Tony Katz and the Morning News w/ Craig Collins 3rd Hr 7-31-26

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to hear more and more people say not only like, is this an okay path for Democrats to go, but they think it's advantageous as far as winning potential elections during the midterm election season and just a few months away from people voting at the ballot boxes. And I do believe this, like I talked to a strategist on a different thing. And I believe that at some point the Democrats who are not part of the Socialists of America. some of the machine itself, we'll try to shut the people up. This is after they win races, that they'll try to actually push them into the fringe. The problem is if you let your party get infused with people who all think crazy stuff, they won't be pushable into the corner once they're all in a position of power. Now, granted, I'll continue to say this, and I very much hope for it, that they won't win. a lot of elections in a lot of the country, that America as a whole will reject these ideas because they're so anti-American. But I worry that it won't happen. I'm very much hopeful, but scared about the midterm election. One of the reasons I guess I most am, I'll just put this out there too, and then I did have audio at Deborah Birx. I wanted to play. But the other reason I'm so scared about this is there's apathy within the Republican Party because Trump is the president and whether you... I think it's true or not, a large majority of Republicans are happy with the job he's done. 85 to 90% of Republicans when a poll say that they approve of the president's job performance. So in a typical off-year election after a party wins the presidency, you usually see the other side storm back, at least within the House and potentially within the Senate. Like, you usually see that flip. It happens quite often. And it's just because a lot of Republicans stay home. because they're happy enough with the political situation that we're in. And that's always a mistake. You should not stay home. You should absolutely go out and vote now more than ever because not only is it potentially beneficial for Democrats in general, it's uniquely beneficial for the horrible aspects of their party that are taking it over. All right. One last thing I want to play. This is Dr. Deborah Birx again doing another interview. I think she was on News Nation, but Fox was talking about it this morning. And I think it's fascinating to see Deborah Birx now all over the place after Anthony Fauci does the testimony and looks horrible. And some of the opportunities that the other doctor that many people know from the COVID pandemic is taking to say at least some things that maybe, you know, some of us are happy to hear from anyone. She's definitely not saying anywhere near enough. But you judge on whether or not this is at least something in the world of you made mistakes. You did things wrong. It was your fault and you should probably take some responsibility for it. It's interesting, by the way, we're starting to hear from other people that were on his team. He's writing a book. Right. Deborah Berg, who at one point led the coronavirus task force, weighed in yesterday. Here's what she said. If you get on tests, instead of quarantining people who are exposed, you just only tell the people who are infected to stay home. That is a very different approach. It worked fabulously in universities. It's why we were able to keep them open. And Secretary DeVos was working on keeping K through 12 open. There were solutions.

But it became very political. And we all have to be aware, because it was a presidential election year, it was really important for blue states to show that they were taking it very seriously. And they overclosed. And we just have to be honest that that happened. And that's why that does. You do have to be honest that that happened. But you have to even be even more honest about what also happened that was tied to that. People became so arrogantly convinced. of what was right and what was wrong in this and how debate itself was being rejected. And people that thought differently than the decisions made by a lot of people were being told to shut up and actually being had their social media pages turned off. It's so important that this became a debate that went far beyond politics and very much into day-to-day life. And the people that were on the other side that even Deborah Birx is now admitting were not wrong. They were right for the things that they were saying. Those people were treated like they were killing grandma and grandpa. It's surreal. And I don't mean to keep bringing this up. I know probably a lot of people barely care about that part of this discussion all these years after the pandemic. They just want to forget about it. But to me, Anthony Fauci's testimony. just thrusts all that right back into the forefront of so many of our minds because of how egregious all of this was, how horrible all this was, and how unapologetic it all was too. To hear anybody take any version of, we did something wrong. There's a version of thank you, but then also keep going because there's a lot left there. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Susan Collins filling in. Tony Katz, the Morning News, 93 WIBC. 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. 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 and to answer someone who asked a question in the chat I am not currently broadcasting from the toilets in case people were wondering the video is not on I am not struggling with my bowels but I am not feeling well And so I asked Carl at the beginning of the show if I could skip the video. And he said, yes, which I was happy about. And so we're not doing that today. Carl did also work in television for a while. As a producer, what was your gig in TV, Carl? I was at more operations than production. Okay. Operations. All right. So a thing went viral in the world of television, and you might be able to give us more insight than anyone else into this. A WGN television was doing a segment about Kyle Shanahan. The head coach who got in a car accident, I think is okay. It was bad enough for him to get stitches and stuff. And during the bit, well, it shouldn't have been a bit during the news reporting on this, they put up a photo.

