KXEL Presents: The Jacobsen Group Podcast - September 24, 2022

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What a tremendous show we've got coming up today.

It's midterm elections coming up and we're going to hear from Pat Grassley, Speaker of the Iowa House and the great Senator Chuck Grassley, who may become again President Pro Tempore.

of the U.S.

Senate, depending on how these Senate elections go.

Then, in the second half hour of our program, we're going to have on Barbara Hames Bryant, business icon from Eastern Iowa, from Cedar Rapids, Marion, Hiawatha, followed by doctors Ted Fogarty and Brad Meyer from the Aeronautics Clinic, doing amazing curative medicine.

using hyperbaric therapy.

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It's great to bring speaker Pat Grassley on.

Let's start out guys.

Pat, do you want to introduce your grandfather?

We're going to give you the honor here for the official introduction.

That's a lot of pressure.

I don't get

to do that very

often.

I get to introduce him, but I always tell everyone, somebody without the need of introduction, but I would say no one works harder to represent us in Washington DC than Chuck Grassley has.

And we got to get behind him to make sure he can continue to push back.

I think you laid out a pretty good case on why he's been so effective for those of us, not just in Iowa, but in the Midwest, always bringing those common sense values.

to Washington D.C.

So that's probably more introduction than he even needs.

Senator Chuck Grassley, welcome back to the show.

And I want to thank

you for running for the state legislature and making a conservative majority in the state house of representatives.

It takes a lot of hard work to be a straight representative and I thank you for doing that and I'm very privileged to

be on this program with you and thank you very much for the invitation

well senator i'm honored to hear those words because i was rooting for you

When you ran to fill the HR gross slot up there, and I was watching you every night on the news on old KWWL with Grant Price and Jim Ganahl, and that's when I first started following your career.

I'm going to go into three reasons why I think you are the statesman of the century, why you belong in the pantheon of heroes.

Issue one.

What would be one or two items that he's kind of most proud of in those years as far as accomplishments?

Let me start with one that I wasn't necessarily the instigator of and

it has

never Passed after four times that if we could get a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget in the federal government And we came within one vote one time of getting the two-thirds vote to get it out to the states for ratification

That would be the best thing we could do for our children and grandchildren for the government to live within its means.

That hasn't been accomplished, and that would probably be my biggest disappointment.

Now, to answer your question, I'm going to name three or four.

1986, I got the False Claims Act passed to help bring in money fraudulently taken from the federal government, and we announced today

uh... and uh... this week i should say we announced and every year we make this announcement we get the information from the justice department it brought between four and five billion dollars back into the federal treasury and since that bill got passed it's brought in uh... approximately seventy billion dollars afforded to be taken money back into the federal treasury and that was uh... two-year crusade of mine to get that passed in eighty six

Then how many times you hear constituents and you may even hear it today, you pass laws and you don't apply them to Congress.

That was true between 1938 and 1995 by about 15 bills.

One of them would be the civil rights bill, the other one the wage and hour bill, another one OSHA, et cetera, et cetera.

So in 1995, I came to the conclusion it was wrong to have one set of laws

for the rest of the country and a different set of laws for the Congress.

So I got the Congressional Accountability Act passed in 1995, and those laws apply to our offices, just like they apply to the small businesses in Omaha and Council Bluffs.

And then, because we were running out of oil and natural gas, which now we don't know that we were going to run out of, but I like to label biofuels.

And the wind energy tax credit that I led on as accomplishments as well, like I said, if we knew that we were going to be able to frack to get natural gas, we wouldn't have done that.

But we were in an environment where we thought we were going to import all of our energy.

The next one would be the deal to help senior citizens

with what we call Part D of Medicare, because when Medicare was passed in 1966, pharmaceuticals probably only about 1% of the cost of medicine.

Today it's 15 to 20%.

Seniors couldn't, on Medicare, couldn't afford, so we got Part D of Medicare.

And then the last one I'll mention, until 2017.

The biggest tax cut in the history of the country was the 2001 George W. Boyce tax cut, and I led the battle on that.

You did.

We're here with Senator Chuck Grassley.

Senator, this dovetails beautifully into a great accomplishment that your grandson pulled off this week on keeping America energy independent.

I've said that the push for renewable fuels is a national security issue and a food security issue.

Every dollar that we don't have to buy from it East oil reduces terror petro dollars and also by allowing so many farmers across the US to keep their farms We we de-concentrate the food supply and keep it autonomous for the United States and Speaker Pat Grassley a great victory for you this week.

I know your grandfather is proud of you We got that tremendous renewable fuels bill passed through the house with an overwhelming margin

Yeah, absolutely John and I think it speaks to You know, I think we're speaking with the the father of the ethanol industry here I think we could say

yes true

what I was saying to everyone that would ask is why is this bill so important?

It's not only important to support renewable fuels in the state But it's important in my opinion one of the most important pieces is 10 send a message to Washington DC

We've seen under the last two administrations, under the EPA, continued, I would say, if it's not an attack on renewable fuels, it's sure not a friendly environment.

And I

think if we're going to continue to expect leaders like Chuck Grassley and Senator Ernst to go out and fight for renewable fuels, it's so important that in Iowa and in the Midwest, we send that message that we're going to put our money where our mouth is.

And you are right, we gained tremendous overwhelming bipartisan.

support in getting that bill passed.

And hopefully as that works its way to the governor, the message is sent loud and clear that Iowa stands with Chuck Grassley in supporting our renewable fuels industry.

You know, this question is for both Senator Grassley and Speaker Grassley.

You know, one of the big concerns we're seeing out here, especially in Western Iowa, but throughout the entire country is inflation, as well as businesses, including ourselves here.

We're having trouble getting a good labor pool of quality applicants, and we're seeing inflation just rise through not only products, but also through wages.

What are you guys looking at doing in the Iowa legislature, but also in DC?

Because this is tremendously important.

to us, not only in the business community, but our farmers and ranchers across the United States as well.

What can we look for, especially now in DC than the Iowa legislature?

We'll

go to Speaker Pat Grassley first and then Senator Chuck Grassley after the speaker.

Speaker Grassley.

Yeah, and I would say that's a that's a great question I think everything everything you just touched on is a majority of what we're focusing on every day in the Legislature the workforce shortage that we have and then the inflation and I think that's why you're seeing the governor Governor Reynolds proposing a 4% flat flat tax coming off of the 2018 largest tax cut in the state's history We have over a billion dollars of over collection of the taxpayers money as well as full ending balances and reserves

that we want to get back in the hands of Iowans knowing that they're facing this Biden inflation pressure.

