Speaker 1: Live from ball Hartbiner and the Crossroads of America.
Speaker 2: It's Tony Katz today.
Speaker 1: I never once, in any of my conversations anywhere, say
Speaker 1: that first you have to agree with me.
Speaker 2: You don't have to agree with me.
Speaker 1: Even when I say I'm right, I'm just making the
Speaker 1: point of this is where I'm at. I am willing
Speaker 1: to engage in the disagreement. Doesn't mean that you have
Speaker 1: to agree with me. I can't force someone to agree
Speaker 1: with me. I'm okay with conversations with people I disagree with.
Speaker 1: There are places where I do indeed have redlines based
Speaker 1: on policy and philosophy. Communism is one of those places.
Speaker 1: There's no place in any civil society for communism. There's
Speaker 1: no value to communism. One would have to be a
Speaker 1: fool to think that communism provides a value. One would
Speaker 1: actually have to be as dumb as a Columbia University graduate.
Speaker 1: Tony Katz. That's me, by the way, what's up everybody?
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Speaker 1: have to be in total concord to be decent.
Speaker 2: You don't. It doesn't have to be done.
Speaker 1: There are plenty of things that Pat McAfee, the content
Speaker 1: creator radio host, has said that I'm like, nope, that's
Speaker 1: not me.
Speaker 2: But he's also.
Speaker 1: Created a world, and he's created a following, a fan base,
Speaker 1: and a value that ESPN saw, Hey, let's put sixty
Speaker 1: million dollars into this guy. That sixty million dollar number
Speaker 1: matters because the other day it's the Patriot Games and
Speaker 1: Pat McAfee is there and the President is there, and
Speaker 1: actually Pat McAfee met President Trump as he got was
Speaker 1: there on the tarmac on the plane and it's raining
Speaker 1: and Trump's there holding the umbrella and McAfee is there.
Speaker 1: Jean's black T shirt, white hat turned backwards. Hey, mister president,
Speaker 1: how you doing.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know if he gave him
Speaker 2: the finger guns or what have you. It was very weird,
Speaker 2: was all right.
Speaker 1: He met the president there, and then they were at
Speaker 1: the Patriot Games together and they were sitting next to
Speaker 1: each other. Social media exploded with anger, and in that
Speaker 1: social media. There are a bunch of people who are
Speaker 1: sports podcasters and sports radio hosts infuriated, and what are
Speaker 1: they doing.
Speaker 2: They're calling Pat McAfee a pedophile.
Speaker 1: Because they've decided that Trump is a pedophile, and now
Speaker 1: we know that this is a lie, but they don't
Speaker 1: care because what they're doing is not engaging in any
Speaker 1: kind of honesty, which would be man, I am not
Speaker 1: a van of Trump.
Speaker 2: You're sitting with him. I would never do such a thing.
Speaker 1: What they're doing is going to the lowest common denominator
Speaker 1: and buying into any lie and pushing any lie because.
Speaker 2: They don't care that it's a lie.
Speaker 1: All they know to do is I don't like Therefore attack,
Speaker 1: don't engage on policy, don't engage on philosophy, engage in
Speaker 1: the lies. Because anything that destroys the target is good.
Speaker 1: This is a Lensky pick the target personalized that frees
Speaker 1: it and polarize it, ridicules man's most potent weapon. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if it's true, just say it. Every conversation
Speaker 1: about Trump a pedophile.
Speaker 2: Is a lie.
Speaker 1: And those people are liars, and they know they're liars,
Speaker 1: and they've been proven liars.
Speaker 2: We see that they're liars.
Speaker 1: They don't care. They don't care because their emotion controls
Speaker 1: them and they have no capacity to deal in the realities.
Speaker 1: They cannot engage politically, they cannot engage in policy.
Speaker 2: All they have is their emotion. Now, why do they
Speaker 2: have the emotion is a good question. We're gonna get
Speaker 2: to that.
Speaker 1: They call him Pat McAfee a pedophile, they call him
Speaker 1: a sellout, they.
Speaker 2: Call him disgusting.
