Ep. #172 Ep. #172 Thirsty Goose, unfair uber deactivations, and say my name

Who knew gigs could be so wild? We're here to bring you a behind-the-scenes look into the everyday challenges and peculiarities of working in the gig economy. With stories from Uber drivers including their struggles with unexpected passengers, the fear of battery degradation in electric cars, and their thoughts on Uber's new feature to combat unfair driver deactivations, you're in for a ride.

In the second part of our discussion, we take you on an unusual detour. Ever heard of a portable urinal named Thirsty Goose? Well, it's a thing, and we're breaking down its features, accessories, and potential usefulness for drivers. From there, we shift gears to discuss safety precautions when using Uber, including essential tips like checking license plates and the driver's name before hopping in. We also introduce you to Wridz, a new app that offers a subscription-based model for drivers. Not to forget, we sprinkle in our thoughts on a strange encounter involving a foot fetish at a car show. You never know what you'll encounter in the gig world!

To wrap up our session, we delve into personal experiences like the anxiety of running out of power in an electric car and the challenges of dealing with multi-stop rides. We believe in open conversations, so we also touch on the controversial subject of passengers doing their makeup in the car and how it affects us as drivers. Our aim is to bring you a comprehensive discussion that combines insights, laughter, and tips for your journey in the gig economy. Tune in for all this and more as we navigate the crazy, sometimes hilarious world of gig work. Remember, it's not just driving; it's an adventure!

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Speaker 1: 0:24

I hit the wrong button, there you go. Hi guys, I'm the big economy podcast, episode 172.

Speaker 2: 0:33

It's ridiculous. I know Two episodes.

Speaker 1: 0:36

It's a lot of episodes.

Speaker 2: 0:37

It's a lot of episodes.

Speaker 1: 0:38

And we're back. We took last week off for Thanksgiving. I hope you and your family or maybe your friends, because you hate your family like I do, I mean I love my nuclear family and we're talking extended family. Hope you guys had good, had a lot of good food. I had steak and we made one small little turkey.

Speaker 2: 0:56

So how come you had steak. That's like against everything, all the rules, right.

Speaker 1: 1:02

Do you want me to rant on how terrible a turkey is as a meat, as a celebratory meat? Turkey is terrible why it's dry.

Speaker 2: 1:12

No, it's not, it is, it's not cookaride.

Speaker 1: 1:15

Out of all the meats in the world, are you going to choose turkey?

Speaker 2: 1:19

Why they did apparently.

Speaker 1: 1:20

Well, yeah, they it's a show bird. It's a show bird.

Speaker 2: 1:24

It's a show bird, Honestly.

Speaker 1: 1:26

I'm taking this from John's podcast because he said it and. But he said it looks beautiful on the plate, but once you dig into it it's just I don't know. So we had steak, we had a small.

Speaker 2: 1:36

I just want the sides. I don't care yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:38

I mean, the sides are good. We definitely had the sides. So, anyways, guys, welcome to episode 172. Thank you so much. I want you to go to gigakonymyshowcom. It has been revamped. We're still tweaking a little bit, but you can get a lot of news there. Now, pretty much every day there's some updated news about what's going on the gig economy and, of course, you can subscribe to the audio podcast If you're watching this on YouTube or Facebook. If you could give us a like, that would be great. I noticed last week when Steve was on and had some of his friends on and we had 17 likes on YouTube.

Speaker 1: 2:08

It was awesome, and so we. I need to start encouraging you guys to like the videos, so that we can, I can subscribe so we can, we can show up a little bit.

Speaker 1: 2:16

Yeah Want to thank our Patreon members Larry Samson, steve, Bud, omar, delivery Cats, jamie Frank, joe, nate and John Appreciate you guys so much. If you want to join them in being part of the Patreon, you can go to patreoncom, search the gigacon podcast or just search the gigaconymyshowcom for all those special perks. Comment right here. And I know this guy and it's driving me nuts and he got to use your damn name because he shows up like once a year. I think he was in the Telegram group I'm struggling on the name, but he was a he was on.

Speaker 2: 2:51

I think he was on Patreon too.

Speaker 1: 2:53

I'm terrible with names, but thank you for showing up again. I think that's him. We'll see. We'll see if he comments. That could be completely wrong. So oh yes, we're telling me about the Telegram group Speaking of that.

Speaker 2: 3:06

So it's just, something is wrongly, because you completely split it there. I just just go, I know, I know, I know but you're throwing me off.

Speaker 1: 3:16

How, how? We're professionals.

Speaker 2: 3:17

I'm professional, just go with it, okay.

Speaker 1: 3:20

You go into it and you still like I'm confused, I'm a boomer, yeah, but don't say that.

Speaker 2: 3:26

Okay, I'm turning 50 next fucking year. I'm doing this is ridiculous. Okay. So Telegram group don't go to the app store, download Telegram, and once you have that on your either your iPhone or your Android of choice then you go to the link in the subscription and you sign up for the group.

Speaker 1: 3:43

Yeah, and that's a place like what? What is the Telegram group?

Speaker 2: 3:46

So it's just like our own little community, that when you're out driving and when you're not driving, whenever you feel like, you join in on the conversation. And yeah, I guess I haven't been in there in a little bit, so I don't know, but it didn't. It wasn't always for everybody, so be careful.

Speaker 1: 4:04

Sometimes there's talks that can be well you're selling it so well, I know, I know, I know, like it's not for everybody, but no, no, no no, no, no.

Speaker 2: 4:11

But I what I meant is it's a good community. I like everybody, but sometimes there's adult talk. Well, yeah, we're all adults because there's a lot of frustration being, you know, a lot of people are handed out and that kind of stuff. But it's definitely a good. It's a good place where you can kind of you know, share opinions and talk about pros and cons and what's things to do in the gig economy. So yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1: 4:32

Okay, stories from the road it's been. It's been, jesper, like two months Probably.

Speaker 2: 4:39

Are you working this weekend?

Speaker 1: 4:40

No, Jesper, you're getting into a routine of not working.

Speaker 2: 4:44

Well, the problem is I'm working 60 hours at work at my own job.

Speaker 1: 4:49

Well, you got to get out and do a little gig work, stretch your legs a little bit, I know In a metaphorical sense because we'll be stretching your legs because you'd be driving. Just go out and drive for like nine to midnight, nine pm to midnight for three hours Nine to midnight, I don't know, maybe.

Speaker 1: 5:03

Well, I wasn't. I probably am not going out this weekend. It is my weekend to work, but my wife and I are celebrating our anniversary Congratulations. But she is feeling a little under the weather, so I, if she continues to feel under the weather, then I am going to work this weekend. But my, my quests were terrible. I think it was. I actually saved it. I haven't even looked at mine.

Speaker 1: 5:26

I saved it in the group because we always got to bring up the quest just because it's fun to talk about. It's fun to see if you guys get the same one. So I got 60 trips, all right. Quest one is 60 trips for 80 and then 10 more trips for 30. So what is that? 110. They're both the same 110 and the. Or I can do 50 trips for 55 and then another 20 for 55. Mine is better than yours.

Speaker 2: 5:54

Oh, is it yeah.

Speaker 1: 5:55

Cause you have been driving.

Speaker 2: 5:58

I get 60 trips for 95 and I get 10 extra trips for 35. I make 130 dollars.

Speaker 1: 6:06

I can make 70 trips, mine's only 120. I know you got to make more than 130. No, is that?

Speaker 2: 6:11

it 95 and 35. That's 130. Yep, oh, and quest two is 65 for 50 trips and additional 20 trips for an extra 65. So, yeah, hmm.

