The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Thursday, August 27, 2026

4:20 pm: Amy Kremer, Chair of Humans First, joins the show to discuss the group’s new nationwide campaign against AI data center expansion, saying communities are forced to pay for the infrastructure without their approval.

4:38 pm: Antonio Graceffo, Economist and National Security Analyst, joins the show to discuss his piece in the Gateway Pundit about how Sweden’s socialist system, often used as an example of success, is proof that socialism doesn’t work.

5:05 pm: Economist Steve Moore, co-founder of Unleash Prosperity, joins Rod for their weekly conversation about politics and the nation's economy, and today they'll discuss the U.S. trade with Canada and why he thinks it should end with both countries dropping tariffs.

6:05 pm: Joseph Grenny (Chair) and Tim Stay (CEO) of the Other Side Academy join Rod today to respond to a piece in the Salt Lake Tribune that accuses the academy and its employees of demeaning and sabotaging the recovery of people that have chosen to leave their program and use that information as a scare tactic for others in their program.

6:38 pm: Mark Mazman, a financial services industry veteran and contributor to The Federalist, joins Rod to discuss his piece about the ways to fix the student loan crisis without hurting taxpayers.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Wednesday, August 26, 2026

4:20 pm: Utah Attorney General Derek Brown joins Rod to discuss the $12.2 billion settlement with Meta over a lawsuit regarding its child safety practices.

4:38 pm: J.T. Young, author and contributor to The American Spectator, joins the show to discuss his piece about how Republicans should not only run on their accomplishments, but on the actions they’ve prevented Democrats from taking.

5:05 pm: Lieutenant Zach Randall of the Utah Highway Patrol joins the show to discuss the plan to further crackdown on so-called “left lane loafing."

6:38 pm: Terry Schilling, President of the American Principles Project, joins the show to discuss his piece in the Federalist about why it doesn’t make you a socialist if you notice America’s unaffordability problems and want to fix them.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Tuesday, August 25, 2026

4:20 pm: Hans von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow and the Institute for the Rule of Law at Advancing American Freedom, joins Rod to discuss what yesterday’s Supreme Court decision to hold up President Trump’s limits on mail-in-voting will mean for the upcoming elections.

4:38 pm: Scott McKay, Publisher of The Hayride and a Contributing Editor to American Spectator, joins the show for a conversation about how Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has broken off trade talks with the U.S. while openly trading with China.

6:05 pm: Jennifer Graham, Ideas and Culture Editor for the Deseret News, joins the show to discuss her piece about a Seattle Times Sports Columnist, Sophie Cunningham, and the rather high cost of expressing a point of view.

6:38 pm: Christian Toto, Editor of HollywoodinToto.com, joins Rod for a conversation about his piece for American Greatness on how we are living in the golden age of clean comedy.

4:20 pm: Charles Lipson, author and contributor to The Spectator, joins the program for a conversation about his latest piece in which he writes about how he expects the U.S. sanctions against Iran will play out.

4:38 pm: Madison Martinez, Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Education, joins the show to discuss what education changes the Trump administration has made as our children head back to school.

6:05 pm: Bob Maistros, Messaging and Communications Strategist, Crisis Specialist and contributor to Issues and Insights, joins Rod for a conversation about his latest piece in which he says the Democrats and the Democrat Socialists of America are now synonymous.

6:38 pm: Reem Ibrahim, Research Fellow in Policy and Media at Reason, joins the program for a conversation about her piece on the truth about universal healthcare.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Friday, August 21, 2026

4:20 pm: Draper City Mayor Troy Walker joins Rod and Greg to discuss the controversial Flock Safety cameras, which he says are constitutional and help with law enforcement.

4:38 pm: David Fotouhi, Deputy Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his trip to Salt Lake City today, the importance of the state’s critical minerals, and what the EPA can do to help save the Great Salt Lake.

6:05 pm: Ira Stoll, journalist and contributor to the Washington Free Beacon, joins the program to discuss his piece about the results of a new study that shows higher minimum wages hurt low-income workers via reduced hours and lower overall income.

6:20 pm: We’ll listen back to Rod and Greg’s conversations this week with Brandon Arnold of the National Taxpayers Union who says data centers can strengthen tax bases and generate significant economic activity for communities, and (at 6:38 pm) with Zach Smith of the Heritage Foundation on new FBI data that shows a significant drop in violent crime in the U.S.

