1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:02,240 Speaker 1: Hey, Mike, the King's protest work. 2 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 2: We still don't have a king. 3 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: I know, it's fascinating. 4 00:00:06,280 --> 00:00:10,440 Speaker 3: This is why I'm pointing out you how successful they were. 5 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 3: I mean, you had roads blocked, you had dispersal orders 6 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 3: that got ignored. The popo declared, the Denver Police Department 7 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:25,479 Speaker 3: declared an unlawful assembly. They deployed smoke canisters. Somebody threw 8 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,840 Speaker 3: the canister back at the cops. They fired pepper balls. 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 3: Nine people get arrested lunch charge of throwing an object 10 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 3: at the popo. There's a second degree assault charge, destruction 11 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:39,240 Speaker 3: of public property and carrying an unlawful weapon. Now that's 12 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 3: just at the No Kings rally. Downtown. Hey, Downtown Denver 13 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,239 Speaker 3: Chamber of Commerce, Hey, Downtown Denver Development Authority, how are 14 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 3: things going downtown? Because while all that's going on, you've 15 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:52,440 Speaker 3: got a huh, a murder on seventeenth Street. 16 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: Wow, what Colorado? What a place? 17 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 3: Second degree assault on cops, and all of that is 18 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 3: because they're protesting tyranny. Now I didn't see maybe you 19 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 3: saw it. I didn't see any flags here that were 20 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,680 Speaker 3: the hammer and sickle, but they were certainly in Times 21 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 3: Square and up Fifth Avenue in New York. So the 22 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 3: communists are now is it? But who organized all of this? 23 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 3: Who organized it? The flagship organizing groups include Indivisible, move On, 24 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 3: the American Civil Liberties Union, Public Citizen, and the Party 25 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 3: for Socialism and Liberation, which is exactly what it sounds like. 26 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: They're not. They're not trying to hide anything. 27 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 3: The Party for Socialism and Liberation PSL so like public 28 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 3: service something. 29 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: Party for Socialism and Liberation. 30 00:01:53,040 --> 00:01:56,480 Speaker 3: They were actually photographed the night before the rally loading 31 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 3: cars with pre printed no King signs that you know, 32 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 3: they always had the little union label across the bottom 33 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 3: that actually bore their the organization's name at the bottom. Well, 34 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 3: those signs were waiting for you before your outrage arrived. 35 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 3: I mean it was kind of like, you know, the 36 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 3: signs arrive you you get the notice on your Snapchat 37 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:19,959 Speaker 3: or something that hey, you know we're gonna pay you 38 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 3: or whatever or show up, and then you show up 39 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 3: and then you you've got to find out what am 40 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:30,520 Speaker 3: I outraged about? So signs the protester and then you 41 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:35,519 Speaker 3: get the outrage. That's that's the that's the logistics of 42 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:41,079 Speaker 3: it right there, and running through the financial architecture of 43 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 3: these groups is a name that you probably don't know. 44 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 3: What I want you to know. Neville Roy Singham, Mister Singham. 45 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 3: He's an American born Yahoo. He's a former tech mocal. 46 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 3: He sold his company for I think almost eight hundred 47 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 3: million dollars. He currently resides in Shanghai. Congressional investigators have 48 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:10,079 Speaker 3: documented more than two hundred and seventy eight million dollars 49 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 3: funneled through laundered through his network of nonprofits and shell 50 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 3: companies to all these activist groups. Now I've heard the 51 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:23,720 Speaker 3: figure three billion dollars, but I'm not going to use 52 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 3: that billion. That that number. The number I think is 53 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 3: the more accurate number is seven hundred and eighty five 54 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 3: million dollars. So you're getting, you know, three quarters of 55 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 3: a billion dollars. So maybe somebody just forgot to put 56 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 3: the they put the uh, they dropped off the slash 57 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 3: in the four and thought three fours was three billion. 