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In this episode, we take a closer look at the state of the gig economy, exploring the Quest program from Uber and the potential impact of Lyft's new CEO on the company's future. Our discussions take some unexpected turns, including a viral TikTok video from an Amazon Flex driver and the debate between Apple and Android users. Plus, we share some hilarious stories about delivering food to high schools and the possible risks associated with allowing teenagers to ride unaccompanied in our cars.
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Hey guys, welcome to the gig economy podcast where I murder Yesper for shaking the table. Hey, how's everyone doing tonight? Yesper and I had beers. I am back from Mexico, he's back from Mexico. Janet says hello from down under. I mean, if you're New Zealander, can you can say down under? I thought that was only Australian thing, because I don't know It. That TV looks like it's both fall off the wall. No, it's, it's a figure of your imagination.
Speaker 2:It's because he was playing whatever you're playing, Yeah yeah, I was playing Call of Duty.
Speaker 1:So, it's, it's completely firm.
Speaker 2:Pete is completely firm. The TV right Yep.
Speaker 1:Anyways, remember when I think we initially met Janet, She was like um hold on.
Speaker 2:Sorry, That's what she said, she, she, maybe she moved that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't see it. I know I keep doing this to find it that you're like you. New Zealand is like eight to 10 hours from New Zealand. Right, it's like, it's like a like a flight Eight to 10 hours Right.
Speaker 2:I don't ask Janet, i don't know, anyways, but she can do whatever she wants. She's Janet man.
Speaker 1:She's Janet, she rules.
Speaker 3:Come on.
Speaker 1:I love her so much. So anyways guys, this gig economy podcast as we get off track. I had two beers, so we know what that means. Uh, before we jump into the show, just real quick, i would love, absolutely love, and I will even give you some gig economy merch which he can't afford. I can't afford anything in my life. Let's just be. Let's be honest. If you review the show on Apple podcast and send me a screenshot, i'll send you a goodie bag. I won't tell you what it is.
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Speaker 2:We'll see how the end of the show goes. Two beer, jason, evidence goes no Yeah.
Speaker 1:Normally we do an extra one twice a month after the show, but we'll see.
Speaker 2:Genesis is a three hours and 45 minutes flight from north, that's basically probably the flight from Grand Rapids to California. Oh, absolutely, yeah, Roughly probably about four hours.
Speaker 1:So down under means under the equator, Generally Australia and New Zealand.
Speaker 3:Fair enough, fair enough. Oh, i better take this.
Speaker 1:All the things he knows, i know right, let's get this Whoops, let's get this off. So yeah, join Patreon if you love the show and you love to support us. We'd really appreciate it. Telegram group We added a new local driver. Don't know her name, i know it's a female. I actually posted in the group Facebook group and she joined. Hopefully, gabriel helped her out with some advice about different things. So if you were, Gabriel rocks, gabriel does rock.
Speaker 2:He's awesome.
Speaker 1:If you want extra help or communication or just water cooler talk, join the Telegram group. Absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 2:And I might be back there one of these days too.
Speaker 1:I know I'm going to call you out again. You drove last weekend, right?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Yeah, i tried it.
Speaker 2:No, i tried it too, because I couldn't.
Speaker 1:You didn't even go out that weekend. I couldn't remember because I was gone. Well, I was out.
Speaker 2:I was technically in my car. I had it already in the middle, i couldn't get online.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I said you didn't go on and lift it off, no, ok, so I was going to throw, see the problem is I don't.
Speaker 2:I'm not really. I mean, i'm active on lift, but I don't have my lift sticker, so I don't know anything like that. So I'm, like I feel so unprepared.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's the same platform, dude. I know It's like you don't need a lift sticker. For God's sake, that's such an excuse for you to go home and drink beer.
Speaker 2:I know, but it works.
Speaker 1:Anyways, yeah, join the telegram group. I was actually I was going to give you shit because I thought you did drive last week And I'm like you didn't chat at all in the group, like I was gone all weekend, you worked. I was like that motherfucker, like I'm not at home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you were home, i didn't even realize that. So, anyways, we had the B side. Last week We had a guest named Jason from Drive to Win 13. Check out his YouTube channel. Check out our show first, of course, listen to it. It was a good interview, 36 minutes in and out pretty fast. He is very into Turro, so if you're interested in getting started in Turro, you want to head to his page because that's where you're going to get a start to finish of how to do it.
Speaker 2:And he talks a lot about also kind of market size when it comes to Turro. That's kind of interesting. Lots of very cool, i think, tips and pointers.
Speaker 1:Yeah, not a typical gig job, but I think it's important to kind of like you're in this mentality of being an independent contractor. So I think it's worth kind of exploring other things than Instacart or Uber or DoorDash And that's kind of residual income. I mean, yeah, you do have the maintenance and those insurance and stuff like that, but you're going to have that in anything. I mean, you have that doing Instacart, you have maintenance and insurance. You have to pay.
Speaker 2:So he had four or six vehicles. He had four, four vehicles, all paid for by Turro, by the way.
Speaker 1:Well, some of them do have loans on it, but they're paid. currently He's not used a penny of his Exactly, yeah, yeah, exactly Stories for the road. Jesper has none.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't have any stories from the road per se, but I want to talk just a little bit about Mexico. Well, aren't we going to talk about that later in the show? Well, we are, but I'm not going to talk about that.
Speaker 1:Got you, i'm going to talk about that.
Speaker 2:So the thing that was surprising to me is how much Uber was actually used in Mexico. So we went to Puerto Vallada, which is on the West Coast. I was bragging camp.
Speaker 1:I couldn't tell you. The West Coast of Mexico, is it the West Coast of Mexico, the same West Coast like California?
Speaker 2:Yeah, OK, that makes it Just goes down for the next one, i'm an asshole.
Speaker 1:You know geographical when it's attached to What do we talk No math or geography on this?
Speaker 2:show, there you go. That's true. So the thing that was surprising to me is kind of what I want to talk about is all the cars were smaller, which is not necessarily that surprising, but if you ordered a Comfort, a Kia Rio showed up.
Speaker 3:And that's a small car, i know.
Speaker 2:And that was most of the time. That's what we would get, like a Kia Rio with a Comfort car right. And the XL was a I forget the brand, but it was called an Avalans And it was like a station car.
Speaker 1:I forget the manufacturer of it Like a station wagon.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what it was. That was an XL But it had a third seat. Interesting, but it was like tiny compared to the XL that we are used to.
Speaker 1:What would their Uber X be then? So?
Speaker 2:a bike, a bike, yeah, something like that, but it was definitely small sedans. That's so strange, so that was interesting that they were just kind of They didn't have any like Uber black down there or anything. No, no, no, no, no. Uber X XL and Comfort what they had.
Speaker 1:Jesper's a gambler. He like went off the resort and everything He's like. he's just living it up in Mexico.
Speaker 2:We had so much fun.
Speaker 1:But again it was a safe town. I mean it's still touristy, but you still do run a risk of getting kidnapped.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah but I mean come on.
