KXEL Presents: The Jacobsen Group Podcast – January 14, 2023

Hello, this is John Jacobson and welcome to this podcast of The Jacobson Group.

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And all of the Big Ten you're listening to this wonderful caroming beacon of sound traversing the entire Midwest John Jacobson here with the Jacobson group we've got Scott Corey here at the chair along with our special in-studio guest dr. Ted

Fogarty, and guys, we have such a superb show, you're listening to us on KXEL, the great Dr. Jeff Stein presiding over this clear channel operation, the first of the nation, 100 years ago, 50,000 watts broadcast clear channel, but not just on 1540 AM, also on 100.5 FM.

and live on kxl.com plus our podcast the Jacobson group go and look it up and our studio engineer Mike Shane we've got to have the Mike Shane ringtone ladies and gentlemen the engineer par excellence Dr. Fogarty he's in awe of his childhood hero here growing up in the Omaha area when Mike Shane ruled the airwaves what a new sounder this is is this awesome it's amazing just by God

From 1959 to 1993.

Yeah, Shane was there

Reporting the news, and he's at the controls here, which is why everything runs so smoothly, Scott Corey.

He can edit us and make us look good every week.

That's a great point too, John, and now with the opening of the Big Ten commissioners, since Kevin Warren is leaving the Big Ten to go to the Chicago Bears, I'm thinking we ought to put Shane over there in charge of Rosemont and have him do some of the Big Ten Network and get that feed under control.

Oh, he would be epic.

Just like this show that we're gonna have for you guys today,

Let's first talk a little bit about the Hawkeyes.

It's the weekend, it's a January cold weekend, but fire up those fight songs for the Hawkeyes because I'll tell you, last night, which would have been Thursday night,

for us.

We're a little bit by delay here.

The Hawkeyes had a monster win.

Scotty, talk about

this.

They shared it and a lot of credit goes to Coach Fran McCaffrey and the Iowa team.

They started out conference season at 0-1-3 coming off some terrible losses against Nebraska.

On the ropes almost because

Patrick then had to take the medical leave.

Absolutely.

And the team has rallied.

They took down Michigan and overtime Thursday night in Carver Hawkeye Arena.

Huge win.

Huge shout out.

I want to give

to not only Chris Murray, but Josh Dix, the freshman point guard from Council Bluffs, Abraham Lincoln.

He had only been playing about eight to 10 minutes a game, and he just was on a roll last night.

He played almost 25 to 30 minutes.

You know,

these Council Bluffs kids,

whether

it was Jake Waters, whether it was our Max Duggan, you know, whether it was Shudak Kicken for the Hawkeyes, a lot of good Council Bluffs talent.

You know, that's a great point too, John, and if I'm a recruiter, I'm circling all the

talent around Council Bluffs because there's been some tremendous athletes coming out of there lately.

But it was a hard fought victory.

Iowa looked to be on the ropes with about eight minutes to go in the second half.

And all of a sudden, Iowa just started clicking.

The defense played well.

And so very happy for Fran.

They have another test on Sunday afternoon at 3.30, Carver, Hawkeye where they played Maryland.

But Dr. Fogarty, I think there's something a little special going on right now in Carver, Hawkeye Arena with Fran McCaffrey's team.

Absolutely, and I just want to put a thought out for all the great Hawkeye fans out in the area.

Some of these guys who have pro-potential, they're going to be in hyperbaric chambers that they own themselves someday.

But I think it would be just like what the Hawkeyes did in the psychology realm of painting the visitor's locker room pink.

God bless Hayden Frye.

That

was

tremendous.

There are stories about how Bosch Mbethler just turned beat red when he walked in and saw

that pink one.

It was a genius move, right?

But if the Hawkeye basketball team had a couple of hyperbaric chambers, you know, for the next season, I think they're in the sweet 16.

No doubt about it.

Well, and let's set the context here just sidebar before we delve further into sports.

So Dr. Ted Fogarty is the

worldwide pioneer in hyperbaric therapy.

And for those of you that don't realize, well, we'll go to a few clips here.

He was introduced and honored yesterday in the Iowa Legislature with the work that he and Meyer and Hart such are doing in Iowa.

Iowa is the Mayo Clinic for this stuff here, for hyperbarics that has been found to be so innovative in reducing and in reversing dementia, concussions, strokes, long haul.

covid and the therapies these are being used athletically and we have a we'll talk about the new nebraska senator designate but pete ricketts is in on this and his brother they know how to use hyperbaric in their sports team

yeah actually in 2015 the cubby's brought in a mild hyperbaric therapy into their athletic training

were you telling them about

this

did you drop the hint that they should do

this

John, I might be connected to a lot of people, but what the Fogarty?

It's not everybody.

I think I think there's enough out there in the sports world for the hyperbaric performance enhancements that people are getting it out of the professional ranks and and you know, just I got to throw in a little Husker Football talk here, but you know when you think of Boyd Epley's strength training program that he created that really that was the foundation of how that was cutting edge in the 70s and Osborne really, you know

created the powerhouse of what may take another 20 years without hyperbaric to bring back but you know I consider my sports medicine practice and and and and observing all these athletes it's the mild hyperbaric therapy is it's the molecular mitochondrial strength training and conditioning program for these athletes.

Well you caught my attention there Dr. Fogarty when you mentioned that the Chicago Cubs started using this in 2015

because we all know as a Cubs fan what happened in 2016.

Our long nightmare was finally over.

History was made.

You know, somebody ever asked me if I believe in miracles.

I say absolutely because in 2016, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.

