The Rod & Greg Show

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Friday, August 21, 2026

4:20 pm: Draper City Mayor Troy Walker joins Rod and Greg to discuss the controversial Flock Safety cameras, which he says are constitutional and help with law enforcement.

4:38 pm: David Fotouhi, Deputy Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his trip to Salt Lake City today, the importance of the state’s critical minerals, and what the EPA can do to help save the Great Salt Lake.

6:05 pm: Ira Stoll, journalist and contributor to the Washington Free Beacon, joins the program to discuss his piece about the results of a new study that shows higher minimum wages hurt low-income workers via reduced hours and lower overall income.

6:20 pm: We’ll listen back to Rod and Greg’s conversations this week with Brandon Arnold of the National Taxpayers Union who says data centers can strengthen tax bases and generate significant economic activity for communities, and (at 6:38 pm) with Zach Smith of the Heritage Foundation on new FBI data that shows a significant drop in violent crime in the U.S.

6:50 pm: Today’s CEO You Should Know features personal injury attorney Matt Storey.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Thursday, August 20, 2026

4:20 pm: Economist Steve Moore, co-founder of Unleash Prosperity, joins the show for our weekly conversation about politics and the nation’s economy, and today they’ll discuss the ridiculousness of Democratic Socialists economic policies, as well as California’s crazy new car tire regulations.

4:38 pm: Taylor Herzlich, Business Reporter for the New York Post, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation on her piece on why Gen Z males are dropping like flies from America’s job market.

6:05 pm: Peter Gietl, Editor-in-Chief of Frontier Magazine and an Editor for The Blaze, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his piece in which he calls the self-checkout stands at grocery stores un-American.

6:38 pm: Josh Findlay, National Election Protection Director at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, joins the show for a conversation about his piece for The Blaze on how Kamala Harris may have made the best argument yet FOR the SAVE Act.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Wednesday, August 19, 2026

4:20 pm: Tyler Clancy, Utah’s Homeless Coordinator, joins Rod and Greg to respond to a recent video in which comedian Shane Gillis took shots at Salt Lake City over its homelessness problems on the Joe Rogan podcast.

4:38 pm: Brandon Arnold, Executive Vice President of the National Taxpayers Union, joins Rod and Greg to discuss why he says data centers are not the devil, and can in fact strengthen tax bases and generate significant economic activity for communities.

6:05 pm: Sam Rhodes, a member of the Mass Deportation Coalition, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his op-ed in The Blaze on how conservative voters will remember that the GOP representatives it helped elect did not live up to the promise of mass deportation and are now considering amnesty measures.

6:38 pm: Zack Smith, Senior Legal Fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Legal Policy Center, joins the show to discuss new FBI data that shows violent crime fell nearly 10%, while murder rates dropped over 18%, the largest one-year decline in almost a century.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Fox News columnist Liz Peek joins the program for a conversation about Hasan Piker, the new favorite influencer for the radical Left who Democrats hope will win back the young male vote.

Ilana Blumsack, Economic Policy Analyst for Americans for Prosperity, joins Rod and Greg to discuss July’s sharp drop in homebuilding and home-buying, as well as the housing policies of the Democrat Socialists.

Susan Shelley, columnist for the Southern California News Group, joins the show to discuss her piece for the Orange County Register about how the failures of Obamacare show weaknesses of socialism.

Corinne Johnson, Executive Director of the Child First Policy Center, joins the program to discuss how parents can use Utah law to option their kids out of using AI at school.

4:20 pm: Howard Husock, Senior Fellow in Domestic Policies for the American Enterprise Institute, joins Greg for a conversation about his Wall Street Journal piece on how the reduction of school districts, and schools, in the U.S. made for worse outcomes for our children.

4:38 pm: Henry Olsen, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, joins the program for a conversation about why he says in the Washington Post that now may be the best shot at the White House for Alexandira Ocasio-Cortez.

6:05 pm: James Carafano, V.P. of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation, joins Greg to discuss why he writes in 1945 that President Trump has already won the Iran War.

6:38 pm: Spencer Klavan, Director of Publications for the Claremont Institute, joins the show to discuss his piece for American Mind on why Woke 2.0 will be worse than the first.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Friday, August 14, 2026

James Johnson, Co-Founder of J.L. Partners, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his piece in Spectator about what the Democrats’ voting base is all about.

Tim Graham, Executive Director of Newsbusters at the Media Research Center, joins the program for a conversation about how the media is “whitewashing” socialist candidates by calling them progressives while other Democrats are labeled “moderates.”

Joseph MacKinnon, a staff writer with The Blaze, joins the program to discuss the story of a female-only nude spa in Washington that has come under fire for refusing access to trans-identifying anatomically intact males in a case that may now go before the Supreme Court.

We’ll listen back to this week’s interview with John Daniel Davidson of The Federalist about how the problem with Democratic Socialists of America isn’t socialism, it’s the fact that decades of immigration from Muslim-majority third-world countries have turned the Democrats into militant anti-Americans.

We’ll air an encore of this week’s interview with Breccan Thies of The Federalist about his piece on how Colorado is using tax dollars to groom kids into believing they are “transgender” without parental consent via the state’s “I Matter” program.

6:50 pm: We’ll have another edition of CEOs You Should Know with Dave Durocher of The Other Side Academy.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Susan Crabtree, National Correspondent for Real Clear News, joins the show to discuss the results, and controversy surrounding last night’s primary elections in Wisconsin, South Carolina and Minnesota.

John Daniel Davidson, Senior Correspondent for The Federalist, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his piece about how the problem with Democratic Socialists of America isn’t socialism, it’s the fact that decades of immigration from Muslim-majority third-world countries have turned the Democrats into militant anti-Americans.

Anna Giaritelli, Immigration Reporter for the Washington Examiner, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about why airlines are upset about the uptick in illegal immigrant arrests by ICE at the nation’s airports.

Breccan Thies, White House Correspondent for The Federalist, joins the program for a conversation about his piece on how Colorado is using tax dollars to groom kids into believing they are “transgender” without parental consent via the state’s “I Matter” program.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Matt Whitlock, host of 10 Minute Drill on YouTube, joins the program for a conversation about his recent X post claiming that national Democrats are pressuring Democrat Senate candidates to drop out of races to clear the way for hand-picked candidates to run as independents.

Kenin Spivak, author and contributor to Real Clear Politics, joins the program for a conversation about his piece on how transgender people and activists will not achieve acceptance if they continue to rely on bullying and lies to get attention.

Dr. Brian Joondeph, ophthalmologist, writer and contributor to American Thinker, joins the program for a conversation about his piece on how biology, not gender identity, defines women’s sports.

ustin Haskins, President and Senior Fellow for Our Republic, joins the show to discuss his piece in USA Today about the NBA’s Portland Trailblazers $573 million battle over arena renovations with the city of Portland, Oregon, and why the city’s business and political climate may be to blame.