A Spiritual Revival with David Limbaugh

I think it says everything about a nation and the way they treat children, the most vulnerable, and their society. So it says a lot about where we are now. And I think it's no secret that that correlates with the loss of religion in the country as well. And then that really is what the Democrat the left policies aim at. It's to devalue the things that have value in life, to deprive people of meaning, to uproot people, to to to deny them and deprive them of having

anchors in their life. Because if you have an anchor, relate gin family, these things that actually have meeting in life, you're not malleable, you're not easily persuaded. The government doesn't own you. You're a harder person to control. So for this episode, we're gonna have David Limbaugh, who's a friend of mine also my attorney. You also know him as a nationally syndicated columnists, a political commentator, a commentator. He has written I believe, ten New York Times best selling books.

So we're gonna talk about, you know, what's going on in this country with the loss of faith, the loss of religion, the destruction that the left is intentionally bringing upon our nation. And we're gonna talk about this new book that he wrote called The Resurrected Jesus, And it's really cool because he co wrote it with his daughter, Kristen Limbaugh Bloom, who I actually met way before I met David. She was an intern at Fox forever ago,

and I just thought she was lovely. She was just the nicest person, and so we, you know, got to talking and became friends, and now she's doing great things in her life, like co authoring this book with her dad, that Resurrected Jesus. So we're going to get into that and how all of it ties together, sort of the loss of religion, the destruction of the country, and why this book is so important to him and his daughter.

We're also going to talk about his late brother, Rush Limbaugh, uh and and you know, talk about what he misses the most about him and and things that people maybe don't know about him that they should. So that's what we're gonna get in today, So stay tuned for David Limba. All Right, David, I'm so excited to have you on the podcast. Full disclosure for everyone at home, David and I work together. He is my attorney, but there's nobody,

nobody better to work with. I'm I'm just so glad to have you on my team, and honestly, like if I ever get canceled, I know that you'll have my back because you actually care about what's going on in this country and we share the same views on things. So I'm I'm very thankful that it to have you as a friend and my attorney. So I appreciate you

joining the show. Thank you those both ways. I appreciate that I appreciate David, and I also I got to know your daughter before I got to know you, And we'll talk about this awesome book that you guys wrote together here in a little bit as well. But you know, David, you and I often talk about you know, we look at what's going on in the country. You'll you look at you know, inflation and soaring gas prices, the loss of liberty, open borders. It's all intentional from the left.

It's with intention It totally is. And it frustrates me when I see our colleagues conservative commentators on Fox and other places um act as though this is just a matter of incompetence or so. I even heard one of the people who I otherwise respects say, we we share the same goals as the left, we just don't want to go about it different. That's so wrong, And if we don't understand how radically different their goals are from ours.

That want to utopian our dystopian state. They want they actually want to us or in cultural and governmental Marxism. And they want the Green New Deal because they want to use the government to destroy the domestic energy industry and they want to ultimately leverage that into control of the population. They want to shut down speech selectively of conservatives because they want to control the narrative. They want to control all power. They pretend to be compassionate, but

they don't care about anything except themselves and their virtue. Signaling, and I think their religion is as morphed into some kind of a virtue signaling green energy thing. And uh, but they they have alienated us, that polarized us and leverage race. They're they're dividing us on race. Race relations now are worse than when during the sixties when I grew up, when it was so bad. Uh, and it's

gotten better for so many years. And now they've reinstituted SEGREA and they're they're they're trying to destroy the economy this inflation. They act like, uh, they don't know what they're doing. They know they're flooding the economy with the money that we don't have, uh, too too much money, chasing too few goods. This isn't a mystery, this isn't something they can't figure out. They know, but their ideal

ideologically wedded to continue to spend this money. And you could even argue that that they're doing that on purpose, like the cloud Piven thing where they're trying to bankrupt this and then pick up the pieces, re introducing their order. But it doesn't even have to be Clard Pivn. They are trying to uh spend us into oblivion because they

want to transfer wealth from the people. They can't stand the people that are successful, except maybe the digital oligarchs, the people on their side, and and just completely reorient society. But look lesa beyond that, look at them at glorifying evil, the murder of babies. It's not just like it used to be safe, legal, and rare, which is always a lie. It is glorifying the murder of babies and demonizing those

