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The Jacobsen Group with Jon Jacobsen · Mon Aug 28, 2023
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It means we're doing serious business here today, Scott Corey.
What a tremendous summer of sultry dog days of summer heat.
We're finally coming out of it, but basically a week straight of 100 degrees Fahrenheit, Scott Corey.
Yeah, it's been brutal out there and you know, the crops have been suffering, the livestock's been suffering, the kids are back to school.
So we knew we were gonna get this heat wave, John, but at the same time, we are
one week away from college football, officially kicking off.
I do not consider Notre Dame in week zero as a kickoff.
I consider it when Kinnock Stadium is lit as well as Jack Trice Stadium as well as the uni dome.
That is when kickoff is.
Hey guys, Nebraska goes Thursday, so it's even less than a week for us.
Wow, that's true.
The love and grace of Mrs. Jacobson was grousing big Husker fan that she is.
She's not used to these
First games being conference foes that are away games.
She's not a happy camper.
told about the money involved and it did make more logical sense to her.
You know absolutely that's the one thing about it you know Iowa a couple years ago started out the opening game was against Indiana both teams are ranked at the time in chip that's just what it is right now it's just we have to satisfy the media partners if we want a seven billion dollar media contract with NBC CBS and Fox we got to have some good games and you know now that we're going to be onboarding four more schools starting next year I look forward to
more conference games starting out in week zero, week one, and week two, and I think eventually we're going to be going to 10 conference games.
I think it's a smart move for the conference to do that, for the big 10 to make that kind of a move.
Get the people interested in the conference games early.
You know, we can do these non-conference games anytime.
They can spread them out, makes it easier for the TV networks to work around those weaker games if you can get some conference games sprinkled in the beginning of the season.
Guys, I'm so psyched, and of course, we're gonna be your premier tailgate party location.
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Well, we're delighted the high point of our week.
is getting to talk to the lovely and gracious Barbara Hames Bryant, the matriarch of commerce in Iowa, the multi-generational head of this wonderful family enterprise, Scott, that provides safe, beautiful, affordable homes for all of our family studio audience on their feet for Barbara Hames Bryant here again on this Saturday.
Barbara, welcome back to the program.
Welcome John, thank you.
It's always good to speak with you.
Great to speak with you too.
We've got the full house here today and you know, wanted to talk about a couple things with you today, Barbara.
One of those being gardening for good, but I know Chip Reidman, one of our studio guests and commentators also had a question for you today that he thought you might be able to help answer for him.
Chip, take it away.
Yeah, I got a quick one for you.
Everyone knows about the interest rates going up and how difficult that is making it for a lot of first-time home buyers.
And maybe you could take a minute to talk about what you can do to help people on that.
The other question I have is, you know, we all know about inflation and rising prices.
I'm kind of curious of what you're seeing, because I'm assuming it's one of your major costs, is lumber prices.
I remember it was a year ago or two years ago how they absolutely skyrocketed and things settled down in that market.
Has that helped you on the selling end of your business?
I know Barbara will handle these with aplomb because she's the head of the state of Iowa's statewide Federation of Republican Women.
Barbara, two great questions.
Interest rates for financing and construction prices.
Well, let's start with interest rates.
There's very good news there.
Even though the interest rates are going up on site built homes, they're over 7% now.
The interest rates on manufactured homes are actually coming down.
Manufactured home interest rates for the home only loans used to be around 10 to 13% and now they're 78%.
Awesome.
So
we're pretty excited about that value proposition and because our home
cost half as much to build as site build homes, that means you're getting a very good value for your money.
That's great news.
They're basically on parody with Site Built Home, Scott.
That's amazing how those two convection lines have come now.
They're asymptotal running alongside each other.
That's great news.
Absolutely.
And, you know, we'd be remiss too if we didn't talk about the safety features, too, because, you know, we've talked about it numerous times on this show, but your homes withstood the duratio.
And if they can withstand a duratio, they can withstand almost anything, can't they, Barbara?
It was a wonderful testimonial to how well built and installed manufactured homes are.
During the derecho, the roof blew off of our brick office here in Grandview, but the homes were all sturdy.
They stayed in place.
Yeah, there were some shingles and some siding that blew off, but none of our homes tipped over.
None of the homes were demolished.
It's a great testimonial if you think that
Manufactured homes blow away in a windstorm.
Uh-uh, they don't.
They're good.
And you know Scott, that means so much to me because my lovely and gracious mother who just celebrated her 87th birthday, the lid blew off her condo in Marion.
She lost her roof and
That is a testimonial that is just without peer what Barbara has just told us there.
Well, Barbara, it's great to know that the financing is very affordable.
Have some of the construction prices gone down for the major supplies and materials needed to build these homes, Barbara.
Not yet.
And the reason I say that is our homes are built with the exact same materials as a site built or a stick built home in a traditional neighborhood.
So Chip was right about that.
There's lumber involved.
There is lumber involved.
It's good sturdy lumber.
Problem is the advance time to build manufactured homes is about six months.
They're built in a factory and we get our homes from Indiana, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.
And we had to order them six months ago when the lumber prices were high.
So one of these days, prices of homes will come down, but for now they have increased in price as the same as site built homes.
