Speaker 1: Chase and Lauren on Over one hundred.
Speaker 2: Should we take a look back at what's unfolded over
Speaker 2: the last couple of months.
Speaker 3: We a lot is unfolded.
Speaker 2: Very proudly have a new home here at Nova one hundred.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm so pumped not just to be here
Speaker 3: at nover, but that we've got the band back together. Clinton,
Speaker 3: I don't know where you've been hiding, but I've been around.
Speaker 2: I've been around, Lauren. If you've got to charge his phone.
Speaker 3: It took a bit of arm twisting, but we gotcha.
Speaker 2: There was no way we weren't going to all do
Speaker 2: this unless we're all in. Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: It was it was all in or not. What just
Speaker 2: feels right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think after after a pretty testing few
Speaker 3: months for all of us, this is a really happy
Speaker 3: ending but also really happy beginning for a new start
Speaker 3: for us.
Speaker 2: For people that have come over to Nova from where
Speaker 2: we used to work, thank you and welcome. For people who.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry that we don't really know how to use
Speaker 3: anything here does. It's a bit like we're on work experience.
Speaker 2: So it's very much like where we used to be. Basically,
Speaker 2: for people who are normal and over listeners and if
Speaker 2: you aren't aware of what's happened is we used to
Speaker 2: do a breakfast show on another radio station and last
Speaker 2: year we got the boot because they were bringing in
Speaker 2: Kyle and Jackie O from Sydney and we're going a
Speaker 2: network of show in yep. And it sucked, to be honest.
Speaker 2: We'd worked together for a couple of years. We were
Speaker 2: having so much fun. The show was, you know, really
Speaker 2: starting to gain some momentum. The team was amazing, and
Speaker 2: then we just had the rug pulled out from under us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we felt like we we I mean, there's no
Speaker 3: nice way to put the fact that we got fired,
Speaker 3: but we felt like we felt like we were just
Speaker 3: getting started at that moment when I think when the
Speaker 3: rumors started swirling that maybe there was going to be
Speaker 3: a changing of the guard over there, and we were like, no.
Speaker 1: Surely not.
Speaker 2: And also, you know what, we're not naive this industry.
Speaker 2: It's the entertainment industry. You know, people lose their gigs
Speaker 2: all the time.
Speaker 3: It was unsettling, right, I think because we weren't spoke
Speaker 3: into about it. It was like well being spoken about,
Speaker 3: but none spoken to about it. So we were all
Speaker 3: a bit like, no, Well, really, my issue.
Speaker 2: Was not that it was happening, it was how it
Speaker 2: was handled, and not just for us, but everyone that
Speaker 2: worked on the show, everyone that worked at that station.
Speaker 2: And I think the real sting was that we're being
Speaker 2: replaced by a show that working from Sydney.
Speaker 1: So I want to get your opinion on this because
Speaker 1: Laura and I are fairly new to this caper, right
Speaker 1: to this radio caper. We've been in the industry for
Speaker 1: a long time in station. Now, well that's a sign
Speaker 1: of experience, huh. But how did it impact you, Jays,
Speaker 1: because you've you've been here, done that for many years.
Speaker 2: It was pretty personal for me on a number of scales.
Speaker 2: I had good friends that were working behind the scenes
Speaker 2: in my management. I knew people at the old radio
Speaker 2: station who were quite high up. And yes, it was
Speaker 2: it was. It was pretty personal and that cuts and
Speaker 2: it's yeah it did. It was a really shit feeling
Speaker 2: last year. Yeah, it really was.
Speaker 3: I think I think I saw you in those last
Speaker 3: few weeks change your your spirit changed.
Speaker 2: It wasn't anger, no, it was just I was I
Speaker 2: was just bloody gutted. Again, I'm not knowingive that's the
Speaker 2: industry you know, people lose their gigs and move on
Speaker 2: and stuff, but it was just do you know.
Speaker 3: What, it was more personal for you than I think.
Speaker 3: Clinton and I were just looking at each other like, yeah,
Speaker 3: we're just on this crazy role.
Speaker 1: That's where Jace went into protection mode and he and
Speaker 1: credit to you, mate, because you really looked out for
Speaker 1: Lauren and I are given we'd never experienced anything like
Speaker 1: this ever before. And I guess thank you for that, Jason,
Speaker 1: because it was a really really sort of beautiful time
Speaker 1: and it sort of helped us get where we are
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, you held our hand through a lot of
Speaker 3: that when we were like, I mean, we we come
Speaker 3: from a TV background where we've heard TV was brutal,
Speaker 3: but brutal.
Speaker 2: In three would always joke those swipe cards wouldn't work.
Speaker 2: They didn't, but it was.
Speaker 3: It was tough for all of us. I think you've
Speaker 3: got your dad of three with kids that you're trying
Speaker 3: to work out what school they're going to, trying to
Speaker 3: work out you know, your family is in Brisbane where
Speaker 3: you were going.
Speaker 2: To live, but it wasn't. And this was what I've said.