who champion life and biblical values. It is glorifying those who would mutilate young children in contravention of God's created order that he created. Uh, people and men and women, men and women. He created them gender specific. He didn't create man and women to narcissistic lee identify as whoever they wanted to identify. And so they're they're creating moral and intellectual chaos. The open borders. They're denying that they deliberately opened the borders, and we see it right in

front of our eyes. Uh. There are at least ten existential threats to the United States that they are exacerbating and accelerating, including China, who is building, buying land, building military. We are downsizing our military and turning it into a woke laboratory, emasculating it. I can't go on enough about how they are trying to destroy the country. But I think, Lisa, and I'll end this me andering soliloquy with this, I don't think if the country dies it will be a

result of the left. I think it will be a result of naive people on the right who are cowardly or naive, are are not are are unwitting opponents, and who don't realize what we're up against and therefore don't fight like our survival depends on it. I really do think it comes down to cowardice. If I'm being honest, I think we have too many people who are cowards. They want to be accepted by society, even though we we look at society and we should be looking at

it with disdain. As you pointed out, we live in a society that embraces the murder of innocent babies, embraces the idea of castrating a young boy or or you know, giving a young girl double massectomy. So I can't, for the life of me, understand why anyone would want to be accepted by that. And no, and it's pleasing man instead of pleasing God. And I have to believe this is spiritual warfare, because there is no logical explanation for anyone defending this stuff with a straight face. And yet

our kids have been indoctrinated. All of the major institutions are controlled by the left, from education pay through twelve, and then then the universities, and then they own Hollywood as we know, they own the digital uh conglomerates and and the major media, and so it's it's an unreality. It's a twilight zone on steroids. And you try to

approach I was thinking about this. Name me a Democrat that you know, even in your personal life, who will vote against what these people are doing, even though you would think of these individual Democrats as not being radical, yet they all enable and support. That's what discourages me.

I've got good friends who who don't don't either they don't realize it, or they think that we are so evil, that the Trump movement is so evil that they they would There's not anything that the left would do that

they won't condone. That's what's horrifying. I can't imagine a thing they will do that that that they will oppose, and you can approach them and explain these things to them, and they have some bizarre explanations or rationalization how they're really not doing that, borders really aren't open, and and I I don't think there's any relating to these people.

So as crazy as I said, I think it's demonic in the end, because I think they're under some kind of a bizarre spell and wedded to their ideology and pawns to some kind of evil force. And now I'm not like the left saying all Conservatives are evil, are all Trump? I'm saying the the forces behind it are evil. I think most of them are unwinning dukes. But the mainstream media, the Democratic politicians and all of them, they know what they're doing. And so but it's a complex thing.

And I think this unwillingness to recognize evil for what it is, it is as to reiterrite the point we made before. It's what's really going to cause our downfall if we don't wake up and if we don't have the guts to stand up against it. No, I really agree with that. And and if we don't turn it around, what really can I mean, we saw a president stand up and a national primetime address and label seventy five million Americans is an enemy of the state with the

military flanked behind him. And then what concerns me about that this mothering of us of US conservatives. But we've already seen sort of the dehumanization of just humans happened as a society. Right, We we call babies a clump of cells. We are treating children with such disdain and the treatment of them. So it's it's we already have this society where we don't really view human life as

this is this sacred thing. And then on top of it, you have a president then dehumanizing on top of that, seventy five million Americans, and then we see this you know, young boy, the eighteen year old who is uh, you know, driven down in a car. The guy killed him with this car. You you had the prolaywoman who was going to door door shot in her arm. And so I just I wonder with all of that, in the back drop where this goes, well, you know, and that's a

point a category of existential threat. I didn't mention in my litany a minute ago, the disintegration of law and order, the deliberate disintegration of law and order, so that you you have glorified the victims. I mean the perpetrators of crime and demonized the victims of crime, refused to prosecute, change the bail laws to let people out, change the laws on prosecution. You have chaos in the streets of the major cities. People are getting slaughtered, the subways aren't safe.

