The Rob Carson Show

-Rob welcomes British affairs expert Hilary Fordwich to remember the fear and uncertainty of 9/11, including her emotional firsthand account of watching smoke rise from the Pentagon and witnessing Americans unite amid the chaos. -Fordwich explains Prince Harry’s potential U.S. visa troubles and argues that Harry and Meghan Markle’s struggles in Hollywood, along with the stability of the Royal Fami...

-Newsmax hotline guest Michael A. Charbon joins Rob for a wonderfully combustible U.S.-Canada summit involving Mark Carney, Trump, tariffs, China, Canadian booze, bourbon, beavers, moose and the possibility that international diplomacy could use a testosterone injection. -Rob and Charbon tackle a reported CBC memo advising journalists against calling the 9/11 attacks “terrorist” attacks, spar...

-Rob reluctantly puts Jelly Roll in the penalty box after the singer joins Rosie O’Donnell in mocking President Trump, leaving Rob disappointed that an artist whose music helped him through difficult times decides to take the late-night political-comedy route.  -GOP strategist Catalina Lauf joins Rob to tackle the WNBA’s culture wars, Democratic Socialists, Florida politics and...

-Rob gives socialism a brutally unfavorable Yelp review, touring its history from the Soviet Union and Venezuela to Sweden, which he notes dramatically rolled back government control, taxes and benefits after its own socialist experiment ran into trouble.  -NEWSMAX HOTLINE — Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer of Project Sentinel joins Rob to mark five years since the disastrous Afghanistan withd...

-Rob remembers Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, celebrating Dolly’s extraordinary cross-generational impact while recalling Curry’s unforgettable turn as the original nightmare-fueling Pennywise. -Rob dives headfirst into mail-in voting and election integrity, arguing that Democrats depend heavily on voting by mail while celebrating a Supreme Court ruling involving the Trump administration’s...

-Rob opens on a somber note with a heartfelt tribute to Dolly Parton following news of her death at 80 - celebrating “Jolene,” “9 to 5,” “I Will Always Love You,” her acting career, legendary sense of humor and ability to become a cultural icon without ever losing her joy.  -Newsmax hotline guest Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt (Ret.) joins Rob - appearing on camera while delivering a blockbuster...

-Rob celebrates an ICE enforcement surge in Virginia and Maryland that nets more than 1,300 illegal immigrants - including alleged gang members and violent offenders - while repeatedly enjoying his newly reclaimed ability to say “illegal aliens” on the radio. -The Supreme Court hands President Trump a victory on his mail-in ballot executive order - sending Rob into a deep dive on voter eligibility...

- Rob celebrates what he sees as a growing list of Trump-era wins - from falling crime and a secured border to Washington’s wildly successful America 250 Grand Prix, which gets positive coverage from CNN and nearly causes Rob to check whether his television is malfunctioning. -Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy joins Rob to discuss Newsmax’s growth, Trump’s record, Iran, the economy and the rise of the...

-Newsmax Hotline guest Gordon G. Chang joins Rob for an extended tour of the China threat, warning about rising tensions over Taiwan, Chinese banks facilitating Iranian transactions, alleged Chinese Communist Party connections to Neville Roy Singham, anti-data-center activism, China’s economic pressure on American manufacturing and Chinese-linked programs in U.S. schools. Chang says Xi Jinpin...

-Rob digs into allegations of foreign money influencing American political organizations, highlighting Rep. Anna Paulina Luna’s discussion of an investigation involving Neville Roy Singham and organizations associated with the Democratic Socialists of America. Rob’s assessment: if your grassroots movement requires hundreds of millions of dollars, those are some extremely expensive blades of g...

-Rob recounts his trip to Washington’s Freedom 250, where he arrives without a ticket, gets recognized by listeners, watches the race from the Museum of Modern Art and somehow ends up cramming five people onto a rickshaw blasting AC/DC — proving you don’t need a grandstand seat when you have ingenuity and ten bucks. -Rob examines the intensifying economic squeeze on Iran, marveling at th...

Hollywood in Toto’s Christian Toto joins Rob to review Rosie O’Donnell’s Jimmy Kimmel fill-in, discuss Coyote vs. Acme finally escaping Warner Bros.’ vault, check in on the latest horror movies and argue that Hollywood might finally be rediscovering the revolutionary concept of entertaining audiences before lecturing them. Today’s podcast is sponsored by : PARAMOUNT PLUS -...

