Now, Pokémon Go debuted only a couple of weeks ago,
but it has more users than Tinder and Twitter.
But some-- true-- but some say Pokémon Go
is a government surveillance tool.
(audience laughing)
So for more on this, let's check in
with conspiracy expert, Mike Yard,
in the latest segment of The Y Files.
Okay, so, Mike.
Honestly, Mike, do you think Pokémon Go
is some sinister tool for spying on us?
-Is Pokémon Go sinister? -Right, no.
Larry, I hope you like your new ophthalmologist, me,
'cause I'm about to tear the scales
from your eyes, my brother.
But, Mike,
why would our government make a game to monitor people?
The NSA got in trouble for collecting phone call data.
(imitates buzzer) You lose.
Of course, Pokémon Go was created by the government, man,
but not for your garden-variety sheeple control.
Pokémon Go was created...
to discredit Black Lives Matter.
Read it and weep, my brother.
Read it and weep.
(audience chuckles)
-Mike, that's absurd. -(audience applause)
-That doesn't even make sense. -It's all here, my brother.
-No, no, no. No, no. -It's all here.
Pokémon Go is like a stupid time-waster.
It has absolutely nothing to do with Black Lives Matter.
Oh, come on, Larry Shill-more.
-Oh. -(laughter)
You play by walking around looking down at your phone.
Okay. All right.
What? What?
So we can't record what the cops are doing to us.
(applause)
-Wait. -Gotta think.
Hold on a second.
So you're saying, like the game is so powerful and engrossing,
you just ignore everything around you?
Hell, yeah.
It's that seductive, Larry.
I mean, they got Charizard, they got Pikachu.
They got Vulpix.
They got Eevees.
It's like crack to us, Larry.
Crack.
Hello.
♪ Gotta catch 'em all. ♪
-I mean... -It's not like crack, Mike.
It's like crack, bro.
But we have...
But, Mike, it's that way for everybody that plays it,
-not just black people. -(scoffs)
You know what, your ancestors must have been Nubian,
'cause you love denial.
(laughter, applause)
Let me ask you...
-Let me ask you something, Larry. -Mike...
-What? -What's your favorite character, huh? Chumpasaur?
Mike, that doesn't even make sense.
All right, look... Okay, look, prove it.
How is Pokémon GO a trap
specifically rigged to catch black people?
Buckle up, buttercup.
Pokémon.
Poké-- a raw fish dish from Hawaii.
Hawaii. Barack Obama.
Obama, hated by Republicans.
Republicans, Fox News.
Fox News, Roger Ailes.
Roger Ailes, who allegedly fired Gretchen Carlson
for not having sex with him.
Ailes is a TV set blackmailer.
Anagram it. "TV set blackmailer."
Black Lives Matter. Boom!
-(applause and cheering) -Right there.
Got to peel the layers. Peel 'em all.
-Boom?! -Boom.
Yeah, but, no. No boom.
That's a giant pile of horse (bleep).
You don't have a single shred of proof
that the U.S. government is behind this game.
Oh. Oh. Okay, proof-- that's what you're looking for?
-Proof? -Okay. Yes, please.
-Proof. -Okay, fine.
The company behind Pokémon Go, Niantic Labs,
is run by John Hanke, who worked for the U.S. foreign affairs.
Then started a company called "Keyhole,"
funded by the CIA's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel,
funded in turn by the NGA--
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
(laughter, cheering)
Is that enough proof?
Oh, Mike. (bleep)
Is... is that all true?
-Yes, Larry. -Oh, (bleep).
-(laughter) -My!
-Now you're seeing. -I... man...
Oh, I'm sorry, man.
That's actually the most plausible thing you ever said.
-I never... The NGA?! -Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
And what kind of intel does the NGA collect?
N-I-G-G-A.
-Whaaat?!
-Hey, Mike, no. See?
See, you had me, Mike, and now you lost me.
-Mike Yard, everybody. -(applause and cheering)