6am hour -- Kirby Wilbur in for John Carlson: the Puyallup couple now charged with crimes connected to Jan. 6th mob attack at US Capitol (2021), the Seattle Times reporting on the Puyallup couple's charges falsely infers that 5 people died on Jan. 6th ergo another example of a false narrative in news media, new real estate related poll says 1-in-4 Americans want to move and the list of big American cities they want to move from is exactly what you think it is, BREAKING: death of MSU football coach Mike Leach is confirmed by the school, mourning the life and times of one of the more unique people in all of college sports, Oregon's M114 requiring permits to own a gun "will eventually be stricken down" on Constitutional grounds, why the Oregon law is "political theater" and the lawsuits against it have been swift and effective, "feel good solution , but not based in reality which so much of the left (gun control) is", Kirby's suggestions for reducing gun violence and shootings in America,

7am hour -- Kirby Wilbur in for John Carlson: the $1 million bail requirement for a Seattle high school student charged with threatening to shoot up Skyline HS in Issaquah, a stunning use of 'restorative justice circle' involving a Bellingham (Squalicum) high school student who accused a male classmate of multiple sexual assaults, why three high school administrators should be in big trouble for how this series of sexual assault accusations was handled, when a 'restorative justice circle' might be appropriate for school students, sharing more memories and unique moments involving NCAA football coach Mike Leach,

Happy 386th Birthday to the National Guard today the oldest military division in the United States, the arrest of FTX crypto exchange CEO Sam Bankman-Fried after he said last week he didn't think he'd be arrested, what Bankman-Fried was planning to testify to Congress this week, why Bankman-Fried should be facing a "long time in jail", the "rebellion" over Mariah Carey's iconic Christmas song "All I Want For Christmas Is You", petitions are popping up on Change.org asking the FCC to ban the song from radio.

8am hour -- Kirby Wilbur in for John Carlson: GUEST: Seattle firefighter with 30 years of service, Mike Todd, reports he's about to be fired right before Christmas due to vaccine mandate still in place, Todd received a religious exemption but no accommodation, calls it a "Christian purging" of civil servants, a Seattle progressive venture capitalist is leading the charge now to boycott Tesla after Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, two reasons Feds may have arrested FTX disgraced CEO Sam Bankman-Fried before he was scheduled to testify to Congress tomorrow, the Federal prosecution would probably prefer Bankman-Fried testify to Congress to bolster their case so why did this arrest happen first?, some important reminders about this morning's November inflation report and the context of the number(s) released, why grocery store prices are more significant than the over CPI, staggering context to the US National Debt right now, what happens this Friday if Congress doesn't approve another spending deal.

6am hour -- Kirby Wilbur in for John Carlson: two sad Northwest sports stories to start the show, Starbucks closes it last Capitol Hill stand alone store in Seattle and the questions abound about the closing, the Starbucks story should be an alarm bell for Seattle, new report says American physicists have made a major break through on harnessing fusion power which could produce limitless carbon-free and waste-free power supply (spoiler alert: fusion power is what give the sun it's heat and light), is Elon Musk an angel or a devil for conservatives?, hypotheticals for Twitter's former CEO Jack Dorsey and government interference in the private sector, what House Republicans should make their #1 investigation priority in 2023, WA public health leaders pushing for return of indoor mask mandates, multi-prong problems for Europe's power and electricity grid should be a warning sign for Americans.

7am hour -- Kirby Wilbur in for John Carlson: the woke mob is coming for TV's popular "Shark Week" because of...wait for it...lack of diversity, some university researcher watched 32 years worth of Shark Week and chronicled the mostly white male experts who were used as sources on the shark episodes, Elon Musk tweet about "prosecute/Fauci" sends Dr. Anthony Fauci defenders into a frenzy, the appalling lack of intellectual curiosity from the political Left about how the COVID-19 origin, a Snohomish County murder case that only results in 15 years in prison for a particularly gruesome murder and dismemberment, examining the political criticism of AR-15s and attempts to ban AR style/semi-auto rifles, a story from FL involving men armed with AR-15s,

8am hour -- Kirby Wilbur in for John Carlson: GUEST: Snohomish Co. Sheriff Adam Fortney, optimistic but frustrated about current public safety problems in WA, what law enforcement is asking for right now regarding legally allowable police pursuit in WA, why Fortney says word on the street travels fast among criminals that "the crooks know we can't chase them anymore", the 'all of the above' problems with fentanyl on Snohomish County (and WA streets), the rags to rags story of a newly elected 25-year-old US Congressman (spoiler alert: the Congressman-elect's a Democrat), the world is going to end in 9 years is the new climate change prediction, country music duo George Jones and Tammy Wynette get the pay-cable docu-drama mini-series treatment, dog owners are killing the planet by feeding their dogs meat.

