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KXEL the Jacobson group John Jacobson here in studio with you today.

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In studio, Mr. Chip Reidman.

Good morning to you, Chip.

And Scott Corey on assignment covering the North and Western

Part of the Hawkeye Cyclone Bulldog and Panther State Forest.

Scotty, beautiful Saturday morning in January.

Scotty, the 12 days of Christmas ended Friday night, the 12th night as Shakespeare would call it.

Now Saturday, the traditional feast of the epiphany.

January 6th, the wise men, the magi have arrived at the nativity.

And all is well, Scott Curry.

Absolutely and Happy New Year to everybody listening.

It's great to be back on the program once again.

It's been a eventful couple weeks as we get closer and closer to the Iowa caucuses.

I know we have a lot to talk about with the Iowa caucuses.

Bulls season wrap up, which will not take a whole lot of time with your Hawkeye fans.

But once again, we are in the middle of January and Caitlin Clark John is doing Caitlin Clark things.

It is her world and we're just living in it.

Scott, absolutely true.

So we'll lead off with that.

We will indeed take you folks on a tour of a bowl review as well as you're going to hear the cast today give their win place and show for the Hawkeye Hawkeye.

But let's talk a little bit about Caitlin Clark or what these Iowa women have done.

Scott, I'll let you lead it off.

Well, John and Chip and Mike, it has just been another week full of Caitlin Clark taking the national scene.

The other night in Iowa City against a very good Michigan State team, which was on Peacock.

It was a back-and-forth game, but I want to give a quick shout-out not only to Gabby Marshall Defense, but Kate Martin.

And Molly Davis had tremendous, tremendous games as well as Hannah Stokey by Caitlin Clark.

She won the game.

I'm sure you've seen the shot on SportsCenter.

Mike, go ahead and play the clip for everybody.

Yeah, Mike's going to play that clip right now, folks.

Davis, time-lining down.

They're going to get the ball up in time.

Clark for the win.

And Chip Reedman, it was amazing.

Caitlin Clark, she had ice in her veins, but I think the play of the game was not the game winning three-pointer.

It was just moments beforehand where Clark came in with a vengeance.

She did a Matumbo impersonation.

She blocked a shot with vengeance.

She had a look in her eye that said, I am winning this game, and this game ends right now with that block.

It was so impressive, Chip Reedman.

Well, it's funny that you bring that up.

So the night of the game,

Buddy and I we went and saw the boys in the boat, which I would recommend for anyone to go and watch.

It's a very very good movie well done historically I've got relatives went to University of Washington I could even divert the conversation to something personal about that team however afterwards we decided to go to one of the local Establishments and have a couple beers and of course, it's a sports bar and they've got games on every

TV screen there ESPN ESPN to Fox and everything going on.

I swear

Every time they went to a studio break with three or four guys sitting behind a desk, they showed those replays.

It was like wall-to-wall, back-to-back, Caitlyn Clark, national broadcast, and that block shop was absolutely, sorry, John Seal and your word epic.

Unbelievable how she absolutely trashed that poor girl, sent her to the floor, you know, looking up at the stars, wondering what just happened.

It was a woman among girls.

watching Caitlin play that game.

You know, and John, we talk about what was going on Thursday night, the Iowa women, they traveled to Piscataway, but they went through New York City.

And at Times Square,

one

of the giant logo billboards, there was Caitlin Clark doing the Michael Jordan impersonation with the shoulder shrugged, reenacting that on the scenes there on Broadway.

It was amazing.

But John,

I don't know about you and the rest of the Hawkeye fans listening, but it was ironic is after the game, South Carolina coach.

Oh, yes.

I'm so glad

you brought this up because I contributed to Don Staley's.

Twitter post too, but continue Scott.

Continue.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Don Staley is one of the most thin skinned individuals in basketball and that's saying something.

She went on out of her way to call out Caitlyn Clark and Hawkeye Nation did what Hawkeye Nation did, including myself.

We got a pound of flesh and I'm proud to say I was blocked on social media by Don Staley, who is just one of the most garbage people out there in women's sports, John.

Well, you know, she blocked so many people that if her

team had that many blocks.

Their opponents would never score points.

Poor Dawn.

Kate Clark and the whole Hawkeye women's team is living rent-free in her head.

Do you agree with that, Tim Grover?

Well, there's no doubt about it.

I think Iowa is a very, I think they're living rent-free in the entire NC2A women's house.

I I would almost say the end of that game there.

I thought I was watching the NBA

Yeah,

I mean she was that was some big-time player there.

That was Michael Jordan type stuff and I I really thank you guys because the more I got into women's basketball the more I enjoy it because it's it's pretty fundamental and the players drive for fundamental it gets a little bit physical, but it's not

It's a little more of a graceful bat.

It is.

They're elithereal and graceful.

And how can you not love those girls?

Caitlin and Katie Martin and Hannah Stilke and Gabby Marshall play in defense, staring down those opponents with those piercing eyes that she has.

You know, I talked to my mom on the phone after the game.

She's in her 88th year and she said that Katelyn Clark is a one in a lifetime athlete and she's never seen anything like it.

She's she's lived almost 90 years.

Yeah, so you're not even talking generational You're talking a lifetime

like

90 would be probably good.

