KXEL Presents: The Jacobsen Group Podcast - April 22, 2023

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

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Who used all the Wi-Fi?

Ah, apartment life.

Bad Wi-Fi, mystery laundry piles, and a roommate who says, I'll Venmo you.

Maybe 2027 deserves an upgrade.

Coming August 2027, Four Lakes Properties introduces the brand new Union Station apartments.

Furnished, in-unit washer and dryer, internet included, a great central downtown location, one to five bedroom apartments, and no double occupancy fees.

That's less adulting and more actually enjoying where you live.

station apartments now leasing from Four Lakes properties.

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Oh, Dr. Jeff Stein is gonna love this episode.

John Jacobson here on the Jacobson Group with Scott Corey.

And we've got our secret weapon.

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Oh, when Mike Shane.

is in the studio, cutting and splicing and rolling in SFX.

You know, you're on award winning radio, Scott Corey.

You know, absolutely.

And Mike is kind of in his element because we're getting into severe weather season.

And he was telling me off the air that he had the ham radio going.

He had his radar up on his phone.

He was tracking all kinds of storms across the state of Iowa.

So Mike is in hog heaven right now.

He is just on the

cutting edge of all excellence.

And that's why we take

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Caroming out of Cedar Rapids.

This signal goes to all of the Big Ten states, but we love you especially here at the home base in Eastern Iowa, especially you folks from Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Cedar Rapids, Marion, Hiawatha, Tiffin, North Liberty, down to Iowa City, Coralville.

We've got your back and we've got such an exciting show today.

We're going to talk to the matriarch of Iowa Commerce, Barbara Hames Bryant, and we begin our series, The Making of the President 2024.

We look at the announcement this week of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who I predict will make a huge impact in the race.

We're also going to have on Dr. David Hartsuch, who's going to talk about medical freedom and his suit right now against the Iowa Board of Medicine.

Guys, this is going to be action packed.

And last but not least, it's spring football and already Brian Farance is making headlines.

So we're going to talk about the Hawkeye press this week.

Saddle up.

Let's roll.

Scotty and Mike, glorious spring time.

in eastern Iowa.

Oh, I revel.

I revel in those days of my youth, springtime in eastern Iowa.

And you know, a lot of things change, Scott, over the years.

But there are three things that are permanent.

Two of them not so fun.

One is really great.

We know there's always death and we know there's always taxes.

I just survived a

fiduciary corporate tax season.

It was brutal, Scotty.

But the third thing in eastern Iowa upon which you can always rely is the excellence of safe, beautiful, affordable, Hames homes for over half a century.

It was begun by Curt Norma, now this next generation, with a great foothold in commerce for Iowa.

And we have the matriarch of Iowa Commerce

Barbara Hames Bryant on with us today again, Scotty.

Thanks for joining us again today, Barbara.

It's so great to be with you.

There's always so much excitement and energy going on there in your communities.

Talk to us just a little bit about some of the amenities that you have because it is springtime.

The plants are starting to bloom a little bit.

Winter is still trying to hold on just a little bit, but we had some 60 and 70 degree temperatures here earlier in the week, but there's so much excitement going on.

there but the most exciting part I think is that once you make a purchase of a Hames home that you have that stability that security as well as you have that ability to increase your value

you're so right I think you said it completely people used to call our products mobile homes because

They were mobile.

People could pick them up and move them around.

Well, now they're manufactured homes, and people stay in manufactured homes as long as they stay in site-built homes.

We've actually done a study to prove that.

So these homes are sturdy, they're well-built, they're good, they have good insulation, and they don't blow over as we found out during the derecho.

And can I brag about something else now while I'm thinking about it?

Absolutely.

I told you all about our food bank at our Summit View office.

We actually remodeled our office so that half of it is now a food bank and it's accessible to anyone who needs it.

There's no eligibility requirements.

And we started out with about 500 people a month using our food pantry.

Now we have, last month, 2700 people using our food pantry.

Wow, Barbara, that is barbaric.

I know and the cool thing is that we partner with Hay Cap here in Cedar Rapids and the non-profit United We March Forward which helps immigrants relocate.

And we have been recognized by the Corridor Business Journal for a Public-Private Partnership Award.

So we are going to get an award on May the 25th for Public-Private

partnership award and get recognized for our work with our community third bank.

Fantastic.

Barbara, that is community service at its finest in the tradition of Kurt and Norma, always service oriented people helping win the war against fascism and Nazism and imperialism.

During World War two when they met and then after the war and after great military careers We're so glad you came out to Marion Cedar Rapids Hiawatha Barbara I've been out there recently You got beautiful communities at summit view at Grandview your community documents are all up on the web Barbara is kind of a that trust officer guy in me that finance background guy the banking guy I'm always impressed about you got finance

and insurance capabilities over there.

And you know, before we ever want people closing on real estate, we always ensure that they've got financing and insurance.

You've got avenues for both.

Talk about that, if you would, please.

We are experts in both financing manufactured homes and ensuring manufactured homes.

We've been in business for 53 years, so we know what we're doing.

We have an in-house finance company, Circle Finance.

that can help lend to much a credit challenge people.