6am hour -- KVI's Salvation Army Toy Drive is happening all day today and we encourage you to donate to make a needy child's Christmas happy and memorable, Bari Weiss reports on more of the Twitter documents including blacklists and shadow bans, how Twitter's old brass manipulated what you saw on screen with suppression and censorship, all the while Twitter's old management before Elon Musk were denying any such conduct occurred, the irony that Hollywood lefties are silent so far about this new age of black listing given the 1940-1950s blacklisting connected to the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, a prolific Seattle graffiti tagger arrested and poised to be charged with felony,

Arizona's US Senator Kyrsten Sinema goes "indy" leaving the Democratic Party,

7am hour -- Gig Harbor mayor and police chief both demanding Democrats in WA Legislature roll back the police pursuit restrictions that have emboldened criminals in the last two years, GHPD chief Kelly Busey says the city is now getting the amount of crime normally occurring within 1 year in about 1 month, gun control group Alliance for Gun Responsiblity wants WA Legislature to ban AR-type semi-automatic rifles as part of "assault weapons ban", GUEST: Sharyl Attkisson gives her reaction to latest Twitter documents report by Bari Weiss (shadow banning and black listing by the Jack Dorsey Twitter administration)

8am hour -- Olympia political observer and writer, Candace Mercer, recaps last night's contentious Olympia School Board hearing, 1200 school parents and employees are signing a vote of "no confidence" petition regarding the council, it all stems from a political activists appointed to the school board back in October, the political activists has a resume of anti-police rhetoric, a prolific Seattle graffiti tagger is arrested and now facing felony charges for malicious mischief per the incessant spray painting along freeways/buildings/private property, Salvation Army Toy Drive update and invitation for KVI listener to donate to a wonderful Christmas cause, GUEST, economist Steve Moore, tackles the Kyrsten Sinema Senate switch to 'independent', deciphering exactly how Sinema's decision impacts the Senate, centrist Democrats getting fed up with the AOCs and left wing of the Democrats, Sinema's switch could prompt something similar from West Virginia's Joe Manchin, "there is no center to the Democratic Party" right now, why Sinema seems to have a stronger back bone than Manchin, the FBI cooperation involved in the Twitter censorship under Jack Dorsey, the lying from Twitter before Elon Musk took over, how the Twitter censorship debacle fuels mis-trust among Americans of all levels of society (political, news media, government), the latest hilarious Biden gaffe talking about "nanochips".

Gig Harbor mayor and police chief both demanding Democrats in WA Legislature roll back the police pursuit restrictions that have emboldened criminals in the last two years, GHPD chief Kelly Busey says the city is now getting the amount of crime normally occurring within 1 year in less than a month: “We’re dealing with what used to be yearly totals of burglaries or theft," Busey said, "now in a space of a week or two.”

KVI's John Carlson sifts through the revelations in the latest trove of Twitter documents released by Elon Musk as curated by former New York Times writer, Bari Weiss. The censorship, shadow banning and suppression of tweets/content that would negatively portray or impact Democrats. One of the most damning parts of the new Twitter revelations is summarized thusly by Weiss: Twitter denied that it does such things. In 2018, Twitter's Vijaya Gadde (then Head of Legal Policy and Trust) and Kayvon Beykpour (Head of Product) said: “We do not shadow ban.” They added: “And we certainly don’t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology.”

6am hour -- Northwest electric utility power substations are now an elevated concern for security after this week's North Carolina power outtage saga for the last 5 days, the North Carolina substation shooting and outtage has been fueled by an allegation that suspects were trying to interrupt a drag show in NC, how the news media spins the story that the No. Carolina substation shooting must be connected to a far right group, KVI listeners play the new talk radio game show "Would You Make That Trade?",. KVI's Lars Larson notes the practical value versus the political value in Pres. Biden trading a convicted international arms dealer for WNBA player Brittney Griner.

