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The Jacobsen Group with Jon Jacobsen · Mon Aug 14, 2023
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A glorious summer weekend in August.
Not just in Iowa, but in all the big 10 states in Scotty with expansion.
It's a good thing we've got 50,000 clear watts of clear channel wattage curming.
all across the United States on 1540 AM 100.5 FM.
John Jacobson here that Jacobson group with Scott Corey and Mike Shane with the greatest ringtone known to humankind.
He's a serious studio engineer.
That
means we got serious business going on today.
What a great show we have here.
And guys, we're getting a lot of good feedback.
People love the podcast podcast is easy.
I know a hot babe who walks to the podcast every single week.
She says, uh, how do I listen to that show while I'm walking?
I say KXEL.com slash Jacobson.
the Danish, the Viking, S-E-N-J-A-C-O-B-S-E-N.
We've got a great guest lineup today, Mr. Chip Reidman, the, I call him the man for all seasons, the Renaissance man.
Also, we will have Tim Grover weighing in from Makoka area, our political wizard, and of course, doctors David Hartsuch and Ted Fogarty, so much going on in the medical freedom.
area.
And we will have the lovely and gracious Barbara Haymes joining us momentarily here.
Chip, how are things going for you these days, sir?
Doing
fine up in Wisconsin right now while we talk.
You know what?
And just remembering when you said the the call letters, I was changing stations because obviously I wasn't in Omaha anymore.
And one of the buttons I set up was on KXEL.
just out of curiosity to see if you're in sort of west central wisconsin if i could pick up the channel and on the whole i was actually getting reception up here in wisconsin for that channel
Well, you talk about a blowtorch.
I was impressed.
It's Clear Channel.
If you look at the maps, Scotty, that Dr. Jeff Stein has up in those KXEL studios, of course, the Nexus, the two lungs of KXEL are Cedar Rapids and Waterloo.
But seriously, we don't need to worry about expansion.
I think that signal will go to Maryland, Rutgers, SoCal,
the West Coast.
Absolutely.
You know, you talked about expansion in the Big 10 and the Big 12 right now.
Jeff Stein and KXEL.
They've been expanding across the 48 contiguous states for many, many years, and we're so grateful to be a part of it.
And it's gonna be a busy, busy season coming up.
We got the state fair going on in Des Moines.
We got presidential candidates coming in left and right.
We're gonna have a special announcement here in a little bit.
And also-
And the butter sculpture of the lovely and gracious Caitlyn Clark.
Absolutely.
Has
been on Furl.
And you and I's Kurt Warner as one as well.
Who was my sister's homecoming or prom date?
many moons ago and guess who the Iowa law student was who just happened to be home that weekend while she was preparing for her date I got to grill Mr. Warner
Uh, in the living room about taking my sister out seriously.
Well, I think that's the reason why he's always been on the straight and narrow.
You just scared him right out of the gate right there when in his teenage years.
And, uh, we'd be remiss to mention that, uh, uh, the, the butter sculpture of, uh, Jack Trice as well down there as well.
So all through the
African-American athlete at Iowa State University.
Uh, just, just the state fair, our state fair is a great state fair to quote from the movie.
I would say it is the greatest.
of them all
absolutely and you know we talk about everything that's been going on we got expansion going on in the big 10 big 12 we got a couple more saturdays and we're going to have kickoff at uh kennec stadium or the iowa takes on uh utah state you can uh uh we have a lot of talk about what's going on in iowa the breaking news over uh thursday evening with the uh the indictments i believe and uh of players at iowa and iowa state gambling i know chip has a lot to say about that as well so
It's going to be a busy, busy show today, John.
Well, speaking of expansion, let's expand further the market for beautiful, affordable, safe, aesthetically wonderful homes in these communities that are everything that is right and good about America.
Barbara Haymes Bryant joins us from Haymes Homes.
You know, there should be a butter sculpture of the lovely and gracious Barbara Haymes.
She is the matriarch of one of the great family businesses in our state.
And she's right there in Southwest Cedar Rapids, Scott Corey.
Absolutely.
And, you know, we always highlighted my week is when we get to talk to Barbara because she's kind of one of those uplifting stories.
Barbara, you have a great story moving forward with your family business there in Cedar Rapids.
But you all
We also have a great story to tell about the homes that you are able to provide to so many people.
We sure do.
We just love showing off our homes.
Whenever people come and look at our manufactured homes, formerly known as mobile homes or trailers, they're surprised 100% of the time.
This doesn't look like a trailer.
This looks like a house.
Well, yeah, it is a house folks.
It just happened to be built inside in a factory.
You know, Barbara, talk to us just a little bit about the building process.
I know you've talked about it on previous shows, but for some of our newer listeners, it's quite a unique process moving forward with how your homes are constructed.
They are.
They're built from factories.
They're built assembly line styles.
And the great part about that is there's very little waste.
They're not sitting out in the open, subject to the elements of rain and snow and wind, so they can be built
quickly, efficiently to engineers, specifications, and all the parts are built, excuse me, all the parts are purchased ahead of time.
Barbara, in the financial industry as I am, we're charting the housing market very carefully.
It's an indicator of the prospective around the corner, doings of the economy.
There is an acute housing shortage right now.
for people in certain markets in terms of, you know, the starter homes, the mid-level homes.
And you right now, this is a magnificent time, you answer the, you fill a niche there right now naturally.
And this is the time of your August when people are on the move.
We've still got some college students that literally
have just been accepted or are accepting.
Some arrive in August, but some start to enroll still in September.
There are opportunities for people in the Cedar Rapids area who are struggling finding affordable housing to still do this through you guys.
You've got financing and availability.
That's absolutely correct.