You know, folks that maybe had a pickup or a bump

in the road or a

divorce or a job loss.

We have provided loans for hundreds of people that way so that they can purchase their home.

Our finance company, excuse me, our insurance company, we work through Foremost Insurance and they are the nation's specialists in

ensuring manufactured homeowners.

And

during the derecho we found out what a great company they are.

They really took care of their policy holders.

Here with the great Barbara Haymes Bryant Haymes Holmes.

Hey Barbara one thing I'm really impressed about your location is superb in Southwest Cedar Rapids.

You're in a great neighborhood, a lot of retail,

And yet kind of an agrarian vista there.

It's the best of both worlds, isn't it, Barbara?

You feel like you're living in the country, but you're close to everything.

Yeah,

absolutely.

We're at the corner of Wilson Avenue and West Post Road Southwest.

So Wilson Avenue, West Post Road Southwest.

We're open seven days a week and we love talking to people about our beautiful neighborhoods and our homes.

they are get out there guys and and take a look the everything's greening up they have beautiful landscaping lighting uh it's americana there's flag poles with old glory flying young children safe streets and neighborhoods they've got their own security apparatus there i couldn't be prouder of the legacy that you continue

to master with such great custodian ship, Barbara Hames.

Barbara, how do they get a hold of you?

Maybe a phone number or a website, because I know we've got people.

This is the moving season, April and May.

It's when people start to make their moves for their home abodes.

Visit us online at www.hameshomes.com.

That's H-A-M-E-S H-O-M-E-S dot com.

and our phone number is the same one we had when we were in Marianne 319-377-4863.

That's 319-377-4863.

I love that the legacy of that over half century phone number boy do I know the three one nine three seven seven numbers that's one of them you know I as we sign off for this segment Barbara I just got to say somewhere I think your dad's probably happy that we're boldly playing cracklin Rosie instrumental using the the fair use doctrine what do you think

oh I can feel his presence now I think he'd be very pleased and

and proud of all of us.

Well Barbara we're proud of you and we're so grateful that you continue to sponsor this program and thanks for all you do as you begin to shepherd in this weighty responsibility that you have of shepherding in all of our presidential candidates.

Iowa is where

The leader of the free world first is vetted and Barbara, in your role, you are bringing them in for the appropriate vetting.

Thank you for what you're doing.

That's a tremendous public service and a great responsibility.

Thank you, John.

As president of the Iowa Federation of Republican Women, one of our mission statements is to educate people

So this weekend in Jefferson, Iowa at the Wild Rose Casino, we will be hosting both Vivek Ramaswamy, the author of Woke Incorporated, and also Vice President Mike Pence.

Wow that that's tremendous Scott isn't it it sure is and you know Barbara this these events aren't not just open to Republicans they're open to everybody because we are so fortunate here in the state of Iowa to have our caucus system where Republican a Democrat a no party or whatever Libertarian can look these candidates in the eye shake their hand and ask him pointed important questions of the day and you just don't get that if you go to a Other states and things like that.

So we are so blessed that your organization is doing that

and that the citizens of Iowa have rallied around the Iowa caucuses.

They have and at our website IowaFRW.org is more information about the event tomorrow.

And for political junkies like me, caucus season in Iowa is heaven.

You know, Scotty, you and I have run a few campaigns in our life.

Wouldn't Barbara Hames Bryant be a dream candidate?

I think we could get her elected anywhere

in Iowa.

Absolutely.

And you know, thinking about all of everything that Barbara does is a strong business leader and things like that.

I'm thinking maybe we need to move her over to maybe the athletic department in Iowa to kind of get that ship righted a little bit, Barbara.

Hopefully we can have that conversation off air to get that campaign started.

I got the billboards ready to go.

Well, I'll be I'd be happy to volunteer as offensive coordinator for the Hawkeye football team I think I could do better than who's there now.

Well, just remember that Barbara Hames Bryant and Lisa Bluter and I all kind of Grew up in the same area town and graduated about the same year.

So there's some some good quality stock in that generation.

Isn't there Barbara?

bring it on.

Barbara Hames Bryant ladies and gentlemen get over there to Hames Homes this is the time to do it now.

Barbara is always thank you for being with us.

It's always a joy.

Ah, apartment

life.

Bad Wi-Fi, mystery laundry piles, and a roommate who says, I'll Venmo you.

Maybe 2027 deserves an upgrade.

Coming August 2027, Four Lakes Properties introduces the brand new Union Station Apartments.

Furnished, in-unit washer and dryer, internet included, a great central downtown location, 1-5 bedroom apartments, and no double occupancy fees.

That's less adulting and more actually enjoying where you live.

Union Station Apartments, now leasing from Four Lakes

Properties.

washer and

dryer in the

in their portals.

Iowa saw them perhaps not as much, but I got kind of an uneasy feeling the other day with this exchange at the press conference with Iowa's offensive coordinator, Brian Farance.

Let's take a quick listen in here.

A lot of frustration is built up among fan base.

A lot of people have running out patients after the last two years.

What's your message to them?

I don't have a message yet.

Ouch!

Ouch!

Opine,

Scott, Corey.

