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It's a lazy Saturday for me this morning. I woke up at like 9.30. It's like 9 hours sleep.
That's really unusual for you, no? Yeah, very unusual.
Waking up at 9.30, that's not like… For me, yeah. I usually stick to my 7-hour
sleep schedule, but I don't know, maybe I needed some sleep. But yeah, the good thing
is myお肌スーパーツルツル right now. Because of long sleep?
I think so, I think so. Because, yeah, I don't know.
Anyway, did you know, Masako, that it has been one year since we published our first
episode? What? I can't believe. I thought it was just
a half a year or something. I mean, granted, we took some break during
the summer, right? Like when I was defending my thesis and like when we were traveling
for a conference and stuff, we took like a couple months off, I think, during the summer.
But having said that, you know, one year. I'm not sure if I'd be happy or kind of
complicated feeling about that one year. You feel like you haven't…
It was too fast. One year had passed too fast, yeah, too quickly.
You always feel like, oh, in a year, I would have done this and this and that, and like
only a couple of things out of those are achieved. But, I mean, I think it's a celebration
moment to like, first of all, not drop this project for a year, given how busy we both
were. And I don't know, like, I actually like having this time of recording semi-regularly
to catch up with you. I mean, we talk so much off the record.
Sometimes we talk too long, but it's been fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, I think it's a good sort of excuse at least for me to catch up with you and make
some content. But, yeah, so I think we've kind of gotten in the rhythm of doing this,
you know, 10 to 20 minute episode twice a week. And once a month, we do the カーゲーポッドキャストの企画, right?
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We try to, at least. And then, yeah, it feels like pretty good because I have some guests
like my other friends in between as well. When this episode airs, there would have been
another collaboration episode with this time with a fellow podcaster. So that would be
interesting, hopefully. But I was thinking about putting out some sort of お便りフォーム, Google
form, as I don't know if I want to keep it there as a permanent thing or if I want to just open it
for like a couple of weeks and see what I get. Because I think it's a good time to sort of
get some feedback from the listeners. I do get occasional DMs and responses about particular
episodes, which is always fun to listen to and fun to read. It's crazy because it doesn't really feel
like anyone's listening. When we're talking, it doesn't really feel like anyone's listening.
But when you look at the numbers, there are people who are actually listening to it every time we
release an episode, which is crazy to think. Yeah, thank you. Thank you for everyone who's
listening to our chat. Yeah, thank you. Thank you everyone for listening and tuning in and coming
back for more episodes. I've never done proper analysis, but I think it's safe to say that
we have a solid maybe couple of hundred active listeners who are engaging fairly regularly.
Really? This is a big, big estimate, right? I don't know, but I'm just guessing based on the
response rate. It's not just 10, 20s. Right, which is kind of the crazy part. I thought...
It was 10 in the world. Yeah, I thought it was maybe like less than 100, I think I was thinking.
Because, I mean, if you think about it, right?
Right?
That like limits the audience further down, you know?
I think that the sort of initial intention still hasn't changed. Like, I want to provide free
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English listening content for like intermediate and above English level people who are like
unsatisfied with super beginner English material, which are all over the internet.
Or people who are mainly researchers, right? Like who need English, but don't necessarily
have dedicated time to study English. And podcast is just like you can play it in a background and,
you know. And I do feel like that kind of like regular exposure does help train your ears.
So yeah, I wonder if it has helped anybody at any rate. Maybe one year is too short of a period,
but yeah, I wonder. But I just want to make it less of a special thing, you know, to study
English. I want it to be very easily accessible. And I think I do believe that podcast is still a
good medium for that. Right, so I think it's a great idea that, you know, you said you wanted
to have a sort of otayori form to get some feedbacks, right? Yeah, okay, so maybe let's
set it up. Yeah, yeah, I think that's a great idea. So we welcome all friendly comments.
Keyword, keyword is friendly. Yeah, so especially like we'll be interested in how
our podcast has helped your, I don't know, the listeners life at all. And then we can expand
on that, you know, comment and we can think about other topics. Yeah, we could talk about
depending on the content of the comments. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's true. I do
I do feel like we will mostly get friendly comments. But yeah, I think
I'm happy to get some constructive criticisms, but hopefully no haters. And I mean, I don't
think we're big enough to have haters, honestly. So like, I'm not worried about that. And
um, yeah, I, I want to like, when I think about sort of like the topics to talk about, like it's,
I think, I promised at the beginning of the year that I'll talk more about hozonkawaku,
right, like my, my field, and I, because it's still relatively new field for me, I want to
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catch up on the literature. And I want to share the sort of literatures that I found interesting,
that might be of interest to the listeners, because I think I think conservation science
is more accessible and more fun to share than like molecular dynamics. So, so I, I'm excited. I have
a lot of paper that I've read that I kind of, I do think is interesting to share.
And I want to do this, maybe with you as well, eventually, but the first couple of episodes,
maybe I'll just release sort of the solo recording episode and see how how the responses are. So I
think that's one thing I want to do going forward. I want to make it a regular thing to share the
science part of the a-side part. But I also want to do some stupid episodes. I want to do
silly ones. Okay. I think, I think, I think we, we, we tend to gravitate towards pretty
philosophical, majime debate on a lot of topics, which I love. Yeah. But I think we need a break
sometimes. Yeah. So you look like you need a break.
Too many denies. Yeah, so we can catch up on, you know, making friends,
which hasn't been successful yet.
You know that the making friend episode, though, has been like a consistent
listenership. I can see on Spotify, at least, which episodes are being listened to on a day
to day basis. And even though we published those like friendship episode, multiple times, and
the same topic all over and over again. And our conclusion is no progress at all.
It's okay. That's how science works, you know, like iteration of, you know, different solutions,
accumulation of evidence. Exactly, exactly. We're just being experimental here. Right. So, but yeah,
like people listen to it. Once in a while, like still in recent days, they will be, you know,
popping up few listens, like even though it's a very old episode. So yeah,
nice. I think that's something that we can sort of keep listeners up to date about.
Yeah, I don't know. It's just like, I need to. I just I feel like my level of stupid
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just swings big time. You know, sometimes I find myself googling about like
I was trying to find scientific evidence for that. Because I was having my hadare moment.
That's what I do when I have this. I'm like, because... Do you know why? What caused hadare?
Well, I don't know. I think today I just found out with the nine hour sleep experiment that sleep
is the best cure. Yeah. So I don't know. I don't know if anyone's really interested in, you know,
my like googling rabbit hole episodes. But I need to. Yeah. But I also don't want it to be like
super thought out kikaku type episodes, because I think that takes effort.
And if it's too much effort, we will stop doing this podcast.
Yeah, we need to keep it low profile, low production quality so that we can continue
doing this. Because I think the point of language acquisition is more about the quantity than
quality. Okay. I justify our low production quality with that. But yeah, yeah. So I guess,
yeah, let's keep up with this, you know, yurutto tsuzukirareru you ni. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the
next, I don't know, our intermediate goal would be like two years. The second. I guess so. Yeah,
next year. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And see, see where we are. And maybe we'll make it an annual thing
to open up the otayuri forum. And, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, just kikan genten.
It's like every anniversary, we'll open it up for a couple of weeks. Yeah. Yeah. Okay,
well, let me think about what sort of questions I want to ask. And you know, whatnot. Yeah. All
right. That's it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. Bye. 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. See you
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next time.
