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was two hours ago from now that the world got stunned and they heard the news Megan Mick is leaving the Mojo in the Morning show and she's actually leaving radio altogether she says we talked about this in a pod you'll hear the podcast you can go see what the podcast looks like I haven't even seen what what did Zach name the podcast let me look here family meeting huge announcement

I thought it was going to be like no

how would you say that

Megan, first off, will you stop your self-deprecation and will you be, will you acknowledge that

you are loved, that there are many, many people that love you and it's not just family members, it's a lot of people, actually extended family members, it's the people that you've touched over the years through your laughter, your tears, your self-deprecation

and more. Who's going to be the next crybaby?

I already have taken that list. She's a crybaby too.

Over here.

I'll get to turn and read. Who's going to rail Kevin? Who's going to keep Kevin?

Y'all about to lose that license.

The only thing we worried about is the dumb butt.

Y'all are about to lose your job.

So you had mentioned that, so Megan, for those, just to kind of recap a little bit of this, Megan said that she would like to have a life of being able to have a little bit more privacy. And that you actually have made this comment numerous times. And I think you made it on the air, but I know you've made it numerous times off the air. You kind of want to have a regular schedule.

Yeah. Oh my God, I can't wait to sleep. I can't wait to sleep, you guys. I truly, I, I've been doing this a long time. Everybody in this industry says mornings get easier. You're going to get used to it eventually. You're going to start waking up at three o'clock in the morning on a weekend. No, you do not. I am a night owl. I am not meant for these hours. I, it is a struggle every morning to wake up for this job. And I love this job. And it is still hard to get my ass out of bed. cannot wait year round we get up and we get to work before the sun rises i cannot wait to have the sun be up one day do you have like options maybe man you know she got that line

do you have do you have a job that you think you'll be starting in the next couple of weeks um yeah i know what your ultimate goal is i don't know if you want to share but i'm talking like in the interim of making your dream come true which you obviously you'll share in a second like i i didn't know if you had a job to pay your bills no my end goal i don't think this is going

to come as a surprise to anybody what the end goal is i'm pointing to kev because i thought you would just say it i mean you got a lot of goals

yeah yeah i didn't know where we going that's what i'm gonna call my bakery one day yeah yeah like opening up a bakery is like and like if i ever do that if you ever see me open a bakery just know that i i achieved what i wanted to achieve you know what i mean like

you you have mentioned to us that uh your goal also is that you have a lot of things that you want to fight for and some of those are um some causes that you want to fight for yeah i hope to be able to give them a voice are you going to move into the a lot of people will leave radio and they'll move to a pr position or they'll move to a position usually working with uh some kind of a charitable organization are you is that what you're thinking i don't know if it's a possibility

for me moving from iHeart.

What do you mean by that?

What do you mean, bro? Non-compete? For charity? That's out of here. Really?

Because you had a contract?

Mm-hmm.

Well, I do know this, that the thing that you want to get away from most of all is that you want to get away, your goal is to get away from public life, right?

Yeah, but that doesn't mean not providing a voice for people who need it or whatever, but, I mean, that's not fun.

Now I can never eat your cookies.

That's right.

So quick question for you because I'm going to take some calls too because we didn't get a chance to take a lot of calls. When you were making this decision and this thing was coming up, I'm assuming you're a therapist and you had a conversation about this. What? Right?

Never.

Yeah.

Do you ever get serious?

I think I've been pretty serious all day.

No, you have not. I want Megan. I want to talk to Megan.

I'm sorry. Am I here? M-E-A-H-A-N.

It do feel like a little bit of representative is here too, though.

What would you like to see? What would you like to see? Truly.

No, what I want to know is when you're having this conversation, and you know what? I'll get serious with you. When you're having this conversation, my kids have had conversations with me in the past. and they've told me some things that they either wanted to do or didn't want to do that were, you know, they were out there. And I said to them, I go, have you prayed about this? And I do believe that there's a spiritual part to you. I do believe that you have a spiritual part. You obviously turn to your therapist to have a conversation. Then you turn to your family. But then I think sometimes you got to pray about something. You thought through this through enough to be able to write a formal letter and say, hey, this is what I want to do. What is it that made you feel the most comforted since you've decided this decision? Was it a person? Was it something that you felt after, you know, waking up one morning? What was it?

