KXEL Presents: The Jacobsen Group Podcast - August 20, 2022

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Boy, we had great response last week.

Dr. Ted Fogarty, Dr. Brad Meyer and the aeronautics clinic up there in Spirit Lake.

You guys, we've seen a lot in the papers and in the electronic media this week about folks that are having some long hauler issues who've had COVID and some who've had

the reaction of the MIRNA, the M-R-N-A shot and boosters.

How do you guys play into this?

Can you help these folks?

Dr. Meyer and I set a precedent all the way back in May of 21 by taking care of a fellow Prairie Barrister's wife across state lines, utilizing a mini ICU concept in the home.

I deployed a soft hyperbaric chamber into this home in North Bismarck.

Doc Meyer helps me with the ivermectin script and we use the purple powder, iverbaric, ivermectin

and a

number of other great supplements that Doc Meyer has on his website with our clinic.

My wife's good friend who was sent home from the emergency room in one of the Bismarck hospitals who got this therapy after three days.

She was singing our praises and also telling us that she felt better.

After three days of our mini ICU program in her home, then she has felt in the last six months to a year.

Wow.

And this parallels the Argentinian experience of coupling mild hyperbaric oxygen or air therapy even with standard of care free hospital treatment regimens, which they're doing around the world.

And it's ironic because you guys have had the best COVID saves record of anybody.

You've just had a phenomenal track record.

So, Dr. Meyer, where is that email location to get direct contact with you folks by email?

Yes, it's office at Okabojewelnessclinic.com.

Office at Okabojewelnessclinic.com.

Before we get out, Dr. Meyer, you guys also have had success you and Dr. Fogarty with reversing some of the effects.

of dementia and even stroke consequences.

Is that correct?

Right.

You know, the hyperbaric, it is absolutely incredible for its utility to help the body heal in so many, so many different areas.

And that includes the dementia, stroke recovery.

We have a lot of folks in the clinic now that are working on regaining their motor function much more quickly.

after after a stroke and this can be beneficial years out and so most folks as an adult you think oh if I've had a stroke I do my my physical therapy my occupational therapy and if I'm not making any further gains we we obviously or in most cases think this is this is as far as I'm going to get in my recovery well we had a gentleman that you know he's in his second month here and he came in in a wheelchair

And now he is walking with a cane.

And he's smiling.

He's becoming more verbal again.

So we get a lot of folks, like I say, that come here that have lost a lot of hope.

And we're working at restoring that hope here under mild hyperbaric air therapy.

Bring your child up to Dr. Meyer and myself in Okabodji.

Have a little family time while you get your child back in the chair.

And I'm talking to the academic chair so that they get their school in done and they go out and do great things for the state of Iowa.

That sounds like the ultimate prescription for health, happiness and prosperity.

Thank you again.

Doctors Ted Fogarty and Brad Meyer keep up the great work.

We will talk to you yet again next week.

Hold

on to your radio dials, hug those radios, kiss those radios.

John Jacobson here, back with another edition of the Jacobson group with Mike Shane, Scott Curry, Chip Readman.

And on our newsmaker line today, Joe Narmie, the foremost regional expert on Notre Dame football.

We have got a great program for you again this weekend on the Blowtorch 50,000 watt Clear Channel KXEL AM and FM 1540, 100.5 on that dial.

Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, hometown boy John Jacobson here.

Cedar Rapids Regis kid, Marian Iowa kid, University of Iowa kid.

And guys, we are gonna

to talk football.

We are just weeks away for the explosion of what we all love.

College Football USA.

Special report.

Let's go to our newsmaker line.

Joe Narmie, live from South Bend, Indiana, home of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

Joe, welcome to show today.

Thanks for

having me, guys.

I'm literally in the middle of moving my daughter into Notre Dame as we speak.

She's a freshman.

up here in South Bend in Badden Hall or Badden Hall.

So we're moving her in.

