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The Jacobsen Group with Jon Jacobsen · Mon Dec 11, 2023
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John Jacobson here with Scott Corey, special guest Chip Readman, and the man who is the glue who puts it all together, Mike Shane, who has his own ringtone, because he is the dean of engineers all throughout the Midwest.
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We've got a great show today.
It's gonna be a very upbeat show.
It's gonna be some Christmassy stuff.
We're gonna talk about fun stuff going on the culture.
We're gonna talk about our Iowa Hawkeyes.
And Mike, would you crank up Brenda Lee for a moment, please?
Guys, so I was...
There we go.
Oh, the...
Let's just fix that.
Yeah, we'll fix it now.
I will long for the days with cart machines and tape.
All right, just tell me when you want me to go.
Oh, Mike Shane.
My first Christmas.
Well, let's put this way.
I was one year old.
When 13 you remember that when 13 year old Brenda Lee she was just turned a teenager Came out with rockin round the Christmas tree now this 1962 original version charted highly I think it got to number two it got to it's been It's a seasonal hit that comes out of your kind of like white Christmas does and
There's a certain Mariah Carey and Wham song that I'm gonna go there right now.
I'm a classicist, you know, but Brenda Lee.
So, one year got to number two, I think that was at 62, got to number four.
Released this year, after 62 years, Brenda Lee, fortunately, she's still with us at 79, it has hit number one.
What an autumn,
And winter Scott Corey the Beatles who had their first number one and 62 come out with another number one Again in 2023 same thing with Brenda Lee 62 and almost number one now it charts the tops Here in December at number one does it show you that?
Patience pays off, and I'm so glad she is going to sing
Or would it be lip syncing?
You know, we don't know about these TV productions at the Opry Christmas, but I'm just so pumped for her and that American ingenuity of never giving up.
And this is truly a classic.
It has that almost Lieber Stolar rock ability, Elvis type of motif and a very mature 13 year old voice.
Kind of like what Rianne Rimes had when she covered
Crazy by Patsy Klein.
So I'm pumped.
This is America.
There are second acts.
Absolutely.
And, you know, as you're talking a little bit about Brenda Lee, Chip Reidman, I'm kind of remembering just what happened a couple of weeks ago down there at Texas Stadium with Dolly Parton rocking the Dallas Cowboy cheerleading outfit.
I mean, in the 70s, she looked pretty darn hot, Chip Reidman.
That's an 80-year-old midriff.
I'm sorry.
Thanks to which I've never
seen before.
I had to take floss and try and run it through my ears to get that out of my brain.
And she wasn't lip syncing.
I ruined my whole night seeing that.
I couldn't take it.
I give her grief.
She was, I mean, I give her great credit.
I'll give you grief.
She wasn't lip syncing.
She was actually singing.
Yeah.
And
she was
also holding on to the display behind her to keep her from falling over because of age.
Well,
I guess I know what I'm getting
ship readmen for Christmas a Dolly Parton cheerleading outfit here poster.
Thank you.
Yes.
Thank you.
Yeah, I think what was the funniest thing was our announcing TV booth with Mr. Aikman and
was Romo and Nance.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah.
Nance was trying to play straight man.
Romo was really trying to give him take the bait.
Jim Nance
would not go there but
Tony Romo seemed rather fixated on Miss Dolly.
He did.
And actually, I saw one of the in the booth cameras where it looked like Jim Nance was going to deck Tony Romo on a couple of comments.
But
Jim, the master's golf countenance of Jim Nance was sorely tested
during that.
Absolutely.
But you know, Chip, even you talk about everything that's going on, it's kind of funny.
It seems like everything that went on to style is back in style.
And we kind of go through that with the culture right now.
But one thing that's always been in style
is that people still harken back to the simpler times in this country.
It doesn't matter what's going on, but there was tough times in the 60s and 70s.
Let's not kid ourselves, or even in the 80s and 90s, but it's trying to reminisce, and as we get closer and closer to Christmas, Chip, and especially I'm in my mid-40s now,
The older I get, the more I understand Clark Griswold in National Ampluence Christmas Vacation, because he symbolized what every father, whether it's a ghost or a dirty ghost.
Every
white-collar working guy, that's for sure in corporate America.
It's no longer a madman era.
God, I'm glad you're saying that I thought you're gonna say bell bottoms are coming back and then leave your suits I was getting a little nervous.
Oh, don't don't never say never chip I bet you had a couple nice little leisure shoots back in the day chip.
Well, I was there.
I was that was my age.
That's the time I Was I was a rather dashing young man.
Did you have a
perm in your hair and a gold chain around your neck Chip Friedman?
No, but actually that is crazy to say that because there was a period in the 90s when I did perm my hair because Women talked me into doing it.
So anything for anything for the approval of women.
I'll do that.
Is
there photographs of this and Griswold, you know what?
I haven't sent you a picture the front of my house It's not Griswold status or level, but I did a pretty good job in the front of my house
I've seen your backyard your backyard looks good ship read
man
Yeah, my neighbor.
I mean, I spend more time looking at my back window than I do my front window.
I think most people will like that.
Who looks out in the front yard all the time?
Well, that's true.
I had to put something out there so I could enjoy the, you know, the evenings.
I'm having dinner with the family.
I can look out in the backyard.
It's got a nice Christmas look.
My neighbors love it.
I just can't get them into the routine too.
So for instrumental, pretty nice.
For instrumental background, you use the
Jackie Gleason, late December stuff, like what we're playing right now.