Speaker 1: You know, Pat McAfee has a music album coming out
Speaker 1: this Friday.
Speaker 2: I'm going to bet any amount of.
Speaker 1: Money it's gonna be kind of like Eddie Murphy coming
Speaker 1: out with an album. I'm so glad he decided to
Speaker 1: stick to comedy. But people are mocking the album coming out.
Speaker 1: How dare a guy having fun with his life? I
Speaker 1: have fun with his life. How dare him try something?
Speaker 2: What's the big deal? Don't buy the album.
Speaker 1: By the way, Pat bought the album and listen to it,
Speaker 1: and I hope you had a good.
Speaker 2: Time with it. My god, this was a bunch of crap.
Speaker 2: Stick to the radio.
Speaker 1: You might say that, attacking him for doing something. Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: you have to stay in your lane. That's one of
Speaker 1: the things that they always say. Stay in your lane?
Speaker 1: What's my lane? If it's my lane, aren't the one.
Speaker 2: Who decides what it is, that would make sense.
Speaker 1: It's my lane, it's not your lane, it's my lane.
Speaker 1: I get to decide what is in my lane. And
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things in my lane, and
Speaker 1: I might decide to wait for it, change lanes because
Speaker 1: I decide my lane.
Speaker 2: The best thing in the world you will ever see
Speaker 2: when I say the best. The most horrifying is that.
Speaker 1: People will decide that you're You're only allowed to do
Speaker 1: this one thing. They see you a certain way, You're
Speaker 1: only allowed to do this one thing. I know that
Speaker 1: there are people out there who see me as a
Speaker 1: radio host. It's all Tony can be as a radio host.
Speaker 1: There's nothing more in a radio host.
Speaker 2: I don't see myself that way.
Speaker 1: I do talk radio, I do TV, I podcast, I write,
Speaker 1: I create, and I'm an excellent lover. I have got
Speaker 1: a panoply of things that I do. One lane, baby,
Speaker 1: I got a whole bunch of lanes. No one gets
Speaker 1: to decide that but me. And for you, no one
Speaker 1: gets to decide it but you. But somehow, because Pat
Speaker 1: McAfee's in the public guy, everyone gets to decide his lane.
Speaker 2: And then they'll go actors employer.
Speaker 1: How could ESPN possibly have hired this guy? He gets
Speaker 1: sixty million dollars a year and they fired really talented journalist. No,
Speaker 1: first of all, they weren't talented journalists. I want to
Speaker 1: make sure we're clear about this at ESPN. The people
Speaker 1: who got fired were not, in the main talented journalists.
Speaker 2: They sucked.
Speaker 1: ESPN became a terrible garbage place of politics.
Speaker 2: It became impossible to watch.
Speaker 1: And for the record, I don't want to hear Pat
Speaker 1: McAfee engage in politics. This wasn't engaging in politics. The
Speaker 1: President of the United States was there and you were
Speaker 1: invited to sit with him. You sit with him. He's
Speaker 1: still the president. What kind of madness is this that
Speaker 1: we're now going inside for sitting down.
Speaker 2: Pedophile.
Speaker 1: It was not an endorsement of anything other than I
Speaker 1: recognize that that's the president, and let's make sure we
Speaker 1: understand what we're dealing with here. The leftist does not
Speaker 1: want to admit to this thing is allowed to humanize.
Speaker 1: You can't admit that he's a president. Oh not my president.
Speaker 1: You can't admit that he's human. It doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: you do to him. It doesn't matter that you call
Speaker 1: for people to kill him, it doesn't matter that their
Speaker 1: assassination attempts. The only thing that matters is that these
Speaker 1: people keep on missing. It has been beyond vitriolic, and
Speaker 1: I had a very good time yesterday. I was recording
Speaker 1: the Cigar and Bourbon Show, eating smoke and Figers Willie,
Speaker 1: and every time he'd be like, you're ready to go,
Speaker 1: be like called out, I'm just responding and'd be like,
Speaker 1: would you stop stop doing it? I'm like, I can't,
Speaker 1: it's just too good. I'm funny, and I'm responding to
Speaker 1: all these tough guys.
