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Glenn Beck celebrates Stu's last day of college, and looks back at the best impressions Stu has ever done. Plus, a special 4th hour Q&A for Stu on his final day.
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But we also go back into the archives and look at best impressions Stu has ever done.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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There's going to be a special fourth hour today.
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No, but he's quitting anyway, because that's the kind of guy he is.
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This is the one and only time Stu ever did Tim Walls, because his throat hurt afterwards.
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But it was the day that Tim Walls was going to do the debate.
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Did you know I was the man in front of Tank at Tentermint Square?
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I was talking for seven minutes and you did not answer.
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We're going to talk to you about the J.D. Vett's debate.
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It's actually been in development for a while since I'm really thinking about it.
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I mean, if all those phrases came out of his mouth tonight, would you know the difference?
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We may have a very special guest after tonight's debate on TV.
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Tim Walsh may have to stand by and come on the program tonight, so you don't want to miss that.
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This is the only time that Tim Walsh ever appeared on the program because Stu finished it.
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It's amazing that I would ever leave a job that would pay me to do that.
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I think that might have not been the actual what you were doing as much as the hate that came with that.
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It was the pure Tim Walsh concentrated hatred that was associated with that particular voice.
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So, Stu, you are leaving and you haven't announced to anybody yet what you're doing.
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So, you know, it's been something that's a little bit different than what we've been doing for the last 28 years together, but actually also close as well.
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Parts of the stuff that we've been doing here for a long time.
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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.
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And so I'm starting a new company that is revolving in the world of prediction markets.
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If you don't know what they are, they've kind of only become widespread over the past year or so.
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But basically, you can kind of look and invest on whether anything is going to happen, yes or no.
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A simple question, will this happen or not, yes or no, and you predict the outcome.
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And if you're correct, you can profit off of that information.
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Are you analyzing those sites or are you starting – are you falling in with a mob?
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I – I'm – look, if the mob has money they want to hand me for this operation, I'm interested.
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But no, this is like – you know, the company is going to be doing a few different things.
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But the one that's probably interesting to the audience is we're going to have a show.
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It's going to be called Predictable with Stubergeer.
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He'll let me use it as long as I just pay him constantly.
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But the show is going to analyze the news, the things that we talk about every day, kind
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of a special focus on the elections, considering we're going into election time.
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And that's been something somewhat of an expertise of mine for a while.
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And we're going to be talking about all these news events as they relate to these prediction
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And, you know, I think it really gives – you know, the free market that we talk about all
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the time, that makes the world a better place, that improves the world, that does so many
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amazing things can be applied here as sort of an engine to find the truth.
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You know, the media is obviously going down the wrong road with this.
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They want you to go the total opposite direction.
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They're trying to move you to get to the right side of history all the time.
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I mean, we're in a time where a Supreme Court justice can't answer a question about what
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And what I love about prediction markets, and it's a really unique thing with them, is
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you have to put your money where your mouth is.
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These are – you're betting, you're investing with your own real money, and people don't
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I mean, remember, DARPA did this right after 9-11, and they said, we're going to go to the
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Five Eyes and to people who study terrorism, and we're going to let them invest in a kind
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of a stock market, if you will, of where do they think the most likely terrorist attacks
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And it was stopped because everybody was like, that's an outrage.
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Get people to put their money on where are the weaknesses?
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I just think that is the way to find out how people really feel.
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And the elections are a really good example of this, right?
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You have the media telling you who they want to win.
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They're constantly pushing one way or the other.
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You've got the campaigns that are lying to you about whether they're going to win or not.
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You also have a lot of people who are telling you exactly what you want to hear about the
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And these markets can really do damage in that world.
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They can cut through the punditry, which I really, really like in today's world.
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I think it's something, a really important additional layer that we don't have really
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If you, by the way, are going to, if you go there, put your email address in for free,
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We're going to give you the kind of the outline of as to what the Senate race is going to look
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like in 2026, kind of a starting point for everyone to be able to understand what we are
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facing here in the next few months, which are going to be pretty intense.
