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New Uber Eats Heat Map Update 🔥 | Senior Driver Accounts & Is Trump Good for Gig Workers? | Ep 254
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The gig economy landscape continues to evolve with new features and bizarre incidents shaping how drivers and customers interact in this space.
• Uber Eats introduces new heat maps showing busy areas and high-demand restaurants to help drivers maximize earnings
• Uber and Lyft launch senior-focused accounts with larger text, simplified interfaces, and caregiver options
• Gen Z increasingly skipping driver's licenses, with only 25% of 16-year-olds licensed in 2019 compared to 46% in 1983
• A DoorDash driver in Washington State returned to a customer's home with a gun, demanding a cash tip
• Viral video captures an Uber Eats delivery being made by kayak through London canals
• Waymo self-driving car attempts to drive through flooded street, demonstrating challenges for autonomous vehicles in adverse weather
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Hello, welcome to the Gig Economy Podcast, episode 254. Talking about some new Uber Eats heat maps. Oh boy, we're so excited. Yes, we are. It's the slowest news day known to man. Uber is launching some senior driver accounts and is trump good for gig workers. And I just realized that I deleted that article because it was a slow news day and I posted it. It was from january. We already fucking talked about it. So, uh, didn't update the title clearly, but that's okay. Hey, larry, how's it going?
Speaker 1:I'm doing well. It is heating up here in kentucky. It's been up in 90, like 90 91 the last couple of days, and so I was mentioning to you we knocked out the air at our office for about two weeks ago and so it's been.
Larry:It's been a little toasty, but yeah, I bet if I went back and clipped all our episodes, right, and I said, hey, larry, how's it going? You always give a weather report it going. You always give a weather report. Is that an old man thing? I don't know, sir, I don't know, maybe what. Why is it we love the weather so much, you and I both talk about the weather the grass is browning up, god dang it one of them things we fall back to.
Larry:I know, I know a little wall in the conversation. No, how's the weather up there?
Speaker 1:but uh, I've been busy.
Larry:Uh, hadn't, hadn't really been out, uh, doing too much gig work yeah, yeah, I've done a little bit, but we'll talk about that in a minute. Gig economy showcom for everything gig economy podcast related, sign up for our newsletter. You can get updates on the episode, the show, when we go live, so on and so forth. Definitely, if you are listening live, definitely download the podcast wherever you download podcasts, and if you're listening to the podcast, come join us live every Wednesday at 7 pm Eastern.
Larry:This show is fueled by the Patreon supporters Samson, bud, omar, delivery Cats, frank, tom, jim, miguel, linda, jerry. Thank you all so much for supporting the show. It really means a lot. Some of these people have been supporting it for years and years and years on end. You can go sign up at patreoncom slash the gig econ podcast to get extra podcasts a week Again. Wrote myself a note, didn't fucking update it. You get an exclusive t-shirt made by yours truly. You get ad-free episodes and so much more. There's a three dollar and a seven dollar tier. Go check that out if you're interested. Uh, larry, uh, telegram group it's going to get a little bit more chatty for the next three months, as gabriel and I are.
Speaker 1:Uh it up, we're burning it up.
Larry:He messaged me today early because yesterday I go rise and shine, bitch, it's time to work. Like it was like seven o'clock, I was out doing Walmart spark and then, today he messaged me. I'm like yeah, I was like yeah, I'm not doing gate work today, sorry.
Jason:So anyways, how can?
Larry:how can people uh, what is telegram? How? How can people connect with that?
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we will put links in our show notes to our Telegram group. You can click on it and join our group. It's a lot of fun. It's an app that you can message back and forth Just like a texting app, but you can also do video or voice messages when you're out driving. It's kind of easier to do like a voice message instead of trying to type, but you can talk with gig workers all over the country. We talk about, you know, any new gigs that are coming out, anything that's hot happening right then, or any weird experiences we have on doing this gig work, which, if you do gig work very long, you're going to have some stories. You know surely have some stories, but it's a good way to meet some people and not feel so lonely when you're out there doing that gig work.
Larry:For sure. Also, I'd love for you to follow us on TikTok. We are live currently on TikTok right now. I'd love for you to join us there. It's kind of a new platform for us in regards to live streaming. Also, would love for you to follow us on TikTok. We're slowly making our push towards a thousand um and uh, we're we're moving on up there. So, um, so today, uh, as far as like advertisements go, I want to talk about steve the man, the myth legend, the conversation. He's calling it beta. I'm not sure. Is that part of the the uh show?
Speaker 1:but anyway, beta is just a test.
Larry:Well, I know what beta is in general, but I'm like, is that the name of the show? It's a new weekly live stream called the Conversation. Okay, it doesn't have beta on there. So I just answered my own question. With a pilot focusing on DoorDash in 2025, the show is designed to be interactive along anyone to participate, either through the live chat or joining the panel. Oh boy, this could get dangerous if you're letting anyone in, whether just to speak briefly or safe. Uh, on the full session.
Larry:As this is a beta week, everyone is encouraged to learn and grow, together with the insurance that the platform is free, uh, of what did it say? Tier systems or exclusionary practices like those seen in doordash. Every voice is welcome and valid, with strong emphasis on open dialogue and mutual respect. Then, okay, so this is all AI. I took what he wrote and then I AI'd it. So the only rule is to be respectful of others' opinions and keep swearing to a minimum in order to maintain a positive, inclusive space. So check that out. The swearing part is hilarious to me because I'm such a potty mouth. But, uh, I love that. I love that steve's doing a lot of different shows. I love that you all are going to get a opportunity to speak your mind. Um, it's gonna be tough to monitor, not not gonna lie. Uh, hopefully he doesn't get anyone up there. That you know, because if you're just letting anyone in, hopefully, they got my moderators that are right on it, but his show is, I think.
Larry:what did it say, Larry? Did I forget? Was it tonight it started?
Speaker 1:Let's see Part I saw did not have the date.
Larry:Yeah, hold on. Bad ad read, steve. Sorry, I got it somewhere. Oh, he's starting tomorrow 7 pm Eastern. So Thursday night, 7 pm Eastern, check it out. I know he did what was the one he does at 9 on Thursday the round table. Yeah, I don't know if that's on pause or if he's doing dual shows, but yeah, check that out. I think it'll be good.
Speaker 1:I've known him. It's probably dual shows it's probably dual.
Larry:He's probably doing a triple that day, plus 10 curries and a few door dash. So some roadies and some and some roadies. Uh, stories from the road. Uh, larry's been busy. He's been traveling the world. Uh, nothing for you, right?
