July 28, 2025 • 25 mins
Soundboard fun with Tara Hastings, At century mark, Footlite venue seeks support for repairs. Indianapolis will be one of five regional hubs as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA officials announced on Thursday. Trump announces he will reduce the 50-day ultimatum he gave Russia before applying secondary sanctions because he has been disappointed by Putin. Check out this senior parking space! Rashida Tlaib smacking a cafeteria steam tray
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ninety Wednesday with some scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms. But
then the relief is here. For the end of the week,
we will be into the upper seventies near eighty, and
more importantly, humidity values drop.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You say that, what are you willing to say to
guarantee the people, the good people of Indianapolis that this
will happen?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
My word should be a guarantee. I mean, hello, hello,
Where we're to take the word of weather folk?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
What next? What next? We're gonna take the word of psychics.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We take the word of Tony Katz sometimes, so yes.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
That we do.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Here you go, Yes, that's you, by the way, Yeah,
oh I know, Oh that is you.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Taking the word of Tony Katz is right on solid
like thanos.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, we got everything here. What else do you need?
You need some beastie boys, I got you covered. And
if that doesn't work for you, I got I got
rock lobsters.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh yeah, we can do it all here.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I can bring you from this right on over, right
on over to Angela's name.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
That's a great question. I just don't think it's any
of your concern.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm pretty sure that's the flute. Okay, pretty sure that
is the flute.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And if you don't like the theme to Taxi, we
can just do this. If he was here right now,
we take up plan any follow.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
That's what.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Joy Pig got you covered.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You really do have it all?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, yeah, you want show tunes, you want a little Buffy.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I've never really watched the Buffy.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
That's it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I mean nothing against Sarah Michelle Tyler. No, I.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
No bad, Tara Hastings.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I'll look it up on one of those streaming programs.
Maybe I can start binge watching it.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Tara Hastings, wish TV meteorologist.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Clearly going to hell. Thank you, Tara, appreciate that I
didn't hang up on our producer.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Carl did seventy six degrees in the American standard cooling
leather center.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
The time is eight ten.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I have now been in Indianapolis for eleven years.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Who knows if I'll make it to twelve.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
How is it possible that I have never heard of
Footlight of the Footlight Venue or Footlight Musicals? How is
it possible I have never heard of the head Back
Community Theater. Tony Katz ninety three WIBC, Good morning to
be with you. I catch this story from Dave Lindquist
(04:05):
over there at IBJ at century Mark Footlight Venue seek
support for repairs. And I'm like, I'm sorry, I don't
know what Footlight is. Well, they do shows, Broadway style shows,
all unpaid volunteers. They do stuff where kids are on stage.
(04:28):
The building is one hundred years old. I don't even
know where the building is at nineteenth in Alabama, built
in the eighteen nineties. I have never heard of it.
I have never seen it. I had no idea there
(04:52):
was a theater, another theater in town. How many seats? Like,
what is the what is I the I am going
to need a tour. And they're doing this this, this,
this fundraiser on I was it on August second?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Is that when they're doing it? No, that's not when
they're doing the fundraiser? Is it? Maybe it is?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And and uh, you you can actually go to Footlight
f O O T L I T E. Footlight dot
org if you want to be a part of it.
It's very cool. I didn't know this was happening. I
didn't know the theater existed. It's amazing that all these
years later, I can still be surprised there are still
things I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I'd love to see it. This is very very cool.
So if you know anything about it, you know anybody
who's involved, send them my way.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Tony atonycats dot com. I'd love to learn more. Gary
Dick goes Inside Indiana Business. That is next Tony Katz
ninety three w i v C.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
So you've got hoosiers feeling our economy, but you also
have a lot of growth going on.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Tony Katz at ninety three WIBC, Good morning. Good to
be with you.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Garydeck joins us from inside Indiana Business dot com on
the Twitter x at iib Personally, you can follow him
at Gary Dick g E R R Y at Gary
Deck on the Twitter xbox.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Right. There a series of stories that you have.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
That I want to get into, but we're going to
start where it is that we start. This is the
USDA determining that Indianapolis is going to be one of
the five hubs as they move themselves out of being
DC based and get into where agriculture lives.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Talk to me about what's happening here.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah, And I think you hit on the key point there, Tony,
and that's getting the agency closer to farmers and ranchers
around the country, getting away from Washington, d C. It's
part of the Trump administration focus across multiple agencies, kind
of decentralizing, getting away from the swamp as it's been
referred to in Washington, d C. So, as you say,
(07:12):
Indianapolis been selected as one of five hubs around the country,
a little disperse employees of the USDA Indianapolis, Raleigh, North Carolina,
Kansas City, Missouri, Fort Collins, Colorado, Salt Lake City, or
the selected cities for the hubs. And for Indiana, it
is a feather in the state's cap. You know, the
(07:35):
state has a strong agriculture community, a strong focus on
agg bioscience, kind of forward looking agriculture as well. I
know members of the Indiana Congressional delegation made a hard
pitch to Secretary Brook Rawlins here recently and that turned
out successful.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
What's interesting here, and it's worthy of consideration that when
you take a look at these hubs, this is not
a small thing. This is quite massive because it's not
only about what Indianapolis gets and Indiana gets. This is
a rethink of how government should work. It's rare stuff.
