Time: 00:00 - 00:30
Topic: North Korea
Guest: Paul Chamberlin, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Summary: Kirby chats with a think-tank guy about whether or not North Korea set off a nuclear weapon. Today's answer: they did. Since the guest doesn't fall into the nuke'em-and-let-god-sort-it-out school of foreign policy, Kirby and callers find his reasoned answers to be a bit too much like Madeleine Albright.
Time: 00:30 - 01:00
Topic: Teachers vs. gunmen
Summary: Kirby discusses a Texas school district that is given teachers training on how to rush and disable gunmen who might threaten their school. Question to listeners: do you want your kids to "acquiesce" or fight back against an armed assailant. Kirby is "inclined to think yes." Predictably, the guns-solve-everything crowd decries how schools are gun free zones and pine for the day that teachers start packing heat.
Time: 01:00 - 01:30
Topic: Earthquake Preparedness
Summary: Kirby uses the previous day's earthquake in Hawaii to reflect on our own preparedness for earthquakes or an eruption of Mt. Rainier. In one of his more memorable delusions of grandeur, Kirby releases his plan for the KOMO helicopter to deliver him and the other KVI talkers to the station in the event roads are impassible.
Classic Quote 1:
KIRBY: We've talked about it here, at KVI, what our policies would be, because we are responsible for maintaining contact with the public and giving you news and we take that seriously. But you know I'm in Duvall, John [Carlson] is in Bellevue, and Bryan [Suits] is in Snohomish, so if we have an earthquake and the bridges go, how do we get here. And we've even talked about the possibility of the KOMO news helicopter coming out to get us and fly us in if they had to, so we could serve you.
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KIRBY: Hello [CALLER], thanks for calling in.
CALLER: Yeah, thanks Kirb. You know the next big one hits, I hope we have that seawall tunnel thing for the traffic so that city hall can be driving through it when it cracks open, and everybody drowns.
KIRBY: Ha Ha Ha Ha! Ha! Well think of it this way [CALLER]. Think of it as a kind of moat that will take the water in so it doesn't affect the rest of the city.
Time: 01:30 - 02:00
Topic: Election analysis
Summary: Kirby compares Ohio (where the GOP Is ready to lose) to Florida (where the GOP is predicted to stay in power), saying the difference is while Florida Republicans kept their promises to cut taxes, etc, Ohio didn't. His analysis demonstrates an argument that last made by post-Soviet dead-enders: the ideology (communism, conservatism) didn't fail, rather the implementors were insufficiently dedicated to it.
Time: 02:00 - 02:30
Topic: Seattle Viaduct
Summary: Kirby discusses a Seattle Times poll that shows a plurality of voters to be in favor of rebuilding the massive waterfront highway instead of building a tunnel or removing it entirely.
Time: 02:30 - 02:45
Topic: North K
Guest: Peter Brookes, New York Post Columnist
Summary: Kirby talks with a winger columnist about North Korea's nuclear test. zzzzz....
Time: 02:45 - 03:00
Topic: Foley fallout
Guest: Mike Mackowitz, Fox News
Summary: Kirby talks to a Fox News reporter about the political situation in Mark Foley's former district.
Time: 03:00 - 04:00
Topic: Teachers vs. gunmen
Summary: Kirby repeats a previous hours discussion of teachers taking on armed gunmen in schools. zzzz....