June 11, 2026 • 25 mins
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The new Hell’s Angels aka teens on E-bikes. Get ready for the World Cup service fee at your local restaurants. How the U.S. gave up on its history.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
The KFI AM A six forty Bill Handle looks good morning, everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
It is a Thursday morning, June eleventh.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Tomorrow Friday, it's foody Friday without the food because Nil
Sevader doesn't come back until Monday, having had a medical
procedure being done. He had some issues with his and
nether parts and so actually that's not true. It's a
better story. I know he said bariatric surgery, and so
(00:34):
he's back next week. But at a thirty it's ask
Handle anything, which we need you to ask the questions
otherwise we don't have a segment.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
So here's what you do during the show.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You go to the iHeartRadio app, click on KFI and
this show will be streaming. And so you go to
the upper right hand corner where there's a microphone. You
click on that and you have ten fifteen seconds to
record a question, and the good ones embarrassing ones Neil
chooses and I answer those at eight thirty.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
On Friday's Great Fun.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Now, the issue of e bikes, known as the new
Hell's Angels, people that ride them, it is a huge
problem and I live in a residential neighborhood which is
pretty calm, and guess what we see these teenage mainly
teenage boys, riding on those e bikes like crazy. There's
(01:30):
a family that we know that has two teenagers, and
one of the teenagers with a group of other kids.
They end up doing wheelies in the middle of the
street and this, you know, they get off their seats,
they stand on their seats.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I mean, they do some serious tricks. And two things.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Number one, the time that it takes to get to
that level. I can't even imagine how much time it takes.
The other point of this or the other problem, is
just the fact that they're getting in the way of everybody.
E bikes are so ubiquitous that they have taken overs
like the cockroaches have taken over our community. And the
(02:10):
other thing is even worse. As I talked to one
of the teenagers, you know what they really enjoy doing.
They enjoy fleeing from the police. It's a game. Cops
go after them, and they scoot through houses and through
trails where the police can't follow, and they think that's
just the greatest thing.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
In the world. I mean, this is miserable miserable stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So you're seeing these massive groups at the beach and
they're doing the wheelies on the roads, the residential roads.
They're also showing up in emergency rooms, lots and lots
of them. Jim Keeney shared that with us cuts, broken bones,
even worse that eighty one year old man who was
killed in Lake Forest.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
There was a fourteen year old.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
They crashed into him after he was spotted doing wheelies
and just went right into him, that's the allegation, and
he died. And your Belinda, there was a twelve year
old critically injured while he was riding a modified e motorcycle.
That's another part of the story. In Huntington Beach, a
man was attacked after riding his scooter through a crowd
(03:16):
of more than one hundred young e bike riders. Officer
Brandon Pond, a collision investigator with the LAPD, says, if
these bikes aren't treated with respect and care, it could
be just as dangerous as handing over firearm.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And if you look at online.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Videos, it shows how easily bite one of these e
bikes can be modified to increase speeds and police saying
that some of these bikes that are marketed are really
motorcycles and can reach speeds up to fifty miles an hour.
Now that's not freeway speeds, but on residential streets where
they hang out. Fifty miles an hour that is fast.
(03:56):
I mean, now we're talking motorcycle speeds. And these fice
fast bikes are illegal if the user, if the rider
is not licensed. In April, Attorney General California Attorney General
Rob Bonta Warren sellers manufacturers consumers that those bikes that
(04:17):
exceed state regulations may be illegal to sell. Amazon delisted
several of these electric motorcycles from purchasing California and even
in Orange County District. Attorney Todd Spitzer, friend of the show,
has created a specialized unit to go after dangerous riders,
including miners, and began charging parents. For example, the mother
(04:44):
of that fifteen year old or fourteen year old that
has allegedly been accused and is being charged with running
into that eighty one year old man and killing him.
The mother has been charged for allowing her kid. And
that is what's going to happen, and it should. I mean,
(05:04):
casualties are mounting like crazy. They're riders post to call
for a ride out and one hundred people show up.
