
It's a very, very sad day for us.
We're just going to be totally honest with you.
And our man, Todd, who is our pilot of this entire show is moving on.
And I just want to read from corporate.
When it says here, Todd has given his heart, his soul, and his voice to Green Bay and the Fox Valley, not to mention the Civic Media News Talk Network as a brand voice for two and a half years.
His passion for local radio is without question impressive.
We thank Todd for substantial contributions to his markets and to Civic Media Family.
More details in his next step coming soon.
We love Todd.
I can't believe.
He's the greatest person I've ever worked with in radio.
No disrespect to all the other people I've worked with in radio, but I've never seen a guy who's, who lives at, whose heart and soul and passion is in radio the way Todd is.
I agree.
And we love him.
And he's, we are, we are nothing without Todd.
Yeah.
So, Todd.
Good morning.
Oh, hey, Todd.
Wow
Yeah, here.
That's do we get used to that begins.
Well now it begins.
He stood her.
Yes.
We start now.
Wow.
Here we go Unbelievable, but anyway, hearts coming to town too.
Yeah
Well, they had one song kind of.
What?
Annie Dreambowl, Annie.
Annie Dreambowl.
Which was, you know what?
I remember this in radio for one of the stations back in the day.
QLH, I think.
And it was always, that was always, you had to be careful.
It was like a really short song.
It was like two minutes.
Yeah.
So my daughter calls me last night.
She said, I'm going to be around for a couple of days.
Oh, OK.
I'm going to Atlanta.
I go, cool.
Who do you know in Atlantic shows?
Well, I'm friends with this person and he runs the arena things and blah, blah, blah.
I'm going front row to Beyonce.
I've been reading one thing on one of the Green Bay websites or Facebook posts or everything about Green Bay, whatever.
And they're talking of it.
And it's so funny, because I could just picture one of the guys saying this.
They're going to get Leonard Skinnerd at Joannis.
They're going to have like 10,000 people.
But Harold Compton, who is in one of my books, he was a very prominent World War II veteran.
He was like deputy police chief or something.
And he's talking about, they're
We had that one concert there and there's so much marijuana being around there.
We had 2,000 arrested in that whole thing.
So they wouldn't have.
But the thing is, then I saw comments, it's like, but in the arena, you used to be able to smoke anywhere in the arena.
look like in these glasses Do you ever see the movie falling down with Michael Douglas where he plays a guy like a computer type guy or whatever and he'll every just had one of those unbelievable days Where it's like he lost his job
And his car broke down and he goes to buy something and the guy gives him attitude or whatever, whatever.
And he just kind of goes crazy.
You ever see that movie?
No, but these are exactly kind of like glasses he had on where it's like kind of crazy guy glasses.
Okay, and Boy, it was like everybody dressed really good.
Everybody who looked really good
And it seems like when I saw pictures of like the 40th, it was like people in jeans and sweatshirts.
And so I don't know what the 50th is going to be like.
You know, the 25th was like that in between.
They always say the 10th is the most they want to impress.
Yeah,
Yeah, I don't know why you're going to have that.
But yeah, I mean, 25th's a good one.
God, we had a blast at our 25th because it was, you know, it was just it was just fun.
Nobody's going to change.
And we just talked a lot about how.
Talk a little bit about health, but I remember talking about Diabetes skips generations.
I'm like kind of like religion We didn't have the most religious our kids were pretty religious No, we it was fun.
I just it was just Nobody was like it was critical.
No, it's just that we had a lot a lot of mine is kind of sad
Thank
Well you guys for
97.9 FMW GBW 98.3 96.5 FMW ISS and of course the civic media app got techs here from William cheap trick and green band December 4th by wife of some Rockford, Illinois and went to high school with several band members.
Who was Irene?
Oh, so I'm watching this great special.
Oh, by the way, Terry from ashwabana says great movie John falling down my favorite part when he was at the McDonald's and Mr breakfast by five minutes was ready to tear the place up.
Lisa
from Simple Life, says I got to deliver quiche to Todd.
Todd, thank you so much for the memories.
Lisa, do me a favor.
We'll take care of that.
Just bring it here.
And I'll make sure I get it to,
Masters of this guy.
Yeah, it's but but the bloody 100th It's called because they lost so many guys.
It was like one day.
They'd lose like 120 guys just blown of this guy That's unbelievable and I gotta be honest.
I don't know what I would do I don't know if I'd have the courage So these planes are getting hit
So anyway, so anyway, prime, I'm watching this other thing.
Has anybody else seen this?
It's called 1971.
But what a pivotal year that was with everything that happened between the Kent State.
You know, the shooting at Kent State and all the protests and then, but there's a big thing about George Harrison.
He had left the Beatles.
You know, everybody kind of split up at this point and everything.
And it talks about there's a lot of behind the scenes stuff with John Lennon and Yoko like you can't believe video.
You've never seen before.
It's really great.
But George Harrison gets in big with the guy from Bangladesh.
because they were having that big thing.