Yeah

years.

Yeah,

you might be right You might be right, you know and Tim makes a great point about enjoying watching women's sports.

That was one thing So I'm a soccer guy.

I know you detest that sport, but anyway, I

don't detest that sport because it's not a sport.

Yeah, right.

Yeah,

okay Those teams those teams are worth more money than

I know my son

follows it so closely that he can literally

predict who's going to win over there in England.

So yeah, that next generation, you know,

is

that they're on top of

this.

Yes, they are, which is going to be influential down the

road

in another 20 years or something

like that is the most sporting event in the world.

FIFA World

Cup that you're the younger generation more than watch soccer

than watch baseball.

That's true.

So I mean, that's kind of an huge impact.

Anyway, getting back to what I was talking about.

So I started I watched the men's national team and the women's national team.

Of course, now I don't watch the women's national team anymore because we don't

have a women's national team.

I don't know what they are, but I enjoyed watching the women's team play.

Yeah, because the ball movement is simpler.

It's better.

It's more progressive.

Yeah.

The men's team is just like, you know, watching a pinball.

I'll go ball going to the place, but you could actually see them move up a field and stuff like that.

So I enjoyed it more and women's basketball is kind of similar to that.

Well, and you're you're our resident Nebraska contributor to this show, although you're a great cyclone fan.

We have you on for the

Cyclone specs, they're engineering.

Tormented by you.

Well, you know, that engineering degree, you got to be pretty smart to get an engineering degree at Iowa State.

That's any, any guy with a sixth grade reading level can be a lawyer, but it actually takes math and science brains to be an engineer.

Well noted.

Well noted.

But hey, you're Huskers.

I got to give you props.

You're Husker women.

are going to make a run at the big 10.

They're looking great right now.

11-3 and undefeated at the conference.

They beat Wisconsin on the road.

That beats some tough matchups against the Hawkeye women.

Yeah, it will.

I'm sure that Nebraska can keep it going, especially just for, I wouldn't call it a real rivalry at this point, but it's going to be a big game between these two states when the women play.

The men are actually playing really good right now.

They've got a big game against Wisconsin, but they've

Maybe the Huyberg has got things turned around the the mayor of Ames So you know Iowa connection there

well, and and I'll bring in Scott Tim on this but ship your back on the winning a circuit here Creighton did beat a horrid Georgetown team at horrid the other night after losing

after losing four of their last five and doing

their

January swan dive

I think it was three out of four, but that's okay.

Well, yeah, and Georgetown actually they you know, they've stole

What the heck's his name from one of the other big East teams they got the new coach there.

He's there seven and seven He's already got him looking better than they did last year.

So no, I'm not going to pretend that that's really a great win or anything They got Villanova this weekend.

That'll be much more important of a game from no, excuse me not Villanova Providence.

I believe Coolie.

That's his name is Ed Coolie.

I think he was from Providence

if I got that

right So interesting how that's working.

Well, let's let's bring Scott and Tim and now because now we have to

Talk about the Citrus Bowl.

Scotty, it's yours, your serve.

Well, there's really not a whole lot to talk about, John.

It proved that at the end of the Citrus Bowl, Beth gets, she rivals Caitlin Clark as person of the year

at the

University of Iowa Light Department.

Beth made the right call.

She had to make some tough decisions.

There, it is going to be a very, very tumultuous time right now in Iowa City.

Thursday night, hometown hero, Bow Creek, Ida Grove, O'odham Arthur football star, Cooper Dejean, declared some of the drafts.

He's projected to be in the top 15.

But all eyes are right now on the complex about who Kirk Farance will name as offensive coordinator.

Kirk said we should have some announcements starting next week.

It's going to be very interesting.

Pat Hardy wrote an article here about two weeks ago saying it was Joe Philbin who ran the offensive line when Kirk first came to Iowa City.

He's been an analyst over at Ohio State.

There seems to be a lot more traction from my sources that Paul Christ is still in the mix.

I'm going to say right now it's more than likely going to be

Paul Chris did about 55% with Joe Philbin.

It's going to come down to those two more than likely.

Scott,

what about Pat Fitzgerald?

He was on the sideline earlier this year.

Any shot of the Northwestern Wunderkin coming in and doing anything for the offense?

Boy, if it's past Fitzgerald, I don't know what's gonna happen in Iowa City.

Iowa fans including myself, our heads are gonna explode.

Evanston, Illinois' heads are gonna explode.

I would be shocked if it is.

I'd be more surprised if...

It turned out that the aliens landed on the 50-yard line of the stadium.

How about Scott Frost?

Maybe Scott Frost will come in for you and watch some heads explode.

Scott would love that.

Actually, he's a good offensive coordinator.

He's

got a good record up in Oregon.

Well, Scotty, let me ask part two of the question, then we'll go to Tim Grover.

Scott, honestly, after watching that debacle in the entire offensive season, what skill position athlete on offense

is going to want to come to Iowa City as a recruit and play for that offense.

Ever since Charlie Jones went to Purdue, I mean, the handwriting's on the wall.

Scotty, talk to me here.

Well, that's just it.

There is a huge national perception that if you go to Iowa to play offense, you might as well go to division two or something else.

It's going to be very interesting.

