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Speaker 1: There's a drama going on in DC a closed door

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Speaker 2: Try.

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Speaker 3: It's don't matter. And sometimes people do those things because

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Speaker 1: Our ABC News correspondent in Washington is Ike Jochi and

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Speaker 1: Ike great to talk with you. The battle here seems

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Speaker 4: Showdown, it really is. And you know, tensions between McCarthy

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Speaker 1: So there's a difference between getting things done and then

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Speaker 1: as Kevin McCarthy has basically said to the Freedom Caucus,

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Speaker 1: Be ensued by justice because they're too big. I hate

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Speaker 1: The funny thing is with the Google anti trust suit here.

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Speaker 6: Hitting the US government against tech giant Google began today.

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Speaker 6: It's the Justice Department's biggest anti trust case against the

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Speaker 1: Right, so when is it illegal. It's illegal when you're

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Speaker 1: Can imagine that you are out with your partner and

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Speaker 1: out in the right order there. Blake Trolly is our

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right. Chris La County DA Gascon's chief of

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Speaker 7: Joseph Nigez says that police's false reports on him have

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Speaker 1: So there we go.

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Speaker 2: We are to set the example an inclusive of our staff.

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Speaker 2: You know, the City of Azusa's staff at all times

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Speaker 7: So there he is further saying that he's disappointed in

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he's saying that all of this cause well, really

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'm curious as to how that would have

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Speaker 7: Well, the optics of this are certain questionable, especially I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, probably because fighting the case would cost him more

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Speaker 7: One thing and one thing to think about, Chris. This

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Speaker 1: how many nights have you had that. It's like, oh boy,

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm lucky to get, like I swear, good night's

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Speaker 7: sleep anymore is like six hours. If I get six,

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Speaker 7: that's like the new eight.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, oh, perspective. Is everything all right? Blake, always

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Speaker 1: good to talk to you. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: your work on this, and thanks for reaching out to

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Speaker 1: the mayor of Azusa. There's it's good to have the

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Speaker 1: word on it. Yeah, yeah, you bet. Listen, we're out

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Speaker 1: of the drought. Good, good, But we know we can't

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Speaker 1: depend on heavy rain and snowpack every year. For Pete's sake.

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Speaker 1: We've been fighting droughts on and off for the last

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Speaker 1: more than a decade, which is why California wants to

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Speaker 1: take a good hard look at the grass man. It's

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Speaker 1: next I AM six forty, We're live everywhere and Ryanheart

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Speaker 1: Radio app. It's Chris Maryland for Johnny Can Today KFI

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Speaker 1: AM six forty more stimulating talk. Well, we've seen the

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Speaker 1: drought come and go, which is great. I'm glad that

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Speaker 1: it's gone right now. Is there any doubt it's coming back? No?

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Speaker 1: I think that if we are being honest, and unfortunately

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Speaker 1: some people like to argue that everything's fine, everything's fine,

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Speaker 1: everything's fine. We can't put our heads in the sand

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Speaker 1: on this. The water is going away and there may

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Speaker 1: not be enough water one day to keep everybody showered

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Speaker 1: in California. That day is not today, thank goodness. So

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Speaker 1: I'm appreciative when people are looking ahead, and I'm appreciative

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Speaker 1: that state legislators are saying, why don't we stop wasting water?

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad that we finally decided to stop wasting water.

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Speaker 1: Oh good. Now we actually have have implemented some water

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Speaker 1: conservation policies in the past, and what's happening now is

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Speaker 1: that the state legislature is taking it upon themselves to

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Speaker 1: finally codify those rules long term, and that means no

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Speaker 1: more watering NFTs. Now here to explain what an NFT is, Deborah.

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Speaker 8: Mark, don't water your decorative grass?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what are the non functioning turf? They call that

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Speaker 1: non functioning turf? It's not the non fungible tokens, right,

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Speaker 1: it's a different NFT. All right, So what they're what

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Speaker 1: they're gonna do is that land that's between streets. You

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Speaker 1: know that the city owns that that median area, stop

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Speaker 1: watering that that land that's next to the sidewalk between

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Speaker 1: the sidewalk and the road, stop watering.

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Speaker 8: So you can just planned look, just planted succulents there,

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Speaker 8: say that again, just plant succulence. I know you like

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Speaker 8: that word succulent.

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Speaker 1: Put a succulent in there. Yeah, let's make this the

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Speaker 1: most succulent city this side of Phoenix. Right, and problem solved,

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Speaker 1: it'll be suculitious. No, I totally agree, I really do.

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Speaker 1: I think that. Now. Listen, there's gonna be some initial

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Speaker 1: expense to do that, to hardescape things. But it just

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Speaker 1: makes an awful lot of sense, doesn't it, Because once

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Speaker 1: you get through that initial expense, your maintenance is so minimal.

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Speaker 8: That is a nimal Hey, Chris, I think in LA

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Speaker 8: I think homeowners, if you take out your grass and

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Speaker 8: you plant succulents, you get some kind of credit.

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Speaker 1: I think you get love it, Yeah, love it.

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Speaker 8: So it shouldn't be that expensive, shouldn't be.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, this band is gonna take a little while to

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Speaker 1: come into effect. They say the band takes effect in

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Speaker 1: phases between twenty twenty seven and twenty thirty one. There

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Speaker 1: are exceptions for grass in sports fields, parks, cemeteries, and

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Speaker 1: areas used for activities and other community spaces. Also exempt

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Speaker 1: are areas where grass is irrigated with recycled water. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is important. Why do we not have more of

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Speaker 1: the recycled or reclaimed water going toward all those other places.

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Speaker 1: The cemeteries can be watered with reclaimed water. It's not

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Speaker 1: like the residents are gonna be upset that it's not

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Speaker 1: drinking water. They actually don't need drinking water six feet down.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to use potable water in those places.

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Speaker 1: Same goes for sports fields. You don't have to have

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Speaker 1: potable water. And one of the biggest water wasters in

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Speaker 1: America is golf courses. And I always appreciate when I

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Speaker 1: hear a golf course that says, listen, we are gonna

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Speaker 1: go to recycled water. We're watering with reclaimed water. I

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Speaker 1: love that more of that more. Why why is there

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Speaker 1: an allotment for these places to use the drinking water.

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Speaker 1: That's the water that we actually need. That's the most

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Speaker 1: valuable resource in the world, is the water that we

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Speaker 1: actually can drink. But we're saying, and that's right, we're

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Speaker 1: not gonna We're not gonna use it. We're not gonna

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Speaker 1: use it on those lawns between roads, We're not gonna

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Speaker 1: use it on those lawns by the by the sidewalks.

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Speaker 1: But you can still use it on your golf course.

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Speaker 1: No stop with that The good news is this bill

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Speaker 1: is supposed to save about ten percent of the drinking water,

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Speaker 1: and I'm here for it. Save ten percent of the

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Speaker 1: drinking water outstanding. That ten percent makes a big difference. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's take a look at some of these other things

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Speaker 1: like sports fields, golf courses, cemeteries, other community spaces. As

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Speaker 1: they're saying la times verbiage on this, let's fix this

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Speaker 1: and say nonpotable water, recycled water. If you have to

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Speaker 1: have grass, and it's not, there's no reason to use

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Speaker 1: any potable water on grass ever, ever, done, ever, never,

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Speaker 1: There's no reason for it. So that needs to be

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Speaker 1: the next step. Just use that, save all the good

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Speaker 1: water for us to drink and maybe your four legged

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Speaker 1: friends and your fish. Otherwise everything else needs to be

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Speaker 1: recycled and succulents exactly. Just fixed America. Again, you're welcome.

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