Speaker 1: You are now entering the court of Judge Gina Leano.
Speaker 2: You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your coworkers.
Speaker 2: But what happens when office disputes continue when you're off
Speaker 2: the clock. That's when you come to my courtroom. I
Speaker 2: am Judge Gina, and my decision is final. You better
Speaker 2: be ready to hear my ruling.
Speaker 1: Carpauling is good for the environment, but is it good
Speaker 1: for colleague relations. Pete Deppler has brought Tom Whittaker to
Speaker 1: Judge Gina's courtroom for carpooling compensation. Pete is seeking two
Speaker 1: six hundred dollars from Tom as reimbursement for petrol and tolls.
Speaker 3: My Dame's Peter Deppler aka intern Pete from the Kyle
Speaker 3: and Jackie O Show. I've come on Judge Gina today
Speaker 3: because my best friend Tom me thousands of dollars in
Speaker 3: fuel money. My name is Tom Whitaker. I'm from the
Speaker 3: Kylin Jackie O Show. I'm want Judge Gina today because
Speaker 3: my former friend Pete is trying to, I guess sue
Speaker 3: me for money because he thinks that I owe him
Speaker 3: money for him driving me into work. I've known Tom
Speaker 3: for around about fifteen years. I'll consider him a very
Speaker 3: close friend. Tom really looked up to me as a mentor.
Speaker 3: My relationship with Pete was friends and work colleagues, I
Speaker 3: would say now probably just work colleagues, depending on the
Speaker 3: outcome of this. I want justice for anyone who gives
Speaker 3: someone a lyft, who does a pitch in fuel money.
Speaker 3: Hopefully out of today my name gets cleared because it's
Speaker 3: been smudged in the dirt by Pete for no reason
Speaker 3: with his lies. I just want to be cleared. I'm innocent.
Speaker 1: Court is now in session. Please rise the judge, Gina.
Speaker 2: Pete, you are the complainant today. Why are you in
Speaker 2: my courtroom?
Speaker 3: Over the last four and a half years, I've been
Speaker 3: actually giving Tom a lift to work every morning, someone
Speaker 3: who probably hasn't been the most well behaved passenger, but
Speaker 3: has also never chipped in any money for fuel, and
Speaker 3: I think he should have been chipping in fuel money.
Speaker 2: Okay, So how many days a week was that?
Speaker 3: Five days a week, every day?
Speaker 2: And what time did you pick him up?
Speaker 3: Different times? Because we lived in different all I lived
Speaker 3: in different locations, so did Tom, so I was very
Speaker 3: adaptable to work out where I could pick him up,
Speaker 3: and the approximate time was anywhere between four ten and
Speaker 3: four twenty am.
Speaker 2: And how did he get home? Did you drop him
Speaker 2: home as well?
Speaker 3: Sometimes I did drop him home. Other times, if he
Speaker 3: was wanted to leave work early, which was quite regularly,
Speaker 3: he would catch the train.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you just want your claim, EA is for
Speaker 2: the drop offs to work in the morning only.
Speaker 3: I'm happy to let the drives home go. It's really
Speaker 3: just about being compensated for the drive team.
Speaker 2: All right. And so for four and a half years,
Speaker 2: did you ask him to chip in multiple times?
Speaker 3: I think it was probably a roundabout conversations. Well it was.
Speaker 3: I would say to Tom, like, you know, it would
Speaker 3: be handy for you to chip in some fuel and
Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff at some stage. But I
Speaker 3: feel like he was actually quite the manipulator, but never
Speaker 3: really was able to move or along from actually answering it.
Speaker 2: So no, I don't want to know about his answer.
Speaker 2: I want to know if you asked him, did you say, Tom,
Speaker 2: please pay this amount of money in.
Speaker 3: A roundabout way?
Speaker 2: I would say, yes, okay, so how does that go?
Speaker 2: How's a roundabout way? Tell me the words driving?
Speaker 3: And I'm just I'm just at the fuel stationer putting
Speaker 3: in more fuel. Tom, could you go in and pay?
Speaker 3: Only if he would grab my card or grab my
Speaker 3: phone because he had the pin code for my phone.
Speaker 3: That's ever happened. And that's a lie.
Speaker 2: You can hang on a sick Tom speak.
