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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello.
Alright, this one?
This is from Mochi-san.
ケビンさん、ヤマちゃん、こんにちは。いつも楽しくためになるコンテンツをありがとうございます。
Thank you.
早速ですが、アメリカで使用する単位って独特ですよね。
YardとかPondとかCassie、Fね。
日本人からしたらどのくらいの長さとか重さとか厚さとか全然ピンとこない人がほとんどだと思うんですけど、
逆にアメリカの方がグラムとかメートルとかセッシでの単位を聞いてどのくらいなのかとイメージつくものなのでしょうか。
仕事でお客様に説明する機会が多く、果たしてこれって感覚的に伝わっているのかなと疑問に思うことがあります。
お答えいただけると嬉しいです。よろしくお願いします。
I don't think they're familiar with the grams and the meters.
Just like we're not familiar with the feet and the yards and the ounces, right?
Okay, it's the same.
Yeah, it's the same.
Yeah, right. That's ridiculous.
I think they should stop.
Yeah, I mean...
I think they should adjust to the world.
Every other country is using it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
With meters and stuff like that.
Yeah, I think they should stop.
Right.
Ridiculous. Ridiculous.
Even if you think...
I hate it.
Even if you think you don't like that?
Yeah, I hate it.
But you've been growing with those things, right?
Yeah, right. But now I'm more accustomed, right?
Everywhere, everything in my world. I live in Japan.
Everything around me is meters and...
Grams and...
Grams. So I'm more used to that now, right?
I realize more and more that how America...
How it's arrogant for just continuously using feet and ounces.
Fluid ounces.
It's ridiculous.
I think they should stop using it.
Once and for all.
Yeah, I mean...
I agree with that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So for like jobs...
For example, you have a conversation with your client...
You know, somebody from the United States...
And we need to explain how big is...
For example, a desk is...
And then...
Well, I guess it's about 1.5 meters.
And then they're gonna be like,
What?
What metrics is that?
Feet and yards.
Feet and yards.
That's funny.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Is it convenience?
So the only thing I think is convenient is the feet.
Feet is convenient.
Because it's generally how long your feet is.
Okay.
So it's easier to...
It's easier to, I guess, guess.
Okay.
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Yeah.
Okay.
For example, like if you start saying like seven foot...
Seven feet.
Seven feet.
It's like...
That's right.
That's right.
Like to me, it's not familiar.
Because it's not familiar.
It's seven feet.
Okay.
Well, it's about six.
It's about six times your feet, right?
Yeah.
I mean, but...
One, two, three.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, you do.
You do.
But like you can now like have a yard or something.
Oh.
How many yard...
Wait.
How many feet is a yard?
Three.
Three feet is one yard.
Three feet is one yard.
Yeah.
So now you can say like two yard.
So this is kind of...
Yard.
That's a yard.
Yeah.
If you get used to it, you'll be fine.
Okay.
But you know.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You do want to sort of...
And what about mile?
A mile?
Okay.
Is it connected?
Like yard, mile?
Yeah.
Okay.
Which one do you want to know?
In feet or yards?
Yards.
Yeah.
Okay.
How many yard in a mile?
1,760.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
What?
One...
What?
1,760.
What?
1,760 yard makes a mile.
That makes no sense.
It is crazy.
How do you...
It's...
Oh, if you...
How do you imagine that?
If you want to know in feet, it's 5,280.
That's ridiculous.
That's ridiculous.
Yeah.
I think it's ridiculous.
I think it is ridiculous.
One mile, how much kilometer or meter?
A mile is 1.6 kilometers.
Okay.
1.6 kilometers.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
I mean...
So they know a mile.
Yes.
They would know a mile.
Okay.
Yeah.
I can imagine that.
Like how we would know a kilometer.
Yeah.
Okay.
Actually, I still haven't gotten the grasp of how long a kilometer is.
You know.
Do you know how long a kilometer is?
Like from here, what shop is at a...
Okay.
Which store do you think?
One kilo?
Yeah.
What do you think?
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Let me...
We got several, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Let me...
How should I...
Like let me name a store.
Yeah.
Like a store that every city has so we don't...
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'd say then...
How should I say?
One kilo.
One kilo.
One kilo.
Are you thinking of a station?
Oh, yeah.
Then the big station there?
The big station?
I don't know which big station.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know which big station.
Okay.
It's true.
But yeah, to me, it sounds...
It feels Ichikido, the big station.
Are you talking about...
I'm joking.
See the map then.
All right.
Yeah.
We're here.
Oh.
I thought like...
This one?
This one?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No?
