This is the Downbeat on ninety seven to one the Freak. We are the
Downbeat, and we have big stuff coming for you today, including a draft
coming up at eight fifteen new nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
We'll draft them up and attach a little bet to it. Who do
you think should get in of the fifteen that's coming up at eight at nine
o'clock. I lost a bet a few weeks ago in the Royal Rumble.
I repaid it by watching the most expensive adult film ever made at the time
in terms of budget pirates. A review with audio come up at nine tomorrow
at eight o'clock. I want you to know that the Downbeat singing boxes of
Chocolate, Well Beck, weill you a preview that as they hit flower shops
tomorrow. Happy Gallantine's Day everyone out there, ladies, have yourselves a day
to exchange parties whatever you do. It's today Gallentine's Day. Yeah, Today's
Galentine's Day. And what does that mean just for the ladies? Yeah,
and you think that's thong? Parties may be a DJ class. What did
you say, DJ? Yeah? No, I don't think you did.
Huh. I watched Old School in the past. So Gallantine, what do
the dudes get? Yeah, we don't need we get enough. What do
we get as men? Do they come and play a DJ set for us?
Ship? He comes over to disappointing groups. So a bunch of girls
go out tonight on Gallentine's Day. They probably did it over the weekend.
Okay, I don't know, ladies. If you weigh in, let us
know. Yeah, have you already celebrated Gallantine's Day? And if not,
do you plan to? And what would that look like? What would that
and how are your DJ skills? Yeah? Daniel Gafford nine forty five.
Let's do the scuttle butt. Parker University Parker dot E EDU. The class
that one of us will have to go take if we lose. I like
that one. I want to further my education. You're talking about IQ in
the first segment. That's true. Would you either do that or take the
A C T or S A T. I'd like to do that. I'll
take the SAT right now on the computer. I'm not going to the room
for half a day. Yeah. No, do you take it on your
computer or you take a classic Parker That's not like they don't hold you all
day. Like you just go take the test, turn it in as fast
as you can. No, I want to take it on the computer.
Or Kevin, you could put it together. Anyone could do that. Okay,
Well, look I have something special, honor system. Kevin, you
put together that. Just say tea just to stand up comedy again, I
ain't doing that. A doing that. Let's do a fake, a fake
rock show. You gotta get together a band and you have to do a
rock show at Club Dot to get them to agree to it. First.
Cobble together a band and do a play a show at UH. You can
make we can do individuals and I if I lose, I will do backwards
man. I like backwards man, and paint a perfect face of myself on
the back of my head. I'll even shave off all the beard and put
put makeup on my normal face to make it look like the back of your
head the best I can. I'll shave my eyebrows. No, I won't,
No, I will not, and put all my clothes on backwards and
walk around for you guys to make you laugh for a whole day. I'll
take a correspondence course at Parker You and learn French. Okay, I kind
of want to take a class at Parker You. Yeah, I might need
a new some new trade, new vocation, or maybe we have to go
to DJ school. Send your bet payoff suggestions that are not torturous to two
one four eight seven something not too bad? Yeah, stories. I had
another one boys plane off the runway to American Airlines. This is on Saturday.
It was a Boeing seven eight seven had old trouble with its brakes while
landing. The FAA says a flag from DC experienced a breaking malfunction and ran
into the Engineered Materials Arresting System. They call it the e MASS and basically
it's all these crushable material they have at the end of the runway to help
you in a case your aircraft overruns it to absorb the force. So plane
has a brake problem, high speed, hits the Engineered Materials Arresting System the
EMASS, and it stops. They had ninety nine on board, six crew
member. Wow, no injuries, all right, but good thing that e
MASS held up. Am I right? How deep? Because I would think
it's very loose, you know, crushable material. Yes, like it's got
to be kind of deep. I mean, is it a couple a few
feet deep. I'm glad you asked. I mean, you knew what he
did for I didn't know that part. I mean, that's kind of interesting.
What's at the end of a runway, the depth and looseness of the
rocks that they put in to slow down a plane. I find that interesting.
You brought it up, so I'm asking to follow up and shut down
the force of the plane. I don't know the specific measurements on it.
I'll be sure after the show to get out to DFW and measure with a
with a dipstick with a yard stick. Can just see how deep she goes.
There's a man on the runway with the yardstick measuring, and then tomorrow
idiot on runway shuts down DFW Airport and we'll have a story locked in for
now. The DFA says that from January to August of last year, there
were fifteen of these, so you know that's eight months of the year fifteen.
I just think that the probability continues to get higher that something weird is
gonna happen on a plane. Oh it doesn't. We had the expert on
just What last week that said that these incidents are on the decline. Did
y'all feel good about it? Though? Did y'all feel good about everything?
She was saying, Yes, we had an expert who was Her job is
to write stories about the world of aviation. Yeah, I don't know,
I don't know. I don't know. Thousands of uber, Lyft and DoorDash
drivers are expected to go on strike across the United States tomorrow. Sorry,
you're going to have to go get your own food. Yeah. Way,
Now, last week might be their new new hires. Think about it.
