KXEL Presents: The Jacobsen Group Podcast - June 8, 2024

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First, our inimitable engineer with his inimitable ringtone, 53 years in the radio business, the great, the one, the only, Mike Shane with his steady hand on the tiller, steering us through choppy seas of free speech here in America.

The last vestige.

and of course we have also the eastern Iowa beacon Tim Grover the rover and Tim the studio audience acknowledges Tim you know Tim has the perfect name Tim Grover because Tim is like our Tim Conway he wasn't a regular when the show began but he did so well like Carol Burnett had to finally offer a gig to Tim Conway we've got Tim Grover here with us and

Last but not least on this fearsome foursome.

Oh Mike Shane brings up the fearsome foursome music perfectly the Mike Spence NFL Theme there the final fearsome foursome member our Nebraska Iowa State contributor Chip Reidman chief engineer in her private life and Previous life now that he's in retired life before of us are going to go foraging around before we hear from

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Well, let's go right into the McLaughlin.

round table format here, Mike Shane.

Let's cue up the John McLaughlin music.

You know, for show prep, I do so very little, but I did do the show prep of Dana Carvey's version of the McLaughlin group on SNL yesterday.

Laughed with a couple of friends hysterically.

Boy, did he nail the late, great John McLaughlin.

This is our homage to him.

Issue one.

WMB.

a travails well uh... gentleman i had to chuckle yesterday for those of us of a certain age there's a wonderful meme out that if you go back about it's been twenty years at twenty four years the olympics uh... the famous tanya harding versus uh... nancy carrigan where there's the uh... photo of harding uh... kind of skating by nancy carrigan of course we know what happened later uh... harding

I think a few friends of Harding decided they wanted to remove the competition and took a hammer to the knee of Nancy Kerrigan.

It ended up pretty nicely.

Nancy still won a silver and went on for lucrative marketing.

Tanya had a little tougher time there, but wins some in her own way.

I think that by analogy, the WNBA is Tanya Harding, and Caitlin Clark is Nancy Kerrigan.

Let's start out here with Chip Readman Chip.

Am I wrong about this?

I

found that an interesting comparison.

I kind of

appreciated when you

sent that

snapshot the other day.

It's one interesting way to look at it.

She's definitely trying to take the high road where the other side has definitely gone the low road.

You know, Chip, I know with men, if men have a Achilles heel, a thorn in their side, it's usually lust.

I think for women, it's often

jealousy and competition and sometimes envy and vanity.

It's a stereotype, but polling shows that most genders would agree with those takes.

It's amazing to me.

It appears to be the WNBA with the resentment against Caitlin is almost, you know, they're trying to eliminate the goose that's laying the golden egg.

They have an opportunity right now.

in the WNBA for gargantuan viewership, which started out hugely, hugely for any game that Clark was in in the WNBA.

And our own Caitlin Clark, you know, the profit zone for these athletes could expand enormously, and yet we see sometimes a lack of support from teammates, bad coaching, terrible refereeing,

resentment and envy by competitors such that on the court it looks less like a basketball game and more like a roller derby game or perhaps a Three Stooges vignette that you'll see right before Dr. Sanguinary on me TV on Saturday nights.

Chip, what's going on?

The WNBA definitely has issues.

They've always been looked at as second rate.

Women's sports has always suffered that.

I've actually enjoyed many women's sports enjoyed women's soccer for a number of years until

you have you've been very loyal.

So it's amazing how they get into a suicidal mode sometimes.

I'm trying to destroy their own product I don't get that your early analogy about the difference between men and women I think there's there's a lot of truth in it it's not a hundred percent but there's more truth in it than there is.

Anything else.

It's just amazing what they would do to try and harm themselves.

It was also I find interesting if you go outside to the media side the media is much more supportive of Caitlin Clark and her situation and wondering what these women are doing to their own business model compared to inside the WNBA.

You don't hear many women being very defensive of the K.O.

and Clark situation and they just seem to just spread the problem even more.

Yeah, I agree.

You know, it's so fascinating to be Iowa based here to talk about this because this is the talk of nationwide.

Tim Grover, if you look at any of the sports.

tv radio podcasts are all talking about katlyn clark and it's literally now front page stuff on the internet for the fox news and all the other major news providers it really is the buzz out there uh... such that uh... a little diminutive mini man bob costas is weighing in on it and you've got uh... all these other

big time, folks, you know, Jason Whitlock, everybody seems to be weighing in right now.

What's your take on things, Tim Grover?

Well, real

quick, just to clarify my role here.

