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Uber Ad Targeting, Package Scams, DoorDash Hack & More | Gig News | Ep 281
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Two hosts dig into the latest gig economy twists: Uber’s targeted ads built on trip insights, DoorDash account takeovers draining restaurant payouts, porch pirates using Wi‑Fi jammers, and the messy realities behind driverless rides. We weigh security fixes, fair pay, and where AI helps or hurts.
• Uber ads tied to anonymised trip insights and rising rider prices
• DoorDash merchant hacks via email credential theft and weak 2FA
• Package theft escalation with Wi‑Fi jammers and hardwired camera defenses
• Uber DUI arrest mid‑ride and rider safety concerns
• Discrimination claim against an Uber driver and policy enforcement
• Instacart’s ChatGPT integration and conversational commerce
• Waymo roadside assists for doors, belts and cleaning standards
• License plate reader side hustle economics and feasibility
• Culture wars over “real jobs” in delivery and flexible work value
• Practical tips for securing payouts, packages and vehicles
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Hello, hello. Welcome to the Gig Economy Podcast, episode 281. Talking about an Uber ad targeting scam. Package scams, Doordash, hack, and much more. This is the second last episode for 200. Or 200. 2025. Bubatsu, hi. Traver B U N. What's going on? You're usually the first. Um, Larry, how's it going? It's going well. Yeah, hanging in there. Hanging in there. I know you said you were tired. I told you to put your nuts and slap your face.
SPEAKER_03:So all that's done. Ready to go. Ready to podcast.
SPEAKER_02:Ready to podcast. Go to gigeconomyshow.com for everything our podcast related. Of course, we have a Patreon. We love you to join Patreon.com/slash the Gig Econ Podcast. Each week you'll get uh an extra episode, behind the scenes stuff, exclusive piece of merch. And currently, right now, there's a seven-day free trial. You can try it out. All the links are in the description of whatever you're listening to. And I want to thank our Patreon supporters that uh currently have been longtime supporters: Samson, Bud Dickman, Omar, Frank, Tom, Jim, Miguel, Linda, Jerry, Faith, Metal Kickass, and Anna. Appreciate you guys so much. Uh, really helps us keep the show running. And uh shit shit costs money. So um it does. And Larry's got uh Coke habit, so that shit fucking gets really out of hand.
SPEAKER_03:It does. It just keeps getting worse and worse.
SPEAKER_02:Larry's like, if I could have some coke right now, that would help me power through this next hour and a half.
SPEAKER_03:Don't tip me, man. Don't tip me. Yeah. Uh and then we gotta I have been taking I have been taking some C D B gummies.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. No, that ain't gonna get that that ain't that's gonna relax you. That's gonna help with some pain.
SPEAKER_03:That's not gonna that's not gonna that's to kind of help me sleep through the night so I don't wake up in pain.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, that's that's not gonna that's not gonna uh fire you up. But yeah, Larry's been dealing with a uh shoulder injury. If you if you're part of Patreon, you've heard it a lot. We talk about it a lot, but um for the non-Patreon folks, you can join for seven days and hear all the stories of of old man Larry and Jason and all our creaks and cracks.
SPEAKER_03:That's right.
SPEAKER_02:Uh all right, uh Larry Telegram group. We do not have a uh story or what do we call it? Oh, clip of the week. Uh Faith failed. She's working for UPS like a dog making that change. They're working her butt off too. It sounds like she's gonna be exhausted. So yeah. Uh what's the telegram group? What's it about? Tell the people how they can join.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, so our telegram group, that's the main way that we communicate back and forth. It's just like a text program, uh chat program. But along with doing uh, you know, text messages, you can also do video messages or voice messages. And it's kind of hard to text and not real safe to text when you're out driving, but it's really easy to hit that button and do a voice message. Uh, you can get on there, you can talk and interact and meet uh people who do gig work from all over the world. Uh it helps you to feel not so lonely when you're out there doing gig work because it can be a lonely job. You're out there delivering food or you're driving passengers. You can seem like you're all alone, but uh it's just a great way to meet some new people and like talk gig work.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, for sure. Um I lost my train of thought because I was fucking around on TikTok. Uh okay. Speaking of TikTok, we're up to 870. 870. Man, I would that would be a Christmas miracle if we could get to a thousand before the end of the year. Although, I mean, we only got one show left, so I don't know. What's up, Steve? So go to TikTok.com slash the gig economy gig economy? Gig economy, the gig economy, but I don't fucking know. Just search the gig economy on TikTok, goddammit. Uh uh Bubba Sue, there's been a few gems this week on Telegram. Yeah, I know, but see the problem is I don't listen to all those and faith and uh so if you ever find one, uh uh you can hold down the message and you can uh forward it to me uh or Faith and she can get it to me. So uh I just plugged y'all to get over here. Plugged to swear.
SPEAKER_03:Maybe on his show?
SPEAKER_02:Oh, I thought he was being sexual. My bad. My bad. Uh just kidding. You never know. You never know with Steve, you know? Hey, oh up in the air. Yeah, uh Source from the Road. I did not do any gig work. I know I said I was possibly gonna do some, but uh, I don't know. This weekend it was just kind of it was just nice to not work. Um it was like a long ass week and a lot of crappy weather, and it's just was just a grind through all that. So I I decided to stay home. I mean, I did some stuff with my family and stuff like that, but uh yeah, I did not do any gig work at all. So I did post some videos. I don't know if that helps. Uh how about you, Larry?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, no, I went to St. Louis to uh visit my son this weekend. Really haven't been doing any gig work here lately. Um yeah, I hate keep going back to it, but the shoulder's waking me up a couple times at night. I have to get up for a little while and put some ice on it. So I don't feel like I've had a good night's sleep in about a month. Um, another thing, especially doing mostly ride share with this injury, and not that you know you expect it to happen, but I don't really feel like I could properly defend myself if something went down in my car, and so I really don't feel like doing that right now.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, no, that that is uh actually valid. I mean, not that you've had those instances, but you do want to be somewhat prepared.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, you really do. Uh so if I do get back out, it'd probably be more food delivery.
