WEBVTT - A Special No Filter Announcement From Mia

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<v Speaker 1>You're listening to a MoMA Mia podcast. Mama Maya acknowledges

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<v Speaker 1>the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>Is recorded on Hello friends, it's Mea here, and I

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<v Speaker 2>had some news. The Naomi Watts interview that dropped a

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<v Speaker 2>couple of weeks ago was actually my last No Filter

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<v Speaker 2>interview as host.

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<v Speaker 1>After ten years and.

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<v Speaker 2>Six hundred and fifty five episodes and sixty nine million downlides,

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<v Speaker 2>I have finally decided to hand over the mic to

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<v Speaker 2>a new host, and I wanted to be the one

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<v Speaker 2>to tell you first, and also to tell you a

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<v Speaker 2>bit about how I came to this difficult decision.

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<v Speaker 1>If you've been listening to.

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<v Speaker 2>The show for a while, you might have noticed that

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<v Speaker 2>I've tried to step away a couple of times before,

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<v Speaker 2>when I've persuaded some very capable women to fill in

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<v Speaker 2>for me while I took a bit of a breather.

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<v Speaker 2>No Filter is one of the things I do here

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<v Speaker 2>at Muma Mia for a bit of background, but there

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<v Speaker 2>are lots of other things I do here as well.

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<v Speaker 1>I wear a few different hats.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm a co founder of the company, which started as

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<v Speaker 2>just me and is now a team of more than

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<v Speaker 2>one hundred and fifty people. And I'm also a co

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<v Speaker 2>host on another podcast, which I hope you listen to,

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<v Speaker 2>called Mom and Me Are Out Loud, which is a

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<v Speaker 2>daily show and the third biggest podcast in the country.

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<v Speaker 2>I also write a newsletter called Babbel. I have three kids,

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<v Speaker 2>two dogs, and a granddaughter. And for the last seventeen years,

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<v Speaker 2>since Mum and mea began way back on my laptop,

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<v Speaker 2>I've just kept adding new things to my plate because

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<v Speaker 2>I love what I do. I love every single thing

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<v Speaker 2>that I do, and I've got so many ideas for

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<v Speaker 2>more things that I want to do. I love our

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<v Speaker 2>core purpose the most, and that's what drives every new

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<v Speaker 2>idea I have. And that core purpose is to make

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<v Speaker 2>the world a better place for women and girls. And

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<v Speaker 2>thinking about new ways to do that keeps me awake at.

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<v Speaker 1>Night, but in a really good way. And this podcast

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<v Speaker 1>has been and will continue.

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<v Speaker 2>To be a big part of that core purpose because

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<v Speaker 2>by inviting people to tell their stories on no filter,

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<v Speaker 2>in a candid and intimate, really vulnerable way that's sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>heartbreaking and it's often funny and it's always interesting, that

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<v Speaker 2>helps people. And I know this because you tell me

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<v Speaker 2>it helps you. To understand other people's experiences and perspectives,

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<v Speaker 2>and it helps you to feel seen if perhaps you've

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<v Speaker 2>experienced something similar without getting too kumbaya about it. Sitting

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<v Speaker 2>across from people in this studio where I'm talking to

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<v Speaker 2>you from now. Sometimes they're famous people, but usually they're

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<v Speaker 2>not famous people, and sitting here while they talk about

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<v Speaker 2>some of their most vulnerable moments, about some of the

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<v Speaker 2>most wonderful, shocking, astonishing, or devastating, often usually unexpected things

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<v Speaker 2>that have happened to them. That is an absolute privilege,

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<v Speaker 2>and I take that responsibility very serious.

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<v Speaker 1>We all do here at Mama Mea.

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<v Speaker 2>Every single person who works on this show and at

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<v Speaker 2>this company is aware of what a responsibility it is

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<v Speaker 2>to have the trust of someone that you've never met,

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<v Speaker 2>who lets you ask the most personal or difficult, sometimes

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<v Speaker 2>intrusive and often confronting and outrageous questions, which is what

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<v Speaker 2>we do. And there's a moment in every interview when

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<v Speaker 2>it feels like I'm flying, when you connect with someone

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<v Speaker 2>and help them to express themselves or maybe tell a

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<v Speaker 2>story that they've never shared before. And that's why I've

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<v Speaker 2>loved doing it every single week for ten years. It's

