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The Jacobsen Group with Jon Jacobsen · Mon Feb 27, 2023
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Happy Saturday and a happy weekend to all of our listeners Eastern Iowa in particular Cedar Rapids Waterloo on America's leading first in the nation 101st year 50,000 watt blowtorch clear channel KXEL 1540 AM with our sister FM transmitter at 100.5 out of Cedar Rapids.
John Jacobson here with the Jacobson group and guys we've got Scott Corey in studio on this beautiful weekend and the legendary engineer Mike Shane.
Mike, do we have that beautiful ringtone that tells everybody that you are at the controls?
Nothing can go wrong with Shane in the studio and we've had some frigid weather.
all across Iowa this week, but Shane always makes it in with that frozen tundra.
Scotty, I'm really excited about the show this weekend.
You know, John, it is going to be a great show.
We have a lot going on.
We have some presidential candidates.
Chris Cross in the state.
We have a special interview with Congressman Randy Feinster of Iowa's fourth congressional district.
And we have Hawkeye basketball kicking off later or tipping off later today at 11 p.m.
at Carver Hawkeye Arena.
It's a must win for Fran McCaffrey's Hawkeye
guys as they take on Tom Izzo's Michigan State Spartans.
Should be a classic and folks, we've got a classic show today.
Let's welcome in Barbara Hames Bryant, the matriarch of commerce in eastern Iowa.
And Barbara, it is so wonderful to have you back on the show with us today.
We're going to talk about Hames Holmes in just a second.
But Barbara, as we discussed earlier in the week,
It is caucus season, and I know you and I are both terribly excited about the parade of candidates coming into market their political wares in Iowa.
The season has begun.
Well,
let the games begin.
Iowa is a great place to live every four years if you're a political junkie like me.
You know, Barbara, we've already had Senator Tim Scott.
and ambassador Nikki Haley in from South Carolina.
We've had Vivek Ramaswamy come in, the billionaire mutual fund captain of crushing corporate wokeness as he calls himself.
And Scott President Trump hired a very capable team.
Looks like he's got Eric Brandstad and Bobby Kaufman
sharing his efforts as senior advisors in Iowa, Scott.
Yeah, that's a great point.
And so the games have begun, as Barbara mentioned, and Barbara, I know you're very active in this caucus season as head of the Iowa Republican women.
Talk to us just a little bit about what your advice is to these candidates as they crisscross all 99 counties.
You know, John and I just said, we're going to up the ante and make you our special correspondent and be responsible for getting all these exclusive
interviews with these candidates.
Well, I'd be happy to.
I feel it's my God given right to talk to each one of these presidential candidates in person.
And even before I was president of the Republican women, when you live in Iowa, you expect presidential candidates to come to your town.
You expect them to talk to you face to face.
Anybody who's ignoring an Iowan is certainly not going to get our vote.
It's my advice to these candidates is keep doing what they're doing keep coming to Iowa keep meeting people and keep talking the good talk
You know that brings up a great point Barbara and John and I have talked about this at length over the last few years is that sometimes you can tell a lot by a candidate on their strategy some candidates just kind of come in maybe once every two weeks or so other candidates you know like in the past we've seen a Mike Huckabee or Rick Santorum You know basically set up shop in Iowa
But with Iowa, with 99 counties, it is such a diverse state.
And it's so important for these presidential candidates to go not only to Lynn and Black Hawk and Polk and Woodbury counties, but also our smaller counties like Ida County and Harrison County, you know, things like that in Hardin County.
That's where we really can look these candidates in the eye and really see what they believe for the future of this country.
I totally agree.
And from what I've seen right now, we have a great crop candidates.
I'd be happy to support any one of them if they make the Republican nomination.
I didn't want to be remiss.
Asa Hutchinson also came in Scott Governor Hutchinson from Arkansas, a prior governor of Arkansas.
So it really is streaming in and how ironic that the
Democrats won't have the first in the nation status in Iowa this year, kind of sad, particularly when you think that Jimmy Carter, our thoughts and prayers go out to him as he is in hospice.
Carter really was the one that put Iowa at the forefront with his shocking.
Out of nowhere victory in the caucuses in 76 Scottie,
you know, that's a great point It was basically Jimmy Carter winning the Iowa caucuses that spring bolded him into the into the White House And I always like to remember remind Republicans to the great Ronald Reagan.
He did not win the caucuses in 1980 it was He came in second that year.
So I mean think about that.
We have Jimmy Carter, you know, I believe George W. Bush was the first Republican to
win the caucuses and go on to win the nomination in the White House in the same year.
Scott, that's a great point.
And I think we even can credit Iowa for Reagan's ultimate victory.
Remember in 76 in his insurgent campaign against incumbent President Ford, he only lost at that Kansas City Convention.
If 100 delegates had changed their mind out of those thousands, he would have won the nomination in 1980.
in the redo he still had John Sears as his campaign manager and after stumbling through Iowa and then narrowly losing in New Hampshire Sears was retired from the campaign
and all the rest is history.
You know, Reagan came in with some great folks and assembled a team that just stormed the nomination in 1980.
Iowa triggered Reagan into doing something he hated to do always, and that was to terminate or fire someone.
Usually Nancy got the honors for that.
At least
she did with Don Reagan.
Yeah, yeah, that's a great point too, John.
And you know, Barbara, I'd like to get your thoughts on this too.
What are the things that you're telling me?
candidates when you get a chance to meet them.
Are you encouraging them to go to all 99 counties?
What are some of the topics you're talking about?
I know in our interview with Congressman Randy Feinster, we hit on a lot of bread basket issues.
We talked about the inflationary issues, especially at the grocery store with, you know, $7 and $8 for a dozen of eggs, you know, things along those lines.