So I'm going to say you were probably part of that championship World Series team.

Did you get a ring out of this

deal?

No, I'm just in the background, just trying to help out wherever I can.

I could be a popper and just the mission from God.

for me is to just get every home in America and every athlete and everyone in this great nation to understand how helpful hyperbaric air therapy is even.

We're going to talk about that in some depth.

Let's talk about though, you're an Omaha boy, you kind of love your Huskers too.

We have a lot of Big Ten folks listening in and there's

almost a rivalry that's starting to bubble up between Hawkeyes and Huskers.

I would certainly say in my household, I have a divided household.

You know the loving, gracious Mrs. Jacobson, Dr. Fogarty.

She bleeds le-

red and those grandkids, she's, she's brainwashing them to be Husker fans.

I, Scotty is a battle for me to get them to wear black and gold at five, three and newborn.

You know, that's a great point too, because, you know, Mrs. Jacobson, you know, she only buys red vehicles.

So I mean, that's, that's kind of

how

she is.

But he

saw that last night.

He saw the red

one in

the

driveway.

Hold on.

Hold on.

John's wearing a red sweater and a red Jacobson hat.

Well,

that's my GOP red, you know,

that's

different.

Yeah.

Shade that's a different that's called making a strategic decision at home Having peace in the household is what you call that that's a business decision there But you know you talk about everything that's going on with Nebraska, you know Matt rules seems to have things you know cooking and It looks like we're gonna be in another season of Nebraska being the national champions preseason according to their media The way they you know, I

couldn't believe when I was reading

yeah the Omaha people a

I don't know if they can get drunk on hyperbarics or what, but they were, they were, uh, wow.

Uh, I think they could have beat the Chicago 1985 Chicago Bears the way that the Omaha media was talking, but there is a lot going on right now in sports.

Matt rule has come in with the new, new system.

Luke fickle is coming into Wisconsin, a new system.

And now we are on Kirk 6.0, uh, in Iowa city where Kirk is gradually remaking his image again.

He's delving, uh, delving in.

to the name image likeness.

I want to give a huge shout out to the elite casino organization.

They gave half a million dollars yesterday to Iowa Swarm to help with that collective.

So we're seeing a whole different big 10 that we even saw three years ago, Dr. Fogarty and John.

Yeah,

for sure.

And so that's going to be interesting, John, to see how they do this.

But the whole

name image likeness thing.

I've been researching this very strongly, Scott.

And I've decided to kind of focus on

one athlete and how they are navigating through name, image, likeness.

And I've chosen Olivia Dunn, Livy Dunn.

She's my NIL project.

Some of you might know that her crowds, she's the collegiate gymnast down there.

And some might know that now her crowds are so large at her events that there's literally crowds chanting outside of the auditoriums for her when she leaves.

and to where it's almost Beatles style mania.

Livy, done guys, so keep your eyes on this.

Kind of hard to take your eyes off of it, but it's very wholesome, but she's a real deal and she has figured out how to parlay.

PG, parlay, all wholesome and all good, but she has got

a generation of young male adolescent college co-ed fans that just are following her everywhere.

We didn't quite see that phenomenon at Creighton in the 70s, Ted.

And I had, well, I had my throng, but you know, that was a little different.

It wasn't athlete, it was, you know, the debate nerd geeks that, you know, we all have our followings, you know.

Oh yeah,

for sure.

I'm just trying to figure out how you're going to work this conversation at home when Mrs. Jacobson hears our program later on today.

But you talk about the name image likeness, John, and you're seeing athletes sign these tremendous deals and some of them are panning out.

You know, Texas A&M and their football program last year went all in on name image likeness.

You know, millions of dollars were being thrown around and they had a terrible losing season.

And so.

We are seeing different ways of an IL moving forward.

And I want to give a huge shout out to the Iowa Swarm because those guys and they were not only using it for the football team, basketball team and the women's basketball team, but all the other sports, they were actually giving back to the community with that.

You know, they were buying presents for kids during Christmas.

They're giving out turkeys and things like that.

So there is a lot of good things going on there.

And you know, it's like our friend of the show, Dave Overholt just says, capitalism is a miracle.

works.

Yes, but also judicious capitalism in the spirit of God and country and state.

Adam Smith would agree that that good reformed Calvinist would say that you had to have virtue as the underpinning.

And if we could get some of this, some funding for the veterans to get into some hyperbaric programs and things like this with some

combined sports funding and community resources with the, you know, a little derivative of the name image likeness kind of programs going out there and match up and team up, you know, sports programs with the veterans recovery systems.

I think it's a win-win.

I

think

you're going to start seeing more and more of that because at the end of the day, name, image, likeness, it's all about PR.

And, and I think you will start seeing more and more of that take place because it is relatively new.

We're only in the second year, you know, with, with the NIL situation.

So I think you're going to start seeing more and more of those partnerships.

And I think that's a tremendous thing, Dr. Fogarty.

Well, yeah.

And I mean, if we would look at from the NCAA perspective and like what is, and, and the NFL and, and even soccer and all

these other sports, you know, concussion therapy, concussion management is that's the major medical issue here.

It is.

And we see even some of the on the field issues constantly talk of the concussion protocols and and look at the dolphins this year.

It seems like they've been monitoring that constantly.

And you're you worked with

the great LSU professor.

Yeah, Dr. Dr. Paul Harch.

Don't don't tell me you're hanging out with Brian Kelly and his new southern accent.

No, but good.

Let me say, by

the way, by the way, Olivia, Livy Dunn is a gymnast at LSU.