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<v Speaker 2>been a joy and a gift to have those conversations

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<v Speaker 2>and put them out into the world. So why am

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<v Speaker 2>I leaving, Well, I'm not really leaving. And the thing

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<v Speaker 2>to understand and that I wanted to explain to you

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<v Speaker 2>is as much as I love doing it, it's not

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<v Speaker 2>always easy. And it was very hard at the beginning

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<v Speaker 2>ten years ago when we first started this show, me

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<v Speaker 2>and my original producer and creative partner, Eliza Ratliffe, we

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<v Speaker 2>really struggled to book guests. Back then, nobody even knew

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<v Speaker 2>what a podcast was, and Muma Mia certainly wasn't the

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<v Speaker 2>size it is now. Legacy media like you know, magazines

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<v Speaker 2>and newspapers and radio and TV, they still had an

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<v Speaker 2>absolute iron group on publicists and guests and celebrities who

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<v Speaker 2>had no idea how fast women were moving to websites

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<v Speaker 2>like Mamma Mea and podcasts like No Filter. So for

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<v Speaker 2>the first year or so, it was so hard to

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<v Speaker 2>land anyone to be on this show. I just called

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<v Speaker 2>in favors from friends who worked in the media and

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<v Speaker 2>I'd try to persuade them to talk to me for

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<v Speaker 2>an hour. And that was the first few months of

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<v Speaker 2>the show. But we quickly realized that the interviews that

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<v Speaker 2>were the most interesting, both for me as an interviewer

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<v Speaker 2>and for the audience were actually normies, regular people who

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<v Speaker 2>weren't famous but who had expeperienced incredible things, and those

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<v Speaker 2>have always been my favorite interviews to do.

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<v Speaker 1>So anyway me I get to the point.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, hosting this show is a joy, as I said,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's also a responsibility, and it.

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<v Speaker 1>Takes a hell of a lot of work.

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<v Speaker 2>I used to think I could just keep piling on

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<v Speaker 2>more and more things, but in the last couple of years,

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<v Speaker 2>I've realized that I can't, and also I don't want to.

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<v Speaker 2>I've realized that if creatively I want to try some

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<v Speaker 2>new things and work on some new projects, and also

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<v Speaker 2>pay respect to the projects that I've already created, like

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<v Speaker 2>this show, I have to hand some things over. I

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<v Speaker 2>have to make some room in my life to open

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<v Speaker 2>new doors, which means, by definition, I have to close

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<v Speaker 2>some others. For two years, I reckon, I've been thinking

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<v Speaker 2>about this on and off, and I've had times when

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<v Speaker 2>I've thought more or less seriously about stepping away, But honestly,

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<v Speaker 2>the time never been right for a ton of different reasons.

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<v Speaker 2>But now though it's time, and a big part of

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<v Speaker 2>the reason why it is time and why right now

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<v Speaker 2>is different to the other times I may have thought

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<v Speaker 2>about trying to step away, It's because I've needed to

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<v Speaker 2>find the right hands to take the wheel of this

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<v Speaker 2>show that means so so much to me and so

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<v Speaker 2>much to so many of you. And I found those

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<v Speaker 2>hands in our executive producer, Nama Brown, who I've been

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<v Speaker 2>working with for a while now.

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<v Speaker 1>And of course No Filter's new host, Kate Langbrook.

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<v Speaker 2>Kate was my first and only pick to host No

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<v Speaker 2>Filter when I took my first proper break last summer,

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<v Speaker 2>and god damn it, she managed to make the most

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<v Speaker 2>downloaded episode of the year. Her interview with Andy Lee

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<v Speaker 2>was an absolute masterclass, one of the best interviews I've

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<v Speaker 2>ever heard. I mean, I knew she was good. Of

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<v Speaker 2>course I knew she was good. She was not only

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<v Speaker 2>my first choice, as I said, she was my only choice.

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<v Speaker 2>And want to tell you why. There are an insane

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<v Speaker 2>number of interview podcasts around now.

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<v Speaker 1>You may have noticed. Some of them are.

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<v Speaker 2>Great, a lot of them are pretty average, because interviewing is.

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<v Speaker 1>So much harder than it may seem.

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<v Speaker 2>And I started off pretty terrible, but I have learned.

