ONE YEAR LATER

Exactly one year after signing off from TV news, I’m reflecting on what I’ve learned—and what I can finally see clearly now.

In this solo episode, I revisit the past year of building something from scratch, growing through uncertainty, and finding clarity after walking away from a 20+ year career in broadcast.

I answer the question I’ve been getting a lot lately—do I miss TV news?—with honesty, and share my perspective on where I believe the industry has changed.

If you’re new, I’ll point you back to my “TV Trilogy” (Episodes 1–3), where this journey begins.

And for the first time, I’m opening up access to raw video diaries I recorded in the moments immediately after “the call that changed everything.”

This episode is about growth, perspective, and what happens when you finally see things differently—one year later.

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

This episode of Unscripted Turbulence is sponsored by Dude Without Cocktails, bold flavor, no extra ingredients. And if you want to try them for yourself, just head to dudewithoutcocktails.com, use my code Turbulence26 and get 10% off. Or just grab the link waiting for you in my bio. Oh my goodness. Oh, it is a big day here on unscripted turbulence, my friends. Alright, so I'm gonna get everything set. We are gonna burn some polo summato. Big day today. Big, big, big, big, big. Before I say anything, we're gonna burn this polosamto. And rid of the negative energy. As we all say, first day of the month. Rabbit, rabbit. That's good luck. It's also a fourth day today. Here is the Palo Santo. If you're watching, you can see me lighten up the Palo Santo. Cleanse us all together for this episode. Breathe it in in ten and out ten. Because today, my friends, is the one year anniversary since I walked away from my first love, TV News. That's right, my friend. Big day. So welcome to Unscripted Turbulence. I'm your host, Reagan Medchie. Yes, we are one year, exactly today, since I signed off for the final time on TV. That's right. We got a lot of things to cover today. So this is gonna be an episode of um reflection, what I've learned, what I miss, how I've grown, yada yada. And there is a special announcement tucked within this episode. So you gotta stay tuned. Very special, very special announcement. Okay. Oh my gosh. So how is everybody? Are you driving to work like my friend Shay does before she starts her teaching job? Hey, Shay. Are you waking up with the birds in the sun like my friend Debbie? Hi, Debbie and Mark. I mean, I can list everybody. I mean, this is where I'm going, right? Um, I don't know if Pilot's gonna be listening to this, but you know. Um, he hears me enough during the day. Who else can we shout out? Who can't we shout out? All of you. This is a glorious day. Of course, we are gonna shout out Janice Yu. She will be brought up in this episode. Janice, stay tuned. I mean, everybody, everybody. Uh Soul Glow Dave. I know you're listening. I I mean, a lot of you are listening. I'm I have now I have now backed myself into a corner. So I will stop. But Lisa, I'm not gonna stop. I'm gonna keep shouting people out. I know there are so many of you that listen. Tanya. Um Deb. My mom. My dad has been falling off the wagon in terms of listening to the pod. So I'm gonna I gotta nudge him a little bit. Um everybody, just welcome. Welcome to the episode. Okay. So where do I begin? Well, it has been quite a year, hasn't it? Been, my friends. Had I only known where I would be one year later. Oh my gosh. Speaking of, which brings me up to the podcast one year later. So I did a little digging and reflecting and looking back at certain notes I had. And it was uh, it came across my notes that the podcast idea, okay, so remember, been in TV news for 20 years. So actually, let me let me backtrack a little bit and introduce myself to some of you who may be listening for the first time, which if you are, thank you. So my name is Reagan Medgie. I have been, I had been uh in TV news for 20 years. I started in, well, I really started at Temple University in Philadelphia, go owls, studying it. And, you know, that was in the fall of 1999. And then after I graduated in 2003, I tried to figure out where my first TV station would be. Ended up being at TV two, which was in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Spent a couple years there, got out of the business for a little like a hot second because I was like, I can't ask the tough questions. Okay. Um, followed my gut, started screaming at me. Then I was 27 years old, and I said, you know what, let me give myself another crack at this. And I went to Elmira, New York at the NBC station at WETM 18 News. Uh, did a contract, a two-year contract there, went to WNEP Newswatch 16 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. I was the Pocono Newsroom Reporter. That was in 2009 to 2014. And 2009. Let us have a moment. I don't want to say of silence, but that's when I got my Red Mazda stick shift, which we will be mentioning in this episode. Um I got that car 