Tony Katz and the Morning News 1st Hr 1-14-26

What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Your local Toyota dealer has great deals available today on RAV-4, Grand Highlander, Camry, and Corolla, with the features and style you deserve. It means driving for less with hybrid and plug-in hybrid options across the lineup, delivering great MPGs. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles, meaning your car will hold its value for years to come. Shop Toyota.com to find out more. Toyota, let's go places. Iran claims that they're going to be engaging executions today. The reporting says it will be 2,500 that have been killed in these protests, in this push to gain their freedom. That is far different than the original reporting of 12,000. which is why we always discuss waiting, checking, making sure we have the sources right. We believe in doing the things that those Hamas supporters don't do. Tony Katz, 93, WIBC, good morning. Good to be with you, President Trump, saying the action will be very strong if Iran executes protesters. There's a discussion of public hangings. No, I have no idea how it's going to work out. Nor do I know what President Trump is going to do when asked about what the possibilities were and how the Iranians are responding. sense of U.S. strikes against U.S. assets in the Middle East. What do you say to U.S. service members about why it is worth the risk to intervene in Iran? Yeah, Iran said that the last time I blew him up with the nuclear capability, which they don't have any longer. So Iran said that the last time they better behave. So we see 2,500 dead in these protests and the possibility. of a greater growing number with the rant signaling fast trials and executions like there's going to be a trial the people have decided to push back against the authoritarian regime and actual democrats authoritarian regime Where the people don't have courts, you can't sue, you don't get to go to a Supreme Court and argue in an insane way that boys can be girls. My gosh, what took place at SCOTUS yesterday? From the people arguing that boys should be in girls' sports, where they refused for the court to define what a boy and what a girl is. Yet weirdly, I think Ketanji Brown Jackson Ketanji Brown Jackson tried to define such things. But she said in her confirmation hearing that she could not define what a woman is because she's not a biologist. Which makes me wonder, did she lie in her confirmation hearings? Because based on what I heard yesterday, and certainly other people could hear it differently, she kind of knew the difference.

She's now worth $30 million and she's going to protect that fiefdom with everything in her. Tony Katz 93 WIBC. Good morning. Good to be here. Good to be with you. Find everything at Tonycats.com. You have got a leak because there's always a leak. The identities of Border Patrol and ICE agents. This is the reporting. It's a report from the independent. It includes the identities of 4,500 federal employees working with ICE, including 2,000 agents. Leaked by a group that is trying to share the identities of ICE agents, these ICE agents are going to get attacked. They're trying to kill these people. This is not new. This is not shocking. We have been discussing this. understand that the idea of we don't like the policy is being pushed back against with we should kill ICE agents. That's where the political left is. And there is to the extent, I should say it this way. The vast majority of Democrats have no interest in trying to lower that temperature and tone down that rhetoric. They're fine with it. They accept the fact that their followers, that their fellow travelers want murder. Disagree with me all you want. 317-239, 93, I've got phones. Go ahead. We're going to deny that there are no Democrats in Minnesota. Saying tone down this rhetoric? Oh, well, Tim Walz did say, we should be peaceful. Now he has seen days of not peaceful. Ice agents constantly attacked. Whether it's false imprisonment, a snowball is being thrown at them, or rammed with vehicles. We saw ICE agents shot at in Dallas. Where are the elected officials to say, stop this? Where do they exist? That is correct. They don't exist. No message is getting out and no message is getting through. Because no message is being delivered. According to Tricia McLaughlin, I always think it's McLaughlin, not McLaughlin, or it's McLaughlin, not McLaughlin. She is the assistant secretary to the deputy to the Department of Homeland Security. She says that 4,500 leaks constitute 4,500 felonies. Until I see a prosecution, I'm not going to believe them. Until I see this Department of Justice actually act, nothing's going to change. By the way, there were a bunch of prosecutors who decided to resign. They don't like how the DOJ is dealing. with the prosecution of the ICE agent in the case of Renee Good, who was killed when she took her car, not listening to law enforcement and started driving towards agents. Swiped one of them. She did it. It happened. These are the facts. Can't be denied. Well, she was turning right. She was trying to drive away.

