Archives: Episodes

Pramila Jayapal claims she said 'Israel is a racist state' to appease protesters // Ballots are in your mailbox. Its time to take the city back // Kamala Harris thinks we should reduce the number of humans to stop climate change // The right is losing it over Snow White and they are picking the wrong argument // Jay Inslee has made his endorsement for AG, and it's not for who you think! // Deaths of four women over three months are linked, Oregon authorities say; Head of LA police officers union telling them to go elsewhere // GUEST: Jim Walsh // ‘Barbenheimer’ Fever: Meet the Film Lovers Turning ‘Barbie’-‘Oppenheimer’ Double Features Into the Movie Event of the Year // Democrats prepare a vote to censure Rep. George Santos, but why is this coming up today? Could it have to do with comments by Pramila Jayapal // 1 in 3 Seattle residents is considering leaving. Costs, crime are to blame

6am hour -- a trespassing Seattle protester has climbed a giant red cedar at a home lot that was set to be cut down to build a six-plex, the insipid protest underscores Seattle's inability to create more housing supply, Veep Kamala Harris says to fight climate change we have to reduce population, Seattle Congresswoman now apologizing for saying "Israel is a racist state", six people die in vicious car crash on Hwy 509 near Port of Tacoma.

7am hour -- GUEST: Brian Heywood, LetsGoWA.com, upcoming Summer Freedom Fest July 29th in Redmond WA, KVI listeners are invited to attend (for more info see www.LetsGoWA.com), John Carlson will be bringing his Indian Motorcyle for listener pictures, Freedom Fest will be a chance to sign and support six statewide political initiatives to force a statewide vote on recent laws signed by Gov. Inslee, a chocolate lab named Tucker ultimately helped nab a prison escapee on the loose for 8-days in PA, the simple and readily available thing that is better than therapy and medical treatment to combat depression.

8am hour -- today marks the 30th anniversary since Carlson started his show on KVI, more proof that Sound Transit can't deliver what it promises on budget or on-time, KVI listeners share memories of John Carlson's earliest shows in the 1990s, a WA couple may very well get their lawsuit against the new state wealth tax heard before the US Supreme Court next year.

KVI's John Carlson examines the wealth tax lawsuit that could take a Washington couple's case to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case involves Washington's wealth tax signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee which would tax residents based on portfolio or asset value not on a transaction that actually is defined as a capital gain.

U.S. Rep, Pramila Jayapal (WA-7) is now apologizing for saying "Israel is a racist state" as she tried to mollify pro-Palestinian activists at the progressive Netroots Nation conference in Chicago, Illinois on July 13-15th.

Support for US-Ukraine alliance divides 2024 GOP hopefuls at Tucker Carlson forum // Dan Strauss busted lying on campaign material // California Assembly passes bill on child trafficking // 'American Idol' winner apologizes after keeping hat on while performing national anthem // Help stop legalized kidnapping and sign R-101 to repeal SB5599 // Another retailer is bailing on San Francisco // Proof that gun control legislation doesn’t work // Fake News Friday // Lars Larson unleashed

6am -- Lake Washington drivers be warned this weekend: construction closures on 520 and an over-night closure of EB I-90, Gov. Jay Inslee's pathetic blame game of oil companies as WA now suffers the highest gas prices in America, dramatic search turns into risky arrest of felon with warrants who fled Pierce County Sheriff's deputies near Eatonville, in the "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems" file...we offer you this story about Yellowstone star, Kevin Costner; inflation talk, why Kamala Harris is lying when she says guns are the #1 cause of death for "children".

7am hour -- GUEST:WPC's Todd Myers responds to Gov. Jay Inslee's claims that "rapacious" greed by oil companies is responsible for WA having the most expensive gas prices in America, Inslee's failure to understand the very statistic that he's citing about the price of gasoline, how the WA gas prices right now are all connected to Inslee's new "cap and invest" law on carbon emitting businesses, some candid talk about school districts and gender identity from a parent with a trans child, a Denver CO school principal tries to get student with violent criminal past (attempted murder charge) expelled but gets fired for doing so over claims the principal is racist against the student of color,

8am hour -- four great reasons to be happy, some candid moments with an underdog Republican candidate for US President, triangulating political opportunism and the political viewpoints of the Seattle AAPI community, refuting the deceitful claims by WA Gov. Jay Inslee about why WA has the highest gas prices in the US, GUEST: economist, Steve Moore, examines yesterday's new report on US inflation and "Bidenomics", "the left putting lipstick on this pig of an economy they've created".

GUEST:WPC's Todd Myers responds to Gov. Jay Inslee's claims that "rapacious" greed by oil companies is responsible for WA most expensive gas prices in America. Myers exposes Inslee's claim that oil companies are making 80-cents a gallon on gasoline. Myers explains that he's not the only one in Seattle media who is highlighting Gov. Inslee's bogus claims about the "cap and invest" law that went into effect earlier this year that is now causing Washington's highest gas prices in the nation.

Not just cocaine: another banned substance was found in Biden's White House but the Secret Service closes White House cocaine investigation, says it is 'not able' to identify suspect // Seattle public schools offering free sex changes to students // John Kerry denies ever owning a private jet // Disney CEO says they aren’t over sexualizing kids // Is rent control coming our way? // Hollywood is on strike. Does anyone care? // GUEST: Brandi Kruse, host of UnDivided joins Ari after a teacher was found to have asked a 10-year-old to delete emails they exchanged about the student's gender identity // Secret service has a big announcement about the cocaine in the white house // GUEST: Olga Sagan, candidate for Seattle City Council

Brandi Kruse joins Ari Hoffman to talk about the teacher who asked a 10-year-old to delete emails they exchanged about the student's gender identity

6am hour -- a swimming pool turns up at an un-sanctioned West Seattle homeless camp on WSDOT property, a 200 lb blue fin tuna which is native to California waters is discovered on an Orcas Island beach vexing and perplexing marine biologists who've never seen anything like this, what happened to $17.5 billion in California homeless spending?, new polling found that students hoping for Biden college loan debt relief spent money on other things (vacations/retail goods/intoxicants and gambling) because they thought they were going to receive the debt relief, putting the Seattle Times story about a tombstone of a Seattle criminal suspect shot and killed by Seattle Police in perspective.

7am hour -- GUEST: initiative sponsor with LetsGoWA.com, Brian Heywood, announces the July 29th "Freedom Fest" KVI listeners are all invited to attend at his property the Willow Crest Stables in Redmond, Carlson tries to guess the WA cities with the highest per capita murder rates, next Wednesday will mark a pivotal day in the Hunter Biden/Biden family business investigation in Washington DC, the inconvenient truth(s) about Joe Biden's 7th grand-child via son Hunter and Hunter's confession that he doesn't remember impregnating the mother Lunden Roberts.

8am hour -- deciphering the outrage over a cardboard tombstone discovered inside a Seattle Police precinct break room that displayed the name and death of a criminal suspect who was killed after initiating a shoot-out with SPD officers in 2017, expect more failed policies to continue if a Seattle City Council woman gets elected to the King Co. Council in November, Gov. Inslee's tone deaf hype of the MLB All-Star game, KVI listeners are invited to attend "Freedom Fest" July 29th in Redmond WA at Willow Crest Stables, a KVI caller urges Dave Reichert to be more passionate and enthusiastic if he wants to win as WA governor.