Speaker 1:no, no gig work no, no, I was planning on, I was. Uh, you know, I had plans to work this weekend and then then my sister, who was in Florida my oldest sister called me about 630 on Saturday morning and her husband, my brother-in-law, who is about 75, I think he was down at Vanderbilt ER dealing with some blood clots and some other stuff, and so she asked me if I could go down there. So I was down there most of the day in Vanderbilt. Man, it's crazy, they, they. Nashville has grown so fast that um in Vanderbilt does a lot of the trauma victims and so, like he was in the waiting room for nine hours before we ever got got into the hospital and then the whole, like for a whole probably 36 hours, he including overnight. He was on a stretcher, probably 36 hours, he, including overnight. He was on a stretcher in, in, in in a hallway, like they, they, it's so they do it so often now that the hallway spots are numbered just like rooms.
Larry:No way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so he's like C1, which is pod C hallway one.
Jason:That's wild.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, it was crazy man. I came in and, uh, I came in and went, went to the front desk and asked you know, I'm here to see my brother-in-law. I gave him his name and they're like okay, go through these double doors, It'll be down at the end of the hallway on your left. So I go through the double doors, walk down there. Nothing, he's not there. So I'm kind of looking lost.
Speaker 1:It's a nurse, like somebody again looking for my brother-in-law. She looks at bump on the computer. She's like, well, he's supposed to be right there. Um, they probably took him back to do a scan or something. So I'm like, okay, so there's a chair there and I'm sitting there waiting and and right next to his room like he's in the hallway. But he's in the hallway outside of this room and in the room there's a, a lady. She's a african-american, about 28 30, and she is raising nine kinds of hell. I mean she is giving it to him. You got to get me another doctor. This fucking doctor don't know what she's doing. I'm not leaving here. Y'all stitch up my head. I don't know what's wrong with you. I mean there's like five security guards in there and doctors and nurses.
Speaker 1:Man and I was like, oh, they've moved phil because they're afraid this is gonna go south and sure enough, that's what had happened. They had moved him into another hallway and about 15 minutes later they got her calmed down. They, they, they, brought, they, brought you know, brought it back.
Larry:Thank you, bubba stew, I appreciate that is it because the hospital is too small for the growth, and so is that what? Yeah, yeah they're.
Speaker 1:They're building another wing, but I don't think it's going to be open for like another year or two, it takes forever for that shit.
Speaker 1:I mean it does and you know, friday night and they, like I said, they get a ton of the trauma that's in there. So my poor niece you know his daughter, she went she's the one who was there went down with him, drove him down to the hospital, so she was there in the waiting room for the nine hours and then she stayed overnight in this hallway and she saw and heard a lot I bet yeah, I was like next time just call me and let me go, because that stuff doesn't phase me.
Speaker 1:She doesn't need to be down there seeing that stuff, you know yeah, I mean it's yes and no.
Larry:It'd be good for her maybe to be like okay, this is, this is kind of the world can be like this. You know what? Oh yeah mean, oh yeah. How old is she?
Speaker 1:Oh no, I mean she's in her early 30s.
Larry:Ah, she's fine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yeah, it was something else. So, yeah, I ended up doing that. And then Sunday, while she was in Florida, I guess, their internet went out, so I was down at their house while she was at the hospital visiting him. I was installing a new router for her and doing some other stuff.
Larry:Okay, nice For me. I did start doing some gig work this week, as we talked about Gabe and I have been chatting it up.
Speaker 1:Burn up that telegram.
Larry:Yeah, went out early morning. I find that Walmart sparked for me in my area. Of course it's market specific and they're actually. They texted me about a minute before the show like, hey, start at 5 30, I'm not starting that early, but I do start early. I and, and, just like it had been before, I get two, two good orders, bang, bang, make a quick 40 bucks. Then it gets crickets. Um, get a. Uh, what did I? What did I get? Oh yeah, I got a pharmacy order.
Larry:So like I'm like slow, I'm like I had been sitting for a while and it was like 10 bucks for six, six miles and I'm like you know, whatever, I don't need you know. I mean, I, I was, I was excited to be back doing gig work and I just wanted to move. So I, I grabbed that. They give it to me. They said, oh, you're too early. Sparks says that you know you're going to arrive at such and such a time. So it says arrive at 846. So I get there. The fucking pharmacy doesn't open till nine. Oh, which I? I mean, I didn't really know the hours and I've done pharmacy before but it's never been before open. So I'm just dicking around there. So about 859,. I get a. What so about 8 59?
Jason:I get a uh what are you laughing at dicking around?
Larry:no, no, this story. Oh, I was like you've heard me say that before. Oh, yeah, yeah, no, or dick in the dog, dick in the dog, yeah, that's that's the one. Um, I get a double uber eats order going to the same city area.
Larry:Oh, I was like well, fuck, yeah, the pharmacy. There's no really time limit on that one, so I take it and maybe you can help me out this. I know you don't do a lot of food delivery, but it said a double and it said both the drop-offs were at the same location. So like the customer order from two, what two different places? Didn't know that. In my head I thought it said go to panera. It didn't say to go anywhere else, so I thought it was dual. Panera is like. Sometimes it happens people order and then like oh shit, yeah, I forgot something.
Larry:So they got to place another order and it wasn't. It was like 12 bucks for like four miles. So it wasn't bad. It's better than my pharmacy one sure. So I go to panera, which is right across from the Walmart, and I'm like, oh my God, this is like heaven, this is so easy.
Larry:And then it's like oh, by the way, you got to go to Tropical Smoothie, which is it was a mile and a half the other direction and get that and it was quick, it was fast, whatever. But once you hit, accept you can't see shit.
Speaker 1:You can't see nothing. Yeah, you know. Um, you're right, I don't do enough food to answer that question. I really don't. I don't know. Um, okay, I don't remember. I mean I've done very few doubles anyway. Yeah, I do very little food and then a very, very small subset of that has been a double.
Larry:Right, right. Yeah, I was just curious. Maybe you knew. Bubba Sue says Spark is busy in the morning. I wonder why that is, bubba Sue. I think that a lot of gig workers are nighttime warriors and they do a lot of PM and late night stuff and so in the morning there's less drivers on the road. I would agree with that. Yeah, and by by nine. Ten o'clock. It's kind of saturated, everyone's up and moving around and stuff like that.
Larry:But um, so yeah, that, no other than that, no really stories just kind of annoyed me. Um, oh, and then the fucking uber eats map took me to a firefighter entrance at this apartment complex. But I'm not kidding you yeah it was to get to the actual entrance. It was four miles. Oh, oh, my god. Yeah, I knew where. I knew where that was and in my head I'm just bebopping around. You know driving, just not thinking about it, I'm like yeah, I didn't know it.
