Glenn Beck and Stu Bergier conclude their 28-year partnership as Bergier departs to launch Predictable, a new prediction market show. Their emotional farewell highlights controversial stances on medical freedom and ivermectin while mocking Tim Walz's voice and JD Vance's character. Amidst exchanging a Breitling watch and a Patrick Mahomes photo, they defend each other against media censorship, with Beck joking he would have fired Bergier preemptively if time travel were possible, ultimately celebrating their shared sacrifice for the country. [Automatically generated summary]
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But we also go back into the archives and look at best impressions Stu has ever done, but he only did it one time.
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What's next for Stu?
You find out on today's podcast also just a final goodbye and the news of the day.
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Q ⁇ A for Stu's last day.
Stu's leaving the program.
Is the job done?
No, but he's quitting anyway, because that's the kind of guy he is.
But why would I want to leave?
I do want to play something.
This is the one and only time Stu ever did Tim Walz because his throat hurt afterwards.
Her little baby couldn't handle it anymore.
But it was the day that Tim Walz was going to do the debate.
Here it is.
Welcome to the program.
We have Tim on the phone.
Hello, Tim.
Hello.
Hello, Clay.
Hello, how are you?
Hello, bud.
I'm Tim Blaz.
Tim Walz.
Hello.
Hi.
I did.
I debate tonight.
Will you watch?
Well, we're going to be watching Blaze TV.
You're debating tonight.
That's good.
I like fishing.
I know.
I know you like fishing.
I coach football.
Did you like the football?
I heard you were a coach.
Did you say the football is the same shape as my head?
As your what?
As my head.
As your head.
Jack, I have.
I have a head, but people say my head looked like football.
That's right, okay.
I like fishing and hunting.
Can I ask?
Can I ask you?
JD Vance is weird.
Did you know JJ Vance is weird?
I'm going to say that tonight on the debate stage.
JK Vance is weird.
I like balloons.
I've been on debate tonight.
Did you know I was the man in front of Steve and Syntimate Square?
Hello?
Hello, Glenn.
I thought in World War II.
This is Tim Walz.
I know, Tim.
How are you still on the phone?
I was talking for seven minutes and you did not answer.
Okay, because I thought we had hung up.
That's what you were saying in Minnesota.
Mind your own damn business.
Okay.
All right.
JD Vance is weird.
Yeah, okay.
We're going to talk to you about the JD Vance debate.
I like poodles.
What?
Poodles.
Poodles?
I like poodles.
I like it.
Tim Walz, hang up the phone, please.
Can you?
Glenn?
Yes.
I love you.
Okay.
I told her you had to make that.
You want to debate tonight.
All right.
Mind your own damn business.
Okay.
Okay.
Thank you.
Thank you for calling Tim Walz.
Will you cut him off, please?
How do we get paid for this?
I have no understanding.
That's the best impression I ever heard.
I've been working on it for a while.
It's actually been a development for a while if I'm really thinking about it.
I think I've nailed it.
We may have.
If all those phrases came out of his mouth tonight, would you know the difference?
I have any idea.
We may have a very special guest after tonight's debate on TV.
Tim Walz may have to stand by and come on the program tonight, so you don't want to miss that.
This is the only time that Tim Walz ever appeared on the program because Stu finished it.
He was like, ow, my throat really hurts.
And I'm like, sacrifice for comedy, man.
It's amazing that I would ever leave a job that would pay me to do that.
It doesn't make any sense at all.
But yeah, I like blew my voice out after that.
The whole rest of the day.
I think that might have not been the actual what you were doing as much as the hate that came with.
Yes.
Yes, it was the pure Tim Walz, concentrated hatred that was associated with that particular voice.
What a day.
So, Stu, you are leaving and you haven't announced to anybody yet what you're doing.
So, can you announce?
Can you talk about it?
So, it's been something, it's a little bit different than what we've been doing for the last 28 years together, but actually also close as well.
