Tony Katz and the Morning News with Craig Collins Full Show 10-29-25

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Tony Katz the More News ninety three WIBC. My name
is Craig Collins, filling in. Yes, I mentioned Matt and
I's podcast already on the show, and it might come
up a few more times. I'm not sure if it's
on the rundown somewhere to mention it, but I'll get
it in. There's a lot of stuff to talk about.
I'm Matt and Craig excellent podcast among them. At some point,
CNN's Henry Etten yet again demonstrated that things are not

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going as poorly for Republicans as Democrats want them to
during this ridiculous shutdown. I want to make this clear
every time I fill in for Tony or talk about
this anywhere, I say this part because I don't want
to be a hypocrite. I'm not really all that mad
the government is shut down. I'm mad at the way
it's happening. I'm mad at the way that Democrats are

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doing exactly the thing that they always chastise Republicans for
potentially doing from time to time, Like I'm annoyed at
the hypocrisy of all this. But the government shutdown part
and Trump but potentially trying to fire some people because
of it, and then actually a federal judge. I think
getting in the way and stopping it is stuff that
I'm interested in seeing play out. I don't want the

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average American to be in pain, so I should say
that too. I know that a lot of Republicans are
now saying that the shutdown is hurting people on Main
Street and that that's bad. Of course it's bad, and
that they should care more about it. Democrats should, and
of course they should. All those things are true, but again,
there's so much bloat in Washington, DC that government shutting

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down in and of itself is never something that truly
makes me mad, especially if the soldiers are getting paid.
If all of the people that serve and protect this
country are getting cash getting money, they're not getting cash
properly getting checks, then something is okay in my book.
As far as figuring all this out, I'm not supporting
Democrats in the shutdown, by the way. I want that
to be clear. I'm just not going to pretend as

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though I'm as mad about it now that Democrats are
doing it. If I wouldn't be mad at all if
Republicans were doing it. I just want to be clear
about that. I don't know why I keep saying and
doing this, by the way, but anyway, CNN's political analysts
dove into some data and demonstrated that Republicans not doing poorly. Actually,
a lot of polls say things are going quite well

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for the Republican Party as far as approval ratings go,
probably because of the sentiment I just shared and I
just said, and a lot of people on this side
of the aisle feeling that way that the people that
were least worried about oftentimes work in Washington, DC.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Starting with Republicans, how is the shutdown seemed to have
affected their political standing?

Speaker 3 (02:31):
You might think, given that the Republicans are in charge
of both the House and the Senate, that a government
shutdown might actually hurt the Republican brand, But in fact
it hasn't. If anything, it's been helped a little bit.
Take a look here the shift in net popularity versus
pre shutdown among the g when we're looking at the
Republican Party overall, that brand actually up two points. That's
within the margin enver, but clearly it hasn't dropped. Come

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over this side of the screen. Look at the net
approval ratings for Republicans and Congress it's actually up five points.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Since pre shutdown.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
What here's remot brand and Congress has actually improved somewhat
compared to where we were.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
How could that be possible? I love the way that
CNN says that and seems shocked by this information. By
the way, one of the other reasons that I think
this could be true is that a lot of people
do see Democrats as the people causing the shutdown, because
they are They've voted thirteen times against reopening it the
way that normally these sort of things inevitably end, because yes,
of course we've been through shutdowns before. Inevitably, you just

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fund the government at current levels, You pass a bill
that doesn't have any extra bacon in it, any extra
pork in it, any extra anything, and all of a
sudden things go back to normal. And then Washington keeps
fighting over stupid stuff as it normally does, but the
Democrats refuse to do that this time. People thought it
was at first because of the no Kings protests that happened,
and now they're not really sure what Democrats are doing.

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I think Democrats aren't really sure what they're doing, and yeah,
it's going to start to cause more and more pain
in places that are not good snap benefits for people
who depend on that food. You know, people who depend
on certain medical things are going to start to have
more and more problems because of government shutdown. And that's
on the heels of the Democrats. And they're honestly the
party that oftentimes fights and yells about this and says

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how they need to protect these sort of things. So
I think that's why it's hurting them more. Their brand
is closely tied to the idea that they want to
prevent shutdowns, and now they're causing one. And Republicans, as
I said, maybe not just me, but a whole lot
of us, I don't really care. We don't care. We
don't want people to be in pain. I'm not saying
that I don't want anyone to walk away from the
show being like Man Collins, that guy who filled in

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for Tony Katz is such a jerk, because it's not
that I don't want people to be in pain, but
I would love the end result of a shutdown to
be a whole bunch of people in government that jobs
are unnecessary to be fired, to be very fired. Maybe
fire them Apprentice style. Trump comes back to do that
and just says you're fired, You're fired, You're fired, across
the board. It would be wonderful. We'd save a bunch

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of money, all right, quick break, A lot coming up.
Craig Collins filling in Tony Kat's The Morning News ninety
three WIBC. Nice bump song, Tony Kat's The Morning News
ninety three WIBC. My name is Craig Collins filling in.
You got Matt. You have Carl hanging out as they
do every single morning on this show. I want to
play a clip from a Newsmax that has political slant

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and stuff in it, but I'm actually most amused at
just the most macro concept in this. So a host
on Newsmax and I'm not even going to say his
name is he's about to say it in a clip
is criticizing the way that some people in media shift
into an accent when they say the names of people
from other countries, like even if the person's not born
in that other country, if they're a person from here,

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but like a Spanish name, all of a sudden, you
do this crazy, ridiculous accent. And this host is mocking
that idea. And I found this to be incredibly entertaining
the idea of this, because you see it a lot,
and I've actually worked with people in this industry who
prided themselves undoing it, like shifting into certain accents, and
it's funny. The basic question is why don't we do

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it for other nationalities? If we do it for some,
why don't we do it for more? Here's the clip itself,
and then we'll discuss.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Or also he not, but I taught me out he
said it. I couldn't understand what he was saying. As
I've said before, I am irish. And if I was
moderating that debate with the host to introduce me as
Robert James Finnerty, don't you know that it's a lad
that is Robert James finner T.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Okay, I find that wildly of music, a lot of
people are saying there's like insensitive aspects to it and stuff.
Those people are probably annoying and on a certain side
of the political aisle. But anyway, Matt Behar, do you
want to react to the idea that a lot of
people in media they do suddenly have an accent when
they say a certain name and not other ones. Man,
we could go further.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
Well, I think they should try to do like the
hardest one and that's Mandarin. Yeah, you're right, that would
be impressive. It would be I would assume that if
you're doing a local accent, that you're trying to appeal
to the local popular as such, say you have a
heavy Hispanic.

Speaker 5 (07:02):
Population, and then now you're going to put on that accent.

Speaker 4 (07:05):
And in that case, I can see it work you.
Otherwise you're just showing off, right, man, Right, Like I
can speak another language, which is super cool, but you
just kind of dropping it like that. It's it's not yeah, okay,
you're showing off, is what you.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
I love that you said showing off, man, because now
I'm going to talk about one of the most jealous
things that I felt in the world of broadcasting. It's
not even broadcasting, it's barely it's like tangentially broadcasting. I
was the public address announcer for the South Bend Silverhawks,
which now that they're now the South Bend Cubs, by
the way, and I had a guy who would fill
in for me. I was the main announcer. He was

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the other guy. Whenever he'd do an accent on you know,
like an r roll or something for some of the
names on the baseball team. He'd dives so deep into
it and I'd hear about it, be like, man, that
was incredible and I couldn't do it. It was showing off.
You didn't need that from the PA guy all of
a sudden here like you know somebody's name and have
the role r last for five seconds.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Come on, man, Doc, you could have sticked it up.
You could have hit the interview like I can't do
it like this guy. But man, he could really dig
into that accent.

Speaker 5 (08:08):
You know.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Well, dude, an Emilio Bona Fassio played for that team.
So just again, let's think about the fact that this
other guy who would throw on the accent would say
the name Emilio Bona Fassio once every nine at bats.
Let's hear you do it? Can you do the I
can here? Yeah, no, no, I do it. I do
it very you know, American guy. I just yelled Bona
Fassio for a while and then I'm done.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
Do it a buston accent.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Dude. By the way, it's an incredible name to announce.
I will say that if you want to try it
at some point, Matt Amilio bona Fasio is made for
the PA announcer.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Facio's that's not Spanish.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
I didn't do a good job.

Speaker 1 (08:50):
It's awkward. We're on the radio, we're just having a conversation.
Any of us could do it, and we have the microphones,
like we could yell the name, but it's it's awkward.
And you know what's funny too. I'll tell you one
other thing about this. This isn't important, but I can't
help it. My wife bragged about my PA job when
I met her family in Mexico, like that's one of
the things she bragged about because they all love baseball.

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And then every single time that it comes up with
my family in another country, they all ask me to
do it. They're like, oh, do do the thing, and
I'm like, guys, I'm a dude standing here. I don't
have a microphone. I don't have any like, it's not
going to be cool. And they're like no, but yell
at yell our names. And then I do it and
it's never cool. Everyone looks at it like, ah, man,

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why did we ask him to do that?

Speaker 4 (09:31):
Is this the same crowd that walks up to you
on family dinners and says like, hey, what do you
think of redistricting or how's immigration? I'd expect you to
go into maybe a five minute segment all of a
sudden on your take on redistricting and immigration here. You know, Yeah,
you're expected to perform. You have to perform for the people, Craig,
Come on, does.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
That happen to you? Do you get asked to do
kind of things broadcasting things when you're around people.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Nobody asked me to do anything. It's a beautiful I.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Don't know about that. The Matt and Craig Excellent podcast
that's going to do a lot of what you're talking about.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
Two on the board already this morning. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
I am wondering at some point if I'm going to
get a note from management being like Craig, we love
the enthusiasm with the Matt and Craig Excellent Podcast. It
is not written to be promoted that often when you're
filling in for Tony Kats in the morning news. But
Matt's here, man, and the second episode was so good.
It was so good.

