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Because we’re trying to keep away from people, host Koji Steven Sakai decided to interview his second-grade son and asked him his best or worst moments of the Coronavirus apocalypse.
Koji’s son did not always cooperate… he mostly just wanted to talk to me about Pearl Harbor.
Transcript
Voice Over Host 0:02
This is the best or worst podcast. And now here are your hosts Koji, Steven Sakai and M Martin Mapoma.
Koji Steven Sakai 0:13
Welcome to best or worst podcasts. This is Koji. And this is my son, he, Martin, my usual host is unable to get to the studio because of the quarantine and the self distancing. And also, hopefully Martin doesn’t listen to us, but he’s old. And he is in the range of things, people who are in danger, so we don’t want him to come here and we don’t want to get him infected. So right now, this podcast will be me and my son and what we’ll be talking about the best or the worst, that guy heavy breathing is my son say, Hello.
Koji’s Son 0:51
Hello. Restart Restart
Koji Steven Sakai 0:57
No, we’re not restarting. We’re fine. We’re fine.
Koji’s Son 0:59
This is actually kind of weird. Ready? Go!
Koji Steven Sakai 1:01
Okay, ready? So I’m going to ask you, your best and worst moments, you’re in second grade or you were in second grade. Yeah.
Koji’s Son 1:12
You’re still in second grade.
Koji Steven Sakai 1:15
And so we’re going to, I’m going to ask you about your best and worst moments in the self distancing, being away from school. Alright, so what’s your best moment?
Koji’s Son 1:24
getting free computer time?
Koji Steven Sakai 1:28
What do you do on the computer?
Koji’s Son 1:30
Watch YouTube?
Koji Steven Sakai 1:31
What do you watch on YouTube?
Koji’s Son 1:33
Mincraft
Koji Steven Sakai 1:33
Do they let you watch Minecraft at school?
Koji’s Son 1:36
No,
Koji Steven Sakai 1:36
no. Do they let you go on YouTube at school? No, definitely not. So this is way better. Why are you talking funny?
Koji’s Son 1:41
I don’t know
Koji Steven Sakai 1:44
And you could get further away from the mic. You’re not to be that far either. Yeah, perfect.
Koji’s Son 1:49
Okay.
Koji Steven Sakai 1:49
Okay. And what is your favorite thing to do so far in the in the self distancing, social distancing, self quarantining thing,
Koji’s Son 1:59
Typing.
Koji Steven Sakai 2:00
That’s your least favorite.
Koji’s Son 2:01
No, no my least favorite is lets see states.
Koji Steven Sakai 2:08
What do you have to do with states?
Koji’s Son 2:09
A look up and do a test?
Koji Steven Sakai 2:12
What kind of test are you doing? Is your daddy making you doing?
Koji’s Son 2:15
Yeah.
Koji Steven Sakai 2:17
What kind of test?
Koji’s Son 2:19
The test? Ah, is let’s see.. Well, you got to name the states that you know already and the new state five new states.
Koji Steven Sakai 2:28
Yeah, we’re memorizing all the states and we’re where they are in the United States, right?
Koji’s Son 2:32
Yeah.
Koji Steven Sakai 2:33
Why don’t you like that? You’re gonna you’re gonna know all the states.
Koji’s Son 2:37
it’s boring. Plus I know, more than most people people about the bombing of Pearl Habor.
Koji Steven Sakai 2:42
You really want to talk about Pearl Harbor.
Koji’s Son 2:43
Yeah.
Koji Steven Sakai 2:44
Okay. Let’s talk about Pearl Harbor. Tell me everything you know about Pearl Harbor.
Koji’s Son 2:48
Did you know that Pearl Harbor began in that 8:01.
Koji Steven Sakai 2:52
What was the date? What was the date?
Koji’s Son 2:54
December 7 1941.
Koji Steven Sakai 2:56
That’s great.