Parts of the stuff that we've been doing here for a long time.
One of my roles here on the program has kind of been chief data nerd, guy who looks at the elections and tries to predict the outcomes to them and analyzes all that stuff.
And so, I'm starting a new company that is revolving in the world of prediction markets.
If you don't know what they are, they've kind of only become widespread over the past year or so.
But basically, you can kind of look and invest on whether anything is going to happen.
Yes or no.
A simple question.
Will this happen or not?
Yes or no?
And you predict the outcome.
And if you're correct, you can profit off of that information.
Wait, wait, wait.
So are you, hold it just a second.
Are you analyzing those sites or are you starting?
Are you falling in with the mob?
Look, if the mob has money they want to hand me for this operation, I'm interested.
I'll listen to you.
But no, this is like, you know, the company's going to be doing a few different things.
But the one that's probably interesting to the audience is we're going to have a show.
It's going to be called Predictable with Stu Bergeer.
You can go check it out now.
It's at predictableshow.com.
And, you know, there you go.
By the way, I trademarked your name.
So I can't even use my own name.
Wow.
Thank you.
I appreciate that.
You've always been a helper, Glenn.
That's really good.
It's just a licensing fee.
He'll let me use it as much.
I just pay him constantly.
Hey, two can play the mob thing, okay?
That's true.
I can be shaken down with the best of them.
That's right.
But the show is going to analyze the news, the things that we talk about every day, kind of a special focus on the elections, considering we're going into election time.
And that's been something somewhat of an expertise of mine for a while.
And we're to be talking about all these news events as they relate to these prediction markets.
And, you know, I think it really gives, you know, the free market that we talk about all the time that makes the world a better place, that improves the world, that does so many amazing things, can be applied here as sort of an engine to find the truth.
You know, the media is obviously going down the wrong road with this.
They're incentivized to lie to you.
They want you to go the total opposite direction.
They're trying to move you to get to the right side of history all the time.
I mean, we're in a time where a Supreme Court justice can't answer a question about what a woman is.
They don't want to tell you the truth.
And what I love about prediction markets, and it's a really unique thing with them, is you have to put your money where your mouth is.
You're betting, you're investing with your own real money, and people don't lie when that is on the line.
They'll lie to you on television.
They won't lie to you there.
We've always thought this was the right thing.
I mean, remember, DARPA did this right after 9-11, and they said, we're going to go to the five eyes and to people who study terrorism, and we're going to let them invest in a kind of a stock market, if you will, of where do they think the most likely terrorist attacks are going to come from?
How are they going to do it?
And it was stopped because everybody was like, that's an outrage.
No, no, that is a very good way.
Get people to put their money on where are the weaknesses?
Where do they see things?
I just think that is the way to find out how people really feel.
Yeah.
And, you know, like the elections are a really good example of this, right?
You know, you have the media telling you who they want to win.
They're constantly pushing one way or the other.
You've got the campaigns that are lying to you about whether they're going to win or not.
You have, I mean, you also have a lot of people who are telling you exactly what you want to hear about the election.
Your guy's going to win.
Don't worry about it.
I want what's actually going to happen.
I want the truth.
And these markets can really do damage in that world.
They can cut through the punditry, which I really, really like in today's world.
I think it's something a really important additional layer that we don't have really in our coverage right now.
So that is a big part of it.
It's at predictableshow.com.
Please go there.
By the way, are going to, if you go there, put your email address in for free, you'll get a 2026 Senate preview.
We're going to give you kind of the outline of as to what the Senate race is going to look like in 2026, kind of a starting point for everyone to be able to understand what we are facing here in the next few months, which are going to be pretty intense.
So go there and put your email address in.
That's going to be part of it.
Now, I also will say another interesting layer.
You know, prediction markets aren't perfect.
They don't always have the right answers.
And that's good because when they have the wrong answers, you are able to profit off of this.