Or do you go more with the Holy Ridge Stringers, the holly ridge strings, you know, they do white Christmas and I'll be home for Christmas.
It's so rich, the musical tapestry.
I still say the 1965 Firestone Christmas album, which is basically, they took
All the pop stars at the time, they had them each record a Christmas song and then did an anthology album.
Goodyear and Firestone Tires were rivals that did these rival Christmas albums each year.
had them.
My dad bought them.
I
had probably two or three of them.
I wish I could find them.
Oh, they were the best.
You know what?
The lovely and gracious Mrs. Jacobson has found them again for me.
They've done these now into
DVD formats and you can get them again.
I've got the 65 version with Maurice Chevalier singing Jolie Olsa Nicolas and all these great, great classics on there.
Sammy Davis, Junior, Doris Day, Danny K, Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, Julie Andrews.
There are some awesome anthology albums from those
1960s when I was going right up there in Cedar Rapids and My dad was the town dentist up in Marion and the Hames's were just starting their Hames Homes Enterprise and it seems like every kid's dad Scott Was working for Collins radio still a huge employer in Cedar Rapids their mission was Mercury Gemini Apollo
These were the guys who were working on all of the communications apparatus to put man on the moon, John F. Kennedy's vision and dream.
And I'm so proud to have grown up in Eastern Iowa and that Sea Rapids, Iowa City, Waterloo area, the ingenuity of Iowans, local Iowans working in that brainchild of Art Collins.
got us the communications link that we had to have for Gene Cranstall's guys to talk to our guys when they were orbiting and then landing on the moon.
You know, absolutely.
And the one thing I always really enjoy, you know, we talked about it, especially during the fourth of July and something and stuff along those lines.
But it's even though we don't have any snow on the ground right now, Chip, there's just something about being in Iowa or Nebraska or anywhere in the Midwest during the Christmas season.
You're in a small town.
You see the towns are all decorated up.
You see everybody's homes are decorated up.
There's just something about that community feeling.
And you know, in a lot of ways, Cedar Rapids and Marion, they
really do a very nice job for the Christmas season as well.
It's just something about that that kind of harkens back to when I was a kid in the 80s growing up in Northwest Iowa in a town of maybe 800 people at the time.
Well that's one thing that's the beauty of the Midwest even more than when you get to the northern states is you have seasons around here you actually get to enjoy summer it may be hot you get to enjoy winter it may be cold but at least you have that fall you have that spring where you're enjoying the thought of summer coming
and you're coming out of winter, but you do have winter and you do have the snow.
Sure, you have a few times you got to go out there and shove it a little bit, but the scenery that it provides, snow in the trees, the bushes, maybe a little bit of an icy sparkle on some mornings when there's a little bit of frost stuck to the trees and the railings and stuff.
It's a beautiful time of year around here, and I just love it.
I hope we do get a little bit of snow from Christmas.
Although, unfortunately, I can be a Grinch.
Come January 1st, the snow can go away and I'm ready for warm weather.
But, you know, yes, it is your right, Scott.
It's all about the beauty of the Christmas season, a little bit of snow, some festivities, a little bit of hot chocolate, just sledding.
How about that when you go back to your kid in childhood?
I love a good sled going down a nice deep hill down Memorial Park in Omaha.
Beautiful time, great times for kids.
You know, John, as I get older too, I appreciate this and maybe you could weigh in as a father and now a grandfather, but going to the local church in town during the Christmas season and having the kids nativity program, there's just something special about watching the little ones put on the little, the program once a year and how excited they get for the nativity scene and things like that.
It's really, really warms my heart more and more and I appreciate it more and more than I even did even 10 years ago.
Yes, Scott, I'm so glad you brought that up because my contribution to Christmas plays, well, there are two of them.
I had the real honor and privilege to do community theater, to play Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey in a rendition of Some Wonderful Life, which really is my favorite of all on just the, you know, love of life, that life is worth living.
The other thing I'm proud of is a father, and I'm hoping Mike Shane doesn't barrel over laughing here and bump all the knobs.
But when my son in Catholic school was eighth grader, he won the lead in a Christmas carol.
He played Ebenezer Scrooge.
And of course, Scott, I'm a law-abiding citizen, an officer of the court, but I
There is a little bit of impishness and mischief in me, and surrounded by parents who, you know some of these parents, Scotty, they were a little more to the left than I was, and were more democratically affiliated.
This was in Omaha.
And I told my son, I said, Pete, you're going to change the script to It's a Christmas Girl.
Dad, I can't do that.
I said, yes you can.
See this $100 bill here that I'm waving right now?
So there's the scene when you wake up all elated that you're still alive after the visit from the three ghosts and you want to give the cratchets that prize-winning turkey.
And so you throw open the sash and you see that young man say, young man, is it Christmas Day?
Aye, aye sir, aye it is.
Do you know where the
Poulter is with the prize-winning turkey hanging window.
I I sure I do a fine lad a marvelous lad an enterprising lad I said Pete you're gonna change the lyrics a submission to a fine lad an enterprising lad a marvelous lad a Republican He says dad.
I can't do that.
I says yes, you can a hundred bucks now.
This was this was 15 years going a hundred bucks to an eighth grader was really a hundred bucks and
You know, he kind of ratted me out.
He told his Irish Democrat teacher named Kelly, of course.
His last name was Kelly.
And Kelly says, I'll tell you what, you can do that if your dad pays you on the spot immediately after doing that in front of all the parents.