Larry:It maybe, you know, maybe it did have a back entrance. I don't fucking know. You know, I've never been way in the back, sure as shit. Freaking double gate locked, had to go all the way around that's annoying.
Speaker 1:I haven't had one that's been that long. But there's. There's one trailer park that I've been into and it shows like the uh uber map or uber eats, whatever, will show your back entrance, the way out of it, and you head back there and it's, it's not, it's gated up. And then there's also apartment complex not too far from there and one side that it will take you to it's it's. They got the big, you know uh boards. You know the concrete poles in there that you can't drive through. Yeah, it's not. That, you know, takes you a couple minutes. It was not.
Larry:No, it's not four miles well, I mean, you know me, I'm probably exaggerating, it's probably less, but I was annoyed you know what it is your exaggeration. Just like when you're fishing, you know it gets bigger because you're annoyed or you're happy.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. So it's like I'm annoyed. 20 mile detour to get right. I'm irritated.
Larry:I just want to drop this stuff off and move on with my life.
Speaker 1:You want to go, you want to. It just disrupts your whole flow. Yes, you have in your mind this is going to take this long. I'm going to be here and you get there, and it's like just run and just shattered my plans.
Larry:It's so funny to that that gated area. There was so much debris in front of it.
Speaker 1:I'm like this looks sketch. Oh no, damn it. Yeah, oh, oh.
Larry:Boba sue said that uh, steve's round table is on hold till the fall. Yeah, I saw that, which I mean.
Speaker 1:That makes sense um trying out this new show yeah for sure.
Larry:All right, get economy in the news. Uh, like I said, it was a light news week. Larry and I were pulling teeth to get this. Uh, so it's going to be done with our amazing abilities, which is not amazing at times. Uh, so, uber, I should look at this day. Oh, this one's recent. This is june 1st.
Larry:So, um, uber ceo says gen c is skipping driver's license. Uh, even his child doesn't want to get a driver's license and there's a lot of different thoughts on it. Of course he says because of Uber, because they're taking more Uber. But according to the latest data from the US Department of Transportation, just under 4% of licensed drivers in the country are 19 or younger. Four percent, wow, that's a big drop from the decades past. In 1983, 46 percent of all 16 year olds had a license. By 2019, that was 25 percent. Yeah, so, uh, it says why gen z isn't driving. Young people are skipping license for a bunch of reasons. Many don't need a car to connect with friends anymore. They're online all the time, which so true. I think that's such a valid point.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I mean back in, back in. You know, when I was in high school, like you know, we we didn't have cell phones, we didn't have internet or any of that. If you didn't go to see somebody, you had no contact with them. That's it, same for me.
Larry:No cell phones. I was kind of on the cusp after I got out of high school of the cell phone boom. Or you called on the phone but then you got no privacy. You got mama picking up the phone and get off the fucking phone.
Speaker 1:Man. I had five sisters. I didn't get to use the phone.
Larry:What are you talking about? That's true, you're doing smoke signals to your friends, that's right and homing pigeons, whatever.
Larry:Also says they use ride hailing apps like Uber and Lyft. Uber Uber, uber and Lyft God dang, I messed that one up. Or stick to public transit and biking. Driving anxiety is also playing a role, which I I think that's, that's part of it. Um, the washington post reports aggressive driving and road rage around the rise, combined with mental health challenges. Some teens are seeing driving is stressful. Um, so yeah, it's interesting. I mean it's good for them, right you?
Larry:know it's good for the self-driving coming out. Um, you know, I think I would be more comfortable sending my daughter in a self-driving car other than there's bugs with it Most of the bugs. Honestly, this is rhetorical, obviously, because I don't think you know, but I don't think there's been a fatality in a self-driving car with the person in the car. I don't think anyone's died in the car that's a good thing to look up.
Larry:I'm pretty sure I mean like it's. I mean it's possible. I haven't heard of it. It's just been the fatalities where you know a pedestrian's crossing the street, larry's gonna look that up right now, um, those kind of things. But I guess, going back to my point, I would much rather have my kids take a self-driving taxi that there's no driver in there. I have to worry about them getting, you know, in trouble. And honestly, my son's be 15 next month, my daughter's 17. You know they're, they're definitely going to be part of that, but at least old enough to kind of take care of themselves a little bit. But you see, anything might be hard to skew it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's hard to to figure it out because you know sometimes they'll they'll talk about pedestrians or yeah, I wonder how you could google to to.
Larry:You know, weed some of that out.
Speaker 1:I can't really think right, that's what I'm trying to, trying to do that, um, I'll drink a beer while you're listening Right, that's what I'm trying to do that I'll drink a beer while you're listening. Supposedly this website I'm on is just showing the number of incidents accidents I guess I call them incidents per year, but it doesn't show anything about fatalities, that's all right, I'll keep looking as we do the show.
Larry:Yeah, I was gonna say we need. We need a, a someone to like be our official Googler. Like exactly you start asking a question, then they can pop in and then give us like hey, this is what I said, and then we can just yeah we commission, I'll pay you in a t-shirt, there you go.
Larry:Gig economy podcast. Yeah, I may even get a thirsty goose out of it. Yeah, maybe could be unused, all right, all right, moving on. Uh, this was kind of hot, one of the the the bigger things that had gone on in the last week. Uh, currently is. Uh, go ahead, larry.
Speaker 1:Sorry, I forgot this was okay, yeah, so so this is, uh, this is a video, tiktok video. There they'll be interviewing um one of the one of the people involved, but, uh, this occurred when, um, a guy's daughter had ordered uber eats uh, the previous night. So this is the next day and the driver comes to their house and demands a cash tip, and so we'll play the video and then talk about it.
Jason:In a quiet suburb of Washington State Thursday morning, a knock on the door and a sign of chaos with breakfast.
Jason:I put up my hand and I said hey, you know, stop, you know, you're too close Anthony Valino, confronting, then ripping a firearm away from his daughter's DoorDash delivery driver from the previous day who he says, returned to demand a cash tip. Police say the driver was arrested for harassment, dui and assault. The altercation captured on video from Valino's home. In the house at the time I had four kids under the age of four. As the grandfather emptied bullets from the cartridge, he told his daughter to call for help. My three-year-old granddaughter I could hear in the back of my head yelling Papa. Papa Worried the weapon could have been fired at his grandchildren or daughter who he says, ordered roughly $100 worth of groceries the day before and did tip on her phone. Doordash telling NBC News the company has a zero tolerance policy for harassment of any kind. What happened was unacceptable and the Dasher involved was immediately deactivated. Thankfully no one was injured, but nerves certainly shaken yeah.
