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KXEL Presents: The Jacobsen Group Podcast - July 16, 2022
The Jacobsen Group with Jon Jacobsen · Thu Oct 13, 2022
Hello, this is John Jacobson and welcome to this podcast of The Jacobson Group.
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Welcome KXL listeners, 1540 AM, 100.5 FM Eastern Iowa Central, Iowa.
John Jacobson here reporting, the Marion Iowa Hometown Kid, the Marion Iowa Hometown Kid here who has this great ensemble with me, Mike Shane of the Controls, Scott Corey David Overholzer, John Stewart, Matt Garst, and the one, the only, the inimitable
Georgetown legend coach Patrick Jane Nap Jr.
And coach welcome to the show from New Mexico.
Thank you, John and crew.
Great to be with you.
A beautiful, beautiful, cool morning in the desert today.
So glad to be here.
Well, we
are
going to
start right now with.
Big 10 conference realignment.
We got all sorts of Hawkeyes and Cyclones here in eastern Iowa that are keeping their eyes primed.
Even some northern Iowa Panther fans as Chuck Grassley told us on our last show that he is the ultimate Panther fan.
Let's go first to Hawkeye.
John Stuart Scott, do you want to introduce Johnny and then bring Matt and David in for this discussion?
Sure.
It's a great day.
It might be cool down there in the
desert but it's heating up here in the Midwest with conference realignment and John Stuart we're seeing some tremendous news coming across the country where not only USC and UCLA are joining the Big 10 here in a couple years but now the PAC 12 remaining schools are in quasi talks with the ACC to bring in their media network we have rumors of the ACC schools are reaching out to the ES or ES
excuse me, SEC in the Big 10 and left all by themselves.
Matt Garst is the Big 12.
Nobody really seems to talk to them.
But John Stewart, I think we were going to have a lot of clarity here in the next two weeks once the Big 10 media deal is announced right around the Big 10 media days, which is August 1st.
And we could be seeing a conference shake up that should be something we've never seen before.
What is your prediction?
And what does the elephant in the room do?
Where does Notre Dame end up
going?
right now there's so many rumors with Notre Dame you don't you don't really know for sure what's going on and you know it you don't you don't know what to think of what Notre Dame is thinking really right now you know they're they're going to be kind of left out in the cold though I have a feeling you know as more and more of these teams get into conference realignment and things these
teams that they used to play kind of in the middle of the season that would move outside of conference are not going to have those open weekends to be able to do that.
You know that's a great point and Coach Knapp you have some some sources there at Notre Dame with your days in the Big East and everything.
Talk to us about what athletic director Jack Sorbuck said a couple months ago where he said
The NCAA is facing two solar systems, meeting the Big Ten and the SEC.
What does Notre Dame do?
Are they actually going to join the Big Ten or are they just going to play the independent game for a couple more years?
Independent game for a couple more years because they have an NBC contract that ends in 2025.
I'm getting
Another source, and I'm getting another opinion on Notre Dame, that is staunchly in the independent corner again.
For instance, the networks that get involved in these deals, whoever wants to jump in, NBC, CBS, ABC.
Probably not ABC and ESPN, but other networks.
are not going to kick Notre Dame to the side.
They bring a lot of eyeballs to the TV.
And when it comes to scheduling, these other schools are not going to stop scheduling them because they fill their stadiums.
So I think that Notre Dame is still a mystery right now.
Last week, I reported that a Brady Quinn podcast
Dame eventually rolling into one of the conferences.
We believe it will be that they can, obviously, not the ACC.
The problem is with the rest of Notre Dame sports, I'm not sure the ACC is going to want to continue the alignment of every sport, but football would be playing in the ACC.
They're going to have to make, as you reported here a couple of minutes ago, they're going to have to make a very drastic move.
to save their conference.
And they're going to have to align with somebody or expand somehow.
And the ACC and the PAC-12 and the Big 12 are all looking to create a mega conference of some kind, some other kind of alignment, or they're going to be left out in the cold.
You know, in Matt Garst, here we are talking about the Big 10, the Pac-12 SEC.
But the odd man out, no matter what happens, it seems to be always the Big 12 and Iowa State.
Iowa State is in a very precarious situation right now.
And if we go to these mega super conferences of the Big 10, possibly 20 to 24 teams, I think this is the end of the Cyahawk series.
What do you think, Matt?
I would agree with that 100%, Scott.
It's funny to me.
in an irritating way as an Iowa State fan that every time there's conference realignment, Pac-12 and the ACC now supposedly are talking with each other about sharing the ACC network.
The Big 12 is like the redheaded stepchild of Power Five conferences and obviously with the way this is going runs the risk if they can't do something drastic to
maybe get the four corner schools in or add some other teams that we could be basically relegated to.
group of five or group of
six.
You know we talk about this and money is driving everything right now and there's rumors with the new Big Ten media deal especially with the two LA schools joining the Big Ten.
Iowa will be receiving north of a hundred million dollars and you got to think there it's going to be Kurt Farrance out there on the recruiting trail in the Lamborghini and unfortunately Matt Campbell is going to be in a busted up pinto with no windshield.
I mean what's going on out there?