I said,
oh,
I'm in.
I'm in
on this thing.
It was so satisfying to be there with 500 parents more to the left of the political spectrum than me.
They didn't know what was coming, but I did.
And sure enough, Pete gets up there and he says, you, young boy, what day is it?
Christmas day, sir.
Do you know where the prize winning turkey is at the poultry shop?
I do, sir.
And my son says, a fine lad, an enterprising lad, a marvelous lad, a Republican.
I heard simultaneous audible gasps from 400 people.
the most satisfying Shadden fried that I had ever had in my life.
It was Homeric.
Impetuous.
So see what a good father I was.
Teaching my children early on how to break rules that is always better to beg forgiveness than ask permission, especially when incentivization is involved.
Well, if you did that today, those kids would have to be in therapy and you'd be brought up on war crimes.
And unfortunately though, unfortunately Chip and I would actually be there to testify against you because I think, you know, that's just one of those things that we'd have to do.
Don't you think, Chip?
Yeah, I also get a kick out of teaching them with the meaning of bribery.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He's setting them up for a line in politics.
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Well,
guys, we have other great winter glories to look forward to, even when we're cooped up if there is bad weather.
Chip is our great Iowa State, Nebraska, Big Ten edition of the show.
The Husker women have a lot to brag about in volleyball, the Cyclone men and hoops, and Scotty,
I love our Iowa Hawkeye stretcher's roll.
Think about it.
It's the classic, a January one bowl, high noon national TV.
That is the cat bird seat.
You know, absolutely, John.
And we'd be remiss if we didn't take just a few moments here to also give a huge shout out to Phil Parker, the bros of winning.
Defensive coordinator of the year an award that should have been given to Phil for basically the last eight years But especially chip reading the last three years where Phil Parker had to simultaneously take on two offenses every game And it was just an amazing award moving forward and I like what Phil said during his comments because he was actually
This year, the only nominee that was on defense, everybody else was on offense, and he made a comment, and he looked right at the crowd and those coordinators, and he said, you know, when it gets to four down, you guys can punt.
I don't get that kind of option.
And Phil Parker is just one of those gyms, and I've said this for years, Chip, Reedman, and John, that when Kirk retires, there needs to be a statue for Kirk, and I think we could all agree to that.
But at that statue, if I could design it, it would be Kirk on the shoulders of Phil Parker and the great Norm Parker, the two defensive coordinators for the last 25 years in Iowa.
Well, that's a beautiful sentiment.
That's a beautiful sentiment.
It would rank right up there with the Devaney Osburn pantheon there, Mr. Reedman.
And maybe John Cook belongs in the statuary.
What say you, Chip Reedman?
I think that's an excellent
sentiment for Phil Parker.
I think I would have to agree that something should be done for him.
Maybe not necessarily up on the shoulders, but at least side by side, you know, arm around each other on the shoulders for something.
Phil pointing out to the field or something and some kind of, I'm trying to vision the stature at this point.
And he definitely has carried this team.
He's definitely made friends' record a lot more.
palatable isn't the right word to use, but it's made on an excellent record.
He's the one that's got him to the number of wins that he's got to.
He deserves all the credit for that.
Cook may be a little bit early yet.
I think he's, I mean he's got- For our
East Iowa listeners, that's the legend during Nebraska women's volleyball coach who arguably for Iowa fans that realize the impact that Caitlin Clark has made on women's basketball.
John Cook's program at Nebraska really has catapulted women's volleyball to a level of popularity, and especially in the Big Ten, that's where he's really brought some excellence to the Big Ten through his program, which has been seamlessly a winner for a quarter century.
Well, you know what's crazy is to think he was a Wisconsin coach when Pettit hired him to replace when Pettit retired to bring him to Nebraska.
Good point.
Now he here is in a struggle
For number one in the country, and the last two or three years has always been against Wisconsin.
Yeah, the calendar girls.
Yeah, Wisconsin's got some incredible talent.
The Big 10 has some incredible talent going on.
He's said that actually going through the Big 10 is harder than going through the NCAA tournament, at least the first two or three rounds.
Because it's just week after week of brutal play and everything is in jeopardy as to whether you're going to win or not.
You know we talk about what's going on right now as we get ready for the bull season, but there was some breaking news Thursday night guys Interim athletic director
Beth Getz said that she will be applying to be the new athletic director at Iowa.
I'm
glad for
that.
And she has the backing of President Wilson, who has said that basically, no uncertain terms, it's basically her job if she wants it, once they go through the search process.
But, Chip, Reedman, and John, this is a huge statement right now because- She
did what had to be done.
She had the guts to do it when Bartha
didn't.
Absolutely.
And, you know, as we talk about athletic departments,
There's gonna be some changes in Iowa moving forward, and I'm not trying to stir the pot, but we also have to realize Kirk's in his late 60s.
Fran is getting up there in years.
Lisa Bluter has been there.
She's in her 60s as well.
You know, we got Gary Dolphin and Ed Podolac, the voices of the Iowa Hawkeyes.
They've been there for over 25 years.
At least Gary and Ed, you know, he was playing football in Iowa in the 60s.
So there's going to be a huge amount of change in the next probably three to four years in Iowa.
And having Getz as the athletic director, in my opinion, is a very stabilizing and smart move.
because in this time of NIL, she came out and said this week that the Baker Report, the pay for play, was going to cost Iowa about $9 million, which to me says Iowa's in perfect shape to make this new proposal, if that's what goes forward.
