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Dry January, Drier Tips Also did You Know That Men Cost 5 Cents More? | Ep 285
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We chase a slow January across rideshare, delivery, and shopping, then dig into AI hoaxes, rising energy costs from data centers, and where autonomy helps or harms. Laws, kiosks, drones, and tipping rules collide with real driver pay and trust.
• dry January reducing orders and routes
• multi‑app strategies to survive slow demand
• AI misinformation and fake whistleblower fallout
• data centers raising electricity costs and bills
• California refund mandate risks and abuse
• Spark broccoli mix‑up and shopper training
• Amazon Flex safe‑driving app and data privacy
• Uber airport kiosks for travelers without data
• Waymo track incident and robotaxi safety
• Zooks launches free rides on the Strip
• NYC lawsuit on tipping UI suppressing tips
• Walmart and Wing expanding drone delivery
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Hello, hello. Welcome to the Gig Economy Podcast, episode two hundred and eighty-five. I see uh I see uh Bubba Sue. What's up? Okay, we're we're we are live. We're using a new software tonight. Uh do you like it? Do you like the new intro? Uh we had to change the uh the music a little bit because we were getting flagged. It's a long, it's a long drawn-out story, right, Larry?
SPEAKER_05:A little bit. Yes, a little bit.
SPEAKER_06:A little bit. So uh go to gig economy show.com. I want to thank our Patreon members, Samson, Bud, Omar, Frank, Tom, Jim, Miguel, Linda, Jerry, Faith, Metal Kickass, and Anna. Uh, really appreciate you guys the support. Go to patreon.com slash the gig econ podcast. So we're trying to get right after it in 2026. Uh, so we're gonna head right to Stories from the Road, and there's two blank lines there. Two blank lines for stories from the road. So my guess is you didn't go out last week.
SPEAKER_05:No, I did go out, but oh you did just yeah, just it's slow. The the Western I for I thought they started last or Monday, but they don't start till this coming Monday. So it was still really, really slow around here. So I went out for for a few hours and everything, but it was just dead. So dead. Yeah, yeah. Very dead. So I wasn't gonna hang out too much.
SPEAKER_06:The story is it's dead. Yep. Well, it's you know, they talk about dry January, and for gig workers, that means no money. It's dry it's dry January. No business, no business. I've been trying to keep uh little tabs on the chat and telegram, uh, which you can join. Link is in the description. And I heard that it's slow. That is that is the consensus. And I've seen a lot of people freaking out, like, oh my god, how am I gonna pay my bills? I'm like, listen, listen. If you've been around, you know, if not, you better have 19 apps downloaded and being active on them.
SPEAKER_05:That's right. Be ready to go with the drop of a hat.
SPEAKER_06:Right. I mean, you might have to take a little less rate uh for Amazon routes. I saw a couple of people say, is the warehouse close? I haven't seen any routes. Oh, sweetie, sweetie, it's January. People are snatching them up. Or, you know, like Faith, she gets reserve offers, and you know, if you're a higher tier, maybe they're all snatching them up.
SPEAKER_05:So yeah, yeah. Well, even she she was posting the other day that she hadn't um when she was talking about getting the f all the all the free ones and accounted against her, so now she's done she's not the tier four or whatever it is.
SPEAKER_06:That's right. So yeah. I never thought about a negative from getting a bunch of freebies, but you know that's probably worth it. Yeah, I'm sure 100% worth it. I mean, they're she still can reserve like four out of the seven days or something like that. Um for me, reserve prices here are just not worth it. And they are for her, and they they you know give her high price there. So um, you know, good for her. I don't I don't blame her at all. And yeah, the free ones are way worth more than than the other ones. So uh well, any gig work this weekend at all?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, like I said, the students be can be coming back in uh with school starting Monday, so it should pick up for sure this weekend.
SPEAKER_06:Okay, yeah. I I last weekend busy with um dance. Davery had a dance competition all day Saturday, and I don't know what I did Sunday. I I watch football, I can tell you that. Um but yeah, I think I'll go out. She doesn't have to go until later. And uh yeah, I I'm Jones in. I'm Jones. I know it's slow. I'm gonna go out with an open mind and say, you know, I'm just I'm I'm not I'm not gonna do what I did in December. It's just not gonna happen. Yeah. If you go out with a I mean, again, I'm very thankful that I don't have it's not a full-time thing. I mean, if I had to do it, I could do it. I would be doing everything. I would have every fucking app on.
SPEAKER_05:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Instacart, DoorDash, Uber Eats. I'd be t I'd be taking rides.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah. Yeah, if you had to, yeah, I know. You do what you gotta do. You do what you gotta do.
SPEAKER_06:So all right, gig economy in the news. First up, I'm sure you all saw uh that the um let me slide this over real quick. That the DoorDash whistleblower working at a food delivery app was not real. And there's really not a lot to say about this other than the fact that this is how you know your company is so bad that hundreds of thousands of people are like, yeah, that tracks. You know what I mean. And I I know that we can this kind of stuff, this written stuff, is is gonna be the tough part of disseminating if it it is AI or not. Like a picture, I'm pretty good at it. A video, every once in a while, TikTok video gets me. You know what I mean? But um, yeah, so it was all bullshit. And uh, you know, it you know how is it that something that's bullshit can get Tony U to comment on it?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, I mean well well they did they put a lot of work into it. I mean it was AI. Uh the person who was doing it did put a lot of work into it and made it, you know, pretty convincing because, like you said, it was it was picked up by you know newspapers and and organizations and and influenced and people all you know just all across the country were were talking about this story, and yeah, it just turns out it was a bunch of BS.
SPEAKER_06:I think the one thing, and we I think we talked about it when we were kind of reading it on the last show that caught me that I thought it might be BS is about the slush fun thing. Because why is this engineer gonna know like that would be something if that legitimate was a good thing?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, any engineer would know about that.