She was driving away from ICE agents when she was told to get out of the vehicle after she was blocking traffic, after she had spent, well, I guess the last months of her life being proactive in trying to thwart ICE activities. Gotcha. I'm not saying she deserved to die. I'm saying I'm not going to listen to anybody tell me that Renee Good was a good person. I don't think that that's true. And the end of her life, came from decisions she made. I have no problem with the investigation. I question whether or not they'll find it a good shoot. I have found cops out there who are absolutely not worthy of the uniform and are abusive. That happens, no doubt. I side with the citizen all the time. Her actions do matter, though. And the people who don't want to pay attention to her actions, those people, we have a name for them. I believe in the Latin, it is called liar. You could double check me there, a liar. So you've got these prosecutors who have now resigned over the case. Former acting U.S. attorney has walked away. The guy who had been leading the welfare fraud investigation. He has gotten 60 defendants convicted, mostly of Somali descent. He's like, I'm leaving them. I'm not going to be a part of this. Is this because we're not engaging a investigation of the ICE agent? There should be an investigation all over the place. But we should be all so clear. that there's no one trying on the left side trying to tone anything down. They're going to tell you to tone things down, but they don't tell their own people to tone it down. They now write articles saying, Antifa is good. Joe Biden said Antifa doesn't exist, and just a year later, or two years later, we're saying the left is saying Antifa is good. Fantastic, then. It's good to know. The left will always tell you something isn't happening until there's just too much evidence and too much pressure, and then they'll say, well, maybe happening, but that's probably a good thing. It's just how they work. We have got a recall of cheese, which is maybe the most horrible thing I've ever said on the show. Honestly, that might call for this right here. Your car's seat built? Safety miracle or decapitation nightmare? What is the connection between rain and farming? The answer may surprise you. Heroin, sex, machine guns, flamethrowers, murder. There's no story here. We've just found that ratings go up when we say those words. It's time for the worst headline of the day.

Cheese products recall upgraded to FDA's most serious risk level due to Listeria concerns. Fantastic. It's a nationwide cheese recall. It's class one. There is a reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to this product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death. This is Locatelli graded Pecorino Romano. Four ounce and eight ounce. Plastic cups with lids. Five pound and ten pound bags. So maybe utilized in a commercial setting. Pina. Pina. P-I-N-N-N-A. Or is it Pina? Grated Pecorino Romano. Ten-pound bags. Boar's head graded Pecorino Romano. Six-ounce plastic cups. Also, members mark? Also, Ambriola Picante, Locatelli, and yes, sold in Indiana. Even if it's stored in your freezer, get rid of it. You can go back to the store, get a refund. Get rid of it. I will have the story posted on my TwitterX feed there at Tony Katz if you want to find it. What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Right now your local Toyota dealer has great deals available on some of the most reliable trucks on the market, like the off-road ready to coma, rugged full-sized tundra, and legendary forerunner, each with the space, tech, and features to handle it all from the work site to the trails. It means driving for less, with efficient hybrid options available. extending your overall driving range and delivering great MPGs, meaning bigger savings at the pump without sacrificing power. And it means trading for more. The Tacoma and Tundra are ranked number one and number two in resale value over all vehicles, according to Kelly Boo Book, which can mean thousands more than average right back in your pocket when it's time to trade in. That's Toyota affordability. Buy smart, drive for less, and trade for more. Shop Toyota.com or your local dealer for deals and details. Vehicles projected resale value is specific to the 2026 model year. For more information, visit Kelly Blue Books KB.com. Toyota brand average resale value is 53% versus the average vehicle at 45%. Toyota, let's go places. So we got our showers back? Which, for some of you, just in the nick of time. Tony Katz 93 WIBC. Good morning. Good to be here. Good to be with you. Live streaming there at YouTube.com. Just go to the WIBC people's WIBC channel and say subscribe. And then boom, you get to see the morning show. And may I say I am looking dapper? That's right. 11 Democrats in the House of Representatives signing with Republicans reversing Biden-era shower regulations. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, everybody. So much. Uh, right there. That was Pigpen. The story is 226 to 197 vote.