The hubs are Indianapolis, Raleigh, North Carolina, Kansas City, Missouri,
(08:16):
Fort Collins, Colorado, and Salt Lake City. So outside of Raleigh,
you almost got this straight line that goes across the country.
The interesting part here, Gary is that Tennessee ain't on
this list. The interesting part is that Florida is not
on this list. The interesting part is that Georgia's not
on this list. The southern states where people moved to
(08:38):
because the weather's better didn't make it. Outside of Raleigh,
it is all Midwest and into the West.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And I think that is a fascinating.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Story here as a massive win for the state of
Indiana and a selling point to there are reasons to
be booboo, real important reasons to be here.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yeah, yeah, I think you're spot on that, Tony, and
I hadn't thought about it in that way, but you're
absolutely right if you look at the city selected across
the country, not going to some of the hotspots as
you would as you would say, and among the reasons
the USDA is doing this is going to places, as
they say, going to places that are affordable, that have
(09:25):
quality of life, and all those types of things, not
only close to agriculture, the quality of life, cost of living,
those types of things for employees, and Indiana made the list.
And you know, the hope is the expectation is across
other industries too. Decisions are being made based in part
on some of those kind of factors.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I think that in all of the covering of this
and talk about about this, and it's great for Indianapolis,
it's great for the state, but man, there's a bigger
story here that I think has a real sales capability.
Talking to Gary Dick from inside the End of Business
dot Com on the Twitter X at IIB, you've got
the State fair that is starting up thirty one million
(10:07):
dollars worth of impact. But really this is the story
of the Fairgrounds, all the work that they've done there.
And while they're doing that work, you've got Noblesville building arenas,
You've got Fisher's building arenas.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
You've got Grand Park that's going to have.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
This massive redo with our Solos Demir and the Keystone
Group and a Bullseye Ventures I believe it is. So
you've got a lot going on, a lot happening in
these other places. What is the plan for the fairgrounds
to compete with these things? In the Donut counties, never
mind things that are going on to the South Hendricks Live,
et cetera. And to compete with downtown Indianapolis, well they're.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
In the mix, to be sure Tony. As you mentioned,
thirty one million dollar economic impact of the fair, the
state Fair itself, but overall, two hundred million dollars is
the economic annual economic impact pig at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.
Four hundred events there. And I know we've talked about
it before. It's been open now for a while, but
the old Swine Bar in that ancient building was essentially
(11:08):
totally redone a massive redo of that to turn into
the Fall Creek Pavilion. They've got a portable banked track
there and hosted the NCAA Track and Field Championships. So
it is competitive in the world of sports. As you mentioned,
Noblesville getting ready to open officially open the arena at
(11:31):
Innovation Mile, which is going to be the home of
the Pacers G League team, the Noblesville Boom, but also
to host concerts and entertainment venues. Fishers already opened doing
the same, a little bit larger arena in Fishers. So
the competitive scene, if you will, for sports of a
variety of ways is indeed very very competitive to mention,
(11:55):
as you said, Grand Park and Westfield, lots going on
in the whole sports sector.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, I need to get a tour of the arena,
so Mayor Jensen, Uh, let's let's make that happen.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
It's gonna it's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Yeah, we got in. We got in last week. And
it is an impressive facility, about thirty five hundred seats.
In fact, they held a G League meeting, several teams
from the league were in Noblesville, Uh, not too long ago,
and there's an expectation that this arena will kind of
serve as a template or kind of a standard, if
you will, for the rest of the league going forward.