Speaker 1:So this is just. This is just crazy, uh, to come have somebody like that come back. I mean, and they said they gave him a tip, didn't say what it was, uh, on the app and he shows up the next day with a gun demanding that they give him a cash tip yeah, it's, it's.
Larry:Oh man, so larry and I were talking earlier, the guy like so I don't think he, I don't think he got rid of the magazine, I think he just racked the, the load, the, the round in the chamber, whatever the fuck you call it. Yeah, the round in the chamber, I think he racked that out, but um, so I didn't watch the whole video, and when I, well, I did now, but beforehand. That dude's lucky he didn't get shot because the guy came at him again. You know what I mean? He pushed him down and then the dasher got up and started coming at him again. At that point.
Larry:I might be thinking about pointing that gun at him and said you get the fuck out, because obviously you've said go leave. You pushed him down, so this is it. We we're done. We're done with this conversation. And then you come at me again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's, that's dangerous. We were, yeah, we were debating whether he'd been drinking or something.
Larry:Yeah, yeah, well, he got arrested for dui, so so I mean so obviously he'd been drinking, but and also larry and I talked about we wouldn't have unloaded the gun, I would have just pointed the gun at him with his own fucking gun and be like hey motherfucker?
Speaker 1:Yeah, cause we were talking about what if you unload the gun and then he's got another weapon or something, or he overpowers you, or something. Yeah, you know, he was not a small dude, you know.
Larry:It does make sense why he did it, though.
Speaker 1:Now that I heard that his granddaughter was kind of right there. He was worried maybe the gun would be used on his Four kids under the age of four there. Yeah, that's scary. Can you imagine if?
Larry:that guy would have came to the guy we talked about last week or the week before, that town official that fired at that Dasher.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, that dude would have been dead. Yeah, shoot out at the OK Corral right there, yeah he would have.
Larry:He would have, uh, he would have been full of holes. Yeah, not believe that. So that was.
Speaker 1:That was just absolutely nuts man. I don't know what that dude was thinking.
Larry:Well, he wasn't I mean alcohol does crazy shit.
Speaker 1:It doesn't make you do stupid things, it makes you do stupid things.
Larry:and man, that dude's going to prison because, oh yeah, drunk while having a firearm and who knows, who knows. I don't remember where it was Massachusetts maybe, but anyways, I don't know the laws on carrying and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:That was in Vancouver.
Larry:Vancouver, yes, canada, yes, oh, he's double fucked because they have strip gun laws there.
Larry:Yeah, he's going to the pokey? Yeah, for sure. So you never know what's going to the pokey? Yeah, yeah, for sure. So you never know what's going to happen. Honestly, don't answer the fucking door, like your house. You, you don't realize, like, how much your house really protects you. I mean, yes, of course he could break glass and stuff like that, um, and, and you know he could get in. But man, just don't open the door. Most people aren't gonna fart with trying to break glass and break a door down. You know, if they do, they're gonna.
Speaker 1:You know, either way, they're gonna get you, but I think you know yeah, if they do that, you you had no doubt that they have bad intentions absolutely, you can respond accordingly.
Larry:You can respond accordingly absolutely. But yeah, stay in your house, keep your family safe. Who knows? It looked like it was kind of a nice neighborhood. Maybe he was just being friendly, but I live in a decent neighborhood too and I just don't open my doors for anybody. I peek out, I look at the camera. If it's my friends or if it's my kids' friends, I'm like absolutely.
Speaker 1:But if I don't know you, I'm not opening the door. If you got my phone number, you can text me. Yeah, yeah, We'll even answer through the ring and ask them. Yeah, can we help you?
Larry:Yeah, steve says alcohol makes you do dumb fun things too. Yeah, wait until the end of the month.
Speaker 1:In Nashville there are going to be a lot of fun. Dumb things going on yeah.
Larry:Josh and Bubba Sue having a moment in our chat about discord. Didn't even invite me to that's you know matching tattoos dude yes, no, regrets, no, regrets no no, no, we're getting the.
Speaker 1:Uh, don't be a dick oh don't be a dick, did you? Did you see that?
Larry:I posted it in our chat, in our national chat.
Speaker 1:I took a nap today, so come on, look at that, look at that beautiful don't be a dick.
Larry:That's amazing. I gotta save this and show it because, oh, don't, don't tempt me, I have ink all over me. I'll put in a spot that's not visible with shorts and a t-shirt, but don't tempt me, I'll, I'll, freaking, do it.
Speaker 1:We'll have to figure out something, something good, so have you ever got, ever you got something scheduled for no, it's tough.
Larry:I tried to do that like, yeah, there you go, don't be a dick, we go. When I was in, um, when were we in texas, didn't I try to do, was it texas? No, maybe it was in florida. Um, well, it's, it's just. It's just tough to do on the phone, um, without knowing somebody. So it'd be best if I, like kind of the first day there, just kind of went to a few places and just priced it out, what you know so it's good to have an idea.
Larry:You don't want to. You don't want to run in there like half in the bag and don't have an idea because you're going to pay too much and it's going to look like shit yeah that's for sure. Steve says that's my roundtable sign-off, Don't be a dick. Well, that's a good one. That's a good one.
Speaker 1:That's our sign-off too.
Larry:Yeah Well, yeah Well, that's if Gabe's on. That's not our regular one yeah, right that's our special. That's our special special any way. More videos this week. Yep, yep. I gave you a shout out in the last.
Speaker 1:I should have told him you guys go wait and see. He has to wait and see.
Larry:Oh my gosh uh texas was doing keg stands naked in texas. No, I wasn't naked, uh, and I don't. I definitely have never done a keg stand, but would have been fun. Do you know what a keg stand is, larry? Yes, I do, it's a college thing, you were younger, you were wild boy, so you probably did who me?
Speaker 1:yeah what you're talking about, yeah you don't drink now but you did back in the day. Um, I did, I did when I was in the service. That's really the only time I drank is when I was oh yeah, our military drinking and when I was in my medic school I drank I literally the summer I spent in san antonio going through medic school, I probably drank. I know there's no doubt I drank more that summer than the rest of my life combined really in three months yes, that's amazing yeah, because it was the um.
Speaker 1:Drinking age was 18 in texas back then damn I think it's still 18 in Texas back then.
Larry:Damn, I think it's still 18 in some areas, even in the state. I think it's 21 everywhere. Is it now?
Speaker 1:Okay, I think in the United States it is.
Larry:Maybe it's Canada, it was either 18 or 19.
Speaker 1:I can't remember. Let me see that would be the summer of 85. Yeah, it was 19. I turned 19,. Well, you know, late June, late June, a lot of places, especially if you're in uniform, they would serve us back then. We were at the airport, my buddy, he didn't turn 19 until later. We were flying back home after our medical school. We had a layover in Atlanta, my buddy, he hated flying. Anyway, they were having like tornadoes and stuff Like, so our flights got delayed.
