On this episode of The Ric and Dan Show, Ric and Dan (who are named after the show) bring along Rich Armstrong, president of The Snowman Group. Printing has been in his blood for quite a while, and he shares his story of how his life shaped his craft, and how his craft shaped his life. The three sit down and get to work mispronouncing things, and talking about history, mystery, ADD, MMA, and going straight to H-E-double hockey sticks.

Rich sets the record straight: it's "Snowman", not "Snowman", so if you've been saying "Snowman," you gotta start saying it right. In a revolutionary move, Ric and Dan do the first-ever Ric and Dan Show Poll, and next time, they might even set up a way to answer it. In 8th grade, Rich was really into gasoline and perfume, but so much has changed since then! He used to live above his print shop when it was in Bangor, but the floors were wooden, and the sidewalk was always covered in snow... welcome to adulthood. Only Ric abstains from eating meat during Lent, and he's trying not to cuss. Dan is abstaining from eating candy. Rich has given up something even bigger than both of them... to find out, you'll just have to listen to this episode!

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On this episode of The Ric and Dan Show, Dan (and Ric) bring along James and Kenya Hopkins of Acadia Wilderness Lodge to talk about yurts, meeting the parents, and a Hallmark movie called The Valley of Death.

Everything Ric knows about the guests he learnt from Dan, and from that he sees the Hopkins as the closest thing to a rom-com in the real world. Little did he expect that it would come with a side of drama! Kenya discusses the iconic yurts at the Wilderness Lodge, and James sheds some light on how they became so modernized. Each yurt has a name rooted in indigenous culture, a connection to nature, and the story of a tooth-and-nail legal battle behind it. It's a complex web of regulations, negotiations, street signs, city halls, and even the Declaration of Independence! We wouldn't dare to tell you any more about it: you'll just have to listen for yourself!

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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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