Tony Katz and the Morning News with Craig Collins Full Show 7-31-25

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Tony Gats Morning News ninety three WIBC. My name is
Craig Collins, filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A
bunch of stuff out there to talk about, of course,
in the news, and yet part of me is just
kind of happy that I just heard Matt Bear's voice
because I thought that he was totally going to be
on vacation today and I like hanging out with Matt
and with Carl every morning on this show. All right,

(00:30):
let's do this, Jake Tapper, I want to give you
a chance just to respond. Is what he said. Trump
is accusing you of insider trading. That would be Nancy Pelosi,
who he had on his show the other day. Remember,
Jake Tapper is also the guy who, instead of telling
you the news, wrote a book about the things that
he was claiming were in the news. I don't know

(00:52):
why he did that that way and didn't actually just
tell you what was Oh yeah, I do. Because he's
trashed as far as a news commentator goes. So this
is not something you should have high hopes about going
well him interviewing Nancy Pelosi. But here is her response
to the fact that she made a bunch of money
through insider trading, and a lot of people know it.
So Nancy Pelosi became rich.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
I might have to read that we're here to talk
about the sixtieth anniversary of Medicaid. That's what I agreed
to come to talk.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, but I wanted it. That means in the election,
I wanted to give you a chances to respond. He
accused you of insiders. I love how mad she was
at the start of this. She's like, darned, Jake Tapper,
why would you ask me a relevant news question. I
thought that this was CNN and you were just going
to tell me or talk about whatever it is that
I asked you to discuss and nothing else. How dare
you make me have to answer the question about how

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rich I am creating. What's your response to that?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
That's very ridiculous. In fact, I very much support the
stop the trading of members of Congess. Not that I
think anybody's doing anything wrong. If they are, they are
prosecuted and they go to jail. But because of the
confidence stills in American people don't worry about this. But
I have no concern about the obvious investments, so it

(02:09):
had been made over time. I'm not into it. My
husband is, but.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
I'm not into it. My husband is, I don't know
who knows even what I invest in. How dare you
bring this up at all? Is the way that she's
kind of speaking. And what's insane about that, like, truly insane,
is that if you look at Nancy Pelosi's investment career,
he's one of the most successful agents in the history
of Wall Street. He's one of the most successful individuals

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from where she started and where she's going to end up.
And so obviously if she's not into it, even more so,
that's admitting to insider trading because she has no idea
what she's doing. By her own admission, she's just told
what's about to happen. She goes to the market and
buys the things she was told to buy by the
people that are telling her what to do, and then boom,
all of a sudden, she's worth millions and millions of dollars.

(02:58):
I love that she also said she's supports it. It's
interesting to support the idea that something needs to go away,
that Josh Hawley's bill deserves to be passed. If you
also don't think anything bad is happening, you're like, yeah,
nobody's doing anything bad, but also it should go away,
because it'd be a good thing if it did, if

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we all stop becoming incredibly wealthy off of the insider
trading information we have. It's insane. But all these trades
are made in her name, and she claims she knows
very little, if anything about this, and it's really just
her husband who's doing all the work. That is hilarious
and how bad of a defense it is. And obviously
she didn't want to talk about the question at all,
which makes you wonder why. And it's a pretty easy

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question to answer, the why, because she knows how ridiculously
guilty she is. All right, well, take a break. There's
a lot to talk about today beyond just Pelosi and
how she should probably be prosecuted and imprisoned for the
amount of insider trading she's done. We'll get to a
lot of stuff throughout the show. This is Craig Collins
filling in Tony Kats The Morning News ninety THREEBC. There
you go. This is Tonny Cats, The Morning News, ninety

(04:04):
three WIBC. My name is Craig Collins, filling in. Thrilled
to be with you, thrilled to say that Matt Bear
is hanging out with us, Carl Showbiz is hanging out
with us. We got the whole team here this morning.
So that's awesome. Lots of things out there to talk about.
Here's one. A poll asked people how seriously they take
their birthday, and twenty two percent of Americans said, extremely

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seriously is how they handle their own birthday, meaning that
they want everything. They want a party, they want you know,
the cake, they want presents, they want the whole thing.
It's a very important day and they take it extremely
seriously apparently. And I don't believe in zodiac signs all
that much, specifically Sagittarius and Leo's. I think that their
birthday is very important. Again according to the Internet. What

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do you guys think about this?

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Mister, you're of the sloth. I go by the Chinese zodiac,
and that's kind of what I'm in right now. I
got a lecture on this lately. I don't I've got
to do better about this. This is me think I
got to do better with birthdays because I don't recognize
my own kitchen. Yeah, it leaves me out of what
seventy eight percent of America.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, but I.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Don't recognize my own, and I need to do a
better job of recognizing other peoples. My parents sent me
a birthday card and I said, happy birthday, and then
you open it up and in the birthday card lettering,
it says birthdays are about celebrating other people and making
them important. And I'm like, damn, I got a lecture
even on my birthday. That's awesome.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, you know, I hate to admit this, but I
forgot my mom's birthday this year. I mean I remembered it,
but it wasn't the birthday day, it was after And
so I shot the text like I'm sorry I didn't
text the other day, this is happy birthday. And then
I sent like four more like throughout the day, I'm like,
and this is another happy birthday just because I forgot
the day and I'm really sorry about it. I don't know.

(05:54):
I'm like you, Matt, I don't really care about my own.
It doesn't have to be a special day, ween, So like,
people do stuff anyway, So I yeah, it feels kind
of special even if nobody's celebrating me. But yeah, I
forget everybody's birthday. I got a buddy of mine. We've
been friends since we were little kids, and every year
he sends me a text or a message of some

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kind of my birthday, and every year I forget his
and it's it's a it's a big thing that He's like,
I don't know. We've been friends for almost twenty years now,
at some point, are you gonna remember to shoot me
a happy birthday text? And I'm like maybe, I think so.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Now, what's I've done?

Speaker 1 (06:33):
The blated birthday though, again for the guy, so I
feel good about that. But yeah, Carl, what about you?

Speaker 4 (06:39):
Oh yeah, I love my birthday because it's the only
nice thing in the winter, and my birthday is in February,
so it's always dreary.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
So true, I gotcha. When in February is it close
to Valentine's Day or.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
No, it's towards the end.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Okay, yeah, o my brother, baby, gotcha. My brother's birthday
is very close to Valentine's Day and he hates that.
He's very upset about that all the time.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
Well, he's the one that's supposed to be getting the gifts.
Then you have to get it to his lady.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
There you go. That's not how it works, though, That's
what he says.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Is.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
This is not how it actually happens. All right, some
other things out there. I saw how home Depot will
be use it. We'll be selling an app controlled ultraskeleton
or ultra Skelley. They'll call it this holiday season. Six
and a half feet tall. You can control it again,
as I said, with your phone. It costs about three
hundred bucks. I don't know why they're doing this. The

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original giant skeleton there was like twelve feet tall, so
it's smaller this one, but it's fully controlled by your telephone.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
I mean, can clean the bathtub? Use Okay, listen, I'm
being way too complex. Can it boil water? Because I
have like one function it could actually do other than
being Hey, look I have an AI skeleton that's going
to murder me in ten years. Anyways, after the youth grade.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
There you go. You know, I don't think it can,
but I would love it if it could, because how
ridiculous would that be if like you have a decoration
that for a month is sitting outside in your lawn
and then the rest of the year is cleaning your dishes,
like you just have the skeleton inside doing dishes. That
would be amazing. And they need to make that.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
I would risk my life or my inevitable demise from
the robot skeleton just to see it do dishes or
something like that, just to see it. Yeah, Otherwise, this
feels like, you know, getting a hummer. You know, everybody
wanted a hummer for a while. They're just because they
were cool. Everybody was fine. Damn, everybody was buying a

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hummer for a while. They're just because it was cool.
Now everybody wants a robot AI skeleton, even though it
has no function whatsoever. It's just something to put it
in the garage or maybe ride with you in your hummer,
you know, like in shotgun or something. But again, there's
no practic county of either. You know, you drive a hummer,
you look cool. You have an AI robot skeleton to
look cool. Otherwise there's no use for it.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
You know what's funny about you crapping all over the
hummer real quick. And this is outside of everything. Outside
of everything Carl is enjoying about that topic is that
I've told you before that my mother lives in South Bend, Indiana,
and Mishiawuaka has a hummer planned and people thought that
it would be a strategic like strike thing, especially after
nine to eleven. People really thought that on the list

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of places to be hit after you know, New York City,
would be Mishawuaka because of the hummer plans you've got,
because they thought it was that that popular, that important.
I guess what. Terrorists never targeted it because I don't
think they know it exists. But it's just interesting that
you said that. And then I thought back to being
reminded time and again by people in Mishawaka how likely
it was that that was a high priority target.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Look how close you came Saint Joseph County. You had
no idea. No, I get it. With Mischiwaka, they have
to like the last good mall in America or in Indiana.
Right now, it's really beautiful.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
I think, what mall is that.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
Oh it's I can't even remember. It's up it's South
Bend Missionwaka and it's just this really really nice mall
and Maxwell University Park Mall. Yeah, University Park Mall, that's
what it's called.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
Oh man, it's a good thing now.

