KXEL Presents: The Jacobsen Group Podcast - November 12, 2022

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What a glorious, crisp, cold, classic, kinnock weekend in these beautiful late days of autumn.

John Jacobson here, welcoming you back to the Jacobson group with, in the co-host chairs here, Scott Corey and Chip Reedman, and the engineer who pulls everything together, Mike Shane, and here's his ringtone.

That means serious business here today guys serious news serious sports serious commentary Wow, what a week in America George Washington and his men crossed that Delaware so many Christmases ago over 200 so that we could participate like this.

It's not a democracy.

It's a constitutional Republic, but Scotty we undertook our

constitutionally Republican.

duties on Tuesday.

We'll talk a lot about that.

And of course, we're going to talk about this huge tilt that could make Iowa Bowl eligible here later today in Kinnock.

But Scotty, we also celebrated our veterans.

You know, that's a great point, John.

You know, Friday was Veterans Day, the 11th month on the 11th day, where it was signed into law that we honored our veterans across the country.

And you know, it's one of those things too that

You know, Veterans Day should actually be something we celebrate every day because those sacrifices that those men and women have made that were the uniform to defend our country just can never, thank you, was not enough for and especially their families too.

They bore a brunt of a lot of sacrifices as well.

And it's just so heartwarming that we've seen this entire week of all of the outpouring of support we see for our veterans and their families.

It sounds like a Kinnock Stadium.

They're going to do a nice tribute before the game.

So I love our

box and the patriotism that's shown in in Iowa City, which has been known to test the envelope of leftist ideology.

But when push comes to shove.

Uh, folks always give their due to our vets.

They sure do.

And I remember being at Kinnick Stadium a couple of years ago and they brought out a couple of veterans.

One was the World War Two veteran.

One was a Korean War veteran.

And I believe the other one was Vietnam.

And I've been to a few games at Kinnick Stadium chip, but I had never seen or heard that stadium as loud as it was when they brought out that World War Two veteran.

And it was just amazing to see that happen.

And you could see that he, I forget his name.

I wish I could remember it, but you could see he got choked up.

when they put him on the jumbotron

and stuff

like that and to have that happen just means so much and I'm so happy that University is going to take a little time to honor him today that took place you know over the years and you know Chip one thing we forget here in the Midwest too we talk about Midwestern values and

People don't realize sometimes that the brunt of the wars have been fought by folks that are from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska.

Look at all those

solvent brothers

for crying out

loud.

Iowans to

the

core and just.

the the whole eight of them just unbelievable

and you know there's there's stories to that especially during World War two Eisenhower and Patton what specifically asked to have Iowa farm farm boys in their regiments because they knew that they could do what it takes if a tank a tank broke

down

or anything

like

that and they can get it and that they were you know basically put their shoulders into it and get the job done and so it's just amazing.

Iowa kids were so tough back in

that day there.

that uh... you know they would uh... some of these uh... high-ranking military guys would travel you know in some of the farm gravel roads and stuff like that and uh... they'd ask directions if and if the kid picked up the plow and pointed with that they knew they had their man

yep exactly and so i just so happy that this is happening today uh... the ceremonies and stuff like that chip but uh... just thank you just not enough

you know you can even go back historically if you go back to the civil war in our course i would of course the brass were not involved

in that war as much but when Sherman made his historical march to the sea through Atlanta

he was put particularly at a grant also they were managing the armies of the west

absolutely mcclellan and the guys on the east coast right

that were winning the war they were winning the war they were losing that's what linkin brought grant in and chairman and they were made up a troops of ohio wisconsin minnesota

uh... my great-great grandfather uh... waiting was down there uh... in uh... tennessee and in the kentucky area we had a lot of midwesterners that were either

part of the Iowa group, my great great.

great grandfather happened to be with the illinois infantry mister lincoln's uh... illinois army but yeah the midwesterners were were very even there in the civil war they were

they knew they were they were not afraid they knew how to handle a gun because they grew up with it

right

they're not afraid of sleeping outdoors or roughing it because that's what life was like in the midwest back then so for them to adapt to that march and constantly moving down into the south it wasn't anything shocking to their system like it would be from the east coast east coast

city boys.

Chip Reidman, guys, in case you don't know, again, John Jacobson here with you on the Jacobson Group.

Scott Corey and Mike Shane also in Chip Reidman has done some magnificent research involving Korean War history.

I've got an awesome uncle in the Korean War and I'll be honoring him.

for his service that he provided for the country.

And you've done some great sleuthing around to find out all about what he did over there, what happened over there now.

On Thursday, we celebrated the Marine Corps birthday, which means something to me.

It's the 247th anniversary of that Continental Congress created organization for two regiments initially.

And you know, my father served over there during the hot.

Korean War, Eastern Iowa dentist for many, many years.

The late Dr. Robert Jacobson and we always think of him on that Thursday because in our house that was a cake day.

We celebrated the Marine Corps birthday with cake candles and we sang the Marine Corps hymn and even well into dad's retirement.

The five of us kids always made sure that there was a cake there delivered and

I saw my father weep rarely, but the one time his eyes were watering was a Christmas late in his life when the five kids surprised him by accumulating all of his metals and putting them in the shadow box with the engraving.

plates in the American flag.

And at that time, the president of Korea was also commemorating with some very nice laminated certificates.

And I think he was just shocked and stunned.

But that was a forgotten war.

We just can't forget any of these people.

You know, that's a great point, John.

And it's amazing to think about the sacrifice that we've had to use not only during World War One, World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, you know, all through all that.

how much Valor was taking place across the battlefields that we knew about and didn't even know about.

And it's amazing too that, you know, one of my best friends back home, his grandfather was one of the B-29 pilots that did the firebombing of Dresden.

And he was shot down.

And we didn't know until after he died.

