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Outside/In

The Pokémon Question

Outside/In

NHPR

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Nature, Documentary

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2016

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Pokémon Go is getting people outside and moving around, but is that enough? When it comes to developing a lasting appreciation for the natural world, will augmented reality make a dent? Sam hashes it out with a Poké-believer and a Poké-skeptic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

From New Hampshire Public Radio, this is outside in, a show about the natural world and how we use it.

0:17.0

Surprise! If you are paying very close attention,

0:20.0

if you're paying too much attention to our production schedule,

0:22.0

you might have noticed that we're here a week early, and there is a reason for that.

0:27.0

Yes, we here at Outside In have got the fever for Pokemon Go. There are a couple of people in our office

0:41.0

who are playing the game and really loving it and we've been

0:43.8

talking about it non-stop and we've been seeing people getting outside walking around

0:49.6

seeing their neighborhood noticing local wildlife all of that because of a free smartphone

0:56.0

game. But if you hang out with people who were getting outside before Pokemon Go made it cool again, you'll hear a bit of backlash. And it goes something along the lines of this.

1:06.8

Why do you need to have your nose buried in a smartphone game in order to be convinced to go take a walk?

1:12.1

We thought that this was an interesting question and so we're

1:15.2

trying something a little different this week.

1:17.0

My name is Gray Chinowith and I'm the chief operating officer at Silver Tech and this morning

1:21.6

I had bananas and cereal and milk.

1:25.8

Gray is a New Hampshire Tech guy and he's firmly pro-Peked-Gimon.

1:31.0

I'm Mora Adams.

1:32.3

I am a program director at the Northern Forest Center and I had some Pro-P

1:34.0

Pokemon. I'm Mora Adams. I am a program director at the Northern Forest Center and I had some toast

1:35.3

peanut butter.

1:36.3

Mora is a friend of mine and is an environmentalist generally and is a firm pocka skeptic.

1:42.0

We got these two into a studio polka skeptic.

1:42.6

We got these two into a studio,

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