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Ever heard of Kikaboo or RMI Inspections? You will now! We cover Kikaboo, the innovative rideshare app for kids that ensures top-notch safety with its stringent driver background checks and training. Also, discover the benefits of using RMI Inspections for on-demand inspections. From the implications of tipping for delivery services to the impact of new ride options on Uber and DoorDash drivers, we leave no stone unturned.
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Hi guys, hello you, dumb dick, welcome to the gig economy podcast, episode 163. Um, stand by, a message for the listeners today. Hello, fellow gigsters, I'm here today, not 14,000 kilometers from New Zealand at the bottom of the earth, but right here in Grand Rapids, your time and your place. Our journey started here on Friday the 15th, thursday the 14th your time 17 and a half hours flying. Unfortunately, I picked up a hitchhiker on the way and on Sunday, tested positive for COVID-19. Damn the timing for my first infection. My apologies to Jason and Jesper. As it's the second time my joining has fallen over, I had thought how could anything go wrong being there in person? Well, you don't know us. I didn't figure getting there.
Speaker 1:Looking forward to catching up with many of you at the picnic on Saturday. Show your support for the group and the boys and come for a good chinwag. Enjoy tonight's show. I'm no longer in your future. I am not far away. Cheers, janet. I was getting so sad, so Janet obviously isn't here. Well, it's still playing ship. See, things could go wrong. There we go. Obviously, janet is not here, unfortunately. She did get COVID-19 and she's under quarantine and off on Friday and her husband, gary, got it a couple days later, so he's going to be out of the festivities all weekend, so that sucks. I was really looking forward to having her in the studio, but you can see her at the picnic She'll be at the picnic.
Speaker 4:Yeah, okay, so it's sad, it's sad.
Speaker 1:You know there could be worse things that could happen, so anyways, yeah, so welcome to episode 163. Things we're going to talk about. We got a new review. What else are we going to talk about? Doordash.
Speaker 4:All the normal stuff. Right, the normal stuff. We're talking about a new service.
Speaker 1:A new service.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Stuff like that and someone spit on somebody's food. Of course it was a DoorDash driver. Doordash drivers are just they're the worst.
Speaker 4:They're the worst. What's it called the scum of the earth?
Speaker 1:They are. I'm the worst. That's why I know.
Speaker 4:Is it me? Is that what you're looking at? I cannot, so, anyways, go to the website. Oh my gosh. I know it's because I go to gayeconomyshowcom to sign up for our newsletter. We send out the newsletter about once a week now because it comes out to a new newsletter.
Speaker 1:That's episode announcement.
Speaker 4:Well, yeah, so that's what we're using it for right now. And then we are sending a newsletter, one a month, when Jason XC2 writes it.
Speaker 1:It's quarterly.
Speaker 4:We've established it's quarterly. Yes, Is it quarterly now he doesn't tell me anything about it.
Speaker 1:I did one in July, so then it's August, so next month That'll be the end of the next quarter.
Speaker 4:So he's doing a quarterly newsletter just talking about all the fun stuff that we are doing, and yeah, and then, of course, the episode announcements. So, yeah, please go there and help us by getting your friends to sign up for it as well. Absolutely we really need to keep spreading the word about the show.
Speaker 1:I want to thank our Patreon members Larry from Bowling Green, who's going to be here, samson from Grand Rapids, steve from Colorado, chris from Grand Rapids, bud Dickman from North Carolina, who will be here at the picnic, tom Kelly from Houston, omar from Detroit.
Speaker 4:Chris is going to be here right.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I haven't talked to him in so long. No, that's the wrong Chris.
Speaker 4:Oh, it's different, Chris. Yeah, I haven't talked.
Speaker 1:You haven't seen him in a bit. Tom Kelly from Houston, omar from Detroit, delivery Cats from Michigan, jamie from Tennessee, frank from Philly who's going to be at the picnic. Joe from Grand Rapids and Nate from Florida. The Seaman.
Speaker 4:And then for people who know that gentleman, he's also going to come in for the picnic. Our good old Gabe is also going to be at the picnic. So super excited, cannot wait to bread break with him. Bread break with him again.
Speaker 1:That's really hard to say If you guys want to join the Patreon, get some extra tiers. The $10 tier gets you an extra episode a month. That gets you ad free episodes and a piece of well it's not a piece of merch, it's a t-shirt after your third month.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, but I mean, I just want to clarify.
Speaker 1:it's a t-shirt, so yeah, it's a $5, $10 tier. Go to patreoncom. Slash the gigicon podcast.
Speaker 4:And yeah, since you did that, I'll do the next one. Once you're done signing up for the Patreon, then you kind of join. Come join us in our telegram group, which you can find the link to that anywhere else down below and when the episode gets posted. And so download the telegram app first on your phone and then join the group and come talk with us when you are driving.
Speaker 1:Yep, real quick. Just the last time I'm going to mention the picnic. I actually deleted the ad off the show so you will not hear it again until next year. But thank you everyone that's playing on coming and we'd love to have you.
Speaker 4:For people who don't know what the picnic is where is it again?
Speaker 1:It is in Grand Rapids, at Riverside Park, the Island Shelter.
Speaker 4:Riverside Park, the Island Shelter from two to four.
Speaker 1:Yep. So if you go in the main entrance, just look for the signs that say Island Shelter you. Basically it's not a huge park. You go straight back and hang a right and then, once, if it that ends, you're there.
Speaker 4:And there will be free food, yep, and there will be lots of good companionship. I have some giveaways.
Speaker 1:We are giving away a Amazon gift card. I have a t-shirt that's exclusively for this picnic being made. Hopefully it will be ready by Saturday. And then, if you ever saw my tiktok about Funkless Fair, which is a new spray to kind of eliminate odors, they're supposed to be sending me a bottle. It is now Wednesday and I have not seen it in the mail, so I will get it for them. I'm going to put it in there as a gift.
Speaker 1:If you win it, I will make sure you get it. So just throwing that out there.
Speaker 4:What about Oseum? Have you ever heard of Oseum?
Speaker 1:I have used that. So Oseum is very effective, I know, but it smells it stinks.
Speaker 4:No, that's the problem. You know it's crazy, I mean it will eliminate odors.
Speaker 1:There's no doubt about that but, it smells very chemically.
Speaker 4:So it smells of chemicals when you're done?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so this Funkless Fair. I mean, I asked them to be a sponsor. They turned me down, but they did. I'm just going to be honest. I love the product. I hope they jump on board at some point.
Speaker 5:But I love it.
