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The Jacobsen Group with Jon Jacobsen · Mon Mar 6, 2023
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Barbara is up first.
Let's roll.
Scott, we're in beautiful March now.
March madness and basketball.
I've got Robbins.
chirping all over my neighborhood.
I just, you know, as I do my drives across Iowa in my fiduciary capacity, all 99 counties.
Scott, as I head in to the west going home at night, the sunsets are beautiful, but they're much later than they were even 90 days ago.
And heading to that beautiful eastern Iowa in the mornings, I watch that sunrise.
Iowa is still majestic, beautiful land.
It really is.
It sure is, John.
And, you know, talking about, you know, beautiful homes this time of year, I know Barbara Hames-Brain is joining us today, and she's got a lot to talk about.
Barbara, you're kind of the Caitlyn Clark of the homes there in Cedar Rapids area, aren't you?
I love that analogy.
Yes, call me the Caitlyn Clark of...
of beautiful housing.
Yes,
she is.
You are.
And you know, the thing about Barbara Hames Bryant is she always comes through in the clutch with financing, with locating.
If there is a problem and it's rare, she solves it.
Her cities down there survived the derecho better than all the conventional housing.
These are, as I always say, safe and affordable and
beautiful homes.
So Barbara, I'm going to lead in here.
Again, Barbara Hames Bryant, the matriarch of Hames Homes and Commerce in eastern Iowa.
Barbara, why does it matter where my home is located?
I'm glad you asked that, John.
And I wish every home buyer would come into our office and ask that people could sometimes compare manufactured homes to vehicles because
Actually, they're tied up like vehicles instead of deeded
like
real estate.
But the big difference, frankly, between a home and a car is the car can move around all over the place and a home stays in one place.
Right.
So where that home is located is hugely important to the homeowner's satisfaction and enjoyment.
And it's also a big factor in the resale value of the home.
That makes great sense.
You know, the resale value just like other real estate.
These these these things appreciate Scott.
We're in inflationary time period, but as the old marketing mantra is location location location and Man Barbara, I've been down to your Citus there.
What what a nice Metro setting you have it's a rural Metro setting you've got the nice agrarian landscapes in the horizon and yet
You're close there to all the action, all the major retail, whether it would be pharmacy or hardware, right, right within just a couple of minute drive.
We love bragging about how our homes are.
You feel like you're living in the country, but you're close to the city.
We're only 12 minutes from the eastern Iowa airport, about that far from Kirkwood Community College, and about 10 minutes from downtown Cedar Rapids.
You know, Barbara, as the days are getting longer, you know, people are gonna start venturing out more and more.
Talk to us a little bit about some of the amenities you have, not only for our nature lovers, but also our pet lovers as well.
We built a 16,000 square foot fenced in doggy play yard this year.
And we welcome all of our pets in Grandview and Summit View here in Southwest Cedar Rapids.
to come and enjoy the doggy playground, the Benson Dog Park, and it's been a hugely popular amenity, and people use it all year round.
Here with Barbara Hames Bryant of Hames Homes.
Barbara, I'm going to be coming out to Cedar Rapids frequently.
I have been coming out frequently and will continue to do so both
from a commercial standpoint and my mother is still living in Marion there and I love getting out to see her when I have the opportunities and often do with my business that I sometimes do in Des Moines.
It's so easy to get around the state.
But Barbara, this is a multi-generational family business and I see the pride that you and your family continue from the great legacy of Kurt
and Norma Haymes.
They had a dream when they came to Marion Cedar Rapids.
Can you just describe for our audience again how that mustard seed has turned into one of the finest trees of all.
It's the great American success story.
My parents retired from the military in 1969 and decided they wanted to open their own bank on their own business.
And figuring that housing would be something that people would always need, they started Haynes Mobile Homes.
And it started with one sales center on Marion Boulevard and Marion.
And then it grew to several sales centers, several manufactured home communities.
And now we are one of the largest manufactured home owner operators in the Midwest.
and we provide beautiful affordable housing and we have for over 14,000 families.
Barbara, I recall every day in my life for 18 years growing up there in Cedar Rapids, Marion, driving by your nice signage there right on Marion Boulevard.
It's forever etched in my mind.
Forever etched also is the fact that again,
Since 1976, when Iowa's caucus is really catapulted, your center stage again this year, Barbara, you are the head of the Iowa Federation of Republican Women and Cedar Rapids, Marion, Hiawatha, Robbins, etc.
is the the the hinge point for presidential candidate tours in Iowa.
And I'm just there's just a bevy.
They're all basically tripping over themselves to get in now.
We've had Rama Swami and Scott and Aisa Hutchinson even in here.
Nikki Haley is coming back.
President Trump is coming out there.
What's it like to be the keeper of the gate, so to speak, and set up these events and introduce all of these folks vying to be the leader of the free world?
Quite an honor for you.
Well, it's exciting, and it's humbling, and it's terrifying, and it's exhilarating.
It's a great time if you're a political junkie to be in Iowa like me.
It really is.
We welcome all of the presidential candidates.
We don't pick favorites in the primary, but we want to hear what everybody has to say.
And so far, every one of them is much better than who we have for president right now.