Old women and young women are being attacked by men, and there's no condemnation from the left, and that the media doesn't talk about it. And so uh you mentioned a minute ago that that there's a diminution of respect for life. That's what I mean by just being spirit Well, God is about life. The Left is about death in every respect. It's a movement of death. Even if you want to talk about the environmental movement, they have no respect for human life. They put plant life, uh, in

an elevated position to human life. Some of these wacko people think the world would be better off without any human beings, and so that the world could survive in its inanimate form and we and and human beings are extinguished. This is how psycho these people are. And and I don't know why we don't call it for what it is. What we're seeing on the news every day is beyond belief. I can't even believe we're debating it. It's so abjectively wrong,

objectively wrong. There is no there is no re rational debate for much of what is going on, and yet the left uh supports it and condones it, and everybody that follows the left, i e. The Democratic Party, the media and all of them support it. So I am I am beyond uh frustrated, beyond concerned of what could happen. I don't see, I don't see how we get out

of this sort of a of a spiritual revival. And I'm not kidding you because I don't see uh, any indication that there's a stopping We went above thirty one trillion international debt, and even the Republican Party doesn't say anything about that. I mean, we're condoning spending at an obscene level every day, and I don't see the Republicans doing much about it either, do you? I don't. And again it just gets to this this issue of cowardice, of just the fact that I just you know, I

see it in the media. I see it in politicians, of people just not willing to speak out when they see what's wrong, or they wait until it's safe and the damage has already done. And at that point, oh now, maybe you know mass vaccinations are are bad or oh now lockdown's are bad, but you'll waited until the damage was done, you know, And so that doesn't really anything.

And and and you've always been an advocate or an activist about these vaccines, and you you've been a herald out there and right now, the left even though it's known that these vaccines have caused all kinds of trouble and at the very least we know they don't prevent the spread of the disease. And yet you're still getting people kicked out of the military, are prevented from coming and playing sports in the United States because there's a

vaccination rule and we know it's absurd. And is there some bureaucratic inertia that prevents us from changing these things on the spot? And and and look at the military which is now inhabited by all the leftists, and and uh who who who implement these walk policies? Who are are discouraging people by their policies from entering the military? I don't know, it's it's I have never seen a h more overt case of national suicide in my life.

We all knew we were on a slow march to national suicide for the last probably fifty years, but now we're on an accelerated path, and I just cannot believe how difficult this is going to be to turn around. I still remain optimistic, though, that we can turn it around, because I have to be optimistic. I can't afford to believe otherwise. I'm not going to give up on the United States, you know, and I have hoped to, David.

I do believe that Republicans will pick up the House to set it and some gubernatorial races now, you know, again our Republicans going to deliver on all the things we want them to. Probably not, but I think it can hold them off for a little bit until hopefully we get a strong president in there and then you know, further turn things around. But I haven't given up hope either. Yeah, and and and we can't. But but we do have

to wake people up. People on Fox people. I really like I earned somebody the other days toggesting that and somewhat facetiously but not suggesting that Trump and Obama could go negotiate this deal with North Korea and that's something we can agree up. No If you think that Obama and Trump share any kind of views as to foreign

policy that are reconcilable, then you don't get it. You do not get the left, and you don't get Obama, who was a leftist and he he would have been even more extreme if he could have gotten away with it, and he's probably one of the main principles running this leftward leftward surge right now. I don't understand why people on our side do not get it, even people you think would get it. I think for me, COVID really

illuminated who gets it and who doesn't. Personally, Uh, a lot of people I previously respected I lost respect for, and then people I didn't maybe necessiate, you know, look up to that degree, to to that degree, really prove it, proved themselves to be uh understand, you know, just getting it right and being strong voices on things. Quick commercial break back with David Limbaugh. You know, we're really talking

about this good versus evil that's happening in society. And I know that you're someone that you know you you previously had doubts about your faith. Why why did you and what turned it around for you? Well? I am I always believed in God, because I can't imagine that how anybody could think that this, that the world could come into existence without a primary, uncaused cause. Does that even make sense to me? Uh? And so they come up with bizarre things like the multiverse or aliens. Dropped