7am hour -- the criminal conviction of Viktor Bout, actor Kirk Cameron offers to do Christian book reading at libraries that have conducted LGBTQ drag queen story times and is rejected by 50 such libraries, the irony of some libraries' excuses to rejecting Cameron's offer, Oregon DOT uses boulder's to keep homeless from camping under freeway over-pass(es),

attacks on Seattle Firefighters keep occurring and yet virtually no criminal charges in the cases have been filed, the double standard in Seattle's response to not protecting first-responders from criminal assault, "upside down values guiding" Seattle politics, these attacks on firefighters don't happen in surrounding suburbs but they do keep happening in Seattle,

8am hour -- VA student rape case on campus update, now the parents who rebelled on the school district and superintendent have been justified, the superintendent has been fired over handling the rape of a student on campus, the mayor of Pt. Townsend WA issues the completely symbolic proclamation conferring rights on orca whales, the Seattle Times casually quotes a left-wing progressive political website but fails to identify the website's far-left political disposition.

Pres. Biden announces the prisoner swap that brings home WNBA player, Brittney Griner, from Russian prison in exchange for an international arms dealer convicted in the United States, Viktor Bout. KVI's John Carlson asks, "would you make that trade?"

6am hour -- Raphael Warnock beats Herschel Walker to maintain his Georgia US Senate seat, five red or purple states that Democrats won in November even as the economy was in shambles due to policies imposed by Democrats, why candidates matter, Stax Records co-founder Jim Stewart dies at age of 92 and he helped launch the Motown of the South, GUEST:

live from Georgia covering the Herschel Walker campaign, Matthew Carlson, says Walker campaign volunteers (like he was) knocked on 2 million Georgia doors to persuade voters, there was "a blue tidal wave out of Atlanta", many voters said they voted for Gov. Brian Kemp but couldn't vote for Walker, the moral of the 2022 midterm (and GA run-off) election is that candidates matter, deciphering which personal failings voters will accept when it comes to two flawed candidates running against each other.

7am -- Republicans gave away Senate races they should have won, why good candidates run bad campaigns, KVI callers sound off on the final chapter to the 2022 failure by Republicans to win elections after Democrats provided a winning landscape of issues for them, Seattle failing to charge criminal suspects who attack firefighters, Carlson attended yesterday's memorial service for Bellevue Police motorcycle officer Jordan Jackson, age 34, killed in the line of duty just before Thanksgiving, remembering the 81st anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese empire that escalated WWII.

8am hour -- GUEST: WPC's Jason Mercier explains the latest action on the Gov. Jay Inslee un-constitutional capital gains income tax, WA Dept. of Revenue "playing this game" about final planning (rule making procedures for submitting tax returns) for capital gains tax set to go into effect on January 1st, tax accounts were asking the DoR "pretty basic questions and the response from Department of Revenue was 'we don't know yet' ", the disconnect shows the lack of preparation and any hint of customer service as state government prepares to impose this constitutionally questionable capital gains tax; the keyboard warriors who support GA's Ralphael Warnock by calling Republican opponent Herschel Walker the worst US Senate candidate ever, Elon Musk fires the Twitter lawyer (James Baker) who was at the heart of suppressing content (like the Hunter Biden laptop story) detrimental to Democrats, how James Baker was a former FBI counsel that went to work for Twitter, City of Seattle's 3+ year failure to bring 240 units of affordable housing to the Magnolia enclave, Federal authorities haven't approved a Seattle permit for the affordable housing plan and there's no timeline for when it might get approved.

KVI's John Carlson explores the bureaucratic red tape that has failed to produce any results since a 2019 Seattle City Council vote to open 240 units of affordable housing at Fort Lawton in the Magnolia neighborhood. The Fort Lawton fiasco is emblematic of how government fails to deliver what it promises in a reasonably timely fashion and right now, there's no clear timeline for when Seattle might meet the Federal (HUD) requirements to make the "affordable" housing available. Meanwhile, according to the Seattle Times, the inability to complete the Federal permitting on the project is costing Seattle taxpayers $585,000 a year in maintenance on the Fort Lawton property previously owned by the Pentagon.

GUEST: Washington Policy Center's director of governmental reform, Jason Mercier, explains the latest action on the Gov. Jay Inslee capital gains income tax law that is set to go into effect on January 1, 2023. Mercier tells KVI that the Washington Dept. of Revenue is "playing this game" about final rule making procedures for submitting tax returns for capital gains. Tax accountants this week were asking the DoR "pretty basic questions and the response from Department of Revenue was 'we don't know yet.'", says Mercier. The disconnect shows the lack of preparation and any hint of customer service as state government prepares to impose this constitutionally questionable capital gains tax.