(12:31):
So it's a very impressive facility.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Garydick inside Indiana Business dot Com on the Twitter exit
IIB and that he got into the arena before I did. Seriously, Seriously, seriously, seriously,
that's all I have to say, Gary Dick, good to talk.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
To you, as always, sir.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Follow him on the Twitter x at Garydick, g E
R R y at Garydick on Twitter x.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Time to fill up on the news.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Tony katz N three W IBC, Good morning, What is
going on? Dow futures up twenty three, NAS futures up
eighty seven. Was actually expecting a little bit more from
that EU trade deal.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It seems to be outrageously one sided.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
We're gonna dig into it on Tony Katz today starting
at noon. West Texas crude is up sixty six dollars
and thirty three cents a barrel. Brent crude sixty nine
dollars and sixty cents. Both are up over a dollar
right now. Tenure Treasury is up to four point four zero.
Could have something to do with these trade deals, the
(13:34):
deal with the European Union announced, It's something, It is something.
But Trump's saying he's going to reduce Russia's fifty day
deadline for a piece deal with Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Oh okay, let's let's go through this again.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It is understood that Russia is the impediment to peace,
and Russia is the aggressive of force, the aggressor in
this war with Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
They started it. You don't want to spend the money on.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Ukraine, that's absolutely fine, but you're gonna have to deal
with the fact that that Russia is an expansion of
power and wants power, and we'll go after NATO nations
and Article five will be invoked that an attack on
one is an attack on all, and we're going to
get involved. This was the argument of Vladimir's Lenski with JD. Vance,
And it should be understood that Jade Vance in the
(14:29):
Oval Office lost that conversation in a rare moment of
him not actually having focus.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
He's way smarter than that.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
But when he said we'll fix us with diplomacy, what
diplomacy with Vladimir Putin, who you can't trust? Then as
Zelensky went too far and Trump put him in his place.
And I argue that Trump was absolutely right to do so,
but Vance was wrong. Now we're at the moment where
you've tried to create the peace deals with Russia. She
(15:00):
is not interested in engaging more bombings of Ukraine. Of
course Ukraine and was involved in that massive drone attack
on the Russians. But Trump feels he's being insulted by Putin,
not played.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
That's very, very wrong terminology here, and.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
So he said fifty days or massive sanctions, now to
be less than fifty days, just put the sanctions on. Now,
I don't think Putin cares about sanctions. The only thing
he cares about is whether or not he's gonna get killed.
That seems obvious. But we have a mineral rights deal
now in Ukraine, which I assume is going to be
a protection deal coming up, because we're gonna protect any
(15:40):
investment we have in getting those minerals, those rare minerals
other things. So that's where we're at, the reduction of
this piece deal again, go ahead, put the sanctions on
right now. Why waste time. I just don't think it's
going to mean anything, not a thing at all. Sore
where we're at, And maybe this is keeping the market
(16:03):
down a little because I did think that the futures
would be more.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Up from the trade deal, because it does.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
From from just the outside looking in, this trade deal
looks insane. Why would the EU even think of signing this?
This is this to me, is a way for Trump
and the Trump team to say, you're gonna make deals
with us or life's gonna get terrible for you, which
of course can be discussed as whether or not it
(16:34):
puts America on a different footing with the rest of
the world and how we treat the world or how
we're seen Are we seen as a partner, are we
seen as the beacon? Or we're seen as kind of
abusing our position? I think for Trump and that point
of view, it is no, no, no, Our position has
been abused by them, and now we're just correcting a ship.
Maybe it won't always be this way. Maybe these things
(16:55):
will we'll settle down over time.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
But I expected market to be higher, and now I'm
curious as to why it's not.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
It could be a host of things. Could be the
deals not as good as we think.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
I don't think that's it could be some of these
other things going on, the prospect of war, the prospect
of a disruption in Russian oil, all that's possible. Tony Katz,
ninety three, WIBC, Good morning. It's time to play America's
favorite game. What the heck is that television theme song?
(17:30):
Tony Katz in ninety three WIBC, Good Morning.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Here is how we play our game.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Producer Carl has picked a television theme song from yesteryear.
I have to guess what that song is. You know
what I'm gonna start. Where we have to start. I'm
gonna photo friend. We go to Matt Bear in the
WIBC Traffic Center, Matt Bear, what is that television theme song?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
That's seventh Heaven, Tony nice, well done, well played. It
is not, of course.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Now the chat room is in a bit of of
of a struggle. Some think it's Lost in Space and
some think it's my favorite Martian. It has that kind
of vibe. I'm gonna go because I don't know what
(18:32):
it is. I'm gonna go, a producer Carl with lost
in Space.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
There we go, Danger, Will Robinson, Dan Will Robintson, Danger,
There it is, there, it is. I I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
We've got the full list there at w Obviously dot com.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Rex on Twitter is very unhappy with the show. Producer Carl.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Rex said, I decided to give this Tony Kats show
a try. Is it always fifty seven minutes of commercials,
news and traffic and only three minutes of him talking
per hour?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yes, I speak for more than three minutes. My gosh.
