WEBVTT - The Best Of The Pick Up - A Message From Mitch 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.480 This episode is recorded on gaddigal Land of the Aurora Nation. 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:24.279 Hi guys, and welcome back. 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.720 To another episode of Life and I'm Laura, I'm Brittain, 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:28.080 I'm Mitch, and this. 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:31.360 Is our pick up show, which normally is a very 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.560 ugly show. But this week's this week our radio show 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:36.440 was very very different to what it normally is. 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:38.559 Yeah, well listen, it's out there now. 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:39.440 People are talking about it. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:41.240 I've had some lovely messages and it's in the press 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.000 and we've spoken about it live on the show. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.000 So you're about to hear what did air earlier in 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:45.320 the week. 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:46.960 But you may have noticed that I wasn't on with 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.200 the girls for the last couple of days on the Pickup, 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:53.000 and that is because I am not returning to Kiss. 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:57.000 I'm not returning to the Pickup. It has been decided 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.000 that there is no viable option for me to continue 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:01.160 in the new year. 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:02.920 I've been made redundant. 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:03.240 Mitch. 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.800 We've recorded this like three like for you guys, We've 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:10.080 recorded this three times now and every time every time, 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.959 so you guys know kind of like how I guess 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.520 a bit of how this kind of our setup works 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.200 with the pickup. We are contracted by AARN which is 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.920 called the Australian Radio Network, right, they created the pickup. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.120 But we were already really great friends and we already 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.760 had the Saturday show together. Yeah, and so we were 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:29.679 given the news and this is kind of all unfolded 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.640 in real time for us as well, because we have 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:36.440 had no ability to change what's happened, you know, like 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.520 we have had no say over this. And the thing 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.759 that's so different about Life on Cut is that life 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:42.560 on Cut is ours, like Britain and I like we 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:44.479 own life on Cut, We own the content, we own 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:46.679 who's on it. Nobody can tell us what we can 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:49.480 and can't do on this podcast because it is it 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.080 is ours at its core. And so that's what's so 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.760 deeply different between a radio show and then us being 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.120 able to do the podcast and we are you guys 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:00.520 will hear the break like what went to air as well, 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.960 but like we are so devastated by this decision, and 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:03.320 just to. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.920 Ensure there are like no rumors that are floating around 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:10.120 we none of us, no one saw this coming. You 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.079 have been part of the furniture here which and part 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.640 of our lives and the radio's life for so long 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:16.639 that we just thought you'd see out your days here. 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:20.200 And we were all made aware of this, Mitch, Laura 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.919 and myself at the exact same time, but in different meetings. 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.880 So because you are like such an integral part of 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.040 our life and our show and we don't want to 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.840 do it without you, Laura and I see enough of 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:32.239 each other. 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.360 But in all seriousness, yeah, it's it was a shock 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:37.000 to all of us. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:38.799 As much as the pickup drops into our feet on 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.480 a Sunday for Life on Cut, it's also a very 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.920 very separate product. And like you are not you are 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.160 not leaving this family, like you are not leaving the 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:50.080 Life Uncut family, Mitch, and like we will make sure 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.280 that there is some way and it's all happened in 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:55.320 real time, like we don't know and had the answers 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.120 for everything yet, but we will make sure that like 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:02.040 our little trio stays together in some capacity, whether that 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.679 looks like doing Ask on Cuts together when we can, 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.160 or like how you know, look this, we will figure 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:09.600 out plans that will be in the works. 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:11.640 But well, it got out in the press and people 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:14.000 were asking, and then people were saying with the girls 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.760 across and I just want to say, I mean that 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:18.760 you guys fought hard for me, and I mean I 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.679 fought hard for myself. I'm shattered, like I am the 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.120 radio guy. That's why we got paired together, right, you 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:28.200 guys were the brilliant you know podcasters. You're coming from TV. 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:29.480 And you were the brilliant radio guy. 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.519 Well no, but it is that that's the dynamic that 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:33.800 happens in radio and we were lucky that it worked. 