My knees are gone.

So Dwarf on golf is out the window.

That's not going to happen.

I'm sorry, buddy.

But

Well, we're worried that they're going to take Caitlyn's knees out from her if they don't knock this stuff off.

So Tim, what's the problem here?

I think obviously it's an inherent problem with the WNBA itself.

I think it's essentially been a subsidized league and they haven't had to be excellent.

Maybe they don't want to be excellent.

Maybe they want to be a closed circuit to use an old engineering term.

Well,

I can't tell if it's the WNBA or a 50s women's prison movie.

I think the problem we got here is somebody new moved into the cell block and they're the new chief and the old cell block leaders are not happy about it.

You know, that's really quite amazing analogy.

I think that's a pretty good one too.

Obviously, there have been some tremendous.

Clay Travis.

wrote a great piece about it from out kick and of course he is on a show on a competing network here say guys just just sideline here talk about competing network this will be a supporting network we have a huge presence here of course thanks to Jeff Stein the great folks at

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Oh my goodness the possibilities are endless so

Chip and Tim, I'm gonna ask a question.

Did Caitlin make a mistake by even going into the NBA?

I advise her not to.

I mean, I didn't talk to her, but I thought she should have done the three on three for five million, done her own branding, done her, gone into coaching, gone into broadcasting.

I didn't see a big upside.

Shoot.

Looking at things now, she should have stayed at Iowa for a year.

Did she make a mistake, Chip Redman?

No, I don't think so.

It's a matter of brand building.

The other choices that you mentioned as far as career options are interesting, but I think you want to give the professional circuit a try for a while.

Hopefully you can get on a better team with a better coach and better management than what she's on right now.

That is probably her biggest issue is

You know, people have to remember she is on the worst team in the WNBA and it's hard for one person to resurrect a team to any loft status when you're in that situation.

I mean, Jordan couldn't do it.

Bird and Magic, you know, wouldn't be able to do it.

They got onto teams that were built, Jordan in particular, they were just gradually built up to where he reached the start, start them that he eventually did.

But, you know, she has to be given time to be able to set some records.

Get some good teammates around her where she can really perform and show her skills better.

And I think that looks better.

If she's going to go to a coach down the road, at least it's something that's on her resume that she can say that she did this.

But it's a tough position that she's in right now.

But she's got to go through it.

We all

have to go through it.

We're all starting at the bottom of the barrel.

Yeah, that's a good point.

That's a good point.

All of us in life, we may be king in high school, and then we have to start again in college.

We might be king in college.

You have to start again the workforce.

Not a bad metaphor at all.

Tim Grover, should she have stayed at Iowa or taken an alternate route to WNBA?

She appears to be exhausted and a little down, to be honest with

you.

They aren't the worst team in the league.

The Washington Misfits are 0 and 10.

You're talking about our Congress.

No, we're talking about WNBA here.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Washington Misfits.

There's actually a team of that name.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Go ahead.

Go

ahead.

That's why they're 0 and 10.

I hear Speaker Johnson is like a consultant on the team.

But no, she did the right thing.

If she went away, that three on three league is interesting.

But that's checkers.

This is chess.

I challenge any NBA player and I'm gonna build the league up a little bit here.

Yeah All these women have done this.

I challenge any NBA player To go right out of college into the pros with no offseason like these women Yes, yes, this is a great point and it shows why

We're better off in this world having women give giving birth to children

Well, you know that that that is a great point.

She's literally Started the season and you know, she's earned her degree, but obviously she started the season even before formal commencement Activities and she's she was named the WNBA rookie of the month.

So that's a

That's at least salve in the wounds that she literally been inflicted on her physically on the court.

Well, they're setting up for some foils.

Angel Reese gets booted from the game the other night.

Why do I have a sneaking suspicion that a commissioner might have told the refs to start tamping down on some of the

the trash talk and the roller derby i could be completely wrong about that but uh... is angel get the bad rap are we picking on angel too much uh... uh... chip reidman oh

maybe a little bit but on the other hand it's self-inflicted i mean it's it's not like she's made any attempt to try and you know hide from any of this she's definitely not afraid of going to a microphone and saying some pretty stupid stuff so

You know, I don't want to give her the benefit out.

No, I guess not

You know Tim Grover.

I'm willing to give her some benefit out that young lady looks beautiful in a swimsuit She's done a lot of swimsuit modeling and that that is that is What do I want to say it is a very aesthetic and very excellent athletic training build that she presents

And so, you know, that shows her ability to be very disciplined in the training and exercise because she certainly fit and in great shape.

