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Episode #150 New doordash zones, uber shows us ads in the app, and renting out your car for uber.
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Speaker 2:Hello everybody. All right, hi guys, welcome to the gig economy podcast. Thank you so much for listening to the show tonight. On the show tonight We're gonna be talking about some new door-dash zones. Possibly we're not sure uber shows us some ads in the app and You're gonna be able to rent your car out to uber. And, unless you're Sincerely intoxicated, you probably notice that I am not Jason and And he's taking a well-deserved break tonight and I have the honor and privilege of hosting tonight with my friend Jesper. We're gonna have a good show tonight and just want to say thanks to both of those guys for having me on the show tonight.
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Speaker 1:Oh gosh close to 40 people in the group right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we need some new blood. We definitely need some new blood. I still have not.
Speaker 1:I've not been out driving for more than a month so far, and so, unfortunately, when I'm not driving, i'm I'm just too much stuff going on. I don't get to spend much time in the group, unfortunately, but I really do need to get in there. So lots of good stuff going on. It is the main reason as to why I'm still driving today. I can tell you that for sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, bitch, that's the one way out there, when you got some people you can chat with and bounce ideas and vent and Bitch and moan and all that fun stuff.
Speaker 1:Bitch and moan there. So, of course, lastly here talk about the b side. Last week We had a very Exciting episode of the b side land and I, of course cannot. I cannot remember it right now, but it was exciting. I can go to you and I want you to all to go listen to it. So there we go. Hey, larry, any stories in the road? because I don't have any, because, oh, i got a couple here.
Speaker 2:I got a couple that are somewhat related. So couple weeks ago picked up a lady in the morning about 10 o'clock in the morning. She probably in her 40s and um, she's like, wait a minute, i need to find out if I can get a ride back before I go over because she was going across town. So I was like, okay, whatever. And then she's like mine, never mind, just take me to the mint. Well, the mint is our gaming hall. It's, it's not a casino, but it's, it's all. Slot machines is basically what it is. So they call them historical race machines, but but they're slot machines. So anyway, drop her off. She took me 10 bucks for like a two mile ride. So that was, that was really nice.
Speaker 2:Dropped her off and then another passenger got in. I took him Out to the outskirts of town and when he was getting out I managed. I just happened to look in the back seat and saw a little change purse sitting in there And I didn't figure it was his. But I asked him anyway and he's like, no, no, that's not mine, it was here when I got in. So it's obviously the lady at the mint. So figure, i'm gonna look in, see if there's a driver's license, some some kind of ID or anything. So open it up. There's $800 and a little bag of meth.
Speaker 2:So I'm like man, oh, my goodness. So I'll start heading back toward the mint and this lady I'm about two minutes away and she calls me and she's frantic. You know which I'm? I can see, because I mean, right, if I was a bad guy to steal it, and you know what are you gonna do? call the police and hey, this guy stole my $800 in my meth you know, anyway.
Speaker 2:And I'm like she's like oh, i think you do, i think I left something. your crime, i, you know, she's just going you almost in tears. I'm like, just chill out, chill out, I've got your stuff. I'll be there in a minute, so I'll pull up and she comes out and I gave it to her. I'm like, look, i looked in there to see if there was an ID. I didn't touch your money, i didn't touch your drugs, like, but you need to get off that shit because it's gonna kill you. And she's like, you know she's half crying. I'm trying, i don't know, it's not good for you.
Speaker 5:I'm like you know okay, whatever.
Speaker 2:So Fast forward to two days later. I'm working on Saturday night. Get a call about you know about I don't know, right around bar clothes. Okay, 145, two o'clock in the morning and um, pick up a guy who's? he's like, cambodian, maybe you're Vietnamese, i'm not sure, but he spells his name th, a, n, g, so thang, pretty much thang, yeah. And so pick him up and he's going to um, the, the neighboring county, which is about it's about 30 minutes from us. Okay, so we're about halfway there. He doesn't speak great English, but he managed to relate to me that he's gonna need me to bring him back too. I'm like, well, that's great, because I got to drive back anyway. Might as well get paid for you know, right? Yep, so we get, we get to this house, we're out in the boonies. I mean, this is a very rural, rural town, um, very small town and just a very rural area. And uh, we get there and a guy We put up this house, and a guy walks out and gets, you know, comes talk to my passenger.
Speaker 2:And uh, the guy's like, hey, we're gonna have to run down the street just a little bit. And so I look at my passenger. I'm like are you? are you cool with that? You know you're paying for the ride. And he's like, yes.
Speaker 2:So the guy gets in and we pull out and immediately it becomes very apparent that this guy is the middleman of the drug deal that is going down. Oh. So he's like, yeah, we're gonna have to go down here a little bit. And then he's bragging about um. So he asked my guys like so, how much you want? He's like 200. No, i need $200 for us. And The guy's bragging about how he's been doing this for eight years. He's never been arrested. and And I mean, i'm just thinking to myself, i'm like You do. You do see, there's a, there's a dash cam like right here, and so he's, and then, and, and then he talks about his day job is get this.
Speaker 2:The dude is a nanny for five kids And he's a middleman for a drug dealer. So this is perfect, perfect. So his down the road ends up being 50 miles over into the next county, ohio County, right. So we get to the drug dealer's house and it's got the rebel flag, it's got motorcycles everywhere, wonderful.
Speaker 2:In the morning There's people milling around And I'm thinking in my mind the reason you have a middleman is so the dealer's insulated, Right? Why are we showing up at the dealer's house, right? So, anyway, dude goes in. Like he's in there for like 10 minutes. I'm like this is getting ready to go sideways. But eventually he comes back out. He's like all right, i got your, i got it for you. And so we drive back to his house and, like, when we get back to his house, he starts hitting up my passenger, trying to get him to give him a rock of this meth. He's like hey, you don't really need all that. You can give me some, can't? she's like I really want to get high man, but I don't have no money. And my guy's like nope, i need it all. And I'm like here's where it's getting ready to get bad.
Speaker 2:But he finally, he's like Okay, okay, i'm gonna let you guys go. So he gets out And and and why, why were you driving? the funniest thing, or one of the funny things, is the, uh, the middleman guy. He asked my passengers like, oh, he's like, what happened to that job? Were you working at delta, which there's a factory there called delta faucets? Okay, and and the. The passengers like, oh, i still work there. Well, my sister is, is the HR director at this factory.
