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

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This is hometown Marion boy Cedar Rapids Regis boy University of Iowa Hawkeye boy John Jacobson trust attorney state legislator radio bon vivant on the Jeffstein 50,000 watt Midwest blowtorch KXEL AM and FM with producer Mike Shane and our 37 times IBN a awards for radio excellence ensemble.

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Welcome to the program.

David Overholster here with Scott Corey and Matt Garz.

David, welcome.

Good morning.

Well, good morning, John.

It's great to be here this morning.

It's one of those days where I think it's going to be a warm one, but you know, that's just kind of.

It's what you get for this time of year.

David, this is our great Eastern Iowa Central Iowa audience.

I want to introduce each one of the ensemble here.

They've heard you on the previous three shows, but just a little bit up close and personal.

Tell us about David Overholster.

You certainly got some Eastern Iowa connections.

Well, you know what?

I certainly do.

I'm a CPA, been a CPA here in the area for.

Oh gosh, 30 years.

And my wife, Suzanne, is my office manager.

And in fact, I was just over in the Cedar Rapids, actually Coralville area, because my daughter, my youngest daughter, McAllister, is moving out of her apartment.

I've got another daughter, Olivia, that lives in Coralville and another daughter, Madeline, that lives in Tipton.

And my other daughter, Ellen, who graduated from the Iowa Pharmacy School.

School of Pharmacy is now up in La Crosse, Wisconsin nearby.

So yeah, I love that whole Cedar Rapids down to Iowa City Corridor.

Well, Dave, you're a tremendous

CPA.

How can folks find out about you if they're interested?

Well, if anybody's interested, just basically www.overholzer.biz.

That's O-V-E-R.

H-O-L-T-Z-E-R dot B-I-Z like in business.

And again, that's our website.

It kind of tells you all the contact information.

You know, it's like I said, we're small, it's just Suzy and I, but that way it's more personal.

Always great during the course of this show to bring back our show sponsors in person for a conversation.

One of Iowa's greatest business leaders, Cedar Rapids Zone, Marion Hyowath is owned, Barbara Haymes Bryant.

Barbara, we're playing that great Neil Diamond track underneath because that was 50 years ago, what your parents were rolling out on televised ads.

So great to have you back, Barbara.

Let's talk about now in 2022 this hot summer.

the beautiful line you have of homes for families to help them stay cool and safe and sheltered in the hot summer.

Thank you, John.

It's a pleasure to be with you today.

I love that song, Cracklin' Rosie.

It brings back memories of the TV commercials that Curt and Norma Haynes, the homes people made for 40 years, say if anybody would like to watch those again for old times' sake,

They're on our website at www.hameshomes.com.

They're under history and you can watch them all and run the myths about the 70s and 80s.

If you go back and look at our old commercials from the 1970s, you'll notice shag carpeting and dark paneling.

And that's what people have as an image of trailers or mobile homes.

That's not what they are anymore.

They're beautiful

spacious, manufactured homes built with the same building materials as site-built homes.

John, when people come and they tour our communities and they tour our homes, 100% of the time they are surprised.

They walk in and they say, this looks like a regular home.

Well, that's a little insulting, but in a way it's a big compliment.

We want our homes to look like a site-built home and for people to be comfortable and

have lots of livable space and lots of storage room and have a yard and have nice neighbors.

That's what we strive for and I think we've done a pretty darn good job of it.

Our homes are available to view seven days a week at our sales office at the corner of Wilson Avenue and West Post Road Southwest in Cedar Rapids or online at HamesHomes.com or

We'll be here to help anybody match them with the home of their dreams.

We're happy to follow in our parents' footsteps and provide safe, attractive, affordable housing for Iowans.

Ladies and gentlemen, the great Barbara Hames Bryant.

Barbara, you'll be joining us again next week.

Look forward to visiting with you.

Oh, me too, John.

Thank you.

Bye-bye.

Bye.

Well, you know, you got a couple other compadres on here today.

We're going to find out more about Scott Corey and Matt Garst in succeeding episodes.

But let's talk.

We've got fresh updates here this weekend.

All of you folks are big 10 and big 12 fans over there in Hawkeye and Cyclone Country.

And a lot of you and I, Panther fans, within some of our voice, because KXEL carries those Panther games.

Conference realignment is the huge story.

We've been covering it like a blanket.

Let's bring in Scott Corey and Matt Garst.

Scott, you've kind of almost been clairvoyant about this thing, like the amazing Kreskin.

Tell us what the latest is here this weekend.

Well, it's a lot going on right now, John, as you

kind of alluded to this week, the SEC and ACC wrapped up their media days.

where obviously the commissioner of the FCC projected a lot of strength and confidence.

Jim Phillips, the ACC commissioner, that is a press conference that will go down on how not to do a press conference.

Tell us what happened.

Tell us what happened there.

You can do it more succinctly than that drawn out press conference.

Yeah, he basically, he knows he's a dead man walking.

He has no leverage at all.

He has several schools that are going to be prime targets for the SEC and the Big Ten.

Who do you think those schools are, Scotty?

I think it's been long rumored that the North Carolina is a hotbed for the Big Ten that has connections to former Commissioner Jim Delaney.

He had them in his bullseye.

You have Georgia Tech and you have Virginia.

They all are AAU schools, which is a prerequisite for the Big Ten conference, the presidents and chancellors.

And then you have the Clemson's of the world, the Florida State's of the world.

They bring in a lot of eyeballs in new geography.

So basically we're going to be seeing a ground zero at the ACC eventually, but it's not to mention what's going on in the Pac-12.

That's not the Pac-10.

They are in serious trouble.

Gars, the Big 12, seems to be kind of going from the prey to predator to the prey.

They just can't really make up their mind what's going on.

But all eyes will be on Indianapolis this coming week with Big Ten Media Days, especially with what Commissioner Kevin Warren has to say, as well as certain members of Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, and Iowa.

Well, you know, we're going to be on in your morning show pre-pre game here, Saturdays here at 7.30 to 8.

