The Ric and Dan Show

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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On this episode of The Ric and Dan Show, we sit down with Peter Geaghan of Geaghan's Pub & Brewing and reflect on the legacy and evolution of family and business, passing generosity down the generations, managing a brand built over the years, and dread and delight on Saint Patrick's Day.

The three of them talk about the mural, the 50-year anniversary, the Baldacci family (Dan talks about his grandfather and clams), brotherhood in brewery, Geaghan's position as a Bangor institution (Dan talks about his father bailing on a funeral), overcoming challenges through familial bonds, growing up in a family of 11 kids, getting rid of breakfast, looking for the right people, the corner of the bar where beer is illegal, craft beer and the Geaghan's brand, becoming "willing fools" for the Cross Insurance Center, getting to "the right side of town" (while Ric acts like Mr. Burns from the Simpsons), and carrying on with the loss of Pat Geaghan.

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On this episode of The Ric and Dan Show, Dr. David Cloutier of the Veazie Vet Clinic walks us through keeping the drive alive, turning every obstacle into an advantage, and asking, "What does the world need right now?"

Dr. Cloutier tells tales of black bears on the operating table, deciding his career path and his bizarre start, pursuing the dream, going about business differently than peers, turning obstacles into opportunities, sneaking- no, squeaking into veterinary school, growing the business and adding onto the building, the struggle of remembering names, technicians and veterinarians, navigating the dissolving of a business, the emotional peril of veterinary work, tearing down the organizational pyramid, and veterinary practice as a 'people business'.

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On this episode of The Ric and Dan Show, our hosts sit down with Brett Soucy of Frank's Bake Shop and talk about the 80th anniversary, preparing for succession, and free pizza ASMR with special guest star David Bender.

Brett leads the conversation towards a business's reputation and responsibility, his history of working at the bakery under his grandfather, what he learned in a London pub, family businesses and chafing interests, the extra pressures upon legacy businesses, the bakeshop's connection to the United Nations, "bringing back the pizza", weathering COVID through shifting models, Frank's physical footprint in Bangor, creating a dialogue between company and customer, and creating a team culture that cares for each other.

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Please note: This episode was recorded in May 2025. Certain details discussed reflect the information available at that time and may have since changed.

On the first episode of The Ric and Dan Show, our hosts sit down with Chris Keegan of Coffee Hound Coffee Co. and talk about community, chance encounters, and most importantly, coffee.

Chris shares his story of one fateful Thursday morning, a lucky find on the streets of Bar Harbor, the most disgusting and most delicious coffee he'd seen in the military, bringing people together with beans, marketing Maine without marketing "Maine", losing his shop to COVID and starting all over again, the misuse of language in the coffee industry, the "UMaine Thing", one of the origins of the name "Coffee Hound Coffee", and his quest to turn nothing into something.

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