Speaker 4 (10:21):
It's now you can find a WIVC docut. That's something
you can apologize for later, Craig, Don't worry. Yeah, you
know that falls into that category. Wait until they say
something and then you're.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Awesome, fantastic other things out there. Did you guys watch
either of you guys watched the eighteen inning baseball game
from the other day.

Speaker 6 (10:37):
No.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
I heard all about it though, like, wow, yeah, eighteen
it was like a six hour but the longest game
in World Series history?

Speaker 5 (10:43):
Did I hear that? Correct?

Speaker 7 (10:44):
It was tied?

Speaker 5 (10:45):
Yeah it was, it was.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, it was tied with another game with the Dodgers.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Oh, I thought you meant that it was when they
say it was tied, like it was like a six
hour and eighteen minute.

Speaker 5 (10:59):
Game again another eighteen eighteen I got it on.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yeah, yeah, no, yeah, there are two games of that
length and both of them included the Dodgers both times.
I think the Dodgers won the game too, which probably
annoys people even more. But I watched all of it,
and the funniest part was like the progression of watching
it in today's world with the technology we have, Because
I started on my projector in my living room, which
I have a nice projector that I like a lot.

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Then I went upstairs to the bedroom with the misses,
and then at some point during the game she started
elbowing me, like, turn this off to off because it
was way too late at night, and so I turned
it off, and I put it on my cell phone
and flipped my cell phone, you know, on the side
as I'm in bed and watch the rest of it
on my phone. And so it was like a progression
of hiding while watching the baseball game as it continued

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to go.

Speaker 7 (11:43):
Man, oh man, did you shout at two o'clock in
the morning when the home run?

Speaker 8 (11:47):
I not.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
I I don't like either team, so like I don't
want anyone to win, which.

Speaker 7 (11:52):
Someone this six hours of your time if you don't
like either team because.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
It's the World Series, Carl, Because I can't. I can't
stop myself from this sort of thing, especially when it
goes that long and it's that kind of a crazy
plus show. Hey, Otani is a thing that people need
to watch.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
That's almost a household InGaN that I can't say because
I'm bignorant, but yeah, listen what you're watching with some
of the baseball going on now, And this can apply
to everybody. I mean, I've been following in a fan
of baseball all my life, and to see a player
like this is unprecedented just what he can do. And

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I know the NFL has players that are doing both
offensive defense now and that's kind of the thing, and
they're trying to get into that, and you know, it's
a better payday for the players. But sure, this Otani
to be a pitcher and a hitter and to be
so effective at both is totally unprecedented. So there's that
catch with the World Series right now, even for people
in Indiana who really don't care about the Dodgers and

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don't care about the Blue Jays baseball happening. So you know,
it does it does have a value to us, and
that's that's cool, man.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
I dig that well.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
And to be honest, dude, we've seen the NFL thing before,
as you said, like on Sanders was one of many
people who made that a big deal years ago, playing
both sides of the football. So is that really as
surprising now as show hey doing what only Babe Ruth
has done before. No, although he did give up four
runs last night and I think he struck out twice,
which for some reason I enjoyed. Take away one hundred million,

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but he's still fine. He takeaway one hundred he's still
got six hundred million dollars.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
Remember how good Jordan was at baseball? You know that's
something to keep in mind.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Hey, hey, now hey, what was that?

Speaker 4 (13:29):
Why? Why us remember Jordan rides the bus, he's a
baseball player.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Now, that was such an Indiana shot at Michael Jordan's
if ever I ever heard one that was such a
pacer shot. All right, quick break a lot coming up.
This is Craig Collins filling in and Tony Cats the
More News, Tony Kats The 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.
Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith has been talking recently about the

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redistricting stuff, encouraging us in Indiana to go ahead and
do it. And you might be scratching your head and
think to yourself, man, why are they talking about that
so much? Why are some people in positions of power
discussing this? Micah specifically may be talking about it to
distract from the other stuff going on with Micah beckw
And this does you should give an atta?

Speaker 5 (14:15):
Boy?

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Did the Kendall and Casey show and how they've been
reporting on some of these things that are now in
the news. I think News Nation did a story about
beckw and some of the stuff going on behind the scenes,
the grand jury that's deciding whether or not some bad
things are happening within that office. Kendall and Casey had
been talking about this for like about a month. I
think in the middle of September, they interviewed someone who'd

(14:37):
been fired from Beckwith's office. You can actually go find
that podcast, but talk to someone about the potential existence
of a deep fake AI video that depicted a state
representative's wife doing things that she wasn't doing. Adult video.
Horrible part of this the discussion about these alleged things,

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and by the way, I think Beckwith has denied that
this video exists at all. So there's that. And as
far as the grand jury and the decisions they made
in August and September about all of this stuff, we
have no update there as of now. Everything is under seal.
So whatever the grand jury discussed, however serious these potential
you know, things are, we still are missing certain information

(15:19):
that we'd like to have for sure. And there's also
now an allegation of ghost employment too. By the way,
that is where you're just you know, embezzling money. It's
just fraud. You pretend somebody exists, you cut them a paycheck,
and then somebody else is acquiring that money. Again, these
are all allegations. I can't tell you that any of
this is confirmed or whatever. Some of these are level
six felony kind of stuff, according to reporting on quite

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a few places on this thing. What I really think
is interesting about this is that Beckwith is doing the
two things that most politicians do when they're potentially in
a whole lot of trouble. One of those things is
to dive on whatever the issue is that's national, that's
getting attention national ends at a state level, of course,
and trying to be a huge proponent of it. So

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Beckwith is now very much in support of any sort
of redistricting plan because he's hoping that that makes the
people who support conservatives like him more and you know, I,
at least in my opinion, like him more and kind
of push away from some of the more serious things
going on in his office. The other real big thing
that he's been doing that I think is interesting is
saying this is a witch hunt. His response to a

(16:26):
lot of these stories are there's no video, it doesn't exist,
this is a witch hunt. These are you know, political
powers going after me, etc.

Speaker 5 (16:33):
Etc.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
And oftentimes when politicians say that there's some level of
truth to it, I'm going to go ahead and put
that out there too. Oftentimes, when someone gets accused of of,
you know, something in the public and does it to
the degree that they are doing it right now, with
some of these things, there's a motivating factor in it
becoming a public story in the first place. That doesn't

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mean it's always not true. Sometimes it's very much true.
Sometimes it's very much fake lie. And the other thing
that it always makes me think and this is in
no way, shape or form to try to excuse anything
that Micah beck With is potentially doing, but it makes
me think that a lot of people in politics, and
I'm sure you think this too, are incredibly dirty and

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that it's very easy to find some dirt on people
if you want it. Case in point is the FBI
probe that's been going on that has new information about
it about how Biden's DOJ looked into. I think it's
like one hundred and fifty Republican politicians. It's just crazy.
There's an update on a story that's been breaking for
a few months too. There, But again to get back
to the state stuff, to get back to the Indiana stuff,

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and specifically the Micah Beckwith stuff. If you keep hearing
his name tied to things like redistricting, tied to things
that are Republican talking points right now, my assumption would
be that he's trying very hard to pretend as though
his house is not on fire, and it seems right
now even though a lot of this is allegations that
the house is on fire, and if anybody knows anything

(17:59):
about that, it's probably Rob Kendall because he's been reporting
on it along with Kendall and Casey and that show
for a couple months. So I think that Carl producer
Carl has done a great job, Carl Showbiz of connecting
with Rob. And I think we're gonna have Rob on
the show later on in about a couple hours. All Right,
we'll take a break. A lot coming up interesting interesting
stories from the Lieutenant Governor's office. Greg Collins filling in

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Tony CAATs The Morning News ninety three WIBC. Tony Kat's
The Morning News ninety three WIBC. My name is Craig
Collins filling in, thrilled to be with you. You got Matt,
you got Carl hangout as they always do on this
very show. Are you guys cool with me talking about
aliens a little bit on the show?

Speaker 5 (18:39):
Y awesome?

Speaker 1 (18:41):
I'm thrilled that was so quick. I'm not a huge
alien guy, and I don't mean the fact that I
don't think aliens are real. I'm just not usually a
guy that knows the name of comets and stuff. But
there's a comet that's been in the news for a bit,
and today is the day that if aliens are flying
a ship and it's not actually like a rock flying
in space, they're supposed to land today. It's the at

(19:03):
Liss three I comet for some And actually, you know
what I'm doing this wrong. I should be playing this
as I talk about this too. So the aliens potentially
would be swinging by Earth after making their way around
the Sun today, and so people in some places that's
terrible audio. Let's go ahead and stop that music. Bad

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bad quality of it. Anyway, there's potentially a shot. And
so here's I guess the gist of this before we
go ahead and weigh in on it. There's a comet
that's made some weird turns, like it's not behaving like
a rock that's just flying through space that doesn't have,
you know, an ability to say, propel itself in certain directions.

(19:44):
This at list three comet, according to some, is like
stopping and turning and pausing and doing stuff that like
a ship might do. And so if it swings by Earth,
they do the pit stop today. So, Matt, what do
you got on miss?

Speaker 4 (19:57):
So there's nothing like a comment that's sent in once
to murder our entire populace. So it keeps making you
turns in the middle of outer space just so, just
so it hits planing to Earth right in the jugular.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
Appreciate the efficiency there. That's really cool.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Thank you guys.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
Yeah, it was. It's cool. It's cool knowing y'all. Today's
to day.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
If you could give me a little more specific time,
I'll know what time I'm still coming to work.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
Evening rush is evening rush. I'll be here like five
thirty five, forty five.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
What are we expecting because I want everybody off for
sixty five when this thing hit.

Speaker 7 (20:30):
Yeah, you can report about the spaceship down for sixty
five Okay.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
Yeah, I'll get a get a couple of likes on
the Twitter. I'm excited about this.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Yeah, honestly, man, Matt, traffic's gonna be terrible. The aliens
new Land today, It's gonna be worse than the eclipse. Ah,
it's brutal, brutal traffic.

