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Chapter 1: What insights does Mitch Churi share about his time on the Kyle and Jackie O show?
I'm so excited for this chat. Oh my God, stop. I'm nervous. I've heard stories about working for Kyle and Jack and like, and I've seen on social with some of the insane things that happened in that studio over the years.
So I was, I was with women. I was dating women exclusively. That was the only acting I was doing, I guess.
How did you find out you were being cheated on?
So do you think about these things or does it come to you?
That just came to me.
You're Oprah. You were this generation's Oprah.
Sorry, I'm not.
You're so good. Well, here's an exclusive. Shameless media exclusive. Kyle would have.
Hello. You might not recognise my voice because, well, I am not Ruby Hall. She, the lucky duck, is over in Europe on annual leave at the moment. That means that during this ep, I, Monica Van Tilburg, producer of the show, will be voicing a few ad reads.
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Chapter 2: How did Mitch navigate his identity after being made redundant from KIIS?
But before that, even you were in New York acting. Yes.
I was, yeah. I moved to New York when I was 19. Yeah. I did the whole uni system in Australia, went to the UOW, University of Wollongong, shout out. And it wasn't for me, that kind of, that sort of like tertiary education, sit down, study, modules, trimester, it just didn't work for my brain. Like I really struggled. Yeah.
I think a lot of creative people can find it a bit challenging. I don't know if challenging is the right word, but it's just not really the way that we work and produce.
No, but like I actually thought I had a problem. Like I had to go to tutoring. I was a Kumon kid. Like I just, it didn't compute. And it's odd because the way we like learn in school is like, well, there's intelligence and then there's stupidity. But it's actually so much more nuanced than that.
You know, like I don't think I'm not an intelligent person, but I struggled the way that I was being taught. So I went to New York, studied theatre, had a beautiful supportive send-off from my parents. I was meant to go for two years. I did half of my degree at the Atlantic Theatre Company and then came back and got a job at Kiss FM on the street team and never went back, just never stopped.
So you were there when you were 19 in New York and you were acting. Were you at an acting school or doing auditions?
Yeah, no, I was at an acting school.
And what was that like for you then when Mitch was 19? Oh, my God. In New York, in the Big Apple.
I was straight. So I was with women. I was dating women exclusively. Okay. Real fun time. That was the only acting I was doing, I guess. I've never made that joke before. That's funny.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Mitch face in his first serious relationship?
And you started at Kiss. Yeah. You were with Carl and Jack for 10 years.
Yeah, I was the only station I worked at. Yeah. So I wanted to be – it was funny. I didn't even really want to be an actor, Ruby. I wanted to just be in the entertainment space. Like I loved Rove. I would watch – David Letterman would play on Channel 10 after Rove and it was a late night.
And I was this 13-year-old kid who was so up to date with American politics because that's all David Letterman was. So I was just this kid watching so obsessed with this format and I knew I wanted to do something similar. So acting kind of felt – this was, you know, 2014, 2015. So it was a different time. Like there wasn't content creation. No. It was like stand-up acting. Yeah.
That's kind of really it. So that's what I wanted to do. But in my head, radio was my fallback because I had at 13, probably can't find this anywhere, I had a segment on Hamish and Andy called Mitch's Wise Words or something stupid. Kevin Rudd was the prime minister and he was using taxpayer dollars to fund an au pair for his child.
And Hamish and Andy were saying, save the taxpayer's dollars, we'll babysit your kid. Oh. Right? Classic radio.
Yeah.
And they were in the car going, 13, 1060. Yeah. Call us if you're a kid. How can we write this letter to the Prime Minister to connect to his child? So I'm like, I'm 13. You got through. You got through the phone line and helped U12. I was so arrogant and cocky and cheeky and they loved it. You know, you're a radio producer.
Yes.
And I now know that the dream, this cheeky, cute kid. Get him on. Get him on. Put him on. So then they'd get me back when there was a movie out or to review, I don't know, Stuart Little or something stupid.
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Chapter 4: What role does Mitch's rabbit's foot play in his life and confidence?
I don't know if I can text him. I think he's still a latte with two. That's his coffee. And Jackie was an espresso. She didn't like the coffee machine. So Jackie, I had to have the coffee machine on the rooftop, then run down and make Jackie an espresso with a pod. It was a whole thing. But then all the crew get coffees.
I was making, you know, 30, 40 coffees a day and I'd never made a coffee in my life.
And then after that, you got your own show eventually after a few years, didn't you?
It was a late night show. Well, actually what happened first was I started there on the street team, like promotions crew.
I was in the street team. Yeah. In the D-Max driving around. God knows how they let me behind the wheel.
I was in a Jeep Wrangler, that thing with red P plates on.
Like, what the hell?
I know.
Wait, you put the pee plates on. I was on my pee.
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Chapter 5: How did Mitch transition from radio to hosting The Mitch Churi Chat Show?
I can be way more. But sure, I can be Hamlet if you want me to. And then so I get down on my knees and I go, and I start clucking in front of the whole Kyle and Jackie O crew. And then they laugh and then they kind of start talking about the next day's show and I'm like, do I go now? They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, get out of here.
And then the next week, so within a month of being on the street team, I had a segment called The Cash Cock on the Kyle and Jackie O show. It was a piss take of The Cash Cow. And I was a rooster with like 10 grand strapped to me and whatever tradie or whoever could tackle me to the ground first, Kyle and Jackie would go, the cock's loose in Borkham Hills. And then go, cock, go.
And I go, I'm in the
Borgham Hills. And you'd go off on the street and be with the street team. Correct. So many, oh, my God, gigs and radio are just so interesting. And I've heard stories about working for Kyle and Jack. Yeah. And I've seen on social some of the insane things that happened in that studio. Oh, God.