Speaker 1: 6:22

Yeah, and I got nothing on lift, so I don't know, lift, and I'm not the only one, because people have been saying that the the quests have been starting to go down. What are you looking?

Speaker 2: 6:35

at Well, I do have an extra. I have Wednesday the 29th, that was tonight. I could have made a hon 10 dollars if I did 10 trips.

Speaker 1: 6:46

Just for today. Yep, what the fuck? Why didn't you? Oh, I never see those yeah.

Speaker 2: 6:54

Oh my gosh, that's so random. You're in a hon 10 dollars extra when you complete 10 trips. Rise only, yep.

Speaker 1: 7:00

Wow, I need to get those. No, I'm worried about the quest a little bit. I'm worried about that. They're going to go, they're just trickling us down, and then they're going to go to the member of the other one we talked about, where you have to, like earn 300 dollars and you get an extra 20 or whatever, like I'm worried they're doing that, or maybe it's just because it's getting around the holidays.

Speaker 2: 7:18

There's so many drivers out right now, they don't have to do anything.

Speaker 1: 7:21

Well, yeah, because everyone's trying to make money for their Christmas party. I know we're talking about that.

Speaker 2: 7:26

One of the stories tonight is about that. You know people, some of the drivers who started driving around holiday for extra money, and it's like it's good. It's good for them, right.

Speaker 1: 7:36

Good for them. There's so many drivers. Yeah, I might have to do some flex this next month if I can do rideshare.

Speaker 2: 7:43

What are the flex rides right now?

Speaker 1: 7:45

I haven't really looked at them much. I'm sure they're kicking, though Usually after Black Friday for the month and some change. They're pretty good.

Speaker 2: 7:54

I saw that interesting article that Amazon is now the largest delivery company in America.

Speaker 1: 8:02

It's crazy, it's crazy.

Speaker 2: 8:04

They flew through UPS Wow.

Speaker 1: 8:08

Well, I mean it makes sense, right, I am. I mean, everyone buys on Amazon. Now, I mean I rarely get stuff from UPS, although Amazon still goes to UPS from some things.

Speaker 2: 8:52

But it's still. I mean, I order one day and I'll have it the next day.

Speaker 1: 8:56

You can't beat it. I mean they just have the network, so stories from the road. I'm going to try to remember these because these are from a while ago, but I wrote-.

Speaker 2: 9:05

Two and a half months. No, that's you.

Speaker 1: 9:08

I wrote UberPetLady so this was a ride that I swear. When I accepted it it wasn't UberPet, but we all miss stuff, right, we're driving whatever. So I get to Meyer and I pull up and there's no doc and I was like oh sweet, it's like somebody that orders an XL that maybe just wanted more room.

Speaker 1: 9:27

I don't know why you would order an UberPet and not have one. I mean, Chris Postumas said he says like two thirds of his UberPets are no pets. So I don't know what, like I don't know. I don't know why you would do that. Maybe they've had good luck with getting nicer cars and so that's why they do it, and maybe it's a little bit less than a comfort or something.

Speaker 2: 9:46

Yeah, I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 1: 9:48

So I pull up. I'm like whatever it's, at the kind of the 28th Street, Kalamazoo Meyer, so not the best Meyer in the area, Right right right.

Speaker 1: 9:55

But, and not that that really has nothing to do with the story, but I don't know why I brought it up because I'm stupid, but anyways, I pull up. She was like oh, I said no dog, and she's like no, I'm wondering if I can add a stop and then go pick up my dog. And I'm like what do we talk about? Like, if you're going to add the stop, do it before. So I don't, because I'm not taking multi-stop stops or multi-stop rides. And so I was like okay, I was like what kind of dog is it? And she was like a husky and I'm like nope, I'm not doing it.

Speaker 1: 10:32

She's like well, I ordered Uber Pet. I said, yes, you did, we have the right to refuse it. And I also said you're welcome to cancel this ride and order another one. And she's like no, it's fine, you can just take me to my first destination. I said also, it is frustrating for drivers when you don't tell the truth at the beginning and order a multi-stop ride, because I'll be honest with you, I wouldn't have accepted this. And then I gave her another out you can cancel this, it's no problem, you can order another one. She still wanted to do the first leg and I was like God, I'm getting a one-star or a rapport or something like that. I never got anything.

Speaker 2: 11:11

I mean, my rating didn't go down, but maybe she understood, though, too, that she did the Uber Some people are actually yeah, maybe she was like yeah, I should have done that. Well, exactly. So here's a question for that, though, is can you do a multi-trip and only have Uber Pet on the second trip?

Speaker 1: 11:30

No.

Speaker 2: 11:31

You can, right, you have to do all of it, right, yeah.

Speaker 1: 11:35

But my point is, if she would have requested a multi-stop on Uber Pet, I still wouldn't have taken it.

Speaker 2: 11:42

Correct yeah, because you don't do it too soon.

Speaker 1: 11:44

No, no, not multi-stop, because you just never know what you're going to get into. It could be something simple, but it could be something terrible too. Oh, absolutely, you know, like someone's laundry's stuck in your back.

Speaker 2: 11:54

I just hate that Last time I drove I had somebody who had a ride the moment I picked them up right, and it was just bullshit.

Speaker 1: 12:03

Yeah, it is bullshit, I just hate it. My second story I almost had pukers In your new car. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 12:10

Yeah, they would have lost something more than they got. It was 1030.

Speaker 1: 12:16

Yeah, why are we so shit-faced at 1030,? So I picked these gals up at I was going to say gun like casino, 20-man row live, and they were at a country show. They were older, late. I mean older, they were probably my age, 75.

Speaker 2: 12:31

No, but like our age, our age, I would guess.

Speaker 1: 12:34

Yeah, yeah, maybe a smidge older, maybe not, I don't know. It doesn't really matter. But like what kind of does? Because, like their shit-faced, the two in the back, the one that's driving is, or the one that's driving, that's me.

Speaker 2: 12:47

The one that's in the front seat is drunk, but not bad.

Speaker 1: 12:51

She starts like talking about music and these girls in the back are like, oh, so I give them a bag or whatever. So then I'm driving and they live north and their stop is the score. I was like, what are we doing here? They're like, oh, our cars are here. I said what they were going to drive home.

Speaker 1: 13:10

No, no, no, no, and I was like listen, I mean you can do what you want, but I think I should just drive you the rest of the way. And they said yes, and it was only like seven more miles and I know it's like well, what happens is they can't get an Uber right where they live, right, so they drive to the score.

Speaker 1: 13:28

Yeah an Uber and stuff. But I'm like girls, if you're gonna in my head, I'm like if you're gonna drink that much. So that was fine. No one puked. I gave him bags, one took one, one left it in the car and I was like whatever. But the the bad part of the bout that ride is I almost ran out of power. Yes, sir. Oh, I was already rolling the dice when I took that ride and then I had to go seven more miles north.

Speaker 1: 13:52

So I'm getting, I'm on my way home, I'm down to 15 miles. I'm on 196 westbound, ready to get off at at my exit, the Granville exit, it starts blinking and then it says low. Oh no, first it says Reducing propulsion, which means it's reducing this, like I can't just hammer down the gas anymore to try to save the battery, which I'm like. Okay, whatever, I can still go 70, but then it took my miles away. I just said low battery. I'm counting on these miles. I know how many miles it is to get home. So fucking rolled in and I never ran out, but I'm just like that.

Speaker 2: 14:30

How many miles left I did?