58 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 3: Any except seven eighty five million dollars, And that's actually 59 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 3: been documented by congressional investigators, and those show organizations and 60 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 3: nonprofits that he's laundering the money through includes some of 61 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 3: the organizations coordinating the events from Saturday. The New York 62 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 3: Times because I always like to go to those right 63 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 3: wing nut jobs. In New York Times, they are reporting 64 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 3: The New York Times is reporting that mister Singham works 65 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:20,280 Speaker 3: closely with the Chinese government's propaganda apparatus and uses a 66 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 3: tangle of nonprofit entities to finance it. So there have 67 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 3: been multiple congressional committees, the House Ways and Means Committee, 68 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 3: Senate Judiciary, House Oversight. They're all currently investigating whether he 69 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:36,640 Speaker 3: should be registered as a foreign agent under the Foreign 70 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 3: Agent Registration Act, which is a good question to ask 71 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:46,080 Speaker 3: because in Trump's first term, his campaign manager actually went 72 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 3: to jail for failure to register under the Foreign Agent 73 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 3: Registration Act. 74 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: Far h. 75 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 3: So I think there's a question pretty simple worth asking. 76 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 3: You marched, you marched against Kings, you were I've told 77 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 3: this about democracy, which I'm using that word particularly because 78 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 3: that's what they're told about, that they're fighting for democracy, 79 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 3: which is kind of truthful because what they're really looking 80 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 3: for is anarchy, and democracy leads to anarchy. So now 81 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:20,919 Speaker 3: you know or did you know, that one of the 82 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 3: people helping fund the infrastructure of your No Kings march 83 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 3: in Denver, Los Angeles, New York, Portland, wherever you might be, 84 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 3: he lives in Shanghai, and he keeps company with the 85 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 3: Chinese Communist Party that likes to like you know, they 86 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:42,760 Speaker 3: did to. They're not kings. No Ji jin Ping is 87 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 3: not a king. He perceives himself as an emperor. And 88 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 3: of course, you know, they commit all sorts of human 89 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 3: rights violations, you know, against the wiggers, they do organ 90 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 3: harvesting'll just some innocent people. Hey, we need a liver, 91 00:05:57,320 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 3: so they just you know, throw you in the back 92 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 3: of a van, cut your open, cut your out, put 93 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 3: it in a nice chest up, yelp inside the road, 94 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 3: and keep on moving. Hey, you know what, thank you 95 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 3: goodding me way to go with no kings. I'm going 96 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,880 Speaker 3: to go out on the land after the break. And 97 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:18,680 Speaker 3: I'm going to guess that was not on the sign. 98 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 3: Everything I've just told you was not on the sign 99 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:23,200 Speaker 3: they handed you at the No King's rally. What do 100 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 3: you think, Hey, Mike, there was over seventy seven million 101 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 3: of us turned out and voted for No Queen's Day. 102 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:37,159 Speaker 3: That's how we didn't get Kamala, you know, just saying 103 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:45,360 Speaker 3: just saying bye bye? Did these say bye bye? Hurry back, 104 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 3: hurry back. 105 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: So, in addition to everything else, I described going downtown. 106 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: We had this. 107 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,400 Speaker 4: Breaking news first tonight at night and deadly shooting happening 108 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 4: less than a mile away from the Denver Capitol at 109 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 4: seventeenth in Glen Arm Place. Denver police say there is 110 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 4: one possible suspect attained right now or Nate Belt is 111 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:06,280 Speaker 4: currently on scene, he joins us. 112 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: Now is what we know right now? 113 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 5: Nate, Yeah, Kim, We're on seventeenth right now, Glen Arm 114 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 5: just behind me. I want to step to the side 115 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 5: to give. 116 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: You a look. 117 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 5: This is still a very active scene. Now. Mind you, 118 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 5: this intersection is closed, so nobody is able to drive 119 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 5: through here at the moment. But you can see over 120 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 5: on the opposite side of the intersection from where we're standing, 121 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 5: there is a pile of clothes over there. There's several 122 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 5: evidence markers on the ground. That is where we've seen 123 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 5: most of these investigators out throughout the evening as we've 124 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:37,680 Speaker 5: been here. 125 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 2: Now, there's a handful of DPD vehicles here. 126 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:44,480 Speaker 5: We have some investigators standing around there taking photos. 127 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 2: Not long ago. 128 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 5: Now, what we know right now from DPD is that 129 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 5: there was a shooting here at seventeenth and Glen Arm. 130 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:56,560 Speaker 5: One person was taken to the hospital and they were 131 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 5: pronounced dead there. Now, I did talk to somebody who 132 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 5: lives right in the apartments here at the corner of 133 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 5: the street. He told me that he did see EMTs 134 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 5: out here working to try and revive somebody that was 135 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 5: on the street here before they were taken to the hospital. 