Speaker 1: So I think it's pretty obvious as we see the
Speaker 1: decline of our society when you have the left that
Speaker 1: supports a boarding babies up until the moment of birth,
Speaker 1: they support castrating a young boy, giving a young girl
Speaker 1: a double missectomy, when of course they can't consent to this.
Speaker 1: They don't know what they want to be, who they
Speaker 1: want to be. I mean, kids have imaginary friends, and
Speaker 1: so we see this destruction of our our country made.
Speaker 1: I think it says everything about a nation and the
Speaker 1: way they treat children, the most vulnerable, and their society.
Speaker 1: So it says a lot about where we are now.
Speaker 1: And I think it's no secret that that correlates with
Speaker 1: the loss of religion in the country as well. And
Speaker 1: then that really is what the Democrat the left policies
Speaker 1: aim at. It's to devalue the things that have value
Speaker 1: in life, to deprive people of meaning, to uproot people,
Speaker 1: to to to deny them and deprive them of having
Speaker 1: anchors in their life. Because if you have an anchor,
Speaker 1: relate gin family, these things that actually have meeting in life,
Speaker 1: you're not malleable, you're not easily persuaded. The government doesn't
Speaker 1: own you. You're a harder person to control. So for
Speaker 1: this episode, we're gonna have David Limbaugh, who's a friend
Speaker 1: of mine also my attorney. You also know him as
Speaker 1: a nationally syndicated columnists, a political commentator, a commentator. He
Speaker 1: has written I believe, ten New York Times best selling books.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about, you know, what's going on
Speaker 1: in this country with the loss of faith, the loss
Speaker 1: of religion, the destruction that the left is intentionally bringing
Speaker 1: upon our nation. And we're gonna talk about this new
Speaker 1: book that he wrote called The Resurrected Jesus, And it's
Speaker 1: really cool because he co wrote it with his daughter,
Speaker 1: Kristen Limbaugh Bloom, who I actually met way before I
Speaker 1: met David. She was an intern at Fox forever ago,
Speaker 1: and I just thought she was lovely. She was just
Speaker 1: the nicest person, and so we, you know, got to
Speaker 1: talking and became friends, and now she's doing great things
Speaker 1: in her life, like co authoring this book with her dad,
Speaker 1: that Resurrected Jesus. So we're going to get into that
Speaker 1: and how all of it ties together, sort of the
Speaker 1: loss of religion, the destruction of the country, and why
Speaker 1: this book is so important to him and his daughter.
Speaker 1: We're also going to talk about his late brother, Rush Limbaugh,
Speaker 1: uh and and you know, talk about what he misses
Speaker 1: the most about him and and things that people maybe
Speaker 1: don't know about him that they should. So that's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna get in today, So stay tuned for David Limba.
Speaker 1: All Right, David, I'm so excited to have you on
Speaker 1: the podcast. Full disclosure for everyone at home, David and
Speaker 1: I work together. He is my attorney, but there's nobody,
Speaker 1: nobody better to work with. I'm I'm just so glad
Speaker 1: to have you on my team, and honestly, like if
Speaker 1: I ever get canceled, I know that you'll have my
Speaker 1: back because you actually care about what's going on in
Speaker 1: this country and we share the same views on things.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm very thankful that it to have you
Speaker 1: as a friend and my attorney. So I appreciate you
Speaker 1: joining the show. Thank you those both ways. I appreciate
Speaker 1: that I appreciate David, and I also I got to
Speaker 1: know your daughter before I got to know you, And
Speaker 1: we'll talk about this awesome book that you guys wrote
Speaker 1: together here in a little bit as well. But you know, David,
Speaker 1: you and I often talk about you know, we look
Speaker 1: at what's going on in the country. You'll you look
Speaker 1: at you know, inflation and soaring gas prices, the loss
Speaker 1: of liberty, open borders. It's all intentional from the left.
Speaker 1: It's with intention It totally is. And it frustrates me
Speaker 1: when I see our colleagues conservative commentators on Fox and
Speaker 1: other places um act as though this is just a
Speaker 1: matter of incompetence or so. I even heard one of
Speaker 1: the people who I otherwise respects say, we we share
Speaker 1: the same goals as the left, we just don't want
Speaker 1: to go about it different. That's so wrong, And if
Speaker 1: we don't understand how radically different their goals are from ours.
Speaker 1: That want to utopian our dystopian state. They want they
Speaker 1: actually want to us or in cultural and governmental Marxism.
Speaker 1: And they want the Green New Deal because they want
Speaker 1: to use the government to destroy the domestic energy industry
Speaker 1: and they want to ultimately leverage that into control of
Speaker 1: the population. They want to shut down speech selectively of
Speaker 1: conservatives because they want to control the narrative. They want
Speaker 1: to control all power. They pretend to be compassionate, but
Speaker 1: they don't care about anything except themselves and their virtue. Signaling,
Speaker 1: and I think their religion is as morphed into some
Speaker 1: kind of a virtue signaling green energy thing. And uh,
Speaker 1: but they they have alienated us, that polarized us and
Speaker 1: leverage race. They're they're dividing us on race. Race relations
Speaker 1: now are worse than when during the sixties when I
Speaker 1: grew up, when it was so bad. Uh, and it's
Speaker 1: gotten better for so many years. And now they've reinstituted
Speaker 1: SEGREA and they're they're they're trying to destroy the economy
Speaker 1: this inflation. They act like, uh, they don't know what
Speaker 1: they're doing. They know they're flooding the economy with the
Speaker 1: money that we don't have, uh, too too much money,
Speaker 1: chasing too few goods. This isn't a mystery, this isn't
Speaker 1: something they can't figure out. They know, but their ideal
Speaker 1: ideologically wedded to continue to spend this money. And you
Speaker 1: could even argue that that they're doing that on purpose,
Speaker 1: like the cloud Piven thing where they're trying to bankrupt
Speaker 1: this and then pick up the pieces, re introducing their order.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't even have to be Clard Pivn. They
Speaker 1: are trying to uh spend us into oblivion because they
Speaker 1: want to transfer wealth from the people. They can't stand
Speaker 1: the people that are successful, except maybe the digital oligarchs,
Speaker 1: the people on their side, and and just completely reorient society.
