Tony Katz and the Morning News Full Show 7-21-26

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So it's a 50% tariff on Canada over alleged trade discrimination. That and wildfires, yeah. You mean on Sunday the president was saying that this isn't right and these wildfires aren't right? And we need to do something about this? And then on Monday, he's putting on a tariff. You tell me it's just coincidence that he's sitting there in front of Marine 1. And on Sunday, he says this. I mean, you've got to stop these fires from coming in and, you know, poisoning our air. Our air has been poisoned. I have a good relationship with Mark Carney, but, you know, we've got to stop the fires up there. We can help them. We'll help them. But maybe they should pay us some damages or something, or we should do some tariffs. But it was terrible. I mean, you had businesses closing. In particular, Michigan, if you look at Detroit, the Detroit, Michigan here, they had it closed everything. Then it closed car plants and a lot of other things. So I've never remembered this happening. So that was Sunday. And then Monday, it's a tariff over alleged trade discrimination. Well, it's, it's inventive. It's, I'll give it that. Look, if you wanted to go at Canada for the wildfires and for the smoke and for the issues, which are real, not saying no, you can do that. But just do what you say you're going to do. Do it for that reason. Don't, this, this is too cute by half. This will be under the tariff act of 1930, targets certain food products, wearables, synthetic materials, and industrial goods. Officials saying Canada's current trade policies unfairly target vehicle dairy and alcohol experts of the United States. Now, we already know what they have targeted regarding bourbon. Upset with. how the United States trade policies were going and tariffs were going. They actually stopped buying a tremendous amount of bourbon in toto. They did not stop buying all bourbon and not all provinces, right? Stopped provinces. That's what we would call them, right? Yeah. They did not stop buying altogether. They did stop in certain areas, not in all areas. Yes, 10 provinces, three territories in Canada. It's not the reason you see the bourbon slowdown in the United States in full. A lot of people want to say this is all Trump's fault because of the tariffs on Canada. That isn't the case. And I'm not an expert, but oh, wait, I'm not bad at this stuff. Check out Eat, Drink Smoke, heard coast to coast on weekends, the podcast. Go to eatdrinksmokshow.com. It is lifestyle changes in the United States and around the globe. It is a slowdown from things like GLP1s. It is a change in people's free time.

Can your legislation be seen as retroactive? Is there, if it were to pass, signed by the president, would it now make those children no longer citizens? That is my intent and my hope. And, you know, we build a number of co-sponsors over the last week. And in the House, we have Brandon Gill and Greg Stuby, who are introducing versions of the same bill that I introduced in the Senate with the hope that we can stop those $250,000 a year who have been born to the illegals that were flooded into our country on Joe Biden and the Democrats watch. I mean, this is a... This is a threat to the sovereignty of our country, as I said. And retroactive or moving forward, we have to stop that from that happening again, and we're going to lose our country. Talking to Senator Jim Banks of Indiana, before I let you go, sir, so much of this is also now a conversation of what president spoke about in the prime time address on Thursday, and specifically the conversation about the SAVE Act, which has made its way through the House in varying ways and attached to varying pieces of legislation, now sits before you, really sits before the leader, John Thune, yet we keep hearing that there's no action. Why is it so difficult for Senate Republicans to pass the SAVE Act? Well, I'm glad President Trump gave the speech. It should motivate every Republican in the Senate to do something to act. Right now, the House is putting together the next reconciliation bill, reconciliation 3.0. That's that $350 billion for our military plus. the Save America Act. And we can't, by reconciliation, per the rules, we can't accomplish 100% of the Save America Act, but we can get pretty close by tying federal grants. to the actions of states to block illegals from voting and update their voter roles. And so that's probably the simplest or easiest. Nothing's easy, but the easiest solution or way forward. The other solution is simply nuking the filibuster rules and allowing the Save America Act to pass. We know that it has the votes necessary to pass because Mike Lee put an amendment on the floor. in the last voter rama, and we got Susan Collins, 50 Republicans to vote for it for the meat of the Save America Act. And with JD Vance's tie-breaking vote, we know we can pass it. So we have to fight for it. And there are avenues to do that. President Trump came and spoke to our Senate Republican lunch a few weeks ago, and it was an hour-long, tough love messages to Senate Republicans that we have to fight harder for it. And his speech last week about...

what the Chinese have done to hack into our voter roles and combine that with the notion that 250,000 foreigners are born on American soil, the babies of illegals in this country who are granted citizenship that can become registered voters in 18 years, and you realize that this is all about saving our country. It's an aptly named bill. If you want the full interview with Senator Banks, we'll have that at WIBC.com. Of course, it's in the podcast. Wherever it does you get your podcast. Just look for Tony Katz. Tony Katz in the morning news. We have that podcast. Tony Katz today. We have that podcast. I don't know how many podcasts you need, but you should at least be subscribed to those two. Let's start there. Senator Jim Banks, I appreciate you taking the time. So we thought we had an understanding the song. I don't know what that theme song was. Oh, good Lord. I will not lie. Rest of soul, Quincy Jay Jones. This is a bad song. Right? You know what? You know what, Carl? I was going to talk. We'll ask what sucks more. Tony Katz 93, WIBC. Good morning. I was going to talk about cyclist psoriasis that they thought they had a understanding of where this explosive diarrhea thing was from. Lettuce at Central Mexico. And now they're like, you know what? That lettuce from Taylor Farms? Maybe that's a false positive. We're not so sure now. So that's fantastic. But then you played We Are the World. So it allows us to play America's new favorite game. Does it suck? I thought I gave you enough lead time, Carl. I didn't. No, I'm going to say that the intro sucks. We should put that out there. What? Yeah, the whole thing's got to get redone. It's like a game show. It doesn't work at all. The whole throwing up thing and no part of it makes sense. We've got to redo it. Here's how we play our game. I will bring something up and I will ask you if it sucks. We all agree, except for those of us trying to get into a wedding dress, that explosive diarrhea sucks, right? We're all there. We're all good. We're all set. The cyclosporiasis.