One hundred of these riders, and these kids, according to
law enforcement, get rowdy block streets because they're riding in
mass and the kids will even go down the street
(05:25):
and play chicken with cars. I mean, that's how crazy
it has come. So come summertime, we're right on the
verge the cusp of summer. Be prepared because these bikers
go crazy. Now a little bit of inside baseball. There
are three categories of bicycles. These E bicycles who have
(05:47):
electric motors. Class one engages only when the pedals are used,
maximum speed of twenty miles per hour. Class two provide
electrical power up to twenty mouths per hour, but how
a throttle that can be used without using the products
the pedals.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I have one of those. I have it on my trike.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I'm a Class two rider, although I'm a gutlass wonder
and I'm a panty waste, so I don't go more
than six miles an hour at any time. Class three
e bikes similar to Class one, but maximum speed of
twenty eight miles per hour, but can be modified to
go up to fifty in some cases, and the writers
(06:29):
have to be over sixteen years of age.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And so it goes on and on. Just be prepared.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I'll tell you what I found that really works when
you see these e bike riders is I just run
into them and take out as many as I possibly can,
because that's the other thing. There's nothing like watching a
thirteen or fourteen year old kid come flying off an
e bike after you've run into them with your car.
(06:56):
There are many ways of dealing with them, and that's
the way I do it. And Cono keep just stop
shaking your head because I'm gonna put that on video.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
By the way, Well yeah uh yeah, but you know
there's plenty of.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Defense entertainment, entertainment. Yeah splay down on the on the
road saying hey, hey, these guys got in the way. Okay,
all right Now World Cup is coming it. It starts
today in Mexico City, tomorrow it comes to the US
(07:35):
at so far, and of course, restaurants around the South
Land are gearing up and they're figuring a whole lot
of people are gonna come, which is absolutely true. But
I'll tell you what is going on also is that servers, waitresses,
both male and female waitresses that live on tips in
(07:55):
this country. The restaurants are fearful that they are going
to be un tipped, which is absolutely true. And why
is that, Well, we are one of the few countries
in the world where the servers rely on tips as
part of their income. You go to Europe, for example,
(08:18):
and the servers over there, I mean it's a career.
They get paid a reasonable or a good wage. Tipping
is only for extraordinary services, and five percent is considered
a very generous tip. Most of the time there is
no tipping, and so that's the culture. We, on the
(08:39):
other hand, view tipping, or certainly the servers view as
part of their salary. And the salary consists of two
different revenue streams. One the revenue stream from the restaurant itself,
which is minimum wage. It's always a minimum wage, and
how do you live on minimum wage? And the other
part of it is the tipping that goes on. And
(09:04):
if you look at what's happening, there's going to be
some upset people also, so what are they adding.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
They're adding normally six or more people.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
When you go to a restaurant, typically is a surcharge,
a gratuity automatic gratuity charge of eighteen percent and if
you ever notice that normal gratuities, whatever it is you
put on the credit card, that's not taxed, that goes
after the tax. If you look at the credit card,
(09:35):
that gratuity is part of the charge.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Do you know that's not a gratuity?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
And sales tax is charged on that quote gratuity because
if it's mandatory, if it is part of your price
of eating at that restaurant, it's part of the price.
It's not at your discretion. You have to pay that
eighteen percent. I got a lesson in that when I
(10:08):
got into it with a manager or at a restaurant.
I was taking a whole bunch of people to dinner,
and there it was eighteen percent because there were like
thirteen of us, and I was taxed on. I went
to the manager saying, hey, this is a gratuity.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
He goes nose the time. What happens is if they're
six or.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
More people, the reality is is that the price of
the meal goes up eighteen percent, and therefore you're taxed
on it. So that's just one sideline side story. But
the story, this story is about how we're going to
get or how the restaurants are going to get tips
to their servers, and they're not because you can't change culture.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
You can't do that.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You can say all day long, well tipping eighteen percent
or twenty percent is considered.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Well, it's gotten crazy, is what it is. It used
to be.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
The twenty percent was for great, great service. Now it's
minimal a couple other things. So twenty it starts, you know,
they when they add tips to the receipt suggested tips
and fifteen percent, twenty eighteen percent, twenty percent. Now a
lot of restaurants start with twenty percent and go up
(11:18):
from there twenty two percent, twenty five percent, thirty percent.
I mean that gets to be a pretty expensive meal
when you add twenty five percent to the cost of
the meal. And as expensive as food is at restaurants now,
it's become prohibitive, and even to the point where when
I go to a restaurant now it used to be.
(11:39):
And I make a good living, as you can imagine,
and I practice law for a long time, I've had businesses.
I make a pretty good living here at KFI ask KNO.
