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The Jacobsen Group with Jon Jacobsen · Mon Jul 24, 2023
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What a week it has been on the national scene Scotty and a lot going on in the sports world to the open championship.
The the British open this weekend.
I love the history of that tournament because there's so much there watching amateur Bobby Jones progression from a man who stalked off the course in anger.
finding those bunkers at St.
Andrews one year, to being welcomed back even after retirement.
They closed the place down there to all follow him for one last round at St.
Andrews as an older man.
Golf's always a beautiful thing.
You know, I grew up Cedar Rapids, Marion area.
I loved Indian Creek Country Club.
I played Squaw Creek, which now has a new name, much more politically.
Correct name, but that was there on the eastern side of Marion and Cedar Rapids Country Club, Elm Crest, so many wonderful opportunities to golf back in those days.
It was very affordable and for the large part still is Scotty.
You know when you're talking a little bit about some of the antics that have taken place during the British Open.
I'm often reminded of the great quote by now former coach, Mike Leach.
When he was asked by reporter, Coach Leach, why don't you play golf?
He says, I don't need to practice swearing.
And that's kind
of how I am.
That's why I
don't play golf as much because it is a beautiful sport, but it is an aggravating sport at the same time.
And it's one of those things, Chip Reidman, but I think everybody, no matter what your age bracket is or even your income bracket, golf, it has that,
transcending type of sport that everybody can enjoy, especially when somebody has it going.
And the British Open is just one of those great marquee matchups every year.
You're right about that, Scott.
It isn't a sport for all ages.
You can learn it when you're young.
You can play it when you're old, as long as you're physically able to swing a club.
There's even handicap leagues.
I mean, all kinds of people can enter tournaments.
Think of the US Open.
Anyone.
Me.
anyone of the three four of us on the radio we could enter the u.s.
Open and be playing in that if we win at all now the question is whether I'm good enough or not to get there but it's a tournament for all men all women on the women's side so it's yes it is a great sport in that sense
you know but we as we talk about what's going on you know in the dog days this summer we're talking about the British Open but we also have
football and it was scc media days it's going to be packed uh... ten packed twelve media days on friday there's a lot of consternation out there the big ten goes next week along with the a cc chip as we talked about last week it was the big twelve there's a lot of things moving forward by find a very interesting now that uh... with an update that happened on thursday of the lawyers uh... representing some of the former students and current students at northwestern they have now named
ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, who was then the athletic director at Northwestern when some of these allegations took place as a co-defendant.
So there's going to be a lot of important questions being asked next week in regards to what happened at Northwestern, not only at the Big 10 media days, but also at the ACC media days.
And guys, I just want to kick in as we're, Chip, as we're listening to the old, the Barry White loves theme, which was the ABC golf theme.
For so many years during the glory days run of Nicholas Trevino Palmer Tom Watson Greg Norman those great glory years.
I hope that this year Our next-door neighbors the Huskers don't chalk like don't choke like Jean van de Vel did at the British Open in 1999 I will never forget he had the tournament won until
Guys all he needed to do is get a double bogey on the 18th His triple bogey seven still tied him for the championship where he lost in In extra innings so to speak but You know he chose driver off the tee He drove the ball the right of the burn.
He was lucky to even find the land
and instead critically of laying up and hitting the green with his third he decided to go for the green with a second shot his shot went right ricocheted backwards off the railings the grandstands by the side of the green
landed on top of the stone wall of the berry burn and then bounced 50 yards backwards in the knee deep rough on his third shot van de velve's club got tangled in the rough on his downswing and his ball flew into the berry burn a water hazard he removed his shoes and socks and stepped through shin deep water he debated whether to try to hit his ball out of the berry burn which guards the 18th green
Ultimately, he took a drop there and then his fifth shot into the green side bunker.
Van de Vel shot within six feet from the hole and made the putt for triple bogey seven, tying him for the championship, losing.
That's the biggest golfing collapse.
I have ever seen and it'd be a shame if some of our Big Ten opponents ran into that this year.
As we are, what's got you count the days?
Are we 42 days away?
I believe 42 days away from kickoff.
And so Chip, talk to us a little bit about your perspective moving forward.
Not only what you want to see out of
Athletic or excuse me new Big Ten commissioner Tony Petiti, but also the athletic former athletic director now current athletic director Jim Phillips at the ACC because he's gonna have to navigate a lot of important questions next week
Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of fire on him and he rightly deserves And as it's you know, we talked about this so much off the air It's at what point can you say that he is liable for what happened?
definitely
from the coaching staff, they definitely either knew or did not perform their duties in knowing what was going on in that locker room.
But he's got a lot of questions that he's going to have to answer and he's not going to be in a good position.
As far as the new Big Ten Commissioner, he's got to come out strong.
He's got to come out quick on it.
You know, if they're going to do an investigation, you get it going quick, be diligent about it, but make it real clear that there's a new sheriff in town and you're not going to, you know,
except any of this messin' around that's been goin' on between them and the Penn State program and what they had in Michigan State.
You got a lot of people know it, which is not acceptable.
