The Karol Markowicz Show: Stu Burguiere on Media, Mindset & the Future of… Everything

Summary

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The Karol Markowicz Show: Stu Burguiere on Media, Mindset & the Future of… Everything

Date: December 5, 2025
Host: Karol Markowicz
Guest: Stu Burguiere
Podcast: The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show (iHeartPodcasts)

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Episode Overview

In this episode of The Karol Markowicz Show, Karol sits down with Stu Burguiere, host of Stu Does America and co-host of The Glenn Beck Program. Their lively conversation covers Stu’s journey in media, the evolution of talk radio and podcasting, the perils and pleasures of modern media saturation, fostering independent thought, predictions on health and society, and practical advice for life and parenting. The discussion is peppered with humor, personal anecdotes, and reflections on the state of American culture.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Stu’s Path into Media and Radio

• Early Ambitions ([04:25])
  • Stu recalls being obsessed with sports radio from a young age and making his own “play-by-play” commentaries with friends.
  • Desire “to do something that wasn’t the boring stuff” about the news, blending entertainment and information.
• First Break and Glenn Beck Connection ([05:40]–[09:16])
  • Started with an entry-level promotions job at a Connecticut radio station, KC101.
  • Coincidentally, Glenn Beck was the morning host there—at a low point in his career.
  • Recounts a vivid story:

    “We had an event where listeners would come out and meet their favorite host. I kid you not, Carol, literally zero people showed up for this event. Zero.” (Stu, [08:11])

  • Their bond formed over this humility and hard work, with Glenn recognizing Stu’s unique drive for news talk radio.
• From Producer to Writer to Host ([11:24])
  • Stu’s early role was exclusively as a producer.
  • Shaped his voice through writing, being Glenn’s “head writer for years and years,” including books and speeches.
  • Discusses the significance of storytelling in building an audience.

2. The Podcasting Boom and Changing Media Landscape

• Proliferation of Podcasts and Content Creation ([11:06])

  • Karol comments on writers feeling forced to start podcasts; Stu jokes:

    “Please. Nobody read. Out of my space. Thank you.” (Stu, [11:28])

  • Describes how every media figure must now be “everywhere”—no longer just radio or writing, but also social media and multiplatform engagement.
  • Reflects on Rush Limbaugh as “the last guy who was able to do it exactly the way he wanted to do it... He didn’t have to tweet 50 times a day.” (Stu, [12:55])

• Performative Culture and Everyone as Broadcaster ([14:20])

  • “We’ve turned everybody into a broadcaster. We’ve turned everybody into a column writer. Everyone is mining their lives constantly for material, and I think that’s at least part of the reason everyone’s going insane.” (Stu, [15:04])
  • Both agree that knowing everyone’s opinions all the time can be overwhelming and unhealthy.

3. Mindset: Independence, Contrarianism, and Truth-Seeking

• Avoiding Groupthink and Contrarianism ([15:49])

  • Stu takes pride in making decisions “independently from everything going on.”
  • Warns against being reflexively contrarian just to be different.
  • Anecdote: Delayed watching Breaking Bad just to dodge the hype, but eventually recognized its merit.
  • Personal philosophy:

    “I’m always on that search of what’s actually true, rather than what the party believes today or what the president said or didn’t say... I really try to pull myself out of that, even if it annoys the audience at times.” (Stu, [16:52])

• Memorable on Pop Culture Hot-takes ([17:57])

  • Karol admits to annually tweeting that she doesn’t like Shawshank Redemption:

    “Once a year, my followers get to hear how Shawshank Redemption is actually a bad movie.” (Karol, [17:57])

  • Stu relates with his own skepticism about certain cultural phenomena, though concedes when things are actually good.

4. Future Trends: Health, Obesity, and Lifestyle

• Stu’s Five-Year Prediction: A Healthier Nation ([24:50])

  • Stu predicts a reversal in decades-long obesity trends, attributing it to new drugs (GLP-1s), changing attitudes, and a “rethinking” of health:

    “In the next five years we are going to wipe out the last 25 years of the increase in obesity. I think it’s, we’re gonna make incredible progress... if we can get that under control... the improvement in our health overall is going to be massively impactful...” (Stu, [25:15])

  • Karol and Stu discuss the broader impact of these changes—on addiction, mental health, and longevity.
  • Cites Peter Attia’s Outlive as a hopeful, wellness-anchored approach.