We think that's not the government's money.

That's the everyday Iowans money.

So we're hoping to move a bill as quickly as possible through that would take us to one of the five lowest income tax states in the entire country that have income tax.

So I think the legislature recognizes those pressures and we're in a position where keeping the state open has left us the ability to be able to return.

a significant portion of money back to the taxpayer.

I think that's the quickest and most immediate thing we can do at the state level.

Senator Chuck Grassley, a workforce in inflation issues, to you.

Well, first thing, 50 Republican senators in the United States Senate is fighting Build Back Better, which would spend four and a half trillion dollars over the next 10 years.

that would feed the fires of inflation and all fifty republican senators are against it thank god for senator mention mention and senator cinema of uh... of the democratic caucus there against it and that put it kibosh on it and let's say that stops there

we

are following the recommendation of the uh... outstanding democrat economists larry summers

Secretary of Treasury in the Clinton administration and economic advisor to Obama.

And he said in January, two months before the Democrats passed their first bill back better, $2 trillion.

That was done on a party-line vote.

Now none of the rest of their $6 trillion is going to go.

But they've already fed the fires of inflation by two trillion and every Republican voted against it.

Larry Summers said in January, two months before that, they did that.

Congress had already spent enough money to fight the virus to help the unemployed that the government put out of a job.

because of shutting down the economy because of the virus and also people lost confidence in the economy when congress did that now we wouldn't do that again we've learned a lot about uh... but uh... we spent a lot of money to get that economy up and running by two christmas ago the economy was going you didn't have to spend any more money to get the economy going the democrats spent two trillion dollars more larry summers said

Don't do it or you're going to have high inflation.

Nobody believed him.

He said the same thing in April, the same thing in August, the same thing in October.

And now we know that Larry Summers was right, was 7% inflation.

Now we're at a point where we hope that Congress doesn't do anymore to make the situation worse.

So that's on the part of Congress.

Now on the part of the administration,

There's two things they can do.

They can get this supply chain thing going.

They haven't done enough to get the ships unloaded in Long Beach in Los Angeles.

There's a hundred ships lined up to get their containers off.

They could go to California and say...

You've got too much truck regulation, get more trucks into California, get more warehousing in California, so we can get these ships unloaded.

And the supply chain is part of the reason we're having inflation, besides government spending.

The other thing is, the Federal Reserve waited too long to stop buying government bonds and mortgages, and they fed the fires of inflation.

Now they finally decided that

that inflation is not transitory, it's here for a long period of time, and they're changing their policies, but they waited too long to do it, but thank God they're finally doing it.

Oh, folks, John Jacobson here, our segment on American Free Market Enterprise, our spotlight this week, Barbara Hames Bryant.

You know, after watching her parents on Cedar Rapids Waterloo television ads as a young boy a half century ago, so glad to be reunited on Midwestern Radio here with Barbara Haymes Bryant.

You know, over 50 years ago, Kurt Haymes, her decorated World War II Sergeant Major, great patriot father assigned to lead things over there in Thailand during the war, and her mother,

Corporal Norma Hames, the Indefatigable Norma Hames, a military reporter.

They met there in the war and were entrepreneurial founders after the war of the legendary Hames Mobile Homes, now Hames Homes in Marion, Sea Rapids, Hiawatha, providing high quality affordable housing for untold thousands of families throughout the decades.

Barbara, you and your brother and sister honor your parents' legacy by carrying on and building upon their tradition of excellence.

Welcome.

Thank you, John.

That was a great introduction.

I appreciate it.

Manufactured housing has been getting a bum rap for years.

Everybody thinks about manufactured housing and they think about the old trailer parks and, you know, the decrepit homes and the shady people that used to live there.

In fact, today's manufactured homes

are built with the same building materials as site-built homes.

They're just built indoors.

Yes.

So they're a lot less expensive to build.

$128 a square foot to build a site-built home.

Wow.

And it costs $78 a square foot to build a manufactured home.

Wow.

40% less barb.

That's an amazing statistic.

I know.

And they're built with the same materials as site-built homes.

There's a lot less waste when homes are built indoors.

Manufactured homes really are the original green housing.

Barbara, this has just been such a great introduction.

How do folks find out more about the great product line that you have to get people in these wonderful homes?

John, we have a wonderful selection of new and used two, three, and four-bedroom manufactured homes for sale.

Our sales office is at the corner of Wilson Avenue and West Post Road, Southwest, in Cedar Rapids.

The best way to reach us, though, is online at our website, hamshomes.com.

That's really easy.

H-A-M-E-S-H-O-M-E-S dot com.

Or, we're open seven days a week at the corner of Wilson Avenue and West Post Road, Southwest, and Cedar Rapids.

And Barbara, I've driven by your place so many times, I think I can do it by muscle memory.

So glad you're carrying on this outstanding tradition.

Many things have changed in the city of five seasons over the years, but one rock stands resolute in the iconography of the business landscape, and that is Hames Homes.

Barbara, look forward to visiting with you again next week.

Thank you, John.

It's been a pleasure

Go to the studio audience with by by by audience applause.

Are you with the senator?

Senator I got to say this looking at five of us that are sequestered in the studio Soundroom here.

I'm looking at the five of us and none of us

has the body mass index number that you have.

You are in great shape.

We all look like we've been hibernating for seven winters.

And you know, my daughter who's about to be married, the great Breyer Cliff and Boston College girl, she was at an event with you with a bunch of college students.

And this was her comment.

This is why I know that the millennials are voting for Grassley.

She said, Grassley challenged all the guys

to a push-up contest and won.

And then she said, and I Dave, I know you've heard this from your daughters too.

She said,

He's cute.

So, Senator, how do you beat that?

I mean, if you're getting the beautiful young Miss Jacobson and Miss Overholster, your fiance and my daughter's fiance are kind of jealous when they see these girls say, he's cute and he's in good shape and you guys better start

walking

and

dieting.

I was going to say, I'm sure that...

The senator's suit size is a lot smaller than mine.

Senator, how do you do it?

How do you keep in such great shape?

Is it jeans or is it just a dent of hard effort?

Well, in this cold winter in Iowa, instead of going out on my gravel road at the farm and run this morning when it was below zero, I did a half hour on the elliptical.

But in Washington, DC, I go to bed at nine, get up at four, and go two miles six times a week.

to keep in shape that way but also remember when you have to go to 99 counties every year to have a Q&A with constituents and I've done that for 41 years in a row and I'm in 13 counties so far this year you have to be have stamina to do that.

