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A year-end mix of gig-life highs and lows: walking deliveries in dense cities, the line between speed and sanitation, a CEO clip that aged oddly, and the ripple effects of buy-now-pay-later on DoorDash. We add real life too—sick days, frozen shoulders, and how to keep working without burning out.
• viability of on‑foot delivery in dense markets
• why bathroom hygiene rules matter for customer trust
• managing illness and frozen shoulder as a gig worker
• bidets, restrooms and practical comfort on shift
• the early Uber Eats confusion and product clarity
• Klarna and DoorDash partnership impacts on tips
• when BNPL boosts grocery baskets vs fast food
• driver strategy for screening and adapting to new patterns
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Thank you guys so much for being a part of the Gig Economy Podcast in 2025. It's been a great year. And uh I can't wait for 2026. Uh today is a best of, or not the best of, the Gig Economy Podcast. Uh we talk about a guy delivering on foot. A guy that takes his delivery bag in the shitter with him. Uh I included a Patreon bonus episode from 2025 for you. People that are on Patreon, this is what you're missing. So we'd love for you to join. And then I included a segment about DoorDash and Klarna, where now you can finance your DoorDash orders. So listen to this, enjoy it. We'll be back with a live episode this Wednesday. And of course, your audio podcast drops the following Monday. We will also be taking a Christmas break because I have two weeks off from work and I'm not gonna podcast. And I'm gonna enjoy time with my family and all that fun stuff, and probably do a lot of gig work, honestly. So enjoy the Thanksgiving episode 2025. Peace out. Is this a troll? New driver in parentheses on foot. Hello, I turn 18 in six hours and like to start deliveries every day on foot. However, I was wondering if this requires a driver's license, as I don't have yet. Well, first of all, there's several things wrong with that. If you're on foot, you don't need a fucking driver's license. And are there on foot deliveries? Are there small markets or small sections? Or am I being am I like not?
SPEAKER_05:I've not heard that. I mean, I know there's you know comp you know places in big cities where they do bike deliveries or you know, yeah. I've not heard of walking, but I it may be maybe.
SPEAKER_06:I mean, there's a guy that I follow, I think I don't know, one of the platforms that does on bike in New York City, and he's got it's fun. He does a great uh he does great content. But yeah, I can see bike, but on foot, like I mean that would be crazy. Larry the Google Master is gonna check it out. But I mean, we've seen like you know, the funny like quotes where the guy is actually driving or walking the door, you know, the food delivery, and so you know, we've talked about it and stuff, but um, yeah, it's just it's interesting that uh that he says that again. I watch I get egg on my face and you're like, Yeah, in the boroughs in New York or something. You know, I don't know. I mean, I get they probably could set something up because like a lot of that stuff's so close. Like, here you can only deliver in this you know four block radius if you want to do it on foot, I guess. I mean, if it only takes 10 minutes to deliver the food on foot, like what's what's the big deal?
SPEAKER_05:But this uh this surely this can't be true. Oh no, oh no, did you find the truth? On this is on Uber's website, no, delivering on foot in parentheses, Uber Walker. This can't be not available in the United States. Oh this is Tokyo, uh it's like uh Osaka, all these Japanese places.
SPEAKER_06:Okay, so Tokyo they crammed the shit into that city, everything's really tight.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, says in in central Tokyo, such as the 23 wards of Tokyo, there may be more requests for deliveries on foot. Well, as with bicycles, two documents are required an ID card and a profile photo.
SPEAKER_06:Well, I can still call him a dumbass because you don't need a driver's license if you're on foot, you stupid dick. That that is for sure. Well, apparently Lackwoods, I would guess he's probably in the States. So he maybe he maybe he googled what you did and then was like, hey, is this possible? Yeah, I don't know. Stupid idiot. So this guy, uh oh Jesus.
SPEAKER_05:Oh man.
