Stu is LEAVING ME after 28 years for THIS?!

What this episode is about

Stu is leaving the program after 28 years, prompting a special Q&A session to reflect on his departure and the moments that defined his time on the show. Amid humorous exchanges, including a chaotic phone call with Tim Walls, the discussion touches on Stu's decision to quit and the dynamics of their long-standing partnership.

Key takeaways

• Stu may be a quitter, but he's turning forecasts into fortunes with prediction markets.
• Tim Walls calls in—proving that debates and poodles might just be the same conversation.
• Quitting one gig for another? Classic entrepreneurial spirit or classic mid-life crisis? You decide.
• Prediction markets: where betting is smarter than guessing, and the mob might have a stake.
• A new show called 'Predictable'? Irony confirmed—Stu's departure isn’t quite so unpredictable after all.

Who speaks in this episode?

• Glenn Beck (Guest) · 9 min speaking
• Stu Burguire (Guest) · 6 min speaking
• Tim Walls (Guest) · 1 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 3:00: Governor Tim Walls, Aaron Glenn, Chef Stu, Blaze TV
2. 3:00 – 6:00: Governor Tim Walls, Chef Stu, Aaron Glenn, Predictable with Stubbergeear
3. 6:00 – 9:00: DARPA
4. 9:00 – 12:00: Predictable with Stubbergeear, 2026 Senate
5. 12:00 – 14:20: Chef Stu, Blaze TV

Notable quotes from "Stu is LEAVING ME after 28 years for THIS?!"

• Play something. This is the one and only time Stu ever did Tim Walls because his throat hurt afterwards. 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.

  about Governor Tim Walls · at 0:19

• That's the best impression I ever been working on for a while. It's actually been in development for a while. I've been really thinking about it. I think I've nailed it. I think you.

  about Aaron Glenn · at 3:07

• We're going to have a show. it's going to be called Predictable with Stubbergeear. you can go check it out now. It's at predictableshow.com and you know there you by the way I trademarked your name so Oh I can't even use my own name.

  about Predictable with Stubbergeear · at 5:51

• We've always We've always thought this was the right thing. 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…

  about DARPA · at 7:40

• We're going to give you the 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.

  about 2026 Senate · at 9:11

• 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.

  about Chef Stu · at 12:20

• 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 Students America, new episode on Monday.

  about Blaze TV · at 13:31

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Chef Stu — Person · Co-host (departing) / main speaker for announcement · 3 mentions · first at 0:05
  Central figure of the segment: his last day on the program and his announcement about leaving to start a prediction-markets-focused venture/show.
• Aaron Glenn — Person · Host / interviewer · 3 mentions · first at 0:41
  Leads the segment, frames Stu’s departure, reacts to the announcement, and participates in the comedic bit and discussion about prediction markets.
• Governor Tim Walls — Person · Referenced public figure (via impression/bit) · 6 mentions · first at 0:24
  Appears as the subject of a comedic impression performed by Stu; used as a recurring joke and as context for a past on-air moment tied to a debate night.

Companies & orgs

• DARPA — Company · Referenced expert · 1 mention · first at 7:41
  Mentioned as an example of using prediction markets for gathering intelligence, supporting the discussion on the utility of such markets.

Products & tech

• Predictable with Stubbergeear — Product · Business focus · 2 mentions · first at 5:51
  A new show by Stu focusing on prediction markets and election analysis, promoted as a key part of his new venture.

Concepts & topics

• 2026 Senate — Concept · Core topic · 1 mention · first at 9:08
  A preview of the Senate race in 2026, offered as a free report to attract subscribers to the new show.

Sponsors

• Blaze TV — Company · Sponsor · 2 mentions · first at 0:51
  A media platform where Stu will continue to appear, mentioned as part of his ongoing commitments.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:00 Glenbeck.com. There's going to be a special fourth hour today. Uh Q&A for Stu's last day. Stu's leaving the program. Um is the job done? No. But he's quitting anyway cuz that's the kind of guy he is. Uh he's a quitter. But why would I want to leave?

