I'm very cool and calm all time time, but I am so furious that they did this to you. But what I never saw coming was that just a few months after that episode aired Uber just happened to launch a new campaign offering free baby onesies to anyone who gives birth in one of their cars. But in doing some research online, I learned that the key to running any clandestine cell operation is having a communication structure that kept the identities of the leaders secret. We're working with background checks. Because it's--not because it's competition but because it's unsafe. Incredibly, three people agree to these conditions, and the challenge turns into an overnight camping trip. But all that really mattered is that I was now legally protected, so we could finally move forward with our plan.
There was no one in my life who would marry me right now. So I sat down with Andy to discuss our options. But to know which combination of these would be most effective, we would need to test them out on actual Uber customers. It was a little odd sitting across from someone who had no clue they were your husband. Would you be happier if Uber wasn't around? But what we're doing is very sensitive in nature, so they are necessary.
Are you an Uber driver? This is the first time I saw it. Comedy Central In a sense, all reality shows — from cooking-show competitions like Chopped to celebrity peepholes like Keeping Up With the Kardashians — are about the same thing: television. To officiate the ceremony, I hired someone who specialized in traditional Chinese weddings. Please subscribe and post anything Nathan For You related. I didn't want to leave a single trace of our existence. I started in taxi business in about 1984, '85. Where do you want to go? The plan: get Uber to stop using those baby onesies by threatening them with a sleeper cell.
I'm going someplace, and the window doesn't go down. Within a week, we already had 62 sign-ups in The Lucky Group inbox. My plan was to make it appear to Andy like we were just gonna grab some Chinese takeout for lunch one day. And that meant we could begin our test. Please do not: Post someone's personal information, or post links to personal information. I cannot buy good shoes for my children. So I had Andy go undercover and sign up for an Uber driver account with his personal vehicle.
We knew this was the end of The Lucky Group and our fight for the onesie. So with everything prepped, Andy turned on his Uber app and headed out to pick up some customers. This is-- - No, but why have you been doing Uber rides? Huddled over a crackling fire, Fielder serenades them with an acoustic guitar; the gathering becomes an amateur therapy session as the weepy contestants open up about their failed relationships. But when I called in Andy to delete his Uber account, he dropped a bombshell. But this is no ordinary rebate: Customers have to hike to the top of a mountain and solve a series of riddles to find the drop box. I tried asking Andy if he would marry me as a favor, but he didn't want to do it.
The real enemy wasn't Uber. A vinegary private investigator named Brian Wolfe who pops up in several episodes offhandedly mentions that he used to do nude modeling in the Eighties; for A Celebration, Fielder and his producers track down some of these magazines and present their findings to Wolfe. Even the daycare we met at was fake and designed from the very start to disappear by morning. Okay, so I think that's good for today. So before sending it, I cleared my entire browser history, including cookies, and destroyed any remaining evidence that could link either me or Andy to The Lucky Group.
Business had gotten so bad that Andy had resorted to turning his cab into a mobile karaoke booth in a last-ditch effort to hold on to his customers. This includes links to public Facebook pages and screenshots of Facebook pages with the names still legible. And when I met up with Andy to tell him about it, he couldn't believe his eyes. He was then instructed to put all the phones into the pouch, hook the base of the pouch to a nearby cinder block, and throw it off the pier, where unbeknownst to him, I was awaiting the delivery in full scuba gear beneath the surface completing the final step of a burner phone purchase that would be impossible to trace back to either me or Andy. And it kind of smells in here. The complaints ranged from foul-smelling vehicles to telling offensive jokes to blasting terrible music.
Or can you disguise your voice in any way? That sounds mean, I know Nathan for You can be pretty mean, although the joke is usually on its socially inept host. I can give you names and driver's license numbers in a matter of 25 minutes. And it seemed like the only thing that could give me immunity was if I married a U. So it's, like, one per ride. You're doing rides every single day.
Armed with a business degree and drawing from his limited life experiences, Nathan gives advice to real people and struggling businesses each week. The setup brings to mind a couple of recent shows that lie somewhere between parody and sincere effort: Documentary Now! So to make sure the purchase couldn't be traced back to us, I anonymously hired someone off Craigslist to go to a local Walgreens and told him there would be cash hidden in a dirty McDonald's cup outside the location, which he was to use to buy up the store's entire supply of prepaid cell phones. Nathan for You is one of several recent series, like Review and Burning Love, that mine this rich terrain for laughs. I'd like to apologize for the disguises. We'd have to get prepaid burner phones. Nathan is to small businesses what Gordon Ramsay is to floundering restaurants.
From now on, we couldn't risk using our personal phones. Anyone can become a driver. And as a Canadian citizen, if I got charged with even a misdemeanor, it would be a violation of my green card, and I'd be deported from the country I've grown to love, America, so I did some research to see if there was anything that could protect me from deportation. Why didn't you tell me you were doing this? The only exception was the house special, a chicken and broccoli dish called Ai-doo. Rather than flatten its participants into caricatures, the show follows the contours of their personalities, letting them dictate where the story goes. I mean-- - Well, what do you mean? So I rented out a Chinese restaurant and redesigned their menu to only consist of unappealing dishes that no reasonable person would want to order.