On the nose, producer Carl. Fantastic. We're all there on this. We get this. We can't now identify the source. We thought we had the source. Nuts. We are the world, which was the U.S. version of Do They Know It's Christmas from the Brits? I believe that was Bob Geldof. This way we're going to help feed the children here, there, and everywhere, and they got all these stars together after the Grammys, and they were all waiting for Prince to show up, and Prince never showed up, and that's how Huey Lewis got involved. Great, great, great, what do they call those things? Documentary. Great documentary. But go ahead, play some of the song, producer, Carl. Just pick a point in the middle. Any of you doing terrific. It brings back great memories, though, Tony. Steiner Ross. Okay. Hit pit pause. That song sucks. It's a terrible, terrible song. It is awful, brutal. Yeah, but just think about all the talent in one room. And that's what you came up with. That's what you came up with. Song ended all wars, Tony. It did not end all wars. It also didn't end explosive diarrhea. I don't know what I'm supposed to get from that song, but it is terrible. Does it suck? We are the world. You tell me. You tell me, tell me in the chat as we live stream over there on YouTube, just go to WIBC and subscribe. You can tell me on Twitter, Twitter X right there. You can also tell me there. You can also just call Matt Baer right now. Please do. His phone number, 1,900 of Vroom Room. We can talk about We Are the World or Explosive Diarrhea. What sucks more? Well, if you listen to enough, we are the world, you will get explosive diarrhea. That's factual. It's a terrible, awful song, true or false. Okay, the chat room is with me. The song sucks. Chat room is with me. That is three votes for Deftly Sucks. One vote for How Did Carl Get This Job? That's where we are right now. In the voting. Four votes. Nope, that's three votes for it sucks. Two votes for How did Carl get this job. And one vote for Matt Bear to take off his shirt in the live stream. Yeah. Matt, you like this song? You grew up thinking this song was a banger? It's a... As the kids would say. The kids would say. There's a little nostalgia to it. I mean, it has El Jero. It's got Bruce. It's got, um... It's got Elgerald. Come on now. Come on now. It's got Michael Jackson, who you love. Yeah. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Speaking of explosive diarrhea. Who's your native? Right? I mentioned the young Huey Lewis.

Right? Sports is a great album. It's got Bob Dylan all by himself. Allow me to do a reenactment. He, he, he, he, he, he. He slept through the whole thing. It's got Willie Nelson. After Blood on the tracks, I don't know what happened. Right? Blood on the tracks, blonde on blonde all day. Everything else, I don't know. Well, no. Traveling Woolburys, I will also accept as an answer. Oh, it's got Willie Nelson. You know what, respect. Willie Nelson did that song and he said, I'm going to start trying to read. That was a true story. Oh. Don't forget Darrell Hall. I can't forget Darrell Hall. Can't forget. And what he did to John Oates. I have not gotten over. Those two lovebirds should get back together. This is not right. People go to prison for that. So we all agree it's a terrible song. But you still think it gives you Matt nostalgia vibes? Oh, yeah, I did. Because when I heard it, I was like, yeah, I remember that was part of my youth, you know, when I was a little traffic reporter kid. And it kind of brought back some happy memories. And then I started listening to the song. And I didn't enjoy it. Did not enjoy the song. It's a bad song. Now, if you play, we don't know if we have time for it right now. Do they know it's Christmas? That's a better song. That's just a musically better song, just a produced better song. It's a better song. It's a better song. So we kicked the British's butt in war. We've created the far superior culture. But they got that one. So I'll give them that. I'll give them that. Well played. Well played, Britain. So the terrorist in New York has been IDed. And we should be clear. Terrorist, Tony Katz, 93 WIBC, good morning. An absolute pleasure to be with you. This is the guy who took this, what originally was discussed is fireworks and lit them off in front of a federal building in New York. Then you see a video, and it's a pouring of, of, uh, A liquid on the ground setting it on fire, it turns out, according to the FBI, it was gasoline. So what happened was, was that this 43-year-old walks over to the front of the building, still on the sidewalk, pours gasoline on the ground, uses a firework, and lights the firework that lights the gasoline. He had two axes on him. Two airsoft rifles, six knives, a hammer and a machete. And he also had six other incendiary devices or fireworks along with other destructive items. Former U.S. Army served from 2001 to 2005. The indoctrination comes from everywhere. And the downplaying comes from NBC, where they put the first headline, fireworks set off outside 26 federal plaza. Sources say, sending smoke billowing. That's not the story. They then updated it to incendiary device.