16 years ago. Oh my gosh. And I had it up until two weeks ago. We'll get to that. So I was in Scranton, and then I got my big break at the Weather Channel, and I traveled the country chasing storms from 2014 to 2016. I got freelanced. Um, they didn't renew my contract. Money was an issue there at Weather Channel, and uh that started the whole, oh, we don't have money. We don't have money. We can't give you a raise, 2% raise. If you're a TV person, you understand that. Then I ended at ended up at um WCBS, CB CBS2 in New York, because I had already been in New York City at that point because I was a Northeast correspondent for the Weather Channel, and I had a desk at 30 Rock. Oh, you want to c talk about a cool building? After that, I went um, I was at CBS2 for a good year and a month until I got let go. Uh-huh. And I ended up then at Fox Five, New York, for I think it was like six years. Started as freelance, then got a staff gig. I walked away from a contract renewal there. And then I ended up at WABC, Channel 7 Eyewitness News, as a freelance. And then I finally said I had enough and I left. So if you want the full story, you're gonna have to go to the TV trilogy in the podcast, which is episode one through three, will give you the whole in-depth look. So that's my reintroduction to myself. I hope I didn't miss anything. I don't think I did. Um, so I have been recently asked, more often than not, do you miss it? Do you miss TV news? I will start with this. Do you miss your first love? Think about that for a second. Now, obviously, all of our hearts get broken with our first love. I like analogies if you haven't noticed. And I consider TV News my first love. I will always love it. It didn't treat me great all the time. Sometimes it treated me wonderfully. It will always have a spot in my heart. Now, Pilot thinks I'm nuts for it. Pilot is so not. He, as many of our partners, friends, spouses of TV people will probably agree. He thinks it's junk. He thinks it is on life support. And I have a buddy, I'm gonna shout him out, Tim, who was my executive producer in one of my TV stations. And he has since left the business as well. And he said, you know, TV News is kind of like a stage coach building facility. And everybody there is still relying on the stagecoach, building stagecoach, using a stagecoach while cars are whipping by. And pilot agrees. So, yes, pilot, pilot doesn't like me to ever say that I miss TV or that it was my first love. He thinks that I just gotta keep moving forward, which I am. But today's episode is about looking how far we've come. I don't think there's any harm in that. I think it's empowering because you get to see where you started and where you're at now, right? So, TV news. Do I miss it? My immediate answer always is no. I know. I do miss parts of it. Any TV person will tell you once you leave. Now, for those who are still in it, I get it. I get it. It's a really cool industry. That to be said, I just got a text message from a fellow TV peep who just informed me they will remain nameless. They are likely listening that some stuff is going down at a news station near New York City, and that's all I'm gonna say. So, yes, things are changing. Things are changing. There are merges happening with TV owners, and it's just it's a lot going on. Um, but I miss the camaraderie. There is nothing like being out in the field with your friends who are in TV and camera people and fellow reporters. Oh, in other stations. And yes, it might be rainy and gross and disgusting, or really hot and sweat is dripping down your entire body in places I will not mention, but you understand. There is nothing like that. That camaraderie where you're all together and it sucks at the time, but it also doesn't because you're all together. I miss those days. Gosh, I freaking miss those days. It just, but those days we're far and few between. Let's just say that. Um, because a lot of times, you know, you're covering different things, different parts of the city and the town that you're in. And um, but in the big, the big stories you're all together. It's just so neat. Now, the mission of journalism, I still strongly believe in. But I think it's just, I my looking back, my my big gripe with with news right now, truly and honestly, is that people can say what they want, that why it's not the way it is. I think it's the TV news fault. They chose not to meet people where they're at, which is on their phone. And now who knows where this podcast is gonna go in terms of building and what have you. But I like to say this. You know, I feel like what news should have done was the just get ahead of everything. So this is, I guess, my speech to if there is a news god or a news person, not like a person, but like the I mean there isn't, but let's say news god for all intents and purposes. You failed us. News god, you failed us because you saw the social media thing happen, you saw it coming. And instead of getting ahead of it, you said, no, no, no, everybody's gonna watch the news tuning in at 4 30 in the morning.

