1 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:10,879 Speaker 1: Live from Vall Hartbeiner and the Crossroads of America. It's 2 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:17,480 Speaker 1: Tony Katz today. 3 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:22,439 Speaker 2: It is Tony Katz today. I am Mike Coolidge in 4 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:27,280 Speaker 2: for Tony Kats. Coolidge is spelled with the KK O 5 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:30,240 Speaker 2: O L I D G E. See a ton of 6 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 2: people too following and liking and such on the old X. 7 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,559 Speaker 2: I love X, I grock a lot. I grock for like, 8 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 2: what should I have for breakfast today? I mean, I 9 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 2: overly use Crocket's worth every penny. I think it's what 10 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 2: eleven dollars a month or something like that. It's worth it. 11 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 2: I use it all. It has replaced Google in my 12 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 2: life for sure. And uh yeah, and I thank you 13 00:00:56,680 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 2: so much for listening to Tony Katz today. I believe 14 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,319 Speaker 2: Tony will be back on Monday, so you have We're 15 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 2: truly both today and tomorrow. And this hour, the Indiana 16 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 2: Senate is coming into session and they hopefully maybe we 17 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:19,880 Speaker 2: won't know until they do it, we'll be voting on 18 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 2: the redistricting map. Is Indiana going to add to Republican 19 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 2: seats in twenty twenty six because of the remapping that 20 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 2: they have the power to do, and the governor has 21 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:37,320 Speaker 2: the power to sign or are they going to punt? 22 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 2: Are they going to say nah? We may In fact, 23 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:45,200 Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead and predict here we will probably 24 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 2: not have an answer to that question this hour. We 25 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 2: might have an answer to that question next hour live 26 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 2: on this radio show. Yeah, and likely by the end 27 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 2: of today. So that is kind of exciting. And for 28 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 2: those who have not listened to me phil In before 29 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 2: for Tony, I'll try to do this in thirty seconds. 30 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 2: I live in Illinois. I hosted my own radio show 31 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 2: for fifteen years, the Michael Coolidge Show. I was in 32 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 2: the Army for six years. I ran for Congress. I 33 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:16,480 Speaker 2: ended my show to run for Congress. I've worked for packs, 34 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 2: I've worked for nonprofits. I do a whole lot of stuff. 35 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:24,400 Speaker 2: I'm the county chairman of my Republican Party in my county, 36 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 2: so I'm very much involved in politics. I'm involved behind the scenes. 37 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:33,080 Speaker 2: I'm involved with an organization that helps fund grass roots 38 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 2: infrastructure to our great country. And we're trying to make 39 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,799 Speaker 2: the state of Illinois purple so that it turned red 40 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,720 Speaker 2: like the great state of Indiana. We're trying to keep 41 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:50,280 Speaker 2: Michigan and Wisconsin purple slash red, but we'd like to 42 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:51,799 Speaker 2: make it a lot rder, you know what I mean. 43 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 2: And there's a bunch of other states as well that 44 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 2: we have our eye on. But this whole national fight 45 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:05,800 Speaker 2: about read districting is huge. And whether you're listening to 46 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 2: this show right now from the state of Indiana or 47 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 2: whether you're listening to it in another state, what's happening 48 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 2: in Indiana today, even though it might just be two 49 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:19,600 Speaker 2: seats that will flip because of the vote that happens today, 50 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 2: likely in the state capital of Indiana, that is going 51 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 2: to have national ramification. So we will be talking about 52 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 2: it today. So don't want you to tune out you think, oh, 53 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 2: this is only Indiana talk. No, this is national talk. 54 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 2: Just happens to have some news occurring in the great 55 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 2: state of Indiana. I do want to finish my thought 56 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 2: on what we were talking about the previous hour about 57 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:55,080 Speaker 2: illegal immigration and this. You know Andrew Breitbart, who was 58 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 2: on my radio show sixteen times before he passed away 59 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 2: many years ago. I know Tony Katz knew him as well. 60 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 2: Just an absolute giant in the newer conservative movement of 61 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 2: this you know, twenty first century. He his most famous 62 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:16,799 Speaker 2: phrase was politics is downstream. From culture. And the biggest 63 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:19,719 Speaker 2: cultural thing happening here in the United States, as it 64 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 2: does every single year, is Christmas, and leftist extremists are 65 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 2: trying to hijack the beginning of the greatest story ever told, 66 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 2: which begins with the birth of Jesus Christ, which is 67 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 2: what Christmas is about, by comparing it to the fight 68 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 2: over illegal immigrants. And you have these churches in Massachusetts, 69 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:43,919 Speaker 2: and there's actually one in Illinois too that's trying to 70 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 2: do this, like they replaced Baby Jesus with nothing and 71 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 2: saying Ice was here, implying that Baby Jesus was stolen. 