Speaker 1:Who's going to kidnap you?
Speaker 2:Take one look at me and they're like fuck no, i'm not dragging that asshole in a car.
Speaker 1:No way, that's not going to happen.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, I went to the gym this morning. I'm not taking that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Well, i'm glad you had fun. It was tons of fun. And I don't really have any stories. I've been busy the last couple of weekends. This weekend I'm not driving. It's Memorial Day weekend, so we'll probably go up north. Well, probably we will be going up north, but I only have one week of bus driving left next week And then I'm going to be back digging like a whore.
Speaker 2:And you have to right. Because, it's down right now. I mean.
Speaker 1:Well, i mean, i don't know, gig work seems to be slowing down a little bit, but I might have to work at night. I'm really thinking like I have to change up my like sleeping in the morning, hang out with the kids for a while and then head out like Have you thought about doing the old Pete schedule? I thought about it. I might have to go, like you know, get dirty and work your schedule.
Speaker 2:Well, that's what Pete was doing. He was working all Friday, all Saturday and half a Sunday, But then he took the next four days off. He worked.
Speaker 1:Thursday too, Don't he took, he basically took, like half a Sunday off, monday, tuesday, wednesday off, and then he worked some of Thursday, but yeah, i don't know. I thought about it.
Speaker 2:Only half a Thursday. Yeah, So like Thursday evening he's sleeping. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Take the day off on or half day on Thursday, but I mean he was doing straight ride share though.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, so am I.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you're just a weekend warrior, so I know I think because I'm like You're broke now. You just got my vacation. Like you just ordered seven and a half yards of mulch. I mean you're feeling the pinch.
Speaker 2:Shut down because of the damn Yeah. We'll talk about that later. Yeah, I know, Okay.
Speaker 1:Anyways. So let's jump into gig economy in the news.
Speaker 2:Gig economy in the news.
Speaker 1:And first is a video. This is interesting. This is in Atlanta. It's a. it's a ride share service, But let me know if you're comfortable with this after you watch it. I'm not sure I am. It's 41 seconds.
Speaker 3:Hey, is this your car? Yes, sir, it is What's happening. What do you do for a little more? So I own the Black Wolf app. So Uber and Lyft that's an app, correct? Yeah, same as mine. Only difference is I got armed drivers. We provide security. We want to make everybody safe and feel secure. All right, let's just say you're riding, your mom says, hey, i want you to go somewhere. If your mom is worried about you, guess what? I can send her a link. Your mom can live track me and she can live.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Uber can do that too, she can see you.
Speaker 1:And you guys said you're armed.
Speaker 3:You're armed As you can tell. You're all licensed and insured. This is for our customers. I've been on the White House, Capitol Hill, every major hip hop artist you can possibly think of IG, Black Wolf, app.
Speaker 1:So what do you think about that?
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 1:I know what.
Speaker 2:No, I would not use them at all. Why wouldn't you, because if I want a bodyguard, i would hire a bodyguard.
Speaker 1:I should have done some research and tried to download it as you're talking.
Speaker 2:I actually looked at it and it is an app And if you go to blackwolfappcom you'll see it, but it was just. I did not. you know registrar's, i could see how much it costs and stuff like that. I just they require it looked like if you wanted to be a driver. they have both armed drivers and they have non-armed drivers.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, I'm downloading around And the unarmed.
Speaker 2:I guess it's unarmed. Unarmed drivers have to be willing to use Mace, because basically the idea is that they still have to be able to protect the passenger. Yeah, and you can only be a driver if you have a full-size SUV.
Speaker 1:Okay, Black Black. Yeah, i mean, i think it's interesting, but how many people are gonna use an app to order that? You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Oh sure.
Speaker 1:Like oh honey, let's go out. Oh, we're gonna use this. Like I feel like he's marketing to the wrong people.
Speaker 2:I think there's a very, very small audience.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, like customers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and only Only a handful of major cities which really would be interesting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, i mean, i guess if you were like, let's say, you're an up-and-coming rapper, right, and you don't have a lot of connections throughout the country, and you rolled up and be like, hey, i need protection or whatever driving around, i can see that, but like you and I are gonna use that.
Speaker 2:No, and honestly, he's just gonna hire a bodyguard.
Speaker 1:Well, even now, because he still need a professional driver. Well, yeah. You're saying like hire a bodyguard to ride with you.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, i mean honestly, that's probably more protection than having a driver. Because he's focusing on driving. He should be. Yeah, exactly Yeah, mark. I bet someone in the past also said I mean, who would use an app to order and ride? Of course, a hundred percent. I'm not being like back in my day. I mean I'm all up with technology, i love it, but I'm just saying like, can you imagine the? you know how much that would cost.
Speaker 2:I am sure that that is a lot of money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it's not gonna be like an Uber X price. I'm gonna get a stay Feel like a rock star.
Speaker 2:I mean it would be interesting. I just don't think they'll ever come to Grand Rapids.
Speaker 1:Fuck, no, i just This Dutch city. no one's gonna pay for that shit. No, Half the time people don't wanna pay for an XL.
Speaker 2:Let's be honest here in this city, passengers are packing themselves.
Speaker 1:I mean, i don't know. I mean in the city it's more liberal than packing.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, yeah, no, i don't know, i don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, janet, maybe I'll suit Prince Harry and Meghan.
Speaker 2:But my point, though, is Prince Harry and Meghan already has a bodyguard. Yeah, i mean Exactly The people. These are the people, the people who use that service already have it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but again I just wanna know the pricing. Like, oh sure, we should try to get them on the show. Fuck it, let's get them on the show. Like who cares, we'll do an interview, it'd be fun.
Speaker 2:There we go.
Speaker 1:Just to see, just to be.
Speaker 2:Change our mind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe they'll be like you would be shocked at how many regular customers we have, you know. But anyways, yeah, change my mind, change my mind. All right, next video.
Speaker 2:So this one is also a video, but very interesting. Talks about the class action lawsuit against DoorDash.
Speaker 1:Get ready for iPhone and Android debate. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4:I wanna show you some proof How, if you and your roommate order the exact same DoorDash order from the exact same place at the exact same time, you might get charged differently, and why. This is all alleged in the amended complaint for the $1 billion DoorDash class action regarding DoorDash's predatory pricing. So first, iphone customers are charged more than Android users. Allegedly, as DoorDash knows, iphone users are in a higher income bracket. Yeah, yes, sir So you got these examples, like Chick-fil-A, by an iPhone user.
Speaker 1:What do I care? Fruitka Pashbrunbel 27.39.