It's going to be awfully tough for school.
in the Big 12 to compete when you're getting basically half, potentially half the revenue.
I saw the revenue prediction for Big 10 schools with their newest media deal as well over $100 million per school, per season.
Iowa State potentially would receive somewhere in that 50 to 53 million dollars which again is a lot of money but when it's half of what a couple other conferences are getting on an annual basis that stacks up in a hurry and that puts you at a competitive disadvantage from facilities and recruiting.
You know Dave we're talking about conference realignment it's all being driven right now by ESPN the SEC and Fox and its proxy in the Big Ten and we're talking about college football driving everything but the dirty little secret is these
colleges and universities, they want that research dollar.
In the Big 10, they will not add anybody unless they're an AAU status school.
I know your family is big at the University of Iowa and the pharmacy departments and things like that.
And so we're talking about value coming into the Big 10.
There's not a whole lot of other schools out there that are going to bring value.
There's probably about six to ten that can join the big ten.
But unfortunately, there's probably only going to be four invites.
Yeah, I think you're absolutely right.
The prestige of these schools is not only football, but it is also research.
It's also, you know, their ranked academia.
You know, the Iowa Pharmacy School that my daughter just graduated from is a top 20 pharmacy school in the nation.
And so I think that these universities got to be looking at these dollars saying, where else can we expand our...
prestige you know not just on the football you're not just on the football
field and you know coach we're talking about the value the TV contracts are worth millions of dollars but the research dollars are billions with the B how do these other schools try to get the attention of the Big Ten especially you know
Michigan Ohio State Iowa in order to gain that that acceptance into the conference because outside of Stanford Notre Dame in a couple or that's about it
Yeah, well I can tell you who's driving this whole thing and the Big Ten I'm sure will have a say but You know the television networks are driving power to football realignment.
They are they are going to Drive the scheduling
They're going to drive the power conferences in an era where, you know, you have a great leader and great sanki with the FCC.
You have great leaders at the Big Ten.
We can say it's Kevin Warren.
Some of us might say it's others behind
the scenes.
Others.
Others.
Yes, but there are great, there is great leadership there.
But their job description is to do what's best for their conference, not
for the rest of the nation, not for the rest of college football.
So who steps in?
Well, the network stepped in and said, if you want to get paid this, okay, this conference makes sense.
This mega conference makes sense.
These games make sense.
They'll make money.
No more Alabama versus Presbyterian.
No more Iowa versus whoever.
We're playing the big boys and the big girls.
every weekend or mostly every weekend.
Maybe you have one D2 or one group of five game in the mix.
So, you know, I think the speculations great.
The talk shows and the blogs and the things I'm reading are full of numerous ideas.
I think this is going to take a while to play out.
However, you know, the big 10 media days
and the announcement of the TV contract is probably the first date we can look at.
say this, in all the scenarios that we're looking at, the ACC schools are locked into a TV contract, TV rights, till 2036.
If they leave, that's a lot of legal wrangling, and millions of dollars, any of them, Clemson, Florida State, Miami,
North Carolina would fit very nicely in the Big Ten, many people say, for the academic reasons you're talking about, as well as some strong athletic programs.
But who's going to pay these penalties?
How is this going to get negotiated?
It's going to be crazy out there, because those schools are looking.
Clemson, Fars State, Miami, North Carolina are looking, and Jim Phillips knows it.
Coach Patrick Jay Knapp on the line there coach Patrick Jay Knapp on the line there who is a winner of 250 Big East
Games as the head of the Georgetown women coach up We're gonna fire up the Iowa State fight song here from Matt garris because he is the loyalist in the Studio here for the great Cyclones and whether that series stays alive will be an issue with all these conference tie-ins, but John Stewart I'm bringing coach in here because he's got the Notre Dame background, but John Stewart Notre Dame should
joined the Big Ten if they knew what was good for them, of course, but they're still kind of cocky.
And, you know, I really don't want Notre Dame the Big Ten, John, because you and I are old enough to still have recollections at least of our parents and friends ruminating about that disaster.
It's South Bend, Indiana on November 21 of 1953, when with six seconds to play and number one Notre Dame stalled inside the Iowa 10, trailing 14 to seven, Irish tackle Frank Verasione happened to suffer an injury.
He fell down in the huddle.
The clock stopped and Notre Dame salvaged the tie on the extra play.
The NCAA reprimanded Coach Frank Leahy and outlawed fake injuries.
Worse, the voters dropped the number one fainting Irish to number two and kept them there.
Johnny Stewart, was that good frontier justice there in the 50s?
Yes, I think it was, John.
You know, there's many replays that I've heard, you know, from various people.
I heard Zabel stroking out.
He was doing games in 53, you
know.
Heard Zabel do one.
I heard...
Let's see, who else was on there?
Frosty Mitchell?
I think I heard him with his different take on the call.
That was when Iowa had a number of radio stations.
It was not exclusive at all.
Tate Cummins was doing it for WMT.
Oh, I should mention that station on KXEL.
Yes, I can.
Stein gives me permission.
But the great Gene Clausen on these airways, KXEL.
Gene Clausen, so great rich history of Iowa.
Hawkeye broadcasts.
