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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Tiffany Hobbs here with you and this is Saturdays with
Tiffany here from five to seven. Thanks for hanging out
with me today, however, and wherever you listen, there's so
much to get to, including a really interesting interview coming
(00:26):
up with Jim Pool, who is the founder of newcom
one of the top stressed apps in the world, stress
management apps in the world, A big deal right there,
and we'll talk to him at the top of the
six o'clock hour, so stay tuned for that. And definitely
if there's one thing we all collectively need more of,
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it's stress management, am I right? That's something that definitely
bonds us as humans, the stresses we go through, and
we've had quite a bit of that this week. So
I'm looking forward to talking to Jim Pool and we'll see.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
What that app entails.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
We're also going to get into the mass exodus from X.
You know X formerly known as Twitter. Well, people are
leaving in droves. Why are they leaving?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Where are they going?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Because people need a platform to yell at each other
people want to argue, so they're not just going to
fall off and not do anything. They are taking their
talents elsewhere, and I'll tell you a little bit about
where they're going a little later. We're also going to
talk about what's happening locally. Stories about a new LA
County program that will allow people to sell.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Food from home. So all of you who.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Have a little side gig of cookies or something more,
maybe mashed potatoes as Neo was talking about, that's something
you can now prepare at home, and because of this
new La County permit that will be extended to you,
you'll be able to sell it free of any sort
of police interference.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Perhaps looking for to that.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
We also have another program here in LA that's many
years in the making, and guess what it's gonna do.
It will transform your toilet water into what you may
ask drinking water. Oh yes, in a few short months
or years, perhaps if they can ever get this program
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off the ground, because it's thirty years in the making,
you Angelino's will be drinking your toilet water. We'll also
get into an expose by Westside Current dot Com that
asks the question is LA getting dirtier?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Hell?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yes, It is absolutely and even though it's getting dirtier,
you'll soon be drinking your toilet water. So those stories
are part and parcel with each other. But before we
handle any of that, did you happen to watch that
big fight last night? How much epsin salt is Mike
Tyson then sitting in today? Well, i'll tell you a
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little bit about it in a bit, but first we're
going to go to some audio from CNN that will
share with you some highlights from last night's boxing match
between Mike Tyson and YouTuber Jake Paul.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
At fifty eight years old, Tyson hasn't fought professionally in
over two decades. He was able to keep up to
the first two rounds. They were seemingly getting acclimated with
one another, but then we saw the fall off and
it happened really fast. Tyson trying to pick it up
in the third round, but he lost significant stamina at
that point in the fight. Paul was able to muster
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some well time punches against a former champ, and he
eventually beat Tyson in a unanimous decision. A lot of
trash talk before the fight, but Paul had nothing but
respect for Tyson afterwards.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
First and foremost Mike Tyson. It's such an honor. Let's
give it up for Mike bro He's a legend. He's
the greatest to ever do it.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Did you watch the fight, Raoul Andrew Hi, Andrew Caravella?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Did you guys watch the fight?
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I watched it, And what'd you think I did? Well?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Once I got my buffering working, I was saying a
lot of things that the FCC will not allow me
to say.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Here live you too, Huh? Yeah? It was Why why
was it so bad? It was just so?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I was telling Kayli, I felt guilty watching this thing.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It just it felt like elder abuse exactly. That's exactly
what it was.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
And you know, I know people need money, and like,
I get why Tyson would do it.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
But I hope that's the last we see of that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And did you hear him at the end when they
asked him, The reporter said, you know, are you coming back?
Are you going to do this again? And he said, oh, maybe,
you know maybe. However, his little voice is leading us
to believe that there could be another fight in his future.
And he's fifty eight by.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
No means old or geriatric.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
There are plenty of fifty eight sixty eight year old
athletes out there who would put any of us to shame,
including Mike. But last night was not the greatest display
of what he can do.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
The first when the first bell rang, he came right
at him and put him into the ropes, and I'm like,
here we go, like yeah, this is what we were
waiting for. And then nothing, nothing happened for eight rounds.
By the eighth round, I thought, Okay, if he's gonna
do something, he's gonna give people there is money's worth
and it's gonna happen now. And it was still It
was the seven rounds combined. In the eighth round, nothing happened,
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nothing biting.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
The glove, and he said that was his own little
personal tick that he likes to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I thought, you're biting the glove.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Maybe that Mike Tyson's gonna come out the one we're
waiting for nothing.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
All I know is is that I spent the last
year of my life waiting for this fight, and I
will never get that time back now never.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And Netflix will never give you back that buffering time either, no,
which is nuts because now we're looking at Netflix as
being one of the premier streaming services to offer boxing
matches in the future. This was to be their foray
into that, and they couldn't get it right. Millions, they say,
were affected, although the numbers are kind of off. But Andrew,
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did you find that you were lined up with the
right time with the actual.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Fight because there were people who.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Were watching Mike Tyson fight in real time, and then
there were people who were watching the undercards before when
Tyson was supposed to be fight.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
So because of the buffering I had, I was running data,
I was eating it up on my cell phone, I
don't care. And then my uncle he had it on
his big screen TV in the house, and then he
had a backup on a hot spot his laptop, so
we were able to physically watch it in real time
for the live stream on one of those devices at
any given time. So I did get to see the
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full fight for the majority.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Again, I wonder how will Netflix be able to handle
the volume if they're looking into being a streaming service
for boxing or for any other major event like this
where seventy thousand people were in the stands alone, and
again millions purportedly were watching.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
How you know in ancient times, I've heard of this
thing called a giant dish that they would point into
outer space, and this thing called the boob tube would
can you say that, I think so would broadcast of
video images.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
So I think they called it satellite.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
We may have to go back to archaic times at
this point. Yeah, that didn't work last night. Neither did
Mike Tyson's legs. Mike Tyson's legs did not work, and
it was it was a showing. You saw the Mike
Tyson up top, kind of from the waist up. You
saw the Mike Tyson of lore. You saw the excitement
and the eagerness and the athleticism. But when they panned
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down and you saw the leg and foot movement, you
saw Mike Tyson needing to sit down. Mike Tyson needed
a nap. And I'm really glad that Jake Paul didn't
give Mike Tyson that nap that many people thought he might,
because Jake Paul did, in fact act with some semblance
of class to not completely knock Mike Tyson out. It
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was boring. It was a money grab. Both walked away with.