You know, one thing about the Iowa caucuses that I really appreciate, I know, and I have some friends that are on the other side of the aisle and family members are on the other side of the aisle, but they go to these events because they can actually get to speak and meet with these people that are running for president.
And that's such a unique situation, especially in Iowa.
And I'm so grateful that the Republican candidates for president are still participating in the Iowa caucuses this year.
We welcome them and we're glad that we can provide a forum for them to meet and greet the good citizens of Iowa.
Barbara, I advise all of our folks listening in to take a tour of your beautiful cities.
I call them these small community cities in Southwest Cedar Rapids.
They're so beautifully kept.
It's really Americana, almost Norman Rockwell.
As you go down the streets, you see the beautiful infrastructure, very good roads, nicely landscaped homes.
You got American flags, old glories flying high.
Barbara, I just love driving through the area and seeing what you've accomplished.
How can people learn more about you and maybe you take a drive and see for their own eyes the great things you've got going on down there?
One of the best ways to visit us is online at HaynesHomes.com.
It's one
of
the greatest URLs in the planet.
If you're in Cedar Rapids, one of the best ways to visit us is in Southwest Cedar Rapids at the corner of Wilson Avenue and West Post Road Southwest is the Grand View Leasing Office and the Haynes Home Sales Office.
That's Wilson Avenue and West Post Road, Southwest.
And for you folks in Iowa City and Tiff and North Liberty.
It's a short drive up 380 and you're right there.
It's so conveniently
located Scotty.
It sure is and you know Barbara as we go into March Madness.
Is it true that Caitlin Clark actually asked you for the autograph this last time?
I can neither confirm nor
deny that.
If we see Barbara out of the basketball court shooting threes when we arrive to visit her and with with all the residents there she'll maybe have all the kids there guarding her as she drives in the lane.
Barbara we hope for a low
run for the Hawks.
This Hawkeye women team really is something special.
No, go girls, go.
You betcha.
And the guys too.
We hope to have a great run in the tournament.
Have a great run down to Hame's home guys.
Beautiful, safe, affordable, housing.
for you and your family.
Barbara, as always, thanks for joining us.
We'll talk to you again next week.
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Yeah, yeah, for the listeners that are under 80.
I mean, that's a big deal.
So, you know, we're great to have Mike Shane with us, but John and Mike, we were joined on the line today with Matt Garce, the Cyclone Fanatic as well as Chip Reidman, a Cyclone alum and Creighton Fanatic and guys, it's been quite a week all across the board for all the programs.
Iowa State, UNI, Creighton, Nebraska, and it's going to be quite a week as we go into March Madness.
guys let's but first let's talk a little bit about some of the Hawkeye magic last weekend at Carver Hawkeye Arena and Chip Reidman you and I actually caught the end of the Iowa Michigan State game and not chip I'm gonna be the first to admit it I think myself as well as 99.9% of all Hawkeye Nation thought that game was over but Fran McCaffrey stare down of the referee changed the dynamics of that game and all of a sudden Iowa came all the way back and they took
Tom Izzo that angry little leprechaun and beat him with a buzzer beater to send it to overtime by Peyton Stanford and beat him in overtime.
Mike Shane going to cue up the Peyton Stanford
clip.
Chip Reedman, you and I watched the end of that game and Iowa was five for five from three point land and came all the way back with about 90 seconds left to force overtime.
Michigan State could not miss a shot until the last about two minutes.
What happened in that game?
Some reason I want to think that was the hand of God coming down to say that they were going to win that game.
I'm sure you'll bring up the Fran Stair episode that probably happened.
before that moment but that was just that's where home court advantage comes in that's where you have your own crowd pumping everybody up the excitement was there because everyone felt the momentum swing those last couple minutes it was just a phenomenal moment and frankly
That's why we all watch and enjoy sports because you just never know what's going to happen.
You know, that's a great comment, too.
And I'm glad you brought up the hand of God comment because I want to paraphrase what Tom Izzo said in his press conference on Saturday after that epic collapse by Michigan State, where he said he was asked by a reporter if he's ever been a part of a meltdown like that.
And he said, yes, about 30 years ago, he was an assistant coach at Michigan State under then head coach, Jud Heathcote in Iowa coming
off the they were up at East Lansing.
It was the first game after the tragic loss of Chris Street's car accident.
And basically it was the same thing.
Iowa was down about 30 and all of a sudden Tom Davis's team just found a will and forced overtime in East Lansing and ended up winning that game.
And Tom Izzo said he had during the last few minutes of the Iowa game on Saturday.
He thought about that game.
He said he met the
street family right before the game, talked to them, and he said it almost felt like Chris Street came down from the heavens and willed Iowa to win again.
And that was just an amazing quote by an amazing coach.
And as part of Hawkeye Nation, Matt Garst, I've never seen anything quite like that.
That was an unbelievable ending to a game.
I caught the highlights.
I was actually at the Iowa State Oklahoma game, which was a real stinker compared to the Iowa one.
and I had friends at that Iowa game and they were texting me updates and then right when our game got over, I hustled over to a buddy's house there in Ames and we watched they were replaying the highlights of that.
I've never seen shooting like that in the last minute and a half in a game by one team in my life.
That was incredible.
They made a lot of their free throws down the stretch, too.
They did what they needed to do.
But when they missed that, the last one with about 10 seconds to go and then Stanford went down and drained history.
