WEBVTT - Episode 4668: Tony Katz Today Hour 2 - 08/13/26 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:10.240 Live from ball Hartbiner and the Crossroads of America. 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:17.360 It's Tony Katz today. 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:23.000 I never once, in any of my conversations anywhere, say 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:24.599 that first you have to agree with me. 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:25.759 You don't have to agree with me. 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:28.120 Even when I say I'm right, I'm just making the 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:32.120 point of this is where I'm at. I am willing 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.320 to engage in the disagreement. Doesn't mean that you have 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:39.560 to agree with me. I can't force someone to agree 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:45.000 with me. I'm okay with conversations with people I disagree with. 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:50.280 There are places where I do indeed have redlines based 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:54.720 on policy and philosophy. Communism is one of those places. 0:00:56.160 --> 0:01:02.800 There's no place in any civil society for communism. There's 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:08.520 no value to communism. One would have to be a 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:16.559 fool to think that communism provides a value. One would 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:21.440 actually have to be as dumb as a Columbia University graduate. 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:25.840 Tony Katz. That's me, by the way, what's up everybody? 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.160 Tony Kats today. An absolute pleasure to be here, at 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.840 pleasure to be with you. Find everything I do over 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:36.840 at Tony kats dot com, Live streaming, on the YouTube 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.560 and on the Rumble. Tony Katz on Twitter, which is 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:44.880 ex Tony Katz and Facebook, Tony Kats Radio. You don't 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:49.240 have to be in total concord to be decent. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.200 You don't. It doesn't have to be done. 0:01:55.960 --> 0:02:00.960 There are plenty of things that Pat McAfee, the content 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.320 creator radio host, has said that I'm like, nope, that's 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:03.600 not me. 0:02:06.120 --> 0:02:07.080 But he's also. 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.400 Created a world, and he's created a following, a fan base, 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.160 and a value that ESPN saw, Hey, let's put sixty 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:16.480 million dollars into this guy. That sixty million dollar number 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:25.160 matters because the other day it's the Patriot Games and 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:29.720 Pat McAfee is there and the President is there, and 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:33.600 actually Pat McAfee met President Trump as he got was 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:35.640 there on the tarmac on the plane and it's raining 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.600 and Trump's there holding the umbrella and McAfee is there. 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:43.600 Jean's black T shirt, white hat turned backwards. Hey, mister president, 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:44.160 how you doing. 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:46.120 I don't know. I don't know if he gave him 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.800 the finger guns or what have you. It was very weird, 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:49.480 was all right. 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:52.680 He met the president there, and then they were at 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:54.880 the Patriot Games together and they were sitting next to 0:02:54.919 --> 0:03:00.080 each other. Social media exploded with anger, and in that 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:04.000 social media. There are a bunch of people who are 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:10.160 sports podcasters and sports radio hosts infuriated, and what are 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:10.600 they doing. 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.519 They're calling Pat McAfee a pedophile. 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.120 Because they've decided that Trump is a pedophile, and now 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.720 we know that this is a lie, but they don't 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.880 care because what they're doing is not engaging in any 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.200 kind of honesty, which would be man, I am not 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:27.040 a van of Trump. 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.440 You're sitting with him. I would never do such a thing. 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.400 What they're doing is going to the lowest common denominator 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.920 and buying into any lie and pushing any lie because. 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:38.080 They don't care that it's a lie. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.760 All they know to do is I don't like Therefore attack, 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:46.040 don't engage on policy, don't engage on philosophy, engage in 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.200 the lies. Because anything that destroys the target is good. 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.480 This is a Lensky pick the target personalized that frees 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:56.440 it and polarize it, ridicules man's most potent weapon. It 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:01.560 doesn't matter if it's true, just say it. Every conversation 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:03.400 about Trump a pedophile. 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:03.480 Is a lie. 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.160 And those people are liars, and they know they're liars, 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:07.240 and they've been proven liars. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:08.200 We see that they're liars. 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:13.520 They don't care. They don't care because their emotion controls 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:17.800 them and they have no capacity to deal in the realities. 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:21.799 They cannot engage politically, they cannot engage in policy. 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.160 All they have is their emotion. Now, why do they 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:27.040 have the emotion is a good question. We're gonna get 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:27.279 to that. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:33.800 They call him Pat McAfee a pedophile, they call him 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:35.800 a sellout, they. 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:36.560 Call him disgusting. 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.960 You know, Pat McAfee has a music album coming out 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:39.960 this Friday. 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.480 I'm going to bet any amount of. 