Tony Katz and the Morning News with Craig Collins 3rd Hr 7-30-26

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. Tony Katz, the morning news, 93. WIBC, my name is Craig Susan Collins, and I am filling in on your 93 WIBC, Tony Cat Show. Very happy to be here. Lots of stuff to talk about all morning this morning. I have been discussing on and off Dr. Anthony Fauci and the 111 times that he pled the fifth yesterday when trying to be questioned for all different kinds of decisions he made during COVID. And also, of course, the diaries that came out that showed that he was saying one. thing and both behaving and saying a very different thing behind closed doors. There's been a lot of really damaging, I believe, and I think many, many people believe examples of how anyone that questioned Anthony Fauci was right and everybody that told us that Anthony Fauci was science itself, including him, was wrong. The reason I'm setting it up this way is because sometimes you wonder how the other side is reshaping a narrative to the people who are still not paying enough attention. Because that's the thing that sometimes drives me crazy. Like I'll see something and I'll think about it, I believe, without the context of even politics and people certainly know the political side I'm on because of what I do for a living. But like there's certain things that you can turn on, you digest them. You witness them and you walk away and you go, how could anybody else think anything other than what I think on this issue, on this topic, given that we just saw the same thing? And somehow, some way, a bunch of people have a very different opinion, or at least some people have a very different opinion. And I think that's why so much of us talk about like media brainwashing. And we believe it to be true. I guess I'm picking on Dr. Deborah Birx and CBS when I play this audio and get as mad as I will, although I'm not a screamer on the radio, but as mad as I will at it. But I did want to play it. So I saw that CBS had a Dr. Deborah Birx, one of the other faces from a medical standpoint of the COVID pandemic other than Dr. Anthony Fauci.

You didn't save lives. In fact, you probably cost us lives, not just financially, but because of some of the things you hid when we look at the vaccine itself. I mean, this is probably the other big story that I do not think is getting a lot of coverage and deserves to get a lot more coverage. It was Robert F. Kennedy Jr.., who said that the biggest takeaway he had from Anthony Fauci's Diaries, which. He is the one that the kind of, well, his organization, his leadership of that organization is what found them in the first place, gave them to Rand Paul to release them. But he said that one of the biggest revelations in the diaries is that Anthony Fauci had a negative reaction to the vaccine that he took on live television and hit it from the American people. So it's not that we're upset that our livelihoods were upended so that you could save lives. We're upset that you did it without. any benefit to us whatsoever in the world of health. And even more importantly, it seems to many of the people who were in charge of this, a lot of financial benefit to you and to have ouchy. It is insane to hear me, for me to hear people say it's about something else. But I know we're up on a traffic. I want to play this real quick. One of the things that was new to me in his diary was his admission that he got pulmonary infarction. in July of 2021 after receiving the vaccine. So he took the modern vaccine on national TV telling a very, very highly publicized press conference, they show people that was safe. Then he got one of the primary most expected adverse events, which was potentially deadly blood clots in his lung, mitochondrial infarion. He kept that secret from the American public and we only learned about it because of his diary. That's horrible. These are the things that people are mad about. This is why so many were hoping that a Anthony Fauci would be hauled off and thrown in jail for how he behaved. It's not because you saved lives and in doing so you hurt some people financially. It's such a ridiculous way to talk about it. And it really, really makes me mad. And I'm trying not to be mad early in the morning. All right. Let's do some traffic and let's do some other things. Let's have fun in a bit. What is Toyota affordability? It's buying smart. Right now, your local Toyota dealer has great deals available on some of the most reliable trucks on the market, like the off-road ready to coma, rugged full-sized tundra, and legendary forerunner, each with the space, tech, and features to handle it all, from the work site to the trails. It means driving for less, with efficient hybrid options available, extending your overall driving range and delivering great MPGs, meaning bigger savings at the pump without sacrificing power. And it means trading for more. The Tacoma and Tundra are ranked number one and number two in resale value over all vehicles, according to Kelly Boo Book, which can mean thousands more than average right back in your pocket when it's time to trade in. That's Toyota affordability. Buy smart, drive for less, and trade for more. Shop Toyota.com or your local dealer for deals and details. Vehicles projected resale value is specific to the 2026 model year. For more information, visit Kelly Blue Books KB.com. Toyota brand average resale value is 53% versus the average vehicle at 45%. Toyota, let's go places.