Jason:You had tornadoes.
Speaker 1:We, we, just we sat in the bar and just drank and just got shit face. And finally our flight, our flight. After a couple hours, you know, they finally everything passed over made our way home, but we were, we were pretty drunk by that time steve says larry only drank when serving our country and go to medical school, yeah yeah, that's that tracks.
Larry:That tracks is what it is, yeah, living it up, all right. Uh, next is a lady tells this amazon driver to turn down the music. Now, when we play it, I, I really didn't hear the music. Yeah, I couldn't tell the end. I heard a little bit. Yeah, I couldn't. I was expecting to be booming.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think she was just feeling that bass more than anything.
Larry:Probably so. It's a minute here. We'll play it.
Jason:Hey, can you turn your music?
Larry:down Because my child's sleeping and I can hear your bass in my house.
Jason:Thanks, you got one more dummy. Maybe you shouldn't be on the phone talking in rude and ignorant. Excuse me, Go ahead.
Larry:Good job, Okay yeah, I can hear it more now that I got these headphones on. That it's like right in my ear.
Jason:But yeah, I definitely can hear the bass yeah.
Larry:You know, the lady was getting shit on in the comments, but I, I don't know he kind of, he kind of escalated by calling her a dummy yeah, yeah, the other one here isn't for that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean you know he's gonna come deliver. I mean he's coming up to deliver by the time he goes to turn the music. I mean just, he's gonna be gone in 20 seconds.
Larry:By the time he goes to turn the music. I mean he's going to be gone in 20 seconds.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't say she's out of line. Right, she's not out of line, but I don't think I would have done it.
Larry:I wouldn't have done it either. This is where you can be like if he would have parked in the road, would she have said the same thing? Did you think she got more brazen with that comment because he was in her driveway? Maybe I because he was in her driveway? Maybe I mean now it's now, now you're on her property and so she can. I mean, I don't know, I think that was more of it. If, if you know, if it was somebody in the road, I think it would be less likely for her to say anything. But either way, they both kind of acted like dicks. And then he yeah, he said something nasty at the end of they beeped out.
Speaker 1:I don't know what he said, yeah and you know you never know, I mean she could be a pretty new mom. And you know, sleep deprived, you never know what the backstory is, because you know how it is when kids are little man moms aren't getting any sleep yeah, yeah, I don't know, they're both.
Larry:They're both kind of idiots. I mean, I do try to turn my shit down, like even when I come in my own neighborhood. Yeah, like I, I, I love loud music. I'm listening like my car is up so loud with, oh man, death metal when I'm like just driving. And then when I get into the neighborhood I turn that shit down because I don't, you know, if I'm driving down a 45 or 50 mile an hour road, ain't any problem. I don't have, like I have a stock system in my, my, my car, um so. But when I'm in the neighborhood and slow down, I turn it down. It's just a respect thing what were you gonna say?
Larry:about the loud music you hate.
Speaker 1:No, I just, I, you know, I'm just having one good ear man, I protect it.
Larry:I don't, I don't listen to the real loud, I'm like well I'm in my car, I don't have the head, I don't have it like in my ear, but yeah, still, yeah, you listen to it long enough, man, it'll ah, fuck it, I'm almost 50 at this point, like who I mean?
Larry:now I'm in the grave. Now, mind you, if I'm doing any equipment like um, if I'm using a skill saw, or if I'm um mowing the lawn, I got protective ear stuff in because, you know, I I doing lawn care for so long, although I never wore it for lawn care, but I always had some sort of headphones in which you know it. Know, it's better than nothing. But I was listening to podcasts and stuff like that, but I don't know, I call so one of the shows I listen to. They have Asshole of the Day. They'd both be assholes of the day, both of them, because they were both on the line, I think. In my opinion. So, yeah, all right, airy, all right, airy. Uber Eats driver makes delivery in a bizarre way and, as people will say, it'll take a while. I don't need. I did not read this article, so I'm interested, okay yeah.
Speaker 1:So you know, we've heard about, you know Uber Eats. People don't need to obviously do Uber Eats in their car. We've heard about them doing Uber Eats on scooters, even bicycles. You know in the big city, know new york, things like that. We've had a story or two people doing uber eats on horseback. So this uber eats courier said they came up with a very inventive way to deliver. So over this happened over in london. Somebody ordered uber eats and this lady was passing by and she took a picture of a green kayak in the canal and had a matching green Uber Eats delivery box in the back of the boat. Wow, she showed the clip on TikTok and said if you disordered Uber Eats and Hackney, it may take a while.
Larry:Well, it all depends on how, that you know. I think about when you say canal, where is it? Is it Italy that they move about? Venice, venice, there we go. Yeah, there's a lot of like their taxiways are on water.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the whole city is built on water.
Larry:Right, I could see it being possible.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, and I mean, you never know how far it is For sure. People probably gave him some crap in there, but the person who took the video, she posted it and she just titled it wholesome, and so she got over a million views and 500 comments, and one person that commented made a funny remark and captioned it as canoobereats.
Larry:I mean it's not a canoe, but get you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I get somebody else said god forbid a man take a scenic route right.
Larry:Leave the man alone, he's working that's right he's.
Speaker 1:He's making some honest money. Judas enjoying nature yeah, just just leave him alone for sure.
Larry:Uh, next Next up, uber Eats Heat Map, and you know this is more tongue-in-cheek that we're talking about it, but you know it does bode a, did I not? Oh God, I even labeled it. If you notice, if you go in there, look how good I did. I labeled everything. And then I was like, did I not? Here it is. The new delivery heat map is here. Wait less and earn more jason. The new heat map shows you when it's busy and highlights in demand restaurants and stores. Most of the time, most of your time, make the most of your time with shorter wait times and the potential to earn more at hot spots. We all know these hot spots don't work. I mean, they don't work for doordash. If they do, we don't, we don't know, because it'll be like oh, you know you're gonna get an order in like four to seven minutes and you wait there for 20 and then it doesn't do anything. So, um, bubba, sue's new map looks like skittles. Uh, yeah, oh, at the bottom there, yeah yeah, for sure the red and yellow.
Larry:I mean, why don't these work? I mean, do they? Are they actually doing something? And we're just not, because there's so much going on we're not understanding, like we're not keeping track of, like the actual time that they quoted and are we like, sitting there, you know tick, tock, like you know what I mean, like are they working? We just don't realize it. I don't know are?
Speaker 1:are they? Where are they using them to? To put drivers or delivery people where they want them to be?