What are you hearing out there?
What I'm talking to candidates about being a business owner, being second generation of a three generation family business aims homes.
I'm talking to candidates about issues that affect small businesses and especially affordable housing.
I'm telling them that higher taxes, more government regulation is the exact opposite of what they should be doing and they need to be supporting small business and all types of affordable and non-subsidized housing.
Barbara, that's a great point that segues into what you do so well.
The people at Hames Homes.
Guys, if you live in the CR Waterloo area and have not been down to their beautiful, it's a miniature city, really.
It's a beautiful, beautiful set of communities and neighborhoods.
Barbara and her folks are right there in the middle of it.
It's absolutely magnificent.
These are safe, secure homes.
They do so well in so many different conditions, such as weather situations.
They're sturdy, they're compact.
They're really lovely, Scott.
They're spacious.
The curb appeal, that landscaping that you have out there, Barbara, is wonderful.
Tell us a little bit about what you're doing there in your communities.
Keeping our landscaping pristine is one of our top priorities.
We believe that people deserve, like you said, a safe, affordable, and beautiful place to live.
We have parks and playgrounds.
We have walking trails.
We have a basketball court.
And most recently, we've installed a dog park.
our residents just love letting their fur babies run free.
We've also got a nine-hole disc golf course.
We really want to provide the best amenities to our residents that we can here at Ames.
You know, Barbara, talk to us just a little bit about not only the homes where you can go and look online and take a tour, but you can also schedule an in-person tour.
But you also help folks with financing too, don't you?
And that's so important now with projected interest rates to be raised by the federal government here before too long.
The finance company that we have is unique among mobile home sellers here in Iowa.
The best way to reach us and to look at our beautiful inventory of homes is to go online to Haymes.
homes.com.
You can find out all about our current inventory, about our financing, about our homeowners insurance, and about our beautiful, beautiful communities.
Barbara Hames Bryant.
Scotty, I'll tell you what, if Joni or Kim or Ashley
or a marionette ever decide to retire.
I think you and I should lead the Western Iowa tour for Barbara Hames Bryant.
What say you Scotty?
Well, John, I disagree with you.
I'm going to shoot a little bit higher.
I've got the draft Barbara for US president here coming up.
I got the signs being printed all over Western Iowa, Barbara.
We could carry Potta Guadami for you, Barbara, I promise.
Oh, you guys are the best.
Thank you.
So are you, Barbara Hames.
Get to Hames Homes, guys.
Look at that beautiful website.
I browse there every other day.
They've always got something new up there in the history.
The honoring of the history of the late great Kurt and Norma Hames.
What a magnificent story.
Barbara, we'll talk to you next week.
Always a joy to be with you.
Looking forward to it.
John and Scott and Mike
Clear channel 50,000 watt KXEL caraming throughout all the Midwest putting all the big 10 states Mike Shane that bumper follows him everywhere at the controls here John Jacobson with Scott Corey.
We've got two great special guests for some sports banner We're gonna march the trenches Scott to introduce our guests and let's roll.
Well, thanks, John We are joined this afternoon with Chip Reedman
who is an alum from Iowa State and a Creighton diehard fan and Matt Gars, the Cyclone.
Guys, here we are, the final week of the regular season going in.
We have a lot of basketball to talk about and what is going on right now in Ames and Iowa City, Matt Garsonship, Reedman, both teams are struggling.
Yeah, this has been kind of a tough week for the major schools in Iowa.
just couldn't get it going.
The other night dropped one that they probably should have won.
Iowa State went down to Texas and got some Texas hospitality and got absolutely clobbered.
Thank God that game was on a lot more network, so I was unable to watch
it.
I was going to ask you, Matt, did you spend some money and buy that subscription?
I did not.
Okay.
I did not.
It's GM Plus and that
That's probably more than I want to spend, but I read the box score and I did listen to the call by John Walters on the PsyCone radio network.
And it's just as well that that game was not naturally televised because that was really ugly.
You know, Chip Reidman, what is going on right now?
Your thoughts on the struggles that coach TJ is having up there in Aitton's and as well as Fran McCaffrey, are we in the fan frayed in Iowa City?
You know, it is just weird what's going on up there.
I just cannot understand how this team can be so up and win important games and so down and lose unimportant games.
And just when you think they've got things figured out, like Matt said about Texas, it just actually makes no sense at all that they would go in and cave like that.
I'll blame the Longhorn Network.
They're probably the ones that really influenced the game and probably had to fix in on this.
Scotty, I'm laughing, but in two words, you have succinctly described
About the last five Iowa hoop seasons, the Fran fade eloquent.
Oh, it is brutal guys.
And I was watching that Wisconsin game and I made the comment to you guys on the text thread that I thought Ronnie Millsap and Ray Charles could have shot better the ball at the three point line at at the final box score at the Iowa game.
Their three point shooting was eight percent gentlemen, eight percent.
I mean, I could have done at least eight percent and I'm out of shape.
Joe Biden even gets a bigger cut than
8% for crying
out loud
the
big guy.
That is true.
That is true, guys.
And I know our station manager, Jeff Stein, is just rolling his eyes now at that one liner.
But Matt Garce, how worried is everybody in Ames right now?
Are we are we in trouble with Iowa State?
I wouldn't say we're in trouble per face, guy.
I would say.
I would say we're getting down to, I mean, we've got three conference games left for the conference tournament.
We've got Oklahoma tomorrow at 11 o'clock.
That's a game I'm going to.
Then we've got West Virginia on Monday.
That game is also an aim.
To me, those are two games that Iowa State absolutely must win.
Then you go to Baylor, Saturday the 4th to your final conference game.
That will be a tough game.
