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It's Friday, which means the Friday Fun Bunch is in the WKXL Studios! Ken Cail interviews Tom Raffio, President & CEO of Northeast Delta Dental and Kitty Rae the OFFICIAL “Flick Chick."

We welcome CrowsFeat Farm in Kensington on today's segment of Artful Living. Jane has a chat with the owner of the farm and they discuss all the food and musical offerings at CrowsFeat Farm. Come and join the conversation.

Two terrific authors featured on Thursday. First we were joined by photojournalist Randy Louis Cox who took us through baseball history with his book, "715 at 50: The Night Henry Aaron Changed Baseball and the World Forever". The book contains over 70 photos including 44 (Aaron's number) taken that historic night in Atlanta. Another remarkable achievement in sports is documented by New York Times correspondent Thomas Fuller in his new book, "The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory". It's a remarkable story that takes you to the sidelines and locker room of an amazing group of young athletes.

This week on Facing the Future, guest host Phil Smith discusses the need for political depolarization with two Concord Coalition grassroots leaders. In addition, Phil talks with Bob Bixby about his 25 years as executive director of The Concord Coalition.

Our guest on Wednesday's program was political analyst Scott Spradling and our conversation ranged from the White House to the State House to Capitol Hill and all the hotly contested races that are going on and will be for the next couple of months. We also talked about the Scott Spradling Band which will be live this Thursday night and free of charge from 6-7:30 PM at 79 Clinton Street in Concord.

On todays Artful Living, Jane visits with Nicole Hodgkins of Achromatics in downtown Concord. Join us as we discuss fashion and entrepreneurship here in Concord.

On Tuesday we had our monthly visit with the New Hampshire Department of Insurance. Our guest was the Department's Property and Casualty Director, James Fox. The Department will be holding a Webinar on Emergency Preparedness and Insurance coverage at the end of the month. You can follow the N.H. Insurance Department's social media outlets to get the link. For more information and insurance assistance call ( 603) 852-3416 or email [email protected]

Author, broadcaster, musician John Leahy returned to the show Monday to talk about his upcoming Open Mic appearance in Concord on Wednesday at the Bank of NH stage. We also discussed a wide variety of topics including Vice President Harris and her running mate possibilities, a Simone Biles "failure" at the Paris Olympics with Tom Brady in attendance and Hurricane Debby making landfall in Florida.

NH Unscripted was originally crafted with the idea of letting the listening audience get a glimpse of what and how our artists do the things they do to bring the magic to our stages or screens. Today I had the honor of speaking with a longtime friend and brilliant mind Kevin Collins. Kevin’s has been an actor, director, writer, teacher, principal and mentor over the years and during that time he wrote/created a series of vignettes that made me think of early radio programs like The Lone Ranger, The Shadow, Jack Benny, etc. and it gave me the idea to see if he’d be interested in airing them maybe on a weekly or monthly basis for the NH Unscripted audience. But, I also wanted to let the listeners in on the process of creating the show/characters and today's episode is the beginning of that task. We start by talking about humor. It’s history, how it’s in our DNA, why we laugh at certain things and not others. It’s a fascinating delve it the topic and we barely scratch the surface. I think this will turn out to be a tremendous series and I hope you find it as captivating as I do.

It's Friday, which means the Friday Fun Bunch is in the WKXL Studios! Ken Cail interviews Tom Raffio, President & CEO of Northeast Delta Dental and Kitty Rae the OFFICIAL “Flick Chick."