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to 40 people in the group right now .

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Yeah , we need some new blood . We definitely need

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some new blood . I still have not .

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I've not been out driving for more than a month so

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far , and so , unfortunately

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, when I'm not driving , i'm I'm just too

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get in there . So lots of good stuff

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I'm still driving today . I can tell you that for

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sure .

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, when you got some people you can chat with and bounce

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ideas and vent and Bitch

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and moan and all that fun stuff .

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Bitch and moan there . So

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, of course , lastly here talk about the b

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side . Last week We had a

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very Exciting episode of the b

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side land and I , of course cannot

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. I cannot remember it right now , but it

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was exciting . I can go to you

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and I want you to all to go listen to it . So

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there we go . Hey , larry , any stories in the road

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? because I don't have any , because , oh , i got

5:10

a couple here .

5:11

I got a couple that are somewhat related . So

5:13

couple weeks ago picked up a

5:15

lady in the morning about 10 o'clock in the morning . She

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probably in her 40s and um , she's

5:20

like , wait a minute , i need to find out if I can get a ride

5:22

back before I go over because she was going across town

5:24

. So I was like , okay , whatever . And then she's like mine

5:26

, never mind , just take me to the mint . Well , the mint is

5:29

our gaming hall . It's , it's not

5:31

a casino , but it's , it's all . Slot

5:33

machines is basically what it is . So

5:35

they call them historical race machines

5:37

, but but they're slot machines . So anyway , drop

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her off . She took me 10 bucks for like

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a two mile ride . So that was , that was really nice

5:44

. Dropped her off and then another passenger got

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in . I took him Out to the outskirts

5:48

of town and when he was getting out I managed . I just

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happened to look in the back seat and saw a little change

5:52

purse sitting in there And I didn't figure it was

5:54

his . But I asked him anyway and he's like , no , no , that's

5:57

not mine , it was here when I got in . So it's

5:59

obviously the lady at the mint

6:01

. So figure , i'm gonna look

6:03

in , see if there's a driver's license , some

6:05

some kind of ID or anything . So open

6:07

it up . There's $800 and a little bag of

6:09

meth . So

6:12

I'm like man , oh , my goodness

6:14

. So I'll start heading back toward the mint and this lady

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I'm about two minutes away and she calls me and

6:18

she's frantic . You know which I'm ? I

6:20

can see , because I mean , right , if I was

6:22

a bad guy to steal it , and you know what are you

6:24

gonna do ? call the police and hey , this guy stole my $800

6:27

in my meth you know , anyway

6:29

. And I'm like she's like oh , i

6:31

think you do , i think I left something . your crime , i , you know

6:33

, she's just going you almost in tears . I'm like

6:35

, just chill out , chill out , I've got your stuff

6:37

. I'll be there in a minute , so I'll pull up

6:39

and she comes out and I gave it to her . I'm like , look , i

6:41

looked in there to see if there was an ID . I

6:44

didn't touch your money , i didn't touch your drugs , like

6:46

, but you need to get off that shit because it's gonna kill you . And

6:49

she's like , you know she's half crying . I'm

6:51

trying , i don't know , it's not good for you

6:53

.

6:53

I'm like you know okay , whatever .

6:55

So Fast forward to two days later

6:57

. I'm working on Saturday night . Get

6:59

a call about you know about I don't know , right

7:02

around bar clothes . Okay , 145

7:04

, two o'clock in the morning and um , pick

7:07

up a guy who's ? he's like , cambodian

7:09

, maybe you're Vietnamese , i'm not

7:11

sure , but he spells his name th , a

7:13

, n , g , so thang , pretty much thang

7:15

, yeah . And so pick him up

7:17

and he's going to um , the

7:20

, the neighboring county , which is about it's

7:22

about 30 minutes from us . Okay , so

7:24

we're about halfway there . He doesn't speak great English , but

7:26

he managed to relate to me that he's gonna need

7:28

me to bring him back too . I'm like , well , that's great , because I

7:31

got to drive back anyway . Might as well get paid for you

7:33

know , right ? Yep , so we get , we get

7:35

to this house , we're out in the boonies . I mean , this

7:37

is a very rural , rural town , um

7:39

, very small town and just

7:42

a very rural area . And uh

7:44

, we get there and a guy We put up this

7:46

house , and a guy walks out and gets , you know , comes

7:48

talk to my passenger . And uh , the

7:50

guy's like , hey , we're gonna have to run down the street

7:52

just a little bit . And so I look at my passenger

7:54

. I'm like are you ? are you cool with that ? You

7:56

know you're paying for the ride . And he's like , yes . So

7:59

the guy gets in and we pull out

8:01

and immediately it becomes very apparent

8:03

that this guy is the middleman of

8:05

the drug deal that is going down . Oh

8:08

. So he's like

8:10

, yeah , we're gonna have to go down here a little bit . And then he's bragging

8:13

about um . So he asked my guys

8:15

like so , how much you want ? He's like 200 . No

8:17

, i need $200 for us . And

8:19

The guy's bragging about how he's been

8:21

doing this for eight years . He's never been arrested

8:24

. and And I

8:26

mean , i'm just thinking to myself , i'm like You

8:29

do . You do see , there's a , there's a dash cam

8:31

like right here , and

8:34

so he's , and then , and , and then

8:36

he talks about his day job is get this

8:38

. The dude is a nanny for five kids

8:40

And he's a middleman

8:42

for a drug dealer . So this is perfect , perfect

8:44

. So his

8:47

down the road ends up being 50 miles over

8:49

into the next county , ohio County , right

8:51

. So we get to the drug dealer's house and

8:54

it's got the rebel flag , it's

8:56

got motorcycles everywhere , wonderful

8:58

. In the morning There's people milling around

9:01

And I'm thinking in my mind

9:03

the reason you have a middleman is so

9:05

the dealer's insulated , Right

9:08

? Why are we showing up at the dealer's house , right

9:10

? So , anyway , dude goes in

9:13

. Like he's in there for like 10 minutes . I'm like

9:15

this is getting ready to go sideways . But

9:17

eventually he comes back out . He's like all right

9:19

, i got your , i got it for you . And

9:21

so we drive back to his house and , like

9:23

, when we get back to his house , he starts hitting up my passenger

9:26

, trying to get him to give him a rock of

9:28

this meth . He's like hey , you

9:30

don't really need all that . You can give me some , can't ? she's like

9:32

I really want to get high man , but I don't have no money . And

9:35

my guy's like nope , i need it all . And

9:37

I'm like here's where it's getting ready to get bad . But he

9:39

finally , he's like Okay , okay

9:42

, i'm gonna let you guys go . So he gets out

9:44

And

9:46

and and why , why were you driving

9:48

? the funniest thing , or one of the funny things

9:50

, is the , uh , the middleman guy . He

9:53

asked my passengers like , oh , he's like , what happened to

9:55

that job ? Were you working at delta

9:57

, which there's a factory there called delta faucets

9:59

? Okay , and and

10:01

the . The passengers like , oh , i still work there . Well

10:04

, my sister is , is the HR director

10:06

at this factory . So I'd give

10:08

her a call the next day . I'm like , do you know

10:10

somebody that works for you ? This

10:12

spells his name thang . And

10:15

she's like , oh , yeah , i'm like , well , just so you

10:17

know , i took him to about 200 . I was worth

10:19

a meth last night . And she's like , why do

10:21

you know ? I was like I was right in the middle of it , i

10:23

was right there for it all

10:25

. So

10:28

then I was telling my brother about the next

10:30

day , because the next day was , uh , it was

10:32

uh Memorial Day , right , and

10:34

he's the former police officer . So he put

10:36

me in touch with the buddy , his who's on the drug

10:38

pass , for so that's all getting investigated

10:40

. Because because my camera

10:43

you know my dash cam has the gps built

10:45

in , so it gives you . Longitude

10:47

of their house .

10:48

I mean exactly , and well

10:51

, i gotta , gotta , gotta get cleaned up , right .

10:53

Yeah , so I want at least like a junior

10:55

policeman badge out of it or something .

10:59

Hey , you get the knowledge of knowing . You get some

11:01

bad people off the roads .

11:02

Yeah , definitely So so now

11:04

my wife , her mom joke instead of

11:06

a dad joke every time I go out now . She's like

11:08

, all right now Don't you be out there methin around

11:11

. I

11:14

was like that's a good one , huh .

