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The Jacobsen Group with Jon Jacobsen · Mon May 1, 2023
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Scott is still the Easter season.
Christians are now arcing in their 50-day celebration between Easter and Pentecost, Ascension Thursday, still on the horizon, and
We've greened up.
Everything is now green, Scotty.
Yeah.
And it's kind of dovetail a little bit off that we have that basically the state of Iowa is two different states.
We have a drought in Western Iowa and we have some flooding going on in our eastern side of the Mississippi.
So, you know, our keep everybody's radios tuned into KXEL so they can keep updates on the flood crest.
But I think we're going to get through it.
Doesn't sound like it is as bad as it was back in 2008, 2009 flooding.
But, you know, everybody's
in this together and we're gonna get through this and with Mike Shane and Dr. Jeff Stein, we're in good hands.
You know, I've known Stein for five decades, going back to the 80s.
Now, does he acknowledge those 50 years?
Yeah, we're both old men now, but I'll tell you, Stein is the guy I can tell you truly.
When it's 2.30 in the morning and you know what is hitting the fan weather wise,
He is at those controls, making sure that the signal's going out to appropriately warn all of the folks, particularly those in eastern Iowa, of impending weather.
And, you know, we've got Mike Shane here.
Mike covered some great storms in the Omaha area.
Of course, Omaha, legendarily, had that 73 or 4 tornado that went right up 72nd Street.
took out part of Nebraska furniture mart, creating preparatory school as 10,000 people watched from the rafters at the Xarban racetrack at that tornadic activity in mid afternoon one day.
So it's time to keep the eyes on on the skies.
You know, absolutely.
And one thing that we're going to keep our eyes on too is the average changing college football dichotomy right now.
John, we have a lot of stuff going on in sport.
Let's pull
up that Hawkeye fight song because, you know, we are the unethical
commentators of all things Iowa Hawkeye with this greatest of all signals.
You don't want to listen to some outfit out of Des Moines or the Quad Cities or some old fossilized Cedar Rapids antenna.
You want to listen to the cutting-edge newsmakers and Scotty, we had an NFL draft just a couple days ago and on this weekend here, what a testament
to coach Parker and what he has done to.
First round draft choices from the Iowa defense.
Incredible.
You know, absolutely, John.
Enough cannot be said about what Phil Parker has done with the Iowa defense over the last basically 10 years.
And to have Lucas Van Ness go in the first round.
And we all kind of expected that.
But then to have Jack Campbell, the Butkus award-winning linebacker at Iowa, go as well in the second round.
The first time since 2019 where Iowa's had two players in the first round go,
and talk about some of these numbers that we have going on right now.
Out of the last first round, the only teams that have had multiple players in the first round, Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia, Clemson.
in your Iowa Hawkeyes.
That's pretty good company.
And both of our guys, Van Ness and Campbell in the first round, Packers taking the former, the Lions taking the latter.
Yeah, that's very interesting.
And I think Campbell will fit very nicely in with the Detroit Lions that is a defensive oriented team.
Van Ness, it's amazing.
The guy wasn't even a starter on that defense.
That's
what's incredible.
Think about that.
A non-starter Iowa Hawkeye in the first round.
Yeah, and we still have, you know,
as I mentioned off the air that we still have a couple guys that are going to go in the next couple rounds as well.
Riley Moss and a few others.
So we feel Parker is just he's a genius.
That's just all you can say.
How many Huskers got picked in the first round, Scotty?
Well, zero.
And here's a fun little stat that I found that I know a lot of people are going to be interested in.
In the first round, Big 10 West teams last 10 years.
Iowa has had six players go.
Wow.
Wisconsin four.
Wow.
Northwestern three.
Illinois, Minnesota, Purdue all had one.
And those poor little Huskers, zero.
What a crying shame that is, John.
Scotty,
if Richard Nixon could come back today, would he say, I understand it's just like yesterday and Iowa State Cyclone was also drafted?
Yeah, that was quite an interesting development.
I really wasn't sure if the Iowa State player was going to get that first round pick.
When was the last time, Scotty?
1974, so right after, right during Watergate.
So that tells you how far things have gone, but a huge shout out to
Iowa State.
Oh, yeah.
And then, you know, it's going to be one of those years, too, where, you know, having having him go, it's going to take away a little of that thunder.
I found it.
I was joking with an Iowa State fan Thursday night.
And I said, well, your, your drought is over.
You finally got a first round draft pick, but then to up the anti Kirk Farrison, Phil Parker sent two in the first round.
So the Syhawk rivalry is alive and well.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah.
So, um, our smart Alec colleague, Jim Rose from a station who will not be
named out of Omaha through a backhanded stab at the Hawks by saying two first round defensive draft choices, first round for Iowa.
That tells you how bad that offense must be if that team still lost five games with that defense.
Yeah, I find it interesting that Jim Rose is willing to throw shade considering he's gone through more coaches in the last 10 years than we have
in
the last 50 years.
So it's going to be very interesting to see, you know, Nebraska, you know, it's just one of those programs that likes to talk a lot of garbage, but at the end of the day, they know their garbage.
And so it's going to be interesting to see how they move forward with Matt Rule because
is laughing at you
know which
is pretty good because he's he's an Omaha
guy
you know
and I found it very interesting I went on the social the rabbit hole of Husker media and found out that they were kind of perplexed last Saturday during their spring game it looked like the old Scott Frost teams of fumbled snaps missed field goals not lining up properly it was it kind of did the heart of war you know heartwarming situations seeing that happen again in Lincoln
I just they cannot come in and beat it
is at Kinnock the last game of the season like last year.
