Shawn Ryan Show #243 Steve Robinson
Added 2025-10-08 18:30:03 +0000 UTCSteven Robinson, Editor-in-Chief of the Maine Wire, leads New England’s fastest-growing digital media outlet focused on exposing political corruption and organized crime across local, state, and regional levels. A native of Dexter, Maine, and Bowdoin College graduate in political philosophy, he previously worked at Regnery Publishing, produced the Howie Carr Show, and handled Barstool Sports' Kirk Minihane Show and true-crime podcast The Case, which spurred murder charges per season. During COVID-19, he quit his job to travel 35,000 miles across North America in a camper van before returning to Maine in November 2022 to revitalize the Maine Wire as an aggressive, independent platform for underreported stories, bold investigations, and commentary.
Robinson's groundbreaking "Triad Weed" series, launched in August 2023 after a leaked DHS memo revealed over 270 illicit cannabis operations by Asian Transnational Criminal Organizations in Maine, uncovered a vast Chinese mafia network spanning Maine to southeast China. His reporting exposed racketeering involving black-market cannabis, human and sex trafficking, money laundering, bank fraud, illegal border crossings, neurotoxins poisoning homes, murder, and national security threats—including CCP-linked properties near U.S. Army facilities. He exclusively detailed exploited U.S. Treasury subsidized loans that enabled foreign nationals to acquire over 70 properties.
Cited in Congressional reports and featured on CBS, Fox News, the Daily Mail, OANN, and more, Robinson's work has led to over 60 articles, property raids, arrests, Sen. Susan Collins' interrogations of intel agencies, and the documentary Triad Weed: How Chinese Mafia Infiltrated Maine. Local police praise it as a field manual, though Maine media avoids the story.
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Fuck this shit I just feel better in the sky
Shaun Tomiello
2025-11-08 16:22:04 +0000 UTCYour useing wiffi it wasent on sort this shit out defence force my ass
Shaun Tomiello
2025-11-08 16:20:55 +0000 UTCI would love to offer a opposing perspective on 70H
Admiral
2025-10-21 03:19:35 +0000 UTCShawn gave far more pushback to Steve than to Gavin Newsom. Still waiting to see if he hosts someone who will tell the truth about California and Newsom’s policies and history. I have significantly decreased my support of Shawn since that interview. Several emails and direct messages regarding this subject with zero response. If he takes his job seriously, which he says he does, he should have planned on having a guest from both sides of the perspective - not just Newsom unopposed and unhinged. Irresponsible and incredibly damaging to the truth. The nation needs to know the truth Shawn.
Reanin Kielmeyer
2025-10-20 18:26:58 +0000 UTCI've seen vans from mass. dropping Chinese people at a truck stop in Auburn ME. . They then are on the cell immediately , I assume calling for pickup for the next leg of the journey.
abraham lauze
2025-10-18 02:28:21 +0000 UTCThere is at least one kratom wholesaler who recently has a campaign, telling its customers to contact their reps to regulate kratom. One of the reasons you see who-knows-what "kratom" being sold is because it was legally deemed a "non food item", at the federal level (within the last decade, I think). Again, all this crap is about the criminals in our own house, who don't have our best interests in mind. #EZKratom #RedBali I used it on and off for a few years and never once felt any addiction. In fact it wasn't noticeable, when it hit. The only way I knew that it was working was being surprised, some hours later, that I didn't have as much pain as usual. I can't recommend that anymore ingests a non food product that's purposefully unregulated, by an action, federally, not by inaction. There were a lot of things that spiked excess deaths by 2020, including the "population bomb" which was known about and written about in the 90s. Take a look at the population pyramid and when the largest segment of the population hit the age of average life expectancy. Add those deaths to the STREET opioid deaths, and you don't have any Excess Deaths to use for a pandemic of false positive nasal swabs that collected the most diverse population that will exist for the next century. Both the Fauci and the Rand Paul & MAHA narratives trapped people in a limited spectrum of debate, that included a flu that just "disappeared" and a novel corona RNA virus that spread around the world, which is impossible, because RNA is single stranded and can't proofread the copies, so it can't maintain integrity. The Lie Is Too Big To Fail. P.S. Also, it would matter if one has other addictive tendencies, since that's also a personality trait that enters into the equation. I'm not making that assumption about you, since you seem to be surprised that you kept thinking about it. Chronic pain can also increase thoughts of procuring something that allows you to function, especially after the CDC forced many long term patients to drop 80-90% or more of their dose. Shawn talked to all these people before the last election and brought up Ibogaine. Haven't heard of any news about legalizing it in clinical settings, which would save a lot of lives. 🤔
Robert Diggins
2025-10-13 19:43:27 +0000 UTCTried kratom tea once, the next day I felt a physical urge to drink it again. I even felt like my brain had wired itself to fixate on anything possibly related to kratom for some time after. If I became fiendish with the “safe and natural” version of the street drug (or shall I say convenience store drug)…I’d hate to try to not become addicted to the synthetic version of it.
