Archives: Episodes

Colorado Springs CO charter school tries to discipline a 7th grader for having a "Don't Tread On Me" Gadsden flag patch on his school back-pack. KVI's John Carlson listens to a three-minute video clip of a school administer telling the student's mother why the patch is not acceptable at school even though the administrators substantiations are not grounded in fact. The charter school attempts to spin the flag as connected to slavery, even as the (Democratic) Colorado Governor is siding with the student.

Why an environmental activist group needs to vocally denounce street car side shows that occur in and around Seattle and call for tougher criminal penalties for those that block roads to allow conspirators spinning donuts in their cars as well as advocating for more police officers on patrol to intervene and make arrests in those cases.

It's the Revenge of the Rona - are vaccines and mask mandates coming back? // Homeless arsonist released again // The first Republican to drop out of the 2024 Presidential race - and one who isn't // A kid is penalized for having the symbol of the American Revolution on his backpack // $1.1M in COVID relief steered to Auburn horse racing track // Could the Chinese government fund construction of huge new dam in Santa Clara County? // Discovery Institute Fellow Robert Marbut joins Ari to talk about The Story of Mental Illness in One Graph // GUEST: Anthony Watson, former 2018 Winter Olympian // GUEST: Turning Point contributor, Stephen Davis, AKA "MAGA HULK"

6am hour -- Pres. Biden's HUD Secretary gives two really detached answers about her perceptions of why homelessness is going up despite so much local and Federal spending to stop homelessness, Ron DeSantis gets a 'darned if you do, darned if you don't' moment in Jacksonville, UW professor Cliff Mass offers some healthy perspective on Seattle Times column about shrinking Cascade Mountain glaciers.

7am hour -- rock music legends Alice Cooper and Carlos Santana both embroiled in separate occasions of speaking plainly about transgender issues, the spectacular viral video of Nevada tribal police giving a blunt ultimatum to anti-capitalist protesters blocking a rural state highway on the route to Burning Man festival.

8am hour-- candid talk about guns and criminal shootings from the Black sheriff in Jacksonville FL in the aftermath of racially motivated mass shooting that murdered 3 Black people at a Dollar General Store, new public polling shows the feeling that viral music sensation Oliver Anthony (Rich Men North of Richmond) capture in his newly famous song, the climate politics at the heart of some new natural gas bills in Western Washington.

Pres. Biden's HUD Secretary gives two really detached answers about her perceptions of why homelessness is going up despite so much local and Federal spending to stop homelessness. Sec. Marcia Fudge's answers occurred during a visit to Seattle following an inquiry from a KOMO 4 News reporter.

The spectacular viral video of Nevada tribal police giving a blunt ultimatum to anti-capitalist protesters blocking a rural state highway on the route to Burning Man festival.

3 killed in Jacksonville Dollar General shooting, crime was 'racially motivated,' sheriff says // Homeless people are now sleeping in Seattle movie theaters? // Overwhelming majority of Americans say Biden is too old to be effective in a second term // Disney is on a ‘woke path to ruin.' Even ‘Snow White’ actress hates her own story // Washington power company raises rates to cover increased expense due to climate legislation—AG's office instructs them not to tell consumers reason for higher prices // San Francisco bakery refuses to serve police officer, cites no-gun policy // WA officials try to hide that their carbon tax increased your utility costs; Todd Myers joins Ari to talk about why your gun prices are so high // Ari and Mike review the first two episodes of Star Wars: Ahsoka // Eastside Link light rail starter line approved to open next spring // Kathy Hochul unveils new work program for illegal immigrants as 380,000 New Yorkers remain unemployed; Councilwoman Inna Vernikov joins Ari to discuss the details

6am hour -- Seattle Mariners have become a baseball juggernaut, Democrat city councilwoman in Jacksonville FL admonishes crowd heckling Gov. Ron DeSantis at prayer vigil following racially motivated mass shooting, NASCAR driver walks away from one of the most stunning race car crashes you will ever see, important context to the local news coverage of the $28 million Marysville School District budget shortfall, why parents putting their kids into private school and home schooling is creating budget problems for districts like Marysville.

7am hour -- GUEST: WPC's Todd Myers explains the new tax hike on WA energy bills, Washington State Utility Commission's brazenly dishonest ruling admits climate tax increases prices per a recent rate increase for natural gas;

Biden Admin. wields border wall gates OPEN so illegal aliens can simply walk right in to America, meanwhile LA's new mayor complains about influx of illegal aliens bused into city from Texas, Rest In Power Bob Barker at age 99.

8am hour -- GUEST: UW atmospheric sciences professor, Cliff Mass, responds to a Seattle Times report that glaciers in King County's Cascade Mountain peaks are disappearing, Mass asserts that both "natural decline" and human discharged fossil fuels/CO2 are effecting the glacier size and coverage; Gov. Jay Inslee keeps repeating vague plan to "defeat climate change" without explaining what the metric for that would actually be, GUEST: KVI senior baseball analyst Matthew Carlson, son of host John Carlson, examines the current M's hot streak and the upcoming opponents to see if the M's can hold on to first place, 50 days jail sentence for Auburn WA attack and attempted kidnapping of a bikini barista underscores the pro-criminal prosecutions in King County.

"They don't want people to know they're being harmed by government policies", says Washington Policy Center environmental policy analyst, Todd Myers, about the Washington State Utilities Commission deciding against alerting customers of Puget Sound Energy that their bill for using natural gas is now going up. Instead the utility will tell rate payers by e-mail or snail mail. Myers explains the new tax hike on WA energy bills and the "brazenly dishonest" decision. Myers says the public counsel within the WaUC said the billing info "needed to be hidden" and adds that decision on the monthly billing statements is "contrary to the spirit of Washington State constitution and law. How WA Attorney General, Bob Ferguson, how now been caught up in this anti-consumer and anti-taxpayer fiasco.

GUEST: UW atmospheric sciences professor, Cliff Mass, responds to a Seattle Times report that glaciers in King County's Cascade Mountain peaks are disappearing. Mass notes that Cascade Mountain glaciers in King County have been shrinking for the last 100 years. Mass says "natural decline" from the Little Ice Age between 1600-1850s play a part along with human discharged fossil fuels/CO2. Mass says higher elevation glaciers (in the Cascades) are in much better shape than lower elevations, "the impacts (of the Cascade glaciers) are not that large..I think that's the truth", Mass addresses the status of Western WA river water temperature.