The media cannot be, cannot, cannot be trusted. Why not just say loud boom scares president? That's what they said when he got shot in Butler. Hey, Indy Star. Oh, no, no, it's all the fault of Gannett, not you at the Indy Star. Sure. Whatever you say. Said it then, meant it then. Still mean it now. This was an act of domestic terrorism. This was going after ICE agents. This is what the American left has been calling for in their lone wolf call. They call for somebody to harm President Trump. They still do it. Oh, ICE is terrible. ICE is this. ICE is that. ICE needs to be abolished. They have been calling for violence. This is the left wing violence. Stop telling me it doesn't exist. Well, Tony, what about January 6th? This is your answer? It's not an answer. It's a child-like response. It's a child-like response. It's a child's response. There I merge the two by mistake. People who engaged in violence on January 6, which was a riot and on an insurrection, should be in jail. Lots of people didn't engage in violence, were invited into the Capitol. They didn't do anything wrong. If you would just say so, we could have a normal conversation, but you don't say so. So we can't have a normal conversation because some of these people simply won't be normal. This is left-wing violence. This is what the political left on every level wants to see. They want to see the guy. They are absolutely down for it. They are down for this. They want this. This is going to tie into a report from the State Department, which I've just started reading. Cuba, the capital of 21st century communism. I'm going to dig into this in about an hour. It is an absolutely brutal, brutal report. talking about 70 years of Cuba pushing far-left insurgency in the Western Hemisphere. The communist has to lose, and the communist loses only one way. They get ripped asunder. You have to stop setting your kids to universities. You have to stop pretending that funding universities matters. That includes IU, that includes Purdue or any place else, that may get any level of state dollars. Not when you allow this. All universities. You have to stop sending your kids to these places. You have to break the teachers union in two. Oh, we've got a lot of work ahead of us. But we can do it both one rip of the band-aid. And then you've got to end the Cuban regime in Cuba. Tony, you're such a warmonger. We are at war. They fired the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth shot. Only the fool doesn't notice.

We will get into the wheel tax Greenwood has voted on. Adding $25 a year for vehicles, $40 for buses, semis and RVs. Tony Katz 93, WIBC. Good morning. And I welcome the mayor to call in Mark Myers. I mean, I know we want to discuss. Crime safety, the initiative put forth by Mayor Sufinkum of Carmel, you know, the event there at Cambridge and what the issues are with Marion County. But I... This is a big one because if you take a look at how the state wrote things, what the cities are saying is we have to increase this so we can get access to that. Did we cut off our nose despite our face? Is there something else that could have been done here other than... raising attacks. I invite the mayor on to have this conversation if the mayor is available. Mark Myers happy to do it. But the story that I thought was interesting is that Liz Brown, state senator, who got challenged in the primaries, she had a challenger that was going to lead to a vote counting. She was ahead in that primary by 14 votes. Darren, vote was pushing for the recount and then yesterday filed the petition to dismiss the recount request. Certified of vote atollies. This is Senate District 15.

Giving Liz Brown this lead of 14 votes, the recount commission was going to take up, I should say, was going to take up this information, this conversation today. And now the dismissal comes in its entirety. There it is. After consultation with my team, it just made sense to not waste anybody's time here at the end and have a hearing and discuss the situation further. So I pulled the plug on it. Liz Brown is going to win that primary by the skin of her teeth. And I think it's really important for Liz Brown and her team to know that. I think it's outrageously important that you understand that there are a lot of people. Liz Brown, just for the sake of clarity, really don't like you. Don't like your votes, but don't like you. Now, this was a very charged primary season, what with redistricting. In the next one, that will not be the focus. The focus will be you, your record. Redistricting may come up, but gun rights are going to come up. Immigration is going to come up. And the people who have decided that are not happy with you, man, they're going to be much more organized. I've had Senator Brown on the show before. I don't necessarily have a dog in the fight. But if the Brown campaign, which I assume will win a general, thinks that this is a gloating moment. It's 14 votes. If I were you, I would be out there every day knocking on doors and asking for support. I would be trying to reach out to all those people who didn't vote for you. So maybe you can get some of them instead of them just staying home. If you move down the road of any level of gloating, which I think I saw a statement from you on this, my competitors decide to end this unnecessary challenge. All wrong. All wrong. 14 votes. You don't gloat. You say I look forward to serving. I'm ready for the general election. I'm asking for everybody's support. I can't believe I have to teach basics to these politicos. But here we are. Please do not think for a second that you are beloved. That's a mistake. And it's an unnecessary one. Just swallow that reality and say, okay, now I've got to go out there and work for every vote. Go out there and work for every vote. Or go about gloating and let's see what happens. You know, I don't ever want to see the train wreck happen, but it's certainly interesting to try and piece together what happened as you drive on by. And if that's what we're going to end up doing, Senator Brown, that's what we're going to end up doing. Get a hold of your team, Senator. Try and handle yourself. Tony Katz 93, WIBC. Good morning.