72 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 2: And then they have instead of the Three Wise Men, 73 00:04:56,760 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 2: they have Ice agents. Like that this says to do 74 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 2: something with illegal immigration. It doesn't at all. Mazy Jefferson 75 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 2: and the Federalist points this out that this is hardly 76 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:19,480 Speaker 2: the first time, reading from her piece, Professor Christians have 77 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 2: exploited the biblical narrative to essentially justify allowing millions of 78 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 2: illegal aliens into the United States, And following a year 79 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:34,359 Speaker 2: of horrific leftist political violence, including against Ice agents, speaking 80 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 2: out against this manipulative endeavor has never been more important. 81 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 2: That's why I'm continuing this from the next yether. You 82 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 2: really got to speak out against this. At the very least, 83 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 2: anyone who has actually read the biblical account of Christ's 84 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 2: birth knows how seriously historically flawed it is to cast Mary, Joseph, 85 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:00,120 Speaker 2: and Jesus as modern day migrants. Mary and Joseph went 86 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,680 Speaker 2: to Bethlehem in accordance with the law to be counted 87 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 2: as members of the Roman world, not to evade it 88 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 2: or escape it. That's from Luke to chapters one through fifteen, 89 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:15,479 Speaker 2: or Luke Chapter two, verses one through fifteen. Jesus was 90 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 2: born in a stable, not because the Holy Family was 91 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:23,040 Speaker 2: homeless or displaced, but because there was no guest room 92 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:27,719 Speaker 2: available for them during their census trip to the city 93 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 2: of David. Yeah, they were following the laws of their 94 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:36,880 Speaker 2: land at the time. Now, the display at Saint Susannah, 95 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:42,640 Speaker 2: this Catholic church in Massachusetts that has this horrific heretical display, 96 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 2: and there's others happening too. There's one in the North 97 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 2: Shore of Chicago that's doing it too. These displays very 98 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 2: well could be a reference to how the Holy Family 99 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 2: later fled from Bethlehem to Egypt, which happened up to 100 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 2: two years after Christ's birth. In this case, Mary and 101 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 2: Joseph were escaping and evil ruler who threatened their son, 102 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 2: but even then the analogy is still faulty. Bethlehem was 103 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 2: located in the Roman controlled territory of Judea, which was 104 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 2: overseen by King Herod at the time of Jesus' birth. 105 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 2: Although Herod was essentially a puppet ruler on behalf of 106 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 2: the Romans, news of the birth of the Messiah, the 107 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 2: true king of the Jews threatened his power. He asked 108 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 2: the magi to report Jesus's location back to him. When 109 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 2: they failed to do this, Herod gave orders to kill 110 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 2: all the baby boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity, who 111 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 2: were two years old and under Matthew two. I literally 112 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 2: just read this verse this morning. Jesus was spared because 113 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 2: an angel of the Lord came to Joseph in a 114 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:53,239 Speaker 2: dream telling him to escape to Jesus with his family. 115 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 2: On its face, this might seem comparable to some sort 116 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 2: of refugee situation. However, setting aside the fact that the 117 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:06,320 Speaker 2: geopolitics of the ancient Middle East are not directly comparable 118 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 2: to modern day American immigration laws. In the first place, 119 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 2: Egypt and Judea were both under Roman control at the time. 120 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 2: It's misleading to suggest Mary and Joseph fled to a 121 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 2: foreign country to escape their own Back in twenty nineteen, 122 00:08:22,720 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 2: Christian apologists Wesley Huff similarly debunket claims that Mary, Joseph, 123 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 2: and Jesus were refugees. In a Facebook post documented by 124 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 2: an apologetics group Stand to Reason, he said, so, for 125 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 2: the sake of analogy, I want you to picture a 126 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 2: modern day couple, Maria and jose who are traveling with 127 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 2: their baby Jesus. All born and raised in Arizona. They're 128 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 2: fleeing Tempe, Arizona and seeking temporary shelter in San Diego, 129 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:55,440 Speaker 2: California due to a discriminatory magistrate judge who they feel 130 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:59,640 Speaker 2: is unjust and would pursue persecution within their home state. 