Of course, you got to mention the name of Bob Brooks, too, at another competing station.
Bob Brooks' big catchphrase, sensational.
Back to you,
Scotty.
You know, as we're getting ready to wrap up conference for alignment for this week, you know, John Jacobson and John Stewart and everybody else, get your opinions.
Do we see one more addition to the Big Ten between now and the Big Ten media days in August, or are we in a pause?
I'll go to you first, John Stewart.
No, I think we're probably in a pause right now.
I think the Big Ten probably has enough to digest right now without moving into another decision-making period.
David Oberholzer.
I have to agree with Hawkeye-John Stewart.
I think there's just enough on the plate right now for...
for the administrations, the athletic departments, the media, folks all to kind of see how all this plays out.
Matt Garce, what do you say?
I would agree with what the guys have said already.
My only comment would be, I don't think if there is additions, I think it's going to be, I think it'll be two.
So I think it'll be Washington and Oregon as a pair.
Perhaps Notre Dame and Stanford as a pair, something like that.
But I agree the likelihood of there being any addition before media day is very low.
Coach Knapp, what do you say?
No additions.
Notre Dame holds the keys to the next domino effect.
I disagree.
I think we will have an announcement.
Either Notre Dame will announce they will stay independent or we will see two more schools join the Big Ten.
John Jacobson.
You know, I think we're going to see four conferences with 20 teams.
And I think the top two in each conference are going to play that what I would call the quarterfinal game.
meaning that you'll have conference champs and four super conferences that will play for a national semifinal.
And that's why Notre Dame needs to get in the conference mix, I think, Scotty.
So there we have it.
That's my take.
Excellent, excellent.
One thing we do know for sure, coach, is that this is going to be an ongoing segment on this program for now until the end of time, because conference realignment is here to stay.
Yeah, no, it'll be fun.
There's no doubt about it.
And new rivalries.
will be created, but you know what?
The Big Ten at its core will keep age-old rivalry in that conference, and that's very important.
Can't wait for coach snap to get back to Iowa.
He did a pretty mean job recruiting there in his day, Scott Corey.
He sure did.
We need to get him back here.
Maybe we get an NIL agreement with him for the program.
But you know, talking about all this conference realignment, you know, I've known Matt Garce for a few years.
I've never seen him sweat this much.
He's a pretty nervous cat right now.
I am.
I did this whole thing.
I thought we were I thought we were done with this.
We added our teams and I thought everything looked pretty solid.
And now when you
You're basically a year later from Oklahoma and Texas saying they're leaving the Big 12.
And now we've got all these other additional rumors out there.
And I would like to think that the Big 12 is in a good spot to capitalize on their position and go out and get some of these teams and add some strength to their conference.
But it seems like every year I'm sitting at the edge of my seat reading Twitter to see what everybody has to say about conference realignment.
Yeah, coach, you have the last word
and
then we'll take a quick break.
Coach Knapp, you have the outro.
Hey, Garcy, let's create our own conference at state schools.
Iowa State, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, New Mexico State, Arizona State, Washington State.
Watch, but there you go.
I like it.
There you have it, guys.
The definitive word coach and garsty on the outro.
Take a quick break and be back.
You're listening to John Jacobson here on KXEL 1540 AM 100.5 FM on this beautiful Saturday morning in eastern Iowa.
John Jacobson back with you on KXEL, 1540 AM, 100.5 FM in our second debut inaugural show here in the great Eastern Iowa.
I've come back home, the Mary and I was Cedar Rapids kid here.
We've got on the phone with us today, the great doctors Ted Fogarty and Brad Meyer.
And do we have some good news on the medical front?
Gentlemen, take it away.
Thanks, John.
It's Dr. Ted here, and we've been working on this project for over a year now to start this incredible clinic in Okuboji, Iowa, and it is flowing from out
of the Dakota.
It's flowing like crazy, Dr. Ted.
You know, this last week, a couple nights ago, we had a couple in from Las Vegas looking to learn more about hyperbaric and
to help with their general wellness and so we got them in after hours in the clinic and then we had a family of three that came in from near Bismarck, North Dakota yesterday to the clinic in Northwest Iowa here.
So we're seeing a lot of folks that are that are hearing about this and are getting to know that this
This form of treatment and healing via God's simple physics and air pressure is incredible.
You guys, this is really great news.
You've also had great success in the area of COVID relief, correct?
Yeah, absolutely incredible.
A gal that some folks have had long-haul symptoms.
And anything COVID related seems to be responding extremely well to hyperbaric air therapy.
We
a hairdresser out of Northwest Iowa that her oxygen saturation was in the 80s, and she was having shortness of breath, was having trouble sleeping through the night.
And she comes in after about 10 to 15 treatments, and her oxygen saturation's up to 97%.
She's feeling better than she has in years.
shortness of breath is gone, and her husband can barely believe it.
He's got his wife back.
Dr. Brad Meyer, in the Iowa House of Representatives, earlier this year when you testified, you had a woman named Marilyn talk about some of the great effective treatments that have been utilized.
Absolutely.
Marilyn, Dr. Ted and I worked together across state lines.
