Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Thursday, February 22, 2018

4:20 pm: Author and political commentator Michelle Malkin joins Rod to discuss her latest piece in TownHall about why she doesn’t think it’s a good idea to allow 16 year-olds to vote

4:35 pm: Kris Murphy, Program Director for Unified Police Department’s Choose Gang Free program, joins the show to discuss the uptick in gang activity in Magna and how to cut down on gang-related crime

6:05 pm: Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Associate Editor of Reason.com, joins the show to discuss why she says banning pornography is a bad idea

6:20 pm: Speaker of the House Greg Hughes joins the show for his weekly update on what lawmakers are working on during the 2018 Utah Legislative session

6:35 pm: Heritage Foundation Chief Economist Steve Moore joins Rod for their weekly conversation about politics and the nation’s economy

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Wednesday, February 21, 2018

4:20 pm: Salt Lake City Councilwoman Erin Mendenhall joins Rod for a discussion about the possibility of the city raising taxes or issuing bonds in order to pay for citywide maintenance, new police officers, and more

6:20 pm: Boyd Matheson, Opinion Editor at the Deseret News, joins the show for his weekly visit with Rod about the world of politics

6:35 pm: Local poet and playwright James Goldberg joins the show to discuss his recent op-ed piece about his support of chain migration

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Tuesday, February 20, 2018

4:20 pm: Robert Doar, a fellow in poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute, joins the show to discuss restoring federalism to the fight against poverty

4:35 pm: Bill Duncan, Director of the Center for Family and Society at the Sutherland Institute, joins the show to discuss the constitutionality of abortion bans on fetuses with Down syndrome

6:05 pm: Suzanne Venker, author and contributor to Fox News, joins the show to discuss fatherlessness in America, and how it’s leading to broken boys

6:20 pm: Sarah Longwell, Managing Director of the American Beverage Institute, on the group’s opposition to Representative Norm Thurston’s bill that allows for self-defense exceptions for laws against using a gun while under the influence of alcohol, and why they think Utah’s new .05 DUI law should be tabled while unintended consequences are sorted out

6:35 pm: Marianne Levine of Politico joins the show to discuss how minimum wage laws in many states are not enforced, leaving workers unable to recoup money that’s owed to them

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Friday, February 16, 2018

4:20 pm: Representative Carol Spackman-Moss, a former teacher, joins the show to discuss why she says Utah schools need to focus more on active shooter drills and not just fire drills

4:35 pm: Alex Isenstadt of Politico joins Rod to discuss how Mitt Romney plans to avoid discussing Donald Trump as he campaigns for a Utah senate seat

6:05 pm: Real Clear Markets Editor John Tamny joins the show to discuss why he says criminalizing human nature, seeking better opportunities in life, is not the way to curb illegal immigration

6:20 pm: Judy Kurtz of The Hill joins Rod to discuss her piece asking if television is heading for overload on the “dump on Trump” campaign

6:35 pm - Listen Back Friday: We’ll listen back to Rod’s conversations this week with Robert Gehrke of the Salt Lake Tribune on the rash of .05 DUI accidents in Utah that aren’t actually alcohol related, and (at 6:50 pm) with Jana Riess of the Religion News Service on how LDS bishops should be better trained to deal with allegations of sexual assault

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Thursday, February 15, 2018

4:20 pm: Representative Gage Froerer has taken up the sponsorship of a bill that would abolish the death penalty in Utah and he joins the show to discuss his reasons for supporting the move

4:35 pm: Utah State Auditor John Dougall says there needs to be a conversation and not a coronation and is now considering a Senate run against Mitt Romney, and he joins Rod to discuss his statement

6:05 pm: Alisa Ellis of the Utah State Board of Education joins Rod to discuss why the board is seeking to have Utah opt out of year-end ESSA testing of students

6:20 pm: Thomas Wright, former chairman of the Utah GOP and a member of the Republican National Committee, joins Rod to discuss the possibility that Mitt Romney’s candidacy for Senate will divide the Republican Party

6:35 pm: Heritage Foundation Chief Economist Steve Moore joins Rod for their weekly conversation about politics and the nation’s economy

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Wednesday, February 14, 2018

4:05 pm: Davis High School senior Skyler Lucas joins Rod to discuss how he raised money to purchase a rose for every female student in the school for Valentine’s Day

4:35 pm: Salt Lake County Mayor Ben McAdams joins the show to discuss his threat to back out of the construction of a homeless resource center in South Salt Lake unless lawmakers address impacts in the communities

6:05 pm: Boyd Matheson, Opinion Editor for the Deseret News, joins Rod for their weekly conversation about the world of politics

6:20 pm: Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner joins Rod to discuss President Trump’s plan to improve salaries and benefits for top government workers while firing the worst

