KXEL Presents: The Jacobsen Group Podcast - March 25, 2023

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We want his picks, but we also want his psyche on the ups and downs, the thrill of victory and the agony defeat.

I felt for Tom Izzo last night.

He was so close, but so far.

Chip Reidman joins us.

He is our resident cyclone.

alum in the area.

He also knows about that Husker program in Lincoln creeping up in the Big Ten West.

And then we've got Naomi Corey, the fabulous sports mom, subbing for her husband today, who's on a very top secret political assignment.

Might be helping those Dakotans up north.

John Jacobson here, your host.

I'm the Eastern Iowa boy, grew up in Marion, went to Cedar Rapids Regis.

Finished at Iowa Law and it's always a joy to be with you guys.

This is the greatest time of year March Madness hoops all over and we're gonna save the best for last when we zero in on the Hawkeye women But let's first queue up that Iowa fight song and let's go out to coach in general coach nap

We have seen some spectacularly close games up.

I want to go with a little bit of a quirky question first Let's uh, let's bring up the McLaughlin group intro here and let's do a little round table here This is of course totally unrehearsed but one of the questions I want to ask is as follows issue one

CBS TBS TNT How are they doing covering the games both from a play-by-play standpoint and from a studio standpoint?

I go to you coach nap.

Well, let me start with the

studio There's no doubt in my mind that Kenny Smith does not deserve to be on the dais.

He looks totally

uninterested.

And all he does is keep bringing in professional equivalences to what is going on.

Now, Kenny, study your college basketball and figure it out.

Barclay is way more in tune, plus anything Chuck says is usually controversial or funny.

I think the studio after that

are doing well.

Jay Wright is knocking it out of the park.

And I have no problem with the play-by-play and color people,

John.

Oh, I think, well, I'll weigh in with my opinion here.

Coach, I want to ask you, Greg Gumbel, he's 76 years old.

I can't believe it.

Yeah, him and Clark Kellogg had a patty cake patty cake baker's man.

with that charlie baker of the ncaa interview uh... where you got no answers out of uh... governor baker uh... but no couple does a good job i have no problem with them

Hey, I was just amazed when they did their brackets with the cookies.

Barkley ate about three cookies by the end of that segment.

We go to Chip, Reedman Chip, what say you on issue one of our McLaughlin group.

TV coverage, CBS, TBS, TNT, play by play and studio.

I grew with what coach

said on a lot of fronts.

It is a little upsetting, maybe it's a little strong, disappointing when they do bring up the pro aspect to it.

It's like, guys, this is a college.

This is the marquee college event.

Why are you bringing anything pro involved into it?

I do enjoy their banter.

Sometimes when I do a little bit of a poking at each other, I agree that Barkley, he is the better, more fun aspect to it.

I'm glad they have him on, although he has the same problem with the pro aspect.

But he's not afraid to say what he wants.

And that makes it enjoyable.

And I totally agree with the J-Ride aspect.

That was just a great addition.

through what they have there, because he just brings in so much more insight from the college side.

In general, I like them.

I enjoy them.

I don't spend a lot of time watching them, though.

I'm more interested in the games themselves.

And the broadcasts of the games, I think, are generally doing fine.

I think they're covering things.

I don't sense a lot of bias in them.

They're not afraid to bring up maybe now and then a question about a call or something.

I wish they'd do that more, but I could say that about every announcer on the planet.

So that's kind of my outlook on it.

That's a great take, Chip, as well.

The fabulous sports mom, Naomi Corey.

Naomi, are you having to remove blunt objects that could be thrown at a TV screen while Scott is watching?

And is Scott cussing anybody out on that panel or play-by-play more than any of the others?

Usually it's a ref.

I can tell you enjoyed much of the commentary.

I like what Chip said, but as a sports mom, I'm going to go to the NCA app, say that it gives you like way more information.

You can print stuff out.

I'm a visual learner and a teacher, so that's kind of how I follow stuff.

You can get tickets to different games upcoming, and then you can also as a also as a

sports mom of a college athlete.

I can shop the different NIL or the different schools.

I guess it makes it more accessible and as a sports mom I appreciate that part of it.

Great take Naomi Corey.

Jacobson says the bright lights of the tournament are superb play by play from the always engaging Kevin Harlan

and Iron Eagle, terrific jobs.

Issue two.

Biggest surprise of the tournament so far.

Many shocking upsets, several Cinderella stories in the mix.

I go to you, Coach Knapp.

Well, I think it happened last night.

I did not think that Florida Atlantic would get this far at all.

I'm not surprised.

Tennessee's been up and down the last two months of the year.

So I picked Florida Atlantic at this point.

I am not picking Princeton as a surprise because their style always befuddles coaches and players.

And Princeton is getting 10 and a half points tonight.

I wouldn't be surprised if they covered that.

If I was Creighton, I'd be very wary of the Tiger this evening.

So I guess, FAU to me, Josh.

Wow, that's a great to comment, Coach.

Chip Reidman, biggest tournament surprise.

I was

debating on the Florida Atlantic aspect.

