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Lisa Gets An Uber - $59, I Nearly Fell Over · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: I had to get an Uber in this morning and
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  Speaker 1: I've got an Uber in to work for various reasons
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  Speaker 1: plenty of times. It always, you know, usually costs around
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  Speaker 1: maybe 25 bucks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did one a few days ago. That's about
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  Speaker 2: what it cost me at that time in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: And bear in mind, I'm covering literally a distance. I've
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  Speaker 1: put in the, you know, the coordinates into Google and
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  Speaker 1: it tells me I'm travelling 8.5 kilometres from my house.
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  Speaker 2: Break that down.
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  Speaker 3: From the side of the road to... Outside the door
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  Speaker 3: of the radio station.
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  Speaker 2: Break that down to cost per kilometre.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 2: A lot. Too much.
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  Speaker 1: So I dial up my Uber and it comes back
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  Speaker 1: with the, oh, there are, you know, higher than normal demand.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a little more expensive.
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  Speaker 2: At that time of the morning?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know where everyone was going. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: see anyone else on the street.
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  Speaker 2: Must have been coming home.
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  Speaker 3: Are you ready for it? $ 59. $ 59.
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  Speaker 2: For eight kilometres.
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  Speaker 3: For eight kilometres.
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  Speaker 2: 8.5. At four something o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: At four something o'clock in the morning. $ 59.
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  Speaker 1: I nearly fell over. At this stage, I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know actually how to.
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  Speaker 2: Was it somewhat frosty in the car?
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  Speaker 1: No, because I don't think it was Nguyen's problem, but,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and his car was lovely and clean and
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  Speaker 1: he was very nice and friendly and he drove me
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  Speaker 1: safely here.
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  Speaker 2: You don't get the bottle of water and the mints anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Like you used to. No, you do not. You do not.
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  Speaker 2: That's gone by the wayside.
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  Speaker 3: I had to ask him to turn the light on
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  Speaker 3: so I could get my seatbelt on. Have you noticed
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  Speaker 3: the backs of Ubers? They're Ubers. I just said it
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  Speaker 3: like my mum would say it.
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  Speaker 1: Where you put your seatbelt in, it's like buried down
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  Speaker 1: deep in the, you can never find.
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  Speaker 3: Where to plug your seatbelt in.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they get all sorts sitting in the back.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, that's another, it's too early for this for another time.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. $ 59.
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  Speaker 3: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: You know something I did a few days ago because
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  Speaker 2: I had to and I didn't want to spend the
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  Speaker 2: money on Ubers and it's something I haven't done in
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  Speaker 2: years was I called the bus.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Caught the bus.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I've done that since high school.
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  Speaker 2: And I went way more than eight kilometres in all
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  Speaker 2: my round trips. And you know how much I paid?
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  Speaker 3: How much?
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  Speaker 2: $ 7 all up. Wow.
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  Speaker 3: $ 7.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if a bus was available at this time of
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  Speaker 1: the morning, I'd have availed myself.
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  Speaker 3: But it's most certainly not.
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  Speaker 2: After work on Wednesday, I just went down over to
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  Speaker 2: Wellington Square, not far from here. I caught the 51
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  Speaker 2: out to Welshpool to pick up what I had to
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  Speaker 2: pick up.
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  Speaker 3: And $ 3. 50.
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  Speaker 2: That's all it cost me. And the bus was clean.
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  Speaker 2: And here's something that really surprised me. And I think
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  Speaker 2: this will make you mourning. I reckon in all the
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  Speaker 2: bus rides that I took, and I took about three
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  Speaker 2: or four different buses, about 80% of people on the
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  Speaker 2: bus said thank you to the driver.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's, well, that's good. I'm disappointed it's not higher
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  Speaker 3: than 80%, to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it made me better. Well, when it got really
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  Speaker 2: busy and lots and lots, and they're not going to go, hello, mate, hello, mate, hello, mate, hello, mate.
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  Speaker 3: He's going, g'day, g'day, g'day, g'day, g'day. But yeah, like there's- Well,
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  Speaker 3: that's good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That restores your faith a bit in, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: majority of humanity.
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  Speaker 2: It does.
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  Speaker 3: The majority of humanity is good.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. You know, we've got to, sometimes we've got to
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  Speaker 1: remind ourselves, but we hear too many bad stories. So
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  Speaker 1: it's nice to hear- That just, you know, something as
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  Speaker 1: simple as getting off the bus and saying, thanks, mate.
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  Speaker 3: Have a good day.
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  Speaker 2: I was pleasantly surprised at the manners and very pleasantly
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  Speaker 2: surprised at the price.
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  Speaker 3: So there you go.
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  Speaker 2: I think I might catch the bus a little more often.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I would have caught the bus this morning. I know,
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  Speaker 3: but it's too early. But I'd be still waiting.
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  Speaker 2: It's too early. It's too early for you and I.
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  Speaker 2: It's too early for this.
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  Speaker 3: It's too early for this.