Speaker 1: But look lesa beyond that, look at them at glorifying evil,
Speaker 1: the murder of babies. It's not just like it used
Speaker 1: to be safe, legal, and rare, which is always a lie.
Speaker 1: It is glorifying the murder of babies and demonizing those
Speaker 1: who champion life and biblical values. It is glorifying those
Speaker 1: who would mutilate young children in contravention of God's created
Speaker 1: order that he created. Uh, people and men and women,
Speaker 1: men and women. He created them gender specific. He didn't
Speaker 1: create man and women to narcissistic lee identify as whoever
Speaker 1: they wanted to identify. And so they're they're creating moral
Speaker 1: and intellectual chaos. The open borders. They're denying that they
Speaker 1: deliberately opened the borders, and we see it right in
Speaker 1: front of our eyes. Uh. There are at least ten
Speaker 1: existential threats to the United States that they are exacerbating
Speaker 1: and accelerating, including China, who is building, buying land, building military.
Speaker 1: We are downsizing our military and turning it into a
Speaker 1: woke laboratory, emasculating it. I can't go on enough about
Speaker 1: how they are trying to destroy the country. But I think, Lisa,
Speaker 1: and I'll end this me andering soliloquy with this, I
Speaker 1: don't think if the country dies it will be a
Speaker 1: result of the left. I think it will be a
Speaker 1: result of naive people on the right who are cowardly
Speaker 1: or naive, are are not are are unwitting opponents, and
Speaker 1: who don't realize what we're up against and therefore don't
Speaker 1: fight like our survival depends on it. I really do
Speaker 1: think it comes down to cowardice. If I'm being honest,
Speaker 1: I think we have too many people who are cowards.
Speaker 1: They want to be accepted by society, even though we
Speaker 1: we look at society and we should be looking at
Speaker 1: it with disdain. As you pointed out, we live in
Speaker 1: a society that embraces the murder of innocent babies, embraces
Speaker 1: the idea of castrating a young boy or or you know,
Speaker 1: giving a young girl double massectomy. So I can't, for
Speaker 1: the life of me, understand why anyone would want to
Speaker 1: be accepted by that. And no, and it's pleasing man
Speaker 1: instead of pleasing God. And I have to believe this
Speaker 1: is spiritual warfare, because there is no logical explanation for
Speaker 1: anyone defending this stuff with a straight face. And yet
Speaker 1: our kids have been indoctrinated. All of the major institutions
Speaker 1: are controlled by the left, from education pay through twelve,
Speaker 1: and then then the universities, and then they own Hollywood
Speaker 1: as we know, they own the digital uh conglomerates and
Speaker 1: and the major media, and so it's it's an unreality.
Speaker 1: It's a twilight zone on steroids. And you try to
Speaker 1: approach I was thinking about this. Name me a Democrat
Speaker 1: that you know, even in your personal life, who will
Speaker 1: vote against what these people are doing, even though you
Speaker 1: would think of these individual Democrats as not being radical,
Speaker 1: yet they all enable and support. That's what discourages me.
Speaker 1: I've got good friends who who don't don't either they
Speaker 1: don't realize it, or they think that we are so evil,
Speaker 1: that the Trump movement is so evil that they they
Speaker 1: would There's not anything that the left would do that
Speaker 1: they won't condone. That's what's horrifying. I can't imagine a
Speaker 1: thing they will do that that that they will oppose,
Speaker 1: and you can approach them and explain these things to them,
Speaker 1: and they have some bizarre explanations or rationalization how they're
Speaker 1: really not doing that, borders really aren't open, and and
Speaker 1: I I don't think there's any relating to these people.
Speaker 1: So as crazy as I said, I think it's demonic
Speaker 1: in the end, because I think they're under some kind
Speaker 1: of a bizarre spell and wedded to their ideology and
Speaker 1: pawns to some kind of evil force. And now I'm
Speaker 1: not like the left saying all Conservatives are evil, are
Speaker 1: all Trump? I'm saying the the forces behind it are evil.
Speaker 1: I think most of them are unwinning dukes. But the
Speaker 1: mainstream media, the Democratic politicians and all of them, they
Speaker 1: know what they're doing. And so but it's a complex thing.
