Addicted to GPS

I admit it I have an addiction to GPS. let's talk about that hi I'm Josh and. I'm Chuck and I'm Noah from South Jersey. Good Mythical. [Music]. Morning Good Mythical Morning this. episode is brought to you by culas dcom. the guys with the goods. including a barbecue tools tool belt.

this thing is amazing it keeps your. tools now seriously I sit back down. please I don't get something for me to. baste it comes with a baster I want one. of these because I'm always grilling and. I need I need my stuff right here and my. drink and my thingy and my other. temperature thing and all that what is. this here I'm going to baste it don't. base that okay um okay it's it's time. for me to delve into my only addiction I. only have one addiction well.

I guess I drink a lot of coffee I don't. know if I should well I guess we'll save. that for another episode but um allow me. to tell you a story to get into this. realization that I think I have a. problem with GPS you do have a problem I. certainly would um welcome your comments. if especially if you relate to me uh and. that will help me feel better about this. or if if you also share this addiction. but since I do most of the driving for. us business-wise maybe it's more of my. problem okay um um so let's see it was.

last weekend I was working downtown LA. you were not there because you were. working on something else that's right. something else something new taking a. new Direction no so so I was there. working all day I went to it was a place. down I hardly ever go downtown LA but. you know I get there using my GPS stay. there all day I'm you know I'm fiddle. farting on my phone just just like any. good fiddle farter will do and then I'm. going to get back into my car and leave. late that night to come back home went a.

lot later than I thought so I'm leaving. and then uh still got workers here you. know things things continue to. happen um so I get back in the car and I. set up my GPS on my phone because Google. maps I mean everybody knows you don't. use the Apple Maps if you have an iPhone. you use the Google Maps Apple Maps get. you lost I turned that thing on and it. it now speaks to me through my through. the the the uh the speakers in the car. yeah right it's great and I just set it. up there on the dash voice turn by turn.

makes me feel totally comfortable and. secure in where I'm going and how long. it's going to take me to get there I. love it except when I look down. and the red battery is flashing and. telling me I'm going to die the red. battery the red battery sign on my phone. says it flashes it kind well maybe it. doesn't flash it turns red it Mak it a. little more dramatic than it really was. it was a and it's a window it's a window. it says low battery I'm like I'm driving.

what about the car charger this is when. you you plug the car charger I ain't got. one of them man you're not prepared you. took it out and put it in the Bronco. that's right have a car I was like dang. it and you know that window pops up I. thought it was I thought it was going to. tell me to turn left or turn right but. it said battery about to demise and I. was like oh my crap I'm just I'm I'm. leaving downtown I have no clue where I. am but you're like on a major road right. I'm I'm on it well it told me to like. get on the 170 and it's like I knew the.

170 was kind of like related to the 101. and I and once I got on the 101 I kind. of I would know where I was but I wasn't. there yet and it was dark and and I. immediately started to panic and I just. started thinking things like I have no. clue where I am it's dark I'm I might. have to pull over at a gas station and. like charge my phone like that's the. first thing I thought or get a map they. they don't sell Maps anymore man cuz. everybody has these right the phone. thingies G yes they have Maps uh but.

that's the first thing I thought was I'm. going to have to I got to find a place. to charge my phone it's like because. this is now my only way to get around or. just head north I mean I started to. think I'm just going to have to pull. over how how warm are the clothes that. I'm wearing how cold is it going to get. tonight it's not like you're in an be. here I couldn't I couldn't call anybody. cuz it's my phone you have a problem but. those are the things that I was thinking. you know I I have a problem yeah you're. right now I'm not going to say that I.

don't have a problem I am a member of. the modern society I am dependent upon. technology I am overly dependent on GPS. technology um I have tried to make a. habit of once I know where I'm going to. cut it off oh really yeah it's like I'm. like shut up girl you know like once I. know I'm like shut up you know I don't I. just cut it off that's what I do I I. would just my mind will wonder to other. things and I need that reminder you're. supposed to be turning left here you're. supposed to be turning right here and. then it turns into I barely even am.

looking out the window it's like I'm is. driveing my eyes closed and I'm just. following what she's telling me to do. you should have two things you should. have three things you have four things. in your car okay four let's keep it to. four well there's a lot of things you. should have here's what you should have. in terms of this a phone with GPS you. should have a well that's a charger you. have a charger two things you should. have a map you should have a backup map. a Rand MCN big old Atlas you remember. the ones that we used to have I had one. in the trunk I can't put in the trunk of. cuz it was so big I kept it in the trunk.

of the dynasty that I used to drive. around you were in that car a lot too. and it was yeah it was like this big and. then you would open it up and it would. be this big it was definitely you could. not drive and use it at the same time. because you couldn't see out of the. windshield you have to give it to. somebody who would be reading it the. Navigator you know you were the. Navigator yeah and so we had this big. old map and it was a grid when you open. up the front page you saw all of North. Carolina divided into these rectangles.

that were well they were basically. rectangles because they were then a. perfect they fit perfectly fit onto a. page and then you go through and this. thing was so detailed down to the dirt. roads we would like see a creek and we. be like we should go get in that Creek. and swim there's a dirt road that goes. to it I've got it on my map and we would. get the map out yes we did we did that. we would take your truck or the dynasty. down there and it was basically for. those of you who are young and don't. believe that these printed.