And this is something that I have been doing on, you know, behind the scenes on my own dime for a long time, over a decade now.
Been using prediction markets myself.
I've paid for a lot of vacations over the years because of it.
And it's been really, really good.
And I think it's a much more accessible way for people to invest, right?
Like you can go in and try to predict what a stock's going to do.
It's a great invest.
It's a great way to gambling students.
It is not gambling.
Glenn, I have gambled.
No, you're right.
You're right.
It is not.
It is legally not gambling.
First of all, you are accurate.
Secondly, I have gambled a decent amount in my life.
I am not against gambling.
I've gone to Vegas.
I'll place a sports bet here and there.
You know what happens when I do that, Glenn?
I lose over and over and over again.
I know.
I really do think there's something different.
It's not chance.
This is not chance.
People know this audience is obsessed with knowing what's going on in the world.
They sit here and they listen to this stupid show and your nonsensical rantings just to get to one fact every once in a while.
They love the country.
They love the truth.
And they know about these things.
Like if you know, you know, your senator in your state and your state, he always folds on a big vote.
And everyone's telling you he's going to vote one way.
And you know he's going to fold.
We all say these things all the time.
This guy is going to fold.
You go on the prediction market and you say, hey, there's an 80% chance he's voting one way.
You know he's going to fold on that.
There's real opportunity there.
You know, it's different than like you, you put money into a stock.
What are you doing?
You are trying to analyze what some Chinese supply chain is doing.
What, you know, what is going on internally in the country, internally inside of the company.
Is the CEO going to hook up with some random person at a cold play concert and blow the stock up?
You have no idea what's going on with all this stuff.
There's so many factors.
This is, will something happen?
Yes or no?
That's what it is.
And there's a definitive end to it.
You can actually look at these things and do really well.
I've been able to do really, really well, particularly on the elections.
And that's going to be kind of our main focus, but we're going to look at culture and all these other things as well.
Bring on like tons of the best traders in the world and the biggest experts to kind of get you to look for an edge trade here as well.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Not a tree.
A D, a trader.
It's a, of course, it's predictable, the show.com, something like that.
Predictable show.com.
Thank you.
And Stu is going to be joining us from time to time because there is a lot.
I really believe in the prediction markets like this.
I think that there is a lot of information to be.
And when Stu told me this, I was prepared to go, don't go, don't go.
You fail at everything you try.
Yeah, please.
Thank you.
Please just listen to me.
And he told me, and I was in, I was like, you know, that is absolutely, this is you.
This 100% you.
It's still going to fail like a miserable.
But it's absolutely what Stu should be doing.
And I'm actually thrilled about it.
So you're not really leaving to sell facial cream because that's what I heard it was.
A lot of people guessed that it was her little Riley Oregon sell facial cream.
I will tell you, may I say, this announcement has just changed in the last hour and a half because I know what he was doing beforehand.
Finding Talent at Their Lowest00:11:17
And now that Don Lemon has been arrested, he's like, well, now I can't go produce that show.
That was on the table.
I considered it highly.
Let me just hit one more time here, Glenn.
It's predictableshow.com.
Even if you don't care about prediction markets, the election analysis you're going to get there, you're really going to love.
It's really good.
So go there, sign up.
You'll get that free report on the Senate.
And then also, a lot of people were asking what's going on with Blaze TV.
I'm going to be doing Studos America, a new episode on Monday.
So, you know, if you want to hear me rant about everything I've been ranting about over the years, I will be over there on Blaze TV.
We're not letting you down on the Blaze TV family.
So join us on Studos America.
Of course, it's all on YouTube.
If you just go to youtube.com/slash Studos America, the show Predictable will eventually be there as well.
So thanks so much for, and I got to say too, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this.
Please, sir, God, let it end.
Glenn's been very cool and very supportive about all of this.
Okay, I'm done.
I'm done.
That's all I have to say about you.