Speaker 4:Now we switch to the Android user 26.39. The exact same time, exact same order. The difference is in the delivery fee Orchiputle, when chicken burrito bowl, for an iPhone user is 27.52. The Android user, 25.53. The difference is in the delivery fee Gyoza and rice from Koto Sake Japanese Steakhouse 26.89 for an iPhone user, 24.89 for someone who orders on an Android. And same time, same delivery address, same order. Also in this class action, how DashPass is a scam As they get you to buy DashPass by saying that it'll reduce your fee, but allegedly they just charge you expanded range fee. They don't tack on to non-DashPass user Who plays an order with the exact same time, exact same place. Look here at a chipotle order from a DashPass account 15.80, including a 99 cent expanded range fee. Look, same time, same place, same delivery address From a standard non-DashPass account, no expanded range fee. More examples like this in the class action. I'll keep you posted.
Speaker 1:So what's interesting is, all those extra charges are on the delivery fee. They're like not changing the price of, so you know it's DoorDash doing it. It's not like the price of the food is different.
Speaker 2:It's true. And so those extra fees, yes, are interesting, But the other one, the other, the other, the price of the delivery fee, they're just gonna blame it on the what's it called, the surge pricing. You know, supply and demand.
Speaker 1:I don't know if they really have that in DoorDash, though.
Speaker 2:Well, if it's busy, don't you think that their algorithm to increase the price a little bit, i mean, I haven't ordered enough, or even I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't even know if they have that. I think at some point they may, but I guess I've never really experienced that or even thought about it.
Speaker 2:So, pete, when you use an Amazon tablet, it's half price.
Speaker 1:Who's using Amazon tablet. It gets there in three hours and it's a half price.
Speaker 2:But it's an interesting concept, though, to see if actually it's, i mean, if it's actually the truth, and whether or not are they gonna be able to prove it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, i mean, obviously she's an attorney. Again, it's TikTok. take it with a grain of salt. I would say this is TikTok. Could be a fake attorney, although on TikTok I feel like there's a lot of justice. If you fuck around you'll find out on TikTok.
Speaker 1:There's so many creators out there that like find people and like anyways, but it doesn't surprise me. I feel like I remember recently, recently, within the last five years there was another lawsuit between iPhone and Android too, like they were charging more, but I couldn't tell you what company it was, but I feel like this is familiar somehow. Yeah, do you recall anything?
Speaker 2:Nope, but again, we were just talking about pricing early, right Earlier that the new iPhone was like 1200 dollars.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think mine was 1100.
Speaker 2:The new Pixel coming out at 1700 dollars. It's like these phones are just ridiculous And I don't know if it's actually going to be true five years from now. If it's gonna be true that the Apple is always like a higher clientele, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I think the statistics are skewed because Android has a ton of phones. Oh absolutely One iPhone. So I mean I wonder if you took the statistics where you got rid of all the poverty phones.
Speaker 2:Oh sure.
Speaker 1:You just did the Samsung, the high end Samsung and the high end Google. I wonder if it would be pretty similar, but But anyways, so Well, watch that. I mean I have an iPhone I've ordered on DoorDash, so maybe I can sue because I've been overcharged.
Speaker 2:Hey, you might get a class X in a suit Come on in. I know it might be a dollar 50, i guess I signed up for the class X in last year against what's it called Steam.
Speaker 1:Really, what was theirs about?
Speaker 2:That was some other bullshit. I mean, it's charged too much. You know, i might get like $4 back. Oh.
Speaker 1:Megan used. Have you ever seen ads for Noom for weight loss? It's like an app that it's like they took it. She got $150 from a lawsuit Cause. I don't know what it was, but she filled it out and all of a sudden she got. They Venmo'd her $150. It wasn't even a check. They I don't know what to tell you. We got $150.
Speaker 2:Better keep an eye on that.
Speaker 1:Oh no, it was a year ago so it's good, but anyways but It was a scam, Yeah probably, but I'll take $150 scam, All right. what do we got here?
Speaker 2:Ugh.
Speaker 1:Oh, creeper, creeper DoorDash. Obviously this is DoorDash, if you can't tell. and it says hand to recipient. it says I want a woman. I mean, does that not scream rapist or predator? I'm like, why would I mean again, we don't even have to talk about it too much. This guy just seems like a complete Creeper And I like the comment not today. say Yeah yeah, not today. fuck that, Yes, Burr.
Speaker 2:I think you brought up one question that I obviously we won't go back to it, but the whole point about Uber saying that now you have to have real names And that kind of stuff. so that'll be interesting to see.
Speaker 1:Well, they don't. They say you do. But if you already have a fucked up name, they're not making you change it. They weren't, unless someone reports.
Speaker 2:Uber is going through all the that was the article I was saying there Going through all the old accounts and they're gonna make you, force you to change it.
Speaker 1:If it doesn't get approved. I thought it had to be like if we reported it or something.
Speaker 2:No, the whole point was, they were gonna have you, force you to change it.
Speaker 1:Does it really matter though?
Speaker 2:No, but you know.
Speaker 1:I don't care, you don't care, i don't care what your name is.
Speaker 2:You want the money.
Speaker 1:I just want to get paid.
Speaker 2:It's okay if my name is. I want a woman.
Speaker 1:That was a comment, that was not a name. Oh, the comment was hand to recipient. The comment was I want a woman.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's, true, Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, let's see yo, this is crazy.
Speaker 2:So it's crazy, but it's also I feel like. I mean, after I was done reading it, i felt like this article is just click, it's just click bait. I mean. Well, i mean most articles are. It's just so, basically, it's not like he's saying we are looking for people to buy us Right, that's not at all what it is. Yeah, somebody brought it up in an interview and he basically says I mean, if somebody is entertaining, the right price we will, of course, look at it.
Speaker 1:Oh, is that all it was.
Speaker 2:Oh, i thought that like. So. Yahoo Finance video discuss the comments. So basically says lift isn't actively pursuing a sale but it would be open to offers. Of course, david Richel said an interview on Bloomberg television appearing to soften his view from earlier this year about a potential transaction. At no point does he bring up saying that there's an active buyer or anything like that. Well, yeah, i know It's just. I mean, when I read the article it's like sure somebody comes and throws like 10 billion dollars on my desk. I'm gonna consider it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's where the articles suck. Because you're like oh my God, look at, we knew it. The new CEO is in like. And why did he say that He probably got?
Speaker 2:So I think the biggest thing that the article was trying to say was six months ago that CEO would have said no, absolutely not Yeah. And so right now he's kind of softening his tone a little bit and he's like yeah, okay, maybe If the price is right.
Speaker 1:So I mean there is some validity to it because he, even mentioning it, like the old CEO, would never have mentioned that Right. So even him mentioning it, I know it might be like yeah, for the right price or whatever. But I mean, even though it's a little tongue in cheek, it's still something to think about.
Speaker 2:I mean, he's gotta do something, right. That's the thing They hired him to save it. This is the last article I read. Was that this is the last hurrah whatever you wanna say, you know trying to get him to save this company because otherwise they're gonna go down?
Speaker 1:I had this scenario and I can't think of it now, but I'm gonna bring it up and maybe you can bring it out to me. But, like I thought about the Uber Quest, how they're changing What is there? somehow Uber is gonna push people into lift. And what if that's like a ploy, because you know, right, you, you have to earn $700, let's say, and you get an extra $40 or $30, like what is? what is uber's play With? making these quests almost dog shit?