Scottie got such a sad, sorrowful
memory of that one.
Well, and I think, you know, talking about that Husker game at Kinnock Stadium on Black Friday, I think the game really changed when Cooper Dijine was knocked out of the game.
Oh,
totally.
He is a
game changer.
And you talk about a kid that's going to be around for a while.
You know, if you know, with Jack Campbell and Lucas Van Ness going in the first round,
There's a good possibility in my opinion depending on how the teams line up the next Time that Cooper comes out for the draft.
He could be a top ten pick.
I mean, he's that good Yeah,
hey Mike Shane, can you pull up a special report Klaxon for us or even?
Here we go
Special Report, NIL Update, Win Placer Show, Gold, Silver and Bronze on the stand.
It's very fluid right now.
Scotty, who has the inside position.
The Iowa Basketball Women with Caitlin Clark, now adding her Buick commercial, which is a very fine commercial to her many other NIL offerings, such as High V and Nike, or
Do we go with the Husker Nebraska women's volleyball team filling up 83,000 pre-order tickets for an outdoor volleyball tilt at Memorial Stadium or LSU gymnast Livy Dunn just announced to be on the covers of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit
Edition?
Well, John, since we're going to have to rank these, I'm going to go Katelyn Clark because she is the Iowa Hawkeye, the Midwest sweetheart.
I would say 100,000 people would come out just to watch her play a game of horse.
And Livy Dunn, she's a very beautiful woman, but she's from LSU and I still haven't gotten over that championship game.
And then Lilith went to
LSU
now.
So now we got that to worry about,
get a rematch.
Yep.
So it's going to be very interesting in Huskers with their 80-some thousand to play it.
stadium.
I wonder if it's going to be a lot like their sellout streak during their football season, where they have about 20,000 stands just sitting empty, then they go to talk to Runza and Casey's to buy up the rest of the tickets.
Do you think those Husker fans are subliminally sending the signal that if only our football team could do this, we'd really be into it
again?
I think so.
I think so.
You know, and I joked the other day that Matt Rule, you know, he pulled out all the stops he brought Frank Solich back to Memorial Stadium to kind of
Exercise some of the demons the way he was fired at Nebraska football and I said well I told our friendship read man Who's a friend of the show that the only way they're really gonna do it is if a ball polini comes out there to hoist the cat up?
Totally agree.
Yeah, it's the real curse is the polini curse.
Yes, the Solitz curse So what are they gonna do next they're gonna trot out Mike Riley to be honored at the opening game.
Are they gonna bring in?
Bill Callahan to honor him
at the Big Ten opener for crying
out loud.
Yeah, I know.
It's amazing how that program just sits there and reaches and grasps for everything.
And they claim that they're not a Hawkeye rival, but everything they do is to try to one-up us.
But at the end of the year, they all know where they are.
Well, we love cheering on our Hawkeyes and our Northern Iowa Panthers.
Great tradition there.
Boy, Kurt Warner's really had some
Wonderful post NFL buzz going on Scott as a commentator as an author as a lecturer Motion picture based on his life not bad for a kid sack and groceries at high V I met him when he was a high schooler at Regis also my alma mater when he Escorted my baby sister to one of the proms or homecomings a fine young man at that time
many years ago already that would have to be going back
30 plus years.
Yeah, it's amazing how fast that time has gone and you know, Kirk Warner, you know, a lot of folks were watching ESPN draft.
I like to go to the NFL draft and he had some great commentary.
Yeah, you were
on that like glue the other
night.
Yeah, and I really enjoyed the way he talks about it and brings insight to the game and, you know, he played at the Iowa Barnstormers years and years ago and me and my buddies when we were in high school actually saw him.
And Jim Zabel was still doing the games for those guys.
Man, we're dating our
ourselves now.
I mean, that is that shows how old we are.
But those radios
kiss those radios.
But you know, Kurt Warner has really, really done a lot of great things and we're so happy to have him part of the UNI family as well as the state of Iowa family.
Just a tremendous asset to the state.
Well, so many that list on KXEL are alums of UNI.
I have another sister who is an alum of UNI and the Panthers.
Well, we know our buddy Chuck Grassley sure loves the Panther women's basketball team in particular.
He
was
proud of them.
Absolutely.
And he doesn't miss the game.
When he's back in the state, he likes to go up there to the unidome and check him out.
He
also doesn't miss a vote in Congress.
Yeah, that's also very impressive.
And knowing Chuck the way that we know Chuck, he doesn't miss a free meal either.
So
yeah, oh, we've got some great Chuck Grassley stories that we'll save for another day.
But he is inimitable.
And I will say this for Chuck Grassley.
Uh, he got a little hitch in his hip after he swore his grandson in, but he's still voting every day in the Senate.
The ones who were putting an APB out for have been Mitch McConnell and Fetterman and DiFy.
Where's DiFy?
Have you even seen
her?
I have not.
And I think they should put her on a, a APB and some milk cartons to find out if there is actually proof of life because that's very strange to say the least.
And, um, you know, it's all.
very concerning to how far we're supposed to be a superpower, John, and at the same time we don't know where our senators are.