Here with a great Barbara Haymes Bryant Haymes Holmes in Southwest Cedar Rapids with their great communities there Barbara want to talk about your wonderful website that article gardening for good that is as fresh as the produce that you're talking about with the seasonal produce
That's available at your Summit View food pantry on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
What a marvelous add-on that you have.
You have so many add-ons there from the Frisbee Golf to the Dog Park.
This sounds like a great idea too.
How's it going there with the produce at the community garden organized by Leo Broughton?
It's hugely popular.
God bless Leo and his crew for building this garden.
There's been an abundance of produce.
Haynes Homes helps wherever we can.
We help purchase supplies and plants and things like that.
But Leo and his crew do a great job of tending the garden.
Right now we have tomatoes, asparagus, broccoli.
I think that they told me we've got pumpkins starting to get ripe.
And all of that food goes to our Summit View food pantry.
And we serve
over 3,000 people a month at our somewhat new food
pantry.
Wow.
None of the produce goes to waste and that's very exciting because that's tough this time of year.
When everybody's got their garden, getting ready to harvest, making sure the food gets to the people who can use it.
Those are epic numbers, Scotty.
You know, Barbara, as we...
transition into Labor Day and people are looking to maybe make a purchase of a home or do a tour.
Is there a website and a phone number that they can go to and line this up so that they can get that amenities moved in before Christmas?
Our website is hamshomes.com.
And we do have a great inventory already, a beautiful home that people can move right into.
Our phone number is 319-377.
four eight six three three one nine three seven seven four eight six three it's our old phone number from Marian and people can visit our homes and tour them seven days a week at the corner of Wilson Avenue and west post roads southwest in Cedar Rapids.
Hames Homes guys our studio audience loving every minute of it.
Barbara Hames Bryant gracing us every week with an update
Barbara, you are a true rock star and you're well-known and beloved in all 99 counties.
Thanks again for joining us and underwriting this great enterprise here.
It's always a pleasure, John.
I love talking with you guys and go Hawks.
Go Hawks!
We'll be pre-gaming with Barbara here very soon.
Scott, we're getting serious now.
It's just a few days till countdown.
And of course, on KXEL, we're flooded with, yes, Panther fans.
And we'll cover the Panthers as Jeff Stein does so well.
And certainly some cyclone action out there.
And we know that we've got neighbors.
The Big Ten will be discussing, like Illinois and Minnesota and Nebraska.
But Scotty, we got to talk about our beloved Hawkeyes and it's been kind of a mixture of joy and pain this week.
Some bad news, those nasty NCAA guys in these gambling suspensions and even romance in Hawkeye land.
It sounds like our Caitlyn is going out with our Connor and that makes me very happy.
You know, it's just
Iowa is such an all-american state.
The stories are always all-american.
You know, absolutely, John.
And I find it very interesting.
Let's just talk a little bit about the gambling issue going on at Iowa and Iowa State.
Chip, you and I have talked about this quite a bit as well, is that why is the DCI Department of Criminal Investigation
We get that they're investigating this there was wrong doing the kids that signed up for it They knew they were not supposed to be gambling some of them are underage at the same time But why is only the state of Iowa doing this?
Don't tell me this isn't happening in other states chipper even
You know, I'm gonna throw a conspiracy theory out here I wonder if it has anything to do with the Iowa caucuses and they're getting so much attention primarily because the Republicans really only have anyone running I definitely could say
You know, RFK is running, but the mainstream media is burying that as hard as they can.
I don't know.
I'll throw that out.
Do you think you have anything to do with it?
Let's punish
Iowa since they call you Republicans.
Well, maybe they're still angry that we pushed back on Kevin Warren and forced him into having that COVID football season.
Thank goodness, and it was Ohio State and Nebraska kudos to your Huskers in Iowa who fought that valiant fight I that's that's the proudest thing I've ever been as a Hawkeye is that Institutionally the University of Iowa was on the right side of that battle Scott.
I'm kind of shocked because Yeah, I'm a little to the right Politically and ideologically of both my university and my law school in particular, but in general institutionally
Without Iowa and Nebraska and Ohio State, there did not been a football season
that year.
You know, absolutely in chip.
He talked about the conspiracy theory.
I, you know, it was very interesting and coach Kurt Ferenc was interviewed several times this week about what's going on.
Noah Shannon, the defensive and he's appealing the suspension, one year suspension from the NCAA over this.
He did, he did gamble.
He admits to that, but it was not on the Iowa football team.
It was on a different sport.
And so
to me, that's no harm.
foul
exactly I mean come on man well you know I can't remember the commentator that made the comment too is that you know there's been players that have been accused of a whole lot worse domestic violence we have the issues down there in Georgia going on with excessive speeds of over a hundred miles an hour and people have passed away due to car accidents because of it and they're still going along but you know at the same time that the kids signed this contract the university
Went ahead and they did the program saying you cannot bet on the sports things like that So I get what's going on, but at the same time Kirk was pretty wound up I hadn't seen Kirk that fired up about this issue in a long time over anything and so it's very
It was kind of an interesting press conference.
I believe it was Tuesday or Wednesday.
I can't remember now because at one point Kirk was joking about Starbucks and very relaxed.
