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Welcome back to another episode of Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Yes!
How you doing guys?
Yes, yes great!
How you doing Young-chan?
I'm doing great as always.
Awesome!
Like...
You have to hear.
Powerful?
Yeah!
Yeah!
Let's go!
There you go!
Chest, huh?
Yeah.
Pump it!
Yeah!
Slap that chest!
Yeah, I'm a little pumping up a little bit actually.
Oh, you're going to your house, right?
Yeah.
Nice!
King Kong, huh?
Can you see that? The push-up bar over there?
Yeah, the push-up bar! I can!
Nice!
Yeah, thank you.
You're enjoying it.
Yeah.
Yeah, good.
It's not the one I wanted to talk about, but one of my friends started going to Rise Up.
Okay.
Is it Nar-chan?
Yeah.
I took a wild guess and I was like...
I kind of knew I was going to get it right.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay, so go ahead.
But, you know, he's doing personal coaching.
Okay.
His job.
As his job, right?
As his job, yeah.
Right.
Like a career soldier.
Yeah.
So that's why he...
Well, of course he wanted to pump him up actually at the same time, but this is because basically he wanted to learn how to treat customers one by one.
Nice!
He wanted to make the customer committing into the things.
Nice!
That's why he explains to me, but I know he actually wants to simply just...
You know.
He's just trying to act cool.
Yeah.
Just trying to look good, okay?
Yeah.
Well, anyway, that's not what I want to talk about.
Okay.
It's about shoes, okay?
Shoes, okay.
It's about shoes.
You bought the one?
I'm really unrelated to them.
Yeah, you bought the one?
Still trying to find the one?
No, I'm still trying to find the right sneaker.
Okay.
Well, actually, recently I started to find the sneaker, the best sneaker for me.
Okay.
And I went to a Birkenstock store.
What's that?
It's a...
Have you ever seen like little shoes mixed with little slippers?
Like little tsukake?
No.
But leather and...
No?
I think I know what you're talking about.
I have this like blurry image in it, but I'm not sure if that's the right one.
But okay.
Go ahead.
It's a really kind of famous brand for that little slip-on leather shoes.
There's no shoelace.
There's no like heel.
It feels like a slipper.
Yeah.
Okay.
But it looks like...
It's like sometimes it's brown or black leather.
Okay.
Anyway, it's made from like invented in Germany.
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Okay.
And it's famous for like comfortableness.
Okay.
So it fits your feet and you can easily walk and without any stress.
Oh.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I was interested in those things.
Okay.
I went to the shop and tried to buy a pair of Birkenstock.
Mm-hmm.
And so they were professional like,
Ten-san.
Right.
Okay.
First of all, you have to measure your feet.
Ah.
Okay.
I was like, "Okay, please."
And...
Professional.
Yeah.
And what is your size?
And he asked me and I was like, "Well, I think it's 25 or 26 maybe?"
Mm-hmm.
Somewhere around that.
I'm not sure, but...
Right.
Okay.
Let me measure.
And he measured my size and it was 23.
Shit!
What?
23?
That's 23?
Yeah.
He said, "Oh, it's 23."
And...
What?
That's...
Wow!
I never put 23 size of shoes.
Uh-huh.
So, you know, I've been wearing always like oversized shoes.
Uh-huh.
So that's why my feet gets tired.
Oh.
Wow.
And yeah.
But he told me also that, you know, the length is 23.
Okay.
But the width of mine is really wide.
Ah.
Wider than usual.
Right.
So it's not the 23 actually my size.
Uh-huh.
It should be like 24.5 or even 25 sometimes.
Okay.
We got to get fixed up on the width.
That's why.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that's the new point that I found.
Uh-huh.
I didn't know that my size was 24.
Uh-huh.
I got it.
So...
And I tried so many different type of shoes.
And I didn't buy any.
But I bought Nakajiki actually.
Uh-huh.
The Birkenstock was...
At the beginning, it was Nakajiki company.
Uh-huh.
And they invented really like fit and, you know,
nice Nakajiki for everyone.
Right.
And I bought a Nakajiki and put into my sneaker.
Uh-huh.
And now, like it's really amazingly...
Really?
Like, I'm so comfortable.
Really?
No stress at all.
It's really nice.
Doesn't get tired?