Speaker 2: A lot of them.
Speaker 1: They do they host a podcast about this team or
Speaker 1: that team, right, they about the thing that they're interested in.
Speaker 2: They do a show about it radio hosts. And it
Speaker 2: reminded me.
Speaker 1: Of something I have said before, and that is the
Speaker 1: sports guys are very bad at the politics.
Speaker 2: One or two guys were able to do the crossover stuff.
Speaker 1: I've mentioned Will Caine before, I've mentioned Klay Travis before,
Speaker 1: But the sports guys are very very bad at the politics.
Speaker 1: And part of the issue is is that the sports
Speaker 1: guy does not when it comes to things political have
Speaker 1: to go deep. They don't have to do research, they
Speaker 1: don't have to engage philosophy. They don't have to understand
Speaker 1: the history. They don't have to understand how the dots connect.
Speaker 1: There is no study. There is only what will ensure
Speaker 1: I can possibly get the next interview. There is no
Speaker 1: question that what Lebron James said about Darryl Moury, that
Speaker 1: then general manager of the Houston Rockets, was wrong.
Speaker 2: Daryl Moray, what was the guy was mit? Where was
Speaker 2: he with his brain?
Speaker 1: He had to educate himself on the Hong Kongers because
Speaker 1: Daryl Moray said free Hong Kong. No no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no no Ooh, Lebron James wanted that sweet sweet China
Speaker 1: cash and didn't care whose neck got a boot. That's
Speaker 1: what happened. But oh no, Lebron is so great. You
Speaker 1: know he created a school. You know he did this, dude,
Speaker 1: that was an ugly thing for.
Speaker 2: Him to do.
Speaker 1: Throw Hong Kongers under the bus. Also floppity flop flop,
Speaker 1: not so interested. And for the record, Michael Jordan was
Speaker 1: better case closed.
Speaker 2: Ah, but the sports guy having no.
Speaker 1: Desire to dig in on the philosophical on the historical
Speaker 1: of how some of these political things move and maneuver,
Speaker 1: having no willingness to engage honestly and clearly.
Speaker 2: On the subject at hand.
Speaker 1: Rather, they have been taught that their emotional fervor for
Speaker 1: their team or for the sport will suffice. It doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be a practical application. It doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be an intellectual pursuit. This is one of my laments.
Speaker 1: By the way of talk radio and Toto and the
Speaker 1: influencer class. All you have to do is show how
Speaker 1: angry you are. All you have to do is show
Speaker 1: this is how real man does it, and all this
Speaker 1: other horsecraft the idea that you can actually connect the
Speaker 1: dots politically, philosophically, historically, that is like.
Speaker 2: An ancient art.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, obscrewed, because this is kind of
Speaker 1: what I do in between smoking cigars and being quite humorous,
Speaker 1: and I want to keep doing the thing I do,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to keep doing it if it means
Speaker 1: I lose out on a couple hundred stations. Oh well,
Speaker 1: that's the way it goes. But the sports guy never
Speaker 1: ever ever got checked on the emotion and having to
Speaker 1: ground own that with the actual pursuit of the data
Speaker 1: in question. The emotion and the opinion, said Louder is
Speaker 1: what got them success.
Speaker 2: I have nothing against Stephen A. Smith zero.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell he has done to
Speaker 1: get me to believe that when it comes to political
Speaker 1: acumen or political theory. He's a guy I should be
Speaker 1: listening to. I'm not mad at him. I'm not mad
Speaker 1: at him, and I only applaud the idea of the attempt.
Speaker 1: You got to go out there and do the thing.
Speaker 1: You have to go out there and do the thing,
Speaker 1: and you gotta get your butt kicked. How else do
Speaker 1: you think it happens. I've been at this for a while.
Speaker 2: And when I first started, I got to live in
Speaker 2: crap kicked out of me. Of course you did. You
Speaker 2: didn't think about this? What about that? How do you
Speaker 2: deal with the rejection? How do you deal with the response?