Speaker 2:Well, I mean. So one thing that the article was bringing up was the fact that uber actually don't want lift to to leave. Uber doesn't know, because then they're just gonna get a big hassle with being the only market, the only one on the market, and they're gonna have this um, what are they calling the whole? There's special laws about being the only ones. Oh, like being a monopoly exactly and so they really have no interest in, because they're winning anyways, right, yeah, they have no interest in lift in depth leaving.
Speaker 1:What do you think uber's play is with these stupid quest though? It's gonna push people to lift though, like why would I go work and earn 800? So what do you normally like when you do those big weekends? you usually earn roughly like 800 bucks, right, yes, then plus 250 $300 bonus.
Speaker 2:No, no, that's after the bonus, so I'll make. I'll make like 700 awesome in the bonus.
Speaker 1:Okay, so some of those quests were $700 plus 30 bucks Like that's your bonus is $30. like who's gonna do that?
Speaker 2:Oh, no, nobody.
Speaker 1:I know that's the thing I'm like. I guess, what is what is their point of doing that? Like, what are they trying to test? I'm they're always testing something, right? I mean, are they testing see how much people will actually drive for that little of money? I don't know. Yeah, cuz I was happy with the quest, i mean they weren't, oh sure, amazing, but I mean at least they were doable and it was fine, right, like I was okay with it. But I'm not okay with this. No, i know we talked about it last time, but I'm just, i was just thinking about it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, i mean, there's no way I would ever try to make. So what is the 70 rides? you get an extra 55?.
Speaker 1:What right this weekend?
Speaker 2:No, right now It's a hundred. I think it was a hundred five dollars.
Speaker 1:Oh, so it's super low for the week. Well, it's cuz it's Memorial Day weekend too, so there usually isn't a ton of Uber traffic and not even food delivery. That's what I was saying in our community group, like what is everyone thinking about this weekend? Is it gonna be grocery, is gonna be food delivery, is gonna be people? I don't know, the weather supposed to be great, at least in our market. So I mean, i don't know. That's probably why the quests are really low. I'd look mine up, but again, i don't have my Uber account on my regular phone. It's how my work phone. So Should be out by now. It is out, but I still can't. It's like two buttons. Yes sir, what the fuck are you doing? shut up.
Speaker 2:A hundred ten or hundred fifteen dollars.
Speaker 1:Okay, so it's like almost half of what it normally is. Right Again, I think that makes sense with Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 2:I can make for seven. If a 70 rides, i can make an additional 165 hours.
Speaker 1:I mean any great, but it's still better than like the, the new bonus structure or quest structure, where you earn $600 like that's what your earnings are and they'll give you like 40 bucks, right, i don't know. Did they think we're stupid?
Speaker 2:I don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 1:Do they think they were like yeah, that's great, Let's go? No we're gonna go to lift.
Speaker 2:I think they have simply no interests in one. You do. I mean, they don't care.
Speaker 1:Kenneth says they haven't seen any quest for a while. I think she drives in Lansing right The east side. I don't you have to shut, let us know again. Mark said they're probably doing them so people can say I'm gonna going on a quest on this week instead of working. I'm right, Yeah, exactly. Just ask my wife every time I say quest. She's like honey, you going on a quest this weekend?
Speaker 3:Yes, I'm bringing my wand to.
Speaker 1:You got a problem with it. Yeah, she works in Lansing. How are they not getting quests over there?
Speaker 2:Well, i think it all depends on what they know, because it's for who you drive for, because not everybody in this market gets to press.
Speaker 1:I Disagree you disagree. I bet every driver in Grindrack bits get a quest. Why wouldn't they Bring the ring to Modar more? I don't know, is that Lord of the Rings? I never watched that.
Speaker 2:I think the ring is attached to the one.
Speaker 1:No, that's a cock ring. I Got him, i got him, that's what I meant, you idiot. Oh, she just found it $80. Oh, that's even worse than us, I know Yeah not.
Speaker 2:Not worth at all driving for Catherine.
Speaker 1:Not worth at all driving for no, but we'll talk about a little bit later. when we talked about Jason from drive to win 13, about he goes for Three, four months without driving on a platform, they send him crazy amounts and someone in our group Well, she's somewhat in the group, she's been on the show before got an incredible I mean incredible lift bonus. We'll talk about that a little bit.
Speaker 2:I guess I should drive lift so I can get one of those bonuses.
Speaker 1:Well, i think what it is is you should you need to start driving in a little bit so they know that you got a wet, they're whistle, they know that you're interested, then turn, then don't drive for it for like three months and see what you get. That's what. That's the play. So maybe next weekend Just drive left, or next time you drive just drive straight left for the weekend and then shut it up. I don't think I'm driving this weekend. Well, that's a Memorial Day weekend. Why would you?
Speaker 2:it's slow as fuck, Anyways.
Speaker 1:God, my fucking nose is so stuffy I forgot my algae pill this morning. Okay, uh, lot. so this is old news and I don't even know the result of that. But one day in the last couple weeks, overnight every, a lot of people became top dasher, like they had a huge glitch. Of course I didn't fucking get it, fuckers. I was so excited that I was like, hey, i can become top dasher. So I don't know what it was. but how does door dash do that? I often wonder, like you, as like a web guy bug, yeah, but how does that happen? Like nothing's changed, or is one thing up the up the chain change and it like trickle effects?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, what about that one two days when nobody could get on Uber in our market? Yeah, i mean because that's stupid thing.
Speaker 1:It's just so crazy, right, my god. Every market was like I'm top dasher, i'm top dasher. I was like I'll take a look at my phone. No, no, not me. I still have to earn it.
Speaker 2:So do you think maybe this was them wet. A wedding there with them Could be.
Speaker 1:I mean got excited.
Speaker 2:This is what it's gonna be to be top That's yeah. yeah, Let's say it wasn't a bug at all. They did on purpose.
Speaker 1:Yeah, i mean it's possible to get people excited about the top because it all of a sudden it says Congratulations, you're top dasher. And it tells you all the perks that you're you're gonna get or whatever. That's not a bad thought. I didn't think about that and then tell you brought it up, but it wouldn't surprise me. Oh no, they're all fucking shady.
Speaker 1:Way moving on, we got to talk about octopus tablet. My boy, larry, is loving this shit. We've had a couple referrals in the last couple weeks. You know the link is in our description. If you want to earn extra money, i think right now they have a program this week if someone. I don't even know why I'm trying to look so I'm not gonna bring it up. Oh, octopus car week kicks off today. Enter best on the road virtual car show for a chance to win $250 grand prize. So you submit a picture if your cars, whatever the inside, they like, it to 50.
Speaker 1:If a customer Taps on it that and it pops up on the screen, you get entered to her drawing for 250. So let's like. That's why I just love this thing. Why wouldn't you use it? It's free, right Do it.
Speaker 2:So I'm like, if I find out why I'm not be able to right now, Can we, can we not spend the last episode you and I talked?