I believe Mike Tyson inherited or won ten million somewhere
between ten and twenty million, and Jake Paul got somewhere
above that as well. So I personally would be happy
to fight either one of them for twenty million. That's
plenty of money to get the reconstructive surgery after they
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bashed my nose in, I'm down for it.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Would you fight them for twenty million? Andrew?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Yeah, maybe, I don't know. I just really wanted to
see him get what was coming to him. Yeah, which one, Paul? Yeah,
I wanted him knocked back to eut After the announcement
was made, it was so quiet. If you go back
and rewind what happened after the announcement was made, it
was so quiet amongst those eighty thousand people in attendance, like, yeah,
we all wanted the same thing.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
We did, and it was a collective disappointment. Hopefully the
new column stress app will relieve that. Once we get
to that in the six and see that segue right there,
professional that good.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
But we have to wait for that though.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That's coming up, and when we come back, I'll tell
you a little bit more about something else that's dirty.
Dirty business in the city of Los Angeles, is La
getting dirtier. The question asks, we'll see what you say,
and I'll give you some information that may convince you that, yeah,
if you need that convincing, LA is in fact getting dirtier,
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and some reasons why kf I Am six forty Live
Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Tiffany Hobbs here with you. Until seven.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I Am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Tiffany Hobbs here with you. This is Saturdays with Tiffany,
and don't forget. At the top of the six o'clock hour,
we will be interviewing Jim Pool, the founder of Newcom,
a wonderful stress management app that you can download, and
we're going to hear all about what that app entails
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at around six six o seven, So you stay tuned
and make sure you are here for that. Now, let's
get into something that actually can cost stress, and for
all intents and purposes, does at least for me. When
I was driving in today, I was waiting at a
light at or on Vermont at the one o one
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kind of right over there by Fountain if you're familiar
with East Hollywood and commuting here into the studio, and
I noticed while I was sitting there at that light,
just piles and piles of trash just in corners. And
usually after a windy day there's trash that accumulates. Of course,
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it just it goes somewhere and sanitation maybe can't get
out to get it soon enough.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
But you start to see this trash pile.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Up, Well, it was there, and there were clear signs
that that trash wasn't just a byproduct of the wind,
but that things were there in place and probably had
been there.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
For quite some time.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
And when you kind of scan around, if you're in
traffic and you're looking at the streets, you'll see trash,
you'll see litter. So I wasn't shocked or anything to
see trash because I've kind of normalized it. It's become
a part of that visual landscape for me. I see
it and it's just almost like ambient noise. It's there, right,
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Which is a problem. And you think about it because
in many places around La it seems like people and
our sanitation services have become a little less interested and
invested in cleanliness, in cleaning up after one another or
ourselves specifically, case in point, when I walk around my
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neighborhood that has high rises, mid rises, single family homes, businesses.
It's really a menagerie of every type of dwelling or building. Okay,
lots of people, lots of traffic in La I'll see
dog crap everywhere.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
It's everywhere.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I'm walking my dogs, and i have my bags in
my pocket and I'm ready to pick up the you know,
the ways from my dog's poop.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
It's what they do.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And you have your bags. My apartment provides bags, and
you'll see out on the on sidewalks in certain areas,
those combo trash receptacles, doggy bag bin things where you
can just take a bag, pick it up, dispose right there.
They make it very efficient, very convenient. Well, then why
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is there so much dog poop just straw on about everywhere?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
That's something that I navigate daily.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I literally navigate that type of situation daily because people
just aren't cleaning up after themselves. And if my apartment complex,
if my area, my little corner of this city is
a microcosm, then that is indicative of a larger problem,
and it is. In fact, new site westside current dot com,
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this journalism site, did a story and they asked the question,
is La getting dirtier? My answer, like I said before,
a resounding hell, yes, hell, yes, La is getting dirtier,
not getting dirtier. It is dirty. It is filthy in
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corners and parts of this city. And that's not to
say that we don't have a very developed sanitation program.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
We do.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
But something's amiss, something's disconnected, and because of that disconnect,
there's been an increase in trash, illegal dumping, and litter.
Just in June of this year, La was named to
a list that was backed by the CDC, a list
backed by the CDC Center for Disease Control and Prevention,
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and La was named number fifteen out of the twenty
dirtiest cities in the United States, number fifteen. In twenty
twenty three, we were a bit lower on the or
a bit higher on the list in terms of not
being one of the top twenty. But this year we
have entered the top twenty. We are gaining on the
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number one through ten cities. We are right there, and
we are considered to be egregiously dirty. So what at
westside current dot com do? They talked to a few residents,
including people all around Silver Lake, Venice in this particular
couple Heidi and John, said that they report illegal dumping
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in Venice to that number my LA three one one,
and that the system often falls short.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Roberts said, I get notes saying the.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Pickup, the trash pickup that he's reporting was completed, but
the trash is still there. So I don't know if
you've experienced this, but when you call three eleven, you
can obviously go down the list of things that you
want to engage with or report, and trash pickup is definitely.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
They're a very popular one.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
In fact, it's surged over three hundred percent since twenty
twenty the amount of people reporting or reports that they're
actually collecting with three eleven. But what's being said is
they'll say they'll come out and get it, and if
they do, it may not be immediately. But in many
cases they're not coming at all. They're re routing residents
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to different numbers and passing this information on to different municipalities,
and before you know it, your situation is never solved.
It is just re routed and sit somewhere out there
in the ether for trash to continue collecting for all
of this debris, and you know, just this terribleness just
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to continue again accumulating. Another person named Nicole said that
she had contact did the city senitation senitation offices directly,
but within a week of them coming out, the situation
she had reported was right back to the same condition
it was prior to them coming out. Another person who
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lives in the Peico area described her neighborhood as a
quote field of trash. That's a wonderful thing to put
on your real estate listing when you're trying to sell
your home that you live amongst a field of trash.
She says she's been a resident for forty years in
that area and she's noticed a huge increase in trash,
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abandoned furniture, drug paraphernalia, and feces, both of the dog
and the humankind. There used to be a program that
was went along with the Adopt a Highway program that
you'll see people out there cleaning up. It was incentivized.