Yeah, I saw when you texted that out, Scott.
I didn't know what you were saying, whether that was a big number or a small number, because my first reaction is, that's manageable.
Absolutely.
That's all it is.
That's very, very manageable.
And technically, that's only half your program.
Now, I don't know how many other sports programs Iowa has relative to Nebraska.
I know Nebraska's got a boatload of them compared to a lot of other universities.
But if you have a significant number of teams out there, if you've got 20 teams, and so you've got to pay a lot of people for that situation, 9 million is not that big of a deal.
That can be handled.
Hopefully that Iowa would have some boosters out there.
that could easily step in and handle that.
And I'm sure we all know that John's got plenty of money.
He probably could easily just write a couple of checks since he can give a kid $100.
For changing the line in the play absolutely
and we talked about we were wrapping up Psyhawk week John We saw a tremendous game Wednesday night ESPN at Hilton Coliseum I refer to it as the coffin the dump But Lisa blue tears Iowa Hawkeyes went in there with Caitlyn Clark at a hostile crowd
But not only did Caitlin Clark deliver, I want to read
the steps.
Our other Kate.
Yeah, I was going to get to that.
You
called it, Scott.
Yeah.
Guys, Scott Corey said, someone has to step up.
He was thinking it might be Kate, Martin, Scott, you nailed it again.
You're hot.
You're on fire,
Scott Corey.
You're on fire, man.
You know, I was just lucky, I guess.
But Caitlin Clark is now the first person in men's or women's division one to have 3,000 plus points, 750 plus rebounds, and 750 plus assists.
Guys, we've said it for many, many shows.
It's Caitlyn Clark's world and we're just living in it.
She is a generational talent.
She is the face of both men's and women's NCAA basketball.
When you have people like Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Reezy was giving her a shout out.
We had the Manning cast on ESPN.
It's amazing what's going on, but Lisa Bluter in her press conference at the end of the game said that this team is not divided.
The teammates are rallying to Caitlyn Clark, and at the same time, Caitlyn Clark is building up her teammates.
So Chip, that really showed to me that Lisa made it a point to say this is a very unified team, but we understand Caitlyn Clark is the draw to all these arenas.
Scott, you're just barely even scratching the surface on the impact that she's had for women's sports.
She's with the state farm commercials with Mahomes.
She's made national commercials now.
I mean, that's how many women in any sport are getting that kind of recognition from the advertising market.
It's just a sight to behold.
And you know John we talked about it you we mentioned Kate Kate Martin She was the one she at the end of the game her defense would make Phil Parker proud She went on lockdown.
She said we are not losing this game in this dump We're gonna win it and Kate Martin she delivered when Caitlyn Clark needed some help
She did it is the joy of winning that girl lights up the room when she steps that free throw line with
That toothy, flashy, great grin that she has.
I have a mantra.
Kate Martin, Killer Smile, Gabby Marshall, Killer Eyes, Caitlin Clark.
Killer shot,
you know, absolutely.
And what was amazing, too.
And, you know, we talked about it.
I'm a big fan of Gabby Marshall.
Marshall's struggling a little bit right now.
But she's
played D.
The D is still rock.
Absolutely.
And it was Marshall that set up Clark for the logo shot to break the record.
And but there's something going on.
And I was talking about this Thursday with a friend of mine back home.
You know, even though Iowa has been known for football, wrestling and men's basketball,
I can only name two to three players on the men's basketball team without really thinking about it.
I can name almost every player on that women's basketball team.
That's how much the women's basketball team has encompassed all of Iowa.
It's phenomenal.
The
state of Iowa, the fandom.
It's amazing, Sherp Freeman.
And four years ago, I had said, you're crazy.
It's just amazing how far this program has come.
Yes, it is amazing.
And you know what?
I do have to give Iowa State a lot.
I do have to give the women's team credit.
They hung in that game.
It wasn't a walk away for Iowa.
They had to battle to get that win.
The score maybe doesn't reflect how close that game was.
And of course, I probably won't ruin your day by bringing up the men's game that happened.
or the other night because which which
debacle the Purdue water the Iowa State one I oh
yeah you're gonna have to be more specific on that for all
Scott said five and four and that's where we ended up five and four
yeah if we get to fit if Iowa gets to 15 wins on the men's basketball I'll be shocked but
I just want a winning season and an NIT bit
that's why that's my that's gonna be a struggle in my opinion and chip read
man Scott what what happened what happened did they just
They lost the Murray's.
The three key players, is that what's really costing them this season?
In my opinion, there's no real leader on that program.
There's no Katelyn Clark or Kate Martin.
There's nobody that says, this is my game.
I'm going to go out here and win this.
There's no killer instinct right now.
They are a very young team.
I'll give them that.
Fran McCaffrey has been doing this a long time and this falls a little bit on Fran McCaffrey right now.
Yeah,
keep that recruiting pipeline rolling, man.
Absolutely.
And you know, it's just kind of like when we talk about football, you know, when it comes to Iowa football, Phil Parker is going to look the other team in the eye and says, you're not going to score again on my defense.
This ends right now.
Caitlin Clark will say, I'm shooting this ball.
It ends right now.
There's just no killer instinct right now on Fran McCaffrey's basketball team.
Well, it's interesting going back to get so it started the whole conversation is it she if she gets a job whoever gets the job.
She's gonna get the job.
Yeah, she will.