136 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 5: He said somebody was with them. 137 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 2: Just screaming very loudly. 138 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 5: Just a sounded like an absolutely horrific scene here at 139 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 5: the corner. Now, I want to give you an idea 140 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 5: of exactly where we're at to We're only a block 141 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 5: off of sixteenth Street. It is a busy a day downtown. 142 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 5: We had the No Kings protests, we had the Denver 143 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 5: Summit FC soccer game, and actually right here on Glen 144 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:37,439 Speaker 5: arm is the Paramount Theater where there was an event 145 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 5: at seven o'clock tonight. Presumably that may still be going 146 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 5: on people inside the theater. So we want to just 147 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 5: caution you, of course, if you are downtown, do not 148 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 5: come down seventeenth Street here. You're not going to be 149 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 5: able to make it. It appears that they will still 150 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 5: be out here for quite some time, continuing on that investigation. 151 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:58,600 Speaker 3: For now, there we go downtown. Denver got everything going 152 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 3: on in Glee the old King's Round. Now, the First 153 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 3: Amendment is real, don't get me wrong. The right to protest, 154 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 3: it is real. But the right to protest does not 155 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:13,240 Speaker 3: include throwing smoke canisers at the Denver Popo. It does 156 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 3: not include cement blocks at federal agents in Los Angeles, 157 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 3: and it does not include a second degree assault charge. 158 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 3: And your movement doesn't get to call itself nonviolent when 159 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 3: violence breaks out in little downtown Denver or Los Angeles 160 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 3: or Portland or Chicago or New York and he rails 161 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 3: all on the same afternoon. And you don't get to 162 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 3: claim moral authority over a king while your people are 163 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 3: assaulting the cops. Where did all this come from? The 164 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,240 Speaker 3: outrage is why don't they just call it what it 165 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 3: really is? I no Trump rally. They don't like Donald Trump. 166 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:52,720 Speaker 3: There are a lot of things that do not like 167 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:57,040 Speaker 3: about Donald Trump. Yes, we can make a list of 168 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 3: things that we don't like about Donald Trump. We can 169 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 3: make the loss of a things that we do like 170 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 3: about Donald Trump. And we could separate Donald Trump the 171 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 3: person from Donald Trump the policies. We could do all 172 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:08,559 Speaker 3: sorts of things, We could make all sorts of inn 173 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 3: diagrams about like not like, policies, personality, everything about Donald Trump. 174 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 3: I don't think anywhere in that is the word king. 175 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:23,600 Speaker 3: Now is he taking executive authority to new levels? 176 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: Yes? 177 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:28,000 Speaker 3: Is it justified? I'm not going to say it's justified 178 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 3: or unjustified, but I will tell you the reality of 179 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 3: what it is. Politics. Power abhors a vacuum. So in 180 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 3: case you know I finally understood, I finally understand why 181 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 3: it is that Congress is out for two weeks. Sunday 182 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 3: yesterday was Palm Sunday, so they had to get out 183 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 3: of town, you know, Thursday night in order to get 184 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 3: back home so they can go with their family to 185 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:04,560 Speaker 3: Palm Sunday services. Easter's not until this coming Sunday, so 186 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 3: they'll need a week. You know, they got Palm Sunday, 187 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 3: then you got a week to get ready, pass over 188 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 3: everything going on getting ready for Easter. 189 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: And then after Easter, you know, the church. 190 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 3: Services, the Sunrise services, everything, and then you got to 191 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:24,079 Speaker 3: go home with the kids and the rug rats and 192 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 3: hunt Easter eggs and do all of that, have the 193 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 3: family meal and everything, and then you're exhausted. You need 194 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 3: a week off before you go back to work, so 195 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 3: they're not doing anything, and the shut down stays shut down. 196 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:39,920 Speaker 3: So Trump pulls a rabbit out of his pocket and says, well, 197 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:42,080 Speaker 3: I think I'll just pay TSA anyway. We'll just you know, 198 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:44,160 Speaker 3: we'll play a shellow game there. We'll just move some 199 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 3: money around. And that may or may not be legal. 