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Welcome, welcome all of Eastern Iowa.

This is John Jacobson here.

You're listening to the Jacobson group, which is this awesome ensemble, including Mike Shane, the great one.

And we've got Scott Corey in here in the second chair and coach Patrick J. Knapp Jr., the Georgetown legend on the line with us.

We'll be talking about Hawkeye Sports and Big Ten West, the first part of our program today on this beautiful October harvest time.

autumnal weekend in eastern Iowa some wet and cold but also still some beautiful days left as well Scotty Every week our highlight at mid-show is our chance to visit with Barbara Hames Bryant the matriarch now of the great

Haymes homes started and founded by her illustrious father and mother tremendous tremendous Civic servants and this family now Scott really into four generations Barbara is great to have you back on the show

Thank you, John.

I like that title, Matriarch of the Family Business.

You are, you are.

And you're business, but you're fun too.

We're into October.

It's Halloween season.

You've got these wonderful communities, the different Hames communities of closely networked neighbors and friends.

And what do you have going on for Halloween this season?

Oh, I'm so glad you asked.

We do a big Halloween party every year, and it's on the Saturday before Halloween.

We do it in our community room in Grandview.

And we invite all of the residents and their kids and all the Haynes employees and their kids to come and enjoy an evening of food, prizes, costume contests, and then

We have a hayrack ride over to Summit View where one of our residents has set up her own haunted house in our community room.

It's a big hit with all of our residents.

And we do this at no charge to our residents whatsoever.

It's like a resident appreciation party.

Oh, this is great, Barbara.

You know, reminds me of a Crate University Halloween party that I went to as an undergrad.

My now wife.

I think I impressed her deep down, although she wouldn't admit it.

She's a die-hard Husker fan, but when I walked in that party dressed like Hayden Frye, with my sunglasses, my fake mustache, my white corduroy pants, and my black tiger logo hawk jacket, I think I had her.

Well, that would attract any woman that I know.

Barbara, what's attractive about the Hame Somes is we're on the cusp of a recession right now.

prices are skyrocketing in many areas.

It's harder to finance super expensive homes because of the increase in interest rates.

Right now you feel a perfect gap for folks who are looking for safe, very aesthetically well-built and pleasing, spacious homes at

affordable pricing, which means that the financing is also doable.

I think you're just shooting the gap beautifully right now.

Address that for us a little bit, please.

We've had a lot of folks come in and inquire about our products.

There are a number of families.

empty nesters, first-time home buyers that have never actually considered manufactured housing as an option.

But they look at site-built homes and the outrageous prices and

the

big yards to mow and the stairs to go up and down and look at a manufactured home all on one level, which costs half what it costs to build a site-built home and they think, I can do this.

This is doable.

And we are seeing a lot of traffic from people like that.

Yeah, I think necessity is the motherhood of invention.

And again, these homes have come so far.

They were great when Kurt and Norma were marketing them half of a century ago, but the technology, the efficiencies, Barbara, the safety and the soundness.

And frankly, these are just beautiful homes and you've got communities where these

where folks move into, I think the affordability factor for young families really brings us front and center to being on the list of, you know, we should really check into this.

The affordability is a huge factor, but what also is important to people are what you said, safe, attractive neighborhoods.

I'm looking out my office window right now, and I'm looking at beautiful trees, changing colors, you know, pristine yards, folks that take pride in their homes, kids getting on and off the school bus.

It just makes me so proud.

to be part of the Haynes family and all that we've accomplished in three generations.

You know, Barbara, folks are wanting to take a look at the inventory list that you have.

Is there a website or a Facebook page or a telephone number they can get ahold of you and schedule a tour?

Absolutely.

Our website is HaynesHomes.com.

Our full inventory of homes is listed on our website with the pricing.

We're very transparent.

People can also visit us at the corner of Wilson Avenue and West Post Road Southwest in Cedar Rapids seven days a week.

Wilson Avenue and West Post Road Southwest.

Our sales office is open and our friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable sales staff is here to help everyone.

You know, Barb, we love you all over Iowa.

You're also

well-known across the state, for many of you who don't know this, Barb chairs a large statewide federation of women involved in civics.

And so Barb, your name carams all the way over to the Omaha Council Bluffs area, up to Sioux City, down to Shenandoah.

We just appreciate you and your families now fourth generation of service in providing

homes to people the most basic fundamental need of all of us who are at walk on this planet.

We must stay involved.

There's no doubt about it.

What goes on in politics is important to our family.

It's important to everyone and we encourage everyone to educate themselves.

And there's an election coming up, folks.

It's on November the 8th and it's very important.

We like being involved with our residents.

We like helping them out.

And we also like being involved in the public and politics and creating good government.

Barbara, the exact year that your dad and mom started was around 69, am I correct?

Yes, it was 1969.

It was the year that Hey Jude was the number one hit of the year from the Beatles.

It's the year that we went to the moon with Apollo 11.

It was a very important year.

It was also Woodstock.

Presidents come and go, Hames Homes, like a bulwark, bestriding the earth like a colossus, perdures and flourishes, Barbara Hames Bryant.

You know, if we play trivial

pursuit, I want you on my team.

You've also gone through several popes.

Hames is the rock of manufactured homes.

Go see these great guys in Cedar Rapids.

Thank you, Barbara Hames Bryant for joining us again today.

It's always a pleasure, John.

Have a great weekend.

You too.

Enjoy the bye week.

The Hawks can't lose this week, Barbara.

Thank God.

Barbara Hames Bryant, guys, you're listening to us on Dr. Jeff Stein's KXEL, that 50,000 watt blowtorch, caroming across all the big 10 states in the Midwest on 1540 AM.

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Scott I'm so excited it's another weekend of college football and boy are we on the precipice this is a hinge point of a season.

There are people unhappy, not just in Iowa City, but in alumni land across the United States.

We got Coach Knapp in with us.

Let's talk about this.

I have not seen a point like this in the Iowa program for a quarter century.

Scott, I suppose the last time was when I saw Hayden Fry's last victory in 1998.

