Tony Katz and the Morning News with Craig Collins 3rd Hr 12-22-25

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. Tonycats in the morning news, 93 WIMBC. My name is Craig Susan Collins filling in. There is a unique success. that the Trump administration has had that has become so, you know, valuable, I think, to them that it barely gets talked about by mainstream media. Of course they don't want to discuss it. Because you remember during the campaign, both Democrats and Republican were complaining about the amount of people who lived here illegally, the problems that illegal immigration has on our country, or just people that have no rights and want to stay, and then all the money and things we give them. Essentially, a whole lot of people believe we need to do a better job at the border and we needed to deport a lot of illegal aliens from this country. That's all happened. And so again, mainstream media ignores this and pretend it's not a thing. But let's listen to Fox News, talk a little bit about it with Tom Homan. And also mention one of the most important stats, the amount of people who have voluntarily left. Because we actually haven't sent anywhere near as many people out of this country unwillingly. as have just decided to leave because of the change and approach from one administration to the next. Here we go. Tom Homan. Tom, great to have you this morning. Welcome. Good morning. How would you assess the president's work on securing this border so far in 2025? Unprecedented. Nothing like this in the history of the country. Look, we got the most secure border in the history of this nation. Awesome. The most secure ever. And that's based on real data. I just came back. I just did a border review in San Diego. Texas and Arizona. I toured the border by air, by boat, and by four-wheel drive. Three days on the southern border, Maria, I didn't see a single illegal ailing. Not one in three days. That's pretty awesome. 1.9 million people have voluntarily self-deported, is what they're calling it. Essentially, the Trump administration made an offer. They said if you're here illegally and you don't want to get sent out in a way that's going to make it hard for you to ever come back, just go ahead and leave. And we'll let some version of that leaving be a, you know, bygones be bygone sort of thing. And if you want to try to get in legally, we won't keep it as, we won't make that process as difficult as it would be if we actually force you to leave. It still doesn't mean that these people will be coming back anytime soon. But I do think it's interesting. 1.9 million people have self-deported. I think this is what's most important about this topic.

Because I'll go blue in the face telling people, no matter what side of the aisle they're on, that it's actually compassionate to have a deterrent because of how terrible it is for someone to try to travel into our country illegally. To trust narcos and terrorists and, you know, drug dealers and whatnot and coyotes, as they're actually called, people who try to get people across that border. Horrible things happen. People are killed. People are raped. It's literally a terrible decision to make to try to go that way. And then also people who like ride the beast, which is the train that you sit on the top of and multiple people die as that train travels throughout Latin America. Having a deterrent, which makes people think they're not going to be able to get in, causes them to not risk their life trying to get here in the first place. And then actually once they're here, It doesn't create a burden on our society as we saw during the Biden administration on how to deal with so many people that are illegally in this country and refusing to leave. So just make them leave. Make them go back to where they're from and make people come in legally is the best thing you can possibly do. It helps a whole lot of other people not risk their own life trying to do it. And so I've, as I said, gone blue in the face, kind of telling that to people. But this feels like it's the screaming version of the truth of that statement. Because 1.9 people show 1.9 million people, excuse me, chose to leave. When given the option to go ahead and leave and get out of here, a show up, we'll even give you some money. I think we were giving people some amount of cash to go ahead and get out. And they did it. And so it's sort of amazing too. Because the last thing I'll say about this topic before I take a break is it destroys the narrative that these people can't go live in whatever country they're from. The narrative you often hear is that they can't possibly make it. That it's a single mom with three kids who can't figure out how to support her family in whatever country she's actually from. And the only option she had was to sneak into our country and live here, et cetera, et cetera. That's the emotional version of the story you hear all the time. If 1.9 million people chose to go back home, wherever home was, they couldn't have been as, you know, bad of situations as they claim they were. A lot of these situations had to be tolerable enough for someone to be like, fine, you know what? It's too difficult. Put me back in a plane. I'm going back to where I came from. So I just think it's really interesting. That story is so barely discussed in so many places because it's a resounding win. And one where a whole lot of Americans on both sides of the aisle wanted and would have voted for either person. To do this, one wouldn't have actually done it. Harris was making promises that made no sense because the administration she was a part of was the administration that caused the problem. But nonetheless, they were the ones saying they'd also fix it. Trump has actually fixed it. So, of course, it goes away. All right. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Susan Collins filling in. Tony Katz the Morning News, 93 WI. What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Your local Toyota dealer has great deals available today on Tacoma, Tundra, and Forerunner with the space and features for any adventure. It means driving for less, with available hybrid options, delivering great MPGs without sacrificing power. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles, meaning your truck will hold its value for years to come. Shop Toyota.com to find out more. Toyota, let's go places. T. Tony Katz, the morning news.