200 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 3: Who's gonna challenge it? Congress, what's Conger's gonna do? Go 201 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 3: fileow an injunction. I'm sure they get Judge Boseberg there 202 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 3: and in the DC District Court to enjoin him from 203 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 3: paying TSA workers. They won't do that because then that 204 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 3: calls out who's actually keeping TSA workers from getting paid? 205 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 3: So Trump calls their bluff says, I'll do it. This 206 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 3: is where power abhors a vacuum, because the way that 207 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 3: would play out would be simply, oh, if we try 208 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:22,319 Speaker 3: to stop him, we're trying to stop him from paying 209 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 3: the people that aren't getting paid because we're not doing 210 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 3: our job. That's the vacuum, and that's what gets filled. 211 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:30,520 Speaker 3: Pretty simple, isn't it now? 212 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:31,079 Speaker 1: Hang tight? 213 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:36,959 Speaker 3: Because coming up next, Napkins, You heard me right, Napkins. 214 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 6: Next, I had some friends that had Phantom of the 215 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:47,720 Speaker 6: Opera tickets in downtown Denver and found out that their 216 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 6: No King's protest was in the same area, and they 217 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 6: just decided not to go porforited whatever money they paid 218 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,200 Speaker 6: for the tickets and just said it. 219 00:12:58,160 --> 00:12:58,839 Speaker 1: Wasn't worth it. 220 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 3: Oh, because your friends are four Kings, That's why they 221 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 3: did it instead of going down there and protesting with 222 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 3: the No Kings. Yeah, I know what you're trying to 223 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:11,960 Speaker 3: suddenly tell me is that, yeah, your friends are four Kings. 224 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:14,680 Speaker 3: But let me tell you what the Colorado General Assembly, 225 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,719 Speaker 3: what I refer to as the Colorado Pollop Bureau, what 226 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 3: they've been working on while you've been trying to afford groceries. 227 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 3: While we're sitting here watching our rent go up, the 228 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 3: insurance premium spike, the grocery bills eat through what's left 229 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 3: of our paychecks, while small business owners in this state 230 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 3: are operating on margins so thin that one bad week 231 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:40,720 Speaker 3: could end a decade of your business. To y'all, who's 232 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:43,720 Speaker 3: at the Polop Bureau decided that the most pressing crisis 233 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:47,319 Speaker 3: facing the state of Colorado is whether or not your 234 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 3: local taco bell put a napkin in your bag without 235 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 3: asking you first, not making it up Senate Bill twenty 236 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:58,200 Speaker 3: six one four six, introduced March twenty four, sponsored by 237 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,920 Speaker 3: Democrat y'all who Senator Releasing Cutter of Jefferson County and 238 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 3: Democrat Rep. Mag Frolick of Englewood. It's called the here's 239 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 3: the title, restrict single use food servicewear distribution. 240 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:14,240 Speaker 1: I will just call it the napkin band. 241 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:17,559 Speaker 3: And before you laugh it off as some sort of 242 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 3: a harmless eco theater from a bunch of yahoos have 243 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 3: too much time and not enough economic sense, listen carefully 244 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 3: because the details of this bill is where the real 245 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:33,240 Speaker 3: damage lives. Here's the mechanism. Starting this coming January. First, 246 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 3: every retail food establishment and every third party food delivery 247 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 3: service in this state. Every restaurant, every food truck, every 248 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 3: door dash transaction, every uber, each order is prohibited from 249 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 3: giving you a single use food serviceware unless use specifically 250 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 3: asked for it or verbally confirm you want it after 251 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:02,280 Speaker 3: it was offered. Now, what counts as single use food 252 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:10,720 Speaker 3: service wear? Well? The bill provides a list utensils, napkins, straws, stirs, lids, cups, leaves, 253 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 3: cocktail sticks, chopsticks, trays, and I want you to hear 254 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 3: this something called a spill plug or a splash stick, 255 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 3: and they define it an actual statutory language in the 256 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 3: coladiy Ice Statute as a permanent matter of law as 257 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 3: a quote piece of plastic that is inserted into a 258 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 3: beverage lid to prevent spills. So the Yahoo's working for 259 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 3: us to find a splash stick in law. 260 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 2: For those that might not just hearing splashtick. That's the 261 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 2: little green thing that they put in the Starbucks cups 262 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:51,760 Speaker 2: so it doesn't does pour. 263 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:53,600 Speaker 1: Out, thank you, because I had no clue what it was. 264 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 2: That's what I believe they're describing. 