Speaker 1:It smells awesome and it doesn't linger either. It eliminates the odors and then kind of like Oseum does it, but you don't feel like you're dying of.
Speaker 4:So what are you saying? Because I can't hear when you say Funkless, Fair yeah.
Speaker 1:Funk. You know, like things smell funky, it's Funkless, like getting rid of the funk Fair.
Speaker 4:Funkless Fair, because I'm going to have to pick up a bottle and say yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love it. It works great. It does exactly what Oseum is.
Speaker 4:It just doesn't smell like chemicals For some reason lately, when I'm without driving, both my wife and daughter complains that they say the car smells of weed when I'm done driving. Really I don't know why, because I certainly don't smoke.
Speaker 1:Well, I wonder if your last passenger just had it smelled like it. And then once you it's like when you go get french fries and then you shut the door and don't get in it until the morning you're like Jesus, it smells like french fries in here.
Speaker 4:Last time, though, somebody who used a used a wapen in my car without asking I got pissed. It's like no. You know they used a. What A vape? Oh Like no. No vaping in the car, dude, I know I don't know why people do that and, honestly, his friend got mad at him. It's like no you got to ask. Dude, you can't just do it If you ask I might say.
Speaker 1:There have been times I said, yeah, I don't care, like it doesn't bother me because it smells fine, but at least fucking ask, at least fucking ask right, Absolutely. Yeah, I'm, by Esper hey you started it, I know.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, coming to the picnic, we'd love to see you. We have a new review, but it's from already a pretty good fan, but he still gave it and he deserves his t-shirt. The good economy podcast new reviews, the average ride share trip. I think this got cut off, though, but hi driver, what's my name? This is literally the review. Hi driver, five star. Hi driver, what's my name? Okay, can you take me and my eight friends and your Honda Fit, thanks. We just came from the soup and coffee convention with a bunch of tasty souvenirs, all windows down, we're all chain smokers, we'll be having three different conversations and we'll all shriek when we pass the Taco Bell. I mean, that's what we asked for, something funny.
Speaker 4:There you go. A lot of five stars.
Speaker 1:Amazing. I love it. That's from Frank. We appreciate you, frank, so much, looking forward to seeing you. And he's bringing his ma, his ma's coming with him. They're leaving like Friday overnight. Nice, yeah, nice, there we go. Any rideshare stories for you at all?
Speaker 4:I didn't know, not since I drove Last week we talked too, and I haven't driven since.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't have anything either. I don't know if I talked about in the last show. I'm probably going to be doing gig work. Well, I talked about in the group every other weekend. I just think that works. This weekend would be a weekend to work, but we are busy with parties.
Speaker 4:I'm the same way. I'm probably going to be driving one full weekend and a half weekend, okay, so either Friday or Saturday.
Speaker 1:What was your bonus? We were talking about this before the show and, yes, it was like. Yours is the same.
Speaker 4:Well, it's been the same forever. So my bonus is $230 for 50 rides and an additional $30 for the next 10. Oh no, 20. 20.
Speaker 1:If you do 50, it's 20. Yeah.
Speaker 4:And 70, it's 260. I mean, and then 230, and then 240 for 60 rides.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so mine is 60 rides 190 or 50 rides 185, and then some additional $25 each. If you do 10 rides or no, it's $20. If you do 10 rides in 20 rides you get an extra five bucks. So I don't know, they're not the same. Yes, not, but it doesn't matter, we're not working anyways.
Speaker 4:No, but I would like the extra 450 a ride.
Speaker 1:I would like it too. I mean mine's not.
Speaker 4:Let's cancel the picnic.
Speaker 1:I mean there's only two hours. We can work around it. Janet's in town, she wants to be hospitable. She can set everything up, she can cook all the food. I mean it's fine.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't think that's going to work. I don't think that works for Janet.
Speaker 1:No, it doesn't work for Janet. All right, gig Economy. In the news, uber is reportedly working on a service similar to TaskRabbit, which I remember talking about. Was that a paid service, though? Is that one of? Yes, it was, so it wasn't like that one guy we interviewed.
Speaker 4:It's not the hand. It's not the hand. What was that called? I don't know.
Speaker 1:A hand to help now. I don't know, it doesn't matter. Helping hand me, nah it's something hand. Yeah, so Uber already offers delivery and ride sharing, but the company is apparently expanding into service that conducts tasks and errands for you. According to Bloomberg, bloomberg, uber engineers are working on a new service called chore. That doesn't. That doesn't. That's not a good name, because chores, to me, has a negative connotation. Right like hey, jesper, your wife says you got to do your chores tomorrow. You'd be like fuck no.
Speaker 4:I don't want to do that, but if you get paid for your chores, right different right.
Speaker 1:The code was discovered by somebody Within the uber app for iOS. Of course, ios, because they do that first. The chore will enable its users to hire taskers for certain tasks. Similar to how task rabbit works. Users will have to specify the tasks that need completed as well as won't they want their tasker show up how long you expect you to take the Apple then calculate a fee for the task before allowing the user to book someone. I don't think task rabbit is available in Grand Rapids. I think I downloaded it once.
Speaker 4:I don't think it is either. Yeah, but I can't see nothing but problems but having uber adding chore to their system.
Speaker 1:Well, why, though, I don't see any problem? I mean, there's always problems, but I mean what? What is your? What is your red flags?
Speaker 4:Well, my red flag is, how you know, we all know how uber is so very, very good at doing background check on the fucking.
Speaker 5:I mean the drivers.
Speaker 1:I mean, they all are terrible, they all do the same thing, so I can't throw uber complete.
Speaker 4:I'm not gonna let somebody into my home that has been having gone through like a checkup background check.
Speaker 1:no way what about with, with task rabbit, though what?
Speaker 4:are they doing? I don't know. I know, but I wouldn't do that either.
Speaker 1:No, I mean, here's the thing like I've had people that I don't know that I've like found on. There's a Facebook page called Kent County gig it done. Yeah, yeah, I've come into my home and worked on my electric and I didn't background check them, I Didn't even ask for their license and insurance. So I guess my point is it's like we all probably have people maybe oh sure. That we don't background check.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know.
Speaker 4:I don't know. But. But see, this is my phone, my wallet, but. But here's the thing I think there's a difference if it's, if it's a reputable company, worses if it's some DIY guy that's using just, I mean, sure I can do, I can do electric yeah true, no. I mean.
Speaker 1:I guess that it does add a little bit of difference when you hire somebody on an app instead of like, like I called the guy in the phone we had a conversation, you seem you know what I mean, but you know I will. I will ask people are you bothered?