But the moment that switch came on when he talked about the NCAA, you could tell this is Kirk 25.0.
He won Old Man Kirk on the NCAA and rightfully so too.
Well, and Chip,
you really might be onto something because again, this this haunting feeling that I have
My chief concern for the Republic is that we're starting to waft into a system of a two-tiered justice system.
And again, these are very venial sins that these Hawkeyes are committing.
They're pulling out splinters, but there are logs in other people's eyes, and this does not seem to me to be equal protection.
or due process that is meted out equally to all such competitors in all 50 states.
I think it stinks.
Well, let's talk about how crazy this whole world is right now.
As long as everyone's piling on the NCAA, which is pretty easy to do.
And
justified.
Look at Reggie Cush.
He's coming back and suing the NCAA because he wants to tie his trophy back.
You know, absolutely.
And I find it very interesting, too.
We talk about, you know, the Kirk 25.0.
He's kind of more relaxed, John, and everything like that.
There's a breath of fresh air that we have to talk a little bit too about what's going on in the athletic department.
And Beth gets the interim athletic director.
She is just hitting it out of the park.
She's accessible.
Chris crossing the campus this whole week.
Well, you
said something that bears repeating on another show.
She gets the NIL thing.
How important, Scott, is that?
Absolutely.
You know, she has stated in her press conferences that she has met with, or excuse me, she's spoken to, I don't know if she's actually met with him, but Brad, who's in charge of the Iowa Swarm, the NIL collective, Brad Hendricks went on numerous reports and said that Gary Barton, the former athletic director, wouldn't even return a phone call or an
and so that was a huge issue I know in the athletic department amongst the coaches is that at the time the barter regime didn't understand that this is a whole new world but Beth gets understands that she gets what's going on and I'm very excited about what she's doing Chip because that athletic department needs to be hitting on all cylinders because we are not a Michigan we're not an Ohio State we don't have the you know the five-star recruits we are a two and a three-star and a four-star type program
but we turned them into NFL prospects.
Well and I really do feel bad about Iowa and what he who shall not be named did to the program when it comes to the NIL side.
I spent a few months to see numbers but I know Nebraska is like one fifth as far as NIL dollars when you look at the Alabama's and Ohio states of the world and Iowa was half of Nebraska.
And that's just, that was just rather stunning to me.
It's like, how could it be that far behind?
Now, hopefully with all the promotions they got going on now, this is a whiskey or whatever that you got going, hopefully that kind of activity will get Iowa, you know, climbing back up the ladder so they can get competitive and get these good players in there instead of having them bought off by the other schools.
Good point by Chip.
You know, we have a theme song for all of our subjects of our notoriety here.
Good and indifferent and whatnot.
Beth Getz gets a great theme because Beth Getz is smart.
And if you're gets smart, we got to play the theme from get smart, you know, the Lalo shifrin theme from that great old television series.
And I had to play that Scotty because I won't tell it on this episode.
But to make a long story short, I helped protect Nancy Reagan in Iowa City at the University of Iowa by diverting protesters with a Maxwell smart shoe phone.
pantomime in front of our Secret Service vehicles there.
So that's the story.
for the ages.
Unfortunately, Mrs. Jacobson's eyes roll in the back of her head.
She's heard me tell that a thousand times, but it's true.
It's true.
So Beth Gatz gets the Vaunted Get Smart theme.
Congrats to Beth.
You know, absolutely.
And I think the story gets even better after John has a couple of the golden ale swarm beers that goes to the NIL collective.
So, you know, we talk about everything that's going on ship, but there's also some movement at Nebraska.
A huge development.
where your president, Ted Carter, is no longer going to be at Nebraska.
He was gobbled up by Ohio State and will be starting there in January.
Your thoughts on Ted Carter leaving Nebraska to go to Ohio State?
Well, you talk about getting blindsided.
I don't feel anyone saw that thing coming.
I saw the first headline.
I thought it was almost a joke.
It's like, where is this coming from?
There's never been a rumor about it or
I'm actually surprised that a lot of the articles I've read afterwards as to how well Ted is respected in the athletic community at UNL.
I've got some different disagreements with him and the way he administered things academically at the school.
But he apparently, and it's shown, assuming that rule comes out to be the higher that everyone hopes he is, it's shown that he does care about sports.
He's the one that's made it known that
Sports is the doorstep of the University of Nebraska.
It's what people see first.
And you need to have a good sports program if you're going to get students to come to the school.
It's a great sales tool.
He recognized that.
And so he's getting a lot of applause for that.
And I wonder if that probably had a lot of influence with him going to Ohio State because they looked at his credentials.
He was a former hockey player in college.
I don't know if people know that.
So he's got some, you know, not professional, but some sports bonafide that he understands the game.
He understands athletes.
He understands what they go through and what they need.
And that can only help a sports program.
And we all know Iowa State is kind of the big dog in this conference.
And so that may be the good reason why he's been brought in.
You know, that brings up a great point too, because now that Ted Carter's been named the president of Ohio State, he's got a big shoe to fill.
Gene Smith, the longtime athletic director, many of us considered him the de facto Big Ten commissioner when Kevin Warren was there.
