Episode 4424: Tony Katz Today Hour 1 - 03/02/26

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1:00Live from the heartland and the crossroads of America. It's Tony Katz today! Over the past 36 hours, the United States and its partners have launched Operation Epic Fury, one of the largest, most complex, most overwhelming military offensives. The world has ever seen nobody seen anything like it. We have hit hundreds of targets in Iran, including revolutionary guard facilities, Iranian air defense systems, just now, with the announced that we knocked out nine chips,

2:04plus their naval building. All in a matter of literally minutes. Iran's formerly supreme leader, Ayatollah, Hamine is dead. This wretched and vile man had the blood of hundreds and even thousands of Americans on his hands and was responsible for the slaughter of countless thousands of innocent people all across many countries. And anybody who's going to miss him is the problem. The people out there saying, how dare we take out this terrorist? How dare we take out this torture? How dare we get us involved in a forever war? These are the people who want America to fail and they want terrorists to succeed. Now, you might say to me, Tony, that sounds a bit harsh. Maybe that's hyperbolic. No part of it is harsh and no part of it is hyperbolic. These people have chosen and they have chosen poorly. Tony Katz.

3:09Tony Katz today, good to be here, good to be with you. Find everything I do over at Tonykatz.com, live streaming on the YouTube. Check it out, subscribe and be a part of it. The left is apoplectic that the rest of the world thinks that the removal of the Ayatollah is a good thing. Iranians are cheering in the streets of Tehran. They're taking to the streets of Los Angeles of London, of New York and cheering. They're crying while singing their national anthem. In London, it's Iranians and Jews celebrating because anybody who is of a rational mind knows that the Ayatollah was not Iranian, not speaking for these people. These people who want to live their lives free. These people who are tortured by the Ayatollah quite literally, if they weren't just killed. These people now have a chance at a better life. That is certainly what I hope for them,

4:10that is not what the American left hopes for them. We're going to break this step. But we need to get an understanding of why this all happened. And there is a straight line that can be created here. I'm going to share it with you. Let's start with the moment that we learned this was happening. This was 127 AM Eastern time, 927 there in Tehran. That's when these strikes begin. Now, I had spoken to some people and checked with some people and said, do we think this is going to happen over the weekend? And some people are like, who knows? Some people are like, definitely not. You got to wait to see. And if the embassy in Baghdad is evacuated, now we knew that the Israeli embassy, the word, had gone out to evacuate. But we had not heard about Baghdad. And I was talking to major Mike Lyons, who is our military guy. And he actually said those words. Wait till Baghdad gets evacuated.

5:15I think we still have a couple of weeks. Wait till Baghdad gets evacuated. That'll tell you everything you need to know. Baghdad got evacuated the night before. He was not wrong. He was not wrong at all. The first bombs drop at 127 AM as of 3 AM. The internet on that Saturday was gone. It was then just a few hours later that President Trump wearing the USA white hat said this is taking place Operation Epic Fury. Good name. It's good name. They were going to go with Operation F that guy, but that was already taken for another operation. So like we can't use it. We can't use it for two operations. You can't do that. No, no, no, no. So he announces the operation a couple hours later, the Israelis come out and say, oh, we are a part of this Operation Roaring Lion. So the first operation regarding October 7th was Operation Rising Lion.

6:22This was Operation Roaring Lion from the Israelis. And about eight or nine AM eastern time on this Saturday, we learned something that is very, very peculiar. And you are right to note that it was strange, that it was odd, that it was weird. And that is that Iran started hitting other Arab and Muslim nations. Bahrain, the UAE, reports of missiles that were shot down over Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Kuwait. Why in the world would you go after these nations? Why would you go after them? We'll get to that. But first, why is the United States hitting Iran? Iran is not an existential threat to us. They weren't an imminent threat to us. There are no threats to us. All of that is leftist clap trap nonsense.

7:29The Iranians, which is to say not the people, but the leadership, is a terrorist organization in support of other terrorist organizations in support of killing you, me and we. These are the facts as presented. It's who they are. It's what they do. Of course, they are a threat. Every time the Houthi rebels fired American ships, that is a threat that is Iran because how do you think the Houthi rebels get paid? Here you have the United States working with other countries to try and rebuild Gaza and they're still Hamas. How do you think they get paid? Never mind the funding that they give to Hezbollah in the north of Iran, of Israel, in Lebanon. They are nothing more than a terrorist organization in support of other terrorist organizations and they get there. They get the money by selling their oil to China, whether that be through legal or

8:31illegal means. So all it is, there is no question from the rational mind that Iran and the Iranian leadership, the Ayatollah and the Mullahs, the hardliners, the clerics, they are a threat to the world. You want to pin this all on Israel? Okay, listen, we've been through all this before. We've heard all this before. You want a Marjorie Taylor green, this thing. You go right ahead, but Marjorie Taylor green is a damn fool. Part of the problem is this idea about never wars. And Trump said, you're not going to see a war with Iran when I'm president. Yeah, he's got to deal with that. But let's understand, let's make sure that we're all on the same page of at least where I am, and people can agree or disagree as they choose.