Now, there is a quarterback in the transfer portal from Oregon that is coming to Iowa City to talk.

I think it all depends a lot on who the offensive coordinator will be, but at the same time, this falls strictly on Kurt Ferrant.

Yes,

it does.

Kurt Ferrant has to open up and allow his offensive coordinator to at least modernize and become an average offense.

Agreed.

And that's why I'm still saying it's going to be Paul Kripp, because Paul Kripp has the respect of Kurt Ferrant.

And at the same time,

If I'm Phil, Phil Parker and I see Scott Frost, I'm going to murder him on the 50 yard line after the second turnover of the game because there is no way that Phil Parker can keep putting up with this.

It was just an atrocious bull effort, atrocious championship game.

You know, Brian Farrance, he might be a super guy.

He did a tremendous job when he was the offensive line coach at Iowa.

He did a great job there.

We were the offensive line of the year.

times.

It's just he is not capable of handling this.

And a lot of this all falls strictly on Kirk Farris.

It can be very interesting.

I know for a fact that interim athletic director Beth Getz, she has the full blessing of President Wilson.

And I know those conversations have been very blunt that basically Kirk needs to reinvent himself one more time at basically a Kirk 8.0.

and modernize this offense just to ascend my offense to compliment Phil Parker's amazing defense.

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Scotty, you've swerved into something here.

Scotty, what year were you born?

Go ahead and tell the audience.

I was born in 78.

Okay, so in 1975 and no, let's see.

I got to do the right date here.

1978 it was.

This is so ironic.

The year that you were born, Scott, I was, remember the Regis High School championship debate team.

The brilliant Christopher Drahousel was my partner.

Now a ten year law professor at KU at University of Kansas.

Brilliant guy.

And we used to do a shtick.

We would compete down in Iowa City at University of Iowa against the other debate teams in the high schools throughout the state.

And there was a cross-examination period in every single one of these debates.

And usually the judges were liberal University of Iowa poly-sized students.

And Mark Weinhardt, who's now a prosecutor in Polk County,

And I he was our arch rival at C reps Washington.

I was for Regis We were arch rivals, but at cross-ex period we had a stick going Because Jimmy Carter was president was just bumbling and fumbling his way through a terrible presidency and We got up there and the deal was always that the

Affirmative plan would not work whether we were the affirmative team that night or whether the Washington warrior team was the affirmative team that night for the proposition plan would not work because the Peter principle and Mike Shane There's that book that came out and right around 76 7 and 8 What is the Peter principle because Mike Shane went when when when Scott was talking about Brian I thought in my head immediately

the peter principal might change right something down on a note that's exactly what micro down like what's the peter principal

it's uh... you will rise to the level of your incompetent

yes yes you will rise ultimately to the level of your incompetency

can anyone see claudine gay well

and certainly certainly jimmy carter so the thing was one heart and i would

Say he would then I would say the plan won't work because the Peter principle Weinhardt would say well now mr. Jacobson can you give me any current examples of the Peter principle I would say yeah Jimmy Carter and of course Weinhardt and I both being conservatives yucked it up and laughed it up And we knew neither of us would be penalized because we were both in solidarity that Jimmy Carter was a terrible president and University of Iowa left-wing judge Couldn't penalize either of us more than the other but he just had to suffer through our

Ripping on their hero Jimmy Carter, you know, it's just everything revolves around Iowa City, ultimately But yeah the Peter principle we all get promoted to our levels of incompetency perhaps But Tim Grover what say you I think Kirk's somewhat tarnishing his own image by his stubbornness

Yeah, very much so it's kind of disappointing.

I saw some headline where Kirk had said offenses

is complicated.

It kind of reminds me of when Barbie said math is hard.

So

I don't know if that was

real or not.

But I know that I'd hate to have spent money to go to Indianapolis and Orlando and seeing two shutouts.

This is not good for the program.

And of course, I believe in old school.

And I think it would be good for Kirk to remember

old school when he was starting out here and Hayden's exotics.

We need a

reporter here who

remembers who thinks of Hayden's exotics.

Hayden was the innovator when he came here.

He was.

He was.

Let's go back to old school there again.

Just noticing though on the whole, I think every bowl game I watched

except that most of those teams had a quarterback that opted out.

Well, we faced one.

They had one that was just a good or better waiting

to play.

I know, I know, I know.

And I think that's a league problem.

I think we have trouble recruiting quarterback and wide receivers in the league, Dan, because the defense is the pound on you.

So I think there's also a league-wide problem as far as quality with quarterback and wide receivers.

Well, and you bring up a good point there, wasn't, Hill was a quarterback, right?

At the end of the season, I've got a friend from Wisconsin who says, my God, the guy was a fourth string quarterback at Wisconsin.

And now he's your second string in Iowa.

That's a pretty bad indication.

Well, it's, here's the thing, Scotty, we'll close out this segment, head into Hawkeye-Cawkeye for segment two, but Scotty, I'm going to make a statement here.

I would rather watch a six and six team.

This bull eligible that scores 24 points a game Then watch a nine and three team that's just literally excruciating Agony watching them plod through and not score and not get first downs and zero offense I I take six and six and some fireworks over nine and three The way we've been doing it and you know, I know they say be careful what you wish for

Chip Reidman, you have unique insight on this.