Koji’s Son 2:57
And there were four waves But they’ll supposedly to be the know though those three waves and those supposedd to be four waves but the admiral called off if it’s the fourth waves happened the pacific fleet will be more decimated
Koji Steven Sakai 3:14
so he’s talking about there was a there are different waves that the Japanese Imperial Japanese Army did the first one was the first bombing then there’s a second and third one and then there was originally going to Admiral Yamamoto wanted a fourth bombing. But he but the person the Japanese commander called it off because they were by the fourth by the third one they’re really experiencing a lot of loss of life and loss of planes and stuff. But that not doing a fourth one was a big mistake because they could have wiped out not wiped out but they could have really hurt the American naval forces. They already did hurt him but they could hurt him even more. So yeah, you’re right. What else do you know, you know, do we visit Pearl harbor?
Koji’s Son 3:55
Yes, we did.
Koji Steven Sakai 3:56
Did you have fun there?
Koji’s Son 3:57
Yes.
Koji Steven Sakai 3:58
We spent a lot of time there. If you’ve been there recently the people listening but it’s totally changed when I was a kid, it was just like this one little floating thing and you went there and you came back. And that’s it. But now there’s like, four museums.
Koji’s Son 4:10
Oh, you can go on the battle that the Japanese surrendered to the US.
Koji Steven Sakai 4:16
Yeah, he got that you could go on the submarine. And there’s a bunch of others a bunch of museum
Koji’s Son 4:21
You can go tot he memorial.
Koji Steven Sakai 4:23
You can go to the memorial. We couldn’t go to the memorial because I think it was under construction.
Koji’s Son 4:27
Or closed
Koji Steven Sakai 4:27
It was closed. Yeah. But well, do you like getting back to kind of the best or worse do you think? Do at school you have recess and your friends? Do you miss your friends in recess?
Koji’s Son 4:39
No, not really.
Koji Steven Sakai 4:40
Why not?
Koji’s Son 4:41
I can take a break whenever I want.
Koji Steven Sakai 4:44
Yeah. And what else?
Koji’s Son 4:46
Oh, yeah, I know. I can watch YouTube. They don’t let us watch YouTube.
Why are we coming back to YouTube with everything’s YouTube? Why are you whispering in my ear?
I don’t know. Can we restart?
Koji Steven Sakai 5:04
We’re not restarting. This is it? This is what we’re doing.
Koji’s Son 5:07
For real?
Koji Steven Sakai 5:07
Yes. This is how we’re doing. Okay. Is there anything else you want to say?
Koji’s Son 5:10
Just
Koji Steven Sakai 5:10
what?
Koji’s Son 5:11
That… I like [in adubile]
Koji Steven Sakai 5:20
Do you like school?
Koji’s Son 5:21
No.
Koji Steven Sakai 5:22
Why don’t you like school?
Koji’s Son 5:23
It’s too boring
Koji Steven Sakai 5:24
Is it because it’s too easy?
Koji’s Son 5:25
Yeah.
Koji Steven Sakai 5:26
Should be harder.
Koji’s Son 5:27
No. Regular school.
Koji Steven Sakai 5:29
Regular school is too hard.
Koji’s Son 5:31
Easy
Koji Steven Sakai 5:31
too easy. So maybe we should move you to a harder grade.
Koji’s Son 5:35
No, I still gotta be in second grade. I’ll be too little to move on to third, fourth grade. I don’t know.
Koji Steven Sakai 5:42
What if we put you in 10th grade.
Koji’s Son 5:46
I’ll be dead
Koji Steven Sakai 5:49
Then you have to like girls. Do you like girls? No, he’s shaking his head. All right. Well, you want to ask me how about you ask me my best and worst things about the The Corona apocalypse as I’ve been calling it, you want to ask me
Koji’s Son 6:04
Yeah,
Koji Steven Sakai 6:05
okay ask me.
Koji’s Son 6:06
What’s your best at top of the Corona apocalypse?
Koji Steven Sakai 6:11
Corona apocalypse okay. To me the best thing about it is I get to spend a lot of time with you I think I’ve spent way more well that’s that’s probably best and worse spending so much time with you. Because we spent a lot of time which is fun because we get to I get to go running and we bike and scooter and we play sports. But negatively on that is that we spend so much how we end up fighting. You have meltdowns, but I do like spending time with you. It’s nice. Okay. You want to ask me what the worst
Koji’s Son 6:42
no but you said the worst aklready
Koji Steven Sakai 6:43
No, no. What another worst one. Let’s do another.