Final thought, final question, I'm gonna start it with Pat.

Speaker Pat Grassley, when I was a younger man

Because I'm old enough to be your father, as you well know, based on my chronological age.

When I was a younger man, I had a grandfather who was a sage.

for me and you know my relationship with him was certainly very different when I was three four five six seven years old eight nine ten it was definitely grandpa gave me a great Christmas present and you know he went out and took us to the park that type of thing but in my adult years I had this great grace and privilege to be able to have

adult conversations and get his advice and talk to him and get his historical perspective and I cherish those so much Pat I cherish those dearly I think of those conversations every day what a blessing for you what's it like

And I know you two are absolutely independent people and you're your own people, but to be able to draw upon that font of wisdom and genuine decency in Iowa horse sense and Christian values, what has that been like in such a public arena to have your grandfather there for you?

I just think it's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

Yeah, and I'll I'll I'll give I'll give the senator a hard time I haven't got to do that yet When you said the Christmas presents everybody keep in mind how tight Chuck That was always Barbara Grassley's responsibility John so I don't want to give him too much credit for that But in all seriousness, that's a that's a great question that you ask and You know being hit being elected in 1980 I was born in 1983 so for me it's

It's just your grandfather.

It isn't something that you came into as a young man or something.

You know, that's just, for me, I don't look at him as the United States Senator as much as, you know, having a conversation about the farm.

My dad and I were just over there the other day cutting some trees.

That was his Christmas present from my dad and I trimming some branches and things.

And, you know, those are the kind of...

memories now there's all those tremendous memories involved with politics but you know being very fortunate to have both my grandparents been a part of this journey that I've been on as well and with them together so I totally I totally get that and everyone thinks there's some conspiracy theory of me running for something and Chuck doing this and I get a kick out of it because we spent more of our time debating who can get better gas mileage

in his old Lincoln than what we really do strategizing and planning.

Now I will say he is my constituent, so when he calls I have to make sure that his view is represented.

but he doesn't get preferential treatment just because he's the longest-serving senator in Iowa's history.

You know, a quick follow-up on that.

Speaker Grassley, if essentially your grandparents are your constituents, if Barbara Grassley calls or Chuck Grassley calls, who do you answer first?

I think everyone in the under, listening to the blow torch already knows the answer to that one.

Barbara Grassley's in charge.

Is that true, Senator Grassley?

Is that true?

Yeah, yeah,

she's been a big part for 70 years of our marriage and the years that I've been politics She's been a big part of it and helped me get elected.

Yes Well,

it is a great one.

He has a great having a grandson to be able to commiserate with on this This has got to be a proud moment for you to see this in history with Pat be striding across an incredible majority that could even get larger

I'll close with this.

I want people to know, because we were talking about the trouble with the Corps along the Army engineers, I'm going to still fight the Corps for the benefit of Iowans, in particular for life and property.

And I think I can say that I'm one of two grain farmers in the United States Senate, and I've got to speak up for the family.

farmers and i'm going to continue to do that particular now answering all these concerns about how the fertilizer prices can get uh... done and then i want to say that i'm proud of pat uh... for being speaker uh... he was talking about he and i talk in politics uh... when he wanted to run for the legislature

He came over to my house and said something about he was thinking about running for the legislature.

I don't recall a previous conversation I ever had about him about politics at all.

And I didn't know he had a political brain in his head.

And he asked me about what I thought about him running for the legislature.

So I'm sure glad that he's been successful at it and he's been successful.

on his own.

He would tell you that he got to be chairman of the Appropriations Committee after nine years.

It took me 15 years.

You tell you that he got to be speaker.

I never got to be speaker.

And so he's been more successful in the state legislature than I was.

And I'm proud of him.

I'll finish with this.

Somebody made some reference that I'm a little bit about Coach Ferrance.

on the sidelines.

I am just like Coach Farron's, except I don't chew gum like he

does.

I will just say, you know, Pat loved to haze me the first time I ran that bill, but Pat, just remember...

that I was voting for your grandfather three years before you were in diapers.

That's very true.

And I still remember giving you a little bit of a hard time on the floor, but you handled it very well.

I still owe you that lunch.

I think we can do that now.

Hey guys, God bless Senator Chuck Grassley.

Senator, thank you for rejoining the show again.

Who knows, maybe we'll win another IBN A award for this interview.

God bless you.

Safe trip.

Good luck and it's really an honor to work alongside you and Pat, Senator Chuck Grassley.

Okay, goodbye everybody.

Staying healthy, keeping healthy during these pandemic days.

Welcoming back, the great ones, Doctors Ted Fogarty and Brad Meyer.

Guys, we had a wonderful segment last week.

Got great feedback.

Let's continue this discussion.

I'll kick it off to Dr. Fogarty first.

Thanks,

John.

working on our acute concussion program up in Okuboji, but I wanted to just educate the audience on where this all came from.

Dr. Paul Hart in LSU is the world's leading physician in hyperbaric neurological injury recovery systems and protocols.

And as far back as 2013, he actually was working with LSU head football coach Les Miles

on getting their football players into hyperbaric recoveries from concussions.

So this is where this has all come from in my academic work with Dr. Hartz and LSU while I was chair of radiology up at UND in Bismarck, North Dakota.

And so circling back down through the Dakotas and Nebraska into Iowa, when Brad and I got together to create the aeronautics performance clinic, one of our

primary focuses has always been to bring out a concussion program, sports medicine program,

and

we've been rolling that out over the summer and we're going to get it going in earnest here as we get into the fall football season and take it away, Dr. Brad.

Thank

you.

Yeah, absolutely.

It's so exciting.

Most people don't realize that there's so much importance in

getting their loved one treated for concussions and most people don't know that there is a treatment for it.

And in the case of this little girl that was in a neighboring community a couple days ago, she's outside and took a

a barren swing from her brother and who was swinging our aluminum bat

and

got her right outside of the temple and you know kids in the summertime out having fun and she got in the way of the bat and so she's a little four-year-old mom calls concerned she goes to the emergency department yesterday and we do a neurologic protocol workup to make sure that there's no brain bleed going on once that's determined that there's no you know

active significant brain brain bleed going on, then there's the cleanup work.

And that's, that's where the ERs oftentimes will just say go home and rest, you know, let, let, let that brain cool down.

But we can facilitate that recovery significantly by doing the hyperbaric air therapy.

And in her case, we'll be likely doing about five sessions and they're about an hour long.

and this is to recover her brain.