SPEAKER_00 13:38

They're never gonna look on their phones. No, they're not gonna do that.

SPEAKER_01 13:43

They're gonna sit down and watch the 6 p.m. news or 6 30 p.m. news. Oh, they're tuning in at 11 p.m. News God, what you should have done was say, you know what, I see this coming. I have my pulse on what's happening. And what we're gonna do is we are gonna, we're gonna blow up our format. We're gonna rearrange things, and we are going to get ahead of this, and we are going to be the trusted source of information and facts. We're not gonna spin anything, we're facts. That's all we're gonna do. And we are gonna get out ahead of it and we are gonna throw our reporters and our anchors and our producers and our cameramen, everybody we can into social media. We are gonna film for social media, we're gonna throw our stories out on social media, everything. So when we get to this point now in 2026, when people look at their phones, they will be able to, the consumer, the viewers, the people that I worked for, really, will be able to say, Oh, that that's not a news person. I know the news people. That's an influencer, that's somebody that's pretending to be a journalist. No, no, no, no, I know my my trusted news people. That did not happen. I don't know where this idea of mine is gonna go, probably nowhere, but that's where I point blame. I had somebody the other day blame another part of our country for the way the news has been. I said, absolutely not. It's the news's fault.

unknown 15:17

Nope.

SPEAKER_01 15:18

Nope. And I'm not talking politics, so we are not going beyond that, but it's the news's fault. They slept on it, they stayed in their stagecoach facility, and now look at where we're at. Have you seen how many people are getting let go? Did you, did you have you been reading the headlines? Have you seen the mergers? Have you seen all these things? And really good, quality, fine people are getting shown the door. And then there are other people who really signed up for the right reasons and they can't do it anymore and they left. Am I talking about myself?

unknown 15:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

Because I can.

