The Rod & Greg Show

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Tuesday, July 15, 2025

4:20 pm: Frank Miele, Columnist with Real Clear Politics, joins the program for a conversation about his piece pushing back against what he says is the “big Medicaid lie” about the Big Beautiful Bill.

4:38 pm: John Haughey, National Affairs Reporter with The Epoch Times, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about the new dual mine in Wyoming that will produce both coal and other mineral elements.

6:38 pm: Representative Candice Pierucci joins the program for a conversation about putting a 2024 bill passed by the Utah Legislature to work and banning foreign entities, like China and North Korea, from owning land in Utah.

4:20 pm: John Solomon, Founder of Just the News, joins the show for a conversation about the FBI’s new investigation into the antics of the Democratic Party and the deep state’s meddling in elections.

4:38 pm: Auron MacIntyre, a columnist with Blaze news, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his recent piece about how Donald Trump must avoid repeating a mistake made by Ronald Reagan by offering amnesty to illegal aliens working in agriculture and hospitality.

6:05 pm: Susan Shelley, a columnist with the Southern California News Group, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about the policing of political speech following her recent piece about Douglas Mackey, who was convicted on federal charges after posting election-related memes on the internet.

6:38 pm: Andrew Malcolm, a political commentator for RedState, joins the program for a conversation about how Donald Trump, despite the attacks he has faced, is still a stand-up guy.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Friday, July 11, 2025

4:20 pm: Ian Haworth, author and political commentator, joins the program for a conversation about his piece in the Washington Examiner on the mania surrounding Donald Trump’s tariffs.

4:38 pm: Scott McKay, Publisher of The Hayride and a contributor to American Spectator, on how we should condemn those on the left using the Texas flash flood tragedies to push political arguments.

6:05 pm: John Hart, CEO of Open the Books, joins Rod and Greg to discuss a new report that shows President Trump’s 2025 White House payroll is the smallest since 2009 and has shrunk by 29% when compared to Joe Biden’s 2024 operation.

6:20 pm: Terry Schilling, President of the American Principles Project, joins the program to discuss the group’s call for President Trump to do more given the results of a study showing further action is needed to stop the trans agenda.

6:38 pm: We’ll listen back to this week’s conversations with Margot Cleveland, Senior Legal Correspondent at The Federalist, on her piece about how Barack Obama pushed for the Trump-Russia witch hunt, and (at 6:50 pm) with former Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz of Fox News on the criminal investigation into ex-FBI boss James Comey and ex-CIA Director John Brennan.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Thursday, July 10, 2025

4:20 pm: Chris Martz, a meteorologist with CFACT.org, joins the show to discuss his piece for the Washington Free Beacon about how climate zealots are attempting to silence him because he’s spoken out against the lies that climate change is responsible for the Texas flash floods.

4:38 pm: Economist Steve Moore, co-founder of Unleash Prosperity, joins Rod and Greg for their weekly conversation about politics and the nation’s economy, and today they’ll discuss the passing of the One Big Beautiful Bill.

6:05 pm: Salena Zito, National Political and Culture Reporter, joins Rod and Greg to discuss her new book “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America’s Heartland.”

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Wednesday, July 9, 2025

4:20 pm: Beth Brelje, Elections Correspondent at The Federalist, joins the show for a conversation about how the mainstream media is burying stories about violent attacks on ICE officers across the country.

4:38 pm: Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz, a former Utah Congressman, joins the program for a conversation about the probe into former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA boss John Brennan

6:05 pm: Senator Mike Lee joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about defunding Planned Parenthood, attacks on ICE agents, and the fallout of the failed plan to sell public lands.

6:38 pm: Draper City Mayor Troy Walker joins Rod and Greg to discuss his history of dealing with housing issues in Draper as Governor Cox has called for 35,000 new starter homes by 2028 despite stifling regulatory and insurance issues.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Tuesday, July 8, 2025

4:20 pm: Steve Milloy, Senior Fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, joins the program to discuss the left’s exploitation of the tragic flash floods in Texas to further a political agenda.

