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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hello!
Hey guys!
Hello!
We've got a voice message.
Oh yay!
It's been a while!
Yeah.
Since we've last done the voice messaging.
Yeah.
Let's go!
Let's go.
Hello, hello guys!
I'm Gal Asahi.
Hello!
It's been a while! I'm the gang style rapper, Asahi.
You remember me, right Kaminon?
Yeah, I remember you.
I went to my friend's wedding the other day and I said hi to her.
It was the first time I've been there so I was nervous and shaking.
The question is, have you been to a wedding in America or France?
I've been to a wedding in Japan, but I've never been to Japan.
I've never been to America or France.
I'd like to ask you about the number of the wedding.
Please!
Bye!
Wow!
I love this guy!
At first, I literally thought he was Watanabe Naomi.
Really?
Listen again, the first part.
Hello, hello guys!
I'm Gal Asahi.
Hello, hello guys!
His voice sounds exactly like Watanabe Naomi.
Really?
No, don't you think so?
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
Really?
So he's doing a really great job, right?
I mean if he was doing an impression of Watanabe Naomi, I would say he's doing a really good job.
Wow!
But I love this guy.
Asahi-san.
Asahi-san, I remember him.
Yeah.
I remember you.
He always sends us funny messages.
Funky messages.
Yeah, every time and I love that.
Great.
Finally.
Do you have any reason why did he try to be Gal Asahi?
Is there some relation to the message?
The opening, right?
Yeah.
The "Hi guys!"
Yeah.
Why he did that.
Yeah.
Let's really think about this.
Yeah.
Can I just listen to it again?
Because I want to be very accurate.
Yeah.
Very, I don't want to make any like misjudgements here.
Yeah.
So, I can try it again from the beginning.
Oh yeah, sure.
Exit out and then go back and then it's going to reset I think.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Hello, hello guys.
I'm Gal Asahi.
Hello.
It's been a while.
I'm Gal Asahi, a gang style rapper.
Do you remember me?
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I'm Gal Asahi, but I went to my friend's wedding the other day.
So, he calls himself the gang style rapper, but he opens the message with "Garu Asahi".
Yeah.
Now, why does he do that?
Yeah.
Let's really get into why he would do such a thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because I don't see any connection there.
Yeah.
I don't see any connection.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Me too.
If you're going for the gangster style, why don't you just go like, "Yo, yo!"
Yeah.
From the beginning.
Yeah.
Yep.
Well, it's good.
Yeah.
But instead he just goes for the, "Hey, guys."
And if you're going to go with the "Garu" style, why don't you just do the "Garu" for the rest of the episode?
Yeah.
Did you get, I don't know, did you think it was embarrassing?
Did you feel like you're kind of like, were you not confident?
I loved the moment.
He suddenly changes into, "Gonjwa."
As if that solves everything, right?
As if everything you did prior to saying that doesn't become a problem, right?
We never miss that.
I love voice messages.
Yeah, right.
I mean, it adds so much color.
Yeah.
So much color.
Yeah.
And the thing is, you can't retake voice messages on Instagram, I think.
Oh.
I think.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I think that's his first try.
Okay.
So maybe he thinks so many things to entertain people.
Maybe, maybe.
Yeah.
Entertainer, right?
Yeah, because he said, "Kone-chan, minasan."
Right?
Yeah.
He's like, he's in the show.
He's presenting.
Yeah.
He understands that he's in the show.
Yeah.
That there's listeners.
Yeah.
Saying things to the audience.
Yeah.
It makes sense that he was chosen for the speaker for the wedding.
Yeah, true.
I can easily imagine how he's good at doing those.
Right, right.
I'm sure he wasn't that nervous either, right?
He's just saying it for the show.
Shaking, shaking.
Yeah.
Like you wouldn't say that if you were fucking nervous on stage.
Like you wouldn't say, "Shaking, shaking."
Oh, yeah.
So about the question.
Yeah, the oshugi, right?
Yeah, oshugi.
So I went to...
I took...
Yeah, I went to a kikonski when I was in France.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
But I didn't pay anything.
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I believe there were nothing like oshugi system, I think.
Yeah.
So I didn't pay anything, but I just went to the party and that's all.
Yeah.
Neither does the US.
They don't have any oshugi.
Oshugi things.
Yeah, systems.
Yeah.
No.
So do participants pay?
I think there's like a present list.
Present list.
Yeah.
So I've never attended...
Okay, okay.
...an American wedding.
Okay.
The US.
So...
What's the present list?
But I think there's like a present list that the...
And the participants can kind of like choose and like decide what to give the Shindou Shinpu.
To the Shindou Shinpu.