Speaker 1:it was I'm not fucking kidding you, it was like 14 minutes of octopus talk. Good, make it short, i will do it.
Speaker 2:For some reason my phone number is denying and has has their number blocked. Well, unblock it, bitch. I can't. It's we've. We tried I mean that's text more been super Responsive and I'm now that I'm getting when you find to get a hold of them, yeah, but yeah, they send me multiple email, some multiple text messages to kind of get it unblocked, and I'm getting messages now for them, but their system still doesn't come through so what is their solution? So far there is none.
Speaker 1:Why don't you create a Google voice number and re-register?
Speaker 2:you can't, why not? it's got to be the same account as your Uber. No, it doesn't.
Speaker 1:Hmm, what doesn't ask Larry? he ended up.
Speaker 2:I mean.
Speaker 3:I don't know why.
Speaker 1:I don't. It doesn't really have to relate to your uber. No, it doesn't say that anywhere. You know you can log in with your uber account. I know that. I wonder if that would make a difference.
Speaker 2:I tried. It doesn't, for whatever reason, though Maybe I should just try a brand new account.
Speaker 1:It says no, it does not have to be the same number as your uber phone. Larry, and he's the king, so he is to king. All right, next Oh yeah, i don't think I pulled this tick-tock. Oh no, i did pull this tick-tock. Anyways, you want to talk about this? This is the little tick-tock I did. I did. You want to just play it? Just play it. It's basically a lady that Isn't dressed appropriately for the living just well, i just want to explain.
Speaker 1:It may be hard to see, so we'll play it twice. It's only 19 seconds.
Speaker 2:And then we got to talk about it.
Speaker 1:We'll talk about it. There's no audio. Oh, there is audio, jesus Christ.
Speaker 2:And now it's easy pull over pants.
Speaker 1:I mean, i get it like. I mean, obviously You need oh, didn't play it you need to wear appropriate clothes when you're delivering. Oh sure, and that fits you. Clearly She's wearing, like some, sweatpants that literally have no belt right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's Amazon flex. Yeah, speaking of Amazon flex, oh, you got a story. Well, not necessarily a story. I was talking to the flex charge. Yeah, they have you seen the new, the new vans around?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the electric one.
Speaker 2:He loved it. I Caught up a conversation.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:He says it's so sweet. One cool feature is, if he walks too far within the van, it automatically locks. Oh, oh. So he says, he saves so much time on these things the question is does it unlock when he walks up to? you. Yeah, it recognizes when he's there.
Speaker 1:I cannot. I cannot wait for that feature of my like, even Megan scar. When the fobs in your pocket and you grab the handle, it just unlocks and that's my does. That's. It's such a dumb feature, but when you deliver food and you're juggling, like I know Cool, a bunch of sodas in a bag and you just touched it and it unlocked he recognized.
Speaker 2:So this car, this it recognized, and he says the the bay is so much bigger than the normal.
Speaker 1:Oh really, yeah, i wonder why that is because they don't know they'll have to put a motor in it.
Speaker 2:What Well, the bay the back Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm just wondering how they got more space from the other vehicles.
Speaker 2:I don't know, but they're nice. though too, They look a little boxy, but they are nice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're not as As sexy like I, i don't know. For whatever reason, i love UPS trucks. I just think they just look nice. I don't know, maybe because I'm UPS horror, but what the fuck? 2010 Camry unlocks when I touch the door handle Camry.
Speaker 2:Come on, it's not a fucking Honda.
Speaker 1:But my point is mine's a 2010 Honda pilot. So one thing about Honda their engines are solid, but they are always are a couple of years behind in technology. They don't even have an EV, but the thing.
Speaker 2:Was an EV.
Speaker 1:Electric vehicle yes, Welcome to 2023.
Speaker 2:I like EV. What are you talking about? Yeah, yeah, but the other thing too. About that, though, is less to break.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's the thing, right They're doing it right.
Speaker 1:They're letting everyone fuck up, i know. And then they're like, oh, we'll bring this feature in, but yeah, my pilot doesn't even have Bluetooth, like it has an aux.
Speaker 2:But you know what, though? Bluetooth just sucks.
Speaker 1:It's not great. No, even in your car is not great.
Speaker 2:Well, it's fine, but you gotta you know everybody's like oh you know, if you want to, you gotta connect your phone to it, and it takes time and you gotta put the car into break and everything to do it. So it's just just.
Speaker 1:What about? do you have Android or iPhone CarPlay? I have Android Play, android Play, and that's not. I don't ever use it Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because the whole thing with the phone and the Android, my Apple I take over and no.
Speaker 1:See why. Why isn't it seamless?
Speaker 2:It's just not. Yeah, stupid If you did I did?
Speaker 1:Did I miss the discussion of the gut video clip? Yeah what would, did you hit your head?
Speaker 2:So the discussion of the gut video clip. I don't know if there was a discussion.
Speaker 1:Oh, did I miss a Walmart comment? Okay, where? where were we at? Did I miss it?
Speaker 2:Where They just started talking about the key fob.
Speaker 1:Get a Google voice number. Oh, and I suggest that I bet that's Amazon It's really hard to see for the podcast listeners or Walmart. Oh, like I still don't get it. I still don't get it, pete.
Speaker 2:So, anyways, it was Amazon Flex. No, not no.
Speaker 1:No, it was that that.
Speaker 2:It was an Amazon worker.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, it was. I don't think it was a worker, Did she even have?
Speaker 2:a vest on. She had the blue vest on, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, regular drivers wear that too. We wear the same vest. Oh, it wouldn't surprise me if it was either or See, i would never approve for Flex I don't know, you still haven't been, you wouldn't do it anyways, you bitch.
Speaker 2:No, I know.
Speaker 1:All right moving on.
Speaker 2:Look, I got people at Walmart.
Speaker 1:That is Yeah, Oh I get the Walmart joke now.
Speaker 2:Walmart Nation Yeah, I get the Walmart joke now.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh All right.
Speaker 2:Where are we? And there was a girl, by the way, not a dude.
Speaker 1:Somebody said it was a dude, It was super slow or super tiny. I don't think I have that picture that we have in the rundown. I think you missed that one.
Speaker 2:Jesper Jason's BOA. Yeah, i know He's done drinking.
Speaker 1:I am so stuffy though, like I was stuffy and then I started talking. I don't think you ever shared that picture in the run. Let me see if you did. You never gave me that. Oh, you did give it to me.
Speaker 2:I don't know why It's not in the rundown, though.
Speaker 1:Is it The next one? Yeah With the pickaxe, But where is it? Oh, it's in the rundown. All right, hold on, folks, hold on. No more beard No, I. Where is it All right? there it is. So I don't know why, Jesper, I don't know who shared this, but it's a couple pickaxe in the car. I don't even know what I'm supposed to say about this.
Speaker 2:You shared it, so I thought I didn't share it. I thought you did.
Speaker 1:I'll go into chat. You, MF'er.