this here, well, who created the aliens? And it's just too absurd to contemplate. But I didn't necessarily subscribe to the Bible or to the divinity of Jesus Christ. But I wasn't a rebel in that sense. I always thought I wanted to. I knew who the good team was, the good guys, I knew the right team was. I wanted to be on. I wanted to be a believing Christian. But I had these doubts that so many have. Why would an all loving God allow human beings to go

to everlasting punishment that kind of thing? And so I had those doubts, and I didn't know whether to believe the Bible. The real reason I didn't, I think, is because I never gave it a real chance, despite growing up in the Christian family and church and all that. And so I started examining the evidence of reading the Bible, and I came away with the the idea that there's overwhelming proof for Christianity's truth claims. It is not as the last or as the pagan secularist would would assume

and would claim a blind faith that we have. This faith is based on real evidence. Uh that Jesus Christ was here, that he was resurrected bodily, and uh that uh five witnesses saw it. And these witnesses and these disciples told these stories at the risk of their own death. Uh. You you might have Muslims or other religious adherents, religious adherents of other faiths willing to die for a cause that that may or may not be true. But in

the case of the Christians, there's a distinct difference. The early Christians, the disciples, they died, they were martyrs for a cause. They would not have they would have not not have died for something they knew to be false. They were testifying to something. They witnessed, the resurrection of Christ and his miracles. They saw these happen, and they were willing to suffer unbelievable abuse. They would never have done that if they thought it was a why they

had nothing to gain. And so these there's compelling effences, including the supernatural uh, prophecies in the Old Testament, uh, and all the way through the Bible, and I could go on and on. So after I studied all the evidence, I became convinced that it was true, that that the Bible was the Word of God. And when I came to that realization, it blew me away. I'm holding a book that was actually written through human authors by God.

And so I became an ardent student of it. And and since then, you know, thirty years later, I started writing books about it, after teaching Sunday School and all that, because I want to be able to reach people that the pastor and theologian may not be able to reach. People who are situated the way I was before. People who can relate to a lay explanation of these things and inspire people to read the Bible, to practice the spiritual disciplines and draw closer to God. That that's my

real motive in writing these Christian books. How much do you think, as we have previously discussed, the decline of the country correlates with the decline of religion, um an incredible amount, probably about I I find that we have gotten away from Biblical values, and it's a direct correlation. You see right now, for example, in our society, you see the parading of transvestites, are drag queens in front

of children. We see the promotion of pedophilia. We see now the the advocacy of uh, this new polyamory, polyamorous relationship where you got let's say, two men and one woman in a relationship. These are abhorrant moral developments, objectively evil things in my view. And yet we are on such a slippery path of moral relativism that anything goes now, anything goes for the left except for political conservatism and biblical traditional Christian values. That is what it is shown.

That's how you know these people are. They will support anything, including Muslims being mean to homosexuals, as long as it's not Christians, so that the common denominator is they opposed the Judeo Christian ethic, the j O Christian worldview, and anything else, anything else is fine. And so right now, the disintegration these moral values has resulted in an abandonment of our constitution because the Constitution is built on those values.

And for example, I'll give any example that you know they they the Framers said the Constitution is made only for moral and religious people. And I think what they ultimately meant by that was if you if you treat the Constitution as if it doesn't stay what it means, then it doesn't mean anything, and then it disintegrates. And

that's what judicial activism, leftist judicial activism is. If you say the separation of powers doesn't really mean anything, if you say that you can rewrite the Constitution to say that it requires abortion be allowed, when there's nowhere in the world in the Constitution there's the numbers are emanations, and they just make this up from whole cloth. Then you no longer have any eating and you have no

order to your life. You when when the left says that you can identify as a plant, or as a man, or as a woman, you're they are going directly against God's created order, which is to have created man, created human beings as men and women, not as those, not as creatures who could identify who as whoever they wanted to. So throughout the entire spectrum of our cultural and political life, you see an attack in an undermining of Christian principles,

and you also see it within the church. The churches is breaking down because it doesn't stand for the Gospel anymore. I mean some churches do. Many churches don't what they really stand for. They claim that Jesus was just a nice guy that didn't care. He was tolerant about sin. Well, read the Sermon on the mount Sometimes he had less tolerance for sin even than the God of the Old Testament. It is the same God, by the way, but just