SPEAKER_06:No, no, because you're gonna keep that shit secret. Oh, yeah, you know, especially if you're doing something like that. So that was kind of keyed me in on like, uh, I think this might be bullshit, but yeah, here here we are, 2026. This is the AI revolution, like we're we're living through it. You know, our kids, uh our kids, our um great grandkids are gonna be like, oh man, well, we'll be dead. But um, you know, just talking about like the AI and like how and they're gonna be like, you guys fell for this because it's gonna be like amazing, right?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, it's only like I said, you know, that it's it's only gonna get better. Um I think this will be the year also you know, we see a lot more people pushing back against it.
SPEAKER_06:Well, did you I don't know if you knew this, um, that YouTube does not monetize stuff that's a fully AI channel. Like you can do some AI and you have to label it and stuff, but if it's like completely created, and I don't know how they know, they're they say no, we're not gonna monetize that, which I thought was pretty cool.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, yeah. I remember I think we we might have talked about that or I read it somewhere, but yeah, yeah, that that you know that that's probably a good policy to have.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, and it especially they're creating it too, so it's like they're kind of shooting their own self in the foot by saying that, but I really I'm actually kind of you know, I was kind of excited when I heard that. Like at least somebody's kind of standing up to a little bit, but I think the AI is gonna become so good that it won't matter. We'll just want to watch it.
SPEAKER_05:It's getting wild, yeah. I mean, uh like I I I know I read an article uh a few weeks ago, like one of the country music charts that had like three three of the top 50 artists were AI. No, yeah, yeah. It was not like the Billboard chart or it wasn't you know the big one like that. Okay. But it was it was a it was it was a significant, you know, a music tracking chart. And yeah, I think I think two two or three, at least two of them were were AI.
SPEAKER_06:That's wild. It doesn't surprise me. But again, in in 30, 40 years, it's gonna be like everyday stuff, and then it's gonna be like I don't think, yeah, I don't think it'll take that long. No, but but like you said, will we band together and say, no, we're not tolerating this?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, enough is enough. That are we're gonna run out of energy and clean water.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, oh my god. They are real they're I don't know about by you, but we have three or four locations around the county that they're they're looking at. They're making push.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, I mean, you know, 15 uh miles from here, uh, there's a little town called Franklin, that's where my mom and sister live, and they're looking at building two two there. And uh I think we talked about last week when I was up in in out right outside of DC visiting uh family. There's I mean, my brother-in-law was pointing out to me, data center after data center after data center, and they will come in, they'll offer these people, you know, four or five times what this land's worth. And I mean, who's not gonna sell? You know, most people will. You might get you'll get some holdouts, but but they're buying up and building just as fast as they can. And it's you know, yeah, it's it's gonna be interesting to see how it all shakes out.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I mean, I want to say I want to be mad at the farmer that does it, but like I mean, they're may they're millionaires all of a sudden, you know. It's well sure, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Or even you know, even if you knew the land was worth four million or worth a million and somebody comes and offers you four or five million for it, it's hard to turn down.
SPEAKER_06:Well, honestly, it falls back onto the I feel like the uh the government or uh the local government to deny it. Like they're kind of the key holder, really. Um you know, but yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, I didn't did you did you see where uh Microsoft has pledged that um wherever they build their data centers that they're gonna eat the cost of the increased electricity? And what it will so the people in the town won't have to pay extra?
SPEAKER_06:See why so can dumb this down for me, Larry. Why would I have to pay extra for electricity?
SPEAKER_05:Because there's there's it's gonna it's scarcity, it's supply and demand. If there's if it's if there's less electric they use so much power, if there's less electricity, it's gonna cost more.
SPEAKER_06:So you're saying they're using so much that we're not gonna have enough. Well, not me.
SPEAKER_05:It's well they're trying, you know how it is, they they charge you more, they want people to use less.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I guess. So they pledge to eat that cost.
SPEAKER_05:That's what they yeah, that's what they that's what they've said. Yeah, it came out, I don't know, a few days ago.
SPEAKER_06:Well, the Microsoft is the one that's trying to build here. There's like three of them, they're like iron, so we shall see.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, because uh in that same article, I think it said like the average cost last year where they built these data centers in in these towns, like the the cost of electricity went up like 270%. I mean it was ridiculous. For the homeowner?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:For everybody, everybody in that town, everybody in that area.
SPEAKER_06:That's crazy. Yeah. Y'all talking shit about solar. You want to be putting up them panels now?
SPEAKER_05:Might be throwing them up, man. Need to.
SPEAKER_06:We're gonna see, we're gonna so solar has kind of died out, obviously. Administration, sure, but a lot of these companies were shady. Like even the one that I used, bankrupt. Um they were they were on, they were I I'm not saying they were shady, but they were along a lot longer, but then just I I don't know. I don't know what happened, but yeah, they're they're out of business. Yeah. Um, so yeah, I I think we're gonna see it come back a little bit.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, I yeah, yeah, you know how it is. The pendulum will swing back to the other way after a while. Uh for sure. And new administration will come in and everything will change.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. Just uh programming note. How is TikTok looking? Is it is it up? Have you looked at it or not?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, you want to see it?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Well, I can't see much, but yeah, it looks okay. Yeah, awesome.
SPEAKER_06:Perfect. Bubba City, that happened in New Jersey.
SPEAKER_05:Uh prices up over 200%. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Well, you said 270, so I mean that that kind of tracks.
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Man, my I'm glad I got my solar. I mean, I don't know.
SPEAKER_05:Can you imagine you're sitting here and then all of a sudden your electric bill goes up 270%?
SPEAKER_06:Well, it's already high. I mean, okay, I charge an electric car, but like I'm at without because let's face it, in the winter I don't get much solar production. Obviously, especially if it's a rough winter, but yeah, my bills in the summer with charging and AC blasting are like 80 bucks a month. Right now, I just paid a bill of 299. 299 dollars. So again, I'm charging and it's cold, so it's like I'm charging a little bit more, but like without that, with that solar, it really helps a ton.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, I'm sure. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:All right, Larry, California law.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, so this is uh this is uh TikTok that uh we'll play, and it's a new law but went in effect, and and I can get behind their their intention, but uh as they stayed in here, I can see a lot of room for abuse on this. So yeah, we'll play it then and talk about it.
SPEAKER_09:Anybody using Uber Eats or DoorDash to get your food? Well, as of January 1st, 2026, an amazing new thing is happening. If you get your order wrong or if the food is not delivered, they are required to give you a full refund.
