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The Jacobsen Group with Jon Jacobsen · Wed Sep 6, 2023
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Marvelous ringtone 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, uh, 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 today.
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 of 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 $7 billion 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 Ten 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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While it's exciting days, the September days of autumnal football in our Iowa Hawkeyes out in Kinnock, John Jacobson here, welcoming back our regularly featured guest, the matriarch of commerce in eastern Iowa, Barbara Hames Bryant from Hames Homes.
Barbara, welcome back to the show.
Barbara, you've got such a wonderful set of communities there, and not only do you provide safe, affordable, and beautiful homes to thousands of people, but you're a tremendous community, Stuart, and I heard you guys were being good Samaritans the other day.
Do you want to talk a little bit about that?
Well, I will talk a little bit about that, and then you can fill in.
the gaps because I think you got the information too.
But here on the southwest side of town, there is north of Summit View, a small open area.
And last week, last Friday, there was a woman sitting in the ditch.
And people were just driving by ignoring her.
And we were a little concerned whether she was on drugs or something.
So one of our community coordinators
Kelly Hitchman who works for us walked over and talked to her and she was just long and homeless and hungry.
happens on Friday mornings we do a senior breakfast at Summit View and we serve up breakfast, a hot homemade breakfast for 30 or 40 people like come and talk and play
cards.
So the group at the senior breakfast made her a plate of food and took it over to her.
Actually,
they actually gave it to a police officer, Sergeant Donk, who helps us out a lot, and the police officer took it over to her and handed it to her, and she was so grateful.
And while he was doing that, another person was driving by and noticed the officer doing that.
And this person who was driving by stopped and faked the officer for doing it, because so often people just think a police officer is a bad guy.
well listen you guys
were truly good Samaritans this was a homeless woman she was tired and resting from carrying her bags and the fact that you guys are made her a plate of food and
gave her a bag of items to eat and drink from your pantry along with a hygiene kit and Sergeant Dunke what a what a fine guy and of course humble as he is he thanked the woman and said that he couldn't take all the credit and told the woman that Kelly with Hames Holmes and the breakfast who have a breakfast on Fridays and
They made the plate and filled the bag with groceries for the lady.
And of course, the woman called and asked for Kelly.
She said, you don't know me from Adam or Eve, but what you did today gave her hope in humanity and that she will be telling everyone she talks about our kindness.
She works for a large hotel company.
They'll be passing this along to the other hotel personnel.
She said she sees a lot of homeless people.
The hotels are not allowed to do much for them, but she plans on changing that even if it's a cup of coffee to give out.
So you're even making an impression on these wonderful eyewitnesses that saw this good deed and stopped to thank you guys for it, Barbara.
I'm very excited that you have honored your father and mother so well into this next generation and even the generation younger than yours and mine, Barbara, with this great legacy that you guys have custodially kept and preserved so beautifully.
The homes are beautiful.
It's summer.
They're safe.
They're sturdy.
They have great aesthetic appeal, the landscaping, the neighborhoods are lovely.
Barbara, how can folks find out more about these homes?
Perhaps a website, perhaps a telephone number, even an address for them to come by and see these for themselves.
but we will be closed on Labor Day, otherwise we're open seven days a week.
And our phone number is our old Marion phone number 319-377-4863.
That's 319-377-4863.
Oh, Barbara, I love those legacy Marion Iowa telephone numbers.
My mother, who still lives in Marion, and my father's dental practice, all had 319-377-418 or 486.
And again, repeat yours.
It's an easy one to remember.
It is 377-4863.
This is most excellent.
Barbara, we still have financing available.
Interest rates have gone up.
across the board nationally, but you still have financing, don't you?
We do.
Not only do we have an in-house financing company called Circle Finance, there's also several local lenders that are making manufactured housing loans.
And our salespeople, Clint and Curtis, can help borrowers and buyers find the best people on financing.
Indeed, Barbara, and this is such a
wonderful time of year to check out these neighborhoods in person.
Again, the landscaping.
You've even survived the drought, the sultry 100 degree temperatures.
I still see a lot of greenery out there.
Barbara, I think we should make you the mayor of the United States.
You get it.
You have a great bond with your people.
They have a great bond with you.
You are such wonderful community stewards and representative of everything that's good about the American...
free enterprise market system mixed in and imbued with the great patriotism as evidenced by you guys flying old glory, the state of Iowa tricolor flag, and never forget our POWMIAs right there in your offices.
It's an easy landmark to find in southwest Cedar Rapids.
We always respect those who serve and welcome anybody and everybody to come and see our beautiful neighborhoods.
Well indeed happy autumn folks.
We're not officially there, but we've kind of demarked now the end of summer and I guess I can't wear whites anymore unless Hayden Frey did break that Memorial Day to Labor Day wearing of the white because many
a lot of football games.
He was out there in those white trousers.
I know Kirk doesn't wear white, but we're going to have some white outs and black outs this year at Kinnock and the wave to the kids.
And Barbara, we all love our Hawks, don't we?