Yeah, I think the Shindou Shinpu makes like a list.
It's like a wish list.
Yeah, like an Amazon buy wish list.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I think...
Yeah.
Very like goriteki.
Yeah.
I like that.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Those.
But I'm not that sure.
Yeah.
I've never attended one, so...
Yeah.
That's what I heard.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Me too.
I think that...
But what I know, what I feel is that the goshugi system is kind of...
I think we should kind of like rethink the whole thing.
Okay.
Yeah.
Make it a fee.
Yeah.
So that...
Make it like...
So that it's fixed for everyone.
For like, like, like, nimaen.
Yeah, everyone pays nimaen.
Everyone pays samayan.
And if you want to come, you come.
If you don't want to, you don't.
You don't pay.
Right.
Mm-hmm.
I feel like we should make it more...
Like, you know, less...
We should make it more contracty.
Okay.
Make it more transactional.
Okay.
Yeah.
I understand that.
Right?
Yeah.
The awkwardness of having to decline a wedding.
Yeah.
Yes, I have done it before.
Okay.
The awkwardness of like...
Is it really awkward?
Yeah, very awkward.
Oh.
Yeah.
And you write.
Yeah, and it's still awkward.
Right?
It's letter and it's still awkward.
Really?
Yeah.
Wow.
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The only reason why I declined was I didn't give a fuck about that person, right?
I'm sorry about that, guys.
Yeah.
I'm sorry.
Excuse my language.
I just...
Excuse my language.
Yeah.
But I didn't care about him.
Okay.
I really wasn't that much of a friend.
Oh.
I didn't know you.
You didn't know me.
I didn't know you sending me a fucking invitation to your goddamn wedding that I don't give a
fuck about.
That's why...
And it was still kind of awkward.
Wow.
And it was still kind of awkward.
So if it was really friend...
Oh, yeah.
Of course.
Important friend of you...
I'd be happy to go.
Yeah.
I'd be happy to go.
And then you have something important, for example, like maybe you're in the United States,
maybe then you can't...
Yeah.
Anticipate in...
I would...
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Then you will be really awkward, right?
I would call that person probably.
Oh, okay.
Tell him so that it's not awkward anymore.
Okay, okay.
But it is still kind of awkward.
Okay.
I think we should make it less.
Make it more systematic.
Yes.
Yeah.
You know?
Make it purchasable.
Yeah.
You understand?
Yeah.
I understand.
Like it just feels like once you're invited to a wedding, you're kind of...
It's obligatory.
Like you're obligated to go.
Oh.
Like it's a mandatory.
I don't...
It's not an option that you have.
Okay.
Like it's joshiki that you go.
Yeah.
Right?
Because in a lot of situations, you get lines.
For example, like...
"I'm going to a wedding at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Can you come?"
And then, "I can go."
"Oh, thanks. I'll send you an invitation."
And then the letter comes.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's just...
That means everybody says yes to the letter.
That's true.
Oh, so you're talking about the inefficiency of the logistics and everything.
Yeah.
Yeah, because the letter itself isn't like the question anymore.
Right.
You line beforehand.
Right.
It's...
It's decoration.
Yeah.
It's just...
It's...
It's a...
I mean, I understand it's fun.
You do everything and...
"Imitation letters and prepare things."
And I know that's fun, but...
Yeah.
Yeah.
If I were...
Someday in the future, let's say that I was going to get married, right?
Yeah.
I am so...
I myself is so pressured into asking people.
Because if I ask them to like, "Will you come to my wedding?"
I know that I'm putting a pressure on them.
Yeah.
You can't say no.
Yeah.
I don't want to do that.
Okay.
I just want to make it purchasable.
If you want to join my wedding, you can visit this website and purchase...
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So you buy tickets, right?
Yeah.
I almost want to do that.
Yeah.
It's not a pressure for both ends.
Yeah.
I want to do that.
Okay.
You know?
Yeah.
Okay.
I understand that.
Or make it like...
Make the fee a lot lower.
You know?
Like no "gosyugi" but like the joining fee is like "gosen" or something like that.
Like that's so much more...
Yeah.
There are some "kikonsuki" like that.
Yeah.
Just only...
Because you pay "sanmaen gosyugi" and then you get back "gosyugi gaeshi" some presents.
Yeah.
Right.
Actually, you actually pay just "ichimanen" actually.
Oh, you're right.
You're right.
So, okay.
No, no, no.
We don't do that.
Just give me "ichimanen."
That's logical.
Okay.
That's so much better.
Yeah.
That's increasing actually.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No present.
And I don't understand that.
Yeah.
And that makes sense.
Yeah.
