GUEST -- Americans For Tax Reform (ATR.org), president and founder, Grover Norquist, joins KVI's John Carlson to discuss why Pres. Biden doesn't understand what he's saying when he complains about oil company record setting profits and domestic oil drilling, "every American is poorer because their life savings...is all backed by stocks and companies, the things he (Biden) is spitting on" in the SOTU, Biden regulations on business are a a multiple of what Pres. Obama imposed, a few key examples of what Biden has made worse for a vast majority of Americans, JUST IN: legendary music composer Burt Bacharach has passed away at 94.

Note: The John Carlson Show daily 3-hour podcast will sound different from the on-air show due to not having the copyright access to music that is heard during the on-air broadcast of the show. 6am hour -- crowd reactions were a prominent part of last night's Pres. Biden SOTU speech, the "bubble" that a lot of network news media are in after Biden's line about Republicans ending Social Security, Biden's obvious ignorance about energy policy was laid bare in one moment from his SOTU speech last night, the Republican SOTU response from Sarah Huckabee-Sanders hit on the significance of the culture wars including political bullying to stifle political dissent to Democrats, KVI's Lars Larson points out that Biden used a key line in last night's speech that Trump had used in previous SOTU speech.

7am hour -- Pres. Biden stepped on a land-mine when he spoke about fentanyl deaths and Republicans pounced on Biden's lack of border security allowing fentanyl to widely be trafficked into the US from Mexico, the State Of The Union is _________, what word would you use to fill in the blank?, another example of how Democrats talk a good game when it comes to democracy but don't really walk the walk, KVI listeners sound off on the text line about the Republican response to Biden's SOTU speech, an explanation of how Biden conflated that Republicans are intent on killing Social Security, how Republicans "clap back at him (Biden)" on the conflated claim in last night's SOTU speech.

8am hour -- did Biden's SOTU speech help or hurt his momentum for a 2024 re-election campaign?, another embarrassing moment for Karine Jean-Pierre attempting to answer basic question about last week's Chinese spy balloon saga, the moral hazard of Seattle's homeless industrial complex to saddle taxpayers with 100% of the cost to get homeless people into taxpayer funded housing, KVI callers on Chinese spy balloon fiasco and the importance of keeping the Pres. Biden/Kevin McCarthy 'debt limit' talks publicly recorded (i.e. televised) instead of done privately with no audio/visual recording, a Seattle woman is raped at knife-point in her apartment after someone let the suspect into the building at what should have been a locked door.

6am hour-- the Biden Administration looking more and more feckless with excuses about Chinese spy balloon discovered last week over Montana, Biden let the Chinese balloon "complete its mission" and then shot it down, MSNBC host unexpectedly grills House Democrat (on Intell. Committee) about Biden's response to Chinese spy bill, Seattle & King County both end COVID vaxx mandate for government employees "effective immediately",

GUEST: ShiftWA.org's Randy Pepple, says two Legislative bills in Olympia offer real solutions for broad-based tax relief but they're being bottled up by Democrats (HB1483 would provide property tax relief. HB 1704 would reduce the state sales and use tax rate. HB 1011 would repeal the deeply unpopular state long-term care program and its payroll tax.), no inclination by WA Democrats to provide an ounce of tax relief during this WA Legislative session, Pepple notes that most states are awash in budget surpluses (including WA) because of extra federal funding related to COVID shutdowns and restrictions, the Columbia Journalism Review's assessment of the Russiagate 2016 collusion, its unsparing in its criticism of mainstream media "peddling disinformation for the better part of three years".

7am hour -- Olympia school facing claims of racial segregation over 5th grade BIPOC group, the Olympia elementary school principal rebuffs KOMO reporter/photographer asking questions about the criticisms of the 5th grade BIPOC group, "the entire school is supposed to be a safe space", an SI writer tells story about the ill-fated Russell Wilson 'special tent' at Broncos training camp last summer, RIP Bob Throndson a Seattle TV news icon from the late 1970s-2000s, Throndson was a field reporter at heart and could have worked in any news medium, Throndson understood the importance of writing good copy for viewers with straight-ahead reporting, Throndson covered the Mt. St. Helens 1980 eruption and the 1992 LA riots among his career achievements,

8am hour -- magnifying the importance of race and the general mantra of 'treat others as you yourself would want to be treated',

