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KXEL Presents: The Jacobsen Group Podcast - December 30, 2023
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Delighted to have you again joining us today, John Jacobson here, and you are listening to the Jacobson Group and folks,
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I'm John Jacobson, and I am joined in studio with the Maestro, the Montgomery Scott of our USS Enterprise, Mike Shane.
And you know, Mike Shane is solving things when he punches in his own inimitable theme music bumper.
Mike Shane, listen to that piece of beauty, that well-oiled melody.
You know, Hans Sebastian Bach did not have done better than this.
And just like Bach is Mike's girl.
The manuscript, Mike Shane, has everything rolling beautifully for us on this lovely December, Saturday, the sixth day of Christmas.
Christmas hasn't ended.
We're just beginning.
It's the sixth day of Christmas.
And we're
heading toward a great new year.
And I will hawk ice in a bowl game.
And I am joined today with the usual Great McLaughlin group here of Scott Story.
And we have Chip Readman in studio.
Scott and I, of course, are out on assignment roving the plane covering stories.
And we've got Tim
our most popular recurring guest, joining us from Eastern Iowa.
And you're going to hear some live unrehearsed, much held at your end review, heard not just on 15.40 AM, but on our 100.5 FM transmitter out in Theta Rapids, breathing with both lungs.
And don't forget the podcast.
at KXEL.com slash Jacobson, that Danish spelling, J-A-C-O-B-S-E-N.
Yes, we once were Danish royalty, but we didn't get booted from Denmark for throwing brick baths at the Kaiser.
I think we were on one of those early ships.
It wasn't the Mayflower, but whichever one had Victor Borga and his early piano on it.
So, proud Danes firmly ensconced here in Iowa.
I want to start out with a good morning.
Good morning, Scott.
How are you, sir?
Merry Christmas to you, John, and to everybody that's hosting.
It's been a great Christmas holiday here at our house and looking forward to the new year.
Scott, you drove all the way down to join the lovely and gracious Mrs. Jacobson and me for a party that would have made Lawrence well blushed accordion and all, Scotty.
Thanks for doing that.
We had some fun.
The really best sweater was the Velcro one that Mark Hewitt wore that Doug Oldacre was throwing strikes to ping-pong ball landing right in that Velcro target on Mr. Hewitt's large chest.
I thought that was well played.
Well, and this is the highest form of compliment, John, is I kind of considered it to be a Griswold Christmas you had going on there.
We have a couple guys from friend of the show
Kit Murphy, he reminds me of cousin Eddie a lot of the times and Matt Garst was there, of course, and of course Mike, I apologize.
I didn't get to say hi to you very long.
We were kind of in and out and I got pigeonholed in the corner talking to some folks, but it was a great event.
Scott, you were doing a great job socializing in the spillover room where there were 25 or 30 of you and fortunately my bride was back there working that angle.
We had 60 people in the
front room and, you know, I kind of had to break Kip's heart, but I kind of had to fire him from karaoke.
He was queuing up those songs way too slowly.
So I had to bring Kathy Grapey on to go live with karaoke and Bypass, the karaoke machine directly.
If he's gotten a chordie in anything is possible, Scott Corey.
No, absolutely.
And the only thing I kind of wish would have happened was
Chip was going to sing New York, New York at some point during the event and he wasn't there.
So Chip, we got to put you down for next year.
Yeah, the poor wretch, he missed my party.
Readman, we hardly knew you.
Chip Readman, ladies and gentlemen.
Chip, I trust you had a
great Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you guys.
No, you do not want me singing in public.
You don't want me singing alone in my own bathroom.
Dude, it's not good.
And Mr. Tim Grover, we do have a fun New Year's Bowl game.
Watch on Monday.
I mean, what could be better than Florida, high noon, national TV,
New
Year's Day, none of these early December games or obscure late night games or cable networks or streaming games.
We're talking New Year's Day, high noon, national TV in Florida.
What what could be better than that other than maybe having an offense, Mr. Grover?
Yes, well, we've had a good Christmas season.
I finally discovered my TV is actually in color.
I've gotten all my old classic black and white movies watched.
So so we're moving forward into a new year.
Yeah, I think the money is going to be pretty good.
Hopefully it won't be like the who who and we don't get fooled again.
Yes, well, I'll tell you.
You know, I could want no more.
Not only did I get my Mi TV for Christmas, you know, and actually now I have access to Mi TV too.
Can you believe
it?
I
didn't even know such a bonanza existed.
So not only do I have Mi TV piping in to my locations, but my daughter secured for me all 79 episodes of Star Trek, the original series.
So the other night I dusted it off and watched Mirror, Mirror with the parallel universe goateed.
Fuck.
And then the trouble with Tribbles there after.
What should be better than that?
Other than the love and gracious, this is Jason's baking, which unfortunately has stymied my diet.
But we're not going to go on a diet of news.
It's time again to fire up that McLaughlin music.
Mr. Shane.
being recorded live, but it is unrehearsed.
This is our bonded year in review.
Let's go.
Issue one.
Biggest winner of the year.
Jacobson starts out here.
I say it has to be Donald J. Trump.
What they thought was his kryptonite is only made him stronger.
He's like Obi-Wan Kenobi.
If you bring me down Darth Vader, you will only make me stronger.