You know, as we talk about the coaching carousels across the nation, too, the Big Ten West is gonna have several new head coaches.
We have the new coach, Luke Fickle at Wisconsin, Matt Rule at Nebraska, the new coach at Purdue, as well as the interim coach at Northwestern.
But the old, reliable war horse himself, Kurt Farrance, is gonna be starting up again, once again, leading off Big Ten media days.
It's gonna be very interesting to hear.
I'm calling it, Kurt, 10.0 now.
because he's remade himself once again with the portal.
It's gonna be very interesting to have that juxtaposed issues moving forward,
John.
Well, Scott and Chip, it's amazing.
Who'd have thought that four of those seven home games they were selling
individual game tickets to give all Hawkeye fans a shot at it.
And who'd have thought that four of those seven are already sold out?
It's going to be genuinely hard to get a ticket.
And I think the quarterback in the portal probably has made a bit of a difference there to give Hawkeye fans hope that it's not going to be Brian Farance 1.0 still, but that there is a new paradigm shift.
Now Scott, I'd like
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I like each of your takes on that Scott you first and then we'll go to Chip Scott
I think he's pretty accurate especially on the bottom half of that bracket and I do believe though there's a lot of I would almost see hype but a lot of quiet confidence coming out of Iowa City right now chip where it's basically looking at that schedule you know injuries can go one way or another turnovers can cause a lot of different issues but
It's basically a 10 win season and making it to Indianapolis as the big 10 champion or bust in Iowa City.
And I think that just speaks to what has happened on the special teams with Coach Woods as well as Phil Parker and his tremendous defense.
If they have just ordinary offense, they're going to be very, very good this year.
Scotty, that's a great take.
And I want to get Chip's take too.
You know, he loves his Huskers and they're
ranked about fifth out of the seven there, but Chip, I've got a trivia question for you.
Want to see if you can answer this correctly.
Hate to put you on the spot, but radio is fun for these types of things.
Chip Reidman, one Big Ten team in the West.
One Big Ten West team has a winning record against the Big Ten East.
You know who that is, Chip Reidman?
I think knowing this program, I think that's a loaded question.
We'll see if I can get a ding, ding, ding on this.
Iowa?
Yes, ding, ding, ding.
Way to go, Chip.
Well, we were rooting for you.
You started to get the shakes a little
bit there, but you keep
through.
The John Vanderbilt rolling.
He was rolling up his
pants.
No, there was no draft.
There was no doubt on my end what the answer was on that one.
But, you know, Chip, they talk about Matt Rule and his first year at.
Nebraska.
It's going to be very interesting to see how he as competes in the Big 10 West.
But as he's got some very important games right out of the shoot, he has to go up to Minneapolis on a Thursday night.
The opening game will be against Minnesota and PJ Fleck and roll the boat.
And then the following week, they go to Boulder with Coach Prime.
And so it's not going to be very easy for Matt Rule.
He's going to be under a lot of intense pressure those first two weeks.
Yes, he is.
You're definitely right about that, and a tough way to start a season.
Those are not too easy games, despite the fact that Colorado really stoned last year, but there's just a lot of height going on, and he's got a lot of new players, so you really don't know what you're going to run into there with their program.
And we all know our feelings about the rodents up north.
There's not much love around here, or much to collect in his antics.
But it's still a tough start.
Two road trips right away before you even get a home game.
His historically rule in two other programs, I think it was Temple and Baylor, he started out rough.
He started out with, I think, one win and one program.
I can't remember what the other one was.
But he knew he'd stepped into a deep hole and was going to have to work to get out of it.
I see him having a one-win season.
I think he's going to be more successful on that.
I want to think he's going to make it to a bowl game.
I've been finding a lot of the recruiting information that's been going on.
And he's definitely probably the most impressive coach I've seen on what he's done on the recruiting trail here since he came to Lincoln.
But we won't see those results possibly for one to two years.
It's amazing what he got done in three months to come up with, I think it was like a 25th rated class in the country and actually it was in the upper half with a big 10.
And that was coming in just flat pole, just having to start from scratch.
So, you know, he could surprise some people this season.
When you go back to the ratings, you talked about John, I think the top five and that thing, you could probably, you know, put dice in a cup and throw it out there and you don't know what the result's gonna be.
I'm still kind of baffled that Wisconsin has predicted that high.
Coming off of a coaching change, I think Iowa would have a better chance than them.
Minnesota, you just don't know about them.
Belima, he's got a good thing going on in Illinois.
Can he take another step forward with it?
The West is tough.
They say the East is tough, but the West is a tough one to guess.
I am not a gambling person and I would not gamble on the standings in the West.
You know, John, as we talk moving forward, too, with Big 10 media days coming up in Indianapolis next week, it's going to be very interesting to see the different types of ways these coaches act on the podium, too.
Because PJ Fleck is a charlatan, in my opinion.
He is a used
car
salesman of the worst degree.
Then you're going to have Matt Rule, who's going to be very...
I think astute, but at the same time energetic.
And then you're going to have Kurt Farrance up there.
He's going to maybe talk for five
minutes.
The
sage.
The sage.
