Nick Kroll & Conan Talk About Life Before GPS | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

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After 15 years of living in Los Angles, Nick still can't get around without using GPS. Plus, Conan recalls the mind-blowing experience of using GPS for the first time. link.chtbl.com/CONAFKrollGPS
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@seviren Жыл бұрын

I used to do pickups for the power company and go to farms and rural areas. Every farmer LOVED giving directions. We had GPS but I just gave up after awhile and let them give me directions I didn't need. Lol

@amymwheeler Жыл бұрын

When I was little my grandparents lived in “the country,” (a rural area about 15 miles or so miles from the city). Their phone was a party line, as in there was one phone number that was shared by 5 homes in the area. So say my mother calls her mother; it rings in all 5 homes and anyone can jump on to listen.

@georgejorden6269 Жыл бұрын

I am very old. There was also a time when you could tell what part of the city a person lived in just by their phone prefix. This was before portable phone numbers. One of the first pages in the the phone book would have the city divided by prefixes to inform you what prefix corresponded to what area. Very handy. If someone provided you with an unknown address, you would know what area of the city the address was located just by the phone number prefix.

@reev9759 26 күн бұрын

That's called an area code and they still exist now.

@georgejorden6269 25 күн бұрын

Area Code does not always indicate where you live. I can live in Texas but my cell phone number can be an Arkansas cell phone number. In the olden days before cell phones and portable numbers, most phoned were static/fixed . The area code indicated what state the caller lived and the prefix would indicate what area of the city the caller lived. I once lived in a city that had a prefix for commercial / industrial business and a prefix for residential. The city has since abandoned that practice when the city started to grow.

@reev9759 25 күн бұрын

@@georgejorden6269 you are correct in saying area codes predated call phones, so you proved my own point.

@swish007 Жыл бұрын

I remember when Mapquest came out and you could print out turn by turn directions to take with you in the car. just THAT was a game changer

@tangibleterror2421 Жыл бұрын

It's funny to think that it was ok to be flipping through pages while driving. Lol

@doc-holliday- Жыл бұрын

Thankfully GPS started to get popular right around when i was old enough to drive. But i remember printing off turn by turn directions from map quest to get places and being the map navigator for my dad on road trips. The first time i used GPS to go hundreds of miles and wind up right at someones house i never been to before without any hassle, I remember stopping to appreciate that for a few minutes and how much longer it would have taken the old way. Now GPS is integral in most of our lives and we don't even stop to think about it.

@StrawberryNLemonade Жыл бұрын

I listen to the podcast, then come watch the videos, it's a cycle I'm not mad at

@sFive-ms8mb Жыл бұрын

I was 'weened' in LA as well, and as old as these guys. I started touring as a musician at 16yrs old ( I know, it was a different time then!) and we had NO GPS. The guy in the passenger seat was the Navagator. NO sleeping in that seat! But we made it cross country many, many times using an Atlas and diddnt get lost as much as you would think. I do remember picking up the first version of what would turn into a GPS, of sorts. Gave you street by street directions in pritned form on the screen, as well as the nearest gas stations. Thats how you learned things like if there is one gas station, the price is higher than an exit with 3 stations that were competing. This still rings true. One other thing about that time, you actually had to interact with each other. To Talk. Where now on the road on busses, everyone is on their phones, ipods ( I know), iPads, etc. You can spend three weeks on the road and still not know who you were toruing with if you were a hired gun. Such a different World back then. I do miss it sometimes.

@judyjetson686 Жыл бұрын

I love Conan so very much.

@tr1co0 Жыл бұрын

Hey I like this guy, he seems unfailingly funny

@wralford Жыл бұрын

I drove a taxi in the DC area in the late '80s/early '90s, so we had to use map booklets made by the Alexandria Drafting Company. It had a grid system referred by the index of streets in the back. I remember if I ended up in a new County, I'd go to the nearest 7-11 and get a map book from there. Had quite a collection! I remember a certain dispatcher being fond of saying, "where is that address? ON YOUR MAP, SIR!!"

@swamidude2214 Жыл бұрын

Another perk of being a 90s kid, I remember the holidays with my mom reading the maps, while book of the roads in Europe and when we missed an exit and my dad would about lose it 😂 driving around for hours to get to a place. It was always a task for the entire car to look at signs, which exit or street we needed. So somehow when I was 6 or 7 I learned to read the maps for my dad and always was on the lookout for signs. Then we got gps, but now I still notice Im way more used to looking at signs and often just drive on those.

