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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Did you do something special in your Golden Week?
Something special?
Yeah, like Golden Week thing.
I...
Okay, I went to play soccer with my high school friends.
Yeah.
Remember Yamaken?
The guy who just got married?
Him and his wife.
Me, him, the wife.
Ah, yeah, you told me that.
And another Kokose friend.
Yeah.
Not Kokose friend, a friend from Kokose.
The four of us, right?
We went to play soccer at Yoyogi Koen.
Okay, cool.
Very, you know, very holiday vibe.
That's nice.
And we ate lunch after that.
Ah, cool.
Yeah.
Is Yamaken like football?
Like love football?
Yeah, he's in the...
He was in the soccer club.
Oh, really?
Yeah, he was in a team.
Like a...
Not only a soccer, but like he was in a like the...
Like some gaibu no chin.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
Oh, I thought he was in the same club as always.
No, no, no, he was in the soccer club.
Wow.
Yeah.
Oh, wow, nice.
That's nice.
It's really like holiday.
Yeah.
Go out and kind of picnic one.
Yeah.
Obviously with his wife.
Right.
You know, she doesn't, I guess, play hard.
No.
So...
See, the thing is, you know how I bought my shoes?
Yeah, the new boots.
Yeah, the spikes, whatever, right?
I bought, I brought my soccer ball and I bought my shoes, right?
Cool.
Right?
It's professional.
Yeah, I do like it.
I was like really excited to like put on my shoes, right?
Well, like everybody came.
I don't know how I miscommunicated it, but everybody came in jeans.
Everybody came in jeans and like, I was like, okay, today is not the day to wear my spikes.
True.
It would be really ridiculous if everybody wears, wear like jeans and sneakers.
I'm wearing like, hanso hansebon, right?
And the socks, you know.
And I was like, okay, this is, this is not happening today.
Oh, wow.
So I never got to see, my shoes never saw the sunlight that day.
Oh, that's sad.
And I'm still looking for the chance, for a chance to wear my spikes.
Still not used.
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Wow, it's a brand new steel.
It's still brand new.
Oh, wow, sad.
Yeah.
You should, you should wear and play, do some practice by yourself.
So I got on a, the other day, I got on a bicycle and looked for any places where I could possibly,
you know, play, but I couldn't find any.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
No, like big parks?
Okay, there were parks, but like, I couldn't find any walls.
That was the problem.
Ah, true.
I wanted to practice my kicking skill.
Yeah.
So I kind of needed a wall for the ball to come back to me.
That's true.
And I couldn't find any.
Yeah.
True.
It's actually difficult if you're alone and want to play football or practice football.
Yeah.
The only way is you can dribble by yourself or just keep lifting the ball up.
See, that's not kicking, that's not practicing kicking, right?
Well, it's related to, but it's a little different, of course.
But I want to like really like, yeah, kick hard and like boom.
Yeah, true.
So.
Wow.
Yeah.
Hmm.
That's true.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Maybe you have to go to there, like.
But yeah, you have your spikes, you have your boots.
Yes.
So you cannot play at futsau, futsaru places or like taikukan.
Right.
You know, in different shoes.
I can't, no I can't.
Can you, okay, so the spikes that I bought, is it playable on
tsuchi, like suna?
Like, what do you call that?
Like sand?
Yeah.
Yeah, like dirt?
Yeah.
It's possible?
Yeah.
Okay, good.
Because it doesn't feel like, for like, if it's grass, I can understand that the pointy parts,
Yeah.
the back of your shoe can like, kind of go in and it kind of becomes like, help be a stopper.
Yeah, yeah.
But I can't imagine that on like, on sand, but you can still, you're not gonna slip.
Nah.
Okay.
If you wear like, this kind of sneakers without any point, you will slip all the time.
Oh, that's worse.
Yeah.
Okay.
So you should wear something.
Got it.
Spike or training shoes, there's a little different one.
Okay.
But yeah.
Got it.
