1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,480 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,719 I Daily show prep with all of the links, become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to dpeakclendarshow dot com, make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,920 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:28,320 much for your support. 10 00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:31,199 Speaker 2: So there's a lot of issues that we're facing right 11 00:00:31,239 --> 00:00:34,119 now as a state, as a country. Whole bunch of 12 00:00:34,119 --> 00:00:37,079 conversations going on. I could spend the next two hours 13 00:00:37,159 --> 00:00:40,079 rattling them all off. Let's just look here at North Carolina. 14 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,920 We have a storm in Hurricane Holena that caused an 15 00:00:43,039 --> 00:00:46,799 estimated sixty billion dollars worth of damage to the western 16 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:48,759 half of the state. I would say that's a pretty 17 00:00:48,799 --> 00:00:52,280 big issue. You've got a federal government that is looking 18 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,000 at repealing back some potential amounts that they give to 19 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,000 states in regards to Medicaid expansion, which could completely bust 20 00:01:00,119 --> 00:01:03,280 to North Carolina's budget as they expanded that just back 21 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:06,200 a couple of years ago. That's a major topic we're 22 00:01:06,239 --> 00:01:09,000 in the middle of budget conversations. We've got a brand 23 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:12,680 new governor and the former Attorney general now Governor, Josh Stein. 24 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,200 Lots of things going on in the state, and you've 25 00:01:16,239 --> 00:01:18,640 heard about a lot of those topics. We talk about 26 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:20,719 him in the morning on the Carolina Journal News Hour, 27 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:22,799 which you can hear from five to six am. If 28 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:24,560 that's too early, I get it, you can check out 29 00:01:24,599 --> 00:01:27,400 the podcast version listen throughout the day. We track the 30 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:31,439 General Assembly very closely. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I present 31 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:34,959 to you this afternoon House Bill four point twenty three, 32 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,799 known as the Skip the Stuff Act. It is being 33 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:44,400 introduced by Representative Julie von Heffen out of Wait County, 34 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,560 Representative deb Butler out of New Hanover County, Representative James 35 00:01:49,599 --> 00:01:53,760 Robertson out of Wait County, and finally Representative Pricey Harrison 36 00:01:53,799 --> 00:01:57,480 out of Guildford County. All four Democrats introducing this bill, 37 00:01:58,079 --> 00:02:00,640 and it's got a pretty interesting name, Skip the Stuff Acts. 38 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:03,840 Are we like cutting down on something? Are we saving 39 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:05,159 some government somewhere? 40 00:02:05,239 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 3: Right? 41 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:09,159 Speaker 2: Are we skipping stuff within government? Maybe saving more money 42 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:11,159 as taxpayers? No, not at all. 43 00:02:11,479 --> 00:02:13,719 Speaker 3: I would like to read for you part of the bill. 44 00:02:14,039 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 2: A Bill to be entitled an Act to Reduce Single 45 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:24,879 Use food Wear in takeout and Delivery of Prepared Meals. Yes, 46 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:29,400 you heard me correctly, Democrats in the North Carolina General Assembly. 47 00:02:29,479 --> 00:02:31,759 As you are dealing with all of the issues of 48 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,199 the day, all of the issues of your life, trying 49 00:02:34,199 --> 00:02:38,000 to make it in middle class America, Democrats in Raleigh 50 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:43,879 are introducing legislation to reduce single use food wear aka 51 00:02:44,039 --> 00:02:49,120 plastic spoons, forks, knives, and the likes in takeout and 52 00:02:49,199 --> 00:02:54,800 delivery prepared meals. That is the pressing, pressing issue for 53 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:59,400 North Carolina Democrats in our great state capital of Raleigh. 54 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:02,719 The bill is about four pages long and it lists 55 00:03:02,719 --> 00:03:05,240 out a whole bunch of issues that are taking place. 56 00:03:05,599 --> 00:03:08,879 For example, it says, whereas this is in the bill, 57 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:13,199 whereas four million trees are cut down each year in 58 00:03:13,319 --> 00:03:18,280 order to make chopsticks in China, Eliminating forests are natural 59 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:22,800 carbon sink and providers of habitats and clean air. Makes 60 00:03:22,879 --> 00:03:27,879 no sense during a climate crisis. That's a line fourteen 61 00:03:28,039 --> 00:03:33,599 through sixteen in the legislation. Whereas the manufacturing of napkins 62 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:36,879 require a significant amount of water. I did not know 63 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,400 this for instance, if fifty percent of the United States 64 00:03:40,439 --> 00:03:44,520 population used three paper napkins per day, that would total 65 00:03:44,599 --> 00:03:48,240 four hundred and fifty million napkins for one day, which 66 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,360 would require thirty one and a half million gallons of 67 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:56,960 water to manufacture. Whereas many single use food wear accessories 68 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,919 are made from plastic. As much as twenty three million 69 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,520 metric tons of plastic waste enter the ocean each year, 70 00:04:04,879 --> 00:04:08,759 most of it generated in the United States. So this 71 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:13,080 is a left wing bill to reduce the ability for 72 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,920 you to eat with a plastic fork if you order takeout. 