Celebrating National Pokemon Day! 👾

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🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Ten News Gets Extra: 🎮 Grab your pokeballs and join us to learn all about the history of Pokemon. 👾 Today head writer Ryan Willard is talking all things Pokemon with Sarah Natochenny, the voice of Ash Ketchum in the Pokemon animated series. ✔️ Fun Fact Check: How much did the most expensive Pokemon card sell for? And, test your Pokemon knowledge on today's Trivia on the Ten. ✅ ✔️ Sign up for the Ten News Newsletter! 📧 Email us your curious facts, funny stories, and eye rolling jokes at: [email protected] 🎇 Follow the show on Instagram 🌍 Check out our website for sources and a transcript of today's episode! Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Whoa, Ryan, did you see this?
0:06.6	Whoa, is that a Pokey Bowl?
0:08.7	Yeah, catch!
0:10.3	Wait, no, no, no!
0:13.7	Oh my gosh, I just caught a Ryazard.
0:17.5	If you are a Pokemon trainer, get ready.
0:21.5	I'm Bethany Van Delft.
0:22.8	It's Saturday, February 26th, and we're celebrating Pokemon Day here on the 10 News Gets Extra.
0:30.3	10.
0:30.6	9.8, 7, 6. 5, 4, 3.
0:34.4	2.1.
0:38.6	Pokemon is one of the most popular franchises in the world.
0:43.4	But do you know how Pokemon got started?
0:46.7	Grab your pokey balls and listen up.
0:50.5	When he was a kid, Satoshi Tijiri loved collecting bugs so much that he planned to become an entomologist.
0:59.1	What does that mean?
1:00.3	That's a person who studies bugs.
1:02.4	But instead, he became a video game creator.
1:05.8	In 1993, Satoshi created a side-scrolling game called Mario and Wario.
1:12.6	And then Nintendo hired him to make a monster-collecting game called Pocket Monsters in 1996.
1:20.6	Pocket Monsters got shortened to Pokemon.
1:24.6	Get it?
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