And at 6'3", she is a model that I think John Kenny would have appreciated for his physical fitness program that he launched in America.

for our grade and high school kids to get fit.

I mean, I think from that standpoint, she's got some cash in market of her own that she's built with some attire, clothing, cosmetics.

In her own right, she is a brand, definitely, isn't she?

Oh yeah, and she's a reflection of our times that we live in right now and her generation.

They're narcissistic.

They're self-centered and they are impatient.

They want to have the best house in the world right off the bat.

They want the new cell phone, even though the cell phone that they have now is perfectly fine.

Earning your way and paying your dues is something that they haven't been taught.

I can't really give you so much of a break more than

I think the program she was with, all the way up from, you know, AAU.

I mean, nobody has sat her down and said, hey, you know, you're probably a little bit spoiled.

Well, you know, you raised an interesting point.

Obviously, the LSU collegiate basketball culture is very different, very flashy, very blingy.

You know, Livy Dunn is an LSU gymnast who's going out with Paul Skeens, the

Major League Baseball player, who by the way is a great patriot.

He's going to serve in the Air Force after his Major League Baseball career.

So I knew Livy Dunn had to be a conservative.

Did you have that pegged a long time ago there, Chip Redman?

Yeah, there's two interesting points to this.

One, you talk about the aesthetics, how they look, how they present themselves.

Nice features, nice build.

That drives all the womaness or whatever you want to call them.

in the country nuts because you're judging someone by their looks and not by their talent.

So you've got that side going on and whether it's true or not, in their mind, it is true.

It is a quality we all look at.

But on the other hand, I wonder about who she surrounds herself with friends.

A lot of it goes back to upbringing.

I don't know Libby Dunn's background.

I don't know both their backgrounds.

But when you look at the way that they carried themselves in society and stuff, you wonder if they've had enough people around them to just tell them, no, I get amazed at how many people I talk to and they come up with the most outlandish statements.

And it's someone that I may not be

really, really

good friends with, but it's an acquaintance.

And they say something and I want to look at them sometimes and go, do you have any friends that would ever tell you that's the wrong thing to be thinking or whatever?

And I wonder if sometimes if that's what they go through, some of these athletes and stuff, they get surrounded by their so-called posse and supporters, and they don't really get a well-rounded viewpoint of someone just saying, look, I love you and you're a good friend, but that's wrong.

That's a mistake.

I wonder about agents sometimes.

I think

agents sometimes do people up faster than what reality does.

Chip, you're nailing it because that's just the long,

The long history of sports as a trust officer, I can tell you, dozens, hundreds of athletes who've made multi-millions who are flat broke by 40 because all of these predatory hangers on grabbed all the money and they're broken.

And these are folks that if they just had one person

sheltering their money in a trust they would have been set for life really really excellent point well guys um speaking of set for life issue two the democrats are trying to put donald trump in prison for life and i think they're trying to put paul navarro

who's a great economics advisor in prison for life, because he was an advisor to Trump, and now they're trying to put Steve Bannon in prison for life.

You know, last week was not a one-off.

I warned that they're coming after everybody.

Tim Grover, they're coming after everybody.

Now, who's gonna be left to run the campaign if they put every Trump supporter in prison?

Shucks, who's gonna be left to vote for Trump if they put everybody in prison?

Oh wait, could that be the point, Tim Grover?

Oh very much so there's quite a threat going out there in fact the thought of me possibly being Having to do a dwarf on golf almost put me in the mood of being present for life, but But yeah, there's intimidation going on.

We're starting to see rumors of of Never Trump or vice presidents coming forth who will know this in about a month.

Oh, you mean a

Republican

Yeah, actually the choice at the Uniparty

cocktail hour in DC.

Exactly.

And he might have to succumb to do that

to

try and get all these legal things off his back.

Well, they forced HW Bush on Ronald Reagan so anything's possible.

And they forced Pence on Trump round one.

So there's been a lot of that force going on, even

Cheney to babysit W. So yeah, sometimes vice presidential picks are dictated, Tim Grover.

Yeah.

And you know, and that's worked in the past.

That is, you know, the stuff that we've done before in the past,

you

can't have everything, you have to have some compromise when you're in a party,

get

some compromise when you're in a marriage.

So, so part of that that worked in the past, but these are different times now.

We're looking at a bird flu outbreak again, which who knows if that's real or not.

We know the COVID thing wasn't.

And I see there's going to be a lot of discourse and it's going to get worse the closer we get to November.

