Even a straight jacket can't stop
Nick from doing NixTheNews

At first he appeared to be somewhat normal. (No photo shown because you really don't want to see it anyway).  Two big bright eyes and bushy tails, several wrinkly little fingers and toes (at least 20), a big and somewhat oblique smile, lots of dark hair (All over his body, some even strategically placed on his head as well), a full set of teeth and the beautifully football shaped head that many infants are blessed with at birth.  Oh, and batteries and assembly instructions were included too.  Truly a sight to make eyes sore.  But never-the-less, a brand new human-like entry into the world.

They called him Nicky, or Nick, or Nix, or something like that.  He grew up not unlike most other mid-western kids in the 50's, 60's and 70's (1900's that is); playing at the local city dump for fun, eating cheeseburgers and fries and drinking jello-malts and playing phone pranks on the neighborhood seniors and stealing their cars.  And all that by the time he was 7 years old.  Sure he seemed pretty precocious for his age.  Heck - most kids in Wisconsin didn't do that kind of stuff until they were at least 11 or 12 (Well, maybe the girls did, but certainly not the boys).

Nick Louis Hetcher barely gradgeeated the 12th grade and went on to serve his country by staying out of the armed services to do a short stint in a couple of Wisconsin colleges until they finally had enough of his antics and shenanigans and booted his sorry butt out.  So, he decided to attend radio/TV school in Arizona in the late 1970's (ok, maybe "attend" is too strong of a word.  Let's just say he "showed up" to class sometimes).

Finally...he found something he liked as much as stealing cars.  Yep. radio and TV broadcasting.  And, ya know what?  He wasn't half-bad.  He wasn't half-good either, but he wasn't half-bad.  A new career begin for Nicky, Nick, Nix, whatever.

Nick seemed to excel at his new passion, at least he thought he excelled and isn't that all that really counts?  Actually he was pretty dog-gone good and was making a name for himself all across the region. 

Until one day, out of the blue, Nix got some bad news.  As if media news isn't already bad for the most part.  He heard that one of his news heroes (we'll not mention the name to protect the guilty) had actually been fired for reporting a "good" news story. 

Seems that bad news was the only news the networks of the day wanted to report.  Boy, how times have changed.  Well, this bad news of the good news hit Nick really hard.  Or maybe it was just a bad cheeseburger, nobody really knows for sure.  See, he was contemplating the idea of reporting his own good news reports and now with his hero getting the axe, he was devastated.  Can you really blame him?  We think not.

        The many "personalities" of  Nix  Hetcher
         
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Devastated so much that he went into a tailspin and within two weeks ended up in the Chicago Loony House.  Sure you thinking, "Not the Chicago Loony House."  Yes indeed...the Chicago Loony House.  Other than some B-movie Hollywood celebrities and a few Betty Ford rejects, the Chicago Loony House (an actual place according to Nix) was a place pretty much reserved for has-been and crazy TV and radio broadcasters.  At that time, Nick had not yet earned the title of "has-been."  You guessed it, he lost his marbles and gave up broadcasting, with a possible hope of someday returning to society to again live his passion. 

Well...funny man Nick Hetcher has finally returned.  He's back on the scene.  This time as a new breed of "Internet" comedian.  In fact, Nick and all his "personalities" have returned, and you never know which personality (or, personalities) will show up to do the news (or "help-out" on the newscast) on any particular show.  He presents the news (some good, some bad, and some just weird) on NixTheNews.com (or, HETCHER.com).  Then, after his newscasts, it's back to the rubber-room for this "sometimes stranger than fiction" guy.  Let's just say he's a recovering newscaster and leave it at that.

Help Nick live his passion and live outside the padded room for a few hours each week to do the news.  Watch or listen to NixTheNews, often.  And please, please, please  tell all your friends to watch and listen to it too.  After seeing this loon, you'll probably feel better about your life, and that's what NixTheNews is all about - YOU.  (OK, maybe not all about you, but at least a little).  Making your life a little better, in some small way, is what Nick lives for. 

NixTheNews.com - news and a newscaster with a Twist.  And most definitely...an Attitude.