Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, welcome to the Auto-apotcast. We might interrupt it, Ross is expecting an important talk about it. We've been getting a spade of spam calls all over Australia, it's crazy. So we've got to interrupt the podcast and listen to that.
That's difficult. That's difficult for me, Bob. Because how you got a phone call earlier about the ATO? Yeah, I got an article from a German, some of the ATO, and he's going to put a warning out to my wrist and someone's going to come and kick me up.
And I told him that I didn't have a credit card, he didn't make a payment. And if he could call my mother half and take care of it straight away for me, he was very enthusiastic. That'd be the number to my sister-in-law who works at the tax office. So I don't know if he called her or not, but he would have got a note and said, why is it actually picked up the phone?
So we'll go live with that phone call if it comes through, Ross. But today's guest is with Mike. Hey, how are you doing? So today's topic is Uber, and we've got Mike here on board, and Mike, how long have you been Ubering?
Three and a half years strong. Enjoying? Most of the time, most of the time, I mean, like, Fridays and Saturday nighting be a bit more challenging. You've got to be on the lookout for the hardcore drunks.
Make sure they're... Pick them up, not to pick them up. You don't know. You don't know.
Who's a comster on your phone? Doesn't it? I mean, you're driving around, and then on your phone you get a message, pick up this particular corner. Yeah, yeah, no, I can't...
I can tell my mother. Maybe this should be like Uber drivers should have a reject button. No, the RBT device. You're going to be one to blow, and depending on who it is, you might camouflage it.
You might camouflage it, and just, you know, it's like, you're blowing this. You know, you're over at five, you can't drive my Uber car. What car do you drive? I drive a 2013 Honda ROC.
It's a seven-seater, which is a seven-seater. It's a seven-seater. It's a seven-seater. I'll be able to take a photo of Instagram, but you can't drive my Uber car.
What car do you drive? I drive a 2013 Honda ROC. It's a seven-seater, which is going to be used for Uber XL as well. So, you know, whenever I get more than five passengers, five or six, then, you know, I get a little bit extra, which helps.
So you get paid extra when it's bad. I was hoping to, you know, maybe take a photo of Instagram, but you can bring anything you can do here. So you can do it here. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. So, I hope there's different categories of Uber. Uber X, which is what every driver is assigned to, because that's a standard.
That's like the bare bones, you know. The car just has to be five doors, four doors, sorry, no more than ten years old. And every car from every category is automatically a part of Uber X, where it's like a Mercedes or BMW. Oh, go on.
Go on. Go on. Go on. Hello.
Peter, I'm very well. Very well. How are you? What are you providing?
Sorry. Hey, what? Which government? Because you don't sound like you're in Australia.
Oh, very nice. Which part of India? Which part? Where are you in India?
Yes, I'm in India now. That's fantastic. What's the weather like? For all of these.
What are you in the audience at the moment? Lovely. Very nice. Very nice.
Thank you. Okay. Go to the point. What are we off to?
Watch the cricket? Cricket. Do you like the cricket? Do you like the cricket?
Because India loves. The Indians love the cricket, eh? Yes. Do you follow which team?
We see. The night riders. We see. Yes.
Matthew's in India as well. Is that what you want, mate? Yeah, Matthew. Tell him I say hi.
The first test. Yeah. Tell him I say hi. Anyway, let's get to the point.
That can help. Oh, really? So Clarissa Lights. Clarissa's head.
She's head. She's got matches. And wicks and wacks. I thought we used Canada.
No. No. No, Clarissa Lights. No.
We used the light. We used the light on the iPhone. I mean, I've got a lot of my iPhone. I don't think that's already LED.
Look, I'm winning. I'm winning. All right. Thank you.
Okay. No problem. Thank you. Sorry about that.
Listen, we have heard of the camera. For some reason, in the last two or three months, it's not just me. Everybody is popping hundreds and hundreds of vehicles. My kids on the air, on their pre-poed phones, which have got blocked numbers are a lot.