11:17

That is good . I need to be on your

11:19

line . Don't be out there messing around .

11:21

Exactly , oh goodness .

11:24

Anyway , so that that's good again . Obviously

11:26

, I'm still not driving Um . Uber

11:29

is still taking a good old time with my background

11:31

check . I promise it is fine

11:33

. Everybody out there listening is fine

11:35

. My my driving record came back clean though

11:37

.

11:37

You're almost off parole . You're almost off parole

11:39

, right , i don't . It's any day .

11:41

I was worried about the driving record , but no , that's

11:43

good , So uh

11:45

, but , now the background check is

11:47

delayed and it is because of this new wonderful

11:50

law in michigan . So I guess we'll have to see

11:52

. But I'm hoping to be out driving

11:54

for lift this coming weekend , but we'll have to

11:56

see about that one . So that's that , but here's

11:58

. Here's the economy in the news .

12:01

Economy in the news . All right . The first thing we're

12:03

going to be talking about tonight is lift drivers

12:05

are earning more pay at

12:07

least that's what lift is telling

12:09

us and , uh , anybody who

12:12

drives for lift . We'd love for you to chime in

12:14

and let us know if you've seen any of this . But

12:16

You know the , the two guys

12:19

who started lift . They've they

12:21

uh , you know they bowed out . They're out of the picture

12:23

now . And so we got this new guy

12:25

, david rishner , who , who took over The

12:28

reins , used to work for amazon

12:30

and he's saying that the

12:32

driver and rider experience is his

12:35

top priority , so he'll be competitive

12:37

with uber . And so they said they've adjusted

12:40

the upfront pay And they put

12:42

out a figure that said lift

12:44

drivers averaged over 35 dollars

12:46

in hourly earnings during the first three months

12:48

of the year . I don't know if I believe

12:50

that .

12:52

I know I don't average 35

12:55

. Yeah .

12:56

Yeah , but they

12:58

have . Supposedly they've adjusted , like

13:01

the long rides , and that's that when they did

13:03

the upfront pricing . That's where I saw the big

13:05

hit was on the longer rides . Yeah

13:08

, you just didn't get what you used

13:10

to . I know we used to . We

13:12

used to make $95

13:14

if we picked up somebody in Bowling Green and we

13:16

took them to the Nashville airport , which is

13:18

about an hour and ten minutes . And

13:20

as soon as they did the upfront pricing , the

13:23

first Request I got on lift to

13:25

take someone to Nashville airport , i think

13:27

they offered me $62 , which

13:30

I did not accept . No , and

13:33

I think it went up to 70 something , and

13:35

then I think the last one I got was about 89

13:39

. It was very close to what it used to

13:41

be . So I do believe that they have adjusted

13:44

those Which is good because

13:46

, as me and you were talking earlier I mentioned , the

13:48

lift demand here has dropped off , i think significantly

13:51

, in the last few months . Yeah they're

13:53

gonna have to do something . They're gonna do

13:55

something to keep going .

13:57

It'll be interesting to see how I can

13:59

. I haven't driven for lift in over two Heck

14:02

three years , and so it'll

14:05

be interesting to see just how bad

14:07

it is here in Grand Rapids . I mean , i go on , i

14:09

go on the app once in a while just to kind of

14:11

look at it and I mean I see , i see the color

14:13

of the area . So Which

14:16

is the lift search ?

14:17

right , yeah , we , we've never

14:19

had lift search here . I mean seriously

14:21

, we don't . Third , i I don't

14:24

. I've never seen , i don't think , a pink . You

14:26

know anything on the screen on lift here . If

14:28

I go to Nashville I'll see it , but Yeah

14:31

, so now it becomes pink and purple

14:33

and everything .

14:34

So they're there , but I don't know

14:36

How much you actually make on them . I

14:38

mean , let's be honest , when I when I drove Uber

14:40

, or when I do drive Uber and

14:43

when I'm comfort and And and

14:45

Excel , only right I do

14:47

usually read , i do usually average $45

14:50

an hour when I drive , yeah right , I should

14:52

say 40 , close to close to the $40 an hour

14:54

when I do the weekend , but again , it's the

14:56

weekend , it's night shift , you know , you sure

14:58

it's this prime time , Yeah

15:00

exactly . It's prime time , so

15:02

we'll have to see . I don't . I haven't even

15:04

decided if I want to go out this weekend . To be honest , i have

15:07

so many other things going on in my life right now , but

15:09

we'll see . So anyways , the next story

15:11

going on right now is a is an article in

15:13

Stan from from Stanford . A man

15:15

from Stanford stole a mere One million

15:17

dollars in a scheme targeting

15:19

700 dollars drivers and since this

15:21

is really The scheme that

15:23

I think it talks about , the story

15:25

that we all kind of hear and

15:27

and kind of have It's been going

15:29

around for a long time , not to , not

15:32

to to fall for it , right , but this

15:34

is basically the guy doing one

15:36

of the schemes about . He would

15:38

impersonate what that support and notify . See

15:41

order order and I Driver

15:43

order . What has order to be delivered

15:45

to an address ? and and not

15:47

you know close to him or whatever not not , not

15:50

the actual order text . The driver exactly

15:52

, and then he would be close to where where there were

15:54

, and then He

15:56

would , he would , he would call the

15:58

driver impersonating

16:01

, impersonating door , that

16:03

support and then he would text for verification

16:05

and part of that text would be a link for

16:08

them to To log

16:10

in to support , if you will . But that's

16:12

that's how he would really get that , the username

16:15

password and and

16:17

Immediately he would log in

16:19

, change the information And

16:22

and cash out . You sent to me right , and

16:25

we know the scheme . It's been going on for a long time , but

16:27

this is interesting because it's actually

16:30

a guy who got caught and

16:32

And is now on trial

16:35

for stealing nearly one million dollars From

16:38

700 or their driver so that's kind of cool

16:40

. It's good to know that . You know that

16:42

he's going to be Put

16:46

to justice . If you will and and hopefully

16:48

Hopefully

16:50

the systems lift and Uber and and do

16:52

it as all the all the key economy , we'll

16:55

learn from these These

16:57

things and and we'll put some other things

16:59

in place . So it's not so easy to just

17:01

to just do that . I know that

17:04

was it Uber that

17:06

introduced a . There's

17:08

a waiting period once you change the add

17:10

the bank account on the on the account , right ? They

17:13

don't do it immediately , they

17:15

wait like four , eight hours before it's done .

17:17

Yeah , Yeah , with sad thing about

17:19

this story , though Yes , we're that

17:21

I read all the way at the end of

17:23

it . He didn't even get caught for

17:25

this , though He was .

17:26

He was getting vestiges for domestic of use

17:29

, and they and they ran and you know

17:31

they searched his house .

17:32

They found all these safes and

17:34

when they open them up they found all this information

17:37

about this game He was running and they found like

17:39

half a million dollars in cash .

17:41

No , it's like oh yeah .

17:42

It's not like your dashes .

17:43

support is the one that caught this

17:45

, or right now It's pure luck and

17:47

that is correct And thank you for bringing that

17:49

up . But , yes , i just happy that he did

17:51

that . It catch him . But you're right , yeah , it's

17:54

not . That's not why he was caught

17:56

. He was just being stupid . Essentially

17:58

, he decided he wanted to , yet

18:02

Exactly , do do a

18:04

domestic abuse right , which is

18:06

never good either , but at least he's off the streets

18:08

and and hopefully a

18:11

lot of drivers will learn

18:13

that that they will not call

18:15

. I actually had an interesting , an interesting

18:17

Thing happened to me the other

18:19

day . Yeah , and and I had

18:21

, i actually had uber call me . Okay

18:24

, which is in the good day , because we all say

18:26

, well , no , uber will not call you , right , they

18:28

will stay . Say that uber , uber support

18:31

will not call you . And so this

18:33

was uber support , because they immediately Follow

18:35

up with a ticket . Because I said I'm not comfortable

18:38

telling you my information over the phone , i'm just

18:40

not right , you know uber

18:42

. And he said , no , that's fine , are you

18:44

okay following up and keeping following

18:46

up , and we'll just do it as a support

18:48

ticket to the system . That's a hundred and

18:50

five Okay . Well , they call me so

18:53

, but the background check , he

18:55

wanted to tell me Right

18:58

now they had actually completely suspended my

19:00

account because they're waiting for the background

19:03

checks and I can't even do delivery right .