I will come back more powerful ever than before and indictment after indictment, harassment after harassment.
And now it seems like he's a runaway.
leader
of
republican nomination and leading joe biden and pulling across the country dot cori what they do i am going to go with hawkeye nation is the winner this year john uh... for two or two main reasons number one though uh... katelyn clark story she has uh... encapsulated the entire imagination of america she is the face
both women's and men's college basketball.
She is everywhere.
It is Caitlin Clark's world and we're living in it.
And to put the cherry on the top is that we no longer have the stench in the Iowa Athletic Department.
Gary Barton was, I will use the air quotes, retired in August and it was a great day to be a hockey that day.
You know, Scott, I didn't see that coming from you, but that is a great take.
Hawkeye Nation as winner of the year.
Boy, you throw in the hostile away, Scott.
It's hard to argue with you on that one.
Jim
Grover, what say you?
Winner of the year.
Two great choices you guys have made so far.
I'm going to stick in there with Aaron Rogers, and I'll tell you why.
I think Aaron has changed the culture in America, and that we aren't going to take public health word on a vaccine or any other medical procedure that it actually has tested out.
And I think you're starting to see that cultural change becoming into ESPN.
You're starting to see athletes start to drop in the window that
They wish they hadn't gotten back and they want back control of their health.
So I think you've been a big winner on that and changing the attitude of, well, you know, sometimes we need to look into things a little more before we issue them out.
Wow, this show is smoking hot.
These are great takes out of the chutes.
tiff reidman how do you top that you're a shot biggest winner of the air chip reidman
well i like to uh... but this is not what i'm calling the winner but scott i think you can you missed uh... katelyn clark as far as uh... hawkeye nation missing that one and the ten and two season i thought were pretty good i actually i the moment i considered that but that's just too small of a crowd for me i want to go with elon musk i think he's uh...
just really changed a lot of things in this country in his own subtle way with his purchase of Twitter slash X. I think it's brought a lot of people back out that can actually have a voice that have been stifled for the last few years.
His SpaceX program is just an amazing site to behold.
He's doing well with Tesla, you know, like any car manufacturer, they have their setbacks here and there.
But I think the guy is a true winner.
And so that's the guy I would point to, Elon Musk.
Well, guys, great round one.
Let's head to issue two.
Biggest Loser of the Year.
I will start, and I'm giving this award jointly to Ron DeSantis, Dickie Haley, Chris Christie, Mike Pence, and Vivek Ramaswamy.
Biggest Losers of the Year.
Descent is starting out with the GOP establishment endorsement and the donor base of prior GOP presidential candidates.
A popular head of steam after a massive re-election win in Florida and writing high in the polls as late as last February, only to tank into oblivion, but could Vivek Ramaswamy do any worse?
Yes, started out polling in double digits.
Now down to 1% in some polls.
The more you see him, the less you like him.
But let's not forget Nikki Haley.
Not only does she want to give war a chance, and not only does she have problems with free speech, but she can't say that the Civil War was basically about slavery, nor can she
give a
Republican president credit for ending it.
Put a fork in her.
Her 15 minutes are done, and Chris Christie and Mike Pence, not worth talking about, other than to say, Esther Prynne had a scarlet letter on her heart.
Christie
and Pence have a scarlet L on their forehead.
I go to you, Scott Corey.
I'm going to go with the entire Joe Biden family from himself.
from his dog to his wife to his son, Hunter.
They're all garbage people.
And as far as I'm concerned, and if their last names were not Biden, Hunter would be in jail.
Joe would be in a nursing home and America would be better off.
Boy, you guys are hot today, hot today.
Tim
Grover, biggest loser of the year.
Well, I got a mixed health care in the NFL again.
It's got to be Dr. Anthony Fauci, for sure.
And then, of course, the scobby Taylor Swift.
Taylor Swift has absolutely ruined the cheese.
Chip Regman.
Boy, you
guys are smoking it today.
These are absolutely great.
Biggest loser, Chip
Regman.
Again, this is what I'm going to say.
And Scott, you're doing a good job, but you're not getting all the details out.
You forgot, uh, Biden's brother and his problems that he has.
Don't forget his daughter and the stories coming out about him taking a shower with her when she's 12 years old.
Oh yeah, that's a real sick family.
I'm going to point to the American media.
You talk about.
The biggest loser.
These people can't get a story straight to save their life.
The guys of a hospital bombing that they completely blew.
They didn't wait for the facts to come out that it was not a hospital.
They got bombed.
It was not two, three hundred people.
The stories that came out about Joe just simply loves his son Hunter and that's why he's.
letting the hunter get away with everything and there's nothing bad going on.
The immigration crisis we have at the border, they've totally ignored that.
The anti-Semitism we have going on around the country and college campuses, they've ignored that or they've been wrong.
And of course the top one is they present the economy in this country is being great.
It's a great bidenomics economy that's keeping this country afloat.
We're on the verge of a recession.
Things are going down.
We all know inflation's been high.
It's just a crazy world out there in the media and they have no clue what's going on in the world.
Great page, guys.
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Issue number three.
Turncoat of the year.
Who is the turncoat of the year?
I had to give it a tie.
Chris Christie and Mike Pence, the revenge run for the presidency, neither can do better than 5%.
They
are
turncoat.