Speaker 3 (10:04):
And I feel like because I'm insulting, you know, the
fashion mall on the north side here in Indianapolis, because
that's a good mall too. I mean, hey, I know
my mall is and I'm going to tell you.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Dude, Dude, I used to hang out at University Park
Mall in high school. That's a cool thing. Now, this
is a good thing.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
I just thought it was when I was from a
small town. It didn't have any malls. Me and my
two yeah, me and my two buddies. I got lost
one time in Misshawaka and we're just trying to find
University Park Mall. I kid you not. We got pulled
over and they said we were dealing drugs, and like, no,
we're just trying to gull It depends.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
It depends on when you went to University Park Mall.
You might have been dealing drugs, right right, honest. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
And the last words the cop said to us, this
is not a good place to get lost in. It's
not a good place to deal crack in either, And
I was like, okay, well, no, no getting lost in
this neighborhood and no dealing cracked. Got it.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
I would have loved to ask the cop what's a
good place to deal craft? That last of curiosity, thank you, Like,
where in the area do you think is an optimum location?
For the crack dealer.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Three guys just out of high school? Hey, where is
a good place to do a crack around? Michel Walker
right now if you don't mind us in the right direction.
We tried going northeast, but then then get to the interstate,
we had to turn around. So if you get help.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Oh man, By the way, I'm not going to talk
about it right now, but I am curious. We have
been creating this digital product that we hope to release soon,
and Matt told a story on it. Is that story
only for the digital product?

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Right now? It is? I mean, as a matter of fact,
the person I talked to our executive producer, Matt Hibblin
and I kind of a discussion. I'm just it's yeah,
let's just say for now. Yeah cool.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
So when that comes out, people are definitely going to
have to listen to the podcast because Matt had a
life experience that he told us all about and it
was quite amazing, quite interesting his life experience. But again,
we're not talking about it here. Well, we're just previewing
the fact that it exists somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
I feel bad because it involves a strip mall massage parlor,
and that's that's what I'm really We were kind of
leading towards whether or not I'm going to talk about it.
So yeah, got it's all true story for that matter.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Yeah, it is all a true story. Unlike the crack
dealing that's not true. But after you hear the strip
mall store, you're gonna think he's a crack dealer.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
You're still trepidation. Made it to University Park Mall, thank
you very much. And we did go to Spencer's Gifts.
I'm telling you, Oh.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Of course you went to Spencer's Gifts. This is weird.
This is a strange morning show for me to be
talking about University Park Mall for this long. That was
it was not my agenda.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Somethings is like that's been there. It's like, yeah, you
had to go to University Park Mall if you wanted
them all.

Speaker 1 (12:41):
Yeah, that's everything on Great Road man out there. That's
that's the strip of that that area. Oh man, all right,
we'll take a break. I'll probably stop talking about South
End at some point soon. Tony Kats The Morning News
ninety three wyn BC. My name is Craig Collins, filling
in thrilled to be with you a bunch of stuff
to talk about that out there. Today Canada is joining France.

(13:03):
This is unsurprising because of the long history of those
two countries in recognizing Palestine as a state. That is
surprising that it's a thing they're both doing. This is
something that President Trump reacted to on truth Social by saying, Wow,
Canada just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine.
That will make it very hard for us to make
a trade deal with them. Oh Canada, he put This

(13:26):
is disappointing and upsetting and it can make you very
mad depending on who you are, for a lot of reasons.
The biggest one is anyone who's backing Palestine is also
backing a terrorist organization. A masque is still in charge there,
They still run the Gaza Strip, which is a very
very small piece of land. So giving statehood, recognizing statehood

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for Palestine now during this conflict is essentially saying we
stand with the terrorists and the horrible things they did
to get to the point where we think it now
makes sense to recognize them. Of course, the United States
won't do this, and honestly, I think this is actually
also causing any sort of peace deal to be obliterated,

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because if there was a moment where Gaza thought it
was defeated, where Hamas thought they were defeated, they no
longer will feel that way as they're getting support from
countries by being recognized as a state. And the thing is,
and I know this is fairly easy for people to understand.
Hopefully it doesn't matter in the long grand scheme of

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thing to me whether or not you recognize Palestine as
a state, because that conflict will still exist. Those two
places hate each other and will hate each other forever,
and so they'll continue to provoke Israel. This doesn't solve
the problem. The idiots, and I don't know that there
are many of them out there that think this does
believe that once Gaza has been recognized for its statehood,

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Palestine has been recognized as a state, then all the
will just go away, and that's ridiculous. Yes, it will
hamper Israel's ability to defend itself against the terrorists who
go into their country and kill people. It will prevent
some of that which is bad. But outside of that,
it won't do anywhere near as much to cause the

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relief of tension that say, not doing this right now,
during this conflict and allowing for a peace steal to
be reached, even one that Hamas is unlikely to follow.
They were in a peace steal when they attacked Israel
in the first place, so getting back to one of
those at least allows the conflict to end without invigorating

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the side that started the conflict via a terrorist attack.
It's just it's profoundly sad to see this happen, and honestly,
I think the President Trump is right to use the
force of the United States economy to try to push
Canada to do the right thing and stop doing the
horrible thing that it's doing with France. All right, quick break,
A lot coming up as Craig Alan's filling in Tony

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Kats The Morning News ninety three WIBC. Tony Kats The
Morning News ninety three WYBC. My name is Craig Collins
filling in. You have Matt and Carl hanging out as
they do every single morning on this show. There's a
brand new term that's being thrown around to describe people.
I would like to see if they can guess what
it means, so we'll try this out. The term is sloppers.

(16:24):
For some reason, people are calling other people sloppers? Do
we know why?

Speaker 3 (16:30):
No, It's like when you're trying to eat a bowl
of chili and you spill it all over the car
top of the ram and the chili bowl and just
all yeah, the carbet.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
No.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
I mean, I think it's it's a fantastic something that
calls something I love the slopper. What is a slopper, Craig,
what is this?

Speaker 1 (16:44):
Does Carl want to take a shot at guessing about
this or no, Carl, I know what he wants to guess. Yeah, huh, yep,
I knew it fair enough. That's not what it is.
A slopper, by the way, is someone who uses AI
to create all kinds of stuff. It's often garbled, low
effort online content, according to people, So it's AI slop.

(17:06):
So they're calling these people sloppers. People who use AI
for social media reasons or any reason. Really, uh to
communicate with anyone, even your friends if you can't text
them back, but you go to chat GPT and ask
it what to do, This is a slopper. And people
are saying that they're fed up with the sloppers that
are out there in the world. I don't know that

(17:26):
I'd notice to be totally honest, like it's not a
thing I think about if someone you know used a
chat GPT to communicate with me or put something up
on social media, And to be honest, the best way
to probably prevent this from being a thing that people
do is just not be entertained by it, which hopefully
we're not, but if we are, I also, I guess
don't really care. But they're calling it a good slur.

(17:49):
If you're called a slopper.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah, I'm all sorts of confused to buy this. There's
a couple of things here that I mean. First off,
like you said, how do you know? How do you
know they're writing with AI ad? Do you know enough
to accuse somebody of doing that?

Speaker 4 (18:01):
Right?