They're looking. Yeah. They're just going to automate it. They're just going to automate it.
You mentioned it. You mentioned it. We're going to port them and show them that. That's a game.
That's why I'm not getting that particular future on the system. Yeah. Back to it. I'm the economist.
I'm the economist. No, no. Yeah. So it's different categories than the XL.
XL, yeah. Yeah. So I can do X XL uberies, even as well, like I'm, that's a good, uh, to fill in between the gaps when it's quiet. Like the line of my shit.
Yeah. And the cafe made the coffees. Mm-hmm. No, go.
I can bring the cafe because I know where the cafe is. Not in Melbourne. No, no, no... Okay.
No, I guess we'll take a day to get you. And the lady said you got me to the driver. Must have drunk. Never gonna.
Did you see what was happening like on the... You got in the car and you just went the other direction. Ah, what? Did you have to cancel on him or did he cancel on you?
Oh, well after about two hours, you guys are coming in. Oh man. I mean, you got like a plane, so like do you hear about? Yeah, I can all sorts of stories like, you know, Caddy and Uber.
Yeah, like I've, unfortunately recently I've had like, you know, a lot of passengers like, you know, when they've got, when they've, you know, made a request and then they've got a driver and then straight away, they drive and we'll ask them, you know, oh hi, where are you going? Oh, the Uber drives are in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, very dodgy. One thing that you used to piece me off about catching a taxi in Sydney was the driver would stop and say, where are you going?
I don't even taxi to Uber. I'm supposed to, yeah, they want a fare, especially at spork events. I'll get that, right? But if I'm not saying, just leave the car at the door, just get in there.
If I'm going to, I haven't got a cab since Uber came out, right? Yeah. And it's mainly because I was just really sick of catching the car. Yeah.
And that's a good cab or calling a taxi. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're just fetching the unit now. And that's why Uber is successful. I mean, they've got the, you've got the device.
You can see the driver, the driver can see the driver. Anything's tasteful, whatever happens. You're even going to get in the map, the routes displayed. And like I said, okay, this way I can make the decision to change directions and we got there pretty quickly last night.
So it was good. Yeah, I was a, what's the problem? Well, how you can have multiple stops and things like that? Yeah, that's cool.
Yeah, yeah. Change it anytime, like, doing the trip. I have a call, cab sometimes myself. I've got usually, you know, I'm being trained.
Where I'm going is usually not being written. Sometimes I've got, you know, I've got the head, go, just as I've got the plane. Oh, I've got the plane. Yeah, yeah.
You know, straight to the point, got there, filming tidy. I've got one person who was a bit too talkative thing for my standards. It's like shut up while I was a white guy. But the Uber drivers are known to drive.
It's their car. The car's clean. Yeah. Then you're getting the money through credit cards and whatever.
So there's no runners. No. No. Safety.
Have you had any incidents where you'll be worried or? Well, we'll fight the drunk once. I can, some of them, I can sew out of it that they don't know how to put on this. He'll pop me so I've had to literally reach over and do it for them or board over to the side to make sure they're all bucked up.
So, uh, any bodies. You know, I'm just a bad guy. You're going to get over. Did you want to get over the three and a half years?
Obviously. Yeah. So this is not the old basketball. You've got video cameras in your car?
No. No. No. But I'm excited about that.
You'll see them on this head of the fake. Who about? Who about? Who about?
Who about? Just somebody's story point. What do you think you happen that any girls that come in theew? I've actually been lucky enough to pick up a couple of times.
And I've been invited to a house party as well where I'm like, uh, where they... where I help myself to do plays of like, spit, roast, like, very expensive food. Yes, yes, yes, yes. I'm so fucking young, I've been a bunch of speed-rose people.
I'll tell you what, Ross. That might be... A7, might be... I reckon.
I'm worried about the multi-net group. You're multi-net group. Actually, actually... You're not cool.
I'm serious about where you are when you drive to the airport. You could do the foxhole runs in the waters. Don't take a wheel, I'll get this. But money and object, what would be your best overcome?