73 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:21,000 Sounds like a very important issue. Not only is this 74 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:23,759 bill ridiculous on its face, and I gave you the 75 00:04:23,759 --> 00:04:25,879 bill numbers, you can go and read it for yourself, 76 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:28,439 House Bill four to twenty three. If you think I've 77 00:04:28,439 --> 00:04:30,879 pulled this out of the Babylon Bee or the Onion 78 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,399 or some other parody news outlet this afternoon, it's House 79 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:37,360 Billed four to twenty three. Not only does it make 80 00:04:37,399 --> 00:04:41,160 all of these ridiculous claims, but it actually wants to 81 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:48,439 hold restaurants as responsible parties if they give you these 82 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:53,920 single use items. So if you order takeout or order 83 00:04:54,079 --> 00:04:57,240 delivery from a fast from a restaurant, whether it be 84 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,279 fast food or door Dash or grub Hub, whatever might 85 00:05:00,319 --> 00:05:05,000 be well. According to this piece of legislation, a food 86 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:10,720 establishment shall not provide any single use foodwar or standard 87 00:05:10,759 --> 00:05:16,639 condiments to consumers for on premise dining, takeout and delivery orders, 88 00:05:16,759 --> 00:05:20,879 or when using third party food delivery platforms, unless the 89 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:27,759 consumer requests the use of single use foodwar or condiments. So, 90 00:05:28,199 --> 00:05:30,920 if you are now going to order or takeout from somewhere, 91 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,959 you are going to have to put in those special 92 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:36,920 delivery instructions. Oh and also I need a fork to 93 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,639 eat this steak. Oh it might be helpful to have 94 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,720 a spoon to eat this soup that I'm ordering from Panera. 95 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,439 Speaker 3: I mean you could just eat it with your hands. 96 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 2: I guess that would be probably better for the environment 97 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:54,480 than this evil single use plastic food wear. So this 98 00:05:54,639 --> 00:05:58,759 bill would require these restaurants to ask you to opt 99 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:02,120 in to receive you to pencils with your food, and 100 00:06:02,199 --> 00:06:07,439 if they don't, if they are reported, which this legislation 101 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:13,120 instructs the Department of Department of Health to spawn up 102 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,800 a portal for individuals to report restaurants that are not 103 00:06:16,959 --> 00:06:19,439 following The law reads as fire as follows. 104 00:06:19,959 --> 00:06:21,839 Speaker 3: If the Department finds. 105 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 2: That a food establishment has failed to comply with the 106 00:06:24,879 --> 00:06:28,879 requirements of this part, the Department may issue a written 107 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:32,720 notice to the food establishment in its findings and direct 108 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:37,279 the food establishment to take remedial actions to comply with 109 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:41,319 the requirement of this law. The Department shall allow the 110 00:06:41,399 --> 00:06:45,720 non compliant food establishment sixty calendar days from the receipt 111 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:50,240 of notice of non compliance to demonstrate a compliance to 112 00:06:50,399 --> 00:06:54,199 the satisfaction of the Department. If, after sixty days of 113 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:58,120 following receipt of notice of non compliance, fails to demonstrate 114 00:06:58,199 --> 00:07:01,959 compliance with the requirement of this law, the Department may 115 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:09,439 impose administrative penalties against food establishment pursuant to general statue. So, 116 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:12,319 if I'm reading this correctly, which I believe i am, 117 00:07:13,959 --> 00:07:17,560 this piece of legislation introduced by four Democrats in Raleigh 118 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,519 would require restaurants to ask you if you need silverware 119 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,360 to eat your food. If they don't ask you and 120 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:26,839 they give it to you anyway, the evil action of 121 00:07:26,959 --> 00:07:32,120 providing you with paper napkins, plastic forks, knives, and spoons, 122 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,879 depending on what you're ordering, they will be reported to 123 00:07:35,959 --> 00:07:39,680 the state government and you can guarantee that lefties across 124 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,000 this state will be ordering food just so they can 125 00:07:42,079 --> 00:07:46,199 report restaurants. It will be reported to the state. The 126 00:07:46,279 --> 00:07:49,319 restaurant or establishment will receive a notice from the state, 127 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:51,560 and if they don't do so, they will