Speaker 3 (18:02):
Seriously, it's your word against theirs. I mean, it's just
like it's somebody thinks so who I mean, the court
of public opinion moys it and says, yes you're a slapper,
Yes you're not. I don't know even with that. I
don't tell anybody how to make their money. I mean,
if you're using AI to advance whatever you're advancing in,
people are eating it up. I'm not going to be
mad about that. Just make sure the information is accurate,

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which we don't do either. So it's all good.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Whatever you're on.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
I mean, it's fun.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
You know what's funny about that. I remember there were
like AI sports writers for a bit for some like newspapers,
and they were just making up teams and stuff, like
they were saying that the score between this team and
this team was something, and people were like, I don't
think that high school exists. And then you can tell
that like that's AI just making things up. Outside of that,
You're right, if it at least makes logical sense, then

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no one is going to admit that they used AYE
to do it. They'll take credit. They'll be like I
wrote that, how dare you leave me alone? And it
is your word against theirs, And at that point, I
don't care. I don't care at all.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Just throw a central at the end of it, and
you have a high school.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
You know, you know there is somebody in my family.
I don't want to out who it is, but someone
in my family who uses chat GPT now a lot,
like it's it's changed very and it's not for like
texting friends and family. It's it's for professional reasons. But
like I've noticed all of a sudden that almost everything
gets filtered through jet chat beat GPT. Excuse me for

(19:26):
this individual, obviously, it's not me. I can't even come
up with the name of it. And I just I
think that's interesting, you know. And and the person says
that chat GPT is like learning and getting better at
helping with all the things professionally. And I know a
lot of people are turning to AI now for all
kinds of like job related stuff. But it's just fascinating
to me to see how it slowly has picked up

(19:47):
within people I know, and they're using it more and
more and more and pretty much all the time, and
they say it makes life way easier for them.

Speaker 4 (19:54):
People have to be very careful because if they're getting
AI to do their jobs, pretty soon the lawyer is
going to realize why not just have the AI.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
It depends on It depends on how you do it,
I think, in all honesty, because yeah, I agree with you, Carl,
that there's a lot of professions where that's absolutely a risk.
But there's other professions where I wonder, you know, if
it isn't.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
It's weird because like I've seen this slowly take off
the person in my life who is doing this just
text me to like you're talking about me, Like, yeah,
I am talking about you. That's funny anyway, moving on
from that, but yes, yes, I am talking about you.
It's just it's interesting to see, like how it's utilized.
I think if you use it intelligently, meaning you recreate

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some of the stuff that it gives you, that you
can kind of claim it's your own, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Now you can't. And again, you know, if you're looking
to expedite content, you know, just being maybe a content farm,
some source that just put out social media posts, social
media posts, so you needue quantity, Well they yeah, go
for it. A I have more power to you. But
back to your point where they say AI is learning,
I mean you're ow to do AI and maybe if
you're a professional enough to take you the time to
proofread your social media. But outside of that, you're not

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learning to write. You're not become a better writer. So
as curudgingly as that sounds, and as get off my
law as that sounds, there's still not a whole lot
of learning to the process. I again, this is non
judgment on me. You go make your money however, you
want to make your money, and more power to you.
I will support you. I think it's awesome. But if

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you're looking to get better at your own writing, then
I don't think AI is the answer. I don't think
that's the direction there.

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah, you know, I agree, that makes sense. I guess
the thing that's interesting to me is like it's inevitable, right,
like the AI revolution thing. It's inevitable. And there's people
that I know that I don't think are using it,
you know, in a bad way, but they're just using
it more and more. They found an avenue incorporated into
their day and day like workflow, and now they're doing it.

(21:55):
And the funny thing is, I love the industry we
work it as AI becomes more of a thing, because
I don't think you'll ever have a really successful like
AI radio host. I just don't think that's going to occur,
mostly because people don't want to listen to a computer.
You want to listen to a human being. And even
if it sounds good, the minute that people find out
it's not a human they'll be very upset by that information.

(22:17):
I would assume that would upset me.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
I mean, I think about my favorite radio host of
all time, and I'd want to listen for the personalities,
and I want to listen because of that person. And
that's the cool thing I always enjoyed about listening to
the radio is I kind of feel like I'm part
of that person's family, you know, you kind of like
you think you know that person. And it would be
a real turn off to me. Of all of a
sudden it was like, oh, yeah, this is a robot
doing everything. I'm like, no, No, I want to feel

(22:41):
like I'm getting to know somebody. I mean, that's a
personal preference to me. I get it. But just finding
out that it would be some sort of computer generated voice,
that's that's not going to work with me. It'd be
like dating marrying a robot to make yeah.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
Well, And that's the reason that I think that also
in the world of social media and young people and
how they turn to that, they'll also be upset if
they find out the things they most like or just
computer generated stuff and not stuff for them. But anyway,
we were talking about sloppers. That is the new term.
Carl definitely thought it meant something else. This is the
Tonycats in the morning news show. My name is Craig
Collins filling in Tony Kat's in the Morning News ninety

(23:23):
three WIBC. My name is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled
to be with you. President Trump has said he's got
a trade deal in place with South Korea. This is
important for tons of reasons, one of which is that
the deadline for a deal before tariff skyrocketed would have
been tomorrow. President Trump did say that within this deal
there will remain a fifteen percent tariff on items that

(23:45):
come in from South Korea. A couple things about this.
I've been talking about it some other radio places that
I work, and I do dislike the very knee jerk
reaction that some people in media have of Well, the
consumer pays price, and I understand how it works. I
understand that the person importing the product is the one
that actually pays the tariffs well bringing the product into

(24:08):
the country. But aren't there ways that some people might
try to not push that off to the consumer, Meaning
aren't there ways that some people might say, Hey, this
costs more for me to bring in now I'm paying
you less for it, and you have to accept that.
And as consumers, don't we have the right to and
I know this is crazy to say out loud into
a microphone, not buy stuff. If we didn't buy certain

(24:31):
things at whatever the jacked up price that exists is
maybe the price goes down. I know there's stuff you
need that you have to buy, no matter what. I understand,
food and whatnot is important, but there are a lot
of items say that if they wound up more expensive,
and the whole plan from President Trump in this administration
is to have those items made in the United States.
They're cheaper here and we buy them here. But again,

(24:54):
another trade deal reached with South Korea. And I love
the fact that people that it just means more expensive
stuff for you because it's not necessarily something we're seeing.
The economy is actually doing great. I have two different
examples of that. One NBC News but grudgingly admitted this. Well,
they were trying to crap all over Trump and talk

(25:15):
about his opposition with Jerome Powell, someone who still refuses
to lower any sort of interest rates, which seems insane
and completely about politics and not about actually doing what's right.
Here's a little bit of that audio from NBC. I
love how every time they talk about it, they're like

(25:37):
four Now, who knows the thing could fall out of
this at any moment. We could be screwed any second.
Who knows when it's going to go bad for us,
And it hasn't for multiple months, as they've been telling
us that. Also, you have a couple people popping up
on Fox News, including the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Ludnik,

(25:57):
saying that hey, things are really awesome and you should
be happy about this, and it's because of President Trump
and his understanding of how valuable the US consumer is
to the world. Now, audio is not playing. I played
the first piece of audio and he didn't hear it.
Now I got to play the second piece of audio,

(26:17):
and we'll actually get you to hear it. Thank you,
Carl for letting me know. Here is the second piece.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
Audience.

Speaker 5 (26:22):
Magnet of the world. Is the US consumer right? You know,
remember the saying that customer is always right. US customers
the greatest buyer in the world. And Donald Trump understands
how to harness that customer and show that customer everybody
and say, if you want to play in our sandbox.
You've been treating us badly for years, come on and play.

(26:44):
And then the idea now is to get these countries
who open their market. Number one, open the market, so
now we can export for the first time, and that's
going to grow our GDP one percent.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Build factories here, that's going to.

Speaker 5 (26:56):
Grow our GDP one percent. And then these will invest.
We now have nine hundred billion dollars committee to build
the pipelines in Alaska, to build nuclear and build power.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Now, drill, baby, drill.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
This becomes the model. We're going to build ships in America.
We're going to build semiconduct.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
I didn't think he was going to say the word ships,
by the way when he was talking there. But I
love everything about that, and it is true that this
is essentially the plan here. I'll play the NBC audio
since you didn't hear it. This is NBC News begrudgingly
admitting that Trump's doing great.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
I mean, despite the trade war, the economy is solid
for now, Unemployment is low, and the labor market is strong.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
But again, they want to throw that question out there too,
even if the question doesn't exist. The same way that
they backed Biden when Biden said that all of his
you know, terrible inflation numbers were transitory and going away.
They also predicted the future positively toward the Democrats. They
predicted negatively all the time toward the Republicans, and darn it,

(27:56):
who cares if it never actually happens. It is hilarious
that this is a thing that's going on. All right,
we'll take a break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins
filling in, Tony Kats The Morning News, ninety three WIBC.
Nicely done, Carl, Tony Kats, The Morning News, ninety three WIBC.
My name is Craig Collins, filling in. Thrilled to be
with you, Thrilled to have Matt and Carl hanging out

(28:18):
with me in the morning. Too. Quickly we will do
a popcorn moment. I'm brought to you by Booer Remodeling
Company Booer Building dot Com. It's time for the popcorn
moment now, correct, Carl, Right, okay, thank you buddy. I
want to make sure this popcorn moment once again comes
from Scott Jennings. I'm CNN, who is awesome, more and
more awesome now than he used to be in the past. Actually,

(28:41):
there's audio from a couple of days ago where he
admitted that he used to not like Trump and there
was a big hit piece against him on the Daily
Show and now why he likes Trump, and I thought
that was great. That's not the audio I'm about to play.
You can look for it. He's crapping all over Democrats,
including the people on the very panel he's sitting on,
and they're rejections. The economy was going to turn terrible

(29:02):
because the tariffs, because darnet, that has yet to happen. Surprise, surprise,
they were all wrong about a thing. Here is that
popcorn moment audio?