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There is no doubt in my mind, and I would argue there's no doubt in your mind, that this is what took place. And this guy is coming back. There are questions to be asked. And the FBI, under Joe Biden, didn't allow for questions to be asked regarding his trip, regarding the investigation of the World Health Organization into the origins of COVID-19. Okay, now you can ask the question. Well, how often would they investigate somebody like that or ask questions something like that? What is the standard operating procedure? I think a great question for Senator Paul. But the email states from February 4th, 2021, and I quote, please be advised that FBI New York has requested, we do not stop the subject below. The subject being Peter Dasick. Why would, how many times has the FBI said, don't question this person, don't look at this person. Everything associated with the Biden administration is a cover up, is a scandal. Don't ever tell me that Obama and Biden were scandal free. I won't tell you that Trump's scandal free. But not this. This is ugly stuff. Ugly, ugly stuff. Put Anthony Fauci on trial. Do that immediately. I don't even know what we're waiting for. But I will bring you this. The Democrat socialists are interested in burning it all down. They are communists. And again, this is going to lead us to this report from the State Department regarding Cuba, which I am in the midst of reading. But the people who cannot control them, these democratic socialists, these communists, are the Democratic Party. They built this monster, and the monster is taking over and ripping them asunder. And yes, there are definitely Democrats pushing back on it. Van Jay Jones did a whole pushback on this, and Van Jay Jones is getting walloped, which is weird because I thought Van Jay Jones saw himself as one of these people. Van Jay Jones saying this isn't the party. Bill Maher's saying this isn't the party. Of course, John Fetterman's been saying it, but he's always been saying it. There is pushback to this. There was an amazing story. Was that over the New York Post? Black New York City politicians slammed DSA as white supremacists while growing democratic feud spills onto social media. You can just inject that right into my veins. I mean, that's, that is fantastic.

Because the Democratic Socialists, these commies are 85% white. You know how I often talk about how liberal white women are the bane of existence? Liberal white women are a problem. Liberal white women can be so guilted into anything. They are such unbelievable fools that they fuel this bigotry that will destroy them. I don't care if liberal white women are upset with me. It doesn't matter. They were upset before. They're upset about everything. They're upset about your politics. They're upset because you don't properly assort the recyclables. They're upset because their husband is totally getting on with the secretary because liberal white women, who the hell would ever want to come home to you? You're just so angry all the time. Maybe stop. Maybe stop being angry all the time. Breathe. It's going to be okay. All you are is wrong and you can stop being wrong. Liberal white women are out of their heads. And yes, Hamilton County, I'm talking to you. And the women of West Berkeley. It's West Clay, but it's Berkeley. It's funny, I tell you. Meanwhile, one of the people is all part of the Democratic Socialists, this candidate in New York, Daria Lisa Avales Chevalier, She is stating out loud that she doesn't know if she gets elected to Congress if she's going to vote for Hakeem Jeffries as leader. Let me ask you overall on some of these issues. Of course, Israel was a big one. One of your staunchest positions in this campaign was against Israel and what they're doing in Gaza. You call it a genocide. So when you go to D.C., is it something you want to bring up right away, and how do you kind of envision that playing out? You know, there are a number of bills that I'll sign on to on day one, and one of them is the Block the Bombs Act. Because I do believe that what's happening is a genocide, and I believe that it's a moral injury to the American people that our tax dollars are being used to enact this genocide. And so I think that this plays out in every single policy decision that we will make, right? If you value life, that is going to reflect in how you think about health policy. That's going to play the wrong one. No, this was the one where she actually thinks that genocide is happening, but she doesn't know the definition of genocide. No, no, no. The Hakeem Jeffries one, I can't believe I can't find it. I thought it was right there. Oh, I feel bad. I'm going to have to play it later. I'm going to share it later where she's like, I don't know if I'm going to vote for Hakeem Jeffries or not as leader. This push towards the, from the communist cracking the Democrats in two and proving that Hakeem Jeffries has zero control over the House and over the leadership of the Democratic Party. Zero. Zero. They wanted to be Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Well. At least now you know who you're fighting. I will find that I apologize and I will get it to you. Today on the marketplace, Big Bird has looked better.

Tony Katz 93 WIBC. Good morning. Good to be with you. During downtime, clearing my head, getting ready for what's next on the show. I find myself on Facebook Marketplace. They've got cool stuff, odd stuff, weird stuff, strange stuff, all sorts of stuff on the Marketplace. I bring it to you, the Marketplace segment brought to you by Indianaunclaimed.gov. It's your cash waiting for you. Go get it. Go to Indiana Unclaimed.gov. And we dedicate today's segment to Michael, who wanted us to know that the Marketplace segment sucks. Drop that seven minutes. It's worn out, especially the banter with the traffic guy. Awkward, boring, never funny. Thank you, Michael. Have a great day, sir. Yes. Yes, we're still going to provide you with all of the quality entertainment and information that you're used to getting here at WIBC, even though you have referred to Matt as traffic guy. All is forgiven. His name is Matt Bear. Matt Bear, please, very. He's a real boy. His eyes are up here. Look up here, damn it. That's unbelievable. Hey, you can't play some ball, right? Nope, nope. We please who we can and everybody else can die. Oh, my. Is that not it? Well, is that a little strong? A little strong. It'll be strong, I'd say. I'll bring it down. Okay. I'll bring it down. It's your show, man. We please who we can and everybody else can get a rash somewhere in the underneath. I thought you were going to say get aroused. No, go. No, well, they probably are. Everybody is. Everybody is. If someone could please just tape Carl's hands together. Gosh almighty. Matt Bear, I know that you are a, by the way, Indiana unclaimed.gov. You are a, you're a Sesame Street guy. You're a big bird guy. You grew up with the big bird. You love yourself a big bird. I'd watch that show three times a day, even though it was the same episode, Tony. Yeah. Yeah, you can't get enough of it. Can't get enough of it. This is a big bird cookie jar. Oh, mercy. Okay. Right? Not a cookie monster cookie jar. No, that would be two on the nose. A big bird cookie jar from, uh, from 1976. And it's pretty dirty. Like it looks like it needs a polish because big bird is usually yellow. And this big bird has. Has some patina. Where do I find this at Tony Katz? Is this on next? Yes, I have a post on my TwitterX feed at Tony Katz right there. And it's on Twitter X where Michael told us that this segment sucks and you are just the traffic guy and the whole thing is awkward and boring. Well, this isn't a cookie jar. It's an ashtray. No, no. Does your kid like to smoke?

