09-18-20 Friday

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Part 1:  Ray Richardson is joined by Dr. John Herzog and Joe “The Professor” Bruno. The boys start the day with the Maine state budget, Drew Gattine, CNN, Joe Biden, Doc suggests a book, upcoming Ukrainian guests on WLOB, Bill Cohen’s endorsements, Mainers aren’t the same as 30 years ago, Raymond School Budget, self determination, consolidation efforts, Ray fact checks Sara Gideon’s commercials, and more.


Part 2:  Ray reads a text about fact checking before airing commercials and Ray explains the legal reasons.

Part 3:  The boys tease each other and then talk about Eric Trump and how proud he is of his dad, President Trump.

Part 4:  Ray, Doc and Joe welcome welcome Michael Shepherd, Political Editor for the Bangor Daily News. They start off with the “request denied”, Max Lynn’s debate antics, Senate Debate, Lisa Savage, reliability of polls, Sara Gideon, Susan Collins, seats in the US Senate, Jared Golden poll results, Jared Golden ads, Collins’ Roberts question to Gideon during debate, and more.

Part 5:  The boys take a call from Steve of Westbrook about the election, he blames Trump for basically everything, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, anarchy in America, Liberal left propaganda, Black Lives Matters movement, Jacob Blake’s actions, Louis Farrakhan’s influence. Cody calls in and they continue with the inept ability of Joe Biden and his armchair quarterbacking of the handling of the Coronavirus.

Part 6:  Ray, Joe and the Doc are trying to make light of the craziness in the world. Doc states it all in a nutshell, Joe quotes statics about Covid asymptomatic numbers, George Floyd, and Minnesota. Gordon calls in and they discuss the hatred of Trump over love for the country, Gideon’s pathological lies, another caller is concerned that Mills will be shutting down the state before the election, covid in nursing homes, Nashville, and more.

Part 7:  The boys talk about genders, pronouns, the Press Herald, editorials, and more.

Part 8:  Ray and the boys continue with their discussion and take a call from Mike who joins in the fun.

Part 9:  Ray and the boys are join by Mike from Brunswick with a very important message about National POW/MIA Recognition Day, the League of POW Family, Vietnam War Memorial Wall (the Healing Wall), Mike describes the “Table set for 1” and what everything stands for, he explains what the cross or diamond means on the wall by a name. Ray wishes his Father-in-Law, Tom Grizzard, a very happy 81st birthday.

Part 10:  Ray tells everyone that his Father-in-Law was a veteran and lived in Alaska on Ft. Richardson on Richardson Drive when Dee Dee was born just before the big earthquake, they take a call about Rank Choice Voting from a confused voter, compare Gideon to Collins, talk about Collins gracious nature, and more.

Part 11:  Dr. John Herzog announces that he is leaving two spots a day open for the WLOB audience. He is still taking new patients, for more information about Dr. John Herzog’s services or make an appointment, visit Orthopedic Specialties or call, 1-207-781-9077, today. The Professor gives a recommendation and testimonial of Dr. Herzog’s work. They also talk about Community Pharmacy and their flu shot availability and as well as other vaccines, the Covid vaccine, Cuomo’s response to Covid, sick time, abortion, Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam behavior and beliefs, liberals not doing homework, ObamaCare, ObamaCare lies, and more.

Part 12:  The boys talk about Trump’s chances of winning the election in Maine and the Electoral College.

09-17-20 Thursday

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Part 1:  Ray Richardson talks about Maine’s leadership. Governor Mills disbursements of the Federal money that came in to assist people hurt by the Coronavirus shutdowns. He moves on to Maine Speaker Sara Gideon, her work since she has been in office, her commercials, her ability to work with others, her dictatorship, PAC money, and more.


Part 2:  Ray talks about an article in the Press Herald and gives a preview of today’s show.

Part 3:  Ray is joined by Bob Witkowski and briefly JJ Jeffrey. Bob and Ray talk about beautiful Rangeley.

Part 4:  Ray is welcomed by Westbrook Fire Chief Andy Turcotte to discuss the landslide that happened directly behind Les Wilson & Sons and completely blocked the Presumpscot River in Westbrook. He gives a great description and possible cause. The Chief says that Greg Hamilton, Westbrook Public Safety Communications Director and Lindsay Spigel, senior geologist at the Maine Geological Survey, have been coordinating efforts and says this is a natural event and has occurred before. There have been a lot of different agencies helping in the solving this issue.

Part 5:  Ray and Westbrook Fire Chief Turcotte talk about the covid testing that is available in Westbrook.

Part 6:  Ray welcomes David Ciullo of Career Management Associates, and hosts The H.R. PowerHour on WLOB Radio on Saturdays at 10am, joins Ray to discuss HR issues. Today’s topic is about some of the new regulations that are starting, Paid Time Off days, Dave will be holding another webinar on the 9/23 regarding some of these crazy new laws for businesses. He gives another regulation that just came out. Ray comments on the new inflictions that the Maine Government is putting on already hurting businesses.

