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So many guests so little time! Phil talks to Republican St. Senator from Sedro Wolley, Keith Wagoner about his work defending Washingtonians from a property tax increase, Republican St. Rep. Brian Burnett from Wenatchee about the parental bill of rights, WPC's Todd Meyers about how $500,000 from the Climate Commitment Act made it to a good friend of Jay Inslee's and Dean Pete Peterson from the Davenport Institute School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University about a study proving that minimum wage increases leads to fewer minimum wage jobs.

How soon could the tariffs end? What is Phil glad he ordered before the Chinese tariff took place? What bizarre service do Washington Democrats want to tax? Find out on today's show! Plus hear from Director of Seattle For Growth - Roger Valdez on how we can defeat the rent control bill in Olympia, and learn how to become a city council member and eliminate DEI and CRT from our schools from Kevin McCoy. 

On today's morning ride, Phil talks to 18 year old Spanaway house party shooting survivor Jazmine Chavez about how she believes we can get illegal guns out of the hands of juveniles.  Phil also talks with James Poling from WSDOT about the homelessness crisis taking place underneath our freeways.

Welcome to the inaugural podcast of KVI's Morning Ride hosted by John Carlson's long time producer Phil Vandervort. On today's show Phil talks to a Kennewick School board member fighting to preserve women's sports despite orders from the state. Phil also talks about what he saw at the Hands Off protests around Seattle on Saturday and what he thinks can be done to make student athletics more fair.

John Carlson's final morning show on KVI, GUEST: Hall of Famer and Seattle Seahawk Ring of Honor, Steve Largent; Sen. Maria Cantwell wants to review Trump tariffs after 60 days, GUEST: ATR.org President, Grover Norquist, tariff talk and impact, pros and cons on tariffs,  GUEST: ShiftWA.org and Olympia Legislative watchdog, Randy Pepple, teen female fencer refuses to compete against trans athlete and gets DQ'd by the fencing organization, how the John Carlson Show inspired an Auburn couple to adopt a child 23 years ago, some inspirational words from young kids about "what love means", GUESTS: the entire Carlson family (Lisa, Matthew and Drew) join John for the final segment.