• Critical View on New Treatments and Social Response ([27:07])

  • Notes positive knock-on effects of new medications, including reduced addictions and improved health conditions.
  • Remains cautious about overhype but optimistic about holistic improvement:

    “Peter Attia talks about this in his book. It’s like the best drug being not a drug, but exercise. Right. People doing these things. I think there’s real hope here.” (Stu, [29:13])

5. Life and Parenting Advice

• Nugget for Parents: ‘Daddy, Watch’ ([29:47])
  • Stu’s practical, heartfelt advice for busy parents:

    “Every single time that happens to you, look at them. Stop what you’re doing, watch. And most importantly, when they’re done, they’re going to look at you and make sure you’re looking at them in the eyes when that happens.” (Stu, [30:05])

  • Emphasizes the lifelong impact of being present at moments meaningful to children.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “We had an event where listeners were all going to come out and meet their favorite host. I kid you not, Carol, literally zero people showed up for this event. Zero.” (Stu, [08:11])
• “We’ve turned everybody into a broadcaster... and I think that’s at least part of the reason everyone’s going insane. So much of it is performative, and I don’t know that that’s healthy for everybody.” (Stu, [15:04])
• “I’m always on that search of what’s actually true, rather than what the party believes today or what the President said or didn’t say...” (Stu, [16:52])
• “Peter Attia talks about this... it’s like the best drug being not a drug, but exercise. Right?” (Stu, [29:13])
• “Every single time that happens to you, look at them. Stop what you’re doing, watch. And most importantly, when they’re done, they’re going to look at you and make sure you’re looking at them in the eyes...” (Stu, [30:05])

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [03:26] — Introductions and early banter
• [04:25]–[09:16] — Stu’s path into media and Glenn Beck origin story
• [11:24] — Rise of podcasting, changing media, and writing as foundation
• [12:55]–[14:20] — Rush Limbaugh, multi-platform demands, media saturation
• [15:04] — “Everyone’s a content creator now” and its costs
• [16:20]–[17:57] — Mindset: independence, contrarianism, example of Breaking Bad
• [24:50]–[29:13] — Future prediction: health, obesity, wellness, changing attitudes
• [29:47]–[31:11] — Stu’s practical tip for parents: “Daddy, watch”

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Tone & Language

The conversation is friendly, candid, occasionally self-deprecating, and often humorous—balancing light personal anecdotes with substantive reflections on media, culture, and society.

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Summary

This episode is a rich, engaging exploration of media evolution, personal philosophy, and the future of wellness, peppered with the quirks and challenges of living in an age of constant connectivity. Stu Burguiere combines humor and wisdom as he discusses his unorthodox path in radio, the necessity of independent thought, optimism for coming health revolutions, and simple but profound advice for making meaningful connections with family. The tone remains thoughtful yet approachable throughout, offering useful insights for anyone navigating modern media—or modern life.

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Transcript

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[Carol Markowitz]

Hi and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on iheartradio. My guest today is Stu Berger Gere, host of the Stu Does America show and co host of the Glenn Beck program. So nice to have you on Stu, Carol.

[Stu Berger]

Thanks so much for having me. This is great.

[Carol Markowitz]

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.

[Glenn Beck]

It was perfect.

[Stu Berger]

Yes. So we were able to do that. We were 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, love the stuff that you do, love your, your writing and all the stuff you've broken over the years. So thanks so much for having me on.

[Carol Markowitz]

Thank you. So did you always want to be.

[Stu Berger]

In media from a pretty young age? Yes. I really kind of fell in love with radio. It started out with sports and, you know, I was a big fan of, you know, big New York sports fan and listened to WFAN in New York, which was the first sports radio station. And I was, you know, obsessive fan, like listened to every show all the time and, you know, to the extent that, you know, with my friends, we, you know, get the cassette recorder, we get around the tv, we, 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 it was 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.