I just thought that I was there.
I mean, that the hand of God came down and Iowa was they were refusing to lose.
That was incredible.
Well, you know, John Jacobs said it's great to be a Hawkeye in our Hawkeye polkas in heaven.
There is no beer.
But at the end of the day,
Here we are in March and Iowa has everything in front of themselves now.
Fran McCaffrey has done a great job.
I was very critical of him a couple weeks ago, but Iowa is poised for a number two seat in the Big 10 tournament.
If they beat Nebraska Sunday at Carver Hawkeye Arena, what a tremendous coaching job by Fran McCaffrey this year.
The only cloud hanging over my head is it?
Is it true that the Irish may be looking at Fran?
That makes me uneasy.
There is a rumors out there that they have.
There's some been some disclosure or contact.
with his agent to see if he would be interested.
His wife, Margaret, has been part of the Irish and things like that.
So what's gonna be interesting to see what happens at the end of the season?
Scotty, this, go ahead and chipper.
I was looking at some national, I guess you'd say headlines did a little bit of searching yesterday about that.
And I was kind of surprised that there's no mention
like CBS sports, box sports, all those organizations.
There's no mention at all about France.
There's three or four other coaches that they're talking about.
So it'll be very interesting to see if there's something really going on underground that just nobody knows about.
Garcia, I heard Campbell was going to go to Notre Dame.
Yeah, he's mentioned for about every other job.
Qualified for this one.
But you know, one thing we can talk about too is it was on the following day at Carver Hawkeye Arena, guys.
We saw magic once again.
120
decibels of magic.
The highest sound recording ever at.
Carver Hawkeye Arena.
Caitlin Clark, Iowa's sweetheart.
She is.
And if she is not the player of the year, they might as well just ban that award because it's a joke if she does not win it this year.
One
of our own West Des Moines Dowling
girl for crying out loud.
Absolutely.
And she is the darling of the NIL.
She even has people like George Kittle, the America's tight end that played at Iowa, and Patrick Mahomes, the quarterback at the Kansas City Chiefs, tweeting about how great she is.
She is quite the star.
She's
about to overtake LSU gymnast Livy Dunn for that number one NIL spot, guys.
This is quite the competition going on now.
And I see a little bit of a tear forming on the corner of your eye, John.
I know how much you like miss Dunn.
You know, I saw a tear forming in her eye in that photo after the Hawkeyes beat her LSU number one ranked baseball team also
over the weekend, Scotty.
It sure was.
And, you know, to talk a little bit just real briefly about Caitlin Clark, let's not forget during that
Michigan State game that the men played on Saturday.
If you watch the clips on YouTube, when Peyton Sanford hit that three pointer, if you look under the basket, you will see Caitlin Clark absolutely losing her mind and jazzing up the crowd.
I mean, she is the all of all American girl.
She is the all university girl.
And I don't say this lightly.
She is now on the same level as Nile Kenick.
When you crank 120 decibels in Iowa city, we're going to listen to this clip guy.
how this girl with 1.5 seconds left drained the shot from outer space to give Iowa the win after Scotty, I think it was a chintzy call that late in the game to go against Iowa and yet overcoming all odds.
Let's listen to that last second and a half.
Iowa down by
two.
Matt Gars, talk a little bit about what we're seeing in Iowa City.
We really have magic going on there right now with Lisa Bluter's team and Caitlin Clark.
Is she the best player in the country?
I don't know how anybody can make the argument she is not.
I agree completely with what you just said there.
I don't understand how anybody that is an objective viewer of women's college basketball could say that she's not the national player of the year.
I said that three, four weeks ago and
you know, as much as it paint me because she's in Iowa City and not in Ames, she's amazing.
And she has brought eyeballs to the game.
The popularity of that is as great as it's ever been.
And she's certainly very, very deserving if she doesn't get that award.
there's something wrong with the voters.
You know, absolutely.
And Chip Reidman, I'd like to get your thoughts on this too because she made Katelyn Clark made news this week and she was on the Dan Patrick show earlier this week and she kind of opened the door that she will be back for her senior year and possibly for her sixth COVID year and the foregoing the WNBA and the comments are basically she's going to make more money at NIL if she stays at Iowa City than she would as a contract player.
uh... going to the it w n b a and she had more publicity
you know that is an interesting take about it that told you what n i l has done to college sports at this uh... at this time yes you could easily look at a million dollars or staying at the university of iowa we all know that the w n b a does not pay as much as like the men's uh... the men's league does
But on the other hand, she could get some good sponsorship money, advertisers, et cetera, if she did decide to go pro.
But on the other hand, I'm not sure they're going to quite hit that level as what the NIL can bring in for her.
And I'm sure if Bartha was smart.
He'd be out there hustle and every dollar he can to try and keep her there for another year, just because it's what it's going to do to help the program down the road.
Well, you know, luckily though, Gary Barty has nothing to do with the Iowa Swarm and the NIL.
So we're in good hands there, John Jacobson.
But I love like Clark's comment at the end of the game when she hit that game winning shot.
Yes.
Holly Roe asked her about it.
She goes, I knew it was money.
I love that swagger.
I love it.
And she is, you know,
You know, a lot of fans get on social media, criticize her, uh, Matt Garce for being cocky.
