On this episode of The Ric and Dan Show, the boys drag along Marc Guastella, Vice President and General Manager of Hollywood Casino Bangor, and discuss the beauty of failure, travel, cooperation, and never ever never wearing a suit and tie unless absolutely necessary.

As a casino manager, Marc can never enjoy Ocean's Eleven or other series. However, he is a fan of 1995's Casino, a movie he first saw as a child in Cape Town, South Africa. He moved to Las Vegas in 2005 and jumped everywhere around the U.S. until now. He talks about his perspective of Hollywood Bangor as an entertainment business first and foremost... It's a little like Ted Lasso! Dan touches on Zombie Dogz, the new(ish) eatery on the gamefloor, and Marc touches on being dragged to Maine with a dream and a little bit of luck. The boys bring out the Wayback Machine, gush about roulette, craps, and blackjack, and very subtly plug Marc's other podcast venture.

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On this episode of The Ric and Dan Show, our hosts welcome Sunshine Gannuccelli, owner of Sunshine Fitness and Fit Fuel Club Cafe, to talk about family, fitness, and fourteen years of entrepreneurship.

Ric and Dan suck in their guts as Sunshine enters. She's a fitness instructor, so they need to look their best. They talk about the joys (and myriad struggles) of parenting, what you gain from it, and what it takes from you. Sunshine recounts the time she needed to pull up her "big girl panties", and then poses a riddle: Why is the sun like a ten-cent coin? Later, they talk about fighting octogenarians, the shift in thinking that changed her outlook on life, and Ric talks about the iPod for a long time. Dan concurs.

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On this episode of The Ric and Dan Show, the boys bring along Amber Lambke, CEO and Co-Founder of Maine Grains, to talk about history, healthiness, and the beauty of a past not-yet-lost to us, all wrapped up in a bushel of oats and wheat.

Amber is in jail- in a jail- in a former jail: she needed to turn the old structure into a grain mill from the ground up, because nowhere else had the vertical space she needed to get to work. It started with the Kneading Conference, and from there, she began to recreate the infrastructure to actually clean the grains Maine farmers have been growing. It turns out Maine has a history of grain production that we simply lost to time, and she's here to bring it back. All this gives Ric and Dan enough confidence to offer her a permanent spot on the new Ric and Dan and Amber show! But, alas, her real passion is still in farming and food. The three talk about the culinary history of Maine, the staple of buckwheat ployes, and the difference between soft and hard wheats... and as the conversation continues, it becomes clear: we have so much to gain, thanks to the effort of Maine Grains!

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On this episode of The Ric and Dan Show, Dan has to interview his boss, and Ric has to interview his wife, because Elizabeth Sutherland of Sutherland Weston comes on to talk about the company's origins and history, and how it intertwines with the state of Maine, and how the marketing world has turned around it.

Elizabeth is six minutes late for her own interview, but since she signs everyone's checks, that's okay. Ric has carefully spreadsheeted out everything he can and cannot touch on in the episode. Dan does not want to make eye contact with anyone, especially as the three talk about Blue Paper Communications, maternity leave, and Ian. Everything started from a pencil sharpener, a computer from Sam's Club, and a collection of chairs on the sun porch. After some prompting, Elizabeth tells the story of the logo and her first encounter with Cary Weston. She talks about the many moves SW had to go through before it found its home in the "marketing mansion", and how much of Bangor's history it influenced during that time.

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On this episode of The Ric And Dan Show, Alex Gray of Waterfront Concerts and KANÙ fame comes along to talk about the power of music, surprising event costs, and Ushuaia (in Orono, not Argentina).

We start the episode with the boys drinking a whole gallon of water. Ric wants to know if the old stories of Bob Dylan and Van Halen's contracts are true— and Alex spills all he knows, and all the moments where he had to hide in sound equipment cases. The iconic "We Are Bangor" gives Alex his highly-deserved flowers, and he talks about the late Ozzy Osbourne and all the artists that Waterfront just missed out on. But even so, they talk about the musical miracles that he's pulled off as well. He touches on bare-knuckle fighting City Hall, watching others do the same, and college kids, who "still know how to gather and burn it all down." The guys ask about KANÙ's origins and its pivotal manner as a space for music, during a time when there wasn't even space to breathe.

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On this special holiday episode of The Ric And Dan Show, our hosts are joined by a fellow airwave juggernaut, Mike Dow of Star 97.7, to participate in a friendly game of 20 Christmas Questions. Between the lord of the morning radio and the king of night television, who will win in this double-barrel no-holds-barred, high-octane Christmas-off?

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On this episode of The Ric And Dan Show, the boys bring in Lucas Richman, Grammy award-winning music director and conductor for the Bangor Symphony Orchestra and talk about selflessness, ego, leadership, and a blue corduroy suit.

Lucas has been given gifts by many influential people: the three talk about the gifts Gavin MacLeod gave him, one of them being his baton. Lucas talks about the strange nature of conducting, and how it is not a performance: it nurtures a performance. There are two big questions Lucas asks when someone wants to study conducting with him, and Ric and Dan both agree they are doozies. It's not about technique or training at all. But, when did Lucas know he wanted to be a conductor? He talks about how he took over a rehearsal, his debut at 16 years old, and a long story. A long story that won him a Grammy.

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On this episode of The Ric and Dan Show, CEO of The Bangor Region YMCA Diane Dickerson sits down with our hosts and lights up the room. She shares how she wound her way from Vegas to Utah, D.C to Denver, before finally finding her way to Bangor to lift the community up.

After weeks of machinations, Diane successfully pranks Ric. She then shares her story about growing up in Vegas, when the strip was still young. She talks about following a boy to Utah, her years in Washington D.C., and the many places after. Dan has a love affair with LA, while Diane is not an LA girl; Ric references Northern Exposure (if you know it), and they discuss the appeal of Bangor, the power of community, and the beautiful people.

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On this episode of The Ric and Dan Show, our hosts sit down with Matt North of Allenfarm Fence Company talk about all things Allenfarm— the ways in which the profession changed with the world, the ways in which the company stayed the same after all, and why the warehouse is full of so many swords.

Our episode starts out strong with Ric and Dan fighting about the Golden Rule, and soon after Matt reveals the origin of the "farm" in "Allenfarm". The three talk about the "seasons" of work, and how the changing of the whole world since the last 15 years has influenced (or not influenced) the company. Ric loses 5 dollars and Dan and Matt show him how they do it in Old Town. When asked about his life before fencing, Matt might've been in jail. Ric brings up a certain shipyard, a certain airport, and a certain spooky horror writer's fancy spider fence— and this gets Dan to thinking, are fences made to keep people out, or keep people in?

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On this episode of The Ric and Dan Show, our hosts sit down with Dr. Heather Evans and Sharon Gottlieb of Tensegrity Health and Aesthetics and talk about the profession, self-worth as a pathway to health, and some surprising insights on the ways society judges masculine identities.

During this episode, Dr. Evans shares how she escaped the threat of dental school and how she came up with the name "Tensegrity", and Sharon talks about how often she has to explain it to people who come in; The four discuss the differences— but mostly similarities— between cosmetics and biology; Botox is used for far more things than facelifts; Ric and Dan ask the real questions and insult each other's masculinities in the process; The guys get sued for saying the S-E-X word; Ric admits to the audio-only listeners that he's bald, and Dr. Evans sheds light on the correlation between location and openness to new ideas.

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