In this engaging episode, we navigate the ins and outs of ride-sharing and car rental experiences. Our discussion starts with a humorous comparison between Uber Eats and DoorDash, sharing personal preferences and favorite features. We delve into the world of Uber ratings, discussing the intricacies behind those decimal places and what it might mean for frequent users. The conversation swerves into the realm of airport car rentals, highlighting the perks and pitfalls of various loyalty programs. Join us as we recount personal anecdotes of mistaken car assignments and AI mishaps.
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SPEAKER 04 :
Do you perceive a difference between Uber Eats and DoorDash?
SPEAKER 03 :
No, no, I really don’t. Honestly, that’s why when you said DoorDash, I thought, well, I’ve done DoorDash. Uber is just my go-to. Uber is where I go when I travel. I always Uber around when I’m on the road. I sometimes will Uber to the airport like you and Lisa did. And I do Uber Eats almost every night. I just do it for lunch. I’ll do it for brunch on Saturday. I’m going to settle in to watch college football. I love me my Uber.
SPEAKER 04 :
What is your rating?
SPEAKER 03 :
Funny you should ask because I hate that I’m a 4.95. I hate that. How am I not a five?
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m Daddy Warbucks.
SPEAKER 03 :
I’m generous. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m nice. Are they taking it out to two decimal places now?
SPEAKER 03 :
Let me double check. You can look at your profile. Home. Let me look at it right now. Uber.
SPEAKER 04 :
This is what people come to the radio for. This is what they come to the radio for.
SPEAKER 03 :
Riveting. Forget Epstein. Forget no enemies on the right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Kristi Noem just resigned, but we’re checking Uber ratings.
SPEAKER 03 :
Trump just bombed North Korea. Forget. We’re looking at our ratings. I’m 4.96. What are you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, a count.
SPEAKER 03 :
Look at the count. Okay, you’re 4.96? Yes, what are you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Scoreboard me as always, 4.95. But let’s discuss. That means at some point… Listen, you’ve got way more rides than I do. But at some point, we did something that chafed somebody. I can’t imagine… Well, you know what it normally is. Maybe looking uncomfortable because somebody has Homania on their home screen.
SPEAKER 03 :
The Ayatollah on the home screen. No, no, no. I was nice to him. I gave him a $50 tip. I’ll bet you did. I was all over it.
Please, please. If I start hearing Allah Akbar, I’m out. It’s over. I’m out the back window. No, I mean, yes, somebody’s… It’s probably… You know what it normally is? It’s normally somebody didn’t tip enough. They feel like…
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, because it gives you, what does it give you, 15, 20, and 25? I always do 25. Me too. Because I figure if I do 20, somebody will hold it against me. And so do you ever stiff somebody with less than 25?
SPEAKER 03 :
Not really. I’m always, because I don’t want to get below 4.96. I know. All right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Like I should care. 60 additional seconds on the world of cars. Yes. You go to a lot of airports. You’ve rented some cars in your life, right?
SPEAKER 01 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 04 :
At how many airports do you rent the car and then you just drive out? They just somehow know you’ve got the car and off you go. And versus how many times do you have to go out through a line and have a human being either look at your paperwork or go bloop on the windshield versus how’s that shaping up for you?
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s going to be very obnoxious. My answer is going to be very obnoxious. I’m not going to mention the car rental company, but you get – Well, I’m in the Hertz Gold Club.
SPEAKER 04 :
Is that – Yeah, you’re a piper.
SPEAKER 03 :
You’re a piker. You can bring the car.
SPEAKER 04 :
I spit in the direction of your Hertz Gold Club. Two, two.
SPEAKER 03 :
They actually, when you start waving around that silver folder they give you when you’re platinum.
SPEAKER 04 :
Silver folder?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, there’s a silver folder. It’s a special category. When you go to the airport, when you take the car back to the airport with this category, they’ll drive you back to the terminal. They take you personally. They don’t make you do the fun bus. The stupid fun bus. And I hate that. I’m lugging my bags. So, no, I’m not. I’m sorry. Again, I don’t want to sound arrogant.
SPEAKER 04 :
But how about leaving? Do they give you a foot rub and a limo ride?
SPEAKER 03 :
There’s a special lane. There’s an extra lane. There’s a special lane. Okay, so two of the last couple of weeks we’ve done Norfolk. I’m such a jerk. I’m such a jerk.
SPEAKER 04 :
You’re the best. When I grow up, I want to be you. We’ve done Norfolk, Virginia, and San Antonio.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Norfolk. We rented the car. Now, we had to go to the booth because they didn’t have your name on the thing. And I chafed a little bit at that. I like to see my name on the thing. It’s kind of cool. But I interacted with a human being and then got in the car. We drove out of the car. Off we went. San Antonio, my name’s on the thing. Yay. Fantastic. And we hop into the thing. And it was my very first experience. Guess something you talked about. My very first experience with the… The AI screener. Yeah. Where you drive the car through what looks like that Star Trek episode, City on the Edge of Forever.
SPEAKER 03 :
And the lights go on.
SPEAKER 04 :
That big glowing arch. And you drive through that, and that is AI noticing every square molecule of that car. Because if it comes back different, it’s my butt.
SPEAKER 03 :
And it’s backfired because it’s been making mistakes. And so Hertz has been under the gun on this because, look, I got dinged. They said, oh, the license plate was bent and you owe $150. I’m like, I didn’t bend the license plate. You’re out of your mind. And by the way, let me wave around the silver envelope a little bit here, okay?
SPEAKER 04 :
How dare you? We’ll give you the car, Mr. Gallagher.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thank you. Thank you.
