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Big game in Iowa City today.

Fox hoped to rebound after a brutal loss to the Cyclones, hoping to get up to two and one.

And we've got a big lead in audience today.

Hey, we know Gary Dolphin listens to the show.

It's early enough, Gary might still be picking it up this morning before he takes the mic this afternoon for the Hawkeyes.

We are rejoined as promised with the great Pete McRoberts, my favorite Democrat, my brother from another mother, and not exactly like we're the Gipper and the Timber, but Pete McRoberts, Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great frenemies.

And I think after the Reagan assassination attempt, they were prayer warriors together.

There are great stories chiseled out.

in American political Americana, aren't there Pete McRoberts?

Absolutely.

That's a great example.

And I don't mean to suggest that somehow we need to look in the past for these halcyon days.

I mean, these are real disagreements between major leaders in the world and in our case in the state.

But nobody could ever mistake O'Neill or Reagan

for anything other than people who had really strong values, they knew what they believed, they knew why.

And when you're looking at your counterpart across the table and you know what they think and what's unbridgeable, by definition that also shows you what you can do.

And so it shouldn't be surprising at all for people who really have a strong core of beliefs that they would be able to work together.

And in Reagan, in Ariel's case, run the country in spite of real disagreements.

I mean, that's, but it all starts with values.

And everybody would understand that both of them really had strong moral values and they lived them.

And that's, I think that's where they got a lot done.

Here with Pete McRoberts, a man without period in Iowa at the seat of power in DC for many years, as well as in Des Moines, our capital, highly respected lobbyist.

and a former aide to many of our gubernatorial Senate folks, as well as right into the very White House itself.

Pete, one of the poignant stories that really strikes me as a Republican is that nasty divisive schismatic, which has gone on now for over a century, the Taft versus the Teddy Roosevelt Republicans, good friends going to bitter rivals.

As a matter of fact, the TR Taft Rift really paved the way for the Wilson White House.

But at the grave site of Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Urschweil, Supreme Court Chief Justice, talk about the second act in American political life, sobbing at the grave of Teddy Roosevelt, inconsolable, the last one to leave the burial site.

How close we are attached, even sometimes to our foes, to respect the admiration, and just who does the bell toll?

It tolls for thee.

Yep, yep.

And this is something all of us have given quite a lot of thought about in a big sense, or the 30,000 foot sense.

But in people's daily lives, ordinary people are OK.

with live and let live with disagreeing with people with agreeing with people and i don't mean to be polyannish i mean you and i live this stuff everybody does yeah it's it and i don't i don't think let me put in the affirmative i think it's it's absolutely appropriate to expect or acquire political leaders or electives to follow that same normal person routine you know nobody

would

ever expect nobody would ever expect you to agree with them all the time when you were in the legislature or even you know your neighbor

Me neither.

And so I just, I don't think that's just out of reach.

And there's an article that I saw in the news today from a prominent Republican whose position is he's going to vote for, for, for vice president Harris, not because he's, you know, kind of cutting his losses with, with former president Trump.

But the whole point was we need to get to a point where you can argue about stuff again.

Right.

That's the American way.

Let's go there.

This is well,

it's fascinating.

I've seen so much What I would call uncharacteristic alignments this election cycle I have registered as an independent my friend Bobby Kennedy and Pewter to friend Tulsi Gabbard have left the Democratic Party It's just I love the fascinating independent strains of thought that folks have and Pete you and I worked on something together Going back now hard to believe it's been seven years

But it's surfacing again as a ballot amendment.

This year involving succession planning.

Talk to us about that.

Give us an update because there's a lot of widespread misunderstanding, even among the so-called smart pundits, about what's really afoot.

Oh, I could not be happier that you asked about this.

And first thing, thanks for running the bill back in the day.

That has now turned into a constitutional amendment that'll be on the ballot in Iowa.

I

had a good lobbyist imparting wisdom to

me.

I had to do the right thing.

Well, thank you, Todd.

For anyone who doesn't know, I was the lobbyist, so you're being too kind.

And I'd like to know how much my mom paid you for the compliment.

So thank you.

But this is, without getting into the weeds, we can remember back in 2017 when, at that time, Governor Branstad resigned from office to become ambassador to China.

And then, of course, as it happens about what's a generation.

the lieutenant governor took over and announced her plans to appoint a lieutenant governor.

So I had worked for a governor 15 years ago, 17 years ago.

And one of the things that someone in there smarter than I am caught is that the law at that time still was reflective of the period when Iowa governors and lieutenant governors were elected separately.

And so the succession issue wasn't

addressed in the law and the Iowa Constitution.

No, I remember those days well.

You had to vote for voting for Robert Ray.

You had to vote for art news separately on

the

tickets.

Absolutely.

Yes, and there were lots of split governors and lieutenant governors.

There

were.

There were.

