As you may have heard, Pokemon is back (are back?) with the release last week of a new game. Pokemon Go is an augmented reality app that, through the magic of GPS on your phone, adds Pokemon to your surroundings, or, at least, to your surroundings as represented on your phone's screen, so that you can catch them.
I didn't really understand very much of that stuff I just typed, but I know that Pokemon Go has been out for nine days and it's already bigger than Tinder. People, as people do, are making fools of themselves playing the game. One kid found a (real) dead body while trying to #CatchEmAll.
This hour, the intellectual, semiotics-based dissection of Pokemon Go that only The Nose can do.
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- Lucy Gellman - Reporter for the New Haven Independent and station manager at WNHH
- Mark Oppenheimer - Editor-at-large for Tablet Magazine and host of the Unorthodox podcast, among a bunch of other stuff
- Mercy Quaye - Director of communications for New Haven Public Schools
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Colin McEnroe contributed to this show.
