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  Speaker 1: On Friday's Great Fun.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the issue of e bikes, known as the new
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  Speaker 2: Hell's Angels, people that ride them, it is a huge
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  Speaker 2: problem and I live in a residential neighborhood which is
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  Speaker 2: pretty calm, and guess what we see these teenage mainly
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  Speaker 2: teenage boys, riding on those e bikes like crazy. There's
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  Speaker 2: a family that we know that has two teenagers, and
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  Speaker 2: one of the teenagers with a group of other kids.
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  Speaker 2: They end up doing wheelies in the middle of the
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  Speaker 2: street and this, you know, they get off their seats,
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  Speaker 2: they stand on their seats.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they do some serious tricks. And two things.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, the time that it takes to get to
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  Speaker 2: that level. I can't even imagine how much time it takes.
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  Speaker 2: The other point of this or the other problem, is
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  Speaker 2: just the fact that they're getting in the way of everybody.
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  Speaker 2: E bikes are so ubiquitous that they have taken overs
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  Speaker 2: like the cockroaches have taken over our community. And the
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  Speaker 2: other thing is even worse. As I talked to one
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  Speaker 2: of the teenagers, you know what they really enjoy doing.
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  Speaker 2: They enjoy fleeing from the police. It's a game. Cops
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  Speaker 2: go after them, and they scoot through houses and through
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  Speaker 2: trails where the police can't follow, and they think that's
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  Speaker 2: just the greatest thing.
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  Speaker 1: In the world. I mean, this is miserable miserable stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So you're seeing these massive groups at the beach and
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  Speaker 2: they're doing the wheelies on the roads, the residential roads.
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  Speaker 2: They're also showing up in emergency rooms, lots and lots
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  Speaker 2: of them. Jim Keeney shared that with us cuts, broken bones,
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  Speaker 2: even worse that eighty one year old man who was
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  Speaker 2: killed in Lake Forest.
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  Speaker 1: There was a fourteen year old.
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  Speaker 2: They crashed into him after he was spotted doing wheelies
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  Speaker 2: and just went right into him, that's the allegation, and
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  Speaker 2: he died. And your Belinda, there was a twelve year
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  Speaker 2: old critically injured while he was riding a modified e motorcycle.
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  Speaker 2: That's another part of the story. In Huntington Beach, a
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  Speaker 2: man was attacked after riding his scooter through a crowd
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  Speaker 2: of more than one hundred young e bike riders. Officer
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  Speaker 2: Brandon Pond, a collision investigator with the LAPD, says, if
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  Speaker 2: these bikes aren't treated with respect and care, it could
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  Speaker 2: be just as dangerous as handing over firearm.
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  Speaker 1: And if you look at online.
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  Speaker 2: Videos, it shows how easily bite one of these e
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  Speaker 2: bikes can be modified to increase speeds and police saying
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  Speaker 2: that some of these bikes that are marketed are really
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  Speaker 2: motorcycles and can reach speeds up to fifty miles an hour.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's not freeway speeds, but on residential streets where
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  Speaker 2: they hang out. Fifty miles an hour that is fast.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, now we're talking motorcycle speeds. And these fice
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  Speaker 2: fast bikes are illegal if the user, if the rider
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  Speaker 2: is not licensed. In April, Attorney General California Attorney General
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  Speaker 2: Rob Bonta Warren sellers manufacturers consumers that those bikes that
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  Speaker 2: exceed state regulations may be illegal to sell. Amazon delisted
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  Speaker 2: several of these electric motorcycles from purchasing California and even
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  Speaker 2: in Orange County District. Attorney Todd Spitzer, friend of the show,
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  Speaker 2: has created a specialized unit to go after dangerous riders,
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  Speaker 2: including miners, and began charging parents. For example, the mother
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  Speaker 2: of that fifteen year old or fourteen year old that
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  Speaker 2: has allegedly been accused and is being charged with running
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  Speaker 2: into that eighty one year old man and killing him.
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  Speaker 2: The mother has been charged for allowing her kid. And
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  Speaker 2: that is what's going to happen, and it should. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: casualties are mounting like crazy. They're riders post to call
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  Speaker 2: for a ride out and one hundred people show up.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred of these riders, and these kids, according to
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement, get rowdy block streets because they're riding in
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  Speaker 2: mass and the kids will even go down the street
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  Speaker 2: and play chicken with cars. I mean, that's how crazy
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  Speaker 2: it has come. So come summertime, we're right on the
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  Speaker 2: verge the cusp of summer. Be prepared because these bikers
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  Speaker 2: go crazy. Now a little bit of inside baseball. There
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  Speaker 2: are three categories of bicycles. These E bicycles who have
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  Speaker 2: electric motors. Class one engages only when the pedals are used,
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  Speaker 2: maximum speed of twenty miles per hour. Class two provide
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  Speaker 2: electrical power up to twenty mouths per hour, but how
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  Speaker 2: a throttle that can be used without using the products
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  Speaker 2: the pedals.