Where is any personal loyalty whatsoever?
Mike Pence would be an obscure ex-Congressman governor right now, peddling Amway, and Chris Christie would be reduced to cracker barrel discount coupons.
Pence and Christie, turncoats of the year.
Scott Torrey, I go to you.
I'm going to keep it local this time in with an Iowa flavor.
I'm going to say Bob Vander Plaats is the family leader.
Bob Vander Plaats has been running around the state of Iowa and nationally for almost 20 years, talking about Christian values and everything like that.
And then Bob turns around and he begins the shakedown of the presidential candidates.
He brings out the dog and pony show.
He's cashed in $95,000 plus checks on a regular basis.
He is a turncoat.
He's a fraud.
He is a Joel Osteen light in a scam artist in the state of Iowa.
Oh my goodness.
Temperatures rising.
How can we top that for a vitriolic?
Billingsgate, I go to YouTube.
Grover.
I agree with you, Scotty.
That's a good choice of BVP, but I'm going to go another way too.
I'm going to say biggest turncoat is Kim Reynolds.
And the reason she's got nothing to do with Trump.
It's got a lot to do with the last section, session out the legislature.
She started out, we got our school choice.
She got, she fulfilled the parents matter agenda that she got elected on very, very well.
And then the rest of the session was nothing but giving taxpayer money out to the special interests and caving to them.
So I'm saying she's a turncoat to her
base.
That lightning bolt from Tim Grover.
Chip Reidman, you have the final word.
Turn code of the year.
I
was actually kind of leaning towards Nikki Haley.
This is a person, but I decided to open it up to a wider group of people.
I'd have to say most of the rhinos in this country, Republicans who think that they're Republicans and don't behave in any conservative fashion at all.
To me, they're basically the largest
Turncoats that we have to deal with out there.
They they they come out and say that they're one thing but they do something else
Oh, even the Iowa Legislature should be there with a bane of my existence issue for Most boring this is an easy one for me.
I love them about the Iowa football offensive team most boring
of 2023.
Excruciating to watch.
Nice sound effect there, Shane.
Shane, come back.
Got Corey, most boring.
Most boring, I would have to say.
I'd give a close tie there to the Iowa offense, even though it was so bad it was actually entertaining because we knew they were setting up the true scoring of the Phil Parker's defense and the special teams of LaVar Woods.
so there was a complimentary football moving forward but most boring this year i would have to say it is the uh...
uh... the nebraska corn huskers i was expecting a lot of uh... more fireworks and i was really disappointed i was hoping that rule would pull up will pull any type scott frost meltdown on the sideline but chip read me he just did not deliver any made so many great comments of that were uh... you really complimentary to the rest of the big ten including current parents i kind of like uh... mad rule a little bit so most boring in that role this year
Tim Grover, most boring.
That's a hard one to follow.
I think I'm going to delve into politics this time.
I'd have to say the most boring has got to be Ron DeSantis.
I mean, I think they have to get the smelling false out at the end of the event with him.
I mean, I could not possibly go.
I mean, yeah, maybe for a good nap.
I mean, it's just, wow, you talk about, if you ever wondered what would happen if Frank Burns from MASH lands for president, that's Ron DeFernando.
You guys are brutal today.
Brutal.
It's the holiday season.
I, when Andy Williams would say, boy, Chip Regman, you could put the icing on this cake.
Most boring.
Well, Scott, I'm sorry that you're disappointed.
The rule is a boring person.
But hopefully things will get more exciting.
And for your sake, you hope they don't get too exciting next year.
I'm going to point to a late night television.
You look at the Jimmy Kennells, the Saturday Night Live.
Those programs have just absolutely dropped off the face of the earth.
You want to be bored.
You think the Santas is boring.
You want to have an opportunity to go to sleep easily without taking medication.
Just turn on those programs.
Guys, this show is so epic today.
You're listening to Jacobson Group on KXL.
We're doing our
year in review, and it's time now to go to issue five.
I was going to try to break a tie on the athletic front between the girl power, charismatic superstars.
Boy, is it Caitlin Clark, is it Libby Dunn, is it the Nebraska Husker women's volleyball team?
But I'm going south of the equator where they still can probably hear 1540 AM.
Javier Millay, not only the greatest man of the last century from Argentina,
But right now, the greatest man in the southern hemisphere, the Austrian school economist, who's going to try to bring Argentina back from the ashes between the hair, the chainsaw, the girlfriend, and the exuberance.
I love this man.
Most charismatic, Javier Millay, Argentina.
I go to you, Scott Torrey.
You know, it's kind of hard to find a real charismatic politician out there right now.
I think he's
I'm going more of the movement conservatives because you have a lot of people that can fit that mold that are really stepping forward in the world stage right now.
And I think a lot of it is based on their own Donald Trump isms, their own countries.
And so I think that is what is the most dynamic part of this moving forward, John.
Boy, that's a great point, Scott.
Tim Grover.
I'm going to delve into sports on this one.
I think the most charismatic out there.
is Shohai Okani right now.
And the reason is I think people don't realize Shohai lived the life of the samurai and the Kota Bushido.
And now he's got this Yamato on the dodgers with him too.
And many people don't know that Dave Roberts was a Marine brat and they did live in Japan.
