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Speaker 1 (00:12):
A little surprised in only that I thought it would
be worth more. Tony Katz ninety three WIBC, Good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
What is going on?

Speaker 1 (00:24):
IU Athletics putting together a fifty million dollar deal for
the naming rights of Memorial Stadium.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Merchants Bank took the deal. They're Carmel based.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Fifty million dollars sponsorship deal, twenty year naming rights with
IU Athletic and Lear Fields I use sports properties. Bloomington
Stadium's playing surface immediately begins being renamed Merchants Bank Field
at Memorial Stadium.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
The question I ask is, does anybody else think that's cheap?
It's twenty years, two and a half million dollars a year.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
I guess, not having spent much time thinking about it,
I would assume that it would go for more. If
you told me double twenty years, one hundred million dollars
five million a year, I'd be like, yeah, okay, two
and a half million. I think that sounds like a deal.

(01:34):
That's my take. What I'd love to know from Merchants
Bank and and Carl if you want to get him
on the show next week, I'd be curious. What makes
you decide to do it? Where to engage this level
of sponsorship? How do you recognize the value back?

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Right? This is a branding play, not necessarily a sales play.
But how do you see it back? So producer Carl
get with Merchants Bank.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Get him on the phone next week and I'd love
an answer to this. Also, did they think it's a
deal because I think it's cheap. Twenty years.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Sounds cheap.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I'm wrong. There is a raid
happening right now by the FBI at the home of
former National Security advisor John Bolton. I will have updates
on that. Leticia James loses huge when it comes to
the Court of Appeals.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
I have got that story as well.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Tony Katz ninety three WIBC, Good Morning, Letitia James loses
big and good because it was always insane, it was
so abusive. The fine against President Trump for doing I
still argue nothing wrong. Tony Katz ninety three WIBC, Good Morning.

(02:53):
He got alone, he paid back the loan. What's the crime.
There is no crime. There's no crime. Did I say hello,
Tony Katz.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Ninety three WBC, I did, I don't say it? Twice?
Well for this not breaking the law.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
He overvalued a property, maybe nine properties, maybe nine million,
I don't know, but he said the value is this.
The bank said, okay, he didn't lie about owning the property.
He didn't lie to get a mortgage like allegedly Letitia
James did, Like allegedly Adam Shipp the Center from California did,
claiming residency in other spots to get favorable terms, which

(03:38):
is exactly what Latitia James is accused of in regarding
homes in Virginia purchased with her father, who she may
have listed as her husband.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, this gets prosecuted. The judge in this case was horrific.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
The penalty was four hundred and fifty four million, with
late these getting.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Up to five hundred and fifty million dollars. The appeals
court threw it out.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
The appeals court threw it out because they reference the
Eighth Amendment.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Is the eighth Amendment? I am so glad that you asked.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. Of course, it was
insane right from the very beginning. It was meant to
bankrupt him. It was not in any way rational. Now,
the court is not saying that the verdict itself regarding

(04:40):
whether not Trump did something wrong doesn't stand. It does,
as I read it.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
It does. It's that the penalty is insane. You're and
you're just out of your mind.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
The penalty was there to try and ruin him. These people,
these progressives, they are burier of was it Stalin's secret police.
Show me the man and I'll show you the crime.
That's who they are, Stalin's secret police. Sorry, I got
my commis mixed up.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
You see. One was just a.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Dirty murderer and the other one was just a dirty murderer.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
But that was his that was his theory. Show me
the man and I'll show you the crime. You want
somebody guilty, I'll make him guilty, no problem. What's the
real difference here, I would argue. The answer is none.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
So this overturning is excellent and it's valuable. I would
still say that. And and for the record, the judge
of the case, Arthur and Gern, should be ashamed of himself,
should be ugly guy, ugly work. This case is still

(05:56):
to me obscene and just part of the example of
the law fair that Trump has been subject to. This
is not to say that you have to like the guy.
This is not to say that you can't miss you
shouldn't misrepresent what it is that you own.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
He decided to value his X. That's a moral play,
not necessarily a legal one.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
And the bank said yes, and the bank got paid
everything it was owed. I don't understand the issue here.
I never, ever, ever have same things true about Stormy Daniels.
I never understood why this was a story. God Trump
was a with a porn star. Really, I for one
was shocked Trump paid her to stay quiet. Really, I

(06:39):
for one still shocked. He wrote it from account day
and he should have written it from account B.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
That's the argument. That was the argument that.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Led Alvin Bragg to be able to go for a
pelony car charge. You know how much work you had
to do. You know how many judges or what kind
of judge you'd have to have in order to allow
that to happen. In this case, the vote from the
appeals court was five to nothing. This fine is onerous,

(07:09):
this fine is deranged, This fine is thrown out.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Good.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
I'm happy to see it. Meanwhile, Christy nom wants planes.
She is the secretary of Homeland Security. She is looking
for planes. She wants to build a fleet for the
Department of Homeland Security so they can conduct their own
deportations as they see fit on their own timeline. And

(07:37):
they believe they could save money by having their own
fleet and not hire charter companies to do this, and
they could deport thirty thousand illegal.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Immigrants a month.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Okay, get them planes if it's cheaper than hiring charter services. Yeah, unless,
of course I own the charter service, in which case
don't you dare change thing? Also, I do not own
a charter service. I do I want to boat, Nope?
Do I want to vote?