19:06

Hey , yes , but we always want to tell you that you for

19:08

sure can't drive . In

19:10

case you were considering it this weekend hell

19:13

, no , it's not happening .

19:14

Thank you so much for supporting you , but you're not

19:17

driving exactly we do not want

19:19

to know .

19:19

The other thing that I've ever had uber Call

19:22

me about is they'll call if you're

19:24

setting somewhere for a long time , and they will . Some

19:26

they will call in . And check and see if

19:28

you're okay .

19:29

Sometimes Not every time it wasn't

19:31

even pops on the screen , exactly

19:33

, yeah , and the interesting to me was

19:35

it came up as uber support Right

19:37

, and I picked up and I don't know what you know

19:39

, i've always you always been told

19:41

uber support will not call you , right

19:44

, right . But the cool thing was is they knew

19:46

that , they know this , and he's like no , that's fine

19:48

, are you okay ? Continue the conversation

19:50

offline in the app . That that I'm good doing

19:52

it , but I'm not gonna give you my information .

19:54

Right , not giving you anything cuz .

19:56

I know you should already have all that .

19:58

But yeah , i mean it is so easy

20:00

to to you fall for some of that stuff

20:02

. I mean , i had one just the other day

20:04

and it was something about my I Think

20:07

it's like my Google storage or something and

20:09

popped up and I like almost clicked on it And

20:12

then I looked I was like this is not , this isn't

20:14

, this is not from them . You know , right

20:16

, yeah , but almost , you know , almost clicked out because

20:18

you know you're driving , you're busy , you're doing this

20:20

and that and and something pops up

20:23

and you're like , oh man , you know I want to make sure I stuff's

20:25

getting backed up and it's it's

20:27

. You know it can happen to the best , oh yeah

20:30

absolutely So .

20:32

So , anyways , here's the next Story

20:34

about the support here . Take that one Oh

20:36

yeah , this is .

20:37

This is another outstanding Example

20:40

of support here . So so this

20:42

guy contacts He contacts

20:44

door-dash , basically because

20:46

the driver Had

20:50

his order , apparently just came by and

20:52

like flung it out the window and so

20:54

door-dash is like I can

20:56

offer you a refund and you can tell this is gotta

20:58

be . I mean this , i almost think this is AI

21:00

.

21:01

Responding here You're like . surely this is not ?

21:04

a real person . So there's like I can offer your refund

21:06

of five dollars and door-dash credits are

21:08

back to your payment method for the poorly

21:10

packaged In the guys

21:12

like what are you for , real ? It costs twenty dollars

21:14

and something and I got nothing . He literally passed

21:17

my house and threw the food in the road

21:19

as he was driving . The

21:22

response from support is have you received the

21:24

food ? He said it's in the road

21:26

where he threw it as he passed my street

21:28

. No , i don't have it . It's spread out across

21:31

the road . Their

21:33

answer again although we encourage dashers

21:35

to wait a few minutes , we allow them to customize

21:38

their own delivery experience . So

21:40

this , apparently , is a customized

21:43

delivery experience , no extra charge

21:45

, no charge , you're lucky , you're lucky

21:47

. You

21:49

got the . You got the enhanced experience

21:52

.

21:53

What I want to know is how do you get a picture of that

21:55

, as you threw it as well ?

21:57

Exactly like in the air , you know . That

22:00

would be tough , but Well

22:02

, they do have . They do have the little thing it says

22:04

deliver without a picture . I can , yeah , i guess

22:06

.

22:08

That would .

22:09

I would be . I would be so Infuriated

22:12

if that was the response I was getting back from

22:14

oh , absolutely I .

22:16

I bet I mean I would have followed up with yet another

22:18

support . Take it back to the oh for sure . Yeah

22:20

, you know , you're like this guy's not reading it or

22:22

he's not , he doesn't understand what I'm saying .

22:24

He's not his language . Or

22:27

, like I said , this is a chat bot and they're

22:29

just going back . What they think

22:31

it's supposed to be right made

22:33

no sense .

22:34

That . That definitely does not make

22:36

any sense .

22:37

Order my door dash delivered by airman

22:39

, Oh so .

22:43

This next story is about how Uber

22:46

is going to start showing video ads in

22:48

all their apps . For a while I guess they've

22:50

been doing it for on the Uber Eats app

22:52

and And so now they're gonna be

22:55

doing it in all their apps . So basically , they're seeing

22:57

, they're saying the who will soon start displaying video ads

22:59

in its app . They'll appear while

23:01

you wait for a ride to show up and while you and

23:03

transit after you place orders in Uber

23:05

Eats and in search . So the other parts of Gisley

23:08

, the company told the wall

23:10

do is new world Wall Street Journal . So

23:12

I guess they've been doing it for weeks , for a little

23:14

bit , and so now The

23:16

static ads have been shown in Uber Eats . Sorry , not

23:19

, not video . Static ads have been shown in Uber Eats since 2019

23:22

, 2019

23:24

and Basically this

23:26

is crazy They're on course to clear

23:29

one billion dollars in ad revenue

23:31

for 2024 . Well

23:34

, i mean that .

23:34

I mean that is an amazing number But you got to

23:36

think how many , i mean how many customers

23:39

they have around the world . Absolutely

23:41

, absolutely .

23:42

I mean this is India , I mean oh I know

23:44

yeah

23:44

alone . I know they recently passed

23:46

China as the most popular . This country and

23:49

Yep , I think it's Uber's

23:51

what , 50 something countries , i think maybe .

23:54

Some , and you gotta remember too

23:56

that in most of most of the other countries

23:58

India and China Whatever they

24:00

have like 5.7 cell phones

24:02

per Inhabitants on stupid , and

24:04

they have more cell phones than anything

24:06

. Yeah , and so that's why they do all , and that

24:09

is that's what they do all their service , right ? so ? all

24:11

the business I know , so the video

24:13

ads in the ass will be muted by default , audio

24:15

will play on tablets that are in cars And we'll

24:17

run for up to 90 seconds , and Uber ride last

24:20

around 15 minutes on average and users

24:22

typically spend between two and three minutes Looking

24:24

at the app doing trips . We

24:26

have two minutes of your attention . We know

24:28

who , where you are , we know where you're going

24:31

, we know what you're eating and

24:33

so forth . We can use all that to

24:35

then basically target a video ad

24:37

towards you . And it's true I

24:40

mean this is for sure . Yeah .

24:42

I got it advertising right there .

24:44

Yeah , my question , though , is Are

24:47

you gonna watch it ? I mean , my

24:50

phone is in my pocket . I mean I know

24:52

, obviously they see it and that's what people are doing

24:55

. And again , when I look back , i people

24:57

are using and they are using their phones , but

24:59

they aren't that you and they're in the uber ad . I don't know

25:01

.

25:02

Yeah , i mean when I'm in your . I mean it's on the passenger

25:05

app . So Yeah , i mean when I'm taking

25:07

it , taking a uber ride , i mean , right

25:09

, i'm not necessarily gonna be

25:11

looking at my phone , i mean I

25:14

know , maybe I think , i think that you'll

25:16

see them . You know When . When you're waiting

25:18

for the driver to get there , yep , you know that's

25:20

the prime time to have them , because you're

25:22

constantly looking and checking to see how far away

25:24

they are , and things like that . But when I'm in the middle of

25:27

a ride , i don't , i don't see .

25:32

No , actually you , you did see , you did

25:34

specify that it's obviously only on the on

25:36

the rider ad , which

25:38

is , which is totally obviously good . They

25:41

made me think of one thing I saw today . Actually

25:44

, it was a video Talking about a new

25:46

law that's actually becoming that

25:48

. That's , i think , 630

25:52

, like June 30th , all the hands free . Yeah

25:55

, exactly , but I think it's just in Michigan

25:57

so far , but it is already in several other

25:59

states as well , when Michigan , now It

26:02

there's a , yeah , it's completely hands-free

26:04

. So it is me , it is . It is illegal

26:06

To carry the , carry

26:09

your hand , your your phone in your hands . Now I'm very

26:11

arriving . Yeah good It should be

26:13

yes . But even so , for

26:15

even so much as you can't even touch the

26:17

phone to change the music or something , right

26:20

, you know if you're stopping

26:22

you can't pick up the phone and check anything . A center

26:24

takes another . No , this is illegal . Yeah

26:27

, it's good as long as needed , but

26:30

definitely I mean even to us as

26:32

drivers We need to be more aware of

26:34

when are we ? when are we ? I mean , how

26:37

are we gonna be accepting a ride ? Technically

26:39

, we can't right now . We're

26:41

not . We're not , we don't have the phone in

26:43

our hand . But that's a , that's a . That's

26:46

a very gray area , i think .

