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Welcome to Kevin's English from podcast.
Hello.
Hello.
Did you hear that Bell?
That click noise?
That little thing from iPhone when I click the start recording button?
No.
Okay.
All right.
Well, it sounded a little bit different.
Than usual was what I caught.
Did you not think of any, did you not feel any difference?
I didn't hear anything.
Anything.
Okay, got it.
It's good to know.
Good to know you're sharp.
How different was that?
So what I caught was that usually it's like a single,
but now it was like a little, like a double.
Oh, was what I caught.
Maybe you tapped twice.
The thing, if I tap twice, then it would stop recording, right?
So, but it's still recording.
So I thought, okay, wow.
But, it's okay.
Yeah.
It's okay.
I'm happy that we got to share feelings.
Yeah, thank you.
Thank you for sharing, man.
It's always great to connect.
Yeah.
Yes.
Okay.
So.
Hello, I'm Yui.
Hello.
I always enjoy listening to you.
Thank you.
The day before you heard about the Kyo-Gen,
I was surprised to see it.
Wow.
I saw the play by Miyake Tokuro.
What, the same?
Yeah, same.
There was also a famous Izumi Motoya.
Yeah, the same one then.
Maybe we're in the same building?
Yeah.
It was a very valuable experience that you two came to high school.
Oh, so not the same one, but...
High school?
Yeah, those Miyake-san...
Oh, like a shichou kind of performance, I see.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Since it was a country, it was unusual for me to meet a famous person,
and I was overwhelmed by the aura.
Have you two met a famous person in the city?
Is there anyone you want to meet again?
I'm dreaming of meeting the three of you at the K-R.
I'm rooting for you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Have you met anybody famous?
Yeah.
Really?
I have, yeah.
Oh.
Okay, can you...
Is it okay to...
Of course.
Okay.
That was when I was elementary school student.
That was like oshogatsu moment.
So I went to like shrine for hatsumode with my family.
Yeah.
And then there were like, you know, oshogatsu tokuban in Japanese TV show, like comedy...
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then it was, I guess it was a big shrine, big temple.
And TV crew was in the temple, and there were two geinin-san,
doing some kind of nama-chūkei-rokei.
Oh.
Kind of neta, you know, those...
Right.
...chūkeis.
Right.
And I saw...
Rai.
Rai, rai, rai, rai.
Ah.
You know.
Ikezaki Market.
Ikezaki Market.
Yeah, yeah.
Those two guys.
And also Kojima Yoshio-san.
Sonnan no kankei nai guy.
And the announcer, famous announcer.
I saw them.
And that was my first, like, meeting those...
I remember they were so loud.
Really?
So loud.
Like, rai, rai, rai, rai, rai.
Really loud.
And I was, wow, they are loud.
Even meiwakumei?
Yeah, they were really loud.
And also what I remember was that the geinin-san was loud.
And I kind of understand that because it's energized people.
So they were loud to make people laugh.
But, you know, there was a kameraman.
And behind kameraman there were, like, directors or producers.
EDs.
EDs people.
And they laughed so loudly.
Like, wow.
Really?
And that was kind of surprising to me.
And that was quite unnatural to me.
So they were putting on a show.
Yeah.
So they were...
So loud.
Deliberately...
They laughed.
Trying to, you know, stir up a laugh.
Yeah.
That's what I remember.
Because, you know, looking at TV, it really doesn't sound that unnatural, you know?
Yeah, really small.
And, yeah, true.
I never thought it was like, okay, this feels like a fake laugh.
Backstage.
But, wow.
Yeah.
They were like...
It wasn't like laugh naturally came.
It was just they were trying to laugh out as hard as they could.
Like...
[laughs]
Yeah.
Really?
That's what I remember.
Interesting.
Yeah.
And I felt like, oh, this is like the udagawa.
Yeah.
And, oh, this is the show, how the show is made by those adults.
Oh.
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But like they're doing it in public, right?
Yeah.
Completely in public.
So anyone can go see what's behind stage.
[laughs]
Wow.
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
The show was...
I guess that was nama-chūkei.
So everybody was kind of really like piri piri shiteru.
Especially like the seisaku side was always checking the time and kanpe like this and...
See.
Like...
So that was first time for me to see those side.
Uh-huh.
So, oh, I thought it like more like...
To me that was looks...
Looked professional, but at the same time like, oh, it's the real work.
Uh-huh.
It's not something fun or like just having fun in front of cameras, but it's just work of professionals.
Oh, right.
That's what I felt.
Right.
Because like sometimes, right, because on TV shows when camera...
