BELLEVUE – He’s from the one-stoplight town of Beecher, Illinois, a regular weightlifter at the YMCA, a former house DJ who once wore a TV on his head and proud dog dad to an 81-pound goldendoodle named Buckley (aka “Big Baby Stinks”).
She’s a Milwaukee native, a book lover and homebody at heart with a cache of bad dad jokes, the former star of a TV reality dating show that aired all over the world and the proud mom of a 5-year-old son named Atlas.
Together, Dan “Huggie” Amsden and Natalie Jansen are two-thirds of the new “Huggie, Natalie & Corey” morning show that debuted Feb. 7 on WIXX-FM. Along with longtime station brand manager Corey Carter, they have taken over the reins after a series of buzzed-about on-air changes in the time slot beginning in November when Jim Murphy retired from “Murphy in the Morning” after 32 years.
Amsden moved over from afternoons after joining WIXX in 2022. Jansen is new to listeners after a 10-year run at Milwaukee active rock station 102.9 The Hog (WHQG-FM). The two of them sat down together at the Midwest Communications studios to introduce themselves to the morning crowd.