26:47

Yeah , yeah , i mean it's that law has been in

26:49

place in Tennessee for a year or two , okay

26:52

, and I always have to remember that when I because

26:54

I'm we're like 20 miles from the Tennessee's

26:56

state line here , so when I go over into Tennessee

26:58

, i always have to be very Cognizant

27:01

of the fact I can't I can't be holding

27:03

my phone in my hand , because they will pull you over

27:05

and they will give you a ticket , i mean .

27:06

I'm sure you have a . You have a hold of your phone though

27:08

, right ?

27:08

I do , of course , yeah , of course , yeah and any

27:11

, if you anybody that's driving

27:13

any , any gig work , definitely

27:15

. Number one thing you need is

27:17

a phone holder .

27:18

You don't want to be , driving around .

27:19

I don't care if you know delivery or get

27:21

us here . Yeah , most time I take an uber I

27:24

see people just holding that stupid phone

27:26

in their hands .

27:27

Yeah , do you say anything to them ? I do . No

27:29

, I do With you and

27:31

I start .

27:32

I give them less of a less of a rating like you

27:34

need to get a hold of that phone .

27:36

Yeah , Yeah , i'm

27:38

, i'm nice about you know , not well

27:40

, yeah , you know mean

27:43

about it , but yeah , just

27:45

, it makes me uncomfortable . Somebody

27:47

even doing that , yeah , for

27:50

sure I saw that today , that that's in

27:52

.

27:52

It's gonna be in Michigan here , yeah

27:54

, 30 , and it'll be interesting to see what comes up . And I'm

27:56

I mean I'm almost hoping that they'll . It'll

27:58

kind of I mean , if nothing

28:00

else , at least get all the drivers out of the driving , get

28:03

them to buy a phone holder , because there's no

28:05

way too many people .

28:06

Yeah , I wish one day and

28:08

that uber and Lyft I

28:11

know they have the . You know , Obviously

28:13

, Lyft it auto accept your rides already

28:15

Right

28:17

in some places . You that you have that option

28:19

on uber as well . But I wish that you could do it by voice

28:22

command so it's pop up and you would

28:24

still be able to say Except or

28:26

deny .

28:27

You know voice control but don't you think that's

28:29

next now , as as these laws are getting

28:31

spread out more ? That's what .

28:32

that's what I'm thinking , yeah that's what I'm thinking , that that's

28:34

got to be on the horizon

28:36

somewhere for For you know ?

28:38

oh yeah , i'm yes .

28:39

Yep . No , it'll , it'll be , it'll

28:41

be , it's coming , definitely So another

28:44

part of that story that I wanted to touch on . It says

28:46

in there that that uber

28:48

is is gonna be placing tablets

28:50

in In cars , starting out in some

28:52

states , and wonder I'm wondering how

28:54

that's gonna roll out , whether how that's

28:56

gonna affect , like I think , octopus

28:58

, you're not supposed to have any other tablet in your

29:00

car or any right . I think and things

29:03

like that is uber gonna make you put it in your car

29:05

, or is it gonna be an optional thing ? I Mean

29:08

, i don't know , i'm gonna get compensated for

29:10

it .

29:11

It's gonna be in some my get , tony , i'm

29:13

sure Just start out .

29:15

Yeah , to start out , for sure . I'm sure it'll be in the big

29:17

markets to start out .

29:17

But if they're gonna start requiring

29:20

it , that all the means they're gonna have to pay for it . Yeah

29:22

, yeah , no

29:25

, i'm definitely not paying for anything either .

29:27

But yeah yeah , and unless

29:29

they compensate me better than octopus does

29:31

, keep him octopus tablet

29:33

. You know I'm up for the highest

29:35

bidder guys .

29:38

So it works Absolutely on

29:40

that . Do you want to do the talk ? talk

29:43

about the app on the octopus tablets . Sure

29:45

, yeah , yeah , one you have

29:47

one and why you talk a little about you at your tablet

29:50

, definitely .

29:51

Yeah , i've had it for about probably six , eight weeks

29:53

now and Pass it . Most passengers

29:55

really love it , like during the daytime

29:57

. I definitely keep the volume muted

30:00

because this the daytime people . A lot of times

30:02

you're taking them to work , they're just not as much

30:04

into it . But it's the nighttime people especially

30:06

love it . There's . There's nothing more fun

30:08

than getting like three half drunk people

30:10

fighting over trivia in the backs of your

30:12

car . It's hilarious . They're yelling at each

30:15

other . No man , I told you that wasn't the right answer , you

30:17

know , and they're trying to beat each other the

30:19

score and everything it's , it's a lot of fun

30:21

and Have to give props

30:23

. Octopus has been great . I had a guy tear

30:26

the cable one night . They broke off again inside

30:28

there . I reported it three

30:30

days later I had a new cable for free

30:33

, didn't have to pay for it . Nice , you

30:35

know they compensate us for recommending people

30:37

. You get , you know , $25 for any driver

30:40

that you recommend that signs up and does

30:42

, you know , does some rides . I

30:44

think I've made a hundred and fifty dollars so far

30:47

off my octopus tablet and you don't do anything

30:49

. It's just there . You know . It's not like

30:51

you have to take care of it , i just leave

30:53

mine . I have it plugged in . I just leave

30:55

it in the car . You know , some people , some people

30:57

turn theirs off every night . I , i

30:59

don't , i just leave it running . It goes to sleep

31:01

. If you've been setting for a little bit , it'll go into

31:04

sleep mode . In the morning when I'm getting ready

31:06

to drive , i just touch tablet , make sure it

31:08

comes on and ready to go

31:10

.

31:44

There we go . So yeah , you can . You

31:46

can use the link to sign up for it which

31:48

is in the show notes , otherwise

31:51

you just go to play octopus calm . I

31:53

must say that The

31:55

troubles that I have had trying to get

31:57

one , unfortunately , is actually my own problem

32:00

. I . Hate to say it is my

32:02

own problem , apparently Early

32:04

on , while they were still playing with it . I

32:06

must have . I must have somehow

32:08

said no , i'd know I do not want text from

32:11

them . I

32:13

have inadvertently blocked my own phone numbers . I'm

32:15

actually working on getting Another

32:18

one of my phone numbers in the house

32:20

signed up for it . I Anticipate having

32:22

a tablet fairly soon . But yeah , that's

32:25

. That is that . Unfortunately

32:27

I have to report user error on that one . But

32:30

they have been pretty good with me and they definitely

32:33

trying whether they're good company .

32:35

They're a really good company and just want to

32:37

give a shout out to be everybody . I've just seen the

32:39

chat . Janet

32:41

and I'll say hi to and Ben want

32:43

to say hi to . Just read his comment

32:45

. Yeah , yeah , i know I'm . I am definitely not

32:47

the drug , do you ? I mean , this is , this , is this

32:50

is our , you know , this is our summer homes . It's

32:52

not , yeah , i wouldn't live here full-time

32:54

, but for the summer It's okay , You know sorry

32:56

but yeah , thanks for everybody

32:58

who's on the show tonight . We appreciate

33:00

you guys and I'll be all the

33:02

comments that you're Putting

33:06

in and for watching the show and supporting

33:08

the show boarding us without Jason tonight .

33:10

So thank you for sticking with us , taking

33:12

with us . Oh , you want to talk about this

33:14

, the new feature that's coming to to uber

33:16

soon .

33:17

Yes , a new feature that uber

33:19

has announced You're gonna

33:21

be able to rent out your car on

33:23

uber . So some of

33:26

you may be familiar with Turo

33:28

or similar Other programs

33:30

that are out there , but uber is gonna

33:32

Gonna have a program called uber

33:34

car share . It's gonna launch here

33:36

in North America pretty soon . They're gonna start

33:39

it out in Boston and Toronto . So

33:41

if you have a car , that that you know , maybe

33:43

you have an extra car or you work from home , you

33:45

know , like a lot of people do nowadays , and you don't need

33:48

to use your car every day . You can set it up

33:50

and set your own daily or your hourly

33:52

pricing and availability and

33:54

it's in 15 minute increments and

33:57

You can rent your car out and make some

33:59

money . And says , you know , there's

34:02

insurance options that will be available through

34:05

uber . Again

34:07

, a lot of people have tried

34:09

this out . I know Jason rented a rented

34:11

a car through toro when he was down Orlando

34:14

.

