6am Hour -- Seattle police are investigating something akin to a Wild West shootout at the King Smoke Shop in Ballard on Monday, leaving one person dead // Amazon employees express dismay, anger about sudden return-to-office policy // Starbucks’ new drinks have a spoonful of olive oil in every cup // GUEST: Randy Pepple, the architect behind ShiftWA.Org joins John to talk about several bad bills in the legislature // Lars Larson: Seattle becomes the first city in the US to ban caste discrimination

7am Hour -- Carlson shares the history of Ash Wednesday // GUEST: KVI Listener "Kat" talks about working with Schizophrenics, drug addicts, getting them into rehab as opposed to them refusing medical service or rehab, and what it takes to get an addict into recovery.

8am Hour -- Washington bill to loosen restrictions on police pursuits faces challenges in Legislature // Is the Kshama Sawant-led vote to ban caste discrimination actually ‘Profound and historic’, or is it all about headlines? // California school district excludes white employees from social gathering // Vivek Ramaswamy, Anti-Woke Capital Crusader, Announces 2024 White House Bid

GUEST: KVI Listener "Kat" talks about working with Schizophrenics, drug addicts, getting them into rehab as opposed to them refusing medical service or rehab, and what it takes to get an addict into recovery.

KVI's afternoon host, Ari Hoffman fills in for John Carlson

Biden declares 'Kyiv stands' in surprise visit to Ukraine, but how did how Biden sneak away to Kyiv without being noticed?

Richard Belzer, comedian and 'Law & Order: SVU' actor, has died at age 78

Ballard business puts up barriers to prevent damage from nearby encampment dwellers and Seattle considers historic law barring caste discrimination

GUEST: Lars Larson joins Ari to discuss how the president spend President's Day out of the country

Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for 'national divorce' between 'red states and blue states' and CBS's Margaret Brennan calls out socialist Bernie Sanders benefiting from capitalism while railing against it

Margo Martindale is as surprised as you are that she's starring in Cocaine Bear

Is it Snowpoclaypse Now? KOMO 4 Meteorologist Kristen Clark joins Ari to explain what's going on with the coming storm and Nikki Haley fires back at Whoopi Goldberg: 'If my age is all they have, it means we’re winning'

Washington homeowner claims squatters took over their property! Ari Hoffman joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss how squatters have returned following a SWAT raid in Washington.

James O’Keefe is out at Project Veritas

Washington State Representative, Chris Corry proposes bills on state worker vaccine re-hiring and emergency powers as Washington state lawmakers push to rehire government workers fired over vaccine mandate

Amazon unit Zoox tests robotaxi on California city's streets and Bernie Sanders agrees with Bill Gates that we should start taxing robots

6am -- KVI's countdown to a brand new studio, exposing the double-talk of KCRHA's failure to clear Seattle's most notorious homeless camp, how to make Seattle a more affordable place to live: curb government thirst for taxes, Lynnwood joins Marysville in passing a tougher drug possession law than the state's current lenient law, Bruce Willis's family releases letter explaining his worsening dementia condition.

7am hour -- by an 8-1 vote a bill to reform the WA police pursuit law passes a key House Legislative committee and now heads to the full House for a vote, GUEST: St. Sen. Republican Leader John Braun updates the bill cut-off date today in the Legislature, CNN's Don Lemon paints himself into a corner talking about a woman's "prime" years,

8am hour -- GUEST: ShiftWA.org co-founder Randy Pepple tracks the 'no right turn on red bill' and a bill that would allow juvenile's any legal exemptions as runaways if they declare they want gender re-affirming health treatment, GUEST: economist Steve Moore tackles the latest signs of inflation and why whole sale price data released this week is a bad sign for inflation declining, Bernie Sanders goes to battle against interim Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.

Good news, bad news for Seattle's most notorious and illegal (unsanctioned) homeless camp, underneath I-5 at the Ship Canal Bridge. KVI's John Carlson notes that part of the camp is being cleared out, but many homeless people still remain there. Meanwhile, digital journalist, Jonathan Choe, is exposing the double talk from the King County Regional Homeless Authority executive director, Marc Doanes. Listen to what Choe discovered from a recent State Legislative hearing where Doanes testified. Carlson concludes, the nexus of this failure to clear Seattle's most notorious homeless camp--which is on WSDOT property underneath I-5 at the Ship Canal Bridge--is Marc Doanes, the one in charge of the King Co. Regional Homeless Authority. No leadership whatsoever from Doanes.