And Garcia, we're playing the Cyclone Fight Song for you because we'll be on Sundays at 3.2, always able to do a recap at 3 p.m.

But Garcy, you're our cyclone partisan.

Boy, where do the cyclones end up in this mix?

I hope they're not odd man out.

What are you hearing?

What's the zeitgeist in Big 12 country, Matt Garst?

I don't think Iowa State is.

I think that.

Well, let me put it this way.

What Scottie said is absolutely correct.

We, the Big 12, went from the prey a year ago to kind of the predator this year.

Big 12 and Pac-12 talks broke off earlier in the week with the Big 12, and we're not interested in any of the proposals that the Pac-12 gave them, including a full merger of both conferences, scheduling alliance.

We all know how those alliances go.

And then a couple other revenue sharing proposals.

Those didn't go anywhere.

Big 12 said thanks, but no thanks.

Latest rumors I've heard is that Arizona and Colorado are going to announce within a week here their intention or put their application in to join the Big 12 that will put pressure on the remaining PAC 12 schools, particularly Arizona State and Utah to make a decision there because they are the other two that are rumored to be targets of the Big 12 in the near term.

Obviously, whatever happens with Washington and Oregon will do a lot, or have a lot to say about how the rest of that conference will be aligned and it's shaped out.

Nothing's done deal at this point.

There's a lot of rumors out there.

The thing that kind of irritates me is the national pundits are clamoring over how do we save the PAC-12.

And, you know, this is a conference we'll save them in a year ago.

They couldn't wait to put that.

the dirt on the cabinet of the Big 12.

It's going to be interesting to see how this all shaped down here in the next couple of

weeks.

You know, we've always said the other ethereal mystery.

What is Notre Dame going to do?

Dave, they're getting a huge multi-million dollar package right now with NBC, but it would be dwarfed by the revenue sharing that the putative Big 10

Contracts are going at David and I know I'll bring Scott and Matt here in on this but David some point the dollars are going to be attractive even to the Vaunted independent Irish, I mean, I know they're ACC but they've upheld their football independence But boy a big 10 package could literally dwarf by a factor of six or seven their current package with NBC

Oh my gosh, I mean that that's an absolutely true statement John and and you know

Again, you know, playing the independent is all well and good, but eventually the money, the money just gonna win.

Well, you know, Dave's a CPA, he knows debits and credits.

Scotty, what's Notre Dame gonna do?

I think at

the end of the day, I think Notre Dame is going to join the Big Ten.

I think the date to look at, now there's a lot going on in the Big Ten has it announced their media contract.

There was a proposal floated out to the Notre Dame wanted $75 million from NBC to carry seven home games in order to keep neutral or to keep independent.

Now their contract runs until 2025.

Now, to compare that, the projected big 10 payout for an Iowa Northwestern or even a Rutgers is going to be north of 100 million.

So what I am looking at is the date of September 3rd.

Why is that important?

Notre Dame goes to Columbus, Ohio to play the Ohio State University.

If I'm a betting man, I think that's the date we will know if the announcement is going to happen that they're joining will be around that time.

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traditional states of the Big Ten.

We're not quite in Maryland and Rutgers yet, David, but we're catching everywhere else.

Garsty, you know a lot of those Notre Dame fans in the St.

Albert area there, and we know we've got a lot of them in Eastern Iowa.

My grandfather in Clinton, Iowa in the roaring 20s, actually raised money for Knute Rockney.

But Matt, what are the Irish going to do?

They love that independence, but are they going to just make sure that

they're not getting too clever by half, and do you think they'll join the Big Ten?

Well, you know, there's a lot of things going on there.

Scotty's comments about the $75 million potential contract that they have floated to NBC.

Of course, that's what Notre Dame has asked for.

That doesn't mean that NBC is going to do that.

That would go a long ways towards them keeping independent.

Jim Phillips, when he had his

How

bad was that Garcia you guys are chuckling?

What what what was the thing?

When did the when did the anchor pull down the ship on that press conference?

Well, in my mind, the phrase and I'm paraphrasing here, but you'll get the general idea.

Jim Phillips basically said, you know, we're our conference is extremely strong.

We're poised for success and we're leaders in everything except for the revenue.

Which isn't that what this is all pretty pretty tone-deaf

Yeah,

and he did reference Notre Dame and said you know Notre Dame would be Would be smart to join our conference as a full member which I Respectfully disagree with I think Notre Dame belongs in the big 10 if they belong in any conference I don't see them as an SEC team

I think the Big Ten is a natural fit, particularly with the addition of USC and UCLA.

That also could entice the Big Ten to grab Stanford as another West Coast team.

Admittedly, they don't have as big of a following, but that would be a natural rivalry for Notre Dame and keep that annual game going.

So I think eventually the money is going to be too much for them to ignore.

And I think Notre Dame will join the Big Ten at some point here.

Boy, they're so stubbornly independent, but I think you guys are correct about that.

I think it's an inexorable, inevitable thing from that standpoint there.

Well, we've got all of our Cyclone Hawkeyes listening in here this weekend.

It's not too early to start because we're de facto in August, David Overholzer.

Iowa State, who's done a good job over the portal spring and summer?

Garsty, I'll talk to you.

What are the cyclones done in this new era of portals and recruiting outside of normal recruiting season?

Iowa State, from what I've seen, hasn't been as active in the portal as some other teams have been.

I know we brought in a couple transfers, but they don't appear to be big impact guys.

It's going to be more of, you know, the guys that we had on the roster that Campbell has developed are really going to tell the tale.

The thing that's encouraging in my mind is they had the media poll come out for predictions of where, you know, who was going to end up where in the big 12.

And Iowa State in a new building year after we lost some really good ballplayers to the NFL draft, we were predicted to be six.

That's losing your quarterback.

two tight ends, you know, one of the best running backs in the nation in Greek Hall.

I'm very encouraged by what what Matt Campbell has done there.

Usually if we had an all world class or what we thought was an all world football team, we'd be ranked eighth or ninth at the start of the season and we're rebuilding and we're at six.

That's pretty

good.

That's

good.

Yeah, that bodes well.