Speaker 2 (08:06):
Do I want a lake house? Nope?

Speaker 1 (08:07):
Don't want a lake house. Don't want a private plane?
Oh God, yes, good Lord? That am I asking for
too much? And I'll share it with some people. I
will share it with some people. But that's the that's
that's the goal right there, that's the one.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Get her the planes.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
If you could do thirty thousand removals of illegal immigrants
every month, I'm fine with that. And again I invite Indianapolis.
We're talking about the deportation.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Of illegal immigrants. What's the problem. Explain why that's wrong.
Illegal here, illegally broke the law. Tell me why that's wrong.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
But the minute you start saying migrants are immigrants, of
the conversation's over because that.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Will be you lying and I won't stand for it.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
We're talking about illegal immigrants, that's the subject. Three one
seven two three nine ninety three ninety three. Tell me
why that's wrong. If you mentioned legal or you say migrants,
we stop because you're not being honest. Those people will
not be being honest and I won't allow it. Illegal immigrants,
why can't they be deported? Three one seven two three

(09:23):
nine ninety three ninety three. Here is where we are
on the raid update right now. Uh, the home of
John Bolton, the former National Security advisor, the former ambassador
to the United Nations, has been rated. This started at
seven a m. The New York Post had the first
reporting to this, his home rated in Bethesda, Maryland. You

(09:49):
had people like Catherine Herridge saying that this was about
documents that were in the home. Now I don't have
a way of knowing what those documents are, uh, the
where they classified as in things that were found in

(10:12):
Donald Trump's home, in Joe Biden's home Mike Pence's home.
As you know, I have no I have no quarter
for that. That is absolutely nutty. When this takes place.
We also have an over classification issue.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
But will we'll get to that.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
We we we will, we will talk more about that.
Is this having anything to do with the deep state
and the idea that he was providing secrets or leaking information?
Don't know, absolutely do not know. What I know is

(10:58):
is that this rate is going on. We're gonna get
more information.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
On this throughout the day. Now. That was it this morning.
So I don't know where he is. I don't know
why it says PM I don't know how that could be.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
Cash Footel put out on Twitter X no one is
above the law. FBI agents on a mission. Was he
kind of previewing what we see here? Maybe what did
they get was something leaked? I don't have an answer.

(11:35):
We're gonna find out. Finally, you're gonna.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Hear the left talk about this is retribution.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
John Bolton has been opposed to Donald Trump, and this
is Donald Trump weaponizing.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
The Justice Department against him. That's nonsense.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
If the Justice Department is gonna be weaponized, it has
to be against Hillary Clinton. What the heck is this
all about calmed out everybody? No one has any proof
of that. That's just what they're gonna say at MSNBC
and CNN because they refuse to have an on his conversation.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Let's wait to get the information. Time to fill up
on the news.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Tony Katz ninety three WIBC, Good Morning, Doubt futures up
one fifty three, NAZDAK futures up forty nine. You've got
oil prices which have been holding very very steady on
the barrel, sixty three dollars and sixty cents on the
West Texas crewed, sixty seven dollars, sixty seven cents on

(12:28):
the Brent, same places that we have been. It's now
been two weeks of just this, this basic standardized pricing
on the barrel. The tenure Treasury at four point three
to two again in the same basic spot. No no
real moves. When was the last remove was April? Yeah,

(12:51):
it was April. Things got below four percent. It's been
in this place ever since. Interesting story that stock futures
are up up because Jerome Powell is going to speak
today from Jackson Hole. That's Wyoming, that's where they're having
this the symposium, and I think they do it every
single year. What they're trying to look at is whether

(13:15):
or not there's going to be a rate decrease, whether
the reserve rate is going to go down.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Markets.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
According to the last look, we're pricing in a seventy
five percent chance of a quarter point cut. Trump is
going to want at least a half and he'll say
that's not enough. I think at a quarter point he's
going to fire Jerome Powell. I think at no cut,
he's definitely gonna fire Jerme Powell. I'm not a betting man.

(13:45):
If I were a if I were a betting man
ladies and gentlemen, I don't see how he doesn't do it.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
The more I think about it.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
And I was talking about this earlier this week, He's
gonna cut. It's going to happen. The market is demanding it.
There's an argument for it in the GDP numbers, but
there's not an argument for it in the producer price index.
And he's gonna he may engage some self preservation.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
What I'm telling you is there'll be no cut. I'm
putting my marker down, even.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Though I said earlier I thought there would be one
I'm saying he's not gonna do it.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
I don't know. I don't know what it is. I
don't know what the feeling is now.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
I will tell you on a personal level, me looking
at it, not having the expertise of some.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
We're not there. This economy is not a great place.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Better than Biden. People certainly still are under Trump, believing
that things can get better, but it's not there yet.
I don't know why we're lying to ourselves. Kidding ourselves
seems ridiculous to me. I don't think we should do that.
I don't think we should lie to ourselves. I think
that he gonna not cut It could be because he

(15:04):
sees it like I do on the economics, or it
could be he's gonna be like, you know what, He's
gonna fire me anyway.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
So screw Donnie.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
I'm telling you that that can happen. So with that,
I'm laying down a marker. I'm saying, this is what
I think is coming. We will find out soon enough.
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(16:53):
It's time to play America's favorite game.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
What the heck is that television theme song?