I'm just saying.

Well, this is something that's that's news to me.

Thank you for letting me know that I'll call Dr. Harch right away and let him know to follow Livy Dunn.

But you know,

less miles.

This is all in the newspaper reports of the day and the media.

But when Les Miles was head coach of LSU in 2015, he got together with Dr. Harch, and they were coming together to create a concussion protocol research paradigm between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

And this was all getting rolled out in 2015.

And then Les Miles gets fired.

It was literally

Dr. Harch and I, with LSU and Les Miles, we were on the cusp of the breakout.

We're going to take care of these athletes with acute concussions.

And when you look at it from what we're doing with cardiac AEDs in the community, and we've got

people who have sudden death, cardiac syndrome, things going on, and we've got all these AEDs mobilized to basically recharge people's hearts, and that's just a couple hundred neurons that we're basically recharging through an AED.

This is recharging the brain through a bigger device, but the brain is basically in an acute concussion.

Everything's getting scrambled and offline real quick and and so has a resuscitative measure even on the field.

You know, we need to bring in hyperbaric chambers to all the NFL stadiums.

They need to be in all the college stadiums.

And even Dr. Hartz and I have been working on this project, me more so than him.

But even the use of noble gas mixes with oxygen can be a gatorade for the brain on the sidelines.

And I presented that to UND up in Grand Forks for the hockey team.

You know the the medical crowd up in Grand Forks kind of looks at me as a maverick.

So we we never went on that Journey together for noble gases and oxygen as an acute concussion recovery system, but I do I do mean to clarify UND now has a Concussion research program that has been funded through the state legislature and is going through the Fargo

hyperbaric crowd, and Fargo, North Dakota is actually the place where the most acute concussions have been treated by healing with hyperbarics.

And so, as I've told everyone in North Dakota on my radio show that I have up there on Tuesdays in Bismarck, I've created the hyperbaric sanctuary state.

And let's just go a little bit for hyperbaric.

You're talking about oxygen therapy.

And it's not necessarily a higher percentage of oxygen, but pressure is the key.

Just kind of

give a quick little primer

on that.

It's really, it's not the oxygen per se, it's the pressure.

And when you pack gases together, and the classic analogy that I've used in the Iowa and North Dakota farmers and Nebraska farmers and ranchers that I've worked with,

is that you know a bit of a green elevator pitch so to speak but this is a supercharger system for your brain and all of the rest of your cells of your body and so you know just how automotive superchargers work you're compressing the air the gases in the air and you're just ramming those increased number of molecules by pressure physics

right into every stroke of the engine and the same goes for our lungs when you're in a hyperbaric vessel and whether it's using air or noble gas oxygen mix or just pure oxygen you're basically in clinical grade hyperbarics you're able to double the number of gas molecules in every breath and so

that has a hugely important effect on the voltage of all your cells and you're able to basically catch up and get some back burner, molecular repair things going that your body's had to put on the side burner for a while while you're in that chamber and then the effects continue on and Dr. Harch has really

pioneered all these protocols and the whole thought stream for really 35 almost 40 years now in this amazing innovation practice that he's brought out of LSU.

Here with Dr. Edward Ted Fogarty.

Doc, put this together for us then.

You're reversing using this therapy and you've earned CARES money.

You are reversing some symptoms of stroke, dementia,

concussion and long-haul COVID.

How does oxygen therapy help, for instance, to reduce the problems of long-haul COVID?

Is it, again, the oxygen-repowering cells that repair the body?

Yeah.

So it's again, just to correct you, it's hyperbaric therapy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And Dr. Hart just published in the medical literature, a name and nomenclature change to reflect upon that we can use these vessels, not just for hyperbaric oxygen, hyperbaric, we can use them for hyperbaric air therapy.

So it's just the broad

term.

The broad term is just hyperbaric therapy.

And as I've been doing in my innovation practice, hyperbaric argon and oxygen mixes.

But

you know when you get right down to it the core concept is all of our mitochondria are the fuel cells and engines and pistons of all of our of all of our working cells in our heart and our brain and you know when you go from the spike protein and spike protein mediated diseases are basically destroying our mitochondria you can

In a long hauler situation, and in a longer term therapeutic situation with hyperbaric therapy, you're regrowing your herd of horsepower in your mitochondria.

And so people with long hauler, a lot of them are basically, they've lost about 20% or 30% of their mitochondria in most of their cells.

And that's why they can't, they can try and breathe as much as they want, but the oxygen isn't getting processed because they've lost 20% of their power output from their cells because the

mitochondria have been ripped up by the spike protein.

So when you're in a hyperbaric recovery program, and honestly, Iowa is the world's leader in through Dr. Bradley Meyer and his practice with me in recovering people from long hauler.

And how we're simply doing it is through the federal grants I got for the purple powder and the hyperbaric protocols that I brought into Iowa out of North Dakota.

And we're basically just regrowing your mitochondria and the mitochondria are doing all the work in the end.

And God bless all of our mothers because all of us actually derive all of our 100% of our mitochondria are 100% from our mothers.

Well, we're going to pick up a clip here.

Who to thank doc that I got extended into extra innings one more day on Thursday in the legislature.

We were there, you and I, and the Coast Guard Auxiliary and the Keynesville Riders.

honor guard anticipating the adjutant general's condition of the National Guard address, which is done annually at the convention of the legislature there.

The gallery was stocked and both in the house and in the Senate, an introduction of you before the speech.

Let's pick that clip up, ways it means sure.

Bobby Kaufman

takes the

floor.

