A goodbye from outgoing EIC Spencer White and ME Amelia Roessler

Originally Posted on The Minnesota Daily via UWIRE

KAYLIE SIROVY: Hello everybody. My name is Kaylie Sirovy, your host from the Minnesota Daily. Right now, you’re listening to In the Know, a podcast dedicated to the University of Minnesota. Today in the studio with me, I have Amelia and Spencer. 

SPENCER WHITE: Hello. 

AMELIA ROESSLER: How’s it going? 

SIROVY: We are here to talk. This is kind of a farewell podcast for them. They have been my bosses for the past year and I’m gonna be, ,his is gonna be a little sappy for me at times, but it should be a fun conversation that we’re gonna have. Isn’t that right?

WHITE: Kaylie’s gonna muffle her tears with her sweater at any time.

SIROVY: So you guys have been here for a year. How does it feel? Does it, has it felt like a year?

WHITE: Yes and no. I feel like I’ve been doing this job forever ’cause I’m tired and ready to graduate. It’s been a lot, but we recently had the application process for the new EIC. Seeing the other side of it and people applying was weird ’cause I feel like I just did this, and now I’m helping pick the next person. So that was kind of weird. But then I think about like everything we’ve done and like all the different things we’ve been up to, it’s like, “Oh God, it’s been forever.” 

ROESSLER: So for me it was kind of the opposite, like going through that. It was like, “Wow, that was so long ago I was stressing about answering those essay questions,” and it was really nice to be on the other side, I’ve been having fun this past year, so the year kind of flew by, but then it was like, “Oh, that was so long ago that we did that.”

WHITE: Oh, it was so long ago too. We were doing this exact thing, but from the other side, getting ready to take over now we’re already being put out to pasture, taken out behind the shed, if you will. Behind the desk of the In the Know podcast when they’re putting us down. 

SIROVY: Geez. Okay, well now I know how you feel about this room. Tell me your true feelings. No, please.

WHITE: It’s like taking the dog to get a cheeseburger before you put it down. 

SIROVY: That’s so mean.

WHITE:  I’m saying it’s a nice thing to do before you guys kill me off. 

SIROVY: We’re all graduating. 

WHITE: They say graduation’s one step closer to the grave. 

SIROVY: Who’s they? 

WHITE: Me. 

SIROVY: What do you wish you’d known before starting this job? 

WHITE: Hmm. 

SIROVY: Because I’m sure there’s something 

WHITE: I feel like I had general expectations, but a lot of what Alex told me going in was just dealing with the never ending grind of it.

You always have something you should be doing prepping or editing. I knew that going into it, and I knew it’d be a struggle with classes and everything. I felt like, “Oh, I’m ready for that. I know what it’s gonna be,” and to some extent I did. But then you get in the role, it’s just like I have to edit seven articles tonight and write an essay for class. I got an article coming in for whatever I’m working on outside of the Daily. Like there are just some days where it’s like, “OK, let’s just do this.” 

SIROVY: You wanna have a social life, you wanna see your family, you wanna see your friends. You wanna take breaks. 

WHITE: Want to get on an airplane and see my girlfriend, but I also was kind of lucky ’cause most of my friends at the U are from the Daily. I transferred here, so most of my friends came from working here. So it was like, “Oh, it’s not as bad to like, I have to go in the office today.” It’s like, “Well, I’m just gonna go hang out with my friends and do whatever for two hours while we edit and make fun of Tyler Church.”

SIROVY: What about you, Amelia? 

ROESSLER: See, for me it was more, since I went right from a reporter to managing editor, I learned a lot about managing people and being an editor. Less on actual editing, but more about how to interact with employees and talk to people. So that was something I didn’t know going into it. I kind of just was like, “Oh, like I’m would maybe consider myself a natural leader.” Like it’ll be fine. But no, it’s different actually having to be somebody’s boss or like I’ll go around and then like Alexis, or you’ll be like, “Oh yeah, like you’re my boss.”