Speaker 1: And I think this unwillingness to recognize evil for what
Speaker 1: it is, it is as to reiterrite the point we
Speaker 1: made before. It's what's really going to cause our downfall
Speaker 1: if we don't wake up and if we don't have
Speaker 1: the guts to stand up against it. No, I really
Speaker 1: agree with that. And and if we don't turn it around,
Speaker 1: what really can I mean, we saw a president stand
Speaker 1: up and a national primetime address and label seventy five
Speaker 1: million Americans is an enemy of the state with the
Speaker 1: military flanked behind him. And then what concerns me about
Speaker 1: that this mothering of us of US conservatives. But we've
Speaker 1: already seen sort of the dehumanization of just humans happened
Speaker 1: as a society. Right, We we call babies a clump
Speaker 1: of cells. We are treating children with such disdain and
Speaker 1: the treatment of them. So it's it's we already have
Speaker 1: this society where we don't really view human life as
Speaker 1: this is this sacred thing. And then on top of it,
Speaker 1: you have a president then dehumanizing on top of that,
Speaker 1: seventy five million Americans, and then we see this you know,
Speaker 1: young boy, the eighteen year old who is uh, you know,
Speaker 1: driven down in a car. The guy killed him with
Speaker 1: this car. You you had the prolaywoman who was going
Speaker 1: to door door shot in her arm. And so I
Speaker 1: just I wonder with all of that, in the back
Speaker 1: drop where this goes, well, you know, and that's a
Speaker 1: point a category of existential threat. I didn't mention in
Speaker 1: my litany a minute ago, the disintegration of law and order,
Speaker 1: the deliberate disintegration of law and order, so that you
Speaker 1: you have glorified the victims. I mean the perpetrators of
Speaker 1: crime and demonized the victims of crime, refused to prosecute,
Speaker 1: change the bail laws to let people out, change the
Speaker 1: laws on prosecution. You have chaos in the streets of
Speaker 1: the major cities. People are getting slaughtered, the subways aren't safe.
Speaker 1: Old women and young women are being attacked by men,
Speaker 1: and there's no condemnation from the left, and that the
Speaker 1: media doesn't talk about it. And so uh you mentioned
Speaker 1: a minute ago that that there's a diminution of respect
Speaker 1: for life. That's what I mean by just being spirit Well,
Speaker 1: God is about life. The Left is about death in
Speaker 1: every respect. It's a movement of death. Even if you
Speaker 1: want to talk about the environmental movement, they have no
Speaker 1: respect for human life. They put plant life, uh, in
Speaker 1: an elevated position to human life. Some of these wacko
Speaker 1: people think the world would be better off without any
Speaker 1: human beings, and so that the world could survive in
Speaker 1: its inanimate form and we and and human beings are extinguished.
Speaker 1: This is how psycho these people are. And and I
Speaker 1: don't know why we don't call it for what it is.
Speaker 1: What we're seeing on the news every day is beyond belief.
Speaker 1: I can't even believe we're debating it. It's so abjectively wrong,
Speaker 1: objectively wrong. There is no there is no re rational
Speaker 1: debate for much of what is going on, and yet
Speaker 1: the left uh supports it and condones it, and everybody
Speaker 1: that follows the left, i e. The Democratic Party, the
Speaker 1: media and all of them support it. So I am
Speaker 1: I am beyond uh frustrated, beyond concerned of what could happen.
Speaker 1: I don't see, I don't see how we get out
Speaker 1: of this sort of a of a spiritual revival. And
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding you because I don't see uh, any
Speaker 1: indication that there's a stopping We went above thirty one
Speaker 1: trillion international debt, and even the Republican Party doesn't say
Speaker 1: anything about that. I mean, we're condoning spending at an
Speaker 1: obscene level every day, and I don't see the Republicans
Speaker 1: doing much about it either, do you? I don't. And
Speaker 1: again it just gets to this this issue of cowardice,
Speaker 1: of just the fact that I just you know, I
Speaker 1: see it in the media. I see it in politicians,
Speaker 1: of people just not willing to speak out when they
Speaker 1: see what's wrong, or they wait until it's safe and
Speaker 1: the damage has already done. And at that point, oh now,
Speaker 1: maybe you know mass vaccinations are are bad or oh
Speaker 1: now lockdown's are bad, but you'll waited until the damage
Speaker 1: was done, you know, And so that doesn't really anything.
Speaker 1: And and and you've always been an advocate or an
Speaker 1: activist about these vaccines, and you you've been a herald
Speaker 1: out there and right now, the left even though it's
Speaker 1: known that these vaccines have caused all kinds of trouble
Speaker 1: and at the very least we know they don't prevent
Speaker 1: the spread of the disease. And yet you're still getting
Speaker 1: people kicked out of the military, are prevented from coming
Speaker 1: and playing sports in the United States because there's a
Speaker 1: vaccination rule and we know it's absurd. And is there
Speaker 1: some bureaucratic inertia that prevents us from changing these things
Speaker 1: on the spot? And and and look at the military
Speaker 1: which is now inhabited by all the leftists, and and
Speaker 1: uh who who who implement these walk policies? Who are
Speaker 1: are discouraging people by their policies from entering the military?
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's it's I have never seen a
Speaker 1: h more overt case of national suicide in my life.
Speaker 1: We all knew we were on a slow march to
Speaker 1: national suicide for the last probably fifty years, but now
Speaker 1: we're on an accelerated path, and I just cannot believe
Speaker 1: how difficult this is going to be to turn around.
Speaker 1: I still remain optimistic, though, that we can turn it around,
Speaker 1: because I have to be optimistic. I can't afford to
Speaker 1: believe otherwise. I'm not going to give up on the
Speaker 1: United States, you know, and I have hoped to, David.