I did not like seeing that attitude.

That was one of the worst answers I think Brian has ever given and he's not known for being politically smooth when it comes to PR.

He had several months to come up with a decent answer.

Honest to PR, just you can't believe they can't write a sentence for him if you

can't.

Yeah, and you put that in there and I think one of the things that really concerned Iowa fans during that press conference was

During that entire afternoon they had the LeVar Woods a special teams coach as well as Phil Parker our great defensive coach as well And you you put those two men up there.

They were confident.

They had a concise message They were optimistic about their units going forward And then you had Brian with all the questions and he basically whipped on all the answers and so it was very concerning

But I think one thing he could have talked about and he could have done this very simply, John, in my opinion, was he said, well, we have changed the quarterback.

We have done X, Y, and Z on the line, and we're moving forward.

It's an easy

answer.

Show the fans some respect.

Show some

empathy.

I mean.

And just be insightful and say, I need to improve my play calling as well, too.

On

a human level, that would have been the most

Basic answer that that's just pitching across home plate and hitting it that that that really concerned me and then There doesn't seem to be any urgency to change anything in the offense.

Just execute it better.

I don't know I I hope we don't see

The first series a three and out the punt I just I think the booze will be cascading that early if that happens

Yeah, and it kind of reminded me of the old coach from Tampa Bay years and years ago

John McKay He said

talked about execution and he says I'm for it Talking about his team's abilities out there.

And so it was very concerning But one thing that we do are able to hang our hat on

is we do know, and I found it very interesting, was Phil Parker's comments.

He made a comment that I thought was very telling, where he talked about last year's defense, and then he talked about this year's defense, and Phil is not known to be a very braggadocious man.

But he made a comment said, our defense might be better than last year.

And last year was one of the nation's best at 3.9 yards per play.

So if the defense handles things, if LeVar Woods and his special teams, and I think he's got a few tricks up his sleeve too with a Coupre de Gene on special teams.

Could you see LeVar Woods as a future head coach in Iowa?

Is that a possibility?

I would think he should be in the top three,

no matter what.

I've said on this program, and you know, in our conversations, there's one name I make a run at first.

Oh yeah, the Stoops is, you gotta go to Yankton, Ohio, family lineage and grab one of the Stoops.

Yep, you go to Bob and you say, Bob, I'm gonna pay you X millions

of

dollars.

I need three years, Adia, and I think he would at least be receptive to have those conversations.

But before we talk about moving forward with our coaches, we still have to have the

Distantory mood from the IO athletic department with Gary Barda.

There's a lot of angst out there amongst the donors and fans with Gary Hopefully President Wilson and I do know President Wilson you pay attention to what we say because I've heard it that you You've got some of our stuff that this needs to be resolved very quickly because Gary is a problem and I do not want him picking our next head football coach that being said

There's a lot of optimism moving forward.

We do know at the end of the year under the 20 plus years of Curt Ference, we're going to have a great defense.

We're going to have a tremendous special teams and it's all up to Brian and can Brian produce.

Can

you imagine the championship caliber teams Iowa would have with even a middling.

offense, one that would be ranked 50th in the country,

55th.

Can you imagine?

And that's that's the scary part.

You know, I've had conversations with donors as well as, you know, fans across the state.

We're not asking a lot out of the offense.

Basically, you're one of the worst offenses, 130s, I believe the number was last year.

We just need to be in the 50s and we will compete for a Big 10 title and who knows, maybe a playoff spot with the new playoff format moving forward.

Three touchdowns in a field goal, I think we'd be 13-0.

And I think I don't have the number in front of me, but as last fall, basically if Iowa runs for 100 yards rushing and scores, I believe it was 18 points, they have a

90% probability of winning the game under Kurt Farrance on the last 20 years.

We're not asking for not.

We're not asking for the old Mike Leach, Fun and Gun, Bill Walsh, West Coast offense.

We're asking for just enough and let those defense win championships.

And, you know, that's where we're at right now.

We do have the spring game in practice this Saturday here at Kinnick.

It's going to be very interesting.

Now, Cabe, Nacken, Merritt, QB1 will not really be out there.

They're trying to get him.

back from his injury, but it's going to be a time for some of these other players to shine and everybody on the offense knows it's up to them right now.

That injury factor, I just hope you have the depth I was reading the other day.

Brock Purdy may be out the entire season with that injury that he suffered as a 49er, the great Iowa State quarterback.

It's a very thin membrane.

You can't just rest laurels on one starter.

I see some of the Big Ten West predictions are coming out.

Saw one the other day, had Wisconsin in first, Iowa in second, but they had the Huskers next to last.

And I think Mr. Rule is making some

Rumblings and Lincoln, he's done very well in the portal.

I wonder how we've done in the portal vis-a-vis some of these other Big Ten West teams.

We've got some real competition going on with some of the coaching

changes, Scotty.

You know, that's a great point, John, and you know, we've talked about it before, especially during the season, previous seasons.

Iowa is a hybrid program when you look at it.

Iowa is a developmental program, and I mean that with the utmost respect.

We get these two and three-star guys in, and we turn them into NFL

prospects.