Against Northwestern to even the season up at three and three which is where the Hawks are now and then lost the last five games Hayden leaves not on top, but at three and eight with a cancer diagnosis, of course, gratefully we had coach fire with us for another 20 years Almost and a magnificent legacy in coaching tree, but

There'll be trouble in Iowa City, Scotty Corey.

You sure is, John.

And coach, thanks for joining us today.

But the best thing about this weekend in Iowa football land is Brian Ference's play calling and Spencer Petrus' quarterbacking cannot hurt us this weekend.

We are on a bye week.

We have to get ready for a big showdown next week in the Columbus against Ohio State, which Fox has been declaring.

of a big noon but coach nap there is a lot of angst right now and hawkeye land brian ferrance and the other assistants phil parker levar woods met the iowa media this week due to the bye week uh brian's press conference i'll just say was not not well done at all uh came across very defensive if not borderline arrogant uh coach what would your thoughts be going into this and how are we going to get through this season as a hawkeye fan

I knew it was going to be a tough season, but I did not expect this.

Well, I don't know why Fox has Ohio State Iowa for their big noon game.

I don't get it.

There are other games, particularly in the Big Ten West that would be extremely competitive and offensive minded and fun to watch.

I don't know how

Iowa fans get through it.

I believe there are not many answers.

I certainly am not interested in disparaging any of the young men.

They're going to try and do their best.

But there's not enough talent, particularly at quarterback.

There's not enough ingenuity at the offensive end.

There's not enough skill players, particularly wide outs.

Hey, I'm doing my research for Purdue, Nebraska, and Charlie Jones.

Oh,

coach,

you're going to kill us.

You're killing us,

coach.

You're

killing us.

Tell us anyway, but you're killing us.

Yeah.

50 receptions, 803 yards, 12 yards per catch.

And I think 10 TDs.

Folks, just

for those that might have a slight memory lapse, Charlie Jones was a Hawkeye who transferred this season to the portal to Purdue just as backdrop.

Please continue, coach.

Well, I just think it's going to be a long haul.

The conversation we had last week on our Saturday show is really at propo.

Can they get the six wins?

And how will they do that?

You know, coach, one thing that really concerns me right now is that, you know, John alluded to the last year of Hayden Frye, but this year under Curt Ference, you know, we have the talent.

We have a tremendous defense.

We have an excellent special teams going on right now.

It's the offense that seems to be holding back the team.

And I'm very concerned that as a, you know, we could see a split in the team, not necessarily publicly, but we could see some guys in the defense saying, you know what, I don't want to come out here and risk a bunch.

injury just because the offense can't produce anything I'm gonna go somewhere else and how does the coaches keep everybody in line even though the offense has been basically a national punching bag right now

well it's difficult because Kirk Farron's obviously has been very successful for 20 plus years and he knows the complimentary football wins

so there

has to be three portions of the game working in sync

And the offense is not.

And we know there's quite a conundrum there, his son being the OC.

But you are right, Sky.

The defense and special teams, those guys and coaches take quite a bit of pride in what they do.

you know one thing we have to also consider to coach is that you know that we basically have to have another recruiting cycle every year with your current team because of the portal and everything like that you know what would you suggest the coaches say not only on the defense and the special teams but the offense and guys here's what we're doing in the next year you know stick with us we got some help coming in we got some tremendous recruits coming in on the offensive line next year you know how do you make that sale when you're just

being disparaged week in and week out on national television.

And guys, before Coach answers that, I just want to remind some of our newer listeners in eastern Iowa that Coach Knapp, not only...

was one of the founding coaches that really brought parity in women's division one athletics nationwide with major college sports, particularly basketball, where he was both at New Mexico State as head coach, University of Pennsylvania as head coach and Georgetown as a championship head coach, winning over 250

Big East Games coach, you kind of been in that seat before continue to talk to us about this.

Well, you're going to have to let the players know that they're improving incrementally.

You know, in house, you're going to have to make sure you buffer their spirits.

But yes, recruiting is daily in college athletics.

Now it's daily.

I just met with our women's basketball coach the other day in the Mexico state.

We can get into that later.

But one of the conversations was on recruiting.

And it's a daily thing.

And these kids know it too.

They know it through Twitter.

They know it through Instagram, TikTok.

They know who's looking at what, who's doing what.

I would definitely have to step up their offensive recruiting and keep special teams and defensive guys in the mix because they do know this.

These special team and D guys know this.

They do know that they are looked at by the pros.

They do know that they'll get drafted.

They do know there's a great reputation there so they can move on from there.

But the offense, hey look, we're spinning our wheels here.

The offense is the key.

Scheme, talent, wide outs, players with great skill, they're missing a few of those.

you know that's a great point coach that it's just an ongoing process now we're basically in the wild wild west of recruiting especially with NIL and we're seeing kids you know leaving programs in the middle of season to take a red shirt because they're going to go somewhere else and

It's going to be interesting to see how Kirk can revamp his image going forward.

Now, he's done it a couple of times where he's revamped.

You know, we look at what happened after the 2014 season.

He made the change to C.J.

Bethard at quarterback and then he went on a tear through the Big Ten and, you know, went undefeated in the regular season.

But at some point, are we going to be facing what I call Ferris fatigue?

That's the one thing that concerns me a little bit is that, you know, he's been in Iowa and he's put out a great program for 24 years.

But at some point, you know, the Iowa boosters and fans saying, well, look at Kansas, you know, look at, you know, some of these other programs across the state or across the nation.

What do we do?

Well, there's no doubt with the way coaches are being let go and the money that's being spent and the turnover that's taking place particularly in the Big Ten itself with Wisconsin and Nebraska, there will be a hankering for change.

I don't think there's any doubt about that.

But see, these guys have done this before.

If the defense is solid and they're turning out pros and special teams is great and they're turning out pros,

The next step is, well, I'm making changes on the offensive end.

However, we know that it's a very delicate situation there with his son being the OC.

So these guys have done this all over the country.

Well, these two areas are great.

I need to make a change here.

Sorry, my man.

I got to call you and make a change.

Yeah.

Here with coach Patrick Jane F. Jr.

John Jacobson here with Scott Corey, Mike Shane at the studio.