Tony Katz, the morning news, 93 WIBC. My name is Craig Susan Collins filling in. You have Matt and Carl hang out as you do every single morning on this show. I don't believe Indianapolis has Amazon Prime Air yet, which is drone delivery of stuff. I know that DoorDash is going to be doing drone delivery. All kinds of places. I assume Indianapolis will get that. But you guys don't have the Amazon version yet, right? I don't think so, no. Okay. I think that it's probably coming. It's going to show up everywhere. They do have it in Houston, in Texas, where I happen to live. And the other day, a neighbor of mine had an Amazon package delivered via drone. So I got to, like, see the thing, fly over the backyard and drop the package in the backyard. And it was odd. I wonder if there's going to be a horrible. moment here in the near future where there's a crap ton of drones in the air all the time flying everywhere and all the challenges that that might cause but also just like how much more annoying it would be because the one drone not a big deal kind of a novelty if there were like 15 all dropping off stuff at the same time I think I would have been more annoyed but what are our thoughts about drone delivery of stuff do the drones fly do the drones fly themselves or they piloted by a person Yes, they fly themselves. I think they completely like, I think they're programmed. They take off with the thing. They're told where to go. They fly there. They drop it off. They fly back. I don't think the human pays attention at all. There's other things in the air too, right? Like another drone or a bird. So it doesn't crash into it. Yeah. Carl, your guess is as good as mine as to how good that goes because Tesla still seems to be having problems with that sort of stuff. But they're supposed to be able to detect things. Yes. i would have to think because when you first started talking about this story my first gut reaction was that at some point this could cause problems with an airplane And that's what I really worry about. And to me, how necessary is this? Because already you can get everything overnighted from Amazon. They bring it in the truck. You can see how many stops are left. It's all right there. It's easy stuff. If you can plan a day ahead, you're good to go. If you want same day delivery, sure, you're going to have to pay $2.99. I'm sure it'll be the same thing with drone delivery. How necessary is it to have drones drop off our stuff from Amazon? I love that question, Matt. I love it. The only thing I've ever thought of as like a reason to do it is if I totally screwed, this is the married guy thought. If I totally screwed something up and I need to pretend I didn't. And like, it's an anniversary. And I'll be like, oh, I definitely bought you something, honey. And then I wait for it to get dropped off in the backyard. Other than that, there's no reason. to need something this quickly from Amazon specifically. Like if it's a medical emergency, there's other places you can go to get the things you need. So anyone who would couch, well, maybe you need this because it's going to save a life somehow. That's ridiculous. Yes, I don't think we need this. When it comes to the food delivery, to the DoorDash version of it, though, I also think that it's kind of taken away some people's jobs, which a lot of AI and artificial intelligence and technology is doing.

I don't hate the idea that if I do buy something via delivery and I've been exceptionally lazy in my inability to go get it myself that I've employed someone for a few minutes. You know, like that's the other thing. That's the thing I always tell myself when we get like a pizza or something delivered to the house is somebody wanted to do that. They wanted to drive it to me and get paid. So I facilitated a little bit of work. And now if it's a drone, I have no excuse to not just go get it myself. I'm just picturing a drone bringing a pizza in a pizza box through this great city air we live in, especially with the Canada wildfires pushing all that smoke through the city. And I'm sure it'll be a lot more secure than that. But I think of everything we're saying right now. You know, we're talking about anniversaries and having to have a last minute, you know, gift buying session where you have to call Amazon or have something overnighted to you or whatever. I mean, if you're having to do that, are you really that into your marriage to begin with? Yeah. No, that, well, ouch, but yes. Sorry. It's just what I thought. And I'm the single guy, so I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. No, no. The reason I said, ouch, is because I'm afraid of it. I've never done it. So I'm good right now. I've never, I've never screwed up and forgot a thing. I'm just afraid of doing it, which maybe means I care. and why I don't do it, because my wife's a Latina and she throws shoes, which is part of the problem. Dude, the chancla's a thing. You have to see a Latina woman and the accuracy they have. They could compete in Olympic sports in the world of just throwing a flip-flop at you. It is amazing. Another story that happened over the weekend, and I kind of really wanted to talk to you guys about it when it first occurred, because this is a fun show to talk about this on. I'm curious if you guys have seen this. The Usher fan thing. Do you guys know what I'm talking about or no? No. Uh-uh. Okay. So