Speaker 1: Before we start the show today, we and I have
Speaker 1: some news that I really don't want to have to share,
Speaker 1: but we have some show news, yes.
Speaker 2: And really big changes to the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So late last week I was informed by the
Speaker 1: powers at b at Arn, which is the parent company,
Speaker 1: that they have identified my roles and my position here
Speaker 1: at the Pickup with you two as roles that won't
Speaker 1: be returning in twenty twenty five. So I just want
Speaker 1: to say that it wasn't my decision, wasn't my call.
Speaker 1: I really wanted to stay on this show with the
Speaker 1: two of you, and that I love working in radio
Speaker 1: and I love working here. I have been told that it's,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, a financial decision for
Speaker 1: the company.
Speaker 2: Mitch. We also want to say, oh.
Speaker 1: No, don't, don't know, no, don't because listen, the critics
Speaker 1: said that a gay man and two girls on radio
Speaker 1: wouldn't work, and now we're hysterical it's not going to
Speaker 1: be good.
Speaker 3: Thing is we've done the pick Up together for two
Speaker 3: years now, but we've co hosted together for three years,
Speaker 3: and this is not what we want for the show.
Speaker 3: It's a decision that's been made that's out of our
Speaker 3: control and you know, Britain and I we have to
Speaker 3: continue on doing the show without Mitch and without you,
Speaker 3: and when we are utterly devastated, we love what we
Speaker 3: love what we create together. We love what this show
Speaker 3: is and we still see us as a trio. And yeah,
Speaker 3: when we got the news as well, we couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you are not only our co host, but you're
Speaker 2: one of our best friends.
Speaker 1: And we.
Speaker 4: The reason that this show has been such an amazing
Speaker 4: show is because we were not people that were put
Speaker 4: together in a room and say do a show. We
Speaker 4: were three best friends and we still are three best friends.
Speaker 4: And I want you to know that you are by
Speaker 4: far the most talented, funniest, hard working person that I
Speaker 4: have ever come across. And I am jealous at the
Speaker 4: people to get to work quick. You next to break.
Speaker 1: I want, well, I want you to, but you know
Speaker 1: our hand has been forced. Listen. I am so grateful,
Speaker 1: I genuinely am for what they have given me over
Speaker 1: the almost decade I've been here, almost a decade. You know,
Speaker 1: I started on the Kyle and Jackie Oh Show when
Speaker 1: I was nineteen and I was their burista. I made
Speaker 1: their coffees and let me tell you I was a
Speaker 1: kid who dreamt to have a show like this, and
Speaker 1: now I've had a show like this, and now I've
Speaker 1: got way more time to dream of more dreams and
Speaker 1: head on out and doing this show and connecting to
Speaker 1: the audience that are listening now and working with you
Speaker 1: two and having every show at the radio station. I
Speaker 1: cleaned the toilets in this building when I was twenty,
Speaker 1: you know I started here. Yeah, actually go back to
Speaker 1: hate char to discuss that.
Speaker 3: But Mitch, you are a brilliant broadcaster and this is
Speaker 3: this is the biggest loss to this network.
Speaker 2: You're not being here, It really is.
Speaker 1: I know. I listen in the press people are talking
Speaker 1: about it. I wanted to come out today and just
Speaker 1: say that I am done. I'm finishing up, and this
Speaker 1: is not going to be the last you hear of me.
Speaker 1: You get me go follow me on Instagram right now.
Speaker 1: I'm a killer for a shameless plug.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: Wait, we need to get the handle in there at.
Speaker 1: Mitch Jury, give me a follow. But to you two,
Speaker 1: to you Laura and Britt, you girls have such a
Speaker 1: brilliant skill of connecting to people and to embrace me
Speaker 1: on this show. Like you have. We've done this for
Speaker 1: three years has been a privilege. And being able to
Speaker 1: come on here and laugh and have fun every day.
Speaker 1: I'm so lucky. I am. And although I don't get
Speaker 1: to choose that my next chapter isn't with you. It's
Speaker 1: not the end for us. It's not.
Speaker 2: There's one hundred sequel, I hope. So I'm about a sequel.
Speaker 1: And you know, to Grace, our executive producer, like one
Speaker 1: of my best friends in the whole world, I love
Speaker 1: you more than anything. And now this is a sub session,
Speaker 1: and I just want to end this and say to
Speaker 1: the listeners who've listened to this show, because let's be real.
Speaker 1: When you first heard me, I was a kid, I
Speaker 1: was in the closet. I didn't know who I was.
Speaker 1: I was pimply, I was terrified, and I was so
Speaker 1: happy to be on it, and all those things still
Speaker 1: really are the same. Matter of the closet now is
Speaker 1: really good. I have loved every moment of it. So
Speaker 1: I'm here to the end of the year. So it's
Speaker 1: all good. This isn't goodbye. This is just let's carry on.
Speaker 2: We love you so much.
Speaker 1: It's all good for us.
Speaker 3: It doesn't feel real and I think everyone can hear
Speaker 3: how upset we all are by this decision. It's just
Speaker 3: so not what any of us want, and we just
Speaker 3: think it's it's a It is a huge.
Speaker 2: Loss for us.
Speaker 3: The last thing is we will be your biggest cheerleaders
Speaker 3: no matter what you're doing forever like that. You are
Speaker 3: going to absolutely smash it because you are the brilliant
Speaker 3: broadcaster like Mitch Churry, you will there will be something
Speaker 3: amazing waiting for you.
Speaker 1: Thanks. Girls.
Speaker 4: I just want to add, I just want to add
Speaker 4: that Laura and I were podcasting for years, but we
Speaker 4: were brand new to radio. We were babies to radio
Speaker 4: and the person that took our hand was you from
Speaker 4: day one, and you made us better at our job,
Speaker 4: and you encouraged us and you told us that we could.
Speaker 2: Do it when we were scared.
Speaker 4: And we are who we are a big part of
Speaker 4: our identity here at radio because of who you are.
Speaker 1: I love you, guys, And Robert Eonin's going to be
Speaker 1: great with you next year. Have we announced that yet?
Speaker 1: That's not been announced, Okas Robert Tomorrow, all right, we
Speaker 1: love you, all right, You're on the pickup. Love you guys,