Chad Hartman

Representative Harry Niska joins Chad with the reaction from him and fellow Republicans to Governor Walz and the DFL announcing their proposal for a special session on gun violence and school safety. Later, we get into Vikings talk and much more with Matthew Coller of Purple Insider.

Purple Insider founder Matthew Coller is excellent today with Chad on his love of Mall of America, passion for Weird Al Yankovic, how much trouble the Vikings are in right now and what Napheesa Collier accomplished yesterday by crushing WNBA leadership to the media.

Republican Majority Leader Harry Niska joins Chad to talk about Governor Walz and the DFL announcing their proposal for a special session on gun control and school safety and his disappointment with so much of it.

How do we slow down speeding drivers around the state? Chad opens the show with a discussion about speeding data from the summer before our regular Wednesday fun with Rena Sarigianopoulos of KARE-11.

We had some great fun with Rena Sarigianopoulos and some serious talk too during her weekly visit discussing her days back hosting The Morning News, the truth about recycling and the number of people who plan their own funerals.

Chad opens the show sharing new data about the amount of speeding tickets issued in Minnesota over the past few months. How do you think the state should go about bringing down speeds on our roads? What's the fastest speed you've reached in a car?

Bill Guerin joins to bask in the glow of signing Kirill Kaprizov to an 8-year contract to stay with the Wild and Jamie Yuccas makes her regular weekly visit to the show from Los Angeles.

We touched on a bunch of topics today with Jamie Yuccas including the news that Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman have split up, Jamie's very well trained dog, and reasons why she's headed back to school!

Wild hockey boss Bill Guerin joins Chad for a great segment on getting the new contract done with Kirill Kaprizov and what the future looks like for the Wild with those negotiations complete.

It's a very busy hour full of politics and military talk as Chad speaks with former congressman Tim Penny on a pending government shutdown, KSTP-TV political reporter Tom Hauser on a proposal from the DFL for a special session and Colonel David Hunt on today's meeting in Quantico, Virginia with our nation's top military leaders.