131 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 2: That's an accurate analogy. Would we consider this modern couple 132 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 2: as refugees seeking asylum? 133 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 1: No. 134 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 2: If words have meanings and those meanings matter, then no 135 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:20,839 Speaker 2: one in our hypothetical modern day Nativity scene were refugees, 136 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 2: not according to what term is understood to legally and 137 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 2: rationally mean. Huff went out to note that while quote 138 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 2: the political situation in question is a pressing and serious issue. 139 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 2: It does not make historical sense to take a modern definition, 140 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 2: apply it to a situation within antiquity using a modern 141 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 2: lens of both situation and geographical borders, and then try 142 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 2: to apply it to make a political point. At the 143 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 2: time he was writing this, during the first Trump administration, 144 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 2: a Methodist church made headlines for a Nativity display featuring 145 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 2: a holy family as refugees cages get it and I 146 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:08,600 Speaker 2: guess this. Catholic church in New England made a similar 147 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:19,640 Speaker 2: display in twenty eighteen. The Federalists Mazie Jefferson concludes political hijacking. 148 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 2: After a year of anti Ice rioters flying Mexican flags, leftists, 149 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 2: sieges of government facilities, deportations of countless criminals, and multiple 150 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,839 Speaker 2: violent attacks allegedly at the hands of illegal aliens, all 151 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:38,000 Speaker 2: following Biden's open border spree, there is no question that 152 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 2: strict immigration enforcement is far past due. Yet Democrats in 153 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 2: the corporate media insist instead of running cover for alleged 154 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 2: human smugglers, smearing Trump and ICE agents as Nazis, as 155 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 2: another Nazis, another historically dubious comparison, and perpetuating hoax after 156 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:01,400 Speaker 2: hoax to demonize law enforcement I don't want to suggest 157 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 2: no one should ever be eligible for asylum, or that 158 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:09,120 Speaker 2: our immigration system is not broken. But as John Daniel Davidson, 159 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:12,320 Speaker 2: also in The Federalist aptly noted in twenty nineteen, it's 160 00:11:12,440 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 2: unclear what Democrats and liberal media outlets want to happen. 161 00:11:15,559 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 2: Do they think everyone who crosses the border illegally and 162 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 2: claims asylum should be released the same day before we 163 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 2: have any idea who they are or where they came from. 164 00:11:25,040 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 2: Does the outraged left think there aren't bad people willing 165 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 2: to exploit a very real crisis, willing even to buy 166 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 2: and sell children to take advantage of defective US asylum law. 167 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 2: Do they want all ICE operations to cease completely again? 168 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 2: If you didn't join US for the first hour, go 169 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 2: to DHS dot gov, forward slash Wow, just nine letters, 170 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:55,839 Speaker 2: really easy to remember, DHS dot gov and then wow, wow, 171 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 2: worst of the worst. You can search in your state, 172 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 2: all of the criminal illegal aliens that ICE is attempting 173 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 2: to accost, and then, hopefully God willing immediately expeditiously to port. 174 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 2: These are people who have been convicted of kidnapping, people 175 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 2: who've been convicted of homicide, people who've been convicted of 176 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 2: all sorts of awful things DHS dot gov dot Wow 177 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 2: check it out. Historical ignorance and lack of common sense aside. 178 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 2: What makes me the most sad about Saint Susannah's display 179 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 2: and others like it, it's just how much they missed 180 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 2: the whole point of the Nativity scene. The what if 181 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:47,760 Speaker 2: Jesus were born now argument leveraged by church leaders completely 182 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 2: overlooks a key church leaders, like the people she references 183 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:53,880 Speaker 2: in this piece. By the way, it's obviously not all 184 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 2: church leaders. There's a lot of great churches out there 185 00:12:56,679 --> 00:13:02,079 Speaker 2: who are focusing on the point of the Nativity displays, 186 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 2: which is to acknowledge the birth of our Lord and Savior, 187 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, which is what Christmas is all about. That's it. 188 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 2: You don't have to hijack it with your politics. Christ 189 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:18,440 Speaker 2: came when the fillness of time had come at the 190 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 2: exact right moment, in the exact right place, the virgin 191 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 2: birth and the arrival of Emmanuel God with us we're 192 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 2: foretold in the Old Testament and fulfilled in the New Testament. 