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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello.
How's it going?
Good, good, good.
Good weather today.
Feels great outside.
Yeah.
It's actually kind of warm.
It's over 10 degrees throughout the whole day.
Feels great.
A few days ago, it was snowing.
I know.
No, it's like this.
Kind of rare that it snows in Tokyo right now.
Yeah, yeah.
Very sunny and very warm.
Like this.
Yeah, very rare.
Yeah.
Very rare.
I know you're very professional on these...
お天気?
Weather forecasting things.
Yeah.
Can I ask you, like, how long is it going to belast, the weather like this?
So about a week.
About a week.
We're expecting a... I don't know if you heard thenews, but we're expecting a very high temperature.
Oh.
Very, very high temperature.
So the forecast has not yet determined how muchhigh it is, but relative to the years past, veryhigh.
Okay.
So yeah, from a week from today, maybe two.
It's going to be very sunny.
It's going to be very warm.
Oh, nice, nice, nice.
Yeah, so you're going to be expecting to not wearyour coats.
But do be careful.
It's going to go back.
Oh, after a week?
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
It's going to be very cold again?
It's going to be cold again, so careful.
Not to take all away your coats.
I see, I see.
Put those things into, like, very deep inside.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just keep it within reach.
Okay, okay.
Make sure, yeah.
Yeah.
You're actually very familiar with those.
I mean, I don't know.
I'm just living everyday life, you know.
Do you not run by the weather forecast, man?
You don't check the weather or anything like that?
How do you... I mean, you got to check if it'sgoing to rain.
You got to check if this is cold for you, too hotfor you.
I mean, how do you do it without looking at theweather?
I mean, honestly, honestly.
I mean, what do you do?
What's your routine of, like...
No, I just see today's forecast everyday.
I've got, like, a popping out thing every morning.
And I just see it, and that's all.
You live day to day?
Yeah, yeah.
I don't see, like, a week forecast or, like, thosethings.
But, like, it's there.
It's right there.
Yeah, yeah.
If you want to, yeah.
Oh, so it's OK.
So you only get a notification of the day.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Today's weather.
Oh, I see.
So it's just a...
So you don't click on it.
You just look at it, and you're done.
Yeah, it's like a line of thinking.
Ah, I see.
And then they send me today's weather.
So it's not even clickable.
Yeah, it's, like, maximum degree, the lowesttemperature.
Oh, I see.
Rain percentage.
Yeah.
Precipitation.
Yeah, yeah.
That's it?
Yeah.
That's it?
Yeah.
Oh.
I mean, like, you know, don't you, like, don't youwant to know what the weekend's gonna be like, youknow?
Yeah.
You know, like, you make plans, and I wonder whatthe weather is on that day.
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Like, you know, you're gonna go out.
Right, right, right.
No? No?
I mean, not every day.
Oh, come on, man.
OK.
I see how it is.
Unless if I have, like, anything very, veryspecial, something very special.
Yeah, sometimes I do, but not every day.
Not every day?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, I see.
OK.
You see, like, a week.
How long do you see, a week or a month?
So, on my app, the Yahoo Otenki app, it's got, Imean, it goes up to, yeah, about like a week.
About a week.
Yeah.
But moreover, it's the TV, you know, the forecast,you know, the Jouhou Bangami.
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
I have some random feeds that comes in that'srelated to weather.
That's how I knew that it's gonna be an extremelyhot week.
OK.
Yeah, those things.
Yeah.
How do you get your news?
I don't know.
Maybe I don't get any news sometimes.
So, you don't.
So, for example, if the Olympics is on.
Right now, the Winter Olympics is on.
Yeah, I know it.
You just, how do you know, like, through what?
So, we actually know that thing coming in waybeforehand because we had, remember the, I don'tknow if I say this, but...
A thing.
Yeah, we had a...
We had a thing.
You know, do you remember that?
OK.
So, half a year ago, I knew it's coming.
OK, OK.
So, that's the first timing.
OK.
But the actual, like, going on things andeverything, I met with my family this weekend.
And we talked about it.
OK.
And then I knew what's going on.
Oh, I see, I see.
Like, who is the, you know, winning, who's, like,losing and everything.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
So, like, through friends, family and everybody.
Yeah, I kind of understand that, too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, like...
Are you...
I watch the TV and that's it.
So, like, every time I don't watch the TV, I just...
It goes through.
I don't catch it.
But, yeah.
But I usually watch the TV, so, like, I usuallyget all the news, but...
Yeah.
Right.
But for you, you don't have a regular.
Yeah, I don't have...
You know, you don't have, like...
I don't have a regular, like...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right.
I need something, though.
We need to know.
That would...
Yeah, I mean, being up to date.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sometimes, you know, right.
It's very important.
There could be, like, some huge news that, like...
Yeah, yeah.