be fined 128 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:54,879 by the state government. If that is not the most 129 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:57,720 absurd thing I have ever seen, I don't know what is. 130 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,199 This is what we're acking right now in our North 131 00:08:01,199 --> 00:08:05,399 Carolina General Assembly. We've got nothing better going on in 132 00:08:05,439 --> 00:08:07,680 this state right now. We don't have a sixty billion 133 00:08:07,759 --> 00:08:10,319 dollar storm that affected the western half of the state 134 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:14,800 back in September. We don't have major discussions about choice 135 00:08:14,839 --> 00:08:19,639 in education, budget surpluses, budget shortfalls being projected in the 136 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:24,160 near future, huge time increases with state health plans is 137 00:08:24,199 --> 00:08:26,120 set to come up here in the next year or so. 138 00:08:26,879 --> 00:08:30,920 None of that is irrelevant enough. Now we need to 139 00:08:31,519 --> 00:08:36,000 report these restaurants, and then we need to find them 140 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:42,960 if they are not cooperating with this legislation. Unimaginable House 141 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,320 Bill four to twenty three has been introduced in the 142 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:50,919 North Carolina General Assembly. The Skip the Stuff Act introduced 143 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:54,840 yesterday in Raleigh. Well, keep a very close eye on 144 00:08:54,919 --> 00:08:58,440 it and pass any details along. If you think it's absurd. 145 00:08:58,480 --> 00:08:59,879 Love to hear your thoughts on it. Maybe you think 146 00:08:59,879 --> 00:09:00,679 this this is a great thing. 147 00:09:00,919 --> 00:09:03,639 Speaker 1: Here's a great idea. 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That's seven 177 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:48,039 oh four, five seven oh eleven ten. Lisa is hanging online. 178 00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,519 One Lisa, Good afternoon. You're on the Peak Counter show. 179 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 4: Go ahead, Hello Nick, nice to meet too. 180 00:10:54,039 --> 00:10:54,919 Speaker 3: Likewise, what's up. 181 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 4: As a former food server, I totally understand about to 182 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,639 go forks, and I'm okay with this bill, but not 183 00:11:03,759 --> 00:11:07,759 all of it. Quite often I'll order something at home. 184 00:11:08,279 --> 00:11:11,559 I prefer a metal fork, and therefore I end up 185 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,360 stuck with a drawer full of the go forks that 186 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:18,519 I don't need. I think that they should make it 187 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,399 easier on the website, or they ask you on the 188 00:11:22,399 --> 00:11:24,840 website do you need a fork? Or do you need condiments? 189 00:11:24,879 --> 00:11:26,679 Where you don't have to you know where you just 190 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,080 go click click, like you would ordering your egg rolls. 191 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:34,639 As far as being a fork nazi, that is absolutely ridiculous. 192 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:37,600 The world is made of plastic. We have ziploc baggies 193 00:11:37,639 --> 00:11:41,480 we buy you know, food comes in bags and then 194 00:11:41,519 --> 00:11:44,480 it's into in plastic bags and it's individually wrapped in 195 00:11:44,519 --> 00:11:49,480 little plastic more plastic inside plastic bags at the grocery store. 196 00:11:49,879 --> 00:11:52,559 The paper straw thing is ridiculous. If you really, really, 197 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,919 really want to deal with the issue of plastic, forks 198 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,360 and straws are not the answer. 199 00:12:00,159 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 2: It sounds like you're willing to put our environment at risk. 200 00:12:02,399 --> 00:12:04,399 You know, it doesn't sound like you're taking climate change 201 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,039 seriously enough that all those all those plastic forks are 202 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,720 causing the planet's temperature to skyrocket. 203 00:12:12,759 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 5: Are you serious? 204 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,759 Speaker 2: It's the most absurd thing in the world. The idea 205 00:12:18,799 --> 00:12:21,679 that we're going to solve the Earth's problem of so 206 00:12:21,759 --> 00:12:24,279 called man made climate change and you're no longer going 207 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:26,720 to get a spoon with your takeout. Super order is 208 00:12:26,759 --> 00:12:29,399 the most absurd thing in the world. I can't imagine 209 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:32,639 that anybody thinks that this is a useful venture of government. 210 00:12:32,799 --> 00:12:34,440 I do agree with you. I mean, the idea you 211 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:37,240 always and I'm just like you. I have my drawer 212 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,440 full of those plastic utensils. But you want why does 213 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:41,840 government need to be involved in this? 214 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 6: Lease? 