Disney+ "The Proud Family" slavery reparations scene, new public records from Democrats in WA Legislature show numerous redactions regarding capital gains income tax law that was passed last year but is currently facing legal constitutional challenge in Supreme Court of Washington (SCOW),

prominent Democrats not only want a different presidential candidate in 2024 but apparently they want a different VP too, only 22% of Americans think Biden should run again for President, Gov. Inslee's State DOT "slow walking" the clearance of an illegal homeless camp underneath I-5 at the Seattle Ship Canal bridge, Federal Way city officials dispute the King County Executive Dow Constantine claim that they were notified about King County turning the Red Lion Hotel there into a homeless hotel, violent crime in Seattle including murder, rape and aggravated assault are all up in latest round of 2022 stats, arsons and reported burglaries are down but car theft is up by 30%.

Gov. Inslee's State DOT "slow walking" the clearance of an illegal homeless camp underneath I-5 at the Seattle Ship Canal bridge, Federal Way city officials dispute the King County Executive Dow Constantine claim that they were notified about King County turning the Red Lion Hotel there into a homeless hotel.

KVI's John Carlson examines a newly reported story about a BIPOC 5th grade group at Olympia's Centennial Elementary School. One concerned parent describes the school sanctioned group as "segregation". But advocates for the students of color say its "focused on providing a safe space for students...how have historically been marginalized."

6am hour -- Ari Hoffman in for John Carlson--Biden Administration finally shoots down Chinese spy balloon after it floats all the way across U.S. to South Carolina coast, the news media/Democratic political claims about Chinese spy balloons during Trump Administration, the comparative threat of Chinese spy balloons and Tik Tok, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy drills Pres. Biden over failure to protect the border and US skies regarding Chinese spy balloon saga, Seattle woman sexually assaulted in Green Lake neighborhood by 20-something year-old suspect, KVI's Lars Larson just interviewed Donald Trump.

7am hour -- the impossible-to-script crime plot in Astoria OR involving the infamous Goonies house and a stolen 35' boat, how the crime spree that started at the Goonies house ended at a homeless shelter site in nearby Seaside OR, an alternative plan for the WA Democrats proposed pay per mile tax, rough weekend for Biden Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg on the Sunday talk show circuit, Pres. Biden 'State of the Union' speech tomorrow and "warning signs for Democrats", "significant discontent on the (Biden) economy", Biden's puzzling answer about ordering Chinese spy balloon to be shot down last Wednesday but his military advisors telling him they can't do it until its safer 4 days later, today's catastrophic earthquake in central Turkey was felt by Ari's son in Israel, an estimated 2300 are feared dead in today's 7.5 magnitude Turkish earthquake.

8am hour -- GUEST: Federal Way mayor Jim Ferrell explains the meth contamination drama of a hotel in the city that King County had just purchased to be a homeless hotel, how the one time Red Lion Hotel required decontamination remediation of the property, King County officials are not responding to KVI interview requests to discuss this fiasco with the Red Lion Hotel property in Federal Way, the KVI parody ad for Gov. Inslee and AG Bob Ferguson's Level 3 sex-offender housing, a Seattle progressive complains that bagel sandwiches shouldn't cost $18, GUEST: St. Rep. Mike Volz (R-Cheney, Medical Lake), a UW report used by anti-police politicians in WA to support their restrictions on police pursuit laws has now been deleted from a UW website?, a new Disney+ cartoon series for kids includes a lengthy scene telling viewers that Black Americans are "submerged in (a) systemic prejudice racism and white supremacy".

KVI morning show guest host, Ari Hoffman, interviews Federal Way mayor, Jim Ferrell, about the attempt to turn a Red Lion Hotel in the city into a homeless hotel by King County authorities. The only problems was when authorities discovered trace amounts of meth in the hotel rooms that were so high they required remediation to clean the property.

Note: John Carlson daily podcasts will sound a little different due to copyright protections on music used during the show. KVI is legally authorized to use the copyrighted music for on-air broadcast purposes but not for web content so you will not hear bumper or theme music on the podcast version of the John Carlson Show. 6am hour -- Gov. Jay Inslee's faux outrage about homeless man in Seattle who built a tiny home along I-5 freeway on-ramp, Inslee's continuing failure to get serious about kicking homeless people off State DOT property along I-5 and I-90 in Washington, Chinese spy balloon hovering over Montana prompts a few attempted punchlines, a "celebs, they're just like us" tweet from a Seattle Seahawk all-timer, how a private rd party operating a sex-offender half-way house in Thurston County plans to violate buliding codes and just pay the fine because they're getting so much WA taxpayer money to run the facility.

