KXEL Presents: The Jacobsen Group Podcast - April 1, 2023

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It is John and it has been quite a ride here for the Iowa Hawkeyes.

We have had such a great turnout and it's amazing what type of season has been put in there, but let's not forget we still have some a lot of important things in front of this team moving forward, but we have something very special that took place this weekend down in Dallas.

Hit up that Dallas theme song, Mr. Mike Shane.

We are joined with coach Patrick Jnapp Jr from Georgetown as well as Chip Reidman here on KXEL and guys we are listening to the great Dallas theme song anybody under Basically a hundred knows this song because it is the theme when you think of Dallas you think of JR Ewing and Ewing oil

But there's also a new rock star out there that in that rock star is Caitlin Clark.

And she has led Iowa to the first final four for the University of Iowa in 30 years.

Coach Patrick J. Napp, Jr.

Your thoughts on the overwhelming success that Caitlin Clark and Lisa Bluter have had with this Hawkeye team.

Our Naismith player of the year.

Caitlin Clark has just set awards on fire and probably the most important thing she has done.

Coach, I like to get your thoughts on this is how.

many young people, especially young girls are excited to meet and to watch and emulate Caitlyn Clark.

Oh, the fandom that has been generated with Caitlyn and the ride that Iowa has taken us on has that's not been seen for a long, long time.

And it's probably the highest in women's college basketball history.

It's been great to see she's an outstanding competitor.

Humble.

She's dedicated.

Lisa Bluter, as we've seen, has that team working on all cylinders.

Katelyn Clark getting every award in the book.

Lisa Bluter did not.

Terry Moran and Indiana got the coach of the year in one poll this year.

But Lisa Bluter has put together a fabulous run with this group.

And Lisa did win four years ago when Megan Gustafson was also national player of the year.

So Lisa has got kudos.

We're bringing Chip Reitman there with us.

Chip can spend 15 minutes with us.

But guys, just to remind this great Eastern Iowa and Big Ten audience, as this signal goes into...

all of the big 10 states with its 50,000 clear watts coach nap was on the ground floor of this all with title nine parody scotties starting back basically I'd say a third of a century ago but it was

and from his perch at academic giant Georgetown with the DC media and with the Yukon team that was just off the charts.

Excellent.

One of the first early superstars, Rebecca Lobo, doing so well for them.

Now we see her at the anchor desk for commentary so often.

Coach Knapp, you kind of built this thing a little bit.

You were part of those foundational building blocks to

get title nine fully in sconce and to get women a shot at this type of exciting excellence performance and audience you've got to secretly be kind of proud about those efforts and how they've come to fruition coach nap

it's been a long haul there's no doubt and john i won't correct you it was 1980 that i got into the women's game

itself

So basically I want to say four, four tenths of a century ago.

Is that what I want to say?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Four score, four score and almost seven years ago.

Is that what you're trying to tell me?

It's four score in three years ago.

We're a Lincoln Est now coach.

That's right.

That's right.

And actually I have a picture at a fantastic recruiting venue called Bill Crone hours down in Millardsville, Georgia.

I don't know how I got in the picture, but I'm in the picture with Billy Moore of UCLA, Pat Summit of Penissey, and Kay Yao of NC State.

And now there you're talking about the early women's basketball giants.

So

it

has come a long, long way.

You know, we talked about how far women's sports has come in the country right now, but it seems that Caitlin Clark, you know, we talked about her here on the show a lot, but the praise just keeps coming in this week alone.

Not only did she win the Naismith Player of the Year Award, she had people like Isaiah Thomas.

She had Magic Johnson.

She had Billie Jean King.

She had on and on.

Rick Riley called her the ponytail Pete Marovitch.

That was a great.

article Rick Riley wrote for the Washington Post, even Cyclone slash Blue Jay fans like Chip Reidman are Caitlin Clark fans.

Tell us this true chipper.

Oh, it's definitely true.

And I don't think you're even listening all of the accomplishments that she's gotten done.

Not only the nascent college player of the year, she's the AP player of the year.

She's won the Dawn Staley award twice.

She's won the Nancy Lieberman Award once as the top Division I player.

So the accolades, as far as the award circuit, is just an unending list.

You know, first team all-American three times.

She's got an amazing career already, and she's just still in college at this time.

I think

it was

the Omaha World Heritage, an interesting article there talking about the competitiveness of her.

They say it goes back to when she was in grade school.

She was the kind of person that when the teacher would have competition with people doing spelling or science questions or something like that, she would not accept second place.

She would go home and take paper plates and write answers on them like flashcards to try and get to be the best player to the point the teacher had to tell her to dial it down because she was so aggressive in trying to be the best in anything, even in her schoolwork.

I love that story because Chip, I was the president of the Diocese and Des Moines Catholic Schools Board when Kate was in junior high.

Not that I can take any credit, but her mother's side of the family are the nizzies from Des Moines.

They're very great.

ferocious, competitive family, her maternal grandfather, coach at Omaha Boys Town for many years, Scotty, and Chip and coach.

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

You talk about the upbringing of Caitlin Clark and everything she's done.

Now, Chip, I want to get your thoughts on this rumor that's circulating out there.

Is it true that Iowa State and Creighton alums are circulating a new NIL to get Caitlin Clark out of Iowa because they're tired of losing to her and all the gravitas that she brings to the women's sports?

Well, I haven't heard anything about that, but I would say that's probably a longer list than just two schools.

I think there's a lot of the big 10 schools about to see her go somewhere else or pull them into their own team to try and get away from the problem she causes them.

You know, you talk about the competitiveness about what she did.

But Coach Knapp, I'd like to get your thoughts because during the Louisville game, which set records two and a half, there seems to be 2.5 million viewers that outdrew almost every ESPN NBA game during the season so far.

And at one point you can see in a clip where the Louisville player was drawing at Caitlin Clark and she said, shut up.

You're down by 15.

I mean, how do you

coach how do you kind of rain that in but also encourage that

hey when it like what was it Muhammad Ali when it's the truth it's not bragging

but you know you talk about I like to get both Chip and coach his thoughts on this

You know, we talk about, you know, the viewership and the arena sales tickets that the Iowa Hawkeye women have been drawing across the nation right now.

And Caitlin Clark is basically the epicenter of women's sports.

But I think a lot of credit also goes to Jim Delaney, the former Big Ten commissioner for creating the Big Ten network, for getting the platform for women's sports out there.

And by gradually building it up over the years, I'd like to get your thoughts on that, Coach Knapp, as well as Chip Reedman.

First we'll

go to

coach and then we'll go to Chip.

Yeah, real quick.

It's obvious that Delaney was a giant in that regard.

And I have sampled and happily sampled the sports on the Big Ten Network, on the women's side, softball, basketball, lacrosse, very greatly and appreciatively.

So Delaney did a great job.

You know, Chip Reidman, your kind of thoughts right now too, because, you know, as a parent, your thoughts on how far women's sports have come in the last, you know, five to six years.

You know, it is rather impressive and you can look at most of the colleges around in the Midwest.

It's definitely a Midwest thing.

If I look at the Big 10, I noticed one thing that Field Hockey has always been a pretty well-participated sport for women's.

The Big 10 is always

taking steps to try and make sure that women's programs are out there.

There's women's gymnastics do very well.

We all, well, there's the best, the crown jewel, I would have to say, being biased for Nebraska would be women's volleyball.

It's very obvious that the Big Ten has really taken a hold of that.

When I was younger, I remember there was always the Pac-12 or the Pac-8, whatever, the West Coast teams, Pepperdine or UCLA or Hawaii.

those those schools Washington those schools that always dominated volleyball not anymore it's all a big 10 sport at this time and that's that's what I would say is the best example I would have to say as far as what Delaney has done for women's sports in the country.

You know Chip I'd like to get your thoughts as well as coaches on this too.

You talk about Caitlin Clark as a superstar but she has a tremendous supporting cast around her she had you know Gabby Marshall and everybody there

Talk about the coaching job that Lisa Bluter did this year in order to keep everybody on the same page, because that is no small feat, in my opinion.

We'll start with Chip, and then we'll go to Coach.

Chip, you're up first.

Yeah, I think Coach will probably have the best insight on this.

That is always a question, I think, that a coach has is when you go into a situation like this where you've got essentially a superwoman on your team.

You've got the star player in the country playing on your team.

And

how

do you get the other players to work around that player?

There has to be a lot of self-sacrifice, I think, from those players to understand that their role is to make sure that she gets the time and the ball because she's the one that's going to carry the team.

But it also reflects on Kate and Katelyn Clark and her personality.

And I don't know how blue to handle that, but to go to her and say, look.

You have to understand there's four of the women on this floor and you're going to need them to win because you're not going to be able to go down there and play one on five.

And those other girls on the team have obviously stepped up and helped carry the team and made it what it is.

And they do have a lot of talent.

It is a rare mix to have those players on there because they have shown themselves very well in this tournament in their play.

Coach, what do you say?

Every coach will tell you that

If your best player is your hardest worker and your best listener, then your job's complete.

It's done.

It's easy to bring the rest of the team along.

And there's no doubt that Caitlin Clark is a team player.

Look at this.

311 assists this year.

It's three times that of the next closest player, Kate Martin.

She dwarfs the next closest player.

She shares the ball.

She knows she needs her teammates.

But let's get back to the very quickly, the notoriety of the women's game or women's sports.

You need a star.

You need performances.

You need something that will catch your eye.

Hey, Caitlin Clark is Steph Curry.

Caitlin Clark is the ponytail Pete Marovich.

You can't take your eyes off her when she's performing on the court.

you know coach I'd like to also talk a little bit about what you know you talk about what she's done magic Johnson I thought gave her maybe the greatest praise of all time where she after the elite eight game against Louisville where she dropped 41 points you know she had a triple double magic Johnson came out and tweeted that she's done something that magic

Michael Jordan and Larry Bird had never done in an NCAA tournament, and I thought that was just tremendous high praise and it's amazing Basically, it's game game respects game because even when Sue Bird came out to a practice out at Seattle the Iowa team lost its mind You know, they were so happy and overjoyed, but Caitlin was happy, but she's like

Yeah, I'm just as good as you are.

I mean, I don't want to say borders on Taki, but I mean, she has that swagger.

She has that Michael Jordan swagger.

Well,

she's

also a cheerleader.

I would even throw that she's a cheerleader.

You look at her after the games and she's jumping up on the seats.

He's looking at the crowd.

She's waving her arms, bumping her chest.

because he wants everyone involved in this, including the fans.

Even after Iowa men hit, even if the Iowa men hit that buzzer beater there at Carver against Ohio's Michigan state and a great, great point, Chip.

Coach, I know you want it in too.

Now, very quickly, she, Caitlin Clark, those, those accolades that Scotty was talking about.

She seems absolutely deserving.

That's a great comparison that Magic Johnson made there.

Talk to us now.

Where does Iowa go from here, coach?

Because we are in the portal.

We are going to lose a couple of players.

They've decided to graduate and go on to dental school and things like that.

Caitlin Clark, you would think if you're in the portal right now, you're going to be calling Lisa Bluter saying, hey, can I have a tryout and come and talk?

Lisa Bluter has something special that she can really have moving forward the next two years.

Yeah, that will be decay because they do lose lose some key seniors and Clark doesn't have to come back, right?

Right, and we're gonna play a clip here in just a moment from Clark was interviewed by Dan Patrick here and back in February 27th I believe it was where Dan Patrick actually asked her about that and she made some very interesting comments that actually made a lot of Hawkeye fans smile

Well, we'll cue that up right now.

I want I know Chip Readman is going on special assignment for us as we speak here But I want to chip coach the way and right after we hear this clip and then we'll let chip Go off to do some reconnoitering for the radio show here for

a special report next week.

Mike, Shane, can you bring up with Dan Patrick and Caitlin Clark?

Would you take a pay cut, though, if you go to the WNBA?

Not necessarily.

I think that's what gets lost sometimes.

I think people don't understand, you know, NIL, like, it's still kind of a thing when you get into, you know, pro sports, too.

Like, you still have all those endorsements.

You still have, you know, the sponsorships and whatnot.

So you're basically just a professional athlete with that on top of it, too.

Um, you know, which was so it's not really something that I would factor into my decision of staying or going too much.

But you would

you would

seriously consider staying two more years?

Mm hmm.

Yeah.

Why?

I don't know.

I think I just like love this place.

I love getting to play in front of a sold out crowd every single night.

Um, I don't know.

I love college basketball.

I don't know.

It would be hard to leave.

I think what we've been able to build has been super special too.

Um,

But more than anything, I love this program.

I love getting to play for Coach Bluter.

I love getting to play with my best friends.

They're not only my teammates, but I hang out with them every second off the court.

And it'd be really hard to lead that, especially when you can go to the WNBA even the year after that.

But yeah, I mean, there's pros and cons to both sides.

And I think it's been hard for a lot of college athletes to decide what to do just because there are pros of staying in college, but also your dream of reaching the next level is right there as well.

Yeah, but there's got to be a couple of players going down.

I hope that she doesn't stay an extra year so we can get

some shots here.

Yeah, I think that's definitely a fair assessment.

And we've had a couple of players come back for even their sixth year due to injuries and things like that.

I think it's been a whole different dynamic that players have had to go through, but also coaches.

The uncertainty of your roster and spots and who to recruit.

It's been challenging and difficult.

And then the transfer portal is a whole other thing on top of that that you're having to balance.

So it's really added a whole other element of college basketball and what it already is.

So it's been kind of crazy to navigate.

Coach now just talk to us a little bit about the maturity and how well-spoken Caitlyn is during that interview and she actually put out some very interesting nuggets out there too.

Well, it sounds a little like she's coming back and She'll be the number one recruiter on that staff.

There's no doubt about that.

It'll be interesting to put a roster together once Caitlyn makes a decision.

I not only look forward to her

being in college another year, but I want to see her in the Olympics.

I think that's going to be a next big game time spot for her.

You know, that's a great point too.

That's something we haven't really talked about on this show is that how much really is in front of Caitlin Clark because she can go down if she stays healthy as maybe one of the greatest players in the NCAA, but she will also leave her mark on the national stage as well.

What do you talk about the Olympics and the WNBA, but coach this talk to us real briefly too as you are put yourself in at least the blue their shoes.

How do you manage that roster moving forward because you want to make sure you bring on some of the best athletes, but you also want to bring on some of the best people and make sure that all the personalities gel.

How tough is that going to be moving forward?

Well, you do your research.

There's no doubt about that.

I can tell you right now.

They have dozens of possibilities and phone calls and references already.

Everybody knows that this is the Wild West right now with transfer and NIL, unfortunately.

So they've probably been doing some research in the background already, not Lisa or her top assistant because they obviously need to get ready for every game and win the national championship.

But they were already doing their research.

You know, Chip Reidman, I like to get your thoughts on that too because, and we'd be remiss if we did not give a huge shout out to assistant head coach, Jan Jensen, who was named the assistant head coach of the year as well.

I mean, the accolades that are out there, the team that Lisa Bluter has created is just phenomenal.

I think coach has got an excellent point.

It's going to be about selective recruiting.

They're going to have to look for people that are, I'm assuming that she's coming back now, that they're going to have to find people that are team players that do work well with other players.

Not that they're just a great shooter, they're a great dribbler or something like that.

They have to find people that they know will mesh.

Something like a kind of an odd comparison.

If you look at Alabama football, a lot of people, the four and five stars, a lot of kids, they want to go and play for Alabama because they know it's a winning program.

They know that they're going to have a chance for playing for a national championship.

And that's what Lisa Bloeter is going to have to work on.

If she has Clark coming back, she's going to have to work for players.

One, they're competitive.

Two, they're team players.

They want to work with Katelyn Clark.

And she's got to find a way to mesh that together.

But it should open doors for her, for players that other teams are not going to be able to get, because they're all going to go and look and say,

I want to play for her because I'm going to make it to the final four if I'm on that team.

And also the confidence that maybe we could make them a great player down the road too when Katelyn moves on.

You know, as we move forward, Coach Knapp and Chip Reidman, I'd like to talk just a little bit about, you know, Lisa Bluter.

I feel a lot of times she is not, she's overshadowed a lot in the women's sports.

You talk about what your good friend Gino has done up there at UConn Coach, as well as some of the other great coaches.

Is it time to start elevating Lisa Bluter to maybe one of the top women's basketball coaches in the

nation?

She absolutely should be mentioned in the top 10.

I mean, you've got, I think this is up to date.

You have 819 career wins.

She'll get over a thousand in a couple of years, you know, hanging around a little bit as long as she wants to.

That puts you in hall of fame status, no doubt.

At Summit, Gina Oriama, Vivian Stringer,

maybe one or two others.

We're getting them right now, but 819 will get into a thousand.

in say three or four years, I guess.

You know, Chip, that brings up a great point because Lisa Bluter made the comment that after the elite eight victory against Louisville, her first voicemail was from former head coach, C Vivian Stringer, who took Iowa to the final four back in 1993.

So there is some camaraderie out there.

And it was very, very good to feel that in Hawkeye Nation that they're all still very supportive.

What I

think

is going to be necessary, she's got the record.

She has the wins that she needs to do it.

I think it's going to be up to the athletic department.

And Scott, I know you're probably going to not be happy to even think about that thought, putting Gary Barda in that situation.

Gary Barda

will not be in that situation.

I guarantee you that.

Yeah.

to really get the promotion out there.

It's no different than if your school has a heisman trophy candidate.

They are the ones that are the media machine that have to go out there and promote that.

Now Clark makes it easy just getting Iowa's name out there, but just for down the road for Lisa Bluter, it's going to have to be up to people in the background pushing her record out there and trying to get it noticed.

And that's the question I would have is Iowa's department up to that task.

Well, I would say, you know, the social media aspect, John, is up there.

The Iowa social media game has been just tremendous.

Oh, Scotty, the hospital visits with Caitlyn.

And then yesterday, the announcement via FaceTime to her mom that Bluter announced that she won the AP play there.

Her mom burying her face in her hands and crying very...

Touching moment Iowa social media has got it going on.

Yes, and I'd also encourage a lot of fans to if you're on Twitter go to I believe it's FX Hawkeyes He put together a tremendous Dallas theme song mashup with the team appropriate for you introducing us to Dallas today Scotty it was tremendous and so there is a lot of a lot of Quality products being put out there right now in John weird.

This is basically

I dare say we are starting to rival the late 1980s of the Great Hay Days in the University of Iowa with Hagen Fry, Vivian Stringer, Dan Gable, Dr. Tom Davis.

This team that we have assembled now, Lisa Bluter, Kirk Ferrance.

You know, Fran McCaffrey, Coach Heller at the baseball team.

The ghost of Bump Elliott.

I'm looking for Bump Elliott somewhere there on the sidelines.

It is the heyday of Iowa Sports and we are so blessed at Hawkeye Nation moving forward.

I just, it's going to be very interesting to see what the next year brings.

I'm so excited about it.

I am too.

It's great to be a Hawkeye and we are so blessed to be able to bring it to you, Scotty, to KXEL.

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And now we're breathing with that second lung, that beautiful FM transmitter 100.5 in Cedar Rapids to complement the mission.

You know, absolutely, John.

Forward to there's gonna be a lot of talk about what's going on the University of Iowa It's gonna be interesting here I think we're gonna have some nuggets here in about four to six weeks that I think a lot of Hawkeye fans are gonna be very happy about stay tuned I think

Scotty has an ad announcement We do have one special report that we got to go outro with Mike.

Can you call up that special report?

Klaxon for us.

I know coach and ship read one will be glad to hear this

here

Thank you.

Thanks chipper chips going off to I'm gonna have to go all right Chipper is heading off to assignment for us and mobile unit one He's going to have some Vin Nebraska news next week that will be home medic Impetuous, but speaking of home American impetuous this ensemble this group

that includes Scott Corey and Mike Shane and coach Patrick J. Knapp Jr.

and Mr. Chip Reidman is a group that again has been notified of awards to be given out at the April 29 banquet for the year 2022 of the Iowa Broadcast News Association.

This ensemble group

has 37 IBNA awards and coach they've notified us for a ninth consecutive season of additional awards.

I want to thank you for your contributions.

You made this show the reigning back to back number one sports radio in the entire state and our political division winning some first place awards too.

Man, we're right up there in Jeff Stein country.

I did want a quick question.

Yeah, I noticed that South Carolina is 11 points favorite in this game coming

up.

I did.

I did notice that and yet

I'm really that's like, wow,

it is.

They haven't lost in two years chip and they're not going to bail on an undefeated team that has not lost in two years.

But you know what?

South Carolina's got to lose at some juncture and this

is his

right.

This is his ripe of a time for it to happen.

You almost think this Iowa team

is a team of destiny they certainly have the confidence and they're going to have to shoot lights out but but you know Caitlin can rebound and she can assist and based on that even if they've got three people on her those other Hawkeye women are going to get open and Gabby Marshall can drain that bucket from the outside and Monica Zenano can put it in

side the paint there.

The Hawkeyes are a little bit more multi-dimensional.

So, yeah, they can go places.

This is a great conversation, guys.

Great segment, John.

We want to thank Patrick J. Dapp Jr.

as well as Chip Redman for joining us.

We have a lot of important Iowa sports moving forward to talk about, but now we're going to be so gracious to hear from Barbara Haynes Bryant in her manufactured homes there in Cedar Rapids.

I know we've been kind of looking at what happened with John.

We have.

We want a tailgate.

She won't let us tailgate in her communities, but we can sure have a

Perch a birth from which to go down to Iowa City and watch our favorite Hawkeye men and women wrestling football basketball Scott Well a happy Saturday morning to you on this first day of April here on the Jacobson Group on KXEL.

Hey Scott one thing that's

not an April Fool's joke.

Lynn County is under the weather gun the last few days, including Saturday yet here.

So tune into KXEL for any weather updates as you need.

There's a history in Iowa of even tornadic activity around Palm Sunday, going back to the mid sixties there.

But guys, there's a lot in the news.

Oh my goodness, indictments out of New York, Barbara.

I could indict you for providing beautiful, safe, affordable homes for American families in the Midwest.

Are you guilty as charged?

I am guilty

as charged.

We provide safe, affordable housing to Eastern Iowans and have for 54 years.

As we get into the springtime and stuff like that, talk to us a little about the amenities that your homes have because you know a lot of people have younger families, some of them have a lot of pets.

What kind of atmosphere can they have there once they move into one of your neighborhoods?

I'm glad you asked that.

We are an all-age community here in Southwest Cedar Rapids.

We have Grandview and Summit View.

We have two playgrounds in each community for kids, so that's four playgrounds.

And we also have a dog park, a 16,000 square foot dog park, that's open year round for the four babies in your homes.

You know, Barbara, when we drive through these neighborhoods,

Well, you're a de facto mayor of a city of 3,000 people.

That's how I look at it with these.

You pave your own streets.

Barbara, you've got your own infrastructure there, your own safety.

You've got security.

You've got a food pantry.

You've got your own street crew.

You've got maintenance if there's problems.

You really are matriarch of a de facto city of 3,000 great Iowans.

We agree and the blog that I wrote yesterday which can be viewed on HaynesHomes.com H-A-M-E-S H-O-M-E-S lists a bunch of reasons why Haynes communities are safe and Most people have this image of a decrepit trailer park when they think of manufactured homes or mobile homes But we do a lot of extras for our residents for example

We had installed last year 50 extra security cameras around the community

so we

can monitor activity.

We hire the Cedar Rapids Police Department to do two extra patrols here in various hours in the middle of the night.

We also have two emergency storm shelters at each community so if residents feel during watch or warning they need a little bit more safety they can certainly go into those

Those storm shelters have six-inch thick concrete walls and roofs.

They are sturdy.

Nothing but a direct hit from the tornado is going to do anything to those.

We also have managers on call 24-7 for resident emergencies.

I know that some other places have on-call managers, but we actually have our managers that live here in our communities.

We do everything we can to make our residents feel safe and secure.

Well Barbara, not only that, but you've got tremendous outdoor lighting.

The individual home site lamp posts and nine outdoor overhead lights that are going to be installed this summer.

and you're going to be covering both communities.

You're able to track vehicles in your communities to make sure that there aren't, let's say, bad guys, you know, you're trying to prevent anything from happening.

You know, children are in your communities.

We want to keep them safe.

You've got a good tracking and screening process even for attendance there.

I think you do it all well, but along with that Iowa NICE Barbara, I always said if you scratch the surface of Iowa NICE,

It's love, it's love of your neighbor, and you're also big on neighbors helping neighbors.

You guys, both at Grandview and Summit View, they're friendly communities.

The neighbors meet and they watch out for each other.

Safety first, right, Barbara?

Absolutely.

And back to what she said, because this is a private community, we do screen everyone who applies to live here.

And we make sure we don't have drug dealers or registered sex offenders living in our communities.

So people are comfortable going up to their neighbor and saying hi because they know that that person was screened the same as they were.

And Barbara, your landscaping and lawns out there are flawless in both of those communities.

Things are starting to get pregnant here with springtime greening.

And the next time I come out, I'm sure the aesthetics will even be nicer than they were on that winter landscape.

But Barbara, financing is still affordable.

Some people, they've got a general worry about interest rates, but right now, you guys are still in the sweet spot for affordability in terms of financing, right?

That is correct.

Our interest rates on manufactured homes haven't gone sky high like they have on site built homes.

So right now, that means you can purchase a manufactured home.

with financing about the same as a site built home, which is very appealing to people looking at affordable housing.

Barbara, do you have any inventory?

Because that's one of the big issues I hear about from a lot of my friends that throughout Iowa in our communities is there's no inventory.

What do you have and is there a way we can take a look at that or set up on-site interviews and kind of do a walkthrough?

We have a fabulous selection of new and pre-owned homes, single and double sectional, two bedrooms, three bedrooms, four bedrooms.

The best way to look at our inventory is on our website at HaynesHomes.com H-A-M-E-S H-O-M-E-S dot com and click on View Our Homes.

All of our homes are listed there for sale with all the amenities and the extras.

and the price we are very transparent about price

you know there's an old saying barber that the gene pool doesn't lie and with my meetings with you and with your brother Troy oh my goodness i think i'm looking at your dad and mom from decades ago and that spirit of haims of hard work and ingenuity

and love for a neighbor.

You guys carry that mantle beautifully, not just in your generation, but in the successor generation of Haymes's, now plugged in with the family business.

Oh, thank you, John.

That's the nicest compliment you could give us.

We sure want to carry on the tradition that Curt and Norma Haymes started in 1969.

Beautiful homes and beautiful neighborhoods.

Scotty and I want to buy one of those just so we can go down to Iowa Hawkeye Games and take three months off a year and watch football and basketball.

Scotty, it'd be great to have a little place down there and just hang out at Carver and at Kinnick for about three months.

That'd be a nice

Jumping off point, there'd be only about 15 minutes to Kinnick and Carver.

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

And the ironic thing is, is that both of our wives have been working on a budget to get us out of the house for three months.

So, Barbara, we might be moving in a lot quicker than you think.

If we can

pass

the screening process, that's my concern, Barbara.

Yeah, I've been meaning to talk to

you about it.

I've always said I'm always nervous about any organization that would accept me as a member, Scott.

Yeah, we all are.

We all

are.

Guys, get to that beautiful website.

Hams, H-A-M-E-S-H-O-M-E-S.

Did I just botch that?

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

Barbara, our studio audience here is delighted to hear your voice again.

Listen to that, Barbara.

How's that for early morning praise?

Thank you.

Thank you very much Barbara Hames Bryant the matriarch of Hames Homes Hey John Jacobson here, let's go out to our newsmaker line this weekend We're bringing back dr. Edward Fogarty dr. Ted Fogarty and Doc's been on before he's one of these heroic doctors of conscience

who's been doing some phenomenal work in saving people from COVID and he is very cutting edge.

He's won CARES grants for his tremendously successful hyperbaric therapy work.

Welcome back to show Dr. Fogarty, our studio audience, applause.

They know that you're an Omaha boy coming back home at least on the radio waves today.

How's it going?

What happened up in North Dakota this week?

You were

Testifying and I will last year this time.

What was going on in North Dakota last week, Dr. Fogarty?

Well, John, it's great to be on with you again and give you the updates from the field, so to speak, west of you.

Yeah, I had the great privilege and honor to be approached by Senator Jeff Magrum up in North Dakota, who saved one of his bill spots for me to write up some language regarding the mRNA.

Gene therapy products from Pfizer and Moderna, which I absolutely do not consider vaccines by any prior art of intellectual property in the vaccine industry.

And so I wrote up the mRNA ban bill language from the position of what would a bioethicist worth their salt really think about this whole problem?

coming out of the bioethics of Nuremberg and international human rights world of even, you know, the United Nations back in 1947 when the United Nations came together and drafted human rights legislation at an international law level.

And so I have been working actually behind the scenes with Professor Francis Boyle, University of Chicago undergraduate

who went to Harvard Law and is now at the University of Illinois, who actually penned in 1989, actually wrote the Bioweapons Anti-Terrorism Act of the 101st Congress.

And so I've been working behind the scenes with him and the likes of Bobby Kennedy Jr.

and getting this into the right side of the aisle up in the North Dakota Conservatives as

as a bill to ban all mRNA products in all mammals.

And this is where I kind of became a little bit of a political stuntman because I knew that this would catch the ire of billions of dollars of lobbying complexes, and it surely did.

And Senator Magrum, we left the

We left the Senate hearing with a 6-0 do not pass resolution recommendation, but Senator Magrum Put forth a study consideration as it was going up but before the North Dakota Senate for passage and vote and to go into the house and and lo and behold this was a political victory of really up all time in the midst of this pandemic and Senator Magrum convinced just with simple language

25 of his North Dakota senators to go with him on this concept of we need to do a legislative study.

That's a great win.

So the bill itself got you to open up to a thorough science due diligence process with a study component.

Dave, that's the way to get it done.

You

know what, John, that's absolutely right.

Again, this is what, to me,

When they talk

about follow the science, this is what it's supposed to be about.

And Chip, you're from Nebraska.

We've seen some good things that Attorney General Peterson did here to give people alternatives.

I think Fogarty's on to something here that the study bill and bringing the science in by be some nervous lobbyists.

But you've got now actually a conversation.

That's a breakthrough.

There's no conversation going on in Iowa.

Well, it's it's all about baby

steps sometimes.

Yeah, it's you can

Take this political and say it's a leftist ideology principle that they use.

It's like driving a wedge in to take a tree down.

Yeah, you just got to keep pounding

and

pounding.

But it's just it's those little taps that start moving the needle, moving the tree to get it to fall over to where people will wake up and realize, wait a minute, there's something else going on here.

We need to take a closer look.

We're here with Dr. Ted Fogarty, aeronautics clinic up in Spirit Lake.

Doc, how do they get a hold of you?

Then we've got one outro question for you.

Yeah, thepurplepowder.com is the easiest language to communicate across the airways for people to go to our clinic site.

It's kind of the front door.

I developed the Purple Powder as a North Dakota CARES Act grant awardee, basically to stop this bioweapons impact on all of our families in the Northern Plains.

get on the purple powder and our aeronautics clinic phone number is 712-339-6024.

You can call the clinic and book an appointment with Dr. Meyer or myself across multiple states, contiguous with the great state of Iowa.

You know, Doc, we've got you here right now.

We're pleased to have with us, joined in studio, up quite a

not just an honorary Oscar winner and American Film Institute awardee and movie raconteur Bruce Crawford with us.

Bruce has done exhaustive work in the JFK assassination.

Dr. Ford, you followed our multi-part series on that.

Anything you want to say to Bruce about his research that he unearthed during that project process?

Oh my goodness.

Yes, I'm so proud and pleased to be a part of this conversation.

Bruce, you're a wonderful man of the arts and investigation.

I used to do a little bit of theater at Duchenne in high school, and your impact on the Omaha theater ranks is huge.

A little family story, but Henry Fonda once stole a scarf from one of my Jesuit priests, great uncles.

back in 1917 or so, but it's just amazing to be on the phone with you guys right now.

I

didn't know you were going to have him on, John.

Ted, can you, your father was an influential lawyer, has been an influential lawyer in some very huge cases.

Your grandfathers, you go all the way back to City Charter.

Do you have a tie-in with the Kennedy assassination that you can talk about, Dr. Fogarty?

Well, yes, my great-uncle Hugh Fogarty, who was the managing editor of Bill Mawell's Herald for about three and a half decades, actually got a phone call from one of Jack Ruby's dancers the day after JFK was shot.

And this is all archived in our family history.

Great-uncle Hugh wrote a 200-page book on

the Fogarty family history going back to 1100 and Fogarty Castle out in Tipperary County, Ireland.

But the title of the book is, Do Butterflies Have Years, which was a quote from his grandson, Adam Fogarty, who's roaming the streets of Omaha even now today.

But so, great uncle Hugh truly got this phone call from one of Jack Ruby's dancers who said she saw

how all of this was planned out to assassinate President Kennedy.

And she was naming names and dropping names like, you know, LBJ was there and others.

And so, you know, from the back channels of the media of the day, yeah, my great-uncle Hugh at least recorded and took some part in the documentation of what really went down that day.

by his memoirs in this book.

So

let's fast forward Ted.

Well we got two minutes left.

Let's fast forward our McLaughlin issue for the day.

This is live and unrehearsed but guys there is talk now.

I've actually been texting a little bit.

with them but Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

the very successful trial lawyer son of former the late attorney general Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

the nephew president John F. Kennedy considering a run for president Ted you've got some uh inside scoop on this so issue one on a scale of one to ten one being almost nil

10 being metaphysical surditude.

What are the odds that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

will take on Joe Biden in the Democratic primaries?

I turn to you, Ted Fogarty.

Well, I'm going to go 10 on this one, and we absolutely need Bobby Kennedy Jr.

to take over this wretched Biden administration.

It's literally, it's Bobby or bust, in my opinion.

The great American

landscape and the families of America who have, you know, across the generations and across the aisles for bringing the Kennedy plan into its great prominence in our society.

It is truly based on some of the great incredible speeches and thoughts and really a healing kind of everybody can be on the same page.

thing that seems to go on with the Kennedy family and you know Bobby and I have been friends for over a decade and I've been his most conservative or one of his most conservative advisors in his children's health defense team and and have helped him wage this war against the pharmaceutical companies regarding the harms of these vaccinations for a long time so I am I am fully on board with Bobby Kennedy Jr.

being truly

a salvation play for all of America.

Could he galvanize the discussion, doctor?

Could he get the Fauci corruption as he's detailed in his book?

Can he get that out in the mainstream media and open the eyes of all Americans on this?

Well, absolutely, he already has.

And, you know, he did mention me in his book.

But when you really look at the landscape here, it doesn't matter if you're left, right, or center.