215 00:12:42,159 --> 00:12:43,679 Speaker 2: I mean, that's really the kind of the question that 216 00:12:43,759 --> 00:12:46,440 I'm asking myself. Why does the General Assembly need to 217 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:47,480 be involved in this at all? 218 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 4: They're boards, they have nothing else to do. They don't 219 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:56,360 attack of real issues. Uh shall I go on? 220 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 3: I mean it's exactly the case off they. 221 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:01,960 Speaker 4: Paid off to come up with dumb stuff. Oh I 222 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:04,120 think that judge is paid off, by the way. Somebody 223 00:13:04,159 --> 00:13:04,639 got to him. 224 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:08,919 Speaker 2: Yeah, big big plastic fork the industry that us controlling 225 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,639 the lobbyists down at the North Carolina General Assembly. Lisa, 226 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:14,879 thanks for the call this afternoon at seven oh four 227 00:13:15,039 --> 00:13:18,799 five seven eleven ten. You know, if restaurants who are 228 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,919 spending money, by the way on these utensils. If they 229 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:25,159 want to ask you do you want these? That's their prerogative. 230 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,519 It would save them some money if that was the case. 231 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:32,559 But we're now gonna be fining restaurants. We're gonna now 232 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:36,600 be sending the Department of Health into restaurants to figure 233 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:40,120 out whether they are giving out plastic utensils when you 234 00:13:40,279 --> 00:13:47,159 order food. This build directs the Secretary of Environmental Quality 235 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:51,679 to go forth and and start investigating these cases. And 236 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:55,480 if a restaurant is found in compliance for the first violation, 237 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:59,000 the penalty should not exceed two hundred dollars for a 238 00:13:59,080 --> 00:14:03,720 second violation five hundred dollars if it happens a third time. 239 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:09,559 This piece of legislation instructs the Attorney General to institute 240 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:15,240 a civil penalty against the county in which the restaurant operates. 241 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:17,799 Speaker 3: This we're gonna have. 242 00:14:17,799 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 2: The Attorney General of the state going after counties to 243 00:14:21,279 --> 00:14:28,000 recoup money from restaurants that are including plastic silverware. Government's 244 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:33,840 got nothing better to do. Seven four, five, seven eleven ten. 245 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:36,759 Carol is hanging online too. Carol, good afternoon. You're on 246 00:14:36,759 --> 00:14:37,960 the Peak Colendar Show with Nick Craig. 247 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,759 Speaker 3: What's up? How are you I'm doing great things. 248 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 7: Here's my only comment. I would actually like to report 249 00:14:45,679 --> 00:14:49,039 these restaurants one day. Don't put the silverware in the bag. 250 00:14:50,679 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 2: So wait, hold on a second, Hold out a second. 251 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:54,679 You don't like eating your food with your hands. You 252 00:14:54,679 --> 00:14:57,279 don't like eating your soup by sipping it out of 253 00:14:57,279 --> 00:14:59,080 a cup, Carol, Is that what I'm understanding? 254 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:02,120 Speaker 7: I know, I know, how rude of me to actually 255 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:06,919 want silverware, you know. Yeah, so like there's been many 256 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:08,639 times you go to these places and they don't give 257 00:15:08,639 --> 00:15:10,519 me the soberware. We don't get to reported for not 258 00:15:10,639 --> 00:15:15,120 giving the silverware. But apparently, yeah, it's it's getting so insane. 259 00:15:15,159 --> 00:15:17,120 I can't even stand it anywhere. I was just listening 260 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:18,399 to the program and just like, you've got to be 261 00:15:18,440 --> 00:15:21,039 kidding me, This is really not happening, But apparently it's. 262 00:15:21,919 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 3: I thought it was fake. I'm gonna be honest with you. 263 00:15:23,519 --> 00:15:26,000 Speaker 2: I saw this come across my ex feed yesterday afternoon, 264 00:15:26,039 --> 00:15:27,960 after I was after I was done filling in for 265 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:29,519 Pete yesterday and I saw it come through, and I 266 00:15:29,519 --> 00:15:31,480 was like, this can't possibly be real. So I went 267 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:34,440 to the General Assembly's website, typed in the bill number, 268 00:15:34,639 --> 00:15:37,360 and lo and behold, not only is it real, I 269 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:39,919 got to see the faces of the representatives, the four 270 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:43,759 Democrats that introduced this legislation, and it's just it's absurd. 271 00:15:44,159 --> 00:15:47,200 This is not only should government not be involved in 272 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:50,000 this at all, but the fact that Democrats think this 273 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,320 is a good idea with everything going on right now 274 00:15:52,559 --> 00:15:53,759 is just pretty shocking to me. 275 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,879 Speaker 7: Well again, yeah, like you have said, like there's nothing 276 00:15:57,879 --> 00:16:01,840 else going on, this is our biggest come on, Like 277 00:16:02,879 --> 00:16:04,960 you know what, the Democrats they just they are just 278 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:09,840 pulling a cover straws of plastic straws to that to 279 00:16:09,919 --> 00:16:12,600 find anything, just to make our lives miserable. I'm sorry, 280 00:16:12,639 --> 00:16:13,840 they really are, all. 281 00:16:13,799 --> 00:16:15,559 Speaker 1: Right, if you're listening to this