You know, he doesn't get
too wound up,
but he'll
throw a couple of nuggets in there,
I
think.
Oh, yeah.
Then a couple haymakers, what he has to.
But it's going to be very interesting to see the dynamics between these new coaches, especially in the West.
And there's going to be a lot of pressure, too, on Ryan over at Ohio State Chip.
Yeah, I just gotta ask, and we've been talking about this for a year, maybe even two years.
Do you think this is his swan song?
Do you think this is the end of the road for him?
Or is the jury just still out on
it?
Eight more wins, he kind of pulls over two Big Ten coaches and would solidly lock into maybe number two of all time.
Depends if he gets his eight wins this year, Scotty.
What say you?
I think the fire is still there for Coach Ferenc to continue coaching.
I think him and Mary love the community, everything along those lines.
But he's been in this coaching business a long, long time.
He's been in Iowa since 1999.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was the final year, but at the same time Kirk is not going to talk about that.
It's going to be one of those things in January if he decides to step down where we'll have a press conference and move forward because that's just the kind of man he is.
But I do know one thing.
He loves his team.
He loves the community.
And I haven't seen him this energetic John since 2015.
There's a little bit of an
interesting comparison.
I agree.
There's a bit of a swag going on.
that whole panoply of Hawkeye Lore now whether it's the Fry Fest or the Tribute the Wave to University of Iowa Hospitals.
I had one of the most die-hard Creighton and Big Red fans tell me at dinner the other night that one of her bucket list items is to go to an Iowa football game just to wave to the kids.
That's really amazing coming from
a diehard Creighton family and some Husker fans there.
And we've also got, don't forget guys, Iowa has a military hero in every single home game.
If you want to nominate a military hero from Iowa for a chance to be honored at the field of the game, get in touch with the Hawkeye Athletic Department.
or the nomination process to the folks at MidAmerican Energy, American Equity, or the Club Car Wash.
That's why we love Iowa, Scotty.
Left, right, up, down, Hawkeyes Unite, and look at this beautiful tradition ranging from Nile Kinick all the way to Judge Duke Slater.
Iowa has always been such an inclusive welcoming place.
There's just a special feeling that we have here in eastern Iowa as proud Hawkeyes cyclones.
and Panthers and Bulldogs.
You know absolutely John and you know you talk about your friend who's a Creighton alum that wants to do the wave I've been very fortunate a few years ago I was at the Iowa Maryland game and we participated in the wave but last year I was very honored to be on the field at the first game doing the wave from the from actually the end zone and waving up there and that was just a tremendous honor and
You know, John, you and I have known each other a long time.
I can be kind of hard and grizzled off the air and things along those lines.
But
hey,
I'm Walter Matthow now.
Get
up.
Exactly,
but you know, I did get a little, I did get choked up about it.
And so did the friends that I was with.
And they're, you know, they're what you call a cowboy tough guys too.
But Chip Reedman, there's something about that.
And, you know, you mentioned all the great things that have just happened.
Let's not forget Hayden Fry with American Eats Farmers, A and F.
That's why I love Fry Fest.
We can never forget about Coach Fry.
Scotty, you are in your mid forties and you only know two Hawkeye football coaches.
No other program in the nation goes back now into almost 45 years with only two head football coaches in
D1.
And successful in their own right as well.
And it's just amazing.
Chip, to have that kind of consistency without having any major scandals has just been tremendous.
And I'd be remiss too if I didn't mention those 45 years of my life having those two coaches.
Nebraska you're on coach what number five since during the big ten and I think Iowa State in my lifetime is on coach nine I believe
Scotty in your lifetime.
I'm thinking Osborne and then Solich and Then of course it was an interim when Solich well, I think Bo Polini and then and then we had Callahan and Then we had Osborne temporarily
during the recruiting season until they went back and got Polini six.
Oh my goodness.
So then Polini left and a bowl.
No, the other guy, the offensive line guy coached that game.
Yeah, seven.
And then we had Riley come in eight and let's see.
Then we had Frost nine.
And I'm Joseph was the
interim.
Yeah, 10 with Mickey Joseph, Matt rule.
I think we've only had 11 Husker coaches in your lifetime, Scotty.
That's just tremendous.
You know, I do give you a lot of grief about that, you know, and but at the same time.
Nebraska, you know, we've talked about this on numerous shows.
They just they don't know their identity since they've joined the Big 10 You've gone from, you know West Coast offense to try to be pounding ground doing whatever Scott Frost is
doing and in fairness chip
They had two coaches in 40 years with Devani and Osborne.
That was the greatest program of the nation during their heyday.
There are no question about it.
Yeah, if you're finding your identity is going to be critical, I mean, the local media has definitely made a big point about that around here.
Technically, I don't, well, I mean, technically, you probably can count the interim coaches, but I don't think most people would count that as someone that handled one game because the other coach got let go.
So yeah, technically, you could say the number 10 or whatever, but
You know, just because someone got let go and someone else handed the bowl game, that's maybe a little bit different.
But, you know, it's gonna be interesting.
It's way old rules, got things looking a lot better than Frost did.
Frost was all hype.
He was all external.
