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Maryland Public TV station. I used to go to that every Saturday night. Did you turn that band on? Yeah. I've heard of it. I used to tell my wife how exciting the band was and how great we were. Most marvelous band that ever walked the planet. And then. Now I'm admitting that we were just a very low band. First name, Todd. Spell it with two knees and Grinstead with no a. G r. I'm s t e d k. And you pronounce it Grinstead. Grinstead as in Grinstead, Norway. When you open your show, what do you usually I mean, how do you open your show? I'm just, you know, Hi, how are you? Here I am. And let's play some music. That's about it. A lot of people go into all kinds of big production numbers. I don't I'm just a guy that's been in the afternoon with you. Some adults, it can go on and on and playing huge sound effects or say something profound. But they do say you talk a little. Well what do you talk about between. Right. Well, I talk about the records. I talk about what's going on. I I'm a guy that you spend your time coming home with, and I don't want to be in your face a lot, so I'm not, you know, pounding you with all kinds of stuff. I'm just, you know, a nice, pleasant guy to spend the afternoon with when you're on your way home. That makes any sense? No political. Well, there have been moments that I have gotten political. And then, of course, sometimes the boss walks down and looks in the window like, what are you talking about now? But I can say stuff like that if I want.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826#t=1.62,96.89"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826/transcript/71691/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And if I have, I feel if I feel moved to talk about something like that, I'll do it. But for the most part, I don't bury p o c I understand is number one. yeah. Especially. That means you're number one in the afternoon. Yeah. And I have been on and off for several years. Station is doing real well. Country music is really popular in Baltimore all over the country and doing very, very well now. So you play country and western music? When you were a youngster, did you did you dream about the day you were going to grow up and become a country and western deejay? When I was in broadcasting school, the the studio you didn't want to be in was the country studio. I think like every disc jockey, I wanted to be a rock and roll superstar. And then when I started playing country music back in the 70s, it's like, Hey, this stuff's pretty good. I like this. And for the most part, I've been playing country music ever since about 1972, so it's been good. Do you country music? Yeah. I love it. I really do. What's your favorite country in Western song right now? I don't know, but I don't really have songs that I like per se. I like sounds that I like. I like the sound of like a David Lee Murphy, who's a new upcoming star. I like the sound of the new group Lone Star. Their new song. Well, maybe my favorite song is No News, that that one does tend to get the volume turned up in the studio. I wanted to show some of these pictures of you as a youngster, so forth, getting married and so forth. I wanted to play a little music behind it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826#t=97.31,180.44"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826/transcript/71691/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What kind of music would be appropriate for you? It could be just about anything. I like all kinds of music. When I go home last night playing with my computer, I was listening to chant. So I listen closely and Exactly. It's. It's very soothing, very relaxing. Next day I might listen to classical. Next day I'm listening to Eric Clapton, but I do listen to a lot of country music too. But when you use country music for a living, you try to get away from a little bit. But I it depends on my mood. What I'm listening to. You are not born and raised in Baltimore. You're not what I refer to as a Baltimore boy, though I have lived in Baltimore longer than I've lived anyplace else in my life. First ten years of my life in Oregon, I spent eight years in Africa and my mother was a missionary there. Spend some time in the Midwest and then finally ended up here in 1979. So your mom was a missionary and took you to Ethiopia? Yeah, we went. She was a teacher at a missionary children's school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. And of course, I was one of the kids that was there and spent eight years there. Going to the school, got a chance even to play in the band that I played in. Both the school band and I played on my own little rock and roll band as well, which was very loud and probably pretty bad. Do you still play? I pick up my guitar once in a great while, but the fingers don't do what they used to do. I have found that the trombone, the trombone. I also haven't picked up. I played that. I played it actually pretty well, but I haven't played the trombone since I was probably 18, 19 years old.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826#t=180.56,266.33"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826/transcript/71691/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"All right. Now there is I'm sure there are many things you do well playing trombone, play guitar, do a very good job at announcing. But you are a champion. You are a cookie eating champion. Yes. With great notoriety. In fact, three years in a row I did that thing and I still can't figure out why I even did it. I still remember the sugar rush after the first one that I think I was like shaking for hours afterwards. 