And so in 2007, the governor that I worked for signed a law that was passed unanimously in the legislature.

that added the lieutenant governor to the list of statewide office holders that a governor appoints if there's a vacancy.

And so we took it for granted that the lieutenant governor is one of those.

And so fast forward to when at that time, lieutenant governor Reynolds takes power, becomes the governor, announces her plan to appoint a lieutenant governor, and then there was a controversy as to whether or not

A governor who be a lieutenant governor who becomes governor has the legal authority to appoint a lieutenant governor and absolutely absolutely in Iowa It's it's the procedure that if an attorney general opinion exists And there's never been any lawsuit and that's what controls and so the attorney general at that time ruled that a governor taking office in that scenario

is both the lieutenant governor and the governor, meaning there's no vacancy in the second office, meaning the succession goes to, in this, in our case in Iowa, the Iowa Senate president.

And

I didn't agree with

that.

And I believe that that was the correct rendition of the law by Tom Miller.

I agree with that.

Do you?

I didn't.

I felt that the case law was unusual.

It was not based in Iowa case law.

And one of the criticisms

that I think you know it's neither here nor there because it's a long time ago and then election has has come is that the attorney general at that time was really repetitive in that second office needs to be held by an elected official and one of the things that kind of confounds me is there's no constitutional or statutory provision that requires the president of the senate or the speaker of the house to be elected officials.

This

is where you started to sway me, Pete.

I mean, that's truly a Democratic lower case D and Republican lower case R. I believe that if you are holding color of office, you have to have had the sanction of voters to legitimize your service in that office.

And I think you had the backs of the people with this going on.

Thank you.

So we worked on this through, gosh, six years.

And the thrust of this, again, it started getting to the weeds on the concept of it.

But what we wanted to do was put it so as unambiguous that when a Lieutenant Governor becomes the Governor, that creates a vacancy in the Lieutenant Governor's office.

Correct.

you know, the Iowa Constitution at the framing was explicit that if there's no statutes to come after, then the governor fills vacancies.

And so right now the governor of Iowa fills, you know, U.S.

Senate, you know, Governor Reynolds has the authority right now to replace Lieutenant Governor Greg, former Lieutenant Governor Greg.

But the question is, does a governor who becomes governor through the, you know, vacancy in the governor's office have that same power?

And

I'm an old executive branch guy.

That's

the key.

Can the replacement replace, you know, essentially?

We had a dance like this when Spiro Agnew resigned the vice presidency and Richard Nixon nominated Gerald Ford, who had to be ratified by members of Congress.

And then, of course, when Nixon resigned and Gerald Ford assumed the presidency, Ford then

chooses Nelson Rockefeller.

Now, we're dealing with federal constitutional law, which is not the same as the Iowa law, but these situations do arise where the replacer has to then replace his or her replacement, essentially.

Yeah.

And that'll happen here when Governor Reynolds names the new Lieutenant Governor and she'll do it under the current constitutional and legal provisions.

Correct.

So the thing that we're looking at in November is for the next time that a Lieutenant Governor

uh attains the office of governor through resignation or or you know inability or death you know any of those things that happen about once a generation

here with Pete McRoberts here with Pete McRoberts on Cax Hills the Jacobson group uh Pete uh great lobbyist and uh uh aid to many uh democratic officials from White House years uh Iowa Senate and House and Gubernatorial years so Pete how are our

media folks getting this story wrong.

This is pretty cut and dried to me, but where's the confusion and what do the people need to know?

Because this is going to be on the ballot as an amendment here in less than basically 60 days.

It will.

And this last week, and I saw a TV report on it, which just botched the explanation with all due respect to the reporter, because I wouldn't expect people to

to dig in deep on constitutional law, but the TV article, I'm sorry, the broadcast that kind of got my IRA was short and it just flat out said this amendment will go to the people in November, and if it passes, then the governor will be able to appoint a lieutenant governor, and if it doesn't pass, then the line of succession will go straight to the president of the Iowa Senate.

And I thought, boy, that sure isn't right.

Nope.

Yeah, they bossed that one right there.

You shouldn't expect people to have to get particularly heavy to the weeds, but I am glad that media outlets are looking at it.

I hope that this one issues a correction or maybe just does a second follow-up because it really is, it's a big deal.

You know, the interesting thing is even though this, you know, nothing about the now former Lieutenant Governor's resignation is addressed by this amendment, it does put some eyeballs on the issue of succession and appointments.

My gut feeling is the governor waits until after the November election to name her new Lieutenant Governor just in order to keep this thing from becoming another partisan.

Very intriguing because some folks have wondered why is this being dragged out you have just Swerved into it.

It should obviously be something that would be just intrinsically Knowable, but yes, that would explain perhaps the pause in selection Pete we've got five minutes left in this segment

So

let's go there.

We have a lieutenant governor vacancy.

I've worked with Adam Greg and the interest to pull disclosure He has come out done

veterans events for my constituents.