She was in the hospital with COVID, and of course, was not going to have the option to get ivermectin, but she
was able to get IV NAC and acetylcysteine, which is a glutathione precursor.
She was heading for the ICU and oxygen requirements were increasing.
Dr. Ted and myself worked together to find, innovate, to find another option for treatment.
She got IV in a little 15 and two to three days later, she was leaving the hospital, not heading into the ICU.
So as she likes to say, she was walking out on her own two feet and instead of being, yeah, leaving the hospital in some other way that we...
get a helpful voice.
Fantastic, Dr. Brad Meyer.
Dr. Ted Fogarty, how do we reach you?
How do these good people get in contact with you who need help and where can they reach you phone wise or on social media or internet?
On Facebook we're at
Aeronautic Clinic and it's spelled A-E-R-O-N-A-U-T-I-X AeronauticPerformant.com on the web and 712-339-024 is the easiest way to get ahold of us.
Well Dr. Ted Fogarty, I'll tell you what, our listeners are going to come to know you guys more and more and how do you like that Jackson Brown intro guys?
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Now back to you in studio.
Welcome back and now our
Decision 22 segment, John Jacobson here, KXEL 1541, 100.5, FM great to be in Eastern Iowa.
And now it is time for our homage to the old McLaughlin group.
This is an unrehearsed interview with these great wizards of political wisdom, Scott Corey, David Overholzer, Kip Murphy, Sheila Murphy,
and coach Patrick J. Knapp Jr.
Issue One.
Winners and losers of the week, Sheila Murphy, who won the week?
Well, I'll start with my loser.
My loser was Gavin Newsom, the perennially delusional governor of California, thinking that he could advertise in Florida.
and tell people that he wasn't running for president.
My winner is Kimberly Dillpoiled, who brilliantly dumped Gavin.
Is she still dating Mr. Trump the younger?
Yes, I believe so.
Donald J. Trump Jr., so well,
yeah,
Gavin Newsom is never going to be a winner.
Kip Murphy.
My winner of the week is, of course, the American people for celebrating what a great nation this is.
losers are all those people who are staying blank the 4th of July and denigrating this great nation.
They couldn't do that in any other nation in the world, so by doing that, they're warning us that America is the greatest nation in the world.
Well, who can argue with that?
David
Overhold, sir.
Well, I'm going to start with my my loser, which is President Biden, or at least I should say whoever determines the Congressional, not the Congressional little, but the President's Medal of Freedom because they gave it to a lady who actually hates America in the hot soccer star Rapinoe or
I'm not sure if I got that right, but anyway, she was awarded the President's Medal of Freedom, but yet she absolutely detests America.
So I kind of, that one always just kind of perplexed me a little bit.
And winners, you know, I'm just kind of a perennial desantis.
There's always something he's done every week that usually puts him in a winner's circle.
For my winner this week, John, I'm going to go with the fireworks sales across the state of Iowa.
Our neighborhood was a war zone for four straight nights.
And, you know, just God bless everybody for having a good time, no injuries in our neighborhood.
And our losers is going to be sleep for the last four days because we were playing the game.
Is that a gunshot or a firework?
Coach Patrick J. Knapp, Jr., the Georgetown legend.
What say you, winner and loser?
Well, the loser of the week.
It's Brittany Griner, the WNBA star who played for Baller basketball, who pleaded guilty in a Russian court to smuggling vials of some illegal substance through Moscow Airport, and has been in prison since February 17th.
It does not look good for her, even though they are begging the president for her release.
We know Russia will play hardball.
The winner
of the week is the American justice system because Brittany Griner has knelt for the national anthem in the past.
John Jacobson here.
The winner of the week is the Donald J. Trump jet airplane, which was just refurbished.
And it literally, literally looks awesome, repaint job.
The loser of the week is Boris Johnson, who said,
Dems the breaks.
Unfortunately, I'm going to quote Barry Fitzgerald from The Quiet Man.
You had your chance and you blew it.
Dave Overholster, what say you?
I would just want to say, I think you have Kip.
We need to get Kip's comments.
Kip?
Kip?
Kip?
Yeah.
Give it to us, baby.
You had mine on Winter and Losers earlier, but on Boris, he never fulfilled his promises.
He had he had his hands and you're right He blew it because he locked down when he shouldn't have and he kept locked down and then he didn't even follow his own rules Yeah, the lesson
in for us is you really always fail when you try to please everyone
and This is an extra throwaway issue here But what will the Husker record be in football our big 10 rival at the end of the year?
Uh, Jacobson weighs in first five and seven.
What say you coach?
Oh, no, they're going to a bowl.
So I'm going to give Scottie seven wins.
Scottie.
What say you?
Uh, six and six.
I just don't see him putting it all together.
It's going to be interesting to see who's still around.
Is it going to be Kurt Ferenc in two years or Scott Frost in two years?
I was thinking six and six and I'm just going to leave it at that.
Uh, Kip Murphy, Husker record.
I'm over eight wins.
Okay.
Well, that is certainly something that could be doable if this portal work continues for Frosty Sheila Murphy.
What say you?
Yeah, you know, I figure why not the abuse that I
will not in any way be tempered no matter what number I say so I'm nothing to lose by saying eight.