Scotty, you know, some of us are over in the Omaha area on business and whatnot.

Seems like they've got people rolling through that portal in and out constantly.

What's been going on in Iowa City?

A little more stable, a little less commotion.

What do you think?

Yeah, but it is a hallmark of a Curt Ferris-type program where there is little upheaval.

It's similar to what Iowa State is trying to do, where they build in and fit the right pieces.

The one big thing that did happen this

summer, though, was they created.

It was called the swarm collective.

Now it's headed up by former Iowa call for Brad Hendricks.

And it's the NIL venture for our players.

And so that is the one thing that's got got momentum.

You know, we're fainting.

I know a lot of fans from Cedar Rapids and Iowa City area have already bought basically packages into that system that will actually go to help offset the cost for the players and things like that.

And so that's the one big thing.

But at the end of the day, it is all about perseverance and stability.

We are not a flashy school.

We never

have been, but we are a consistent school.

And one thing we have seen over the last six to eight months is a lot of the great recruiting that Mavar Woods and Phil Parker and a few of the other assistants have done.

They have brought in some in-state and out-of-state four- and five-star talent, something that we haven't seen necessarily in the last 10 years.

For Iowa, well, you know, we're a two and three star school, but we are learning, you know, Kurt and his team, they know who they are, they know what they want to be, but they are adapting to the times.

And so this is going to be a very important season for Iowa football and look really forward to kind of the product that the coaches put out on the field here in September.

Scotty, you're right about these stability.

Scotty, you're in your early 40s and you've only lived through two Iowa football coaches.

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, I take that for granted.

I joke that, you know, I was born with Hayden Frye and, you know, I'll probably die with Kurt Farron.

It's just unbelievable.

And you look at, you know, I'm not trying to really throw a lot of gas on the fire, but you look at programs like Iowa State or Nebraska or, you know, they've gone through, you know, you know, seven or eight coaches in my lifetime.

And you can never put enough credit on the stability and doing it the right way.

And, you know, Kurt has done a lot of great things.

I

mean, not only seven or eight coaches, they're going to stand four coaches on payroll at the same

time.

Exactly.

And so just very grateful.

It's going to be interesting.

I'm not going to say we're at the end of Kirk Farance's career.

But Kirk's not going to be around forever.

He's getting up there in age.

And he's kind of made a few comments.

He still has that fire in the belly to keep coaching and recruiting.

But at some point, Kurt will be right off into the sunset.

And who do we find to replace Kirk?

And that's going to be a very important task.

And it's going to be a concerning task because there's a lot of Iowa fans and donors that aren't real impressed sometimes with our current athletic director.

You know you're only a thin membrane away from lean times because my entire youth until adulthood was formed as a Hawkeye fan in Marion, Iowa under the reins of Jerry Burns, Ray Nagel.

Francis X, Lauterber and Bob Cummings, all great men, but there was not one winning season that trajectory.

So our outro question here, Matt Garst, the Uber Iowa State Cyclone fan.

Matt, take a shot, predict the record of the cyclones.

We're a month away from kickoff.

I'm gonna say Iowa State goes seven and five and then gets into a minor bowl game.

I just, until I get a look at some of these newer guys on the field, I feel like we've got a good base, but I don't feel like we're going to have a ten-win season.

Obviously, we've never had one in our history.

So, I'm going to say seven and five.

I'll be a little bit optimistic.

And Scotty, you're the super hawk.

What are Kirk and the boys going to do this year, a month away from kickoff here?

It is a tremendously tough schedule this year.

We have to go to Columbus and then we have Michigan coming in.

We always have a strong Iowa State team, but they're super bowl at Kinnick Stadium.

I think they're going to go, they're going to have eight wins, but it's going to be a very daunting eight wins.

It's going to be kind of similar to last year.

We're not going to really blow a lot of people out, but it's going to be special teams and defense that carries the day.

Here we are.

Folks back with Doctors Ted Fogarty and Doctor Dr. Brad Meyer.

Guys, you've joining us now for the fourth time and people in eastern Iowa and central Iowa are starting to get the idea that you guys have got something very special going up there in Okabodji that's going throughout the entire state.

Worthy of export, hyperbarics, helping people with head injuries.

post-COVID complications, dementia.

Tell us why we're so proud of Iowa and some of the physicians we've got in this state here.

John, this is Dr. Ted from out of Nebraska.

And I'm here to tell you that this crew of Iowa docs has been getting literally perleried by the Iowa Board of Medicine for saving lives.

It's actually, these are the 12 most important doctors of Iowa.

Yes.

And I'm here to tell you, one of our colleagues, Dr. David Hartsuch, who is a former Iowa State Senator out in the Quad Cities area.

He's one of our affiliates, close colleagues, and brothers-in-arms in fighting this deep pandemic viruses.

He's now getting into hyperbaric.

Brad and I have taught him about how all this works, and he's moving forward there.

I'm going to turn it over to Brad, though, so that he can talk about some of the things that are going on in the northwest corner of Iowa.

So take it away, Brad.

Dr. Brad Meyer here with us, Doc.

So excited to be part of the mission here with Dr. Ted Pogarty and David Hartschitz, actually sharing columns as well.

She's a physician out of the Cedar Rapids area that she just reached out to me yesterday, excited to be an affiliate with us and get going on the hyperbaric mission.

This thing is growing.

We're doing a lot of, a lot of healing with that hyperbaric air therapy at low pressure.

And it

is every day in our clinic here, the aeronautics clinic in Spirit Lake, Okabogia is blowing the minds not only of our staff, our nurses that came out of the grid of the COVID-19 pandemic over the last two years.

They are so excited to be part of this healing journey and seeing patients that

had been at the end of their road, many of them thinking there were no further solutions for themselves with some of these chronic disease processes.

And to be a part of this journey with these patients, with our guests, it's been a fulfilling experience for all involved here at our clinic.

You guys are rock stars and it's incredible the international progress you're making with healing and curing.

Dr. Ted Fogarty, how can folks get in touch with you?