Speaker 1: 14:32

You don't know it went blank at like 15, not blank, but it just kept saying low battery charge soon. Yeah, no shit. Like it's like your fuel gauge where it like counts down, but with a fuel gauge in my pilot I've gone negative 30 on that thing and still had gas negative 30. Yes, it's gone down to zero and then 30 miles.

Speaker 2: 14:55

So. So I saw I was. I was watching a YouTube video today. I was somebody who bought a it was a Hune hunt Hyundai electric, I forget the name. I Q yeah, yeah, exactly, and he was saying that for that particular month. I don't know if he's anything, was just that one. But if you charge the last 20%, it actually degrades the battery. So so you can only mean you should only charge to 80%, because the more you charge, the last 20, the battery quality gets worse and worse every time you do it. Is that true for you too?

Speaker 1: 15:29

Yeah, it's true, for all those batteries You're supposed to do that. But here's the thing how much is it really gonna degrade? Well, yeah, I'm, I'm balls deep in the subreddit group, so I've we've talked about this right for Forever and most people that the general consensus is, if you have this car for ten years, it might degrade like Six or seven percent.

Speaker 2: 15:55

Is it really?

Speaker 1: 15:56

that big of a deal if you can only charge to 92 or 93%, so I don't know. I I typically only charged 80. Mm-hmm and then if I'm gonna uber, like on a Thursday night, I will charge it full. So Friday I have a thing. But I'm telling you something I put snow tires on that thing in this cold weather this week. Oh my god, it eats the battery so bad.

Speaker 1: 16:20

It's just like I can watch it in real time. Just go clink. So it'll be interesting ubering with because those snow tires are so aggressive and they're you know oh, you know, they're not like they're not like sleek, you know you're driving down the road, they're just, they're softer. So yeah, my battery.

Speaker 2: 16:39

That'll be interesting to see how that's gonna work.

Speaker 2: 16:41

I know I'm fearful that during my shift in quotes I'm gonna have to go to a supercharger because I, I mean, I'm probably not gonna get a whole night's in so in Denmark he was to this, I was the guy when then Mike okay, and and he was saying that they generally would spend, so he would just charge so in that money. Apparently maybe it was always like this, I don't know, but it's cheaper to charge during the night because- Yup, that's when I charge 11 P to 6A.

Speaker 2: 17:11

Because the gas, the electricity, is cheaper that way. Anyways, and he said they spent about $5 every two weeks in electricity oh, and he charges it every night. No, no, every three days.

Speaker 1: 17:25

Okay, yeah, it cost me about eight bucks to fill up from zero to full if I charge from 11 P to 6A. In fact, that night that I ran out, I actually didn't even get to 100% when it shut off at six.

Speaker 2: 17:40

That's how dead.

Speaker 1: 17:41

It was, it was Okay. So it charged for seven hours straight and I still wasn't. I was close. I was at like 92.

Speaker 2: 17:48

Okay.

Speaker 1: 17:48

But-.

Speaker 2: 17:49

So do you use an app to charge it? Because he was saying that he had an app that would automatically shut the battery off when I get after four hours or something.

Speaker 1: 17:58

I bought a charger from Amazon that sits on my wall and it's all controlled by an app and everything I mean Chevy has one built in. The Chevy app is absolutely garbage. Okay, it was shocker.

Speaker 2: 18:13

I think he said his app was called Monte or Monta or something, I don't know whatever.

Speaker 1: 18:17

But mine's built in the charger and we'll get off the EV train real quick. But I have to tell you something that's really cool. So this EV charger I have the company makes some sort of switch that you put in your electric box and when you have access solar it bypasses the you're sending it back to the electric company and sends it to that charger. Oh, so you basically can charge for free. Now I would be charging during the day if I had it plugged in but, like isn't that fucking tits?

Speaker 2: 18:48

Oh, it is.

Speaker 1: 18:48

I mean, why send it back to the electric company? Direct it right into my-.

Speaker 2: 18:52

Have you thought about how quickly you could? You could pay for a battery if you would just into sending it back to the-.

Speaker 1: 18:59

The problem is I need more. I need more panels. I don't have enough panels to produce that much.

Speaker 2: 19:04

You know what I mean If I had to.

Speaker 1: 19:07

If I had to, that's a random text message. If I had to do it over again, I would have bought more panels.

Speaker 2: 19:14

Okay.

Speaker 1: 19:15

And if I can, if I at some point can, I'll buy floor or ground mounts to put in my backyard, If the city approves it. I don't know if they'll approve it or not, instead of because I don't really have much more room on my roof.

Speaker 2: 19:27

Right, so yeah. If I ever do it, I need to get the two of my trees on the front out first, and then I can fit lots of panels on my roof.

Speaker 1: 19:36

I would recommend anybody that's listening to us, that's thinking about solar go bigger than what they say, cause they want. This is what they said to me and I should. I was a novice. They said oh, we don't want to like upset the, the electric company, which I get it, because they you have to work with them to get everything to work. They can be dicks about it and drag it out.

Speaker 1: 19:56

Cause. So they made me get like 90% of what I could, you know, instead of like a hundred or 120%. They may not made me, they encouraged me to get 90. And I'm kicking myself. I should have said no, I, if I want to pay for 120%, fucking put the panels up. Fuck the electric company. It's I mean. You know what I mean. You're still going to get you're still going to get my energy, my overfill back Like I don't even know what, but anyways.

Speaker 2: 20:21

A weird digress we really digressed. Sorry, but it is pretty big for me. I want to get told at some point.

Speaker 1: 20:29

I think you should. I think you should the gig economy news. Gig economy news. So this Reddit link was broken or they took the video away, but I do have the video, just a video of a Amazon driver watching a group of looters Raider truck, so nothing you know, crazy. But we'll play it and just digress, or talk about it and digress. He's in control. He's in control again. He's in control. What part? No, oh yeah.

Speaker 2: 21:00

Get off. Oh my god, he's in control man.

Speaker 1: 21:14

I mean she just, yeah, okay, We'll just stop it, but she just stands there, what's like what are you supposed to do?

Speaker 2: 21:20

What's she supposed to do, right, I mean?

Speaker 1: 21:21

why is there so much like shoplifting and looting going on have?

Speaker 2: 21:27

you noticed that? Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 1: 21:28

And then, like you, just see videos of people just walking in and just taking stuff and like no one stops them, no one does it, like I mean I don't want to get killed because someone's stealing. You know some makeup.

Speaker 2: 21:40

It's not just that, though. It's also just in general, it's okay to be nasty. What do you mean? It's okay not to be kind oh yeah, but again, this too, I mean you're right, I mean robbery, theft. We have another video later where somebody steals a car when they, as they're dropping off a door, dash they. What is wrong with people?

Speaker 1: 22:01

Yeah, what is wrong with people? Yeah, I just can't get over just the blatant shoplifting, right. I mean, you know the carts I think one of the Myers is starting it, maybe it's Hudsonville or whatever, but you know they can't. They won't go a certain point in the parking lot Like you can't, and I don't know how that works. Is it because there's no camera there? Or maybe it's? They can lock it down, but I mean they have some sort of device that doesn't allow. It goes to your car, but then how would you load your groceries in your car then, unless they can just lock that cart, I bet they can make a decision to lock that car so it doesn't go any farther outside the door. That must be. Yeah, you can look it up. It's happening. It's mostly in other cities, but I heard somewhere, I read a title about that.

Speaker 2: 22:51

You know Hudsonville, I know right, you know but, I mean it's somewhere where it's like.

Speaker 1: 22:56

It's not like in downtown Grand Rapids. It's like a suburb.

Speaker 2: 22:59

I was gonna say I would think I can see that on 28th you didn't kill a Masou, maybe yeah.