I was like, “What? No, I’m just your friend.” 

SIROVY: I have to do what you tell me. 

ROESSLER: Yeah. I was like, “Oh, that’s weird. You actually have to do what I tell you to do.”

SIROVY: How do you think this publication has changed throughout your year being here? What’s the vibe you wanted it to have and what’s the vibe that it’s ended with? 

WHITE: I think most of the change that we’ve had, I think we’ve had a lot of change in the last year. I don’t know that all of it is really easy to see from the outside.  If you use our social media, the Daily Outlook is something new. 

ROESSLER: Added to YouTube a lot. 

WHITE: Added to the YouTube, had to create a new channel. There’s some stuff like that, but I think overall it’s been a little harder to see exactly what we’re doing. But I think internally, a lot has changed as far as our culture, which was a big goal going into this. I’m not gonna get too deep into the specifics of our editing schedule or whatever. But, I just wanted to make this a place where people can make friends and be social. At the end of the day, we’re a college newspaper, so a lot of this is about forming those bonds. It was really important to me socially here, as I mentioned, I just wanted to create an atmosphere where that was the norm. 

ROESSLER: Yeah. Two years ago when I started working here, it was right after the pandemic or things were still transitioning, but I never went into the office. All the editing was online and it was just going through the step by step process, writing a story, whatever stressful, but having this in-office atmosphere and making connections with the people you see every day at editing, it became so much less of a burden to come into work and it became something to look forward to. Something I wanted to do is like, “Oh, I get to go to work today.” I get to see all my friends, listen to music while I’m doing work, talk and make jokes. It was real nice. 

WHITE: Amelia is the office DJ. 

SIROVY: She’s in charge of the speaker that goes on during editing.

ROESSLER: It is the most stressful. I hate it so much. It’s like my speaker and I’m always like, “Guys, do you have song recommendations? Anything please.” And nobody ever has any recommendations. The people in the office always get a mixture of whatever I’m feeling that day.

WHITE: I’m not very helpful either ’cause the only time I chime in is when I’m criticizing a song choice. I’m like, “Who put this on?” 

ROESSLER: And then I get defensive because I don’t wanna be judged. 

SIROVY: I do love it when you play the Mario Kart soundtrack. 

WHITE: Yes. 

SIROVY: Really fun. 

ROESSLER: The Mario Kart soundtrack is my number one played album on Apple Music.

WHITE: Let’s go. That’s so sick. 

ROESSLER: Cause it’s such a great album to focus. 

SIROVY: It really is. I put it on sometimes when I’m writing a paper. I also recommend the Minecraft soundtrack. 

WHITE: I’ve never felt more focused than when playing Beerio Kart. I can attest to the focus capabilities of that soundcheck.

SIROVY: We do have to focus a lot. Gotta lock in. What is one decision, one moment, that you’re most proud of?

ROESSLER: I’m proud of a lot of moments. The best year. I’ve had the best year because no, actually, ’cause I’m not EIC. I don’t have to deal with like the really difficult stuff. I just get to be there and support and chime in. I get to still be involved with everything and make some part. I’ve had a lot of fun. I’ve been proud of a lot of stuff that I’ve seen happen. So yes, it’s cheesy, but it’s true.

WHITE: I think the best decision I made was my managing editor choice. 

ROESSLER: Aw. 

WHITE: I think we’ve been a great team. Amelia’s been a pleasure to work with. And very important to the culture of the office. Also keeps the quote list, which is really the heart of our organization. 

SIROVY: It is. It’s like the core of who we are.

ROESSLER: My favorite aspect of the job. 

SIROVY: Yeah. 

ROESSLER: Besides working with Spencer. 

SIROVY: I, aw, you guys are so sweet. If you’ve listened to this podcast before with some of our chats, you may recognize the quote book. It’s like whenever we’re together as a group, whether in the office or out somewhere, at a work event or whatnot… 

WHITE: Crushing beer at Sturbs (Stub and Herbs).