So I'm gonna go to Chip and then to Scott.

Chip, that was a wrap on Polini.

He won nine games every year, but couldn't compete in the big games.

Well, be careful what you ask for.

They've hardly had a winning season since as they're on their third coach.

Subsequent to that, but is there anything to what I'm saying in terms of fans buying tickets and enjoying games?

Then I'll let Scott close out the segment.

That's a pretty...

pretty wide area of things to cover nine and three yes that's true last winning coach they had uh... he didn't win a couple big games but you're right nine three still implies he was losing games that you didn't want him to lose him was a personality issue and i'd that's obviously different than what you got with brian

and

just he was such a personal issue the rest didn't like him you know because of the stuff that he did on the sideline the media loved him because they would

every coach gets mad on the sideline.

It was actually unfair.

I'm being biased.

Maybe I'm saying that.

But they love to focus on him when he was mad.

Oh, I love Polenie.

I'm pro Polenie.

I love the youngster.

You saw the steam

coming out of his ears

and everything.

He went

grumping youngster with stoopes.

He's one of our guys.

Every coach I've seen out there.

Bobby Knight.

I mean, that guy would look because literally a volcano rated a blow up every

night.

So, you know, I think there was a little bit unfair what they're throwing at him.

But on the other hand, that one is, I guess I'll call it secret off Mike comment where he ripped into the fans or something.

I mean, that just pretty much was his demise as far as working there.

But wasn't that true about the Husker fans?

No, no.

We're still showing up, you know, really you look at it.

I go to the games.

I know what's going on.

I

know

sometimes the seats are some seats are empty, but put down on the stadium is

no there.

They are very stalwart fans.

My wife brutal.

Yeah.

Yeah, she still loves him.

Scotty, you get to wrap this up and get the final word here.

What would you rather have this year or maybe six and six or seven and six with some offensive fireworks at least a few more first downs?

Well, at the end of the day, I'm always going to take the victories, John, just because that's how I was raised.

But I come back to Kirk, where he's continually talked about complementary football.

And he has an outstanding defense.

He has a tremendous special teams.

He just needs an average offense.

And if you talk about complementary football, the Iowa way in the last 40 years has been running the ball.

And that's why I think Paul Chris

is the perfect fit because he had a winning percentage at Wisconsin.

He beat Iowa numerous times, and he ran the ball almost 60% of the time and had a high scoring offense.

So that's all we need, but when it comes down to it, and I'm even going to say everybody on the offense beside the ball probably should be fired, including George Barnett, offensive line coach, because it has been atrocious the last four years.

It's going to be a very interesting week in Iowa City.

I'm going to see how

far, uh, president Wilson's leash is going to be on Beth.

Yes.

It's

very interesting.

It's just like right before, uh, Brian was let go in October by a guest.

Yeah.

Everything is very quiet right now in the complex.

And there's a reason why it's very quiet.

Fascinating.

You know, Scott, I've, I fully agree on the Phil Parker praise.

He definitely deserves all of it.

We've got four teams coming in from the West coast now.

That's going to be a little bit of a change for what he's been fighting against.

I mean, it's not going to be the ground and

pounding type offense.

How's it like

to go up against Pentax?

Yeah, Pentax should have won the Heisman.

You should

have.

I've

said that repeatedly for a long time.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

He's a winner with hands down.

USC's got to have a good quarterback.

It's going to be some changes coming up here in the next year.

Now, granted, are they prepared for us?

But on the other hand, if you can't score, you've got to outscore them, and

that's going to be difficult.

Look, when I watched Penex play Michigan, I thought that's like Einstein against an Amoeba, that offense against our offense.

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module 2, the Hawkeye, Hawkeye with Henry Mancini and Decision 2024.

Guys, we are there.

We are at the precipice of the Hawkeye-Cawkeye and boy, has there been all sorts of stuff going on.

Nikki Haley's been saying stuff and Chris Christie's been saying stuff and DeSantis has been doing stuff.

And oh my goodness, how do we unwrap this in 20 minutes?

We're going to try.

Let's go into issue one in our McLaughlin homage here.

And guys, I want calling all cars ground report.

What is the status on the ground?

I go to you, Tim Grover, Eastern Iowa.

Tim, Nikki Haley.

Talked about New Hampshire vis-a-vis Iowa the other day Nikki has had a stumble on the Civil War and in pronouncing Caitlin Clark's name correctly We saw some interesting pack money contributions from packs friendly to DeSantis.

I can't remember if they're packs or super packs.

There's actually legal

definitions there, but some sort of friendlies to DeSantis was, it looks like his doled money out to various of the some of the Iowa legislative campaigns.

It's been a fascinating, fascinating week.

Can you give us a report from the ground out there along the Mississippi River there, Tim Grover?

Well, what I'm seeing out here right now is Vivek is surging He'll be in our town tonight for the second time this week at six o'clock and he is drawing young working class Especially men who are interested in the libertarian viewpoint

Tim is part of that because of the way he just dissembled that Washington Post reporter was at a seminal moment for him on schooling Republicans on how to handle

the press instead of trying to coddle and suck up to the press.

I think a huge part of that is he dressed down to sand us and Haley the last time and they've tanked his polls and they've kicked him off the display.