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:35.280 How do you feel right now, Midge? 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.160 I feel good, I know I do. I have to have. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.840 Gone through some grief processes of the last couple of days. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.120 Though this feeling right now is not the feeling you 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:45.120 have had for a couple of days. 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:46.920 Yeah, and if you had have caught me on the weekend, 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:48.400 I mean we've had some dark course. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.840 Like I just feel so sad, like I feel as 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:51.720 it's such a. 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:55.240 Waste, but it's the thing that gets me and I'm 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.600 it makes me so happy but angry and sad at 0:03:58.600 --> 0:03:59.760 the same time. But I'm going to try and be 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:01.360 happy because'm gonna cry it. But like the fact that 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:05.040 you could be our competition next year. I want you 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.440 to get another job, and I know you someone who's 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.240 going to snap you up. In a heartbeat, and you're 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:11.080 going to be bigger and better than you ever were. 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.160 But the fact that you could be competition to us 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.719 is wild because I when I pictured my radio career, 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.280 I pictured as being those people that have together forever, 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:24.159 like it's celebrating decades together. And I think we'll have 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.279 to be like home Impigeons and come back full circle. 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:28.480 That's how the industry works, you know, That's what I 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:28.840 was thinking. 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:30.279 I think I said this to you, Laura on on 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.440 a call, like I I'm not gonna speak for you, guys, 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.520 but I was disillusioned into thinking like that this is 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:37.400 just going to be my forever and we are so 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.000 lucky that this is our work, really very privileged that 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:41.680 we can come in and be best friends and talk 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.599 and gossip and laugh and then get paid to do it. Right, 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.440 So I'm allowed into this false sense of security, and 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:48.960 I have been that. I thought I was part of 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:50.320 the furniture. You know. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.320 One thing that we did talk about in the weekend though, 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.360 and like something that you guys all saw if you 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.960 came to the live show. Mitch for years has been 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.200 saying that he wants to do stand up comedy. He's 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.920 been saying that that is something that he that you 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.719 would just like love to do, and it's been like 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:05.479 a pipe dream. 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.840 But like, also you're so good at it. 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.920 You at the live show, you Sean, you were so amazing, 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.039 and everybody messages to tell us how much they loved 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:14.560 your Like. 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.120 You'll skip that you put together. 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.520 Yeah, but like this is the opportunity, right for as 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.559 long as you stay doing the same thing and become 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.559 institutionalized by the place that you're at, Like new things 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:26.960 never can fall into they can't fall into place because 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.080 your time is already so consumed. You were doing the 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:31.440 night show, you were doing the pick up, like you 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.560 had no free time to do these other things. And 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.000 I mean, I feel so sad for us, but I 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.480 feel so excited about what twenty twenty five looks like 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.120 for you, Midge, And like we will be front row 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:42.080 of that live show. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:43.479 We will be there. 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.160 And if I were to reference in Instagram quote in 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:47.720 this moment, it would be. 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:49.520 Live, love, laugh, love. 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:56.080 It would be don't cry because it's over, it's. 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.760 A season, not a reason. No, it would be it 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:58.560 would be that. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.479 The best things when you pushed outside your comfort zone 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:03.200 and you right now are going to be pushed outside 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:03.760 your comfort zone. 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:05.680 Is that even an expression or is that just a sentence? 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:08.720 Like I love you, but it doesn't rhyme. 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:11.159 It doesn't have to rhyme. It's deep. 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:16.360 Fuck you, both of your shoes off. You're both lying here, like. 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:17.920 Mitch, get out of here. I thought you were made 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:19.279 redundant in the building. 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.760 I take that salary. Now that's sacrifice, you know what. 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:25.520 I messaged brit hard and quickly before we go, because 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.120 I'm trying. Took every second I can. You what did 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:28.880 I text you on the weekend. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.440 I was like, because we have five hundred messages, well. 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.320 Okay, because we were I was just saying, like, you know, 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:34.760 I don't want this to be the end, like because 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.080 I love you guys, and. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.520 It really isn't. And I know what I messaged. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.400 I was like, you know, perhaps if you get invited 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:44.680 to like events and you don't have like key shit 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:46.920 to take or like anyone to go with, like maybe 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:47.440 I could go. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:48.719 With you to keep up the facade. 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:50.560 And I was like, what fucking facade? 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.680 I was like, we're actually friends, Mitch, and he's like, 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:53.680 you know what I mean, And I'm. 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:55.960 Like, I didn't mean facade I more meant like just 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:56.960 to keep your show. 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.279 Your men appearances, like to be to go to things 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:00.440 together and hang out together. 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:02.599 But the word facade came out, and I was like, 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.680 you're trying it. You make it sound like we're not friends. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.200 To hear up the facade of our friendship right right. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:10.440 I love you, and I just want to say quickly 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:12.640 to the life is like I've had some beautiful messages 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.280 so far and this audience. I've been in radio a 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.560 long time and the audience I have there is amazing, 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:19.239 but the life is the next level and there's something 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:20.760 like I've never experienced before. 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:21.600 So thank you. 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:22.480 They are special. 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.280 Oh my god, Like they're gorgeous, and the support and 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.360 love and the fact that you listen and follow is amazing. 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.320 So thank you to you guys for opening that audience 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:30.680 up to me. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.560 Don't forget us when you're bigger and better and uber 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.080 famous and in Hollywood and stuff. 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:38.440 But also like, yeah, like I said, this is literally 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.120 but like I said, you know, I feel like you 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.520 guys have kind of with this conversation like it's it 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.400 is happening in real time for us, Like this is 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.240 so so fresh, and we don't have the answers for 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.600 what things look like, but we just know that they're 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.040 that as much as the pickup might be different, like 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:56.680 life on Cut is not different. And you are a 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.000 part of this family and we will make sure that 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:00.840 that is the case because we love you so much. 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.680 Mitche Anyway, you can now listen to the beautiful announcement. 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.760 They haven't on radio this week, and then we tried 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.480 to crack on with the normal radio show with a 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.600 show musco on one might say, anyway, here it is, guys. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:15.000 This episode is recorded on Gadigal Land of the Aurora Nation. 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.160 Hi guys, and welcome back to another episode of Life. 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.680 I'm Can't, I'm Laura, I'm Brittany, I'm Mitch. 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.160 And this week on the show, it's going to be 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:29.960 the first thing that we discussed. And if you guys 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.880 haven't heard the news already, there was some very very 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.040 big news that Mitch shared with us this week and 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:36.920 that was made known to us. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.400 So I'm not staying on the pick up in twenty 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.720 twenty five. I'm not staying at Kiss. I'm not with RN. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:46.240 I have been made redundant, my role has been pulled. 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:48.679 There wasn't the money to pay for me. I mean, 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:49.920 that's the long on the short of it. People are 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:51.840 going to ask, people are going to speculate. I was 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.680 told there was not the money to pay for me 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.240 in the new year, and after ten year or nine 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:00.000 and a half years, I'm no longer staying with Kiss 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:00.760 and I wanted to. 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.360 My choice was to. I wanted to stay with you, 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.080 two girls, and so did you. 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:06.560 Yeah, we fought for you as well. 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.800 We're all shocked, all sort of found out at the 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:09.640 same time together. 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:11.840 Yeah, I mean, you guys will hear it in the show. 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.040 Obviously, we still did the show as per normal this 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.960 week Monday Tuesday, Mitch wasn't in, so it was just 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.920 Britain I doing it. And then on Wednesday, it's kind 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:20.920 of when it all got released. 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.120 It came out in the press right, and we like 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:24.880 we knew what was going on behind the scenes. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.320 We were kind of scrambling. We were all blindsided, me 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:28.000 and the two of you. 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.720 Yeah, completely, So then it got out in the press 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.480 and I was being asked and I wanted to say 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.920 it from my in my words, from my mouth on 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.080 at my show, and we did, and I think we 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.760 did a great job. And I didn't want to have 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:41.760 to do it, but we did. 