6:50 pm: Today’s CEO You Should Know features personal injury attorney Matt Storey.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Thursday, August 20, 2026

4:20 pm: Economist Steve Moore, co-founder of Unleash Prosperity, joins the show for our weekly conversation about politics and the nation’s economy, and today they’ll discuss the ridiculousness of Democratic Socialists economic policies, as well as California’s crazy new car tire regulations.

4:38 pm: Taylor Herzlich, Business Reporter for the New York Post, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation on her piece on why Gen Z males are dropping like flies from America’s job market.

6:05 pm: Peter Gietl, Editor-in-Chief of Frontier Magazine and an Editor for The Blaze, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his piece in which he calls the self-checkout stands at grocery stores un-American.

6:38 pm: Josh Findlay, National Election Protection Director at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, joins the show for a conversation about his piece for The Blaze on how Kamala Harris may have made the best argument yet FOR the SAVE Act.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Wednesday, August 19, 2026

4:20 pm: Tyler Clancy, Utah’s Homeless Coordinator, joins Rod and Greg to respond to a recent video in which comedian Shane Gillis took shots at Salt Lake City over its homelessness problems on the Joe Rogan podcast.

4:38 pm: Brandon Arnold, Executive Vice President of the National Taxpayers Union, joins Rod and Greg to discuss why he says data centers are not the devil, and can in fact strengthen tax bases and generate significant economic activity for communities.

6:05 pm: Sam Rhodes, a member of the Mass Deportation Coalition, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his op-ed in The Blaze on how conservative voters will remember that the GOP representatives it helped elect did not live up to the promise of mass deportation and are now considering amnesty measures.

6:38 pm: Zack Smith, Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Legal Policy Center, joins the show to discuss new FBI data that shows violent crime fell nearly 10%, while murder rates dropped over 18%, the largest one-year decline in almost a century.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Fox News columnist Liz Peek joins the program for a conversation about Hasan Piker, the new favorite influencer for the radical Left who Democrats hope will win back the young male vote.

Ilana Blumsack, Economic Policy Analyst for Americans for Prosperity, joins Rod and Greg to discuss July’s sharp drop in homebuilding and home-buying, as well as the housing policies of the Democrat Socialists.

Susan Shelley, columnist for the Southern California News Group, joins the show to discuss her piece for the Orange County Register about how the failures of Obamacare show weaknesses of socialism.

Corinne Johnson, Executive Director of the Child First Policy Center, joins the program to discuss how parents can use Utah law to option their kids out of using AI at school.

4:20 pm: Howard Husock, Senior Fellow in Domestic Policies for the American Enterprise Institute, joins Greg for a conversation about his Wall Street Journal piece on how the reduction of school districts, and schools, in the U.S. made for worse outcomes for our children.

4:38 pm: Henry Olsen, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, joins the program for a conversation about why he says in the Washington Post that now may be the best shot at the White House for Alexandira Ocasio-Cortez.

6:05 pm: James Carafano, V.P. of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation, joins Greg to discuss why he writes in 1945 that President Trump has already won the Iran War.

6:38 pm: Spencer Klavan, Director of Publications for the Claremont Institute, joins the show to discuss his piece for American Mind on why Woke 2.0 will be worse than the first.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Friday, August 14, 2026

James Johnson, Co-Founder of J.L. Partners, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his piece in Spectator about what the Democrats’ voting base is all about.

Tim Graham, Executive Director of Newsbusters at the Media Research Center, joins the program for a conversation about how the media is “whitewashing” socialist candidates by calling them progressives while other Democrats are labeled “moderates.”

Joseph MacKinnon, a staff writer with The Blaze, joins the program to discuss the story of a female-only nude spa in Washington that has come under fire for refusing access to trans-identifying anatomically intact males in a case that may now go before the Supreme Court.

We’ll listen back to this week’s interview with John Daniel Davidson of The Federalist about how the problem with Democratic Socialists of America isn’t socialism, it’s the fact that decades of immigration from Muslim-majority third-world countries have turned the Democrats into militant anti-Americans.

We’ll air an encore of this week’s interview with Breccan Thies of The Federalist about his piece on how Colorado is using tax dollars to groom kids into believing they are “transgender” without parental consent via the state’s “I Matter” program.

6:50 pm: We’ll have another edition of CEOs You Should Know with Dave Durocher of The Other Side Academy.