265 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 1: It didn't stop their dragon. 266 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 3: It also covers single use condiments, which might be a 267 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 3: packet of ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, creamer, butter, soy sauce, hot sauce, 268 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 3: sauce of syrup, jam, jelly, sugar, salt, pepper, sweetener, chili pepper. 269 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: Sugar, salt, pepper. 270 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 2: Not by fire sauce. 271 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 3: You're a fire sauce. You're a hotago bell fire sauce. 272 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 3: They've decided that you have to ask for it. 273 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 1: Dragon. 274 00:16:20,760 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 3: Now let's build the case here the way you might 275 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 3: build it for I don't know, maybe a jury because 276 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 3: that's exactly what this deserve. Deserves a trial like criminal 277 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 3: truckle because in a free market, the relationship between a 278 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 3: business and a customer that's governed by mutual consent and 279 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:44,040 Speaker 3: mutual benefit. Because the business decides what is going to provide, 280 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,120 Speaker 3: the customer decides whether or not you want to buy it. 281 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 3: If the business gives you a napkin you don't need, well, 282 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 3: the market will eventually correct that because businesses that waste 283 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 3: money on an unnecessary item don't survive. That's again, not ideology, 284 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 3: that's not politics, that simple math. Now, the Colorado restaurant 285 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 3: industry operates on a net profit margin of about three 286 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 3: to five percent. 287 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: In a good year. A good year. 288 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:12,880 Speaker 3: That means for every dollar that comes through the door, 289 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:17,879 Speaker 3: the owner keeps somewhere between three and five cents after 290 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 3: paying for food, labor, rent, insurance, utilities, and all of 291 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:27,240 Speaker 3: the Mountain a regulatory compliance that Colorado already imposes on business. Now, 292 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 3: they're not going to throw napping music customers out of 293 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 3: just reckless extravagance. They're making a rational customer service decision 294 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:40,919 Speaker 3: about what their customers need and expect. Well, this stupid 295 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:46,159 Speaker 3: Senate bill, he doesn't trust that calculation. It substitutes the 296 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 3: judgment of Senators Cutter and Representative Frolic for the judgment 297 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 3: of every restaurant owner in this state. It says you 298 00:17:56,359 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 3: have been making these decisions wrong. So now the government, 299 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:05,080 Speaker 3: the pollup Burea, will make the decision for you. And 300 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 3: here's what that's going to cost. Every restaurant that takes 301 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:15,520 Speaker 3: orders online by phone through a delivery app now has 302 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,919 Speaker 3: to redesign the ordering process so it will include a 303 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:25,640 Speaker 3: serviceware confirmation step. Every third party platform like door dash 304 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 3: or Uber eats, Rubot, they'll have to reprogram their entire 305 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:36,480 Speaker 3: ordering interface so that the default is no utensils, no condiments, 306 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:41,400 Speaker 3: so that the customer's preferences are clearly communicated to the restaurant. 307 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 3: The bill is explicit about this. If door dash fails 308 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 3: to communicate what the customer wants, both DoorDash and the 309 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 3: restaurant will be liable for a violation of this bill. Now, 310 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:59,159 Speaker 3: once you think about put this, oh my gosh, I 311 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 3: shouldn't even laugh. Once you think about what this means operationally, 312 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 3: a restaurant packs in order the DoorDash platform had a glitch, 313 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 3: or maybe the customer's preference didn't transmit correctly, or maybe 314 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 3: a new employee you just hired didn't see the flag 315 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:21,439 Speaker 3: on the ticket. One unwanted napiun goes into the bag 316 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 3: under this legislation, that's a potential enforcement action against both 317 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:34,399 Speaker 3: the restaurant and the delivery service. And then the bill 318 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:39,080 Speaker 3: adds a prohibition that you haven't even heard me discuss yet. 319 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 3: A restaurant cannot create nor can a restaurant provide a 320 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:49,360 Speaker 3: quote bundled package you know that might contain more than 321 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:53,120 Speaker 3: one type of service where item. That means, even if 322 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 