Nothing coming from the internal part of the program.
And this is different.
This is everything coming from him.
And he's spent a lot of time down in Texas at a couple of events down there.
And he's definitely made some headlines in his actions.
Oh, Ruhle is definitely one of the great hires in the Big Ten in the last year, along with Wisconsin coach, Luke Fickle, who took care of Paul Chris, seat there.
And Bilima is a monstrously great coach with Ference.
I mean, the Big Ten West, all of a sudden,
is stacked with some really worthy coaches, I
think, Scotty.
Absolutely.
You know, you look at the Big Ten West, I would say right now, Kirk, well, should be in the Hall of Fame, as well as, I think Burt will make it as well, because you have to have that 60% threshold.
And I think both of those will be tremendous candidates moving forward.
But we do know we have another tremendous candidate who is all over these, our Hall of Fame, and that's Barb Hames Bryant, John.
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While we have chips
still on the line,
Let's bring back a live and kicking Jennifer Bowen, frequent contributor to the show.
Jen, while we've got you and Chip on the line, we want to have a little bit of a informal round table discussion here, McLaughlin Group style, because what a week it was nationally.
Jen, welcome back to the show.
It's great to have you with us throughout all of Eastern Iowa today.
It's fantastic to be back
Jennifer Bowen the matriarch The Iowa right to life movement.
Let's play the McLaughlin theme music here into an homage to the great John McLaughlin We're gonna go live and unrehearsed here with a few topics But guys there was so much that happened this week issue one Mr. Kennedy goes to Washington
Bobby Kennedy on Thursday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
literally altered the landscape of American politics despite almost demonic democratic attempts to suspend the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and not even allow him to speak.
This is how
off the rails the demon rat party has gone the scion of the democratic party john kennedy edward m kennedy robert f kennedy attorney general his father the late senator to want to put a Stalinist bolshevik gag order on robert f kennedy they tried to not allow him to even speak at congressional testimony jennifer is this emblematic now
of the warmed over Stalinism that is really running our country today.
I think it becomes more and more clear every single day that we are not the America that we were founded to be and watching some of that testimony this week with RFK Jr.
was just one more example of exactly that.
That's a great
opening take jennifer let's go to chip readmanship of what say you i think marxism
is definitely on the rise in this country this is a perfect example of it anything and everything you see in the news that revolves around the left and what they're doing whether it be speech whether it be the uh... their so-called equity uh... programs of the trying to put out there it's all about clad not not class warfare it's just worker period on whatever minority they can get to claim victimhood
and then shut people up about it.
And then you take the pandemic side, it's about controlling people.
It's Marxism, it's communism at its finest.
That's another solid take.
Back to Studio A here with Scott Corey.
Scott?
I found it very interesting that you had actual Democrat representatives telling a Kennedy that he was not qualified to talk about this issue.
And, you know, there's a lot of things we disagree with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
about, you know, his claims about Monsanto and a few other things, you know, that have raised ires in in rural America.
But I also find it very interesting, too, that a lot of these farmers and ranchers that I talk to and I follow on social
social media, they're very receptive to some of the things that Kennedy is talking about.
And so I think it's going to be very interesting to see how the left tries to shut him down.
And if the right is smart, they try to find ways to incorporate some of his ideas into more of a populist stance.
Great takes, guys.
Issue two.
People who live in glass houses should throw stones.
Scotty, I'm going to go back to the RFK testimony yesterday.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, representative from Florida, literally tried to not allow Kennedy to speak in public.
She raised a motion to have it only in executive session and her behavior
and her accusations, false accusations level that Robert Kenny during the hearing were off the charts.
But here's a problem.
You guys remember when Debbie Wasserman Schultz had resigned and disgraced as head of the Democrat National Committee because of tilting the process toward Bernie Sanders.
And also Debbie Wasserman Schultz had a huge problem.
with the religious liberty portions of some of the legislation in the United States that they wanted to get rid of.
So does Wasserman Schultz have an anti-Christian bias?
I would say absolutely.
But let's look over to Representative Plaskett, who was the ranking member of the committee.
Seems like she's kind of pals with Jeffrey Epstein, as pointed out by Republican Congresswoman
KAMIC!
Scotty people who live in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones,
you know, absolutely And I think that's where a lot of this, you know, I'm gonna call it a real America is that they are just so sick and tired of the hypocrisy that's coming out of not only Washington but also in Des Moines in Lincoln and all of other capitals that they're basically just saying a pox on everybody's houses right now And that's why you're seeing a rise of a of a Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
You're seeing a rise of somebody like a Vivek Rameshami and even
He
was overtaken.
We'll talk about this later.
Vivek now in the one pole has tied DeSantis.
Yep.
And that's why even somebody like Joe Rogan is seen as a truth teller, even though he's on the left political scale, it's because he doesn't care and he just kind of calls it as he sees it.
And I think there's a huge vacuum right now in real America and anybody can fill it right now.
It doesn't matter what party you belong to.
Very good, Scott.
Let's bring in Jennifer and Chip.
Jennifer, people in glass houses shouldn't be throwing those stones.
Well, you're absolutely right.