It provided payment to those who wanted to pick up
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trash and other debris around freeways. Well, that program has
lost their funding. It's no longer in effect. Now if
you want to pick up trash as a resident, you
are being tasked with volunteering and galvanizing people yourself. There's
a resident who said that he contacted neighbors in his
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area to go out and pick up trash, and no
one wanted to come. One person came, and then the
next time they went out, it was just this poor guy.
And he says that when he was out there picking
up trash, his e bike was stolen. So not only
is he trying to do a good deed, but he
is suffering the effects of crime that's happening in that
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direct area as he's trying to do something about trash
in his neighborhood. When we come back, I'll tell you
a little bit more about the why why is this
such a big deal?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
It's not just the eyesore of it all.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
But we have some big events coming up in LA.
We'll get into more about this story after the break,
and we'll talk a bit about how LA plans to
move ahead with a waste water recycling program that could
very well have you drinking recycled water from your toilet.
Fun kf I AM six forty Live everywhere on the
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iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs here with you.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
So before we get back to the story that we
were just talking about about whether or not LA is
getting dirtier.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
News flash it is.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
We're gonna go to a talkback and I particularly love
this talk back from user A Rod because I can
hear him I think chopping something hopefully something food related
and nothing more nefarious in the background, and hopefully he's
willing to share that with us.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
Let's hear from A Rod it Los A has has
gotten dirtier, dirtier for the past eight years, ever since
they passed that prop forty seven.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Okay that chopping.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
They don't care.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I'm not gonna get punished. Dump away is what they say.
And Yuri, it may be starting in bad. Meyer's been
bad and worse since then. There's parts really.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Bad, Yeah, really bad parts. Thank you A Rod for that,
and again, please let us know what you were cooking.
Collins Packer. Hit that talk back again and just share
with us what's going on back there. So back to
the story from Westside Current dot com. Is LA getting
dirty or absolutely and they continue to talk to a
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few residents.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I just want to kind of put a bow on this.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Another person, Patricia Hernandez, a Lincoln Heights resident, for twenty
six years says that she quote believes that the city
of La needs to focus on safety and maintenance fully first,
before all the big expensive projects that aim to change
things without the people's full approval. That is an indictment
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of many, many services and many political leanings in this city.
The fact that you have residents like Patricia Hernandez here
who recognize that there are expensive projects all around this
city and you'll see them while you're driving, whether they
are a new high rise for residents or something else.
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Things seem to be on the move in La as
far as development is concerned, and it seems is even
minimizing the actuality of it. The city is developing like crazy.
So there's money to build, there's money to create these
new infrastructures. Right we're looking at Metro, We're looking at
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everything that seems geared towards what the twenty twenty eight Olympics.
And Hernandez goes on and says, the parks get no maintenance,
and there are just a few big projects that try
to make it look like there's work being done to
distract from what's broken and filthy. Miss Hernandez is very perceptive.
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She can see she sees what's going on, and what
is going on is that LA is set to welcome
two major international sporting events in the next four years,
again the Olympics, the biggest international sports competition, and then
now the FIFA World Cup, which is also coming. So
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there's a lot of beautification that's happening around the city.
But where who is benefiting? Is it in your neighborhood?
Is it just where there's more tourism. You can go
out and you can absolutely assess whether or not your
neighborhood is a benefactor of these clean up and beautification efforts.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Mine is not.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And I'm near downtown LA that is experiencing a lot
of development. But my area is one where it seems
that we are the forgotten, and that set of Venice,
that set of mar Vista people here in Silver Lake
are talking about it. Another person in del Rey, who
lived there for fifty years, says that there's no street
sweepers that come by.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
There's no street sweepers.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I remember knowing when you could and could not park
your car because street sweepers were coming, and now you
move your car, but there's no street sweeping. There's just
the debris left in its wake. So LA is absolutely
going to have to reckon with this question is LA
getting dirtier? And it will also then have to figure
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out an answer how and when do you mitigate this
accumulation of trash, of illegal dumping of litter and debris.
Is it on each individual? Sure, but that's the soapbox
rant for another day. LA municipalities like sanitation services will
have to come out and do better. But in the meantime,
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what is a program that is in place? What is
another program that's being implemented to help Angelinos? This new
program speaking of dirty and gross that will help you
drink cleaner water?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Okay, that sounds fine on its face.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
We all want access to clean water for ourselves, for
our pets, whatever it may be for bathing, of course.
But LA is dealing with a shortage, and we can
surmise about the usage of the Colorado River and other
sources of water that California may not necessarily have consistently
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utilized appropriately or with any regularity. The result of all
of this is that we have a water shortage and
it's only getting worse. Therefore, LA is looking into how
to create more drinkable water sources. Los Angeles is set
to build a facility that will transform waste water into
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clean drinking water.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
And this is from the La Times. This facility is.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Thirty years thirty five years in the making, so this
is not something that's just come about in the last
five years with this this mayor or you know, in
the last ten years with the previous No. This has
been in place for thirty plus years. This facility has
been under construction and the testing has been going on
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to assure that the result would be in fact clean water.
So let me give you a little bit about what's
going on. This recycling facility would be in the San
Fernando Valley and when complete, the facility would transform waste
water into purified drinking water for about two hundred and
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fifty thousand people. And that's to start, because it could
very well balloon and grow larger than that. As of now,
this project is seven hundred and forty million dollars and
it's to mitigate again the worsening drought conditions compounded by
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climate change. The city plans to break ground next month
next month to start construction of new facilities in Van Eyes.
