A few years back, I was contracted to do a weekly 2 minute radio feature on a local talk radio station. The feature that I christened, Timepiece covered a multiude of topics – but mostly with things that had happened in my life.

Timepiece ran for well over a year before the station format was changed and I was replaced.

Recently a good friend of mine suggested that these recordings might be an interesting addition to my blog. It is with that backstory in mind that I present to you now the first of those recordings.

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Radio personality and friend Todd Jeffers has passed away.  I knew Todd when he was part of the morning team at WRKZ (Z107) in Elizabethtown with Nancy Ryan and then later with Nancy at BOB in Harrisburg.

Todd was one of the funniest people I ever knew.  For close to 12 years, I was lucky enough to be part of his morning cast of characters with my Jo Bob Leroy (later Leonard G. Hogg) and Perford Fern contributions. I would write and record these comedy bits the night before they were due.  But I would always call Todd and read him the scripts before producing them.  I can still hear him laughing when I got to the punch lines – some of which were either highly controversial or borderline x-rated or both.    And then he would laugh again the following morning when he shared the bits with his adoring audience.

Often times he would tell me the night before that I had really gone too far with the bits.  But he would put them on the air anyway.  And that was that.

When my first daughter Jordan was born prematurely in Pittsburgh and I was driving back and forth from Harrisburg to the hospital in Pittsburgh each week, Todd would always call or visit me and do his best to keep my spirits up.  Underneath the jokes, and the crazy lifestyle, was a caring man who loved his family, loved his audience and loved his friends.

He was a light in the lives of everyone who really knew him and loved him.  And as long as we’re smiling – we’re holding him in our hearts.