Simplified Speech #185 – Nintendo power

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🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In this fun episode, Kassy and Andrew share their love of video games with each other. They mostly talk about games from the Nintendo franchise, which is famous for characters like Mario and Pikachu. Kassy chats about the cooperative game she has been playing with her husband on her Nintendo Switch recently and Andrew mentions his desire to buy a Switch himself. If you have nostalgia for classic Nintendo games, then this is the episode for you! Fun facts Nintendo did not start out as a video game company – in fact, it was founded in 1889 as a producer of playing cards. Its first at-home console was called the Color TV-Game and it was first released in 1977. Expressions included in the study guide toss-up to mull something over to drop the ball one’s jam to trash talk / trash talker in one’s wheelhouse Copyright: Culips.com For more information about this episode, visit culips.com. Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke for Free Image: Alvarordesign (Unsplash.com)

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0:00.0	Hello there everyone. My name's Andrew and I'm Cassie and this is the
0:07.6	Culeps English podcast.
0:11.8	Hello Hello and welcome back to simplified speech which is the
0:18.3	Q-Lips series that features clear natural and easy to understand English conversations about interesting topics.
0:26.8	Today I'm joined by my co-host, Cassie.
0:30.0	Hey there, Cassie, what's up?
0:32.0	Hey Andrew, hey listeners.
0:33.6	I'm doing well and it's great to be here today.
0:36.2	So, Cassie, today we're going to talk about one of the best toys,
0:41.2	dare I say, ever, best toys ever, because we're going to talk about Nintendo and I guess
0:48.2	more specifically the Nintendo Switch.
0:51.1	You know, there's lots of different versions and lots of different kinds of
0:54.8	Nintendo consoles, but today we'll try and talk about the Switch. And Cassie I have a
0:59.8	quick question for you right off the bat. Do you agree with my statement that
1:04.2	Nintendo is one of the best toys ever? Yeah it's one of the most innovative and
1:09.1	exciting and it's always constantly changing which I think is pretty cool.
1:13.0	Hmm.
1:14.0	Cassie what was your favorite toy as a kid when you were growing up?
1:18.0	Honestly probably my game boy advanced which was one of the earlier iterations of Nintendo.
1:24.3	I loved my Nintendo.
1:26.4	I had an original Nintendo entertainment system,
1:29.6	Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Game Boy.
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