We've got a lot of Cedar Rapids and Quad Cities folks listening today.

How can they get in touch with you?

The

best thing is through the phone.

712-339-6024 is the clinic phone number.

We are on Facebook at Aeronautics Performance Clinic.

which is Spellbluton X at the end.

And that's probably the second handiest way to get to us.

And we're on the web at aeronomicsperformance.com.

For our radio audience, I'm going to repeat that phone number.

For our podcast listeners, you can rewind.

But Folk 712-339-6024.

Dr. Sfordy and Meyer, you are rock stars.

Keep it up.

Thanks, John.

Thanks, John.

Take care, guys.

Now Mike Shane super producer.

It's time for our outrage of the week hit it John Jacobson here horror of horrors the Iowa State Senate Strips two million dollars of lifesaving flood levy repairs promised to Potawatomi in Harrison County's

In an end of session blunder, someone was asleep at the switch.

Two million of the six million outlay has not been spent yet because of federal stalling on approving the completion of those levies.

However, at the very end of session, Senate budget cuts in Iowa stripped out the two million dedicated

to those levy projects.

Those must be restored, and they must be restored immediately.

They saw money that had been unspent and redirected it, but the reason the money wasn't spent was because of federal delays.

That money was prior approved for Potawatomi and Harrison counties.

Those levy monies must be restored.

End of session, Blunder.

Guys, keep your eyes on the prize.

That's it for this week's Outrage of the Week.

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John Jacobson here, trust attorney, state legislator, Radio Bon Vivance on the Jeff Stein 50,000 watt Midwest blowtorch, KXEL AM and FM with producer Mike Shane and our 37 times IBNA awards for Radio Excellence Ensemble.

Let's roll.

Always a joy to get the opportunity to visit with Barbara Hames Bryant, her family now in their third generation of service to people for their housing needs at Hames Homes.

Welcome back to the show, Barbara.

Thank you, John.

It's good to be here.

Barbara, I was reminiscing last night.

The importance of a three generation family is that continuity of entrenchment in the community.

You know so many families over so many generations.

You and I and our families have known each other for over half a century and I was looking at those wonderful.

advertisements that go back to WMT television in 1970 and you know what?

Some things have changed, color selections and even a tire, lapels widen and narrow and

Plads come in and out, but Barbara Hames Holmes hasn't been stagnant.

They continue to grow.

We sure do, John.

I look back at those old commercials and they just make me smile.

I didn't realize at the time that they would become classic works of art before and after kind of broadcasting and television advertising and what it was and what it is now.

You know, Barbara, what was so readily apparent in those ads is the great pride that your late father and mother took in bringing affordable and yet very spacious and totally equipped homes for people.

And that has not changed.

If anything, the technology and the worksmanship has expanded and grown in quality and affordability even more exponentially, Barbara Haymes.

Absolutely.

Back in the early 70s, my parents were the face of Haynes mobile homes, Curt and Norma Haynes, the homes people.

They weren't just selling homes.

They were selling quality.

They were selling themselves.

They were selling service after the sale.

And that's how we've been in business for going on our sixth decade now.

The homes themselves have changed.

but the idea of customer service is not.

Well, that tells me if you're on the Atlantic seaboard that the Big 10 is going to raid the ACC, I'm putting it out on the internet right now because if it's on the internet, it is true, Coach.

I'm out here negotiating with NBC.

Oh, it's so loud.

Well,

are you

going to be the new color guy, Coach?

For NBC?

I'll take the job.

Well, you'll

end a lot of color, I'm sure.

While coach and talk about that, you know, there's rumors out there that Charles Barkley is in talks with the, uh, LIV tour.

So, you know, going back to last week, maybe he did murder a family member for $200 million.

I'd say what?

I have no idea what that means.

What does that mean?

I mean, Barkley's horrible.

You know, I think they're not going for in depth golf analytics there.

It won't be quite a Paul a zinger moment.

I think they're going for characters.

They want characters on the screen there.

Can you imagine pairing him up with John Daly for crying out loud?

You know,

you could put John Daly, Charles Barkley, Bill Murray and coach out there.

I'd pay a lot of money to see that.

There are the cable guy.

He does a lot of these pro am tournaments.

He could be out there.

That'd be good for a hoot.

Well, and you know now go ahead coach coach now Very quickly.

So now the live becomes a joke tour.

I mean what I don't get it.

I don't get it Well, is it an

appearance play tour?

What's going on here coach?

Yeah, I mean It's really lowering the bar.

Give me a break now if they steal another half dozen of the younger players off the tour

There could be a problem, but not Charles Barkley.

I'm not watching because of Charles Barkley.

Well guys, one great thing I'm going to comment about is our all-American girl, Sydney McLaughlin, again, smashes her own world record in the 400 hurdles track and field world championships in Sydney, Australia.

There she is with a medal around her neck and the Stars and Stripes, the USA flag.

I love this girl, man.

I tell you, she is everything good about American sports.

Scotty, what say you?

You

know, absolutely.

And this time of the year where you need to have that refresher course and pride in America, you know, baseball is on a hiatus for all star week and having somebody like that compete on the world stage and do proud by the United, the American people is just a tremendous effort there.

You know, it

reminds

me, you

know, we all looked.

Not exactly like Sidney did, but we all had these athletic bodies in our high school and college days.

We were out there in 100 degree heat.

I certainly was playing tennis and golf.

I can't do that anymore, but we had to run because the loving, gracious Mrs. Jacobson was running away from me trying to court her.

So she set some pretty good track and field records of her own.

Play some of our songs today, Nick.

Play Summer Breeze by Seals and Croft.

This was one of our songs, you know.

And, you know, they had some great hits, you know.

You're playing a bunch of those, Nick, aren't you?

On Boomer here, you know.

Summer Breeze was one of their great ones there.

But closer to you, get closer to me was another great one.

My goodness, Gary Saddlemeyer was even spinning those back in the late 70s.

You know, it's a great...