We have a financing company.
It's called Circle Finance LLC.
where we can finance borrowers and house, but we also have access to a number of national and local lenders.
The interest rates right now on manufactured homes are terrific.
They're just about where they are for site-built homes.
That's awesome.
Which in the past was not the case, but rates on manufactured homes have come down, rates on site-built homes have gone up.
So a 2,200 square foot home in our neighborhood, brand new, is about $130,000.
That's the perfect groove.
And imagine what kind of low payments you'll have.
Then of course there's home site rent because it is a private neighborhood, but that home site rent covers stormwater fees, it covers the taxes on the land, and it covers all the amenities and events that we have at our communities.
You know, Barbara, I've got a friend.
He's a retired gentleman up in the Lake Okabohji area.
All he wants to do is find a second residence so that in fall and winter, he can go down and live there to watch Iowa football in the fall, Iowa basketball and wrestling in the winter in Iowa baseball in the spring.
He's only
18 minutes away from the stadium there in Iowa City, Barbara, when I've toured most recently, just a couple of weeks ago, your place there, I think back to my undergrad days, I was in Omaha and Scott, I lived in, I didn't even realize at the time, some pretty bad neighborhoods in Omaha back then around that campus.
You go to the Hames Homes communities,
They've got security.
They've got pre-vetting of who they admit to home ownership there.
The landscaping is beautiful.
They have Frisbee Golf.
They have dog parks.
They have a food pantry.
Scott, it's safe.
I would literally, if my mom wanted to live there, and she's in Marion, but I would say mom, get down there with Barbara.
This is a perfect, perfectly safe area.
The streets, the infrastructure, all is in
prime condition.
That brings up a great point too.
You talked about the safety of the home.
This week alone, Barbara, we remember it was the anniversary of the deratial that it affected Iowa and it affected some of your properties there, but your properties withstood all that wind in the Barbara.
Our homes held up magnificently.
All of the homes sustained a little bit of damage.
Shingles or skirting, maybe a little siding.
None of them tipped over.
None of them blew away.
So that old myth of mobile homes and trailers being unsafe in a storm, that's absolutely not true.
The roof blew off of our brick office at Grandview, but none of the homes blew off.
Plus, we also had two emergency storm shelters for people who would like to feel safer.
There's two in Grandview and two in Summitview.
I don't know how much better a testimonial you can get than 140 mile an hour wins for 45 minutes and all of our homes are intact.
Amen sister.
That is so true.
Especially juxtaposed Scott with the damage that was done to what we would call the regular homes that lost siding and roofs.
So it's a ball work there for Barbara Hames Bryant.
Barbara I know we got folks now giddy with excitement about learning more about this.
Can you give us a website, an address, and a phone number for them to get in contact with you?
Oh, I'd be happy to.
We love showing off our neighborhoods.
Our website is hamshomes.com.
We're located at the corner of Wilson Avenue and West Post Road, Southwest.
So, Wilson Avenue, West Post Road, Southwest and Cedar Rapids.
And our phone number is 319-377-4863-319-377-4863.
And our salespeople are available seven days a week to show folks through our beautiful homes.
Guys, Barbara Hames Bryant, the studio audience is always showing their appreciation for Barbara.
Barbara, it's always a highlight of our week to kick the show off with you.
Thanks again for joining us and have a great rest of the weekend.
Always a pleasure
guys.
Barbara Haymes Bryant, the great one.
I might vote for her at the State Fair for President.
I might just grab her those corn kernels and put it in a jar and just put some masking tape on the jar that says Barbara Haymes Bryant.
Would that be okay, Barb?
No, that's not okay.
If you're my friend, please leave me out of that whole presidential mask.
Okay, guys, Barbara Haymes Bryant, President of a great company in Southwest Sea Rapids there.
Get over there to Haymes Holmes.
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great cast that we had on with all of the political news popping everywhere.
Now we need to freshen up the sports update.
So much happened this week.
We have on with us the great sports pontificator.
This guy's a hybrid, you know, he's on Iowa radio.
He's got that Iowa State Cyclone Engineering degree and he's a seasoned ticket holder for the Nebraska Huskers big 10 rival studio audience.
Welcome back.
Chip Readman on the Jacobson group here on KXEL.
Scotty, we got a lot to talk about.
We do, and we'd also be remiss too.
John, I know you forgot to mention Creighton.
I know that must have been a slip there because I know your love for the Creighton Blue Jays and the Bluebirds.
I want
them to be in the football conference with Notre
Dame.
Absolutely.
With Slippery Rock and William & Mary.
Absolutely, but as you mentioned too, there was a big, big week last week in college football realignment.
We had the big 10 on the move again like we had talked about.
in previous shows.
We had the big 12 gobbling up the four corner schools.
We have Notre Dame in Florida State.
Causing havoc in the ACC and then you have what's left of the pack for trying to figure out what's gonna happen to them Chip read minute is quite the tumultuous time and season Moving forward with conference realignment.
The big 10 now is at 18 teams There is talk that they still could be going to 20 to 24 teams at some point, but it's very interesting
talking about Iowa State and their athletic director Jamie Pollard he was on a sports 365 Baylor out of Texas earlier this week where he basically said the big 12 is standing pat because there is no more money chip what is going on and how grateful is Nebraska that they got the lifeline of the big 10 about 10 years ago
I'm sure they're pretty happy about it now
On the other hand, the Big 12 has resurrected itself into being a respectable conference at this point with the addition of the four corner schools that they were able to grab from the Pac-12.
I was reading a couple articles just in the last few days.
And, you know, at some point I do feel sorry about the Pac-12.
It is a legendary.
I know.
Not one bit.