Larry:that's true too. I mean, we talk about the surge. We would always say don't trade, don't chase the surge. Uh, especially now that they're sticky surges back in the day, man, those uh, it would start out, yeah, you know, at like seven, 7. And you could chase it because you could get there and it might be a five or it could be a nine, you don't know. It was kind of worth it if you were close enough back in the day with the multiplier. But with a sticky surge it goes on and off. Don't do it, don't chase it. But yeah, they may force you or they may want you to be there. I don't know. This fucking whole thing is just. I was just thinking about the saturation, and it's just. We need something new, larry, I need something new. You know Gabe's in his fucking glory doing Rody XD.
Speaker 1:Rody XD. Man, he's racking it up.
Larry:I'm like dude you better save that money, because once everyone figures it out, it's gone. It's gone. But that's. I mean honestly that Rode XD. In regards to the earning potential, that's the most I've ever seen on an app since I started, like that's more than Rideshare, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, some of those XDs are crazy.
Larry:Yeah, so I keep looking every day, especially now that I'm back doing gig work more regularly. I mean, this is baseball week so I'm not going to do as much, but, like next week, I have literally nothing but gig work. I look every day but it's still just poverty shit.
Speaker 1:So I'm like I don't want to miss it.
Larry:So now it's got me checking the app.
Speaker 1:Got to do, there you go.
Larry:Yeah, like.
Speaker 1:I said I saw some in Nashville, but I've not seen it here. There's not a ton of roadies here. I'll see some during the day, but when I go down and look at the Nashville area I've seen a few XDs.
Larry:Oh, you've seen the XDs. It shows up as XD.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Larry:Yeah, if you ever see that again, send me a screenshot. I mean I guess. I can Google it. I was trying to look on roadie to see um, yeah, I'll look right now too. Uh, how many trips I've done. Oh, I've done 20 deliveries on um roadie, and the last time I did one was December 14th 2022.
Larry:So it's been a minute and, like uh Gabe had said before in the telegram chat, that that roadie and it still does it um, is a lot of it. It was, uh, airline bags. Yeah, so you would, you know, it's cheaper for them to pay someone else to drive those out than send an employee that has benefits and blah, blah, blah. Sure, uh, those kind of things. So uh steve says I see xd every day. Dude, why aren't you doing it? And maybe it's not as profitable. But uh, the last show, uh we had one that was a thousand dollars and it was. It was a lot of miles and it was like a all, like a five or six hour day, but still for a thousand dollars a bunch.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm done for the week.
Larry:I do that. I'm done. I'm I'm sipping over on and chilling on the deck, like I am done for the week um no, I'm not, I'd still I'd still go out and work. I could. I couldn't do that one and just sit there. Even I'd just be like. I'd be like, all right, it's a, it's a blessed week. Let's slide some of this into the the rainy day fun.
Larry:But no but yeah, it looks like, josh, I can't get one, I get denied. Well, it's because you're a troll. Uh, yeah, I mean well. So steve says, here they're. They aren't all let that well, so it may be already saturated. That's why, like, hopefully gabe is like raking it in, I'd be doing nothing but those and and saving my money because it's gonna stop yeah, gabe needed something.
Speaker 1:now that they put that up front, yeah, it couldn't have happened at a better time for him.
Larry:He's so freaking lucky. That's what I'm saying I tried to do. What was the Baby Quip? We talked about it on the Patreon quite a bit, but Baby Quip is a rental business for baby equipment aka pretty much everything once you dig into it a little bit. But they put me on a wait list because I was hoping this summer I was going to try, that I was going to invest some money. Uh, you gotta have, you gotta spend 200 even to get on the platform, um, so there's a little bit of skin in the game and uh, yeah, I got.
Larry:I got wait listed and I was really excited about larry and I spent a whole fucking we did well that night we did an hour 55 minutes on the patreon, like going analyzing this baby quip and shit like that oh yeah, jason was so excited he was fired up.
Speaker 1:He was because he just been talking about how he wanted a new app and uh, yeah, we can't get nothing. I mean, gabe keeps getting these.
Larry:You know, 150 for 10 trips and on uber and yeah, these xds and right, yeah, hopefully I'm, I'm, I'm at least I'm happy for somebody that I know in my life oh yeah, breaking it in, I'm not yeah, definitely, we're always happy to see your, our listeners.
Speaker 1:You know, get a nice score on any app she says they can be decent.
Larry:Usually I'm better with curry. Yeah, I mean, curry is great by steve and it's it's very hit or miss over here. Yeah, I, I, I'm ready, though, like I've gotten some in the summer, but I'd be like, yeah, that's not the greatest, or sorry, not in the summer, but like during the school year, not the greatest, but I can never do them. You know they're like, hey, it's seven, 30 tomorrow morning, you know. So I'm hoping this summer. Uh, I here.
Larry:But I re-signed up for wag to walking dogs, right, okay, cool, I hadn't done in a while and I love pets, like if I won the lottery there'd be signs I'd have a fucking animal shelter, because I love dogs and cats so much. But anyway, so I signed up, right, getting a bunch of requests like not specifically for me, but it goes into the pool, and you know right. So I specifically for me, but it goes into the pool, and you know right. So I said they have a thing where you can promote your, your profile 15 bucks for a month, right, I promote it starting june. Fucking crickets, I've gotten nothing. That's gone into the pool. Really, now, maybe again, just like me, there's teachers off their school, bus drivers off off the market college students college students yeah.
Larry:So maybe that's part of it. But uh, I thought, god, I want to do something this summer. That's a little different. It's not all always about the money, um, you know, I mean it is obviously I have to make money, but if I can do something a little bit less money but kind of enjoy doing it a little bit more not that I don't mind gig work. Guys, don't do ride share don't make me do ride share, don't press, don't, don't make me so broke that I gotta do ride.
Speaker 1:Share it goes slum with those ride share. I walk dogs and scoop poop, but before I do ride share oh, and steve says uh for roadie, you know for curry, for vehicle size, suv and smaller, he's done the most of any drivers in the country damn so, isn't curry front?
Larry:didn't they start in colorado? Is that? Is that why it's so prevalent over there? I feel like everyone over here, no one wants to use it the businesses, but um, yeah, most of the shit I and I did. Maybe this is part of it. I wonder if I fucked myself. I updated my car to the car, not my pilot, and I wonder oh, yeah, but honestly, the stuff I seen with my pilot, it was little shit.
Larry:Anyways, this thing weighs five pounds. I'm like I can put that in a freaking honda fit like I don't need. I don't need an suv, but I don't know. Oh, you hear the frustration in my voice. I'm ready to do something different for sure, but anyways, uh, moving on, the heat map sucks okay. So this is actually kind of interesting. I really do like that. The apps are trying to trying to focus on the seniors a little bit yeah, I know she gave me this story I mean, you are older than me just a little bit.