Summer time to to be out and the pools are open and kids are still playing tennis and Abraham Lincoln right across the street from us We're gonna talk a little bit today about the state of sports in America Facebook baseball photos page all these memories come rushing back in my lifetime the Hank Aaron's the Harmon killer bruise

I was a young boy when Mickey Mantle was still playing at the twilight of his career and you know then I read about these great

Player announcers, you know that that I can remember like Joe Gehry's Yola and of course people say that Jimmy Pearsall when teamed up with Harry Carey were such a great tandem I I believe that when I listened on WMAQ for the White Sox There are people who just swear by Pee Wee Reese and Dizzy Dean and of course Bob Yooker coach Bob Yooker is 88 years old.

He's still doing Milwaukee

Braves games, Brewer's games up there in Milwaukee for this NFL season.

He may break Vince Scully's record for calling games at least 91.

God bless

him.

You know, I remember Bob Uker when he was on the Johnny Carson show.

And that was a wild bat.

So he's mixed great baseball human with humor as well.

And Johnny always gave him a good seat though.

That's true.

That's true.

Scotty, you're a young guy.

You maybe have some peripheral memories of Bob Brooks, Ron Gonder, Gene Clausen, Frosty Mitchell, did all the Iowa women's games so much.

Chip, Lyle Bremser.

and

Jack

Payne and Kent Pavelka.

Man,

woman and child.

Exactly.

What is the state of sports?

Scotty, I'm going to let you kick this off, but I'm just looking.

I got a whole pan of questions.

Is baseball America's past time anymore?

Is the NBA totally marketing to China now?

Pro football, has it become so moneyed that it's lost its...

Early Verve in the Ray Nitschke Dick Butkaste's, Golfs in Turmoil.

tennis.

We've kind of let's open it up here a little bit for discussion.

What is the state of American sports?

Scotty, I'll start out with you.

You know, that's a great, great question.

I actually think that baseball has been superseded now by college football.

You know, I think a lot of people, especially my age, you know, when they went on strike in the 90s, that kind of affected a lot of people my age.

We kind of went away from baseball.

But then when McGuire and Sosa, you know, they had the home run derby going on throughout the entire season.

And when the Cubs made those two runs, you know, in the early 2000 and then winning again in 2016, the World Series first time in forever.

But now it's just kind of fading away and you talk about, you know, we've talked about the NBA quite a bit and it just is kind of an afterthought.

You know, I think the glory days and coaching chip, you know, get your thoughts too, but the glory days for me and NBA peaked in the 90s when it was.

the Chicago Bulls in Jordan and the turning of the page from Showtime Lakers and Larry Bird Celtics and things along those lines.

You know, NASCAR made a big run about 10 years ago, but that's faded away.

Golf will always be there, but it will never be in the top two, I think.

It's just one of those things that's gonna happen.

But right now, I think it's college football, then it's the NFL, and then it's everything else.

Coach.

Yeah, you know Scotty right off the bat what comes to my mind in terms of the landscape changing is college football.

It's in turmoil.

There's no doubt about it.

NIL, conference realignment, recruiting, transfers.

The only thing that keeps it sustainable at a high level from a viewing standpoint is that it's football.

And the NFL is number one and college football probably is number two.

But it is in turmoil as we have talked about the last few weeks.

Well, let's march back into the trenches, talk a little bit more about sports.

You know, I'm in my 60s when I was a kid.

Major League Baseball was absolutely number one.

Pro football was in its ascendancy.

Because TV was so primitive, you really only saw two games of college football on weekends.

ABC had one, usually Chris Shankler, Bill Fleming, or one of those guys would be doing the games, and you'd have CBS.

They would bring in Lindsay Nelson and Vin Scully to do games, and you had five New Year's Day Bowl games.

The ESPN really revolutionized, and I think when the NCAA Hoops tournament expanded, and you had cable coverage,

And that was about the time when Coach Knapp was in there elbowing people out of the way to bring women's sports to full parity nationwide.

Coach, did TV, did that early cable wave in the early 80s really help college hoops?

Oh, no doubt.

And I was there when ESPN spawned the Big East Conference.

And then Big East Conference made ESPN even more relevant.

than it was when it started in 1979.

I saw it all from that vantage point.

And

as time went on, ESPN definitely was promoter of women's basketball as well.

You know, I wanted to make a comment about, I was going to make a comment last week about Kevin Durant and the NBA.

And you talk about the, you know, where is American sports?

Where are our, our,

you know, highly pouted or highly visible sports these days.

Kevin Durant, as everybody knows, has gone from team to team, left Oklahoma City to go to a championship team, the Golden State Warriors, and left them to partner up with his buddy, Kyrie Irving, to go to the New Jersey Nets, under the Brooklyn Nets, and now he wants to leave the Nets after signing a four-year, $198 million extension.

Did anybody

In the studio, watch the SPs.

I doubt it.

I know how we feel about the SP.

And did anybody watch the SPs?

No way.

Probably only my sister coach.

Well, I'll tell you what.

They brought back Peyton Manning as the host.

And of course, he's doing a monologue at the very beginning.

And he starts off with honoring the US Women's Gymnastics team.

and all the medals that they've won, and how fabulous they are, and they had more medals than any other gymnastics team during the Olympics.

And then he said, which shows you the state of the NBA in my opinion, and then he said, and now Kevin Durant wants to play for them.

And then they got a laugh.

But they zeroed in on Kevin Durant, and you can see it on Twitter.

He's none too happy.

And then Manning goes, I don't think you'd start for them, Kevin.

Oh,

man.

Well, you

know, he was rolling.

Coach, that's great.

You know, they had a lot of sports.

I'm going to zero in on boxing.

How far has fallen from the public consciousness?

When I was a kid in the early 70s, not only were we Boxing was the most shown event on Olympic summer games Howard Cosell was ringside and there was one year when we ran the table with Sugar Ray Leonard and George Foreman and we just we literally top-to-bottom one almost every Boxing division punching out the commies took out almost everyone except for a tafflo Stevenson from Cuba and

Muhammad Ali Larry Holmes Joe Frazier all these great early champs Johnny.