Yo, I think that's too close, man.
Is that too close?
I don't know.
You may have a better guess than I do, but I thought it was too close.
Okay.
Okay.
I feel like it's up to like here.
Okay.
So like 1.3 times what you said.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Huh.
But you want to see what the answer is?
Well, I'm doing like 10 minutes, 15 minutes walk.
That's a kilo to me.
Is that 10 minutes from here?
That station.
10 minutes walk.
Yeah.
A little less than 10.
Less than 10?
Okay.
A little farther than that.
Yeah, but then my guess...
Your guess is here.
This station.
Yeah.
Got it.
All right.
Let's see what the...
Your guess is that station.
My guess is that station.
Okay.
Okay.
Which is 1.3 times what you guessed.
Yours is 800 meters.
Oh.
Not bad.
Not bad.
Not bad at all.
Yeah.
Okay.
Mine is...
A kilo.
Wow.
Perfect kilo.
1.0.
It's perfect.
I guess I'm good at it then.
Perfect.
Okay.
Okay.
So that's a kilo.
How about a meter?
Do you know meters?
Yeah, it's like this.
How...
Okay.
How far do you think from this wall to this wall?
Here to there.
How many meters do you think is...
From here to there?
Yeah.
Wow.
I think it's like...
Can I stand up and see?
Yeah.
I would say it's 4.5.
4.5?
Okay.
Yeah.
No?
4.5.
That's pretty...
That's accurate.
Okay.
I don't think we have 5.
Don't have 5?
Yeah.
But it feels like more than 4.
Wow.
Okay.
No?
To me it's like 7.
Am I going too much?
Wait, wait, wait.
Maybe it's just...
Just my guessing is wrong.
Wait, how long is it?
How long is it?
1 meter.
How long is it?
To me like this.
Yeah.
1, 2, 3...
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...
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More than that is...
I don't know.
Don't suit me up, man.
Oh, yeah.
I don't think we have meters here.
Oh, we don't?
Let me use an iPhone.
Oh, we have...
We have this, by the way.
So 3 times that.
I would say that's the 1 meter.
Oh, mine's smaller than that.
So your guess was like...
Yeah.
Just 20 cm off.
It's gotta be 20 cm longer.
Oh, yeah.
So this is like 1 meter.
Yeah.
Okay.
I have to fix that.
I have to adjust my...
You gotta adjust your...
Right.
1 meter, right?
Let me use an iPhone scaler.
Yeah.
Then I would say less than 4 meters.
Less than 4 meters?
Yeah, because if it's...
If this is...
Okay.
Is that accurate?
Yeah, it's pretty accurate.
I would say it's pretty accurate.
Okay.
How much is that?
4.64 meters.
Your guess was pretty close.
Yeah, my first guess was pretty close, yeah.
But my 1 meter was wrong.
Yours was off.
Yeah.
Okay, but this is 1 meter.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Is it?
That's right.
A little more?
Yeah, that's 1 meter, I think.
Okay, so it's bigger than I thought.
Bigger than I...
There you go.
This is...
Yeah, that's 1 meter.
Okay.
So this is something...
You gotta remember that, right?
Yeah.
But it's actually bigger than I'm thinking now.
So I have to adjust this.
Right, right, right.
This is 1 meter.
You gotta...
You know, you might be in emergency,
you need to call the ambulance,
be like, how far is it?
It's only 5 meters.
Right?
There might be some day where you're in an emergency
and you have to say it, right?
But I mean, having a strong image of how far
1 kilometer is, is very useful, I guess.
It is very useful.
Yeah.
Okay, so this is 1 kilometer.
It's like you're a taxi driver, like...
Ah, I'll reach my destination within 2 kilometers.
True.
Right, that's important, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, then I have to go to that station
and see...
And walk, right?
And experience 1 kilometer.
Yeah, this is how...
Yeah.
According to Google, it's a 15-minute walk.
Okay, okay, okay.
Yeah.
Can you do 100 beats per second?
Because that's how fast you should do a heart massage.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
So, according to a comedy show called The Office,
you know The Office?
Okay, okay.
There was a scene where The Office was doing the training.
Okay, okay.
And then the instructor was like,
hey, it's the song by the Bee Gees.
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Oh!
It's called Stayin' Alive.
Okay.
That's 100 beats per second.
Okay.
So, if you remember that,
you'll properly be able to do a heart massage.
Oh, true.
Yeah.
I also heard in Japan,
it's...
It's like...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, okay.
Is that like this?
Is that your 100 beats per second?
I think so.
All right, let's put it to the test.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think the song was like this fast, no?