He has done a fundraising event for me.

I like him and respect him as a fellow member of the Bar, but it seems to me, and tell me I'm wrong here, why would a Lieutenant Governor in otherwise great health, young and vigorous, with possible political aspirations, resign in the middle of a term that he ran for a full

for second-year term.

And all I can think of, Pete, is this.

We have Iowa Republicans who like to be governors for life.

Robert Ray, Cherry Brands said, and now, apparently, Kim Reynolds, because due to the health battle that Jack Whitver is fighting, who is probably the heir apparent to become an appointed Republican nominee for governor by the party establishment

Jack, we wish him the best we pray for his full recovery in a tough cancer health battle right now.

Kim must think she's indispensable and that we can't exist without her.

She's running for essentially a fourth term.

She picked Adam Greg to be her lieutenant governor, but maybe like Eisenhower with Nixon, she still wants to

run the show and so Adams get the squeeze and there's a nice safety net called the Iowa bankers association.

The Iowa bankers have not advanced successfully a great deal of banking legislation.

Maybe Adam can crack that nut with all this context but I got to say Adam doesn't have a banking background so what's behind all this Pete am I right wrong or somewhere in the middle?

So

First of all,

I'd also put full disclosure.

I've known Adam for a long time and he's my friend.

And so the first thing there is when he says he's leaving office in order to take an exceptional opportunity and to raise his kids, he's got small kids and he's only 43 years old.

I mean, that's true.

So whether that's the entire truth is where we're going to go.

And my interpretation is that with no personal

knowledge.

I want to get this out there.

This is just watching the tea leaves having been in the governor's office and in the legislature for about forever.

I believe

that

in the fall of last year, Governor Reynolds, she was sitting real signal she wasn't going to run for office yet.

She was indeed.

She was and you could see by certain decisions, political decisions, government decisions and

And there was, you know, lots of reasons for that.

You

know, at that time, Mr. Reynolds... She was pining for perhaps the vice president to see when she had the burner accounts that were critical of Trump and had cast her a lot with DeSantis.

And DeSantis crashed and burned.

That strategy to ambassadorship or cabinet post melted away.

The default position is governor for life.

Where am I wrong?

Well, I

think there's a little bit more to that.

So if you look back the difference between November of last year and now, it was a big deal.

Mr. Reynolds' health was an issue.

That's true.

And by all accounts, thankfully, he's recovered.

Thank God, yes.

He did very well, Kevin.

We wish him the best as

well.

Absolutely.

And so if you're Governor Reynolds, and again,

I work for Governor Colver.

I don't have a lot of favor for the folks who replaced us.

But just at a human level, if you're an energetic governor, which she is, even though

I don't

agree with much, and the door's open, there's no way she's walking out of it.

And if you're Adam and you're 43 and you think to yourself, all right, so the Governor Reynolds is running for reelection, it sure looks like it to me.

If you're 43, are you going to sit

in the second chair for another 70 years before the door opens again?

No,

because if you do that with Grassley and Branstad, you die of old age before your turn comes, waiting for

them.

Alternatively, and for Adam's political future, should he want one, he's in a good position.

The issue with banking, that if you go take over a big organization, you're not there for the subject matter, you're there because you're an executive.

That's

an excellent point.

Yeah,

he's a big

picture.

He's the best.

Yeah, exactly.

I don't vote Republican, but I'll miss him in that office because he was a really substantial influence.

The guy was a state public defender.

I'm an old state public defender.

We watch out for the Constitution and in doing so help regular people against a heavy-handed government.

So I'm going to miss him as Lieutenant Governor, and I hope that his departure from public life is not permanent, even though I wouldn't vote for him.

Well, we wish him the best.

Pete McRoberts, you are the best.

Get ready for next week.

Mike Shane is locked and loaded with our Zoom telecasts here.

It sounds like you're in studio, massive audio,

We're rolling Pete McRoberts, and we're into our electoral vote predictions next Saturday.

Oh, hot dog, I'm in, and I'll be doing it from Chattanooga, Tennessee at that point.

Probably hobnobbing with presidents and vice presidents.

Pete McRoberts, the candidate whisperer to all the Democrats from the White House, to the Iowa State Capitol, thanks for joining us this Saturday.

Go Hawks, McRoberts, go

Hawks.

Absolutely, and go Fever.

Indeed, indeed.

Tough loss Friday night, but they'll be back.

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I will be frank with you that as a citizen, I would not like to see any political party outlawed on the basis of its ideology, because I still believe, Mr. Chairman, that democracy can handle it.

I was a brand new KGB officer, given my first intelligence assignment, a certain actor and union leader.

Dutch,

there is a purpose for your life.

You can run from a bully for so long.

But after a while, you're gonna have to stand up to

me.

Here's my boy!

There's about to be another war right here in Hollywood.

The commies on one side, the mob on the other.

And you work right in the middle, son.