I take all the money and the rest of the
staff have very very little to live on. But that's
I just have a good agent who negotiates a great
contract for me. Uh, whenever anybody gets a raised in
(12:02):
the morning, they don't get it. I get it. So
it works out well. Cono is nodding his head.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I have bet. Yeah it shows, Yeah, it does well.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The point I'm making is, uh, is that you know
I make I make a good living.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I do, and uh, everybody knows it. You know.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I'm not arguing, but it used to be where I
didn't even blink about going to a restaurant. It would
literally be okay, let's go to a restaurant and not
even think about it. I am actually saying, you know what,
let's not go to a restaurant tonight. I don't want
to spend the money. And that is brand new from me,
(12:46):
because from the minute I started practicing law, I made
a good living. I didn't struggle financially from the time
I started working. And for the first time, it's I'm
not going to the restaurant. It's just too expensive.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Man.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Does that tell you where we have gone? And especially
during the course of the World Cup over the next.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
What two weeks?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
What is going on? Two weeks? Five weeks? Yeah, it's
a long, long tournament.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, clearly you're going to see some big search charges
coming up. And for the people that well for anybody
that's coming here and looking at the prices.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And the restaurant owners are going to say, we have
no choice.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I mean, we've got to do it because as people
come in for the World Cup and eat at our restaurant,
tippings that have disappear. So we have to make it
palatable for our servers.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
By the way, the argument.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
By the way, you heard me talk about the contract
and that whole conversation where Cono said he hasn't gotten
a raised in three years and I get all the money.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I wasn't serious, Actually I was Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Now I want to spend a minute talking about history
in the United States and what is our history? Boy,
is that a complicated story. It has gotten a whole
lot of attention because Vice President of Advance has posited and
the right has positive that America was founded on Christian principles,
(14:21):
that we are a Christian country.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
We are not.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Just to let you know, there is not one word
of Christ in any document that appears in the United States,
and as a matter of fact, the word God does
not appear, certainly not in the Constitution, But the Declaration
of Independence uses the word God one that that we have.
(14:47):
What is the exact wordage, we the people. I'm trying
to remember what the wordag is. I had in my mind, but.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It just slipped. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
It talks about God and inalienable rights given by God.
And there's that is not the operative way American works.
That's not a law, that's simply a declaration.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
What is the law?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
How do we function? It's the Constitution of the United States.
Where is God nowhere? Where is Christianity nowhere? Which founding
father was a fundamentalist Christian that talked about Christ no one,
and somehow we become a white Christian nation. By the way,
(15:26):
for those people that aren't Christian, or I don't know
who is, there's a lot of us who are kind
of excluded because we're not part of the history of
the United States new Actually we are, but let's talk
about how history is approached. I am not an exceptionalist.
Exceptionalism says that we are the greatest country in the world,
(15:46):
notwithstanding anything else. And my question to that particular concept
is do you think there is a little bit more
complicated than that? Where are we the greatest country in
the world. Infant mortality, that's down our medical system. Even
(16:07):
those that are exceptionalists cannot say we have the best
medical system in the world.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Literacy we're not at the top now.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Education not as good. Now we have the best university
system in the world, but that's for universities. That's not
for secondary schools, that's not for elementary schools or kindergartens.
We are the best country in the world. Certainly, opportunity, well,
(16:37):
there are places that are more opportunity to have a
better opportunity. Taxes, there are certain countries of the world
that charge far less taxes most so that is a
question that is much deeper than we are the greatest
country in the world.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Now, I'm going to sound like I'm not.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
A patriot because I say that, all right. I'm a realist,
is what I am. I just don't believe in simplicity.
As a matter of fact, we've never exactly agreed on
why this country was founded or even what it stands for.
I mean, from day one, if you look at nineteenth
century well into the twentieth there was a very simplistic,
(17:18):
patriotic narrative providence design that on this continent should be
seen an example of a democratic government. Well, I mean,
certainly we did believe. It's not God that made that decision.
You could argue all day it was God that made
that decision that we are going to be the first
country in the world to have a truly democratic society.
(17:42):
So the eighteen seventy two a textbook explained to young students.
Now moreover, I think the definition of what Abraham Lincoln
gave us is much more appropriate to teaching history. The
government of the people, for the people, by the people.