The debate stage.

Yeah.

Yeah, the debate stage.

And I think I think Trump's gonna win this big time.

I think the fight right now is who

isn't necessarily the anti-trump, but the one who's looking for a kinder, gentler Trump.

And I think that's the issue right now.

I think it's very tough.

It's like I said the other day.

The Republican Party as a whole, from a committee standpoint, is very out of touch with what its base is.

Well, look at this rig in the debate.

Next week that's not on the committee so much as CNN, but how do you just have it as a DeSantis Haley debate Vivek absolutely belongs on the stage He also dissembled Chris Christie, which which was warm the cockles of my heart, right?

But yeah, this is our NC blessing though John

They're not running it by it that way without R&C's blessing to do it.

Well, it all started out by kicking all the second tier guys off the original debates.

And that was just uncalled for.

I got to give Ryan Binkley a shout out.

He had the good sense to come to the Jacobson Christmas party,

also attended by

Scott Corey and Mike Shane.

And so I give him props for the good sense there.

What what but Tim Tim?

Well, yeah, but here Tim closure.

I had a half hour conversation with him.

Talk to us about it.

Yeah,

talk to us

about it.

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He is the first ball Ryan Binkley the entrepreneur from Texas from Richardson outside of Dallas mergers and acquisitions multi-millionaire.

Yes And

keep in mind the press hates the three guys are putting up their own money to try to save this country.

Yeah, because they won't be owned

They hate Vivek, they hate Binkley, they hate Trump, and they hate Bobby Kennedy.

The four people they hate are the ones that are self-funding.

Yeah.

Yeah,

they

hate him.

And they put

up their own money because they won't be owned by

any

national interest.

Right.

And he is, Ryan Binkley is a great, one of the nicest, friendliest, best guys

I've ever met.

He

is.

He is.

He really is.

He

understands Brick.

He understands Brick and the threat

it

is to our economy.

Yep.

you know i i i i think you there is if you voted for huckabee before i i think ryan binkley is your vote

well well this is a great day so let's go to uh... scott cori uh... scott cori i hear you're sleeping with a desantis supporter and there are many that are predicting that desantis

is going to win the caucuses that he's got the retail thing down and the commitments and that when his 10 below and blizzarding, it will be DeSantis writing to victory.

I can see that happening.

So Scott, I go to you and you know, if you want to defend your own honor in your ethics, you can say, give some perspective to the reference I threw out there at the beginning of my comments.

Sure.

Yeah, in full disclosure my wife Naomi is a Ron DeSantis supporter.

She has been since last year and

I just want to say just sorry just for our folks.

No, you're actually sleeping with your wife and you're just not a gallivanting You know

a good woman John.

She's a wonderful woman Yeah, I just don't want people think you were a bon vivant out there with random folks

there So no

the lovely gracious mrs. Corey, but yeah, she has been involved with the DeSantis campaign Scott you're not so kind of an interesting take I just

i think the census is doing very well on the ground am i wrong i i

think so i think at the end of the day though it's gonna be very uh... telling on uh... january fifteenth uh... earlier this week uh... south dakota governor christy gnome was in susan city had north of five hundred people show up for an event where she was uh... uh... talking about donald trump and so that tells me that there's a lot of movement out there governor

ells was thrilled with that wasn't she

Yeah, yeah, she was ecstatic about that because it's but the same time I still have Trump at 43% the closer he gets to 50% the bigger landslide it will be what is telling to me is how close

The Santos can get to Trump's 43, but at the same time, how far he can distance himself from the Haley campaign.

If he can put an 8 to 10 percent difference between him and Haley going into second place, that is going to be very telling.

I think Haley peaked about two months ago in the State of Iowa.

but they can't, uh, he's had a very good week.

Uh, he does have a, uh, in a lot of ways, a Ron Paul, but also, uh, uh, America first, uh, contingency.

He was endorsed earlier this week by former Congressman Steve King.

I don't think that endorsement, a monster, a hill of being Congressman King is, uh, is a has been and, uh, he'd never accomplished anything in 18 years.

And in full disclosure, I worked for Congressman King.

So it's not like I'm just throw a bomb.

at him.

No, that endorsement does not move the needle.

Scott, here's something that I'm very curious about.

In New Hampshire the other day, Nikki Haley made comments basically, I'm wildly paraphrasing here, but she said New Hampshire writes, you know how to do this.

Iowa starts the process and then New Hampshire corrects Iowa.

essentially is what she was saying.

Is she now focusing on ingratiating herself to New Hampshire?

I mean, do you think that type of comment in New Hampshire means that she knows she's a distant third in Iowa and needs to move on now from Iowa or was she just caught up in the moment of mirth?

What do you think?

I think it's a combination of all the above.

Listen to Nikki Haley.

She reminds me of somebody who thinks she's smarter than she really is.

I agree.

I agree.

She opens her gas machine up and cannot rectify it.

Now moving forward though, as you mentioned, it goes from Iowa right into New Hampshire, then we have the battle for South Carolina where Trump is doing extremely well again.

at the odds all I still say Trump is the nominee by the time this is all said and done in the real fight will be moving forward whether the consulting class of Des Moines, Lincoln and D.C.

will get behind the eventual nominee or will they try to run an insurgency campaign like they did in 2020 to stop Trump at all cost.