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.440 Money it's gonna be kind of like Eddie Murphy coming 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:51.200 out with an album. I'm so glad he decided to 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:56.880 stick to comedy. But people are mocking the album coming out. 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:00.040 How dare a guy having fun with his life? I 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.800 have fun with his life. How dare him try something? 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.600 What's the big deal? Don't buy the album. 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.839 By the way, Pat bought the album and listen to it, 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:11.880 and I hope you had a good. 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.120 Time with it. My god, this was a bunch of crap. 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:15.039 Stick to the radio. 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:20.120 You might say that, attacking him for doing something. Oh no, no, 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.440 you have to stay in your lane. That's one of 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.680 the things that they always say. Stay in your lane? 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:32.040 What's my lane? If it's my lane, aren't the one. 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:36.359 Who decides what it is, that would make sense. 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:41.080 It's my lane, it's not your lane, it's my lane. 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.160 I get to decide what is in my lane. And 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.640 there are a lot of things in my lane, and 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:50.200 I might decide to wait for it, change lanes because 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:51.400 I decide my lane. 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.120 The best thing in the world you will ever see 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:56.640 when I say the best. The most horrifying is that. 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:00.800 People will decide that you're You're only allowed to do 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.400 this one thing. They see you a certain way, You're 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.279 only allowed to do this one thing. I know that 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:06.560 there are people out there who see me as a 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:08.360 radio host. It's all Tony can be as a radio host. 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:09.520 There's nothing more in a radio host. 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:14.120 I don't see myself that way. 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:21.000 I do talk radio, I do TV, I podcast, I write, 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:26.680 I create, and I'm an excellent lover. I have got 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:32.000 a panoply of things that I do. One lane, baby, 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:37.320 I got a whole bunch of lanes. No one gets 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.240 to decide that but me. And for you, no one 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:44.080 gets to decide it but you. But somehow, because Pat 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:50.120 McAfee's in the public guy, everyone gets to decide his lane. 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:50.560 And then they'll go actors employer. 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:54.880 How could ESPN possibly have hired this guy? He gets 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.880 sixty million dollars a year and they fired really talented journalist. No, 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.240 first of all, they weren't talented journalists. I want to 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.760 make sure we're clear about this at ESPN. The people 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:08.680 who got fired were not, in the main talented journalists. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:09.720 They sucked. 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:15.600 ESPN became a terrible garbage place of politics. 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:17.600 It became impossible to watch. 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:19.760 And for the record, I don't want to hear Pat 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:27.800 McAfee engage in politics. This wasn't engaging in politics. The 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.160 President of the United States was there and you were 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.640 invited to sit with him. You sit with him. He's 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:39.720 still the president. What kind of madness is this that 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.280 we're now going inside for sitting down. 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:44.120 Pedophile. 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:48.040 It was not an endorsement of anything other than I 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:51.400 recognize that that's the president, and let's make sure we 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:56.720 understand what we're dealing with here. The leftist does not 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:01.560 want to admit to this thing is allowed to humanize. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.119 You can't admit that he's a president. Oh not my president. 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.360 You can't admit that he's human. It doesn't matter what 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.000 you do to him. It doesn't matter that you call 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:09.360 for people to kill him, it doesn't matter that their 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.800 assassination attempts. The only thing that matters is that these 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:20.840 people keep on missing. It has been beyond vitriolic, and 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:26.240 I had a very good time yesterday. I was recording 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.400 the Cigar and Bourbon Show, eating smoke and Figers Willie, 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:31.000 and every time he'd be like, you're ready to go, 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:32.920 be like called out, I'm just responding and'd be like, 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.240 would you stop stop doing it? I'm like, I can't, 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:40.959 it's just too good. I'm funny, and I'm responding to 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:42.240 all these tough guys. 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:44.280 A lot of them. 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.079 They do they host a podcast about this team or 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:48.920 that team, right, they about the thing that they're interested in. 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.160 They do a show about it radio hosts. And it 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:52.920 reminded me. 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:59.439 Of something I have said before, and that is the 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.880 sports guys are very bad at the politics. 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.559 One or two guys were able to do the crossover stuff. 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:09.520 I've mentioned Will Caine before, I've mentioned Klay Travis before, 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.800 But the sports guys are very very bad at the politics. 