Exactly everything that he went in and it came to find out we found the the army documents and stuff He basically saved I think it was 34 or 35 members of this This platoon because when he got shot down they saved him and for some reason

When they were taking him back, he was the one that for some reason woke up in the middle of the night and realized that they were about to be attacked by some German forces behind lines.

And

he woke everybody up and able to get them up and ready to go so that they weren't basically slaughtered by this German ambush.

And he never talked about it.

And you find out stories throughout all of history where we don't realize that these people don't want to talk about it.

And it's just amazing to me that

How humble they really are Chip.

That's one thing about the movies today.

People might complain about them being much more graphic, particularly the war movies.

You look at Saving Private Ryan, which I've watched one and I swear I'll never watch it again because it's so hard to take.

But that's what it was.

It's not like the 40s and the 50s movies were no blood

or

anything like

that.

Right.

It just was...

Incredibly gruesome.

It's no wonder these guys don't want to talk

about

it when you see what they

make sense I

wouldn't be sleeping for weeks

and you know one of the movies that doesn't get talked about a lot But it was based on a true story and done.

I was probably ten years ago now was no Gibson did it was called we were soldiers It was a battle

in

Vietnam.

Yeah,

that was one

story and that was like more wasn't that the Sam Elliott was in there as well.

That was one of I think one of the best Productions ever made when it comes to the sacrifice

of those young men as well as what it took and the heartache of the women left behind here back in the home front.

Yeah, it's a tragic deal to go through, but we tip our caps to them because without them we wouldn't be having the freedom we have now.

We'd be speaking German or Russian or something.

And there is a poignancy about it folks in Kinnick Stadium because the man who not only won the Heisman Trophy but

who was deemed by almost all of his peers as a man who would go on to be a senator, maybe a president, cut down in the prime of his life, serving our country in World War II, Niall Kinnick

himself.

Omaha

Boy, as a matter of fact.

Yeah, exactly.

And, you know, they play that his, uh, his Heisman Trophy speech every time Kinnick Stadium is a

prophetic and sad and retrospect speech because he basically unwittingly is talking about

trying to avoid what ultimately happened to PM.

It's very poignant.

And the first time I actually was able to hear it live at Kinnick Stadium, which was, you know, 10, 15 years ago.

I was stunned by by how Revent everybody was

on it

and it's quiet quiet stadium and you know they play it you know six to seven times a year down there at Kenning Stadium and you can almost hear a pin drop every time that comes on and so I think it's very fitting that the stadium's named after him and you know we're so grateful for it and it's gonna be interesting too today John is that since it is the game after Veterans Day Iowa usually has a special uniform and a couple years ago we

had the kind of the camouflage black and gold uniform.

It sounds like we're going to have a blackout as we bring in Wisconsin to fight for the Heartland trophy.

So it's going to be very interesting to see what happens.

Wisconsin has a interim coach.

Let's

fire up this Hawkeye fight song loud and proud here because Scotty this is a

This season has been transformed in two weeks.

It has been.

We now are on the cusp of bold eligibility.

If we could win this one at home, not that we can coast, but it takes so much pressure off in a road game against a tough Minnesota team and then a Nebraska team that has more of a spring in its step under interim coach Mickey Joseph.

We said last week was a must game.

The week before was a must game.

I'm calling this a must game.

This one we can put away all of the pressure and really show this dramatic improvement over and it is November in Iowa.

November and Kenick is a different kind of animal and you know highly ranked teams have come into Iowa City in November and they've gone out with a loss chip and what I'm really going to be interested in today is how.

strong this game is going to be.

This is going to be an old-fashioned rock fight.

It is going to be defense.

It's going to be nasty.

Last week, Phil Parker came up with a tremendous, tremendous game plan on the defensive side of the ball.

And the offense showed signs of life.

We had a 200-yard rusher the first time in almost six years, I believe.

And so the offense is finally starting to see what's going on.

The offensive line has maybe finally gelled enough where we know who our starting five are going to be and what position they're going to be in.

And so there's a lot going on.

We have three games left, all three are trophy games.

We have the bull today.

We have Florida Roseale next week up in Minneapolis.

And then we end Black Friday with Huskers and the heroes game.

I

hate losing any of those, Scotty.

I hate losing any of those.

We got to win these games.

And the sad part of it is Wisconsin has had Kurt Ferenc's number the last few years.

and so but you know Jim Leonard is a different type of coach he played there he's played in this game as well he knows what it's all about and so it's going to be very interesting to see

What actually transpires on the offensive side?

Because I think it's basically the first one to 17 to 18 is going to win this thing.

Oh, I

think so too.

I'd be astonished if that weren't the case.

Now Chip Reidman here has done a lot of sleuthing up in Wisconsin where he hides out periodically in the beautiful spacious skies and beautiful green foliage of that state with its nice aquatic.

and Aesthetic Lakes.

Chip, how are you sizing up this game?

Iowa is constant.

It should be a good TV game.

It's almost like a black and blue divisional, the NFC central game like the Packers taken on the Vikes.

Well, I'm thinking slobberknockers, the word

I want to use going back

to someone else's references.

And this is not November weather.

I get it.

It's cold.

I'm not sure it's going to be any difference from one team to the other, because both teams do like to grind things on the ground.

Merch at Wisconsin has not had the offensive fire power that he did early on in his career.

So it's going to be a ground game for them just as well as I foresee that it would be for Iowa.

Wisconsin is known for very good defenses.

Leonard is a defensive coach.

You say that maybe Iowa has righted the ship a little bit.

They've got a couple winds under the belt.

Well, I have to say the same thing about Wisconsin.

I mean, this

is true.

Two teams

that are building and finally getting their feet underneath them.

Purdue was becoming the sweetheart of the conference.

They

beat Purdue 35-24.