Speaker 2:So I'd give her a call the next day. I'm like, do you know somebody that works for you? This spells his name thang. And she's like, oh, yeah, i'm like, well, just so you know, i took him to about 200. I was worth a meth last night. And she's like, why do you know? I was like I was right in the middle of it, i was right there for it all. So then I was telling my brother about the next day, because the next day was, uh, it was uh Memorial Day, right, and he's the former police officer. So he put me in touch with the buddy, his who's on the drug pass, for so that's all getting investigated. Because because my camera you know my dash cam has the gps built in, so it gives you.
Speaker 2:Longitude of their house.
Speaker 1:I mean exactly, and well, i gotta, gotta, gotta get cleaned up, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I want at least like a junior policeman badge out of it or something.
Speaker 1:Hey, you get the knowledge of knowing. You get some bad people off the roads.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely So so now my wife, her mom joke instead of a dad joke every time I go out now. She's like, all right now Don't you be out there methin around. I was like that's a good one, huh.
Speaker 1:That is good. I need to be on your line. Don't be out there messing around.
Speaker 2:Exactly, oh goodness.
Speaker 1:Anyway, so that that's good again. Obviously, I'm still not driving Um. Uber is still taking a good old time with my background check. I promise it is fine. Everybody out there listening is fine. My my driving record came back clean though.
Speaker 2:You're almost off parole. You're almost off parole, right, i don't. It's any day.
Speaker 1:I was worried about the driving record, but no, that's good, So uh, but, now the background check is delayed and it is because of this new wonderful law in michigan. So I guess we'll have to see. But I'm hoping to be out driving for lift this coming weekend, but we'll have to see about that one. So that's that, but here's. Here's the economy in the news.
Speaker 2:Economy in the news. All right. The first thing we're going to be talking about tonight is lift drivers are earning more pay at least that's what lift is telling us and, uh, anybody who drives for lift. We'd love for you to chime in and let us know if you've seen any of this. But You know the, the two guys who started lift. They've they uh, you know they bowed out. They're out of the picture now. And so we got this new guy, david rishner, who, who took over The reins, used to work for amazon and he's saying that the driver and rider experience is his top priority, so he'll be competitive with uber. And so they said they've adjusted the upfront pay And they put out a figure that said lift drivers averaged over 35 dollars in hourly earnings during the first three months of the year. I don't know if I believe that.
Speaker 3:I know I don't average 35. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but they have. Supposedly they've adjusted, like the long rides, and that's that when they did the upfront pricing. That's where I saw the big hit was on the longer rides. Yeah, you just didn't get what you used to. I know we used to. We used to make $95 if we picked up somebody in Bowling Green and we took them to the Nashville airport, which is about an hour and ten minutes. And as soon as they did the upfront pricing, the first Request I got on lift to take someone to Nashville airport, i think they offered me $62, which I did not accept.
Speaker 2:No, and I think it went up to 70 something, and then I think the last one I got was about 89. It was very close to what it used to be. So I do believe that they have adjusted those Which is good because, as me and you were talking earlier I mentioned, the lift demand here has dropped off, i think significantly, in the last few months. Yeah they're gonna have to do something. They're gonna do something to keep going.
Speaker 1:It'll be interesting to see how I can. I haven't driven for lift in over two Heck three years, and so it'll be interesting to see just how bad it is here in Grand Rapids. I mean, i go on, i go on the app once in a while just to kind of look at it and I mean I see, i see the color of the area. So Which is the lift search?
Speaker 2:right, yeah, we, we've never had lift search here. I mean seriously, we don't. Third, i I don't. I've never seen, i don't think, a pink. You know anything on the screen on lift here. If I go to Nashville I'll see it, but Yeah, so now it becomes pink and purple and everything.
Speaker 1:So they're there, but I don't know How much you actually make on them. I mean, let's be honest, when I when I drove Uber, or when I do drive Uber and when I'm comfort and And and Excel, only right I do usually read, i do usually average $45 an hour when I drive, yeah right, I should say 40, close to close to the $40 an hour when I do the weekend, but again, it's the weekend, it's night shift, you know, you sure it's this prime time, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1:It's prime time, so we'll have to see. I don't. I haven't even decided if I want to go out this weekend. To be honest, i have so many other things going on in my life right now, but we'll see. So anyways, the next story going on right now is a is an article in Stan from from Stanford. A man from Stanford stole a mere One million dollars in a scheme targeting 700 dollars drivers and since this is really The scheme that I think it talks about, the story that we all kind of hear and and kind of have It's been going around for a long time, not to, not to to fall for it, right, but this is basically the guy doing one of the schemes about. He would impersonate what that support and notify. See order order and I Driver order. What has order to be delivered to an address?
Speaker 1:and and not you know close to him or whatever not not, not the actual order text.
Speaker 1:The driver exactly, and then he would be close to where where there were, and then He would, he would, he would call the driver impersonating, impersonating door, that support and then he would text for verification and part of that text would be a link for them to To log in to support, if you will. But that's that's how he would really get that, the username password and and Immediately he would log in, change the information And and cash out. You sent to me right, and we know the scheme. It's been going on for a long time, but this is interesting because it's actually a guy who got caught and And is now on trial for stealing nearly one million dollars From 700 or their driver so that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1:It's good to know that. You know that he's going to be Put to justice. If you will and and hopefully Hopefully the systems lift and Uber and and do it as all the all the key economy, we'll learn from these These things and and we'll put some other things in place. So it's not so easy to just to just do that. I know that was it Uber that introduced a. There's a waiting period once you change the add the bank account on the on the account, right? They don't do it immediately, they wait like four, eight hours before it's done.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Yeah, with sad thing about this story, though Yes, we're that I read all the way at the end of it. He didn't even get caught for this, though He was.
Speaker 4:He was getting vestiges for domestic of use, and they and they ran and you know they searched his house.
Speaker 2:They found all these safes and when they open them up they found all this information about this game He was running and they found like half a million dollars in cash.
Speaker 1:No, it's like oh yeah.
Speaker 4:It's not like your dashes.
Speaker 1:support is the one that caught this, or right now It's pure luck and that is correct And thank you for bringing that up. But, yes, i just happy that he did that. It catch him. But you're right, yeah, it's not. That's not why he was caught. He was just being stupid. Essentially, he decided he wanted to, yet Exactly, do do a domestic abuse right, which is never good either, but at least he's off the streets and and hopefully a lot of drivers will learn that that they will not call.