I mean, like a lot of people, like 50% of you are not going to know what you're eating.
You don't know what you're eating.
I can tell that you're just like from afar.
Yeah.
Like you're like trying to like you're using your fork to like look into like, "What is this?
What the fuck is this?
I can see you.
Everyone's doing it."
No.
No, like yeah.
Is "kikonsuki" like that?
I've never attended to those "kikonsuki" ever.
So is this real?
I can't.
I am exaggerating.
Yeah, yeah.
Of course.
It's odd.
Look.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Good catch.
Yeah.
It's obvious though that when you're attending your friend's wedding, they're what?
28, 29.
Fairly young, right?
And they're served with a course, like a French course meal.
Yeah.
Like who the fuck at their end, their late 20s would know what the specifics and the details and the mediocre of a French course restaurant, right?
Some know.
Somebody know that.
But yeah, okay.
Right?
Okay.
I just feel like, like I feel like, okay, I gaze the room.
I look at the room and what I can tell is that they're more happier if they have meat on the table.
Oh, it's just steak.
Like instead of that, that starter shit, that like some fucking some cranberry sauce shit with some, I don't know what the hell that is.
Yeah.
Like instead of that, I can just see their faces.
Like if meat goes on the table, they're happier.
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Okay.
Not only you, right?
Yeah.
It's not only you.
Not only me.
Okay.
Everyone, everyone in the room.
Okay.
If the crowd is fairly young.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Everyone likes meat better.
Okay.
We just stop with the French, stop with the presents under the seats.
Yeah.
Right?
And just just do like a simple yakiniku.
Okay.
Yakiniku is probably not the best idea.
Yeah.
I'm sure there's better ideas.
Or like.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yakiniku is too smoky.
Okay.
Too smoky.
Yeah.
But I don't want it to be like a like a like a tonkatsu or anything like that.
That's too casual.
Oh, that's too casual.
But something in the middle, right?
Not as high as French.
Because most people don't know French, like don't understand French, including me.
I don't get it.
Okay.
I understand it though.
Okay.
Okay.
Then that'll apply to you.
Yeah, but I'm talking about the majority of the people.
Of course.
Of course.
I don't think.
Okay.
Like, do you get excited when you look go to a French menu?
Like when you go to a wedding and then French course and the first appetizer.
Do you get excited for that?
Yeah, I do.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I think you're a rare, rare case here.
So you get more excited if he was like, French fries or like, okay, well, okay.
French fries or like, that's too casual.
That's too casual.
I understand that that's too casual.
Like I'm not going to want to eat like a hamburger.
Oh, like a rib eye or something like that.
Okay.
Well, maybe, rib eye, maybe.
Yeah.
But what about like sushi?
Yeah, sushi is better.
Okay.
I feel like sushi is better.
Okay.
Okay.
In French.
Sushi is kind of formal.
Yeah.
Yet everyone can enjoy it.
Like actually enjoy it.
Of course.
Okay.
Okay, go ahead.
Yeah.
Or like, um, pastas.
Okay.
Pastas good.
Yeah.
Okay.
Or like, um, um,
Pasta's okay.
Pasta's good.
Yeah.
Okay.
Or like.
Um.
Um.
Um.
Okay.
So.
Um.
I have to sit on this a little bit.
Yeah.
I have to sit on this.
I can't, I can't answer right now.
But sushi's good.
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Okay, sushi's good.
Like authentic Japanese cuisines, like tempura's.
Yeah tempura's great.
I think people would enjoy tempura.
Okay.
Sukiyaki's maybe?
That's great.
Sukiyaki's great.
No, no, I think sukiyaki's great.
Yeah.
But um.
Nabe, nabe ryouri.
Isn't that too casual?
I mean, my question is there are so many venues in Japan and isn't there like wedding in Japanese
oyashiki?
Oh, true.
This is like, fine so maybe.
That's true.
So I've never attended like a Japanese style kikonshiki so I don't know what meals they
serve but I can tell you that they're probably over, over fancying their meals to the point
where no one understands what's on their plate.
That I can tell you.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe.
Some crazy kanji's written on the menu right there.
What the fuck is?
Yeah.
Majority of the people are like.
But I'm sorry, but yeah.
My point is we can make the weddings more enjoyable for everybody and like a lot more
smoother and more, more efficient.
Yeah okay.
Is just what I wanted, just wanted to say.
Yeah.
That's all, thank you, that's all.
Thank you.
I agree with the efficiency part.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm glad you, glad you agreed on some point.
Thank you.
But not French and casual Japanese.
Difficult kanji.
Sakana, hen ni bara.
Of fishes so.
But yeah.
Thanks for listening guys.
Bye bye.
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