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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello.
Hey guys, how's it going?
Yeah, we talked about plants.
But yeah, I feel like it's very, very difficult tohave those plants in Tokyo.
Oh yeah?
Yeah, especially like these places like...
Like Tokyo, Tokyo?
Tokyo, Tokyo and like mansion like this.
Oh, okay. Because of the sunlight you're saying?
Yeah, sunlight. You don't have soil.
Oh, what do you mean you don't have soil?
It's like if you have like, for example, like myparents' house.
I see.
It's on the ground.
You have a niwa.
Yeah, you have a little garden that has soil, likethe natural soil.
Like actual earth.
The actual, yeah.
I see, okay.
It's very different.
Oh really? So you can't... It's different from apot?
It's very different.
From like an artificially created soil.
Is it?
Yeah.
Interesting.
Even if you buy, you know, the soils that...
The Homsen Dias?
Yeah, it's very different.
That is very interesting.
Yeah, I think the Eiyoso is like totallydifferent.
So you're saying that like the actual earth,
if they grow on the actual earth, their Eiyoso islike much more richer?
Yeah.
Man, really?
Yeah, yeah. It's like...
I don't... Wow.
Yeah.
Okay.
And I think the size of the pot is different.
When you try to grow things in, let's say, thatveranda.
Yeah.
Maximum like this size.
Right.
Which is not very, very big for the plants to growthem in like a root and things.
Oh, they want to stretch a lot further.
Right, right.
Oh, okay.
If you have like gardens, it's totally different.
You got like natural like...
If you put like just one, two, three like seeds tothe garden,
just do it and then just let things go on and theygrow naturally.
Wow.
Then you can have like shiso, you can have goya,you can...
It's...
Wow.
It's different.
It's so powerful.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They are powerful, actually.
You think all that comes from what?
Like leaves dropping on the ground?
Yeah.
Bugs?
Bugs, yes.
Dying on the field?
Animals, animal feces?
You know, like a mimosa.
Yeah, those ones.
I see.
Yeah, we don't have those worms like bugs in thoselike pots, right?
Yeah.
Okay, I see.
So it makes it so much...
Oh, wow.
Right.
I feel so.
Okay.
So it's always difficult to try to grow them inthis environment.
You don't have...
Yes, you don't have some lights.
Yeah, right.
Would you ever want to try growing it from anactual earth?
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Yeah.
Yeah?
You'd like that?
I'd love to, yes.
Yeah.
I always feel like a pity for them, like sad forthem.
Oh, really?
Like I wish I could get you a better home?
Putting into like a very small vase.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
I see.
Yeah.
Close to my house, current house, they have littleakichi,
where so many plants are like wildly growing.
Okay.
And I have the same species in my house.
Mine's like this size.
Okay.
This one.
But in that akichi, it's like a tree.
Really?
It's like a very high, very tall, way bigger thanI have in my house.
So it's got the potential to be like that.
Yeah.
It's the soil.
It's the earth.
Wow.
Every time I pass through that akichi, and Ilooked up that plant.
Do you feel like a failure?
Yeah.
I'm sorry for that plant that I had in my house.
Sorry that I bring you to my house, and you havethat potential.
Wow.
That's kind of sad to have to think about, to feellike that every time.
Yeah.
Can you, is that, you know that akichi, that placethat you walk by?
Yeah.
Are people allowed to like do stuff with that?
So there's, let's say there's like this random asssoil on the ground, right?
Yeah.
You know how sometimes in Tokyo, you have thisarea of like this random soil.
You sometimes find...
Right.
Can you get your own seeds?
And sort of like, let me just put mine here.
And just water it.
Several, like occasionally.
Is that allowed, you think?
I don't think so.
Yeah.
I thought so.
But look, if that's the same type of, you know,plant, I don't think anyone would notice, man.
Maybe put your kid there.
Yeah, put my kid in.
That's true.
Like secretly, I just see them.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, like on the road, there's like roadsidetrees.
Like in between the road and the sidewalk, there'slike trees just planted.
You mean organized?
Yeah, organized.
Right.
It's like, it's blocked.
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Yeah.
Who's taking care of that?
It's the government.
Oh, okay.
And I sometimes see like those like littlegovernment people.
They don't water them, I think.
But they cut sometimes.
Oh, yeah, I've seen that too.
So that's all a part of, you know, taking care ofthem.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, I see.
The city does that.
Like the Shiak shows.
So you can't just go in there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because it's like always, you know, neat.
It's like neatly done.
So it's like, I wonder who's like responsible forthis, like great work.
Yeah.
