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Former U.S.Senator Ben Sasse delivered a heartfelt reflection on his life, parenting, and politics to the Ruthless Podcast in an exclusive interview released Tuesday morning. "Death sucks, but I'm not really scared," Sasse told the Fellas.
"People are surprised by the answer.And I’m like, well, I guess I’ll talk for a little while."Sasse was diagnosed with metastatic stage-four pancreatic cancer in December.
Throughout the interview, Sasse emphasized the importance of being rooted."We have funeral plots in Arlington, Nebraska, 14 miles east of our house along the river in Dodge County, Nebraska," Sasse said."I don’t want my family to ever give that up."FORMER GOP SEN.
BEN SASSE REVEALS STAGE-4 CANCER DIAGNOSIS: 'IT'S A DEATH SENTENCE'Former Sen.Ben Sasse speaks at the Palm Beach Synagogue in December 2025 after announcing his metastatic pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
(Getty Images)Sasse’s career has taken him across the country and, at times, away from his family for extended periods of time.Receiving degrees from Harvard and Yale, he worked as a management consultant before coming back to academia. After serving as the president of Midland University, Sasse was first elected to the Senate in 2014. Sasse resigned from his seat in 2023 to become the President of the University of Florida. In the interview, podcast co-host Comfortably Smug, himself a recent father, cited a recent op-ed by Sasse’s daughter and asked for parenting advice.VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE REVEALS HE HAS 'SACRED TIME' WITH HIS FAMILY FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS EVERY DAYFormer Sen.
Ben Sasse, R-Neb.(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)"I recently just had a son," Smug mentioned.
"How did you manage to raise such self-actualized individuals? She said the line that opened with where instead of asking them, like, ‘how was your day?’ You asked them, ‘who did you serve?’ This makes an individual more outward-looking and trying to be a contributor to their community and their friends rather th...