SPEAKER 02 :
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SPEAKER 04 :
We’ll pay you the $150 for the inconvenience. I did not run afoul of the AI thing. I brought the car back just fine. But we waited in a stupid line for about 15 minutes behind a dude going boop, boop, boop on each individual car. Isn’t that wild? And then you’re ready for this? You ever have this? I can’t even ask you, did this ever happen to you? Back when you were a commoner like me, you ever go rent a car and they’re out of what you ordered so you get like the next level up? Oh, yeah, they upgraded. Sure. So we like SUVs. So I signed up for like a Nissan Pathfinder. Sure. And they said, well, there you are, Mr. Davis. And it was an Infiniti QX60. Sweet SUV.
SPEAKER 01 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah, nice. Put me in the wrong car. So not only did I go to the guy, boop, boop, boop, and he looks at me. We got dinner plans. We got friends waiting for us. And it’s like, oh, you’re going to have to go back. I said, excuse me. What? Had to go back. Why? To make the paper. They put me in the wrong car. They flat out put me in the wrong car. Well, that’s their problem. Well, it is their problem. What they did was they gave me that car at the same rate as the Pathfinder would have been, and it would only cost me a few more minutes.
SPEAKER 03 :
See, if you had the silver envelope, they wouldn’t have made you go back. Well, I’m trying, man. So I’ve been listening carefully to you because I’m waiting to hear the word Epstein out of your mouth. And I’m so intrigued that you’ve avoided it like the plague.
SPEAKER 04 :
And good for you. I can’t say I don’t care because I do.
SPEAKER 03 :
It blew up while you were away. So I wasn’t sure if while you were out gallivanting. For only one reason.
SPEAKER 04 :
Everybody’s trying to weaponize it. I’m not saying nobody cares. I’m not projecting bad faith onto everybody. But there’s only one reason this stupid Epstein story has any traction as everybody expects some enormous… name to be brought down all right but then release the damn files to happen release the files the problem with that is like a grand like a folder of grand jury testimony the epstein files contain a million people saying a million things about a million other people okay i’m sure are lies
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. So? So? I mean, there’s a reason we don’t release grand jury testimony. No, I don’t get the reluctance, especially when our side was promised they would release the Epstein files.
SPEAKER 04 :
I know.
SPEAKER 03 :
Ask Pam Bondi. Ask President Trump.
SPEAKER 04 :
That was the mistake.
SPEAKER 03 :
But here’s what they’re doing that is fascinating. I mean, I love, I follow Bad Ombre on X. And here’s Bad Ombre, a post this morning. The Democrats say Trump spent his first Thanksgiving as president with Jeffrey Epstein. And then, here are pictures of Trump on that day serving meals to our military with his wife. Democrats and their lackeys screeching, you do know there are stunt doubles, right? He said, at some point, you’ve got to accept that these people are just plain weird. They’re divorced from and uninterested in the truth. and pushing a political agenda and investing in a conspiratorial novel they’ve written in their heads in order to profit. from the suffering of real victims.
SPEAKER 04 :
There you are.
SPEAKER 03 :
Isn’t that perfect? Isn’t that profound? It is.
SPEAKER 04 :
So, sure, I’ll pay attention. I know you will, too. But the extent to which this is, oh, did you hear what Epstein said about Trump in, you know, 2006? Yeah, he hated him.
SPEAKER 03 :
Whatever, man. Yeah, he hated him. Guess what? That’s not the own they think it is. They released stuff that said that. Guess what? He hated him, and Trump cut ties with him. Ghislaine never mentioned Trump. Virginia Giuffre said Trump didn’t do anything untoward or anything wrong at all. So the whole thing is just they’re desperate. Well, you’ve got the rule, the Mark Davis rule. The crap file? The crap file. The Mark Davis rule, the TDS rule makes smart people dumb and nice people mean. The Gallagher rule is the left has a crap file. And when they have a bad day, and believe me, the government reopening is a bad day for the Democrats. Bad day for Democrats.
SPEAKER 04 :
What should that tell you? When the government reopening is a bad day for Democrats, it should tell you something.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, well, at least they’ve got Schlossberg coming along to save the day in New York. Have you seen this guy? You want to talk about a clown show? So this is JFK’s grandson. He’s now declared he’s going to run for Jerry Nadler’s congressional seat in New York. Good-looking kid, grandson of JFK. He’s got the Kennedy gene. He’s never held a job except he worked for Vogue briefly. He’s perfect. And, boy, you watch his social media. Start with him doing the Heil Hitler salute on Instagram. Oh, yeah, repeatedly.
SPEAKER 04 :
And this one’s real. Unlike the Elon Musk, you’re in my heart thing, this one looks really real.
SPEAKER 03 :
Like, come on. Hey, look, that may just have propelled him to victory in New York.
SPEAKER 04 :
Do you know who else could be in that race?
SPEAKER 03 :
Who?
SPEAKER 04 :
George Conway, the former Mr. Kellyanne. Kellyanne’s ex-husband? Yes, who went full Trump hate, full Democrat, full everything. I think that’s a trial balloon just to get in the news again. Oh, I don’t know. For full shows live and on demand, it’s the Salem News Channel.
In this engaging episode, we navigate the ins and outs of ride-sharing and car rental experiences. Our discussion starts with a humorous comparison between Uber Eats and DoorDash, sharing personal preferences and favorite features. We delve into the world of Uber ratings, discussing the intricacies behind those decimal places and what it might mean for frequent users. The conversation swerves into the realm of airport car rentals, highlighting the perks and pitfalls of various loyalty programs. Join us as we recount personal anecdotes of mistaken car assignments and AI mishaps.