Eight wins.
Well the consensus then is the Huskers are bull bound with about seven wins.
Coach, how many wins for the Huskers again?
I've got seven and five.
Alrighty, do the mean average there with about six and a half wins.
Well, the Hawkeyes are going to roll, guys, and we'll be here for all of it.
This is John Jacobson saying thanks to Doctors Fogarty and Meyer, and we'll see you next week, same bat time, same bat channel.
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This is Hometown Marion Boy, Cedar Rapids Regis Boy, U of I Hawkeye Boy,
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Today we begin with an interview with Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and his grandson
Iowa Speaker of the House, Pat Grassley.
Let's begin.
It's just great to bring Speaker Pat Grassley on.
Let's start out, guys.
Pat, do you want to introduce your grandfather?
We're going to give you the honor here for the official introduction.
That's a lot of pressure.
I don't get
to do that
very often.
I get to introduce him, but I always tell everyone, somebody without the need of introduction, but I would say no one.
works harder to represent us in Washington DC than Chuck Grassley has.
And we got to get behind him to make sure he can continue to push back.
I think you laid out a pretty good case on why he's been so effective for those of us, not just in Iowa, but in the Midwest, always bringing those common sense values to Washington DC.
So that's probably more introduction than he even needs.
Senator Chuck Grassley, welcome back to the show.
and i want to thank you for running for the state legislature and making a conservative majority in the state house of representatives uh... takes a lot of uh... hard work to be a straight representative and i thank you for doing that and i'm very privileged to be on this program with you and thank you very much for the invitation
well senator i'm honored to hear those words because i was rooting for you
When you ran to fill the HR gross slot up there, and I was watching you every night on the news on old KWWL with Grant Price and Jim Ganahl, and that's when I first started following your career.
I'm going to go into three reasons why I think you are the statesman of the century, why you belong in the pantheon of heroes.
Issue one.
What would be one or two items that he's kind of most proud of in those years as far as accomplishments?
Let me start with one that I wasn't necessarily the instigator of and it has never Passed after four times that if we could get a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget in the federal government And we came within one vote one time of getting the two-thirds vote to get it out to the states for ratification
That would be the best thing we could do for our children and grandchildren for the government to live within its means.
That hasn't been accomplished, and that would probably be my biggest disappointment.
Now, to answer your question, I'm going to name three or four.
1986, I got the False Claims Act passed
to
help bring in money fraudulently taken from the federal government, and we announced today
uh... and uh... this week i should say we announced and every year we make this announcement we get the information from the justice department it brought between four and five billion dollars back into the federal treasury and since that bill got passed it's brought in uh... approximately seventy billion dollars afforded to be taken money back into the federal treasury
and
that was uh... two-year crusade of mine to get that passed in eighty six
Then how many times you hear constituents and you may even hear it today, you pass laws and you don't apply them to Congress.
That was true between 1938 and 1995 by about 15 bills.
One of them would be the civil rights bill, the other one the wage and hour bill, another one OSHA, et cetera, et cetera.
So in 1995, I came to the conclusion it was wrong to have one set of laws.
for the rest of the country and a different set of laws for the Congress.
So I got the Congressional Accountability Act passed in 1995, and those laws apply to our offices, just like they apply to the small businesses
in
Omaha and Council Bluffs.
And
then, because we were running out of oil and natural gas, which now we don't know that we were going to run out of, but I like to label biofuels.
And the wind energy tax credit that I led on as accomplishments as well, like I said, if we knew that we were going to be able to frack to get natural gas, we wouldn't have done that.
But we were in an environment where we thought we were going to import all of our energy.
The next one would be the deal to help senior citizens.
with what we call Part D of Medicare, because when Medicare was passed in 1966, pharmaceuticals probably only about 1% of the cost of medicine.
Today it's 15 to 20%.
Seniors couldn't, on Medicare, couldn't afford, so we got Part D of Medicare.
And then the last one I'll mention, until 2017.
The biggest tax cut in the history of the country was the 2001 George W. Boyce tax cut, and I led the battle on that.
You did.
We're here with Senator Chuck Grassley.
Senator, this dovetails beautifully into a great accomplishment that your grandson pulled off this week on keeping America energy independent.
I've said that the push for renewable fuels is a national security issue and a food security issue.
Every dollar that we don't have to buy from Mid-East Oil reduces terror petrodollars and also by allowing so many farmers across the U.S.
to keep their farms, we de-concentrate the food supply and keep it autonomous for the United States.
And Speaker Pat Grassley, a great victory for you this week.
I know your grandfather is proud of you.
We got that tremendous renewable fuels bill passed through the House with an overwhelming margin.
Yeah, absolutely John and I think it speaks to You know, I think we're speaking with the the father of the ethanol industry here I think we could say
yes true
what I was saying to everyone that would ask is why is this bill so important?
It's not only important to support renewable fuels in the state But it's important in my opinion one of the most important pieces is 10 send a message to Washington DC
We've seen under the last two administrations, under the EPA, continued, I would say, if it's not an attack on renewable fuels, it's sure not a friendly environment.
