Quick Chat 21: Bugs!!! The good, the bad, the ugly

In this episode, Kevin and Jack talk about creepy, crawly, disgusting bugs!Share your answers to the discussion questions in our WhatsApp group chat! https://forms.gle/zKCS8y1t9jwv2KTn7Website: https://atozenglishpodcast.com/?p=1810If you could take a minute and complete a short survey about the podcast, we would be very appreciative. You can find the survey here: https://forms.gle/HHNnnqU6U8W3DodK8We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future episodes.Intro/Outro Music by Eaters: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/eaters/the-astronomers-office/agents-in-coffee-shops/ Directions: Answer the discussion questions in the Whatsapp group chat.  1.    Are there a lot of bugs where you live?2.    What annoys you the most about insects?3.    What do you do to get rid of insects in your house? Full Transcript:  Jack You are listening to the A-Z English podcast. Kevin Welcome to an A-Z English quick chat where today we're going to surprise each other with a topic and see where the conversation goes. Kevin Remember, you can check our website for study guides with vocabulary, notes, discussion, questions and more, as well as links to our WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media so you can join in our conversation with us. Kevin And Jack, it's getting towards the end of summer here, but even though it's the end of summer, there's still a lot of bugs out and. Kevin I've got 2. Kevin Or three new mosquito bites. Kevin Odd me right now. Kevin Mosquitoes, actually. Kevin I mean, I think bugs in Korea, bugs in every country are very different because I'm from Arizona and Arizona is dry. Kevin It's desert, right? Kevin There's no mosquitoes in in Arizona. Jack Yeah, but you have scorpions though. Kevin That's true. Kevin We we don't score PNG. Jack Those are scary, yeah. Kevin Although it depends on where Arizona. Kevin Is very big, but yeah, we. Kevin We do have some. Kevin Of those, but mosquitoes are something that I. Kevin I I hate. Kevin I mean, everyone hates mosquitoes. Kevin Everyone hates mosquitoes. Kevin It's it's one common, common thing I think all people on the planet can can agree. Kevin With and it took me a little while to get used to them here. Kevin I'm still not used to him, but it took me a while to get used to them. Kevin Here, let me let me tell you a story before I ask you about your bugs. Kevin When I first came to Korea, because Arizona doesn't have mosquitoes, I never thought about them. Kevin And so in the summer here, it's quite hot and in. Kevin Arizona in in Northern Arizona, it's quite hot as well, but not so bad and so we don't usually turn on the air conditioning in in the mountains. Kevin I just open up all the windows and just get a breeze coming through. Kevin So when I was when I was new to Korea, I had only been here, I don't know, less than a. Kevin And it was quite hot one night. Kevin And So what did I do? Kevin I just opened up. Kevin All the windows. Kevin Because of like, let's let's get some wind in here, let's cool down my house. Kevin So I opened up all the. Kevin Windows and just. Kevin And that night, I'll never forget this. Kevin Because that night, suddenly I heard that annoying, like, you know, noise in your ear. Jack And yeah. Kevin The terrible evil mosquito noise, and I heard it. Kevin In my ear. Kevin And I was like, oh, just go away. Kevin Just just bite me and go away. Kevin Let me sleep. Kevin I don't care, just just go away. Kevin And I heard it again and again. Kevin And again, and finally, well, OK, OK. Kevin I no, I have to kill you. Kevin So I stood up. Kevin I turned on the lights, and I then looked around my house and there was like 20 mosquitoes just covering the walls of of my apartment room. Kevin And it took me an hour and a half to just snack. Kevin Smack, smack and kill them all, yeah? Kevin And I learned very quickly now I never leave the windows open when I go in and out of my house in the summer, it's in not very fast, keep the door closed because. Kevin We want to keep those those damn mosquitoes away. Jack No, you just you opened the window and invited all the mosquitoes in your neighborhood to a blood party, basically. Kevin Yeah, come try some. Kevin Come try some American. Kevin Blood, it's really good. Jack Yeah, yeah, drink away. Jack So funny because I have the same story last night. Kevin Oh really? Jack Like last night a mosquito snuck into, you know, got into our house. Jack And I think listeners, probably those of you that live in like areas where where they have mosquitoes. Jack The the the land like on your ear and so you can hear the the kind of. 발표자 1 Ooh, yeah. Jack Sound in your ear and I don't know what it is. Jack It's the worst feeling, like I can't I? Kevin That's terrible.  Jack So what I always do is even if there's just one mosquito, I turned on the light. Jack I wake up, my wife wakes up. Jack She's like, what are you doing? Jack I'm like, I don't care. Jack I don't care how long it takes me. Jack I'm going to. Jack Hunt that mosquito down and I'm going to smash. 