That's going to be even worse after that.

There's a lot of infighting going on.

I don't know which way he goes for a vice presidential pick.

There's big money that is not going to give him that money.

They've publicly said, if I don't have the right vice president, like Nikki Haley, if I don't have somebody like that, the RNC is not getting any money at all.

You know, Tim, that's a fascinating point.

Chip Readman, I would tell President Trump that winning, this is about winning.

And to go outside the box, I would tell him do what you need to do to get Bobby Kennedy or Tulsi Gabbard on the ticket.

Two erstwhile Democrats who do have a broad base of appeal in their own right, who I believe could secure independent voters.

Probably won't happen, but Chip, what's your feeling?

It is interesting.

My Biden folks that thought that the felony conviction would peel off that 7% of Republicans for Trump.

The initial polls out of the gate are showing Trump holding steady.

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

I think the American people are saying that was a BS verdict.

What say you, Chip Reidman?

Oh, that's a mouthful, John.

Starting with Tulsa Gabbard and Kennedy.

I understand the intrigue of that combination with Trump, but please don't do it.

I'm stirring the pot here.

You know, I love stirring.

So keep going,

Chip.

They have viewpoints that just do not match with anything conservative or even whatever Republican is today.

That is true on certain on certain aspects.

That's very true.

Yes.

Yes, they do.

And I'd rather see Kennedy put into

Or Gabbard to put into position like you know the head of one of the departments.

Oh, yeah, Bobby would be great to run the health the health situation, you know

Not Kennedy and Department of Energy.

I'm

not no, no, but HHS would be good there and

Yeah,

Gabbard is not a war monger.

She would be good in several slots, too

Yeah

So the issue coming up this point is it just continues.

We all have to deal with it.

So I'm, you know, watching there's a weather station I watch every now and then.

And it just, the big lies just continue and it just, it's staggering.

And I'm looking at it and the one of them and I'm thinking, Oh, is that true?

And it's not until this morning, I finally see some headlines that say it's not true.

And one is that, um, that Biden brought out the $35 cap on insulin.

And it's not true.

It came up when Trump was president.

Chip, I think it'd be more likely that Biden would put the cap on the Adderall because all the Adderall, they're stuffing in him to get him alert for a one-hour press availability each day.

It must be staggering the Adderall that they must be pumping into him.

Well, it's a supply and demand.

You know,

I mean, he's probably putting a lot of stress on the system with his demand for that drug.

I seriously, that is very sad.

It's very sad, but that's true because when you're stimulating and they do use those types of drugs for people that are battling his type of illness and folks, the downside is that can actually accelerate the, the frying of your synapses.

And I, boy, again, I'm going to pull out my trust officer card again.

In Iowa, if I saw a family doing that to a man to keep him on the job, so to speak, I would, I probably would have to report them for elder abuse because, you know, it would be a mandatory report situation for me.

I honestly can't believe.

that they are doing this and and it it does it terrify you tim grover i just think when you saw that the forty five interviewed members of congress this week in that big news report that came out set how terribly fast the uh... president is failing when they see him in meetings in the white house uh... it is really uh... it it is to be it is to be feared when we have put now

pulling into Kita Khrushchev saying, OK, you're going to put missiles and troops in my neighborhood.

Here I come to Cuba.

My goodness, Tim, go over.

We're in trouble.

Biden, the first president in history, who actually has somebody

with a power of attorney over his personal affairs.

Well,

it makes me wonder.

Well, you know, the thing is, again, you have your Department of Justice special prosecutor appointee saying that he's he's not fit to be tried for a crime due to his betraying mental situation.

And yet how then can you be fit for the presidency?

And if you have a power of attorney over your personal affairs, how should we be letting him run our public affairs if he can't handle his own?

I

wonder if there's side effects on that.

I mean, you're missing, I guess, to be blunt about it, the odor in the room.

I really wonder if there's some digestive issues that happen from the drugs that he's putting on.

Just unbelievable.

Yeah.

What do you think?

This will be our outro question here.

What do you think

will be the situation as we go into the 4th of July holiday polling wise.

Will some of the support peel off Trump from the from the New York Circus or does Trump hold steady and still have an advantage?

What say you Chip Readman?

So he's being portrayed as a convicted felon.

So you're a lawyer John and as I think you would agree I was reading something from a Yale law professor

He is not technically a convicted felon yet.

That does not happen until the judge issues sentence, which won't happen until July 11th.

Correct.

Correct.

And it's not filed until the appeals processes are... That's right.

