Jen Rogers’ last ‘Final Round’

After 1,000+ shows, Jen has is taking on a new role of reporting and anchoring. We are delighted that she will still be contributing to all the live shows in the months ahead.

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JEN ROGERS: So it's Memorial Day weekend. I mean, it's hard to believe. I think we've all kind of lost track of the calendar, but indeed, it is. And Rick Newman, I don't know. Do you usually go away on Memorial Day?

RICK NEWMAN: I'm going to head out to the garden this year, Jen. That's about as far as I go, and I think we have some guests on. I see Andy Serwer, I think, wanting to weigh in on Memorial Day travel.

ANDY SERWER: I do.

JEN ROGERS: I have to go to grid view.

ANDY SERWER: Yeah, hey, Jen Rogers. Thank you, Rick.

JEN ROGERS: Hi, Andy.

ANDY SERWER: Jen, I hear that we should celebrate something here. Correct?

JEN ROGERS: Yes, we should celebrate.

RICK NEWMAN: And it's not Memorial Day.

ANDY SERWER: Yeah, well, it's Jen Rogers' last show as a co-host of The Final Round. And Jen, I just wanted to say, thank you and congratulations for just an incredible job, really, really awesome. You brought so much to the show, your intelligence, your resourcefulness, your sense of humor, and mostly, your camaraderie. And you have just been an incredibly great colleague to all of us, so thank you. Thank you so much. You're not going away really.

JEN ROGERS: I'm not going away. Andy, that's so nice. Thank you so much. I've enjoyed it so much.

RICK NEWMAN: Jen, I have a poem. I have a poem, if you'll allow me.

JEN ROGERS: You wrote something?

RICK NEWMAN: Writing something would be an understatement. Roses are red. Violets are blue. You co-host with Myles, but it's really all you.

ANDY SERWER: Oh.

RICK NEWMAN: I think we can tell our audience that you pretty much carry this show. Myles is just kind of a prop, and I think the show is probably going to fall apart next week without you. But who knows? Maybe Myles--

- Hey. Hey, Rick.

RICK NEWMAN: Oh wait, Myles is here?

- [INAUDIBLE] Rick.

JEN ROGERS: Pross.

- Jen.

JEN ROGERS: The Pross cam is back.

- I'm virtually right behind you at your window with the boombox up saying, don't you forget about me, Jen. It's been an amazing five years. I wouldn't have wanted to do it with anyone else. I mean, this journey started a long time ago, and it's been wonderful. And every day has been great.

And I want to say, from my point of view, it's been the highlight of my professional life was to do this show with you, and then with Myles joining us later. And I'm really sad, but I'm glad that there's other opportunities here. And I want to see you. And anytime that we have a nice opening for you to come on, there is a warm anchor chair waiting for you.

JEN ROGERS: You are so sweet. I mean, Pross, I can't believe how many epsiodes of this whole thing we did. And I just go back to 43rd Street and you swinging the baseball bat during all our meetings. We've had a lot of fun times. So thanks so much for putting up with my crazy ideas, and guests at the last minute, and stuff like that. So thank you.

- My pleasure. My pleasure.

JEN ROGERS: I'll look for you out my window later. Uh oh, is that Myles?

MYLES UDLAND: So fresh off the golf course, I raced home. I raced home for this, Jen. There's nothing that I'd rather do than give you a send off on this. So it's funny that Rick brings up you carrying the show, because I was talking to Seana Smith, yesterday, who will be co-anchoring the show with me starting on Tuesday.

And I said to her, you know, it's going to be hard. Because I could just have days when I decided, I'm not going to figure out what's going on, because Jen will just handle it. Like I can just mail it in. And Jen will be there to clean up our mess, and straighten things out, and get through a guest that we maybe we're like, why is this person on again?

So now Jen, not only is Seana coming in to, as Rick said correctly, drag me along. But now, I need to be more on the ball, because I can't just say like, oh, well, you know, Jen will fix it. Jen will make it happen. So it's a big change. It's almost like getting a new full half of the job.

JEN ROGERS: You're going to be like a big career professional now.

MYLES UDLAND: That's right. I mean, look, I don't know. Maybe this is your transition point as we discussed yesterday. You know, made it early, late career. I don't know. How would you define this?

JEN ROGERS: I would define this as mid. I think it's mid. I have a lot of stuff left to do, which is why I need more time to do it.

MYLES UDLAND: Mid's a long period in all of our careers.

ANDY SERWER: Early mid, early mid.

DAN ROBERTS: And Jen, just as a regular on The Final Round, let me chime in and say that, as Pross noted, the three of you really are such an All-Star team. First, you and Pross together. I remember the days where it was you, Pross, and Jared as producer, and Seana as producer. And nowadays, it's been you--

- That was mid-day.

DAN ROBERTS: --you, Pross, and Myles. And it's just an All-Star team. It's a show that is a pleasure to be on. The camaraderie, as Andy said, the jokes, the smart insights, the good chats, and as someone who's on all our shows when I have an hour on The Final Round, I know it's going to be a pleasure. So good luck, Jen, and it won't be the same without you on it every day.

JEN ROGERS: Thank you.

RICK NEWMAN: Jen, I wonder if I can put you on the spot. What has been the highlight and the lowlight of your Yahoo Finance career?

JEN ROGERS: Oh, my gosh. I mean, I love going to Berkshire Hathaway. That's always pretty fun. We have a good time out there. I would say when I ate-- we had Marcus Samuelsson come on the show. And he has a restaurant in Harlem, and he brought some food with him. And I ate the entire thing during the five minute interview, and Pross was like, wait, what just happened? I remember that. I mean, we've had so much fun. It's just--

RICK NEWMAN: So no lowlight?

JEN ROGERS: --the days that we don't know what we did that we had a great time.

MYLES UDLAND: The lowlight--

RICK NEWMAN: There has to be a single low moment.

MYLES UDLAND: The lowlight was the time during 2017 when Jen asked me, if I had anything to add on Cisco's earnings, and I had nothing. So I just had to say, chips, let me tell you. I don't even think that makes sense. That's not even part of Cisco's business.

- Myles, I remember that, because I used to sit right in the newsroom. My back was always faced-- well, my back was against your show. And I just remember cracking up about every 10 minutes, because Jen would say something funny.

You would say something funny. I was there for the very first show. And when we were in the 43 building, it was a blast, and it was great in the new building too.

JEN ROGERS: You guys, we have had so much fun. I don't want to tear up, but you know, there are so many other people. It's great to see all of you, and thank you for doing this. It takes so many people to put this show on from our editors to directors to everybody that mics us up and makeup people, all of our production team, producers, PAs.

You guys, I could not do this without you, and I couldn't ask for a better team. Thank you, and I can't leave this team. We have a special coming up. You're going to have to stick with us, Road to Recovery, Lights, Camera, Action? Like any good actress, I'm going to get it together during this break, and I'll see you guys in two minutes.