Speaker 1: 23:03

I don't know, it's kind of strange but yeah, you can look it up. So this next article. Yesterday, I swear, we've talked about this. I don't know if we have, I'm pretty sure.

Speaker 2: 23:13

but so we talked about something, but this is actually really really cool, all right, and so this is Uber adding just a bunch of new features to it. Now, they said they were supposed to do it already, so maybe it's already started, but so the title goes that Uber is taking a step to combat unfair driver deactivations, and what they're actually doing is some really cool stuff. So they are adding a bunch of new features to it. So they say it's starting Monday, which was, I think, last week Monday, uber wrote out a technology that identifies riders, or Uber Eats customers, who consistently give bad ratings of feedback with the intent of getting a refund. So that's the part that I do not think we've talked about before, cause now that they are going into that thing, what they're saying later on in the article as well is in 2025, they're going to start rider verification. Yeah, we've talked about this, which is really cool. They should have done that 10 years ago.

Speaker 1: 24:08

Were you not on the show when we talked about this? Maybe not. When was that? I just keep going with it cause at this point.

Speaker 2: 24:17

Huh anyways. So this is very cool. So, basically, so they are able to identify when people just want to get out or paying for the ride, the ride healer and also expanded his in-app review center to provide drivers and curators with more information about why their account was deactivated, allowing them to request a review of the decision to share any additional information, like audio and video recordings. That's also cool.

Speaker 1: 24:41

Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 2: 24:42

So there'll be an addition to that. Supposedly it'll be something you can now go in instead of just say all you can do is accept your deactivation. Now you can say, hey, something that didn't work out, obviously, and maybe we just talked about the audio recording feature that they wrote out earlier this year. I'm not sure.

Speaker 1: 24:58

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 24:58

I don't know, but so the company also started piloting video recording. I said one day we'll expand the pilot to iOS drivers in a dozen US cities, including Atlanta, denver, dallas, minneapolis, and select other drivers in Los Angeles.

Speaker 1: 25:12

Yeah, we did talk about this because we talked about verifying riders that's supposed to come out.

Speaker 2: 25:16

In 2025. Yeah, and then, another thing that I think is cool is they are going to pilot voluntary drug tests for people who've been deactivated. So if you've been deactivated, you can say hey, if you haven't been deactivated because of this and this, give me a drug test, right now yeah. So I think, all in all, I think what they're trying to do is to just come up with a bunch of features to keep the drivers driving.

Speaker 1: 25:42

Well, we talked about it because, remember, I had said what happens a lot is these features only go to a small market. Remember when I said Boise, idaho. Yeah, yeah, I think it was with Steve was on the show.

Speaker 2: 25:56

Oh, maybe we briefly talked about it. Maybe we talked about it a little bit then.

Speaker 1: 25:59

Yeah, but no, I think I mean everyone wants to shit on Uber and, trust me, I'll be first in line to take a shit on Uber, I will. But when I do see this stuff, it does I do like that. I do like there maybe are trying to do the right thing. Now, as far as the audio and video recording, the last time I drove I had a notification pop up on one of my rides that it may do this. Now, it wasn't a teen ride or anything like that, so I'm wondering why it did that. Is there an option that they For the riders maybe?

Speaker 2: 26:33

Yeah, I don't know, and I was like OK, just like when I started getting the pins that happened two years ago and I thought I was getting it came up hey, for you to accept the ride, you've got to put it in the riders pin.

Speaker 1: 26:45

Yeah, ok, so maybe that was maybe that.

Speaker 2: 26:48

I remember I was so confused. Like it says, I'm supposed to ask for your pin.

Speaker 1: 26:52

Yeah, I mean it's a good idea for people to don't steal the you know, steal the rides and stuff like that, but I like the verifying riders. That is amazing.

Speaker 2: 27:01

They should have done that 10 years ago.

Speaker 1: 27:03

The stupid names of, like baller and these crazy pictures and it's just like, come on man, like do that on your social media. This is a professional business and this is a company. We are doing a business transaction. Right, I'm not saying you have to like, you know you can be any kind of person you want, but like when we're making the decision, I don't need you know, killer.

Speaker 2: 27:28

I'm interested in seeing how far they're going to take the verification. If they're just going to ask the rider to upload a personal ID, maybe that's all they have to do.

Speaker 1: 27:40

I think what they're going to do is they're going to verify it off the card, right.

Speaker 2: 27:44

Their debit card. Well, I would hope that they do some kind of a picture identification as well.

Speaker 1: 27:49

Riders will be identified based on simple third party checks, like if your name matches the credit card on file. So if they put their name in, so it doesn't really verify, because if I create an account and I am using your card.

Speaker 2: 28:03

Yep.

Speaker 1: 28:03

I'll just put your name, and it's really not me.

Speaker 2: 28:06

Well, it's going to say I was hoping that they were more going to say, hey, you got to upload a piece of your ID and then you can, just like before you know, just like with the drivers, they will take pictures of it.

Speaker 1: 28:16

Yeah, it says if Uber can't verify a rider's identity, they'll ask for ID, but that won't be the standard which. I mean makes sense.

Speaker 2: 28:23

It should be the.

Speaker 1: 28:24

Yeah, it should be. Although, where else do you have to upload an ID to do business with something, with someone?

Speaker 2: 28:31

No, you don't, but Uber is. I mean you can't say that because in a lot of ways Uber is the first.

Speaker 1: 28:37

Yeah, it is. It is a different business transaction because you're getting into someone's car. It's someone, a stranger getting in your car would seem like.

Speaker 2: 28:45

And yeah, that's a good point, and I think that the issue is and I think this is what the media has made it to is that it's always been that the driver is the dangerous part, right yeah, and the rider?

Speaker 1: 29:00

How's that beer?

Speaker 2: 29:01

He wipes the mic. The rider is the one that are potentially at danger. We're just as much a danger. Oh yeah, I mean. Yeah, both parties should be secured.

Speaker 1: 29:15

Yeah, but we'll see. I mean, like I said, I'm liking they're actually trying.

Speaker 1: 29:20

I mean I would like to see more money, but that's always going to. I mean, you can take those features and shove them up your ass. I would rather have more money, but if you're going to give me anything, I'm glad you're at least giving me something. All right, moving on, this is hilarious. I got to give a shout to Pete. He used to be on the show, he used to be a host and he chimes in every once in a while. This is called the Thirsty Goose. Introducing the Thirsty Goose, the first of its kind portable urinal that helps you sleep better, adds convenience to bring a smile to your face, Perfect for use almost anywhere and for those audio listeners. I mean, it's a beautiful black goose with a gold beak for some reason, but it's a legit company. If you click on it, it's Portable Men's Urinal for the Modern man.

Speaker 2: 30:04

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Speaker 1: 30:07

There's a guy sleeping on a couch next to his thirsty goose and I mean, I guess we can become an ambassador, can you? We should do it. We talk about Gatorade bottles all the time.

Speaker 2: 30:23

My concern about, though can you close the beak? I mean, you can come and kiss my ass.

Speaker 1: 30:28

I mean, that's a good question.

Speaker 2: 30:29

That's nasty if it's just open.

Speaker 1: 30:31

That's a good question.

Speaker 2: 30:33

Do you really want it in your car?

Speaker 1: 30:34

Wait a minute. They have two things. They have a hideaway bag you can put it in, and they have a glow in the dark necklace Very random, not sure why that's an accessory.

Speaker 2: 30:44

Can you put your thirsty goose in the necklace so you have it around your neck?

Speaker 1: 30:48

Leak and odor proof. I'm still not seeing.

