Episode 4718: Tony Katz Today Hour 1 - 09/08/26

0:00. Live from the heartland and the crossroads of America. It's Tony Cats today. If you take a look midday, you'll see that oil prices were $92.31 a barrel in the front crew and that does not make any sense. Now you say to me Tony were it were with a ran and only make sense? No. No, no, no, it does not. It does not make sense if indeed oil is flowing through. It doesn't make sense at all. If we have parts of the hormones straight open, it doesn't make any sense if a ran

1:01is on their heels, which by every single bit of reporting they do. They are. They are on their heels. Did I say hello? I'm Tony Cats, the show is Tony Cats today. My name is Tony Cats. The show is Tony Cats today. We have oil prices that make no sense to what it is that we are told. Well Tony, what we're told isn't true. I don't know if that's the case. I don't know what we're being told isn't true now. Let's be clear with each other. We get told a whole bunch of crap that just ain't true. But who has control of the straight it is not a ran. A ran doesn't have fuel. They have two months of gasoline left, which is to say that the Iranian people have no gasoline left. The IRGC has two months left. Maybe they got a supply

2:01here. This supply there. How do you even determine these things? But we can be clear that things have been tough. Things have been incredibly difficult. The blockade is working. It's working. It is starving them economically. And I for one could not be more overjoyed. I want the Iranian regime to suffer. I want them to be gone. I want the people to rise up and take back their country. I want it to be called Persia again. We've been through this. This economic siege is working. Why don't we do this months ago? Well maybe the answer to that question is found from this report from the financial times through the Jerusalem post that U.S. Special Forces spent four months conducting mine clearing mission in the straight-up war mues. They put in the Navy seals and bit by bit and piece by piece.

3:05They took these mines that were placed into the straight by the Iranians to stop oil tankers from going through and they moved them out. Now some of these mines turned out to be a whole bunch of bunk. It was all fraudulent. It was all nonsense. The international maritime organization estimates in June that roughly 80 mines have been deployed along important shipping routes. So Navy sealed divers worked with unmanned vessels and robots specialized under water equipment to locate and remove suspected Iranian mines often operating at night, which means always operating at night. At that moment I just want everyone to take a pause and recognize that they can mock and attack Pete Heggseth. All they want, that guy can keep a secret. That guy is able to keep things private, keep things quiet. I love it. He is

4:09better than all the left is willing to admit and who cares what they are willing to admit. These are the people who applauded Lloyd Austin. A wall Lloyd. That's who they favored. I favor a guy who can keep things quiet. That's the person I'm interested in. The person who's interested in the lethality overall. The person who believes that you should hold everyone to a standard including yourself when it comes to let's say physical fitness good on him. He's had dust ups with some senior officers. Well, yeah, yes he has. He had a dust up with the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Army resigned. I have nothing against andrisco. I have no reason to have anything against andrisco. Maybe you could point things out to me they would make me say, I don't know about the standrisco guy. But he's the Secretary of Defense Secretary of War. The other guy works for him.

5:09Secretary of Defense makes the call. That's it. That's how it goes. So the people who want to scream that the military is in disarray. Four month operation. Four month operation. Clearing out the mines. And the Iranians can't get to you. Can't shoot at you. What you don't think they would shoot in Americans? They had already shot in Americans. We already had planes that crashed inside of Iranian territory. We got them out. Of course they would. But I go back now to where we are with oil prices. You can't make this make sense to me. Ninety it was ninety two dollars mid day. Right? Ninety two dollars on the west Texas railroad. And nine the let's call it ninety eight dollars ninety seven dollars and fifty cents on the Brent. So the Brent comes out of the ocean.

6:09The west Texas comes out of the ground. Not the oceans. Although it's all coming out of the ground. Please let's not get technical. You could say to me Tony. It's a war. It raises the price of things. And I'll say to you. I have got report after report after report about how the oil is flowing through the straight. Well Tony it's not flowing through the pre war levels. No, but it's flowing through at three quarters levels. Three quarters of this supply pre war is now coming through. Tony, it's not really true. It's more like two thirds. Okay. We went from seventy five percent to sixty six percent. I'll concede. Why? Has the oil price been rising over the last two weeks? Well Tony, we have had some military action. I'm not saying no. But we still have we still have tankers flowing through the straight.

