Hour 1 -- Kirby Wilbur in for John Carlson -- good news for Seattle thanks to its new City Attorney Anne Davidson, why Davidson's changes in the City Attorney's office are "impressive", at the same time Seattle City Council is about to ban gas powered leaf blowers, the gas powered leaf blower ban will require a racial equity analysis of the proposed law, a Pierce County Sheriff's sergeant returns to the line of duty after being shot and nearly killed on March 15th serving an arrest warrant with the county SWAT team in Spanaway, solving the mystery of a Lake Washington after-dark boating crash where one "large boat" hit a ski/tow boat and fled the scene in the darkness, some reasons for Republicans to be nervous about US Senate elections in November, Kirby and Lars Larson confront the concern that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is a bad "coach", for example the PA U.S. Senate race,

Hour 2 -- Kirby Wilbur in for John Carlson -- news about the powerful James Webb space telescope capturing images of the galaxy we'd never see, the powerful images are casting some doubts on the Big Bang theory of creating the galaxy, testing the 21st Century political phrase "the science is settled", some context the 2022 summer heat wave stats that hit the US, concert fans are buzzing after arrest of an armed man at The Gorge concert venue in central Washington, did the Grant Co. Sheriff's department arrest a would-be mass shooter or a possible post-concert drug dealer?, a history/learning suggestion to check out several books written by the recently deceased David McCullough, why Kirby is concerned about Republican candidate recruitment in PA and GA.

Hour 3 -- Kirby Wilbur in for John Carlson -- which aging NBA star can win the release of WNBA's Brittney Griner before Pres. Biden wins her release from Russian authorities?, Gov. Jay Inslee exposed for his bogus vaxx mandate plan still hasn't explained publicly why he's backing off his requirement after getting new pushback from labor unions, the continuing economic dilemma of worker shortages, JUST IN: Dr. Anthony Fauci says he'll retire by year's end and one KVI host points out it might be to avoid U.S. House GOP-controlled hearings should Republicans win control in Nov. general election, the Biden tax credits for EVs show why a push of hybrid vehicles would have been a smarter move rather than putting all the 'climate change eggs' into a singular EV basket, $5 trillion in COVID inside the US and the reports of multi-billion-dollar fraud investigations keep growing.

It's Ari Hoffman in for John Carlson!

Hour 1 -- King County Sheriff's Office investigating missing texts from then-Seattle Mayor Durkan in 2020 // Emerald City Comic Con returns to Seattle // MSNBC, ABC, CNN realize Inflation Reduction Act doesn’t reduce inflation after bill is passed: ‘Marketing’ // GUEST: Lars Larson discusses the latest on the raid at Mar-A-Lago

Hour 2 -- The California government “is making life so difficult” for Californians that even U-Haul is running out of trucks because people are fleeing the state // It’s the revenge of “revive I-5” and a huge pothole on I-90 // According to Patty Murray, “Democracy is on the ballot” in a new political ad // It’s the best of the worst of Brian Stelter as CNN is ending 'Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter'

Hour 3 -- A string of robberies and assaults are targeting women in Democrat-run Seattle // Seattle CEO who cut his pay so workers earned $70K resigns; an 8-year-old girl contacts astronaut at ISS via ham radio // AP says it's ok to say 'women' when talking about 'people seeking abortions' // Fake news Friday with Young Zach and a preview of this week's US Phenomenon with Mario Magana; and The Pee-Chee Folder: Illustrated by the Most Interesting Man in the World

KVI's John Carlson explores how much influence the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling on the Dobbs vs Jackson abortion access case played into voter turn out and the fate of Republican candidates in the August 2nd primary election results.

An objection by an 80-year-old Port Townsend, WA woman to a transgender female in the YMCA swimming pool women's locker room has metastasized into a controversy dividing the city according to one news writer in the quaint, Victorian town. Founder of the Port Townsend Free Press (ptfreepress.com), Jim Scarantino, tells KVI's John Carlson, the small town's political climate has become like Portland over transgender bathroom policy and subsequent objections by opponents who say they're concerned about protecting girls in the locker room from seeing male genetalia. Scarantino says a "woke ugly mob" shouted down rape survivors who expressed their concerns about transgender woman in bathroom at YMCA pool. Scarantino says Pt. Townsend has never seen this type of division among its residents regarding the bathroom controversy, the social media posts of the Pt. Townsend mayor are raising a variety of concerns about sexually inappropriate behavior and his fitness for leadership.

Hour 1 -- Seattle's new city attorney is a night and day difference to her predecessor, Seattle's director of the Public Defender's Office predictably uses racial accusations to complain about the new City Attorney, U.S. intel analysts warned Pres. Biden in October 2021 that his Afghan withdrawal decisions (er, blunders) motivated Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine,

why Congressional Democrats risked using the name Inflation Reduction Act on a spending bill that--by itself--won't actually reduce inflation, a Seatte woman viciously beaten and attacked in the elevator of her apartment building is another aggravating and frustrating example of Seattle's "war on women".

Hour 2 -- Seattle CEO resigns after criminal charges surface, CEO Dan Price rose to fame by creating a company minimum wage of $70,000/year back in 2015, two very revealing moments captured on audio from a Seattle sweep of an unsanctioned homeless camp along the Interurban Trail near Evergreen-Washelli Cemetery, Bonney Lake/Sumner LLWS team runs into a buzz saw against Hawaii, scrutinizing a theory that the SCOTUS abortion decision that shifted Roe V. Wade to the states hurt Republicans in the WA primary election results.

