09-11-20 Friday
Part 1: Ray Richardson plays Whitney Houston’s version of the National Anthem. Joe “The Professor” Bruno of Community Pharmacy and Dr. John Herzog of Orthopedic Specialties join him in discussing the difference from 9/11 to today including: American attitude, music, Cardi-B and her comments for Biden, forgiving student loans, and more.
Part 2: Ray plays a clip from the news broadcast from the Today Show’s Bryant Gumbel interviewing witnesses of planes hitting the Towers.
Part 3: The boys talk about News Center Maine and the Senator Debate that will be held tonight. Joe wants some hard questions, not just softballs, the talk about Press Herald article headline about tourism and Ray points out that Gov. Mills has done that single-handedly, Ray asks them about a pop-quiz question.
Part 4: Michael Shepherd, Political Editor for the Bangor Daily News join the boys and they discuss Mike’s age, the debate, questions for the debate, the candidates, the AARP poll, Max Lynn, property questions, the boys ask “why only an hour for the debate” and Mike answers.
Part 5: Joe, Doc and Ray talk about a math problem and famous people. Mike calls in and gives a shout out to Cyril Richard (Rick) Rescorla and explains who he was inside. They take a call from Larry about Medicare and the penalty of not signing up, absentee ballots, normal people caring about things, protecting your vote, Ray gets frustrated, and more.
Part 6: Ray is really upset and frustrated because people are upset with him instead of the people that make all of the laws. Joe and Doc are as scared about the American Dream coming to an end, participation trophies, working for what you want, AOC, and more. Maine State Rep. MaryAnne Kinney reminisce with Joe about Laverdiere Drugs. They changes subjects to high school sports and that Gov. Mills has banned high school football and volleyball. MaryAnne shares her campaign, her background, her legislative work. Greg Foster texts in a comment for MaryAnne.
Part 7: The boys talk about the Flu shot and the Flu. Ray reads a text about someone’s grandson’s hard work to get to play football in his senior year after an injury last year, Governor Mills draconian measures, quarantining healthy people, Arthur Langley calls in to Remember 9/11 and to talk about efforts of the Freeport Flag Ladies and Wreaths Across America. Brownfield Dave calls in to say that the Freeport Flag Ladies were on the hill today.
Part 8: Ray plays Neil Young’s song “Let’s Roll” and the story behind it. Joe urges people to get their flu shot early because they will run out. The boys discuss George Floyd and the drugs in his system and they take a call.
Part 9: They take a call about today’s kids not knowing basic life skills, another caller asks about Maine’s law about standing your ground, Senators on the ballot, ranked choice voting and more. Another caller calls in to express her dream and how proud she is to have learned the language and become an American, the joy of voting and how proud she is to be voting in person.
Part 10: Ray plays several messages that were left for loved ones by passengers on United Airlines Flight 93. Hard to hear, he can’t believe that people that love this country won’t stand up and stop the Socialism that is taking over our country. Ray remembers 9/11 and what he was doing, how his family reacted.
Part 11: Ray talks about what came out of 9/11, expression comes out in a variety of ways. He says that the Miami Dolphins have said that they won’t come out for the National Anthem and he wants to know when did it become okay not to celebrate being American and the privilege that they have been given because they live in America.