I, yeah, she's, she's probably a little cocky, but at the same time she can back it up.
And I don't believe it's just as, um, egregious as you see some of the men's players.
So I think there's a little bit of a double standard there.
Honestly, I, I, I enjoy that.
I like the fact that she'll talk a little bit.
I think that's, I mean, she's, she cap it into her abilities.
Uh, what she does on the court does not bother me.
I don't feel like she's
going out of her way to show up the competition by down her denigrating them in any way.
Obviously, if she went down that path, I probably would have a different opinion on it.
There's far more trash talking men's basketball.
Men's basketball.
I think what she does is good for the game.
It shows passion and she backs up the talk that she does do.
So I've got no problem.
As great baseball legend, Dizzy Dean once said, Scott, it ain't bragging if you can do it.
And that girl's got plenty of assists on that stat chart.
She dishes that ball off an awful lot.
And that's one thing I think that gets left out of her criticism.
They say, well, she's kind of a ball hog and she shoots from mid court while she makes those shots.
But I've seen where she will have a laser pass and throw that ball three quarter length of the court through five defenders.
get a Kazano or somebody like that with the with the layup.
So she is an all around player and we're so grateful that Lisa Bluter was able to bring her to Iowa City.
But as happy as it's been in Iowa City this week, boy, what is going on in Ames, Matt Garson, Chip Reidman.
We have all kinds of drama.
We went from Iowa coining the phrase the fan fan frame.
Fran McAfee fade in February to the now the TJ tank.
What is going on over
their guys.
Well, I guess I'll start since I watched that tobacco first hand last Saturday against Oklahoma.
Iowa State two and eight in their last 10 games.
We're rapidly trying to play our way out of the tournament.
Two and eight.
That sounds like Creighton in March.
Oh, gosh.
Yeah.
Let's be real.
I got one
win.
Oh, man.
It's going to be interesting to see how this game against Baylor goes.
Obviously, Cyclones at in Waco at the Ferrell Center.
Baylor's hot right now.
Baylor's won seven of their last 10 games.
They're on two game winning streak.
They're playing well.
Iowa State, in addition to their woes on the court, obviously has some off the court drama with the dismissal of Caleb Grill.
Not a lot of info on that other than internet rumor and innuendo and message board stuff.
He did come out and give a statement on his Twitter account.
So it came directly from Caleb Grill that said he made regrettable comments during a practice and can't take those comments back.
And he was dismissed from the team because of it.
So whatever was said there, I guess in my mind doesn't make a ton of difference.
But what does matter is, number one, his mental health.
And two, obviously a distant second to that is
How does that affect Iowa State on the court and a potential run here in the big dance?
You know, Chip Reidman, I like to get your thoughts on it too, because you are an Iowa State alum.
But also, here we had Coach T.J.
drawing a line in the sand, so to speak, and dismissing a player for comments that were detrimental to the team and the program.
But there you have Alabama, who had a player who allegedly provided a weapon to another person that committed a crime.
I mean, but he's still playing.
I mean, so Coach T.J.
actually is doing the right thing, where Alabama is a typical SEC
You
know, it's a double standard when it comes to how a lot of these colleges handle things.
We've had some kind of conversations about New Mexico State, what's happened down there, the unfortunate disaster they've had in that program.
What took so long for them to try and get a hold of that situation because we all believe the coach probably knew what was going on, but must have turned a blind eye to it.
It's just strange how this happens.
You look back, Baylor had issues for a while.
You look at Michigan State, not necessarily basketball, but internally they had problems with the women's programs.
It's just beyond me as to why some universities can take a stand and actually say this is not right and do something about it and other universities will just bury their head in the sand.
I wanted to bring up Penn State, but I just did.
It just amazes me as to what the ethics are in a lot of these people and how much does money drive this situation.
You know, that's a great point, too.
You know, Matt Garce, I like to get your thoughts on it, too, because Iowa State can do one of two things now.
Basically, they can rally or they can fold.
And what is your thoughts?
Are they going to rally behind Coach TJ and make a push?
Or are we looking at maybe a collapse and just flush the season and start over again this fall?
I'm pretty concerned about the ladder there, Scotty, with a collapse.
It's interesting these guys are all 20, 22-year-old.
guys that are resilient people.
The most interesting thing for Iowa State is going to be who steps up and actually can score because we have been very offensively challenged over the last 10 games.
We don't have anybody that consistently put the ball in the bucket.
Grill obviously he had back problems.
He was out and I sense again this is just my assumption here.
I sense that maybe a little bit of his absence was
was related to his back, but also maybe related to some of these internal issues that they were dealing with with him.
If we don't have somebody that can step up and be the guy that you want the ball in his hands at the end of the game, it's going to be tough for us, especially against Baylor today.
That's going to be a real challenging game.
And then the big 12 tournament, that's going to be must watch basketball.
But as far as Iowa State is concerned, if we go cold, particularly shooting three pointers,
That's going to be an early exit for my beloved Cyclones.
You know, talking about being cold, Chip Readman, here we are.
We're in March, the dreaded month for Creighton basketball.
What is going to happen?
Is this the year that Greg McDermott can actually do something or is it going to be the March Madness meltdown once again for McDermott?
I should probably bring it up just for John's reference.
It seems to me in just two years ago, they did go to the Sweet 16.