And frankly, this will be overturned, ladies and gentlemen.

Maybe not in New York, but they will take that, make a federal issue out of it, and it will be overturned.

Of course, after the election, they're just trying to inflict the damage right now.

Back to you, Chip, though.

Great point.

Yeah, so it's similar to Stepanopoulos coming out and calling him a rapist.

He was never tried and convicted.

Yeah, he was never a rapist.

No, no, no.

And we know that whole thing is bogus.

Yeah, never, never found guilty of any sort of sexual assault, actually.

So they'll take anything they can.

Yeah, what that was.

The way they can to present falsehood.

That was never a criminal trial.

involving the one woman where there was a money damages, but there was never any criminal finding of sexual assault ever.

And, well, you see all this hyperbole in these election contests.

Tim Grover, Trump seems to be holding steady in the polls.

Do you think he carries that to July 4 and gets to that first debate in Bess Biden?

Yeah, the polls are where they're going to

be.

I think.

I don't think Biden is as close to him as we think.

RFK Jr.

is not being pulled in a lot of these polls that we're seeing in the mainstream media.

I would almost say, right off the top of my head, I would almost say Biden probably isn't even barely drawing 20% in real life.

Tim, I will say one thing.

I agree with you.

Kennedy

is going to take more bite out of Biden and it's oh yeah

I would not have said that

I would not have said that with metaphysical certitude six months ago I say it with absolute metaphysical certitude on a scale one to ten I give it a ten and here's why

a lot of people a lot of people disagree with that John I've heard a lot of pundits out there that say the exact opposite it's Trump's that's gonna one that's gonna suffer from the Kennedy vote

and this shows why we have won all the awards and why these beltway guys are wrong chip read man here here's

Here's the analysis why and this is what these national pundits are missing.

I would have agreed with them Six months go on this however Bobby has pivoted from what appeared to be a willingness last August to sign a 15-week ban on abortion to now Basically being a pro-choice a complete pro-choice on abortion candidate Trump supporters who

first while had flirted with going to Kennedy, that's a non-starter for them on the life issue.

It truly is.

You will not see the defections from Trump now that Kennedy drew that line in

the

sand and said, I'm totally basically pro-abortion rights.

Kennedy will draw away

votes, but it's not going to be from the Trump base.

It's going to be from people that never would have voted for Trump.

Some libertarians, some Republicans, some even Reagan Democrats, but they're votes that Biden's not going to get.

I am totally confident about that.

And I think if you look at specifically swing state polling, Kennedy is just bludgeoning Biden in the swing state.

So, Tim Grover, what say you?

Well, I'd like to add, they just plunked 135,000 signatures down to New York.

He's on the ballot there.

He's going to be on the ballot in Minnesota today.

I've never seen a candidate, nationally, get on a ballot like this with these huge signature amounts.

And that's because he already has the network out there, a network that's really mad that our government killed their relatives.

Yeah,

yeah and Tim Grover.

I can give you one other Proof For why Kennedy is drawing more votes away from Biden than Trump.

You know what that is?

The media who is in the tank for Biden if they thought that Kennedy was pulling for Trump Bobby Kennedy would be listed on that debate for June and they'd already be Advertising the three-way debate.

Oh, yeah, it's

over for Biden man.

Yep.

Yep.

Yeah, and I'll tell you a Trump and Kennedy debate

would be the greatest debate we've seen in our lives.

It would.

It would.

We're actually going to sit there and discuss issues instead of sitting there and stipe at each other all day long.

You

know,

I'd rather watch wrestling than debate nowadays.

If you want to see one of the great American political debates, get on YouTube and type in Ronald Reagan, Bobby Kennedy debate.

In 1967, they debated on CBS television, along with, it looked like a Zoom meeting of Hollywood Squares, or about a dozen students from Britain and other European and African countries.

that we're interacting with bobby kennedy and ronald reagan and what was so great about the debate was the initial and these men were in their prime this was not ronald reagan after getting shot this was ronald reagan in his first year as governor bobby kennedy about to run for president just retiring just retired as attorney general a few years before that they're they're matching wits magnificently with policy disagreements and then

When the snot nose entitled Bratz from Europe started dissing on the US, did they ever circle the wagons and present a united front?

It is compelling viewing.

It was done by, I believe, CBS and

I

call it the first Zoom meeting.

I encourage everybody to watch it.

