ポッドキャスト再始動と新体制のアナウンス
Hello Asami!
I'm back!
You're back!
I'm back!
Yeah, I mean, you know...
You just...
I guess it's a...
You know, we'll see, we'll see.
I mean, this episode is...
You know, we're gonna try and...
Have a little bit of explainer on how such...
Yeah, you know what we're gonna do about it.
Welcome back, Glenn!
That felt a little hesitant on the way in.
I think I might be fired tomorrow, folks.
This is the end.
I've been...
I've been...
I just don't know...
I just don't know...
The temperature, you know?
I don't know what is the correct enthusiasm levelto get in with.
But no, no, we're generally excited.
I'm coming in with as much heat as I possibly can.
Why not?
I think that's the appropriate...
Yeah.
But yeah, so I'm back.
Well, let's see.
Plans don't work out sometimes.
We've got new plans.
We've got new things, new ideas.
Yeah, or you just missed talking to me,
Blabbering about, you know, random things.
And putting into the ether.
I did.
I did in fact miss this.
You weren't the only one blabbering into theether.
I mean, we made friends with the void along theway.
The void is the friends we made along the way.
That's true, that's true, yeah.
I think I've butchered my attempts to use thequote,
You know, it's the friends we made along the way,so...
But yeah, yeah, it's been good.
So...
Oh, I thought you were trying, like, your hand athaiku or something.
And I'm like, that's not the right syllable.
No, I think that's too many, right?
It's supposed to be like 5, 7, 5.
So...
Yeah.
We'll do haikus later.
So that's why I was like, wait, that's how manysyllables?
I'll do my own haiku.
20, 37, 20.
So...
Oh, God.
So, yeah, what should we call this?
Season 3 of Eigo de Eishanito?
Yeah, I think you were...
I don't know.
We haven't really kept with, like, the seasonnumbers.
We weren't seasonal, I guess.
Yeah, I mean, I heard you describing it at first
when, you know, I sort of came back around
and season 3 was, I think, the term
you were using to frame your ideas.
And I guess I'd never thought about it as seasons,
but I guess it's sort of like season 3?
Whatever you would like to call,
because, you know, I was also taking a sweetlittle
hiatus of some sort
with irregular things.
Regular publishing,
because, you know, I moved to a new country.
Yet again.
Yes, an expert at transitioning between countries.
Yeah.
It just doesn't seem to stop.
I'm a nomad.
And, you know,
but this time, I, like,
this is...
I don't know how to say
if this is going to be permanent,
but, like, if more than a year
counts as semi-permanent,
then it's a semi-permanent move, so...
I...
Yeah, I was just, like,
taking my time,
getting apartments instead of, like,
you know, Airbnb for a few months
and things like that, so...
But, yeah.
I am happily
moved in Hong Kong
and started my new job.
It's been a wild
ride so far,
but we can talk more about that later.
Sure. I mean, or we can do it now.
It's not...
We did come into this thinking
maybe this time we'll make sure
not to derail ourselves from the plan
so that we can keep the timing
under 20.
Well, let's get some housekeeping
out of the way, though.
So for season 3,
we are thinking
doing things slightly
differently to accommodate
both of our new
lifestyle and
the newly formed one-hour
timeline between the two of us.
Which is not nearly as bad as it's been.
And the fact that I have a job.
You do have a job, yeah, which is an excitingpart.
Yeah, you know,
I have a full-time
occupation unlike last year,
so it does come
with sacrifices
on, you know, other end
of my life.Sometimes there just isn't enough time
for everything, so...
Yeah, yeah.
So we're gonna try a few things.
And mind you, everyone,
this might be a very
temporary arrangement and just like
we might switch back to the old ways.
But for now, let's try.
I'm an experimentalist.
Len is a theorist.
I'm chaos incarnate.
I think we've covered that.
Yeah, yeah.
But I want data.
I want real, you know,
evidence of trying
and attempts.I would say I'm offended
because that implication means that
I don't want data.I like data.
You like data, but you like the...
Well, at least in your
grad school days, your
quote-unquote data was like
in
a simulated, perfectly controlled world
of like, you know,
most of...
largely, maybe
diatomic molecules.
I will not derail us any further.
I agree that that was the case.