Speaker 2: 30:54

So maybe the beak simply closes.

Speaker 1: 30:57

Oh, I got it. The beak is actually the closer. You don't actually piss through the beak. I'm looking at a picture on their website. That's what closes it. So you take that off, pee in it, put the beak back on. Ok, now we're talking.

Speaker 2: 31:14

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Speaker 1: 31:27

Oh my gosh and he wants a thirsty goose. If somebody sends me this, I will die. Oh my god.

Speaker 2: 31:35

We want a video review of it then, Jason.

Speaker 1: 31:37

Yeah, I don't know. Oh no, it says temporarily sold out pre-order sale for now shipping in US early 2024. So no Christmas.

Speaker 2: 31:46

No Christmas.

Speaker 1: 31:48

I just don't understand this. Yeah, I want to know where I can put it.

Speaker 2: 31:54

You can put it on.

Speaker 1: 31:55

Well, I'm just saying it's interesting, my Gatorade bottle fits exactly where I need it to go, so I don't know, I still have this damn picture of. Sorry about that. You probably want to see the thirsty goose. I don't know I'm clicking on becoming ambassador. I mean we'll get 10% of the sale price. Wow.

Speaker 2: 32:15

OK, how much are they?

Speaker 1: 32:17

Only $250.

Speaker 2: 32:18

$2499. No, they're $50.

Speaker 1: 32:23

They're $50. On sale for $50. They're usually $70. There we go, oh, you get a free hideaway bag and a free necklace and free shipping. Oh my god.

Speaker 2: 32:37

So, anyways, this next video. Moving on this next video, we talked about it a little bit. This was, as we talked about the people stealing the packages. This is the woman who gets his car stolen while she's delivering food. So let's go ahead and watch it.

Speaker 1: 32:53

A grub-up delivery driver finds out the hard way that you should never leave your car running unattended. I feel like this is a setup. Oh yeah, Maybe not.

Speaker 2: 33:12

Did you notice that she didn't report the food? She didn't take a picture? Yeah, I just stole my car, do?

Speaker 1: 33:18

you know him? No, they stole her car. Oh, do I just stole my car? I don't know, it seemed legit.

Speaker 2: 33:29

It could have been, but again, just what? Don't leave your car. I mean, it's not her fault, right? It's not her fault, yeah it is. Well, I mean, I mean she could have prevented it, right, right, and I don't want to be nasty to her.

Speaker 1: 33:45

Honestly.

Speaker 2: 33:45

But she should have locked her car and just turned it off.

Speaker 1: 33:48

So here's the thing when I had the pilot, I very often would leave it running Right, but for some reason since it's easier for me to get in my new car now because it locks automatically Like I turn it off and I walk away Two steps away it locks, I don't have to hit a button.

Speaker 1: 34:05

Because you have the dung on your car in your pocket, yeah, and then I do have to actually hit a little button on the handle, but then it unlocks all the doors. So I find that the convenience has made me lock it more. But there have been plenty of times.

Speaker 2: 34:18

Not in the hood.

Speaker 1: 34:18

I turn it off in the hood, I mean it's like I'm not dumb.

Speaker 2: 34:22

Michelle's new car. You don't have to touch the button, you just put your hands inside the handle.

Speaker 1: 34:26

And then most of you do that it unlocks. I know Megans does that too and I wish that was mine, Because I mean, although it is nice the button, you can hit it with your elbow. I mean, if you've got your hands full you'd barely have to hit it when it opens.

Speaker 2: 34:39

I do the same thing. I mean mine do the same thing. You'd have to click on it. Another thing I like about Michelle's new car is that the dongles are different, so all your settings is controlled by the dongle. So it knows what dongle got in the car and that's the settings it sets it to. Oh, interesting, so that's kind of cool. That's pretty fancy.

Speaker 1: 34:59

The one thing my car doesn't have, which is annoying. It has all these great features, but it doesn't have that. It doesn't have a one or two driver. So, Avery, every time she was going to drive in my car, she jacks the seat up and then it's like I got to readjust everything but I can't just hit a button. I got to remember where that is why doesn't it have that?

Speaker 2: 35:19

That seems like an easy feature it has electric seats.

Speaker 1: 35:22

I don't know why it doesn't have that button. How hard was it? As I said, Chevy put some really nice touches on that car and then just totally flaked on other things, Like eh, they don't need that I'm like that's a common feature in most cars nowadays Stupid.

Speaker 2: 35:40

It's just talk to your car. Hey car, make it my settings, yeah.

Speaker 1: 35:44

Well, what's funny is, speaking of settings, chevy is so stingy on not letting any third party apps control that car either, Because with Tesla and a lot of the electric cars, you can use different apps like do settings and charging and stuff like that. Chevy's like no third party. I'm like come on, your app sucks dick. You know what I mean. It's terrible. You know they got rid of CarPlay and they're going to make their own app. What they got rid of? Android Auto and CarPlay. So my car, the all 2023 models, were the last cars that had CarPlay in it.

Speaker 2: 36:19

That's bullshit. The cool thing I was just seeing now is Uber is now integrating with CarPlay and Android even better. So that's coming better integration so you could actually use it.

Speaker 1: 36:30

Yeah, honestly, people might not like me for this, and I don't care. I don't think CarPlay is that big of a deal, it's kind of clunky.

Speaker 2: 36:38

I turn Android Auto off, do you?

Speaker 1: 36:40

Yeah, it works OK, but it doesn't flow. I'm in my podcast, right, and if I get a text, it'll pull it out of CarPlay and show up, and then it's hard Like Chevy put the temperature on every screen. I can only see the outside temperature if I'm not in CarPlay. It's stupid, like it's, I don't know.

Speaker 2: 37:04

I mean, Michelle uses Android Auto a lot. Her car is the first one. You don't actually even have to use the wire anymore.

Speaker 1: 37:12

Mine's wireless too.

Speaker 2: 37:13

Yeah, yeah Wireless, but I would never do it with the Uber app.

Speaker 1: 37:20

Oh god, I'd never trust it. I want full control on my phone. I don't want to try it Because even the sound is delayed a little bit on the CarPlay. It's kind of weird.

Speaker 2: 37:30

But so anyway, so just know, guys, lock your cars at all times and don't keep them running Right.

Speaker 1: 37:37

All right, new app. I swear we've talked about this one, but we talked about another one a while back.

Speaker 2: 37:42

I don't know if we talked about Ritz.

Speaker 1: 37:45

Yeah, it's WRIDZ. It is not in Michigan, because I went to go sign up, because why, not, because that's what we do when we find new apps. It's not in Michigan yet it's right in Indiana and Illinois, though.

Speaker 2: 37:56

It might come soon.

Speaker 1: 37:57

Yeah, so it is subscription based. You choose a region or region you like to drive and you pay a relatively small monthly subscription fee and you keep 100% of the fare, which is the model we've seen before. Yeah. So listen to this how to become a driver. So this, this might rattle some, some cages a little bit. People might be like that. So it's 30 down $30 background check. You're pay for it. What a $25 onboarding kit.

Speaker 1: 38:26

Driver-placord Drug test you have to be drug tested to be a driver for them good well, I know, but people might be like that's stupid, like why should I be drug tested? So I thought you know, you got to tell, tell schedule to Attend an in-person interview with your vehicle. So you have to talk to somebody, like remember how we had to do that for a lift, I know, and then spent, submit a drug test and pay a small one-time fee for your welcome kids.

Speaker 2: 38:55

So but you know what, though? It keeps away the people who'd not that, who won't take it serious.