3: you ask for utensils, a restaurant may not legally hand 323 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 3: you a fort and a nap wrap together because that's 324 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:05,960 Speaker 3: a bundle and it contains two types of service ware. 325 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:12,879 Speaker 3: Somebody you has to confirm each item individually or the 326 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 3: restaurant potentially faces exposure. So they defined a splash stick 327 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 3: and they banned the fork and napkin combo. This is 328 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 3: your Colorado Pullet Bureau at work, while you're struggling to 329 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 3: make ends meet, while you're worried about rent, paychecks, job security, 330 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:35,200 Speaker 3: everything else. This is what these a holes are doing 331 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:38,760 Speaker 3: at it tull Fax Broadway. Now, let's talk about what 332 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 3: happens if you violate this law if it becomes law. 333 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 3: Because this is where Senator Cutter and Representative Frolics show 334 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 3: their hand. Senate Bill one forty six does not create 335 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:58,119 Speaker 3: its own enforcement mechanism. It plugs into the existing enforcement 336 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 3: structure of the Plastic Pollution Reduction Act. That's the bill, 337 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:10,280 Speaker 3: that's the law. That's the structure that authorizes local governments 338 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 3: to impose civil penalties of up to five hundred dollars 339 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:18,160 Speaker 3: for a second violation and up to one thousand bucks 340 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 3: for a third and subsequent violations. Now, let's think about 341 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 3: for a restaurant operating on those three to five percent margins, 342 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 3: one thousand dollars fine becomes more than an inconvenience. It 343 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 3: could be a week's profit vanished. And every violation is 344 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:47,760 Speaker 3: a separate event, a separate violation. Every unrequested napkin that 345 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:52,119 Speaker 3: gets put in your bag of Taco Bell tacos is 346 00:21:52,280 --> 00:22:00,520 Speaker 3: theoretically a separate act subject to enforcement. Now every county 347 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:04,879 Speaker 3: in Colorado send inspectors to check your takeout bags? Probably not, 348 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:09,879 Speaker 3: But that's not the point. The point is that this 349 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:17,920 Speaker 3: enforcement authority exists. The point is that a politically motivated 350 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:24,359 Speaker 3: local official, or let's say this might be you, a 351 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:29,879 Speaker 3: litigious customer who decides to file a consumer complaint. You 352 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:34,880 Speaker 3: now have a legal instrument to use against a legitimate 353 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:39,639 Speaker 3: business owner. The point is that the law creates a 354 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,280 Speaker 3: compliance burden at the same time that it creates a 355 00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:48,400 Speaker 3: legal exposure that every single food service business in Colorado 356 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 3: will now have to manage. They'll have to consult a 357 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:56,400 Speaker 3: lawyer to understand, and then they'll have to train all 358 00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 3: of their employees to avoid this potential lawab ability. Now, 359 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:05,000 Speaker 3: Senator Cutter and represent a foliage. They don't have to 360 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,040 Speaker 3: pay that legal bill. Well, I guess they will if 361 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,320 Speaker 3: they end up going to a business, but maybe they 362 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:11,320 Speaker 3: card out an exception. 363 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:11,919 Speaker 1: I don't know. 364 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 3: The small business owner, however, does pay that legal bill. 365 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 1: But what about the environmental argument? 366 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 3: Because the sponsors try to make an environmental case, So 367 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 3: let's actually look at it. They're required to. It's in 368 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 3: the bill's findings. The General Assembly declares that single use 369 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:40,560 Speaker 3: plastic items are commonly placed in recycling and compost streams, 370 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:45,800 Speaker 3: becoming contaminants and creating financial hardship for Colorado recycling and 371 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 3: composting businesses. Okay, let's think about that on the merits, 372 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:58,679 Speaker 3: because I think it deserves a serious answer, something that 373 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:02,120 Speaker 3: these yahoo's at the POLYP Bureau are unwilling. 374 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 1: To engage in. 375 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:09,480 Speaker 3: I calculate the Colorado produces approximately thirteen million tons of 376 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 3: solid waste annually. Single use food service ware, think napkins, 377 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:22,840 Speaker 3: plastic forts, dragons, fire sauce packets. That the packet, the 378 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:28,280 Speaker 3: plastics that actually dominate landfill volume and water waterway contamination. 