{"id":100869,"date":"2026-08-21T10:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T14:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wlobradio.com\/?p=100869"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T12:08:54","slug":"08-21-26-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wlobradio.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/21\/08-21-26-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"08-21-26 Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Segments 1-2:<\/strong> Ray talks about the movement to put men in women\u2019s sports. The government pushing for transitioning kids, and more.
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\nSegments 3-4:<\/strong>\u00a0 Ray starts with Rowe Auto Group\u2019s upcoming golf tournament and then the Richardson Golf Tournament<\/a>, Webber Cushing stepping up to the plate and the reasons he was going to cancel. The medical team that has been working on him, and more.
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\nSegments 5-6:\u00a0<\/strong> Mike Shepherd<\/a>\u00a0(Political Editor for the\u00a0Bangor Daily News<\/a>) joins and they talk about some of the candidate commercial wars, the outside money, dive bars. They get back to the campaign and polling.
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\nSegment 10:\u00a0<\/strong> Dr. Claude Berube (Former Annapolis Instructor, and Author<\/a>), Steve Michaud (Former President Maine Hospital Association<\/a>), and Jon Fetherston (The Maine Wire,<\/a> Sponsored by Jeff Preble Concrete) join Ray. Claude shares some of how he got his first book written. Steve shares what a champion Sen. Collins has been for the hospitals her whole career. The attack ads are spouting 180 degrees from the truth.
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\nSegments 11-12:\u00a0<\/strong> the boys talk about fraud in Maine and in the Medicare system. Claude describes the Governor speech at the ship christening and the lack of statesmanship in government.
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\nSegments 13-14:<\/strong> Steve is frustrated with anyone calling Sen. Collins corrupt because is just wrong. Claude shares his thoughts on when and why there was a shift in Maine. They go back to the truth of Collins working for Maine and how she did it. They also discuss her work ethic and voting record.
\nSegments 15-16:<\/strong> Claude, Steve and Ray discuss the security of our country, especially after 9\/11. They discuss their 9\/11 memories and where they were, life before and after that tragedy. The Freeport Flag Ladies’ diligent work to get a couple of beams from the Twin Towers and the dedication ceremony and uses them as an example of the good in people. The disgraceful way outside money is being used and that the genie is out of the bottle and we will not being able to come back from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Segments 1-2: Ray talks about the movement to put men in women\u2019s sports. The government pushing for transitioning kids, and more. Segments 3-4:\u00a0 Ray starts with Rowe Auto Group\u2019s upcoming golf tournament and then the Richardson Golf Tournament, Webber Cushing …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[4786,4787,42992,44513,44498,1403,44515,7874,107,33766,44500,1801,44517,44509,42008,44511,44499,44520,44512,44508,44506,41116,41115,44514,42934,44510,4411,44501,44518,4,4508,4306,44507,44502,44505,13429,44504,44503,20199,44497,4611,44519,44516,32822,6],"class_list":["post-100869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-100-5fm","tag-1310am","tag-and-author","tag-attack-ad","tag-beams-from-the-twin-towers","tag-campaign","tag-candidate-commercial-wars","tag-claude-berube","tag-conservative","tag-conservative-talk-radio","tag-dedication-ceremony","tag-dee-dee-richardson","tag-dive-bars","tag-dr-claude-berube-former-annapolis-instructor","tag-fraud-in-maine","tag-fraud-in-maine-in-the-medicare-system","tag-genie-is-out-of-the-bottle","tag-government-pushing-for-transitioning-kids","tag-governor-speech-at-the-ship-christening","tag-how-claude-berube-first-book-was-written","tag-jon-fetherson","tag-jon-fetherston","tag-jon-fetherston-the-maine-wire","tag-lack-of-statesmanship-in-government","tag-maine-conservative-radio","tag-maine-medicare-system","tag-outside-money","tag-outside-money-in-politics","tag-polling","tag-ray-richardson","tag-ray-richardson-jr-2","tag-rowe-auto-group","tag-sen-collins-champion-for-the-hospitals","tag-shift-in-maine","tag-ship-christening","tag-steve-michaud","tag-susan-collins-work-ethic-and-voting-record","tag-susan-collins-working-for-maine","tag-talk-radio","tag-the-freeport-flag-ladies","tag-the-maine-wire","tag-the-movement-to-put-men-in-womens-sports","tag-the-outside-money","tag-webber-cushing","tag-wlob-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Jo9r-qeV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlobradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlobradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlobradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlobradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlobradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100869"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wlobradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101113,"href":"https:\/\/wlobradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100869\/revisions\/101113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlobradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlobradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlobradio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}