So I think as far as charismatic
You know, he restructured his deal to make sure that they can feel the winning team.
He's shown a lot of selfless character so far.
And I think he's going to set the sports world and the American culture on its ear and that it's not always about me.
Boy,
you've got great takes going on today and are you're in review here.
Chip Reid, when you get the final word on most, charismatic.
I would have to go with Tucker Carlson, although in a way I could probably point to him as also being the winner of the year.
I think his Twitter episodes, his own network that he's getting started, the interviews that he's had, he's brought a lot of people out.
He's really out in the forefront of, just like he did when he's on Fox, of exposing interesting stories, interesting people.
I'm just really impressed with the work that he's done, and I think he's carrying a lot of weight.
He's got a much bigger following than he had on Fox, which is kind of an interesting slam on the Fox network for their stupid decision.
So that's what I'm going to go with is Tucker Carlson.
Very good guys.
A year end in review.
Issue six.
Best comeback of the year.
Well, there were a few potential nominations here.
The Northwestern University football team certainly is one of those, and the Huskers could have been in contention when they were writing five and three with four winnable games in front of them, but unfortunately, they subbed their own on all four of those.
But Beth, come back.
Hey, art of the deal, art of the comeback.
Donald Trump, the Democrats thought they could put a stake in his heart.
proverbially speaking, by corrupt lawfare, and instead is redounded back in their very faces, is only made Trump stronger.
The man who wrote the art of the comeback, best comeback of the year, Scott Tory.
I'm going to go with two phase on this one, John.
For politically speaking, I agree with 110%.
It is Donald Trump, echo everything you said, and it's very interesting how big of a shadow he has across the entire country and globally.
But I'm going to go back to sports on this one, and I'm going to say Brian Farance's reputation.
Brian Farrance was a tremendous player at the University of Iowa, had serious health issues, almost lost a leg, almost had life-complicating issues with that staff infection, was brought in, be offensive coordinator under his dad that was approved by Gary Barter, the former athletic director.
And he has been, had a lots of ups and downs and been vilified, especially by myself and a few other people moving forward the last two and a half years.
But ever since the dismissal by Interim Athletic Director Beth Getz, Brian Farance has actually grown back on myself and everybody else on the way he has handled himself under extreme pressure.
And I will say Brian Farance has shown a lot of character that I think a lot of people could learn from.
Who does to you, Scott Torrey?
We move to you, Tim Grover.
Best comeback
of the year.
Yeah, very much so, Scott.
I agree with you 100% what you said.
Another one I think is a great comeback to the year is Jerry Kill from New Mexico State.
I remember, you know, when I first started seeing highlights of this Diego Paglia with them, it was just a dynamic quarterback.
Jerry, I said to him, that's Jerry Kill, that sounds familiar.
Who you, oh yeah, the old Gophers coach.
And he just put the finished two years of the most successful years that New Mexico State has had in 60 years.
And he's moved on.
I think I understand he's fought epilepsy his whole life.
So I'm wondering if there's some health reasons there that he's stepped down.
But I say Jerry Kill is the comeback of the year.
Wow, very, very good.
I love Jerry Kill.
And it is a miraculous story.
fighting against incredible personal health odds, going out not just with whipped cream but a cherry on top, kudos to Jerry Kill.
Final word to you, Chip Reitman.
I almost want to do over hearing all these names and all the conversation on The Biggest Loser.
I almost want to go back now to Deon Sanders.
But I digress on that one.
I'm going to say, and I'm not sure how much of a comeback it is, but we've pretty much given up on Matt Campbell for this season.
We pretty much said that the Cyclones would be lucky to win four games, and they turn it around and they've got a great season.
They're in a good bowl game.
I really want to kind of point to Matt Campbell of anyone that was almost left for dead because the last couple of years has been kind of on a downward trend.
And just when we expect him to hit bottom, he doesn't get there.
He comes up out of nowhere with a great season.
And I give him a credit for what he's come up with this year.
Very good takes, guys.
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in such a toxic environment.
Let's go to issue seven.
All right, guys, I'm going to call it Bummas rap or Ferris rap.
Who's getting a bum rap or who's getting a fair rap?
And guys, I'm going to start out to say the Ferris rap are critics like me of Zelensky in Ukraine.
He is no hero.
He is a zero.
His persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, his shutting down of elections in Ukraine, and his continuing to foment an impossible war to win by basically annihilating an entire generation of all Ukrainian men is beneath despicable.
I say send Zelensky for trial in dock at the Hague.
The fairest rap is that Zelensky is a bad guy.
ahead of Ukraine.
I'm going to go with the people in Congress as well as the Federal Reserve.
Right now, what they are doing, they are destroying the American economy and American savings accounts.
Moving forward, they are giving the American people a bum rap with their outrageous spending and inflationary policies.
They are intentionally bankrupting and destroying this country.
Boy, I can't echo that enough, Scott, and they're going to manipulate rates down three times in 2024 to try to get Biden reelected.
Kim Grover.
Well, I think the ferris wrap out there that really isn't happening, that needs to be, is our public health system.
It is corrupt.
It is its favorite special interest and it's starting the money they waste on, I'm going to say, crackpot ideas.
It's starting to affect the poor and elderly's health care and especially the money we've wasted on COVID.
