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Monday's show featured our Hockey East Guru John Leahy with a preview of the Conference's men's semi-finals coming up this Friday night at TD Garden in Boston. We were also joined by former New Hampshire State Trooper Steve Callinan, a member of the N.H. Police Association Pipes and Drums, an organization that was formed after the tragic death of Sergeant James Noyes in 1994. They are holding their annual banquet Saturday in Manchester. Tickets are available at www.nhpipesanddrums.com

The Sports Machine with Slim is not correct all of the time. We make our fair share of mistakes. This week, we made a big one on the show when Slim said that the next few Boston Bruins games were not really going to matter. Last night's game mattered bigtime! The Bruins win 2-1 in overtime as Lindholm, Marchand and DeBrusk came together for one of the most beautiful plays of the season. This play might just help catapult this Bruins team to a Stanley Cup. That's how big it was. We break it all down today on the show, along with some Celtics discussion and a whole lot of college basketball tournament talk!

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."

Are you familiar with the company Brave Books? My guess is that no, you have not heard of them before. Why is that? The answer might surprise you, and that's why I am happy to announce that Brave Books is the subject of this WKXL Spotlight! Trent Talbot is the Founder of Brave Books. He transitioned from the world of ophthalmology into creating a book company after becoming a father....and it sounds like he isn't looking back! Brave Books is growing at a remarkable pace and there are some incredible growth plans on the horizon. Hear about it all today on this powerful episode of WKXL Spotlight.

Pat Maroon is a player the Bruins added at the trade deadline. Did you know that Mr Maroon led the league in penalty minutes last year? And that he was 2nd most in penalty minutes the year before? Did you also know that he has had multiple physical encounters with Bruins favorites such as Brad Marchand and Zdeno Chara? Today we talk with former NHL professional Thomas Poeck about the impact that Maroon can have on the locker room!

Maple Weekend is this weekend throughout New Hampshire and that was the focus of our discussion on Thursday with State Senator Howard Pearl and his wife Heather. The Pearl family has been in the maple business since the late 1800's in the same location in Loudon at 409 Loudon Ridge Road. More information on Maple Weekend in the state is available at www.nhmapleproducers.com

This week on Facing the Future, we look at President Biden's new budget. It has a plausible deficit reduction path but are the policies used to get there plausible as well?

Our guests are Josh Gordon of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and Brian Riedl of the Manhattan Institute.

The Sports Machine with Slim is New Hampshire's next generation sports talk radio show. Today's show gives a perfect example of that. Did you know that Aaron Rodgers might be the next Vice President of the United States? That possibility would sure make Sundays in September and October this year a whole lot more interesting. The Celtics and Bruins get their fair share of airtime today on the program. Slim asks us: "Who do you like better, Jayson Tatum or Jaylen Brown?" It is a fair, and fun, question to ask. For those of you who are looking for more information on the wild ride crypto has been on, Slim fills in some of the details about today's ethereum update. He also directs you to listen to a show he did on WKXL back in December https://www.nhtalkradio.com/?p=20351 In our final segment of the show, MBD calls in to give us some of his best college bball picks for today. Notre Dame, Syracuse, and Butler are the teams he likes. Let's see if he knows what he is talking about.

I’m telling you I’m in love with permaculture and so today I had Amy and Ethan Sager, from the Again & Again Farmstead in Tamworth, come by to chat up their farm. Their diversified farm produces growing supplies, wool products, flower bouquets, and ethically grown fruit and vegetables using non-certified organic methods. We talked about biochar, vermiculture (worms), no-till gardening, heritage breed chickens, ducks and sheep (and all the great wool that comes from them) and a heckuva lot more!!

Wednesday's program featured Hockey East guru John Leahy previewing tonight's opening round men's matchups in the Conference tournament. We were also joined by Commissioner D.J. Bettencourt and Consumer Outreach Coordinator A.J. Kierstead of the N.H. Insurance Department talking about the recent cyberattack against United Health Group and United Healthcare.