Tony Katz and the Morning News 2nd Hr 10-8-25

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car, but I don't dislike it. I'm more, I like 90s country and then I like, I don't know if Kenny Chesney is like hardcore country nowadays, but I do like Kenny Chesney if that helps narrow down. I just asked a simple question. You went on a thing. Can we focus, please? We only have so much time. It's radio. Do you listen to the Zach Bryan? Do you listen to Zach Bryan at all? Uh, not really, no. Okay. All right. Is it Zach Brian or Zach Brown band? No, no, Zach Brown is something different. Zach Brian is something else. Oh, Zach Brian, no. So you don't know about this. You don't know about this song and whether or not it's against immigration and customs enforcement. You don't have any thoughts that, but you are a singer. You do sing. You have a lovely voice, Tara He says. Oh, thank you very much. Tara Hastings has a lovely voice. President Trump, Kylin. Have you heard of Tara Hastings' voice and how good it is? Didn't she sing for, was it Radiothon a couple years ago? Did you, first of all, I was trying to get Kylin to do her Donald Trump impression. She didn't do it. Secondly, did you sing for radiophone? No, I don't know what that is. It was something. I did it. I did like a karaoke, like, fundraiser several years back, yes. Okay, but it wasn't for radio thought. So here's why I bring this up. Please. Zach Bryan has written this song. It seems to be anti-ice. And listen, people can write songs about anything they want. So now I'm thinking that, you know, it can't be that hard to write a country song because I've read the lyrics. So I'm thinking for an event I'm going to do in June of 2026, maybe I put on a full country show. Will you come on stage and sing a song with me that I write? Oh. I would do that, yes. There it is. There it is. My gosh, that was the longest way to ask that question ever. I want to apologize. That really was. For taking all of your time, everybody. I found which charity it was. It was for the Alzheimer's Association. You're saying dust in the wind. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I did. Did you really? I do. Yeah, yeah. You asked me to sing dust in the wind or something, yeah. I think, yes, yes, once again. And I think it blew your mind with like, yeah. Yeah, that's about right. That's about right. All right. All right. I'm going to go now. See, that was. Oh, my gosh, you have it? Yeah. That was one of the only times I subbed in. It was December 20th, 2022. Wow. I believe, if I have it right, this is the song that set us on our path, Tara. This was the song that brought us together. I think it might have, yes. Yeah. So. We've never been the same. And the people loved it. I mean, they were just.

They were just crazy about it. They thought it was so terrific. One guy, he thought it sucked. But that guy, we don't care about that guy. I don't care. Throw that one out. Yep. Wow. I'm going to go do work. Okay, me too. Bye, bye now. I have no idea how many degrees it is in the American Standard Cooling Weather Center. I say, look at your phone. The time right now is 7-Eleven. It's 48 degrees, by the way, in the American Standard Cooling Weather Center, which soon will be the American Standard Heating Weather Center. And if you're saying to me, what the heck just happened on my radio? We don't know either. Guys, just bringing it to you every day in any way that seems interesting. Tony Katz 93 WIBC, good morning. They are selling Bob Ross paintings to benefit NPR stations. 30 paintings, as reported, they're published on the IBJ. Created by Bob Ross will be up for auction. So, according to the president of Bob Ross, Inc., they're going to be auctioning these things off. There's auctions that will happen in L.A., London, New York, Boston, and online. So what's interesting is that this isn't happening like, hey, we've got these things up for sale, place your bid. They're actually going to auction houses is what's taking place. By the way, if you want to see a really interesting documentary, the documentary of Bob Ross and who really controls all of the Bob Ross enterprises, it's something else. It is something else. Some Bob Ross paintings have sold for over $100,000. The value of the 30 they're going to sell has a value estimated between $850,000 and $1.4 million. So that's happening. The popcorn moment is coming up and back pay. Maybe not. Tony Katz 93 WIBC. Good morning. Gearing up for the popcorn moment brought to you by Boer, B-O-O-O-H-E-R, Booer Remodeling.com. These are the people to trust with your kitchen, with your bathroom. I have an appointment today. Take and look at parts of the kitchen. Well, we're not doing a full thing. I'm doing kind of like a partial thing. Why? You can do that. Does everything have to be, hey, we're going to rip this down to the studs and start over? What if there's just a part of your kitchen you'd like to see look better, function better, act better? Buer remodeling can help your kitchen, your bathroom, your master bath, your basement. If it's inside your four walls, booer remodeling. is the call, the best materials, the most skilled craftsman custom Amish cabinets made right here in Indiana, the highest quality brand names you know and trust. Boer guide you through the entire process. Their five-step design process, starting with that free initial consultation means you know exactly what's happening. And when they're working, every day, you know what's going on. So the stress is just...

