Ep. 503 Town Bans Uber, Our Guest Defies Ban
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2015
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Portsmouth, New Hampshire has effectively banned Uber, the popular transportation service, but Christopher David, the Uber driver who joins us today, is among a number of Uber drivers engaged in civil disobedience against the ban.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 503. |
| 0:03.3 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:08.1 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:30.4 | Welcome to episode 5003. Today we're talking about a developing situation in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, |
| 0:36.9 | where Uber has in effect been banned. |
| 0:39.8 | We all know Uber as the transportation service. We all love. You have an easy-to-use app, |
| 0:45.8 | and you just type in where you want to go, and somebody comes and picks you up and takes you |
| 0:49.5 | there, and you have a review service to make sure that only the top drivers are driving around. |
| 0:55.5 | Anybody who gets really bad ratings doesn't get to be an Uber driver anymore. |
| 1:00.2 | The customer is king, but the driver loves it too. |
| 1:03.0 | The driver makes much more money than you would in a traditional taxi situation. |
| 1:07.9 | Everybody's happier. |
| 1:08.8 | Get lower fares. |
| 1:09.8 | Everybody loves the system. Governments can't stand it. The taxi system can Everybody's happier. Get lower fares. Everybody loves the system. Governments can't |
| 1:12.8 | stand it. The taxi system can't stand it for all kinds of reasons. Well, we're going to talk today to |
| 1:17.8 | Christopher David, who is a web developer and part-time Uber driver to tell us what's going on, what has |
| 1:24.2 | happened to Uber, and what he's doing about it. |
| 1:30.2 | I don't want to steal his thunder by telling you, |
| 1:32.2 | although I suppose if you looked at the title of the episode, |
| 1:34.5 | you probably have a hint of what's going on, |
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