Speaker 1:I actually had an interesting, an interesting Thing happened to me the other day. Yeah, and and I had, i actually had uber call me. Okay, which is in the good day, because we all say, well, no, uber will not call you, right, they will stay. Say that uber, uber support will not call you. And so this was uber support, because they immediately Follow up with a ticket. Because I said I'm not comfortable telling you my information over the phone, i'm just not right, you know uber. And he said, no, that's fine, are you okay following up and keeping following up, and we'll just do it as a support ticket to the system. That's a hundred and five Okay.
Speaker 1:Well, they call me so, but the background check, he wanted to tell me Right now they had actually completely suspended my account because they're waiting for the background checks and I can't even do delivery right.
Speaker 2:Hey, yes, but we always want to tell you that you for sure can't drive. In case you were considering it this weekend hell, no, it's not happening.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much for supporting you, but you're not driving exactly we do not want to know.
Speaker 2:The other thing that I've ever had uber Call me about is they'll call if you're setting somewhere for a long time, and they will. Some they will call in. And check and see if you're okay.
Speaker 1:Sometimes Not every time it wasn't even pops on the screen, exactly, yeah, and the interesting to me was it came up as uber support Right, and I picked up and I don't know what you know, i've always you always been told uber support will not call you, right, right. But the cool thing was is they knew that, they know this, and he's like no, that's fine, are you okay? Continue the conversation offline in the app. That that I'm good doing it, but I'm not gonna give you my information.
Speaker 2:Right, not giving you anything cuz.
Speaker 1:I know you should already have all that.
Speaker 2:But yeah, i mean it is so easy to to you fall for some of that stuff. I mean, i had one just the other day and it was something about my I Think it's like my Google storage or something and popped up and I like almost clicked on it And then I looked I was like this is not, this isn't, this is not from them. You know, right, yeah, but almost, you know, almost clicked out because you know you're driving, you're busy, you're doing this and that and and something pops up and you're like, oh man, you know I want to make sure I stuff's getting backed up and it's it's. You know it can happen to the best, oh yeah absolutely So.
Speaker 1:So, anyways, here's the next Story about the support here. Take that one Oh yeah, this is.
Speaker 2:This is another outstanding Example of support here. So so this guy contacts He contacts door-dash, basically because the driver Had his order, apparently just came by and like flung it out the window and so door-dash is like I can offer you a refund and you can tell this is gotta be. I mean this, i almost think this is AI.
Speaker 4:Responding here You're like. surely this is not?
Speaker 2:a real person. So there's like I can offer your refund of five dollars and door-dash credits are back to your payment method for the poorly packaged In the guys like what are you for, real? It costs twenty dollars and something and I got nothing. He literally passed my house and threw the food in the road as he was driving. The response from support is have you received the food? He said it's in the road where he threw it as he passed my street. No, i don't have it. It's spread out across the road. Their answer again although we encourage dashers to wait a few minutes, we allow them to customize their own delivery experience. So this, apparently, is a customized delivery experience, no extra charge, no charge, you're lucky, you're lucky.
Speaker 2:You got the. You got the enhanced experience.
Speaker 1:What I want to know is how do you get a picture of that, as you threw it as well?
Speaker 2:Exactly like in the air, you know. That would be tough, but Well, they do have. They do have the little thing it says deliver without a picture. I can, yeah, i guess.
Speaker 3:That would.
Speaker 2:I would be. I would be so Infuriated if that was the response I was getting back from oh, absolutely I.
Speaker 1:I bet I mean I would have followed up with yet another support. Take it back to the oh for sure. Yeah, you know, you're like this guy's not reading it or he's not, he doesn't understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:He's not his language. Or, like I said, this is a chat bot and they're just going back. What they think it's supposed to be right made no sense.
Speaker 1:That. That definitely does not make any sense.
Speaker 2:Order my door dash delivered by airman, Oh so.
Speaker 1:This next story is about how Uber is going to start showing video ads in all their apps. For a while I guess they've been doing it for on the Uber Eats app and And so now they're gonna be doing it in all their apps. So basically, they're seeing, they're saying the who will soon start displaying video ads in its app. They'll appear while you wait for a ride to show up and while you and transit after you place orders in Uber Eats and in search. So the other parts of Gisley, the company told the wall do is new world Wall Street Journal. So I guess they've been doing it for weeks, for a little bit, and so now The static ads have been shown in Uber Eats. Sorry, not, not video. Static ads have been shown in Uber Eats since 2019, 2019 and Basically this is crazy They're on course to clear one billion dollars in ad revenue for 2024. Well, i mean that.
Speaker 2:I mean that is an amazing number But you got to think how many, i mean how many customers they have around the world. Absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 3:I mean this is India, I mean oh I know yeah
Speaker 2:alone. I know they recently passed China as the most popular. This country and Yep, I think it's Uber's what, 50 something countries, i think maybe.
Speaker 1:Some, and you gotta remember too that in most of most of the other countries India and China Whatever they have like 5.7 cell phones per Inhabitants on stupid, and they have more cell phones than anything. Yeah, and so that's why they do all, and that is that's what they do all their service, right? so?
Speaker 1:all the business I know, so the video ads in the ass will be muted by default, audio will play on tablets that are in cars And we'll run for up to 90 seconds, and Uber ride last around 15 minutes on average and users typically spend between two and three minutes Looking at the app doing trips. We have two minutes of your attention. We know who, where you are, we know where you're going, we know what you're eating and so forth. We can use all that to then basically target a video ad towards you. And it's true I mean this is for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2:I got it advertising right there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my question, though, is Are you gonna watch it? I mean, my phone is in my pocket. I mean I know, obviously they see it and that's what people are doing. And again, when I look back, i people are using and they are using their phones, but they aren't that you and they're in the uber ad. I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, i mean when I'm in your. I mean it's on the passenger app. So Yeah, i mean when I'm taking it, taking a uber ride, i mean, right, i'm not necessarily gonna be looking at my phone, i mean I know, maybe I think, i think that you'll see them.
Speaker 2:You know When. When you're waiting for the driver to get there, yep, you know that's the prime time to have them, because you're constantly looking and checking to see how far away they are, and things like that. But when I'm in the middle of a ride, i don't, i don't see.
Speaker 1:No, actually you, you did see, you did specify that it's obviously only on the on the rider ad, which is, which is totally obviously good. They made me think of one thing I saw today. Actually, it was a video Talking about a new law that's actually becoming that. That's, i think, 630, like June 30th, all the hands free. Yeah, exactly, but I think it's just in Michigan so far, but it is already in several other states as well, when Michigan, now It there's a, yeah, it's completely hands-free. So it is me, it is. It is illegal To carry the, carry your hand, your your phone in your hands. Now I'm very arriving.