@daveidmarx8296 Жыл бұрын

Being a 90s kid, you hardly had to deal with maps before GPS came out though. I mean by the time you started driving, GPS was already a thing, no?

@JNMKlover Жыл бұрын

I leave very early for anywhere. I get a soda or coffee from somewhere, and I just take my time. It's chill. I listen to Team Coco podcasts that I have downloaded, and go. Sometimes, I have to screenshot for all the turns. I hate wasting data on looking at a live picture. It's because I'm almost a Boomer. We have principles. I hate having the noise, and it doesn't tell u until ur passing the off ramp or turn. If I could impart any wisdom, leave early. Don't be stressed. Have a full belly and empty bladder. And have a reward. It helps. I drive on the highways with the ac and music I like on. It helps me concentrate. Heat makes me sleepy.

@ArneAsada69 Жыл бұрын

I lived in LA 2003-2005. This was pre-smart phones. I would print out Mapquest directions.

@moomoney6 Жыл бұрын

I was the GPS for my Mom on roadtrips! Remember figuring out the grid fondly :)

@w00master Жыл бұрын

Oh man paper maps. I do not miss them at all. Don’t forget about the Map quest era in the 90s/early aughts too.

@checkle1 Жыл бұрын

Writing down the turns ahead of time on a piece of paper and the miles between them. Then resetting the trip odometer after every major turn.

@joejuan5022 Жыл бұрын

we had gps in our heads, it frequently malfunctioned

@JonnyDIY Жыл бұрын

Dont forget Mapquest, the segway to GPS. I used to hand write all the directions from there onto a notepad. This must've been right aftwr Thomas guide. Because I remember some friends still using that

@gabriellecrichlow7017 Жыл бұрын

I remember my dad used an Atlas for long trips and then when I drove I used mapquest. Then GPS came along and changed my life!

@citisoccer Жыл бұрын

90s when I began driving. We'd always ask what the closest landmark was that we knew, and then get written direction from there to the specific spot. Never had a road map book in my lap lol. Only time those were used were for roadtrips. Road atlas and a AAA triptik.

@justtwobrotherspokemon Жыл бұрын

The closest relation I can make to the Thomas guide is Mapquest any 90s kids remember printing out Mapquest directions ?

@reev9759 26 күн бұрын

Even still, they're nothing alike.

@daveidmarx8296 Жыл бұрын

GPS was truly a game changer when it first came out. I used to use the same maps Conan was talking about. It was like playing Battleship.

@TriciawiththeTRUTH Жыл бұрын

I grew up using the back of the phone book with the grid. I was excited when we got mapquest online and could print out the directions! I finally got a smart phone after gps was integrated into phones. Otherwise, I didn't want to spend that kind of money just for a phone. To this day though, I read the directions in the gps app and don't use the map. I want to know the names of the streets I'm looking for and have all that knowledge in front of me.

@JNMKlover Жыл бұрын

I screen shot the integrated phone map. My husband still prints of very specific directions and key streets. And he knows where all the bathrooms r ahead of time. .and now that I am of a certain age, I need to know where the bathrooms r too. I even put the bathroom code in the directions, no surprises. COVID shutdown was HORRIBLE for public bathrooms! Even doctors offices and hospitals would only have one open. I'm heartbroken for all the lives lost. But the worst part of shutdown for ME, was the lack of good food, cleaning products, TP, and public bathrooms.

@RogueKT21 Жыл бұрын

Paper maps or you would get directions. CAA (Canadian Automobile Association) / AAA for the USA used to give you these things called triptik’s. That were little mini maps to guide you on long road trips! Or you got out your big Rand McNally book of maps.

@AdrianCarlisle Жыл бұрын

FAN corrections: Conan said wedding then Bar mitzvah i win nothing🤣🥳🤩

@upsetduck7566 Жыл бұрын

Can you get Kevin Brennan or Brian Kiley or both...??

@lachauntiswashington231 Жыл бұрын

great episode. I'm terrible at directions, The best way that I can get anywhere on my own is to remember landmarks and it's close to my house since I don't drive.

@jbre7233 Жыл бұрын

😅

@chancestockman Жыл бұрын

Yeah you just LEARNED THINGS

@cygam00 Жыл бұрын

When I was in high school in the mid-80's I delivered pizza -- yes, I was 16, the 'interview" went: "How old are you? Sixteen. Let me ask that again, how old are you? Eighteen. That's what I thought you said." -- in Burbank and Glendale, I lived out of that Thomas Guide in my '77 VW Bus.