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Where's the actual pain? Well, Tony, why is the pain for the employee and not members of Congress? And I'll say to you, okay, let's change the laws so they don't get paid either. But right now, the law is actually very clear that they do get paid in these instances. And some members of Congress are not taking the money. Some are donating the money. They've asked the Treasury not to pay them. I think it's the Treasury. It could be another agency. Fine. But the law says what it says. So change that. But the idea that automatically, oh, yeah, they'll get back pay. That means this is all a game. And I don't think we should treat this as a game. Now let's get to Zach Bryan. He has this song that is being seen as anti-ice. And so we read some of the lyrics. We edited it here. And let me see if I can do this right here. I think I can. Here's the part of the song that was on YouTube, easy to find.

And ice is going to come, bus down here in door, trying to build a house on bills no more, but I got a telephone. Kids are all scared and all alone. The bar stopped bumping the rock, stop rolling, my middle fingers rising, and I won't stop showing that's the bad news. So that's the, that's the song right there. That's the song. And that's the one that's like, my gosh, the anti-ice message. And I heard the cops came, cocky, blankers, ain't they? Ice is going to come bust down your door to try and build a house. No one builds no more. The kids are all scared and all alone. Got some bad news. The fading of the red, white, and blue. So that's it. You could decide for yourself. I think that in places Zach Bryan is trying to rationalize what this is saying, hey, I'm not taking a side in this. Dude, you wrote the song. You wrote the song and people will take from it what it is they take from it. He put out a statement saying, I love this country. Um, this shows you how a divisive, how divisive a narrative can be when shoved down our throats through social media, says Zach Brian. This song is about how much I love this country and everyone in it more than anything. When you hear the rest of the song, you will understand the full context that hits on both sides of the aisle. Everyone using this now as a weapon is only proving how devastatingly divided we all are. We need to find our way back. So maybe we have to listen for the whole song. I think that's a legitimate argument. I'll wait to listen to the whole song. I don't have the whole song yet. I just have that clip that people are talking about. So we'll find out. But I read the lyrics. I'm like, I think I could do that. Oh, I know. I know. Cocky, right? Hey, what are you going to do? Cocky Blanker. That's what they call me. That's actually the name of my new album, Cocky Blanker. It's going to be fantastic. We can do this. So we'll wait to see what the full song is. We'll share it with you here, but you heard it. Discuss it at the kitchen table tonight. See what everybody thinks.

chasing a rainbow dream. I often stop and think about a place I've never seen. Today on the marketplace. Well, the tape measure sold separately. Tony Katz 93 WIBC. Good morning, good to be with you, live streaming on the YouTube's where the trolls. are just being fantastic. They're not happy that we don't have 20 million people listening to an Indianapolis morning show. Someone do math for them. Get back to me. During downtime, clearing my head, getting ready for what's next on the show. I find myself on Facebook Marketplace. Cool stuff, odd stuff, weird stuff, strange stuff. It is all there on the Marketplace. The Marketplace brought to you by Indianaunclaimed.gov. It's your cash. Go get it. Indiana Unclaimed. dot gov fast easy free to use so simple just go and claim your cash because it is yours that final paycheck that dividend that refund it's all there right there for you by the way Matt Baer is on the live stream and the camera is not facing you at all If you have to stand up. We can see the city behind you. We see the monument and everything else, but not you. You can see me now, I bet. Not, well, maybe, maybe, but I'm on a delay with the video, so I don't know. Good to see you. Smart Bear is there. YouTube.com slash WIBC. Man, the chat room is troll angry today. Why? Troll. I don't know. Country music. If the objective is to, hey, no one should listen to Tony Katz, and then you're listening to me to tell me that no one should listen to me. You see the problem, right? I can't, I can't process that at all. I'm trying really hard. They don't want anybody listening to me. So then they say, hey, let me go listen to him. So no one will listen to him. And then they, they write, I swear to you, this is in the chat room right now. I will be angry. No, no, no. Wait a second. Remember, it's me they're talking about in this case. So first they start ridiculous, then angry, and then what do they do? I don't know what they do. I don't know. What did you do to anybody? I mean, you seem... I exist, first of all. Okay. So in the chat room right now, if you go to YouTube.com slash WIBC, it is typical Jews spinning things in your direction. What?