He's retiring this spring, so, you know, Ted Carter has to find the right fit, because as Ohio State goes a lot of ways, the Big Ten goes, and huge pick.
And now with onboarding four of the schools from the Pac-12,
with USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon.
This is a very important time for the Big Ten as well as Ohio State.
And not only that, Ohio State sets the temple for other programs like Iowa and Nebraska.
There was a lot of great synergy in the last few years with Ohio State and Nebraska and Iowa.
You know what, we can actually make fun of this situation.
Remember that Ohio State's AD actually came from Iowa State, am I correct?
That is true,
yes.
So that, which immediately prompted the...
Matt Campbell to, Matt Campbell to be the athletic director at Ohio State.
That's right.
They might as well bring him over next then.
But yeah, I mean, you talk about everything that's going on right now, John, within the Big 10.
It's a very exciting time.
We have a lot of moving chairs.
But at Iowa, I think we have a very strong core with President Wilson, as well as Interim Athletic Director.
Well, you would know you get invited to those big booth events, Scotty, you know.
Well, I wouldn't say I get invited.
I just kind of, you know, they need somebody to, you know, fill up seats, I think, every now and then.
But wedding crashers?
Yeah, there you go.
There you go.
But it's going to be very interesting.
testing next week with some of the conversations that will be taking place at Melrose there right before
kickoff.
Oh, that's my favorite street in Iowa City.
You know, the law school, if you go far enough east, you're right on Melrose there to get into the law school there.
And of course, I used to park on the other side of the woods there.
Oh, the nostalgia, the nostalgia of the autumnal games.
We've had a heat wave, though, that has been blistering, and I hope it.
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Let's pivot to
decision 24 and pull up the Mancini theme because my goodness, what a huge news week it was.
The debate they'd all been waiting for at the Reagan Library, a cast of eight
But Scott, on one of our other shows that Mr. Reedman here was part of, the outro question last week was, we predicted that Trump and Tucker would go up directly against the Fox debate, and we queried our panelists who would have the larger audience share, and Scotty, you and I were right, and Mr. Reedman was right.
Last I checked,
232 million views the most watched interview in human history Trump and Tucker and Elon I say they won the debate what say you Scott and then want to get chips Version,
you know, absolutely.
It was the Donald Trump Tucker Carlson Elon Musk show they were by far the winners of Wednesday night And the reason Musk won is because that interview was on his platform and the platform did not crash so I mean that just shows you how much far Twitter
has gone since his takeover when it comes to free speech and political discourse.
Well, and Trump must have
been pleased because Jack Pasobiak on Twitter on Thursday night posited that it would be the perfect time for Trump to reveal his the most epic fantastic FU mugshot that I've ever seen in my life to debut that in return to Twitter after two years.
Guess what?
He's back on Twitter.
So if you can't tell me that Elon and Trump and Tucker won the week, Trump like a boss, only Trump can turn a mugshot into a triumph.
This guy has steel gonads like I have never seen before.
Any other man would crumble beneath this.
We're going to talk about the indictments coming up.
But Scotty, I agree with you.
Those guys
Eclipse the debate
absolutely and then once you get to the debate I would say the clear winner that night was for of a vague Rama Shami the the businessman that has turned a Presidential candidate and the reason I say he won the night is because I think he by far got the most attention of the night and when you have people like Chris Christie and and Pence and a few other those Candidates going after him that to me solidified that he is a threat to their campaigns that his poll numbers are rising
and that I do not believe the Des Moines Register poll that came out on Monday that showed a vague trailing Chris Christie in Iowa who hasn't even been in Iowa for 10 years.
So Chip Riemann those are my four winners of the night.
Yeah Chip we're gonna go to you and I just want to say Scott you're right I have trouble with the
that the registers take on many things.
But you know, the Des Moines register makes tremendous fish wrap.
And also it lines the parakeet cages beautifully in our homes.
So, you know, everybody contributes something to society.
Why?
Just sometimes is a bad example.
So the registrar hits on all three, the fish wrap, the parakeet liner, and these sort of is a bad example.
So three contributions to society that I can think of right off the bat.
Could it be that the Des Moines Register could be accused of animal abuse at some points too if we add that in the in the parakeet?
Well, Chipper, we need to get your take on this debate.
You got that engineering analytical brain dissect this for us.
There were eight up there.
Kind of go through these folks and
Tell me good, bad, and ugly.
Who's up?
Who's down?
Take it away.
Well, before you leave the Des Moines Register comments, I'd like to also add you can use that in your garden around your tomato plants for killing weeds.
There
you go.
That's
a good place for it, too.
We're
great
I have to agree with a lot of the pundits on it.
And like you said, Scott DeVique, I think definitely barnstormed through the event pretty well.
I think Nikki Haley
handled herself very well out there.
I don't agree with everything that she says.
Of course, I don't agree with everything that Vivek says.
I think his foreign policy definitely needs some work, but she did very well.
DeSantis, I would say, did well, but the problem with that is doing well for him is not enough.
He needs to do better because if he's going to try and keep his poll numbers up, he needed to be the clear leader coming out of that event.
Chris Christie, about the only thing he did was tilt the stage, maybe to one side versus the other.
Hey, Chip, Chip.
