The Matt McNeil Show
Monday-Friday 3PM-5PM
Matt McNeil is a proud Minnesotan, on live weekdays from 3pm to 5pm. Matt has been living most of his life in the state of his birth. He's a husband, a father of three, a veteran, and a broadcaster. He's worked in radio for over 25 years, starting with Armed Forces Radio in Nuremberg, Germany. He currently lives in Hopkins.
On his show Matt talks politics from a Democrat/Progressive perspective, but he'll also venture into parenting, religion, entertainment, sports, gardening, business, cooking, and many other subjects. He interviews politicians, political insiders, authors, pundits, entertainers, and artists, and loves talking to the listeners.
Besides being on air, you can read his thoughts at the 'Progressive Citizen X' blog.
Matt McNeil is a proud Minnesotan, on live weekdays from 3pm to 5pm. Matt has been living most of his life in the state of his birth. He's a husband, a father of three, a veteran, and a broadcaster. He's worked in radio for over 25 years, starting with Armed Forces Radio in Nuremberg, Germany. He currently lives in Hopkins. On his show Matt talks politics from a Democrat/Progressive perspective, but he'll also venture into parenting, religion, entertainment, sports, gardening, business, cooking, and many other subjects. He interviews politicians, political insiders, authors, pundits, entertainers, and artists, and loves talking to the listeners. Besides being on air, you can read his thoughts at the 'Progressive Citizen X' blog.
Hour 1: – Jack Rice fills in for Matt today and walks us through the history of the British Empire and Soviet Union occupying and then attempting to leave Afghanistan, with similar results of what we’re seeing now with the US trying to withdraw from Afghanistan. – How the British and Soviet approaches differed in…
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Jack Rice is joined by Minneapolis attorney Jerry Blackwell, who was named Minnesota attorney of the year in 2020. He was one of the prosecuting attorneys during the Derek Chauvin trial. We’ll talk about his experience on that case. But mainly we discuss Blackwell’s efforts to successfully posthumously pardon an African American man, Max Mason,…
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Brett Johnson guest hosts today’s show. Matt McNeil joins us “on assignment” live from the “re-installation” of Donald Trump to the Presidency; the future of Mike Lindell in the GOP; how the DFL should seize on the Caledonia baseball equipment factory closure and turn it into a push for rural jobs; counterpoint: Brett says getting…
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Matt calls in on assignment as Trump is gloriously reinstated as Mike Lindell had predicted…did everything go according to plan? We find out.
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Hour 1 segment 1: Todd Mikkelson fills in for Matt today. We start the show with Rep. Kelly Morrison (DFL-33B). They discuss the past year’s legislative session, how most legislative members have other jobs since serving is technically a part time job, GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen turning towards anti-vax mentality and more. Hour 1…
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We start the show with Rep. Kelly Morrison (DFL-33B). They discuss the past year’s legislative session, how most legislative members have other jobs since serving is technically a part time job, GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen turning towards anti-vax mentality and more.
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Todd Mikkelson guest hosts today. The ridiculous nature of the Trump tax breaks; “Casey Kasem’s Top 40 Stupidest GOP Maneuvers of the Week” as the bigger infrastructure bill takes a step forward in Congress; Florida Governor Ron “DeathSantis”; Josh Hawley; Ted Cruz; going back to Richard Nixon’s treason accusations; Dominion Voting Machines’ lawsuit against right-wing…
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Todd Mikkelson guest hosts today. DFL Chair Ken Martin joins Todd for a conversation about new bipartisan legislation being passed at all levels; Todd discusses the much needed improvements that will result to our infrastructure; leaked polling showing Democratic House members are already falling behind in polling, and strategizing to overturn this; why it makes…
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Hour 1 segment 1: Todd Mikkelson fills in for Matt McNeil today. We start the show talking about some dire warnings from the UN about climate change. Also some unexpected good economic news. And how Republicans are using the term “woke” as their new insult to Democrats. Hour 1 segment 2: News on more testimony…
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