A couple openings there every hour of every day. Uh. Lyft said it
would guarantee weekly earnings for drivers, which is a first in the United States.
So lifts like locking in not by riot anymore. We'll give you weekly
earnings. But that's just Lyft, and I don't think they did that for
everyone, just some of their employees. You guys are going to be driving
Uber Eats picking up the food from the drive through from me. We had
food delivery team strike Team Tacos again. Hey guys, mikey uh the drivers
have accused the platforms of taking high amounts of commissions and it's very disproportionate.
Here's what one driver said. This is John Cruise from Miami Mike and he
is a part of the Justice for app Workers coalition Okay, which represents over
one hundred thousand drivers. So it's a big coalition that's striking tomorrow. This
is the biggest strike I've ever seen. Thousands and thousands of drivers. It's
gonna be nationwide. It's not gonna be nationwide. It's gonna be well for
some, but it's not gonna be There's still gonna be people to drive.
You can't get that many people on the same page. It's impossible. Uber
said only a minority of its drivers participate in such strikes, and it rarely
has an impact on business. Uber it they just firm handed the law.
We are in charge. Let's let's have a little power dynamic. Bam.
Yeah, it doesn't really affect us. Go strike the gears of the machine.
Keep. Other people got laid off and they're gonna come drive for us,
so enjoy. So you know, it's uh, it is interesting.
I I've thought about that a little bit. How much can you make Uber
lifting can you make? And if you're out there listening and do this,
how much can you make at this, let's say part time? If you
are twenty hours a week driving? Like, how much money do you think
you can make to get by? Or if you ever do this full time?
How much can you make? Two and four eight seven seven eight seven
answer or text? Is it enough to offset the absolute damage permanent damage you're
doing to your car by basically doubling the they're wear and tear on it?
Well, they pay for gas, right, okay? Great? Or do
they not? Mileage? Is? I bet they're not paying for mileage?
No, they're not paying for gas. No way. I mean you might
get a commission to kind of cover those expenses, you know, somewhat,
but it's a fraction. Yeah, if you're putting Uber does not cover the
cost of gas, vehicle maintenance, or wear and tear, that might be
a So with the mileage the drivers register okay great? JJ used to right,
Yeah I did Uber eats and door dash and stuff like that. How'd
that go? So they calculated within like the delivery like mileage. Not really,
I mean they don't like pay for your gas, but like, yeah,
they calculate the milage. How far are you going? How long it
takes to pick it up? Becauld do to wait time and stuff like that
and how busy it is around the deliveries could give you kind of a search
charge as well, right, Yeah, it just all that factors in.
What percentage of people would you say tip on top of whatever fee they're paying
to get the delivery? I say a good percentage a lot of the time.
Yeah, I'll say more than half. I think when I delivered it
was more than half percentage. And a lot of them tip afterwards, obviously.
I guess they want to make sure everything comes on, you know,
sure on the right time, it was good everything, and sometimes they'll tip
before and then everything's perfect, or you had a great conversation or something with
them and they throw in extra few bucks afterwards. Would you average an hour?
Would you say, have you ever broken it down on a good night,
like a Friday or Saturday, drive like five hours to make over like
one hundreds some bucks, so over one hundred and seven dollars, we'll say
twenty five bucks an hour. We'll say twenty five bucks an hour. This
thing says I got info Uber Eats delivery driver in Texas. The average hourly
pay is sixteen dollars and ninety cents, So they say he's making two hundred
dollars a day. With U breeds possible, to make two hundred a day,
you'd need to drive around ten hours, earning an average of twenty per
out. Well thanks realistically achieves this figure often takes ten to twelve hours due
to potential for lower paying orders and variable tip amounts. Artie, glad they
told you that that number, so you didn't have to reach for your calculator.
Yeah, my glass is back on. So two hundred bucks to for
eight hours, ten hours. We got a driver on the phone. Let's
just see what he's geting. Yeah, hello, welcome to the free cotline.
Friend, what boy? What's your name? Mike? Mike? Are
you big? Am I big? I'm skinny and pants. We're gonna call
you big Mike. Can so anyway, anyway, so about this uber protest,
go ahead and do that. I'm down in San Antonio. And on
Monday, all these uber drivers had a big protest in Austin at the state
capital. Uh huh and and uh I didn't go, of course, because
I thought that'd be a great day to make some money. But uh yeah,
apparently tomorrow mama mentality there so I think you know, I'm hoping,
you know, they do strike tomorrow because it sounds like a good day to
make some money. You know what I'm saying? Yeah? Do you just
full time or part time? Man? I'm full time right now? How
do you? Uh? I mean, I don't know. It's always rude
to ask someone how much they make, but tell us how much you make?
Oh? Man, Uh, it's right now. It's kind of inconsistent.
But anywhere from seven hundred to one thousand a week? Do you own
a car or Lisa car? No, I own a car, so seven
hundred one thousand? I'm sorry? Are you Uber? Uber? Uber eats?
