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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHart Radio.

My guest today is Stu Bergier, host of the Stu Does America Show and co-host of the Glenn Beck program.

So nice to have you on, Stu.

Carol, thanks so much for having me. This is great. I am a longtime fan. I think you are really smart and very funny. I was just telling you before we started rolling that I love when you and Glenn Beck

were babies and you were explaining some urban, you know, story to Glenn.

It was hilarious. I watch it whenever I'm having a bad day. It was great. It was some great slang in

there that you had to explain to Glenn as babies. It was perfect. Yes. We were able to do that.

We're very prepared with the chubby cheeks as well, already kind of in place. So we didn't even need the AI for that stuff. I appreciate it. Thank you. And I'm a fan as well. I love the stuff that you do. Love your writing and all the stuff you've broken over the years. So thanks so much for having me on. Thank you. So did you always want to be in media?

From a pretty young age, yes. I really kind of fell in love with radio. It started out with sports.

And I, you know, I was a big fan of, you know, big New York sports fan and listened to WFAN in New York, which is the first sports radio station.

And I was, you know, obsessive fan, like listen to every show all the time. And, you know, to the extent that, you know, with my friends, we'd, you know, get the cassette recorder. We'd get around the TV. We'd, you know, do the play-by-play of the NBA games. And at first I wanted to do that and it kind of grew into a love for sports talk radio.

And eventually kind of grew into an idea of doing entertainment around news, right?

Like doing something that like wasn't the boring stuff that I feel like I heard when I heard news talked about when I was younger.

You know, you're talking about, I don't know,

tort reform and tax rates or whatever.

It's something that was interesting in the most boring way possible, right?

Yes, exactly. I mean, I will say I do talk a lot about tax rates and tort reform now, but I try to do it

in a little bit more entertaining way, sometimes, only sometimes, as an infant.

So how did you get your big break? What was the start of the journey for you?

Well, you know, it was after, interestingly, after high school, you know, I was trying to get into

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