If you put as much work into your career as you do making your speeches, you'd have an Oscar by now.

Hello, I'm Nancy Davis.

Hello, Nancy Davis.

I'm Ron Reagan.

I'm curious, Ron.

What would you say is the issue of our time?

No question about it.

Communism and the Soviet Union.

Get in the game.

Run for office.

It's you!

I'm running for governor and I would like your vote.

I forgot your name.

Do his initials help or are?

Honey!

Roy Rogers is here!

And he's running for governor!

Ronny, remember when we met?

You told me that you wanted to make a difference in this world.

You know what you have to do.

Governor Reagan again, typically, is against such a proposal.

There you go again.

But he was not

afraid to take us on.

There's nothing a retired governor can do about the Soviets, but a president.

Now you can do a thing or two.

I was a lifeguard on a

river.

And I learned how to read the currents.

Not just the ones on the surface, but also the ones deep underneath the water.

I am about to start the biggest war of this century, and I'm not going to fire a single shot.

You're going to blow up eight years of diplomacy.

Well, if you think back out there on these that I want, you just wait.

What did the president know?

And when did he know it?

What would you have me do?

I want you to fight.

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And now it's time for our political potpourri in honor of the late great John McLaughlin, our homage to the McLaughlin Group.

Unrehearsed and live, issue one.

Who could have a better panel than this?

I am

joined by not just Mike, Mike Shane, engineer, but our young great American Blake Hopping.

Tim Grover, our Eastern Iowa correspondent, as well as political consultant Sheila Murphy.

Issue one, debate gate.

This week in the debate sponsored by ABC News, Donald Trump walked into the trap to the lair.

not all the other suspicions of a whistleblower who may come out and say that the questions may have been de facto sent over to the Harris camp in addition to letting her know that ABC would aggressively fact check Trump and not do the same to Harris.

Among those rumors, we also have suspicions of a hearing device in the earring of Kamala Harris that may have been transmitting

uh radio signals to harris during the debate would that have been in violation of debate standards but folks what might have even been worse was kamala and the abc news team covering up in shilling for infanticide what was the worst night of the what was the worst moment of the debate that night i turned to you chila murphy

well first of all i think uh anybody who's listening to the people that works with kamala harris when she was a prosecutor

in doing courtroom work in California, then we'll tell you that if you write out a script for her, she can be a good actress.

She can memorize the lines, and she can deliver them relatively well.

And that's what we saw.

I think that, I feel sorry, I'm not going to be too critical of Trump.

He was up against the law, and he did take the bait a couple of times.

And I can't really, I think that perhaps that was

the worst part of the debate for me.

For her, I think that the fact that he said that he supported the acceptance in abortion regulation, and she was not able to feel that.

She couldn't take that into her prepared statement.

She had to go on and talk to him as if he hadn't said all that.

And that was pretty pathetic, I

think.

Great take by Sheila Murphy, political consultant.

What say you, Tim Grover?

uh the worst moment of the night although i think going into the debate i think most everybody pretty much knew that was going to be the whole thing was going to be as real as pro wrestling is real so um so i think that was a big deal but the worst the worst thing of the night was her making faces every time he'd come around to her and uh you know point something out about her it was like

It was pearl clutching time for her and she was making faces and I know several old veterans that have actually done negotiations with the Chinese and Russian generals who said a face like that has no business across the table from Chinese and Russian generals.

That's a fascinating

observation by Mr. Grover.

Blake Hopping, our great young American, what say

you?

I think that the worst part for me was the absence of the talk of the assassination attempt on Trump.

He

was the only one that brought it up.

And worst of all, the inside job that it's turned out to be.

Yes, agreed.

If this would have happened to Joe Biden or Kamala.

uh during this campaign that would have been the very first thing that was brought up who to trump as a question and abc didn't even mention it uh when trump brought it up they tried to you know abc try to get past it as quick as possible with those moderators um it's just a travesty i think trump didn't have a good night as he could have i think that you know she gave some layups where he could have just totally destroyed two campaigns from two different candidates in the same election um but you know he took debate

It was three against one.

It's very tough.

There's not much you can do about that.

Great.

Thanks, folks.

Let's go to issue two.

Does the debate change the electoral map at all?

Taylor Swift, who with an almost unnatural progression to unbounded success of a wholly unnatural trajectory, of course,

in coordination, timed, and endorsement for Harris immediately after the debate.

Billions of young girls are now going to the voting websites.

How much of an influence does such an endorsement make by Taylor Swift?

And does it hurt Caitlin Clark's brand that Caitlin hit like when Swift did the endorsement post for Harris?

Sheila Murphy.

Well, I think it will have an influence.

an impact, but I think that a lot of Taylor Swift fans are young and too young to vote.

Praise the Lord.

I think that, and Caitlin Clark's participation is all to me.

This is all about social media, and it tells me that what I've always suspected about social media is absolutely right.