And the photo that somebody in the control room used was a meme of Mitch McConnell from his hospital bed with Shanahan's face posted over it. And somebody on the team thought this was real because they don't even acknowledge it as they're talking. A Pat Thomasulo is the name of the broadcaster that then later claimed he did it on purpose. But it doesn't look like it because they're just telling a news story. And then an image pops up and it says Shanahan recovering in hospital. And it's definitely Mitch's wife and Mitch's body and Shanahan's head. So this reminds me. I used to work 10 plus years at E. Entertainment Television in L.A. And Jason Alexander, you know, from the Seinfeld show, there was another Jason Alexander that Britney Spears got married to. And so somebody asked the PA, go find a picture of Jason Alexander. So they said it up to him. So it was the top news. This is E. Entertainment Television. It's the top news. Britney Spears getting married. Hilarious. To Jason Alexander. And they show George and they're like, wow, George. Yeah, way to go, George. That's a hell of a move right there. No, it's funny how people sometimes could make this mistake and be like the only person in the room that makes a decision that gets all the way on television or radio or anywhere. Because sometimes it really is just like one individual who's the option between yes and no. And this should have been a no, but it was a yes by WG and television. There are a lot of young people in TV. That's the thing. So they made a mistake. Well, and obviously this person is not political at all because like this picture was fairly important in the world of politics with Mitch McConnell in the hospital bed. So you would think you'd be able to figure it out. And the Photoshop's not even that good. Like it's, it's fairly obvious to many of us. I'm surprised by the director because they see it on the preview before they throw it on the air. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe they weren't paying attention. Maybe these people only made this mistake and they don't make a lot of mistakes. And you got overconfident. I don't know. But it definitely went viral. And WGN television in Chicago, they go viral a lot for mistakes. I think they like that part. So part of it might not be that bad. Another story I saw that I thought was interesting is deputies arrested a woman in Illinois that was doing both cocaine and heroin and driving a vehicle, which is incredibly dangerous. Don't do that. The reason that this went viral is that not only is this not the first time. It's in fact the fifth time that she's been caught. And she was currently on probation for a DUI arrest that happened in Champaign County in Illinois for the same things for cocaine and heroin and driving behind the wheel. I think this is the moment where you got to put her in jail for a longer amount of time. This is me on this one. Yeah. Does she lose her license after the first arrest? I would think so, first or second. I don't think you can have a license after 4 DUI arrests and being on probation for driving under the influence. And believe it or not, I've heard of stranger things and ways for people to get back their licenses, which to a degree is fine with me. I mean, we all make mistakes and we serve that. You know, redemption in some ways. But man, oh, man, that's a lot of baggage. That is a lot of baggage. Now, taking away somebody's license doesn't stop them from driving either a lot of times. You know, and that is some serious deal there. But, yeah, she needs to go to.

jail, man. You got to do a little time. You have to do the punishment. Right, like for a while. And you think you can maybe get over that stuff well in jail because you can't get it there, or at least I hope you can't get it there. And you're kind of forced to do the cold version of getting over all this. But it's just crazy to me. And I think the reason that people were talking about it is that when you're on probation for this and you get caught doing it again, it certainly seems as though you're not learning the lesson. Whatever the punishment is so far, it's not teaching you that the crime isn't worth continuing to commit. No, that probation is just a suspended sentence, right? I mean, that's just jail time, except you have to check in with somebody every week or even more than that if you have a conviction of drugs or alcohol, whatever it may be. When I got my DWI, you know, way back in my 20s, I had to go see a guy every week, and I do the P test and all that. I mean, there was some stump to it, and you had to do the stuff, or they made it pretty clear. You're going to go do this sentence. I was like, uh-uh. No, I'm not going to jail pretty late at the time. And I assume that most of this audience knows this, but any audience that doesn't, you have a podcast that is out and has been out for a while at WIBC. You guys created a whole bunch of episodes of it and people can, I'm sure, go back in and check it out. Do you want to promote that a little bit? Yeah, Ryan Hedrick and myself used to do supporting sobriety. Ryan's doing it right now. It's a fantastic contest. A podcast, excuse me. And go give them a listen. And yeah, we were nominated for a podcasting award of Marconi. So that's really cool. Wow. Did you just recently or this happened back when you first started it? This came out just last Monday. We found out the news. So it's special, man. You know, you get to help some people. And I still, in other ways, talk about Marine Recovery on the air. I might talk about it a little bit this afternoon with Hammer on Hammer, Nigel and Nigel and that whole gang. So yeah, it's a blessing, man. It's really cool. So when do you know if you won the Marconi? I believe it's the end of October. I believe that's when that is going to happen. What do we do to force you guys to win? Like, who do I? have to grease what palms like it sounds very deserving i think you'll win legitimately but that's really exciting man marcones are huge awards yeah it's really big and i am humbled about it and again it goes to show you know anything like that you put together a podcast it was ryan it was our executive producer matt hiblin and our pd david wood it's just like recovery you don't do it by yourself you have to have a good group of people and you stick with that group and good things happen Well, and honestly, the other thing that's great about topics like that and discussions like that, I'm sure almost none of it matters when people listen. Like it's all evergreen is what we say in our industry because the conversations are about, you know, emotions and experiences and not necessarily about what's in the news. So I'm sure any episode for someone who hasn't listened before could have a lot of value. Absolutely. Yeah, very much so. Recovery is just that. It's recovery. A lot of great ideas and a lot of different ideas and ways to work with certain issues in addiction because we've all been touched about.

