Thank God It's Toby Highlights

UniFURsity is an adult animated sitcom about Toby G. Coy, the first coyote student to attend a college called UniFURsity after the approval order from the United Furland government. Toby is grateful to participate in UniFURsity, but his life is hard as a coyote when the student body, teachers, and college employees treat him as a criminal because his coyote pack tried to invade their entire country decades ago. So, Toby must prove to the wary citizens that he doesn't pose a threat by going to college and hoping that one day every citizen will think that coyotes are peaceful citizens. If Toby can prove that he gets along with anyone, makes new friends first, can graduate from college, and successfully bonds with society, his coyote brethren will be allowed to come too. But, if Toby can’t do all that, he will be sent back to his homeland by the United Furland government.

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Dodie Stevens was a singing prodigy at the age of four. By the time she was seven she began making local television appearances, and in 1959, at age thirteen, she had the #1 hit, gold record “Pink Shoe Laces”. She followed with “Yes, I'm Lonesome Tonight”, “No” and “Merry, Merry Christmas Baby”, which all hit the Billboard charts in the early '60s.

While still in high school, Dodie’s career skyrocketed. She appeared on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand and starred with Fabian in her first film, “Hound Dog Man”, followed by “Convicts Four”, starring Ben Gazzara.  She also co-starred with Frankie Avalon in “Alakazam The Great”, an animated feature film. She continued to record a string of singles and albums, and more television guest appearances followed, including The Bob Hope Show, and Pat Boone’s Chevy Showroom. Dodie also toured worldwide with Fabian, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Paul Anka, Bobby Rydell and many more teen idols from that era.

In the early 70’s she joined Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’77 touring internationally and recording three albums for A&M Records until 1973. She continued to perform in concert with artists such as Harry Belafonte, Boz Scaggs and Loretta Lynn, including numerous appearances on The Tonight Show, Midnight Special and Solid Gold. For twelve years she worked exclusively with Mac Davis in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and every major music theatre worldwide. During this time, she also appeared in television specials with Dolly Parton, Donna Summer and Luther Vandross. In addition, in the ’80s, you would have heard Dodie’s voice on television commercials including Sprint and Dole Pineapple.

By 1990 she was starring in, as well as co-producing her Doo Wop Revue, “Bop”, a high-energy show full of some of the most memorable songs from the early years of rock & roll, including her own hit, “Pink Shoe Laces”. For the next few years, they worked casinos in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and Reno to standing ovations.

Shortly thereafter, Dodie began touring with other recording artists from the 50s and 60s and included her talented daughter Stephanie in her shows. They later formed a southern-rock band, “a.k.a. Stevens”, singing classic rock & roll and country and co-writing all their originals. They recorded only one album “Outlaw of the Heart”, which was the opening act for Toby Keith and worked in a variety of venues across the country.

During Dodie’s career, she has performed in every major city in the United States and internationally, including Canada, Mexico, Australia, Japan, China, Philippines, France, Monaco, Saudi Arabia, the Caribbean, United Kingdom, (command performance for the Queen), and a special performance at The Kennedy Center for former President George H. W. Bush.

Today, Dodie continues to sing with her daughter, making personal appearances in Doo Wop concerts nationwide. She recently appeared on the PBS television special “At The Drive-In”, hosted by her earlier co-star, Fabian, and the TNN special, “Rock & Roll Graffiti”. In February 2009, she joined her peers in Clear Lake, Iowa at the Surf Ballroom to perform in a 5-day memorial concert, “Fifty Winters Later” (in memory of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper). When Dodie is not performing, she teaches singing and is a performance coach in San Diego, California, which gives her the opportunity to share her expertise and experience in the music industry with the new generation of talent.

In 2018, Dodie and Stephanie developed a unique, motivational concert, "Affirmasong", using musical affirmations (written by Dodie) to inspire change in the world.

Highlights from Toby's Friday afternoon show on Shout Radio. Featuring chat with top showbiz guests.

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Shelah Johnson is the recipient of 9 awards from The Society for Technical Communication, is also a published photographer, and has produced and directed more than 40 lifestyle broadcast segments focused on eco and small space living. 

She directed, produced, and is the co-creator of the documentary series, Where Small Business Grows (Amazon Prime).

Shelah lives a life of voluntary simplicity, where she makes a mid-century modern Airstream her home on an island in the Pacific Northwest and enjoys kayaking and travelling across the country and around the world.