SPEAKER_06:You like my titles? Guy takes a shit with food. So I have to title these because on on the rundown, it doesn't tell me what it is. So right. So here's here's what you don't want to see when uh this is why I don't have food delivery. Here you go. Slow-mo walking out. Big dude. Big dude looks sweaty from just taking a shit. Um, he looks like he shh, I mean, I'm not gonna say that. Not gonna say that. That would have been mean. That would have been mean. Um you couldn't hear me, but I was gonna say something uh terrible about that guy. I was like, nope, don't say it. That's gonna be mean. But yeah, super gross. Uh, I said a giant man looked a little sweaty, uh, coming out of there holding two bags. It's like, yes, the common sense, maybe it was his own. Let's just give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe it was own. Doubt it, doubt it, but just I I won't even bring my bag in there. Like, like, I mean, I we all know I don't use a bag anymore because you know, who cares? But uh, when I did have my bag, I would like leave it on the chair outside, um, and then go use the bathroom. I I mean, of course I'm gonna use the bathroom. I never, you know, me, Gatorade bottles, thirsty gooses, I never uh definitely if I if I'm near a bathroom, I'm gonna piss. I'm gonna piss. You know, because why not take advantage? You're inside grabbing the food. Um, that's why I don't like even going through the drive-thru. Like if I'm doing food delivery and I can, I just go inside. And I always hated it when the like during COVID or like the tail end of COVID when things were so closed up. I'm like, God, I gotta piss. I mean, I of course I I can take care of it, but I'd rather go into, you know, like a human being in the in the toilet.
SPEAKER_05:Sure.
SPEAKER_06:Well, I'm gonna get started here. Um, because it's 8 10. And I gotta give Larry some slack because he was sick the last couple days, and he's probably pooping. That's the sick he's gotten. He had a fever. Like, shit. Um when I was sick a couple weeks ago, it was just it was just the fever and stuff, so it wasn't terrible. Oh, we were just talking about your poop. I was like, I'm gonna start right now. Larry's probably in the bathroom. He's been sick the last couple days. Uh I have not been feeling great, but I I appreciate I I don't know what I would have done about the show tonight because obviously we're having trouble.
SPEAKER_05:Uh, I'd have to be I'd have to be pretty down out to leave you hanging, man.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, really? Not me. If I was I'd be like, fuck it, I'm not doing it. I if you said no, I was just gonna put up like a rerun and then be good, but that was gonna be the end of it. Yeah, but um, no, I was just saying how sick you've been. And when you had the fever, was it like aches and pains and stuff like that? Yes, like bad. Yes, oh, that's the worst. Luckily, yeah, luckily it was only for one night, but yeah, like my fever was so low-key, it was high, but it wasn't like I mean, I broke the fever and then got it back. Like I would sweat and be cold, but I didn't have like yeah, the like where you're just like under the covers and you're just like, I'm so miserable.
SPEAKER_05:I was up here on my wife got home from work Monday. I was up here, I had the heat to 78, and I was freezing. I had a blanket and a comforter on top of me, and I was like shivering like crazy.
SPEAKER_06:That is the worst, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bodies are weird when they are they are man.
SPEAKER_05:You feel like I'm not um I'm feeling okay, man. They can mess you up in a heartbeat.
SPEAKER_06:Well, yeah, that's the thing. You're like walking around, and like all of a sudden you get this bug, and you're like boom, you're down and out, down, and you there's nothing you can do about it, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:And also, I I gotta tell you, I've been having trouble with my shoulder. No, uh yeah, I've been having trouble with my left shoulder. We were afraid that I was gonna have the same thing. Like my wife had that rotator cup surgery two years ago, and we were afraid that's what it was. So I ended up getting MRI on Friday, and they called me yesterday. And luckily, it's not that, it's it's called I can't even remember what it's called. I'd have to look it up. Um, well, it's frozen shoulder is what it's what people know it is. Okay, it's called Frozen Shoulder, it's got a technical name, but basically they wanted me to come down Monday and get a um shot my in my shoulder and then do some PT. So no surgery for now.
SPEAKER_06:Ooh, that shot's not gonna feel good.
SPEAKER_05:No, it's not. I've I've had them before my elbow, and they're like, Where does it hurt? Right here, though. That's where I'm gonna give it to you right there.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, that just makes my butt pucker just like sorry about that.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, that's all right. I it's better than having the rotator cut, man, because that surgery is no fun.
SPEAKER_06:I it's a hard recovery, right?
SPEAKER_05:It is, it's it's like she cannot swim for six months.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, that's wild.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, and like you're you're in she was in a sling, I think, six to eight weeks. So you are yeah, you're pretty immobile for for a couple of everything good with it now, though. With hers, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Like it's back to full range, and yeah, she's good.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, she's good.