And I
think if we're going to continue to expect leaders like Chuck Grassley and Senator Ernst to go out and fight for renewable fuels, it's so important that in Iowa and in the Midwest, we send that message that we're going to put our money where our mouth is.
You are right.
We gained tremendous overwhelming bipartisan support
in
getting that bill passed.
And hopefully as that works its way to the governor, the message is sent loud and clear that Iowa stands with Chuck Grassley in supporting our renewable fuels industry.
You know, this question is for both Senator Grassley and Speaker Grassley.
You know, one of the big concerns we're seeing out here, especially in Western Iowa, but throughout the entire country is inflation, as well as businesses, including ourselves here.
We're having trouble getting a good labor pool of quality applicants, and we're seeing inflation just rise through not only products, but also through wages.
What are you guys looking at doing in the Iowa legislature, but also in DC?
Because this is tremendously important.
to us, not only in the business community, but our farmers and ranchers across the United States as well.
What can we look for, especially now in DC than the Iowa Legislature?
We'll
go to Speaker Pat Grassley first and then Senator Chuck Grassley after the speaker.
Speaker Grassley.
Yeah, and I would say that's a that's a great question I think everything everything you just touched on is a majority of what we're focusing on every day in the Legislature the workforce shortage that we have and then the inflation and I think that's why you're seeing the governor Governor Reynolds proposing a 4% flat flat tax coming off of the 2018 largest tax cut in the state's history We have over a billion dollars of over collection of the taxpayers money as well as full ending balances and reserves
that we want to get back in the hands of Iowans knowing that they're facing this Biden inflation pressure.
We think that's not the government's money.
That's the everyday Iowans money.
So we're hoping to move a bill as quickly as possible through that would take us to one of the five lowest income tax states in the entire country that have income tax.
So I think the legislature recognizes those pressures and we're in a position where keeping the state open has left us the ability to be able to return.
a significant portion of money back to the taxpayers.
I think that's the quickest and most immediate thing we can do at the state level.
Senator Chuck Grassley, a workforce in inflation issues, to you.
Well, first thing, 50 Republican senators in the United States Senate is fighting Build Back Better, which would spend four and a half trillion dollars over the next 10 years.
that would feed the fires of inflation and all fifty republican senators are against it thank god for senator mention mention and senator cinema of uh... of the democratic caucus there against it and that put it kibosh on it and let's say that stops there we are following the recommendation of the uh... outstanding democrat economists larry summers
Secretary of Treasury in the Clinton administration and economic advisor to Obama.
And he said in January, two months before the Democrats passed their first bill back better, two trillion dollars, that was done on a party line vote.
Now,
none of the
rest of their $6 trillion is going to go, but they've already fed the fires of inflation by $2 trillion, and every Republican voted against it.
Larry Summers said in January, two months before they did that, Congress had already spent enough money to fight the virus to help the unemployed that the government put out of a job.
because of shutting down the economy because of the virus and also people lost confidence in the economy when congress did that now we wouldn't do that again we've learned a lot about uh... but uh... we spent a lot of money to get the economy up and running by two christmas ago the economy was going you didn't have to spend any more money to get the economy going the democrats spent two trillion dollars more larry summers said
Don't do it or you're going to have high inflation Nobody believed him.
He said the same thing in April the same thing in August the same thing in October and Now we know that Larry Summers was right was 7% inflation now.
We're at a point Where we hope that Congress doesn't do any more to make the situation worse So that's on the part of Congress now on the part of the the administration
There's two things they can do.
They can get this supply chain thing going.
They haven't done enough to get the ships unloaded in Long Beach in Los Angeles.
There's a hundred ships lined up to get their containers off.
They could go to California and say...
you've got too much truck regulation, get more trucks into California, get more warehousing in California, so we can get these ships unloaded.
And the supply chain is part of the reason we're having inflation, besides government spending.
The other thing is, the Federal Reserve waited too long to stop buying government bonds and mortgages, and they fed the fires of inflation.
Now they finally decided that
that inflation is not transitory, it's here for a long period of time, and they're changing their policies, but they waited too long to do it, but thank God they're finally doing
it.
Oh, folks, John Jacobson here, our segment on American Free Market Enterprise, our spotlight this week, Barbara Hames Bryant.
You know, after watching her parents on Cedar Rapids Waterloo television ads as a young boy a half century ago, so glad to be reunited on Midwestern Radio here with Barbara Haymes Bryant.
You know, over 50 years ago, Kurt Haymes, her decorated World War II Sergeant Major, great patriot father, assigned to lead things over there in Thailand during the war, and her mother,
Corporal Norma Hames, the Indefatigable Norma Hames, a military reporter.
They met there in the war and were entrepreneurial founders after the war of the legendary Hames Mobile Homes, now Hames Homes in Marion, Sea Rapids, Hiawatha, providing high quality affordable housing for untold thousands of families throughout the decades.
Barbara, you and your brother and sister honor your parents' legacy by carrying on and building upon their tradition of excellence.
Welcome.
Thank you, John.
That was a great introduction.
I appreciate it.
Manufactured housing has been getting a bum rap for years.
Everybody thinks about manufactured housing and they think about the old trailer parks and the decrepit homes and the shady people that used to live there.