34:14

He went to Tesla He did rent a Tesla

34:16

.

34:17

He did rent a Tesla .

34:18

I wasn't giving that props , but It's

34:24

old amount on the electric cars or

34:26

he went in order one of those . So yeah

34:28

, yeah , yeah , i

34:30

don't think .

34:31

I'm still quite ready for that . But you

34:33

know I don't have , I don't have solar solar

34:35

panels like he does .

34:38

So he's pretty well on those panels actually

34:40

. Yeah , Yeah he's telling me , this was

34:42

crazy stuff He's making . he's making bank , yeah

34:45

, it's something to look into .

34:46

I was reading , i know I know they're increasing

34:49

likes the some of the Kickback

34:51

you get from the government now to try to make it

34:53

more affordable or more of an incentive

34:56

to do .

34:58

Go ahead . I was gonna say in Michigan right now . I think that

35:01

the , the , the savings

35:03

are the What's called

35:05

them .

35:06

the tech deduction is 14,000 dollars

35:08

, so yeah , yeah , I think the I

35:10

think the government's Bumped it to like

35:13

30 .

35:14

Oh .

35:16

Federal .

35:17

I think I'll have to look that up for sure

35:19

. Don't quote , but I know I know I was reading

35:21

something that they have increased it . They said they have increased

35:23

it here recently Because

35:25

they're trying to get more people you know having in that

35:27

direction .

35:28

Hmm , interesting , i actually I did

35:30

a . I did a Just

35:33

kind of an online conversation with not on

35:35

, i'm sorry , and I've boys

35:37

conversation with somebody And

35:39

he actually he went to Google and kind

35:41

of took a snapshot of my house

35:44

and he did a an aerial analysis

35:47

of my roof and Decided

35:49

that if I took down two of my trees I would have

35:51

90 94% coverage on

35:53

my roof . So I probably

35:56

have to take down two of my trees before I go that route

35:58

, but I want to . I want those trees gone anyway

36:00

. So you know it's all interesting , so

36:02

anyway . So here's a . Here's a fun story

36:05

from from door dash as we jump

36:07

into back into the news . So Hand

36:10

it to me . He

36:12

was not lying , hello , this was sound

36:14

insane and absolutely know how feelings

36:16

. If you decline this request , i

36:18

am currently locked inside the gates of my storage

36:21

unit . I haven't eaten dinner , so I

36:23

got . Getting food is priority one , but

36:25

if you have access to a ladder and

36:27

want to bring it to me along with my order in

36:29

order to climb out of the fence and Over

36:32

home , i throw you a $20 cash

36:34

again . Feel free to decline this order and

36:37

or just bring the food . No worries either way , thank

36:39

you .

36:40

Man not gonna make bank on this . You could bring

36:42

him food , then you could uber him home

36:44

and bring him the ladder on top of it and make another

36:46

20 bucks . Man , you could be done for the day

36:49

just on this one guy .

36:50

Can you imagine How do you get stuck

36:52

inside ?

36:53

just don't , well , if you , i mean , if you get- inside

36:55

there And you don't know the code to get out . You're

36:57

stuck because I Drop

37:00

the use people off . Not too long ago It

37:02

was a lady and her and her child . They're

37:04

probably like 11 or 12 years old and

37:07

I don't know what they were doing , but I took them to the

37:09

like the very back of this storage place , and

37:11

when I got back up in the front I realized I don't

37:13

remember what the code was . I had to drive back

37:15

to them and get the code , so I

37:17

saw they don't auto open . That

37:20

on both sides that's dumb

37:22

, i mean .

37:23

I'm sorry that .

37:24

Yeah , i mean , but some of the three

37:26

recently , in the last three months

37:28

, and every one of them had a keypad

37:30

on each side .

37:32

So be careful . So when you go into , if

37:34

you go into some of those areas as a rideshow

37:36

driver , make sure you get that you know . You know

37:38

the code to get out Exactly . I mean there's

37:41

lots of What to

37:43

call like gated community and go

37:45

ahead and all the gates open up automatically

37:48

Exactly when you leave . Why not do the

37:50

same on that ?

37:51

makes way too much sense . That's

37:54

why they don't do it Yeah .

37:55

I don't .

37:56

I don't understand either , because that's what I never thought

37:58

of it . It had been a while since I've been in one and they

38:00

were the . I mean , they were as far back into

38:02

this storage places you could get . They were on

38:04

like the last unit . So I dropped them

38:06

off there and drove back up and I was like I

38:09

thought I remembered it but I didn't Wasn't

38:12

getting it right . I was off one number . So

38:14

I drove all the way back there I was like , hey , i need to get that . You

38:16

know that code again .

38:17

Yeah , and .

38:18

I . Don't know how long they were staying

38:20

there or how they were getting home or anything

38:22

else . But they were . They were looking through the storage

38:24

unit for a while , but yeah , I had to go get it and come

38:27

back and and put it back in , and then it like

38:29

two days later I Picked

38:32

up a guy who's at a storage place and And

38:35

yeah , i had to have a code to get in and out .

38:37

So yeah , wow , pretty common That

38:40

. No , that's . Yeah , i've never actually been into

38:42

us . The storage Yeah , gated gated storage

38:45

facility . But yeah , i guess so . So

38:47

this next video here is is Specifically

38:50

about Amazon . Do you guys have the new vehicles

38:52

yet in your market ?

38:53

I haven't seen any of those new ones that

38:56

are in the video . It's

38:58

been I'm on . It's been a couple weeks probably since

39:00

I've seen one where I paid attention to it . But yeah

39:03

, we get . We get so much Amazon stuff I'll just look

39:05

on our camera sometimes , definitely

39:09

see them a lot in our area We have . We have

39:11

a pretty big Yeah , the new ones .

39:12

Okay , there's some pretty big facilities . I happen

39:14

to talk to one of the new to the drivers one day

39:16

and he said most of them , most

39:19

of the vehicles now are the new ones at That's okay

39:21

. The little these . So they must have several

39:23

hundreds of these at least , hand-grabbers .

39:25

So Careful if you're behind them

39:27

.

39:27

Yeah , I know It's a . Let's

39:30

watch this video here real quick as on

39:32

.

39:32

You have a major fault with your new vehicles

39:34

And I've been waiting to catch it on camera . Now

39:37

, if you notice , most of your drivers drive around

39:39

with the hazards on , which makes complete sense

39:41

because they're frequently making steps . Problem

39:44

, i'm gonna . I'm

39:46

gonna help him back out of here . But

39:48

the major issue is you see

39:50

the hazards are on , but He's

39:53

also on his brake lights and you can't

39:55

see the brake lights when the hazards are on . I'll

39:58

show you when he goes down the road here . No

40:05

problem , have a go on now

40:08

. Watch as he pulls up to the car he's gonna need to break

40:10

And

40:17

No brake lights . Lack

40:20

of a third brake light on that thing is severely

40:22

dangerous and I hope this gets to the right people .

40:25

That is that that just sounds like a

40:27

lawsuit waiting to happen .

40:29

That is so crazy , i didn't even think

40:31

of it , i didn't notice that , that you

40:33

know the hazards , basically

40:35

the Particularly on the

40:37

front lights , they , they blink

40:39

up , yeah , they yellow right to the head of the yellow

40:42

and and so that was very

40:44

interesting . I thought it was . It was an interesting way how

40:46

they , they , they introduced

40:48

that , but it is correct the

40:50

fact that nobody caught . You cannot see the

40:52

brake light , that is . That is not .

40:54

Yeah , you wonder how it gets to , gets to

40:56

engineering and I know , review

40:58

and manufacturing and all that with with

41:01

nobody Noticing that it's . It

41:03

kind of blows , blows your mind absolutely

41:06

Yeah , it's

41:08

a middle-ton , middle-ton tech .

41:09

One of the apps that we use a lot as

41:12

drivers here is the flex alert

41:14

or the I forget the names

41:16

of the apps , actually , and maybe you can help

41:18

out here . I .

41:20

Do not . I do not have the Android phones , so I

41:22

do not have all that right here .