So the next time that she hopefully doesn't get another knock to the head, she's already had complete recovery from a previous concussion.

We've had really good success in the Dakotas with getting student athletes back into achieving high ACT scores, even within a week of an acute severe concussion.

For our number, and I would encourage everyone from 300 miles around to bring...

bring their family members or their concuss family members to the aeronautics performance clinic in spirit lake iowa the phone number is 712-339-6024 and

We're on Facebook at Aeronautics Performance Clinic and on the web at aeronauticsperformance.com.

Aeronautics with an

X. Yes, Aeronautics with an X. We'll talk to you again next week.

Fascinating material doctors on helping people post COVID with dementia, with concussions.

Congratulations on the great innovative successes you are having, and we'll talk to you next week.

Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Stein.

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Wonderful interviews earlier in this political season.

My goodness.

We're barely a month away from midterms.

We heard from Chuck and Pat Grassley.

We have some wonderful interviews coming up next.

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Oh, I love that Neil Diamond music from half century ago brings back fond nostalgic memories, including my family's fond esteem and affection for the Hames family.

Curt Norma of blessed memory, just great icons in that post-World War II era, building a magnificent business in eastern Iowa that frankly, gave thousands of people and continues.

to give thousands of people that most fundamental of all basic needs of human existence, shelter, safe shelter, affordable shelter, beautiful shelter.

Barbara, James Bryant, you carry on in that tradition.

How fortunate we are to have you with us today.

Thank you, John.

I really appreciate those kind words about my parents, and I think that I will

go far beyond calling our product shelter.

I mean, that is the most basic of all needs.

These homes are just so beautiful.

They're spacious.

They have island kitchens and garden tubs and spacious decks.

Oh, they're just so much more than just plain old shelter.

We're very proud of them.

Yes, the aesthetics of these are really, really beautiful.

And Barbara, looking at these,

These are nice communities.

You've got a couple wonderful communities through your organization, through Haymes Homes.

Talk about those communities, because Barbara, right now, we see this economic milieu that we're in.

It's crunch time for a lot of families that because of high interest rates, Good Grief Jerome Powell just raised another 75 basis points the other day.

This hasn't happened since Volcker.

40 years ago, high interest rates.

You are absolutely a tremendous option and alternative for families to get financing and affordability with these beautiful homes in this current economic climate.

That's right, John.

I'd like to tell you about a family that came in recently.

It was a mom and dad who are looking for a home for their son who's getting out of the Air Force.

and they looked at site built homes and for anything decent, even in Cedar Rapids, it was $250,000, $300,000 or more than that.

Well, they found a beautiful Hame homes for about $105,000.

That's almost 2,000 square feet on a beautiful lot.

Wow.

They're gonna buy it for their son.

2,000

square feet,

2,000

square

feet at 105,000.

That's a...

tremendous opportunity for a starter home isn't it?

It is and all of our lots are big enough that folks can put their own garages on them too if they'd like.

Wow that you know that that's really phenomenal because as in the banking industry as I am Barbara these increased interest rates are

cutting people out of some home purchases because some of these interest rate hikes mean $100 or $200 a month more in their monthly payment.

You've got an alternative and I trust you've got financing.

We've talked about this before.

Tell us about your financing option.

We have an in-house captive finance company called Circle Finance LLC.

All of our salespeople are very knowledgeable about financing options, not just with us, but Circle Finance.

but also local and national lenders.

So we really try hard to get the customers in the right home with right financing.

Barbara, talk about opportunities for good neighborhoods, good communities, for young families with children to be located in your fine communities that you have.

I'm glad you asked.

All of our communities, Grandview and Summitview, have two parks and two playgrounds each.

Each one is a little bit different.

Oh, I have to tell you, we also just opened up a dog park.

Oh, I love it.

I love it.

Yes.

It's a 16,000 square foot dog park that all the fur babies and four-legged friends can get out and enjoy, including children.

Oh, but it's been a huge popular amenity.

We just opened it a couple of weeks ago and we're very proud of it.

We think we're the only

manufactured home community in eastern Iowa that has dog parks.

Barbara, Hames, Bryant, you've always been on the cutting edge.

You know, the love and gracious Mrs. Jacobson and I may want to move to your community.

You know, I grew up in eastern Iowa and this Ornery Condo Association we're in, they just are dog and my dogs all the time.

I'm telling you, they're not as pet friendly as I would like.

Barbara, you've done some tremendous things for the community.

Just outstanding excellence in your outreach even to feed the folks.

Let's talk about the food pantries that you've got going.

That is another amenity that we added this year at our Summit View office.

We are now a registered and licensed food pantry provider of Hay Cap.

So we get food from Hay Cap and we also get it from Quaker Oats.

Hey Cap is Hawkeye Area Community Action Program.

It's one of the basic non-profits here in this area.

We have that, the food pantry is stocked with just about everything you can imagine.

Food, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, meats, eggs, dairy, plenty of Coyker cereal, and we also have dog treats.

Wow, that's really nice.

Many, many, many years ago, I ran the community action agencies as executive director over in Nebraska.

That haycap does many fine things.

Barbara, you have got a multi-generational approach.

You and siblings have taken the mantle from your late great parents, and there's another generation in the wings currently already plugged in, correct?

That's right.

Troy's son, who is Curtis Haynes IV, whose son is Curtis Haynes V, works in our office.

Troy's son-in-law, Clint Alderman, is one of our sales representatives.

His wife is Morgan Haynes, Troy's oldest daughter, and my son, Shawn Bryant, works here, and he does outside property maintenance.

Oh, this is great.

I'm in a bank that's a multi-

generational family bank.

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That is the ultimate news sounder, Mike Shane.

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News sounder, newsmaker line.

Okay, we got the two great ones with us.

Mike Shane.

Doctors Brad Meyer and Ted Fogarty.

Give a little background on yourselves.

You guys are on the cutting edge of medical excellence in innovation.

Give us a quick little bio on each of you guys.

Brad, take

it first.

Yeah.

Hey, I'm an Iowa native.

I went to school in Des Moines, Des Moines University.

And Air Force Veteran did my residency in family medicine at UNMC University of Nebraska Med Center.

And I am now a part of this incredible mission to help the body heal with Dr. Ted Fogarty using hyperbaric, hope hyperbaric and hope healing in hyperbaric.

Wow, Ted.

Yeah, this is Dr. Ted Pogarty.