We are not a Wisconsin or even a Michigan or a Penn State or Ohio State where we can just reload with five stars.

Now rule will have

some ability.

I think he's going to be more of a Illinois type team from last year.

I

agree.

Very good team but not quite the upper echelon.

Right.

Right.

I do believe it all comes down to the Iowa Wisconsin game on who wins the West.

Purdue has lost their coach.

Fitzgerald.

He's got a mess in lean

times there for Fitz.

And

then Minnesota, you know, the boat has sunk under P. J. Flex.

So yeah.

So those poor rodents up there, you know, they're taking on water.

But at the end of the day,

I think it's all going to come down to how Iowa manages and I'm looking forward to one of the first games of the season.

It's going to be the Michigan State game.

That is going

to be a very

huge, very telling

game.

And so that's going to kind of tell us a lot.

But what's interesting, John, is that under Kurt Farrance.

Always that seems like the first year we have the quarterback is the best year of that quarterback, you know, Brad Banks, you know, in 02 Ricky Stanzi, Bethard.

Yeah.

Drew Tate's

04

season.

You know, he had a he had a national championship defense.

Let's not forget that.

Are we coached our guys down?

I don't know what

happens.

I honestly don't know.

There's been articles and articles about that.

And but so but Kate McNamara, let's not forget he won the Big 10 at

Michigan and

he had a very good.

team around him.

But Brian's got to let him do his stuff.

Well, and it's interesting too is I was reading an article and talking to somebody a few months ago and they talked a little bit about Drew Tate and Ricky Stanzi and sometimes they'd go rogue a little bit and you know Ricky always joked once he threw that first interception we had the team right where we want him because we knew we were going to blow

him out because that

was just Ricky's mentality.

But I think Cabe has enough around him and don't forget he brought in his former teammate at Michigan.

All at the tight end and so signs

have a friend to throw a ball exactly

and so you know a wide receiver position is going to be a very big question mark moving forward But we have regaining coming back But the the running back in the offensive line that's really going to make a break.

I was seasoned Moving forward, but at the end of the day.

I also thought it was very interesting in LeVar Woods's press conference too.

He mentioned that

Cooper Dejean might be playing some punt returns

and

holding the ball during field goals and extra points.

Oh that adds a little weapon and psychological mojo on the other team.

Exactly and he was a state championship quarterback

at

my home town school, Odebald Arthur Badekirk Heidegrove.

He's a tremendous athlete.

So I think we can see some wrinkles moving forward and

If

the Bears could throw the ball to William the refrigerator Perry for extra point conversions Well, let's do some is hate and fight which like some

exotic jam Exactly exactly and the key number and everybody's gonna watch that every game There's gonna be trackers on Twitter and and you know, I'll be texting back and forth 25 points is the average that Brian has to do per game So Brian, you know if he gets into a spot where he can put say 35 to 40 on a team he's gonna have to do

it in order to keep the so-called wolves at bay.

So it's going to be a very interesting dynamic.

I don't envy Kirk in his upcoming season because he's going to have to answer questions every week about it, about Brian's offense.

And it's going to be a long season, but I think it could be an exciting season.

The way Caitlin Clark can throw a cross court.

pass all the way down the other end of the gym.

Maybe bring Kate in for a player to and have her just lob one to the other side of the stadium.

I'm telling you, that girl can

do everything.

You know, she sure can.

And I look forward to the, I believe that's going to be the first game where they bring back and honor the team and have that women's basketball team take the 50 yard line.

It's going to be a thunderous electric.

And

so there's so much great going on and we'd be remiss to if we didn't mention coach Heller and the men's baseball.

He's got him rolling right now.

300 plus wins and we're going to, you know, see how far he can take us into the big 10 tournament.

Great to have them at

Omaha for the CWS, big guy.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

So there's a lot of excitement moving forward, but all eyes now are on the football team and that's just how it's going to be.

It's going to be a long summer.

We're going to be talking a lot about it and everything's going to be scrutinized.

But at the end of the day,

You know and I've said this to you John and I've said it to many other people if My wife and I were had a son and he was athletically gifted.

Yeah, I'd want him to go Kurt go play for Curt Ferris

because

that's how much he means as

a human being and a

man

and the Iowa fans one reason that Caitlyn and these young women love going to Iowa City is the fan support They had 10,000 there.

Yeah at the Pentecost a week ago to celebrate folks on the eastern part of the state.

I got to tell you

I'm in Omaha periodically when Iowa comes to play at Lincoln.

The whole old market in Omaha is filled with black and gold fans by the thousands, Scotty.

They take over Omaha,

the Hawkeye fans.

Absolutely.

And I remember a few years ago, I believe it was 2016.

The Big 10 baseball championship was that

then TD Ameritrade

or now it's, I don't know what it's called now.

It's changed names, but for the Big 10 title baseball game and, you know, living up to the great Hawkeye tradition, we drank him out of beer in the stadium by the third inning.

So, you know,

know, they overwhelmed the crowd.

We had to sell out.

It was why we won the first sellouts and

big 10 title

for baseball.

