The Mike McFeely Mess

Mark Lindquist is from a small town in western Minnesota, went to Concordia College in Moorhead, got his start singing the national anthem at the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks games ... and now he joins host Mike McFeely to talk about it all in a half-hour. Easy, right. Mark has quite a story to tell -- and he's only 37. He's coming off an interesting week when he sang the national anthem before the Duke-North Carolina basketball game in which top player Zion Williamson famously blew out his sneaker and former President Barack Obama sat courtside.

Heather Richards, an energy reporter for the Casper Star-Tribune newspaper, joins podcast host Mike McFeely to talk about Westmoreland Mining's bankruptcy and how it will affect small mines, miners and retirees in Wyoming and Beulah, N.D.

North Dakota State political science professor Thomas Ambrosio joins podcast host Mike McFeely to discuss the escalating and possibly dangerous fight between India and Pakistan; U.S.'s growing "meh" toward Europe under Trump; and the deepening ugliness of the Brexit trainwreck.

North Dakota humanities scholar, author, radio host and generally all-around good guy Clay Jenkinson joins podcast host Mike McFeely for a free-wheeling discussion about the state of the state and the state of the country. As always, we veer toward the president and stay there because we just can't help ourselves.

Pam Thesing, a Glyndon, Minn., woman who was convicted of a Clay County development code and sentenced to 30 days in jail for keeping chickens in her backyard before the conviction was overturned by a Minnesota appeals court, discusses her case with podcast host Mike McFeely.