The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Friday, November 7, 2025

4:20 pm: Lauren Stewart, Senior Legislative Affairs Liaison for Americans for Prosperity and Concerned Veterans for America, joins the show to discuss her piece for Fox News in which she says Democrats are holding the government hostage over subsidies Americans don’t want.

4:38 pm: Christopher Ferguson, Professor of Psychology at Stetson University, joins the show for a conversation about his piece for Real Clear Investigations about loneliness in America.

5:05 pm: Jamie K. Wilson, Executive Director of Conservatarian Press, on her piece for PJ Media on how America is “missing the journey” of putting in hard work to achieve success.

6:05 pm: Caitlin Sutherland, Executive Director of Americans for Public Trust, joins the show for a conversation about the group’s report on how foreign charities have donated nearly $2 billion into American policy advocacy groups that focus on climate change and political activism.

6:20 pm: Summer Love and Laura Hadley of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation join the show to preview this year’s Taste of Utah Foundation fundraiser.

6:38 pm: We’ll listen back to Rod and Greg’s conversations this week with Aimee Winder Newton of the Salt Lake County Council on the controversial closures of four county-run day care centers and (at 6:50 pm) with John Tamny of Real Clear Markets on the proliferation of data centers in the U.S.

The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Thursday, November 6, 2025

4:20 pm: Larry Gelwix of Columbus Travel, host of the Travel Show on KNRS, joins the program to discuss the flight cuts that will take place at 40 of the country’s busiest airports starting Friday.

4:38 pm: Tim Goeglein, Vice President of External and Government Relations for Focus on the Family, joins the show to discuss his piece for the Daily Signal about how men are returning to church.

6:05 pm: Ilya Shapiro, Director of Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about the Supreme Court taking up the question of the legality of President Trump’s tariffs.

6:38 pm: Hans von Spakovsky, Senior Legal Fellow and Manager of the Election Law Reform at the Heritage Foundation, joins the program for a conversation about California Governor Gavin Newsom’s redistricting push.

4:20 pm: The Jordan School District Board recently approved a $700,000 bid to build a greenhouse at Herriman High School, which has raised the ire of some parents in the district. One of those parents, Shawn Mathis, hopes to get the approval overturned and joins the show to discuss his concerns.

4:38 pm: Salt Lake County Councilwoman Aimee Winder Newton joins the program for a conversation about a controversial decision by the council to close several county-operated daycare centers at the end of the calendar year.

6:05 pm: Chase Jennings, Founder of the Jennings Strategy Group and a former spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, joins the show to discuss his piece for RedState on how the GOP must learn to win elections without Donald Trump on the ballot.

6:38 pm: Adam Coleman, Founder of WrongSpeak Publishing, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his piece in the New York Post about how the Democratic Party is giving in to radicals like Zohran Mamdani.

The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Tuesday, November 4, 2025

4:20 pm: Matt Welch, Editor-at-Large for Reason.com, joins the show for a conversation about the giddiness Democrats are showing for New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

4:38 pm: Utah Congressman Mike Kennedy joins the program for a conversation about what he says is a problem that the nation’s lawmakers seem unwilling to address - the national debt.

6:05 pm: Senator Mike Lee joins Rod and Greg today for a conversation about the latest about the government shutdown, plus they consider changes to the filibuster.  

6:38 pm: Brenda Hafera, Assistant Director at the Heritage Foundation’s Center for American Studies, joins the program to discuss the foundation’s new “Guide to Historic Sites” that grades America’s museums, presidential homes and other historical venues on historical accuracy and woke narratives.

4:20 pm: Michael Weiser, Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History, joins the show to discuss his piece for Real Clear Politics on the cost of civic illiteracy.

4:38 pm: Scott Yenor, Director of the Center for American Studies at the Heritage Foundation and a Fellow at the Claremont Institute, joins the program to discuss his piece for The Federalist about why male teachers have left the nation's elementary schools.