It's starting to show up and you're starting to see the elderly and the poor are not getting the health care that they need.
So I would have to say there's a little bit going out there.
I would say people like me can criticize them.
are fairly doing it, are being fair about.
The problem is the press hasn't followed up, and I'd like to know why.
Boy, that's a solid, solid take, Tim Grover.
Chip Regman, we look you.
I'm not sure how to define what you're looking for, so I'm, Tim probably gave me a good idea.
I'm gonna focus on the so-called vaccine, the gene therapy shop they gave everyone.
For several years, we had to listen to the media and everyone talk about how important this was, how good it was.
how great it was.
You mentioned Fauci out there, Pramone, et cetera.
They pretty much had Trump fooled on whether it was good or not.
And now here we are, three years in, and we're finding out about all the injuries to children and to young adults of myocarditis.
We're finding out the problems with some deaths that are going on.
The numbers are going through the roof.
We have more people dying than should be dying in this, not only just in the country, but in the world.
The whole thing is just really starting to implode on itself.
So that's what I'd have to point to is the so-called vaccine.
That's a great, great, beautiful, sensitive, shipwrecker.
Issue eight.
Thank you.
Issue eight.
Most original thinker, Jacobson says, the heroic doctors of conscience who cared
during COVID who totally demolished the pathetic record of our hospital killing fields.
Instead of people dying on Remdesivir and ventilators, the doctors who correctly use ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, and other front end, cheap, plentiful, efficacious, antiviral, interdictive therapies, they are the true
heroes as the most original thinkers going against a Stalinist and corrupt health system that was killing Americans instead of curing them.
Most original thinkers, the heroic doctors of conscience who came up with alternative front-end treatments that were curative during COVID.
Scott Corey.
I'm actually going to go a little bit different, but on the same vein that you went there, John, I want to say people like Elon Musk, Vivek Rameshami, Donald Trump, so on and so forth, these, these types of individuals, including Tucker Carlson, they are standing up and they are pushing back on the outrageous group think and just it's just.
Pauling the kinds of things that are moving forward when you have people like Bill Maher and Joe Rogan who are anything but conservatives They are so far pushed the left has gone so far They're pushing people like Rogan and Bill Maher to the center and making them sound reasonable.
That's
why we have these important people like Bill Maher, Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, pushing back on this kind of garbage, and we need more of it.
Swat on there, Scotty.
That's really well done.
Tim Grover.
Well, I'm thinking the most original thinker out there that I can think of right now has to be Steve Bannon.
And I'll tell you, he's taken his military experience, his experience on Wall Street,
and there's experience of working in the entertainment industry.
Wrap that all up into something that actually we're doing here now and it's made it a bigger, more common place that's actually a foreign side of the slump now by dragging all those people and then presenting it.
And he's starting to get watched so much on because I stream a lot and I'll use the apps and everything.
The big box store ad, the certain show up on his show, despite the fact that mainly of his listeners aren't shopping there, but he's setting off the search engine that the hits are that high on his show now.
So I think he's moving what we're doing here into a bigger format and a bigger exposure to the popular.
Excellent.
Excellent.
Chip Reid then.
I'm thinking I got a couple of people in mind, but I'll just stick with one of them that's probably less controversial in being out there.
That would be Dr. Peter Makola.
So I'm sticking kind
of
with the vaccine talk a little bit.
He's a pretty brave doctor.
He's traveled the world speaking about all the problems with the gene therapy shot that we've been given.
He's been very brave in sticking his neck out saying and telling people and presenting stories and articles and evidence.
showing the problems with this whole mRNA program.
So that's the guy that I'm going to point to is Dr. Peter McCullough, well-known, most published physician, I think, in the world right now.
Wonderful.
Marvelous take.
Issue nine.
You're in review.
Best photo op.
Easy.
Anything with LSU gymnast Livy Dunn and the Bikini doing somersault and handstands on the beach.
I go to you Scott Torrey.
Best photo op.
I am going to go with the Big Ten Women's Sports.
I'm talking what Nebraska did at Memorial Stadium with their volleyball program, what Caitlin Clark and Lisa Bluter have done at Kinnick Stadium as well as across the country, and now the Women's Wrestling Program at the University of Iowa.
The best photo op is strong independent women like Caitlin Clark and Gabby Marshall leading the fight.
That's a wonderful take.
Let's go to Tim Grover.
I'd have to say, uh, that photo op has to be Tim Mulkey without her makeup on.
Chip Reidman.
I'm going to go with any time Joe Biden makes a public appearance.
You don't know whether he's going to fall flat in the space or he's just going to say something stupid.
So that's, if I was a camera guy with the microphone, that's the person I'd be following around.
Issue
10.
Worst lie, worst lie of the year.
Easy.
Jacobson says the worst lie of the year is that the COVID shot is safe and effective.
In many instances it is very unsafe, and in many instances it is very ineffective.
I go to you, Scott Torrey.
I'm going to say vote Republican.
The Republican is the biggest lie that's been perpetrated on American politics last 30 years.
They've claimed that they will do everything from secure the border to fix the debt, to fix health care, and they've done nothing but enrich themselves.
Voting Republican has been the biggest lie that's happened in this country for quite some time.
This show is bringing the heat.
Otani type of heat today.
Tim Grover.
