Pokémon GO Is Data-Mining You (with Brian Robert Jones)

Are shady powers behind the once-viral mobile game Pokémon GO? Langston and David are joined by guitarist and former Pokémon GO player Brian Robert Jones to discuss the possibility that the popular game was harnessed for wicked purposes.

0:00 Cold open: Steppers, criminality, racial slurs

6:48 Intro: David’s treasonous ways

10:57 Smokey Robinson trying to pronounce Chanukah

20:10 Jar Jar Binks (!!!)

28:25 Conspiracy: Pokémon GO was a CIA plant

44:50 Slavery was the big lick

51:57 Fandom, fame, fitness, fishing

1:13:31 Homemade wine and new cocktail technology

1:19:30 Boundaries between teachers and students

1:25:34 Being tracked by the Apple Watch

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