So coach, just a little levity here, but.

you understand I know from your recruiting in the Midwest that a lot of Iowa Hawkeye fans are also Chicago Barris fans and I think if you don't want to give any offense trick or treating this year and you don't want to

You know offend anybody or give any offense just dressed as a Hawkeye or a bear because they have no offense

Oh, man, it is just brutal.

I don't know.

I was talking to my good friend Chad We're texting back and forth garden the game last night and Let's just say it wasn't Chad shout out to Chad Yeah, and it was not Pete.

It was not PGA rated based on the offensive capabilities last two weeks from Iowa City or Chicago

coach up So again, what's your take on?

Let's just segue to Iowa and Bears fans.

What do they do to cope with the long season, coach?

I didn't even watch that game last night.

I didn't want to give Amazon the pleasure.

They look like Clemson in those

orange uniforms.

It doesn't look like the Bears with orange Clemson uniforms on, my goodness.

I did see that highlight and I was, I was a little shocked at that.

Actually that game I should have watched just to see how Kirk Herb Street did.

Little worried about Herbie in the pro side of things.

But anyway, it's a long season.

I say you get the bourbon and the vodka and you mix it up and you bring it.

You bring it in your flat.

Yeah, that's a great point.

And I think about that halfway through the second quarter, Al Michaels was starting to hit the bottle a little bit because he had had enough of what was going on there.

So

he looks a little weather beaten.

Yes.

Can you believe Al's going to be 78 years old coach?

Can you believe that?

Well,

God bless him.

Great job.

He is.

He's in

good shape.

He's in good shape, I tell you.

Herbie looks a little heavier than he did when he was doing some of those ABC nightgames a decade ago.

Yeah, he sure does.

And, you know, talking a little bit about Herb Street, you know.

There's kind of a big change going on right now at ESPN with your game day, Lee Corsel, the Sunshine Scooter.

He's been missing a couple weeks and hopefully it sounds like he's gonna be back here before too long, but he's been such an icon for college football for basically a generation coach.

ESPN's not kind of doing a little bit of a change too, not only with Herb Street doing Thursday night football, but no Lee Corsel.

Well, and how about Coach Fox with Terry Branstad struggling visibly

Then the next week having to explain why he was just off the beaten path there He has been battling a couple cancer diagnoses We've got these great iconic figures, but you can almost sense the shifting of an era in a way.

Can't you coach?

Yeah, you can there will always be change game day is such an institution.

I think it's a great production Herb Street is a natural.

I mean stuff just

flows from his brain on every coach and system and player.

I'm not saying that on Thursday night football at all.

Very stagnant to me.

Yeah, it almost kind of reminds you that season where the Monday night football brought in Dennis Miller for that one season.

It is just not a really good rhythm going on

right now for

Thursday night football on Amazon.

But you know, talking about rhythm, you know, I was fortunate to have Gary Dolphin and Ed Potolac.

And we were joking last week, you know, with all the medicinal cannabis commercials that Potolac's been doing.

Maybe he needs to have a little bit more going on in Iowa City and maybe he ships them over.

chicago too just to help him get through the games

you know he started out with mother polax chili we've morphed into cannabis now about every other commercial on the radio america's a great

country it's a great

country as a coach and you can you can mix the cannabis with

the

chili?

John Jacobson here with Mike Shane Scott Corey

And coach Patrick J. Knapp Jr.

on the Jacobson Group on KXEL, AM and FM, the 50,000 watt blowtorch, Kerming, all throughout Eastern Iowa, as well as every state in the Big Ten, with possible exception of Maryland and Rutgers.

Well, they can get us online though.

That's true, KXEL.com.

And before too long, we're going to be in the California footprint too with the Big Ten expansion coach.

Yeah, Coach, what are you hearing over there?

Rick Newdaisel did a interview and he works for CPF.

of sports the other day where he said basically lost in an argument where it's done deal.

I know Scotty, you and I have texted about this.

What about Stanford and Cal?

How big of, you know, how much, how much do you want to split up the pie when it comes to the finances?

How big is big?

And the other thing I just heard the other day, and this, this made most of the sports reports was that

They're looking to do the 12 team playoffs in 2024.

Wow.

Wow.

That would

be huge.

Any longer, but 2024.

Wow.

Yeah.

And you know, we had some breaking news over this last couple of evenings here where Kevin Warren did an article with Sports Illustrated.

He kind of took Big Ten expansion off the table right now according to the article because I think he wants to focus on this playoff.

But you know, with the college football playoff that is going to be changed, you know, ESPN has been holding the rights for it.

Fox wants in on it.

NBC once in on it.

It's going to be interesting to see how this plays out.

And I think one of the keys is going to be having the first round on some of these college campuses.

I think that would be huge for

the

sport.

Don't you coach?

That'll be fun.

That will absolutely be fun.

There'll be more skin in the game with 12 teams.

ESPN's stance on all this will be very interesting because they came up short.

With the early round of negotiations, Big Ten, and the multiple networks that the Big Ten brought in to get their payday, ESPN, why wouldn't they just take the whole kit and caboodle?

That will be very interesting to see how the TV writes.

Pan out there.

Yeah, then you have to also factor into is what the new bowl system will look like as well And you know some of these lower tier bowls just might go away like the sasperilla bowl or whatever you have the cheese at bowl You know the great Iowa State victory they had like two years ago.

I'm sorry for Iowa State fans.

The cheese at bowl is gonna be gone No

more cheese, it's oh wow

But it's going to be interesting to see how this all shakes out.

And I think it actually breeds new life into college football.

It's almost kind of like the NFL where, you know, even though you have the playoff, you have a pretty good idea of, you know, you got X number of spots to fill and you just don't quite know who it's going to be.

Well, you know, what's interesting with the playoff, but let's talk about this year's playoff in four teams.

I'm already hearing that if Tennessee beats Alabama,

and if Mississippi State continues to run the table, you could have three SEC teams in this year's four-team playoff.

So, make no mistake, with 12 teams, the big conferences

We'll get more than two somebody will get more than two and they're very happy about

that.

