Montel Williams is giving up the talk-show game after 17 years in the biz, reports People. This season will be his last. Whether you were a fan or not, you gotta respect a brotha for holding down a network TV show for nearly two decades.

“I can’t say thank you enough to those who’ve welcomed me into their homes for the past seventeen years,” Williams said in a statement. “It has been both an honor and a joy.”

Montel Williams is apologizing to the press after threatnening a high school intern/reporter in Savannah, Ga. The longtime talk show host was at a hotel promoting a program that offers free prescriptions to the needy, when he suddenly got pissed at a question posed to him by intern Courtney Scott. (The question was: “Do you think pharmaceutical companies would be discouraged from research and development if their profits were restricted?”) Later on, the Savannah Morning-News reporters returned to the hotel for an unrelated event and Williams approached Scott. From the Associated Press:

“As we were preparing to film, Montel walked up with his bodyguard and got in Courtney Scott’s face pointing his finger telling her ‘Don’t look at me like that. Do you know who I am? I’m a big star, and I can look you up, find where you live and blow you up,’” said Joseph Cosey, a web content producer for the newspaper. “At this time he was randomly pointing at all of us.”

Blow you up, Montell? What are you doing????