So it's not typical that
that they always collapse.
They do come up with some good years.
They've been good for a first round win for a number of years, but then they disappear in the second round, even with the higher seating.
So you never know.
I think Creighton's probably gonna give it a good run.
They obviously blew out Georgetown.
They're up by 42 points in that game.
Anyone can beat Georgetown at this point.
I think there's Omaha basketball, probably Iowa basketball teams
in high school that probably could beat them right now.
But they got one more game left to, as we say, get right.
Then it's going to be down to the tournament.
And I think it's Princeton that they're playing.
That's projected at this point, of course.
Everything could change after one more game.
So I think they got a good chance of at least getting past the first round.
The second round, it comes down to seeding, which would be the next thing to talk about.
Because I'm looking at some NCAA ranking numbers right now that blow a lot of people's minds.
You know, John Jacobson, I'd like to get your thoughts as well as Matt Garce who joins us on our newsmaker line.
Here we are talking about Creighton.
I mean, we talk about seeding and everything like that.
But at the end of the day, McDermott, I mean, you know, Chip, you did talk about they didn't make a sweet 16, but I will also admit to that even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while.
You must be talking about the Iowa program.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
We
won't bring up a Richmond game last year, will we?
No, and if we have to, I can bring up Hampton and a few other programs to their chip reading.
And
what was the other game earlier this year?
Eastern Illinois School of the Blind or something like that?
What goes
around comes
around.
Well, we had to make them feel good.
We had to make them feel good.
Matt Garst as an Iowa State fan, talk just a little bit about which, because McDermott was at Iowa State and now he's struggling, it seems like at Creighton and this isn't producing.
How far is this Creighton team go this year?
I'll tell you what, I've got a lot more confidence in Creighton right now than I do in Iowa State for whatever that's worth.
There's
the in their last 10 games.
They played DePaul tonight at eight o'clock.
DePaul has lost 11 in a row.
So I sense that Creighton will take care of business there and they'll have a head of steam going into the Big East tournament.
As far as the seating, that's what's going to be interesting.
Once we get down to, you know, we get past the conference tournament time and you start looking at the selection committee, what metrics do they use?
How do they judge some of these teams?
I'm curious to see.
between Creighton, Iowa and Iowa State, how they are all evaluated because obviously Iowa and Creighton are playing a lot better than Iowa State right now.
But Iowa State had early season success.
How much is the committee going to value the net rankings and quad one wins and glosses and all that stuff?
I think Creighton has a chance here to make it to the second round of the tournament for sure.
But then again, as Chip pointed out, it all depends on who
You
know who the
matchup is.
I mean, that's really a dumb thing to say because it's that way for every team.
But if Creighton can get a favorable draw, I think they can make it to the second week of the tournament.
Here's the crazy thing about this.
I'm looking at the NCAA.
People may not be aware of this.
Let's talk about the USA, the AP Top 25 rankings and everything.
The NCAA has their own ranking program.
And I'm not sure it's exactly the same thing as the NIT or NET, excuse me.
But they do list on there the quad one, quad two, quad three wins and everything.
So, you know, hold on to your seats when you think, when you look at what's going on.
And so these are the outside people.
We're obviously all biased in our opinions because we're here in the middle of it and everything.
So as much as, you know, John, you want to blast Creighton and everything, Creighton is ranked 14th by the NCAA.
I think it's high.
I will admit that it's high.
So Purdue is ranked high.
Let's go to the Big Ten.
The Purdue is ranked high.
So where is the next Big Ten team in the NCAA ranking?
It's number 25, Maryland.
And then you drop down to number 31, Michigan State, number 33, Iowa.
This is as of like two days ago is when this came out.
So it's not exactly old news.
I don't believe that Iowa deserves to be that low.
I'm not sure the Maryland should be that low.
So, Matt, if you want to really shake your head about something, Iowa State is 28.
Now, I think what's odd about this is that my only conjecture would be is I don't think the national media voters or whatever think very highly of the Big Ten this year.
That's the impression I'm getting.
We've talked about this many times.
The Big Ten has only had at times two or three teams.
Two or three teams ranked in the top 25.
This is like all year.
Chip,
I argue.
I just
don't feel that Big Ten hasn't respected all this year and it's showing up in this poll right now.
I think they may be vindicated in the tournament, Chip, because they're all beating each other up.
You right now have six teams tied for seconds.
at 10 and eight conference.
You have seven teams literally within one game of each other with with one of the nine and nine teams.
That's incredible in the conference to have seven teams at the end of the year within a game of second place in the conference.
You know, that's a great point, too.
And you talk about these eyes makers, you know, Matt Garce, I know you're plugged in with the bookies and everything, but I'm going to I'm going to wager a lot of money and open up a trust because I'm going to say Creighton does not make it to the final of the second weekend in March.
I
have a gaming app.
I can
technically pay off my mortgage.
I think if I hit right,
man, man, we could all be driving some very nice of vehicles.
Don't you think Mac ours?
Oh, we could definitely.
It's going to be, it just all comes down to matchups and, and it's going to be that way for, you know, for all the teams we're rooting for.
The interesting thing with Creighton is if Colt Brenner gets.