Speaker 6 (29:10):
Well, I would just like to go but I'd like
to build a DeLorean and go back to April when
everybody here was predicting likely to cause a recession, Investment
stops and a recession happens. They're not talking about a
US recession, They're talking about a global recession and leads
a recession.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
Eventually, there's been a reception.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
So I love that it devolved into chaos right after
he said that, because yes, they all predicted that a
recession was coming, and what did not occur a recession.
And in April when all the tariffs were being talked about,
they haven't fully gone away. There's still a bunch of
tariffs that exist. There's the likelihood that stronger ones might

(29:51):
be rolled out soon. And a lot of countries that
are making deals with US are accepting a version of
tariff some kind fifteen percent with South Korea as a
way to get into our economy, as a way to
get to our consumers. This is good. These are good
things that are happening, and they are upset about you
called the recession.

Speaker 6 (30:12):
You took your shoe off on Joe again, you took
your shoe up, you brought.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
You took your shoe off, and you said there was
going to be a recession to give a final I
love that. No, guys, it's still coming.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
The Democrats sometimes are like the person standing outside on
a pip picture perfect day and saying the storm is coming.
It's brewing people, and you're like, are you sure? Or
the guy that's just screaming it's the end of the
world and he's the only one in the corner that
seems to think that. But yes, this is absolutely a thing,
absolutely crazy. By the way, I just noticed something on
one of the live streams that you guys do on

(30:53):
social media. Uh, Tony Katz is on a bunch of
social media pages, but somebody asked me about the New
York Yankees wearing a Yankee hat on the live stream,
and they did an amazing job last night. I can't
ignore this, guys. Matt carl I apologize that I've been
distracted by Drew, one of the commenters on the YouTube page.
The Yankees came back multiple times to win a baseball

(31:15):
game that they had no business winning because they also
really tried to lose it. They made several mistakes that
made them very easily likely to lose the game, and
they still won. It was amazing. It's one of the
reasons I was up kind of late last night watching
it into the eleventh inning. But I'm glad. I still
think the Yankee should be sellers and not buyers, because
I just don't think they're a championship caliber team, which

(31:36):
is sad to me, and I don't like saying that,
and I would like Devin Williams to be sent out
as soon as possible. But I imagine almost nobody cares
about this, right This is very Yankee baseball inside baseball,
and just me, I'm the only one who cares about this.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
Mariano Rivera is the best closer ever.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
He is.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Okay, I just thought that that's what I mean, my
favorite baseball player all the time. You saw forty two
coming out with the Enter sand Man. It was the best, Yes, yeah, yeah, amazing.
I love that.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
Great add to this whole. Is there anything else you
guys want to say about Yankees or no? No, no
idea what I'm talking about last night's game?

Speaker 3 (32:08):
Last night? How about that?

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Yeah Clark they won three in a row. I think
without Kitlin Clark.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Do you think the Caitlin Clark And I know this
isn't a sports show, but I can't help it now,
do you think all the Caitlin Clark injuries are a
byproduct of the fact that she had to train all
off season to get beat up and to survive getting
beat up? Because I think what's sad about that the
WNBA has this incredible product in Kitlyn Clark that they
could market and everyone could you know, act around and

(32:36):
you know, help grow and then grow the whole sport,
and instead they beat the crapit of her in her
rookie season. So she gets into the gym and does
as much as she can to buff herself up, which
sounds very similar to Michael Jordan. To be honest, Michael
Jordan would get beat up by the Detroit Pistons, so
he eventually hit the gym hard to try to be
a different human. And I know women have different limitations

(32:59):
than men. I know that's crazy to say, but I
know it does exist. Are all these injuries for Clark
because of the fact that she tried to get in
better shape because she's getting the crap kicked out of her?

Speaker 3 (33:09):
I'm not worried. Okay, okay, I'm not so sure why
she's a sitting out right now other than the injuries.
And I can't tell you why she's injured. The think
about it. I think the Fever are in a tough
spot with it because Caitlin Clark sales tickets. But at
the same time, Caitlin Clark is your future and your franchise.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
So at one.

Speaker 3 (33:25):
Point do you say we have to sell tickets or
we want the health of Caitlin Clark. I hope it's
for the health of Caitlan Clark, not just for the
basketball player, but for the person. Man, oh man, do
we put pressure on this person? I mean she has
of course, there's not a professional athlete in America or
the world right now is more pressure than Caitlyn Clark,
and I just hope as a human being she's able to,

(33:48):
you know, endure some of this, and I'm sure she can't.
I don't know anything about Caitlin Clark other than what
anybody else does, and I just hope her full recovery
because you hear so many things, you look at so
many different variables, and it makes it tough for me
to really say, well, this is the reason. But I
just know it's a better city with her, and I
hope that she makes a good recovery here that's seriously working.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
I hope that she makes a good recovery too. I'm
sure that it's okay if everyone values her and she
needs to value herself her health above you know, the
sports she plays, because everyone else will push an athlete
to play sooner than they want to play, or that
they should play, whatever that is. At the same time,
I keep thinking about the comparisons to Jordan. I'm not
saying they play the same game. They don't, but there

(34:31):
are a lot of comparisons. Now, Jordan was treated early
on in the league when it was evident that he
was their best player. But like his third year Michael
Jordan was evidently better than everybody else on that court.
I think he won the Defensive Player of the Year
in eighty eight, well, winning several awards for being an
amazing offensive player, and people hated him for it. And actually,

(34:53):
you know what it reminds me of too. Maybe i'll
play this later. Have you guys seen the movie Air,
the movie about Nike and the Air Jordan?

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Is that the one with the golden retriever that grabs
a basketball player with a mouth?

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Here, Bud, Now.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
This is a different movie.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
This is It's a different movie. There's a great speech
in the movie Air that Matt Damon delivers. So maybe
I'll play it later on in the show, just because
I love it about what people do with celebrities and
truly unique athletes like Michael Jordan or Caitlin Clark. You
build them up and then you tear them down and
it's actually kind of sad to see. But well, we'll
maybe play that audio a little bit later on. This

(35:30):
is a deep dive into the world of sports. That's
the fault of your YouTube page. I blame all of
the degenerates who are on the YouTube page. I'm kidding people.
I Claudia by the way, who do this? All right,
we'll take a break. A lot more coming up. It
is time for the Marketplace segment on Tony Kats in
the Morning News ninety three WIBC. It has brought to
you by Indiana Unclaimed Indiana Unclaimed dot Gov for unclaimed

(35:52):
property that you might have. All three of us have
made sweet sweet cash by going to Indiana Unclaimed dot
Gov and putting in our name and finding out that
there's some money somebody owes us somewhere, which is awesome.
There were several things in the marketplace that I was
tempted to talk about. Let's call some of these honorable mentions.
I just love the fact that you can buy an
airplane from marketplace. I've talked about this before on the show.

(36:14):
There's a twenty six thousand dollars one listed three weeks ago,
and the title just says airplane. There's actually like details
when you click on it inside, but I love that
it's just airplane twenty six hundred bucks. There's also a
two thousand and four Triumph Bonneville, which is not amusing,
but a motorcycle I very much want, and it looks
like it's in great condition, and it's available in the marketplace.
That's an honorable mention. And finally, there's also another organ

(36:36):
which we talked about last Friday when I was in
and I don't know if somebody got that one for free,
but there's another free one up there now that you
can get. I think it was actually listed eight weeks ago,
but it's been bouncing around, maybe because I clicked on one.
It's now feeding me any free organs in the area
on my marketplace, which is lovely. But the thing I
actually want to talk about is a light up beer sign.

