Elvis Duran's Daily HighlightDo your passenger princesses tell you when you're missing your exit? We are discussing why people do not tell us when we are about to go the wrong way...
Say, I'm driving the car.
We're going down the highway right, and you're sitting in the in the passenger seat, and I passed the exit.
I clearly passed the exit. I was supposed to accident. Okay.
Now, if your friend looked over at you and said, hey, where are we going, I'm like, oh my god, I totally forgot to exit. Why didn't you say something? Did you know that we were about to miss the exit? Yes, but for some reason thought you wanted to take me somewhere else. No, you should have told me there's an exit right there, and if I miss it, if I'm about to miss it, you should tell me.
As my friend.
Like in life, if you see a friend about to miss an exit, you know you can miss it.
Whatever you let him know.
Hey, you're you're doing You're about to do this to this person by saying this and that. Don't say that. Maybe think rethink that, but don't let me just keep going. This happened to me the other day. Okay, I almost I almost passed the I passed the exit, and then the question was where are we going? I'm like, oh my god, did you see me passing the exit?
Yes?
Why did and you say something because it looks like you want to take me somewhere else.
What are you doing? I don't know, so it's just a thought. Yeah, scary way.
This happens on the show a lot where you say you want to do stuff, Nate lays out some things, some instructions, and you got you go along with it. We all agree, and then you start drifting somewhere else and I don't.
I'm gonna I'm gonna let you keep going. I'm not gonna say get off of this exit because to me, I'm like, well what he had, Elvis had a better idea right now. So we're just gonna go along with it. And that's what makes the show so great, right is it?
Okay?
Well? Sometimes yeah, you improvise a lot. People think the show is scripted.
It's not.
But like you do, go in directions, and if you're going in a direction, we're not gonna stop you.
Okay.
Well, is that the same as exiting because we have a twelve o'clock lunch reservation at that exit behind us, Gandhi, you're.
With me on this, right? No?
I yes, I am with you on this. But I also think that there are some people who do not want to be told that they're missing the exit. Like my dad if and I'm doing this very literally, if I were to tell him you're about to miss that exit, he'll tell me all the reasons why that's what he planned. So I'm like, who's in the space to be told you're about to miss the exit?
Twelve o'clock lunch.
I'm going to tell you something.
Else I might not now.
Was this person the designated navigator or were you? No?
No, no, no, no, just just you know the part they are a part of the car community that I think they're totally not at fault in this instance.
Well, well no, I'm not. Okay, let me let me they are. Okay, there's fault there.
Yeah, it's not as much fault as in, are you the type of person who will catch me before I fall?
I guess. I guess.
I'm trying to make this like a simple conversation about who is there looking out for you to keep you from like making an ass of yourself or losing a client or getting getting fired.
Ah yeah, but I think you have to be careful when because with car situations, if we're going to be literal, there are certain people who get very offended. If you tell him what the hell to do in a car scary in life. In life situations they might be different. But yeah, if you tell Scary where to go, Scary tells the Uber driver where to go.
In the car, and which makes everyone in the car so yes, unhappy. I politely suggest where to come from, don't okay? Well I tell you there's a different Sometimes ubers, you know, they use ways, and sometimes sometimes their map really should be watched because the map knows what we don't know sometimes about traffic patterns.
Isn't that?
But like the other the day we got into a cab. We were going, We're going uptown. The guy starts driving down toward downtown. I'm like, oh, this guy's not going so well. Maybe he's gonna take the East River or he's gonna do he would he was going all the way down to like World Trade, and I'm finally I said let us out, we are not going this way. And I'm like, Alex, how long were we gonna go without telling him we're gonna let him take us all the way to Delaware until we said maybe you should turn. Yeah, the text are great. I go through this all the time. I have the worst co pilot ever. Uh oh, you can always just take the next exit then come back. See that's true. I like that outlook. The worst is I know I have to exit and then they say it. Yeah, people know it all is in the car. I have to disagree. I get an annoyed when someone jumps the gun on telling me to exit. See a lot of people get irritated people telling them how to drive.
