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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hello. So hot today. So hot today. It is. 35 degrees. Yes. Wow. 35. Side of the news. 35. Wow.
It's, it's like, this is the day, this is the kind of day that you shouldn't, like,
for your health, you shouldn't go out. Yeah, it does seem kind of dangerous.
It's like very, yeah, it's, it's dangerous. Like, even, like, me, I woke up and come to this place.
Yes. By bike. Yes. Bicycle. Yeah. That made, made me, like, that, like, felt dangerous today.
Yeah. It's dangerous. Same here. I felt, you know, I came here with a bicycle too. Very dangerous.
Yeah. You know, it was, um, fortunate that it was under, in the shades most of the ride,
but if it was under the direct sun, it probably would have been very... Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Exhausted already. Yeah. Oh, yeah. This is bad. Is it, like, is Tsuyu ended?
Uh, I don't, I don't think they have, I don't think they, I remember them saying that the Tsuyu
will be over sometime this week. Oh, I see. So I guess not yet. Yeah. I guess not yet.
Really? But it's still, but I can feel the humidity though. That's true. That's true.
Yeah. Humidity's huge. That's, that's why it's very difficult. Yeah. Very hot. Yeah. Very hot
and very hot. Yeah. Very high as humidity. So. Unbelievable. That's, yeah, it's unbelievable.
Yeah. When you put it in that cup right there, the, your iced coffee, it makes it look really good.
Yeah. Yeah. I was just, I found this, you know, glass in the shelf and I was like, Oh,
this is for iced coffee. Oh yeah. It's like cafe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Glass. Right, right, right. Why don't I use this? That's good. Yeah. Good. We bought a lot of,
like a good cup for like the, uh, the alcohol for you too. Cocktails and cocktails. Yeah. A lot of
the cocktail cups, they look really nice. Yeah. You know, they, they go good with coffees and
lattes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It looks fancy. Like the martini. Like this one and that
one. Right. Yeah. Right, right. True. Oh, this looks very nice. Yeah. What have you been doing
this week? Um, nothing like very big thing. This week I was relaxed. That's good. Yeah. Like usual
things. Usual, usual week. But, um, Oh, um, it was last, last, last yesterday. I mean, yesterday,
uh, you know, Fuji rock. Yes. One of the biggest festival. Ibaraki. Uh, Fuji rock is in, in, in
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Naeba. It's in Naeba. Oh, I see. Okay. That's, that's locking. Ah, but that's kind of same. It's
a huge, huge like press. And that's going to be held in, I guess, mid July, mid in this month.
Okay. And, um, before that they have like little, a tiny festival before the, the real Fuji rock.
Oh, really? And that was held in Tokyo. Oh, shit. Yeah. It's a, yeah, it's a side.
And it was very tiny version of like, you know, then, then short, it's like a my,
Oh, my, my Matsuri. You can't speak Japanese. Wow. It's like, uh, you know,
pre-festival. Oh, okay. Like a mini festival. Yeah. And I was, Oh, it feels summer to me.
Why don't I go, you know, visit there. But it was like, as he was in the middle of Yaisu
building. Okay. Place was very, very tiny. It was just, just the place between the one building and
building just like a, it's not some sort of an open place. It was not like a huge site. It was
more like a, just like to like a casual everyday Tokyo, like just between building and building
and just usual hallway. And they had a little like stage, but as there was some famous singers came,
performed, they were like packed of people. Oh God. Like that was crazy. I went there, but I
couldn't see the singer at all. And like, and then everybody tried to see them. So like a kind of
huge mob. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. And then KB-san was like,
Really? Really? Should I? That was crazy experience.
Did you enjoy the concert itself? I mean, no, I just, I just saw them in like,
nah, not today. You just like kind of walked past. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
I wanted to see and listen to them, but I couldn't. Just too much, too many people.
Too packed and too hot. Like I couldn't see them. So I was just, yeah, no, maybe later.
Yeah. Is there going to be some other day? Nah. No. Yesterday was the only,
then real Fuji Rock. So yeah. Wow. That was my summer experience.
Were you excited for that mini concert? Or were you just, it was a casual kind of,
Oh, it's there. Let's try going. Yeah. It was just casual one, so it's okay.
But yeah, if it was like more, you know, bigger place, wider place, open place,
that would be just good live. So a bit sad. Yeah. What about you?
My week is actually really, you know, just ordinary as well. Did the everyday routine,
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the weekly routine of, you know, satsui, henju and all that stuff like that.
Right. Right.
Did you build anything?
Like programming? No, no, I haven't done anything. Nothing. No updates on that.
Other than that. Oh, I saw a movie. That's Super Mario Brothers movie.
So right now there's a new movie out on theaters and you know, Super Mario Brothers, right? You
know, Mario, Luigi. Yeah. So those characters are the characters on the movie. They talk,
yeah. Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Peach.