You bet you, that's democracy in this country. And one
(18:07):
of the concepts is we created this country as a
democracy and democratic ideals that were a model for the
entire world. Think the founding fathers gave a rats about
what the rest of the countries were doing in terms
of establishing a democracy. Here the first country in the
(18:29):
world have a truly democratic republic, and they talk about
the great experiment of democracy, which is absolutely true. And
it turned out read the federalist papers. You tell me where,
but we are modeling for the rest of the world
our government.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
We're not. All we cared about is our government. It
was not simple.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
This concept of what we think of America and how
we view America and American history and how it has
become revisionist, and on both sides of the coin, by
the way, not just the Republicans. Now it gets a
lot more attention because as President Trump and Vice President
Vance who are making the argument that history as is
(19:18):
being taught is very woke, and we have to look
at history of what this country is. It's basically a
white Christian country.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
It is not. It is not Christian, and it is
not primarily white. It was. But let's look at the
people who voted, whose citizens.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Can vote in this country. There it is a loss
as citizens vote. Well, women not so much. Right, Women
were not given the right to vote universally until nineteen
twenty and I think it was nineteenth Amendment.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
How about black people.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Who came over as slaves and stayed as slaves until
the eighteen sixties. How about Native Americans? By the way,
blacks or Native Americans were not even considered citizens, so
we didn't even bother.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
So what is it about slavery?
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Wait a second, if all men are created equal, if
everybody is a citizen, if you're a Native born American,
you're a citizen. If you're black and you're born here,
Why aren't you a citizen? Well, of course you are now,
But what was it about. Well, here's the rationale, which
I always thought was interesting, that the basic premise of
the United States is that we are all citizens. Blacks
(20:29):
and Native Americans are aberrational. In other words, we're still
American citizens, all of us, except blacks and Native Americans,
because somehow that is just It really isn't considered nor
should it be considered. Black people, for example, we're property.
How can property be a citizen of the United States
(20:50):
when literally you bought and sold them. And there are
example the courts upheld that, by the way, until the
thirteenth Amendment. You know, they're the dread Scott case, which
set outright that black people were slaves and were property.
And there are examples where the court has gone against
(21:12):
the law. For example, baseball and football Professional Baseball MLB
and the NFL are monopolies. Straight out, they are monopolies.
Well what about the anti trust laws? Well, Supreme Court said, okay,
we basically, you can't have a monopoly unless it's baseball,
unless it's football. God doesn't appear anywhere in the Constitution.
(21:34):
But how about, well, look at our dollar bills, look
at our money, and God we trust. You know when
that came into being nineteen fifty seven in the middle
of the Cold War, because that communists were atheists and
we were God fearing look at indivisible under God in
the Pledge of Allegiance.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
The court held that up as an exception to the
rule of law.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
So we are, according to the current administration, the way
we've been taught has been woke. And the President has
said and has argued that and has by the way
redone history in terms of monuments all over the country
(22:21):
that we're we have to exclude negativity. We have to
exclude the issue of slavery or the way we treated
the Indians. And so now how about the So here's
the bottom line. The right, and we're talking about the
far right far left for the most part. In this case,
I've gotta put the administration as far right, and that
(22:43):
is that this there's no negativity in this country, and
any kind of negativity. You bring up slavery, you bring
up the internment camps during World War Two with the
Japanese Americans, of which there was that one incident of
espionage or a taigh American move Among those one hundred
and twenty thousand Japanese Americans that were intered, that were
(23:05):
put in the internment camps, that is all left out.
So America excludes all that. Now, for the left, that's
the definition of America. Look at how horrible we have
been and looking at America not in its positive view,
but defining it with many more of its negative views
(23:26):
and way too much. That, unfortunately, is the way history
is being taught. Social studies have decreased. Books well, they've
stopped being written in a single volume. You can't do
it anymore because it's way too complicated a question.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
So what is America about? Is America about freedom? Opportunity? Yeah?
It is for some people. Is it about the inability
to have opportunity? Yeah? It is for some people. It's
complicated questions.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
And that's one of the things I like, is, you know,
we cannot be that simplistic. Is America the greatest country
in the world? Yeah, for most of us, certainly is
as far as I'm concerned. But then again, look at
the opportunity I've had. I'm a white guy with a
good job and I have an education. Let's talk to
someone in Appalachia. Who is sitting on a cabin that's
(24:29):
up on stilts and eating sides of bacon and that's
their money is America and they're two hundred miles from
the nearest clinic. Ask them how great America is. It's
a much more complicated question than we ever thought. So
when you hear this simplistic stuff, you know, please think again.