SPEAKER_06:What do they actually do in that surgery?
SPEAKER_05:I you know, I couldn't tell you. I barely I couldn't tell you exactly what they do. Uh I should know, but I don't.
SPEAKER_06:But okay, no, that's that's that's totally fine. I just uh I was just curious. Like they just like kind of clean it out with a melon baller and put it probably, you know.
SPEAKER_05:I don't know, pop it back in there, you know, and right pop it back.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, put a little WD 40 on there, put it back in.
SPEAKER_05:Put a little duct tape on there just for good measure. Oh gosh. Yeah, good to go. Yeah, so yeah, she was she was really convinced like the amount of pain I'm in. She because like like putting on my like putting on a jacket is very hard for me right now.
SPEAKER_06:Really? So it's like it's constant all the time.
SPEAKER_05:It doesn't just like but especially if I if I go behind me or if I reach over my head, like if I'm just sitting here, it's it's just like a dull ache. But yeah, like I try to put that arm to to back go to go to put a jacket on, and like she had to help me get it get my shirt on the other day.
SPEAKER_06:Are you sorry? Your right hand wiper though?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, right hand, so is my left shoulder. So I was good.
SPEAKER_06:I was just saying, I was thinking about that. Like you said, you can't put your hand back there.
SPEAKER_05:Plus, I had my bidet.
SPEAKER_06:So do you have a bidet?
SPEAKER_05:I've had one for yeah, a couple several years.
SPEAKER_06:Are they amazing?
SPEAKER_05:I love them, dude. I don't know why we're so behind the times. Dude, I'm so messed up.
SPEAKER_06:Ben Ben talked about that on Twitter.
SPEAKER_05:That's what got me on it.
SPEAKER_06:Okay, and I did it, and I and I'm kicking myself because I first of all, you wipe one time, yeah, and 99% of the time it's just water.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, well, you know, and I I read an explanation online somewhere, it's on some article they were talking about, you know, bidets and like what would you do if if you're outside and like you're reaching to get a ball under a bush and you put your hand in a bunch of poop, or you go in and take a paper towel and wipe it off. No, you're gonna go in, you're gonna wash it with water, yeah, right. So why why is that any different?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, yeah. And when you talk to people, like because you know, I'm always pushing people, they they're they don't want anything about it.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, yeah, yeah. And they're like, oh no, oh, why not? No, you haven't tried it, yeah, and especially so much better.
SPEAKER_06:Water one, it's the best. No, I'm not that bougie, but so I have a warm water, but but no, no, no, listen, listen, it's not instant hot. So that's the caveat. So it's got a line for the cold and the hot, but the problem is is you gotta like you gotta take a shit, and when you walk in, you gotta turn the water on. Oh, really? Thanks, yeah, because it's gotta warm up, and then once the water gets hot in your sink, you know it's gonna be hot because it's drawn because it it it draws you have a tankless water heater, or do you have a tank? Oh yeah, so you can buy the bidets where it has like the instant heat where you plug into a wall, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Uh, but I don't know one day, one day, yeah. That's a dream.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I mean, I guess if I was redoing my bathroom, I probably would because I would get an outlet over there, but right now I'd have to have like electricity. I mean, I have one plug in the whole fucking bathroom, it's right next to the door.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, yeah. See, like we have our bathroom, it has our sinks, and then it has a separate room for the toilet. I don't think it has outlet, but I'd have to look and see. I'm not I'm not positive, but yeah, that would be nice, man. That one, I was like, Yeah, the warm water, they have them with the heated seats and then but yeah, we're so behind the world that you know, all of Europe and stuff that uses bidets.
SPEAKER_06:Well, it's funny, like it took me a while to get Megan on it too, because she's like, Oh, the cold water. I'm like, honestly, the cold water is not that bad, it's not that bad.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, both that like two two two of my sons have them and they love them.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I mean, once in a while in the winter it can be a little cold, but if it's that big of a throw the hot water on it, yeah, it's so worth it.
SPEAKER_05:It's still still worth it. Yeah, you know, after the initial joke, yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Oh my god, I had to take a frickin' shit today at at the high school. Well, because that's where I lay over between my high school and elementary, and I bet I had to wipe 25 times. I'm like, this is what is what is happening, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, like welcome to the pooty podcast.
SPEAKER_06:Yes, you know there's one out there.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, I'm sure there's one named that.
