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Hitting the Road with GPS

TechStuff

iHeartPodcasts

Technology, Tech News, News

4.31.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

How does GPS work? How can satellites tell you where you are? And what does Einstein have to do with all of this? 

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0:00.0

For 10 years I've been obsessed with one of the most bizarre and audacious cons in rock and roll history.

0:07.0

We were all facing 20 years and all that that stuff.

0:10.0

The lead singer tried to pull off in an English accent and they went on the road as the zombies.

0:15.7

These guys are not going to get away with it. The zombies are too popular.

0:20.0

Listen to the true story of the fake zombies on the I Heart Radio app, Apple

0:27.5

Podcast or wherever you get your podcast.

0:38.0

Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from I Heart Radio. Hey there and welcome to TechStuff. I'm your host Jonathan Strickland. I'm an

0:46.4

executive producer with I-Heart Podcasts and how the Tech are you? So y'all I

0:50.9

love to travel. I love to visit new places or revisit ones after I've been away for a long time.

1:00.0

I even don't really mind the journey part of travel which can often be you know stressful

1:06.2

in a hassle if things aren't going well.

1:09.1

One thing that does give me a huge amount of anxiety if I'm traveling is just getting lost or even the

1:16.4

thought of getting lost I do not do very well with that there's some part of my

1:20.6

brain that mistakenly believes that as long as I know where I am, nothing can go too wrong.

1:27.6

And boy, I wish that were true, but, you know, whatever. I just need my brain to let me function properly when I'm out on

1:35.6

holiday so I remember traveling on my honeymoon to London at that point I had never

1:42.4

been outside the United States before. This was my first

1:45.6

trip outside the country and I was going to a city that I had read about extensively. I knew a lot about

1:52.4

London. My major in college was in English literature, but it was with a focus on medieval studies, so things had changed slightly by the time I got there. And reading about a city is very different from actually walking around one.

2:07.0

Also, my honeymoon was in the 1990s, because I'm old.

2:11.7

And that meant I was a decade out from the era of smartphones

2:16.2

so I didn't have a handy mobile device to tell me where I was as I wandered around the city

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