I definitely still wish that I had had
some sort of experimental track
that I took instead, but here we are.
I have that tech.I have that knowledge.
Anyhow.
That's knowledge.
Yeah, and that's not a bad thing to have.
But yeah.
Our plan.
新しい生活と仕事への適応
So here's what we're gonna do.
Our plan.
So we're gonna try
doing more solo episodes
just so that, you know,
we don't have to arrange
and set aside a time where both of us
are available to do this.
Although we will
reconvene time to time
for like our monthly
カークテープおとぎあそ
or any other thing
that we fancy talking about
together
and do sort of sanity check,
debate,
you know, bouncing off ideas
that we typically do.
So,
yeah.
I mean, it's not like we stopped doing that,
I guess, because, you know,
like my, you know,
our Instagram and WhatsApp,
like Reels
and links exchanges never quite stopped.
But
so we have plenty of things we would like
to talk about.
It's just more about
negotiating time with, you know,
our professional duties.
Yeah, those darn professional duties.
Sorry, please continue.
Yeah, and
I don't know about you, Len, but
I certainly, personally
am trying to talk more
about science in
A.S.I.N.E.I.T.A.L.
Because, you know, that's half of the show,
which I feel
has experienced a little bit of neglect.
No one has complained, honestly.
No one has complained.
However, I feel like
I want to talk more about science.
I also want to get used to
talking more about science
to
not always scientific audience.
Because that has now become part of my job.
I am explaining.
I'm actually,
every day, trying to make science
cool to people who have stopped
taking science after high school.
They happen to be
donors and
important people who give me money.
So I kind of
need to do that.
Exactly.
That's a new challenge
that I haven't had to do for the past
five, ten years.
Because I was
in an environment where
everybody, by default, found science
cool and exciting.
Here in a museum,
I'm like
a minority.
People are like,
don't talk to...
If I mention so much
as optics,
people will be like,
that's out of my comfort zone.
What did you call me?
Sorry, continue, please.
No, I didn't call you anything.
No, no, no.
It's a bad joke
in terms of not knowing the word.
You say the word
and people are like,
what do you mean?
That sort of...
There isn't any connection
with the words you're using,
but maybe they would be interested
if, and this is getting to your
want to talk more about
science, I think,
how can I
talk to them
instead of...
I understand.
Also,
now that I'm in
more or less solo
operation science lab
within the museum,
I
want to
keep it into a habit
of discussing
science or
digesting scientific information
whether it's the new papers
that I read, which was a natural
part of my daily life before
starting the job at the museum.
But now I have to
consciously do this
and
make time
for science and research
because otherwise,
I'm kind of...
I can
be ending up
doing a lot of sort of
I don't want to call it a busy job
because it's not,
but a lot of sort of
on-demand analysis job
where people would ask me
Hey, can you check this for me?
Hey, can you just run this
scan for me and I'll do it
and tell them what I think?
And that's fine, that's
definitely part of what I'm getting paid,
but I don't want that to be 100% of my job.
I still want to do new research
and exciting things
and in order to do that,
my brain needs to be in the right space.
So I want to do more of that.
And I'm just going to use my personal podcast
as one of the ways to do it.
It's a grand way
to go about doing it, right?
今後の番組フォーマットとリスナーへの期待
This is something I think...
Well,
I guess, you know,
during quote-unquote season 2,
I found it
useful for
developing
and exploring
the ways around
obviously many, many different topics,
not specifically science,
hard science all the time,
but it was a good place
to have some of that
more nuanced thinking and conversation
and that was very
helpful in the sense of
opening
the thought processes,
the way of thinking
to new ideas,
to be more flexible.
So yeah, this is a great space
I think to do that.
And so
I hope
that that works for you, right?
To sort of give you a space
which brings you back
into thinking about...
Also a little bit of accountability.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think that it can be that.
I think that it can be a place
for both of us to do that.
I think that there are things I'd like to
maybe even communicate on more,
both within
maybe that sort of mixed
like hard science and
humanities lens that I come to
things with a lot now,
especially when it comes to like AI,
AI in education, right?
The sort of impacts.
Yeah, with your sort of new field
that you're exploring more of.
I'm sure you have a lot
to sort of catch up on
as you embark on more
sort of structured research.
