Stacy (93:23)
Been sitting here, like, dreading it, like, oh, my God, this is the last. The last time. And, oh, my gosh, I'm just. I just feel so grateful. Oh, my God. And now Jackson has the big camera in my face. Hello. God. I just. I just was never supposed to be here. I was never supposed to do this as a career. I remember because I'm a part of, like, the last, probably the last mainstream generation of people who grew up with morning radio and who. Who had those people in those cars, in their cars that they listened to every day growing up. And I remember probably my first. What I can remember from listening to morning radio growing up, other than the shows that I listened to. I used to listen to Elvis Duran, who I interned for, and I listened to a show at a trampa that I remember they used to call their interns the Flying Tomatoes. And I remember thinking, God, that job would be so fun. But, like, that's not, like, a job that you do. I was so, like, academically oriented growing up. I was like, no, I'm gonna do, like, a real job. I'm gonna be, like, an accountant or a psychologist. And I remember I had the same thought process in college. I went to UF and I was going to be a news anchor or reporter or something, which I didn't even really know if I wanted to do that. I just knew I was good at talking and performing, and I thought, this is a way to do that for a living. And I hated it. Oh, my God. I was so close to changing my major, and I was going to be, like, a PR marketing girl, and I was going to write press releases for a living, and I was going to live in New York and just live a very chill PR girl life. And then somebody approached me to join this college radio station that they were starting in 2016, which is probably the dumbest thing you could do. Who was starting a radio station in 2016. But it gave me the opportunity to get behind a mic, and turns out I was decent at it. And it led me down this path again, where I'm thinking, you know, this radio thing's fun, but, like, it's not a real. Just not a real career. I'm not gonna do that. Like, you don't just get to do this for a living. And I just kept tripping and falling into these positions that led me here. And I just remember when Cassie posted the post on the Facebook page that this was a rare opportunity to join a national show. And I knew that I was like, oh, my God, this might be my one chance to do what I've always thought I wanted to do, but just never thought was possible. I just went like, this is just not a thing that you get to do. And every job, I think, becomes a job at some point. But it's never lost on me how lucky I am to have gotten to do this for the last two and a half years and to get to have incredible co workers and to get to laugh and make jokes for a living and just really enjoy what I get to do. And all of you are what makes this show so special. I was a little nervous joining the show to be politically incorrect and to just break the fourth wall. I was a little nervous. Obviously, I did the Google searches, and I was a little afraid. And of course, I brought Rebecca and Romeo to give me all the tea. I was like, what do you know? What can you tell me? And just from day one, you guys have shown me just how much love you have for each other, how much love you have for the people that work on this. And I have never once doubted for a second since moving here that you guys care about. About me and the other people on the show and all the. All of your co workers. And I just felt so loved and embraced. And I was trying to think about, you know, I've talked about all the career stuff, and I can go on and on about how special this is, but on a deeper level, what this role has really. Sorry. Sorry. Women shouldn't apologize. What this role has really meant for me is that it has really healed. This is really embarrassing. It has really healed. A part of me that I think was broken as a kid that, of course, I refuse to talk about because I don't want to pay for therapy, so I just come to this job. I always felt rejected as a kid, at least felt like I was never the person that people wanted to hang out with or thought was cool or that was fun or that was funny. And I joined the show and just every single person, from the bird to big adventure women to my co workers here, you always embrace me like I was somebody already. And the show has made me feel like a somebody in a way, but not just because I get to sit behind a mic or because I get to come on a. A big national show and live out the dream and post the Instagram photos and be on the Jezebel magazine and blah, blah, bl blah, but because I feel like before I even accomplished anything, you guys saw me as a person and treated me just so well and welcomed me and accepted me. And in turn, the listeners, I feel like, have done that as well, where I've had to kind of rewire my brain to stop thinking I'm this person that nobody wants to be around and that I have something to offer the world. So, admittedly, I'm a little scared to let that go. And I have to figure out who I am without the validity and the healing that I've gotten from this role. And I have to create my own magic somewhere else. So I just want to thank you guys so much for just everything. And I. I could go down the list and I'm going to write you guys all individualized notes. So I just want to thank you guys for everything and just how you've welcomed me into this family and letting me get to be a part of this rare opportunity that I will miss so much. And I don't know what's next for me, so I don't have some big fun announcement to be like in surprise. I'm going to blah, blah, blah. We're gonna be figuring that together, that out together. Um, but yeah, I'm just really grateful and I. I'm so happy I get to be on the last cast of the show and I get to witness everybody's experiences on the show and be.