93 WIBC. My name is Craig Susan Collins filling in. Matt and Carl hanging out as they do every single morning on this show. There is a Swedish, this is a real thing. I'm going to say it correctly. A Swedish AI pharmaceutical company. They don't sell actual pharmaceutical things for people. They sell coded versions of drugs for AI. And you actually have to buy their code. And what does it do? It makes your chatbot think that it's high or it's taking cocaine or ketamine or it's drunk. And you get to interact with a on, you know, some kind of substance version of artificial intelligence. And apparently it's popular. People are purchasing the code to get their AI drunk or to get their AI high so that they can talk to a fake thing that now also seems to be under the influence. What do we think of this? So basically they're buying an app here. Yeah, they're buying the drunk version of chat GPT. More or less, yes. I mean, you know, there was a day I just could have taped something and send somebody. Yeah, I don't know. I think it just goes more along the line where people think that they're buying something that's funny for them to listen to with AI. And, you know, if, I mean, it's not my thing and I'm not entertained by it, but if that's somebody, you know, what they want to do. Sure. To me, it'd just be like, you know, I'm entertained by a British voice. It's one place. They have the intercom and, you know, he sounds British. And I'm like, yeah, I would do that. Okay. But I love that comparison, Matt, because, yeah, I agree with you. I don't think I would find it as amusing as people are finding it to, like, get your AI drunk or have it be high or something. But I always change my directions that I get, my GPS, to be a foreign accent. Because I love it. I have an Australian woman right now that gives me directions. And it's the best. And she'll say stuff like, turn into the car park. And I'm like, I don't even call it that. Very nice. But it makes, I don't think that was right. But it makes me so happy when I hear those things. And my wife thinks it's also a very dumb thing that I do. I feel like half of this show has just been the ways my wife criticizes me in a good way. But we'll be driving somewhere in the Australian A-I'll pop in. And my wife will just roll her eyes and look at me. But as you said, like I find that more entertaining than getting it drunk. But this sounds like one of the fun parts about marriage and the fact that you know, you'll get a reaction out of her and just kind of a funny, playful, kidding thing. You know, if you keep changing the voices and maybe it annoys her a little bit, but that's the man she married. So that's kind of cool, you know. Yes, amen to that. All right. Some other things out there that I saw that I thought were interesting. There is a guy that's complaining that a 550-pound bear. has moved in under his house just in time for the holidays. It's not a bat bear. It's not a mat bear. It's an actual bear has moved in that. Well done, Carl. Just in time for the holidays, as I said. So the guy's name is Ken Johnson, and he's had to cancel all of his Christmas plans because the bear won't leave. He also says that in the middle of the night, he is often, you know, terrified when he wakes up because he can hear a bunch of crazy stuff happening under him. because the bear is under the house breaking things. I don't know why they can't get it to move, but the guy has said he's also now blasting CDs to try to get the bear to leave of like barking dogs and all kinds of things, and it's not working. But a whole lot of people seem to be enjoying the story of the man who is now, quote, unquote, living with a bear. They need to find a female bear in heat to attract them out. That's a good idea. That is a good idea. Because I was about to ask, who do you call for something like this, but you call another bear?

That's what you do. Well, that's the best idea I've heard ever is if it's a guy bear, you just find a chick. You find a woman and then he'll leave. Like, that's all it takes. So that's fantastic. It's the loss of nature. It works for everything. Right. Actually, there's another story I have that feels like it leans into this whole idea that I wasn't even going to talk about because I saw it and I clicked on it and I was thinking that it was, you know, just clickbait stuff. But I'll just read the headline to you guys. Stunning Cowboys cheerleader. models her tiny waist in Santa Baby outfit. That's an actual sporting news. Oh, that's an actual sporting news headline, by the way. Like, that's a real thing that I found on Yahoo today when I was looking for stories. Yes, I still go to Yahoo.com. And yes, the woman is incredibly attractive. But how is this actually a story? Like, there's a bunch. They wrote a bunch here. They said that she's, you know, a model, part time. This is the craziest clickbait article I've ever seen in my life, even though she is, again, a very attractive woman who put up a photo of herself in a Christmas outfit.