reversing the regulation on showerheads. This was the Democratic Party saying, you are using too much water, so we have to put in these regulators, and we have to keep you from using water. Nope, it's just silly. It's just ridiculous. And this goes along with, there was a, I don't know if I still have it. It was a very interesting chart that was put out by Axios. And, oh, here it is. If you take a look at investments regarding climate anything, green anything, you saw the explosion take place starting in 2016 and then skyrocket in 2021 to about $75 billion worth of investments in green or climate-related technologies. And that is falling off at a rapid rate. 2025, it was under 50 billion. Now, to understand the acceleration, in 2016, it was about $10 billion. And from there, in five years, went from $10 billion to $75 billion, and now it's falling off. Either there is everything that is going to be invested in already invested in, or everyone's realized this stuff doesn't work. All you're doing is making people's lives worse based on some ideological freak show. It doesn't actually provide you any profit. And when there's no profit, there's no investment, which of course upsets the leftist even more because how dare you make a profit? No, no, no, no, no. Only Nancy Pelosi through her stock schemes is allowed to make a profit. Don't you know that already? You terrible person, re-education camp for you. It's there's a wholesale rejection of madness. There's not a wholesale rejection of recognition. And I think this is proven as we talk cars a lot. We know that there's a rejection of the electric vehicle in the main. Not that there isn't a market in the main Americans, we'll use Americans for the sake of the argument, have said no thanks to that cost, to the lack of charging facilities, the time, etc. Hybrid? Americans have said, absolutely. Great. Give me that, please. That's fantastic. So what they said no to is the madness is to the extremes. When the Biden administration was trying to show us Jennifer Granholm, the then energy secretary, former governor of Michigan, wow, look how I can drive my electric vehicle. It's just so convenient. It's not convenient. Long trips in an electric vehicle, not convenience. If you're somebody who works from home and it's just around town, electric vehicle, fun, fantastic, great. I'm not anti-electric vehicle. You couldn't sell America on it. And they tried to do it via forced regulation. They used to force these authoritarian to get their ideological desires through. And Americans said no thanks. And now we're seeing the less investment. And we're finally seeing a rollback of the terrible ideas. Maybe they'll leave our gas stoves alone too. Huh. Boy can dream. Tony Katz 93 WIBC. Good morning. Wow. Producer Carl going with the sweet sweet love making music this morning. I mean, have a good time going to school, kids. Tony Katz, 93 WIBC. Good morning. Story out of the Wall Street Journal about lobbyists. Really?

It's about those who exist in the world of online influence, especially around the Trump administration. Talks about Alex Brucewitz, talks about C.J. Pearson, talks about Rob Smith, and the money that they are getting to push certain points of view. Certainly, you may not know these people, and that's quite all right. is there'll be a whole different crop of people six months from now, two years from now. But there is an entire industry that has been created via the online influencer and whether or not they're getting paid, the amount that they're getting paid and the influence that they actually have. In the case of Rob Smith, here he is going to Qatar for Thanksgiving. This is a weird trip. Congressman Marlon Stutzman was there. It's a weird trip. You can argue that a congressman has more business engaging with VAR nations than an influencer, but neither here nor there. It's weird. Especially when you take a look at the amount of money Qatar has thrown at lobbying the federal government and people think Israel's the problem. Embarrassing. embarrassing. They're just showing you who they are. A-PAC is so terrible. A-PAC is made up of Americans and has done nothing compared to what the nation of Qatar has done in terms of trying to influence our elected leaders. But you won't hear Jesse Brown, the communist, or any of the other Democrats in Indiana talk about that, because that, of course, isn't the point. You know what the point is. You know what they're trying to get done. The story goes on to talk about how Alex Broussowitz, an advisor, was advising Trump to lower the penalty for smoking weed, but he's also getting paid $300,000 by a group that sees that in its interest.

You're seeing how people will show up to Qatar and they're getting Formula One tickets and paddock access and everything else that could run $10,000 a piece. And you wonder what it is that we're actually being fed. What stories are we actually getting? It is very difficult on any level to be able to truly trust what it is that you see and what it is that you hear. And we should be clear that this is not in any way relegated to the political right. This has been the parlance of the political left for years. The right has now just gotten into the game. I think they've gotten to the game in a pretty ugly way. Well, Tony, you're just jealous that none of that money is flowing your way. It's an interesting thought. And I think that it's one that that gets put out there to try and dismiss the larger scale conversation, which is, what do we do to make sure everything that we are getting, all the information we are getting, is accurate or we know that it is opinion-based? There is, it was, it was, it was Michael Crichton. I've talked about this before. The Gelman effect.