Speaker 1: How do you process to be able to connect it
Speaker 1: to other things, to be able to further prove a
Speaker 1: point a theory of philosophy? It takes time. At this stage.
Speaker 1: It is still about studying, research, and some of it
Speaker 1: is just muscle memory. You've already heard that thing before,
Speaker 1: so you know exactly where you're going and how you're
Speaker 1: going to respond to it. Where is the confrontation to
Speaker 1: their politics? And the answer is, for the sports guy,
Speaker 1: it doesn't exist. And it is why I have said
Speaker 1: from the beginning, when the sports guys get involved in
Speaker 1: the politics, dear gosh, are they terrible at it?
Speaker 2: Now? I don't say, shut up and talk about dribbling.
Speaker 1: You can do it all you want, sports guys, but
Speaker 1: the vast majority of you suck at it.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 1: You've got forty million subscribers, It doesn't matter. There are
Speaker 1: people with more subscribers than me. There are people with
Speaker 1: less subscribers than me. There are people with more subscribers
Speaker 1: who are very bad at this. There are people with
Speaker 1: subscribers who are very.
Speaker 2: Good at this. It's just real. You watch these people
Speaker 2: responding to Pat McAfee. Not a one of them. I
Speaker 2: say it clearly, without any hesitation.
Speaker 1: They don't have a mind. It is PABLEM, PABLEM. If
Speaker 1: you had said, man, that's a nutty thing to do. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a nutty thing to do, just nutty. That's sitting
Speaker 1: with Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: That's nutty.
Speaker 1: What did you want him to do? Punch Trump in
Speaker 1: the face, and they'll answer with yes, and that's how
Speaker 1: broken they are. And by the way, that is actually
Speaker 1: a true story of somebody I know who was asked
Speaker 1: to appear in an event with Trump, and Trump hugged
Speaker 1: the guy and the response was you should have punched
Speaker 1: him in the face. Seriously the response he got. There's
Speaker 1: more to that story, but I'm not gonna give.
Speaker 2: It all right now.
Speaker 1: It has been talked about publicly, but I don't know
Speaker 1: I'm allowed to say it on air. They're broken people
Speaker 1: who have no interest in what you and I have
Speaker 1: an interest in, which is the actual pursuit of the
Speaker 1: understanding of the thing in question.
Speaker 2: They say, let me show how good and decent I.
Speaker 1: Am by calling Pat McAfee names, by insulting his children,
Speaker 1: by attacking his job, and then these people over here
Speaker 1: will like me. And oh, look at all the hits
Speaker 1: I got, Look at the clicks I got. And that
Speaker 1: was the last twenty four hours. That was the last
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. Guys, don't worry. Pat mcfee'll be back,
Speaker 1: you know, in the barrel again. People coming at him.
Speaker 1: When you create success, it happens, they absolutely want to
Speaker 1: tear you down.
Speaker 2: Do I agree? With Pat McFee politically. I don't know everything.
Speaker 1: About Pat McFee politically. I've never had to sit down
Speaker 1: and talk to the guy politically.
Speaker 2: If I ever got the.
Speaker 1: Opportunity, the cigars are on me, Pat, I got bourbon.
Speaker 1: It's all right here. It's not as big as your studio,
Speaker 1: but it's home. I'd agree, I disagree, what have you.
Speaker 1: He's gonna say something one day in the future and
Speaker 1: be like, that's the dumbest thing I ever heard.
Speaker 2: It's going to happen.
Speaker 1: He's not an idol, and he shouldn't be treated like
Speaker 1: some kind of special angel. He sat with the president. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone just needs to move on with their day. Oh,
Speaker 1: and stop screaming things like pedophile. You all sound weird,
Speaker 1: really really weird, And as we learned from Tim Walls,
Speaker 1: that's the worst thing someone can be. I'm Tony Katz,
Speaker 1: and this right here is Tony Katz today.
Speaker 2: This was out there in West Hartford, Connecticut, and it
Speaker 2: was a school board meeting. I think it's a school
Speaker 2: board meeting Tony Cats and Tony Kats today because.