193 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:32,560 Speaker 2: To strip the Christmas story up its place in history 194 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:36,600 Speaker 2: and cast the Lord as a political victim is to 195 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:40,719 Speaker 2: miss the hand of God, who, while transcending time, nonetheless 196 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 2: send himself to us. In a specific context, Jesus fled 197 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:48,720 Speaker 2: to and came out of Egypt. Like his people before him, 198 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 2: he fulfilled the law and the prophets. He suffered at 199 00:13:53,400 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 2: the hands of the religious leaders and the Romans. He 200 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 2: tore the curtain into he rose victorious, and now with him, 201 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:04,559 Speaker 2: so can we. The point of Christ's birth is that 202 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:10,040 Speaker 2: it both involves and transcends our human existence, thus redeeming it. 203 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:14,199 Speaker 2: In the midst of broken immigration systems and riots in 204 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:17,440 Speaker 2: the streets, let us turn our eyes to eternity and 205 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 2: call on his mighty name that will never be overcome, 206 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 2: wonderful counselor Mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. And 207 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 2: while we wait for his return, let us resist all 208 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 2: efforts of cheap political activism that seek to cheapen his 209 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 2: display of love for us. Mazie Jefferson in the Federalist, 210 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 2: absolutely brilliant piece. I encourage you to check it out, 211 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 2: Maize Jefferson, n Ai s e Y Jefferson, like the President, 212 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:57,680 Speaker 2: if you see this kind of junk, this toxic heresy 213 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,800 Speaker 2: happening at your church, someone trying to inject their modern 214 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:07,600 Speaker 2: politics into this. Call it out, you know, point it out, 215 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 2: and you could do it in a calm, rational way. 216 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:16,120 Speaker 2: I think the simplest thing is just say, do you 217 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:20,880 Speaker 2: guys read the Bible? Do you actually read it? Can 218 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 2: you get you know, in this day and age, I 219 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:28,800 Speaker 2: mentioned you like groc and Google. Twenty years ago. Google 220 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 2: revolutionized the world. You had to have You used to 221 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:34,760 Speaker 2: have to walk down to the library to pick up 222 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 2: a book or read or the bookstore to read up 223 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 2: a book about history. And you know what was going 224 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 2: on at the time of Jesus' birth. Let's say now 225 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 2: you can grock it and have an answer to you 226 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 2: and even tell you in like twenty two seconds, a 227 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:51,840 Speaker 2: very detailed breakdown of things. That's how easy it is 228 00:15:52,200 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 2: to dispel stupidity, dispel ignorance. So anyone doing this kind 229 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:03,880 Speaker 2: of thing, they don't care about the facts, they don't 230 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 2: care about the birth of Christ. They care about politics, 231 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 2: they care about their agenda. It is so important to 232 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 2: call that out and speak out up against it if 233 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 2: you happen to see it in your area or your community, 234 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 2: and I encourage you to do so. All Right, we 235 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 2: are going to take a break on Tony Katz today. 236 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 2: I am Mike Coolidge in for Tony Katz. Yes, the 237 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 2: Indiana Senates will be voting, or at least they'll be 238 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 2: in session this hour. When they vote is up to them. 239 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:37,240 Speaker 2: But they're going to be in session in a matter 240 00:16:37,280 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 2: of minutes here and that might make some national news today. 241 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 2: We will see. We will be right back on Tony 242 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 2: Cats today. Mike Coolige in for TONI stay with us. 243 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 2: We're back on Tony Katz today. Michael Coolidge in for 244 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 2: Tony Katz or Mike Yeah go by Mike Coolidge is 245 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 2: spelled with the K. This bumper music must be a 246 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:03,040 Speaker 2: new band heard this one before? Joking of course this 247 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 2: came out. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna date myself 248 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 2: and tell you when where I was when this song 249 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 2: came out, But man, what a world changing song and 250 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 2: world changing band. Times Person of the Year, Any guesses? 251 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 2: Any guess is who it is? I read a great 252 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:26,199 Speaker 2: piece in Real Clear Politics earlier this week by Joe Kanca, 253 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,680 Speaker 2: old friend of my old radio show. Who you see 254 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:32,960 Speaker 2: him on Fox News a lot? Who knows? Maybe we'll 255 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,600 Speaker 2: have a one. We'll see if he's available tomorrow. Maybe 256 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 2: he's a great guy. He wrote a piece on Times 257 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 2: person of the Year should be Charlie Kirk. That should 258 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:47,639 Speaker 2: be you know, acknowledged post homisly I always say that 259 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 2: word wrong post you know the you know the word uh. 260 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 2: He wrote a really, really great piece on how Charlie 261 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 2: Kirk's impact on the country is unparalleled, certainly for anyone 262 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 2: under the age of forty and arguably I mean anyone 263 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 2: of the last twenty five years for sure, definitely in politics. 