Road atlases

Known for being maps

Famous for being analog, books of maps.

Nobody thinks much about them, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why Road Atlases are secretly incredibly fascinating. It's amazing.

Hey there, folks.

Welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name is Alec Schmidt and I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden, Katie.

Yes.

What is your relationship to or opinion of Road Atlases?

I can't use them. I don't know how to do it. I'm not a good navigator.

That is not one of my strong suits. I can listen to bird calls and be like, that's a tit or that's a, that's a black-eyed Phoebe, but give me an atlas and I will run us like off of a cliff,

sort of wily coyote style.

I know a lot of people were like, I was born in the wrong generation.

I was absolutely born in the right generation.

I need a smartphone to tell me where to go or I can't do it.

I appreciate the intention of the Atlas.

If you hand me one, you might as well have handed me some kind of, you know,

Zodiac killer code. It doesn't make any sense to me. Yeah, we're both in our 30s,

and I guess road navigation went from zero GPS to amazing GPS in our lifetimes. Yeah. Like on family road trips as a kid, we would just use a road atlas.

And I would like probably pretend to help by looking at the Atlas and helping.

I'm sure both my parents just figured it out first and then let me play with the Atlas.

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