Part 7:  Ray talks about Bill Barr’s comments regarding the state shutdowns and the shenanigans of the Democrats to sway the voters.

Part 8:  Ray talks about the how the state operates and budget. He points out some of the inconsistencies in Gideon’s ads and plays a clip of Rep. Wayne Parry asking a question about the lodging tax and the budget that have been passed. Ray wants to know when enough is enough, then plays another clip.

Part 9:  Ray comments on some texts he received on the Dirigo Partners Text Line about the previous segment about the Maine’s lodging tax that isn’t necessary to balance the budget. He plays the clip again. Ray explains is detail about what happens in this clip. He urges people to do the work and find out the truth.

Part 10:  Ray talks about a note that he got about Sen. Susan Collins vote for Judge Kavanaugh. Ray says that if he could achieve one thing, it would be to end Roe v Wade and why, innocent victims, violence, Silent Sara Gideon, Kamala Harris, Jakob Blake, Sexual Assault, Police Shooting, Maine’s shutdown, Gov. “Draconian” Mills, Rep. Drew Gattine’s comments to CNN, mask Nazis, Dr. Fauci’s mask comments, and more.

Part 11:  Ray previews the rest of today’s and tomorrow’s show.

Part 12:  Ray welcomes Maine Rep. Nate Wadsworth to discuss Maine’s government and the campaign promise of not raising taxes, yet she did right out of the gate. They talk about Cornish and the comments from Rep. Drew Gattine about businesses are operated at 93%.

Part 13:  Ray and Nate continue their discussion on Maine’s budget and the rainy day fund. The boys talk about the Draconian measures that Governor Mills’ has taken and her Emergency orders that she has taken full advantage, Former Governor Paul LePage, one person government (dictatorship), Governor shutdowns, Federal Judge Lance Walker’s ruling, 1st Amendment, and more.

Part 14:  Ray and Representative Nate Wadsworth continue with their discussion, what is important to Nate, why he is running for another two years. Ray talks about Sue Salsbury and hopes that there will be more Democrats that have business experience and will stand up to the wacky liberal ideas of people that don’t have any business experience. They also talk about the increases in regulations and taxes that can really hurt the small businesses and the questions on the Federal relief money application that the Governor is dispersing, and more.

09-16-20 Wednesday

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Part 1:  Ray Richardson opens with Whitney Houston’s National Anthem. He talks about how the rag-tag disruptors beat an army with everything to their advantage and the monumental and historic signing of The Israel–United Arab Emirates normalization agreement, between by Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and then one of Dennis Prager’s videos, The Middle East Problem, Americans standing up in history. Ray wants to know if you will continue to make history.


Part 2:  Ray talks about China and President Nixon’s prediction.

Part 3:  Ray talks about the voyage and brave people that left England on this day. What a difference 400 years makes.

Part 4:  Ray talks about the how the Liberal Left doesn’t believe in the American Way of Life. Freedom to choose, have your own thoughts, beliefs, how they voice theirs, and more. Ray welcomes Dr. Jay Allen candidate for Congressional District 1 and they discuss the upcoming Debate, healthcare philosophy, and more. For more information about Dr. Jay Allen, his service to his country or his campaign, visit his website, Jay Allen For Congress. He needs your help to get to Washington. Ray states that he is the most qualified candidate he has ever seen for any office!

Part 5:  Ray gives a quick preview of some of the upcoming guests on today’s show.

Part 6:  Ray talks to Former Congressman Bruce Poliquin about the election turnout. Bruce talks about what he is hearing traveling around Maine, Bruce reminds people about the differences between Biden’s plan and Trump’s plan, the Liberal leaning Democratic party, the Democratic policy of defunding the police and School Resource Officers, medicare, private insurance, government run medical care, Covid-19, high school sports, Governor Mills’ Draconian measures, and much more.

Part 7:  Ray talks some calls after talking about the great apple picking weather. Caller Jeff from Hollis talks about the insurance industry before and after the government got involved in the healthcare business.

Part 8:  Ray plead for everyone that is a praying person to pray for the people that are in harm’s way of Hurricane Sally and the fires out west. He continues with the pandering of Joe Biden and is gaffs. RNC spokeswoman Liz Harrington joins Ray to discuss the ongoing Biden history of gaffs and what he has done for the last forty years in office verses the last three years of fearless leadership and accomplishments of Donald Trump, the manipulations of the Democrats, Pelosi’s hair salon scandal, morality, rules, ethics, police, anarchy, power abuse, inalienable rights, sheepeople, and more.

Part 9:  Ray welcomes Lori Parham, Director of AARP Maine. They tease each other for a few minutes then get into the new poll that AARP has done about the upcoming election. Ray and Lori discuss who will be more likely to vote, the different ways that are available to vote, the need for poll workers, the need for candidates to be clear on their stance on issues. Ray gets a question for Lori about the way Ray introduced her and she explains.

