Super Pumped
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Once we get them in our car, we can charge whatever we want the next time.
If someone rides twice, says Travis, we have them for life.
(Or space, in Silicon Valley-speak.)
When Travis frets later about asking for more cash, he neednt have worried.
The creators ofSuper Pumped, Brian Koppelman and David Levien, know the terrain well.
Hes transparently a killer, even as Gordon-Levitt provides him with a friendly face.
Travis implies, not without reason, that Pearson is too ethically compromised to referee this fight.
With Pearson hitting Ubercab with massive fines and cease-and-desist orders, Travis and his team has to get creative.
And in a truefaux-progressive Bay Area scheme, he decides to turn his customers into activists.
The city has been taken!
Hence the euphemism ridesharing.
Hence the name Uber.
The confidence man slips the trap.
Off The Meter
The dun-colored mare reference comes from J.D.
Salingers two-novella anthologyRaise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.
James tells the story onan episode of UninterruptedsKneading Doughpodcastand says he flew out for the meeting.
Its in character for Travis to tweak the story to make it that much more dramatic.
The song that closes the show, First We Take Manhattan, is an R.E.M.
cover of a Leonard Cohen song.
Its a deeeeeeeep cut for devotees of R.E.M., who covered it for the Cohen tribute albumIm Your Fan.
Koppelman is just such a devotee.