The chair recognizes the gentleman from Cedar represent a coffee for

purpose you seek the floor mr. Speaker would I be in order for an introduction you are an order Thank You mr. Speaker.

Good morning mr. Speaker ladies and gentlemen of the house

With us today is a former colleague with his new colleagues.

I want to introduce Representative Emeritus Trust Attorney John Jacobson here today as part of two guest allegations joining us for the general address.

The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla and the Canesville Riders Honor Guard for Veterans Potawatomi County.

Also joining John is Federal Cares Funding National Awardee, Dr. Ted Fogarty.

MD of Spirit Lake, he and doctors Brad Meyer and David Hartsuch are helping veterans across the nation with leading edge hyperbaric curative therapy for PTSD and depression.

Also with him are Coast Guard officers Brandon Butters, Sam Mitchell, Jose Medina, Kurt Hoffman, and John Jacobson.

Welcome back, my friend.

We give him a warm house welcome.

Ted, you were basking in some great glory there, and then they turned around and did the exact same thing over on the Senate side.

They're a tougher crowd there in the Senate, but not that I would ever be so vain as to time the length of the standing ovations, but we clocked in at 30 seconds each, which is at least one standard deviation, if not two, beyond the norm.

You know, that's a great point, John.

And, you know, Dr. Fogarty, if you thought that was a rousing address, you should have heard the clapping when he left the chamber last

year when he was finally gone.

I mean, they were throwing parties

and

everything.

There was confetti coming from

the chandeliers

to be true because it is a

fact.

Yes.

Well, he dropped the mic and joined the Coast Guard.

Yes.

But

yeah, he saw that clip, didn't he?

Ted told me last night he actually saw the clip of my

Mike drop moments.

Oh, yes.

Yeah, that was tremendous.

And I hope people go to John's Facebook page because I think it's on YouTube and

I saw the register writer who texted that out yesterday in the men's bathroom and he saw me in uniform and it's like, he knew I wasn't bluffing.

Yeah.

But in all seriousness, seriousness, though, you know, commend John for, you know, being a part in helping out the Coast Guard auxiliary and in your work with the Keynesville

and Dr. Fogarty, your work with veterans in

PTSD.

He stood with them till 10 o'clock last night.

This guy drives from Ogallala to Des Moines to Omaha.

He's reading.

To

Okaboji.

To Okaboji, which is four hours north of here.

And he's reading the charts.

And yet last night, he asked if he could drive from Des Moines to meet with our council bluffs PTSD.

uh... veteran folks he was there with them till just before ten last night and this is what he does he just did that and they were there for two hours asking questions that there was you could hear a pin drop it was awesome doctor folger it was awesome

well thank you and but i i told the deans of uh... new indy many years ago that i'm i'm going into a version of political medicine and specifically with this veterans project

Because it's been politically hammered so hard dr. Hartz and I are on actually NIH blacklist I mean like literally we cannot get any funding from the federal government and to be in you know the heart of Council Bluffs and and Right across the river from my hometown knowing that that

this these borders are very important actually in in the delivery of commerce and interstate commerce laws are important and these these great veterans last night I was just like you know you guys are a core group you're actually on the right side of the border here because if I were to try and bring this into Omaha directly

it would get attacked by UNMC and Creighton and all these other folks.

And I'm like, we now have the lily pad in Okaboji.

We now have a huge community of support in Northwest Iowa and Okaboji.

And I want to make sure that we can take, you know, the honor, the honor guard here and you're doing, you know, you're doing honor flights.

Let's let's roll out a program that we'll call honor dives.

And instead of, you know,

veterans going on the honor flights out to DC, which is a wonderful, incredible project.

Let's get some honor dives going on between Council Bluffs, veterans, and get them up to Ocoboji.

This was what

was so exciting last night, Scott.

These guys on the fly are putting together a protocol to essentially honor dives where they're going to get these veterans from our area on buses.

to get up there to the clinics and get help and obviously at at rates that are very beneficial to our veterans and that's the type of private entrepreneurship in this country to towville would still be incredibly proud of what happened last night this was not a premeditated this was an organic

doctor getting together with this group and finding out how do we solve a problem?

Well, let's get them up to Spirit Lake.

Here's how we do it.

And it was awesome, Scott.

You know, that brings up a great point too.

And Dr. Fogarty, you know, our audience spans multiple states and especially Eastern Iowa.

Is there a website, a phone number they can call, it gets more information that a lot of folks do know people that are suffering from depression, PTSD, or just sports in general.

A

lot of Eastern

Iowa's

listening in here.

They may say, wow, Spirit Lake.

how do we get in contact

with them?

Well actually the easiest thing to remember from an audio stream is thepurplepowder.com and if you go to thepurplepowder.com you can pull down from the top list up there you can get into the aeronautics performance clinic

and our clinic website.

But you know, Dr. Meyer and I, we have actually documentation through echocardiography on a number of our patients who couldn't get into the hyperbaric program for various reasons, including being too far away and with all the snowstorms and whatnot.

But we have a couple of patients who have had cardiac issues and documented decreased ejection fractions on echocardiography from Sioux Falls cardiologists.

And we put them on the purple powder.

And literally, it's the best nutrition.

It's what I scientifically created, a nutraceutical directed for the cardiovascular system regarding this COVID pandemic medical response that I was commissioned by the North Dakota Ag Commissioner to create this.

And so the purple powder

dot com is a website where you can pick up some purple powder and you can also you know reliably from my clinical practice Dr. Myers clinical practice and now Dr. David Hart such as clinical practice who was mentioned in in what John put together.