Part 10:  Ray talks about the historic signing of The Israel–United Arab Emirates normalization agreement (the Abraham Accord) and the this is the first real step toward peace in the last twenty-six years and goes off on the media and their coverage.

Part 11:  Ray welcomes Chris Scalia, the eighth of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s nine children and the co-editor of Scalia Speaks and On Faith, two previous collections of the late justice’s writings to discuss his new book (The Essential Scalia), his dad, the Supreme Court, and more. Ray continues with his thoughts about the importance of this election, Slow Joe Biden and his gaffes, Sara Gideon, Gideon’s ads, Gideon’s commercial falsehood, media complacency, historic tax cuts, American jobs, lowering American rolls, Senator Susan Collins accomplishments, Collins’ standing up for presumption of innocence, Collins doing the work, and more.
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Part 12:  Ray take a call about Sara Gideon’s voting record.

Part 13:  Ray reminds the audience about the historic agreement and welcomes one of President Trump’s Spiritual Advisors Jim Garlow to discuss its importance and history. He attended the Abraham Accord signing ceremony at the White House – between US, Israel, UAE & Bahrain. It’s complex. To the extent that this affirms God’s covenant with Abraham that the land belongs to the Jews and is the State of Israel, this is good. Jim gives a really good insight into the true history of this region. You can find more information on Jim and his mission on his website, Well Versed and on Facebook.

09-15-20 Tuesday

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Part 1:  Ray Richardson welcomes this beautiful Autumn day. He talks about Joe Biden’s event yesterday, Kamala Harris, Harris Administration, Trump’s accomplishments, how the government is made, states make the United States, movement toward Socialism, Biden’s blaming Trump for the fires out West, unrest during the Obama/Biden administration, police shootings, protesters blocking the entrance to hospital, Kamala Harris flip flop over sexual assault, and so much more.


Part 2:  Ray go off because of a text he received about Kamala being proud of Jakob Blake. He lists off some of the things that Jakob Blake did that she could be proud of accomplishing.

Part 3:  Ray compares lawsuits.

Part 4:  Ray talks about the actions of subjects (hoodlums) police are trying to ARREST that have caused protests, riots and destruction, Bill De Blasio, New York, inner cities, liberal utopian ideas, and more. Mike calls in and agrees with Ray about being worried about our grandchildren, Mike also brings up forest management and the fires out west.

Part 5:  Maine State Senator Bill Diamond and Steve Webster join Ray. Bill explains the shirt he is wearing and tells him about an article he wrote. Ray asks Steve would he have joined the police force today in today’s culture climate. They discuss qualified immunity, protests, city official support, due process, defunding police ramifications, and more.

Part 6:  Ray reads a text from Cumberland County District Attorney Jonathan Sahrbeck,  and talks about WGAN and News Center Maine‘s Political Brew.

Part 7:  Ray, Steve and Bill welcome Dr. Demi Kouzounas Chair of the Maine Republican Party. Ray brings up the pandemic shutdown lawsuits against  the Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Maine Gov. Janet Mills, compares the lawsuits, Maine’s shutdown, protests in Portland, charges that were dropped, contract tracing for protester, Mills’ obtuse nature to overall damage done, Bill defends Mills’ actions, Demi gives specifics on damage done because of Dentists not about to treat patients, suicide, opioid abuse, alcohol abuse, depression, domestic abuse, inconsistencies in business shutdowns, and more.

Part 8:  The panel talk about Bill running for Governor. He says 1.)  he is too busy with his business and doesn’t want to run, but 2.)  he doesn’t think he would win anyway because the party has gone so far left.

Part 9:  Ray, Steve and Demi continue the discussion about communication. The ability to disagree but remain civil. They talk about the Jacob Blake case, the police intent, Blake’s intent, the innocent children in the car, Black Lives Matter movement, Black on Black murders, other social justice movements, facts don’t matter, Warren Wilhelm Jr., New York, New York City crime, Marxism, Eugenics, and so much more.

Part 10:  Ray reintroduces Steve Webster and Demi Kouzounas the gives quick preview of the rest of the show.

Part 11:  Ray, Steve and Demi discuss where do you draw the line. Demi says that we need to follow the money and they discuss what that means, draining the swamp, federal term limits. They take a call with a question for Steve about missing children. They continue the discussion about child abuse, reducing the age of consent, moral compass, NAMBA, they take a call from Dave Brackett with a couple of questions which leads to some real conversations about the NFL. Gordon Draper calls in to ask about F3 Defense, gun ownership and training and more.

Part 12:  Steve questions whether someone has been offended yet…they move on to Kamala Harris’ and Sara Gideon’s sexual abuse accusation hypocrisy, the Senate Debate. They take another call about the claims that more black people are pulled over and targeted. This brings about another big discussion. Ray’s brother, Jim, calls in to talk about the perceived racism and how he grew up in the south, different genders, gender identity, and more teasing. They take another call from Cheryl, who shares her family dynamic and that she attended the Trump rally in Augusta.