9:37The Iranian regime is not representative, as we know, an indicative of the of the Iranian people. They want to live free and they have not been able to live free. The Iranian regime is a threat the world over and it had to be dealt with. The Iranian regime was working towards a nuclear weapon. They after even Trump's bombing raid back in 2025, they continued to try and make head roads down this way. They weren't going to stop until they were stopped. You're not going to stop the Ayatollah. You're not going to stop these Islamists. You're not going to stop these terrorists until they are stopped. The leftist wants to make the claim that this is all the fault of Israel dragging us into another war. But it's not just the leftist. This is the woke right that wants to

10:42make this same argument, whether it's Tucker or Candace or Nick Fuentes or name another scumbag. I don't care if they like me. I don't care if they say mean things about me. None of it matters. It's a stupid, stupid argument. Does Israel clearly want an end to the Iranian regime that's been threatening them their entire existence? Yes. Or the least the last 40 plus years of their existence, absolutely they do. Of this, there is no question whatsoever. Of course, Israel wants them gone, done, wants the regime over with. That's undoubtedly true. Doesn't change the fact that the Iranians are the sponsors of terrorism and have engaged in attacks on American citizens. Have engaged in attacks on American troops. They aren't the good guys. They don't have a case here.

11:48The Iranian regime under the itola doesn't have a case that can be made for why they are somehow being treated poorly. And the left and the woke right want to make some argument for why he wasn't a threat. These people are out of their heads and they're wrong. The obvious threats can be seen throughout history. The defense of it. Well, it comes from two places. From the left, it comes from an absolute hate of the United States. And from the right to the woke right, it comes from the absolutely ignorant and childlike place of no more wars. Kitten, what are you even talking about? Some people, some groups, some organizations are a threat and they have to go. It's not because I want it to be that way. It's because it is that way. It's because it is that way. Is the person saying we shouldn't take out the itola? Okay, with the Iranian shooting at

12:52Americans in the Red Sea and the answer to them is, well, you shouldn't be in the Red Sea. So now how do you handle the trade situation with the number of ships that flow through the Suez Canal? What price are you willing to pay for the goods? Well, we shouldn't get goods from the rest of the world. You just make in the United States. We don't make everything in the United States. Are we out of our heads? It's an ignorant argument. Let me give you another ignorant argument that shows up in the chatroom. You join up then and then he called me a dirty word. This is the second argument. This is the second argument from the left and the woke right. And I want to put this argument to bed. The argument is, sure, you'll go to war and you'll send somebody else's kids to war. If you want war so much, why don't you join? Through our history, you're always sending somebody else's kids to war. That's how this works.

13:57So to the left and to the woke right, you are a bunch of cowards. You're right. I never served. I never put on the uniform. That is not what it takes to recognize that there are moments and people who do put on the uniform do recognize this. And I am sorry to say that it is very clear over the last years or decades we have done a terrible job in the military of bringing on the right people to engage in the right conversation about the fight in general. You are always sending somebody else's kid to do the fight. I didn't say do it for light and transient causes. I didn't say it. Do it on a whim. I didn't say do it half-assed. But the idea that you're not going to send somebody else's kid, oh, we can't do that. Somebody else's kid. No, you can't be a part of that. Somebody else's kid. It's always somebody else's kid. And that's why they sign up because they know it could be them, but they're a different breed and they're special or at least they should be.