발표자 1 To kill it. Jack Did, and sometimes it takes me 5 minutes, sometimes it takes me 25 minutes, but I'm like a crazy person because it's just like it makes me like. Jack Insane to to you know when it happens and then when I kill it, it feels so good. Jack I just smash it so hard and just watch it splat all over the wall. Jack And I'm so happy, but the. Kevin I'm kind of the same way when I hear them at night. Kevin Now if because you seem to enjoy killing mosquitoes like we have one of those tennis racket type things, which those are great because yeah, you can watch it like just like fry. Jack Has electricity on it and you use tap it, yeah? Kevin The best, most satisfying way to kill a mosquito, though you know sometimes you can catch it in your hand, right? Kevin Like it's flying through and you just you'd grab it out of the air. Kevin But the worst is then you, like, squeeze your hand, you open it and. Kevin Then it flies. Kevin Away again, right. Jack Yeah, yeah, sure. Yeah. Kevin If you've had that happen, it's it's terrible. Kevin So the best thing to do. Kevin Well, I don't know what best. Kevin It's kind of evil, but but it feels good. Kevin If you catch a mosquito in your hand 'cause, you don't know if you actually crossed it. Kevin They're quite small, and maybe you did. Kevin Maybe you didn't so shake your hand a lot, right? Kevin Like just just like you've got, you know, you're you're shaking a some some juice or something. Kevin Just shake, shake, shake. Kevin Shake, shake, shake it in your hands because then it makes it basically makes the mosquito like super dizzy. Kevin And it's like, Oh my God. Kevin Then go up to one of the walls in your house and throw it at the wall. Kevin So I'm really close, because it doesn't. Kevin It it they're. Kevin Very light so they don't fly very far from vehicles. Kevin Just throw it at the wall. Kevin The mosquito will hit the wall. Kevin And then fall down to the. Kevin Round, but it's usually not quite dead. Kevin It usually just kind of twitches and it's like and then it dies. Kevin So you get to watch the little. Kevin Guy die and I know it's it's evil and I'm. Jack I thought you. Kevin Sorry for all the listeners out there. Jack Were going to pull its legs off 1 by 1 and just kind of pull up? Jack OK, you're not that. Jack You're not that sadistic, right? Kevin But hit, hit the wall with it and then it'll fall down and just. Jack You're not that. Kevin Like, uh and die.  Right. Jack So last night I couldn't find it. Jack I looked everywhere and I find it gave up. Kevin Oh, oh, sorry, I interrupted your story. Jack No, no, no. Jack But I have these big headphones that I listen to music with and I just put these big cans on my ears. Jack So it's and if you can't hear it, then I can just pretend that it's not there. Jack And so I fell asleep with my ear, my my headphones on, and I was able to fall asleep quite quickly without having killed a mosquito. Jack But yeah, it they really, really drives me crazy. Jack It drives me crazy. Kevin Honestly, I I. Kevin I even though a. Kevin Mosquito bite will last longer, you know, like I've got a couple of mosquito bites on me now, 'cause I. Kevin Was outside yesterday and. Kevin A mosquito bite will last two or three days before it goes away, and it's itchy for two or three days, but that itchy for two or three days for me is less annoying than that. Kevin The sound. Kevin When I'm sleeping. Jack Yeah, yeah. Kevin Like so for for me. Jack No side same, you know? Kevin Like, I understand. Kevin I would rather cover my ears. Kevin I'd rather it just come and bite. Kevin Me and go away. Kevin Like I don't care, I. Kevin Mean it's annoying, but bite me and go away. Kevin Don't wake me up. Kevin Don't come. Kevin Into my ear that is the worst the worst noise. Jack Now I'm gonna, I'm gonna throw this out to our listeners out there, because please share in the chat what your mosquito experiences are. Jack Because now they're, you know, obviously mosquitoes are not the only bugs that are, you know? Jack Have you had any experience like killing a cockroach or anything like that? Jack Because those really bother me a lot. Kevin I really hate cockroaches. Kevin Cockroaches and the other one here in Korea that really bothers me are the the really hairy centipedes that like, they look furry and they move really, really fast. Kevin You know, those are almost worse than cockroaches. Kevin For me. Kevin Those things are really fast. Kevin Cockroaches are terrible, of course, but in Korea, they're not so bad, because they're. Kevin Not so big. Jack Yeah, right. Jack Like they're only about like the. Kevin Biggest I've seen was like maybe if your small finger right, that's that's the biggest one that I've seen. Kevin My wife and I were traveling a few years ago and in we were staying in a small hotel, not even a hotel, more like a guest house type thing, kind of in the mountains. Kevin And there it was just. Kevin Yeah, lots of cockroaches outside. Kevin Inside the rooms were mostly clean, but outside in the forest it was just one cockroach central. Kevin And the worst there was, they were really big. Kevin Like, like really like your big finger and and a little bit more. Kevin And so we saw one that was quite big and it creeped in and then it started flying at us. Jack Oh yeah, I know those ones. Jack Yeah, they're it's called like a Palmetto bug or something. Jack They're maroon. Jack Kind of reddish. 