Please note: This episode was recorded in May 2025. Certain details discussed reflect the information available at that time and may have since changed.

On the first episode of The Ric and Dan Show, our hosts sit down with Chris Keegan of Coffee Hound Coffee Co. and talk about community, chance encounters, and most importantly, coffee.

Chris shares his story of one fateful Thursday morning, a lucky find on the streets of Bar Harbor, the most disgusting and most delicious coffee he'd seen in the military, bringing people together with beans, marketing Maine without marketing "Maine", losing his shop to COVID and starting all over again, the misuse of language in the coffee industry, the "UMaine Thing", one of the origins of the name "Coffee Hound Coffee", and his quest to turn nothing into something.

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