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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hello. Good morning.
Yeah, it's a very good morning.
It's a good morning. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Sunny day. Sunny. Very hot. Yes. Yeah.
Did you know that in Death Valley, United States?
OK. Yeah, there's a place called Death Valley.
OK. It is 54 degrees.
Oh, what? Really? Yes.
Is that like a desert place, like in the middle of like Death Valley?
Yeah, I think it's like a...
Is that why they call the place Death Valley?
It's too hot. Possible.
It's in California.
Death Valley.
Oh, Death Valley.
Yeah, Death Valley.
It is. It does look like a, you know...
Yeah, it's like a desert place.
Yeah. It's like a...
Oh, yeah, yeah. Wow.
In the middle of Las Vegas and California.
Wow. 54?
54.
That's what I saw on the news.
Unbelievable.
That's unbelievable.
It's Celsius, right?
Yes, Celsius.
Wow. Unbelievable.
54.
See right there.
In Death Valley, the highest temperature is 54 degrees.
It's pretty crazy.
Right now, it's like, what, 35 or something?
Not even 35, right?
That's like 32.
And it's pretty high.
You know, I can't even imagine what 54 would feel like.
It's true.
Is it possible for a human being to live in that place?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Because it's...
That's...
If you stay out there for too long,
I'm sure there's going to be some sort of a problem.
Yeah.
Wow.
That is the highest...
At the record?
...recording temperature.
Wow.
54.
Unbelievable.
Yeah.
So it's now like entire world is being hot now.
It's like the summer.
What do you think is going to happen?
Like, do you think it's just going to continue to like...
Oh, like getting hotter?
...get hotter and hotter?
I don't know.
Until we're all fucking like...
...fucking 60 degrees?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's possible, yeah.
That's pretty crazy.
Wow.
54.
Yeah.
So it's like when you...
So when you go to the sauna, that's like...
Right.
Yeah.
Oh, how hot is that?
Some ganbayoku is like 50 degrees, right?
Oh, yeah.
Right, ganbayoku 50, yeah.
And some hot onsen is like 60 degrees, right?
Yeah, yeah, the water.
Yeah.
Yeah, 60 is water is really hot.
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Right, right, right, right.
It's like a very usual hot.
Sauna, kion.
Yeah.
Sauna no hikui tokoro de 70 kara 80 do.
Hikai tokoro de 90 do gurai.
Okay.
So it's not sauna level.
Luckily, yeah.
But like you said, ganbayoku, it's like 60 or like...
Right, right.
So it's very close.
Ganbayoku.
Ganbayoku 40 kara 50 do.
Oh, wow.
So that's hotter than the ganbayoku.
Yeah.
And on the caption it says...
Doraiya ga kao ni atatte iru youna jibun desu to.
Right.
Wow, imagine being in a ganbayoku for a whole day.
You're gonna die.
That's...
It's impossible.
Wow.
Oh, not related, but I went to...
Two days ago, I went to Niigata for like a quick vacation.
I had like a day free.
So like, oh, I should utilize the day to go somewhere.
I decided to go to Niigata because I never went there.
And I was like, one of the first ones on the map that I saw,
that kind of like shined.
Oh, that's nice.
Yeah.
Lovely.
Went there.
Extremely hot.
Wow.
I was planning to, you know, I was planning to go wild, you know,
party like an animal.
Yeah, yeah.
But like on the...
After 20 minutes of walking outside, I was like,
I'm gonna sit down, get myself a water.
Done.
Yeah, I'm done.
Oh, God, I'm all sweaty.
Wow.
Was that that hot in Niigata?
No, I mean, it's not that different from Tokyo, but like still, I...
I mean, yeah, it's very hot.
I don't really have the chance to walk around outside that long in Tokyo,
obviously, so like, you know, still.
Wow.
Well, I thought it's like a bit colder than like Tokyo,
because it's like a bit northern, you know.
And by the ocean side and everything.
No, I didn't know that.
Very hot.
Wow.
Very hot.
Where did you visit it?
Like...
So I went there by Shinkansen.
OK.
About a two and a half hour ride.
And I went to, first went to this pier.
OK.
This pier, this random pier.
Random pier?
Yeah, not a random pier, but like it was...
Let me look it up.
Pier Bandai.
Bandai.
Cool.
Hmm.
Bandai.
Pier Bandai.
OK.
There's a...
Yeah, there's a little section called Pier Bandai.
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And there's all these...
Ichibas and like this famous sushi place and like barbecues.
Oh, so they call the place Pier Bandai?
Yes, that's the area.
That's the name.
Yes.
OK, OK.
And there's all these stores inside Pier Bandai.
Right.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, I went to a donut shop.
Donut shop?
Yeah, there was a donut shop.
It apparently was a famous donut shop.
Oh, really?
Yeah, I saw several TikToks of like, this is a cool donut shop you should go to.
How...
Is that different from the usual donut?
Well, there's the same, but like, I mean, it's just...
The flavors were a little bit different.
I see, I see.
Kashisu Donuts is the one that I bought, which was kind of rare, right?