It was a fair catch.
That's the biggest lie of the year.
Oh my goodness.
Who can top that?
Yes, indeed.
A play that will live in infamy, rival ring the two fake injuries that Notre Dame, back in 1953, perpetrated against Iowa Hawkeyes to steal a win from our vaunted team under Forrest Eveshevsky.
I go to you, Chip Regman.
The hospital in Gaza was bombed by Israel.
That was probably the biggest lie out there, even with video evidence and Arabic speakers even saying that, oh my goodness, we just bombed our own hospital.
And they didn't hit a hospital.
It landed in a parking lot and just maybe a handful people died, not hundreds.
And the media repeated that for several days.
Some of them have never retracted a statement.
To me, that's the biggest lie out there.
All right, well said, my friend.
Well said.
Issue 11.
Theater, best political theater, ends down for me, has an Iowa connection.
The ultimate troll, Donald Trump, after Kim Reynolds changed horses in midstream and decided to take a new presidential candidate to support Ron DeSantis.
Trump unearthed all of the endorsing accolades that Kim Reynolds has given on video since 2016 to Donald Trump and played them as essentially a quasi endorsement tape on social media.
Absolute, greatest, trolling, best political theater of all time.
Certainly in Iowa, Scott Corey.
John, you stole my thunder
on that one.
I was going
to go with
that
as well.
And just a quick side note, I do know for a fact that the moment those commercials that Donald Trump was playing with Kim Reynolds praising Donald Trump aired in the Des Moines media market, it was not a good night at Terrace Hill.
Yes, I imagine you are correct, and you've had many good inside stoop, Scott.
Tori, your sources never betray you.
Tim Grover.
Best Pilectal Theater.
I think I've got a couple of them.
First of all, there actually are two parties.
That's pretty good theater right there.
Hang on.
And I would say the sand is showing up in Davenport this weekend on a stop, the swamp tour is, wow, it's like earth to run, earth to run.
Chip Riedman, final say best political theater.
I definitely must see TV with Rama Swami and Nikki Healyer on the stage at the same time.
I mean, how often do you actually have a presidential candidate whisper into the microphone that their opponent has scum?
You just, you
can't top that kind of theater at all.
This is John Jacobson here.
That website address for all of you who want to read and learn about the science of Proimmune Online or order your jars of Proimmune Online from Dr. Crumb's distributor, Joe Casserino, is www.thebestimmune.com.
at theport.com.
Joe works very closely with Dr. Crum in Reimbeck, New York, and Joe will ship out your jars himself, and he pays for the shipping.
Like Dr. Crum and Dr. Ted Fogarty, Joe is doing this work to help keep everyone in the healthy situation because he understands how toxic all are these days.
And he realizes that we all need to reduce our toxic overload.
Joe takes two scoops,
of proimmune today is 2016 and he is not vaccinated and at age 67 has the energy of a 37 year old.
Issue 12.
Most unreported story.
Most unreported story.
I'm zeroing in on Iowa.
The most unreported story.
is how the Iowa Department of Medicine, I'm sorry, the Iowa Board of Medicine and the Iowa Board of Pharmacy persecuted our heroic doctors of conscience that were effectively treating COVID and curing COVID far better than our killing fields hospital and healthcare system.
Instead of being rewarded, they were persecuted by our Iowa Board of Medicine and Iowa Board of Pharmacy.
It's a scandal.
It's absolutely horrific.
What happened
there in Iowa State government, most underreported story of the year.
Scott Torrey.
I'm going to go a little bit different with you, but dovetail off of what you said, John, I'm going to say that there has been no legislative oversight on the executive branch for the last four to five years.
And it's really been pronounced the last two years.
As you mentioned with the board of medicine, we have the situation going on in the nursing homes across the state where even in Cretchenville, Iowa, Northwest Iowa, a sex offender was in a nursing home committed an assault.
on a patient, and then they put that patient in a group home at the YMCA in Sioux City.
It is outrageous of what's going on in state government.
And where are the legislative Republicans and Democrats demanding oversight on what's going on in the executive branch?
Five stars to you, Scott Corey.
They killed the bill in the legislature merely because I was going to attach an amendment to it that allowed families to have cameras on their loved ones in nursing home.
Bully on you, Scott Corey.
Tim Grover,
the most underreported story going on right now is our economy is in such a shambles that if you're under 50 years old, you have very little chance of earning a living to buy a house.
I looked up in 78 when I graduated, the average cost of a new home was 40.
The
average household income was 44% of the cost of a new home.
Today, it's only 30%.
And on top of it, the average household income is up $45,000 a year.
So the economic train wreck we are on is totally underreported.
Wow.
Very, very fine, my friend.
Chip Reedman.
I think that was a great observation, and that's probably one of them that I would point to is the problems with the economy.
I'm going to go probably a different way.
Actually, there's like two or three I probably could point to, but I'm going to settle on the immigration crisis.
Um, what do we, they say 8 million, 7 million, but actually it's probably closer to 10 or 11 when you throw in the gotaways or couldn't get, uh, people that got away.
This is going to come back and honest.
I'm really concerned about that.
Uh, there are some very, very bad people that are coming into this country.
Uh, there's a lot of people that are unfortunate.
I've had a sad lies that's fine, but you should get in line.