Speaker 2:Anyways, it was in our group chat. So, very interesting though It's, I think my thought You shared it, you dick.
Speaker 1:I did Yes.
Speaker 2:No, Yes you did.
Speaker 1:I'm looking at it right now Jesper shares the dumbest shit. What does this have to do with rideshare? Someone's trying to look for gold in a VW.
Speaker 2:I think it was a guy who didn't get his order.
Speaker 1:Well, you got to fucking give us some context with it. He shares a random picture with two pickaxe in it and he expects me to. It's a car, blames me, and then I go in there and it's him All right moving on. Jesus Jenny.
Speaker 2:I'm just trying to throw this show off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're doing a good job. Jesus, I'm dying right now. All right, talk about your Mexico shit.
Speaker 2:So this was actually very interesting. So what really surprised me was how much cheaper it wasn't mixing on, obviously it's going to be cheaper, right, but look at the booking fee. This year is a ride that I did in Dallas, texas, one day before we were. This was Sunday, saturday, sorry, anyways And we landed in Puerto Vallada on Sunday, and so this year was like a four-mile ride not a very long ride by any means, and $35. And $7.17 on that was a booking fee. I'll put the next picture up.
Speaker 1:By the way, i bulk added a bunch of pictures.
Speaker 2:Clearly some of them didn't add because I just had to quick add the other one, so this was about the same length. Ride this one here, no, that was the same picture.
Speaker 1:That's the same. Fuck, I downloaded the same picture. Hold on, Hold on.
Speaker 2:Whew we are hot tonight.
Speaker 1:I've never tried to bulk add all these, but clearly it was trouble Hold on.
Speaker 2:Yes, i am totally bragging. I was able to take a vacation, but that's not what I'm trying to point, i'm trying to make. So this is Mexico And this was the same about four miles. What you got to understand is that there's 55 Mexican pesos. Sorry, 16 pesos to a dollar. Ok, so this is obviously. But look at the booking fee Three pesos and 83. So in this case, here it's 17 and 1 half percent. That's the booking fee. And what was it for the other one? 26% is booking fee in USA.
Speaker 2:Well, because we can afford it, but it's bullshit. It doesn't take the. It's not any more expensive for the app to run the app down there as it is here.
Speaker 1:That's so true.
Speaker 2:Why do we have to pay 26% in booking fee in America when it obviously they can do it just fine for 7 and 1 half percent?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's so true.
Speaker 2:That was my takeaway here. This is complete bullshit that Uber takes that much.
Speaker 1:Well, it's just like the Android and iPhone thing People are taking. They're taking advantage of different people because they can.
Speaker 2:Well, i understand that, i get that, but why are you yelling at me?
Speaker 1:I didn't do it. Call your government rep.
Speaker 2:I'm not yelling at you. I know At least the Android iPhone thing. It's the same people, it's the same, it's America. Yeah, yeah, yeah, whereas here, at least on different sides of the border, i was just surprised at the difference. Now, minimum fare in Puerto Vallarta was 35 pesos. You do the math on that.
Speaker 1:Well, it's 16 pesos per dollar.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm not doing the math.
Speaker 2:Well, it's like $2,025 that I pay. That's the minimum fare. Well, how much is he getting?
Speaker 1:Two pesos.
Speaker 2:I mean come on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's interesting. I mean, it doesn't surprise me, though, it's just like everything.
Speaker 2:And it is right, mark. Yeah, i was paying. I mean you should see my Excel statement on, because everything went on my Chase card.
Speaker 1:I was paying $3.12 American for the ride.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was my pay, That was what it cost me, and then, of course, i tipped him in cash. What the fuck That's so cheap For four miles?
Speaker 1:That's stupid.
Speaker 2:And this was comfort. This was a comfort ride.
Speaker 1:You know what We need? to move to Mexico. That's the only, but it's just again, I didn't compare.
Speaker 2:It wasn't to compare the price, It was to compare the percentage of the booking fee, which was ridiculous to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, let's move on. We got some good content left and we only got 13 minutes. Sorry, it's all right, i just got this from my DoorDash order. Hello, my name is Michael. I'm a 32-year-old who was kidnapped at the age of 30 by the CIA. I had a device inserted inside of my brain and they carried out an exercise on me that was very painful. This exercise failed and now they continue to use the device on me in accrual and unusual ways to cover up what I took. What took place. I understand this sounds like conspiracy theory, but I need your help to stop this. Visit Mike, help Mike.
Speaker 2:Help Mike be a citizen againorg.
Speaker 1:For more details. I mean, i think it's. Do you think it's legit? Obviously it's not legit. what happened to him? but do you think it's just a scam? or do you think he's trying to be funny? Well, I don't know. Somebody, go to the website HelpMikeBacitizenAgainorg and tell me what it says.
Speaker 2:I don't want to do that because I think it's spam.
Speaker 1:I do it on my iPhone because we don't get spam on our iPhones and we don't get malicious links.
Speaker 2:You know that's fake, right? No, it's not fake.
Speaker 1:I've literally never gotten anything on my iPhone.
Speaker 2:That might be true, but there is lots of people who have gotten viruses on their Mac devices.
Speaker 1:No, I don't have a Mac device, have an iPhone.
Speaker 2:That's a.
Speaker 1:Mac device. No, it's not, i will only click on my email links on my phone, Not on if I had a Mac.
Speaker 2:Yeah, mike, 100% not going to me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, ha, ha, ha ha ha ha ha, This website looks legit. I'm just saying okay.
Speaker 2:Now reddit did take down the threat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I saw that you thank you for Yeah, i appreciate that, because I wanted to look at more context, but obviously I couldn't do that.
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Speaker 2:Yep, that's all I gotta say so I gotta do this real quick. It is super hard to get malicious software on my phone, but it is possible. It's possible.
Speaker 1:But I mean Literally, if I get a suspicious link, i don't open it on my computer, i open it on my iPhone, knowing that I'm like, okay, if it's sus, i'm not gonna get anything.
Speaker 2:Well, anyways, i can do the same on my pixel, or doesn't do anything, Okay, whatever, fuck you.
Speaker 1:All right, let's do yours about the local passenger.
Speaker 2:This is quite quite funny.
Speaker 1:This is crazy.
Speaker 2:It's ridiculous, what's really ridiculous. What happens? So this is a passenger who is accused of leaving 200,000 K, 200 K of meth in an Uber in Norfolk And, anyways, any more frustrated than accident leaving your phone or person in Uber. How about 200,000 dollars of illegal narcotics? So basically, gabriel, he booked a ride From Norfolk to Chisabeeke and then he left. He left his brown paper bag in the car because he's an idiot.
Speaker 1:What a fucking idiot 200,000 dollars.
Speaker 2:So the driver of the Uber apparently realized the bag contains some kind of illegal substance Shortly after I made a call to the Norfolk Petit police department. Then the passenger reaches out to the driver and say hey, there's a thousand miles to you if you can bring me back my bag. But it was too late because he already turned it in. He already turned it into the police. Okay and it was almost four point five pounds of meth and the street value is about 200,000 miles.