So it was there's a lot of great support out there and we'd be remiss to John because we do talk about Iowa a lot is that

Get out there and support these teams

and

as well as these when they do these practices

and

autograph signings.

But if you're able to contribute to the Iowa Swarm too, because our coaches have talked about how the NIL name image likeness has changed everything and they need that support as well moving forward.

It's a new world.

It's just

a

whole new paradigm.

uh... traversing that is this a very critical period in which to do it absolutely and i will have coach patrick j napp junior on throughout the summer you know he coached it uh... the women's basketball team at georgetown talking about the changes in athletics moving forward and it's also gonna be a very interesting summer to to see what happens in the pack

Pac-10, Pac-12.

Whether they wither or wither the weather.

And, you know, we have a new Big Ten commissioner, Tony Petiti, taking the helm in

May.

Very happy about that.

Warren's gone.

Good riddance.

Yep.

And so there's going to be a lot of good, interesting things moving forward.

And the reason I bring up the Pac-10 media deal, because they haven't signed one yet, is that this could affect not only Iowa, because USC and UCLA will be joining the conference next year.

But there is talk that the four corner schools of Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado has been very well mentioned and possibly Utah going to the big 12 to join Iowa State.

So there's going to be a lot of upheaval, I think, in the next six to eight weeks and moving forward and to see how things transpire.

So it's going to be a fun summer moving forward.

We love college football.

It means so much to us.

And it's going to be an interesting year, too, to see how

we move the program forward because you know let's face it Kirk has been at Iowa since 1999 and you know

We are in a transition period.

And so probably the next few years, we will be looking for a new head football coach.

And what does that say about the Iowa program in my lifetime?

I've only had two head football coaches, John, the great Hayden Fry and the great Curt Ferris.

And

you're in your 40s.

Yeah.

It wasn't like I was

just born two

weeks ago either.

So it's

interesting.

So Iowa is in a very exciting time.

Yeah.

But there's a lot of nervousness.

It's kind of like that duck on the pond where everything looks calm.

But there's a little angst.

under the water, but

If there's going to be angst, there's nobody I'd rather have running my program right now than Kirk Farrance.

Yep, guys.

It's a great analysis by Scotty here.

This is so much fun with the epicenter of all things Hawkeye and we'll continue to track our cyclones and panthers too.

Guys, we got more great show coming up in just a few seconds.

Hang with us.

Oh, when you hear that music sounder, you know, you've got the best engineer since Montgomery Scott aboard the USS Enterprise with Mike

Shane here at the controls.

He's our weather guy too, Scotty.

Ham radio.

He was tracking every storm the other night.

He's a genius.

He sure is.

And I'm going to be very interested to see how he handles May and June because it gets kind of stormy in the state of Iowa.

We're going to have to make sure he has a big pot of coffee and a few donuts to keep him all jazzed up.

I always bring the coffee.

You

bring the donuts.

We get the caffeine and the sugar going.

And unlike Alan Ladd in the movie, Shane never leaves us.

He stays.

at his fort.

Mike Shane with us, John Jacobson the Jacobson group, Scott Corey the epic co-host on 1540 AM 100.5 FM the very first station in the nation.

to go with a 50,000 watt clear channel broadcast back in 1922.

Here we are in 2023, beginning our second century on this signal that carams throughout all the big 10.

And on our special report line, we are delighted to bring back recurring contributor Dr. David Hartsuch, Dr. Hartsuch, former Iowa State Senator,

And now, of course, continues with his physician excellence.

We're going to bring up the McLaughlin theme here because Dr. Hartzich has got some news for us on what I call the medical freedom front.

So, Doc, welcome back to the show.

Hey, John, how's it going?

Good, Doc.

Last time we talked to you, you had had almost as big of a win, if not larger than Laura Bellin had this last week.

when the the court held that the lawsuit for her to turn over her documents was going to continue that that the governor's office could not stonewall and you have a suit going on that has also been extended into extra innings that that portends well for you.

Can you give us a little bit of an update on that?

I know it's ongoing litigation, but can you give us kind of a recap of

What you're trying to do and what the court has said.

Sure.

I mean, basically what's happened across America, doctors are being silenced by the boards of medicine.

And also boards of pharmacy are preventing patients from getting life saving off label drugs for the treatment of COVID.

Basically the courts are not the boards that said, we don't want these patients treated.

And so what I'm trying to do is stand up for the not for non-discrimination against people with COVID.

because they have a right to be treated just like everybody

else.

In my case, basically there was a motion to dismiss the case by the Attorney General's office, which I was able to put aside and the judge saw my way and the case was going forward and I turned around and amended my pleading so that I could then defend the rights of patients to be treated and the rights of the general public to hear what's true.

Doc, I totally, totally support you 100%.

I will just say a couple anecdotal things.

As a state legislator, I work with some of these physicians who are attempting to and who we, just fighting and wrangling, we did accomplish this on numerous occasions.

Legitimate prescriptions for ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine filled by pharmacists and

These physicians had almost a 100% save record.

Doc, I got the bad bug and Ivermectin protocols turned me around in 48 hours.

I thought I was heading toward pneumonia.