Speaker 3: All he's doing is lying to swear to you on
Speaker 3: my life.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, okay, so Pete, I'll come back to
Speaker 2: you in a second. So Tom, what do you say?
Speaker 2: Do you agree that Pete drove you to work every morning,
Speaker 2: five days a week, picking you up around four am?
Speaker 2: Is that right? In his cart?
Speaker 3: Is absolutely incorrect? Sorry. I did work here for four
Speaker 3: and a half years. For the first like six months,
Speaker 3: I drove myself because I used my housemate's car, and
Speaker 3: then she moved to Melbourne, so I didn't have access
Speaker 3: to that car. And that's how because Pete lived thirty
Speaker 3: seconds away from me, the lifts started.
Speaker 2: Okay, but that was only for six months. What about
Speaker 2: the other four years?
Speaker 3: The past four months this year, like the start of
Speaker 3: the year, I've been catching the train in because I
Speaker 3: no longer lived close to Pete and he wouldn't come
Speaker 3: to my place or Liai's with a pickup location because
Speaker 3: it was too far, which I understand, and I obviously
Speaker 3: didn't kick up a stink because there was never an issue.
Speaker 3: But like when he says he picked me up every morning,
Speaker 3: he didn't come to my house. I would have to
Speaker 3: go to his house. So sometimes I was walking in
Speaker 3: the middle of winter.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll get to that. Just tell me what timeframe
Speaker 2: do you say he picked you up in the morning.
Speaker 2: So you're saying four and a half years less ten months,
Speaker 2: six months at the beginning and four at the end, yes, right, final, Okay,
Speaker 2: So let's say about three and a half years. Is
Speaker 2: that right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, So you agree he's picked you up three and
Speaker 2: a half years every morning. Obviously you've got some issues
Speaker 2: about where he picked you up from, but he still
Speaker 2: got you to work every day, is that right?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, So tell me about that. What's what's the issue about?
Speaker 2: You had to walk?
Speaker 3: Well, sometimes Pete moves a lot. Pete would move every
Speaker 3: six months, so there was never the same location. Often,
Speaker 3: like I was saying, in winter, I would have to
Speaker 3: get up fifteen minutes early to walk thirty minutes to
Speaker 3: his house to the pick up location, or I would
Speaker 3: have to walk in the pouring rain, in the freezing
Speaker 3: to a certain location, which was like out of my
Speaker 3: way because he would never want to divert him.
Speaker 2: But you weren't in prison. You weren't at prisoner. You
Speaker 2: had other options. You could have got on the train,
Speaker 2: You could have caught an.
Speaker 3: Driven run that early. I don't own a car. And also, Gina,
Speaker 3: can I say, I can say because that is also
Speaker 3: a lie. That is actually a lie. I say that
Speaker 3: I would.
Speaker 2: I'm going to stop you there, going to stop you there.
Speaker 2: So Tom, yes, you weren't imprisoned. You could have found
Speaker 2: an alternative way to get to work, but you chose
Speaker 2: at the time, for the benefit of the pickup, to
Speaker 2: walk when you needed to. Is that right?
Speaker 3: Well, the only alternatives that early in the morning are
Speaker 3: an uber or in a cab, which I could not afford.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you would have had to pay for that.
Speaker 2: So the benefit for you was to get a free ride.
Speaker 3: Correct, Yeah, from a friend and a colleague of ten years.
Speaker 2: Okay, but the colleague of ten years is now saying
Speaker 2: that that wasn't meant to be for free.
Speaker 3: Well, he never told me that ever. He never asked
Speaker 3: for money.
Speaker 2: So you say that he's never approached you and said
Speaker 2: you need to contribute. What do you say about stopping
Speaker 2: at the petrol station to pick up fuel and he's
Speaker 2: asked you to go in and pay? What do you
Speaker 2: say about that?
Speaker 3: That's a lie too. We would often go to the
Speaker 3: petrol station and it would make us late each morning,
Speaker 3: because not only would he arrive late to the pickup
Speaker 3: area every morning, pretty much, we would then have to
Speaker 3: stop for petrol on the way in. And he's one
Speaker 3: of those people that only fills up ten dollars at
Speaker 3: a time, so we'll fill up like ten dollars and
Speaker 3: then he'll go in and get three bottles of sparkling water,
Speaker 3: And so did he five minutes later.