0:15 Uh I I do I do want to uh I I do want to play something. This is this is the one and only time Stu ever did Tim Walls because his throat hurt afterwards. Little baby couldn't handle it anymore. Um, but uh it was the day that Tim Walls was going to do the debate. Here it is. Welcome to the program. I We have uh Tim on the phone. Hello Tim.

0:41 Hello. Hello, Glenn. Hello. How are you? Hello, bud. I'm Tim Walls. Tim Walls. Hello.

0:47 Hi. I be I debate tonight. Will you watch? Uh, well, we're going to be watching on Blaze TV. You're You're debating tonight. That's good. Yeah.

0:57 I like fishing. I know. I I know you like fishing. I I coach football. Did you like the football?

1:05 I Yeah, I heard you were a coach. Did you say the football? It's the same shape as my head.

1:11 As your what? As my head. As your head? Yes, I have I have a I people say my head look like football,

1:21 right? Okay. I like I like FISHING AND HUNTING. CAN I ask Can I ask you? I talked J is weird. Did you know J is weird? I'm going to say that tonight on the debate stage. J is weird. I like balloons.

1:46 I debate tonight. DID YOU KNOW I WAS THE MAN IN front of Kent Square? Hello. Oh no.

1:56 Hello. Hello. Hello Glenn. I was I I fought in World War II. This is Tim Walls.

2:03 I know. Tim, how are you still on the phone? I I was talking for seven minutes and you did not answer.

2:08 Okay. Cuz I thought we had hung up. You We have a saying in Minnesota. Mind your own damn business.

2:15 Okay. All right. J is weird. Yeah. Okay. We're going to talk to you about the JD Vans.

2:23 I like debate. I like poodles. What? Poodles. Poodles. I like poodles. I like it.

2:30 Okay. Okay. Tim Walls, hang up the phone, please. Can you? Yes. I love you. Okay. I told you. You

2:42 will I your own damn business. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. Thank you. Thank you for calling. Can you cut him off, please? Man, how do we get paid for this? I don't I have no understanding.

3:07 That's the best impression I ever been working on for a while. It's actually been in development for a while. I've been really thinking about it. I think I've nailed it. I think you I mean,

3:19 we may have If all those phrases came out of his mouth tonight, would you know the difference? Any idea?

3:27 We may have a very special guest after tonight's debate on TV. We 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.

3:45 This is the only time that uh Tim Walls 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."

4:00 Who? It's amazing that I would ever leave a job that would pay me to do that. Doesn't make any sense at all. Uh, but yeah, I like blew my voice out after that. That the whole the whole rest of the day.

4:13 I I think that might have not been the actual what you were doing as much as the hate that came with that.

4:19 Yes. Yes. It was the pure Tim Walls concentrated hatred that was associated with that particular voice.

4:27 What a day. So, so Stu, you are leaving and you haven't announced to anybody yet uh what you're what you're doing. So, can you announce can you tell us please?

4:37 Yeah, we can talk about it. Um, so you know, it's been something it's a little bit different than we've been what we've been doing for the last 28 years together, but actually also uh close as well. Parts of the stuff that we've been doing here uh for a long time. You know, one of my roles here on the program has kind of been chief data nerd uh guy who, you know, looks at the elections and tries to predict the outcomes to them and and analyzes all that stuff. Um, and so I'm starting a new company uh that is revolving in the world of uh prediction markets. Uh, if you don't know what they are, they 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

5:26 profit off of that information. Wait, wait, wait. So, are you Hold it just a second. Mhm.

5:30 Are you analyzing those sites or are you starting are you are you falling in with the mob?

5:37 I I'm Look, if the mob has money they want to hand me for this operation, I'm I'm interested. I'll listen to you. Uh but no, this is like, you know, there's the company's be 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. Uh it's going to be called Predictable with Stubbergeear. Uh you can go check it out now. It's at predictableshow.com and uh you know there you

6:01 by the way I trademarked your name so Oh I can't even use my own name something else.

6:06 Wow. Thank you. I appreciate that. You've always Well, he's been a helper, Glenn. That's That's really nice.

6:14 It's just a licensing fee. He'll let me use it as long as I just pay him constantly.

6:20 But 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. Um, and we're going 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.

