Welcome to the show my friends. Thank
you for being with us.
You know this morning team new
day is gonna get real with you.
We hope that's OK. We're
gonna be honest, this is a very bittersweet
week for us here at King 5 yesterday.
After the show, our team went to
lunch at DOE Zone to celebrate one
of our dearly beloved colleagues.
Why do you ask?
Well, the woman at the head of the
table that you see right there and
the leader of our department who
overseas both new day and evening,
is Lindsay Seaver crop.
She's leaving King after 12
years at the station. No. Well she is
one of only two people who are at
the station who were part of the team
that started new day back in 2010.
The original, the other original team
member is is right here with us as well.
This is producer Susie willing. We
couldn't do anything without her
and they both joined me now for
hot topics along with another very
special person.
You might recognize the one and only
Margaret Larson who launched this show.
OHS your face. I love you guys.
So actually it's so great to
see you I'm already teary.
Are you already crying?
Yeah well, she just had a hot flash.
She said that's the only thing
that's changed since 2010.
Lindsey, I had to be here today.
I love you so much.
You know that as a colleague and a
friend and I just had to be
here to to wish you. Well,
well I think that we should
all raise a glass Margaret
do you have a mimosa in hand?
Yes, exactly question here is to you,
Lindsey. Thank you all so much. This is
wow this is so amazing.
I don't even I'm speechless it.
What a great surprise to
have Margaret join us.
This is so cool the
OG yeah Margaret Lindsay.
You know 12 years ago?
Yeah, you think about that.
It doesn't as you get older 12 years
as it seem like that much time.
You're like, no.
But you think back on when it was?
Yeah, it's been a lot.
Lindsay, you've had some
incredible memories.
I mean some incredible memories some.
Weird funny
blooper type segments.
We always like to talk about
what our favorite kind of
segments were that we produced,
one of which was a a thriller dance,
a zombie, a thriller dance, if you will.
And it was a little bit of an
interesting morning because they're
supposed to be like 12 dancers,
and I think only like 2 showed up.
And this is in my, you know,
early days as a green producer.
And I was like,
I gotta prove myself, so no way.
I am not going to let Margaret Larson
go out there and only have two dancers
for this zombie thriller dance.
It's like you better go get more
and they show this phone call.
I shared a desk and I remember this
phone call and she was on the phone
and I remember her saying you are
not showing up with two zombies.
You will have more zombies.
You will have 20 zombies and we had it.
We had less than an hour.
I was by the way we had
some pictures of this.
Do we not have pictures?
We have a picture of zombies I think in our.
Round of pictures with her
there's something yeah,
alright, what about this shirt I'm
hearing in my ear that there's
something about a shirt we need to know.
A big red shirt ohhh my
what is that a snuggy?
Yes Snuggie oh it's a snug there
was a four it's like a four person, Snuggie.
A couple Snuggie but family
snuggle we are original office
for new day was down in the underbelly of
the King 5 building on Dexter and it would
get really cold in there so every once
in a while you know we just need to throw
on a Snuggie but but yeah it was so fun.
Just like putting this show together,
launching it, I mean,
it's really been like a family and
I mean Margaret and Susie.
Have both been there for my wedding?
You know both of my babies. Yeah,
I think Lindsey was doing something with
fairy and it was a fairy fashion show.
Uh-huh, yeah. So did Margaret Margaret?
Did you have to dress up like a fairy or?
It doesn't appear that I was.
I can't remember, but I'm sure I had
a wand because I'm a huge wand fan.
Yeah, yes, ohh, and this was probably
like the best day of my life.
If not, I mean my career. For sure.
Getting to meet Siesta the sloth
and I actually did get to pet her.
She was so sweet.
Look at her looking into my eyes like
Mama Lindsay's huge sloth lover.
So this was a big day.
Ohh and Gary Oldman.
Like getting to meet Gary Oldman.
He's a hero of mine and he was
just the loveliest and was he?
And he was just so present
and so nice to everyone.
Yeah, I was pretty geeked out there.
There is obvious.
I mean, it ended up being fine.
OK, it wasn't great,
but it was fine.
It was a segment and that's what we do here.
You know, we we try to bring you the best.