SPEAKER_02:Uh and that's good for you. You need to come down in the trenches with us losers, slum with y'all. Yeah, you need to slum.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, so um, yeah, no stories from me, unfortunately.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I'm not sure. I I definitely, as I always said, by two weeks off, like I'm so looking forward to it. But I get like we had a snow day today, I got bored.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I know you you can't sit around too long.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, it's not like I'm you know, you would think if I moved a lot, I'd be less fat, but like I just can't lay down, even watching football all day. It's hard for me to like stay put. So uh I will definitely be doing work on vacation, vacation uh when school's off. Uh, because I I'm actually kind of looking forward to it. I actually enjoy gig work. A lot of people, I mean, maybe if you're a full timer, it really gets it burns out, but there's so many different opportunities to do things as far as like if you want to do packages or food or groceries or people, like it's it's quite an amazing, amazing concept. Uh, I know we shit on it a lot, but uh looking at it from a different lens, I I do enjoy it and uh I like the variety.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I think we all do enjoy it, some aspects of it. And there is, like you said, uh a large variety of things that you can do. You can mix it up, you can like, oh man, I want to I want to shoot some, you know, some small talk and with some people, and then after about a couple hours, you're like, all right, I'm tired of people, I don't want to deal with anybody anymore. I'll turn over and do some food delivery or do some Walmart Spark or something like that.
SPEAKER_02:Well, a perfect perfect example for you is you're you're you know you're dealing with your shoulder, so you're like, Well, I'm not comfortable doing people, so I'll do food. Like, that's fine.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Uh, although there is a well, you don't. I was gonna say I forgot you live in Kentucky. I was like, fuck, what about the ice? Uh and I'm like we get ice here. Yeah, but is it like all the time? Not like no, yeah. So anywhere we walk right now, there's ice everywhere. So I was just saying you with the shoulder thing, I'd be worried that you would slip and fall and fuck it up.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, yeah, that that would not be good at all. If I fell and landed on my on that side, I really I think I would pass out. I really do.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, from the pain.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yes.
SPEAKER_02:Man, dude, I I god, you need to like on the two weeks off, you just need to get some hardcore uh prescription painkillers and just fucking dope for two weeks and let it heal, all that stuff. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, well, I go back to I go back, do go back to the doctor on Monday. My uh physical therapist uh was talking about there's a possibility they may um there's a name for it. I forgot. It's something uh but basically I forget the name of it, but basically what they do is they put you to sleep and the doctor takes it and takes it through the whole range of motion that it won't go when you're awake.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, because you're fighting it.
SPEAKER_03:Oh yeah, yeah. And you and yeah, you couldn't do it when you're like I like I physically can't move it. Like it it gets to a certain point, like it feels like if you move it anymore, it's you like you would break it up. It's gonna snap off. Yeah, it's gonna snap. And uh so basically they put you to sleep so they can do that. So you so I don't know. Uh we'll find out Monday.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, getting old's fun, guys. You have lots to look forward to.
SPEAKER_03:Not for the faint of heart, as I've said a few times.
SPEAKER_02:All right, gig economy in the news. Uh got a lot of stories today. Um, it just you know, it ebbs and flows, and as far as things. Um, not all uh earth-shattering stories by any means, but uh this was talked about, this is from NGadget, and we all hate those friggin' ads. I mean, it's part of it, like we taught we have ads, we uh you know, we talk about things and stuff because it is somewhat of a moneymaker, but what I don't like is you know when it's on the back end, and apparently Uber will let marketers target ads based on users' trip and take out data, which I don't entirely hate. Like if I there's a restaurant I like, if I go to it regularly, and if you're gonna like advertise a coupon or something, not that I use a lot of coupons, but I mean if it's easy and I can do it digitally, maybe I don't hate it, but uh this is uh kind of what this is. Uh this is a the data technically would be anonymous via the use of platform called LiveRamp. This will let advertisers securely combine their customer data and Uber's uh uh with Uber's help to surface insights about their audiences and where they travel, so on and so forth. Uh basically it'll provide a broad view of local consumer trends based on collected data. Um, so I I do love this update to it says update. The article previously stated that Uber was selling customer data, but that was not accurate. Okay. Companies do not pay to access the intelligence platform. We regret the area error. The article and its headline have been changed since published to more accurately reflect the news. So okay. Um, so this is wild too. Their ad business is already on track to generate 1.5 billion in revenue this year.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, isn't that crazy?
SPEAKER_02:That's a wild number. Uh and then if you look at it perspective, the company made 44 billion in 2024. So, I mean, I know that's 1.5 is small of that, but just for advertising, like not even really providing a service. I mean, other than for the ad people, but data, yeah. Friday night data. Right. Also, the last stat in here, and again, you know, this is from NGadget, but it says uh Uber has raised prices for consumers about by around 18% each year since 2018, which has outpaced inflation by up to four times. Does that seem accurate? You think they've really upped it 18%? That seems accurate.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, I don't know. I don't take it enough to to know, but yeah, yeah, I mean, our pay's gone up 18% every year.
SPEAKER_02:So yeah, well, yeah. What are we freaking complaining about? Exactly.
SPEAKER_03:Uh very facetious.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so I I I can't agree that it's gone up 18%. I don't take it enough. I mean, to me, it's probably gone up a little bit. Um, but yeah, I don't I don't think it's gone up 18%. And I and I truly not defending Uber, I'm just saying that just seems a little excessive.
SPEAKER_03:Such a company, man. Oh, shut. Oh. No, don't.
SPEAKER_02:God damn it. No. Um so yeah, that uh that is what Uber is doing for that. Um, so Larry, this high-tech thieves use wi-fi jammers. This is from my boy Steve. Yeah. I thought this was interesting.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, uh, so yeah, we'll play this video, then we'll talk about uh a little bit.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, we will.
SPEAKER_08:At first glance, it may seem like a door dash delivery, but quickly it turns into a porch pirate pickup. Watch as he stuffs not one but multiple packages into his bag. Before a honk alerts him that the suburban Chicago homeowner is pulling up, the family returning from vacation. Oh my god, he's putting all the packages in his bag. The real-life Grinch, managing to avoid the SUV, gets in the car and drives away before they even park.
SPEAKER_07:When we looked through the ring video footage from earlier on the day, you could see that he canvassed by our house several times.
SPEAKER_08:This mom of two now warning neighbors to stay alert during the busy holiday shopping season that now comes with more and more package deliveries. Clarendon Hills police say the property crime incident is under investigation, adding porch pirates are getting bolder. In Houston, some thieves are targeting the cameras first to prevent any footage of their attacks. Authorities say thieves used Wi-Fi jammers to override home security systems. In this case, corrupting the video to ensure clean evidence wasn't recorded.