show, you know I 282 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:17,480 try to keep up with all sorts of current events, 283 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:19,559 and I know you do too, And you've probably heard 284 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,679 me say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, 285 00:16:23,679 --> 00:16:26,399 because it's how you detect media bias, which is why 286 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,639 I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app 287 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:33,039 and it's a website, and it combines news from around 288 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:35,480 the world in one place, so you can compare coverage 289 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:38,440 and verify information. You can check it out at check 290 00:16:38,679 --> 00:16:42,919 dot ground dot news slash pete. I put the link 291 00:16:42,919 --> 00:16:46,039 in the podcast description too. 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Your subscription 300 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,680 then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports 301 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,000 ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. 302 00:17:18,480 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 2: We are discussing a very very important piece of legislation 303 00:17:22,279 --> 00:17:25,359 out of the North Carolina General Assembly House Bill four 304 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:28,720 to twenty three, the Skip the Stuff Act. 305 00:17:29,079 --> 00:17:29,680 Speaker 3: This is a. 306 00:17:29,559 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 2: Bill introduced by four Democrats in Raleigh yesterday that would 307 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:38,079 require restaurants to ask you for your consent to give 308 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:42,359 you plastic utensils and napkins as well as condiments when 309 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:45,200 you order takeout food. If they do not ask your 310 00:17:45,279 --> 00:17:48,599 consent and they continue to give you knives and forks 311 00:17:48,599 --> 00:17:51,720 and spoons without asking permission first, they are to be 312 00:17:51,799 --> 00:17:54,599 reported to the state and then fined by the state 313 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:59,480 for including that silverware or plastic utensils within your takeout order. 314 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:02,559 US is hanging online five this afternoon. He has the 315 00:18:02,599 --> 00:18:04,759 reason as to why this might be going on Chris 316 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:06,559 Good Afternoon, Welcome to the Peak Calendar show. 317 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:07,119 Speaker 3: Enlighten US. 318 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:12,680 Speaker 5: Hello Nick. Basically, there might be a second reason why 319 00:18:12,799 --> 00:18:17,200 these leftist legislators are doing this, and that is because 320 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:21,000 there's a man in North Carolina who has developed a 321 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:26,039 biodegradable flatwear that's supposed to be as strong as plastic wear. 322 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:30,119 It was featured, he was featured on a show on 323 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:34,599 PBS called Thai n C Sci Space n C play 324 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:40,680 onwards there. But he's making these biodegradable this biodegradable flatwear, 325 00:18:40,759 --> 00:18:43,519 and maybe they're which I think would be on ethical, 326 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:45,759 But maybe they're trying to help this guy out so 327 00:18:45,759 --> 00:18:49,119 it can spread and he can grow his market. That 328 00:18:49,319 --> 00:18:51,839 might be part of it. I'm just guessing, you know, 329 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:52,599 I do find. 330 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,519 Speaker 2: It interesting restaurants for friend of individuals that have not 331 00:18:55,599 --> 00:18:58,880 worked in and around the restaurant industry. Outside of alcohol, 332 00:18:59,079 --> 00:19:01,880 it is a relatively low margin business. I mean, if 333 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:04,839 you've watched shows like Kitchen nightmares and things the things 334 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,160 of that nature with Gordon Ramsey. Restaurants are not the 335 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:11,599 cash cow business that it might seem. Their expenses are 336 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,039 very high, with all of the food costs and their 337 00:19:14,079 --> 00:19:17,599 employees and the salaries and rent everything associated with running 338 00:19:17,599 --> 00:19:21,920 a restaurant. If these restaurants, which operate in the free market, 339 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:27,640 if they were losing boatloads of cash handing out utensils 340 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:31,599 plastic silverware to individuals, they would in fact stop doing it. 341 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:34,000 And we had a call in the previous segment indicating 342 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,680 that might already be happening. I don't know why the 343 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:38,559 state needs to be involved in this at all, Chris, 344 00:19:38,559 --> 00:19:41,359 thanks for the call this afternoon, appreciated at seven oh 345 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:44,039 four or five seven oh eleven ten. I just don't 346 00:19:44,039 --> 00:19:45,920 know why the state needs to be involved at all. 347 00:19:46,039 --> 00:19:49,119 Dan's got a pressing question online four Dan, what do 348 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,440 you do when a restaurant does not give you any 349 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:53,920 of this silverware, maybe even if you requested