Maryland, not a game of major consequence.

They beat them 23 to 10.

But again, it was two wins.

They're feeling good about themselves.

And Maryland's a decent club.

Yeah, they are a decent

club.

They're better than they used to be.

They're not Rutgers, that's for sure.

So they're going to be coming in with some confidence into this game because now they're showing it's that internal feeling of confidence that they have.

It's like, okay, we got a team.

We've rided the ship.

We've got this, you know, coach that we like.

We're going to come in and we're going to show Iowa how it's done.

And so I think it's going to come down.

Iowa's defense, I think, is what it's going to come down to.

And what's amazing, too, is these two programs.

Wisconsin was terrible for so many, so many years until Barry Alvarez, who coached under the great Hayden Fry at Iowa City, he turned his Wisconsin team into a basically a mirror of what Hayden Fry built in Iowa.

He did.

And then, you know, you brought in our good friend Bert, who coached him for many years.

And when he replaced Barry Alvarez, and now he's over at Illinois, and he had some really great things to say this week too about the great Hayden Fry.

And it's amazing how consistent Iowa and Wisconsin

have been because if you look at since we've gone to the divisions of the east and the west basically it is Iowa Wisconsin that will decide who goes off to Indianapolis

if the big 10 is the big two and little eight in the old days with Ohio State Michigan the big 10 West is the big two and the others has been Iowa and Wisconsin and guys I want to Scott Segway very nicely talked about when Hayden came in 1979 and

boy I was a senior in high school so elated I had my Hayden fry posters up on the wall Hayden was the first one to bring marketing and brand imaging to Iowa of course they were so bad that no one really had gotten into that milieu and Hayden all of a sudden came in and says we're gonna win look made him look like the Steelers and and I'll tell you what guys

The first guy he brought in with him was his old friend and colleague, the great defensive mind, Bill Brashear.

And you talk about the Hayden Fry coaching tree, Bill Brashear was one of the only coaches who did not go on to be a division one head coach.

And I remember those days well going back to 1979.

The only reason Bill did not become a division one coach was he was already

in his late fifties, when he came in with Hayden, by the time Hayden left, Bill Bridger was 70 years old.

But if you look down on that Iowa defense, like I did in 85, yes we had great quarterbacks, long, Vlasik, and Hartley, we won 30 games in that three year time period.

And we're ranked number one in the nation, 85 for six weeks.

Those great comeback victories against Michigan State.

Purdue at Purdue, Michigan under the Moscow lights.

It was Bilbershire's defense, and he surrounded himself with great defensive coordinators like, as you say, Barry Alvarez, who recruited Larry Station out of Omaha.

Bobby Stoops, Mark Stoops.

Yeah, and Bilbershire passed away last week.

at the age of 93.

These Hawkeye coaches, they're tough, they're tough birds.

Hayden made it to 90 and essentially and Bill Brissier and I know for a certain age of folks that name doesn't resonate as much, but I love Bill Brissier.

I was very sad to hear of his passing.

I was impressed.

that social media at the University of Iowa and the athletic department gave him his proper due.

They really did a nice tribute and goes back to Iowa.

We're a family to give a man his due going back 40 years ago, 43 years ago, was really fitting and honoring of the tradition and the legacy.

And guys, I think that sets Iowa apart from just any old place.

Rest in peace, Bill, for sure, but thank you.

for this legacy that we've inherited today on defense.

He was the guy that started to pull it together after Iowa had essentially two decades of no winning seasons.

Fry and Brescher were the one two punch and a guy from Kansas State.

What was his name

again?

Oh, yeah.

I think his name was the wizard Bill Snyder.

Yeah.

He seemed to turn that one.

Don't forget our nemesis too, that when he was up at Iowa State, Dan McCarney.

That's right.

Yeah.

I mean, we could go through the coach forever.

But Bill Brescher, just a great

man.

Absolutely.

And it's kind of funny.

You talk about the staying power of the coaches at Iowa over the year's chip when Hayden brought in Bill Brescher.

In my lifetime, I've had three athletic directors.

I've had two head football coaches.

I've only had three defensive football coaches, Bill Beshear, the great Norm Parker, who was brought in when Kurt Farrance came on board when Norm retired due to health issues.

We then elevated Phil Parker.

And I thought it was a fitting tribute and we talked about it last weekend, John.

The way Phil Parker's defense played and shut down Purdue, that high-flying offense.

Oh, my goodness.

And granted, we had a lot of help from the weather that day.

That was an old-school Bill Beshear type of defense.

They were out there.

They were leveling people.

They were playing smart defense, assignment defense.

And it was just a fitting tribute, I thought.

And I know Phil has said a lot of things, too, where he has learned from Norm Parker, but he also learned from Bill Beshear.

And he set a lot of those young people in the NFL to make a lot of money.

That's impressive when you talk about the lack of turnover in your lifetime.

And I don't want to guess and tell people over the radio what your age is.

But I can honestly say Nebraska is very similar.

If you were a 15-year-old, you probably could make the same claim that there's only been three coaches and a couple athletic directors, but

only if you're a

15-year-old.

Yeah, shoot, I've lived through 13 presidents and six popes.

The Hawkeyes have this continuity thing going down very well.

And you talk about the Nebraska sellout streak, but

Think of this tradition in Iowa.

They've really not missed a game going back to over 100 years of football at the University of Iowa, with the exception of this is the 50th of November.

since the Iowa Notre Dame game was canceled due to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

There was a Saturday in Kinnock with no bells told on the football field, but only for the fallen president.

That was a year where Iowa had won less game on the standings, and that was a losing season for the Hawks, but one where the Hawks, again, we talk about this patriotic deference.

to the nation, and of course Notre Dame felt a particular kinship to President Kennedy for obvious ethnic and religious reasons, but that was the day that things were silent.