If he gets a lot of attention inside if he's got to play another dominant post player and he's unable to produce points They've got some other guys that can step up but that inside presence is a real big deal for Creighton if he does not play well They will not go very far
something that may portend well for Creighton when they had that swan stretch where they lost several games in a row basically I Think mono went all the way through that team and as you know that takes
a month, sometimes months to clear out.
And I think it began with one player and went through the entire team.
They were playing sick for a month.
A lot of people don't know that, but Creighton was playing ill for one month, Scotty.
Yeah, it's not surprising, really, how that can affect a program.
But moving forward, John, there's a lot of great basketball moving forward, and there's going to be a lot of trash talking, too.
That's why it's so great to be a part of KXEL.
And Jeff Stein, you know, the denizen of all things Panther and we keep our eyeballs on Drake University too.
They've had a fine year.
Lots of great sports around the corner, but boy, it's great to be here in eastern Iowa presiding over Hawkeye Kingdom right now with the men's and women's Hoopsers, the wrestling team again without peer.
tremendous output by the men's baseball team and the girls softball team.
Scotty golf's doing well.
They're really, they're really kicking.
They sure are.
They sure are.
And it's kind of great to be a Hawkeye right now just because we're not a Cyclone fan.
Oh, well, we might get some local games.
We might have to all report live from our own newsmaker line out Des Moines, depending on these matchups.
You know, absolutely.
And you know, real quickly, too, there's talk that Iowa may face Steve Alfred in a hated rivalry.
coaches his Nevada team.
So that's going to be something to keep an eye on next Sunday as these brackets start coming out.
Hopefully it's not like the election.
Chipper, hopefully it's not like the election.
Otherwise we won't know the score of the Nevada game until about two months afterwards.
I'll be curious to see if a pairing comes out between Iowa's women's team
and the cretins women's team uh... both teams have been playing well cretins women's team has won nine of
the last
game
they have and
the only losses to uconn which everyone's gonna lose the uconn uh... so they're on a roll right now so it could be very interesting to see if those two teams come up against
that'd be an historic matchup uh... in the clinches there that really would be great it's been wonderful to have matt garst and chip reidman
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district united states congressman randy fiendstra coming off a huge reelection victory firmly in sconce in his house seat in the capitol of arson dc moving up the leadership ranks
grabbing some tremendous
committee assignments.
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, eight to nine dollars for a dozen of eggs.
And here we have a big situation that, you know, we had avian bird flu come through, killed millions and millions of chicken laying eggs, laying hens.
So that was a big issue.
But it's also a tremendous amount of wasteful spinning 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 Feinstra a lot of folks have been very concerned about At least the appearance of a two-tiered justice system.
It looks like we've seen going back to even previous Obama administration weaponization
uh, against conservative groups from, from such entities as perhaps, uh, uh, the revenuers.
And now we see, uh, with our federal, uh, investigatory, uh, bureaus and, and department of justice, some uneven applic, uneven applications of justice, such as, uh, uh, whose homes get raided and whose don't for documents.
And it seems as if, uh, under the democratic.
a regime previously in the house, there was no interest in looking at some of the misdeeds by Hunter Biden, perhaps even Swalwell.
Is the worm turning a little bit now with Speaker McCarthy and Conservatives like you that have demanded for some equanimity here?
Yeah, I tell you what, I am so excited.
So when you take over the majority and we took over the majority in the last election.
And now, all of a sudden, we have judiciary power.
We have oversight and investigative power.
We have Jim Jordan, a guy who's just aggressive going after this stuff on the judiciary.
We have Jim Comer, who's head of oversight, and they've already laid out, you know, we want to see what's going on.
What has happened with New Yorkers and things that transpired at the border?
What's happening with this laptop?
What's happening with the COVID?
So these are all things that happened.
We just created some subpoenas last week to have these people come in front of the subcommittee of government and try to understand how they weaponized.
the American, their American agencies against the people of this great land.
And so I'm really looking forward to the next several months of seeing what we can flesh out and then hopefully we can have the Department of Justice do their job and, you know, prosecute if there's injustice, injustice done.
Here with Congressman Randy Fiendstra.
Congressman 71 winters ago, my father was over in the Korean Peninsula.
Up by the 38th parallel being fired upon by the communist Chinese army and the more things change the more they seem to Stay the same now.
We've got a very aggressive Communist China looking for hegemony over in the Pacific Asian rim menacingly toward Hong Kong and Taiwan at the very least and now tempting the United States with reconnaissance
aircraft that were allowed to traverse the country and fly over some of our military installations with with no consequences until the Atlantic Ocean showed up.
Not sure if telemetry was allowed to be sent live real time back to Beijing, but this is a worry for some of us in the Midwest.
Congressman Feinstrud, you cared a comment on that and do you believe the Biden administration not only was caught with their proverbial pants down
But then overreacted, spending a few million dollars on missiles shooting at hobby balloons that are worth $12 a piece.
Yeah, I tell you what, this is just showing how weak our administration is.
I mean, think about it.
This is our sovereign airspace that China had a balloon flying over, not only taking pictures, right?
That's one thing.
But more importantly, they were listening to our conversations.
That is a big deal.
And yet, what are we doing?
Nothing.
Nothing.
And then, like you said, we're shooting down little toy balloons and all this other stuff.
We also have, we have China, who is very astute.
They get it.