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  Speaker 1: I have one of those. I have it on my trike.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a Class two rider, although I'm a gutlass wonder
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  Speaker 2: and I'm a panty waste, so I don't go more
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  Speaker 2: than six miles an hour at any time. Class three
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  Speaker 2: e bikes similar to Class one, but maximum speed of
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight miles per hour, but can be modified to
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  Speaker 2: go up to fifty in some cases, and the writers
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  Speaker 2: have to be over sixteen years of age.
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  Speaker 1: And so it goes on and on. Just be prepared.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I found that really works when
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  Speaker 2: you see these e bike riders is I just run
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  Speaker 2: into them and take out as many as I possibly can,
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  Speaker 2: because that's the other thing. There's nothing like watching a
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  Speaker 2: thirteen or fourteen year old kid come flying off an
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  Speaker 2: e bike after you've run into them with your car.
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  Speaker 2: There are many ways of dealing with them, and that's
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  Speaker 2: the way I do it. And Cono keep just stop
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  Speaker 2: shaking your head because I'm gonna put that on video.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Well yeah uh yeah, but you know
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  Speaker 1: there's plenty of.
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  Speaker 2: Defense entertainment, entertainment. Yeah splay down on the on the
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  Speaker 2: road saying hey, hey, these guys got in the way. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: all right Now World Cup is coming it. It starts
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  Speaker 2: today in Mexico City, tomorrow it comes to the US
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  Speaker 2: at so far, and of course, restaurants around the South
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  Speaker 2: Land are gearing up and they're figuring a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: of people are gonna come, which is absolutely true. But
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what is going on also is that servers, waitresses,
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  Speaker 2: both male and female waitresses that live on tips in
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  Speaker 2: this country. The restaurants are fearful that they are going
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  Speaker 2: to be un tipped, which is absolutely true. And why
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  Speaker 2: is that, Well, we are one of the few countries
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  Speaker 2: in the world where the servers rely on tips as
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  Speaker 2: part of their income. You go to Europe, for example,
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  Speaker 2: and the servers over there, I mean it's a career.
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  Speaker 2: They get paid a reasonable or a good wage. Tipping
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  Speaker 2: is only for extraordinary services, and five percent is considered
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  Speaker 2: a very generous tip. Most of the time there is
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  Speaker 2: no tipping, and so that's the culture. We, on the
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  Speaker 2: other hand, view tipping, or certainly the servers view as
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  Speaker 2: part of their salary. And the salary consists of two
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  Speaker 2: different revenue streams. One the revenue stream from the restaurant itself,
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  Speaker 2: which is minimum wage. It's always a minimum wage, and
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  Speaker 2: how do you live on minimum wage? And the other
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  Speaker 2: part of it is the tipping that goes on. And
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  Speaker 2: if you look at what's happening, there's going to be
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  Speaker 2: some upset people also, so what are they adding.
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  Speaker 1: They're adding normally six or more people.
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  Speaker 2: When you go to a restaurant, typically is a surcharge,
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  Speaker 2: a gratuity automatic gratuity charge of eighteen percent and if
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  Speaker 2: you ever notice that normal gratuities, whatever it is you
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  Speaker 2: put on the credit card, that's not taxed, that goes
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  Speaker 2: after the tax. If you look at the credit card,
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  Speaker 2: that gratuity is part of the charge.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know that's not a gratuity?
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  Speaker 2: And sales tax is charged on that quote gratuity because
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  Speaker 2: if it's mandatory, if it is part of your price
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  Speaker 2: of eating at that restaurant, it's part of the price.
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  Speaker 2: It's not at your discretion. You have to pay that
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  Speaker 2: eighteen percent. I got a lesson in that when I
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  Speaker 2: got into it with a manager or at a restaurant.
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  Speaker 2: I was taking a whole bunch of people to dinner,
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  Speaker 2: and there it was eighteen percent because there were like
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  Speaker 2: thirteen of us, and I was taxed on. I went
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  Speaker 2: to the manager saying, hey, this is a gratuity.
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  Speaker 1: He goes nose the time. What happens is if they're
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  Speaker 1: six or.