Yes, I'm waiting for the GPS. Though one day when I miss my exit to say, hey, dumbass, you're supposed to get out over there, Stupid, I told you that's the GPS I want in the car.
Okaya, yell me even metaphorically with life. How we were just saying, you know, some people get annoyed if you try to tell them the exit because you told them too soon. Isn't that the same with catching someone before they fall? Like a lot of people will get very irritated if you try, like you think you're looking out for someone, and they're like, get out of my life. Got to you gotta know your audience walk that line.
Let me tell you I will not tell my husband how I was driving, because that did not turn out well. A couple of times, so I'm just like, oh, you can get off the wrong exit.
God, yeah, you sounds like you got burned. You got burnt, mat Okay. If I'm the driver, I would prefer you say nothing as opposed to doing me.
What did you do?
It's gonna get down right here.
That don't do that? Yeah, that makes me rack.
You if you do. Have you ever been with someone who pulls the steering wheel?
No, no.
Pull.
I made this rule when I was in high school. There's a line down the center of that car. Your hand does not come over that line.
Attack and you die in the middle of your driving.
Then I there's nothing worse than yeah, will hard attack you. It's different, but there's nothing worse than someone grabbing your wheel, which is dangerous or at least go look there's John and they reach over and they honk your horn in the middle. No, no, I will know you just like Denzel Washington.
Can you will not?
No?
No, no stop.
I'm the worst passengers because I'm a nervous passenger. So if you get too close to the other car and I think you're gonna hit them, like, I go.
Oh God, because I feel like you break to you know.
To take you too long to break drives me crazy?
Is what is car?
What are these cars I have? I need to figure out how to fix this. It has a screen in front of the passenger, okay, and they can choose what they can see on the screen. They can see what they can see, uh, navigation, they can see the music. They can basically control a lot of my functions over there. And I don't like that. I don't like them having all that control on their side of the car. Whoever designed this car, they thought, oh, this would be great. Let's give the passengers some control and you know, something to do, you know, over on their side of the car. No, that's my car. I'm the captain. I'm the captain of this ship. If all right, if you if you do see an iceberg ahead of us, okay, let me know and we'll discuss calmly.
Let me know.
For instance, Nate Marie and Nate Marino is going to be picking me up, you know, Nate straight, Nate gonna be picking me up. We're gonna go have lunch and then drive down the Jersey shore tomorrow. I'm anxious to see how he drives. I've never ridden in a just a few times early in the morning, and sometimes he would run stop lights and almost get hit.
That happened once distracted.
Sorry, Now, if he's going to go the wrong way or the long way, are you going to correct him?
Elvis?
Well, no, no, he will be on He will be on navigation. So you were not going. If I decide to go the wrong way, you will not say something.
If you're going where navigation tells you to go. I mean, you know, unless it's obvious. But see you scary. If he's a passenger in your car, it's the worst day of your life.
Yeah, you during my car car a couple of times a week. What's wrong with the way?
Ever?
No, no, no, I said, No, you a passenger in micro if you're driving, scary tries to control everything. Yeah, where you're driving, what lane, what lane you're in, the speed you're driving.
The temperature, the radio at, what we're listening to experience also scary.
He has certainly complained before. He called me while you were in the car to say, how do you do this? I think I'm going to die?
Elvis?
Did that? You were in the car next to him. Who's you? Who was talking to.
You?
Said you feared for your life?
Yeah, well, I told everyone on the phone that day. These are my loved one told me to takeodbye to them. You know, because you're driving me, you are a little He.
Was telling us about his wishes for the future.
All right, so you know it is a metaphor, yea being there for someone they're about to take the exit.
What do you do? Yeah, okay, something about I can't imagine. Obviously, you had a list of things you wanted me to do, and we did nothing. We talked about driving a car.
Now, that was a great conversation.
You didn't take the exit.