We don't even know if they're functioning.
I mean that's scary and let's not forget Republicans are guilty too with strong
Uh, burr, uh, Senator Bird, Robert
Bird was real bad.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I mean, we, we need to have a discussion at some point about some of these guys that, uh, in their nineties and hundreds showing up.
Now we've got Nikki Taley, Nikki Haley, who's
designed a test that anyone 75 and over should have to take to qualify for office.
And then she predicted the other day that Biden, if reelected, would not survive his term.
She's kind of getting a little edgy.
Nikki is, uh,
Drifting a little bit.
I
think Scottie.
Yeah, she sure is it's very interesting to see how she's handling some of that and I think you know, we do need to have a conversation Nationally about you know who we are electing because you know Trump is in his 70s and you know, he would
be 78 during the election and Biden would be 82 average age 80.
Yeah Wow for a
score.
I mean this is this is ridiculous as a superpower and at the same time we also have to understand too that
We get what we get when we vote and you know, we talk a lot about, you know, the right people for the right job.
The people of Pennsylvania knew that John Federman had a stroke and had some capability issues along those lines.
But at the end of the day, they voted for him.
And let's not forget, and in Pennsylvania, too, they voted for a dead Democrat over the Republican just because he was a Democrat.
And they knew he was dead.
They knew he was dead.
So these Pennsylvanians, I trust Western Pennsylvania, Scotty.
Those people
from Pittsburgh are okay, but Philly, that's
an
East
Coast city.
And
I don't know if any of you have ever read my mathematical election analysis for how Pennsylvania could not possibly
have come out with the numbers it did.
I'm not going and saying this happened to all 50 states, but I did a 40 chart mathematical analysis of Pennsylvania and the three best words describe that in order and I quote, stink, stank, stunk.
You
know, that's a great point too, John.
And it's going to be very interesting to see how these states that as we move in through the Iowa caucuses and into the presidential year, you know, what are states like Pennsylvania, Michigan?
Iowa, Nebraska, what are they doing to secure the election so that the voter has confidence that we have the right numbers?
I mean, in Potawatomi County... Probably
have to.
Ask our treasurer to retire Mervin Houser.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was gonna mention a good old Mervin Houser out of Pottawatomie County, which is Council Bluffs for you that aren't familiar with it.
He was known to actually shut the vote down, vote counting down because he was tired and they needed to have something to talk about the next day for the media.
That's a direct quote.
You know,
It's just we're heading into elections.
Let's bring up our decision 2024 theme here guys Because the old Henry Mancini no one does it like Henry Mancini Scotty Let's take a look at the Iowa situation first here We've got a legislature in session so Scott I work in the private sector again.
I I did
a little bit into seven years in the Iowa legislature and self term limited myself.
Actually, my employer really term limited me.
They said, you can either work for your legislative salary or you can work full time for us, but you can't work for both.
And I did need to put food on the table, but a seven year run was a good run.
And Scott.
So I've got deadlines in business.
I've got numbers I have to hit.
I've got deadlines that I have to make and we have a super majority trifecta in Iowa.
This should be a no-brainer to adjourn on time.
What in the hell is going on?
What have they been doing since that first big?
They started out the gate quickly with an education bill.
Love it or not, that was significant legislation, but Scott, other than introducing the Tulip Festival Queens for the year from Pella, what have they been doing other than just rustling papers?
Up until recently, budget bills were going through committees without numbers, even on the lines for the budget amounts.
I don't think this is acceptable.
And the buck stops with somebody.
But why are we in extra innings now?
And here's the problem with this.
So the per diem is expired now.
That disincentivizes legislators to now have the staying power
to grind through and really look at these numbers and these last minute ornaments that get thrown on the standings bill.
If this was done in a reasonable progression, they would have had all the time to scrutinize it while they were getting essentially paid their per diem to do so.
Now the farmers are worried about soil temperature.
The others are restless trying to get back their jobs and all of a sudden there's going to be a rush to the finish line.
I don't like it at all.
I can understand that when you've got a bitter divide between the two parties, one having one chamber, one having the other.
But Scott, we have a trifecta, even a friendly executive, and they couldn't get done
on time.
Well, I think the easiest answer to that is it's intentional, John, just like you mentioned, you know, there are certain powers that be in the state of Iowa, whether they're in the leadership of the Iowa House, Iowa Senate or the governor's mansion, as well as some of the lobbying businesses.
They don't want a lot of scrutiny.
They just want to basically ram this through in the middle of the night.
We have seen it before last year.
I mean, they almost went into June to try to get the budget figured out, and it's just unacceptable at the end of the day.
And voters need to be.
holding their representatives accountable because if they do not, you know, if they're not sending the emails, making the phone calls, seeing them with their town halls and things like that and saying what is taking so long, they're just going to keep on doing it and it's unacceptable.
Well, my trust department was so patient with me those years that I was in there because in theory, we should have been done through April.
And that was the deal when I first ran.
And we were going into May, June was not uncommon.
And they were saying, did you slip us a Mickey here?
I says no, it's just there that they can't
get it done.
Yeah, but I don't know if it is.
Fortitude, I don't know if it's at the end of the day.
If they're just, they really don't know the number.
I mean, that's unacceptable too because the REC, the Revenue Estimating Conference has come out with its projections.
They'll meet again later this year and they can always change the budget a little bit.
