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Welcome to Kevin's English from podcast
You were talking about Naruchan? Yes. Yes. Yes, our good friend Naruchan. Our good friend Naruchan
We're talking about the incense. Yes, and
This is
jasmine incense. Yes, and it smells like
The shop the cloth clothing old clothing shop. Mm-hmm
That I and Naruchan went together. Really? Yeah. Well, actually a nice friend
Naruchan and I went to Nagoya. Okay. Well, he was born and raised. Okay and
Tried and tried to see his town where he grows up
And visited so many places like his favorite restaurant his favorite cafe. He's very
Shops right and the jukuhi he went and everything in his house, too. And
One of the his favorite clothing shop. Yeah, it's full gear son
He was born and raised in Nagoya
And he was born and raised in Nagoya
So he was born and raised in Nagoya
So he was born and raised in Nagoya
So he was born and raised in Nagoya
So he was born and raised in Nagoya
So he was born and raised in Nagoya
So he was born and raised in Nagoya
So he was born and raised in Nagoya
So he was born and raised in Nagoya
So he was born and raised in Nagoya
So he was born and raised in Nagoya
So he was born and raised in Nagoya
So he was born and raised in Nagoya
The first year when we entered to the
To the Shakaijin world
To the Shakaijin world
That's when you guys went?
Yes, yes
Because I was living in Kyoto
And it was when we returned
To
You know Tokyo
And on the way
We met at Nagoya
And had a one day trip
Around Nagoya
And we kind of talked about
Each other
You know
Where he grows up
What he experienced
And he kind of showed me
The places and the cities
And talked about
The stories and everything
Oh no
Sorry
It's true that we went to Nagoya
At that time
At that time
But when we went to the clothing shop
It wasn't that time
It was the last year
Of college
Last year of the college life
Yes, yes
So it's like one year before
Right
Sorry about that
It's really unbelievable
That you still remember the smell
Because you've been there only once
And that's like 5 years ago
And you still remember the smell
I mean I haven't been
Not remembering that smell
But once you smell this
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Everything reminds me
And like
Turn me
Kind of getting back to me
It brings you back
Right, right, right
Brings me back
Wow
But you know smells are really
Strong
You know
Smell is a strong element
In memory
I agree with you
Like in terms of like
Obachan's house smell
Stuff like that
That's a common
Kind of smell
Bring backers, right?
Smell Obachan's house
Cliche
Right
And like
For me
Sometimes like once
Once
Every 6 months
I run into the smell of
Of the cafeteria
When I was
Me being in the elementary cafeteria
In the United States?
Yeah, in the United States
But you smell in Japan
I smell in Japan, I sometimes do
It really brings me back
I don't smell them right now
I forget what the smell is
But when I smell them it really clicks
And it brings me back
The elementary
Place where I ate lunch
And the place where I
Where I slept and the noodles
And the guys around me were like
Kevin, what are you doing?
It brought me back
Really good
Right, it brings back memories
Right
Do you have any other episodes where
A smell brought you back
I actually sometimes smell
When I was 11 years old
I went to Korea
And did some homestaying
And it was kind of a tough
Experience to me because I
It was my first trip
By myself
To be alone
Internationally
And I couldn't speak Korean
So it was kind of tough
And I got homesick
And sometimes in Japan
I smell that smell
Of the Korean town
And little really tiny
Underground road
And little
There's a little bathroom
The little toilet
Hanchika?
Yeah, maybe
It was in a really narrow road in the city
And
It's really not
Cleaned up
Sewer-ish kind of smell
Sewer-ish kind of smell
No, it's not actually
It's got its own special smell
With all the restaurants around it
And I kind of sometimes smell that
That smell
And you know
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Suddenly I get into
That world
I understand
Right
Wow
You know when that happens
You try to look for the origin
But you can't
But at the same time
When you actually were able to find the origin
When you go closer to the
Place where that smell is
Emitting out
When you smell closely
It turns into a completely different smell
And the sensation kind of turns around
Have you ever gotten that feeling?
No?
I get that feeling a lot
I find a smell that
Brings me back to some
Random memory
And I hunt them down
To see where the origin is
And I find it and I smell closely
And it's a completely different smell
So I realize that only when it's
After being traveled through
Some area, some space
And it reaches me
Then the chemicals were just right
The formulas were just right
The mixture wasn't there
So it happens
It's a really
Coincidental kind of
Accidental
Coincidental kind of
Incident
It's fun to
Come by these things
I have also
One other memory that I
It's not that I don't
I'm still into her
But
Your ex
But when I smell that
That reminds me of your memories
And it's all because of the
Dolce & Gabbana
Dolce & Gabbana perfume of yours
It's not that I want you
It's not that I want you
I'm into you but
But that Dolce & Gabbana perfume of yours
It's all because of yours
Thank you
That is a
Memorizing, remembering your ex
Because of the smell is another huge
Topic to it
Another huge
Category of
Smell experience
Aside from the Obachan experience
Obachan experience is a huge market too
That itself is a huge market
The two biggest
The top two markets
Bring back us
Bring back us
I think the smell of Obachan
Is like
I don't know where they get their smell from
The house of Obachan smells
Is that from
The house
The houses are made
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In woods
Which has that
Character of the Obachan smell
I don't think the Obachan itself is emitting any smell
I think the environment she's in
Has the smell
I feel like
The Osenko
That's probably
Yeah
But you know there's some kind of
Typical Obachan
House smell
Even though we are
Having different Obachan
Kind of same
I don't know
So that must be Osenko
Or
Maybe
Oshoyu
Maybe
You know
How about old fabric?
Old fabric
What do you think?
Old kimono, old fabric
Stuff like that
Does that have a similar
Characteristic you think?
Old kimono
Has own typical
Smell
Maybe all the Obachan smells like
The same thing
Maybe
It's very
Because I mean
It's really common
To share that experience with friends
Like oh that's the Obachan smell
Yeah I get you man and that happens a lot
So like
That could be really
So once we get old
I mean old enough
We will all be smelling like
The same
Yeah
Interesting right?
Alrighty
Thanks for listening guys
It was a great episode