Speaker 4:in the short, I will, yeah, but unless they show it to you, they could just say that they are well, sure, yeah, absolutely there's a trust, of course you I mean, yeah, I don't ask to see it, I take him on, you know, trust him right. But true, you're right.
Speaker 1:I have to go to the Sean. I haven't seen you any before. I appreciate you Commenting because the title says say good morning, I will kick you out of my car, which is a video. Later on he wrote I had someone on a short trip this morning who didn't say good morning or responded all to three attempts. So I muttered okay, we're not talking. She got all apologetic and ended up tipping a cash. That's amazing.
Speaker 1:Oh, I try one time and then I'm like no, I mean clearly don't want to talk. I get it, I don't know what you're dealing with today and I'm not gonna force you to talk. So right, tom, Watch your mouth, old man. He said I got a four-stop ride today, 24 dollars, but he took me 20 cash and seven something on the app Fucking voice text. So anyways yes, but doesn't want you Uber to do task rabbit things, and I guess I don't blame them.
Speaker 4:Now that I think about it, more Spit and run. Will you play the video, james James?
Speaker 1:Say my name. Say my name, Okay. Okay. So this is a. We're not gonna watch 240 of this, but this is not.
Speaker 2:This is a news article.
Speaker 1:Although I say that I end up playing a lot of them because it is interesting. But here we go.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 3:Door dash driver caught on camera Spitting on a customer's order. It happened at a home in Kendall and local tens, leanne Motahong, is live with the developments today as this video goes viral. Leanne and Jenny so many of the people that I spoke to at this apartment complex today had the very same Reaction you did just absolute disgust that someone would do this, no matter their motivations. According to the young man I spoke to who said he made that order, he believes that the driver may have been upset over the fact that he initially had forgotten To put a tip on the order, then later added three dollars. Well, nevertheless, a door dash did not was not rather too pleased with this driver's actions and, as they were steps to fire him.
Speaker 4:Well, of course.
Speaker 3:A ring doorbell camera captured a spit and run in Kendall over the weekend spit run watches a door dash delivery man sets a customers.
Speaker 1:Okay, I ain't watching again.
Speaker 4:I'm grossing me out of course, but again we've we've said this like a million times right, we have what? Just don't take the FN order. Yeah, yeah, I mean, if you, if you actually reacting to the fact that there is no tip on it, that's on you, dude.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I, I feel like the guy knew the guy. I feel like there was like some maybe there's more to it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's a thing.
Speaker 1:Why would he do that? I mean there's cameras everywhere. I always assume I'm on camera all the time.
Speaker 4:I don't have a ring camera. I need to get a ring.
Speaker 1:I don't have a ring. Do you have any like cameras in your house at all? I have cameras everywhere in my house. I have a camera. Well, not in here there's. There's actually not one in here.
Speaker 4:Oh, there's one too.
Speaker 1:Yeah. Yeah you're right, I'd have no security cameras in here.
Speaker 4:I don't know why I just never so no, I actually I don't have a ring cam, but yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so anyways, yeah, don't spit on people's food. I feel like he had a vendetta for that person anyways. But yeah, just don't take the order if there's no tip. Don't be stupid, Don't take the order. The problem is, though, then we go back to the same thing, where the company is kind of Not make the people do it, but if you want this tier, if you want this reward, you got to take all the shitty ones too, and that that can be kind of frustrating.
Speaker 4:Well, you, but that's not the customer's problem, that's not the, that's not the customers I mean doing no, no, no, no, it's not the customer's problem. No, it's not the customers doing no no, no, no, no, exactly yeah then goes, goes spit at Uber.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, mark said you look straight at the camera too. So like I feel like the guy knew this guy and it was just like and maybe there is more to it, right?
Speaker 4:Maybe it's a setup, maybe they all like know each other laughing right now because all the you know Population, you dig at it. Who knows? I don't know that grossed me out.
Speaker 1:I saw it twice. All right, I'm not playing this the third time. This is the driver that kicks out the rider for not saying good morning. So we'll play that and it's just kind of funny. It's only 23 seconds, but here we go. I told you.
Speaker 5:I'm late for school I.
Speaker 3:Don't know, I don't want to take you why?
Speaker 2:why? Because you, I don't want to Behave raised, be haver.
Speaker 4:What behavior? What did I do?
Speaker 2:At least you have to, you have to do good morning, that's it. So I have to say good morning. Hello I.
Speaker 1:Think he was on the phone with the cops or something like that he called the cop. But I Do think it's rude when somebody Doesn't say like at least a hello.
Speaker 4:Well, sure it is rude, but come on you're, this is Uber, right? I mean, you're gonna get people who just don't talk to you exactly so funny thing on my bus.
Speaker 1:I took this route over like six weeks last year and then this year and I learned all the kids names High school and middle school, probably a hundred names I've learned. I got 99% of them. There's a couple that I screw up, but in the morning I say good morning to every single one of the high schoolers that get on there. I bet out of all the high schoolers I get four right, that's a good morning.
Speaker 4:You don't ask them to get off the bus.
Speaker 1:I think, I think my boss would not like that you should do that behavior. What is that? Oh, because the way it is accent yeah.
Speaker 4:I mean rude, that was rude.
Speaker 1:Uh yeah, but yeah no, I won't ask them to get off. I would love to. I'd love to see their face. Hey, Fucking kid, get off the bus and get back out, walk in again and say good morning to me.
Speaker 4:What do you think the reaction would be when you say fucking kid.
Speaker 1:Oh my god they would, their mouth would drop because honestly, in this society now with kids at school, there's like they know they can get away with a lot more because our hands are tied a lot more, but yeah there's, it's interesting for sure.
Speaker 4:It is interesting, for sure.
Speaker 5:All right, we got a new app.
Speaker 4:We do have a new or a new service service. So basically there's those. If you are rich, wanted to load because there's two there's, there's a, there's a.
Speaker 1:I didn't know, I didn't know any videos. Were there videos? No, there was no.
Speaker 4:I didn't know if you had loaded a picture or whatever, so, anyways, so the app is called kid kaboo. Okay, and, and so it's a new rideshare app for kids and the two different services. They're actually running a. They're running a fundraising, not fundraising, sorry.
Speaker 1:An investment service right kickstarter or something.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but it's a view, it's a we funder, so so it's an actual investors. She can become an investor in it and you can kind of play some investment in. Anyways, long story short. So if you want to get in there, but but the cool thing is that so it's like an Uber lift, but that drivers gets obviously a lot more training. Are they checker background? I don't know what they heard the record check what back there was a joke.