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.360 And part of the issue is is that the sports 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.719 guy does not when it comes to things political have 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.800 to go deep. They don't have to do research, they 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.199 don't have to engage philosophy. They don't have to understand 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.240 the history. They don't have to understand how the dots connect. 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:34.679 There is no study. There is only what will ensure 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:39.800 I can possibly get the next interview. There is no 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:45.079 question that what Lebron James said about Darryl Moury, that 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:48.199 then general manager of the Houston Rockets, was wrong. 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.520 Daryl Moray, what was the guy was mit? Where was 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:53.320 he with his brain? 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.400 He had to educate himself on the Hong Kongers because 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.040 Daryl Moray said free Hong Kong. No no, no, no, no, 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:05.160 no no Ooh, Lebron James wanted that sweet sweet China 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:12.080 cash and didn't care whose neck got a boot. That's 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:16.360 what happened. But oh no, Lebron is so great. You 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:20.640 know he created a school. You know he did this, dude, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:23.240 that was an ugly thing for. 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:23.800 Him to do. 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.760 Throw Hong Kongers under the bus. Also floppity flop flop, 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:32.920 not so interested. And for the record, Michael Jordan was 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:34.840 better case closed. 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:42.440 Ah, but the sports guy having no. 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:49.360 Desire to dig in on the philosophical on the historical 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.960 of how some of these political things move and maneuver, 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:58.000 having no willingness to engage honestly and clearly. 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:01.000 On the subject at hand. 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:05.959 Rather, they have been taught that their emotional fervor for 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:10.960 their team or for the sport will suffice. It doesn't 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.880 have to be a practical application. It doesn't have to 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:17.080 be an intellectual pursuit. This is one of my laments. 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.400 By the way of talk radio and Toto and the 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.240 influencer class. All you have to do is show how 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.320 angry you are. All you have to do is show 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:26.719 this is how real man does it, and all this 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.920 other horsecraft the idea that you can actually connect the 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.440 dots politically, philosophically, historically, that is like. 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:34.480 An ancient art. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.240 And I'm like, well, obscrewed, because this is kind of 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:40.880 what I do in between smoking cigars and being quite humorous, 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:42.839 and I want to keep doing the thing I do, 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:44.480 and I'm going to keep doing it if it means 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.160 I lose out on a couple hundred stations. Oh well, 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:51.680 that's the way it goes. But the sports guy never 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:59.439 ever ever got checked on the emotion and having to 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.480 ground own that with the actual pursuit of the data 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:10.959 in question. The emotion and the opinion, said Louder is 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:12.520 what got them success. 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.440 I have nothing against Stephen A. Smith zero. 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.360 I don't know what the hell he has done to 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.960 get me to believe that when it comes to political 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:24.959 acumen or political theory. He's a guy I should be 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.840 listening to. I'm not mad at him. I'm not mad 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:32.960 at him, and I only applaud the idea of the attempt. 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:36.439 You got to go out there and do the thing. 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.760 You have to go out there and do the thing, 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.480 and you gotta get your butt kicked. How else do 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.479 you think it happens. I've been at this for a while. 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.559 And when I first started, I got to live in 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.719 crap kicked out of me. Of course you did. You 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.000 didn't think about this? What about that? How do you 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.200 deal with the rejection? How do you deal with the response? 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.120 How do you process to be able to connect it 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.199 to other things, to be able to further prove a 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:08.200 point a theory of philosophy? It takes time. At this stage. 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.520 It is still about studying, research, and some of it 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:13.240 is just muscle memory. You've already heard that thing before, 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.000 so you know exactly where you're going and how you're 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:20.319 going to respond to it. Where is the confrontation to 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.480 their politics? And the answer is, for the sports guy, 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:29.360 it doesn't exist. And it is why I have said 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.280 from the beginning, when the sports guys get involved in 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.800 the politics, dear gosh, are they terrible at it? 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.240 Now? I don't say, shut up and talk about dribbling. 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.079 You can do it all you want, sports guys, but 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:44.199 the vast majority of you suck at it. 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:45.240 I don't care. 