Yeah, and you talk about that I think if you saw three teams from the SEC and the playoff I think college football fans would basically want to burn it all to the ground immediately because We've always had to deal with the SEC ESPN bias

and

it's gonna be pretty hard to make that sell I would think that the ratings would probably tank on that wouldn't you

well, it's I think

particularly Mississippi State and Tennessee are extremely exciting football teams.

I'd like to see one of them break into the party.

But the Big Ten still has Michigan and Penn State who would vie for a second or a third team to play off as well.

Yeah, that is tremendous out going out there, but there's so much other things going on to coach Well, you know, we have what's going on in Wisconsin where they fired Chris here not too long ago and I you know, Nebraska They fired the frost it's got frost regime here.

It's ironic that they got rid of him before any frost warnings that took effect in Nebraska But you know, there's gonna be a lot of turmoil in the big 10 you talked about the West is wide open and we have I hate to say it we have a first-place showdown

This Saturday, with Nebraska in Purdue, the winner will be running the table basically on the Big Ten West to be the representative in Indianapolis.

Wow, that's amazing, isn't it?

Purdue, a 13-and-a-half point favorite.

Obviously, explosive offense, Aiden O'Connell at the helm, 10 TDs.

Charlie Jones, the aforementioned Charlie Jones, having a great year.

Nebraska's defense is the problem.

We all know that.

They have a very difficult time stopping the pass.

And that doesn't bode well when you're playing against Purdue.

I'd say Purdue in this game.

We were joking off the air a couple days ago.

Could you imagine a team that had Phil Parker's defense, LeVar Woods' special teams, and a Nebraska offense?

They'd be world beaters.

Phil Parker's defense can stand up anywhere, right?

In any league.

And so it's just tremendous how Mickey Jones has turned that around.

And, you know, John, we talked about it, too.

We have some Husker fans in your neck of the woods, too.

Who would have thought after that beating that they took a couple weeks ago in Memorial Stadium, the last game that Scott Frost had, that Nebraska be in first place?

Yeah, the joy might be a little early in its celebratory nature because the two teams that they've defeated

back-to-back are the two weakest teams in the Big Ten.

They have a brutal schedule remaining, although...

I could see Iowa Nebraska both at five and six playing that last game in Iowa City this year for

the but for the Bulber that's very possible to you know that Black Friday showdown at Kinneck Stadium and so coach there is a lot riding on the next couple of weeks Iowa has no favors going in we got to go into the horseshoe but then we have to basically run the Big Ten West gamut we have a very strong Minnesota team we have Pat Fitzgerald's Northwestern team that always gives Kurt Ferenc trouble and we start

to play Purdue in Nebraska.

So there is no easy out for Iowa the next couple of weeks.

I don't see Iowa getting to six and six.

I know we've gone back and forth with some of these predictions, but the offense just doesn't get any better.

And it doesn't give them a chance against some of these teams as you look at the schedule.

Purdue, you know, Kim Leonard at Wisconsin is going to make a statement.

watch them this week.

He's going to make a statement

to keep

that job.

And so, Coach,

you talk about... Minnesota has a very powerful offense.

It's going to be tough for Iowa going down the stretch.

Coach, we talked about these coaching changes, but it's basically the two interim coaches at Wisconsin and Nebraska.

If they win out or have a good showing and go to a bowl game, are they going to be the head coaches at each respective program?

I think Leonard is going to get every opportunity.

He's a favorite son.

He has done well there as an assistant.

Obviously, he's got to get them back on the offensive grinder, or he won't be there.

But I think he'll get the best opportunity.

Nebraska, I believe, will go big outside.

So if you're Nebraska and you're thinking, go big, who do you think?

Well, Bob.

That rule is open.

They're going to look at the Kansas State coach.

They're going to look at the Kansas coach.

They're going to go down the list.

I don't think there's any doubt about that.

Speaking of rumors, popped up on my screen the other day with Scott Frost.

is rumored for Arizona State.

Oh, yes.

That would just be amazing for him to go down there to that dumpster fire.

I mean, Arizona State, they're basically an SEC school with the way they do their compliance.

They don't care.

They

have

the bags

of money just

sitting around.

And they could be in the Mountain West any year now, too.

Oh, my.

Man, oh man, that is something I can't wait to have you tell that to Chip Reedman and a couple of other guys the Murphy's they will they will lose their mind

Well, you know, you know, it was young sports it popped up on my screen.

What can I say?

Coach we had kind of a really

Neat thing happened at the end of Major League Baseball.

A couple of great stories this year.

What impacted you most?

It was very poignant to see a young man like Judge and an old man like Poo Holes.

Your reflections on this MLB season.

Well, I was rooting for Aaron Judge as I hope many people were.

He did get to 62.

And now it's all about the Yankees maneuvering through the playoffs.

I still think they're going to have a problem.

with Cleveland, but Albert Pohlholz and Yachty Molina, his 20-year partner at Ketcher for the Cardinals, both ended their careers with base hits in the last inning against my Philadelphia Phillies, yet the Cardinals could not pull it off and the Phillies moved on and

they're

now playing the Braves.

I'll tell you what, the Houston Astros are a big story.

This guy, you're not Alvarez, who reminds me of Willie McCovey is bombing away.

Wow.

Big home runs in two games.

And the Dodgers in San Diego Padres are playing.

They're tied.

Phillies and Braves are tied.

So there's some great baseball this weekend as well.

You know, as you were talking a little bit about the end of the baseball season and, you know, just I'm not a Catholic at all, John.

You know, I'm a Lutheran.

And so I know I'm going to have it no matter what because I suffered so much on her.

I'm a Cubs fan.

I like the Chicago Bears and I'm dealing with the Iowa

offense right now.

No, wait.

Stop here, Scotty.

I got to come back at you for this.

Isn't watching the Iowa offense this year a potential proof that purgatory does exist somewhere?

You

know, after, after seeing some of the, some of the play, I would probably have to agree with you on that one.

I think as we get closer to Reformation Sunday, we should have more of an in-depth discussion about that.

Well, you and I are united and not liking those cheating Irish, but Coach Loves is fighting Irish, don't you Coach?

You were there for a while.

Yeah, I saw them against

BYU.

How'd they look?

You were there.