(24:51):
Life is a lot more complicated. Okay, talking about complications,
I want to come back and talk about what's happening
with the Iran War and a topic that is is
sort of being ignored, and that is the country of Oman,
which is right across the Strait of Hormuz. On one
side is Ran, on the other side is Oman. That's
(25:15):
a big deal and I'll share that with you when
we come back. This is KFI AM six point forty.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
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Speaker 2 (25:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
The KFI AM A six forty Bill Handle looks good morning, everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
It is a Thursday morning, June eleventh.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Tomorrow Friday, it's foody Friday without the food because Nil
Sevader doesn't come back until Monday, having had a medical
procedure being done. He had some issues with his and
nether parts and so actually that's not true. It's a
better story. I know he said bariatric surgery, and so
(00:34):
he's back next week. But at a thirty it's ask
Handle anything, which we need you to ask the questions
otherwise we don't have a segment.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
So here's what you do during the show.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
You go to the iHeartRadio app, click on KFI and
this show will be streaming. And so you go to
the upper right hand corner where there's a microphone. You
click on that and you have ten fifteen seconds to
record a question, and the good ones embarrassing ones Neil
chooses and I answer those at eight thirty.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
On Friday's Great Fun.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Now, the issue of e bikes, known as the new
Hell's Angels, people that ride them, it is a huge
problem and I live in a residential neighborhood which is
pretty calm, and guess what we see these teenage mainly
teenage boys, riding on those e bikes like crazy. There's
(01:30):
a family that we know that has two teenagers, and
one of the teenagers with a group of other kids.
They end up doing wheelies in the middle of the
street and this, you know, they get off their seats,
they stand on their seats.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I mean, they do some serious tricks. And two things.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Number one, the time that it takes to get to
that level. I can't even imagine how much time it takes.
The other point of this or the other problem, is
just the fact that they're getting in the way of everybody.
E bikes are so ubiquitous that they have taken overs
like the cockroaches have taken over our community. And the
(02:10):
other thing is even worse. As I talked to one
of the teenagers, you know what they really enjoy doing.
They enjoy fleeing from the police. It's a game. Cops
go after them, and they scoot through houses and through
trails where the police can't follow, and they think that's
just the greatest thing.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
In the world. I mean, this is miserable miserable stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So you're seeing these massive groups at the beach and
they're doing the wheelies on the roads, the residential roads.
They're also showing up in emergency rooms, lots and lots
of them. Jim Keeney shared that with us cuts, broken bones,
even worse that eighty one year old man who was
killed in Lake Forest.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
There was a fourteen year old.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
They crashed into him after he was spotted doing wheelies
and just went right into him, that's the allegation, and
he died. And your Belinda, there was a twelve year
old critically injured while he was riding a modified e motorcycle.
That's another part of the story. In Huntington Beach, a
man was attacked after riding his scooter through a crowd
(03:16):
of more than one hundred young e bike riders. Officer
Brandon Pond, a collision investigator with the LAPD, says, if
these bikes aren't treated with respect and care, it could
be just as dangerous as handing over firearm.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And if you look at online.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Videos, it shows how easily bite one of these e
bikes can be modified to increase speeds and police saying
that some of these bikes that are marketed are really
motorcycles and can reach speeds up to fifty miles an hour.
Now that's not freeway speeds, but on residential streets where
they hang out. Fifty miles an hour that is fast.
(03:56):
I mean, now we're talking motorcycle speeds. And these fice
fast bikes are illegal if the user, if the rider
is not licensed. In April, Attorney General California Attorney General
Rob Bonta Warren sellers manufacturers consumers that those bikes that
(04:17):
exceed state regulations may be illegal to sell. Amazon delisted
several of these electric motorcycles from purchasing California and even
in Orange County District. Attorney Todd Spitzer, friend of the show,
has created a specialized unit to go after dangerous riders,
including miners, and began charging parents. For example, the mother
(04:44):
of that fifteen year old or fourteen year old that
has allegedly been accused and is being charged with running
into that eighty one year old man and killing him.
The mother has been charged for allowing her kid. And
that is what's going to happen, and it should. I mean,
(05:04):
casualties are mounting like crazy. They're riders post to call
for a ride out and one hundred people show up.