(36:58):
And the reason I want to talk about this, and
this is a Miller light one is it? It is
incredibly bright, like it's just a photo, it's not even
a video. And this thing looks like it's glowing like
to a way in which it's been I don't know,
tampered with by some sort of like nuclear reaction. It is.
It is insane, and I was just envisioning myself. It's
three hundred bucks too. It's not cheap. Jenny is not me. Yeah,

(37:21):
she's not cutting costs to get this sold. But I
was just thinking about buying this and having it in
my house when my wife got home, and the kind
of fight that that would that would create because it's ridiculous,
but it's also awesome, so a part of me wants it.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
Yeah. Really, it looks like a big whiffleball pat that's
kind of shape like a Miller life model. I wouldn't
give it to the kids to go play with, but
it's now. It's definitely a garage favorite. Any kind of
man gave it. He got a garage, you want to
a big Miller light side. You know what you can
do with this Craig mount on the front of your
garage And anytime you want your neighbors to come over
and drink, you turn on the side. Yeah, they just

(37:55):
come over and knock on the garage door. Maybe give
them an opener, just like you would at the it's
a local tavern, and come on in and then have
yourself whatever you're drinking today. Okay, you know with application, sir.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
You know what's funny about you making a joke about
it basically being a drinking version of a bat signal.
There's also a bunch there's a bunch of Batman stuff
on the marketplace that I almost put up there, and
I don't know why, but a bunch of it is
Batman Forever. There's a Batman Forever pinball machine, Batman Forever
frosted mugs that are available. I think there's zero dollars too,
so you can get those for free. I think that

(38:28):
was like some sort of promotion at one of the
McDonald's is what it was, because I used to have these.
Batman Forever is a terrible movie. Why would there be
so much Batman Forever stuff and not like a good
Batman movie on marketplace?

Speaker 3 (38:40):
You know if the movie ended up on a Burger
king cup, you know it wasn't very good.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Yeah, like McDonald's used to do with. They would have
the toys when you're a kid that you put decals
you wanted to collect the ball, and then you just
canted all the Batman Forever merchandise because you know it's
out there. I'm glad he's an enthusiast of the Cape Crusader.
That means he's a good man.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
Yeah, he is a good man, right?

Speaker 3 (39:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (39:03):
That or just Batman Forever is a wildly popular movie
in Indianapolis, and I had no idea it's got a
huge cult following someone that I didn't know.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
I thought. I thought I was pretty connected into the
city until now.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
You never know. Man, you got to find that Batman
Forever underground world that exists there by the way. There's
also an Atari for sale and it's only twenty bucks.
I thought you like that talking. I know it says
it works. It looks speed up, but they claim that
it works and it's twenty dollars, so someone can dive
on that option too. I just did a bunch of
stuff from marketplace because I didn't know what to do.

(39:35):
I loved the Ninja Turtle leg lamp you guys did
weeks ago, Thank you, Thank you guys. And I was
told that I couldn't do it because he's already done
the Ninja Turtle leg lamp. I do, Yeah, it's fine.
I do want to buy it. Like I can't believe
no one's bought the Ninja Turtle leg lamp yet. He's
just twenty weeks Yeah, I can't believe it, Matt. One
of them's even signed with a cowl Bungka, how is
this still available? All right, I'll take a break. I'm

(39:55):
kidding a quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins
filling in Tony CAATs The Morning News, ninety th Red WIBC,
Tonny Kats The Morning News ninety three WIBC. My name
is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be with you,
Matt and Carl hanging out as they do every single
morning on this show. A few things that I thought
were interesting that I found. First, there's a brand new

(40:16):
trend for anyone that needs caffeine in the morning, specifically coffee.
I think this might speak to Matt Behar. I've heard
some stories about the amount of caffeine that he drinks
every morning. It's a coffee bucket. You can actually buy
an entire bucket from certain places. I don't know if
those places are national yet or just kind of local
to some some establishments, mostly I think on the West

(40:38):
and East coast. But people on social media have been
going viral for showing off their coffee bucket that they're
drinking in the morning. It has a straw in it
on top of like a little you know thing that
they put over it, a little plastic topping. You just
stab the straw through and you drink a bucket of
coffee all morning.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
Okay, I'm picturing this thing that's dangling off your hip
like a awsome bag, and then whenever you want to
take a drink, there's a straw and you're just gonna
have to like bend over your side a little bit
and just kind of put your mount down, like like
there's a little straw like you would have on one
of those helmets with the beers like that. Yeah, that's
what I was thinking about, you know, I'm just thinking
about hauling this around while I like exercise, have to

(41:17):
work here today, and just kind of sitting it on places. Yeah,
why not? If you want a bucket of coffee, you
have a fucking of coffee. You're doctor might tell you
something differently, you know. I get that, but hey, new
innovative ways to keep us going in the morning. I'm
all right with it, you know.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
Yeah, I guess so, I don't know. I mean, I
feel like the coffee bucket is a uniquely bad decision
for a lot of reasons. One of them might be
the amount of bathroom breaks you have to take it
early in the life.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
But that's inevitable, you know. I mean, I can have
one cup of coffee or twelve cups of coffee, and
that's gonna be a twenty minute drill, you know. Every
twenty minutes, doesn't matter. That's good to know. It's good
to know.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Yeah, that's true forever. But I don't know. I also
think probably that much coffee in the morning is bad
for you. But I know, Matt, you drink more than one.
What is it like, coffee, energy, drink and stuff?

Speaker 3 (42:03):
Yeah? Yeah, man, it costs so much money. Coffee cuts so.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
Much because this does.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
I mean, if you just grounded into the butt, that's fine,
but anymore it's gonna be a krig or something like that.
I drink one of those cold brews, and it is
a Starbucks cold brew, not like I've got a box
of beer fridge caffee.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
That's fine.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
Yeah, if somebody wants to do that, you know more.
But I have one of those in lately I've been
having another at work, and then I make coffee from
the coffee machine. So I can't tell you exactly how
much I drink, but it's way too much.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
Man, can I can? I I'm gonna admit something on
the show. I have some other topics, but I'll get
to them in a second. I was at the dollar
store yesterday. I did some errands and there was a
dollar store and I just went in. I didn't have
anything to buy there, and I found and I think
I've talked about them on the show Amp Energy drinks
that are mountain dew. They're the ones that change your
pee a certain color, which seems bad, like it seems

(42:56):
horrible this drink for you. But they were at the
dollar Store and I bought eleven of them because I
bought all the ones that were in the in the case.
And I went up to the lady. She goes, you
must really love this energy drink, and I'm like, I do.
And it's a dollar right now, So how do I
or dollar twenty five? How do I stop myself? She goes,
I don't know. And then all day my wife went
to work, so I was at home all day. I

(43:16):
was waiting for her to show up and discover the
eleven cans of Amp Energy drinks in the in the
fridge and react to them. And all I heard I
was doing a radio thing upstairs in my studio area.
When I heard her downstairs show up, I just heard
the door of the fridge slam shut it, and then
it just it slams. I was like, WHOA, I heard

(43:37):
that from up here, So obviously Obviously it didn't go
over well for the missiness. But how do I turn
it down?

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Man?

Speaker 1 (43:42):
My favorite energy drink and it was a dollar twenty five.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
Yeah, it's it's kind of funny all of a sudden,
when you start using gas stations to buy in bulk,
you see that one favorite item we've been looking for
all the way around this city and the next time
you know, you just grabbed handfuls of it. What does
your wife does? She not like the Amp energy drinks?
I mean, wis to deal with.

Speaker 1 (43:59):
She isn't like any of the energy drinks. She thinks
they're a really terrible decision for me, even the healthy
ones that I get, which she likes more. But uniquely,
this is not a commercial for Mountain Dew and Amp Energy,
so I can say this, this one's uniquely bad for you,
Like it really is. It looks it looks the color
that it turns your your pee like, it looks like
you're drinking the thing that you inevitably same color comes out.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
That can't be good, it says right there, Well it doesn't,
but you should say right there on the can makes
you glow in the dark. Let's see you take Mountain
Dew and it's like, this is like pouring gas onto
smoldering fire. You know, you have a mountain dewing. Then
you say, now it's amped up.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
Baby.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
You think we're getting enough sugar beforehand, wait until we
get you this diabetes and a bottle. Baby, we are
from lying.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
It is delicious, though there's that part about it that's
I'm gonna go get one. Actually during the breaks of
the YouTube, people can see it. Let's do this before
we go though. I did like this too. A woman
tried to outsmart the airline that she was trying to
fly on. They told her her luggage was too large
to be taking on as a carry on, so she
jammed it into that metal thing that you know checks

(45:04):
how large your luggage is, totally ruined it, scratching, destroying
her luggage, but like pounded it in and for some reason,
this is on TikTok, And then she pulled it out
and it took quite a bit of effort to pull
it out for her, and then she took it on
the plane. She's like, see, I told you, But it
was the most aggressive fitting of this thing in that
metal box that you're ever going to see.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
That's a big flex for her being able to get
that in there. It's something that right to your neighbors.
Everything at the pta mean, you know, it's no wonder
nobody wants to fly right now. A airline can't get
it right. We can't get it right as passengers, and
it's just the worst most arduous experience you could possibly
heaven travel. I mean, it's not like when we were
back at kids and we used to go to Lambert's
in Saint Louis, because I live south of Saint Louis.