You are a reporter in the stands.

Tell me how the Irish look this year.

We have a lot of Irish fans in Eastern Iowa.

you know, so-called subway alumni.

They are getting much better.

They are getting much better.

They play this weekend against Stanford on the Peacock Network.

So nobody will watch that.

But they're getting much better.

Some part of the quarterback.

Mike Myer at tight end is an absolute first round pick and a pro.

Good running game.

I think Marcus Freeman has turned around the ship.

You know, he talked a little bit about that.

You know, it's you talk about these coaches on a hot seat.

You know, he was on a hot seat there for a couple weeks.

He was his

first season

based on the bull loss and then going 0 and 2 here at the front end.

Yeah.

And so it's going to be interesting to see how he navigates this off season as well.

And I think he's going to be one of those up and coming coaches that you look at maybe jumping to the NFL maybe in four to five years.

The word from Irish land is that they're recruiting.

has been amazing that all the five stars, or many I should say, are looking at Notre Dame or have committed for next year and the year after.

They

have a couple games they should win right now, Stanford and UNLV.

Then they're at Syracuse, then Clemson at home.

That will tell the tale of their season.

They're not a playoff team.

But can they go 10, 2, 9 and 3?

They could probably go 9 and 3 and be in the New Year's Day.

Well, if that happens, John Jacobson is going to have a stroke because, you know, deep down in all the grief he talks about the Irish, we know he has a leprechaun hanging in the bedroom somewhere.

I sent you a picture of the morning.

Yes, you did.

Yes, you did.

Well, you know, people.

Not a lot of people do know this, but despite my antipathy toward the Notre Dame football game, I wonder what my grandfather would say about my wise-acre-ing on the microphone here, because my grandfather in Clinton, Iowa in the 1920s actually did fundraising for Newt Rockney, coach.

Can you believe that?

That's amazing.

That's great.

College football is so storied, isn't it, coach?

It's a lot of fun.

The traditions are important.

The stadiums, the locations, the student bodies.

It's a lot of fun unless you're watching paint dry in Iowa City.

Funny thing, the smoke coming out of both Scots and my chimneys is we don't live terribly far away from each other.

It's kind of like the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, except the smoke is neither white nor black.

It's blue.

It is the blue of some of our colorful metaphors that emanate through the Ethosphere, Scotty.

It sure is, John.

You know, it's just one of those things where we're just trying so hard to encourage Brian to actually turn the page on the playbook and maybe try something a little bit different we see between a three yard out when you need five yards to get the first down.

Well, I'm going to tell you is whenever my

The boss suggests I do something at work.

Coach Knapp, my response from here on out is going to be, what's the upside?

Yeah, yeah, what's the upside?

But next time Naomi tells me to go mow the lawn and be like, what's the upside?

I love that Brian quote.

I mean, that's the quote of the week.

Don't you think, Coach?

Yeah, keep

taking upside there, buddy.

Guys, this has been a thrilling half hour with the one, the only, the inimitable, the great.

Patrick J. Knapp, Jr., coming to us from the, he doesn't live next to Art Bell, but he does come to us from the desert region of the United States.

He's a big shot at New Mexico State University, kind of where he started his career and coming full circle.

See, Scotty, you can go home again.

You can, you know, he's kind of a rainmaker.

He's one of those guys that does the, moving and shaking down there in the collegiate athletics, and you're kind of connected a little bit with some of the folks in the Pac-12 and the Big Ten, aren't you, Coach?

Yeah, we get word from them.

I get to speak to my AD from time to time.

And like I said, as we look at conference alignment, Pac-12 teams in the West, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Arizona State,

where

they fall is a big discussion because we're still looking to maybe get into the Mountain West one of these days.

So yeah, we're tied into it.

Well, that's great.

Of course, folks know that Coach and Scotty and I have employment outside of our

radio Enterprises I'm a trust officer in banking and Scotty what I'm gonna do Starting next week after we've enjoyed these weekend radio shows up I'm gonna spiff up and update the nepotism policy at our bank just to just tighten that up Make sure we don't have any issues there

that would probably be a good idea and the you know the nice thing about the what I do You know I do with some farming on the

sides farmer mr. Thomas Jefferson Yeah,

and the nice thing of between farming in the Iowa offense is when you get done with farming you can wash this

Stinkoff

again tonight.

Coach Knapp, thanks for joining us.

We'll have you back again next week.

Really great to have you.

I did a good work, everybody.

Have a great weekend.

On KXEL, that's Coach Patrick J. Knapp, Jr.

John Jacobson here with Scott Corey in studio with Mike Shane on KXEL, the 50,000 watt blowtorch curming across the Midwest, America's first Clear Channel 50,000 broadcast 80 years ago, celebrating our 80th year, 1540 AM, 100.5 FM and listening live and by archive on kxel.com.

John Jacobson, your show host, the Jacobson group, and we have some breaking news.

Let's bring up that new sound.

under Mike Shane.

Breaking news here on KXEL This Weekend.

We have with us

three esteemed, accomplished, published medical scholars.

We've got them right here in our Midwestern United States.

Two are at a conference in Missouri right now.

One is writing the Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado planes.

We have with us guys, Dr. Ted Fogarty, Dr. Brad Meyer, Dr. David Hartsuch, all MDs,

And we've got this ongoing story that we've been bringing to you, these series of features, this in-depth series over the last few weeks, Scott Corey, of what I put under the mantle of medical freedom.

But I certainly believe that people need to be held accountable for some of the misdeeds done to the citizenry during this whole

COVID debacle, Scott.

And we need to hold people accountable and get the truth out to people about what's going on.

You know, absolutely, John.

You know, that's one of the things that we're going to be a sad history of what took place over the last couple of years in this country with the COVID lockdowns and things like that.

But the doctors have been leading the forefront on the battle to push back.

And I'd like to get their thoughts on what they've been up to right now on the basically the medical freedom and getting the bottom of what Dr. Fauci and the health and humans.

services departments have been up to.

