The Jake Skorheim & Spike O'Neill Show

2pm - Andrea Suarez from We Heart Seattle is in favor of sanctioned homeless camps. But they need to be run a very particular way to actually work // Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin joins the show to explain the Fred Meyer debacle and make her case for why she should keep her job! // Your texts!

1pm - Jake and Spike talk to Scott Murphy, the former city councilmember who is running as a challenger for mayor of Everett. It's a tight race! We talk about the Fred Meyer closure, homelessness and light rail // A dad walks his teens back into CVS to apologize for stealing // Laura's life of crime

12pm - Daylight saving/savings over the weekend // Luke Duecy, KIRO Newsradio Reporter, on a violent weekend in Seattle's Pioneer Square — including a Tesla that helped solve a crime // 24-year-old stabbed leaving Pioneer Square nightclub in Seattle // The World Series was pretty amazing. Blue Jays fans double lost when Subway was closed after a long game // Toronto slammed for not extending transit service after the extra innings // Seahawks shine on Sunday night // Lay off the refs, these kids are only nine!

2pm - FRIDAY FAVORITES! Drone police that we actually like, a new idea for Sound Transit's budget, and a revelation from Bill Gates // Are decorations getting too scary? Chris Sullivan, KIRO Newsradio's Senior Traffic Reporter, has a pretty terrifying Halloween display that he's ready to defend // Your texts!

1pm - Should Democrats end the shutdown by signing the continuing resolution? // Governor Bob Ferguson promotes food banks // Kamala Harris suggests lowering the voting age to 16. Good idea? // Southwest Airlines takes away free checked bags, offers nuts, and activates the parents of kids with nut allergies

12pm - A typical Seattle Halloween: rainy! // Seattleites aren’t scared by haunted real estate // Jacob Lucas is a master chainsaw carver, and he also carves giant pumpkins — seasonally, of course. He teaches us how to level up our pumpkin carving game. Check out his work, or hire him for an art project at jacoblucascarving.com // City-sanctioned homeless encampments - a terrible idea

2pm - Charles Prestrud from the Washington Policy Center on why Washington can't afford to expand the light rail // Five more arrests in the Louvre heist // Your texts, and the winner

1pm - More money for light rail! Is light rail, as Sound Transit CEO Dow Constantine claims, the 'most dependable mode of transportation' if you need to be somewhere on time? // Forcing kids to listen to music for their own good - a rite of parenthood // Listeners text in! Music our parents played growing up, and what we've forced our kids to listen to

12pm - We launch our pumpkin carving contest // Mayor Bruce Harrell wants to ban masks for law enforcement officers // KIRO Newsradio Senior Traffic Reporter Chris Sullivan on more cops being out for toll enforcement, a spooky HOV violator and the I-90 overpass damage outside Cle Elum // We're carving pumpkins during the show today. Let's look up some overly ambitious inspo

2pm - Bill Gates shifts tone on climate, criticizes "doomsday view," drawing mixed reaction // Yellowstone creator gets MASSIVE deal at NBC // Your texts!

1pm - Air traffic controllers at SEA are now working without pay // WA, 25 other states sue Trump Administration over SNAP suspension // Patty Murray blames Trump…but who’s to blame? // I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human // FOX 13's Aaron Levine wins back-to-back Jeopardy! Episodes

12pm - FIRST THINGS FIRST: Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell defends record, says ‘people will see the distinction’ ahead of election showdown // Wildfires are big polluters. Should the state use Climate Commitment Act money to fight them? // GUEST: Rantz on his Harrell interview // Listeners write in with candy corn recommendations

2pm - Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes joins the show to answer our questions about officer recruitment, AI and drones, the CARE bears, school engagement/resource officers and the upcoming mayoral race // Jake's voice of reason may have made it across the airwaves to the coach of his son's football team // Dodgers World Series Game 3 goes 18 innings - until MIDNIGHT. Is Brad Paisley to blame? // Your texts!

1pm - State Representative Travis Couture joins the show. Why are local politicians trying to cover up their connections to the media company of a convicted child rapist in Auburn? // WA legislators, members of the public debate new 'school choice' bill. Rep. Couture is behind it, and here's how he's made it less of a threat to public schools // State 'equity' program became a fund for personal enrichment. Brandi Kruse joins the show to share her conversation with a whistleblower // Flaming Seattle man saved by police

12pm - Amazon lays off 14,000 workers. Is AI to blame? Plus, Spike scared a coworker on accident // Arrest made in local million-dollar jewel heist // A scary Uber scam at SeaTac // Seattle forecast for Halloween: Dreary, scary, stormy, tempestuous. How do you plan a costume for kids?

2pm - Redmond Police Chief Darrell Lowe on how his department is using AI // Nobody Wants This and casting for ages in movies // Female spies are waging ‘sex warfare’ to steal Silicon Valley secrets // Your texts!

1pm - Laura finally watched The Sixth Sense. Did it end how she thought? The creepiest Halloween soundtracks, and can you stand to watch horror movies? // We found one! KIRO Newsradio Anchor Aaron Granillo loves horror movies // Jake is watching his son's football coach ruin his team

12pm - Happy Halloween! // Did anyone lose power this weekend? // Suspects arrested in Louvre heist. Was it an inside job? // Things getting worse for Auburn politicians after Charlie Harger's story about many local campaigns hiring a child rapist // Spike’s wife wanted to make an untraceable weapon for her birthday

2pm - Port Townsend resident Melvin Swagerty was stabbed after stopping to help a family he thought needed a ride. His daughter, Christina Brown, joins the show to share his story // FRIDAY FAVORITES! The strikeout of all strikeouts, the scandal of all scandals and the heist of all heists // Your texts!

1pm - Misa Avila and Sergio Garcia from the Pacific Northwest Association of Restaurants and Food Trucks on the mafia of unlicensed street food in Seattle // John Curley interviewed Katie Wilson — and he's endorsing her. He tells us why! // Laura is the only one of us who gets to vote for Seattle's next mayor. Should it be for Bruce Harrell or Katie Wilson? You decide

12pm - The Seattle arsonist is back at it, and the fire department wants the public’s help solving the case. We’re on it! // Reagan Dunn proposes “Stupid Motorist Law” after recent bridge strikes // Jason Rantz from AM 770's Seattle Red reports that King County Jail admits it illegally hired 38 non-citizens and refuses to terminate them // The Snohomish River Watershed now has legal rights, like a person

2pm - NBA stars and mafia among more than 30 arrested in illegal gambling crackdown // An unlicensed food vendor mafia outside Seattle stadiums gets busted // Seattle Public Schools is about to get a new superintendent. Should parents be worried that it's all behind closed doors? // Chris Sullivan, Senior Traffic Reporter, says there's snow expected in the passes this weekend. Is Laura's car ready for winter driving? // Your texts!