41:24

There , gary's apps are only for for Android , but

41:26

if you go to Gary's app calm , you

41:28

can see the three apps They are after . It's gonna help

41:30

you pick the right , the right rides . One

41:33

is flex alert , that kind of tell

41:35

you whenever Amazon Flex post

41:37

some new , new Routes

41:41

. And the other two I

41:43

forget the name and I'm sorry , guys , but anyways they

41:45

will help you . Pick the right

41:47

right , how maximum Maxim

41:50

, oh , yep , driver maximum , oh , and then , yeah

41:52

, there's another one , but anyways , i'm a utility helper

41:54

. Is the other ones ? now ? we're getting people

41:56

, people are helping us . Thank you guys . so much to drive utility

41:59

helper and maximum , which will help

42:01

you pick the right pick

42:04

the right rides and

42:06

, yeah , thank you . Then to rescue

42:08

, help you pick the right rides and pick the

42:10

right orders for delivery . So so , thank

42:13

you for that . You definitely go to Gary's , gary's

42:15

apps , calm and and

42:17

download those apps right away . That's

42:20

that . Why

42:22

don't we do this next video here again , which

42:25

is a crazy video , and

42:28

Do you want to tell a little bit about

42:30

it ? first , we

42:32

doing the cat play .

42:33

Yeah , we just play it . Yeah , let's

42:35

play it . And what we'll talk about ?

42:37

it .

42:38

Yeah , yep caught on camera

42:40

a kitten Stolen off

42:43

a front porch and the person accused

42:45

of taking the animal is a grub

42:47

hub delivery driver , Kenspies

42:50

. Alyssa Niaviz has the reaction from

42:52

the kittens owner .

42:54

They said oh , by the way

42:56

, the driver took your kitten

42:58

and Was like I'm

43:01

sorry what Amanda scoggins

43:03

couldn't believe her eyes . I like

43:05

. Looked over at him and , sure enough , there was

43:07

one , two and no three .

43:09

Shortly after her Panera was delivered last

43:11

night , her neighbors security camera

43:13

captured this a person

43:16

Scooping up one of her three kittens

43:18

, then walking away the mother's

43:20

feral So we can't exactly bring

43:22

her inside .

43:23

So whenever they need to nurse there with

43:25

the mother .

43:26

The white kitten that was stolen Was hers

43:28

. She named him smudge . The

43:30

other two kittens have owners lined up .

43:32

We're trying to do the best as we could by them

43:34

, and I mean it was only like a week

43:37

off before he was Going to

43:39

be like ready to be

43:41

separated .

43:42

She lives in an apartment off Piper's Creek near

43:44

Culebra . She and her neighbor care for

43:46

the cats , hence the food bowls

43:48

and the blankets by their front doors .

43:51

I honestly don't see how they could think

43:53

that he wasn't being

43:55

taken care of , that He wasn't Older

43:59

, anything like that .

44:01

Amanda gave the video to grub hub and

44:03

San Antonio police who both confirmed

44:06

with kens 5 they are Investigating

44:08

. It's understandable why you

44:10

wanted him . Needless to say , amanda gave the

44:12

driver a one-star review

44:14

.

44:15

It was one star and the driver

44:17

stole my cat , was the comment

44:19

.

44:20

Aliciniavis kens 5 now

44:22

the manager for policy Communications at

44:24

grub hub told us they've suspended the

44:26

driver in question while they investigate

44:28

this incident . If you can help solve this

44:31

case , call police .

44:33

That is crazy That is . I

44:35

mean dude , you had

44:37

white crocs on you're gonna be so easy

44:39

to identify .

44:40

I mean , what and why steal

44:42

a cat ? I mean I just don't get it right Why ?

44:44

that makes no sense because seriously , i

44:46

mean a cat . There are so many

44:48

cats at the humane societies I

44:51

know that that that

44:53

you can get . If you want a cat , go get

44:55

one of those . There's plenty of it , they're not in

44:57

short supply is , oh , they're

45:00

. They're begging people

45:02

constantly , i know , here to adopt the

45:04

cats We have . You know , such a problem with with

45:07

so many cats that have to get put down and

45:09

yeah , i don't know why you would steal one

45:11

that I mean especially . I mean

45:13

you know people have cameras nowadays

45:15

. I don't know why you still anything off

45:17

anybody's porcs these days . It's

45:19

You . I mean you know you're

45:22

gonna get caught you just know you're gonna get caught

45:24

.

45:24

Well , yeah and just yeah , but the but

45:26

they and we still stealing it .

45:28

Don't steal a cat , that's

45:30

yeah I mean yeah , i mean that some people

45:32

get very attached to their pets . I mean very

45:34

attached , and people , that's their kids , you know

45:36

, i mean they , they really , really get

45:39

attached and it doesn't seem like , you know

45:41

, it seemed like they were gonna adopt these out

45:43

so that they may not have been as a .

45:46

She said that this would have catch you a pig for herself

45:48

. Yeah , you can kind of see that she was tearing

45:50

up a little bit with that almost . Almost

45:53

felt a little fake , i don't know .

45:56

But anyways , that Just

45:58

don't , just don't do stuff like

46:00

that You know , that's what it comes out to you . Don't

46:03

do stuff like that .

46:04

You're gonna get caught , absolutely

46:06

. So this next one here is an interesting one

46:08

. We actually don't have a . There's

46:11

a picture on it . This is another Reddit story

46:13

. We don't have a picture to put up there

46:15

, but but it's a pretty cool

46:17

one . It's a shout out to a local Arizona

46:20

McDonald's franchise owner Who

46:22

did the cool thing of doing

46:25

some Delivery

46:27

cards , if you will like

46:29

. What are they called ? so ? basically

46:32

, for the other drivers , the

46:34

Uber eats the door . There's a group of drivers

46:36

. They would give them a card and so every

46:38

time they picked up an order they would get a get a . Stamp

46:41

yeah , stamp Yeah . And then once

46:43

they reach five orders , they get a prize

46:46

and they give the free meal . So that was

46:48

kind of cool . So it says here , have you card punched

46:50

or stamped when you pick up a Mac delivery

46:53

order , when you have five boxes , you'll

46:55

get one combo meal free on your six

46:57

pick up . Now , way to go , i mean

46:59

way to go is excellent , thinking out of

47:01

the box and getting people to pick it .

47:03

We all know .

47:04

No , nobody want to pick up the stupid McDonald's

47:06

orders , right ? I mean , every time you go there

47:08

there's like hunt , not hundreds , because

47:10

lots of people , lots of orders at The

47:13

place is waiting to be picked up . Yeah

47:15

, it's not necessarily what they really want , but wait

47:17

, wait and think out of the box here .

47:19

This is kudos to the manager

47:21

and definitely because I know we've talked in

47:23

in our telegram group . Especially late

47:25

at night , mcdonald's is like the last place

47:27

you want to go to pick up . Absolutely

47:29

every like during the day It's . It's not bad

47:32

here . I

47:35

had a McDonald's order late and they had it

47:37

ready within 30 seconds of time . Okay

47:39

and they do package it up . Well , i , you know

47:41

, i do like the way that McDonald's packages up

47:43

, but a lot of places

47:45

the service is is not good

47:47

and you're in here , you just get to where you don't want to pick

47:49

up . But this gives incentive for drivers . You

47:51

know , besides pay , it's just a little something they

47:54

do to to hey , we

47:56

appreciate what you're doing , you know , gives

47:58

you incentive to pick up our orders from , from

48:00

this particular McDonald's .

48:01

And you know , we just want to reward you a little bit with

48:03

a little something just just make sure whatever meal

48:05

you're getting is not one of the One that wasn't picked up . It's

48:08

a French one .

48:10

Had been sitting there for 30 45 .

48:14

Yeah , any from that shelf you can pick

48:16

from that shelf .

48:16

You know , it's like the fair you can pick

48:19

from the top shelf toys , Not the bottom

48:21

shelf .

48:22

Hey , there might be a chicken in there , i don't know , anyway

48:30

. so , larry , why don't you talk

48:32

a little bit about this , this interesting lift ride

48:34

here I'm gonna ?

48:35

yeah , this is a lift ride that

48:37

I took . No , i did not take this and I

48:39

would never take this . First of all , this

48:41

is a ride from Boston

48:44

International Airport down to Norfolk

48:47

and it

48:49

says 16 hours and

48:52

I don't know what navigation app

48:54

they're using , but this is

48:56

not the way you would go Boston

48:59

to Norfolk . You can go down the coast

49:01

and I put it in , i just punched

49:03

it in that to to Google , yeah

49:06

, apple Maps , real quick when I saw

49:08

this story and it was like 10 hours . So

49:11

first of all , there's at least six hours , but anyway

49:13

, 10 hours , six hours , whatever it is

49:15

, nobody in our group is

49:17

gonna take this .