[Carol Markowitz]

Whatever, but also in the most boring way possible, right?

[Stu Berger]

Yes, exactly. I mean, I. I will say I do talk a lot about tax rates and tor now, but I try to do it as in a little bit more entertaining way sometimes. Only sometimes as an infant.

[Carol Markowitz]

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

[Stu Berger]

Well, you know, it was after. Interestingly, after high school, you know, I was trying to get into the business and, you know, you do your. I dabbled here and there, trying to get started and wound up moving back to my hometown or my hometown area and heard an advertisement for a promotions job. You know, this. This is the job where you go in and you. The high end of it is you're hanging balloons around car dealerships.

[Carol Markowitz]

Sounds amazing.

[Stu Berger]

Yeah. Oh, it was high level.

[Carol Markowitz]

Did you have the arrow that you, like, swung?

[Stu Berger]

We did. Don't make fun, Carol. We did have a prize wheel.

[Glenn Beck]

Okay, good.

[Stu Berger]

That was. We had. Yep, we had that.

[Carol Markowitz]

How did you ever leave that job? That sounds like so much.

[Stu Berger]

I tried to stay. And that one they actually, shockingly did pay me for. I think it was like $5 an hour, $6 an hour. Just slightly above minimum wage. And of course, as everybody who worked in that type of job, like you were trying to move around and move up in. Yeah, in the, in this, in the radio station. It was a radio station called KC101 in New Haven, Connecticut. Coincidentally, the morning show host of KC101 in New Haven, Connecticut was a man named Glenn Beck.

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[Stu Berger]

Yeah. Who actually at that time was well known within the industry for being a very successful morning show host on. On like an FM music station. Right. Like, he was playing pop, he was playing Britney Spears.

[Carol Markowitz]

You know, Beck was playing Britney Spears cd.

[Stu Berger]

Yes, I have tapes, Carol, I can bring. I get them to you if you want to break a big story.

[Carol Markowitz]

Why have you not given these tapes to anybody before? How much is he the right media source?

[Stu Berger]

So he was. And at that point, he had gone through a very successful career in huge markets and made lots and lots of money. And he would even admit to this. When I met him, his entire career was in a state of utter collapse. He had gone through. He'd gone through a divorce. He had gone through alcoholism. His career was really sort of tanking, and he was at the lowest point of his career, but that was. It's the perfect time to come in.

[Carol Markowitz]

I'm gonna pick you up.

[Stu Berger]

I can't improve most people's lives, Glenn, but I can't improve yours. Yes, exactly. And it goes to a place where one day we were at a car dealership. It was a Toyota dealership. He was doing commercials for it. And we had an event where listeners were all going to come out and meet their favorite host. And I kid you not, Carol, literally zero people showed up for this event. Zero.

[Glenn Beck]

Amazing.

[Stu Berger]

There was nobody there. So then it's just me and him and Glenn, who is just, at this point, just trying to kill time to get through this event. He has to do. Starts asking me questions. What do you want to do? What are your interests? Why are you here? Why are you working at this job? And I think, you know, that type of job, Carol, it's like the typical person is there to, like, to go to concerts, you know, get on the air, make jokes, you know. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And I, you know, I had come from. I lived in Florida earlier and listened to a station called WIOD in Miami, and they had this really entertaining thing. They'd be talking about the news of the day. They had really funny people on, really aggressive. It was in your face. It was just. I loved it when I lived there, and I wanted to get into talk radio. And at that age, I'm, you know, 20 years old, very few people want to do that. And Glenn, coincidentally, was on that same path kind of around that same time. He really cares about radio, really cares about the industry, and was like, hey, here's a young person who actually has some, you know, energy and wants to do news. And, yeah, I was in the. I really wanted to do it. So I, like, I'll do anything. I'll come in overnights. I'll do whatever you want. And that's kind of how it started.

[Carol Markowitz]

Wow. Hard work really works. I was told.

[Stu Berger]

Well, then socialism kicked in, and luckily they paid me for nothing. No, no, it's not how it works, actually. You have to.