They deserve that and more.
Absolutely.
And as far as I'm concerned, I know there was talk in my sources that Iowa were telling me to keep an eye on Stanford before everything settled last week.
But after what Stanford Band did to Iowa during the Rose Bowl, I hope they go to oblivion.
I hope Stanford is just a bankrupt sports program moving
forward.
The crazy news that's come out this week was about the ACC was looking at them.
And I just don't get it.
Stanford and Cal, they can't even fill out their own stadiums.
They can't even fill the seats all, even for part of the game, part of the season.
So how do they think they're gonna pull in network dollars with those two programs?
It's the Bay Area.
Both schools are on different sides of the Bay.
You can get on to San Jose and stuff.
They're not the major interest.
in sports in that area.
It's all going to be, you know, the 49ers.
It's going to be, even though the Raiders have moved, it's going to be the Raiders.
They're more interested in sports, professional sports up there than they are in college.
I just don't understand why people really want to pursue them.
The big 10, I kind of get it from the standpoint.
They want to look at them from educational standpoint, but folks, we're talking about sports here.
We're not talking about education.
And it's all about bringing in teams that have TV revenue.
It's all about the money, sad to say, but it is everything about the almighty dower and what they can bring.
Well, you bring up a great point about the Almighty Dollar.
There was breaking news this week, too, out of Columbus, Ohio, with Ohio State's athletic director Gene Smith announcing his retirement by next June.
And he was asked about onboarding Washington as well as Oregon in the Big Ten.
And he said that Fox basically ponied up and there will not be any cuts to the previous 16th school.
No delusion at
all.
No delusion of the cuts that everybody gets.
That guy, you know,
I'm so glad that Warren is gone and I just think the Big Ten has maneuvered
incredibly well through this Scott.
Absolutely and you know during the whole COVID issue and Kevin Warren's tenure as a Big Ten commissioner there was a lot of talk on the talking heads in sports as well on social media and through back channels that we all have at our different universities that basically Gene Smith was a de facto conference commissioner and he along with Iowa
and Nebraska and Penn State really went to war with Kevin Warren to make sure they played football in 2020.
They did wimpy little Kevin Warren
didn't want to play football and while his son was still playing division one football
And while his alma mater Notre Dame was still playing division one football.
Now, good riddance to Commissioner Warden heading out the door.
Now he can go and ruin the Chicago Bears.
Well, it won't take much based on how that franchise has been operating the last 10 years.
But we talk about, you know, now Tony Petiti is now the Big Ten Commissioner.
And now he is responsible for onboarding the completion of USC UCLA, Oregon and now Washington with an 18 team.
conference.
Chip, there's going to be a lot of things in flux moving forward.
There was a lot of us that always said USC and UCLA were not going to be left on an island.
There would be some sort of West Coast more presence for the Big 10 out there.
And now it looks like the schedule has to be redone.
There was a reason that it took so long to do the schedule, because I believe they went through over 180 different scenarios.
Well, we know why now because they were anticipating a larger footprint.
But
ship moving forward.
It's going to be very interesting.
The war between Fox Sports and ESPN is just heating up and with Fox basically paying the bill to bring on Washington, Oregon to block ESPN tells me something.
And all four time zone, Scotty.
We've clinched now all four.
Time zones for the games on game
day.
Absolutely.
A truly national conference.
You'll have the Big 10 on Fox, NBC, CBS, the Peacock, FS1, the Big 10 Network.
Chip, it's quite a ray of inventory that the Big 10 will be able to put on on a Saturday evening.
Yep, they do have a boatload of games to present.
But with just six of Hamlin, this is going to be really, really interesting.
When you think about not just football, this affects all sports programs, baseball, volleyball, golf.
You know, you're going right on down the list.
So that's going to be an interesting dynamic of handling teams that are on the both coasts, the West and the East, and their traveling schedules.
They looked at football, at least some conversations that I've been privy to.
And the question about football is, OK, so if Rutgers has to travel to the West Coast or Washington travels to Rutgers, that's a long trip.
And those players don't get back until sometimes Sunday mid-morning.
They can get a whole plane for themselves.
Those teams are big enough.
They can book a whole plane, throw a few donors on there, and they can fill the seats up.
So they can get back in a reasonable time.
But you know Sunday is out for practicing because the kids barely have any time to get any sleep.
So the talk is that what they might do is the teams that have to do that long travel, they may give them a buy or work it in the schedule.
They have a buy the following week.
So those kids have time to recover because of the time zone change.
I believe if I remember right, it's easy going east.
No, excuse me.
It's easy going west because you're falling back in time.
But moving east and then coming back, that's difficult.
You're on the body.
Your internal clock gets all messed up.
And it's 3,000
miles.
It's 3,000 miles.
You're going across four time zones, Eastern, Central, Mountain Pacific.
Absolutely.
You talk about the schedule and the travel and talking about possibly a bye week after going out to the far ends of the coast, but that should make it very easy moving forward with Nebraska schedule because they can just schedule them as the bye for those teams moving forward.
Yeah, well, you know and we're missing the other programs though baseball take for example They go for three games
and yeah,
and they travel commercial yeah volleyball teams They don't have enough people to go and charter a plane
right
so those teams are gonna have some real difficulty because they're gonna be in situations that they're going to be doing You know doing the layover somewhere
point
and praying at that time
and as
we all know as the day goes on flights get more screwed up and
Things start going haywire in our travel system because the flights being delayed.
Those poor kids, they may not be getting back from a Saturday match.
They may not be getting back until Sunday afternoon if they don't get the flights.
So the money is going to be important for those teams to be able to try and handle booking those kind of flights and stuff.
Who knows, maybe some schools may actually start combining trips.