Speaker 1: We're they're they're talking about paying teachers, and the school
Speaker 1: board member.
Speaker 2: She she's up there on the dais and she's she's
Speaker 2: wearing she how do I she's wearing ears.
Speaker 1: It's it's maybe it's it's like a I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's like a hair band something to keep the hair back.
Speaker 1: She's a black woman, and it's it's in her hair
Speaker 1: and it looks like ears, like she's a cat, like
Speaker 1: cat ears.
Speaker 2: I don't not a.
Speaker 1: It's there on the live stream their producer land and
Speaker 1: those are those are cat ears.
Speaker 2: Those are the ears of a cat. And they've got
Speaker 2: like they've got like like like they've been be dazzled. Right.
Speaker 2: I don't know why she's wearing it.
Speaker 1: Maybe she thought she was being sassy and she is
Speaker 1: making an argument, ladies and gentlemen, that black teachers should
Speaker 1: be paid more.
Speaker 3: So, I know we have like some efforts to increase
Speaker 3: diverse diversity in the district. So I'm wondering, especially around administration,
Speaker 3: are there financial incentives for black and brown people to
Speaker 3: work here. It's an extra burden quite frankly, to be
Speaker 3: a black and brown teacher and administrator in the district,
Speaker 3: And so I think we should start thinking about that
Speaker 3: financially if we're not already. But I know we call
Speaker 3: ourselves leaders, and I know we have an Office of
Speaker 3: Equity and Belonging, so I'm sure we could figure it out.
Speaker 2: We got money. It's what's Harford. It's an extra burden.
Speaker 1: Because you say so, or because you can probably be
Speaker 1: guilt a couple of bucks out of some people. The
Speaker 1: bigoted madness is not going to end until the money
Speaker 1: train ends, you know that, right. People will continue to
Speaker 1: push every kind of nonsense thing they can because they
Speaker 1: think they can profit from it. There's some type of
Speaker 1: reward to get. If it's not financial, it's reputation capital.
Speaker 1: Why would you have someone like this on your school
Speaker 1: board or any part of your world?
Speaker 2: You know that that's nonsense, right, It's an extra burden,
Speaker 2: it says he I'm Toning Kats. Three more things? Why, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: I do, Tony Kats.
Speaker 1: Tony Kats Today an absolute pleasure.
Speaker 2: Guys, glad that you are here. What are three more things?
Speaker 1: These are things that should be front page news, but
Speaker 1: because of all the front page news, they don't make
Speaker 1: the front pages.
Speaker 2: And that's why I bring it to you three more things.
Speaker 2: I'm Tony Katz.
Speaker 1: The show is Tony Katz Today, and of course on
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Speaker 1: their Facebook, Tony Cats Radio and on YouTube and rumble
Speaker 1: Tony Katz, get on end, come see it happen. In
Speaker 1: one of the weirder stories that I had come across,
Speaker 1: Newsmax reporting that Paramount might leave California and is thinking
Speaker 1: about moving.
Speaker 2: To New York.
Speaker 1: I don't get it at all. How in the world
Speaker 1: could you say California is not working? No, wait, we
Speaker 1: all understand how you can say that, but how is
Speaker 1: it possible that New York would be better?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Part of this has to do with not just the
Speaker 1: running of the company at large, but has to do
Speaker 1: specifically with lawsuits and antitrust suits. So there are a
Speaker 1: series of attorneys general that want to block the merger
Speaker 1: of Paramount with Warner Brothers Discovery. So Paramount is considering
Speaker 1: a move out of California. They're saying, we need to
Speaker 1: go now. I took this as they're looking to move
Speaker 1: to New York. Oh no, no, no, they're looking at
Speaker 1: moving CBS out of New York. I set it first.
Speaker 1: We were right here together, guys, what do we say
Speaker 1: We set a Fox News, We set of Newsmax. What
Speaker 1: are you guys still doing in New York. What's wrong
Speaker 1: with you?
Speaker 2: Why in the world would you ever be headquartered in
Speaker 2: New York? Why would you do it? It's over.