7:10We still have movement. We are clearing up. We are clearing up the mines. What's the issue here? Well, maybe it's a question about sources. If I go to Al Jazeera they'll tell me that we're only operating at five to ten percent of pre war levels. But I've got the reporting the other way. If I go to the New York Times, but I already said Al Jazeera, things are problematic. Iran's still hitting vessels. Iran struck twelve ships in August. Do I think that the reporting is off base? You can argue every reporting is off base. So what is it that you believe? How do you come to a conclusion of what's happening here? Well, if the oil prices are this high, it clearly means

8:13that no oil is getting through, that Iran is still able to choke things off, and Iran is in the cat bird's seat. That's not true though. Iran is not in the cat bird's seat. The Iranian regime, to the extent that it exists, is desperately trying to get a deal that removes the sanctions and allows them to actually start making some money again. The IRGC has not been afraid to hit military bases in Jordan and certainly go after Bakrane or the UAE, acting independently of whatever leadership exists through the parliament speaker, Galibov, through the President Pazashkian or others. Why haven't I heard the President say of those involved in the speculation? What the hell do you think you're doing? I do not believe that the President of the United States has the right to tell any U.S. company at all or in any way here's what you have to charge. And when he gets into the idea of, oh, you can't pass those tariff costs

9:16along how dare you. I don't mind if the President's told to kiss off by some of these CEOs. I would actually approve of it. You're the President of the United States. Don't tell me how to run my business. You already are making my life difficult with the tariffs. Now I have to further absorb it, okay? But 9,000 people are going to lose their jobs. I mean, that's the President, no matter which party, he can't do that. But if we're talking about world markets and what I'm really digging into, which is a question straight out about manipulation, and you say to me Tony, you're being conspiratorial, I get why somebody would say that. I, however, want answers to questions. Explain how we get to the place

10:19where the barrel price is creeping its way towards 100. If indeed the regime is closer to collapse every single day, they don't have gas and we're paying more for oil. And I think the answer is China. The word on the street is that China, which has been the biggest buyer of the Serenian sanctioned oil, can't get the sanctioned oil. And so they have no choice as we discussed many, many weeks ago. They have no choice but to purchase oil on the marketplace. And because of that, supply and demand being real, the price is going up. The story over there was zero hedge, $100 Brent Looms as China's oil buying rebounds.

11:20Chinese refiners are stepping up purchases from Africa, Canada, Latin America, and Russia as Iranian and Gulf suppliers remain constrained. Now, that is always a reminder that we need more refineries. We absolutely need more refineries in the United States. Not having a refineries has been a huge, huge mistake. But just before we get to the place of full-on conspiratorial, what the heck is going on here? What are these speculators doing? If China has to buy oil on our market, that price is going to go up. There's more demand for a limited supply. And there would be more demand even if we were flowing at pre-war levels. Because the days of sanctioned oil are over. Now, if I'm Trump, I certainly look into getting on Carg Island and starting shipping that stuff out and putting it in the marketplace and not giving the Iranian to dime. Tony, you're talking about stealing Iranian oil. You bet your ass I am.

12:21Can you see the smile? Yeah. I'm going to steal their oil. I'm going to steal the sandwich right off their plate. That's what you get from being terrorist low-lives. We take your oil. We take your oil. We laugh out loud. And then you know what we do with that oil? We use it to educate the women. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, you Islamist schmucks. Oh, you thought you thought you could beat our pluralism. Oh, don't worry. We have issues with the white liberal women. We agree. We agree. But you have a way of handling that. We have a way of handling that. We think our way is better. And certainly involves a lot less starting people off rooftops. So we're going to do it our way. You Islamist lose. We win. Twas never thus. Okay. We take the oil. We sell the oil. We bring down the price of everything because we put more supply in.

13:21So certainly there could be China now having to... We discuss this. We actually dug into this. And it might lead to oil higher prices. And I'm willing to accept that. That is the price we pay right now. Short term for the longer term. No terrorists in Iran and China being forced to actually be normal people. Hot damn. I'm all about it. Breaking China economically is good for us. Make them pay more for oil. Take away their businesses as we move manufacturing back either to the United States or into India. Vietnam, I know it's still a communist nation, but one fight at a time. Maybe move some of that manufacturing into Central America. Stop even the desire to have to try and bring yourself to the United States. Bring the jobs there and help them stabilize. Of course. But I will go back to...