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Now, I also will say another interesting layer, you know, prediction markets aren't perfect.
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And that's good because when they have the wrong answers, you are able to profit off of this.
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And this is something that I have been doing on, you know, behind the scenes on, you know,
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my own dime for a long time, over a decade now, been using prediction markets myself,
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paid for a lot of vacations over the years because of it.
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And I think it's a much more accessible way for people to, to invest, right?
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Like you can go in and try to predict what a stock's going to do.
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Secondly, I have gambled a decent amount of my life.
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People know, this audience is obsessed with knowing what's going on in the world.
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They sit here and they listen to this stupid show and your nonsensical rantings just to
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If you know your senator in your state and he always folds on a big vote and everyone's
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telling you he's going to vote one way and you know he's going to fold.
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You go on the prediction market and you say, hey, there's an 80% chance he's voting one
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You know, it's different than like you put money into a stock.
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You are trying to analyze what some Chinese supply chain is doing.
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What, you know, what is going on internally in the country or internally inside of the
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Is the CEO going to hook up with some random person at a Coldplay concert and blow the stock
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You have no idea what's going on with all this stuff.
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You can actually look at these things and do really well.
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I've been able to do really, really well, particularly on the elections.
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But we're going to look at culture and all these other things as well.
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Bring on like tons of, you know, the best traders in the world and the biggest experts
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to kind of get you to look for an edge here as well.
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So anyway, it's, of course, it's predictable, this show.com, something like that.
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And Stu is going to be joining us from time to time because there is a lot.
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I really believe in the prediction markets like this.
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I think that there is a lot of information to be.
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And when Stu told me this, I was prepared to go, don't go, don't go.
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And he told me, and I was like, you know, that is absolutely, this is you.
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But, you know, it's absolutely what Stu should be doing.
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So you're not really leaving to sell facial cream?
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A lot of people guessed that it was facial cream or O'Reilly were going to sell facial cream.
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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.
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And now that Don Lemon has been arrested, he's like, well, now I can't go produce that show.
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Even if you don't care about prediction markets, the election analysis you're going to get there, you're really going to love.
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And then also, a lot of people were asking what's going on with Blaze TV.
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I'm going to be doing Stood as America, a new episode on Monday.
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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.
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We're not letting you down on the Blaze TV family.
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If you just go to YouTube.com slash Stood as America, the show Predictable will eventually be there as well.
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So thanks so much for – and I've got to say, too, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this.
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Glenn's been very cool and very supportive about all of this.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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So the staff has put together a little montage that none of us have heard yet.
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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.
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Stu and I have been talking about my career and his career for at least two years.
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And Stu has, for a long time, wanted to do his own thing.
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Then you went to the Glenn Beck Program, where you were the co-host EP, executive producer.
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Say hello to our executive producer, Mr. Stu Breguier.
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Hello to our executive producer, Mr. Stu Breguier.
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I mean, Stu was there for the very first talk show I ever did.
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Because you got to me at the end of my radio career or my, you know, top 40 radio career.
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So I knew you from your morning show at KC 101, which is, you know, music station, the big station in my hometown, basically.
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And I knew, you know, Glenn and Pat in the morning.
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And this is an important lesson, I think, for people coming up, not only in broadcasting, but any industry.
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Is find someone who's very talented, but at the very valley of their career.
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Because those people usually have good lessons, are talented.
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But also, you can kind of glom onto them when they're at their lowest.
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And then you can convince them you were part of their success later on.
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And he has told me what he was, what he's planning on doing.
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I'm just sad that it's going to bring you further away from me.
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You won't see each other every day, but hopefully you'll be bringing some of this stuff onto the show.
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And I've never worked with anybody more honest, more decent, and more loyal than you.
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You know, a big part of my job and my career has been trying to execute your vision.
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Like what you want to do, what you think is the most important.