When Zuckerberg started it,

He did not intend to bring everybody together in a friendly way.

If he had, people would have been encouraged to say things like, that's interesting, but I disagree,

or

I don't agree with what you said, but you said it well.

Oh no, nothing like that.

It's like or dislike.

For years now, they have been building up a structure of communication based on everybody being in one group and feeling the same way, and anybody who dares to disagree.

being rejected and ostracized.

And this has been being built.

We see it now.

Caitlin Clark, hey, she had to do it.

If she doesn't do it, they're going to ostracize her.

She's going to be out in the cold.

She's going to be rejected.

That is the whole point of this.

Now every young woman is being told, you support Kamala Harris, and we're going to turn our backs on you.

That was the whole point of social media.

And now we see it come to fruition.

It's a tool of control.

Yeah, I was disappointed in Caitlyn as the Des Moines Dowling girl.

I wish Caitlyn realized how pro-infanticide Harris is and how Harris believes any Catholic should be disqualified from public office, even if they're really a member of the Knights of Columbus.

It's an outrage.

It's a litmus test.

It's forbidden by the Constitution.

It's horrendously bigoted and I think disqualifies

Harris from any political office.

Your

take,

Kim

Grover.

I agree with Sheila.

I think most of your Taylor Swift fans do not vote.

Period.

Even the adult ones.

And so I don't think it'll make that big of a difference.

I do think it makes an impact on Taylor Swift because there's going to be a lot of America First union members aren't going to buy tickets for their girls anymore to her concerts.

And I think

On the the real bottom line to all this is I think Caitlyn needs to fire Connor from handling her social media

She needs to dump that loser Connor McCaffrey hypergamy look it up in the great evolutionary characteristics of women throughout time in memorial women engage in hypergamy They always move on to a bigger and better man do it Caitlyn cut loose

I

agree with everyone here.

I think it's definitely gonna hurt Kailin I did read that a lot of fans especially back here in Iowa are gonna start boycotting her games and merchandise I don't think it was a very smart move, but as Sheila said it's hard because social media You have to go along to play along you can't you can't stand out and have your own boys because you just get shouted down or you get censored which we've seen and

For all the oligarchs there, you know, who control Big Tech, and that's all it's about.

It's all about control and all about conformity.

Great takes, guys.

Issue three, I'm touching the third rail here.

Is it time for regime change in Iowa City?

Iowa collapses against Iowa State in an almost unforgivable loss last week.

Poor offensive schematics.

Timid offensive play calling.

Hyper conservatism.

Last minute choking on big play defenses.

Guys, that was a game that never should have been lost as time passed Kirk Farron's bye.

And is it time for regime change in Iowa City?

I go to you,

Tim

Grover.

I don't know.

I think he's pretty much towards, I think any year now he's going to retire anyway.

But yeah, I think we are overlooking one thing.

I give him a lot of credit for mentioning

We left eight points in the red zone, and that was the difference in the game.

So he also didn't

kick an extra point that would have brought it into

overtime earlier in the game, too.

Yeah, exactly.

So yeah, there were some bad calls there.

But I think we overlook at our own peril that Matt Campbell has one of the hottest quarterbacks in the NFL right now that he recruited has David Montgomery and Brace Hall.

or tearing up the NFL too.

So the guy can recruit players.

And I think, yes, Kirk is, I think Kirk is our last line of defense for defending old school.

There's some of it.

Yeah, what he's doing doesn't match up in today's college football.

You know, the ESPN drag and boy, he got, it was rough on McAfee this week.

Ty Schmidt, I don't think wanted to go to work.

Just for the sake of old school football, I think we need to let him run his course.

And it may be some beatings that we need to take.

And maybe by taking those beatings, maybe the rest of America will say, you know, maybe the game isn't as interesting as it used to be anymore.

It's a

fascinating take.

Blake Hopping, this reminds me eerily of Hayden Fry's last season with a defense now that does have some dance in the armor and with an offense that's going nowhere.

I mean, Kirk shouldn't have been suspended for calling Cade McNamara day early.

What warranted a suspension was calling Cade McNamara, perhaps.

Blake Hopping, this could turn into a four and eight campaign.

There is no offense.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, the defense can only do so much.

You got to score points.

And we've now we've seen this for years.

We, you know, we all blamed Brian Farrens for it.

And part of the problem is just Kirk isn't recruiting those athletes that we need to win games.

I mean, our offense is stale.

They looked good the first game in the second half.

But for years now, they just haven't looked good.

Kate McNamara didn't look good last year, even before he got hurt.

They didn't make any changes to quarterback with his backup.

Just looked awful.

I think it has passed him by.

And our offensive line, which we were known for, it hasn't been good in years.

We're not getting the players that we need.

And it just shows on the field every week.

Yeah, it really does.

The fans deserve better.

They're paying high dollar to see a very poor offensive product.

Issue four.

