00:01people are amazing when they help others help strangers love that yeah today's cup of joy on
00:08the andy summer show is about an uber driver in arizona a woman in her 90s got into their car
00:15and on the phone she was on with a bank representative or at least someone posing
00:23as one yeah and uh well she was trying to get her debit cards over to the bank representative
00:31the driver was a former police officer his name's michael so in his retirement he's been driving uber
00:38wow yeah and he recognized the warning signs when the woman said she had been told to keep the matter
00:44secret and advised not to tell anybody about anything that was going on oh my so she's on
00:50the phone in the back of the uber and he's listening to this conversation as he's driving
00:54wow yeah and so she's being told you have to go to this location you have to punch these numbers
00:58in
00:59you have to do all these things she gets into the uber she's kind of she's she's wary right as
01:05one
01:05would be she thinks things are getting stolen and she needs to go talk to the bank and do all
01:09this
01:09stuff well michael knew very quickly he's gonna have to for lack of a better term disarm this woman
01:15right she's very you know nervous yeah and try to get her guard down a little bit so she knows
01:21that
01:21she can comfortably talk to him about it and ultimately avoided losing tens of thousands of
01:28dollars she planned on passing over to this person posing as a bank representative wow and it's all
01:34thanks to michael the uber driver this is why i talk to my uber drivers yeah so that's why they
01:41can
01:41help me out of a scam in case i don't realize i'm getting you never know i'll tell you i
01:46am a
01:46talkative folk you know rideshare i think uber specifically has like a different setting and i
01:53i can't remember what it's called but it's where like where the driver won't talk to you nobody
01:58talks and sometimes i see it's extra money and i'm like why am i gonna pay extra money to not
02:05talk
02:06oh my gosh seriously i just want to be more they see jeff by the end of the trip this
02:11is a honest
02:12to god true story i had just moved to las vegas i get in the car start talking i immediately
02:16know
02:16the guy's armenian why i can tell because you are also armenian i'm also armenian so we quickly
02:22realize i swear it's a true story this is the first uber i've ever taken in this new city that
02:26i'm living
02:26and by the end of the ride i have his cell phone number no i have his family's restaurant and
02:32the next
02:33day i went to his family's restaurant of course you did armenian restaurant that day they invited
02:38me over for dinner at their home oh my gosh i i didn't end up doing going that far but
02:42they're
02:43like look at this hairy little guy you've got to have him over he's one of us he's so cute
02:48he's one
02:49of us and it was great it was winter so like we're all a lot cozier in that time summer's
02:53summer's
02:54tough when you've got a sweater on you're in las vegas how winter is winter exactly it's like 65 but
03:00that's perfect for us armenians
03:04you
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