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:52.280 You've got forty million subscribers, It doesn't matter. There are 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.199 people with more subscribers than me. There are people with 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.119 less subscribers than me. There are people with more subscribers 0:13:58.160 --> 0:13:59.839 who are very bad at this. There are people with 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:01.240 subscribers who are very. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:09.800 Good at this. It's just real. You watch these people 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:13.959 responding to Pat McAfee. Not a one of them. I 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:15.840 say it clearly, without any hesitation. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:25.520 They don't have a mind. It is PABLEM, PABLEM. If 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:27.800 you had said, man, that's a nutty thing to do. Okay, 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:32.040 it's a nutty thing to do, just nutty. That's sitting 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:33.440 with Donald Trump. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:34.000 That's nutty. 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.160 What did you want him to do? Punch Trump in 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:40.520 the face, and they'll answer with yes, and that's how 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:42.960 broken they are. And by the way, that is actually 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.400 a true story of somebody I know who was asked 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.880 to appear in an event with Trump, and Trump hugged 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:54.040 the guy and the response was you should have punched 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.400 him in the face. Seriously the response he got. There's 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:58.960 more to that story, but I'm not gonna give. 0:14:58.840 --> 0:14:59.400 It all right now. 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:01.840 It has been talked about publicly, but I don't know 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:06.880 I'm allowed to say it on air. They're broken people 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.120 who have no interest in what you and I have 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.520 an interest in, which is the actual pursuit of the 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.080 understanding of the thing in question. 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.480 They say, let me show how good and decent I. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:25.480 Am by calling Pat McAfee names, by insulting his children, 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:29.200 by attacking his job, and then these people over here 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:30.680 will like me. And oh, look at all the hits 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:36.000 I got, Look at the clicks I got. And that 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.960 was the last twenty four hours. That was the last 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:44.280 twenty four hours. Guys, don't worry. Pat mcfee'll be back, 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.720 you know, in the barrel again. People coming at him. 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.280 When you create success, it happens, they absolutely want to 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:51.840 tear you down. 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.479 Do I agree? With Pat McFee politically. I don't know everything. 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.720 About Pat McFee politically. I've never had to sit down 0:15:58.720 --> 0:15:59.880 and talk to the guy politically. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:01.480 If I ever got the. 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:06.000 Opportunity, the cigars are on me, Pat, I got bourbon. 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.960 It's all right here. It's not as big as your studio, 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:12.840 but it's home. I'd agree, I disagree, what have you. 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.240 He's gonna say something one day in the future and 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:17.760 be like, that's the dumbest thing I ever heard. 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:21.680 It's going to happen. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.720 He's not an idol, and he shouldn't be treated like 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:33.440 some kind of special angel. He sat with the president. Yeah, 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:38.360 everyone just needs to move on with their day. Oh, 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:43.640 and stop screaming things like pedophile. You all sound weird, 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:50.080 really really weird, And as we learned from Tim Walls, 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.760 that's the worst thing someone can be. I'm Tony Katz, 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:55.960 and this right here is Tony Katz today. 0:16:56.160 --> 0:17:01.440 This was out there in West Hartford, Connecticut, and it 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:05.080 was a school board meeting. I think it's a school 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:09.120 board meeting Tony Cats and Tony Kats today because. 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:17.800 We're they're they're talking about paying teachers, and the school 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:18.679 board member. 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:23.520 She she's up there on the dais and she's she's 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:30.320 wearing she how do I she's wearing ears. 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.840 It's it's maybe it's it's like a I don't know, 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:38.360 it's like a hair band something to keep the hair back. 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.720 She's a black woman, and it's it's in her hair 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.920 and it looks like ears, like she's a cat, like 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:46.000 cat ears. 0:17:46.840 --> 0:17:47.320 I don't not a. 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.240 It's there on the live stream their producer land and 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:51.600 those are those are cat ears. 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:53.680 Those are the ears of a cat. And they've got 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.880 like they've got like like like they've been be dazzled. Right. 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.159 I don't know why she's wearing it. 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.920 Maybe she thought she was being sassy and she is 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:09.960 making an argument, ladies and gentlemen, that black teachers should 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:11.120 be paid more. 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.080 So, I know we have like some efforts to increase 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:19.320 diverse diversity in the district. So I'm wondering, especially around administration, 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:25.000 are there financial incentives for black and brown people to 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:29.399 work here. It's an extra burden quite frankly, to be 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:32.920 a black and brown teacher and administrator in the district, 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.240 And so I think we should start thinking about that 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:38.479 financially if we're not already. But I know we call 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:40.840 ourselves leaders, and I know we have an Office of 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:42.880 Equity and Belonging, so I'm sure we could figure it out. 