The number one movie in America or the past week was Reagan, a tremendous motion picture starring Dennis Quay, John Voight, Robert Davy, Leslie Ann Downs, Jennifer O'Neill, Pat Boone, and others.

Poignant movie touching, ending, Easter eggs all the way to the conclusion of the final credits and humor in the movie.

What do you think was John Jacobson's favorite aspect of the film?

A, the fact that no mention of speechwriter Peggy Noonan was ever made in the motion picture.

We saw speechwriters, but no Peggy Noonan.

Number two, a five-minute succession of parades of people berating Reagan for now negotiating with the Soviets while they showed Brezhnev, Trenenko, and Andropov in succession first coughing, then panning to

Funeral Corteges and then dirges by Mozart or would it be number three the proper humiliation of the then-worst president US history Jimmy Carter for Reagan's touching and Pivotal friendship with Judge William Bill Clark or five the Ronald Reagan joke about being mistaken for Roy Rogers and Dale Evans when he said he was campaigning for president and appeared in westerns with his wife and that his initials were our art

Sheila, what would be the highlight for you?

John, that was a heck of a question.

So

I'm supposed to tell you, I'm sorry, I haven't gotten to see the movie yet myself.

What I thought your favorite would

have been.

Yes, what do you think my favorite would have been?

Oh, God only knows, John.

I really can't digest that.

Why don't you just tell us?

Want to take a shot, Tim?

Take a shot, buddy.

Oh, I'll take a shot here.

I haven't seen it yet either.

But his relationship with the judge, I think, had to be your favorite part.

It was that

that was tight.

It was tight for first.

There's a long story about that.

And it was a Reagan being present.

If two people are responsible for Reagan being governor and president, it was Nancy Reagan and Bill Clark.

I go to you, Blake Hopping.

I would have to go with option number one for the part that you enjoyed, if that's tight for first.

You know, Peggy Noonan, I was delighted that she was not mentioned at all because she has kind of gone off the deep ledge.

I have to admit, I have to admit, I was laughing aloud in the theater, much to the lovely and gracious Debra's dismay, laughing out loud at the death scenes of a British nymph, Trinnecoine, on drop-off with the concert refrain of Beach.

The beginning of a cough, funeral corteges and herces followed by a Mozart dirge.

It did make the point when Reagan responded to his critics by saying, I want to negotiate with him.

They keep dying on me.

Guys, this has been a great round table.

We're going to reassemble the guys next week for an electoral college prediction.

Our thanks, thanks to engineer Mike Shane always, but Tim Grover, Sheila Murphy and Blake Hopping.

on the Jacobson Group.

Bye-bye till next week, and I'm going to close the show out here in just a moment.

Thanks, guys.

Good morning on this beautiful Saturday morning in September.

We all survived Friday the 13th.

I'm no Triska Decafobic.

We're not afraid of anything.

As a matter of fact, we are filled with hope.

and great inspiration.

We have people like Barbara Hames-Bryans, the family legacy custodian of the awesome Hames Homes family, two wonderful communities in Cedar Rapids, Iowa of manufactured homes.

Barbara, welcome back to the show.

Thank you, John.

I just learned a new word, triscodectophobic.

It

means

fear of Friday the 13th.

Try three.

Triska Deck 10.

3 in 10 is 13.

Phobia.

Triska Deckophobia and hopefully the Hawkeyes can rebound.

What do you think?

Rebound today?

Oh, I think they're coming in hot.

They're coming in mad and they're ready to kick Troy University and then you know what?

I think you are correct.

Well, it's been fascinating to watch the NBA last night on a Friday night.

Indiana fever just lost narrowly.

to Las Vegas Aces, a great game on Ion.

Kate had a tough first half, but came through with a lot of scoring in the third quarter, 14 in the third quarter, and almost 10 rebounds in assists apiece.

It's going to be a fascinating playoff system, but Park is a fascinating time of year.

Autumn is we're about to head into autumn.

It's a great time to buy or purchase a home and you make the basics of buying a home very easy at Hames, Barb.

It's so much easier to buy a manufactured home than it is to buy a real estate site built home.

True.

You don't need a realtor to help you shop for homes when you come to Hames homes.

We have our housing specialists Curtis and Clint.

They know everything there is to know about our beautiful inventory at Ames.

They really take the time to get to know you, what you need, what your family needs, and match you with the right home that's good for you and that you'll be happy with.

We know, Barb, there are a ton of people listening this morning here on KXEL as we're a de facto Hawkeye pre-game show.

We know that Gary Dolphin listens to this show.

It's early in the morning.

He might be listening to us before he commands the mic down there at Kinnock.

But, Barb, talk about the loan app.

You guys make it easy.

We sure do.

From the time a person comes in and picks out a home until we can close on a home, it could be eight days or less with the manufactured home because we have our own in-house financing company.

We also have access to financing through several national lenders and several local lenders, so we shop around to get you the best deal you can if a loan is what you need to purchase a home.