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I said this morning, I said we were in this meeting and I said,
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And, you know, I thought of this big foam thing where his face would be inside the number six or something.
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But did you stop and think at any time, why did I say we've got to get Stu in a numbers costume?
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And, Stu, I assume that the number two plays a role.
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Because last night, one didn't really stand for anything.
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You were very clear after the show that you wanted the number costume to make sense.
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Yeah, national polls, we're showing a definite tightening.
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We also have some of the latest poll results that are in.
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You're wearing your most obnoxious Eagles sweatshirt.
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What's wrong with you still backing the Eagles?
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And I knew there was something special about what we were doing.
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I'm going to say that tonight on the debate stage.
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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 are more a little like intermissions.
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It's kind of a little more like, hey, we'll see you after the snack bar situation.
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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.
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He was producer, executive producer, head writer of the program, which is not really a career ladder.
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That's more of like a hostile takeover, you know, conducted with sarcasm and impeccable timing.
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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.
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Longer than the average Eagle Super Bowl window, you know.
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Here we are again because Stu is leaving again.
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I just want to let, I mean, just let's be clear.
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He left this show once to start his own show and it failed.
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And spectacularly, I mean, none of this is true.
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I mean, it wasn't a dignified creative differences kind of failure.
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Failure, this was like come crawling back like a Vietnam vet looking for his old platoon kind of failure, you know.
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I welcomed him back because that's what family does, you know what I mean?
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It was also the type of failure where I took over for you and left with higher ratings.
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That's the type of failure it was, by the way, just so you're aware.
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Right before, please, let me get this out or I'll cry.
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Right before syndication, right before syndication, you know, the promised land, Stu almost left again.
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But this time he saved because, you know, he stayed because he was like, wow, that could make me a lot of money.
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And so he did stay, which brings us to today where Stu is leaving us one more time.
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Somehow or another, convinced that this time will be different.
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Because this time he's doing a show about odds.
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Hosted by a man who has repeatedly bet against his own track record.
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A man who looks at a lifetime of data and says, yeah, but this time I kind of feel lucky.
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So, so, so we wish him all of the best on the, on that.
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And by the way, no, no, I mean, I, I sincerely, I sincerely, anyway, so he's leaving again.
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And, and one of Stu's superpowers, and this is honest, is not comedic timing, although he's got the, some of the best comedic timing.
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Um, you know, you can guarantee if I share the, I mean, the reason why I'm not sharing anything personal, spiritual, vulnerable is because that's when Stu strikes.
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He's got this, I mean, not with a thoughtful question, not with empathy.
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Usually it's with a fat joke, sometimes brilliant, sometimes a little lazy, but it's always perfectly timed and devastating.
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And that, I mean, I could be talking about God and, and Stu's like, yeah, but have you considered salads?
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Um, but, uh, he, um, 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.
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Um, and those, that's where you'll find his real loyalties.
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Philadelphia Eagles, apparently quitting and Philadelphia Eagles.
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Um, 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.
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Um, but, uh, that's what, I mean, that's just what I heard.
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Um, but, uh, I wanted to give you something, Stu, because, you know, you didn't earn the car.
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I wanted to get you something, um, because honestly, um, you're one of my best friends.
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You are indispensable, irreplaceable on and off the air.
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Um, you've made this show funnier and smarter and sharper.
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Interns don't last 27 years and, uh, quitters don't get welcome back.
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Um, 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, you know, I mean, the show will fail.
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And then you'll be back and I'll leave the lights on.
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Uh, so if you just, I think it should be there by you.
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Um, and, uh, just say thank you for the best broadcast experience and the best years of my life.
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I thought it might just be a box of human waste.
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So it is a, it is a Breitling, uh, super chron, um, chronomat.
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If you take it out and look on the backside, it has the NFL logo and the Eagles in the front of the face.
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So it's a commemorative limited edition watch just for the Eagles.
