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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello.
Remember last week I talked to you about the wordbig dick energy?
Yeah.
And the meaning was like, hey, I'm so strong, Idon't give a fuck what people do, like,
hey, I'm here, like, fuck off, bad energy. I waswrong about that.
Oh, okay.
Yeah. So I looked into it and the actual meaningwas, big dick energy means quiet confidence.
Oh, I see.
So it has a very positive meaning.
I thought it was like a diss, kind of like anegative meaning to it,
but it was actually, you're so confident that youdon't have to brag,
you don't have to, like, show it off to anybody.It's quiet confidence.
I see.
That's what it was. It was like a positivemeaning.
Okay.
Right.
No, I see, I see.
Yeah, I was wrong about that. So yeah, that's thecorrect meaning.
Oh, thank you for the correction.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I see, I see.
So it's like, hey, no matter what happens, I havea big dick. I'm confident.
So that's the actual, I guess, the origin then.
Ultimately...
That is so stupid.
That is so stupid. That is very stupid. Like, nomatter what happens, big dick, I'm okay.
Like, I don't know what that guy thought a dickwould do to you,
but like, he thought it was going to save hislife.
I see, I see.
Yeah, right. So that's the true meaning of bigdick energy.
Okay, okay.
Correction here for you guys. I'm sorry aboutthat.
Oh, thank you for the correction.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, so the Netherlands, they had...
Do you have any, like, those phrases thatexpresses the negative ones?
The negative ones?
Yeah.
I mean, I don't have something that's, you know,kind of like an idiom,
or I can't think of it at the top of my head rightnow.
Okay.
But usually, you'd say something like arrogance.
Okay.
Or like, you know, like a dick. You'd call it adick.
Okay.
That's also related to penis, yes. But, you know,those people, you call that a, you know, dick.
Okay.
He's a big dick.
He's a big dick.
That's also a big dick, but, you know, it's, youknow, very similar.
But, you know, yeah. If you just say, you know,he's, you know, he's a dick. He's a huge dick.
That's a big diss.
Okay, okay, okay.
But, yeah, similar phrase, but opposite meaning.
So, Netherlands head coach and the captain, Virgilvan Dijk, they did a press conference.
Okay.
I guess one day before the match.
Okay.
And then in the conference, press conference, theysaid, we are Netherlands.
Oh, okay, okay.
Yeah, they have it.
Yeah.
They've got that energy, huh?
Yeah, they've got it.
And they said, we are Netherlands, we winbeautifully.
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Damn.
The confidence level.
Yeah.
They said that we need to win beautifully.
Like, not just win, but we need to be beautiful.
With style.
Yeah.
My gosh.
What was, how were their, what was their attitudeafter the 2-2?
I don't know.
Yeah.
What was their past
Seiseki?
Netherlands?
Yeah, their past World Cup.
How far did they go?
So, they haven't been won the title, got the WorldCup itself.
But I guess best four so far, the highest.
Best four?
Yeah.
How frequently are they in the best four?
Not that frequently.
Not that frequently.
But at least they always qualify into the WorldCup first of all,
and then qualify the first group stage.
And then they are in the tournament knockoutstage.
And, yeah.
And it depends on the opponent.
So, sometimes they end at best 24?
Best 16?
Best 16?
Yes, yes.
Um, I think it was the last World Cup,
where they faced against Argentina with Messi.
Yeah.
Where finally the Argentina became the champion.
So, that was, I guess, round 16.
The first match of the second, you know, stage.
Yeah.
And then they lost against Argentina.
So, they...
Okay.
So, they, right, they ended it.
Yeah, but they did a great game though againstArgentina.
It went into the penalty shootout.
Oh, okay.
So, yeah.
That's true.
Wasn't it 16?
Best 8?
Could be a best 8 round, but...
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
Just felt a little bit of a gap there with theattitude.
I mean, still, the best 8, best 16, they're stilllike, that's very high.
Yes, yes.
But there's still room for, you know, a little bitof humbleness, I guess.
Honestly.
That's what...
Honestly.
Yeah.
That's where we, you know, attack.
That's where we attack.
Yeah.
That's what they, the weakness of their team, Iguess.
Did you see some, like, arrogance in the way theyplayed with the game versus Japan?
Yeah.
So, it's, yes.
So, they're big.
You know, the Netherlands is the highest.
Like, the tallest average.
Yeah, in the world.
Not only football, but, like, average in general.
The average height.
Yeah.
So, they've got, like, tall, big players, and ifyou, like, seriously want to win the game,
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you just kick the long ball, long passes in frontof the goal, and then they do, like,
header battles.
Okay.
And that's, like, that's the scariest thing.
Oh, that they could do.
Yeah.
That's true.
Because no one can, like, defend Van Dijk.
You know, they have, like, big players, tallplayers, like, strong headers and everything.
So, if you're, like, seriously, you just want towin the game, that's what they should do.
Okay.
But they didn't do that.
Okay.
They prefer passing, like, beautiful, you know,like, connections, like, you know, like,
those, like, tacticals and everything, like,dribbles.
And so, that's, you know, in a way, that's thearrogance of their country.
Okay.
You know, because it's, like, they want, like, winbeautifully.
Uh-huh.
You're saying that's not arrogant, right?
That is arrogant.
That is their arrogance.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, so, okay, they're, like, they're treating itlike art now.
Yes, yes, yes.
And that's why it's kind of a little bit arrogant,kind of, like, playing around with the opponent's
team of, like, instead of, you know, fullyutilizing their physique.
Exactly.
They're kind of, like, playing around and, hey,let's turn this into an art a little bit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Pass the ball.
We've got skills.
And then, like, it's okay, it's Japan.
Yeah.
Let's just play beautifully.
Right, right.
Okay, I see.
They don't like, like, you know, like, facing adart and, like, jumping head and, like,
messy and everything.
I see.
They want it, like, beautifully done, like.
Well, that's arrogant right there.
But, you know, but they have, like, to me, like,this, their strength,
the biggest strength is, like, the physiques.
So, you know, they should utilize that more.
Right, right.
Yeah.
I see.
But they didn't use, like, long passes, long ballsand everything.
They keep, you know, passing in a short distance.
I see.
I mean.
Speaking of not caring about the beauty of thesport,
I saw a post on X talking about, why can't we usethis strategy to win?
And that strategy was have all the field team,field members, right,
gather in a circle, you know, and kata wo kumu.
So, you'd make a big circle and inside is theball.
And so, we'd all move with the ball, you know,
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passing the ball, you know, within teams, right,within the circle.
And so, because we're, like, you know, connected,you know, in a circle,
the other teams, they can't go in the circle,right?
So, like, we'd have, like, a perfect blockade, youknow?
And then we'd, you know, with the circular, youknow, formation,
we'd go into the opponent's goal.
True.
Why can't we do that?
Yeah, you should do that.
Right.
You should do that.
Yeah, is it possible?
True.
Right, is it possible?
Yeah, it's possible.
Right.
Yeah, but you can't push the opponent, like, it'sa foul.
Oh, is it a foul?
So, if you, like, this and coming to me, and if Istand like this,
and then, if I do, like, and then that's a foul.
That would be a push, then.
So, I guess that's, like, in reality, I guess.
In reality, that would be a, yeah, okay.
I think.
Ah, gotcha.
But since nobody does that, we never know.
Right.
All right.
Thanks, guys.
Bye.