And I have to tell you, my first instinct when Debbie Wasserman Schultz' name comes up, I'm like, is she still around?
Like, how does she show her face after such disgrace?
I mean, it just boggles my mind.
Well, those people have no shame.
Absolutely not.
And we saw that again on vivid display this week, as she did try to shut down a very fiery, fired up RFK Junior, and he's so fired up because of that crush of freedom to say what he wants to say.
And I think it has been said this morning, he is just an emblematic of the problem that even the lab is saying,
Enough we've had enough let us speak let us vote for who we want to vote and maybe it's not Joe Biden
That's a that's a fine comment Jen and I'm gonna give Chip the last word on this other than to say even if you're Republican the juxtaposition of an honest intellectual like Bobby Kennedy
against a crooked, brain-dead, uh, hack like, uh, Brandon is, is, is really jarring.
Uh, Democrats wake up and smell the Java chip.
Readman, you get the final word on this.
Well, I could probably repeat much of what
I said the first round is, uh, left to fly.
They're very, they're very good at it.
And they have, you're right, John.
You said it.
They have no shame for whatever they bring out.
Uh, there are hypocrites, par excellence in what they do and what they say.
Uh, the democratic party has got some real, real problems.
The media loves the point about how the Republicans are split on some issues and stuff that, well, you talk about internally, that's a carcass that's just rotting from the inside.
You take a, uh, someone like mansion or even, you know, cinema left the party, the,
the
Senator from Arizona.
If you're a moderate in that, I don't know what you call them.
cabal that they have running that party you just don't stand chance you don't have a voice unless you just happen to be in the right position like mansion is on some boats that you can just say whoa and then stop everything it's it's sad
good round guys heading into round three
Try that my small town hell try that my backyard Scotty the backlash is firmly in sconce that great new song by Jason Aldean Despite the hack the fact that those weasels at country music television CMT flinched like a bunch of choking dogs and we're gonna censor his Video that is now the number one song across all platforms the United States
just like that top movie cry of freedom, the sound of freedom, rather, has now surpassed 100 million mark.
Scotty, this old Jason Aldean thing, it really irritates me because you and I are very aware that when there was unrest a few summers ago in Omaha, they were marching toward Council Bluffs and that had to be interdicted and those
patriotic people and law enforcement and our mayor and those folks that prevented the vandalism and council bluffs as merchants the 100 block were boarding up their businesses and council bluffs and we had citizens helping uh uh very appropriately to stand guard again the crazy left in potawatomi uh right at the heart of the democratic party was actually criticizing
Patriots for defending their property, they must have rather seen Council Bluffs burned down and there is nothing offensive in that song about Jason Aldean.
If you look at the video, there is nobody that has singled out.
It's just saying that if you take the crime situation,
that some of these leftist protesters engage in, that some good and decent people aren't going to stand for it.
You know you kind of think about it a little bit and I say this tongue in cheek too I had forgotten that CMT actually played music videos because every time I turned on it was some reality show But at the same time, you know as somebody that listens to country music, you know I'm more of the the older style
You know the George Stray type
type of music,
but
it reminded me too of back in 2001 2002 when Toby Keith had his song a courtesy of the red white and blue and then ABC news anchor Peter Jennings was
was all mad about the lyrics and that, and all of Toby Key's fans started sending cowboy boots to Peter Jennings as kind of a reminder of what they thought of him.
And so it's gonna be very interesting.
I, you know, I even see Kristi Noem has invited Jason Aldean to perform at the governor's mansion up there in South Dakota.
So, you know, Chip, I just don't see a whole lot of big things out there.
This is a big issue.
I mean, we've all seen and heard the lyrics that's coming out of rap and a few of these other artists on the other sides.
I mean, that is very extreme.
And there's no mention or anti-marketing
those types of songs as well.
Yeah, Chip Riemann, what say you on this?
Well, Scott, there you
go again.
You know, actually, John, you didn't say it, I don't think it's quite quote, but they did censor it.
You made it sound like they were, that CMT was going to censor it.
They
did.
Oh, yeah, they did.
I want to be clear about that.
They did.
And the American people said not so fast, Jack, and all downloaded and bought the song.
And now it's being, uh, shoot, the Vakramaswamy began his rallies now with that song.
Scott, I just read that, uh, the other day.
And, uh, you know, country music, fortunately Scott has done this.
forever during 9 11 and there've been so many patriotic songs I grew up with Reaganism taking over the feckless Jimmy Carter loser hood of America and Charlie Daniels had this magnificent song in America it was a fighting song and even Merrill Haggard Would sing about not trampling on America and Johnny Cash would sing
ragged old flag.
I love these country music guys.
They get it.
Jennifer Bowen, what say you?
We'll give you the last word on this segment.
I think you're absolutely right that we've seen such honesty come out of country music for so many years and Jason Aldean is of course the latest and so-called victim of that.