Fascinating takes from Scott Corey, Chip Readman.

You're the year you kind of have the

Iowa State Nebraska angle on this.

You're somewhat objective.

What say you?

I think Nikki Haley has probably had one of the worst weeks any politician could possibly have.

You

mentioned the Civil War Gap was pretty bad too.

The Civil War, the Caitlyn Clark, the... The worst thing about Caitlyn Clark was...

She used the name of the CNN anchor, Caitlin Collins.

I mean, that's adding insult

to injury.

Well, and there's a fourth item that's come up now as she tries to apologize or cover her tracks on the Civil War comment is that she's the latest thing.

She says, well, I got black friends also.

It's like that boy you talk about just sounding tone-deaf as to what's going on most able to say my some of my best friends are black That would sound a lot better than what she said.

It's just like so anyway, so she's had a terrible week terrible week I I think she's kind of given up on Iowa figures that she's already maxed out Chris Christie is not been holding his own and I think she figures she can go up there and get votes from him To try and pick up some kind of a of a good return up in New Hampshire

I'm sure to try and carry into South Carolina, which would be her home turf, which would be interesting because she's probably going to lose our own home turf, aka also to Santerstown in Florida.

But that's just the way it is.

You mentioned Rama Swami and his deal where he absolutely eviscerated that one reporter.

Folks, if you haven't found it yet,

if you

have

time,

it's out there, look forward.

It's

only

about

one to two minutes long, and he absolutely rips this person for trying to go to him in.

to saying something that it's just not worth even touching.

Like he said, he will not bend his knee to their religion of

their topics.

And where was the courage in the last 10 Republican presidential campaigns that that man showed on how to handle the press?

Other than Trump, he's the only one that's had the guts to do it.

And while all these others seem to want to suck up to be popular with the New York Times, it was a great moment for Vivek.

Ramaswami and it's just, it's fascinating.

Let's go to issue two.

The Iowa legislature convenes.

Second week in January is always weak for the Iowa legislature to convene.

A lot of policy and a lot of politics.

I just want to start out.

Scott Corey, I think the reelection campaigns look good.

for the House and Senate GOP, seeing all the money that is poured into their election campaign coffers from the political action committees, sympathetic to Ron DeSantis.

Yeah, it was stunning to see some of the numbers that were thrown around.

There was multi-thousand dollar checks.

Some of them were up to $15,000 to $20,000 to some of these legislators.

And let's not forget the $95,000 plus checks that Bob Vander Plaats has cashed as well.

The amount of money that's been thrown around the state of Iowa for years and the Iowa caucuses is just obscene.

And I'm going to be very blunt.

I don't think the Iowa caucuses are actually good for Iowa politics in the long run because it's been hyper political for the last 25 years.

And so as we move forward,

There's going to be a lot of pressure on the Iowa legislature, as well as Governor Kim Reynolds.

What are the big ideas they're going to focus on this because outside of just doing some tweaks to the tax reform bills that they passed last year, what are they going to accomplish?

And so Governor Reynolds has spent a lot of time crisscrossing the state of Iowa and the national networks, talking about the Iowa caucuses.

But at the same time, she has neglected the governing of the state of Iowa.

And so that is a very

uh... important thing that she has to rectify here in about two weeks when she is a condition of state address

courageous truth from scott cori guys this is why we are the number one uh... weekend radio live ensemble in the midwest

Bar none and this ensemble his 142.

I were broadcast news association awards That's a bold commentary out of the gates on the legislative session Tim Grover from the east what say you

well Yeah, that's even again the legislature will be opening up.

I I want to throw some caution to the wind for the Iowa GOP Your majority is in peril

If you follow up the money you've gotten from Never Back Down and all this, that money, they're paying you not to listen to your constituency.

And that is going to create a whole batch of trouble.

The legislature needs to undo what they passed last year to tie Rob's hands down.

to be able to his department down and to be able to investigate each and every department up there in Terrace Hill.

They need to do something about public health.

We've got poor and elderly out here whose healthcare is being affected because we're spending too much money on COVID quackery and not enough on the actual things that people need for their healthcare.

So this is going to be an interesting session.

What has this PAC money bought?

from them, and are they going to follow up?

What have they been asked to do with it?

Yes, it is part of it to help the Santas.

Well, guess what?

In your home district, it's not buying anything.

People, I'm going to say right here now, the Santas is in peril, it ended up in fourth place.

So the legislature really needs to take a hard look at itself.

and say to itself, Iowa is not a red state.

It's a purple state.

I still agree with that.

I really do.

And if they, you know, our Democrat friends and neighbors, we can loan them our lawn mower and they'll come back in just the same shape that we've ended it out to them.

And if they think you're out of touch and you don't care about what they're having trouble getting food on the table,

and in feeding their families and such things.

They are likely to vote for Democrats next time around.

Hard hitting stuff.

So we've got two minutes left.

You get the final word, Chip Reidman, as we close this segment out.

I think they both make...

great observations.

They're going to miss out there.

If they're taking money from the outside that easily, they're going to start missing with their constituents say they're probably going to get primary on their own if they're not careful about it.

But the only and again, I'm objective.

trying to look at it from the outside so I don't know all the ins and outs that you guys do.