It will be happening at the Donald C. Tillman water
reclamation plant, and when completed, the facilities will all treat
and purify waste water and produce twenty million gallons of
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drinking water per day, which is enough to supply about
two hundred and fifty thousand people. Again, this water will
be pumped from wells and after additional testing and treatment,
it will be delivered to taps. The water also will
come from your flushed toilets. Yes, the water that you
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flush down your toilet, so it has to go somewhere,
and that water will be collected, purified, treated, strained, and
hopefully cleaned to all eternity so that you will then
become a consumer of this newly reclaimed water. LA has
been recycling wastewater for decades. This isn't new, but the
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drought conditions are in fact getting worse. And if you
ever go to golf courses or you see kind of
like the islands, when you're driving the landscaped islands, you'll
see signs that say that this water has been recycled
for use for those specific outdoor places. Now it's going
to be funneled to residents. Actually, when we come back,
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I'll tell you a little bit more about this story
before we get into our last bit of local news,
so make sure you stay tuned for that, and of
course top of the hour, we're talking to Jim Pool,
the founder of newcom number one Stress, one of the
number one stress management apps in the country. Looking forward
to talking to him, So we'll do all of that
when we come back. KFI AM six forty Live everywhere
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on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs here with you till
seven for Saturdays with Tiffany.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand KFI.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany
Hobbs here with you for Saturdays with Tiffany. And we're
talking about this new really it's not new. It's a
thirty year in the making project, but new to you
perhaps and will be implemented soon. So it will be
new for all of us. So water reclamation program that
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will take water that is recyclable, that will be used
from different sources or attained obtained from different sources and
then funneled to residents to become purified drinking water. Now,
in the nineteen nineties there was another program, and this
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program also saw kind of a sister program in the
year two thousand. But during that time there was conversation
over what this type of reclamation would in fact entail.
What do you mean by reclamation? People wanted to know
what does that mean? And here's the thing. Back in
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two thousand, when it was introduced these reclamation efforts, there
was a tagline attached, and this tagline sent a lot
of people in the opposite direction. The tagline was the
toilet to Tap project. People said, absolutely not toilet to tap.
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You must be crazy. And this issue was caught up
in a mayoral campaign and a two thousand and one
ballot measure, and the valley actually wanted to secede from
Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
This was a huge deal.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Back twenty plus years ago. So again, this conversation is
not a new conversation. This development has been ongoing. But
we are now starting to see quickly the efforts of
all of this debate and all of this development, and
it will result in this new program going into effect shortly.
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The current Board of Water and Power and La Sanitations
say that this highly treated water is not toilet to tap. Okay,
then what is it?
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Then?
Speaker 3 (29:32):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
It's is we know that it's rain water is collected,
and we know that water comes from other sources. I
did some poking around, because when you look for this information,
so it's buried, it's buried under a lot of flowery
language and efforts about mitigating climate change. But what I
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did find is that in previous years, over the last
two to five years, there have been quite a few
new stories about this ongoing project, and it is connected
specifically to the Donald C. Tillman Reclamation plant that will
be breaking ground soon. There are already four other water
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reclamation plants, and this would be one of the newest ones.
And what I found on YouTube in different places from
different sources, all vetted and all first shore, some real
heavy hitting new sources is that yes, this is toilet
to tap, but they don't They can't say that because
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you're not gonna want to drink that type of water,
so instead they say recycled water. There was a reporter
who went out and tested the water, and first they
gave him the smell test, and his reaction was enough
to put anyone off of ever entering into sipping water
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from this sort of source. He said, I hope that
doesn't smell or doesn't taste like what it smells like.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Because it was toilet to tap. He was at a.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Sewage uh sanitation and you know all the things involved
in that area, treatment area, and that water was purified.
And they offered him a crystal clear glass of water
and he sipped it and he said it tasted good,
but that he couldn't put out of his mind what
he was drinking. So I want to do a little
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question answer around the room here. And Kayla's already shaking
her head. I see Eileen there right, Hi, Eileen?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
And is that Eileen in there? No?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
No, So she's she's like, she's like, that's not no, no,
someone else. But we're gonna ask you the question nevertheless.
And you can you can absolutely introduce yourself when the
water is introduced to you as part of this reclamation effort,
and they and you are told, hey, this water was
bottled and purified and it comes from this new source.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
It's recycled. Will you be drinking it? Kayla? No, I
want nothing in the toilet in my mouth, nothing ever
doing it? No, never, no, never, never, little sleep here
and there. Im good. You're thirsty. You're in the desert.
No sooner die? Okay?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, Well, Raoul toilet to tap? Are we drinking the water?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I mean, I'm not going to die, so if I
have to all do it? And then who do we
have in the newsroom.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Either it's a brigida, it's a bridgeta brigitta. I'm sorry,
I don't have on my glasses. I apologize. Are you
doing the toilet to tap? I think I missed you, guys,
I just walked in here. So the water reclamation is happening.
LA is developing a new system of water reclamation that
will provide recycled water to over two hundred and fifty
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thousand residents through its numerous water reclamation plants and recycling
recycle Goodness Gracious recycling plants, and the newest one is
being built in the valley. It will funnel water to
valley residents. They are saying it is not toilet to tap,
but testers and experts and others are like, we're gonna
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be kind of mom about where it comes from. Are you, Brisita,
willing to try this new water. I'm willing to try
the water. I'll just put a filter on it. Still, America,
this is not Flint, Michigan. We'll see.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
She's braving the Michigan is in America though, yes I know,
but I said, okay, you got me. There's she's brave.
She's saying she'll do it. Kles as a resounding no.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Raoul says if he's if he's faced with it, he's
doing it. And I say, if I'm faced with it,
I guess I'm gonna go for it too.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
But I don't think I'll be doing it willingly.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
But all of us will sooner than later be faced
with that type of question because water is being recycled,
because we are in a drought, and climate change is
a real thing.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I know. We had a talk back from a listener.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
I guess it got cut off, but thank you you
still for it. Please give us your talkback, send them in.
Go on that iHeartRadio app, press that button.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Let us know what.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
You're thinking when we come back. We have a wonderful
interview coming up with Jim Poole, the founder of newcom
one of the number one stress management apps in all
the land and all the United States and probably internationally
at this point, and he is going to tell us
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all about what new coom does, why he developed it,
the science behind it, because there's a lot of science
that makes this app just completely different from others that
you may have used in the past. I downloaded it,
I'm looking forward to using it, and we'll hear from
Jim Pool more about what new comm is when we
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come back. KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
KFI AM six forty on demand.