14:58You see the people coming out now, oh, I would never do that. Oh, you're sending somebody else's kid. It's always somebody else's kid. Get your head out of wherever it is and deal with the reality. You absolute cowards. The Iranian regime is a threat. The Ayatollah is a threat. The Ayatollah had to go and I'd appreciate it very, very much if everybody would grow up and start dealing with reality. This is the reality. The reality is the Iranian people now have a chance. They got to take it for themselves. I agree with that. But we should be clear. This was a regime change war. This was a regime change war. And we should not kid ourselves. I know that

16:01Pete Hegsett, the Secretary of War, Secretary of Defense, however you want to call it, was saying this was a regime change. Of course it was. We're going to lie to each other. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. But the woke right and the political left for very different reasons are both on the wrong side of an argument. The political left hates America. The woke right hates Israel and they think that that's the story here. It's not. It's not all there will be plenty of people who want to say that because, you know, hating Israel is just part of the plan. I don't care about those people. What we have to do is ask ourselves why? Why do we get to this moment right now? The answer is the Abraham Accords. And I will break it down coming up in just a bit. Keep it here. I'm Tony Katz. This is Tony Katz today. The Toyota Tundra and Tacoma are built to

17:02keep going backed by Toyota's reputation for legendary reliability. Step into a Tundra with the available I force max hybrid engine delivering impressive torque and serious towing power or take a look at Tacoma with an available power lift gate. So gear goes in fast and the adventure keeps moving. Toyota trucks are built to last year after year, mile after mile. So drive one home today. Visit Toyota.com for more Toyota. Let's go places. Can I change gears just for a quick moment? Just just just just a quick one. How did Jim Carrey end up looking like Val Kilmer? There is this I've seen the story now a couple times. I'm like I I don't know what I'm looking at here. And it has to do with Jim Carrey getting an award. And he's well he doesn't look like him at all.

18:06He looks like he has had a serious amount of plastic surgery. Let me see if I can yeah let me hear if you're watching the live stream I'll I'll show you right here. He looks he doesn't look anything like himself like this is like him before and he's got like high cheekbones now and he does he's got this Val Kilmer plastic surgery look. I don't know why people do this to themselves. I don't I don't know why people engage this this plastic surgery thing listen I plastic surgery I should say I don't have an issue with the facelift stuff I have an issue with somebody just said look at Kelly Osborne okay now. I don't know where she was. I don't know what

19:06award show it was. But Kelly Osborne the daughter of Ozzy Osborne and Sharon Osborne that appears at this event in Kelly Osborne who when she was doing that show in MTV was was certainly an overweight girl. She's anorexic skinny and she's getting angry with people how dare you body shame me I've had an absolutely terrible year. She she looks sickly and it's okay for people to notice. Oh my gosh when someone looks sickly. So that's the case of just beyond idea. It's not anything that's plastic surgery. That's just that is the need of a sandwich and and healthy eating. Jim Carrier looks like plastic surgery in the end that you can do what you want. I I will tell you the only thing I've ever said to my wife is is no no plastic surgery. No no no facelifts. The face must remain. That's my face. I like to look at that face. I got to look

20:09at that face every day over breakfast. I want a good face to look at. Don't mess with the thing. I don't know why they do it. I don't know what they're. I'm curious to know the mindset of what they see in the mirror. Right. That's what I'm curious about. What do they see? How does it how is it satisfied? Because Jim Carrier was just a guy who was great comic actor and great actor and got older and some wrinkles and whatever. We're all going to get them. So what? Keep it here. I'm Tony Katz. This is Tony Katz today. In Austin two people are dead. 14 were injured when a 53 year old former New York City resident immigrant from Senegal opened fire at a beer garden. Tony Katz. Tony Katz today. Good to be here. Good to be with you.

21:14Had a rifle and wearing a hooded sweatshirt that read property of Allah. The Wall Street Journal puts out a headline. Too dead in Austin bar shooting. FBI sees possible links to terrorism. I for one. I'm shocked. Was this in response to what took place in Iran? Special agent in charge saying it's too early to know that the shooter's motive. The shooter was killed in what came next after the shooting that he engaged in. This guy entered the US on a B2 tourist visa in March of 2000. In 2006 he became a lawful

22:14permanent resident through marriage to an American citizen. Naturalized as a US citizen in April of 2013. More information is going to come out. One could say it's connected to what happened in Iran. And of course you have the usual suspects on the political left who hate America. I'm going to get into that and you've got the woke right. No more forever wars. We don't need any wars. This was unnecessary. I disagree. I didn't say they couldn't have their opinion. I disagree. What I will not accept is the argument of you're sending other people's kids into war. That is always the way it works. Somebody said many veterans disagree with you. I wouldn't be surprised that many veterans disagree with me. I bet you I can find a lot of veterans who agree with me.

23:14No, no surprise there. But a veteran disagreeing with me doesn't change reality. It doesn't. It never will. They have an opinion and I have mine. But I don't get told them not allowed to have an opinion because I never served. That's just garbage. So disagreeing is both kind of the American thing, right. But I'm going to get into why. I want to get into why this happened. Why isn't that this was the moment for taking out the regime? Why wasn't it when we took out the nuclear facilities? Back in what was that July? July of 2025? Why don't we do it then? Why now? Well, allow me. This didn't happen just now. This has never been happening just now.