We're going to re-wake the echoes.

It's November now.

I'm very

excited.

I am too, John.

And the great thing about it, there's so much ahead of us.

And we were very critical, especially myself, of how Iowa was moving forward.

It basically seems in our short 11, we are in week 11 now, but Kirk has basically created three seasons out of one.

It's amazing what has happened.

We had the struggles in the non-conference.

and then we had the debacle of the Michigan Ohio State Illinois run and then all of a sudden he's they turn the switch a little bit and so it's streaking a little bit this year I've aged a little bit my vocabulary has gotten a little bit saltier but the plumes of blue smoke

emanating from both of our households you know

yeah

we turn up

You know the games so that people can't hear the cussing in my place.

Well, you know, the great thing about it is everybody always asks me, Chip, why don't I play golf?

Well, I don't need to practice swearing.

I got Iowa offensive football.

OK,

OK, OK, so I've got to ask.

Here's the money question.

All

right.

OK, I'm looking right now.

And we're talking about this being a slobberknacker, a really tight game.

The defense of battle is what I foresee.

I think I was a defense.

I was offense.

Probably will still struggle a little bit.

The points are one and a half.

I

mean, that's less than a field goal.

That means it's a toss-up.

What are you things going to have?

Well, the other thing I want to say is they also have the over under at 35 points.

That's too

high.

It is too

high.

That's 18 points a team.

I don't

see either

team getting 18.

For a cold November game, yeah.

Those Hawkeyes never seem to be affected by weather, but Scotty, I have been in Kinnick and have just frozen before.

I think if you don't layer, sometimes with five layers, it can be brutal at Kinnick, and it is funny.

It isn't as loud in Kinnit when people are wearing gloves because that hand clap is muffled just a little bit with the leather.

Well, you got that.

You have to have the layers, but also you have to make sure you have some of grandpa's cough medicine to keep you warm, too, out there.

And that's

how Iowa filled the stadium through the 60s and 70s, those lean years.

The medicinal elixer still drew people into Kinnick Stadium.

Well, I have

to say, as an Iowa State alum, that's what got me through a lot of games.

Of course, when I was going to school there, we had Johnny Majors and Earl Bruce, and so we had good seats.

But that's when the drinking age was 19, 18 years old.

We were bringing coolers into the place.

And I remember the guys, the people that were working the aisles and everything with their yellow jackets looking at us and just kind of waving us on.

And we're asking them, hey, you know, open it up and say, do you want anything to drink to keep you warm?

I'll tell you what, a game, I was cold.

I get that.

But if you want to go to a cold game, go to a September game and Ames can be just about as brutal.

I

have no idea what the

vortex is if it's a cyclone thing, but it just sometimes it just gets

cold for no reason.

Ames looks like the frozen tundra of Siberia in Dr. Javago for crying out loud.

It sure does.

It's just kind of a soulless place, in my opinion, as a Hawkeye fan.

You

are not far from your true.

Yeah, but kid I kid, kind of.

But at the same time, kid.

Sort of me too, sort of maybe.

You talk about the points and everything, I think that's exactly where it is.

But if Iowa can run the table,

Iowa will have a very good shot at a very good bowl game again this year under Kurt Farrance.

He has to find one victory to be bowl eligible between Wisconsin, Minnesota next week in Nebraska.

And I think you mean

two

victories.

No, we're we're we're five.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And

I'm going to give you a further incentive to win this game.

Kirk Farrance is two big 10 wins away from topping Amos Alonzo Staggs.

Yes.

which would move him into third place sole possession of most coaching victories ever of a big 10 coach.

People say would Kirk Ferrance retire after this year?

Not if he doesn't have two more wins, I say.

That Amos Alonzo Stag, he was the gold standard, that would be epically huge.

And if any of those Hawkeyes are paying attention to history, they need to win this one today.

to then have a 50-50 shot, the next two are pulling that off, because it's got to be big 10 games, can't be the bowl game.

He only needs two.

I would agree with that.

From an outsider's perspective, from the Nebraska side looking at Iowa, you're talking about going to a quality bowl game.

I think you need two wins.

One win is probably going to get you Shreveport.

or the pinstripe bowl in New

York City.

Can we go the outback bowl by default?

You mean the Kurt Farrance bowl?

Yeah.

I think that's going to happen.

That wouldn't be bad.

Like I said,

you don't want to end up in Po-Dunk.

No.

They've

probably got their clippings still in the locker room.

Don't they just leave them

up there?

Yeah, they just change the tape on the paint as all.

But that's a great point, Chip, because if I'm Kurt Farrance, I want to win at Wisconsin.

But I think if you want sweet, sweet justice for Kurt Farrance, and he'll never say this publicly,

He wants to break that record.

on that last Black Friday game against Nebraska.

That would give them incentive.

It would be.

He has not forgotten, I know for a fact, from very close people to Curt Ference, he has not forgotten what a former athletic director at Nebraska said about Iowa in 2014.

Well,

did Mickey Joseph pour some gasoline on that inadvertently?

Inadvertently.

I don't think it was malice.

I think it was just kind of a slip of the tongue.

But there might be a little extra pep in the step in practices.

And especially when it comes to Phil Parker,

and LeVar Woods, our special teams coach, they are very competitive and they are not going to forget and let these players, they're going to remind these players every day about what was said.

Okay,

so I want to

take you back to last week when I boldly yet wistfully and sadly predicted that Drew Stevens's dad would jinx him.

for getting on Twitter and saying he needs a scholarship and the ball bounces off the crossboard.

The kid had been perfect.

And then

last week we get that.

Am I wrong?

What's

going on here?

Mojo came and kicked the kicker right where the sun don't shine on that deal.

And so it's going to be interesting to see how he bounces back.