The rest of them.
Did you see how excited he initially got with the UFO question?
Yeah, yeah, he was a
funnier moment.
Well, he thought it was the Martin McAllum.
So you're a New Jersey girl.
What do you do?
And ask me this question.
Well, yeah, he got deflated and and he was was depressed after he found out with you're really asking.
But his eyes lit up initially because when they asked him about UFOs, he thought that they were talking about unidentified frying objects.
Well, man, that wasn't what they were going for.
So, um, then the other, you know, Tim Scott actually was a very disappointment, a big disappointment to me.
His answers was found a little bit too canned, not quite from the heart, although I'm sure they were.
I thought he could have done a little bit better on the stage than what he did.
Um, I actually would like to see Larry Elder on the stage.
I think Larry Elder would have cleaned up a couple of them.
That's why the RNC didn't want them on there.
Yeah, and Burgum, you know, go home.
He killed himself at the Iowa event that was a couple weeks ago when he blew up his trans answer to the question that they had on stage.
He's definitely hopeless.
I don't even know why he's there.
Johnson would have been interesting.
I've heard him a couple times on
the he should have been he fulfilled the criteria They're shifting the goalposts on these guys.
I'm really unhappy with the RNC I would say that they are you know, they they stuck to Santas in the middle of the stage You know, it's not all are equal in even in their treatment by the RNC and It's just a source of frustration for me
I was wondering about that and I think the reason they did that was to put the people in the middle that had the highest poll numbers.
I think that's
Yeah, yeah, I think that I think that's probably I think that's probably correct But but it just still it even that stage presentation there obviously favored the leaders and in a debate You know you want a truly level playing field it's interesting Scott and I were doing some commentary
during the period, which meant we couldn't hear all the answers live real time.
We saw a lot of body language, but it sure seemed to me, Scott, that the vape inserted himself and was able to get more audience time, I'm sorry, more speaking time than the other candidates did.
And sometimes you have to do that.
Scott, my profound disappointment, and it shows the cleavage in the party here is
Scott if we're gonna go back to this unending neocon war military industrial complex Defense Department lackie situation then not only can I not support Pence and Haley and Christie and her primary I can't vote from a November I cannot vote for these three because they are supporting this
Horrific war in Ukraine where we've now lost 350,000 Ukrainian youth basically destroyed an entire generation of males in the Ukraine Merely as an ends to a mean the mean being to just bog down Soviets But to waste a third of a million lives when there could have been a peace treaty a year ago that the US the United States sabotaged and furthermore
We know for a fact, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
has said, we've got U.S.
bio labs in Ukraine making bio weapons.
The whole thing is just an horrific nightmare, what's going on there.
And I just, I don't have respect for people like Pence and Haley and Christie on this.
And you know, Pence in particular, loyalty aside,
This was the guy as Veep who was put in charge of the COVID response.
He never reigned in Fauciism.
And, you know, Pence was part of the reason why General Flynn exited the White House early.
Trump could have used him as a loyal guy.
I'm not high on some of these people, and I think there's going to be a real debate in the GOP about foreign policy.
And right now, to me, other than Trump and Bobby Kennedy,
The vape does get it on Ukraine.
I'm with those guys against this interruption in Ukraine.
I think what we're saying to John is a conversation that the Republican Party had in 1976 when you had the establishment wing of Bob Dole and Gerald Ford trying to do with the Soviet Union at the time de Tante.
And then you have this upstart California governor named Ronald Reagan running around talking about how he needed to be aggressive and we needed to win the Cold War.
war and so in a lot of ways I think what we're seeing now is a debate in the Republican circles about like like you're talking about the the neocon aggressive of foreign policy but then you have the foreign policy of of maga make America great America first type people like Donald Trump of a kramasami others in the Congress that are saying we use American power when we need to use American power and we have to be selective and when we do it and I think that's the conversation we're having right now and I
I would say two of the most important points that were made on the Ukraine war were by Vivek Ramoshvami.
when he basically annihilated Haley and Chris Christie, when he went after Haley and said, well, she can guarantee herself of being on the board of directors of Raytheon and Blackrock at some point.
And then Chris Christie, when he made his pilgrimage to Ukraine to meet with Zelensky, well, who actually paid for that?
That's one thing I'd like to know.
And when he, the vague said that Christie went to go meet with his Pope, I thought that was just a killer line.
Well, you know, I just love the vague for
taken these guys out to the curb and you know what's amazing is we've got to wake up folks you know after what happened to pregosian the leader of the Wagner insurrection that whose plane was taken out by Putin you know you can leave the details whether it was a surface air missile or an onboard explosive
the entire leadership of the Wagner group got decapitated.
Putin is a very efficient executioner.
And we've got Zelensky in Ukraine now incurring into Russian territory.
They're doing drone attacks into Moscow.
Do you think for a minute
that Putin is going to allow his country to be defeated when he has nuclear armaments that Ukraine does not have.
If you think after the Progression assassination that Putin wouldn't use nukes,
I think you're naive and yet we literally are rattling sabers in the backyard of Russia and for crying out loud take you know Biden needs to take JFK's advice never paint a bear into the corner and we're doing that we're playing with fire Scott and you know what we're literally at a point now to continue this war
There are no more Ukrainian young men to fight this war.