Right, exactly.
So I think that'll be
a grand step for both of us
to use this space as an interesting place
to explore these and also
to continue that structure.
These would be some of these
solo type ones
in part, right?
And we might do anything we're learning,
exploring, thinking about.
I might go off the rails
into something if it pops up
in my awareness
at the time.
We might sort of speak
what they say asynchronously
sort of to each other's solo releases.
So we might respond to each other.
We may not. It might depend
on what we're talking about.
And then...
Yeah, like a pen pal
style could be done.
We can try. We'll see how that goes.
Yeah, a pen pal style thing,
which for anybody that doesn't know the term,
pen pal being literally writing letters
to each other originally
and sort of sending them out
or leaving them behind.
My God. Are we at the stage
of digitization of the world
where we need to explain the word pen pal
to people?
I did make a note of that, I think,
in the notes that I sent you
because I was concerned that that's not...
The term pen pal doesn't necessarily mean
literal pen to paper
and then like unknown person
from another place that you're swapping with.
It could have other meanings.
It could just be email-based.
I don't know, but it's not
the same anymore in
a variety of settings.
But pen pal is the analogy
I had for what we were doing,
except we know who each other is.
Sometimes pen pals are left kind of
semi-anonymous, like you haven't met
them or anything.
True, true.
But yeah, so that's the plan.
Basically, Kaguya K. Polite Castle
topic discussions,
a couple of them
with at least once
within that sort of month span,
we're thinking, where we get together
and talk about something
which we'll be doing after this episode.
Yeah, and whenever
the topic demands
both of us
or whenever we can make time
no promises about how frequent
that might be, but I do know
that many of the listeners
are here for sort of our banter
which reminds me
we both need to procure
sarcastic bells.
You're right. Season 3 should all be about thebells.
It should be about the bells.
It's gonna have to be
a bunch of bells
to really
ensure that the listeners
are on to the sarcasm
that we are talking about.
So yeah, gonna have to find
a bell somewhere.
Going on Etsy to look for tiny bells or something.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, wow. There's a lot of them.
Tiny bells.
So yeah, we will
This is not to say we will
never talk to each other in person
or in-screen.
No, in-screen is great.
Please coin that term.
Instead of online, it's in-screen
and in-person.
This is much better.
That's not sarcasm.
That doesn't need a bell.
That's a genuine compliment.
I want in-screen instead.
OK.
But yeah, that's the plan.
Something like that.
That's the plan.
Some flexibility, some solo episodes
when we're sort of going through things.
Keep ourselves active on different topics.
Maybe just keep ourselves active
practicing communicating
to others
about the ideas
we're sort of having.
A space to sort of share that bit of professional
and
the just banter-esque
kind of feeling
and the
yeah, a creative space
that has some of these features to it.
So season 3 looks like that
and it's full of sarcasm bells
once we get our hands on them.
So...
I guess that's what we're going to plan for.
So that's it.
I hope whoever
is listening to us from the past
who are still tuning in
to this episode
would continue.
I don't know, man.
Because I have been not the most active
participant of the
pushing our voices to the ether
type thing as of like 2026.
So, yeah.
I've been a little sporadic.
I'm not going to lie.
Slow start.
Don't forget the episodes you did do, though.
You had a chat with...
I did do.
I did chat with Glory.
Where you can hear
us extensively psychoanalyze
ourselves
and our ballet trauma
and how it helped us survive grad school.
and also
I started...
and this will go on
in the season 3 as well.
I started a new series
for my friend Michael
who will be
sort of like
in situ tracking
her progress on her journey
to do a study abroad
as a shakaijin
which is a huge
ballsy risk and move
that she's doing.
It's a big step.
Big change.
It's a big step.
It's a big change.
And she's finally owning up
to her sort of English
inferiority complex
that she has harbored
for a long time.
We'll follow along
on that journey.
So, yeah.
Lots of different things
we're trying.
And I hope you also
enjoy tagging along with us
going forward.
Oh, they will. They'll enjoy it.
Hopefully, yeah.
More certainty.
More certainty, more heat.
Alright.
With that, I think we have a plan.
Take care, everyone.
We'll see you in the next one.
Alright.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
That's it for the show today.
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