SPEAKER_04:They're not hard to get. Experts say you can take steps to protect your home. One of the things I do at home is I have two networks and I have uh different ring cameras connected to different networks, and they're at different frequencies as well.
SPEAKER_08:As for package deliveries, police in Illinois suggesting if you don't want to take a chance, pick one delivery day when you know you'll be home, or use a locking drop box. As for this family targeted in Chicago, the stolen Christmas gifts can be replaced, but the violation of their space cuts deeper.
SPEAKER_07:We definitely felt violated, a little nervous going about last night. Like I know that that's not what it was about, but you're still nervous. Like it's your property and someone's like encroached upon it.
SPEAKER_02:Adrian Bratis joins us tonight live from Chicago. Adrian, a lot of viewers are gonna be watching this being freaked out by those white. Okay, I'm not I'm not freaking watching another minute of this. Um so oh, we're muted. I'm fucking muted. Motherfucker. Here we go. Why now it is now it's picking on me.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:You know what's funny is because I can hear myself through the board, so I don't I didn't even know I was muted until I could see your face. I was like, whoopsies. Um muted. Yeah, so um yeah, this is weird. I mean, putting different cameras on different Wi-Fi thing, I I'm not gonna really worry about that.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I mean, you can put them on different frequencies, but uh there, I mean, there's jammers for for for different frequencies as well. If I had a problem with this, I would definitely recommend getting a hard bar camera. They're they're not gonna be able to mess with that as much.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, yeah, because it's a Wi-Fi signal, right? That's what it's doing.
SPEAKER_03:This Wi-Fi is what they're jamming, but if you get a cable, you know, um, just like an old-fashioned camera that's that's you know, actually wired in, uh they they're not gonna be able to jam that. Um that are you know, these choices, like I said, you can send all your stuff to a lockbox. If I had a big, you know, big trouble with it, I would I you know, I would do one of those two things because yeah, what I was gonna say is why don't um who why haven't they not marketed that yet?
SPEAKER_02:Like either Amazon, like hey, if you're a prime member for you know$25, we'll issue a lock, you know what I mean? Like some sort of I mean, I'm sure there's a company if I Google it, there's lock boxes you can buy, but some I've never seen it advertised. And honestly, in my area, I haven't had it. Well, my house personally, but in my area, like down the street, it's happened. Yeah, you know, I just have it.
SPEAKER_03:I haven't had it here too, but uh like um, I mean, most I don't know if if you have the choice, but like when I send stuff to my son in St. Louis, uh I always send it. There's there's like a choice of five or six places around him that have lock boxes where you can send it. It's not as convenient, obviously.
SPEAKER_02:People aren't gonna do that. I don't want to drive to a separate location. Um, I do like the thought of like scheduling on a day you'll be home, but I don't think you can. It what it does is I think I have a delivery day, and I think it's Monday, right? Whatever. Maybe you can change that at will to get it on a day that you're able to do that. Um I'm just so I never do it on that day because like I always think to myself, it's it's like me sticking it to the man. Like, I'm already paying for this fucking service. I'm not waiting seven. I mean, now you are waiting seven days because they're busy, but I'm like, I'm not waiting freaking seven days for this shit. I'm paying, you know, I pay you every year to get stuff quick, so yeah. But it's economically better too, because the truck's not coming here seven times, but yeah, but yeah, and uh Bubba Sue, that's what I was talking about.
SPEAKER_03:Amazon locker, that's why I would send to my son because uh his the apartment he used to live in, like they they would just leave it there like at the in the lobby, and shit stuff got stolen all the time. And where he's at now it has a separate locked mailroom, um, and it's much better. Uh but yeah, if I had trouble with it, I would I would get a hardwired camera. It's it's you know, it's not gonna be that expensive, might not be something that you want to do yourself. Some people wouldn't be comfortable with that, but it's not really a hard process.
SPEAKER_02:No, but that's not really gonna defeat the problem. I mean, okay, you get a picture, but if they're wearing a mask, you still lost your packages and it's a pain of the ass. Uh, one thing I would bring up is I used to have the garage door service where they would open it, but they started charging for that.
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_02:And I'm like, I I I get so I I would pay for it if I it was a problem in my area. Right. Because then they're not gonna get it. Right. Um, that's that's a solution.
SPEAKER_03:So um Yeah, we would if if I did that, and I feel a little weird about them doing that because we we leave the you know the door between our uh that goes from our house out into our garage. We never you know, we don't hardly ever lock that.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, we don't either.
SPEAKER_03:But we I you know I would do that during the day if if we started having packages you know delivered in there for sure.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I think I would I never did before, but that's such a good point.
SPEAKER_03:And I would have a camera in my garage.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I do have a camera in my garage. Is it charged? No. I got ball these like I I went down the uh the wise route, you know, they were a little bit cheaper, and I got the recharge was Mo motherfucker, those things have to recharge so much. It's a pain in the ass. It's an absolute pain. Um but I probably would uh put it like a a wire uh keyboard lock in the inside just so 'cause yeah, I never locked that either, but I mean, it's a good way to not get your shit stolen. So it's funny that lady like didn't do anything with that guy. Although I would be so shocked myself. I I don't know if I would have been like really known what was going on before he got in the car. I'm like, why is this dude running from my house? Oh shit, he's got my packages and he's already gone.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, especially you're coming home from a trip. You know, it's not like you were just out at the grocery said they were coming home from a trip. You're probably just not expecting that. No, but you know, I think if I saw somebody on my porch, I think I would, you know, I would be pretty alert pretty quick. And yeah, if I saw him with packages, man, I'm taking I'm following him. I'm taking it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I I would if I if I could comprehend what was going on before, I'd probably get out and jump on him. He's a scrawny little guy.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Or at least, like I said, you know, at least if you figure it out by the time they're in the car, I'd easily at least get out and pull up, try to get close enough to him where my dash came and get their plate no license plate.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, you know, for sure.
SPEAKER_03:But oh but it's you know, this is gonna be a bigger problem as as more and more people get packages delivered. I just read an article delay, it's not related to gig work. It was talking about how many more people are stealing stuff at the self-checkout lines in the grocery store.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, well, didn't like um dollar was it dollar general that like had it, but then they decided not to do it anymore?