Uber? Okay? And there's a fine line there. You can't just
jump back and forth between when I when I got laid off during COVID,
I lived in Dallas and all I did was Uber eats, and the money
was so good I never even thought about giving rides. But now I live
in San Antonio, and uh, the Uber East has gotten so bad I
started giving rides and uh, but yeah, Uber takes light you know sixty.
Do you do lyft too, now? Can you? I haven't even
tried. I've seen people do that, though they they switch back and forth.
No, no, no, you could know you can there's people I
know people that do that. They they can have you can have both a's
running at the same time. Does the company at least send complimentary light up
signs to put on your dashboard. I would not put one of those cal
No, you're just saying, rob me. What about the giant pink mustache?
I love you, but I would not built one of those signs on
my car. Well, I wouldn't either for the decor. But I'm just
saying it is helpful. If you're hailing an uber comes up and it's like,
hey, I'm an uber. People don't hail ubers. Hey, you
look for the tag number and the make, model a car and color.
You see the little thing in the dash helps if you see the little U
light people held taxis. They don't hell ubers. You don't hail ubers.
That's a terrible company. When's the last time you dropped off somebody at the
Alamo? Oh just the other day. That pretty common practice for you.
Yeah. I worked at airport a lot. Ah. Yeah, and you
so you get people from the airport take me to the Alamo right now?
Remember the no. We have a lot of business conferences and conventions that come
in down at the Alamo. No in San Antonio? Huh do they put
the Alamo in as the destination? So so like yesterday, I have had
people do that right at the hotel downtown. Oh, believe it or not.
Airport rides, yeshay, all I do is airport rides. I made
two hundred and seventy two bucks just going from the airport downtown back and forth.
Had a baby. Dang. Do you ever drop off at Sea World?
That's a long drive. Bro. Do you play the free or the
pro? I don't know. Don't yell at me, Mike. You shouldn't
yell at Mike. Mike having a rough week? Did you play the freaking
in your car? Say? What? Did you play the freak in your
car for the audience? Oh? Yeah, if they if they're okay with
it, you know, yeah, make sure you have it at nine when
we review pirates. Yeah, and don't want to hear it. What's the
guy's name, Gafford? Oh yeah, Daniel Gafford. Yeah, yeah,
I'm ready for that. What's what's the wildest thing anybody ever? Just go
at it in your back seat or start barfing everywhere. I'm sorry. What
was the second part of that question or barfing everywhere? What's what happens?
I don't do. I don't do the bar stuff at night. Smart smart,
Yeah, I do the business stuff. I don't do the bar nights
bart knight stuff. You're a cool ass, dude, little Mike Man.
I think you all are pretty cool. Really. Yeah. So when I
moved down here six months ago, that's what I realized I brought. I
could bring the freak with me. On the iHeartRadio app, there is there
is See's all day, I'm all day, twelve dollars a day. That's
my guy. Do us a favorite. Tell one point five million of your
closest friends I have. I have told a few super drivers about you.
Thank you. Hey. I had a guy in my car just the other
day from Dallas. I know, I know y'all got a show to do,
but he was down here from Dallas on a business trip, going to
meet a client at a restaurant, and uh, we were talking started somehow
the freak came up. He's like, oh, you listen to that.
I was like, because he's a he's a ticket guy. I guess,
of course they all are. He didn't know Mike Rimer was back on the
radio and when it happened to be when the Speakeasy was on. Yeah,
so I played in my car and he was like, he's like, you're
only about one percent of the population in Dallas listen to freak. I was
like, you're wrong, dude, you're wrong. You don't know what you're
talking about. He actually might be right. I don't know what to think
about it. I think you'll do a lot better than that myself. But
then Mike Ryder started talking, and he's like, that's weird to hear Mike
Yer because he's a listening used to listen to the hard lines. That's really
weird to hear Mike Reiner's voice on the radio game. Yeah, there he
is. Well if he if that guy had his head out of hell.
Yeah, it's crazy. How did he miss all the billboards a couple of
years ago? Yeah, that came up in the conversation, like you didn't
see the billboards? I'm back. I love Mike, like anything for him.
Can you hang out for the break and join us next segment and I
can do two segments if you want. I got nothing going on, right,
we can bridge the gap until Daniel Gafford at nine forty five, get
in my car doing nothing, waiting for a ride for real, Mike,
thanks for listening, Thanks for being a cool dude, Thanks for calling in.
I love you man, all right, I've ever heard you're the best.
You know for that. For your loyalty, we're going to gift you
a an extra special zero res live spot. How's that you get your own
lives? Can you cash at me some down by dollars? Actually yeah,
I got any a hundred more bucks of his to blow. All right,
Mike, we'll leave it. Love you, love y'all, love you by
bye. See there he goes. We can all be friends, can't.
We just need more mics, just need more little mics in our life.
We need more little mis Come on next we'll five million. We'll have a
bit of a draft. It's draft day. I'm ready. Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame announced fifteen new nominees. We'll tell you who they are,
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