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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Friday, December 19, 2025 4:20 pm: Justin Keener, President of Americans for Public Safety, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his piece for Real Clear Policy on how better bail practices in the U.S. would make the country safer. 4:38 pm: Former Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz, a contributor to Fox News, joins the program…
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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Thursday, December 18, 2025 4:20 pm: Goud Maragani, a former GOP candidate for Salt Lake County Clerk, is leading a group that has filed a petition for a referendum to stop a 14.65% property tax hike in the county, and he joins the show to discuss the effort. 4:38 pm: Utah Congressman Mike Kennedy, a physician by tra…
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4:20 pm: Former FBI operative and cybersecurity expert Eric O’Neill joins the show for a conversation about how investigators are going about identifying and tracking down the person responsible for the shooting at Brown University. 4:38 pm: Kelsey Piper, Contributor to The Argument Magazine, joins Rod and Greg to discuss how the economic growth of…
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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Tuesday, December 16, 2025 4:20 pm: Gary Gygi of Gygi Capital Management joins the show for a conversation about the latest jobs report, which shows a rebound of 64,000 jobs added in November following the loss of 105,000 jobs in October. 4:38 pm: Senator Mike Lee joins Rod and Greg for their weekly conversation abou…
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4:38 pm: Clark Aposhian of the Utah Shooting Sports Council and Graham Park, President of Shooters Union Australia, join the show to discuss the tragic shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia over the weekend, as well as Australia’s restrictive gun laws. 6:05 pm: Ammon Blair, Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, joins the show for a co…
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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Thursday, December 11, 2025 4:20 pm: Beth Brelje, Elections Correspondent for the Federalist, joins the show to discuss how American taxpayers are helping pay for Somalian immigrants not to assimilate into American culture. 4:38 pm: Economist Steve Moore, co-founder of Unleash Prosperity, joins Rod and Greg for his w…
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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Friday, December 5, 2025 4:20 pm: Congressman Blake Moore joins the show to discuss his role in helping President Trump create a program that would create $1,000 savings accounts for all U.S. children that will accrue interest into their adult years. 4:38 pm: Grover Norquist, Founder and President of Americans for Ta…
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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Thursday, December 4, 2025 4:20 pm: Frank Miele, a columnist for Real Clear Politics, joins the program for a conversation about why people shouldn’t be blindly loyal to President Trump. 4:38 pm: Jessika Harkay, Staff Reporter at The 74, joins the program for a conversation about a study showing parents rarely read t…
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4:20 pm: Dean Clancy, Senior Health Policy Fellow at Americans for Prosperity, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his piece in the Washington Examiner about how President Trump has put Democrats on the spot with his new Health Savings Account plan. 4:38 pm: Chris Jacobs, Founder and CEO of the Juniper Research Group and a contributor to The Federalist, …
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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Tuesday, December 2, 2025 4:20 pm: Sean Stevens, Chief Research Advisor for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), joins the program to discuss the results of a new survey of college students, including students at Utah Valley University, about how the assassination of Charlie Kirk is shaping stu…
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4:20 pm: David Manney, contributor to PJ Media, joins the show to discuss his piece about new information from the House Oversight Committee revealing that Joe Biden wasn’t calling the shots in the White House. 4:38 pm: Rosalind Hanson, Parental Rights and Education Advocate and Chair of the Montgomery County, Maryland chapter of Moms for Liberty, …
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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Friday, November 21, 2025 4:20 pm: Richard Lyons, author and contributor to American Greatness, joins the show for a conversation about how government failures have led to an “unaffordable” America. 4:38 pm: Jamie Wilson, Executive Director of Conservatarian Press, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about her piec…
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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Thursday, November 20, 2025 4:38 pm: S.A. McCarthy, a writer for the Washington Stand and the Family Research Council, joins Rod and Greg to discuss how the U.S. Department of Agriculture will require people to reapply for SNAP benefits as it tries to curb fraud within the program. 5:05 pm: Economist Steve Moore of U…
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4:20 pm: Alfonso Aguilar, Senior Director of Government Affairs for Defending Education, joins Rod and Greg to discuss the recent reorganization of the U.S. Department of Education. 4:38 pm: Tyler O’Neil, Managing Editor for The Daily Signal, joins the program for a conversation about how a new report from Health and Human Services about transgende…
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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Tuesday, November 18, 2025 4:20 pm: Larry Behrens, Director of Communications for Power the Future, joins the program to discuss his piece for Townhall on how the Democrats, no longer in power, are suddenly concerned about “affordability.” 4:38 pm: Steve Milloy, Senior Fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Insti…
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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Friday, November 14, 2025 4:20 pm: Mark Tapscott, Senior Congressional Analyst for the Washington Stand, joins the show to discuss his piece about how Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s actions during the shutdown could spell the end of Obamacare. 4:38 pm: Michael Capuano, Director of Research for the Federation for Ame…
