The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Friday, December 19, 2025

4:20 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, 2025

4:20 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, 2025

4:20 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, 2025

4:20 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.