John
2025-10-13 05:13:50 +0000 UTCThis dude is trying hard, but missing what he's choosing not to see. I guess nobody knows that prescription deaths were plateaued before the Crackdown and heroin deaths were skyrocketing. Every 1 in 1000 news reports would actually say that the CDC had included ALL heroin deaths in the prescription stats, bc the prescription "might have been" a gateway drug. That's not 100% and they didn't talk about ALCOHOL, which is the number one gateway for young people trying just about anything and getting addicted. Especially if they have an addictive personality. He's also putting too much emphasis on foreign enemies, when WE KNOW THAT HEROIN WENT THROUGH TURKEY, BELGIUM, TO HUBS LIKE PATTERSON AND CHICAGO, ON MILITARY PLANES. OUR TROOPS GUARDED THE RECORD YIELDS, AFTER RECORD YIELDS OF POPPIES. WE KNOW DIPLOMATS BROUGHT IT IN UNCHECKED. WE KNOW THE PEOPLE IN THE POLITICAL MACHINE WHO HELPED FACILITATE THE TRANSFER TO THE US CRIMINAL ORGANIZATIONS. YES, UNDER OATH. NAMES. PUBLICLY AVAILABLE. WE KNOW THEY GOT CAUGHT FUNDING AN ILLEGAL WAR IN NICARAGUA WITH DRUG TRAFFICKING THAT STARTED THE CRACK EPIDEMIC. READ MORE GARY WEBB. OUR PROBLEMS ARE FIRST AND FOREMOST IN HOUSE. THERE'S A GIGANTIC 🐘 IN THE ROOM AND NOBODY WILL DISCUSS IT. AND BOTH OF YOU PORTRAYED ALL AMERICAN DOCTORS AS DUMBASSES WHO READ A BOOK AND SUDDENLY HANDED OUT OPIOID MEDS LIKE CANDY. THAT IS SUCH BS. CRACKING DOWN ON THE FRINGE DOCS WOULD HAVE BEEN PRUDENT, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED. THEY CRACKED DOWN ON ALL PATIENTS, NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, AND IT WAS STRAIGHT UP MURDER. FEDERAL DRUG WAR POLICY GOT US HERE, AND IT'S NOT "INCOMPETENCE". I appreciate the information, but it's soooo frustrating, when the framing is so ignorant. WAKE UP!
Robert Diggins
2025-10-11 04:23:44 +0000 UTCDude, "reduces anxiety, AKA it gets you high"? You better tell all the SSRI manufacturers and docs who dole them out more than anything else. Meanwhile, the articles are starting to drip out slowly, "Uhhh, maybe we were wrong about serotonin and the whole chemical im alance thing". Seriously. There ARE medicines that people use responsibly and help them function, short and long term. Take a look into how many people were murdered by the CDC's "Crackdown on Opioids", which was a humongous propaganda campaign, which involves SPIKING PRESCRIPTION DEATH STATS WITH ALL STREET HEROIN DEATHS. Entire populations of patients were transferred to street heroin, through the methadone and Suboxone clinics, where, as I recently heard from a nurse, "That's where all the hookups are!", bc they also serve the street drug addicts and there are dealers hanging around. These were regular people, tested monthly for use and for any street drug use, and the doctors were literally crying and the pharmacists were freaked out by all the DEA visits. Then the CDC decides, in 2022 I think, QUIETLY, WITH NO YEARS ON END SATURATED MESSAGING IN THE MSM, that they were wrong about those blanket dosing guidelines, for all patients, in 2016, and patients using such a dangerous drug should be treated as individuals. Literally everybody is gaslit on the topic of "opioids" and imagine that the number one killer of Americans in their prime of life ...IS DOCTOR PRESCRIBED PAIN KILLERS.
Robert Diggins
2025-10-11 03:33:40 +0000 UTCThe FBI COUNTERINTEL will have all kinds of evidence on comms between domestic politicians and criminal groups, with foreign entities. They had more than the FBI counterterrorism did, concerning 9/11/2001. 💡
Robert Diggins
2025-10-11 03:15:02 +0000 UTCPolicy is the cause. Our drug policy got us here and drives these creative solutions, instead of simple, sensible regulations to protect quality and ensure source. The guy who runs my local gas station said they were just going to stick with all the crazy stuff, bc when they legalized MJ in my state, they made THOSE licenses too expensive. I think there are only a couple places in the entire state that sell it. I DON'T BELIEVE IN INCOMPETENCE THEORIES AND BLACK MARKETS PUSH DRUGS INTO SCHOOLS (Reference the book, 'Freakanomics') AND ARE GENERALLY BLACK BUDGET REVENUE STREAMS FOR YOU KNIW WHO, THE SAME PEOPLE WGO MET WITH ZAWAHIRI IN BAKU, AZERBAIJAN, IN LATE 2000. BTW, WHAT'S THE HOLD UP WITH IBOGAINE? 🤔
Robert Diggins
2025-10-11 02:59:17 +0000 UTCNot sure if someone posted. Chris Bell did a documentary called, “A Leaf of Faith.” It was about kratom. Worth a watch.