He's on this show a lot and he's right in the Quad Cities not far from our Cedar Rapids Waterloo beacon signals here.

So the purplepowder.com

You can get some purple powder and that's that's that's it's the ultimate mitochondrial neutral nutraceutical in my opinion and you know, I obviously I developed this one bias but Putting all sorts of good stuff in there the amino acid precursors for glutathione which have been patented by Dr. Albert Crumb in Canada as an antiviral system and spiking it with some beetroot from the East Eastern side of North Dakota and that industry and then bringing in a little bit of just a tish of spirulina

which is God's gift to humanity in a famine and in a war theater environment, in my opinion.

It's a single celled organism that self replicates.

It's an ag product out of California and Florida and Hawaii in the modern era.

And it is another very simple powerhouse of nutrition that anybody listening to me, the next time there's more talk of pandemics,

I would rather see that there's toilet paper still on the shelves and that there's no shelves containing spirulina anymore because that is a gift from God for all of us in the ultimate nutritional needs during a pandemic.

Spirulina

also would protect against radiation poisoning.

Absolutely.

Thanks for bringing that up.

I did bring I did mention that last night with the veterans and it was used in Chernobyl along with a couple other algae products.

But spiraling is the most digestible for human beings.

And so that's the one to go with.

This is a great segment.

Guys, we're going to go right now out for a report from Barb Hames today in her new role as mobile unit one reporter.

As you know, this is inauguration weekend in Iowa for

Iowa's Governor Kim Reynolds, and on the other side of our interview with Barb Hames, we're gonna do our political roundtable, including, back to Nebraska, we've got Governor and Senator News there, as well as who are the big winners and losers of the week in D.C.

As we always do, we are on the scene of what's going on in Iowa here on the blowtorch K-X-E-L.

And what a pleasure we have to have as our Live Mobile Unit 1 Correspondent, the matriarch of Iowa Commerce, Barbara Hames Bryant, the head of Hames Homes out of Cedar Rapids, Marion Hiawatha, Iowa.

Barbara also heads up the Iowa

Federation of Republican Women.

Barbara, welcome to the Blowtorch.

You are live on the scene of the governor's inauguration.

Talk to us.

John, this is so exciting.

I'm at the Community Choice Center in Des Moines, Iowa, getting lined up, ready to walk in as part of the governor's inaugural committee to see our awesome, incredible, wonderful leader.

Kim Reynolds, get inaugurated again.

This is amazing onsite work here.

Several of us saw the governor as recently as yesterday.

Dr. Fogarty and I were actually there, a president for the Adjutant General Addresses.

We were with the Coast Guard Auxiliary, the Kingsville Writers Honor Guard.

Dr. Fogarty has been an award winner for his work with

hyperbarics to alleviate PTSD and suicidal ideation among our veterans.

Barbara, are you upbeat about this term?

The governor looked good yesterday.

We met her briefly and we've gathered in the legislature.

Are you bullish on Iowa for this upcoming year?

I

absolutely am with leadership like Kim Reynolds and folks like you in the legislature.

Nothing but good things are going to happen this year.

And by the way, Dr. Fogarty, thank you and God bless you for all that you've done.

Thank you, Barbara.

Doc is just done amazing things.

As have you, Barbara Hames, Summit View, Grand View, those beautiful communities out there that I saw, that I drove through with these wonderful, beautiful, spacious, comfortable,

affordable manufactured home communities, especially there in Southwest Cedar Rapids.

Kudos to you, Barbara.

Thank you.

We're very proud of the beautiful affordable housing that we've provided to Eastern Iowans.

It's good workforce housing, and that's what Iowa needs is a good workforce.

We have a good workforce.

We just need more of a good workforce.

I'm excited about the governor's apprenticeship ideas.

for getting more people trained in the skilled trades.

Yes, that's very important because we've got such a workforce issue here.

Scotty, if the governor's got Barb Hames Bryant on her inaugural committee,

Boy, if everyone in government had the bona fides of Barbara Hames Bryant, it would look like the Reagan cabinet, wouldn't it?

It sure would, John.

It'd come in under budget on time and everybody'd have a good time.

And so, Barbara, it's just one of those great things that you're a part of, kudos to you and your family as well as Governor Reynolds for selecting you to head that up.

And with everything going on, Barbara, with interest rates and home shortages right now, is there a website where they can check out online to see what you

available in your community.

painhomes.com.

We have the entire inventory of all of our homes for sale plus lots of great information about our beautiful affordable communities in Southwest Peter Rapids.

Grand deal and summit you.

Guys, Barbara Hames Bryant live on site, mobile unit one reporting at the governor of Iowa's inauguration.

She's helping head it up.

Thanks, Barbara.

Thank you and our studio audience salutes you too today for your work.

We've got a nice studio audience here.

We're going to cut over to the studio here and listen to them here briefly.

Barbara, they're

on their

feet.

They're on their feet.

Thanks, Barbara.

We'll talk to you next week.

A special double treat for us today, our own intrepid Scott Corey with an exclusive interview with Iowa's 4th District U.S.

Congressman Randy Feinstra, Republican of Western Iowa.

Take it away, Scott!

One of the important things we kind of noticed that has happened since the election was that all five members, excuse me, all six members of the Iowa delegation are Republican.

It's the first time since the 1950s.

Talk to us a little bit about the importance of having all your colleagues here from Iowa be on the same team.

I

tell you what, this is so important, especially, you know, as of December 31st, there is a Democrat representing this district, Pilots County.

and now you have Republican.

