The Matt McNeil Show

Guest host Brett Johnson is joined by Courtney Hagle, Max Richtman, Patrick Coolican, and Aaron Brown in today’s interview-centered special.

Aaron J. Brown is a writer, radio producer and college instructor living and working by choice among the pine forests, tamarack swamps and hardscrabble mining towns near where he grew up on a family owned salvage yard in the Sax-Zim peat bog.

A former staff director of the Senate Special Committee on Aging and 16-year veteran of Capitol Hill, Max Richtman is President and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare (NCPSSM), one of the nation’s most influential senior advocacy and education membership organizations.

Courtney Hagle is a deputy research director at Media Matters, where she has worked since October 2018. She has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Boston University, and she minored in history.

Nancy Nelson fills in for Matt today. Today’s show focuses on the decision of Joe Biden to no longer seek re-election. DFL First Vice Chair Margie Hoffa also joins Nancy for most of the second hour.

Marge Hoffa is a native Minnesotan who has been heavily involved in the Minnesota DFL Party for the past two decades. She grew up near Duluth, where her father raised cattle and worked for the railroad. She attended high school in Northfield and Prior Lake, and then went to Augsburg College in Minneapolis.

On today’s show:

– Cliff Schecter on the RNC.

– Dr. Taiyon J. Coleman joins to talk about her new book, Traveling without Moving.

– Matt makes enemies of Joe Mauer fans.

– The software outage that grounded many flights around the country.

– Cal Bahr unsurprisingly makes some offensive comments about women.

– How many media outlets are characterizing Trump’s RNC speech as “unifying.”

– Bert Blyleven doesn’t understand what clickbait is.

Matt is joined by Dr. Taiyon J. Coleman to talk about her new book, Traveling without Moving.

Cliff joins Matt today to react to Trump’s lie-filled and meandering RNC speech, Republicans paying tribute to Trump, JD Vance’s anti-women stances and more.