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Daniel Mango is a social worker, educator and racial justice activist from the United States. He is currently the Director of the Black Mental Health Program where his work is focused on uniting Africa and the African Diaspora toward better mental health.

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Nia Schimnoski is fundraising for three different projects - a procedural monster maker, a free open source humanoid editor, and a friendly AI chatbot named Luna.

You can check out her projects here:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/donate-for-the-creative-and-lonely-souls

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Driftwood Blackheart was born in the First Leg of Hell on June 23, 1976, referred to back then as Earth. After suffering a near-fatal drug overdose during his early teens, he came in contact with what he believes to be The Lord of the Universe, or this may have been the onslaught of schizophrenia, a predominant mental illness that is hereditary in his family. Nevertheless, the internal entity in his mind continued to haunt Driftwood and warned him that society was de-evolving and would continue to do so until humanity eventually became mindless slaves who would be ruled by a quantum computer that promised to solve all of the world’s problems.

For the most part, Driftwood chose to ignore the taunting spirit that possessed him and tried to be a productive member of the population. He managed to work a full-time job and raised a wonderful family. But he began to realize the prophecies from the Lord of the Universe were starting to come to fruition. Driftwood began to fear for his children’s future, their children, and their children’s children. In desperation, Driftwood lashed out against culture cancel, left-wing fanaticism, and corporate greed to stop the chain of events that would eventually lead to the enslavement of humanity.

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During his years of protest, Driftwood never forgot about his near-death experience and developed an intense fear of dying. He convinced his loyal followers that if they cryogenically froze their brains that they could cheat death and avoid being trapped in an endless loop― the place between death and eternal existence. Unfortunately, a fanatical preacher mistook these actions, thinking Driftwood Blackheart was the devil reborn and assassinated the eccentric protester during his first and final act in front of a live audience.

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After hundreds of years trapped in The Loop, Driftwood was reborn in a Hell on Earth. The Lord of the Universe’s predictions became horrifically true. The majority of humanity was now utterly devoid of culture, self-identity, and sexual orientation. What was once the human race was now under the complete control of the Mother computer― an artificial intelligence that Driftwood nicknamed the Savior Machine. Luckily, many of Driftwood’s followers continued to defy the Mother computer (The Beast) while they patiently awaited their prophet’s return.

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Fearing a spread of corruption against her master plan, the Mother computer attempted to order her personal army of robots to wipe out Driftwood Blackheart and his following during a peaceful demonstration. Unfortunately for the unexpecting AI, the sentient robot army chose to side with Driftwood, hoping they could better understand the wants and desires of the human spirit and possibly someday possess a soul.

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Hundreds of years of bloody war ensued― man against man, man against machine, and machine against computers until the sentient robots discovered a way to create wormholes that could be used to colonize distant worlds. Driftwood took this opportunity to finally bring peace to his troubled following. They abandoned Earth to inhabit other hospitable worlds they hoped would be out of reach from the Mother computer.

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Stephanie Hurne began querying literary agents last year but after a few rejections realised her delicate snowflake heart couldn’t take it so had a glass or two of wine and began to wonder how hard it was to become a publishing house which would grant her access to writing opportunities she hadn’t had previously. Her ultimate aim in the next 5-10 years is to start officially publishing books by other authors.

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Samy Barnat is an independent multidisciplinary researcher in human sciences. His multi-disciplinary background (psychology, politics, economics, philosophy...) gives him a rare global vision that many experts lack. His independent research incorporates outside-of-the-box thinking. Both are precious elements for finding global solutions to the global crises we face.

His book 'A New Way Of Life' explains based on science and facts, how you can be the solution to the big crises we will face to cover our basic needs.

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John Sevier Austin has been talking backwards since the age of five. He accidentally played a record backwards and learned to sing with it.

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Understanding and dealing with the challenges of modern life is not easy. We need support and guidance to navigate our complex emotions and cope in a rapidly changing world. Drawing on the ancient wisdom of the East, and years of experience working in Western psychiatry, Dr Sinha shares a series of analogies that help us understand ourselves. We are awakened to the possibility of not only surviving but thriving. These analogies have been tried and tested in his clinical practice in England and Canada- the book itself is borne out of requests by many patients and colleagues, as a result of the effectiveness of these teachings. In this first book of a series, "Empowered and Strong" transcends the boundaries between East and West, and offers a global perspective on issues that affect us all.

Highlights from Toby's Friday afternoon show on Shout Radio. Featuring chat with top showbiz guests.

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