Well, you know Yes, boxing was big UFC has taken that over see you

know boxing

has been pushed back to the side all of the quote-unquote dollars now go to the

to the UFC.

Also, you look at another one of those things like that, that was really big, John, when we were growing up, professional wrestling.

Yes.

And that's

pretty much dried

up as well.

Those were huge Saturday matinees.

Where has gone?

Jim Zabel used to host a Sunday bowling show for crying out loud, beat the bear.

And

Channel 7 had

a program

too.

Yes,

they did.

And

leisure lanes.

And

the leisure lanes and strike it lucky at the Rose Bowl, though.

And one of my favorite sports, chess.

Where are the Bobby Fischer-Boris spasky matches with bombastic Bobby storming out in four feet?

forfeit in game because he can afford to because he knows if he actually tries the next game he's going to win.

Where's this American chess dominance?

Yes, that's true and we're so sad that you're sad.

But anyway, what I'm seeing a pattern here is all these sports that are

are falling back, they're not very hospitable to a transgender emergence.

It's hard to imagine transgender boxers or wrestlers.

As soon as they catch up, get the right people.

in the right surgeries or whatever to have a transgender experience in boxing or wrestling, then you'll see it be promoted by ESPN again.

But that's a good point, but you are seeing now women's hockey.

I presided over the first women's hockey league at Moylan Iceplex years ago.

At first I thought, well, this is different.

now it's very much an olympic sport and you look at some of these other events we have co-ed wrestling now in iowa sport so how you know two sports i've always loved and they have iowa connections obviously hockey and wrestling how are hockey and wrestling i want to get coaches take because he doesn't live in the

Heartland of Dan Gable Wrestling, but what say you, Scotty?

You know, I think wrestling is one of those important sports.

It's actually a revenue-generating sport at the University of Iowa.

When it comes to wrestling, it's basically Iowa versus Penn State's going to decide the national championship.

You know, Oklahoma State will be in there every now and then, things along those lines.

But it is a Big Ten sport.

And, you know, I think one thing we need to talk about, too, at some point is, you know, Coach, you brought up what happened with ESPN.

The world changed in 2006 with then Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney had negotiations with ESPN.

They were trying to lowball.

Delaney on the media rights.

He said you're either gonna give me this or I'm gonna create my own network They said you're foolish to do it.

He goes I think the quote is quote was consider the dice rolled and ever since then Fox the big 10 has been leading the way and with the big 10 network We've seen volleyball softball these other Olympic sports being on the national scene or at the creation of the ACC network and the ESPN SEC stuff along those lines

Yeah, no doubt Delaney did roll the dice came up snake eyes and The Olympic sports got a big stage in the Big Ten Network and ESPN I do have to say has caught up.

There's a lot of volleyball softball and gymnastics on ESPN I do enjoy the softball games whether it's on the Big Ten Network or otherwise

It's seven innings.

It's shorter.

The ball comes off the bat.

Everybody's closer.

The ball comes off the bat like a rocket.

The pitchers are dominant.

And it's an exciting sport.

I think it's really catching on.

We're watching that while

eating lunch post-production.

Coach, it's too bad you can't join us.

We were watching softball.

And you know, Kip here, I'm just curious, you know,

The Huskers won that bowling national championship last year.

Do you see the ascendancy of bowling attendance at Husker matches?

No, bowling has always been a fun sport.

And every once in a while you catch it on, it's still on ABC.

They still have professional bowling every once in a while on ABC.

I've seen her.

Watched a few games on it.

It's fun.

And bowling has always been the type of sport that anyone can participate

in.

And if the wrestling team at Lincoln falls off, you still got plenty of pins.

Well, I... John.

John,

you're

going down.

John, you're going down.

You're going down.

Wrestling in Nebraska is doing just fine.

I will say this.

Oh, what?

No wing attendant?

Coach, more comments like this make Scott and I very happy that we're in the adjoining studio.

I

will say this.

Packing an auditorium, no one packs an auditorium for women's volleyball like Nebraska Lincoln.

That sport has become iconic.

And particularly in the state of Nebraska where more people attend those games than basketball.

Men's and women's for crying out loud.

Coach Kip, what say you?

It's been that way for many years.

I mean when they were in the old Coliseum.

There is no way to get a ticket into a woman's volleyball game when they were in the costume.

They went to a larger stadium in Bad Vanny that's just made just for volleyball.

And it's the premier atmosphere, premier stadium for volleyball, I think, in the nation.

Hey, coach, if John Cook ever retires, can we get Karch Karay to come up and coach the Husker team?

Yeah,

he's coaching somebody.

I know I know my men right.

Yes.

Yes, exactly But he was coaching some women's teams also the

Olympic women's Olympic teams.

He coached those.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly exactly John Jacobson here.

This was my first time in to the great practice of dr. Brad Meyer and everything that they have talked about

Indeed has come to fruition here.

I went through many of the modalities and protocols for this tremendous preventive health that they have here harnessing oxygen harnessing nature to help us at the most foundational basic cellular mitochondrial element of our body and it went into treatment involving light and heat and sound and relaxation

and the lymphatic work as well as... We saved the best for last.

Yes, we did.

This beautiful machine over here, the oxy-flow-doodle hyperbaric.

chamber, you've had tremendous success in helping people using that therapy, everything from reversing dementia, to helping concussion protocol

victims.

It's almost endless.

COVID recovery, it's been incredible.

We like to say that God does the healing and we provide the pressure.

So lots happening here, a lot of miracle stories, lots to be thankful for, and many thanks for John Jacobson to stop by.

get to experience what we're offering.

Well, Dr. Fine May, what it impresses me is

this practice is burgeoning.

It's growing by leaves and bounds.

You have 6,000 square feet here.

Right.

Beautifully decorated, but operatories everywhere with high-level functionality of medical equipment.

Obviously, the people have rendered a verdict, and the people here in the Spirit Lake community and the others

who've come from all over, literally the United States, but they're ratifying the success that you're having here.

My word of mouth, because

you are curing and you are healing.

Many, many things happening here in Southwest Minnesota, from Nebraska to the plains, upper plains, North Dakota.