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Oh, there were more of them, but the Eagles threw them out and were hitting, pelting Santa with them.
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So there's only 104 of them left, but Glenn, this is unbelievable.
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And, uh, I, you know, I can't thank you enough for everything.
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Um, I don't want to, uh, become a sobbing mess.
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So I'm going to, I'm going to stop, but let's go into a commercial, shall we?
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Now I do not have, uh, the, uh, 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.
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So this is, this is, uh, something I think you'll like, um, I, you know, again, the only thing I know maybe more than you is sports.
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So I thought I could get you something cool, uh, related to your favorite player, uh, Patrick Mahomes.
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Uh, so, uh, uh, uh, signed, uh, uh, uh, look at that.
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Now it is signed by Cooper DeGene after the pick six in the Super Bowl, but you can see Patrick Mahomes.
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And not exactly center, but right in the front.
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He's a little off to the short of, a little blurry, um, but he is in the picture.
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On Monday, on Monday, uh, on Monday as, um, you know, for people who are signing up for
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the torch, somebody's going to win an amazing picture of the Philadelphia Eagles signed by
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You know, it's, you know, what's weird is, uh, you know what this weekend is?
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This is something we have tried to erase from everything that we could ever, we ever knew
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We started in Tampa and true story is a parade.
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And the station asked us, WFLA asked us if we could host it.
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We were like, no, I don't want to host this thing.
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We are going to make the most offensive broadcast that we could possibly come up with.
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And so we planned, like we, we went all the way.
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We've tried, we've destroyed all of these tapes.
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Um, but we've made, we made it, we were rating the cheerleaders of the high school bands.
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And when you say fat ones in this, you, you and Jeffy, uh, of course, I mean, it was, it
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was, it was horrific and we knew it and it was hysterical, but horrific, but we wanted
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And then they asked us every year and thank God for syndication.
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It was horrendous, but this is the anniversary.
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It's a signed picture of somebody in the end zone with Patrick Mahomes in the background.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Coming up in just a few minutes after the radio broadcast, we're going online at glennbeck.com
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And you'll be able to watch a Q and a for Stu's last day.
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And, um, I know very little about Stu, honestly, because he's a lot like Spock.
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Uh, we were joking in studio earlier today that, uh, uh, if he, if he died, we all probably
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wouldn't know for maybe two years after he's dead.
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Well, I definitely wouldn't be able to tell you after I was dead.
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So this is going to be fun to watch because he asked for, uh, some time.
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He said he wanted to, Glenn, can I have just a few minutes just to talk to the audience?
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Uh, I will say, despite you, this has been a great time, uh, working on this particular
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program, uh, 28 years, it has been my entire professional career.
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Uh, sorry about all this people, but, uh, I really can't picture, uh, adult life without
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I have no experience as an adult, not doing the show.
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And, uh, it's weird to think about it that way.
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My wife is standing in the corner and, uh, Glenn outranks her when it comes to time that
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I've even known them, which is a scary thing to think about.
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Uh, when I first met Glenn, I was hanging up balloons.
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And, you know, Glenn, and I'm not talking to Glenn.
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I'm talking to the audience, not even thinking about Glenn right now, but I am telling you
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a story, which is Glenn, you know, took me from hanging balloons and gave me an entire
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He taught me everything I know and he had nothing to gain from it at all.
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Well, I did get him a lot of bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches, but outside of that, he
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I had no, uh, no experience in this industry at all.
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And he was the biggest, you know, personality in the entire state.
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He took me from, you know, promotions to an intern, to a producer, to an executive producer,
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to a co-host, from a smaller market, to a larger market, to a national show, to national
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television, to one of the first ever streaming networks, from an event at a car dealership
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with literally zero attendees, to the mall in Washington, D.C. with 500,000.
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You know, you might not know this, but Glenn has been incredibly generous the entire time
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And he was equally generous as we tried to, you know, figure out whether we were going
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And in the end, I feel like he really needs someone who's 100% devoted to the really cool
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It's an amazing project and he's got amazing people working on it.