Speaker 5 (20:46):
No, but I love this.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
And I'm not saying that I understand or even believe
that the stuff they're saying about the comet is real.
Like I think other people have said, it didn't stop,
it didn't turn. But I just I love the fact
that today, of all days, and they've been projecting this
since they first started paying attention to this common a
while ago. Whoever the people are who think it's the UFO,
they've been projecting like today or tomorrow right around Halloween

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to be like the IT day and talk about like
perfect timing. If the aliens swing by now or if
they wait till Friday, we won't even know they're aliens.
We'll just think they're people with really cool costume are
dressing up. Yeah, yeah, you'll be like, man, those parents
have some kids are really trying hard right around now.
But I just I like this. So it's just a

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thing that's out there, and Matt has already said that
it's the end of days, which is good to know.
But the aliens might land today.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
Yeah, I'm cool with it. I had a good run, man,
I'm a piece here right now. You know what's happening here.
The aliens that are living on the common, They're going
to be in little pods that are dispatched to the
Earth and we're not going to see those. Those are
undetectable to our satellites at our very high tech atmosphere
that we've structured. But they are going to exterminate the

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population here on Earth, because that's how I would do it.
As soon as we and on Mars wipe everybody out,
take the resources.

Speaker 5 (22:03):
That's what I'm inant for.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
You know, I want the money, I want the gold,
I want whatever's on Mars, the water, the clean water.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
We take the whole thing, and then we move on
to Jupiter. I mean, I'm ready to go on this.

Speaker 7 (22:13):
Yeah, how about your anush?

Speaker 1 (22:16):
Thank you, Thank you very.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
Much, buddy, Thank you, Carl.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
You know, I gotta say one other thing, and this
now reminds me of a debate I would have in
a bar in college with a buddy of mine, which
was a stupid debate, and this is not something that
you should probably bring up on radio twenty years later,
and yet I'm about to do it. I've always said
that it would be funny if aliens were like little
tiny things, like they land and we're all afraid of them,
and then they pop out of their spaceship and then
like a foot and a half tall, and we can

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take them like they don't have the technology to beat us,
because you never have that representation of aliens. It's always bigger, scarier,
more technology. What if they're just like, you know, tiny,
and they happen to have a better spaceship than us,
and when they land, we can take them easily, like
fighting a bunch of kids in a grade school. Like
to me, I feel like there's something amusing about the

(23:00):
idea that us first aliens. If it were an easy put,
it would be almost disappointing, to be honest. If we
could take them easily, you'd be talking about like.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
Pocket alien, right, something you put in your pocket?

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Okay, yeah, yeah, like a like a puppy dog version
of an alien.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
Well, then I'm going to adopt an alien.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
I'm going to go to local Humane Society adopted alien
and because there's an overflow there.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
But do you do you think it would actually be
somewhat disappointing if like the aliens landed and then they're
they're a pushover as far as like, it's not even
a good fight. We don't have to call in the
Rock or anybody else. You could get this done Bill Pullman, Yeah,
we don't need him. Listen, an alien attack is going
to be something we've never seen before. I mean, we're
featuring like Little Green Man and you know, the bug

(23:42):
eys X files type of alien. That's not how it's
going to happen. The aliens are going to come in
the form of a gas Okay. The alien can guard
is like one big gas field and it's going to
w IBC bathroom.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
Yeah, it's yes, fifth and fourth fur utility bathrooms, and
we have aliens living in our bathrooms. Trust me, I
can see it in the rim every morning when I
come to work. They're good formula of gas. And that's
how they're going to impregnate us.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Okay, if anyone who woke up this morning thought they
were going to get a prediction of how the alienspregnate
us from Matt Behar. Congratulations to you because I did
not know that was gonna happen. Is as good as anyone's,
really good as anybody. Yeah, you're right, that's true. I
didn't I didn't think about that. I'm uniquely more afraid
now of today than I was before this whole segment started.

(24:33):
All right, by four sixty.

Speaker 5 (24:34):
Five will be clear. I will take care of the aliens.
I think we have to take a break.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
Sorry to anybody who's upset by this, but you know,
we had fun a quick break a lot more. Creig
Collins filling in Tony Gats in the Morning News ninety
three w IBC. My name is Craig Collins, filling in,
thrilled to be with you. A bunch of stuff to
talk about. We will have Rob Kendall from Kendall and

(25:02):
Casey on in a little over an hour to discuss
some of the things going on on Lieutenant Governor Micah
Beckwitt's office. Because they sound horrible. They're all allegations right now,
but basically a lot of bad things are happening, and
we'll get into that more detail in a little bit
later on. I don't want to jump the Shark and
do it now some other things out there, though, I

(25:23):
thought this was really interesting on a national level. Kareem
John Pierre, the former White House Press secretary, is on
a book tour and she's been saying a lot of
crazy stuff, a lot of bad interviews, a lot of
demonstration that she's not exactly good at public speaking, which
is sort of shocking because of the job that she
had in the White House. But even she described herself

(25:45):
as someone who had her job because of who she is,
and you know, not really necessarily what she's capable of,
which I thought was interesting. But there's this back and
forth that happened on CNN last night, Jake Tapper's show
in which Stephen Miller's wife, Katie Miller, who's on this program,
it starts to go in to this topic and Jake
Tapper took a break faster than anyone could take a

(26:08):
break in the history of cable news. I don't know
if that's true, but here I want to play some
of this audio just because I think this is really interesting.

Speaker 9 (26:15):
But I think you're seeing and what Karen is attesting
to is that she is quite incompetent to do the
job right. This is what Republicans have been saying for
years now is that she is just another evidence that
DEI doesn't work, whether that's in the White House in
your press secretary role, or whether that's a you know,
an air traffic controller, an air pilot, whether that's your doctor.
You know, don't you want to hire the best for

(26:36):
the role, not just based on skin color? Jake, why
did she get the job over John Kirby?

Speaker 6 (26:42):
Why are we assuming that she is a black LGBT
you know, gay woman is DEI, butk a white woman
who is behind the podium right now, which DEI initially
started as affirmative action, which was about affirmatively hiring women
and minorities. Why does one DEI and the other is not?

Speaker 9 (26:56):
Why did she get the job over John Kirby? Because
as everyone has said this week, well you know it's funny.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
By the way, I'll stop this for a second because
as the panelists argue, Krinn John Pierre and I'll play
the audio. But you've heard at a bunch of places,
if you listen to a lot of shows, like you
know the shows that we have here at WIBC. She
described herself, Karinn John Pierre is someone who woke up
every day as a queer black woman, and that's why
she was so proud of the fact that she did

(27:22):
the job she did. She talked about her identity long
before she talked about her skill set to be, you know,
a White House press secretary. So the reason this is
discussed as DEI is because Krinne, along with several other
people on that side of the aisle, keeps bringing it
up just to answer the question. But let's play a
little bit.

Speaker 6 (27:39):
She had the job long before John Kurk, I will
I will just.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
Say she used to be a commentator on CNN, then
she was one on MSNBC, and she.

Speaker 5 (27:47):
Was good at that. Like I mean, I'm without getting into.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
The job I thought she did as press secretary. I thought,
why wouldn't you want to get into that job?

Speaker 10 (27:55):
It didn't seem crazy to me because she was eloquent
as a as a common.

Speaker 9 (28:00):
Why she trained every four sentences to say she is
a black, queer LGBTQ woman because that's how she's been
promoted her entire career. Anyway, Katie Miller and Karen Finny,
thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Wow, oh my god, that moment right there is the
moment I couldn't get over is why is she trained?
Why does she continued to say her identity at the
forefront of a discussion about her career in politics? Why
is that something that she points to first and that
other people point to that do the woke interview of
her and Jake Tapper's like, anyway, time for a break.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
Now?

Speaker 1 (28:32):
You know what's interesting to me about this and a
lot of topics like this, And this is really truly
my take on it, because I'm not on the air
today trying to crap on caring John Pierre for a
specific reason. People would say I'm motivated because I have
to be hateful. I must be a racist or a
homophobic person or something for me to say this. What
I actually think is really interesting about topics like this

(28:54):
is that so many people are terrified to discuss this stuff,
including evidently Jake Tamper, who might even agree with some
of this based on what he said about not wanting
to acknowledge how she did as the White House Press Secretary.
But I think is interesting so many people are so
afraid that it allows you. And you know this if
you listen to shows like Tony's all the time, and
how many things he talks about in this same of

(29:17):
you know, vain in the same way. But if we're
afraid to bring up the truth in a topic, and
we're scared because someone's going to accuse us of being
something we're not. But we're just saying fact things, they win.
People who don't want these topics discussed win every time.
They make you terrified to bring it up, like, oh,
I'm going to step on somebody's toes if I say
this this way, even if what you're saying is entirely

(29:39):
grounded in fact, which again caringe. John Pierre is the
one bringing up during her book tour that her identity
is an important aspect of who she was when she
was the White House Press Secretary. So much so and
a lot of Democrats do this all the time. Feels
like it's the reason she got the job. All Right,
we'll take a break. A lot coming up, as I said,
about an hour a little bit more than that, we'll

(30:00):
be talking to one of the hosts of the Kendall
and Casey Show, that would be Rob Kendall about this
stuff going on in Micah Beckwit's office. I'm not trying
to ignore that story. Certainly willing to talk about it again.
But I know that Rob's got a lot of info
I don't have, so we'll get him on in a
little bit. I quick break a lot more. Craig Collins
filling in Tony Kats The Morning News ninety three WIBC.
Tony Kats, The Morning News, ninety three WIBC. My name

(30:23):
is Craig Collins. Feeling in thrilled to be with you,
Matt and Carl hanging out as they do every single
morning on this show. We have a popcorn moment from
Booer remodeling. We'll go ahead and throw out there from
one of my favorite senators, Senator John Kennedy. So time
for a popcorn moment, all right, This one is just
like two and a half minutes of remarkable Senator Kennedy

(30:46):
being Senator Kennedy. I'll play the beginning. In the end,
we'll play him calling democrats all kinds of things, and
then eventually, toward the end of this audio, he talks
specifically about Chuck Schumer. I love all this. This is
calling it what it is, you know, seeing something for
the issues that they actually have. Just being an honest,
frank talking person is another way to say it.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
Here we go.