They're buying up our farmland.
They bought land next to one of our military installations in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
They're putting their students in our universities to do our research.
I mean, these are really serious topics.
And then not only that, we import, we import 538.
billion dollars from China and we only import to them 151 billion.
I mean this is a huge trade deficit.
So we've got to change as an administration, we've got to change as a nation to understand our foreign adversaries and what they want to do.
We see what's happening with Russia and with Putin.
This is going to be no different with China, but China is a lot more aggressive, a lot more dangerous, and we have to have a strong administration, and that's just not happening today.
You know, Congressman Feinster, we'd be remiss if we didn't talk a little bit about Iowa caucuses coming up.
We're about a year out from the caucuses.
We're starting to see candidates, Chris Cross the state, Nikki Haley, former Vice President Pence, Donald Trump, Asa Hutchinson and many others are going to be in the state or already have been in the state.
Do you plan to endorse or what are you looking for as you kind of vet some of these candidates moving forward?
I just want to say this.
I am just so proud of our Republican Party because we are having Republican caucuses in our state and disappointed.
I so badly want the Democrats to hold their position as number one in the country.
And it sounds like that's going away because this creates so much revenue for our state.
And it gives us firsthand ability to see who could be our next president.
And it's just awesome to see.
So as as Republicans, you know, I'm so looking forward to being an ambassador to
to show off Iowa, to show off agriculture, to show off what we have here, whether it be ethanol, whether it be livestock.
And all these people coming through, I'm just so thrilled.
And I said to anyone that wants to come to Iowa, I will show them around.
And I wanna make sure that we have a strong conservative that can take over the White House.
And that's what I'm looking for.
And that's what I hope comes out of this at the end of the day.
We've got a lot of great ambassadors for Iowa and so many great stories to tell in Iowa Congressman Feinstra.
We're kind of curious.
We're very proud here in the Midwest.
We got a lot of Nebraska listeners too and they're rightfully proud now that they sent Pete Ricketts to the Senate.
Pete's a great ambassador for the Nebraska way of life and your colleagues over there, Don Bacon and Mike Flood and Adrian Smith.
Congressman Feinstra, tell our listeners what
are the impressions of the Beltway folks when they hear Iowa and Nebraska and the Heartland.
We know the derision that the mainstream media has sometimes toward flyover country, but what Scott and I hear is that there's a deep respect for the Iowa ethos and the history, same with Nebraska, and the preduring values of the Heartland.
Is there some resonance to that in D.C.
and the Beltway Congressman Feetstra?
you know what we're the bread basket to the world we're the midwest and it's a very unfortunate when we heard the state of the union that never once was the midwest brought up or the bread basket to the world it was all west coast and east coast but i couldn't be more proud of our delegation from from congressman bacon that that sits on the agriculture committee with me to to adrian smith who sits on ways and means with me you know we're doing everything we can to advocate
for the Midwest to advocate militarily, to advocate for our producers, whether it be E15 or biofuels, whether it be livestock production, whether it be our small communities, our small businesses, you know, we're doing everything we can to make sure that government is not being demanded.
by us and from us and having penalties on our families and our businesses.
You know, we want government away from us.
We want free markets to prevail.
We want capitalism to prevail.
And that's the real American life.
And that's what we all espouse to.
Here with Congressman Randy Finstra.
Final question from me here, Congressman Finstra.
Obviously, the mainstream media, academia, Hollywood,
Most of our institutions are very leftist, and not only that, but the free speech proponents of the Vietnam era seem to be the free speech opponents today.
There's been huge attempts, as we've found now under the previous Twitter regime, the Facebook regime, and even what they did to James O'Keefe lately.
There's really an attempt to
Quell voices, many physicians of great repute who had great COVID data for early effective treatments and who had some admonitial concerns about some of the side effects of the myrna.
literally stifled, their voices were completely eradicated during that time.
Obviously, you've got talk radio still as a bastion, shows like this, but do you see the pendulum swinging at all, Congressman Feinstra, toward a true free speech, First Amendment friendly America again, because the political correctness
and the cultural pressure, even in corporate America, to maintain a certain drumbeat of just one point of view is of concern.
The free speech concerns in my town halls were always paramount.
Do you see that connecting with folks in the Congress that people are really concerned about this?
Well, John, I'm so glad you brought this up.
I mean, this is such a big issue that freedom of speech, free speech is the very foundation, the first amendment of our Constitution.
And we might not always agree with one another.
Correct?
I mean, I don't care who it is, but we have the right.
We have the right of freedom of speech.
You look at China, you look at Russia, North Korea, you get thrown in jail, you get hung.
If you go against government, we have to preserve what we have, the freedoms that we have.
And I see this liberal progressive agenda that wants to silence certain areas of our...
of our nation.
And we see that whether it be Twitter, Twitter, the Twitter issues that happened with the moderate moderation board that was part of it.
You know, we see this time and time again, what they're doing to even our public entities are saying, you know, we're not going to allow X, Y and Z if you don't follow a certain, you know, way of doing things in our environment.
The great thing is I see it turning because now being in the majority, we can have oversight.
we're seeing that firsthand that we're having oversight on these different issues to bring them to light, to bring them to bear so that American people can understand what's happening and they should not be afraid of standing up for what they believe in.