We love it.

So welcome all comers that want to get a taste of some modalities that they may not have heard about, especially at the time when we've...

been ravaged by the COVID pandemic.

We have a lot of things that get us back on our feet again, more energy, clear up some of that brain fog.

All that is fantastic for one's mental health.

Well, I feel great.

I've got a three hour, 15 minute venture back.

I feel exceptionally good.

Oxygen is good as we

always do.

Oxygen is

good.

And at my age,

in my early 60s now and with my schedule and someone argue with the stress levels responsibilities, I find this type of therapy to be very prophylactic in nipping a problem in the bud instead of having to deal with it.

I mean you're into cardio health and lung health, so many facets of our cellular structures.

And organs can be enhanced by this

type of therapy.

It's a performance enhancer, so it'll add hours to your day when there seems to be not enough time in the day.

So we're healing at the microscopic level, mitochondrial level, that's setting the conditions, pressure.

air therapy and pops on those amazing genes.

The NRF2 receptor sites, 8,000 different genes are effective with just one dive.

So it's turning on a symphony in your body and letting some amazing processes through God's good grace happen.

Amen.

And furthermore, this is being now quantified.

in medical journals and in publications.

People are starting to see the efficacy

of these treatments.

They are.

Dr. Paul Harch.

My partner, Dr. Ted Fogarty, have been at this for Ted for 15-plus years.

Dr. Harch for 35-plus years down at LSU in New Orleans.

And so they've been doing some amazing things.

We get to be part of the mission in the Northern Plains to share that good news, that open healing, so that people don't have to just settle for the daily aches and pains, and we want quality of life for every ounce of life that you have.

Well, and I will just conclude,

Doctor, as an elective state representative of the Iowa Legislature, I want to thank you as a member of the House of Representatives for Potawatomi County.

you and a phalanx of your friends had impeccable phenomenal records of COVID saves during the pandemic.

You folks and your treatment methods have been absolutely borne out and vindicated because you folks have nearly 100% cure and saves record during COVID.

You were ahead of the curve on that.

I know you're ahead of the curve on this and even helping repair some of those who might be

Murna injured.

And I thank you for having the courage to bring this to Iowa and to help so many of my people cure them against sometimes the conventional wisdom that as we know has turned out to be very wrong for a very long time.

I thank you for that, Dr. Meyer.

Our pleasure.

God bless.

God bless you.

Breathing clearly and psyched and relaxed for the trip back home to CB.

God bless.

You can find doctors Ted Fogarty and Dr. Brad Meyer at Aeronautics Performance Clinic, A-E-R-O-N-A-U-T-I-X with an X, Aeronautics Performance Clinic.

They are up there at 3301 Bergquist Avenue, Spirit Lake, Iowa, and their phone number, 712-339-6022, and you can email them at office at aeronautics.org.

John Jacobson here last week on this program I called for the Iowa Senate to restore two million dollars of flood levy monies.

for Potawatomi County and today I call on the Iowa House to do the same thing.

Those monies were taken back by the state because they hadn't been spent, but the reason they hadn't been spent on the levies is because the Corps of Engineers has not yet approved the levies.

So the two million does need to be restored and I had a great visit with Governor Reynolds over the weekend and she seems very eager to help.

Perhaps she can do that with an executive order with some of the various funds.

over which she has discretion.

Love Jesus Christ.

And God bless us, everyone.

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I'm your hometown Marion Iowa boy, your Cedar Rapids Regis boy, your University of Iowa Hawkeye boy, state legislator, and bank trust officer, and I am here with this wonderful ensemble.

that has won 37 Iowa Broadcast News Association awards, including for best sports, overall coverage, and best political overall coverage.

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I am in studio with Scott Corey and we have with us also joining the legendary Georgetown coach Patrick J. Knapp Jr.

as well as Matt Garst with his Cyclone perspective and David Overholzer.

David of course is paid tuition for four University of Iowa daughters and I cannot tell you how much I appreciate Jeff Stein and the great guys at KXEL 50,000

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And within 31 days, Scott Corey, we have to thank this audience.

We went from a half hour Saturday morning

to a half hour Saturday morning and Sunday afternoon and starting next week, we will be a full hour on Saturdays and a full hour on Sunday afternoons.

That's a great, great shot in the arm of response to these wonderful people in Eastern Iowa.

You know, I love my folks from Cedar Rapids, Marion, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Iowa City.

I grew up there.

It's great to be with these folks, isn't it, Scotty?

and KXEL and you know we're growing faster right now than the Big Ten expansion.

I

mean we got a lot of

power out there.

Matt Garst how's it feel to be part of a juggernaut?

You know here we are growing the program.

We're growing the Big Ten conference and Iowa State is kind of looking to see what how the dust is going to settle but it's just another great day isn't it?

Hey it is.

I'm hopeful that the Big 12 will grow a little bit here soon as well but it's fun too lot.

to watch all the chess game going on with realignment and then obviously fun to be part of the show, so thank you.

You know, and one thing we couldn't do this without is coach nap coach nap.

There's a lot of things going on right now.

I know we've been kind of talking throughout the week of everything that's going on.

Uh, regards to the expansion, uh, the big 10 media deal, uh, rumors are now that is 1.5 billion.

That's with a B. Uh, we still don't have the exact number yet.

I think we'll probably have it here within the next four to six weeks.

But there's also a lot of other things going on out there.

Uh, you're kind of watching what's happening.

at the Pac-12 in the battle between the Big 12.

But also, you have a lot of connections to the Mountain West Conference.

How does it feel to be kind of at the mercy right now of Fox Sports, NBC, and the Big 10 Network?

Yeah, I think the conference, known as the Mountain West, is pretty secure right now.

I don't think there are player addition or subtraction.

at this point in time, which is bad news from the Mexico state.

But I think everything revolves around, as we all know, Notre Dame.

I'm starting to hear more and more that I used to ask the question, remember, how big is big?

How big do these conferences want to get?