unknown 15:51

Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 15:52

Okay, so that's that. So do I miss it? It's complicated, but you know, I miss parts of it, but overall, no. I thought I'm actually surprised. I thought I would have that, shall I part in the French or not? Oh shit moment. Like, what did I do? I never got it. Instead, I decided I was gonna lean into this new thing called social media. Us TV people are like, huh? Yeah. I mean, not all TV people, but there is there is definitely a difference between the TV person and the social media person. And I'm finding this out because I am trying. So I'm looking into the Instagram and and Chat GPT. Again, thank you, Audrey Puente. Shout out to you for introducing me to all that is chat GPT. And if you create enough content, Meta, Facebook, Instagram will pay you. I just found this out. Now I'm not getting paid a lot, but a little window. Facebook's paying me. Again, not a lot, not a lot, not like rolling around in private jets or anything. But I'm thinking, why isn't Instagram, right? Because that's where I post all of my things. I come to find out that Instagram doesn't acknowledge legacy media. So unless I'm missing something here, they uh it takes a little time to shed your skin of social of legacy media and to showcase that you are a content creator. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. What does that tell you? So I gotta dive a little deeper into that. But if anybody happens to know a little bit more about that, so that is what I am finding out. These little things you find out when you leave. Um, I decided to lean into everything. And what I am also realizing, what I'm learning about myself, is there is so much more to learn outside of TV news. Oh my gosh. So I I mentioned the podcast, right? And I looked at my notes. And the podcast idea actually started in November 27th, 2024, over a conversation on on with one of my girlfriends, Bridget. I'm really shouting out my peeps today. And I I had a call with her, and uh I don't know, she I got to know her when I was at Weather Channel, and she was she was my um a PR handler. So, like when you go to a a story, oftentimes you have a handler. Well, I mean, not all stories, but there are certain stories. If it's a feature story, you get a handler. I always call them handlers, but they're the PR representatives of the organization that is being featured or whatever. Excuse me. And, you know, at first I thought, oh, here we go. Because some handlers are not TV people and they don't know how to speak our language, and they just get in the way. And you're just like, just let me do my job, right? They mean well, but when you're on a deadline, meaning well doesn't matter. But Bridget was a TV person. She called my bluff, and then we became friends. And I keep in touch with her, and she is just a boss babe. And we were on the phone, and she mentioned podcasting. And I thought, well, okay, so that's where the podcast started. So now that I'm in this podcast world, that has consumed me. So I don't think I don't look back in my quiet moments and shed a little tear about my first love TV news. We had a good run. We really did. But for me, I find it that I it was more courageous for me to walk away from something that was no longer serving me. And I do, and I just bumped the camera. So sorry, there was no earthquake if you're watching this. Um, but I feel like I needed, I needed to grow. And I acknowledge everything TV News gave me. And let's be honest, if it wasn't for those 20 years of ups and downs, lefts and rights, I wouldn't be where I'm at. So I don't look back and I'm not damning TV news. Absolutely not. I'm just disappointed in it, to be quite honest. All that to be said, it really did give me a fantastic jumping off point to where I'm at now. And I have now been absorbed into this podcasting world and learning everything there is to know about it. Holy crap. Because I decided I needed to do a video podcast, which adds to the level of work, which is fine because I like this screen time thing, right? And even if you're just listening to me, I like to this talk time thing. So in doing this, I have now, I I I am now a better editor. I understand audio levels. I am also understanding contracts, how to write them, how to create them, what they mean for you, how to protect yourself. It is there, it's a masterclass. I have gone through a year of a masterclass in podcasting. Asking the right questions, reaching out to the right people, sometimes not the right people, but it's trial and error. Believing in yourself. There are days where I do not. There are days where I'm like, where's this going? How, how am I gonna how? And I think it's been done before, and I can do it too. Because that's the truth. You know, somebody said Once when I was starting this podcast journey. Oh, it's such a saturated market. Uh, and I brought that up to pilot. Now, as we know, pilot doesn't speak a lot, so and if you're just tuning in, pilots, my husband who flies for an airline. We will not