10-23-25 Thursday
Segment 1: Ray Richardson starts with last night’s debate in New York City Mayoral Debate between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo, he rails against the establishment and then questions whether you would stop to help someone on the side of the road, and more.
Segment 2: Ray shares some of the morning’s upcoming guests and the 2 anniversary of the Lewiston shooting and the relief fund money.
Segments 3-4: Bob Witkowski (Where Y’at Magazine) joins Ray and shares a wonderful memory and then they discuss the show West Wing and how accurate it actually was. The defining of a person based solely on their sexual preferences instead of who they are inside, and more.
Segments 5-6: Sarah Parshall Perry (Vice President & Legal Fellow, Defending Education) joins Ray and they talk about the weather, the Smithsonian and Fords Theater, history, the changes at the White House and the long history of renovations over the years. They get into the funding of the PBS and the sponsors, Project 2025, and and more.
Segments 7-9: Ray welcomes Destiny Johnson (Survivor of the Lewiston Shooting on October 25 at Schemengee’s.) Amy Sussman (Aunt) and Kelsey (Sister) of Maxx Hathaways and who was shot and killed that night. Destiny has a lot of questions about how the funds that were raised were distributed by Maine Community Foundation. There were different tiers of distribution, and the questions of who received money and where it went. Destiny reads the non-profits involved that were involved and received the money.
Segment 10: The Common Sense for Maine Breakfast Club takes over the studio. They talk about the New York City Mayoral race. The Zohran Mamdani past in the private sector and their ability of creating and managing a budget.
Segments 11-12: The CSFM group discuss the bloated Maine State budget, and the need for conversation to keep up with things in Maine. They talk about some of the reasonable questions for people that are running for office, the average citizen’s knowledge of the state of the State, the Maine educational system, and more.
Segments 13-14: The group discusses some of the US Legislators, Justin Alfond, Mark Reilly joins the fun and they talk about the government shutdown and how the average person is surviving, the postal workers pay, the Gubernatorial field, and they end the segment with Maine’s Question 1.
Segment 15-16: They talk about being able to talk one another, not knowing your teacher’s political philosophy, they take calls and then go back to the discussion.