Speaker 1: Cynthia Nixon runs the city that communist and all her
Speaker 1: communists folk Zorammdani a living embodiment of the Red Green Alliance.
Speaker 1: Why would you be in that city? Why would you
Speaker 1: do it? This is a city and this is a
Speaker 1: state that doesn't do the most basic thing.
Speaker 2: And you ask me what the most basic thing is?
Speaker 1: Is it making sure people don't be on the sidewalk listen.
Speaker 1: One could hope and dream that they would stop that,
Speaker 1: making sure that people couldride the subways not being killed.
Speaker 1: Who wouldn't that be nice? No, the one thing that
Speaker 1: they don't do that they need to do is say
Speaker 1: we do things here the way we do things in
Speaker 1: the United States, and know where you came from doesn't
Speaker 1: matter as much. Public prayer where they overtake streets needs
Speaker 1: to be outlawed, including by bulldozer. I'm sorry, I'm saying
Speaker 1: that if you want to get a permit and have
Speaker 1: an event in a public park somewhere, more than welcome
Speaker 1: to do that.
Speaker 2: I have zero problem with that. Whatsoever.
Speaker 1: But if you think you could just grab five hundred Muslims,
Speaker 1: take over the streets and engage in prayer on the
Speaker 1: streets and everybody has to drive around you or walk
Speaker 1: around you, screw you, bulldozers. You'll move. We don't do
Speaker 1: that here. We don't do street takeovers. We don't allow
Speaker 1: religious takeovers.
Speaker 2: Of any kind. And in any case, scream.
Speaker 1: And yell about Islamophobia and bigotry and religious freedom all
Speaker 1: you want. You do not have the freedom to stop
Speaker 1: traffic for your prayer, rugs. No, you don't, because you're
Speaker 1: not engaged in prayer in that way at all. You're
Speaker 1: engaged in moving and growing a political system by creating fear.
Speaker 2: I have no fear. You're wrong. Off you go, Off
Speaker 2: you go. That's the answer.
Speaker 1: And these cities are not willing to fight that because
Speaker 1: ridiculous white women like Cynthia Nixon want to say, Oh,
Speaker 1: look how beautiful that is. Don't these people understand that
Speaker 1: they're doing something so important. We have freedom of religion here,
Speaker 1: it's not a religion. We allow these things. You allow
Speaker 1: the blocking of traffic. I hope you're going to enjoy
Speaker 1: the subjugation. Moving out of New York is the right
Speaker 1: thing to do. One must starve New York. Atlas Shrugg
Speaker 1: is a really good book. It must collapse. They want
Speaker 1: to collapse it. Let them.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I know that there are a lot of people that
Speaker 1: be like, well, Tony, don't you have to fight for things?
Speaker 1: I hear you, and I know people still in California
Speaker 1: is still fighting great great until it collapses. They're never
Speaker 1: going to learn. They're never going to learn. Now, whre
Speaker 1: is this a gubernatorial race? Steve Hilton, he has a shot.
Speaker 1: One would think one would hope against Jaber Bessera. There's
Speaker 1: a chance here for him to be the guy for
Speaker 1: them to actually say we have a Republican governor. But
Speaker 1: Sarah and the Real Clear Politics average is up by
Speaker 1: twenty two points. Now if I listen to Michigan and Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: this means that Steve Hilton is going to win because
Speaker 1: that pulling is just a mess. And I think it
Speaker 1: was News Nation that wrote a story what went wrong
Speaker 1: in Wisconsin? Are you trying to make cover for what
Speaker 1: happened here? The Polsters don't know how to measure these communists.
Speaker 1: They don't know how to measure it. Yet they want
Speaker 1: to argue Wisconsin's because David Crowley, who won, had dropped
Speaker 1: out of the race and then came back on the race.
Speaker 1: They didn't have enough time to put together the polls
Speaker 1: properly to account for him. Maybe, but doesn't explain what
Speaker 1: happened in Michigan, where he had the same issue. Abdul
Speaker 1: Say ed up by thirteen and a half and he
Speaker 1: wins by one percent. As a massive fail. There's a
Speaker 1: problem in the methodology, there's a problem.