14:25A point that still needs to be addressed. And that point is these numbers don't make any sense. Yes, it could be China. Yes, it could be less amounts coming through. I want to know how come there's no conversation anywhere about the speculators. If you tell me it's market prices and if you tell me the market's doing what the market does, I'll say to you, okay, I like markets. But can we ask out loud whether indeed that's the case? Is this the market or is this something else? Is the market reacting properly or is the market doing something else? Keeping prices a little high and why isn't that we have not heard? Any elected official ask this question? I just gave you a lot.

15:26Here's what's going on, here's why it's going on. Here's some of the reasons it can be going on. I'd like to get some answers and I'm searching for them. China buying again and getting into it and being part of the marketplace is supposed to the sanctioned oil. Yeah, that could be a big part of it. I just don't know if it's the whole thing. I'll keep my eyes open. I'll bring it back to you. In the meantime, the left is involved in a full on death cult. It's an absolutely hard story and it's got a lot of pieces. I will bring that to you. Keep it here. It's Tony Katz today. Just remember there's no such thing as having heard it all. You know the expression I've heard it all. No, no, you haven't. No, you haven't heard it all. There is no way to hear it all. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, good to be with you and you haven't heard it all until you've heard. Lindsey Clancy's attorney, Kevin Reddington, ask President Trump for a pardon.

16:26What's next for Lindsey? I'd like to say that perhaps Donald Trump who felt compelled to speak out about this case may very well. Mr. President, I would hope that you would consider this young lady type of person she is, what she's been through and consider a pardon. Thanks for coming in this morning. My pleasure. Okay. All right. I don't, I told you you have not heard everything. You only thought you heard everything. Tony Katz, Tony Katz today, wow. Just ask for a pardon. He's talking to George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America and ask it. I told you, I haven't figured out whether this guy is diabolical or this is exactly the lawyer I want because he will do anything for his clients.

17:32I want there to be a retrial. And I want there to be a retrial and I understand that what we're not talking about here, you know, we're talking about the insanity conversation more than anything else. These women who have been supportive of her, they need to lose. And the reason I state that they need to lose is that if we are in a place where a woman can murder her kids and other women will say, well, you don't understand. That's bad news for society and certainly bad news for kids. Now, maybe I should take solace in this. This is the admission that there's a difference between men and women because how could a man understand what a woman goes through. Well, what about these men who claim to be women can all of a sudden they understand or are they not really women too?

18:33If you want to say, well, here's the spin. Great. Here's the spin. Sometimes I'm not interested in political advantage. I'm interested in us all being normal. And if there are white liberal women out there supporting this murderer, regardless of anything else, she killed her three kids. If they're out there supporting and defending the murder of children. And now you've got this whole subculture of people on social media saying, oh, I think about, I think about, I think about, terming my kids every single day. Oh, I think about that. No, no, no. Most people say, oh, I want to kill them. But a little, they do that. They do the whole, you know, my Rudolph thing from starting a life. They don't mean it. These women mean it. If Lindsey Clancy isn't found guilty of murder, we are in for a problem. I'm Tony Katz.

19:37On 9-11, nearly 3,000 precious souls were stolen from us killed by evil terrorists at the World Trade Center. The Pentagon and on flight 93. All of these years later we gather on another Tuesday morning in September to reaffirm the sacred vow. We made a quarter of a century ago. We will never forget. We say it and we mean it. We will never forget those we lost and we will never forget the immortal heroes of September 11th, 2001. That's President Trump. He was speaking at an event earlier today. It was the steel across America event. Wasn't 100% sure what the steel across America event was.