Speaker 4:No, I know, I know. So they call the drivers did DN's, driver nannies or nanny drivers, nd's, I think it's your way around, because they get training at that level. The idea is that these drivers will be like hired to take kids to and from school, to and from sports activities after school or music or that kind of stuff, when the adults is busy having a big career. So that's the idea behind Kikaboo, started by a mom who had to turn down a big career change because she couldn't, and so she went out and kind of did this and that it's interesting. It's not in our market yet. I don't see myself doing it by any means, because it's in all the times where I don't like driving anyways. Probably I would think that this kind of service pays more than an Uber or Lyft would pay, but it seems to be. I would think it's probably by time and not by mile, because a lot of it is required to take go to and fro.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So, it says Kikaboo charges parents for rides based on an equation which factors in job time mileage when the rider's in the car state of local tax, a ride monitoring fee, a credit card processing fee.
Speaker 4:but so anyways, basically a new service.
Speaker 1:Their minimum ride is $22.
Speaker 4:Well, that makes sense, if it's Well.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's where they're charging the customer.
Speaker 4:Right Per ride. But this is also not. This is obviously a high, this is high end, High end yeah.
Speaker 1:Although the minimum's 22,. I mean, I wanna know what they're paying the driver. Oh, they got quite a few states. They do, yeah, texas, arizona, North Carolina, south Carolina, new England, pennsylvania, virginia, Florida and Connecticut.
Speaker 4:That's pretty good. No, it is. It is, but anyways. So we'll see if that ever comes to our market.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 4:But it's been around for three years, I think the absolute.
Speaker 1:So you know what they should do with this. They should fingerprint them. Like when I had to work at the school, I had to get fingerprinted. Like they should fingerprint. I don't know if that's part of it, I'm reading it, but they should fingerprint those. That would be. That's like the end all be all. Background check Sure they're gonna arrest it anywhere in the country. That's gonna pop up.
Speaker 4:So, but then to do that, I would think that there's some, that it would be some money to actually do it, cause that kind of background check is expensive.
Speaker 1:Is it expensive or just? I mean it's probably like 30, 40 bucks, I would guess. I mean you just walk in and scan your fingers and they throw it through a computer system.
Speaker 4:Google it right now. I'm not doing that right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's do it right now. How much does it cost to get your finger prints done?
Speaker 4:Finger nails done Well, the fingerprint doesn't cost that much. It's to run the damn things.
Speaker 1:Well, it says 10 to $30. So that's not that much.
Speaker 4:Well, no, maybe not for the driver, but let's see what happens if you have 700,000 drivers.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah. I'm just saying if I wanted to go get my fingerprints done. It's 10 to $30 for them to run.
Speaker 4:My guess is Kit Kaboo was gonna charge you for you to become a driver nanny. Oh, you think so? Yeah, interesting To do that. That's what I was trying to get at, oh, okay.
Speaker 1:Possible, that's for sure. I don't know. I think it's good, I think this will be profitable. I don't know why we've talked about a bunch of them or not, a bunch like maybe a handful, and I don't know why they haven't taken off, because people are busy.
Speaker 1:Like so much sports. I know your kids didn't get involved in it and I told Megan we wouldn't. But the travel hockey, the travel baseball, whatever like that. I mean people. You gotta take little Johnny to travel hockey and then little Susie needs to ride home. You know what I mean. So I mean they can't make it super unaffordable, but I don't know, I think it's a good idea.
Speaker 4:It is a good idea.
Speaker 1:I would do. I don't think would you let them move your kids around.
Speaker 4:Probably.
Speaker 1:I mean you let me drive your. I mean your kids don't go to Granville. But I'm saying you, the kids rode the bus at one point. I assume your kids yeah. I mean you let the school.
Speaker 4:But even if you were driving my kids and they wouldn't be taking the bus, I knew you were gonna do that.
Speaker 1:I knew you were gonna do that, so All right, moving on, moving on. This is just kind of a funny picture. The Reddit post did get deleted, but that happens a lot.
Speaker 4:I feel like yeah, it's taken down a lot.
Speaker 1:I used to be more proactive and as soon as I thought this was a viral one, I would come down here and download it to the computer right away. But at least, but I did. Did I screen, did I?
Speaker 4:The screenshot was on.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay so basically this guy, someone was complaining that this dasher had dropped the food off and then found an outlet and asked the customer if they could connect to the Wi-Fi because they wanted they needed to finish the stop.
Speaker 4:Or finish. They needed to submit the photos. The photo, yes, that's what it was.
Speaker 1:How are you driving around with no data plan Like did you? I mean who even runs out of data? I will go over my limit, but it just slows it down just a little bit. It's not even noticeable.
Speaker 4:I'm wondering if he was using it of one of the government supplied cell phones.
Speaker 1:Well, either way, you still get data you don't get unlimited data.
Speaker 4:No, no.
Speaker 1:I mean I'm sure there are plans out there that aren't unlimited, but like I mean it's just silly that he did that. But no absolutely. It's so silly, it's so silly, it's so silly.
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Speaker 4:So this is a TikTok, and you're going to play the video in a second, but it's interesting, though, because it's about a flex driver no longer. I think it's a DSP.
Speaker 1:OK.
Speaker 4:So there is a difference between a DSP and a flex, well, a.
Speaker 1:DSP is a third party company that has like 30, 40, 60 trucks that work every day and delivering to the same neighborhood. Flex worker is just random, like I'm going to go pick up a route for three hours.
Speaker 4:So this video here is actually one of the more decent stops that has snacks and drinks out for their drivers, and this driver makes it a point to stop at this family's house, even though he doesn't have a package for them, and I just think it's a pretty cool video. And the video is kind of more a little bit of life affirming and thanking the drivers, so play it.
Speaker 2:Sorry I ain't got no packages for you all today, but it's my last day. They fired my DPS. I had to come get some snacks. I appreciate you all. You all have been the best house I've worked with throughout this year. So I'm saying I hope you all have a beautiful life.
Speaker 1:They're struggling to get it open.
Speaker 2:I hope you all have a beautiful life. Hopefully one day we will meet again.
Speaker 1:Ok, yeah that's really cool.
Speaker 5:It is cool.
Speaker 1:People get attached to their people and their routes. I am attached, Even though I have some ass, some frustrating kids. I am attached to that route and if I do lose it or go somewhere else it's a bummer and same with that. Can you imagine having the same UPS driver? Let's say you had a business and you ship stuff out every day? Oh, absolutely, and the guy was there for 20 fucking years, every single day. And it's just like you build this relationship and it's like but yeah, that DSP getting fired, that's very common. They lose the contract or whatever because they can't perform and Amazon has incredible standards of stats that you have to hit in these methods.