Now, ironically, the players did rally around the kicker after that.

And so you could tell, especially on the defense and the special teams, they are trying to coalesce.

It's almost like we have two teams right

now.

Caleb Johnson's performance against Purdue, 200 yards rushing in that long touchdown run to begin, I think it was the third quarter.

You can start to see that maybe the defense is like, okay, the offense has finally showed up and can help us a little bit and there seems to be a little bit less.

Tension on long the sideline.

So is Kirk recruiting a kicker?

I just for a side piece of news I read just I think

yeah, they're going to Australia and looking for some well That's

where they get these field goal kickers to

yes, it's a

rascal just picked one up Actually, he's an Omaha boy last year or no this year.

He's kicked a 57 yard field goal in a high school Last year.

He had a 40 some yarder.

So Nebraska's staying hot on the special teams angle, but immediately I thought of

Iowa State and Iowa wondering if are they

even looking at Iowa State's got to that costume

Yeah, that cost of the Kansas game for sure and probably the Oklahoma game too.

That was a very winnable game for them as well guys

I just want to put this out here as we talked about our quarterback situations to Guys the fourth ranked team the country is Texas Christian University They're undefeated and untied and their quarterback at the helm having Heisman numbers

A kid named Max Duggan from Iowa.

Yes, Council Bluffs our backyard and it was great to see him have a bounce back season.

Is very pleased of what how he's performing and under the pressure and you talk so much.

That

kid never chokes

and you know we talked about the recruiting of Max Duggan when it was a big day one day in October.

I believe no excuse.

It was spring a couple years ago and one day Nick Saban Scott Frost.

in urban Meyer, we're all in Council Bluffs the same day to meet with this kid.

Walk in the halls

of Louis Central High School there, just a few miles.

And it was funny, a friend of mine who owns a bar and restaurant had a big sign that just he knew that Urban Meyer was going to be pretty close by and he just happened to put up the Iowa Ohio State score just to kind of remind Urban about what happened.

That

was after that great win.

That was the woodshed game as we were lovingly referred to it.

So I'm so happy for Max Duggan and everything like that.

And so it's going to be interesting to see

how TCU performs because basically they're in the driver's seat, they win out, they are in the college football playoff.

Yes they are, yes they are.

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We're delighted to tell you that they're going to be our lead in on Sundays when they have those conference and non-conference basketball games.

We're going to come on immediately.

at the conclusion of the northern Iowa games, the Panther games.

I'm delighted.

That's a great lead in for us, and we do love our Panthers too.

Kurt Warner, I once had a great conversation with when he was a high schooler at my alma mater, when he was helming the Regis Royals many moons ago, and have a lot of friends that graduated from UNI.

We've got a lot of great teachers in our...

area here, a lot of great educators, business, college, very excellent school from

URI.

Chuck Grassley?

Isn't he Chuck Grassley?

Yes, he is.

Oh, yes.

And, you know, he could probably be a good, you know, Chuck sits behind the bench even, well, whenever he can from DC, he's a big fan of the UNI women's basketball team and volleyball team.

And the way Chuck was leading cheers at the airport rally that we were with him at on election Eve,

That guy's got pep in his step.

He was, he was more energized than the younger Republican nominees for the constitutional offices.

He sure was, John.

And I kind of joked with you afterwards that I kind of wondered if Chuck hadn't found a couple red bulls on that flight because I'm

thinking,

I'm thinking my favorite picture chip was, uh, I think it was a Saturday before the election.

He took a picture with the lieutenant governor, Adam, Greg, John

Deere, green hats

on backwards.

And I lovingly, lovingly refer to it as thug life, Grassley.

And, uh, you know,

It's funny.

Everybody said, you know, he's in a tough re-election.

This is going to be the toughest one ever.

It really wasn't as tough as when the election number started rolling in.

We

hit our numbers.

We said double digits.

Yeah,

exactly.

What was it?

What was it?

I

didn't 12 point.

Yeah.

And so, yeah, so he did very well.

And, you know, talking about the UNI athletics and stuff like that.

And I say this is an Iowan basketball fan as well is that.

I wish that the University of Iowa, you and I, Iowa State and Drake would find a way to get together to do kind of some sort of like they did a few years ago, they did the big four round robin basketball tournament down in, or down in Des Moines, I think it was a couple of years ago.

We need to bring back those rivalries.

It meant so much to the state.

It

loops, it's very

easy to do.

And I think we can find a way to maybe do one pairing on a Thursday and another pairing on a Sunday or something like that, kind of similar to give you a couple days in between like they do for the NCAA double, the tournament and stuff like that chip.

But that basketball, when you have those programs all humming along, this state is just so much fun to be a part of in January.

Frigid cold winter in Iowa, it gives people a lift in their

step.

Yeah, absolutely.

And I hope there's a way.

We can find this moving forward because you know, Iowa still plays Iowa State every year But we need to start playing you and I and we need to bring back Drake and I say this as an island too I remember when then athletic director Bob Bolsby did not renew Tom Davis's contract Tom Davis went to Creighton and he beat Iowa or excuse me He went to Drake and he beat Iowa several times and that was kind of the end of the Drake, Iowa game So

that's always the risk

that

the powers of B

Yes, they're not willing to stick their neck out to risk the loss.

I could look at the same thing in Omaha.

We've got Creighton.

Now UNO is a Summit League Division one and you've got Nebraska.

Nebraska I think is playing UNO.

So there's that risk.

UNO has been down the last couple of years.

A couple of years prior, they were like one game away from making it

to the big

dance

in

the Summit League.

So they got a new coach.

Creighton is probably the biggest stumbling block because I don't see them playing UNO and they're in the same city.

talking about saving money, just getting your car and drive over their kids.

But I think it's good.

I think it's heartwarming to see the local teams actually duke it out a little bit.