7am hour -- the connection between the WA government push to place 5 convicted sex-offenders in a Tenino house and the Democrats in the WA Legislature pushing a bill to take zoning control away from cities and give it to state officials, your chance to help prevent deaths by heart attack at a Kirkland WA fundraiser for "Alexander's Hope" coming up on Saturday Feb. 11th, Vashon Island HS imposes mandatory masks indoors on campus after winter dance sparked a COVID outbreak among students, an object lesson in what NOT to do if you're an alleged drug dealer,

GUEST: economist, Steve Moore, the latest US jobs report shows good news, a deeper dive on the relative embrace of socialism by American college students or Gen Z aged adults.

8am hour -- a suspected shooter still on the loose in south Tacoma/Parkland after a shooting at an unsanctioned homeless camp, a Shoreline WA man pleads guilty to "ghost gun" possession, Democrats in Olympia Legislature are contradicting themselves now from tough laws they passed on car drivers 5 years ago, Congressional Democrats are playing the race card after Republicans vote to block Rep. Ilhan Omar from coveted committee assignment, FL Gov. Ron DeSantis sets a hard line policy on CRT and DEI in K-12 schools and state colleges/universities, "education not indoctrination" is the Florida policy, what DeSantis has just done with Florida's version of The Evergreen College (in WA), CNN caught airing bogus story about COVID as a leading cause of death in children, CNN's story conflated two different sets of COVID stats for kids and it was a citizen journalist who caught the discrepancy (not the CDC or a state health agency).

6am hour-- GUEST: KNWN reporter Carleen Johnson on the scene of a random home break-in by an armed suspect in a Seattle neighborhood which is also dealing with continuing crime/public safety problems from homelessness, Gov. Jay Inslee tests positive for COVID despite being boosted, Inslee's COVID test underscores the contradictions in his continuing vaxx mandate policy, should WA K-12 public school students from wealthy families receive free school meals?, "dismayed" about crime statistics and Olympia Legislation that would do more to restrict police officer discretion on police stops.

7am hour -- GUEST: attorney Jackson Maynard talks to KVI about the lawsuit he has filed against the most recently passed WA Legislative $17 billion transportation budget, the lawsuit relates to legislation sticking to a single subject, Maynard says "the legislature playing word games" to pass such a wide-ranging grab bag of spending programs (i.e. fish culverts as well as roads), more evidence that some Western WA politicians are actively trying to suppress news reporters they don't like, GUEST: St. Rep. Andy Barkis on zoning for density, local vs state zoning control and the euphemistic "middle housing".

8am HOUR -- an unexpected song request from a KVI guest, the latest search of Pres. Biden's Delaware beach house, KVI caller disagrees with Carlson about his comparison of the Biden and Trump classified documents scandals, the Seattle double talk about affordable housing and celebrating veggie gardens known as a "Pea Patch", Tenino WA neighbors continue protests over proposed sex-offender half-way housing location near them,

GUEST: Thurston Co. political watch dog, Glenn Morgan, clarifies what's happening with Tenino property after Thurston County previously issued a cease and desist order, how the private company managing and operating the half-way/transitional housing might allow a single registered sex-offender to reside right away (before a grand total of 5 sex-offenders are intended to live there), Morgan describes the potential fine for allowing one sex-offender to live there before code compliance is met as a "cost of doing business", Morgan concludes: "if this (sex-offender half-way housing) was such a great program they wouldn't have to be so dishonest and disingenuous about what's going on"; a 5th Generation Seattle business leaving the city because of crime/public safety/homeless RV problems at their shop

GUEST: Thurston Co. political watch dog, Glenn Morgan, clarifies what's happening with Tenino property after Thurston County previously issued a cease and desist order, how the private company managing and operating the half-way/transitional housing might allow a single registered sex-offender to reside right away (before a grand total of 5 sex-offenders are intended to live there), Morgan describes the potential fine for allowing one sex-offender to live there before code compliance is met as a "cost of doing business", Morgan concludes: "if this (sex-offender half-way housing) was such a great program they wouldn't have to be so dishonest and disingenuous about what's going on".