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When all our phones inevitably go rogue and use GPS to drive us into the clutches of our robot overlords, you'll look back on this day and think of how great it is that you learned how to use a real map.
Transcript
- 00:14
Angus is sick of the playground. [Angus looking green at the playground]
- 00:15
His babysitter, Marla, takes him there every single day.
- 00:19
How many times can he swing in the same swing? [Angus on a swing]
- 00:22
How many times can he slide down the same slide?
- 00:24
How many times can he pretend he likes that weird kid whose pockets are always stuffed
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- 00:28
with dead bugs?
- 00:29
Enough is enough.
- 00:30
Angus begs Marla to take him to the zoo. [Angus begging Marla to go to the zoo]
- 00:33
Marla doesn’t mind, but she doesn't actually know where the zoo is…
- 00:36
"No problem!" says Angus…
- 00:38
He explains that they'll have to go straight for a little while….
- 00:41
Turn right by the dog with the big, floppy ears…
- 00:43
Go left at that statue covered with pigeon poo… [Statue covered in pigeon poop]
- 00:46
And then hang a right at the grumpy hot dog man with the hairy mole on his face.
- 00:50
Er…hang on a sec…there are a couple problems with Angus’s directions, right? [Marla looking confused at Angus's directions]
- 00:55
What if that dog isn’t still there?
- 00:57
What if the statue was cleaned over night and they walk right by it?
- 01:00
And it's never a good idea to go near the grumpy hot dog man with the hairy mole on [Grumpy hotdog man throwing a hotdog at a passer-by]
- 01:04
his face.
- 01:05
He's super mean.
- 01:06
Marla tells Angus that his directions are too vague.
- 01:09
They’ll never find the zoo like that.
- 01:11
Angus feels like he’s going to cry. [Angus crying]
- 01:13
Just in the nick of time, Marla figures out how to save the day.
- 01:16
She says it’s time for Angus to learn how to read a map.
- 01:18
Angus isn’t so sure, but Marla tells him it’s the only way to get to the zoo… [Marla telling Angus he must learn to read a map]
- 01:22
Plus, it’ll come in handy if he ever finds a pirate treasure map.
- 01:26
With that, Angus is convinced.
- 01:27
So Marla digs her phone out of her gigantic purse and pulls up a map of where they are. [Marla using her phone to show Angus a map]
- 01:32
She points to where the playground is on the map and asks Angus if he sees the zoo.
- 01:36
Angus is like, "how about this place labeled "zoo," c'mon, Marla, I'm not an infant.
- 01:41
I can read."
- 01:42
Sassy Angus.
- 01:43
Angus looks closely at the map and tells her that it looks like they go down West Park [Finger pointing to West Park Drive on the phone map]
- 01:47
Drive…
- 01:48
Marla tells him he’s right so far, but asks him how they’ll know when to turn.
- 01:52
Angus takes another close look at the map and tells Marla that they’ll have to go
- 01:55
left on Maple St, which funnily enough, is where that statue is…Maple and West Park [Statue covered in pigeon poop by a Maple St sign]
- 02:00
Drive.
- 02:01
Then, they'll go down Maple till they see a sign for the zoo.
- 02:03
Well done, Angus.
- 02:05
As they walk off of the playground, Angus asks… [Angus and Marla walking away from the playground]
- 02:07
"Hey, Marla, how come we didn’t just use the GPS?"
- 02:11
Marla reminds him that he still needs to know how to read a map.
- 02:14
What if he does find a treasure map some day?
- 02:16
Pirate maps don’t have robot voices. [Marla places pirate hat on Angus' head]
- 02:18
"Silly Marla," thinks Angus.
- 02:20
"Always forgetting about space pirate maps."
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