Joe, I know that your loving, gracious wife Spreadsheets has you on a short leash here because she wants you doing the heavy lifting up those stairwells.

But Joe, let's bring in the fighting Irish music here because we're talking here all eyes and ears in eastern and central Iowa are on the Hawkeyes and the Confertory Alignment.

And Joe,

What are your thoughts?

Scotty's gonna come in here with Chip.

Scotty, I don't know.

The Irish are still playing Koi, aren't they?

They're that tough date to get to the ball.

Tough date right now.

I think the big...

Hurdle that they're facing right now is that their Olympic sports are still in the ACC But the Big 10 just announced a seven billion dollar seven-year Media deal with NBC CBS and Fox Sports Joe I think the writing is on the wall if not in the next two years, but the next eight to ten years Notre Dame will be in the Big 10.

That is my prediction.

I Would agree with you Notre Dame already competes in big in the Big 10 as far as the hockey goes most the other sports on the ACP

So they are in a conference, so to speak, for the most part, it's never football.

And with these TV deals flying left and right, it just seems like it'll be inevitable that Notre Dame will be a part of the big 10 at some point in time, especially with the wavering now of UCLA.

They have to get through their board of regents to get it approved.

And apparently, according to sources, that is wavering right now.

Shockingly, California is going to maybe throw a little wrench in this thing.

But otherwise,

That maybe opens up another space for Notre Dame as far as that goes to make it even 14.

But with that being said, I think Notre Dame is inevitable, especially with this new TV deal, also signing with NBC and NBC Peacock.

So it seems to me that it's inevitable

and you know Joe one thing we looked at is the numbers the big 10 media deal is it was released on Thursday It does not show the hundred million dollars that we all anticipated.

However, there are escalators that are involved for further expansion It looks like the baseline though for the big 10 not counting bull revenue ticket revenue and things like that will be 75 to 80 million dollars right off the bat and the Notre Dame NBC deal

could possibly be around 55 to 60 million.

Is that what you're hearing?

That's what I'm hearing as well.

So it's big money for Notre Dame, which at the end of the day is what it's all about, as well as a national presence.

And the Big Ten Conference now with USC for sure coming in, as well as UCLA probably, gives them coast to coast, which was what Notre Dame loves.

And it just seems like it's going to be a done deal in the next year or two.

So one of the things that I'm hearing or reading about is

which is not a surprise.

Notre Dame wants to be independent ultimately, but that may change.

But they're playing a waiting game at this point.

They have a deal with NBC, so they're no hurry.

They've got money coming in.

It's not as much as they want.

So the understanding that I have is that the Notre Dame is playing a waiting game.

They want to see how things shake out a little bit down the road.

Scott, you mentioned about more Pac-12 teams coming in, like if they want to bring Stanford in.

The other talk is that what Notre Dame might do in the interim is just program more Big Ten games in their schedule and maybe just take out some of the other little games and try and get more Big Ten teams.

Have you heard anything like that?

No, I would agree and basically I think this is just going to be at some point in time it will happen.

It may not happen in the next year, so to speak, but at the same time, I think you're going to see an escalation as far as these TV contracts.

ESPN obviously will get the SEC lined up as well.

It's pretty quick.

And they're going to get pushed one way or the other.

No name does not like to be pushed around, but no name is going to get pushed one way or the other for just the money involved in these.

You know, Joe, one thing I think we need to also focus on, too, is the college playoff scenario with the upcoming contract that's going to expire in 2025, 2026.

If there is any more movement, it sounds like there will be an enhanced expansion with the playoff invitees.

But if Notre Dame has started to get boxed out by Greg Sankey and the SEC and Kevin Warren, the Big Ten, that really forces their hand, doesn't

it?

It does.

The essence is they're going to be the odd person out.

And these with the TV contracts, they're going to want, you know, you're going to basically almost be paying for your spot as well.

And Notre Dame will not be paying for a spot at that point in time.

