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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
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This one for today.
This is Instant Smile-san.
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It sounds like you are going to have a comeback.
Your friends are recommending you to give up,
but it sounds like it's too ritualistic and traumatizing.
So I thought,
is there such a thing as giving up on stuffed animals overseas?
Also, I wonder if Japanese-born Kevin, who grew up in the U.S.,
will be able to relate to this kind of animism.
I recently started listening to this new work,
and I like the catchy title and the captioning.
I will continue to support you.
Interesting question.
Interesting question.
In America, there are teddy bears.
Teddy bears.
Ted.
Freddy.
Horror.
There's a horror shit.
I think it's a teddy bear.
There's this human shit.
Toy Story.
Toy Story, yeah.
On to dolls, right?
Exists.
It hurts to sort of throw away a doll.
Yes, I think it's there.
Because there's emotion attached to it,
and we treat it as if it's alive.
We take care of it.
Yeah, we get it.
You get it.
But you don't...
I don't think you do that.
You don't do that.
Yeah, I've never seen anyone do it.
Yeah.
True.
That's a good point.
It would be cultural,
but at the same time, it's a little religional thing.
Religional?
Yeah.
Religious?
Religious thing, yeah.
Yeah, you said you had a great time.
I think you were in high school.
You had a great time with Sen Tochihiro's lecture.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
It was about animism.
Yeah.
Yeah, so that's Japanese religious,
but cultural thing that we think.
I mean, at least I believe that there are many gods
in any, you know, things.
Yeah.
So I think not only those dolls,
like whatever.
Everything, right?
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Yeah, yeah.
There's gods in everything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But especially so dolls, like having faces,
looks like human.
Yeah, if it looks human.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The more you have to like...
Take care of it.
Very, very careful.
Careful with it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
In that case, like doll will be like, you know,
punch back to you.
Like it would revenge.
Yeah.
Revenge if you just throw away from Motokare's like onnen,
all the doll and then just someday.
Wow.
Okay.
Okay.
That's true?
Like if you were in the same position,
do you think you'd be like scared of like your ex-partner
just like fucking like...
Yeah, maybe if we like broke up in very bad way.
Okay, okay.
We anger together in like...
Very like ugly way.
Yeah.
And then I would think like...
There might be some like...
Yeah, might be.
Some emotion attached to that doll that might haunt me.
Yeah, might be.
Oh.
Yeah.
Okay.
But even like if we peacefully like apart.
Break up.
Break up, broke up.
And then I would be like if I look at that doll
and then like feel very human or like feel hurt.
Like that spirit of your ex is still in that doll.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, how about this?
Well, I don't understand that kind of feeling.
But like how about if you do this?
Like if you like just blanket,
if you wrap it around a blanket and then throw it away.
The doll will be comfortable, you know?
Yeah.
It's all, you know, it's tucked in, you know?
Comfortable, tucked in.
I see.
Won't even notice that doll's in the trash, you know?
So you don't...
That means you wrap with a cloth?
Yeah, like some comfortable cloth, you know?
So that the doll's comfortable.
That kind of makes sense, right?
Yeah, true.
And just be honest.
Just like, hey, we can't be together forever, you know?
So I'm gonna make sure that you're comfortable
on the way out of this room.
But hey, it is sad that we can't be, you know,
you can't stay in my room forever.
But you gotta go.
And that's life.
That's right.
Boom.
Yeah.
No?
Yeah.
Can't do that?
So first of all, I've never had that opportunity.
To throw a doll?
Yeah.
But true, it's very, for me, difficult to put those dolls
in a trash basket or trash bins or those.
Yeah, yeah.
Or like, if you put it in a box,
you're not putting the doll in the trash,
you're putting it in the box.
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And then you're just putting the box in the trash.
So you're technically not...
That's better.
You're kind of like...
It's kansetsu, trashing.
True, true.
Yeah.
Right?
That's true.
That's better.
It feels easier on you.
Yeah, yeah.
You know?
That's right.
Yeah.
So she should do that?
Yeah, like, she should get more and more boxes, right?
Yeah, carefully put it in the box,
and then put it in the box,
and then wrap it with the paper, and then...
Right, and then box, and trash it out.
Yeah.
It's easier.
Yeah.
Or, you know, put another doll in there, you know,
so that she'll have fun in there, you know?
Oh, that's...
So that's fun.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Or give them a favorite food.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
Good idea.
Yeah.
There you go.
Great idea.
Great idea.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