different revelations and new revelations. In the New Testament, Jesus expanded on the moral teachings and they're actually were held to a higher standard in under the Christian ethic, even though it's not a matter of following rules. It's a matter of love and obedience to the triune God of the universe. But you read the the standard that we are held to in the Sermon on the Mountain, and

and and tell me that Jesus is indifferent. He was not indifferent to the idea of God's created order, or or the way that the Left has redefined sex and gender. He was strong about all these things. And there's no difference between the God of the Old Testament the God of the New Testament. Same God. God doesn't change, God

doesn't lie. And so uh, I find that people want to rewrite the Bible, rewrite doctrine, just like they did right at the beginning after Paul planted all these churches in the Mediterranean basin and they introduced small Stockton to say Salva was not by faith in Christ alone, but by faith plus works, faith plus circumcision, faith plus adherence to ritual rights. Or that Jesus wasn't fully human and fully divine. He couldn't have been fully human because human,

because material existence is evil. So the the his death on the cross was an illusion. No, it was real. Christ became a human being. He condescended the human form to suffer the indignities of human existence so that he could die in our place and be bodily resurrected, so that those with faith in him could then also be bodily resurrected and live with Him and the Triune God

and eternity. These people want to break down all of those rules, and they want to claim and all those realities and claim that uh, Christianity doesn't stand for that. Every there's millions of ways to God, and it doesn't matter what way you choose. Christ said on the way the Truth in the Life, there's no other way to the Father except through me. He didn't say you can do it for transiental meditation, Buddhism, Islam, or any of the others. And we're not being We're not suggesting that

we be intolerant to other people, are disrespectful. We are saying, if, if if truth is that, if Jesus is the truth, which he said he was, and he says he's the only way, then we're not judging. People were saying, that's what we believe, and we're doing you a favor by telling you that's what we believe, and that's that's what we think. The evidence points to that it's the truth.

So we're doing you an eternal disservice if we're the sake of trying to please man instead of God, we tell you, oh, no, you can believe whatever you want. What I mean, I mean, you can't believe whatever you but it doesn't matter what you believe because God is a God of love and it doesn't matter. Now, Yes, God is a god of love that he deals with

sin and he's a perfectly just God. And if we if we tell people that they can believe whatever they want it doesn't matter, then then we we're not really doing them any favor, and that's what we're seeing throughout throughout our society today. No, I mean that makes complete sense. You know, David, you've written seven New York best selling books. Now I think it might be more than that. But

what makes your latest book special, The Resurrected Jesus. You wrote it with your daughter, Christen Limba Bloom, who I met a long time ago when she was interning at Fox. Now she's doing big things. She's such a lovely person to love. You know. I know you love your daughter very very much, but you raised an awesome daughter who

is now a mother and you're a grandfather. But talk a little bit about this book, The Resurrected Jesus, and how special that had to have been to work with your daughter on this, who I know you love so much. This is the eleventh book I've written, and all the first ten were New York Times bestsellers. This one was on the public what you call it, publishers weekly list number ten the first week, and so objectively should have been on the New York Times that they have some

bizarre thing. I don't care, it's it's just I wish it could have got on for Christen's sake, but five of the books have been Christian and the others have been political. This book is special because, as you say, wrote it with Kristen, and it was a collaborative effort where we we go through seven of Paul's epistles uh and to the churches and to his colleagues Timothy and Titus.

We go through chapter and verse of the Bible, and we either state the verse or paraphrase it, and then we had commentary and insights from early church fathers and commentators all throughout church history. But we've had an additional element that I didn't have in my first four Christian books, which is prayer. Christen is a prayer warrior, spirit filled person who who really gets the heart part of Christianity.

I'm more of the headside of it, and I've study all the time, but she is a person who who believes that I mean, I believe it as I don't mean to suggest my belief as any less that she has such a connection with God and with Christ and the Holy Spirit, and she had a facility for prayers.

