The Jason Rantz Show

Seattle residents near Aurora Avenue performed a big march demanding change as the crime crisis spirals out of control. Sound Transit might start a fare gate pilot program at select locations. President Trump raised some eyebrows with his appointment of Bill Pulte as Acting Director of DNI. // LongForm: GUEST: Pierce County Sheriff Keith Swank on a crazy investigation into a high school displaying vials of testosterone for Pride Month. // Quick Hit: Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner says nobody deserves to be a billionaire. Trump stormed off set in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press.

The World Cup is fast approaching and Seattle is still littered with far too many homeless people. The US hotel occupancy rate is lagging behind Canada and Mexico’s. Gov. Bob Ferguson roasted online after own budget office signals fresh shortfall. Nithya Raman overtook Spencer Pratt in the LA mayoral primary over the weekend and looks slated to advance to the general election. // Big Local: Spokane Valley loses 124 jobs as Volex picks another state over Washington. Mountlake Terrace observed Pride for the first time. // You Pick the Topic: A Love Island contestant who is a cop is taking heat from his police department for taking time off to join the show.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson explains her decision to reverse course and turn the CCTV cameras on during the World Cup. Zillow co-founder Rich Barton ditches Seattle for Las Vegas as wealth exodus accelerates. // Graham Platner continues to expose Democrat hypocrisy. // Donald Trump will be attending the NBA Finals game in New York tonight and some people on the Left aren’t too thrilled about it. 

What’s Trending: Center Street/Hachette is publishing my first-ever book -- What’s Killing America: Inside the Radical Left’s Tragic Destruction of Our Cities, out September 26, Seattle council to vote on drug ordinance and parents outraged over inappropriate curriculum. // Sammamish planning commissioner resigns after criticizing DEIB training. // Tucker Carlson released his first episode of Tucker on Twitter.

Bob Ferguson touts WalletHub ranking without linking the study — because the study doesn’t say what he claims. John Bolton has accepted a plea deal. A driver in Seattle somehow ended up on light rail tracks. // LongForm: GUEST: Fox News host Trace Gallagher opines on the California primaries and the midterms. // Quick Hit: Even some people on the Left are calling the people attacking Graham Platner’s accusers.

A James Beard-nominated chef just fled Seattle, and the people running this city still call the exodus ‘overblown.’ A new poll says Americans are becoming less favorable of LGBTQ issues. Another radical Democrat wants to abolish ICE. // Big Local: There is an ‘OnlyFans house’ in Bellevue where police suspect Human trafficking might be going on. Downtown Spokane salon shutters after gunpoint robbery, bullets through window, and years of street chaos. The city of Pasco is ramming through a sales tax increase without the voters’ consent. // Fridays with Jake Skorheim on Russell Wilson’s retirement.

Katie Wilson reverses course on World Cup surveillance cameras. The New York Times revealed yet another scandal about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner and it might be the worst one yet. // Bob Ferguson can’t say the word “woman” when talking about people that go through menopause. New York is close to passing a bill that removes the words ‘mother’ and ‘father’ in favor of gender-neutral language. Activists in Seattle are pushing back against a new data center. // Jason learned the hard way that he shouldn’t bring a can of creatine through JFK Airport.

Seattle City Councilmember Rob Saka (who is going to run for Mayor) is sounding the alarms about Seattle’s business environment. Left-wing activists want the city of Seattle to issue a state of emergency for LGBTQ people. Renters in the Seattle-area are paying more than double double housing costs to own a home. //  LongForm: GUEST: Fox News Host Rachel Campos-Duffy on her new book All American Patriotism: Celebrating 250 Years of America's Greatness. // Quick Hit: CENTCOM Commander Admiral Bradley Cooper got into a heated exchange with Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) over the conflict in Iran. A Panda Express customer in Lakewood says he was told to leave over his MAGA hat.

WSP says they are cracking down on people illegally using the carpool lane on SR 520. City leaders want to give Seattle Center a facelift in anticipation of the Sonics returning. A crazy guy yelled at the Artemis II space crew accusing them of not actually going to the moon. // Guest: Dale Whitaker is running for Spokane County Auditor and was allegedly headbutted by a man while posting campaign signs. // You Pick the Topic: LA Mayor Karen Bass promises free teeth to meth heads.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson walks back Starbucks boycott as Nashville expansion raises the stakes. The DOJ announced criminal charges against 15 people in the Minnesota fraud scandal. // Guest: Jeff Reynolds has monitored the Seattle real estate market for 20 years and he says we could be seeing unprecedented wealth transfer out of the state. // Actor Gary Sinise says he’s saved quite a bit of money as a result of moving out of California.

Exclusive: School board director invites kids as young as 9 to her sex shop for ‘Uncringe Academy.’ Another company flees Washington, heads to Montana for growth. Neighbors on Alki are worried about crime as summer crowds return. // Big Local: Leavenworth is considering a measure that would make it even harder to drive there. SeaTac Airport is moving towards opening a second terminal. Bellevue will start charging for street parking next year. // You Pick the Topic: 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley was fired by CBS.