Scotty is perfect how you just introduced that because I think there's a fulcrum or a hinge point around which this discussion can begin today and that's this idea of

informed consent goes all the way back to Nuremberg and even predates that it's something that if not de jure law has been de facto law is best practices is course of dealing and we've had a rupture with that so I'm going to start out with dr. Ted Fogarty and then we'll move across the plains to Meyer and to heart such guys pick up the mantle here informed consent I'm really worried

Well, let me just kind of describe the football field here between the Hawkeyes and the Huskers and the Great Missouri River But that is really going on between law and medicine

and this is dr. Fogarty for our radio listeners You'll get used to these voices this dr. Ted Fogarty first up here

Right, so it's really a big political football match here between lawyers and doctors and even to the state attorney general.

When you

have Nebraska's attorney general coming out and defending the practice of medicine and advocating for our physicians to be writing prescriptions for ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine and right across the river you have

an attorney general's office that has two deputy attorney generals in Iowa that are at every Iowa board meeting and they have literally they're sticking these dogs these dogs that are investigators out of the state of Iowa after the greatest positions in the state of Iowa who led the charge out of this pandemic treating people

for COVID with hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin which includes my partner Bradley Meyer at Fogarty and Meyer PLC of Okeboji Spirit Lake Iowa and Dr. David Hartsuch who's on the east side of the state.

Yeah you guys are river to river border to border in Iowa.

Yes and let's not leave out our good friend Lee Merrick who who in my hometown of Omaha

led the charge against these abusive practices of putting masks on people.

And so when we get down to, you know, what the Fogarty is really going on and who needs to get the bird, it's Attorney General Miller

and

his team who are backing the Iowa Board of Medicine going after the...

actually the physicians who actually performed informed consent for vaccines, for cautiously going into this pandemic like Dr. Meijer, when he when he was working across state lines with me and his health care team based out of South Dakota literally fired him for saving lives in Northwest Iowa for giving

informed consent for these vaccines which have been a total experiment to the point that millions of people are actually now dead because of these vaccines.

And the life insurance companies in America are coming out with that.

And there are now global physician powerhouses who are starting to realize and have a come to Jesus that, oh my goodness, especially in cardiology, we were wrong.

We need to stop all of these vaccines right now.

That is now going on internationally.

Dr. Fogarty, if I can just, can I just interject for a second?

We're here with Dr. Fogarty.

Dr, it's not like you guys are out of some corner.

You guys literally, you guys got CARES funding because of the efficacy of your treatments.

The feds paid money because you are right, correct?

Absolutely, John.

The North Dakota Ag Commissioner gave a $5,000 grant to me and my team in the fall of 2020 to come up with anti-pandemic protocols, medical countermeasures based in hyperbaric physics,

and new pharmaceutical, designer new pharmaceutical immune system support considerations that I put together out of this whole big monopoly of what we would call 21st century mitochondrial medicine.

You know, Doctor, kind of explain just a little bit about what informed consent means, and this isn't just something you guys pulled out of the thin air, you know, last six months.

This has been going on for decades in this country, hasn't it?

Yeah, let's go to Heart Such here, because Heart Such served in our Iowa legislature in the Iowa Senate, and Doctor, you're right now with Dr. Brad Meyer in Missouri at that conference.

Maybe you and Brad can talk a little bit about this.

This is really important, and you and I had even talked about this last night with some of the show prep.

Thanks, John.

This is Dr. David Hartstich, former Iowa State Senator from the Quad Cities.

Go, Doc.

Yes, so Brad Meyer and I are down at the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, D.D., Springfield, Missouri, today.

And I'm going to be speaking about informed consent.

And it stems from the idea of bodily integrity.

It's embodied in our Constitution.

We can't have cruel and unusual punishment.

No searches and seizures, you know, integrity of our person.

and also you can't be denied life, liberty or pursuit without due process.

And it's also in our Iowa constitution as well.

But informed consent involves three things.

One is the knowledge of the risks, benefits and alternative treatments.

In other words, every patient has a right to know the risks, benefits and alternative treatments.

In fact, I would charge every person that is

talking to their doctor, ask them directly, what are the risks, benefits, and alternative treatments.

And in the case of the vaccine, the boards have undertook an attempt to undermine that informed consent of patients with regard to the vaccine.

They're going after anybody who talks about the risks, lack of efficacy, or alternative treatments, or even go about treating the disease.

Because from the government's point of view, this is perfectly safe.

There are no side effects, perfectly efficacious.

In fact, we're not going to be able to, from their point of view, we're not going to put a dent in this pandemic until everybody is vaccinated, including all pregnant women, children, everybody.

And then finally, since they have a view that there are no alternative treatments, then anybody who is treating COVID at all.

is contrary to the narrative of the government.

I'll just inject here before Brad also joins us formally.

As a legislator, I have seen your track records, respectively.

You guys were the most effective people treating this at the front end.

And I'm just absolutely flummoxed at why you have the targets on your backs and at the intransigence at the Board of Medicine to move off of this, particularly when the data is now bending in your direction about the efficacies of your treatments as well as some of the risks of the mRNA.

This just is a pervasive...

Uh, vexation for me and you guys got to be frustrated beyond belief.

John,

can I

speak real quick?

Yeah, sure.

We really need to defund these investigators.

These law enforcement officials that are literally part of part of the Iowa Board of Medicine staff.

I agree.

I agree.

The chief, the chief investigator was trained how to do her investigation by a non governmental organization called the Federation of State Medical Boards, which has an $85 million a year budget.

that is controlling all of these boards of medicine from outside of each state legislature.

And the state legislators need to defund all of these ancillary staff people on all of these boards, especially in Iowa, who are wasting state dollars going after the people with integrity in medicine.

And I'll turn it over to Brad.

Well, thanks, Dr. Floregaise.

This is Dr. Brad Meyer, folks.

Now, the third of the trifecta here, Brad Meyer.

Right.

So as a family physician, clinician, boots on the ground when this pandemic started, I was treating patients in the clinic as well as in the hospital on the floor of the hospital.

And so, you know, as well, I was working with patients in the state of Iowa and beyond with telemedicine treating COVID-19.

So I consider myself an expert in the management of COVID-19.

It touched me on many levels and I got to look the patients in the eyes on the floor and see when their ivermectin orders were cancelled that I ordered.