It's just that risk.

You don't want to come out and lay an egg if you're Creighton and against UNO and then

go back and do your record.

In fairness to Creighton, too, they've got massive scheduling headaches.

They've got Havana and Moscow and Beijing that they've got to work in on

the schedule there.

They played an ND team last night and it was not Notre Dame to make you feel good.

And they thumped them pretty hard after they struggled against St.

Thomas.

I think their division won.

They're probably about as low in division one as you can get and for some reason they barely beat those guys But they've had a big 90 something to 60 something win last night.

So the offensive firepower showed up Nebraska just just a quick point about them.

I

really don't like to follow him because of a few things that happened a couple years ago, but Huyberg, I feel sorry for the guy, Iowa guy.

I mean, you know, he's got the chops at Iowa State.

His team just can't shoot and they've got two wins now.

But that's the first thing the headline says is shooting woes.

So he's struggling still.

Well, you know, we're at the best part of being in Nebraska to, you know, if there is such a thing is that now they have Husker football on Saturdays and then they can all root.

for Creighton on Monday.

I mean, it's amazing how the state

divides its loyalty left and right between those two programs.

But Chip, I was really worried about John last weekend.

I actually did a welfare check on

him.

You know,

I lived just a few blocks from John.

And we had a situation.

Creighton was a top three team.

Chip Kelly beat.

Nick Saban at LSU and then the Notre Dame one.

I was concerned about John.

I saw, I heard explosions, I heard some blue smoke.

I had to go out there and check on him because it was pretty scary.

So

did you check on Mrs. Jacobson?

Yeah, yeah.

She probably was ignoring

him.

Yeah, she just kicked him off the curb.

Get out of the way and

roll him out the door.

But yeah, it's just one of those great times of year and I'm so happy that, you know, we have a good UNI program going forward.

You know, Iowa State, they're gonna be a

top program this year again.

They found their coach.

Pollard found

his coach.

Yes, and so it's going to be a fun time moving forward.

And I think at the end of the day, we're going to be pleasantly surprised about what you and I does and the run they could make this year.

Guys, I think the reason I love sports goes back to my youth when I was nine and well, I was nine years old during the front end of the season.

10 after the end of the season.

Nothing was more electrifying to me than listening to Bob Brooks do Hawkeye Basketball 52 years ago with that legendary Iowa team, the Miller Six Pack, Chad Calabria in downtown Freddie Brown in the Guard Court, Glenn Vidnovik and John Johnson.

in the front forward court and then the alternating centers of Dick Jensen and Ben McGillmore.

A 14 and 0 undefeated Big Ten run.

That team would have played for the national title against UCLA but for a last second tip in by artist Gilmore from Jacksonville that year.

I still to this day say that was the greatest Iowa basketball team ever.

What was electrifying about it was listening to those games.

on radio with Bob Brooks from the legendary Iowa Field House where literally there were times when you could not hear Bob Brooks' call because those students were so close to the court and just going crazy because Iowa started out five and five non-conference, even lost the game to Creighton and came back and ran through that big 10, 14 and 0, beating Rick Mounted Perdue, Gus Ganakis up there at Michigan State.

Freddy Taylor Johnny or there were some legendary coaches and oh my goodness that got me pepped so my my brothers and I used our basement as a basketball court during the winter and we had an old wash tub which was one of the baskets and the other basket we clipped a laundry circular laundry basket onto a step school.

Step stool and the furnace was the three-point line and we literally were dribbling across a tiny crowded basement playing Iowa basketball that whole winter

You know that that just what it and typifies kind of a winter for any kid in Iowa as you always out there You're listening to the game either on ESPN or on the radio and then you're trying to you know I grew up listening to watching BG Armstrong Ed Horton, you know, oh you young Yeah, I was

in college

shows how much fun it is Chip and it's just I'm so happy to is we'd be remiss if we didn't talk about what's happening in Iowa City under Lisa Bluter.

Oh we've

got to go there.

She has put together a tremendous team with Caitlin Clark who is the I hate to say it but she is the star and it's not taking away from anybody else on that team but Caitlin Clark is that national player right now.

We had a

few others that could have been national player of the year we've had some magnificent

Iowa Hawkeyes.

Yes and so you know Lisa

is one of those coaches that is kind of flying under the radar.

And I think that this might be the year she makes a deep, deep run.

And we could be very, very pleased on how the season goes.

So it's exciting.

And

fan support is great

and I'm a

city for a women's team

too.

You know, there's always talk about the old field house and how loud it is.

Carver Hawkeye can clean that up and make that very, very loud and difficult.

The problem at the men's game is that the fans are more worried about reading a book or eating a Carver cone and yelling and screaming.

And we've seen that in women's games as well and at the wrestling matches as well at Carver.

Well, and the other thing is Chip Reidman, you're a Nebraska guy.

I would argue that the Nebraska women.

do a far better job than the Nebraska men of filling up their events.

Those Nebraska women's volleyball games are sold out.

They're jam-packed and that crowd is raucous in Lincoln.

Yes, it's an enormous tradition that they've got going down there.

John Cook has just done some amazing things.

Of course, Pettit was the coach beforehand.

They got everything running.

He's the

guy that went to the high school teams, which I don't understand why more coaches don't do.

He went to the high school level and started teaching all the high school coaches how to teach

their girls so that he had a pool to come with.

Now Nebraska is known as being a hotbed for recruiting.

I

was watching the reading about the high school championships.

It's like every team, they would be talking about, okay, so-and-so on this game, they won the championship, and so-and-so

is going to Minnesota,

so-and-so is going to Nebraska, so-and-so is going to Creighton, so-and-so is going.

Every team, they've all got a recruit that's going to a major D1 school.

This is going from, you know, in Nebraska, it's class A-B's.

and D, all the way down, they've got kids that are being recruited.