I'm the former chair of radiology at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and started working with Dr. Paul G. Harch out of LSU back in 2007-2008 on this amazing game-changing, world-changing, hyperbaric physics and therapy process and project where Dr. Harch and I have published from phase one through phase three the best therapy

for our veterans, which is mild to moderate hyperbaric, which we have shown to decrease suicidal ideation in our U.S.

veterans.

And just from out of that camp, you know, got to know Dr. Meyer during the pandemic and his incredible

endeavors in healing Iowans through first IV, NAC, ivermectin, and now we've brought in together whole hyperbaric realm in northwest Iowa and we're saving lives in ways that this

Truly troublesome satanic to ball that's taken over our country through the profession of medicine and destroyed the social fabric of America We are doing it in in spite of all these people saying that we can't do this.

Yeah, these guys are heroic doctors of conscience and idl logical

proclivities aside, these guys had a phenomenal record during COVID, far better than the hospitals did.

Guys, why did you do so well during COVID in almost 100% cure rates of your patients?

Well, John, it was early treatment.

Early treatment's critical.

And

you can go and find the documentary, Doctor's Orders, on defendingtherepublic.org.

Dr. Fogarty and myself are in that for our story.

I'm in there with Dr. Zelenko, Dr. Ryan Cole, some other luminaries.

Great, great, great men, great men.

Yep.

Great man.

So, but this is what we found.

We found that early treatment with one of our proprietary blends that came from the federal cares that grant to to help with viruses.

That's important.

Despite the politicization of CDC, the feds couldn't even deny you that grant money.

You guys have proven successful.

Absolutely.

The purple powder is really.

one of the most important nutraceutical designer concepts for pandemic rations to come out of this whole horrific PTSD generating thing that this pandemic has become.

And by simply mixing a patented Canadian supplement Proimmune 200 with a certain ratio of beetroot powder and spirulina and some additional tartness

salivary gland activators, we're basically leaching immediately into the human bloodstream some of the most important nutraceutical elements for stopping for stopping all RNA viruses from replicating and and it's out of the body of literature that our taxpayer dollars have funded

going all

the way back to 1991 when Tony Fauci proved that NAC generates high levels of glutathione inside the cell and then that shuts down reverse transcriptase of all

RNA viruses.

It is it's the Achilles heel of RNA viruses is when glutathione comes in and shuts down that enzyme and then the viruses can't replicate anymore.

So that's what's the that's the that's the big part of the purple powder is it's it's the off switch for viral replication.

John Jacobson here.

on the Jacobson Group on KXEL 1540 AM, that 50,000 watt blowtorch.

100.5 FM with Mike Shane at the control board here, here with doctors Ted Fogarty and Brad Meyer, aeronautics clinic.

I've been up there at Spirit Lake.

Wow, what a tremendous operation, utilizing some of those great products of which you speak.

Dr. Brad Meyer, the physical plant there is

fascinating, well populated, not just by staff, but by many, many patients that were clamoring to be seen by you folks that day.

Can you describe what goes on there at the clinic?

I found it fascinating and just a very wonderful experience.

Thanks, John.

We have an incredible team here of nurses, nurse practitioner, a couple of nurse practitioners.

are we're working on helping the body get into a state of healing and the primary modality of that is with the hyperbaric increasing atmospheric pressure and almost it looks like an ice shack.

For our listeners doc let me just say for our listeners hyperbaric simply means oxygen pressure right oxygen therapy.

Right.

Well, it's increased argon, nitrogen, and oxygen, which are in the air, compressing that at 1.3 atmospheres, which is like being an equivalent of being 10 feet underwater.

And so all kinds of amazing things are generated as far as organic gene therapy, and it helps with inflammation.

So I call it a tide that raises a lot of different boats.

Great analogy.

Everything from soup to nuts as well, because we have

literally Dr. Fogarty and I and the team have been treating so many different disease states.

Disease is inflammation and one of our most recent is 32 treatments.

I think she's in her early 80s and she was having some dementia and she had a mini mental status exam score when she came in several months ago of 15 out of 30.

That's not very good.

And several days ago, we repeated that test after 32 one hour plus treatments.

Her score is 25 out of 30.

And she is smiling.

She has got more emotion in her face now.

And her husband stated to me, quote, this sure beats the heck out of the nursing home.

So he's getting his wife back.

So that's just one snippet, let alone the...

the value we've seen treating folks that have been injured from COVID or from the COVID injection.

There is a lot of hope when there doesn't seem to be a lot of answers out there when we are utilizing our great team, different modalities, but the crown jewel of that is the hyperbaric.

At low pressure, we are seeing some incredible, incredible recoveries.

So Drs.

Fogarty and Meyer from Aeronautics, we're going now back over to Dr. Ted Fogarty.

Ted?

Yeah, John, these are miracles from God's quantum drivetrain of quantum physics.

And at some level, there's a bunch of great engineers in eastern and central Iowa that are hearing us.

Oh,

yeah, those Collins radio, Collins Rockwell folks, you betcha.

You know, these guys are, these guys and girls are all going to understand this at some level.

But when we, when we pack these gases into, into a tighter volume of, at the cellular level, a tighter volume of the,

the

miraculous layer of water, the holy water that surrounds all of our mitochondria, we are, we are giving a quantum supercharging effect to our mitochondria.

They can then generate more energy to go out and mend and fix these broken fences that have been basically kind of put aside for years in the human body, especially in our dimension.

patients and it's just this very gentle trickle charge on a day-to-day basis over, you know, 31-hour treatments like Dr. Myers describing this in our latest patient

that

then allows the human body and the human brain to start to offload some of these toxins that have accumulated in the brain over 40, 50 years.

And that's what we're just generally detoxifying the human brain through quantum physics.

So let's do this.

I have heard anecdotally some of these miraculous stories.

Can you talk about

some of the types of illnesses you've arrested or mitigated through your therapy protocols.

Well, my favorite case was one evening before we got the clinic open, I was over at the Meyer home in Okavozia, Iowa, and we have a former friend and his wonderful soulmate who they have a two, a two and a half year old, three year old daughter who's over at the Pearson Art Center and she fell down and hit her head and she, you know,

brings her over to Stockmeyer's house and this kiddo looks all of concussed glazed eyes and Brad's like let's put her in the tank and I'm like all right I get to do I get to do my first case with you here in Iowa in your home and so we we ended up

uh, putting her, putting mom and the child into the, uh, hyperbaric air therapy bank and, and Brad's basement and mom confided in me that, um, you know, she was about six weeks pregnant.

And should she need to worry about that?

Do I need to know that?

And I just told her, you know, look, if you were six weeks pregnant and you were flying on a commercial jet, there's the same kind of pressure toggles that we're going through in reverse.