Usher and Chris Brown are on a tour together. And I guess one of the things that they both do, Usher's in his mid-40s and Chris Brown's in his mid-30s. And there's a lot of reasons that probably some fans wouldn't want to go on stage with Chris Brown specifically. But anyway, they bring up like a hot female fan and they basically like do a tease dance on them. Both guys do this at times in their show. Over the weekend. That's cool. See, again, already a fun show to talk to. Over the weekend, Usher picked this very good-looking 24-year-old woman and had her come up on stage and did like the seductive dance. And the reason this went viral is she had no interest in him. Like the entire time she's sitting there on stage at a concert, she's doing a very awkward sort of tight and kind of like looking suspiciously at his face as he's trying to faux kiss her and stuff. And eventually he threw her off stage. The 47-year-old, I think, a performer decided he didn't want the 24-year-old on stage with him anymore. But it became a big thing on social media. People were talking about it and reacting to it. And here's the thing I said and the thing I wanted your feedback on. That's a big swing for a 40-something-year-old guy to try out dancing suggestively on a 20-year younger woman. I think it could go bad even though they're famous, even though they're rich, and even though, you know, like Usher probably thinks of himself as attractive. It could still go negative because that age gap is not always going to work out for us. Yeah, but he's rich and famous. And so he usually gets his way.

I know, Carl, but so I just thought that was funny that after I read the whole thing and some people accused the fan of being like a jerk, that part of me is like, I would probably pick a more age-appropriate woman if I was a performer on stage. She might break her hip, though. That's true. Not because, again, well, thanks, Carl. I'm 40, by the way. But not because, you know, I don't think that the fans might not want to see like a 20-something attractive lady on stage, but on the off chance, it's embarrassing for me. I just go the safer road. What do you guys think of this? I think it's called shooting your shot. I'm going to tell you right now. A 48-year-old dude, say there was a 25-year-old woman I was interested in. I just don't think I could ask her out because if she said no, I'd just be like, dude, you're old. That was dumb. What were you thinking? And I'd go through the whole thing and shoot my self-esteem for the rest of the day. Now, having said that, she had a plan. When she went up on stage and she was going to, she was going to put the wall up on this guy, yeah, and to embarrass him. Now, having said that, he is rich and famous and he should just move by. I like to know what his reaction is, but at the same time, you're touring with Chris Brown and he can go to hell. So, having said that, I just. I'm not sure what the bit was what he was expecting was going to happen and how he reacted. That's a big thing. In the moment, he seemed to react a little bit upset. He threw her off the stage. He didn't get like mad or yell or anything, but I don't think it went well. I don't think he's reacted since the woman, though, is now a viral sensation and people are following her in social media. And she, her answer to the question, why did you go on stage? It was very simple. She said, I looked good as bleep. I wanted everyone in the audience to see me. There you go. And she did look really nice. Like she did look very attractive. I like what you said there, Matt, with shooting your shot. Because if you were a 40-something year old, very famous, very rich dude, and you see a really attractive one. Now, granted, I think Usher is also married, but a very attractive woman in the stands. Apparently it doesn't. But a very attractive woman in the stands and you weren't married, you were single. I wouldn't blame a guy for. trying to hit on somebody and, you know, see if they have interest in you. But I wouldn't go as far as to bring a fan on stage and try to suggestively dance on them and hope that goes well. But apparently they do this every night, both people, every single performance. And for the most part, it doesn't go viral, which makes you assume it goes much better for the performers. But I don't know. It was, it was interesting to me. And the woman probably will benefit from this. And people were even wondering if she actually had a boyfriend too. And I think the word is still out there. I might have done some research just to make sure that this topic was entirely. You never know. You just want to know about everything. But yeah, I just thought that whole thing was funny. And we'll see. But all right. I think we have to take a, yep, we have to take a break for traffic. More coming up in a bit. Greg Susan Collins filling in 93 WIB. 