I think the biggest key for Iowa State is going to be
getting Caleb Grill healthy and getting him back and getting him into a rhythm before the conference tournament starts.
He's missed the last three games.
And basically what coach Asselberger has said is, you know, we want to give him time to get right, but he really hasn't given any indication what that's, what that means or what the timeline is there.
Obviously we need him because Gabe Kalscher's gone cold shooting three pointers and Payman Lutzi.
for as good as he is as a freshman.
He is not a threat from the perimeter whatsoever.
You know, sometimes coaches like to make... I'm gonna
throw in here what Matt's talking about with Iowa and you're asking about confidence.
The crazy thing about it is of the teams that we're going to be talking about today, Iowa State has the highest bracketology ratings of any of the teams.
They're sitting on either a three or a four and worse a five seed.
at this time.
That's looking at Yahoo, the NCAA themselves, CBS, ESPN, they have not given up faith on Iowa State on pulling out the rest of the season and finishing well.
So I don't know what they're looking at, but obviously we're all nervous.
I know we're going to go into brachatology here at some point, but want to tell all of our KXEL listeners, out of Waterloo and Cedar Abyss at 1540 AM and 100.5 FM that
All of the University of Northern Iowa games, of course, are on this station.
We are the home and away voice for all of Panther basketball.
And guys, as you know, the UNI women are having a great year.
They are only one game back right now, identical with Missouri State's 13 and four conference record and 18 and eight overall record.
So Illinois State leading the conference at 14 and three.
And so guys, we're gonna have some great basketball that you'll be hearing play by play during the tournament, Mo Valley tournament for the UNI Panthers.
So just telling our audience to stand by for that.
There's gonna be some great stuff going on.
Might be having the Panthers playing a couple Sunday afternoon games here as well on the weekends.
Let's get back to
the guys let's bring in two other teams real quickly of local area interest the Hawkeyes last big ten game which may be a maker break for them both in terms of conference seating and overall NCAA seating is the big red from Nebraska and Fred Hoyberg Iowa State beloved star and now a former coach of the Cyclones and Bulls and now coaching the Huskers has got the
Huskers on a roll.
They're about to go over 500 and have a great shot at an NIT bid.
I know you guys are both familiar with Hoiberg and Chip, you're close to that Husker program.
Are the Hawkeyes looking at a potential buzz saw?
And do you think Hoiberg has turned things around there?
Will he be back next year in Lincoln as the Husker coach?
I'll go with Chip and then we'll go over to Matt.
I think it's pretty much
a given at this time.
All the reporting that I've seen is that Albert is smiling kindly at Hoiberg.
This has been going on for a couple weeks now.
I think he believes that Fred's finally got some things figured out.
The last three games have been wins since this has been going on.
Wisconsin, Rutgers was an upset, Maryland was an upset.
So the things look very, very good for Hoiberg as far as the future goes.
They got three games to go.
Minnesota, Michigan State, Iowa.
The first two of those are definitely winnable.
They're both at home.
The Iowa game, that's going to be an away game.
That's going to be an interesting one.
I don't know how much the football hangovers can be on that crowd when Nebraska shows up in that, in the Coliseum.
But he's definitely got things turned around.
I cannot pronounce the guy's name.
There's a Japanese player they have on their team.
I don't know if you guys have heard about this.
Apparently he's got a huge YouTube following in Japan.
I saw a link and I went to it and it's like video after video after video.
You know from three to five to ten minute long videos of his play by all these different people that have posted on YouTube.
It's just crazy that this one player has generated this international attention.
You know, Chip, I'm gonna have to put that on my radar.
As you know, I do my due diligence as a reporter, and I have been following the Livy Dunn social media presence, and she's now over 10 million tracking her.
I don't know why, but she's had a page sporadic, who also for some reason seems to have quite a social media following.
Matt Garst, what say you about Hoiberg and the Huskers, and has he figured out
the portal to leapfrog what had been a staid recruiting process in college hoops for many years?
Is he totally reconfigured now and use that portal to catapult himself into contention?
I think this year Fred has really done a nice job with that team.
They lost one of their main contributors earlier in the year to a season ending injury.
The team has kind of come together.
They're five and five in their last 10 games.
They're on a three game win streak, which is very positive.
They do have a chance to sweep the Iowa series here.
They obviously beat Iowa in Lincoln 66 to 50 there at the end of December.
That's going to make some Hawkeye heads explode if that actually happens.
I agree with Chip.
I think that Whitebird will be back next year.
It'll be interesting to see how this team finishes with their final three remaining games, which are all games that they will have a legitimate chance to win.
I think the toughest game obviously is the last game of the season in Iowa City being in a way game.
I think Fred has finally figured out how to bake the cake there.
They're currently 14 and 14, which is not stellar, but
That's a lot better than it's been in the past, and it appears that the future is going to be looking a little brighter for the Huskers going forward.
Well, we've got a good wrap up here, then, of Hawkeyes and Cyclones and Huskers.
We're joined in studio here.
We've got Mike Shane of the Controls.
You're listening to the Jacobson group with yours truly.
John Jacobson, Scott Corian, our two special recurring guests, Matt Garst.
Very respected banker in Iowa and Chip Reidman, retired engineer and historian.
And guys, I know Scotty wants to talk about some bracketology.
We've got games in Des Moines coming up.
Scotty, take it
away.
Yeah, there are games in Des Moines this year, the first round.
It looks like one of the projections I saw, I believe it was Leonardo had Iowa in Des Moines, guys.
I think that's huge, not only for the state of Iowa, but.
For the entire program, I'd like to get your thoughts and have any of you ever been to a first round game?
No, I have not.
I've been to multiple first round games.
I went to both first round games that they had in Omaha here.
I saw Michael Beasley and OJ Mayo play.