Hour 3 -- GUEST: news reporter and founder of the Port Townsend Free Press, Jim Scarantino, has been covering the YMCA pool transgender locker room controversy, says quaint small town has become like Portland over transgender bathroom policy, "woke ugly mob" shouted down rape survivors who expressed their concerns about transgender woman in locker room at YMCA pool, now there's a developing story about child pornography being shared at the Pt. Townsend YMCA, Scarantino says Pt. Townsend has never seen this type of division about the locker room controversy, the social media posts of the Pt. Townsend mayor are raising a variety of concerns about sexually inappropriate behavior, what a difference an election makes for one key office in the City of Seattle, GUEST: Snohomish County Councilman, Nate Nehring (reps. Marysville/Arlington/NE Sno. Co.) to talk about the $150,000 per person the County just voted to spend to put homeless people in a hotel, the $10.8 million Snohomish County on the Edmonds WA hotel (own Highway 99) is actually federal COVID relief money

Hour 1 -- Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney is officially a lame duck after losing primary by whopping 2-1 margin, today's Carlson Legendary Lyrics that will help you win Heart/Night Ranger concert tickets, legal scholar Jonathan Turley seems to say somebody is pulling the political strings of US AG Merrick Garland, another Seattle crime 'war on women' story as a woman is raped in a West Seattle green belt, West Seattle female neighbor of the crime site vents her frustration about public safety in Seattle.

Hour 2 -- would lame duck Congresswoman Liz Cheney really run a 3rd party presidential campaign in 2024 if Trump runs again to siphon off Republican votes?, some possible future career options for Liz Cheney, RCMP officials say some one with "malicious intent" released wolves from a zoo enclosure in Langley BC near Bellingham WA, if there was any more political spin in this statement about inflation from Seattle Congresswoman, Pramila Jayapal, it would probably knock the earth of its axis, the Seattle/Tacoma/Everett area has the 4th highest inflation in US metros, Biden inflation is also hitting US rents, a KVI caller talks about the calculus of 2024 presidential hopefuls and spoilers.

Hour 3 -- a funny story about this morning's Carlson Legendary Lyrics contest prize (which is concert tickets to Heart/Ann Wilson at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup on Sept. 2nd), a Seattle repeat crime offender is now charged with murdering a man in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, the defendant--Alexander Jay--is the same suspect in two random unprovoked attacks earlier this year in the CID and the alleged murder occurred roughly 13 hours after the two CID attacks, rebutting US Sen. Patty Murray's support for Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, Barack Obama and Jay Inslee like the F-word, Seattle Police hiring incentives just approved by the city council in 6-3 vote, GUEST: SPOG Pres. Mike Solan per SPD hiring incentives sees the Seattle "political winds are shifting" to support police but the hiring incentives are just a "half measure", says SPD has 300 retirement eligible officers right now which could also drastically reduce police staffing in short order, what needs to happen in King County and Seattle for police officers to fee like their jobs matter?, Chrysler's modern muscle cars Challenger and Charger are being discontinued, adios to the current American muscle car king(s).

KVI's John Carlson wants to know why, if Gov. Jay Inslee says he adheres to the CDC COVID guidelines, is Inslee not willing to relent on his COVID vaccine mandate for state employees now that the CDC announced this week their new standards for COVID quarantining and screening.

A KVI listener who says he was fired from the Washington State Dept. of Transportation (WSDOT) after 30 years of employment due to the COVID vaccine mandate imposed by Gov. Jay Inslee, tells KVI he wouldn't go back to the job if Inslee lifted the policy. Brian in Sea-Tac calls KVI to say even before the COVID pandemic he was witnessing "indoctrination" at the WSDOT to politically aligned work place policies.

Hour 1 -- headline of the morning: still no clear motive in attack on Salman Rushdie, 45 years ago today a death that stunned the world, a Portland State University professor sues a DEI administrator at U. of Oregon over the censoring of a tweet that said "all men are created equal", if you're wondering why Seattle shootings and crimes are so prevalent just listen to these tepid public responses by the mayor and interim police chief, the only person in Seattle's political hierarchy with the courage to say "every life matters" is a Black woman, KVI's Lars Larson noticed that there was no public statement by Pres. Biden yesterday regarding the 1 yr anniversary of Afghanistan withdrawal,

Hour 2 -- CDC relaxes COVID guidelines but most politicians don't seem to notice or acknowledge, breakthrough infections occurring is the big reason for the CDC change, because of the CDC guidelines Gov. Jay Inslee should quickly end his vaxx mandate and rehire fired workers, Washington DC's mayor brushes off question that her vaxx mandate for school students will keep 40% of Black students from attending in-class instruction and relegate them to distance learning, two Seattle connected stories about Elvis Presley on the 45th date of The King's death, new polling suggests Americans have "climate fatigue" and are less likely now to support climate policies as economic, inflation, crime and even some pandemic issues are more important to their lives.

Hour 3 -- the write-in campaign of a Federal Way/Des Moines candidate succeeds and Marliza Melzer will challenge a 27-year-incumbent Democrat in November, Carlson has some disagreements with the political career and path of Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney who's about to get voted out of office, listen to the dirtiest political attack you'll hear this year and the distortions it portrays in the US Senate race in Georgia, Seattle's next top Marxist is leaving town and moving to...Detroit, a KVI caller who worked 30 years at WSDOT and was fired over the Gov. Inslee vaxx mandate says he wouldn't go back to work there even if Inslee lifted vaxx mandate, white teachers in Minneapolis MN school district will be the first to be laid off--regardless of seniority--and its all part of a new collective bargaining agreement, shouldn't the school district be more concerned about quality of teacher(s)?

GUEST: Fox 13 reporter, Matt Markovich, tells KVI about Seattle city proposal for social equity points system to acquire a medical marijuana dispensary license, the points systems rewards applicants (or their family members) a higher value for the more they've broken the law, the point of the, um, points system is to entice or offer prior convicted criminals a chance to engage legally in the businesses that once landed them in the criminal justice system.