it? 350 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:54,400 Speaker 3: What do we do? 351 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:54,640 Speaker 6: Then? 352 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:59,319 Speaker 8: Let me lay out the doomsday scenario for you, please, 353 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:02,000 And first I also pointed out that whoever these four 354 00:20:02,079 --> 00:20:05,440 legislators are probably got beat up a lot in grade school, 355 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,559 in junior high But if I pull into my favorite 356 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:13,839 chicken spot and I ordered my three piece chicken dinner 357 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:21,759 with my filthy rice and my my creole pintos and 358 00:20:21,839 --> 00:20:25,640 some cools law, and I drive away, get home, not 359 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,319 even get home, get back to work, and find that 360 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:33,799 they didn't include a spoon, a fork, even a spork. Somebody, 361 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:36,359 somebody's going to hear about it, and in fact, I'm 362 00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:38,519 going to spend all my waking hours making sure that 363 00:20:38,599 --> 00:20:41,559 those four legislators don't get re elected. 364 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:45,200 Speaker 3: It's just how absurd. 365 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 2: I wasn't kidding what I mentioned that I saw this 366 00:20:48,559 --> 00:20:51,519 yesterday and I had to double take what I was reading. 367 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:53,640 I thought maybe it was a parody account. You know, 368 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:56,200 there's all these fake accounts that pop up on social 369 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,559 media that try and mirror somebody who's like somebody that 370 00:20:59,559 --> 00:21:01,880 you actually know. They make a fake profile, they copy 371 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,279 their picture and everything like that. That's what I thought 372 00:21:04,319 --> 00:21:06,759 I was looking at until I saw the legislation. 373 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:12,079 Speaker 6: Your previous color pointed out that it might be unethical 374 00:21:12,279 --> 00:21:15,279 if these four legislators were trying to pop up this 375 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:21,960 bio prop up this biodegreeable uh dining where Shazam say 376 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:26,799 it ain't so pah unethical, unethical in our legislature. I 377 00:21:26,839 --> 00:21:27,839 can't believe. 378 00:21:27,559 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 2: It's so no, it's it's completely unbelievable. But you know, 379 00:21:30,839 --> 00:21:32,759 reading through it, I'm hard to grasp. 380 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:34,279 Speaker 3: It is very hard to grasp. 381 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:34,519 Speaker 8: Dan. 382 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:37,559 Speaker 2: Well, hopefully this situation doesn't unfold for you, and if you, 383 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:39,440 if it does, I'm glad that I'm not going to 384 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,319 be on the other end of those phone calls. Appreciate 385 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,079 the call this afternoon at seven oh four, five, seven 386 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:45,240 oh eleven ten. 387 00:21:45,559 --> 00:21:46,319 Speaker 3: I didn't read through. 388 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:48,640 Speaker 2: I bared you not reading through all of the ware 389 00:21:48,759 --> 00:21:51,920 as is that was brought up in this legislation. But 390 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,480 it's all about the climate stuff. I mean, it's all 391 00:21:54,519 --> 00:21:58,839 talking about plastic. Whereas the United States uses more than 392 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:05,279 thirty six billion disposable plastic utensils annually, laid end to end, 393 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:08,519 this amount of plastic utensils could wrap around the globe 394 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:13,039 one hundred and thirty nine times. It's just all weird, 395 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,839 wacko leftist environmental stuff. I mean, these are the same 396 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:21,599 folks that brought the biodegradable straws or the paper straws 397 00:22:21,799 --> 00:22:24,640 to restaurants near you. I was out last night for 398 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,440 Saint Patrick's day, and I got a paper straw halfway 399 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,720 through my dinner. Lo and behold what's happening. The straw 400 00:22:30,799 --> 00:22:35,079 is melting into my drink. Now I believe Trump signed 401 00:22:35,079 --> 00:22:39,519 an executive order outlawing or attempting to ban those paper straws, 402 00:22:39,519 --> 00:22:44,640 as they have been an abysmal failure. And I'll say 403 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:46,319 it one more time then and then we'll move on. 404 00:22:47,599 --> 00:22:50,920 This is not what government should be spending its time doing. 405 00:22:51,759 --> 00:22:55,000 This was a pretty well crafted piece of legislation. It 406 00:22:55,039 --> 00:23:00,279 goes through the entire thing from start to finish, what 407 00:23:00,319 --> 00:23:02,440 the process needs to be, who it needs to be 408 00:23:02,519 --> 00:23:05,920 reported to, what the level of penalties are. Somebody in 409 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:09,079 the General Assembly, likely a legislative assistant who's paid for 410 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:13,960 by the taxpayers, was charged with crafting this document and 411 00:23:14,039 --> 00:23:18,039 spending time doing research as to how many times you 412 00:23:18,079 --> 00:23:22,119 could wrap all of the plastic disposable utensils around the earth. 