Speaker 2: That's actually you're complicating the answer to the question. The
Speaker 2: question is do you agree that he asked you to
Speaker 2: go in and pay? No, Now, he's never asked you
Speaker 2: to go in and pay at the petrol station. What
Speaker 2: do you say about that? Pete?
Speaker 3: That's actually a lie. And I wish I had my
Speaker 3: other mobile phone here because I've actually filmed him going
Speaker 3: into the servo for me before, Gina.
Speaker 2: So I just want to know why you didn't just
Speaker 2: ask him directly? Why you were round about because I
Speaker 2: find this a lot amongst friends. Can I call you friends?
Speaker 2: Are you both friends? Would you say that I don't
Speaker 2: know who will be after today? But yes, okay, yes,
Speaker 2: currently we've won, we'll try and hold it together.
Speaker 3: Yes, Tom has looked up to me over the years.
Speaker 2: Gina Hush, So, I often find amongst friends that they
Speaker 2: have this special thing where they think that their friend
Speaker 2: has mental telepathy of sorts, that one friend will think
Speaker 2: that the other friend can read their mind, and that
Speaker 2: when they don't, that there is reponsible for that. What
Speaker 2: do you say about that, Pete.
Speaker 3: I have known Tom for a long time, and I
Speaker 3: think from from where I'm from, regional Victoria, I'm a
Speaker 3: country kid. If someone gives you a lift, you've got
Speaker 3: to chip in something, whether it's buying the sandwich at
Speaker 3: the servo or chipping in for fuel. I couldn't imagine
Speaker 3: getting in anyone's car without at least offering if I'm
Speaker 3: getting a lift into work or a lift into the footage.
Speaker 2: So you say it's just a matter of courtesy that
Speaker 2: he should have offered or he should have paid.
Speaker 3: Gene. You're you know, you're old school like me. I'm
Speaker 3: not saying you're old. I've just been in general like
Speaker 3: insulting term your honor.
Speaker 2: I don't mind being insulted. I think it's quite exciting
Speaker 2: to be insulted at times.
Speaker 3: Go on, well, no, I just I just think it's
Speaker 3: got the way I was brought up, if someone was
Speaker 3: to give you something or do something for you, you
Speaker 3: exchange a genuine common courtesy of like, oh can I
Speaker 3: pitch in for that? Or can I whatever? It happens to.
Speaker 2: Be okay, but that wasn't happening. So do you think
Speaker 2: at some point that you should have actually just asked him?
Speaker 3: It's fair you're saying, but I believe I dropped multiple hits.
Speaker 3: I've got stats. If tell me the stats, because stats
Speaker 3: will help me at the end of the day. This
Speaker 3: is what I wrote out. I will take into the
Speaker 3: equation that it's a little bit shorter. I thought it was.
Speaker 2: Around taking to the equation. You just told me what
Speaker 2: you think, Well.
Speaker 3: There's fifty two weeks a year. There was about two
Speaker 3: hundred drive days.
Speaker 2: Do you work fifty two weeks a year?
Speaker 3: Sorry for two weeks, five weeks, forty working weeks a year. Yep,
Speaker 3: around two hundred drive days So that's about one thousand
Speaker 3: drive days over five years. So let's just take it
Speaker 3: down to seven hundred for the sake of this ridiculous
Speaker 3: argument at the end of the day, If that makes sense.
Speaker 3: The multiple locations Tom was, by the way, me giving
Speaker 3: him a lift late multiple times, multiple multiple times.
Speaker 2: Were one You were late multiple times?
Speaker 3: Now I would Peter was the laser. Sorry, if I
Speaker 3: could just finish my statistics as well for you. So
Speaker 3: Tom being late means I would have to pull over
Speaker 3: sometimes out the front of where he lived at the time,
Speaker 3: which would leave my car idling for three or four minutes.
Speaker 3: I'm not just talking about the fuel that you put
Speaker 3: into the I'm talking about unnecessary usage of fuels. If
Speaker 3: we were running late sometimes I would have to take
Speaker 3: tolls because I've had to wait for him. One morning,
Speaker 3: he slept in entirely right, and I waited out there
Speaker 3: for an extra twenty minutes, couldn't get ahold of him.