SIROVY: Whenever we say something that’s kind of wacky or very strange or something that makes all of us laugh, Amelia writes it down and we sometimes don’t remember when she writes stuff down. 

ROESSLER: I never tell anybody. I’ll just secretly add it to the list. And then at the end of the semester I make a Kahoot then people play and you have to guess who says what, and it’s really fun. 

SIROVY: ‘Cause we all say the weirdest things. 

WHITE: What was the quote of the year?

SIROVY: Oh my God.

ROESSLER: There’s so many good ones. I could do like.

SIROVY: Okay. Like top contenders. 

ROESSLER: There’s Tyler talking about eunuchs.

SIROVY: That’s right. 

WHITE: That was an hour long conversation. 

ROESSLER: It was the entire editing session. He was talking about  how he wanted.

SIROVY: He brought it up at another session too. 

ROESSLER: Yeah He wanted. 

SIROVY: It’s something like, “I want an army of eunuchs” or something. 

ROESSLER: The quote of Rachel saying, “if I hear the word eunuch one more time, I’m gonna snap.” ‘Cause Tyler was like, “Where do I get a Eunuch guy?” And, ’cause he just wanted somebody, he said, “I want a league of eunuchs to advise me, but they’re all sinister.”

SIROVY: That’s what it was. Yep. Any top contenders for Spencer over there? 

ROESSLER: Oh my goodness. That’s like half the list. We’ll see some good ones.

WHITE: I see my name on that list a lot right now. I dunno how I feel about that. 

ROESSLER: You’re either the one saying it or somebody’s saying it about you. You told Claudia and I that “We look like shit for 20.” 

SIROVY: What does that even mean?

ROESSLER: I don’t know. 

WHITE: I don’t remember the context of that one.

SIROVY: Was that in New Orleans? What happened? 

ROESSLER: That was recently. 

WHITE: I think that was a week ago. 

ROESSLER: Yeah.

WHITE: I think Claudia was talking about aging gracefully. 

SIROVY: I see what it was. 

ROESSLER: You said “We should start doing domestic terrorism and call it the difficult period.”

WHITE: Oh, God. 

ROESSLER: Oh, and then we were talking about the new Pope and you’re like, “It’s priest then Bishop.” 

SIROVY: Putting yourself high up there, aren’t you? 

WHITE: Okay. I answered somebody. 

ROESSLER: You said, “I look sick with frosted tips, in case you’re wondering.” 

WHITE: You guys didn’t see me in my frosted tips era, but I looked sweet. 

SIROVY: What age were you? 

WHITE: Like 16. 

SIROVY: Okay. I don’t think you looked sweet. 

WHITE: Awesome. 

ROESSLER: You said, “My ‘tism ain’t nepo.” That was a good one. 

SIROVY: Oh good Lord. 

WHITE: Oh God. 

ROESSLER: “Hey everybody. Welcome to the Daily.” See, I don’t really have a whole lot. 

SIROVY: She’s on there a few times. I know she is.

ROESSLER: “We do it for the clips, but I stay for the people.” “I’ve never blown up frogs with a firecracker, but I’ve thrown them in the fire.” “I would like to be the alpha uterus.” That is true. I get a lot of stuff like told to me. Jack calling me a millennial, which is true. 

WHITE: You are millennial coded. 

ROESSLER: I am the millennial. 

SIROVY: Alexis calls me a millennial too. It’s OK. So does Sophia, they both call me millennial. She called my music taste millennial, which is fair ’cause it kind of is.

WHITE: You only go to concerts where there’s stomping and clapping sections for the audience. 

ROESSLER: Like gospel music? 

WHITE: Like granola, like trail music. 

SIROVY: I don’t go to concerts for that. 

ROESSLER: I did say I hate connecting with people. 

SIROVY: Even though your job is to connect with people.

ROESSLER: Yeah. 