Speaker 2: In who you're counting. So moving out of New York
Speaker 2: I get, moving out of California. I get.
Speaker 1: The acknowledgment is that leaving California's among the company's options
Speaker 1: as they fight anti trust lawsuits brought by California in
Speaker 1: eleven other states, and those states are arguing that combining
Speaker 1: Paramount and Warner would give the merged company excessive power
Speaker 1: over theatrical movie distribution and cable television. If there's anything
Speaker 1: that the left hates is when you have too much power,
Speaker 1: not when they have too much power. When you have
Speaker 1: too much power in all these things, I don't mind
Speaker 1: that we look out for monopoly. I get this, and
Speaker 1: I do find myself at odds with myself in terms
Speaker 1: of government interference here. But I like the idea of
Speaker 1: punishing the abusers who said you had to give them
Speaker 1: tax money, screw them. When Zaramondani goes after what's his name, Griffin,
Speaker 1: the hedge fund guy, what's his first name, I can't
Speaker 1: remember his first name right now.
Speaker 2: Ken Griffin.
Speaker 1: Ken Griffin is right to say, well, forget it, we'll
Speaker 1: leave New York. We'll take all our business with us.
Speaker 1: We won't build this building, We'll do it in Miami.
Speaker 1: I think you should come to the Midwest, mister Griffin.
Speaker 1: But hey, that's just me. He's the CEO of Citadel.
Speaker 1: Then you have red states that are working on bringing
Speaker 1: down property taxes. So this is the story out of
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal about Wyoming, where then I'm North Carolina, Florida,
Speaker 1: Oklahoma have property tax limits or rollbacks on the ballot
Speaker 1: this November.
Speaker 2: Lots and lots and states are doing this.
Speaker 1: You've had Ron DeSantis of Florida saying we should eliminate
Speaker 1: other property tax and for the record, we should eliminate
Speaker 1: the property tax. I have seen economists saying, you don't
Speaker 1: understand what the property tax does. I absolutely understand what
Speaker 1: the property tax does. Well, how else are we going
Speaker 1: to fund schools and things that are important. You don't
Speaker 1: want these services, You want to destroy your city. None
Speaker 1: of that is true. By the way, you're terrible at
Speaker 1: your job, so called economists. I will argue again for
Speaker 1: the people in the cheap seats that I understand that
Speaker 1: states can levy taxes.
Speaker 2: I understand that the federal government can levy taxes.
Speaker 1: In the role that the federal government plays, I oppose
Speaker 1: vehemently and with everything in me income taxes. The federal
Speaker 1: government is not a partner in my labor. I should
Speaker 1: have to pay them as one. It is disgusting, It
Speaker 1: is an affront.
Speaker 2: It is wrong.
Speaker 1: The adding of the income tax to the US Constitution
Speaker 1: was a mistake, part of the horrors of nineteen thirteen.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's the sixteenth Amendment for those who
Speaker 1: playing the home game. The income tax has done zero
Speaker 1: good in the United States. It has only divided people,
Speaker 1: utilized as a cudgel as a weapon against those who
Speaker 1: politically disagree with No value has come from the income tax.
Speaker 1: It was not necessary. It was a control feature. It
Speaker 1: has failed us. We should eliminate it immediately. We should
Speaker 1: rescind the sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, just like we
Speaker 1: did the twenty first Amendment to rescind the eighteenth. That,
Speaker 1: by the way, was the fact that we like Bourbon
Speaker 1: and it tastes good, just devicious. When it comes to
Speaker 1: the states, the states can have income taxes. While I
Speaker 1: disagree with it, still at least I can move to
Speaker 1: a state that has no income tax or a low
Speaker 1: income tax. I can make the decision. I can vote
Speaker 1: with my feet. What no state should be allowed to
Speaker 1: do is engage in a property tax. A property tax
Speaker 1: dictates that you do not actually own what it is
Speaker 1: you own. If any economist would like to argue this
Speaker 1: with me, feel free, But you're wrong. If I have
Speaker 1: to pay a tax on land, I have already purchased
Speaker 1: year after year after year after year. And if I
Speaker 1: don't pay the tax, you the state can take the
Speaker 1: land from me. I don't own the land. If I
Speaker 1: have to pay the vig I don't own the land.