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<v Speaker 2>I've learned a huge amount from the greats Andrew Denton,

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<v Speaker 2>Richard Feibler, Terry Gross, Oprah. And what they all have

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<v Speaker 2>in common is how driven they are by one thing,

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<v Speaker 2>and that is curiosity. They all want to understand people better,

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<v Speaker 2>whether that person is a prime minister, or an oscar

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<v Speaker 2>winner or a school teacher.

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<v Speaker 1>No filter.

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<v Speaker 2>Is driven by curiosity. That powers everything we do here.

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<v Speaker 2>By compassion and empathy also, for sure, But and this

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<v Speaker 2>is important, also by humor because even in the darkest situation,

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<v Speaker 2>in fact, especially in the darkest situation, humour can be

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<v Speaker 2>found and human needs to be found. And Kate Langbrook

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<v Speaker 2>has every single trait that I admire as an interviewer

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<v Speaker 2>and as a human being. She's maternal. You don't need

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<v Speaker 2>to have kids to be maternal, by the way, even

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<v Speaker 2>though she has four. This show does, though, requires some

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<v Speaker 2>big mum energy, whether you've got kids or not, so

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<v Speaker 2>that your guests feel safe and cared for and protected

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<v Speaker 2>when they're telling their stories and opening up to you.

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<v Speaker 2>She's also funny. She doesn't take herself or anyone too seriously.

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<v Speaker 1>She's self deprecating.

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<v Speaker 2>She is really original in the way she thinks about things,

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<v Speaker 2>and she is so so smart, and she's also very

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<v Speaker 2>very secure, and I'll tell you why that's important. She's

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<v Speaker 2>not trying to impress anyone or play to an agenda

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<v Speaker 2>or get followers, or be cool or virtue signal. She's

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<v Speaker 2>also comfortable going straight from small talk to intense, noble shit.

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<v Speaker 2>Kate just wants to have fascinating conversations with anyone on

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<v Speaker 2>air or off air. Gosh, listen to me. Do I

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<v Speaker 2>want to give her no filter? Or do I want

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<v Speaker 2>to marry her?

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<v Speaker 1>Maybe both? So there it is.

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<v Speaker 2>Next week is Kate's first show. She'll be the first

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<v Speaker 2>voice that you hear, and she has a very special guest.

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<v Speaker 1>It's me. I'm the guest.

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<v Speaker 2>I never do long form interviews because I'm scared of

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<v Speaker 2>getting canceled.

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<v Speaker 1>That's the truth.

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<v Speaker 2>But I trust Kate, and I trust you, my beloved

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<v Speaker 2>no Filter listeners. And I do feel like it's a

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<v Speaker 2>safe place, of course, for me to talk in a

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<v Speaker 2>more in depth and personal way about what the last

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<v Speaker 2>couple of years have been like leading up to this decision.

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<v Speaker 2>And there are laughs and there are tears. It's very

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<v Speaker 2>no filter. It's actually a little bit more like an

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<v Speaker 2>in conversation because I also ask Kate a lot of questions.

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<v Speaker 1>Just try and stop me.

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<v Speaker 2>Meanwhile, if you feel like you're going to miss me,

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<v Speaker 2>thank you, and you can still hear me every day

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<v Speaker 2>on out Loud. I'll put a link in the show

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<v Speaker 2>notes so that you can also sign up for my

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<v Speaker 2>free newsletter called Babbel, where I write and post videos

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<v Speaker 2>of me chatting while I put on my makeup and

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<v Speaker 2>all kinds of things. But the last thing I want

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<v Speaker 2>to say is thank you. Thank you to every single

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<v Speaker 2>guest who has trusted me with their most personal stories.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you to Eliza Ratliffe, my creative partner on No

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<v Speaker 2>Filter for so many years, To all the executive producers

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<v Speaker 2>and audio producers that have worked on the show since then,

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<v Speaker 2>and most of all, to you to every single one

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<v Speaker 2>of you who's reached out online or stopped me in

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<v Speaker 2>the street or left a review to tell me about

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<v Speaker 2>an interview that you loved or that moved you or

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<v Speaker 2>gave you a new perspective on the very wonderful, complicated

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<v Speaker 2>experience of being human, which is what this shows about.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you for having me in your ears for the

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<v Speaker 2>last ten years on No Filter. It has been super

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<v Speaker 2>cozy in here. Kate's gonna love it, and you're gonna

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<v Speaker 2>love her.