I really didn't watch that game.

For some reason, I kind of mentally wrote it off and I just never really...

Brought it on my TV until too late and realized oh my lord.

What's going on in this game?

I guess I kind of lean back on the the Princeton is probably being my bigger upset Tonight will be the the final tale of that Episode as to whether they can get past Creighton or not I just interesting what coach says about that their style of play.

I would think that the Princeton offense

although they don't use it exactly as it was derived a

few years

ago.

I would think a lot of coaches would know how to handle it.

I don't know, I still come down to it's basketball, there's fundamentals you've got to work with and if you've got a good team and they go out and perform the fundamentals, you should go ahead and handle most things.

I think Creighton's got a good coaching staff that they'll spend a lot of time on the films.

They've had a lot of time in the last few days to look at it.

And they'll kind of figure something out, then it just comes down to the players performing on the court.

And maybe that's been the problem in the previous Princeton games, is their opponents just haven't performed.

It seems like that's what is coming to light in my mind, is that like Missouri, they just didn't do the job that they were supposed to do.

So I guess I'm leaning towards the Princeton side as the biggest upset, biggest story.

Naomi Corey, we've heard from Coach and Chip.

What surprises you most?

Is it the Creighton Blue Jays or do you have another Cinderella story?

I

guess I'm surprised by Kansas State.

I didn't have them picked.

My youngest who is my college athlete didn't have them picked either.

So I guess Kansas State and that FAU game is my biggest one to watch.

K state last time in the elite eight 1988 with assistant Dana Altman right before a couple of years after that after some success at K state in his own right as head coach Dana goes to Creighton Yep issue three

Predictions for the Final Four.

Who are your top two picks to make the Final Four?

Go with Coach.

Well, I'm playing with two pools here, and both of them have three.

No, I only have one pool with three teams left, so I'll stick with that one.

Alabama, Houston, Yukon.

And then, of course, the bracket that got all blown up, I'm going to pick K-State to beat Florida Atlantic.

And I really am rooting for Gonzaga, but I think UConn is on a roll.

Coach with a fine take there, in particular, he's got three brackets still alive in his pool.

Chip Reidman, are you doing that well?

No, I'm not doing well at all.

I'm looking at my bracket and I'm trying to figure out if I can even find four teams that have survived this long to make it to the final four.

I, you know, I agreed coach on Bama.

I think they're going to probably make it all the way.

I do have Houston going, actually several of my pools.

I had a lot of fun with it this year with some boring time.

I have Houston going all the way, so I see that.

The other side is just a mess.

Yeah, K-State's probably a good guess on that one.

I don't think FAU will make it that far.

What do we got?

Yukon, Gonzaga, maybe, or something?

I know, John, you're a real big Gonzaga fan.

I'm not being stupid, you have to say.

So I'm kind of leaning probably towards them a little bit.

I really wanted to have thought Kansas would make it.

You know, Yukon, Gonzaga, is that what we're looking at coming up, coaches?

Is those two teams playing?

No, I think the question was, are you con and Gonzaga playing?

Oh, there you go.

Yep.

Yeah, they are.

And I tell you what, Gonzaga drew Timmy was spent last night.

What an unbelievable college performance.

I cannot believe UCLA did not double team him more and just take the ball out of his hands.

UCLA was down three guys.

And it was a monumental effort.

I was kind of

Sorry that they lost.

I was too.

That was on hell of an ending

in that game.

You know that half

court

that that half court shot didn't look as impressive since Caitlin Clark's been doing it all year.

Yeah, that's right.

That's right.

From the logo.

Amazing.

You con Gonzaga will be the game of the day Saturday.

Wow.

I

agree with that.

That's what I'm looking forward to is that game.

Naomi, Corey, your final four, who do you see maybe heading in the final there?

I'm going to go with my youngest, Ethan, the college sports guy.

He had Kansas State, he had Gonzaga, and he had San Diego State, and then he also, because I texted him earlier, he had Houston, so.

Wow, wow.

Well, I'm still sticking with Houston and Alabama.

I think Houston gets the

upper edge there.

You know I'm so old I still think of Guy Lewis sitting there chewing on the towel Mike Shane and that was a few years.

Heck Charles Barkley is 60 years old.

I can't believe it.

He can't possibly be as old as I am and then I'm a few years his senior.

Let's go to issue four.

Coaching Carousel, in the midst of all the activity, they are rearranging some of the coaching positions.

We got some news this week about a few changes.

Coach Knapp, want to opine.

Well, I think the

unwritten story is to scot through a Baylor coaching trade.

Drone tied at Kansas State after 19 years as an assistant.

is doing an amazing job.

And then Paul Mills comes off that Baylor staff and goes to, well, first Earl Roberts, and now he will be the head coach at Wichita State to revive that program.

But to me, and I know our Midwestern friends probably won't agree, the story's in the Big East.

Baby, it is gonna be, the gloves are off.

Rick Petino at St.

John's.

Big story.

Wow.

George down.

The Big East will be loaded.

These guys will reload those programs and rise them up quickly.