This is what's great.

You use the golfing analogy.

Barb's got 14 clubs in the bag.

She's got many arrows in the quiver and Barb another wonderful part of what makes you guys such desirable Place to live is health safe.

You guys are talk about the community application

Everyone who applies to live in a Hames community goes through a background check and a credit check It's a private planned managed community.

So you have to be approved to live there and

That way you know when you get in your home, you're not living next door to a drug dealer or convicted felon, but you're living in a nice safe neighborhood that your kids can walk around in.

And Barbara, what's great about the whole scenario is you give people an option for brand new, beautiful, affordable, spacious housing.

but also you've got some really nice refurbished and pre-owned homes as well.

We have our own dedicated service crews that go in and refurbish, remodel, and re-engineer our pre-owned homes top to bottom, front to back.

Inside and out, we use a 96-point checklist to refurbish our manufactured homes so you know that if you're moving into a used home, it's still a great, affordable, safe, beautiful, attractive home.

And you continue to refurbish these on an ongoing basis.

Here with Barbara Hames Bryant at Hames Homes, the Homes people, they're in Cedar Rapids.

Barbara, after you've got underwriter review and approval, there's the closing and the community sign in.

It's a beautiful touch, but the community manager there at Hames further explains the guidelines and answers questions.

That's right.

John, everyone agrees to a common set of living standards at Haymes Homes.

And the community manager is not only responsible for making sure the rules are enforced, but also making sure that every resident is happy living in a Haymes community.

And you've got that data plate that you show them in the homes.

That's an information summary that is unique to each manufacturer at home.

And then you also help them with maintenance rigming.

with maintenance regulations and such, everything from furnace filters and when to check the heat tape.

You know, there's a lot to owning a home, any kind of home, including how to change batteries and a smoke detector of furnace filters, as you mentioned, and, you know, keeping seals around windows and doors.

Oh, snug and comfortable when it starts to get a little chilly outside.

Barbara, I was just back for my 45th high school reunion a few weeks ago.

And of course, I always like to drive by your beautiful facilities, your beautiful homes there when I come to your town.

Barbara, hard to believe it was 45 years ago, your great father and mother with this beautiful music we're hearing.

Cracklin' Rosie.

Made famous by Neil Diamond, those early TV ads that we are going to bring in to the Iowa Broadcast News Association archives, some of those early commercials up from then, WMT Channel 2.

We're going to be really proud to add that to our Iowa Broadcasting News Hall of Fame.

Oh, and for your listening pleasure, anybody who would like to go look at our old commercials for old time's sake, can go to our website and go to About Us and our commercials.

commercials, and you can watch those corny old commercials.

They're wonderful.

They are.

They are epically awesome.

I have done so.

So Barbara, that was our appetite.

How do we find you by internet, by phone, and by physical location?

Most of our customers find us first on the internet.

or you can visit us in person seven days a week.

We're open today and tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday, seven days a week at the corner of Wilson Avenue and West Post Roads, Southwest.

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

Or you can call us on our Marian Legacy phone number 319.

377-4863-319-377-4863.

We have had that phone number for 55 years since 1969.

Put it on your speed dial because we've got beautiful homes we want to show you.

And they are affordable and this is the time now.

We've had a slight dip in rage.

This is a good time to take a look and look.

We got a huge audience this morning because the Hawkeyes were kind of pre-gaming the Hawkeyes out of KXEL here, and we hope to get some good quarterback play today from Kayden McNamara.

If you watch that Friday night game with Kay State and my goodness, bad play by quarterback Johnson running out the clock and no field goal there, we're going to manage the clock well today, aren't we, Barbara?

Hey, we're going to win.

We're going to be proud.

Go Hawks.

absolute label.

Barbie, Brian ladies and gentlemen, our studio audience on their feet is always Barbie between you and Curtis and Clint.

You're a trifecta of radio excellence.

Always a joy to have you on the blowtorch here, 50,000 watts, caroming across North America, but mostly in Cedar Rapids, Iowatha, Robbins, Marion, North Liberty, Tiffin, Iowa City,

Waterloo, get down to Hames Homes folks and look up Barbara Hames Bryant.

Thanks, Barbara, for joining us.

It's my pleasure, John.

You have a great weekend.

You too.

God bless.

Talk to you next week.

I just want to... Oh, I can't resist.

I'm supposed to quit right here.

In view of the five things that I just said, I don't know whether you know it or not, but I have a new hobby.

I am collecting stories that I can actually prove are told among the Russian people.

They make them up themselves, they tell them between themselves, reveals they've got a great sense of humor, and they've also got a little cynical attitude about things in their country.

And one of these stories, the one I'm going to tell you, I told to General Secretary Gorbachev.

And he laughed.

The story was an American and a Russian arguing about their two countries.

And the American said, look, in my country, I can walk into the Oval Office.