Speaker 1: I do believe that Republicans will pick up the House
Speaker 1: to set it and some gubernatorial races now, you know,
Speaker 1: again our Republicans going to deliver on all the things
Speaker 1: we want them to. Probably not, but I think it
Speaker 1: can hold them off for a little bit until hopefully
Speaker 1: we get a strong president in there and then you know,
Speaker 1: further turn things around. But I haven't given up hope either. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and and we can't. But but we do have
Speaker 1: to wake people up. People on Fox people. I really
Speaker 1: like I earned somebody the other days toggesting that and
Speaker 1: somewhat facetiously but not suggesting that Trump and Obama could
Speaker 1: go negotiate this deal with North Korea and that's something
Speaker 1: we can agree up. No If you think that Obama
Speaker 1: and Trump share any kind of views as to foreign
Speaker 1: policy that are reconcilable, then you don't get it. You
Speaker 1: do not get the left, and you don't get Obama,
Speaker 1: who was a leftist and he he would have been
Speaker 1: even more extreme if he could have gotten away with it,
Speaker 1: and he's probably one of the main principles running this
Speaker 1: leftward leftward surge right now. I don't understand why people
Speaker 1: on our side do not get it, even people you
Speaker 1: think would get it. I think for me, COVID really
Speaker 1: illuminated who gets it and who doesn't. Personally, Uh, a
Speaker 1: lot of people I previously respected I lost respect for,
Speaker 1: and then people I didn't maybe necessiate, you know, look
Speaker 1: up to that degree, to to that degree, really prove it,
Speaker 1: proved themselves to be uh understand, you know, just getting
Speaker 1: it right and being strong voices on things. Quick commercial
Speaker 1: break back with David Limbaugh. You know, we're really talking
Speaker 1: about this good versus evil that's happening in society. And
Speaker 1: I know that you're someone that you know you you
Speaker 1: previously had doubts about your faith. Why why did you
Speaker 1: and what turned it around for you? Well? I am
Speaker 1: I always believed in God, because I can't imagine that
Speaker 1: how anybody could think that this, that the world could
Speaker 1: come into existence without a primary, uncaused cause. Does that
Speaker 1: even make sense to me? Uh? And so they come
Speaker 1: up with bizarre things like the multiverse or aliens. Dropped
Speaker 1: this here, well, who created the aliens? And it's just
Speaker 1: too absurd to contemplate. But I didn't necessarily subscribe to
Speaker 1: the Bible or to the divinity of Jesus Christ. But
Speaker 1: I wasn't a rebel in that sense. I always thought
Speaker 1: I wanted to. I knew who the good team was,
Speaker 1: the good guys, I knew the right team was. I
Speaker 1: wanted to be on. I wanted to be a believing Christian.
Speaker 1: But I had these doubts that so many have. Why
Speaker 1: would an all loving God allow human beings to go
Speaker 1: to everlasting punishment that kind of thing? And so I
Speaker 1: had those doubts, and I didn't know whether to believe
Speaker 1: the Bible. The real reason I didn't, I think, is
Speaker 1: because I never gave it a real chance, despite growing
Speaker 1: up in the Christian family and church and all that.
Speaker 1: And so I started examining the evidence of reading the Bible,
Speaker 1: and I came away with the the idea that there's
Speaker 1: overwhelming proof for Christianity's truth claims. It is not as
Speaker 1: the last or as the pagan secularist would would assume
Speaker 1: and would claim a blind faith that we have. This
Speaker 1: faith is based on real evidence. Uh that Jesus Christ
Speaker 1: was here, that he was resurrected bodily, and uh that
Speaker 1: uh five witnesses saw it. And these witnesses and these
Speaker 1: disciples told these stories at the risk of their own death. Uh.
Speaker 1: You you might have Muslims or other religious adherents, religious
Speaker 1: adherents of other faiths willing to die for a cause
Speaker 1: that that may or may not be true. But in
Speaker 1: the case of the Christians, there's a distinct difference. The
Speaker 1: early Christians, the disciples, they died, they were martyrs for
Speaker 1: a cause. They would not have they would have not
Speaker 1: not have died for something they knew to be false.
Speaker 1: They were testifying to something. They witnessed, the resurrection of
Speaker 1: Christ and his miracles. They saw these happen, and they
Speaker 1: were willing to suffer unbelievable abuse. They would never have
Speaker 1: done that if they thought it was a why they
Speaker 1: had nothing to gain. And so these there's compelling effences,
Speaker 1: including the supernatural uh, prophecies in the Old Testament, uh,
Speaker 1: and all the way through the Bible, and I could
Speaker 1: go on and on. So after I studied all the evidence,
Speaker 1: I became convinced that it was true, that that the
Speaker 1: Bible was the Word of God. And when I came
Speaker 1: to that realization, it blew me away. I'm holding a
Speaker 1: book that was actually written through human authors by God.
Speaker 1: And so I became an ardent student of it. And
Speaker 1: and since then, you know, thirty years later, I started
Speaker 1: writing books about it, after teaching Sunday School and all that,
Speaker 1: because I want to be able to reach people that
Speaker 1: the pastor and theologian may not be able to reach.