We do not have debates like we did with Jack Kennedy and Richard Nixon and

and ronald reagan bobby kennedy and that debate was so interesting because there was some grudge match going on there remember bobby kennedy got ronald reagan fired his host of death of g e theater bobby kennedy

bobby

kennedy put in the call to get ronald reagan canned as the tv host of g e theater which was a very successful television program reagan lost his motive living had to do uh...

had to grab the cane and the hat and do Las Vegas MCing to make money for his family.

And when that debate occurred about five years later, Reagan did so well that Bobby Kennedy was furious and told his staff, don't you ever put me on the same stage with that blank, with that SOB again.

Isn't Americana great stuff, Chip Reidman?

It is.

You gotta love a good debate when it happens and we don't get off it enough.

But I love to see them up there sparring.

Trump is very good at that.

Sometimes it goes out maybe a little bit overboard with walking over.

But I want to hear what people think.

And sometimes when you get emotions involved in it, that's when you find out what people are really thinking.

Yes, I agree.

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One thing that's kept America safe all these years.

We've never had to forage for food like those.

poor communists in North Korea chewing tree bark up there, and we don't have to rely on the mid-east terror dollars, the mid-east states, for fuel, which is very good as we see right now.

The mid-east is a total collapse of depravity, of murder, of genocide, perpetual, and we should not be given any money to any of those terror states over there.

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well guys let's move to issue three Ukraine Ukraine are you insane Joe Biden and Democrat and Republican Congress what in the hell are you doing in Ukraine why are we doing what John Kennedy told us not to do which is to paint the bear into a corner

So now we've stoked up Ukraine with more weapons, and what could possibly go wrong?

They're the neighbor of Russia.

Russia wants that buffer zone historically, and they wanted to join NATO instead.

We're now there at their back door.

We launched a coup to overthrow the pro-Russian government there a decade ago.

We've now got biolabs over there and money laundering going on over there, threatening Russia at their border, threatening their troops in this war that now is stalemated.

There should certainly be a peace treaty.

We're now at a trench warfare situation and a standoff.

is clear that eastern Ukraine are Russians, they're Orthodox, they want to be part of Russia, that Donetsk and Crimea in a couple of those areas.

The West wants to be with Ukraine, yet we've perpetuated the war with this huge congressional release of money.

Evidently, we didn't kill off every single Ukrainian male left in the country, so with our military war profiteering machine at the U.S., we're hell-bent on doing that.

And so now Mr. Putin is understandably unhappy and now

Now he's rolling the folks toward Cuba.

What could possibly go wrong?

Why is the GOP in on this insanity, Tim Grover?

Because the

Uniparty is basically a warmongering party.

We're seeing LBJ on steroids with this administration.

Ukraine isn't winnable.

There's troops on the ground in France where Germany has just activated their reserves.

We're to the point now where there can't be any profits to be made left out of all this.

And so now we're getting into egos.

And myself, I'm tired of being called, hey, maybe we shouldn't have done this.

And I'm supposed to be a Putin lover when I say that.

And it's like, I don't get that.

No, it's got nothing to do with it.

It's real simple.

I mean, if you want to take the country over, send your kids over and have it done.

It's not a case of right and wrong and good and bad.

Their own people, the parents over there are having their own kids sent out.

And I think the last I heard is about 50,000.

Your kid can leave the country or something.

It's just unbelievable.

And it's precisely because people like you and I know how dangerous Putin is that you don't paint the Russian bear into a corner.

We're following good Democrat.

foreign policy protocols from the Cold War that help win the Cold War.

Chip Redman, who's in charge over there?

This seems like insanity on steroids, this foreign policy.

And the Republicans in Congress are right there in Amen Corner, charging for war.

Well, the neocons, and that can even be both parties, though, the Uniparty, as Tim said, are pretty much in control of a lot of what's going on.

I, as a

As a man with a son that's not quite 30 years old, what scares me is now you have the talk coming out of Congress where they're saying they want to re-institute the draft.

Everyone has an opinion and you start somewhere and

you hold

that opinion, the facts change.

And so at the very beginning, I was, you know, I'm still pro-Ukraine.

I believe that they need to fight and everything.

But now that time has come out or moved on, we've got more evidence and what happened in 2014, how dirty the whole thing looks.

You start looking at the numbers.

Victor Davis Hansen paints an excellent case of why this is just absolutely insane.

There's no way that your pain can win.

The numbers, they don't have the financial backing.

They don't have the production facilities to support a war like this.

Negotiation should have started a year or two ago to try and get this thing.

You're right, overcrane is an oversized country.

They took too much territory from Russia on the east.

They did.

They were given, I should say, territory on the west that actually is Polish.