6:35 pm: Utah Speaker of the House Greg Hughes joins the show for his weekly conversation with Rod, which this week will cover his trip to D.C. to meet with President Trump, and the “honeypot” scandal on Utah’s Capitol Hill

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Tuesday, February 13, 2018

4:20 pm: Andrew Klavan, author and contributor to PJ Media, joins the show to discuss why he says the resignation of Rob Porter from his staff secretary position at the White House is a major scandal

4:35 pm: Jana Riess of the Religion News Service joins Rod to discuss her op-ed piece in the Salt Lake Tribune calling on the Mormon Church to better train bishops about handling reports of domestic violence

6:05 pm: Salt Lake Tribune Columnist Robert Gehrke joins the show to discuss his piece showing most fatal .05 DUI crashes were caused by factors other than alcohol

6:20 pm: DJ Schanz of the Utah Patients Coalition joins Rod to discuss the decision of Utah lawmakers to abandon a bill that could have stopped the medical marijuana initiative in its tracks

6:35 pm: Carl Cannon of Real Clear Politics joins the show to discuss his recent piece defending Republicans who are questioning the actions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation against those criticizing them

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Monday, February 12, 2018

4:05 pm: Christine Stenquist of TRUCE (Together for Responsible Use and Cannabis Education) joins Rod to give us an update on the progress of Representative Brad Daw’s two medical marijuana bills on Capitol Hill – one passed and one didn’t – but will the failed bill be brought back?

4:20 pm: Representative Ken Ivory joins the show to discuss a study he wants done to examine how much PILT (Payment in Lieu of Taxes) money Utah’s counties, school districts and rural cities are receiving in comparison to what they should be getting for federal lands that aren’t generating property taxes

4:35 pm: Kevin Greene, State Director for Utah Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty, joins the show to discuss a new CCJJ report that shows the costs of keeping inmates on death row

5:05 pm: Representative Mike Kennedy joins the show to discuss his “nay” vote against Representative Carol Spackman Moss’s bill that would have banned hand-held cell phone use while driving, especially when the bill seemingly has high public support

6:05 pm: Matthew Anderson of the Sutherland Institute joins Rod to discuss how concerns over drilling and mining in land formerly included in the Bears Ears National Monument now seem moot after several leases in the area went without bids in a recent auction

6:20 pm: Collin O’Mara, President of the National Wildlife Federation, joins the show to discuss a new wildlife initiative by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke that aims to preserve hunting opportunities into the future by improving habitat and migration corridors for wildlife on federal lands

6:35 pm: Ted Hesson, Immigration Reporter for Politico, joins the show to discuss the free-for-all immigration debate being unleashed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Thursday, February 8, 2018

4:20 pm: Aviation expert Jay Ratliff of WLW in Cincinnati joins the show discuss how airlines are pushing the Department of Transportation to cut some of the red tape related to how they deal with customers

4:35 pm: Steve Moore, Chief Economist of The Heritage Foundation, joins Rod for their weekly discussion about politics and the nation’s economy

5:05 pm: Representative Karen Kwan joins the show to discuss her bill that would delay the implementation of Utah's new .05 BAC DUI law until the year 2022 - and Kwan says she'd like to see it repealed altogether

6:05 pm: Savannah Lindquist of Students for Liberty joins Rod for a discussion about how, as a survivor of sexual assault, she could feel safer and more empowered if she was allowed to carry her gun on campus

6:20 pm: Hawaii gubernatorial candidate Andria Tupola joins the show for a discussion about her campaign, and the possibility of Hawaii electing a Republican

6:35 pm: John Bair of the Western Hunting and Conservation Expo joins Rod to preview the 2018 expo

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown - Wednesday, February 7, 2018

4:20 pm: Representative Mike Winder wants to create a recreation area on the Jordan River to help alleviate some of the impacts of the new homeless resource centers in the area between 2100 south and 4500 south, and he joins Rod to discuss his vision

4:35 pm: Author Bryan Caplan, also a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, joins Rod to discuss whether spending $1 Trillion on public education in the U.S. is a waste of money

5:05 pm: Representative Mike Noel joins Rod to discuss why he is holding up a bill that would replace a statue of television inventor Philo Farnsworth at the U.S. Capitol with one of Martha Hughes Cannon, the first female state senator ever elected in the U.S.

6:05 pm: Boyd Matheson, Deseret News Opinion Editor, joins the show for his weekly conversation with Rod about the world of politics

6:20 pm: State Senator Lincoln Fillmore introduced an amendment to a toll-roads bill that will open the possibility of the Utah Department of Transportation introducing tolls to any road in the state and he joins Rod to discuss why he made the move

6:35 pm: Utah Speaker of the House Greg Hughes joins the show for his weekly conversation with Rod about the action happening on Capitol Hill during the 2018 Utah Legislative Session