But are you saying are you saying it's too much?
Matt Bear? I mean the is this the argument? Rex?
Matt Bear?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
We go to Matt Bear in the WBC Traffic Center.
How do you feel about that? That it's too much?
Matt Bear each and every hour. That's what I thought. Speechless,
so disgusted, he cannot speak, cannot say the words absolutely true.
There is an absolutely fantastic I have a posted.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
This.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
This woman named Angela White puts a post out and
it reads, just had to.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Share our daughter's senior parking space. So I guess is
this high school? They they have like a signed parking
and they decorate their parking space, which I didn't know
what happens. And it's a super cool idea.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And she writes she is a huge racing fan. Her
and her dad brought her vision to life and it
turned out amazing. And she's she's, you know, adding people
you know, uh to this uh and the speedway and
Doug Bowls and Graham, Ray Hall, Indy Car, IndyCar on Fox, Hingetown.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Pat McFee, whole bunch of people.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And this this girl drew in her parking space. It's
the pagoda and it's the yard of bricks, and it's
it's got the flyover and it's the last lap.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Because she's a senior.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I gotta admit it's fantastic, Like as perfectly wholesome Indiana
awesome as there it's it's terrific.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
It is super cool and and I think it was.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Graham ray Hill's like, I gotta come by and get
a picture with this thing. I'm sorry, it's very cool.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I will admit to you that for every.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Issue, which you know, the issues are real, this place
is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
It is it is, the place is magical.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
It undoubtedly, undoubtedly true. For every time we get the
ridiculousness from the Secretary of State Diego Morales and the
very very nonsensical statement from his communications director Lindsay Eaton,
and the flat out I think fraudulent statement regarding WIBC News,
(21:42):
to which they should apologize for speaking about our newsroom
in such way. In my view, right what you think
about the host is different than what you think about
the news.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Department, and you need to be very very clear in
your discussions.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Lindsay Eaton, especially coming from the news world, to make
this statement, I'm not quite sure what you're doing, nor
am I sure, of course what the Secretary of State's
office is doing with some of their responses.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
For all of that, you you you you get this,
there is a there is It's not it's not a wholesome.
That's not it.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
There's there's a fun it takes place in this place.
There's a there's an enjoyment, there's there's a happiness. It's
it's nice to see it really is. So be sure
to check that out on Twitter x because this thing
is gonna go viral in in a matter of moments.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
It's just it's just cool.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It's like, all right cool and and people are gonna
guaranteed in the cars stop and buy that is.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
That is my take on Tony Katz today at noon.
It's a heck of a show. People.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
We are gonna be digging more into these uh people
saying that Tulle Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, is
lying and there's no new information. No no, there's definitely
new information. No no, no, Telsey Gabbard's showing.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
You the information. I don't think that's a lie. Now,
some things were already known, but some things are known
by people for the first time.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It still shows the duplicitousness of the Obama administration. And yes,
I think there is new information here. I think the
argument of this is what we already knew isn't enough.
It's not complete enough. It's some of what we already knew.
But for a lot of people who weren't watching these things,
they never knew any of this. The fraudulent nature of Obama, Biden,
(23:39):
John Brennan and CIA director James Comey, the n FBI
director James Clapper, then the Director of National Intelligence, Loretta Lynch,
the then Attorney General. This stuff matters a lot, and
the Obama team going back at Tulsey Gabbard.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You please don't think for a second that we think
you're trustworthy. And then there's Rashida Talib who and I
don't know what was happening here.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
She takes to the front of the Capitol.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
And she's holding a spoon and one of those metal
containers you would see like in a salad bar, and.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Well palising people. This is all for you.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I don't know, she's just banging. She's got a spoon,
she's banging on the I don't know. Maybe being an
anti Semite.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Makes you dumb. I gotta assume, because I don't know
what else their excuse is. But it's just weird. And
Tony Kinnet made.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
A great parody video of this. You should go check
that out. The Tonus on the Twitter x I have
no idea what's happening. I'm tally, I have no idea
what's going on. But these progressives are broken, and let's
make sure we remember that election day is November third,
twenty twenty sixth. These people can't win re election and
(25:07):
we should be asking that or possibly making that same
statement about Diego Morales, who should come on the show
and explain himself
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Really bad work, Lindsay Eaton, we will be responding
Ninety Wednesday with some scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms. But
then the relief is here. For the end of the week,
we will be into the upper seventies near eighty, and
more importantly, humidity values drop.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You say that, what are you willing to say to
guarantee the people, the good people of Indianapolis that this
will happen?
