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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hello!
Hello.
Oh.
I...
So, last Wednesday...
So, last, last Wednesday...
Last, last Wednesday?
I had a Billboard Live show at Yokohama.
Oh, yeah! And then Osaka.
大阪万博の体験
Yeah, I went to Osaka this Wednesday.
Okay.
And did a Billboard Osaka show.
Uh-huh.
That was...
Honestly, that was my best show ever.
Oh, shit!
Yeah.
Nice!
Yeah.
Nice.
That was good.
Uh-huh.
That was really good.
Yeah.
I had really fun.
Congratulations.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Congratulations.
Did it.
Yeah.
Finally, kind of, yes.
Uh-huh.
And then, that was good.
Yes.
And after that...
Okay.
As I was staying in Osaka...
Okay.
So, after the show, we went to 打ち上げ.
All together.
And did, you know, until like morning.
Okay.
And did things.
And then, I had to like...
You know, we were both like...
Kind of like that.
And...
What do you mean?
Like, hangover?
No, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
And then, we got an idea of...
We're in Osaka.
Why don't we go to 万博?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
And then, I went to 万博.
Shit.
How was it?
That was good.
That was good.
Honestly.
You should go.
Oh, shit!
We're good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're good.
Yeah.
So, I didn't expect that much.
You know, we both looked at the site.
We looked at the site.
See the...
Yeah.
All the visuals and what was there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And we were kind of like,
Oh, it might be cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, man, you should go.
Shit.
Okay.
That was great.
So, as we saw on the internet.
Yeah.
The architecture.
Okay.
Was great.
The ring.
The ring.
The wooden ring.
The ring was...
That was big, way bigger than I thought.
Okay.
It's...
I've never been to China,
but it looked to me,
it's like Bandi no Chojo to me.
The Great Wall of China?
Yeah.
I mean, honestly,
it was really big.
Shit.
So, we can climb on.
Okay.
On top of the ring.
And then,
we can see the opposite side of the rail.
Okay.
But it's...
It's so far.
It's far, far away.
And people are like,
some people are walking around.
And,
一周二キロ,
that's what they say.
Okay.
So, if you walk through,
around,
there's too much you need a day, I guess.
But there are some,
you know,
escalators everywhere.
So, you can see the people
opposite side of the ring.
And then,
it looked so good.
Yeah.
It's something,
some kind of world heritage thing to me.
Okay.
It's too,
like,
good.
It didn't feel like,
well,
like,
did it feel like it came out of space or something?
Yeah,
things like that.
Like you landed on a different planet?
I mean,
so,
it wasn't natural things.
It's not like mountains or like...
So, it's a little different feeling
when you go to, for example, like,
Grand Canyons or things like that.
But it's more like you see some kind of,
I don't know, like...
Like a stadium or something?
パビリオンの魅力
Yeah.
When you go to a stadium, you're like...
Something, those, like,
what do you have?
Like,
those world heritage buildings
or like architecture things.
Okay.
Yeah.
That was...
I can't imagine that building,
that room,
the rail,
was built in, like,
a few months or something like that.
Really?
It was so massive.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
I would say,
I would understand if they introduce,
if they explain it.
It's built, like,
a thousand years ago.
And it's an ancient thing.
Okay.
It makes sense.
Okay.
That's good.
Did you look at the countries?
Yes.
The Pavilion?
Yes, yes.
So, the architecture of pavilions are also...
Man, that was good.
Each country has different...
Yes.
...unique architecture.
Yes, yes, yes.
Right?
That sort of represents their...
Whatever it is that they want to represent.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, just...
It's like...
You mix Disney World...
Okay.
...in Florida.
Mm-hmm.
Like Epcot you're talking about?
Not necessarily Epcot.
Not necessarily.
Okay.
It's the vibe.
Okay.
It's more like Avatar place.
Oh, okay.
More like Star Wars place.
Uh-huh.
It's more like that.
That's heavily conceptualized.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, okay.
Yeah.
And it's more like kind of SF to me somehow.
Mm.
And then you mix that,
and then you put...
We went to Daiei Hakubutsukan together, right?
Yeah.
It's mixed of, like, Daiei Hakubutsukan and Disney World.
Okay.
And some kind of Bijutsukan.
Okay.
Yeah.
Ooh.
It's definitely...
Okay.
...you should go.
So, do you find value in the architecture or, like, the experience you do?
So, that was my really spontaneous trip to the Banpaku.