발표자 1 It was a. Kevin Big flying cockroach. Jack The horrible, yeah. Kevin It was terrible. Kevin I I almost played baseball with it, with my sandal in the air. Kevin Yeah, those are are terrible. Kevin That's that's the way. Jack Yeah, we had a we had a cockroach problem in another apartment. And the problem with cockroaches is if you see one, that means there's like another 25 or 30 that you can't see. Kevin I don't know. Jack And so if I opened a drawer there, would I would see them kind of scurry away? Jack And if I if I? Jack Lifted up a desk or something, moved the desk, then they would run away. Kevin Oh no. Jack And so. Jack So we had to call the exterminator, and the exterminator came to kill the cockroaches, and the exterminator told us a really interesting story of how they kill the cockroaches. Jack So what they do is they poison the cockroaches, and so the cockroaches eat the poison. Jack And then they go back into their secret little house area where they all stay together and they die. Kevin OK. Jack Now, not all of them die, but if you know this about cockroaches, cockroaches will eat dead cockroaches. Jack So the ones that are still alive eat the dead ones that have poison in them, and then they die, and then whatever is leftover will eat those. Kevin The poison on him. Jack Dead ones. Jack And then they die. Jack And pretty soon all of the cockroaches are dead because of the first spray of poison. Jack And so if you thought cockroaches are cruel or whatever, they eat each other. Kevin Some good poisons. Jack They're cannibals. Jack They're disgusting. Jack They're horrible. Jack Pictures so don't ever feel sorry for a cockroach, OK? Jack Uh, yeah. Kevin I will not. Kevin Before we end with this 'cause, this is all I mean. Kevin Mosquitoes and cockroaches are our bugs. Kevin We generally don't like. Kevin What about some bugs that are OK? Kevin Are there any bugs that that are? Kevin OK, for. Jack So I like, I think you're going to say the same answer. Jack I'm probably going to steal your answer, but I have all. Jack I won't steal your answer. Jack I'll, I'll come up with a different one. Jack I saw yesterday. Kevin Well, go ahead, I've got a couple. Jack I saw a praying mantis, and it was huge. Kevin Oh, nice. Jack It was about the size of like a pencil. Jack Like, it was huge and I didn't want to kill it because they're so cool looking. Jack There's a very interesting bug. Kevin They are. Jack It's a mantis. Jack And in Korea they have. Jack We have quite a few of them and it was just sitting on the door. Jack It wasn't bothering anybody, it wasn't doing anything, so I didn't kill it. Jack And I just left it alone, and when I came back an hour later, it was gone so amantis I'll let them live because I. Kevin Right. Jack Don't know they just. Jack Look cool and I I don't have a problem. Jack With them so. Kevin And and they don't. Kevin Really bother people very much either. Jack With match it didn't fly at me. Jack It didn't do. Jack Anything was just hanging out. Kevin Right.  Kevin The other I I think what you were thinking is spiders, right? Jack Yes, yeah. Kevin That's, yeah, spiders. Kevin If I see a spider in my house, it depends on the spider that I see. Kevin Most of the time, I'll just let them live and just be like you. Kevin Go, go, spider friends. Kevin Go, go, go eat those evil mosquitoes and other. Kevin Bugs sometimes for a little bit bigger spiders. Kevin I don't want them in my house because they're kind of, they're kind of creepy. Kevin I still don't like. Kevin Them in my house, but I don't kill them, I just capture them and take them outside and let them guys. Jack Ah, OK, OK. Kevin I I I never kill spiders actually. Kevin So spiders are always friendly. Kevin Actually one time one of my friends. Kevin Thought I was crazy because I found a spider in in our houses back in, you know? Kevin City and I caught the spider to take it outside and then he took a picture of it first and went to the Internet to look it up and it was actually a very poisonous, like deadly deadly spider. 발표자 1 Oh no. Kevin And he's like. Kevin That kind of spiders. Kevin OK. Kevin To kill Kevin, I was like. Kevin No, it's still. Kevin A spider spiders are friendly, so spiders I don't kill. Kevin And another bug that I think. Kevin Everyone should respect our. Jack Yeah, very important. Yeah. Yes. Kevin These are great either. Kevin Very important. Kevin Wasps are evil. Kevin These are great. Kevin They make honey, they pollinate flowers and other plants, and we need bees on our planets to to have a a safe, healthy planet so bizzare cools. Jack Save the bees, save the spiders and save the mantis. Kevin Yep, I can agree to all of those. Jack We will keep it there. Jack Right. Kevin All right. Kevin So everyone else, tell us, what about bugs? Kevin What are your favorite bugs? Kevin What bugs do you hate? Kevin Do you have any good stories about you know dealing with with any bugs as well? Kevin Come to join our WhatsApp group or a Facebook group and tell us any of your bug stories, good or bad love. Kevin To hear them all, and if you've got time, go to our leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and a comment would be very helpful for other people to come and tell us some adazie bug stories so we'll see everybody next time have again. Jack Fun. 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