What would you like to have? Okay, this might sound a bit geekish, but I think the ball, the way it's seen it, is not too bad. Yeah, I know, but because I actually have it in built-arm, I'll do the seats. So they don't have to turn back, you know, months with like, you know, with three, four-year-old kids.
Like, you know, if they don't have the appropriate... Yeah, you're allowed to have that, but you have to have a babysit. You're not obligated to carry one, but like it is best for like when you get those. But like I found a lot of the parents just bring them themselves.
Like bring them on the seat for the HR. Yeah, I've had a few of those. Does that move a bit? Yeah, would you have to click your fight, and we'd have to click a button, or is there an option?
I think for the baby options, it might be either either Ubersist or the Lucks, which is like on the more premium. No, but in the Lucks, it's like... Oh, S.U.B. Sorry, S.U.B.
I wonder how many ones I could get in 29, my place in the office every day. And when we do talk, so let's see where it is. I've got two seats in the car, ready? I'll give you a house address in a second.
But, I mean, do you see it's here to stay? I mean, I'll call it like a disruptor. Oh yeah, like, it's taken over. For sure, like it's created a lot of employment opportunities.
Like to my knowledge, there's like 40,000 either drivers in Sydney alone. Wow. Yeah, so... I guess it depends on what area you're in, it's like everyone's going to be signed on at once.
That's a bit... ...frying to have a friend of a few, you weren't the first, you weren't one of the early... Even then, like I was about a year deep into it at the time, but like since then so many changes have occurred, like even like back then, like, you didn't even have to pay tax. Like in the first 12 months, I've been a new driver because it wasn't legal yet, and then like it went...
I still don't have any idea. Yeah, yeah. Great country, great country. You hear you were worse than I was the best.
One of you, allegedly. They just say you were not the only. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you can't do it without an A&N or a driver authority.
So do you think now there's a lot more... ...Hondors got their electric vehicle coming out. They're... ...like it's out there.
I think it's... Well, terrible. Right, but... ...you've got to...
...sub-fifty-k electric car that's got like... ...fondage range. They've got more charging points. You can effectively just pull into a charging centre and charge it.
You said it's the last... ...for a lot of... ...you said it's the last... ...for a lot of...
...is the charging point. Yeah, because they're all in the hands. I know some commercial buildings throughout the... ...so, like, Seva Giz in Sydney.
They're starting to put charging points in. They're going to have pliers on the Gold Coast. And they're two Tesla parking spots. I already saw the first problem.
The Tesla... ...the plug-in is on the right side of the car. This is the front charges. No, no, no.
The... ...the... ...the plums on the right rear quarter panel. The charges on the left pillar.
It's fine. So, only one Tesla... ...is the other one came. You can't reach...
...now, but then it's like the other end of the car. Come back at him. Yeah, that's right for a clever country. Yeah, so effectively...
...I mean, how many kilometres a day would you do? Oh, okay. If I do like A9L shift, it's not hard for me to reach 200... ...like I've...
...yeah, like I've... ...I've been recording my case. So, like, I've done like last four months. I've done 70,000.
70,000. Yeah. In 12 months. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. That's a lot. The car's still out there as well.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think I might even do more. But 70,000 is still here for a couple.
No, no. That's a simple one. I like the black, because I know they don't get a professional driver. How do I know that some blinds just go to license and he's just done with the car and go, let's go.
No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no, no.
No, no, no. Why does it's a really bad driver? Well, he just reports his back. I think that's like...
That's not that he's a car. I'm saying that in my case. I'm not talking about that in a minute. Yeah, so if I want to be a little bit driver, don't I apply online?
Is there a room at office that I go to? Do they check my car? Yeah, yeah. They do have...
The main one is in billboards. Yeah, you just need to make sure you've got your insurance hand. Yeah, to talk to insurance. Do you need to have regular insurance?
Do you have regular insurance? Or do you have extra insurance? Comprehensive. Yeah, comprehensive class.
