Carlson is your constant companion on KVI, Biden's big climate envoy (John Kerry) is asked by a reporter about flying by private jet if he's really concerned about CO2 emissions and climate impact, debunking some of the lame excuses Kerry gives for relying on private jet travel, Issaquah (WA) teacher's union finally agrees to restart K-3 hybrid in-class learning, on this day in history a kidnapping that began a bizarre 18 month drama.

Democrats in the WA Legislature band together to support a 'billionaire wealth' tax, the proposed WA 'wealth tax' bill would charge double the tax rate of a similar CA law, the bill sponsor struggles to answer why European countries are abandoning similar wealth taxes; US Rep. AOC caught in a lie about her description of Jan 6th attack on US Capitol. grounds.

GUEST: Seattle resident and former city council candidate, Ari Hoffman, analyzes the front runner right now in the election for Seattle's next mayor, the candidate has been a vocal supporter of "defunding" Seattle police, it appears that Seattle voters haven't realized how far left the city has shifted.

A high school senior vents his frustration at CA governor for ruining his scholar-athlete opportunities in the name of the pandemic,

the incongruity that one SuperBowl starting QB's dad is only 7 yrs older than the other actual starting QB in the SuperBowl, GUEST: group spokesman for Affordable Fuel WA, Randy Pepple, previews a Legislative hearing today on a bill to raise the gas tax, the bill would raise taxes on all fossil fuels, the bigger problem with this tax hike is that the extra tax money won't go for transportation related spending--it goes to fight climate change.

the Seattle 'socialist' political agenda is clearly making its way into the WA Legislature in Olympia, the glaring constitutional issues for a proposed 'billionaire wealth' tax in the Legislature, what about all that disinformation that AOC embraced with Brett Kavanaugh??, what should Republicans do about the QAnon conspiracy spewing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?, this House Speaker Pelosi press release seems to infer that the top House Republican is from QAnon,

Whatcom Co. health department sounds off on the lack of leadership from Olympia on allowing businesses to re-open.

John Carlson is filling in the afternoons and today his guest is Randy Pepple from shiftwa.org and he talks about www.affordablefuelwashington.com and what is happening tomorrow, plus Representative Noel Frame-she has served in the Washington State Legislature since January 2016. She and John talk about the Billionaire tax House Bill 1406.

John a story about West Seattle, a gaff from Kamala Harris and why crime is so bad in Seattle, plus your phone calls.

John has two guests this hour-House Republican Floor Leader Rep. Jacquelin Maycumber, R-Republic (7th District)-talking about some of the latest bills in the legislature and Activist Andy Ngo who is currently hiding out from Antifa.

what's happening with Trump's legal time shuffle?, why this last minute change is important, socialst/Marxist homeless group attempts to take over an Olympia WA hotel in a similar fashion to the Christmas time take-over of a Fife WA motel, $45,000 worth of wildfire fighting equipment stolen from gov't building in Skagit County begs one big question about the criminals, Carlson responds to a KVI listener e-mail who claims COVID-19 is a lie, KVI's Lars Larson explains the extra CO2 emissions that can be expected after Portland politicians decide to change rules about industry CO2 emissions.

is the Republican Party in a civil war?, the most famous of Washington's anti-Trump Republicans is trying to form a new Republican Party, what dissident Republicans should do to defend democracy, why this thesis ignores the shift toward socialism by the Democratic Party; how a Republican President expanded what was known as Negro History Week to Black History Month.

GUEST: former Seattle City Councilman, Tim Burgess, wants to end (Seattle) homeless tent encampments with compassion and clarity, Burgess points to the political paralysis involved in addressing homelessness, the addiction and mental health issues of chronic homeless require more accountability that other cities (like Bakersfield CA and Abilene TX) are using far more effectively, how does Burgess answer the question of "what do you do with a homeless person who refuses shelter space or addiction treatment?", Burgess says homeless people cannot be allowed to camp in Seattle parks.

