Highlights - The John Curley Show

Highlights - The John Curley Show

Every weekday, John Curley has an irreverent take on the news. From big stories to small ones, they all get the Curley treatment and you’ll be left laughing and thinking about the headlines in different way.

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Jim Walsh on Voter ID Initiative

State Rep and Chairman of the WA state GOP Jim Walsh joined the JCS to discuss his newly court approved signature gathering initiative IL-26 that would require proof of citizenship when registering to vote

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Jul 15, 2025 6:15 PM
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Justin Haskins on the Big but Not-So Beautiful Bill

Justin Haskins, a Senior Fellow at The Heartland Institute and the Our Republic Institute, joins the John Curley Show to separate fact from fiction regarding tax cuts and the deficit in Trump's very big but not-so-beautiful bill

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Jul 14, 2025 6:8 PM
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Washington Gun Law President Bill Kirk on forced reset triggers, recording audio in gun stores

"What really happened is that the ATF promulgated a rule under the Biden administration that said that these triggers, standing alone, constituted machine guns and attempted a federal confiscation effort," Bill Kirk, the president of Washington Gun Law, said on "The John Curley Show." "Subsequent lawsuits proved that the ATF had acted in an Ultra vires fashion, contrary to the Administrative Procedures Act, and, in a settlement agreement between the ATF and the National Association for Gun Rights, agreed that they would withdraw that rule-making order and return all of the confiscated triggers.

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Jul 14, 2025 1:19 PM
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Brandi Kruse on Tim Hazelo's felony unlawful entry charge after refusing to wear a mask

Tim Hazelo, the former Island County Republican Party Chair, was convicted of felony unlawful entry after he refused to wear a mask while he operated as an official election observer during the November 2024 general election.

"I'm beside myself," Brandi Kruse, host of the podcast "unDivided with Brandi Kruse," said on "The John Curley Show." I mean, to me, this is political prosecution, and it's just unreal. I never thought he'd be convicted of it."

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Jul 11, 2025 11:4 AM
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Island County Man Found Guilty of Felony for Not Wearing a Mask

Brandi Kruse, from the Undivided Podcast, joined John to discuss a jury finding an Island County man guilty of a FELONY for not wearing a mask while he was observing elections in 2024

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Jul 10, 2025 6:21 PM
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Upcoming Tax on Gold and Silver Threatens Small Businesses and Investors

Ryan Hoolahan, CFO and founder of Bellevue Rare Coins, joined the John Curley Show to discuss Washington passing a bill that will tax all sale of Gold and other precious metals in 2026 which will likely have a drastic effect on investors and likely put some small mom and pop jewelry shops out of business

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Jul 10, 2025 6:13 PM
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WA Policy Center's Todd Myers questions use of funds raised by Climate Commitment Act

Todd Myers, vice president of research at the Washington Policy Center, joined the "The John Curley Show" to discuss the vast amount of funds raised by the Climate Commitment Act, and where it's going.

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Jul 10, 2025 10:18 AM
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Todd Myers from the Washington Policy Center on Where the CCA Money is Being Spent

The Washington Policy Center's Todd Myers joins the JCS to reveal his findings in where the majority of the Climate Commitment Act revenue is being spent... Spoiler Alert:  Only a small fraction is actually spent on reducing carbon emissions 

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Jul 8, 2025 6:23 PM
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Cliff Mass on the Texas floods

More than 100 people were killed in flash floods in Texas over the weekend, with survivors saying they did not receive any emergency warnings, The Associated Press (AP) reported Monday.

Although the National Weather Service sent out a series of warnings, locals insisted no one saw the floods coming.

"The National Weather Service did get forecasts that provided very useful warnings, the day before they were talking about flash floods," University of Washington Atmospheric Sciences Professor Cliff Mass explained on "The John Curley Show." "Hours before the major disaster happened, they put out extremely strong warnings of the potential for flash flooding."

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Jul 7, 2025 6:54 PM
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Former King County Prosecutor Scott O'Toole on Bryan Kohberger and the Death Penalty

Former King County Prosecutor Scott O'Toole joined the JCS to talk about the psychology and difficulty of prosecuting death penalty cases and his dismay that the prosecutors in the Bryan Kohberger case didn't compel him to explain why he murdered four young women when they offered him life in exchange for a guilty plea

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Jul 3, 2025 5:33 PM
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John Eviscerates the Big Beautiful Bill

John gives an honest, sobering and brutal, perspective on what passing the "Big Beautiful Bill" as it's currently written could mean for the future of our country and our civilization. 