Speaker 1:Yeah good It should be yes.
Speaker 1:But even so, for even so much as you can't even touch the phone to change the music or something, right, you know if you're stopping you can't pick up the phone and check anything. A center takes another. No, this is illegal. Yeah, it's good as long as needed, but definitely I mean even to us as drivers We need to be more aware of when are we? when are we? I mean, how are we gonna be accepting a ride? Technically, we can't right now. We're not. We're not, we don't have the phone in our hand. But that's a, that's a. That's a very gray area, i think.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, i mean it's that law has been in place in Tennessee for a year or two, okay, and I always have to remember that when I because I'm we're like 20 miles from the Tennessee's state line here, so when I go over into Tennessee, i always have to be very Cognizant of the fact I can't I can't be holding my phone in my hand, because they will pull you over and they will give you a ticket, i mean.
Speaker 1:I'm sure you have a. You have a hold of your phone though, right?
Speaker 2:I do, of course, yeah, of course, yeah and any, if you anybody that's driving any, any gig work, definitely. Number one thing you need is a phone holder.
Speaker 4:You don't want to be, driving around.
Speaker 1:I don't care if you know delivery or get us here. Yeah, most time I take an uber I see people just holding that stupid phone in their hands.
Speaker 2:Yeah, do you say anything to them? I do. No, I do With you and I start.
Speaker 1:I give them less of a less of a rating like you need to get a hold of that phone.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Yeah, i'm, i'm nice about you know, not well, yeah, you know mean about it, but yeah, just, it makes me uncomfortable. Somebody even doing that, yeah, for sure I saw that today, that that's in.
Speaker 1:It's gonna be in Michigan here, yeah, 30, and it'll be interesting to see what comes up. And I'm I mean I'm almost hoping that they'll. It'll kind of I mean, if nothing else, at least get all the drivers out of the driving, get them to buy a phone holder, because there's no way too many people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I wish one day and that uber and Lyft I know they have the. You know, Obviously, Lyft it auto accept your rides already Right in some places. You that you have that option on uber as well. But I wish that you could do it by voice command so it's pop up and you would still be able to say Except or deny.
Speaker 1:You know voice control but don't you think that's next now, as as these laws are getting spread out more? That's what.
Speaker 2:that's what I'm thinking, yeah that's what I'm thinking, that that's got to be on the horizon somewhere for For you know?
Speaker 1:oh yeah, i'm yes.
Speaker 2:Yep. No, it'll, it'll be, it'll be, it's coming, definitely So another part of that story that I wanted to touch on. It says in there that that uber is is gonna be placing tablets in In cars, starting out in some states, and wonder I'm wondering how that's gonna roll out, whether how that's gonna affect, like I think, octopus, you're not supposed to have any other tablet in your car or any right.
Speaker 2:I think and things like that is uber gonna make you put it in your car, or is it gonna be an optional thing? I Mean, i don't know, i'm gonna get compensated for it.
Speaker 1:It's gonna be in some my get, tony, i'm sure Just start out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, to start out, for sure. I'm sure it'll be in the big markets to start out.
Speaker 1:But if they're gonna start requiring it, that all the means they're gonna have to pay for it. Yeah, yeah, no, i'm definitely not paying for anything either.
Speaker 2:But yeah yeah, and unless they compensate me better than octopus does, keep him octopus tablet. You know I'm up for the highest bidder guys.
Speaker 1:So it works Absolutely on that. Do you want to do the talk? talk about the app on the octopus tablets. Sure, yeah, yeah, one you have one and why you talk a little about you at your tablet, definitely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, i've had it for about probably six, eight weeks now and Pass it. Most passengers really love it, like during the daytime. I definitely keep the volume muted because this the daytime people. A lot of times you're taking them to work, they're just not as much into it. But it's the nighttime people especially love it. There's. There's nothing more fun than getting like three half drunk people fighting over trivia in the backs of your car. It's hilarious. They're yelling at each other.
Speaker 2:No man, I told you that wasn't the right answer, you know, and they're trying to beat each other the score and everything it's, it's a lot of fun and Have to give props.
Speaker 2:Octopus has been great. I had a guy tear the cable one night. They broke off again inside there. I reported it three days later I had a new cable for free, didn't have to pay for it. Nice, you know they compensate us for recommending people. You get, you know, $25 for any driver that you recommend that signs up and does, you know, does some rides. I think I've made a hundred and fifty dollars so far off my octopus tablet and you don't do anything. It's just there. You know. It's not like you have to take care of it, i just leave mine. I have it plugged in. I just leave it in the car. You know, some people, some people turn theirs off every night. I, i don't, i just leave it running. It goes to sleep. If you've been setting for a little bit, it'll go into sleep mode. In the morning when I'm getting ready to drive, i just touch tablet, make sure it comes on and ready to go.
Speaker 1:There we go. So yeah, you can. You can use the link to sign up for it which is in the show notes, otherwise you just go to play octopus calm. I must say that The troubles that I have had trying to get one, unfortunately, is actually my own problem. I.
Speaker 1:Hate to say it is my own problem, apparently Early on, while they were still playing with it. I must have. I must have somehow said no, i'd know I do not want text from them. I have inadvertently blocked my own phone numbers. I'm actually working on getting Another one of my phone numbers in the house signed up for it. I Anticipate having a tablet fairly soon. But yeah, that's. That is that. Unfortunately I have to report user error on that one. But they have been pretty good with me and they definitely trying whether they're good company.
Speaker 2:They're a really good company and just want to give a shout out to be everybody. I've just seen the chat. Janet and I'll say hi to and Ben want to say hi to. Just read his comment. Yeah, yeah, i know I'm. I am definitely not the drug, do you? I mean, this is, this, is this is our, you know, this is our summer homes. It's not, yeah, i wouldn't live here full-time, but for the summer It's okay, You know sorry but yeah, thanks for everybody who's on the show tonight.
Speaker 2:We appreciate you guys and I'll be all the comments that you're Putting in and for watching the show and supporting the show boarding us without Jason tonight.
Speaker 1:So thank you for sticking with us, taking with us. Oh, you want to talk about this, the new feature that's coming to to uber soon.
