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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello. Hey guys.
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No name? Okay.
ケビンさん、ヤマちゃん、こんにちは。こんにちは。
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2026年1月15日にいろんなインスタグラマーが2016年の写真をポストしていましたが、何か10年前を振り返る特別なイベントがあるのでしょうか。
1月15日というのが日本時間なので日付のズレはあるかもしれません。
最近聞き始めたのでお二人は10年前どんな感じだったのか教えてもらえたら嬉しいです。
今と同じくらい仲良しでしたか?
I'm so sorry. I do not know that trend.
Oh, I know this one.
Okay.
I just only saw one, two people.
Okay.
What I saw was she was a musician and like singing now and it suddenly turns into like 2016年の私
and just in the studio and just singing.
That's the content.
Yeah, that was the content.
Okay.
And to me that was very random.
Yeah.
Why that year?
Is it like new? Yeah.
And I saw those kind of content twice.
Okay.
And then...
So you figured out it's a meme.
Yeah, but it was only two, so...
Okay.
Yeah.
But don't know why.
Okay.
But now you know.
Is it a meme thing?
Well, I mean, I don't scroll through Instagram that much.
Yeah.
The only thing I...
Do you know the reason?
Well, I mean, it's a meme, right?
It just...
Yeah.
It randomly happens, right?
So there's no like logical reason?
Oh, no, no.
There's no logic.
Really?
Yeah.
You know what the most random meme is right now?
No, what's that?
So Gen Z kid, younger Gen Zs in America, when they hear 6-7, they do this.
Oh, yeah.
You've seen it, or 6-7?
And they're like, all the adults are like, what the fuck is this?
What's the logic behind it?
Basically, there's no logic at all.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nothing.
Yeah.
But even you, you've seen it, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know that one.
Right, right, right, right.
I see.
I thought it was some kind of event or like some thing going on, but...
Yeah, not that I know of.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I saw that too.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
So 10 years ago, huh?
大学時代の思い出
That was...
Yeah, 10 years ago.
2016.
Yes.
2016.
What was I doing in 2016?
2016.
So we were a college student.
Yeah.
Third grade.
Third grade.
Yeah, we were doing a college thing, you know.
I had a lot of fun during third year of college.
Mm-hmm.
Oh, no, we were doing shukatsu.
I didn't do the shukatsu.
I was into the sakuru.
Okay.
The third year, I was...
I did the daisho and just did the whole concert and everything.
That was...
But didn't...
Wait, okay.
Wait, didn't...
When did everybody, you know, the people around us start shukatsu?
Wasn't it third grade?
I guess.
No?
See, I was very...
Disconnected?
Yeah, with those.
I was...
The community?
Yes, I...
I mean, I think I remember it was third grade.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe like towards the end of third grade, everybody would start the shukatsu.
Yeah.
I guess so.
So the beginning of the yonensei, like yonensei no shigatsu, was like the official date.
Okay, yeah.
Maybe.
Oh, it was June.
I didn't...
The mensetsu kaikibi and the shukatsu kaikibi, they're different.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then like the gaishikei is faster, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've heard about those things.
So I guess sanrensei, it's already opened and people did those things.
I think I remember doing the shukatsu from sanrensei.
Especially I was looking for gaishikei to use my English.
It was pretty early.
Right.
The internship and everything.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
When did you start your shukatsu, do you remember?
I think it was yonensei no...
Towards the end.
Yeah, yonen no aki toka datta to omou na.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
So, I mean, yeah.
So I remember that was starting from late summer.
So maybe sanrensei no late summer or like yonensei.
But I remember like sanrensei, I did like concert and after that I did nothing.
Right.
I was kind of burned out, so I did nothing.
So I guess yonensei no aki.
大学生活と就活の葛藤
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
All right.
I remember that.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I didn't apply to any of those like internships.
Internships and all that stuff.
Those like gaishikeis and everything.
Yeah.
No, I didn't.
Yeah.
But I remember people talked about those things.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Was there like pressure in you of like, hey, I got this circle, I have to take care of
the circle on one side, but some people are starting the shukatsu.
I'm like, I want to start, but, you know, I'm too busy with the circle thing.
Oh, yeah.
Was there a little bit of a pressure in you?
No.
Oh, no.
I don't know why, but I didn't want to start shukatsu.
Oh, okay.
So I was like, yeah, we'll be fine.
And you were fine, right?
Yeah.
You were definitely fine.
I was thinking at this stage, I was thinking going to the inn.
Oh, okay.
So, yeah, maybe not now.
Oh, got it.
What made you think not to go to the inn?
So I talked with the professor of my...
Genkyusutsu.
Genkyusutsu.
Yeah.
And he was half inviting me to the inn.
Yeah.
But he said like half, it's also good to be in the society, the real society, and then
you can back to the inn.
Because what we do is like kind of social study, kind of.
It's not like math.
It's not like physics and things.
It's a study of like society.
Society.
Yeah.
Like human behaviors and social dynamics.
Right, right, right, right.
So the professor said that he has been in the university for decades, and he's never been
in the society.
You know, the company, whatever those.
So he said like he's kind of half jealous that people knows those dynamics and those
real society.
And that's what he said to me.