Speaker 3: Drove off. Then he called me, So I actually did
Speaker 3: a whole you turn around the whole city and came back.
Speaker 3: That's how much of a good guy I was.
Speaker 2: But you feel that you've been punished for your good
Speaker 2: deeds is that what it feels.
Speaker 3: I do definitely feel like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, okay, all right, So let's finish the statistics.
Speaker 2: So you're saying one thousand drive days, let's say seven
Speaker 2: hundred YEP.
Speaker 3: I spent approximately for work fuel around fourteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: I worked out extra idle time on the average of
Speaker 3: two to three minutes a day, was an approximately extra
Speaker 3: seven hundred dollars. Okay, So I've gone down to citis
Speaker 3: here on days that were late, I've gone back over
Speaker 3: my linked account, which is connected to my tolls. An
Speaker 3: extra four hundred and fifty dollars was spent, So not
Speaker 3: a lot, but still enough into the equation. Plus car servicing.
Speaker 3: Now I haven't put the whole car servicing because cars
Speaker 3: are yearsed for other things. Well, that's right, yet, So
Speaker 3: I pulled that down to a number of two thous
Speaker 3: six hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: What's two six hundred the repairs.
Speaker 3: On car servicing, basic car servicing. So my total spend
Speaker 3: over that period of time that I'd been driving Tom
Speaker 3: was twenty one thousand, six hundred and fifty dollars that
Speaker 3: I spent myself out of that period of time. If
Speaker 3: Tom could, if he kicked in ten percent of all
Speaker 3: of that. I feel like that's fair.
Speaker 2: But you didn't ask him, well.
Speaker 3: I didn't ask him exactly around, so it's a moral issue.
Speaker 2: You think that he's maybe taken advantage of you, Would
Speaker 2: that be fair to say?
Speaker 3: I would say so for sure.
Speaker 2: All right, and Tom, what do you say?
Speaker 3: I've got quite a lot of things to add, Judge Dina.
Speaker 2: All right, so I want to hear that firstly.
Speaker 3: I just want to say, off the back of that comment,
Speaker 3: there the original original lift four years ago he offered
Speaker 3: me and never said at any point in time I
Speaker 3: would need to give money. He was going that way anyway.
Speaker 3: We lived in the same suburb. He never had to
Speaker 3: veer off his route. I was coming to his place
Speaker 3: or to the meeting point. He was going this way
Speaker 3: anyway with the car, with the pet all taking the tolls.
Speaker 3: It was never anything out of excess that was going
Speaker 3: to cause an issue for him. Also, in his little
Speaker 3: stats here, he's forgetting to mention for about a year
Speaker 3: and a half there was two other passengers in the car,
Speaker 3: so really all those statistics should bete divided the other two.
Speaker 2: Were they going to one of them? They were one
Speaker 2: of I don't need names. I just need to know
Speaker 2: where they'll give you.
Speaker 3: Nay, if you want a witness as well. I didn't
Speaker 3: talk while you were talking. It's now my turn, and
Speaker 3: I'm serious.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Pete. I'll just listen to Tom or come back
Speaker 2: to you. You'll have to hold your tongue.
Speaker 3: Thank you, your honor. One of them was Pete's sister
Speaker 3: who worked in the building with us and started at
Speaker 3: the same time.
Speaker 2: Okay, And did she pay you petrol money?
Speaker 3: Nice? She did, lie, thank you. And the other one
Speaker 3: was another producers on the radio show who also lived
Speaker 3: right by the pickup zone and would come in and
Speaker 3: start at the same time as us. So really there
Speaker 3: was three of us all getting a lift in the
Speaker 3: one car at the same time, three passengers plus Pete, right, okay?
Speaker 2: And that other passenger did they pay? They contribute?
Speaker 3: He did not pay?
Speaker 2: No, okay, if you ask them for money.
Speaker 3: If I may speak now, because there's a couple of
Speaker 3: things that are absolutely inaccurate, they're judgment. She's asked you
Speaker 3: was a yes or no question? Did Jermaine pay yes
Speaker 3: or no? Yes? He did? Okay, Well it once I've
Speaker 3: asked once? One paid once? How much one thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: He paid me thirty.
