White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt absolutely destroyed CNN reporter Natasha Bertrand for her fake news report about how the bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities was not a complete success. June 27th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW ap…

Among the things Zohran Mamdani has pledged to do if elected are rent freezes, city-owned grocery stores, raising the minimum wage to $30 by 2030, and "Trump-proofing" NYC, which would include ending all cooperation with ICE and "strengthening" Resistance efforts on behalf of illegal immigrants. Tom Homan has a response.... June 27th 2025 --- Pleas…

Tom Del Beccaro joins the show to discuss the new NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani June 26th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you listen to podcasts. --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ Weekdays 11 AM -2 PM…

Send us a text Anna studies 6 languages. Has four degrees. Has lived in at least three countries. And for a living, she slaughters animals and butchers their meat for people to eat. I deeply enjoyed our conversation where we discussed life, death, knives, quantum theory and more than a little bit of nonsense. Anna Borgman is a rare individual. Give…

Vance delivered keynote remarks on Tuesday at the Ohio Republican Party dinner in Lima, Ohio. There, he recalled witnessing a tense diplomatic call in the Oval Office early on in their administration in which Trump was having trouble getting through to an unnamed foreign leader. That's when the President decided to send his Veep into a full-blown p…

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Victor Davis Hanson joins the show to discuss the on going conflict between Iran & Israel June 24th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you listen to podcasts. --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ Weekd…

Mike Hamzy joins the program breaking down the latest attacks from Iran on US military bases in Qatar and the possibility of sleeper cells on US soil. Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you listen to p…

Dr. Halderman checks in from the bunker in Tel Aviv. She tells us about the obstacles encountered by those who have been attempting to leave the region, details about support services, and how the locals have been reacting to the sirens and explosions. For those wanting to get involved, Dr. Halderman encourages everyone to check out Sword of Iron V…

Iran launched missile attacks Monday on a U.S. military base in Qatar, retaliating for the American bombing of its nuclear sites and escalating tensions in the volatile region. Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or whe…

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt absolutely wrecked Rep. Jasmine Crockett over her attack on supporters of President Donald Trump as "mentally ill.” June 19th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or …

One of America’s “doomsday planes” made a flight to Joint Base Andrews in Washington, DC, Tuesday night. The plane was designed to protect the secretary of defense and other national security officials and keep the government operating in a time of nuclear war. June 19th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platfo…

The View co-host claimed life for Black Americans was 'the same' as living under Iran's totalitarian regime. June 19th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you listen to podcasts. --- 'The Ray A…

Send us a text Archery is a mental game. Get good equipment that is well setup from a pro shop, develop the skills to use it and then the hard work begins of simply executing the same shot every time. In this episode we get into the mental side of archery. John Appleton is a veteran and archery pro shop owner who has been nationally ranked in multi…

President Trump hasn’t made up his mind about the US joining Israel in striking Iranian nuclear sites — but said he will likely come to his decision “one second before its due.” June 18th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spo…

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As Israeli air strikes on Tehran show no sign of abating, many residents have fled the Iranian capital. June 17th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you listen to podcasts. --- 'The Ray Applet…

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Dr. Linda Halderman Calls In Live From Tel-Aviv in the middle if the rising tension between Israel & Iran. June 16th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you listen to podcasts. --- 'The Ray App…

There is new outrage over rainbow-wrapped condoms, as Fresno County Supervisor Garry Bredefeld claims they cost taxpayers thousands. They all totaled $6,000, per Bredefeld. June 13th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify,…

Tom Del Beccaro joins the show to discuss the rising tension in the middle east between Iran & Israel. June 12th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you listen to podcasts. --- 'The Ray Appleto…

ennedy laid out the straight-up facts about the absurdity of the failed Democrat response to the riots, ripping into California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in particular for their grotesque incompetence in purportedly attempting to manage the crisis. June 12th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' o…

Send us a text No words in this episode. Just a small mountain stream in the spring, tumbling over large boulders and winding through fallen logs into a pool where two redband rainbow trout dart from the shadows of a rock to eat passing nymphs. Birds singing as light drips down the side of the canyon. Give yourself the break you deserve and listen.…

Steve Hilton joins the show and he’s got some harsh words for failed incumbent Gavin Newsom who has not only watched his state decline as Los Angeles endures its fifth day of anti-ICE rioting. June 11th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Appl…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom added fuel to the fire after daring President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan to arrest him for failing to crack down on violent anti-ICE agitators in his state. “Come after me. Arrest me. Let’s just get it over with, tough guy,” the defiant Democrat told NBC News on Sunday. June 9th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Foll…

At least 2,000 anti-ICE protesters took over a major highway in downtown Los Angeles while rioters lit self-driving cars on fire Sunday as the LAPD chief admitted that his officers “are overwhelmed” by the violence and vandalism on the third day of demonstrations in the city. June 9th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show'…

The feud between two of the world's most powerful billionaires shows no sign of ending after the US president claimed on Friday that the richest man in the world had "lost his mind". June 6th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts,…

