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He's Ric Tyler, and He's Dan Cashman, and who's that with them? Every episode brings on another Maine business leader, here to share their tales of risk, reward, and all the times they said, "someday, we'll look back on this and laugh." Sit tight and hear how they navigated…
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"It's all about community, really, at the bottom line": Tom Peaco of The University of Maine Alumni Association (opens the original)
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On this episode of The Ric and Dan Show , Dan and Ric interview Tom Peaco, the president and CEO of the University of Maine Alumni Association. The three get to talking about Make-A-Wish, bear pears, and the art of bringing people together. Tom spent his days working for the Boy Scout Council of Portland, and after that, 18 years as the executive director of Make-A-Wish Maine, and after that, he started working for the Alumni Association. His whole career has been in the non-profit-- it makes hi
"He's got all the worrying done. We don't have to do it anymore": Brian and Kevin Bowman of Bowman Constructors (opens the original)
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On this episode of The Ric and Dan Show, Ric and Dan sit down with Brian and Kevin Bowman of Bowman Constructors. They talk about splitting wood, getting crazy, and who's more likely to lose sleep. It started with driving nails into an old house as kids, and then they graduated to mowing lawns, but in truth it was the Bowman's father who gave Brian and Kevin their love for construction. They were kids, but child labor laws didn't reach that far back then. Even then, this helped them make several
"Connecting with people is a dance": Biguita Hernandez-Smith of the City of Bangor (opens the original)
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On a special episode of The Ric and Dan Show , the boys from Bangor take their questions straight to the top, and speak with Biguita Hernandez-Smith, the Economic Development Officer of the City of Bangor, Maine. The three talk about Staten Island, Zumba, and how crucial communication is for community. Ric is the only one on time to the interview: we know this because he left it in the edit. Once Biguita enters, she also brings the facts in (facts are a first for this show). She tells the story
"We were both too young to be scared": Tyler and Mitch Smith of Greenway Equipment (opens the original)
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Start your engines and set the blades to speed, because on this episode, Dan and Ric of The Ric and Dan Show welcome aboard Tyler and Mitch Smith of Greenway Equipment to talk about winning luck, losing fish, and playing another round of "Who's More Likely". Ric admits that he dressed up as Peter Criss of KISS one Halloween. It's alright, because Mitch and Tyler dressed like KISS every Sunday afternoon. Being in a family business takes a lot out of you, especially in The County: the Smiths recal
"It's American. It's an American thing": Tom, Jim, and David Quirk of Quirk Auto (opens the original)
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On this episode of The Ric and Dan Show, our hosts bring on three of the Quirk boys, Tom, Jim and David, to talk about the 80s, vehicle franchises, the influence of their elders, and feature in "Car-tunes", a game-show gauntlet that shifts this episode into next gear. "What'd you do with the fourth guy?" Ric asks. "Is he trussed up in the back of a trunk somewhere headed south...?" The answer is "Exactly." The boys talk about Katy Perry and Prince, and the place where Quirk began: Griffin Road.
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