Speaker 2: Dollars and was that at your request?
Speaker 3: It was at him reading my hints very clearly. Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, so Tom go on the I think two
Speaker 3: than six hundred dollars for him saying that's servicing of
Speaker 3: the car. The cars beyond servicing. Peter's car is so
Speaker 3: old they don't even make it anymore.
Speaker 2: That's probably servicing was so expensive and he probably had
Speaker 2: to do it regularly. But it was better than the
Speaker 2: old car you didn't have, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: Well not really. The passenger seat window is broken. It's
Speaker 3: permanently down.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's not road worthy.
Speaker 3: Well, it's down by about three inches. So if it's
Speaker 3: pouring rain, you get drenched. If it's the middle of
Speaker 3: winter at four am, which for half of the year
Speaker 3: it obviously is, which is when we go into work,
Speaker 3: it's freezing and the hot air only works some of
Speaker 3: the time, and he has so much old food and
Speaker 3: rubbish in the car. It's like a Hord's car that
Speaker 3: there's actually full of bugs and cockroaches, and once you're
Speaker 3: on it. There was one time one morning where I
Speaker 3: was so freezing because the window was down that I
Speaker 3: asked him to put the heater on, and multiple baby
Speaker 3: cockroaches flew out into our face, and then so ridiculous,
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 2: I don't believe you, funny bone, this is not a
Speaker 2: true story. This is true flew out into our baby
Speaker 2: cockroaches flew out, yes, okay, out of the air vents,
Speaker 2: and Thenanosaurus rex across the road.
Speaker 3: No, no, I swear to you, swear. Baby cockroaches flew
Speaker 3: out at our face. And he said, oh, don't worry,
Speaker 3: this has happened before, and reached behind him and pulled
Speaker 3: out a giant can of more team with one of
Speaker 3: those long straw attachments and put it while the heater
Speaker 3: was on, into the air vent and turned on the
Speaker 3: sh and then it sprayed back in our face and
Speaker 3: cover us with mortine, hot mortine on the face.
Speaker 2: So when did that?
Speaker 3: That is the kid? Did that happen about two winters ago? Maybe?
Speaker 2: Okay? And that is kept getting into the car.
Speaker 3: That I had to put up. I had no other
Speaker 3: way of getting in, no other choice.
Speaker 2: Well, can I ask you, is there a policy with
Speaker 2: a radio station or any production company that if you
Speaker 2: are working those sorts of hours that you're given a
Speaker 2: taxi voucher, or you're given a driver or some other
Speaker 2: means of getting into our companies.
Speaker 3: Yes, the company we're at. No.
Speaker 2: No, they didn't give you any any other means of transport. No, no,
Speaker 2: other than you paying. So you didn't get an allowance
Speaker 2: of any sort for travel at four am.
Speaker 3: Correct. No, it's get your own way there.
Speaker 2: I'm going to investigate that. If you're telling me a lie,
Speaker 2: you'll be in trouble.
Speaker 3: No, that's true, Peter, I can vouch for him. Is
Speaker 3: that true? That is that's actually the only true thing
Speaker 3: he's probably said in the last five minutes.
Speaker 2: By the way, Okay, all right, okay, and Pete, did
Speaker 2: you offer to drive Tom to work every morning? I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously you've moved around and the arrangement has continued, so
Speaker 2: you've had communication, You've had discussions about, oh, I'll see
Speaker 2: you tomorrow morning. Is that sort of how it went. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it just became the expectation. And I suppose
Speaker 3: you don't expect to have to ask someone every day.
Speaker 3: Could they just chip in a bit of cash for
Speaker 3: the fuel?
Speaker 2: But did you say that there was a time limit
Speaker 2: on your offer? Did you say I'll pick you up
Speaker 2: for the next week, but after that, forget about it.
Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't Gina, and that it probably probably
Speaker 3: could have been said. But as I said to my
Speaker 3: point earlier in the podcast, I really there is that
Speaker 3: expectation if someone's helping you out with something, surely you'd
Speaker 3: chip in.
Speaker 2: So the mental telepathy argument. So you've never asked him
Speaker 2: for an amount of money to pay, You've just assumed
Speaker 2: that he would pick up on your vibe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because Kate, my sister for two months, gave me
Speaker 3: sixty dollars a month and Jermaine gave me I think
Speaker 3: it was I think it was around forty dollars. Wow.