But the bad ones that are coming in this country, uh, somewhere, someday this is going to come back and really, really bite the American public in a bad way.
All right, guys, we're down to the three minute warning.
Two final issues.
Issue 13.
The worst idea of the year, the worst idea of the year is the Democratic Party strategy and tactical that in order to save democracy, you have to kill democracy.
Yes, the Democratic Party trying to kill democracy by basically shutting down the American people from being
even able to nominate candidates for office.
Worst idea of the year, Scott Torrey.
Iowa Democrat Party moving forward with a mail-in type caucus that is just an outrageous thought process.
It was one of the biggest scams out there.
The caucuses are an in-person event.
They've been like that for almost 40 years and the Democrats are trying to go into a mail-in caucus.
Dumbest idea I've ever heard.
Way to go,
Scott.
I love it.
Tim Grover.
Worst idea of the year is the GLP establishment thinking that they can still shove DeFantis and Nikki Haley down our throats, and we'll kiss and make up later on when it's all over.
Wow, excellent, excellent.
Chip Regan.
I'm going to stick with the vaccine.
Worst idea this year is get another shot.
Unbelievable they keep promoting this product out there.
I don't know, people are aware of this.
The evidence is coming out now.
The more shots you have, the greater the chance is that you will have COVID.
Believe it, you heard it from here first, folks.
Yes, thank you, Chip Reitman, for that.
And finally, issue 14.
New Year's Resolution.
New Year's Resolution.
Well, my New Year's Resolution, Scott Corey, is going to be decided by March.
Which Republican to challenge in a primary?
Should it be Mark Costello?
Should it be Brent Segrist?
Should it be Dave Seek?
Should it be Matt Winchannel?
Stay tuned for more!
Scott Corey, I go to you.
I am going to go with being more optimistic about the Iowa offense, even though I know that Kurt Farrance is still in charge.
I'm more optimistic that we will actually have
a dual threat quarterback that can throw the ball more than five yards and not stare down one receiver.
Look for either Joe Philbin or Paul Chris as the new offensive coordinator the second week in January.
Wow, bold predictions.
Tim Grover.
Well, I can't think of a resolution because everyone I met thought the events come up and change it.
Um, I would have to say encouraging my friends on Jacobson, uh, think bigger in the state house, like maybe.
You're too
kind.
Well, you know, we always have the lovely and gracious one to, uh, run ideas by, we might even have breakfast with the lovely and gracious Jacobson.
But, but I want you all to know that there's no homestead exemption for Jacobson in Kansas.
at this juncture.
Jacobson is an
Iowa resident.
Uh, little tip of the fedora there.
Uh, you have the last words.
You're breathing.
Resolution.
Well, of course you always can say you want to lose a couple more pounds, but that never works.
I think Scott brought up a good one about optimism.
Yes, I probably should be more optimistic person.
Of course, as I'm sitting here waiting for my turn to think about it, I start wondering about what's the black swan event that's going to happen this year.
And it's like I do a head, a head slap or a dope slap going, oh my God, I'm already being pessimistic.
seeing impending doom coming.
So that's my resolution.
I'll try and give optimism a try.
Well, I get the special present this beautiful Saudi morning during this lovely Christmas season.
We get a reprise of the role of Barbara Hames Bryant back with us to talk about Hames Holmes.
The main triart of this beautiful multi-generational family affordable manufactured homes is in eastern Iowa.
You got to check these guys out and see how easy home ownership can be.
It gains homes comfort, beauty, and value.
In eastern Iowa, they've got awesome financing options, safe communities, spacious, and attractive manufactured home communities.
I've been up to Summit View and Grand View.
They are beautiful.
And Barbara, you're the matriarch that has brought us all together and really taken this bold, wonderful experiment of what your father and mother did.
You're kind of like the George Bailey family.
It's wonderful life, creating these homes for people, except in Bedford Falls.
You're doing it in Eastern Iowa.
Welcome back to the show, Barbara.
John, it's so good to talk to you again, and I love the analogy of our communities like Bedford Falls.
This really is a neighborhood where people care about each other.
People know their neighbors, they look out for each other, and we love being the managers, mayors, so to speak, of these two neighborhoods, Grandview and Summit.
Indeed.
Barbara, you have done so much in the community.
you know that it's a wonderful community to go into when you give back to not just that community but to the wider community writ large and what can be a greater call in your life than to provide not mere shelter to roof over the head but beautiful and spacious and affordable homes but also I always know the safety feature you keep that area structurally safe and also safe
for families.
You vet in screen.
You have patrols going on.
The structures are safe, but you're also a predator.
Preventor is there too.
It's a wonderful protocol that you guys have.
The safety of our residents is of paramount importance to us.
As you said, we do have some extra police patrols coming through, but that's in addition.
to our 24-7, 365-day year on-call management team.
We also have security cameras.
We have no deferred maintenance.
If something breaks in this community, if there's a pothole or a broken water line, we fix it right away.
You know, Barbara, you guys have new and used.
You've got single white and double white.
There's lots of floor plans.
It's incredible to me that you can get a three-bed, two-bath,
that's almost 2,500 square feet for under $175,000.
The pricing is phenomenal.
That's because these homes are built indoors, John.
They're built in climate controlled environments out of reach of the weather.
