#TRRS 05-22-26 When the Rules Get in the Way

TRRS 06-17-26 The Iran MOU: The Deal They Said Wasn’t the Deal

Wednesday’s show changed course as new details emerged about the Trump administration’s agreement with Iran. Rick examines the widening gap between the administration’s original red lines and the terms taking shape in the MOU—from Iran’s ballistic missile program and nuclear infrastructure to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. He also explains why some form of agreement had become economically unavoidable, even as the White House denied leaked provisions that increasingly resembled the final framework. Was this the hard-won peace Trump promised, a necessary retreat from a dangerous economic ledge, or a deal that preserved Iran’s power while postponing the hardest questions? This episode follows the story as it was breaking—and asks whether the administration ended the crisis or merely changed what it was willing to accept.

06-10-26 The Voters Are Starting to Notice

On this episode of The Rick Robinson Show, Rick argues that voters are starting to notice the gap between political slogans and real-world consequences. The show opens with Trump’s newly signed border enforcement funding package, the Senate fight over FISA, and the tension between giving elected leaders the tools voters asked for while refusing to hand the surveillance state a blank check. Rick then connects the Middle East crisis to kitchen-table economics, breaking down the U.S. Apache incident near the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s pressure strategy, Israeli-Hezbollah tensions, and how energy instability drives inflation back home. The second half turns to California, where San Francisco voters rejected a costly business tax measure, and Los Angeles’ slow-count mayoral race raised new election-confidence concerns around mail ballots, Skid Row registration payments, service-address voting, and alleged paid-vote claims. Rick closes by tying it all back to Oklahoma’s upcoming primary, warning that voters deserve more than slogans on taxes, schools, energy, insurance, state power, and public safety.

06-05-26 The Finally Friday Edition -- The Fine Print Is the Story

On this Finally Friday edition of The Rick Robinson Show, Rick argues that the fine print is where the real story lives. The show starts with the failed push to attach the SAVE America Act to the GOP’s immigration enforcement package, then moves into the May jobs report, which beat expectations with 172,000 jobs added, unemployment holding at 4.3%, and upward revisions to March and April. Rick digs past the headline numbers to talk about where the jobs are coming from, why private-sector growth matters, how long-term unemployment and household pressure can get hidden behind good topline data, and why the economy is stronger than the media narrative but still complicated for real families. The show also covers the growing SPLC allegations, Chinese robotics and national security concerns, Marco Rubio and Scott Bessent hearings turning into clip-factory politics, Graham Platner’s campaign-vetting problems, the disturbing bioethics debate around alpha-gal meat allergies, a real nuclear-energy breakthrough from Antares, and Amazon’s reported failure to move forward with a Stargate revival. Through it all, Rick keeps returning to the theme: the headline may get attention, but the fine print tells the truth.

06-15-26 Primary Eve: Oklahoma Votes, Washington Spins - Do Ballot Faries Like Cookies?

On this episode of The Rick Robinson Show, Rick breaks down Oklahoma's primary eve chaos, from early voting totals and ballot access to the GOP governor race, attack ads, and the confusing Trump endorsement of Mike Mazzei. The show digs into the major candidate lanes for Gentner Drummond, Mazzei, Charles McCall, Chip Keating, and Jake Merrick, including the Inola aluminum smelter controversy and foreign-ownership concerns. Rick also covers Oklahoma's state revenue numbers, the U.S. Senate primaries, Democratic governor candidates, judicial races, and SQ 832, the minimum-wage ballot question. Nationally, the show ties in Trump's reported Iran/Hormuz deal, the G7 summit, America 250, UFC at the White House, Hakeem Jeffries leaving impeachment on the table, and a late quick hit on financial questions around the Obama Presidential Center.

TRRS 06-03-26 The Kids Are Not Alright -- The Embrace of Socialism and The Death Of the American Dream

Do young Americans really prefer communism over capitalism — or have they been taught the complaints without ever learning the cost? Today on The Rick Robinson Show, we dig into the polling, the education pipeline, activist networks, soft-on-crime city policy, and last night’s election results to ask how socialism became normal-sounding to a generation buried under rent, debt, inflation, and broken institutions. This is not a simple ‘kids these days’ rant. It is a look at how worldview, economics, academia, NGOs, big-city politics, and weak consequences all collide — and why the Right has to do more than yell ‘Marxist’ if it wants to win the next generation.