So I wanted to add these prayers because it will help readers interact with the content of the Bible and with the content of the book, which is about the Bible, and so every three or four pages we have prayers that are directly related to it, and Christen mostly authored those prayers and in addition to helping on the rest of the book. And I just very I'm very gratified

with with how this has gone. She's written op eds for Fox on Christian themes, and I wanted to give her a jump start in the book writing world because so many people open doors for me Rush and John Hannity and others without whom I probably never would have had those doors open. So I want to try to help other people in that same way, and especially my daughter,

And so she's just risen to the occasion. I feel really good about the final product, and I think I humbly hope that it helps people if they read it, draw closer to God and inspires to read the Bible more and to pray more. Well. And you can really see that light in your daughter, because she truly is just a special person. She's just a lovely woman. Um So you can see that in her. She's just a

beautiful person. Uh. And I've really enjoyed getting to know her quick break more with David, you know you mentioned your brother. It's been over years since his passing. What do you miss the most about your brother? Rush? Uh? His presence in my life. I we probably texted back and forth times a day, and so I would share with him so many things every day, and a lot of these are just mundane things, and so I guess

I could say he was my best friend. And even though we didn't talk on the phone much because he had and that hearing problem that everyone knew about, so we always would text and so many times. Still less than it used to be, but still I have these thoughts every day. I gotta share this with Russian then, and then the microsecond later I realized that he's not here and I can't share it. So that's a you know, that's a loss, and the whole thing is an avoid

in my life. And it kind of set me for a on a on a tail spin there for a while. I think I actually was depressed, you know, not clinically depressed like people have from chemicals, chemical imbalances, but just situationally depressed. When you can go through grief, I guess that leads to depression. I snapped out of it, but it is tough and um, and you know, it's tough losing your parents, but when you lose a sibling, I mean, you're you're in the foxhole together from the time you're born.

I knew Russ since I was born, my whole life. Obviously, he's two years older. And then he died almost a year and a half ago, and so that that that can never be replaced, and it's uh tough and and but but the the good thing about it is that what I learned is I knew how talented viously he was from the very beginning, from the time we were kids. So gifted as a broadcaster, and he did it. He broadcasts TV and radio shows when he he was seven years old, simulating broadcasts in our house. But we we

all knew and everybody felt their own views. Conservatives felt their views validated when Rush got his national audience. Why somebody's out there giving voice to things I believe but I never hear in the media, and so and and Rush was universally recognized as a unique talent, and even the people that hated him gave him that credit. But so I knew that in space, But what I didn't realize was the extent to which there was an intimate bond with his audience where they actually considered him to

be family members. I bet a family member. I bet. I've received no exaggeration, uh ten thousand communications, whether on twitters, uh, Twitter, or email, personal letter, phone calls, Facebook. People say he's the best friend they never met, that they feel wounded and grieving every day still. I mean, you can look

at my Twitter mentions. You can't believe it. It is overwhelmingly heartning and so to me, that is uplifting to me, that that he meant so much to them, And it connects all of this because Russ stood for the values that you and I are talking about today, and he stood against the left, and he was the tip of

the spirit. He was the guy that took all of the backlash from the media matters and the other hateful liberals, the gay activists initially, who were held bent on destroying him, and he stood there alone, really and took all the arrows so that those of us in his wake would be better situated and and empowered to stand up against them too. But I I people have no idea. I guarantee you people have no idea. But I was there, uh behind the scene with him the whole time, trying

to support him throughout, and he was tough. I if I were in his place, I don't know that I could have withstood all the arrows that he took. And so I'm proud of him. It will always be proud of it. Did that come from your parents, because you guys are both like that in terms of you know, standing up for your beliefs and being able to stand strong in the face of that opposition. Did that Did that come from your parents or why do you think both of you guys kind of had those values instilled

in you so strongly. My dad was a conservatives conservative. He was a Goldwater Conservative in sixties, was against Nixon for and four gold Water back when Goldwater was you know, the quintessential conservative. Yeah, and he was very sharp. My dad was gifted, especially when it came to law and politics. He was a lawyer like everybody in my family. And it's like my dad used to hold court. You know a lot of kids in high school and when they go out and go out and party and all that

and go out to girls, and we all did. But one of the favorite pastimes of Russia's friends and my friends was to come to our house and listen to my dad hold court in our living room, and he just start doing his monologues. And so when I see what Rush Rush did, it was like he's my dad writ large now within that and he had a national audience to do, to pontificate like my dad did in our front room, and and it's a shame my dad

