Thomas Guide
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Sep 18, 2026
Tom PapaHOST
Yeah, I still don't know neighborhoods.
Sarah TianaGUEST
You know, when I first moved here, 'cause I moved to LA in 2001, we had to have the Thomas Guide to get around everywhere.
Sarah TianaGUEST
Do you remember the Thomas Guide?
Tom PapaHOST
The, yeah.
Sarah TianaGUEST
Um, when I think of you I always think of you l- moving here recently.
Tom PapaHOST
Like, when people ask like, yeah, uh, they don't know where you live, it means I don't get out much.
Tom PapaHOST
[laughs] But I do like that thing, you know?
Sarah TianaGUEST
Yeah, I think, yeah, I just feel like living here there's, there's just so many different pockets and like I, I, when I first started doing comedy and I would have the Thomas Guide or I was like doing extra work, I would get directions to-
Michael VegasGUEST
Yes, indeed.
Michael VegasGUEST
Man, I was late to a call one time, but that's because GPS didn't exist, and you had to race to an emergency by way of Thomas Guide.
Michael VegasGUEST
So I'm like looking up, where's fucking C4 in Gardenia? And heading down just like wrong street over and over.
Michael VegasGUEST
Thank God for the fire department.
Maye MuskGUEST
I don't know if you had them.
Maye MuskGUEST
Thomas Guide.
Maye MuskGUEST
Yeah, the maps.
Maye MuskGUEST
And then you would see, okay, now I have to make a right here and a left there.
CorrineHOST
Listening to my seven-year-old nephew sounding out words last week, a dark thought occurred.
CorrineHOST
How long before the three Rs become as outdated among young people as Thomas Guide maps? As machines get smarter, kids are getting dumber.
CorrineHOST
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence have been matched by an astonishing decline in student learning.
CorrineHOST
More evidence arrived last week from the Program for International Student Assessment, which measures skills of 15 year olds around the world every three to four years.
CorrineHOST
Listening to my seven-year-old nephew sounding out words last week, a dark thought occurred.
CorrineHOST
How long before the three Rs become as outdated among young people as Thomas Guide maps? As machines get smarter, kids are getting dumber.
CorrineHOST
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence have been matched by an astonishing decline in student learning.
CorrineHOST
More evidence arrived last week from the Program for International Student Assessment, which measures skills of 15 year olds around the world every three to four years.
Eddie LindensteinHOST
is.
Eddie LindensteinHOST
Map, like a Thomas Guide map, right, with a P?
Ashley LongGUEST
Oh, math, M-A-T-H. Glad I
Eddie LindensteinHOST
asked.
Connor MacIvorHOST
So this is interesting.
Connor MacIvorHOST
Back beginning LAPD, we had RD maps, Thomas Guides in California.
Connor MacIvorHOST
If you're a Southern California person, maybe they have those for elsewhere too.
Connor MacIvorHOST
But Thomas Guides out here, it's basically a big map book.
Connor MacIvorHOST
Well, now they went to TomTom.
Connor MacIvorHOST
I don't know if that was the next exact thing, but Then it went to MapQuest.
Shelley SeddonHOST
No, I didn't meet Pamela because she was only on the first two seasons, and that was before I got there.
Shelley SeddonHOST
But, you know, I just copied script pages, got food for the craft services table, babysat the home improvement child actors, and basically drove around L.A. with this massive Thomas Guide map book.
Shelley SeddonHOST
feet of my car because this was before gps right and the show starred zachary ty bryant who has actually faced multiple arrests and legal issues over the years even earlier this year he received a 16 month jail sentence for felony dui the show also starred one of the major teen heartthrobs at the time jtt jonathan taylor thomas who ended up going to harvard
Fleur MichellHOST
I see JTT is mainly a behind the scenes person in the industry.
Matt SlayerHOST
I was a field technician in the late 90s, early 2000s.
Matt SlayerHOST
And I had Thomas guides for both Cook and Lake County in Illinois.
Matt SlayerHOST
And it was a pain in the ass enough to get around there.
Matt SlayerHOST
I can only imagine how much of a pain in the dick it was to get around LA.
Chauncey LeopardiGUEST
You know what I mean? Like, you live in a car.
Chauncey LeopardiGUEST
Yeah, exactly, with the Thomas Guide.
Chauncey LeopardiGUEST
I
Natanya RossHOST
know, exactly.
Natanya RossHOST
And before the Thomas Guide, when they would print the fucking directions up for
Chauncey LeopardiGUEST
you.
Chauncey LeopardiGUEST
Yeah, yeah, MapQuest.
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