Maybe Rutgers and Maryland might go on the same flight or something.
Or maybe they can charter the same plane.
to try and do that.
I know when you get to basketball, it's very common to see, you can make up an example.
Let's just say take Rutgers for example.
You'll see Rutgers come and play Nebraska, Creighton, and UNO, or Omaha's are calling it now, all within a one week period.
They get the kids here.
So it's easy traveling, they can adjust to the time, and then they can play three games with very, very little traveling in that triangular area.
You may see that kind of stuff developing in the future when it comes to scheduling for these smaller, less well-known programs.
you know that brings up a great point too and you're talking about just logistics of moving the teams around but you know when it comes to football you're going to have you know semis hauling in the equipment as well and there is talk now basically the big tan finding warehouses on the west coast the east coast in the central part so that the universities can just store their equipment because you can't be having those semis up and down the the interstates the way it is and hope to you know have the equipment there especially
with bidenflation gasoline prices being what they are
sky
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Diesel's going up.
Yep.
And now we talk a little bit.
We've been talking a lot about what's been going on in the Big Ten.
But Chip, I know, you know, you being an Iowa State alum and that you are a fan of Nebraska, are you a little sad that maybe Nebraska isn't a part of the Big 12 now because you got rid of the problem child of Texas.
They're gone.
Is there a little bit of briars remorse?
No, not at this point.
Goodbye, Texas.
I do miss Oklahoma.
That is one game
I
definitely miss even to this day because it was such a legendary series.
It was a national series.
It's like Ohio State, Michigan.
It's a game that was every year.
People tuned in when you go back into the 70s.
I mean, it was must-see TV back then.
Huge ratings watching those games back in the heyday of both those programs.
And of course, I don't keep hoping that maybe that'll come back for Nebraska.
No, I don't miss Texas.
I do miss Iowa State a little bit.
I do miss the short drives, too.
Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Iowa.
All very
doable.
Those
are very manageable one-day trips for going to watch a game.
And Iowa's really about the only school, maybe Minnesota, that kind of fits in that right now.
So, you know, I do miss it, but to long term, you've got to look at the way things fell down or, you know, came out.
And I think Nebraska is better off for it.
Osburn did a good job when he made that decision and dragged Pearlman along with him to make the conference switch.
You know, John, as we talk about conference realignment, what's going on with Iowa State, you know, the big 12, Iowa State is in a very fortunate position because it was very dire for Iowa State.
They look
like they were going to be the odd man out literally.
And they look like they were going into oblivion and they have been the Phoenix rising from the
Ash is now situated very well and some other great promotional things coming up.
Now, we should play the Husker fight song for Chip because the Huskers announced that this fall they're going to have an outdoor volleyball game at Memorial Stadium that they hope to fill Memorial Stadium 77,000.
Oh, they
did, John.
It's sold out.
It's sold out.
They're filled the whole stadium up.
Okay, so it's filled and of course the Husker Women's Volleyball team, that is a marquee program, I'll tell you.
And people said now, if we fire up the Iowa Fight Song, Mike Shane, they said, well, imitation of the serious form of flattery, Iowa is going to do that.
This October 15, with Caitlyn Clark, there's going to be a scrimmage.
between DePaul and the Iowa Hawkeye women at Kinnock before the game.
And I had a few Husker fans rub it in and say, well, imitations to the serious form of flattery.
But Scotty, 2015 on Iowa's 11 and 0 season, before they won that great night game over Minnesota 40 to 35, they had 50,000 at Kinnock for the wrestling duel meet.
And so,
The Hawkeyes kind of kicked this thing off close to 10 years ago.
You know, absolutely, John.
And I think it's a very important testament not only to the Iowa resting program, the Nebraska volleyball program and now the Iowa women basketball program.
Talking about filling that inventory, this is going to be must see TV, the volleyball there at Memorial Stadium.
And now you have Caitlin Clark and Lisa Bluters, Iowa women having an outdoor scrimmage.
And it's called the crossover mechanic on Sunday.
October 15th will be televised on BTN.
It's going to be one of those must-see events because we joke about it the last year and a half, two years.
It really is Caitlyn Clark's world and we're living in it because if it was not for Caitlyn Clark and what she has done and the rest of Iowa women, this would not be possible.
And it just shows you how important women's sports is moving forward.
And I want to give a huge shout out to our new interim athletic director, Beth Goetz, excuse me.
She has really been promoting Iowa sports on social media.
She is very accessible on social media, unlike her predecessor.
And it's just a breath of fresh air across the athletic department.
The stench is gone.
And Scott, the fact that we have these wonderful ambassadors, Gabby Marshall continues to just be an amazing ambassador for Iowa women's sports as well.
the gracious hospitality and gratitude that our players show.
You know, juxtapose that with, there's that just horrific video of, of Megan Rapino, uh, autographing that soccer ball for that young boy, refusing even to make eye contact or verbal contact with him.
Just so dismissive of him.
And you've got Caitlin Clark.
There is no man, woman or child.
for whom she will not stop, take a photo, visit, sign an autograph.
She's helping promote St.
Francis and her high school Dowling here this August.
She's very loyal.
She's really the best of what Iowa is.
And that Midwest, nice.
The Nebraska folks have it too, Chip.
Yes, John, you're absolutely right.
It's Mid-America values that we have here.
It's not what you have with the
but they call the bike coastal elites that think that they're above everybody.
And, you know, things are coming to watch me and I'm gone.
No, Katelyn Clark gets it.
The basketball team is very similar after games.
They're out there.
They're signing anything and everything.
You see the good football players that'll do it.
That was one of the things when they had the signing day, not the signing day, they had autograph day.