Bowser?
Bowser is in English, it's Koopa.
Yeah.
Bowser.
Yeah. It's a Bowser.
Okay.
Yeah. Bowser and yeah, they all talked and it's a story.
Oh, it's like a drama.
Yeah. It's like a, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like a whole thing, right? It's like, you know,
they save Princess Peach and defeat Bowser or something like that.
Okay. Okay. So it's like a, just like the game.
Just like the game.
The video game.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And right. So they made a movie about it. I saw it. It was really good.
It was really good.
Yeah. It was very good.
So basically the story is like Mario trying to save like Peach.
Uh, yeah. Not exactly save Princess Peach, but like, yeah. Kind of defeat Bowser would be
a better description. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Wow.
Right. They had so many, you know, the video game references, like, you know, how those
like small details mimics of like, for example, like if you, if you like the green shell,
that green turtle shell, if you step on it from the top, it like, it becomes a little,
like a little, whatever it is, like a little ball. Right.
Like those things are like, right. Right. Tax. Like if that little green shell is stuck in
between two back and forth, like that, those things are like these really small details that
you, you notice and all those Mario games, it was all packed and it was, it was fun to watch.
And the story itself was okay. It was pretty like, it was good too.
Yeah. The friendship between Mario and Luigi. Very good.
Loved it.
Those. Okay.
Yeah. It's a good movie.
Wow.
Yeah.
Mario. Are they brothers? Like the real brothers?
Yeah. So this, yes, they're brothers and they're plumbers.
Oh yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Did you know that? They were plumbers.
Yeah. I know.
Yeah.
Cause we, we did that word in the very beginning of our, no one word challenge or anything.
Oh, what do we talk about? Plumber?
Yeah.
And did we talk about Mario brothers being plumbers?
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I'm not sure.
Oh.
But I remember the word.
Yeah.
So their setting was in, they lived in, they live in Brooklyn, New York.
Oh, okay.
Yeah. They live in Brooklyn, New York with, with their family members.
Wow.
Yeah. I mean, they got a dad.
Really?
Mother.
Yeah. All the relatives live in the same house.
Wow.
Yeah. He's got, you know, so their family, Mario's family,
their parents are, doesn't really approve them doing all that plumbing work.
They're like, oh, you should get a better job.
Oh wow.
What are you doing? Plumbing.
Oh.
Yeah.
Right.
Okay.
And then, right. And then Mario and Luigi, they're like, they're disapproved.
Yeah.
Disappointed, but like they got each other and like, okay, we should do, I mean,
it doesn't matter what they say. Like it matters that we're together and stuff like that.
Wow.
Yeah. And then, yeah. And then they go out to New York,
find out that there's a, like a New York sewage problem. And they're like, now it's us. Now we're
the plumbers. We get, we should do the job. And then like, they go into like these underground
shit and then they go into the world of the Mario and all that. All the characters are there.
I see.
The Pinocchio and all that, you know, Donkey Kong and all that stuff.
I see.
Yes.
Wow.
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
And they would go to the Bowser's castle by the Mario carts.
They go through like the rainbow road.
It's so fun to watch. The references are great.
Great. That's cool.
Especially for people who had experience to, you know, playing those video games.
Very fun.
Wow.
What Mario game have you played?
Mario Kart.
Including the Donkey Kongs and the Wario's and the Yoshi's.
Yeah. Like.
All the Nintendo worlds.
Yeah. Nintendo, Mario, Kart. And also there's usual Mario.
Super Mario Brothers. Which game, which console is that?
I don't remember. That was, I guess that was.
Game Boy? Game Boy Advance?
Yeah. I think so.
Like, can you, what was the shape like?
Do you remember the shape of the console?
How, what was the size?
Obviously that wasn't like TV version.
Yeah. Yeah. It was handheld.
Yeah. Yeah.
I'm assuming it's like Game Boy Color.
Yeah.
Game Boy Advanced.
Yeah.
Was it long in the sides or like, was it long on the top?
I mean that, I guess that wasn't mine.
Oh.
I think I was just with my friends and they.
I see.
That was my, like, I borrowed from them and played together.
So I, I kind of remember like this white one.
Also.
Yeah. Kind of like DS.
Oh yeah.
Yeah. But I'm not, yeah.
Kind of blurred.
Right, right, right, right.
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Kiyokuba.
Right.
Yeah.
So Mario Kart, Super Mario, anything else?
What did they have?
Wario.
You know, you know what a Wario, you know who Wario is?
Yeah. I got.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He has a minigame series.
Oh really?
Yeah.
Oh wait, I remember.
It's like a, you, you put your finger into Wario's nose hole.
That's one of the minigames.
Oh, I kind of remember.
There's a whole bunch of minigames, including that.
Oh, maybe I, then I have played once.
Oh yeah.
