There, he performed with his rap band, Boyz Wit Da Bass.
He opened a second Sponges in Spring Hill in 1995. In December 1994, he invested $50,000 to open Sponges, an alcohol-free nightclub for teenagers in Largo, Florida. Ĭlem became involved in various business ventures. Clem and WFLZ host Tom Steele were temporarily suspended to settle legal issues from their ongoing on-air feud. His first major contract signed during this time was worth $100,000 a year. at WFLZ-FM in Tampa, Florida, where his show gained popularity, particularly among teenagers. In September 1992, Clem started work from 7 to 11 p.m. Clem then moved to WLUM-FM in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In August 1991, he returned to Chicago on WYZT as the morning host, but the position lasted under three months before management rebranded the station. Ĭlem then worked nights at WXXL in Orlando, Florida, where he averaged 53,000 regular listeners. Clem took legal action, and received $75,000 from WIOQ. The station let him go as management thought his style was not what they were looking for. He then worked evenings at WBBM-FM in Chicago, followed by a stint at WIOQ in Philadelphia from March to June 1990. In 1989, Clem landed a spot at KTFM in San Antonio, Texas, where he was encouraged to trademark his air name and borrowed $5,000 from his parents to file a federal trademark for "Bubba the Love Sponge". He was fired on December 21, 1988, after a 13-year-old girl called into his show and Clem made sexual remarks about her. Īfter WPFR, Clem had a stint at WGRD-FM in Grand Rapids, Michigan. At a fraternity party, Gray called Clem a "love sponge" after witnessing the female attention Clem received. He later became the station's managing director. He accepted a position hosting weekends soon after, and began a part-time midday shift starting on Christmas Day in 1986. Clem became Gray's intern, making studio visits, answering phone calls, and sitting in on the show. Gray then gave Clem an on-air shift as an April Fool's Day joke on April 1, 1986, at WPFR-FM in Terre Haute as Rockin' Bubba Clem, a name someone else had suggested. Once there, Clem noticed people gravitating toward Gray.
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In 1986, Clem worked as a bouncer and driver at Jubilation nightclub, where he picked up radio DJ "Scary" Kerry Gray, of whom he was a fan, and took him to the club. He also coached football at his former high school. Clem had a position at the campus radio station WISU, but before he became a full-time disc jockey, he worked at a van conversion shop, where he laid down carpets. He attended Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana, with a plan to go into dentistry, but his best friend Larry Plummer told him he was better suited to a radio career, and he dropped out in his second year. In 1984, Clem graduated from Warsaw Community High School. Clem's parents divorced when he was young. His father was a factory worker and his mother, Jane Edmond, a schoolbus driver and Warsaw city department head he has a sister, Tara. Todd Alan Clem was born on Apin Warsaw, Indiana. 2.5 2008–2019: Return to terrestrial radio.2.4 2004–2010: Hiatus and Sirius Satellite Radio.
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