But at the same time, Iowa for the most part is setting pretty well financially and the trust funds are full.
Everything is ready to go.
It's just a matter of getting it done.
And this really shows a lack of leadership.
I think.
a lack of ability in the Republicans in both chambers that are dragging this out.
And from what my sources are telling me, there's some dissent in the Iowa House, especially between the Speaker and the Majority Leader, that they are not on, let's say, friendly.
They're not like the Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill drinking circuit, let's say.
They are cordial, but they are not buddies.
And I think that's when you start dealing with those types of personalities and
you throw in the Senate, you know, the House was always looking at the Senate like, you know, they're the House of Lords and they do whatever they want to do.
I mean, it's going to be very interesting to see, but it's an embarrassment to be honest.
Well,
Scott, I'll call out Majority Leader Wynsch.
I think he needs to step down.
He's been in there almost 20 years and I don't see him leading.
I see him as one who counts votes, holds the cloaks.
but he's really not leading.
He's positioning for speakers someday and he's trying not to defend anybody.
Well, if you want to be the house tabulator, he would be really good at that.
He was outstanding when he was the parliamentarian.
But you got to have the right people in the right slots.
And just as John Wills, who's now moved into parliamentarian, he's not your quintessential parliamentarian.
He does not know those
parliamentary ropes as splendidly as windshield does.
So you know, there's that old idea called the Peter principle where you ultimately get promoted to your level of incompetency.
I start to wonder.
if we're we're going into those areas somewhere.
And again, that whole progression of frankly, we've got Iowa representatives that are arguably too old to serve or not healthy enough to serve Scott.
And they're still there in the media doesn't report this.
And we're going to talk about this later under a free speech section, Scott, but no one is covering these issues.
And I am flummox that other than Jeff Stein,
who really covers the legislature, there's no one west of Des Moines that covers this.
And the register is asleep at the wheel, I think half the time anyway.
And they're
so agenda driven that they're not credible.
And I don't even know if the register even has enough employees around to actually cover some of these stories.
That's a topic for another day too.
But what really concerns me too, John, and you hit on the point just purposely, is that
With all this going on, Republicans should be able to get this done.
They should have came in in January and said this is kind of our budget number and start moving forward.
They
don't have one businessman or businesswoman
in
any place of power there.
They have chairs who basically
have contributed so much to the Legislative Majority Fund that their chairs.
Yep, exactly.
And what's also very concerning to me that we've seen under the leadership in the Iowa House and Iowa Senate is amendments are not really even talked about in subcommittees and committees and even on the floor anymore.
And that's outrageous because no bill is perfect to begin with.
There should always be the amendment process.
That's a brilliant point.
And Scotty, that's because you got four people calling all the shots.
Everybody else is a prop and you got all these fresh
down there.
There's 20 of them.
They don't even realize what power they have, but they're disparate.
They don't know how to use it.
So four people are calling all the shots.
The rest are basically window dressing at this point.
They're doing photo ops.
They're going down on Iowa Day, Drake Day, Nurses Day, Doctors Day.
Yeah, picture with the white coats here and picture with the Tulip Festival people here.
But what's getting done?
I just don't see
Uh, the stuff getting
done, you know, you know, and that's a great point too.
And, you know, for the conservative movement, you know, for 30 years, we were told by Republicans and their consultants that if you elect Republicans, we're going to do something about abortion.
Well, the Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade with the Dobbs decision last year.
And now all of a sudden, Governor Reynolds as well as the Iowa House and the Iowa Senate have all punted on this issue and said, we are not going to move on any pro life bills until the Iowa Supreme
court rules on the Iowa heartbeat bill.
Well, John, that's unacceptable.
I mean, we were told for 30 years if you elect us, if you door knock for us, if you donate to us, we're going to deliver.
Well, it feels like we're basically Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football and we've been lied to.
Well, here's the thing.
Yeah, they said you get you get roe overturn and we'll do something.
And Scott, here's the thing.
They're saying they're waiting on the courts now.
This is BS.
This is why this inferiority complex that the house has got to end.
The courts don't legislate.
The legislators legislate.
They could have easily passed a new heartbeat bill even a year ago last summer after Dobbs.
The worst case scenario would be maybe a 50-50 chance that would have gotten put
on a protest with an unfriendly district court judge who may have put a stay on it.
That's where we're at right now.
There's also a 50-50 chance it would have landed with a judge who would not have put on a stay.
And if the initial district court judges normally don't put stays on, stays don't go on at the appellate levels until you hear the final hearing.
There's a very reasonable chance, Scotty, that a new heartbeat bill would have been
taken force of law, especially knowing what the arguments were against the old bill.
You could have spoofed it up to dodge some of those bullets.
I think it's an abdication of legislative responsibility.
There is no downside to that.
And Scott, if these guys don't have the guts after a landslide election, what are they going to do next year when it's a reelection year?
This is just what's so
mind-bogglingly frustrating to me it
sure is John and you know he talked about
There is a will because we did see in January and February with Governor Reynolds as well as the leadership of the Iowa House and Iowa Senate wanted to push through the education bill.
They ran that through with
the force of a
fist.
Yep.
That was done within, you know, a week, basically, and they can find a way to get stuff done.
They can find a way to pass tax credits with no problem whatsoever.
But when you run as a party for 40 years, is this being one of your pedestals?
And then it finally is able to
Come to fruition and you do nothing.