And Hungarian for crying out loud.

Yeah.

So it's crazy how large this country is and it really shouldn't be this size.

And if it wasn't that way, we wouldn't be in this situation.

However, why we're in this situation still goes back to actions United States has taken about trying, well, about the overthrow of the previous government.

And we

scuttled the Minsk peace accords that Zelensky actually ran on when he ran for president of Ukraine that would have prevented

the

war and the United States scuttled it so that we could start a war and basically the result now is every Ukrainian male between the age of 15 and 60 is dead.

Yeah, well, and don't forget the other side is the NATO side Yep, is that this would have never happened if there hadn't been a push to get them a NATO right right exactly And she you know publicly announces and says you know that we should be you should be put into NATO No wonder putin's going crazy.

Yeah, I would too.

Yeah, that was happening.

Absolutely So it's it's this is entirely a self-inflicted wound is war that never really should have happened

We should find the fastest, simplest way to get out of it with fewer lives lost, less money spent.

This is actually beyond ridiculous.

It's grotesque the amount of money that we're throwing over there just to kill more Ukrainian men.

It is.

It's shameful.

It's gravely immoral.

And guys, the four Republicans in the Iowa House and all the Republicans

in the Nebraska House of Representatives, talking about the U.S.

House of Representatives.

All seven of them voted for this continued funding for this war.

And Tim Grover, I can't vote for Randy Feinstra or Zach Nunn or Mary Annette Miller-Meeks or Ashley Hansen anymore.

I served with all four of them.

I liked them very much.

I don't know what happens, these people when they get to Washington.

And I cannot vote for Joni Ernst anymore.

She voted

to have our daughters sign up for selective service.

The mothers of our children do not belong in forced conscription into selective service registration.

Tim, my party has gone off the ledge, and I think it's time for some soul searching.

What say you?

Very much so, John.

I was watching Bannon the other day, and he says it's Potomac fever.

are these people that we actually align with the best?

Everybody you just mentioned there, I align with them better than I would with anybody else.

Sure, sure.

But they've got Potomac fever.

And what does he mean by that?

Well, in Johnson's case, what they do is they take you down to the Intel

room.

With all the big bright lights, the big boards,

they're

showing you the drones flying

around.

They're showing you the operations going on.

Like Johnson didn't have that clearance before he became the speaker.

Right.

And your knives start popping

open.

When they turn to you and they say, you know, you can change the world.

And then you're gone.

You've got the putty and wick fever.

That's what they do with, you know,

They, they, they, they pop your eyes open.

And because of that's why we have term limits.

And that's why, you know, we're looking at it pretty much everybody you mentioned there has got 20 year careers.

Well, you have swerved.

You

have swerved brilliantly into issue four.

Iowa primary elections conducted Tuesday.

Boy, am I depressed?

Tim Grover, what I can tell you is I'm not going to mention names here, but one of the major winners in Pottawame County, Iowa was chairman of both the John Kasich and Nikki Haley campaigns.

That's what we got going on for us in Pottawame County.

The same old tired, broken lifers all won their GOP.

primaries for the county and legislative races.

The Democrats evidently are so happy with the GOP that we have that they're not even running very many candidates against them and only 5% of the people voted for these 95% stayed away either in abject disgust or

lackadaisical apathy, is a pathetic situation.

I don't think it portends well for growth and development.

Council Bluffs or Potawatomi County.

Tim Grover, what'd you see in the rest of the state?

Because boy, this was brutal.

Yeah, it's like you say, John.

In First District, are Congresswoman there as an FTX problem?

And that was probably the closest primary she's ever faced at any level all the years she's run.

And she's run plenty of times.

And she still won.

And there was out of a congressional district of 570,000 registered voters.

Only 30,000 people voted in that race.

And yeah, the parties

This is the other thing about this.

These people are all going to be running around this fall.

Trump will show up and do an event with them.

And they're allowed to use the MAGA label, and they're not MAGA.

Right, exactly.

This is the problem we've got in the Republican Party.

And this is the problem the Democrats got, because Kennedy's running around, and old Democrats are sitting there going,

I remember when the Democratic Party was this way.

That's a great point.

We let them do

it.

Chip Reidman, same thing in Nebraska.

I mean, there are Republican primary opponents.

They can never get more than about 40% of the vote because that Republican congressional and Senate money that will come in from DC just swamps the airwaves and there's literally no way to break

the cabal of incumbency.

And so we're stuck here in Nebraska with the same situation.

Pretty much.