49:19

But at least they get a five dollar bonus .

49:20

Come on , you go five dollar bonus and , hey

49:23

, maybe you'll get a free meal from McDonald's . You know

49:25

who ?

49:25

knows .

49:26

But , yeah . I mean , I've always

49:28

heard I don't know if it's still true I remember

49:30

in back in the day they used to say that lift

49:32

would would cap the rides at

49:34

300 . They wouldn't pay any more than that .

49:37

I don't know if that was , maybe that's what it is . That's

49:39

your . That's your three hundred five dollars , including a

49:41

bonus .

49:42

That's that's what I'm thinking .

49:43

But who's ?

49:44

I mean Lily , who's gonna do something ? 32

49:46

hour round trip .

49:48

Oh , no , no for $300 .

49:49

if I had another Zero or two on

49:51

the end , i might think about it .

49:53

I mean , this is one of those rides that you immediately

49:55

Text them and say I'm gonna need like

49:58

seven hundred dollars next to it as well

50:00

.

50:00

Exactly up front , up front

50:02

. Yeah , please cash Before

50:05

we do .

50:06

But I mean , let's even say , let's even

50:08

say there was a thousand dollars or thirty

50:10

nine dollars , do you , would you drive 32

50:12

hours ? I mean , oh my gosh .

50:15

I mean yeah , you're gonna . I mean you're obviously you're gonna have to stay

50:17

in a hotel . You know right you're gonna

50:19

drive 16 hours there and and

50:22

I would I would have to think about it .

50:24

I mean a thousand , I Mean

50:26

you know you're gonna be out on these

50:28

two to 300,000 gas .

50:31

No , me , i would probably do . I'm

50:37

a little adventurous , i'm , so I would . I might

50:40

do it , i might think about it anyway .

50:42

But I would have to .

50:43

I would have to really think about it and see

50:45

what's going on , figure out how much I'm gonna make And

50:47

gas and a hotel and all that right

50:49

, so no , i can

50:51

I .

50:52

Yeah , but again , definitely

50:54

make sure there's enough room . I'm obviously

50:56

a trip like this even if it is a 10 hour , you're still

50:58

gonna want to stay . You know , stay , stay . Oh

51:01

yeah , i'm like that . And then , yeah , you don't want

51:03

me driving tired That's .

51:04

That is not good at all .

51:05

But no , no , no , I can't

51:08

imagine even , even .

51:10

Yeah , you know , you wonder if it's a . I

51:12

was gonna say you wonder if it's a . It's a they

51:14

put in the wrong address , but they're going to there from airport

51:17

to airport , so they obviously know where they're going

51:19

.

51:19

Well , i wonder if it was that if

51:22

one of their flights got got , yeah

51:25

, i got canceled , yeah , whatever

51:27

, and they have to , yeah , i don't know , it

51:29

might , might , maybe it's an airline company

51:32

That's , i don't know , but it seems weird

51:34

That's . that's where the many other

51:36

airlines in between those two rights right

51:38

.

51:38

Oh sure , yeah , and like I said

51:40

, that's , that's just a , i don't even know . I

51:43

don't think lift navigation would even take you

51:45

that way . I mean , there's no reason

51:47

you can't cut down through Connecticut and long

51:49

along the shore , new Jersey , through Maryland , down

51:51

there and cut off , but

51:53

that's true , i don't know Yeah

51:56

. I I wonder what the Yeah Your

51:59

longest ride I've ever taken was like two

52:01

and a half hours , i think , probably up into Indiana

52:03

to a casino . It was

52:05

pretty sketchy .

52:07

Long as I've ever taken , was too much to when

52:09

I took to Chicago to the airport and , and

52:12

not the one I should have taken . No , but we won't

52:14

yeah , yeah , we won't talk about that . Anyway

52:19

. So here's , here's another story from

52:22

Give it that one . Here's another story

52:24

from the reddit lifter drivers

52:26

, and it goes . I did my

52:28

first Sleazeball thing and

52:30

and I'm gonna read it as it is because it's pretty interesting

52:33

, it's not that long but some of the some

52:35

of the People commenting

52:37

grabs onto the real , the real problem

52:39

here with this problem with this , with this story , and I and

52:42

I kind of think , caught to me as well . Let's see what you guys

52:44

think . So . So I say sleazeball

52:46

as a term of endearment . No show

52:48

feed packs . That was here . I'm

52:52

a part-time driver and driving a smaller market

52:54

that is Over-saturated with drivers , so I take

52:57

pretty much every ride I can get . 10 pm

52:59

, get a ride request . First thing I saw

53:01

was a $56 ride . I accepted

53:03

it . Pick up was a small town 25

53:06

miles north of my market . Drop

53:08

off was 50 miles further north from my market

53:10

. Not a lucrative ride , but I figured I'm the only one

53:12

nice slash , dumb enough to take

53:15

it . I arrived in a small time . So

53:17

I arrive in a small town . The road

53:19

to take to the pickup is all tore up , no

53:21

traffic allowed , no detour signs

53:23

. I messes the packs asking for a meetup

53:25

point or direction to get to them . No response . I

53:28

wander around and manage to find a back road to

53:30

the packs I ride to the pickup . Pick

53:32

up is on the outskirts of town . Appears

53:34

to be a long driveway surrounded by trees

53:36

. No way of identifying if

53:39

I'm at the correct driveway , but I'm close

53:41

enough for the app to recognize I'm within driving

53:43

distance . I arrive at distance . I

53:45

mess with the packs that I've arrived and don't want

53:47

to drive up the driveway unless they can confirm

53:49

I am at the right place . No

53:51

response . I waited four minutes . At

53:53

this point I have my windows down to here

53:55

. If anybody walks up to the car , it's dark . Can't

53:58

see a house , only a gravel driver surrounded

54:00

by trees . I hear a person in the distance

54:02

come out of the house Not sure if this is my packs or not

54:04

At 4.50 . I put

54:06

the car in drive , slowly creep away from the driveway

54:08

, make the mandatory call , let it ring once

54:10

and hang up . Mike , the packs are

54:12

no show , instantly here . Hey , wait , stop

54:14

, i'm right here . I Drive away

54:17

and head back to my market . At least I got paid a

54:19

fine $15 no show fee for wasting an

54:21

hour of my time . The person

54:23

requested a ride again immediately

54:25

. I declined it . The request circle back to me two more

54:27

times that night . I doubt they got a ride . Do

54:29

I feel bad ? Hell ? no , the packs had

54:31

serious back for my time and patients . They

54:34

had 25 minutes to see if I was on the way At

54:36

four minutes from for from me , i

54:39

waited five minutes at the pickup . I feel like I'm

54:41

now officially this these both too , and I'm

54:43

okay with that I . The

54:45

first comment is why the hell you're driving 25

54:48

miles to pick up at all . I

54:50

mean , that's the real problem here , right ? No

54:52

, no , no one . You shouldn't be driving

54:54

25 miles at all .

54:56

Yeah , what if you drive 25 and

54:59

there are no show ? completely Yeah

55:01

.

55:01

I know , i Remember the

55:03

first time I drove this was I was , i

55:05

was still young , i was young in the

55:07

gig economy and and and 20 minutes

55:09

away From the Grand Rapids

55:12

market is the TV , is you

55:14

market , that's the , the Grand Valley . And

55:16

so I got caught out there and I get I didn't

55:18

really know direction , whatever . I had

55:20

her out there and I Kid

55:23

you not , i get out there , i pick , i pick

55:25

up these two guys at a , at a pizza

55:27

place , and They literally

55:29

have to go half a mile down the road

55:31

. Right , they went , they waited 25

55:34

minutes for me to come pick them up and

55:36

they could have walked there in two , in like

55:38

five minutes , yeah , but their

55:40

story was they didn't know where they were going . They were brand

55:42

new to the car . They didn't know where they were going like

55:44

, so it was like a two thousand twenty five minutes

55:47

. I made nothing on that ride

55:49

, right , and I drove 22 minutes to get to

55:51

them .

55:51

No , no , no no . Yeah , you

55:53

remember those rats for sure .