Thank you.
All right, good.
All right.
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
So the staff has put together a little montage that none of us have heard yet.
It just kind of looks back on all of the years that Stu has been on this program, some of the personal things and some of the funniest things on the program.
So roll the montage, please.
Stu and I have been talking about my career and his career for at least two years.
And Stu has, for a long time, wanted to do his own thing.
And I appreciate that.
And I appreciate all of the many, many years.
I'm looking at your resume here.
Then you went to the Glenn Beck program, where you were the co-host EP, executive producer.
Say hello to our executive producer, Mr. Stu Bregier.
Hello to our executive producer, Mr. Stu Bregier.
Glenn, how are you this morning?
Oh, I'm good.
I'm good.
Let me say hello to our executive producer.
That is Stu Bregier.
Hello, Stu.
How are you?
Glenn, how are you?
I mean, Stu was there for the very first talk show I ever did.
How old were you when we met?
I was, let's see, 20.
20 years old.
Yeah.
And what was your impression of me?
Because you got to me at the end of my radio career or my, you know, top 40 radio career.
I mean, I grew up in Connecticut, so I knew you from your morning show at Casey 101, which is, you know, music station, the big station in my hometown, basically.
And I knew, you know, Glenn and Pat in the morning.
And this is an important lesson, I think, for people coming up, not only in broadcasting, but any industry, is find someone who's very talented, but at the very valley of their career, like the worst possible time, because those people usually have good lessons, are talented, but also you can kind of glom onto them when they're at their lowest.
And then you can convince them you were part of their success later on.
Hello, Stu.
How are you, Glenn?
I'm fine.
Hello, Stu.
How are you?
That's a great question, Glenn.
No idea.
That's my new position on that question.
Really freaking ideas.
And he has told me what he's planning on doing.
And I actually think it's a really good idea.
And so I fully support it.
I'm just sad that it's going to bring you further away from me.
We won't see each other every day, but hopefully you'll be bringing some of this stuff onto the show.
And I've never worked with anybody more honest, more decent, and more loyal than you.
You know, a big part of my job and my career has been trying to execute your vision, like what you want to do, what you think is the most important.
I said this morning, I said we were in this meeting and I said, got to get Stu into a numbers costume.
And, you know, I thought of this big foam thing where his face would be inside the number six or something, but did you stop and think at any time, why did I say we got to get Stu in a numbers costume?
Stu is here to break down some numbers.
He's the executive producer of the radio show.
And Stu, I assume that the number two plays a role.
Because last night one didn't really stand for anything.
You were very clear after the show that you wanted the number costume to make sense.
There's just nobody better because you live stats.
Stu has the election by the numbers.
Yeah, national polls are showing a definite tightening.
Stu you're a numbers guy.
Yes.
Geek.
I mean, I'm a poll geek.
Yeah, you're a total geek.
Stu's here to do the math.
We also have some of the latest poll results that are in.
What's the biggest fight we've ever had?
I mean, there haven't been many.
Isn't that what I said?
That's what I just, I just quoted you.
Isn't that what I just said?
When I said, like you said, that's what I was indicating.
Yes, that you said it.
That's why I said like you said.
Oh, I'll bring in my firearms, too.
I'm not trying to start a gun battle here.
You seem to be a little on edge.
You're wearing your most obnoxious Eagles sweatshirt.
That's right.
What's wrong with you still back in the Eagles?
They're America's team.
Yeah.
You got a freaking Eagle.
And I knew there was something special about what we were doing.
JK Vick is weird.
Did you think JK Vick is weird?
I'm going to say that tonight on the top HD.
JK Vick is weird.
I like balloons.
We have Brittany on the phone.
Hello, Brittany.
Are you going to shut the border down now?
Let me ask you this.
What about Brunch?
Thank you for being my friend.
And thank you for being so loyal to me.
And you have changed my life.
And I truly thank you for that, you quitter.