And of course we have the Micah Shrewsbury news leaving Penn State going back to his home state of Indiana.

and no today.

Hey, John, dad, dad, dad, dad.

You're a very, very bad man.

Yeah, Shoesbury to Andy, which does put a block on Fran McCaffrey going to Notre Dame, which means we've got Fran still here in Iowa City, still arcing

for a sweet 16 appearance in his long tenure at Iowa.

And he's been stymied his last three runs at the Tom Davis record.

Of course, great take by coach on the big East.

Let's go to Chip Reedman.

Chip, coaching changes that you see.

Well, the Shrewsbury

deal to Notre Dame pretty much, I think, took all the air out of the room.

in the national headlines because of

moving

there.

I'm not sure that's really a good move for Notre Dame.

I'm not sure he did that well at Penn State, but we shall see.

The one thing that's been overlooked, you mentioned about Fran going to Notre Dame.

Of course, my side of the river, there's a lot more talk about McDermott going to Notre Dame.

There was some very early rumors that his agent contacted Notre Dame.

Now, I just read in the last day or so that McDermott was asked about it and he said flat out, no, I never contacted Notre Dame.

That doesn't answer the question fully because did his agent call there?

And I don't think anyone wants to ask that question.

But

he's, he's, where is that?

I think his old saying is he's happy and you don't mess with happy when you're a college coach.

I see him stand.

I think coach has mentioned about the big East, the Cooley move from Providence.

through Georgetown kind of surprises me.

I hope you're a lot more familiar with the Big East, especially that part of the country and to how those names, the reputation, precedes them a little bit, that Georgetown is that much bigger of a move to Providence.

Out here in the Midwest, I don't see that.

The Big East is the Big East.

Once you're in there, most of the programs have a big name, so I can see them carrying themselves.

So that one really took me off guard.

And yeah, Petino moving into St.

John's,

There have been several good hires in the Big East here the last three or four years.

And I think moving down the road in another two or three years, this is going to be one bear of a conference to try and get through.

And I think it's going to maintain a lot of teams making it to the dance though, because they have so many high profile teams that are going to look so good.

So I can see them instead of having four teams going to five or six teams each year, despite their smaller size compared to other conferences.

That's an interesting observation, Chip Reedman.

Naomi, let's go to you, have the final say here.

Any coaching surprises or non-surprises?

Are you glad to see Fran sticking around in Iowa City?

I'm actually glad to see Fran sticking around in Iowa City, but I can also say that Scott might be

Not wanting that

I know Scott doesn't want Barney

to

be sticking

around That's true as well just because of what I hear yelling at the TV as I'm in the house

Guys I'm bringing up fanfare for the common man by Aaron Copeland We lost a very uncommon man this week.

I'm gonna have coach nap way in here, but in 19

81.

I was eating in the cafeteria of the Brandeis Student Center there on 24th in California at Creighton University as an undergrad.

I saw this great iconic six foot ten gentleman coming through the cafeteria, mixing it up, saying hi with the kids.

37 years old just late off of a great NBA career where he literally injured and hobbled on one leg came in and Help the New York Knicks come from behind to win that championship game there For the New York Knicks the legendary Willis Reed who with the foresight of then Creighton athletic director Dan Offenberger Became on the first African-American

hires of NCAA division one basketball coaches and Willis Reed did have a decent run at Creighton, not quite in the vector of Baroni, Altman, McDermott, but Willis Reed built upon the Apke era.

Willis did get the teams for four seasons into pole season play twice, recruited Benoit Benjamin, who was a franchise

player and really got excitement and pep back in the program that maybe hadn't been seen since the days of coach John Redmick Manus, albeit we did have success with Eddie Sutton and with Tom Apke.

Willis Reed was very popular with the students.

When I was working there in the Keywood Center in the athletic department with my summer job there in 1982, I literally was up in the coach's office suites, saw Willis read frequently.

The man had true grit and courage on the court.

He was a very genial, affable, approachable, likable man I found in real life.

Who can believe that at 80 years old already, how time flies.

But Coach Knapp, we've lost some great ones of late.

I do mourn the loss of the great African American coach and the New York Knicks superstar who showed us what true grit was on the course.

Talk about playing while injured.

Will this read?

Rest in peace.

Coach, what say you?

Well,

he was a gentle giant, as you mentioned, John.

My recollections of Willis-Reed are obviously not during the Creighton days, but with the New York Knicks when they won championships in, I think it was 1969 and 1969, 70 and 72, 73.

And of course, he was surrounded

by some great players, Bill Bradley, Earl Monroe.

We can go on and on, Dickie Barnett, Dave DeBuscher.

But there was no doubt when he walked out of the tunnel onto the floor, game seven against the Lakers with a bad knee and hobbled around for about four minutes, made two jump shots, the garden went berserk.

And they went on to win that championship.

He's best known for that.

He's in the Naismith basketball hall of fame.

He's in every hall of fame he's ever contributed to or been involved with at a league level.

And you guys know him better as a person than I do, but God bless Willis Reed.

He was a gentle giant and an accomplished pro seven times all NBA in his 10-year career.

