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Thurston Co. Sheriff delivers a blunt and much needed warning to 'smash-and-grab' criminals using stolen cars to commit--and escape from--their crimes. Sheriff Derek Sanders underscores that a car is a deadly weapon. When was the last time you heard a Seattle-area PD chief or county sheriff speak so boldly like Sheriff Sanders?

Scrutiny grows for US Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell after a 2nd episode of freezing in a stroke-like condition during a public event, Fox News medical analyst thinks McConnell's freezing episodes might be related to Parkinson's, why Senator John Fetterman's health condition is different from McConnell's, McConnell's impact on the Supreme Court appointments.

Bartell Drugs to shut down 24-hour Lower Queen Anne store: 6th location closed in less than a year // The fire in the mercer encampment may have saved someone from a life of drugs // Mitch McConnell's brain broke again // Has NASCAR gone woke? // Judges releasing criminals including child rapists. Seattle stupid has spread to the rest of Washington - Washington State Representative, Travis Couture joins Ari to discuss the details // As Florida prepares for a hurricane, Biden tries to take credit after the Maui disaster // Is Amazon trying to hide the high sales numbers of the new book about Tucker Carlson? Chadwick Moore, author of TUCKER joins Ari to discuss the details // Terrorists at the border // Carmen Best and Harold Scoggins have now been named in the latest lawsuit against Seattle over the deadly autonomous zone - Evan Oshan joins Ari to discuss the details

6am hour -- Potential 15-16 foot storm surge expected in NW Florida right now as Hurricane Idalia arrives in Cedar Key, one juvenile teen is dead and two other teens in critical condition after crashing stolen car in Black Diamond WA, the fatal wreck underscores increasing crimes in Puget Sound involving juvenile suspects, bad news for Democrats who were just touting Bidenomics 3 weeks ago, Colorado charter school tries to discipline a 7th grader for having a "Don't Tread On Me" flag patch on his school back-pack, even the (Democratic) Colorado Governor is siding with the student.

7am hour -- the story behind today's contest of Carlson's Legendary Lyrics from 1966-67, GUEST: LetsGoWA.com organizer Brian Heywood invites voters to sign 6 new statewide initiatives, Heywood says Inslee's climate agenda is equivalent to a throne of lies, "one of the big lies" about Inslee's cap and invest law is that only the oil companies will pay it, why an environmental protection group should be a leading voice against street side shows with drivers spinning donuts in cars around the Seattle area, GUEST: WA St. Rep. Kelly Chambers (R-Puyallup) and KVI listeners sound off on the Inslee "cap and invest" carbon tax shenanigans.

8am hour -- KVI caller sounds off on how the gas/carbon taxes impact him as someone who relies on a truck to commute to work job sites to get paid, an 18 yr old Seattle woman now charged with shooting murder of a rideshare driver in SoDo, one juvenile teen is dead and two others in critical condition after stolen car crash turns fatal in Black Diamond WA, the tragic fatality is another example of rampant juvenile crime problems in several areas of Puget Sound,

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.