841. A Conversation about MONOPOLY 🎲🏠💰 with Anna Tyrie

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Luke Thompson

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🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Monopoly is one of the most famous board games of all time.

It's sold in more than 114 countries and has been printed in more than 47 languages.

It's famous for causing arguments and taking forever to finish!

But it is a fantastic and fascinating game, so let's talk about it.

In this episode I talk to Anna Tyrie from English Like a Native about childhood memories, rules that people don't follow, winning strategies, the real history of the game and more!

I guarantee that with this episode you will learn new things about Monopoly.

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0:00.0	Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns.
0:08.0	Now, picture you, zooming past it all, light and breezy.
0:15.0	Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.
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0:25.0	avante west coast feel good travel. You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information,
0:39.6	visit Teacher Luke. co. UK.
0:42.8	Hello listeners. Today on the podcast I'm joined again by Anna Tyri from English like a native and we're going to have a conversation all about Monopoly. Yes, Monopoly the board game that you probably played as a child with your family. The game that you probably played as a child with your family, the game that always
1:05.4	takes ages and usually ends in a big family argument. I actually think this game is
1:11.7	fascinating. We're going to talk all about it,
1:14.4	including childhood memories, the rules of the game, strategies, the economics of it,
1:21.0	the surprising history of monopolyopoly, and some fun facts that you might not know about
1:26.2	this game.
1:27.2	So listeners, you know Monopoly, right?
1:30.2	Do you know it?
1:31.2	I don't know, maybe you don't.
1:32.2	Maybe some of you are out there going, what's that?
1:34.8	It's monopoly. Most of you should know. It's that game where you go around a board buying and trading properties,
1:40.9	constructing houses and hotels, in order to make as much money as possible
1:45.6	from your competitors who are probably other members of your family who have to pay rent every
1:51.0	time they land on one of your properties. The aim of the game is to completely
1:55.4	dominate the market so that all the other players go bankrupt and you take all the money ultimately
2:01.9	achieving the status of a monopoly, the one who has
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