Howdy all! Andy Hermann here... Nick's longest running producer ever. Should I be bragging about that?! Yeah... I think so. During my time working on various Nick D. shows... I've seen our fan base grow, the show's gotten better and better, and I've been a part of something of which we're all very proud!
After some random weekend daytime fill-ins with Nick D., I started consistently working with him late in 2001 on the old Saturday night version of The Nick D. & Garry Lee Show. Not long after that show's switch to Fridays, I also picked up the solo Nick show on Saturdays. So basically I've given up somewhere around 6 years of weekend life.
It's all been great, though. My day job is flexible (when I have one), so that fits right into this odd weekend schedule I keep here. My duties include -- but are not limited to -- booking guests, keeping up the webpages, archiving online audio, and doing Nick's bidding. Aside from Nick's show at WGN, I also produce the 720 TO GO podcasts.
After graduating from Ohio University (not Ohio State) in 1997, I moved up to Chicago with no job and no prospects. I had done a bunch of stuff at WOUB-AM/FM in Athens during school, but hit a radio dry spell until WGN let me in to intern with Spike in the fall of 2000. Once my internship was over, I just kept coming around until they started paying me. Chicago rules, and I'm honored to be part of the legendary 720 WGN team.
So anyway, I got "The Count" nickname totally legitimately. I had a couple small parts in the locally-produced The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas, and one night -- during an episode called "The Trade-Ins" -- Nick nearly fell off his chair laughing when I was introduced as "The Count", who was dealing a shady card game. My fate was sealed.
After some random weekend daytime fill-ins with Nick D., I started consistently working with him late in 2001 on the old Saturday night version of The Nick D. & Garry Lee Show. Not long after that show's switch to Fridays, I also picked up the solo Nick show on Saturdays. So basically I've given up somewhere around 6 years of weekend life.It's all been great, though. My day job is flexible (when I have one), so that fits right into this odd weekend schedule I keep here. My duties include -- but are not limited to -- booking guests, keeping up the webpages, archiving online audio, and doing Nick's bidding. Aside from Nick's show at WGN, I also produce the 720 TO GO podcasts.
After graduating from Ohio University (not Ohio State) in 1997, I moved up to Chicago with no job and no prospects. I had done a bunch of stuff at WOUB-AM/FM in Athens during school, but hit a radio dry spell until WGN let me in to intern with Spike in the fall of 2000. Once my internship was over, I just kept coming around until they started paying me. Chicago rules, and I'm honored to be part of the legendary 720 WGN team.
So anyway, I got "The Count" nickname totally legitimately. I had a couple small parts in the locally-produced The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas, and one night -- during an episode called "The Trade-Ins" -- Nick nearly fell off his chair laughing when I was introduced as "The Count", who was dealing a shady card game. My fate was sealed.