Ohh this was a really fun one.
Getting to book ever clear is one
of my favorite bands growing up,
listening to and then actually getting to
have them perform on the show and book them.
But since I was a producer of the
segment it was up to me to make sure
they had everything they needed and they
actually showed up without their guitar.
And they knew they were supposed to bring it,
but so I had to like run around
everywhere looking for a guitar.
Luckily KING5 has their own band at
the time they did right and I was
able to borrow one of their guitars
from from also the underbelly.
Another conversation I remember
that you got it.
Yeah, it was like you showed up to
a performance without a guitar.
And Margaret are you just?
Are you just sitting there going alright?
You're letting you're letting
them control it all. I
am remembering just what it was
like to start a show from nothing.
I mean we had never done anything
like this at King and we were,
you know, just making it up as as
we went along and doing the best
we could and it was such a great
adventure and even the things that
went poorly became legendary.
I'll just I'll just mention
some Vikings with sports.
The Viking fields, one of my
favourites. But yeah, I mean it
was just it was so much fun.
It was so much fun and I I am so
grateful for my 10 years Barrett new
day with Lindsey with Susie Susie and
I have known each other for 30 years.
Her coming on board I think I keep
saying 30 years year after year so now
it's getting longer but I I just I can't
emphasize enough how much of a family.
We have become ohh
things they didn't tell you though
how much weight you would gain.
Ohh yeah, there's a lot of eating
a lot of food and the drinks.
Yeah, but Margaret you did not warn me
about this what you're talking about?
I mean, it's terrible but so much fun.
And like Margaret said,
it really is like a family
we we had some real.
Faux pas at times and we but like she said,
the the segments that were the
funniest and that we thought
were so bad are the ones that we
look back on and I'll find the
Viking battle pictures. I promise
I so this Viking OK everyone wants to
know what the Viking battle story is now.
Am I right? Well I well I am
the descendant of Viking
so I took it upon myself.
Took it very seriously and there was.
I think there was some kind of like
Viking festival going on and I
was like ohh let's do and the show
Vikings you know was was a big.
I love that show was like let's
do a Viking battle in the studio
and you know we'll have these two
guys come and they'll show us how
you know Vikings fight each other
with their broadswords and their
Shields and like shield,
wall and everything like that.
Well the guys showed up.
There was two of them which was fine again.
But I was you know I was like
come in the full costume.
Full regalia obviously and they
showed up in just street clothes
and they were like we're here
pants and then they like
it was the saddest. Viking battle,
I've never cardboard swords and you just
every time something like that happens,
we laugh at it, but then Margaret
is the one that would have to go out
there in the middle of the battle.
I remember her walking out
in the middle of the battle.
I'm thinking what is she thinking?
And we're, you know we're dying and
but it's just like it's silence.
And then there's these two guys.
Ah yeah, cardboard doesn't
make quite the sound no.
They were like having to make
the sound effects you know you
really have to think to get
a Viking battle going with just two Vikings.
I mean the shield wall, that kind of stuff.
It's just the carnage is not the same,
especially with guys in street clothes.
And occasionally I would walk out of the
frame just because I had needed to laugh.
It's gotta get my face back together
and then get back in there and finish
it up. But that one was
like so bad it was fun.
Yeah yeah I had
a lot of those.
I'm like still haven't done working
here. I mean the same. I had a
few good ones, but you know you had a
lot. You had some great ones and you know
we can't control who shows up or what
they come with at the at the morning
and I think that's kind of what builds.
The camaraderie is that we're all
kind of thrown into the pool together,
and we're not even quite sure
what it is we're trying to do.
Or we swimming to the other end?
Are we trying to get out or we diving?
What's going on? And it it.
It's just a very special kind of fun.
It really is. I absolutely adore
you women. And by the way, you're
not going anywhere because
at later in the show, we're
gonna go from reminiscing
to a little hot topics,
so I hope you're ready for that,
because there will even be soda served,
and I guess why
are we shipped Margaret? Some
flaming hot Mountain Dew so she
could be part of this ready as
well. I'm sorry we're sharing is caring.
That's our motto and you're going to
try it too. Amity, no, I'm not not
doing it all right.