You know, whether it's ourselves or somebody else and maybe a recovering alcoholic, it was a real pleasure to work on that podcast. Wow. Yeah, that's amazing. I didn't know any of that when I started this topic, by the way. And that's incredible. Good luck. Are you going to go to the show if you win the award? If you win the Marconi, do you show up? I'm a day at a time, man. I have no idea. I want you to wear a fancy suit. I want you and Ryan to go into the dumb and dumber suits. Yeah, that would be very fun for me. Yeah, they're going to, we want to make a mockery out of this recovery podcast. Not that part. No, not that part. You want to steal the show. Okay. They'll make fun of it. In that case, I'll get it fitted. No problem. And there you go. I like the dumb and dumber, the orange and the blue. Love it. Those are great suits, man. You know, how do you not take those people seriously? But anyway, I really, really hope you win because it's an excellent show and people should check it out. Thank you, Ben. We got to, sure. We got to take a break for traffic in just a bit. We'll come back after that. We will do some serious things, I promise, and then probably a little bit more silly stuff. before we get out of here. What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Right now, your local Toyota dealer has great deals available on some of the most reliable trucks on the market, like the off-road ready Tacoma, rugged, full-sized tundra, and legendary forerunner, each with the space, tech, and features to handle it all. From the work site to the trails. It means driving for less, with efficient hybrid options available, extending your overall driving range and delivering great MPGs, meaning bigger savings at the pump without sacrificing power. And it means trading for more. The Tacoma and Tundra are ranked number one and number two in resale value over all vehicles, according to Kelly Boo Book, which can mean thousands more than average right back in your pocket when it's time to trade in. That's Toyota affordability. Buy smart. Drive for less and trade for more. Shop Toyota.com or your local dealer for deals and details. Vehicles projected resale value is specific to the 2026 model year. For more information, visit Kelly Blue Books, KB.com. Toyota brand average resale value is 53% versus the average vehicle at 45%. Toyota, let's go places. Tony cats in the morning news. 93 WIVC. I went back to the YouTube and pulled it because it was amazing and the professionalism of the news department, both Ryan Hedrick and Terry Stacey to do the pickle story. And I think I heard a little bit of laughter in the recorded version of the thing, but mostly they straight-faced it, which was incredible. But there's a pickle-palooza. That's happening. And I want to play that news audio again. The food and drink fest is Saturday in Fort Wayne. Throughout the whole festival, you'll experience all things pickle from a wakadillo, which is a walking taco with some pickles. We have a dilly cheesecake, pickle cookies. And then, of course, we've got our mechanical pickle. So it's just like a mechanical bowl, but instead of writing a bowl, you're writing a giant pickle. Yeah, I can't believe that News is able to do what News does because I couldn't have handled hearing someone from the pickle thing talk about the pickle.