Speaker 1: 39:01

But I mean, but why should people that use cannabis, which is legal Right in Michigan, and maybe that's why they haven't come to Michigan because it's? Oh no, I think it's no, it's not legal in Illinois and probably not Indiana because it's a red state. But uh, maybe that's why, I don't know. I Just think it's dumb for cannabis, like, can it say THC friendly? Except that's the only one, like everything else, if you get popped for you can't be a driver.

Speaker 2: 39:29

But you can't. But here's the thing you can't drive while we hi.

Speaker 1: 39:33

But the problem is with cannabis.

Speaker 2: 39:35

If you smoke it's gonna show up.

Speaker 1: 39:36

No, I get it for 30 days. It's still in there. So I think that I I go round and round of this about bus driving too. I'm not like a super like pro Marijuana guy like I. I feel like I want, I like to use and gummies it, you know, help with anxiety and chill time and stuff, but I can't anymore as a bus driver because if I get randomly checked or I get a car accident I'll lose my job. It's kind of the same thing. I just go round and round. You need to be able to have like a test that tests if it's still like active, like, just like alcohol.

Speaker 2: 40:07

No, I get that, I get that, but then, then, what well, I was just thinking. I mean, how long is it actually active?

Speaker 1: 40:15

That's the thing, there's no really tests for that.

Speaker 1: 40:17

I mean, I'm sure there is but there's not something in like quick real time. You have to do a blood test and all that other stuff. So but anyways, I I like the, the app. I don't know what the subscription fee was. I I did have the FAQs up a little bit, so the thirsty goose up a little excited about that. Let me go real quick see if it. There's a lot of videos you can watch. But it says relatively small subscription fee. So what does that mean? I mean, is it what it's? Everyone's has a different definition of the small subscription only 295 a month.

Speaker 1: 40:57

Well, small to me is, like you know, netflix $15 a month which, by the way, it keeps going up. I know it's like so to Spotify, my kids. I ended up combining. They offered a deal for Hulu and Disney Plus with ads for both for ten bucks and they're just bitchin. I'm like watch the ads, I don't care, I'm not paying, all I mean, the app is Horseshit anyways. The Disney Plus app rarely works correctly. But yeah, it's ten bucks, which I think is fair for those two apps.

Speaker 1: 41:30

But with that so you're watching the Disney movie a fucking ad pops up. The kids are like, I'm like, deal with it.

Speaker 2: 41:38

We all had. We had a yeah.

Speaker 1: 41:41

Speaking of ads. What a good transition, jason like that.

Speaker 1: 41:46

RMI inspection has signed up again. I think this is their third episodes. After this they have three more. But you know what, if you need an inspection, if you have an at least three-year-old or a car I think that's the general rule for Lyft or uber you have to get an inspected. If you want to do this, where it is a Online inspection, where you don't get nickel and dime by the mechanic, those kind of things, yep, check out RMI inspections. They do it on video chat. Go through all like the seatbelts, the windshield, the tires, all that stuff. It's only $19 and you don't pay if you don't pass. So I think that's a very fair price. I know our patreon and good friend, larry has gone through it with our RMI inspections and he said it was quick and painless and one of those things were Marv said he got his inspection from them. Did you use our link? Now that we get any money for the link?

Speaker 1: 42:39

it's not a link base, but that's so funny. But yeah, I mean it's, you might as well do it, you know absolutely. I mean, yeah, if you have something major wrong, you already fucking know what exactly and you should be bringing it in anyways.

Speaker 2: 42:51

Yeah, and don't bring in the belt. Don't bring in a belt.

Speaker 1: 42:53

I they're not gonna at least bring it to your local mechanic, if you. If you need to do it. But yeah, our RMI inspections. They work great, I love it. Yeah, absolutely so yeah, I know they've gotten a few signups on top of Larry too, so I mean for 19 bucks, fuck, it's over in like 20, 30 minutes and you're on your way you know, for me it's more the convenience of being able to do it right away. Yeah, I know it's not.

Speaker 2: 43:18

I mean not even the 19 dollars. Yeah, I think they could charge 29 on for it, and for now I would still do it, but it's like it's just so convenient.

Speaker 1: 43:27

Yeah, I'm really interested. I've been seeing gas trucks drive around. You remember we talked about that company that will come to your place and fill you up. But, I would actually do that too, although it would have to be somewhat Inexpensive. It couldn't be like highway robbery, right, you know? I mean, if it was three dollars a gallon at the pump and they charge you three twenty a gallon, would you do it?

Speaker 1: 43:52

I think so, I think so, but I think, but how are you so busy that you can't get gas? No, I know, and I'm just saying yeah, yeah, no, I mean, but I.

Speaker 2: 44:01

But yeah, I don't think it's people who don't can't get gas, I think it's people who just don't want to. Oh, really, yeah. Like, for instance, and again, I love my wife more than anything in the world, but she hates getting gas.

Speaker 1: 44:11

You know what I love? My wife more than any in any way in the world. She is scared to go through car washes. Well, there you go, so I take her car through the car wash, right, so we do things for our wives that they don't we do, we do and they do a thing for us that we, that we don't like to do. Anyway, I'm not gonna say audio what I just did so.

Speaker 2: 44:33

I got a lot of video for that.

Speaker 1: 44:36

But um, what were we on? What were we doing? How did we get on that? Oh, are my inspections? Yes, check them out.

Speaker 2: 44:46

So this one here is interesting and I, honestly, I read this, I read the Reddit and and I'm not sure that I remember what did.

Speaker 2: 44:53

The actual rules are so, but here, I know this because I I know how I do it right, but I'm pretty sure I do it wrong. I'm pretty sure I do too. So why did so? The story goes. Why did this driver not confirm his name? So he said I just had a strange experience and wanted to clarification on what could have possibly occurred. I'm currently on a work trip and ordered an Uber from my hotel to the airport. When the Uber arrived and matched the car description, but not the license plate number, that's red flag number one.

Speaker 2: 45:21

Absolutely. Red pads, red flag number one Let the driver know before I got in the car and asked him to confirm the license plate number on the app, but he grew competitive and said it was the one on the car. It was not. I then asked him for his name and he countered that question by asking for mine instead for reference I rarely use Uber only for work related things and told him that I thought the app had the information. He said it didn't. And when he couldn't confirm the name, I told him that I wouldn't be telling him mine for safety reasons. He said same here. Then I won't be telling you mine for safety reasons. It should have confirmed my name on the app for you. Tell me what is my name. So Important note number one car master descriptions. Number two license plate number did not master one on the app. And three would not tell me his name and did not know me. So no mine.

Speaker 1: 46:07

So you're asking what is the actual rule?

Speaker 2: 46:09

well, I'm pretty sure the rule is you, you had the driver. The rider has to say his name as you get in.

Speaker 1: 46:16

That is what my thought is too.

Speaker 2: 46:18

Right, because I always go. Hey is this Joe Get the fuck in my car, right?

Speaker 1: 46:23

Yeah, that's what I do. I'm gonna say that way, right.

Speaker 2: 46:27

But you know, and I, because I always think it's nicer, it's like hey, are you Joe? Yep, I'm Joe, get in the car, and I know. I know that of course the way of doing it. That way anybody can say sure, my name is Joe, Right, exactly, and that's the problem that it's opening up for yeah, so I get that, but I don't know.

Speaker 1: 46:49

It didn't say did this guy actually take the ride?

Speaker 2: 46:51

He did not.

Speaker 1: 46:52

Oh, okay.

Speaker 2: 46:53

Because he ended up. He ended up not taking the ride because of the license plate. And again, I mean definitely.