SPEAKER_06:I'm sure. Yeah, for sure. Uh all right, Travis Kel. I've not seen this. He was on the tonight show, or I don't know, or maybe it was I don't know, it doesn't really matter. Yeah, it was uh is it Travis Keldnick? I don't know. All these weird names.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, I don't I don't try to pronounce her name.
SPEAKER_06:It's about a minute 25, and he's trying to explain it's very early on what Uber Eats is. And I don't know if this is a bit or if both of them are stupid.
SPEAKER_01:All right, here we go.
SPEAKER_02:What's the next thing you want to Uberize? I mean, we're doing Uber Eats. What's Uber Eats? You push a button and you get lunch in five minutes. Do I like what do I call a restaurant? Or what what happens? No, you just push a button in the app. Yes, and then lunch is delivered.
SPEAKER_01:But do I order it? What do you mean? Like lunch? Am I force-fed through a tube? That doesn't sound that good. Lunch just to write. How do I order it though? You you push a button on the page. I understand the button part, yes. But is is it a picture of a sandwich, a pizza? What is it?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, you'll have a few options to choose from. And where is the food? The food is in a car that delivers it to you. Do they make it in the car? They make so normally when you order food, you order, they make it, they put it in cars, and then it's delivered. Yes. In the Uber world, they make it, they put it in cars, and then you order.
SPEAKER_01:So Someone makes a tuna sandwich. It goes into the glove compartment of a viewing. Somebody drives around Manhattan until the smell is strong enough that people know to order when the food just sits in the backseat. You know, I could go for a castro that's been in the backseat of a Toyota. Really just sits in the car. I gotta get this chicken Vindaloo to the other side of town.
SPEAKER_02:I think it's more popular over there. We have them in containers that are temperature controlled.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, this has to be before actual Uber Eats came out when it was still just an idea. Yeah, but he was dead. Travis was dead serious.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, yeah, he was. Yeah, that they explained it wrong. He meant that you don't order it after it's in the car. Like he fucked that up. Like he wasn't like that wasn't like the I didn't not that we know of. No, but like it I don't see how that would ever work. Well, no, obviously not, but um was that the bit?
SPEAKER_05:Like, was that yeah, I don't know if that was a bit he did not, I don't think he tribis is that good of an actor.
SPEAKER_06:No, I think he I think he really was either confused or on something. He looked so young, yeah, there, and he looked very awkward. Like, I thought he was like wasn't that like a boys' club?
SPEAKER_05:He he just didn't have any like he didn't have any swagger, didn't have any of that confidence or anything. He had no riz, as the kids would say.
SPEAKER_06:I mean, I know he's an engineer, but like, yeah, the Riz. He uh he just didn't act like like he was the CEO, he was just acting very fucking weird.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, and that is completely yeah, I never heard the idea of you make the food and put it in the car and then you order. What would that doesn't that makes no sense whatsoever?
SPEAKER_06:Well, I I would have thought he was joking if he would have smirked after he said that, but he was dead serious, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:He and yeah, he never cracked a yeah, smile about it. He was dead, yeah. Either yeah, either he got like stage fright or or are that was some kind of their original idea. That'd be that'd be a good idea.
SPEAKER_06:No, there's no way you would do that. I don't I don't think so either. There, I mean what it I mean he so when did Uber start, like 2010 or something, 2011. So this is roughly 2013 or 14. Like, no, he's not that dumb that like we're gonna we're gonna cook the food, put it in temperature controlled containers, and then you or like what is he gonna get a a ladle and scoop out some casserole and put it?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, either he just either he he mistalked or he was trying to do a bit, one of the one of the two, yeah.
SPEAKER_06:If he did, if he was, he did a good job because it was so like weird, like it, you know, and then Colbert is just like yeah, what the fuck is happening?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, yeah. I th I'd like to see like the whole segment, right?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, exactly. Um, so I saw that you sent me that uh the tensor auto. You know, one thing I never thought of, like they're they're this is gonna be like not just like using it for lift though, but you could just use it for your life, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:For this this one, this one has uh that's the only one has retractable uh steering wheel and pedals. So when it's when it's an autonomous car, the steering wheel retracts it retracts inside, and so do the pedals. But then if you want to drive it as the owner, oh then you can the steering wheel comes out and the pedals come out.