The defense attorney for the 16-year-old accused of shooting Caleb Quick in the head outside a McDonald’s in Clovis revealed details in court Wednesday related to a possible motive involving sexual assault. June 5th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJ…

Send us a text We welcome back Vic Coggins for his second appearance on the show to talk about how he traded beer to wildlife biologists to reintroduce bighorn sheep into Oregon. Vic has been a wildlife biologist for close to 60 years now, and if it weren’t for him we might not have mountain goats, bighorns, turkey and more. He tells stories of the…

Oliver Widger, an Oregon man who quit his job at a tire company and liquidated his retirement savings to set sail for Hawaii with his cat, Phoenix, reached his destination Saturday, welcomed by cheering fans at the end of a weekslong journey that he documented for his mass of followers on social media. June 4th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Fol…

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy threatened Wednesday to pull federal grants for California’s High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) after it spent nearly $7 billion in taxpayer funds over a decade and a half without laying a single foot of track. June 4th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray…

Sen. John Kennedy came loaded for bear when questioning Kate Shaw in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Shaw was invited by the Democrats. The subject in discussion was judicial overreach. Among the topics under that rubric was nationwide injunctions. June 4th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms…

Gubernatorial Candidate Steve Hilton joins the show & lays out his new plan to lower California gas prices down to $3. June 3rd 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you listen to podcasts. --- '…

Tom Del Becarro joins the show to discuss Kamala's trail of destruction & if the Led Zeppelin tour flyer is fake. June 3rd 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you listen to podcasts. --- 'The R…

A feud on full display continues between Superintendent Misty Her and the Fresno Unified Teachers Association. After over a year of public back and forth, the superintendent claims social media posts and emails sent by the Union have escalated to personal targeting. So, as a response, she asked her Chief of Communications, Nikki Henry, to create a …

Dr. Linda Halderman joins the show to discuss her trip to Israel and how she plans to help those impacted by the war in the Middle East. June 2nd 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you listen …

AB Hernandez, a 16-year-old junior at Jurupa Valley High School, won gold in girls’ triple jump and high jump, and silver in girls’ long jump. June 2nd 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you l…

Elon Musk's time in the Trump administration has come to an end with a news conference in the Oval Office in which he and the US president defended the work of Doge - and vowed it would continue, even without Musk. May 30th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on…

The Fresno Teachers Association is demanding an investigation after they say Fresno Unified's top spokeswoman used artificial intelligence to compile a list of alleged comments the union has made about Superintendent Misty Her. May 29th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is…

Send us a text Cody Sheehy is an award winning documentary film maker who lives on a sailboat in Mexico. He broke the story about China genetically engineering and DNA editing babies, and is about to launch his next film about a Vietnam veteran who befriended a 22’ wide manta ray that would swim up to his boat, slap the side of it with its wing, an…

The upcoming CIF State Track and Field Championships in Clovis have sparked controversy due to the participation of a transgender athlete competing against biological girls, raising concerns about fairness and safety. May 27th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available…

Millions and millions of dollars have been collected since 2019 but our local parks are actually worse off than they were before Measure P was enacted. Blake asks the question.. "Is Measure P the next CA boondoggle?" May 27th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available …

Blake Taylor guest hosts with CG. CG's gives his take on the "Clovis Unified 9" We discuss where Aaron Judge will land as an all-time great & if Pete Rose should be in the MLB Hall of Fame. May 23rd 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Po…

State Farm is asking for yet another rate hike after securing a 17% rate increase just last week. Attorney Marc Kapetan joins the show to give his take and updates on the "Clovis Unified Nine". May 22nd 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Appl…

Send us a text Amos was my tracker in South Africa. He speaks 7 languages and reads tracks like you are reading this sentence. In this episode we translate from English to Xhosa and back to English to get this one of a kind perspective on tracking wild animals in dry country. Listen for the nuance in what he says.…

Attorney Steven Smith joins the show to discuss the 9 Clovis North Students that were barred form graduation after sneaking alcohol into prom. May 21st 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ is available on the KMJNOW app, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever else you l…

Senator Tony Strickland joins the show to discuss a report that the high-speed rail needs an additional $3.2 billion in order to complete the Bakersfield to Merced line. Blake asks the audience "How much money will we continue to dump into CA's High Speed Rail?" May 20th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platfo…

The person who died in a vehicle explosion outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs has been identified as the suspect in the "intentional act of terrorism" that left at least four others injured, authorities confirmed Sunday. May 19th 2025 --- Please Like, Comment and Follow 'The Ray Appleton Show' on all platforms: --- 'The Ray Appleton Show’ i…

The California Assembly on Thursday approved a bill that would make it easier for prosecutors to charge a felony against those who buy 16- and 17-year-olds for sex.Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Tuesday cited a decision by a Department of Insurance administrative law judge that blessed a 17% interim rate hike for homeowners in the wake of the devasta…

California Senator Alex Padilla has hit back at the White House after President Donald Trump said that his administration would not give any more money to the state's high-speed rail project. Padilla branded Trump's stance as a "waste" and accused the president of playing "political games" with the infrastructure project. May 15th 2025 --- Please L…