04-28-23 Friday
Segment 1: Ray Richardson shares some of the crazy things coming out of Minnesota including the legislation seeking to normalize Pedophilia as a Sexual Orientation proposed by a transgender.
Segment 2: Ray talks about Dylan Mulvaney and the advertising obsession with a man acting like a 14-year-old girl as a spokesman instead of a real hero or someone with courage.
Segment 3: Joe Bruno joins Ray and they catch up for a minute. Gunny Mike also joins and they discuss Proterra which makes technology for electric vehicles. This is a key piece of the Biden administration’s energy and climate change plans and Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s promise to require the U.S. military to implement an all-electric vehicle fleet by 2030.
Segment 4: Ray and Joe talk about the press conference with the reporter being told what the question would be, Biden not taking part in any debate, and more.
Segments 5-6: Shawn Moody (Moody’s Collision) and Mike Shepherd (Political Editor for the Bangor Daily News) join Ray. The boys discuss the note card captured by photojournalists that shows a headshot of a reporter who Biden would call, a pronunciation guide for her name, and most controversially, seems to say what she would ask. They also talk about how press conferences are supposed to work, newspapers, and more.
Segments 7-8: Steve Michaud (Maine Hospitals Association) joins the boys. They start with the school budgets and the rising costs, the Blue Collar Scholarships, and more.
Segments 9-10: Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce joins the boys. The boys talk about Rev. Jeff and the Sheriff’s last visit here and they share the results of the gift from Eastpoint Church and the continuous need for people that are ending their incarceration and giving them a helping hand. The different partnerships between the police and sheriff departments and hospitals. They discuss some of the different problems that the hospitals and the jails systems contend with and how to try and fix them, including drugs, and more.
Segments 11-12: The discussion continues from the previous segment. For more information on the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department and its programs, you can find them at https://www.cumberlandso.org.
Segment 13: Steve talks about the nurse staffing ratios and the pending legislation in the Legislature which brings the discussion about hospital staffing, union influence, and more.
Segment 14: Ray and the panel discuss nurses and their devoted care to patience and their families.
Segments 15-16: Steve, Ray, and Joe discuss more of the hospital nursing shortage, and the Covid vaccine mandates, they take a couple of calls and more.