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Tiffany Hobbs here with you and this is Saturdays with
Tiffany here from five to seven. Thanks for hanging out
with me today, however, and wherever you listen, there's so
much to get to, including a really interesting interview coming
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up with Jim Pool, who is the founder of newcom
one of the top stressed apps in the world, stress
management apps in the world, A big deal right there,
and we'll talk to him at the top of the
six o'clock hour, so stay tuned for that. And definitely
if there's one thing we all collectively need more of,
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it's stress management, am I right? That's something that definitely
bonds us as humans, the stresses we go through, and
we've had quite a bit of that this week. So
I'm looking forward to talking to Jim Pool and we'll see.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
What that app entails.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
We're also going to get into the mass exodus from X.
You know X formerly known as Twitter. Well, people are
leaving in droves. Why are they leaving?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Where are they going?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Because people need a platform to yell at each other
people want to argue, so they're not just going to
fall off and not do anything. They are taking their
talents elsewhere, and I'll tell you a little bit about
where they're going a little later. We're also going to
talk about what's happening locally. Stories about a new LA
County program that will allow people to sell.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Food from home. So all of you who.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Have a little side gig of cookies or something more,
maybe mashed potatoes as Neo was talking about, that's something
you can now prepare at home, and because of this
new La County permit that will be extended to you,
you'll be able to sell it free of any sort
of police interference.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Perhaps looking for to that.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
We also have another program here in LA that's many
years in the making, and guess what it's gonna do.
It will transform your toilet water into what you may
ask drinking water. Oh yes, in a few short months
or years, perhaps if they can ever get this program
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off the ground, because it's thirty years in the making,
you Angelino's will be drinking your toilet water. We'll also
get into an expose by Westside Current dot Com that
asks the question is LA getting dirtier?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Hell?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yes, It is absolutely and even though it's getting dirtier,
you'll soon be drinking your toilet water. So those stories
are part and parcel with each other. But before we
handle any of that, did you happen to watch that
big fight last night? How much epsin salt is Mike
Tyson then sitting in today? Well, i'll tell you a
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little bit about it in a bit, but first we're
going to go to some audio from CNN that will
share with you some highlights from last night's boxing match
between Mike Tyson and YouTuber Jake Paul.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
At fifty eight years old, Tyson hasn't fought professionally in
over two decades. He was able to keep up to
the first two rounds. They were seemingly getting acclimated with
one another, but then we saw the fall off and
it happened really fast. Tyson trying to pick it up
in the third round, but he lost significant stamina at
that point in the fight. Paul was able to muster
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some well time punches against a former champ, and he
eventually beat Tyson in a unanimous decision. A lot of
trash talk before the fight, but Paul had nothing but
respect for Tyson afterwards.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
First and foremost Mike Tyson. It's such an honor. Let's
give it up for Mike bro He's a legend. He's
the greatest to ever do it.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Did you watch the fight, Raoul Andrew Hi, Andrew Caravella?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Did you guys watch the fight?
Speaker 5 (04:04):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I watched it, And what'd you think I did? Well?
Speaker 6 (04:08):
Once I got my buffering working, I was saying a
lot of things that the FCC will not allow me
to say.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Here live you too, Huh? Yeah? It was Why why
was it so bad? It was just so?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I was telling Kayli, I felt guilty watching this thing.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It just it felt like elder abuse exactly. That's exactly
what it was.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
And you know, I know people need money, and like,
I get why Tyson would do it.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
But I hope that's the last we see of that.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And did you hear him at the end when they
asked him, The reporter said, you know, are you coming back?
Are you going to do this again? And he said, oh, maybe,
you know maybe. However, his little voice is leading us
to believe that there could be another fight in his future.
And he's fifty eight by.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
No means old or geriatric.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
There are plenty of fifty eight sixty eight year old
athletes out there who would put any of us to shame,
including Mike. But last night was not the greatest display
of what he can do.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
The first when the first bell rang, he came right
at him and put him into the ropes, and I'm like,
here we go, like yeah, this is what we were
waiting for. And then nothing, nothing happened for eight rounds.
By the eighth round, I thought, Okay, if he's gonna
do something, he's gonna give people there is money's worth
and it's gonna happen now. And it was still It
was the seven rounds combined. In the eighth round, nothing happened,
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nothing biting.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
The glove, and he said that was his own little
personal tick that he likes to do that.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I thought, you're biting the glove.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Maybe that Mike Tyson's gonna come out the one we're
waiting for nothing.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
All I know is is that I spent the last
year of my life waiting for this fight, and I
will never get that time back now never.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And Netflix will never give you back that buffering time either, no,
which is nuts because now we're looking at Netflix as
being one of the premier streaming services to offer boxing
matches in the future. This was to be their foray
into that, and they couldn't get it right. Millions, they say,
were affected, although the numbers are kind of off. But Andrew,
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did you find that you were lined up with the
right time with the actual.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Fight because there were people who.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Were watching Mike Tyson fight in real time, and then
there were people who were watching the undercards before when
Tyson was supposed to be fight.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
So because of the buffering I had, I was running data,
I was eating it up on my cell phone, I
don't care. And then my uncle he had it on
his big screen TV in the house, and then he
had a backup on a hot spot his laptop, so
we were able to physically watch it in real time
for the live stream on one of those devices at
any given time. So I did get to see the
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full fight for the majority.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Again, I wonder how will Netflix be able to handle
the volume if they're looking into being a streaming service
for boxing or for any other major event like this
where seventy thousand people were in the stands alone, and
again millions purportedly were watching.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
How you know in ancient times, I've heard of this
thing called a giant dish that they would point into
outer space, and this thing called the boob tube would
can you say that, I think so would broadcast of
video images.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
So I think they called it satellite.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
We may have to go back to archaic times at
this point. Yeah, that didn't work last night. Neither did
Mike Tyson's legs. Mike Tyson's legs did not work, and
it was it was a showing. You saw the Mike
Tyson up top, kind of from the waist up. You
saw the Mike Tyson of lore. You saw the excitement
and the eagerness and the athleticism. But when they panned
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down and you saw the leg and foot movement, you
saw Mike Tyson needing to sit down. Mike Tyson needed
a nap. And I'm really glad that Jake Paul didn't
give Mike Tyson that nap that many people thought he might,
because Jake Paul did, in fact act with some semblance
of class to not completely knock Mike Tyson out. It
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was boring. It was a money grab. Both walked away with.