7:05 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 it you have to put your money where your mouth is. You ha 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. Mhm. They won't lie to you there. We

7:40 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 the five eyes and uh to people who study terrorism and we're going to let them invest in a kind of a stock market, if you will, uh of where do they think the most likely terrorist attacks are going to come from? How are they going to do it?" And um I it was 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. Um I just think that is that that is the way to find out how people really feel.

8:20 Yeah. And I 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 the other. You've got uh the campaigns that are lying to you about whether they're going to win or not. you have uh I mean you 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 uh do damage in that world. They can cut through the punditry. Uh which I really really like in 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. Um so that is a big part of it. It's at predictableshow.com.

9:02 Please go there. If you uh we, by the way, are going to uh if you go there, put your email address in for free. You'll get uh a 2026 Senate preview. We're going to give you the kind of the 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. Uh that's going to be part of it. Now, I also also will say another interesting layer, you know, prediction markets aren't perfect.

9:31 They don't always have the right answers. Uh and uh 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 uh you know, my own uh dime for a long time, over a decade now. Been using prediction markets myself. Uh 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 a much more accessible way for people to to invest, right? Like you can go in and try to predict what a stock's going to do.

10:05 It's a great invest. It's a great way to It's gambling, stupid. It is not gambling, Glenn. I have

10:12 I'm sorry. No, you're right. You're right. It is not It is legally not gambling.

10:16 First of all, you are accurate. Secondly, I have gambled a decent amount in my life. I'm not against gambling. I've gone to Vegas. I I'll 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. If this in I really do think there's something different. It's not chance.

10:37 This is not chance. People know this audience is obsessed with knowing what's going on in the world.

10:43 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.

10:55 And they know about these things. Like if you know you know your senator in your state in 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. I entire internally inside of the company. Is the CEO going to hook up with some random person at a Coldplay 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

11:46 what it is. And there's a definitive end to it. you can actually look at these things and do really well. Uh 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 you know the best traders in the world and the and the biggest experts to kind of get you to look for an edge trade here as well.

12:07 Yeah, that makes sense. Trade word a traders. By the way, it's uh it's a of course it's predictable the show.com something like that. predictableshow.com. Thank you.

12:20 And uh 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 I was prepared to go don't go. Don't go. You fail at everything you try. Please don't go. Thank you. Please just listen to me. Uh and he told me and I was in and I was like, you know, that is absolutely that's this is you. This 100% you. It's still going to fail like a miserable, but you know, it's it's absolutely what Stu should be doing. And I'm I'm actually thrilled uh about it because I think it's going to be a big You're not really leaving to sell facial cream cuz that's what I heard it was.

13:02 A lot of people guessed that it was Bill O'Reilly were going to sell facial cream.

13:06 I will tell you, may I say this? 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." So,

13:19 that was it's on the table. I considered it highly. Let me just hit one more time here, Glenn. Uh, it's predictable.com. It's 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 Students America, new episode on Monday. Uh, so you know, if you want to hear me rant about uh 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.

13:48 Uh, so join us on Studios America. Of course, it's all on YouTube. If you go to youtube.com/dstudiosamea, the show uh, Predictable will eventually be there as well. So, thanks so much uh for And I got to say, too, and I want I'm not going to let spend a lot of time on this.

14:02 Please, 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.

14:11 Thank you.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Stu is LEAVING ME after 28 years for THIS?!"?

Glenn Beck (Guest), Stu Burguire (Guest), Tim Walls (Guest).

What is "Stu is LEAVING ME after 28 years for THIS?!" about?

Stu is leaving the program after 28 years, prompting a special Q&A session to reflect on his departure and the moments that defined his time on the show. Amid humorous exchanges, including a chaotic phone call with Tim Walls, the discussion touches on Stu's decision to quit and the dynamics of their long-standing partnership.

What is mentioned in this Glenn Beck episode?

7 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Chef Stu, Aaron Glenn, Predictable with Stubbergeear, Governor Tim Walls, 2026 Senate, DARPA. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Stu is LEAVING ME after 28 years for THIS?!"?

The episode runs 14 min; the transcript is about 2,793 words in 52 timestamped sections.

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