That's the first stop we make. Nothing in between. That's before 7.45 a.m. everybody, you're welcome. Lord. Welcome to every day of my life. I'm Tony Katz. Arrani Sarel, Ben Label. Mashelma, everybody. I'm so sad about it. I'm going to start doing the whole show in Yiddish. Screw it. I don't, I, what am I supposed to do? Brilliant. I don't talk about things they hate me. I talk about things they hate me. Honestly, it's just, it's just a moment of insanity. But he came to the chat room, Matt, to say this. Hey, a hater, do you have anything to say about Matt and his shirt, which is three sizes too small? Come on. It feels good, though. It's like a small. You know what would help, Matt? What's that? If you had a turtle. Everybody needs a pet turtle, I think. Oh, no, this is not a pet. You're going to kill a pet. You're not to be trusted with living things. I can't keep a house playing alive, so I guess it makes sense, you know. Matt, on the Facebook marketplace, there is a vintage thinking sitting turtle statue. It's just adorable. It doesn't keep a little turtle here. You know, I just say he just hasn't. This is how they wrote it. Vintage thinking sitting turtle statue. Now, it's not the thinker, right, with the. chin on the fist and everything else. The monkey. It's sitting down. The knee, the elbows are on the knees. And then. it's got like its head and its hands, right? It is. It's adorable. And right next to it, while behind it are some frogs, I don't know what's going on with those. They're like statue frogs. And then there's a tape measure. So the tape measure is not included. No, I'm out. It's just the gray turtle statue, five and a half inches tall, four and a half inches long, five inches wide. Has a little look on his face like, oops, I just did something, but I'm not going to tell you what it is, you know. Yeah. A little sheepish look. Like, ooh, I'm turtle. I'm sorry, like what now? Ew, I'm turtle. You know, like he just stuck his head at the cookie jar and just ate all the cookies, you know. So you think it's, wait, your laugh was. Yeah. It wasn't a laugh. That's the sound of turtle makes when it does something that shouldn't be doing. Because I thought the look was more like, he-he-he-he. That's pretty close to, yeah. Right? So I don't know. So you do yours. Yeah. I don't know. You have to decide, everybody, which laugh makes us sound more like we've never had a date. Yeah, well, but that would be me. Thank you very much. Have you ever picked up a girl by doing that sound effect? No, no. I might have done a night in jail with that sound effect, but not pick up a girl. I feel like you were the first to hear that sound effect, Tony. Yeah, I think so. Did it work on you? No, well. I've always been well attracted to Matt's mind. Yeah. My opening line's always been, hey, you want to get with an Indianapolis media footnote.