6:05 pm: Beth Brelje, Elections Correspondent for The Federalist, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about her report on how illegal aliens have milked the SNAP program for food.

6:38 pm: John Tamny, Editor of Real Clear Markets, joins the show to discuss how the large growth of data centers in America will prove to be about more than collecting data.

The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Friday, October 31, 2025

4:20 pm: Amanda Head, White House Correspondent for Just the News, joins the show to discuss her recent piece regarding fraud in the SNAP food assistance program.

4:38 pm: Representative Tyler Clancy joins the show for a conversation about his decision to accept the appointment to become Utah’s new State Homeless Coordinator.

6:05 pm: S.T. Karnick, Author and Senior Fellow at the Heartland Institute, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about his piece for The Federalist on how big government locks young Americans out of the American Dream.

6:20 pm: Nathan Honeycutt, Manager of Polling and Analytics for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), joins the show for a conversation about their report on the lasting impacts of the attacks on the freedom of speech of university scholars in the U.S.

6:38 pm: We’ll listen back to this week’s conversations with Hannah Cox of BASEDPolitics on her report for the Washington Examiner that BlackRock is not buying up homes across America, and (at 6:50 pm) with Jason Hopkins of the Daily Caller on the GOP crackdown on illegal immigrant truckers.

The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Thursday, October 30, 2025

4:20 pm: Sterling Burnett, Director of the Center on Climate and Environmental Policy at the Heartland Institute, joins the show to discuss how Bill Gates has suddenly backed off his alarmist views that climate change will lead to humanity’s demise.

4:38 pm: John Carney, Finance and Economics Editor for Breitbart, joins the program for a conversation about his piece on why the tariff inflation scare is now dead.

6:38 pm: Clifford May, Founder and President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a columnist for the Washington Times, joins the show to discuss his piece about why American needs energy dominance.

4:20 pm: Ward Clark, political columnist and contributor to RedState, joins the show to discuss his recent piece about the downfall of American cities.

4:38 pm: Shawn Teigen, President of the Utah Foundation, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his op-ed piece for the Deseret News about why social capital and community life are important to Utah.

6:05 pm: Michele Steeb, Founder of the Free Up Foundation and Visiting Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Fix Homelessness Initiative, joins Rod and Greg to discuss her Fox News piece about the corruption behind the homelessness crisis.

The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Tuesday, October 28, 2025

4:20 pm: Charles Lipson, political columnist and Professor Emeritus of International Politics at the University of Chicago, joins the program to discuss his piece asking why Democrats are so angry about President Trump’s improvements to the White House ballroom.

4:38 pm: Hannah Cox, President and Co-Founder of BASEDPolitics, joins the show to discuss her piece in the Washington Examiner about how, despite rumor to the contrary, BlackRock is not responsible for the housing crisis in America.

6:05 pm: Jack Birle, Supreme Court Reporter for the Washington Examiner, joins the show to discuss how the Supreme Court is loading up on gun rights cases during this session.

6:38 pm: Joseph MacKinnon, Staff Writer for The Blaze, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about a new report from the House Oversight Committee shows an extensive amount of autopen use during the Biden administration and has called for an investigation into the validity of some executive actions and pardons during Biden’s time in the White House.

4:20 pm: Robert Poole, Director of Transportation Policy at the Reason Foundation, joins the show to discuss the issues the government shutdown has caused with air traffic control, and how government should no longer run the organization.

4:38 pm: Daily Caller Immigration Reporter Jason Hopkins joins the show for a conversation about how Republicans in Congress are pushing for a permanent crackdown on illegal migrant truckers in the U.S.

6:05 pm: Utah Republican Party Chairman Rob Axson joins Rod to discuss the party’s plan to pivot from using an indirect initiative to kill a voter-passed anti-gerrymandering law and instead plan to put the question to voters if it can gather the necessary signatures.

6:38 pm: Jeff Murrow, Executive Director of Victims of Impaired Drivers, joins the program to discuss a new Oklahoma law that outlines instances where first time offenders for driving under the influence can be charged with a felony