Yes.
For all the players out and all the dads bring all the kids out.
Well, one of the players put out a piece of paper and he wanted the autographs of all the kids that came to him.
And he kept that.
I'm sure he's probably going to frame it or something
like that.
Yeah.
I mean, how cool is that?
It's like, hey, here's my autograph, but I want your autograph too because you're special to me.
That's Midwestern values.
That's what makes us different from some of these other programs.
And it's emblematic, Scott, by what we do at the end of the first quarter at Kinnock, waving to the kids at the hospital.
And Chip has brought up previously, and it's not lost on me.
We worry about that ethos being diluted by these coastal teams.
But I counted the other day.
There's still 11 of us and seven of them.
So if we got some flaky ADs on the coast,
And even if you throw in Maryland and Rutgers and Penn State, you know, we're still in pretty good shape when it comes down to the votes that we got here for the Big Ten ADs.
You know, absolutely.
And you talk about the dynamics moving forward with the new athletic directors and presidents trying to onboard these universities.
The Big Ten is still known for its tradition.
At the end of the day, you still have the Michigan fight song.
You have the dotting of the eye at the script, Ohio.
And now you have probably one of the most important traditions that I think there is out there.
I mean, ESPN, Fox, they've all talked about the wave.
And you bring that up.
And even I get a little misty in my hardened years, John.
Just the allergies.
My allergies
are so bad in the fall.
And I was so very grateful last year.
President Wilson had a bunch of lists there at the first game last year.
Yeah, you're in
high cotton there, Mr. Corey.
You're running the athletic department.
I wish, I wish.
Certain changes would have been made a lot sooner than I've been.
But you know, when we were able to go on the field during the first game against South Dakota State and do the wave, I mean, that was one of the most
special and emotional moments in my life that I'll never forget.
Second only
to the penance that Bartha had to do for doing the the cameo appearance.
We got hoodwinked unwittingly into dissing Brian Farance.
They made him shake hands in the rain at two in the morning at the
Nevada game.
Didn't they?
Yeah.
Yeah.
There was as they say there was consequences for actions and but you talk about football and moving forward chip and all the great
out there, you know, we have the
best fight songs.
Absolutely.
Bar none.
We got the best fight songs in the world.
And now you're going to have a you're talking about the Nebraska fight song.
Well, that's one of them.
The big 10 has the best fight songs
in the world.
And
so with the big 10 and the Huskers, we got 11 votes.
So let those coastal ladies vote against this 11 7 why we got practically a super majority.
Absolutely.
And you talk about that moving forward.
It's gonna be interesting too to see how the rivalries move forward too.
You know, is there talk between Nebraska
and UCLA being a rival.
Does Iowa pick up like say, a Washington as a rival?
It's gonna be very interesting.
And I look really forward to it, but we'd be remiss in just a couple Saturdays.
Kirk Ferenc is gonna have his Iowa team out there ready to go.
68 years old, just celebrated his 68th birthday.
And he's gonna have a great season, I think.
I think there's like very quiet confidence and optimism that I hadn't seen since 2015.
I
agree, not since 15.
We got, there are a couple of guys we gotta keep healthy though.
Yep.
And Cooper.
Kate McNamara's got to be
healthy.
Cooper Eugene's got to be healthy.
And so it's going to be very interesting to see how this plays out at Kinnick Stadium.
And it's going to be a very interesting schedule, too, because we have a lot of highlighted games at night and in October at Kinnick Stadium.
We're going to be on CBS and NBC.
But, Chip, you have a very interesting schedule, too.
Nebraska starts out up there in the Twin Cities, taking on those rodents up there in Minnesota.
But then you
You have to go out to Boulder to take on Coach Prime.
So it's not going to be a very cupcake schedule for Coach Rule in his first year at Nebraska.
Yeah, the Big Ten hasn't been kind when it comes to Nebraska's schedule over the last few years
or
last 10 years or whatever.
That's a tough way to start the season.
Two road games right away.
Historically, Nebraska's never had that.
Quite often, the first three games would be home games.
back when you go back to the big 12 days or something like that.
But they have less control over that being in the big 10 because it's the all for one, one for all philosophy, which I approve of entirely.
And I hope the PAC-12 understands that.
But, you know, I think I saw a stat, someone was saying Nebraska has, I mean, every year for the last 10 years, since they joined it, has always had Michigan and Ohio State in their schedule every year.
And sometimes both.
And I thought I said, you can correct me if I'm wrong on this, Scott, but I thought they said in the last, maybe I want to say eight years, nine years, Iowa had five years where they had neither Michigan or Ohio State.
I don't know if that's true or not, but boy, you talk about luck or the draw that you've had that many years without them, if that's the case.
And Nebraska has been hammered with them all the time.
Well,
Michigan can't beat us at Kinnock anyway.
I hope it comes around.
That's a great point.
That's a great point, Chip.
Although I will say Michigan can't beat us at Kinnock anyway.
So that's probably why they didn't schedule
those years.
I was just going to bring up what happened to Michigan and coach Harbaugh when they were number two and Keith Duncan hit that field goal at the end.
And then the woodshed game where everything was going right for Iowa and Urban Meyer was just annihilated.
He
wanted to move to rural.
He wanted
to be
rural.
after that absolutely so it's gonna be a great season moving forward John and I look forward to it and we're so grateful pumped well
I will say this my sleeper team in the Big 10 is Nebraska I've looked at schedule chip you guys could go for an O and Tom Osborne was on with Aaron Kerraker for
15 minutes the other day, former great Husker himself, and Tom is as sharp as ever, by the way.
His voice is as strong as I've heard it lately, and he's still got a sharp football mind.
He likes coach rule.