Never fails. Nice. I thought it was funny. I heard it. And do people look at you and go, Jason Hammer? Is that you? No. They say, what do you do? And I say, I do traffic. Boom. Interstate conversation, pot holes, great icebreaker every time. Do you want to engage in some interstate commerce? Huh? Yes. I know how to get to Ohio. You want to go to Illinois? I know where to get to THC. I'll be around you like construction cones on the road. Oh! What is happening? Please send us all your construction-related pickup lines. Have you ever visited the South Split? Oh, sorry. You look like my backhoe. Wait, is that not? I thought that. No, that's a good one. That's a good one. I thought that was all right. Ha. We went from people insulting the Jews in the chat room to backhows, ladies and gentlemen. Try and get that on Bob and Tom. It ain't happening. Can't do it. Never. All right. TTS, best of luck. I still don't like them making fun of Jew stuff. I'm not going to lie. I'm not big on it. I'm glad you still don't like it. Not my favorite thing in the world, Tony. There was a moment Matt Bear was like, that's pretty funny. And now I was like, you know what? I haven't liked that for a while, and I still don't. We're going to take a stand, Matt. Those those Jews are kind of funny, you know, hey, you know. No, no, it's not cool. Not cool anymore. Good Lord, I'm going to get fun. Matt, Bear, are you in for this turtle statue for $10? It's the only friend I'm going to have after this, so yeah, I'll buy it. Absolutely. Right. Yeah. It's a good. It's a fun little statue. It's cool. I'm getting this. Yeah, I'd like it. It is there on the marketplace. We will have it listed for you at WIBC.com presented by Indiana unclaimed.gov. Let's see if they still stick with the sponsorship after this. Tony Katz 93, WIBC. Good morning. Alex is now out of the chat room. Oh, he was the one yelling at me and, yeah. And then he got into a conversation about how I hate Jesus. How does it get to that? How do you get to that? Dude, don't ever try and understand the irrational. Disagreement is fine. Irrationality is not something that I want to tolerate. Thank you. Ah, good Lord. By the way, Bob and Tom are lovely. Bob and time. Did I ever tell the story? You know what? Hold on. I'll get to the story. 47 degrees in the American Standard Cooling Weather Center. The time is 747. You should know you're not crazy. You're not. You are not crazy. I have a lot of faith in Gen Z. Tony Katz, 93 WIBC. Good morning. Good to be with you. I think that there are a lot of ways in which they are incredibly normal, and they have a level of focus. And they certainly, when we discuss millennials, they see much more level-headed. Millennials, seemingly, according to the numbers, have done a pretty good job with investing their dollars.

They seem to be better at money than we may have thought. But in their political, I mean, this is the group of the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's. These are very, very look at me, look at me, look at me kind of people. Gen Z certainly has some of that. Every generation has some of that. But what I have come across from Gen Z is a level-headedness. It is actually a desire to get to some decency. And I've appreciated this. There is also another issue. And this is true. And parents, this is something that you have to address. And for those Gen Ziers who are listening, you all need to go on a date. You, yeah, you need to get some. There's a story over at the New York Post. I'm 44 and have more sex than my 20 year old daughter. Prudish Gen Z needs to get, needs to have relations. Now, I don't think that a good headline is, I'm a skank and my daughter isn't. I don't think that's the best headline. But there's a real truth here that is very uncomfortable for a lot of people. Gen Z is not hooking up.

and you're missing out on experiences, you're missing out on connections, you're missing out on how to connect. I don't know why it isn't important. You should make it important. I'm not saying that you got to go out there and prostitute yourself. I'm not saying that you got to go out there and engage in immoral activities. But staying home out of fear instead of going out and meeting people. Being afraid of the experience. That's a real problem. That's certainly a problem if we're talking about it for a nation that already doesn't create enough kids. But it's a real problem for, I think, the soul. How do you meet people? How do you find people? How do you create? If you're not out there meeting people. Am I saying you got to lay down with everybody you meet? God, no. Am I saying that you can't live your life in a way that doesn't have you engaging in connections? Yes. Yeah, I am. You have to have connections. And the only way you have connections is out there. To quote Avenue Q, there is life outside your apartment. And I think there is a real issue here. So this story, which I have over at tonycats.com, you'll see it in just a few minutes. I don't necessarily take her as the gospel, the woman who wrote this, but rather the idea. It's something that we've noticed. It's something that other parents have noticed. Kids need to go on a date. They need to try things. It's okay.

Prudishness is not what we should be after. Respect for self. every day of the week. 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 RAV4, spacious Grand Highlander, sporty Camrys, and Corolla's. 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. 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.