SPEAKER_05:Well, I like said, I mean, people you you already have people that um people that that claim that their order's not there.
SPEAKER_06:Or use AI to show like their food is bad. Exactly.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah. So uh I I I do like that um as a you know, as a as a customer, I would love the fact that you're supposedly gonna be able to get a hold and talk to at least a real person. Yeah. That that's a huge improvement. But yeah, I mean, what do you think? You didn't think this is gonna get abused a lot by the customer?
SPEAKER_06:Well, yeah, she said I I smell potential if you smell it. I mean it's it's they're cooking it right underneath your nose. Yeah, I don't think it's I mean, I understand because it is frustrating. I I do see uh even people in my local Facebook group and they're like, Oh my gosh, you know, I'm I'm having trouble with this, you know, and I can't, they won't refund it. I'm like, listen, just keep on them. Yeah, just keep starting on it. They eventually will. They're waiting for you to be waiting for you to get tired, and then then then they got their money. So so I like that fact as a customer that that can happen, but like, how is that gonna be sustainable?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, I don't know. I yeah, it's yeah, it's just such a different way of you know doing things that that uh you know we've gotten used to, but again, there's just so much potential potential. You have these people that you know they haven't been interviewed by anybody, you don't know what their background is, and they're delivering food, and then uh there's just so many people looking for a free meal or or you know, a way to scam these apps.
SPEAKER_06:Well, there's gotta be some there's gotta be like some sort of caveat, like what how many times can you do this? You know, they gotta be yeah, they gotta have some sort of rule in place because otherwise, again, people are just gonna go rampant and be like, oh, my food's bad and blah, blah, blah. And I just don't they understand when they do that though? Like if it's if when they're lying, that's basically stealing.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, yeah, people don't care.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, and you're not stealing just from DoorDash, you're stealing from the restaurant that you like to eat at.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, yeah. And then when they go out of business and you're like, oh man, what happened? Yeah, what happened? You know, yeah, you stole all their money, idiot.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, and and I and I'm hoping that the restaurant doesn't take yeah, I would be interested to see if they have to pay all their money back too. I mean, they made the food, they had the labor, and all of a sudden I gotta give all my profit back because dipshit lot I mean, I'm not saying they're all lying, but he decided that he wanted to give a you know, get a free meal. I don't know. Seems like it could be a big problem.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, I that'll be another one that we can hopefully follow up next, you know, in in six months or a year and see see what people are saying about it.
SPEAKER_06:Well, weren't you gonna follow up on that lawsuit one? Did you apply for any? Well, you apply the the one I sent.
SPEAKER_05:I did, I did.
SPEAKER_06:But that was separate from the the video. No, I have not done the other one. Oh my gosh. You talk about a side hustle and it's you. Uh all right. Moving on, this was freaking hilarious. This was in the Reddit. I'm gonna click on this link because I want to read some of the comments. Um Spark driving, so right up uh Bubba Sue's alley. This picture. Excuse me. God, I'm drinking this water and it's making me weird. Shout out to my Walmart shopper for picking me out one single broccoli florette. Not a crown, not a head, just a broccoli nugget. It will make a wonderful garnish. And uh for the audio listeners, the picture it cost the the customer five cents for one head of broccoli. Um, apparently that's what the shopper thought it was. Some of the comments. Uh, let's see. I can see how it happened. Your spark driver was obviously inexperienced with broccoli in the in the terms around stocks, crowns, florets, at least you weren't overcharged. And then somebody said it's inexperienced with broccoli, the funniest thing I've heard today. So it it is interesting. Um, it says fresh broccoli crowns. So if you don't know what a you know a crown is, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.
SPEAKER_05:I can understand it. You know, people there's some people who just don't eat broccoli. I mean, until I until I married my wife, I'd never eat I never ate broccoli. Really?
SPEAKER_06:What I don't understand is how Walmart let him weigh that because normally if you're way under or way over, it's like, hey, yeah, something's wrong, it's gonna kick it out. You gotta adjust, but he literally had to take a because they sell them in crowns in the big you know bundles or whatever you call them crown, and then he had to take, huh? But not one crown. No, well, he had to peel it off. Yeah, he had to break so somebody else got a gypped out one because he peeled off that one, but um at least they got a laugh on it, you know what I mean.
SPEAKER_05:But yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_06:Someone was saying that a lot of the workers don't even know what the some of the like they were talking about, like crazy vegetables and stuff like star fruit and stuff, they don't even know what it is, you know. And I'm like, well, you should kind of know what it is if you uh Bubba Sue, what the slamming us, I tell you. Uh I mean, she's not wrong.
SPEAKER_05:No, I can't argue with her.
SPEAKER_06:I can't argue with her. We don't have a good track record of shopping. And that's the thing though. If you do it 10, 15 times as a male shopper, wouldn't you figure it out pretty quick? You would think so. Like, are you just don't care? And that's it. Like, I honestly, this is how good I am. I'm gonna brag, okay? When they ask for like seven bananas, I get three that are ready and the rest green.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, look at you.
SPEAKER_06:Look at me.
SPEAKER_05:I tell you what, using that smart.
SPEAKER_06:Tit me, bitch. Bring it. Yeah. So, you know, if you're gonna get broccoli, make sure you get a whole crown. It's a big little I want to say it's a bundle with a rubber band on the bottom, usually fucking get that. Yeah. All right, moving on. Um Amazon Flex. There you go.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, so uh for audio listeners, this is a note uh that somebody got in their Amazon Flex app. It says get rewarded for safe driving behavior. Uh starting January 6th, delivery partners in your region can download a third-party app called Road Club, which awards points when you demonstrate safe or improved habits behind the wheel. You can then redeem these points for digital gift cards from Road Club. Amazon is not affiliated with Road Club and you you and will not receive your driving data from the Road Club app. Sure. Yeah. So you look on their website and it says they don't sell your data.
SPEAKER_06:The the the separate app or or flu not the flex app, but the looking at I looked at the road club app on their website.