That was kind of fun.
Pat Riley was sitting directly behind us.
because we had center court seats, which I won't get into how we got those.
But anyway, we have them.
And that was fun.
I did go to a Sweet 16 game, saw the Cyclones play Virginia at the United Center in Chicago, excuse me.
So that was fun.
The first four days of the tournament are basically my favorite time of the year.
There's great basketball on.
And people who seem to want to get out and have fun.
Hey guys, Scotty, I've got such a great experience.
I have many friends who've been to a first round NCAA game, but they've never made it to a second round game because they are Creighton
fans.
We can also talk about Iowa not making some second round games.
If you really want to get
it, it's the Tom Davis curse.
God, you want to remind listeners what that's all about for some of our younger listeners?
I am convinced that there is the Tom Davis curse in 1999.
Then athletic director Bob Bolesby did not renew Tom Davis's contract.
And in his final year, he took Iowa to the sweet 16.
And ever since then, Iowa under Steve Alford and in other coaches was that guy named lick lighter in there?
That was just terrible.
That was just terrible.
That's kind of like the McDermot ears at Iowa State there, guys.
But we've had some top, higher seeds and we've never made it to the second round.
But I don't know what kind of cursor is, but it needs to be resolved really quickly.
What are your thoughts on that?
Okay, I guess we don't have any thoughts on that, but uh, you know talking about mojo.
They are cycling in bogey fans.
I mean come on, consider the source.
But uh, you know as we talk about the tournament though, I'd like to get your thoughts.
Matt Garst has coach TJ changed up the mojo a little bit.
I know sometimes coaches change up the lineup, but has he decided to go with the traditional black jerseys and hopefully that would make a run in the tournament?
I think I said it last week.
I don't care what color the jerseys are in some of these games.
Yeah.
Well, that was on a different network.
So you're your first impression here now, Matt.
Go with
it.
We call them the Hawkeye jerseys here, especially in eastern
Iowa.
That seems to be pretty popular with the players.
And I guess to me, if that gives them a little additional confidence, that's fine with me.
We need a little confidence.
We need a couple of games here where we put some good, solid play on the court and can build towards number one, getting a good seed in the Big 12 tournament.
Although, I would argue, I don't want Iowa State to win the Big 12 tournament because then you're playing potentially four games in four days and well, three games in four days.
You know, you get pretty wore down.
And then if you have a Thursday game in the NCAA tournament, that's tough on a lot of players, even though they're young, very in shape people that does take a toll on them.
So that's something that I would keep an eye on for both.
Well, for Creighton, Iowa State, Iowa, you and I, Drake, you know, there is something to be said for that.
You know, Chip Reidman, I believe you have about seven different bracket scenarios going on right now.
Give us some of your thoughts.
Where do you see Iowa, Iowa State and Creighton lining up?
And if does you and I make it through your bracket?
See, Chip, before we talk,
well, we got set this up for the audience.
So chips are Bracketologist and Garsties are odds maker.
Yeah, he is our station bookie, that's for sure.
And I did hear that, Matt Garst, you were actually going to take your lovely bride to see a cocaine bear this weekend, too.
Is that true?
Can't wait.
And I think I'm going to take my oldest boy, too.
Oh, that's a family fun.
You have some good parenting right there.
That's a great
parenting.
Good fun there.
So we'll see if I can make that happen.
That looks like a wonderful show.
But, Chip, talk to us a little bit about this.
I mean, different scenarios.
You have Iowa State and Creighton.
What is some of your upset projections, do you think?
Well, upset projections are always wild to call, but I guess I could throw one out there once we get into that.
First, you were talking about Iowa.
Iowa is all over the place when it comes to how these bracketologists are reading
them.
You're telling
us.
Yeah.
Is there anywhere from sixth?
NCW has got them in six plus six feet But CBS and ESPN have them at eight seeds.
Yahoo has them at a nine seed Yahoo dropped they dropped them from a six to a nine seed.
Oh, that's
brilliant Like no one really knows what's gonna happen there, which is kind of strange because I don't think I mean I always had some tough games and stuff But I don't think what's happened with them this season compares it all to what's happened to Iowa State and a lot of their games You know, I an eight seed that's tough
I mean that puts you up against a one-seed pretty quickly.
Do you really want to be sitting on that place?
A six-seed would be nice.
Creighton is odd because it's uniformly a five.
Everyone has them as a five-seat.
That's a historically dreaded seat too because usually in the tournament you have two five-seeds go down eventually in that tournament in that first round.
Yes, it's historically one-third of the five-seeds
Lose every year
then that's
at least guarantees one if not two every year are gonna lose and last year was one of those years What two of them lost
and that would be uh,
so it's I don't know
I'm
looking forward to that at
all Well, then that is appropriate that Creighton is slotted at a five seed that that's a perfect event diagram overlap there
Yeah, I can see you saying that, John.
That's probably your prediction.
So I'm hoping to flip to a 60.
Six might be a little bit more realistic, although they do have a good run of games coming up.
Their last three are Villanova, Georgetown, and DePaul.
I think all of those are obviously winnable.
Villanova's probably going to be the tough one, but they've been kind of up and down, so you don't know what you're going to get with that game.
Now, she had talked to us a little bit too.
Where do you see Iowa State going?
Are they going to be in the Des Moines bracket or are they going out West?
What are your thoughts and projections?
You know, they have them, they're all over the place when you look at the projections, which bracket, which, you know, West, East, South, North, et cetera.
So I really didn't look at that that closely, just because it's just so early, no one really knows and NCAA does not give that.
All they do is they give you
Just like the college football season, they're top 25, the top 50 teams or whatever.
And from there, you can say the top four is first seed, the second four is the second seed.
So I really didn't look at that that closely.