The Huskers could roll the, they could roll down and start 4-0.
That's my sleeper team.
Guys, the other great news is this.
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Scott, I'm so excited to be doing
this.
Absolutely.
We're so grateful for our sponsors to allow us to do this as well as
It's going to be a great season and I hate to say it.
You know, John, I'm always kind of the pessimist when it comes to Iowa football, but I'm thinking there's something special lining up.
And basically, if it does not include a trip to Indianapolis, this is going to be a sad season.
It is lining up to be a very special season for Iowa and Curt Ferrance.
And don't forget.
Phil Parker's defense.
The defense is going to be amazing once again.
I
want to go to Indy.
I hate to say this.
Don't care what happens to Iowa State because they're not a real rival.
I mean, when it comes to the Iowa Iowa State game.
Yeah, we're going to talk about that more as we get moving forward through football.
But as far as I'm concerned, the Psyhawk series, if the Big 10 goes to 10 conference games, the Psyhawk series is probably going to go the way of old Yeller.
It's going to go out behind the shed and not come back.
Well, we're still going to keep Chip Readman with us for our next segment.
standby as we go into decision 24.
In just a moment, you're listening to the Jacobson Group on KXEL, 50,000 watts of clear channel, caroming through the entire western hemisphere on 1540 AM 100.5 FM.
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Oh my goodness, Scotty.
We're six months away from the Iowa caucuses.
Half a year to jumpstart the choice for leader of the free world.
It all starts in Iowa.
They're voting as we speak here this weekend at the Iowa State Fair with the corn kernel tradition of flipping a kernel of corn to the jar of the candidate that has your name marked on it.
One of the
earliest polls there and we've assembled the great uh McLaughlin group panel here let's play the McLaughlin group uh this is an homage late great John McLaughlin who would uh preside over alive and an unrehearsed uh banter panel discussion of various luminaries so we've got injured my chain and yours truly here we've got in the bullpen Scott Corey Tim Grover
our Eastern Iowa correspondent, Chip Reidman, the Bon Vivant Renaissance man and engineer and Dr. Edward J. Ted Fogarty, who has won CARES grants for his cutting-edge breakthrough medicinal curing involving hyperbarics and our studio audience welcoming all four of their chairs here.
Issue one.
Our Bobby's back.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
is here this weekend.
You are listening to the show on a Saturday morning.
Scotty, shortly after the show, early this afternoon, I will have an exclusive for both KXEL and our Boomer and Bluffs Country radio networks with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
to be followed up by an exclusive
that you and I will have with RFK Junior in our Bluffs Country Studios in Council Bluffs for his appearance Sunday in Council Bluffs.
Our Bobby is off and running and I like Bobby Kennedy because he was right on COVID.
Everything that I was saying in 20 and 21 and 22 in the Iowa legislature was what Bobby was saying.
And Scott, I was derided by many
Many now are grumblingly owing me an apology because the data is coming in.
We've got Dr. Ted Fogarty who can address this a little bit.
Ted, where Bobby and I write and where these very flaccid Republicans and big status Democrats wrong.
I go to you.
Absolutely.
You were both right.
You know, um, this is a time in history that has really never occurred for our nation.
We, uh, we've been taken over by an academic medical mafia.
That's what we're in.
And, and, and a, and a bio weapon earrings program that we actually paid for through Fauci and Bill Gates funneling money out to Wuhan, China.
I mean,
Rand Paul, Rand Paul thinks he can prove that Fauci perjured himself in congressional testimony.
Oh my God.
Yes, he
absolutely has.
John, Tony Fauci is a mafioso academic boss that has basically created a global racket and it's destroying America and it's using our tax book dollars.
This guy should have been in Gitmo a long time ago.
He is the A number one treasonous, the most treasonous person
in the
history of warfare and yet the problem is that we've never understood that this is a bio weapons war.
See, you're onto something here and Scott, all I'm gonna say is, I publicly called, it's on social media, I publicly called for Fauci's removal in March of 2020.
And of course,
Pence was kind of in charge of the health care response.
And I had Trump people saying, oh, no, you can't go after Tony Fauci.
He's part of Team Trump.
I smell the rat from the beginning, Scott.
And my concern is this, Doc.
And then we'll bring in Tim and Chip here.
But Doc, what is it about the mRNA, the shot, which is not literally a vaccine?
Talk to me again.
In layman's words, what is the concern about this shot in this spike protein we keep hearing about?
Was that part of the shot and what's the danger of that?
Can you reduce this in pure layman's terms for us?
Yeah, number one, spike protein is super glue for your blood vessels.
Number two,
These mRNA products are taking over God's machinery imbued in all of us.
God's genetic machinery, micromachines that produce all of our proteins that are a virtual pharmacy of our own for our own bodies.
That's what this mRNA product has done.
I wrote the bill.
actually in North Dakota and Idaho banning all forms of mRNA products for all mammals in America, not just human beings.
Well, Ted, Dr. Doug Frody, I got scared.
You just said superglue for the bloodstream.
What are you talking about there?
That sounds very foreboding
to the spike protein.
It basically increases the plotting of all of our blood vessels and the smallest of all blood vessels, the capillaries, which is where the gas exchange occurs.
between our lungs and our bloodstream and our bloodstream and our other tissues, those capillaries, when the spike protein is starting to float through those capillaries and attaches in the wall of the capillaries, it's a proteinaceous molecular version of superglue.
Wow, here with Dr. Ted Fogarty.
Questions or comments for the doctor?
Let's start with Tim Grover.
Yes, I had COVID in 2020.
The lockdown started on March 16th that year.
That's my birthday.
And Iowa was locked
down, ladies and gentlemen.