SPEAKER_05:You know, on their FAQ, people are worried about you know privacy. It says we don't sell your data. Okay. They got they have to be selling something to make money. Yeah, how are they making money? Yeah. Now maybe they don't give away your individual data. There may there may maybe there's nothing that you know that would identify you, but they've got to be selling data. They've got to be selling the like the driving data.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Uh things like that. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:I just don't trust Amazon enough to not get it. Because like, I mean, how terrible would it be if you got kicked off because like they found out that you like breaked hard.
SPEAKER_05:Although then they would be I But can't they do that in their app anyway? Tell if you're breaking hard?
SPEAKER_06:I mean Yeah, they can a little bit. I don't know how much can. Well, it's Uber can if you give them access to motion and fitness. Like that when you download the app, it asks you if you want that. I don't think it's required. Um, but if you click on that, they get more access to the movement of the phone, I guess. So um yeah, I'm not I'm not downloading it because um I just don't trust that it's not gonna affect me somehow in the long run. And no one wants that, you know.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, and you know, I mean yeah like if you were a full-time flex driver, it might, you know, might be worth it. But I mean But I mean, how much are you really gonna get? Like Right, right. How much how much are you gonna get like how much are you gonna get? You know, all year you get a$25 gift card from somewhere.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I mean if it was someone like Faith and it was it was I mean, I know she won't do it either, but if it was managed like if it was enough, like like Octopus when they were good when you could get earn up to like a hundred dollars a month, I mean that that's well worth it in my opinion. But is it worth it risking? I mean, I'm not saying they're gonna do that, but like we have a tendency not to trust these gig apps for you know and for validation. Yeah, their past history for sure, assholes. Yeah. But yeah, I won't be doing it, but God bless you if you do. If you find out anything good about it, let us know.
SPEAKER_05:I guess it's another way they're trying to, you know, throw it out as another benefit, I guess, to drivers. And I understand that, you know, it's it's not it's always nice to get get something that you kind of consider, you know, it's for you're not doing anything really for anything that you're not already doing. It's kind of for free.
SPEAKER_06:Right. Right. I mean, I I like I like reward stuff. I mean, that's that's something that I I'm always uh like with case uh I go to sorry, I'm looking for a picture. I realize it's not in the rundown, or it's uh it's it used to be come and go, but now it's Casey's. Like I always use my app, even if I'm buying something for a dollar.
SPEAKER_05:Oh yeah, we have Casey's here. They took over the town.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, so we yeah, we started with come and go. Yeah, we started with minute marks. Oh, really? Yeah, they were all minute marks for years and years. Okay. Okay, yeah. And uh and now and now it's Casey's. What do you uh what do you think of their pizza?
SPEAKER_05:You know, I don't know that I've had it yet.
SPEAKER_06:Really?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Is it good? Their pizza is is is really good.
SPEAKER_05:Okay.
SPEAKER_06:It's really like I that is my my new pizza place, you know, my go-to. Like if I'm going to get some road road food, it almost it almost sounded sexual like Rudhead. I don't know why I bought. I don't know why I paused. Go to Casey's. Well, there's nothing wrong with road food, but it just sounded gross. Yeah. Um, like I'll go get a monster and a slice of pizza. Now, granted, if it's not piping hot, it's not obviously as good. But uh, I love it.
SPEAKER_05:I if I see the the minute march, not all of them, but the one that's closest to us, to my house. Um they had um oh what was the pizza they had in there before?
SPEAKER_06:Was it CC's?
SPEAKER_05:No, I can't remember. Oh my gosh, that's driving me crazy. I'll think of it later.
SPEAKER_06:Uh it was got called Godfathers. Godfathers, they're in a lot of gas stations. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah. So they were in that that's what used to be in there. But yeah, I don't think I don't I'll have to go in there and and try it out.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I can see why when because like when Casey's bought Come and Go, they immediately should because Come and Go had like a full little restaurant back there, and it was good food. But obviously I didn't know much about Casey's, but if they're doing pizza, the minute they bought them, even though the pizza didn't get there for like six, eight months, they shut down the food. Yeah. I don't know if they just didn't want to, I don't know why. Maybe they just didn't want to deal with it. Didn't want to deal with it, I guess, which I don't blame them.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Uh moving on. Uh oh, I did download it. Okay, I did it twice. That's okay. Uh, this is helps to label things. Uh got this from Faith. Uh, I did a TikTok on it too, and it's getting some traction because you know, anytime I could talk about women or men drivers, um she got this. Uh I think she was requesting a ride and obviously requested a woman. And it says uh maybe it's not her. I just was assuming. Women drivers are busy right now. You can consider switching to a driver of any gender for a faster pickup in 11 minutes. Your new price is gonna go up five cents if you want a male. Five cents. So I it was funny. That's what I posted. I'm like, man, men are expensive or something like that. That was the title.
SPEAKER_05:Well, I mean, I obviously five cents is a mistake. I mean, it should have been five dollars, right?
SPEAKER_06:Oh, yeah, of course. Of course, we're worth it. We're worth it. But, you know, and then the the typical comments were coming in like, well, how is that fair? They're gonna I want to file a lawsuit. And one guy was like, Well, I'm a gay, or I'm a gay man, and and I I want I don't want a crazy male, or what did I say? He said something like, Well, why is this the case? And I was like, Because men are creepy. He goes, Well, yeah, I know I'm a gay man, but I still don't I still don't want a man driver. Like he was basically saying he wanted a female driver, sure. And um obviously he can't request that as a male, so it's only female to female, but um, yeah, people were all got their undies in a bunch about um you know having the option um to have a man.
SPEAKER_05:All I want I want all I want is somebody who doesn't you know doesn't drive like an idiot, who knows what they're doing, has a relatively clean car and gets me there. I don't care if it's man or woman, who cares?
SPEAKER_06:No, I don't either. Some people do, and I'm glad that they have that option, but sure, uh for sure.
SPEAKER_05:But yeah, I uh I don't really care as long as it's a safe ride and you know because I I mean I I thoroughly understand if if I was a female, I think I would want a female driver.