24:24This has a direct line that starts with the Abraham Accords. Everything you are witnessing, everything you have just witnessed has zero to do with just now. This was the stage was set for all of this with the creation of the Abraham Accords. This complete rethink on how the Middle East should deal with itself. What the Abraham Accords said, and I'm paraphrasing here, and Jared Kushner is more than welcome to disagree with me if he chose. The Abraham Accords say to Arab nations and Muslim nations, those in the Middle East, hey, we get that you don't want to do anything with Israel or work with Israel or even mention Israel until there is a solution regarding the Palestinians, two-state solution, whatever some people

25:26think it should be. There can be no two-state solution when terrorists are in charge, but hopefully the terrorists will be gone soon and then we can rethink everything. The Abraham Accords said, instead of, well, first solve this and then we can get to that. It switched those. It flipped those and said, why don't we engage in trade? Why don't you and Israel engage in trade? The US will absolutely be supportive of all this. And then through trade and tourism and building up some relationships, we can then all come to an understanding of what we could do here. And remember, these Palestinians, they're really ethnically from all of your countries. You just won't take them back. And some nations said, yep, yeah, we're good with that because the other way was getting them nowhere. The other way was getting them nowhere. This idea that only the two-state solution could

26:27solve things, that's what happens. That's what happens when you have Ivy League elites deciding your foreign policy, it would seem. It was only one way. It was only this way. It could only be discussed through this point of view, through this argument and to his credit. And by the way, the credit of other people who have engaged conversations like this, Donald Trump said, no, we can think of this in another way. Why don't we try it like this? And to the credit of Jared Kushner, he did a very good job of selling it. The Abraham Accords start going into effect. Now, understand that the people and the group this hurt most and affected most was the Iranian regime. The Iranian regime gets affected because they're the ones who want to be the hegemonic power, and they want to do so not through leadership, but through fear. We'll bomb. You hear, we'll attack,

27:28you hear, we'll engage a terrorist organization here because they have this oil money that they're willing to spend on it. This affected them greatly because it took away their largest Trump card. I didn't mean Trump that way, but you get what I'm saying. It took away their ability to threaten, because now, well, hey, America, I'm now doing this deal with Israel and you said you would be supportive of it. And here's the Iranian stradding me. Where's my help? The other nations of the Middle East know that the Iranians, the Iranian regime was the problem. They were the ones stirring up the crap. They were the ones creating the issues. They were the ones engaging in the violence. They were the ones engaging in the destabilization and engaging in basically threatening pose and posture to other Muslim Arab nations. Abraham Accords, now draw the line. To October 7, 2023, the Iranians, sorry, the Iranian regime, through their proxy Hamas,

28:32attack Israelis, kill 1200 Israelis, kill American citizens, kill Thai nationals, rape women, children on fire and take hostages. And the Israelis do something they haven't done in, well, maybe since 1948, one carry, maybe since a six day war. Although that was only six days. They don't stop. We have lived through enough of this to note that Israel gets hit. They hit back. The world says, what do you think you're doing? It's not in proportion. And Israel stops. Israel didn't stop. And nation said you have to stop. And Israel said, nah, these people are going to die. These terrorists are going to die. We're done trying. By the way, that wasn't just BB, Benjamin Netanyahu. That wasn't just the, the, the, the, the coup. That was the whole of Israel

29:42from a lot to the Golan Heights. We're done with these people. Mount up everybody. You know what it is to be a September 12th American? These are October 8, Israelis. They went from being a country that no one was allowed to have a gun if they weren't serving in the military. To the country said, okay, everybody can have a gun. Now we're going to limit the amount of ammunition because they didn't want terrorists being able to break into homes and get more firearms. And people started carrying everywhere. We're done with these people. Said the Israelis. And they kept going. And they kept going. And when Joe Biden and his leftist low-life cronies and that administration said, we're going to do this. And we're going to do that. What they said was what the Israeli said was, you do what you got to do, Joey. By the way, we know you're not in charge. We're going to keep going. And that changed the perception.

