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Pokemon Go Catches Fire in Iowa

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Pokemon Go, a new game and cell phone app, was released earlier this month and has quickly become one of the most played games across the United States. If you're not playing it, someone you know is.

During this hour of River to River, host Ben Kieffer plays the game with Iowa Public Radio intern Graham Bly, then talks with Matthew Mitchell, assistant professor of international business and strategy at Drake University and Juan Pablo Hourcade, associate professor of computer science at the University of Iowa about the app, what information it's collecting from your cell phone and how it's changing the way we game. 

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Lindsey Moon served as IPR's Senior Digital Producer - Music and the Executive Producer of IPR Studio One's All Access program. Moon started as a talk show producer with Iowa Public Radio in May of 2014. She came to IPR by way of Illinois Public Media, an NPR/PBS dual licensee in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and Wisconsin Public Radio, where she worked as a producer and a general assignment reporter.
Ben Kieffer is the host of IPR's River to River