I mean, this is, you ash on Big Bird's beard and then it goes into the, kind of goes into the thing there. Yeah, that's okay. This would be great for your cigar smoking, don't you? No, it would only work as an ashtray if, like, Big Bird's neck was bent backwards and the beak was open and you could actually ash into Big Bird's mouth, then I would have bought it already. Like a drinking bird, except for cigars and cigarettes. I want that for all Sesame Street characters and all Muppets. I want Dr. Teeth like that. That's what I want to ashen. You don't think it kind of gives the wrong image to the children, but at the same time, it's a lot of fun, I think, you know. It needs to be cleaned up, this thing. But I guess it's, it's cool. Made by California originals in 1976. No cracks. One small chip on rim of lid, not visible when lid is in place. and it's being sold for $25. Why would you put anything edible of this? Because it's cookie jarring. Put the cookies in there. It just looks kind of filthy. Cammy. That's all I'm saying. No, I don't want this in my home. No, thank you. Okay. For $25, says the traffic guy. All right. How about we buy it? We send it to Michael as a peace offering because he just, he thinks you're awkward and boring. Or is he calling me awkward and boring? Or is he calling the segment awkward and boring? I don't want to make peace with Michael. No, I'm going to close his straight. That's what I'm going to do. Right. I'm sure you can close this. I'll tear the hell out of him. Won't even be able to leave the home when I'm done. 50% baby. Maple syrup. Oh, my God. I'm going to close the street out. I'm going to bunker his Buster. Oh. Oh. Oh. Buster is bunker. Good Lord. That's very funny. I'm proud of you sometimes. Have I ever said that? Well, just for the traffic guy. You know, yeah. Yeah. You know what? People don't know this, but I've been doing traffic for Milwaukee for 10 years now, and I've never mentioned Indianapolis. Yeah. Okay. Well, you're doing great work. Thank you. Great work. This is on the marketplace. Check it out for yourself. It might be for somebody, but it needs a cleaning. It really and truly does. Matt Baer will have traffic for you in just 75 seconds. So stick around. Tony Katz 93 WIBC. Good morning. Well, I guess it's first things first. Not this show we get is not for everybody. And not everybody's going to love everything that gets said or everything it gets done. We love you though. We appreciate you being part of it. It's okay to say this isn't the thing for me. It's fine. It's solid. On that, we are very, very big tent. Tony Katz, 93 WIBC, good morning. You don't like the marketplace segment. That's okay. Matt Baer will learn to live with your hatred. I'm doing just fine. Yeah. Nobody asked you, Matt. You just sit there. See? See, look at that. Matt's fine.

Listen, we get it. We're quite all right with it. Understood. But right now I'm pretty happy with where the show's going. So I made a ton of changes. I've got other things we're working on. Everything's going to remain right now. But thrilled that you're all here. Someone didn't like the marketplace segment. And so we gave them a hard time. But there's nothing but love and adoration. For you, yes. For communists, no. And this report from the State Department is massive. There is going to be more and more pressure on Cuba to give up the communism, to break Connell, to break what the Castro regime hath wrought and end this. As we discussed from the beginning, the move on Venezuela was part of a three-pronged approach. Venezuela, Iran, Cuba. All of this. To thwart Chinese growth, to thwart Chinese attention in the area, in the region. This rethink of the Monroe Doctrine, this understanding that the Western Hemisphere belongs to us and that our adversary, specifically, explicitly China, must be challenged and they must be made thirsty. No more getting oil on the cheap around sanctions from Venezuela nor Iran. No, no, no, no, that over. You deal with it like the rest of us. You play by the rules. And no more thinking that you can push influence, as the Cuban regime has been trying to do for decades. And we know this. We know this from people like murderer Joanne Chesimard. Who you would know as Asada Shakur. Granted political asylum in Cuba after murdering a New Jersey state trooper. This goes back to the 1970s. That it has been forever. People going and getting training and getting support and getting what it is they've always desired, which is bringing this evil to Western civilization. This report. The Cuban regime's sprawling intelligence and ideological networks helped build the far left in our country and in our hemisphere, and it remains inextricably linked to the far-left groups and movements across and beyond the West. The report finds that for nearly seven decades, the Cuban regime has played an indispensable role in nearly every notable far-left insurgency, revolution, and military movement across and beyond the Western Hemisphere. This is going to the State Department. Correct. If you had told me that before, I would have agreed. The data is something else. It is for the communists, for these so-called democratic socialists, which is all a lie. That when you say communists, they dismissed. You don't even know what it is. You don't even understand the difference between communism and democratic socialism. There is no difference. They are lying. And the reality is just in front of you. The question is, what do you want to do about it? How does one fix these things? I start where I have always started. Our problem is education and you have to stop sending your kids to these schools and stop paying for these colleges. You have to starve these people out. They are not deserving of jobs. They should not be guaranteed jobs. And when we see these things being taught at IU or Purdue or Ball State or anywhere in the state of Indiana, we should immediately ask what money is

