Brian was born and raised in the Capital Region and currently lives in Albany. He's the co-host of the GNA Morning Show with Brian and Chrissy. When he’s not watching sports, eating fro-yo, playing poker, or trying to get in a quick nap, he’s hanging out with Brody; his ridiculously talented and handsome son. “Radio is my passion and I’m living out my dream! Every day we get the chance to change someone’s mood, perhaps their perspective, and hopefully make them laugh! What’s better than that?” E-Mail: brian@wgna.com
Brian
Love Cowboy: He Boozes and GF Loses
Amy in Wynantskill writes:
My boyfriend is so bad with money and it drives me crazy. He always has money to hang with the fellas and go drinking, or bet on football games. But he never has money to take me out, or plan a nice trip or something. Sometimes I wonder if he actually has the money, but …
My boyfriend is so bad with money and it drives me crazy. He always has money to hang with the fellas and go drinking, or bet on football games. But he never has money to take me out, or plan a nice trip or something. Sometimes I wonder if he actually has the money, but …
CDC Warns of ‘High Risk’ Thanksgiving Behavior
Thanksgiving is less than two months away and there's a pretty good chance you'll be doing a fair amount of traveling, shopping and gathering with friends and family. In a year unlike any other, the CDC has listed specific guidelines that they claim will keep you and your family safe…
Fortune 500 Company Hiring Hundreds from Albany Area
If you or someone you know is looking for a job, want to start a new career, or want to make some additional income as a seasonal employee, then you may want to look into the massive hiring-spree announced recently.
UPS, a company that ranks in the top 50 on the Fortune 500 list of the largest earn…
UPS, a company that ranks in the top 50 on the Fortune 500 list of the largest earn…
Couple Gets Hitched at Albany Car Dealership
Here comes another story to remind us that life and times during the pandemic of 2020 means that zero should surprise us and that nothing should get in our way.
A couple unable to get their marriage certificates fast enough in New York City, were married over the weekend at an Albany used car dealers…
A couple unable to get their marriage certificates fast enough in New York City, were married over the weekend at an Albany used car dealers…
Love Cowboy: She’s Upscale and He’s Dollar-Store
Gwenyth in Averil Park writes:
I'm 37 years old, been divorced for about 8 years and dating a guy that I really like. We started seeing each other right be COVID hit and what I like about him is that he's a very simple man. He's not into anything fancy, he's not high m…
I'm 37 years old, been divorced for about 8 years and dating a guy that I really like. We started seeing each other right be COVID hit and what I like about him is that he's a very simple man. He's not into anything fancy, he's not high m…
Granger Smith Announces New Date at Frog Alley
Yee Yee! Big news for all of you country music lovers craving some live music. Granger Smith was supposed to be at Frog Alley Brewing in Schenectady back in March, but that show was postponed because of the pandemic and rescheduled for October. While that October show isn't happening, we are exci…
Love Cowboy: All the Fall Things
One of our favorite things to do with Love Cowboy is to listen to his various redneck interpretations of standard, normal everyday things. So every few months, we allow him to spout off on topics that have nothing to do with relationships. He's done this before with COVID terms, political terms, an…
Just Who is Malta’s 95 Million Dollar Winner?
At around 9:15 am on Thursday morning, it was announced that a 95 million dollar winning Powerball ticket was sold in Malta. I wrote the story up for our station website, but it was actually Chrissy, my co-host from the morning show who told me. I don't remember what exactly we were doing at the …
Kristi From TU Gets Dogged By GNA [Video]
Full disclosure here: If anyone did the "dogging" on the GNA morning show, it was definitely me as Chrissy is way too much of a saint to call out Kristi Gustafson Bartlette from the Times Union. But the truth is, Kristi deserved some good-natured ribbing as a resul…
Nostalgic Lake George Haunt Gets Morbid Makeover [Gallery]
Every year, we ask GNA listeners to tell us what their favorite haunted attraction is. For the last few years, the Capital Region's most popular haunted attraction is Field of Horrors in Troy. They constantly update their attractions, rides, and characters and really do a good job deliver…
Albany Student Shares X-Rated Images During Virtual Class
Students at a middle school in Albany were in the midst of an at-home virtual lesson, when an intruder popped into the classroom and hijacked the lesson. For a brief time - estimated to be between 10 and 15 seconds - students saw pornographic images that were shared by a fellow student. As a resul…
Local Orchard Grows Long List of Prohibited Pickers
I remember last September writing about a local orchard that wasn't messing around when it came to people jacking their apples, pilfering their fruit and mooching their macs. Jake Samascott is a 4th generation farmer at Samascott Orchards in Kinderhook and according to the repo…