One hundred of these riders, and these kids, according to
law enforcement, get rowdy block streets because they're riding in
mass and the kids will even go down the street
(05:25):
and play chicken with cars. I mean, that's how crazy
it has come. So come summertime, we're right on the
verge the cusp of summer. Be prepared because these bikers
go crazy. Now a little bit of inside baseball. There
are three categories of bicycles. These E bicycles who have
(05:47):
electric motors. Class one engages only when the pedals are used,
maximum speed of twenty miles per hour. Class two provide
electrical power up to twenty mouths per hour, but how
a throttle that can be used without using the products
the pedals.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I have one of those. I have it on my trike.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I'm a Class two rider, although I'm a gutlass wonder
and I'm a panty waste, so I don't go more
than six miles an hour at any time. Class three
e bikes similar to Class one, but maximum speed of
twenty eight miles per hour, but can be modified to
go up to fifty in some cases, and the writers
(06:29):
have to be over sixteen years of age.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
And so it goes on and on. Just be prepared.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I'll tell you what I found that really works when
you see these e bike riders is I just run
into them and take out as many as I possibly can,
because that's the other thing. There's nothing like watching a
thirteen or fourteen year old kid come flying off an
e bike after you've run into them with your car.
(06:56):
There are many ways of dealing with them, and that's
the way I do it. And Cono keep just stop
shaking your head because I'm gonna put that on video.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
By the way, Well yeah uh yeah, but you know
there's plenty of.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Defense entertainment, entertainment. Yeah splay down on the on the
road saying hey, hey, these guys got in the way. Okay,
all right Now World Cup is coming it. It starts
today in Mexico City, tomorrow it comes to the US
(07:35):
at so far, and of course, restaurants around the South
Land are gearing up and they're figuring a whole lot
of people are gonna come, which is absolutely true. But
I'll tell you what is going on also is that servers, waitresses,
both male and female waitresses that live on tips in
(07:55):
this country. The restaurants are fearful that they are going
to be un tipped, which is absolutely true. And why
is that, Well, we are one of the few countries
in the world where the servers rely on tips as
part of their income. You go to Europe, for example,
(08:18):
and the servers over there, I mean it's a career.
They get paid a reasonable or a good wage. Tipping
is only for extraordinary services, and five percent is considered
a very generous tip. Most of the time there is
no tipping, and so that's the culture. We, on the
(08:39):
other hand, view tipping, or certainly the servers view as
part of their salary. And the salary consists of two
different revenue streams. One the revenue stream from the restaurant itself,
which is minimum wage. It's always a minimum wage, and
how do you live on minimum wage? And the other
part of it is the tipping that goes on. And
(09:04):
if you look at what's happening, there's going to be
some upset people also, so what are they adding.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
They're adding normally six or more people.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
When you go to a restaurant, typically is a surcharge,
a gratuity automatic gratuity charge of eighteen percent and if
you ever notice that normal gratuities, whatever it is you
put on the credit card, that's not taxed, that goes
after the tax. If you look at the credit card,
(09:35):
that gratuity is part of the charge.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Do you know that's not a gratuity?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
And sales tax is charged on that quote gratuity because
if it's mandatory, if it is part of your price
of eating at that restaurant, it's part of the price.
It's not at your discretion. You have to pay that
eighteen percent. I got a lesson in that when I
(10:08):
got into it with a manager or at a restaurant.
I was taking a whole bunch of people to dinner,
and there it was eighteen percent because there were like
thirteen of us, and I was taxed on. I went
to the manager saying, hey, this is a gratuity.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
He goes nose the time. What happens is if they're
six or.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
More people, the reality is is that the price of
the meal goes up eighteen percent, and therefore you're taxed
on it. So that's just one sideline side story. But
the story, this story is about how we're going to
get or how the restaurants are going to get tips
to their servers, and they're not because you can't change culture.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
You can't do that.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You can say all day long, well tipping eighteen percent
or twenty percent is considered.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Well, it's gotten crazy, is what it is. It used
to be.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
The twenty percent was for great, great service. Now it's
minimal a couple other things. So twenty it starts, you know,
they when they add tips to the receipt suggested tips
and fifteen percent, twenty eighteen percent, twenty percent. Now a
lot of restaurants start with twenty percent and go up
(11:18):
from there twenty two percent, twenty five percent, thirty percent.
I mean that gets to be a pretty expensive meal
when you add twenty five percent to the cost of
the meal. And as expensive as food is at restaurants now,
it's become prohibitive, and even to the point where when
I go to a restaurant now it used to be.
(11:39):
And I make a good living, as you can imagine,
and I practice law for a long time, I've had businesses.
I make a pretty good living here at KFI ask KNO.
