{"id":101393,"date":"2026-09-17T10:05:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wlobradio.com\/?p=101393"},"modified":"2026-09-18T07:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:41:49","slug":"09-17-26-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wlobradio.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/09-17-26-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"09-17-26 Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Segment 1:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray Richardson is frustrated beyond frustrated with the American government. He starts with the hike of the interest rates, former Fed Chair Jerome Powell, the Federal Open Market Committee, Kevin Warsh, Trump\u2019s pick to lead the world\u2019s most powerful central bank, and more.
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\nSegment 2:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray responds to a text about the first segment. He is really frustrated that nobody seems to understand that raising interest rates is bad.
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\nSegments 3-4:\u00a0<\/strong> Bob Witkowski joins and the start with college football starting with the Florida Gators and then move on to baseball and the Red Sox.
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\nSegments 5-6:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray starts with the Student Loan Debt and Biden “forgiving” the student loans in response to a Letter to the Editor, moves on to some of the other things that the Maine government has been pushing without proof that it will work like solar or wind power and the money that they are sending to some people in Maine that is already your money. Not to mention the educational system that is more interested in transitioning your kids instead of teaching them to read.
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\nSegments 7-8:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray welcomes Tom Bill (Common Sense For Maine PAC<\/a>) as he walks in with the Moran Market breakfast pizza. David Ciullo (Career Management Services<\/a>) joins us from Vermont and they talk about some of the beautiful aspects in Vermont.
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\nSegments 9-10:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray, Tom, and Dee Dee welcome Dominic Pugliares (Common Sense For Maine PAC<\/a>, Dunegrass CC<\/a>) and Austin Theriault.\u00a0 Austin urges people to remember what Paul LePage has done for Maine during his time as Governor and bring some common sense to Washington as he runs for the CD2 seat.
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\nSegments 11-12:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray, TBill, and Dominic continue the discussion about Governor Mills, Matt Dunlap (Candidate for US CD2, Maine State Auditor, Former Secretary of State of Maine), Troy Jackson (ME Senate President and US Senate Candidate), Aaron Frey (Attorney General of Maine), and others that have been silent in the aftermath of the Lewiston Shooting Fraud and the money that has been given to entities not affected by the event while victims didn’t get the help. They turn to other city programs including rent control for Old Orchard Beach.
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\nSegment 13-14:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray and the boys discuss the proposed money that Trump has offered and then gets into the history of politicians handing out money for votes. The segment ends with Ray playing a speech by Hasan Piker.
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\nSegment 15-16:\u00a0<\/strong> The group talks about the practices in Canada to “help” the homeless and people addicted to drugs. The move on to how America is doing it and some of the Maine candidates. Ray plays a clip of Bernie Sanders after saying that the Democratic Socialists of America have endorsed Troy Jackson (CD2 Candidate), Ray goes back to the interest rates and talks about the analysis of the economy and others. Ray continues on the tangent to wrap it all in a nice little bow.
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Segment 1:\u00a0 Ray Richardson is frustrated beyond frustrated with the American government. He starts with the hike of the interest rates, former Fed Chair Jerome Powell, the Federal Open Market Committee, Kevin Warsh, Trump\u2019s pick to lead the world\u2019s most …<\/span> Continue reading 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