And I know so many who have died in the hospital because the only protocol was that remdesvir and that had terrible effects on people shutting down kidneys, heading them toward ventilators.

I think we have a public health corruption and scandal that overshadows any scandal in American history and perhaps the gravest offense against humanity, what was done during this crisis, since going back to probably World War II.

I'm not exaggerating.

John, it's worse than that because the boards have been going after any use of off-label treatment for COVID.

And it's not just, they're not just going after drugs.

So the ivermectide drives the chloroquine, that's just kind of a ruse because the real thing they've been doing is trying to prevent all off-label prescribing for COVID.

Well, there's no on-label prescribing for COVID.

So therefore, if they're pushing for no off-label prescribing for COVID,

they're pushing to prevent COVID patients with COVID from being treated at all.

Doc,

it's

just... That's what this is about.

It's

a video discrimination.

It is.

It

is people with COVID.

It is, Dr. David Hartsich, and you were in the Iowa legislature, and I've got to tell you, that's why things like this radio show are so important.

So, Doc, I was excoriated by Facebook.

I was just being wiped out by those guys.

because I criticize lockdowns.

I promoted ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.

I criticized Remdesvir.

I said the Wuhan virus came from a Chinese lab.

I said lockdowns were going to be horrific.

Doc, everything that I was censored for, I was right about.

And without radio and without Elon Musk, thankfully reopening at least one Twitter site now to get the truth,

out there at least an alternate opinion, our voices would be stifle.

I'm so proud of you for fighting for the patients, for the doctors, for medical freedom and true informed consent.

Yeah, John.

And the truth of the matter is in America, the reason why we have the way we determine what is true is the free marketplace of ideas.

Yes.

And that's that's the Supreme Court that's determined that already.

And so what's what what is happening is the board by presenting that free marketplace of ideas.

They are depriving the right of the public to determine what is true.

And the result is people are dying.

And it's a deep state that that runs it in Iowa.

You've got a leftist executive director of the board of medicine with that little cabal of investigators.

and they're unelected bureaucrats and it's outrageous how they have gone after some of these doctors without even a credible threshold argument of backing the accusation.

It's frankly been a witch hunt.

Great, absolutely.

John, did you want to talk about Robert F.

Kennedy?

Yes, let's do that.

Let's bring up our Decision 24 music here because Scotty, something this week

was just incredible to me.

I watched the two hour tour de force of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

in Boston.

This guy's for real.

And Rush Limbaugh used to talk about Operation Chaos.

I don't care if you're a Democrat that wants the truth out and an alternative to the Biden corruption and incompetence or you're for a Republican who wants to see

some accountability for Biden by a courageous man who's willing to tell the truth, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Doc, he did a magnificent job this week.

What are your thoughts?

You and I are both Republicans, but we're delighted to see him in the race.

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

I think he is a political disruptor.

And the one thing that struck me, you know, me to the core.

was he talked about the unholy alliance between big business and government.

Oh, it was great.

He sounded like Jack Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.

He

did.

And in addition, he also talked about how we have a protective socialism for the rich.

And we have a merciless free enterprise or capitalism for the poor.

Let's take a look at a few snippets there.

And of course, he's recovering from a little

uh... voice issue with the vocal card chords something it was actually all go ahead doc

well i thought when he's up in the brass when he comes to visit we need to stick them out in a chamber

yes and

we

know hyperbaric chamber

put him in the hyperbaric chamber, and you would see his voice

change.

Some believe that that was actually an attack on him, that may be out there in left field, but he has gotten better.

It was strong the other day.

Let's take a listen to a few snippets here.

Here's Bobby Kennedy Jr.

calling out the CIA and the Industrial Military Complex.

My uncle came into office two months later.

He was fighting his intelligence apparatus, his military, because they wanted to invade.

They wanted to do the Bay of Pigs.

He was totally against it, and he let them roll over him.

And in the middle of the Bay of Pigs, he realized they were lying to him, and he realized the function of the intelligence agencies had become to provide the military industrial complex with a constant pipeline of war.

And he came out during the middle of the night during the Bay of Pigs catastrophe.

And he said, I want to take the CIA Allen dollars had lied to him, Charles Cabell, Richard Bissell, Louie Lemitzer, Curtis LeMay had all lied to him through their teeth.

And he said, I want to take the CIA and shatter it into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.

Scott Corey, that is ballsy.

That guy's got balls to call him out again because his uncle.

That may have brought about his uncle's demise.

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

And I'm thinking a little bit about history when you're talking about the Kennedys.

The last time a Kennedy ran for president was 1980 against a sitting incumbent Democrat, Jimmy Carter.

And many thought that Kennedy, Ted Kennedy's attacks on Carter from the left actually wounded Carter, even though Reagan went on to win with foreign plus states.

So Dr. Harsuch is history repeating itself in your opinion.

And I find it interesting

that conservatives and libertarians always talk about freedom and things along those lines.

But right now, it's a Kennedy, a Democrat liberal Kennedy, that is leading the fight against what has been going on with these lockdowns, the pandemic, as well as basically the military industrial complex of this country.

Yeah, I want Doc to comment about this, because Bobby talks about this censoring of all of us.