The women's program is very phenomenal.

They've only stumbled really once.

That was against Wisconsin.

When they got swept by them, the wheels fell off that day.

It was just a bad day.

And since then, they've rided the ship again, and they're on a roll.

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From border to border in Iowa, as this signal traverses the state, so do these gentlemen.

We've got Dr. Ted Fogarty from the Aeronautics Clinic, up there by Oka Boji, up by the Minnesota-South Dakota border, and rolling across the state to the Mississippi Riverside.

We've got the honorable Dr. David Hartsuch.

MD, former Iowa State Senator, and normally joining us is Dr. Brad Meyer, also from the Aeronautics Clinic.

In his absence, let's come to praise Caesar.

Guys, how's Brad doing these days, Ted?

Take it away.

Oh, Brad's doing an amazing job up here.

And we have so many patients coming across the Minnesota border.

Jackson, Minnesota loves our clinic.

There's all sorts of folks coming in here and getting healed up for dementia, vaccine injury, concussion.

And we also have some folks from South Dakota who are here today with our Minnesota crowd.

And so we are just really

doing an

amazing job of interstate commerce through medical practices here and healing so many people that were told by the

doctors that they could never be healed from some of the things we're seeing.

Dr. Fogarty, if I can just interject for a moment here.

A couple weeks ago we had riveting testimony from numerous

of Dr. Hart, such as patients, basically telling how he saved their lives.

You had a family basically indicate the same to you this last week.

They're very grateful.

What did you do to get them through the abyss of COVID?

Yeah, actually, it's been through my medical communications across state lines starting in January of 2021 with Trent Luce, who's also an AM rural area broadcaster and

This particular patient was relating to me just this morning here in the clinic.

She's from southern Minnesota now, but she grew up in Strasbourg, North Dakota, and she started listening to Trent and I. We were doing broadcasts from the North Dakota State Capitol and discussing the matters of hyperbaric, hyperbaric aircraft, all of the research that I've published with Dr. Paul Harts at LSU regarding our veterans

and

how all of this can be translated into a system to help stop this pandemic.

Through this education over the broadcast airways with Trent Lewis, this person told me this morning

that he credits me and Trent with having saved her whole family from going out and getting these vaccines because it was our alert and our sentinel discussions that basically she respected and believed in and understood and she told her whole family nobody should be getting these vaccines.

And so that was just a wonderful thing for me to hear as a medical communication specialist who's a formally trained radiologist like Dr. Scott Atlas who was in the White House with the Trump administration

and the only

voice of

and

this

whole pandemic summer of 2020.

linking Dr. Atlas now to my partner, Dr. Bradley Meyer, who is going to be in Des Moines tomorrow over the noon hour, giving a talk with a huge conference of health freedom warriors.

Today on Saturday, he's there.

He's there this day on Saturday.

Yes.

Yeah.

And Dr. Pierre Corey is going to be speaking.

And you know, the only IO physician that's actually going to be speaking at this conference is Dr. Meyer.

But it is a health freedom rally and it will be a hugely

important event and hopefully some of the people who are hearing our broadcast will be able to actually get out there and get to at least some of the afternoon events in

the

health freedom crowd.

There's going to be about six to eight hundred people at this event and really the on the ground grassroots health freedom warriors who showed up at the state capitol as well for your health freedom bill in the subcommittee hearings that I testified with Dr. Lee Merrick.

Well,

you bested Bruce Hunter on that day, Doc.

You did it with great aplomb.

And what I will say is that...

We are the only radio station in America that has these two top doctors on for exclusive interviews today.

Dr. Ted Fogarty now will go over to the river, to the great mighty Mississippi, Dr. David Hartsuch.

Doc, you've been busy working, researching, and writing.

I think your impact is going to continue to be heard in the halls of the legislator and perhaps the halls of justice this upcoming year.

I think so, but before I go on with that, I want to put my two aunts' sense in about Brad Meyer.

He's an awesome doctor.

His contributions to science and medicine are incredible and incredible devotion to patients.

I'm always having to call him and talk about patients and really, he's wonderful to bounce things off of.

Very generous with his time and his...

sharing of information.

He's a wonderful, wonderful colleague.

Well, and I'm a patient at the clinic up there, so I will also put my imprimatur on Brad Meyer.

Normally, he joins us at this time, but of course, he's immersed in the conference details at this juncture.

Doc Hartzich, what do you think?

We could talk about the election a little bit, and you obviously served in the Iowa Senate.

Any thoughts from a national standpoint and from a more regional Hawkeye cyclone standpoint?

Well, I think my big thinking about it is a lot of the Republicans thought there was going to be a big red wave, and it appears like there wasn't.

But I think if you look at certain areas like Iowa, et cetera,

There was a red wave.

And I think the fact is that the Democrats played the fence.

They managed to counter the wave and bat down the hatches

and

secure those places where they could...

they could still hold the line.

And between you and me, you know it was mathematically more problematic because the Republicans had to defend 24 of those 34 Senate seats, meaning the Democrats only had to defend basically 10 of those seats.

It makes it awfully hard to keep all year 24.

I mean, the Republicans did not lose

Any of these seats other than the Pennsylvania seat so from that standpoint the cycle will favor them again in two years from the US Senate standpoint

Yes And I think the other thing that that's notable is that we saw a great minority vote in in very urban areas swing towards the Republicans in this race

certainly with a Latino

community.

Yeah

You know those precincts that were predominantly Hispanic and and afro-american a large number of them went Republican now.

Yeah, very much

so and I guess I guess you know President Biden said well, you know, I guess they're no longer black or they're no longer Hispanic You know,

you know, it it's what?