You know, it could be even beneficial for you toknow, maybe, right?
Maybe it was something very, very bad happening,like...
And then it's only you who doesn't know about itand just...
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Right.
Yeah.
And it feels kind of even, like, I don't know...
Yeah.
Inhumane, disrespectful, maybe like that, youknow?
Right, right, right.
Something like that.
Yeah.
To, you know...
Right, right, right, right.
I should do that.
You have Line News on there?
No?
Line News?
Hold on.
Let me check it.
Because that comes in occasionally.
Yeah.
I learn a lot from Line News.
Yeah.
I just...
You don't have it?
No.
Okay.
Yeah.
Oh, it's okay.
Yeah, I don't have them.
Yeah.
I need something.
Yeah.
Is there any, like, recommendation?
Um...
Like, do you know something good?
I like...
Line News?
That's great.
Is it?
Okay.
Yahoo News?
Uh-huh.
Sorry, no.
Not Yahoo News.
Too much ads.
Too many ads.
Oh, yeah.
So I never go for Yahoo.
Uh-huh.
Um...
If you want to go global...
Uh-huh.
Um...
Ground News?
Ground News?
That's...
Uh-huh.
You hear this a lot in a lot of YouTubers.
They advertise this.
They're going hard.
Uh-huh.
That's how I found out.
Okay.
But it's basically global news.
Uh-huh.
Just in English.
But...
Is it, like, the web service or, like,application?
It's an app.
It's an app.
Yeah.
So, you know, top international.
So you see all these international big news.
So that's great to keep it, you know.
Yeah, for...
And it's all summarized.
Uh-huh.
You know, it's a little bullet point.
Uh-huh.
So it's quick and easy.
Looks nice.
Yeah.
And they have the...
Um...
These blind spot feed where...
Like, they know what you click and what you don'tclick.
Oh, I see.
And they're like, you're not checking out allthese news.
How about this?
And for you, it's, like, it's more local.
Like, it's, like, Japan-related news and stufflike that.
And this, too.
Yeah.
Right.
That's great.
That's great.
Yeah.
Looks very nice.
Yeah.
Yeah, I like that.
But I guess...
I guess that's it.
That's...
That's how I catch news.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Look, I just got a feed from Line News like that.
Oh.
You hear this?
Like these things.
Uh-huh.
And if you're interested, you click on it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Not bad.
You know?
Yeah.
I prefer the ground one.
Yeah.
Ground news.
Ground news?
Yeah, ground news.
Yeah.
What's...
What's wrong with the...
What's wrong with Line News?
What do you don't like about it?
Is there, like...
Yeah.
I mean, like, the title...
二人三脚の父にごめん.
Probably a drama.
I mean, yeah.
Yeah.
There's a lot of...
I mean, I think...
I think this is very important for some people,
but I guess not to me.
Yeah.
A lot of celebrity news is on here as well.
I don't even need those.
Like, I don't know.
Yeah.
Honestly, that's true.
That's true.
Sometimes it's kind of important, you know?
Uh-huh.
Like, you know, these important news,
like these ones, you know?
Uh-huh.
The figure skating.
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Uh-huh.
All that stuff.
Uh-huh.
Jiken, right?
Yeah.
Someone got, you know, stabbed.
Uh-huh.
And there's, you know, Gogai.
Uh-huh.
He got a gold medal.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
And those things.
Yeah.
Yeah.
These trends as well.
Yeah, yeah.
You get the huge trends.
I know it, yeah.
Yeah.
That's why I muted.
Oh, that's okay.
That's what you didn't like.
I understand.
Yeah, but I prefer the ground news.
Ground news, you don't get any of this bullshit.
Oh, great, great.
Zero bullshit.
That's what I like.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Check it out, yeah.
Yeah.
I'm following the BBC news.
Okay.
They say it's very fair.
Uh-huh.
It's very neutral,
as in broadcasting network.
That's why I'm following them.
But it's kind of too global.
Okay.
You know, they're not focusing on Japan.
Oh, I see.
Yeah.
I see.
I like the feature of the ground news that theyhave like a local news or something like that.
So, also, like for example, what's...
I'm not into it that much.
But for some people, what they like is you seethese bars at the bottom.
Yeah.
It shows you how liberal or, you know, left orright or centralized all these sources.
So, they get it from all these sources.
Uh-huh.
And then they're like, hey, this news right here,it all comes from the left.
Uh-huh.
So, you'll understand how left or right or centralall these feeds are.
It's just cool.
Yeah.
It's just cool.
I like that, by the way.
Yeah.
It's pretty good.
Yeah.
What's the name again?
Ground news.
It's right here.
Ground news.
Yeah.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah.
Hmm.
I like that.
Yeah.
All right.
All right.
Yep.
All right.
Thanks for sitting, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