I mean, that's a betrayal and you know the only way the grassroots can really send a message I think to the Republicans is to go out and not support them either door knocking or showing up to their parades showing up to their fundraising events things along those lines because The Democrats are they're in the same position too, you know, they are basically in the wilderness They they are so far in the minority right now that they have to have some soul searching as well on whether they want to keep their current leadership moving forward
into the new election too because they have no power, they have no stay or say in anything.
And one of the biggest issues that they could have done all session was drag things out by going to caucus where you basically go down to one of the rooms and you wait it out, you drag out the debate.
They're just mailing it in.
They're not even going through the motions anymore.
They're so demoralized.
And yet we cannot seem to capitalize on this.
I'll tell you, when Democrats win elections,
They don't govern.
They reign and they reign with impunity.
Republicans will go into how they literally are their own worst enemy.
We'll talk about the Nebraska situation in just a second.
But Scott, you look at this whole situation and even in Iowa,
Where are the pro-life groups?
Where's family leader?
You hear crickets.
It's like they've all drank the Kool-Aid and they're going to be quiet.
And this is an issue that should be, yes, crickets, Mike Shane.
That's exactly what you hear.
Scott, I'm just appalled at the lack of any grassroots outside pro-life.
leadership knocking on the doors of these representatives, senators and even the governor's office.
You know, that's a great point.
And you know, last weekend, faith and freedom coalition had a tremendous event down there in the Des Moines metro area, where they had numerous presidential candidates were going to the Iowa caucus, every one of these candidates can talk about how pro life they are.
But in the state of Iowa, we can't get anything done pro life.
And so it's an embarrassment.
Where is Bob Vander plots in the family leader?
Where is Steve Scheffler and his organization?
Where are some of these
organizations at because at the end of the day
They know, and we know as citizens, that the other side, Planned Parenthood and their other organizations, CCI, they are always mobilizing, they are always engaged, but their conservative movement has basically just gone to sleep and allowed Governor Reynolds and the legislature to tell them, we'll get to it when we get to it.
So
radically different from the environment when I came there in 2017, Scott.
Let's pull up the Husker Fight Song, because I want to go over and talk about
Again, Republican abilities to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
In Nebraska, you have a super Republican pro-life governor.
You have a super majority of, it's technically nonpartisan in the unicameral.
They just have a one house legislature of 49 senators.
But there's a super majority of defacto Republicans there.
They have ground all the way through session to get a heartbeat bill passed, like we had passed back in 2018 when I was in the legislature.
And a rhino betrayed him yesterday.
They ended up being one vote short to shut down the filibuster.
We have some horrific senators over there, horrific.
Mikayla Kavanaugh and
uh...
senator hot
senator hunt and they filibustered everything entire session everything because they're pouting about not getting their work agenda uh... through and they're they're just furious at some of the non-woke things getting through one rhino catastrophically killed all the work unless he repents and has a change of heart uh... it was just bone crushingly devastating
to the huge amount of brasskins that were pro-life that that's a populace is a very pro-life populace.
You know, that is a very interesting point too, because when you talk about repenting for our listeners that aren't familiar with the Nebraska legislature.
If you during a filibuster and you vote for closure, the senator that cast the deciding vote can change his or her mind up until I believe three weeks after the vote is taken.
So he voted not present,
which meant they needed 34 votes.
I think something like that.
Yes.
And he voted not present.
So they had 33 so they could not shut down debate to bring that bill to a vote.
It was absolutely.
Well, he was pouting.
He was pouting because he wanted to be he's an 80 year old guy that One of these guys who's been well thought of in the community his whole life and likes to play the role of the the great white maned wise man and so he wanted to be the superstar and say kids we all come together with a 12 week moderate counter proposal and
the GOP says, no, no, you're not going to throw this in here and do this.
And when they didn't all, when the 33 didn't flock to him, he pouted and sat out the vote.
Very immature for an 80 year old
man.
You know, that's a very good point too, because in the center we're talking about is Marv Revy of Ralston.
Yeah,
Marv Revy.
And what's very concerning too is that during his legislative career, he talked about the heartbeat bill and how pro-life he
was.
And all of a sudden, like you mentioned, he got his feelings hurt, probably in some sort of committee meeting or something like that.
And then he decided to torpedo the entire
Republicans always flinch.
Someone wants to be well thought of in the newspapers or get invited to the right cocktail party.
And man, talk about truth in
in in advertising that and it's obvious to me Scott the pro life people have to do a much better job of vetting some of these candidates to say oh we're pro life we're pro life I guess in retrospect you need to say will you specifically vote for a heartbeat bill a
six week ban you know I think that's where we have to go as a as a conservative movement we have to be more finite in our detailing of are you pro life what
types of tax cuts do you believe in?
What is your absolute belief in using military force?
Things along those lines.
We have to fine tune that point because we're allowing Republicans to run as conservatives through their primaries and then they want all of our money going up into the election, but then when they get to Lincoln or Des Moines or DC, they turn code and they turn into John McCain's and Lindsey Graham's of the world.
Yeah, I'll never forget McCain.
I think he used his thumb, but it was proverbially his middle finger on the repeal of Obamacare when he went down the well and just stuck it to all of his Republican colleagues in typical
Warmonger mccainian fashion.