Speaker 10 (31:08):
Yes, And I listened to your monologue, Sean, with all
of these different characters. You know, I thought to myself,
even duct tape can't fix stupid. You can't know miss Wallace.
I watched her a little bit. I remember when she
worked for President Bush. I suppose she's not as bad

(31:32):
as some members of the liberal media. But that's faint praise.
That's like it's like being the smartest person on the view.
I'm going to give miss Wallace a benefit of the
doubt and assume that she said what she said right
after her mourning beer. The Democrats have they have accused

(31:53):
the president, President Trump of everything except abandoning his children
to They repeatedly, they daily call him a racist and
I'm Nazi.

Speaker 5 (32:05):
Yeah they do.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
That's fantastic stuff from Senator Kennedy. And here here's a
little bit more where he actually talks about Chuck Schumer,
specifically Senator Schumer.

Speaker 10 (32:13):
It was an economist you gov poll, which is very
left of center the American people. In the American people's opinion,
Senator Schumer is a He's a wet match in a
dark cave. He polls right up there with clubbing baby
Skei seals he's got a thirty percent approval rating, a

(32:37):
sixty percent disapproval rating, and ten percent of folks poles
just didn't want to pause their video games to answer.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
I love that part to you. By the way, his
video games are important. The Matt and Craig Excellent Podcast
will often talk about video games. In case you're curious
about that, thank you, Thank you, sir. I left that.
I left that in so that I could transition to it,
but anyway, just to get back to it for the
popcorn moment, I thought that Senator Kennedy was once again
hilarious and a typical Senator Kennedy and how he does
stuff other things out there. And as I said, Matt

(33:09):
and Carl hanging out on the show, I like they
do every single morning, and also like they do on
the Matt Craig Excellent Podcast, which is available at WIBC
dot com if you want to check it out. Are
you guys familiar with what the bird theory is? To
either of you? Have you heard of this?

Speaker 5 (33:24):
I have not heard of the bird theory.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Creig No, okay, I'm gonna explain the bird theory real quick.
It's a viral trend in social media. Mostly women are
doing this to guys. You pretend that you saw a bird,
and you pretend that you were excited about it. So
your significant other comes home and you look at the
guy and you're like, hey, I saw a bird today,
and that's all you say, and then you videotape their response.

(33:46):
And if the guy acts like he cares, he's like, well,
kind of bird. Oh my god, that's so cool, even
though it's a nonsense, you know, discussion, then he obviously
cares about you. He loves you, he's a keeper. If
he doesn't care, if he doesn't really pay attention, he goes, ah, whatever,
then apparently you should dump him immediately. That is the
bird theory and the bird test that's going viral on
the internet. I think it's unfair for a very specific reason,

(34:09):
and I'll tell you guys what that is. But first,
does anyone else want to react to this?

Speaker 4 (34:12):
I want to be with a woman that's going to
dump me for doing this challenge, I really do. It's
just just for doing this alone, in the fact that
we might have other things to talk about when we
get home from work. I mean, it's cool if this
is a bonding experience, go do it. I understand that
this is what the kids are doing these days, and
it's very social media. Ask and you know, you can
kind of do a little you know, a little braggy

(34:34):
about your relationship and everything else, and maybe it does
create a bonding, but to me, it's just.

Speaker 5 (34:38):
Kind of nonsense.

Speaker 4 (34:38):
I mean, for me, thank you to want to do
that in the planet. And I think the spouse, if
they just came home from a very hard day, would
be like.

Speaker 5 (34:46):
What the hell are you doing to me? I thought
you were on my side right? Why are you? Why
are you making me work more right now? Why are
you doing this to me?

Speaker 1 (34:54):
That's interesting. The reason I think that this is silly
is because I can pay attention really well sometimes and
not pay attention really well other times. And it has
nothing to do with my wife. It's what you just
said a second ago. It's you know, if I had
a hard day, if my brain is somewhere else. And
so some of these videos that I saw that went
viral were like the guy is doing like three things,

(35:14):
he's washing dishes, he's doing something else, and then the
woman yells from the other room, I saw a bird today,
and the guy doesn't respond well to it, Like, come on, dude,
you gotta at least be fair in some sense, I
would think you need to have a couple shots at this.
If you do it two or three times, and all
three times the dude completely disregards you, then maybe he
doesn't care about you. But if it's a one off

(35:35):
and potentially your brain is elsewhere, we all do that,
especially when you're I think, every day around a person,
a person that you love and care about. But if
you're around them all the time, like I don't even
pay attention to stuff that I do. I'll turn on
the television and not even watch it. You know, it'll
just be on. And that's something I did because my
brain is somewhere else.

Speaker 5 (35:55):
You know, it happens.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
I think this is unfair to a degree. I'm defending
men on this topic.

Speaker 5 (36:00):
Well done.

Speaker 4 (36:01):
I think this is a very arbitrary way to judge
a relationship, you know, relationship you've been in for several years.
And I get it if you're an influencer couple and
you met through influencing, and that's what you do when
you're on TikTok and Instagram and you're making some bank
on that and that's kind of your relationship, the nation
of your relationship.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Yeah, oh, mirror.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
Power to you.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
I don't tell anybody how to make their money, but
to me, if you just all of a sudden start
doing this, then you're saying maybe your relationships in trouble
and you try to put a spoke into it and
just doesn't seem like the best way to do that,
says the guy who's never been married in his life.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
There you go, Yeah, that's fine, perfect, perfect analysis, Matt.
I loved it.

Speaker 5 (36:38):
By the way.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
One other quick thing, a quick story before we take
a break. One in eight people says they've at one
point in their life lived in a haunted house just
before Halloween.

Speaker 5 (36:45):
Oh good lord.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
I like the laughter I just heard from both of
you guys on this. I don't believe in ghosts. I believe.
I've said that on this program before, I've said it
on other programs. I am Catholic. I believe in God
and stuff. I don't want people to think that I'm
trying to go anti religious, but I don't believe in
go and the way that I handle it on the radio,
as I say, if ghosts exists, one of them should
haul off and punch me in the face, just one time,

(37:07):
because I've been crapping on you guys for years now
on the radio. Just once, hit me in the face.
I deserve it. It's never happened, not once. It's a
ghost hit me in the face. So I contend there's
still not real. But Matt, what do you want to
say about one in eight people living in a haunted out?

Speaker 5 (37:21):
I think that I ghost are real good. Just show me.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
Take a finger while I'm sleeping, Just take a finger.
Don't punch me in the face. I want real proof.
I mean, anybody can punch me in the face while
I'm sleeping. But if you tear your finger, dude, we're
on the what finger, the one I don't use the
pinky finger? Okay, okay, yes, I think that's reasonable. That's reasonable.
We're not going to do any possession. I think that
they're not going to be splitting up you know what

(37:44):
I eight or anything like that, or peace soup like
they do in The Exorcist, and they did it well,
but just something you know, arbitrary, like take a pinky boo.

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yes, by the way, I want to be specific, this
is not a me thin ghosts. This is a Matt thing.
I want to keep all my fingers.

Speaker 7 (37:57):
I just want to face I wake up with missing
a finger.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Yeah, I don't want that.

Speaker 5 (38:02):
If the ghost takes my finger.

Speaker 4 (38:04):
I have proof of the afterlife and I'm making money,
that's true, lots of money.

Speaker 7 (38:09):
Or you're a member of the yakuza.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Yeah, either or well.

Speaker 5 (38:13):
Sound pretty cool. Actually I'm good with either. Cuza.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
That wouldn't be very good. By the way, if they
had to take anything from me, I'd go pinky toe.
I'd never go fine, definitely tell before finger. All right,
this is this is Tony Kats in the Morning News.
I don't know what we're doing sometimes, but you can
hear some stuff like this on the Matt and Craig
excellent podcast if you want to check it out. Thank
thanks sir. WIBC dot com is a great place to

(38:40):
check that out. Tony Kats The Morning News, ninety three
w IBC. My name is Craig Collins filling in. You
have Matt, you have Carl hanging out as they do
every morning on this show, and we're gonna do our
marketplace segment, which is brought to you by Indiana Unclaimed.
If you want some sweet, sweet cash, just look up
Indiana Unclaimed and see if Indiana owes you some money.
That's essentially what they do. All three of us have

(39:01):
made money off of Indiana Unclaimed. Mostly remarkable for me
because it's been years since I lived in Indiana. If
I'm being honest on the radio, and yet they still
had money that somebody owed me that, they went ahead
and sent me a check, which was very nice. Today's
Marketplace is a whole bunch of listenings for used foot massagers.
I don't know why I find this sometimes. I don't

(39:22):
know if Marketplace's algorithm is like Craig clicked on one.
Let's show them all the ones that exist in the
neighborhood that are all the same thing. But also, why
is Indianapolis selling a whole bunch of used foot massages?
That sounds like a disgusting thing to buy from someone else.
I don't think i'd want to buy something that someone's like, yeah,
my feet were in this, and now it's for you

(39:44):
if you want to keep it, and it still costs
like twenty or thirty bucks. This seems wrong. I have questions.
I don't have answers. As a bad broadcaster, I guess,
but anybody on the show want to throw out why
you think Indiana is selling a bunch of used foot
massageres Well.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
I get that a I mean if you won't use
or use foot massage, or will you use a toilet
that somebody else used?

Speaker 5 (40:05):
I mean, seriously, you don't know who's used that toilet.

Speaker 4 (40:07):
Just to use the same imagination when it comes to
the foot message or just stick your feet in there
and let that massager give them a good.

Speaker 5 (40:13):
Rub here rub Craig.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Okay, Matt, I have a response to your question, and
I'm debating if I should say it, and yet I'm
probably gonna say it. The thing about the toilet versus
the foot messager is one of those two things I
have to use. If I don't use it, other bad
things happen, you know what I mean? Like if I go, oh,
somebody else has used this, I can't use it. I
can skip the foot massage. I can do that and

(40:37):
live a happy life. I can't skip the need to
go to the restroom.