And so today, I mean, we're not really saying goodbye to Stu because, I mean, if history teaches us anything, it's that goodbyes with Stu's or more a little like intermissions.
You know, he leaves, he fails.
It's kind of a little more like, hey, we'll see you after the snack bar situation.
You know what I mean?
I don't know where that does come from.
Stu started as an intern, which means at one point in his life, he fetched coffee and thought, you know, I might be able to do better than this.
And to his credit, he did.
He was producer, executive producer, head writer of the program, which is not really a career ladder.
That's more of like a hostile takeover, you know.
You know, conducted with sarcasm and impeccable timing.
And he has been with me for 28 years, which is longer than most Hollywood marriages, longer than both of our marriages, longer than most governments last, longer than the average Eagles Super Bowl window, you know?
And here we are.
Here we are again, because Stu is leaving again.
I just want to let, I mean, just let's be clear.
He left this show once to start his own show, and it failed.
And spectacularly, none of this is true.
Failure is the failure is real.
I mean, it wasn't a dignified creative differences kind of failure.
This was like come crawling back like a Vietnam vet looking for his old platoon kind of fit.
I tell you.
And I welcome him back.
I welcomed him back because that's what family does.
You know what I mean?
It was also the type of failure where I took over for you and left with higher ratings.
Yeah, that's the type of failure it was, by the way.
Just so you're aware.
Right before.
Please, let me get this out or I'll cry.
Right before syndication, right before syndication, you know, the promised land.
Stu almost left again, but this time he saved because, you know, he stayed because he was like, wow, that could make me a lot of money.
And so he did stay, which brings us to today where Stu is leaving us one more time.
Somehow or another, convinced that this time will be different.
Why?
I don't know, because this time he's doing a show about odds.
Odds.
Hosted by a man who has repeatedly bet against his own track record.
You see what I'm saying here?
A man who looks at a lifetime of data and says, yeah, but this time I kind of feel lucky.
I feel lucky.
I really do.
So we wish him all of the best on the way.
No, I mean, I sincerely, I sincerely.
Anyway, so he's leaving again.
And one of Stu's superpowers, and this is honest, is not comedic timing, although he's got some of the best comedic timing.
It's emotional sabotage timing.
You can guarantee if I share, I mean, the reason why I'm not sharing anything personal, spiritual, vulnerable is because that's when Stu strikes.
Okay.
He's got this, I mean, not with a thoughtful question, not with empathy.
Usually it's with a fat joke, sometimes brilliant, sometimes a little lazy, but it's always perfectly timed and devastating.
And that, I mean, I could be talking about God and Stu's like, yeah, but have you considered salads?
And somehow or another, it works.
I mean, it's a gift.
It's gift.
But he, one of the things we're going to miss, and a lot of people are on the phone saying that, you know, they remember all of the stuff with Super Bowls and everything else and Football Fridays.
And that's where you'll find his real loyalties.
Stu loves three things in the world.
Philadelphia Eagles, apparently quitting, and Philadelphia Eagles.
He loves the Eagles more than his wife and children, which is impressive because I'm told by Stu's new PR firm that they apparently still love him a lot.
Wow.
But that's what, I mean, that's just what I heard.
But I wanted to give you something, Stu, because, you know, you didn't earn the car.
That was for somebody who made it 30 years.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
You've told me that multiple times.
I wanted to get you something because honestly, you're one of my best friends.
You are indispensable, irreplaceable, on and off the air.
You've made this show funnier and smarter and sharper.
You have made me a better man.
And I'm going to miss you.
Interns don't last 27 years.
And quitters don't get welcome back.
And you'd be welcome back anytime.
And failures don't leave legacies which you have left.
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Even though the odds may not be in your favor on the why, you know, I mean, the show will fail.
We all know it.
And then you'll be back, and I'll leave the lights on.
But I wanted to give you a gift.
So if you just, I think it should be there by you.