100 and 103, some cookies. The first time I still in how long? Three minutes. How did you learn how to stack? I'm like, What were you dunking them dot tea? The key is if you ever decide you want to be in a cookie eating contest, the key is. Use these scotties cookies which soak up things real well, and then you take like five in each hand, dunk them in a cup of hot tea. They soak up real well. By the time they get to your mouth, they're just mush. All you gotta do to swallow when they're gone. So that's the key. That's the key. Anybody can be a cookie. We can turn you on to one in no time flat. Trust me. But you were really doing well. I mean, you were just hands down the best at the rotunda. Now, that was back in 1980. That was 16 years ago. You had a lot of hair there. Yeah, it kind of. Maybe it was the cookie eating that did it. I'm not sure. Well, you were a lot better that also. Well, that was the cookies again. I mean, it was all their fault. Blame everything on. I thought it was the Girl Scouts that did it to me. Exactly. Yeah. So you you're you're.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826#t=267.59,360.03"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826/transcript/71691/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You're part of a very successful radio show. And you've been here now since You say you started here at posse in December of 1979. That's when I first came here. So you've been here 17 years on? Just about. Yeah. What's next? I'll probably be here until the day I die. I don't know. I kind of tend to just kind of follow along. If the phone rings and somebody comes along and says, We're going to make you a millionaire, I'll go. But I'm also very happy with what I'm doing right now. I like working with WPC and I love Baltimore. I mean, this is really I consider myself in Baltimore, you know, even though I wasn't born here, I feel like I was because it's just it's part of me now. And actually, like you said, you have spent more time here in Baltimore City than any other city in the world. Exactly. And you've been all over the world. Yeah, I've been to Europe because when you're a missionaries kid, you have to get back and forth to the mission field. So we used to tour Europe going back and forth and we toured the Orient once, going back and forth. So I've seen a lot of things back in my teenage years that a lot of kids don't ever get a chance to do. And your mom's name and or Annette And did you say your dad was a World War two hero? Did you say that? Well, to me, he was a hero. He was he was wounded in the battle near Morgan Bridge and got lost his leg and some other problems and then eventually died of those wounds back in the early 50s. So you were just a youngster, so you never really had to know you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826#t=360.44,446.21"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826/transcript/71691/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I have a few few images of him and that's about it. There's one shot of you again when you were all dressed up in a cowboy outfit with your gun was smoking. And I had a little mustache like you do now. Did you know then that you were going to be a radio star? I just wanted to be a star. I think at that time, I. There's always been something in me that wanted to be wanted to set himself apart from everybody else. I wanted to people that noticed me and that was part of it. I think that to get all dressed up in my little outfit, which was a tap dancing outfit, by the way, but then my mom modified it so that we could go into this costume contest for the Oregon Centennial back in 1959. All right. Now, many of you have your own radio. So many of your listeners, the ones who haven't seen you make your personal performer appearances so far, I really don't know what you look like now. They're getting an opportunity to see what Todd really looks like. You want to say something to that right there? Aren't you surprised? Good, bad or indifferent? Good, bad or indifferent is right. Well, you know, no one ever really looks like their voice. So I get I get people to call me up or will meet me in public and they'll say, I thought you were taller or I thought you had hair, which is comes up quite often. But I do talk about not having hair on the air all quite a bit of fact. I used to talk about how Marty Bastian loaned me some of his hairpieces. That may get on. May not. He has a couple of hanging on the wall.