They didn't even get that choice.

These are the kind of things that that's my why.

That's what fuels my fire.

These

patients never had adequate informed consent.

I try multiple times the

especially with the vaccine, I would say, hey, this is an emergency use authorization vaccine.

It's got unproven efficacy and the safety data is right out of the chute, I was concerned because we just didn't have the long-term data on it.

And so the food shot of Sioux Falls and that hospital corporation told me that you're going to confuse the community

if you are not going along with pushing this COVID vaccine, essentially, they said confuse the community.

And I was giving proper informed consent.

And that said, I said, you know, it's ultimately your decision, what you want to do.

But it is my ethical responsibility to inform you that this is a poorly tested experiment.

gene therapy and you know and so for that you get you get the ire of the agencies, the government, the hospital corporations, they come after any physician innovator that is trying to

use our brain and reason and say, hey, there's more to early treatment.

And there is early treatment for COVID-19 when everybody else was saying, no, there is no early treatment.

Just come in and, you know, lips blue and there's not much else to do.

So, you know, informed.

And the big, the big other thing is down here, don't, we were just with Andy Shapley.

He's an attorney with the American Academy of Positions Surgeon.

just an incredible individual and an incredible track record.

And he said, you know, the other side is still working and we can't get complacent just as much as the medical board is still coming after doctors that reached out and tried to give patients safe alternatives.

These agencies, these boards are still coming after.

The heroic doctors across

and it's a it's maddening to me as a conservative Republican Legislature later that in Iowa where we think we've been a state that generally has repelled Some of the madness and kept things open and not close it down that in our deep deep administrative state agencies It's the bad guys that are still in charge.

We've got a trifecta of state government and the deep state agencies

are still reviling you guys.

And it's just that this story needs to get out because I've given him 10 months and there's not enough movement.

This is absolutely ridiculous.

I think it has to be pointed out that according to the board's own rules, they are required to uphold the idea of informed to the sense.

The patients don't get informed consent.

The boards are supposed to step in and make sure they get it.

Yeah, Doc, you hoist them on their own peter.

That's right in their rules, informed consent.

It is.

They are required to do that.

That's what they do.

However, in this case, they've decided to go the opposite way and deny informed consent by suppressing information, which would be contrary to their view.

That's the direct opposition to their own rules.

and it's

also bad medicine.

And here's where the bad medicine really happens, Sean.

When you've had COVID, you've mounted a response, and then you have doctors telling you you still need to have a vaccine.

That's absolutely the most egregious practice in the history of medicine and in this country, that people are getting vaccinated after they've already mounted the defense to a full complement of the genes of the coronavirus.

I mean, this is backwards.

Another example is pregnant women, vaccination of pregnant women.

The position of the Center for Disease Control is that it's safe in pregnancy.

However, if you look at the group of women who are vaccinated in the first trimester of pregnancy, in one study, in fact, the CDC's own data showed that 70% of the women who were vaccinated in the first trimester went on to miscarry.

And so, in reality, it appears that this is a better border fasten than it is a vaccine.

Dr. Meyer I'd like to get your opinion.

You know talk to the our listeners out there How do we get them involved and so that they know what's going on at the board of medicine?

But also at their doctor's office we talked about informed consent and things along those lines But this is gonna be an ongoing issue for the next you know a couple years if not a decade if not longer How do we get the average?

Citizen in the state of Iowa or Nebraska or South Dakota involved so this never happens again?

So sending letters to the state boards is one way to get involved with some of the local groups that are fighting for medical freedom and medical choice and form proper informed consent.

And then there's great organizations across the country that are fighting these battles as well.

So it's all about linking up together.

you know, trying to go, if you've been asking the question to your local doctor, pressing them, ask them, what's in the vaccine?

And ask them to defend these positions and this data, because you can't cower in the face of what is coming here, which is a lot of evidence that is backing the positions on the lack of safety and not only, I mean,

This vaccine has proven to be extremely dangerous

and

that the early treatment works.

So all of this information, as John said, is trending in the favor of the positions that we took early on.

And for that, the Board of Medicine, because we didn't follow the dictates of the powers that be, come after us.

So, yeah, talk to your local physicians, ask them questions, ask them to defend their stance, and then go out there and try to find physicians that are on the same page as you.

And there will be more and more that are growing.

And go to the Patriot meetings that are out

there.

Doc Hartzich from the Pragmatic standpoint, you served in the Iowa Senate.

I would say in addition to that, there is a legal course of action that we probably need to take going forward.

We've got free speech issues.

We've got tort issues.

And frankly, I think we've got 14th Amendment issues.

What say you, Doc?

Absolutely.

And I would also talk about the Miranda rights and that it's people have that we said that criminals could have to be informed in order to give up their Fifth Amendment rights.

And in reality, patients

also need to be informed.

They have equal rights, just like criminals, to be fully informed before they get vaccinated.

And if anybody's been injured out there, we're very concerned about your situation.

And so you could text to 563-293-7424.

That's 563-293-7464.

Text the word injury.

And we want to hear what those injuries are.

And really, it's time we start organizing patients to take back their health care.

That's really great, Dr. Hartzich.

I'll let Dr. Ted Fogarty have the final word.

Doc, 60 seconds.

And before we go to break, can you tell us how we can get hold of your clinic with Meyer up there in Spirit Lake?

Go, Ted Fogarty.

Let me

swing one more thing.

Swing shot it out to the state of Illinois across the border from Hartzuch there because...

An Illinois law professor wrote in 1989, the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act, that the 101st Congress of the United States passed.

And he had been advocating that we all in America, especially in Iowa, of course, we find some of these cases of people who have been killed by these vaccines and killed by this COVID bio-weapons and convene a grand jury to go after the manufacturers of the vaccines.

That is going to be the hardest hitting suit in all of America, and I hope we can get it put together in Iowa.

But if you're looking for the greatest care in America, it's at Aeronautics Clinic, phone number 712-339-6024.

We are hand over fist reversing COVID related injuries and dementia with the great expertise of Dr. Bradley Meyer and my physics protocols of supercharging your mitochondria and all of yourselves with mild hyperbaric pressures.

