The Rod & Greg Show

4:20 pm: Cheryl Saltzman, mother of a Utah State University student and now working with Campus Reform, joins the show to discuss how a biological male is working as a resident assistant in a female dorm at USU and how the controversy now has the attention of Utah lawmakers.

4:38 pm: Jennifer Graham, Ideas and Culture Editor for the Deseret News, joins the program for a conversation about her piece on why California is so different from the rest of the United States and whether the state can be saved.

6:05 pm: Utah Congressman Burgess Owens joins the program for a conversation about his expectations for the second Presidency of Donald Trump.

6:38 pm: Salena Zito, National Political and Culture Reporter for the Washington Examiner joins the program for a conversation about her piece on the decade she’s spent covering Donald Trump.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Tuesday, January 21, 2025

4:20 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 Biden’s controversial pardons and Trump’s first week priorities.

4:38 pm: Jacob Sullum, Senior Editor at Reason.com joins Rod and Greg to discuss his piece about how Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons undermine the rule of law.

6:05 pm: Utah Congressman Mike Kennedy joins the program to discuss his inauguration day experience and what he expects from President Trump in his first days in office.

6:38 pm: Daniel McCarthy, Editor-in-Chief of The Modern Age joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about his piece for the New York Post on how the promises President Trump made during his inauguration speech are exactly what America wants.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Friday, January 17, 2025

4:38 pm: Clark Aposhian, Chairman of the Utah Shooting Sports Council and host of Gun Radio Utah on KNRS joins Greg for a conversation about a proposal to be considered by Utah lawmakers that would require public schools to teach students about firearms safety beginning in kindergarten through the high school years.

6:05 pm: Senator Jen Plumb joins the program to discuss her proposed bill that would make human composting (turning a body into soil), also known as natural organic reduction, legal in the state of Utah.

6:38 pm: Utah Senate President Stuart Adams joins Greg to discuss his priorities for the 2025 Utah Legislative session, which begins Tuesday.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Thursday, January 16, 2025

4:20 pm: Steve Moore, an economist and 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 how Donald Trump may approach repairing the economy.

4:38 pm: Derek Monson, Chief Growth Officer at the Sutherland Institute joins the program for a conversation about the results of a new poll on election trust in Utah and ways that trust can be strengthened.

6:05 pm: Rich McHugh, National Investigative Correspondent for NewsNation has spoken with Palisades residents who saw the blaze as it broke out and he joins the program to discuss how officials mismanaged the fire from the very beginning.

6:38: pm: Susannah Luthi Taylor, a reporter with the Washington Free Beacon, joins the program for a conversation about the red tape and failed bureaucracy that led to California’s slow movement on fire prevention.

4:20 pm: Kurt Schlichter, attorney, veteran and Senior Columnist at Townhall joins the program for a conversation about his piece about how, despite the wildfires, nothing will change in California because the state’s voters won’t admit Democrats are failing.

4:38 pm: Adam Coleman, Founder of WrongSpeak Publishing joins Rod and Greg to discuss his piece in the New York Post in which he writes Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is bad at her job and it’s not racist to say so.

6:00 pm: President Joe Biden will be giving his Farewell Address


6:35 pm: Senator Dan McCay joins the show for a conversation about Governor Spencer Cox’s proposal to end the income tax on Social Security for the state’s older residents.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Tuesday, January 14, 2025

4:20 pm: J.D. Tuccille, Contributing Editor at Reason.com joins the program to discuss his recent piece about the high hopes Americans have for Donald Trump’s next term in the White House.

4:38 pm: Special Counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Department of Justice after filing his final confidential report, and Margot Cleveland, Senior Legal Correspondent for The Federalist, joins the show to discuss how the report could shape the narrative around Trump’s presidency.

6:05 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 confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Defense, as well as the Supreme Court’s decision not to take up Utah’s lawsuit over federal lands, and California’s failure to mitigate wildfires.

6:38: pm: Tyler O’Neil, Managing Editor at the Daily Signal, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about how a recent poll shows nearly half of federal employees in Washington, D.C. intend to act like their own “deep state” in opposition to Donald Trump.

4:20 pm: Glenn Beaton, a columnist with the Aspen Beat, joins the show to discuss his column about how four young Democratic Congresswomen are responsible for killing their own party.

4:38 pm: Representative Joe Elison joins the show to discuss his proposal to permanently remove Utah from Daylight Savings Time.

6:05 pm: Draper City Mayor Troy Walker joins the show for a conversation about how his city has dealt with fire prevention in areas of wildland-urban interface.

6:38: pm: Charles Lipson, Professor of International Politics at the University of Chicago, joins the show to discuss his piece about how failed politicians and their policies led to the destruction caused by the fires in Los Angeles.

Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Friday, January 10, 2025

4:20 pm: Duane Patterson, Columnist for Hot Air and Producer of the Hugh Hewitt radio show joins Rod and Greg to discuss the painful lessons we’ve learned from the Los Angeles wildfires.

4:38 pm: Jonathan Lesser, President of Continental Economics and a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Energy Analytics, joins the program for a conversation about his piece for the City Journal on how the Los Angeles wildfires were an avoidable tragedy.

5:05 pm: Brett Tolman, former U.S. Attorney for Utah and Executive Director of Right on Crime joins the show to discuss today’s sentencing of Donald Trump and the politics behind it.

6:05 pm: Jared Downing, a reporter for the New York Post, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his piece about how years of corruption and mismanagement led to Los Angeles running out of water.

6:20 pm: Kenny Stein, Vice President of Policy at the Institute for Energy Research joins the program to discuss the latest on the debate over America’s electric vehicle policies as Donald Trump prepares to re-enter the White House.

6:38: pm: We’ll listen back to this week’s conversations with Representative Karianne Lisonbee on the package of proposed bills from Utah lawmakers that aim to improve public safety and address impacts of the southern border crisis on the state, and (at 6:50 pm) with Valerie Richardson of the Washington Times on how the use of DEI in the workplace is dangerous.

Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Thursday, January 9, 2025

4:20 pm: Paula Scanlan, Special Projects Ambassador at the Riley Gaines Center at the Leadership Institute joins the program for a conversation about a federal judge's decision to block Joe Biden's changes to Title IX from taking effect.

4:38 pm: Merilee Boyack, former City Councilwoman in Poway, California and now a Utah resident, joins the show to discuss her experience with wildfires in the San Diego area and what those who’ve been evacuated in Los Angeles might be experiencing.

5:05 pm: Senator John Curtis joins the show to give us his impressions following last night’s meeting with President-elect Donald Trump and other GOP Senators to discuss Trump’s legislative priorities.

6:05 pm: Taiga Rohrer, Deputy Fire Management Officer with the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands joins the show for a conversation about the proactive programs Utah uses to help prevent wildfires.

6:38: pm: Steve Moore, an Economist with FreedomWorks and a financial advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, joins Rod and Greg for their weekly conversation about politics and the nation’s economy.

4:05 pm: Chris Berry of iHeartRadio’s 24/7 News service joins the program to update us on the wildfire raging through the Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles County.

4:20 pm: Former Salt Lake City Police Officer and podcaster Eric Moutsos joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about Facebook’s new free speech policies and issues with the platform that he’s dealt with in the past.

6:05 pm: Christopher Roach, attorney and Adjunct Fellow at the Center for American Greatness joins the program to discuss his piece about how authorities prioritizing narrative over truth endangers the public.

6:38: pm: Ward Clark, a contributor to RedState, joins the show for a conversation about what the Republican Party should focus on moving forward.