So therefore, they will be boxed out.

So one lost Notre Dame could be out of a playoff, just kind of due to the fact that, you know, where the money really is going, which will be toward the SEC with their ESPN contract, as well as the NBC Fox with respect to the Big Ten.

Hey, Jacobson here.

I'm just scratching my head.

You guys said Notre Dame was independent.

I thought they were a Democrat.

Well, and I always

joke too, Joey.

You know, Joe, how can I always joke with my Irish friends is how can you say you're independent when you play five teams in the ACC?

So

you might as well

just come on board, take the money at the big 10 and make this a done deal and make it a nice even 20 team league.

Well, and the other thing too is the strength of schedule plays a role and I get the whole army.

Navy, Dalhovertine, as far as who they play on a regular basis, but the strength of the schedule plays a part with them with respect to, you know, a lot of these teams that used to play who used to be good are not really ranking up there super high anymore, which even includes a stamp of that matter or a cow hurt that matter.

So it doesn't rank up there very high anymore, and that's going to hurt them in the end as well.

Here with Notre Dame expert and awesome Southwest Iowa attorney, Joe Narmey,

Joe, I have spent three summers on the Notre Dame campus with the Canon banking schools there, and want to let you know that there is nothing like that campus ambience.

There's still the census fidelium, as we say.

What's your favorite site on the campus?

Is it Touchdown Jesus?

Is it the Basilica?

For me, I think Rockney Hall is very cool with the memorabilia.

And as a business guy, I love that de Bartolo School of Business.

But Joe, for me, it's the bacillac, for me, it's the grotto.

It's the grotto with the candles honoring that passage of Luke's Gospel and our Lady and that beautiful letter from Dr. Tom Dooley to Father Hesper.

What's your sense of the campus there?

John, we walked it last night.

This is the first time I've only been here as far as the summertime.

And it is absolutely probably the most gorgeous campus I've ever seen.

And that is no slight to my beloved Iowa Hawkeyes, where my other son is located this week.

But it is absolutely gorgeous up here.

Obviously, you can't go wrong with any of those.

The Grotto is certainly a special place.

but you know you get down toward the touchdown Jesus Basilica area and it's all beautiful and it's just absolutely gorgeous up here

now Joe I know you're a big Notre Dame fan but your your daughter was the St.

Albert you know homecoming prom queen and I know these Irish freshman types they're all these rich boys from Chicago that that like beverages are you gonna turn on the Irish in two weeks when your daughter is annoyed with all these guys making a pass at her

in a state of perhaps, um, uh, inebriation.

Yes.

Let's clean it up here.

Well, I think, you know, the bottom line is the fact that, uh, you know, we, I expect her to maybe kind of be destroying the sisterhood.

Oh, you're a good man.

Well, you could have sent her to St.

Mary's just to make it safe across the lake there.

You know, well, you know, you know, if

you, Joe, if you really wanted to give Jacobson a heart attack, just tell him Notre Dame only will join the big 10 if Creighton is involved.

Ooh,

that's even better.

It's even better.

Yes, another beloved Blue

Jays.

Well, Joe, you can make this apodictical statement a fact.

There is more green space on the Notre Dame campus than there is on the Creighton campus.

Can they find one more inch of space to clutter another building on Creighton's campus?

I don't know why they even have a lawnmower from Mall Halls coming in there anymore.

money talks and money goes basically upwards.

So therefore they can always raise those buildings higher and every square inch will be full because the bottom line is affected.

It's all a dollar game at this point in time.

Hey, you're sending photos of spreadsheets driving.

Is she in a better mood than the last stills that you sent us?

She's doing

better.

I will say that moving today with the daughter is the first hour to go to college.

You know, as sons of Iowa, now she's there.

We got two more at home.

But this is kind of a train wreck day, as I'm forecasting here when we say our goodbyes.

So

lots of chocolate and wine is how I got mail

me through.

True.