Speaker 2:Yes, a new feature that uber has announced You're gonna be able to rent out your car on uber. So some of you may be familiar with Turo or similar Other programs that are out there, but uber is gonna Gonna have a program called uber car share. It's gonna launch here in North America pretty soon. They're gonna start it out in Boston and Toronto. So if you have a car, that that you know, maybe you have an extra car or you work from home, you know, like a lot of people do nowadays, and you don't need to use your car every day. You can set it up and set your own daily or your hourly pricing and availability and it's in 15 minute increments and You can rent your car out and make some money. And says, you know, there's insurance options that will be available through uber. Again, a lot of people have tried this out. I know Jason rented a rented a car through toro when he was down Orlando.
Speaker 1:He went to Tesla He did rent a Tesla.
Speaker 2:He did rent a Tesla.
Speaker 1:I wasn't giving that props, but It's old amount on the electric cars or he went in order one of those. So yeah, yeah, yeah, i don't think.
Speaker 2:I'm still quite ready for that. But you know I don't have, I don't have solar solar panels like he does.
Speaker 1:So he's pretty well on those panels actually. Yeah, Yeah he's telling me, this was crazy stuff He's making. he's making bank, yeah, it's something to look into.
Speaker 2:I was reading, i know I know they're increasing likes the some of the Kickback you get from the government now to try to make it more affordable or more of an incentive to do.
Speaker 1:Go ahead. I was gonna say in Michigan right now. I think that the, the, the savings are the What's called them.
Speaker 2:the tech deduction is 14,000 dollars, so yeah, yeah, I think the I think the government's Bumped it to like 30.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 3:Federal.
Speaker 2:I think I'll have to look that up for sure. Don't quote, but I know I know I was reading something that they have increased it. They said they have increased it here recently Because they're trying to get more people you know having in that direction.
Speaker 1:Hmm, interesting, i actually I did a. I did a Just kind of an online conversation with not on, i'm sorry, and I've boys conversation with somebody And he actually he went to Google and kind of took a snapshot of my house and he did a an aerial analysis of my roof and Decided that if I took down two of my trees I would have 90 94% coverage on my roof. So I probably have to take down two of my trees before I go that route, but I want to. I want those trees gone anyway. So you know it's all interesting, so anyway. So here's a.
Speaker 1:Here's a fun story from from door dash as we jump into back into the news. So Hand it to me. He was not lying, hello, this was sound insane and absolutely know how feelings. If you decline this request, i am currently locked inside the gates of my storage unit. I haven't eaten dinner, so I got. Getting food is priority one, but if you have access to a ladder and want to bring it to me along with my order in order to climb out of the fence and Over home, i throw you a $20 cash again. Feel free to decline this order and or just bring the food. No worries either way, thank you.
Speaker 2:Man not gonna make bank on this. You could bring him food, then you could uber him home and bring him the ladder on top of it and make another 20 bucks. Man, you could be done for the day just on this one guy.
Speaker 1:Can you imagine How do you get stuck inside?
Speaker 2:just don't, well, if you, i mean, if you get- inside there And you don't know the code to get out. You're stuck because I Drop the use people off. Not too long ago It was a lady and her and her child.
Speaker 2:They're probably like 11 or 12 years old and I don't know what they were doing, but I took them to the like the very back of this storage place, and when I got back up in the front I realized I don't remember what the code was. I had to drive back to them and get the code, so I saw they don't auto open. That on both sides that's dumb, i mean.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, i mean, but some of the three recently, in the last three months, and every one of them had a keypad on each side.
Speaker 1:So be careful. So when you go into, if you go into some of those areas as a rideshow driver, make sure you get that you know. You know the code to get out Exactly. I mean there's lots of What to call like gated community and go ahead and all the gates open up automatically Exactly when you leave. Why not do the same on that?
Speaker 2:makes way too much sense. That's why they don't do it Yeah.
Speaker 4:I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't understand either, because that's what I never thought of it. It had been a while since I've been in one and they were the. I mean, they were as far back into this storage places you could get. They were on like the last unit. So I dropped them off there and drove back up and I was like I thought I remembered it but I didn't Wasn't getting it right. I was off one number. So I drove all the way back there I was like, hey, i need to get that. You know that code again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and.
Speaker 2:I. Don't know how long they were staying there or how they were getting home or anything else. But they were. They were looking through the storage unit for a while, but yeah, I had to go get it and come back and and put it back in, and then it like two days later I Picked up a guy who's at a storage place and And yeah, i had to have a code to get in and out.
Speaker 1:So yeah, wow, pretty common That. No, that's. Yeah, i've never actually been into us. The storage Yeah, gated gated storage facility. But yeah, i guess so. So this next video here is is Specifically about Amazon. Do you guys have the new vehicles yet in your market?
Speaker 2:I haven't seen any of those new ones that are in the video. It's been I'm on. It's been a couple weeks probably since I've seen one where I paid attention to it. But yeah, we get. We get so much Amazon stuff I'll just look on our camera sometimes, definitely see them a lot in our area We have. We have a pretty big Yeah, the new ones.
Speaker 1:Okay, there's some pretty big facilities. I happen to talk to one of the new to the drivers one day and he said most of them, most of the vehicles now are the new ones at That's okay. The little these. So they must have several hundreds of these at least, hand-grabbers.
Speaker 2:So Careful if you're behind them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know It's a. Let's watch this video here real quick as on.
Speaker 6:You have a major fault with your new vehicles And I've been waiting to catch it on camera. Now, if you notice, most of your drivers drive around with the hazards on, which makes complete sense because they're frequently making steps. Problem, i'm gonna. I'm gonna help him back out of here. But the major issue is you see the hazards are on, but He's also on his brake lights and you can't see the brake lights when the hazards are on. I'll show you when he goes down the road here. No problem, have a go on now. Watch as he pulls up to the car he's gonna need to break And No brake lights. Lack of a third brake light on that thing is severely dangerous and I hope this gets to the right people.
Speaker 2:That is that that just sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Speaker 1:That is so crazy, i didn't even think of it, i didn't notice that, that you know the hazards, basically the Particularly on the front lights, they, they blink up, yeah, they yellow right to the head of the yellow and and so that was very interesting. I thought it was. It was an interesting way how they, they, they introduced that, but it is correct the fact that nobody caught. You cannot see the brake light, that is. That is not.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you wonder how it gets to, gets to engineering and I know, review and manufacturing and all that with with nobody Noticing that it's. It kind of blows, blows your mind absolutely Yeah, it's a middle-ton, middle-ton tech.
Speaker 1:One of the apps that we use a lot as drivers here is the flex alert or the I forget the names of the apps, actually, and maybe you can help out here. I.