If they're a three or four seed, I would imagine they're traveling because they have not had that strong of a record or really deserved a nice home seeding, so to speak.
Matt Garst, I'd like to get your thoughts on where you think Iowa states can end up because as an Iowa fan, you know, John Jacobson, we'd love to see Iowa go out West.
That's usually when Iowa puts together a nice little run historically.
What are your thoughts?
Do we get to
meet Alfred out there,
Scotty?
There is a projection out there, but now I think since Iowa has dropped considerably, they probably won't be on that line anymore.
There was a matchup here about a week ago where Iowa was going to take on Steve Alfred's Nevada team.
And I think there would have been a lot of hate going on in that game.
Matt Garce, your thoughts on Iowa State and where they end up.
Iowa State.
I honestly, I see us winning two of our last three games before we get to the big 12 tournament.
You know, if you you're seated, you know, you that falls right for you.
All those games are going to be tough.
I see Iowa State as a four seed, although the committee, when they put out their initial top 16 teams, they had Iowa State seed as the number 11 overall team, which I think was incredibly generous of them.
I don't see, I agree with Chip.
I don't see Iowa State ending up if they're a three or a four.
They're not going to be in Des Moines.
It'll be interesting to see how the rest of the season shakes out for them.
and how that impacts the committee's overall thoughts on the Cyclones.
I mean, if they went out, if they beat Baylor at Baylor at the final game and they take care of business with the other two, you got a three game win streak, potentially that could get us on the three line.
I don't know how realistic I think that is.
I see Iowa State as a four seed, potentially, and they're going to have to travel.
That's just the way it is.
Scotty, I think these last three games are pivotal and here's why.
Look at the Big Ten men's standings.
There are nine Big Ten teams within two games of each other.
Anything could happen with three games left.
It could completely, I mean, you got Penn State at 17 and 11, eight, nine in the conference.
At the low end of those nine teams, you got Maryland at 10 and seven at 19 and nine in between are seven more teams, including Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Michigan State, Iowa, Rutgers and Wisconsin.
Anything could happen.
Yeah, I think in the big 10 tournament I think the only two seeds that are probably written in stone right now is the number one seed is Purdue and the 14 seed is Minnesota other than that I think everything is as jumbled up enough where a lot could happen and I would like to We'd be remiss if we did not mention though on Sunday the huge game the showdown number two Indiana comes in to take on Lisa Bluters Iowa Hawkeyes led by Caitlin Clark ESP and we'll have game day
tomorrow guys
Guys, tune in on your TVs there tomorrow.
I mean, listen to KXEL, but I mean, watch stuff on your television, watch the great
Caitlyn Clark.
Absolutely, and they had a stinker of a game there in Maryland a couple days ago, but guys, I'd like to get your quick thoughts on the Hawkeye women.
Where do we see them going?
Are they a sweet 16 team?
Is this a Final Four team?
I'd like to get your thoughts.
Go ahead, Chip Redman.
Yeah, I think they have a pretty good chance of getting to the Final Four.
They're looking really good.
Like I said, they had a stinker at the Maryland game.
I was kind of wondering what happened to them in that game.
I haven't seen any information on it.
But they definitely have the talent to get there.
It's just a matter of it's like any tournament run.
You just have to get hot.
Because if you're not hot, you might run into a team that is.
And we've all seen that happen in unfortunate circumstances.
If they can just put things together, they can stay together and stay hot.
Yeah, they definitely got a good run in them.
Matt Garce, what is your odds makers of seeing Caitlin Clark not only winning National Player of the Year, but taking Lisa Bluter's team to the Final Four?
I think that National Player of the Year discussion should be much of a discussion.
I think it's her award.
There's a couple other...
players that are deserving as well, but they're not as deserving as Caitlyn Clark.
I think that one's pretty much cast and stone in my mind.
Well said, Matt.
Well said, Matt Garst.
Of course, we thought Max Duggan should have won the Heisman too.
But you got to love that West Des Moines Dowling girl, Caitlyn Clark, all Iowa's behind her.
And boy, Scotty, between Megan Gustafson, Kate and Clark, the Hawkeye women really are building twin towers in Iowa legacy here.
You know, absolutely.
Not enough cannot be said about
what Lisa Bluter has done with the Iowa program the last few years.
But Matt Garst, can this be the year that the Iowa women return to the Final Four?
I think it could be.
To me, it depends on, you know, obviously, like Chip said, you know, you get a bad matchup to draw.
It seems like there's so many, the teams in women's college basketball, it's so top heavy.
There's some teams that are just absolute juggernauts.
And then,
I would put Iowa, not as a juggernaut, but I would put them in that top tier of teams.
At some point, if you're not a number one seed, you're going to have to play one because they're probably not going to lose.
And that game will be a slug fest.
And if Iowa can stay healthy, if they don't have any injuries between now and the tournament, I think they have a chance to make it to the final four.
I would say that sweet 16 at a minimum for this team.
Last outro question for Chip Rademan.
Go
ahead, go ahead, Chip.
Yeah, I was going to say interesting.
I was looking at ESPN's brackets for women and they do have Iowa as a third seed, which really surprises me.
I mean, basically that's saying they're 12th in the country and they're rated better than that.
But they do indicate that they dropped them down probably from a second seed.
Um, they do, they do show them playing in Iowa city.
And interestingly, if they did make it to assuming that they would make it to the third round, they could potentially run up against Creighton.
The Creighton women actually are playing very well right now.
So that could be a little bit interesting down the road as to how that develops.
And there's going to be some payback because we all know what kind of.
Uh, let's say, uh, gifts the officials gave Creighton, uh, last year at Carver Hawkeye Arena against, uh, Caitlin Clark.
There was some non-fouls.