Speaker 1: 47:02

Well, yeah, I wouldn't even open the door. If it didn't match, I would have moved on. I would have just canceled and walked away.

Speaker 2: 47:08

He says it was four o'clock in the morning. I was in a diminutive street in a large city. I've never been in before and I got a bad feeling and just walked back into the hotel. I can't sit in my Uber ride and called another one. Good on you, I mean, obviously, if the license plate doesn't match, you don't go. Yeah, I've had it twice where my license plate changed because you know, I renewed and I got a new license plate, or whatever.

Speaker 2: 47:32

It takes like two hours for Uber to change the license plate. In the end, okay, it's not a big deal.

Speaker 1: 47:37

Yeah, so my guess is, this guy was being shady.

Speaker 2: 47:39

Oh, absolutely. He was being shady, so that person here may have just avoided something large.

Speaker 1: 47:46

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 47:47

So good for you.

Speaker 1: 47:48

Hashtag check the plate.

Speaker 2: 47:49

Hashtag checks the plate all the time. Yeah, and actually, jason and I you and I were talking about this until we want to encourage all your riders, okay, and all the drivers too. If you drive at night and it is, and you're picking up after bar people and you see them, don't check your plate, encourage them to check your plate.

Speaker 1: 48:15

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 48:16

Because we need people to learn that behavior.

Speaker 1: 48:19

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 48:20

So make it a habit to say, hey, did you check my plate? Yeah.

Speaker 1: 48:23

I don't understand, like I wonder, as we have become in this era, why aren't the parents encouraging their kids Like hey, I know you're gonna use Uber tonight, which is cool, I'm glad it's there, so like when you're drinking, you're not gonna drive, but make sure you check the plate of the car, just be careful. Like you know, we should be instilling that just like anything else.

Speaker 2: 48:44

As a parent, you know Well, but I mean, you should always follow common sense. Well, but you get drunk and you know, people handle alcohol different Like I would still check the plate regardless.

Speaker 1: 48:54

I mean it might be blurry when I check it, but I'm gonna know I'm gonna eventually go. Okay, that's the right plate. It might take me 20 seconds.

Speaker 2: 49:03

I might be on my knees in front of the plate behind us.

Speaker 1: 49:07

Yeah, like this, but I'm gonna check it.

Speaker 2: 49:10

So anyway, but no, I like your advice.

Speaker 1: 49:12

We talked about it a couple of shows ago.

Speaker 1: 49:13

Just make sure you encourage people to do that. So this is just kind of funny. This was a I don't know where it's from a Facebook. Where is it? Nope, that's not it. Another right-chair driver Carjack in DC. But the tweet or the Facebook or it's Reddit, sorry. Another driver Carjack. 3,500 block Wardner Street, southwest in DC, northwest. Two guys with a gun reportedly ordered an Uber, then Carjack the driver of a black 2013 Toyota Corolla. The driver's side headlight is out and the car has mechanical problems that limit it to 30 miles an hour and like the first comment's.

Speaker 1: 49:50

Like the car has problems, that limits a 30 miles an hour. Jesus, they might have done this poor guy a favor if he can get insurance to pay Like. I'm wondering if this happened after the carjacking. But like I mean, just, you can't make this shit up.

Speaker 2: 50:03

I know you really can't, you really can't like can you imagine getting an Uber?

Speaker 1: 50:07

Oh, like that one janky car that took you to the airport or to the hotel which it wasn't an Uber. But can you imagine that and you're like we can't go over 30, I'm sorry, what I know Fucking idiot so funny.

Speaker 2: 50:20

So this one here is a TikTok that's really interesting and obviously it happened. Just the first part of it happened just prior to Thanksgiving, because the rider ended up inviting her driver to Thanksgiving and it went kind of viral. I mean, she's got just shipped a ton of views on TikTok, so go ahead and play 14 seconds.

Speaker 1: 50:46

Update my Uber driver that I invited to the party. He's cashed out sleeping, so I don't know if he's like drunk or if he's just so full of so a lot of the comments was like if he woke up next to you, he got a great time. I tried not to be. I was gonna say she's pretty, but I was like I'm not gonna try to beat that guy. But of course that's what the comments are. So have you ever been invited?

Speaker 2: 51:18

to no. Well, I shouldn't say that Once I was invited to come into a party with some girls, you know, but it was just, it was just fun and games, and I had just dropped them home and they were gonna go have the party and so of course I didn't do it, but it was-.

Speaker 1: 51:33

Yeah, I've been invited probably a handful of times and I've always said no, like it's just, I don't know, I'm not that tight. But if you I mean if you were single and you're like, fuck yeah, let's go party like I don't know, I wouldn't want to party with just random people.

Speaker 2: 51:47

Keep things separate. That's what I mean. You can't, you can't be. No, I would never. I hope I would never. I said, let's just put it that way.

Speaker 1: 51:55

I mean, even if you were young, though? No kids, let's, like you know, make an extra money on the weekend.

Speaker 2: 52:00

When I was young, these things were not around, okay.

Speaker 1: 52:04

Yeah true. I'm just saying, if you were young right now, we know you're old and gonna be 50. No, you wouldn't do it.

Speaker 2: 52:12

No well, maybe I don't know. Yes, you would, you were young at some point.

Speaker 1: 52:19

So this story is, I don't know, it's just interesting. Ladies, don't do your makeup in my car.

Speaker 2: 52:25

This is a taxi service, not a salon.

Speaker 1: 52:28

Wake up 10 minutes early and do your makeup at home. I don't have to clean up after your mess.

Speaker 2: 52:31

But isn't really so. It's a big mess.

Speaker 1: 52:33

Well, I know that some makeup, the powder that they put on will drop on the ground.

Speaker 2: 52:39

Get over yourself. I'm sorry. It's like let the woman, let the poor woman put on makeup.

Speaker 1: 52:44

I mean do we want ugly women out there? I mean, let her get pretty if she wants to, Like you know.

Speaker 2: 52:49

But it's not a big deal.

Speaker 1: 52:51

I know Women have put makeup on my car.

Speaker 2: 52:55

I've never seen a mess? No, never, like I mean.

Speaker 1: 52:58

I guess if you, I mean my wife doesn't do this, but like I know my friends have wives that have this display of makeup, like if it was something like that, where they opened it up and like we're like putting you know it's like a brewery back there or something. You know what I mean. I'd be like, hey, what are we doing back there?

Speaker 2: 53:17

Like I don't know why. A big paintbrush yeah.

Speaker 1: 53:22

I was just in my head it was something that had like lots of tanks and a brewery, that all the makeup comes out.

Speaker 2: 53:27

I remember I had, it was the funniest thing and this says nothing about my driving, by the way, and I like to point that out.

Speaker 1: 53:33

Oh okay, there's nothing about my driving Okay.

Speaker 2: 53:36

But for the longest time on my other vehicle.

Speaker 1: 53:40

The other van.

Speaker 2: 53:41

Yeah, my daughter had found that there was a face print on the back of my the third row, on the head rest and the seat in front of her there was a face print Like a drunken girl had like been, apparently one of my sudden breaks here Like could do and sweaty clearly. That Like the whole, as you can see the whole side of her face.

Speaker 1: 54:03

Oh my God, that's hilarious.

Speaker 2: 54:06

No, it was like three or four weeks and she's like Dad, you gotta wipe this off. I know I keep forgetting.

Speaker 1: 54:13

That's so, and I can't believe in none of your other passengers commented on it. I don't know.

Speaker 2: 54:17

I was probably fainting up.