The next step is NATO forces on the ground.
Do we want a nuclear war in the European theater?
This is insanity.
You know, absolutely.
You know, in ship, we talk about what's going on in Ukraine and Russia, the slash, the former Soviet Union.
And we often are reminded of what.
President Kennedy did, and even Reagan, they pushed the Soviets, but he always gave them an out where they could save face.
And unfortunately, right now, the Biden administration, as well as many people in the Congress, are not giving Russia an out.
And I don't know how this ends peacefully at the end of the day without American bloodshed.
Chip, your thoughts?
Well, that's an excellent point, Scott.
It's the lack of diplomatic skills that this administration has.
They don't know how to handle anything.
Not detouring, but look at the latest Iran hostage crisis where they paid off for bringing hostages home.
That's always been the American policy.
It's never, ever to do that because it just takes you down a wormhole where it only gets worse and they ask for more money.
This whole situation diplomatically that they're dealing with Moscow and Putin is just terrible.
I don't remember who brought up the point.
Someone made a comment during the debate about all the Russian children, excuse me, Ukrainian children that they're taking to Russia, basically kidnapping them, and they're going to reeducate them.
And this is the honest of God's truth.
They are not wrong.
These kids are going to be trained and taught and put into uniform and turned around and sent back to fight against their old country, their home country at some point.
Historically, this has happened.
During all the Islam attacks that they did in the Europe, going back into the 14, 1500s and stuff, that was very typical.
You go in, you take the children, you bring them back, you bring them up with your thinking, put them in uniform and send them back to fight against their own homeland.
It would not surprise me that Russia would do this.
This would be a typical Putin strategy, I would say, that he would do something like this and just infuriate the world even more, but he doesn't care.
Yeah, it's a very grave situation here.
Well, the debates are starting to flesh out some of these issues.
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Mike Shane play that ringtone Mike let's let's go to the we got to give a proper props to Mike Shane here because this guy He is the man the myth and the legend at this engineering deck
He edits, he splices, he dices, he erases, he inserts, he does a great job.
A truly trained professional.
Probably the only truly trained professional that we've got here on the show, Scotty.
Well, I would say that was the definite certainty that he is the only trained professional and even rivals Jeff Stein.
You know, even Jeff should take some pointers from Mike Shane.
Yeah, you know, I think so.
And our special guest commentator today.
Mr. Chip Readman.
Well, it's time to move into McLaughlin Group territory.
The issue, the only issue, issue, issue.
Here we go with issue one.
Fourth round of indictment, Georgia, Thursday night.
Scotty and Chip, we want to talk about this.
All I will reiterate is again, that was the most impressive motorcade I have ever seen.
makes me think Donald Trump is the president.
Joe Biden is just a pretender.
That motorcade was epic.
And so is the mugshot.
I say Trump won the night.
I said Trump is a boss.
It was the most fantastic mugshot ever.
And Scotty, only this guy could turn it into a triumph.
Most men would wilt.
He is standing strong.
And what I love is
All of those left-wingers that were betting, you talk about a betting scandal, they were all betting the over-under on Trump's weight at 6'3 was 273.
Trump's entered in Fulton County Jail.
The listing is 6'3, 215.
Much better than Chris Christie.
You know, absolutely.
And I find an interesting chip is that when you see the Trump mugshot,
It plays to both sides.
His supporters are galvanized by it.
They see his steel effort, his righteous indignation as we've seen on Twitter, a lot of the comments being used.
But on the left, they're using it as a victory.
And so I think that's a photo that actually almost transcends American politics at the moment.
And just depending on your political point of view, that you see either as a victory or a defeat.
And I just, it's just mesbrizing.
that Donald Trump still has that much command over American politics, but over the American, I guess, entertainment at the same time.
I don't know what the right word for that is.
Yeah, the only controversial American politician that has had that much of a stranglehold on our country's timeline was Richard Nixon.
who is on the tickets at 52, 56, 60, 68, 72.
Trump now, we are into the 16, 20 and 24 cycles.
That's rare for a Republican nominee to extend beyond two cycles.
Richard Nixon is the only one who surpassed that.
And these controversial Republican figures, there's never been anybody like Trump.
There's no question about it.
Here's my issue with the indictment chip.
You tell me about it.
We are now a banana republic.
We are now jailing our chief rival political opponents.
There's no other way to slice and dice this.
The democrats have crossed a line of no return, which I think is almost fatally dangerous to republic.
We're going to be like the southern
uh, American despots arresting the prior regimes and a never ending battle of civil strife.
If these guys don't knock this off, let's say you chip read man.
You were absolutely 100% correct.
Even some of the major law professors, Turley and Dershowitz, who are definitely not Trump supporters are coming out and just lambasting the Democrats for what they're doing.
This is just an incredibly sad day in our democracy with the stuff they're putting up.
And even the crazier part about this is everything they're prosecuting him on has been done by their party in
the past.
You can go back to Gore v. Bush and everything, Hillary and her camp.
Stacey Abrams right there in Georgia contesting an election that was clear cut decided without any controversy and it's outrageous.
Yes, she would go on the stage after she lost and they would announce her that she's the governor of Georgia.