Speaker 1: People who are situated the way I was before. People
Speaker 1: who can relate to a lay explanation of these things
Speaker 1: and inspire people to read the Bible, to practice the
Speaker 1: spiritual disciplines and draw closer to God. That that's my
Speaker 1: real motive in writing these Christian books. How much do
Speaker 1: you think, as we have previously discussed, the decline of
Speaker 1: the country correlates with the decline of religion, um an
Speaker 1: incredible amount, probably about I I find that we have
Speaker 1: gotten away from Biblical values, and it's a direct correlation.
Speaker 1: You see right now, for example, in our society, you
Speaker 1: see the parading of transvestites, are drag queens in front
Speaker 1: of children. We see the promotion of pedophilia. We see
Speaker 1: now the the advocacy of uh, this new polyamory, polyamorous
Speaker 1: relationship where you got let's say, two men and one
Speaker 1: woman in a relationship. These are abhorrant moral developments, objectively
Speaker 1: evil things in my view. And yet we are on
Speaker 1: such a slippery path of moral relativism that anything goes now,
Speaker 1: anything goes for the left except for political conservatism and
Speaker 1: biblical traditional Christian values. That is what it is shown.
Speaker 1: That's how you know these people are. They will support anything,
Speaker 1: including Muslims being mean to homosexuals, as long as it's
Speaker 1: not Christians, so that the common denominator is they opposed
Speaker 1: the Judeo Christian ethic, the j O Christian worldview, and
Speaker 1: anything else, anything else is fine. And so right now,
Speaker 1: the disintegration these moral values has resulted in an abandonment
Speaker 1: of our constitution because the Constitution is built on those values.
Speaker 1: And for example, I'll give any example that you know
Speaker 1: they they the Framers said the Constitution is made only
Speaker 1: for moral and religious people. And I think what they
Speaker 1: ultimately meant by that was if you if you treat
Speaker 1: the Constitution as if it doesn't stay what it means,
Speaker 1: then it doesn't mean anything, and then it disintegrates. And
Speaker 1: that's what judicial activism, leftist judicial activism is. If you
Speaker 1: say the separation of powers doesn't really mean anything, if
Speaker 1: you say that you can rewrite the Constitution to say
Speaker 1: that it requires abortion be allowed, when there's nowhere in
Speaker 1: the world in the Constitution there's the numbers are emanations,
Speaker 1: and they just make this up from whole cloth. Then
Speaker 1: you no longer have any eating and you have no
Speaker 1: order to your life. You when when the left says
Speaker 1: that you can identify as a plant, or as a man,
Speaker 1: or as a woman, you're they are going directly against
Speaker 1: God's created order, which is to have created man, created
Speaker 1: human beings as men and women, not as those, not
Speaker 1: as creatures who could identify who as whoever they wanted to.
Speaker 1: So throughout the entire spectrum of our cultural and political life,
Speaker 1: you see an attack in an undermining of Christian principles,
Speaker 1: and you also see it within the church. The churches
Speaker 1: is breaking down because it doesn't stand for the Gospel anymore.
Speaker 1: I mean some churches do. Many churches don't what they
Speaker 1: really stand for. They claim that Jesus was just a
Speaker 1: nice guy that didn't care. He was tolerant about sin. Well,
Speaker 1: read the Sermon on the mount Sometimes he had less
Speaker 1: tolerance for sin even than the God of the Old Testament.
Speaker 1: It is the same God, by the way, but just
Speaker 1: different revelations and new revelations. In the New Testament, Jesus
Speaker 1: expanded on the moral teachings and they're actually were held
Speaker 1: to a higher standard in under the Christian ethic, even
Speaker 1: though it's not a matter of following rules. It's a
Speaker 1: matter of love and obedience to the triune God of
Speaker 1: the universe. But you read the the standard that we
Speaker 1: are held to in the Sermon on the Mountain, and
Speaker 1: and and tell me that Jesus is indifferent. He was
Speaker 1: not indifferent to the idea of God's created order, or
Speaker 1: or the way that the Left has redefined sex and gender.
Speaker 1: He was strong about all these things. And there's no
Speaker 1: difference between the God of the Old Testament the God
Speaker 1: of the New Testament. Same God. God doesn't change, God
Speaker 1: doesn't lie. And so uh, I find that people want
Speaker 1: to rewrite the Bible, rewrite doctrine, just like they did
Speaker 1: right at the beginning after Paul planted all these churches
Speaker 1: in the Mediterranean basin and they introduced small Stockton to
Speaker 1: say Salva was not by faith in Christ alone, but
Speaker 1: by faith plus works, faith plus circumcision, faith plus adherence
Speaker 1: to ritual rights. Or that Jesus wasn't fully human and
Speaker 1: fully divine. He couldn't have been fully human because human,
Speaker 1: because material existence is evil. So the the his death
Speaker 1: on the cross was an illusion. No, it was real.
Speaker 1: Christ became a human being. He condescended the human form
Speaker 1: to suffer the indignities of human existence so that he
Speaker 1: could die in our place and be bodily resurrected, so
Speaker 1: that those with faith in him could then also be
Speaker 1: bodily resurrected and live with Him and the Triune God
Speaker 1: and eternity. These people want to break down all of
Speaker 1: those rules, and they want to claim and all those
Speaker 1: realities and claim that uh, Christianity doesn't stand for that.