I want to give you a gift and just say thank you for the best broadcast experience and the best years of my life.
Thank you.
Thank you, Glenn.
So open up your stupid man.
present this is going to be something like what I don't know.
What is your prediction?
What's your prediction?
I mean, my first guess was human waste.
I thought it might just be a box of human waste.
But I don't know what it is.
Let's see.
Don't know how to open it apparently either.
Wow, it's a watch.
So it is a Breitling Super Chrono Mat.
There are only 104 of these made.
They're made for the Philadelphia Eagles.
If you take it out and look on the back side, it has the NFL logo and the Eagles on the front of the face.
So it's a commemorative limited edition watch just for the Eagles.
There were more of them, but the Eagles threw them out and were Helting Santa with them.
So there's only 104 of them left.
Glenn, this is unbelievable.
I just wanted to thank you for the time we've had together.
Thank you, Glenn.
This is an incredible gift.
And I can't thank you enough for everything.
I don't want to become a sobbing mess, so I'm going to stop.
Let's go into a commercial, shall we?
That's awesome.
Thank you.
Glenn?
Yes.
You gave me a present.
I actually got you a little something as well.
Now, I do not have the ability maybe to select an amazing watch like you gave me, but I thought I got something that I thought you'd appreciate.
And Pat has it here.
It's wrapped here.
Maybe show over here.
So this is something I think you'll like.
Again, the only thing I know maybe more than you is sports.
So I thought I could get you something cool related to your favorite player, Patrick Mahomes.
So, signed.
Oh, look at that.
Look at that right there.
Look at that.
That's incredible.
Look at that.
Patrick Mahomes signed photo framed.
See him?
See him there, Pat.
Can you point to him?
Can you point to him?
Right there.
He's right there.
Right there.
Now, it is signed by Cooper DeGene after the Pick Six in the Super Bowl, but you can see Patrick Mahomes.
Right there.
Right there.
And, you know, and not exactly center, but right in the front.
Yeah, he's a little off the little blurry.
But he is in the picture.
On Monday, on Monday, on Monday, as For people who are signing up for the torch, somebody's going to win an amazing picture of the Philadelphia Eagles signed by somebody.
You're welcome, Glenn.
I hope you appreciated that.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I can't see.
Wow.
You know what's incredible?
You know what's weird is, you know what this weekend is?
This is something we have tried to erase from everything that we could ever, we ever knew existed.
What do you mean?
Let me just hold these up.
This weekend is Gasparilla Week.
Oh, my God.
In Tampa, Florida.
We started in Tampa, and True Story is a parade.
It's a crazy parade.
Crazy.
It's like Mardi Gras.
Crazy.
And the station asked us, WFLA asked us if we could host it.
And Jeffy was there.
Stu was there.
I was there.
And we did not want to host it.
We were like, no, I don't want to host this thing.
And so they made us host it.
And so we had a plan.
We are going to make the most offensive broadcast that we could possibly come up with.
And so we planned, like, we went all the way.
We've destroyed all of these tapes.
But we made it.
We were raiding the cheerleaders of the high school bands.
And when you say fat ones in this, you and you and Jeffy, of course.
I mean, it was horrific.
And we knew it.
And it was hysterical, but horrific.
But we wanted to make sure that they never asked us again.
Okay.
That was a mistake.
The exact opposite happened.
It became like a really big deal.
And then they asked us every year.
And thank God for syndication because I was like, I can't do that anymore.
I can't do that anymore.
It was horrendous.
But this is the anniversary.
This is the weekend of Gasparilla in Tampa.
Jeffy joins us here, by the way.
Yeah, I know he changed the subject to Gasparilla.
I came in.
He was giving away presents.
I thought I'd be able to learn money.
Jeffy, I have one for you.
It's a signed picture of somebody in the end zone with Patrick Mahomes in the background.
Wow.