Oh, I don't know. I really don't know. That's a great question. What has made me feel the most comforted? um knowing that for the first time ever I'm sticking by a decision I made that was hard to make for me it's very comforting I feel proud of myself when it comes to that I don't know I think comforting is weird because I've had people comforting me for a long time with day-to-day stuff so I feel the same support I do for my inner circle I feel the same everything I don't I don't really think it's support right now i think it's just more pride that you made a decision that

you're very proud of yeah yeah good for you thanks do you um do you think that and you said earlier in the you can listen to that podcast of the big family announcement um you said that for the first time in your life you felt like you've always felt like you've done things for other people you're doing something for yourself what's going to be the biggest thing that you are going to be

doing for yourself by doing this um i think these are tough questions you guys these are like deep tough questions um was i i ask it one more time because i don't know how you phrased it what i

what i mean is what is the by doing this and stepping away from public radio life and social media and all the rest of that stuff of you know of having yourself yeah be exploited so to speak

by being on the radio because you're just very exposed yeah i don't like exploited i i i show up i i choose to do this i exploited is not fair i'm just i what did what was word you just used Well, we expose a lot of our lives. Yeah.

you know we we live our lives quite openly for the most part i mean obviously there's a little bit that we all don't share because we want to have some semblance of a private life but for the most part we are all very open yeah to the point where it's caused a lot of problems when

i've overstepped those boundaries with other people understandably so um but again those are

like my choices what's the biggest thing of you doing this that's going to be for you

taking care of my mental health first for sure yeah giving myself my own peace of mind putting myself first you know what i mean like i've always played the bad guy fallen sword whatever kind of taken on that position of well i'll just let people be mad at me and i'm really glad that i don't have to do that anymore that's gonna be great that's gonna be great do you feel like you

did it your way yeah how would i not because you've fallen on a sword for people you ain't being yourself you don't like being exposed like it's not like you have you when i say have you did it your way like you have had an amazing career 14 years i think in any industry is amazing like that's consistency yeah but sometimes we show up as a lesser version of ourself just to continue oh for sure and when i say did you do it your way like when i come on this bitch i'm saying what i want to say i'm saying how i feel obviously i can't fully operate the way that i want there are parameters but i'm doing it my way and i think there's a certain like joy and freedom that i have because i'm approaching it that way and i'm just trying to understand do you feel like you did it

your way that's a really good question um yes and no i think you have to we're a team so you have to play with the team so other things i would have done differently yeah but this isn't my locomotive of um i'm just like a part of the coal crew you know i'm carrying the coal keeping it running whatever i'll give you the power to keep going but like am i overall dissatisfied with how things are run i mean no this is the place like i said when we first talked about it the first time and i'm not trying to bring anybody else into this but there are people around here who have similar experiences of i have not always had the best team around me while working in radio Or people that I trusted or felt were professional or whatever it was. And this is no side to them. This is all growing experiences, whatever. This is where I wanted to get in my career. You know what I mean? Like this is the place that was the epitome of our industry. And so, I mean, this is always where I wanted to be. So I think, yeah, it wasn't my train, but I didn't want to conduct the train. I just wanted to be on it.

Your other dad is on the phone here right now. Oh, you othered him? I'm your radio dad.

Oh, Scott Mick. He's on vacation.

Your biological dad is here. Scott Mick. Scott, how are you? Good morning.

I'm well. I'm well. How are you?

We're good. How proud are you of your daughter?

Oh, very. I'm very proud of her.

Love that.

Absolutely.

Now, when she first came to you and said she was thinking about leaving the show, did you say, you are out of your damn mind? Go take a walk and then go back and we'll talk about this again? Or what was that conversation like? Because I know you guys are so close.

