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.
The first hour is focused on Saturday night’s events in Pennsylvania, including: CNN drops the ball on breaking the Trump shooting, failures of security, and more. In the second hour, storms blew through the metro over the weekend causing widespread long-term power outages; how to respond to the Trump shooting; GOP changes course in their…
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Matt calls out the Huffington Post and NYT; Biden’s press conference; author Dr. Anton Treuer joins the show; Rob Levine also visits the show to discuss his mining aricle in the Duluth Reader; why those who want Biden replaced have not thought things through; guns and cops.
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Rob Levine is a Duluth native and former staff photographer at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. He now works as a freelance photographer, writer, editor and web developer.
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Anton Treuer (pronounced troy-er) is Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University and author of many books. His equity, education, and cultural work has put him on a path of service around the nation and the world. https://antontreuer.com https://antontreuer.com/resources
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Shelley Duvall passes away; why Joe Biden should stay in the race; monthly inflation rate decreases; longtime local columnist Ruben Rosario dies; MDH investigating parasitic illness; Mile Lindell faces another eviction; Minnesota again ranks highly on best states to do business; controversy over facial recognition proposals at Mall of America; North Branch police shooting update.
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On today’s show: – How fatalist Democrats are not helping the party (or the country). – How Project 2025 will economically hurt unions and labor. – Why Trump’s tariffs are a really bad idea. – Jeff Stein returns! – Strip club news from Minneapolis! – Don’t leave your car while it’s still running. – The…
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Jeff Stein returns after a hiatus of a few weeks!. Matt and Jeff talk about the push by some Democrats to remove Joe Biden as their nominee, Project 2025, Trump and Jeffrey Epstein and more.
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Trump in the Epstein files; the trouble with replacing Biden; Project 2025; Dr. Joe Eastman joins Matt; new State Fair foods; Patrick Coolican joins Brett; State Trooper charged in crash death of Owatonna teen; lawsuit in Amir Locke shooting proceeds; death of a Vikings rookie over the weekend.
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Patrick Coolican is the Editor-in-Chief at the Minnesota Reformer and joins Brett every Tuesday at 4:15 to discuss the latest local and national stories.
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Dr. Joe Eastman is an expert disease analyst and modeler who makes frequent appearances on the Matt McNeil Show to discuss COVID and other disease spreads.
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