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:53.440 We got money. It's what's Harford. It's an extra burden. 0:18:55.119 --> 0:19:00.119 Because you say so, or because you can probably be 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:04.200 guilt a couple of bucks out of some people. The 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.680 bigoted madness is not going to end until the money 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:13.600 train ends, you know that, right. People will continue to 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:18.719 push every kind of nonsense thing they can because they 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.119 think they can profit from it. There's some type of 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:25.200 reward to get. If it's not financial, it's reputation capital. 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:32.040 Why would you have someone like this on your school 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:35.040 board or any part of your world? 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:40.480 You know that that's nonsense, right, It's an extra burden, 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:46.040 it says he I'm Toning Kats. Three more things? Why, yes, yes, 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:47.200 I do, Tony Kats. 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:49.080 Tony Kats Today an absolute pleasure. 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:52.440 Guys, glad that you are here. What are three more things? 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:54.320 These are things that should be front page news, but 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:56.840 because of all the front page news, they don't make 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:57.640 the front pages. 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.840 And that's why I bring it to you three more things. 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:03.160 I'm Tony Katz. 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.800 The show is Tony Katz Today, and of course on 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.120 Twitter is Tony Katz find me there in the livestream 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.840 their Facebook, Tony Cats Radio and on YouTube and rumble 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:17.680 Tony Katz, get on end, come see it happen. In 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:19.960 one of the weirder stories that I had come across, 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:26.560 Newsmax reporting that Paramount might leave California and is thinking 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:27.520 about moving. 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:27.800 To New York. 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:32.919 I don't get it at all. How in the world 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:36.760 could you say California is not working? No, wait, we 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:41.119 all understand how you can say that, but how is 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:44.000 it possible that New York would be better? 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:46.479 Now? 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:48.800 Part of this has to do with not just the 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:52.440 running of the company at large, but has to do 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:58.879 specifically with lawsuits and antitrust suits. So there are a 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:03.159 series of attorneys general that want to block the merger 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:08.520 of Paramount with Warner Brothers Discovery. So Paramount is considering 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:15.720 a move out of California. They're saying, we need to 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:19.320 go now. I took this as they're looking to move 0:21:19.359 --> 0:21:22.199 to New York. Oh no, no, no, they're looking at 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:28.679 moving CBS out of New York. I set it first. 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:32.200 We were right here together, guys, what do we say 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:37.879 We set a Fox News, We set of Newsmax. What 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:41.840 are you guys still doing in New York. What's wrong 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:42.080 with you? 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:49.960 Why in the world would you ever be headquartered in 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:52.879 New York? Why would you do it? It's over. 0:21:54.600 --> 0:22:00.600 Cynthia Nixon runs the city that communist and all her 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:06.440 communists folk Zorammdani a living embodiment of the Red Green Alliance. 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:10.359 Why would you be in that city? Why would you 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:14.159 do it? This is a city and this is a 0:22:14.240 --> 0:22:16.359 state that doesn't do the most basic thing. 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:18.080 And you ask me what the most basic thing is? 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:21.320 Is it making sure people don't be on the sidewalk listen. 0:22:21.680 --> 0:22:24.200 One could hope and dream that they would stop that, 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:26.800 making sure that people couldride the subways not being killed. 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.399 Who wouldn't that be nice? No, the one thing that 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:33.480 they don't do that they need to do is say 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:36.320 we do things here the way we do things in 0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:39.760 the United States, and know where you came from doesn't 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:46.960 matter as much. Public prayer where they overtake streets needs 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:54.080 to be outlawed, including by bulldozer. I'm sorry, I'm saying 0:22:54.800 --> 0:22:56.720 that if you want to get a permit and have 0:22:56.840 --> 0:23:00.399 an event in a public park somewhere, more than welcome 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:00.680 to do that. 0:23:00.760 --> 0:23:02.320 I have zero problem with that. Whatsoever. 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:06.200 But if you think you could just grab five hundred Muslims, 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:09.040 take over the streets and engage in prayer on the 0:23:09.080 --> 0:23:11.480 streets and everybody has to drive around you or walk 0:23:11.520 --> 0:23:17.920 around you, screw you, bulldozers. You'll move. We don't do 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:21.240 that here. We don't do street takeovers. We don't allow 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:23.239 religious takeovers. 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:27.159 Of any kind. And in any case, scream. 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:31.080 And yell about Islamophobia and bigotry and religious freedom all 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:34.240 you want. You do not have the freedom to stop 0:23:34.359 --> 0:23:38.880 traffic for your prayer, rugs. No, you don't, because you're 0:23:38.920 --> 0:23:41.560 not engaged in prayer in that way at all. You're 0:23:41.640 --> 0:23:45.280 engaged in moving and growing a political system by creating fear. 0:23:45.680 --> 0:23:50.840 I have no fear. You're wrong. Off you go, Off 0:23:51.440 --> 0:23:54.840