Jason OBrien
2025-10-10 22:13:04 +0000 UTCHey shawn any questions you have about 7 oh feel free to reach out. I can tell you first hand how terrible this stuff is. Not a ton of people knew about it but the amount of users just keeps growing at an insane rate. It is unbelievably addicting and is going to ruin so many lives if something is not done. Please reach out if you would like more details im a huge fan of yours ive listened to just about every episode and this one in particular hit home and im so happy someone is talking about this
Wally
2025-10-10 18:51:17 +0000 UTCI’m a Canadian. I have used Marijuana for debilitating knee issues. I make my own lotions. I’m not a smoker or a baker or anything, there is NOTHING better for arthritis than MJ cream. I think the medicinal uses of this are not being highlighted as they should be. We have extreme regulations in Alberta. Regulations are strict, and they have to go through government agency BEFORE distribution to stores. More regulation with labelling, packaging, growing, and under a government agency- the same as alcohol. I would say the benefits since legalizing it have been huge. We haven’t seen a massive drawback. And the government makes $$$. Illegal grow ops are unnecessary.
Dawn Style
2025-10-10 18:32:51 +0000 UTCYou'll be further damaging several state economies that have already been decimated by Asian furniture manufacturing.
Julie
2025-10-10 18:11:10 +0000 UTCNot sure why there are no raids. Isn’t this why you have a National Security Agency? Domestic national Guard?
Dawn Style
2025-10-10 17:58:22 +0000 UTChemp can be used and was used before cotton to make so many great things this guy seems clueless. Also reckless banning of everything is not the solution. If they want to ban something how about cigarettes to start.
Barlow
2025-10-10 11:37:15 +0000 UTCKratom is fine it's the 70h like you said that is the issue I think. We have to be careful about banning things. Really legalizing actual kratom marijuana and natural psychedelics at the fed level would eliminate the illegal trade and synthetic substitutes especially once they are able to use the us banking system and not operate as cash only. Prayers 🙏 to you and yours. I'm just trying to stop smoking cigarettes. Worst habit ever.
Barlow
2025-10-10 10:53:10 +0000 UTCIt isn't the fringes of society that this crap is hitting. I was in a motorcycle wreck in 2020... multiple surgeries later and I was told kratom was a natural pain killer made from leaves and stupidly believed it (and thought I was doing something good by stopping pain meds and using this "natural" supplement. about a year ago, the herbal shop I would buy kratom from told me 7oh was natural just like the kratom was and that I should try it. I'm now in the middle of trying to taper down myself after realizing I have a dependency to this poison after reading a report about how addictive it is a couple months back and stopping cold turkey (only to start going through the worst withdrawals of my life... having never been addicted to something before and never having a withdrawal before). I take a very low dose (comparatively to other people who abuse this stuff). Ive never taken it in an amount where I was "high" like opiate users do with heroin, pain pills, etc.... (Ive never been one to like feeling drunk, high, etc...) but even taking the low dose I have regularly taken for a year now.... it is *the worst* thing I could imagine when experiencing those withdrawals a few weeks back when I tried to quit cold turkey. there are people who take this stuff in very high doses (i confronted the shop about how addictive this stuff is when I went through those withdrawals... asked the shop owner why he would sell this stuff ... how he felt telling people it is a natural herbal supplement like he told me) and he said he didn't know either and that he had never tried it himself but just said what the reps who he buys his products from told him to say when selling it. it's 100% my fault I'm in the spot I'm in for sure. I don't know why I didn't try to research this stuff beforehand... I don't know why I chose to take something not prescribed by a doctor to help pain management (I should have just sucked it up and dealt with the pain I have now instead of being a pussy and trying to mask it). but here I am.... a dad to three beautiful kids with another one on the way.... a business owner to two companies who has never not fulfilled my duties to my family or my companies.... a strong Christian random American who this poison grabbed a hold of and is now too scared to tell the doctor and have my medical records show I'm some kind of degenerate addict... to have that label put on my record professionally and personally... the Fed needs to ban 7oh and all kratom products NOW. enough with the B's about its therapeutic qualities. sure... it helps a ton with pain .... but the detriment to your mental and physical well-being far outweighs the benefits.... and the fact it puts you in the shadows away from the helpful oversight of Doctor who can monitor and help curb issues you would otherwise have if taking prescriptions for a long period. pray for me y'all.... I have 1 month until my 4th baby comes into the world and I want nothing more than to be rid of this dependency... just having to do it slow so I don't completely lose my mind around my family by moving it quicker it's embarrassing. it's disgusting... and it's reality for those you would least expect it to be happening to.