Yeah, that that's a very important point the demographics shifted

uh in unintended consequential actions against the democrats and uh i guess what i would just say is uh the attorney general race in iowa scott uh

you think that's big Scott with after 40 years now you and I both know Brenna do you have hopes there

I do I've known her for quite a few years I knew we're actually actually worked with her several years ago and so having her be the new Attorney General after 40 years I think it's going to be very interesting and hopefully shed some light on some things that have been kind of maybe not received so much attention Dr. Fogarty I know that's been kind of one of those races that you really zeroed in on even this summer that

what are your thoughts on that race

there were two two races that i was very closely watching and of course yes uh... having uh...

uh... a new

attorney general in iowa there's a republican conservative that went to my alma mater uh... at the university of chicago very important to me that uh... that that bird is now in the office uh... and the other one is of course the uh... the doctor jenton of uh... the governor candidate for uh... minnesota

who, if you tally up all of the other third party candidates, would have won the governor's office in Minnesota.

And

so that was kind of a heartbreaking loss for me to see.

I had been

in contact with then state senator Jensen.

regarding the education of the entire North Dakota legislature and the governor's office regarding how all of this, all of this pandemic is rolling out in this very bad way.

And I predicted everything that's happened starting in October of 2020 with these vaccines to the entire legislature in North Dakota.

You

did,

Dr.

How do they get in touch with aeronautics?

Bill O'Reilly, you say name number in town.

How about address number and website?

Yeah, we're at 3303 Berkwist Avenue in Spirit Lake, Iowa.

And

our

phone number is 712-339-6024.

And we are on the web and Facebook at Aeronomics Performance with an X, aeronomicsperformance.com.

And also, the purplepowder.com is where you can have your own version of the North Dakota CARES Act grant federally funded project that I used to create a

pandemic, ration and nutraceutical to save lives in the Northern

Plains.

Fantastic.

Dr. Hartsuch, you've got a great, guys, I want you to text Hartsuch.

Okay, let's get some texts going to Hartsuch here, especially you guys along the Mississippi River there.

David, how do they get in touch with you, sir?

Yeah, I think the best way to get ahold of me if you've been injured by the vaccine is to text Injury to this phone number, or you could just call it 563.

249-9879.

563-249-9879.

Yeah, and Fogarty, people trapped through 23 inches of Bismarck North Dakota snow to come see you.

Yeah, amen, they have.

And, you know, the great state of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, this is the T-formation when we add Colorado and how we're changing lives through hyperbaric and the home-based mothership is right here in Spirit Lake, Iowa.

beautiful guys we are honored we think this is the top panel in the United States today on our network KXEL 1540 100.5 guys 50,000 watts of blowtorch curing all through the big 10 we appreciate having both of you on again have a great week and go Hawks

Guys, speaking of Hawkeye fans, there's no bigger Hawkeye fan than Barbara Haymes Bryant and she's down there cheering for the team at Kinnock regularly and we're so delighted to have her back.

She's the matriarch of business excellence in eastern Iowa.

Her multi-generational family, the late, great Kurt and Norma Haymes have built this beautiful family business.

that provides hearth and home to so many people in our area.

Affordable, safe, beautiful homes.

Welcome back to the program.

Barbara Hames Bryant, how are you this weekend?

Oh, it's great to be back with you, John.

Thank you.

Barbara, we're going to talk just a little bit about the election.

I would be remiss if I didn't give a tip of my fedora to you in your capacity as head

of the Iowa Republican Women's Conference, Iowa Federation of Republican Women is the formal name of it.

You had that statewide and Barbara, you had smashing unprecedented victories on Tuesday.

Boy, when I was a kid growing up in Marion and we had Dick Clark and John Culver as our senators and

Democrat Harold Hughes is our governor.

Little did I think I would ever see this day with such sweeping victories.

Take it away, Barbara.

Take a bow.

Well, thank you, Don.

I will, if you don't mind.

Our organization has over 600 members and 14 clubs around Iowa.

Our website is iowafrw.org.

like FederationRepublicanWomen.org.

We are so proud of the work and volunteer work that our members have done.

Tens of thousands of volunteer hours, hundreds of thousands of calls, and it's all to make Iowa a more sensible state like we should be.

Iowans believe in common sense.

They don't believe in this crazy stuff we've been getting from Washington, D.C.

And it was absolutely decisive in this last election.

You know, Barbara, it's kind of an interesting dynamic now on the state and federal delegation for Iowa.

Iowa now has a dominant female.

Uh, contingency.

We have a woman, uh, Kim Reynolds as governor.

We have, uh, newly elected attorney general, uh, Brenna Bird.

We have our two great congresswomen, uh, Mary Annette Miller Meeks as well as Ashley Henson.

We're starting to see- And Joni!

And Joni Ernst, our U.S.

Senator, and we're seeing more and more women being elected to the Iowa House and the Iowa Senate this year.

I mean, we're seeing more and more women across the state getting involved, and that just, uh, bodes well not only for our state, but also for, uh, groups like yours.

I couldn't agree more.

We are seeing more women step forward saying, I want to be involved.

I'm not sitting on the sidelines anymore.

And it's not just at congressional level.

It's at school boards.

It's on city councils.

It's on appointed commissions.

Women are raising their hands and saying, I have something to contribute and I want to do it.

You know, Barbo, as we talk about the kind of the changing political dynamics of the state of Iowa,

This is the first time since the 1950s where the entire Iowa federal delegation is all made up of one party.

I never thought I'd see the day where that would happen.

Talk to us just a little bit about that trend setting situation we have now in Iowa.

I am so surprised and so pleased.

Our delegation is 100% Republican and 50% female and that's exactly as it should be.

When I first moved back to Iowa in 2000, it was very mixed.

It was very purple.

It was all over the place.

I have seen Iowa gradually turn more conservative, more Republican, more red, and I couldn't be happier.

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