[Glenn Beck]

Amazing.

[Stu Berger]

You have to, you know, work hard and luckily have, you know, be fortunate to run into someone like, you know, Glenn, in my case, certainly, you have.

[Carol Markowitz]

A great voice, too. Like, I don't think you can give Glenn all the credit and the nobody showing up to his event. You have a real good voice. Yeah.

[Stu Berger]

Oh, thank you very much. I appreciate that.

[Carol Markowitz]

What would you have done instead? What would a plan B have looked like for you?

[Stu Berger]

Gosh, you know, it was pretty early in my life when I decided I wanted to get into specifically radio. And radio as, you know, you know, turns into podcasting and TV and writing and all these other things. Now, I was kind of happy to hide and never be seen, frankly, until everything got on the Internet. But I. You know, it's an. It's an interesting thing. I think my. One of the things I really always loved doing was working with numbers. You know, I'm sort of a numbers geek. You know, I was the. You know, I was the kid who would. I would create my own sports leagues and have spreadsheets of all the players, of the fake players. And, you know, so I think, honestly, that's probably. You go where the demand is, and nobody likes numbers. So I think I probably would have come up with some. You know, I don't know if it was investment advisor or accountant or something, probably, honestly, in a world like that, because I do like working with numbers, and I like sitting in front of spreadsheets for endless hours.

[Carol Markowitz]

It's funny, it sounds like a nightmare to most people. Actually sounds really terrible. I had billionaire Cliff Asness on the show, and he said he basically got into his career because nobody likes math, and he liked math.

[Stu Berger]

So 100%, I don't have time for that. Plan B. I would be begging Cliff for a job is where I would be if I wasn't in a stupid radio. Right now.

[Carol Markowitz]

Do you feel like everybody. Because you said, you know, radio leads to other things like writing and whatever. I think most people. We started as writers, and now everybody kind of has to have a podcast. Do you feel like we're all just invading your space or like everybody has to have at least one pod? I have two podcasts, so, you know.

[Stu Berger]

I know you have two podcasts and everyone has at least one, so you have to.

[Carol Markowitz]

Yeah.

[Stu Berger]

So, yes, please. Nobody will read out of my space. Thank you. It is hard. It is hard now. I mean, because I. When I started with Glenn, I wasn't on the air really at all. It was as a exclusively a producer role when I started, other than occasionally chiming in on something. And really where I started when it came to doing this and being able to form my own voice as a commentator was through writing. I mean, I did. I was Glenn's head writer for years and years and years and years, and I wrote a lot for him. I helped him write his books. You know, I helped him write, like, Monologues and things like speeches that he would do. And that really helped me formulate a way to work through whatever ideas I did have. You know, it's not always natural when you're talking about communication and, like, drawing out a story. I mean, I know by reading your. Your stuff, it's like. It is. It's not just, hey, here are my thoughts, and you're just vomiting them out. If you do that on radio or podcasts, you'll. You might be able to hold onto a podcast, but you're never going to be able to build a large audience unless you know how to tell stories. And there's nobody better than Glenn at that. I mean, he's in the Radio hall of Fame for a reason, and it's his storytelling.

[Carol Markowitz]

You know, all those people who didn't show up to the dealership, they really missed out.

[Stu Berger]

That they missed out. I mean, he would tell you the work he was doing at that particular period was not Radio hall of Fame worthy, but he went on to do great things. And I think you're right. It's. It winds up being this world where you have to try to reach everybody everywhere now.

[Carol Markowitz]

Yeah.

[Stu Berger]

And I always. I remember I listened to Rush Limbaugh a lot when I was in that period before, when I was first learning and understanding that I wanted to do talk radio. And I listened to Rush like everybody did back then. And one of the things I always grew up jealous of when it came to Rush Limbaugh is he was the last guy who was able to do it exactly the way he wanted to do it. He wanted to do radio, he wanted to come out. He wanted to do his show three hours a day, and he would tell you what he believed was important in the way he wanted to do it, and then he would be done. He'd go home and he'd read and he'd research, and you do all those things. But he didn't have to tweet 50 times a day. Right. He didn't have to do five different podcasts. Like, he was the last real person who had so much power and so much gravitas. He didn't have to do that stuff. Of course we have to today, right?