launched Operation Blackout, which we conducted with our partners across the world, including in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. And we took down four of the largest scam compounds in the world. And we freed thousands of traffic workers, Sean. We seized over $15 billion worth of fraud that was being deprived and stolen from American citizens. Yeah, this is a win. And this probably needs to be talked about a lot more, not just the, you know, preventing fraud or finding fraud and doing something. about. It's more than any administration in my recollection has done, but also cutting rates like the murder rate because of deportation. That is one of the bigger aspects of the impact on a lot of the crime we're seeing. And you're racist if you say it out loud, but you're also simply statistically accurate in saying that that is one of the most likely causes of the data that we're seeing. So there are ways to say manufacturing is coming back to this country. There's a lot of potential there, a lot of investment there. I always mention the Trump accounts when I do a topic like this on the radio because they are beneficial. They are popular. And likely they're going to give a lot of people a decent amount of money at some point in their life. You get a thousand bucks just for popping out a baby. Probably not the right way to say that. But nonetheless, I think that there are wins. And so anyone that is contemplating what to do as far as election season goes now as we get closer and closer to it. One of the things, and you hear this all the time in politics, and a lot of the times I believe it's just absolute crap and not true. But occasionally it feels true that they're not talking about their wins enough. They're not demonstrating the American people, they being this administration, how those wins are impacting us, like the good that's being done. And they need to get that message out better. I do agree with that, especially the news involving Hamas. if it winds up actually being something that happens and not just something that got agreed to on paper. All right, quick break. And then we'll do some silly stuff to get out of here. I'm still thinking about a mechanical pickle being somewhere in Indiana. So we might talk about that. Craig Susan Collins filling in 93 WIBC on Tony Katz and the morning news. Sorry. Tony Katz the morning news. 93 WIBC. My name is Craig Susan Collins filling in. Matt and Carl are hanging out. Coming up next, you got Brian and Jerry, and Brian Baker is definitely a name that everybody here at WIBC knows for a bunch of reasons. So I asked him, and he said yes, to jump in a little bit in promoting the show before you guys take over. Brian, how you doing, buddy? Tell the truth, man. You just ran out of stories and you needed to fill the last segment. No, man, of course not. For anybody that isn't aware, can you talk about how long and in all the different capacities you've worked at WIBC? Oh, gee. Oh, man. Just talking about it was going to make my knees and my back hurt, man. Yeah, I... Man, I'll tell you, I started back actually with at 93.1 with MS back when it was Radio Now back in the days. And then wound up working for, I was in California for about 13 years, you know, thinking I was going to be a movie star. And spoiler alert, that didn't work out. So then, yeah, yeah, came back to Indian Apples, was working with Tony Katz, was a producer, did some writing, a bunch of digital content, hosted the show. It was kind of like the, I don't know, the,

Jack of All Trades, a guy that was filling in a spot there. But you're a hilarious writer. Like, you're a great broadcaster. I'm not trying to take away from any broadcasting you do, but your writing is also incredible. And I remember a lot of the social media or even internet stuff that you were writing back when I first started filling in in WIBC and how good it was, dude. Oh, thank you, man. I appreciate that. And, yeah, it ruffled a few feathers. And I got to be honest, when the boom finally got lowered, I wasn't exactly surprised. Man, I love being honest about that on the air. That's funny. Yeah. So have you, is it just yesterday and today that is your first show? Have you been back for a while now? I didn't, I didn't know. This is one of the first times I saw, but I don't pay attention enough. You're filling in. Now, Ethan Hatcher, he does Saturday Night in the Circle. He's been a good friend for a long time, and he and I get along great, have a good friendship. And so he's invited me on his program several times. And then I heard that they might be looking for somebody to step into a midday role. And I thought, you know what, what the heck? Everybody else is vying for the gig. Why not me too, huh? Right. If nothing else, just to create some variety and some confusion and make the decision that much more difficult for management. Sure. That sounds amazing. So yesterday was your first. a full shift as somebody filling in that. No, Ethan and I did it a couple of weeks ago. But my first time working with Jerry. And it was my first time meeting Jerry actually on the air. Wow. Yeah, no, I did. You know what's funny about that? And I love the fact that we're talking about this this way. And we don't know what management decisions are going to be made. But I've also. been doing some midday shifts for them. I don't know if that'll continue for some reasons that have some other opportunities for me going on. But anyway, as I say that, I also met Jerry, who might be in the studio if he wants to chime in to via a radio show, which is an odd way to meet a person, not that it's bad. It's like, all right, how are you doing, man? Let's do three hours of radio. Yeah, it explains up to me, Craig, because you're a great broadcast. I enjoyed listening to you this morning, but you also do a lot of radio, and you will do a lot of like several hours in a single day, sometimes multiple radio stations. Yeah. I don't get you, Tony Katz, guys like you who can just go for hours and hours and hours and not be exhausted. You guys are freaks of nature. I don't know how you pull it off. I'm tired after hour one by hour two. I mean, I'm really sucking down the coffee. When we got done yesterday, I had to lay down and take a nap. Yeah. I apologize then, man, for putting you on for an extra few minutes because I feel like I'm already ruining stuff in that world. I'm spent. I like that people are asking me about this because, yeah, I've done 13 hours in a 24-hour day before of on-air radio content. Without stimulants? Without stimulants? Yeah. Well, it depends on if you count a bunch of energy drinks as a stimulant because that, yeah. But it was I did Tony's show and then I did Chad Guy Benson and Dana back to back. So it was nine hours. And then I had an hour off and I did a four hour show in Illinois. So it was a 13 hour day in 14 hours, which is probably the more impressive way to talk about it. And not a radio marathon to each audience. They only thought I was on a regular amount of time.

