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Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Marco Show on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: My guest today is Guy M.

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Speaker 1: Guy is the semi anonymous author of The Rescue October

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Speaker 1: seventh Through the Eyes of Israel's Power Rescue Commandos.

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Speaker 2: So nice to have you on, Guy.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having me Carol on your amazing show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I loved your book. I really found it so amazing.

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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of the time, I think, especially Jews,

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Speaker 1: like we tell and retell the stories. And I even

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Speaker 1: you know, I got to where my kids, my teenager

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Speaker 1: who reads a lot, would be like, no more Holocaust books.

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Speaker 1: But it's important to retell the stories so that people

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Speaker 1: know what really happened. And I feel like that was

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Speaker 1: the point for you in writing this.

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Speaker 2: Book, right.

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Speaker 3: So originally it's kind of hard to really point out

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Speaker 3: what was the purpose of writing the book, because we

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Speaker 3: were in the middle of war, literally rescuing casualties from

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Speaker 3: Aza from Lebanon after and in this mid war situation,

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Speaker 3: and me and the guys that were together on October

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Speaker 3: seventh on the first team to leave six six nine,

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Speaker 3: which is Israel's special Forces rescue unit, we found ourselves

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Speaker 3: on that day in the two or three days afterwards

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Speaker 3: in the communities, we were witnessing the most horrible scenes

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Speaker 3: no one could even imagine. And then no closure, nothing

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Speaker 3: like ceremony that kinds of wraps it up. One day

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Speaker 3: we're just at base preparing for war, and then we're

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Speaker 3: in war doing our jobs. I'm a paramedic, I was

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Speaker 3: trained for three years to do this job. I'm in

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Speaker 3: med school now. I haven't been on duty, like actual

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Speaker 3: war duty since by mandatory service back then from twenty

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Speaker 3: thirteen to twenty eighteen, and there was no closure. And

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Speaker 3: this is also the experience of so many soldiers talking

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Speaker 3: to maybe thousands, because it's not like the whole Israeli

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Speaker 3: army was there on October seventh, but for thousands of

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Speaker 3: us that were there, we just continued into this full

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Speaker 3: blown war. And you're absolutely right. There are so many

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Speaker 3: events happening right after each other, and it's we're living

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Speaker 3: in times that it's even hard to grasp the magnitude

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Speaker 3: of each event as itself. Remember, we're so shocked when

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Speaker 3: the deeper operation that was our board as a rescue

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Speaker 3: unit for the beginning of the war, of eliminating the

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Speaker 3: threat from Lebanon from up North, and then we're still

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Speaker 3: kind of trying to grasp that magnitude. And then we're

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Speaker 3: at this point after one of the most brilliant operations

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Speaker 3: I guess in modern war. The how President Trump call

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Speaker 3: it was they war with Iran. So for us, it's

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Speaker 3: even hard to point out what was the purpose, But

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Speaker 3: if I tried to kind of put it into an essence,

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Speaker 3: we needed to put a closure to that event. So

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Speaker 3: we started writing it and it was amazing for me

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Speaker 3: to see what the guys, with the soldiers that were

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Speaker 3: worth me bolks from the things that we saw, from

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Speaker 3: the gunshots with the terrorists, with treating casualties, mass casualty,

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Speaker 3: incident horrors, the bodies and chunks of the timeline were missing,

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Speaker 3: and it was putting it together was as itself an amazing,

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Speaker 3: amazing act for me to witness this, and it broughtmotion

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Speaker 3: to the guys because for soldiers, rescue soldiers in general,

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Speaker 3: for soldiers, we understand mission, we know missions, so when

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Speaker 3: we need to do a mission, we know what to do.

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Speaker 3: Emotions not really, that's part part of the equation is harder.

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Speaker 3: If you ask a twenty one and wear a rescue

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Speaker 3: soldier from six sixth night to jump out of the

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Speaker 3: helicopter in the middle of the ocean. Doesn't even know

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Speaker 3: it's waiting. While he's jumping into the water, you won't

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Speaker 3: even blink. If you can ask him to talk about

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Speaker 3: how is he feeling, then you're going to see this

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Speaker 3: torturous face on him. So even Dad for itself, to

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Speaker 3: see the guys bringing it together, it was amazing. And

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Speaker 3: until today, you know, I'm not a psychologist, but they

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Speaker 3: think it's so clear. Why until today there's more than

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Speaker 3: we're not even two years from Actober seventh. There's more

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Speaker 3: than one hundred books in Hebrew about October seventh, one

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Speaker 3: hundred and many maybe in English or not many, but

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Speaker 3: there will be. And still this is the rescue, and

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Speaker 3: how it's called in Hebrew, it's called I'll say it

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Speaker 3: in Hebrew, not waiting for call. So it's the only

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Speaker 3: book written by soldiers who actually fought there and not

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Speaker 3: by journalists or testimonies are victims.

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Speaker 2: It's such an interesting point.

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Speaker 1: I don't think people realize how much how little firsthand

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Speaker 1: account is in the books.

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Speaker 2: Like a lot of people will.

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Speaker 1: Have takes we as we say, and they'll have perspective,

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Speaker 1: but your story is actually the one from the ground.