Well, we're gonna be back on the other side of the break as we go out with Henry Mancini here right now guys as we've done our tour of Decision 2024 as we head toward next year in Iowa the Hawkeye-Cawkeye State We're gonna be joined on the other side by Bruce Crawford who's going to talk to us a little bit about motion pictures and journalism
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Scotty talk about being breaking news as it happens on this Saturday in eastern Iowa Bruce Crawford
from Omaha the legendary raconteur impresario film studies expert motion picture preservationist honorary academy award winner american film institute honored at the kennedy center
Bruce Crawford, who twice a year brings Hollywood to Omaha.
Bruce Crawford, collaborator of Turner Classic Movies.
He is giving the keynote today at the Iowa Broadcast News Association Convention right there in Altoona.
And our studio audience is applauding for Bruce right now.
Bruce, it is so great to have you.
Welcome back to the show.
Great to be back on.
Bruce, you're talking tonight about this intersection between American motion picture cinema and journalism.
Scotty and I are spending a lot of time on the show today talking about such things as free speech and journalism.
We're going to be talking about Tucker Carlson and what happened this week after this segment.
But let's do a little McLaughlin group here with you.
Tonight you're going to be talking about some movies
that talk about American ethos, American civic life, and how journalists impact that.
Let's start with movie one.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
I always love Thomas Mitchell when he's a beat reporter.
Talk about that wonderful movie, Bruce Crawford.
Well, that film really caused an uproar when it came out in 1939.
In fact, Frank Capron Sr.
had a special showing for members of the Congress, I believe, and a private special screening of the film.
And they got up and left in protest.
They were so angry.
Wow.
Wow.
That's pretty epic.
You know, in that movie, so many things resonate today.
A thoroughly corrupt establishment, one honest guy trying to get something done.
And in that motion picture, due to his love interest and
Thomas Mitchell, his story ultimately got out, didn't it?
Eventually, that's a happy Hollywood ending in that story, that's for sure.
With some travail in between, like when he passes out during the filibuster itself.
A wonderful movie, still very relevant today.
Movie two.
Oh, Bruce, this is a favorite one of mine, because frankly, I think it has the greatest one-liner in the history of movies.
So, Bruce,
The man who shot Liberty Valance, obviously everybody thinks Jimmy Stewart is the hero of that movie, knocking off bad guy Bully Lee Marvin, but the actual hero was John Wayne.
And yet at the end, they didn't correct the record because, as was said, at the end of the movie.
And the truth becomes legend, print the legend.
That is such a profound statement.
And we see it all the time today, don't we, Bruce, in real life?
It sure seems that way.
You don't know what to believe or trust anymore.
Even back in the story takes place, I think in 1880.
Yes,
precisely.
It's like in the early 1910s when Jimmy Stewart's character comes back to the funeral.
Exactly.
He actually was the man who shot him.
He was.
He was, exactly.
He's telling him for the first time.
He feels like he can say it now, but he can tell the truth because he told the truth before.
He could put his friend to go to jail for murder.
Yep, exactly.
Exactly.
He kept it quiet all those 30 plus years.
He kept it quiet.
Then he told the truth and then we wanted to hear the truth.
Isn't it amazing?
I think it was a John Ford masterpiece.
One of his late entries.
One of, so in retrospect, kind of brilliant that it was still in black and white.
made those scenes in the town square, the showdowns, even better than Matt Dillon out there with Festus.
Really, the movie is so much truth on so many levels in that story, and it became, the film itself has become the legend.
Yeah, yeah, very, very much so.
Movie number three.
Oh, we could talk about this one forever.
Citizen Kane model the little bit on Mr. Hearst.
A little bit.
Yeah, just a little bit.
Did Mr. Hearst like the
movie?
He wanted to try.
He offered to buy the negative and burn the negative.
No, he didn't like it.
Did
he put ads in his papers for the movie showings?
No, it was shunned and all the newspapers have been not.
run ads or reviews or even to condemn the film.
He just ignored it as much as possible.
Wow, that's really amazing.
What's good about that movie?
Does it show even that there can be some fanning of the flames of war, even among media at times?
Not that that would ever happen today with Ukraine and Russia.
It's very true.
The film portrayed vaguely in a slight vagabond and portrayed true events and adverse life.
but also is very prophetic into what has come into journalism and it's become infotainment.
Yeah, very, very much so.
Movie number four.
All the President's Men.
Now they picked on my hero Richard Nixon.
I gotta tell ya, I have a real soft spot for both G. Gordon-Liddy and Donald Segretti, but I gotta admit it was an intriguing movie.
Mark Felt was
Nowhere the man that Hal Holbrook was playing Deep Throat in the garage, but nonetheless a pretty riveting portrayal.
I like the scene where they think they're being bugged so they turn up the classical music real loudly while they're talking Woodward and Bernstein.
Yes, it's just a, even though we know how the story ends, it's still a very riveting film because it's so well-mounted and very biographical and accurate to the
real history, which is not very common these days.
Here with Bruce Crawford, guys.
He's got a wonderful event coming up that we're going to pitch here real shortly.
We'll round it out with movies five and six, movie five.
Bruce, I'm mad as hell and I'm just not gonna take it anymore.
Peter Finch wins a posthumous Oscar for best actor.
Maybe he died because he got so riled up making that movie when he died, so sadly of that heart attack, but a great role and really presaged by decades the disgust of the elites and how they manipulate everything.