Iowa was
locked down.
I should say we weren't locked in our homes, but businesses and churches were closed.
There's some revisionist historians out there, Scott, but we need to put that out there.
They closed businesses and churches in Iowa.
Back to you, Tim Grover.
Yeah, so essentially we were locked down because you couldn't go anywhere.
Business has already been interrupted and I've never been back.
They gave me monoclonal antibodies and they worked.
I haven't touched that strange sense because I'm not a scientist but it's not hard to figure out.
We've all got this in us just like that little particle that DuPont had for the carpets there.
We all got a little bit of this in us and it's
If you want to talk about an attack in the United States of America, that was an attack that day.
I've got 30 years of dealing with the CCP influence in this country.
And yes, they are influencing Iowa.
And I knew from the minute that happened that we were under attack that was going to disrupt us.
And we're just starting to see the tip of what they've done to us economically.
our workforce is injured.
The ones that survived the vaccines are permanently injured at some point.
Great, great, brilliant, brilliant take by Tim Grover, our frequent contributor from Eastern Iowa here.
Chip, I even want to bring you back in and then to Scotty.
Chip, a question or comment for Dr. Ted Fogarty.
So one of the questions I have, I don't know if you follow Dr. McCullough and he's on Twitter and he is one of those
people that are definitely outspoken on the problems with the vaccine.
I think he
goes by or uses the hashtag courageous discourse because you have to be courageous to go and question anything about it.
Have you been following anything that he's been saying?
And he's been coming up a lot of studies about myocarditis, perioditis, if I'm right.
And there's the other issue that people don't talk about is I'm understanding that a lot of morticians are quietly starting to raise their hands and say,
We got problems with the people that we're, you know, taking care of when they involve them, they're finding that they're full of blood clots.
Have
you run across any of that or any comments on that?
Yeah, absolutely.
You know, Dr. McCullough is literally the top academic chief dean of this war, this rebel band of physicians and scientists that are all, we're all affiliated with Bobby Kennedy Jr.
in
many ways, but
I was the first in American academics to come out strong against this entire thing.
I'm emailing everyone at UNMC, Creighton,
the
University of South Dakota, and UND in late February of 2020, because of the intel that I got from Albert Crum, who's a Harvard-trained physician, and he's actually the medical advisor to the Dalai Lama, and he's a mentor of mine.
And a circle of friends associated with Bobby Kennedy Jr.
had a seminal important meeting of the Manhattan Project, if you will, for the coming pandemic, same weekend that New York was shut down by Cuomo.
And so I've been behind the scenes in the academic ranks way ahead of everyone, including Peter McCullough.
But so Peter has been the most important person in this whole thing because he is one of the most published scholars of cardioreal physiology and medicine as an academic cardiologist in the history of American medicine.
I'm Paul Harches, Batman, Wingman, of imaging on the whole hyperbaric front in academic medicine, and it's unimpeachable.
There is nothing in the world of device-based medicine that can compete in oxygenating a person with a hyperbaric chamber.
There's no ventilator on the planet that can oxygenate a person better than a hyperbaric chamber.
If you're having a stroke or an MI and you were to go into a hyperbaric chamber first and have molecular saturation, oxygen just saturating every cell of your body without even needing to use your bloodstream, that's what we're doing with hyperbaric.
That's what the most
The most impacted people of this whole pandemic and the ICUs have always needed is hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
And here I am, I'm a national radiologist.
I'm an emergency radiologist that reads films every night in ICUs in 25 states in America.
Including most of Iowa and Nebraska.
And so I'm the most credible person actually in medicine from the chair of radiology position to say these are absolute truths.
Tony Fauci should have asked for hyperbaric chambers for every hospital in this country the minute he knew.
from NYU in April of 2020 that hyperbaric was working hand over fist.
It was saving 80% of the people who were dying in NYU critical care situations.
We were saving 80% of the people with hyperbaric, just a small number of people in this early research.
Well, everyone else in New York critical care medicine is losing 80% of their patients because we couldn't figure out that actually
saturation diving techniques from the Navy are what we needed to bypass all the little blood clots, all of the little superglue inspired blood clots all around all of these are people's bodies.
They couldn't, they couldn't get any air, they couldn't get any oxygen into their lungs to the traditional means of a ventilator.
A ventilator is not an oxygenator.
It's actually a simple terminology point.
Ventilators just get the carbon dioxide.
Technically, this is what the term means.
it ventilates the carbon dioxide out of your lungs.
You can only add 5% more oxygen pressure and 100% oxygen with a ventilator.
If I stick you as a radiologist and without any icy gill into a very simple, it's almost simple, stupid machine, it's just...
a hyperbaric chamber.
It just simulates diving.
It just simulates, you know, if John were to go out and go scuba diving with the Iowa National Guard, it just simulates being at 33 feet of water.
Would it be similar to being in an air flight also up high in the air, Ted?
No, that's actually the opposite.
The airplanes are acting as hyperbaric chambers in a low pressure
environment.
If you are not in the hyperbaric chamber with wings at 30,000 feet, where the pressure is 4 PSI, and you guys are all breathing 14.0 PSI, most of Iowa is basically at 14 PSI.
I'm at 3,300 feet.
I'm at 12 PSI.
When you're at 30,000 feet, you're at 4 PSI.
No pilot.
Nobody in the plane can live at 30,000 feet.
Only a Sherpa.
Brains have to climb to the top of the Himalayas.
is actually conditioned to basically breathe at four PSI.
That's such a low pressure.
It's literally three times less gas molecules packed into every breath.
So functionally speaking, when you're in an airplane, your body is getting with every breath at 10 PSI.
That's what all the cockpits are basically, and all the cabins are pressured to.
