The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program | 1/30/26

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

Stu announces what he's doing next: launching a new business focused on prediction markets and a new show called "Predictable." Glenn plays a montage of Stu throughout his 28 years working on "The Glenn Beck Program." Stu gives his final message,  a message of gratitude, to Glenn and the "Glenn Beck Program" audience for everything they have given him over the last 28 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So we celebrate last day of Stu. We kind of, we get a little weepy. Okay, even Stu does, and he's practically fricking Spock. But we also go back into the archives and look at best impression Stu has ever done, but he only did it one time because my voice heard after. What's next for Stu? You'll find out on today's podcast. Also, just a final goodbye and the news of the day.

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Stu's leaving the program. Is the job done? No. but he's quitting anyway because that's the kind of guy he is. He's a quitter. Why would I want to leave? I do want to play something. This is the one and only time Stu ever did Tim Walls

because his throat hurt afterwards. A little baby couldn't handle it anymore. But it was the day that Tim Walls was going to do the debate. Here it is. Welcome to the program. We have Tim on the phone. Hello, Tim. Hello, Glenn.

Hello, how are you? Hello, Glenn. I'm Tim Wall. Hello. Hi. I mean, I debate tonight. Will you watch? Well, we're going to be watching on Blaze TV.

You're debating tonight. That's good. I like fishing. I know you like fishing. I coach football. Did you like the football? Yeah, I heard you were a coach. Did you see the football?

It's the same shape as we. my head. As your what? As my head. As your head. Yes, I have, I have a head, but people say my head look like football. Right, okay. I like fishing and hunting.

Right. Can I ask? Can I ask? I thought, J.D. Vett is weird. Do you know J.D. Virt is weird? I'm going to say that tonight on the J.G. VIII's weird. Jay Gavever is weird. I like balloons.

I'm here on today tonight. Did you know I was the man in front of taking a gentleman square? Hello? Hello? Hello, Glenn? I fought 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. What I was saying in Minnesota? Mind your own damn business. Okay. All right. Jaydivet is weird.

Yeah, okay. We're going to talk to about the JD vans debate. I like poodles. What? Poodles. I like poodles. I like poodles. I like the... Okay.

Tim Walsh, hang up the phone, please. Can you... Glenn? Yes. I love you. Okay. I told about you on debate.

You watch the maid tonight. All right. Find your own damn bit. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for going to. Can you cut him off, please?

Oh, man. How do we get paid for this? I don't. I have no understanding. That's the. best impression I ever We're gonna have for a while. It's actually been in development for a while

if we're really thinking about it. I think I've nailed it. I mean, if all those phrases came out of his mouth tonight, would you know the difference of any idea? We may have a very special guest after tonight's debate on TV.

Tim Walls may have to stand by and come on the program tonight, so you don't want to miss that. This is the only time. This is the only time that Tim Wals ever appeared on the program because Stu finished in. 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 that. Yes. Yes, it was the pure Tim Wall's concentrated hatred that was associated with that particular voice.

What a day. So, so Stu, you are leaving and you haven't announced to anybody yet what you're doing. So can you announce? Can you tell us, please? Yeah, we can talk about it. So, you know, 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. You know, one of my roles here in the program has kind of been chief data nerd,

a guy who, you know, 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're kind of a, 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, 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 you? 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, there's the companies 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 Stubergear. You can go check it out now. It's at predictable show.com. And, you know, there you can. By the way, I trademarked your name.

Oh, right. So I can't even use my own name. You have to name. Something else. Oh, wow. Thank you. I appreciate that. You've always been a helper, Glenn.

He has. That's really nice. It's just a licensing fee. He'll let me use it as long as I just pay him constantly. Hey, two can play the mob thing. 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 mind 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 there. 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 wrong. right side of history all the time. I mean, we're at 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.

These are, 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, 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 that 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. You're a 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 predictable show.com. Please go there. If you, 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 the kind of the outline of as to what the Senate race is going to look like in 202026, 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. And 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 behind the scenes on my own dime for a long time, over a decade now. I've 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. It's gambling, it is not gambling. Glenn, I have

gambled. I'm sorry. You know, 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 bed 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. Yeah, 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 only 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 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 put money into a stock. What are you doing? You are trying to analyze what some Chinese supply chain is doing. 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, of our main focus, but we're going to look at culture and all these other things as well, bring on like tons of, you know, the best traders in the world and the, in the biggest experts, to kind of get you to look for an edge. Yeah, traders. Yeah, that makes sense.