Speaker 1:Here's the question for you. If he had gotten that call from the passenger before he turned into the police, what would you do if?
Speaker 2:you was actually before, but then he found out. You know how much it was. Yeah, but I'm saying it.
Speaker 1:Let's say the police weren't involved yet. Would you Knowing what it was? would you take the thousand dollars and just return it to him? No, you turn it into the cops.
Speaker 2:Yes, But I must admit I'd be a little bit scared because I don't want some angry, drowsy laugh to me.
Speaker 1:That's why I would turn it back to him. Give me the 1k and we're good bar bro Like he's not gonna get.
Speaker 2:Who's? he could just pop you, man, i guess.
Speaker 1:I mean that this because he's a drug. Clearly he's not a smart drug dealer because he left his drug. Just because he's a drug dealer doesn't mean he's gonna. He's a killer.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no, no, but I Mean he's already operating on the other side of the law.
Speaker 1:Well, yes, so are you, when you spend here tonight to you cellos. So you're saying you that you would be uncomfortable even turning into the police.
Speaker 2:No, I would do it, but I would be.
Speaker 1:I would feel uncomfortable because of knowing That I would have a well, that's why I'm saying I might be more comfortable Giving him, giving it back to him, then go into the cops because he's like well, i got your first and last name. Still, a little internet research find out where he live particularly me.
Speaker 2:It'd be pretty easy to find me.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, but that's my point. if he gets his, if he gets his drugs back, right, he's like I'm good man, whatever, never see you again. I don't even give a shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but they found him, So the police actually arrested him and now he's been charged for possession with intent to trip, to Distribute, method them I can't say myth.
Speaker 1:So Mark says I heard, if you sneeze through, your Android gets infected with malware. I Don't, i can. I know it never gets old to me the Android iPhone thing. All right. Moving on, uber warrants customers and drivers that it may leave Minnesota over proposed legislation. I'm gonna try to get through some of this. Basically it's them. There's a union group there that is banned together Trying to get benefits and stuff like that, just kind of like the California thing. The original version required The companies to pay drivers a minimum fee of 650 per ride, $2.55 a mile and 65 per Sense a minute, which we would all like that. But ubers threatening to pull out, will they? they threaten California too. So once they retweak it, i'm sure it'll, but they're not gonna pay 650, a fucking Minimum per ride, no, no you know what I mean I would think and go to put a viada and paid.
Speaker 2:I.
Speaker 1:I read this earlier. There was something I should have highlighted it. But um, the legislation aims to provide some benefits to uber and lift. Drivers, who are independent contractors aren't afforded the protections that employees have Minimum wage, overtime, so security, unemployment, insurance at work was compensation. Uber and lift drivers also only eligible for the various blah, blah, blah. Do people realize if this comes to fruition, the app goes away? no, they clearly don't. No, i just get so frustrated. Like, unless they're. It's like a bargaining thing. They ask for the world and they're hoping to get this. You know what I mean. Like, just when you go to the bargaining table, let's be honest, there's maybe 10 years left in the gate in the uber and lift 10.
Speaker 2:I don't know, maybe not even that much. No more Remember how much like.
Speaker 1:Even two years ago, we were so like oh, the self-driving cars. Nothing's come to fruition. People have died, they've put, they've. Not saying off the road.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying it's because there's all my oh, I'm just saying 10 years It'll be gone. I think no way, no way.
Speaker 1:No way, no way. You gone meeting like we won't use rideshare anymore.
Speaker 2:It'll be something else different what hoverboards Maybe? they be serious, i do. I do believe, though, that maybe it's more than 15, more like 15, but between 10 to 15 years from now.
Speaker 1:Well, you just doubled your time by adding 15.
Speaker 2:No, Yeah you did 10 to 15 anyway, so it'll be gone.
Speaker 1:I think before Ride share is gone, it will be dead. It'll take that long.
Speaker 2:Bet. I'll bet you. What are we betting? I'm not a betting man anyways. So the next article is talking about the Ubers yearly go get Which is, i guess, them yearly. It's a annual go get event. What they're talking about? a bunch of new features, a.
Speaker 2:Very confused two features I'm gonna bring up is the teen account Profile, a family profiles and teen account. And then there is one more thing. There's one more thing there was gonna be. There was interesting anyway. So the teen account, which obviously is the ability to To use all the way down to 13, 8, 13 to 17, can now order rides. But But the interesting part was is if the drivers willing to be trained to do that they actually get more for the ride.
Speaker 1:Oh, there's additional training.
Speaker 2:Yes, probably just online training, right, but then then, yeah, you will get more for a teen ride. So so there's that, and of course you get all the whole thing about you. They'll be tracked all the way and all those stuff. But then also it's also coming to uber eats, so you'll be able to do a teen account or a family account in uber eats.
Speaker 1:So it's like kids. Well, they're already ordering it like daughter orders it, she's 15.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but she's using your account. No she ain't she's using your own, okay.
Speaker 1:I don't know how she created one.
Speaker 2:So it'll be a, it'll be a, it'll be a. It'll be a shared family account, you know so, okay, so you can still, you you'll be able to see all the stuff, sees, all. Yeah, i think that's actually great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because these kids like I go in and deliver food to the high school. There's 30 to 40 meals in the office.
Speaker 2:Yep. So clearly kids are ordering it and then the other thing that I was bringing up is that now there is the whole uber car seat, so you can Excuse me, you can now get out, you can get a ride with a car seat built into it, and then, if you're willing to do the car seat, you also get paid more for that.
Speaker 1:Oh, is that something that will come to more like every market, because right now you can get that in Disney, like the touristy areas.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, not every market right away.
Speaker 1:No, well, not right away but what do? you think about the teen account? What's your take on it?
Speaker 2:I Probably will not do it.
Speaker 1:See, i'm already taking these fuckers anyways. You know, i mean, unless they're really young. I Know I take minors around. Yeah on a pretty regular basis.
Speaker 2:It would have to be. I Don't know, i'm just scared about it. I'm being honest, i'm scared about if some Nifty teenage girl gets in my car and decides to make some story up.
Speaker 1:Well, you got a dash cam I do. what uber should really do is they should make those drivers that are committing to Take teenagers get their dash cam that's connected to somehow uber like that's the only way I think it would be to be. What am I trying to say? full safe, that's not the right word, but Full safe.
Speaker 2:We'll say Feel safe.
Speaker 1:Feels just to be like a hundred percent sure that you're covered by uber, like if anything is accused, they have the footage, they can look at it. I think that's the only way to do it. I think I'll still do it, even though I won't have an uber dash cam, but I'm I don't know.
Speaker 2:Hey, i must admit, I have done it a couple times.
Speaker 1:We all have there's kids. You get in the car that they they look close. I mean right, I drive school bus. You should see some of these kids that are walking around there They look like grown men, right, you know, and you know they're under eight, or I mean I guess they could be 18, but most of them are 16, 17 years old, right?