[Carol Markowitz]

It's kind of. Yeah, it sucks because you can't just do this. You have to promote it. You have to go out there and have people read you elsewhere.

[Glenn Beck]

And.

[Carol Markowitz]

Yeah, it's all. It's too much. It's too much. I don't know. I might be done with this now. Just kidding.

[Stu Berger]

Well, you're Good at it. I read your stuff all the time. I was reading you on Twitter.

[Carol Markowitz]

Thank you. I'm a writer. I consider myself a writer. I've enjoyed doing this, and I think I do something a little bit different here, but I still am a writer, and everything kind of points towards that for me. So, you know, I. I get it. I get you being like, everybody, get out of my space, because what are we all doing here? This is Stu's world.

[Stu Berger]

Yeah, I know. Come on. It's fascinating, though, because being in this industry for a while before all this started, you really, like, you understand how this stuff has changed society. You know, in radio, you know, it's a joke, and everyone. They're lovable, but everybody in radio is insane like you. To get into a business like that, you have to be crazy. And that goes from the hosts to the engineers to the executives in the most lovable way possible. We're all insane. And part of that has to go with, you live your life sort of just mining it for material.

[Glenn Beck]

Right.

[Stu Berger]

Like, you're always going through life, and I know as a writer, you feel the same way. You go into a restaurant and you have an interaction with a waiter that tells you something interesting.

[Carol Markowitz]

Yeah.

[Stu Berger]

It's not just a conversation. It's gonna, you know, be in your next column or in your next show. And I feel like what we've done with the podcast and particularly social media, is we've turned everybody into a broadcaster. We've turned everybody into a column writer. Everyone is mining their lives constantly for material, and I think that's at least part of the reason everyone's going insane. So much of it is performative, and I don't know that that's healthy for everybody. We should leave that with the crazy people that wanted to go into radio and writing.

[Carol Markowitz]

Yeah, I agree. And I think that we know too much about each other. Like, we can't know every single random opinion you have, which we do. And you could be like, oh, I hated you because you said that thing, and it's too much.

[Stu Berger]

Yeah, yeah, it's true. It's true.

[Carol Markowitz]

What are you most proud of in your life?

[Stu Berger]

I'm most proud of my life. That's a really interesting question. I think I could give you the. This. I certainly am proud of my kids and my family and all those, you know, boring, true answers. When it comes to. When it comes to all of this, when it comes to doing media and thinking about politics and all those different things, I think probably I'm most proud of my attempts at making all of my judgments and decisions.

And points on issues, I try to really do that independently from everything going on. You know, a lot of times you have these. There's these big movements. Everyone's going this way. Everyone says, this is the thing.

[Carol Markowitz]

Yeah.

[Stu Berger]

And I try to pull myself out of that. That all the time, and it's not always easy. And, in fact, I don't know if you're the same way I. I suspect you are, maybe in some sense, Carol, but, like, I. I sometimes have to guard myself from just being contrarian.

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[Stu Berger]

Like, my instinct is to see everyone going in one way and being like, no, I want to go the other way.

[Carol Markowitz]

Yeah.

[Stu Berger]

And so I try to pull myself out of that as well. Like, I remember when Breaking Bad was on TV and everyone was raving about it. I'm like, come another one of the. Like, I was just constantly. No, no, no, no. Would not watch it. And then one day, I don't know, I was on a plane or something and started watching it. I was like, this is incredible. Like, I just missed out on the first three seasons of Buzz on the show out of that sort of inner contrarian. So trying to avoid being contrarian, but really pull yourself out and look at it, analyze what's going on, and think about what is actually true. I'm always on that search of what's actually true, rather than what the party believes today or what the President said or what the president didn't say or whatever. So much of. I think people's opinions these days are controlled by what they're against or what everyone they like is for. And I really try to pull myself out of that, even if it annoys the audience at times. And I think they appreciate it. I think they appreciate it in your writing as well. It's like you want to have someone who's gonna say, look, I know they're saying this, but this part's true this time. And that's what I want out of a show that I listen to.