Speaker 5 (40:41):
But if you don't get a good foot massage. With
the massage, you'll you'll walk like a duck.

Speaker 4 (40:48):
A thousand other medical conditions can happen, like trench foot,
jungle foot.

Speaker 5 (40:51):
There are a lot of things, and that's true.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
That is true. Those are all serious, horrible things.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
Now, I get it. If you don't go to the bathroom,
you're gonna die once that stops. It's curtains. So I
see your point about the toilet, But.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
I just I just meant an accident happens in a
way you don't want to true. Yeah, I see, that's yeah,
all that's bad. By the way, I'm a paper guy,
Like I cover the toilet and paper before I sit
down on it, if it's not if it's not mine.

Speaker 5 (41:17):
You know, like that obituary, so that kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Oh yeah, toilet paper is the star. Yeah, oh yeah,
it's just all the indie star. That sounds absolutely perfect.
That is fantastic. All right, other stuff out unless we
want to keep doing the marketplace thing. But I just
thought that was weird that there were so many foot massagers,
all of them, and some of them. I'll say this
last thing about the marketplace segment. Some of them claim
they didn't use them. They like, I took it out

(41:41):
of the box, but I definitely didn't use it. All
those people are liars, exactly think you that they have
to be liars. If a foot massager is out of
a box, they used it and you don't want to
buy it. So absolutely a thing.

Speaker 5 (41:53):
Sell to used car, but it's never been driven before.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
Fifty thousand miles on it. Her face, just forget about that.

Speaker 5 (42:01):
I don't know how that got there, but it's new.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
You know what I'm going to say this now, Now
you've inspired me, Matt. Foot massagers should have a mileage
thing on them. They should have an odometer so you
know how many times they've been used. If you buy them, Yeah,
that'd be great. Seventy five feet have been in This thing.

Speaker 5 (42:16):
Actually keeps a cow.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
It'd be terrible.

Speaker 5 (42:19):
Next scale, people are going to be checking their feet daily.
There you go.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
A new book is out. This one last thing and
then we'll take a break. It is a new Doctor
Seuss book. You might be asking yourself, how is that possible?
Doctor Seuss died several years ago, but people are claiming
with the Doctor Seuss Enterprise that they have discovered a
book sing the fifty United States. That's Cat and the
Hat Singing the States that was written by doctor Seuss,

(42:44):
and you know, was not found until now. I don't
think I believe anyone saying that, but I just wanted
to throw it out there that doctor Seuss has written
a book from the grave, a meaning that Tupac is
the is not the only celebrity now to do stuff
from beyond absolutely.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
I mean if I think this is already done by
the Animaniacs at some point, you know, when they did
those really awesome, so awesome cool songs, and I think
they had one about the States or am I having
a flashback of something?

Speaker 1 (43:10):
No, I think you're right about that. All right, the
Animniacs did it first, and Doctor Seuss, who died in
nineteen ninety one, has apparently written a book in twenty
twenty five, which is just a very confusing thing that
I'm just going to keep throwing out there because I
don't get it.

Speaker 4 (43:24):
In Doctor Sus, Shell Silversteed, all these guests, parts of
our lives are youth, you know. I mean, who didn't
love a little Doctor SEUs Left feet, right feet feepee. See,
I can't memorize anything, and I remember that line, which
kind of shows my brilliance.

Speaker 1 (43:36):
I'm a made matt way to go. All right, we'll
take a break, We'll do a lot of stuff in
a bit. We got more of this coming up as well.
Craig Collins filling in Tony Cat's The Morning News ninety
three WIBC. Tony Kats The Morning News ninety three WIBC.
My name is Craig Collins, filling in. Thrilled to be
with you. You got Matt, you got Carl, hanging out
as they do every single morning on this show. Quickly

(43:56):
A serious topic. I think there's a lot of reporting
that Jamaica is making up today to basically no electricity,
tons of destruction from Hurricane Melissa, a Category five storm
that hit Jamaica. Also, I think Cuba is now being
impacted by the hurricane. Lots of questions, lots of things
to discuss here. I think Matt Barry even shot me

(44:17):
a message asking if now is the time to start
sending money into Jamaica and whatnot. So maybe you want
to jump in first on this topic. But a lot
of really bad devastation being reported on in the last
twenty four hours.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
I'm not sure what constitutes us a lot of money
here so much, but we're looking over this, and especially
if you look at Jamaica, we're talking about neighborhoods, just
absolutely obliterated. Roof's gone, home's gone, and this is you know,
kind of and part of Jamaica that's considered the bread basket,

(44:52):
I guess, and power lines are down, you're talking about trees.
At some point, America, as it normally does in situations
like this, sends money. And I was just curious, in
America first atmosphere, what point in how much money do
we start sending to Jamaica, if any at all. And
it's totally open, kind of a political with me, and

(45:12):
when I ask this, it's just something that I've been
thinking about ever since this storm really started to hit.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
I think it's a really interesting question. The first thing
I usually say whenever anybody has a discussion about, you know,
money that gets sent other places for philanthropic reasons, is
I would rather the American people did it on their own.
I'd rather that a bunch of Americans decided, as they will,
they absolutely will do this, by the way, that we
need to send a bunch of money there, and then
you know, create the fundraisers that actually give money to

(45:39):
Jamaica and don't take it and put it into other things.
I don't love the fact that we have to debate
whether or not the government should be the one writing
a huge check if the American people can do it
on their own. But in the same token, I think
you could make an argument that Jamaica is a very
popular tourist destination for a lot of Americans, that there's
a benefit to us assisting them in a time of need.

(46:00):
And of course, as often as said actually by Democrats,
and I don't love that, but it is true. America
is a very kind country to the rest of the world.
We often do a lot of things to help out.
So the likelihood of the United States doing something is
rather high, whether or not that's something that you'd like
to see and money you'd like to see spent go
there instead of somewhere else. And again, this is what

(46:21):
I always say to people, is if the American people care,
the American people can choose to act, the government doesn't
have to do.

Speaker 9 (46:27):
It for us.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
Okay, are you saying it's like an idiot. We have
Indiana tesk Force one. Yeah, just now stated a group
of individuals. I mean, when something happens in America, these
guys are geared up and going to help it. Most recently,
those Texas floods like in Kerr County, Texas, Indiana, TESK
Force one does these things and they're awesome. Are you
talking about more groups like that who volunteer and say, Okay,

(46:50):
we're going to go do the thing, like maybe like
an Indiana group or a Texas group you live in
Texas that would want to go to Jamaica as opposed
to government funding? Is do those kinds of groups like
go into your figuringe here? As far as assistance, well.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
So I'll say a couple of things. Task Force one
is a highly trained Department of Homeland Security thing from
what I understand of it, and that's just like quickly
trying to get myself up to date on it as
you're mentioning it here. So it might have ties to government,
but the idea that you're discussing is one that definitely
makes sense to me. Independent individuals, you know, charity organizations

(47:25):
that decide to go out and help, and also just
Americans that cut money that the cut checks. Like when
these things happen, here's the best way to say it.
Facebook will have tons of links, and Twitter and everybody
else will have tons of links. X I think is
what I'm supposed to call it. Where you can go
and donate money. Now, i'd be weary that all of
those places are actually giving all those dollars to Jamaica

(47:45):
and to the people who need it, and it's not
going to get you know, funneled into the wrong places.
So you got to be extra careful about that. But
I do think that we can just proactively, individually be philanthropic,
send my money directly there, and that if you can
calculated it, say, like you looked at the entire country.
Man America in air quotes just gave Jamaica millions and

(48:06):
millions of dollars. But it's because we all individually chose
to throw my three dollars in the basket like I
do at church when the basket gets pushed around. That's
different to me than the government cutting a check from
taxpayer dollars that goes to anything. I would like to
see a day in our society where the government never
cuts checks to anyone for anything, and the American people

(48:28):
choose to do it on our own. When we see
these things that matter to us, that's usually the argument
the politician will make, is like American people care about
what's going on in Ukraine because that fight is very
American to fight someone who's invading you and all that stuff.
If that's true, then let's see the American people do
it on their own without the government needing to be,
you know, a part. And I understand that this is

(48:49):
an imperfect and a naive to an extent take on it,
but it's just my very simplified belief that this would
be a better version of philanthropic behavior than what we
can currently do now.

Speaker 4 (49:00):
Well, as a human being, you want everybody in Jamaica
that have been displaced, that have had suffered these to
me these unimaginable losses, you know, with losing the home
and a loss of life and everything else they're going
through right now. As a matter of fact, we had
a house fire here at Idiot Amplus on Delaware Street,
and I believe it's twenty ninth yesterday morning, and there

(49:22):
are people displaced from their homes on the near north
side of Idiot Amplis and you want to see them
get sheltered quickly. As a matter of fact, if anybody
has any ideas, you can tweet me a matain traffic
or shoot me a message and I'll get them pass along.
But eventually you have to ask the question seems a
little callous. What's Jamaica's interest to the United States? Sure,
I mean you look at Jamaica, you look at Israel.

(49:43):
Which one has the more invested interest in the United States?
Which is better for us when it comes to national security,
when it comes to economics, and what's going to make
the United States flow the best? And is there with
that kind of sliding scale Israel way up here? How
much money do you give to Jamaica? And I hate
to look at it like that, because a human in
me wants everybody to be helped and everybody to be rescued.

(50:05):
But at the same time, there is an interest in
the United States, and that's just the way the world works.