That's good word for you to use. Traders. So anyway, it's a, of course, it's predictable this 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, please. Just listen to me. And he told me and I was, I was like, you know, that is absolutely, this is you. This is 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 self facial cream? Because that's what I heard it was. A lot of people guessed that it was facial cream or L. Riley were going to 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. 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 predictable show.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. 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 Studios 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 in Blaze TV. We're not letting you down on the Blaze TV family. So join us on Studeas America. Of course, it's all on YouTube. If just go to YouTube.com slash Studeas America, the show, predict, predict, 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. Pleased or 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. this program, some of the personal things and some of the funniest things on the 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 Brighier. Hello to our executive producer, Mr. Stu Brigger. Glenn, how are you this morning? Well, I'm good. I'm good. Let me say hello to our executive producer. That is Stu Briggear. 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 top 40 radio career. I mean, I grew up in Connecticut, so I knew you from your morning show at Casey 101, which is 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 biased. Hello, Stu. How are you?

That's a great question, Glenn. No idea. That's my new position on that question. Really? a great good idea. And he has told me what he was, 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. You 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, we've 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? 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. And because last night, one, didn't really stand for anything.

You were very clear after the show that you wanted the number cost them to make sense. There's just nobody better as you live stats. Stu has the election by the numbers. Yeah, national polls are, we're 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? That's what I said. Like you said, that's what I was indicating. Yes, that you said it. That's why I said like you said. 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 frigging eagle.

And I knew there was something special about what we were doing. But nine out of eight states. 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. quitter. And so today, I mean, we're not really saying goodbye to Stu because, I mean, if history teaches us anything, it's like goodbyes with stews 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's coming from. Stu, Stu started as an intern, which means at one point in his life, he fetched coffee and thought, you know, I might, 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, 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 Eagle 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 failure.

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. That's the type of failure it was by the way. Just so you're aware. Right before, please, I 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 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 date and says, Yeah, but this time I kind of feel lucky. I feel lucky. I really do. So, so we wish him all of the best on the... Feels like it. And by 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 in 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 didn't earn the car That was for somebody who made it 30 years Yeah yeah no 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 20s years. And quitters don't get welcome back. You do welcome back anytime. And failures don't leave legacies, which you have left. 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.

So open up your stupid president. This is going to be something like... What? I don't know. What is your prediction? I mean, my first guest 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. I don't know how to open it apparently either. Wow, it's a watch. So it is a brightling, super chronomat. There are only 104 of these made. They're made for the Philadelphia Eagles. if you take it out and look on the backside, it has the NFL logo and the Eagles in 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 hitting, helting Santa with them. So there's only 104 of them left. Glenn, this is unbelievable. I just wanted to thank you. Oh, my God. for the time we've had together. Thank you, Glenn.

This is an incredible gift, and I, you know, I can't thank you enough for everything. I don't want to become a sobbing mess, so I'm going to stop. Okay, 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 you know 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 Baham So, signed. 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. Yeah, that's it. Right there.

Now, it is signed by Cooper DeGine after the pick six in the Super Bowl, but you can see Patrick Mahomes. Right there. Right there. And, you know, I... And not exactly. Exactly center, but right in the front.

He's a little off to the side. A little blurry. But he is in the picture. On Monday, on Monday, as, you know, 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.

I can't. Wow. 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 weekend. Oh my gosh.

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 Jeffrey 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've made it. We were rating the cheerleaders of the high school bands.

And when you say we. You mean you and Jeffie. Of course. I mean, it was, 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. but I can't do that anymore. It was horrendous, but this is the anniversary.

This is the weekend of Gasparilla in Tampa. Jeffrey 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 a time. Jeffie, 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. Coming up in just a few minutes after the radio broadcast, we're going online at glenbeck.com and everywhere else. And you'll be able to watch a 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,

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 them, 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, you know, personality in the entire state. He had no reason to help me with this stuff. He took me from, you know, 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 at predictable show.com. So please join us. But please join at glenbeck.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 you know work with a washed up DJ

whose career was just over all those years ago will all be the best decision of my entire professional life. And I, you know, 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 in 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, I want to just say that that's my friend you're talking about when you say those things about it. 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. 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, I, you guys are all talking. 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 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 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. 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 stepped 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. I want to get the last word in 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. I'm sorry. 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. 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 20, 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, sitting in the least in this room, Jeffie,

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. Good 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 you 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, it wouldn't change much because even the scars made me who I am. 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. And I probably would have fired Stu preemptively. But that's a different story.