413 00:23:22,799 --> 00:23:26,640 Somebody was paid by your taxpayer dollars to calculate that 414 00:23:26,799 --> 00:23:28,880 if you used all of it took all of the 415 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,880 thirty six billion disposable plastic utensils that are used in 416 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,559 the United States annually that you could wrap that around 417 00:23:35,559 --> 00:23:38,599 the globe one hundred and thirty nine times somebody spent 418 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:42,920 their time doing that. That a good use of good 419 00:23:43,039 --> 00:23:45,240 use of your money, got a good use of your 420 00:23:45,319 --> 00:23:46,799 resources here across the state. 421 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:47,759 Speaker 3: I don't think so. 422 00:23:48,279 --> 00:23:50,839 Speaker 1: All right, So spring is here a time of renewal 423 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:55,480 and celebrations. You've got graduations, weddings, anniversaries, and the special 424 00:23:55,519 --> 00:23:58,039 days for mom and dad. Your family's making memories that 425 00:23:58,079 --> 00:23:59,920 are going to last a lifetime. But let me ask, 426 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,039 thank you. Are all of those treasured moments from days 427 00:24:03,079 --> 00:24:05,880 gone by? Are they hidden away on old VCR tapes, 428 00:24:06,079 --> 00:24:11,160 eight millimeter films, photos slides? Are they preserved? 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We are getting some 445 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,480 details now of that call from the White House, and 446 00:25:09,519 --> 00:25:12,200 this is exactly how it's being read from the White House. 447 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,839 It says President Donald Trump agreed in a call with 448 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,440 the Russian President Vladimir Putin that the war in Ukraine 449 00:25:19,559 --> 00:25:23,400 quote needs to end with lasting peace. That's according to 450 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,519 a description of the conversation from the White House. The 451 00:25:26,519 --> 00:25:30,279 two leaders also agreed to begin immediate talks on energy 452 00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:34,920 and infrastructure ceasefire. The readout did not suggest that Putin 453 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,920 had agreed to a thirty day ceasefire that Trump had 454 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,799 endorsed and which had received backing from Ukraine. Now that's 455 00:25:41,839 --> 00:25:46,799 what's officially being reported from the White House. Some other 456 00:25:47,039 --> 00:25:51,160 anonymous sources speaking to other media outlets indicate that there 457 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,680 is a thirty day ceasefire in terms of any sort 458 00:25:54,720 --> 00:26:00,000 of attacks or any sort of movement on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. 459 00:26:00,079 --> 00:26:02,680 Sure that is being reported by a couple of news 460 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:08,160 outlets right now. Also according to Tass, that's an international 461 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:12,000 news service. Putin apparently told Trump that a complete that 462 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:16,400 complete removal of military aid to Kiev is a key 463 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:20,039 condition in resolving the conflict in Ukraine. And Putin has 464 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:25,000 quote agreed to an initial quote energy and infrastructure ceasefire 465 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:29,440 to be followed by technical negotiations for a full ceasefire 466 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,319 and permanent peace with Ukraine. So the phone call, I 467 00:26:33,319 --> 00:26:36,839 guess went somewhat well. That took place earlier this morning. 468 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:40,559 It was reported to be reportedly taking place between nine 469 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,440 and eleven o'clock this this morning. And now we are 470 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,039 starting to get some of the details of that phone call, 471 00:26:46,319 --> 00:26:49,960 some of the back and forth between the Russian president 472 00:26:50,319 --> 00:26:51,319 and Donald Trump. 473 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,039 Speaker 3: And I was thinking about I was thinking about. 474 00:26:53,759 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 2: This, this phone call, and how all of this is 475 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:59,160 going to play out, and I just had to remind 476 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,880 myself and go back to when this all began. 477 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:02,359 Speaker 5: Right. 478 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,079 Speaker 2: Of course, you had President Joe Biden at the time 479 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,759 mentioning that you know, depending on how big the incursion is, 480 00:27:08,759 --> 00:27:11,720 if it's just a minor incursion into Ukraine, then maybe 481 00:27:11,759 --> 00:27:15,880 the United States won't get involved, essentially green lighting Vladimir 482 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:20,119 Putin and the Russian government and military to begin their 483 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,319 war on Ukraine what three plus years ago at this point, 484 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:27,960 And I found it shocking and quite remarkable that throughout 485 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:33,640 the entire conflict, the previous administration in Joe Biden never 486 00:27:34,079 --> 00:27:37,880 opened the line of communication, never opened the line of 487 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:42,799 dialogue with the Russian president. How could you not have 488 00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:47,119 any