I think that pretty much sums up things.

I'm not familiar with the Iowa side, of course, as much.

I can only comment on it as an outsider.

And when you say, you know, 5% voting, that's pretty pathetic.

I sometimes, again, I wonder if using the word I used before was just self-inflicted that Iowa puts themselves because it's Republicans only, if I understand right, the Democrats weren't voting.

because they did the caucus thing earlier

for president that's correct they did have a primary on tuesday but in pot county they literally they must be thrilled with republicans that the republicans not be must not be offensive to the democrats because the democrats hardly even feel that candidates to run against republicans i've never seen anything like it it's like and even in the legislative races in iowa you'll notice every year there's about two dozen races

that are never contested by the Republicans that are held by Democrats, and vice versa.

It's like they grant each other fiefdoms that are unchallenged.

There's not an attempt to run for all 150 offices.

By either party, Tim Grover, it's unbelievable to me.

Yeah, and like I said, in my county here, my sheriff helped four years ago.

And there was like maybe five of us on this committee when he started.

He wanted to come home.

The Sergeant Major retired from the Army National Guard.

And we got a good county attorney and a good county auditor.

They're still locked in by state procedures and everything.

And I'm very satisfied with the performance, but we don't have local control anymore.

of these offices.

It's all dictated by Washington DC money.

And yeah, there is a unit party out there.

And on the local level, it isn't like the unit party that it is in DC.

It's usually just, you know, somebody runs as a Democrat because they want a job and a Republican has and a Republican runs.

Because there's a job that the Democrat has that they want.

And that's going on for years.

Here's my outro question then.

Has it come time in America for us to do some self-reflection and to tone down our own arrogance because it seems to me right now

that if we want to more of a British barrister fact-finding judicial system, less adversely, more fact-finding like the Brits have, that we would be able to

make our current justice system more fair.

It seems to me that if we did what Javier Malay is doing in Argentina, he is miraculously, miraculously turning around the Argentine economy by what?

By cutting taxes, by cutting spending, by cutting regulations.

The Argentine miracle already in appearance as we're trying to kareem into socialism and a destroyed economy here in the United States.

Do we need to be more like Nigel Farage in Britain?

He is right now with his reform party, perhaps going to topple the conservative Tories, who had 335 seats a mere four years ago.

He may make the Tories extinct by becoming the new opposition party to labor.

Do we need more of a Farage effect in the U.S.?

Maybe it's time.

to run up against the Republicans and replace them as an opposition party if they won't do the trick, because all I see right now is feckless weakness, and maybe it is time.

What do you say, Tim Grover?

I think

we need to be looking at stop primary incumbents.

Start running the person who ran without pulling out names, the person who ran in the primary.

That got 43% in Iowa's first congressional district.

He needs to go on and run as an independent this fall.

Well, you know, in these close 50-50 races, an independent right in, just pulling 5%, would checkmate and make sure the incumbent did not win.

Is it time to look at doing that?

I'm not saying we should, but is it time to be able to be willing to play that card?

You have to and then you'll get then

you'll get a solution to abortion then

It might it might force the pro-lifers to actually be Pro-life With with great fervor once they get elected on the other hand It could be a problem because if it if it made up for the Democrat getting in by check meeting the Republican the Democrats certainly would vote

for abortion, and I'm a pro-lifer.

I don't want that to handle.

It's a conundrum, Chip Reidman.

You have the last word here, Chip, before we round out our program today.

Well, I guess I'm going to be the party pooper in this one.

I just don't see the stranglehold the two-party system in this country has ever letting go, especially when you look at nationally, the uniparty situation.

They both scratch each other's backs.

They have their back room meetings.

Voting is done on a

wheeling and dealing basis like yeah you can vote against the bill this time because we have enough votes but next time you got to vote with us and they just kind of rotate as to who votes yeah and they I just don't see us you know in a situation like other countries where they've got four or five six parties and they do all different kinds of mergers and collaborations between each other to try and get some kind of power you know we've always had a libertarian and a green party we've got these other parties

But they've really never made an impactful dent.

Ross Perot, you could say did, and look what a goddess was Clinton.

Yeah, that's a good point.

Yeah,

it could be worse.

I went back on that fondly compared to the Obama-Biden

he used

now.

So it was crazy of that sound.

So that's, I guess that's my sad take on it today.

I'm afraid you're right on that.

It's a conundrum because by blocking the incumbent Republican and the general, that may empower more of the Democrats to grab those seats and become even more leftist in their voting patterns.

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What a great discussion.

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