Speaker 3: We also had a group chat as well for pick
Speaker 3: ups because everyone would update me when theyah blah blah.
Speaker 3: Tom always the last one. They're always late, by the way,
Speaker 3: even when I was car pulling as well. So he
Speaker 3: saw other people putting receipts into that Facebook.
Speaker 2: Group, so they were paying you, what forty a month
Speaker 2: or sixty a month.
Speaker 3: Jermaine gave me forty and Kate gave me sixty dollars twice,
Speaker 3: so so one person gave you forty dollars once, another
Speaker 3: person gave you sixty dollars twice.
Speaker 2: I think you said thirty dollars once. So I think
Speaker 2: your story has changed a little bit. It did think.
Speaker 3: All. Actually, if anything, to be honest, I've got evidence.
Speaker 3: I've just completely forgotten about.
Speaker 2: What is that? What's the evidence?
Speaker 3: So Tom and I a directive from the show If
Speaker 3: who Were Driving in Together was to sometimes films and videos,
Speaker 3: and we did a video series. And that video series
Speaker 3: was like our car lifts in and chatting and what's
Speaker 3: coming up on the radio show and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Was that carpool KARRYO, keep it good, okay? And you
Speaker 2: just did that on your mobile phone, Yes.
Speaker 3: Filmed, filmed illegally on the on the phone on the
Speaker 3: go pro. Things I've extracted. I completely forgot about this.
Speaker 3: I've extracted the audio. This is from twenty twenty one.
Speaker 3: I hope your people have given it to you. Gina.
Speaker 3: This is actually hard evidence of me actually asking for money.
Speaker 3: So I've got audio proof.
Speaker 2: Actually, Okay, I'll hear that.
Speaker 3: Pin.
Speaker 2: Don't put the chicken out of the window, Damn. When
Speaker 2: I'm driving, It's.
Speaker 3: Fine if that thingure, the birds will eat it anyway.
Speaker 3: Can you just comet down when I'm driving say, seriously,
Speaker 3: it's littering. You can't throw a chicken as I can
Speaker 3: eat it another. I'm sick of it. Honestly, I drive
Speaker 3: you in every mornings.
Speaker 2: I'll send this to your minions.
Speaker 3: I actually want you, if you're going to carry on
Speaker 3: for a starter, to actually put money. If filled twenty
Speaker 3: bucks a week, say you're putting money in, You're putting
Speaker 3: money in. Moving forward. Maybe after the holidays, will revisit
Speaker 3: the conversation bird, Yes, yes.
Speaker 2: After the holiday.
Speaker 3: Thanks you finally now Jesus Chris, pull up, Hang on, men,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get out of hurry up. When's that from?
Speaker 3: I don't remember twenty twenty one February. I don't remember
Speaker 3: that you judged Gina. That is on the video as well,
Speaker 3: which I'm more than happy to and you judged Gina.
Speaker 2: So Tom, do you remember that conversation?
Speaker 3: I don't I remember that conversation. No, do you agree?
Speaker 2: Do you agree that you were recording things in the
Speaker 2: car conversation?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we recorded the because I was the main star
Speaker 3: of them for our boss. So I remember those videos.
Speaker 3: I don't remember that at all. But I mean the
Speaker 3: day that I threw a piece of chicken out of
Speaker 3: the car. He threw a whole char girl Charlie's chicken
Speaker 3: out the window of the car. There's another story. Doesn't matter, Gine.
Speaker 3: It doesn't need to know about that.
Speaker 2: So if we calculate that it was about two years
Speaker 2: ago that you agreed, we've got it here, hard evidence,
Speaker 2: you've heard it. So about two years ago you agreed
Speaker 2: to pay twenty dollars a week?
Speaker 3: Well, I think I said after the holidays. Maybe, I
Speaker 3: don't think I said yes, which I could recall the
Speaker 3: holidays were literally two weeks away. So yeah, you're right, Gina.
Speaker 2: So about twenty dollars a week for the last forty
Speaker 2: weeks a year, so it's about eighty weeks. So that's
Speaker 2: twenty times eighty weeks. Would you agree that's yes?