So, I come on with NRMA and like, you do have... I'm going to be covered through rice sharing. You do need to tell them that you're a rice share driver. So it's a rice share?
It's a rice share. It's got an icon. No, it's a bit of a spiritual. Yeah, they can't be insured for 100% rice share.
Like I'm otherwise I will refuse you. Like I'm... I told them that I may use the center... Is for rice share use and 20% profit?
So I'm going to have a bit of balance with the budget. I want to be covered with it. I know that much. It's not gonna be something great.
So you can learn insurance. Yeah, they've got the insurance. That's from the front-off? The little retingle, like the swear stickers, you have to...
I mean, there's a lot of Uber dramas about those stickers in the back. You have to have them. You have to have them. Because if you don't get fine.
You see that? Yeah, in States, Lyfters have been company and they're a little bit out of a dashboard. I was in New York last year, I was going to do business. You know, I can have Uber's in back to Australia.
I want to get out. I actually put it to Playz for the Uber. They're like, really bad ratings for your Uber. I was tittling.
So, you got a tip in America. I was going to say a little bit about it. I wasn't tittling in the drive. Americans hate Aussies in America because we don't tip.
I tip. So, they say, you take a look at the side that's good. No. That's what I'm doing.
I'm having a tip here. If I get good service from someone, especially if I'm not like, if I go interstate and I'm going to need this person again tomorrow, then I'm going to get the capital. I'm not going to get the restaurant. I'm going to get the capital.
I'm going to get a good experience. I'm happy to tip. But if he needs any tips in the cab? Yeah, I did get a $50 tip once.
I feel like a trip that was just a local trip. It was just like from Hersford and Hersford Grove. So I think the family would have been any more than $12 or $13. And this rich Chinese dude, right?
He tipped me $50 and got me outside his mansion. He had a mazzarati parked outside. Someone got a feature on a feature. Yeah, I'm a feature on a feature.
Yeah, so I'm a... I just thought on that front. So who was it? You know, the big joke problems with cabins at the airport was like that.
In the first year, yeah, before I became legalized in December 2015. Like when I used to pick up on the star, like I remember taxi drivers would just walk up from behind and take photos of my number, like, front and back. And of course I didn't like it. I kind of let him have it.
But now they've got special rents for Uber drivers. Not exactly. Not exactly for the star casino. Now I find like whatever you need to pick up from there, I'll just go like at the back in Pemon Street.
I'm always at stops there. Where you can stop and pick up. And like, yeah, just get some information. We're starting to go on the mics.
No, but they're paying. Do you pay your mate when he comes to a picture? Depends. Do you pay your wife?
I'll pay her out. So you enjoy a full time job for you? Yes, it is. So you make it a...
Oh, I've done a few jobs in the past. Like I've done a couple of customer service call center jobs. No, you need to be honest. No, I'm in the party park.
Sorry. You've got flexibility to do that. Yeah, yeah. Like I want to trade that for anything.
You work literally whenever you want, wherever you want, around the state. Like I'd even like, you know, I've gone away up to you know Central Coast, Newcastle, Wollongong, Byron, Tweedhead. They'll have you over there. I got you to work when I was late.
I was in Byron last week. And there was two of the drugs? Two? There's two of the drugs.
That's why we know there was 40,000, only two of them. It depends on what time we look for it. And then there's only two of the drugs in the area. Well, it's not going to be good when we go home.
It's just like doing a date. It was happening. Well, when I worked mainly it was happening. So can you go interstate?
Or was it stay? Well, look, like, I did get a trip from like Byron into Old Ghost Airport. You can walk off from Queensland, but you can't do any pick ups within Queensland because like, you know, it is different from state to state. Yeah, I think you need to have like a Queensland drive authority to do any pick ups like, you know, within Queensland territory.
If you don't, then you can't pop a $20,000 fine. Yeah. So how do I know that obviously I pick up my phone and I go, right, I'm going to hell I am. I'm going to go out to my website, you know, and I pick up my phone and I go, what's I call the Uber?