And they're actually physiologically more worrisome at some level because when you're taking off.

you're losing pressure and so these pressure changes are safe in pregnancy and under the medical direction of myself and Dr Meyer administering this these protocols and and then I kind of I kind of joked with her because

She and her husband are, they're both under six feet.

I said, if you end up having a Hawkeye linebacker come out of this gestation, I'm kind of, I'm putting, you know, I'm putting all the credit on the hyperbaric today.

Boy, I, you know what, even better than a linebacker, can you find a quarterback for us?

Or what about the brain power for an offensive coordinator?

Hey, listen here.

I'll kidding aside, John Jacobson with Ted Fogarty and Brad Meyer, MDs.

Guys, what else?

Let me let me address the ideas of stroke.

dementia, long haul COVID.

Have you seen any efficacies from your treatment protocols involving in any of those areas?

Well, you know, coming into football season, we're hot and heavy in the football season right now.

Oh, and concussion is coming into play right now.

Boy, oh boy.

We want to protect those brains and, you know, young gentlemen, senior in high school now.

From Western Iowa, he came in after developing a stroke after he broke his clavicle playing football last year and saw a horrific freak accident and he comes into our clinic and he can't button his shirt, he can't drive, he's walking, regaining some motor skills, but they had heard about the post-stroke application of hyperbaric air therapy and his family and friends are

are absolutely in awe of the progress he's made since he started these treatments.

His hand is opening up.

Now he's back to being able to drive again.

And so it is most definitely sped up his recovery.

These

are the kind of, you

know,

miracle stories that everybody across the country needs to be aware of that, you know, with a lot of these different types of brain injuries, concussions, stroke, even young kids with cerebral palsy, absolute, okay, how about brain fog?

How much brain fog are people seeing after they've had COVID and have had the COVID injections?

tons of it and you know the response to that brain fog as well has been incredible with this air therapy.

So lots and lots of options.

Again it's everything from soup to nuts and it's extremely safe like Dr. Fogarty mentioned.

We're going to continue this conversation but this is a good place to segue and pause.

I know we've got people intrigued.

Where do they find you guys?

They're not going to find this in Australia, South America, Africa.

Asia, even Europe, they're going to find this.

I mean, we are on the cutting edge.

We're Iowans.

How do they find you guys?

Where are you located physically?

We're at 3305 Berquist Avenue in Spirit Lake, Iowa.

And our phone number is 712-339-6024, Aeronautics Performance Clinic on Facebook.

And it's Aeronautics with an X instead of CS at the end.

And

Brad, do you want to give

our

website?

Yeah, Brad, aeronauticsperformance.com with an X.

And please call, please call because our nurses are happy to,

and

team are happy to discuss whether or not hyperbaric air therapy is right for you.

And in most cases, it's kind of a no-brainer that everybody is going to see some level of benefit.

It's just an incredible, off-overlook.

therapy that we are bringing to the forefront.

Dr. Fogarty and I, Dr. Hart's been doing a long time down at LSU, and the more and more you research into hyperbaric, you are going to be amazed at how incredible this healing modality is.

The easiest way to just investigate, just kind of investigate lightly via the internet is www.thepurplepowder.com.

And you can that'll take you to our purple powder website and Fogarty and Meyer plc and you can kind of jump off from there if you're if you're listening on the radio while you're while you're farming and running the running the tractor and harvest and combine and and the purple powder comm is is the easiest thing to remember on the airways probably right now

Guys, this is phenomenal.

So I've got to ask the question you guys have the basically a hundred percent covid saves record so many died of

in our hospitals during COVID.

Remdesvir was one of the preferred protocols.

That didn't seem to do the trick.

A lot of ventilator deaths.

Why was there no emphasis on front end antiviral interdiction like every other virus in the history of mankind?

You guys were clamoring for front end interdiction and yet big pharma, big medicine, big hospitals.

wouldn't go there.

Why in the world?

Why in the world?

Because we have a medical profession that is now more political than honoring the hypocritical.

And it goes all the way to the top.

It goes all the way to Tony Fauci.

Tony Fauci has never really been a real doctor like Doc Meyer and myself.

He basically went from chief resident, which is an academic position in clinical medicine into science.

And he has been the bag man for all of these big companies to get them

funding from our tax dollars to make these drugs, that then once they once they once they've got their hooks in our in our tax base, they're they're they're trying to make a bunch of money off of us as American citizens.

And when something so simple as the Nobel Prize winning compound of ibermectin, which has saved more mammalian lives on this planet than any other compound.

Yes, from yes,

from any any other manufacturing plant.

That is, and we have, we have in the state of Iowa, we have, we have a strategic reserve of ivermectin on every farm in a bio weapons level war.

Global war.

Yep.

Yep.

That's beautiful.

He thought you should have done as the general of all of these physicians would say take your NAC get all your nurses on NAC and let's get the ivermectin out of the farm out of the farm counties and let's say let's stop this in its tracks in 2020 this thing could have been done with we could have been six trillion to ten trillion dollars ahead ahead of the economic losses from this bio weapons warfare

project.

You know, I shake hands with tens of thousands of people for all of 2020, all of 2021 and half of 2022 in the Iowa legislature, thousands every week there in that rotunda.

And I'll tell you what, guys, my physician administered prophylactic ivermectin and NAC.

You know, I absolutely credit that.

I think that was transformative for me to stay healthy during those grim days.

Absolutely, you know, and as doctors, you want your physician to be an innovator, to look outside the box and, you know, the ivermectin patent ran out so there was no money for the drug companies to be made on ivermectin.

Yeah.

And so they wanted the path was clear.

They wanted this

this Dean Therapy COVID injection, that was the direction.

And if there was an answer that was a off-label and generic medication, there's no money to be made going that route.

Dr. Fordy, myself, many other Patriot physicians across the country looking for those avenues, those windows when, you know, 10 days in people's lips are turning blue and all the hospitals recommending is remdesivir and intubation.

Let's innovate and let's free our doctors from the control of the three letter agencies and the boards that are saying, no,

take

it away, Brad.

All right, seven, one, two, three, three, nine, six, zero, two, two or six, zero, two.

and it's 3305 Berkwist Avenue and Spirit Lake 51360 and aeronautics performance clinic or aeronautics performance.

This has

been a great interview as more data is seeping out and leaking out from the iron curtain of misinformation where we're getting some results that are

miraculous in certain sectors and we've got certainly two guys in Iowa that are at the leading edge of this.