Speaker 1:Just a little bit. Uh, all right. So yeah, um, ubers, you know I said they're always testing things. You know, not long ago they did the Uber team. They've got, you know, uberpet, they've got all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 1:So, started last month, they started testing new accounts for senior citizens that have a larger typeface, fewer buttons and easier to follow instructions, and so it's rolling that out to across the United States and then several other countries. So, as you know, they see, see seniors, you know, as as one of their, you know, crucial customers because, in a world where one out of six people will be 60 years old or older by 2030. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's going to be an aging world here. So, yeah, so, um, uh, in addition to a larger font and streamlined design, the count also includes save destinations for easy ride requests, expanded payment options for customers who want to use a Medicare flex card. Um, seniors can also designate a family member or caregiver as someone who can book rides for them or change the settings or contact the driver if something comes up and they need to. They can also opt into sharing locations so the caregivers or family members can track where they're at.
Speaker 1:It says customers who want the enhanced experience larger fonts, reduced complexity and clearer navigation but aren't linked to a family account, can also turn on the app's simple mode in the account section. So yeah, so this isn't the first time that Uber messed around with this product. To try to serve older customers, they experimented with using a 1-800 number for ride requests back in early 2020, but that got derailed by COVID the COVID pandemic. But they did also recently roll out a new number, 1-833-use-uber, which is the same thing. It's for people, especially older customers, who prefer to call a number instead of using an app to set up a ride an app to set up a ride. So it also coincides with lyft's um, you know recently introduced their lyft silver accounts, which is very similar to uber's as far as it has a larger typeface and it's a more simple design.
Larry:So they're dumbing it down for us old fogies well, I mean, you know, you know kudos to the marketing team and the development team, you know, just like trying to focus on the teen accounts, they know that these older people are, you know, they can't drive. You know what I mean. And god, it's got to be tough. Uh, well, I know it's tough a strain on a family caring for an elderly person, especially if they don't live in the same city as you. Uh, even even my mother-in-law, you know she's 15 minutes away, which isn't a lot, but if I gotta take to take her to three, four appointments a week, those kinds of. I mean she drives right now but I'm just saying at some point she's not going to be able to Um, and I think that's great.
Larry:The only thing I can worry about is, uh, I, I just fucking drivers taking advantage of these people in some sort of fashion just like young kids, Um. But yeah, I think it's great, Surprising a lot of my elderly folks that I drive around at sunset while they're independent living. Most of them have have smartphones. They don't know how to fucking turn them on vibrate we we literally put bets down because I mean bus driving.
Larry:There's a lot of elderly people that drive bus. I mean it sounds scary, but yeah, um, there is, and we always put down the, the name, the person that's their phone's gonna go off and who's gonna do it first, because it's usually like four or five people. Their freaking ringer goes off during the meeting.
Speaker 1:It's like my phone 99.5 of the time, is probably on vibrate yeah, and it's so funny how things have come around, because like when, when, uh, you know, with the iphone and stuff was brand new, like what was the big thing? Ringtones, everybody just remember that ringtones. Man, you know, buy your favorite song, you buy this, you know particularly. Yes, I mean, that was huge. There's all sorts of sites where you could buy ringtones and now, now you know, you don't know what anybody's ringtone is, because nobody has their phone ever turned on.
Larry:Well, if you do hear it, you look over and they're 60 or above. You know what I mean. So see how I said 60 and not 50 or 55? Did you like how I did that that?
Speaker 1:was for you. I appreciate that, man. I'm not 60 yet.
Larry:I know I got you.
Speaker 1:I'm real damn close. I got you, boy. I got you almost.
Larry:I'm as close as you can get here in about three weeks oh, really are you 59 no, I'm as close as you.
Speaker 1:I will be 59 in about three weeks.
Larry:Oh okay, I thought I okay. Yeah, I didn't think you were I for some reason. I thought you were like 55, I don't know you're welcome you're handsome for a 55 year old I appreciate that, man, I do.
Speaker 1:I get told by my passengers that I look like well again. They do that, but they are very drunk dude.
Larry:Yeah, I get that when I would drive, they'd be like I'd tell them how old they are and I'd be like they'd be like. No fucking way. I'm like, bro, you're drunk and it's dark in here yeah, yeah and the college kids.
Speaker 1:They don't know like you know. They don't know how old.
Larry:You know we are yeah, no crazy, no, when they'll get like oh man, what are you like?
Speaker 1:41, 42, I'm like dude I'm drunk are you?
Larry:dude, it's not even the alcohol like. But and get the young kids like I on recess at second through fourth grade yeah, I asked them to guess and they're like you get 29 or 64, it don't matter, it depends. Like the gray doesn't throw the kids off, but my, my work partner has a bald head like he's bald he's been balding for a while and they guess him in this mid 60s and he's 55.
Larry:Yeah, travel says hey, I resemble that age. What above 60? I mean, if that's, if that's a caricature picture of you and your um um thumbnail there, then yeah you're. You're way above 60 there. That was a terrible joke. I don't even know. I tried to do that um, yeah, no one wants to get old it, it sucks.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I mean, it's not for the faint of heart, that's for sure, for sure.
Larry:Waymo in the news. All right, as Josh asked before, we do have Waymo in the news. This is about a Waymo that just I call it. Most people in there are of age when I say they dukes a hazard through this water. So we're going to watch.
Jason:They tried, so we're going to watch this, it's uh 41 seconds, yeah boy, don't go go hell. I don't know, oh damn Stupid-ass electric car when you come from. Look, you look over here. It's beautiful as hell. And then you look over here Double jackass. On a Wednesday you gonna swim. Nigga lost his bumpers. Do it again All right that sounds like
Speaker 1:a couple of homies man sitting on their porch drinking 40s, just watching people waiting for people to get stuck in this water.
Larry:Sorry for the N-word, I didn't watch it. There's a drop two N-words in that thing. Yeah, a couple, my bad. But what do you say? A couple of idiots on a Wednesday or dumbasses on a Wednesday? A couple of dumbasses on a Wednesday? You know the funny part of that video? I think the Waymo would have made it, but its sensors decided to stop it. I think, it had enough speed. I think it was going to make it through.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you wonder, yeah, are're not programmed to recognize.
Larry:You know, how are they going to recognize how deep water is? Well, here here's what a human would do. They would see that truck stuck in the water and we would assess, right, we'd slow down probably. I mean I would, I'd be like, okay it's raining I can see that it's flooded.