[Carol Markowitz]

I agree. You know, but how good does it feel when you're contrarian? And you're right. If you hadn't liked Breaking Bad, that would have been so much fun. You would've. You know, I didn't like the movie Shawshank Redemption, and I tweet about that, like, once a year. Once a year, my followers get to hear how Shawshank Redemption is actually a bad movie.

[Stu Berger]

That's great. I had the same thing with the Bob Dylan biopic that just.

[Carol Markowitz]

Oh, I didn't see it. Yeah, I love Bob Dylan.

[Stu Berger]

And a lot of people do. I wouldn't say he's my favorite, but I know a lot of people do. And he's certainly a legend and should have a really good movie about his life.

[Carol Markowitz]

That wasn't it.

[Stu Berger]

I don't even. Timothy Chalamet was fine in the movie. The problem with the movie is number one. What's interesting, apparently, about Bob Dylan's Persona is that he just underplays everything. You know, some serious situations going on. He's like, I'm gonna go over there and write, and that's it. And that's the. So that's all he did. He didn't do anything. And then nothing apparently happened to Bob Dylan in his life. Carol.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Stu Berger]

The biggest controversy in this movie is some people wanted him to continue playing acoustic. And he was like, I'm gonna start playing electric.

[Carol Markowitz]

That was it, right? Yeah, yeah, that was it. I heard that was a big deal. Dylan going electric is like. The boomers still talk about it, so.

[Stu Berger]

They do. I just don't feel like. You didn't need two hours. It's like a short film. Khan would have been fine, I think, for that one, but so I do appreciate it. And I like Shawshank, but I like the people who will come out and say, nope, wasn't good. And I'll tell you why that's right.

[Carol Markowitz]

Once a year, just look for that tweet.

[Stu Berger]

I will, I will. Even though I like Shawshank, I will like the tweet when I see it, Carol. I promise.

[Carol Markowitz]

We're going to take a quick break and be right back on the Carol Markowitz Show.

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[Carol Markowitz]

Give us a five year out prediction. It could be about anything. You know, the country, the world, music, anything.

[Stu Berger]

All right, let me, let me, let me give you this one because I, some people are talking about this but I, I'm pretty aggressive on it. I think in the next five years we are going to wipe out the last 25 years of the increase in obesity.

[Carol Markowitz]

Yeah, that's a good one.

[Stu Berger]

I think it's, we're gonna make incredible progress in that and I think it's the GLP1s are the thing that gets a lot of, a lot of attention and I think that's a huge part of it. But I think also the Maha stuff is a, is another part of it. People really thinking about their health differently. And if you think about that type of difference, I could come up with a lot of really negative things to say. And I say them all the time. Sure. But like as a positive, if we can get that under control and have a massive reduction in that, the improvement in our health overall is going to be massively impactful to the world, to our politics, to really everything. I mean people living longer and enjoying their life better. I think that would be massive. Now I think we're gonna rethink a lot of the ways that we, you know, when it comes to medicine and health and how all that stuff works together. I like Peter Attia quite a bit. He wrote a book called Outlive, which talks about longevity in a way that I is really effective. I think a lot of good things are coming that way now. We'll probably light ourselves on fire in our politics and none of it will matter. But if we last for five more years, I think we'll be a little thinner.

[Glenn Beck]

That's big.

[Carol Markowitz]

Yeah. Look, you know, I have to say I was a little eye rolly about maha and about RFK Jr. I was like, he's such a lib. Like, I just wasn't into it at all. But I've been kind of impressed with the things that they've been doing since he's been in there. And it's the one that I kind of say that was where I was probably most wrong in, in this last campaign. I think I was really thinking that this guy was, you know, climate change warrior who was never going to change his stripes. But he, he's been very pleasantly surprising. And I agree with you. I think it's going to be huge that people are going to be thinner. I, I already see the people who are on GLP1s, they're, they're moving more, they're posting workout videos like it's. It, it is making other changes.