Twice.
Yeah.
With my friends, I guess.
How about like the Yoshi series?
What's that?
So Mario, no, no, Yoshi kind of jumps.
Okay.
And then like, kind of, kind of pushes himself up in the air for several seconds.
That's his kind of major move.
And he would, he would, he would have eggs follow.
Eggs follow him.
And he would be, he'll be able to throw those eggs anywhere.
And that's how he would defeat the enemies.
Yeah.
And then he goes on the stage with that.
Wow, I didn't know that.
Don't know.
No.
How about, how about like.
They all have like, they all, they own each version of videos, video games.
Yeah.
So, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, Donkey Kong's got his own video game.
It's like a Smash Brothers.
It's a different one.
Like they have Donkey Kong now.
Yeah.
I think it's.
Yeah.
Is that a different one?
Uh, I think so.
Okay.
I think it's kind of like Super Smash Bros.
I guess it would be like a, I don't know.
I actually don't know.
You know how there's a barrel.
Yeah.
He would throw the barrel to defeat the bad guys.
Yeah.
Never, never.
Don't recall.
Or like Luigi in a haunted mansion.
What?
You know, he would have a flashlight.
Has a flashlight?
Yeah.
He would, he would go, he would enter the castle, like the abandoned cancel.
Okay.
No.
Castle.
And then he would look for whatever he's looking for and he would find ghosts everywhere.
Be scared.
Oh, scary.
Kind of like a horror game.
Yeah.
Don't know.
Don't.
But, oh, I remember Mario basketball.
Oh.
I used to play that one with DS.
I remember like, yeah.
Really?
Yeah.
Mario basketball.
Yeah.
They have basketball games.
I love that.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah.
I remember that.
Oh, all right.
Basketball.
Yeah.
I think that was Mario basketball.
Yeah.
Oh, I see.
I think so.
I say, I say.
Yeah.
Finally, just tell me who your favorite character is in Mario.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
Okay.
So in my Mario basketball, I'm not sure if you, like, if it's a main very.
Okay.
Go ahead.
You know, there are some princesses.
Yes.
In the world.
Yeah.
There's, yeah.
I can recall two right now.
Okay.
Okay.
But that's it.
So my favorite is like the yellow one, yellow, orange dressed.
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Yellow, orange.
Is it like Rosalina?
I don't, don't know the name, but you remember it's a princess.
Yeah.
Not peach.
Not peach.
Like the yellow one.
I see.
Yellow.
Daisy.
Short haired.
Um, not.
Red haired.
Daisy's red haired.
Uh, they're not, huh?
It's like a.
I think it's short haired, right?
Yellow hair, short.
Yellow dressed.
Yellow dress.
Remember this?
Was it short hair or long hair?
I'm pretty sure it's short hair.
Short hair.
It's like a yellow, orange kind of.
We got Nintendo.
Yeah.
Oh, this one?
Rosetta?
No, that one.
That.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That one.
Is Daisy.
Is it Daisy?
Yeah, that's Daisy right there.
Oh yes, yes, yes.
Oh yeah.
A bit like a red haired.
A bit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Daisy.
Cause she was very, um, so in my, in Mario basket, basketball, they, they have like,
they are each like a special move.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Signature move.
Yeah.
If you like tap, like, like M for Mario, he's going to dribble like M shape.
Wow.
And then if he, if I success do this for like three times and he's going to like explore
like this and going to have a special, like unstoppable move.
Yeah.
And then he's going to like point like a hundred point.
Ah, right.
They have those things.
Right, right, right.
The Daisy's like special move was very like, like beautiful.
Unbeatable?
Yeah.
It's like beautiful.
It was very cute.
Filled with like flowers and like, it was very cute.
Okay.
So when she dunks, she dunks.
Wow.
When she dunks, she, she jumps and then like her feet were like, like, like this, you know,
like bend.
Kind of bends backwards.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's very cute.
She jumps and then, you know, her feet like, like this.
Bends.
Bends backward.
Yeah.
By her knees.
Yeah.
And then dunks.
And then dunks.
That was cute for you.
Yeah.
That's why I love her.
That's good.
Do you have any?
My, it's always been Yoshi.
I love Yoshi.
Yoshi.
I love him.
Why Yoshi?
It's just, I don't know.
The green nose, the fact that he probably can't see what's in front of him.
Look how big his nose is.
You can't see.
True.
Where he's going because of his gigantic nose.
That's impossible.
Blocking his view.
Right.
That's true.
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And, um, you know, his, his voice.
Yeah.
Oh, he's cute.
You know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Something like that.
You're close enough.
And, um, yeah.
Yeah.
It's like a very peaceful.
Yeah.
Peaceful guy.
Yeah.
True.
Yeah.
He's very funny.
There you go.
Thanks for listening guys.
Thank you.
Bye.
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