I would say that's one of the things that Japan isgreat at.
Like America hardly ever has like a beautiful, youknow, stable sort of plant life.
Not in rural Georgia, I would say.
Like you don't find like, it's mostly woods.
So it's like, it's not, well, you can say thatthat itself is aesthetic,
but like no one's actually taking care of themthat much.
It's like you let it run wild and that's it.
But like in Japan, it's like, it's really limited,right?
The spaces are limited.
You can't, the branches can't like fucking likehit you.
So like they take care of it a lot.
So it's like really neatly done.
So it's like that has its own aesthetic as well, Iwould say.
I see.
Yeah.
They're true.
But we don't have like the actual wild.
Oh yeah.
Actual nature.
Yeah.
So we need to do it like artificially.
Okay, right.
That's, I guess that's something that you wouldwant, right?
Yeah, yeah.
If we have like the forest, like Rome, Georgia haslike, that's nicer.
Yeah.
You should see my, I want you to see my backgarden.
It's like, it's like a, it's like a forest.
We have a whole forest that we can fuck aroundwith.
We had a river running around that runs when itrains and it's like, we catch frogs and.
Oh nice.
Yeah.
Is it your garden?
Your yard?
Backyard?
It's, I don't know.
I don't think it's anybody's garden.
I think it's just like a, it's just like a gardenthat looks like.
It's, I mean, it's not, it's not fair to say it'sa garden.
It's not even a garden.
It's just like, it's like a, it's like a field.
Oh, it's not like a field.
It's like a field of woods.
Like there's trees, there's leaves, there's grassand bugs and animals.
And there's, it's complete nature.
Like, like five seconds from my backyard.
It was pretty crazy.
It was pretty crazy.
It's nice.
Yeah.
Nobody's like, like taking care of them.
Nobody's taking care of them.
Nobody.
It's the wild.
It's yeah.
We've let it run wild.
And I love that.
Yeah.
It's nice.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Oh, it's nice.
Yeah.
And you can play in the woods if you want to.
Yeah.
I mean, you can, it's a little bit like, it'snobody's like, there's no,
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there's no organized road or anything.
So it's like, I don't know if it's playable, butlike, if you like that kind of a jungle,
then I guess that makes sense.
Sure.
You could do it, but you may have like a bears,like deers.
Never seen bears, but yes, deers.
We had big deers.
We've seen it once from our window.
Like, well, look at our backyard.
There's a deer trying to get a barbecue.
You don't have any like fence or those things.
We have no fence.
Wow.
So it's all attached.
So yeah, it's a possibility.
If we let our backyard door open, the deer couldjust walk in to our house.
It is possible.
That's wild.
That is straight up wild.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's funny.
Yeah.
That is very different.
I know.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If we just opened that window.
That window.
Yeah.
That one.
Yeah.
Roaches and spiders.
That's it.
Little bugs, maybe.
Yeah, like fruit flies.
That's it.
Yeah.
That's nice.
We have some neighbors, right?
We all, so it's like a straight line of houses,right?
And behind it is the whole forest.
Yeah.
So like we all have like our personal little area.
It's not like lined.
It's not organized or anything.
We just like reasonably, this would be our space.
So we have our own little like, we customize it alittle bit.
Our neighbor had like this birdhouse.
He would attract birds.
And I suspected he was eating them.
But like he was, you know, he was, I guess he wasnurturing them.
But yeah.
What kind of chickens?
No, I don't know.
Any bird.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't think it's chickens.
Chickens don't just randomly come.
It's just random birds.
He eats any of those like flying little birds.
I suspected that.
Yes.
That's totally different.
I know, right?
You've got the land.
Right.
Right.
Nobody wants it.
So it's like very different from Japan.
You can have trees, right?
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
We can't have trees in this building.
In this house.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You like trees, right?
You want trees.
Yes.
I want trees.
I have one tree.
You got a tree?
Yeah.
In my room.
I didn't know that.
I didn't know you could own a tree.
You see that?
No.
I guess it was in your room.
Oh yeah, the one behind your piano.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
That's a...
It's a legit tree.
Yeah, that's a tree.
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Oh shit.
But I mean, that's a huge tree for me, like forthat room.
It was touching the ceiling.
Yes.
Yeah.
So relatively, it's a surprising big tree forJapan, for like average Japanese people.
But I guess like people in Rome, Georgia, it'sjust nothing.
Backyard tree was like, it's like a size of likeShinjuku Tocho or something.
It was huge.
Yeah, I can imagine that.
It was huge, man.
It was huge.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So.
It's different.
Very different.
Very different.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Bye-bye.