Blake
2025-10-10 03:26:04 +0000 UTCI am sorry for your loss. I am grateful you're spreading awareness to help others avoid the same outcome. 🙏
Lydia
2025-10-10 03:07:59 +0000 UTCAppreciate the awareness. My sons are in this age group so it's helpful to know what to look for. No Bueno!
Lydia
2025-10-10 03:06:07 +0000 UTChttps://www.binoidcbd.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoqVdRcPEK7wWYTnQZbKKDvw96S-Ansmhxd0gCok-2DIOGFOAZlD This website right here is something I found about through my kids people they were going to school with. We’re ordering off this website and they’d have product delivered to their house and it’s a serious gray area that even allows it to be delivered. All they have to do is click the button and say they were 18 when they were not in booms it would be shipped to their house.
Hunter
2025-10-10 00:42:02 +0000 UTCI remember when I was a kid they used to sell this stuff at the gas station. It was supposedly branded like incense, but it was called spice. It was a synthetic marijuana you could buy flower style. It was some weird stuff and it was everywhere down south.
Hunter
2025-10-10 00:37:34 +0000 UTCThis may be the most important information to come out in the last 5 years, I knew something was up with the pot and it's been destroying people, pay attention to this one people.
Kevin
2025-10-09 23:09:02 +0000 UTC$150B ??? They are undermining the USD. This is not just destroying individuals, which is definitely heinous enough. If they are Shanghai-ing illegal aliens and using them as slave labour they are saving a lot of operating cost. One would think that from a legal perspective the human trafficking should be addressed if they want to shut down these ops.
Chey
2025-10-09 18:59:48 +0000 UTCIs there a way to verify CBD/CBG/CBN gummies. Stating they are grown in the US? There is a micro dose of THC 1.5 - 5 MG per gummy. Specifically Batch & Feals gummies.
Belindawwjd
2025-10-09 17:42:15 +0000 UTCBeing a new patron member, I can’t help but to remember the Instagram days of Shawn doing the “ Ninja hood slide “ days. 😎.
JCM
2025-10-09 17:22:52 +0000 UTCIn 2021 my 19 year old little brother was given a pill by a “friend”…an older dude he didnt know that well. It was supposed to be a blue oxy. It was in fact a counterfeit and was laced with fentanyl and he overdosed and died. The days of my youth where all you had to worry about was getting something fake or something that just “didnt work” are long gone. Someone who has never done drugs can one mistake and it could be there last. Make your children and loved ones aware. This the world now and instances like this are happening every day.
Alex Guillory
2025-10-09 15:40:09 +0000 UTCCongrats on getting off that shit. 🙏
JIM NEWMAN
2025-10-08 20:33:48 +0000 UTC30 years ago the I used to simmer Kratom leaves with ginger, turmeric and a pound of honey(nasty tasting shit) the stuff nowadays is exactly what Steve says, a chemical concentrate with no similarity to the whole leaf which probably can’t be found anywhere anymore. The stuff Steve’s talking about is between the fake boner pills and the Ho-Ho’s …… Biggest problem is hooking kids IMO
JIM NEWMAN
2025-10-08 20:32:49 +0000 UTC7oH is extremely addictive, even in the low doses or amounts that are in feel free tonics. I’ve been taking feel free for going on three years every single day and it is almost destroyed me mentally and physically. I finally quit about 10 days ago and haven’t looked back. They market them as something to enjoy instead of alcohol however, even though I quit drinking alcohol, which it did help with you start from half a dose to one dose to two doses three years later, you’re taking 3 to 4 to 5 bottles a day, which is two servings per bottle. Or you can’t function. It has destroyed my mental clarity.. you feel like a zombie when you’re on it at least for me, that’s what it was like. It does make you feel really good, but not when you take it for as long as I have taken it it just becomes something you need to get through the day. The one thing that helped me stop is the love I have for my wife because she noticed that I wasn’t present ever I never wanted to talk. I never wanted to do anything because I was so zoned out all the time. What started as a recommendation from a friend turned into a three year addiction. I will gladly advocate for anybody who supports banning this substance!
Hawkeye
2025-10-08 19:59:09 +0000 UTCAs a maine resident i couldn't be happier to see this. Heard about this appearance on GHRT. The only true news outlet in maine.
Kyle Clark
2025-10-08 19:32:11 +0000 UTC