Speaker 2:Do not. I do not have the Android phones, so I do not have all that right here.
Speaker 1:There, gary's apps are only for for Android, but if you go to Gary's app calm, you can see the three apps They are after. It's gonna help you pick the right, the right rides. One is flex alert, that kind of tell you whenever Amazon Flex post some new, new Routes. And the other two I forget the name and I'm sorry, guys, but anyways they will help you.
Speaker 1:Pick the right right, how maximum Maxim, oh, yep, driver maximum, oh, and then, yeah, there's another one, but anyways, i'm a utility helper. Is the other ones? now? we're getting people, people are helping us. Thank you guys. so much to drive utility helper and maximum, which will help you pick the right pick the right rides and, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1:Then to rescue, help you pick the right rides and pick the right orders for delivery. So so, thank you for that. You definitely go to Gary's, gary's apps, calm and and download those apps right away. That's that. Why don't we do this next video here again, which is a crazy video, and Do you want to tell a little bit about it? first, we doing the cat play.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we just play it. Yeah, let's play it. And what we'll talk about?
Speaker 1:it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yep caught on camera a kitten Stolen off a front porch and the person accused of taking the animal is a grub hub delivery driver, Kenspies. Alyssa Niaviz has the reaction from the kittens owner.
Speaker 3:They said oh, by the way, the driver took your kitten and Was like I'm sorry what Amanda scoggins couldn't believe her eyes. I like. Looked over at him and, sure enough, there was one, two and no three.
Speaker 5:Shortly after her Panera was delivered last night, her neighbors security camera captured this a person Scooping up one of her three kittens, then walking away the mother's feral So we can't exactly bring her inside.
Speaker 3:So whenever they need to nurse there with the mother.
Speaker 5:The white kitten that was stolen Was hers. She named him smudge. The other two kittens have owners lined up.
Speaker 3:We're trying to do the best as we could by them, and I mean it was only like a week off before he was Going to be like ready to be separated.
Speaker 5:She lives in an apartment off Piper's Creek near Culebra. She and her neighbor care for the cats, hence the food bowls and the blankets by their front doors.
Speaker 3:I honestly don't see how they could think that he wasn't being taken care of, that He wasn't Older, anything like that.
Speaker 5:Amanda gave the video to grub hub and San Antonio police who both confirmed with kens 5 they are Investigating. It's understandable why you wanted him. Needless to say, amanda gave the driver a one-star review.
Speaker 3:It was one star and the driver stole my cat, was the comment.
Speaker 4:Aliciniavis kens 5 now the manager for policy Communications at grub hub told us they've suspended the driver in question while they investigate this incident. If you can help solve this case, call police.
Speaker 2:That is crazy That is. I mean dude, you had white crocs on you're gonna be so easy to identify.
Speaker 1:I mean, what and why steal a cat? I mean I just don't get it right Why?
Speaker 2:that makes no sense because seriously, i mean a cat. There are so many cats at the humane societies I know that that that you can get. If you want a cat, go get one of those. There's plenty of it, they're not in short supply is, oh, they're. They're begging people constantly, i know, here to adopt the cats We have. You know, such a problem with with so many cats that have to get put down and yeah, i don't know why you would steal one that I mean especially.
Speaker 2:I mean you know people have cameras nowadays. I don't know why you still anything off anybody's porcs these days. It's You. I mean you know you're gonna get caught you just know you're gonna get caught.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah and just yeah, but the but they and we still stealing it.
Speaker 2:Don't steal a cat, that's yeah I mean yeah, i mean that some people get very attached to their pets. I mean very attached, and people, that's their kids, you know, i mean they, they really, really get attached and it doesn't seem like, you know, it seemed like they were gonna adopt these out so that they may not have been as a.
Speaker 1:She said that this would have catch you a pig for herself. Yeah, you can kind of see that she was tearing up a little bit with that almost. Almost felt a little fake, i don't know.
Speaker 2:But anyways, that Just don't, just don't do stuff like that You know, that's what it comes out to you. Don't do stuff like that.
Speaker 1:You're gonna get caught, absolutely. So this next one here is an interesting one. We actually don't have a. There's a picture on it. This is another Reddit story. We don't have a picture to put up there, but but it's a pretty cool one. It's a shout out to a local Arizona McDonald's franchise owner Who did the cool thing of doing some Delivery cards, if you will like. What are they called? so? basically, for the other drivers, the Uber eats the door. There's a group of drivers. They would give them a card and so every time they picked up an order they would get a get a.
Speaker 1:Stamp yeah, stamp Yeah. And then once they reach five orders, they get a prize and they give the free meal. So that was kind of cool. So it says here, have you card punched or stamped when you pick up a Mac delivery order, when you have five boxes, you'll get one combo meal free on your six pick up. Now, way to go, i mean way to go is excellent, thinking out of the box and getting people to pick it.
Speaker 4:We all know.
Speaker 1:No, nobody want to pick up the stupid McDonald's orders, right? I mean, every time you go there there's like hunt, not hundreds, because lots of people, lots of orders at The place is waiting to be picked up. Yeah, it's not necessarily what they really want, but wait, wait and think out of the box here.
Speaker 2:This is kudos to the manager and definitely because I know we've talked in in our telegram group. Especially late at night, mcdonald's is like the last place you want to go to pick up. Absolutely every like during the day It's. It's not bad here. I had a McDonald's order late and they had it ready within 30 seconds of time.
Speaker 2:Okay and they do package it up. Well, i, you know, i do like the way that McDonald's packages up, but a lot of places the service is is not good and you're in here, you just get to where you don't want to pick up. But this gives incentive for drivers. You know, besides pay, it's just a little something they do to to hey, we appreciate what you're doing, you know, gives you incentive to pick up our orders from, from this particular McDonald's.
Speaker 1:And you know, we just want to reward you a little bit with a little something just just make sure whatever meal you're getting is not one of the One that wasn't picked up. It's a French one.
Speaker 2:Had been sitting there for 30 45.
Speaker 1:Yeah, any from that shelf you can pick from that shelf.
Speaker 2:You know, it's like the fair you can pick from the top shelf toys, Not the bottom shelf.
Speaker 1:Hey, there might be a chicken in there, i don't know, anyway. so, larry, why don't you talk a little bit about this, this interesting lift ride here I'm gonna?