GUEST: economist Steve Moore...10 GOP Senators say they'll work with Pres. Biden on COVID financial relief for Americans to get another one-time check, restaurants in Island and Clallam County are upset they're located just outside Gov. Jay Inslee's designation to re-open partially for indoor dining,

Eight arrested as Olympia homeless activists try to occupy a hotel in a stunt similar to the one at Christmas time at the Fife Travelodge Motel, why Olympia police reacted so much differently yesterday compared to Fife Police in December, GUEST: Olympia resident, writer and government watchdog ,Candy Mercer, sounds off on the attempted hotel occupation by the homeless activists; the continuing astonishment of how Gov. Inslee's Employment Security Director managed to get hired by the Biden Administration after she over-saw two massive scandals in 2020.

the WA restaurant industry says Gov. Inslee's shift to Phase 2 isn't enough, why Inslee's shift will spur outrage from outlying areas of his political base in Puget Sound, RIP to pioneering actress Cicely Tyson who passes at age 96,

the outrage over the stock trading app that blocked users from transacting GameStop shares after this week's $70 billion in losses by hedge funds, the KVI debate over a bill proposed in the WA Legislature that would restrict gun magazine capacity to no more than 10 rounds, why the Democratic sponsor of the bill says his version will be different than the 2017 California law restricting gun mag size that was ruled un-Constitutional.

the alleged threat from Anti-fa or associated groups that prompted an emergency homeless camp sweep in Bellingham, why Bellingham police decided to take action based on the potential threat from Anti-fa friendly supporters, in San Francisco a schools panel decides to revoke names of schools connected to now un-PC historic figures, one example in SF: the panel didn't know if one school was named after Theodore or Franklin Roosevelt, how will the GameStop game stop?

GUEST: economist, Steve Moore, asks (after Pres. Biden unilaterally ended the Keystone Pipeline construction) does John Kerry know anything about solar panels?, why blue collar workers are likely to suffer during Biden presidency, for the first time in 50 years the US imported zero oil from Saudi Arabia, GUEST: host of Full Measure, Sharyl Attkisson, previews her upcoming story about a mistake by the CDC that has resulted in the lack of available vaccines.

reminder: KVI's John Carlson is temporarily hosting the afternoon drive show from 3-6p while a permanent replacement for retiring Kirby Wilbur is chosen, the curious timing of WA Gov. Jay Inslee's decision to allow some of the biggest counties to shift to Phase 2 for re-opening businesses, new HBO documentary tackles China's early cover-up to downplay threat/danger of COVID-19 virus, impeachment talk and the faltering case of Democrats, addressing the claim of 'pre-planning' for the 'insurrection', a deeper dive on the GameStop stock price story captivating Wall Street and America.

meet the temporary KVI replacement for Kirby Wilbur (3-6p) while management figures out the permanent replacement, a Seattle state lawmaker wants to repeal penalties on minors caught buying tobacco/vaping products while underage, should this Dept. of Homeland Security warning about domestic terror and violence threats include left-wing anti-capitalist/anarchist groups too?

The Wall Street saga involving the stock price of video game retailer GameStop is creating a furor over the entitlement mentality of hedge fund traders, a WA state senator reports that Oregonians are getting COVID vaccines in SW Washington, so why aren't Clark County officials more upset about this?, Democrats have designs to raise some new taxes on car sales and auto parts too, the bi-partisan bill in the WA Legislature to more quickly re-open businesses has failed after Democrats fail to support it, two Democrats did join Republicans to support it, meanwhile tribal casinos are allowed to be open and don't seem to be having outbreaks based on available contact tracing.

