It is National Radio Day, Tiki.

And I thought this would be a good opportunity.

And I've discussed this a little bit on the air, but not in, like, grave detail about my journey here to WFAN.

So, long story short, I grew up, like many of us that work here, a fan of the fan.

My grandfather, who's no longer with us, was a massive sports fan, massive giant fan,

massive Met fan, massive Nick fan, and he loved listening to the radio station, Mike and the

mad dog, the whole deal. So he was the one that kind of got me into listening to Sports Talk Radio.

Always loved sports, but he had the little transistor radio all the time so i would hear

these shows and go wow this is awesome when i was in you know middle school high school i would i wouldn't

listen to mike and chris because i'd be at school right and i wouldn't be able to hear the midday show

a little bit of the morning i'd hear i miss when i'd wake up for school but my guy was beningo

because i would be up late like as most teenagers would be. So I would listen to Joe, and I'd usually hear the first, like, hour of his show, off jet losses. It was hilarious. So the re, and I, from the very beginning, I fell in love with sports talk radio. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do with my life as far as a career. like you'd have career day and people want to be the center field for the Mets or a lawyer.

I wanted to be the center field for the Mets or a lawyer.

I wanted to be on sports talk radio specifically here at WFAN.

Go to college. You know, I'm a communications major, get an internship here.

And when I went for my interview, my first ever experience at WFAN, it was in Astoria, which was, as Minko would say, it's the only place that you had walked upstairs to get to the basement.

It was, Astoria was like punk rock.

Like it was just so cutting edge being there.

And this is amazing the facility

here it's but there was something so special about the Astoria studios and i'm so grateful that

i got a chance to be there as an intern the first person i saw when i came from my interview with

eddie who used to scissary the great eddie scissary to get interviewed for my internship was

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