Thank you as always Dr. Ted Fogarty and Dr. Brad Meyer for joining with us and being with us on the blowtorch today.

All right,

bless you John.

Mike Shane take us out with the sounder.

Ladies and gentlemen, our beloved listeners, that is a wrap.

John Jacobson here for the Jacobson Group on KXEL.

Tremendous show.

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Welcome everybody to The Jacobson Group.

John Jacobson here with Scott Corey.

And the one, the only, the inimitable engineer, Mike Shane.

We know his ringtone.

And you are listening to the Blowtorch.

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We're coming to you on 15 40 a.m.

And 100.5 FM We've got a great show for you today.

You know, I am the original eastern Iowa boy I grew up in Marion Cedar Rapids when

at St.

Joseph's for grade school in Marion and Regis for high school, University of Iowa where I cut my JD law degree chops.

And Scotty, you're in Iowa too.

You know, John, it is a great day to be back here in the state of Iowa.

We got a lot of things going on in this state.

Most notably, we got the Michigan Wolverines kicking off later today at Kennecks Stadium.

Jim Harbaugh brings his highly ranked, highly touted Michigan Wolverines against Phil Parker's defense.

And it's going to be quite a bloodbath, I think, if the offense does not show up for Iowa.

But what interesting stat, though, John, I want to point out to our listeners is that in his career as a player and as a coach, Jim Harbaugh has never won an Iowa City.

And let's hope Phil Parker's defense has one of those games in them today that keeps Michigan on the end zone and a W away from Jim Harbaugh's.

victory column but one thing I do want to give a shout out to today also John is that 20 years ago the Iowa Hawkeyes won the big 10 with 8 and 0.

And we're going to be honoring that team led by Brad Banks, Dallas Clark.

I mean, that was the team that really turned it around for coach Kurt Farrance and have them being honored as a 20 year.

It's hard to believe it's been 20 years, John.

It's

impossible to think that that much time has gone

by.

And also Tony Moyaki is going to be announced later today at during halftime for the A&F.

He'd be going up on the A&F Hall of Fame wall there at Kennecks Stadium.

So it's a big day.

in football land and they're going to have beautiful weather.

Now as an Iowa fan, John, I wish this game was going to be played in November.

I wish it was under the lights because there's something about that Kinnick voodoo magic that when a highly ranked team comes into Kinnick at night in November, they always leave with a loss.

And so hopefully we got something cooking here later on October 1st, but it's going to be quite a game, I think.

You know,

Scott, what you said about Harbaugh,

Never winning in Kinnick is true.

I can a ver to that because in 1985 I was a young early 20 year oldish John Jacobson sitting in that north end zone with number one Iowa and Number two, Michigan coming in with Beauchamp Beckler and Jim Harbaugh at quarterback Hayden fried for the Hawks a Rose Bowl

on the line, and a number one rating on the line with Musco lighting back then.

It was the temporary lighting.

There was not permanent lighting in Kinnick.

And national television audience, the great Brent Musburger and Notre Dame legend, Eric Parsegan, doing the CBS telecast.

But we love the now epic legendary voice of the Iowa Hawkeyes, Jim Zabel and Ed Podlak.

and you know it was 10-9 with about six seconds left in that fourth quarter Iowa had driven down but a very injured Robbie Houtland with a bad leg who could barely kick without wincing in pain and we're going to play a little audio from that Scott Corey because it was epic.

Let's see what happens here guys.

You know John do dovetail just a little bit about that game That was the only the second time in both Schenbeckler's coaching career where a coach had beat him back to back Hayden Fry had done it twice and the only other coach to ever do it was the great Woody Hayes So only Hayden and Woody Hayes were able to beat Schenbeckler back to back seasons

You know it was just such a great day back then and of course Chuck Long and and the great the great team that Hayden

put Larry

station

With that set of coaches, as you look down on that field, it was incredible.

You had Dan McCarney, you had Barry Alvarez,

you had Bill

Snyder, you had Kirk Ferrance.

It was just incredible, all of the coaching tree that has come off and succeeded on their own that Hayden had there.

It was the beginning of nighttime kinect magic.

That was the first time.

Absolutely, John.

And, you know, hopefully that's something that the fans will always going to remember too.

And as a farmer...

I will always remember, too, that that was the season where

Hayden

Frye put on the A&F symbol

on the helmet.

America needs farmers during the height of the farm crisis.

And, you know, there's just something about that voodoo, that Kinnick magic that, you know, a lot of coaches have even said that they don't like playing in Kinnick because weird things happen.

And that's a direct quote from Urban Meyer.

He said, there's just a lot of weirdness in that stadium, but you just can't understand what happens.

It's become one of the more formidable.

stadiums to play in the nation and the Hawkeye fans are loyal the weather is brutal in Kinnock often and yet the fans fill that seat and You know, it is just it speaks to There are stories about Iowa the transcend the athletics the a and f Marketing genius Hayden Fry.

Those were grim times.

We have a lot of younger viewers that were not even alive in the 80s Scott but

We had a banker murdered in the Iowa City area with just a distraught despairing farmer there.

These were very difficult times and Hayden upheld the pride.

I mean, the East and West Coast sports writers hated the fact that Iowa was ranked number one.

Howard Coasell's famous line was, Iowa number one, you've got to

be kidding me.

Absolutely, John.

Iowa was probably the first team to actually show the West Coast bias, East Coast bias against the Big Ten at the time because Iowa was the first team outside of Michigan and Ohio State to go to the Rose Bowl.

They had done that in 81.

And so one thing I also want to point out is you play the clip during the 85 game was that Jim Harbaugh had to stop the game because there was a rule during the NCAA that said that the crowd noise could not affect the field of play.

And so you would actually have the officials stopping

Kinnick Stadium.

Yes.

The crowd.

That happened.

And could you imagine the crowd last year when Penn State was in there?

That place was rocking.

Oh my gosh.

It's gonna be rocking again on Saturday because Big Noon Fox is gonna be there with their Big Noon production and that is one of the greatest home field advantages, especially in that North End zone when that fans are in full froth that you cannot do anything but hope to get out of there.

We're gonna have just a great show today.

in anticipation of the great game and folks who are listening to the Jacobson group with John Jacobson, Scott Corey and Mike Shane on the blowtorch 50,000 watt clear channel KXEL on 1540 and 100.5 FM.

We have a very uplifting show is two years since COVID began to menacingly matriculate out of

Wuhan.

And there's a lot of good stories about how we are overcoming the effects of that pandemic right with Iowa innovative curative healers.