Speaker 1: Every there's millions of ways to God, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what way you choose. Christ said on the way
Speaker 1: the Truth in the Life, there's no other way to
Speaker 1: the Father except through me. He didn't say you can
Speaker 1: do it for transiental meditation, Buddhism, Islam, or any of
Speaker 1: the others. And we're not being We're not suggesting that
Speaker 1: we be intolerant to other people, are disrespectful. We are saying, if,
Speaker 1: if if truth is that, if Jesus is the truth,
Speaker 1: which he said he was, and he says he's the
Speaker 1: only way, then we're not judging. People were saying, that's
Speaker 1: what we believe, and we're doing you a favor by
Speaker 1: telling you that's what we believe, and that's that's what
Speaker 1: we think. The evidence points to that it's the truth.
Speaker 1: So we're doing you an eternal disservice if we're the
Speaker 1: sake of trying to please man instead of God, we
Speaker 1: tell you, oh, no, you can believe whatever you want.
Speaker 1: What I mean, I mean, you can't believe whatever you
Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter what you believe because God is
Speaker 1: a God of love and it doesn't matter. Now, Yes,
Speaker 1: God is a god of love that he deals with
Speaker 1: sin and he's a perfectly just God. And if we
Speaker 1: if we tell people that they can believe whatever they
Speaker 1: want it doesn't matter, then then we we're not really
Speaker 1: doing them any favor, and that's what we're seeing throughout
Speaker 1: throughout our society today. No, I mean that makes complete sense.
Speaker 1: You know, David, you've written seven New York best selling books.
Speaker 1: Now I think it might be more than that. But
Speaker 1: what makes your latest book special, The Resurrected Jesus. You
Speaker 1: wrote it with your daughter, Christen Limba Bloom, who I
Speaker 1: met a long time ago when she was interning at Fox.
Speaker 1: Now she's doing big things. She's such a lovely person
Speaker 1: to love. You know. I know you love your daughter
Speaker 1: very very much, but you raised an awesome daughter who
Speaker 1: is now a mother and you're a grandfather. But talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about this book, The Resurrected Jesus, and
Speaker 1: how special that had to have been to work with
Speaker 1: your daughter on this, who I know you love so much.
Speaker 1: This is the eleventh book I've written, and all the
Speaker 1: first ten were New York Times bestsellers. This one was
Speaker 1: on the public what you call it, publishers weekly list
Speaker 1: number ten the first week, and so objectively should have
Speaker 1: been on the New York Times that they have some
Speaker 1: bizarre thing. I don't care, it's it's just I wish
Speaker 1: it could have got on for Christen's sake, but five
Speaker 1: of the books have been Christian and the others have
Speaker 1: been political. This book is special because, as you say,
Speaker 1: wrote it with Kristen, and it was a collaborative effort
Speaker 1: where we we go through seven of Paul's epistles uh
Speaker 1: and to the churches and to his colleagues Timothy and Titus.
Speaker 1: We go through chapter and verse of the Bible, and
Speaker 1: we either state the verse or paraphrase it, and then
Speaker 1: we had commentary and insights from early church fathers and
Speaker 1: commentators all throughout church history. But we've had an additional
Speaker 1: element that I didn't have in my first four Christian books,
Speaker 1: which is prayer. Christen is a prayer warrior, spirit filled
Speaker 1: person who who really gets the heart part of Christianity.
Speaker 1: I'm more of the headside of it, and I've study
Speaker 1: all the time, but she is a person who who
Speaker 1: believes that I mean, I believe it as I don't
Speaker 1: mean to suggest my belief as any less that she
Speaker 1: has such a connection with God and with Christ and
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, and she had a facility for prayers.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to add these prayers because it will
Speaker 1: help readers interact with the content of the Bible and
Speaker 1: with the content of the book, which is about the Bible,
Speaker 1: and so every three or four pages we have prayers
Speaker 1: that are directly related to it, and Christen mostly authored
Speaker 1: those prayers and in addition to helping on the rest
Speaker 1: of the book. And I just very I'm very gratified
Speaker 1: with with how this has gone. She's written op eds
Speaker 1: for Fox on Christian themes, and I wanted to give
Speaker 1: her a jump start in the book writing world because
Speaker 1: so many people open doors for me Rush and John
Speaker 1: Hannity and others without whom I probably never would have
Speaker 1: had those doors open. So I want to try to
Speaker 1: help other people in that same way, and especially my daughter,
Speaker 1: And so she's just risen to the occasion. I feel
Speaker 1: really good about the final product, and I think I
Speaker 1: humbly hope that it helps people if they read it,
Speaker 1: draw closer to God and inspires to read the Bible
Speaker 1: more and to pray more. Well. And you can really
Speaker 1: see that light in your daughter, because she truly is
Speaker 1: just a special person. She's just a lovely woman. Um
Speaker 1: So you can see that in her. She's just a
Speaker 1: beautiful person. Uh. And I've really enjoyed getting to know
Speaker 1: her quick break more with David, you know you mentioned
Speaker 1: your brother. It's been over years since his passing. What
Speaker 1: do you miss the most about your brother? Rush? Uh?
Speaker 1: His presence in my life. I we probably texted back
Speaker 1: and forth times a day, and so I would share
Speaker 1: with him so many things every day, and a lot
Speaker 1: of these are just mundane things, and so I guess
Speaker 1: I could say he was my best friend. And even
Speaker 1: though we didn't talk on the phone much because he
Speaker 1: had and that hearing problem that everyone knew about, so
Speaker 1: we always would text and so many times. Still less
Speaker 1: than it used to be, but still I have these
Speaker 1: thoughts every day. I gotta share this with Russian then,
Speaker 1: and then the microsecond later I realized that he's not
Speaker 1: here and I can't share it. So that's a you know,
Speaker 1: that's a loss, and the whole thing is an avoid
Speaker 1: in my life. And it kind of set me for
Speaker 1: a on a on a tail spin there for a while.
