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Welcome to Gavin's English Room Podcast! Hello, hello. All right, pick this one.
Okay, this one. Okay, that's a voice message. All right, let's go!
Hello, Kake-chan, Kevin, I'm Eri. I've been watching your YouTube videos and listening
podcast episodes from the very beginning. Well, if I'm correct, the name of the show
wasn't K.E.L. at the beginning. It was Kakeyama Kebishiro, I guess. When I found
your contents at first, because it was so fun, I felt like I want to know about you
guys and then I went to Wikipedia and searched Kakeyama Kebishiro because I thought it was
someone's name, but nothing hit. Now I know Kakeyama Kebishiro is mixed Kake-chan,
Yama-chan, Kevin, but then I wonder where the Shiro came from. Is it Kevin's father's name?
By the way, when I was listening the episode of "Ishuukan Kanbojya Shokujide Ichiban Kitsukatta Shokuji",
I came up with this question.
If a YouTuber who lives in a block watched K.E.L.'s "Ishuukan no Shokujisei" and messaged you,
he wanna do the same content in his YouTube videos, so asked you to pick some Japanese
dishes up for him. What dishes would you choose? Would you choose some food that might not
be acceptable because it would be the first time for him to try, like natto, basashi, kujira.
As an aside, in my hometown Suwa Nagano, we eat grasshopper, inago, bee larva, hachinoko,
so I might choose them for fun. Yep, that was my question. I would be happy if you could answer. Cheers, Erii.
All right.
Well, thank you.
I forgot the first half of what she said.
Yeah.
You wanna repeat that again?
Hello, Kake-chan, Kevin, I'm Erii. I've been watching...
My name is Yama, by the way. Nice to meet you.
Such an honor to finally I can introduce you. My name is Yama.
I missed that. I missed that. Wow.
She thinks you're Kake-chan.
Maybe.
Maybe.
I got it. I got it. I remember.
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But Kakeyama Keibishiro, I think that's still on the name.
I think so.
I think it's part of the name of the YouTube channel.
Yeah. Kevin's English room slash Kakeyama Keibishiro.
How did... like I don't think I was there when y'all came up with the Kakeyama Keibishiro.
Oh, really?
Yeah, I wasn't there. I was notified afterwards.
Oh, really?
How did the Shiro came up?
That's just my name and then...
It's like a... yeah.
We wanted something like a group name.
And we had no idea to... like a sound... that sounded cool.
Or like a... you know.
It's just that random idea.
It came from your name.
Yeah.
We wanted to make like the name, you know.
I guess that was the idea.
So there's two of you, right?
In the same name.
Yama and Shiro. That's two of you in the same name.
Got it.
I didn't know that.
So what was that to you?
I just thought it was some random like... you know how Taro, Shiro, Jiro is a very common name?
Ichiro, right? Hamtaro thing?
Yeah, right. So I thought that you guys just wanted to make like a name that sounds like a person's name.
So I was like, oh, I guess they just put the Shiro, like Taro, Jiro in there.
I didn't know that it was from your...
Yeah, we just made all of our names into one person's name.
I see, I see.
I guess that one. But I don't remember correctly, but I guess that was the idea.
I see.
We didn't care that much about our names, so we just randomly put it together.
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That's how it all started, right?
I mean, Kevin's English Room is a name that just... it was just randomly...
I had to type in a name for the TikTok account.
I was like, oh, I don't have any names. I'll just put Kevin's English...
I think it was first Kevin's English class or something.
So like English lesson or something.
And then they wouldn't accept, I don't know, like 15 characters or something. I forgot.
So we had to delete one character.
Class, that's five.
We need a four-letter word that makes sense at the end.
Room.
Boom, there you go.
It's like three minutes, right?
Yeah.
And still, I can't name his pepperoni thing.
Kevin the pepperoni.
Yeah.
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You made it on the spot.
I made that on the spot, right.
Two seconds.
Two seconds.
I can't believe I haven't changed it.
Yeah.
Right.
And also about the... what would we choose...
what we'd recommend as the one-week Nihon Shoku Challenge.
The thing about the... I want to tell this to...
to her. I forgot her name.
The concept of this doga isn't to eat the specialties of the countries.
It's to eat the same dishes as the local people eat every day.
So like, you know how us Japanese people, we don't always eat Japanese food 24/7.
We sometimes eat hamburgers. That's American.
We sometimes eat chin-jow-ro's that's Chinese, right?
And that's in our culture.
That's eating those Italian foods, American foods, Chinese food.
That's in our Japanese culture.
So that is the whole point of the Kikaku, right?
It's to experience the culture that they're actually in, that they're actually doing.
So...
Perfectly agree with that.
Besides, you didn't mention French.
I don't remember the last time I ate French.
I don't remember...
Really?
I don't... When was the last time you ate French, man?
Well, like... I don't remember that.
But it's definitely in our culture.
French is always... French is there, right?
You can find a French restaurant anywhere, right?
So like, it's...
Right. It's not about just eating the specialties of the country, right?
Yeah. Like authentic, traditional...
Not like those.
It's the everyday foods.
It's the experience of that.
That's what matters.
So we don't eat those like a inago or like, um, hachinoko every day.
We don't do that every day.
Yeah.
That's not going to be in the menu. Definitely not.
What's going to be in the menu is probably like toast for breakfast.
Yeah.
Cereal for breakfast.
Yeah.
And then for lunch, it could be like, obento.
Yeah.
Like, a bento box, right?
That's a good idea.
Yeah? Right.
And then for dinner, it could be like, shichu, kare...
Yeah.
What?
Like those.
Nikujaga.
Yeah.
Those things, right?
Yeah.
Lunch could be like, ramen.
Yeah.
Tachiguisoba could be.
Right, right, right, right, right.
Yeah.
It doesn't have to be like, originated from Japan.
Yeah.
Like, it's what we eat every day.
Yeah.
Actually eat every day.
Or it could be McDonald's.
Right.
McDonald's is a big choice, big option.
Families could be.
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Yeah, yeah.
Pronto pasta.
That's definitely an option.
Do you?
Never had pronto pasta before.
Yeah, but it's everywhere.
It's everywhere, right?
In like, a like, Sazeria Milano food area.
Yeah.
That's a choice.
Yeah.
Like, it's like, a loss in desserts.
Yeah.
Right?
But, yeah, honestly, Konbini sweets should be in it.
That's actually a really good choice, you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, it's really high quality.
Yeah.
And like, it's rare.
Yeah.
Right?
So.
Yeah, that's a good idea.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Should be in it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we don't think those like, you know, those traditional foods.
Will be in the list.
Yeah, it will not make the list.
Yeah.
Unfortunately.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Unfortunately.
Yeah.
When I planned a French one week, of course, French people, they eat hamburgers like McDonald's.
Like, once, twice in a month.
Okay.
But I kind of didn't pick it in one week.
Yeah, that's very difficult to like, are you going to put it in one of the few slots available, right?
It's only so much slots, right?
Like, it's three times seven.
Yeah.
And like.
We eat it.
But.
Right.
The question is if you pick it into like one week.
Right.
If you're presenting like French daily.
Right.
You know, who's then.
Yeah.
You have to be precise with what the people actually eat versus like, you have to give the entertainment factor of like, this is a French kind of vibe.
And like, that's the balance of that is very.
Yeah.
I'm sure it must have been very difficult.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
So.
Well, we must include natto.
Yeah, natto is a good one.
Yeah.
We eat it every day.
Yeah.
And it's special.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's true.
All right.
Thanks for listening guys.
