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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Alright, hello!
Hi guys!
Okay...
So...
This is Saori-san.
Saori-san.
Thank you, Saori-san.
Okay, I think I've never read this before, but...
Alright.
Hello Kevin-san, Yama-san, Kake-san. Nice to meet you. I'm Saori.
I always enjoy watching your content.
I don't know much about your podcast, but I enjoy it.
Thank you.
You said before that you write a diary before going to bed.
So I started writing a diary recently.
Great.
Are you still doing the okou?
I don't do okou.
Oh, okay.
Because I bought the air purifier.
Oh!
He canceled it as well.
Yeah, yeah.
Wow.
So I stopped okou anymore.
Yeah, it's a good idea.
I do the oil thing now.
Oh, the diffuser?
Not like the diffuser. I just put some oils and...
Oh, like an oil stone?
Yeah, so that the machine won't...
Right, right, right.
So...
Do you?
Do you okou?
No, I don't do it anymore.
I bought an aroma diffuser.
Okay, okay.
I'm using that right now.
Yeah, yeah.
So I started writing a diary recently.
The content of the diary is mostly the impressions of the videos of KER.
So I'm enjoying it so far.
In Japan, I have a diary homework in the summer vacation.
I sometimes exchange the diary with my friends.
Is there a culture of diary homework and exchange diary in the US?
Also, when did you start writing a diary?
If you have any diary episodes, please let me know.
If a miracle happens and I can meet you, I think I'll be inspired to hug you.
Can I hug you?
I don't want to be attracted to you, so I'll stop hugging you.
I love you, KER. I'm looking forward to your videos.
Thank you.
Thank you.
If you actually imagine, you're on the streets, right?
Yeah.
And someone who you don't know walks up to you and starts hugging you, that's pretty scary.
That's scary.
That's very scary.
I'm so sorry, but that is scary.
Very scary.
Because from our perspective, we don't know if that person is a really good teacher or someone who's trying to kill us, right?
We can't tell apart.
So we have to go into protection mode.
Yeah.
We never know if that guy is having a knife or something.
Exactly.
We don't know if it's a friendly stranger or an angry enemy.
Yeah, a smiling killer, maybe.
I know, right? We never know.
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We never know.
So there is no way.
We have to go into protection mode.
Yeah.
Which is kind of a sad thing, you know?
Sad thing, yeah.
Right?
But...
It's so bad.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Have you had any moments where you're noticed on the streets ever since?
Oh, um...
No.
Okay.
Let's think again.
Let's just...
Yeah, hey.
I think you're so... ever since you've last updated me on...
We're getting bigger and bigger, right?
Yeah, I mean, yeah.
We've done a lot of things, right?
I'm sure we got more exposure out there.
And in Matsuko-san, right?
Yeah, on the TV.
That must have had lots of exposure.
Yeah.
And after that, how much have you gotten?
No.
All right.
Let's go.
No.
Let's fucking go, man.
Yeah.
Let's go.
Thank you.
Let's get the engine started.
Yeah.
Let's go.
Oh, yeah.
So, to me, actually, this kind of story isn't quite real to me.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
All right.
I'm...
Like, luckily, I'm saying it honestly.
Luckily, I've never felt that dangerous or, like, scariness...
Yeah.
...from strangers or, like, from people around me on the road or on public transportations.
Yeah.
So, I think I'm kind of in a lucky situation, I think.
I think you are, like, in terms of, like, safety-ness.
Yeah.
Right.
Do you...
I think you feel like...
I have had it several times, you know?
Yeah.
Like, when I'm...
Like, I'm kind of extra careful near my house, you know?
Near my house.
Near your house.
Because, right?
Like, I'm...
That's where I live, right?
Like, I don't...
You know, you hear stories of, you know, people that are public, right?
Yeah.
That has trouble, you know, with their address being public and, like...
Yeah.
...people knowing where they live, and that leads them into, like, you know, maybe having
to move out or, like...
Right?
That's...
I don't want to do that.
Yeah, of course.
I just want to live my fucking life, right?
So, I'm extra careful with that.
Yeah.
I understand that.
Right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So...
Yeah.
Yeah.
But not that...
I hadn't had any, like, scary moments.
Like, an actual scary moment.
Oh, yeah.
It all...
What I talked about all came from, like...
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Oh, is this...
Maybe he's onto me.
Yeah.
Maybe...
Are you okay, man?
Yeah.
I'm just really moving there.
Yeah, I'm okay.
Okay.
It all came from, like, okay, maybe he's spotting me.
Yeah.
Maybe he noticed me.
There were never moments like, "Hey, you!"
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
Oh, there was one moment, though.
Oh, really?
It wasn't scary, though.
I was just walking, right?
I was walking.
I was on my way to a drugstore, and this guy on a bicycle, right?
Mm-hmm.
And we made eye contact.
Yeah.
And it was a guy, right?
It was a guy, and it was, like, around 30s, mid-30s.
He kind of saw me, right?
Yeah.
He was wearing a hoodie, and kind of like a really...
Like, a swaggy...
Okay.
And, like, he looked at me, and I was like, "Okay, oh, we made eye contact.