SIROVY: It’s okay. 

ROESSLER: “I don’t keep up with my drag queens,” and Georgia said, “It shows.”

SIROVY: Okay. Yeah. Maybe we can come back to the quotes. But that was really fun. Thank you. 

So, we’re gonna have so many more too in these next two weeks. 

WHITE: Well, before we move on from the quotes, I think we’re obligated to share one of Kaylie’s. 

SIROVY: No. 

WHITE: I think contractual. 

SIROVY: You can where I said, “I love cows.” That one’s fine.  

WHITE: The survey says…

SIROVY: She’s looking. 

ROESSLER: Which one are you looking for? “He’s a war criminal. That’s hot.” 

WHITE: Speaking of R2D2, 

SIROVY: I stand by it. There’s another one in there. I know there is. 

ROESSLER: “Doggy. Dead doggy.” 

SIROVY: I was talking about my tattoo because I got a dog, a picture of my dog for a tattoo.

ROESSLER: Spencer asked [Alexis], “Did you just call me the C word,” to which Alexis responds, “Cracker? hard R? Yeah, I did.” She said, “Can’t hold me accountable. Slay.”

SIROVY: I know. It really goes through the eras for us. 

ROESSLER: Yeah, how we’ve changed. 

SIROVY: And how we’ve evolved as friends. 

ROESSLER: Alexis said, “It’s not your fault you’re not depressed.” 

SIROVY: What was that about? 

ROESSLER: I don’t know. 

SIROVY: Some of these need context and they’re not there. 

WHITE: When we get to the end of our quote section, I have one request for a quote: the Maya Bell one. That’s my favorite one. 

SIROVY: That one is really funny. 

ROESSLER: I’m trying to find a good Alexis one. “You can meet a lot of lovely ladies at the mall.” Oh, she said to me, “White shimmer, that’d be your stripper name.” And then Spencer replied, “No, my stripper name would be White Shimmer. It’s in my name.” 

WHITE: That’s true. 

ROESSLER: To which Alexis said, “If I have to be a stripper, I have to properly objectify myself.”

ROESSLER: Where Maya asked, “Why do I feel burnout? And it’s only October.” To which Spencer said, “That’s not burnout. That’s depression.” 

WHITE: That’s my favorite one I contributed to the list. I felt proud of that.

SIROVY: Okay. I wanna go to some questions. Hard hitting questions. They’re not really, this one is kind of in the same genre of live, laugh, love. What advice would you give to the incoming EIC and ME? 

WHITE: Keep it fun, you know? I think that’s the most important part, like, if this becomes too much of a job. Like it is a job, but we’re, let’s be so real. It’s a college newspaper. This is supposed to be fun. So I think there can be a tendency sometimes, like people will look at this and be like, “Oh, we have to make this as professional and serious as possible.” 

To some extent, but have some fun, like that’s the most important thing. Make some friends. Provide an atmosphere where people can come and chill and not be so stuck up all the time. We don’t need to be all buttoned up here. We’ll have the rest of our lives to do that shit.

ROESSLER: Yep. It’s okay to make mistakes because… 

SIROVY: I’ve made so many. 

WHITE: Kaylie. Jesus.

ROESSLER: You need to step up your game. Thank God you’re graduating. 

WHITE: This is us coming to put you down. 

ROESSLER: This job requires a lot of more like public facing.

People know you. People email you a lot more I’ve found, and so your mistakes are more public and it’s okay. It’s okay to make mistakes. You’re human. People know that, too. Even though they might send you stuff where they don’t tell you that, but like it’s okay, and it’s gonna be okay. It’s a college newspaper 

WHITE: And no matter what you do, a good chunk of people who actually know your name are gonna think you’re suck at your job just because of the nature of your position. So, you’re gonna disappoint somebody, so might as well get over it quick. 

SIROVY: Sometimes they forget that we’re all students. 