The gel-man amnesia effect. It's from Michael Crichton, the author. And how he describes it as is you're reading the newspaper, to the extent that anybody reads newspapers, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette is going out of business. Gosh. And you're reading the newspaper. And you see an article, and it's about banking. And you know a lot about banking. You know this article's full of it. They got this wrong. They got that wrong. They got the other thing wrong. They made this supposition. That's not true. If they just looked this up, if they just called you, everything about this is wrong. And you shout out to your spouse. Do you see how wrong this is? This is just the most ridiculous article ever. These people don't know what they're doing. And then you go immediately to the next article and you go, wow, that's really interesting. Why is the next article interesting? You already know that they got it wrong on the first article. Why would you believe the second one? Why? That he termed, coined the gel man amnesia effect. It's in your field of expertise and you know that it is wrong. You know that it is wrong. Yet somehow you read the next article and you're like, that must be true. I would put forth to you that you can't take anything as just blanket. You have sources. You do have to have people that you trust. I hope I have built that trust over the years. People disagree with me on the philosophy. But when I share a story, I'm giving you everything I can about the story. Every last bit of it on what's already reported. The people who don't like me, and by the way, my troll counts us through the roof, that doesn't matter. They don't like you either. You do have to have places and you have to. Because how could you go through your life not trusting anything? That is no way to live. But in all these cases, including me. If you hear something like, wait a second, I don't know if that's totally accurate. I don't know if he maybe missed something here. Or I don't know if he needs this piece of information. Check, double check and recheck. You should do that for yourself. I do it. I do it all the time. And these people that I've been introduced to, and oh, they work with this one, oh, they work with that one. It is a very unimpressive thing to witness when you meet them in person. Do they play the game better? Well, certainly better than a guy doesn't play the game at all. I wouldn't know how. If I was getting funded by a foreign nation, I would tell you, I tell you anytime I'm connected to anything because part of the trust has to come from. Me not saying, oh, you didn't know that I had a controlling interest in this or I had a piece of that or I'd make money from this. Someone asked me about the event on the 24th, right? Trump one year later. Who gets the proceeds? I'm like, my event, I get the proceeds. That's how it works. I didn't want anyone to think that I don't make money off of these events. I do. And when I lose money, I take the hit. A grown man.

That's how it works. I'm looking forward to seeing you on the 24th. Tickets. Tonycats.com. And I know that for a bunch of people, it's like, Tony, you're having an event in downtown India. I don't go to downtown indie. I want you to come out to downtown indie. I want you to come out for the event. You're in, you're out, you can park locally. We've got the security. I'm showing up. I'm looking forward to a great time. It's been that that has been probably like the biggest sticking point that people have and I appreciate it. And it was weird because they're not wrong. Listen to what I talk about. Now you're going to bring an event to downtown indie. The Hyatt Regency has been so unbelievably helpful. And they work with groups like Indiana Wish, which is a great charity here in Indiana. Think of Make a Wish, but people who actually do the wishes and don't take the money for themselves and don't spend the money on insane office staff, Indiana Wish is terrific. But the Hyatt Regency has been so helpful and they create the deal. I'm like, yeah, let's do it. Let's go check it out. I want you to be there. Tickets.tonicats.com. Do it now. Get your tickets. I'll see you then. What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Right now, your local Toyota dealer has great deals available on some of the most reliable trucks on the market, like the off-road ready Tacoma, rugged, full-sized tundra, and legendary forerunner, each with the space, tech, and features to handle it all. from the work site to the trails. It means driving for less, with efficient hybrid options available, extending your overall driving range and delivering great MPGs, meaning bigger savings at the pump without sacrificing power. And it means trading for more. The Tacoma and Tundra are ranked number one and number two in resale value over all vehicles, according to Kelly Boo Book, which can mean thousands more than average right back in your pocket when it's time to trade in. That's Toyota affordability. Buy smart, drive for less, and trade for more. Shop Toyota.com or your local dealer for deals and details. Vehicles projected resale value is specific to the 2026 model year. For more information, visit Kelly BlueBookskb.com. Toyota brand average resale value is 53% versus the average vehicle at 45%. Toyota, let's go places.