All right.
But it's not this.
That's way too fast.
It's like this rhythm, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Is that your...
You're gonna save somebody...
Yeah.
By having an accurate 100 BPM.
Is this like double of this?
No, no, no.
No, no, no.
That's twice.
That's...
No, no, no.
That's too fast.
Okay.
Huh?
Huh?
Twice?
Yeah, I guess like...
Twice?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
That's your 100 BPM.
Yeah, to me.
All right.
Let's...
Let's play it.
Keep going?
Okay.
What's that?
This is a YouTube video of 100 BPM.
Ah, okay, okay, okay.
I'm gonna volume up.
Oh, it's not that bad!
I mean, it's not matching.
Yeah.
Oh, I'm fast.
Yeah, you're fast.
That's pretty slow.
Is the BGM this slow?
It feels slow.
Yeah, you feel slower than...
Can I play this song?
Yeah, yeah, play this song for me.
It's...
I feel like it's too slow.
Yeah.
Oh.
I guess they're saying it was close?
Yeah, close.
I'd say it's close.
Okay, okay.
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What about Moshi Moshi Kameyo?
Is there a proper BPM for that?
I thought that was just a child song.
You can do it for any melody.
Like, any BPM.
I have Usagi to Kame.
I don't know if this is the original or not.
Right.
Okay, slower than what I thought the original song was.
Let's test it with a BPM.
Yeah.
Oh, that's too fast.
Yeah, the song's too fast.
Yeah, the song's too fast.
The song's too fast.
I mean, it's not...
Yeah.
I guess it's at an acceptable...
Yeah, yeah.
It's not that far.
You don't have to be precisely 100 BPM to do the hot massage, I guess.
Yeah, right, right, right.
But it's important to know, right?
True, true.
To be accurate with the...
Yeah.
Right?
It could save some time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Then I have to make a song that has the BPM of 100...
That's right.
...so that I can remember the rest of the tempo.
Yeah.
Can you test it on me?
Okay, sure, sure.
Let me do it.
Let's say I have to give somebody a hot massage.
Yeah.
Oh, shit.
Great.
There's no one else around.
Yeah.
I have to give somebody a hot massage.
I'm coming for you.
Oh!
I think I'm pretty...
Pretty accurate.
Pretty accurate.
I mean, because probably I just heard it now.
Yeah, but still.
Still, it's not that far.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
What did you imagine?
Well...
Did you play any songs or just...
Well, no, I just remember what I just heard.
That's right.
Yeah, but that's important.
Well, I mean, staying alive.
That's actually, you know...
That's a great song for...
Great...
Great lyric...
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I think I got it.
I think I got it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You have...
Oh, you have...
Oh, what was it?
It's 100.
100, sorry.
Wait, hold on.
Let me check.
Yeah, I mean, they have many.
Yeah.
For example...
100 BPM playlist.
Oh, I see.
Yeah, that's good.
That's good, that's good.
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100 is good, right?
Okay, so according to Google...
Okay.
100 to 120 BPMs per second is the chest compression...
Okay.
Rhythm.
So, it's okay if it's a little faster than that.
True, true, true, true.
Okay.
Give me like a 110.
Yeah, 110, okay.
I think that's perfect, right?
Okay.
Okay.
Payphone.
Ah!
Oh, okay.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, not bad, not bad.
Yeah.
Or Grenade by Bruno Mars.
Grenade?
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Got it.
Yeah, okay.
Okay, got it, got it, got it.
Or Set Fire to the Rain by Adele.
Uh-huh.
I set fire to the rain.
Watch me burn.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Got it, got it, got it.
All right.
Or Ed Sheeran, Sing.
Sing.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
That's a Shape of You.
Oh, Shape of You.
I don't know that song.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
You don't know that song?
No, I don't know that song.
Okay.
Well, I mean, many songs, but...
But those are from like the...
Can't stop the feeling.
Can't stop the feeling?
Yeah.
Oh, I see.
Okay, got it.
Yeah, that's nice.
But yeah, she's right, right, right, right.
That's important to you.
You know how fast you should do.
Absolutely, absolutely.
You have to prepare for that moment.
But I think one of the reason why they chose to go with BG, 100 BPM,
is because like when you're at an emergency,
I feel like your heart is just pounding faster,
and it feels faster.
Even if you're like properly singing,
like the reality is probably like faster, right?
True, true, true.
Because you're more like...
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
For sure.
It would make sense to go for a slower...
True, true, true.
Yeah, I've got Staying Alive.
Yeah, I think it's good.
Yeah.
Got it.
All right.
Great.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