ROESSLER: Although I will say my proudest moment is when I talked about Taco Tuesday in the newsletter and one guy emailed me, he’s like, “I want you to know I read your newsletter and it changed what I ate for lunch today. I had tacos today,” and that was my proudest moment. 

WHITE: Yeah, I didn’t get that from my newsletters. I had a couple people email me and ask if I was doing okay, and I was like, “I’m just joking, man.” 

SIROVY: Would you do this for another year? If you were to go back in time and see your past self, would you tell your past self to continue doing this? Like when you submitted your application? 

WHITE: Absolutely. 

ROESSLER: Yeah. Even though like I may not have gotten EIC, I would still encourage my past self to still apply because I learned so much. And then it gave me the opportunity to be in the running. 

SIROVY: What will you miss most about working here?

ROESSLER: Meeting you guys and like this past year we’ve gotten so close, and it just makes me so sad to know that I’m leaving. 

WHITE: I feel like we’re a much tighter cohort than in years past. 

ROESSLER: Yeah. 

WHITE: And it’s kind of like, “Oh man, we could have all been, like, really good friends this last year.” It’s like, “Man, we could have all been hanging out this whole time.” And then it’s like been the last year and a half really. It’s like, damn. Everyone’s moving around after this, so it’s kinda sad to see everybody go, but I’m excited to see where everyone ends up. 

The best parts have been when the editors go out after our meetings and get a drink, our editorial parties or just hanging out with everybody, talking to everybody or even the in between stuff like, hanging out in the basement of Murphy hall. 

SIROVY: Like in between classes or something, and I see you guys and yeah.

WHITE: There’ll be six of us just standing in the hallway in between classes, chatting. The social aspect is by far the best part. Like, it’s been great to get to know everybody, hang out with everybody and make lifelong friendships. 

ROESSLER: Exactly. Plus it’s like, “Oh, you work at the Daily, like we’re friends. We’re cool.” Even people who I don’t even talk to that much, I’ll pass in the hall and be like, “Hey, how’s it going?”

SIROVY: This is why I started coming to the newsroom more, even though I don’t need to be here all the time ’cause I don’t do in person editing. But I just started coming here ’cause I was like, I’ve become friends with a lot of these people. If I wasn’t here all the time, I wouldn’t have become friends with Grace, Tyler and everyone else. That’s great. I’m trying, I’m like steeling my emotions right now.

ROESSLER: No, it’s okay. Let ’em out. 

SIROVY: When you said lifelong friends, I was like, “Oh God, here it comes.”

ROESSLER: Because I just think about like, I’m having to move to Denver and I’m gonna be so lonely because I’m not gonna know anybody. 

SIROVY: We’ll come out when we have money for an airplane ticket. 

WHITE: Hey, we’re all unemployed. We should just start a newspaper in Denver.

ROESSLER: Start one in Minnesota. I can be like, “Oh, but I have to go back to Minnesota.” 

WHITE: We’ll start Racket 2.0 and we’ll relaunch City Pages and give them a middle finger. 

SIROVY: You wanna relaunch City Pages? 

WHITE: No, I’m just. 

SIROVY: What’s the weirdest thing that’s happened here? 

WHITE: Weirdest. The ghost in the office. 

SIROVY: There’s not a ghost in the office. 

ROESSLER: Definitely Tyler talking about eunuchs for two hours.

WHITE: That’s gotta be up there. 

SIROVY: That was a little strange. 

WHITE: I think Tyler Church in general. He’s one of the most enigmatic people I’ve ever met, and we have a very peculiar relationship. We almost have like a… 

ROESSLER: Threesome going with him and Jack. Jack’s not happy about it. 

WHITE: Well, I was gonna say, I feel like I more have like a older brother, younger brother vibe with Tyler. 

ROESSLER: Oh. 

WHITE: So that’s a little bit weirder now. 

ROESSLER: Misread that one. 

WHITE: I pick on him way more than I pick on Jack.

