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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Howdy!
Hi!
It's a sunny day.
Great spring sunny day.
Yes.
Love this weather.
Let's go play soccer again, man.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's do that.
Really?
Under this sunny day.
Yeah, because yesterday was a little cloudy.
Right.
A little bit windy.
Yeah.
A little bit rainy-ish.
And a little bit...
Right.
You know, felt good of course, but...
Never hurts to have a very sunny sky, right?
Never hurts.
Alright.
So, got a message from Akiko-san today.
Akiko-san?
Mm.
Alright, Akiko-san?
Akiko at 104.
Alright!
Hello, Yama-chan, Kevin-san.
104, hello.
I posted about my 104-year-old grandmother the other day.
Okay.
Thank you for reading it.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I posted 104 so you can remember my name.
See, that's a very interesting way of making us try to remember that.
I don't know why she chose that number, but...
Yeah.
Alright.
So...
March 2nd is my grandmother's birthday.
Unfortunately, before that day, my grandmother left.
Oh, sorry about that.
My grandmother was going to be gone by the end of the year, but she was able to get back on her feet on the day I posted this on my podcast.
Okay.
I was surprised by what happened.
I thought it was my grandmother's last gift, and I was very happy.
I listened to it over and over again while crying.
I'm sorry for her loss.
Yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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That's amazing.
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Mm-hmm.
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Wow.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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Where?
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Where's that?
You know.
Okay.
Yeah, I remember.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Got it.
I don't know how should I explain that.
Yeah.
It's a...
Wait, let me just look it up.
Yeah.
Let me just look it up.
Uh...
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Using two simple words.
Coffin.
Oh, yeah.
Coffin.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
So...
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I don't know.
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So this is...
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Aww.
That's so...
Wow.
That's the 11...
11?
21?
21?
No.
How many was that?
Yeah, 21.
The 21...
21 people vote picture.
The drawing.
That's really nice.
It's really like Shugo Shashin.
That is a really big Shugo Shashin.
Yeah.
That's nice.
Really good.
Yeah.
As a gift.
True.
It's true.
Great idea.
Yeah.
I'm sure she felt the love.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sure.
Yeah.
I am...
I'm sorry for the loss.
Yeah.
Yesterday, but...
Yeah.
But if you feel, you know,
a little more like closer...
Right.
That's...
That's really...
Yeah, right.
It's...
Right.
It's just as much as how...
Just as much how, you know,
how the person on the other end
consumes the...
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the...
the fact, you know,
the fact that that person passed away.
How...
How, you know,
how you try to like...
How you like consume it in you
also like matters a lot.
Right.
Yeah.
True.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And also it's really good.
I heard recently
when you are facing your death,
it's really important to show,
you know, how you proceed
to, you know, ending your life
to your kids,
to your...
grandsons.
Right.
Like reflecting it back onto you.
Yeah.
And it's really...
It's the last walk that people,
human beings can do for your kids.
Right.
You know, that showing
how should we end our lives.
Right.
How peacefully...
How...
It's not
sad thing.
It's not
horror thing.
Yeah.
It's...
This is how it is.
Right.
And showing how to end your life.
Right.
Is one of the biggest gift
that one can
left.
Yeah.
That's why.
Absolutely.
That's what
she did, I guess.
Mm-hmm.
Right.
What would you want
in your coffin?
Yeah.
Of course.
Of course, the pictures.
Yeah, pictures are really...
Yeah.
That's a really good one.
Yeah.
You know.
I would want that too.
Mm-hmm.
Pictures of mine
with family.
Families, right?
Family, friends,
relatives,
and all that stuff.
Yeah.
Because those things are
the things you are going to carry
to your place, right?
Yeah.
So I want to see them.
Yeah.
To me, music.
Ah, like a guitar or something?
Or like...
Yeah, that would be nice.
Keyboard or
something like that.
Guitar would be nice.
Speakers.
Yeah, they have like headphones.
Or like a whole set of like
keyboard,
PC.
Yeah, I have to keyboard, like keyboard and Mac.
Like the little mixer.
Yeah.
Two big speakers
so that I can create some music.
Yeah, that's nice.
That's nice.
Yeah, and this little microphone.
Yeah, microphone.
True.
Uh...
What would I want?
Yeah.
I would want...
Hmm.
I don't know.
You don't know?
I would...
Hmm.
I would probably want nothing.
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Why nothing?
I don't know.
It's just...
My minimalism...
My minimalist part of me.
I don't know, just...
Just came up?
Yeah, just came up.
And just...
I don't know.
All the pictures?
Like, if I had to choose one,
like I would rather choose none.
Ah, okay.
Because I don't want to choose one.
Okay.
I guess is my...
So...
My logic steps.
What if you can choose several?
Um, I would...
Yeah, photos, right?
Photos.
I would...
Hmm.
Hmm.
Maybe...
Your glasses, maybe?
Right, my companion.
Yeah?
My glasses.
Sure, my glasses.
My...
My backpack.
Backpack, of course.
Yeah.
My shoes.
My...
Sperry bow.
My pillow.
Okay.
Yeah.
But all those things are just...
Other than the photos,
all those things are really like secondary, I feel like.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I guess photos only?
And flowers.
Yeah, sure, yeah, flowers.
I don't know.
Yeah, we put flowers.
Flowers, yeah, sure.
Flowers.
Okay.
I'm going to put pizzas for you.
Thank you.
In your time.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Extra pepperoni.
Extra pepperoni.
Yeah.
Extra cheese.
Yep.
Yeah, make sure you get that.
Yeah.
And, you know, put a little sauce on it.
Yeah.
Butter sauce.
Dip sauce, too.
Get that garlic dip sauce in there, too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And nail clippers, because I want to clip my nails, right?
Click.
And my barricade.
I have to keep my hair straight.
Yeah.
You know, you're not going to pay for that.
So you have to carry your barricade.
True, true.
Yeah.
Toothbrush, toothpaste.
Yeah, they have that.
They have that.
Those things.
Amenity.
Yeah, amenity.
Like towels.
Oh, towels.
I guess they have those.
I got it.
Yeah.
But they don't have barricade.
I don't need that.
Yeah, barricade.
Barricade, clothes, change clothes.
Contact lenses.
I need that, too.
Yeah.
Charger.
Charger.
That's important.
I know.
Tsuji-san has it, still.
Just like, "Oh, we borrowed."
We basically jacked Tsuji-san's charger.
Give me that, Tsuji-san.
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Yeah.
All right.
So much.
Yeah.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
