The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Friday, December 19, 20254:20 pm: Justin Keener, President of Americans for Public Safety, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his piece for Real Clear Policy on how better bail practices in the U.S. would make the country safer.4:38 pm: Former Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz, a contributor to Fox News, joins the program for a conversation about his recent piece on how Republicans have an opportunity now to fix a healthcare system broken by Barack Obama.6:05 pm: Joel Kotkin, Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University, joins the show for a conversation about his piece for The Gateway Pundit on how the gender divide is changing America.6:20 pm: Peter Copeland, Deputy Director of Domestic Policy for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, joins the program to discuss his recent piece for Commonplace about how the burden unchecked immigration adds to the housing crunch in the United States.6:38 pm: We’ll listen back to this week’s conversations with Representative Mike Kennedy about why he voted against the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, and (at 6:50 pm) with Kelsey Piper of The Argument magazine on how the economic growth of America has transformed childhood and made us more protective.
The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Thursday, December 18, 20254:20 pm: Goud Maragani, a former GOP candidate for Salt Lake County Clerk, is leading a group that has filed a petition for a referendum to stop a 14.65% property tax hike in the county, and he joins the show to discuss the effort.4:38 pm: Utah Congressman Mike Kennedy, a physician by trade, joins Rod and Greg to explain his vote against the Protect Children’s Innocence Act, a house bill that makes it a felony for doctors to perform transgender surgeries and procedures on minors. Kennedy is one of four Republicans to oppose the bill.6:05 pm: Economist Steve Moore, co-founder of Unleash Prosperity, joins the show for his weekly visit about politics and the nation’s economy, and today they’ll discuss inflation, healthcare costs, and his take on President Trump’s address to the nation.6:38 pm: Rachel Sheffield, Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Health and Welfare Policy, joins the show for a conversation about her piece for Fox News on how fraud in Minnesota proves our welfare system is broken.
4:20 pm: Former FBI operative and cybersecurity expert Eric O’Neill joins the show for a conversation about how investigators are going about identifying and tracking down the person responsible for the shooting at Brown University.4:38 pm: Kelsey Piper, Contributor to The Argument Magazine, joins Rod and Greg to discuss how the economic growth of America has transformed childhood and made us more protective.6:05 pm: Steve Milloy, Senior Fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, joins the program to discuss his piece for the Daily Caller on how the Paris Climate Accord has become a decade-old disaster.6:38 pm: Kevin Sabet, President and CEO of Smart Approaches to Marijuana and a Fellow at Yale University, joins the show to discuss the results of a clinical trials showing no evidence that the use of marijuana is effective to treat acute pain and insomnia.
The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Tuesday, December 16, 20254:20 pm: Gary Gygi of Gygi Capital Management joins the show for a conversation about the latest jobs report, which shows a rebound of 64,000 jobs added in November following the loss of 105,000 jobs in October.4:38 pm: Senator Mike Lee joins Rod and Greg for their weekly conversation about what’s happening in Washington, D.C., and today they’ll discuss the latest jobs report, Obamacare subsidies, and concerns about radical Islamic extremism.6:05 pm: Kevin McCullough, nationally syndicated host and podcaster and a contributor to Townhall, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about his piece on the many Americans seeking to flee the country to “escape” Donald Trump.6:38 pm: David Winston, President of the Winston Group and a contributor to Roll Call, joins the show to discuss his piece about how voters might react to inflation during the 2026 midterm elections.
4:38 pm: Clark Aposhian of the Utah Shooting Sports Council and Graham Park, President of Shooters Union Australia, join the show to discuss the tragic shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia over the weekend, as well as Australia’s restrictive gun laws.6:05 pm: Ammon Blair, Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, joins the show for a conversation about how breakdowns in our immigration system lead to violence.6:38 pm: Paul Larkin, Senior Legal Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, joins the show for a conversation about why he says President Trump’s plan to reschedule cannabis from a Schedule I controlled substance to a Schedule III would be a mistake.