Speaker 1 (00:25):
My word should be a guarantee. I mean, hello, hello,
Where we're to take the word of weather folk?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
What next? What next? We're gonna take the word of psychics.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We take the word of Tony Katz sometimes, so yes.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
That we do.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Here you go, Yes, that's you, by the way, Yeah,
oh I know, Oh that is you.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Taking the word of Tony Katz is right on solid
like thanos.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, we got everything here. What else do you need?
You need some beastie boys, I got you covered. And
if that doesn't work for you, I got I got
rock lobsters.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Oh yeah, we can do it all here.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I can bring you from this right on over, right
on over to Angela's name.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
That's a great question. I just don't think it's any
of your concern.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I'm pretty sure that's the flute. Okay, pretty sure that
is the flute.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And if you don't like the theme to Taxi, we
can just do this. If he was here right now,
we take up plan any follow.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
That's what.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Joy Pig got you covered.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
You really do have it all?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yeah, yeah, you want show tunes, you want a little Buffy.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I've never really watched the Buffy.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
That's it. That's it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I mean nothing against Sarah Michelle Tyler. No, I.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
No bad, Tara Hastings.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I'll look it up on one of those streaming programs.
Maybe I can start binge watching it.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Tara Hastings, wish TV meteorologist.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Clearly going to hell. Thank you, Tara, appreciate that I
didn't hang up on our producer.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Carl did seventy six degrees in the American standard cooling
leather center.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
The time is eight ten.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I have now been in Indianapolis for eleven years.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Who knows if I'll make it to twelve.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
How is it possible that I have never heard of
Footlight of the Footlight Venue or Footlight Musicals? How is
it possible I have never heard of the head Back
Community Theater. Tony Katz ninety three WIBC, Good morning to
be with you. I catch this story from Dave Lindquist
(04:05):
over there at IBJ at century Mark Footlight Venue seek
support for repairs. And I'm like, I'm sorry, I don't
know what Footlight is. Well, they do shows, Broadway style shows,
all unpaid volunteers. They do stuff where kids are on stage.
(04:28):
The building is one hundred years old. I don't even
know where the building is at nineteenth in Alabama, built
in the eighteen nineties. I have never heard of it.
I have never seen it. I had no idea there
(04:52):
was a theater, another theater in town. How many seats? Like,
what is the what is I the I am going
to need a tour. And they're doing this this, this,
this fundraiser on I was it on August second?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Is that when they're doing it? No, that's not when
they're doing the fundraiser? Is it? Maybe it is?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And and uh, you you can actually go to Footlight
f O O T L I T E. Footlight dot
org if you want to be a part of it.
It's very cool. I didn't know this was happening. I
didn't know the theater existed. It's amazing that all these
years later, I can still be surprised there are still
things I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
I'd love to see it. This is very very cool.
So if you know anything about it, you know anybody
who's involved, send them my way.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Tony atonycats dot com. I'd love to learn more. Gary
Dick goes Inside Indiana Business. That is next Tony Katz
ninety three w i v C.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
So you've got hoosiers feeling our economy, but you also
have a lot of growth going on.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Tony Katz at ninety three WIBC, Good morning. Good to
be with you.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Garydeck joins us from inside Indiana Business dot com on
the Twitter x at iib Personally, you can follow him
at Gary Dick g E R R Y at Gary
Deck on the Twitter xbox.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Right. There a series of stories that you have.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
That I want to get into, but we're going to
start where it is that we start. This is the
USDA determining that Indianapolis is going to be one of
the five hubs as they move themselves out of being
DC based and get into where agriculture lives.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Talk to me about what's happening here.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah, And I think you hit on the key point there, Tony,
and that's getting the agency closer to farmers and ranchers
around the country, getting away from Washington, d C. It's
part of the Trump administration focus across multiple agencies, kind
of decentralizing, getting away from the swamp as it's been
referred to in Washington, d C. So, as you say,
(07:12):
Indianapolis been selected as one of five hubs around the country,
a little disperse employees of the USDA Indianapolis, Raleigh, North Carolina,
Kansas City, Missouri, Fort Collins, Colorado, Salt Lake City, or
the selected cities for the hubs. And for Indiana, it
is a feather in the state's cap. You know, the
(07:35):
state has a strong agriculture community, a strong focus on
agg bioscience, kind of forward looking agriculture as well. I
know members of the Indiana Congressional delegation made a hard
pitch to Secretary Brook Rawlins here recently and that turned
out successful.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
What's interesting here, and it's worthy of consideration that when
you take a look at these hubs, this is not
a small thing. This is quite massive because it's not
only about what Indianapolis gets and Indiana gets. This is
a rethink of how government should work. It's rare stuff.