I take all the money and the rest of the
staff have very very little to live on. But that's
I just have a good agent who negotiates a great
contract for me. Uh, whenever anybody gets a raised in
(12:02):
the morning, they don't get it. I get it. So
it works out well. Cono is nodding his head.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I have bet. Yeah it shows, Yeah, it does well.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
The point I'm making is, uh, is that you know
I make I make a good living.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
I do, and uh, everybody knows it. You know.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I'm not arguing, but it used to be where I
didn't even blink about going to a restaurant. It would
literally be okay, let's go to a restaurant and not
even think about it. I am actually saying, you know what,
let's not go to a restaurant tonight. I don't want
to spend the money. And that is brand new from me,
(12:46):
because from the minute I started practicing law, I made
a good living. I didn't struggle financially from the time
I started working. And for the first time, it's I'm
not going to the restaurant. It's just too expensive.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Man.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Does that tell you where we have gone? And especially
during the course of the World Cup over the next.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
What two weeks?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Is that?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
What is going on? Two weeks? Five weeks? Yeah, it's
a long, long tournament.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, clearly you're going to see some big search charges
coming up. And for the people that well for anybody
that's coming here and looking at the prices.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And the restaurant owners are going to say, we have
no choice.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I mean, we've got to do it because as people
come in for the World Cup and eat at our restaurant,
tippings that have disappear. So we have to make it
palatable for our servers.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
By the way, the argument.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
By the way, you heard me talk about the contract
and that whole conversation where Cono said he hasn't gotten
a raised in three years and I get all the money.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I wasn't serious, Actually I was Okay.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Now I want to spend a minute talking about history
in the United States and what is our history? Boy,
is that a complicated story. It has gotten a whole
lot of attention because Vice President of Advance has posited and
the right has positive that America was founded on Christian principles,
(14:21):
that we are a Christian country.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
We are not.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Just to let you know, there is not one word
of Christ in any document that appears in the United States,
and as a matter of fact, the word God does
not appear, certainly not in the Constitution, But the Declaration
of Independence uses the word God one that that we have.
(14:47):
What is the exact wordage, we the people. I'm trying
to remember what the wordag is. I had in my mind, but.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It just slipped. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
It talks about God and inalienable rights given by God.
And there's that is not the operative way American works.
That's not a law, that's simply a declaration.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
What is the law?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
How do we function? It's the Constitution of the United States.
Where is God nowhere? Where is Christianity nowhere? Which founding
father was a fundamentalist Christian that talked about Christ no one,
and somehow we become a white Christian nation. By the way,
(15:26):
for those people that aren't Christian, or I don't know
who is, there's a lot of us who are kind
of excluded because we're not part of the history of
the United States new Actually we are, but let's talk
about how history is approached. I am not an exceptionalist.
Exceptionalism says that we are the greatest country in the world,
(15:46):
notwithstanding anything else. And my question to that particular concept
is do you think there is a little bit more
complicated than that? Where are we the greatest country in
the world. Infant mortality, that's down our medical system. Even
(16:07):
those that are exceptionalists cannot say we have the best
medical system in the world.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Literacy we're not at the top now.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Education not as good. Now we have the best university
system in the world, but that's for universities. That's not
for secondary schools, that's not for elementary schools or kindergartens.
We are the best country in the world. Certainly, opportunity, well,
(16:37):
there are places that are more opportunity to have a
better opportunity. Taxes, there are certain countries of the world
that charge far less taxes most so that is a
question that is much deeper than we are the greatest
country in the world.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Now, I'm going to sound like I'm not.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
A patriot because I say that, all right. I'm a realist,
is what I am. I just don't believe in simplicity.
As a matter of fact, we've never exactly agreed on
why this country was founded or even what it stands for.
I mean, from day one, if you look at nineteenth
century well into the twentieth there was a very simplistic,
(17:18):
patriotic narrative providence design that on this continent should be
seen an example of a democratic government. Well, I mean,
certainly we did believe. It's not God that made that decision.
You could argue all day it was God that made
that decision that we are going to be the first
country in the world to have a truly democratic society.
(17:42):
So the eighteen seventy two a textbook explained to young students.
Now moreover, I think the definition of what Abraham Lincoln
gave us is much more appropriate to teaching history. The
government of the people, for the people, by the people.
