Interview · moment 8 of 14
Mew, Legendary Pokemon, and the Fifth Avenue Old Guard
from Pokemon and Percocet · #2
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
7 minGuest
They discuss legendary Pokemon like Mew and Vaporeon, deceptive stampedes to fake sightings, cops playing on duty, Charizard steak jokes, and Tim riffing on rich Fifth Avenue neighbors reacting to millennial Pokemon hordes.
- 25:49Tim encounters a lunatic woman in Central Park feeding raccoons organic turkey and knows all their names.
- 26:25The raccoons started eyeing Tim as a threat to their food source and began organizing against him.
- 26:50Pokemon Go is bringing everyone together across races and genders, which Tim sees as a good thing.
- 27:15People hostile to Pokemon Go are the same ones who were discussing criminal justice inequities three days prior.
- 27:36Someone called Tim a Snorlax, the fattest Pokemon, and he wanted to beat the shit out of them for it.
- 28:49Central Park is the hotspot for Pokemon Go, but Fifth Avenue residents paying $20 million for apartments probably aren't thrilled about millennials catching Pokemon outside their homes.
- 29:34Five Poke Stops in Central Park attract people with lures, and criminals are now robbing and stabbing Pokemon players.
- 30:24Tim used to buy cocaine in the Bronx and explains that good coke has a yellow tinge because white coke has been stepped on.
- 30:57Mew is a legendary Pokemon—only one exists in the entire Pokemon world and it's the most powerful.
- 31:45People have made real friendships in the park through Pokemon Go, with groups coordinating on Facebook to play together.
Pokemon GoCentral ParkComptonBronxFifth AvenueJane ReitzmanJacqueline Kennedy