SPEAKER_06:Well, especially if I mean, honestly, if you had been attacked in the past, yeah, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, and I mean yeah, and so many women you know are unfortunately.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, yeah, that's it's not great. So uh all right, Larry, moving on. We're gonna be able to, which I'm having some deja vu with this article because I swear to God we talked about this like a year and a half ago, but they're gonna offer um some airport kiosks for people that don't have phones.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, so yeah, Uber is introducing uh physical you know kiosk uh at places like airports. They're gonna start out the first one in LaGuardia in New York. It's so these um, you know, and it and and it makes sense when they uh you get kind of more to the story. It says these kiosks are kind of designed for people who um who may have come in off uh you know an international flight or something. Uh they don't have a a data plan yet. Yeah, they haven't got their phone, they don't have international calling, all that kind of stuff. So that does make sense. So the kiosk is gonna have a large touch screen, it's gonna have a credit card reader and a receipt printer. Uh says the booking experience is very similar to what you would you know do on the app. It's just on a on a kiosk. So um, but here it says, you know, they're doing this at a at a really good time, uh strategic time, because a lot of the major events that are coming in the United States next year, they're gonna have international travelers, which include you know the World Cup. That's gonna draw uh a gazillion people here. Uh but here's the thing uh that that surprises me.
SPEAKER_06:Okay.
SPEAKER_05:It says despite being a market share leader in the United States, only 15% of adults in Uber's top markets have ordered either rides or deliveries. Fifteen percent. So say that again. So uh in in Uber's top markets, only 15% of adults have ordered a ride or an Uber Eats delivery. Only 15%. Really? That seems very low to me. So yeah. New York, like the big city that was, yeah, San Francisco, Chicago, all those people. 15. That's what they say. That's from Uber's that's from Uber's uh uh reporting.
SPEAKER_06:So they're saying this is why we're doing this.
SPEAKER_05:Uh well, it's just an another way, uh, you know, um, you know, just making it available uh another option, you know, uh for people. So it says, you know, Uber's for now they're gonna own and maintain the kiosk, uh, but in the future that may evolve. So could have gig work going out to work on these kiosks or reprogram them or whatever. So yeah, over the last year, Uber's uh spent a lot of money and time adapting its product to address a wider range of customers, uh, their needs. Uh and you know, they said they've debuted the simpler app interface for elderly people, they've launched the ride pass for commuters, and they've expanded this uh low-cost shuttle rides, you know, in different places in the U.S. Uh said it's uh also announced it's adding two shuttle routes between New Jersey's new Newark airport and Manhattan.
SPEAKER_06:So I wonder how that works though. Like it's almost like you really so you request the ride, do you have to write down on a pen and paper like what your car looks like, you know, to find it. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_05:What on the kiosk ride?
SPEAKER_06:Well, yeah, so you you order the ride, and then normally when you're on your phone, you order it, then it tells you what kind of car it is, right?
SPEAKER_05:Well, that's that's I'm sure all that's gonna pop up, either pop up on the kiosk or be on your receipt.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I was okay. It would have to be on a receipt because after you go to the kiosk, you're gonna walk away from it so somebody else can use it.
SPEAKER_05:Take a picture of it.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I mean, yeah, that guess that's true. I was just saying it just to me, I'm always looking at my phone. Okay, he's almost here. Okay.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, you're not gonna obviously not gonna be able to track him or any of that, but I mean, you I guess as soon as you order it, you know, it'll tell you, I'm sure it'll give you like it does when you first order a ride on your phone, it'll tell you at approximate time, and so you'll know when to walk to the ride share area or something like that.
SPEAKER_06:And obviously they'll be able to put their phone number in there and they'll get a text with like the receipt or maybe a text with the information.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, well, it says they have a receipt printer in the kiosk.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, a paper printer, okay. Yeah, so we're going back to old school.
SPEAKER_05:Which yeah, that's that's gonna cause nothing but trouble. Yeah, it's gonna jam.
SPEAKER_06:They better have a backup, like a text, you know, they can send them a text.
SPEAKER_05:Exactly. Yeah, something. But yeah, I mean they've you know they've they've had this available on computers uh you know for years. Or you can order a ride on uh through a website, so it's not it's not anything new, it's just kind of where they're putting it in it's a standalone.
SPEAKER_06:I don't understand why they think that's gonna be the key to raise the 15%. I don't know if that's it. That's crazy to me.
SPEAKER_05:It that does. It seems crazy. And that may not, you know, that might again, it just may be in the same article. I don't I don't think that necessarily that that's uh because there it's kind of this one is saying it's you know it's more pointed toward international people, or that's why they're doing a lot of it now.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, which is fair. Yeah, so I I actually kind of like the rideshare game just to do the fact like and I don't travel a lot, but like I definitely don't travel out of seas unless I'm going to Mexico. Um and uh it's just cool that you can drop in and not get ripped off by a I mean you're gonna get ripped off by Uber, but at least you're not gonna get really ripped off by like a local.
SPEAKER_05:You just Right, he's gonna yeah, drive around in circles and charge you ten times the rate.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, for sure. For sure. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, and and you know, that's one of the things I've I've had, you know, international people here, you know, I remember I specifically remember an Indian guy who's here for work, and he's like, I love Uber app because he's like, it doesn't matter where I go. I don't have to I don't have to download a new app. I just yeah, open up my app and it works. Yep, the old matter from here, India, you know, China, you know, China, Japan, you know, wherever he's at.
SPEAKER_06:The only issue is make sure you have a data plan because it's not gonna work otherwise.
SPEAKER_05:That's right. Unless you're on Wi-Fi, I guess.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I was like, it's seamless until you have no internet, then it's not seamless. It doesn't matter what you have on your phone.
SPEAKER_05:So well, and and that how isn't that the story of our life?
SPEAKER_06:Oh gosh. If we get it like we talk an EMP go off and lose all we're done. We're toast.
SPEAKER_05:Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. People sickway people power, man. Yeah, sick way people's power, and it doesn't take long, they'll be killing each other.
SPEAKER_06:Dude, I speaking of that, I watched a TikTok, some guy was fixing and had an emergency fix and he had to shut the power off. And this old man just well, how long is it gonna be off? Uh conservatively, an hour. And then he's like, What's well what do you think? He goes, three hours. Well, why? He's just screaming at him, and he's like, Why did you like sir? It was an emergency. And I'm like, he's losing his mind over three hours of power. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:And I'm three hours.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. Like you said, we're gonna start killing each other if we you know.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, because people don't know how to do anything.
