Simplified Speech #175 – Game changers

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🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Have you ever tried something new that completely changed the way you live your daily life? These new technologies and experiences are often called game changers. In this episode, Andrew and Kassy discuss game changers, such as having a GPS in your car, AI assistants like ChatGPT, and streaming services like Netflix. Fun facts When you call something a game changer, it usually sounds positive. However, it can also be used neutrally or negatively. In any case, the most important criteria for a game changer is having a significant impact on a situation. Expressions included in the study guide Status quo Could you imagine Fallout To plug into To go on and on about [something] In the blink of an eye Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke for Free Image: Brecht Denil (Unsplash.com)

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0:00.0	Hello everyone my name is Andrew and I'm Cassie and this is the
0:10.0	Q-Lips English podcast.
0:17.0	Hello friends, welcome back to another Kuleps episode. This is Simplified Speech, which is our series which features clear, natural, and easy to understand English conversations about
0:25.4	interesting topics. Today I'm joined by my co-host Cassie. Hey Cassie!
0:31.0	Hey, Cassie! Hey Andrew and hey listeners, great to be here today.
0:35.0	Cassie recently I was hanging out with one of my friends and he told me this story
0:40.6	about having to update the GPS in his car. I guess for whatever reason his car
0:46.7	GPS navigation system thingy is not connected to the internet so you actually have to update it with an
0:54.3	SD card. And so every time he'd get in his car and start the car up, the GPS
1:00.8	would prompt him like update, update, update update and he just kept saying cancel cancel
1:06.4	cancel and then recently he was out for a drive and on the way home I'm not exactly sure where he was but when he was trying to come home
1:15.9	He started up his car and the GPS refused to work. It's like that was your final warning you've been neglecting me too long and I don't know maybe it thought it was dangerous to navigate him with this outdated map so it just refused to work and my friend said that in that moment he realized what a game changer
1:37.2	having GPS in your car is because when he didn't have it then he was like how am I going to get home I don't know the way to get home
1:45.3	now thankfully he had his smartphone with him and he could just use the GPS on his smartphone to get him
1:51.6	home so it wasn't really that big of a deal but when my friend
1:55.0	was telling me this story I realized that he accidentally provided me with a great topic for today's
2:01.4	simplified speech episode because Cassie today I think we could talk about the topic of
2:07.4	game changers.
2:09.2	No that's a great topic. I think we have so much to talk about today. Sounds good, Cassie. So we'll get into our conversation here in just a moment. But before we do, I want to let our listeners know that there is a study guide and interactive transcript for this
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