30:45No one's putting up with this terrorism anymore. No one's putting up with this regime anymore. And you'll note all of these Muslim Arab nations. They may have said, oh, I can't believe Israel's doing this. None of them put up a troop to stop it because they want the Iranian regime gone to which brings us to the board of peace. The dumbest name has ever existed ever. The board of peace, which is about the rebuilding of Gaza. Here are all these nations. You're going to put in a billion. You're going to put in 200 million. You're going to put in this. You're going to put in that. You're going to put in this. You're going to put in the other. So now they're going to invest to rebuild Gaza. That's called having skin in the game. And here's this terrorist organization trying to rebuild their nuclear capability and still supporting terrorism. I can't have them having terrorists where I'm putting in my investment. I got to

31:51protect my investment. Stop thinking of the board of peace as the board of peace. Stop thinking start thinking of the board of peace in the following way. It is not about a board of peace. The board of peace is a mafia family working with other mafia families, divvying up the land and saying, who's going to protect who from what? You've got the cops and you've got the judges and you've got this one. You're going to do that one. You're going to get that corner. You're going to be in that business. No, no, no, that belongs to this guy. This one's yours. And Trump is the head of the families. And then the families got together and they said, we can't have these Iranian things. You know, Tyatola scumbag. He's going to ruin everything. He's going to ruin my investment. I'm expecting a nice envelope every month from this. And so they said, well, I ain't going to miss him. And then another family said, I will miss him. And then another family said, who I haven't talked about. I don't miss him right now.

32:54And then a wink and then a nod. And here we are. You think that this was just Donald Trump acting on a whim at the behest of his, the Israelis? Can I ask the the the woke right and the left to question? I'm not asking you. I'm asking the woke right and the left to question. Are you really that stupid? Are you really that bereft the ravages of thought that you would think that it's now because the Israelis finally broke through on saying Iran is bad. Kids, the world has not changed for a millennia. This is about money. Now, it's also about safety and security. But this is about money. This is about Muslim and Arab nations wanting to protect their investment.

33:56Israel talking about the problem that Iran is for decades didn't move the needle. But five or six Muslim Arab nations say, you know, these Jews ain't necessarily wrong. Good luck, boom. Goodbye, Ayatollah. It's a straight line from the Abraham Accords to the border piece. And that is why the Ayatollah is dead today and hopefully will be dead tomorrow. I'm Tony Katz. The Toyota Tundra and Tacoma are built to keep going, blending rugged muscle with precision engineering, all supported by Toyota's time-tested legacy of dependability. Step into a Tundra and feel the unyielding capability. With the available iForce Max engine, Tundra puts out impressive power, torque and towing performance. And the roomy high-tech cabin keeps you connected on the go or take a look at Tacoma, made for drivers who push past the path agile, tough and relentless with available features

34:59like crawl control, a powered rear window, portable JBL speaker and a power lift gate. So gear goes in fast and the adventure keeps moving. The Tacoma and Tundra are engineered to endure season after season, mile after mile. So drive one home today, visit toyota.com for deals and local inventory. We're stopped by your Toyota dealer to find out more Toyota. Let's go places. Never have a moment where a communist can't say something unbelievably stupid. Today's military strikes by the United States and Israel mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal act of war of aggression. Bombing cities, killing civilians, opening up a new theater of war. Americans do not want this. Americans do not want another war in pursuit of regime change. Shut up, you dumb commie loser. Dumb commie loser. You let people freeze to death.

36:07Best of luck with your government run grocery stores. What do you know about what Americans want? You hate the place. The left has made this so perfectly clear that they hate the place. Tony cats. Tony cats today. Good to be with you. Really good. There's a lot of good stuff happening in the chat room today. But this is a good question. This Africa not play a part in China. I am going to get into how China is affected by everything that has happened. Via the United States and their foreign policy in the last three months. I am going to break this down. By the way, speaking of they, did you hear Rashida Talib? Did you hear Rashida Talib referred to the United States where she is a member of Congress and took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution?

37:08Did you hear where she referred to the US as they? And I don't think she was talking pronouns. Does Africa not play a part in China? There's a real worthy discussion here about how a lot of focus is given to the Middle East. And for a lot of reasons and oil being one of those reasons, religious being another one of those reasons. But Africa doesn't get enough of our attention. And it is true. How does Africa play a part in China? Well, a huge one is a matter of fact and I will try and fold that into the conversation. Meanwhile, the lefty reaction to everything happening in Iran that's coming up next. Keep it here. This is Tony Katz today. The all new 2026 Toyota RAV4 is here building on everything drivers know and love about Toyota with a redesigned look and modern tech that makes life behind the wheel easier than ever.

38:11The new RAV4 comes standard as a hybrid, providing smooth, efficient performance for both city streets and longer journeys. Enjoy the legendary reliability Toyota is known for in the all new 2026 RAV4. Learn and shop more at toyota.com. Toyota, let's go places.