We have anything in reaction to this? This is what the spirits intended to be, right? You know, when people sing Christmas Carols and Yule Tide, this is the first picture they get. You know, Christmas is now Halloween. There's no. Yeah. It's just everything's trappy, sexy, everything, I guess. I don't know. Maybe that's the old man of me. That's a crumption in me. No, I think I think you're right. I think I also have that crumagine in me, by the way, too. I went to a restaurant. Actually, I have two different restaurant stories, and I don't know if I'll tell them both here. One is. just a simple hack thing. My boss at the radio station I worked for in Houston gave us a couple gift cards to a very fancy restaurant in town. And we went there and we showed up early. And this is the hack. When you show up early for your reservation and they can't sit you, they feel bad even though it's your fault and not the restaurants. So they give you free stuff. They gave us multiple. I think we got a free dessert and a free appetizer because we weren't seated at seven when our reservation wasn't until eight and we showed up at seven. So this is a hack for anyone out there. Go to a fancy restaurant and make them feel bad for doing normal things and they'll give you free things. I don't know what we think about that first one. See, this could be dangerous in the wrong hands because we have said that most here at Indianapolis. So I feel like if I show up for my reservation early, I might get a free shrimp cocktail, even though that would never happen. The information in the wrong hands could be dangerous for the restaurant business. That's what I'm saying. You're right. All the restaurants are now going to have people flooding in at times. They're not supposed to be there. But I just couldn't believe how nice they were to us and how bad they felt. Because like we just sat at the bar for like 45 minutes and had a pretty great time. my wife and I, and then we eventually, you know, sat down at the table and everything. But we did. We got multiple items for free because they felt so bad that they couldn't seat us when we weren't supposed to be there. That's, that's one restaurant story, the other one, and this was leaning into the thing Matt said a second ago. We went to a place that had attractive waitresses. I may have mentioned it before on this radio show. It's called Ohos Locos. I like how Matt's laughing because it's also come up on our podcast, Matt Craig, excellent podcast, if you want to check that out. But yes. Thank you, Carl. And the waitresses were all wearing like Santa outfits. And here's my question. Why? I didn't understand that part. I don't want to connect Santa, a person that I do not have any sort of sexual interest in, to an attractive waitress that's bringing me food. I feel like that's a very inappropriate connection. Why did that happen in our society? This is a real question. I'm asking it. No one has to answer if you feel awkward and don't want to. But I thought, and this is my crumudgeon and me, Matt, this was an unnecessary ad to this restaurant. Well, you made it awkward when you sat on her lap. You know, I mean, she is, you know, that could be a thing. Right. Yeah, I don't think I want to either, man. I mean, I have memories of my... childhood, you know, and that's like everybody else and you want to kind of preserve those and protect those. And Santa Claus. It's just, Christmas, the whole spirit, it still seems like that one thing that's not cynical or untouched in my head, you know, that's supposed to be merry and snow and all those things. But it's, hey, the world, the world goes on the other way and that's okay. I'm cool with that. No, amen. I like what you said there, because it is Halloween's fault that they've ruined every other holiday for everyone where now everything has to be sexy.