I can pound the president's desk and say, Mr. President, I don't like the way you're running our country.

And the Russian said, I can do that.

The American said, you can?

He says, yes.

I can go into the Kremlin, to the General Secretary's office, pound his desk, and say, Mr. General Secretary, I don't like the way President Reagan's running his country.

Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, distinguished members of the Congress, honored guests, and fellow citizens, today marks my first State of the Union address for you.

The constitutional duty is as old as our republic itself.

President Washington began this tradition in 1790 after reminding the nation that the destiny of self-government and the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty is finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

For our friends in the press who place a high premium on accuracy, let me say I did not actually hear George Washington say that.

I can define middle-aged.

That's when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that'll get you home at nine o'clock.

The story of a realtor who was out driving on a back road on his way to look at some property and suddenly noticed down beside him was a chicken keeping pace with him and he was doing 60 miles an hour.

And suddenly the chicken spurred it out ahead of him and it looked to him as if the chicken had three legs.

And then he turned and went down the side road and into a barnyard and the driver Turned down that lane drove into the barnyard was a farmer there and he asked him he said did you see a Chicken go by here and the farmer said yep, he says Did it have three legs and the farmer says yep, I raise him that way I breed him He says you do he said how come well He said I just love the drumstick and always liked the drumstick and now juniors come along and he likes it and we just got tired of fighting over it so I've been

Breeding three-legged chickens.

And the driver said, well, how do they taste?

He says, I don't know.

I haven't been able to catch one yet.

There's nothing I enjoy more than a little country humor.

One of the great things about having you here is that I get to tell a farm

joke.

Now, first I need a setting, but Rick, you're from Kansas, right?

Okay, this takes place in Kansas.

It was an old Kansas farmer there.

He had a piece of creek-bottom land that had never been developed at all.

It was all rocks and brush and all messed up.

He started in on it, clearing it, the underbrush and hauling away the rocks, then cultivating the soil there.

He planted a garden, everything from vegetables on to corn.

It really became a garden spot, and he was pretty proud of what he'd done.

So one Sunday morning, in church after the service, he asked the preacher if he wouldn't stop by to have a look.

Well, the preacher arrived, and he took one look, and he said, oh, this is wonderful.

He said, these are the biggest tomatoes I've ever seen.

Praise the Lord.

He said, those green beans that squash

It was melons.

He said, the Lord really has blessed this place.

And look at the height of that corn.

He said, God has really been good.

And the old boy was listening to all this, and he was getting more and more fidgety.

And finally, he blurted out, Reverend, I wish you could have seen it when the Lord was doing it by himself.

And as he was falling, grabbed a limb sticking out the side of the cliff.

and looked down 300 feet to the canyon floor below and then looked up and said, Lord, if there's anyone up there, give me faith.

Tell me what to do.

And a voice from the heavens said, if you have faith, let go.

He looked down to the canyon floor and then took another look up and says, is there anyone else up there?

I've always thought of the importance of communication and how much a part it plays in what you and I, what all of us are trying to do.

And one day, a former place kicker with the Los Angeles Rams, who later became a sports announcer, Danny Villanueva, told me about communications.

He said he'd been having dinner over at the home of a young ball player with the Dodgers.

The young wife was bustling about getting the dinner ready.

They were talking sports, and the baby started to cry.

And over her shoulder, his busy wife said to the ball player, change the baby.

And he was a young fellow, and he was embarrassed in front of Danny, and he said, what do you mean change the baby?

I'm a ball player.

That's not my line of work.

And she turned around, put her hands on her hips, and she communicated.

She said, look, Buster, you lay the diaper out like a diamond.

You put second base on home plate, you put the baby's bottom on the pitcher's mound, you hook up first and third, slide home underneath, and if it starts to rain, the game ain't called, you start all over.

There aren't any words to properly tell you how bittersweet these days are and the things that we would like to say to all of you.

You know, I keep remembering back

and not too far when some place along the line there would always be a picture of a president standing in the old office looking out the window usually the picture from behind and he's standing there and then his words are quoted as a tag for that picture about this is the loneliest place but a lonely and so forth

I don't know about them.

I haven't been lonely one minute

Always thanks to Dr. Jeff Stein, the czar of all things at KXEL.

Always a pleasure to be with you on behalf of Mike Shane and me.

Thanks as always to Barbara Haymes, Haymes, the Homes People, and Jim and Cindy Jandran at Midwest Renewable Energy LLC and Life Runners.

People across the country running for life, protecting the right to life from womb to tomb.

John Jacobson saying catch our podcast on kxl.com slash Jacobson J-A-C-O-B-S-E-N on 1540 100.5 until next week be safe be smart be good be strong love Jesus Christ thank him and love him and God bless us everyone enjoy summer in Iowa it's great to be a Hawkeye

and Panther, and Bulldog, and Cyclone.

Tell me again, bye-bye!

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