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Uh, kind of a message from...
Um...
Momosan, I guess? Momosan?
Yes. Alright, Momosan. Thank you, Momosan.
Thank you, Momosan.
Hello, Kevin-san, Yamasan.
Hello.
Did you like that? Yeah, I like that.
Let me try it again.
Can you say that thing again?
Hello, Kevin-san, Yamasan.
That was too much.
But, wait, too much, but am I on the right track?
Yeah, on the right track.
Alright, so let me just lower it a little bit.
See if I can replicate that.
Three steps over, so...
Three steps over? Okay, got it.
Hello, Kevin-san, Yamasan.
Yeah!
That was good? Good? Alright.
That was like one step over.
Okay, that was too much then.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good.
Sounds like, um...
Like, um...
Fukuyama Masaharu.
Ah, okay. Those kind of...
Okay, got it. Dandy voice. Sexy.
Yeah. Got it.
Alright, thank you. Good.
Hello, Kevin-san, Yamasan.
No, that's a different...
You changed the style.
Okay, just...
Continue with the message.
I like that, anyway.
Okay, thank you.
[Japanese]
Ah...
Yeah...
When I first, like...
Came to Japan, and like...
Met a friend...
That couldn't drink...
Carbonated drinks...
I was like, "What the fuck are you talking about?"
Yeah.
It's just a drink! How do you not...
How can you not consume this?
I couldn't understand it.
But...
Later on, I found out there are more people...
Like, you know, that with the same kind of like...
Inability to take in...
The fizz.
Yeah, so looking back at it now...
I don't... I've never met anyone in the U.S.
Wow.
That can't drink coke or like any other sodas.
Wow.
So natural to you guys.
Yeah!
Can't even believe that.
Yeah, I was so blown away.
Wow.
What?
With that said...
I myself...
Can't drink Kyo-Tan-San.
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Well, I mean, I can. I can.
Alright, I can.
I can drink Kyo-Tan-San.
But... I prefer...
Bitan-San.
What? I prefer Bitan-San, actually.
I do.
Oh.
The amount of fizz that's in coke...
That's perfect.
Is that Bitan-San?
I would say it's not Bitan-San, maybe.
But...
Alright, let me just rephrase it.
I would...
The perfect strength for me is like...
Mid...
In the mid-range.
Lower mid-range.
Lower mid-range?
Or like higher...
Higher low range.
Okay, low range.
The fizz amount.
I would say is...
So not the strongest one.
Yeah, like Wilkinson...
I want to shake Wilkinson.
Why do you shake...
I want to shake Wilkinson and like...
Release the fizz.
And then drink it.
Or like...
Open it.
Half drink it.
And then keep it in the fridge for 2 days.
And then drink it.
Perfect.
I don't care.
I don't mind at all.
Drinking a...
A day old coke.
Really?
I don't mind at all.
I still think...
The fizz is nearly gone.
But I don't really...
Still really good.
I still enjoy the fizz actually.
Didn't you like Kyo-Tan-San?
I like them.
If I had like coke...
A day old coke?
Yeah, a day old coke.
I know.
You would not drink? You would hate it?
Yeah, it's just too sweet.
Okay.
Got it.
It's perfectly okay.
I don't really mind.
So do you have any like...
Soul drink?
Like, Ochaa?
For Japanese people.
Lemonade.
Lemonade is non-carbonated.
Some are.
Yeah.
There are some that are carbonated.
So you drink lemonade?
With everything?
Yeah.
If you go to a food court, lemonade is always there.
Well, nearly always.
Yeah, like lunch.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lunchtime, you get lemonade.
Yeah.
Oh.
I feel like lemonade is one of the...
Miss...
Everyone's kind of like...
Oh, US is coke.
Yeah.
US is Dr. Pepper.
Yeah, like I thought coke is the, you know...
The most...
You know, popular one.
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It is. It actually is the most popular.
But lemonade is still also very popular.
Oh, wow.
And I feel like Japanese...
Aren't having enough like...
Conversation around US lemonade.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wow, I didn't know that.
I saw some, you know, lemonade stand.
Oh, yeah.
You know, those in the street.
In the, you know...
Yeah.
Right.
But I didn't know that.
We also have tea.
Tea? You have teas?
Yeah, we do. Are you surprised?
Lemon tea.
Yeah.
I don't know what tea that is.
Yeah, those black ones.
Probably like...
Yeah, black tea. I don't know, like Earl Grey.
I don't know.
Morning breakfast, I don't know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's usually tea.
If they got lemonade, they usually have tea.
Really?
Yeah, and they ask you, do you want it with lemon?
Or do you want it with milk?
Okay, no. I thought you just always drink coke.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
There's always a time.
There's so many occasions where you prefer lemonade.
Oh, wow.
Or like lemon tea over coke.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's very surprising.
Really?
You think we're always drinking coke?
Yeah.
Definitely more than you guys, but still.
Wow.
What else do they have?
Like lemonade, I kind of understand that.
It's kind of cultural, like soul drink to you guys.
But...
Teas.
Yeah, iced tea.
Many stores make their own homemade kind of...
Oh, I didn't know that.
...teas.
Not like one of those drink machines.
Yeah, yeah.
Some with...
Yep.
Some, you know, many of them have like a...
Like a soda machine, lemonades, but...
Teas.
Many also have...
Oh, wow.
Homemade, restaurant made, like their...
Kodawari.
That's great.
So she can go to the United States then.
Oh, yeah. There's a lot of non-carbonated ones.
A lot. Or like ask for water, you know?
Do you have waters?
Oh, my God. You don't think we have water?
Yes, there's water, man.
You can ask for water or you can like...
Ask for lemon to go with the water.
Yeah.
Some restaurants will give you lemon.
What else is non-carbonated?
Like...
I think they also have like one of those healthier ones.
Like...
Like a veggie...
Veggie something?
Like a veggie drink?
Veggie something like that.
I wouldn't say it's a smoothie.
It's just like...
You know when you go to like...
Like Gusto or like Jonathan's...
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Like the drink...
Donin Kabob. They have that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That you don't really know if it's healthy or not.
Since it's so sweet.
Something similar to that.
I think they have it.
I think though.
Oh.
So there's no worry.
Yeah, don't worry if you can't drink the fizz.
Don't worry about it.
There's a lot of different options.
I know that actually.
Oh man.
Yeah.
Great.
And France? How about France?
Gas water.
You call that a gas water?
I mean...
That's in English.
Gas water.
You know, the carbonated water.
You guys have...
They offer non-carbonated ones.
Yeah.
And wine.
Yeah.
They sell wine everywhere?
In every meal.
Not breakfast but almost every meal.
Water.
Gas water.
Wine.
Would you say that the average quality of the wines that they serve...
Is higher than like the average quality in Japan?
I actually don't know.
Oh, okay.
Sorry.
I would think so.
Yeah.
Just curious.
Yeah, I guess so.
I mean, if I buy the same wine...
That the one the French guys drink usually...
If I buy those same bottles in Japan...
That would be really expensive.
True.
Right.
You know, re-import.
Right, re-import.
But I guess so.
Okay.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