being sent and then stop it. I don't care about their professors. Pam Witten, Mitch Daniels, Jeff Mears, Merns, I don't care. I don't care if your professors have jobs or don't have jobs. What I care about is that they aren't pushing some level of communism onto students. pressuring because of grades. Start working on that. And we should start working on funding. That's just step one. So over there, in Greenwood, they pass a wheel tax. Right? We've got the story at WIBC.com. Me, I'm Tony Counts. 93 WIBC, Greenwood leaders approve new road funding tax. $25 a year for vehicles registered in Greenwood and $40 for buses, semis, and RVs. This, because of changes to state funding rules. So Greenwood residents pay a Johnson County wheel tax. State lawmakers removing a provision that would have prevented cities from adding their own tax on top of the county fee. Ryan Hedrick with the reporting at WIBUC.com. Now, well, you know what happened in Marion County, where they moved it to $100 for vehicles and then up to $240. I think it will be $240 for larger vehicles, the RVs, etc. So if I understand it right, you have a change from the state about how dollars are apportioned and the cities have to have a certain amount of dollars in order to get access to a certain amount of dollars that they utilize for the city. The state needs a way to come up with those dollars and many of them have chosen the wheel tax. How dare you have a vehicle? Let me take your money. Now, maybe that's a little bit unfair. And I don't know yet whether or not this is going to be signed by Mayor Mark Myers. I haven't seen where he's opposed. And I invite the mayor on the show to discuss it because there are really two conversations here. Number one, why was the wheel tax something that your city decided? Why did they decide that was the way to go? Why have they all decided this as opposed to anything else? Is there or was there no other option because of the legislation? And number two, did it have to come through some level of taxation? Were there other things that could have been done, some level of cut anywhere else, move dollars over? Is there another way this could have been handled? Was there a conversation with the city that took place about the hard choices ahead of them? And I'm not even arguing that you couldn't have placed a tremendous amount of blame on the state itself for making these changes and whether or not this has some level of value. I'm asking, were there other options? Is the only option attacked you? This goes back to the conversation yesterday about school referendums. A city can vote for a referendum. All they wish to increase school funding. Is this the only answer?

is the only answer at all times, we need you, the resident, to pay more. Now, if you listen to some of the so-called opinion guys that, for example, the Indy Star, the answer is, well, if you're not going to pay more, you don't understand how a city works. People want these amenities. Why aren't you willing to pay for them? Because there comes a moment where it has to stop. In every budget outside of Elon Musk's, there comes a moment where it has to stop. Everyone has to take a pause. I'm redoing part of this kitchen. And I looked at, okay, and we knew the basics we were going to do in these final steps. Well, what about this? And what about that? And today I sent the email saying, we're not going to move forward those things. We're going to hold. I'm sorry. I needed the answers. I got the answers. I have to hold on that. I have to make sure I do this part right. And I have to think about that part. And it maybe means a marshalling of resources to be able to get it done properly. And I might not be able to do it. People do this with their homes all the time. Why can't a city do this? Why can't a city then say, well, we need to do this and not that, and their hard decision has to be made? Am I in favor of growth? I'm absolutely in favor of growth. I'm in favor of smart growth. But I'm not in favor of growth just for its sake, and I'm certainly not in favor of saying when in doubt, the people pay more taxes. What else could be done? It's a question because I don't live and breathe in every little bit of things local. And I don't believe that just because I understand it, I've got the answer to it. Rather, I want to understand what these cities are going through. And cities may apply themselves differently. They may have a different thought and a different philosophy. It's like data centers. The outright ban conversation on data centers, the hatred of data centers, I will be clear, is amongst the dumbest things I've ever seen. It is a ridiculous, ridiculous notion that provides us no value. This is happening. Are we going to be the people who power AI? Are we going to actually leave it to other countries? Which is nutty. Now, how we do it is a legit question. Being opposed to it because it's good to be opposed to it is amongst the dumbest things out there. The answer is not always, well, we raise the tax. That's not an answer. Well, we don't raise the tax. Grandma's going to die because they won't get services. Not an answer. We should throw you out of public office and you should be dismissed if you're some kind of talking head making that unbelievably stupid argument. Nobody wants to talk? Is there a better way? I think there could be a better way. But maybe we have to start by understanding all the pieces. So I invite the mayor to come on and talk about how he sees it, how he sees the state, how he sees Greenwood, where he sees the opportunities, and what could be done outside of a wheel tax. I'd love to talk to him about it. It's so good. Oh, bravo, Carl. You have been redeemed. Tony Katz 93 WIBC. Good morning.