And I'll tell you how important that is, is that all of a sudden you're growing in the same direction, that you're working together.

I always felt

I was saying one thing, and then the other person on the other side of the aisle was saying something different.

And we all want to do what's best for Iowa.

And that's what our Republicans want to do, is we want to make sure that we commit to America, commit to Iowa, and deliver results for our agriculture community, for our small businesses, and for our families.

And that's what we can do collectively as we move forward.

Being in the majority, we take that very seriously.

So in the house we're at, we have the majority as Republicans.

And we've got to get to work and prove that we can deliver results for Iowans.

Talk to us just real briefly about the relationship building that you're doing.

I know you know Congresswoman Ashley Hanson as well as Congresswoman Miller Meeks, but you also served with new freshman, Congressman Zach Nunn, who represents basically Central, South Central Iowa, including Des Moines.

Talk to us just a little bit.

Do you folks get together once a week every so often to kind of game plan or how does that work?

Exactly right.

So what we do, we see each other virtually every day.

I mean, every day we see each other on the floor, we talk, we text, we call, you know, on different bills.

The great thing is this, is that if some of us have, one of us has a bill idea, let's say, hey, I've got this egg bill that I think is really important for Iowa.

You know, the first calls I'll make is through our delegation to Dr. Meeks, and to Ashley Henson, and Zach Nunn, and say, hey, would you like to be on this?

Would you like to sponsor it with me?

And then we'll go through it.

Or if there's a bill coming to the floor, we walk through it together and say, all right, how can this help Iowa?

Or what are the concerns that we have that we can all vote together as one group to make sure that, again, we can deliver?

And we see this, the big support with ethanol and biodiesel.

We're all on the same page, and we want to do things together.

There's a lot of discussion that happens every day between us three, us four, I should say.

Sure.

And talk to us just real briefly about your decision.

You just recently opened up a new congressional office here in Council Bluffs.

You have three basically in the district, Sioux City 4 Dodging Council Bluffs.

What was your thought process in opening up one here in Council Bluffs?

The first thing is that I'm honored to be the voice of

and I represent conflict blocks at four different counties around that area.

But to me, when you have representation, you also have to have a place where people can go and voice their thoughts and opinion and to help out.

You know, a large part of this job, I'd say 50% of it is helping those that have VA and veteran concerns that maybe they can't get into a veterans hospital or maybe their prescription ran out and they need help or they need an eye doctor.

or there's a situation that somebody also needs a passport or a visa.

We get calls on that every day and it's so important that we have an office right in Council Bluffs, right in the Population Center where people can go to or they can call and we can work on these things right away.

To me, it's so important that we have somebody right there staffing that office and we can hear the opportunities and concerns that are out there and then I can take those concerns and represent them in D.C.

We're joined on our newsmaker line with Congressman Randy Feinster of Iowa's 4th Congressional District.

Congressman, thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedule.

I know you have a lot of counties to go to.

Do you plan to be hosting any town hall events or tell the town halls in the upcoming future?

How is your plans to stay active and visible throughout the entire district?

Scott, it's a great question.

Again, it's we the people.

We do town halls.

We visit all 39.

36 counties twice a year.

We do everything possible.

If somebody wants us down, we'll proudly come down.

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Live in Unrehearsed, this brilliant panel is going to size up the issues of the day with our homage to the great John McLaughlin, issue one.

One week in ramifications of Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the US House and already

There's some rocking and rolling and rumbling and tumbling and it looks like perhaps the conservatives cut some good deals.

for themselves.

Is McCarthy going to get religion and become a true movement conservative, Scott Corey?

No, but I do appreciate that he's trying out the gate for now, but we'll see what he's like come let's say Memorial weekend.

But there's a lot going on and I'm happy he's actually going to raise thousands of hours worth of January 6 video.

So that should be very interesting.

Yes, context is everything, isn't it?

And I think that needs to be brought out.

And also, he is making some good committee decisions by denial of committees.

to people who I think are national security threats, Scotty.

You know, that's a great point too.

And we're also seeing to some of the people that were ardent McCarthy supporters that were basically unhinged in some of their comments are being denied very high profile committees such as representative Crenshaw out of Texas.

He did not get the assignments that he wanted.

You know, I'm not a Ben Crenshaw fan and I'm sorry, Dan Crenshaw.

I love Ben Crenshaw, the golfer.

I'm not a Dan Crenshaw fan, never have been.

I'm glad to see you again.

Public sentiment, it always ultimately rallies around where I am, Scotty, you know?

It does, and that's kind of a- I was

two years ahead of everybody on COVID, man.

I've been vindicated.

Well, that's kind of concerning, Dr. Fogarty, if John's gonna be always right.

I didn't say always, but just ask Mrs. Jacobson, the always never factors in.

Issue two, we've got our Nebraska buddy here, Dr. Fogarty in here with us, our next door neighbor.

popular Republican governor, Pete Ricketts of the legendarily wealthy Ricketts TD Ameritrade family, many of our Eastern Iowa listeners follow the Ricketts and their ownership of their beloved Chicago Cubs.

Ben Sasse, erstwhile, if you could say conservative, never-trumper, resigns his U.S.

Senate seat two years in, which I think is bad form,

goes down to Florida to helm the university there.

Ron DeSantis wants to build a public version of a Hillsdale College, which is very innovative, but it opened up a Senate seat, a U.S.

Senate seat, and Pete Ricketts' protege for whom he invested blood, sweat, and tears to defeat Chuck Herbster in the primary for governor, and then ultimately won the election.