SPEAKER_03:Like just because of the you go in their stores now and there'll be like a display of something sitting on the self-checkout counter.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I mean Walmart would talked about that too, uh how much they used to lose or how much they do lose from self-checkout. Um, I don't know how like okay, I don't have a stealing mentality, but I know if I fuck up on that thing, it shuts that register down. Like if they're stealing while they're checking out, I don't know uh if that's what they're talking about, or people just like walking through there and not paying. But it it's pretty sensitive if it realizes you move something that didn't get scanned and it shows it right on the camera. Have you ever been there at Walmart when you do that? And they're like, and you and you feel like a criminal. I'm like, hey, sorry. Walmart was thinking about stopping self-checking.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, they might as well hands in the air, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I swear to God. Um, yeah, they might as well stop it because they're only paying their freaking workers$14 an hour. So what's what's the hassle of hiring like you know, 20-30 more people to your crew to to ring shit up? But only I will not let's not do it for spark workers, though. We still need the scanner and we need that that is where they should investigate lost money or lost items as spark workers that are shady as hell.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, yeah, some sketchy people doing it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, all right. Moving on, this was an Uber passenger. Uh I don't have a video for it, but he got arrested uh in the middle of dropping off a passenger early Sunday morning. Uh, the the vehicle is traveling against traffic. I'm like, God damn, how scary would that be if you're in an Uber? Like, what? Yeah, I don't even know what I would do.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, I'd probably like dude, pull over, let me out right here.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, like that is that is like so scary. Uh, it was about 2 30 a.m. The officers conducted a traffic stop and a field sobriety test. Officers found a bottle of rum in the driver's side door, a bag of marijuana in the center console, and a marijuana dab pen in uh Johnson's front pants pocket. Uh so yeah, they said, Oh, and that this I thought was funny. So this is not like a big story or anything, but uh the police department, unofficial Uber team trans team, not teen, transported the passenger home safely. Um yeah, I don't under oh you know, I think I have a video for this, I think. Oh, really? Uh Uber team, but I don't even know what does that even mean. Uh God, do I have a video? And I just blew it. Probably. No, I don't have a video. I don't. Okay. Okay, my bad. I I it was such a simple article. I thought I had pulled it.
SPEAKER_03:So yeah, uh, what's the Uber team? I think they were just being funny. I think they're just being funny. Oh, really? Well, I mean, what would an Uber team?
SPEAKER_02:I mean, you know, I I don't know that there's well, they should say Uber's customer service. Yeah, like are they saying like a physical team came in and transported this person?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I who knows. I mean, there I'm sure it's hard without any more context than that. Right.
SPEAKER_02:Great article, guys. Great context. I mean, there probably is some cities that do have actual employees that are available to maybe assist like that. But I mean, what was it in Chocatawa? Chaucata, I don't even know where that is. It's probably probably Tennessee somewhere or Kentucky somewhere. I don't know, it's an Indian name, but I don't know. But anyways, maybe they do have staff there to help, but like I know Oklahoma. Oklahoma, okay. I was like, well, that makes sense for uh for a native name, but um I was like, no, that the this has to be like a phrase for like customer service or something like that. So who knows? All right, there uh dairy. Larry, uh I read DoorDash and Larry, and I said, All right, Derry.
SPEAKER_03:There you go. All right, yeah, we're gonna talk about uh some money being how these people are stealing money from these restaurants by hacking their DoorDash accounts. Uh this story in particular is talking about uh a restaurant in Rosemont, Illinois. Uh Mulretti's restaurants said they do a large part of their business is uh food delivery with companies like DoorDash and Uber Eats. But uh somebody was able to hack into the restaurant's DoorDash account and able to change all the banking information. So all this restaurant was supposed to be getting uh was going into this random bank account. It said that uh let's see how much it oh it said yeah, a total of more than$35,000 stolen. So it's not we're not talking jump change here, uh$35,000. Um it says it's becoming more more common of a scam as people you know are figuring this out, these scammers and hackers. Um you know, of course they contacted DoorDash. Um they're trying to get you know, said they're trying to get their money back, but the restaurant owner says DoorDash has reimbursed them about five thousand of the thirty-five thousand. Uh says they just want to sweep this under the rug rather than acknowledge they may have security issues.
SPEAKER_02:Um how is it the DoorDash's fault? Like, obviously, they hacked the username and password, right? Like, I mean, you got clearly it's not as you did you made the password one, two, three, four, five or something, right? I mean, I don't know. I don't know how easy it is to hack.
SPEAKER_03:Well, see again, uh again with these articles, it's hard to tell because they so they hacked into the their account. Are are they hacking into the account on door through DoorDash?
SPEAKER_02:You know, I would think yes, not their bank account.
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, because I you would hope that has a little bit more security than their DoorDash account.
SPEAKER_03:So the restaurant said they are using DoorDash again, but they say they check their bank accounts closely every day. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Which I don't know why they don't, anyways.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Um, I totally missed a a comment too, by the way, from Nighthawk. I know we shared it, but it uh this person said it'd be cool if drivers got the ad sense revenue from the ads that are generated from the trips we complete on Uber, but that will not happen. I mean, it's kind of I don't know if you know about Octopus Tablet, but it that's kind of what happens with them. You get a portion of the revenue. I mean, it's not a ton, but right.
SPEAKER_03:That and that's exactly what I thought of when we were talking about this, and I was gonna mention that, and then we got on the remote.
SPEAKER_02:Of course, and then we forgot.
SPEAKER_03:Exactly.
SPEAKER_02:Uh but yeah, you should check out Octopus Tablet. That helps a little bit uh for a little bit of ad revenue. But yeah, Uber's never gonna share shit with us, they don't ever pay us enough. But yeah, I kind of feel back to the DoorDash story that they probably just had terrible. I mean, I don't even know how you'd be like why these thieves like I feel like it almost needs to be inside job because like how did they I don't know. It just again more context would be nice in regards to like what was like how how they did it, although they're not gonna yeah.
SPEAKER_03:The DoorDash spokesman said that they reviewed the account and confirmed that the fraud activity was the result of this uh fraudster targeting the merchants, the restaurant's email credentials. It was not a breach or a failure of DoorDash system. So yeah, that's on the restaurant.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, so it's on so it was the email restaurant owner.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Apparently, well, they it's I mean, you know how it is. If you can if you get somebody's email password, you're golden because then you just go to any of their accounts and it says, okay, well, here's a here click on this link and we'll send you a password reset to your email account.
