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Church of Lazlo Podcasts

Is Uber Secretly Price Gouging?

Church of Lazlo Podcasts

Audacy

Comedy

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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0:00.0

Yo, yo

0:02.0

You're good. I'm good. When's the last time you had to uber?

0:06.7

Yeah, me too. I was trying to think

0:10.8

Well, boy, I used to use a lot, but I really can't remember last time I used it, but I do recall

0:16.8

A room go out much though, right me neither. I do recall a rumor

0:21.7

About uber that I think we talked about

0:25.4

On the air at some point, which was this theory that I

0:30.0

Obviously they do, you know, the the price increases based on how busy

0:35.3

Things are if you're trying to leave a football game or a baseball game or whatever then they're gonna have those

0:39.8

What do they call it peak peak pricing or surge pricing? Yeah, we knew that

0:43.9

But there was this rumor that if your battery was about to die on your phone

0:49.0

They were charging you more that somehow uber oh, they knew yeah, and I always thought that's okay

0:54.4

It's it's interesting, but it's it's ridiculous like it just it sounds ridiculous

0:59.1

And it's the kind of thing that I I believe that in that moment you believe it because you've you've got to get this ride

1:04.7

You don't have time now to check to see like is this right is this I'm guessing you're the only person with

1:11.2

Uber account on your phone and your phone is dying you need that ride and you think well

1:14.9

I guess I got to do this. I don't have time to call anybody else

1:16.9

But I don't remember there ever being any type of evidence of it now

1:20.9

So come you drove for uber for a while

1:24.0

Did you I guess you wouldn't know on on your end as a driver whether or not they're

1:29.2

Charging more because someone's batteries low no idea, but I saw the story and now and did they tell you what they're charging?

1:35.8

You can look and see yeah

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