Ray Philippon, U.S. Army veteran and Gold Star Parent who encourages service and have become advocates for veterans to honor the memory of their son who was killed while serving in Iraq? The mother works as a Program Coordinator at Resilience Grows Here, a Veteran initiative of the Farmington Valley Health District. They will be sharing their story at a free Veterans Coffee House program at the Wallingford Senior Center on Nov. 27. and they joined Brad and Paul to talk about it.

There's talk of state employees and their pay being raised, again. A 5.5 percent raise, costing the state over $353 million. President of the Yankee Institute Carol Platt Liebau joined Gary Byron on the air to talk about it.

Dr. John Poothullil called into Brad and Paul to give advice for Heart Month and Type 2 Diabetes