basic Oko smell to every one of them.
Yeah.
Ah, I like it.
Oh, but it smells like sweet.
It does smell sweet.
It really does.
Right, it does.
It's really sweet.
Like, very sweet.
Yeah.
The strawberry...
Jasberry.
Did you like it?
Yeah, I do.
Like, I basically love the smell of the underlying Oko smell.
Yeah.
That I like, so...
If it's an Oko itself, I already like them.
Yeah.
With the berry, with the sweet, with the...
With the berry, with the sweetness added,
yes, I like them.
Okay.
As well.
Yeah.
Hmm.
This is the longest Oko I've ever seen.
Oh, really?
Yeah. Are they this long usually?
Ah, like Japanese Oko
is a little bit shorter.
But this kind of East Asian...
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intense.
It's a little longer, like this.
Like this long.
Is it...
Is it incense?
Or intense?
I thought it's intense.
Because you know how...
You know there's an adjective called intense, right?
The intense atmosphere.
Stuff like that.
How do you spell it?
I-N-C-E-N-S-E
Incense.
Yeah, sorry. I said intense.
But it's incense.
Incense, right.
Good smell.
Really good smell.
I want to try a...
Sandalwood?
Yeah.
What are we going to do with the...
We've still got this on, right?
Yeah, let's just keep it and...
Let's try the sandalwood when it finishes.
When it finishes.
I love looking at the smoke.
You know?
The movement of the smoke is really beautiful.
Just like around here.
When it starts to...
get interfered...
by the air.
It's really like beauty for me.
It's art.
Sometimes it goes really high without disturbance.
And that's really beautiful too.
Yeah, I like looking at that.
It smells like...
You know...
Our friend, Naruchan?
Yes.
Okay, then we'll talk about it in the next episode.
Oh, sure. Okay.
We'll see you in the next episode then.