mention the airline, but he is a captain in the airline. But keep in mind, I am the captain of the home, okay. In the home, he is my first officer. Anyway. So the pilot. His response when I said, you know, somebody said it was saturated, da-da-da. And he says, Yeah, well, there are a lot of restaurants out there, aren't there? And I said, Oh, there are a lot of restaurants out there. And he walked away. So I mean, sometimes sometimes we do have in-depth conversation. That that point he really did make. He didn't have to make more of a point than that. So I said, Wow, there are a lot of restaurants out there, aren't there? So, yeah, you can do it. You really can. I mean, listen, not every day is glorious in sparkles. Heck no. But we all find our way. We can all create our own path. So this is the path I'm creating. And I realized too, in mentioning the do you miss TV news? When I signed up for TV News, my one thing that I walked into that relationship with is I want to make an impact. I didn't have to be on a billboard, never was. I didn't have to be on the side of a bus, never was. That would have been cool. There's still time. I, you know, I didn't want paparazzi following. I didn't I didn't get in into it for that, right? Is it cool when people recognize you? Sure. Is it cooler when they recognize you for the work you're doing? Yeah, much cooler. So I got into it because I wanted to make an impact. And at the end of the day, last year at this time, I realized I was no longer doing that. I was no longer making an impact. I felt like I was wasting my time. Because when you cover certain stories, the producers give you either news articles or they give you a block of information and you have to whittle it down and make it quick in a minute, 30 seconds for the viewer to understand and absorb. And I just felt like I was a highlight reel, like a bulletin board in the morning. Not every assignment you get is like that. Not every shift is like that. But for the most part, what I was doing in the morning, that's what it felt like. And I felt like I am not providing an ounce of impact. If there was breaking news, sure. But for that group that the breaking news pertained to, like if it was a fire, that neighborhood, that that section of the neighborhood was impacted. But in the grander scheme, I just felt like, what are we doing? And then you have, and then, oh, and then if you want to cover a story, you have to sell it and pitch it to your producers, which obviously not every story is gonna be accepted. But I mean, there were there are so many good stories out there that I was denied telling. Why? For no political reason, but for timing reason. Or there was a certain flow of the show that day, and then we just couldn't fit it in, or oh, wait, there's a breaker. We need you to go there. Oh, breaker is a breaking news story. Oh, or if there's, oh, we really need somebody to cover that, or we need so I I just and pilot was like, you are literally a puppet. Like you're not doing anything. Like, what are you doing? And when you start getting those questions lobbed at you, oh, okay, hello, light bulb moment. So looking at what I'm doing now, it's dawning on me more and more every day that I am doing exactly what I signed up to do in TV news, but in podcast form, which is make an impact and people stories. People have some pretty freaking incredible stories. Am I right? I mean, we've been hearing them since what? I launched this on August 1st, 2025. There have been there have been a lot of stories. And it's just fascinating what people go through and how they get through it and what life looks like on the other side, right? So be it that it may, my jumping off point was me leaving TV news, but it's a layered situation. It isn't just like, oh, I'm quitting my job and I want to do this. No. Like there's a lot that goes into this. So in the past year, I have realized how much I've grown and how much my time is so valuable in a day. Like I'm not wasting my time. I'm not going to bed. Like right now, it's sunny. Okay. Obviously, we don't film this on April 1st, but we filmed this a couple days before. And it is, it is gorgeous out today. It is sunny. It is 46, flirting with 50 degrees. Cool, but my God, spring has sprung. I went on a run today, a mind clearing run, fabulous. It was just everything about it was glorious. And I just I I truly like looking at every where I've been and what I've gone through, truly, truly happy. So, like I yes, miss a couple things, but I just feel like I am making such an impact. Okay. I think I had a point there, and I'm not really sure where it went because I really got sucked into the blue sky that I'm looking at right now. So I'm sure when I go back to edit this, I would be like, wait a minute. Oh, and by the way, shout out to uh Yacht Rock Review. I have a yacht rock shirt on. This is plan too. I'm gonna move the the microphone so you can so you can see it. So I have been listening. I'm in my yacht rock season. In the in the winter, I go uh for the jazz season. I'm in my