55:56

Yeah , yeah , don't ever drive . You don't

55:58

drive 25 minutes to get anybody

56:00

.

56:00

Yeah , yeah , i remember doing the same thing , yes

56:02

, but I mean I had been driving long and there's a

56:04

there's a town south of us called Franklin's

56:07

, a small town about 5,000 people , and

56:09

Got a call down there

56:11

. This was back in the old day , before we got to see

56:13

anything about the ride . You know , really

56:15

, before we picked them up and Got

56:18

a call down there one night , it was kind of slow and I was

56:20

like , well , they're probably coming to Bowling Green . You know it's a

56:22

Friday night . They're probably coming to Bowling Green . I don't

56:24

be a good ride . I drive down there and this

56:27

dude , like Half of once

56:29

we take him half a mile down to the minute mark to get his

56:31

beard and then back . You know It's

56:33

like a $4 ride .

56:34

You're like no .

56:36

Not , never not doing , that again Not

56:39

doing no , Actually

56:41

I know you're not supposed to , but I started every

56:44

time these rides get there . Now I call

56:46

them ask him or how far they're going , i

56:48

you go , i will go pick them up . if they're going

56:50

back to ground up , it's done .

56:51

It's okay .

56:52

Yeah , because then I , these , I get a 20 minute ride

56:54

in one of the ways , yeah , and I I even

56:57

started saying to people I said when

56:59

I , when I , when I'm , i live like in between

57:01

to somebody , yeah , sometimes I start out there , yeah

57:04

, but then I'll tell people . I say the

57:06

first thing you should do if you get somebody

57:08

to accept you , it's text , text

57:11

the driver and say I'm going downtown

57:13

, right , or whatever , just let us

57:15

know how far you're going , because otherwise it's

57:17

gonna be a problem .

57:18

Yeah , yeah , and I've given people

57:21

the same advice , you know , tell me if they're

57:23

doing a long trip or anything like that

57:25

, or ? you know I've got people who

57:27

who had a dog . It's

57:29

not a service dog . You know things like that

57:32

which I , you know , i didn't bother me , but , mike

57:34

, you need to . You need to communicate

57:36

with your driver before they get there , because Absolutely

57:39

they're not gonna be happy if they , if they , drive all

57:41

the way here and then they find out you

57:43

know nope the situation

57:45

. So , we communicate with them

57:47

, probably the better off you are .

57:50

Absolutely so . Do you want to grab the last toy

57:52

tonight ?

57:52

I will get it . Yeah , cuz this one hits close

57:54

to home for sure . Yeah , i

57:57

don't know if we have a graphic for it or

57:59

not but we do not okay . So this

58:01

is about . Two people were arrested

58:03

after sending police on a multi-county

58:06

chase . Kentucky

58:08

State Police Post was contacted by Police

58:10

Department in Franklin Tennessee , so the

58:13

state post three is in Bowling Green

58:15

. Franklin Tennessee is just

58:17

south of Nashville , so it's about 70

58:19

miles from Bowling Green . Yeah , there

58:21

was a stolen vehicle traveling through I-65

58:24

in Warren County , which is the county that I live

58:26

in . The vehicle had a live

58:29

tracker on it and so they were able to

58:31

To monitor it and track

58:33

it , even when they didn't have police

58:35

vehicles , you know , immediately in the area . And

58:38

The Franklin Tennessee police informed

58:40

the Kentucky State Police that the two suspects

58:42

and the vehicle had robbed two separate

58:44

uber drivers in Tennessee at gunpoint And

58:47

then they had stolen a black 2023

58:50

Hyundai Santa Fe . The

58:54

state police here saw it past

58:56

their cruiser at the 47 mile

58:58

marker , which I live at , mile

59:02

marker 22 , so they're about 20 miles past

59:04

Bowling Green . When they when they saw

59:06

them , they pursued the vehicle top

59:09

speed of 140 miles an hour

59:11

, so they were hauling ass , oh , and

59:14

the vehicle tried to exit

59:16

the interstate at that same rate of

59:18

speed and Didn't

59:21

manage to make that for some reason .

59:24

Gargrel , oh my gosh Yeah

59:26

they , they .

59:27

They arrested young man

59:30

22 . They found

59:32

a gun in the floorboard . They found

59:34

pills . They found two

59:36

zip lock bags full of THC

59:38

oil . Yeah marijuana

59:41

, other drugs . So

59:45

they were both , they were both charged

59:47

with this . A slew of different charges , but

59:50

that's when you know . That's one of the reasons . Go ahead , yes .

59:52

We were saying , no , it's not the smart and they're not the brightest

59:55

of the bunch . though I mean , let me ask you a question

59:57

How much cash do you usually have on you when you

59:59

drive Uber ?

1:00:00

Exactly exactly . I don't . I mean

1:00:02

, we don't , you know I I'll

1:00:05

have maybe 20 bucks .

1:00:06

I know I don't

1:00:08

care a lot of cash .

1:00:09

So yeah , robin , uber drivers is , you might

1:00:12

get the tip from the day right

1:00:14

. Exactly , it's not . it's not the but

1:00:16

you know , a lot of times These aren't the sharpest

1:00:18

crowns in the box .

1:00:19

Oh yeah , there's not but

1:00:22

.

1:00:23

But that's one reason . You know I don't drive a

1:00:25

lot in Nashville , it's just it's starting

1:00:27

to get to be a bigger city and it's having bigger city problems

1:00:29

, and they're you know , they're starting to have more carjackings

1:00:32

and things like that going on And I just

1:00:34

you know I feel safer here in Bowling Green . I've

1:00:36

lived here 50 years , i know the area And

1:00:39

I do know more you know people don't

1:00:41

seem as wild , even though you can say really

1:00:43

busy in Nashville . But but then again we

1:00:45

make more per mile here on Uber . You

1:00:47

know they're doing the up front pricing down there , So

1:00:49

you put more miles on your car . Yeah

1:00:52

, down there to make the same money

1:00:54

, or ?

1:00:54

but you do okay , you do Yeah .

1:00:56

Yeah , i do , if I do find the only

1:00:58

reason I'll go down there generally is if I've got

1:01:00

like a big lip bonus that I need To

1:01:02

do a bunch of rides and yep , i'll

1:01:04

try not to go . I won't go like into Nashville

1:01:07

City , i'll get on the outskirts

1:01:09

, but generally as soon as you get a

1:01:11

ride , they're they're going to Broadway , they're

1:01:13

going downtown . So now that

1:01:15

the cancellation rates don't mean anything

1:01:17

, or accept it , rains don't mean anything on lift , i'll

1:01:20

do , i'll cancel . I mean I'll just let 20

1:01:22

of them go by until I get a short one . Yeah , it

1:01:24

doesn't matter anymore . On on lift .

1:01:27

Yeah , we'll talk about that next time , but that

1:01:29

is that is . That is very interesting , so that's

1:01:31

about everything we have tonight , guys , thank you

1:01:33

so much for Being

1:01:35

here . We hit an hour and five minutes . This is

1:01:38

crazy things . Things go so fast , thank

1:01:41

you . Thank you so much for staying on and for

1:01:43

listening to me and me and Larry

1:01:45

here and , and hopefully , jason had

1:01:47

fun tonight . I'm again . I don't even know what he was

1:01:49

doing . He was very secretive

1:01:51

about where he was , at least

1:01:54

, and that man deserves it because

1:01:56

he works Many , many , many

1:01:58

, many long hours to to do all this

1:02:01

that he's doing except and and all the other

1:02:03

things that he's also doing for him And his family . So he

1:02:05

is a very hard worker for sure

1:02:07

night off .

1:02:08

So thank you so much for today and

1:02:10

I want to mention real quick before

1:02:12

we do our sign off Yes , sir , don't forget to pig

1:02:14

neck everybody . We got What

1:02:18

? is it the 27th ?

1:02:22

When you think is it ?

1:02:24

I can't remember it'll be . Yes

1:02:29

, i'm not

1:02:31

with the sign up for

1:02:33

the pic , i mean for the newsletter , and

1:02:35

it will tell you exactly when the pig

1:02:37

next gonna be . But look , i'm coming from

1:02:39

from Kentucky We

1:02:42

don't know about . John may be coming from from North

1:02:44

.

1:02:44

Carolina , it's 23rd , 23rd

1:02:47

.

1:02:47

Okay , it was right in the middle of what we both said Split

1:02:50

the difference .

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Thanks Yeah .

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