Yes, again, another example of infotainment has taken over.
It dominates all the media today.
And it's sensationalism.
And it's just bizarre how at the time the film, either people loved it or hated it because it was, in some way, brought people the wrong way because it seems so ridiculous.
These programming now, like the Sooth Sayer and Prognosticator, it was a guest on his Nightly Newscast.
And now, of course,
It seems passé today from what we actually do experience in our entertainment and news world.
It's all merged together into one infotainment conglomerate, it seems like.
It sure does.
Very concentrated ownership.
Movie number six.
Broadcast news.
Hey Bruce, I've always said I got the...
face for radio and the voice for newsprint uh... broadcast news kind of looked at the vanities of uh... getting out there and being one of the big wigs nationally
exactly show that the ego was it was driven as much as anything else in many of these people and they got into the industry to have a name to become something to become the next woodward and bernstein some ways and that's still i think i think they still applies today
yeah we're with bruce crawford
TCM collaborator honorary Academy Award winner American Film Institute honored for movie preservation.
Okay bonus round movie seven Groundhog Day Bruce Crawford Can you rehabilitate a journalist into being a decent human being if you get enough tries enough wax at the Apple?
That is such a fun movie and exactly it's brought against example broadcast journalists and his
His focus was all about him, but he grew to repeating the day constantly.
He grew to change, became a better person actually.
It's a really a metamorphosis story.
It really is.
Bruce, you've got such a wonderful event coming up.
People come literally, they fly in from all over the country.
What do you got coming up on May 13?
A lot of our Eastern Iowa folks may want to drive down I-80 and see you.
Yeah, we're bringing back.
one of the most popular films in history, and certainly with the great family films of all time.
Steven Spielberg's classic, E.T., the extraterrestrial on the big screen, and a guest speaker being one of the famous child actors from the picture, actor Robert MacMountain, who famously played the oldest brother, Michael, in the film, who helped save E.T.
at the end of the picture with his brother and sister, Gerty, played by Drew Barrymore.
And like I said, Robert will be, I guess, speaker, and he'll have many items there, photos, pictures, and photographs and such.
autograph and sell to the fans and the fan base for this film of course is is legion
tickets tickets are going there they're very hot right now how they get tickets bruce
we can call four zero two three nine nine nine five six five or they can go online to w-w-w dot all mahogany christian academy dot org forward slash movie tickets only twenty five dollars and and uh... it's a benefit from a christian academy this uh... of the uh...
private school that has done very well in Omaha.
It's the fifth-year anniversary, so we're celebrating that milestone with this great classic family picture.
Well, Bruce, we're so delighted to have you.
You know, guys, Bruce is so kind.
He takes time for us on our three major networks here with our clear watt 50,000 watt signals.
But Bruce also even gives time to all those small little radio outfits like KFAB and some of those other porous sisters in the area there.
Bruce, you're kind to even the all surrounds.
We've always admired you.
I
appreciate that.
All right, Bruce Crawford, ladies and gentlemen.
Bruce, good luck tonight on Saturday night.
I hear some friendlies will be feeding you some questions during the Q&A.
Well, yeah, I hope I'm not alone.
I hope that you're joining me in a panel talk.
Oh, I am.
It's going to be epic.
I'll be like Peter Finch.
Let's do a repeat
of what we just did here.
That's exactly what we're going to do.
A good dry run.
You heard it here today and you guys didn't have to pay for dinner.
Bruce Crawford, ladies and gentlemen.
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Scotty, we've got some serious stuff to talk about.
Bruce was the perfect segue into this, and my formerly Reese's Peanut Butter Cup stained hands.
We've got a full frontal assault going on.
It has to be coordinated against free speech on every rampart in every nook and cranny in America, whether it's in the workplace, at the university, in the public square itself.
Certainly a national media and the great Tucker Carlson was silenced this week by Rupert Murdoch and it's interesting.
Tucker usually had about 3 million people watching a night.
He would be number one in cable news.
He had 55 million watch his update on Twitter.
Thanks to Elon Musk after he was silenced.
by Fox News.
And I say silence not fired because Fox has kept him on the payroll, albeit under a gag order.
But Tucker came out and said this just a couple days after parting
ways.
The first thing you realize when you step outside the noise for a few days is how many genuinely nice people there are in this country, kind and decent people, people who really care about what's true, and a bunch of hilarious people.
Also, a lot of those.
It's got to be the majority of the population, even now.
So that's heartening.
The other thing you notice when you take a little time off is how unbelievably stupid most of the debates you see on television are.
They're completely irrelevant.
They mean nothing.
In five years, we won't even remember that we had them.
Trust me, as someone who's participated.
And yet at the same time, and this is the amazing thing, the undeniably big topics, the ones that will define our future, get virtually no discussion at all.
War, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, corporate power, natural resources.
When was the last time you heard a legitimate debate about any of those issues?
It's been a long time.
Debates like that are not permitted in American media.
Both political parties and their donors have reached consensus on what benefits them, and they actively collude to shut down any conversation about it.
Suddenly, the United States looks very much like a one-party state.
That's a depressing realization, but it's not permanent.
Our current orthodoxies won't last.
They're brain dead.
Nobody actually believes them.
Hardly anyone's life is improved by them.
This moment is too inherently ridiculous to continue.
And so it won't.
The people in charge know this.
That's why they're hysterical and aggressive.