Yeah, she's gonna have she's gonna have her hands full and she's probably gonna relish it I mean what better for an athletic director come in and be able to make their mark on a program than having in the first two or three years We don't know how long Kirk's gonna go.
I'll be around but we've talked about that time coming to an end and
I've talked about, you know, on this show maybe and on other shows is I think the Iowa women's volleyball team.
should be making some moves.
I do not understand for the life of me why they do not have a successful program.
They were last in the Big Ten Zero Conference wins this year.
I looked at so I'm also a Creighton fan a little bit.
Sorry, John.
Scott and
I would volunteer to helm the Iowa women's basketball team.
It's a dirty job, something
has to do it.
I would be a
good
recruiter.
Yeah, I looked at the the Creighton women's team and all their girls are within 500 miles Yeah, they've got a meter to the sweet 16 with a small radius of recruitment several more from Nebraska Why can't I would do that?
So she's got a job good point cut out for because women's volleyball is becoming important when it comes to the national landscape with particularly for women sports
I
think she can
do
it though.
I think she can do it.
Yeah, and I think that's what's very interesting, John, because you know, you and I have said it so many times.
In my lifetime, I've only had two head football coaches, but I've only had three athletic directors and Beth will be number four.
This is going to be very interesting.
Iowa, the University of Iowa in the athletic department is not accustomed to change, but if Beth gets and President Wilson
get it right.
They will go down in history as a very powerful duo for athletics for the next 25 years.
It's got to be a good hire.
I think it is because Guts has shown she's got the guts to make bold moves.
Guys, we've got to wrap our arms around the portal in the NIL and embrace it.
I don't think the old guard has the zeitgeist to do it.
I think Guts
You
know, absolutely.
And so it's going to be very exciting.
I know we're going to have a lot more bold coverage moving forward.
I want to give a huge shout out, though, to the Nebraska Athletic Department 2 and their football program.
in these hard economic times, Chip, their athletic department cares so much about their fans and their wallets and everything that they've made it a point for seven straight years not to go to a bowl game so that they don't have to spend that extra money.
That is truly, truly a humbling and noble cause that the Nebraska Cornhusker football team has done for seven years, Chip Reidman.
Well, I look at it this way.
We're also willing.
they're also willing to spend 450 million dollars to replace the entire just the south end zone of the stadium to the point where there will be one season if not two seasons for that entire section of 20 some 30 000 people
will not have tickets to a game.
That's crazy for that time.
It is, but you know, it's the only way to do it.
I've been in that stadium many times.
It's, it's, you're just not going to go and put lipstick on a pig.
It's got to be just torn down.
Boy that, that, that's spending a lot of
money.
That's spending a ton of money just to say they kept to sell out.
I was just going to go there.
I was just going to go there.
Now we'll actually have a full stadium.
At least they can say they tried to do a sellout.
I've seen the pictures of Kent Stadium.
Good luck with that.
Well, we know in heaven there is no beer.
That's why we drink it here.
So at the end of the game, they're just trying to get
an inside stool at one of the great watering holes in Iowa.
You know, absolutely.
And that's the great thing about sports.
It doesn't matter what's going on in the country right now around the world.
Sports is one of those things where it's kind of a release valve or everybody can just take a few moments and and have some good fun.
And I look really forward to talking more about what goes on as we approach the Citrus Bowl on January 1st.
But it's got these Iowa
State fans have to up their game in Hilton.
chanting overrated to Caitlyn Clark.
It was like that dumbest cheer any fan bases ever come up with.
That's lame!
Well, that reminds me of last year.
Chip, where you and I and John, we were actually at a local restaurant watching the Iowa women take on the Nebraska women at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln.
And their fans did the same thing.
They started chirping at Kate LaClark.
And I turned to you, Chip Riemann.
I said, don't do it.
You're
going to make her
mad.
And then all of a sudden she did the same thing.
She started throwing out three pointers from the half court
line.
They did that at high school to her in a Dowling game.
And she turned around and scored 50 points on them.
So you
thoughts come back to bite
you.
Give her credit.
She can back it up.
I can do that.
You know, I can give her that.
On the other hand, you're also talking about student sections and we have never seen a situation where student sections
can be a cumulative accumulation of knowledge or intelligence when it comes to some of the things they do during a game.
I'm so glad there were not cameras on us in our undergrad years.
I'm really, really appreciative.
When former Creighton president and the man who hired Al McGuire, when Father William Kelly looked at us with the stink eye, that's what I knew we had crossed the line in one game there.
So listen, guys.
Great Convo.
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Jacobson here with Corey Reidman and Mike Shane at the engineering deck.
Mike Shane, play that ringtone.
Get Ted Fogarty and David Hartsuch all acclimated to the year's signature there.
Ted Fogarty grew up with that on his mother's lap with that signature.
Didn't you?
Welcome back, doctors.
Ted Fogarty, David Hartsuch.
Ain't that a beautiful ringtone, Ted?
Absolutely beautiful.
Totally
reminds
me of my mother's lap.
in Omaha in the 70s.
And I am, by the way, going down to a gallery opening by my brother, Robert Xavier Fogarty in New Orleans.
That's in honor of our mother, Mary Beth.
Yes, you come from a great artistic lineage.
You really do, Ted.
He's opening a hotel and gallery in New Orleans.
And the opening portion of the gallery is this weekend.
So Carolyn and I and Riley are on our way down to Denver International to fly out.
Ted, forward to the Big Easy.
