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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hey guys.
Hello.
So, this is...
OK, hold on.
Try something different.
OK. 鳥の胸に急さん。
こんにちは。
こんにちは。
通学の際にこのポッドキャストを 聞くのがルーティーンになっています。
いつもありがとうございます。
今年の春にアメリカ旅行に 行く予定なのですが、
覚えておいた方がいいことなどが あれば教えていただきたいです。
よろしくお願いします。
Well, that's random.
覚えておいた方がいいこと。
今年の春にアメリカ旅行に 行くんですが、
覚えておいた方がいいこと。
Oh!
OK, hold on.
I would say...
So, quarter, right?
There's a quarter coin
and on the back of every quarter
がら。
There's 50 states and there's 50 different がら forthe quarter.
And then it's fun to collect all 50 of them.
That's one.
覚えておいた方がいいことね。
Yeah, as a boy, as a little boy,
I was one of the...
That's the only thing that I've collected in mylife.
I'm not a collector.
Not a cause?
Not a figure?
No, I don't collect anything.
Quarter coins was the only thing that I collected.
Wow. You completed it?
Unfortunately, no.
Oh, is that that difficult?
It's very difficult.
If you have a friend that has collected all 50,
you'd be like, damn.
Oh, really?
You worked hard.
There are a lot of states that are rare.
Especially the states that are more on the west.
Less population.
You're not gonna have...
That's not gonna be circulating a lot.
So like, it's rare.
It's rare.
Oh, so it's made in the state?
Yeah, I think so.
Like Georgia ones?
I don't know, I guess.
I don't know.
Honestly, I don't know.
I don't know if that's actually made in thestates.
There are some rare states.
Yeah, there are rare ones.
The less population is rarer, is my image.
Wow.
Yeah, you should try that.
Yeah, try collecting what you're in.
Yeah, it's fun.
It's fun to look at the back.
So there's the special 50 states coins,
and there's the regular coins.
80%...
It's a random number,
but 80% of the quarters
that you're gonna be in touch with
are gonna be the non-special coins.
The regular...
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They have regular ones?
Yeah, they have regular ones.
Like a boring...
Boring old quarters, yeah.
Oh.
So that's very rare.
First of all, you have to get those ones.
One of those.
It's rare to even get
one of those 50 states coins.
I see.
The designs are pretty.
Check it out. They're pretty.
They're pretty.
So they print something,
like some special things from the states?
Yes.
Like famous things?
Yes.
Look at that.
Pretty, you know?
Do you remember some of them?
Like which ones?
Georgia's one, maybe?
Honestly,
I don't remember any of them.
But this one.
This one's Georgia.
It has the shape of the Georgia state
and a peach right in the middle.
That's cute.
That's cute.
This is Maine.
You know how they have the...
What do you call those towers?
Lighthouse?
Lighthouse, yeah.
Lighthouse towers.
Yeah.
I guess the state has not NASA.
Ohio?
I don't know.
So it has the spaceship suit.
That's cute.
Yeah.
It's very interesting.
It's interesting, right? It's fun.
Which state is it?
It looks like you have a Buddha statue.
Yeah, it looks like Buddha,
but I doubt it's Buddha, though.
It's Alabama.
I don't know what it is.
Do they have many Buddhists in...
I don't think so.
Which one is it?
Like a music state?
I think it's Tennessee.
Oh, I see.
It's got a guitar and a violin.
Maybe.
And a trumpet.
Nice.
Yeah.
Right? That's fun.
Yeah, it is. It is fun.
What's more rare in the 50 states coin is thedollar coin.
So usually a dollar, it's a paper bill.
I see, yeah.
But sometimes, once a year or twice, you comeacross a dollar coin.
Wow. Is that rare?
You get that as rare.
I had three.
Oh, yeah.
I had three in my life.
You keep it.
I kept it.
That's interesting. I didn't know that.
Yeah, there's a dollar coin.
If I meet a dollar coin, you have to keep it.
You should keep it, yeah.
I don't think it's going to go up in value oranything like that.
Oh, okay.
But it's rare.
It's not something that you can sell for $5,maybe.
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
It's like a Gizaju in Japan.
Yeah, like a Gizaju, right?
Right, Gizaju is rare.
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But it's not worth more than yuan, right?
Oh, really?
I thought it's like you can sell it for 50 yuan.
I don't know.
Okay, dollar coin.
One dollar coin value.
Yeah, so I think this is a dollar coin right here.
Yep.
Okay.
A silver dollar coin.
Okay.
It's $25 to $60.
Oh, nice.
Great.
Yeah, but it really depends on when it was made, Iguess.
I see.
The higher the value.
So it's just like Gizaju or like some rare coinsin Japan.
Yeah, yeah.
But yeah.
So that's one thing.
That's two things you've got to remember beforegoing to the States.
Yeah.
Well, the trip will be even more interesting withthat information.
Right, it's going to be fun.
Yeah.
None of the...
Your co-born is going to tell you thisinformation, right?
Oh, that's great.
Great.
Any...
You went to the United States several times.
Any advice from your end?
From your experience, you know, as someone who,you know,
visited as a Japanese person.
True.
They...
Like they...
Oh.
Like they accept mainly in many shops, in manyrestaurants.
They use like online payments.
And then it's very rare that you use like theactual bills and coins.
Oh, you mean like credit cards and stuff likethat?
Yeah, credit cards.
Apple pays and everything.
It's like instead of cash, you can do credit cardor even Apple pay.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Big one right there.
Yeah.
Big one.
Big one, yeah.
So it's very rare that you meet those like...
Oh, yeah, even rarer.
Even rarer.
Even rarer.
That's true.
Today.
Yeah, that's true.
Seriously.
I mean, no doubt.
And it's...
It's a far place from Japan.
It needs like
12, 14 hours.
OK, OK, OK.
Yeah, that's very important.
Yeah, I remember that.
It was very, very far.
I see.
Yeah, I remember that.
You sleep and then wake up and just sleep againkind of.
Oh, I see.
It was very, very far.
You need to go
using airplanes.
Oh, OK, very
significant piece of information right there.
Yeah, you need to use that.
Great insight.
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Yes, because I went to
the United States several times, so I know it.
Experience.
Experience is everything.
Thank you.
OK, thanks for listening, guys.
Bye-bye.