Willis Reed, a man who I knew and liked very much, great.

basketball iconic winner.

Willis Reed, rest in peace.

All right guys issue 5.

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We have yet begun.

We have just yet begun to fight.

Let's queue up that Iowa Hawkeye anthem because guys, Iowa City and the whole state of Iowa is on fire.

They're on fire, I tell you.

A quarter of a million people went into Carver Hawkeye this season to watch Caitlyn Clark and Gabby Marshall and Monica Janano and all of these great Hawkeye women with just a season for the ages and one of my favorite coaches, Lisa Bluter, who was little Lisa Geske when she came in.

to my dad mom's dental office as a patient to get her teeth cleaned and now of course she was one that recruited my baby sister Jenny Jacobson now Jennifer Neal as did Bruce Rasmussen from Creighton University and a guy named Patrick J. Knapp Jr.

Hey Pat, who won that recruiting war between you, Lisa Bluter and Bruce Rasmussen?

George town, baby.

So who is Coach Patrick Jane app when you flew in to Cedar Rapids they lost your luggage didn't they chief

Yeah, that was a it was a bad omen right there Believe it or not paid for a whole new wardrobe Wow,

well, you know, this is Jacobson is

not pretentious at all, the loving, graciously matriarch who still, heck, once in a while she'll even listen to my show there.

But you could have come in, coach, almost with your birthday suit and offering a scholarship from Georgetown.

I think that packed a wall up, you know?

Well, it was a memorable visit.

I was grilled by Mr. Jake quite most of the night, but I was ready for that.

Anytime you're asking.

to take someone's daughter halfway across the country.

You better have a good program and we did.

Coach, you're lucky I wasn't there at the time to grill you because I did do that to Kurt Warner once when he stopped by to take Jenny to either prom or homecoming.

I was home from law school and I kind of made him pass a test before they walked out the door too.

But let's talk about this wonderful Iowa women's team.

The recorded decibels

at Carver Hawkeye, exceed anything that's ever been recorded inside there in history, including the men's team.

And I'm going to start with Coach.

Coach, you are at the ground level of building women's D1 athletics to parody, with scholarships, with monetization, with funding, with television.

How delighted are you to see a third of a century later, those early efforts of yours coming to fruition, perhaps like you could not have even imagined.

Opine on this whole national women's basketball scene, and particularly the magic going on in Iowa City this year with that all-American Catholic schoolgirl from West Des Moines Dowling, Miss Caitlyn Clark.

Well, I do have to say that the smaller

towns

around the country have always been a hotbed for women's basketball.

And I've said this before, Rustin, Louisiana, Stores, Connecticut, we can go on and on.

And so I'm not surprised to see the crowds grow in that regard, but they've grown at neutral sites as well.

I expect Greenville and Seattle to be close to sold out

for these regional games, if not sold out.

We always fought very hard to get on television in any way shape or form.

I remember going into the Big East conference meetings a few times, you know, other than Connecticut, saying, hey, we have four games on TV.

And we were like, you know, the outlier with the rest of the league.

It has taken a while, John.

I'm not sure what the exact

trigger has been maybe the women's Olympic soccer team.

And what was it 99?

Yes, shirt taken off when Brandy Chastain took the jersey off.

You're right, coach.

Yeah, that might have been a trigger for more motivation to take women's sports seriously.

I don't know.

But in the last few years,

the numbers for viewership and attendance of skyrocketed.

And now, to add to that, look it, we have somebody like Caitlyn Clark, who's basically the curry of...

You know, women's basketball.

Good

analogy.

Why am I missing his name?

The Iowa Hawkeye women television attendance numbers have outdrawn most of the men's tournament numbers that are on at that same time span.

That's incredible, coach.

Yeah, no

doubt.

And she's the

one to watch.

She's the one to watch as I look at this field.

There's another player who's playing extremely well.

from Villa Villanova.

Maddie Seacrest is an unbelievable player.

I'm not sure they'll get by Miami, but that's another player besides Caitlin Clark to look at at least today.

And then on Saturday, one of the one of the better players in the country.

The other one place or rock South Carolina, the Boston young lady is, you know, the

Yeah, Reedman is going to save us here again, right, Reedman?

No, no, I'm just looking at my bracket and I'm thinking, you're right coach.

They do have one player there that is definitely someone that's got to be watched and is probably going to give Clark some competition for Player of the Year.

I know the Iowa fan and I understand it.

I'd be biased too.

But you do have a national media you got to deal with and that makes it a little tougher for the girl in the Midwest to win.

There we go.

Yeah, Aliyah Boston.

Will she do it again?

Naomi Corey, what say you?

I

like Caitlin Clark still.

I'm seeing a lot of her on NIL stuff.

I get emails from NIL stuff just because of my youngest.

I also get emails from and I else stuff from like what what I subscribe to and what I see on social media To me that's the one to watch

Naomi Corey, you know my thoughts I'll conclude this segment by saying it's got to be Katelyn Clark Boston would be a great runner-up, but Naomi Corey, you know I can never root for anybody named Seagra

Little inside baseball there, folks.

All right.

Issue six.

Pauperie, Pauperie.

Lots of other stuff going on in hockey.

The Boston Bruins are setting records for wins and points like never before.

Baseball opening day right around the corner.

Recruiting and spring training in our beloved college football seasons here.

Chip Reidman might have a little bit of a Husker update for that Big Ten Western Division.

Coach, what are you excited about this spring?

Maybe it's the live tour or the Masters.

What is it, Coach?

I think the Masters right after.

the NCAA tournament right on the heels of the Final Four is always very exciting.

The May Scotty Shepard seems to be lapping the field these days.

Rory McElroy is looking for his stride to get back his stride.

So I'm looking forward to the Masters.

Major League Baseball at the beginning does not thrill me.

It's long, it's methodical, it's way too early in the season.

to get excited about it.

Great take from Coach Chip Reidman.

I agree with Coach.

I think the timing is going to be really good for the Masters to come up right after the tournament ends.

There's that letdown.

It's like, oh my goodness, all these games are what I want to do with now.

Oh my goodness, the Masters is on.

And there's enough big names spread out the last few years that have won the tournament or have been in play.

that I think it makes it interesting.

It's still not the same without tire woods there, whether you like them or don't.

And I know there's a lot of people in both camps.

He does bring a lot of viewers to it, but there is enough firepower going on, especially with the live tour in the background that it will draw a lot of people to it.

You mentioned about Nebraska spring football.

Of course, that's the one thing that's got my attention right now.

I don't think I was started.

At least I haven't heard anything about, you know, coming out of it.

Well, no, they just did start this week, didn't they?

Right.

Is that right, John?

Yes.

Right.

Right.

As usual.

Remember, there's some Scott Corey, you know, I knew his husband was tweeting out some things about Kirk being a little frustrated with some of the things that have been going on there.

But on the Nebraska side, you know, it's like Nebraska every year.

It's spring.

We're undefeated and hope.

brings eternal new coaching staff.

They definitely have a different era bottom, a much more serious.

We're going to get down to work and I don't care what people think on this team.

They're going to look at everybody.

A couple interesting things I've heard is they're not a play to play anybody at any position.

They've made it very clear that if you're a tight end, be ready to play fullback.

If you're a quarterback, don't be surprised if you are out at wide receiver.

If you're a linebacker, don't be surprised if you're on the line of scrimmage or you're maybe covering someone deep like a safety or something.

They're going to move people around and really do a lot of experimenting, which is going to shake a lot of teams up when they're trying to read their films as where this guy is going to be.

Another interesting comment that they've had is the coaching staff, they've got more tight ends at Nebraska than they've had in previous experience at previous teams.

And they're already experimenting with situations where three tight ends out there.

And that's where you get the situation where a tight end could be the full back.

There's a word we haven't heard in Nebraska in a number of years, the full back.

So there's a lot of different things going on.

They're looking at a lot of players.

They're very happy with the players that they have.

They say that they've got more big players than they're used to having, which I assume alludes definitely to Temple, probably to Baylor.

So they're definitely impressed with the size there.

The quarterback can be the interesting thing which takes me to Jeff Sims.

My last point is they have made the comment several times this week is they want players that don't lose the ball.

They want players don't make mistakes with the ball.

So that now you're looking at a running back a receiver and you're looking at the quarterback.

Jeff Sims is the next guy coming in and there's a lot of hype about him.

A lot of pro teams have been looking at him while he was in college.

but he's got like a record of 30 touchdowns to 23 interceptions.

So there's going to be a lot of pressure on him that if he thinks he's going to take this team over, he better clean up that interception part, or he will be sitting on the bench.

As most people know, Casey Thompson last year's starter had surgery, so he's not going to participate.

Maybe at the end he might throw a couple balls, but it's going to be very, very limited, whatever they allow him to do.

So that's kind of the shake down on what's going on over in Lincoln right now.

Great report from the emerging Colossus in the Big Ten West.

Naomi Carr, you get the final word this segment.

I'm just going to say that my youngest, I'm going to also defer to him, who's the college athlete out of York University, Nebraska.

He is looking at what the Masters and that week, first week of April, what that's going to look like.

I can just look at his viewing on my Hulu account, my Amazon account, what he's looking at for sports.

He's looking at actually Manchester City and he's actually looking at golf.

So

this is great.

That's all I'm going to say.

Our British girl, Naomi Corey.

Guys,

I know

John.

Yeah, Chip.

That's

interesting that she brings up about Manchester.

It is.

That's a generational thing that's developing.

It is.

I don't think people realize.

I know you and Scott and maybe coach a little bit of bash soccer a little bit in the past.

No, it's not a Commie sport.

It was invented in England.

More

than

that.

My point being is because so many kids, so you're talking maybe not Gen X, but definitely when you get to Gen Y and Gen Z,

So many of those kids have played soccer when they were young, even if it was just for a few years, they understand the sport, they've seen it a little bit, it draws them a little bit.