4:38 pm: Tim Graham, Executive Editor of Newsbusters at the Media Research Center joins the show to discuss how ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and CNN’s Dana Bash are mistakenly trying to pin the loss of life in the Texas flash floods on President Trump.

6:05 pm: Emily Kopp of the Daily Caller News Foundation joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about her reporting on how USAID shopped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan despite the lack of a formal operation agreement.

6:38 pm: Margot Cleveland, Senior Legal Correspondent for The Federalist joins the show to discuss her story about how a CIA review shows Barack Obama pushed the intelligence community to portray Russia as targeting the 2016 election to help Trump win.

4:20 pm: Billy Hesterman, President of the Utah Taxpayers Association, joins the program to discuss his op-ed in the Deseret News in which he says time is running out to save Social Security.

4:38 pm: Hugo Gurdon, Editor-in-Chief at the Washington Examiner, joins the show to discuss his piece about how America is less liked, but more respected, with Donald Trump in the White House.

6:05 pm: Lauren Green, Congressional Reporter for the Washington Examiner, joins Rod and Greg to discuss her piece on how Democrats in Washington, D.C. have turned to theatrics to get noticed since they’ve been voted out of power.

6:38 pm: Thaddeus G. McCotter, a contributor to American Greatness, joins the show to discuss his piece about how tell-all books have become detrimental to good American government.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Wednesday, July 2, 2025

4:20 pm: Ned Ryun, Founder and CEO of American Majority, joins the program for a conversation about his piece for Real Clear Politics about how the Trump Administration is mobilizing JD Vance as an advocate for the MAGA agenda.

4:38 pm: Kevin Killough, Energy Reporter for Just the News, joins Rod and Greg to discuss how blue state Democrats have shifted their zero emission goals to nuclear because of fading hopes to use solar and wind power.

6:05 pm: Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Director of the Center for Energy, Climate and Environment and Senior Fellow in Energy and Environmental Policy at the Heritage Foundation on her piece for Real Clear Energy about how Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry is leading the charge to promote oil and gas production.

6:20 pm: Brian Reisinger, an author and consultant who grew up on a family farm in Wisconsin, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about the importance of President Trump's migrant worker pass proposal.

6:38 pm: Amanda Head, White House Correspondent for Just the News and host of the Furthermore Podcast, joins the program to discuss her piece about Donald Trump’s fight to keep non-citizens off voter rolls.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Tuesday, July 1, 2025

4:20 pm: From tax cuts for the wealthy to Medicaid cuts for people who need it the most, Kurt Couchman, Senior Fellow in Fiscal Policy at Americans for Prosperity, joins Rod and Greg to discuss the myths created by the Democrats about the Big Beautiful Bill.

6:05 pm: Utah Attorney General Derek Brown joins the program for a conversation about the lawsuit filed against Snapchat for being addictive to children, sexual exploitation and facilitating drug sales.

6:38 pm: Former Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz, now an analyst at Fox News, joins the show for a conversation about his new book “They’re Coming for You: How Deep State Spies, NGOs, and Woke Corporations Plan to Push You Out of the Economy.”

4:20 pm: Guy Ciarrocchi, political commentator and a contributor to Broad and Liberty joins the show for a conversation about how the fact that not one Democrat has spoken out against Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy to be Mayor of New York says a lot about the state of the Democratic Party.

4:38 pm: Betsy Brantner Smith, a retired police sergeant and spokesperson for the National Police Association, joins Rod and Greg to discuss why she says Americans are rejecting the defund the police movement.

6:05 pm: Henry Olsen, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, joins the show to discuss the results of a new Pew Validated Voter Survey that shows the Democrats are hemorrhaging men and could be in serious trouble.

6:38 pm: Steve Goreham, author and Environmental Researcher, joins the show to explain why, despite media reports, the recent heat wave in America is not man-made.