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  Speaker 2: More people, the reality is is that the price of
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  Speaker 2: the meal goes up eighteen percent, and therefore you're taxed
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  Speaker 2: on it. So that's just one sideline side story. But
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  Speaker 2: the story, this story is about how we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get or how the restaurants are going to get tips
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  Speaker 2: to their servers, and they're not because you can't change culture.
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  Speaker 1: You can't do that.
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  Speaker 2: You can say all day long, well tipping eighteen percent
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  Speaker 2: or twenty percent is considered.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's gotten crazy, is what it is. It used
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  Speaker 1: to be.
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  Speaker 2: The twenty percent was for great, great service. Now it's
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  Speaker 2: minimal a couple other things. So twenty it starts, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they when they add tips to the receipt suggested tips
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  Speaker 2: and fifteen percent, twenty eighteen percent, twenty percent. Now a
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  Speaker 2: lot of restaurants start with twenty percent and go up
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  Speaker 2: from there twenty two percent, twenty five percent, thirty percent.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that gets to be a pretty expensive meal
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  Speaker 2: when you add twenty five percent to the cost of
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  Speaker 2: the meal. And as expensive as food is at restaurants now,
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  Speaker 2: it's become prohibitive, and even to the point where when
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  Speaker 2: I go to a restaurant now it used to be.
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  Speaker 2: And I make a good living, as you can imagine,
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  Speaker 2: and I practice law for a long time, I've had businesses.
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  Speaker 2: I make a pretty good living here at KFI ask KNO.
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  Speaker 2: I take all the money and the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: staff have very very little to live on. But that's
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  Speaker 2: I just have a good agent who negotiates a great
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  Speaker 2: contract for me. Uh, whenever anybody gets a raised in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, they don't get it. I get it. So
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  Speaker 2: it works out well. Cono is nodding his head.
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  Speaker 1: I have bet. Yeah it shows, Yeah, it does well.
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  Speaker 2: The point I'm making is, uh, is that you know
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  Speaker 2: I make I make a good living.
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  Speaker 1: I do, and uh, everybody knows it. You know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not arguing, but it used to be where I
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  Speaker 2: didn't even blink about going to a restaurant. It would
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  Speaker 2: literally be okay, let's go to a restaurant and not
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  Speaker 2: even think about it. I am actually saying, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: let's not go to a restaurant tonight. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to spend the money. And that is brand new from me,
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  Speaker 2: because from the minute I started practicing law, I made
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  Speaker 2: a good living. I didn't struggle financially from the time
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  Speaker 2: I started working. And for the first time, it's I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to the restaurant. It's just too expensive.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 2: Does that tell you where we have gone? And especially
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  Speaker 2: during the course of the World Cup over the next.
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  Speaker 1: What two weeks?
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  Speaker 2: Is that?
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  Speaker 1: What is going on? Two weeks? Five weeks? Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: a long, long tournament.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, clearly you're going to see some big search charges
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  Speaker 2: coming up. And for the people that well for anybody
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  Speaker 2: that's coming here and looking at the prices.
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  Speaker 1: And the restaurant owners are going to say, we have
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  Speaker 1: no choice.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've got to do it because as people
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  Speaker 2: come in for the World Cup and eat at our restaurant,
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  Speaker 2: tippings that have disappear. So we have to make it
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  Speaker 2: palatable for our servers.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the argument.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, you heard me talk about the contract
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  Speaker 2: and that whole conversation where Cono said he hasn't gotten
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  Speaker 2: a raised in three years and I get all the money.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't serious, Actually I was Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Now I want to spend a minute talking about history
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  Speaker 2: in the United States and what is our history? Boy,
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  Speaker 2: is that a complicated story. It has gotten a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot of attention because Vice President of Advance has posited and
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  Speaker 2: the right has positive that America was founded on Christian principles,
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  Speaker 2: that we are a Christian country.
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  Speaker 1: We are not.
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  Speaker 2: Just to let you know, there is not one word
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  Speaker 2: of Christ in any document that appears in the United States,
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  Speaker 2: and as a matter of fact, the word God does
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  Speaker 2: not appear, certainly not in the Constitution, But the Declaration
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  Speaker 2: of Independence uses the word God one that that we have.
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  Speaker 2: What is the exact wordage, we the people. I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to remember what the wordag is. I had in my mind, but.
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  Speaker 1: It just slipped. Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: It talks about God and inalienable rights given by God.
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  Speaker 2: And there's that is not the operative way American works.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a law, that's simply a declaration.
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  Speaker 1: What is the law?