They have their, the proteins, MLS has developed its own niche as far as the things they do when they go to games.

I can't remember which one it is, I don't know if it's Seattle Port or one on the West Coast.

They actually pre-game marched down the streets en masse before they go into the stadium.

Teams have developed their own rituals, their own songs, and it's something that's really growing.

I'm happy to see it.

Like I said, I'm a soccer guy to a point.

I'm not going to watch a match I have no interest in.

But if it's a big name like the U.S.

Men's National Team, I'll have some interest in it.

But with these younger kids, it's definitely a change from what it is for our generation and the Gen X's.

Yeah, I think that's right.

So much to start a grin.

We have a, we have a Manchester United room in our house.

He won't tell anybody.

Oh my gosh.

How is Scott handling that?

He doesn't go in, but it's a Manchester United room.

It also has some Kansas City stuff in it as well.

You don't have a Camillo Balls room though, do you, Naomi?

Correct, we

do not.

I'm going to sound bad.

Is Manchester United, are they red?

Is that their colors?

What are they?

Are they red color?

Are they red?

Are they a red colored team?

They are red, yes.

Okay, there you

go.

That's why he won't go in

the room.

We all know Scott will not wear anything red.

Correct.

Well, yeah, it's springtime.

So what will I do?

Well, after I

More in the loss in the end of the LSU Women's Gymnastics competitions this year.

I am going to go back to golf.

I am going to get a new set of irons.

And I'm pleased to report, guys, I'm taking golf lessons from Paige Spiranic.

She has some outstanding videos out there going around.

And I'm going to key in on those videos.

And I think it'll prove my game.

What say you, Chip Reedman?

I'm really wondering, are you watching

her swing or are you just watching her?

No, no, no.

I really have a little question about what you're doing there.

Professor Spironic, very good.

You got to keep that left arm, you know, kind of in a, you know, no bending of the left arm and the foot rotation is very important there too.

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You know Mike Shane as we move through the weekend and the springs are right around the corner one of the great segments of the week in my opinion is talking with

Barbara Hames Bryant, Hames Bryant Homes, and she is just one of those people that not only warms my heart, but makes me so proud to not only be an Iowan, but everything that she does in Eastern Iowa is just tremendous.

Barbara, thank you for joining the program today.

There's so much going on.

We had a little bit of a snowstorm earlier in the week, but spring is right around the corner, isn't it?

It certainly is, and we're so proud of our homes.

They have great insulation, energy efficient furnaces.

They really do stay warm and cozy in this kind of weather.

You know, talk to us just a little bit about some of the homes and the amenities that we have as we move into spring.

I heard from on the grapevine that you also have some dog parks for people that have those those fur babies and things like that.

You have a lot of walking trails.

You know, I'm getting stir crazy living in my home right now.

I need to get out and lose some lose some weight and exercise a little bit.

My wife's looking at me.

Call me a little chubby.

What she

did.

I know it's brutal living in our home right now, Barbara.

Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that.

But if you lived here, you would have walking trails to walk on, which are available winter, spring, summer, and fall.

And the dog parks, the dogs love them in any season.

The dogs need to get out and stretch their legs too.

Even though our homes are beautiful, they are built with the same building materials as traditional site-built homes.

Pitched roofs, shingled roofs, decks, porches.

spacious vaulted ceilings, island kitchens, garden tubs, even though they're built

so beautifully.

People still need to get out and get a little exercise, even when it's cold out.

They sure do, Barbara.

And one of the great things about the homes that you have there is that it's not only once you make that purchase, you have something that is tangible, that's never going to go down in value.

It's just one of those things that really, really in this unsettled times gives you kind of a peace of mind, doesn't it?

It sure does.

There's a common misconception that manufactured homes, formerly called mobile homes, formerly called trailers, depreciate in value.

They do not.

In fact, Lifestyle.com has shown that manufactured homes appreciated in value 35% over the past five years.

That is significant.

That's hardly what I would call depreciation.

People are building up equity in their homes by living here.

And we have a finance company as well.

So for folks that are wondering about how to actually pay for a home, we have lots of options available.

Now, Barbara, talk just a little bit about how if somebody wants to schedule an interview or even take a look at the inventory that you have online, what's the best website to go to?

Our website is HaynesHomes.com.

H-A-M-E-S H-O-M-E-S dot com.

It's a great website name.

We're also available at the corner of Wilson Avenue and West Post Road Southwest in Cedar Rapids.

So that's Wilson Avenue and West Post Road Southwest.

We're open seven days a week.

We have dozens of beautiful model homes for folks to look at that are move-in ready.

You know, Barbara, not only are you the matriarch of such a multi-generational home area right over there in the Cedar Rapids area, talk to us a little bit about some of the things that you do on the other side of your life.

You took the Capitol by storm this week in Des Moines with the Iowa Republican women, didn't you?

Yes, that's my other job.

I'm president of the Iowa Federation of Republican Women.

Once a year we get together at the state capitol and talk to our legislators and our legislators talk to us.

We learn about what's going on in Iowa, what the important laws are that are getting considered and passed, and tour our beautiful state capitol.

