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  • All right, Dad.

  • So the other day, me and Yoko, we were talking about names for the baby's coming up, and Yoko wants to name her little girl that has a Japanese name, but a Japanese name that American people can also pronounce.

  • So I thought the best person to ask whether American people could pronounce it or not was you.

  • Oh jeez.

  • All right, so I got a couple here from Yoko that she's thinking about.

  • I'm going to give you the card, I want you to read off the name the way would you read it.

  • Okay.

  • So here is the first one.

  • Hikari.

  • Hikari.

  • Hi Curry.

  • So I got to let Yoko know, okay, so if you were to go with that one, first of all, everybody would just call her Carrie.

  • Carrie, okay, so Carrie might be the name.

  • Can you say Hikari?

  • I can't.

  • So what I know is if soon because she lives in America, everybody's just going to get rid of that HI, and it'll just be Carrie, because Carrie is a very popular name in America.

  • That's true.

  • Okay, so Carrie.

  • Okay, so.

  • Or karaoke.

  • All right, how about how about this one right here?

  • How would you read that?

  • Kanon.

  • You want to say that again?

  • Kana.

  • Oh, man, I thought you might say like Cannon or something like that, but uh, you're actually pretty close.

  • Kanon.

  • Kanon.

  • Is that tough for American people?

  • Forget it.

  • Forget.

  • Okay, that's not going to work.

  • All right, scratch that, that ain't going to work.

  • Um, how about this one last one?

  • Mary.

  • Oh, Mary.

  • You are you're not even reading the word, you're skipping the first two words here.

  • Hey, Mary.

  • Hey.

  • So I I don't think this is going to work either.

  • So it's Himari.

  • Can you.

  • Himari.

  • Oh, there you go.

  • See you can do it if you tried, but nobody else would do it.

  • Yeah, no, so this one would be like the other one, like Hikari, this one would be like, Mary.

  • Nobody's going to do it.

  • Nobody's going to do it.

  • Um, so of the three, if you had to pick, Kanon, Hikari and Himari, which one would you go with?

  • Ozzy Osborne.

  • Well, there you go, Yoko.

  • We'll call her Ozzy.

  • That's going to be the name of your kid.

All right, Dad.

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