There's very little waste because they're built assembly line style.
And while that sounds like it may not be very pretty, our homes are gorgeous.
As you said, you can buy a brand new manufactured home over 2,000 square feet for half the cost of a site-built home.
And it's built with the exact same materials as site-built homes in traditional neighborhoods.
It's a great way to live.
Barbara, I've driven through.
The driveways are beautiful.
The concrete and the roads are just absolutely pristine.
I see beautiful green lawns, shrubbery, flag poles.
is absolutely Americana.
And again, think about it, ladies and gentlemen, a three-bed, two-bath, 1200 plus square feet for under $85,000.
You can't beat those prices.
It might be treble that price for a more traditional home in the same metro area.
Barbara, you're crushing it on prices.
Not only that, John, but we also have financing available to qualified buyers.
So for folks that think that they need to rent something, they may find that purchasing their own manufactured home really is a great option.
They'll build up equity and they'll have their own yard and their own home that they can do what they want with.
It's a great way to live and you'll never build up one penny of equity renting an apartment or a condo.
People really should come over to Haynes Homes and see what we have.
And we are already past the winter solstice arcing towards spring.
We're getting
later sunsets and more hours in the day and right there on their campus, so to speak, their neighborhoods, dog parks, food pantries, frisbee golf.
Barbara, there's a lot of green space out there and you're right on the edge of rural southwest Cedar Rapids.
It's beautiful country out there and yet you are within 10 minutes of anything and everything.
Hospitals, airports,
all the retail you could found them.
If you're in the trucking business, this is a great town to be in because you can be within five hours of Minneapolis, St.
Paul, Chicago, Illinois, St.
Louis, Des Moines, Omaha.
We just love this part of the country.
And like you said, our communities are out in the country, but we're so close to everything.
People feel like they have the best of both worlds.
and they do.
Guys, get over to Hey in the Phone.
Barbara, let's talk about how to get in touch with you guys.
Website, email, telephone with that Marion Legacy number.
Let's start with that Marion Legacy number because everyone knows that 319-377 means Marion.
So ours is 319-377-4863.
319-377-4863.
But we're not in Marion anymore.
We're in Southwest Cedar Rapids now at the corner of Wilson Avenue and West Post Road, Southwest.
So Wilson Avenue, West Post Road, we're on the Southwest corner.
But the very best way to reach us 24 hours a day is on our website, hamshomes.com, H-A-M-E-S H-O-M-E-S dot com.
All of our inventory is there with prices.
We're very transparent.
You can look at any of our inventory 24 hours a day.
And I hope people do because there's some really beautiful homes here.
Barbara
Haynes Bryant, ladies and gentlemen, the studio audience on their feet.
Barbara, it was a Christmas bonus for me to get to talk to you this morning in December.
I love speaking with you, John.
And I'll look forward to seeing you when you're up here in Marion to visit your mom.
God bless you, Barbara.
And a happy new year to all.
the good people at Hames Homes.
Well, guys, before we head out here, you can go ahead and kind of start the closing out music, Mike Shane, but you might need to loop.
But I want to bring the three guys in for one last little riff here.
Scott Torrey, how invaluable is Mike Shane to this operation here?
He is just the absolute best.
Can edit anything to perfection.
This guy
It makes this a well-oiled machine here, Scott.
No, absolutely.
Mike Shane is one of the greatest engineers of all time.
He ranked right up where there was Scotty on Star Trek, and it's been quite a coup that we've been
able
to get him because I know Elon Musk has been sniffing around a little bit trying to lure him over to run the Starlink operation there at his headquarters.
Hey, play your ringtone again, Mike Shane.
Tim Grover is amazing how Shane can grab four of us from the remote ends of the Earth and make it sound almost like we're in the same studio together sharing croissants and
tea.
Yeah, it's very much so.
Walnut Media has a professional operation going on there that can match the big boys anytime.
And I would like to drop a little buzz in their ear.
I'm lonely over here.
We could start a Walnut Media.
My hometown can't make you radio.
It was an old-fashioned registration, and it's still for sale.
It hasn't received an offer yet, and we could start up a new operation here on the east side of Iowa, too, based on Walnut Media's business model.
And getting people like Mike Shane over here to set that up would be a big plus in my life.
I know that.
Well, let's give Chip Raidman the final word.
Chip, so great to have you on again with us today.
Shane's a pretty awesome guy, isn't he?
Yes, we all know that the magic in the studio does not happen in front of the camera or from the speaking end of the microphone.
All the magic happens on the other side and the production side.
And that's where Mike Shane comes in.
He does a marvelous job.
Well, Mike Shane knows, even though I'm hundreds of miles away from him physically right now, he knows to queue up that final music, the Procession of the Nobles.
by Rimsky Korsakov, as I wish all of our audience a great, happy New Year when we come back on the other side.
We will be into the New Year.
And so I continue to wish for each and every one of you to be safe, to be smart, to be good, to be strong.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
It's still the Octave of Christmas.
It's the sixth day of Christmas.
God bless us, everyone.
Thank you, Dr. Jeff Stein and the good folks at KXL and listen to the podcast, KXL.com, J-A-C-O-B-S-E-N.
Merry Christmas.
Happy New Year.
Go Hawks.
See you next Saturday.
Bye bye.