So had like I screwed up, they wouldn't have given me that. Well, he's been on for 13 hours. Yeah, but you know what? I mean, and people think that it doesn't really take a lot of energy to just sit in a chair and talk. And, you know, I get that. But when your brain is having to work that hard, yes. It's exhausting. Yeah. No, Brian, we got to tell this to my wife more often. By the way, I do remember, I think I told that story just the other day on the air, that when I went home after like the 13-hour shift, which I think I did like more than once, actually. And I was still talking to her at dinner. She couldn't believe it. She's like, you need to shut up. For you, for me, for everybody involved. All right. Yeah, just please, please give it a little bit. Well, it's going. Jerry is joined the conversation, by the way. Oh, Jerry's now in studios. Hey, there he is. Hey, how you doing, Jerry? Doing good. Ready to get through this fun Friday. Awesome. We were both talking about how Brian and I are now in an exclusive club of people that met you via doing a three-hour radio show with you. There it is. Yeah, very exclusive. Only two. Two members. Is that it? Are we the only ones? Okay, cool. Yeah, cool. What's coming up on the show for you guys today? Man, we have Hold D.L is going to be hilarious. You got to hear what Hunter Biden said. He completely went off on Trump's family, dropped about 50 F bombs in 13 seconds. Sure. North Carolina woman hit it big, and a 85-year-old lady is deciding to start an only fans. Yeah, no, yeah. Go ahead, Brian. I was going to say, I heard you talking about that one earlier. Actually, I'm quite excited to get to that segment and have that discussion with Jerry because I've been making up my own list of ladies that are kind of in the blue-haired category that I really wouldn't mind paying to see on Only Fans. I can send you the link if you want to go ahead and subscribe before the show starts. There you go. Actually, I can get it to them too, which is saying a lot about all of us on this show right now that I can get them that link. Any names you want to tease for us, Brian, or no, you want to save all that for the show? And Margaret. And Margaret. Oh, sure. Yeah. Is she still alive? Yeah, she's still alive. How dare you? She's still hot, too. Oh, okay. All right. Where we go? Anything else coming up on the show that we should know about? Scott Pressler joins us at 1130 to talk about the rolls. The voter rolls he just pulled in Philly yesterday said he found over 10,000 illegal names on there. So I think we're just starting to scratch the surface for all of this New Jersey, Philly. I agree with you on that, Jerry, that there's a lot of stuff that's been coming out first in Jersey and now Philadelphia, even though I think they're trying to deny it in some places and like challenge whether or not that's legitimate, but it seems to be. And I think it's the beginning of a whole lot of there's this over here, there's that over there. And wow, my God, there was actually fraud in 2020. Tons of it. Yeah, tons of it. All right. Well, thank you guys both for helping preview the show and promote the show. And I'm excited to hear you guys again today. I caught a little bit of the show yesterday. And actually, I'll just say this last thing before I let you guys prep your show. I loved Brian the Open when you said how punchable Anthony Fauci's face was. I loved everything about that. I don't know if you wrote that or if it was just coming out of you in the moment. But that was an excellent way to start that show over the music. Oh, I appreciate it, man. Thank you. And you know what, now that we've all met on the radio here, we should actually get together in person. We'll get together in it. We'll go ride that mechanical pickle. That's just we'll meet in Nashville. Let's all meet in Nashville. Yeah, because I'm in Houston. So wherever we're going, I'd rather not travel that far. But yeah, no, it was great to meet you guys both via this. And I remember actually, I'll say one more thing. I think Brian, years ago when I first started filling in for.