Jim Pillan, not shockingly,

did select Pete Ricketts yesterday as the U.S.

Senate designate.

Ted Fogarty, I'd like to get your opinion on this.

I would just say this.

I was pleased with the Ricketts administration.

I thought he was awesome on the pro-life and COVID issues.

His Attorney General wrote the best tome in the United States.

Talk about the Ricketts appointment.

Good for America.

Huge for America and Nebraska and as a fellow biology major at the University of Chicago with me of different era This is going to be a really really important position in the US Senate For a whole swath of things, but you know, we've got the ag economy in the Midwest Pete's intimately familiar with all that

Um, you know, there's going to be another hyperbaric U. S. Senator now with Pete Ricketts and and Kevin Kramer out of North Dakota.

So

that's all big stuff.

And, um, you know, if you look at just his record in the pandemic, uh, he, he, I think he managed this pandemic better than actually Christine Ohm, um, or anybody else in the, in the country by.

by what he did.

And, um, you know, he didn't have any control over the globalist cities of, uh, Lincoln and Omaha, but the,

uh, we went back to church in Omaha because the churches were open in Omaha before they were in Iowa.

Well, right.

And, but, but, uh, and when you look at the, the three counties that control Nebraska, you know, uh, uh, Governor Pete was really basically a lot, allowing the other 90 counties to do their own thing, kind of all South Dakota style.

in the pandemic management and hands-off kind of thing.

Scotty, I want to bring Scotty.

Scotty, you and Pete worked together that night in the Iowa caucuses back in 2020.

You and he, I saw you working hand and glove out there.

He worked the crowd pretty well.

He got everybody to vex themselves by getting on the

Text solicitations from Trump that never let up ceaselessly from then on.

Yeah, that's a great point that that texting from the Trump Organization was was a very persistent It's almost as much as the car warranties that you get Pete on us still we all did that he did but you know I think he he was a good governor Pete Ricketts You know he ran unsuccessfully for US Senate several years ago against then Democrat Ben Nelson also known as Barney rubble.

Yeah, and that's not forget that

The Cornhusker kickback was because of Ben Nelson.

But the one thing we have to remember too, and I use the sports analogy on this, the governors in the states are very similar to college football.

When you go to Washington, it is the NFL.

It's two completely different animals.

And so I don't think he's going to be as maybe excited to be a US Senator as a lot of people are because it's completely different.

When you're a governor, you're the governor.

When you're there, you've got the lobbyist, you've got the

So called crony cartels running around and then you got to deal with Mitch McConnell at the same time.

Well, and look at the good news.

I mean, at least Pete Ricketts doesn't have that chinchilla taped on his head that Mike Rogers did when when he.

on that Friday night was getting a little irascible, perhaps with Mike Gaze.

What is that on Mike Rogers head?

You know, I thought

it was

Wolverine or Badger's a big 10.

Davey Crockett had what's going on.

You know, I thought maybe he got the same hairpiece that Lou Henson had in Illinois back in the night.

Lou the dude.

But I

like the Gene Keeney co-mover.

That was pretty sharp.

But it reminded me of the the Star Trek original Star Trek, the triple.

That's kind of what it looked like.

But yeah, you know,

you know, he's got the more the Lex Luthor type haircut.

And

speaking of big 10 coaches, how about Jud Heathcote with the Caesar bangs?

Yeah, they're pretty cool.

And the the omnipresent green jacket that was tremendous.

Those are great times in big 10 basketball.

Issue three.

Speaking of senators and our good wishes, we always have enjoyed and love having Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley on with us.

And a little concern, you know, Monday.

past.

He swore in his grandson, Pat, who's also been on the show with us.

We've done the grandfather grandson tag team.

Actually, swore him in on Monday.

Everything was fine.

Somehow Tuesday, we get these cryptic tweets.

Jennifer Jacobs retweeted one.

Senator Grassley hurts hip to have surgery the following day.

And I believe he had surgery Wednesday, Scotty.

I believe so.

Yes,

we don't

They're being very cryptic about it, but we wish them our best.

Doc, is there such a thing?

If you hurt your hip and have surgery,

Does that mean there might be a breakage of some sort and are there clean breaks versus not clean breaks?

Can they say they expect full recovery for the center?

We sure hope and pray for that for him.

Yeah, you know, modern orthopedic medicine, emergency radiology.

I'm diagnosing hip fractures in elderly midwesterners at night.

And you know, 95% of the time it is a it's a pretty clean break that we can

the orthopods can go in and just do their standard of care, usual hip replacement surgery where you put it in a prosthesis and you just take out the fractured components.

And a lot of people, what causes them to fall is actually they've got arthritis in the hip and they probably should have had the hip replacement surgery electively five years prior.

Interesting.

And, but, you know, just to put a plug in for, you know, Senator Grassley's care and if

If he, it happens to be at Iowa Methodist, they have hyperbaric chambers there and they could certainly postoperatively, and this is in the world's medical and scientific literature, but preoperative and postoperative hyperbaric conditioning helps the surgical result.

It helps protect the patient from postoperative infection.

And so let's just, you know, say some prayers that everything goes well and, and they, you know,

Uh, get him out the door and, and back to good health.

And, and if, if he wants, I know my partner, Dr Bradley Meyer can take care of him up in Okuboji and get him a little, uh, additional accelerated healing.

He'll negotiate prices with

you.

He'll be a tough bargain on

pricing.

Right.

Scotty.

We would do a gratis just for his service to our nation.

Oh, I'll sign

up for

that.