Larry:I don't know how deep it is. Oh, there's a pickup stuck there. I'm not going through there. If I, if I, it is, oh, there's a pickup stuck there, I'm not going through there. If I'm in a car, he's in a pickup. I mean, yeah, okay, piece of shit, pickup maybe it's stalled. But still higher up, yeah it's up higher.
Larry:Yeah, so that's where I think, as much as we make mistakes because we look at our phone or we get distracted and we run into somebody, we can reason through that. You can reason through that. Most people are just going to be like, nope, I'm not going through there because I'm going to get stuck and wreck my car and that waymo, I mean it didn't slow down until it realized. Um, of course, I just get a wag request. As I was bitching about it, they want someone to walk at 8 25 tonight. They just requested it. I mean, it's all right, man, we'll see you. It's 757 right now. I'm like, oh, my gosh, that's hilarious. Um, so, yeah, I I feel like this is where humans, I mean, are going to be more successful in, in these specific moments. Now, obviously no one got hurt. You know the guy's trying to get out and then then they had the dumb ass handles like the teslas did. He couldn't. I don't know, maybe you just push it and you can get out that way.
Larry:I don't know yeah yeah, I don't understand yeah it's it.
Speaker 1:Um, I'm surprised we haven't seen this before. Um, with the way most, because you know as much places get flooded.
Larry:Uh, I really hope the way most are operating when nashville, I know I know I was thinking about um the waymos, and they're doing, they're going to test it up in the up of michigan where it's fucking god-awful cold and 120 000 inches of snow. I'm interested how it's going to just handle. You know it's busting along at 75. You know a lot. Well, the highways up there are probably not 75 but it's 75. Basically, from a little bit north of grand rapids all the way to the UP on 131. I'm wondering, you know, busing around 75 and there's some ice you can't see. You know what I mean. Like is it going to slow down for conditions, knowing that it could be slippery? I don't know. It's just that that shit is interesting to me. You know dry roads, you know fine, whatever.
Speaker 1:But ice snow is interesting to me. You know dry roads, you know fine, whatever, but ice snow, those kind of things, but yeah, yeah, or if it's, you know, if it's like, uh, it's raining, like it did I told you when we were coming back from chattanooga, if it's just raining so hard, you can't see you know how good how good can those sensors see? Right they're gonna do.
Larry:They're just gonna stop in the road, or the sensors have a wiper, but I mean I had do, do, do, do, do, do do.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, I had wipers too. I still couldn't see shit Well.
Larry:I know that's true, but the sensor is more technically. It has better eyes than you. You're almost 60. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I I feel like the original self-driving, I think it's going to be successful in like Texas and Arizona and all the States that don't have a lot of weather, like rain and trees falling and um and snow and ice and stuff like that. But I I feel like that, that part of it, I think, is even for a lot further down the road.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so what I found? It says Nashville is testing phase. Our way. Most testing phase in Nashville is expected to last through May 2025. So right now they've got, you know, people behind the wheel and they're, and they're, they're driving the roads. It says no specific timeline or launch date for public. You know right, hell has been announced, so it could happen yeah, it's possible.
Larry:Yeah, it's june. I mean they they're done with the people in it, so why wouldn't they be out? Or maybe they're going to do it for a while without people and that like right without right, because they've had people in the car and maybe do it a little bit without people, without a safety driver? I don't know well, there's a chance.
Speaker 1:Then you're saying there's a chance that's right, we'll, we'll, uh, keep our fingers crossed, for sure so, um, I'm hoping to get, uh, some.
Larry:You ever seen those ray-ban metaglasses? So basically it's like ai, I'm thinking about getting those before we head to nashville really yeah, how much do those run? You don't want to know. It starts at about $300, which isn't horrible, and you can get prescriptions and everything. I'm just going to get a basic clear pair, not even a sunglass one, so I can wear them inside or outside and you can buy you know, that's where they get you.
Larry:You can buy transition lenses and stuff like I don't want to spend that, but yeah the only caveat of that, which doesn't sound too horrible that it only can record in three minute increments. Okay, so you would have to start again, but you can ask it to take a picture, um, and it can take a ton of pictures and, yeah, you just wear them and I've seen the quality it's it's freaking nice. Yeah, it's nice, and so I'm hoping to do some some more videos with that, like delivering for walmart spark and that. What are you gonna say?
Larry:you're gonna crack a joke no, no, I think that's cool well, okay, I thought you were gonna say like, yeah, we're in nashville and then we're all naked and getting covid together, hey yeah don't we know, don't be recording that, no naked.
Larry:We have a female there. That's not happening unless larry and I have a lock on our door. Then minutes cuddles away you know what the reason? I kind of decided to do that. I made out the end of the year for my kids with gift cards from busing. There you go, I made I, I I got half like a bandit, like 150 oh nice, oh nice, yeah, yeah so uh, yeah, I'm going to use that toward towards my glasses.
Speaker 1:But yeah, I'm looking forward to that, so yeah, Since we mentioned Nashville so many times that we want to.
Jason:Oh yeah, we're out there again. Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1:We're having our get together there, the uh, what the weekend is that? What is that Saturday? What is that Saturday, the 28th?
Larry:Yep, saturday, the 28th, Time and place to be determined. I know where we're staying, but we'll probably do something.
Speaker 1:I mean I don't know.
Larry:Did you track how far we were from downtown, from where we were staying, or not?
Speaker 1:I mean, it's probably not much traffic, maybe 15-minute drive something like that. Not too bad, I think if I remember correctly.
Larry:Yeah, we are planning on doing a dinner. We want you to come out. I asked yesper. Faith wanted me to ask yesper. He said no way. Uh, I was like come on, you're, you're, you're rolling in it. Now just fly down for the day it's nashville. Like I got my flight for 180 bucks. I mean that's a drop in the bucket for you. Yeah, we'd even buy him a beer. So, uh, or two or two. Steve says don't leave your thousand dollar sunglasses in a waymo and watch out for roofies, if you know. You know well, these glasses are not a thousand dollars.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna tell you that right now, because I wouldn't yeah, you have to be careful, nashville you, it's bad about being roofied yeah, that's what I heard.
Larry:That's what I heard. All right, uh. On the patreon tonight we got two articles. We didn't get to uh. Homeless shelter provides. Uh wants to tax uber and lyft for funding, and majority of riders and drivers in uk gig economy suffer anxiety over ratings and pay. Studies suggest go ahead and join the patreon. The seven dollar tier gets you the live streams, uh, and we'll be alive at 8 10 pm, which is in seven minutes. So we're're going to wrap this bitch up and, as always, don't put up with anyone's bullshit. See you on the road. Peace out Night, everybody. This podcast is produced and edited by hey Guys Media Group. Want to start a podcast? Check out HeyGuysMediaGroupcom.