They're
pressured to a 10 PSI level, which is your average football.
Your average football has about 10 PSI and 10 pounds of pressure of gas.
So when you're in the airplane, you're in a relatively speaking to the outside environment, you're in a two-atmosphere pressure vessel relative to that low pressure environment.
But diving medicine is going the other way.
And so when you're in a hyperbaric chamber at two PSI, I mean at two atmospheres, at say Iowa Methodist, Iowa Methodist Hospital there in Des Moines,
have the equipment to do this.
They could have participated in this research with NYU.
There's all these hospitals that have hyperbaric chambers.
John, that's a great point about airplanes.
And if you go to aircraftHPOT.org, which is a group of military engineers and physicians and a whole bunch of engineers from out of the hyperbaric ranks, we've put together the national
shoot the moon plan analogous to maybe you know what jfk said way back in you know nineteen sixty one work we're going to the moon by the end of the decade and and so bobby kennedy jr actually knows all about aircraft hbt it is all part that all of this hyperbaric of
public policy and whatnot, if you will, that I've been speaking about with Paul Harch during the pandemic and with you, John.
This is all an understanding of Bobby Kennedy Jr.'
's even, too.
But it's just simple increase.
Gas pressure, when we have breasts, when we take a breath, it now has twice as much oxygen in it.
That's going to do twice as much good on the molecular level.
It's pretty simple.
I mean, most farmers get this.
The farm crowd, we're dealing with tire pressures between 25 PSI and 60 PSI.
And basically, every tire on the farm, you're using pressure's analogous to some of these medical grade chambers.
It shouldn't be such a scary, spooky deal, but it certainly is the big pharma because if we took the entire fleet of American jets and turned them into mass units for COVID and or every other subsequent pandemic, it's going to destroy pharma and they all know that.
So does Bobby Candy Jr.
Wow.
Here with Ted Fogarty guys and Chip Reidman and Tim Grover, John James and Scott Corey, Mike Shane, the great Dr. Edward
F Fogarty, Dr. Ted Fogarty, amazing discussions we continue.
Ted, we've got about three minutes left here.
Dr. Ted Fogarty, I want to let Tim and Chip in with a final question or comment here.
Tim Grover, this is fascinating.
Sounds like we do have some
Uh, good technology out there.
It's a shame that that that hyperbaric wasn't used more, that the ivermectin that saved me wasn't used more, that hydroxychloroquine wasn't used more, and that remdesvir and ventilators were used less.
What say you, Tim Grover, question or comment?
Um, just a quick comment.
This is all being driven by the health, the human health and human services department.
by public health.
If
you think the problems that we are facing right now, they're not getting solved.
And the reason is they control your state health, they control your Congress, they control your local authorities, they are using us.
They don't do trials anymore.
We're the trial.
We have got to all start thinking this problem has been a stick with us until we start realizing That it's not the other guys elected official.
That's the problem anymore.
It's it's mine.
I Love it Tim Grover chip readman.
You're an engineer with a great engineering mind a final question or comment on this great topic
Well, I just I look forward to hearing what you have to talk to Robert Kennedy about
be interesting to come up with his, with his latest opinions.
I'd be curious to know if you talk to him about his, the scrutiny that the media gives him about his vaccine positions.
They're not talking about the vaccine, which, well, it's not really a vaccine for COVID.
It's gene therapy.
But I'd be curious to know what his feelings is with the attacks he's getting on his past vaccine comments that he's made.
And I think he's got a lot of valid points in him.
that he's made that people are ignoring particularly the media.
But that's about all I got to throw in.
You know Scott, that's why I think we provide a service here.
We are getting the non-traditional non-corporate media word out.
That's the advantage of what Dr. Stein's doing here at KXEL.
We can shout.
Truth to power here, can't we, Scott?
You know, absolutely, John.
And it doesn't matter what the issue is, we are very blessed to have the sponsors as well as our listeners and KXEL, allowing us to bring these important issues moving forward, whether it be from presidential candidates to what's going on with the COVID vaccines and moving forward.
It's going to be a very interesting fall, trying to figure out what else is going on out there and getting to the bottom of it.
But most importantly, it's asking the important questions that a lot of the media, national media and the
the media in Iowa are afraid to ask.
Ted Fogarty, Dr. Fogarty, last word to you.
We've got 30 seconds.
I know you can do it.
Why is AM radio still important in this cause?
It's the last bastion of freedom.
And I've been up in North Dakota and South Dakota broadcasting on K-Fire.
And, you know, since the start of this pandemic, I am the only American physician that has really had a true free speech through that AM radio station,
KXDL and the other affiliates that you've been working with, John and the Omaha and Lincoln metros.
And I mean, if you look at it, it's crazy.
We
don't have AM radio, anything but a few Midwestern AM radio stations.
Having anyone from an academic medical background, I was the chair of radiology from UND School of Medicine for 15 years, and nobody else has been able to speak truthfully in this
criminal racket of communication.
Hopefully we can get Bobby some exposure in the Hawkeye-Cawkeye state.
I'm convinced that with our three networks we're going to get him out to 99 counties.
And shame on President Biden for refusing to provide secret service protection for Robert F. Kitty Jr.
who has met every qualifying criteria.
Again, what kind of horrid people do we have running
Things at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Scott.
You know, absolutely.
It is very disheartening of what's moving forward with the Biden administration, with the lack of secret service protection.
Almost all the presidential candidates from the Republican side are getting the same treatment, so I don't understand.
It's almost a vindictive decision, seems to me, John.
Yeah, and who's running the show?
It ain't all sleepy, Joe.
There's a lot of holdovers from the prior Democrat administration.
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