Well, the Haynes family will be at Kinnock Stadium rooting for the Hawks.
Go
Hawks!
You guys will be a good luck charm, guys.
Barbara Hames Bryant from Hames Homes, proud sponsor and underwriter of this award-winning program.
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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 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 and these gambling suspensions and even romance in Hawkeye land.
It sounds like our Caitlyn
is going out with our Conner.
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 were 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, Chip Redman.
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 it has anything to do with it?
Let's punish Iowa.
Well, maybe they're still, 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.
What about the... I mean, they're pulling out, you know, 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 Bush.
He's coming back into the NCAA because he wants to tie his metrophy back.
You know, absolutely.
And I find it very interesting, too.
We talked 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 has 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
and what 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've 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, 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
gets 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 a 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 is true so Beth gets gets the vaunted bet get smart theme congrats to bets
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 chip 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 know if 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 anything.
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 he 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 for the schools from the Pac-12 that you know of USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon this is a very important time for the Big Ten as well as Ohio State and and not only that Ohio State sets the temple for other programs like Iowa and Nebraska there was a lot of great synergy 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,
Matt Campbell, 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 Ten.
It's a very exciting time.
We have a lot of moving chairs.
But in 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.
It's, 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, 230.
two 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 Pasobiek 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 in pants 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
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 they serve as 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 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 or on your tomato plants for killing weeds.
There you go.
That's
good place for it, too.
I figured with a lot of the pundits on it, and like you said, Scott Vivek, 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.
The rest of them.
Did you see how excited he initially got with the UFO question?
Yeah, he was initially
a funnier moment.
Well, he thought was the Martin McCallum.
So you're a New Jersey girl.
What are you doing?
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 object.
Well, man, it wasn't what they were going for.
Tim Scott actually was a very big disappointment to me.
His answers were 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.
I actually would like to see Larry Elder on the stage.
I think Larry Elder would have cleaned up a couple of them, given the opportunity.
That's why the RNC didn't want him on there.
Yeah, and Burgum, you know, go home.
He killed himself at the, what was 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 radio.
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 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 vague 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 going to go back to this unending neocon war military industrial complex Defense Department lackey situation then not only can I not support Pence and Haley and Christie and a 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 US 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 seeing 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 detente and then you had this upstart to California governor named Ronald Reagan running around talking about how he needed to be aggressive and we needed to win the Cold 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 a foreign policy, but then you have the foreign policy of of mega 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 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, Vivek said that Christie went to go meet with his Pope, I thought that was just a killer line.
Well, you know, I just love Vivek 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 and 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 Progosian assassination that Putin wouldn't use nukes
I think you're naive and yet we literally are rattling sabers in the back yard 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 they always 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.
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 policies.
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 re-educate 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 in the uniform and turned around and sent back to fight against their old country, their home country at some point.
Historically, this has happened
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 putting in a trowel.
strategy, I would say, that he would do something like this and just imperiate 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.
Guys, you're listening to the Jacobson Group on KXEL 1540 AM 100.5 FM.
Yours truly here with Scott Corey in the Commander Chair.
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 would, he 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 was 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 six three was two seventy three.
Trump's entered in full county jail.
The listing is six three two fifteen.
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 these Southern 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 Readman,
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 Gordy Bush and everything, Hillary and her campaign.
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 going to end.
I don't know how it's going to
end.
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 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 Twitter and YouTube and Google and Facebook.
The Democratic Party, the left, controls all these things.
It's
very Soviet.
This reminds me of his Vestia, Tass, and, you know, the different Soviet regimes that were very Stalinist.
And all I can say
were, they still are.
It hasn't changed.
Well, you know, in Solzhenitsyn, Solzhenitsyn was my hero.
And as Dinesh D'Souza 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 Rhonda Sant is kind of looking around, saying,
with Nikki Haley and a few others.
So there is a huge...
That was the question on when 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.
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 Byrd put out a statement Thursday, basically 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 AWOL.
This is great.
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 hartsuch 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 Makoka to Dubuque and all points northeast of and east of the station.
Political consultant, Mr. Tim Grover.
Dr. Hartsich, 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, this information coming from said 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 between, 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 that policy these people are supposed to be protecting the policy or the protecting the public instead they're in implementing policies which are killing people
boy I
I'll use it
and
boy yeah 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. Hartz, it's not 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. Hartstuch, 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
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. Hartzett's 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, up in North Dakota, I've been
fighting since day one against the 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 pioneering legal work in the great state of Iowa, 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.
Let me just, the wise wizard, Gandalf the Grey, 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 clinic 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.
And we've had two follow-ups with two different doctors.
I've mentioned this each time.
I was just amazed.
It ended up in 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 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.
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 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.
Tuesdays at 5pm 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 run, I won a major victory a couple 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.
about my investigation or interrogation, we normally do 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, and 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. Hardstich and I are doing.
But furthermore, to speak out through 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 citizens and rears 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, but 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 gonna head into the final stretch here.
I wanna thank everybody today who is with us.
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