True.

I'm

surprised I got a role.

Joe Narmie, our Notre Dame resident expert, literally resident today at South Bend.

Thanks for joining us, Joe.

We'll have you back soon during football season.

Thank you and God bless.

You betcha, Joan Armie, guys.

As a Hawkeye fan, I give a lot of grief to our Iowa State friends, but, you know, they have a great athletic director, Jamie Pollard, and him.

creating that green space the last couple years has really improved it but you know I always joke too there's a reason why Iowa State has to have so much adult beverages to get through some of those sporting

events.

It can be tough from one year to the next disappointing loss as well and on the other hand they have some surprising wins which will drain the bars just about as quickly.

Chip Reidman is our Iowa State alum here and launched a very successful business career for you Chip and one thing

I love about the tailgating at Iowa State is the Jacobson building, you know, not that they named it after anybody in my family, but you know that, you know, the lineage, you know, it works.

It

works.

It's one of many buildings there.

That's fine.

Actually, you were talking about beautiful campuses.

Iowa State really does have something, their central campus area, which is just a huge green space.

I haven't been there actually in a number of years.

We've had the Republican straw poll out there.

That's where I met the great Ron Paul.

I'm assuming they haven't built anything on.

Central Camp is very, very nice in there.

And all the growth seems to be around the periphery.

It's a donut with a big green space in the middle and then all the buildings around the outside.

Yep.

And, you know, it just shows too that Iowa State is going to be kind of unfortunately the odd man left out here with

this

big 10 media deal that was just announced.

It shows that the Iowa will be ringing in anywhere from 75 to 90 million dollars with escalators when the big 10 expands.

Kevin Warren came out and said, we will be expanding.

even more to a $10 billion deal.

And unfortunately, Iowa State will be stuck at about a $40 million paid aid from their network with the Big 12.

This kind of brings in a different question, diverting for a moment.

We've shared some texts and comments where someone said it's now going to be the Big 2, not the Power 5 anymore because of the SEC and the Big 10.

And I'm just not convinced about that.

You mentioned earlier about the four corner schools going to the Big 12.

I'm wondering if the ACC is going to have to get desperate and do something about their contract to preserve themselves.

So I would not be surprised that we might be down to a big four.

I think if the big 12 can pick up the four schools, Arizona, Arizona State, which have a good tradition on their own, a little bit up and down.

Utah is shining right now.

If they can bring those schools in, it does help bring them back up maybe above water, barely.

Yeah, I would agree with that.

They're treading water, but they're also taking on water at the same time.

Yeah.

There's just outside of Stanford, Oregon, and Washington.

Those seem to be the three that the Big Ten is targeting.

Now, there's a lot of talk about Cal.

The UC Regents.

I don't get it.

I don't get Cal.

It's all about

academics out there.

Can we blame Gavin Gruesome for some of this?

The governor, you know.

Absolutely, what that guy's a loser.

He is a loser

and the best part was Joe before you leave Newsom though Joe did mention that and I read the same thing

The UC system regions had an hour-long closed-door session specifically about UCLA.

They are not happy about UCLA leaving and UCLA's standpoint is like, wait a minute, you gave us permission

to

run our schools and do what we want and the regions are coming back saying, yes, we give you permission to do what you want, but we didn't say we don't have any input in this and we can't say something otherwise.

Well, I think a lot of that has to do with posturing.

The regions, they're basically, they bankrupted that entire

Organization and so you know UCLA has a hundred million dollar deficit right now They had to sue Under Armour to get some money out of them and this is all about trying to force Cal into the big 10 I saw a regent from UC make a comment saying well Well, we might as well just put Cal in the big 10 Well, that doesn't work like that the big 10 isn't gonna take orders from no regent in California if they want Cal they're gonna have to get a majority of the Other now 16 schools to agree that we will invite

Cal and Cal will then be required to meet certain benchmarks whether it's in the research department or on the athletic department because Big Ten is not going to just sit back and subsidize pathetic athletic departments.

