Tony Reali is getting ready to move from Washington D.C. to New York, where he’ll serve as a new social media correspondent for Good Morning America while retaining his hosting duties for ESPN’s Around the Horn. But the relocation up the Amtrak corridor means Reali has to leave behind the gang at Pardon the Interruption, the show that gave him his break as the fact-checking Stat Boy in 2001.

How do you thank people you owe your whole career to? Is that even possible? @PTI — Tony Reali (@TonyReali) September 4, 2014

The video clip above shows Reali’s goodbye from PTI through his eyes. He says his goodbyes to the staff and crew, before getting to the show’s hosts and his mentors, Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornhesier. You can hear Reali’s voice breaking when he marvels that it’s been 13 years since ESPN put two Washington Post writers and an unknown kid on national television.