Speaker 2:yeah, this is a lift ride that I took. No, i did not take this and I would never take this. First of all, this is a ride from Boston International Airport down to Norfolk and it says 16 hours and I don't know what navigation app they're using, but this is not the way you would go Boston to Norfolk. You can go down the coast and I put it in, i just punched it in that to to Google, yeah, apple Maps, real quick when I saw this story and it was like 10 hours. So first of all, there's at least six hours, but anyway, 10 hours, six hours, whatever it is, nobody in our group is gonna take this.
Speaker 1:But at least they get a five dollar bonus.
Speaker 2:Come on, you go five dollar bonus and, hey, maybe you'll get a free meal from McDonald's. You know who?
Speaker 5:knows.
Speaker 2:But, yeah. I mean, I've always heard I don't know if it's still true I remember in back in the day they used to say that lift would would cap the rides at 300. They wouldn't pay any more than that.
Speaker 1:I don't know if that was, maybe that's what it is. That's your. That's your three hundred five dollars, including a bonus.
Speaker 2:That's that's what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1:But who's?
Speaker 2:I mean Lily, who's gonna do something? 32 hour round trip.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, no for $300.
Speaker 2:if I had another Zero or two on the end, i might think about it.
Speaker 1:I mean, this is one of those rides that you immediately Text them and say I'm gonna need like seven hundred dollars next to it as well.
Speaker 2:Exactly up front, up front. Yeah, please cash Before we do.
Speaker 1:But I mean, let's even say, let's even say there was a thousand dollars or thirty nine dollars, do you, would you drive 32 hours? I mean, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:I mean yeah, you're gonna. I mean you're obviously you're gonna have to stay in a hotel. You know right you're gonna drive 16 hours there and and I would I would have to think about it.
Speaker 1:I mean a thousand, I Mean you know you're gonna be out on these two to 300,000 gas.
Speaker 2:No, me, i would probably do. I'm a little adventurous, i'm, so I would. I might do it, i might think about it anyway.
Speaker 4:But I would have to.
Speaker 2:I would have to really think about it and see what's going on, figure out how much I'm gonna make And gas and a hotel and all that right, so no, i can I.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but again, definitely make sure there's enough room. I'm obviously a trip like this even if it is a 10 hour, you're still gonna want to stay. You know, stay, stay. Oh yeah, i'm like that. And then, yeah, you don't want me driving tired That's.
Speaker 2:That is not good at all.
Speaker 1:But no, no, no, I can't imagine even, even.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, you wonder if it's a. I was gonna say you wonder if it's a. It's a they put in the wrong address, but they're going to there from airport to airport, so they obviously know where they're going.
Speaker 1:Well, i wonder if it was that if one of their flights got got, yeah, i got canceled, yeah, whatever, and they have to, yeah, i don't know, it might, might, maybe it's an airline company That's, i don't know, but it seems weird That's. that's where the many other airlines in between those two rights right.
Speaker 2:Oh sure, yeah, and like I said, that's, that's just a, i don't even know. I don't think lift navigation would even take you that way. I mean, there's no reason you can't cut down through Connecticut and long along the shore, new Jersey, through Maryland, down there and cut off, but that's true, i don't know Yeah. I I wonder what the Yeah Your longest ride I've ever taken was like two and a half hours, i think, probably up into Indiana to a casino. It was pretty sketchy.
Speaker 1:Long as I've ever taken, was too much to when I took to Chicago to the airport and, and not the one I should have taken. No, but we won't yeah, yeah, we won't talk about that.
Speaker 1:Anyway. So here's, here's another story from Give it that one. Here's another story from the reddit lifter drivers, and it goes. I did my first Sleazeball thing and and I'm gonna read it as it is because it's pretty interesting, it's not that long but some of the some of the People commenting grabs onto the real, the real problem here with this problem with this, with this story, and I and I kind of think, caught to me as well. Let's see what you guys think. So. So I say sleazeball as a term of endearment. No show feed packs. That was here.
Speaker 1:I'm a part-time driver and driving a smaller market that is Over-saturated with drivers, so I take pretty much every ride I can get. 10 pm, get a ride request. First thing I saw was a $56 ride. I accepted it. Pick up was a small town 25 miles north of my market. Drop off was 50 miles further north from my market. Not a lucrative ride, but I figured I'm the only one nice slash, dumb enough to take it. I arrived in a small time. So I arrive in a small town.
Speaker 1:The road to take to the pickup is all tore up, no traffic allowed, no detour signs. I messes the packs asking for a meetup point or direction to get to them. No response. I wander around and manage to find a back road to the packs I ride to the pickup. Pick up is on the outskirts of town. Appears to be a long driveway surrounded by trees. No way of identifying if I'm at the correct driveway, but I'm close enough for the app to recognize I'm within driving distance.
Speaker 1:I arrive at distance. I mess with the packs that I've arrived and don't want to drive up the driveway unless they can confirm I am at the right place. No response. I waited four minutes. At this point I have my windows down to here. If anybody walks up to the car, it's dark. Can't see a house, only a gravel driver surrounded by trees. I hear a person in the distance come out of the house Not sure if this is my packs or not At 4.50.
Speaker 1:I put the car in drive, slowly creep away from the driveway, make the mandatory call, let it ring once and hang up. Mike, the packs are no show, instantly here. Hey, wait, stop, i'm right here. I Drive away and head back to my market. At least I got paid a fine $15 no show fee for wasting an hour of my time. The person requested a ride again immediately. I declined it. The request circle back to me two more times that night. I doubt they got a ride. Do I feel bad? Hell? no, the packs had serious back for my time and patients. They had 25 minutes to see if I was on the way At four minutes from for from me, i waited five minutes at the pickup. I feel like I'm now officially this these both too, and I'm okay with that I. The first comment is why the hell you're driving 25 miles to pick up at all. I mean, that's the real problem here, right? No, no, no one. You shouldn't be driving 25 miles at all.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what if you drive 25 and there are no show? completely Yeah.
Speaker 1:I know, i Remember the first time I drove this was I was, i was still young, i was young in the gig economy and and and 20 minutes away From the Grand Rapids market is the TV, is you market, that's the, the Grand Valley. And so I got caught out there and I get I didn't really know direction, whatever. I had her out there and I Kid you not, i get out there, i pick, i pick up these two guys at a, at a pizza place, and They literally have to go half a mile down the road. Right, they went, they waited 25 minutes for me to come pick them up and they could have walked there in two, in like five minutes, yeah, but their story was they didn't know where they were going. They were brand new to the car. They didn't know where they were going like, so it was like a two thousand twenty five minutes. I made nothing on that ride, right, and I drove 22 minutes to get to them.