But I will bring up that I'd sent out that one clip from Varney and company on Fox Business.

So nationally I think people were out of tune even with what's going on in Iowa because Varney was complimenting.

First they started talking about Christie Noam that she would be a good candidate for Trump to put on as the vice president.

And then they brought up Kim Reynolds saying that she'd also be an excellent choice.

They thought very well of her and they think Iowans think well of her.

And I think it's just there's just some real bad misconceptions of what's going on inside the state from the outside world looking at his flyover country.

They think they know what's going on and they really don't.

So it could be a bit of a mystery.

So issue three are final.

Win, place, and show in the Hawkeye, Hawkeye.

First, second, third.

Let's go to fourth.

Let's do the final four in order.

Tim Grover.

I

say Trump, Vivek, and Haley.

And I sure hope some miracle can come along.

And he's working hard.

I would love to see Binkley in that top four.

It's possible yet.

You've got time yet

Tim Grover scrambling the scrambling the deck of cards there Scott Corey win place show and honorable mention

I'm gonna say Trump the Santas at third place could actually be the shocker of the night if Vivek can overcome Haley for third

Wow Wow

Chip Raidman, you get the final say here, buddy.

I'm going right with Scott to Trump first, to Santa second, and I would say a close tie for third between Ramaswamy and Haley.

It's exciting.

The weather will be a little bit of a factor.

It's supposed to be very cold and a lot of precip.

We will see.

Mike Shane, play that ringtone!

Michael the maestro did it beautifully as always.

We've got through the first two modules.

Uh, a couple left here guys.

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Welcome

back, this beautiful January 2024.

The Feast of the Epiphany, January 6th, the Magi have arrived.

We've just concluded the 12 days of Christmas.

John Jacobson here with Mike Shane, Scott Corey, Chip Readman on 1540.

The Western Hemisphere's only blowtorch, K, X, E, L, and our FM transmitter 100.5, caroming across a couple dozen states between the Rockies and the Alleghenies, the Great Plains, the Midwestern states.

And guys, we've got back to studio audience acclaim.

Doctors David Hartstarch and doctors Ted Fogarty are courageous doctors of conscience.

On the cutting edge, guys, I will tell you, these are the guys that cured all their patients during COVID.

These guys are the greatest physicians that I have ever encountered.

They are brilliant and they are heroic.

They are courageous.

Former Iowa legislator, Dr. David Hartsich.

State senator emeritus welcome.

Dr. Hart such and dr. Fogarty the Omaha Vunderkind We'll start out with heart

such.

How you doing doc?

Hey John great to be on today beautiful date out here the out on the east side of Iowa and Sun is shining and I'm feeling good

What do I talk about today?

You and I have been talking about free speech and censorship.

Let's start with that.

Yeah, and I think

I think that across this nation, what has happened that is so terrible.

And we've seen it, we've seen its effects here in terms of medical care and how we treat COVID.

And basically the boards of medicine have been used to censor people, to censor doctors and threaten them to take away their license if they give what they call misleading information about COVID.

But you know, CISA is a federal organization.

which has taken on the notion of misinformation.

And it started with the 2020 election, and then it spread to the COVID issue.

And CISA, along with CDC and the FDA, have taken action in order to censor anybody who gives a narrative, which is contrary to that of the government.

And we're seeing this in a broad, a very broad array.

of political issues that should be determined by the free marketplace ideas.

In America, that is how we determine truth, the free marketplace ideas.

And when the government censors anybody, they are depriving people of the free marketplace ideas.

Doc, you're out of the gate here very nicely because what I would say is I encountered that even as a state legislator.

I was telling truth on Facebook and getting censored.

And, you know, Twitter basically was blocking all sorts of comments that people were trying to make.

And it is a real concern.

Continue, doctor.

Well, I remember this one back even when I was in medical school 20, 25 years ago.

Kevin Knight was a legislator up in Minnesota where I was going to school.

And Kevin Knight

took on the issue of the exhaust, you know, the exhaust inspections for cars.

You know, the cars had to be licensed to be on the road.

And he said, well, how many, how many cars do we actually take off the road?

And he found out that state of Minnesota, of all the cars that they test, only six.

were taken off the road each year.

Oh my goodness.

Approximately.

Unbelievable.

Almost non-existent.

And he said, you know, for everything you pay to have that inspection and what happened was the EPA, the federal EPA, came after that legislator and told him, you shut up or else we're going to make sure you never get

reelected.

Yeah, it is absolutely amazing.

Let's bring in Dr. Ted Fogarty.

Doc, welcome back to the show.

You know, we've got both rivers going here, hard such commands, the Mississippi or the commander of the Missouri River.

I see an ongoing problem as an erstwhile legislator that saw how the whole COVID thing was botched and people died as a result.

I don't want this to happen again.

I'm worried about doctors not being able to cure in the next pandemic.

They were hamstrung in the last pandemic.

Talk to me doc, where do we go?

Well, you know, thank God for former Iowa Senator Dr. David Hartsuch.

He really has a command of the entire political, legal, and medical landscape.

He does.

Regarding this, you know, COVID debacle.

But also, he's right on the mark with this.

I mean, this is an Orwellian three-letter agency that's a four-letter word in my mind.

