My father had an accident when he was a young man. He said, look, everyone has their burden to bear in life.

And the key is not being defined by those. It's overcoming them. It's turning your own path,

deciding what you want your life to be, and you live it out.

Hi, and welcome to the Sunday special. I'm eager to welcome to the program. Our guest, Daniel Crowdhammer, the son of Charles Crowdhammer. Now, reminder, there will be one question at the end,

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you being here. No, thank you, Ben, for having me. It's good to be with you, and I appreciate you having me on. Well, I want to lead off by, number one, expressing my condolences for the loss of your father, who was an icon in the conservative movement, and also somebody who I really grew up reading and trying to hone myself after. I wrote a eulogy after he passed away in which I talked about how in my early career, you're 17, you're 18, you're looking at which writers do I want to be like? And early on I was thinking, how about like Ann Coulter, right? She has a lot of funny lines and she hits people really hard. And then as I got older, I realized that the writer that I most wanted to be like was your dad, because he actually considered issues incredibly deeply. I realized that as news broke,

he was usually the opinion I was looking to first for what's a reason take on the issues. And so,

I think there are a lot of conservatives who are my age, older conservatives too, are very grateful

that your dad was there to provide that sort of guidepost. Before we get into the book and talking about

your dad, first, why don't we talk about you? What's your background? What do you do?

Yeah, so my own life has been on a bit of hold these last 18 months now since since my father got ill,

I spent 10 months with him in hospital,

and then all the time since then committed myself

to finishing the book for him and launching the book

and making sure his legacy was secured.

My own background is in political science and economics and business.

I did a lot of work in policy and wrote quite a bit on political issues myself.

The last several years, went to business school, worked in technology and startups, and to a

degree I'm really still figuring out what my full path in life will be.

And so this has been the number one priority in my life for all this time.

But now that I'll finally be able to get back to my own life, I'll take a breath and

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