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And, you know, I'm going to go do my thing at predictableshow.com.
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So please join us, but please join Glenn at glenbeck.com too.
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There's a lot you're going to be excited about coming up.
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But I just want you, the audience, to know that I am endlessly grateful to Glenn.
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And for everything he's done for my career, for my family, and for me, he is a great friend.
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And my decision to go, you know, work with a washed up DJ whose career was just over all
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those years ago will always be the best decision of my entire professional life.
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And I, you know, I will acknowledge that there are a few people out there, I've noticed this
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occasionally, who don't appreciate Glenn quite the same way that I do.
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You may have noticed a mildly negative statement made about him in the media from time to time,
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from politicians, from other commentators, and I will say while Glenn has been very successful
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and has been rewarded with many, many accolades he does not deserve.
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I want you in the audience to know the truth that he has sacrificed an incredible amount
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He's done all of this because he has a true desire to make this country a better place.
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Many people have made fun of him over the years because of it.
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But Glenn is really, truly a man who believes in the American people and this country.
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You might doubt this, you might think that I'm lying, you might think that this is just
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something I'm saying because he gave me a really cool watch.
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But if you doubt it, I want you to be aware that you are wrong and you are dumb and shut up.
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I will not blow a no-swear streak on the last day I'm on the air, I promise you, stations.
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I also, I want to just say that that's my friend you're talking about when you say those things about him.
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And he survived a lot of things that you'll never know about and he will never tell you about.
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But I hope, I hope as we go on here, and I'm no longer on the show, that you really do appreciate it.
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On the other side of this, I want to thank you, the audience of the show.
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You are the greatest audience that has ever been assembled.
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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.
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You know, it's so weird because, you know, you guys are all talking.
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And then on the other side of this, like, you don't know me at all.
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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.
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You'll hear our voice and it kind of feels like a one-way relationship.
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But I want to give you a little bit of perspective from my side after 28 years.
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The truth of all of this is that you mean way more to us than we mean to you.
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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.
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You know, maybe you get a little perspective from us for, you know, once in a while.
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But you might not know this, but you've changed my life completely.
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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.
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Sometimes they're going to be around living in this country that you're spending all this time and effort trying to save.
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And it's also not an exaggeration that you have literally saved tens of thousands of lives.
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That sounds like such a ridiculous thing to say about a radio audience.
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People in Afghanistan running from the Taliban.
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People who had their lives completely destroyed because of a hurricane or a tornado.
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A woman in Canada who was on the verge of willingly committing suicide.
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We told you that story and you stepped up and you saved her life.
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All I can say, honestly, to the entire audience is thank you.
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Thank you for laughing when I make fun of Glenn.
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And thank you for caring so much about the people and the country around you.
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But here's what I would like to leave you with today.
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Because this is all deeply personal to us and probably not so personal to you.
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Everything I once thought that was really, really important.
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And I want to leave you with something that you can take from this show.
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In my 20s, I really believed that fame and fortune was the point.
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And in my 20s and in my teens, I put that above absolutely everything else.
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And I leased happiness or what I thought happiness was until the leases expired.
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And I was left with nothing except wasted time and wrong answers.
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Because of the men sitting in this room, Jeffy, Stu, Pat, I know what matters.
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Family, real friends, how much you can share with somebody.
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My dad used to say, if you're lucky, son, you will have one or two really good friends in your life.
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Who will stay through the good times and the bad.
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It's taken me a lifetime to have these friends.
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And I have been blessed in the second phase of my life to have friends I don't deserve, but I do cherish.
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For those of you who are younger, who really don't know what life is all about yet.
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Good people who lift you when you just don't think you can stand it another day.
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To ignore the stones that are being thrown your way.
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And to follow what you believe you hear from God to do.
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If I just had the last 30 years to do all over again.
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But there would be one thing that I would change.
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And I probably would have fired Stu preemptively.