Well, you've got this LSU connection with one of your mentors.
Talk to us today.
I know Dr. David Hartsuch, the honorable former Iowa State Senator, Dr. Hartsuch practices on the Mississippi River, the Quad Cities area.
So Dr. Hartsuch, we'll talk to the two of you guys today, and Chip Reedman, I think it's got a question or two for you, but hey, it's winter.
It's cold and flu season, influenza season, COVID season.
What do we need to have our antenna out for, Dr. Hartsuch?
Well, John, I think what we're starting to see is a little uptick in COVID.
Not a huge uptick, but I'm starting to see more patients coming to me saying that COVID, what do I do?
And this is a problem because the Board of Medicine is not letting doctors
treat with off-labeled drugs such as ivermectin, these are life-saving drugs, and it's horrible.
And
we can't in Nebraska.
Well, that's
a great point.
Nebraska's Attorney General, now retired, Doug Peterson, wrote, I think, the most valuable legal document in the United States of the last decade by giving a green light for doctors to be able to properly treat their patients during COVID.
And frankly, ladies and gentlemen, guys like Hart, such infogarty, they didn't lose
during covid and these two are also pioneers in the hyperbaric therapy area and I'm just going to editorialize here if we to put people in hyperbaric chambers instead of on ventilators they're usage of oxygen these doctors use
usages of oxygen and hyperbaric therapy would have saved all those people.
Am I wrong, doctors?
You are correct, John.
Absolutely correct.
If anybody wants to look into this further, from a nation-state perspective, go to aircraftHBOT.org.
It's a non-for-profit website protocol, listing, and white paper that a number of our patriotic engineers and physicians and a few pilots here and there.
got together on to show the country and the world that we can use all of these aircraft as giant, multi-place hyperbaric chambers.
And it's actually a very simple thing that actually happens every day in the airline industry around the world.
These chambers with wings are turned into hyperbaric vessels to check for leaks in the cabin.
And so these are the...
structural impairments of strategic communications that have been going on since the start of the pandemic with Tony Fauci and the Federation of State Medical Boards basically labeling anyone coming up with a creative solution to this pandemic, a misinformation specialist.
And in the ranks of physicians in the Midwest, especially Dr. Hartzuch and I and some of our other colleagues that we've been teaching mild hyperbaric protocols to, it's basically
physics that's undeniable.
There's no ventilator that can ever oxygenate a human body to the same degree as a hyperbaric chamber.
Here with Dr. Ted Fogarty and Dr. David Hartsuch, I think Chip Reedman has a question or comment for Dr. David Hartsuch.
Hartsuch says, is that seasonal time of year again?
He's going to give a few tips on what we can do to stay healthy.
Chip, any direction or comment for Dr. David Hartsuch?
Sure, I think it's ironic that the state board of medicine will come after you guys for trying to be creative to solve a problem.
And their solution was to come out with a problem with this so-called vaccine or gene therapy, whatever you want to call it.
Can you tell me, I'm hearing news that there's a lot of evidence coming out that there's actual DNA remnants that are showing up in the shots or have been in the shots.
And there's a lot of concern as to what that has done to people.
I understand it's far above what the FDA allows for their requirements.
Yes.
It's over 100 times.
Over 100 times with allowance for that.
And I did molecular genetics at the University of Chicago before I went to medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
And this positive contamination, it's not just this.
some sort of generic DNA sequence, but the more important and concerning problem here is that these classmates have been found to contain the SV-40 promoter sequence, which was also found to be a contaminant in the oral polio vaccines linked to an increased risk of cancer.
And the Institute of Medicine, actually in the late 1990s or around 2000, actually decreed that, yes, the SD-40 contamination in the oral polio vaccine is a cancer-causing concern.
They acknowledged it.
And these are all the basins of physician vaccinologists of the country.
They had to say, uncle.
And so we had that contamination there.
And now, with these mRNA gene therapy products, essentially what they are,
You've got this contamination of SE40 in these classmates that are leveled 100 times more than they're supposed to be.
And now that's just getting into the blood supply of America.
And my North Dakota legislative friends have pointed out that there's several states that are looking into setting up programs where there's vaccine-free donation pools.
Because this is kind of the same problem that we went through with AIDS and hepatitis B in the 80s.
And now we've unleashed this entire mutation-filled system of contamination of the DNA positive across the entire population of America.
And I'm seeing cancer rates skyrocketing at night in my emergency radiology practice.
Very scary.
That was Dr. Ted Fogarty, Dr. David Hartsuch up next.
Dr. Hartsuch, other than what I'm doing, I'm using immune formulation to
I'm sorry, Immune Formulation 200, the Pro Immune, Immune Formulation 200, which is the premix and the powder there until my body produced the Glutothia Main to basically fire up the mitochondria in my cells, I think, David Hart, such as that, correct?
What else can I do in addition to that?
Well, I think that's a very important one to get precursors for glutathione because what they do is they do rev up the immune system and They actually inhibit the COVID virus From replication.
It doesn't like repair or fire up or charge the mitochondria in my cells.
Is that what it does?
I would say that's a fair assumption.
Okay
a fairer description of what's going on.
Okay,
but in addition I would I would make sure that people are
making sure they're getting adequate vitamin D, taking vitamin C and vitamin E, and then also zinc.
Zinc is a very important part of your immune system.
Is it important to use the quercetin with the zinc, doctor?
I
think quercetin and I would put it, the general rule is increased level of polyphenols in your diet.