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And we're on the web at aeronauticsperformance.com and aeronautics performance clinic on Facebook, aeronautics with an X.

This is John Jacobson and Scott Corey here with Mike Shane.

This has been a wonderful continuation of the ongoing series.

I'll just say this, these three physicians have basically 100% cure rate during COVID when people were dying right left in the hospitals.

I use the type of therapy that they prescribe, and it got me through beautifully.

So I'm all in, guys.

God bless you, you're heroic doctors of conscience.

We'll talk to you again next week.

There we have it, guys.

The great ones.

Doctors, Ted Fogarty, Brad Meyer, David Hartsuch, from Okuboji all the way across the state to the Quad Cities on KXEL, the 50,000 watt blowtorch.

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Well, John, that's a wrap on another tremendous show.

It sure is.

Thanks to Scotty Corey and Mike Shane.

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Welcome Eastern Iowa.

This is your number one weekend live new sports weather Political commentary and entertainment show you're listening to the Jacobson group.

I'm with the great studio wizard Mike Shane the king of engineering decks.

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Mike is a good luck charm anywhere and we hope we've got some good luck for the Hawkeyes this weekend.

They need to snap that three game losing streak even it up at 500 and get bowl bound.

John Jacobson here on the Jacobson group with you.

We're bringing back the matriarch.

of commercial business in eastern Iowa.

Barbara Hames Bryant and she presides over this magnificent multi-generational family offering Hames homes, excellence in manufactured homes.

Barbara, welcome back to the program this weekend.

Thank you for that fabulous introduction, John.

You're a rock star.

So are you, Barbara Hames Bryant?

You're presiding over many civic duties, including heading up some statewide organizations.

Barbara, everybody's looking at these interest rates.

Mortgage rates are the highest in 20 years, but for every problematic, there's a great opportunity.

And at this juncture,

The affordability factor of manufacturing homes skyrockets, and there's still ways to pull it off with financing that works.

Take it away, Barbara.

Absolutely, John.

There are a lot more players in the manufactured housing lending arena than there used to be.

Ten years ago, you were lucky if you could find one or two people.

to make home-only loans on manufactured homes, and now there's a half a dozen.

Locally, Green State Credit Union will make loans.

Nationally, Triad Financial is making some good loans, and so is Credit Human out of Texas.

Here in Cedar Rapids, we have our own in-house financing company called Circle Finance.

Now rates are going up on site-built homes, but so far, rates have stayed pretty steady.

for manufactured homes and people if they're considering purchasing a manufactured home and getting it financed should jump on that bandwagon right away.

Well said Barbara Hames Bryant and another reason why this is such an opportunity for folks is you know Barbara folks with

that half million, three quarter million dollar home, if an interest rate goes up by a percent or two, that makes four hundreds of dollars of additional payments per month just to cover the interest part of the mortgage amortization.

However, you've got homes really priced in a nice affordable niche.

Can you talk about these spacious and beautiful homes and yet some of the entry prices are magnificent?

Our homes are up to 24,000, excuse me, 2,400 square feet.

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There's very little waste in building a manufactured home compared to a site-built home.

So our homes are much more affordable, and you get a lot more house for your money.

Loans can be either fixed rate or they can be adjustable rate mortgages.

Either way, do your homework, find the best one, and buy a manufactured home.

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You know, Barbara, another thing that I love is when you do business with anybody, it's relationship-based, not transaction-based.

And you folks have been there now multi-generationally.

You go back half a century and the next generations are firmly in place to extend this great legacy, right?

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Barbara, it's always a joy to be with you here.

We had our

political prognostication show up coming with our special guest, Jeff Kaufman, who's going to take a look at all of the races.

We're making our predictions, Barbara.

Hang tight.

You're going to hear some great calls.

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Thanks, John.

And we'll be back with Barbara Hames, the matriarch next week.

In the meantime, go Hawks.

Thanks, Barbara.

Go Hawks.

It is time, David, two weeks till election.

And guys,

This is the portion of our program where we take our pulse on the whole state of Iowa.

Now, Dave, you've been living on the western side of the state.

For many moons, of course, I grew up in that Cedar Rapids, Marion area, as you know.

Dave, the first political campaign I worked on was in 1974.

There's a tough campaign because it was the Pulse Watergate election when all of our candidates

basically got wiped out with the exception of Chuck Grassley, who succeeded HR Gross and won his congressional seat up there in Black Hawk County that anchored that seat.

Unfortunately, my candidate at the time lost to Mike Bluen.

John Culver, of course, is working his way up to that Senate seat where fellow Marionites, how'd I ever end up a Republican, Dave, when my neighbors were Dick Clark, John Culver, Judge William Bill Finnis.

Jeff Kaufman is amazing.

I'm a Republican.

How'd I turn out so well?

Jeff Kaufman, chair of the state GOP.

Welcome back to program Jeff.

John, it's a pleasure to be talking to you.

Hope all is well with you folks.

Jeff everything as well.

And you know, we had to choose between you and Laura Bellin today and you won.

How's that for a deal?

You get to come on the show.

You know what, John?

With Laura Bellin, I call her the trust fund blogger.

Most people don't realize she's living off a trust fund and then attacking the rich.

Jeff, for those of you who don't know,

I'll I'll say this publicly Jeff all because we've had you know, we've had the great father son Interviews, so I wish Bobby was with us today We had Chuck and Pat Grassley grandfather and grandson on for the full hour in one of our most popular interviews, but Jeff Kaufman your son Bobby is The most gifted politician I have ever met he's got a sixth sense of that empathy and that pathos

for people and for the human condition.

I think he's our finest legislator out of all 150 Iowa legislators.

I expect more great things from Bobby Kaufman.

Well, John, he takes after

his mother.

You married well.

But I will say, you know, Bobby was just talking, oh, probably last month he was, I can't remember where he was having, he was giving a speech and I overheard him and he was talking about you actually, John.

And he was talking about

uh, on the, uh, on a state government committee, how

he

had, uh, entrusted some legislation to fight for parents and the fight for personal liberty.

Oh, he did.

And how his friend from council bluffs that, uh, that you were in charge of that bill.