Tony, you were one of the people that sent me a nice email saying that I was doing a good job, unless I miss remembering that. No, no, I do remember that, actually. Yeah, so, yeah, well. Yeah, I know. I really appreciated that at the time. It was very kind of you to send it, and I feel the same way about how great you're doing as a broadcaster, too. All right. You're welcome, guys. Yeah, you guys both have a good time, fun show today. Matt Bear and Carl hanging out on the show before we get out of here. Brian did just reference the Picklepoolooza. And I can't get over how funny I think that is. And I do wonder if Matt, Bear, when you were hearing that topic, you had any level of reaction to it like the rest of us did, the mechanical pickle that people ride at Pickle Palooza. I, Jen Conn has nothing on pickle ploosa. That's all I know. We have 72,000 people coming into downtown Indianapolis. You know, it's going to be our own pickle paloosa. But, yeah, I mean, that's Fort Wayne. Fort Wayne comes up with good things. That's going to be a lot of fun. They're always doing cool things up there. But, man, we have a little Jen Con going on it. If I can say so, watch out for the people walkers coming up this weekend because if you're trying to leave a parking garage, you may run over Hard they quit. And that's like 70 years bad luck. And I don't want to see that happen. Now, I don't want to see that happening. Are you going to Jen Con? No, Matt? No, I'm nothing. To me, I've gone a couple of times. I absolutely love it. I think it's fun. Me too. The people watching it. I'm glad the kids to do this, kind of have their own group, their huge event to go and enjoy together and just be themselves. I think it's really badass. But it does create a traffic catastrophe here downtown. So if you can kind of watch your butt a little bit, and if you're coming downtown for anything other than Jen Con, man, add 10 minutes to your time at least. That's all I'm going to say. about it. Does anybody who's in the traffic catastrophe have like a dinosaur suit on for something while they're doing it? That's the rule. If you get stuck in traffic, you better have your costume behind so at least we're entertained. Yeah. Has radio ever sent you guys to an event like this before? No. I think the news department. I think Jake McDaniel was over there this year. A few years ago, I went and I got to, it's like when Lord of the Rings was really hot or one of those shows. And I got to meet some of the characters. That was cool. But they're kind of, when you go over there, they're not, the people there will talk to the media, but like the vendors and the distributors, you know, they're kind of a tight-knit group. They really don't get anything out of talking to me. I thought that was unique, but man, oh man, does it bring some business to Indianapolis, brother? Oh, yeah. I mean, this is huge. Reservations required at any restaurant you could think of. Yes. No, I actually, the reason I asked is because I was sent to C2E2, which is Chicago's version of a Comic-Con thing multiple times by WGN when I was working there. And the nice thing is they got me costumes. So the bad thing is that there's photos of that somewhere out there in the world. But the nice thing, to the point you just made, Matt, about like being... more capable of talking to people. Some of the times I was wearing a costume where you couldn't even tell I was anyone other than, you know, another attendee. And then I would just interview some people and they'd answer more questions because I was in several different full costume.

This year you can go as a pickle. I'd love to. You can make the pickle paloosa representative. Ryan Hedrick, by the way. I'm going to shout him out, too. This is like a little love fest at the end of the show before Jerry and Brian take over. And hopefully they're just mean to everybody. That would be a hilarious transition from what we're doing. But Ryan crushed that news report and didn't laugh at all. And I don't know how he did that. He's a professional. He is a pro as insane. All right. Well, good luck to everybody going to Jen Con because that's going to be insane. What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Right now, your local Toyota dealer has great deals available on some of the most reliable trucks on the market, like the off-road ready Tacoma, rugged full-sized tundra, and legendary forerunner, each with the space, tech, and features to handle it all, from the work site to the trails. It means driving for less, with efficient hybrid options available, extending your overall driving range and delivering great MPGs, meaning bigger savings at the pump without sacrificing power. And it means trading for more. The Tacoma and Tundra are ranked number one and number two in resale value over all vehicles, according to Kelly Boo Book, which can mean thousands more than average right back in your pocket when it's time to trade in. That's Toyota affordability. Buy smart, drive for less, and trade for more. ShopToyota.com or your local dealer for deals and details. Vehicles projected resale value is specific to the 2026 model year. For more information, visit Kelly Blue Books KB.com. Toyota brand average resale value is 53% versus the average vehicle at 45%. Toyota, let's go places.