Intro Live from the Karl Chevrolet studios in West Des Moines. This is Iowa live. Welcome back to the program. Everybody into court. Steve Martin, the new Iowa History Journal is here. The new Iowa History Journal is here. Michael Swagger also joining us. Hello, Michael. Good to see you. I feel like someone important. It's it's in the mailbox. How about that? This is so cool. Starting the month off with another installment of the Iowa History Journal. Iowa History Journal Right on the day that comes out, hot off the presses, they say. And I think this is an issue. That every Iowa Hawkeye and Iowa State fan who follows football closely needs to read because we have a wonderful cover story. Now tell us about the Iowa History Journal first and foremost. That comes out every couple of months. And what's inside of it? You bet. We're in a 14th year of publishing now, six issues a year. And the cover story really is, is the big feature of this issue about Iowa State legends Jack Trice and University of Iowa legend Duke Slater. And I think folks who know about the the schools obviously know that that the teams play on the field. In the stadiums named after them. But they might not know the story behind these two amazing men. And to give you some perspective, there are only four FBS schools in the whole nation whose fields or stadiums are named after former black athletes. Two of them are in Iowa. Wow, that's pretty impressive. It really is. It goes to show you how important we take our history here in Iowa as we look at a picture of Jack Trice. Jack Trice Long story short about Jack. He played for Iowa. He was the first black athlete at Iowa State. He played in 1923, played two games for varsity. Take this freshman year with freshman ball, but they couldn't play varsity. Then it's freshman and they he he was only in two games, the first one against Simpson, this is in 1923. And then the second game, unfortunately the the fatal game against Minnesota where he was playing defense and the second play of the game he got his collarbone broke and this guy was so tough he didn't want to come out of the game. So he stayed and kept playing, but he got trampled on a play later in the game and they carried him off the field. In spite of his protest to stay in the game, they took him to the hospital. They transferred him to Ames and unfortunately he died a couple days later and Ames in the hospital there of internal bleeding. But what's amazing about his story is that we have a copy of the letter that he wrote the night before his first game, and that's a key piece of history. And to Jack's story about the pressure that he felt to perform well as the first black athlete at Iowa State. These guys both went through so much, not only physically like their teammates, but verbally and the things that they had encounter. So that's Jack's story. Yeah, you can see the, the, the mental stress. That he was enduring at that time, and that's one of those letters. You read it and you can feel his Duke Slater emotion while you're reading the letter and you have that letter in here. I do. And I was really proud to be able to get a copy and publish that. So I encourage everyone to especially read the letter with Duke Slater. Duke was played for the Hawkeyes for four years from 1918 to 1921, was an All American tackle, went on to play professional football for 10 years, and again was a groundbreaking, a pioneer football player in the NFL. Just got inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame wow, about a year ago. But the Hawkeyes just got around to naming their field the surface that they play on Duke Slater Field just last year last July. And that was two years after they had just erected a bronze relief of him depicting him playing in the famous Notre Dame game when they beat the new Rockne's team. Yeah, SO22 incredible athletes. 2 great Iowans with with amazing stories and you know before you whether it's the big game. Next week or at any point during the season. That's why we published this story for our September, October issue during the football season. I encourage fans to pick it up and learn about these two men. And the person that wrote the story pretty special, too. Absolutely. Don Doxie is the longtime quad City Times Sports writer, editor, columnist. He just recently retired and he knows football as well as anyone in the state. All right. And now, you know, so great story for Iowa and Iowa State fans in here and history fans in general, but something else that is really cool. Do you enjoy Donuts? Well, did you know that the donut machine was invented in Iowa? As a matter of fact, in Waterloo, it was the Waterloo Gym Donut machine. So we have them to thank for those tasty treats that we get to enjoy on the weekend. It looks like a bigger version of the little one that was at the fair in a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, it was a great point that you made. I had not thought of that way. So that's, that's a wonderful story written by Tim Harwood. And then we have another story about Dick Clark, who walked his way across the state and into the US Senate in 1972. And then another story from our mutual friend John Busby about the popular tent shows in the late 18th century. In the early 20th century, so great stories, all that inside of this issue of the Iowa history journal, people want to get a copy of this I sent to their mailbox work. Can they do that? They can go to iowahistoryjournal.com. If they want to buy a copy, where can they go? IV Fairway, Walmart, Barnes and Noble. How about that? So we got everybody covered here. If you want to get some back issues, like get some back issues at a discount right now, go online to find out all about that. But great job. Again, perfect timing for the Iowa, Iowa State game. Michael Swanger, always great to see you. Thanks to you, my friend, and good to see you. Thank you for watching. We will be back here tomorrow for a beautiful Friday here on Iowa live.