But not on like, like this hard, like asphalt.
Yeah.
Got it.
No, you're gonna slip.
Yeah.
And fall.
Got it.
Right.
Wow.
But that was a good moment to you.
Yeah.
Gathering with your old friends and,
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was, yeah, that was great.
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Is another guy from your high school also likes football?
Yeah, he, no, he was in the baseball club.
Oh, okay.
But he's a very athletic guy.
Okay.
You know, he's, he's fit.
You know, he's got power.
Yeah.
He's a pilot actually.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
He's a, yeah.
Okay.
Good guy.
Good guy.
Nice.
Yeah.
The next time we're playing, we're gonna play five, right?
We're gonna be five.
That's good.
That's great.
We can,
We can do some,
We can do some mini games.
Mini games.
Yeah.
That's good.
That's good.
And the two guys coming, Narita and Mario,
they are really not professional.
Oh, you're just like me.
Well, yeah.
But remember the first time you played football, like the two times before?
Yeah, yeah, the very first time, those three, right?
Yeah.
Thinking about that, you get better.
Oh, did I get better?
I guess so.
Wow.
Like you can move your body and,
It's true.
Yeah.
And at least you don't have any pain on your body.
Right.
I don't have any muscle cramps.
Yeah.
The first time was worse and it got better and better.
Then two guys will be like that this time.
Right.
So let's just,
We're gonna have to go easy on them.
Yeah.
Or like,
Or,
Play hard and
The opposite.
Yeah.
That's a good game plan.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Get the fuck out of them.
And they will never come again.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
But they told me that they can never imagine that you playing
football.
Really?
Like you playing any sports.
They can't imagine me?
Yeah.
Oh, really?
They said that they never seen you running.
Really?
Yeah.
I mean, I play tennis.
Oh, yeah.
I play tennis.
You know, when we were college student, we never seen you like playing some tennis, of course.
Playing,
Remember we did like a Kyu,
Like a Kyu,
Kyu, Kyu, Kyu, Kyu, Kyu.
Oh, yeah.
You did tennis?
I was there.
Oh, well, not tennis, but like basketball.
Yeah, I play basketball.
Volleyball.
Yeah, yeah.
I was there.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Oh, then they,
I guess they didn't remember, right?
Maybe.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right.
True.
And Naru-chan is completely,
He was in badminton club.
So he,
High school?
Yeah.
Okay.
He says he's really bad at playing football.
The worst thing on his life.
How about Mario?
Is he, how,
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Was he in a Undobu?
Yeah, volleyball.
He was in the volleyball team?
Mm-hmm.
Oh.
In really strong high school.
Really?
Yeah.
So he can move.
So he's got the athletics.
Yeah.
That's good.
That's good.
That's great.
Yeah.
He's got the hand-eye coordination.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's good.
Yeah, but, you know.
It's his hand, right?
Yeah.
They're different, I guess.
Yep.
But, you know, he can run, he can move.
Right, right, right, right.
That's a good, that's good.
It's good.
Way.
Good thing.
All right.
Okay.
Good side.
So.
All right.
Wow.
Looking for that.
This week, maybe?
No.
Next week, right?
Next week.
I think you said next week.
Cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm getting, look, I got skinnier, dude.
Oh, really?
I got skinnier.
Wow.
For real.
You can't really notice it.
Like, it's not, at first, see, the first thing, the first parts of the body that I,
that I'm affected by is the stomach.
Wow.
The first to get fat, first to get skinny.
Wow.
And it's getting skinnier.
Oh, that's nice.
Yeah, it's getting better and better.
Great.
Four days in.
Five days in.
Yeah.
In a healthy week.
The healthy week.
Showing progress.
Wow.
Yeah.
Your body is really like, changeable body.
I know.
Amazing, right?
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
If you go to the gym, you're pumped.
If it was that healthy week, five days.
Five days.
Already showing progress.
It's funny.
Yeah.
That's good.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
Thanks for sitting, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