(45:43):
It was a magical experience getting all that waight jet
and going somewhere just you know, continental United States of America.
It was so cool. But now it's such a pain
in the as man. I mean, I then again, I
haven't left the city in about a decade, so I'm
not the person to ask. It's just you can't rely
on the airlines that we sure so can't rely on
the other passengers. So it's not the It's not the

(46:04):
thing you want to do at the moment.

Speaker 1 (46:06):
I like your knee jerk reaction was to defend this
woman because by the way, she is hot. That that
is a thing.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
She did nothing wrong, Craig, She did nothing wrong.

Speaker 1 (46:15):
All right, Well take it Greg, Greg Collins filling in,
Tony Gats The Morning News ninety three WIBCB Tony Gats
The Morning News, ninety three WIBC. My name is Greg Collins,
filling in. One of the biggest stories to both go

(46:36):
through news media and then of course be ignored by
news media is the idea that we might actually do
an investigation into Nancy Pelosi and all her inside her trading.
That definitely exists, and even more so I think exists
after the answer she gave to Jake Tapper to a
question he asked her on CNN, she was even somewhat
angry that the question came up, which is amazing because

(46:58):
I know Jake Tapper is not a real journalists. He's
definitely an opinion host who does and says things that
benefit him financially, whether that's write a book and then
not tell us the actual news but put it in
the book instead. The news that Biden's brain was broken.
That wasn't really news to a lot of us, But
nonetheless that's the kind of thing and the kind of
journalist that he is. But he asked Nancy about her investing,

(47:20):
and she both got mad and then gave a truly
horrible answer, because I just want to remind everybody, and
I'm sure a lot of you know this going in,
Nancy Pelosi is one of the most successful people in
the history of Wall Street when it comes to the
decision making she's had, as far as a stock buyer
is concerned, as far as a customer in Wall Street

(47:41):
is concerned, She's one of the most successful, certainly in
the version of where she started to where she is now.
And so for her to claim she knows nothing about
it really is shocking and seems to be an additional
admission that she's been trading on INSIDERR secrets for quite
some time. But let me just read what he said.

(48:01):
I'm sorry that we had some sort of technolition Nancy
pelosih became rich.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
I might have to read that we're here to talk
about the sixtieth anniversary of Medity. That's what I agreed
to come to talk to. Yeah, but I wanted that
means in the election, I.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
Wanted to give you a chances to respond. He accused
you of insider trading. What's your response to that?

Speaker 2 (48:19):
That's very ridiculous. In fact, I very much support the
stop the trading of members of Congress, not that I
think anybody's doing anything wrong. If they are, they are
prosecuted and they go to jail. But because of the
confidence and it stills in the American people, don't worry
about this. But I have no concern about the obvious

(48:42):
investments that had been made over time. I'm not into it.
My husband is, but it isn't anything to do with
anything insider her. But the president has his own exposure,
so he's.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
Yes, yuh now. And I wanted to shut up because
now she's going to pivot it to Trump and claim
how it's all about Trump. How amazing is that answer?
By the way, if you were really really guilty of stuff,
like really truly guilty of the insider trading you've been
accused of, and it's so obvious, it's not the kind
of thing. I don't think any American, any hardcore Democrat,

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if she was brought into a courtroom and asked how
she could trade and succeed to this level for this
long well being a longtime politician, and it was discovered
that she has taken a whole bunch of secrets and
used them to her own financial benefit, I don't think
any American would be surprised. They'd be like, yeah, that
makes sense. That seems to be exactly what she's doing.
And so her answer is so terribly obvious in furthering

(49:40):
that idea. And I love the fact you didn't even
want to answer questions. She's like, Ah, how dare you
read this? This isn't what I want to talk about
my personal wealth and how I accumulated it over years
and years of being a public servant who was given
information that nobody else had which would make it easier
to succeed on the stock market, Especially if you're going
to say you know nothing about it. Husband's the one

(50:00):
doing all the investing, because you're telling him what to
buy and what to sell based on the information you have.
It's insane. But I also love the fact that she said,
since she's probably not long for being a politician anymore,
especially if they cut off the money that she's been
making off of her political career, that she says she's
willing to support an idea that prevents Wall Street and

(50:22):
our political system from being as intertwined as they are.
She better say that, and it better actually be true.
They really should vote to prevent that from happening, because
come on, this is ridiculous and a very easy way
for companies to influence the decision making of politicians. They
don't even have to cut them a check anymore. Just like,
we got some good information for you. We know what
stocks your husband should buy. Go ahead and vote this

(50:44):
way and this thing, and then we'll go ahead and
give you this information and we'll all benefit from it.
It's disgusting and terrible. All right, we'll take a break.
A lot coming up as Craig Collin's filling in Tony
Kat's The Morning News ninety three WIBC. Tony Kat's The
Morning News ninety three WIBC. See my name is Craig
Collins filling in. You got Matt. You have Carl hanging
out as they do every single morning on this show.

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There's a new controversy in the world of the Sidney
Sweeney ad campaign that made people think that they were
calling for white supremacy or something, which I'm still amused
by her American Eagle campaign and the idea that Sidney
Sweeney has a good genetics because she's hot and I
do like what America. I don't know if you guys
saw this what American Eagle put out in response to it.

(51:28):
Did you guys see that statement?

Speaker 3 (51:30):
I did not know.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
Okay, so the Sidney Sweeney American Eagle response statement is
pretty I hope it's real. Part of me is wondering
if it's not real, and then I shouldn't read it,
but I'll read it on the off chance that it
is real. They said in their response that they thought that,
you know, they wouldn't have gotten this much of a

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controversy because they underestimated just how great I'm paraphrasing, just
how great Sidney Sweeney would look in their genes, and
also how large part of her body would be two
parts of her body, in fact, would be. They said
they underestimated the significance of that portion of Sidney Sweeney's body,
which no one else did or would and that's why
they think this has gone to viral. Made no mention

(52:14):
to white supremacy or any of that stuff, because the
ad is not about that at all, and incredibly stupid
that people think it is. But they said their fault
on you using someone as hot as Sidney Sweeney in
an ad campaign.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
Off the top of my head, I think that's the
perfect reaction I mean, just Tona, you know, I mean,
there's no reason to apologize here. Obviously you aren't trying
to sell to just white people. You don't want your
America to Eagle gens to be only for the white market.
None of that is real, So just address and be
like yeah. And they're essentially saying, hey, our ad campaign

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worked and that's all. There's nothing you can do about it.
And because you made it go viral, we're going to
sell that many more pairs of genes. So I think
this is the perfect statement, is the perfect way it
responds in the world of public relations.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Yeah, yeah, I can actually read the real thing. I
just got a message from somebody saying, just read the
real thing. Fine. To whom it may concern, we sincerely
apologize for featuring Sidney Sweeney in our recent advertisement. In hindsight,
we underestimated the combined impact of her blue eyes, blonde hair,
and general hotness. Also, we did not realize how big
her boobs would be. Our market has yeah huh. Our
marketing team has been sent to Denim sensitivity training. Thank

(53:23):
you for your feedback. Please stop emailing us America Eagle
and it is funny. It is the reason I'm even
bringing this up too. Is apparently Dunkin Donuts is getting
in on this trend. They put up a video of
some young actor guy. I don't watch this show, but
he's in a TV show. The Summer I Got Hot
or something is the name of the show. I think

(53:44):
it used to be a movie. The Summer I Turned
Pretty is the name of the show. And this actor
is talking about his genetics in it and how he's
a good looking dude and he's, you know, a white dude.
And apparently now people are upset about this ad, and
it seems like dunkin Donuts is trying to lean in
a little bit to go viral because they obviously don't
mean the thing that the woke people are saying they mean,

(54:04):
and it seems like a pretty easy way to get
their ad shared a crap ton of times, which is happening.
So Duncan Donuts is the latest company to be accused
of something that seems like it might work as far
as the value of advertising in general. Get it seen
by a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
You know, I know it's not like the first question,
you know that's really bothering people this morning, But I
wonder if this controversy would keep somebody like this actor
or Sidney Sweety from getting jobs in Hollywood. I mean,
just because of the response a load at how progressive
that Hollywood is. I wonder if this would keep them
from getting work. If that's the case, I might be
a little bit concerned about that if I was in

(54:40):
either's position. I mean, that's that's a real thing.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
I think maybe, and who knows, maybe someone's going to
send in some sort of angry letter to us because
they love this actor guy I've never heard of him.
Maybe it's more true for him that the dude in
the summer I turned pretty show. I might not do
well being someone who seems to be courting controversy, especially
since this came out second too. It does seem as

(55:04):
though they're leaning in even though I don't think any
of it's real. I think it's all real stupid like
they seem to be leaning into it. So there might
be a reason to avoid him. But Sidney Sweeney, come on, man, Like,
I think she's gonna have work for as long as
she wants to have work in the industry, or at
least for how long she stays as hot as she
is right now. Because she's a very very popular actress,
put in a bunch of things and succeeding. It's not

(55:26):
just that she looks good, but she's like the Hollywood
person right now. I think she could make an even
worse campaign and still get hired for jobs. I think
she'd actually have to say something like truly racist or
horrible in order to stop getting hired.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
Sidney Sweety could go be a stand up comedian this
week and sell to join out. I should cry, that's
how much. That's how popular she is. She could release
a record, you know, like Prayers Hilbe used to do
in Lizzie Low any of these actress.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
Now, I tell her bathwater, didn't that happen somewhat recently?