There it is. Excellent, excellent. Bravissimo. Proud of you. Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York thinks he can arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It's cute. President Trump has already said that's not going to happen because, well, Zohran Mamdani has no power to do such a thing. But why would the mayor of New York want to? Well, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been deemed a war criminal by the International Criminal Court. It's the International Criminal Court. You would have more authority to do something if you had a note written by your mother in crayon. Then the ICC is saying something. We don't pay attention to the International Criminal Court. It's a laughable idea. But when you are someone who believes in a globalist society, not in the sovereignty and strength of the United States, when you're somebody who believes things as ridiculous and ignorant as genocide. Brett Stevens ripping that asunder, and I'm very happy to see more and more people pushing back against the madness. I'm saying, you know that these Democratic socialists and others, these people are just total frauds, complete and total frauds. But it's the left who has to deal with it. And thank you, Carl, you found it. I was going to share this in the popcorn moment. And I grabbed the wrong clip, and I apologize for that. But this was this Dara Lisa Chevalier who's running for Congress. And she is an outed communist. She is what she is. This is the woman who said that when she can't find a napkin, she'll just wipe her hands on the American flag. Like, this is her. And this is her in an interview with a local New York station, P-I-X, longtime New York station. saying that she's not so sure she's going to vote if she gets into the house, which she will. She's not sure if she's going to vote for Hakeem Jeffries. I asked you when you were here for the many debate of how Kim Jeffrey should be Speaker, and you said it was too early because you were focused on the race. The race is over. Should he be speaker? You know, I'm still working to build out, you know, the structures of co-governance that I'm so excited to model for others across the country, but for this district in particular and to have those conversations with the community. Because I think the first vote that I make will set the tone for the kind of leadership that this district will have. And I want to make sure that I'm making that vote with the considerations of the community in mind. Translation, I have no idea if I'm going to vote for Hakeem Jeffries. We have been discussing for a while now how weak his leadership is. He's the leader of the Democrats in the House. And we have stated quite clearly that he is no Nancy Pelosi. There is no leadership of the Democrat Party. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are totally ineffective and ineffectual. And these communists are going to walk right in with outrageous demand. Do you think Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was bold? This is nothing.

That was nothing. Wait, do you see what's coming? Hakeem Jeffries may very well not be the Speaker. And Hakeem Jeffries better figure it out now that if the Democrats do take power, a woman who is an avowed communist, you don't seat her. You just don't seat her. The House has rules. You don't seat somebody who's un-American. You say no. Now let's see if he'll say no. I mean, You're going to be out of power one way or another. Do you want the country to be out of power too? Dow futures up 104. NASDAQ futures are up 360. Tony Katz and 93 WIBC. Good morning. Good to be with you. You got West Texas crude. We're talking oil prices per barrel, $83.96 the barrel price there. Brent crude, $90.78. It is moving up this morning. This because the Houthi rebels are threatening Saudi shipping. You've got 10 days that the United States has been hitting Iran. Allegedly Iran wants to have a conversation. I don't know what any part of that means. I also don't know after 10 days what is left to hit. None of it matters until you take out the regime. So is this the plan? Because I mean, I can live with the plan. I seriously don't know what else there is to hit. What is it that we're trying to get accomplished here? How does this break them? What's going to break them is, of course, the blockades on the naval ports that will not allow them to ship oil, which they never should have been allowed the opportunity to make a few billion. when they had the opportunity. That's the MOU coming back to bite you. The president still hasn't made a determination of what the plan here is. Is it regime change or behavior change? Everything he's doing says regime change, but until he takes the next step, None of it matters. Ten-year treasury is 4.604 right now, not going to help home sales as the 30-year fixed mortgage is based on the tenure. Then you have gold. $4,053 an ounce is the price on gold right now, silver at $58.84. Bitcoin up to 66,463. General Motors beating earnings. Resilient consumers and good pricing, they're saying. They think that their stock price at $75 a share is a bargain, full disclosure. I do not own General Motors stock. I may have it in a fund somewhere, but I don't own it as an individual. I guess you make a fine vehicle. I mean, it's definitely still trucks. It's definitely the Corvette. Corvette still looks awesome. It really does. My problem is that I just, I would like one. All-American, you bet. I know I could get into one. I'm just not so sure I can get out without falling down. And then I look at some of the pricing. I'm like,

The newer stuff, C8s, those have come down for sure. And there's stuff on the use market that's super worthwhile in that regard. But can't you just like find a C5 somewhere and be like, okay, I got the experience I'm set? Because I see C4s everywhere. But somebody knows more about Corvettes than I do. So. The only question is, what would you avoid? What do you stay away from? What would you get? Do you go target atop? Do you go full convertible? What do you go for here? What is the thing that is like, okay, there's the value or there's the opportunity? Maybe that's it. Where's the opportunity? But it's more than just Corvettes because, I mean, they do trucks and they do trucks well. You've got... Chevy, you've got GMC, you've got Cadillac. Good on GM. If it means there's growth there, I think that's terrific, whether or not the stock prices, a bargain, have no clue, zero clue at all. I will leave that for others. Oil prices? Don't know. No, don't know. I mean, I got to assume that if you're going to keep hitting them, if you're going to see threats from the Houthi rebels, which are paid, they're paid by the Iranian regime there in Yemen, you're going to have to deal with that. They're going to block off the Red Sea. Let's see a couple nations go to work on the Houthi rebels, which has been a proxy war of Iran and Saudi Arabia now for years destroying Yemen. They don't deserve that. Yemen may not be a great place, but I don't want to see them destroyed by the Iranian regime. So we are in a little bit of the same as we ever was area, and they're still within the market opportunities. I'm glad GM is doing well. Now it'd be better if you could actually work a GM and afford a GM vehicle. Maybe you don't need all the bells and whistles. Maybe you just need a kick-ass truck. Just saying. Tony Katz 93 WIBC. Good morning. I'm going to say this so nobody else has to. You cannot hate producer Carl enough. Does this suck?