I mean, I saw, uh, better, I was state game than I did that.
Guys, all I know
is that, uh, that Creighton fan can be vicious.
You know, they tell those, uh, they tell the YELL squad not
to yell too loudly, Scott.
That's true, you don't want to hurt their feelings out there, but we do know Matt Garse isn't afraid to show his feelings at CHI Health Center there in Omaha during the Creighton game, though.
Garse, have you been tossed yet from a game like Margaret Caffrey once, Mick Caffrey once was from one of her ball games where her husband was coaching?
I have not.
I was tempted to attempt to toss somebody else out.
Hey, I guess so.
I can't wait till you duke it out in the stands with your two sons and your daughter watching some day.
It's gonna happen, you know it.
I hope that doesn't happen, but I hope the old man at least puts us in a good fight.
Guys, we're so delighted always to have these wonderfully wise characters with us.
Very insightful.
Always do their homework.
Chip Readman with some great Bracketology.
and Matt Garst with colorful commentary always, as well as, he's got, talking about Nevada, Matt's got a good sense.
for that whole, he should be working for DraftKings,
you
know?
Absolutely.
We should, you know, the bear that he went from ESPN over to Fox Sports, maybe we should have a little segment with Matt Garst and, you know, talk about bears.
Good luck this weekend at Cocaine Bear.
I hope to get a preview or review when you get back in the studio on next week,
Matt.
I'll certainly advise that to the quality of the movie, although I think we can all guess how good that's going to be.
It will be epic.
Guys, our studio audience is on their feet.
They love these guys.
Matt Gars, Chip Readman, thanks for joining us, guys.
We'll talk to you again next week on KXEL, the 50,000-watt blowtorch, curving to the entire Big Ten, Ottawa to Lou and Cedar Rapids at 1540 AM, 100.5 FM.
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would characterize as one of those courageous heroic doctors of conscience
Now vindicated as all of the data is streaming in, what Fogarty said three years ago is ringing true today.
Welcome back to show Dr. Ted Fogarty.
How are you doc?
Good to visit with you again this weekend.
How buried with snow did you guys get in your neck of the woods up in Northwest Iowa and Central Nebraska and North Dakota?
Well, John, you know, I am kind of, I'm all over the map.
course with my emergency radiology practice.
You are, you're a well-traveled man curing in three states, four states.
Well, it's
actually in more like 20, but the ones in which I travel the most are Nebraska, Iowa, Colorado, and the Dakotas.
So, you know, this big storm from Olive certainly has packed a wallop into a lot of areas.
of the roadways but out here in uh western Nebraska at the top of the old chisel and trail we got about five inches but uh a lot of big drifts
it got pretty cold um i'm a little concerned that you know these fluctuations between hot and cold are going to be a little hard on some of the some of the farm crops
yeah yeah you can
get a little more even keel on the weather
and the livestock's always a concern with the frigid temps uh you know doc we we love Iowa here Iowa is the uh native american word for beautiful land but there's nothing
is beautiful is that austere almost desert landscape the sand hills of western Nebraska encapsulate so beautifully by chimney rock there is an austere beauty out there in the sand hills isn't there doc
absolutely john and honestly this this area of the world would never have been populated by humans if it weren't for cattle and with that i want to bring up a
A very important political situation that's starting to evolve in state legislatures north of here, North Dakota and Idaho have now presented mRNA ban bills.
So the legislators in the rural crowd are understanding and seeing on the ground what's happened to their family and their loved ones.
you know, Iowa State is on the cusp of trying to put out a cattle respiratory syncytial virus vaccine and Moderna is already getting an RSV vaccine out based on the mRNA platform that's slated to go into every mother.
And these are
Extremely unethical days, extremely unethical actions.
Basically, the denial of the rights of humanity are going on with this corrupt, murderous racket that has come out of medicine through the vaccine industry.
It's the dirtiest industry in the world.
It has no controls, has no regulation.
Unlike what you have to go through as a banker, John, the regulatory apparatus for vaccines is gone and has been gone for over 30 years.
Well, Dr. Fogarty, I will just illustrate this by saying what other industry has blanket, uniform, unlimited liability protection, no consequences for whatever deleterious damage is done to people.
It's a monopoly of
harm without redress.
It's unbelievable.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
And what I've been doing in helping these legislators in Idaho and North Dakota is to basically throw across the first, you know, firebomb, Molotov cocktail, whatever you want to call it, against these multi-billion dollar enterprises that are basically using every human being in America as their guinea pig with this mRNA technology.
Doc, let's drill down for people that might not be accustomed to this.
mRNA is really not even a traditional vaccine.
And what is it about the manipulation of the mRNA which makes this so nefarious?
Can you break this down in layman's language for some that might be just hearing this for the first time?
Yeah, well, what we've learned internationally from the gross negligence of the industry from other nation states in particular and how this is actually working is that the mRNA gene product is packaged in a liposome.
And there are certainly products out in America that use liposomal concepts, including vitamin C formulations.
They're packaged in these little bottles.
And so the liposomal package
According to a study in Japan that was basically checking the math on Pfizer's product was that this doesn't just stay in your shoulder after you had the shot in your shoulder.
It
goes to the ovaries at 12 times the level.
of what it would go into the deltoid muscle.
So this liposomal chaperone system is basically delivering the gene product into the human ovaries.
And we literally, we have a birthing collapse, we have a fertility collapse on the horizon because of this.
There are, and I can say this without any doubt.
as an emergency radiologist reading the ICU and emergency department films across plain states and into some of the bigger states on the coast.
We have a miscarriage rate that is skyrocketing across America.
We have fetal death that is occurring in women who are trying to bring babies into this world.
it is literally going to destroy humanity that the rate that this is going at.