Oh, my God. Over the years. I think I've signed too many things at this point to even really admit what happened. But I genuinely loved it. Yeah. For me, and you're a radio nerd too, I suspect, but I admired SNL and I lived in New York, so I wanted to be on that SNL 30 rock trajectory. So for me, this was my little take on it.
Yeah.
Like working in ARN under Kyle and Jackie O, this was 2015. Like they were it. Yes. And it was everything to me and I just got to do whatever. I got paid to do it. I was on air. All my friends and family listened to that show. So for me to be on that show was like a tick of approval. Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely. I mean, you start on the street team and you go up that way and you've worked your way up all of those years. It takes a lot of grit as well.
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Chapter 6: What was Mitch's experience like when interviewing celebrities?
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You then had, is it Mitch Till Midnight? Was that the show that you interviewed, like, a lot of big celebrities on? You've had, like, Jubileepa. Yeah. One that stands out to me and I just can't get over is the viral video of you and Miley Cyrus.
Well, thanks for bringing that up.
Oh, no. It's so funny, though. Yeah, it is funny. How do you feel about it?
Oh, I think it's funny.
I mean, you know. But, like, I know what it's like. I mean, I haven't interviewed big people like that before, but it's obviously really nerve-wracking when you're about to interview someone like that.
Yeah. So Mitch till midnight was, I was on air. It was so funny because I was on the street team. I had the cash cock and it's sort of like my, my star in radio is rising. So I was like, I've got leverage. So I want a late night show. And I got a late night show exactly a year to the day that I started a kiss. And I caught it Mitch till midnight. It was nine till 12.
And, uh, then what happens with that? It's a late night music show. You start getting music interviews. Um, So this Miley Cyrus moment was at the start of COVID and I got a 4 a.m. interview with Miley for the new album, Plastic Hearts, and it was on Zoom. And this was like early days of Zoom, like pre. We didn't know how to use it. No. I don't know what a breakout room was.
Yeah, especially in studios when you're on air. It's complicated.
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Chapter 7: How did Mitch find love again after heartbreak?
So this video is on socials. It lives on the internet. And then Miley has to, after, it would have been a good 45 seconds to a minute, just goes, hello? I'm like, oh, hi, Miley. How are you? And then I started the interview, had 10 minutes, and then the eight minutes started, so I got 20 minutes. Oh, great. And they were like, you just got a 20-minute exclusive with Miley. And she was fine?
Yeah, she was amazing. She was great. It was a good interview.
That video was hilarious. It's got, like, over a million views online.
Yeah, I've republished it a few times, yeah.
Did you also do a chemistry test with Tony Lodge at one point? Yeah, I did. Yeah, tell me about that. I was researching. And I love Tony. She's been on Inherited and she's like a friend of like us at Shameless Media or everyone in the industry. An absolute legend.
Yeah, we love Tony. Tony was on my – yeah, I produced a night show on Kiss at some point called Celeb HQ. Yeah. And she writes about it in her book. And she was the audio producer and I was the executive producer. So we worked hand in hand and we were – thick as thieves.
She'd just moved to Sydney and she didn't know anyone, didn't know anyone in the Sydney industry and was a fish out of water and was struggling a bit. So me and Torbz, her boyfriend, we went to her house, they cooked me tacos. We really got along like a house on fire and we naturally thought I wanted to be on air, so did she. Let's demo together.
And they just, for whatever reason, didn't get off the ground. I think we were too similar in a sense. Yes. We were both kind of.
You need a different energy sometimes. Yeah.
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Chapter 8: What lessons has Mitch learned about self-acceptance and growth?
Yeah. And it just came out of nowhere for me. So I was really emotional, yeah. Like I loved that job. That's all I ever wanted to do as a kid. And, like, it hurt me. And they gave me the option. The moment I was made redundant, they actually put a meeting in my calendar with me and my executive producer, Grace, who I do the chat show with now. Yeah.
And I was like, we'll be fine because Grace is in this. So if it's – you know. And there were no redundancies happening. It was a chill period. This was before everything now that's happened with the Kyle and Jackie O show, right? Yes. So – We were walking towards this meeting and my boss was being really odd that whole day.
And I remember I said something to him the month before, it was someone's anniversary. And then I go, you know, it's 10 years for me at the end of the year. And he goes, no, it's not, it's seven. And I'm like, no, it's definitely 10. He goes, no, it's seven. And I'm like, oh, it's 10. And I'm like, why does he know it's – why does he think it's seven? That's such a weird thing to say.
We're friends. And it made me – when I got the whole redundancy thing, they're like, you've been here seven years. But they weren't counting the casual years of three – I was on air, but I was still a casually employed employee. So it was so funny that he knew that because he was working out my redundancy. So that's why he was able to quit back so quickly. But, yeah, I cried. It was awful.
Like that's the only job I'd ever had other than working at Coles for nine months.
It's just so inhumane redundancies. And I understand it's business at the end of the day, right? But it's just so quick that this happens. And from working in the radio industry and seeing friends lose jobs too over the years, it's obviously so fickle. At the time, Kyle and Jack signed off on the $200 million deal. Contract. Yeah. Yeah. What do you make of their fallout earlier this year?
Oh, it's insane, isn't it? I mean, so many great people that work on that show.
Yeah.
And so many of my friends work on that show. I worked on that show. And it was an institution. It was brilliant. I've worked with them both. They've both been very good to me over my career. But I think the contract, when media is at the tricky point that it's at, especially especially radio. I think radio needs to be reinvented.
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