Speaker 3: Clinton just bought his first home, like he just paid
Speaker 3: a deposit on his first house two weeks before we
Speaker 3: lost our jobs.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't and you just bought the latest Louis,
Speaker 2: that's not funny. But it wasn't just us. It was
Speaker 2: team members had just sign rental agreements, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: upgraded cars and stuff. It was a really hard time.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I've got to say the
Speaker 2: support that we have felt since we got shafted has
Speaker 2: been overwhelming and just overwhelming. Everyone has been so bloody
Speaker 2: nice in this city. I've had random people coming up
Speaker 2: to us at the shops. Yeah, a lady the other
Speaker 2: day grabbed me and bent. It was like I was
Speaker 2: dying and she goes, good luck, you know for Friday.
Speaker 2: We're all rooting for you.
Speaker 3: So nice.
Speaker 1: Can I say, though, that is Melbourne at its best. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what Melbourne has always done really well. And having
Speaker 1: lived here all my life, like you, Luren, that screams
Speaker 1: this great city right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think to us, this is a job.
Speaker 3: We lost our jobs, but for the first time I
Speaker 3: realized how many people lost their routine in the morning
Speaker 3: as well in this city that listens to us. And
Speaker 3: we're so grateful for those listeners who showed us support
Speaker 3: in a time where we felt like I think we
Speaker 3: all probably hit bottom for a couple of days there,
Speaker 3: where we didn't know what we were going to do
Speaker 3: with our lives, where we're going to be, would we
Speaker 3: have jobs next year, we'll be able to pay our mortgage, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, we're not the first and we won't
Speaker 3: be the last people to experience that, not in this industry.
Speaker 3: But there's a lot of people who have ridden that
Speaker 3: wave of losing their jobs recently in the current climate,
Speaker 3: and I think the power of having people to support
Speaker 3: you and to remind you that just keep pushing, just
Speaker 3: keep going, you'll get there was really boring for all
Speaker 3: of us. And so for those listeners who have come
Speaker 3: over to NOVA to listen to us now, we're so thankful.
Speaker 3: We're so grateful, And for the audience at NOV who
Speaker 3: are already no the listeners, we're really grateful that you're
Speaker 3: still listening this morning too, and hopefully you stick with
Speaker 3: us for a while, because I'm really excited by this.
Speaker 1: I've got a real appreciation for this now, which I
Speaker 1: don't think I had going back a few months ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I've always valued and loved the listener obviously, But
Speaker 1: now I value and love the job so much more.
Speaker 2: It's great. This is the best job in the world.
Speaker 2: And the fact that we get to do it with mates,
Speaker 2: you know, Like, remember, that's what I was saying to
Speaker 2: you guys at the end of last year. And that's
Speaker 2: what hurts so much, is because I've been doing this
Speaker 2: industry for twenty seven years, and I'd always say to
Speaker 2: you lost, like, it is so rare to get a
Speaker 2: show where the hosts are absolute great mates and have
Speaker 2: each other's back is just so rare, and we have that,
Speaker 2: and that's why it so much at the end of
Speaker 2: last year. But to be able to go into this year,
Speaker 2: Aga and we're going a new home. Yeah, here we go.
Speaker 2: We're not going anywhere. I said to the management here
Speaker 2: old I on this station. I hate moving no more.
Speaker 3: I'm not great with changed either, to be honest, So
Speaker 3: hopefully they stick with us for a while.
Speaker 1: I was so scared to walk into you this morning.
Speaker 1: It feels like a kid at primary school, Lauren. How
Speaker 1: long until you're here? And then you were running late
Speaker 1: and I'm like, jays, where are you walk.
Speaker 3: Me inating problems? This to be there, I wasn't running late.
Speaker 3: I got stuck in the car park because my car
Speaker 3: is too high for the car park here. I hate
Speaker 3: the roof and I've just left the car.
Speaker 1: Then.
Speaker 2: Do you know what?
Speaker 1: It's a distinct lack of masking tape in this studio.
Speaker 3: Really, studio is lovely, isn't it.
Speaker 2: How's this right over over the time when when over
Speaker 2: rang and you know that you want to play it cool?
Speaker 2: I was going through the GYG drive through what's and
Speaker 2: I through.
Speaker 3: They do I've never seen a drive through because it's
Speaker 3: not a drive through near me.
Speaker 2: No in the verbs, and I had over management on
Speaker 2: the phone. I'm like, oh well, let me think about it.
Speaker 2: And I hung up and I came up to the
Speaker 2: window and the lady goes, bloody, hell, I miss you
Speaker 2: Lauren and Clint. You should come work here. No, no,
Speaker 2: no disrespect the people g YG. When I got off
Speaker 2: at a job manning the drive through, I picked up
Speaker 2: that phone and rang over back very quickly and said
Speaker 2: we are in.
Speaker 3: They wouldn't have you on drive through you'd eat more
Speaker 3: than yourself. It was fired straight away.
Speaker 2: I think they were thinking me with the radio voice
Speaker 2: using the speaker, Oh that's very strong.
Speaker 1: They please drive through a good Stuff discount.
Speaker 2: There as well.
Speaker 3: Do they where did you work?
Speaker 2: You should rethink it. Maybe I shouldn't have called an overback.