never had that kind of audience. But on the other hand, it wouldn't have worked with my dad because he didn't have a sense of humor when it came to politics. My mom was hilarious and just a just a class clown, funny, and so Russ got the best of both worlds. I'm a I'm a class clown too, I'm just not when it comes to politics. I'm too serious. You can tell me. I couldn't ever, even if I had Russia's talent, I couldn't do his show because I'm always mad at what

the Left is doing. I'm so outrage I'm perpetually outraged by what they're doing. Not that Rush wasn't that he had a way of the unique way of lampooning him which made him that much matter, And he used to laugh at me. David you're you're like Rush. We call my dad Rush, not him. We didn't call I didn't. Well, I later called him Rush, but he wasn't Rush growing up.

He's rusting. So we always joked about my dad after he died, well, Rushed get this and that and Rush was he said, you're like Rush, you gotta light nup, and I can't. I'm just I can't. When it comes to politics, it's so hard for me to light that. Russia had that gift where where he could he he's just as outraged as I am, but he that he could make fun of him and make everybody laugh and happy and and still without without diminishing the seriousness of

the issues at hand. So that was another gift that that I am vy, but but I realized I don't have it well. And also a fierce independence to be able to stand strong when you're you're taking so much incoming, Oh unbelievable. And you know, there are times as his lawyer that I was really worried that they would finally

be to cancel him. And there are times when I would try to talk him into backing off in certain issues where he literally could not win, and they might have been able to destroy him, And there were probably only two of those in the history of our relationship where I was actually trying, not not as a matter of cowardice, but as a matter of pragmatism, to fight another day, because I they they these people are vicious and they distort what you say, and we saw it

throughout the Trump there two and but he had such good instincts and he that so he would hear me out and I never wanted him to back down, but sometimes I was worried that they would finally be able to get him. But he had an antenna, he kind of had. He was uncanny, Unlike so many hosts. He knew how far he could go. Only a few times did he really get in trouble, and even there that those things were distorted mostly so um it was a fascinating thing to watch because he put his whole career

the line. He could have loved. He was making millions and millions a year. He could have been he could have that could have all been taken away from him. But he believed so strongly in what he was doing. And this wasn't a matter of personal pride, honestly, it was a matter of him bleeding so fiercely and what he what he was advocating that he didn't he wasn't going to be shut down. He wasn't going to allow

them to to censor him. Uh and you know that that that's I don't know if people have talked about that as much when they talked about him, but it is uh so admirable, and I think some and it's a different thing as somebody does on a local show because they're not a big enough fish to go after. Rush was the big fish, and so he every time he did something like that, he he was risking his career, and he didn't matter. He was undaunted and kept going and the result was the most successful show in the

history of radio broadcasting. And he created a new genre conservative talk from which thousands of people have benefited. You know, you, me, everybody who's out there commenting. There wasn't this industry before. There was a very small padre of people, you know, the mclaughlain group, Bill Buckley, those people. When I was growing up, you weren't even born yet probably and there. But but now look at how many of us there are,

and that's pretty encouraging. I just wish there would be less ego on on on, so many of us on our side and people trying to up to you know, compete with each other. We need to we need to stand together and fight this left which always seems to be united. Well, feel free to send me a text if I ever do knock me down a bit or Actually, my parents, I'm not worried about I'm not worried about you parents. My parents are there for that. They're the ones that they the second anything got at the hand,

they would shut me down. Yeah, but you're fierce too and very it's very admirable that that, and you've you've been I know you. People have tried to shut you down and get you to stand down from your place and you've refused to do it, and uh, that is just so admirable. I can't tell you. Well, I'm thankful to have you by my side. Um, you're a friend, my lawyer, and the co author with your daughter of the Resurrected Jesus. I hope it continues to be a

massive success. You're an amazing guy, You've raised an amazing daughter, and well you've raised five kids, but I've only met one, so I can I can only speak to Kristen, but I'm sure the rest are great. The books just out everywhere. People can get it on you know, Amazon or bookstore or wherever else. David Limba, thanks so much for joining. I'll talk to you soon. Have a great day. Thank you.

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