Glauc Talk: Why Are Med Students Driving Uber?

Knock Knock, Hi! with the Glaucomfleckens · Jan 13, 2026 · 46m

This episode starts with the important questions, like whether I’m emotionally prepared to return to my ancestral homeland of Big Bend National Park, and whether Kristin would rather share a cabin with a venomous snake or a tarantula.

From there, things take a turn into real life: a med student driving for Uber and Lyft just to make ends meet. That story opens up a bigger conversation about medical school debt, why med students somehow aren’t paid anything, and how it makes zero sense that people training to become doctors are expected to survive without income, or time to work.

Then we crack…