But I just love how he and his wife
Just constantly they know they pick their battles and they stand in that storm of wokeism And I think country music has just really been a vanguard for honesty over the last number of decades
Issue for as we wind it up here So Iowa passed repast a law almost identical to one that
we passed when I was in the legislature back in 18 a new fetal heartbeat bill and of course immediately a judge found a way to slap on an injunction might have been a little gratuitous by the judge if you read dobs and the
more recent Iowa Supreme Court rulings on the life issue.
There's no reason to slap an injunction on, but I will give the judge credit.
He, he put it on the most fast track appeal calendar imaginable.
So that is at least some consolation.
Jen Bowen, your, your retrospective on the week that was with the one day Iowa special session.
Uh, good, bad or ugly.
Well, I don't think you can define it with one word.
I think that it was good that we finally had the special session, and it was a year in the making.
We had been calling for over a year for this special session once Roe v. Wade toppled by U.S.
Gotis.
immediately recognized that Iowa was an abortion sanctuary state,
and
which we still are while we wait for the court proceedings.
And so it was good to see them come back.
It was disappointing to see that they wouldn't go the distance and end all abortion.
And now we are back where we were in 2018.
We're waiting for the court to decide.
And then, Lord willing, we will be free of abortions after six weeks, as we have no abortions after 20 weeks right now.
And so there was some good, bad, and ugly, I would say.
Jen Bowen here.
I'm going to weigh in and then I'll give Scott and Chip the final word as we end the segment.
Scotty, I'll tell you this.
The difference between now and then is this law will hold up.
It will be validated at the appeals level, either by one of the Iowa Pellet Courts or by the Iowa Supreme Court.
This bill will take.
I agree with that, John.
I think it will take.
But I also raised a serious question too.
because the moment that the bill, the special session ended on last Tuesday, the governor had not even signed the bill into law, but that following Wednesday after the special session, Planned Parenthood of Iowa had gone ahead and found a judge and they were going to file a lawsuit.
Now, I don't know how you can file a lawsuit against a bill and get standing in a court.
And so that raises some very
interesting
questions.
Scott, brilliant take as an attorney.
I'll just say that would be one of my first lines of attack.
if I'm fighting for upholding that bill, it wasn't right for them yet.
They were asking for an injunction on a law that had not yet been signed.
If I were a judge, I would fill them out procedurally.
Chip Reidman, you get the last word here.
I
would use the word good.
I think it's a fine move by the state to kind of get their act together on that and clean up some old business.
As you probably have read, Nebraska's got a similar issue going on with theirs and theirs is only a 12-week ban.
There's a different
Procedural issue going with that because it's there the left is claiming that there's two Topics, I'm not sure that's right word In a bill in my state law you only can have it on one But they're countering and saying this is a health issue Which basically is true because that's what the left always points to with abortion is it's a health issue a women's right to do something with her body so I would say good and
I think you got good points and hopefully they can outlast the fight.
Yeah, Nebraska fighting a similar battle with procedural hurdles being flung at them.
Stay tuned folks.
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Barbara, we talked about how proud we were to be Iowans and Americans, and particularly East Iowans.
And Barbara, about the same time that your father and mother set up shop, so to speak, after great military careers in World War II and thereafter, and came to the Marian Hiawatha Cedar Rapids area.
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This is a great history, isn't it, Barb?
How many businesses make it 54 years?
We're so proud of our company, our staff, and our employees.
Here's a trivia question for you.
1969, the year Curt Norma Haynes founded Haynes the Homes People.
What was the top song of that year?
Oh boy.
It was.
Was it Cracklin' Rosie?
No, Cracklin Rosie's a couple of years later.
Hey Jude by the Beatles.
Oh
Barb, that's right because they had actually They were close to announcing a breakup.
That was one of the last hits that all four of them were in.
Hey Jude, you're exactly correct Another bit of background on that story subsequently within the last several years Paul McCartney has admitted
that he wrote that song as a consolation for Julian Lennon when his parents had broken up and John Lennon had moved on to Yoko Ono.
Barbara, that's a great trivia question.
Well, you sure know a lot more trivia than I do about the Beatles.
So good for you.
I want you on my team.
The next time is the trivia night.
Hey, Barbara, we were resort champions this year.
The Jacobson family rocked all of those resort trivia categories up there by Pelican Lake.
Good for you.
I can see why.
Well, Barbara, you know, it's funny.
We started going up there too right around 1969 and
It's so wonderful that Haymes Holmes is that anchor.
I know you're very humble and very much a quiet servant leader in some of the charitable things that you do.
However, you have won a recent award for the business excellence.
A couple actually want to tell us about those.
Yes, the corridor business journal awarded us a connect for a cause award.
And that is for a business that partners with the nonprofit organization to provide an ongoing service for the community.
And we want it for the food pantry that we have at our Summit View office.
We have it two days a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
It's fully stocked with meat, eggs, milk, fresh vegetables from our community garden.
and also donations of food from Hay Cap and Quick Roads.
Here with Barbara Hames Bryant.
You know, Scott, I always have a warm spot in my heart for Barb's father and mother, the late, great Kurt and Norma Hames.
Barb, I'm going through some materials in my office.
uh, getting rid of some of the old, uh, to make way for some of the new and I've gone through some older materials.