After I bought Nakajiki, I've been like walk around like one hour in the city.
But no stress.
Oh my God.
No tiredness.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
What an unlock.
Yeah.
Like, is that applicable to like leather shoes?
Any shoes.
Any shoes?
Any shoes.
Shit.
Yeah.
Sneakers.
Leather shoes, sneakers.
Anything.
How much was the...
It was 4,000 yen.
Nah.
You know, it's not the cheap Nakajiki because it's a good Nakajiki though.
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But you can apply it to any shoes that you have right now.
Oh my God.
So it was kind of new, you know, element for me.
I was trying to find a shoes itself, you know, trying to get my shoes.
Right.
Make me like comfortable to walk.
But yeah, Nakajiki was really nice way to fix my problem.
Damn.
And for you too, right?
Yeah.
You're having trouble with walking and...
Exactly.
You get tired.
I do get tired.
That's the biggest problem for you, right?
So Nakajiki may be a good solution.
Nakajiki is the answer.
Yeah.
So what's the material, do you think?
I don't know.
Does it feel like rubber?
Does it feel like leather?
Yeah.
What does it bring?
Sure.
It should be leather.
Okay.
But...
It's not that like soft.
This is it.
Wow.
Okay, so I was definitely not imagining this kind of shape.
I thought, you know, these Nakajiki was supposed to cover the whole feet.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But the shape is just your, what do you call this here?
Ankle, right?
Yeah.
Ankle and then up to the middle of your feet.
So it's like what?
Like 20 or 15 centimeters long?
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
It doesn't cover the tip of your feet.
No.
So the main problem caused all that problem is Tsuchifumazu, he explained.
This part, like the center part.
Okay.
What about it?
So if you have, like if you don't have this Nakajiki, you will have little space between your Nakajiki.
To Tsuchifumazu in your soul.
So that's why you get tired.
Because of the space, your feet like can move like this, you know, to fill the space.
So with this Nakajiki, like there's no space.
Wow.
What an unlock.
I see.
Is there a store nearby here?
I don't know.
I think I'm just gonna get one.
It was Shinjuku, by the way.
It was the biggest Birkenstock store in Japan.
So is this like, is there like, you have to actually measure your feet to get the right size for the inner sole.
Yeah, like there are two types or three types of Nakajiki.
And a professional guy measured my feet and if your feet like, like measured his, my, my Tsuchifumazu angle.
And yeah.
So it depends on the angle of the Tsuchifumazu.
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Holy shit.
But that was new.
This is an unlock.
This is unbelievable.
Right.
Unbelievable.
So if you buy this, you can use all of your shoes you're having right now.
Are they washable?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're washable?
Yeah.
Not in the sentaki, you just wash with your hand.
So it's water, water's okay.
Yeah.
You just gotta let it dry.
Right.
Oh my god.
How about like soap?
Or like, just only water maybe?
Maybe water, but you can use a little soap.
Maybe, probably.
Okay.
Yeah.
So, so do you use that to like, do you extract that out of the shoes you last used and then
put it in the one you're next gonna use?
Or like, are you gonna buy from your whole shoes and like just gonna put them in the whole time?
No, you can, you can just put, put today's shoes and tomorrow's shoes in the same nakajiki.
So you can just buy one pair of nakajiki and that's enough.
Yeah, that's, oh my god.
That is such an unlock.
Yeah.
That is such a good idea.
Right.
So that's, that's what I wanted to share with you.
Because this is really nice to me, so.
What about like hard action kind of scene?
If you're playing sports, is that applicable do you think?
Maybe not?
I don't know.
But I'm sure that I can run with this.
You feel comfortable running in them?
Yeah.
Like, train almost leaves, you gotta run to the station.
Yeah.
That's okay.
Yeah.
But I don't, no, I'm not sure for like playing football or.
Right.
Like the quick turns and like the quick.
Yeah, I don't know about that.
Like the turns and stuff like that.
Okay.
But I don't do much of like the quick U-turns.
So that's okay.
But just running to the station kind of that matter.
Yeah, that's enough with this.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
I do recommend this for everyone.
Yes, yes.
Okay.
I, yeah, definitely gonna buy that.
Jesus Christ.
Thanks for listening guys.
Bye bye.
Thank you.
Thanks for listening guys.
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