The hubs are Indianapolis, Raleigh, North Carolina, Kansas City, Missouri,
(08:16):
Fort Collins, Colorado, and Salt Lake City. So outside of Raleigh,
you almost got this straight line that goes across the country.
The interesting part here, Gary is that Tennessee ain't on
this list. The interesting part is that Florida is not
on this list. The interesting part is that Georgia's not
on this list. The southern states where people moved to
(08:38):
because the weather's better didn't make it. Outside of Raleigh,
it is all Midwest and into the West.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And I think that is a fascinating.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Story here as a massive win for the state of
Indiana and a selling point to there are reasons to
be booboo, real important reasons to be here.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yeah, yeah, I think you're spot on that, Tony, and
I hadn't thought about it in that way, but you're
absolutely right if you look at the city selected across
the country, not going to some of the hotspots as
you would as you would say, and among the reasons
the USDA is doing this is going to places, as
they say, going to places that are affordable, that have
(09:25):
quality of life, and all those types of things, not
only close to agriculture, the quality of life, cost of living,
those types of things for employees, and Indiana made the list.
And you know, the hope is the expectation is across
other industries too. Decisions are being made based in part
on some of those kind of factors.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I think that in all of the covering of this
and talk about about this, and it's great for Indianapolis,
it's great for the state, but man, there's a bigger
story here that I think has a real sales capability.
Talking to Gary Dick from inside the End of Business
dot Com on the Twitter X at IIB, you've got
the State fair that is starting up thirty one million
(10:07):
dollars worth of impact. But really this is the story
of the Fairgrounds, all the work that they've done there.
And while they're doing that work, you've got Noblesville building arenas,
You've got Fisher's building arenas.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
You've got Grand Park that's going to have.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
This massive redo with our Solos Demir and the Keystone
Group and a Bullseye Ventures I believe it is. So
you've got a lot going on, a lot happening in
these other places. What is the plan for the fairgrounds
to compete with these things? In the Donut counties, never
mind things that are going on to the South Hendricks Live,
et cetera. And to compete with downtown Indianapolis, well they're.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
In the mix, to be sure Tony. As you mentioned,
thirty one million dollar economic impact of the fair, the
state Fair itself, but overall, two hundred million dollars is
the economic annual economic impact pig at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.
Four hundred events there. And I know we've talked about
it before. It's been open now for a while, but
the old Swine Bar in that ancient building was essentially
(11:08):
totally redone a massive redo of that to turn into
the Fall Creek Pavilion. They've got a portable banked track
there and hosted the NCAA Track and Field Championships. So
it is competitive in the world of sports. As you mentioned,
Noblesville getting ready to open officially open the arena at
(11:31):
Innovation Mile, which is going to be the home of
the Pacers G League team, the Noblesville Boom, but also
to host concerts and entertainment venues. Fishers already opened doing
the same, a little bit larger arena in Fishers. So
the competitive scene, if you will, for sports of a
variety of ways is indeed very very competitive to mention,
(11:55):
as you said, Grand Park and Westfield, lots going on
in the whole sports sector.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Yeah, I need to get a tour of the arena,
so Mayor Jensen, Uh, let's let's make that happen.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
It's gonna it's gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Yeah, we got in. We got in last week. And
it is an impressive facility, about thirty five hundred seats.
In fact, they held a G League meeting, several teams
from the league were in Noblesville, Uh, not too long ago,
and there's an expectation that this arena will kind of
serve as a template or kind of a standard, if
you will, for the rest of the league going forward.
