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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
-Hello! -Hi!
-Good morning. -And a rainy morning.
-Yeah, it's raining out. -Yeah.
-And it's really cold. -Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
The last three or four days, it's been really cold.
-Like suddenly, you know? -Yeah, yeah.
I noticed one night, it was just...
extremely cold all of a sudden, you know?
Yeah.
-You scared me. -You look sad.
You look sad.
I'm scared.
I hate being cold.
Yeah.
You're wearing a t-shirt.
Yeah.
Yeah, this is coming from the guy who's wearing a t-shirt. I know.
I know.
Okay.
So we've got a message.
From...
Okay, sorry, from...
Arisa-san?
-Yes. -Thank you, Arisa-san.
-Hello, Kevin-san, Yamachan-san. -Hello.
I've been following your podcast since the first episode.
Thank you.
I'm still listening to the summer podcast of 2020,
so I might already be talking about it, but here's a question.
So there's two topics.
Do you two do anything to stay mentally healthy without feeling down?
Also, I think it's a different schedule compared to when you were working for a company.
Do you have any unusual habits?
The first one. This is the first one.
Okay.
Do you do anything to stay mentally healthy without feeling down?
I go to the gym.
Oh, yeah?
I go to the gym.
I...
Sleep.
Yeah, that's important.
I read books.
I...
I go out and take a walk.
Yeah.
Play some instruments.
Sleep.
Yeah, I think you already said that.
Yeah, because that's important.
That's important. So two times, right?
And put on oco.
I think you have oco on right now.
I smell it.
This morning, yes.
Clean the room.
Sleep.
Yeah.
Go to the gym.
True.
You know what I noticed? But, like, I think your room is always clean.
Thank you.
Does it ever get any dirtier than this?
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Well, actually, it's not that that clean.
Really? Right now, it's not clean for you?
Yeah, I mean, yeah.
It's kind of... I have to clean up the room, but yeah.
Wait, what part of this is not clean?
Well, because actually I haven't cleaned up for a while.
You know, the little...
The dust?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
It's not that clean actually.
Right, right. But, like, you know, like, in terms of, like, stuff scattered all over the place.
Like, stuff that's scattered.
Yeah.
It's not that...
Like, for me, I always have things laying around the table. Like, the mayo I just got that I'm gonna take care of later.
Yeah.
The items that I use for satsai and shit laying over here.
Like, whatever, right? This, like, little, like, spinning shit.
Spin?
I like to spin.
You really like to spin?
Yeah, I like to spin. It's like a fidget...
You have a spin thing?
Whatever it's called. What's it called? Fidget spinner? Yeah, fidget spinner.
What?
Fidget spinner.
Oh, you got hands spinning?
I don't have that, but I just have, like, this coma. Like, that.
What?
Yeah, I got it off of, like, a gacha-gacha.
Okay. And you keep it on the desk.
Right. It's just relaxing to see it spin.
Oh, yeah. Okay.
Yeah.
And all those things, it's just, like, laying around the table and I'm always, like, I gotta get this table clean.
But, like, you're never, like, filled with stuff. Like, your table's always clean.
And what's up? What's up with that?
Such a...
You got no stuff, man?
I do. I have pretty much stuff.
Where's your mail that you have to... documents that you have to sign, documents you have to...
your kenko, hokken shit that you have to, like, turn into the gun.
Where's all that?
Turn it into the place.
You got your own hidden place?
Yeah, inside the shelf.
Okay, okay.
Those inside the box.
Okay.
Yeah.
So, I put... yeah.
You got your own little stations for everything.
Yeah.
That's why you keep them organized.
Wow.
Yeah.
Okay.
If it's, like, confusing desk, I would be, like, so...
not stable.
Like, I need to be cleaned up.
Yeah.
You'd be tempted to clean up, right?
Before doing anything else.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
So, that's important to me, maybe.
Keep everything... keep everything clean and...
Organized?
Yeah, organized.
Yeah.
What about you?
For me, I am kind of always in the journey to pluck out...
I don't know if that's a word, but, like, to eliminate my...
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my most stressful factor in life.
Yeah.
Like, I'm constantly, endlessly, always trying to, you know, get that out of my life.
Yeah.
So, how I'm working right now is a result of that.
And it's still an ongoing process.
True.
So, whatever it is that I feel stressed towards, I try to fix it every day.
Like, even if it takes a long time.
So, in the long... like, long-terms, that's how I take care of it.
So, you okay, man?
Yeah, sorry.
Just looking at my...
Yeah, I was listening to your story, of course.
Okay, you were kind of looking at my, like, shoes here.
Yeah, your...
My shoes are like my socks.
You know what happened?
Your socks and your pants.
I mean, your sweat is completely the same color.
So, it looks like you're wearing, like,
"Zenshin Taisu" kind of...
You know, I just...
True.
Yeah, it looks...
It does look like I'm wearing a Taisu.
Yeah, true.
Yeah, but...
You know, my... this sweatshirt, this... what do you call it?
Sweatpants.
Sweatpants.
It's pretty, like, tight.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, it does look like a...
Yeah, I understand.
Sorry.
No, I... yeah.
Yeah, I get you.
I get you.
I would have stared at it, too.
You know, if... if I were you.
Yeah.
In terms of, like, short-term stress relief,
I would do, like, walk around town.
Which, by the way, I will be living in Tokyo next week,
so it's gonna be easy for me to do that.
Yay.
Okay.
Music.
Music, yeah.
Listening to music is relieving.
Nice.
And a very loud volume.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Gym.
Like you.
Yeah, I like gym.
Sugar.
Okay.
Always a good idea.
Yeah.
Okay.
Going to a restaurant, actually,
I think it, like, going to restaurants really, like, resets the mood for me.
Oh, really?
That's a new aspect I... I expressed.
I think... yeah.
Is that some kind of expensive, like, the restaurant places?
It doesn't have to be.
It doesn't have to be expensive.
It can be like a Fabi-Raisu, ramen, gyudon, or things like that.
Okay.
Because by default, I usually, I...
By default, like, I cook.
I like to cook.
I feel like I need to cook.
Yeah.
Even though... even if I'm not doing it.
Like, I would have this...
This thing in the back of my mind, like, I should cook.
To, like, save money.
Yeah.
That should be the standard.
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But, like, so eating outside is a luxury, right?
Okay.
So even if it's not so high-end, expensive restaurant,
still, going out to eat itself, that action itself is a treat for me.
Okay.
So that kind of, like, resets the mood.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Okay.
I like doing that.
Nice, nice.
Okay.
Okay.
You want to answer the next one?
The next episode?
Yeah, yeah.
Which was the... what was the question?
I actually haven't read.
You haven't read the... got it.
So we answered all the questions.
No, I only read the first one.
Oh, so I don't know what the next one is.
Yeah.
Got it.
If I read this, it will be like...
You just give it away?
Yeah, like two minutes.
So let's do this in the second episode.
Sure, let's do that.
Yeah.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