SPEAKER_06:Well, I'm telling you, you and I will be okay, you and I will be okay. But like all these Xenials and under, they're gonna be like, oh, what the fuck?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, yeah. You don't know how to start a fire or do certain things. Yes.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, you're gonna be hurting. You're gonna be hurting, that's for sure. Waymo in the news. All right, Waymo in the news. Uh well, we'll play it. You don't, there's not much explanation. I'm not sure I'll play the whole thing. I didn't watch it all the way through. It looks like it's 90 seconds, but yeah. All right, here we go.
SPEAKER_02:Oh shit, the Waymo's on the track. What an idiot. Here comes the train. Oh, get out, get out, get out. Damn.
SPEAKER_08:And here it comes, dude.
SPEAKER_07:Oh shit.
SPEAKER_06:Can you hear me? Yeah, okay. I think the the thing is you can't yell at the driver because there's no fucking driver in here.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, but the dude hopped out, man. Yeah. I wouldn't have waited that long, I don't think.
SPEAKER_06:Oh man. Now I want to see what happens.
SPEAKER_02:Here's its solution. Oh no, he's in the reverse.
SPEAKER_06:Where's the train? Obviously they're not like regular trains. They can slow down. Yeah, yeah, these are light rail. Good job, cameraman. Well, show us where the how close the train is.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, you can see in an earlier clip when you painted to the left. It's yeah, it's uh, you know, it's uh not too much not too far.
SPEAKER_06:No, I just wondered if it actually had stopped or if it stopped. It stopped okay. Okay. Well, we did watch the whole 90 seconds because we were kind of interested to see. I was gonna see what was gonna happen. Yeah, um, again, how does that even happen? That track has probably been there for a hot second. Uh yeah, yeah, I don't think it's new. Yeah, they didn't just pour concrete in the last six months. You know what I mean? So why how is this even happening? I mean, I don't know why we expect it to be perfect, but I do.
SPEAKER_05:We do, we do, and you know, if we saw a person driving there, we'd be like, ah, it was a dumbass. What are you driving on the, you know, why is he doing that? But yeah, you see this, you're like, it's not supposed to happen.
SPEAKER_06:Well, right. We're giving you the access to our public lives with this killing machine. Yeah, you should not drive on the fucking train track.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Like, I'm out. I'm I'm glad that passenger got out, too. I would be like, I'm out of here.
SPEAKER_05:Oh, my goodness, yeah. Yeah, I imagine, man. You can imagine we in there and not paying attention. All of a sudden you look up and you're on the tracks and there's a train coming. Oh gosh. Yeah, yeah. I'd be soon up for emotional distress.
SPEAKER_06:Something. Might as well get your get your bag for sure. Um all right, so this dasher left his car and drive, so there's only not much to say about that other than he's a dumbass. So we'll watch that real quick. Nope, that's not it. Oops, there we go. Well, the the boys were polite. He was the boy was like, hey, your car's move. Like, just what's moving? Yeah. First of all, very low-key. Yeah, very low-key. Uh, impressed with the guy's move. Like, he, bigger guy, he moved pretty quick. But I don't understand how it was sitting there and not moving, and then it's just slowly creeped.
SPEAKER_05:Like, yeah, I think he slept it in neutral. You know how it's I mean, just you know, gravity going on it.
SPEAKER_06:I don't know. What does driveway go like this? Usually the grade goes the other way.
SPEAKER_05:I don't know. Yeah, it's a good question. What caused it to start moving uh and why why'd it take it that long? But that's the only thing I can kind of think of. Yeah. That maybe he had I thought he put it in part but put it in neutral, and it was you know, just a slight incline, and and after a little bit it started creeping forward.
SPEAKER_06:Um I can also um say that kid's gonna be a future Door Dasher because he held his phone up to the guy. Did you see that? Like I was like, Oh, you're gonna you're gonna be a a shitty DoorDash driver. Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, so for the audio listeners, uh, so yeah, this guy's delivering DoorDash. And uh uh he's about halfway through the delivery, and like you his car's in the driveway, and it just starts kind of starts slowly rolling forward, and then when the kid's like, Oh, hey, dude, your your car's moving. And the guy runs out, that's a pretty good, you know, I'm almost almost sliding across the hood of the car there, getting around it. Yeah. Uh and uh like I said, pretty pretty good sized boy, but yeah, he gets in there and stops it, and he's like, Oh man, that that that that could have been a real disaster.
SPEAKER_06:Right, right, for sure. Yeah, be be careful, make sure you uh definitely put your shit in park. I don't know why we have to remind you of that, but hey, it is what it is.
SPEAKER_05:It is. It's just one of those friendly little reminders from your your friends at the gig economy might save you.
SPEAKER_06:I got a funny story. So I was multitasking when we were talking about this, and some guy uh joined named Tom, and I thought it was Tom from Chicago.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Well, then I clicked on his uh promo and it's like a bunch of porn or promo. What a fucking idiot. His logo, and it's a bunch of like porno. Like yeah. And I was like, okay, I don't think this is Tom from Chicago. So I was like, eh, delete ban. Because like that, our link for Telegram to join the chat, which is in the description, is open for anybody. Like it's an open chat. So sometimes we get some uh some scammer. So I replied, hey Tom, and then he started typing, and I was like, I'm gonna take a look at this uh little uh his profile pick. Oh sweet god. Nope. That's that's not the right guy.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, because I I have my Telegram on too and my notifications popped up. So I saw him join and saw you say hi, and then I was gonna mention something about it. Hey, Tom.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I was too. I mean, maybe it's him, maybe it is a uh another listener. I don't know. I would uh that just re joined, but I was just worried we were gonna get a bunch of uh not there's anything wrong with it, but gay porn in the chat, and I was like, I don't want to deal with this right now.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, we we don't need that right now. We don't need any porn show anything.
SPEAKER_06:I don't want to see it. Do that on your own time.