The country was splitting apart and the whole thing.
He did that big concert at Madison Square Garden for Bangladesh, okay?
And it talks about how Leon Russell, you know, who was such a great musician and he was, so anyway, long story short.
So let's look at Leon Russell about what he's done.
And it's, I mean, you got George Harrison and Bob Dylan doing duets on, I mean, unbelievable amount of talent in one place, okay?
But anyway, his read about Leon Russell, his high school in Oklahoma, him,
Anita Bryant and three other people that made it huge in music and movies, all went, all classmates in the same high school.
but you know, it's another one of those things So when you read about that these other people that you know went through those things and we talked about this all the time with these musicians would ever They had to have had a music teacher
Somebody early on like a Kevin Van Ness like we talk about right or Rob or a bill from big
but Yeah, like the an awesome movie the music though was that um with Richard Dreyfus You know where the girls very shy she becomes governor plays clarinet
You know Richard, right?
That's a very famous movie.
Everybody's seen it.
You've seen it and you say, oh, yeah, okay, but nobody's um Jaws how no, no Richard Dreyfus.
He was in Jaws.
Yeah, yeah, yeah Music changed
You hear him howling around your kitchen door.
You better not let him in.
Sure
I remember those guys Okay, I want to be I want to know t-shirt who can come up with the best trio that we were and Todd here's what I'm just gonna read Todd has as
put in his resignation.
Todd, this is from corporate.
Todd has given his heart, his soul and his voice to Green Bay and the Fox Valley.
Not to mention the civic media news talk radio as the brand voice for two and a half years.
His passion for local radio is without question impressive.
We thank Todd for substantial contributions to his market and to the civic media family sage.
Todd was the greatest is the greatest and he's going to be doing some great, great things still in the media.
So
it's
Yeah.
But you know what?
I actually had a great class at ASU.
It was TV programming.
And it was so much fun where you'd like do your own program, you know You have to watch all the shows and come up with what you would think would be a great lineup How one show would lead to the next and the next and it's pretty fascinating when you go back and see those TV light-ups from that era.
and
No
Is that Kevin Van Asst?
Or is that fluffy?
Who is that?
Some great musician teachers like look I make my kids watch that that shows the changing of music and
Nobody's seen that movie.
The influence that a teacher can have.
That girl.
That's one of those movies that was probably the
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Yeah, he would stop over there once in a while.
They would just talk music.
Um, you know, I guess they went through a lot of people.
I was like, Oh, the letterman, the letterman, there's only really one guy who's been there.
Um, and, um, he, yeah, he's a nice guy.
Yeah, so when I was growing up She was this huge country every time and you know like Glenn Campbell had his TV show Johnny Cash's TV show I think Bobby Goldsboro had it to everybody had a Mac Davis and And now Lonnie Anderson, you know what I mean?
She was huge.
Okay, so I walk you back at the old station Walk in one morning, you know five to six or whatever and go into get a cup of coffee and here's this elderly lady kind of
and somebody brought in this big thing of chocolate, okay?
And she's got this, and she's like trying to tear into this chocolate to break off the piece.
Remember that?
That was like, ooh, who's he?
Exactly!
And she's got this knife, and she's like trying to tear into and break out this piece of chocolate, okay?
And then, you know, I just said, okay, somebody's, whatever, and I go and do my thing, come on, and I walk by the Y100, and it was little Anderson.
You know what I mean?
It's like, oh!
Yeah.
And I think she died not long after.
You gotta watch it for a while.
There are certain movies that are like that.
Shawshank Redemption is another one.
Boom, you gotta watch it if it's on.
Because it doesn't, you know what?
Every scene is something good.
You don't have to see the whole movie.
They do such a great job of putting the whole thing together.
Peter, Paul and Mary.
Todd is Mary.
Okay.
Like that, but they were good.
They had great harmony.
Oh my god.
It's unbelievable.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did they do where have all the flowers?
That was them, right?
on the dark side of it, because that's when cocaine first started getting into Los Angeles.
And they talked about Sly and the Family Stone, and he would write these great songs, wonderful songs, and then the next day be bleeped up and record over them.
And they're like, where's that track?
That was phenomenal.
And then the doors, Jim Morrison, were just, he was so great, so talented, such a great songwriter, and it killed him.
And it talked about how cocaine played a really big role in music changing because some of those people that were so great and so popular, they just burnt out.
Yeah.
And it opened the door for other types of music then.
You're
My name is Eric here on a Wednesday morning.
You know, once again, though, we're talking about Todd leaving us, which is heartbreaking, literally.
So he's such a great friend, such a great producer, such a great guy, and he's gonna be doing some other, he's not going away, away.
He's gonna be doing some other phenomenal things in the media.
I always tell my students,
and then when age just finally does inevitably creep up, people are like, oh, you sure look old all of a sudden.
Well, yeah, but because I was so old before I looked old.
I looked real.
People used to tell me that all the time.
It's like,
Okay.
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