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this morning we uh gave some hard news uh the hardest news that we've ever had to deliver on this show aside from the horrible tragedies that we've had to talk about over the years um i mean i we were actually having a conversation in studio about just the feelings and how everybody's is and i feel like the last you know few years has just been it's just been dragging and dragging with this the stuff that has been going on in the world and then to have the the news hit us close to home um and i'll i'll briefly give you these details but then we'll talk about it in great length coming up here in a little bit but um uh spike who has been a valuable member one of the the the people who with myself started the mojo in the morning show you know 23 years ago is no longer with the show um it's uh something that uh you know we are getting faced with here at our our you know uh company just like other people are getting faced with and in their company and um you know the the the fact that people are sending love to to spike is amazing and also sending you know the positive text messages and also the negative text messages about this move um and what's going on you know what just is a tribute to him and and how uh he has really affected a lot of people's lives over the years uh by being on you know this radio station and all of our radio stations and I heart, uh, radio. Um, some of the texts are unbelievable. Like, uh, two, four, eight says the, uh, the beautiful soul of spike for all the years of laughter. I wish you and your family, nothing but the best. And, uh, don't worry, mojo in the morning. I will stay listening to you every morning. Uh, everyone have a beautiful day to ridiculous. Uh, I will never listen to you ever again. This is another texter. I'll never listen to you guys ever again you've lost a valuable listener to people just I'm so confused waking up on a Monday morning to hear this I hope that there's you know explanation and answers that can be expressed and it puts us in a spot where we can't because it's a it's a personnel thing and of personnel matter so um being in radio for a while um and going through changes in radio is always the the thing that i will tell you is is dreadful yeah there are so many fun things

about this business and there are so many really just yuck things about this business too that just make it tough i mean any job has that this one is just unfortunately very very public when

that stuff happens and people are people make assumptions too there's been also text messages and assumptions um you know that uh i think that was my stomach just a second ago but there is assumptions like uh oh uh you know mojo's gonna bring his son in

going to have a son do the show with him that couldn't be further from the uh the the truth um there is you know uh assumptions that um something you know uh you know happened after the show on friday and the only thing that happened was what happened you know what would happen uh uh to uh to spike and we're not going to speculate and we're not going to say anything and are not saying anything is because this is between the company and Spike. And also our show, to be quite honest with you, would not go to you and start asking you questions about things, you know? I mean, a lot of times we hear stories all the time. Like there's a story that's out today about McDonald's. I don't know if you saw that at all. But McDonald's is talking about that nobody's allowed in their corporate offices all this week because they're going to have changes, I guess, at their corporate offices. But I don't know. I probably shouldn't even be going to this level of talking, but I feel like we owe it to you and we owe it to the fact that you have been listening for such a long time. I mean, some people have actually said that they've been listening to the show.

Since the very first day.

For the all. Yeah.

Can I say that I love that you're doing this as a newer guy to the show who, you know, looked up to to spike and and look up to yourself like you don't see this a lot you don't see this kind of impact and get to see what happens after the fact a lot and it's just i just say it's really

cool that you're doing well i i appreciate it but i will also say this that um you know we've every time we've made a change to the show in a direction where somebody has uh been added or somebody has left it's tough and i um i will say this that you don't want to see your favorite show or a show that you're comfortable with have changes

and especially when it's part of your daily routine which we appreciate so much but it's just it makes you it makes you feel off as a listener as much as it makes us feel off in the

studio and i think that um that sometimes you know you gotta be able to talk about it mike like you actually have to have to say why the heck did this happen why did why did this go on i remember the very first thing that ever happened i remember you know i went to to a catholic school in chicago and i remember one of the teachers um was not going to teach anymore and they came to us and just gave us a very vague that and i won't even say the guy's name because i don't even know if if it will get back but so and so is not going to be there anymore and it was devastating as a kid because that's all you would hear but i didn't understand at that time about the personnel reasons of why that they don't tell you anything further and the kids were all upset and we were going to do petitions and protests and all the rest of that stuff and we found out uh later you know that he went on and got another job went somewhere else everything was good and as a kid we all lived our lives and did our did our stuff and I know that the days afterwards and the days you know for the weeks and months and maybe years afterwards it's difficult but it's just something that we got to do coming in this morning was was very very difficult and I'm not trying to make myself or any of us seem like we were uh you know we're the ones that you should have sympathy for i mean you know but it was it's tough to come in here and have to have a microphone in front of you and then do what we just did the last you know 20 minutes or so of the show and try to

act like it's normal yeah can i share something that i loved about spike i um like earlier everyone was going through what you know their experiences with spike and i know i've only been here for a short seven months but spike was one of the first people to reach out to me and make me feel like a part of this family and like and and it's so scary coming into a new space and not knowing anyone and he was just so open and loving and always there to help such a listening ear like almost an emotional guy you'd think someone who plays pranks on people wouldn't be so emotional but he's so he that's just who he is in his character and I loved him for the moment I met

him I feel like that's that's a side of him that not a lot of people got to see because he was such prankster but he has the biggest heart too and mike i feel like you said something very similar earlier with you know or maybe it was megan i'm so sorry i can't remember now but um like you he was just very good at making everybody feel included you know there uh there's always honestly

an on-air side to all of us in an off-air side you know and he has the most amazing I mean, both on-air and off-air side.

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