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Speaker 1: What do people not know about that day that they'll

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Speaker 1: learn in your book.

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Speaker 3: One of the things that we did want to emphasize,

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Speaker 3: not intentionally, but as we were talking and the guys

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Speaker 3: were describing, is, for one, how little we knew. If

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Speaker 3: I will tell you today Carol, that tomorrow there's going

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Speaker 3: to be aliens land in Washington and President Trump talking

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Speaker 3: to him about I don't know, life in another universe.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna look at me like I smoked something or something.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I might believe you after.

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Speaker 3: This, Okay, So I'm gonna try to think about it's

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Speaker 3: something more bizarre, man, Okay, And this is from I

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Speaker 3: guess that's what we're talking about. Most people they were like, well,

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Speaker 3: most likely that's not going to happen, right. We couldn't

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Speaker 3: imagine in our worst nightmares what happened on October seventh.

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Speaker 3: It was so so far fetched. When we're going down

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Speaker 3: and we're driving down south on October seventh morning in

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Speaker 3: a pickup truck, we thought to ourselves, what we could imagine.

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Speaker 3: There's a group of terrorists dozen twenty that infiltrated through

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Speaker 3: people looking to butcher Israelis. It's not in our capability

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Speaker 3: today looking back, as Israel's society is very critical of

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Speaker 3: Through the story itself, we were just a group of

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Speaker 3: guys going down, trying to do our best in the

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Speaker 3: circumstances that are just just unreasonable to judge and also,

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Speaker 3: if I may say, also are We didn't want it

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Speaker 3: to be a testimony. We wanted the reader to get

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Speaker 3: caught in the web of the book, not because he

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Speaker 3: wants to know about October seventh, but rather he's reading

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Speaker 3: You want caught inside the web of the book. That

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Speaker 3: was very important for us, right.

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Speaker 1: I felt like that like where you you know you're

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Speaker 1: worrying about the protagonist, even though I know you know

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Speaker 1: you live to write the book. But you were an

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Speaker 2: What do you remember about it?

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Speaker 3: I think when I look back, and even for me,

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Speaker 3: And I remember that this is a mechanism that everyone,

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Speaker 3: we always do that. We kind of downgrade the situation

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Speaker 3: and the whole gratitude of responsibility is just so hard

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Speaker 3: to function. So we always do this degradation. And if

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Speaker 3: And still they say, we felt like we're in the

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Speaker 3: like that's the feeling. So we're always doing this degradation.

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Speaker 3: So I remember him driving down south on October seventh

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Speaker 3: this is serious, be careful, and they're like, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: to be serious. I couldn't. It was just decordating until

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Speaker 2: It hits you, this is real.

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Speaker 3: It's not even real. It's just the beginning. And when

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Speaker 3: we think, okay, we got to the most chaotic scene

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Speaker 3: when we reached the Nova Festival and then we're sent

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Speaker 3: to liberate a commute. Liberate it's like that's the word.

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Speaker 3: It's under the control of an organization, terrorist organization, and

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Speaker 3: we're trying to liberate it. These are terms that we've

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Speaker 3: never we've never experienced, ever talked in the rescue unit.

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Speaker 3: We're always preparing for the worst. We're always training ourself

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Speaker 3: this rescuation. That's why we're prepared. This was never, never,

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Speaker 1: When you get to the kibbutz to liberate it, what

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Speaker 3: First thing that comes to my mind is how I

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Speaker 3: And then the second thing I remember I see is

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Speaker 3: was there for an event like this. They gave a

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Speaker 3: by surprise, and there were dozens of terrorists storming well equipped.

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Speaker 3: I see bodies of terrorists on the floor with immunition,

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Speaker 3: That's the first thing that I saw, and it kind

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Speaker 3: of gave me a boost of confidence to see that happening.

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Speaker 3: And then of course we were caught into a gun

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Speaker 2: What was that like?

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Speaker 2: What did you what do you think in that moment?

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Speaker 1: You're you're there to liberate the Kibbutz and you're under fire.

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Speaker 1: I mean, do you are you feeling like this is

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Speaker 3: This in some sort of a point of view, is

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Speaker 3: the essence of being a soldier. If it's it doesn't

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Speaker 1: So when somebody reads the Rescue, what's the thing that

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Speaker 3: I want them to understand and try to understand Fudhism,

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Speaker 1: It's a good time right now, it's a good recording.

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Speaker 3: We managed, as me it was sorry, not we as

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Speaker 1: It's funny because you seem like you've done quite a lot.

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Speaker 3: You're not sure that your colors are bright. You're like,

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Speaker 1: back on the Carol Marcowitch Show. Well, I've enjoyed this

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Speaker 1: I hope you write more books. I hope that we

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Speaker 1: maybe outside of terrible events in our you know, shared history.

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Speaker 3: When I was in ninth grade, I joined my father.

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Speaker 3: and it was like a synergy because that's the whole essence.

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Speaker 1: I love that be the last line of defense. That's

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Speaker 1: really it's a great piece of advice. The book is

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Speaker 1: called The Rescue October seventh, Through the Eyes of Israel's

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Speaker 1: Para rescue Commandos. Get it on Amazon or anywhere you

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Speaker 1: buy books. Thank you so much for coming on guy.

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