Speaker 1: 54:18

So this is interesting. One of the comments had a girl doing something with nail polish one time. That is a big no for me If you're doing it, first of all, it stinks so bad. Well, like when my wife does it like if I'm down here in the studio and she's painting her nails, I can smell it down here. It's bad. Plus can you? You ain't getting nail polish out of your car.

Speaker 2: 54:35

Oh, no, no, no, out of those seats Like that's gonna stain. But that's also just common currency, don't be nervous.

Speaker 1: 54:42

Here's a comment. I've done over 30K rides in nine years. I've only found makeup stains once. Deal with it. Women are beautiful and they smell great.

Speaker 2: 54:49

Amen sir Amen brother, Breach, breach we love it, we love it.

Speaker 1: 54:54

All right, moving on real quick. Octopus Tablet is another one of not of our sponsor, but we want you to do it because I think it's a great program, yep.

Speaker 1: 55:03

You sign up, you get a tablet charger, everything you need to put it in your car. Everything is free. The passengers can play trivia, all kinds of games and stuff like that. They are show ads. Actually, they are show more ads when they don't play with it Right Than when they do. Yep, Just because if no one's gonna interact, they're not gonna put the games up as much. It might as well get the ad revenue. You know what I mean. Correct? So it's a great way to make extra money. They say you can make up to $100 a month.

Speaker 2: 55:31

I think you do have to drive full time to get that, though.

Speaker 1: 55:33

Yeah, I'm not sure, I haven't really looked at my stats. I mean, if I, I would I don't know yeah, pretty cool, or at least every weekend. You're putting 20, 30 hours in on a weekend. But what's really good is the referral program, and then that's why we want you to use our link and then, obviously, once you sign up, get your own link.

Speaker 2: 55:51

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 55:53

But I mean it's 25, 30 bucks every time someone signs up, so it's like if you have a group of friends that aren't signed up for it, you should definitely check it out.

Speaker 2: 55:59

And it's worth it, it's easy, and and.

Speaker 1: 56:02

It's, it's. You literally just have to keep it plugged in.

Speaker 2: 56:04

And I know for a fact that I've got more tips because of it.

Speaker 1: 56:07

Yeah, People love it.

Speaker 2: 56:08

Definitely, if you drive and to drive the bar scene, you should get it.

Speaker 1: 56:12

You know, one thing that I really do like about that it lights up, I know, at night so you can put a little light on your passenger when you're kind of like what's going on back there. And one bad thing about my car. There's a lot of good things. The rear view mirror is so fucking dark. I mean even in the daytime it's hard to see people in the back and people other people have complained about it too and there's just nothing. I mean. I guess I can get another rear view mirror put in.

Speaker 2: 56:39

But I mean, I'm not kidding you, it's incredibly dark. It's crazy.

Speaker 1: 56:42

Yeah, so at least the tablet like highlights them a little bit and stuff so but yeah, so my visa was saying how much do they pay?

Speaker 2: 56:52

And I don't know.

Speaker 1: 56:53

You know it's, it's an algorithm of them interacting with I think you mean how much you get in referral fee.

Speaker 2: 57:00

Five out of five, well, I think it's 25.

Speaker 1: 57:02

Ok, and they do have program. I mean I've won $1,000 from them. They do have like giveaways all the time, but yeah, it's. But how you get paid is you get. When you hit a certain amount of points you can cash out $25.

Speaker 2: 57:16

So maybe that's why it's like $25 in current.

Speaker 1: 57:19

Yeah, so it's 250 points. The points are based on you driving around and interaction with the tablet, meaning someone taps on the tablet, correct? So yes, you could essentially drive around and never have anyone tap it, but I bet it would take you a long time to get 25 points.

Speaker 2: 57:34

Oh, yeah, or 250 points, yep.

Speaker 1: 57:36

So yeah, check it out. Check it out, ok. This next one is for you, jesper. What are we at Time? 59 minutes? Ok, 59 minutes. I know we flew through it.

Speaker 2: 57:48

I know it's good, so this is a. Oh, I thought you were right, I know. So this is the delivery. I think it's probably a door dash, something like that, but he goes. So he started by saying phone him, he goes. My guy, for real, I just need one tub of vanilla and anything else can be zipped. We have the reasons to W. We are OK, low key. Curious what you're making. Lol, my friend, we're just obese and too suited to drive.

Speaker 1: 58:15

There is no recipe I gotcha I love it. I love it. Zooted, I haven't heard that Like you're freaking, zooted bro, Like that's so funny. I love his honesty. Like nah, we're fat and oh, they said obese too. Like that's like.

Speaker 2: 58:30

We're just obese and too Zooted to drive, and he's like as a driver, I would die Chugged it in ice cream buddy.

Speaker 1: 58:38

Yeah, we're just fat and ready to eat.

Speaker 2: 58:41

So funny so funny and on that note, it's one hour, one hour.

Speaker 1: 58:47

Trying to see if there's anything worth talking about. Yeah, we'll push that to next week, but anything? So what do we got going on? So next week is the fourth.

Speaker 2: 59:00

It is the first show of December. Can you believe it's already Christmas.

Speaker 1: 59:04

I know why did I bring up the Weather app?

Speaker 2: 59:05

I just did it again. Don't know.

Speaker 1: 59:08

It's the sixth, so that'll be a normal show, or if the beast side, we pull it off and then, yes, we're gone the week of the 13th. I reached out to Steve from Righteous year Rodeo. I haven't heard back from them, so we'll probably have a guest host and my guess that will be the last show for December, there'll be the last live show.

Speaker 2: 59:26

We may or may not do a couple of repeats. You have to figure that out.

Speaker 1: 59:30

Yeah, I'm thinking about doing the top four or five episodes of 2023, or something like that. If you guys have any thoughts on what you want me to replay or something that you've heard, or I don't know if you want me to just play an hour of Christmas music. Oh no, we can't do that. We'll get flagged Something. If you want to see you want me to dress up like Santa.

Speaker 2: 59:52

Naked like Santa no.

Speaker 1: 59:53

No, no, no Keeping my clothes on.

Speaker 2: 59:56

No one wants to see this, except my wife. That's for his only fans.

Speaker 1: 1:00:00

Yeah, oh god, I'm telling you the only fans. It's crazy how much some of them, women, are making Like it's insane, because men are stupid idiots. They are stupid idiots, they are. Like if I could take feet pics and make an extra $1,000 a month, I mean, wouldn't you do that? Yes, I'd be for an extra grand.

Speaker 2: 1:00:18

Can I share a nasty story real quick?

Speaker 1: 1:00:20

Yeah, why not?

Speaker 2: 1:00:21

So real fast. Our friend of mine earlier this year they went to the car show on Trinity Street.

Speaker 1: 1:00:27

Oh the.

Speaker 2: 1:00:27

Metacruze, yeah, Metacruze, and she was talking to some guy right came up and she was wearing sandals at the time, right.

Speaker 1: 1:00:33

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 1:00:33

Like 25 minutes into the conversation, because she just wouldn't go away, she realized she had been recording her feet all the time, the whole time, the whole damn time. Why? He was just fucking weird. And then he started asking all kinds of weird things about her feet.

Speaker 1: 1:00:52

Well, he likes feet. I'm sorry. It's like what is this? First of all, why are people? Why are feet a fetish? I don't get that. I get fetishes, but when I see a woman and I'm like, oh god, get me a look at them feet, that's not what I'm looking at. I'm not looking at their feet. I'm telling you that right now.

Speaker 2: 1:01:12

So there's lots of fetishes out there though, right, but? Yeah, Anyway, guys, on that note don't put up with anyone's bullshit and we'll see you on the road and don't let anyone take picture of your feet.

Speaker 1: 1:01:25

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