What, what are the letters again?

Give, give the public the letters.

B-I-S-A, there's four letters dead and four.

Because all I see is something that, you know, kind of goes with what the Fogarty line.

But so David, what's the actual acronym stand for?

Oh, you had to put

me on the spot.

Security Agency.

Security Agency, there you go.

It's what is it again information computer information security agency.

Okay.

Well, it's basically

the CIA

say yeah,

it's basically the CIA integrated into the federal government from an informatic standpoint and and uh, uh, you know, you know, you've uncovered a lot of stuff in our discussions with the, you know, Dr. Lee Merritt regarding the whole system.

issue and they're really the puppet string holder behind the scenes.

And so when we broaden this whole VISTA issue and the federal government basically having an agency that's out there to restrict free speech and independent thinking,

and roll that into major issues like the carbon pipeline.

Which

is a big issue, the carbon capture pipeline.

We had two presidential candidates just recently hold forums in conjunction with the citizen groups who are against the carbon capture pipeline.

We really are dealing with 1984, especially in matters of safety, where independent doctors are getting censored.

And and the corporates, you know, like the major corporates in, you know, North Dakota, Sanford Health, which basically, you know, owns both North and South Dakota governments, they try out their docks to say that this pipeline is going to be safe across the Dakotas into Iowa and Nebraska.

And I got to tell you, there's already one experience with a carbon dioxide pipeline bursting under these high pressures and causing death and disability.

What I see in the Northern Plains especially is that if this pipeline ends up going underneath the Missouri River and ends up rustering under water, it's a silent, deadly gas that displaces all the oxygen in the microenvironment of a river valley atmosphere.

We have atmospheric inversions occurring all the time in the Northern Plains in river valleys where

where hot air rises to a certain point in the river valley and then stops because of the atmospheric conversion process.

And, you know,

I'm an adjunct professor of petroleum engineering at the University of North Dakota, not just the former chair of radiology at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine.

But, you know, from what I've seen in bonding up with my Iowa colleagues, especially through you, John and David, we're all the independent mavericks now in the Northern Plains,

the entire weight of the federal government, the corporates that have faciously basically taken over the federal government, and even our state government.

You know, Sanford Health has created a corporate, fascist, two-state duopoly of medicine and science, and working with these big oil companies, and some at Carbon Capture.

And who's the chief of all that?

It's Doug Burgum, who's Bill Gates' best friend in U.S.

government.

And I mean, you get to the connections of this cabal that goes all the way to the World Health Organization through Bill Gates and has had manipulations of all kinds of people in science and medicine out on the East Coast, especially like at Harvard running through Jeffrey Epstein.

And why is it Melinda Gates divorced Bill Gates?

Well, it's because of his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein.

These corporate links

and takeovers of our government are literally linked to a satanic cabal controlling this entire country, if not the world.

And they want to sequester this carbon to pull enough carbon out of the atmosphere to literally blow down plant growth in this country and in this world.

It makes no sense at all that we're spending how many dollars, how many dollars are coming out of the Iowa Ag economy to sequester something that helps our corn grow?

I mean, if you look at the folly of this from a macroeconomic picture, we're going to take a bunch of carbon from from Iowa ethanol plants and sink it into sink it into the Bakken, which, by the way, is probably going to foul the Bakken for more oil.

Because if there's any hydrates in there, if there's any water down 5,000, 10,000 feet below the surface of North Dakota, that carbon is going to turn into carbonic acid.

And it's going to it's going to basically

It's going to create a little cement in all those fracture planes

in the

bucket anyway.

I mean, I feel like the real agenda behind this whole carbon capture thing is to shut down the bucket.

Wow, amazing stuff.

We're going to have to visit part two of this next week.

But this is incredible stuff from both Hartzich and from Fogarty.

Chip Reidman, you had a quick question for the docs that comes directly to pandemic treatment and COVID related treatment.

Let's get the question for the doctors in here real quickly.

So we talked last week about Dr. Peter McCullough and some of the

tweets that he's put out, and there's one I just saw regards the Cleveland Clinic out of Cleveland, Ohio, and they've produced a study which shows two things.

One is the more shots you get

the more susceptible, the more cases of COVID you will get.

There's a direct proportion, more shots, more COVID.

And the second part of it is, the older you are, the greater the incidence is compared to young people.

Do you guys have any comment on this?

Have you heard about this?

Is this news or what?

This is actually something that was brought out in Israel, and we've also seen it in other publications where they looked at the number of cases and mortality of those who were vaccinated and those who weren't.

And it is shown that, yes, indeed, those people who had gotten all their boosters and everything were more likely to get the disease.

And now the people who, on the other side, would say, oh, that's misinformation.

we need to censor that because it's going to keep people from getting a shot.

And they also say it doesn't prove anything because those people who get more boosters, more shots, might have more underlying pathology and so they're more likely to die.

And so they just ignore it.

And instead, these are red flags that are sent off, which means that we as a society should be devoting more effort into honestly

determining the risk and benefit of the vaccine.

And yet the powers that be do not want it.

They do not want anybody to look under that stone because they're afraid of what the public will find.

And these are, to me, the evidence, although not conclusive, is highly suggestive that this doesn't do what it's supposed to do.

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