Speaker 2:No, no, no no. Yeah, you remember those rats for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, don't ever drive. You don't drive 25 minutes to get anybody.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, i remember doing the same thing, yes, but I mean I had been driving long and there's a there's a town south of us called Franklin's, a small town about 5,000 people, and Got a call down there. This was back in the old day, before we got to see anything about the ride. You know, really, before we picked them up and Got a call down there one night, it was kind of slow and I was like, well, they're probably coming to Bowling Green. You know it's a Friday night. They're probably coming to Bowling Green. I don't be a good ride. I drive down there and this dude, like Half of once we take him half a mile down to the minute mark to get his beard and then back. You know It's like a $4 ride.
Speaker 4:You're like no.
Speaker 1:Not, never not doing, that again Not doing no, Actually I know you're not supposed to, but I started every time these rides get there. Now I call them ask him or how far they're going, i you go, i will go pick them up. if they're going back to ground up, it's done.
Speaker 4:It's okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because then I, these, I get a 20 minute ride in one of the ways, yeah, and I I even started saying to people I said when I, when I, when I'm, i live like in between to somebody, yeah, sometimes I start out there, yeah, but then I'll tell people. I say the first thing you should do if you get somebody to accept you, it's text, text the driver and say I'm going downtown, right, or whatever, just let us know how far you're going, because otherwise it's gonna be a problem.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and I've given people the same advice, you know, tell me if they're doing a long trip or anything like that, or? you know I've got people who who had a dog. It's not a service dog. You know things like that which I, you know, i didn't bother me, but, mike, you need to. You need to communicate with your driver before they get there, because Absolutely they're not gonna be happy if they, if they, drive all the way here and then they find out you know nope the situation.
Speaker 2:So, we communicate with them, probably the better off you are.
Speaker 1:Absolutely so. Do you want to grab the last toy tonight?
Speaker 2:I will get it. Yeah, cuz this one hits close to home for sure. Yeah, i don't know if we have a graphic for it or not but we do not okay.
Speaker 2:So this is about. Two people were arrested after sending police on a multi-county chase. Kentucky State Police Post was contacted by Police Department in Franklin Tennessee, so the state post three is in Bowling Green. Franklin Tennessee is just south of Nashville, so it's about 70 miles from Bowling Green.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there was a stolen vehicle traveling through I-65 in Warren County, which is the county that I live in. The vehicle had a live tracker on it and so they were able to To monitor it and track it, even when they didn't have police vehicles, you know, immediately in the area. And The Franklin Tennessee police informed the Kentucky State Police that the two suspects and the vehicle had robbed two separate uber drivers in Tennessee at gunpoint And then they had stolen a black 2023 Hyundai Santa Fe. The state police here saw it past their cruiser at the 47 mile marker, which I live at, mile marker 22, so they're about 20 miles past Bowling Green. When they when they saw them, they pursued the vehicle top speed of 140 miles an hour, so they were hauling ass, oh, and the vehicle tried to exit the interstate at that same rate of speed and Didn't manage to make that for some reason.
Speaker 1:Gargrel, oh my gosh Yeah they, they.
Speaker 2:They arrested young man 22. They found a gun in the floorboard. They found pills. They found two zip lock bags full of THC oil. Yeah marijuana, other drugs. So they were both, they were both charged with this. A slew of different charges, but that's when you know. That's one of the reasons. Go ahead, yes.
Speaker 1:We were saying, no, it's not the smart and they're not the brightest of the bunch. though I mean, let me ask you a question How much cash do you usually have on you when you drive Uber?
Speaker 2:Exactly exactly. I don't. I mean, we don't, you know I I'll have maybe 20 bucks.
Speaker 1:I know I don't care a lot of cash.
Speaker 2:So yeah, robin, uber drivers is, you might get the tip from the day right. Exactly, it's not. it's not the but you know, a lot of times These aren't the sharpest crowns in the box.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, there's not but.
Speaker 2:But that's one reason. You know I don't drive a lot in Nashville, it's just it's starting to get to be a bigger city and it's having bigger city problems, and they're you know, they're starting to have more carjackings and things like that going on And I just you know I feel safer here in Bowling Green. I've lived here 50 years, i know the area And I do know more you know people don't seem as wild, even though you can say really busy in Nashville.
Speaker 2:But but then again we make more per mile here on Uber. You know they're doing the up front pricing down there, So you put more miles on your car. Yeah, down there to make the same money, or?
Speaker 1:but you do okay, you do Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, i do, if I do find the only reason I'll go down there generally is if I've got like a big lip bonus that I need To do a bunch of rides and yep, i'll try not to go. I won't go like into Nashville City, i'll get on the outskirts, but generally as soon as you get a ride, they're they're going to Broadway, they're going downtown. So now that the cancellation rates don't mean anything, or accept it, rains don't mean anything on lift, i'll do, i'll cancel. I mean I'll just let 20 of them go by until I get a short one. Yeah, it doesn't matter anymore. On on lift.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll talk about that next time, but that is that is. That is very interesting, so that's about everything we have tonight, guys, thank you so much for Being here. We hit an hour and five minutes. This is crazy things. Things go so fast, thank you. Thank you so much for staying on and for listening to me and me and Larry here and, and hopefully, jason had fun tonight. I'm again. I don't even know what he was doing.
Speaker 1:He was very secretive about where he was, at least, and that man deserves it because he works Many, many, many, many long hours to to do all this that he's doing except and and all the other things that he's also doing for him And his family. So he is a very hard worker for sure night off.
Speaker 2:So thank you so much for today and I want to mention real quick before we do our sign off Yes, sir, don't forget to pig neck everybody. We got What? is it the 27th?
Speaker 1:When you think is it?
Speaker 2:I can't remember it'll be. Yes, i'm not with the sign up for the pic, i mean for the newsletter, and it will tell you exactly when the pig next gonna be. But look, i'm coming from from Kentucky We don't know about. John may be coming from from North.
Speaker 1:Carolina, it's 23rd, 23rd.
Speaker 2:Okay, it was right in the middle of what we both said Split the difference.
Speaker 1:Thanks Yeah.
Speaker 2:Janet is coming all the way from New Zealand, so I mean Anybody else. listen, you really have no excuse not to come to the picnic.
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Speaker 2:Just want to say thanks again. Yes, sir, thanks Jason for having me on the show And thanks everybody for tuning in tonight. And remember what we always say don't put up with anyone's bullshit And we'll see you on the road.
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