Oh

yeah.

Yeah.

You throw in a, you throw in a blizzard ice cream cone and he is, he is set.

But you know, well wishes to Senator Grassley and, uh, we look forward to seeing

being out there running around the state of Iowa here before too

long.

Scotty, have there been any raids of the Biden White House, the Biden mansion in Delaware?

Those documents, I think, were moved not once but twice.

What's going on?

You know, it's very interesting that we had the FBI stage the raids and CNN was there with their cameras of Mar-Lago going into the Trump homes.

Some of those guys were trying on Melania's underwear, I understand.

I think so.

And so here now we have Biden.

When he was vice president, he had classified documents in his Corvette in his supposedly locked garage that even his son Hunter and his shady dealings have been a part of.

So it's very concerning and it's very interesting watching certain people like CNN and MSNBC carry the water.

But at the end of the day, I think this was almost a setup.

They're putting this stuff out there.

They want the old man to go away.

I wondered about that myself and it's just fascinating that this is coming about right now and of course puts Merrick Garland in quite a conundrum because you can't hide from the fact that we've got somewhat of a two-tiered justice system going on with prosecutorial

uh, mindsets here and sauce for the goose is not happening to the gander.

And I think the American people are realizing that this maladministration of justice is shameful.

You know, and the one interesting thing too was that Biden was asked about announcing his reelection and then all of a sudden these documents are starting to surface.

So it tells me there's a coordination out there.

It's not all looking good for that.

I don't think the Biden reelection campaign.

No, and they can try to put lipstick on a pig, but the inflation numbers are still bad, and they say the unemployment numbers were good.

That's because four out of 10 aren't even looking for work.

We have an almost historic low labor participation rate in the United States, and a nation cannot survive where six are producing for 10.

Issue five.

Are we safe for the next 100 days in Iowa?

Are the Legislature's back in session?

That is the question.

Dr. Fogarty, you were in the Capitol this week.

You're trying to address some issues involving overreach in the administrative state in the executive branch.

Amen, Brother John.

I just want to kind of update the whole crowd listening to us on federalism in medicine.

So the Iowa Board of Medicine is virtually de facto controlled by the Federation of State Medical Boards and it's their missives that have been coming out since the kind of virtually the beginning of the pandemic about COVID misinformation and their influence on the Iowa Board of Medicine has led to, directly led to the deaths of 10.

maybe up to 10,000 Iowans who did not get early therapy outside of the hospitals by my colleagues such as Drs.

Merritt and Heart Such and Meyer and Molly James and and so all of these great brave Iowa physicians who actually did break from the consensus to not treat

actually took care of people in Iowa and saved their lives.

And the Iowa Board of Medicine has malignantly been going after them under the under the leash of the Federation of State Medical Boards.

And it's my mission to hopefully get the Attorney General's office to file suit for racketeering of Iowa citizens against the Federation of State Medical Boards.

And furthermore, I think from a legislative perspective, if we could get the Iowa legislature to cut the purse strings between the Federation of State Medical Boards and the Iowa Board of Medicine and basically say, you know, look, you guys can no longer have any financial dealings with each other.

That stops it now for the future so that.

So the Iowa Board of Medicine is not part of the racket of the Federation of State Medical Board.

I'll just conclude by saying this.

If Brenna Byrd in her new role as AG does what Attorney General Peterson did in Nebraska, she could transform the landscape with with a legal opinion like that.

Absolutely.

And she's another University of Chicago law graduate actually.

So she's a genius.

And I think she can

put this all together in the end.

We probably just need to give her a little time to get settled in, but I really truly believe that the Iowa Attorney General's office can change the landscape of America through one lawsuit.

Well, we thank Dr. Fogarty because yesterday we played the House version.

He went over to the Senate yesterday before the Adjutant General's speech.

And Senator Sinclair is going to call on Senator Westridge here.

Let's pick it up.

Well, the Senator from Woppolo for what purpose do you seek the floor?

Thank you, Madam President, and am I in order for an introduction?

You are in order for an introduction.

Please join me in welcoming Representative Emeritus Trust Attorney, John Jacobson, here today as part of two guest delegations joining us for the Adject Generals Address.

The United States Coast Guard, Auxiliary, Iowa, Flotilla, and the Canesville Writers Honor Guard for Veterans.

Potawatomi County, also joining John Jacobson is Federal Cares Funding National Awardee, Dr. Ted Fogarty, Medical Doctor of Spirit Lake.

He and Drs.

Brad Meyer and David Hartsuch are helping veterans across the nation with leading edge hyperbaric curative therapy for PTSD and depression.

Joining us in the gallery.

Also our Coast Guard officers, Brandon Butters, Sam Mitchell, Jose Medina, Kurt Hoffman, and John Jacobson.

Please give them a warm Senate welcome.

Again, Doctor, congratulations.

You was a thunderous welcome.

And I want to thank Senator Tom Shipley for leading the standing ovation.

He was very animated and made sure that everybody was on their feet, cheering you guys.

Major kudos to Tom Shipley.

Appreciate his just enormous support all these years.

Well, John, I can't tell you how humbled and honored I am to have.

To have been there for that and you know you surprised me you I had no idea this was a coming and you know I called Doc Meyer and Doc Hart such and It was it's just it's just a wonderful thing of recognition.

So thank you

You betcha.

Well, Scotty, we recognize that this is a fun program.

We love all these listeners.

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We've had Dr. Hart such on with some real breaking news in these past weeks.

Gonna be a fun year, Scott.

It sure is.

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