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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Yes.
Hey, Yama-chan.
I like the way you opened up this episode today.
Yeah, really?
It was a little like...
Yeah.
Right, because we're in a cafe, I guess?
A hamburger shop?
Yeah.
Um...
Right, it's a...
It's a pretty...Kan-chan said it's a popular burger shop, right?
But I don't see any...
You don't say that?
I don't...
Yeah...
We're actually the only ones in the store, that's why we're speaking this loudly.
No, because we're going on a Monday.
Right, Monday lunchtime, of course.
You know, of course, of course.
Who goes out to eat a burger on a Monday, right?
Yeah, like...
No one.
No one does that.
Yeah, I mean, no one.
Burger's like a luxurious food, so like...
No one does that, right?
Yeah, that's why.
That's why.
Um...
Yeah?
Uh...
Yama-chan's about to dig in.
Yeah.
Um...
But remember last time we came here?
Oh, yeah.
We were the only ones.
We were the...
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yes.
I mean, um...
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, uh...
Don't talk about that.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm sorry about the background, guys.
There's a radio.
Um...
Coming out for the speakers.
Um...
Yeah, for the...
The background music of the store.
Um...
I apologize if it's hard to hear our voices.
Um...
We're doing the best we can to...
To...
To...
Heighten the audio quality here.
Yeah.
By putting my polo shirt under my...
My smartphone.
Is it effective?
Yeah, I think it's...
You know, I believe so.
At least I believe so.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You don't want...
You know, if you put your smartphone on, like, hard table, like, if it moves, like, you can...
I think you can hear, like, the actual kind of, like...
The small...
Right.
Small movement of the smartphone.
That's...
It's the internal smartphone, like, the internal microphone would catch it, I think.
We also got this little panel.
Um...
Separating the...
From the, uh...
The speaker position, so I think that would help as well.
No.
Doing the best we can here.
Okay.
I'm gonna give you guys a little ASMR.
Yeah.
What kind of...
You like that, guys?
The ice noise?
Yeah, ice noise.
You can hear the ice noise in your ears.
Great ASMR.
Okay.
Oh, yeah.
How's your burger, Yabu-chan?
It's great, actually.
Yeah?
It is.
You know, huge onion here.
Right.
That's very nice.
That's a pretty big onion.
It's good, actually.
Does it...
Do you taste the, uh...
Is it, um...
Sumibi-yaki?
You know?
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Do you taste the sumibi or no?
It's just...
Mmm...
On a pan.
Yeah, a little bit.
A little bit?
A little bit of sumibi?
Okay.
Because I can see the marks.
The marks?
The...
What do you call those?
The lines?
The slash lines?
Yeah.
Sumibi?
I thought that was a sumibi or something like that.
Oh, yeah.
That was...
That was harder today than yesterday.
Oh, yeah, it was.
Did you do something?
I actually did.
Oh, really?
We, uh, did a family Zoom...
...conference.
Conference?
Well, not conference, but like, you know,
Zoom drinking party, I guess.
Really?
Yeah.
With my father, my sister, and I.
Wow, great.
And, uh...
It was good.
We talked about an hour and a half.
And, um, we had a great time.
Mmm.
Uh...
Nice.
My sister...
I got to see my sister's baby.
She's two.
She's two now.
Next week, she's two.
Wow.
She's turning two.
Two?
Yeah.
Two years old.
And, um, my father looked healthy.
My father looked, you know, young.
He looked very fresh.
You know?
Yeah.
That's great.
Yeah.
He said that he upgraded his interiors.
Yeah.
He got a karaoke system inside the house.
What?
Yeah.
He literally has a karaoke system.
Like, he can...
He sings in the...
Practice, you know?
Yeah.
The house?
Yes.
Wow.
Yeah, he likes to sing.
When he was young, he told me that he was, uh, trying to become a singer.
A professional singer.
That's nice.
I heard that.
But I guess he does enjoy singing, so, yeah.
He got himself a...
He got this huge, like, speaker.
Like, you know the ones we used at our circle?
Brilliant.
Nebab?
What do you call those?
Like, the speakers in front of us that we hear when we sing.
Yeah, yeah.
The kaishi speakers.
Yeah, kaishi speakers.
It was like that size.
Wow.
Yeah, that was the kind of thing.
That's huge.
Is he gonna do some live performances?
Yeah, he's gonna...
Someday he will.
I'm happy to hear that your father is healthy.
Oh, yeah.
So I guess he's preparing for the, uh, you know, be on our video, right?
Yes, yes.
He, yeah, he said that too.
He was like, "So, Dad, is it okay that you be on the video when we come to your place
to, like, film in the U.S.?"
Like, yeah.
He's like, "Yeah, sure.
You want me to sing as well?"
I was like, "I didn't comment anything."
I just smiled.
Why?
Very insane.
Yeah, I mean, it could be really good content, but it could also be at the same time a very,
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very bad content.
We never know.
I never actually heard my father sing before.
Yeah, I never actually...
I never heard his recordings or anything.
Very insane, though.
Yeah, we should do that next.
See how that turns out.
I remember he has a really high-pitched voice.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, like high, nice voice.
So what kind of music does he sing?
I don't know.
I have no idea.
But I think he loves Utara Hikaru.
I don't know about... but in terms of listening, I don't know about singing, though.
I remember being in his car, pulling Utara Hikaru all the time.
Yeah.
What did you do?
We had a dinner together, which my younger brother made.
Younger brother?
Cooked.
Oh, okay, got it, got it, got it.
He prepared.
Okay, okay.
I thought he got married.
I was like, "Oh, shit."
He prepared all the dishes and a special menu for the Father's Day.
Oh, that's sweet.
It was like spiced curry with roudohan.
Roudohan?
Yeah.
What is that?
It's a Taiwanese cuisine.
It's like gyudon, like beef bowl in Taiwan.
A little spicy.
That was very nice.
Did you handle your spiciness?
Was that okay?
It was very spicy for me, but he knows about me.
He kind of adjusted it specially for me.
It was okay.
It was hot, though.
That's a very lovely talent time.
It was.
We talked about our lives, our days, you know, everyday life.
Yeah, that's good.
It's actually been a while that I saw them.
Oh, yeah.
That's nice.
Four members?
Yeah.
My parents and my brother and me.
And I also met my grandmother, too.
Oh, yeah.
She was the house next door.
Lovely.
Lovely, lovely.
She was really powerful.
Really?
She talked a lot.
Well, she must have been happy, you know?
Yeah.
So it was a great happy day.
It's amazing.
It's great.
Did you get him any present or something?
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Or just visited him?
Visited him.
But my younger brother gave him, like, sport wear.
Okay.
Like golf or something?
Not for going to the gym.
Going to the gym?
Okay, okay.
Like running or, you know, those.
Just like...
That's like what I'm wearing right now.
Yeah.
Like t-shirt and...
That's great.
Like, how do you say that?
Shorts?
Shorts pants, yeah.
Lovely.
That was nice.
That's good to hear.
Yeah, that was my Father's Day.
So that was our Father's Day episode.
Alright, thanks for listening, guys.
Bye-bye.