(12:31):
So it's a very impressive facility.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Garydick inside Indiana Business dot Com on the Twitter exit
IIB and that he got into the arena before I did. Seriously, Seriously, seriously, seriously,
that's all I have to say, Gary Dick, good to talk.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
To you, as always, sir.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Follow him on the Twitter x at Garydick, g E
R R y at Garydick on Twitter x.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Time to fill up on the news.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Tony katz N three W IBC, Good morning, What is
going on? Dow futures up twenty three, NAS futures up
eighty seven. Was actually expecting a little bit more from
that EU trade deal.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It seems to be outrageously one sided.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
We're gonna dig into it on Tony Katz today starting
at noon. West Texas crude is up sixty six dollars
and thirty three cents a barrel. Brent crude sixty nine
dollars and sixty cents. Both are up over a dollar
right now. Tenure Treasury is up to four point four zero.
Could have something to do with these trade deals, the
(13:34):
deal with the European Union announced, It's something, It is something.
But Trump's saying he's going to reduce Russia's fifty day
deadline for a piece deal with Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Oh okay, let's let's go through this again.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It is understood that Russia is the impediment to peace,
and Russia is the aggressive of force, the aggressor in
this war with Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
They started it. You don't want to spend the money on.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Ukraine, that's absolutely fine, but you're gonna have to deal
with the fact that that Russia is an expansion of
power and wants power, and we'll go after NATO nations
and Article five will be invoked that an attack on
one is an attack on all, and we're going to
get involved. This was the argument of Vladimir's Lenski with JD. Vance,
And it should be understood that Jade Vance in the
(14:29):
Oval Office lost that conversation in a rare moment of
him not actually having focus.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
He's way smarter than that.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
But when he said we'll fix us with diplomacy, what
diplomacy with Vladimir Putin, who you can't trust? Then as
Zelensky went too far and Trump put him in his place.
And I argue that Trump was absolutely right to do so,
but Vance was wrong. Now we're at the moment where
you've tried to create the peace deals with Russia. She
(15:00):
is not interested in engaging more bombings of Ukraine. Of
course Ukraine and was involved in that massive drone attack
on the Russians. But Trump feels he's being insulted by Putin,
not played.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
That's very, very wrong terminology here, and.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
So he said fifty days or massive sanctions, now to
be less than fifty days, just put the sanctions on. Now,
I don't think Putin cares about sanctions. The only thing
he cares about is whether or not he's gonna get killed.
That seems obvious. But we have a mineral rights deal
now in Ukraine, which I assume is going to be
a protection deal coming up, because we're gonna protect any
(15:40):
investment we have in getting those minerals, those rare minerals
other things. So that's where we're at, the reduction of
this piece deal again, go ahead, put the sanctions on
right now. Why waste time. I just don't think it's
going to mean anything, not a thing at all. Sore
where we're at, And maybe this is keeping the market
(16:03):
down a little because I did think that the futures
would be more.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Up from the trade deal, because it does.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
From from just the outside looking in, this trade deal
looks insane. Why would the EU even think of signing this?
This is this to me, is a way for Trump
and the Trump team to say, you're gonna make deals
with us or life's gonna get terrible for you, which
of course can be discussed as whether or not it
(16:34):
puts America on a different footing with the rest of
the world and how we treat the world or how
we're seen Are we seen as a partner, are we
seen as the beacon? Or we're seen as kind of
abusing our position? I think for Trump and that point
of view, it is no, no, no, Our position has
been abused by them, and now we're just correcting a ship.
Maybe it won't always be this way. Maybe these things
(16:55):
will we'll settle down over time.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
But I expected market to be higher, and now I'm
curious as to why it's not.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
It could be a host of things. Could be the
deals not as good as we think.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
I don't think that's it could be some of these
other things going on, the prospect of war, the prospect
of a disruption in Russian oil, all that's possible. Tony Katz,
ninety three, WIBC, Good morning. It's time to play America's
favorite game. What the heck is that television theme song?
(17:30):
Tony Katz in ninety three WIBC, Good Morning.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Here is how we play our game.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Producer Carl has picked a television theme song from yesteryear.
I have to guess what that song is. You know
what I'm gonna start. Where we have to start. I'm
gonna photo friend. We go to Matt Bear in the
WIBC Traffic Center, Matt Bear, what is that television theme song?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
That's seventh Heaven, Tony nice, well done, well played. It
is not, of course.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Now the chat room is in a bit of of
of a struggle. Some think it's Lost in Space and
some think it's my favorite Martian. It has that kind
of vibe. I'm gonna go because I don't know what
(18:32):
it is. I'm gonna go, a producer Carl with lost
in Space.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
There we go, Danger, Will Robinson, Dan Will Robintson, Danger,
There it is, there, it is. I I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
We've got the full list there at w Obviously dot com.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Rex on Twitter is very unhappy with the show. Producer Carl.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Rex said, I decided to give this Tony Kats show
a try. Is it always fifty seven minutes of commercials,
news and traffic and only three minutes of him talking
per hour?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yes, I speak for more than three minutes. My gosh.