Yeah.
And some pavilions you need a reservation to get inside.
Okay.
I see.
And I didn't have anything.
Yeah, yeah.
So, I could enter to just three, four pavilions,
which doesn't need reservations or, you know.
ドローンショーの印象
Yeah.
So, what I enjoyed the most was, like, outer side,
like architectures and the buildings and atmosphere and those things.
Mm-hmm.
So, that's enjoyable enough to me.
Okay.
And also, I saw the show.
There was a show?
Okay.
There was a show in the late night.
There were, like, feng shui show and drone show.
Wow.
And the drone show was crazy.
The drone show.
Okay.
It was so beautiful.
Fuck.
Like, to me, like, drone show.
Well, yeah, drone show.
Go ahead.
Like, it's, you know, you can expect something like, you know,
drones are, like, flying and, like, lightning and blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, technology.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what I expected, but it was beautiful.
Wow.
It was like, you know, there were, like, some diamonds,
using diamond stones and shaping some kind of birds, for example.
Yeah.
Or, like, wings.
Yeah.
You know, those.
They come together.
Yeah.
To form a shape of an animal.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, crystals in it.
Sure.
Something like that.
That's what they did?
That's what they did.
In the sky, and it moves.
Wow.
And then, that was good.
Okay.
That was good.
Well, that sounds cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
大阪万博の概要
And I went inside of some countries' pavilions, including France,
and also, like, there were common pavilions.
That's what they call.
It's, like, one big pavilion.
It's rather, like, Tenjijo.
Okay.
Not specified into one country.
Okay.
And there were, like, 10, 15 countries in one place.
And, yeah.
It was okay.
Yeah, okay.
It was okay, yeah.
You definitely should reserve a place and go inside the big pavilions,
like the France or the USA or Japan or those places.
Okay.
It's way more interesting, I think.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So, what I get inside was France and Saudi Arabia.
Okay.
And Malaysia was three countries that I could get inside.
Japan, you need a reservation and long, long waiting line.
Wow.
USA, too, you need a reservation.
Yeah, yeah.
And, yeah.
Oh, that's good.
If you're into, like, technology things, you have, like, technology pavilions.
Okay.
Where you can measure your health or, like, you can see the…
In Japanese pavilion, you can see the heart.
Ah, IPS eyeball.
Yeah.
I saw that on the news.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I wanted to see that, but I couldn't get inside.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Or in the USA place, you can see the…
I guess that's Kinoishi or something.
Wow.
The stone, the actual stone.
Wow.
And then you can experience the rocket.
Oh, shit.
Yeah.
The G-force.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Shit.
Those.
That's kind of cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
To me, like, walking around and seeing the buildings, architecture, and show, that was
fun enough.
Worth completely, but if you research enough and have a reservation and get insights of
those pavilions, fantastic, I guess.
How much percentage of the whole thing can you experience in a day?
A day?
A day.
If you go 10 in the morning and be there until 9.
Sure.
The closing time.
Yeah.
If you do, like, reservations perfectly, I guess 60, 70%.
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
I think so.
Okay, I see.
So the thing is, I've never tried to reserve any places, so I don't exactly know how it
works, so it depends on that.
It depends on the waiting line as well, and all that stuff.
Yeah, because I saw, like, Japanese pavilion, I know they need a reservation, but still,
they've got lines, and this is like two hours of waiting.
With the reservation.
Yeah, so I don't know how it works.
Okay, okay, okay.
So, yeah.
訪問者の体験
So was it overcrowded?
To me, that was fair enough.
Okay, okay.
I would say it's good.
It's not as crowded as week and Shibuya.
No.
Okay.
No.
Okay.
But that was day after the show, so it's like Thursday.
Sure, it's a weekday.
Yeah.
Okay.
If it was more crowded, then I would be tired.
Too much people and too much lining.
Yeah.
So you should definitely go to the weekdays.
Weekdays, okay, okay.
大阪万博の魅力
That's cool.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay.
I'll look into that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Honestly, I didn't expect that much.
Definitely worth the money.
Ah, yes.
Definitely.
Definitely.
Okay.
And you can enjoy Osaka, too.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, if you go to just ride a Shinkansen and go to Banpaku and just get back to Tokyo,
well, that's, you should spend nights in Osaka, too.
It should be, like, trip to Osaka.
Okay.
Yes, too.
I see.
I see.
Yeah.
I want to talk to you more on this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