Speaker 1:So it's like I might as well get paid for it a Couple more. I caught a few out, so just to let you know. I gotta talk about this one. This is a mark a driver, and I should have eliminated her name. That was sorry about that. It doesn't matter, she didn't give a shit, she's been on the show Curious if anyone else has been offered a lift bonus like this. It's been a while since I've driven for them. The only reason I knew about it is because I happened to log into my account. She has you a $1,000 bonus for 120 rides, and it's not like she has to do them in a week. I don't remember when this was posted, but she had. Even if she started today, she's got till June 10th. Do 120 rides $1,000?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would probably do that, Fuck yeah you could do that on the weekends, Because it's a bonus. it's not a guarantee.
Speaker 1:Exactly. And what did Jason say the other night? He goes three or four months without driving on a platform and he gets bonus $1,000, plus all the money you make on the rides.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean you're talking like a month worth earnings You should make. I mean you should make Three grand.
Speaker 2:I would say at least $15 on 120 rides at least.
Speaker 1:I meant, yeah, I meant three grand total. So you were saying about 2,500, but holy shit, i would love that. I would shit my pants if I saw that. I would be like fuck yeah.
Speaker 2:It's two weekends. Two weekends you do 120 rides.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, you're right, because you usually do 60 to 70 rides. Yeah, i'd be like hold my beer, let me bang these out.
Speaker 2:That's so good.
Speaker 1:Right, i need to stay off lift for a bit.
Speaker 2:Maybe I do need to lift. Well, that's what.
Speaker 1:I'm saying You need to wet their whistle with a weekend to work and then just shut it off for three months, Wet the whistle with a weekend.
Speaker 2:You know what that means wet their whistle.
Speaker 1:Yes, I know what it means.
Speaker 2:You want me to wet your whistle? Please no.
Speaker 1:All right, last thing we're gonna talk about and this has been frustrating. Why we're talking about.
Speaker 2:I'm so scared, guys, come save me.
Speaker 1:What for your wetting, your whistle?
Speaker 2:Here we go. That's what she said. There you go. So this, actually this was an email I got, obviously and this is the reason why I am not currently on Uber because I got this notice that, because of the implementation of the Michigan Clean Slate Act, my background check has been delayed And last I logged in to checker it won't be ready. They don't expect it back to Uber until June 8th.
Speaker 1:I thought you said it was May 28th, no, june 8th. Can you imagine if people and again we say, make sure you get multiple apps, but can you imagine somebody that was like a full-time Uber driver and they're like, oh, in Michigan, you're like, oh, by the way, you're gonna be offline for a month?
Speaker 2:I mean come on.
Speaker 1:Here's the question.
Speaker 2:But they completely blame the Clean Slate Act.
Speaker 1:Which is bullshit, Isn't it just data? Like there's not some guy with smoking a cigarette going to the back records looking for your record. It's all digital.
Speaker 2:They still have to go, they still get produced. they still get like produced or whatever at the courthouse and uploaded, But it's all digital.
Speaker 1:It's not like. it's like, like I said, an old guy smoking a SIGI going to that back room pulling your file Try. I mean it runs through the internet lines.
Speaker 2:I understand.
Speaker 1:I just don't understand how the servers are that small that they can't handle it.
Speaker 2:What It's not that They still have to be. somebody still has to process them.
Speaker 1:Oh, you mean, you think, somebody manly?
Speaker 2:has to go click, click, click, click. Send Somebody at the courthouse. You can say, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Interesting. I thought that would be like an all in algorithm that would do all that.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, And they cause somebody, I guess, has to approve them. Yeah, that's a good point, and so the whole point about the Clean SIG Act is that, because they're so backed up, they can push some of them to the side. Yeah, and only do some of the more important ones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, i mean I like what they've done. It's basically the Clean SIG Act is basically helping people to expunge their record. That would just bullshit on there, which is super important, especially with all these marijuana charges that are getting thrown out because marijuana is legal now, cause it's hard to get a job when you've got records like that Correct, you know. So it just sucks, for I mean.
Speaker 2:No, yes, but who cares about Uber?
Speaker 1:Well, yes, but you know Uber's his jam Like that's everything to him.
Speaker 2:So But I guess I better get back on lift. Anybody has a amp they don't use.
Speaker 1:I don't, i fucking threw mine away. I should have sold it. I don't. it was so annoying It never worked.
Speaker 2:Oh no, mine was working all the time. But yeah, but I somebody who lent it from me and then I don't, i don't have it Probably Gabe. Oh, pete, you have your amp. I gotta get that amp from you. Show me the money. Yes, bro, i actually think you have my amp, pete, you think so? Yeah, i'm pretty sure I gave it to CeCe And then CeCe gave it to somebody I forget who it was.
Speaker 1:Oh, cece Nana, what's your price, pete, what's your price? Put it out of there, put it on record on this. It's on the internet, it stays forever.
Speaker 2:No, this is over about $60 to $70 on eBay.
Speaker 1:Last I checked. You know Uber still pushes those Uber beacons, but we never I never got one.
Speaker 2:No, they have to be in the market. I always actually want the first ones to get an amp in my market, cause we got it before they, even before it even was active in the market.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:Some tech support sent it to me by mistake.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness. Yeah, pete said I should sell his camera too. Yeah, well, you could use your camera. if you fucking left the house once a month, i mean, which, i don't blame it. No, i do blame you. I couldn't stay in the house as much as you do.
Speaker 2:You should attach your camera to your cap, so when you are walking, yeah yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Oh, my gosh You're gonna have to soon Is work making your report now. Oh no, i quit.
Speaker 2:We couldn't pull back together, i would quit, i would be like, not They're gonna give you a raise to pay for all that.
Speaker 1:Wouldn't do it, wouldn't do it. I'm like you can give me half. You can give me half in the office, half at home at least, but oh, that sucks. Anyways, anything else, jesper. That's it. We're gonna be talking about the picnic soon. Obviously, it's September 23,. I think Janet usually chimes in. He is looking at other options. Yeah, he's been in there for three before the pandemic started He was working from home. And then the like oh, i'd be pissed too.
Speaker 2:But what's the purpose of bringing them?
Speaker 1:back. I don't understand. And the statistics say these employees are more productive at home than they are Because they're not dicking around. I love talking to people at work, but I'm not working when I'm talking to people. So clearly, if you're at home, you're getting shit done. Just yeah, Janet comes in the clutch 23. September 23. So we're gonna start running some ads. We would love you to come. It obviously isn't Grand Rapids, Michigan. Janet's gonna be here, so why wouldn't you? So yeah, I think that's about it.
Speaker 2:That's about it.
Speaker 1:Sorry for my stuffy nose, All that stuff Anyways. So Thank you so much, guys, As always don't put up on anyone's bullshit And we'll see you on the road. Goodnight, goodnight. This podcast is produced and edited by Hey Guys Media Group. Wanna start a podcast? Check out heyguysmediagroupcom.
Speaker 4:Ba-wa, ba-wa.