Speaker 3 (55:56):
They were doing everything anything for intention and this I'm
she didn't even like try to do anything other and
make a buck here other than you know, go get
work and work with the American ego.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
And I gotta be honest, that's a unique level of
celebrity status when people will buy your bathwater. So I
feel like at that point, she's fine, He's doing Okay.
Another story I saw out there, this kind of gross,
but we're going to do it. We just talked about bathwater. Apparently,
a study that happened in France demonstrated that men not
only find it attractive, but actually physically calm down when

(56:28):
they smell women's bo but only certain time. This is
super weird story. I know it's true. It's true though.
As women get closer to ovulation, apparently a couple of
chemicals in their body start to be mass produced into
their armpits, and if men smell those chemicals, they are
relaxed and they actually describe the women as more attractive

(56:50):
when they look at their faces. It's a real thing.
We can't stop it. It's a human pheromone thing. But apparently,
and I guess France, of all places, in France is
known for not really caring about out body odor in
the first place. Might be part of the reason.

Speaker 4 (57:03):
And what's that women don't shave their armpits?

Speaker 1 (57:06):
Ah, yeah, that's not a part of it. That's not
a part of the ad. I didn't think anyone said
that it was attractive in that way, but apparently they
said that they have like proof that this is something
that men might actually be attracted to. It's definitely not true.
In reverse, women do not find any smells from men
to be attractive, but at least, at least this thing
is out there to say that women I don't know
in my own life, my wife, for anyone I ever dated,

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is a weird thing to say, like they don't really sweat.
Like I will go to the gym and we'll both
work out, and I'll see your working out and me
working out, and we'll leave and I'll be like, why
aren't you drenched in sweat like I am? It just
doesn't seem to be a thing that occurs. And I
don't know if there's a trick to it. Am I
being you know, tricked in some way? Or is sweating
just a less likely thing?

Speaker 3 (57:47):
We all have petig's. I have a jar of hair
from all my ex girlfriends hair.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
That's fine.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
So what's the real thing? I mean? You know, all right,
I'm going to break this up to the favery basic level,
and I'm gonna make it a little squishy here. I mean,
if you if you're in love with somebody, everything they
do is intractive, right, I mean, if you love a woman, Okay, okay, Well,
as I say, the first month you're in love, the
first month you're in love with her, I mean, I
guess she could anything. You'd be like, oh, I mean,

(58:16):
she could be sitting there yelling at You'd be like,
our first fight, this is gorgeous, right, I just you'd
be like, this is great. It's later in the relationship.
But I've never been turned on by a woman's body odor.
That's never happened. I would like to. I mean, I
don't am I a misogynist because I'm not turned on
my woman's body odor. Okay, not at all.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
No, not at all. I just thought it was interesting
that they're saying there's specific chemicals that come out around
the time when someone is ovulating that if men smell
those chemicals, even in the bo they might find him
the person more attractive. I imagine it's going to start
to be in like perfumes and stuff soon, whatever these
camicals are, and then we'll see not all of it,
just the chemicals that they're saying are valuable.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
Yeah, at the club and she smells like bili, you're
like it for me.

Speaker 1 (59:01):
By the way, this is the first time in the
show that I could truly tell that Matt Bear is
not married when he said that anything that your woman
does is attractive. If you're in love with them, because
it's not. It's and for me even more so, my
wife is annoyed by so many things that I do.
I feel like the next time I snorre, she's just
gonna punch me closed fist in the face. Like that's
going to be a thing that happens.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
I throw it a hitch. You in the head of
the seapap machine.

Speaker 1 (59:24):
Yeah, she probably will. The seapap that I still don't
use because I'm not going to do that. I'm not
going to put that thing on. All right, We'll take
a break a lot more. It's probably healthy. If I
did start using it, I'm not gonna do it. Tony
Kats in the Morning News ninety three WIBC. My name
is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be with you.
A bunch of stuff to talk about out there. But
President Trump is making trade deals baby like squeezed like

(59:47):
a lemon. I think is Politico's response or Politico's headline.
Not exactly fans of the president, But the White House
has been successful in getting a lot of countries, South
Korea the latest among them. We'll agree to two things.
There's two things. You pay attention to in all of
these different trade deals. The first one is that the
ability for the United States to export our goods to

(01:00:09):
other places is going to get a lot easier. The
biggest way in which countries have been taking advantage of
us is they've been putting barriers in place, whether that's
tariffs of their own or something else that doesn't allow
the United States to export product to the degree that
we should be giving it to all of our trade partners.
We have a tremendous amount of trade deficits. The President
has talked about this, showed us all in a giant

(01:00:32):
blow up thing that he presented to the American people
a while ago, a science project, if you will, version
of a cardboard cutout, and essentially the first big win,
we'll be reducing those restrictions. The second one, we'll be
getting the reciprocal version of stuff sent into our country
with tariffs tied to it. More and more countries will agree.

(01:00:54):
South Korea seems to have agreed to fifteen percent tariffs
to something. And this, honestly, I don't know. I assume
a whole lot of people know this, although sometimes when
I bring it up in conversations with like friends, and family.
People don't know this. The United States used to make
most of its money via tariffs for a long time
in the history of our country, and not actually make
it via taxes to the American people. Now we do

(01:01:17):
the opposite. President Trump has said that with tariffs he
might eventually be able to get rid of federal income
tax for the American people, which would be wildly popular,
not just the tax cuts that he've put that he
has put in place, but at some point, and I
know that that's like it'll never actually happen, but who knows,
Maybe it could happen. Thing, But if it does, it
would be amazing and people would be thrilled by it.

(01:01:39):
And the last part, and this is something else that
I've been saying more often to people in my own
life that I talk to. When media tells you that
any tariff is actually paid for by the consumer, they're
making a very lazy assumption. They're not actually thinking about
all the variables that go into play that could make
that untrue. For example, the person who's importing the product

(01:02:00):
here to the United States might refuse to pay the
price they've been paying before. They might lower the price,
and they might blame tariffs as the reason. We're sorry,
we can't import that at the same rate anymore. We
have to do this in that version of a thing,
the cost of the product stays the same, and the
people eating the cost of the people sending stuff to
the United States because we're refusing to pay the same price.

(01:02:21):
And then finally, and this is just something I usually
remind people who tell me the tariffs have to hurt
the American people. They can't possibly do anything beneficial. You
could not buy things. You could choose if things are
too expensive to not purchase them. And hopefully enough stuff
is made by the United States, and a lot of
companies are now investing in creating and manufacturing here that

(01:02:42):
you find a cheaper version. It's not made in China anymore.
The cheapest version it's made right here in the US,
and so you buy that, and that benefits our companies too.
All these things are possible as far as tariffs are concerned.
They're fairly logical assumptions, and yet a bunch of people
seem incapable of making them and only talking about them
one way. But again, and the reason to bring this
up at all is President Trump, mostly on truth social

(01:03:04):
has revealed a bunch of I think, according to Bloomberg,
unleashed a flurry of trade surprises on the eve of
his deadline, which would be tomorrow, for tariffs to be
quite a bit larger on a whole lot of places.
And remember, a whole lot of pundits told us that
the only thing that was going to happen based on
tariff's was going to be horrible, terrible increases of prices,

(01:03:26):
you know, terrible, horrible economic things were going to happen.
I think Jim Kramer was the most hilarious in telling
us that it was going to be the Great Depression
two point zero, And so far none of that has happened.
In fact, the economy and Wall Street are doing quite well.
Nancy Pelosi is doing quite well still sadly, but that's
a real thing that's out there in the world. So
I just think it's funny and interesting that as we're

(01:03:47):
getting closer and closer to this deadline and Trump keeps winning,
someone somewhere is going to tell us he's not winning,
because how dare he go through this fight that benefited
all of us? I quick break a little more coming up.
It's Craig col filling in Tony Kats The Morning News
ninety three WIBC. Uh oh oh, I know this one,

(01:04:09):
but I don't know this one. Oh man, I know
this one. This is Tony Cats, The Morning News, ninety
three w IBC. My name is Craig Collins filling in.
It's the television theme song game that Carl plays every
single day on the show. I'm gonna have to go
to phone a friend because I recognize it. But it's
not Matt Baird. Do you know what the name what
the theme song is that he's playing?

Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
This is singled out, Craig.

Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
How great would that be if it was that old
dating show singled out.

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
Indiana.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
I think Indiana. It's it's Twin Peaks Community. All Right,
we're good.

Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
The chat was getting.

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
God Stranger Things, Yeah, and I cheated. Claudia and Mike
both said it on the chat after you mentioned the chat,
so I looked at it and yeah, you're right, Stranger Things.
I barely watched that show. I watched like the first
season of that and then kind of stopped watching it.
So you know, I'm good from that point on.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
Stranger Things is like one of those Game of Thrones.
I know that I'd love if I watched and just
sat down and did it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:22):
Game of Thrones is great, man, that's what everybody says.

Speaker 3 (01:05:24):
Has dragons and now people.

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
Yeah, see, it's totally different than Stranger Things. I don't
think there were any naked people in Stranger Things. There's
a bunch in Game of Thrones.

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
Yeah, Thrones would have been more things. Thank you nice.

Speaker 1 (01:05:35):
Yeah, that was a great show, fantastic except the last season.
Don't watch it. Blow up your television before you turn
it off.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
Everybody hates the last season. Everybody hates the finale. It
doesn't matter what show.

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
It is genuinely terrible. No, No, that's not true. There's
some shows that have great finales, but the ones that
I remember are the ones that have terrible ones like Lost,
horrible finale, How I Met your Mother, terrible finale, in
this terrible finale. But yeah, there's good ones. I'm sure
they're out there. Seinfeld. I like the ending to Seinfeld.
Do you guys like it or no?

Speaker 3 (01:06:04):
I never saw the Seinfeld ending.

Speaker 2 (01:06:05):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:06:07):
I never get into Seinfeld very much because I suck.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
Carl. Do you know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
The Seinfeld It was okay, I was never really a
big fan of Seinfeld.

Speaker 1 (01:06:18):
It was okay controversial. They just all go to prison,
which means they're just stuck in a cell.

Speaker 3 (01:06:22):
Ye sucks.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
They go to jail for being bad people, and it's
a whole episode of all the terrible things their characters
did over the course of the show, and they are
awful people. So it's kind of a funny reason to
go to jail, but also a nice way to revisit
a lot of the show and some of the most
amazing characters in it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
Okay, everybody just got sent to prison for the same thing.
I mean, no days suspended.

Speaker 1 (01:06:42):
Well, so yeah, for anyone that didn't see it. And
I don't know why we're talking about, I'm gonna do
it now, Matt, because now it's fine. I like this.
They witness a guy on the street and they don't
help him, you know, go through a problem, and so
because they didn't help him, they get sued and then
a bunch of people get called in to demonstrate how
they're awful people. So in the court case, it's it's
shown that they don't have good character, and for that

(01:07:04):
reason they go to jail. I think they're supposed to
go to jail for a year. But it's also a
great way to pause the show because essentially, by ending
the show that way, all the characters are in jail,
so if you ever picked it back up, they'd get
out of prison, which they obviously never did. But that's
a great way to also put them in a situation
where I'm not really curious what all the characters are doing.
They're in jail together.

Speaker 3 (01:07:23):
It makes a great case for Debtor's prison too, for
that matter, which I would be in at the moment.

Speaker 1 (01:07:27):
So by the way, we can do it this way
if people want to send in messages on social media
for what their favorite TV show finale is with just
a couple of minutes left, Bob Newhart was incredible. That
is a great show and a great ending. Do you
guys know about that one? Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
I remember my parents were big new Heart fans. If
we watched a little song, dude, you know what to
begin to give us. I thought it was a fun show.
I mean, you know, my brother and I grew up
saying Hi, my name's Larry, is my brother Darrel? This
is my brother Matt. You know, I mean, yes, as
little kids, that was funny. Craig, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
Who made the joke where they woke up into bed
with Bob Newhart to end their show. Didn't somebody else
do that?

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
I think so? I can't remember, Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
I can't remember why some other show copied that ending,
and then it's just them and Bob Newhart and bed
together for whatever reason.

Speaker 3 (01:08:08):
You want to see the show. I think it sounds ye,
all right.

Speaker 1 (01:08:11):
Somebody in the chat will probably tell me about that too.
Are we just have just a couple of minutes left here.
I did find this interesting. The ten most hated foods
in America, according to the Internet. YouGov dot com did
this poll. Number one an jovies, fifty six percent of
people either dislike or fully hate them. They are terrible.
Number two, liver, number three, sardines fifty five and fifty

(01:08:32):
two percent hate or dislike those items? Do we agree
on all though?

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
I've never had any of those beyond okay, maybe I
haven't just have a note in my life. I just
think it's one of those things where people were angovi's
and be like, yeah, I don't want to eat those,
or you know, just because everybody else says that. I mean,
it's really if onions isn't on the list, then it's
not a good list because I needs to absolutely beyond that.
You don't like onions, No, on need to suck.

Speaker 1 (01:08:55):
Man, onions do suck. I agree with him. They're not
enough suck to be on the top of this list though,
man Like they're just regular suck. Like if I have
onions on my sandwich, I can eat them. I would
not eat it if sardines or anchovy snuck their way
on there. Number four was the most hilarious to me
because it's tofu and my wife at times tries to
get me to eat like not meat stuff and it's

(01:09:16):
always terrible, and she always tries to pretend that it
is meat, and we sit there for an art we
have an argument at the table as I'm eating it.
I'm like, this isn't meat. I know this isn't meat,
and you're not going to be able to convince me
it is meat. Then eventually I find the box and
I'm like, see yet again, it's not meat. Not once
is she actually successfully had me eat something that's fake
meat that she claimed was delicious meat.

Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
Say have a big range of taste. I'll try anything,
I really will. The first time one of my favorite
foods Now is easy opium food. I just tried it
like a couple months ago. It's divined. It's just absolutely amazing.
The first time I tried tofu, it reminded me of
when I was eating glue in the second grade that
just had that texture too. It was just there was
not only no flavor, but the flavor that was there
it was I'm seriously, it tastes like, I don't know exactly,

(01:10:00):
like dead, like like something that just lays in your
mouth and it doesn't do anything.

Speaker 1 (01:10:07):
Awful.

Speaker 3 (01:10:07):
Yeah, it was awful. It's a better way to put that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
Yeah, By the way, I'll put a couple of things
out there. Mash was another show that a couple of
people on social media said they love as far as
ending goes Cat and some others, I agree with that.
Mash was a great finale in a great show, honestly.
And then Star Trek Voyager. I've never seen a Star
Trek episode in my life, never watched it, never seen it.
Don't have interest in it. Really don't love Star Wars either,

(01:10:31):
Like I don't hate Star Wars. People seem surprised by
that that I'm not a giant Star Wars nerd guy,
And I'm not judging you if you are. I just
think that the movies are okay, they're not great, they're
all right.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
Well, we had a run of it that wasn't very
good here lately, you know, Disney got ahold of it
and I made everything, you know, fun and cutesy and all.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
You know, people with a little more grit like myself,
just weren't really turned on by those movies. I mean,
I grew up with Empire Strikes Back. We don't where
everybody loses at the end, every good guy loses and
it teaches you a life lesson. Baby, let me tell you,
there was kind of a darker side to that first trilogy,
at least the way I see it. And then the
latest trilogy just didn't do much for anything, so you know,

(01:11:10):
I mean it didn't create any maybe like new die
hard fans like we were when we were kids, you know,
being middle aged and everything, and maybe it did, I
don't know, but it just it wasn't the same. It wasn't.

Speaker 1 (01:11:21):
It wasn't. It wasn't really good. But even the original movies,
like yes, Empire Strikes Back is a uniquely special movie.
Avengers Infinity War did it better. They also had everybody
lose at the end, and they did it better, the
better movie. That's a hot take. We're done shows. I
know I said it. I'm going to live with it.
I accepted. Everybody hates me. Now see later. I'll be
back tomorrow

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