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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
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Hey guys.
So...
Okay, this one.
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Do you know the story of Jesus?
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
I've been to Korea before, so do I just look likeI'm easy to get involved in?
I have no intention of criticizing a particularreligion.
It may be a difficult topic to touch on, but I'dlove to hear about it.
P.S. If you'd like, please come to the Okinawalocation with K.R.
The staff, customers, and menu are so Americanthat there are so many stores that Japanese peopledon't know if they can enter, so I'd love for youto come and investigate.
Really? The Beigukichi, I guess.
Yeah, not only inside the Beigukichi, but I guesson the outside.
Oh, interesting. Okay, okay, okay.
Last year I went to Osaka, Okinawa, as a tour.
Okay, okay.
And we had a free time with our band. We went tothe American village.
American village?
Yes.
Yeah, I know that.
Have you ever been to that?
I've been to it several years ago, a long timeago, yeah.
It was nice. It was very fun. You find many, Iwould say, authentic things.
Okay, okay, okay.
Not like those, like, Japanese-American things,but it was, like, authentic American.
Oh, okay.
And it was a special place.
Oh, okay. Nice, nice, nice.
And I guess the American village is kind of like atheme park. It's kind of like a made-up place.
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So if you go, like, deeper, I think you can findthat.
You find more? Oh, I didn't know that.
So, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so.
Yeah, so religious kanyu, I don't know if we hadit in Rome because it was too inaka.
Okay.
But I think there are some in more urban areas,like Atlanta or New York, right?
I think there are people that do that.
But what I don't know is that because there's ahigh percentage of Christianity,
Christians in America, I don't know.
I've never listened to them, so I don't know whattheir stances are.
I see.
Yes, I don't know what their ultimate goals are.
Yeah, so that's a question that I still have notbeen able to answer.
And also, yeah, the charity thing.
Yes, that, to me, that exists just as much ormaybe more than the religious sort of kanyu.
I see.
Yeah, charity.
Donation.
Is that good charity or like a bad?
Yes, yeah, bad charity, I would say.
Remember when we went to Erwan for kikaku?
Yes.
In LA?
There was this woman that talked to us and weignored her.
And then she yelled at us.
Did we?
Yeah, you don't remember?
I don't remember.
Oh.
I forget everything.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, so we were going up to Erwan.
And then, so there was this yatai-ish area.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Do you remember that?
I remember like a market.
Yes.
Yes, yes, yes.
I wanted to stay longer at the market.
It looks very fun, you know.
Right, right, right.
With vegetables in it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Towards the end of the market, there was a womanstanding with a bucket.
Like a plastic bucket.
And she was like, hey guys, hey, how are you guysdoing?
They were like, hey.
I'm like, hey, are you guys?
I forgot what she said, but she was like, da, da,da, da, da.
And then to me, instantly, it was like, oh,probably like something shady.
And then we ignored her.
And then she was like, da, da, da, da.
I don't know what she said, but she probably saidsomething dirty.
Okay.
And I can't believe you don't remember that.
Oh, is that?
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe I was just watching some fruits at themarket.
Yeah, maybe.
Maybe you're a little far away.
Yeah, maybe, maybe.
But okay.
Was she speaking in English?
She was speaking English, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
She was asking for donations.
Ah, I see.
Yeah.
Okay.
I guess it was a pretty rich area, I would say.
Right, anyone going to Erwan assumes they have alot of money, right?
Yeah, I think it's a good customer for her.
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Yeah, I guess.
Like a tourist.
Yeah.
Doesn't know the culture.
Right, right.
The local things.
Right, right, right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
How about France?
Get a lot of the religious stuff?
No?
How about Paris?
You think Paris gets a lot of that?
No, those like religious things, they don't havethose things.
But yes, like charities and like those like a citythings.
Oh, yeah.
Yes.
But I don't think so.
But the reason is probably the same as the UnitedStates.
The majority is like already Christian.
So it's like you don't have to do that anymore.
It's too, yeah.
Yeah.
If you're like one of the members from Buddhism,it's worth to do those activities in France,
I think.
But they're like, yes, I'm already in it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, yeah.
Right.
And also, I'm not sure, but like religious thingis like very, you know, in France,
some people came from like Middle East countriesor like African countries.
They have people, they have Muslim people, many,like a big amount of population in France.
Okay.
So it's not very good thing to like in publicplaces, you speak loudly about religious things.
You do like those activities in front of people.
It's like a taboo.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like everybody has their own religion andeverybody has their own God.
So it's like, it's more sensitive than Japan, Iguess.
To force somebody to be another religion is justkind of frowned upon, kind of.
Okay.
And in public places, you do those likeactivities, like religious activities to thepublic.
That's like, yeah, I don't see that often.
Yeah, okay, okay.
But more like those like bad charities, baddonations.
Yeah.
Like thief things.
Yeah.
Yes, they have a lot in Paris.
Yes.
How do they do it?
Like, how do they approach you?
It's like you, hey, are you good?
It's like, and then the other guy is coming andjust pick things up.
Oh, I see.
So like I'm sitting down on a bench and then a guycomes up.
Yeah.
I'm like talking.
Yeah.
And that's when the other guy hits me.
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Yes, exactly.
Hey, this is it.
And then just somebody is just picking things up.
Have you ever been a victim?
I've never met those situations before, but I hearso many episodes right now.
I see videos of it.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
These like, that exposes these pocket thieves,pickpocketers.
They come and use it too.
But like those videos, they were like four orfive.
They sort of like, they surround you.
That's kind of scary.
Yeah, it's scary, scary.
But in Paris, especially, you have many of them.
But I've never had that before in my ownexperience.
So maybe I was lucky or maybe safer than peoplesaying.
Wait, is Paris the most famous place known forhaving a lot of pickpocketers?
Oh, okay.
I see.
I wonder how much they steal like on a day.
Wait, they probably only do that, right?
They don't have a job, right?
Yeah.
They only do that every day.
I wonder how much they're like stealing, man.
No one could guess.
Yeah, but not only money, but they steal somephones, iPhones.
And they sell it.
Yeah, that's true.
Wallet, maybe, a bag.
Right.
Jewelry.
Man.
Yeah.
Scary, scary stuff.
We were in, what was it?
Eglise?
London.
London, right.
And then we were like, they have pickpockets aswell, right?
Yeah, we heard that and we were like, let's becareful.
On the subway, we've got to be careful.
Yeah, I remember.
Yeah, but the reality was safer than people weresaying, no?
Yeah, honestly, I didn't feel any danger or it wasokay.
Right.
Yeah.
If you go like very non-crowded area in deepnight, maybe it will be dangerous.
But if you're just strolling around the daytime,biggest places, I didn't feel.
Yeah, same here.
But you have to, you have to be careful.
Well, yeah, that doesn't mean you can let yourguards down.
I mean, you have to.
Right, yeah, be careful, right.
All right, so.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye.