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KXEL Presents: The Jacobsen Group Podcast - September 16, 2023
The Jacobsen Group with Jon Jacobsen · Mon Sep 18, 2023
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You can get right into all that archive of podcasts Let's go out to Hawkeye land and pick up Scott Corey co-host and Chip Readman our recurring guest the prophets of the prairie Let's go Hawks Mike gear up that fight song Well, we got a Hawkeye alum at this and the Mike and Chip Readman and Iowa State alum at the other
End of the mic and Scott Corey, we're going to let you lead off last Saturday and how does it impact this Saturday as the Hawks take the gridiron again at the friendly confines of Kinnock in just hours.
You know that's a great point John last Saturday was the historic moment in the Kirk Farron era at Iowa.
Kirk racked up victory number 200 and so it was kind of fitting that he did it in Ames where it took him
four years to finally beat Iowa State, but he did so in Ames, and he did it in a typical Kirk Farrant's fashion.
He did it with an impressive ground attack, an impressive defensive effort with a pick stick, and even threw in a blocked field goal.
So if there was a quintessential victory, a Kirk Farrant style, that was it.
And so it was a great win.
There's a lot of optimism, as I mentioned the last couple of weeks on this program.
around this team.
Kirk seems to be dialed in.
He seems to be a little bit looser than he has been in the past.
He's got this mentality kind of grumpy old Kirk in a way, but at the same time, he's jovial Kirk.
And it was interesting to John that even this week, even Kate McNamara was joking at the press conference.
And even Nico Lagini was making fun of the big 10 reps and everything like that.
And I made the comment, Curt, even two or three years ago, wouldn't have put up with it.
But there's something different about this team.
They're relaxed, they're dialed in, and the Vibe Shades of 2015, as I mentioned in the past.
Yeah, Scotty.
I'm pumped up as a Hawkeye fan.
There is something extra going on here.
And I do want to touch base with Chip Reedman.
Chip, we were talking with another Cyclone fanatic.
Matt Garst and you know you take away that pick six though and that that was a very competitive game really
Yeah, I agree with that a hundred percent.
I'll I'll give Scott to credit for looking for the silver lining in the game In the in the cloudy situation with their offense.
Yeah, the defense did perform as everyone expected They did come up with the with the pick six
Good for them.
Parker's got a hell of a defense going and I'd be really proud of that.
They're 2-0 for the season so that they're off to a very, very good start and good for them.
But that game was, I would not say that game was a walk over by any
Take away that pick six and you're down to a tie game and a couple other twists in there and it could have been a bad day for the Hawkeyes because offense is still a huge problem for this
And with Western Michigan coming up,
They need some points if this kid wants to keep his job.
And Western Michigan is going to be one of the first games to do it for them.
But Western Michigan, I think usually these teams usually have good defenses.
So it's going to be a tough road to hope for the Hawkeye offense today.
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Tim Grover rejoins us.
Tim, so great to have you back on the show with us.
Tim, we were talking together the other night for an extended period.
Cade McNamara, you've really got some good observations about the difference maker that he is emerging to be.
I thought there were some very salient points.
Do you mind sharing some of those with our audience, Tim?
You're a keen observer of good iron behavior.
Yeah, I think we've got a Heisman trophy candidate there if we have the right offensive system.
I think his football knowledge is very, very solid.
He gives a good interview.
During the pressers, people asking questions, they already know that happened in the game.
And you can see that coming back to him, what happened in that situation, and he can explain it like a professional.
So, yeah, I really think he may be the most intelligent quarterback I've ever seen at this university.
But again, it gets into what system are you in?
Are you in a system where you're going to score 30 to 35 points a game or not to get the attention to the Heisman in that?
So, um, so, you know, there's nothing wrong with old fashioned football either.
So, you know, but I really, I really see a lot of potential on him and I hope he comes back for another year.
I understand he does have another year.
He
does.
He wants the eligibility.
He does.
I think we've got a lot of great things coming forward with him.
But I think you're going to have to let, so far, he's a little real dead and Eddie's talking about how the leg isn't healed all the way and he's not pushing off in the ball just flying a little high.
So I think there's a little problem there yet, but you're not going to get beat in these games.
Because your quarterback isn't smart enough.
He's smart enough.
You know, that's a great point.
Scott Corey, you know, I'm old enough to remember a long line of Iowa quarterbacks.
Kenny Plain, Randy Duncan, Larry Lawrence, Mike Selick, Eddie Podlak.
Chuck Long, Vlasik, and Hartlaib, the three guys who were piloting when I was there at the university, and then we talk about banks, and Stanzi, and of course our modern era of quarterbacks.
Is McNamara Brady-esque in that he's such a good field, Marshall Dolphin, Podlak?
We're talking about him going through three progressions, hitting a fourth,
receiver is this guy has he not peaked yet you know he he and Kirk have talked about they're not quite humming yet on some of the past plays but they're getting close Tim Grover yeah those are great takes on Cade McNamara and and I looks like Scotty agrees with me too there's still room for improvement when they really start clicking with his receiver core Kirk says they're close
Cade says they're close.
So I'm really pumped.
Well guys, we do have our loyal Husker fan on the show here.
Mr. Chip Reedman.
Let's pull up the Husker fight song Chip I was you know, the lovely gracious mrs. Jacobson my bride is a Born and bred Husker fan
Tough game out in the high altitudes with the Neon Deon marketing machine, really.
Were you surprised by the game?
The Huskers were very close, but I saw more turnovers in that game than I did at Pettit's pastry the other morning.
Yep, they definitely have some issues with quarterback.
That's where most of it stemmed.
He's
not
going to be, it sounds like he might not be playing this week because of an ankle injury.
Whether that's a blessing or not, we'll find out as our bar comes in.
Harburg, I get the name wrong, comes in to fill in his second string.
They got some real issues to deal with when it comes to the quarterback side.
Defense played marvelously.
They played absolutely their hearts out until the third quarter.
They look good.
I think eventually they they get wore out because you give the team you're the team that ball that many times you're on the field too much.
Oh, they were gassed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, they were gassed.
The altitude, you know, did catch up to them at some point.
Although I think that they fought hard all the way to the end, but there's only so much that you can do.
Yeah, you know, I'll go to Scott here.
Scott, I admire coach Matt Rule, but I do want to say that his prior two collegiate coaching stops, he did start out 0-6.
There's no danger of that happening, is there?
Well, I don't think there is, but I think it's one of those things too, where the, especially the Omaha media,
was just so over the top and hyping up this Nebraska team.
Chip and I talked about this during the summer and leading into the first couple of weeks here that basically if they could win four to six games would be considered a huge milestone in victory for this program and even get more eligible.
We just saw two
There's something going on, and we talked about what happened with Nebraska, but let's give a lot of credit to what's going on with Coach Prime at Colorado.
He went in there, he turned over that roster to basically a 90%.
He brought in his guys, you know, like him or Hadeum, he has created his own buzz, and he's got spots big noon as well as ESPN's game day, and even 60 minutes are going to be at the game Saturday night.
against Colorado versus Colorado State.
I mean, the guy is the face of college football right now where we love him or hate him.
And it's a good thing for the program.
That
rule too.
He needs to understand, and I think he does understand, that this is a rebuild.
Nebraska's gone through basically a tear down of the program.
every couple years for the last 10 to 15
years.
Right,
right.
It isn't to ask the patient, but, but Sims is not the quarterback.
He is, I mean, you don't go to Virginia or excuse me, Georgia attack and get a quarterback and expect to win big 10 football.
Yeah, I think that's a good point, and I'll go back to Chip here in just a second, but I agree.
I love Sanders.
I think he's good for the game.
I think it's good to have controversy in the game, too.
My goodness.
Pro football.
There was never so much buzz as when Howard Cosell was in the booth with the Gifford and Dandy Don.
And, you know, it's like Al Davis says, just win, baby.
When Dion pulls his kid in there to pilot the first ball game with 510 yards passing and zero Interceptions, he's gonna be on my Heisman list.
I don't know about you Chip your take on on the ascendancy overnight of a Colorado program that was 1 and 11 last year He's done an impressive
job
I'll go along with what Scott said to a point, except I'll leave out the love side.
I'll just say we'll stay on the hate side.
That's Colorado and Nebraska probably summed up in just one word at this point.
He's arrogant.
He's got no class.
Is he good for the college football?
Yeah.
I mean, even when you say bad news is good news.
That would fit him pretty good.
I think he's got his own lack of respect for other people.
It's interesting the Colorado State coach has clipped him a little guff.
I think one comment that I saw was, even an adult knows to take off your glasses and your hat when you're talking to other people as a courtesy.
And of course, Sanders is going to jump all over that.
The thing that they jumped over in Nebraska for was just so...
Piddly little
you know, okay So they went out and set a prayer on that midfield on top of the buffalo and even asked his son to even join him in the prayer and the Sun goes back and goes to the media and makes that a big deal
Yeah, that was that was that was a cheap shot that that was hyped up this was Colorado always as they try to hype up
artificially create conflict and strife.
That goes back to the McCartney years.
Is that legacy, that poisonous legacy?
Well, look, go back even the year they won the championship, if I remember right, if I have it right.
That's when Salomis, one of his players, died.
They turned that program around.
Now as a father, I think I'd be questioning things.
So they found out that Salomis had a baby with McCartney's daughter.
Out of wedlock not but that doesn't ever happen anymore, but it's just it's just strange goings on down there and the fans are just so They'll fly by night.
They're there.
They're also they're also terrible.
They're also terrible fans.
I mean they are
they are terrible
If there's Iowa nice, there's Colorado Savage
Yeah, I've already heard stories down there of people that went down and
again it's like why do you even go down this like poking yourself in the eye you think eventually you stop doing that just every time people go down and they come back and say why'd i go there
i know scott is it possible the colorado fans are even worse than the cyclone fans
oh they're right up there with the cyclone fans as far as i'm concerned but the difference to the colorado fan in the cyclone fan is at least colorado can back it up they've actually had a program they can win 10 wins 10 wins in a season
But Chip alluded to the Jay Norvell comments.
There's always an Iowa tie that seems like, and don't forget Jay Norvell played in Iowa.
And he is rumored to be in one of those circles that someday when Kirk does step down, that Jay Norvell will be at least interviewed for the Iowa position.
And I thought it was interesting too.
I saw what Jay had said.
He didn't need to say it the way he said it.
I knew what he was trying to say, but when he made a reference and even said something about Prime's mama, I was like, holy cow, Prime is going to use that.
He's going to try to dump 60 points on Colorado State.
exactly what they're going to do.
And then
had Dion Sanders Jr.
Tweet out that the Buffalo is gonna come out, Ralphie the Buffalo is gonna come out with sunglasses and a hat.
is right into their playbook.
That's what they love.
It is.
Well Scott, I gotta say on the given Dion grief with the hat and the sunglasses on when you're talking to people, you know, we had a coach who regularly talked to people
with sunglasses and a hat for 25 years.
John Hayden Frye had those, he was very photosensitive, light sensitive, but Hayden more often than not had those glasses on when he was chatting with you.
You know, absolutely, you know, he had that, uh, that ice strain that they brought on by a recruiting trip down in Texas or New Mexico.
I can't quite remember.
Uh, he was caught up in a blistered and that damaged a lot of his
eyes.
So, but Hayden was also the master troll.
I was trying to think of how.
You know, how would Deon handle a hated fly press conference?
Or how would Deon handle a Steve Spurrier type rivalry?
Those press conferences would be epic.
But Hayden Fry, though, he was the master troll.
Let's not forget what he used to do to Minnesota.
He went out in overalls and made fun of them.
You know, the epic...
1985 game with number one.
I will versus number two.
Yes.
Shembeckler starts giving him grief.
And he says, don't worry, Bo.
We're not putting.
And so I mean, that is perfect.
Hayden Frye.
And you know, the best thing about it now is Dion Sanders
is
that he is a marketing machine.
Yes.
And this is what the programs need moving
And I look forward to when Dion brings his circus into Ames in the next two years once they join the Big 12.
You
know, if I could freeze a frame in time, it would be the look on Beauchamp Beckler's face.
We walked into that visitor's locker room and I was sitting and saw the ceiling, the walls and the floor painted pink, Scott.
Absolutely.
It would be tremendous to have Dion come to Keneck and see the visiting locker room as well as the pink urinals and toilets.
It would just be amazing what would happen.
But at the same time, you look about this right now, Chip.
Dion is the face of college football and for better or worse, he surpassed
Nick Saban and Kirby Smart down at Georgia.
We're all talking about him and he hasn't even won a conference championship yet.
It's amazing what he's able to accomplish in six months.
Yeah, Chip.
It
has been amazing.
Yeah, Chip Reidman.
What do you think here?
Let's just shift gears for a second.
I want to talk about the pro game a little bit and
You know, it's just showing the fragility as we march to the trenches here.
The fragility between success and failure.
At one moment, Aaron Rodgers on 9-11 is carrying old glory, leading her onto the field.
And three snaps later, he's done, probably career ending.
You look at what the Giants traded away in draft picks to get Aaron Rodgers.
You know, it's amazing.
And I want to go to you, Chip Reedman.
There's been a lot of social media contemplation of this.
And they're trying to find a bad guy in this.
And is the bad guy the artificial turf?
There's a lot of buzz that that is the cause of a lot of these injuries.
Chip, what are your thoughts?
I think they have a valid question to bring that up.
Think they also have to include in there as a factor is his age.
He's maybe not as nimble as he used to be not as flexible
Yeah, those soft tissues those soft tissues atrophy a little bit and get cracks and tears in with time.
That's true
Yep, so it's a good field that he's on.
I mean it's not state of the art state of the art as you can get
So, I actually saw the play, I was watching it actually when the game was going, and it was such a freak deal that it even happened.
So sometimes you just gotta say, you know what, it's bad luck.
basically what he had.
I think he had bad luck.
Now, I'm hearing this morning, they're saying nine to twelve month recovery, and he's saying he's coming back.
So they're not talking a career ending at this point.
He definitely wants it.
He doesn't want to finish this way.
And I don't blame him.
If you're a competitor, that's the last way you want to walk out is with an injury like that.
So I would expect him to come back next year.
Amazing.
Scott, what say you?
It is a lot of moving forward.
We need to talk about player safety, especially on the pro side as well as on the college side as well.
Years ago, back in the 80s and 90s, they used to have that astroturf, which was basically paid to concrete.
And now we've gone to field turf.
I know Iowa State at Jack Trice Stadium has gone to all grass.
There has been talk about maybe Kenick Stadium at some point going back to a grass field.
I think on the pro side we need to have these conversations.
And don't forget too that the Sunday night game was at the same stadium the Giants had played and less than 24 hours later they had the Jets on the same field.
So I don't know if there was a field issue or like Chip talked to, it was just a freak accident.
But I'm also reminded of that freak play in 2009, Ricky Stanzi in the bootleg, messed up his ankle against Northwestern and cost Iowa a shot at a national champion
that year.
Yes, yes.
Brutal, brutal.
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We're gonna
also veer into tennis.
I just want to salute, he's got to be the greatest of all time.
You know, we thought Federer forever was gonna be the greatest of all time, but Novak Djokovic, and the reason I'm celebrating him is because he is triumphed over
The demonic evil That he was subjected to For making what was a good medical decision for him a medical decision that he had every right to make himself a medical decision that impacted No one adversely that that put no one at risk, but because Novak Djokovic refused to take the jab
He was persecuted from being in competition for basically the COVID period, including being denied entry in the United States to compete for a US Open title that he was favored to win.
He won again the other day, the greatest ever, more grand slam, major championships than anybody in history.
And he said what was so satisfying for him,
Now that he is in his late thirties, hard to believe, he's in his late thirties, he said he always wanted to win big when his children were old enough to appreciate who he was and what was winning big.
And that terrible photo of him embracing his young daughter, she must be seven or eight now, and trying to think over the Biden Fauciite fascists
I think it's one of the greatest stories ever in the history of sports, and they need to do a chariot-suffer type of movie about Novak Djokovic triumphing over the COVID Fauciite Big Pharma Biden terrorists.
Scott, what say you?
You know, I thought it was very ironic.
One of the photos that were very iconic was, I believe, Bill Gates, who was a big proponent of
of the COVID-19 shot was there.
And this tournament was also sponsored by Moderna.
And they had the Moderna banners all across the stadium.
And Jokovic was basically the poster child of being anti-vaccinated.
And there he is winning basically in the belly of the beast.
And so I think if we actually had a fair and honest media, we could see like a ESPN 3430 type program about what
has transpired the last 20 or so months regarding sports and the shots moving forward.
And we've seen players throughout the world who have had these shots basically have to withdraw from different tournaments as well as outright collapsing on the court because of health-related issues.
So this is a story that's going to have legs.
And unfortunately, I'm afraid of where it's going to end up.
Well, you know, I'll tell you, we know that Novak Djokovic and those great tennis players, we know that they wear tennis shoes.
I don't know what shoes Bill Gates was wearing as an attendee at the tournament, but I'm convinced if he peeled those shoes off, you would find cloven hooves.
And so let's also...
Young Miss Gough, I believe that is her name.
Who was our American that won the women's tennis?
Yes, yes.
And I thought it was very interesting, John, that there was a moment where she basically took a knee at her table and said a prayer.
And ESPN said, well, she was in deep thought.
But former NFL coach, Indianapolis coach,
Colts Tony Dungey went on Twitter and blasted ESPN saying, no, that's a prayer.
She's doing what any normal person would do.
And so I thought it was very interesting that Tony Dungey is not afraid to express his faith in the public arena the way he is.
And I thought it was a very heartwarming moment that that young tennis player did.
Coco Gough.
Yes, Coco Gough, COCO.
G-A-U-F-F and yeah, you know ESPN is so dumb and woke they don't know what a prayer is for crying out loud and of course good and decent people were praying at the NFL game when DeVar Hamlin went down and you know we had
some media guys flinching about what to do during that.
And good and decent people turn to our Lord in prayer and ask for healing and recovery for people.
And the fact that ESPN was so blind and so deaf and so ignorant, just a panel of ignoramy there that it took
the great African-American Super Bowl winning coach Tony Dungey to say, guys, she's praying.
It just shows how out of touch the elite Eastern media is with the census fidelium of the American people.
So, Tim, I want to bring you back into this.
I'd really like your take on the Cocoa Golf, but also the Novak Djokovic.
Tim, give us some philosophical opining here, Mr. Grover.
Well, this is a great example of we need to get outside influences out of sports.
Sports is our escape from everyday life, politics, work, whatever it is.
And they've invaded this.
They're using these athletes to influence people.
Yeah, I mean, we're getting past selling cereal and beer now into managing people's behavior.
and the things that they believe in, right down to their fate.
This is a great thread.
Follow this thread through.
This is insightful.
Go, Tim.
Why can't we just enjoy a game anymore without having somebody sell us something beyond something we would use every day as a personal product?
These are things that we need to talk out in our own lives with our own family and friends.
and to, you know, what they did with Joseph Etch and trying to spend what they did with this Coco Gala.
It's like, you're supposed to be journalists to begin with.
So, you know, if you want to do opinion, you can do shows like this.
You know, mostly we're doing opinion here.
They're supposed to be journalists.
So stay out of the opinion business and quit trying to sell an idea
other than something that's traditionally sports always back.
Hard work and about possible, you know, you have to fund sports.
So you need sponsors with good, solid products that people can use every day.
Let's get back to the purity of sports.
Let's not be divided when we're not watching the game.
Boy, this is a great take here by Tim Grover.
And while we have Tim on the line,
I want to do our presidential cavalcade update.
Let's pull in Decision 24 music here, Mike Shane, because our good friend, Mr. Tim Grover, I mean, guys, we've had so many great exclusive interviews from Bobby Kennedy to Larry Elder across the bow.
It's Saturday, but next week, Tim,
You are going to be in the thick of it, political consultant excellence that you are.
You're going to be with President Trump.
And what does it look like for, he's coming to your, your, your Hamlet of McQuadda for crying out loud.
Grover, you're the epicenter of politics and you're our beat reporter.
Tell us what's going on.
There's a lot going on on the ground here, particularly involving Team DeSantis, Team Trump, and Team Vivek.
You know what's going on.
You've got some insight.
The good, the bad, and the ugly.
Give us your ground assessment over there, Tim Gover, on the GOP caucus back and forth as we're seeing it emerge.
Well, yeah, Trump's coming to town next Wednesday afternoon, and then he's doing a big speech at the Grand River Center in Dubuque that afternoon.
So he's making two stops along the way.
And hopefully I'll get a chance to talk to a couple of people.
Hopefully I'll get a chance to finally meet him.
I've never met him before, so it should really make my day.
Are you going to give him a Gary Dolphins bar, do you think, for some hot talk?
That's not confirmed yet.
I'd like to see that happen.
So let's let's see what happens there.
I don't know yet.
Hey, how is team DeSantis behaving?
Are they behaving over there?
Let's just
say the arm bending of people in the legislature and now on the committees.
And we're talking we're talking the type of arm bar that make Rick Flare blush.
You're talking about the county central committees
Yeah,
so that's
going on a lot of that's going on
Well, you know
Scotty
we've we I'm
not gonna drag names into
no no don't but
What?
Well, we're really thinks it's a great hold to put on them, so
oh Well Scotty we've we've we've done our sure arm wrestling with our own Central Committee.
Haven't we Scott?
Yeah, we sure have and you know, I think
uh... what one thing i'm gonna keep an eye on is i'm kind of from hearing that governor reynolds expect an endorsement from her uh... right around her uh... october event it looks like she will be endorsing uh... governor disdantis
i don't know
what it would be wise
or
not but that
some will not be some will not be forgiving about that scott yeah i
want to add a quick dot if i could add real quick
I don't agree with her endorsement, but I agree with her honesty.
I'd rather have her do that to come out and endorse him than actually be secretly for him.
Well, this is great.
Tim, I want to draw this out from you because our colleague at KXEL, Jeff Stein, without naming names, blasted the facade of neutrality
in Iowa that all these big wigs purport to have when, in essence, maybe they've got friends or staffers that are actively working for certain candidates over others.
Tim, would you expand on this a little bit?
We were talking yesterday.
I thought it was brilliant about how we've got to get honest here.
Talk about this.
This is really important.
I thought your take, it coincides with Steins.
I think it's really good.
Yeah, it happens every caucus season.
It happens every primary season.
This happens
in
both parties all the time.
The establishment has the favorite, and that's okay.
I don't expect people to agree with me.
I do expect them.
I absolutely hate people that lie that they agree with me.
I don't like that.
Yeah, if she's going to do that, I prefer her to go ahead and do that.
I don't agree with it.
I don't know what that will mean on re-election time for her.
I think there's other aspects involved in that that happen in the legislature that I'm happy with.
But we need to stop this facade of neutrality out there.
And again, we're better off to be honest.
I prefer somebody who's being honest with me, who disagrees with me than somebody
who claims to agree with me, and they're playing for votes, or they're playing for favoritism, or what have you.
Just be honest with me.
You don't have to agree with me.
Well, let me kick it.
This is just great stuff, Tim Grover.
Let me kick it back to Chip and to Scott.
Is this a whipsaw?
Because if you then do show your true colors and put your cards on the table,
Does that then jeopardize Iowa's status if it's not neutral as the site for the first caucuses?
I'll start with Scott and then go to Chip.
So we have this facade of everybody being neutral when they're not, but if they come out and lay their cards on the table, does that jeopardize Iowa is not a fair playing field, Scott?
And then Chip, Scott, you first.
Yeah.
I would say it does jeopardize this.
This would be a break in tradition.
Nobody on the upper levels of Iowa have ever endorsed in the past.
Governor Branson never endorsed.
I think the closest we ever came to Senator Grassley ever endorsing was in
1996 when his friend Bob Dole was running.
But even then, he was very cautious about that.
But at the same time, at the RNC convention, Chuck Grassley was sitting in the Dole box next to Elizabeth.
So, I mean, the symbols were there.
But Grassley always made the comment that he had known Dole for a long, long time and they were friends.
Yeah, they went back.
They went back to Lincoln Douglas debates together.
Absolutely.
They were there at the founding.
And so that was very interesting, too.
Congressman Latham never really endorsed it, I'm aware of.
Congressman King has endorsed in the past that he's no longer obviously in the delegation.
It's going to be very interesting to move forward because Governor Reynolds has a lot of issues, too, that are being kind of papered over at the moment, too, with the base.
They are very reluctant supporters of her at the moment.
Well, way, way, way further information comes out about the Board of Medicine and the Board of Pharmacy and Dr. Hart, such as Lawsuit.
Those are executive branch.
departments and there needs to be cleanup.
I don't know if there's a big enough pooper scooper to clean that up, Scott.
You
know, absolutely.
And so I think it's very interesting.
But Chip, on the other side, we did see, you know, in the governor's race in Nebraska, we had a proxy war basically between Donald Trump and his candidate Herbstur for governor.
They took on the
the Ricketts machine and they lost that governor's race or primary.
So it's very interesting that we're seeing this starting to play out in Iowa right now.
Yeah, I would be tempted to say that there are no rules in this to some extent.
I think the point you make about Grassley long term friendships, I think have to be taken into consideration.
I really wish that the upper echelon of a party would kind of just sit back and
and let things kind of work themselves out.
So on the ricketts side, I don't know how close he was to Pillon.
I think he was fairly close as a guest, so I can understand to appoint him going that way.
And then Herbster had his other issues with sexual harassment.
and we still never know we'll never know what the bottom of that story was
we we don't know if there was if there was we don't know if that was legit or not that's never been adjudicated
right we do not know i mean they went to started going to court everything and then once uh... pillan pretty much won the nomination for the republican side and the whole thing just kind of collapsed so at some point you got to get them to kabuki theater
And it's like, you guys are just, they'll just do anything sometimes to try and knock someone out.
Okay, so I'm going to stir the pot here, okay?
I'm an old guy and there was this great old TV series called Dynasty and John Forsythe was the patriarch of the family and the competing female rivals were Joan Collins and Linda Evans showcased by a gloriously epic
wrestling match in the pool at the dynasty mansion there.
Am I reading into this Tim Grover and Scott and Chip, but Christine Noem and Kim Reynolds are natural rivals for a vice presidential consideration, neighboring governors, similar records, similar stories, similar
trajectories in terms of their own demographic profile and how that's worked into electoral politics.
Kristi Noem seems to be endorsing Trump and Trump did call out Kim Reynolds in public in Iowa for not being as supportive as he thought she should be.
So are we seeing a national rivalry setting up?
with an undercurrent of a gnome versus Reynolds rivalry, Scott Corey.
Let's stir the pot today, why not?
You know, I think it's going to be very interesting moving forward because typically in a caucus season, you start seeing Farragas crisscross the state as we get closer and closer to the January caucuses.
And it should be very telling.
the moment that Kristi Noem basically crosses the Missouri River.
And where does she go first?
Does she go to Sioux City?
she go to Council Blouse?
Or does she go straight to the heart of the matter and right into Des Moines?
will be very interesting.
And Kristi Noem is a hand-to-hand fighter.
She is not afraid to take it on.
And knowing how competitive she is, she may decide to do a multi-city swing with making a point.
and Chris crossing the state of Iowa, and I'm gonna be here for it.
I think it's gonna be epic.
Well, Scotty, you and I took pictures with her in Council Bluffs, and she looked really good standing next to the two of us.
I think we enhanced her photogenic prowess.
Yeah, absolutely, and at the same time, I thought it was interesting that both our wives were glaring at us at the same time.
Hey, I think she's a Husker fan Chip Raymond because she was dressed in a red dress
Well, that's pretty interesting.
Although I'm beginning to wonder about this previous conversation you just had.
I thought marijuana was illegal in Iowa.
I'm not sure what you guys were looking at in that conversation.
You probably did make her look good, but on the other hand, a lot of people probably look good next to both of them.
Well, actually, all of us.
Shane was shaking his head in studio here.
He wasn't buying it.
Tim Grover.
You know, I've looked for that sound effect forever, but I don't know how to Google search it.
Is that the one?
How do you type that in?
W-A-A-H?
All these engineers have that secret sound effect that can't be indexed.
What is that thing called?
Let's go out with our predictions.
All right.
There we go, Mike Shane.
Awesome.
And Mike Shane was just playing the theme song from Dynasty.
He's sitting on all cylinders today.
Okay.
Western Michigan Broncos at Iowa Hawkeyes.
Who wins and what's the score?
Scott Curry.
Iowa 38, Western Michigan 10.
Oh, I like the sounds of that chip readman.
I'm gonna go Iowa 28 to 10 for Western Michigan.
I'm still concerned about that offense.
Yeah, I am too.
Tim Grover.
24 to nothing.
Iowa, and I think we'll have 300 yards of rushing.
That would be great.
Jacobson says 21 to 3 Hawkeyes.
Chip Riedman, who the Huskers play.
They're playing more than Illinois.
A team that has upset them just was about, I think, five, six years
ago.
I remember.
Riley was the coach.
Yep, yep.
If you mean an interesting little rematch here.
And I've got it.
I'm just I really haven't thought about it.
I think it's 11 point 11 12 point spread on the game.
so I'm probably going to be thinking somewhere in the 28 probably somewhere to what the Iowa game is 28 to 10.
So we defense will keep keep us in the game.
OK, so readman Chip says Huskers over northern Illinois.
Scott, do you concur?
I do.
I think it's going to be Huskers 24 northern Illinois 17.
Very good.
Tim Grover, do you care to opine?
Yeah, I've taken Nebraska 17-10 and Brock Purdy's little brother will come in and the second half to lead him to a great big come from behind win.
If they put in Chubba Purdy, I do predict a Husker win.
How late will he be placed into the game though?
That is the question.
Why is it playing
him?
I agree.
I agree.
I'm scratching my hand.
Chip Readman.
Who the Cyclones play?
They are playing the University of Ohio.
And I believe pretty sure that they're favored in that game.
And I'm kind of thinking this can be because I was state's offense has not really shown anything yet.
So I think it's also going to be a low scoring, but a tight game.
Ohio's quarterback has not shown any good numbers this season.
I think he has more interceptions than touchdowns, kind of like what Nebraska's problem is.
But they have, they've got a two and one record.
This is their fourth game if I saw things right.
And they've won two of them.
So I think it's gonna be a tough one and I'll say 24-17.
That
is at Ames though, correct?
No.
Oh, then it's gonna be very tight at Ohio.
Boy, coin flip from me.
We'll go to Grover and then Scott, your predictions.
Well, we're going into Mack
country, right?
You betcha, you betcha.
Yeah, that's Matt's old territory.
So we're looking at 12 to 10.
I want to say, I really think the young freshman quarterback, Cody, I think he's pretty good.
You betcha.
He's pretty good for the cyclones.
I do too.
12 to 10 in Mack's country, where we kind of take the day off when we're kind of hanging around out there.
Scott, you get the final word.
I'm going with the UPSET Special.
Iowa State cannot handle the action that's going to be taking place.
The Big 12 is going to lose.
It's going to be Ohio 17.
Iowa State is 13.
The ghost of Frank Solich hangs like a wraith over Toledo.
One of my favorite times of the week is when we get to visit with the lovely and gracious Barbara Hames Bryant, the matriarch of Hames Homes, this wonderful multi-generational business that provides safe, affordable, and beautiful homes for so many thousands, thousands of residents.
in Southwest Sea Rapids, and there are two beautiful communities there, and you know it's the Hames Venture when there's that salute of colors, not just old glory, and to our beautiful state of Iowa, but to our POWMIAs, never forgotten.
That's the legacy of Kurt and Norma Hames, heroic World War II vets that met during...
wartime and built this beautiful family that perdures to this day that carries on custodially a business that continues to grow and improve and and and grab technology and and become bigger and better and more beautiful and safer and more affordable in the context of these lovely neighborhoods and so
The studio audience welcomes Barbara back today.
They're always very thrilled to see Barbara and to hear her.
And of course, Barbara's quite the civic steward.
She heads up the Federation of Iowa Republican Women.
And Barbara, you've seen so many of the presidential candidates come in.
It is so great to be part of Iowa when I travel to Kansas, when I travel to different parts
of the country, Missouri, wherever.
Everybody always wants to know what's going on in Iowa.
Well, Barbara, there's something really neat going on with your homes there is on the side, you guys play Good Samaritan.
You had a beautiful write up that people are talking about how you help someone in distress and even brought in some of our
officers to help and how grateful they were to you for helping this poor woman.
Do you want to talk about that a little bit?
Good morning, John.
Good morning, Mike.
It's always a pleasure to talk to you.
And yes, my brother and sister and I, Troy, Cynthia, and Barbara Haynes, we all feel like we're carrying on our parents' excellent legacy of hard work and loving our neighbor.
The incident you're talking about happened a couple of weeks ago.
There was a homeless woman sitting across the street from one of our manufactured home communities, and one of our employees walked over and asked her if she was okay.
And she said, yeah, she was just resting.
She didn't have any place to live.
So it just happened to be the morning of our Friday morning senior breakfast.
So some of the folks at the senior breakfast brought her a plate of food.
and officer Mike Dunkelberg was there and he gave her the food and water and made sure that she was okay and somebody happened to be driving by.
Now we don't brag about being good Samaritans, that's not what Jesus wants us to do, but this woman was so impressed with what she saw of our residents and the police officer being kind to this woman that she called back to our office and thanked us and complimented us and said it
reinvigorated her faith in humanity.
Barbara you always give me faith in humanity.
I'll tell a story on Barb guys because I was I was I was chatting the other day and someone mentioned that he had just married off his daughter and that he noticed some of the bridal party you know we're checking the guests and
They had some wedding crashers at the party.
It was a man and a woman and the daughter, and obviously they needed a meal, and they got caught, so to speak, at one point when they realized this person knew nobody in the wedding party.
And, you know, it's interesting because they said, well, couldn't we stay our little six-year-old daughters having such a wonderful time?
And, of course, they relented
And Barbara put the, she dotted the I and crossed the T. Barbara, you said, well, what would Jesus do?
And I'll tell you, I'll do business with anybody that uses that as their base point, Barbara.
And you just said it moments ago, you know, what would Jesus do?
And frankly, I'm going to patronize people
that have that Christian worldview of the golden rule of loving neighbor, you know, Barbara.
So I salute you.
Your dad and mom were like that.
You are a chip off the proverbial old block.
Well, thank you.
I guess the nicest compliment you could have given me.
We definitely try to do great things for our residents.
We try to go above and beyond.
For example, we have a food pantry.
It started after the derecho when we realized that the necessities of life were food and shelter and safety.
A lot of people didn't have any food because the power was out.
Exactly.
And all the food was spoiling in the refrigerator.
So we put together a makeshift food pantry and it's grown into a full-sized food pantry now at our Summit View office at 100 Hayne Street, Southwest.
And it serves almost 4,000 people every month.
Do you hear that, ladies and gentlemen?
4,000,
4,000 people fed by these good folks.
That's just phenomenal, Barbara.
There's well-disability requirements.
Anybody can come.
The amount of food you can take is based on your household size.
It's open on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
And our wonderful community coordinator, Kelly Hitchman,
oversees the whole thing with volunteers and picking up food and making sure that we're compliant with all sorts of safety laws.
She's just an angel and we're glad to have her.
She's doing God's work.
Scotty, Corey, you're an ag man and isn't it something in the Iowa DNA, whether it's Norman Borlaug or
Herbert Hoover or Barbara Haymes, feeding people who need food.
That's such an Iowa thing, isn't it, Scott?
You know, it sure is.
It talks a lot about the Iowa NICE and everything along those lines.
And it's people like Barbara that really are the backbone not only of Iowa, but of the country.
And that's what makes America great.
It's the folks in our small towns, it's our folks in our
medium
and
larger cities that go above and beyond to help those that are less fortunate, but also do so without seeking the limelight and praise going forward because that's also what a lot of islands are all about as well.
They don't need that limelight and praise.
They just want a job well done.
Well, it is interesting to me that going back in my even recent memory, when every U.S.
Senate
or a gubernatorial or congressional candidate came in, presidential candidates came in.
The one who held court in erstwhile years was Kurt Haymes and Cedar Rapids.
He was the godfather of civic stewardship.
And Barbara, they're now flocking to you.
You had up this great organization.
the Iowa Federation of Republican Women, it's got to be exciting for you to be able to have some input on the ultimate leader of the free world that Iowa gets to begin that process of vetting and winnowing.
It's a lot of fun to be in Iowa during caucus season and yes I have met a number of the
presidential candidates, and if you ask me which one I like best, I will tell you all of them.
Good answer!
Because any of them are better than what we have in the White House right now.
Yes,
yes.
I'm not sure that I actually get the winnow down the favorite, but what I do get to do is welcome them all to Iowa.
Iowa's such a great state, and we are so welcoming, and we just enjoy talking to these presidential candidates.
And we love the attention that it brings Iowa.
Good national press, good international press.
I've had interviews with a couple of TV stations, one in Australia and one in Holland.
Wow.
So
they're all very interested in what's going on in Iowa.
And I'm happy to talk to them and give our Iowa point of view.
Hey, if you're a presidential candidate, come on to Iowa.
We'd love to meet you.
Well, Barbara, we're happy to get the chance to visit and talk with you each week.
Please tell us, you guys got to see these beautiful neighborhoods.
You've got to drive through them, the lighting, the great surfaces of the streets, the dog park, the Frisbee Golf, the manicured lawns, the safely patrolled
neighborhoods.
Barbara, can you please give us a website, a phone number, and an address so folks can get in contact with you?
Lutely.
Most people look for us first online.
Our website is easy.
It's HamesHomes.com.
H-A-M-E-S-H-O-M-E-S.com.
We're located at the corner of Wilson Avenue and West Post Road, Southwest in Cedar Rapids.
So take Wilson Avenue West, West Post Road, and our office is there on the southwest corner.
Our phone number is 319-377-4863.
It's our old Miriam phone number, 319-377-4863.
Barbara, we love you, and I
I'll love your dad forever because he endorsed me before I even announced I was gonna run and shoot.
I didn't have fans like that in my own family, Barbara.
So Kurt Hames always has a very warm spot in my heart.
Our studio audience has a warm spot in their heart for Barbara Hames Bryant on their feet thanking her.
Barbara, it is a joy every week.
Go Hawks!
Let's get to three and oh!
Go Hawks!
Guys, this has been an epic show.
We have covered so much territory.
From the leader of the free world to the athletic planes where fortunately we still fight our wars here by proxy on the American homeland.
And next week we'll talk a little bit more about the very grave sins
Committed by the United States with respect to what's going on in Ukraine and Russia.
We do not have clean hands You don't want to miss that episode, but guys we thank Barbara Hames Bryant the doctor of democracy for Iowa Hames homes calm folks and Mike Shane our super engineer in studio We thank Tim Grover who'll report back to us next week with President Trump embedded
live on the ground in Macrocota and Dubuque.
Chip Reedman, our great cyclone engineer and Husker fan and my co-host, the one, the only, the inevitable, the natural, Scott Corey.
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