In fact, today's manufactured homes
are built with the same building materials as site-built homes.
They're just built indoors.
Yes.
So they're a lot less expensive to build.
$128 a square foot to build a site-built home.
Wow.
And it costs $78 a square foot to build a manufactured home.
Wow.
40% less barb.
That's an amazing statistic.
I know.
And they're built with the same materials as site-built homes.
There's a lot less waste when homes are built indoors.
Manufactured homes really are the original green housing.
Barbara, this has just been such a great introduction.
How do folks find out more about the great product line that you have to get people in these wonderful homes?
John, we have a wonderful selection of new and used two, three and four bedroom manufactured homes for sale.
Our sales office is at the corner of Wilson Avenue and West Post Road, Southwest in Cedar Rapids.
Best way to reach us though is online at our website, HamesHomes.com.
That's really easy.
H-A-M-E-S-H-O-M-E-S dot com.
Or we're open seven days a week at the corner of Wilson Avenue and West Post Road, Southwest and Cedar Rapids.
And Barbara, I've driven by your place so many times.
I think I can do it by muscle memory.
So glad you're carrying on this outstanding tradition.
Many things have changed in the city of five seasons over the years, but one rock stands resolute in the iconography of the business landscape, and that is Hames Homes.
Barbara, look forward to visiting with you again next week.
Thank you, John.
It's been a pleasure.
Go to the studio audience.
By audience applause, are you with the senator?
Senator, I got to say this.
Looking at five of us that are sequestered in the studio sound room here, I'm looking at the five of us and none of us
has the body mass index number that you have.
You are in great shape.
We all look like we've been hibernating for seven winters.
And you know, my daughter who's about to be married, the great Breyer Cliff and Boston College girl, she was at an event with you with a bunch of college students.
And this was her comment.
This is why I know that the millennials are voting for Grassley.
She said, Grassley challenged all the guys
to a push-up contest and won.
And then she said, and I, Dave, I know you've heard this from your daughters too.
She said,
He's cute.
So, Senator, how do you beat that?
I mean, if you're getting the beautiful young Miss Jacobson and Miss Overholster, your fiance and my daughter's fiance are kinda jealous when they see these girls say, he's cute and he's in good shape and you guys better start
walking and dieting.
I was gonna say, I'm sure that Senator's suit size is a lot smaller than mine.
Senator, how do you do it?
keeping such great shape.
Is it jeans or is it just a dint of hard effort?
Well, in this cold winter in Iowa, instead of going out on my gravel road at the farm and run this morning when it was below zero, I did a half hour on elliptical, but in Washington, D.C., I go to bed at nine, get up at four, and go two miles six times a week.
to keep in shape that way, but also remember, when you have to go to 99 counties every year to have a Q&A with constituents, and I've done that for 41 years in a row, and I'm in 13 counties so far this year, you have to have a stamina to do that.
Final thought, final question, I'm gonna start it with Pat.
Speaker Pat Grassley, when I was a younger man,
Because I'm old enough to be your father, as you well know, based on my chronological age.
When I was a younger man, I had a grandfather who was a sage.
for me and you know my relationship with him was certainly very different when I was three four five six seven years old eight nine ten it was definitely grandpa gave me a great Christmas present and you know he went out and took us to the park that type of thing but in my adult years I had this great grace and privilege to be able to have
adult conversations and get his advice and talk to him and get his historical perspective and I cherish those so much Pat I cherish those dearly I think of those conversations every day what a blessing for you what's it like and I know you two are absolutely independent
people and your own people, but to be able to draw upon that font of wisdom and genuine decency in Iowa horse sense and Christian values.
What has that been like in such a public arena to have your grandfather there for you?
I just think it's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
Yeah, and I'll I'll I'll give I'll give the senator a hard time I haven't got to do that yet When you said the Christmas presents everybody keep in mind how tight Chuck That was always Barbara Grassley's responsibility John so I don't want to give him too much credit for that But in all seriousness, that's a that's a great question that you ask and You know being hit being elected in 1980 I was born in 1983 so for me it's
It's just your grandfather.
It isn't something that you came into as a young man or something.
You know, that's just, for me, I don't look at him as the United States Senator as much as, you know, having a conversation about the farm.
My dad and I were just over there the other day cutting some trees.
That was his Christmas present from my dad and I trimming some branches and things.
And, you know, those are the kind of...
memories now there's all those tremendous memories involved with politics but you know being very fortunate to have both my grandparents been a part of this journey that I've been on as well and with them together so I totally I totally get that and everyone thinks there's some conspiracy theory of me running for something and Chuck doing this and I get a kick out of it because
We spend more of our time debating who can get better gas mileage in his old Lincoln than what we really do strategizing and planning.
Now, I will say he is my constituent.
So when he calls, I have to make sure that his view is represented.
But he doesn't get preferential treatment just because he's the longest-serving senator in Iowa's history.
You know, a quick follow-up on that.
Speaker Grassley, if, uh, essentially your grandparents are your constituents, if Barbara Grassley calls or Chuck Grassley calls, who do you answer first?
I think everyone in the, uh, under, listen to the blow torch already knows the answer to that one.
Barbara Grassley's in charge.