@ashleygray333 Жыл бұрын

I remember printing out directions from Mapquest 😂

@vanessawhitneypro Жыл бұрын

YES! Laminated folding maps & Thomas Guide, baby!

@EattheApple666 Жыл бұрын

I used to do deliveries in the Bronx and lived on my paper maps.

@brendacurrie358 Жыл бұрын

Hilarious- these two😂😂😂

@laurapeepants1702 Жыл бұрын

I'm a good driver. I don't take my eyes off the road and I understand the rules of the road. 99% of you are dicking around on your phone, looking at the person sitting next to you, putting on makeup, don't understand how a four way stop works, don't understand right on red, can't execute a u-turn to save your life, and just in general don't take operating a 2 ton machine seriously at all.

@Am0ment0fB Жыл бұрын

MapQuest was a lifesaver back in the day. You still would get lost, but you got there eventually. Ha.

@vanbloodmoon1 Жыл бұрын

Could Conan act out the Banshee trailer?!?!

@planinskakucabaccara9636 Жыл бұрын

Benvenuto a Tiato :)

@Britenus Жыл бұрын

I was walking around the city going from one bar to another with some younger coworkers and they were pulling out their phones just to know where to walk. They didn’t have the map in their head of the streets. Brains are turning to mush.

@backoffbucko Жыл бұрын

🥺

@xploration1437 Жыл бұрын

Conebone69. Bring back The League

@michaeljacksin9367 Жыл бұрын

I think the car is doing most of the work for good drivers

@GaryTurbo Жыл бұрын

Whatever happened to mapquest?

@laurapeepants1702 Жыл бұрын

They're still around. We print them out for the delivery guys sometimes if it's super far away or somewhere we know has bad signal coverage.

@gefnuppland4810 Жыл бұрын

1977 Isuzu Opel? A Gemini? Buick? Kadett?

@daich Жыл бұрын

now imagine picking up a friend from LAX without mobile phones

@JNMKlover Жыл бұрын

We have Thomas Guides

@SuperVortex Жыл бұрын

Where's the Clueless Gamer episode at?

@AttilatheThrilla Жыл бұрын

If Nick is talking about 15 years ago from 2023 there definitely was gps lol.. I used to sell them at that time

@-.._.-_...-_.._-..__..._.-.-.- Жыл бұрын

I'm not a homicidal driver.

@aayushkalra743 Жыл бұрын

Damn I never knew that Conan dated Lisa Kudrow.

@m1l1t1am1ke Жыл бұрын

He didn't

@asc8048 Жыл бұрын

Lol has Conan name dropped anyone more than Lisa kudrow? Also I don’t think he’s doing it to make himself sound cool, she was just a part of his life at significant times and is a part of stories

@JennyHendrix69 Жыл бұрын

They dated

@asc8048 Жыл бұрын

@@JennyHendrix69 makes sense

@yvonnegougelet Жыл бұрын

She had a big impact on his life and his career.

@brokenglassshimmerlikestar3407 Жыл бұрын

I don't drive and I never will. Glad I don't live in America.

@bkbland1626 Жыл бұрын

I feel sorry for ANYONE that lived in LA for any years. Maps are pretty easy. Anyone that can't use a map is just a dipshit. As a professional(trucker), I'd say that maybe 12% of drivers are fairly proficient. Alas 92% think they are.

@joelouis-arena4061 Жыл бұрын

So that might be you then 🤔

@Lamiishere Жыл бұрын

CRINGE AF

@dicktracy3331 Жыл бұрын

Gosh, what they're talking about sounds so foreign to me. I started driving when you had to print directions off of Mapquest and even that seems ancient to me. Shortly after I had GPS in my car and can even hardly remember the Mapquest days. Kind of miss having missed the actual map times... sounds so silly.

@sm12hus Жыл бұрын

I have so much anxiety when my phone dies while driving

@sovereignprime4683 Жыл бұрын

At the beginning of the Ukraine war, Russian state television ask the question why do we need a world if Russia is not in it? my question is much more basic. Why do we need a world? I mean let's picture it imagine I'm surrounded by people who have been gang stocking me my whole life, but it was all in good fun, it was all a joke, I was just being punk'd. I have to get over myself. Is that it? if I can't leave the west, I'm done!