We all wear red, so you can't miss us and we make quite a scene when we're all at the state on the steps in the capital.

Now, Barbara, talk to us a little bit about what it is like to go into Des Moines like that because, you know, Des Moines is used to being the political capital of the world during the caucus season, but I heard on a good authority that you were signing autographs and taking pictures there on the rotunda.

You were like a rock star there at the grand staircase.

I can neither confirm nor deny that.

But Barbara we are so grateful being in the state of Iowa because you know due to the Iowa caucuses and all the presidential candidates that come through here our citizens have the opportunity to look these people in the eye and talk to them about their everyday issues that sometimes get glossed over once they go to more of a national campaign and I think it's so important that we encourage all Iowans to get out

to as many of these candidates, events that there are across Eastern Iowa and Central Iowa and Western Iowa, to look these candidates in the eye and talk to them about these important issues.

I couldn't agree more.

As my dad, the famous curtains used to say, politics is not a spectator sport.

You need to get involved because you'll get the government that you work for.

You know, that's a great point too.

And you know, we are so grateful here in the state of Iowa to have the opportunity to meet these people.

But we also have our legislators and our governor and the executive councils that are very accessible to the public as well.

And I think that's why it's important.

You know, you talked about going to Des Moines with the Iowa Federation of Iowa Republic and women.

You know, our citizens can go to the capital at any time and meet with their legislators, can't they?

And a lot of times it's either a text

message or a note into the well of the Senate or the House saying, hey, representative so-and-so, I'm out in the cat, Rotunda, can you come out and talk for a few minutes?

And they come out and talk, don't they, Barbara?

They absolutely do.

I am so sick and tired of people badmouthing politicians and elected officials because from what I can see, they are some of the hardest working people I know.

They get beat up morning, noon, and night by the media, sometimes by voters.

But they get the job done, they get and they work and they talk and they make compromises and they pass laws.

They are some of the hardest working people that I know.

And yes, they are very accessible.

If you go out on to Google or your favorite search engine and search Find My Legislator in Iowa, you can find it right away.

Their email address and their phone number.

You can text them.

You can call them and they will answer you.

You know,

they better because they're they work for

you.

Exactly.

Exactly.

And Barbara, we are so grateful to have you a part of the program once a week.

It just it almost seems like we need to have you on almost daily just to kind of give us a pep talk because I know John is on assignment this weekend.

But when you you come in on the program, you boost us all up.

You talk to us and you give us somewhat of an energizing effect that gives us enough energy to get through the next week as well.

Well, you know, I feel the same way when I talk to you guys.

I I feel definitely pumped up.

We are so grateful to have you a part of it.

Barbara, one last time.

Where can people get a hold of you if they want to look for a new home there in Eastern Iowa?

Hamishhomes.com or in Southwest Cedar Rapids at the corner of Wilson Avenue and West Post Road Southwest.

Well, thanks for joining us again this weekend, Barbara.

It is actually my favorite segment of the weekend.

I hope you have a great weekend and then go Hawks.

Go Hawks.

When you hear that sound of the iconic sounder of Mike Shane, you know serious business is about to be done here.

Newsmaker Line, Dr. Ted Fogarty, MD.

Great radiologist.

ER physician cutting edge nationally on hyperbaric therapy, which is doing incredible Incredibly successful work in reversing Concussion long-huller COVID dementia stroke one a cares act in the Dakotas Living in Ogallala Omaha boy practicing in Iowa

He's got that cutting edge clinic up at Spirit Lake, Okuboji.

The studio audience loves this courageous doctor who fights for freedom, Dr. Edward Fogarty.

Let's cue in that studio audience, Mike Shane.

They are here.

They want to hear the master.

Doc, you've been busy this week.

You did your Mr. Smith comes to Washington in Des Moines the other day.

Talk to us about house file.

555, which had worked its way over to a Senate subcommittee with Edler Costello and Throne Garriott.

John, hey, I want to thank you once again for just being the voice of reason and the barometric barrister broadcaster.

Oh, I love

it.

That's

a

literation that your artistic mother would have loved, that type of alliteration.

Well, thank you.

And I brought the Holy Grail of medicine to Iowa before my home state of Nebraska.

You did.

And knowing very importantly from a point of political medicine how important the great state of Iowa is for our nation and pulling out of this tailspin that we've all been put into by the medical

tyranny yep so I'm absolutely livid at what I saw yesterday on this I would call it house vile as in vile

yeah yeah I 555 I agree it's a bad bill tell our audience why this is a bad bill now it's kind of a Trojan horse it looks like a nice bill it talks

like it

talks like a nice bill but it doesn't smell like a nice bill

no

It's the smell of money for these swine and pharmacy in the national pharmacy.

They're literally...

crafting through the Iowa Board of Pharmacy a complete tie-in to the FDA.

This is sick.

This is sick to use medical terminology.

So we have a trifecta of supposedly medical freedom loving Republicans running the executive and legislative and judicial branch essentially in Iowa.

And you got a bill here that's going to actually hurt medical freedom in Iowa.