He's really indignant.

Listen to this.

Well,

that's a warning shot over the bow, huh doc?

He's not going away, is he?

It sure is.

My perspective on this, honestly,

comes back to the american revolution he talked about the american revolution he

did with flags flanking him in boston he spent time talking about the american revolutionary war it was magnificent

in the american revolution we decided as a nation that there will be no ruling class that yes we have merchants and yes we'll have some workers but they'll get along but we will decide the sovereignty of our nation

And we won't be, we won't be just ruled over by a ruling class.

Well, you know, yeah, doc, that's a brilliant point.

And, and he talks specifically in his speech about the COVID lockdowns.

If you give a government a license to silence its critics, it now has license for any atrocity.

Listen to this.

Not only did we start censoring people as a very, very beginning.

And, you know, Hamilton, Madison Adams said we put freedom of expression in the first amendment.

because all the other amendment, all the other rights depend on that.

If you give a government license to silence, its critics, it now has license for any atrocity.

As soon as they do, as soon as they do, it could censor us.

As soon as they knew they could censor us, they went after the other part of the First Amendment, freedom of worship.

They closed every church in this country without any scientific citation for a year.

Without any unnoticed and common rulemaking, democracy was simply abolished.

They then went after freedom of assembly.

They told us we had the social distance.

They went after our property rights, the Fifth Amendment.

They closed 3.3 million businesses.

with no due process, no just compensation.

They got rid of 7th Amendment jury trials.

They said, if you're involved with a countermeasure, no matter how egregious the injury you caused, no matter how negligent you were, no matter how reckless, you cannot be sued.

And here's what the 7th Amendment says.

It says, no American shall be deprived the right.

of a trial before a jury of his peers in case their controversy is exceeding $25.

Well, there's no pandemic exception.

And by the way, the Framers knew all about pandemics as there were two epidemics during the Revolutionary War.

One, there was a malaria epidemic in Virginia that decimated General Washington's truth.

It was a small box epidemic.

that disabled the armies of New England at the very moment they conquered Quebec and they had to withdraw.

Otherwise today, Canada would be part of the United States.

And by the way, we've had epidemic, but between the end of the revolution and the ratification of the Constitution, the nine years, there were epidemics in every city that killed tens of thousands of people, color epidemics, smallpox epidemics, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, et cetera, malaria epidemics.

They knew all about him, but they didn't put that in the Constitution.

The Constitution was built for hard times.

That is just truth to power.

Doc, he's

just

kicking it out of the park.

I don't hear Republicans speaking with this eloquence to you.

No, we've had controlled oppositions what we had.

And I think that there's going to be a lot of... I think he appeals to classic liberals.

Which exists in both parties?

Yes,

and I'm really hoping that if he were to win the nomination for the Democrat Party, he would bring some stability and sense of of Sanity back to the Democrat Party and way from way from Wolkism,

you know moving forward I'd like to get both of your guys's thoughts on this because John you hit on the point I was gonna bring up We have a lot of people thinking of running for president on the Republican side.

We have

Number of governors that are so-called conservative governors.

They're not talking like this.

What is going on?

I'm also wondering too is if Kennedy isn't almost tapping into the Reagan mantra of 1980 and 84 I freedom

and personal you're you're onto something there and of course Reagan really like JFK and I think Bobby's biggest problem is the problem that his family has had

they have been ferocious i mean bobby senior took on the mob jack president kennedy took on the military industrial complex guys as i was watching that stream of bobby kennedy his audio feed was hijacked 30 minutes in for several minutes

And some nefarious person tried to evacuate the building with a faux building emergency right in the middle of the speech.

And here's the grit.

I love a Bobby Kennedy.

Listen to this.

We were spending a trillion bombing bridges, ports, roads and hospitals.

They were spending a trillion building bridges, roads, ports and hospitals.

And they are now displacing us as trade partners of most of the African nations of Latin America, Brazil.

Just switched Chinese currency away from the dollar.

Saudi Arabia just switched away from the dollar.

Oh, these are... Is that the... Okay, we're okay.

I'm being told by Gavin DeBekker that there is no emergency that affects us.

All right, let me, I'm gonna finish up.

I'm gonna finish up, I promise, and shut up in a minute.

So the...

So the Chinese, so we've now what?

You're ordering everybody to evacuate.

nice try

he stood his ground scottie you gotta love that

he sure did and dr hearts such i'd like to get your thoughts on this too because he is in a lot of ways a classical liberal uh... moving forward he is like john said speaking truth to power where are the republicans where's where's uh... ron de santis where's christie gnome

Where's Governor Reynolds?

Where's Donald Trump?

Why aren't they out there leading this fight the way he is?

Because there is a huge opening on the Biden administration on how they've handled the last three plus years.

Absolutely.

When the census came to our neck of the woods out here in Davenport, I was paying special attention to see what he would say about the vaccine, vaccine injuries, and Pfizer.

And the answer was he carefully sidestepped the issue

and never adjust it.

You know, Robert Kennedy has been, has had a career really dealing with the issues of vaccine safety.

A lot of people view him as an anti-vaxxer.

I don't think that's a fair assessment.