And no checks or balances for any of this, you know, as a Christian and somebody
who's quite familiar with the book of Revelation, I really do feel that this whole mRNA technology is usurping God's mRNA and God's will for us.
And it's also the trigger that John of Padma actually wrote about centuries ago, 2000 years ago, for the market of the system.
And so when you see the great states of America now participate in this rod and requiring mask lockdowns, requiring vaccine passports, especially in the blue states,
They're all in league with what is truly, it's a, it's a, they can't clap.
Well, you know, it's
out to destroy humanity.
Dr. Fordy, what we love here is this is a free speech zone and they've not been able to shut us.
all up you know um facebook has tried very hard now i've got my own system for beating zuckerberg i've got some end runs and i've uh rewired the kobayashi maruda where uh zuckerberg can't cancel me but boy they tried again just the other night because i posted something that they didn't like uh about the whole uh covet thing uh in in my attempts to bring justice uh to to some of these uh perpetrators but you know elon musk has opened up
Twitter and I've been able to put a compendium on Twitter and Twitter is just exploding now with the truth of the data that was suppressed for so long.
How revolutionary is that doctor that we are starting to get our word out now?
Well, yeah.
But let me just go back
you before Elon Musk opening the archives of literally the speech.
inhibitions of all of these social media actors, primarily against physicians.
Actually, the boldest and bravest physicians, and it's not just me, it might be just me in North Dakota.
But it is a lot of physicians around the country and around the world came out from the start, including our good friend, Dr. Lee Merritt.
Yes.
From the start saying, this is criminal.
This whole thing coming out of Wuhan is actually a bio weapons program.
And that speech all got censored.
And then my speech, including with and in conjunction with Dr. Paul Harge out of LSU, Dr. Harge got together with the Wuhan researchers in China who are using hyperbaric to save all kinds of moderate to severe COVID patients in Wuhan in the midst of this.
He
translated their experience into the English language.
He published that in March of 2020.
And there are multiple other entities, including NYU and some
Small Town General Surgeons who have saved lives hand over fist with Hyperbaric Chambers,
starting
from the start of
this.
Yes,
yes.
And my team that I built and developed with Ed DeGirolamo, who's a structural engineer out of North Carolina, we put together the plan to save the world literally from pharma and its sins, which is aircraft, HBOT.org, every single plane, every single jet, every single cabin system in this country, in this great country is a Hyperbaric Chamber.
every 1,000 flights even.
It is tested, it's maintenance tested, aviation crowd out of the Midwest from Wichita to Des Moines to Wisconsin and up into North Dakota.
We can all tell you that yes, we are actually turning jets into hyperbaric vessels all the time for preventive, preventative maintenance and safety purpose.
Hey Ted, I've been up to your clinic there.
Right here.
Yeah, Dr. Fogarty, I've been up to your clinic and I've used the hyperbaric chamber.
It's extraordinary such that people
know that it's effective for the reversal of strokes, cushions, long haul COVID, and also severe depression.
You're working right now.
We've got to go for this segment.
We'll bring you back on next week and on our other three networks as we always rotate you around every week, Dr. Fogarty.
Dr. Fogarty, one thing that we know is your generosity, you're helping these veterans in Iowa and in Nebraska with PTSD and suicidal ideation to also get some of this curative therapy through hyperbarics.
at a discount or at no charge.
Absolutely.
That's a big project we're working on.
And that is something that I have been doing actually throughout my career with Paul Hart, is getting veterans taken care of.
And we're the ones who publish the answers to PTSD and TBI for all of our veterans.
I've already been through phase three trials now.
And again, this is all on the same platform of virtually increasing the energy running through our mitochondria from God above, heal and accelerate all healing.
And it's a very
simple concept.
And Big Pharma and all of these hospitals in Iowa don't want you to go to Okabogy, the aeronautics performance clinic, to employ the simplest physics in healing in the history of the world.
And Brad Meyer and I have healed many people from dementia, from COVID-19 long-haulers syndrome.
We have set up ICUs, virtual ICUs in people's homes across state lines between Nebraska and the Dakotas in Iowa.
And we are doing things that are far beyond anyone else in the country.
Doc, how do they get ahold of you?
You've referenced the website once.
Give him a shot again.
Docs won Kara's money for his work and also the whole concept of hyperbarics for our veterans.
In my legislative career years ago, Scotty, I was voting for that out of the Veterans Committee.
How do we get in touch with you again, Ted, for some first-time listeners today?
The easiest thing...
Dr. Ted Fogarty, very esteemed, the studio
audience is very appreciative as always.
Doc, every time you come to the show,
You're heroic, you're courageous, and you've been proven right.
Congratulations.
Keep curing, and we'll talk to you again next week on this platform.
Yeah, many thanks to KXEL for giving an American physician some free speech across state lines.
Well, he's up there perpetually on the podcast, Dr. Fogarty.
If you type in kxl.com, the Jacobson group, every week we've got Ted Fogarty on there.
There's a whole catalog, Scotty, of interviews with Dr. Ted Fogarty.
We're delighted to have him as a sponsor of the show.
You know, absolutely, John.
And he is actually on the forefront of this.
And it's going to be, unfortunately, it's going to be an issue that we're going to be dealing with for a very long time here in the country.
I'm going to be getting back up there to Spirit Lake in a week or two to get some purple powder and NAC and spirulina.
So Doc, we'll see you soon.
Sounds good.
Thanks, guys.
Love you, brother.
Yep.
The great one.
God bless Dr. Ted Fogarty from the Aeronautics Clinic up in Okuboji Spirit Lake.
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John Jacobson here with Scott Corey and we are so proud this weekend to have on with us 4th District United States Congressman Randy Feinstra coming off a huge re-election victory firmly in Wisconsin.