It's just absolutely ridiculous what these people think that they can get away with.
This is Orwellian too at its worst.
I don't know where it's gonna end.
I don't know how it's gonna end
because the Balkanization of America if they're not careful, they'll be the great civil divorce.
They want to call Republicans, they always look at them and call them Nazis.
And the crazy thing about it again is, again, they're projecting their own feelings.
naziism was socialism that's part of what the actual word of now
yeah
nazi
national socialist yes
and everything that hitler did back then and part of it was he had control of the media he was running things through the media he had control of businesses that is exactly what is going on today the media is controlled by the democratic party you look at a lot of the large industries tech industries and as a good example look what happened with her and uh...
youtube and google and facebook the democratic party the left controls all these things
is very soviet this reminds me of his bestia yes pass uh... and and uh... you know the different soviet uh... regimes uh... that that that were very
Stalinist and all I can do
were they still are it hasn't changed
well you know in Solzhenitsyn Solzhenitsyn was my hero and as Dinesh Jesus said a mugshot can be a badge of honor Solzhenitsyn had one Gandhi Mandela and this guy and then there's a mugshot in Birmingham, Alabama
of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
and Robert Barnes, Opines, the last time corrupt Southern politicians took a mugshot of their political opponent.
And it's a picture of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'
's mugshot.
I say touche to the Dems,
Scott Corey.
You know, absolutely.
And I find it very interesting, too, is that during the Fox debate, there was a question regarding whether or not I think it was how they would pardon Donald Trump or something like that in the show of raising of hands.
And Vivek Rameshami was the only one that basically had his hands shoot straight up in the air.
And then you see the photo of Ron DeSantis kind of looking around, saying,
with Nikki Haley and a few others.
So there is a huge...
That was the question on will you vote for him even if he's in jail?
Yeah.
And that was amazing.
Ramaswamy shot up and DeSantis was slower.
It's a great, if you look at that zeroing in, it's an amazing video clip.
Scott, my big beef is, and we'll get out of this segment here to get the doctors on, but Scott, where is the RNC?
Where are the Republicans in Congress?
If this had been again, we saw how the Democrats defended Clinton.
If this had been Obama, Schumer and Pelosi would almost be pouring gasoline on themselves, lighting matches and protest.
And we hear nothing.
Scott, I'll go farther.
I'll say we have controlled opposition.
We really don't have a true opposition party in America.
And that is horrifying to me that we're at this stage right
now.
Yep.
And that's why I was bringing up what happened at the RNC debate is that where are the leaders in Congress?
Where are attorney generals across the country?
Where are the Republican governors?
Why aren't they leading the charge?
I know Attorney General Brenna Byrds put out a statement Thursday.
basically, you know, criticizing what's going on in Georgia and the Trump indictment.
But at the same time, Attorney General Byrd, you have a lot of power in your hands.
You are the Attorney General of the state of Iowa, the first in the nation caucuses.
You have a sworn oath to uphold the laws in this state.
And if there is election interference going on in Georgia, you have the authority to do his right to defend the citizens of Iowa.
The same goes for Nebraska and all in Texas and every other state that has Republican attorney generals.
Where are they at this moment?
They're a wall.
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Well, we're gonna be bringing Chip back for our final segment here We've got some bombshell news coming from the Iowa Medical Front bombshell news stay with us on KXEL KXEL John Jacobson here Scott Corey Mike Shane and we've got the great impresario himself
uh america's great film historian bruce crawford here as guests in studio with us on the newsmaker line with some breaking news the honorable dr david hardsuch former iowa state senator from the quad cities dr edward ted fogarty omaha native and uh radiologist and hyperbaric's expert in nebraska north dakota and our regular contributor
from Makaukura, Dubuque, and all points northeast of and east of the station, political consultant, Mr. Tim Grover.
Dr. Hartzich, you've got some major breaking news with respect to COVID fatality stats.
Go.
Yeah, John, it's really good to be in on today.
And basically, it's this information coming from that COVID, he can tell you the truth, because he was talking about
He's provided some information to my case.
And in his statement, he was talking about comparison of the death rate of minorities and death rates of people in general between Nebraska and Iowa.
And the opinion of the Attorney General's Office in Nebraska protected physicians and allowed them to prescribe off-label drugs and to not be silenced by their medical boards.
And so there was a stark contrast between the treatment of patients in Iowa and treatment of patients in Nebraska.
And what it meant was that when he laid out all of the case fatality rates, there's roughly 3.2 million people here in Iowa and 2 million in Nebraska.
And they had very similar cases per 1,000 population.
There was 279
here in Iowa and in Nebraska was 281, so essentially the same.
However, if you happen to be unfortunate and caught COVID in Iowa, you had a much fire rate of risk of death.
The case fatality rate here in Iowa was 11.8 per thousand cases of COVID, whereas in Nebraska was only 8.57.
That's a 39% difference, 39% higher here in Iowa compared to Nebraska.
And that resulted in approximately 2,816 deaths extra here in Iowa, just because doctors were not allowed to treat patients.
That's a very, very tragic
you know a tragic criticism of the Board of Medicine and the policy.