But he has been, you know, striving for vaccine safety.

And if we just simply say that all vaccines are safe, then we've really

shortchanged our children and made sure that they're not safe.

Here's where I think this seems to be his rallying cry that he's willing to go in there and take on the bureaucracy because he knows these guys.

He's fought Fauci.

He's fought these environmental agencies before he's won some huge cases at trial.

Here he

goes.

bureaucrats came at him from every side and they were all telling me he had to do that.

He had the right instincts.

He knew that he shouldn't have closed down the country.

But he did it.

He got rolled by his bureaucracy.

And I'm going to tell you a quick story.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the EXCOMM Committee, which was all the intelligence officials and military officials, 11th of the 13th on there.

My father was on there, so was Bob McNamara.

So those are the exceptions.

But all of the

the Doyans, the Gurus, you know, the old grey men who were hurt, you know, the Curtis LeMay and Louis Lemon Sir, the generals from the Joint Chiefs, they all said, we've got to go in and bomb the missile sites in Cuba, the 64 missile sites in Cuba.

And my uncle said to him, well, wait a minute, what's going to happen?

Who's on those gun crews?

Are those Cubans or are those Russians?

And they said, we don't know.

He said, well, if they're Russians and we kill Russians, isn't Russia going to have to go into Berlin?

And they were like, oh, we don't think they'll do that.

And my uncle said, I want to see the aerial photographs.

And he looked at the aerial photographs.

And he said, who has on the Cuban side, who gives permission to fire?

Has it come from Russia?

Has it come from Fidel?

Does it come from the individual gun crews?

Because if it comes from the L, he's going to fire them.

If it comes from the individual gun crews, then you're putting the fate of the world in the hands of those commanders, 64 men.

They didn't know.

So he said, we're not doing it.

And he did something else.

And all I'm saying is, you need a president, at this time in history, who can stand up to his bureaucracy.

I think we underestimate this man in our own

peril, Scott Corey.

You know, I believe we do.

And I think it's going to be very interesting to see how the friends on our left, you know, how do they react to him?

Because he is speaking everything they have said for the last 40 years.

Are they willing to say?

boy it's almost like the old goldwater in your heart you know he's right and are they willing to buck the the biden administration it's gonna be very telling to see how iowa democrats handle this moving forward as well as national democrats because he has tapped a message that i don't think we've seen in maybe twenty five years

agreed we're coming up to a heartbreak on her segment dr david hearts just we're gonna get view the final word wrap this up for us my friend

well i don't know what to say you know i

think

I think what would be interesting to see if we had a match up between Donald Trump and Kennedy, we'd have two populist candidates who are really in a position to buck the bureaucracy.

And I can tell you one thing, they would not like it if it came down to that choice.

They sure wouldn't.

Well, we like David Hartsuch.

I love Bobby Kennedy talking about that 7th Amendment right.

He'd probably be for you getting that right to you fair trial with the jury in your suit, Dr. Hartsuch.

I'm kind of hoping that, I'm hoping that we go to a jury.

I'm hoping that my,

My case is so clear that the judge would say, hey, no controversy here.

Well, Dr. Hartzich, for a pro se attorney, you've got the attorney general on her heels right now.

I think I've done very well as a pro se attorney and I've raised some constitutional issues and I've elevated this to an issue of equal protection, 14th amendment and invidious discrimination.

And it's,

Basically what has happened is we have had a governmental policy of decimation where they've decided that one group of people will die in order to give incentive to the others to get vaccinated.

Wow doc.

Well, you're gonna keep us posted.

This is going to be an amazing year and as you folks can tell, Iowa's at the epicenter of all of it.

Dr. David Hartstich, the honorable Dr. Hartstich former Iowa State Senator.

Doc Scott and I have visited with you.

The Kennedy folks and Dennis Kucinich's national chair have been in contact with us.

They want to come into Iowa and visit and we're going to make sure you're on that medical panel because I think we'll do a, we'll start in the western part of the state, maybe do the press club event there in the Omaha Metro with the doctors panel and probably be a free speech America event, maybe a veterans event.

Got to give him to a good Irish pub with some good Irish music.

A lot of things we really need to bring Bobby back to Creighton University.

where in 1968 he called out those Creighton students, Scotty, and said, is it fair for you to all get your deferment from Vietnam by being in college while all the poor people are over there fighting?

He laid those Creighton students.

He leveled them out on the concrete there,

Scotty.

He sure did.

And I think we just hit the nexus on why you support Kennedy because of their outward disdain for Creighton University.

I think we've hit something there,

Mike, that we'll

have to keep an eye on that moving forward.

You know, he they did applaud him at the end of the speech.

And then, of course, he was up there at 24th and Erskine and they had the parade for Bobby campaign in North Omaha out the rain and his son talked about that campaign in his speech.

He talked about his dad going to Creighton there.

So the great history of this nation and it always seems like Iowa is at the fore.

So Dr. Hartzich will

Get you back in a week.

Thanks for joining us today on the show.

Good to be on, John.

Our studio audience on their feet for David Hartzich, guys.

Doc, you're a wonder.

Keep it up.

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It was great.

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