Well, as I'm reading and listening to reports, the 16 team Big Ten,

for instance right now it may not be interested in sharing the spoils of the tv wars with 20 teams it's going to water it down uh so that that is going to play a role no doubt however the bottom line is they will take Notre Dame they will take Notre Dame and all of their sports and Notre Dame which i did not know until a recent read would have to pay

some TV rights back to the ACC because of its conference affiliation with all of its other sports.

I don't know what that price tag is, but that makes it even more intriguing.

For some of our new listeners, coach Pat Knapp, now a big shot high up in administration at New Mexico State University.

He started out earlier in his career at Notre Dame, but

250 plus Big East wins graduating all of his kids and bringing women's college hoops to parody at a time when Steve Even Stringer was doing the same thing here.

We got a real winner on our hands.

The guy won the Big East.

He finished the top 10 of the nation.

It's always great to have Coach Knapp with us.

It sure is.

Coach brings a lot of great perspective out there and he keeps me and Garst honest now and then, especially when Garst and I kind of get chirping at each other.

But you know, it's interesting how things are

changed Matt is that you know and I get your perspective to David is that basically 12 months ago including myself I was ready to bury the big 12 because I because coach you and I we were predicting that the pack 12 was going to raid the big 12 and take those schools now we find out it was USC who's heading to the big 10 put a put a kibosh to that deal and now the big 12 is probably in that third spot so Matt are you feeling a little bit

better about how Iowa State is going to survive this whole ordeal?

You know, I have learned about some big or a big or excuse me, Pac-12 media personalities.

John Wilner, there's this Castellano guy that are that are big reporters and that covers the Pac-12 for a while.

And boy, Stuart Mandel is another one from the athletic.

They have gone on the offensive.

proclaiming the superiority of the Pac-12 over the Big 12.

I just don't buy that.

I don't think that the numbers bear that out, particularly

losing the

LA market with UCLA and USC.

I feel a lot better about the direction of the Big 12.

I feel like the four teams we added while geographically some of them don't make as much sense.

I feel like that puts us on a national perspective in a more relevant

you know, diverse conference.

I think we're probably the conference that stands to benefit the most from the remaining teams in the PAC-12.

If they can't strike a media deal, that makes sense for them.

All the reports I'm seeing is that they're talking about like $30 million between each school and then potentially Oregon and Washington requesting an unequal share of that revenue.

I've been down that road before in the Big 12 and that doesn't make.

the other conference members very happy to really endear you to anybody else in the conference.

So it's going to be interesting to see how this shakes out, but I'm optimistic for the Big 12.

You know, just David, you know, we're talking about the Big 10 media deal, you know, reports of over $100 million, if not more, depending on what the size of the conference actually goes to.

And if Amazon and NBC are big players in this, but the Big 10 and especially Iowa needs that money because they lost all that tuition that you had going into Iowa City with all your

I mean, how is, what is the reading on campus from all these projections now that basically USC and UCLA are going to be conference home games starting here in about four years?

Well, you know, I think we had this discussion before and it's not, you know, I was, University of Iowa has sold out all its home games for the first time, I want to say in like 10 years, if I recall.

2012.

is it 12 years?

Yeah.

So, so they're, you know, they're excited.

I will tell you, my kids are all excited about going to the games as alumni.

They picked up season tickets and things and they're looking forward to the tailgating and, you know, they're just excited about the season.

David, David, you've got four lovely daughters.

I know they are very, very.

touched and moved by this great tradition that puts Iowa again at the forefront of decency and everything that's right with the country, whether it was American needs farmers, my goodness, I was in Shields in Des Moines the other day, there must have been a million A and F. And even Garcy, Iowa State Cyclone that he is, agrees that America needs farmers, right Garcy?

Absolutely, I just think it should have been with Iowa State saying and not Iowa.

Well, that goes back to the genius of Hayden Fry and the marketing back in the 80s in the farm crisis.

But you know, coach.

What is what is the end game?

You know you and I've kind of talked about We could be looking at the big 10 in the SEC breaking away at 24 to 25 teams per conference It looks like this is more of a reality now and Yesterday Dan Patrick made some very interesting comments.

I should say Thursday made some very interesting comments that Notre Dame Stanford and basically Washington and Oregon are basically going to be coming in after

after the college playoff is renegotiated in 2026.

I mean, for Dan Patrick to say that, that tells me that there's a lot of negotiations that are being wrapped up because he's pretty well connected, isn't he?

Yeah, I'm sorry.

Yes, particularly with NBC.

That is interesting.

That's a long ways away.

I know it has to be

the forefront of Notre Dame's mind that they have a path into the college football playoff.

And so we don't know whether they're going to go eight teams, 12 teams, 16 teams, whether they're going to have conference automatic bids or not.

Notre Dame's going to have a say with that.

I think they'd stay independent if there was a path into the college football playoffs.

But somehow I think that the

others

will circle the wagons.

and potentially box them out.

Now Notre Dame will come back and say, no, no, no, no, no.

We

have

the keys to a lot of dollars here, okay?

Dollars and cents.

So you're not boxing us out.

We're going to bring our TV partner in here.

We're going to cut a deal somehow.

The other thing that has to happen is Notre Dame

needs

a place

for

its Olympic sports, for every other sport.

So a lot to still be done.

You guys listen to the Jacobson report with yours truly here John Jacobson Mike Shane to the controls Scott Corian studio and on the line with his coach Patrick Jane app junior Cyclone Matt Garst and tuition paying Hawkeye dad David overholster.

You know guys this

Along the Mississippi River here, where this signal carams very clearly, whether it's Dubuque, Clinton, Quad Cities, Muscatine, Burlington, a lot of fighting Irish fans along that Mississippi River, I gotta tell ya.

And you know, my grandfather, Larry Hinchin, born in 1907, when he was running his Sherwin-Williams wallpaper and paint store and gift shop that my grandmother ran in the 1920s, he was raising money,

for Coach Rockney.

Coach, I know you can't believe that since I'm a Hawkeye fan and definitely not an Irish fan, but there'd be a lot of Subway alumni in Dubuque all the way down this eastern seaboard of Iowa, Coach.