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. Tonycats, the morning news, 93. W-I-NBC. My name is Craig Susan Collins filling in. Brian Baker is going to be on in about half an hour along with Jerry Lopez, I think, doing your 9-to-noon show. Look forward to hearing them together hanging out and talking about all kinds of crazy stuff, which is what news feels like it always is. News is insane by and large. Let's do a serious topic. Iran attempted to attack the United States a couple days ago. We prevented all of the missiles they shot at our bases in Jim Jordan from harming anyone. And then the president of the United States called into Fox and Friends. And I know I played this audio some other places yesterday, including on this station, but told Trey Yanks that he was going to. beat the crap out of them. And he used other language when he said it, which I thought was interesting. Today, in fact, and I think even yesterday, that has been happening. Heavy waves of airstrikes and retaliation for the surprise attack from Iran. Here's a little bit of how Fox talked about this today on their morning show. Just 12 hours after President Trump warned Iran would get a beating, U.S. forces launched heavy strikes against the regime. Dozens of targets were hit, including IRGC military command centers, missile and drone launching positions, and the remaining maritime capabilities belonging to Iran. Now, U.S. Central Command released a statement saying Centcom forces successfully completed a heavy wave of strikes against Iran in response to yesterday's attempted missile attacks on U.S. forces. The strikes aimed to further... diminished threats posed by Iran and its proxies to American forces, commercial shipping, and neighboring Gulf countries. Earlier in the day, President Trump told Fox News, we are going to beat the effing S out of them. Yeah, that's exactly how he described it. And then they did that. I do know that a lot of people are asking the question. Is air campaigns bombing going to be enough? Are you going to convince any regime in Iran, even if you change it over again? And from what we, I think, know, we've switched it twice, meaning we've killed the people in charge a couple times. Do we have to keep doing that? But what will eventually, excuse me, end this conflict? Because there is, in fact, things to talk about beyond Anthony Fauci, even though I've done a lot of that today.

And I do believe, and I'll say it again, I said it the other day, and I've actually been saying it a decent amount while filling in on stuff on this radio station, I think inevitably we're going to have to take the straight of Hormuz, we're going to have to take a Carg Island. We're going to have to do something that involves the dreaded boots on the ground part of a discussion. And I did look into some data on it just because I was curious. And even recently, 20% of Americans say that they're completely comfortable with that concept. Some seem to believe that it's a vast minority of people, and 20 is not a lot, but it's not like two out of 100 that say that we see that being the next step that makes sense because we're in an unfortunate scenario where you can't simply stop fighting. You can't simply expect Iran to behave because they haven't at any point or negotiate in good faith. They haven't done that either. And this is the moment where the enemy has showed itself to only respond to one thing and you need more of it, which is complete dominance. So it is what it is. I did see one of the report from Jackie Heinrich about U.S. troops needing to surrender their cell phones because Iran is capable of using those and especially social media posts that they can track certain geolocations on to target areas, which is horrible. But here's a little bit of that. A new tonight, some U.S. troops may have to surrender their cell phones after the CENTCOM commander warned that Iran may use videos that soldiers post online to target U.S. bases. Admiral Cooper warned that Iran's been benefiting from seeing the exact location of their strikes in real time after a video posted by U.S. service member last month went viral, showing troops running for cover after an Iranian strike. Look, I don't blame, although I know a lot of military would immediately respond to anything. military men and women do that puts anybody at risk by saying they shouldn't do it. It's wrong. Like military is very tough on itself is the right way to say it. But to me, I wouldn't blame a young 20-something person for having a desire to put some of this up on social media so that we as the American people understand what's going on. And honestly, when you're debating the value of fighting an enemy to begin with, And a lot of people pretend as though the enemy isn't well known. And Iran hasn't been, sadly, taking American lives via proxy fighting for a very long time. When all of those aspects spiral together, the one thing that you want to say or the one thing that you want to do is prove the value of the fight itself. And I think that some might want to do that. But in doing so, you're actually putting your military at more risk. So I think there's something, you know, profoundly important about understanding all the different levels to how day-to-day life is for people fighting for our country and being asked to fight by the president. And I have thought the entire time for a good reason. One last thing I want to play before I take a break. This is President Trump answering a question about Zohran Mamdani. This made me uniquely mad as someone who was born in Jersey, spent part of my life growing up on the East Coast because 9-11 is part of this question and how much Zohran Mamdani doesn't seem to care that families that want to mourn again on the anniversary of 9-11 don't want him around. And he said he's going to show up anyway because many people are calling for him to skip the event based on everything he said.