Speaker 4:Oh sure.
Speaker 1:And if you can't hit it, hit the road bitch, Give it to somebody else Give it to somebody else.
Speaker 4:So Mike said he'd be pissed if some guy showed up no packages to deliver and started taking stuff. But here's the thing.
Speaker 1:He has a relationship with them. There's a relationship right?
Speaker 4:I mean, this is the thing to end. I must say that Jason is also one of the good guys.
Speaker 1:Well, I haven't been in a while.
Speaker 4:I've been slacking on that you should have seen I mean the treats that was put out in his garage when I come over here. Like what the heck? There's like a whole smorgasbord of the whole guy's stuff.
Speaker 1:I know, I know. I have a little side story from that, so you know how I get in-grads delivery.
Speaker 5:Yes.
Speaker 1:Starting in October, they are charging $2 per delivery. If you want to get it in your garage now, what? I turned that fucking thing right off. Why, of course, paying $2. I mean, the whole point of this is to save money. Why are they charging?
Speaker 4:So that's ridiculous, isn't that ridiculous, oh my gosh. So it's not per package. So if you ordered everything, Well, yeah, yeah, I think what the Put it for them to open the damn door.
Speaker 1:So what I think they're trying to do is they're trying to get you to put everything on one day. So if you put everything like let's say, you ordered six things money through Friday, and then you're like going to Monday's, your day you would only pay $2 to get it all delivered.
Speaker 4:Well, sure.
Speaker 1:That's what they're trying to do, and I don't know if they're trying to, because we all know the prime day doesn't work.
Speaker 4:What do you mean? I mean I have a prime day too. I have my Google, my prime delivery day. That if I choose my prime day it's supposedly better, or what Not? It's all free anyway. Well, no, I just come with the package.
Speaker 1:It's all about efficiency.
Speaker 4:No, I understand.
Speaker 1:They're trying to save gas, they're trying to like.
Speaker 4:I get that, yeah, but I want it now. Well, yeah, that's the whole point of Amazon, the point of Amazon.
Speaker 1:So, they're going to if you wanted the garage. They're going to make you pay $2 for that and I took.
Speaker 4:So now we are back to again thinking about again lockbox that people they drive and get into for free. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, there is a business opportunity for someone out there to do that.
Speaker 4:Oh, I've seen several houses now that they actually built it into it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you said that.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so this whole idea of making a lockbox gets put right into the wall. It's crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but that's going to be very rare.
Speaker 4:I don't think it's going to be commonplace Of course not, but it's just cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's very cool. Yeah, but that's for rich people, I'm just saying. So that's me. You don't have a built-in fucking box in your house.
Speaker 4:And I'm not rich yet, yeah.
Speaker 1:He's 50. He's keeping, he's trying, although, hey, what they say, colonel Sanders didn't start Kentucky Fried Chicken until he's like 58, or something like that.
Speaker 4:Oh, I know.
Speaker 1:And that's kind of what put him on the planet.
Speaker 4:Took off, took off.
Speaker 1:No, I just think it's a good business opportunity for somebody to create some sort of box with Wi-Fi access where you can just scan it.
Speaker 4:There's actually several of them already on the market, but none of them really has really taken off, and there's a lot of different stories. I was thinking about going that route at some point, so I did some research. So there's a lot of different models, obviously, sizes, whatever but they also have different ways of getting into the box of different yeah, see, that's the clunky part.
Speaker 1:Right, you have to have an agreement with Amazon, like if Amazon partnered with a company, it'd be a game changer for them, because, I mean, everyone gets.
Speaker 4:Well, the idea is that somehow I mean, there's boxes, even that you can open them and then put it in. Oh, then it locks. Yeah, oh, so that's the way to go, oh boy, it's locked if there's something in it, that kind of stuff. Yeah, I never thought about that.
Speaker 1:So there's really no need to have access in once. It's in there, correct?
Speaker 4:Or it's the whole idea that there's two compartments of the box and so the top compartment is always free and always closed and once you put it in, it automatically gets moved into the back. So there's lots again. They all have different strategies for how they keep your packages safe, but none of them really has made it yet like big time Right.
Speaker 1:So that's Well if Amazon keeps charging for shit like this. It's they're gonna make it Because, no, I switched back the porch. I'll just roll the dice that I mean not that I've ever had a package stolen, but I'm just saying it was just nice to get them in the garage. I didn't have to worry about them getting wet. Well, exactly. You know what I mean so, but anyways $1.99,. Y'all, Jamie says hi, Hi.
Speaker 4:Jamie, it's nice to see you. That is just bullshit. I'm sorry, I know, but and the thing is, it's never gonna work. It's not gonna get people to choose prime day, no, they're just gonna get it on the front porch.
Speaker 1:I know they're just gonna do what I did. They're gonna choose the prime day.
Speaker 4:They're gonna take exactly, they're gonna turn it off.
Speaker 1:Yep, and then that's it. But I think it's win-win for Amazon, though, because I think they think it. So it does take a little bit longer to do those deliveries because it has to connect to the garage. The garage has to oh sure. So it takes maybe 30 seconds longer, but you think about it. If you get rid of that for you know 7,000 drivers how much time would they save.
Speaker 4:No, a lot. Yeah, that's why it's they take the same principle back as when UPS changed all the routes to focus on right turns. Yeah, I mean, they save this shit ton of money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I mean I get it, but it's just annoying as a customer.
Speaker 4:No, absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Okay, DoorDash, I'm gonna play this one. Honestly, it was from last week and I don't quite remember what it is, but you're gonna hate this guy after I were finished. I already hate him and I haven't started it.
Speaker 5:So I'm gonna just order through DoorDash for a chicken bacon ranch quesadilla. I tell DoorDash 15 minutes. 45 minutes later, the quesadilla is still sitting there. I get a phone call and this woman is like excuse me, why is my order taking so long? I'm like I'm sorry, ma'am, who is this? She's like Janet.
Speaker 5:I look over and the DoorDash is for Janet. I'm like actually, ma'am, your order's been sitting here for about 15 minutes. She's like what's wrong with you? You didn't bring it to me. I'm starving and I'm like I'm sorry, ma'am, I don't think you understand. This isn't DoorDash.