Koji’s Son 6:46
What’s your worst? Another worst?
Koji Steven Sakai 6:48
Another worst one? Okay. Wow, that was a trick question I didn’t know was coming to me.
Koji’s Son 6:55
I think you did.
Koji Steven Sakai 6:57
The worst is that I feel trapped at the House. Like I love leaving. I love going places and doing things. What? Why are you what are you whispering to me? I can’t hear you
Koji’s Son 7:09
Just do it.
Koji Steven Sakai 7:10
You should say if you’re gonna say. Well, so I hate being just kind of sitting around and doing nothing. I love being busy. And I love like, like, we spend so much time in the office now, in our studio, that this is like my new home in this place. I we’re here for like eight hours a day, and I’ve never used to spend this much time in the studio. And that’s what we do. So is there anything you want to say to our audience? No, you can’t. Nobody could see you. Why don’t you say something?
Koji’s Son 7:46
No.
Koji Steven Sakai 7:46
Okay,
Koji’s Son 7:47
How about you?
Koji Steven Sakai 7:48
and Well, one thing I want to ask you most important question. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Koji’s Son 7:55
I don’t know.
Koji Steven Sakai 7:56
How about a How about I pig farmer
Koji’s Son 8:01
No
Koji Steven Sakai 8:02
How about a monkey pooper picker uper
Koji’s Son 8:07
No I want to be an actor becvause I like Star War and so I can be in Star Wars
Koji Steven Sakai 8:13
you want to be in Star Wars? Oh man Don’t be an actor.
Koji’s Son 8:16
Why?
Koji Steven Sakai 8:17
No. actors are a lot of work. You’re gonna be a lot of work. You’re gonna live in my house for a while. You’re gonna pay rent rents not free here when you actually turn 18 you know that right?
Koji’s Son 8:31
Why?
Koji Steven Sakai 8:31
Nothing’s free in this world.
Koji’s Son 8:33
I’m living free now
Koji Steven Sakai 8:34
no, you pay me. All right.
Koji’s Son 8:37
When do I pay you?
Koji Steven Sakai 8:39
You pay me all the time. All right. Is there anything last thing you want to say?
Koji’s Son 8:42
No. How about you?
Koji Steven Sakai 8:45
Well, I hope everyone is doing well out there in this world. It’s crazy. I do believe there is something I wanted to talk to you about.
Koji’s Son 8:52
What is it?
Koji Steven Sakai 8:54
One is what do you think the or let me rephrase is how is The world gonna be different when you go back to school after all this for you.
Koji’s Son 9:04
For some people, they got a move because some, you know, some people be some of the people with a friend lives with his mom and his mom dies she, he got he got to go to Oklahoma to like to live with his dad and his parents and his grandparents.
Koji Steven Sakai 9:26
So you’re saying that some people are talking about you for you personally? How is the life? Is life gonna change after all this?
Koji’s Son 9:33
Yes. Because my teacher get infected.
Koji Steven Sakai 9:38
Outside of infections say pretend nobody gets affected. How is it gonna change anything? Is it gonna change the way you look at things? I mean, we’re not going to go to school for at least another month or two.
Koji’s Son 9:48
No,
Koji Steven Sakai 9:49
no. Okay. I remember when I was a kid, all not really a kid but in 2001
Koji’s Son 9:56
Yeah,
Koji Steven Sakai 9:56
there was a thing called 9/11.
Koji’s Son 9:58
I know
Koji Steven Sakai 9:59
you know about 9/11.
Koji’s Son 10:00
Yeah, and those four and 1 plane clashed becasue the occupants made it crashed. And one question to the one, one Twin Tower the building then did one crashed into the next other one rather than a third plane crashed into the Pentagon.
Koji Steven Sakai 10:22
Yeah. Okay, so I think there was a time for before like before 9/11 the world was a totally different place. Why? So Okay, so first of all, you know how like, when you get on planes, I had to take off my belt and my shoes, and they look through everything. And they make to make us get naked.