264 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 2: What he was able to accomplish with Turning Point USA, 265 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:20,800 Speaker 2: what he was able to accomplish with his radio show, 266 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 2: which you were able to accomplish, with his content he created, 267 00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:29,440 Speaker 2: which is still being consumed by tons of people. I mean, 268 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:32,120 Speaker 2: you know, millions and millions of young people. I think 269 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:36,439 Speaker 2: he's almost single handedly responsible for Arizona going to Trump 270 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:41,200 Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four, and single handed responsible for Generation 271 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 2: Z men in particular a lot of women, but men 272 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 2: in particular Gen Z Men being the majority of them 273 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:51,720 Speaker 2: being conservative the first time ever, at least in my lifetime, 274 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 2: that generations were. I'm a gen Xer always when we 275 00:18:57,520 --> 00:18:59,680 Speaker 2: when we were young US gen Xers, we always knew 276 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 2: that we were the minority, but as conservatives. I mean, 277 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,479 Speaker 2: but as time moved on, you realized a lot more 278 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:09,520 Speaker 2: of your compatriots were becoming more conservative. Anyway, Times for 279 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:11,479 Speaker 2: Rest of the Year is not Charlie Kirk, it is 280 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,399 Speaker 2: not Donald Trump. I will not tease it. For the 281 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:19,879 Speaker 2: other side of the break, it's the Architects of AI. Yeah, boring, 282 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 2: it's like eight people. Oh, no, one's gonna remember this one. 283 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 2: Architects of AI. Times hears another year. While we're at 284 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 2: back on Tony Katz today, Mike Coolidge in for Tony 285 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:34,199 Speaker 2: gonna get into Indiana redistricting. That's right, stay with us. 286 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:42,040 Speaker 2: We're back an Tony Cats today. Mike Coolidge in for 287 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:49,320 Speaker 2: Tony Katz. Yeah, this is a urgent. We don't have 288 00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:54,439 Speaker 2: news to report quite yet because the Senate in the 289 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 2: state of Indiana, which this show is based out of, 290 00:19:57,960 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 2: I know, and many of you are listening to it 291 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 2: on not all of you, but many of you. It's 292 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:06,679 Speaker 2: national news today what Indiana is going to decide as 293 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 2: far as this redistricting goes. Now, let's just say you're 294 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 2: not really following it a whole lot yet. You listen 295 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:17,679 Speaker 2: Tony Kats Today every day. Obviously you listen to this 296 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:22,240 Speaker 2: great radio station, especially it's morning show, and you are 297 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,600 Speaker 2: following this really closely. Just bear with me here for 298 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 2: this quick kind of primer on why this is national news. 299 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:40,680 Speaker 2: Whatever happens with Indiana redistricting happens every ten years. According 300 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 2: to the US Constitution, There's a census that occurs every 301 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 2: ten years, count every one in the United States, and 302 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 2: then each state legislature, not the US Congress. The state 303 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:57,160 Speaker 2: legislatures draw their own maps every ten years or two 304 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:01,119 Speaker 2: years or so after the census is done, and a 305 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,359 Speaker 2: new map comes out, and some states keep their maps 306 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 2: because the population didn't change that much, and some states 307 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:11,639 Speaker 2: change them even if they don't increase or decrease in 308 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:15,320 Speaker 2: the amount of total congressmen in that state. I know 309 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 2: a little bit about this because I was hosting a 310 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:23,119 Speaker 2: radio show back in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty and 311 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,720 Speaker 2: twenty twenty one and the twelve years before that, every 312 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 2: single day in the state of Illinois, the one west 313 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 2: of Indiana, and I knew that the remapping was going 314 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 2: to occur after the census came out. After the twenty 315 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:44,880 Speaker 2: twenty census in Illinois, they would redraw the maps and 316 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 2: we would be losing a congressional seat. And how they 317 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:56,200 Speaker 2: drew those maps, whether the maps would have a percentage 318 00:21:56,520 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 2: higher number of Democrats in a district versus a percentage 319 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 2: higher number of Republicans in the district was going to 320 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 2: determine if I my Collidge was going to even run 321 00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 2: for one of those