Speaker 5:She's like obviously I know this isn't DoorDash. Are you trying to ruin my day or something? I'm just staring at my other coworker like this lady is crazy on the phone. So I'm like, ma'am, I don't think you understand. We're not a delivery service. You place it through DoorDash so they could deliver it to you until they come in and pay. We can't bring it to you. She's literally screaming on the phone, being like I will never order through you guys again. It has been 45 minutes. We were told 15 minutes. We're starving and as I'm about to explain to her that the DoorDash guy is literally walking through the door, she hangs up the phone. He gets up to the counter staring at his phone. He's like she just canceled this order and literally walks out of the restaurant. And the chicken, bacon, ranch, quesadilla basically just got wasted on the counter. Like what is wrong with DoorDash and Uber Eats? Like come pick up the food.
Speaker 1:Okay, the guy is clearly doing Adderall because that or needs it one of the two.
Speaker 4:Come pick up the food.
Speaker 1:It was interesting because he talked about, like the driver having to pay. I've never had to do that with DoorDash, where you, I have a pay card for DoorDash but like no, I take that back. I had to do it at Walgreens, but never like out of McDonald's or a restaurant. No no, but yeah, I thought that was kind of funny.
Speaker 4:I never did it, but what was that card I had that did have that?
Speaker 1:Well, uber has a card, DoorDash has a card, they all have cards so that you can order Like oh yeah, I just don't know.
Speaker 1:It was very common place for Uber. When it first came out, like there was a restaurant called Chubbys stupidest name it's around us by Metro Health and they would get so fussy if you cause they basically Uber, would take their menu, put it on their platform and kind of all like coerce them to like become part of the plan. But they would get so mad that I would just lie. I would be like, yeah, I'm here to pick up, I would call on the phone, I'd get the order, I'd call on the phone place this is for Jason Wouldn't even use the customer's name or anything, and then I would just pay with the card and it used to say Uber on it. And then they updated the cards. It just looks like a black, a black card, but yeah, I used to do those all the time and they used to pay it quite a bit more because you're placing the order Right, right, right, you may have to wait, you know, but yeah, that guy was like whoosh, wow.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, moving on this one.
Speaker 4:So this is tying into a little bit about thank you, that's the one you put up this tying into a little bit of what we talked about earlier about being able to change or not tip and so forth. So this is the idea here and the person posting this is asking the question will Uber each remove the ability to remove a tip? Did anyone else get this message?
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is from a customer perspective.
Speaker 4:Correct, yeah, yeah, so it says say thanks for the tip. 100% of your tip goes to your curia. Suggested tips are based on your sub-total. Before any of your motions. Note once your order is placed, your tip can be removed, but extra tips can be added.
Speaker 1:So the question is, have they removed that option for the customer? Because normally when you do an Uber Eats it'll say what it was quoted, let's say $10, but then I'll get paid $250 because that's the base and it takes an hour for that tip to post because customers have an opportunity to change it Correct. So I don't know. I kind of like this verbiage, if that Absolutely. I never really followed up with it because that's the motto of our show we just post shit and talk about it and we don't follow up on it.
Speaker 4:No no.
Speaker 1:No, but I mean I didn't. So I mean I don't order a ton, but this. I guess it doesn't matter that if I order or not, that's irrelevant.
Speaker 4:But here's the thing, though, too this is how they should both work.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah this is how it should be.
Speaker 4:anyways, this is how Uber, this is how DoorDash, this is how they should all be working.
Speaker 1:But here's the thing. This is the counter argument that said, well, what if it's bad service, if I can't remove my tip? So if I tip this guy $10, he took him an hour and he stepped on my cheeseburger, but then don't tip until you get your damn cheeseburger and then tip.
Speaker 4:Well, yes, you can tip afterwards but then it's been a bit of a service.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, exactly Then it's an order out in the field for $2.50 that no one's gonna take. So it's like I mean I would always say if you wanna do it that way, bid sorry, tip half of what you're gonna tip, I guess. So like if you're gonna tip $8, tip four and then add four after that to make it fair. But the problem is no one fucking adds it after.
Speaker 4:But that's the thing. Then it's like ah, you know he's good.
Speaker 1:It's like when you're in a restaurant. Right, you get in there, you're excited, you have this nice big meal, you're fat and happy, and you lean back and then you get the bill and you're like the fuck is this? You know what I mean? Like you don't wanna pay it, you're frustrated with it, but that's the same thing. Like who's gonna go actually back into the app after? They're fat and happy and they're all like you know what I mean? Right, have that dopamine hit from food and I think you said it too right.
Speaker 4:It's a tip for service.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 4:It's a tip for service. So then the question becomes we all know this that it shouldn't be a tip, so you can get your food delivered.
Speaker 1:It shouldn't be, but that's what it is.
Speaker 4:Correct, and then you're gonna go back. The only way to solve it is for Uber, uber or Dora Des actually pay, pay more, pay more, yeah Right, which that's not gonna happen either.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like this weird circle of like Dora Des used to pay more, but if they're not, so they're putting the pressure on the customer. Then the customer gets pissed so they don't tip as much. So this big cyclical thing. You know what I mean and I don't know how you change it. I mean, we know how to change it. Yeah, pay the driver more. And I don't think people are asking for $20 of delivery. I think they're asking for like five, six bucks, like a $5 base just to cover the gas Exactly.
Speaker 4:Don't do a fucking $2.40, right, or whatever it is.
Speaker 1:I mean with how much things cost, like can you even buy a soda? Okay, can you buy a $20 soda for less than $2.40?, but barely it's like a $1.99, you know what I mean. So it's just like if they would just make it five bucks, I think, although people would always bitch, but I would be much more inclined to do it if my base was five bucks each time.
Speaker 4:I think the issue that I also have is you get $2,040. Yeah, right, now Doris takes like their stupid convenience fee of $3. From the customer Right and then they take a part of the food. I mean, doris probably makes they easily make $6 on that order. Oh, yeah, after they done paying you. Yeah, so that's the issue here. Right, it's fake. Just just do the right thing.
Speaker 1:Well, they're double dipping on everybody, right? They're well not double dipping there. They're dipping on the restaurants, they're dipping on the customer and they're dipping on the driver right Meanwhile laughing all the way to the bank. But people's, that's a thing like if I don't know how you change it, you're using the service if you stop using the service it ain't never gonna happen Do you use to it. On occasion no.
Speaker 1:I will typically use grub hub because I feel like they pay there like the. I Mean their base pay is a little bit more. I just find it. I Don't know I use grub hub, I guess we don't use any food delivery services. I mean I've used occasional use your.
Speaker 4:I guess we occasionally will use a Pizza. I mean I have a pizza delivery, but we'll use. We'll use that their own delivery guy.
Speaker 1:You know, just pay the pay the pizza, but you know, like jets, the jets at least on 28th Street and Wyoming, there they do both.
Speaker 2:They have drivers and get it out.