SPEAKER_02:Well, why doesn't DoorDash have their email account? Mandatory two-factor authentication, like should be.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, although Although that can be that can be hacked too.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, a lot harder though.
SPEAKER_03:For sure, it's a huge another step. That's why it's you know so important for people to do it, is because it it does it, it's a a much bigger barrier. Um, the more steps you have to go through.
SPEAKER_02:But I think anything that has like uh an account that can make purchases, not that you have a card on file, like for Spotify. Obviously, they run my card every month. Not them, that company, but companies that you can actually buy, like your best buy account or whatever with the card, right? I think it should be standard that it should be two-factor. I mean, that's there's one thing I would like, you know, as much as I don't want the government involved in a lot of stuff like that. I would be like, yes, 100%. Make this a law that says if it's a if you have purchasing power in this service, that you should have to have two-factor authentication. I agree. Verbal trademark.
SPEAKER_03:There you go. We'll start a new company.
SPEAKER_02:There you go.
SPEAKER_03:Gig Economy Two Factor.
SPEAKER_02:Gig Economy Two Factor. I love it. Uh, foremas Miss Slovakia says Uber driver kicked her out after learning she was Jewish. Uh, this was a Toronto model who was very attractive. Um because she's a model. Got kicked out her got kicked out of her Uber ride after she learned she was Jewish. Um she was FaceTiming a friend telling her about a recent mission mission trip to she took to Israel. Side note, you don't have to be Jewish to take a mission trip to Israel, aka you're dumb driver. Uh so she said the female driver abruptly slammed on her brakes and told her to get out of the car. Um, so this kind of sucks. I I you know it's racism regardless if it's skin color or religion or whatever. Um, no video on this. Uh I always wonder. I always want to know what what uh what actually happened. The real news. Um so hopefully she sues Uber and she gets paid. I don't know. Um her lawyer says is seeking an apology, the driver's termination, a donation to an Israel charity over choosing acquirement that all Uber drivers acknowledged no con discrimination policy. Don't we already have that? Or do it is that one that they've not set through? I know the dog. They're they're real afraid of the dog.
SPEAKER_03:Dogs are uh uh people in wheelchairs. Yeah, you better be on that.
SPEAKER_02:They um they are yeah, I'm sure it's in the policy, yeah. Somewhere in the in in the the terms and service that we call that we always read. Yes, fully yeah, uh it it actually should be though. I mean it it would cover their ass. I feel like that's a clickable one. Like you have to click this, not just read through uh acknowledge it, yeah. Yeah, acknowledge it. Um did you speak in a video? Did you see that um saying both sides of the story? You see that video of that Cinnabon lady in Wisconsin that uh you used the N-word to Somali, like straight up N-word, and said she was racist on video. You didn't see that?
SPEAKER_03:I did not.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. Uh the the weird thing about it I want to uh talk about is like they start someone started a GoFundMe for her, and they gave she's raised$150,000. And this it is a brutal video. I would not even play it on this show. The amount of like, I mean, it was N-word hard R. And and it's so bad. So I was just thinking about, and a lot of people are saying, well, there's more to the video, there's more to a video. It's more of an example of is there always more to the video? Because like the person starts recording what it I'm not saying they did anything because I only can go on the what I know and the facts that I see, right? And you look like a psychopath. Um, but I always wonder, is there a little more? I'm not again not victim blaming. I'm just I always wonder. So yeah, thanks, Steve.
SPEAKER_03:Um but I can't, I can't no matter what happened before the video started rolling, we're not me and you are not gonna react like that. That's true.
SPEAKER_02:That's true. I no matter what one of the podcasts I was listening to, he was talking about, he goes, That that man could have been having sex with my wife on my couch when I walked through the door, and I still wouldn't have said that to him. Yeah, I'm gonna beat his ass. Yeah, nurse, yeah, but I'm I'm not gonna say that to him.
SPEAKER_03:Right, exactly. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah. So it was bad in that case, yeah. It could have been a lot of stuff going on before the video roll, but uh there's no excuse for that.
SPEAKER_02:No, none at all. Not that we're trying to get off topic here. So where we are at time, okay, we're doing good. Uh oh, here we go. Yeah, Instacart moving and shaking again.
SPEAKER_03:That's right. What are they doing now? They're integrating with Chat GPT. So they become the first grocery sector company who's gonna launch an app on OpenAI's Chat GPT. So, you know, when you're on Chat GPT doing your thing, looking up stuff, and you're like, oh man, you know what? I need to get something for supper tonight. I need to get some groceries. You can put in a prompt that'll pop open chat or pop open the uh Instacart uh uh app and uh let you order whatever you need to. Um I haven't tested anything like this, but um I think it'd be interesting to just uh test it sometime.
SPEAKER_02:So why why would I need it in chat GBT if I can just open the Instagram app on my phone?
SPEAKER_03:That's a good question. I I can't answer that really because like I said, I want I want until I see it in action, it doesn't do a whole lot of things. What's the prompt? What's the prompt? It doesn't even say it just says uh I should have highlighted that.
SPEAKER_02:Uh I'll I'll do it right now. Instavart? No.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. It says um it just says in in uh weeks ahead, chat GPT. Uh the company said that they can surface the Instacart chat GPT app when a user asks for it by initiating a prompt with Instacart.
SPEAKER_02:I I said order Instacart, please. It says I can't actually place Instacart orders, but I can help you get everything ready.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, so that I guess that's gonna change.
SPEAKER_02:Because then it says, uh, tell me what you want to order groceries household items, and I'll build a full Instacart ready shopping list for you. What would you like to add to your cart? And then I don't know. Um, I don't know if you can like paste it in there.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, because from this article, it sounds like you you're gonna put in some kind of a prompt and it's gonna open the Instacart app. It says after opening the app and signing in, users can get help finding items they need from local retailers and pay for their purchases directly in the instart cart app right in chat GPT with instant checkout without having to switch tabs. So it looks like it's gonna be embedded.
SPEAKER_02:See, that's that's fine. I like that. If it if you have to go to the app anyways, what's the point?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, that makes a whole lot more sense. Yeah, if you're going to the app, it's it's just adding steps instead of making it easier. I don't need let's add four steps, man.
SPEAKER_02:Look at what we've done. Yeah, we will it's 2020 almost 2026. We've done it, we've added more work for the consumer. Exactly.