-Hilary Fordwich joins Rob in studio and gives the British perspective on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s potential return to the U.K., dubbing him “Hypocritical Harry” and questioning whether family devotion—or taxes, acting opportunities and cold financial calculation—is really driving the royal homecoming. -Mike Rogers reaches across the aisle to Michigan Democrats who feel abandoned by t...

-Rob gets revved up for Washington’s Freedom 250, where IndyCars prepare to blast down Pennsylvania Avenue at nearly 190 mph and organizers weld down 229 manhole covers so the race doesn’t accidentally turn D.C. infrastructure into flying saucers. -On the Newsmax hotline, Daily Signal investigative columnist Tony Kinnett joins Rob for a gloriously unhinged Friday tour through IndyCa...

-Rob celebrates the decline of woke comedy while proving that comedians and radio hosts still possess humanity's most dangerous weapon: the ability to offend people who weren't even being talked about. -Comedian Allie Breen joins the Newsmax Hotline to discuss stand-up comedy, cancel culture, free speech, political correctness, touring life, and why the loudest offended people are rarely the actua...

-A South Carolina Senate candidate admits she gets stumped on Taiwan, then returns to explain herself—and Rob gives her credit for simply saying she doesn’t know everything, which he contrasts with AOC before Sen. John Kennedy supplies the punch line by comparing the congresswoman to Kamala Harris “with more bartending experience.” -Fred Fleitz of the America First Policy Institute joins Rob...

-Rob surveys the Democratic socialist surge and argues that Florida’s political landscape turns Angie Nixon’s primary victory into less of a revolution and more of a Republican campaign commercial—with Democrats themselves keeping their distance from the DSA brand. -Michael Charbon of the Charbon Report joins after a spectacular bout of technical difficulties to celebrate easing U.S.-Canada t...

-Michigan becomes Exhibit A in Rob’s case that moderate Democrats are fleeing the socialist wing, as he highlights Democrats publicly backing Republican Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed. “Vote blue no matter who” suddenly develops some fairly important fine print. -Rob dives into polling—both allegedly biased and outright fabricated—as a fake polling operation involving races in multiple states bec...

-Alpha News journalist Liz Collin joins Rob to unpack Derek Chauvin attorney Greg Joseph’s new challenge to his conviction, centered on the argument that the charges required a grand-jury indictment. She also dives into Minnesota fraud, immigration enforcement, election rules and rising property taxes. -Rob reviews South Carolina Senate candidate Darlene Graham’s debate performance, where a questi...

-Byron Donalds celebrates his Florida victory and immediately turns his attention to David Jolly, while Rob dusts off an old Chris Cuomo COVID exchange to argue that Donalds has been right to resist vaccine-era political pressure. -“Top Fuel Bill” William Williamson joins Rob to promote a major Washington, D.C., gathering for the 25th anniversary of 9/11. What starts with motorcycles quickly becom...

-Rob updates listeners on his prostate cancer diagnosis and says he is weighing several treatment options while leaning heavily on faith, optimism, and his audience—because apparently even a professional talker occasionally needs somebody else to do the pep talk. -Sen. Ron Johnson’s comments launch Rob into a full-throttle COVID retrospective, as he attacks Anthony Fauci, vaccine safety oversight,...

-The DSA gets the Carson flamethrower as Rob argues its anti-Constitution and socialist agenda is headed for a collision with his favorite coalition of “homeboys, hillbillies and Hebrews.” His prediction for the revolution: less Les Misérables, more electoral spanking. -Newsmax hotline guest: Former DHS senior adviser and Newsmax contributor Charles Marino joins Rob to discuss...

-Rob opens with political fireworks, arguing the Democratic Socialists of America are less electorally dominant than the hype suggests while unloading on universities, student debt, and what he sees as a generation sold expensive degrees with lousy returns.  -The show takes a deeply personal turn when Rob reveals he has been diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer, discusses the fear and is...

(Previously recorded) -Anthony Fauci lands squarely in Rob’s crosshairs as the show examines - released communications about COVID vaccination during pregnancy. Rob argues officials concealed safety concerns and blasts the media and pharmaceutical industry for the way vaccine coverage is handled.  -Student debt meets socialism, and Rob sees a very expensive cautionary tale. After he...

(previously recorded show) -Rob declares the gloves officially off as he unloads on the Democratic Socialists of America, candidates he views as embracing radical politics, and rhetoric surrounding the upcoming 25th anniversary of 9/11—while rallying his newly christened coalition of “Homeboys, Hillbillies and Hebrews.”  -The DSA provides enough material to keep the outrage meter pinned....