Archives: Episodes

Show topics: The latest on the Hunter Biden special counsel // Tiny homes sitting around unused. If housing is the issue why? // The Secret service knows whose cocaine was in the white house but only told Joe // Best Buy's interesting training program // COVID fearmongers are back // Is that 7-11 hero employee who beat the hell out of a 3x armed shoplifter getting charged? // GUEST: Film director Matthew Taylor joined Ari to talk about his new documentary 'Gotham: The Fall and Rise of New York' // Fake News Friday with Young Zach // Lars Unleashed

6am hour -- still no answers about source of vicious Lahaina firestorm that has reduced the Maui city to smoking rubble, (one other hook?), Seattle still not on track to pass a drug possession law, an AI authored e-book takes the original author by surprise (fraudulent books mimic author's real life work).

7am hour -- any kind of weather now used by climate activists to blame natural disasters on climate change, WA governor's election campaign news Mark Mullett's strong results with campaign donations, WA Congresswoman's "centrist" claims called in to question after her comments at a NY political fundraiser, GUEST: economist Steve Moore explains the labor battle between UPS and union drivers, WA tourism among the 5 worst in the nation after the post-COVID uptick in tourism traffic/spending nationally.

8am hour-- the fascination with the Barbie movie and the movie criticism by HBO's Bill Maher, Maher calls the movie a "zombie lie" (something that was never true in the first place), the conservative and liberal political battle to co-opt the movie, a veteran Seattle PD lieutenant resigns and issues a 15-page letter about why she's quitting, the letter underscores that people in Seattle who need to speak out more do not speak out enough.

A veteran Seattle PD lieutenant resigns and issues a 15-page letter about why she's quitting, the letter underscores that people in Seattle who need to speak out more do not speak out enough; proving many of the points of the frustrated resignation of the SPD lieutenant is an update that the Seattle City Council won't be passing a new drug possession law until October.

KVI's John Carlson tracks where the significant campaign financial donations are going in the Washington governor's race now that Republican candidate, Dave Reichert, has joined the ring. Carlson explains how Reichert's candidacy has mostly impacted the campaign fundraising of moderate Democrat, Mark Mullet.

KVI's morning team notices that a candidate running for the Seattle City Council to replace Kshama Sawant is complaining about the cost of living in Seattle. Oh the irony that ensues.

Batya Ungar-Sargon joins Ari and explains why she's calling President Biden the "sex trafficker-in-chief".

Show topics: What DeSantis and Republicans are doing wrong // Cop leaves SPD in epic fashion // Mainstream media is talking about Biden corruption again countdown begins for another trump indictment // Disney quarterly earnings suck. Is it because of wokeness or something else? // A drug bust recovers enough fentanyl to kill everyone in Seattle twice // Lahaina destroyed by wildfires // Friendly Faceoff with Batya Ungar-Sargon // GUEST: Comedian Brad Upton joins Ari to talk about his upcoming specials // It isn’t just Washington, New York worked with the NYT to target religious schools

6am hour -- 36 people now reported killed in catastrophic Lahaina wildfire, a pilot says Lahaina now "looks like a city in Ukraine" after being bombed in the war, the Snoqualmie Tribe brokers a deal to save a massive red cedar tree from being cutdown, the EV school bus maker touted by VP Kamala Harris in Seattle is now going bankrupt, I-2117 would repeal the Gov. Jay Inslee "cap and invest" auction on fossil fuel producers.

7am hour -- is Gov. Jay Inslee going to declare the Mariner's are on fire because of climate change??, earth has had fewer acres of wildfire over the last 20 years than prior decades yet climate activists--like Inslee--distort that fact with their alarmism, the irony of a Seattle City Council candidate complaining about the high cost of living in Seattle, signs of "homeless industrial complex fatigue" among Seattle's socialists, "failed policies" that got Seattle in to the current mess, a massive drug bust in Shoreline but a King Co. judge gives the arrest suspect a $10,000 bail.

8am hour -- GUEST: Clint Hansen, a Realtor ® and Broker in Kihei, Hawaii on Maui, has recorded drone camera video of the Lahaina fire devastation that has now been seen across the globe, Hansen describes the fire destruction, the 200 foot fire cyclone that has now burned the entire town including boats down to the waterline, some top shelf economic ignorance from a Democratic US Congressman, Ford Motor Co. reports a $4 billion loss within its EV division as demand is tepid for EVs while Pres. Biden and states like WA are ramping up restrictions on gas fueled (ICE) cars/trucks, juvenile crime now a focus for the Pierce Co. Sheriff's Dept.

KVI's John Carlson discovers signs of "homeless industrial complex fatigue" among Seattle's socialists, push back from readers of The Stranger to wide-ranging concepts of (drug addicted) homeless enabling, "failed policies" that got Seattle in to the current mess.

I-2117 would repeal the Gov. Jay Inslee "cap and invest" auction on fossil fuel producers which went into effect in January 2023 that is now contributing to the cost of Washington gas prices. KVI's John Carlson interviews spokesman for Affordable Fuel Washington and creator of www.shiftwa.org about the petition drive to bring the Inslee climate agenda to a statewide vote.