Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown – Thursday, December 15, 2022

4:20 pm: Steve Moore, an Economist for FreedomWorks, joins Rod for their weekly conversation about politics and the nation’s economy

4:38 pm: Joy Pullman, Managing Editor for The Federalist, joins Rod for a conversation about her piece on how the Twitter files illustrate how intelligence agencies can rig politics

5:05 pm: Kurt Schlichter, attorney, veteran and political commentator, joins Rod to discuss his piece for Townhall in which he explains that in America we are free not to tolerate society’s weirdos

6:05 pm: Deroy Murdock, a contributor to the Daily Caller News Foundation joins Rod to discuss why he says Republicans should demolish the voting schemes of Democrats instead of mimicking them

6:20 pm: Reagan Reese, a contributor to the Daily Caller News Foundation joins Rod to discuss her recent piece about how the school choice movement is picking up steam across the country

6:38 pm: Sterling Poulson, Chief Meteorologist for KUTV News, joins Rod to preview the upcoming Christmas Carol sing-a-long event at Vivint Arena on Monday, December 19

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown – “Wingman Wednesday,” December 14, 2022

5:05 pm: Representative Mike Schultz joins Greg and Rod to discuss the results of the legislative audit of the 2022 election in Utah, what is being done well and where some problems still exist

6:05 pm: Amy Hawkins, Chair of the Ballpark Community Council, joins the program to discuss Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall’s order that several vacant homes in the neighborhood be demolished following a string of fires that that have made the properties uninhabitable

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown – Tuesday, December 13, 2022

4:20 pm: Preston Brashers, Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for the Federal Budget at the Heritage Foundation, joins Rod to discuss his piece for the Washington Examiner in which he outlines a poor 2023 economic outlook from the Congressional Budget Office

4:38 pm: Nick Stark, Director of the Tax and Fiscal Task Force for the American Legislative Exchange Council joins Rod to discuss a recent study about why so many companies are fleeing California

5:05 pm: Josh Hammer, Opinion Editor for Newsweek, joins Rod for a conversation about his recent piece for Townhall in which he ponders why the GOP elites hate their own voting base

6:05 pm: Senator Mike Lee joins the show for his weekly conversation with Rod about what’s happening in Washington, D.C., and today they’ll discuss the Congressional budget battle

6:20 pm: Steve Malanga, a Senior Editor for the City Journal at the Manhattan Institute joins the program to discuss his recent piece about how Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan is a giant waste of resources

6:38 pm: Dennis Leavitt, Director of United We Pledge, the group behind the creation of the Liberty Village in Hurricane, Utah, joins Rod to discuss the progress being made on that project

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown – Monday, December 12, 2022

4:20 pm: Scott Hogenson, President of Hogenson Communications and a contributor to Townhall joins the show to discuss his recent piece about the left’s backdoor attack on the Constitution

4:38 pm: Paul Gottfried, American Political Philosopher and an Associated Scholar at the Mises Institute joins Rod for a conversation about his piece in American Greatness on what moves the voters the GOP lost in the November election

6:05 pm: Ron Gibson, President of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation, joins the show to react to a recent op-ed calling for an end to alfalfa production in Utah as a way to save the Great Salt Lake

6:20 pm: Brian Riedl, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute joins Rod for a conversation about how many Democratic policies, like the Green New Deal, lack any plans to actually be implemented

6:38 pm: Tara Gill, Senior Director of Advocacy and State Legislation at Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety joins the show to discuss the group’s latest “Roadmap to Safety” report

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown – Friday, December 9, 2022 

4:38 pm: Rabbi Dov Fischer, a contributor to American Spectator, joins the show for a conversation about his recent piece about how the Republican Party should move on from Donald Trump 

5:05 pm: Allison Sorenson, Executive Director of Education Opportunity for Every Child joins Rod to discuss the organization’s push to enact a school choice program similar to Arizona’s in Utah 

6:05 pm: Radio host Glenn Beck joins Rod for a conversation about what’s happening in America today 

6:38 pm: We’ll listen back to Rod’s conversations this week with Chuck DeVore, Chief National Initiatives Officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, about what life in America would be like if the Constitution didn’t exist, and (at 6:50 pm) with Eric Ewert, Chair of the Department of Geography, Environment & Sustainability at Weber State University about how ending alfalfa farming could help save the Great Salt Lake

4:20 pm: Bruce Abramson, Director of the American Center for Education and Knowledge, joins Rod for a conversation about his piece in Real Clear Politics about the kind of election America needs in 2024

4:38 pm: Michelle Corigliano, Executive Director of the Salt Lake Area Restaurant Association joins the show to discuss how local restaurants are struggling more now than they did in the early days of the pandemic

6:05 pm: FreedomWorks economist Steve Moore joins Rod for their weekly conversation about politics and the nation’s economy

6:20 pm: Lee Goodman, an attorney at the American Legislative Exchange Council joins the program to discuss the Supreme Court taking up a state’s ability to determine the time, place and manner of federal elections

6:38 pm: Aaron Sibarium, Associate Editor at the Washington Free Beacon joins Rod for a discussion about the hijacking of American pediatric

Rod Arquette Show w/ Greg Hughes Daily Rundown – “Wingman Wednesday,” December 7, 2022

4:20 pm: Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform joins the show to discuss a bipartisan immigration deal being worked on by the U.S. Congress that would trade border enforcement for Dreamer legal status

5:05 pm: Former Salt Lake City Councilman Charlie Luke, now a political commentator, joins the program for a conversation about what to expect from a split Congress over the next two years

6:20 pm: Grover Norquist, Founder and President of Americans for Tax Reform, joins Rod and Greg to discuss how Democrats tried to include the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act in a military funding bill

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown – Tuesday, December 6, 2022

4:20 pm: Senator Mike Lee joins Rod for their weekly conversation about what’s happening in Washington, D.C., and today they’ll discuss Lee’s opposition to the omnibus spending bill and his counter proposal to that bill

4:38 pm: Hans von Spakovsky, a Legal Analyst at The Heritage Foundation, joins the show to discuss his piece for The American Spectator on why mail-in voting needs to end if we are to sustain public confidence in our elections

6:05 pm: Congressman Blake Moore joins Rod to discuss why he, Representative John Curtis, and others are supporting California Congressman Kevin McCarthy to be the next Speaker of the House

6:20 pm: Patrick de Haan, Senior Petroleum Analyst at GasBuddy.com joins the show to discuss the expectation that gas prices will begin to fall and the reasons behind that price reduction

6:38 pm: Pedro Gonzalez, Senior Fellow at the American Principles Project Foundation joins the program for a conversation about how the transgender lobby is a massive and well-funded movement

Rod Arquette Show Daily Rundown – Monday, December 5, 2022

4:20 pm: Chuck DeVore, Chief National Initiatives Officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation joins Rod for a conversation about what life in America would be like if the Constitution didn’t exist

4:38 pm: Bill Duncan of the Sutherland Institute’s Center for Family and Society joins the program to discuss a case in front of the Supreme Court involving a Colorado web designer who isn’t interested in working on websites that support gay marriage

6:05 pm: Eric C. Ewert, Chair of the Department of Geography, Environment & Sustainability at Weber State University joins the show to discuss how ceasing alfalfa farming is one way to make a real difference in saving the Great Salt Lake

6:20 pm: Lawrence W. Reed, President Emeritus of the Foundation for Economic Education on his recent piece about how socialism is actually anti-social

6:38 pm: Stella Morabito, Senior Contributor to The Federalist, joins Rod for a conversation about how the Respect for Marriage Act has reduced marriage to a meaningless institution