Hey everybody, it's Glenn Thrush with Politico's off-message podcast, episode 58.

And alas, the final off-message podcast that I'm going to peer on.

I am leaving.

I don't know if you folks know this.

Some of you do. Some of you don't. I'm going to be on. I am leaving. I don't know if you folks know this. Some of you do. Some of you don't.

I'm going to be starting on January 3rd, working for the New York Times and leaving Politico.

Someone is going to be replacing me in this particular chair, and there are going to be a lot of really great podcast being developed by my partner in crime, Bridget Mulcahy,

with whom none of this would have been possible. So I want to start off with a big shout out for

Bridget, who's been with me every step of the way. Whatever you liked about this,

you pretty much give 50% or more like 60% to bridge it from me out and telling me

when I was talking too much like right now but really without her judgment without her

technical expertise and she's also a hell of a hell of a fun person to be out on the road with

anyway I just I don't want to get too sentimental today, but I do

want to talk a little bit about the most sentimental topic of all, how I got into doing this,

why I really enjoy it. And I've actually put some thought about this in the last couple of days.

And like everything else, it comes down to my folks, my parents.

My mother was the best listener I have ever known in my entire life.

Back in the 1970s, when you actually had to pay for your long distance bill,

we would run up $3 and $400 long distance bills

because my mother would be sitting and talking to her friends

who were scattered around the country.

And you really wouldn't hear her say anything.

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