[Stu Berger]

Yeah, it really is. I mean, even to the point of, you know, people losing gambling addictions and alcohol, things that are totally unrelated to weight. Right.

[Carol Markowitz]

I didn't hear about that.

[Glenn Beck]

What does it do?

[Stu Berger]

Yeah, there's some. So they think, you know, again, it's still new. And, and I understand some people have skepticism over any new drug. That's all. You have to always say that. But, like, I think, you know, it, it not only goes after, they think it goes after addiction centers. One of the things, if you, you know, people who are overweight oftentimes just have that sort of food noise going on all the time. Like, oh, gosh, there's an eclair over there. I gotta eat this eclair. I'm so hungry. Gotta get the eclair. And this seems to go after those, those centers where whatever that thing is, you know, whether it's, you know, biting your fingernails or, you know, you know, wanting to constantly gamble or, you know, all these things. Drugs.

[Glenn Beck]

Interesting.

[Stu Berger]

Seems to show even improvements there. Not to mention things like, you know, even Alzheimer's and of course the things associated directly with weight, you know, the diabetes and heart conditions. So I, I think we're on a, the verge of some really massive improvements as far as that goes. And, and I'm with you honestly on the RFK Jr. Stuff. Like, I still at some level remain skeptical of him individually. I'm not a, I would not say I'm a fan. You know, I'm. Climate was a big part of that for me as well though. Luckily he's not in control of that. But I see that, I saw that bubbling up, that all that stuff bubbling up before rfk, it wasn't, it's not just a one guy thing. I think that's something where people are trying to get back to thinking a little bit more carefully about what they put in their bodies. I think Covid, I know you've written extensively about this. I think that whole era emphasized that quite a bit. And now there's these things that might aid people in actually getting it done. It's not just, hey, will, power yourself through it, which is difficult for a lot of people. I think it's, hey, you know, we have these things. Some of these are medications, some of these are just lifestyle changes. Some of this is exercise. I mean, you know, they, you know, Peter Attia talks about this in his book. It's like the best drug being not a drug, but exercise. Right. People doing these things. I think there's real hope here. So I'll give you one optimistic one for five years.

[Carol Markowitz]

I love that. I love it. So that is so optimistic. People living longer, living healthier, like, what could be better than that? I have loved this conversation. You are smart and hilarious and I really enjoy speaking to you. Leave us here with your best tip for my listeners on how they can improve their lives.

[Stu Berger]

You probably have a million of these that are like really high level and big.

[Carol Markowitz]

They're all over the place. Some people are like, you know, get your car cleaned, like, it could be anything.

[Stu Berger]

Let me give you one little one that I learned myself as a parent growing up. Of course, go through life, you have kids and you're in a busy time. Right. Like fundamentally, when you have children, you're in maybe your busiest time. You're thinking about your career, thinking about everything else.

[Glenn Beck]

Yeah.

[Stu Berger]

And as you have little kids and they start to look at you and talk and I, you know, you're, a lot of times you're distracted, right. You're on your phone, you're doing different things. You're thinking about work, you're thinking about all those other things and a million different times when you're at the peak moment of being distracted and thinking about real life adult things, your kid is going to come to you and say, in my case, daddy. And they will say, daddy, watch. And all I can say about that is every single time that happens to you, look at them. Stop what you're doing, watch. And most importantly, when they're done, they're going to look at you and make sure you're looking at them in the eyes when that happens.

[Carol Markowitz]

I love that.

[Stu Berger]

Yeah, I really think, you know, my connection with my kids, I swear is based, strengthened so much by that. I always tried to do that because they would do something, they roll on the ground or they'd throw something in the air and catch it or whatever it was. And, and in their mind, it's the most amazing thing and all they want to do is share it with you. And if you're looking at your phone in that moment, you're letting yourself down, you're letting them down and you're really doing yourself a disservice. So I would say just try to do that one thing.

[Carol Markowitz]

Stu. I love that he is Stu Bergier. Check him out at Stu does America and on the Glenn Beck program. Thank you so much for coming on, Stu. This was great.

[Stu Berger]

Thank you, Carol. This is awesome.

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