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Hello, Len.
Hello, Asami.
Alright, so it's been some time since we recorded in our physical time,
separate from our podcast scheduling.
Yeah, that's true.
And in the meantime, there were some new features added to this podcast.
Yeah, you did a cool thing.
You added some cool stuff.
Of using this quite coveted skills of using Google Form.
Highly specialized skills.
I only hear that one in every 2,000 people are able to do this.
Exactly. I have a special access given by the lord Google.
Yep, you must have really connected with the right people to get that.
Just in case this is unclear for anybody, this is sarcasm, right?
This is sarcasm.
I do pay Google every year to give me two terabytes of space.
Oh, well, alright. I mean, maybe that's how you got your special access then.
Yeah, yeah.
So we have a Google Form. You've magicked up a Google Form.
And the link is in our show notes, as well as our Twitter bio, as well as X bio.
And various other places where you wish to find it.
One says that if you spin around and toss a coin, you will see it appear in front of you.
That was wildly somewhat cryptic.
And also, I mean, sure.
Yeah, actually, you know what?
Everyone do that.
Tell us if it appears in front of you.
And then that's how you find out that this podcast is full of sarcasm and jokes and bullshit.
Deep, deep sarcasm.
Please do not do any of the things we say near busy roads or while handling dangerous.
Yeah, if you're driving, don't do this.
Anyway, we have a Google Form where people are welcome to just drop a note saying hello,
or ask questions, whether it's English questions or Japanese questions.
Because I did find out that there are a number of people who are
native English speakers or don't have any trouble listening to or speaking English,
but still somehow enjoy our podcast in some capacity.
So and likely those people have found us on Japanese Spotify space or Japanese Apple Music
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space because that's where we're registered at.
And so you can also ask Japanese questions or commiserate with Len about how full of
exceptional rules Japanese are.
I think Len will be happy to do this with you.
Yeah, come commiserate.
I'm all for it.
I'm down.
Come commiserate.
I don't know, Len, if you know this, but once upon a time, not too long ago, maybe late 2000s,
there was a comedian, an American comedian who was performing in Japan with the catchphrase of
why Japanese people?
Why?
Why Japanese people?
Why?
He basically had like a flipbook of like the way to write characters or things like that,
and finds out exceptions and then be like, why Japanese people?
Why?
I can see that.
I can see and imagine that bit, probably because whatever comedian you're thinking about,
YouTube has blown up on derivatives.
Yes, yes, yes.
Yeah, I understand.
The original was Atsugiri Jason, but his type of comedic vibe has spread around.
Anyway, you can also do that.
So just to walk you through quickly what this form would ask you to do.
It basically doesn't ask you for anything other than what you want to share with us.
How should we refer to you?
If we are to read your name out loud on our podcast, like we will do for the next episode.
And then you can ask questions.
Hashtag Oshiete Asami or actually it can be Oshiete Len.
Both work.
Why not?
We'll just make both of them go viral.
That's fine.
Yeah, I don't know.
But this hashtag started because of, I want to say, Nai-chan from Sanjuu Gosai Migi Hidari
and Ushiwaka-san, they had some questions and they asked on Twitter and they were like,
let's just start a hashtag, Oshiete Asami.
Right, yes.
Like, oh, no.
No, no.
Wonderful.
Don't oh, no.
But if you want to look at the short history of Oshiete Asami, it's Oshiete in Kanji in
Hiragana and Asami in Katakana.
So if you want to look at that, that's where you find it.
Anyway, so you have that.
You can also just say, you know, have any comments or topics that's unrelated to questions
you might have.
You know, you could just say, hey, why don't you do a better job about being actually scientific
in Eisai Naito?
I'm like, aha, good point.
My answer, pay me.
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True, true.
I mean, I like, look.
That could be our automatic response.
Yeah, caveat, it's why I make sure and you make sure to caveat what we are saying is
conversational.
And I will very readily have a whole stream of podcasts about talking about like actual
discussions around a topic that would be important to have instead of being like, you
know, any of the ones out there that are just saying things and being like, oh, I take
no responsibility.
Look, if somebody is like, you've said this thing and that seems kind of off, we can talk
about it.
And I will, I will talk about it with you.
Yes.
I mean, actually, yeah, yeah.
I mean, all of the scientific stuff that we do share, we will make sure we actually read
the article or the source material of some kind.
We also usually try to cite it if I'm, you know, doing a good job at putting up the show
notes.
But so, but those take effort and time that we don't always have.
And so, you know, there's a lot more emphasis on a part of a side, Naito, but hey, you know.
Hey.
We still have, between the two of us, there are two PhDs.
So that makes it Psy.
Well, that's certainly a form of reasoning that definitely is trying to make a point.
Our existence is Psy.
Our existence is Psy.
Can that be the hashtag now?
A Psy Naito.
Hashtag our existence is Psy.
And then it's some sort of like wavy googly eyes or something at the end.
Oh my gosh.
All right.
Well, anyway.
So you are entitled to share comments.
Yes.
Criticisms, topics you want us to discuss, you know, or just say nice things to us.
Hopefully not, not nice things.
And.
No, no, no.
Come at me.
Okay.
You can come at Len.
Yeah.
I mean, I will.
I will then read your stuff out loud and shame you into oblivion.
I've been taught very well by this.
If you are planning to share non-nice things, be prepared for our roast.
Yep.
Anyway.
And then we will also kindly ask you at the end of this whole thing.
Can we share your comments?
Because, you know, you might only want to share that to us.
Of course.
And if you say no, we will just delete the negative comment.
If it's like really aggressive.
We will just pretend that it didn't exist.
So if you just need to vent for a little bit, fine.
Right.
And then just the very last thing, I just want to make sure that, you know,
if we are referring to you in our shows, I just want to know how to refer to you.
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He, she, them, they, whatever.
Or any other ways you want us to refer you to.
So, and so, so, so those are just the four things that we ask you to do.
And you can decide to share as many or as little as you want.
So, yeah.
Send us a note.
We'll be happy to read it.
We actually have a few already lined up.
Thanks to those who shared and took time to write to us.
Yeah.
So for the next episode, we will start with the first one.
Adam Sartin's question.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It sounds like we're going to roll right from your hashtag drop.
And we're going to, we're going to go and talk about,
well, what, what you actually call that.
Yeah.
Or is it?
Or is it?
All right.
Look forward to it.
That's it for the show today.
Thanks for listening and find us on X at Eigo de Science.
That is E-I-G-O-D-E-S-C-I-E-N-C-E.
See you next time.
