A to Z Quick Chat 05 (Re-upload) | What are you afraid of?

In this re-upload, Kevin and Jack discuss the things that make them feel afraid. Let us know what you're scared of by sending us an email or leaving a comment on our website! Vocabulary: confront a situation or thing that you are afraid of Outgrow To become too old or too big for something  To plague To continue to cause problems for someone or something  Paranoid Constant fear of something that does not exist  Irrational Illogical or unreasonable  Transcript: 00:00:02 Jack You are listening to the A-Z English podcast. 00:00:11 Kevin Welcome to an A-Z English quick chat. We're going to surprise each other with a topic for the day and see where the conversation goes. Check our site for a study guide with vocabulary notes and discussion questions, as well as links to our WhatsApp or other social media where you can join in the discussion. 00:00:27 Kevin So, Jack, what? What do you want to talk about today? What's your topic? 00:00:30 Jack Yeah. So today I want to talk about phobias, and I'm curious. Yeah, if you have any phobias and then I'll share, you know, my phobia. 00:00:42 Kevin I I I mean, I'm sure there's things that I'm kind of afraid of, but I can't really think of too. 00:00:48 Kevin Many big phobias. 00:00:50 Kevin They definitely do not like bugs. 00:00:52 Kevin Very much. It depends on the kind of bug, but yeah, those they that is definitely something I'm not not a fan of. At least it's not so much of A phobia exactly though. 00:01:06 Jack Who kills the spiders in your family? 00:01:08 Jack Then does. Does your wife kill them? 00:01:11 Kevin I don't kill spiders. I save spiders. 00:01:13 Jack Uh, you save spiders because they eat. 00:01:15 Kevin Your friends. Spiders. Exactly. Spiders eat other bugs, so if I see a spider, I either just leave it alone, or if it's a big creepy one, I'll put it in a. 00:01:15 Jack Device, yeah. 00:01:22 Kevin Cup and take it outside. 00:01:24 Jack Wow, OK. 00:01:25 Kevin So like I said for for me this is a a tough topic because I'm not sure what I'm really like truly afraid of like phobia wise bugs is one of the big ones, but I've managed to kind of get over that a little bit actually. 00:01:42 Kevin And the way I kind of did this was I'll tell a quick story here, but a bunch of years ago when I was a student in university, I was at a a party with some friends and some of my friends were older than I was, so some of them had kids at the party and we were just hanging out and and the kids were. 00:02:01 Kevin Playing doing kids thing. 00:02:04 Kevin And one of the kids, he was probably. 00:02:08 Kevin 7-8 nine years old. Something like this and I'm an adult. Of course. At the time I was like in my early 20s. 00:02:14 Kevin And this kid's hobby was collecting bugs like he just loved bugs, which I still did not understand, but he just loved them. So we're hanging out outside, and this kid is running around in the backyard just picking up bugs and playing around and just doing doing what? 00:02:29 Kevin That's due, and suddenly he ran up to me and he holds his hand out to me. And he's like, here. Take this. And I was like, oh, oh, God, what what are you going to give me? And I hold my hand out and he just drops this, like kind of beetle bug in my hand. 00:02:44 Kevin And I'm just like like. 00:02:46 Kevin Freaking out because now I'm holding this bug which I I do not want to be. 00:02:50 Jack Right. 00:02:50 Kevin Great. But ever since then, whenever I see some. 00:02:55 Kevin Bug or insect in my house that I don't like that I don't want to deal with. I just remember this kid like, OK, so there was this eight-year. 00:03:04 Kevin Old kid who's not afraid of bugs and there's me adult who is afraid of bugs. So like, OK, Kevin, be brave and then I do what needs to be done. 00:03:10 Jack Right. 00:03:16 Kevin For the bug, either capture the spider or smack it with a newspaper, depending on the bug. 00:03:21 Jack If you he accidentally gave you what is called CBT, it's a type of it's co