yacht rock season. So I've got my my uh t-shirt on to kind of set the stage, set the mood, if you will. Now I'm gonna go to my list of other things I want to say. But what am I learning? I think that's where I was going. What am I learning about? See, this is where where it goes a hard left. Um, so I am learning that yes, the people stories, and I'm learning more about myself that I'm not wasting my time. That I my time is valuable. That's where light bulb moment. So, because I have so much to say. So the so the value of your time, right? So I'm realizing that I don't have to go to bed right now or get get ready for bed. It's so bright and beautiful. I have I have a full day now. This is where I wanted to go. I have like a full day. Like I used to wake up at 1.30 a.m., which means I would try to get to bed by 7 p.m. What kind of life is that? There's a point where you look in the mirror and you're like, what am I doing? And speaking of looking in the mirror, I cannot tell you how many people have come up to me and they're like, oh my God, you look so, you look so rested and young. And like, yeah, because I'm sleeping. I'm letting this weird overnight bizarro shift. Now, some people have to do that shift. I get that. I get that. And they come to terms with it and they accept it. I just could no longer do it. But props to the people who are still doing it. It is, it is brutal. And you don't understand unless you do it. You can say, Oh, I can imagine, oh, that must be tough. No, you don't understand. Ooh. But I get, I see the value of my time now. I see, you know, how I'm spending it, who I'm spending it with. I still have to be better on my work life balance. That's where I'm kind of because where this podcast is. I like to say last spring summer, I, if you the analogy, here you go, is like building a house, right? I found the plot of land, I poured the foundation, we leveled the land, we put the walls up, we built a strong structure, foundation and all, right? Now I'm in the infrastructure phase. I'm putting the plumbing in, the electrical, the HVAC, all of that, right? So my next phase, I'm hoping, is by the summer, which will be like the interior decorating, the paint colors on the wall and the and the landscaping. It's just a lot to get everything figured out and sorted for when you are when you're creating something. I had to sign up for an LLC. So my actual my, so this is unscripted turbulence, the podcast, but my LLC is Moe Productions LLC. So I had to figure out all that, which by the way, just got trademarked officially. All of these, all these little things. And you don't you don't learn it right off. There's no like guidebook or manual, like, hey, this is what you need to do when you want to start something. I literally just learned as I went. I and and Ryan Lecky, who I interviewed, the um, he was my he's my he's for a TV person, but now he's a CEO of his his like ad agency. He's freaking killing it. You know, he had what, eight bullet points. And it's true, like for a business plan, you don't you can have an idea, but just keep moving forward with it. So yeah, I'm I'm I'm you know, still creating it and I and I still, you know, have to tweak certain contract things and then there's rates if I if I get hired to do something. So it's really it's fascinating, but I feel like I'm learning. I'm learning so much more now than I did when I was in TV. And it just that just shows for me in my life, in my situation, that it was time for me to evolve and elevate. So that's how I feel. Now, speaking of elevate, your girl here had to give, how to make another tough decision with her car, her red Mazda. The thing was with me for 16 years. And it was odd because when I let it go, when I knew it was time, it started lighting up like a Christmas tree in the dash. And it I was no longer feeling safe driving it. And a lot of you reached out about your first car, and it really helped. Because if you your car really takes you through life's journeys, and I went through so much in 16 years, and it hit me at that moment. It like hit me, and pilot, God bless him, he doesn't understand. It's just a car to him, but not to me. It was an extension of who I was. So I took it on a road trip, it's final road trip to Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania, and I got a new Mazda. Yes. Now this new Mazda, the CX30. It's an elevated version of my career, I guess. Me being an adult, I don't know. It's got like heated seats and stuff. There are so many buttons and things in this vehicle. And the pilot looked at me, he's like, Well, welcome to 2026. Yes, I understand that. But I really liked my red mods though. So sometimes you just have to learn to move to you have to know when it's time to let go. And I feel like, wow, actually, when I'm thinking about this, the whole year's been about letting go of things that either no longer serve you, aren't propelling you up, kind of dragging you down. You don't feel safe and secure, and you have to let go. Oh gosh. So, yeah, that's been my whole year.