They're afraid.
They've given up persuasion.
They're resorting to force.
But it won't work.
When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful.
At the same time, the liars who've been trying to silence them shrink.
and they become weaker.
That's the iron law of the universe.
True things prevail.
Where can you still find Americans saying true things?
There aren't many places left, but there are some, and that's enough.
As long as you can hear the words, there is hope.
See you soon.
Scotty, that's an endorsement of our show.
There is still people out there telling the truth, like us, and obviously,
We're not going away as long as Jeff Stein and our folks stand behind us and we are speaking the truth.
We are telling the truth honestly and with some courage, we're speaking truth to power and Scotty, we've railed against some of the people that Tucker has railed against through his career.
What do you think ultimately took Tucker out at Fox?
Was it his attacks on Big Pharma?
Was it
His attacks on the illegal war going on in Ukraine was at his videos on January 6th that tell a different narrative.
Was it the fact that Rupert Murdoch freaked out because Tucker over the weekend
Last, the weekend that he was silenced, gave him magnificent speech at the American Heritage Institute, where he talked about the spiritual battle between good and evil.
Robert Murdoch doesn't like that religious or spiritual stuff.
What, what did him in?
I think it was all the above, but I think ultimately the two biggest contributors to that pie were the big pharma issue is with these vaccines moving forward as well as the Ukraine war.
I noticed
Bobby Kennedy was his last guest before he
got
Terminated
fascinating.
I think you're on to something Scotty.
I do I think that's I think that was very interesting how they coordinated that attack that Against Chuck or Carlson and it's gonna be very interesting too to see how people view Fox moving forward because they always were the moniker of Truth and balance or you know with their with their news and everything but
To be honest, I haven't watched Fox in several years, John.
Same here, Scott.
Six years for me.
When Bill Riley left, I canceled my Fox subscription.
And so it's very interesting to see how they move forward.
Now, Carlson makes a great point, too, where he talks about the truth tellers and the liars.
And it reminded me of a great quote from John Wayne, when John Wayne said, always tell the truth.
That way, tomorrow you don't have to wonder about what you were lying about yesterday.
Isn't that magnificent?
That was just one of those.
Magnificent.
quotes moving forward and I think as we move forward you know with KXEL and Dr. Jeff Stein in this program there's a lot of truth to be told out there about what's going on nationally with the so-called uniparty we see that where they're all in lockstep with the with the Ukraine war as well as these these pharma issues moving forward with the vaccines but we also have a uniparty in Des Moines as well John that you and I have been railing against and a lot of these people
we would consider friends and we've known a long time and they're not too happy with it when we start telling them, no, you guys are wrong on this issue.
You know, Scotty,
when you're in your 60s like I am, your prism of urgency through which you view the world is much more sharply focused.
the time in the hourglass that sand for me is largely trickle to the lower end of that hourglass people are 20s and 30s they view the world differently the urgency they have a well it's not that bad we'll fix it tomorrow guys the time is now to quote the reverend
Dr. Martin Luther King, why we can't
wait?
You know, that's a great point because we cannot wait because, you know, as Ronald Reagan always said, Jack Kennedy as well as John Winthorpe, America is that shining city upon a hill.
And if no one else is willing to take that torch and move forward,
Who do we have to blame but ourselves?
And it's that great line from Bonhoeffer that you and I have always talked about, John, that I think you could probably say it better than I can.
But, you know, first they came for this group, then they came for that group.
And then they came for me and then nobody was around.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You've got to stand on principle.
And I think that's why Bobby Kennedy in the race is so intriguing because he says that the classical liberal Democrats.
have abandoned the very sinews of what they always stood for, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion.
Uh, he's appalled and it's noteworthy.
He's got a fifth of the vote already in polling.
So, uh, he's going to come out and visit us.
He wants to talk to you and me.
I'm psyched that we've got that credibility with both sides of the fence.
You know, that, that shows a lot about how we've positioned this program to bring these types of interviews.
I mean, we've talked with governor Reynolds.
We talked with, uh, state auditor Rob sand.
And now Bobby Kennedy, you've entered, you've interviewed Donald Trump before.
And so we will be bringing on a lot of great interviews.
moving forward through the Iowa caucus and we're just going to present you the information and it's up to the listeners to decide who's right and who's wrong.
And they will even believe me when I tell them that Jeff Stein was the second best law student in my class of 88.
Gee, I wonder who you would say was the
first.
What do you think, Mike?
Who do you think was the first on that
one?
I just couldn't guess.
I couldn't guess.
Yeah.
Stein gets rebuttal time.
I mean, he doesn't have the station.
Great segment, guys.
As long as you'll listen to us, we'll keep talking.
Time is short.
Memento Mori.
but we always fly with great hope.
Guys, this is a great way to end the show here, Scotty.
I can't wait till next week.
We'll find out if this ensemble group
gets any plot at tonight at the awards ceremony at the Iowa Broadcast News Association.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing all the awards and to show Dr. Stein that, hey, you know, we're pretty good at what we do.
Maybe you should try to give us a little bit longer program timing.
Scotty, I'm nervous.
I'm putting my undefeated election history on the line trying to wrestle away the presidency of the Liberal Iowa Broadcast News Association.
tonight.
I want to go out like Rocky Marchiano undefeated.
I don't know this could go extra innings for the voters that are going to decide
that I would say vote early vote often
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