A roundup of last night’s primary results. Seattle is still far away from its goal of having 500 housing for the homeless ready by the World Cup. Oregon is moving closer to banning hunting and fishing. // Guest: Shane and Jennifer DeGross are foster parents that defeated Washington State in court after they were compelled to push gender ideology. // A Seattle City Councilmember says the mayor is violating the law by unilaterally turning off the CCTV cameras for the World Cup. Hotel workers at a Seattle Embassy Suites may throw a wrench into World Cup plans with a strike.

Think the HEPA filter in your bedroom is handling your air quality? Healthy-home expert Helen Christoni says a HEPA filter is only half of the equation, and the other half is what's quietly making you feel run down.

Christoni, senior vice president of AirDoctor and AquaTru, walks through the simple, low-cost changes that actually move the needle in a non-toxic home. She starts where you spend most of your time: the bedroom, where organic bedding and a real air purifier with both carbon and HEPA can trap the volatile organic compounds a standard filter misses. Then it's into the kitchen, where firing up a gas stove pumps fumes straight into your house, and where running the vent during cooking, laundry, and especially showers is the difference between clean air and a hidden mold problem.

She also makes the case that the grogginess, bloating, headaches, and "allergies" a lot of people shrug off may be coming from contaminated indoor air and unfiltered water. Her warning on tap water is blunt: contaminants don't boil out, they concentrate, so the disinfectant byproducts, forever chemicals, microplastics, and arsenic you're trying to cook off may be getting worse in the pot. From shower filters to reading the labels in your cabinets to swapping paraffin candles for coconut or beeswax, this is a practical roadmap for reducing your home's toxic burden room by room.

0:00 Where to begin in a healthy home
0:12 Bedrooms, air purifiers, and the HEPA half-truth
2:09 Why you should run the fan when you shower
2:44 The symptoms people blame on being tired
3:06 What's really in your tap water
5:49 The candle problem most people miss
6:33 Paint and the toxins you overlook
7:32 Where to find Helen Christoni

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The Urbanist is pushing for an office vacancy tax. Guest: Jason spoke with Dr. Chris Rabin last week at the Beyond biohacking conference. // Big Local: Eastern Washington school bus drivers are going to Idaho for their fuel. A Tacoma manufacturer calls it quits after 48 years after Washington’s crime and taxes finally won. An artist in Tukwila had $5 thousand dollars worth of art and her father’s ashes stolen from her. // You Pick the Topic: UW’s faculty is one of the least ideologically diverse in the country.

Seattle ranks among the most expensive World Cup cities for Airbnbs according to a new study. The San Francisco Chronicle has a remarkably stupid column about gay panic at the World Cup. Will Spencer Pratt advance in tonight’s LA mayor primary? // Guest: State Rep. and GOP Chair Jim Walsh responds to Governor Bob Ferguson ducking his challenge to debtate. // Just 3% of Portlanders call their downtown beautiful in brutal new survey.

Jason sits down with Guy Benson to discuss a ridiculous San Francisco Chronicle story about how some establishments are offering safe spaces for LGBTQ people during the FIFA World Cup.

A crazy guy harassed a Let’s Go Washington signature gatherer over initiative to repeal the state income tax. The Better Business Bureau is warning Washingtonians to do their due diligence when picking a contractor to avoid scams. Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) blames the LA Palisades fires on Trump. // LongForm: GUEST: First Assistant US Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington Pete Serrano on a federal jury convicting three anti-ICE agitators. Also, the Trump Administration is suing Washington and other blue states for denying DHS and ICE agents undercover license plates. // Quick Hit: Exclusive: Two gay cops suing SPD. Jill Biden calls out Kamala Harris for criticism of Joe Biden in her book.

Senior Citizens in Capitol Hill are complaining about the chaos erupting on the streets every night. Homelessness has ticked up in Snohomish County. Seattle’s office collapse hits a trophy tower, and the price tag is brutal. // Big Local: Wild Waves in Federal Way is being replaced by the most boring thing imaginable. Police have released body cam footage of Longview Schools Superintendent Karen Cloninger’s arrest. Tacoma residents are thrilled that Sound Transit still plans to build a light rail line. // You Pick the Topic: A New York landlord is in the middle of a 9-year legal battle with a squatter.

Triggered Bob Ferguson picks a fight with Jim Walsh, then ducks a debate dare. Gunfire returns to Aurora Avenue less than 48 hours after Seattle replaced neighbor barriers with drive-through bollards. Mariners auctioned Josh Naylor’s game-worn jersey and hat. Ew. // A massive sex scandal hits Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. // The Seattle housing market is struggling.

Most antioxidants quit after one job. Methylene blue doesn't, and that's the pitch Young Goose founder Amitay Eshel makes in this conversation about where longevity skincare is actually headed.

Eshel walks through why his brand maps every product to the 12 hallmarks of skin aging instead of building around a single molecule, the way he says most companies do when they're built to raise money and sell. The bigger reveal is about personalization. Eshel argues that truly custom skincare formulas are a marketing ploy, since FDA rules require formulas to be incubated and tested before they can be sold. The real personalization, he says, is the protocol, not the bottle, which matters for people in overcast climates like Washington who skip sunscreen and assume they're fine.