districts. And I did. Wasn't successful, 322 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 2: But the reason that I ran was because the district 323 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 2: was according to the experts, the people who figure out 324 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,159 Speaker 2: how many people are in each district, and it's a 325 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 2: data thing you could these days, you could probably just 326 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 2: figure it out with AI. But there's these institutions like 327 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 2: the Cook Political Report that talk about what the partisan 328 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:39,639 Speaker 2: voting index is on each congressional district. And let's say 329 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:45,399 Speaker 2: you are in a district that is R plus ten. Okay, 330 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 2: so you live in a district that is OUR plus ten. 331 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:57,520 Speaker 2: That means that when voting occurs, the spread between Republicans 332 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 2: and Democrats in that district there should be twenty points, 333 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:08,879 Speaker 2: not ten points, but twenty points. It means that Republicans 334 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 2: have a plus ten advantage percentage wise, so it should 335 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 2: be sixty percent of that district is Republican, forty percent Democrat. 336 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 2: The plus ten is ten above the middle part to 337 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 2: fifty percent. Okay, that's confusing. I know for some people. 338 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 2: I didn't understand it initially either. I thought meant plus 339 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 2: ten was was it would be the Republican winning by ten. No, 340 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 2: it's actually double. That district I ran in Illinois was 341 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:42,680 Speaker 2: a de plus five. The Democrat should have won that 342 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 2: district by the Actually it was a deep plus four. 343 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,439 Speaker 2: The Democrats should have won that district in twenty twenty 344 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 2: two by eight points. She wound up winning it by 345 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 2: like nine. In all sorts of states throughout New England 346 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:03,000 Speaker 2: and in the state of Hawaii, the state of Delaware, 347 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 2: New Mexico, even the state legislatures there draw up the 348 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 2: maps just like all the other states do after these 349 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:18,880 Speaker 2: censuses every ten years, and they decide that they're going 350 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 2: to carve it up so that zero Republicans are represented 351 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 2: in US Congress, zero even though a so in these states, 352 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:36,360 Speaker 2: and I'm going to read them here real quick, the 353 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 2: state congressional districts are comprised of all d pluses D 354 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 2: plus five here, D plus ten, de plus twenty, de 355 00:24:44,320 --> 00:24:47,800 Speaker 2: plus two or three, which means that they'll likely win 356 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 2: by you know five or six, and even though there 357 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:57,840 Speaker 2: are tons of Republicans in that state. May in Massachusetts, 358 00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:59,800 Speaker 2: where I lived for four years and voted for the 359 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 2: first time back in the nineties, where I went to college, 360 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,639 Speaker 2: thirty six percent Republicans there. They have zero seats in 361 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 2: Congress because of the way the Massachusetts legislature draws their maps. 362 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:18,679 Speaker 2: Zero seats. Connecticut forty two percent Republicans, zero seats in Congress, 363 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 2: Maine forty six percent Republican, zero seats, New Mexico forty 364 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 2: six percent, New Hampshire forty eight percent. Zero seats in 365 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 2: Congress that are Republican Rhode Island forty two, Vermont thirty two, 366 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:41,919 Speaker 2: Hawaii thirty eight, Delaware forty two. In my state, Illinois, 367 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:47,240 Speaker 2: Trump won I believe thirty nine percent. I looked this 368 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 2: up before, and I could be wrong. No, I'm sorry, Oh, 369 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 2: I was way off. Trump won forty three percent of 370 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 2: the state in UH twenty twenty four, forty three percent. 371 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 2: It's not a majority, obviously, Kamaa one by fifty four, 372 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:10,560 Speaker 2: we have three Republican seats out of seventeen. That is 373 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,119 Speaker 2: just if you do the population of the state. Just 374 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:19,680 Speaker 2: nineteen percent of oh No I'm sorry, sixteen point five 375 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:25,399 Speaker 2: percent of the state of Illinois has a Republican representative 376 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 2: in Congress, even though forty three percent of the state 377 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:32,560 Speaker 2: of Illinois is Republican. Are you following me here? So 378 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:37,439 Speaker 2: the states I mentioned, it's not just the states that 379 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,080 Speaker 2: have zero seats, it's states like Illinois that jerry mandert 380 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:45,119 Speaker 2: in such an extreme way that the amount of Republicans 381 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:50,439 Speaker 2: in Congress should be way higher if Illinois did things 382 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:58,480 Speaker 2: smartly and fairly. Maine, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Mexico, New Hampshire, 383 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,360 Speaker 2: Rhode Island, Vermont, Hawaii, and Delaware. All of the states 384 