Is that true, Senator Grassley?
Is that true?
Yeah, yeah,
she's been a big part for 70 years of our marriage and the years that I've been politics She's been a big part of it and helped me get elected.
Yes Well,
it is a great one.
He has a great having a grandson to be able to commiserate with on this This has got to be a proud moment for you to see this in history with Pat be striding across an incredible majority that could even get larger
I'll close with this.
I want people to know, because we were talking about the trouble with the Corps along the Army engineers, I'm going to still fight the Corps for the benefit of Iowans, in particular for life and property.
And I think I can say that I'm one of two grain farmers in the United States Senate, and I've got to speak up for the family.
farmers and i'm going to continue to do that particular now answering all these concerns about how the fertilizer prices can get uh... done and then i want to say that i'm proud of pat uh... for being speaker uh... he was talking about he and i talk in politics uh... when he wanted to run for the legislature he came over to my house and said
something about he was thinking about running for the legislature
i
don't recall uh... previous conversation i ever had about him about politics uh... at all and and i didn't know we had a political brain in his head and he wanted to re-ask me about what i thought about him running for the legislature so i sure uh... glad that he's been successful at it and he's been successful on his own uh... he would tell you that he got to be
I'm chairman of the Appropriations Committee after nine years.
It took me 15 years.
You
tell you that he got to be speaker.
I never got to be speaker.
And so he's been more successful in the state legislature than I was.
And I'm proud of him.
I'll finish with this.
Somebody made some reference that I'm a little bit about Coach Ferrance.
on the sidelines.
I am just like Coach Farron's, except I don't chew gum like
he does.
I will just say, you know, Pat loved to haze me the first time I ran that bill, but Pat, just remember...
that I was voting for your grandfather three years before you were in diapers.
That's very, that's very true.
And I still, I still remember giving you a little bit of a hard time on the floor, but you handled it very well.
I still owe you that lunch.
I think we can do that now.
Hey guys, God bless Senator Chuck Grassley.
Senator, thank you for rejoining the show again.
Who knows, maybe we'll win another IBN A award for this interview.
God bless you.
Good luck and it's really an honor to work alongside you and Pat, Senator Chuck Grassley.
Okay, goodbye everybody.
Staying healthy, keeping healthy during these pandemic days, welcoming back the great ones, Doctors Ted Fogarty and Brad Meyer.
Guys, we had a wonderful segment last week, got great feedback.
Let's continue this discussion.
I'll kick it off to Dr. Fogarty first.
Thanks,
John.
working on our acute concussion program up in Okuboji, but I wanted to just educate the audience on where this all came from.
Dr. Paul Hart at LSU is the world's leading physician in hyperbaric neurological injury recovery systems and protocols.
And as far back as 2013, he actually was working with LSU head football coach Les Miles
on getting their football players into hyperbaric recoveries from concussions.
So this is where this has all come from in my academic work with Dr. Hartz and LSU while I was chair of radiology up at UND in Bismarck, North Dakota.
And so circling back down through the Dakotas and Nebraska into Iowa, when Brad and I got together to create the aeronautics performance clinic, one of our
primary focuses has always been to bring out a concussion program, sports medicine program,
and we've
been rolling that out over the summer, and we're going to get it going in earnest here as we get into the fall football season.
And take it away, Dr. Brad.
Thank you.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's so exciting.
Most people don't realize that there's so much importance in
getting their loved one treated for concussions and most people don't know that there is a treatment for it.
And in the case of this little girl that was in a neighboring community a couple days ago, she's outside and took a...
a barren swing from her brother and who was swinging our aluminum bat and got her right outside of the temple and you know kids in the summertime out having fun and she got in the way of the bat and so she's a little four-year-old mom calls concerned she goes to the emergency department yesterday and we do a neurologic protocol workup to make sure that there's no brain bleed going on once that's determined that there's no you know
active significant brain bleed going on, then there's the cleanup work.
And that's where the ERs oftentimes will just say, go home and rest.
Let that brain cool down.
But we can facilitate that recovery significantly by doing the hyperbaric air therapy.
And in her case, we'll be likely doing about five sessions
and they're about an
hour long.
and this is to recover her brain.
So the next time that she hopefully doesn't get another knock to the head, she's already had complete recovery from a previous concussion.
We've had really good success in the Dakotas with getting student athletes back into achieving high ACT scores, even within a week of an acute severe concussion.
For our number, and I would encourage everyone from 300 miles around to bring...
bring their family members or their concuss family members to the aeronautics performance clinic in spirit lake iowa the phone number is 712-339-6024 and
We're on Facebook at Aeronautics Performance Clinic and on the web at aeronauticsperformance.com.
Aeronautics with an
X. Yes, aeronautics with an X. We'll talk to you again next week.
Fascinating material doctors on helping people post COVID with dementia, with concussions.
Congratulations on the great innovative successes you are having, and we'll talk to you next week.
Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Stein.
His KXEL this week recognized by Governor Reynolds 80th anniversary of the station the first one to broadcast nationwide 50,000 watts clear channel 80 years ago also both mayors see rappers in Waterloo along with Governor Reynolds KXEL day in Iowa congratulations Jeff.
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