Maybe he noticed me or something."
Like, he had his eyes wide open, right?
Okay.
Oh, my God.
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Do people look like...
I mean, that's what they do.
That's what they do.
They notice you that you are...
Yeah.
Many times, they do that.
Like this?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're, bam, eyes wide open.
Okay.
And then, like, I don't know, right when he crosses me, he just shouts out, "Kevin!"
And he just passes.
"Kevin!"
And he just...
He doesn't even stop.
He just...
He says, "Kevin!"
He shouts out, "Kevin!"
And just...
Oh, that's scary.
Just runs up, just...
He doesn't even change the speed, right?
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That's scary.
Yeah, I thought that was, you know, not normal.
Yeah.
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I wouldn't go so far as to say it was scary, but, like, not usual.
Not the usual pattern.
Yeah, surprising, at least.
Yeah.
Okay.
Right.
Wow.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
So, please don't suddenly hug us.
Right.
Yeah, that.
Right.
We're gonna have to go into protection mode.
So, let's gently introduce yourself first.
Yeah, yeah.
Say, "Hi."
Yeah.
It's just like...
It's the same thing as if you talk to some totally stranger on the road.
Right.
"Oh, excuse me.
Hello.
I'm in love with this guy."
It's the same thing.
Right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Don't yell at him.
"Kevin!"
Don't suddenly hug him.
Right.
It's the same thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
So...
How long were you doing your Nikkis?
In this style, I started like six years ago, I guess.
No, no, no.
Young.
First year of college?
I guess that was third year of college.
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So...
Okay.
Five, six, seven.
Not sure.
But yeah.
Two to ten, right?
Yeah, two to ten.
Yeah.
Yes.
But the very first time, the day, very first day I wrote down my diary was when I was elementary.
Really?
I was in fourth grade, in third grade.
Do you remember what you wrote?
Yeah.
What was it?
I still have that note.
Oh, damn.
And I was like...
"One day, I will die."
That was some dark shit, man.
"I will completely disappear from this world."
Okay.
It goes like this.
Okay.
And...
Right?
Okay.
But...
If I was a usual guy, and usually like gone suddenly someday, and there would be nobody
who remembered me, there would be no one who remembers me, no one who talks about me, and
this world completely forget me, and then it feels like I wasn't on the earth anymore,
and nobody remembers me, and that's sad.
Okay.
Right?
Yeah.
So that's why I write this diary, so that somebody can find this notebook.
Oh, shit.
Wait, how old were you?
Ten.
Shit.
And then somebody will read this book so that people will notice and people will understand
that there is this guy in Japan living like this.
And that's why I start my diary.
That is some grown-ass shit.
Yeah.
Fuck.
A ten-year-old?
That's so dark, right?
Yeah, it's dark.
So sad.
You have friends.
Don't worry.
I mean, yeah, dark is one, but also like really like, for a ten-year-old to think and take
action against it, right?
Yeah.
I mean, that's...
Well, I think I became suddenly really sad and depressed.
Like, you know, one day you imagine the day you will be gone and...
I would die someday, right?
That's true.
That's some dark-ass shit.
Yeah.
I think that's the beginning, I think.
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Wow.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
So...
And you still have it with you, right?
Yeah.
I need to prove that I was living, you know?
Right.
I was living on this planet and...
Right, right.
Yeah, it's an existence, so...
Don't you still have kind of like a similar theory on life?
Yeah.
Right?
Of course.
That's why I make songs now.
Aha.
To prove...
To leave something.
Yeah.
I see.
Yeah.
I see.
If you don't leave anything and die, then it's like, I wasn't here, right?
I need to leave something before I die.
Right?
I mean, you got pictures of yourself, right?
On Facebook.
Yeah, it's gone.
It will be gone.
Really?
Yeah, it will be gone.
Oh.
Really?
No, I don't know.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
But if...
Sure.
But if nobody remembers this face...
Oh, like you're talking about...
Yeah, it's just like...
...Itsugareru.
Yeah, right?
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're a guy.
Yeah, right?
I see.
I see.
Random guy, so...
I see.
I see.
Yeah.
What a philosophy.
Depressed.
Yeah, that's depressed, man.
That's...
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cheers on that.
Yeah.
But recently, you know, we have this video.
It's true, right?
We have YouTube.
Yeah.
AR.
So it's like...
Even we... you know, you will die someday, right?
I will die someday.
Yeah, I mean, I can't deny it.
First, right?
Yeah.
And of course, I will die someday.
But after that, people will maybe, you know, see all these videos and...
Right.
...feels as if we were still living, maybe.
Right, right, right.
Like...
Right, to some extent, right?
Yeah.
We will be...
Yeah.
...fired at it, right?
Unless there would be no newest, like, updated videos.
Right, right, right.
But still.
So...
I kind of... kind of relieved.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But this is not something I state, you know, something like I...
It's not something like...
No, our videos are not something me and your statement, right?
Not like philosophy things.
True, true, true.
It's just a...
It's a funny content, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's just a...
Right.
Yeah.
So that's why I write the area and I write the make songs.
I see, I see.
Well, cheers to that.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Bye-bye.
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