[ENG TRANS] 2012.12.30 #RAIN & KCM's The Desire to Speed! Translation follows the audio edit by Ratoka: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SbH_5nOcps

Credit/Source: RAIN & KCM Friends FM 96.7
English Trans: 화니
Edit/Tweaking: CloudUnite

The Playlist for this program: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/ki1col


~7:30

[RAIN]&[KCM] : RAIN & KCM's "The Desire To Speed"!

[RAIN] : There are times when what you need is some comforting rather than admonition.

[KCM] : This show will be a great consolation to those who live a lonely life during the year-end holidays.

[RAIN] : Please don't touch the channel.

[RAIN] : There are only two days left in this year.

[KCM] : I think I've spent my days busy as a hen with one chicken over the past year. (laughs) My heart feels much lighter now.

[RAIN] : I'm still up against a wall.

[KCM] : But, you look so relaxed. (laughs)

[RAIN] : You are simply under an illusion. (laughs) Seoul's Bosingak holds a bell-tolling ceremony every year. When I was a trainee before my debut as a singer, I participated in the ceremony from 1999 to 2001 to make a wish. I wished JYP would allow me to release my album during the ceremony. The years spent as a trainee was much worse than I had expected.

[KCM] : It’s understandable.
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[RAIN] : You can send your stories and song request to us through SMS #0967 or its Twitter (https://mobile.twitter.com/speeding967) or its message board
(http://www.dema.mil.kr/web/home/speeding?skin_type=S&menu_seq=2086&mod_id=board_2093&pseq=0 ) or (http://www.dema.mil.kr/web/home/speeding?skin_type=S&menu_seq=2141&mod_id=board_2098&pseq=0)

[KCM] : Particularly, foreign fans can send their stories and song request to us by email : speedingradio@hanmail.net
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[RAIN] : Listener 'Moon Woo Young', "My son who attends a middle school is excessively concerned about his appearance. No matter how cold it is outside, he goes to school wearing only his school uniform without his padded coat."

He may not like the color or style of the clothes. You and your son need to speak about matters honestly, and you can buy him what he wants.
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7:54~18:51

- The Song I'd Like To Share -

[RAIN] : Good music makes a deep impression on you as you are impressed after reading a good book.

[KCM] : 'The Song I'd Like To Share' segment is comprised of three parts. In the first part of the segment, Rain and KCM's songs will play, in the second part, the songs Rain and KCM would like to share will play, and in the third part, the songs listeners would like to share will play.
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*Part 1*

[KCM] : My 'I Am' is recommended. I wrote both the words and the music of this song.

[RAIN] : Really? (laughs) My 'Bad Guy' is recommended. This song is one of my favorite songs. By the way, I'd like to thank my Cloud fans once again for giving us many gifts and delicious food. I'll have a wonderful concert and show you my wonderful stage performances next year in return for your love.

('Bad Guy' and 'I Am' are played.)

[RAIN] : By the way, 'Bad Guy' was released on April 28, 2002.

[KCM] : I never get tired of listening to that song.

[RAIN] : Your song also pleases the ear. (laughs) KCM comes second to none when it comes to singing skills; however, there are always exceptions. (laughs) As a singer, Park Hyo Shin is without equal. (laughs) I don't mean what I say. (laughs)

[KCM] : I think you know my mother is listening to this show. (laughs)

[RAIN] : Whether she is listening to it or not, it's all the same to me. (laughs) She may like me better than you. (laughs)

[KCM] : Not really! (laughs)
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*Part 2*

[RAIN] : Female group S.E.S.'s 'I'm Your Girl' is recommended. When I attended Anyang High School of Arts, I majored in Drama and Cinema and minored in Pansori. (laughs)

(Pansori is a kind of Korean folk play) {Read more about this traditional music style: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansori }


Bada ('sea' in English) {Choi Sung-hee} who is senior to me by three years, a member of S.E.S., visited her alma mater Anyang High School of Arts when I was in the school in 1999. She gave us good advice and presented a Pansori. Bada was very nice and had a good manner and left a number for us where she could be contacted. Six years later, she participated in my album as a rapper.

{Song was 'Like You' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV-jmemiFSs }

[KCM] : Female group Fin.K.L's 'Blue Rain' is recommended. I just liked Fin.K.L at that time. (laughs)

(S.E.S.'s 'I'm Your Girl' & Fin.K.L's 'Blue Rain' are played.)
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[RAIN] : There is nothing to choose between the two.

[KCM] : The songs bring my old times to remembrance.
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*Part 3*

[RAIN] : Listener 'Yachin', "I request Shin Seung Hun's 'I Don't Believe in Love.' Whenever I listen to this song, the recollection comes across my mind."

[KCM] : Listener 'Pang Pang', "I request Lee So Ra's 'The Wind Blows'.
I love both the melodious music and the lyrics of the song."