Speaker 1: I think I actually was depressed, you know, not clinically
Speaker 1: depressed like people have from chemicals, chemical imbalances, but just
Speaker 1: situationally depressed. When you can go through grief, I guess
Speaker 1: that leads to depression. I snapped out of it, but
Speaker 1: it is tough and um, and you know, it's tough
Speaker 1: losing your parents, but when you lose a sibling, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're you're in the foxhole together from the time you're born.
Speaker 1: I knew Russ since I was born, my whole life. Obviously,
Speaker 1: he's two years older. And then he died almost a
Speaker 1: year and a half ago, and so that that that
Speaker 1: can never be replaced, and it's uh tough and and
Speaker 1: but but the the good thing about it is that
Speaker 1: what I learned is I knew how talented viously he
Speaker 1: was from the very beginning, from the time we were kids.
Speaker 1: So gifted as a broadcaster, and he did it. He
Speaker 1: broadcasts TV and radio shows when he he was seven
Speaker 1: years old, simulating broadcasts in our house. But we we
Speaker 1: all knew and everybody felt their own views. Conservatives felt
Speaker 1: their views validated when Rush got his national audience. Why
Speaker 1: somebody's out there giving voice to things I believe but
Speaker 1: I never hear in the media, and so and and
Speaker 1: Rush was universally recognized as a unique talent, and even
Speaker 1: the people that hated him gave him that credit. But
Speaker 1: so I knew that in space, But what I didn't
Speaker 1: realize was the extent to which there was an intimate
Speaker 1: bond with his audience where they actually considered him to
Speaker 1: be family members. I bet a family member. I bet.
Speaker 1: I've received no exaggeration, uh ten thousand communications, whether on twitters, uh, Twitter,
Speaker 1: or email, personal letter, phone calls, Facebook. People say he's
Speaker 1: the best friend they never met, that they feel wounded
Speaker 1: and grieving every day still. I mean, you can look
Speaker 1: at my Twitter mentions. You can't believe it. It is
Speaker 1: overwhelmingly heartning and so to me, that is uplifting to me,
Speaker 1: that that he meant so much to them, And it
Speaker 1: connects all of this because Russ stood for the values
Speaker 1: that you and I are talking about today, and he
Speaker 1: stood against the left, and he was the tip of
Speaker 1: the spirit. He was the guy that took all of
Speaker 1: the backlash from the media matters and the other hateful liberals,
Speaker 1: the gay activists initially, who were held bent on destroying him,
Speaker 1: and he stood there alone, really and took all the
Speaker 1: arrows so that those of us in his wake would
Speaker 1: be better situated and and empowered to stand up against
Speaker 1: them too. But I I people have no idea. I
Speaker 1: guarantee you people have no idea. But I was there,
Speaker 1: uh behind the scene with him the whole time, trying
Speaker 1: to support him throughout, and he was tough. I if
Speaker 1: I were in his place, I don't know that I
Speaker 1: could have withstood all the arrows that he took. And
Speaker 1: so I'm proud of him. It will always be proud
Speaker 1: of it. Did that come from your parents, because you
Speaker 1: guys are both like that in terms of you know,
Speaker 1: standing up for your beliefs and being able to stand
Speaker 1: strong in the face of that opposition. Did that Did
Speaker 1: that come from your parents or why do you think
Speaker 1: both of you guys kind of had those values instilled
Speaker 1: in you so strongly. My dad was a conservatives conservative.
Speaker 1: He was a Goldwater Conservative in sixties, was against Nixon
Speaker 1: for and four gold Water back when Goldwater was you know,
Speaker 1: the quintessential conservative. Yeah, and he was very sharp. My
Speaker 1: dad was gifted, especially when it came to law and politics.
Speaker 1: He was a lawyer like everybody in my family. And
Speaker 1: it's like my dad used to hold court. You know
Speaker 1: a lot of kids in high school and when they
Speaker 1: go out and go out and party and all that
Speaker 1: and go out to girls, and we all did. But
Speaker 1: one of the favorite pastimes of Russia's friends and my
Speaker 1: friends was to come to our house and listen to
Speaker 1: my dad hold court in our living room, and he
Speaker 1: just start doing his monologues. And so when I see
Speaker 1: what Rush Rush did, it was like he's my dad
Speaker 1: writ large now within that and he had a national
Speaker 1: audience to do, to pontificate like my dad did in
Speaker 1: our front room, and and it's a shame my dad
Speaker 1: never had that kind of audience. But on the other hand,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't have worked with my dad because he didn't
Speaker 1: have a sense of humor when it came to politics.
Speaker 1: My mom was hilarious and just a just a class clown, funny,
Speaker 1: and so Russ got the best of both worlds. I'm
Speaker 1: a I'm a class clown too, I'm just not when
Speaker 1: it comes to politics. I'm too serious. You can tell me.