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Jul 2, 2025 6:15 PM
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John On Washington's Tax Payer Funded DEI Training Seminar

John blasts Washington's taxpayer funded DEI training seminar that claims “perfectionism is white supremacy”

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Jul 1, 2025 6:20 PM
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Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson on her Pathways to Recovery Initiative

Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson on her Pathways to Recovery Initiative

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Jul 1, 2025 6:15 PM
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Will Self Driving Cars Fail Because They DON'T Make Mistakes?

John discusses Malcolm Gladwell's theory that self-driving cars will fail in urban centers not because they'll make mistakes but because "they WON'T make any mistakes" 

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Jun 30, 2025 6:16 PM
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Moms for Liberty Director Rosalind Hanson

Moms for Liberty Director Rosalind Hanson joined the John Curley Show to discuss last week's groundbreaking Supreme Court ruling on the Maryland case for which she was the plaintiff 

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Jun 30, 2025 6:14 PM
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KIRO hosts debate Bezos-Sánchez marriage

The question KIRO fill-in host Greg Tomlin had was, will Bezos and Sánchez's marriage last?

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Jun 27, 2025 12:49 PM
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Cliff Mass responds to Joe Rogan’s climate change debate with Bernie Sanders

KIRO host John Curley brought on Cliff Mass, professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington (UW), to weigh in on a viral debate between Joe Rogan and U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders over climate change.

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Jun 27, 2025 8:39 AM
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City Heights Property Developer Reacts to Cle Elum Bankruptcy

Property developer Sean Northrop, whose development company City Heights is owed nearly $27 million dollars from the city of Cle Elum, joined the John Curley Show Wednesday to share his reaction to the city evidently walking away from the negotiating table to become only the second city in Washington's history to file for Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy 

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Jun 25, 2025 6:23 PM
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Cliff Mass on the Real Science Behind Climate Change

Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington and PNW weather guru Cliff Mass joined the John Curley Show to discuss Earth's climate patterns over millions of years and to provide real scientific data that runs counter to the "planet Earth is dying" climate crisis hysteria

 

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Jun 25, 2025 6:18 PM
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State Rep and House Republican Budget Lead Travis Couture

State Rep and House Republican Budget Lead Travis Couture joined the John Curley Show to talk about his proposed bi-partisan bill to amend the Keeping Families Together Act, which he and others morbidly refer to as "the dead babies bill", hopefully stopping the skyrocketing number of babies dying due to exposure to fentanyl and other hard drugs

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Jun 24, 2025 6:11 PM
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KIRO hosts give update on Lake City homeless issue

A Lake City business owner claimed on "The John Curley Show"  last week that the neighborhood had struggled since hosting a local homeless population, with the spillover in crime largely affecting the local businesses.

Business owner Linda Pruitt's comments were heard loud and clear by We Heart Seattle. The local organization made a quick move toward helping Lake City with its dire need for change.

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Jun 24, 2025 4:25 PM
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Andrea Suarez on Being Assaulted at a Protest and the City's Refusal to Act

We Heart Seattle founder Andrea Suarez joined the John Curley Show to speak with guest hosts Tim Gaydos and Greg Tomlin about her experience being harassed and assaulted at an anti-ICE protest in Seattle, the city's refusal to enforce its laws and Seattle's resistance to using surveillance in solving rampant crime. 

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Jun 23, 2025 10:1 AM
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Todd Myers from the Washington Policy Center

The Washington Policy Center's Todd Myers joined the John Curley Show to discuss WPC's lawsuit against the Department of Ecology for neglecting to publicize their CO2 data since 2021, a report they're required to release annually.   He also touched on Washington's excessive gas prices, which will get even worse in July and the mismanagement of the Climate Commitment Act revenue which keeps our gas prices so high.  

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Jun 20, 2025 6:17 PM
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Lake City Business Community Cries for Help

Linda Pruitt, a Lake City business owner and resident, joined Greg Tomlin and Tim Gaydos on Thursday to sound the alarm over how city leaders are allowing Lake City to become overrun with crime and city sanctioned tent cities that are being allowed to stay despite Mayor Harrell promising they would be moved after one year. 

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Jun 19, 2025 5:9 PM
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John Curley's proposal to solve the immigration problem

John provides a detailed and civil solution to providing undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship that benefits all Americans and the economy without indiscriminate mass deportation.

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Jun 17, 2025 6:14 PM
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