ROESSLER: I think Tyler tries to pick on you like you pick on Jack.  

WHITE: That’s fair. 

SIROVY: Oh, I see it. 

ROESSLER: And you just don’t reciprocate. 

WHITE: No, I think I spent like two hours one day just talking about how big his hands are, but in a very mean way. I called ’em sausage fingers like.

SIROVY: This is in a teasing way people. 

ROESSLER: He says it’s okay. I’ve checked on him. 

SIROVY: It’s like they’re siblings. We have asked him multiple times if he’s okay with this. 

WHITE: Yeah. 

ROESSLER: He will give it right back. 

WHITE: Don’t get me wrong, I love Tyler. I hope he doesn’t ever hear me say that. I love picking on that guy. 

SIROVY: What was some of your favorite pieces that we have published? Like either that you think the publishing was, like, the writing was really good, or…

ROESSLER: We’ve had a lot of breaking news. 

WHITE: Yeah. That was kind of a focus this year. The watchdog reporting we’ve been able to get through this year. I’ve gotten a lot of compliments from people about “Hey, you beat the Star Tribune to this, or you beat NPR to this in the newsroom, you guys did a great job.” 

I think that stuff, it’s not always the most riveting individual read, like 300 words sometimes. Just straightforward reporting. But I think that’s been the most exciting thing, just to be like, “Yeah, we’re on top of it.” Like we are, we’re breaking the news around here, this is our playground. No one else is getting on these monkey bars type thing. 

ROESSLER: It’s been great seeing these reporters step up to that role and really take charge of the reporting and be able to go out there and cover the protests or breaking news and then whip out a story and pretty decent ones usually. It’s been really nice to see them do that. 

WHITE: Yeah, we were just talking about Tyler, but inside Morrill Hall is still probably my favorite individual article we’ve put out in the last year. It was fairly controversial, but everything that he went through to like, put that story out and just like every, I thought it was a really good story. I think he was just really well written and well reported and everything around it was just, well, not everything around it was great actually, but like everything that went into it on his part 

SIROVY: If you had something to say to each of the editors, what would it be?

WHITE: Have fun while you can. I think sometimes, you can get a little wrapped up. Particularly next year, Alexis will be taking over, she’ll be a senior and when you get to your senior year, it’s like you gotta run the paper and do your classes and get your own clips, do your internship through the practicum or prepare for when you graduate, where you’re gonna work and all that. It can be a little overwhelming.

I think it’s really important to remember this is the last chance I’ll have with all these people here. Making sure you carve the time to be like, “Hey, it’s important that I see these people, I hang out with these people, maintain these social connections” because it’s important I think ’cause you know, you’re not gonna remember every single story we have, published around 1400 since we started. Give or take. Yeah. 

SIROVY: Wow. 

WHITE: So you’re not gonna remember most of the stories you edited. You’re probably not gonna remember all the stories you wrote in 10 years, but you’ll remember the crazy thing that Tyler said during editing, or how drunk everybody got in New Orleans. 

SIROVY: Even though it was a work conference.

ROESSLER: It was Halloween. 

WHITE: Those are the things I’ll always remember. The fun times. 

SIROVY: You won’t remember the error you made in that article you published that you had to factually correct and say that you wrote it wrong or something.

WHITE: Or the email someone wrote ’cause they’re mad about how you covered something. That’s not the stuff that’s gonna stick with you. And if you budget your time correctly, you’ll have plenty of memories from this. 

SIROVY: I hope that in 20, 30 years I’ll look back on this and I’ll be like, those were the days.

ROESSLER: What have you learned? Just from not even being like where we’re at, but like still being like a leader. What have you seen in the office? 

SIROVY: What have I seen? It doesn’t take a lot to help people grow.

It takes a few words of confidence, a few words of, “Hey, it’s okay that you’ve made this mistake. We can fix it. It’s not the end of the world.” And that either means pushing back a deadline or changing the story completely, or not even writing the story at all. It just takes that little, “Hey, you wanna do this? So let’s try to do this.” It doesn’t even have to work.