SPEAKER_00 34:27

How's your year been?

SPEAKER_01 34:31

All right, so yeah, this has been quite a year. So I told you that I have a little bit of an announcement to make, and I'm gonna make that. So let me go. I have my little reporter notebook. I want to make sure I hit all my points because it really, huh? I have, yeah. Even though, and I apologize because I'm embarrassed now that I have to had that moment of confusion where I was going with that story, but it was all about the value of my time. I guess I have so much time, I just feel so happy to talk about it. I mean, I don't have all the time in the world, okay? It's not like I'm popping bonbons watching Netflix on the couch, okay? That's far from what I'm doing. Um which brings me up to this announcement. Starting today, I have a subscription on Instagram. And I've seen these pop up on some, you know, profiles. And I thought I was gonna lean into it because I have been sitting on something. Oh, here it goes. I have been sitting on something for a while, and I didn't know if I wanted to release it or how I was gonna release it, but I knew I wanted to do it in the proper way. Okay. I oh, I'm gonna do it. So I am releasing clips of my vlog that I recorded. Now, if you have been listening, you know that I started a vlog when I decided days before deciding that I was actually gonna walk away from TV news for good. I started a vlog because Pilot said that maybe you should start documenting how you're feeling, not thinking anything of it, like I have said before. And I decided it is time to release these vlogs. And I am doing this for a couple of reasons. Um I think a one-year mark, looking back, it's a good time to let you know a little bit more intimately the thought process and the rawness of it. And I also have no noticed in the past year, I've had many people reach out to me. And I had one old coworker reach out to me, I want to say like two months ago. And he called me and he said, I just need to talk to you. And I think I had mentioned this on one of my last solo podcast episodes. Um, and he said, You know, when did you know it was time to go? Like, when was that moment? And this is gonna, I think, more so answer like that kind of question because it's not like a one moment kind of thing, it builds up. But when you are about to make a big decision, uh the things that go through your mind and where where they lead, it it's it's a really lonely feeling. So I I'm gonna release these once a week for a couple of weeks, and the purpose is to bring you all in um a little closer. Um, but you have to subscribe because this is I'm a little nervous to do it because I haven't listened to a lot of them. And um, I have to, it's it's gonna, you know, it's gonna open up old wounds, but I want to start a conversation, right? I want you all to see that this wasn't an easy decision. I think you all know that. Um, but maybe for the listener who is where I had been, you're okay. You're gonna be fine. But sometimes it's helpful to hear from somebody who's gone through it so you don't feel so alone. So that's the purpose of releasing these. So it's my it's kind of like my my intimate inner circle who want to lean in to a subscription and hear more of what I have to say because those will not be on the regular Instagram page. They're a little too sensitive. So I don't know who's gonna sign up for it. I don't know, but I I just feel like I need to release it somehow and I and I want to do it properly out of respect for me. And I don't want to say my anguish, but um, you know, my time and you know what I went through. So I uh you can go on and um you'll see a subscription. I think you'll see on my Instagram, it'll say subscription. You can subscribe that way. Uh no pressure. You'll still get my content. You just won't get that stuff if you don't subscribe. So um, but it is going to be interesting. And I have other plans with this subscription, which I think some of you will be really excited about because I just thought about it on my run today. Um, so yeah, I'm I'm like all jazzed about it. So I did mention I was gonna mention uh a thing about Janice Yu, who was a reporter with me at WABC, and she has an episode, podcast episode with me a couple, couple episodes ago. Um, so this is about do you miss it? All right. So the other day, and then I'm gonna wrap this up, but the other day, because I'm pretty sure you're all at your destination at this point. But so the other day, I had a nightmare. Now, we have all had those nightmares, those stress nightmares. When I was in TV, I would have these. And I also they would be coupled with you're you're back in high school and you are trying to get to your locker to get your book because there's a test and you didn't realize you had to test, but you go back to your locker, you can't find the book, and then you don't even know where the damn room is because you can't find it, because you never showed up to class. Have you ever had those dreams? Okay. So, in a TV world, in a TV person's world, these are how the dreams go. You're on deadline and you can't find the freaking live shot location. So I tell Janice, and I think she'll be fine with me telling her about her. We both had nightmares at the same time. We were not sleeping together. But you know what I'm saying? Like we both had nightmares. Man, I just dug a hole there, didn't I? Anyway, so I reach out to her the other day and I said, I just had a nightmare about you. And she goes, Oh, I had a nightmare too. So her nightmare was trying she, Janice, I know you won't care. So she had a live shot location, like she had a live shot, but it was in a different burrow and she couldn't get there. Like she was trying to get there to the live shot. Okay, so we've all had those. Yeah.

unknown 41:23

Mine. I don't even know.