Got to be honest. anytime either one of my kids are thinking about leaving the job or going on to a different opportunity, I would like to be the contrarian voice in the room and say, have you thought this out? You know, there are upsides to what you're doing. And I think Megan is looking for a better work-life balance than maybe what she's able to get right now. And I fully respect the decision that she's making i think she has really thought this through i don't think it was an easy decision it wasn't like she i can't imagine no came in on you know on friday and said yeah i'm done here i'm gonna go on and look for other opportunities and don't know what it is but i mean going somewhere else i that was not the situation at all scott i was talking i don't know if you heard this i

don't even know if you were on hold at the time but i was talking about like when my kids come to me and they want to make some of these decisions i do the contrarian is actually very exact words I'll become the the devil's advocate of you know are you sure but I also I I'm a big believer I'm a firm believer that that our decisions are made by us but they're guided by

something even bigger than us yeah higher power absolutely you probably don't know it negative

She's probably one of the most spiritual people you know.

Don't tell people!

I know. Can I tell you something, Scott?

I know that.

It's very much who she is.

And honestly, I don't...

You bitch.

But can I tell you something? I said this earlier this morning, Scott, while you were enjoying your vacation and not being called to do a radio show. I said that when I was praying for Megan this morning, one of my prayers was that she realized how much she has accomplished and overcome, not just professionally, but personally, you know what I mean? Like her life story has helped so many people. There's not a lot of people that have, you know, picket white fence life in Megan has been the voice for a lot of people. But so have you, Scott.

Don't think that's over. I honestly, I think that the next chapter is going to be better and not that the attract anything from what she's doing now her voice will be louder and she'll do more i think

that's great listen well she's always going to have a home here and i know that she's always going to have a home with you because she said she's moving in your guest room i heard that no

no no she doesn't have a home with me she better have a home with you because she's not moving

you thought you thought that she was she was going to go back to toledo and everything she's coming back home you tell that girlfriend of yours she's got another lady coming her way too

um i'm i may not come back beautiful here so i'm not leaving the girlfriend and i are gonna kick you out of your place are

you kidding me make make room with all the tummy bahama shirts hey hey burn them i cannot wait can i can i say something to you scott um i i want you to know this i was lucky enough to have chelsea there as you know my partner in crime to be able to help raise the kids because if i did it all by myself who knows what would have happened but i like but i but i like to look at you and to see the job that you've done with both megan and with her brother and i look at you and i go man you're a freaking inspiration for any kind of person that is uh a dad raising their kids or a mom raising their kids uh so you're you're an awesome human being don't hold it again But you know what, though? Chelsea's dad has always been my model of being a dad. You're also kind of a model of being a dad because you do such a great job, and you've given your kids a wonderful life, and you've given up a lot for yourself, for your children, and they appreciate that, and I love that. So I'm happy that we are in each other's lives.

They're kind of easy to do it for.

Oh, my God, somebody cut the audio.

It sounds easy to do it for. Yeah, I was going to say. Megan's a little bit more of a burden.

The word this morning she said she hated. I know.

We're going to have more time with Megan, and I promise you we're going to have more time with Scott Mick, too, because I want to make sure that we give you your just. You're going to have more voice on this show than Megan ever will post-show.

For sure.

Further as it should be. Yeah, yeah. Hey, Scumic. Can you say it one time? I love you. I don't dislike you a lot.

I'll take it. I'll take it. I'll take it.

You guys have such an unbelievable father-daughter relationship. It really is cool. It's a really special thing.

He's the best.

Hey, it's okay to say this. I'm proud of your daughter. I'm proud of our daughter. My two days.

My two days.

I always wanted two dads.

We'll talk to you, Scott.

Enjoy your vacation.

That's right. Go back. What's the temperature like there?

Beautiful. It's just sunny, gorgeous all week.

We're getting 70 today, but let it rain, so don't worry.

Yo, girl, with you?

Yes. Okay, get back to it. Megan, love that. Make it weird. Stop it. See you, Scott. Take care, buddy.

All right. You too. All right. A lot of poor hiring decisions made by management led to this show, which explains Megan for sure. This is Mojo in the Morning.

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