SPEAKER_06:Okay, this is the lift one, or this is just for like the homeowner version.
SPEAKER_05:Uh well, I imagine it's the same car. The lift one, it would just never be used.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, that's true.
SPEAKER_05:Okay, maybe they may maybe they will make a different model just for lift because there's no sense putting in a a steering wheel for those. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Well, I just thought, so first of all, it's wild that this is like we're talking about this now, like they have to have been working on this for a long time.
SPEAKER_05:For a while, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean because they've been around since what is it, 20?
SPEAKER_04:They've been holding up again.
SPEAKER_05:Adventure's been around since 2016.
SPEAKER_06:Man, that's not that very long. To have this like coming out in 2026. I mean, that's that's 10 years.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, but I think you know, I I I think that's all they've worked on.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, obviously. And and they've obviously pulled people from different companies, obviously.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, yeah, they're not like Uber who's trying to do 87 different things.
SPEAKER_06:Right, this is all their focus is this is all this is it. Yeah. Yeah, it's interesting.
SPEAKER_05:Um, yeah, it's nice. Like that stowable steering wheel and pedals.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, oh, they have a timeline of what kind of how they started. Uh if you look at the like the company. Um, they so they founded in Silicon Valley in 2016. 2017, they had obtained their first self-driving permit in California and started testing.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, nice.
SPEAKER_06:Um 2018, they launched autonomous delivery service in San Jose for over a thousand self-driving delivery orders operating until COVID lockdown. Yeah, they've they've been like kicking ass and taking names.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah. Yeah, I got it on their I got on their email list.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, did you? Yeah. So 2020, under the Auto X brand, we launched a fully driverless driverless robotaxi fleet in China during the US pandemic lockdowns. Uh today the auto X brand and its China operations have been fully discontinued. Interesting. Um, and then so they were doing things hot and then the pandemic hit, and then yeah, five years later they released the car to the world.
SPEAKER_05:So yeah, they had to ramp back up.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I mean that that screwed a lot of a lot of businesses for sure.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, and it's not a it's not a terrible looking car or anything.
SPEAKER_06:It's not horrible. I mean, it I think it's better than the Waymo, yeah, personally. Um yeah, it's pretty dope. But yeah, I think I think we will see this in our lifetime is uh like we'll be able to buy it's gotta come down in price, right? And maybe maybe not our maybe not our lifetime, maybe maybe I mean I'm 50 in 30 years. I mean, I'm probably not using one of these, but it might be around, yeah. You know. Um, so I mean I'll be oh you might be might be having everywhere.
SPEAKER_05:You might yeah, I mean I've been driving then.
SPEAKER_06:Well shit. I mean well, like I think about the old people I move, none of them have a license and they're fucked. Yeah, you know, they have to rely on the bus to take them to Meyer. I mean, that they're not going to grab a pizza at night.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, and see like here we don't have good uh public transportation.
SPEAKER_06:Well, no, I meant the bus that works through Sunset. But yeah, you you're right, even even in uh downtown, we it's okay, but I mean it's it's uh it's like you gotta jump on three different buses, and yeah, it's not very convenient. Sure, that's one thing we lack, and uh the size of our city is the public transportation, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, we have not not much here.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I mean your city's even quite a bit smaller, yeah. You can imagine.
SPEAKER_05:Yep.
SPEAKER_06:Um, but yeah, I think that'll be cool. I mean, maybe when I am 80, yeah, yeah. But you don't have to worry about you know how taking a bus. That would be fucking tits. Like you could drive, you could take trips with it. I mean, like, oh, that would be so nice. Like, could be we'd be snowbirds, we'd be driving back, not driving, just like chilling in the car. That's it, man.
SPEAKER_05:It'll be great.
SPEAKER_06:It is because then it'll become, you know, it's like, well, I'm not gonna fly, I can just take. I mean, yeah, you're saving time, obviously, but like I don't have to deal with any traffic, and I can like sleep and and if I'm not working, what I care if it takes me longer to get down there.
SPEAKER_05:What I care, yeah. What the fuck take a nap and go to sleep?
SPEAKER_06:Although you're you're you're as you're getting older, you have limited life, so left. So then maybe you want to use, you know, do that kind of stuff. That's true. All right, well, that was good. Uh, I'm gonna cut it loose, and I'm glad you didn't have to use the bathroom during the show. I was ready, I was prepared.
