12-15-25 through 01-30-25

WLOB Radio...The Lobster Network

Ray and Dee Dee Richardson have been out for Ray’s hip surgery recuperation, vacation to Florida for a wedding, and moving. Various hosts filled in and did an amazing job. A great big thank you goes out to:

Chuck Ellis (Muddy Waters Podcast, Chair Cumberland Cnty Republican Party)
Claude Berube (St Dominic Regional High School)
Dominic Pugliares (Common sense PAC, Dunegrass CC)
Maine Rep. Josh Morris
Lauren LePage (Fyre Strategies)
Matt Jacobson (Summit Natural Gas of Maine)
Dr. Michael Ciampi (Ciampi Family Practice)
Pete McVety (Hearth Doctor)
Steve DiMillo (DiMillo’s Floating Restaurant)
Tom Bill (Common sense PAC)
Vern Dukes ( The Town Farm, (207) 797-7997)

12-12-25 Friday

WLOB Radio...The Lobster Network

Segments 1-2:  Ray Richardson starts with the comments from Sen. Chuck Schumer’s flip-flop on his stance of the boats strikes coming from Venezuela, the ObamaCare fallacy and the lies that got it passed, and more.



Segment 3:  Joe Bruno joins and they continue talking about ObamaCare, the legislature, Gov. Mills and more.

Segment 4:  Ray talks about Maine Subsidies and Obama Care.

Segments 5-6:  Shawn Moody join Ray and Joe. Ray plays a clip of Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, the top Democrat of the House Committee on Homeland Security and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testifying about the ambush shooting where two National Guard members were targeted. The boys discuss the lack of America first, and the intellect of the elected people that are sitting in Washington and more.

Segments 7-8:  The boys talk about the left trying to make the song Jingle Bells a racist song. They move on to Medicaid and Medicare, the media covering for the elected people, not doing their investigations and just taking the elected person’s word, journalism schools, and get back to Medicare and more.

Segments 9-10:  Ray and Joe chat about the Maine Education System, the Maine statehouse changing the guards, the rise in HIV and Meningitis, they discuss the Bernie Sanders popularity, and more.

Segments 11-12:  Ray and Joe welcome Jon Fetherston (The Maine Wire) joins to share what he has learned about the stories out of Lewiston. Controversies surrounding Councilor-elect Iman Osman and the school board appointment, the whistleblower complaint about fraudulent billing has evolved into a widening probe raising serious questions about the conduct, judgment, and transparency of three Somali-American state representatives, Deqa Dhalac, Yusuf Yusuf, and Mana Abdi, two of whom maintained direct professional ties to the political firestorm surrounding Gateway Community Services organization now under scrutiny, and so much more. To learn more about these stories and more visit The Maine Wire.

Segments 13-14:  Jon continues the discussion on some of the stories that he is working on. He shares that the distribution that Maine Community Foundation faces scrutiny after directing nearly $2 million in donations for Lewiston Shooting to a variety of local nonprofits that received from money from the tragic Lewiston Shooting that wasn’t connected to any victims.


Segments 15-16:  Ray and Joe take calls.

12-11-25 Thursday

WLOB Radio...The Lobster Network

Segments 1-2:  Ray Richardson opens the show this morning with government intrusions into private companies and uses the health care industry as an example, insurance costs and subscription medicine, and so much more.


Segments 3-4:  Ray started with the more of the government intrusion on our daily lives. Bob Witkowski joins and we talk about the evoked memories that are stoked by things and books which brings up education and then they go back to Ray’s collection of books. The bottom-line is that books lead to education.

Segment 5-6:  Ray continues on the government’s mismanagement of money and the national debt and who will let us continue to borrow from them, and more.


Segments 7-8:  Dave Ciullo (Career Management Services) joins Ray and they chat about the Christmas Trees that decorates his house, some of the things that are starting in Maine.


Segments 9-10:  The Common Sense For Maine crew starts coming in. Dominic Pugliares (Dunegrass) and Ray welcome a call from Elias Thomas and they chat about last nights Richardson Christmas Karaoke last night and the experience of one of the listeners. they also talk about the endearing way Jane (his wife of 53 years) looked at him, and so much more.


Segment 11:  This is a free-for-all segment and they talk about just about everything. Tom Bill (who brought in Moran’s Market breakfast pizza) joins the party. Rachel (Snowflour Bakery and Eric Boylestead) round the gang out until Dov Sacks (Independence Law Maine and New Hampshire) walks in.

Segment 12:  The panel talks about some of the reasons that Common Sense For Maine was started like taxing the streaming services, cigarettes, and the subsidies that have been implemented for the green initiatives.

Segment 13:  The group gets in to Faith, the Passover, Washing of the Feet, and then goes downhill. Dom brings it back to the country’s debt and who actually holds the paper.

Segments 15-16:  Brett Littlefield calls in to share the survey that didn’t list all of the candidates for Maine Governor. They talk about the lack of transparency in this Maine Government Administration, the flip-flop of Chuck Shumer’s stance on the drug boats, the hotlines to report on ICE locations, Maine’s fraud uncovered, and more.

12-10-25 Wednesday

WLOB Radio...The Lobster Network

Segments 1-2:  Ray Richardson starts with the story about the substitute teacher at Montello Elementary in Maine’s second-largest city, Lewiston, telling a class of third-graders that Santa Claus is “make-believe,” and then shares his thoughts on the overreach of the educational system. He then gets into faith.



Segments 3-4:  Ray continues his thoughts about belief, faith, violence, and he questions when are people going to have enough being spoon fed information instead of learning the truth, regardless of the subject.


Segment 5:  Ray starts with Ukraine, the American economy, the federal reserve bank in Atlanta, and more. Ray then jumps to the Caribbean drug boat strikes and the flip-flop of Chuck Schumer on them.

Segment 6:  Ray talks about Christmas and Dee Dee joins him in his thoughts about Faith and being still to hear what God is telling you.

Segments 7-8:  Ray plays a clip and then continues with the government and reminds us of the Founding Father’s plan and their purpose behind their plan.


Segments 9-10:  Peter Bolduc (The Town Farm, (207) 797-7997) joins Ray and Dee Dee and they talk about the men within the Town Farm, their mission, their needs for help with Christmas and shares some of the things that would help the mission.

Segment 11:  Bridget Quinn (AARP Maine Director for Advocacy and Outreach, 207-776-6303, bquinn@aarp.org) and Ray chat about what she will be doing for the holidays and then chat about some of the great events that the AARP Maine are having across the state of Maine. For more information, visit https://states.aarp.org/maine/me-events.

Segment 12:  Ray, Dee Dee, and Peter talk about hope, and not giving up. Ray talks about his plans after our “vacation”.

Segments 13-16:  Ray is joined by Steve Gruber (Nationally Syndicated host of Real America Voice and The Steve Gruber Show, heard on WLOB at 6pm). Steve’s topic of the day is climate change and how it is such a great money grab and the redundancy in programs out there for the same purpose, the NGO’s (Non Government Organizations raising money, the gas prices, good prices, Trump’s work ethics, K Street in Washington, lack of Republican messaging, tyranny governments like Gov. Mills during Covid, and so much more.