Phil Katz' Publicity Photo

Phil says he’s very sorry about this publicity photo but his wife just gave him a digital camera and since he hasn’t yet perfected using his digital thermometer, this was bound to happen.

Phil Katz won’t tell anyone just how old he is but he will say that he was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He started out in the garment business selling ladies and men’s apparel door to door. “Ya’ had to be pretty darn tough in those days! Ya had to grab people’s attention so I shouted my sales pitch. Today, kids go from house to house selling candy bars. Any one can sell a Snickers bar, but try selling a pair of slacks or a silk skirt door-to-door, mister. If ya’ ask me, kids today have it way too easy”!   

Phil went on to open up a very successful tailor shop in Philly. The shop catered to big and tall men.  “The whole big and tall thing was my idea! Everybody stole it from me but hey, that’s a thousand law suits ago. I need to forget that part of my life”.  To this day when Phil goes past a big and tall man shop, his blood pressure soars.  He’ll also tell any one that asks that he also came up with the idea of wrapping a pancake around a sausage. “Every darn restaurant stole that concept from me. A pancake and a sausage separate are fine but put them together and it’s basically heaven. Don’t get me started on the millions I lost on that one.” 

While doing his own local commercials for his big and tall men shop, the owner of WWBD talk radio in Philadelphia caught the shouting Phil Katz on the tube and invited him to come into the station for a meeting.  “The guy thought I could add something to the station. He also thought my shouting could become a trademark. All I did was talk about all of my law suits and other stuff that really bugged me.”  Phil agreed to do the show, which soon became the most listened to radio program in the Philadelphia area. The owner of the station also owned a very successful restaurant in Philadelphia. While Phil was dining there, he noticed that his boss was selling his pancake wrapped sausage invention and “making big money on it.”  Phil blasted his boss on the air for “stealing” his invention. The next day he was abruptly let go from his position.

Wanting to retire anyway and be closer to his grandchildren in Santa Clarita, California, Phil Katz and his wife Reba, decided to pack up and move to near by Saugus. While making a morning trip to the drug store to buy a nail clipper and callous remover, he noticed the KHTS neon sign glowing in a window across the street. He stopped in and asked to see the owner. Phil met the owner Carl Goldman and told him all about his radio career in Philadelphia. Carl was impressed.  Phil was also impressed that Carl didn’t own any restaurants. However, Carl did go on and on about his favorite meal, sausage wrapped in pancakes, Phil just had to bite his tongue. Because Phil is so actively involved in his community, he was later hired to do the Phil Katz Get The Heck Out Of The House And Do Something Already Calendar Of Events segment.  The rest, as they say, is broadcast history.

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