sort of communication with Russia during this Now the 489 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,359 United States is on the tune for hundreds of billions 490 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,559 of dollars in what is being described as essentially a 491 00:27:53,759 --> 00:27:56,920 never ending stell made of a war right now where 492 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,880 neither side is making any serious progress a stallmate now 493 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,440 for well over twelve months they have besides move here 494 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,440 and there a little bit, but the battle lines have 495 00:28:06,559 --> 00:28:10,359 essentially stayed the same for well over a year. And 496 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,319 the previous guy couldn't even be bothered to talk to 497 00:28:13,319 --> 00:28:17,759 the Russian president. You know this idea of peace through strength, 498 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:21,799 leadership through strength, This is the example of it right here. 499 00:28:23,559 --> 00:28:26,039 Just back a couple of weeks ago, you had Zelensky 500 00:28:26,079 --> 00:28:28,200 come to the United States and make a complete and 501 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,480 total fool out of himself. Fortunately he was able to 502 00:28:31,559 --> 00:28:34,680 correct the record there with Trump and get everything squared 503 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:37,759 back together, and they have agreed, at least the Ukrainian 504 00:28:37,839 --> 00:28:41,119 side has agreed to this thirty day ceasefire deal to 505 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,160 begin the process of full negotiations to ending this war 506 00:28:45,279 --> 00:28:49,799 completely and totally. But that's what strong leadership looks like. 507 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:56,119 This is what strength appears publicly. As Trump had a 508 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,400 call with Putin, he is apparently agreed to an initial 509 00:28:59,519 --> 00:29:03,480 energy and infrastructure ceasefire for at least thirty days. There 510 00:29:03,559 --> 00:29:07,839 will be technical negotiations that take place in the near 511 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:13,039 term future, and that's where things apparently are standing right now. 512 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:15,240 I'm sure throughout the rest of the afternoon you'll get 513 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,400 more details, and of course you could stay tuned to 514 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:21,880 those here on WBT. I just I can't imagine how 515 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,680 the previous guy thought, and nobody within his ear, nobody 516 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:28,759 that was pulling the marionette strings up in Washington, d C. 517 00:29:29,119 --> 00:29:30,839 How none of them thought it was a good idea 518 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,640 to open the line of communication with the Russian president. 519 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:38,640 And really the irony of all of this, after Vladimir Zelenski, 520 00:29:38,759 --> 00:29:41,359 the Ukrainian president, was laughed out of the United States. 521 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,440 Was that about three weeks ago? After that happened, he 522 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,119 then did his tour around Europe with all of these 523 00:29:47,119 --> 00:29:50,519 European leaders talking about how strongly they're going to stand 524 00:29:50,559 --> 00:29:53,839 with Ukraine and how they're going to make sure that 525 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,680 this war comes to an end. Where have these guys 526 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,920 been for almost four years now? Where have all these 527 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,880 European countries been. None of them could have picked up 528 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,680 the phone and began these conversations with Putin. Nobody could 529 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,400 have picked up the phone and started this discussion of 530 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,640 a ceasefire, started this discussion of the mineral rights deal 531 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,200 that has been discussed here in the United States. 532 00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,599 Speaker 3: No other leader was capable of this but Trump. 533 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:25,359 Speaker 2: It's pretty remarkable when you compare and contrast the previous 534 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,160 administration to the one that's been in office less than 535 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:32,559 two months. It's a stark contrast from the past, and 536 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,079 fortunately it looks like it's going to end up leading 537 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,279 to a full cease fire and a full truce entreaty 538 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,839 between these two countries, another hopefully huge potential win for 539 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,039 President Donald Trump. 540 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,519 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 541 00:30:47,599 --> 00:30:49,559 so much for listening. I could not do the show 542 00:30:49,599 --> 00:30:52,119 without your support and the support of the businesses that 543 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,279 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 544 00:30:55,319 --> 00:30:56,960 them too and tell them you heard it here. You 545 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,599 can also become a patron at my Patreon page or 546 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,119 go to Vpetecalnar show dot com. Again, thank you so 547 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:09,839 much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.