I believe Mike Tyson inherited or won ten million somewhere
between ten and twenty million, and Jake Paul got somewhere
above that as well. So I personally would be happy
to fight either one of them for twenty million. That's
plenty of money to get the reconstructive surgery after they
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bashed my nose in, I'm down for it.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Would you fight them for twenty million? Andrew?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Yeah, maybe, I don't know. I just really wanted to
see him get what was coming to him. Yeah, which one, Paul? Yeah,
I wanted him knocked back to eut After the announcement
was made, it was so quiet. If you go back
and rewind what happened after the announcement was made, it
was so quiet amongst those eighty thousand people in attendance, like, yeah,
we all wanted the same thing.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
We did, and it was a collective disappointment. Hopefully the
new column stress app will relieve that. Once we get
to that in the six and see that segue right there,
professional that good.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
But we have to wait for that though.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
That's coming up, and when we come back, I'll tell
you a little bit more about something else that's dirty.
Dirty business in the city of Los Angeles, is La
getting dirtier. The question asks, we'll see what you say,
and I'll give you some information that may convince you that, yeah,
if you need that convincing, LA is in fact getting dirtier,
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and some reasons why kf I Am six forty Live
Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Tiffany Hobbs here with you. Until seven.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I Am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Tiffany Hobbs here with you. This is Saturdays with Tiffany,
and don't forget. At the top of the six o'clock hour,
we will be interviewing Jim Pool, the founder of Newcom,
a wonderful stress management app that you can download, and
we're going to hear all about what that app entails
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at around six six o seven, So you stay tuned
and make sure you are here for that. Now, let's
get into something that actually can cost stress, and for
all intents and purposes, does at least for me. When
I was driving in today, I was waiting at a
light at or on Vermont at the one o one
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kind of right over there by Fountain if you're familiar
with East Hollywood and commuting here into the studio, and
I noticed while I was sitting there at that light,
just piles and piles of trash just in corners. And
usually after a windy day there's trash that accumulates. Of course,
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it just it goes somewhere and sanitation maybe can't get
out to get it soon enough.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
But you start to see this trash pile.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Up, Well, it was there, and there were clear signs
that that trash wasn't just a byproduct of the wind,
but that things were there in place and probably had
been there.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
For quite some time.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
And when you kind of scan around, if you're in
traffic and you're looking at the streets, you'll see trash,
you'll see litter. So I wasn't shocked or anything to
see trash because I've kind of normalized it. It's become
a part of that visual landscape for me. I see
it and it's just almost like ambient noise. It's there, right,
(11:23):
Which is a problem. And you think about it because
in many places around La it seems like people and
our sanitation services have become a little less interested and
invested in cleanliness, in cleaning up after one another or
ourselves specifically, case in point, when I walk around my
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neighborhood that has high rises, mid rises, single family homes, businesses.
It's really a menagerie of every type of dwelling or building. Okay,
lots of people, lots of traffic in La I'll see
dog crap everywhere.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
It's everywhere.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
I'm walking my dogs, and i have my bags in
my pocket and I'm ready to pick up the you know,
the ways from my dog's poop.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
It's what they do.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And you have your bags. My apartment provides bags, and
you'll see out on the on sidewalks in certain areas,
those combo trash receptacles, doggy bag bin things where you
can just take a bag, pick it up, dispose right there.
They make it very efficient, very convenient. Well, then why
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is there so much dog poop just straw on about everywhere?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
That's something that I navigate daily.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I literally navigate that type of situation daily because people
just aren't cleaning up after themselves. And if my apartment complex,
if my area, my little corner of this city is
a microcosm, then that is indicative of a larger problem,
and it is. In fact, new site westside current dot com,
(13:03):
this journalism site, did a story and they asked the question,
is La getting dirtier? My answer, like I said before,
a resounding hell, yes, hell, yes, La is getting dirtier,
not getting dirtier. It is dirty. It is filthy in
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corners and parts of this city. And that's not to
say that we don't have a very developed sanitation program.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
We do.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
But something's amiss, something's disconnected, and because of that disconnect,
there's been an increase in trash, illegal dumping, and litter.
Just in June of this year, La was named to
a list that was backed by the CDC, a list
backed by the CDC Center for Disease Control and Prevention,
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and La was named number fifteen out of the twenty
dirtiest cities in the United States, number fifteen. In twenty
twenty three, we were a bit lower on the or
a bit higher on the list in terms of not
being one of the top twenty. But this year we
have entered the top twenty. We are gaining on the
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number one through ten cities. We are right there, and
we are considered to be egregiously dirty. So what at
westside current dot com do? They talked to a few residents,
including people all around Silver Lake, Venice in this particular
couple Heidi and John, said that they report illegal dumping
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in Venice to that number my LA three one one,
and that the system often falls short.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Roberts said, I get notes saying the.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Pickup, the trash pickup that he's reporting was completed, but
the trash is still there. So I don't know if
you've experienced this, but when you call three eleven, you
can obviously go down the list of things that you
want to engage with or report, and trash pickup is definitely.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
They're a very popular one.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
In fact, it's surged over three hundred percent since twenty
twenty the amount of people reporting or reports that they're
actually collecting with three eleven. But what's being said is
they'll say they'll come out and get it, and if
they do, it may not be immediately. But in many
cases they're not coming at all. They're re routing residents
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to different numbers and passing this information on to different municipalities,
and before you know it, your situation is never solved.
It is just re routed and sit somewhere out there
in the ether for trash to continue collecting for all
of this debris, and you know, just this terribleness just
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to continue again accumulating. Another person named Nicole said that
she had contact did the city senitation senitation offices directly,
but within a week of them coming out, the situation
she had reported was right back to the same condition
it was prior to them coming out. Another person who
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lives in the Peico area described her neighborhood as a
quote field of trash. That's a wonderful thing to put
on your real estate listing when you're trying to sell
your home that you live amongst a field of trash.
She says she's been a resident for forty years in
that area and she's noticed a huge increase in trash,
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abandoned furniture, drug paraphernalia, and feces, both of the dog
and the humankind. There used to be a program that
was went along with the Adopt a Highway program that
you'll see people out there cleaning up. It was incentivized.
