Death, Sex & Money - Who's Driving Your Uber?
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Domestic violence. Grave plot sales. The ripples of the financial crisis. A new immigrant's dashed hopes. This is what we heard about after we asked, "Why'd you start driving for Uber?"
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| 0:00.0 | Are you in school, are you out of school, or what stage of life are you in now? |
| 0:06.5 | Figuring it out. |
| 0:09.4 | Just like everybody else driving for Uber. |
| 0:14.8 | My show is called Death, Sex, and Money, and it's about... |
| 0:17.5 | Death Sex and Money, yes. |
| 0:20.6 | That sounds so scary. Well, it's actually, it's about... That's sex and money, huh? That's sex and money, yes. That sounds so scary. |
| 0:21.6 | Well, it's actually, it's about the things that everyone goes through, but that we have trouble kind of talking about. |
| 0:29.6 | You're not going to put this on TV, huh? |
| 0:32.6 | Oh. Hello? |
| 0:43.5 | This is Anna. You just confirmed my pickup? |
| 0:47.6 | Yes, I'm coming. |
| 0:48.8 | Yeah, yeah. I just have a quick question for you. |
| 0:50.5 | I'm a radio reporter, and I'm doing interviews with Uber drivers while I take |
| 0:54.8 | rides today. Are you open to answering just a few questions about the kinds of conversations |
| 1:00.2 | you have with passengers while you drive? Like what kind of questions you've been on? Just kind of like, |
| 1:06.0 | you know, why you drive and what it's like driving around and the kinds of people you meet and sorts of |
| 1:11.6 | conversations you have. |
| 1:12.5 | Yeah, no problem. |
| 1:14.5 | Okay, cool. |
| 1:15.2 | I'll see you in a few minutes. |
| 1:16.3 | Bye. |
| 1:21.2 | Last month, producer Katie Bishop and I took Uber ride after Uber ride all around the Bay Area. |
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