SPEAKER_03:People will flock to it.
SPEAKER_02:I'm all I'm always excited, I'm always excited about integrations. Um, if it does integrate like seamless like that, that'd be awesome.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Uh I've been using, in fact, I got not blocked, but I ran out of time today. I've been using it for another project I'm doing. And it's I'll come back, I come back to it like three hours later with another idea, and it are it knows what I'm talking about. It I don't even have to say, remember earlier about this.
SPEAKER_03:I just yeah, it's got your whole history in there.
SPEAKER_02:It's wild, it but I I do it for the gig podcast too. It doesn't grab that, it grabs what I was doing three hours earlier and it it knows, and it's just it's an incredible tool. I I really like it. Uh I don't want data center in my backyard, but I do like it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Uh um, nobody nobody wants the data center in their backyard.
SPEAKER_02:Why do we need them? Why can't we just go to the fucking desert and put it in there? Why do we got to put this in freaking well because I mean what do they need most of?
SPEAKER_03:Water. Water pump it from the ocean.
SPEAKER_02:There are there's already no water in the desert. We got so much water that we can't we don't know what to do with. Pump it from the ocean. Make a Elon, get your fucking shit together and bore a hole or a line from Arizona to the ocean. Geez, not that hard.
SPEAKER_03:Well, the probably the de desalinization costs would probably have to come down first. No, we'll no you figure it out with salt water.
SPEAKER_02:We're not taking salt on it out of it. Figure it out. Done. Verbal trade.
SPEAKER_03:That's our second company we're starting. Right.
SPEAKER_02:We're gonna be busy this winter.
SPEAKER_03:We're gonna be busy, busy. Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_02:You were saying one other thing about it, and I cut you off.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, yeah, I was just gonna say you know, is chat GBT gonna try to become this thing? Because I mean it has Instacart in there. What is it gonna become like a one like the all the apps want to be? They want to be, they don't want you to leave their ecosystem. You know, is that what they're trying to be? Because I mean, I of course there's chat GBT, but you know, there's other ones too, you know, grox out there. Uh I forget, um, I forget what the other ones uh that we use at work, it's called, but you know, there's there's different ones, and they're always going back. One will release a new version and it's faster and better, and then the other one will release a new version. So it'll be interesting to see how it all shakes out.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I mean, I feel like chat GPT is like the Uber of Clean like Kleenex and Uber or Kleenex of Tissue and Uber of Ride Chair. It was kind of there first. I mean, I don't plan on switching, there's no reason I put, but I don't have the premium either. If I could find another chat GPT or something similar that was less, I mean 25 a month to me is a little the first tier is a little pricey, in my opinion. I mean, yeah, can we do 999? I can swallow that a little bit more than 25 bucks a month.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, so we we've we at work, we use uh sometimes we'll use we'll co-pilot um just because it's built into teams, which we use at work. And I mean, I know I know me and me and a co work one day got to messing around going down these rabbit holes, you know, submitting these prompts. And uh, you know, it's fun to play with, you know, you throw in there stuff, and uh he ended up having it designed some picture of like everybody on our in our department riding on dinosaurs, and it was this crazy picture, you know.
SPEAKER_02:I've used a few other ones too, but I've found that that chat GPT seems the most. Accurate, like I've like verified it other places, and it'd be like because I've whatever the Google one Gemini or whatever, and I'm like, this doesn't sound right, yeah. And I and then I would search it elsewhere, and I'm like, Yeah, this is horseshit. Um, so not that ChatGPT has been perfect. I mean, there's a couple of things that I've researched outside of it, and I'd be like, I don't know if it was exactly right. I use it for organization, or like um, I had to write an email to somebody, and I wrote the email and then I paste it in there. I'm like, can you like freshen this up more a little bit more professional? You know what I mean? Like, I use it for that. I'm not using it for like how do you take that tumor out of your brain DIY?
SPEAKER_03:Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Um, yeah, it's great for stuff like that. I mean as long as you still, you know, you still have to check it, you know, when the comes out. And but it's so funny though, like in um some of the classes I've taken, you know, at my work, we'll have bulletin boards where some of the the professors, okay, I want you to do a paragraph about this and then respond to two other people's you know answers and stuff. And you can tell the ones who just copy and paste it out of chat GPT, it did it doesn't sound right, and you're like, that doesn't make any sense. You're referring to the wrong thing there. Are they not checking it after they paste it in there? Apparently, they are not, because because you can tell.
SPEAKER_02:That's wild to not check it. I mean, I can see exactly yeah, yeah, because it will make errors, it's definitely not perfect by any means.
SPEAKER_03:No, no, not even close.
SPEAKER_02:Oh man. All right, moving on.
SPEAKER_01:Waymo in the news.
SPEAKER_02:All right, this is from Faithy Pooh. Uh, I think Faithy Pooh, I don't remember. Uh fuck, what is this? So we have Okay, maybe it's not from Faithy. Maybe last week was. So this is a guy that works roadside service for Waymo, and you can't fucking hear me. Again. God damn it.
SPEAKER_03:You're muted.
SPEAKER_02:I know. Motherfucker. It's soon as the stream air. As soon as we started this like vertical thing, too. I hope they uh I hope they get that buck. They rectify that, yeah. Um, so this video is about a guy that does roadside service for Waymo, right? But it's not exactly the roadside service you would think it is. So we'll play that. There's a highly trained, highly highly trained person right here. All right, here we go.
SPEAKER_05:So we have contracts with the insurance companies, and Waymo is one of the customers, so sometimes they call us close these doors because I guess they forget to close them properly. If not, the vehicle won't depart. But for this one, the doors aren't the door handles aren't even open, and the other thing. Oh, and they left the seatbelt like that as well. And they left the coke and pretty dirty. There you go. And it usually dips really fast.
SPEAKER_03:Goodbye, Waymo. He didn't let uh anytime go. It's that Waymo was out of there.
SPEAKER_02:No, that'll be$90, Waymo. Thank you for that. Now that's a business. I could get on board on that.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, go go go close close some doors and uh whatever else they do. Yeah, it just goes to show you that like all those leaves are in the bottom in the floorboard, and that coke was left in there. You wonder how often those things are gonna get cleaned out.