Well that's you bring up the UCLA is a great point they are bankrupt no matter how you look at it.

Typical of anything in California.

The Cal side I just I still just don't get it seeing them fit as well.

I

think if I my guess is is the athletic, you know Fox and CBS and NBC got what they wanted with the LA markets in the in the athletics the presidents and the chancellors of the big 10 they're gonna want certain things as reciprocity Yeah, and that's why cow cows being talked about yeah, I'm not convinced they're in yet But that's why Stanford is a target

exactly is one of the

premier education Schools out there and was it over a billion dollar and

I read the other day and so this is where it's all coming down.

Their band is gonna keep terrorizing us though.

I'm there's gonna be some

payback when they come to

Iowa City on that

I guarantee that

hey all I can say is chip

You and I are old enough on this broadcast for the good old days of Ronald Reagan, Governor California with tail gunner Sam Hayakawa, slapping back those commies on the California camp high with the National Guard.

Those were the good old days.

Yes, they were.

They were the good old days.

From what I remember anyway, I may have been in some sort of inebriated state to remember what

was

going

on back

then.

You know, I remember what I was going to try and say a minute ago is one thing in this, if it sounds like

I'm sorry, it's gonna come out that way when Nebraska joined the Big 10 They put them on a schedule as to when they would be would you call it full

rated

and all that right?

They did the same thing to Rutgers and Maryland although I don't think it was as severe as it was for Nebraska because they wanted their TV viewers right away USC and UCLA They pretty much gave a pass on that they're coming

in

before ride right away, which is to me is very disappointing I get USC and it has more of a name

That's probably part of UCLA's deal because they're bankrupt, they need all the money right away.

But then to extend that further, to go to Stanford, if you're talking about how much money they're sitting on, and Cal, to give them an immediate full ride.

I guess I and I think a couple other schools should look at that and say look I know it's all for one But we're supposed to be earning our way into this thing and

I did talk to somebody that's affiliated with the University of Iowa about that and they said the reason why there was that pro-ration for especially for Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers Maryland and Rutgers we had to buy out their contracts from the Big East and the ACC and the reason why Nebraska was put on where they were is because we were still paying down our debt that with the creation of the big

network that we paid Fox to create.

So we were still, you know, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota all had to pay into that.

So I get why you're saying that, but you know, at the end of the day, it's all about that LA market.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Money talks.

Well, guys, the final five, our final five minutes here, we're going to crank up the Iowa fight song because we're going to come back home here to Sea Drab is Waterloo, Iowa City and all of Eastern Iowa.

Talk about our beloved Hawkeyes, Scotty and Chip have been in contact with Gary Dahl.

He just is getting back from his trip overseas was great to see him there at St.

Andrews golf course for one of his bucket list items We're going to have him on the show probably Very soon with the next week or so prior to season, but Hawkeye prospects I was talking to some friends yesterday that think that Kirk's done actually a really good job of recruiting They're having some very good things some good entrance in the running back position Now quarterback is our mystery Scotty left

Let's close this out here and do an assessment of the Hawks as we head into the opening of the season just two weeks away.

Well, you know, this is a typical big 10 schedule.

This is the old schedule.

We have one of the tougher schedules in the nation or in the conference, especially because in October we have Michigan coming into Iowa City.

And then the following week we go straight to Columbus.

So this is the old school schedule.

But I like where this team is at.

We know Phil Parker will put out a great defense.

We've got some.

three and five star kids playing.

The question will be around Iowa's offense, but at the end of the day, her parents will put out a great product.

Scotty, that schedule looks tough to me.

What realistically, I'm looking at that schedule and...

I'd be somewhat satisfied with 7-5 and even pleasantly surprised with 8-4.

Am I calibrating that about right?

I think that's

kind of where we are right now.

It's all going to depend too on what type of teams we are facing, especially in conference.