SPEAKER_05:Exactly. Teach their own.
SPEAKER_06:All right, Faith, share this. This uh zooks ride. So it's kind of a little, what is it? Uh how to?
SPEAKER_05:Uh yeah, well, it's just I and and yeah, we'll play the video, but I right before we do, it the the most surprising thing about me to me in this video, they've been operating out there for seven years already. Seven years? Yeah. Did you believe that? It wasn't open to the public. They were mapping and experimenting. Seven years.
SPEAKER_06:I mean, that that that was like three years before COVID, really. Yeah. That's crazy. That is crazy. All right, we'll watch it real quick. It's a news story, so it's probably boring.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it's a lot. Well, for the past seven years, Zux has been here in Las Vegas with its autonomous robotaxis learning the roads and advancing AI.
SPEAKER_00:And finally, they are open to the public. They are offering free rides all along the Las Vegas Strip. Foxar Sophia Brunswick spoke with the company about how the launch has gone so far.
SPEAKER_01:Did you know that Zux has been in Las Vegas since 2019? This is the stop at Resorts World, and I'm gonna go on a ride in my first ever Zooks, and I'm feeling very excited. The company tells me that they have plans to expand further in Las Vegas. It all starts in the app where you order the vehicle.
SPEAKER_04:And then you literally just hit open doors.
SPEAKER_01:Seat belts are required. Use the touch screen to close the door. Just hit the button. Oh god. Here we go. But it's more lenient than a typical ride. Eating and drinking is allowed, even alcohol.
SPEAKER_04:All you want to do is create your space, your cabin. This gives people time back.
SPEAKER_01:The Zooks has no steering wheel. Instead, it's bi-directional.
SPEAKER_04:So we can go this way, we can go that way. There's really no front of the vehicle.
SPEAKER_01:Made in the United States with leg room, the option to face other passengers, and even soothing sound. But some may have concerns after this video was posted at the start of the new year.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I mean, that's something we're we're looking at and investigating. We're always, you know, trying to better the service and better the driving as well.
SPEAKER_01:Do we know if there's like people in it at that time?
SPEAKER_04:I don't believe so.
SPEAKER_01:We asked if law enforcement assisted. And with more than 100 safety patents, Zux says its vehicles are built to be safer than human drivers and doesn't get distracted. Using technology, including infrared heat sensing, to detect people, even when they're not easily visible.
SPEAKER_04:This is such an amazing city. It's also uh a great place for us to bring something that's never been brought before to life, similar to the sphere and other type.
SPEAKER_06:Okay, I can't take it anymore. I thought it was gonna be more like inside the car and seeing more of it.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, you get that one little scene inside the car, yeah. So uh yeah, for the audio listeners, yeah, it was just showing how you they do have our an app that you order the Zooks. Uh right now they're for free rides. So uh, but I I'm not sure how many people fit in there. Uh but you you know, everything's done through your app. But um yeah, there's it's there's no steering wheel in the car. It's a completely autonomous vehicle. Oh, there is no option to drive. And there's no front or back. It can go, it'll go either way. Really? Yeah, there's no front there's no front or back of the car.
SPEAKER_06:Well, I can see that, but I didn't it would so it can yeah. So it doesn't have to back out, it can just well, it's backing out, but it's going the other way.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Even though that's you know that's wicked because you would think like you're backing out, like you're supposed to back out, although it's probably not doing a lot of backing, honestly.
SPEAKER_05:Probably not, but yeah, you know, both both uh the front and the back look the same. You know, there's yeah, uh it's not like there's a front end and a back end on it. It's uh it's very different looking. But uh yeah, it's just hard to believe that they've been they've been testing this for for that long.
SPEAKER_06:You know what? I'm fucking ha ecstatic they've been testing that long because Waymo needs to do that.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_06:You know what I mean? We need to get Faith out there and and record a video, yeah, yeah, in one. I mean, I know she doesn't like to go down to the strip because why would you? But yeah, that would be uh that would be super cool.
SPEAKER_05:Um take one for the team, go record some content for us.
SPEAKER_06:We'll we'll even pay we'll pay for your ride. How about that?
SPEAKER_05:That's right, we'll pay for your zooks.
SPEAKER_06:She's rich.
SPEAKER_05:She can pay well and they're free.
SPEAKER_06:Oh, they're free right now? Yeah. Yeah. I like how it said it um it kind of like shit on the other one because it said you can eat and drink in here, even alcohol.
SPEAKER_05:That's right, man.
SPEAKER_06:So party adapt. So it's so it must be a rule in the Waymo's that you're not supposed to eat and drink, I would assume.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, I'm I'm pretty sure that's the case. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06:Well, it's ugly as sin, but hey, it's kind of cool. I like the tech. So it's the job done. Hopefully it doesn't kill anybody. All right. Uh so we've all seen the delivery van or the delivery cars. Fuck. Try again. The delivery robots uh get stuck in the snow or fall off the curb. Well, in in China, they have this, but these are big ass vans and they're they're autonomous. And so a 39-second video is uh it's pretty crazy. They get it done, man. They they get it done. So here we go.
SPEAKER_08:Let's go. Chinese delivery fans are going fire up because they just got the job done.
SPEAKER_03:Look at the work. It's time for nobody. Oh my god. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_05:Holy shit. Oh my goodness, this is not good. That last one was not good.
SPEAKER_06:No, I hope that what no one was on that scooter because holy shit.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, man. So yeah, these things were going through snow. They were going cement on this bumpy ass road and going bumping up and down. Yeah, there's a big giant area where these people were laying cement, and the guy was trying to hold his shovel behind the to keep the van, to keep it from going in there, and it was like, nah, I'm going. I'm going.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, like hopefully it would like a sensor would see it and it would stop.
SPEAKER_05:It didn't. Nope.
SPEAKER_06:Um how is any package not broken in that frickin' thing?
SPEAKER_05:Especially that one that was hitting those bumps, man. That thing was hopping.
SPEAKER_06:Oh my gosh. Oh, man. Hey, Rick, thanks for joining. We're just wrapping up. Yup, uh, hope you're having a good day. Yeah, hey, Rick. Um, yeah, so don't this is why your shit breaks when you get it from Timu.
