Tune in weekdays for The Free Beer & Hot Wings Morning Show on 92.7 FM The Laser!

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Here’s who you’ll hear on the show:

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Gregg "Free Beer" Daniels | Host[/caption] One of the founding members of the show since its inception in March of 1997, Free Beer sets up most of the bits on the show. Free Beer is known for many verbal screw-ups, a vast sports knowledge, and occasionally laughing like Ricky Ricardo from old episodes of “I Love Lucy”. Occasionally known on the show by the alternate nicknames “Burn King” and “El Matador”, Free Beer spends free time playing basketball and hanging with his sons Henry, Oliver and Hayden. On the side, Free Beer is the lead play by play announcer for Compass Media Networks coverage of the national game of the week, as well as handling some NFL and college basketball games. [caption id="attachment_119386" align="aligncenter" width="300"]

Chris "Hot Wings" Michels | Host[/caption] Hot Wings, the other founding member of the show, grew up in the Detroit area doing unathletic things with his friends like riding bikes, playing Army, making stupid videos and lighting small fires. Hot Wings knew he wanted to be in radio since he was 14 and got laughs doing a fake radio show in his Speech class. Hot Wings, also known as “Mayor of Awesometown” and “Minista of Flava”, loves cars but hates people who put bumper stickers on them. He also believes that the number of stickers on someone’s car is directly proportional to how bad the driver is. He used to write daily commentaries about politics and pop culture called What Hot Wings Thinks but quit when everyone became a baby and he ran out of ways and reasons to insult the Kardashians. He is oddly and prematurely knowledgeable about trees, a skill he picked up from his father who wears black socks and dress shoes with shorts and has a tendency to singe his hair around gas grills. Hot Wings believes he can tell time just by looking at the sun. He likes home improvement and knows just enough to be a pain in his own ass, taking on projects that seem easy, but take him weeks to complete. Hot Wings is divorced and anxiously awaits a hot, wealthy woman to come along and take an interest in him or, at the very least, more realistic and more affordable sex A.I. He has two young sons that he hopes never read this bio. [caption id="attachment_119383" align="aligncenter" width="300"]

Steve | Executive Producer[/caption] Steve was born and raised in Jersey, which many people are surprised to hear is referred to as “The Garden State.” He attended Monmouth University and after realizing that he had no desire to take Microeconomics, he figured he’d be a Radio major and work for the college radio station, WMCX. Some highlights include interviewing awful bands, saying the F-word on the air a few times and excelling at mediocre radio. This led to a job working for a number of years at 105.7 The Hawk, which is where his paths crossed with the Free Beer and Hot Wings show. Initially a board op, Steve eventually worked his way up to the position of Assistant Program Director of the station. He then worked for the NHL in New York City for a year. And now he’s here. Steve is married to his wife Annette, who he met on stage while playing “The Dating Game” at a Live at Night show in 2014. He considers himself to be “literally the worst game show prize ever.” Together, they are trying not to screw up the lives of their daughter Evelyn and future son Man Baby Ricky too badly. [caption id="attachment_119382" align="aligncenter" width="300"]

Kelly | Producer[/caption] Kelly “Cheese” Cheesborough is the newest addition to the FBHW family and landed here by way of Atlanta, GA. Not to be confused with “HOTLANTA” – which she swears is not a place. Kelly’s a military brat with four brothers and often compares her big crazy family to the early 2000’s sitcom Seventh Heaven. Kelly got her start in radio as a mid-day gal on an alternative station in “HOTLANTA” by free style rapping her resume. True story. A few years later she landed a gig with a morning show as a producer and co-host and that’s how we met the Cheese. While she’s known for her love of corn dogs, you can also find Kelly on her yoga mat or hanging out with her cat Shadow. Or any cat. Or puppies. Or babies. When she’s not obsessing over a strangers puppy or an adorable child, she’s out and about exploring the city through breweries, live music, day festivals and good food.

WHERE DID THE NAME OF THE SHOW COME FROM?

Instead of calling the show, The Gregg & Chris Show, which by all estimations would have been the most boring sounding radio show in the world, the decision was made to call it The Free Beer & Hot Wings Show, which seemed far more attention grabbing. It was admittedly nothing more than a cheap ploy to get people to listen under the false pretense that they may actually have a chance to win beer and/or hot wings. However, it was not intended that those two things would become permanently synonymous and attached to Gregg and Chris as nicknames, but that’s what happened and now they have to live with the consequences of their B.S. forever. Also, the reason Zane wasn’t given a food name is that, when he joined the show, he was already a well-known personality and frankly, another food name would have just been an overkill of stupidity.

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