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You know,
information
was there.
Yes, yes, yes.
I said what I needed to say.
It's just whether it was smooth or not,
that's...
That's not.
...debatable.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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So,
today
we've got
a telephone from
Shit!
Akiko-san.
A telephone?
Yeah.
Hello?
Hi!
Kevin, Yama-chan and Kage-chan.
What's going on?
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What's going on, man?
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It's telephone, so it's not me.
But you're saying it, right?
No, it's not me.
It's Akiko-san.
Oh.
So, I'm gonna be hearing Akiko-san's voice.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Got it.
Hello, Akiko-san.
Hi.
Hi!
Oh, hi.
Hi, Kevin, Yama-chan and Kage-chan.
Hi.
Thank you for picking up my request about print-up the other day.
Alright, yeah.
I'm really excited to listening to your responses.
Mm-hmm.
Today,
I like...
I like that.
It's cute.
A little skippy there.
About getting a bald head.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
In Japan, I think many Japanese men don't want to lose their hair.
But I heard some men go to hospitals or clinics to take care of the phenomenons.
Mm-hmm.
But Hollywood actors seem to don't care about their baldness at all.
Mm-hmm.
Hmm.
What do you think about that?
Do you think
you will resist being a bald?
Thank you for reading.
Thank you, Akiko-san.
Thank you.
Wow.
That was the fact that you gave up that voice.
In two lines.
That's it.
Thank you, Akiko-san, anyways.
So that was Akiko-san on the phone.
Yeah.
So the question was...
Okay.
So...
Do you think you will resist?
Well, first of all, is that true that Hollywood actors,
they don't care about their hair?
Is that true?
I don't know.
I've never been one.
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And I've never...
I've never met one.
So I actually don't know.
Yeah, of course.
That's a good answer.
Yeah, I know, right?
That's true.
Maybe they're getting so much money to the point where they don't care.
Like, what about not only for the Hollywood stars,
but usually like, like culturally in, you know, United States?
Culturally, yeah, they care.
Okay, okay.
Yeah.
Is that true they care about their hair?
Well, not in the way that Japanese people do.
Like, you know how Japanese people, they care of like,
how, like, you know, they use wax, hair wax, and like they,
they, you know, they style up their hair, right?
Like the maigami, or like, you know, how the...
Like side hair.
The shape, everything.
Yeah, side hair and everything.
Well, not like that.
Okay.
I've...
I don't...
I haven't seen that many people use like hair wax to like straighten out their hair or something.
Well, maybe like in business scene maybe to like,
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
to like, you know,
like,
like straighten it up or something, but not for like,
not to be all like,
like,
like in style, like,
to be on the trend or something like that.
However, though,
um,
the haircuts, they do care about that.
Okay.
Like if the haircut is good or not.
Huh.
Right?
Not...
They don't really use...
They don't really like arrange their hair using waxes,
but they do care about like how short it is.
Of course, of course.
Like the ratio and everything.
Mm-hmm.
Um, so yeah, I do think that people,
you know,
will mind if
they all of a sudden get bald.
Mm-hmm.
Right?
They, if they don't like it, they're not gonna like it.
Okay.
So they care about that.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
And they, um,
they try to resist,
you know,
for,
for that.
Yeah.
What do you mean resist for that?
I mean, like try to hide.
Oh.
Like try to, you know, um...
Yeah, if they get a bad haircut.
Uh-huh.
They would try to hide it, right?
Okay.
With a hat or something.
Okay.
So it's only the haircut.
Not that he's got like bald.
Is that bald?
Right?
Bald?
Bald.
Bald.
Uh, like hage?
Yeah.
Ah, okay.
That, okay.
I guess so.
No?
I thought,
I thought you were asking the whole time like if you shave your head completely.
Ah.
What do you mean?
Like,
okay, got it.
Yeah.
Like hage?
Yeah.
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Okay, got it, got it, got it, got it.
Yeah, I don't think hage is a thing that...
Well, I mean,
it is a sign of like aging, I guess.
But it's not as embarrassing as it is in the Japanese culture.
Okay.
I can say.
Okay.
It's, yeah, people don't try to hide it that much.
So it's not only those Hollywood stars, but generally...
Yeah, generally, yes.
They don't...
Yes, yes, yes.
That much...
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Trying to hide those.
Yes, yes, yes.
True.
Right, right, right.
Yeah.
In European countries too, it's a kind of sexy.
Oh, is it?
Yeah, sometimes it's kind of sexy if you have, you know.
Like, maybe it's a sign of like that man went through a lot of things.
Yeah, yeah.
He's experienced and everything.
Oh, that's interesting.
Well-grown.
That's interesting.
Yeah.
But if it's too young and start balding, then people try to, you know, hide them.
Ah.
Like, put hair, you know.
Uh-huh.
Buy hair.
Artificial hair.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Sometimes.
Uh-huh.
But still, it's compared to those in Japan, much less.
Oh, got it, got it.
Yeah.
Okay, okay, okay.
So what do you think about that?
Do you think you will resist being a bald?
I would, yeah, probably.
Yeah.
How?
If I start getting bald spots, right?
Like, at around the age of like right now, yeah, I'll probably start worrying about it.
Okay.
What would you do?
What would I do?
Yeah.
What would I do?
I probably wouldn't hide it.
Oh, you wouldn't hide it?
I probably wouldn't hide it.
Okay.
Yeah.
Because if you hide it, the...
What?
The...
If you hide it, and then when somebody figures it out, that's so much more shocking, right?
True.
That's so much more difficult to like overcome.
Yeah.
So I probably would just face the pain at the beginning.
I feel like that's the minimum.
Okay.
Right?
I feel like if you fake it, and then you can keep your...
If you can hide it through, that's so much more like...
True.
So much more to go through.
Yeah.
Right?
So...
I probably just show my bald spots in the beginning.
So you don't like, you know, cut it out or like those things?
You don't wear that?
Because if you start doing that, you're gonna be in handcuffs more and more, right?
True.
You're gonna be living in fear of like, "Oh my God, what if somebody finds out?"
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What would you do?
I would shave my head.
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Oh, okay.
Yeah.
That's an option.
Yeah.
That's actually...
Yeah.
Yeah.
Shave so that it doesn't like...
Yeah.
That makes sense.
Because you know, in that way, you don't need to lie.
Right.
You can be just yourself.
True.
It's true.
And you know, at the same time, you can kind of hide that.
Right.
There's no hair, so...
That's a good point.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I guess I would do that.
Or like, I shave my hair and then put katsura.
And I say that.
Oh, you say that?
I'm wearing katsura and I wear like so many different types of katsura like every day.
Okay.
Today, I wear like Afro style.
Ah, got it.
The next day, I will wear like golden hair.
Got it.
You know, it's always fun.
Okay, so you're gonna be that person.
Yeah.
That person.
Playing around there.
Saying that and...
So your stance is like you're doing it because you want to enjoy different hairstyles.
Not because you want to protect...
Not because you don't want people noticing that you have a bald spot.
No.
Which stance are you gonna take?
I would say that.
Oh, you're saying that I have a bald spot and I get...
Uh-oh.
Uh-oh.
I think it's time for you to wake up here.
No, no, no. It's 10 minutes.
Oh, 10 minutes.
Oh, thank you. I thought it was like an alarm or something.
Yeah, it's too late for waking up.
Yeah, I just say that.
You know, I say everything.
Okay, okay.
And I enjoy that.
Got it, got it, got it.
If you can do that, that's perfect.
Right.
There's nothing you, you know, worry about.
Nothing to be scared of.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
That's good.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