(Shin Seung Hun's 'I Don't Believe in Love' {Fugitive/Plan B OST} and Lee So Ra's 'The Wind Blows' are played.)
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[RAIN] : The two singers' remarkable singing skills are truly an inspiration to me.

[KCM] : When I listened to 'The Wind Blows' with my eyes closed, I thought wind was actually blowing. (laughs)

[RAIN] : You need to think before you speak. (laughs)
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18:52~24:16

[RAIN] : Listener 'Hibuda Yuko', "The weather has been cold for several days, which roughens my skin. Do you know how to maintain healthy skin?"

KCM and I don't smoke. Smoking is hazardous to your health; it affects other people as well as the smoker; it is a waste of time, money and resources; and it speeds up the aging of the skin.

[KCM] : Recently my skin is sagging, despite being a nonsmoker. (laughs)
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[KCM] : Listener #1871, "I'm enjoying eating catfish soup cooked by my mother. It's good winter food, very satisfying on a cold nasty day. Have you had lunch?"

[RAIN] : After finishing it {the program}, we'll have lunch. This radio show runs during lunch time, so it is hard for us to eat meals on time. Thankfully, my fans often provide us delicious foods and snacks. Thank you so much for your support.
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[RAIN] : Listener 'I Cham', "I study Korean language watching Korea's historical dramas. How do you study foreign languages?"

Watching foreign dramas comes in useful to study English but repeated practice seems to be important in learning English. I'm thinking of acquiring English again by living in the USA for about six months after my discharge from the army.
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[KCM] : Listener #1805, "My 5-year-old niece has entered kindergarten. It is very hard for a kid to enter kindergarten recently."

[RAIN] : Recently, entering a prestigious university is hard, but entering a prestigious kindergarten is even harder. I think it is never easy bringing up a child.

It is said the cost of having a child is about 350 million KRW, which weighs heavily upon his parents' mind, and the expenses fall on them. {327,825.75 USD || 2,042,911.50 Chinese Yuan || 247,939.65 Euro, etc.}

We seem to live in a society in which more and more it really doesn't make economic sense to have children.

[KCM] : I was going to raise five children. (laughs)
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25:01~29:42

[KCM] : Listener 'Ahn Woon Hee', "When I got on a bus, I forgot where I put my bus card. When I was about to take coins out of my purse to pay the bus fare, I dropped those coins onto the floor and all eyes were centered on me.

The bus driver said I should pay more even while I was picking up the coins off the ground to pay the bus fare. It was a day when I used coins for the first time in many days."
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[RAIN] : Listener #3969, "I've been learning how to cook. I want to impress my future wife with my newly acquired cooking skills."

You can add oyster sauce or seasonings to make it taste better, and Ramen will taste better if you add a half tablespoon of Ssamjang.

Frankly, women's ideal men seem to be wealthy guys. (laughs)

[KCM] : I suppose you’re right. (laughs)

[RAIN] : But, the rich are not always happy. Relationships or marriages that are not based on true love could be in serious danger, and materialism or lookism {appearance} ought to disappear. I hope single ladies will look for responsible persons they can trust and love in all sincerity.
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[KCM] : Listener 'Jin Eun Ju', "I want to earn some money by hook or by crook, but even part-time work is hard to find which makes me so depressed."

[RAIN] : I did some odd jobs if there were any after school during my high school years. I think there weren't many jobs that I hadn't tried at that time. While I was working as a part-time employee on an apartment construction site in Ilsan city 13 years ago, I engraved my name on the wall in the hallway on the 11th floor of the apartment building. (laughs)

[KCM] : I also took what blue-collar jobs I could find before my debut.
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29:53~

- Talk About Music With Kim Tae Wan -

[RAIN] : Welcome to another segment on the show, which adds to the classiness of music.

[RAIN] : Welcome, Kim Tae Wan. It's been so long.

[Kim Tae Wan] : Long time no see.

[KCM] : I almost forgot your face. (laughs)

{These things are said jokingly since this segment is done every Sunday.}

[RAIN] : How did you spend your Christmas?

[Kim Tae Wan] : I had a bad cold, so I had to lie up for a few days. I think I have a jinx of getting sick at this time of the year.

[RAIN] : Hope you'll break the jinx next year.

[Kim Tae Wan] : I'll try my best to do so. (laughs)

[RAIN] : Who is the star of the day?

[Kim Tae Wan] : Rapper T.I. is the star of the day. He was born on September 25, 1980, in Atlanta, Georgia. It is said people born on the 25th are smart. (laughs)

[RAIN] : What you say is indirectly about me. (laughs) (Rain was born on June 25th)

[Kim Tae Wan] : T.I.'s real name is Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. When he was a child, his father who lived in New York had dementia, so his grandma brought him up in the slums of a small town later.** He had a hard life while growing up, and his first album 'I'm Serious' was not successful.