You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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A Career Built on Balloons00:10:34
And you'll be able to watch the Q ⁇ A for Stu's last day.
Today is Stu's last broadcast with me.
He's been with me since 1997.
And it's been a remarkable run.
And I know very little about Stu, honestly, because he's a lot like Spock.
He doesn't share emotions.
We were joking in studio earlier today that if he died, we all probably wouldn't know for maybe two years after he's dead.
Well, I definitely wouldn't be able to tell you after I was dead.
He does not open up emotionally.
So this is going to be fun to watch because he asked for some time.
He said he wanted to, Glenn, can I have just a few minutes just to talk to the audience?
And I said, sure.
So go ahead, Stu.
We're listening.
Thank you, Glenn.
I appreciate that.
I will say, despite you, this has been a great time working on this particular program.
28 years.
It has been my entire professional career.
Oh, this is going to suck.
Sorry about all this, people.
But I really can't picture adult life without doing the show.
I have no experience as an adult not doing the show.
And it's weird to think about it that way.
My wife is standing in the corner, and Glenn outranks her when it comes to time that I've even known him, which is a scary thing to think about.
When I first met Glenn, I was hanging up balloons.
That was my job.
Balloons.
And, you know, Glenn, and I'm not talking to Glenn.
I want to make sure this is clear.
I'm talking to the audience.
Not even thinking about Glenn right now, but I am telling you a story, which is Glenn, you know, took me from hanging balloons and gave me an entire career.
He taught me everything I know, and he had nothing to gain from it at all.
Well, I did get him a lot of bacon, egg, and cheese sandwiches, but outside of that, he had nothing to gain from it.
I had no experience in this industry at all.
And he was the biggest personality in the entire state.
He had no reason to help me with this stuff.
He took me from promotions to an intern, to a producer, to an executive producer, to a co-host, from a smaller market to a larger market, to a national show, to national television, to one of the first ever streaming networks, from an event at a car dealership with literally zero attendees to the mall in Washington, D.C. with 500,000.
You know, you might not know this, but Glenn has been incredibly generous the entire time we've worked together.
And he was equally generous as we tried to figure out whether we were going to continue to do the show.
And in the end, I feel like he really needs someone who's 100% devoted to the really cool things he's doing on Torch.
It's an amazing project, and he's got amazing people working on it.
There's a great staff here.
And, you know, I'm going to go do my thing, predictableshow.com.
So please join us, but please join at Glennbeck.com too.
There's a lot you're going to be excited about coming up.
But I just want you, the audience, to know that I am endlessly grateful to Glenn for everything he's done for my career, for my family, and for me.
He is a great friend.
And my decision to go work with a washed-up DJ whose career was just over all those years ago will always be the best decision of my entire professional life.
And I will acknowledge that there are a few people out there, I've noticed this occasionally, who don't appreciate Glenn quite the same way that I do.
You may have noticed a mildly negative statement made about him in the media from time to time, from politicians, from other commentators.
And I will say, while Glenn has been very successful and has been rewarded with many, many accolades he does not deserve, I want you in the audience to know the truth that he has sacrificed an incredible amount that he will never tell you about.
He's done all of this because he has a true desire to make this country a better place.
This is earnest.
Many people have made fun of him over the years because of it.
But Glenn is really, truly a man who believes in the American people and this country.
You might doubt this.
You might think that I'm lying.
You might think that this is just something I'm saying because he gave me a really cool watch.
But if you doubt it, I want you to be aware that you are wrong and you are dumb and shut up.
I want to swear at you, but I will not.
I will not blow a no-swear streak on the last day I'm on the air, I promise you, stations.
I also want to just say that that's my friend you're talking about when you say those things about him.
And it's not cool.
And he's taken a beating for a long time and he's pushed through it and he's survived a lot of things that you'll never know about and he will never tell you about.
But I hope as we go on here and I'm no longer on the show that you really do appreciate it.
I hope you appreciate everything he's done.
