Midday’s With Andi!
Hey!! Andi here!! Figured we’d cover the basics before we get to start hanging on the regular!!
-WHERE WERE YOU BORN AND RAISED?
I was born and raised in Bakersfield California. Oldest of 3 children. We were always busy with all of the sports we all played growing up. My parents are still in Bakersfield (for now) and my siblings moved away from California as well, my sister is living and loving Utah and my brother is thriving in Vegas. I am married to my husband Kevin and a we are raising two amazing children who I refer to as Bear and Princess.
-WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO BECOME A RADIO DJ, AND HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN ON THE AIR?
It’s crazy to think I’ve been in radio almost 20 years… because I remember being younger and being so afraid to call into the local radio station for fear they would play my call back on air!! However I got “talks a lot” on probably every report card and my parents would tell anyone and everyone that I’ve “never met a stranger”. So I don’t think anyone is surprised I got bit by the radio bug.
My sisters softball coach was a PD (program director for not radio peeps) for a local news radio station and caught wind from my parents (thanks mom and dad) that I was about to graduate high school and I’d never had a job before so he invited me to tour the radio station. At the time I didn’t know what a tour of the radio station had anything to do with my lack of job experience until at the end of the tour he asked if I’d be interested in being a producer for the news station for a few political shows (at 17 it sounded like a snoozefest but it was a job that I was being presented with and since I hadn’t given work much of a thought and knew I needed one of those I said YES!). What I didn’t realize was that I would really enjoy producing shows AND I didn’t have to say anything on air!! It was wonderful… unfortunately with radio things changed and even though I had also become apart of the street team they needed me to go on air or they would have to let me go. Soooooo… I gave it a go…. And as I said before that was almost 20 years ago.
-WHAT IS SOMETHING THE CHERRY FM LISTENERS DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU?
You will likely get to know A LOT about me as we hang out during the day… I’m an open book with a busted filter. I love a good adventure and a good book.
-WHAT DO YOU LOVE TO DO FOR FUN?
We are a baseball loving family, its just one of the sports my son plays. My daughter is a ballerina. I hate to admit it but I love reality TV (The Challenge and Below Deck being a few of my favorites). Food is my love language. I wouldn’t do much for a Klondike bar however I could be persuaded with Tacos and Ice cream.
-DO YOU HAVE ANY “WORDS OF WISDOM” FOR OUR LISTENERS?
Life is crazy beautiful and messy and we are going to experience all of the things together and I cannot wait!!