Speaker 5 (50:09):
Yes, No, and.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
Absolutely I want to reiterate something you just said, because
you sort of asked the question, but then you definitely
demonstrated the answer to it. Israel tremendously important to the
United States, even from just a strategic standpoint in a
region where we have very few friends. So having as
good of a relationship as we do there makes that
and a tremendously important place to give money to and
support to from like a military standpoint, I think, but

(50:31):
as you're and you said that too, you said, Israel
way up here, where's Jabaka? But again, I don't know.
I wish that there was a way for us to
believe that the kindness of the United States would exist
the same. I actually kind of believe this even if
the government wasn't the one proactively writing the check for us,
if we were all asked to do it, and there

(50:51):
wasn't a multimillion dollar payment coming from you know, Washington,
d C. If the United States would step up even
more and people with kind hearts and big bank accounts
would send more of their money out of these places
to help, which again people already do. That's always in
the back of my mind every time we talk about
this with anything. And no, I don't think that means that,

(51:12):
you know, people here in the United States are going
to send missiles to Ukraine, but obviously there's got to
be a version of cash that comes from them. All Right,
we got to take a break. Tony Katz in the
morning is ninety three WIBC. My name is Craig Collins,

(51:34):
filling in in about half an hour a little bit
less than that, we will have Rob Kendall join us
from Kendall and Casey how to talk about this crazy
story coming out of the Lieutenant Governor's office and the
potential that there was a deep fake video that got
passed around that involved the wife of another state politician
and then also now like a ghost employee or ghost employees,

(51:58):
I mean, there might have been like you know, embezzling
in all kinds of fraud taking place. Before I do
anything else, though, I'll play some of which TV our
TV partner's coverage of the announcements that a grand jury
is investigating Indiana Lieutenant Governor Micah beck With and some
of these allegations Micah has obviously denied them, which is
actually also in this cover here.

Speaker 11 (52:16):
Heore Orry Tommy Prossleader's office confirms a grand jury is
investigating the office of the Lieutenant governor.

Speaker 5 (52:23):
Court document show a grand jury.

Speaker 11 (52:24):
Met twice to discuss allegations of distribution of an intimate
image and ghost employment. The panel took testimony both times
but did not make any decisions. Document showed the investigation
is into the office, not necessarily the Lieutenant governor himself.
Lieutenant Governor Micah Beckwith briefly addressed the allegations This afternoon.

Speaker 8 (52:47):
That story is so false that there's no proof, there's
no evidence. We've never seen anything like that, never happen
in my office. But if there is, I mean there
can be grand jury investigations for all kinds of things.

Speaker 12 (52:58):
We don't know.

Speaker 8 (52:58):
We haven't been privy to that information.

Speaker 1 (53:01):
They'll be all right, I got to stab right there.
The biggest reason that it'll be interesting to talk to
Rob Kendall of Kendall and Casey is because of the
interview he did with Aaron Sheridan back in the middle
of September. And in that interview, Aaron, who is a
former senior advisor to Indiana Lieutenant Governor Micah beck With,
described the video, the video that is now allegedly a
thing that existed, described getting handed a phone and seeing

(53:25):
the video and being confused by why the staffers all
thought it was so funny and that it was the
wife of a state representative. This is something that Kendall
and Casey have been on for a while now that
has a much bigger, say a footprint in Indiana news
media because of the potential investigations and everything else going

(53:47):
on with a grand jury and we don't know everything.
A lot of stuff is stealed still, But if anybody
knows anything else about this, I feel like it's going
to be Rob Kendall. So we're going to have him
on in about twenty five minutes or so to discuss
this in greater detail. But these allegations are pretty damaging
and fairly awful and one other thing, and it almost
feels mean. I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just

(54:08):
trying to be honest. Is flashing back to anything that
Beckworth said when he was running for the office of
Lieutenant governor as a part of a ticket with the
governor in Beckwith saying that he was the religious choice.

Speaker 4 (54:22):
He was the.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
Choice for someone who believed in things like God, or
believed in things like, of course a pastor and all
those other things that Beckwith is. So this story specifically
out of that office even more so, feels like it's
going to be a dominant news headline for that reason
because the individual sold himself as someone that's a person
of faith. And again, none of this is confirmed. All

(54:44):
these are allegations. I need to make that abundantly clear.
And I'm not pretending as though I know the truth
is different than what we know publicly right now. But
I at least do know that WIBC has done an
incredible job in covering this, and once again I'm going
to pat him on the back one more time. Kendall
and Casey, both of them, Casey Daniel two in having
this story a month ago before it became more of

(55:05):
a dominant topic now and I'm sure they'll have an
even deeper dive and excellent coverage of it, you know,
in just a few hours on this station as well.
All right, quick break, a lot coming up. Craig Collins
filling in Tony Kat's The Morning News ninety three WIBC.
Tony Kats The Morning News ninety three WIBC. My name
is Craig Collins filling in. That is Matt Bear, that

(55:27):
is Carl Showbiz hanging out on the show as well
as they do every single morning on this program. You
can hear Matt on the Matt and Craig Excellent podcast
if you want to check that out WIBC dot com.
It's great. The co host is pretty good too, the
guy who is on that show with brilliant Thank you, buddy,
thank you. I thought this was interesting and it's probably
a Matt and Craig excellent podcast type of topic. So

(55:49):
it might come up at some point on our show.
But there's something that's slowly going away, although I probably
shouldn't even say slowly, it seems to be very quickly
going away to a certain extent. What could that be?
Pickup lines? Guys don't use pickup lines anymore, according to
the internets, because they're afraid that women will be offended
by them or take them poorly. So the you know,

(56:09):
tried and true version of hitting on somebody when you
were in a certain generation, say the gen xers out there,
the baby boomers, even some millennials, is no longer a
thing that a lot of people rely on anymore. You
don't walk up to a young woman and say certain
things to her and hope that it goes well. Like
I've lost my phone number? Can I have yours? Apparently
that's not something you do anymore. That's what he got
of this.

Speaker 4 (56:29):
Well, No, this is the best news I've heard in
a long time. I've always been bad at pick them lines,
and it's always I don't slide into DMS because of it.
I don't have anything clever to say. I'm awful with
small talk. I have a lot about them. I'm very
flawed when it comes to hitting on women. I hate
admitting that, but I used one once back in my
previous life, my party days, and it was I just

(56:52):
started doing traffic. And I think I've said this on
this show before, but I used to say, hey, do
you want to get to know an Indianapolis media footnote?
To me, that was funny, and to her it was not.
Ever that one time I tried it, and I stopped
trying it after that. But pickup lines, I always felt
like I was being cheesy, something insincere at a very

(57:14):
sincere moment.

Speaker 5 (57:15):
And this sounds so not manly. Everything I'm saying right
now the truth, but it's totally the truth.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
By the way, I totally thought you were going to
have like a traffic related pickup line, like are you
a parking ticket because you have fine written all over you?
Something like that. I thought that's what you were going
to do.

Speaker 5 (57:32):
Oh, I love that.

Speaker 1 (57:34):
You can take it. You can use it if you
want to.

Speaker 5 (57:36):
The South split. No, I got well done.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
I got to be honest, though, man like, I think
that the type of people that would be amused by
this are the kinds of people that you might want
to date. And so, like part of me always liked
to use the pickup line a in a place like
a bar or something, and definitely do it in a
cheesy and silly way and maybe a somewhat risk way,
because you wanted someone to look at you and laugh
and not like look at you and think that you're

(58:01):
a horrible person for it, and that kind of helps
weed out the ladies as much as it does anything else.
So like, I think it's sad that the pickup line
is most interactions face to face are going away. I've
heard a lot of people. I actually witnessed this the
other day. I was at a restaurant and this guy
and girl had bumped into each other who didn't really
know each other very much, but they must they must

(58:23):
have somehow known each other at least a little bit.
And as the guy's walking away, he asked her for
her Instagram. He didn't ask her for a phone number
anything else. He's like, can I get your Insta? And
she's like, oh, sure, that's so dumb that that's a
thing that they do now to try to hit on
each other via the social media apps and not you know,
just freaking text or call this person and try to
have a relationship.

Speaker 4 (58:41):
That way, I'm going to walk up to a forty
year a woman and say, hey, can I have your snap?

Speaker 5 (58:48):
That's going to be my life.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
Thank you, Carl.

Speaker 4 (58:50):
There you go, that's going to be my line. Yeah,
let's trade snapchats here. Let's be honest about this. It
doesn't matter what you say in the moment. If she's
attracted to you, she's gonna laugh. I mean, as long
as it's not foul or something entirely blue, or you know,
referencing something you.

Speaker 5 (59:08):
Know you got, you gotta be kind of cool about it.
I guess you still have to be clever.

Speaker 4 (59:11):
But if she thinks you look good, or you know,
in a case of a bar, if she's had a
drink or two, she's going to be attracted to you.

Speaker 5 (59:18):
It's like sending a gift.

Speaker 4 (59:19):
If you send a gift to a woman who's not
attracted to you, you're creepy as hell.

Speaker 5 (59:24):
But if she's into you, it's flattering.

Speaker 12 (59:26):
You know.

Speaker 4 (59:26):
It all depends on her perception, man, And that's what
you have to keep in mind when you do this stuff.

Speaker 1 (59:30):
Well, yeah, that's fair, that's cool with it now. I
think The biggest concern is that you go viral because
someone says you're a creep. I think that's the only
difference I do, honestly, I think that's the only difference
now and before. Like, if you swing and miss and
there's not Facebook, you don't wind up having like a
woman who's upset with you potentially go viral on the
Internet complaining about you with video. That would just be

(59:51):
like I hit on that girl at the grocery store
and it didn't work out, we'll never see each other again.
But now the fact that there's a staying power behind it,
I might be part of the reason we see less.

Speaker 5 (59:59):
Bit I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
Well, if you get hit on the woman at the
grocery store, that's I mean, I go work Jim grocery store.

Speaker 1 (01:00:06):
So now I'm down, Like to it, I took away
a third of my game. Yeah, I can't hit on
you while you're buying a cucumber. What can I do?

Speaker 5 (01:00:14):
Darn it? But think about it, you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (01:00:18):
What business do I have hitting on a woman who's
already looks thirty years younger than me at a grocery store.

Speaker 5 (01:00:25):
Yes, I'm single, Yes I have no kids. But seeing
this woman.