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,520 Speaker 2: have zero Republicans in them, even though they have a 385 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:12,119 Speaker 2: good chunk of their state population votes Republican. So that 386 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 2: brings us to Indiana. As we speak, the Senate in 387 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:24,440 Speaker 2: Indiana is talking about and I don't have a live 388 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 2: feed of this. I'm sorry. I have a national news 389 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:31,399 Speaker 2: on my iPad here I'm consuming the White House is 390 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:34,919 Speaker 2: having a press briefing right now. But as I understand it, 391 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,840 Speaker 2: as I'm consuming my online news sources here, Indiana Senate 392 00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,680 Speaker 2: is in session and they're vote and they're talking about this. 393 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,919 Speaker 2: Are they going to vote to redo the map? In 394 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 2: the middle of the decade right, which they're allowed to 395 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 2: do by law, in order to counter these other states 396 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 2: that carve their maps in a way that makes it 397 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 2: extremely advent changed advantageous for Democrats. Are the Indiana Republicans 398 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 2: going to vote to make Indiana a all Republican delegation state, 399 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 2: which means just two districts. It's only going to be 400 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 2: a plus two if they vote on this today. We 401 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:20,919 Speaker 2: will get into that on the other side of this 402 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,080 Speaker 2: break on Tony Katz Today, I am Mike Coolidge filling 403 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,879 Speaker 2: in for Tony. Stay with us. We are back on 404 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,880 Speaker 2: Tony Tony Katz today. Let's look to this beat drops 405 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:39,480 Speaker 2: insu common THERETI I am not Tony Katz. I am 406 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 2: Mike Coolidge in for Tony. Gotta love real music. This 407 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 2: ain't no podcast. This is real radio love podcast though 408 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 2: of course podcasting is awesome, but it's different on the 409 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,960 Speaker 2: regular old radio. And I'm thrilled to be back broadcasting 410 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 2: for mister Tony. That's old old radio friend of mine. 411 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:08,479 Speaker 2: Tony's Tony's somewhat of a mystery, you know, I've known 412 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 2: him for a really long time radio wise. We met 413 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 2: on radio row at Sea Pack in Washington, d C. 414 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,479 Speaker 2: I think maybe he was like twenty ten. It was 415 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 2: back when it was the old at the old Marritt 416 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 2: Wardman Park, Andrew Breitbart was still with us. I interviewed, 417 00:29:25,520 --> 00:29:28,640 Speaker 2: and I think he might have to Richard Dreyfus at 418 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,520 Speaker 2: that Sea Pack. It was so awesome many many years ago. 419 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 2: But I don't. I can't even tell you. I don't 420 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:42,160 Speaker 2: know if Tony. I don't know whether or not he 421 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 2: is a I don't. I've lost my train of thought 422 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,280 Speaker 2: on the great Tony Katz. I forgot where that was going. 423 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 2: But I'm trying to. I'm drawing. I'm doing two things 424 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,600 Speaker 2: at once here. Oh yeah, I think I think I 425 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 2: know what it was is how how long and how 426 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 2: much was he into podcasting? Because I know his radio? 427 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,280 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's what it was. How old is? I 428 00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 2: don't know if Tony is older or younger than me. 429 00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 2: I know we're both gen xers, but I have no 430 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:15,240 Speaker 2: idea if Tony is my age or if he's older 431 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,520 Speaker 2: than me. His hair is much much better than mine. 432 00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,239 Speaker 2: I have okay hair, but you know, I got a 433 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 2: bald spot here and there. He does not. He's got 434 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,360 Speaker 2: a really good head of hair that Tony Cats so 435 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:29,000 Speaker 2: at least the last time I checked. But I really 436 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 2: appreciate joining the radio waves of this state that you're 437 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:38,760 Speaker 2: listening to this. And I know we broadcast from Indiana 438 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 2: and the show is on in other states, but the 439 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 2: news of the day today is going to be out 440 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 2: of Indiana. And before the break, we were talking about 441 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 2: these jerrymandered states that have zero Republican representation, even though 442 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:59,800 Speaker 2: there are tons in some cases, like forty six percent 443 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 2: the state like for example, New Hampshire one has four 444 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,480 Speaker 2: congressional districts, forty six percent of the state is Republican. 