Speaker 1: End well, Tony, you get all the upside value and
Speaker 1: the value increases, yes, and I take the downside of
Speaker 1: the value decreases.
Speaker 2: None of that matters. That's my investment. Of course, I.
Speaker 1: Gain or I could lose but whether I gain or
Speaker 1: whether I lose, You've got your hand in my pocket,
Speaker 1: you scumbag state government saying gimme mine.
Speaker 2: And I don't think you put any skin in the game. Kitten.
Speaker 1: You ain't taking no risk to the loss. You just
Speaker 1: keep saying, in the words of Goodfellas blank, you pay me,
Speaker 1: that's you. Why would you have this right? Well, how
Speaker 1: else are you gonna find schools? Nineteen thousand other ways
Speaker 1: to do this? I didn't say that there couldn't be taxes.
Speaker 1: I'm a believer in low taxes. I'm a believer in
Speaker 1: ending the income tax. I'm a believer in ending the
Speaker 1: property tax. I never said there would be no tax.
Speaker 1: I live in the real world. If you want amenities,
Speaker 1: if you want services, they have to get paid for.
Speaker 1: Some things government can do and want it to do.
Speaker 1: Some things they can't do, and they should never do,
Speaker 1: and then they would be better stewards of our dollars.
Speaker 1: There is no argument to the property tax other than control.
Speaker 1: Eliminating the property tax is the right smart course in
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Speaker 2: More to get to this is Tony Kats.
Speaker 1: Today, WNBA gathered and they said, we need to define
Speaker 1: what a woman is. We need to be able to
Speaker 1: set clear that we in the WNBA understand what a
Speaker 1: woman is and we're gonna we're gonna let everybody know.
Speaker 2: So, uh, let's let's let's sit down and discuss this
Speaker 2: and what is a woman?
Speaker 1: And I don't know what kind of meeting they had,
Speaker 1: but they then they then put out a statement and
Speaker 1: the statement reads, Today's meeting covered a wide range of topas,
Speaker 1: including ongoing discussions on transgender athletes and the continued hate
Speaker 1: and vitriol direct it at players online. We will continue
Speaker 1: to engage all league stakeholders in the coming weeks and months.
Speaker 1: By the way, anytime they use the term stakeholder, nothing happened.
Speaker 1: We will approach these important conversations thoughtfully and in alignment
Speaker 1: with the values of our league. There are no immediate
Speaker 1: eligibility matters affecting the WNBA, and we wrongly denounce the
Speaker 1: bad faith efforts to use these topics to demean or
Speaker 1: marginalize others.
Speaker 2: Translation. Yeah, we have no idea what a woman is.
Speaker 2: We don't know what it is. We don't know what
Speaker 2: a woman is. We're not gonna define what a woman is.
Speaker 2: We're not gonna be forced to find what a woman is.
Speaker 2: We don't want to do this.
Speaker 1: We're gonna just be in favor of the bigoted league
Speaker 1: being the bigoted league. We are not gonna do this
Speaker 1: until the very last second, even if we have to.
Speaker 1: That's pretty incredible. More incredible that actor Hugh Laurie, you
Speaker 1: know from the TV show House. He was posting about
Speaker 1: this on social media, and some comic by the name
Speaker 1: of Graham lenehan, I don't know Graham calling him cowardly,
Speaker 1: and so Hugh Laurie is like, firstly, blank off and secondly, no,
Speaker 1: I don't believe men should compete against women.
Speaker 2: I thought it made that pretty clear if you'd look.
Speaker 1: But obviously you must get onto your next, and I
Speaker 1: don't know what he went on from there.
Speaker 2: So the job w n b A. I'm Tony Katz,