SPEAKER_05:I was no, you were the ultimate professional.
SPEAKER_06:I was hoping he would pull out right when I started talking about a story, so I'd at least know it.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, I would have done, I would try to do that at least.
SPEAKER_06:Uh I would have wrapped mine up real quick. Right. So, all right, man. I hope you feel better. I really appreciate you. And uh, yeah, hopefully we'll hear from Gabe soon. All right, sounds good, man. All right, have a good night. You too. See you right. Bye. All right, gig economy in the news, what everyone's fucking talking about. And I think I'm gonna have a little bit of a different take. Uh well, actually, I'll see what you guys say about it, but Klarna, which is a you can break your payments up. Um, and I've used not Klarna. Is am I saying that right? Klarna. Yeah, maybe not, but it that's what it looks like to me. I've used um a firm before, and a lot of times they will let you do it without interest. Like you can just break up a purchase for like four months or something.
SPEAKER_05:Well, that's what this one's supposed to be, too.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, without interest? Okay. Well, we'll play the TikTok video uh because I didn't watch it. Well, I actually pulled the article and then I saw that there was a video, so I I pulled that too. So we'll watch that. Um it's only 23 seconds. Oh, let's let's do the this one, do this, and go.
SPEAKER_00:The buy now pay later app at Klarna announced a partnership with popular food delivery app DoorDash. The company said DoorDash customers will be able to split their payments at checkout into four interest-free installments or defer the payments to a later date. Who comes as Klarna is expected to join the New York Stock Exchange as a publicly traded company with an IPO expected sometime this year?
SPEAKER_06:What happened to Gabe? Well, and the other, I don't even know. Like this new stream yard. Damn it. You were there. Oh, anyways. So, what is your guys' take on this? Uh, in regards to I mean, it's interest free, so that that kind of blows the thought I was thinking about, or some of it, but what do you guys think?
SPEAKER_05:I I I don't I don't I think people are gonna get in trouble anytime they can delay payments. Uh you know it's like people getting in credit card trouble.
SPEAKER_03:But like, how much food are they ordering?
SPEAKER_06:Some people do some 30 bucks worth of food divided by three months, 10 bucks a month. My thought is, and all these drivers were shitting on it. I'm like, bring it on, fucking finance the shit out of it. I don't care if if if they're able to like this is a perfect timing, it's tax return time, and you can finance your DoorDash now. I'm excited about I mean I would I never do it, but if there's not a minimum for them to finance, like if like Gabe said a$30 order, if they can break that up, they're gonna do it. Why not?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. I bet you those orders won't come with tips.
SPEAKER_06:You don't think so? I mean, half of them don't anyways.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. I I could see somebody doing it like it for Meyer, like big grocery order, oh yeah, you know, and they want to split it up, sure. But like I just don't see the point of splitting up twenty dollars um twenty dollar McDonald's order.
SPEAKER_06:Well, I mean I guess it's better than putting it on a credit card. I mean, some of these interest free, yeah. Some of these people's orders, I'm just like, and where I delivered to, I'm like, how the fuck are you affording this? I mean, this, you know, you drop it off, and you know, there's broken down cars in the yard and shit all over the front porch and like literal shit, and you're ordering sixty dollars worth of freaking Mr. Burger. I mean, like, I I don't know. They gotta be putting it on a credit card, or it's just, I guess, priorities. They don't care about their yard, but they're gonna order sixty dollars worth of food. But I think it's great. I mean, I would never use it, but if it increases for us that deliver, exactly, it's not gonna be good for well. I don't care about them. I know you don't. I don't care about them. I'm a I'm responsible-ish. We're just trying to give both both sides. Well, you don't give the other side because you're not a consumer, you're a delivery driver. Did you see that? I called you a delivery driver now. You're kind of one of us now, dude.
SPEAKER_05:What? Oh man, didn't didn't think that was ever gonna happen.
SPEAKER_06:I know. Do you feel do you feel a little less of a human now? I do.
SPEAKER_05:I remember the message I sent you the other day. I was like, am I gonna be that guy? Are you kidding me? I'm gonna be that guy. I'm gonna be the delivery driver now. But you know, you got you gotta go if Uber's gonna, you know, play like that, then you gotta go where you can, get the money.
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