His house
C in the capital in Washington, DC, moving up the leadership ranks, grabbing some tremendous committee assignments.
Scotty, we're honored with a weather weekend here.
Stay tuned to us as we continue to update you with weather reports.
So delighted to have U.S.
Congressman Feenstra on with us, Scott Corey.
Yeah, thanks, John.
Thank you, Congressman Fietster, for joining us today.
Congressman Fietster, you are starting to crisscross the 4th congressional district in Iowa talking about some agriculture issues.
You have an update about an upcoming forum that you're participating in.
Yeah.
Hey, Scott and John, it's so great to be on with you.
You know, you touch so many people and agriculture affects everybody.
I mean, when our producers are successful, that means our main streets are successful, our schools and our hospitals.
So let's talk some agriculture.
Yeah, I'm going to be doing a great agriculture farm tour.
I'm going to be in Minona County later this week to talk about.
livestock.
There's such a big issue right now.
The Packers control 85% of the livestock that they process.
And we just want our independent producers to have the same ability to sell their livestock as those that are vertically integrated.
And then you think about the fourth district, we're either number one or two when it comes to corn and soybeans, when it comes to livestock of cattle and hogs and poultry and eggs and dairy, you name it.
And that's why it's so important that I have a voice on the ag committee and then also on ways and needs which handles the trade and the taxing issues of agriculture.
Here with Congressman Randy Feinstra.
Indeed, he's got that plum ag committee assignment, Scott Corey, in one of the nation's largest geographical congressional districts spanning from the corner of Southwest Iowa all the way up to Northeast Iowa.
Scott's got a follow-up for Congressman Randy Feinstra.
Congressman Fiends here.
I know there's a lot of talk right now you kind of touched on it about trade and everything but it's also regarding transportation.
We've seen a few high-profile trained derailments across the country.
There are going to be some hearings on what's going on with our transportation infrastructure because not only does that hurt agriculture, it hurts all of the American
economy.
Secretary of Buttigieg to have to understand what's happening.
First of all.
Before the train derailments happened, we've had such a backlog, especially when it comes to ag production getting down and getting moved.
A lot of the ethanol plants and a lot of ag elevators are waiting 14 to 30 days before a train comes through to pick up their product.
This has been a huge problem.
And then all of a sudden we hear about the train derailments and the infrastructure that is subpar.
Obviously, in East Palestine, Ohio, this is a really catastrophic event.
And then obviously, in Gothamburg, Nebraska, we had a bunch of coal cars fall off the tracks just today.
So these are really big things.
And to me, the administration, we've got to figure out what's going on.
And we're going to start demanding hearings and try to figure out from the transportation administration what they're doing about to make sure that our trains are safe.
And not only that, but they can run on a timely manner.
And of course, Joe Biden and his gang killed the Keystone Pipeline.
Scotty, one thing that a pipeline
Prevents is some of the open spillage risk factors that you have with Everything being run along the train tracks got Cory, and I know congressman wants to visit about that too.
Yeah, that's a great
killer.
I mean you think about the x-all Pipeline it killed jobs.
It killed our energy independence And now here's an opportunity that you know instead of having train cars that can spill to run through a pipeline that really never has any problems and
I just think we're so short-sighted as a country when we don't go down this path and we stop.
The XL Pipeline was being built and we just shut it down.
And that hurts everybody.
It hurts our families, our businesses, because obviously it's going to cost more when we're buying our product from Venezuela and from Saudi Arabia.
You know, Congressman, one of the key economic issues we're hearing at the grocery store, I mean, when my wife goes to the grocery store and buys a dozen of eggs, it's almost like we have to take out a loan.
What is going on in our poultry industry?
And when we're seeing, you know, $8 to $9 for a dozen of eggs.
And here we have a big situation that, you know, we have avian bird flu come through, killed millions and millions of chicken laying eggs.
So that was a big issue, but it's also a tremendous amount of wasteful spending that happened from the administration that caused this massive inflation.
And you know, economics 101 is when you throw so much money into an economy and you don't have enough supply on hand where people want to buy product, you're going to create dramatically high prices.
And that along with also you have an egg issue because your hens are dying, that just spikes those eggs to $8 a dozen.
Again, it's just not sustainable.
Every family is going through this now, whether it be buying milk or eggs or cereal, you know, all this product has gone up from 20% to 80%.
And we've got to get this under control.
We've got to get our spending under control.
John Jacobson and Scott Corey here with you this beautiful weekend in Iowa and Nebraska with Iowa 4th District Congressman Randy Feinstra, Republican.
Congressman Randy Feinstra, we appreciate your time today.
We want to thank you so very much for what you're doing in D.C.
for Iowa and also the 4th Congressional District.
I hope you have a blessed Holy Week coming up.
Hey Scott and John, thank you so much for having me on.
If everybody wants to reach out to me, then go to Feinstra.house.gov.
Thanks again, guys.
Scotty, there's no weekend radio like our weekend radio on KXEL, the Jacobson group with John Jacobson, yours truly, Scott Corey and Mike Shane.
What a show today.
Great big 10.
and NCAA Hoops banter with Messers, Reedman and Garst, Barbara Haymes Bryant, the matriarch of commerce, Congressman Fiendstra and the courageous physician of conscience, Ted Fogarty.
How do we top that, Scotty?
You know, it's gonna be hard to top it as they say this really is the truly the fastest hour in media.
It's just how fast it goes, but we have so much great information for all of our listeners and we're gonna have some more input next week from both Congressman Fiendstra and Dr. Fogarty.
So buckle up.
It's going to be a long
ride.
Well said.
Part two of each of those interviews next week.
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Absolutely.
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So it must be true if it's on the Internet, John.
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