Speaker 3: I mean, no, I agree, but I agree. Do you
Speaker 3: say teen about sixteen hundred? I mean I said maybe
Speaker 3: after the holidays. I didn't say yes, you did that.
Speaker 3: I said, if you hear that audio? I said confirmed,
Speaker 3: and you said yes?
Speaker 2: And how much do you say, my friend, I'm going
Speaker 2: to stop you there. How much do you say? The
Speaker 2: tolls were.
Speaker 3: Around that for that period of time? So for I
Speaker 3: think it was four fifty let me bring up my
Speaker 3: I have only accounted on my linked account the times
Speaker 3: that were running late and I would have to take
Speaker 3: tolls because you made me late. This is the only
Speaker 3: ones that I've counted here. Sorry, Gina. I'll just bring
Speaker 3: that up onto my document here, my linked account. Okay,
Speaker 3: so that was four hundred and fifty I'd be happy
Speaker 3: to look even if you said I don't know one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty bucks of tolls. Happy to buy the
Speaker 3: bullet on that one and sacrifice that.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to make my decision. I'll be
Speaker 2: back in a moment.
Speaker 1: Judge Gina is deliberating and will soon hand down her verdict.
Speaker 1: Please do not leave the courtroom.
Speaker 2: I've made my decision and I'm going to deliver that now. Pete,
Speaker 2: you say you drove Tome to work every day in
Speaker 2: your claim you've got five years, but in actual fact
Speaker 2: it was four and a half less six months at
Speaker 2: the start and four months at the end, so let's
Speaker 2: say about three and a half years. And you say
Speaker 2: that Toime never contributed to fuel or road toll and
Speaker 2: that you had a big blow up fight about it,
Speaker 2: which we've listened to. That recording has revealed that there
Speaker 2: was a discussion or an argument about time contributing at
Speaker 2: least twenty dollars a week, and that's something that they
Speaker 2: would consider in total, about sixteen hundred dollars plus tolls
Speaker 2: for the period of time of forty weeks. For two years,
Speaker 2: you had another two passengers in the car. You haven't
Speaker 2: asked them for any contribution. So my ruling today is
Speaker 2: that you will receive one third of what the total
Speaker 2: claim is being a total of five hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: three dollars and thirty three cents in favor of Pete.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Oh, I've got to give him that money.
Speaker 2: My decision is final.
Speaker 3: I could not be happier with today's outcome. Everyone knows
Speaker 3: Tom is a leech who got a freelift for years
Speaker 3: and never chipped in money for Gina Liano, Judge Gina,
Speaker 3: to actually say those words out loud that it's in
Speaker 3: my favor just means the world. And I'm just so
Speaker 3: so happy. I'm so pissed off about today's outcome, Like
Speaker 3: I'm actually so annoyed. This is ridiculous. Today felt fair,
Speaker 3: Today felt like justice was finally given. This absolutely was
Speaker 3: not a fair trial. Are you kidding me. He came
Speaker 3: in with made up facts, incorrect numbers, incorrect monetary amounts,
Speaker 3: and somehow still managed to win. Look, I'm happy to
Speaker 3: continue a friendship if Tom does, but you know, as
Speaker 3: far as driving around anymore, I think I think we're
Speaker 3: definitely done there. I even want to know Pee anymore.
Speaker 3: I honestly don't care. I've already blocked his number. He
Speaker 3: can go for himself. I'm really happy with Judge Gena's
Speaker 3: treatment of me today because she called it out. Even
Speaker 3: some of my details were a bit sketchy, but there's
Speaker 3: nothing getting around her. She is well. She is judged
Speaker 3: Gina for a reason. I mean, Judge Gina looked amazing.
Speaker 3: She had the hair shed, the nails shed, the big
Speaker 3: she looked great. But I'm actually really pissed off at her,
Speaker 3: Like I don't think I was fairly treated today at all.
Speaker 3: I believe this disagreement is absolutely settled, after probably tears
Speaker 3: and people hearing this, I believe Tom now knows how
Speaker 3: wrong he was. Pete's been banging on about this for
Speaker 3: years on radio, on videos, now on a podcast. I
Speaker 3: look like the bad guy, which is simply not true.
Speaker 3: And this is definitely not settled for me. I'll be back.
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