It provided payment to those who wanted to pick up
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trash and other debris around freeways. Well, that program has
lost their funding. It's no longer in effect. Now if
you want to pick up trash as a resident, you
are being tasked with volunteering and galvanizing people yourself. There's
a resident who said that he contacted neighbors in his
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area to go out and pick up trash, and no
one wanted to come. One person came, and then the
next time they went out, it was just this poor guy.
And he says that when he was out there picking
up trash, his e bike was stolen. So not only
is he trying to do a good deed, but he
is suffering the effects of crime that's happening in that
(17:44):
direct area as he's trying to do something about trash
in his neighborhood. When we come back, I'll tell you
a little bit more about the why why is this
such a big deal?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
It's not just the eyesore of it all.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
But we have some big events coming up in LA.
We'll get into more about this story after the break,
and we'll talk a bit about how LA plans to
move ahead with a waste water recycling program that could
very well have you drinking recycled water from your toilet.
Fun kf I AM six forty Live everywhere on the
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iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs here with you.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
So before we get back to the story that we
were just talking about about whether or not LA is
getting dirtier.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
News flash it is.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
We're gonna go to a talkback and I particularly love
this talk back from user A Rod because I can
hear him I think chopping something hopefully something food related
and nothing more nefarious in the background, and hopefully he's
willing to share that with us.
Speaker 7 (18:47):
Let's hear from A Rod it Los A has has
gotten dirtier, dirtier for the past eight years, ever since
they passed that prop forty seven.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Okay that chopping.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
They don't care.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I'm not gonna get punished. Dump away is what they say.
And Yuri, it may be starting in bad. Meyer's been
bad and worse since then. There's parts really.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Bad, Yeah, really bad parts. Thank you A Rod for that,
and again, please let us know what you were cooking.
Collins Packer. Hit that talk back again and just share
with us what's going on back there. So back to
the story from Westside Current dot com. Is LA getting
dirty or absolutely and they continue to talk to a
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few residents.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I just want to kind of put a bow on this.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Another person, Patricia Hernandez, a Lincoln Heights resident, for twenty
six years says that she quote believes that the city
of La needs to focus on safety and maintenance fully first,
before all the big expensive projects that aim to change
things without the people's full approval. That is an indictment
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of many, many services and many political leanings in this city.
The fact that you have residents like Patricia Hernandez here
who recognize that there are expensive projects all around this
city and you'll see them while you're driving, whether they
are a new high rise for residents or something else.
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Things seem to be on the move in La as
far as development is concerned, and it seems is even
minimizing the actuality of it. The city is developing like crazy.
So there's money to build, there's money to create these
new infrastructures. Right we're looking at Metro, We're looking at
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everything that seems geared towards what the twenty twenty eight Olympics.
And Hernandez goes on and says, the parks get no maintenance,
and there are just a few big projects that try
to make it look like there's work being done to
distract from what's broken and filthy. Miss Hernandez is very perceptive.
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She can see she sees what's going on, and what
is going on is that LA is set to welcome
two major international sporting events in the next four years,
again the Olympics, the biggest international sports competition, and then
now the FIFA World Cup, which is also coming. So
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there's a lot of beautification that's happening around the city.
But where who is benefiting? Is it in your neighborhood?
Is it just where there's more tourism. You can go
out and you can absolutely assess whether or not your
neighborhood is a benefactor of these clean up and beautification efforts.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Mine is not.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
And I'm near downtown LA that is experiencing a lot
of development. But my area is one where it seems
that we are the forgotten, and that set of Venice,
that set of mar Vista people here in Silver Lake
are talking about it. Another person in del Rey, who
lived there for fifty years, says that there's no street
sweepers that come by.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
There's no street sweepers.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I remember knowing when you could and could not park
your car because street sweepers were coming, and now you
move your car, but there's no street sweeping. There's just
the debris left in its wake. So LA is absolutely
going to have to reckon with this question is LA
getting dirtier? And it will also then have to figure
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out an answer how and when do you mitigate this
accumulation of trash, of illegal dumping of litter and debris.
Is it on each individual? Sure, but that's the soapbox
rant for another day. LA municipalities like sanitation services will
have to come out and do better. But in the meantime,
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what is a program that is in place? What is
another program that's being implemented to help Angelinos? This new
program speaking of dirty and gross that will help you
drink cleaner water?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Okay, that sounds fine on its face.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
We all want access to clean water for ourselves, for
our pets, whatever it may be for bathing, of course.
But LA is dealing with a shortage, and we can
surmise about the usage of the Colorado River and other
sources of water that California may not necessarily have consistently
(23:39):
utilized appropriately or with any regularity. The result of all
of this is that we have a water shortage and
it's only getting worse. Therefore, LA is looking into how
to create more drinkable water sources. Los Angeles is set
to build a facility that will transform waste water into
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clean drinking water.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
And this is from the La Times. This facility is.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Thirty years thirty five years in the making, so this
is not something that's just come about in the last
five years with this this mayor or you know, in
the last ten years with the previous No. This has
been in place for thirty plus years. This facility has
been under construction and the testing has been going on
(24:30):
to assure that the result would be in fact clean water.
So let me give you a little bit about what's
going on. This recycling facility would be in the San
Fernando Valley and when complete, the facility would transform waste
water into purified drinking water for about two hundred and
(24:53):
fifty thousand people. And that's to start, because it could
very well balloon and grow larger than that. As of now,
this project is seven hundred and forty million dollars and
it's to mitigate again the worsening drought conditions compounded by
(25:14):
climate change. The city plans to break ground next month
next month to start construction of new facilities in Van Eyes.