20:37But I will tell you that there should be no moment to this week where we are not fully engaged in the recognition that's been 25 years since September 11th, 2001, which is I agree a stunning thought. 25 years. I guess this is the moment where people say, wow, that went by in a blank. People do that all the time. I get this from a lot of people. It's true. The older you get, the faster the time goes. Can I just say for the record? No. Now the time goes as it goes. It's just a question of what you're doing with it. It always has been and always will be. What is it that you do with it? I think the reason people get to levels of what they call it midlife crisis is right. They chase a goal. And then they achieve and they say, what's next? Or they don't achieve and say, what was that good for?

21:45And that's both those things are really, really rough. Right? And to some level, I would argue everybody goes to a little bit of this kind of reckoning and the goal is not always business. The goal can be 100 things. I think the beauty part is is that what you did while you were trying to get there. And then what is it that you can do next? You know, goals can change. Thoughts can change. All right. All right. I pursued this. This part didn't happen. This little thing happened. The other thing happened over there. Now I'm going to go take a look at this. People will tell you that life is short. And it certainly can be. And for a lot of people on September 11th, it was. I prefer to think that life is actually very, very long. There is time for all sorts of corrections. I am not a victim of my life. I'm the person deciding each day of it and how it goes.

22:49There is going to be a lot of this September 11th. Very emboldened people discussing we deserved it. Chickens coming home to Roos to remember that from Barack Obama's pastor. People saying they're glad it happened to the United States. People saying do it again. All those kinds of things are going to take place. Remember social media is a hellscape. Also follow me on Twitter at Tony Katz. Our job as I see it, you know, the president is not wrong in the never forgetting. That is certainly not the plan. But ask ourselves, what are we going to do in the never forgetting? What does it actually mean? What does it mean to never forget? That's the part no one talks about. It has to mean something. It has to matter. It has to lead to an action.

23:51Otherwise, remembrance is nothing. If it leads to you teaching this day to your kids, okay, good. If it leads to some level of donation to name the charitable, okay, good. If it leads to your remembering, I'm never going to vote for those leftists who have embraced the Islamists who were thrilled with September 11th and cheered in the streets. Good. That's an action. Those are all actions. If it doesn't lead to an action, what exactly is someone doing? Back to the president speaking today. In the course of history, there are a few moments that divide time into really what came before when you look at what took place that day. Nobody will ever even think of such a thing being able to happen again. And we're going to do everything enough, power to make sure it doesn't.

24:54That was a day like no other. September 11th was one of those moments in time where you always, everybody knows exactly where they were. I know exactly where I was. I was watching and looking through as a beautiful, beautiful morning. And I looked out and then all of a sudden I saw an alert on television. I looked out my window and I saw things that I never want to see again. We're never going to see them again. But in just over 100 minutes, 175,000 tons of steel and concrete were reduced to ruin and 3,000 lives were extinguished immediately extinguished. The world we knew and the nation that we loved had changed. I said it to myself. Then I looked and I said, well, the world has changed forever. So many things have changed because of that day yet this battered piece of steel here today on the ellipses, a reminder that America is blessed with a strength.

25:54No fire can consume. No evil can conquer. And no terror can destroy. I don't mind that message at all. I am good with that message. So now we push that for now, ever gently to the side. And I bring you to a story regarding the United Kingdom because it seems to me that the UK has lost their mind, the United Kingdom. And the United States is all about Israel having its response. The story here is that the United Kingdom has decided to get tough under Andy Burnham, this big prime minister, as if Kierstharmer wasn't bad enough.

26:58He's getting angry and angrier that Israel has settlements in the West Bank. Now, as just a matter of course, understand, I believe if you win it in a war, it's yours. There's no such thing as a settlement. This is the land of Israel belongs to them. They want it. The goal on heights, it's theirs. The West Bank, it's theirs. Maybe the Palestinians had just taken a deal in 48. We wouldn't have to have any of this nonsense, but they didn't because they are violent people. They are supported by violent people. They create violent people. Certainly not everybody. Just everybody who's in charge. The West Bank isn't some international place. No, no, no, no. That's Rashida Tileb's stupid talk. Silly talk. Israelis, it's their land they can do with what they will. It's like listening to Mexico say we have to give back California.

