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Segments 1-2:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray Richardson welcomes Todd Piro (Co-Host of Fox and Friends on Fox News) and they talk about this morning’s Fox and Friends First show, the bakery that they had on the show, the upcoming heat wave, The 250th State Fair in Washington, the Tunnel to Towers Golf fundraiser and the upcoming adventure of Todd doing hits from one of the Navy Ships.
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\nSegment 3:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray starts with addressing the Maine Republican Party that they should be educating Mainers with a “Did You Know” campaign, and then talks about what he believes Americans should known, then gets into some of the things that we are paying a higher price for services like electricity than our neighbors to our west, the media in Maine, and more.
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\nSegment 4:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray talks about the actions of Governor Mills making the decision to keep Maine out of the 250 Celebration of America’s birth without the Mainers having a say all because she doesn’t like Trump.
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\nSegment 5:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray starts with the Declaration of Independence and Vern Dukes join. They discuss the Committee included the writer, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman.
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\nSegment 6:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray plays “America, The Beautiful” by Ray Charles and they talk about why it was so passionate.
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\nSegments 7-8:\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>Lee Greenwood opens up this segment with “My Country Tis of Thee” and Ray and Vern talk about Thomas Jefferson and his Bible. Ray switches to the words of “Amazing Grace”. Vern takes over to passionately explain where slavery started, who benefited from slavery, which brings up socialism and more.
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\nSegment 9:\u00a0<\/strong> Retired Col. Ron Russell (Candidate for Maine CD 1<\/a>, former Army Ranger and Special Forces Green Beret) joins the boys as Ray starts again with Gov. Mills’ pettiness against Pres. Trump has left Maine out of the 250th Celebration’s State Fair in Washington DC. Col. Russell shares his knowledge of the history of Aroostook County including the Aroostook County War.
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\nSegment 10:\u00a0<\/strong> Col. Russell shares the origins of America, the Beautiful.
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\nSegments 11-12:\u00a0<\/strong> Vern has set up a surprise guest for Col. Russell. Andy Wilson served under Col. Russell. Andy shares what he did after he retired from the Army by starting several strategic companies.
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\nSegment 13-14:\u00a0<\/strong> The gang welcomes Tom Provost (Co-Screenwriter of Young Washington<\/a>) they talk about some of the highlights of this movie that is being released this weekend. They also chat about his personal history and some of the projects that he has worked on.
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\nSegment 15-16:\u00a0<\/strong> The gang talks about what they will be doing this weekend and then take a call from Tom Bill.
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