445 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 2: They have zero representation there because of how the Democrats 446 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 2: chop up the state there. Well, Republicans had finally had 447 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,960 Speaker 2: enough in twenty twenty five and said, you know, in 448 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,880 Speaker 2: Republican state legislators like Texas. Texas was the one that 449 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:20,600 Speaker 2: started this is you know what, We're going to kind 450 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 2: of balance things out a bit. This is not fair 451 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,480 Speaker 2: representation nationally. It should not be what is it two 452 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 2: twenty to two seventeen. I think it is in the 453 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,120 Speaker 2: House of Representatives right now. I know Margie Taylor Green 454 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 2: is retiring and you know some we just had the 455 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:43,480 Speaker 2: congressional seat in Tennessee. That could have gone one way, 456 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 2: but it stayed with the Republican give or take a 457 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 2: seat or two. There's like a two or three or 458 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:51,840 Speaker 2: four seat majority right now in the House of Representatives. 459 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:59,160 Speaker 2: And next year, historically the party not in power in 460 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 2: the White House almost certainly gained seats. Well. Texas took 461 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 2: it upon themselves to redraw their maps and it passed. 462 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:13,360 Speaker 2: It's going to be next year. The only entity that 463 00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:17,560 Speaker 2: could undo that is the Supreme Court of the United States. Actually, no, 464 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:19,880 Speaker 2: I take that back, They already approved it. I'm reading here. Yeah, 465 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:23,000 Speaker 2: So it is going to be a plus five for 466 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 2: Texas in twenty twenty six. Texas is going to gain 467 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 2: five seats. California, in response to what Texas did, also 468 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:39,760 Speaker 2: gained five seats, except for the Democrat side of the House. 469 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,440 Speaker 2: It's going to gain five seats there. So that is 470 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 2: still pending a Department of Justice lawsuit, so that's not 471 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,200 Speaker 2: one hundred percent yet. Texas is definitely going to gain five. 472 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 2: California will likely gain five, So let's just count them 473 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 2: out for a second. Missouri signed into law a referendum 474 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,440 Speaker 2: that is going to make it so that they will 475 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:09,160 Speaker 2: gain one seat all right, one Republican seat. North Carolina 476 00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:15,040 Speaker 2: redid their maps court approved. They will also gain one 477 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:20,800 Speaker 2: Republican seat. With the redraw Ohio, a bipartisan commission map 478 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:25,480 Speaker 2: was adopted, they will gain one to two Republican seats. 479 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:30,240 Speaker 2: We're going to skip Indiana for a second. Florida House 480 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:33,720 Speaker 2: Committee started. There's an anti jerryman during law limit, so 481 00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:39,040 Speaker 2: this is not guaranteed, but Florida could get anywhere from 482 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:47,080 Speaker 2: three to five Republican gained seats. The state of Utah 483 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 2: redrew it and they are going to create one additional 484 00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 2: Democrat seat. Maryland same thing, possibly one additional Democrat seat. 485 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:02,200 Speaker 2: We're going to skip Illinois for a second because I 486 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 2: know a lot about that because I live in it. 487 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 2: Virginia if approved, there's going to be a vote in 488 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:12,759 Speaker 2: the twenty twenty sixth session where Virginia could increase their 489 00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:17,799 Speaker 2: congressional delegation by three Democrats, two for sure, possibly three. 490 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:23,719 Speaker 2: Kansas could do it by one, so that brings us back. 491 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 2: So you add all them up. What's the plus and 492 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 2: minus if everything goes through, it could be a plus 493 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:37,239 Speaker 2: twelve for Republicans. That's what it could be if all 494 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 2: of the If none of the lawsuits are successful and 495 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:43,600 Speaker 2: everything goes through, it could be plus twelve, which brings 496 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:47,400 Speaker 2: us to Indiana and Illinois. And the reason I connect 497 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:53,000 Speaker 2: these two is because JB. Pritzker, the terrible governor in 498 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,440 Speaker 2: the worst governed state in the country that would be Illinois, 499 00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:02,160 Speaker 2: said that if Indiana today passes the this new map, 500 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:06,000 Speaker 2: that will gain two Republican seats for Indiana. He's going 501 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:12,719 Speaker 2: to before the Illinois Legislature changing theirs to gain a 502 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:17,520 Speaker 2: seat in Illinois. When we come back in our number 503 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:22,200 Speaker 2: three of Tony Cats Today, I'm going to with authority 504 00:35:22,520 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 2: tell you what's going to happen in Illinois or with 505 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:28,680 Speaker 2: an educated authority, and we will try to. It's a 506 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:33,160 Speaker 2: subjective opinion, trust me, but it's a good one and 507 00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,440 Speaker 2: we'll hopefully have some hard news on what's happening in 508 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,520 Speaker 2: the Indiana Senate as we speak. This is Tony Kats today. 509 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:39,680 Speaker 1: I M. 510 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:40,879 Speaker 2: Coolidge will be right back