The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Thursday, December 11, 20254:20 pm: Beth Brelje, Elections Correspondent for the Federalist, joins the show to discuss how American taxpayers are helping pay for Somalian immigrants not to assimilate into American culture.4:38 pm: Economist Steve Moore, co-founder of Unleash Prosperity, joins Rod and Greg for his weekly conversation about the nation’s economy, and today they’ll discuss the changes we’ve seen, and aren’t seeing, with prices of goods and services in the U.S.6:05 pm: Ian Haworth, author and political commentator, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his latest Substack piece about Australia’s ban on social media for everyone under 16 years of age is a terrible idea.6:20 pm: Issac Orr, co-founder and Vice President of Research at Always On Energy Research, joins the program to discuss the results of a new report from the Institute for Energy Research showing how blue state policies lead to higher energy costs.6:38 pm: Maisey Jefferson, Staff Editor at The Federalist, joins the show for a conversation about her piece on why people shouldn’t compare the Holy Family to illegal immigrants.
The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Friday, December 5, 2025 4:20 pm: Congressman Blake Moore joins the show to discuss his role in helping President Trump create a program that would create $1,000 savings accounts for all U.S. children that will accrue interest into their adult years. 4:38 pm: Grover Norquist, Founder and President of Americans for Tax Reform, joins the show for a conversation about how President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will lead to larger tax refunds in 2026. 6:05 pm: Kreg Edgmon, CEO of WeYouth, joins the show for a conversation about the dangers of AI toys for youth after talking teddy bears were temporarily pulled from store shelves after it was discovered the bears could give advice about topics from sex to the best way to light matches. 6:20 pm: Jeremy Carl, Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, joins the show to discuss his piece for the American Mind about how settling Afghans in the U.S. puts America last. 6:38 pm: We’ll listen back to this week’s conversations with Utah Senate President Stuart Adams on how the Utah Legislature plans to battle the new congressional map put in place by Judge Dianna Gibson, and (at 6:50 pm) with Jessika Harkay of The 74 on the effects of parents not reading to their kids.
The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Thursday, December 4, 20254:20 pm: Frank Miele, a columnist for Real Clear Politics, joins the program for a conversation about why people shouldn’t be blindly loyal to President Trump.4:38 pm: Jessika Harkay, Staff Reporter at The 74, joins the program for a conversation about a study showing parents rarely read to their children and it’s leading to kids entering school unprepared.6:20 pm: Economist Steve Moore, co-founder of Unleash Prosperity, joins the show for his weekly conversation about politics and the nation’s economy, and today they’ll discuss his thoughts on “affordability” and inflation, as well as his ideas on payroll tax cuts.6:38 pm: Jesse Arm, Director of Polling at the Manhattan Institute, joins the show for a conversation about the group’s new survey on the current makeup of the Republican Party.
4:20 pm: Dean Clancy, Senior Health Policy Fellow at Americans for Prosperity, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his piece in the Washington Examiner about how President Trump has put Democrats on the spot with his new Health Savings Account plan.4:38 pm: Chris Jacobs, Founder and CEO of the Juniper Research Group and a contributor to The Federalist, joins the show to discuss his piece about how the middle class can’t keep up with inflation.6:05 pm: Kevin Killough, Energy Reporter for Just the News, joins the program for a conversation about how the International Energy Agency has listened to U.S. threats to stop funding the agency and is no longer basing its forecasts of future oil demand on net-zero emissions scenarios.6:38 pm: Sean Mahoney, Executive Director of the Space Frontier Foundation, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about today’s confirmation hearing for Jason Isaacman, President Trump’s nominee to lead NASA.
The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Tuesday, December 2, 20254:20 pm: Sean Stevens, Chief Research Advisor for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), joins the program to discuss the results of a new survey of college students, including students at Utah Valley University, about how the assassination of Charlie Kirk is shaping student attitudes and behavior.4:38 pm: Jarrett Stepman, Columnist for the Daily Signal, joins the show for a conversation about his piece about the massive gap between red states and blue states when it comes to affordability.6:05 pm: Utah Senate President Stuart Adams joins Rod and Greg to discuss the latest on the Utah Legislature’s efforts to overturn the congressional map put into place by Judge Dianna Gibson.6:38 pm: Jeff Charles, News Editor for Townhall, joins the show for a conversation about his piece on the 5,000 Afghan nationals flagged as national security risks allowed into the U.S. by the Biden administration.