Speaker 4 (01:00:28):
I mean, I already am down half a point with
my age, So maybe an online thing is already your age.

Speaker 5 (01:00:37):
But it doesn't matter. I don't. Let's think about it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
When you were twenty three and you knew you could
date twenty three year old woman, what did you want
to do? You wanted to date twenty three year old women?
You weren't thinking about a woman at that age is
not thinking, man. I wish a forty seven year old
man would come up and hit on me. Well groceries
after a long day. Oh my god, right over there
getting ready to cook raw chicken on his form and grill.

Speaker 5 (01:00:59):
That's what there's don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
I don't know man. The other twenty three year old guys,
I'll live at home. They don't. They live with a
mom and dad, right, So there's a shot that they're
looking for somebody a little bit older. By the way,
one other thing out there, just to shift gears from
our giving a dating advice and me continuing to do
band pickup lines on the radio. Apparently the makers of
a product that went viral a while ago. This was

(01:01:21):
breast milk ice cream. I don't know if I ever
talked about that on the show. It's not actually made
of the thing. It's supposed to be reminiscent of the thing. It's,
you know, an artificial version of it. They've now come
out with booger candy. They say that it doesn't actually
take yep, it's real. They say it doesn't actually taste
like boggers, Thank you Carl. They say it doesn't actually

(01:01:43):
taste like it, but it looks like it, it feels
like it, and you know, you can give it to
kids or Halloween. This would be the thank you. This
would be the worst thing you ever give a child,
because you don't want to encourage them to do the
real version of finding some of these on their own.
What do you got on this one?

Speaker 4 (01:01:58):
Well, I was thinking about you're telling that what the
hell we're doing with booger candy? I mean, and it's
gonna be like this doesn't even taste like boogers. This
isn't the real thing. This is imitation. Yeah, this is
that thing that they put in things that make it
last two months longer, whatever that protein or that thing is.
I kids would love it. This is something you give

(01:02:19):
kids a Halloween, right, you hand out burger candy and
you're the house of the night. Everybody's like, oh, I
got booger candy from the bear House. I mean that
that could be fun. But I said to that, I,
what's the use of it?

Speaker 5 (01:02:30):
What are we doing with it?

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
I don't know. That's the hell of a sentence. By
the way, I got the booger candy from the bear House.
If I didn't know the way you spelled your name,
I'd be like, what'd you do?

Speaker 5 (01:02:40):
Where'd you go?

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
It's but yeah, I think it's interesting too. I would
be upset as a parent if my kid got booger candy,
because I'm like, what are you trying to do? Make
them pick their nose, make them get bullied in school?
Like make them yeah, turn that road.

Speaker 5 (01:02:52):
Going there is that?

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
Yeah? I don'tt encourage. No, it's just like the smoking candy.
Although I love the candy cigarettes as a kid. What's
the avenue there? It's to eventually, I think, smoke a
pack of day.

Speaker 5 (01:03:03):
That was up to, like the.

Speaker 4 (01:03:05):
Avenue was to sue the candy manufacturer, because I exactly
I smoked for twenty years because of those candy cigarettes,
and damn it, I want my money, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
Yeah, I was up to three packs of candy cigarette
the day. Man, I mean, what was I gonna do? Yeah,
you just had to keep going. I had to go
to the grocery store. Actually, it was a liquor store
near my house as a child that I went to
to buy candy cigarettes. Fin, that's a real thing that
happened to me as a kid.

Speaker 5 (01:03:26):
Does your mom make you go in a store to
buy cigarettes? Ever?

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
No, not once. No, she hit She pretended she wasn't
still smoking when we were little. Killed My mom did too.

Speaker 4 (01:03:35):
Absolutely, yeah, I caught her. I caught her one time
and then I started smoking.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
Dude, I did too. My mom would not want me
to tell this whole story on the radio, so I'll
probably only tell you know, a short, short version of it.
But I found a pack of cigarettes in mom's desk
drawer at her work when I was like a teenager,
and I was like, Mom, come on, it's been so
long now, I thought you gave this up, and She's like,
I took it from someone else. It wasn't mine.

Speaker 7 (01:03:59):
I learned it from you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
And I was like, aha, sure, yeah, but yes, I
think that was a thing. For the most part, I
think my mom did kick that habit though, which I
imagine is hard to do and probably something that happens
a lot if you have kids. All of a sudden
you're like, can't smoke anymore because there's small babies around me.
All right, thank you, Ago, I praised her. I tried
to praise her. At the end, they're met. How we
should take a break? A lot coming up on the show,

(01:04:22):
Matt scot Traffick for you. This Craig Collin's filling in
on Tony Kat's The Morning News Tony Kats in The
Morning News ninety three WIBC. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in on and off. I've been talking about the
big story involving Micah Beckwitz's office, the Lieutenant Governor, reported
on by WISH TV and a bunch of other places yesterday.
A grand jury a couple times and I think August

(01:04:44):
and September has contemplated, discussed, and a lot of it
has sealed certain potential charges, allegations about both a deep
fake video that might have been passed around by members
of Beckwit's office and then also potentially some ghostmployees at
least one, so some fraud activity taking place. So all
these allegations Beckwith has denied them. We're going to jump

(01:05:07):
in with Rob Kendall in just a second. I want
to play audio of what Beckwith said when he was
on the campaign trail trying to get elected to the
role of Lieutenant governor. Because it is uniquely bad for
someone that shopped himself as a Christian candidate darn ittt
as somebody who's a pastor too, to have an allegation

(01:05:27):
like this, you know, salacious like this coming out of
his office. Here's how Beckwith positioned himself and Mike Brown
last year.

Speaker 5 (01:05:34):
And in Indiana specifically.

Speaker 12 (01:05:36):
I see if you look at the Republican ticket versus
the Democrat ticket, it's strength and godly boldness versus just
I would say, the Jezebel spirit and this idea of
no boldness right this or boldness for immorality, right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
Not a good look to be someone who shopped himself
in that way to potentially have this again, something he's
very much denied. We bring in Rob Kendall of Kendall
and Casey because they reported on this story and they
interviewed someone who seemed to be in the know. In
the middle of September Kendall's been on this for a
month and a half. Rob, welcome to the program.

Speaker 5 (01:06:13):
Thank you, Craig. Pleasure to be with you as always.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
Thank you. Give us some more context, some more information,
whatever you know, whatever you can say, whatever might be
coming up on your show about the Big the Big
Beckwith story.

Speaker 13 (01:06:24):
Well, look at this someone, Micah Beckwith is an American
greed character. That's the famous show on CNBC where they
do documentaries on con mean people who have conned people.
Now in this case, it's these people are out of money.
But that's what Micah beck With is. He's a con man. Look,
I hold these people accountable for a living. I don't
like any of these people, and he even got me.

(01:06:45):
He's very good at it, and he is a highly
fraudulent individual. He is a habitual liar. We've caught him
in numerous lies on this show and this is the
latest one, which is so ridiculous. Everybody knew the Marian
Kenny Prosecutor's office was looking into his office, everybody knew
that there was this grand jury, and he kept up

(01:07:08):
this ridiculous steadfast denial on it and doing this me
so stupid routine. And then they try to villainize people
or look, a grand jury does not mean an indictment.
A grand jury does not mean a conviction. Nobody said
any of those things were going to happen. We simply
said the obvious, which is, I know numerous people who
have given information to the Marion County Prosecutor's office, and

(01:07:32):
if I know about it, he certainly would know about it.
And even to this, I mean, the spokes guy had
just a ridiculous quote in the Indie Star when pressed
on it yesterday. The documents are out that this grand
jury exists, and they still won't come off it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:48):
It is insane to try to, you know, make this
go away via one denying it. Beck With yesterday again
denied it, said the video doesn't exist. He's never seen it,
nothing like that. You did an interview in September with
a former member of a Beckwitt's team where she described
the video in pretty significant detail. Do you want to
talk more about that at all, about any of the

(01:08:08):
things that people could go look up and see from
months ago from the Kendall and Casey show that seemed
to obviously demonstrate that a video seems to exist very
much like the one described in this indictment, Yeah, indictment.

Speaker 13 (01:08:20):
Aaron Sheridan is her name. She was a senior advisor
to Micah beck With. They ran her out because she
kept look beck With wanted to believe that government was
the wild West and he could do whatever he wanted
to do, and that's just not how it works. There
are very strict and stringent rules on how you have
to operate in state government, which I think is why
this grand jury in the Marrion Kenny Prosecutor's office is

(01:08:41):
now looking into his office. He didn't want to hear it,
he didn't want to believe it, so they ran her
out of there and back in April, she alleges, and look,
her story has never changed. I've talked to her multiple
times about this on air off air. The story has
never changed. That after the I believe Who's your Idol
is the name of the event, that the next day

(01:09:02):
or a couple days after, she was in the office
of the Lieutenant Governor and multiple individuals in that office
she claims we're viewing this AI pornography of State Representative
Craig Haggard's wife. She claims that those individuals, when she
objected to it, said that Micah was aware of the video,

(01:09:24):
and then she claims afterwards she went to Sherry Ellis,
the chief of staff for the Lieutenant governor, and she
basically blew it off and did absolutely nothing about it.
Why would someone make that up all the things? If
you were like, I'm going to take down the Lieutenant
Governor's office, that would be the thing you'd come with.
I don't even think it's actually a felony in Indiana.

(01:09:44):
I think that the AI porn stuff is a misdemeanor.
It is laughable to think someone would concoct that story.
Aaron has said this, and it's absolutely true. She's a
she'd been state government for almost thirty years. She was
a highly respected person's Riah. Now nobody's gonna hire her
because she's essentially a whistleblower.

Speaker 5 (01:10:03):
She told the truth. She won't be able to go back.

Speaker 13 (01:10:06):
It is insane to think someone would make that up
and make that up into that detail. And unlike Micah,
whose stories change all the time, her story has never changed.
Can I talk real quick about the importance of Micah's
stories changing real quick because this is very important. So
with Micah, like you don't saying if it's the truth.