But are you saying are you saying it's too much?
Matt Bear? I mean the is this the argument? Rex?
Matt Bear?
Speaker 2 (19:22):
We go to Matt Bear in the WBC Traffic Center.
How do you feel about that? That it's too much?
Matt Bear each and every hour. That's what I thought. Speechless,
so disgusted, he cannot speak, cannot say the words absolutely true.
There is an absolutely fantastic I have a posted.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
This.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
This woman named Angela White puts a post out and
it reads, just had to.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Share our daughter's senior parking space. So I guess is
this high school? They they have like a signed parking
and they decorate their parking space, which I didn't know
what happens. And it's a super cool idea.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And she writes she is a huge racing fan. Her
and her dad brought her vision to life and it
turned out amazing. And she's she's, you know, adding people
you know, uh to this uh and the speedway and
Doug Bowls and Graham, Ray Hall, Indy Car, IndyCar on Fox, Hingetown.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Pat McFee, whole bunch of people.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And this this girl drew in her parking space. It's
the pagoda and it's the yard of bricks, and it's
it's got the flyover and it's the last lap.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Because she's a senior.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
I gotta admit it's fantastic, Like as perfectly wholesome Indiana
awesome as there it's it's terrific.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
It is super cool and and I think it was.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Graham ray Hill's like, I gotta come by and get
a picture with this thing. I'm sorry, it's very cool.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I will admit to you that for every.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Issue, which you know, the issues are real, this place
is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
It is it is, the place is magical.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
It undoubtedly, undoubtedly true. For every time we get the
ridiculousness from the Secretary of State Diego Morales and the
very very nonsensical statement from his communications director Lindsay Eaton,
and the flat out I think fraudulent statement regarding WIBC News,
(21:42):
to which they should apologize for speaking about our newsroom
in such way. In my view, right what you think
about the host is different than what you think about
the news.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Department, and you need to be very very clear in
your discussions.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Lindsay Eaton, especially coming from the news world, to make
this statement, I'm not quite sure what you're doing, nor
am I sure, of course what the Secretary of State's
office is doing with some of their responses.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
For all of that, you you you you get this,
there is a there is It's not it's not a wholesome.
That's not it.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
There's there's a fun it takes place in this place.
There's a there's an enjoyment, there's there's a happiness. It's
it's nice to see it really is. So be sure
to check that out on Twitter x because this thing
is gonna go viral in in a matter of moments.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
It's just it's just cool.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It's like, all right cool and and people are gonna
guaranteed in the cars stop and buy that is.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
That is my take on Tony Katz today at noon.
It's a heck of a show. People.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
We are gonna be digging more into these uh people
saying that Tulle Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, is
lying and there's no new information. No no, there's definitely
new information. No no, no, Telsey Gabbard's showing.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
You the information. I don't think that's a lie. Now,
some things were already known, but some things are known
by people for the first time.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It still shows the duplicitousness of the Obama administration. And yes,
I think there is new information here. I think the
argument of this is what we already knew isn't enough.
It's not complete enough. It's some of what we already knew.
But for a lot of people who weren't watching these things,
they never knew any of this. The fraudulent nature of Obama, Biden,
(23:39):
John Brennan and CIA director James Comey, the n FBI
director James Clapper, then the Director of National Intelligence, Loretta Lynch,
the then Attorney General. This stuff matters a lot, and
the Obama team going back at Tulsey Gabbard.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
You please don't think for a second that we think
you're trustworthy. And then there's Rashida Talib who and I
don't know what was happening here.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
She takes to the front of the Capitol.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
And she's holding a spoon and one of those metal
containers you would see like in a salad bar, and.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Well palising people. This is all for you.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I don't know, she's just banging. She's got a spoon,
she's banging on the I don't know. Maybe being an
anti Semite.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Makes you dumb. I gotta assume, because I don't know
what else their excuse is. But it's just weird. And
Tony Kinnet made.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
A great parody video of this. You should go check
that out. The Tonus on the Twitter x I have
no idea what's happening. I'm tally, I have no idea
what's going on. But these progressives are broken, and let's
make sure we remember that election day is November third,
twenty twenty sixth. These people can't win re election and
(25:07):
we should be asking that or possibly making that same
statement about Diego Morales, who should come on the show
and explain himself
Speaker 3 (25:16):
Really bad work, Lindsay Eaton, we will be responding
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