{**His grandparents raised him in the Bankhead area of Atlanta, Georgia. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.I. }

(T.I.'s I'm Serious', the title track in the album featuring Beenie Man is played.)
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[RAIN] : It's a very exciting song. I tend to record my songs after practicing enough. Then I can save time and be more productive.

[Kim Tae Wan] : That can save most composers, including me, a great deal of time.

[RAIN] : On the other hand, it took too much time for me to work with JYP during the recording of my album. JYP was scrupulous to a fault.

[Kim Tae Wan] : T.I. started rapping when he was 9 years old, and his uncle was his role model but his uncle has been in and out of jail all his life. And of course T.I. was affected by that, and he was also summoned to court on the suspicion of violating narcotics law when he was 18 years old.

T.I. kept writing the lyrics of rap songs in jail. After he was released from prison after serving his sentence, 'LaFace Record' which was known to have discovered singer Usher selected T.I, but he couldn't live up to their expectations so he was removed from the company.

After his dark times, he participated in rapper and his friend Bone Crusher's 'Never Scared' as a rapper and he laid the foundations for future success for himself.

As the song was a mega hit, T.I. received attention from major record labels and he finally chose Atlantic Record.

(Bone Crusher's 'Never Scared' featuring T.I. and Killer Mike is played.)
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[RAIN] : I think there are a lot of effing and blinding going on in the lyrics of rap songs. {effing & blinding = cursing/swearing in extreme excess}

[Kim Tae Wan] : So I had to be more careful when choosing them.

[RAIN] : I'm so glad to hear that.

[Kim Tae Wan] : After that, T.I. was arrested by the police {March 2004} for possession of illegal firearms {plus probation violations} and the judge gave him three years, but he was paroled after six months. His album 'Urban Legend' was released after coming out of prison and sold over a million copy and hit the jackpot.

[RAIN] : As the age of digital revolution is down the pike, I think singers' incomes aren't as high as they used to be.

[Kim Tae Wan] : I think so. Recently, even famous singers supplement their incomes by running a business.

[Kim Tae Wan] : T.I.'s releasing his album 'King' and appearing in the movie 'ATL' at the same time created a synergy effect and he was a smash hit. But, he was arrested on charges of assault again.

T.I. got word that a friend of his died at the scene of the accident. T.I. who was aghast by the news of his friend's death, was in a slump, suffering from a guilty conscience.

[RAIN] : Through the many ups and downs in his lifetime, T.I. might have learned how to overcome hardships and kept on dreaming.

(T.I.'s 'Whatever You Like' is played.)
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[Kim Tae Wan] : Even while T.I. was in such a slump, he released his album 'T.I. vs T.I.P'. 'Big Sh*t Poppin' in the album is particularly impressing. Do you have any inspiration for writing and composing your songs even while serving in the army?

[RAIN] : Whenever an inspiration strikes, I write notes.

[KCM] : Me too.

[Kim Tae Wan] : I'm looking forward to your albums.

[RAIN] : Please don't expect a great deal from me. I'll do my work anyhow. (laughs)

[Kim Tae Wan] : In lieu of jail time, T.I. was sentenced to community service. After the community service, he released his album 'Paper Trail' that provides encouragement for poor children. This album has sold over two million copies.

(T.I.s 'Big Sh*t Poppin (Do It)' is played.)
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[Kim Tae Wan] : T.I. and his family appeared on TV in a family show. He became a very famous entertainer with the show, but he was arrested by the police for possession of illegal firearms again and he was jailed for one year. After that, he released an album called 'No Mercy' but the results were not up to par.

[RAIN] : We're thinking of closing this with the song T.I.s 'Live Your Life'. How do you feel about this broadcast?

[Kim Tae Wan] : I've prepared the materials thoroughly for this day's show since last week. It has been a salutary experience, which I shall remember.
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[RAIN] : New Year's Day will soon be upon us, and with it will come New Year's resolutions. I hope your wishes come true.

[Kim Tae Wan] : Thank you. I really hope so. (laughs)

[RAIN] : Thank you for your hard work.

[KCM] : See you next week.

(T.I.s 'Live Your Life' featuring Rihanna is played.)
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[RAIN] : It will soon be the New Year, and the date of our discharge from the army is also approaching.

[KCM] : An eventful year has passed and a new one is coming. May the hopes of the New Year come to pass.

[RAIN] : Small gifts will be provided for 'Moon Woo Young', 'Jin Eun Ju', 'Lee Se Young', and #4032. Please leave your phone numbers and names in private on the show's bulletin board.

[RAIN] : This has been Rain. I love you.

[KCM] : This has been KCM. Thank you.

END BROADCAST

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