Koji’s Son 10:41
Not naked naked
Koji Steven Sakai 10:44
Not naked naked. But so before before 9/11. It wasn’t like that. Before 9/11. If you were going to go on a plane, I could walk you all the way to the gate and say goodbye to you. Now I can’t even walk past security if I want to have a ticket. So that’s one of the big changes So I think everything changed. The other thing that changed was before 9/11 or a bunch of things changed. Another thing that changed before 9/11 was if if there was going to be a hijacking of a plane, stop hitting the microphone. If there was a hijacking of a plane, they, before they told you to not do anything, because usually it would be okay. Nothing What happen to you? You’d be released.
Koji’s Son 11:24
Why?
Koji Steven Sakai 11:25
Why? Because that’s what happened before you would they would hijack a plane, he would hijack a plane, they would land somewhere, and then they’ll get money, and then they’ll release everybody. Or they get something and they release everybody. But now. Now they know that people know if there’s a hijacking, they’re going to try to bring the plane down because they don’t want it to crash into like a World Trade Center or the Pentagon or the White House or something. And then theother tip,
Koji’s Son 11:48
or the Statue of Liberty,
Koji Steven Sakai 11:49
or the Statue of Liberty, yeah. And then the third one and another big thing is that before world war before before, I keep saying world war two and pearl harbor before 9/11 we were There was like never and I like America wasn’t in war. But every year since 9/11, we’ve been in war, a war or two, you know. And so I think it’s been interesting that our entire country changed now we’re constantly at war and we’re constantly fighting people.
Koji’s Son 12:13
Why?
Koji Steven Sakai 12:13
I just…. something changed in
Koji’s Son 12:18
Since 1945.
Koji Steven Sakai 12:19
No since 9/11, we’re talking about 9/11 remember.
Koji’s Son 12:22
Oh. no, no, I’m saying the first time we had peace before 9/11
Koji Steven Sakai 12:30
No, no, they’re so they’re really mostly had peace, you know, like so there’s the Vietnam War or Korea, right.
Koji’s Son 12:36
Korean war. Vietnam. The Cold War?
Koji Steven Sakai 12:39
Well, Cold War was during before Korea. It was a cold war, but there wasn’t really a war, right.
Koji’s Son 12:45
We was still competing.
Koji Steven Sakai 12:46
We really didn’t have a war since the Vietnam War. I mean, there were small skirmishes
Koji’s Son 12:50
like what
Koji Steven Sakai 12:51
there was like the Persian Gulf first Persian Gulf.
Koji’s Son 12:53
What is that?
Koji Steven Sakai 12:54
That’s when iraq invaded Kuwait and then
Koji’s Son 12:58
What is that?
Koji Steven Sakai 12:59
Kuwait is a country in Iraq as a country in the Middle East. And then what happened was we we fought we kicked the Iranians out, stop hitting the microphone. What are you doing? We hit, we kicked them out. And then once we kick them out, we stopped. So that he’s demonstrating what kicking out means. Okay. Anyway, so the whole point, I want to think that next time we talk, I want you to think about some how some way your life has changed since this Corona apocalypse. Okay.
Koji’s Son 13:32
Okay.
Koji Steven Sakai 13:33
It was really great talking to you.
Koji’s Son 13:35
By
Koji Steven Sakai 13:37
you should at that point, you’re supposed to say it was really great talking to you to Daddy.
Koji’s Son 13:43
It was really great talking to you Daddy,
Koji Steven Sakai 13:44
all right. Thank you.
Koji’s Son 13:45
Bye.
Koji Steven Sakai 13:45
Have a great day. Please rate review subscribe to our podcast. Why are you still breathing really loud? You’re aloud breather dude. Okay, please rate review, subscribe to this podcast. It’s a labor of love and we Send Martin your wishes he’s fine, but you know we’re wrapping him saran wrap so he doesn’t get sick. All right, thank you.
Koji’s Son 14:07
Bye.
Koji Steven Sakai 14:07
Have a good day night. Whatever. Bye
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