Antiquated things called maps and Atlas. existed Atlas at um it's basically think. of it like Google Earth but print it on. a sheet of paper and like you know how. you go zoom in on Google Earth and and. things will get more detailed just it it. was like that except you just move your. face closer to the atlas you get your. eye on it and it wouldn't get it. wouldn't get more details no more. information popped up but there was a. street view but but when you but when. you got to the edge of one you'd be like. oh this hold on and then we're going off.

the atlas but then it it wasn't all it. wasn't organized it wasn't like you go. you go to the next page the next thing. it's like you go to the next page and. You' be like oh four oh I got to go back. to the front oh there I'm going from. four oh and I forgot to tell you young. next part there is there's no Blue Dot. on an atlas that like moves and updates. and tells you where you are on it you. have to figure out where you are on this. printed thing I had a little cut out of. myself that I like rotated you you'd. move it on there no I did not okay. that's the second thing you need need a. map the third thing you need is a.

compass uh I think the radio H has a. compass on it the radio yeah it says. sometimes it says n w e or s mean that's. a compass dude up there I think that's. up there on top of the I actually found. I found it out two days ago in the radio. in the radio but see that's you're still. relying on technology you need something. that is just dependent on magnetics you. know you need like a a compass and not. the one on your phone because that's on. your phone then the charger everything.

go and then you need to know you need to. learn this is the fourth thing this is. you in the car you need to learn how to. navigate by the sun in the stars like I. can by doing this no you you it's like a. it's it's like a sailor it's like lwis. and Clark type stuff because listen if. you're if I'm not with you and you get. lost you could die well that's what I. thought was going to happen I didn't. finish the story but uh um you know. spoiler alert my battery didn't run out. and I hit the one1 I was like I know. where I am.

and I didn't have to have the GPS so I. don't feel like I have that big of a. problem because once I got on the road I. knew I wasn't panicking anymore and you. know she was just she was just there you. know she didn't die but then there's. another thing and first of all most of. me and Jesse's that's my wife Jesse um. most of our arguments stem from this. whole navigation thing I mean I remember. my parents fighting over the map and. they and they didn't have the this map. they had a map that folded up like a and. and you didn't need a map until you went.

to Raleigh you know if you're from buoy. Creek you know your way around buoy. Creek coats and lington but when you get. to Raleigh you're like got to break out. the map and then you got the break out. the map and you got to fold it open and. then you got to fold it open again and. then boom my mom's in the driver's my. mom's in the passenger seat my dad's. yelling at her because she can't get the. information out fast enough and then. she's Folding It Up wrong like don't. fold it up like that and they got to. fold it the right way yeah the old fold. up the map argument but that's the old. technology now the new technology is. there's a phone my wife's got the phone. and we get into just the way you know.

it's like there's a third person there. there's a third woman there and she's in. the phone and she's speaking to both of. us but we disagree on how we should take. her and or even what buttons to press to. get her to cooperate it's kind of like. the how you folded the map but now it's. like no you got to press this button and. no you got to turn the traffic on and. then you've got to you got to peel back. this page digitally in order to turn the. traffic on and then we should take a. different route and you know so it. technology changes but the arguments. stay the same kind of is that kind of. your point or is your point I'm just I'm.

trying to look for that's a better Point. than I have an addiction to do that I'm. trying to look for a Way Forward because. I feel like every time my wife and I get. in the car and we don't know where going. which is almost always in in Los Angeles. any place that you it's a new place it. just begins it begins an argument and I. I want to Way Forward maybe we should. just go back to the map I think the. answer is give me my car charger back. get your own car charger for the brco. man I could have been I could still be. there right now just true lost you want.

a salt sugar looking. around what I mean you need me to Bas. you anyone have a map only kind of maps. they got in this town are star Maps. shout out to. Oregon Oregon. Oregon Oregon you're the home of the. most famous trail from 1985 computer. games Oregon in your land no one can. pump their own gas and attendants got to. do it for them what your official.

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