SPEAKER_02:I know. I mean, you gotta wonder how many rides uh like if it goes out at like 6 a.m. and is out till 6 p.m., how many rides is actually turning over?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:What I was saying is like the amount of rides it does, and it, you know, people trash stuff, especially if it's it's there's no one in the car to get them in trouble. Um, I feel like Waymo should charge them.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, you wonder if they do, if they charge any kind of a cleanup fee, is obviously they're gonna have cameras in there. Um you leave food or or make a big mess. I wonder if they're gonna ding your credit card.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, it's just like when you're parenting, if you don't if you don't aren't firm on on what it is, they're just gonna keep doing it. So if I got dinged$25, if I left I mean, some leaves, okay. Well, it's obviously uh raining and there's leaves on the ground. I'm not too concerned about that. Right. But if you're leaving a Coke bottle in there and crumbs and crackers all over the place, like you should get dinged.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, or you spill something, you spill a drink in there.
SPEAKER_02:Well, they should tear it. I mean, if you spill a drink, it's you know a hundred dollars.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_02:Um, but I often feel like these Waymos are like, nah, we'll just flip it. We'll just we don't care if they're dirty, people are gonna use them. That's probably what they're experiencing, and they're not gonna pull it off the road.
SPEAKER_03:Well, we should know, you know, soon enough, they're popping up everywhere. So I mean a matter of time before we get our chance to to ride in one.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, you saw we were just talking about Florida and they Tampa.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, just talking about Tampa.
SPEAKER_02:As soon as I saw that and sent it to you, I was cackling because Larry and I was like, It was like a day later, wasn't it? Yeah, we were talking on I don't know if it was Patreon or something, and literally the next day on Reddit, I saw that they were testing in Tampa. So uh moving on, the company uh let's see, sorry, I got an ad here. So you've seen those um, I don't know what they call, they're little plate readers. I don't know if you have them down by you. Um they're LPRs, license plate readers, but this company has created like man uh ones you can put on your own personal car. Um so let me see. Okay. DRN, which is effectively the control nervous system of the repossession industry, sells everything from cameras that scan license plate and even access to a massive database, blah blah blah. These cameras are typically purchased by repossession agents, but are actually available to about anyone with a few thousand bucks to spare. You also earn a commission on repossession if that repo is due to the license plate that your camera captures. Uh, the LPRs cameras meant to be stationary, you can fix it into poles or on a wall, or it can collect the make and model color speed of colors of vehicles up to 100 miles an hour and a 75 feet in any light. Um, it's designed for high-speed, high traffic roadways and can capture 150 miles per hour. Like, who the fuck's going that fast? Um, so these are basically ones they they they launched a revenue sharing program 2023. Um, agents can earn up to$55 per repossession, and it this company claims it pays out eight grand per month and scan bonuses. Um so you can't just buy one, you have to be a rep, like a repo rep agent. Uh they're only available to licensed bonded repossession agents. Um I mean, I guess you could get your own do that and then put it on your car. Um it says, let's see, if your camera scanned, okay, for example, if your camera scanned one million plates in a month, you would earn a thousand dollar scan bonus and twenty-five percent or twenty-five dollars for each repo. What do you think about that?
SPEAKER_03:A lot of cars.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, if you're a full like, think about Gabe.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, if you're in a big city and you're full-time driver, yeah, you you pass a lot of cars.
SPEAKER_02:You pass a lot of cars, and it's and it's just you don't realize how many you're passing. And if it's content, I would freaking do it. I mean, it's just another ad revenue. I mean, who gives a shit? It's a camera, and it I don't have a picture of it, but um when I post the show, you can click on the link. But it's just a small little, I don't know, it's probably maybe this big, I don't know, six by six maybe that has a camera on it and it's able to to scan them as people go by. So I don't think I mean if you can a million plates, uh yeah. Well, you're not doing a million plates. That is a lot of plates. But even if it's half, could you you think Gabe could do 500,000 plates in a day? Or in a day? In a month?
SPEAKER_03:No, in a month? Yeah, in a month, yeah, I would think so.
SPEAKER_02:Damn, I want him to buy this. I want him to become a repo agent.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know. How about the three of us all go in? We'll we'll we'll invest, we'll split it. There you go.
SPEAKER_02:We'll we'll invest in the the the the bonded or whatever it takes to get certified, and then we'll we'll split the revenue. We'll buy the unit.
SPEAKER_03:And so Gabe's gonna be a repo man, he's done know it yet.
SPEAKER_02:Well, not even a repo man. You don't even have to do the dirty work, you're just driving around. It's it's it's uh what do they call it? Like the octopus tablet. It's a residual, no, not residual, passive passive income, somewhat passive. I mean, you do have to invest a little bit. So yeah, um, I don't know. I thought that was pretty cool. I would uh kind of I I I really would do it. I would if it if it was if like if it was gonna be five grand for me to get all my sh ducks in a row, I don't think I would. But if it's a thousand, maybe a thousand for the camera, although you know in the fucking winter some ice chunk will come off a semi and take it out.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, especially if I'm a full-time driver in a big city, I say it'd definitely be worth it. Here, I I don't know if it'd be worth it. Um definitely not with the the amount I'm driving now, and you know, it's not not that big a city, so uh but yeah, yeah, some some bigger cities, I think it'd definitely be worth it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, and it would uh you could probably I'm trying to think if you could put one in the front, one in the back, so you're getting the cars like we don't need a front plate in Michigan, so you're getting the cars coming towards you, the back one would scan the back the car going away, and the one in front would scan everyone in front. You'd almost have to get two, right?
SPEAKER_03:Yes, yeah. See, but in Kentucky, we don't have front license plates.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I I don't I think it's more uh it best to be the guinea pig. I think it's more common not to have them, but like I know Illinois has two plates. Um it's funny, I Avery uh she drives my old pilot, and the front they had a front license plate holder and it kind of like rusted off, so I just sawzed it off because you know it's you know it got 300,000 miles on it. I'm not gonna spend that much time working on it. But uh, I think it came from a state that had it because like if you buy a car new here, they don't they don't have them on there. So all right, Larry, you're 37. Oh, remember the days you're 37 years old. Why is your only income on Uber Eats? This is a TikTok. Yes. Um this was an interesting video, so yeah, this is interesting. Here we go.