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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Thursday, November 13, 2025 4:20 pm: J.D. Tuccille, Contributing Editor to Reason.com, joins the program to discuss his piece about how California’s $20 per hour minimum wage killed approximately 18,000 jobs in the state. 4:38 pm: Guy Ciarrocchi, fellow at the Commonwealth Foundation and a contributor to Broad and Li…
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4:20 pm: Jason Perry, Director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics, joins the program to discuss the congressional district map put in place by Judge Dianna Gibson and why it is a departure from past districts used by the state. 5:05 pm: Salt Lake County GOP Chairman Mike Carey joins Rod and Greg to discuss the specifics of the new congressional …
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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Tuesday, November 11, 2025 4:05 pm: Utah Speaker of the House Mike Schultz joins Rod and Greg to discuss how lawmakers plan to respond to last night’s decision by Judge Dianna Gibson to throw out the legislature’s proposed congressional map in favor of one drawn by the plaintiffs in the case which could guarantee a D…
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4:38 pm: Steve Milloy, Senior Fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute, joins the program to discuss his piece about why Ford’s electric F150 pickup truck was a commercial failure. 6:05 pm: Dr. John Eastman, a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, joins Rod and Greg to discuss his piece for The American Mind on the constitutional im…
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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: Christophe…
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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 F…
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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 N…
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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…
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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 C…
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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…
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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 Economi…
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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…
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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, Presiden…
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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 Republican…
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4:20 pm: Adam Guillette, President of Accuracy in Media, joins the show to discuss the group’s most recent hidden video that seems to show a University of Utah employee admitting to skirting the state’s anti-DEI laws. 5:05 pm: Bryan Ganz, CEO of Byrna Technologies, joins Greg for a conversation about how small companies can help their consumers avo…
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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Tuesday, October 21, 2025 4:20 pm: Christian Toto, Editor of HollywoodinToto.com, joins the show to discuss The View’s Joy Behar’s fake comments that conservatives won’t appear on their program out of fear. 4:38 pm: Victor Joecks, a columnist with the Las Vegas Review Journal and a contributor to The Daily Signal, jo…
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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Monday, October 20, 2025 4:20 pm: David Deavel, an instructor at the University of St. Thomas and a contributor to Association of Mature American Citizens, joins the show to discuss his piece about the hypocrisy of the Democrats’ No Kings movement. 4:38 pm: Kamron Dalton, Managing Director of Operations for the Gover…
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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Tuesday, October 14, 2025 4:20 pm: Kara Byrne, Senior Health and Human Services Analyst at the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute at the University of Utah, joins the show to discuss ways Utah can help prevent veteran suicides. 4:38 pm: Conn Carroll, Commentary Editor for the Washington Examiner, joins the show to discu…
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4:20 pm: Debra Saunders, Washington Columnist for the Las Vegas Review Journal, joins the show to discuss her piece on who the race for Virginia Attorney General is showing proof of the “Charlie Kirk Effect.” 4:38 pm: Glenn Beaton, a columnist with the Aspen Beat, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about his latest piece about how California, an…
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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Friday, October 10, 2025 4:20 pm: Bill Duncan, Director of the Sutherland Institute’s Center for Family and Society, joins the show for a conversation about what rising political violence reveals about freedom and faith. 4:38 pm: Amos Guiora, Law Professor at the University of Utah and part-time resident of Israel, j…
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The Rod and Greg Show Rundown – Thursday, October 9, 2025 4:20 pm: Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, joins the program to discuss his piece for the Washington Times on how the Democrats’ push to continue the government shutdown exposes Obamacare as a fraud. 4:38 pm: Karol Markowicz, Opinion Contributor for …
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4:38 pm: Susie Moore, Deputy Managing Editor for RedState, joins the program to discuss her recent piece about deconstructing the narrative of the resistance judiciary. 6:05 pm: Utah Congressman Burgess Owens joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about the latest on the government shutdown. 6:38 pm: Jason Richwine, Resident Scholar at the Center fo…
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4:20 pm: Senator John Curtis joins the show to discuss the government shutdown and the Senate holdups in passing a government funding bill. 4:38 pm: Matt Margolis, author and columnist at PJ Media, joins the show for a conversation about President Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce. 6:05 pm: Michael Thielen, President and Executive Director of t…
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