MAINE FACTS MATTER 2026 03-03-2026
08-11-26 Tuesday
Segments 1-2: Ray and Dee Dee Richardson discuss the Fauci text messages that were discovered on his government phone with his acknowledgement that the Covid vaccine could have been harmful to the unborn babies.
Segments 3-4: Matt Jacobson (Summit Natural Gas of Maine) joins Ray and Dee Dee in the discussion on the blind faith in Dr. Fauci, Trump reducing the required children’s vaccine and some of the other vaccines that go into American babies, and more. Ray shares the new data that Pender Makin (commissioner of the Maine Department of Education) has released.
Segment 5-6: Lauren LePage (Fyre Strategies) and Dr. Peter Earle of AIER (American Institute for Economic Research, and a veteran) join the fun. The get into the tax AI bots. They get into the work participation affect, government assistance because of the income cliff, hindering employment numbers, and more.
Segment 7-8: Jon Fetherston (The Maine Wire, Sponsored by Jeff Preble Concrete) joins the fun as we talk about sports and mowing lawns. Jon responds to a question from an audience member. Ray asks him about people being charged for harm to him. Jonathan Bush joins from a Starlink connection. They talk about all politics being local, the downfall of Portland, Portland Mayor Mark Dion’s work history, and more.
Segments 9-10: The talk about immigration reform. Why can’t people talk to one another, ICE, rallies, nursing rally, some of the elected people, social media, the illegal marijuana grows, data centers, and more.
Segment 11: The conversation heads to Maine politics starting with Matt Dunlap, Paul LePage, Bobby Charles, Debates, and more.
Segment 12: Ray starts with the movie “Lincoln” and Daniel Day Louis’ performance.
Segments 13-14: They get into spare time, books, what everyone would do with their spare time. Ray’s book Carter Finds Christmas, and more.
Segment 15-16: Lauren announces an Turning Point event on Saturday starting at 6 located at Calvary Church at 860 Spring St in Westbrook. They get into how big of a role that Social Media plays in elections, and messaging. Meaningful messaging and dialog, and more.
08-10-26 Monday
Segment 1-2: Ray and Dee Dee Richardson start the morning.
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Segment 3-4: Ray talks about the phrase Equality Effort Earns Equity. We need to reform Maine’s Medicaid program and he goes through the steps that would need to happen to achieve it, and more steps for a better Maine.
Segment 5: Ray talks about the latest “craze” and how it has become the “thing” that Maine government implements, and uses the Family Leave Act and MaineCare as examples.
Segment 6: Vern Dukes joins Ray and they talk about Maine’s healthcare and insurance systems, private doctors, and more.
Segment 7: Ray brings up Friday’s Job Report. The economy and how that is affecting businesses that are doing hiring and their costs to run a business. They talk about restaurants, family, Farmer Markets, churches and more.
Segment 8: Ray and Vern discuss the upcoming guest which leads to the WNBA and the men that have registered for their draft.
Segment 9: Ray talks about yet another division in the country and compares Kaitlyn Clark and Angel Reece to Larry Bird and Michael Jordan. They discuss some of basketball greats.
Segment 10: Ray and Vern compare their hip replacements and recovery times. Ray brings up the Role Model concert and congratulates another Maine band.
Segments 11-12: Ray starts with Sen. Lindsay Graham and his sister picking up his mantle, some of the other candidates viing for his vacant seat. Chuck Ellis (Muddy Waters Podcast, Chair Cumberland Cnty Republican Party) also joins the conversation.
Segments 13-14: Ray, Vern, Holly McCarthy, Chuck, and Dee Dee welcome Robin Lundberg to discuss his new book “Caitlin Clark: From the Logo”.
Segments 15-16: The conversation starts with Holly and her take on the Governor’s Race, the election.
08-07-26 Friday
Segment 1-2: Ray Richardson talks about standing up to City Hall. It can be done, all it takes is the courage and fortitude to do it.
Segment 3: In this segment Ray talks about a two-term congressman in Tennessee, Rep. Andy Ogles’ loss.
Segment 4: Ray talks about some of the targeted seats in Maine’s Legislature. The dark money in politics, the Democratic operative in the Legislative branch paid by outside money.