You bet you, that's democracy in this country. And one
(18:07):
of the concepts is we created this country as a
democracy and democratic ideals that were a model for the
entire world. Think the founding fathers gave a rats about
what the rest of the countries were doing in terms
of establishing a democracy. Here the first country in the
(18:29):
world have a truly democratic republic, and they talk about
the great experiment of democracy, which is absolutely true. And
it turned out read the federalist papers. You tell me where,
but we are modeling for the rest of the world
our government.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
We're not. All we cared about is our government. It
was not simple.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
This concept of what we think of America and how
we view America and American history and how it has
become revisionist, and on both sides of the coin, by
the way, not just the Republicans. Now it gets a
lot more attention because as President Trump and Vice President
Vance who are making the argument that history as is
(19:18):
being taught is very woke, and we have to look
at history of what this country is. It's basically a
white Christian country.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
It is not. It is not Christian, and it is
not primarily white. It was. But let's look at the
people who voted, whose citizens.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Can vote in this country. There it is a loss
as citizens vote. Well, women not so much. Right, Women
were not given the right to vote universally until nineteen
twenty and I think it was nineteenth Amendment.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
How about black people.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Who came over as slaves and stayed as slaves until
the eighteen sixties. How about Native Americans? By the way,
blacks or Native Americans were not even considered citizens, so
we didn't even bother.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
So what is it about slavery?
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Wait a second, if all men are created equal, if
everybody is a citizen, if you're a Native born American,
you're a citizen. If you're black and you're born here,
Why aren't you a citizen? Well, of course you are now,
But what was it about. Well, here's the rationale, which
I always thought was interesting, that the basic premise of
the United States is that we are all citizens. Blacks
(20:29):
and Native Americans are aberrational. In other words, we're still
American citizens, all of us, except blacks and Native Americans,
because somehow that is just It really isn't considered nor
should it be considered. Black people, for example, we're property.
How can property be a citizen of the United States
(20:50):
when literally you bought and sold them. And there are
example the courts upheld that, by the way, until the
thirteenth Amendment. You know, they're the dread Scott case, which
set outright that black people were slaves and were property.
And there are examples where the court has gone against
(21:12):
the law. For example, baseball and football Professional Baseball MLB
and the NFL are monopolies. Straight out, they are monopolies.
Well what about the anti trust laws? Well, Supreme Court said, okay,
we basically, you can't have a monopoly unless it's baseball,
unless it's football. God doesn't appear anywhere in the Constitution.
(21:34):
But how about, well, look at our dollar bills, look
at our money, and God we trust. You know when
that came into being nineteen fifty seven in the middle
of the Cold War, because that communists were atheists and
we were God fearing look at indivisible under God in
the Pledge of Allegiance.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
The court held that up as an exception to the
rule of law.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
So we are, according to the current administration, the way
we've been taught has been woke. And the President has
said and has argued that and has by the way
redone history in terms of monuments all over the country
(22:21):
that we're we have to exclude negativity. We have to
exclude the issue of slavery or the way we treated
the Indians. And so now how about the So here's
the bottom line. The right, and we're talking about the
far right far left for the most part. In this case,
I've gotta put the administration as far right, and that
(22:43):
is that this there's no negativity in this country, and
any kind of negativity. You bring up slavery, you bring
up the internment camps during World War Two with the
Japanese Americans, of which there was that one incident of
espionage or a taigh American move Among those one hundred
and twenty thousand Japanese Americans that were intered, that were
(23:05):
put in the internment camps, that is all left out.
So America excludes all that. Now, for the left, that's
the definition of America. Look at how horrible we have
been and looking at America not in its positive view,
but defining it with many more of its negative views
(23:26):
and way too much. That, unfortunately, is the way history
is being taught. Social studies have decreased. Books well, they've
stopped being written in a single volume. You can't do
it anymore because it's way too complicated a question.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
So what is America about? Is America about freedom? Opportunity? Yeah?
It is for some people. Is it about the inability
to have opportunity? Yeah? It is for some people. It's
complicated questions.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
And that's one of the things I like, is, you know,
we cannot be that simplistic. Is America the greatest country
in the world? Yeah, for most of us, certainly is
as far as I'm concerned. But then again, look at
the opportunity I've had. I'm a white guy with a
good job and I have an education. Let's talk to
someone in Appalachia. Who is sitting on a cabin that's
(24:29):
up on stilts and eating sides of bacon and that's
their money is America and they're two hundred miles from
the nearest clinic. Ask them how great America is. It's
a much more complicated question than we ever thought. So
when you hear this simplistic stuff, you know, please think again.
(24:51):
Life is a lot more complicated. Okay, talking about complications,
I want to come back and talk about what's happening
with the Iran War and a topic that is is
sort of being ignored, and that is the country of Oman,
which is right across the Strait of Hormuz. On one
side is Ran, on the other side is Oman. That's
(25:15):
a big deal and I'll share that with you when
we come back. This is KFI AM six point forty.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
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