I go Uber, Mike's picking up and some chicken rolls up and pieces up. How do I know your car and your license and whatever is not something else? Is that like facial recognition? Yeah, yeah.
On your app, like I was showing like, you know, my name and the number playing in my car. Yeah, but everyone has the laws and just take your car out for speed. Well, I can see that it's me. I can see my face like.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I can see the first place in the app. Oh, okay. I don't know.
Yeah, you can. Like, you got my photo. But like I was going to ask that, like, you know, I share a car with you. So both of us are registered Uber drivers.
No, no. Only one person. Yeah, like only the owner of that car. So one person, one car.
Yeah. So if I took my mum's car, I can't, Uber. It's going to be registered in my own. Well, like, well, in short, it's got to be, your name has to be covered with the insurance and you've got to let people know that, you know, you're in center.
I'll go baby bats for five weeks. Yeah. Oh, really? Well, you're too much of the appropriate behavior.
I think that you do. We're out. We had a four year, we had another party. We'll go from one of those violent drunks.
No, I wasn't drunk at all. We had a party two days. I'll do nothing. We'll see.
I'll do nothing. We'll see what happens. We got my friend who made it to the road. Okay, my attention.
I thought it was an intelligent friend. Yeah, he didn't like that. So he hooked me up. So can you ban or was that hit off?
It's not like a good place. Well, like, if you rate them one star, like you won't get a trip with that passenger ever again. But it doesn't mean that that would be banned because like, you know, rating is not a four below four stars in order to be banned. Yeah, that with the appropriate by having a damn combination of the notes in the US, you know, my Uber accounts not crasshot.
I'm going to kick up a low four point five. So, no, that's your aim. It might be good. I'm going to freak out.
Jesus. I've been ice my friend. I've been ice. I'm working with the worker.
I just borrowed people's phones. I'm just working with people's phones. You see, they're ready to go. Boom.
No, teams are appropriate by the worker. So what happened during the week? Ross? Interesting.
Not much. Yeah, an issue with the intro, this way. Well, after robbing home, the kids in the car and coming over the air is at bridge. It breaks.
Naught. The seatbelt in the rear car literally just came straight out of the socket. So the seatbelt didn't disconnect from the connector. The whole thing came out.
The whole thing came out. Wow. And BMW were very prompted to pick it up. First thing this morning, after making a little crunk, I was a bit angry at the seatbelt because this is what happened, though, they were at work with them.
What's your name? What's your rating? We're ready for BMW. No, it's five stars.
So let me know. Let me know. Let me a five. See you.
It's actually one last five twenty. Not the police back. It's fine for you though. But surprisingly, it pulls like a, well, it's great.
It's a little in it. No, no, it's a good one. It's a good one. Get back into fun.
What was that? That red carpet car, they must be a give up. It's nice and lovely. This is white.
I think they can never sell this car. This is white on... You know we talked a couple weeks ago to talk to a company about the odd cars? This is white on...
No, you blew it to them. No. It's like a sand car. They thought it would be yours.
You weren't jeans. Oh, no, no. My blue jeans you destroyed. What's it?
No, yeah, that was it. Any luck? No, it's not. No, no, no, no.
No, no, no, no, no. I've got the cars off to hit the dyno... Oh, yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Yeah, I'll do it. It sounds off to get on the dyno tomorrow, so I'll go in well. You want to vent? Yeah, I'll do.
I'll go well. They'll have it back to me on Friday. You're going in there? I'm going to turn it off.
That's the end of it. Really? Yeah. Yeah.
Once all the monitors don't, they don't recommend the car gets driven along distance without the actual beam shoot. Do you have to run it in? No. It's all bottom.
Yeah. That I'm like, you're drawing the car once, so even injectors, you can injectors. You lost your game, so you start talking about taking the shoot. It's all wheels and suspension.
It's all wheels and suspension. So, let's take a very fast. I do want some new wheels this way. Talk about the multi-air.
I said 20s. Multi-air, it's 20s. It does. Which are you wheels from?
From the UK, actually. Okay. It's an ETA, BT, BTA. Cool.