Speaker 1: I couldn't ever, even if I had Russia's talent, I
Speaker 1: couldn't do his show because I'm always mad at what
Speaker 1: the Left is doing. I'm so outrage I'm perpetually outraged
Speaker 1: by what they're doing. Not that Rush wasn't that he
Speaker 1: had a way of the unique way of lampooning him
Speaker 1: which made him that much matter, And he used to
Speaker 1: laugh at me. David you're you're like Rush. We call
Speaker 1: my dad Rush, not him. We didn't call I didn't. Well,
Speaker 1: I later called him Rush, but he wasn't Rush growing up.
Speaker 1: He's rusting. So we always joked about my dad after
Speaker 1: he died, well, Rushed get this and that and Rush
Speaker 1: was he said, you're like Rush, you gotta light nup,
Speaker 1: and I can't. I'm just I can't. When it comes
Speaker 1: to politics, it's so hard for me to light that.
Speaker 1: Russia had that gift where where he could he he's
Speaker 1: just as outraged as I am, but he that he
Speaker 1: could make fun of him and make everybody laugh and
Speaker 1: happy and and still without without diminishing the seriousness of
Speaker 1: the issues at hand. So that was another gift that
Speaker 1: that I am vy, but but I realized I don't
Speaker 1: have it well. And also a fierce independence to be
Speaker 1: able to stand strong when you're you're taking so much incoming,
Speaker 1: Oh unbelievable. And you know, there are times as his
Speaker 1: lawyer that I was really worried that they would finally
Speaker 1: be to cancel him. And there are times when I
Speaker 1: would try to talk him into backing off in certain
Speaker 1: issues where he literally could not win, and they might
Speaker 1: have been able to destroy him, And there were probably
Speaker 1: only two of those in the history of our relationship
Speaker 1: where I was actually trying, not not as a matter
Speaker 1: of cowardice, but as a matter of pragmatism, to fight
Speaker 1: another day, because I they they these people are vicious
Speaker 1: and they distort what you say, and we saw it
Speaker 1: throughout the Trump there two and but he had such
Speaker 1: good instincts and he that so he would hear me
Speaker 1: out and I never wanted him to back down, but
Speaker 1: sometimes I was worried that they would finally be able
Speaker 1: to get him. But he had an antenna, he kind
Speaker 1: of had. He was uncanny, Unlike so many hosts. He
Speaker 1: knew how far he could go. Only a few times
Speaker 1: did he really get in trouble, and even there that
Speaker 1: those things were distorted mostly so um it was a
Speaker 1: fascinating thing to watch because he put his whole career
Speaker 1: the line. He could have loved. He was making millions
Speaker 1: and millions a year. He could have been he could
Speaker 1: have that could have all been taken away from him.
Speaker 1: But he believed so strongly in what he was doing.
Speaker 1: And this wasn't a matter of personal pride, honestly, it
Speaker 1: was a matter of him bleeding so fiercely and what
Speaker 1: he what he was advocating that he didn't he wasn't
Speaker 1: going to be shut down. He wasn't going to allow
Speaker 1: them to to censor him. Uh and you know that
Speaker 1: that that's I don't know if people have talked about
Speaker 1: that as much when they talked about him, but it
Speaker 1: is uh so admirable, and I think some and it's
Speaker 1: a different thing as somebody does on a local show
Speaker 1: because they're not a big enough fish to go after.
Speaker 1: Rush was the big fish, and so he every time
Speaker 1: he did something like that, he he was risking his career,
Speaker 1: and he didn't matter. He was undaunted and kept going
Speaker 1: and the result was the most successful show in the
Speaker 1: history of radio broadcasting. And he created a new genre
Speaker 1: conservative talk from which thousands of people have benefited. You know, you, me,
Speaker 1: everybody who's out there commenting. There wasn't this industry before.
Speaker 1: There was a very small padre of people, you know,
Speaker 1: the mclaughlain group, Bill Buckley, those people. When I was
Speaker 1: growing up, you weren't even born yet probably and there.
Speaker 1: But but now look at how many of us there are,
Speaker 1: and that's pretty encouraging. I just wish there would be
Speaker 1: less ego on on on, so many of us on
Speaker 1: our side and people trying to up to you know,
Speaker 1: compete with each other. We need to we need to
Speaker 1: stand together and fight this left which always seems to
Speaker 1: be united. Well, feel free to send me a text
Speaker 1: if I ever do knock me down a bit or Actually,
Speaker 1: my parents, I'm not worried about I'm not worried about
Speaker 1: you parents. My parents are there for that. They're the
Speaker 1: ones that they the second anything got at the hand,
Speaker 1: they would shut me down. Yeah, but you're fierce too
Speaker 1: and very it's very admirable that that, and you've you've
Speaker 1: been I know you. People have tried to shut you
Speaker 1: down and get you to stand down from your place
Speaker 1: and you've refused to do it, and uh, that is
Speaker 1: just so admirable. I can't tell you. Well, I'm thankful
Speaker 1: to have you by my side. Um, you're a friend,
Speaker 1: my lawyer, and the co author with your daughter of
Speaker 1: the Resurrected Jesus. I hope it continues to be a
Speaker 1: massive success. You're an amazing guy, You've raised an amazing daughter,
Speaker 1: and well you've raised five kids, but I've only met one,
Speaker 1: so I can I can only speak to Kristen, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure the rest are great. The books just out everywhere.
Speaker 1: People can get it on you know, Amazon or bookstore
Speaker 1: or wherever else. David Limba, thanks so much for joining.
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you soon. Have a great day. Thank you.
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