Maybe if you have a chance, maybe you can just go into the company or whatever once
and then experience many things.
If you still want to study things, you can come back later on.
It's possible.
But if you miss this like shinsotsu or whatever, maybe it's like a big thing.
Sure.
Right.
It's a once in a lifetime ticket, right?
Right.
True.
True.
Yeah.
That's why I suddenly started to applying those things.
I was already like a yonensen aki, so there's not many things.
Yeah.
I see.
Yeah.
I remember that conversation day.
Pretty memorable.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sure.
Yeah.
So are you ever going to go back to the studying?
音楽と社会観察
Yeah.
Maybe.
Now that you've experienced the social factor.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So when I quit my company, the travel agency, I thought I was about to get back to that.
Daigaku.
Yeah.
Sure.
University.
But yeah, somehow I was very into music.
And yeah.
That's what it felt like.
Yeah.
On your stage.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's an answer.
Maybe.
Maybe later in life.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But right now I'm writing lyrics.
Yeah.
And it sounds strange to many people, but to me it's like one of the studies.
It's like you see the society and you write paper.
That was what I did at the school, at the college.
And right now I see the society and I just write lyrics.
To me it's like kind of the same thing.
Interesting.
Yeah.
It's very connected to me.
Yeah.
Okay.
So that's what I'm saying and just doing.
Okay.
But maybe later on.
Yeah.
Maybe later on.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
成功への道
For me, I was all into shukatsu.
I wanted to start.
I was so afraid of not getting a head start when everybody else is.
That was a fear inside me.
So I was like, I have to start when everybody else is starting.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They are very early people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Yeah.
But your success, you made a success.
Yeah.
I mean, I quit that company in one year.
飲食店開業の思い出
I don't know if you call that a success.
Well, yeah.
That's success.
Do you experience?
Do you know what's going on?
Are you excited?
I found out that it wasn't right for me.
Right.
Right.
So it's a success.
Right.
Right.
True.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you tried the ice cream, not the ice cream, but the ice shop, wasn't it San Nensei?
Oh, yeah.
The food truck?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Food truck.
San Nensei or maybe Ni Nensei?
Was it?
Maybe San Nensei.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I forgot.
But yeah, true.
I did that too during the summer break.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
The food truck was, yeah, it was fun.
It was an experience.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's true.
Do you want to try it sometimes?
Yeah.
That would be fun.
That would be fun though.
I would.
I would.
It's just, it's, you know.
I may have talked about this before.
Yeah.
But like restaurants and physical locations, they are fun.
Yeah.
But they take up so much time, take up so much energy.
Yeah.
It's just, yeah, it is very energy consuming.
And.
I understand.
Right now, at this stage of my life, I'm still like thinking about like the return on investment
of like the money aspect versus like the food aspect.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And the food aspect versus how much work you put into.
That kind of drives me away from that.
I see.
I see.
So, yeah, that's what's happened right now.
But it is fun though.
I mean, I think it's fun.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A few days ago, I went to my friend's friend's restaurant.
OK.
They do him with his wife.
We all the same age.
They do with, you know, wife and husband, together, with a very small French place.
They don't even have their own shop, it's like Magari, and they do like Suimoku Kindo
Nichi only, and then they just, they're just back from Paris, and they're starting their
own small restaurant, and then it's just two of them doing everything, and then they say
after closing the store, they carried all those gomis and, you know, like, aki beans
and everything, and then they dash to the station, because it's the shuden, and then
they carry all those things in a Ikea, in a big bag, and just go back to their house,
and just throw away things, and just leave, and just walk up, and just go to the restaurant
again, just preparing and everything.
They looked very happy, they looked very, very happy, and that was kind of, kind of
jealous, even, it's like they, they're still on their way to making success, kind of, still
in the small restaurant, and magaris and everything, but, well, what they're, I don't know, the
passion, and the happiness, having the closest people always together, and just, that was
kind of, I mean, I get that, man, I get that, I still, you know, remember the moment where
me and my current girlfriend back then, when I opened a, like, a dessert shop, and a ton
of people came through social media, and me and my girlfriend was like, fuck, what are
we going to do with all these people, and like, okay, let's just, okay, we have orders
coming in, let's just make it, and then, like, hey, what did this person order, like, whose
order is this, and then it starts this roll of, like, chaotic fucking kitchen, and it
was, for me, that was so fun, I mean, at that moment, I'm like, fuck, what am I going to
do, but, like, looking back, it was, like, that was so, like, it was so filled with emotions,
it was filled with, like, it was very juicy, you know, and I still do crave for that moment,
you know, I do.
Totally get it.
Yeah, yeah.
That's something very, very, very, very valuable.
I know, right.
夢を追った飲食店オーナーの思い
Yeah, true.
Yeah, true.
One day you'll be back, maybe.
Yeah, one day, that's true.
It's like, you know, every time I think about this, I'm like, well, why not do it now?
And I'm like, I have no words to come back, like, I have no words to, like, I don't have
any response to that, like, true, why don't I do it now?
It's like, I don't know, I don't know why.
I mean, it's true, I should do it now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know what's holding me back now.
Yeah, right, right.
So, yeah, maybe one day.
Yeah, right, maybe one day.
All right, thanks for sitting, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.