We absolutely need Bobby Kennedy Jr.

to take over the Democratic nomination to run this country to the center and to the middle.

And you're going to see all kinds of hit jobs on him from the mainstream media about his anti-vaccine stance.

But I'm here to tell you, he is litigated to prove for the pudding

that we have all been defrauded by these vaccine companies and now that now these vaccine companies as a global entity and complex and nexus have literally taken over america

here with dr ted fogni ted our studio audience loves you and our chorus again your honorary island again today ted fogni we're always great to have you you bring bobby into studio we'll get him a full hour on four networks how's that for a deal

Sounds great.

I'm looking forward to it with you, John.

God bless you, brother.

Hey, as Bobby would say, you're one of those great heroic doctors of conscience, Dr. Ted Fogarty, Omaha.

And thanks, Ted, for joining us.

John Jacobson back with you here Mike Shane at the control Scott Corian studio.

Well Scott as an attorney I'm I'm sad to say America crossed a Rubicon.

There is no going back on the banana public precedent that was set by a rogue elected partisan essentially county prosecutor that this was not a federal

uh... charge although it sounds like there was assistance given to mister brag by some people that had some federal experience but essentially you got a county attorney uh... now going into banana republic territory of trying to criminalize your political opponents

I think Mr. Putin is taking notes actually on how to do a better job in Russia in

with with his political opponents that that haven't subsided and maybe even Chairman G. This is incredibly outrageous.

I can tell you there's even a precedent in Iowa law, a famous case.

I'm not going to go into it today, which basically would utterly throw out this charge and the same legal principles apply to New York.

And now the criminalization of

our political opponents is part and parcel of the American fabric, Scott.

We know they're going after conservatives specifically.

We know under the Obama administration, they were going after all the Tea Party friendly groups that were trying to get 501C3 status.

We know they're going after Christian churches with a vengeance today with the incitement of speech against

Christian conservatives, which we have seen tragically is now portended violence against even innocent, totally innocent Christian schoolchildren.

This is dangerous and chilling because as an attorney to manipulate the law into a two tiered justice system where punishment is meted out against past, present and future political opponents, this is communist totalitarianism.

This is the beginning of how it always goes.

And for those of you that think that this just pertains to President Trump, they can do that to Trump.

They can do that to any one of us.

And all you need to do is watch Dr. Javago after they demonize their political opponents criminally.

The next thing they did was they took their land, Scotty.

So land confiscation is on their long term agenda.

And I'm not just talking about

your homestead on your residential plot.

There's already attempts right now to essentially seize

the land.

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

And we should also remember that this DA in Manhattan actually has a playbook because let's not forget what a DA down in Travis County, Texas did against Governor Rick Perry.

Also, I believe he even filed charges against.

Indicted.

Indicted Rick Perry.

Right as he was about to run for president.

You're right, Scotty.

Chris Christie, they were trying to indict him over Bridgegate when he was going

around for president 16.

Just going to mention that.

It's not also forget to about how all of a sudden, uh, you know, Congressman Don Bacon as well as Congressman Zach Nunn, uh, both Republicans had their military records released during the campaign.

If

you and I had leaked those, we would be in prison, but no repercussions

to anybody.

We have a two tiered system.

Absolutely.

John.

And what also is very concerning too, and a lot of people have said this, not only conservatives, but a lot of independence.

And even a few Democrats I know said, well, if they're going

to go after Donald Trump for this.

Hillary Clinton should probably be in front of a grand jury immediately.

How about how about Barack Obama for fast and furious and for lowest learners, illegal.

weaponization of the IRS against innocent Americans.

What about Bill and Hillary Clinton?

What about the bleach bit server with Hillary?

I mean, this is an absolute outrage.

Hunter Biden for crying out loud.

He's on video committing crimes and there's no rating.

There's no arresting.

However, if you're a conservative whistleblower testifying under oath in front of Congress, the IRS

Literally knocks on your door.

This is chilling.

They're so brazen about it Scott They're brazen because they know they can do it and They're playing smash mouth football right now.

Will the GOP?

Summon some courage to fight back if these guys don't they're gonna be in there in the

proverbial sites of rogue prosecutors

at a later date.

You know, and that's that's going to be the key question is they're going to be DA's across say Texas or Alabama or anything like that that decide to go ahead and indict some of these Democrat operatives too.

And so it's going to be very interesting to see and it's very chilling to see how things move forward because all of a sudden nobody's talking about uranium one.

Let's not forget that was a Clinton Obama issue in the Ukraine that led to this war.

I predict a full blown constitutional crisis by this summer.

Keep your cool heads, be peaceful, work through the law.

The law will always in the long run grind, although exceedingly slowly, exceedingly fine.

Due process and justice will prevail.

We always solve our issues peacefully and just keep calm guys.

This is gonna work out.

I've read the law, I've read the case law.

Trump's got this thing, he's gonna ultimately prevail here.

Maybe earlier in the process than you think.

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

And it also kind of reminds me of the old quote from a John Wade movie in Chisholm, where he says, one way or another, the law will prevail.

Yeah, I think here, these charges are so flimsy, I think they may get thrown out right after arraignment.

We'll see.

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