I found the other day, uh, I believe a correspondence from your father when I first was thinking about running for the Iowa house years before I actually ran, but, but I really credit his encouragement.
Some of the elder statesmen of which your father was premiss interparas, as we say first,
among peers who encouraged me to do that in about 2015, 2014.
I ultimately made the run in 2017.
I cherish that and you must cherish his legacy and your mom's legacy because you are making them proud by the quality communities that you put together safe and beautiful and affordable.
For these families, Barbara, you're essentially mayor of a city of 3,000 teaming, wonderful, beautiful Southwest Cedar Rapids folks.
We love our communities.
We are so humbled and so proud that we get to manage these.
They're beautiful.
The homes are lovely.
people take pride in their homes.
They have gardens planted, flowers planted, yards are mowed, and people look out for one another here.
It's just such a great place to live.
We like to think that we not only helped build it, but we help nurture it.
Yeah, that Scott, that Business Corridor award is huge, but you know, these guys were rock stars during the derecho, and it's aftermath.
And now they've got this
well-stocked, accessible food pantry, taking up half of their Summit View office.
They've got those two wonderful communities there that I drive through regularly, both at Summit View and Grand View.
Scott, we're proud to have them.
Underwriting this show
absolutely, you know Barbara We were talking about Hall of Fame coaches earlier and I made the comment that Kirk Ference will be right up there with Hayden Fry being a Hall of Fame But what you and your family have done has been Hall of Fame material not only for your area But all of Eastern Iowa talk to us just real briefly about how they can get in contact with you And if they want to do any any set up any tours or even virtual tours of the properties that you have listed
Most people start with our website.
It's hamshomes.com.
We're also available to view our beautiful homes seven days a week at our sales office, which is at the corner of Wilson Avenue and West Post Road, Southwest in Cedar Rapids.
So Wilson Avenue, East West Street.
West Post Road is the north-north-south street and we're on the southwest corner.
Guys, Barbara Hames Bryant.
She also heads up the entire Iowa Federation of Republican Women.
Barbara, I think they're still courting you.
Didn't President Trump fly in the other day just to see you?
Oh,
well, you know, I was...
So humbled that he did that.
But I told him he didn't have to make any special time for me.
But I did go see him at the town hall at the Lion Energy Powerhouse.
It was a great event.
It was Hannity and Trump.
And it was Hannity's show.
They taped it there and then played it that night.
It was amazing, spectacular.
And Trump was his usual self.
Barbara, he's a real estate magnet.
If he saw your beautiful, safe, affordable communities, he'd get into manufactured homes as part of his realty.
Don't you think, Scotty?
I believe the comment would be, it's huge.
It's huge out there.
Barbara Hames.
Barbara Hames, Bryant, ladies and gentlemen.
Always a joy for us to have Barbara on.
Barbara, let's have a date again next Saturday.
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Honorable Dr. David Hart, such former Iowa State Senator, physician in the Quad Cities, Omaha legend, Dr. Ted Fogarty.
Hyperbaric's guru and great physician in Ogallala, North Dakota and points in between.
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Guys, we're going to get right to the chase.
Bobby Kennedy yesterday and the Stalinist tried to shut him down.
Ted Fogarty, you had the line of the day, the irony of yesterday.
Talk to us first.
Yeah, the irony is that Jim Jordan, Republican congressman from Ohio, and I actually read, I read films in the ICUs in
one of the
hospitals in his district.
He brings Bobby Kennedy in.
The Democrats, you know, in the preceding week have been trying to make sure that he doesn't show up.
And then he gets there.
He just absolutely turns over the money changers table.
Yes.
on this whole censorship deal there's nobody in this country that is as smart and as gifted in order and thinker and and and free speech defender as robert f kennedy jr
agreed
and and he got censored even in the midst of this committee hearing on censorship yes
him the democrats tried to censor him on a hearing on censorship no self-awareness by those guys of course
The disgrace Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who got run out as Democratic Party Chair and President Plaskett, who is hanging with Jeffrey Epstein.
They got no self-awareness or shame either.
Dr. Hartzich, what say you?
Well, it's even better than that because one of the Republican House members said, hey, look, it's even worse than that because
At the same time that the Democrats were saying, this is not censorship, they were turning around and saying that they need to censor him.
Which is it?
The other thing that I think is important is they accuse him of being anti-Dex.
This is the slander they put on anyone who challenges the safety or efficacy of the vaccines.
Oh you're anti that.
Yeah it's def, it's defamation against him to say that.
Literally defamation.
No, he's
anti-fraud.
He's anti-fraud.
This has always been he's anti-fraud.
You're exactly right Doc.
That's what it is.
So, and he had a, you know I thought he had an excellent comeback today.
I said I'm back, so that's my children.
Right.
But he said I haven't taken the colors actually nor will I. But
The thing we have to realize is people who are advocating for the health and safety of vaccines, they are not anti-vax.
Otherwise, we get to what we have now.
I mean, a manufacturer can sell anything they want, call it a vaccine, and nobody ever will claim a problem with safety
or efficacy.