Polyphenols, also known as flavonoids,
are highly antioxidant, anti-viral.
They're also anti-diabetic, anti-cancer.
And they're very, very good for you.
They're found in red fruits, and red fruits, blue fruits, and vegetables.
They're found in citrus fruits of all types.
And it's important to have a diet of these on a regular basis.
And also make sure you get your sleep, because all of that is going to increase your immune system and prevent you from getting sick.
Here with Dr. David Hardstich and Dr. Tidford, kick it back over to Dr. Fogarty.
Yeah, real quick, John, you know.
I'm glad you mentioned the Pro Immunity Formulation 200, which you can purchase at www.dbestimmunesupport.com.
Free shipping and a 10% discount if you buy a six-pack.
And our good friend Joe Castorino, who has been traipsing from Colorado all the way out to New York State, spreading the good news from the mind of Dr. Albert B. Crum, a Harvard-trained physician and scientist that graduated from Omaha Central back in 1949.
pen in intellectual property law.
the answers to all of these pandemics that are based in viruses and got a patent in Canada in February of 2020 that outlines
antiviral aspects of pro-immunity formulation 200 and that has also been incorporated into the federally funded North Dakota Cares Act grant protocols for the pandemic that came out prior to the vaccine by the hand of my great naturopathic physician colleague
Dr. Leslie Ling, and through by the North Dakota Ag Commissioner, Dr. Doug Gehring, and in all of these rural counties that we're squawking out to, it's just common sense.
When people understand that life itself is literally based on a gradient of oxygen and oxygen turning ourselves into intracellular glutathione manufacturing sites, we've got incredible
livestock industry that has amino acid precursors for other proteins like lysine coming out for the swine crowd.
And, you know, as we discussed in your incredible subcommittee hearing in Iowa State Capitol on February of 2021, there, or I'm sorry, February of 2022, there's a huge benefit that we can provide our bodies with amino acid sources.
Here were Dr. Ted Fogarty.
Dr. David Hartsuch,
What about spirulina?
I'm hearing good things about spirulina.
Can you address that real quickly?
Yeah, so spirulina is a strongly antioxidant, again, based upon those flavonoids and those polyphenols.
There's also another similar thing.
Spirulina is made out of an algae.
And similarly, astragalus is also a strong antioxidant with strong antiviral properties.
And spirulina is much more available.
and certainly everybody should be taken.
Dr. Hartzich, you are at the forefront of legal justice for our courageous physicians of conscience.
You know, 2024 is my last year in the banking industry.
I'll be retiring in 2024 from banking, but Dr. Hartzich, I still got
law license in two states.
I think there's some way I can help you guys out and bring a reckoning to some of these bad actors that did so much destruction and damage during COVID to the American people and to people writ large
worldwide.
I would love to see you and I team up and take on the restrictive
a dangerous and lethal policies of the boards of medicine and pharmacy.
I would love to see you do that.
I think you'd be awesome at doing it.
I think when you were in the legislature, you put forward the medical freedom bill.
And I think what needs to happen in America, people have to realize that they have the right to the control of their body
and the
selection of treatment.
Yes.
And a lot of people don't know that.
They think that they're just, if the government tells them to go get
a vaccine,
they have to go get a
vaccine.
And nobody who's telling anybody to go get the vaccine has the authority to do it
even.
Yeah.
Hard such is a hero and Fogarty is going to give us some info on another champion for medical freedom.
I don't endorse on the show, but I do endorse
Ballad access.
Ted, you wanted to give a shout out to, heck, he was texting on a thread I was on.
He was talking to you the other day.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Take it away, Ted.
Absolutely.
But I did want to throw out a little fun jab at Dr. Hartsuch.
Hey, you left out the Nebraska side of the Missouri River here.
You know, it's going to be Fogarty Hartsuch and Jacobson.
That's what we're forming here.
Well, I
do have
a
license in Nebraska too, Ted.
That's
why I keep going to all my
CLE classes every year.
And everything going bad in Iowa on the medical legal side of things can just look across the river to Nebraska.
And the great state of Nebraska that has basically opened the door for the Hippocratic practice of medicine through that attorney general opinion out of Lincoln back in
October of 2021 but furthermore yes on Tuesday I am going to be driving from Ogallala out to Lincoln to meet and hang out with some of my Eastern Nebraska cousins and Bobby Kenzie Jr.
who's doing a voter you know rally and to get himself on the ballot in Nebraska and and John thank you for acknowledging that Bobby did respond to
My considerations given to him, actually from the great genius of Dr. David Hartsuch on the political marketing strategy of going in and creating, you know, what's the, what's the acronym for David?
It's the NPD.
Oh, I have hyperbacteria extended medicine.
In other words, we're doctors and we do regular medical, everything medical doctors do, but we also extend our practice.
by having hyperbaric therapy, which is quite miraculous.
You guys are absolutely awesome, heroic, and guys, you save lives.
I give a hat tip to David Hart, such that I saw him at the Iowa State Fair after he and I visited with Bobby Kennedy, and I was telling Dave how much trouble I was having losing weight, and he gave me a tip to try a little berberine.
Of course, it's probably all placebo, but
It got me incentivized to also walk farther each day and eat a submission less.
And I'm down 26 pounds.
Thanks, Hartsich.
I
took notes, I took notes.
Not only is he down to that weight, Dr. Hartsuch, but the profit sharing at the local Dairy Queen is now in bankruptcy because he's no longer going to that drive-through three times a day.