It's going to be fantastic to hear how Iowa is on the cutting edge of this.

And at the end, we'll also wrap up with some more Hawkeye magic.

John Jacobson, Scotty, stay

tuned for a great show, right?

Absolutely, John.

We couldn't say it better ourselves.

We were so grateful to be a part of this program, and it's going to be an exciting and informative interview this weekend.

You betcha.

Stand by.

John Jacobson back with you here today.

Scott Corey writing side.

Car with me here in the one the only the inimitable Mike Shane on KXEL AM and FM 1540 AM 100.5 FM all across eastern Iowa and Scotty into all the original Big Ten states.

Absolutely.

We're probably even broadcasting in the Rosemont, Illinois, the headquarters of the Big Ten.

Hi, Kevin Warren.

Add those packed schools immediately.

It's a good admonition.

Listen, we've got some great news to tell you.

I'm welcoming back my great friend, legislator Emeritus, former Iowa State Senator David Hartzich from the Quad Cities, MD, CPA.

And of course, they're calling for the doctor right now.

Harry Nielsen is calling for the doctor in the background of Lime in the Coconut from 50 years ago.

Great song.

But Doc, what we're talking about today is some of the great innovations that have been made specifically in Iowa in treatment therapies, front end antiviral treatment therapies.

I've benefited from them.

Talk to us.

You've got some folks with you today to tell us a wonderful narrative.

Yes, I think what's happened in America is I think more doctors have woken up because of COVID-19 and because they've had more time to actually research the disease and worse research immunology and some other things they haven't had time to think about because quite frankly the number of people going to hospitals during the pandemic was actually reduced.

And so I think that's I think a lot of people are going to benefit

from the thought process that's going into our medical system by doctors.

Dr. David Hartzich here from the Quad Cities.

You're all listening to us on the Great 50,000 Clear Channel Blowtorch, KXEL.

Doctor, you've got some great folks with us today.

Jessica and Nina and Andrea, would you introduce them and kind of have a little conversation with them?

Sure.

I have Jessica Jean to start out with.

And Jessica's a registered nurse and had called me because her brother who was definitely ill with COVID and I had treated him.

So maybe she should talk first.

Well, welcome, Jessica.

Give us a little purview of what you guys experienced.

Yeah.

So my brother was really sick with COVID, had a fever, wouldn't get out of bed.

About a little over a week was doing that and sweating a lot and.

Very fortunately, I was able to find Dr. Hartzut and he was very knowledgeable and very compassionate and gave me a lot of information, gave me a little recipe for salt solutions for him to drink.

So I did all of that along with medication and could you not?

This is not an over-exaggeration, but next morning he was out chasing pigs on his farm that had gotten out of the pen.

I mean, he was able to get out of bed.

Wow.

Better.

Um, you know, he was like nearing probably we're going to have to take him into a hospital, but, um, thankfully we did not have to do any of that.

Thankfully is correct because people had such a tough role with that remdesivir cause a lot of problems for a lot of folks.

Uh, doc, I'll kick it back to you.

That's impressive.

Comments from Jessica.

Yeah, Jessica, I think when you first called me you said you wanted me to see do a telemedicine visit with your brother because you thought he was dying and You said as a nurse, you know what a dying person is

Yeah, I mean I hadn't it's just from what my mom has said about him and I know that he had been like laying around I know he hadn't been up.

I know he hadn't been drinking

I mean, I know he was getting to the point where it's hard for him to breathe

and

I'm not, you know, I just didn't want it to get to that point where we had to make a decision to send him into a hospital because I knew at that point his odds were slim.

And I mean, he's my brother and I love him.

I wanted to find something for him.

So we're very fortunate to have Dr. Hartzut.

John Jacobson here, KXEL, the Jacobson group with Scott Corey and Mike Shane.

Jessica, James, that's really impressive.

Doctor, you got a couple other good folks with us.

I believe we've got Nina on the line.

Nina, thanks for joining us on the 50,000 watt clear channel blow torch.

It's great to be here.

Doc, take it away.

I

think Nina is also on with Ron, her husband.

That's right.

Are you on too?

Hi.

Yes,

I'm here.

Oh, great.

So Naina and Ron were on Cedar Rapids and had called me because they had already been to the emergency department and basically given little hope.

And so they gave me a call and I treated them for COVID.

And you are both here to tell about it.

That must have been a successful diagnosis and treatment plan.

Yes, when we got diagnosed, it was on a Sunday.

We were sort of desperate to, nobody would give us help.

We went to the emergency room here and see a rapid and basically we're given a death sentence by the doctor who diagnosed us as having COVID.

And when we said, well, can't you give us anything?

And he said, you know, no, just high on all and almost indicated like just go home and die.

Good heavens.

So we, you know, we were pretty devastated then, but I had gotten Dr. Hart such his name from another friend who had called him earlier.

And I thought, you know, it's a Sunday afternoon.

I don't know, you know, if he's going to answer the phone, but he was sort of, you know, it's like, okay, we just need to call because I had heard.

through watching so many other people go through COVID that you need to act on it right away.

Yes.

You need to get started with some kind of treatment.

Yes.

And so we call Dr. Hartsuch at four o'clock on a Sunday afternoon, almost exactly a year ago, and he picked up the phone and he helped it.

You know, I know him.

David Hartsuch is an heroic doctor of conscience who gets it.

And he's good, man.

He's really, really good.

He cares.

He heals.

Yes, he cares.

And he did a telemedicine interview with both Ron and I over the phone to kind of find out what our medical history was.

And then after we did that, he said, you know, I really think you need to be on Ivermectin.

And so, OK, where can we get it?

And there was only one place in Cedar Rapids that's open.

late on a Sunday evening.

And so he sent the prescription over there.

Um, and we were able to get on the treatment medicine by six o'clock, I think, or six 30 that evening.

And almost immediately, uh, started getting better.

Let me let my husband.

Yeah, Ron, please.

Yeah.

Yes.

Uh, well, first of all, I would like to say that we did go to hospital facility.

And we left there at night.

It's a feeling really kind of ejected.

But when we talked to Dr. Harksudt that

same

day, it amazed me on a Sunday that the amount of time he spent interviewing us.

And I'd like to describe that relationship we built so fast with him and felt so comfortable when we hung up the phone.

We really felt there was hope for us.

And we did go for the medicine waiver to get up that night.

I told Dr. Harksudt,

that I had lost four pounds in like one day.

That was because he called back to check on us.

Sure.

They were so late and we're kind of surprised for whatever reason.