Rhonda Shear
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2018
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we got a lot to talk about today. |
| 0:04.3 | We'll get to the Oscars. |
| 0:05.4 | They're making some big changes. |
| 0:06.7 | We'll get to President Trump. |
| 0:07.9 | We'll get to Uber. |
| 0:09.5 | Lift, all those car services, a big blow against them yesterday. |
| 0:14.1 | And we'll get to Twitter and all of that coming up. |
| 0:16.3 | Oh, let's get this upstate congressman that nobody ever heard of who suddenly front page news. |
| 0:22.2 | And is there a football game tonight? |
| 0:24.5 | Giants. |
| 0:25.6 | Giants in Cleveland. |
| 0:26.8 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:27.5 | The summer's over. |
| 0:28.8 | A Giants football game tonight. |
| 0:30.5 | Where is it here? |
| 0:31.3 | Yes. |
| 0:31.9 | So it'll be extremely hot. |
| 0:34.1 | Yes. |
| 0:34.9 | Imagine when you walk around sweating and all this humidity, imagine wearing those pads and the helmet and all that stuff. Yeah, they're all right. Yeah, they'll be able to handle it. So, hey, this is a big thing, this Uber legislation. This is a big deal. Now, the problem is, according to all these politicians, congestion, how many cabs do you think there are in New York? Well, you probably know. 14,000. Well, there's, yeah, but I think there's 80,000 of these four higher cars. Yeah, 80,000 cars. But I mean cabs, yellow caps. It's only 14,000? 14,000 yellow caps, 14,000 medallions. Well, some estimates put the ride share cars at 120,000. |
| 1:13.2 | Yeah, right. |
| 1:14.3 | There's like 80,000 Uber, Lyft, but there's some other ones. |
| 1:18.1 | So you got 14,000 cabs, which we've always had, and now you got 120,000 ride shares added to that. That's a lot of cars. Plus, we have the black cars, you know, the traditional guys that just sort of go around. Yeah. For the elite crowd? It's not for the elite crowd. The elite all use Uber. But God bless those black cars, they didn't give up. They're still out there. Most of them are gone. Remember, there were a lot of of those services but there's like dial a dial car and there's uh what's it oh one seven seven seven seven there there's a i assume they've been cut back a lot but they're still out there yeah they are uh one of the problems uber has they're trying to fix this is if you want to make a reservation like let's say you go on the airport Monday and you want to reserve the car it's still hard to do that and count on Uber for that |
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