Tell us why this bill's got

That poison in it, Dr. Fogarty.

Well, let's just look to the 10th Amendment.

The entire sovereignty of Iowa.

is on the line here from the point of medicine and pharmaceutical distribution complex, Iowa becomes a captive of the federal government with this law.

The 10th Amendment is the state's right law and the sovereignty of our professionals who are pharmacists and physicians in the state of Iowa.

Sovereignty of their professional practices is now going to be stripped from them.

They are not going to be able to, through this backdoor,

The federal government is basically going to dictate to Iowa pharmacists exactly what they can and can't do.

And people will die, Dr. Fogarty, because physicians like you knew there were successful, cheap, plentiful, effective, front-end antivirals that could nip COVID in the bud that Fauci medicine tried to extinguish from being utilized.

And you saved countless lives with a much better record than these other physicians and hospitals.

And now,

that ability, which was already impeded, you had to be a courageous hero to accomplish that, save all these lives.

It's going to get even worse now because you're going to have these federal interlopers imposing their bad medicine, their bad practices through an Iowa regulatory board that can persecute the hell out of you guys.

Absolutely and I want everybody to know here that former state senator Dr. David Hart such emergency medicine physician based out of the Quad Cities area he went in and gave

the hardest proof of all the people testifying on this deal yesterday.

And I got to watch him from afar up here in Spirit Lake, and I took a whole series of window captures to memorialize some of the people in that room who are kind of interrupting Dr. Heart Touch in his testimony.

When you look at who was testifying, all the nays were lobbyists.

Of course.

All the, I mean, all the, all the ones in favor of 555 were the lobbyists.

Yep.

Yep.

Let me, uh, big healthcare, big

healthcare was probably hanging like a wraith over that room.

Oh yeah.

You could, you could, you could see the evil in the room from afar up here at Spirit Lake.

And, and you know, people by, by the way, were there,

were there any hospital guys in there bragging about their remdes?

record?

Not?

Nope.

Remdesvir did poorly.

Remdesvir did poorly.

This is more bureaucratic, tyrannical, blood on people's hands.

The next time we need to have the freedom of practice for the brave physicians and I will add compounding pharmacists.

in the great state of Iowa, who did save lives with me and my colleagues.

Yes.

Getting ivermectin to him and I got it.

I got ivermectin

saved me just for the record guys.

Ivermectin saved me.

It was like a miracle drug.

24 48 hours.

Absolute rebound.

Yeah, but from a political standpoint, I didn't feel comfortable as an Nebraska physician writing prescriptions to Iowa pharmacies.

So, you know, in the midst of this whole horrible pandemic, I'm I'm literally from

state from the inside the state of Iowa.

I'm calling Omaha pharmacies to have ivermectin shipped to law offices in the Des Moines metro.

Wow.

Wow.

Just just just amazing.

So um

and that's going to happen again because guess what the great state of Nebraska is going to be there for everyone in Iowa.

If this bill does pass if it's vial 555 bill which is five dollar handouts for every Tom Dick and Harry from CVS and these other globalist pharmacists

Pseudical and national pharmacies that just want a drivetrain of uniformity.

The state of Nebraska is going to help you guys out, especially in western Iowa.

But I fear for the eastern Iowans who are right next to us.

Fritzker's Cabal.

I do too.

And we're going to go, I was going to be the next lockdown hybrid state and Nebraska is going to be the free state and Illinois is the corrupt cabal

state.

Dr. Ted Fogarty

here with us.

Doc, I agree with you and the encouraging thing about yesterday, it sounds like the three that signed off to advance the bill to a full committee are willing to amend it.

And I think there's some good amendments that can get rid of this bad stuff.

If it's not amended, Doc Fogarty, HF555, really is HF666.

Yeah, and

that bio piece of legislation is probably going to be challenged, and Attorney General Brenna Byrd is probably going to have to deal with a lawsuit.

or several lawsuits and potentially from multiple physicians and pharmacists in the surrounding border states, including South Dakota and Nebraska, most important.

You know, Dr. Forty, when I retire as a fiduciary trust officer, there are second acts in American politics, contrary to, and you can go home again.

So my goal is to brush back the sayings of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Tom.

and wouldn't it be nice to to form a public interest law firm?

What Bobby Kennedy is doing in Iowa?

I might be interested in that.

I better keep that law license fresh.

What do you think, Dr. Fogarty?

Amen, brother John, and you know who's going to be your top medical.

Expert witness.

Yes, I do.

The great Ted Fogarty.

Hopefully a little help from Brad Meyer and David Hartzich.

The studio audience is rapturous and applause for Dr. Ted Fogarty.

Ted, we got four networks.

We're going to cycle you through the other three.

Thanks for joining us today.

Ted Fogarty.

John Jacobson here.

I want to thank the incredibly

Magnificent efforts of Mike Shane.

He perfects this show with engineering and editing like no other.

Thanks to our special guest today, Naomi Corey, Coach Patrick Knapp, Chip Reidman, Barbara Hames Bryant, and Dr. Ted Fogarty.

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