379 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:35,160 Speaker 3: That's actually industrial packaging, agricultural film, large format consumer plastics, 380 00:24:36,359 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 3: not dragons, fire sauce packet, not the sugar packet from 381 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 3: your coffee order. But more importantly, the legislature's own exception, 382 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 3: the laws own exception. Well, I should say the bill 383 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 3: it's not a law yet. The bill's own exceptions tell 384 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 3: you everything you need to know about how seriously these 385 00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 3: sponsors take their enronmental rationale. Oh you know, here's again 386 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:09,800 Speaker 3: the church aliment activists. Here's here's our rationale. Now, remember 387 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 3: the rationale is, we've got to stop all of this waste. 388 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:19,439 Speaker 3: Airport restaurants think d I A. But also think about Centennial, 389 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 3: think about Colorado Springs. 390 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 1: Think about Aspen. Oh, the weighty twenty landing in Aspen. 391 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 3: They're exempt, a hotel meal exempt, a drive through spill 392 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 3: prevention item, exempt, social service programs exempt. So the environmental 393 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:45,199 Speaker 3: crisis that's urgent enough to regulate every Chipotle, every Starbucks, 394 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,239 Speaker 3: every Taco Bell, every Macdonnel's, every door dash delivery, every 395 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:51,920 Speaker 3: Uber delivery everywhere in the state, But it's not urgent 396 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:56,000 Speaker 3: enough to apply to the Denver International Airport or to 397 00:25:56,119 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 3: maybe your takeout hotel breakfast. The environmental principle completely evaporates 398 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:07,200 Speaker 3: the moment it becomes politically inconvenient. What this bill will 399 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 3: accomplish environmentally, at least if I would say approximately nothing measurable. 400 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 3: What it will accomplish economically is real. It's immediate, and 401 00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 3: it's entirely borne by small business owners and their customers. 402 00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:34,200 Speaker 3: This is the test that I would apply to any legislation, 403 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,760 Speaker 3: and I want you to apply it to Does this 404 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:43,960 Speaker 3: bill Does it address a problem that actual call reddings 405 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 3: are actually experiencing? Is this something you're worried about? Is 406 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,400 Speaker 3: this something that as you've you know, you're you're you're 407 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:56,120 Speaker 3: the soccer mom, You're the dad rushing home from work. 408 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,320 Speaker 3: Mom's been busy, the house is a mess. You know, 409 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 3: you've got company whatever? Can you stop at the KFC? 410 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 3: Can you stop at the Panda Express? Can you stop 411 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:10,639 Speaker 3: somewhere and grab something? Well? I don't know, honey. Do 412 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 3: we have any paper towels at home? Do we have 413 00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:16,560 Speaker 3: any napkins at home? What am I going to do? 414 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,800 Speaker 3: I'd challenge you to do this. Go talk to the 415 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:25,600 Speaker 3: restaurant owner in your neighborhood, not the one in some 416 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 3: legislator's district, the one in your neighborhood, and ask them, Hey, 417 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,679 Speaker 3: trying to run a small business in Colorado a restaurant? 418 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 3: What keeps you up at night? Is it the unsolicited 419 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:45,359 Speaker 3: packet of hot sauce? Is it the unsolicited packet of 420 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:46,000 Speaker 3: ketchup that. 421 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:46,439 Speaker 1: You threw in? 422 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:51,200 Speaker 3: Is it how many napkins your employee counts out and 423 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 3: now can't even count out unless the customer asks for it? 424 00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,439 Speaker 3: Is it whether or not the customer asks, may I 425 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 3: have a nap or may I have some napkins? 426 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 1: What does that mean? 427 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 3: I've got to decide? The customer asked for napkins plural? 428 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 3: Is that one, two, four, or five handful? Who knows? 429 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,640 Speaker 3: Or is it the labor costs that had been climbing 430 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 3: in this state every year for more than a decade. 431 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:28,000 Speaker 3: Is it maybe the liability insurance premiums. Is it the 432 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:32,439 Speaker 3: commercial lease space that you cannot afford to renew? Is 433 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 3: it the customer who cannot afford to eat out as 434 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 3: often because their own costs have gone up? Asked the 435 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,800 Speaker 3: family that maybe orders door Dash or uber eats twice 436 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 3: a week because both parents are working, nobody has time 437 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 3: to cook. Are they laying there in bed at night 438 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 3: worried about the fork They didn't ask for honey, the 439 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 3: fried chicken, the pand Express showed up, We didn't ask 440 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 3: for the chopped sticks, We didn't ask for the hot sauce, 441 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,520 Speaker 3: and it was in there, we're destroying the planet. Should 442 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 3: we wake the kids and tell them? 443 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 1: Should we? 444 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 3: Or are they worrying about the delivery fee, the service fee, 445 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 3: the tip on all of that and whether they can 446 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 3: actually afford to keep doing this. I must have seen 447 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,360 Speaker 3: a dozen stories on Facebook and ex over the weekend 448 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 3: where people were showing there the receipts and asking what's 449 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,719 Speaker 3: wrong with this receipt? And at first I couldn't fig 450 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 3: out what they were talking about because I was just 451 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:41,960 Speaker 3: looking at the total of the subtotal, and then the 452 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 3: tax and the service fees, and then the recommended tip. 453 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 1: Well I suddenly discovered. 