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.760 Yeah, And also like obviously the pickup is something that 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.480 we do that's on radio, and then we talked to 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:48.120 you every week on Life on cart I means like 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.000 you are part of life on cart like as much 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:51.760 as we do the pick up, like you were part 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.680 of our life on Cut family. And that's not going 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:58.480 to change. And we will figure out a way. And 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.600 we don't have the solutions for this year, guys, because 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:02.200 this is all very new to us and it's all 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.760 happened like in real time, but we will figure out 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:06.679 a way that three of us still get to create 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.280 content together and still get to whether it's podcast format 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.720 whatever that looks like this show, the three of us 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:12.600 still exists, you know. 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.000 And until he's so like big for us, he's too 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:16.360 famous for us and he leaves us for. 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.600 Dast don't you fucking dare go and get another co host? 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:19.680 And I jumped a case file and. 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.400 No, but yeah, look, I mean, you guys will hear 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.880 the announcement that went to air, but also like it's 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:30.240 a weird one because like obviously there's like a radio listenership. 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.439 But then you guys have been along this journey with 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.120 us as well. Yeah, and so we just wanted to 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:37.600 make sure that you are made aware of what's happening, 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.200 and like it is a crazy thing and it's happening 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:42.000 in real time and we're all trying to get our 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:42.679 heads around it. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:46.040 I just think it speaks to the industry and what 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.839 is going on in radio in the wider world where 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.360 you know someone that's there for ten years and on 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:54.800 a show that does well, a show with great chemistry 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.559 gets cut, that is a person that goes. 0:10:57.600 --> 0:10:59.680 I mean it just I think it's a It's very. 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.680 Telling unprecedented times, that's for sure. But it is a 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.520 Mitch heavy show. This week, I did ask Mitch a 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.720 very big question live on as something I've been thinking 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.160 about for a little while, so that features a bit 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:10.640 later on. 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:12.320 And also we just want to say how much we 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.400 love you, Mitch, and how much doing this show together, 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:15.400 how much. 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.280 It means to us. 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.160 Weird or we love you and you haven't seen the 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.880 rest of the end of us, the rest of us 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.880 I actually have, Yeah, too much. 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.839 Of us, not we love you. Anyway, let's get into 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:29.160 the show. 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:29.680 Thanks Life. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:35.440 Before we start the show today, we and I have 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.400 some news that I really don't want to have to share. 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.520 But we have some show news. 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.480 Yes, some really big changes to the show. Yeah. 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.960 So late last week I was informed by the powers 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.959 at b at Aarn, which is the parent company above 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:56.439 Kiss FM, that they have identified my roles and my show, 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.840 which is the night show. I also hosted the night 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:02.800 show nighttimes here on Kiss and my position here at 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.880 the Pickup with you two as roles that won't be 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:10.880 returning in twenty twenty five. So I just want to 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:16.240 say that it wasn't my decision, wasn't my call. I 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.800 really wanted to stay on this show with the two 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.400 of you, and I wanted to stay on the night show, 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.920 and I wanted to stay at Around and Kiss and 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.600 that I love working in radio and I love working here. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.800 I have been told that it's, at the end of 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.640 the day, a financial decision for the company. 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.640 Mitch. We also want to say, oh. 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.520 No, don't, don't know, No, don't because listen, the critics 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:39.520 said that a gay man and two girls on radio 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.600 wouldn't work, and now we're hysterical it's not going. 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:41.920 To be good. 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:43.840 The thing is, we've done the pick Up together for 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.080 two years now, but we've co hosted together for three years, 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.559 and this is not what we want for the show. 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.840 It's a decision that's been made that's out of our control. 