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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hello!
So today I've got a message from Choco-san.
Choco-san!
Thank you Choco-san.
Thank you Choco-san!
Yeah.
"San"
I always do that.
Yeah.
I always do that.
Yeah.
Today was a little more, I guess, exaggerated.
Yeah.
A little bit.
A little bit, yeah.
So, um...
Hello Kevin-san, Yama-chan! I love you two and I always enjoy listening to your talk!
Thank you!
Now, this is sudden, but what do you two think of "shoushoku no josei"?
I've always been a "shokugahosoku"...
Do you know that?
"Shokugahosoku"? Yeah, I know that.
Yeah, you eat little.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All the time, right?
Because it's a little expression, you know.
Yeah, I know, I know.
Sorry about that.
Don't worry about it, it's okay!
I've always been a "shokugahosoku" and I get sick when I eat too much.
But people often tell me that I should eat more.
Especially to a man who's not very close to my five-year-old.
I'm sorry to say that I'm full, but I sometimes get a little bit of a "shiraketaku" atmosphere.
"Shoushoku wa kidotteru" means "I'm full", and "people who eat a lot are very happy".
What do you think?
True, true.
I'd like to hear your ideas on how to make that place peaceful again.
I'll be rooting for you.
Oh, okay, thank you!
That's a nice topic!
That is a nice topic.
Wow.
There are several... yeah.
What's your first thought?
What's your first take on this?
I mean, I feel you.
I feel it!
Okay.
Yeah, true.
Huh.
What do you think about it?
Okay, personally...
Well, I'm sure you agree with this, but like...
What do you...
What do you think of the thinness of the food?
Well, I mean, she can do whatever she wants, right?
She can eat as much as she wants.
Yeah.
Like...
Yeah, and if she can't finish it, like...
I'll eat it.
Like, I like eating.
A lot of things.
So yeah, I'll probably finish it for her.
But like...
So I have no problem with that, personally.
I'm sure you don't as well.
You agree with me on that, right?
Yeah.
And...
Right.
I think that's true.
Like, if you say, like...
If you just eat a little bit and you're like...
"I'm kind of hungry. I'm kind of already full."
Yeah.
People would think that like...
"Okay, maybe she's like not enjoying the meal."
Right?
She's saying that to be polite.
Yeah, yeah.
Politely saying that this meal sucks, right?
Or like...
Yeah, like what she says.
Like, "kidottere."
Like, "I don't eat a lot."
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Kind of thing.
Like, that would make the person who's eating a lot
make them look like...
Like, "Whoa."
Happy and...
Yeah.
Yeah.
So...
True.
That is a really, like...
I didn't...
Yeah, that must be really, like, true.
Yeah.
How about this as an idea for, like...
What can I say?
Like, just turn it into, like, a humour.
Okay.
If that's the character, right?
If she's the kind of character that would do that.
Okay.
Be like...
"Ah, chotto tabun tabetemo iin desu kedo haku to omonde."
(laughs)
"Haku kanosei wa arun desu kedo."
"Ii desu ka? Koko de haiku haiku."
(laughs)
If you say that, they'll be like...
"Ahh! Chotto haiku!"
(laughs)
Right?
If that's the character...
Yeah, that's important.
Yeah.
At the same time, I feel like if she's the kind of person that's able to...
Like, that would be able to say these kind of things,
she wouldn't have this kind of, like...
Of course.
...yami here.
(laughs)
Yeah.
Umm...
Do you eat a lot?
I actually don't eat a lot.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Okay.
I...
I...
Roll...
Yeah.
I, um...
Well, I guess not as much as you think.
(laughs)
I eat normally.
You know, I'm often...
I'm often like... People think of me as like a huge, like...
Yeah, yeah.
Like, you eat...
Like, hundreds of hamburgers at the same time.
That's what people think.
And drinking, like, two bottles of cola.
I know.
Of Coca-Cola.
Actually, it's very, like, a very...
Umm...
My tummy is very, like...
"Japanized."
I always say this in the podcast.
I know it's not a word, but, like...