SPEAKER_00:Leave Uber driving, Uber delivery, Uber food deliveries for women over the weekend in San Diego. I was in a um, I'm not gonna say where I was at, but it was full of men waiting for an Uber order. Uber Eats. Why are so many 30 plus men doing Uber Eats as a full-time job? You're gonna tell me I'm an entrepreneur, I'm a I'm my own boss, I make my own hours. What do you do? I'm an Uber lift delivery driver. Boy, if you don't get a real motherfucking job by the end of this year, you shouldn't be dating any women. I'm sorry. You should be alone. Leave Uber Eats for ladies that are trying to make some extra income, single moms that are trying to make some income. It shouldn't be full of grown ass men delivering food. Stop. I'm tired of seeing this, and San Diego is full of grown men doing Uber Eats. Why aren't you getting a real freaking job? Get a real job. Simple.
SPEAKER_02:First of all, what a so I uh you you you gotta always wonder, is this guy just rage baiting or trolling? But I I don't know, I think he was serious.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I mean he I I don't know. Yeah, part of me thought he was just kind of rage baiting too. I mean, he didn't even wasn't even using the terms right lift uber delivery drive, you know. Yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, he he clearly does well, I I yeah, he doesn't do the work, so yeah.
SPEAKER_03:And I mean, what's his job? Is he a what does he lift weights for a living?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I was trying to like I was saying something he was shitting on. It's a cut on women for one, it's a cut on men, and then I'm like, you see these big hoops in his ears. I'm like, what are you doing? Like, are you like a tattoo artist? Which again, that's I'm not shitting on tattoos. I have a ton of tattoos. I'm just trying to I was trying to think out of a cut for him.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah. You know, it he it's one of those things I he's obviously, you know, like everybody else trying to get views, uh, probably just saying stuff that he thinks, you know, we'll will get some views. Uh because you know, I mean, who cares? Who cares what what people decide to do for their uh living? If if that's what they want to do, that's what they want to do. You know, he sounds like a comes across as a very opinionated person.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I agree. It just it frustrates me for the women too, because it's like oh, that's woman's work, you know. It just that's that's the mentality I think when he says that. And I guarantee he probably thinks women should be in the kitchen, although he says they should go out and do it, so maybe not. I don't know. It was just kind of funny. It didn't it was firing people up in the comments, though. I tell you. Oh, I'm sure.
SPEAKER_03:I'm sure it was yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, but I've always said this in you know, controversy stirs stirs the numbers, you know what I mean? So he may be going in there and that's all what he's trying to do, and trying to like get everyone stirred up, but um, yeah, I thought that guy was kind of a dick. So um, all right. Lastly, we'll do this one and then we'll uh I want to save. We always do this every year. Larry's the one that does it, so I always give it to him like the things found or the strangest things for the Uber. But before we wrap up, uh, this is a not a video, actually, our one picture. This is a guy that we have contract. That's a video, Jason. Uh, this guy taped down all muted. You're muted. Fuck me in the butt. Was that muted?
SPEAKER_03:StreamYard is killing this. Was that muted?
SPEAKER_02:I'm gonna need a sticky note on my screen that says literally says, check your mic, you dumb shit. Yeah, uh, so this Uber driver had taped off all the passenger windows with like duct tape in the back.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, the switches, yeah, to roll down the windows.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I mean, what do you think about that? I mean, obviously, it looks I I don't know what kind of car it is. Um whoops, I meant to take this off. Um, what do you think about that?
SPEAKER_03:Uh I I still I mean, I just why? But I mean, don't most cars have a window lock button nowadays?
SPEAKER_02:Well, that's what I was wondering. I was looking at the picture. I'm like, I don't know. Is that an old enough car? Although the stitching looks pretty nice on it, it's not that old. Um, it's still got the white color in it. If you're a you're an uber driver, uh wow, good job muting that before you sneeze. That's pretty good. Um, yeah, I don't know why they're doing it.
SPEAKER_03:You didn't even see the other one.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah. Uh the number one combo is what I did this once because the window was off track and it wouldn't roll back up, but like, okay. Oh no. I mean, I guess if I was Uber driving and that was an issue, I wouldn't want people, I don't want every ride say, please don't roll down the window.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, no, no. If you have a I mean, if the window's broken, something like that, where it's going off track, yeah, I can understand that. But I I would think, especially uh women getting in there, you start is this dude kidnapping me? Right.
SPEAKER_02:I mean, it it looks a little strange. Uh, a lot of people talked about the sick of the wind buff buffeting, he called it when one side is open, you know, when the it our cars are so pressurized, you know. Yep. Um, and so they uh they commented about a lot on we didn't know that was called buffeting, like people I know. I've always called it the helicopter effect. Uh he's like, ah yes, yeah, uncontested ear humping by the wind.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I love it. Yeah. But it might be a basic car. You talked about the controls. Um, someone said might most cars drivers can lock the passenger windows. I mean, I don't want to do it just because if somebody wants fresh air, I don't want to be. I mean, depends. Like I've talked about locking it out for drunks.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Yeah. So I I guess it comes down to what is his reason behind it. Because yeah, I don't I I don't keep my windows locked because uh yeah, if somebody wants wants to roll it down a little bit, that's fine. I'm gonna roll mine down a little bit so I don't get that buffeting, you know. Yeah. Uh but um yeah, just to do it just because you want to have control over it, I think it's a little much.
SPEAKER_02:Well, if I had to lock it because it was broke, and you know, shit happens and sometimes you can't get I I honestly would probably write a little note on it. Sorry, the windows broke, you know, just so that people don't like, ah, what the fuck? You know what I mean? Like get a little weirded out by it. Like this guy, yeah. Someone commented as long as you haven't taped that door handles, you should be okay.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, you start taping the door handles, then I think you're gonna a problem.
SPEAKER_02:Absolutely. All right, Patreon in uh in seven minutes. We'd love for you to join us. We're gonna talk about like what is it, the thousand. Um, what do they title it as? Verliner books uh has oh, is this yeah, this is about this, right?
SPEAKER_03:The data analysis about everything that's it has a little bit of that, but it uh it also the headline is a Verliner Books 1150 Uber rides in one year. So it's about somebody who took 1150 Uber rides, but it also mentions a few of the things, the weird things that people can do.
SPEAKER_02:Well, check it out. Go to patreon.com slash the gigacon podcast. We really appreciate the support, and uh, we'll see you next week. And as always, don't put up with anyone's bullshit. See you on the road. All right, have a great night. Hey, good night, everybody. This podcast is produced and edited by Hey Guys Media Group. Want to start a podcast? Check out heyguysmedia group.com.
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