Segment 5: Ray starts with Birthright Tourism and Trump’s Executive Order to stop this practice after the Supreme Court didn’t, the 14th Amendment, and more.
Segment 6: Jon Fetherston (The Maine Wire, Sponsored by Jeff Preble Concrete) joins Ray and they talk more about Maine’s Legislature, the Governor, the state workers having Friday’s off and government offices closed, and more.
Segments 7-8: Ray and Jon talk about Jaws, baseball and Jon shares a personal dislike for the Boston Globe and more.
Segment 9: Ray and Jon welcome Corenna Quirk (Q-Point Podcast found on all platforms) and they discuss their mutual love for sports and the Red Sox. The conversation turns to this weekend’s podcast topics and guests heard on WLOB on Saturdays 9am.
Segment 10: Jon had to leave and Kenny Cianchette (Candidate For Maine Senate for District 26 and owner of Erik’s Church) comes in….he and Ray talk about the Red Sox.
Segment 11: The conversation continues with politics.
Segment 12: The conversation is about packing the court, the Interstate Compact and the Constitution.
Segments 13-14: Ray talks about the Constitution where the to find the information on the courts that he and Kenny talked about in the last segment. He and Kenny move on to Socialism and that far left Democrats are Socialists and they just try to rename themselves, the Republican Party. The boys talk about the jobs report and the economy, the Federal Reserve, the welfare system, incentivize work, Gov. Mills keeping tax on tips after Trump got rid of them.
Segments 15-16: Ray talks about the media ads not being truthful and uses Sen. Susan Collins as an example, real estate market, the Iran War and the uncertainty of the ending, Trump Syndrome, crazy policies all that affect the economy. Trump, Iran, and more.
08-06-26 Thursday
Segments 1-2: Ray Richardson gets riled up this morning because of the State government is allowing all of the fraud to happen, and yet charging you with more and more taxes so they can pay the people that are committing the fraud. He gets into the DHHS system and how it is so mismanaged, and more.
Segments 3-4: Bob Witkowski joins Ray and they chat about some of the musicians in New Orleans and the lecture he attended to celebrate Louis Armstrong’s Birthday, his love for movies, the controversial movie, and more. They move into some of the great places in Maine to enjoy including the dinner Ray and Dee Dee had at O’Reilly’s Cure.
Segment 5: Ray talks about Sarah Parshall Perry (Attorney, Defending Education) taking some personal time. Ray reads her Facebook post to describe why she is stepping away temporarily to take care of her 17 year old son, Jesse who has just been diagnosed with an aggressive lymphoma in the form of a grapefruit sized tumor. Ray asks the prayer warriors out there to pray for Sarah and her family, especially Jesse.
Segments 6-8: Ray talks about the beautiful and delicious breakfast pizza from Moran’s Market on Forest Avenue in Portland brought in by Tom Bill (Common Sense For Maine PAC) and Dominic Pugliares (Common Sense For Maine PAC, Dunegrass CC) joins the fun. David Ciullo (Career Management Services) share the important changes that employers must know and how long that you need to keep employee records, the notifications needed in new employees packets, punishment and fines if not compliant, and more. David Stearns (Common Sense for Maine) joins the panel. The boys talk about the amount of regulations and the economic atmosphere in Maine.
Segments 9-10: The panel welcome Ross Connelly (the Northeast Region Director for Americans for Prosperity) and they discuss the concrete reasons behind Maine’s cost of living issues, progressive policies in Augusta, and Senate race, Troy Jackson and his role as President of the Maine Senate, and more. TBill starts with the difficulty his girlfriend has been having running her business. Dee Dee points out that her problem is all because of the regulations that have been put on the business between the city and state regulations.
Segments 11-2: Ray plays a clip of Ohio GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno describing his former son-in-law, Republican Rep. Max Miller’s behavior to his daughter and two year old granddaughter. They get into elected people not worthy of your vote and policies.
Segments 13-14: The Common Sense For Maine group start with Ray trying to grab part of a Senate Hearing on Dr. Fauci and then get into the government policies, Socialism, Democrats voting behavior, and more.
Segments 15-16: Ray and the gang talk about the Progressive Maine lawmakers won’t name donors behind new $100K staff hire story and whether this is a good or bad idea.