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826#t=446.56,535.3"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826/transcript/71691/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, there's a time to time that I think, you know, I could really use one. Just change my image for a few minutes. And Marty's got a few he's not using anymore, so. One more time with this Congress back in 1980 was the first one and one of three that you said you won. You had a lot of competition there, had a lot of young people look like lean, hungry folks. Yeah. When I first did it, I thought I had no idea that I was going to win. A matter of fact, somebody in the first group ate like 65 cookies, and I might as well just go, I'm not going to do this. And then Bob Reilly, our morning man at the time, was standing right behind me. You might have noticed he was screaming at me, You're losing. You're losing, You're losing. And so I just kind of got into a zone and just and and he kept saying, you're losing. And we got all done. I realized 103 cookies. And I'm like, Bob, I had him beat a minute ago. Why didn't you let me stop him? Well, you know, somebody else, at least on Channel 13, some other guy got the credit for winning that thing. That's what I. I found that out. The mere fact you were telling me about it, and I seem to remember that Channel 13 was talking about all this guy one night and I won. But I think some reporter might have left too early and brought the wrong information. Was it was the fellows name Chris Everett? I don't remember, but I seem to recognize them somewhere along the line. But you truly won that three years in a row. Exactly. They finally, I think, stopped doing the cookie crunch because I had won three years in a row and it was getting pretty disgusting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826#t=535.61,629.1"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826/transcript/71691/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No competition, No competition. They all just said we can't beat him. So let me ask you this, Judge for the future, if the Girl Scouts decide to have another cookie eating contest, would you? I probably would, but I really doubt I would win. There's some there's a there's young up and coming contenders that I'm sure would want my crown. But you have style. Well, I guess there's. There's only one of me, Thank God. All right. And finally, what's next for you now? I'll probably just stay here in Baltimore. I love doing what I'm doing, and I will continue to do it as long as they let me do it here. The station is very successful, so I see many more years of helping people get home in the afternoon. Back in the year. Back in the early 80s, he won the disc Jockey of the Year award. He said he particularly likes. This was one of the only pictures he's ever seen of Eddie Murphy with a smile on his face. Where are you? At the sweater. Clothing store. Personal appearances. Bob Riley. Bob Riley. Bob Riley. Stu Kerr. Seems to me that was the time that Stu started going on and on doing his crash Hindenburg impression about, the humanity. This was his first publicity picture. I'm done. PRC 1980. With hair and no beard and no beard. Okay. There's mom and dad, right? Yeah. Was teacher. And little did he know this age had his picture taken. Many years later as a radio star with a hat and mustache and a gun. Three that were fine. Nine I think nine about nine, 8 or 9. This was a picture they used on their passport when they went to Africa. And you look to be about, what, 9 or 10? I was ten.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826#t=630.72,823.4"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826/transcript/71691/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ten. He picked up a few country western habits like riding horse chewing tobacco. He. He became an altar boy. He grew up in Ethiopia, spent many of his teenage years there. And when you left Africa, where did you go to then? Went to college in Iowa. College in Iowa. And then Baltimore. Well, eventually I worked. I worked in. Okay. And his mom, he was raised he was over there with her and he was raised in Ethiopia. Teenager. And they came back and stayed. She went to college, worked a little bit Midwest, then came to Baltimore. Find out where that comes up. It will be offset. This is. I know where this one comes up. So we can get you a mix here. Headphones. A little bit of something. Okay, now don't acknowledge me. Okay. When the summer starts to heat up and make the splash with labor. 2000 dove and carrots at your local super fresh foods. But hang in there. That's okay. Pick to. When the summer starts to heat up. Take a splash with labor 2000 at your super fresh food market doing more for you. Someday I'll figure out how to. When the summer starts to heat up, take the splash with a lever 2000 dove and crest at your local super fresh fruit market. Super fresh. Doing more for you. And now for your chance to sing in the shower. Universal Studios, Hollywood. Keep listening to FM 93 W Posse. We'll give you the details on your chance to enter the lever singing and the shower contest. It's your chance to be a star. So I thought it was about it. But I walked down the hall with them. Yeah. I like it. I love it. Okay, I'll show both of you in the middle.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826#t=823.82,1025.49"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136814/file/253826/transcript/71691/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No, I'm not. Come here. Stephanie, come on. She's mentoring me. Hey, let me do it. Okay. Thank you. I. But. Okay. Now, I was just. $8 last night at the county fair. I broke down my shoulder, but I wanted that. She's got me saying, Share your family, darling. And. I loved it. I was more. I tried so hard. I came in daily. That little. I love it. Thousand. That is not for me to say. Never say can't do that but gotta. Father daughter. I'm taking them to task and I'm speeding. My fingers. I was. So I came. She sits down on the sofa, submerged in. I like it. I love it. I love. I tried so hard, I. 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