(01:10:26):
You never have to remember what you've told somebody. Here's
a great example of how the story keeps changing with Micah.
So he tried to claim the guy who broke the
story was Tom Lebianco. He's a freelance journalist from from
Maryland and in I think it was March, maybe April.
Lebianco's in town working on a piece on Micah, and

(01:10:47):
he spends the whole day with him. He's in the car,
they go to these various events, they're they're very clearly
together for this entire day. And when the story breaks,
Micah goes on various outlets and tries to act like
he has no idea who Labianco is.

Speaker 5 (01:11:03):
H this is you know this journals. I don't know
he is. You spend a whole day with him.

Speaker 13 (01:11:07):
Then when he gets pressed about how he found out
about the AI porn video, he goes, well, Labianco called
me when he told me to contact me, and Tom Labianco,
in an official statement to our show, said no, that's
absolutely not true. Micah told me he found out about
the video from someone who was an employee in the
treasurer's office. And these may sound like little things, but

(01:11:27):
it's a pattern with Micah, just like, how how did
you end up in Game three of the NBA Finals
with a high profile known felon. He can't tell it
cohering consistent story. It's just one deception, one lie after another,
over and over and over again. And if you'll lie
about the little stuff, why would anybody not believe you're
lying about the big stuff?

Speaker 5 (01:11:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
Are you guys going to cover this in more detail
on Kendall and Casey today?

Speaker 5 (01:11:50):
All day, baby, all day. We give the people what they.

Speaker 1 (01:11:54):
Want, all right, Fanas. I'm also curious about the ghost
employee stuff that's been talking. And I know that's not
necessarily something that you and I discussed as much, but
I'm wondering if you guys will dive deeper into that too,
because that's just the basic fraud, you know, actual felony
stuff that might also be a pretty significant accusation to Yeah,
and look, I don't.

Speaker 13 (01:12:12):
Know exactly what the they're going for or not going for,
how the grand jury factors into all of For this,
I know what some people have told the prosecutor's office,
and you know, I think they're casting a very wide net,
I think, And look, the idea real quick, and I
know we're short of time, but this is what Micah's

(01:12:34):
orbit always does. They always make him out to be
a victim, no matter what the issue is. When he
gets called to the account that he demands of others,
they turn him into a victim. And I've already seen
it on this. Oh it's about his faith. Oh, they're
coming at him because he's vocal. No, there's nothing to
do with this faith. The Marrin Kennedy prosecutors, I's not
gonna waste time with the grand jury and all these
effort and all these man hours because they're mad about
some guy being vocal about his faith. They're looking into

(01:12:56):
this because they are very strict rules that people who
interstate government are supposed to abide by. And if you
don't abide by those rules, and everybody knows when they
walk in you all have ethics training, everything else, then
there are punishment for those actions. And they believe at
least there is some smoke to warrn an investigation into
whether multiple people in that office didn't follow the rules

(01:13:17):
as they're set forth. They're not doing anything wrong, it's
not gotcha, And maybe they'll ultimately find absolutely nothing, but
Micah Beckwith is a fraud. He's an habitual liar. He
has lied numerous times on this issue, and it should
be a giant red flag for everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:13:33):
Yeah no, And I love the point that you make
that maybe they'll find nothing, not specifically to this story,
but just in general. When people do these investigations, the
end result of finding nothing is always a possibility, which
makes you say, all right, I guess it's still worth
the time and effort if you think that we're not
going to find nothing, to go ahead and do it.
Kendall and Casey nine to noon every single day right
here on ninety three WIBC. In about twenty minutes, you'll

(01:13:54):
hear Rob Kendall and Casey Daniels cover this topic all day.

Speaker 5 (01:13:58):
Baby.

Speaker 1 (01:13:59):
I think what you said, which is fantastic. I'm sure
some other funny stuff will creep its way into as
it does every day on that show, Tonny Cats The
Morning News, ninety three WIBC. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in, thrilled to be with you. You have Matt,
you have Carl hangout as they do every single morning,
and of course Carl is playing a TV theme song

(01:14:19):
as part of our TV theme song thing that we
do at the end of every show of every of
Tony's shows. I got nothing.

Speaker 5 (01:14:26):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:14:26):
I know that sounds like a very famous theme song.
I know, I know, dude, it's terrible. I could be
logged into the YouTube and check out you know what
the people are saying in chat. Yeah, I'm sure I
could cheat right now. I'm not cheating. I have no idea.
I've never seen it. Okay, I'm gonna use my lifeline,
but I'll just say that I've never seen a single
episode of the show that has this theme song, even

(01:14:46):
though it sounds real famous. I'm at what you got.

Speaker 4 (01:14:48):
Usually I missed these because I'm not very good at
this game, but I know this one. This is maybe
my favorite all time team. It's one of the original
theme songs for Saturday Night Live.

Speaker 7 (01:15:00):
Good listen to that, John Belushi, Dana Akroy.

Speaker 5 (01:15:04):
This sounds so Saturday Night you know.

Speaker 1 (01:15:07):
And now I have to take it back. I've definitely
seen clips of Saturday Night Live with those people in it.
I've never seen a single entrance to that version of
the show doing the Trump dance on the camera right
now here, you go. Nice, that's fantastic. Yeah, you guys
still watch Saturday Night Live at all?

Speaker 5 (01:15:21):
Or no, no, no way too late.

Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
Yes, it's quite too late.

Speaker 5 (01:15:25):
That's the problem that the word night is in the title,
so I'm out. Yeah, that's trouble.

Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
That's They still go viral occasionally some of the stuff
on there. And I found a video recently from Saturday
Night Live of the making fun of Beta Men, which
I thought was really funny and odd, and I don't
think they meant it to be humorous the way I
took it as humorous. But anyway, that's out there for
people that want it. But yeah, no, I didn't know,
and you can judge away. When did that theme stop
getting used?

Speaker 7 (01:15:50):
Carl, you know, as soon as the original crew left
when blushy Ackroyd Gilder Radner.

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
Was I alive yet or no, good fantastic. I'm glad
that I wasn't alive yet because again I've seen a
clips to that. I've never seen it with those guys.
Before we get out of here, a couple other just
quick things that I thought were kind of interesting today
to talk about. Does anybody have a Halloween costume plan

(01:16:17):
at all? Or no, no, no, we're not doing anything.
You guys, you're not gonna dress up. You'll be at
work on Friday. No one's throwing something on for the camera.

Speaker 4 (01:16:25):
I had one idea, and unfortunately I need a child
for this, and I'm not a father. I was going
to dress up. I wanted to dress up as Ozzie Osbourne. Yeah,
and the child be the bat. I got it, and
I thought that would have been fun to go trigger
tree hilarious. Yeah, I thought you're going to like bite
the ear off the child.

Speaker 5 (01:16:44):
Well listen, it's a performance hard man, right, you gotta
do it.

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
It's your lock in sound.

Speaker 5 (01:16:51):
A bit baby.

Speaker 4 (01:16:53):
But I could just imagine that we would both just
be bandits and just trash bags full of candy, because
that's what Halloween's all about, it to candy. And I've
never taken advantage of having children and getting all they're candy.
Whenever Halloween's over, you know, you got a sample the
candy bars. Man, make sure they're healthy. You know.

Speaker 1 (01:17:09):
That is a great point that you and I miss
out on year after year as guys without kids, is
the fact that I don't get to have candy without
having to embarrass myself into attempting to trick or treat,
which I can't do. I'm going to be a forty
year old man on Halloween. It is my birthday. I
am breaking the four to zero barrier in forty eight hours.
And a lot of people of me, thanks Carl. A

(01:17:32):
lot of people have made jokes about me, you know,
dressing up as a much older version of myself, like
putting on you know, a bunch of fake wrinkles and
saying that that's what I look like now, which is me,
Like forty is not eighty, but they want me to
act that way.

Speaker 4 (01:17:44):
I guess, well, that's not going to be funny in
five years because that, yeah, that stuff's going to actually
be there, the wrinkles and all that.

Speaker 5 (01:17:53):
Listen. Yeah, it's a good time. And by the way,
welcome to the Over the Hill Club.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
Thanks.

Speaker 5 (01:17:57):
It's not near as bad as everybody says it is.

Speaker 4 (01:17:59):
It's just like, and you know, we know, we know
when we go over forty because for some reason, it's
some sort of major milestone because it feels like the
halfway point as far as life expectancy. But didn't we
get this feeling when we turned thirty, Yes, when we
turned twenty five, thirty five I mean thirty six. Every
single birthday for me, I get this feeling like there's

(01:18:19):
this new benchmark close suit to you know, expiration.

Speaker 5 (01:18:23):
I mean, it's just the guy of the beholder. What
life are you living? Man? You know, and you live
with a good life. So I'm happy for you. Welcome
to forty.

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
Thank you, buddy. I'm not sure. My favorite thing is
that I still have a lot of like high school
friends on social media on Facebook, and I saw one
of them go viral, at least within our friendship group.
I think that a lot of us commented on it
crying before she woke up the next day forty, I'm.

Speaker 5 (01:18:45):
Not going to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:45):
I'm not going to go to bed weeping. I'm not
going to out Chantelle. I just did as somebody who
did what she did. She was very upset about it,
and then you wake up the next day just fine.

Speaker 5 (01:18:53):
Well, well, respect what's going to happen?

Speaker 4 (01:18:55):
I mean, forty and I understand you know that you
get into the forties and fifties him and go through
significant changes, and God bless him for that.

Speaker 5 (01:19:02):
But what's the what's the rollover to forty?

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
That's other you didn't want it, Okay, I remember in
the video that we all commented on, she was crying
and said she just didn't want it to happen. She
wanted to wake up and not be four. She still
wanted a three in front of that number her name.

Speaker 5 (01:19:16):
It didn't work that way, sorry to say it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:19):
Yeah, sorry about that, all right, guys. It's been fun
as always, a great job. Sounded very similar to Matt
and Craig excellent podcast. A wonderful thing out there that
you can check out on iv w IVC dot com.

Speaker 5 (01:19:29):
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