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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello.
Hey guys. How's it going?
You're good? You're healthy?
You're doing good?
Yeah, I'm doing great.
Uh...
Yeah.
Nothing terrible happened?
Yeah, um...
Unlike you, right? Nothing.
Yeah, yeah.
Um...
Yeah, uh...
This past two weeks...
Healthy.
Healthy.
Yeah, healthy.
Yeah, stable.
No injuries. No health issues.
No hospital.
No hospitalization. Nothing.
No cancer. Nothing like that.
Yeah, that's good.
That's good. That's good.
Yeah.
Anything fun happened?
Um...
Uh, what did I do?
What did I do this past few weeks?
Yeah.
Yeah.
We had two weeks.
Yeah, let me check my calendar to see if anythinginteresting happened.
Uh...
Nothing interesting on my end, but, uh...
Our friend Naruchan, who was in the podcast,right?
He did the live show.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
And, um...
Yeah.
I was pretty, like, heartwarming.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, it was great.
Yeah.
I went to the...
You were there?
Yeah.
Okay.
To see how he, you know, did.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And also, some of the friends played theinstruments.
Yeah.
I noticed.
Right.
So, yeah, I went to see them and vote for him, youknow?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Were you screaming?
No, no.
Oh, you weren't screaming?
No.
Like, when Naruchan was, like, there and peoplewere screaming for him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let me see if I can hear anybody who I know.
I was looking for somebody, but, like...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Was there people there that I knew?
I don't know.
I was alone.
I just went to the place and I was very back-end.
I was watching from a distance.
Ah, okay, okay.
So, yeah, I didn't talk to anybody.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I see, I see.
Did you hear anybody that you think you knew inthe crowd?
Did you see anybody in the crowd?
Okay.
No, I don't think so.
Okay, all right.
Oh, maybe.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Right, okay.
You were watching the stream?
I was watching the stream.
How was the stream, though?
Yeah, the stream was great.
Was it good?
Okay, okay, okay.
Yeah, yeah, the stream was great.
I see.
Yeah.
Yeah, so I was there.
I arrived at the place just before the Naruchan'sshow.
And then he did, like, 15 minutes.
Yeah.
And then I was there until the end of that show.
Yeah.
So I watched also three other groups, I guess.
And, yeah, everyone has those frontliners.
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
Yeah.
Nice, okay.
So, yeah.
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I see, it was a culture.
Right, right.
Yeah, okay.
It was a battle show, so.
Right, right, right.
People were voting for a specific artist.
Yeah.
Right.
Right, so they, the first liners,
they had to, like, cheer up the atmosphere.
Okay.
And then they are, like, Shinsains were, like,background.
So it was, like, team, like a battle kind of.
I see, I see.
Yeah, yeah.
I see.
It was very, I felt the Netsu.
And the team play.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was good, it was good.
I see.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
And, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
I heard it was the Mitsune, right?
Like, he, the bassist.
He played the bass, yes.
It was the first time actually learning the bass,right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Did pretty good, didn't he?
Yeah, he was, like, he moves like the bassistmove, you know?
Yeah, it looked like he was an experienced bassist.
Yeah.
Yeah, if I wasn't told.
Right, right, right, right.
That he was new.
He looked very calm.
Yeah.
Not, like, nervous and everything.
Very calm and played what he needed to play.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You were in a band with him.
You were in college, right?
Yes, when I was at Berserk, yes.
Yeah, and was he ever nervous?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, really?
Sometimes, yes.
Can you tell if he's nervous?
Yeah.
Okay, okay.
But I guess it's very slight, though.
He won't go, like, you know, those nervousness.
He's very calm, like, to begin with, right?
Yeah, yeah.
But he's very, sometimes he got nervous with verycalm attitude, like, how should I explain it?
It's like, he looks like he's excited and nervous.
So, he's hyped up?
Yeah.
Like a fucking teenager that drank Red Bull?
Like, he's, like, sugar high?
Yeah, yeah.
But not those, like, you know, like, loud or,like, move fast or those things.
Okay.
He's still calm, slow, chill, but slightly, like,the eyes, the mouth and everything.
You can feel the difference.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's subtle, but like there.
Yes, yes.
Okay, I wanted to see that.
So, maybe on the stage, two days ago, last day,yeah, maybe he was slightly...
Maybe.
Maybe.
Yeah, maybe.
I was a bit distant, so I couldn't see that, but...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Was he nervous? Did you, Naruchan, did you seehim, like, do you think he was nervous?
Was he, from the video?
I don't, I didn't feel any nervous.
Yeah, me neither.
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Yeah.
He talked good.
Yeah.
He looked very, he was, like, very confident.
Yeah, he, like, he owned the stage, right?
He knows what he needs to do.
Yeah.
He, yeah, he didn't look, he was very nervous,scared.
Yeah, right, right.
I think that was the biggest room he'd everplayed, so...
Right, right, right.
Yeah, must be very nervousing.
Right.
Yeah.
1500 people, I think is what he said.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
When we did it in our circle, it was, like, 500.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So it was, like, three times more.
Plus, not everybody's your friend.
Yeah, yeah.
You know?
Or, like, even, like, they're enemies to you.
Right, if anything, right?
Yeah.
Right, they're rooting for somebody else, right?
Right, right, right.
So it's like, who the fuck are you?
Right, right, so...
Yeah.
I would be very nervous if that was, like...
Me too, yeah.
We don't do any, I mean, you do shows, but, like...
As the three of us, the YouTuber, we don't do anyoffline events.
We get it, like, once or twice, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We did it in the podcast.
I think that was the second time, right?
Yes, yes.
So I don't have...
Like, I rarely have any experience with, like,performing offstage.
