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welcome to Kevin's English room podcast hello hey guys are you guys it's a
beautiful day again oh yes sunny sunny and warm great picnic day right true
yeah I'm ready picnic day yep let's just go out you want to do that yeah yeah
grab a sandwich yeah it's lunchtime and I'm kind of hungry now that's true go
out from this studio and yeah get to the park over there I kind of am getting a
little bit sanketsu true yeah cuz it's a bone studio yeah that's the thing about
bone really like yeah your house is like that too right yeah sure but I got uh you
know the window and little constant fan uh-huh - you know I got it so if that's
on yeah no problem yeah you can breathe so so mm-hmm let's read some messages
today yeah let's go let's do that let's go so okay
yama-chan Kevin-san konnichiwa haru desu atatakaku natte kimashita ne sozune
sakki you sounded like tamo-san oh really did I? oh cool
sakki o-furo kara agatte tsume wo kitteite omottan no desu ga nihon dewa yoru ni tsume wo kittara
oya no shinime ni aenai to iu keredo amerika ya france niwa nihon no yona meishin te aru no kana to futo omoimashita
eh nihon niwa hoka ni mo kaminari ga nattara ohesu wo kakusu toka tsumuji wo osu to o-naka wo kowasuchau toka arimasu yo ne
nanika omochiroi meishin toka areba oshiete kudasai yonde kurete arigatou gozaimashita
okay okay is that called meishin? meishin? that's superstitions right?
okay
hmm i wonder if we had any
true uh friday the 13th is an unlucky day okay
you've heard of that right? yeah yeah kinyoubi no juusan-nichi
yeah juusan-nichi no kinyoubi yeah
uh opening an umbrella indoors is bad luck
what opening an umbrella in a door indoors like
inside the house oh is bad luck oh really didn't know that
didn't know it either but it's it's on the list
okay another list breaking a mirror
sorry
sorry
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oh the ad uh breaking a mirror brings seven years bad luck
oh yeah i've heard of it really like not
falsely seven year but breaking mirror is a bad oh
uh finding and picking up a penny is good luck
finding and picking okay i don't know that me neither well it's
you know finding and picking up a penny itself is uh good
because you got one penny and this plus financially
it's bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the wedding
huh i think i've heard of that really yeah
so the the moment they see is the at the chapel right
oh yeah that's true behind doors and and the ladies yeah or the
the men i don't know which one's which but like it's already standing yeah i
have to keep it yeah secret right
seven is a lucky number wow i didn't know that
lucky number seven never heard of that lucky number seven we all know that
we all know that is that superstition i guess not it's just lucky number
um throwing spilled salt over the left shoulder prevents bad luck
ah it's like a japanese custom yeah like yeah you go so do like the
okijyo right in front of the door yeah you guys do that right yeah yeah
black cat crossing your path is bad luck is that is that a japanese thing too um
no but i do okay you do yeah i have a um strategy for preventing this
okay tell me what is what is it see um you are walking along the street okay
and the black cat you know you see a black crossing the street okay
then if the black cat cross the street in that way you turn
around in that way the same direction yeah as a cat yeah
okay so that you you will never be crossed
by the cat in front of you because your direction changed
yeah because i is that the theory i turned one one time so that
so that you know cat will be still on the right side from you you see what
i'm saying so you'll never be closed crossed by the
cat that means you have to finish that you have to finish your turn before the
cat finished walking across um is that the thing
well of course but if once cat finished crossing but you can
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still do that
okay let's say a cat crosses right yeah and then
at the same time you you turn left no i mean turn around i mean you just
turn you just once you spin one yes spin once
and then just walk straight again yeah does that really
does that mean that the cat didn't cross you didn't your path you didn't cross
the uh in front of you but you turn once and then you you're
gonna walk in the same direction again right yeah
it's like uh like this you know you'll never be like crossed by the cat oh i
get it i get it i get it yeah okay you're you're walking in parallel
with the cat yeah yeah got it that's what i uh do i see every time
black cat trying to cross in front of me you
actually do that yeah i do wow that's so you yeah so you
but i know it's a little bit weird weird yeah a little bit looking at it from
afar yeah you do a little bit strange but yeah it's a good but you want to do
it right yeah because we can prevent right those you don't want that thing to
happen absolutely yeah absolutely so that's a
really i i guess that's a really good one strategy
for beating these right right right strategy superstition that way that way
thank you uh 13 is an unlucky number yeah i think i kind of heard that
stepping on a crack is bad luck i've heard of this before oh i didn't know
that yeah it's dangerous it's just bad luck
not dangerous just it's bad luck something bad might happen right
okay that's it yeah
that was uh some of the common superstitions
the isis out there yeah in the united states
pretty different from japan yeah
it's more like japan is more like specific you know
okay clipping nails at night that's so specific
oh true true yeah like seven is that fucking up
it's really not specific it's so like yeah true right
knocking on wood will bring good luck what knocking on wood knock on wood
really yeah oh i've heard of that any wood will be fine yeah yeah
probably oh probably then i can do that yeah
knock on wood and you're gonna go to check like this yeah
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knock on it just you're good to go oh yeah
i'm gonna do that yeah no way back to my house yeah you're sure you're sure yeah
brings you good luck yeah
rabbit's foot is lucky
what do you mean i guess just chop it off and then put it in your pocket
i don't know
some cruel shit
spilling salt is bad luck but you can reverse it by tossing salt over your
shoulder
okay okay no no no
wow a four leaf clover is lucky yeah yeah
right when was the last time you found a four leaf clover
yeah i'm chan maybe uh junior high yeah i don't even remember what you're
forgetting your your
kodomo gokoro yeah true yeah when was that
i don't think i've ever found a four leaf clover in my life
ever ever um you don't believe those superstitions no i
don't i don't even if i find a four leaf clover
probably throw it away really fast but you pick it yeah i pick it and i
observe it up close yeah and i'll just probably like throw it away
yeah it's not useful in real life so therefore it's not necessary
you don't believe i don't know i don't know about that yeah
all right so that was the uh superstition yes in the u.s
yes all right thanks for listening guys thank you bye