Speaker 1:So you never know who you're gonna get. If they're busy and the, I guess I don't know how that works, actually how do they get paid?
Speaker 4:I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess maybe if they. If the customer orders orders it through door dash, it goes to door dash drivers. If they order it like through jets website or call, then they probably use their own drivers.
Speaker 4:That's probably. Again, I just stated I'm not ordering through the shy orders. Yeah, I know. Oh, that's true, you're right, sorry.
Speaker 2:Apologize for that that's.
Speaker 1:John, we don't care about California. Everything's more extensive there. A gallon of gas is 650. Ask me how much I pay for a gallon of gas, john? Zero dollars. No, that's not true.
Speaker 4:Yeah you, you would pay. You would pay 695, 99 for a gallon gas. No, you just don't need the gallon gas.
Speaker 1:I yeah well, that's true, I have an electric vehicle.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but you would still pay the same. Yes.
Speaker 1:This is kind of an interesting to. Oh my god, this at this site has so many friggin.
Speaker 4:All right, I hate though I absolutely hate those websites.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't mind having like stuff on the sides, but it's the bottom.
Speaker 5:There's a video pop and the top and yeah Like give me something.
Speaker 1:A dad is behind bars in Chicago After he tried to drown his son as a sacrifice for Jehovah, according to media reports, a lift driver. This is incredible. I mean he didn't. He did what everyone should do, but I bet a lot of people wouldn't. A lift driver heard a father making concerning statements during the ride and called 911 after dropping the father, later identified as Jeremiah Campbell and his son off at an apartment complex. The police report obtained by local news Said Campbell allegedly was talking about drowning his son as a sacrifice to Jehovah and other conspiracies.
Speaker 1:Dispatch received a call around the same time for someone at the same location saying his two-year-old son had drowned. Chicago police officers responded the location and knocked on the door, but no one answered. They looked inside a window and saw a man bending over the bathtub oh my gosh. And making suspicious movements. Believing there was a drowning in progress, officers forced their way into the home with the cops inside. Campbell took the boy out of the bathtub. Officers could hear the boy coughing and saw him coughing up water. Oh, so good on that lift driver.
Speaker 1:I mean, I mean sit here. What do they say? See something, say something like Don't ever worry that you're gonna offend somebody, you're gonna hurt their feelings, because you never know no, I mean maybe out of the 99, out of a hundred calls that you do they, they don't turn out to anything, but is it worth it for that one call to be like sure, the kids things that was.
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, I feel bad for this. This is. This is always the sad part. People don't realize when this happens that guy's never gonna see that kid again. No you know what I mean? He's, I mean he's probably gonna end up in the foster system or something like that. It's just sad. It's sad for the kid. I'm so glad that he survived, I am but right he's always. He's got all this trauma to deal with for the rest of his life and he does, but he's better off though.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he is better off. I mean, he is better off for sure, john, you don't pay for gas, but you have a $500 car payment. Congrats, you played yourself. I'm not sure 500 is enough. Yeah, yeah, you're wrong. Is 590 a bitch? Yeah, it's true, it's expensive at 8% interest. Thanks, thanks Biden, thanks Obama, thanks Trump. There's nothing to do with that. I love when people say that, remember that back in the day it was, it started with Obama. Like thanks Obama, like that's the thing now like he has anything to do with that.
Speaker 1:They'll say yeah, he does he. He hired the feds and the.
Speaker 4:Federal Reserve and the appointed and blah, blah, blah. Like I know they are that, they are that. Are you gonna do that I?
Speaker 1:am gonna. Let me get to it. Fuck, I was just reminiscing about the government people being idiot. Gary Middleton, gary's middle, gary's apps calm. I actually use our link in the description and if you buy a subscription to Drive your utility helper or maximo, we get a little money. Of course, cuz, why not? You got a wet our whistle. If we're gonna talk about you Gotta wet my beak, you gotta wet my beak.
Speaker 5:That one got him.
Speaker 1:You ever here, you ever when, whenever you, um, whenever I say stuff, do you just go gotta with my beak? What do you ever go just like that fucking guy says the dumbest shit and I don't even know what he's Everyday okay if you check out his apps.
Speaker 1:One is for DoorDash, which I do not use anymore because I can't even get on the platform. We've already talked about that Nauseam. And then the other ones Maximo, which has uber lift and Grubb up on it, yep, so fully automated saves you money, keeps you from touching your phone all the time. Lot, keeps you safer. Accepted a client it. It's amazing.
Speaker 1:So check it out and how do you get him go to our link in the description which I said at the beginning? Thank you if you paid attention. All right, we gotta get through this picture and then we gotta talk with. The next one is like the, so this one is interesting.
Speaker 4:it's so stupid. Well, it's kind of cute though it's kind of so I see it's a lift ride.
Speaker 4:little endearing, yeah, a little endearing, right, so it's the lift ride and so the moment he gets it here, he receives three text messages. The driver receives three text messages from the passenger of the rider. It says good evening, my grandmother Is sending me a plate of food. She will put the plate in the car and you will bring it to me and I will be outside to get it. Yeah, I mean, I mean, come on, I mean it is kind of cute.
Speaker 1:How can you feel bad about that? I know plate of food.
Speaker 4:if I got that, though I would, I would cancel it of course you what. You know, you, you you, you.
Speaker 1:You're in this position right now, but you would be like you'd be out driving trying to grind this and you'd be like, fuck this shit.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but the way I drive the food on the floor anyway, yeah, that's such a good point yeah trust me, you don't want me taking this food. No, no, no, it's just.
Speaker 1:I just thought it was. I guess you're right. I'm glad you pointed how endearing it is, cuz it's like all grandma's making me a plate of food, like it would have been better if it said like cookies. I would have been like, well, I'm getting me one of them, fucking cookies. Like I go pick it up, but I'm gonna ask grandma if I can. Yeah, I have a cookie. Larry's like cancel. Yeah, john's, I was un-exhausted.
Speaker 2:I am just tired not because of the streaming Frickin.
Speaker 4:John Jason, I told you several times to get your door desk.
Speaker 1:No, john, that's the point. I don't have time. I don't know what my skin like. No, I'm not doing that. We need to go back to the on-demand. Let me ride, let me do pirate like grubbub. I can do pirate on grubbub. I don't have to do a schedule. If I don't want to Uber, let me just sign on and do it. If I don't get any orders, fine, but let me at least try to get some orders like I don't. I'm not Scheduling out, it's a fucking job. I already have a schedule.
Speaker 1:I got beat at the bus barn at six o'clock in the morning when it defeats the purpose of a gig.