There you go.
There you
go.
David Hartsuch and Ted Fogarty to paraphrase Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Courageous and heroic doctors of conscience, our studio audience, applauding.
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And Scott Corey picking up where we were last week, we've got the great Curtis Haymes on the line with us, the next generation of leadership at this half century
old business that provides safe, affordable, beautiful homes for families.
He is the George Bailey of this wonderful life, written new in the 21st century.
You know, absolutely.
And thanks for joining us this morning and talk just a little bit about what's going on around your campus right now as we go into the holiday season because you have a lot of activities going on.
You have a Christmas party coming up.
You also have the food pantry, but you're also in the homes market as well.
Talk to us a little bit about your inventory that's going forward.
We're very excited.
We're year round and spring, summer, winter, fall.
We're here to help with people's housing needs.
Even during the Christmas season, we're glad to show homes.
We're glad to help with financing.
We're seven days a week.
We'll take Christmas and New Year's off, but every other day we're here to help with helping people with find housing, secure financing.
We're excited.
Give us a call.
Come stop by.
You know, talk to us real quickly because on the news, we're seeing the stories left and right talking about higher interest rates.
Talk to us about the affordability as well as the competitive rates that you guys provide.
Interest rates are definitely a factor.
We it's important to pay attention to your total cost is what we preach here.
And insurance, property tax, your principal and interest.
Those are all very, very important things.
The most important thing is the purchase price.
Finding an affordable home that fits your needs, we're extremely, extremely competitive and we will take the challenge against any type of real estate or condo or apartment on actual costs for quality, for what you pay per month and what you pay year over year.
We think we're very, very competitive.
We love, love our product as far as space.
room for family to grow into.
We are, we think we're very competitive.
Quality per dollar.
I don't think we can be beat.
Curtis, I agree, John here and I've been out there.
I've seen these beautiful communities.
They're spacious and for, for.
Price per square foot, there's nothing more competitive.
Chip Eadman, I know you've had a peripheral interest in this industry.
A question or comment for the great Curtis Haymes.
He bears that family name very well and very worthily as a great custodian of the name Curtis Haymes.
Well, I'd like to take this down the educational side a little bit.
I remember when I was buying a house,
They talked about your house payments should never be more than 28% of what your income is.
So now we've got the high interest rate situations.
You have inflation out there.
Do those rules still apply for the customers that you have walking in your door?
Do you look at those kind of numbers with people?
We absolutely will.
Our product, what we do here, is myself and my coworker, Clint, in the sales department.
we can take an application for financing.
And our role isn't necessarily to be the banker, but to be the liaison to the bank.
Exactly, exactly.
And that rule of thumb is gonna be a factor.
Different banks are gonna have their own expectations.
Rather than the home should be this percent of your income, generally what we're gonna see is all of your bills that are gonna be monthly payments
credit card, student loan, auto loan, home, taxes, insurance, all of that is generally going to try and be between under 43% of the debt to income ratio.
But that's something that we can help with and we don't need to get too in the weeds on hypotheticals.
What we like to do is visit with individuals and look at their particular situation.
look at their income, their debts, what they have for down payment, and then look at them as an individual and try to match them with the best financing source.
This beautiful family, this multi-generational family, from Kurt and Norma Haymes to my friends Barb and Troy Haymes, and now to this next generation, Clint and the man of the hour who we have on here right now,
Curtis Haymes Curtis I've been out there so many times I want my friends to visit and if they can't get out there in person to get you guys by your beautiful web page or by phone how do they reach out to you because people are thinking as the new year is about to turn about maybe new new home purchase new new lifestyle new
Hearth and Home Location for Family.
We're glad to help however people want to reach out, whatever they're most comfortable with.
We have our web presence, HamesHomes.com.
You can find Hames Homes on Facebook.
And the easiest thing is just to give me a call, 319-377-4863.
And this coming week on December 15th at 2 p.m.
to 4 p.m.
in our Summit View Community Room,
Kids can come in and take a picture with Santa.
We're very, very excited to get ready for the Christmas season.
Pictures with Santa, December 15th, 2 to 4 p.m.
Scott, I love these people.
These are Christian people with Judeo-Christian values.
They're wonderful community servants.
They take care of the poor.
They try for an environment that is the safest possible for families.
Their heart is in the right place.
and they deal fairly with everybody.
These are the kind of people that we need to do commerce with as good citizens.
You know, absolutely, John.
It just harkens back to what we talked about at the beginning of the show.
Hames Homes is Americana, it is American, and we couldn't be more proud to be a partner with these folks to bring out this message day in and day out here on KXEL.
With the American flag, the Iowa flag, and the MIA POW flag,
always honoring our veterans and those who served.
Curtis, always great to visit with you.
I can't wait to look forward to next week.
We might talk a little bit about Iowa Bowl next week.
How's that?
Oh, let's do that.
Go
Hawks.
And Caitlin Clark, what a phenom, huh?
Oh my goodness.
Keep running up those points.
Get Iowa State as riled up as possible.
Oh yeah, we love that.
We love Curtis.
We love Curtis.
He's our man.
Curtis Hames, ladies and gentlemen.
The audience on their feet.
Curtis, we'll talk to you next week.
Have a great one, sir.
Very good.
Thank you, gentlemen.
You bet.
Bye-bye.
The great Curtis Hames, guys.
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Do you guys know now that we've done about 75 of these KXEL shows?
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