RIP to the iconic and trailblazing comic actress Cloris Leachman who died at 94, unraveling this tremendous story of the stock market share price of Game Stop and how hedge funds have now been hit with $70 billion in losses as the stock's price has climbed from $5 a share to $300 a share in 4+ months; all of a sudden Gov. Jay Inslee is banging the drum to re-open K-12 schools, did you notice that CNN stopped showing a daily COVID death toll tally on screen after Biden was inaugurated?, who should be vaccinated first: old folks or teachers?, everything that Inslee's saying this week was equally true 4+ months ago, meanwhile school closures have hurt at-risk students the most.

KY Senator makes the case for Trump impeachment acquittal, asks why two Democrats weren't confronted with impeachment for their actions/words that incited violence, New York's AG says Governor may have seriously under-reported COVID deaths at nursing homes.

Federal Reserve Chairman cries crocodile tears about the economic impact from COVID lockdown restrictions, Kent students and parents rally for Kent School District to re-start high school sports, Legislative Democrats in Olympia try to pass a bill to restrict gun magazine capacity, two guests debate the gun mag restriction bill (State Sen. Mark Liias (D-Mukilteo) and The Second Amendment Foundation's Dave Workman), the bill would restrict gun magazine capacity to 10 rounds, why did Democrats decide on a maximum of 10 rounds and not less or more?, there is a grandfather clause in this bill for current owners of larger capacity magazines, Liias says the goal is to prevent people from using large magazines to cause harm, would this bill pass Constitutional legal challenge based on previous ruling about a California law?

The intersection of sports and politics, no Hall of Fame inductions for baseball in 2021 because the latest baseball writers vote tally failed to reach 75% for all eligible players (including two of the top eligible players Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens), which bring us to the case of a player with sensational credentials but conservative political views, so how does a Seattle baseball writer with Hall of Fame voting access see this 'political' hot potato?, is politics now poisoning sports journalism the way it has most conventional news journalism?

The final show today for KVI's Kirby Wilbur as he departs for retirement, why its rare for radio hosts to go out on their own terms, a US Senate vote yesterday signals the likely acquittal of Donald J. Trump, an impeachment question about which scenario is more embarrassing, Senator Rand Paul excoriates Democrats, a federal judge strikes down Biden's new 100 day moratorium on deporting illegal aliens, the judge's ruling extends nation wide, most of the deportations are related to criminal aliens. GUEST: the deputy fire chief of Kittitas Valley Fire and Rescue in Ellensburg WA, Rich Elliott, He'll be administering more vaccines later this morning. how Kittitas County officials are trying to quickly vaccinate patients in the most efficient process possible, how Kittitas Co. is showing Olympia officials the best way to vaccinate at a high rate, 95% of vaccine allotment has been injected into patients (the county average in WA is 58%). The stunning 'David and Goliath' story of how a Reddit message board managed to cripple a hedgefund with $3 billion in stock option losses over the "short" of a video game store chain, the politics of re-opening K-12 schools and the teachers unions, look at unions in Chicago, SF and Baltimore, look at what happened last week in Bellevue WA, the Bellevue union required members to ID themselves by gender first and then ethnicity second before listing their name third, the meeting requirement shows the union's true priorities, Inslee on re-opening K-12 schools. The political confusion and manipulation between the words "equity" and "equality", its turning into racial Marxism (i.e. an oppressed class and an oppressor class), the catch-22 of white privilege, the labor union influence in Pres. Biden's unilateral decision to end contracts with privately run federal prisons, GUEST: KVI's Kirby Wilbur...final show today, 16 years worth of KVI with Kirby and John as the drive-time book ends on America's first all-conservative talk station, as Kirby retires and departs for a new home in Texas is Kirby optimistic or pessimistic about the political climate in WA?, how Kirby is still deciding about how to say goodbye.

A call to bring back the "Fairness Doctrine" and its coming from US news media, the primary target of this effort is Fox News Channel, the critical flaw in the call to limit Fox News Channel, it also underscores the inability of some folks on the political left-wing to separate 'news' from 'talk shows', consider how CNN portrays itself as news when its masquerading as opinion.