SPEAKER_01 41:25

I don't even know why I was dreaming this. I have no idea. So my my dream was I was at ABC and Janice and I, for whatever reason, got sent out to Arizona to cover a story. Now it wasn't Nancy Guthrie, which by the way, oh my gosh, right? Oh my gosh, God bless her. I just I pray she returns home, but you know, I oh my god, I feel so bad. So it wasn't that, but it was it was somewhat related to, it was like another story similar. So Janice and I we fly out there with two cameramen. My cameraman Will and Nick. Now, if either of them are listening, those two characters anyway. Now, Steve, my old cameraman, is probably real upset that he's not in this dream. He's he was in another dream, which was highly inappropriate. Whatever, okay. I don't know if anybody else else has those weird inappropriate dreams where things go a little sideways and then you have to work with the person the next day, and you're like, I can't look at you in the face for like a good hour, just like anyway. Okay, so back to this. So now it's me, Janice, Nick, and Will. And we're out in Arizona doing the story. So Janice somehow gets an incredible exclusive. And I am a little upset because I didn't get the exclusive. Although I love her, I just thought, man, she's killing it. Oh, I suck. So this is okay, just follow me on this. So I thought, okay, well, you know what? I'm gonna go out on a limb and I'm gonna do a different story. Like, she's got the exclusive with the new sheriff in town, who's also the judge, and like they kicked it off. Like, she, it's so super secret exclusive. She's gonna get all the accolades. Hell, she's even gonna get an Emmy for this. Me, not so much. So I thought, okay, well, I'm gonna do something different. So I found a group of people, and this I thought is perfect. It's gonna be like an ex like um enterprise story, they call it. It's a feature story where you kind of an enterprise story is a feature story. Let's it's we're two in the weeds with TV news here, but so I find this group of people. Who are sex workers? And they said that this is not, I know. They said as I was pre-interviewing them, it was a girl and a guy, and they said, Yeah, you know, actually, you know, business is really good right now because there's so much I don't know, attention and so much publicity about this story that you guys are covering that we're getting a lot of work.

SPEAKER_00 44:25

I don't I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 44:28

And the extra hook to the story that I was gonna pitch to the producers was the guy, sex worker, used to be a CBS employee who was recently laid off and couldn't get a job.

SPEAKER_00 44:39

Oh my god, this is horrible.

unknown 44:41

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 44:44

Oh, I'm laughing at myself. Oh my god. Yep. And you know, I realize why I read I I I dreamt this is because right before I went to bed, I read a story about CBS network laying off a bunch of reporters, one of whom is my friend. Um so I think that's where it came from. Anyway, so news runs deep in this blood over here. So yes. Do I miss it? Well, when you have dreams like that, I don't know. You figure that out. So yeah, so Janice, Touche, my friend, you got the lead story, okay? And I don't even I I I woke up before I knew the end result, whether or not the producers were gonna go for my feature story. Chances are no, but I I thought it was a pretty decent story. I mean, anyway, okay, so happy one year, right? So I hope that you all arrived at your destination, you got to the end of this pod, that you had a little chuckle and a giggle because apparently I dream about sex workers. And um, hey, you know, if if TV doesn't work out for those of you listening who are in TV, you can also turn to that, right? Because apparently I'm dreaming about it. I don't know. But thank you so much for um just the joy that you all bring to me and the support you've been giving me. And check out the subscription. Again, I'm gonna release these raw, in-depth vlogs. Um I wouldn't, I I wouldn't know how you feel about it because it's it's ooh, hello. Yeah, uh-huh. But that's just the beginning of what's gonna be on that subscription. So thank you guys so much. Enjoy your day. Uh happy April, rabbit rabbit, and uh yeah. Play a good joke today, would you? April Fool's there, okay, friends. Bye. Take what lands, leave what doesn't, and keep moving forward. Follow wherever you're listening, and if you are watching on YouTube, hit that subscribe button. It helps more than you know.