In Olympia, a state House committee passed two bills yesterday related to police pursuit laws. The latest from Northwest News Radio’s Carleen Johnson.

6am hour -- in one more week there's a big change happening for KVI, Seattle neighbors keep slamming city and state politicians for homeless camp 200 feet from John Stanford Elementary school named for a former US Army General that the Seattle School Board would never hire as the Superintendent in the 21st Century, RIP Jo Raquel Tejada, aka Raquel Welch... she auditioned for Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island but was not selected over Dawn Wells, Kent repeat offender leads deputies on crazy car chase after breaking off ankle monitoring bracelet, how the Michigan State U. campus killer this week bought two guns legally despite a prior conviction for a gun crime, the candid moment for a Democratic US Congresswoman who is demanding serious response to repeat criminal offenders after she was attacked in her apartment elevator and had to fight back against the criminal.

7am hour -- GUEST: a Burien man, Jon Bearscove, whose wife was attacked randomly in downtown Seattle waiting for the bus shares her story, its

a story about Asian & Pacific Islander hate crimes as well as long police response times in Seattle, witnesses tried to help his wife but nobody confronted the attack suspect who is still at large, hold on to your waller: January wholesale prices went up in the US according to new Labor Dept. data which means inflation is unlilkely to slow much,

8am hour -- GUEST: ShiftWA.org co-founder and Olympia Legislative watch-dog analyzes HB 1363 and SB 5352 which would both address police pursuit law and both have bi-partisan support, how KVI listeners and their family and friends can help spur passage of these bills, how WA St. Senator Manka Dhingra realized she can be a more effective public defender by being an deputy prosecutor, RIP Raquel Welch, why she pushed back on being typecast as a sex-symbol plus the story of when she sued MGM studios over an age-related firing and prevailed, PPP loan payback controversy for Biden Administration.

GUEST: ShiftWA.org co-founder and Olympia Legislative watchdog analyzes HB 1363 and SB 5352 which would both address police pursuit law and both have bi-partisan support, how KVI listeners and their family and friends can help spur passage of these bills, how WA St. Senator Manka Dhingra realized she can be a more effective public defender by being an deputy prosecutor.

KVI's John Carlson discusses the career of the alluring yet tough Jo Raquel Tejeda who was known to movie fans and the world as Raquel Welch.

6am hour -- the Biden Administration is now not going to collect from PPP loans that people refused to pay, Team Biden says it would cost more in work hours to collect and enforce the loans than what they'd collect, the hotly debated Super Bowl holding penalty became a Valentines Day meme message...wait for it...from the Chiefs player who was grabbed, the so-called 'social housing' plan in Seattle is passing after the first round of election results, another potential case of the laws of unintended consquences regarding a WA Legislative bill (HB1513) that would further restrict when police can pull over drivers for a traffic stop.

7am hour -- the embarrassing moment for Cali U.S. Sen. Diane Feinstein finally saying she won't run for re-election at age 89 amid failing memory concerns, some of the latest tech layoffs are involving people in the diversity and inclusion departments, "gutting diversity and inclusion departments", stirring tribute by actor/veterans advocate Gary Sinise to a 99 year old WWII veteran who just passed away, GUEST: CIS Andrew "Art" Arthur on reports that illegal southern US border crossings are at a 2 year low, American TV viewing habits are about to make a monumental turn toward digital video and away from broadcast/cable,

8am hour -- Nikki Haley says she won't let China and Russia bully American or kick America around, Haley is subtly telling voters she thinks Trump's too old to be President, KVI callers on the phone and text line sound off about Nikki Haley's 2024 chances and her perception as being the female political version of Mitt Romney, GUEST: Bill Bryant examines the Gov. Jay Inslee $4 billion housing proposal being considered by the WA Legislature, Bryant says, "poorly thought scheme (is) typical Jay Inslee", how this relates to Seattle homeless problems and unaffordable housing in Seattle area, Inslee incorrectly lumps the homeless and unaffordable housing problems, Bryant spent 10 years working at an over-night shelter in the Seattle area working with homeless people, Inslee is following California by pushing this plan, why Inslee isn't worried about the state receiving a worse bond rating due to debt, 5 things WA could do without spending a penny to make housing more affordable, Pres. Biden's reflexive push to ban "assault weapons" after this week's disheartening Michigan St. University random shooting murder that didn't involve an "assault weapon".