The Rod & Greg Show

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Friday, June 27, 2025

4:20 pm: Clark Aposhian of the Utah Shooting Sports Council, host of Gun Radio Utah on KNRS, joins the show to discuss how a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act removes gun suppressors from being regulated.

4:38 pm: Hans von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, joins Rod and Greg to discuss how a USAID fraud case has proven the foolishness of awarding contracts to “disadvantaged” contractors.

5:05 pm: Author and attorney Alan Dershowitz joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about why he says President Trump’s attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities was both constitutional and proper.

6:05 pm: Mary Taylor, President of Pro-Life Utah, joins the program for a conversation about what the Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday allowing South Carolina to defund Planned Parenthood means for Utah.

6:20 pm: Jennifer Roback Morse, Founder of the Ruth Institute, joins Rod and Greg to discuss her piece in The Blaze about how to help gay men and women to leave Pride behind.

6:38 pm: We’ll listen back to Rod and Greg’s conversation this week with Wyoming Congresswoman Harriet Hageman, who has worked on public land issues as an attorney, regarding Senator Mike Lee’s proposal to sell off federal lands in the Western U.S.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Thursday, June 26, 2025

4:38 pm: Glenn Beaton, columnist with The Aspen Beat, joins the show to discuss how CNN published a stolen and inaccurate report about the effectiveness of the U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

6:05 pm: Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of the Liberty Counsel, joins Rod and Greg to discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the state of South Carolina to withhold Medicaid funds from Planned Parenthood.

6:38 pm: Helen Raleigh, Senior Contributor to The Federalist, joins the program for a conversation about the takeaways from the U.S. bombing on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Wednesday, June 25, 2025

4:20 pm: Leslie Eastman of Legal Insurrection joins the program to discuss her piece about how the media is numbing the public to an actual climate threat by turning normal hot summer days into a climate catastrophe.

4:38 pm: Adam Pack, Congressional Reporter for The Daily Caller, joins the program to detail what a recent Senate Parliamentarian ruling on Senator Mike Lee’s public lands sales proposal means for the bill moving forward.

5:05 pm: Congresswoman Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, who has worked as an attorney on land use issues in the past, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about the current state of Senator Mike Lee’s public lands sale proposal.

6:38 pm: Joseph MacKinnon of The Blaze joins Rod and Greg to give us the details about the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” in Florida, the Trump administration’s new detention facility for illegal immigrants facing deportation.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Tuesday, June 24, 2025

4:20 pm: Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform joins the show to discuss Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott’s warning of the threat of foreign terrorist sleeper cells in the U.S.

4:38 pm: Senator John Curtis joins the program to discuss the status of the cease fire between Iran and Israel and his thoughts on how President Trump has handled the situation.

6:05 pm: Congressman Burgess Owens joins Rod and Greg to give us his thoughts on President Trump's actions in Iran and if he expects the cease fire between Iran and Israel to continue.

6:38 pm: Katelynn Richardson, Courts Reporter for The Daily Caller, joins the show to discuss the latest on the news that a federal judge has defied a Supreme Court ruling and blocked the deportation orders of eight illegal immigrants

4:20 pm: Rob Bluey, President and Executive Editor of The Daily Caller joins the show for a conversation about President Trump’s weekend move to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities and what he sees with U.S. and Iran moving forward.  

6:05 pm: Daniel Turner, Founder and Executive Director of Power the Future joins Greg for a conversation about America’s domestic energy importance as Iran moves to make the Strait of Hormuz a chokepoint for oil and gas prices.  

6:38 pm: Margot Cleveland, Senior Legal Correspondent for The Federalist joins the show to discuss how a federal judge in California is ready and willing to meddle in President Trump’s constitutional authority.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Friday, June 20, 2025

4:20 pm: Congressman Mike Kennedy joins the show to discuss this week’s decision by the Supreme Court to uphold a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for youth, which clears such laws for twenty other states, including Utah.

6:05 pm: Ryan McGowan, Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Legislative Analysis, joins Greg for a conversation about the results of a study showing lawmakers are less conservative than their constituents.

6:20 pm: Shawn Fleetwood of The Federalist joins Greg to discuss how America needs Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett to become the reliable originalist it was expecting when appointed by President Trump.

6:38 pm: We’ll listen back to Greg’s conversations this week with two political commentators, beginning with Charles Lipson on how the Democrats are continuously on the wrong side of 80/20 issues, and (at 6:50 pm) with Guy Ciarrocchi on how the Democrats tell us who they are by what they fight for.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Wednesday, June 18, 2025

4:38 pm: Ian Haworth, author and political commentator, joins Greg for a conversation about his recent piece in which he writes that President Trump has been right about Iran all along.

5:05 pm: Clark Aposhian, Chairman of the Utah Shooting Sports Council and host of Gun Radio Utah on KNRS, joins Greg for a conversation about the controversy surrounding the “peacekeepers” at the No Kings protests and why the “peacekeeper” responsible for killing a protestor in Salt Lake City has not been charged with a crime.

6:38 pm: Jeffrey H. Anderson, President of the American Main Street Initiative, joins the program for a conversation about his piece in the Federalist on how the National Park Service is celebrating Juneteenth in a way that marginalizes the actual 4th of July Independence Day.

5:05 pm: Guy Ciarrocchi, a political commentator and contributor to Broad and Liberty, on how the Democrats are telling us who they really are through the protests and violence of the past week.

6:05 pm: Brandon Arnold, Executive Vice President of the National Taxpayers Union, joins Greg for a conversation about his group’s advocacy of the tax cuts included in the Big Beautiful Bill.

6:38 pm: Christopher Tremoglie, Commentary Writer for the Washington Examiner, joins the program for a conversation about his recent piece on how Donald Trump is standing up to the violent activism of the Left.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Monday, June 16, 2025

4:20 pm: Michael Letts, a veteran of law enforcement and President of Invest USA, joins Greg for a conversation about the fallout from the weekend’s protests and how he believes the White House should respond.

4:38 pm: Charles Lipson, Professor Emeritus of International Politics and a frequent contributor to The Spectator on why Democrats continue to fall on the wrong side of 80/20 issues.

6:05 pm: State Representative Jason Thompson joins the show to discuss his planned proposal to help fix chronic absenteeism in Utah’s public school system.

6:38 pm: EJ Antoni, Chief Economist at The Heritage Foundation, joins the program for a conversation about how President Trump continues to win on inflation.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Friday, June 13, 2025

4:20 pm: Ingrid Jacques, a Columnist with USA Today, joins the show to discuss her recent piece about how the Los Angeles riots make her and other Americans glad that Donald Trump is President.

4:38 pm: Paul Gottfried, Editor of Chronicles Magazine and an American political philosopher, joins the show for a conversation about his piece for The Blaze on how Trump isn’t a threat to democracy – but to the ruling class.

5:05 pm: Brad Wilcox, a Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a Sociology Professor at the University of Virginia, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about his recent Deseret News piece about why fathers matter.

6:05 pm: Amber Todoroff, Deputy Editor of Open the Books, joins the program for a conversation about their new report that shows California has pumped tens of millions of dollars into non-government organizations that track ICE and fight deportation.

6:20 pm: Devin Hartman, Director of Energy and Environmental Policy for the R Street Institute, joins the show for a conversation about his piece in which he writes about the importance of DOGE in returning America to energy dominance.

6:38 pm: We’ll listen back to Rod and Greg’s conversations this week with Kurt Schlichter of Townhall.com on California Governor Gavin Newsom’s response to the riots in Los Angeles, and (at 6:50 pm) with John Daniel Davidson of The Federalist on how Mexico is also complicit in the L.A. riots.