It will be happening at the Donald C. Tillman water
reclamation plant, and when completed, the facilities will all treat
and purify waste water and produce twenty million gallons of
(25:37):
drinking water per day, which is enough to supply about
two hundred and fifty thousand people. Again, this water will
be pumped from wells and after additional testing and treatment,
it will be delivered to taps. The water also will
come from your flushed toilets. Yes, the water that you
(25:58):
flush down your toilet, so it has to go somewhere,
and that water will be collected, purified, treated, strained, and
hopefully cleaned to all eternity so that you will then
become a consumer of this newly reclaimed water. LA has
been recycling wastewater for decades. This isn't new, but the
(26:20):
drought conditions are in fact getting worse. And if you
ever go to golf courses or you see kind of
like the islands, when you're driving the landscaped islands, you'll
see signs that say that this water has been recycled
for use for those specific outdoor places. Now it's going
to be funneled to residents. Actually, when we come back,
(26:42):
I'll tell you a little bit more about this story
before we get into our last bit of local news,
so make sure you stay tuned for that, and of
course top of the hour, we're talking to Jim Pool,
the founder of newcom number one Stress, one of the
number one stress management apps in the country. Looking forward
to talking to him, So we'll do all of that
when we come back. KFI AM six forty Live everywhere
(27:05):
on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs here with you till
seven for Saturdays with Tiffany.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand KFI.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
AM six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany
Hobbs here with you for Saturdays with Tiffany. And we're
talking about this new really it's not new. It's a
thirty year in the making project, but new to you
perhaps and will be implemented soon. So it will be
new for all of us. So water reclamation program that
(27:37):
will take water that is recyclable, that will be used
from different sources or attained obtained from different sources and
then funneled to residents to become purified drinking water. Now,
in the nineteen nineties there was another program, and this
(27:57):
program also saw kind of a sister program in the
year two thousand. But during that time there was conversation
over what this type of reclamation would in fact entail.
What do you mean by reclamation? People wanted to know
what does that mean? And here's the thing. Back in
(28:18):
two thousand, when it was introduced these reclamation efforts, there
was a tagline attached, and this tagline sent a lot
of people in the opposite direction. The tagline was the
toilet to Tap project. People said, absolutely not toilet to tap.
(28:39):
You must be crazy. And this issue was caught up
in a mayoral campaign and a two thousand and one
ballot measure, and the valley actually wanted to secede from
Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
This was a huge deal.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Back twenty plus years ago. So again, this conversation is
not a new conversation. This development has been ongoing. But
we are now starting to see quickly the efforts of
all of this debate and all of this development, and
it will result in this new program going into effect shortly.
(29:15):
The current Board of Water and Power and La Sanitations
say that this highly treated water is not toilet to tap. Okay,
then what is it?
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Then?
Speaker 3 (29:32):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (29:33):
It's is we know that it's rain water is collected,
and we know that water comes from other sources. I
did some poking around, because when you look for this information,
so it's buried, it's buried under a lot of flowery
language and efforts about mitigating climate change. But what I
(29:53):
did find is that in previous years, over the last
two to five years, there have been quite a few
new stories about this ongoing project, and it is connected
specifically to the Donald C. Tillman Reclamation plant that will
be breaking ground soon. There are already four other water
(30:14):
reclamation plants, and this would be one of the newest ones.
And what I found on YouTube in different places from
different sources, all vetted and all first shore, some real
heavy hitting new sources is that yes, this is toilet
to tap, but they don't They can't say that because
(30:34):
you're not gonna want to drink that type of water,
so instead they say recycled water. There was a reporter
who went out and tested the water, and first they
gave him the smell test, and his reaction was enough
to put anyone off of ever entering into sipping water
(30:54):
from this sort of source. He said, I hope that
doesn't smell or doesn't taste like what it smells like.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Because it was toilet to tap. He was at a.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Sewage uh sanitation and you know all the things involved
in that area, treatment area, and that water was purified.
And they offered him a crystal clear glass of water
and he sipped it and he said it tasted good,
but that he couldn't put out of his mind what
he was drinking. So I want to do a little
(31:25):
question answer around the room here. And Kayla's already shaking
her head. I see Eileen there right, Hi, Eileen?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
And is that Eileen in there? No?
Speaker 2 (31:35):
No, So she's she's like, she's like, that's not no, no,
someone else. But we're gonna ask you the question nevertheless.
And you can you can absolutely introduce yourself when the
water is introduced to you as part of this reclamation effort,
and they and you are told, hey, this water was
bottled and purified and it comes from this new source.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
It's recycled. Will you be drinking it? Kayla? No, I
want nothing in the toilet in my mouth, nothing ever
doing it? No, never, no, never, never, little sleep here
and there. Im good. You're thirsty. You're in the desert.
No sooner die? Okay?
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Yeah, Well, Raoul toilet to tap? Are we drinking the water?
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I mean, I'm not going to die, so if I
have to all do it? And then who do we
have in the newsroom.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Either it's a brigida, it's a bridgeta brigitta. I'm sorry,
I don't have on my glasses. I apologize. Are you
doing the toilet to tap? I think I missed you, guys,
I just walked in here. So the water reclamation is happening.
LA is developing a new system of water reclamation that
will provide recycled water to over two hundred and fifty
(32:47):
thousand residents through its numerous water reclamation plants and recycling
recycle Goodness Gracious recycling plants, and the newest one is
being built in the valley. It will funnel water to
valley residents. They are saying it is not toilet to tap,
but testers and experts and others are like, we're gonna
(33:09):
be kind of mom about where it comes from. Are you, Brisita,
willing to try this new water. I'm willing to try
the water. I'll just put a filter on it. Still, America,
this is not Flint, Michigan. We'll see.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
She's braving the Michigan is in America though, yes I know,
but I said, okay, you got me. There's she's brave.
She's saying she'll do it. Kles as a resounding no.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Raoul says if he's if he's faced with it, he's
doing it. And I say, if I'm faced with it,
I guess I'm gonna go for it too.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
But I don't think I'll be doing it willingly.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
But all of us will sooner than later be faced
with that type of question because water is being recycled,
because we are in a drought, and climate change is
a real thing.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
I know. We had a talk back from a listener.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
I guess it got cut off, but thank you you
still for it. Please give us your talkback, send them in.
Go on that iHeartRadio app, press that button.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Let us know what.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
You're thinking when we come back. We have a wonderful
interview coming up with Jim Poole, the founder of newcom
one of the number one stress management apps in all
the land and all the United States and probably internationally
at this point, and he is going to tell us
(34:28):
all about what new coom does, why he developed it,
the science behind it, because there's a lot of science
that makes this app just completely different from others that
you may have used in the past. I downloaded it,
I'm looking forward to using it, and we'll hear from
Jim Pool more about what new comm is when we
(34:49):
come back. KFI AM six forty Live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
KFI AM six forty on demand.
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