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  Speaker 2: How do we function? It's the Constitution of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Where is God nowhere? Where is Christianity nowhere? Which founding
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  Speaker 2: father was a fundamentalist Christian that talked about Christ no one,
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  Speaker 2: and somehow we become a white Christian nation. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: for those people that aren't Christian, or I don't know
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  Speaker 2: who is, there's a lot of us who are kind
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  Speaker 2: of excluded because we're not part of the history of
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  Speaker 2: the United States new Actually we are, but let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about how history is approached. I am not an exceptionalist.
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  Speaker 2: Exceptionalism says that we are the greatest country in the world,
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  Speaker 2: notwithstanding anything else. And my question to that particular concept
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  Speaker 2: is do you think there is a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: complicated than that? Where are we the greatest country in
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  Speaker 2: the world. Infant mortality, that's down our medical system. Even
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  Speaker 2: those that are exceptionalists cannot say we have the best
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  Speaker 2: medical system in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Literacy we're not at the top now.
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  Speaker 2: Education not as good. Now we have the best university
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  Speaker 2: system in the world, but that's for universities. That's not
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  Speaker 2: for secondary schools, that's not for elementary schools or kindergartens.
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  Speaker 2: We are the best country in the world. Certainly, opportunity, well,
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  Speaker 2: there are places that are more opportunity to have a
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  Speaker 2: better opportunity. Taxes, there are certain countries of the world
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  Speaker 2: that charge far less taxes most so that is a
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  Speaker 2: question that is much deeper than we are the greatest
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  Speaker 2: country in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I'm going to sound like I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: A patriot because I say that, all right. I'm a realist,
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  Speaker 2: is what I am. I just don't believe in simplicity.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, we've never exactly agreed on
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  Speaker 2: why this country was founded or even what it stands for.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, from day one, if you look at nineteenth
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  Speaker 2: century well into the twentieth there was a very simplistic,
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  Speaker 2: patriotic narrative providence design that on this continent should be
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  Speaker 2: seen an example of a democratic government. Well, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: certainly we did believe. It's not God that made that decision.
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  Speaker 2: You could argue all day it was God that made
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  Speaker 2: that decision that we are going to be the first
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  Speaker 2: country in the world to have a truly democratic society.
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  Speaker 2: So the eighteen seventy two a textbook explained to young students.
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  Speaker 2: Now moreover, I think the definition of what Abraham Lincoln
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  Speaker 2: gave us is much more appropriate to teaching history. The
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  Speaker 2: government of the people, for the people, by the people.
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  Speaker 2: You bet you, that's democracy in this country. And one
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  Speaker 2: of the concepts is we created this country as a
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  Speaker 2: democracy and democratic ideals that were a model for the
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  Speaker 2: entire world. Think the founding fathers gave a rats about
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  Speaker 2: what the rest of the countries were doing in terms
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  Speaker 2: of establishing a democracy. Here the first country in the
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  Speaker 2: world have a truly democratic republic, and they talk about
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  Speaker 2: the great experiment of democracy, which is absolutely true. And
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  Speaker 2: it turned out read the federalist papers. You tell me where,
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  Speaker 2: but we are modeling for the rest of the world
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  Speaker 2: our government.
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  Speaker 1: We're not. All we cared about is our government. It
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  Speaker 1: was not simple.
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  Speaker 2: This concept of what we think of America and how
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  Speaker 2: we view America and American history and how it has
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  Speaker 2: become revisionist, and on both sides of the coin, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, not just the Republicans. Now it gets a
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  Speaker 2: lot more attention because as President Trump and Vice President
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  Speaker 2: Vance who are making the argument that history as is
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  Speaker 2: being taught is very woke, and we have to look
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  Speaker 2: at history of what this country is. It's basically a
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  Speaker 2: white Christian country.
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  Speaker 1: It is not. It is not Christian, and it is
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  Speaker 1: not primarily white. It was. But let's look at the
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  Speaker 1: people who voted, whose citizens.
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  Speaker 2: Can vote in this country. There it is a loss
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  Speaker 2: as citizens vote. Well, women not so much. Right, Women
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  Speaker 2: were not given the right to vote universally until nineteen
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  Speaker 2: twenty and I think it was nineteenth Amendment.
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  Speaker 1: How about black people.
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  Speaker 2: Who came over as slaves and stayed as slaves until
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  Speaker 2: the eighteen sixties. How about Native Americans? By the way,
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  Speaker 2: blacks or Native Americans were not even considered citizens, so
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  Speaker 2: we didn't even bother.
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  Speaker 1: So what is it about slavery?