So many things are terrible about, you know, that itself. And to have a discussion about the reality of people that came here, likely illegally, to institute their version of life in our society and then protest our version of society, the version that the United States has been proud of for a very long time, but to actually try to stand in opposition to it within our own walls, within our own borders. is dangerous. It's obviously dangerous, and a lot of people can understand the risk that this has in our society. And I just thought it was kind of amazing, again, that the mainstream media reaction to Governor Greg Abbott in Texas trying to outlaw this in just one state in the country is you're doing something that doesn't need to happen. Not in the sense that they're saying that they don't actually agree that we as a society, we as a country here in the United States, should oppose things like the use of Sharia law. But they're trying to claim that no one's trying to do this anyway. You know, like no one's actually trying to undermine our value system in this way and couch it in faith or something else that then has a lot of dangerous components to it, to us here. And you know what's funny about that? And funny is the worst word. I don't know why I use that word so often, but I do. But to me, whenever someone says that it's a dog whistle or I'm doing this thing in a way where I don't actually think it has value, I'm just doing it for political performative reasons, all that stuff. If I on principle agree with the thing they're saying, then I don't care. Then go ahead and do it. Pass a law that prevents a bad thing from happening in our society and let the left scream and yell that that's not happening anyway. So why pass that law? because we're still preventing something that I think we should prevent. Essentially, what I'm saying is when you ban, you know, overly sexual books in schools, they're saying kids shouldn't read for a variety of reasons. And then the left goes, well, no, that's not happening. Well, who cares? Let's go ahead and ban it anyway, because we all should be able to agree. We should all get in the same room and say, hey, we don't think that young children should be reading books that are sexually explicit. We all agree with that. So let's go ahead and put that on the books. Who cares about these seem like the stupid things to politically fight when the reality is they're fighting them for very different reasons, for reasons that are very bad, essentially, and, you know, evil, in my opinion. They're not actually fighting them because they just think that they don't need to happen in the first place. That's the lamest excuse or the worst excuse someone can use to say why we shouldn't do something. If we can all fundamentally, it's like 90-something percent of our society. can agree that this is a good thing. 99% plus like banning Sharia law in the United States. Let's go ahead and do it, baby. And anyone that says we don't need to, and it's terrible to do it because it's not important, seems like they actually want some version of it to exist in society because there's no reason to oppose these things. But all right, I'll take a break. A little bit more coming up. Craig Susan Collins filling in, Tony Katz the Morning News, 93 WIBC. Tony Katz the Morning News 93 WIBC. My name is Craig Susan Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about. You have Matt and Carl hanging out as they do every single morning on this show. I saw a story about an upcoming My Strange Addiction episode. If you don't know what the show is, it's on TLC. It's people who admit that they're addicted to weird things. And then there's a whole episode discussing it. Anyway, this woman, her name is Catherine.

is addicted to snorting her food. This is real. She doesn't like to eat anything. She likes to snort everything that she consumes, both liquid and food product. So she grinds it down into a snortable thing and then inhales it up her nose. She's, for some reason, you know, completely addicted to this behavior. And the whole episode is about how strange that is of a decision and how bad it is on a variety of levels. I don't know. My first reaction to this was how you'd try to deal with it if you were someone in this person's life. Like say your boyfriend, a significant other, even just a friend, and your friend is a serial snorter of food and drink. How do you get them to stop doing it? I don't have an answer. Only questions. Anyone else want to react to this? Well, I want to know how this got started. I mean, what was the very first instance? of snorting your food and who convinced her to do that and why she thought it was a good idea. Uh-huh. Yeah, I can't imagine anybody told her to do this in a way that was anything other than a joke. I don't know, man. That's a good question. But she is addicted to it. She recently had pigs in a blanket that she crushed up into little... Fantastic. It sounds like a lot of prep if you go snort it. It does. It sounds like you go through all the work of making the food the right way, and then you crush it up into little things and then snort it. But anyway, we'll see by the end of that episode, and I guess there's previews of it, which is why it's being talked about online going viral. If there's any chance to get her to stop snorting all her stuff. I saw an episode where a lady was eating drywall, and I didn't understand how she could be still alive. That's a good question. Yeah. Thank you, Carl. I have a lot of questions about that. Was she doing this all the time? Was this like something she did? Okay. She broke up like pieces of drywall and ate it. I'm like, I don't understand how she's alive. Well, that's what I'm wondering too, because isn't there a chemical or something or something that will make you sick or ill and drywall? Yeah. Yeah. I think there is. I also don't know how you stay alive if all you're doing is snorting stuff and not eating or drinking anything. I'm also confused by that. Get back to the other one, but yeah, that show is just very strange, and it goes viral quite often. This is a New Age diet that hasn't hit Indiana yet, so we're thankful for that. It's the replacement for Ozempic. If you want to lose weight, just snorts. No, don't you. That's horrible. That's horrible. That's horrible. Horrible advice. All right, another story out there I saw that I thought was interesting. An Amazon driver stole somebody's cat. This is a real story. Pepper, or Piper, excuse me, is still missing, is the headline to the article. But an Amazon delivery driver found a cat outside of someone's home while delivering an item. A doorbell camera caught them stealing the cat and driving away. Talk about a bah humbug, a version of a holiday. Not only am I going to potentially like ruin gifts and things that I'm dropping off at the house, but I'm also just going to take your pet. How do you deal with this story? Well, I mean, first thing you do is you give the driver the delivery person a low rating. That's what you do. Nothing about two stars here is what I would recommend. Secondly, what do you do? You contact the police. You call the Amazon people and I really want to know if this individual what they are expecting to do with the cat or if they just wanted a cat as a pet.

Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, it's a great question. You feel like you can solve this mystery. But they say that for days now, the person still can't locate the cat because you should obviously know if you're Amazon who the delivery driver was. And then you have it on video that they're stealing the cat. So I feel like this has to be a solvable crime. And yet we're days in. And apparently it's not. So the person is complaining online. And maybe this is a situation where like local news has to get involved. And they do that like local news interview where. People don't care about this story, but they should. And then Amazon finally fixes things, right? Yeah, it's the start of that. I think we're going to have to have about 10,000 of those Amazon stores, though, to make any change on it. That's true. And really, you know, it's the craziest thing because I do like so much of my grocery shopping on Amazon now. And the deliveries are pretty good, but there's just that one time, you know, where it says it's going to be delivered or going to be delivered. It never makes it. And you're kind of wondering, yeah, did the driver just kind of keep that? Maybe market delivered because it's nowhere in sight right now. I can't find it anywhere. I wonder how many things you can steal as a delivery driver for Amazon and not get fired. Like how many things can just go missing each year? I don't want this answer for real, but I'm curious about it. Because as you said, man, like maybe you just pocket like one out of every 20 things. It's like the old Seinfeld episode where none of the mail is actually getting delivered. All right. Another thing out there that I saw, this is only going to amuse Matt and Carl, and it's going to amuse me because I'm going to talk about it. But probably no one else is going to care, and yet I can't help it. There's a website that I occasionally go to to prep content for radio shows. It's called distractify.com. This part is not important to the story, but I just want you to know this is real. I'm not making this up. It's a real thing. They posted an article the other day said, where is Haktua girl now, which is a story that I guess someone somewhere wanted an answer to, and I for some reason, while filling in for Tony Katz over the last year and a half, I think talked more about the Hock Tua girl. who went viral for a video and then became a pseudo-celebrity for a very short amount of time than anyone else in the history of radio did. But where is Haley Welsh now, according to the internet? She's just back to living her normal life. She's given up on her podcast, giving up on all her internet fame, and she's back to just being a human being that nobody cares about. So I figured I'd update you both on where the Hock Tua girl is now. I made a joke, but I was... kind of wondering what happened to her and not because awesome not because of what she did but just because i want to know what happens to these people when they're sure have this astronomical rise to fame and then it's becomes hard work in a brand and then you have to actually pay it. I mean, it's, I'm sure for her it was a lot and she's like, hey, I just want to be a young adult now and good on her. That's cool. I mean, the whole thing, she was actually felt a little polarizing at the beginning because people were saying she was so gross. I'm just like, dude, she's a kid. You know, and when you're in your late teens and 20s, you say dumb stuff. That's all. You do.

Yeah, you say dumb stuff for attention. She then also sold cryptocurrency and ripped off a whole bunch of people. That also happened. Oh, I didn't know about that. Oh, yeah, but that wasn't really her fault, I think. If I'm being honest, I think other people convinced her that she was famous enough to sell her own cryptocurrency. And then they bought, I don't know, some weird thing that happened. But yes, other than that, she's now completely disappeared from the spotlight. Might be some outstanding charges, but whatever. There might be some money that people. One last thing. Right back into the spotlight. Yep. One last thing before we get out of here, I just thought this was interesting. If you're going to have to deal with people that you don't like this holiday season, there is a psychologist that has a simple tip, a quick tip for you to make it better. They say that before you interact with someone, that you maybe don't feel like you want to be around, whether it's a co-worker, whoever it is that you're going to see. For eight seconds in your brain, pretend you had a good time with this person. This is apparently a trick that your mind eventually believes some of these fake scenarios where, like, you enjoyed yourself around a person you don't like, makes you actually like the person more because it starts to convince you that some of these things that you imagined happened actually happened. So if you ever are in a bad situation, give yourself eight seconds to picture a better situation, and apparently it makes you happier. That is the hack of the day. What is Toyota affordability? It all starts with buying smart, and your Toyota dealer has great deals available to qualified customers on reliable cars and SUVs, including the redesigned RAV-4, spacious Grand Highlander, sporty Camrys and corollas. It means driving for less, with efficient hybrid and plug-in hybrid options available throughout the lineup, extending your overall driving range and delivering great MPGs, saving you money at the pump. And it means trading for more. Toyota is known for building long-lasting vehicles. And as the best resale value brand, according to Kelly Blue Book, your Toyota can be worth thousands more than average 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.