What's your Amazon? Nah. We're going to take a photo of versus Sky Wheels and put it on Instagram. Instagram.
Instagram. It's always for the internet, as well. They're at C2F. It's a 4th, so you just strange wheels on that.
Cool. Yeah. The boys that were talking about it. The boys that were talking about it, they said they were talking about it.
Which one need to go there and take a look at it? They're pushing you to do some more than the internet, but it's all you to say. It's strange. Strange.
What's happening? It's a busy week. Look, it's been pretty good. It's been pretty good week.
I had my BBQ last night. I didn't drive. I met Uber Mike. He brought me home.
I was playing the IPT. I was a text message to Mr. Smith for a while. No, I was a text message to my husband.
I was invited. I was invited. I was surprised for the 4th. I was surprised.
Yeah. We had a cook there. You had to put your hand on that. So we recorded again from the Madhouse Baking House Palace.
You have to sign in. I signed in. It's an iPad. You can see.
It's an iPad where you sign in and it asks you for your photo. I made sure my hip was right. It's a smart one. It's a smart one.
It's a smart one. It's a smart one. It's a $9 or $4. Is it an app?
Or is it an app? Yep. You're just getting low. It's fantastic.
It's a fake thing. You follow the printer on your iPad, you're down the app, and the service out of the US is phenomenal. It'll be first day here going and set it up and it's great. We'll stick it on my chest.
It'll blow up for them. Yeah, it'll blow up my chest. And we'll stick it on my chest. It'll be very happy.
What's the Christmas week? Christmas is coming up. There are my parents. Or some other ones.
We'll come up with an app. Yeah, we'll come up. I'm going to come up. I'll be invited to come up for the day and talk about motorbikes and trablaks.
I'll go bike life. You can come. You can come. You can come, bring the great monster up there.
Can I bring the kids? Yeah, come around. No, no, no, no. I'm worried about what they'll do.
I've got my bike left. I haven't told you I've got my bike left. No, I'm worried about you. Oh, 15 years ago.
I bought a scooter. I bought the Harley O'Scooter. They had a Yamaha 250. I had to get a 250.
Okay, because we went through a bike phase and ran into the GKs and then I bought it. Scooter. Keep up with them down through the actual bar. You turned up with a scooter.
He did it. I did. I did my license on a scooter. He was turned up with a scooter.
No, it wasn't. He turned his office where he was working with a scooter. I was like, say everyone's like, well, Harley's in your own scooter. Yeah, but I was, no, no, no, no, she can't even.
But I'm keeping up. I'm losing through the business. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm actually out of 140.
So half a day I'm going to keep the price to make the acres. But it was great, because I used to go to the city for meetings and they're always the park. The city was perfect. All day parking free.
So we went to Loftus. Yeah, the bus lane. The bike lane. No, the bike lane.
No, the bike lane. No, the bike lane. No, it's not. No, it's.
So I went to Loftus. I had a glove box with cup holders. No way. Yeah, it can be.
No. It's, it can be. Good ooh, yes! So I went to Loftus to do the test.
And when you do it on a scooter, it's like an automatic. It's a special license. You don't get a full bike license. Yeah.
And I was here with my brother, we did the test. And he wrote, ah, for a full bike license. But he wrote down the make it model of the bike. And I looked at the show, my brother goes, make it walking, keep walking.
Went to the RMS and extended the phone. I get the new license issue. You know what that? Yeah, no, do it like that.
But full bike license. It's going to be dangerous. We'll have to get down. I'm terrible on bike.
If you're in the trouble box, are there? Is there a quick need to quads out there? Some use the scooters. Yeah.
From there. My daughter's got a quick environment. I always go to the barbeee. The barbeee.
The barbeee. The barbeee. The barbeee. Some of the kids at the main level of the carter are there.
And his kids just, he's a good friend of the day. I have a kid's state. They're riding my own level. They're fantastic.
They're good kids. That was the one. They're one that's riding the trouble. The one that's the one.