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Tony Katz ninety three WIBC, Good morning.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Good to be with you. Here's how we play our game.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Producer Carl picks a television theme song from yesteryear. I
have to guess what it is. I find myself and
a little bit of a loss here. I have an
idea of what it is, but I'm not one hundred
percent sure. The chat room seems to know. I'm gonna

(17:27):
phone a friend, Producer, Carl. I'm gonna ask Matt Bear,
what is this television theme song?

Speaker 2 (17:35):
That's Sex of the City. Tony like it? That's good?

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Oh good lord, I've got I've got the WIBC sales
team chiming in shoe letting me know that that is
Family Affair starring Sebastian Cabot.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
How old Joe? He must be really old? What year
was Family Affair? Sixties? See? I thought it was the fifties.
I thought that was like fifty nine sixty six. Really, yep,
that's what it says. What do you know about that?

Speaker 1 (18:21):
So producer Carl Joe gets out when Joe from WBC
sales team gets that right there, he made that happen,
So bravo to him. I'm gonna see you guys tomorrow.
They're at west Fork Whiskey. From Hollywood to the Heartland myself,
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(18:44):
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(19:22):
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Speaker 1 (20:41):
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Speaker 2 (20:45):
Excellent, excellent work. Matt Bear is gonna be there. We're
picking up his coffee today the.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Morning, the Morning Brew will be there so you will
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Speaker 2 (21:09):
Or the road rage.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
We'll have that available as well. They're sweat tickets to
tonycats dot Com. Thank you to the sponsors. Thank you
to you for buying tickets, improving that we can do
this and we should do this. But if we could
just do something like on the west side or on
the south side, or just maybe in downtown so it'd
be easier to get to, that'd be great.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
I hear you. I hear you.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
I'm trying. I tried Brownsburg, I tried the South Side.
It just it worked here perfectly, and you're gonna have
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Speaker 2 (21:45):
This raid on John Bolton's house.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
I will have more updates on this at noon on
Tony Kats today, so we'll have some more of that
and whether or not there's a deal to be made
with Vladimir Putin, because I think after this bombing of

(22:10):
an American company in Ukraine, I think it's I think
there's a real question here. No one can believe that
Putin can be trusted, can they. Trump might want to
say that Putin wants a deal because he can say it.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
The actions are what matters, never the words.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
We've had this conversation a million times when it comes to.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
When it comes to Trump.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
Is the plan to say, hey, you can have this,
but if you try anything else, we're just going to
destroy you. I don't know where he's gonna go with it,
but the fundamentalists Putin can't be trusted, and anybody who
thinks that Putin is the good guy here is just
absolutely nuts. I'll say it again without an ounce of hesitation, nutty.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Indeed, then I had one more story that I was
gonna get to.

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Certainly, I'm seeing more and more people discuss the fact
that I don't know what we're doing with TikTok, but
we can't be extending deadlines. The President and the White
House should not be having a TikTok account. This stuff
has to go. I don't know what we're doing. I
don't know what we're waiting for here. So those are
some of the things we're gonna get to. And then
there is this sign liberal white women are the worst?
Isn't that how I started? Isn't that how we started?

(23:37):
I'd say liberal white women are the worst. I apologize
for nothing. Win some Seis is the lieutenant governor of
Virginia running for governor. Black women terrific, and she says
boys are boys and girls are girls. We're not gonna
put up with any other conversations. We're not doing this anymore.
Boys are boys and girls are girls. And a white

(24:00):
liberal woman shows up to an event to protest her
with a sign that reads, hey, winsome, if trans can't
share your bathroom, then blacks can't share my water Fountain.
Liberal white women, I mean it makes sense. I mean
Democrats are they're the party of bigotry. It makes perfect

(24:21):
perfect Oh oh, deal with it. Oh the Dixie Kraft switch.
Shut up with the nonsense. This is liberal white women.
Progressivism has broken them. You could really say that about everybody.
It has hate rots the brain, and this is what
it does. These two things are not comparable. This is obscene. Well,

(24:45):
now I had said, I don't know if the sign
is real. What if it's ai Selena Zito with the
sharing the video. The video shows a man saying to
that woman holding the sign, this is getting a lot
of play. That's good, thank you technology, saying.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
It's getting a lot of play on TV and it's negative.
And so now she's hiding the sign. It's too late.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
Progressive, your hatred of Trump, your hatred of anybody who
disagrees with you, your unwillingness to know that men are
not women and women are not men. You're willing just
to somehow lie about that. It's rotted the brain. We
see you, We will vote on November third, twenty twenty sixth.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
I'll see you guys. Saturday. Tickets dot Tonycats dot com
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