This interview covers Young Goose, biohacking and longevity skincare, methylene blue, copper peptides, exosomes, FDA regulation versus European marketing rules, and how your skin responds to your geolocation. Eshel also breaks down entry points into the brand, from the blue peptide spray he calls the first clinical strength methylene blue product on the market to the higher-end Vampire Exosomes at $285.

0:00 How Young Goose is different in a saturated market
2:18 Regional skin health and the Washington sunscreen problem
4:18 The truth about "personalized" skincare
5:15 US vs Europe on regulation and marketing
6:39 Where to start with the brand
7:18 What methylene blue actually does

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Your amygdala was built to fire under six conditions that could kill you. Now it's firing every time you pick up your phone, and Dr. Dave Rabin says that's the root of the modern mental health crisis.

I sat down with Dr. Dave Rabin at the Beyond Biohacking conference in Austin to talk through what's actually happening in your nervous system. Rabin, a neuroscientist and psychiatrist who developed the Apollo wearable out of his PTSD research at the University of Pittsburgh, breaks down how trauma is a fear-learning disorder, why numbing symptoms fails 80% of people, and how the body has to relearn safety to extinguish fear. We get into the smartphone problem too: thirty minutes of scrolling feeds your brain as many social cues as a person took in over a full week in the 1950s, which tricks the fear center into thinking you're under threat when you're not.

From there it goes deeper into the science of the vagus nerve, how the Apollo device uses sound-wave vibrations to add real sleep back each night, and the case for psychedelic medicines like ketamine, MDMA, and psilocybin as tools that amplify safety in a therapeutic setting and let people remake meaning around past trauma. If you're interested in mental health, trauma recovery, vagus nerve stimulation, biohacking, or the neuroscience behind why we feel so wired, this one delivers.

0:00 Meet Dr. Dave Rabin and what Apollo actually is 
0:18 PTSD research origins and why numbing symptoms fails
1:59 Is the mental health crisis tied to fear and safety
2:12 How the amygdala evolved and what your phone does to it
4:40 How long it takes to retrain your nervous system
5:54 Letting your inner child roam free
7:26 The stigma around trauma and mental health
9:09 What reliably brings joy 9:59 How psychedelics are used to heal trauma

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Peptides are everywhere right now, and the people who tried to keep them out of your hands ran the last FDA.

Dr. Chris Shade, founder of Quicksilver Scientific, sits down to explain what peptides actually are and why so many people are suddenly paying attention. He argues the problem with most supplements is simple: you swallow the capsules and feel nothing because the compounds never reach your blood. His company's fix is a liposome and nanoemulsion delivery system he calls the "biochemical syringe," which he says pushes peptides through the mouth and gut straight into circulation, no needles required.

Then it gets political. Shade points out that the previous administration's FDA, staffed by people who came out of the pharmaceutical industry, pushed peptides onto the do-not-compound list while those same companies sold GLP-1 drugs that are themselves peptides. He credits HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the MAHA movement with reversing that restriction and reopening access.

If you've been curious about oral peptides, bioavailability, copper GHK, BPC-157, NAD precursors, glutathione, or how detox binders and liposomal supplements fit into a daily routine, this is where to start. Shade also lays out how long he thinks someone should commit to a protocol before judging whether it works.

0:00 Quicksilver Scientific and the supplement problem
0:08 Why most supplements never get absorbed
1:14 Oral peptides and the "biochemical syringe"
1:58 GLP-1s are peptides too
2:18 Where to start: copper GHK and BPC-157
4:02 RFK Jr., MAHA, and the FDA peptide ban
6:03 Binders and detoxification
7:48 What Shade actually takes
9:16 How long to commit and how to measure results

 What’s Trending: 1/3 of the seattle police force have left their positions, at least 84, WSU creates center for cannabis policy, Man attempts to join ISIS and is arrested before he could board his flight in Seattle, \\ Attack on a homeless man and his dog Alice who died at the scene, \\  Seattle waterfront gets $700 million more woke

A Seattle City Councimember is taking heat for leaving out two letters of the LGBTQIA+AAPI acronym. More pro-illegal immigrant propaganda by KING 5. Stephen Colbert is finally off the air after tonight. // LongForm: GUEST: Acting Undersecretary of the Department of Energy Alex Fitzsimmons reacts to Seattle's plans to put a halt on AI data centers. // Quick Hit: Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks is sounding off about politics again.

Why does Sound Transit have a massive advertising budget if it’s so deep in debt? We Heart Seattle volunteer finds homeless man living with 100 jugs of urine inside Discovery Park. Bill Maher calls out members of his own party for being too afraid to talk to people who might ask them tough questions. //  Big Local: A man in Pierce County led state troopers on a high-speed chase in a Corvette was also charged for theft of the same Corvette weeks later. A Bellevue dad invented a World Cup board game. // You Pick the Topic: Teens today are drinking less than previous generations, but not for a good reason.