You know, what does Wisconsin do?

What does Minnesota do?

At the end of the day, it's going to be just a bloodbath in the West.

And hopefully we can get to eight wins, nine wins.

But we do know one thing, the special teams are going to help lead the way with that.

You

know, the quarterback situation, where are we going to go with that, Scott?

It is what it is.

I hope Brian is able to work with Spencer this year.

He had some very encouraging thoughts in the last couple of press conferences.

We just need to improve on our accuracy and on our red zone efficiency and, you know, get away from those one-score games and start blowing some teams out.

Well, the big question, though, is what about Brian?

Brian Farance, our offensive coordinator.

That's got to be a dark cloud.

Somewhere there's a silver lining.

I'm sure you're looking for it, but that's got to be a dark

cloud.

It is, it is.

But at the end of the day, Farance's teams have always been around that defense with Phil Parker and Norm Parker leading the way.

And so we know they're going to keep us in every game that they play.

We've etched now, I think, forever in college football lore.

our own tradition.

We've had Floyd of Rosedale and some other great monikers symbolizing Iowa football and of course the great Niall Kinnick and Judge Slater, Judge Duke Slater.

But how about that tribute to the children that are suffering from cancers and other terrible maladies with that wave at the end of the first quarter?

That's really established a foothold in college football lore.

It sure has.

We see it repeatedly as being ranked

is the top tradition in the college football and it's only been around for a few years but you know as Kirk Farron said one day in an interview you know

There's a lot of things happening in the country, but we can all agree to wave to the kids.

We sure can.

Well, guys, we're going to have some great Saturday and Sunday pre-game and post-game stuff on this ever-growing radio program.

We sure appreciate it, KXEL, for all their support.

This is the hottest program, the hottest new program in radio right now across the state of Iowa.

Thanks for joining in again today with us.

This is John Jacobson with Mike Shane.

Shane, come back, come back.

Scott Corey, Chip Reedman, our special guest Notre Dame expert, Joe Narmie.

You guys will talk to you on the other side.

Be safe, be smart, be good, be strong.

Love Jesus, and God bless us everyone.

It's great to be a Hawkeye.

Bye-bye.

week in eastern Iowa.

It's a joy to have Barbara Hames Bryant with me talking about what's going on.

She is a business icon, carrying on in her family's great tradition, the late Kurt and Norma Hames, now with the second and third generation actively engaged in Hames homes.

Barbara, welcome back today.

Thank you, John.

It's always a pleasure.

Barbara, you had a great interview.

I was watching on YouTube the other day Post a ratio and it made me think this we need not so much to be told is to be reminded But these hams homes these manufactured homes are sturdy

John it was absolutely amazing.

We knew that we had a good durable well-installed product

But there's nothing like 140 mile an hour winds for 40 minutes to actually prove we were right.

The roof blew off of our brick office.

And there was a strip mall around the corner, it was completely leveled.

Wow.

Less than a mile away, apartment buildings, the whole second floor blown off.

Wow.

There's a commercial building, a thousand feet away, you could see it when whole sides blown off.

Incredible

not a single one of our homes tipped over

That that

is just a testament.

We had about a half a dozen out of our 900 homes that shifted a little bit on their on their foundations, but for the most part it was just shingles siding and Skirting damage, which can be repaired sure and it is absolutely amazing I drove around a half hour after the derecho and everybody was outside helping each other it was

It was Iowa at its finest, and our homes were all still there.

How do they get in touch with you, Barbara?

The best way to reach us is online at HaynesHomes.com.

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

We're also open seven days a week at the corner of Wilson Avenue and West Post Road, Southwest, in Cedar Rapids.

Or again, HaynesHomes.com.

I would also encourage them when they go to our website to check out our blogs.

We dispel all the myths and misconceptions about manufactured housing in great detail and with facts so that people understand that our housing doesn't blow over, it doesn't depreciate, and we are not

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