On the other side of this, I want to thank you, the audience of the show.
You are the greatest audience that has ever been assembled.
Whenever we have an event and you're here and we get together in person, a lot of you say something like, you know, I feel like I know you guys.
You know, it's so weird because, you know, you guys are all talking.
We know you.
And then on the other side of this, like, you don't know me at all.
And it is a weird dynamic.
It really is a strange thing.
Some of that's true.
I mean, most of you that will never meet, most of you will never call.
Most of you will never send a message on social media or anything like that.
You'll hear our voice and it kind of feels like a one-way relationship.
But I want to give you a little bit of perspective from my side after 28 years.
The truth of all of this is that you mean way more to us than we mean to you.
I mean, if we're extraordinarily lucky, maybe we say something that makes you laugh, or maybe we say something that helps you with a little ammunition and an argument with one of your stupid friends.
You know, maybe you get a little perspective from us from what, for, you know, once in a while.
But you might not know this, but you've changed my life completely.
You've changed my family's life.
Every time I've interacted with you almost without fail, you've been kind and smart and funny and willing to do anything for this country to make it a better place for everyone, including my children.
You know, think about this sometimes.
They're going to be around living in this country that you're spending all this time and effort trying to save.
And it means an incredible amount to me.
And it's also not an exaggeration that you have literally saved tens of thousands of lives.
And think about that.
That sounds like such a ridiculous thing to say about a radio audience.
You have saved tens of thousands of lives.
People in Afghanistan running from the Taliban.
People who had their lives completely destroyed because of a hurricane or a tornado.
A woman in Canada who was on the verge of willingly committing suicide.
We told you that story and you stuffed up and you saved her life.
You've done it every single time we've asked.
It's incredible.
All I can say honestly to the entire audience is thank you.
Thank you for putting up with me for 28 years.
Thank you for laughing when I make fun of Glenn.
And thank you for caring so much about the people and the country around you.
Thank you so much.
I honestly mean it.
and i love you um i want to get the last word in um here Because I feel exactly the same way about Stu, and we have been joking an awful lot today, and both of us, this, I've never seen Stu like this before.
He hides this.
No, he hides this a great deal, and I'm the exact opposite of it.
But here's what I would like to leave you with today, because this is all deeply personal to us and probably not so personal to you.
Friends Who Lift You Up00:03:39
But it is, you know, as I get older, everything I once thought that was really, really important begins to fade.
And I want to leave you with something that you can take from this show.
In my 20s, I really believed that fame and fortune was the point.
Making a name for myself was the point.
It was the mission.
And in my 20s and in my teens, I put that above absolutely everything else, and I leased happiness, or what I thought happiness was, until the leases expired, and I was left with nothing except wasted time and wrong answers.
Because of the men sitting in this room, Jeffy, Stu, Pat, I know what matters.
Family, real friends.
How much you can share with somebody.
How hard you try to uplift others.
And how many you can encourage while you can.
My dad used to say, if you're lucky, son, you will have one or two really good friends in your life who will stay through the good times and the bad and will be there for all of it.
It's taken me a lifetime to have these friends.
You don't earn these friends.
They just appear.
And I have been blessed in the second phase of my life to have friends I don't deserve, but I do cherish.
For those of you who are younger, who really don't know what life is all about yet, this is what life is all about.
Good people you travel with.
Good people you share when you have nothing.
people who lift you when you just don't think you can stand it another day, that encourage you to keep going, to ignore the stones that are being thrown your way, and to follow what you believe
hear from God to do, even when the friends can't see it themselves.
If I had my life to do all over again, if I just had the last 30 years to do all over again, I wouldn't change much because even the scars made me who I am.
What I Would Change00:00:39
But there would be one thing that I would change, and I want to leave you with this.
I would have been more like my friends.
I would have said thank you more sincerely.
I would have listened more carefully, and I would have encouraged more thoroughly.