SPEAKER_04:So Yes, it is. Yep.
SPEAKER_06:All right. We'll hit the last story. Oh, we got two more. We probably could sneak them in. Uber Eats and Dart Ash are allegedly blocking tipping for delivery drivers. Uh, is this this is a new lawsuit?
SPEAKER_05:Uh yeah. Oh, come on, guys. Yeah, yeah, this is recent. Yeah, story just came out uh the other day. So the uh it's in New York City, their Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. They're alleging that Uber Eats and DoorDash redesign their interfaces on their apps in ways that discourage tipping and resulting in more than$550 million in loss tips for delivery drivers. So wow. Yeah, under new work protection laws regarding tips, third-party food and grocery delivery apps must offer a 10% tip option and allow tipping before or during order placement. They also must ensure timely payment of those tips within seven days. And they're prohibited from keeping any tips or using tip credits. I don't know what that means. Uh it says according to the report after after they begin enforcing this uh minimum pay rate for delivery workers in December of 2023, Uber and DoorDash redesigned their apps, uh their interface, making it much more difficult to leave tips for delivery drivers. The study found that tipping decreased immediately after Uber Eats and DoorDash made these changes, going from two dollars an average of two dollars and seventeen cents tip per delivery to just 76 cents per delivery. Oh wow. Yeah, yeah. So approximately$5,800 per worker per year is what was lost through port claims. Damn, that's so much. Yeah. And so of course, you know, uh DoorDash is, you know, no money has been sold from Dashers. Consumers have not been misled. Dashers always receive 100% of tips placed on DoorDash, you know, yada yada yada. You know, they're they're usually spiel about dashers in New York earn an average of almost$30 for an hour while on delivery uh before tips, which is more than many first responders. You know, according to our report, total delivery worker earnings are up by$1.2 billion. Consumers can still tip their dashers easily after delivery. Moving tipping tipping to after checkout isn't novel or anything nefarious. It's how tipping works in most areas of life.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. So I want to know how how does somebody investigate this to figure it out? Like they keep all that stuff super quiet, right? How do they do they get an attorney and the attorney like subpoenas it? Like, I'm just curious when these do come out, who's who's sniffing it out?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, it's a lot of data crunching for sure.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, for sure. But like that's what I'm saying. You have to somehow get a probable cause to get a subpoena from a judge to to to to you know, because they have, hey, this is what we got. We think this is happening. Okay. Uh hey, Uber, you need to submit da-da-da-da-da. I guess, I mean, I mean, I'm only based it on the crime shows I watch on TV. I don't know.
SPEAKER_05:I mean, that's uh that's uh that's what I base my life on.
SPEAKER_06:Pretty much law and order, you know, for sure.
SPEAKER_05:Uh so yeah, I think this one was started by the uh Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. So I think they've been clashing with them for a long time. Yeah. So uh Yeah, you know, of course what what what they say, you know, Uber Eats and and uh DoorDash says what's really happening is that the uh Department of Consumer Protection wants us wants to pressure consumers to tip even more. You know, as we've said before, force forcing people to tip may as well be a tax. It should be up to consumers, not politicians, whether they want to tip more in New York after already paying for a billion dollar raise for workers.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. It's just but you know, if this truly is happening, just why? Why are you are you skimming because you're you're pissed about the new law, and so this is how you're gonna get some of your money back?
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, why would you not want your workers to make more tips?
SPEAKER_06:Thanks, Gov, or thanks, Uber. We appreciate you. Uh last thing before we wrap up, uh uh this we've talked about this quite a bit, but Walmart is expanding its drone delivery. The Alphabet owned Wing announced another expansion with Walmart over the next year. The partnership said drone delivery service will be available at 150 more Walmarts in LA, St. Louis, Cincinnati. Cincinnati is good because that means it gets closer to Michigan. Uh Miami and Metros that have not been announced. According to Wing, its top 25% of customers have ordered its delivery drones up to three times a week to meet the growing demand. Wing and Walmart said it will serve up to 40 million customers and build a network of 278 locations by 2027, which literally is less than a year away. Uh they launched in 2023 in Dallas, Fort Worth, and said in June 2025, Wing and Walmart increased zone delivery 100 more stores. Okay, Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando. I don't see Michigan. So yeah, that's cool. That's about all of the stories, just that they're ramping that up.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah. If uh if I'll try it when if they get it, you know, it says it's coming to St. Louis when I go visit my son sometime. I will definitely try it. Now he lives in an apartment, you know, pretty much downtown. So I was gonna say, I uh I mean ish hood-ish, yeah. Um and I just I don't know if drones would be able to come. I mean, there's a lot of tall buildings, you know, pretty close to him, so I don't I don't know if that would work, but maybe we could just you know drive a little bit out outside, you know, to the kind of the outskirts of the city and sit in a parking lot and order something.
SPEAKER_06:I doubt it. I you're gonna have to have a valid address. They're not gonna just I'll put an address. You're gonna be at the the the viewing section at the airport. They're not just gonna drop you a chicken sandwich.
SPEAKER_05:Definitely definitely not gonna fly any drones by the airport. Right, right. Yeah, I'll just pull up somebody's house, sit in front of their driveway, and order something. For sure.
SPEAKER_06:Oh yeah, I love drones. I mean, I've you know I had one for a while. Love it. I think it's I think it's the future, one of the futures for delivery. Um and it's I think it's gonna be a good tool. You just can't make it. I mean, I don't know how to reduce the sound that sounds like a chopper. You know what I mean? That's that's gonna be the only problem, but yeah, they'll figure that out.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, they'll figure it out. Yeah, he'll build it. I mean if they they came up to what they say, uh a hundred places last year.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah.
SPEAKER_05:Uh what? And now they're going to 150 more.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah. Which is, you know, you're basically doubling plus, you know. Yeah. I think it'll be cool. Uh all right. Ending the show here, patreon.com slash the giggy con podcast at eight ten p.m. Go ahead and get on there for a live extra content, which we always provide at the end of the show. And uh, as always, don't put up with anyone's bullshit. We'll see you on the road. All right, peace out. Yeah, good night, everybody.
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