Yeah.
When the comedians are like, "Eddie-san, dōdesu ka?"
Like the camera goes to the AD and they're like, they're kind of relaxed.
Yeah.
Kind of like that's how we see it, right?
Yeah.
Kind of like chill and like, "Ah, ha, ha."
Yeah.
But I guess it's not like that.
Yeah.
And I had thought that all the geinin-sans were like just having fun in front of the cameras.
Uh-huh.
Just enjoy the moment.
Yeah.
No, that was like the real work.
They had real responsibilities.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Ha, ha, ha.
Yeah, I remember that.
Oh, intense kind of...
Yeah, that was really intense...
Intense scene.
Atmosphere.
Ha, ha, ha.
Yeah.
Wow.
And also another time that was when I was a high school student, I saw Michibata...
Anjerika.
Anjerika-san.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
At Futagotamagawa area.
Okay.
She was so skinny.
Oh, really?
Like this.
Like this skinny.
Ha, ha, ha.
Literally.
Unreal skinny.
Like this skinny.
She was.
Really?
Yeah.
High, so high.
Oh, damn.
Oh.
She's skinny.
Ha, ha, ha.
And tall like...
Like that.
Yeah.
Ha, ha, ha.
You're describing a tree.
Yeah, but that was true.
She was like...
Oh, then I can be a model.
You got to have skinny legs.
That's a different human being.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was too...
I remember.
Yeah.
I remember my first encounter was Geno-jingu-san when I was in the US and my dad was like, "Okay,
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I'm going to a meeting in Japan."
Okay.
And like, "Son, you want to come?"
Like, "Oh, yeah, I want to go."
Yeah.
Like I went there and I went to Odaiba.
Okay.
And they... at Odaiba, they were shooting a live stream of music station.
Oh, really?
Outside, like just in front of the Odaiba building.
Oh.
Yeah, like they had like a little stage in front of the building, but it was covered
completely by this wall.
Yeah, of course.
That was set up, right?
So you can only hear the music.
Oh, but still you can hear that.
Yeah, you can still hear the music, right?
So, Katun was there.
Okay.
And I was like, "Behind this wall is Katun."
I was like, "Oh, shit."
Yeah.
I was so excited.
Yeah, that's right.
I was like, "Unbelievable."
Like, "I'm this close to Katun."
You heard the voices?
I heard their voices, right.
I was really excited.
Oh.
And I think after that was Aiko.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like the people that I was listening to from overseas in America.
And now right in front of them.
I was like, "Wow."
I was excited.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's great.
I didn't really get to see them, but they were there.
They were really in front of me.
You know.
That's great.
Yeah.
Have you ever met those people in like the street or like in cities, in trains?
I've actually never spotted a K-no-jin ever.
Yeah.
One reporter I have, like NHK reporter I have, like in Ibaraki.
Yeah.
But other than that.
Oh, really?
I actually, no.
I've actually never like spotted someone like during their private time or nothing like
that, right?
Not during like a TV show.
Oh, well, I have seen like drama scenes.
Okay.
But like I was never able to understand who was there.
Yeah.
Like some drama scenes going on.
Like set.
Right.
Cameras and all the people.
Yeah.
A lot of people gathering.
But like I never, like I don't know.
I can't really see who it is.
So like, yeah, I've never acknowledged, recognized anybody.
So yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I also had a moment I was on a train.
It was a metro train.
And at the other side of train, there was Kojima Yoshio-san.
Again?
Again.
With his friend or like Genin-san no Nakama, maybe.
And he was carrying, it was close to the Ginza area.
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Okay.
And he, I think he was just after from his shopping.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
He was carrying some kind of Senpukki, I guess.
The huge Danboru of Senpukki he was carrying.
Really?
Yeah.
So you can see like it was literally, they didn't have any, there weren't any bags or
nothing like that.
No, no.
Just carrying just a...
The Danboru, like, you know, there's a Senpukki Irasuto.
Oh yeah.
Black and white.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Black and cardboard box colored.
Yeah.
He was carrying that.
Oh.
And he looked so handsome.
Really?
Yeah.
Tall.
Like...
Muscular?
Muscular and...
I mean, think about it, he is very muscular.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He has a really great body, right?
And he looked so like handsome guy.
Oh, really?
And he does have a really koi.
Yeah, yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
Oh.
That's what I remember and he carried like big cotton like this and wild.
Your phone call?
Yeah.
All right, but that's about 10 minutes.
Yeah.
So, all right.
Thanks for listening guys.
Thank you.
Bye bye.
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