True.
Right, yeah.
I've never heard of that.
Right.
Kashisu Donuts.
So, that I bought.
And then went to a...
Befuko Bakauketen.
So that is a...
What?
Yeah, I don't know why they named it like that.
Befuko Bakauketen.
Befuko Bakauketen.
OK.
Ever seen Befuko Bakauke?
I know Bakauke.
The left one, that's like a star...
I know that snack too, but...
I guess Befuko is like the brand.
Company, yeah.
OK.
So, I don't know, maybe it's their honshou or something, I don't know.
But like, they have a tempodai on the top floor.
How?
So, I went there, got the view, pretty cool.
I thought it's just like, you know, in a factory.
Oh, no, no, no.
Like, you know, you can try some snacks, but...
It's a tall building.
It's a tall building.
Yeah, very tall.
OK, wow.
And that's when I got tired, right?
Because of the heat.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You walk around and...
Yeah, I walked around.
Yeah, and then I decided to rent a car.
Oh, cool.
Yeah, rent a car.
There was this jinja, like an hour and a half drive away from this place.
OK.
Decided to go there.
It was famous, apparently.
I went there, cool.
It was relaxing.
OK.
Saw several deers.
Oh, nice.
It was cool.
And little chickens, too.
Roosters and chickens.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, OK, OK.
Wow.
Yeah, I felt the temple-ness of the temple.
Yeah, yeah, the temple-ness of the temple.
Oh, yeah, that's good.
Felt that, definitely.
Is that like to remember the name of the temple?
Of course I remember the name.
Of course you do.
It was...
Ah, right there.
The kanji was a little bit difficult.
Wow, Yahiko Jinja.
Yeah, yeah, I think that was it.
Is that right?
Yeah.
Wow.
Yahiko Jinja.
It's a pretty famous jinja.
Yeah, it looks very gorgeous and looks very cool.
Yeah, it looks temple-y, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Wow.
Temple-ish kind of place.
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Cool?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Was that like a huge one?
No, not that big.
Not that big?
Not that big, yeah.
And then I went back to the Niigata station area.
Okay.
I was planning to get dinner.
Oh, no, no.
Before that, I bought a castella.
Castella?
Called jizake castella.
Oh, okay.
So normal castella, but like jizake wo hitasu.
Yeah, like a nihonshu.
Yeah.
Yeah, I see, yeah, I see.
Bought that.
And then I wanted to go to a place,
I don't know, the fish called nodoguro.
So there was this place where they sell nodoguro don.
Oh, wow.
I wanted to get that.
Yeah.
But I went there, but it was like kashikiri today.
Really?
And I couldn't go.
Oh, that's sad.
Yeah.
I went back to the station.
I only had like an hour and a half until the shinkansen back.
So I decided to eat dinner at a random place.
Yeah, okay.
Not many places were open.
Okay.
Yeah, because it was already like 7.30 or something.
Or 8.
By then, most of the stores were closed.
Yeah.
So I only found one place that was open in the station.
What did you got?
It was like a nihonshu shop.
Nihonshu shop.
Yeah, it was like a nihonshu shop.
And you can also order several like savory food.
Like otsumamis.
Right.
I bought a nihonshu.
I'm not a drinker, but I decided to go for it.
Of course, you should try that.
So I went for the nihonshu.
Didn't like it as expected.
Okay.
Nihonshu wasn't my thing.
Niigata didn't change anything.
Even delicious ones didn't...
No.
I got the most popular one.
I asked the employee what was the most popular one.
It was like this one.
No.
No, it didn't work out for me.
But I drank the whole thing.
It was okay.
The food was good.
I bought nasu to tebasaki no nimono-ish.
Sounds cool.
Oden gotenmori.
Tamago kake gohan.
And the rice was Niigata rice.
Yeah, true, true.
It was okay. It was good.
And you came back.
Yeah, then I came back.
Okay.
Higari.
Wow.
Lovely trip.
It was a good trip.
Yeah.
You get tired, but...
Right, but tired, but fulfilling.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Very fulfilling.
That's nice.
I feel like I utilized my weekend.
Yeah, true, true.
Right.
Two days ago, yeah, it was Saturday.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Wow.
Lovely trip.
I've never been...
Oh, yeah, I've been there once.
Once, yeah.
When I was...
Chugakkou no shugaku ryokou.
I went to Niigata.
Where did you see?
Went to a very countryside and stayed in a...
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Okome nouka-san's house all together.
Okay.
And we did an experience of like...
The picking of the rice and then the...
Yeah, like...
The ueru of the rice.
Yeah, ueru.
And we went in the tambo together and like...
You know.
Get all muddy and shit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nice.
Did a...
It's a great experience.
Yeah, that was...
Yeah.
I remember that.
Yeah, as I was driving to the temple,
I came across this huge rice farm and it was beautiful.
Yeah.
I drove right in the middle of it.
It was like both sides.
Full of green.
Wow.
It was a good view.
Lovely, lovely.
It was a good view.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's something we can't see in Tokyo.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Lovely.
There you go.
There you go.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.