So I'm like, that must be very nerve-wracking.
Right, yeah.
Are you now...
Are you still nervous when you go on stage?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But, like, getting less and less, right?
I think so.
Yes, I think so.
But still.
Nervous?
Still, yes.
What are you nervous about?
Like, forgetting the song?
Or, like, what's your worries?
I guess it's, again, for my performances.
If I can sing well or not.
I see.
Or...
If you can do your best on stage?
Yeah, yeah, kind of.
Or the talk part.
Oh, the talk part?
Yeah.
What are you worried about?
Like, what's going to happen?
Is it going to be, like...
Can I, like...
Can I make a back show or not?
Wait, so on your talk part, you try to make peoplelaugh?
Yeah, sometimes, yes.
OK, I see.
Make it fun, make it happy.
So far, how's your...
Is it good?
Is it working?
Yeah, not bad.
So far, so good?
Not bad, yes.
So far, so far.
Not bad.
But mainly I do the one-man shows,
which is, like, no enemies in the room, basically.
Right, they're all there for you.
Yeah, so...
Warmer, much warmer atmosphere, I guess.
Yeah, I guess it's very different from the battlesituations.
Yeah, it would, I guess, be hard to try and makepeople laugh.
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Yeah.
On that stage, right?
Right, because audiences, they even try not tolaugh at you,
at this artist, kind of.
You know, like, boo you, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Almost.
I'm sure they're nice, but they'll do that one,you know.
So it must be very difficult.
Yeah, right.
Are you going to do any shows?
I did it the day before Naru-chan's show,actually.
OK.
Yeah.
At the Ebisu Garden room,
you know the place?
Oh, I've never heard of it.
Oh, really?
Ebisu Garden.
Ebisu Garden Place?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, yeah.
They have, like, a live place.
Blue Note?
Blue Note?
Blue Note?
No, no, no.
It's a...
Yeah, they have, like, Blue Note Place.
I guess that's the name.
They have, like, a restaurant with a live houseplace,
but it's next to it.
Next to it? There's a different one?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, OK.
There are, like, three live places.
One is Blue Note Place.
One was Ebisu Garden Hall,
which is, like, a very big one.
And you have Ebisu Garden Room.
Yeah.
Oh, shit.
Ebisu Garden Room.
OK.
It was no enemies in the room.
Right.
Kinda live concert.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was very, very relaxing.
How often do you do the shows now?
How often do you do those shows right now?
I'm not setting, like, numbers,
so it depends completely.
But last year, I had a tour,
so sometimes twice a week.
But that was very high frequency.
Because you were on a tour, right?
Yeah, it was a tour.
What's happening now?
Is that part of the tour?
Or is that just a random sort of...
Oh, it's just tour ends.
It was just my...
So it was the day...
fifth anniversary
from the day I first posted my music video onYouTube.
So it was, like, fifth anniversary...
Oh, I see.
Celebration show.
Celebration concert kind of.
I see.
Yeah.
How'd it go, man?
Yeah, it was great.
It was very relaxing.
Nice.
Yeah.
Different from the usual lives.
I talked, you know, kind of very relaxing.
Oh, that's nice.
Yeah.
I brought many trees from my room,
from my extra room to the stage.
Okay.
And I made the stage very similar to my room.
Okay.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
It's like I invite people to my room kind of.
That was the concept.
I see.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Really cool.
Right.
On the stage, there are me on the piano, on theguitar,
and just one piano guy, Yudai.
Yeah.
And that's it.
Oh, okay.
So very, very plain, very cool stage.
Oh, nice.
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Yeah.
Nice, nice.
It was good.
That's cool.
Yeah.
Man.
Did it.
But the very difficult part was delivering allthose trees from my house to the live place
and then back to my house.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was like a hikkoshi.
I'm sure that was a huge logistic difficulty.
Right, right, right.
Who do you call?
Sagawa?
No.
They don't do that, right?
Yeah.
We hired the hi-ace and then did it together.
Oh, so y'all did it yourself?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, damn.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
With the team.
Oh, okay.
We did it together already and just.
Wow.
Yeah.
So you borrowed one hi-ace.
Mm-hmm.
Did it fill up the whole hi-ace?
Yes, yes.
Yeah, it's a lot.
You have a lot of play in your house.
Yes.
And it was big, very big.
You have like one of those gigantic ones?
Yes, the biggest one.
Oh, my God.
I'll show you the picture.
Oh, my God.
So this was the stage.
Okay.
Oh, yeah.
You got some trees.
Yeah, yeah.
Those are like.
Bigger than my height.
It's like this.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
Damn.
So it didn't fit into the hi-ace.
Uh-huh.
So we needed to lay, lie.
Yeah, lay flat.
Lay flat on that tree.
Yeah.
And then like roll with tons of towels andeverything.
Oh, my gosh.
And then we drove very carefully.
Uh-huh.
Not to damage the tree.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, my God.
Wow.
I don't know.
People like would think that, right?
People on the show or like after the show,
you guys are like,
let's wrap it in towel, you know?
So show ends at 6 o'clock, 6.30 o'clock.
Yeah.
And then we need to go get out and make it clean,
just get out the place at 8 o'clock.
Okay.
So we will like finish the show
and then start it and just do everything.
How did it happen?
It was like a kind of like a Bunkasai.
Yeah, sounds like a Bunkasai.
Yeah, yeah.
Sounds like a concert we did.
Yes, yes, yes.
Just like that.
Wow.
Yes.
And that's fun, right?
Yes, it was very fun.
That's fun.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
Congrats on the show.
Oh, yeah. Thank you.
On your 5th anniversary.
Thank you so much.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