Speaker 4:Yes, I hate the schedule.
Speaker 1:Right, I mean I guess I schedule an Amazon route too. But I mean, I know that going in that's not a pirate one where you can just go back to the on-demand, that's not a pirate one where you can just go online like right door dash always used to be John, I'm gonna throw punch you. If you ever, if you ever come to the picnic, I'm gonna throw punch you. He said stop being a Karen, oh Karen, I'm just Calling Jason a kid, I'm just whining about how dumb door dash is now, isn't that what Karen's do I?
Speaker 1:Mean.
Speaker 2:I get there.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Well there, no, I wouldn't. What's the definition of a Karen? I'm gonna look it up.
Speaker 4:I thought we had to go to the next one. Hold on.
Speaker 1:I wish I could do voice on my. It says there's little voice there. I wonder if it would work. Hold on Hold on. This is fun. Use your microphone Okay. What is the definition of a Karen?
Speaker 3:Oh, it works. Here's the definition of Karen a member of an indigenous people of Eastern Burma, myanmar, in Western Thailand. No.
Speaker 1:All right, here's here. Here's, here's the real one. Wow, this is a big word. A Karen is a Pejorative slang term for an obnoxious, angry, entitlement, often racist, middle-aged woman who uses their privilege to get her way or police others People's behavior. Hello, I first of all that's you right there.
Speaker 4:I mean, I've never seen a more what no good description of you.
Speaker 1:As features in memes. Karen is generally stereotyped by having blonde bob haircut, asking to speak to retail and restaurant managers. To voice complaints or make demands of being anti-vax, oh interesting. Or generation X soccer mom, by the way. How excited am I that I just figured out that I can say, hey, google, google this for me. Oh, I'm so excited. Sorry, I know I got sidetracked, I'll cut the dead air. How is that any different from chase?
Speaker 4:Yeah, john, don't come to the picnic, it's a rope punch.
Speaker 1:All right may not survive that yes, but I are both excited about this because we it actually affects us so but so, doesn't affect our market though. Well, what I was just gonna ask is I was actually gonna pop the lift app open cuz we didn't. We didn't have locks around here, no, so maybe we don't, maybe it doesn't affect us.
Speaker 4:So, anyways, it says what's changing? An update to your, to your status. What's changing Locks and preferred will no longer be available. I can't read it, my, I'm too old. So it says writers aren't requesting these ride types as often as before. This is causing more downtime between Between rides. For drivers, we're introducing extra comfort Extra comfort I don't even experience. Drivers with newer vehicles will be eligible to drive this new ride type and earn more per ride Then standard extra comfort.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm trying to look. I don't think I obviously have it, cuz I don't even find a spot like where do you find on your app where you can?
Speaker 4:Or you can't do that either.
Speaker 1:You can only.
Speaker 4:Well, you can't shoot, you can't choose and lift.
Speaker 1:Oh, but where? Oh, so maybe, yeah, interesting.
Speaker 4:I haven't actually looked and see if I can well, yeah, I was just wondering if it was.
Speaker 1:If yeah, I can't. I can't do anything, oh, oh ride types?
Speaker 4:No, I only have. I have all right types lift.
Speaker 1:Where was that? Where was the option for that?
Speaker 4:So you got a click in the corner next to the button.
Speaker 1:Where? Oh, down there, and Then all right types, okay, gotcha but I did like I can't.
Speaker 4:It's all of them.
Speaker 1:Oh so yeah, same with me. I was just curious if it all rides typed lift and shared shared rides. Fuck you.
Speaker 4:I know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sure, well, anyways, I mean I hope it does come here, because that would be comfort for both of us. I mean, this guy was complaining about this 2010 Toyota Camry doesn't meet the extra comfort requirements, right? Well, it's probably because it's a Camry. Oh no, camry's are big now, I was a roll up 2010, yeah it's gonna have to be a newer vehicle, of course, which that's with uber to. I mean, you can't have an old.
Speaker 2:No, no car.
Speaker 1:Well, your van kind of fell, or was it still comfort up until you?
Speaker 4:know you're comfort up until you got rid of it.
Speaker 1:I know it's cuz, it's a Chrysler, but anyways it was a ton of country. Yeah, it's a Chrysler oh.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Chrysler made it anyways, I'm excited about that. I hope it does come to this market. That will give me a more opportunity. I mean honestly with I don't even do lift anymore because uber gives me a dollar extra for the EV right and I can do comfort, not that.
Speaker 4:I get a ton of them, but I mean I Hate to say it too right, Even though cuz we know uber.
Speaker 2:But but the lift app is just not as good as the uber yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I mean, lift had zero dollars during the pandemic. At least uber was making money with food delivery, so they probably done they've really not done any innovation at all on their app. You're right, it is is still kind of it was better than ubers back in the day.
Speaker 4:Oh absolutely.
Speaker 1:But now uber is just leaps and bounds over that Yep.
Speaker 4:So Anyways, yeah, what happens. Hey, what happens on Saturday. We get to see Janet we get to see Janet, yeah, and all the other people who want to come and get free food.
Speaker 1:I know and where is it? It's at Riverside Park, at the island.
Speaker 4:Shelter the island shelter from two to four.
Speaker 1:I hope we see Everybody can you imagine if 75 people showed up like fuck, yes bro, let's get some pizzas?
Speaker 5:We've never run out of food yet.
Speaker 4:It would actually be a joy that if we run out of food, we will get more food. Yeah for sure but, please, please, do come up and we are super excited to see yeah.
Speaker 1:I I'm really excited to see everybody. It's it's, it's a good time. A lot of these people you know you talk online all year or online in telegram, and then you see them in person, like when I first saw John. It was really weird.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, but John is just weird. Yeah, he's a little off. Yeah, I mean he has this podcast.
Speaker 1:I can complain, it's.
Speaker 4:You know, hey you're the cool thing. It know you can listen to. I can't believe this is pretty cool. But now the other interesting thing. A cool thing is you never really know what the weather is gonna be like in Michigan in October.
Speaker 1:That's true.
Speaker 4:September, sorry, september, it's almost October. Anyways, the cool thing is it's gonna be 80 and that's beautiful and sunny.
Speaker 1:Yep 79 and sunny.
Speaker 4:I know, I just told you don't believe me.
Speaker 1:I was gonna confirm with my my weather app. Damn it. All right, john gave me breaking news corollas are smaller than Camry's. Yeah, no shit, john, throw a punch coming in the mail and remember, guys don't put up with anyone's bullshit and we'll see you at the picnic.
Speaker 4:I.
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Speaker 2:Oh.
