December 12th, 2025 The Morning Ride

Morning Ride with phil vandervort

Round out the week on The Morning Ride as Phil talks with Brian Heywood about the importance of turing in signature sheets before December 19th to ensure the initiatives make it onto the ballot next year. Phil also shares potentially dangerous tech deals being done with China and pulls back the curtain on the Venezuelan oil tanker seized by the Trump administration. PLUS: are fake phones a real thing?, Kristy Noem OWNS left wing members of congress, and 2003 Patty Murray does not sound like 2025 Patty Murray on the topic of Title 9.

 

December 11, 2025: A flood of illegals

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- WA releases illegal alien trucker after ICE files detainer

- First CHAZ case reaches the courtroom

- Seattle schools surveying students & sharing the data

- WA AG spent thousands of hours and millions of dollars fighting to keep men in women's sport

 

December 11th, 2025 The Morning Ride

Morning Ride with phil vandervort

Join The Morning Ride for throwback Thursday featuring a stacked cast of special guests including Grover Norquist from Americans for Tax Reform,  Brian Garrity owner of Northgate Rare Coins who shares the impact on small businesses of taxing the sale of precious metals. Phil also talks to John Niles from Global Telematics about the future of WAYMO and driverless cars.

 

December 10, 2025: Highways to Hell

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- WA admits to issuing over 700 CDLs to illegals

- Socialist Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson unveils her "safety plan"

- WA Democrats banning journalists from Olympia

- Erika Kirk slams conspiracy theorists

 

December 10th, 2025 The Morning Ride

Morning Ride with phil vandervort

A storm is a brewing and The Morning Ride brings you everything you need to know to prepare including a conversation with a National Weather Service meteorologist. Phil and Lars discuss the World Cup Pride match in Seattle featuring some unlikely opponents. Was Jasmine Crockett tricked into running for senate?  and landlords might have an easier time evicting squatters in Tacoma.

 

December 9, 2025: Democrats want the violent criminals in the US

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- Criminal illegal aliens aren't a bug in the Dems plan, it's a feature

- Seattle is hit with more restaurant closures

- If the economy is good, how come people don't think the economy is good?

- Another violent offender found in Homeless Inc & authorities covered it up

 

December 9th, 2025 The Morning Ride

Morning Ride with phil vandervort

Phil returns to The Morning Ride! Outage over the looming deportating of a 'Tacoma' man, is he the angel the left makes him out to be? PLUS: Renters are becoming serial squatters in the city of Tacoma, a US congresswoman claims she was pepper sprayed by ICE, and a supringsing candidate is running for US Senate in Texas.

 

December 5, 2025: Another day, another illegal trucker

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- Illegal busted driving a truck without a CDL after an accident

- Is Trump sending in the feds to clean up Seattle for World Cup

- What did Ilhan Omar know about Somali fraud?

- Seattle office market is collapsing

 

December 4, 2025: What took so long?

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- Why did it take 5 years to arrest the Jan 6 pipe bomber

- Katie Wilson's advocates for Somali fraudsters & a violent illegal alien

- Sound Transit is doomed

- Are people finally turning on Candace Owens?