Episode 4803: Tony Katz Today Hour 2 - 10/16/26 (Andrew Langer Guest Hosts)

In the meantime, listen, I want to talk about polarization.

I want to talk about where we are in this election.

You know, you've got James Tallarico, as we played in the last hour, running for Senate.

He says, we're all on the same team.

We all want the same things.

And he's right.

We, you and me, we are all on the same team.

Melanie Rutherford, who we played in the last hour, we're all on the same team.

She's a Democrat, but she's a common sense Democrat.

There is common sense and people who believe in objective reality and people who are anti-common sense.

and believe in surreality.

And in the surrealistic's perspective, it is us, the common sense folks, well, we're the ones who are guilty of polarization.

Here is Abdul El-Sayed.

He is running for Senate in Michigan.

Here he is blaming Trump for polarization.

Let's play cut number four.

Chances are you've got somebody in your life with whom you have not had a conversation for, say, two years or maybe six years.

Or maybe even 10 years.

I'm asking you to reach out to those people now.

Don't talk to them about politics.

I'm asking you to show up and rebuild the bonds of humanity that Donald Trump is so good at destroying.

He's got one neat trick.

And his neat trick is to become the subject of every conversation and to force people to take sides.

No,

no, but that's just it.

In the meantime, listen, I want to talk about polarization.

I want to talk about where we are in this election.

You know, you've got James Tallarico, as we played in the last hour, running for Senate.

He says, we're all on the same team.

We all want the same things.

And he's right.

We, you and me, we are all on the same team.

Melanie Rutherford, who we played in the last hour, we're all on the same team.

She's a Democrat, but she's a common sense Democrat.

There is common sense and people who believe in objective reality and people who are anti-common sense.

and believe in surreality.

And in the surrealistic's perspective, it is us, the common sense folks, well, we're the ones who are guilty of polarization.

Here is Abdul El-Sayed.

He is running for Senate in Michigan.

Here he is blaming Trump for polarization.

Let's play cut number four.

Chances are you've got somebody in your life with whom you have not had a conversation for, say, two years or maybe six years.

Or maybe even 10 years.

I'm asking you to reach out to those people now.

Don't talk to them about politics.

I'm asking you to show up and rebuild the bonds of humanity that Donald Trump is so good at destroying.

He's got one neat trick.

And his neat trick is to become the subject of every conversation and to force people to take sides.

No,

no, but that's just it.