And he doesn't seem to think that that matters. Trump was asked about that. Two questions. First, we're coming up on the 25th anniversary of 9-11. And a good number of 9-11 families have called on New York Mayor Zoratmaudani to not attend the number of these memorial services. What are your thoughts on that? Well, I think they're having a hard time with Zohran Mamdani. The people having to do with anybody having to do with 9-11 right now on the victim side, and there are a lot of them, very unhappy with what's going on in New York and they're very unhappy with the mayor. I understand that. Yeah, please. Yeah, so I understand it too. Sorry, Mr. President, going to interrupt you there. And more importantly, I think the thing that's so arrogant and elitist about how Zohran Mamdani is going to handle himself is that in that scenario where those individuals, families affected by 9-11 are the ones asking you to stay away, you don't think you have to do it. Like, you think politically. They're motivated to say, I don't want you around us. And so you politically have to show that you're tough and you're right. And you get to go regardless of how they feel. It is uniquely upsetting, again, to I think anybody. But more importantly to people that I think are doing this for solely emotional reasons that are now caught up in a political back and forth. All right. Quick break. A little bit coming up left on this show. Craig Susan Collins filling in 93 WIBC, Tony Katz in the morning news. Tonycats the morning news 93 WIBC. My name is Craig Susan Collins filling in, Matt and Carl hanging out as they do every single morning on this very program. Thrilled to be with them as well. I saw this. I thought it was pretty interesting. Parents lose 7,000 minutes a year driving their kids to school. That is the equivalent of 15, 8-hour days. The year just driving the kids to school. I guess the average commute is about 38 minutes. So. Obviously, anybody that's not making their kids take the bus is losing quite a bit of time. What do we think about this story? I mean, it's a generality, right? It's depending on where the school is and where the parent lives and, you know, what you have to do. And I mean, does that figure out like soccer practice too or football practice, cheerleading practice? I mean, parents put a lot of effort into their kids and I see that because I don't have kids and I think it's admirable. And I know how hard my mom and dad worked on me. You know, I took the bus, but there was a time. But, yeah, I was out of the four of us, the black sheep. Right. But, you know, parents are cool people. It's, and that's a lot of time, a lot of sacrifice for your children. But I guess that's how it works, right? Yeah, no, absolutely. That's how it works. I don't think any of the parents that do this would, you know, have it done any other way. I wonder if at some point when the autonomous vehicles and everything start to take over, if you're doing work in the backseat, well, the kids are going. to school with you or something. I don't even know if you'd ride with the kids, actually. If the car can take them, I wonder if there'd ever be a moment where you just trust the car. Like, I'm not talking about now in society. That technology doesn't seem advanced enough. Send your kids on a drone. Yeah, right. Drone your kid to school. Yeah, drone your kids. Go ahead and take them. Take them. You know, he needs to go. But I wonder if at some point... 20 feet off the ground and it just drops the kid right there. Oops! Oops! I wonder if at any point we'll ever get there. Other things I saw that parents believed was important early in the morning was easy to prepare meals that they could get ready for the kid to take to school, getting more sleep themselves, if possible, and then assisting with grocery shopping, having their kids actually assist with picking some stuff out so that they eat the stuff that they want. I vividly remember growing up that my mom, single mom, four kids, would make these breakfast shakes.