Here with Dr. David Hart, such the most recent voice you've heard,
Ted Fogarty, uh, guys, I'm going to say this for what these homicidal fiends did in our government during COVID, there has to be a reckoning.
And I have another hero, Scott.
Maybe you agree with me.
Yesterday, Senator Rand Paul made a criminal referral against Dr. Anthony Fauci for lying to Congress.
That's a good start, Scott.
Absolutely, and I think that's one of the ways that the right or the Republicans can start fighting back on some of this stuff is actually Using the Democrats tactics against them and so Fauci has made a lot of bad choices over the years And it's finally looks like his chickens are coming home to roost it'll be very interesting too to see how the DOJ Operates under this because they're under a lot of scrutiny right now and Senator Charles Grassley has really upped the pressure on the DOJ and you know Fauci he's at the at the center
this and I think a lot of people need to look at with some of the comments that even Bill Gates has made recently too.
Hey, Grassley, sir, Grassley dumped that smoking gun memo.
So I'm going to go to Ted Fogarty and then to David Hart, such the one two punch of Dr Rand Paul and Chuck Grassley.
We got the bad guys on defense, Ted Fogarty.
Yeah, absolutely.
But the bad guys are still pretty powerful.
Yep.
And you know,
It's going to come down to, I really believe this in my heart, it's going to come down to us in the Midwest, considering ourselves all American and getting away from, you know, strict party line voting and looking at the character of these people that are
that are going to be run in the country.
And we absolutely have to get Joe Biden out of office.
And we absolutely have to have Bobby Kennedy Jr.
beat Joe Biden in the primaries, in Iowa, in the caucuses, and make it a signature win.
I agree.
And get this off.
I agree.
Get this thing off the ground, right off the bat, from Iowa.
Let me
ask.
If he doesn't win Iowa, if he does not, if Bobby Kennedy Jr.
does not win Iowa, it's a sign that we have lost the country.
It's literally that kind of sign.
Here with Dr. Ted Fogarty.
Man, this has been a fast 10 minutes here.
We're down to about a minute left.
Dr. David Hartsich, question.
Bobby Kennedy, he's very compelling.
He does have that physiological issue that does affect the strength of his voice.
You and Fogarty are using hyperbaric.
therapy do you think that could help people with voice situations like he has
yeah especially i my understanding is that his is probably his voice is neurologic there's there's a problem with the nerve going to the local courts and whether that's central approval i don't know but i do think that what from what i've seen with hyperbaric therapy there's a good likelihood that he could get improvement of his voice quality
with hyperbaric therapy.
I'm hoping that if he comes here into Iowa that he can get, he can get him here on this, here on the east coast of Iowa and out on the west coast of Iowa during his campaign here.
I love it when you guys say coasts because
being a Coast Guard auxiliary man.
I love people saying coasts of Iowa.
We are the only state with two navigable rivers as serving our east and west boundaries.
Hey Ted Fogarty, what do you think?
What is it?
We got a minute.
What is it about hyperbaric that can help in so many ways?
It must be a foundational building block to sell health.
Well, yeah, and you know, honestly and ironically, it's the Coast Guard of medicine in the sense that it's diving medicine.
You're physiologically going between 10 feet and in the medical grade version, you're going up to 33 feet below sea level.
Fascinating.
And you know, divers on the coast of America have for decades understood this to
great effect.
But when you're in commercial diving and you have some sort of an injury that happens, you know, shore side, and then you go do your job in terms of the Gulf oil industry or the Navy or whatever you're doing your work, you know, these guys have come to me in these international hyperbaric medicine conferences and said, hey, you know, Foggie, let me tell you the story.
You know, I cut my arm, gassed it wide open with 25 stitches.
shore side and then went and did my diving work and basically healed this thing up in four days and took the stitches out.
It's that kind of thing that's going on with this hyperbaric physiology pressure.
And it's just my grain elevator pitch for all the farmers in the Northern Plains.
It's just a supercharger for yourself.
Wow.
Adding energy, adding energy very gently that can become coordinated by the great monopoly of God's great mRNA products from our genes imbued by God above to create our own little pharmacy in every little cell.
This is the biggest anti-pharma play in all of medicine is to turn
all of our bodies into their own pharmacies through this very simple physics.
Well said.
Part three of this you will hear next Tuesday at five p.m.
on our sister station K. C. R. O. Thanks.
Heart Such and Fogarty studio audience on their feet.
I'm going to tease.
The heart such filings with his legal suit next Tuesday.
Thanks, Docs.
We will talk to you soon.
See you, John.
Sounds great.
Thanks, John.
Mike, Shane, the controls list of that.
That's serious bumper music.
That means we are on the newsmaker lines with these two fine Docs.
Scott, another.
baffle performance today on this show.
What great
guests.
Absolutely, John.
And it's one of those things, too.
It's a blessing that we have an hour, but at the same time, we could almost use an extra hour or two.
But we're so grateful for Jeff Stein at KXEL, Mike Shane, Barbara Hames Bryant, and the doctors, John.
Couldn't have said it better.
And you, Scott, co-chair here in studio with the great Mike Shane.
Thanks to all of our guests.
In the meantime, look up that podcast.
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