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HOUR 1

• Alaska State Trooper shot in Anchor Point and shooter still on the run / https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2021/08/23/alaska-state-trooper-shot-in-anchor-point-officials-searching-for-man-considered-armed-and-dangerous/
• Mat-Su School District in desperate need of bus drivers / https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/mat-su/2021/08/23/bus-routes-suspended-at-numerous-mat-su-schools-as-coronavirus-spread-causes-driver-shortage/
• Laura Ingraham (FOX News) exposes San Francisco’s major decline / 
• Former CIA Senior Analyst and NSA Chief-of-Staff Fred Fleitz from the Center for Security Policy joins Tom re Afghanistan and the CIA Director’s visit to Kabul to meet with the Taliban leadership  / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRMIv8Eexb0
• What a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan may mean for China (NPR) / https://www.npr.org/2021/08/23/1029622154/heres-what-a-taliban-controlled-afghanistan-may-mean-for-china

HOUR 2

• Tom and Rick talk State Fair and gut trucks 
• The tallest man in the U.S. dies / 
• https://www.npr.org/2021/08/23/1030502042/igor-vovkovinskiy-who-at-7-foot-8-was-the-tallest-man-in-the-u-s-has-died
• Hawaii Governor urges tourists NOT to visit / 
• https://www.npr.org/2021/08/23/1030532161/hawaii-governor-tourists-stay-away-covid
• Tom and Rick talk about the rip off of car and furniture sales 
• Lee, U.S. Senate candidate, in Mat-Su on Afghanistan and how he’d have executed our withdrawal differently as President 
• Mat-Su Regional Hospital ICU filling with COVID patients / 
• https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2021/08/23/substantial-stress-on-our-hospital-capacity-as-mat-su-regional-becomes-latest-in-alaska-to-fill-with-covid-19-patients/
• Tom McGrath from downtown Anchorage calls about the Anchorage Assembly and reapportionment and the 12th seat being added in the downtown district