HOUR 1

• Tom recalls his Hatcher Pass trip and Good Samaritans helping with a flat tire 
• Afghanistan will be a new nightmare for women / https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2021/08/16/dark-future-looms-women-living-afghanistan?email=tomandersonalaska@gmail.com
• Former Assistant Defense Secretary Bing West responds to President Biden’s speech on the Taliban sweeping Afghanistan / https://www.foxnews.com/politics/afghanistan-joe-biden-speech-al-qaeda-bing-west
• NY Times on the Kabul airport evacuation / https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/08/17/world/taliban-afghanistan-news?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210817&instance_id=38097&nl=the-morning®i_id=78313692&segment_id=66448&te=1&user_id=0d6450a88091f9336b9867d8fc8d27b0
• Kayleigh McEnany on Afghanistan / https://www.foxnews.com/media/mcenany-msnbc-nicolle-wallace-biden-afghanistan-speech
• Alaska’s Special Session begins with lawmakers considering PFD plan / https://www.adn.com/politics/alaska-legislature/2021/08/16/alaska-legislature-opens-special-session-with-lawmakers-considering-outline-of-new-dividend-plan/

HOUR 2

• Tom and Rick talk Alaska State Fair / https://www.alaskastatefair.org/site/
• Lower Kuskokwim to pay a settlement to two families for sexual abuse by a school principal / https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2021/08/16/western-alaska-school-district-that-employed-principal-despite-sex-abuse-complaints-will-pay-38-million-to-his-victims/
• T&R talk teacher-student escapades and Tom recalls two at Bartlett High School in the 1980s
• Haiti post-earthquake carnage update (BBC) / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxBR3ZDEvG0
• Dalton calls in from Mat-Su 
• T&R talk economy and  costs and COVID tests and vaccinations