And I'm hoping in the next 60-12 months that a lot of this stuff will come to light and that we can then take it upon and even if we have to prosecute, we need to do that also.
Folktale listeners, this is radio for some of you that may not know.
Congressman Feinstra is rather Lincoln-esque in his stature.
He's very tall and very lanky.
I just saw a magnificent silhouetted portrait.
Finstra in uniform at a ball diamond against threatening cumulonimbus clouds at night.
It was a stunning photograph.
Congressman Finstra, are you as dominant on the basketball court?
Are you a post player there?
And do you get picked first in all of the congressional all-star games for the ball diamonds of the basketball court?
Well, I'll tell you what.
You know, the work we do in Congress is very, very serious.
We do get up at...
five in the morning and go practice baseball or basketball.
And for us and for me and for everybody, it's about learning each other that you also become friends.
And when you're out there playing baseball or basketball, you're also talking about, hey, I got this bill or what's your thoughts about this?
And it's this great opportunity where you can coalesce and talk to one another about what's happening and build friendships.
And that's what this is all about.
And I'm just thrilled.
you meet people also through these different areas of entertainment, of being part of the baseball and basketball and stuff like that.
And for me and for everybody else about delivering results for my district, for the state of Iowa and for our nation.
Congressman Randy Fienster, we appreciate your time today.
We want to thank you so very much for what you're doing in DC for Iowa and also the Fourth Congressional District.
Hey Scott and John, thank you so much for having me on.
If everybody wants to reach out to me, they can go to fienstrad.house.gov.
Thanks again, guys.
You're a stand-up guy, Congressman Feinstra.
Safe travels and Godspeed and safety and all of your endeavors, Chris Crossing, the state of Iowa as you do on weekends and then back in D.C.
You got a great work, Etha.
Keep it up, Congressman.
Thanks.
And thanks for being the truth out there, both of you.
Keep it up.
All right.
Have a great day.
Sounds great.
Ladies and gentlemen, the studio audience, listen to them.
They're applauding on their feet.
Congressman Feinstra, he's going to get the Iowa Chorus Song playing.
It rarely goes out on weekends, but to stellar guests, we've invoked the Iowa Chorus Song by the Percy Faith Orchestra.
Listen to that in the background.
We hope to welcome Congressman Feinstra back to the show again soon.
Scott, great interview with Congressman Feinstra, wasn't
it?
It sure was.
We're grateful to have him with us.
Grateful to have him fighting in Washington, DC.
And, you know, John, you and I have known him a long time.
He is a great guy.
Not only that, but he knows how to win.
Landslide Randy, that's what I call him.
Scotty, we got to take time out today to salute these heroic doctors of conscience that have been vindicated through this whole
COVID treatment protocol period.
These guys were on the front edge, the cutting edge of using very effective, very safe, very plentiful and very cheap.
front and antivirals that save many lives during COVID.
The first is our show friend, the honorable Dr. David Hartsuch of the Quad Cities, former Iowa State Senator.
He's there at the Paul Revere Square, his practice on 2322 East Kimberly Road in Davenport.
The office phone there is 563-293-7424.
That's 563-293-7424.
And again, Dr. Hartsich also has really pressed the state of Iowa, including a very unwieldy medical board, to quit persecuting these very doctors that did the best work during COVID.
And I give another tip of the hat to doctors Ted Fogarty and Dr. Brad Meyer.
I was just up earlier this week at Spirit Lake, Iowa there at 3301 Bergquist Avenue in Spirit Lake, Iowa.
Their number, of course, is up in Northwest Iowa, 712-339-6022.
That's 712-339-6022 and 6024.
In their dual clinics, the aeronautics performance clinic, where they've had great success with hyperbaric therapy to reverse stroke, dementia, concussions, long-haul COVID, and also at their Okuboji Wellness Clinic.
was just there the other day and Snowladen, Spirit Lake, Okuboji.
We really salute these courageous doctors of conscience, Scott Corey.
You know, absolutely, John.
And as we keep finding more and more information out about the origins of COVID and the treatment, you know, even the Department of Energy released a statement earlier this week saying that they believe it was released from a lab in China.
So I mean, the doctors are such a Meyer and Fogarty and there's so many of them.
across the entire state of Iowa and across the country are leading the battle against this disease.
And we really need to be out there supporting them because we don't even know how much information we don't know yet about this virus and things like that.
And so having these guys lead this battle is so important, John, as you know.
Well, you know, they've been vindicated
because the guys up Northwest have even won CARES funding.
for their excellent therapies and work.
And of course, they were right about natural immunity and so many different things.
These guys were right at the front end.
So we salute them.
Scotty's been another wonderful show today as how ironic we're talking about doctors as we're playing the cure on the way out here.
But to these doctors are very curative.
And the song, of course, that we use is just like heaven.
Hey, watching these Hawkeyes at Carver has been just like heaven.
And boy, it should be an exciting next couple of weeks for both Hawkeye men and women.
Scotty will be there to report it.
I'm just very psyched.
You know, absolutely.
And we'd be remiss if we did not mention, you know, talk about the baseball team.
Coach Heller's baseball team took down the number one team the nation last weekend.
LSU.
So there's a great time to be a Hawkeye.
And as we go into March Madness, you know, it's a great time of year and
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