These people are supposed to be protecting the policy or the protecting the public instead they're implementing policies which are killing people.
Boy,
I'll use the term shock and awe as in shocking and awful.
Dr. Fogarty, I want you to
chat here and follow up a little bit, because you introduced those stats, Dr. Harsig.
So I'd like to get Tim Grover's take as a voting citizen activist.
Dr. Fogger, to you.
Well,
it's a certain highlight of how politics is...
you know, basically killing people in our public health response to this pandemic.
I just connected over the fact that a non-governmental organization such as the Federation of State Medical Boards has been essentially racketeering in communications across the country, controlling all of these medical boards, having them go on witch hunts against great doctors like Dr. Hart such, Dr. Merritt, Dr. Meyer, Dr. Molly James, all of these great brave Iowa physicians have
They've been saving lives in the midst of a war against them.
Yes.
Legitimately against them.
Yes.
And destroying their economic health, as well as destroying families in the Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa at a differential rate that we can see in the political landscape of the statistics that Dr. Hartzitz just laid out there.
I mean, basically, there's a 30% higher rate of death than those who do come down with COVID based on the statistics that are now coming out, which
these state boards, state governments, you know, up in North Dakota, I've been fighting since day one against this pandemic management this way.
And the public health officials in North Dakota in particular, I have a whole team of people up there who have been documenting the fraudulent statistics that they've been coming out with.
And so when we're dealing with state actors who are ostensibly controlled by other organizations, those other organizations actually become state actors as well.
And I think in Dr. Hart, which is
He is proving in the minds of many who are following this case around the country that we have a whole medical system.
Our state medical boards are basically part of a racket.
Amazing, Dr. Ted Fogarty.
You've been on the cutting edge of so many things.
The wise wizard at the Gandalf the gray Tim Grover I want your take on this here Tim because you've always had an uncanny sense of Fingers on the pulse of what Eastern Iowans are thinking.
What's your take on this shocking?
Statistical news
it doesn't surprise me at all at the current system we're in
I just, a month ago, I just went through a full week of almost losing my wife because they were letting, her general practitioner was letting her run around with a BP of 196 over 92.
Wow.
And
they changed her medication into something I'd never heard of and it wasn't effective with it because she just recently had an increase in blood pressure.
She'd never had that problem before.
Yeah.
And we've had two follow-ups with two different doctors.
I've mentioned this each time.
I was just amazed.
It ended up with an ER visit.
And essentially from questioning the other doctors we talked to, this was an accepted practice.
And it's obviously a medication that they're using for that procedure that
It hasn't been used in the past.
It might be a newer medicine, or it might be what we all know happens.
It might be something that's a derivative of an old-fashioned medication that's got a new patent on them, and they're making more money on it that way.
And essentially, all the physicians didn't want to get into the area of, yeah, I'm being told I need to prescribe it this way.
Well, you know guys, this is a great intro that this is wedding the Aptite Scott as you and I are going to bring Fogarty and heart such in for additional comments on the next two shows the The night for it all show the Saturday show that airs later this morning over on bluffs country through the boomer radio network system and then on the KCRO network
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with faith in the public square.
We've got two minutes left.
Hartzich and Fogarty, how would you like to wrap things up with this news?
Dr. Hartzich, 60 seconds, how's your lawsuit going
procedurally?
My lawsuit's going very well.
I won a major victory a couple of days ago when the court ordered that the board had to release information to me.
They've been tightened up like a clam, not saying basically that I don't have a right to any information from the board.
Anything about my investigation or interrogation
is
normally the course of discovery.
And I won that.
And I actually would like to finish up just to give a little pickler in our future programming because basically we're going to even be dropping another bombshell comparing Iowa with Louisiana.
Wow, this is great stuff.
This is award-winning stuff.
You doctors were the guys that had
among these other heroic doctors of conscience, the very best COVID cure rates.
Fogarty, I'm going to give you a mission impossible.
Wrap it up for us in 60 seconds before we sign off, my friend.
Yeah, thanks for them out here in Western Nebraska where everyone and their mother and brother can get ivermectin whenever they want because of the permissiveness of the Attorney General's
decision.
Doug Peterson, the former Attorney General, a great man, the great opinion, yes.
Yeah, this goes all the way back to October of 2021.
And so when you start to look at that landmark in the timeline and start to compare the death rates between Nebraska and Iowa, that's what Dr. Hartstich and I are doing.
But furthermore, to speak
for the people of Iowa from across the Missouri River here, the state legislature has no control over the Board of Medicine.
And the Board of Medicine is not acting in the interest of the public health and the needs of the citizenry of Iowa.
It is basically a captured agency, as Bobby Kennedy Jr.
has been putting that into the mindscape of everyone at the federal level.
The Iowa Board of Medicine is a captured agency of a number of actors in this war against American families, primarily.
Federation of State Medical Boards, not doing anything to save lives by persecuting these great brave physicians who are the ones who are saving the lives in Iowa.
Well, guys, in my exclusive interview with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he told me that he's going to sue these medical boards for racketeering if elected president.
Boy, as a licensed attorney, would I love to help him, pro bono.
Guys, thanks for joining us.
Michael, we're going to head into the final stretch here.
I want to thank everybody today who has
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