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.160 And you know, Britta and I, we have to continue 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.080 on doing the show without Midge and without you, And 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:04.319 when we are utterly devastated, we love what we love 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.480 what we create together. We love what this show is 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.840 and we still see us as a trio. And yeah, 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.080 when we got the news as well, we couldn't believe it. 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:17.160 Yeah, you are not only our co host, but you're 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:18.320 one of our best friends. 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:23.000 And well, the reason that this show has been such 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.520 an amazing show is because we were not people that 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.440 were put together in a room and say do a show. 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.719 We were three best friends and we still are three 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.440 best friends. And I want you to know that you 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:40.000 are by far the most talented, funniest, hard working person 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:45.400 that I have ever come across. And I am jealous. 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:46.600 At the people that get to work with you next, 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:48.160 and it's breaks my heart. 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:52.600 I want you, well, I want you to but you 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.240 know our hand has been. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:56.320 Listen. 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.600 I am so grateful, I genuinely am grateful to kiss 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.880 and I am for what they have given me over 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.000 the almost decade I've been here almost a decade. 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:04.480 You know. 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.200 I started on the Kyle and Jackie Oh Show when 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.120 I was nineteen, and I was their burista. 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:10.080 I made their coffees. 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.480 And let me tell you, I was a kid who 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.080 dreamt to have a show like this, And now I've 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.360 had a show like this, and now I've got way 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.400 more time to dream of more dreams and head on 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.040 out and doing this show and connecting to the audience 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.200 that are listening now, and working with you two and having. 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:26.640 Every show at the radio station. 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.800 I cleaned the toilets in this building when I was twenty, 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.280 you know, I started here. 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:31.160 Yeah. 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.880 Actually should go back to HATECHR to discuss that. 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.880 But Mitch, you are a brilliant broadcaster, and this is 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:39.960 this is the biggest loss to this network. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:41.560 You're not being here, It really is. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.720 I know I listens out in the press people are 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.440 talking about it. I wanted to come out today and 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.040 just say that I am done at KISS. I'm finishing up, 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:52.600 and this is not going to be the last you 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.720 hear of me. You get me, go follow me on 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.360 Instagram right now. I'm a killer for a shameless plug. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:14:59.200 You know, I love it. 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.360 Wait, we need to at the handle in there at Mitch. 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:06.000 Jury give me a follow. But to you two, to you, 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:10.680 Laura and Britt, you girls have such a brilliant skill 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:14.080 of connecting to people and to embrace me on this 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.600 show like you have. We've done this for three years 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.960 has been a privilege. And being able to come on 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.480 here and laugh and have fun every day. 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.240 I'm so lucky. I am. 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.120 And although I don't get to choose that my next 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.960 chapter isn't with you. It's not the end for us. 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:34.520 It's not really there's one hundred sequel, I hope. 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.640 So I'm about a sequel, and you know, to Grace 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.760 our executive producer, like one of my best friends in. 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.040 The whole world, I love you more than anything. 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:44.480 And now this is a sub session, and I just 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.400 want to end this and say to the listeners who've 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.800 listened to this show, because let's be real. When you 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.680 first heard me, I was a kid, I was in 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.400 the closet. I didn't know who I was. I was pimply, 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.680 I was terrified, and I was so happy to be 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.000 on it and all those things. Still really understand this matter. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:01.240 Of the closet. 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:05.880 Now it's really good. I have loved every moment of it. 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:07.400 So I'm here to the end of the year. So 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:07.880 it's all good. 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.480 This isn't goodbye, this is just let's carry on. 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:14.280 We love you so much. It's all good for us. 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:15.080 It doesn't feel real. 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.480 And I think everyone can hear how upset we all 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.720 are by this decision. It's just so not what any 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:23.080 of us want, and we just think it's it's a 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:24.720 It is a huge loss for us. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:26.200 The last thing is we will be. 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.480 Your biggest cheerleaders no matter what you're doing forever like that. 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.200 You are going to absolutely smash it because you are 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:36.200