It wasn't like real breakfast, but it had all the stuff that breakfast was supposed to have. And I think it was just because of how difficult it was to get four kids out of bed and get them. She's not going to make breakfast every day. And so she'd hand us these shakes and I'd be drinking it at school. And kids would look at me like, what are you doing? I'm like, I'm still having my breakfast. I remember liking that a lot as a kid. And I remember some people I've even told as an adult are like, man, how crazy that you just drank a smoothie. instead of actually having a breakfast. I don't think people understand how much kids both adapt and then also enjoy some of the things that are nuanced for them. Because I bet my mom felt bad about it, but it was silly because I got my nutrients and I enjoyed my breakfast shake during my first two classes at school. I absolutely love that story. Not only that, but you got to be an individual, too. Like you said, everybody got to stick out a little bit. You were like the new kid every day. And who doesn't love being the new kid? I mean, you know, everybody's paid attention to you. wondering what that shake tastes like. And, you know, they probably just had a bowl of cereal. And here you are with your fancy breakfast shake. Yeah. Look what they're doing. Yeah, right. I think I think that's cool as hell. I really do. I was multi. I had other stuff to do in the morning. I couldn't have my breakfast till now. I do also wonder if I would enjoy it now. Like I don't even remember what the type of shake was. This was a while ago. I wonder if it's even still out there because my wife occasionally makes us. like shakes and things. She does this to make me healthy, Matt. And I don't want to do it. And then I do do it. And it's a whole thing. I talked about a story a little while ago that I really liked. And I wonder what your takes on it are. A scientist studied who farts more men or women. It needs to be done. Carl already enjoys this. Now, and honestly, before I even tell you the results, somebody somewhere has to pitch this to a university. Some guy who's doing some sort of research has to go to a school and be like, I want you to pay money so I can bring a bunch of men and women in, put smart underwear technology on them and check how many times they fart. My wife wanted to sign me up on this program, Craig, by the way. It's real. Really? Yeah. It's definitely a real study. But I just love the fact that somebody somewhere had to convince someone else to spend money on it. They did that. 6,400 people across Australia had their data collected for some time. And guess what? Shocking revelation. Men fart quite a bit more than women. No. I know. Women don't fart. There were two theories as to why, by the way, our diets are worse, was the first one. And then we hold none in. was the other one, which I thought was funny. Right. Yeah. They occasionally hold some in. So some are proposing in the world of science that they could fart as much as us, but they're nicer about it. So they don't. I just love this study and the fact that someone got paid to do this. I have tried so hard in my life not to do that around my significant other. I really do. And when it happens. Once you get married, that all stops. No, no, no, no, no. That will continue. That will continue because I don't want her to believe that I do that. But when it does come loose.

It's like I just got hit by a bus. I am so ashamed. And then, of course, she just thinks it's hilarious because I'm like, I'm sorry. I can't do it. And she's like, just laughing on the outside so much. It's been a weird thing with me. It really is. You know what I find funny about this? And I've been married for a long time is you have two moments with farts in a marriage, the one where they hear it, but they don't smell it. And like, that's only so embarrassing. And once you've crossed that threshold, you're not going back. You're letting everything go. And then the second one is the one that smells horrible. Because that is a moment where you find out if they love you. Because you put them through a situation they didn't want to be in. And you find out that everything will be okay. And next thing you know, you're in a situation you don't want to be in. It's true. Yeah, or you get a shoe thrown at you because again, I'm married to a dean. Hey, Craig, blink twice. I saw that in the chat. Carl pointed it out. Blink twice if I'm safe. I'm fine. The shoes don't hurt that much at least so far. One last thing before we get out of here that I liked, I saw a couple different Dear Abby letters that I think the New York Post still publishes that I thought were interesting. One was an older woman that says she's been married for a long time to her husband and she can no longer handle a long car trip with him. She says it's just. too annoying and their kids live like an hour away so to commute to see kids and grandkids they have to drive she wants to start driving separate it's a version of the like bedroom breakup where you sleep in your own bed but now you commute alone for long periods of time she's just she's had enough of the husband at that point i don't think this is that big of a deal i think that if you want to drive separate i would stop less i'd get there quicker i'd be happy about this too somebody's about the file You know, this is the beginning of the end. It doesn't sound like it, a dear Abby letter. I remember we would take these family vacations and my mom. I mean, these would be eight-hour trips from like Missouri to Indiana. We go up in northern Indiana. See my grandparents in Warsaw and my mom would get so mad at my dad because he wouldn't talk. You just drive. And she'd start talking to us kids and make us uncomfortable. Well, I'm going to move into the backseat because your dad doesn't want to talk to me for some reason. Hey, Chris, just start talking to us. So we would feel the most awkward drives in rides you could possibly have. That's hilarious. Yeah, it was brutal. It was just brutal. Yeah, I'm sorry that it's not brutal for everybody else because I'm impressed with your dad that he just would lock in. Like he didn't care. He didn't want to talk about anything. He just wanted to go. And that's before like the headphones you could put on to zone out all the noise. There's something amazing about that to me. These people have been married already for like 10 years. What do you say on an eight hour trip? That hasn't been said at some point. You've said it already. I just want to get there. Let me drive in peace. I love that. All right. It's been fun. See you guys later. Brian and Jerry coming up next. 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.

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