454 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 3: Was, oh, all these people are posting receipts where the 455 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 3: subtotal doesn't add up, and it's actually. 456 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 1: More than if you add the individual items. 457 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 3: So if he ordered, you know, a couple of steaks 458 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 3: and a a couple of drinks and a couple of 459 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:03,360 Speaker 3: desserts and a couple of salads, that might add up 460 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 3: let's just say to seventy five ninety nine, but the 461 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 3: subtotal showed ninety nine ninety nine, literally in some cases 462 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 3: twenty dollars more than what they had it up to. Well, 463 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 3: Senate Bill twenty six one forty six solves a problem 464 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,880 Speaker 3: that I don't think one single Colorado voter has ever 465 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,640 Speaker 3: put on their priority list, not one. It was invented 466 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 3: in a committee room by legislators who lived experiences apparently 467 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 3: so disconnected from the operational reality of running a restaurant 468 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,000 Speaker 3: or raising a family, or trying to make a business 469 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,880 Speaker 3: work in this state that they genuinely believe that condiments 470 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 3: and napkins and chopsticks and hot sauce that's the problem. 471 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 3: Senator Lisa Cutter, State Rep. Meg Frolage. These are the 472 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 3: people who decided this was the fight worth having. Meanwhile, 473 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:03,360 Speaker 3: we face a genuine budget shortfall, small businesses close at 474 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,080 Speaker 3: rates that I got to be a five alarm emergency, 475 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,720 Speaker 3: at least a political emergency in this state. This is 476 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,080 Speaker 3: what they chose to spend their legislative capital on. The 477 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:15,240 Speaker 3: bill has been assigned to the Senate Health and Human 478 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:20,000 Speaker 3: Services Committee. Interestingly, it wasn't assigned to the Environmental Committee. 479 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,680 Speaker 3: That I'll tell you something about the procedural maneuvering involved 480 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 3: in getting it to award a favorable hearing. That hearing 481 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:32,480 Speaker 3: a schedule for April sixteen. If it passes committee goes 482 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 3: to worth the full Senate. I want to be precise 483 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,680 Speaker 3: about the bottom line here. This bill is not about 484 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 3: the environment. If it was about the environment, those exemptions 485 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 3: I just listed off wouldn't exist, and the targets instead 486 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:52,840 Speaker 3: would be the industrial plastics that actually fill the landfills, 487 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 3: not the fork of the napkin that came with your burrito. 488 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:03,080 Speaker 3: This bill is not about consumer frustration. If it were about, say, consumers, 489 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,680 Speaker 3: it would let the marketplace handle that, because restaurants that 490 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 3: waste money on materials that the customers don't want already 491 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:15,600 Speaker 3: have a financial incisive to stop that. This bill is 492 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 3: about the pullop Bureau's institutional belief that they know better 493 00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 3: than you, better than the business owner, better than the 494 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:29,600 Speaker 3: free market how a food transaction should unfold. It is 495 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:34,040 Speaker 3: the regulatory impulse in its purest, most naked form. Find 496 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 3: a behavior, declare it's the problem, Criminalize the wrong answer, 497 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,479 Speaker 3: and then build an enforcement and regulatory apparatus to punish 498 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 3: the people. 499 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: That get it wrong. 500 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 3: A splash stick to find in legislative law, regulated by 501 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 3: the state, enforced by your county government government. Senator Cutter 502 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 3: representing froliage with respect, you've lost the argument Colorada deserves 503 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,720 Speaker 3: better than you, and that people walking into a taco 504 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 3: bell just trying to feed their family deserve a legislator 505 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:10,400 Speaker 3: apollit bureau that remembers that you two yahoos actually exist.