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  Speaker 2: Wait a second, if all men are created equal, if
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  Speaker 2: everybody is a citizen, if you're a Native born American,
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  Speaker 2: you're a citizen. If you're black and you're born here,
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  Speaker 2: Why aren't you a citizen? Well, of course you are now,
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  Speaker 2: But what was it about. Well, here's the rationale, which
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  Speaker 2: I always thought was interesting, that the basic premise of
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  Speaker 2: the United States is that we are all citizens. Blacks
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  Speaker 2: and Native Americans are aberrational. In other words, we're still
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  Speaker 2: American citizens, all of us, except blacks and Native Americans,
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  Speaker 2: because somehow that is just It really isn't considered nor
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  Speaker 2: should it be considered. Black people, for example, we're property.
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  Speaker 2: How can property be a citizen of the United States
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  Speaker 2: when literally you bought and sold them. And there are
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  Speaker 2: example the courts upheld that, by the way, until the
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  Speaker 2: thirteenth Amendment. You know, they're the dread Scott case, which
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  Speaker 2: set outright that black people were slaves and were property.
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  Speaker 2: And there are examples where the court has gone against
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  Speaker 2: the law. For example, baseball and football Professional Baseball MLB
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  Speaker 2: and the NFL are monopolies. Straight out, they are monopolies.
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  Speaker 2: Well what about the anti trust laws? Well, Supreme Court said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we basically, you can't have a monopoly unless it's baseball,
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  Speaker 2: unless it's football. God doesn't appear anywhere in the Constitution.
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  Speaker 2: But how about, well, look at our dollar bills, look
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  Speaker 2: at our money, and God we trust. You know when
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  Speaker 2: that came into being nineteen fifty seven in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the Cold War, because that communists were atheists and
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  Speaker 2: we were God fearing look at indivisible under God in
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  Speaker 2: the Pledge of Allegiance.
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  Speaker 1: The court held that up as an exception to the
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  Speaker 1: rule of law.
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  Speaker 2: So we are, according to the current administration, the way
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  Speaker 2: we've been taught has been woke. And the President has
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  Speaker 2: said and has argued that and has by the way
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  Speaker 2: redone history in terms of monuments all over the country
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  Speaker 2: that we're we have to exclude negativity. We have to
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  Speaker 2: exclude the issue of slavery or the way we treated
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  Speaker 2: the Indians. And so now how about the So here's
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  Speaker 2: the bottom line. The right, and we're talking about the
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  Speaker 2: far right far left for the most part. In this case,
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  Speaker 2: I've gotta put the administration as far right, and that
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  Speaker 2: is that this there's no negativity in this country, and
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  Speaker 2: any kind of negativity. You bring up slavery, you bring
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  Speaker 2: up the internment camps during World War Two with the
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  Speaker 2: Japanese Americans, of which there was that one incident of
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  Speaker 2: espionage or a taigh American move Among those one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and twenty thousand Japanese Americans that were intered, that were
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  Speaker 2: put in the internment camps, that is all left out.
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  Speaker 2: So America excludes all that. Now, for the left, that's
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  Speaker 2: the definition of America. Look at how horrible we have
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  Speaker 2: been and looking at America not in its positive view,
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  Speaker 2: but defining it with many more of its negative views
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  Speaker 2: and way too much. That, unfortunately, is the way history
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  Speaker 2: is being taught. Social studies have decreased. Books well, they've
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  Speaker 2: stopped being written in a single volume. You can't do
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: it anymore because it's way too complicated a question.
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  Speaker 1: So what is America about? Is America about freedom? Opportunity? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: It is for some people. Is it about the inability
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  Speaker 1: to have opportunity? Yeah? It is for some people. It's
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  Speaker 1: complicated questions.
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  Speaker 2: And that's one of the things I like, is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we cannot be that simplistic. Is America the greatest country
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  Speaker 2: in the world? Yeah, for most of us, certainly is
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  Speaker 2: as far as I'm concerned. But then again, look at
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity I've had. I'm a white guy with a
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: good job and I have an education. Let's talk to
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: someone in Appalachia. Who is sitting on a cabin that's
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: up on stilts and eating sides of bacon and that's
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: their money is America and they're two hundred miles from
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: the nearest clinic. Ask them how great America is. It's
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: a much more complicated question than we ever thought. So
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: when you hear this simplistic stuff, you know, please think again.
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  Speaker 2: Life is a lot more complicated. Okay, talking about complications,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I want to come back and talk about what's happening
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: with the Iran War and a topic that is is
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: sort of being ignored, and that is the country of Oman,
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  Speaker 2: which is right across the Strait of Hormuz. On one
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: side is Ran, on the other side is Oman. That's
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  Speaker 2: a big deal and I'll share that with you when
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  Speaker 2: we come back. This is KFI AM six point forty.
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