Oddly enough, better than we are the world. Tony Katz 93 WIBC. Good morning. It's time to play America's favorite game. What the heck is that television theme song? Here is how we play our game. Producer Carl has selected a television theme song from yesteryear. I have to guess what it is. I'm allowed to utilize the chat room for help, or I can phone a friend. My phone only goes to Matt Bear. Let me go to him right now. Matt Bear. What is that television theme song? Man versus food, Tony. Nicely done. Nicely done. No, I don't need chat room help for this. This is the theme song to the guy who stole Grimmis' life. His identity, his career, his future, this is Barney. I'm telling you, this should have been Grimmis. McDonald's Grimmis? Oh, Matt Bear was a big Grimmis fan. Loved him. Huge Grimmis fan. Had his life taken away from him by the cartoon. Yeah. Stole the future. Uh-huh. Stole Grimmis's future. He knew what was ahead of him. Lock him up. And this Barney thing, whatever it was, like, nope. Mine now. Never saw an episode. Right? Grimmis, I mean, Barney? No. Not actually purple. That's a dye. I'll be damned. That's a die. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's total fraud. You ain't fooling. Total fraud, total phony. Total fraud, total phony. Right there. We do that every single day. You can find it over at WIBC.com on Tony Katz today at noon. What's going to happen with day 10 of war with the Iranians? What is the plan? Which I think is a legitimately good question. What would make us think that this is done? Finished, complete. And the answer is, heck if I know. I have some ideas, though. Then President Trump puts a 50% tariff on Canada, saying that the country has discriminated against American autos, alcohol and dairy products. No, this was on Sunday. You were talking about air quality and Canadian wildfires and say, they should pay for poisoning our air. And then two days later, you add a tariff. We can see you, sir. We know what this is. The Canadians know what this is. You're hanging out with Mark Carney. Everybody's all smiles at the World's Cup. Right? And it's it's the head of the World Cup whose name eludes me right now. And then it was President Trump. And then it was Claudia Sheinbaum, the president of Mexico. And then was Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada. And it's the leader of FIFA and Trump alternating handing out the medals. to the players from Spain and Carney and and Shinebound were just standing there like they got nothing to do. Games took place in their countries. Games took place in Mexico City. Games took place in Canada. But now they didn't get to pass out any medals. Trump didn't even offer them. Like, nah, I got this right here. And then, of course, the celebration of Spain and there's Trump in the photo for the celebration. Just you knew it was coming.

You just knew it was coming. But he's hanging out with Carney and never says to him, oh, by the way, 50% tariff is coming your way. He knew it then. He knew it then. So we will dig in there. And then more and more people understanding that this push to progressivism, through progressivism to the outright communism, is happening all across the country and the Midwest is not immune. You have a National Review writing The Democratic Odyssey moves to America's dairyland. And the question is, are we aware of what is actually happening all around us? And what do we do with those people who want to pretend that everything is fine? Mostly, you could argue on talking about the ridiculous liberal white women of West Berklee, right? These Hamilton County, Boone County, ridiculous women. And then that's a large swath. But there are also liberal women in all the Donut counties and in Marion County and throughout Indiana as a whole. But what about the people on the political right who refuse to accept the fact that this is the problem? This has always been the problem and it's here. And it must be dealt with in certain ways. How do we deal with this? I would say without hesitation, if you believe that these things happening. aren't as of equal issue to a Hoosier, then what's happening with the wheel tax, you're going to lose. You're going to get your butt kicked. The wheel tax actually is less important because the wheel tax is about you getting hosed on a tax, and I don't approve of that. What they're pushing is you losing the nation and Toto, quite literally it falling apart. You're going to wish you had a country that actually could pass a wheel tax. So we all need to be aware that this is happening. This isn't some level of hyperbole. This is a broken generation of broken people, of dangerous people who actually believe that they are smarter than you. Communism murders 100 million people and they go out there and they celebrate Mao Zedong. Who celebrates Chairman Mao? Well, this loser, Hasan Piker, dresses up like him. Calls him a great leader. I've murdered 60 million people. Brought communism to China? Watch one video of a struggle session. You'll understand. All these people are little children who buy into it and they're dangerous because the ideology is dangerous and it's what's been infecting your children for decades. We have work to do. So what I appreciate about the story and what we're going to dig in on is that this is indeed here, right here, right here in the Midwest. I will get into the story about Nicaragua as well because Ortega has decided that there is no need for elections in Nicaragua. No, no, no, no, no. Why in the world would we need an election announcing that the country will no longer hold elections? Cancelling the vote for 2027 and his government gave him another year in office. There's going to be problems. We don't recognize as a nation, Ortega. And I got to tell you, the first place I went to with this is if you're a cigar smoker.

Things may start getting very rough. It's a lot of tobacco from Nicaragua. If you were going to apply pressure, it's one of the places you would apply pressure. But we'll discuss the larger story as well. That's at noon. I hope you'll join me then, live streaming on YouTube. Just go to Tony Katz and subscribe.