And then that gets them more excited to do their job. I’m speaking more about my reporters right now ’cause we’ve had stories where they’re like, “I wanna do this.” And they try to do it and it doesn’t work out. And we just keep going and I’m really proud of what they’ve turned out to be.

WHITE: Can we go around and do our favorite stories or things from our time here? 

SIROVY: Is there one you’re thinking of? 

WHITE: No, I just wanted to hear your guys’ first and think of one. I think that’d be fun. 

ROESSLER: Little stories? 

WHITE: Or just favorite memory?

SIROVY: Favorite memory. 

ROESSLER: Georgia and I leg wrestling and talking about wanting monkey bars in the office. 

WHITE: I think one of my favorites was last year, at the EIC selection. We had to wait a while ’cause they deliberated for…

ROESSLER: A long time. 

WHITE: We were in the office till like midnight, but all of us there was like, what, five or six of us and we just were playing hide and seek around the office for like two hours. So we just had nothing to do. Stuff like that. That was really fun. Just kind of being kids still and messing around. 

ROESSLER: Yeah, riding that elevator every day and praying it wouldn’t end. 

SIROVY: It is a very old and rickety elevator, and every time we get on it, it shifts and makes a weird noise that normal elevators do not. 

WHITE: Also, from the ground floor, it says, it’s going up from floor two now. 

SIROVY: Yeah, it’s broken. I’ve noticed that. 

WHITE: Which doesn’t make me feel confident that it’s not just gonna collapse on me. 

ROESSLER: Always stealing candy from HR’s Candy Bowl. 

WHITE: Absolutely. 

SIROVY: Yes. when I ordered Culver’s here that one time for us.

WHITE: Watching pig racing. Jack showed us… 

ROESSLER: You watched for hours. 

WHITE: Jack showed us a bunch of YouTube videos and we watched three consecutive hours of pig racing on YouTube. 

ROESSLER: It was awesome. 

WHITE: Might be my favorite memory ’cause we were all just like hanging out. Those of us of age were having a few drinks. It was the  end of a conference day, and that was so much fun.

SIROVY: They were all in the same hotel rooms. A lot of them were like snuggled up on the couch.

WHITE: Me and Jack were cuddling. Me and him were yelling, arguing ’cause we have different favorite pigs. 

SIROVY: We had snacks around us. We were all tired from the day, but we were still hanging out. It was like 11 o’clock. 

WHITE: Yeah. I think that’s my favorite moment. That was fun. 

ROESSLER: What I’m gonna remember most is the fact that I came to work every day and always left with a smile. I laughed, every time I’m in this office, I laugh.

WHITE: You guys can attest. There are some days I’d show up here and I’d be in kind of a dog mood. I would just be, you know. 

SIROVY: You have a stressful job. Yeah. It’s okay. we got it.

WHITE: I’d show up with a frown on my face, but I couldn’t help myself once we got into editing, we’d be joking around so much.

It was always a pleasure. Kaylie’s crying. 

ROESSLER: Liv crying when just the HR email came out that there was an all staff meeting and she just cried.

SIROVY:  Immediately started bawling, immediately. It was so funny. Okay. 

ROESSLER: I love you guys. 

SIROVY: Oh, I love you too. 

WHITE: Love you too. 

SIROVY: God that’s gonna make cry harder. It’s okay. I’m okay. Okay. That is all we have unless you guys have anything else. 

WHITE: It’s been a pleasure. 

SIROVY: Has been a pleasure. We don’t have jobs.

WHITE: Somebody hire us. 

SIROVY: Someone hire us, please. It’s okay though. We’ll find something. Thank you for listening. This has been In The Know. I am Kaylie. 

WHITE: I’m Spencer. 

ROESSLER: I’m Amelia. 

SIROVY: Have a good day everybody. 

WHITE: See you.

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