27:58Now these days you might have a deal, Mexico. We might be willing to give it back because my gosh is that terrible. But we're definitely not going to give it back the way it is. You're not getting it back with the buildings and the infrastructure. No, no, no, no, no, no. If we give it back to you, we're pulling every bit of copper out of the ground. You get no fiber optics. We're going to even destroy the five miles of trains and nowhere that have been created at a cost of $90 billion or whatever it is. You get the barren salted land best of luck to you. But we don't really think I'm ever giving the land back because that's not the way it's going to work. We don't give it back. They don't get it back. It's ours. The end was never thus. I've used that by the way twice today. I don't often use twice never thus. It came out twice. I don't get some in a mood. But if you want it back, you're going to have to fight us for it. That's just the way it is. That's all these things work. You're going to have to fight us for it.

29:06If you want New Mexico back away, did Trump call it New America? Why is it New Mexico? We should call it New America? Are we also changing the name of New York because that's about Britain? Just asking because I'm fine with renaming New York Schmuckville. Is it not my call? Can we do any favor of New York? Can you see if that domain is available? Can you see if Schmuckville.com is available? It turns out it has a growing, growing residential population. It seems like every day there's another resident of Schmuckville. Going back to the UK, they're very upset with these settlements. They're talking about sanctions. They're talking about banning imports, all sorts of things. The US ambassador to Israel, Micahkeby accused the UK of Jew hate and discrimination.

30:11The US is not pleased with the UK on a host of subjects. And certainly there's no reason to be pleased with Andy Burnham, who is the new Prime Minister. This beyond radicalized leftist. If they want to go out and engage sanctions against Israel, Israel is going to respond in kind. They're not only going to respond by expelling the ambassador and a host of others. They're going to go to the United States and they're going to say, hey, any work on the F-35 strike fighter, the UK can't be involved anymore. You have to punish them by not allowing them to be involved. The United States might go along with that because the US has already bothered with the UK on a host of subjects dealing with Iran and how little help if any help they gave. And this might be their way of saying, yeah, sure.

31:16You do that. You get in on that. We're totally, totally down with you doing it. This is what you did UK. This is you. You told them how what they have to do with their land. So, you know, you now deal with the consequences. Just be watching for that because that was supposed to come today. Now the question is to what extent is it going to happen? The Israelis will respond. And the Israelis, by the way, love our head and make no difference to me. Understand that they have made a decision there. And the decision is for all the Palestinians, the Israelis don't seem to care about any claim you make to the West Bank. It's theirs and they're keeping it. That's a decision they've made. And I know this is true because one of the things that has taken place is in if we talk about where Israel is.

32:23Especially when it comes to what's the word I'm looking for? Where is it right here? No, it's not that story. It's not that story. Oh, I had the story. Hold on. Oh, I've got it. I know I've got it. There it is. I know that this is the case that the Israelis have had enough of the Palestinians because the Israelis are moving towards re-electing the Lecude Party. That's Benjamin Netanyahu's party. Now October 7th happens on his watch and his party is still in the lead for an election in the end of October to keep power. That means the Israelis are saying, yeah, enough with the Palestinians think they're a charge of anything. This is our country. Everybody wants to hate us. Cool. We're up for the fight. That's the argument that's being made.

33:28And they don't seem to be backing down from it for a second. Keep it here. This is Tony Katz today. Seattle is bringing us a new lexicon. This was from Aure Hoffman, radio host out there. Good guy. Tony Katz. Tony Katz today, he posted this. I think this is the chief. And he's talking, well, you know what? Why am I... Why don't I just let him tell you what it is, he said, and then you can lose your mind at him. Work with business owners and individual controls, fight patrols, work with our community response group. And our gun violence reduction unit as well. Looking at ways to where we can identify the individuals that are known, called trigger pollution in our community. Identifying them, making shit and putting cases on the same thing. The individuals working with the team. Maybe you didn't hear it. It was a little soft. They're no longer referring to shooters as shooters. You go about shooting somebody. They don't call you a shooter.

34:28They now in Seattle call you a trigger puller. They call you not a shooter if you shoot somebody. I think it's a trigger puller. I am... If you have a police that are speaking like that, you have no chance of safety whatsoever. None. That is certifiable. The rebranding of things, the repackaging of things, so we don't actually discuss what it is we're discussing. That's the perversion that leads to our downfall. Let us always be honest with each other. That's my plan. This is Tony Katz today.