4:20 pm: David Manney, contributor to PJ Media, joins the show to discuss his piece about new information from the House Oversight Committee revealing that Joe Biden wasn’t calling the shots in the White House.4:38 pm: Rosalind Hanson, Parental Rights and Education Advocate and Chair of the Montgomery County, Maryland chapter of Moms for Liberty, joins the program for a conversation about her piece in the Washington Times about the growing illiteracy of American children.6:38 pm: Michael McKenna, Contributing Editor for the Washington Times, joins the show to discuss his piece about the radical shift facing Republicans that the party establishment refuses to recognize.
The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Friday, November 21, 20254:20 pm: Richard Lyons, author and contributor to American Greatness, joins the show for a conversation about how government failures have led to an “unaffordable” America.4:38 pm: Jamie Wilson, Executive Director of Conservatarian Press, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about her piece on what she calls the “jobs Americans won’t do lie.”5:05 pm: Representative Matt MacPherson joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about his op-ed piece in the Deseret News on holding judges accountable and the possibility of impeachment proceedings against Judge Dianna Gibson.6:05 pm: Kelsey Piper, a contributor to The Argument Magazine, joins the show for a conversation about the math scandal at the University of California at San Diego and when grades stopped holding meaning.6:20 pm: Katherine Hamilton, Political Reporter for Breitbart News, joins the show to discuss her reporting on the 130 Democrat lawmakers that have asked the Supreme Court to rule on the side of transgender athletes in several cases.6:38 pm: We’ll listen back to this week’s conversations with Kurt Schlichter of Townhall on his piece about purging the backstabbers within the Republican Party, and (at 6:50 pm) with Alfonso Aguilar of Defending Education on the restructuring of the U.S. Department of Education.
The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Thursday, November 20, 20254:38 pm: S.A. McCarthy, a writer for the Washington Stand and the Family Research Council, joins Rod and Greg to discuss how the U.S. Department of Agriculture will require people to reapply for SNAP benefits as it tries to curb fraud within the program.5:05 pm: Economist Steve Moore of Unleash Prosperity joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about the "affordability" argument and the health of the U.S. economy.6:05 pm: Breccan Thies, Correspondent for The Federalist, joins the program for a conversation about his piece in which he writes the U.S. should maintain a goal of deporting one million illegal immigrants per month during the Trump administration.6:38 pm: Victor Joecks, a columnist with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, joins the show to discuss his piece for the Daily Signal about ways to help solve the housing crisis in America.
4:20 pm: Alfonso Aguilar, Senior Director of Government Affairs for Defending Education, joins Rod and Greg to discuss the recent reorganization of the U.S. Department of Education.4:38 pm: Tyler O’Neil, Managing Editor for The Daily Signal, joins the program for a conversation about how a new report from Health and Human Services about transgender care for minors has revealed why activists have tried to silence critics.6:05 pm: John Tillman, CEO of American Culture Project, joins the show to discuss his piece for Real Clear Politics about how television news networks should just admit their bias instead of attempting to be objective.
The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Tuesday, November 18, 20254:20 pm: Larry Behrens, Director of Communications for Power the Future, joins the program to discuss his piece for Townhall on how the Democrats, no longer in power, are suddenly concerned about “affordability.”4:38 pm: Steve Milloy, Senior Fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, joins Greg for a conversation about how claims from climate activists have taken another hit as the 2025 hurricane season will soon pass without any landfalls or significant activity.5:05 pm: Conn Carroll, Commentary Editor for the Washington Examiner, joins the program to discuss his piece about how sports betting apps are worse than people realize.6:20 pm: Kurt Schlichter, Senior Columnist at Townhall, joins Greg to discuss his piece about how the time has come to purge the party of members who collaborate with Democrats.