Todd McGreevy on WVIK’s “Saturday Morning Live!” with Kai Swanson, October 26, 2024



River Cities’ Reader publisher Todd McGreevy is Kai Swanson’s guest at the WVIK Quad Cities’ public radio studios on the campus of Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.  Swanson and McGreevy both attended Augustana College in the 1980’s. Saturday Morning Live! is a conversational tradition carried on by Swanson for the past two years, established by WVIK impresario, Don Wooten decades ago.

Topics covered in the 45 minute exchange include: Sophist and Slowfish newspapers, Uncle Roscoe’s Polo Club, Old Main Tech Lab, Augustana Soccer, Marigold Resources business brokerage and M&A advisory, AdMospheres and the Quad City Airport, Mississippi Valley Blues Fest, Ellis Kell, American Discovery Trail and Great River Bike Trail, Mike Schulz’s cultural coverage and comprehensive calendar of events, What’s Happenin’ as a format for A&E media coverage, local county elected offices focus, importance of County Sheriff and property rights, election integrity and county auditors’ responsibilities, public with business at county supervisor meetings in Rock Island versus Scott County, Joel Webber at the city of Davenport public with business regarding hydrofluorosilic acid (fluoride) in the Davenport water supply, Todd’s tribute to Michael Angelos, the recent 7 year court case ruling against the EPA for falsifying the safety of water fluoridation for children, CO2 versus CO as a climate change agent, RFK Jr’s August 23 speech . . . .and most importantly the two discuss and agree that incurious behavior results in judgmental actions, and regardless of one’s views, we should all remain more curious.