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.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Friday, August 7, 2026

Amanda Head, White House Correspondent for Just the News and host of the Furthermore podcast, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about her piece in which she writes the upcoming midterm elections are a contest of flaws.

Daniel Lipinski, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, joins the show to discuss his piece for the Wall Street Journal about how Democratic Socialism is more dangerous than the GOP’s Tea Party insurgency.

Gary Gygi of Gygi Capital Management joins the show for a conversation about the latest jobs numbers, which show the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, but is that the whole story?

Andrew Arthur, Resident Fellow in Law and Policy at the Center for Immigration Studies, joins the show to discuss the migrant surge in Ceuta and the related Supreme Court decision that everyone seems to have missed.

We’ll listen back to this week’s conversations with Kevin McCullough on his Townhall piece about the “woke” attitudes amongst coaches in the WNBA, and with Liana Graham of the Heritage Foundation about Gen Z’s marriage fears.

A new episode of CEO’s You Should Know with Cedro Toro of Avary Drone.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Thursday, August 6, 2026

Mateo Forero, Director of Investigations for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, joins the program to discuss their recent report about how anti-borders politicians and bureaucrats have “quietly turned the national commercial driver’s license program into a de-facto permission slip for foreign nationals”

Glenn Beaton, a columnist with Aspen Beat, joins the program for a conversation about his piece in which he says we should just give poor people more money by developing a negative tax rate.

Trent England, Founder of Save Our States, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about his piece in the National Review about how Democrats are now backing off the idea of ranked choice voting.

Economist Steve Moore, co-founder of Unleash Prosperity, joins the show for his weekly conversation with Rod and Greg about politics and the nation’s economy, and today they’ll discuss how three states with Democrat governors have not opted in to the federal school choice program.

The Rod and Greg Show Daily Rundown – Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Scott McKay, Publisher of The Hayride and a contributor to American Spectator, joins the show to discuss his piece about how giving power to socialists is a bad idea because the reality is worse than the ideology.

Dan Lennington, Managing Vice President and Deputy Counsel for the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, joins Rod and Greg for a conversation about his piece in The Federalist about how Madison, Wisconsin has become the poster child for what socialism in American would look like.

Author and political commentator Ian Haworth joins the show to discuss his piece about how Dr. Anthony Fauci is a symptom of weak-minded politicians in Washington, D.C.