My stomach has turned into, like, the Japanese style...
Yeah.
Japanese-sized tummy now.
It's like I can...
I feel...
I feel full.
Mm-hmm.
Like, I'm satisfied with, like...
The...
The standard...
One-person meal.
(laughs)
Yeah.
The Japanese one-person meal amount.
Yeah.
I...
You adjusted.
Yes!
I have adjusted.
(laughs)
But...
But, if it's something that I really like, for example, like desserts or, like, pizzas...
Yeah.
I can probably eat more than average.
True.
You...
Especially, like...
But pizza, you eat a lot.
I eat a lot.
Yeah.
There's just something about the things that I like...
Okay.
That really...
That, you know...
My body...
Yeah.
Reacts in a different way.
(laughs)
Just opens up.
Yeah.
Beats inside.
Yeah.
Wakes up.
Right.
That just consumes the whole thing.
Yeah.
So...
When you're...
If you're talking about, like, a normal...
Okay.
Like, a meal...
Uh-huh.
It's...
I would just...
I would eat...
Just as much as everybody else.
Okay.
Yeah.
And nothing more.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Are you a...
I...
No.
I think I'm a...
Little "shoushoku".
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Mm-hmm.
I mean, not "shoushoku", but...
At least not "big eater".
Mm-hmm.
So...
Like, when you...
Um...
Like...
Eat with...
Or, like...
In...
When you work in a company...
Or, like...
You know?
Mm-hmm.
In those situations...
Yeah.
Like, it's a kind of pressure to me.
Oh, I see.
If I don't...
If I don't eat...
A lot...
Uh-huh.
Then, like...
I might make...
The...
You know, I must be a little awkward, so...
Right.
Yeah, I...
I actually feel the same pressure as Shoko-san.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
So, I do understand that.
How do you...
How do you get through that situation?
I...
Eat a lot.
Oh, God.
Oh, no.
You sacrifice yourself.
Yeah.
Because I haven't...
You know...
Find the solution yet.
Right, right.
Let's...
Let's find one.
Yeah.
Let's find a solution.
In three minutes.
Yeah.
Yeah, like...
Hmm...
But that's...
That's a difficult one.
If only you could, like...
Like, numerically express...
Okay.
The amount you can eat.
Like, if you have a data for that.
Like, "I can eat this much."
Like, if you say, like, "Oh, I have high blood pressure."
Like, "My blood pressure is..."
"Blood pressure is, like, this much."
It's more, like, convincing, I guess.
It's not, like...
It's not, like...
See, because if you tell people that,
"Oh, I'm not that hungry without any data."
You're just being, like...
The other people would be, like,
"Okay, maybe he's saying that because he's not enjoying the meal."
Mm-hmm.
Right?
"Maybe he's saying that because the food sucks."
Yeah.
But if you come at them with a data...
True.
Like, "I can eat this much gram of food."
And that's...
It's already proven.
Like, I measured myself.
And then if you give them the numbers,
they'll be like, "Oh, okay. You're... Okay. That's... You're, like... You're 155. Okay."
"I think you're probably full. You're 155." Yeah.
Well, that's nice, then.
Yeah, that's a good idea, right?
Next time, I'm just gonna say, like,
"Oh, excuse me. I'm 173."
Just fucking create a number, right?
"Excuse me. I'm at 205 right now. So, today..."
And then they'll be like, "What are you talking about?"
And then you just be like,
"Oh, it's a number that expresses how much you can eat."
"So, like, I can't even..."
That's a good idea.
That's a good idea, actually.
Yeah, you should...
Yeah.
The average is about 350.
It's a number to express how much food you can consume at a time.
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Yeah.
That's a good idea.
That's a great idea.
Yes, yes. Shogo-san, that's it.
That's nice.
You should do that.
Yeah.
Just give them, like, a fake number and a fake average number
and show them with data that you can't eat as much as other people.
That's nice.
Wow.
Great solution, yeah.
It's a great solution.
Yeah.
Alright.
That was a great episode, actually.
Alright, thanks for listening, guys.
Bye-bye.
