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Robert J Wolf MD author of not a real enemy. Tell me about your vision

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Well, hi Jackson, I appreciate you having me on thank you so much

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It's it's an honor to be a guest on your program

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Well, my vision is pretty straightforward

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I am fervently trying to fight anti-semitism in my own little way my own little corner

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My mom and dad were both Holocaust educators when I was growing up and the first half of my life

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I wasn't I didn't really care that much because I was I went to medical school and raised a family a career

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Sort of a different to it. But later in life

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Sort of grew on me and my mom continued to educate

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my family and friends

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Not just about the Holocaust but communists communism the dark world in general. So

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Six years ago when I started this project writing the book if you knew me then you'd say this guy would never do this

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I'm not a writer. I'm a doctor. I'm a I'm an anatomy and math and science and

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But you you never know that you'd never guess that I did this that I would do this

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so but I got the bug I I had a lot of things going on in my life, but

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after my dad died and then my mom died a

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Historian friend handed me a disc of my dad's autobiography that they compiled they did it in the 70s

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And they wrote the stories as though they had happened the previous day. They were very sharp. They were very well-rounded

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They're intelligent

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Loved not just history but arts and sciences museum travel

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education and

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It I got the bug I converted my dad's autobiography into a biography and they literally went paper and pencil to

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typewriter to a computer to a disc and then after my mom passed in

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2016 a historian friend handed me the disc and said you have to read this and I might have read the manuscript

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You know, maybe 30 years before but never thought much of it

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But then this next time when I did in 2018

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I said this cannot the story is so amazing that it cannot sit in a computer cannot sit on a piece of plastic

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This needs to be shared and the messages were clear from page one to the end of the book talk about anti-semitism

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And and how my dad fought it off and survived and it wasn't so good for for everybody

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But my dad was miraculously miraculously got through it. So he was a four-time escape artist, which was a big draw

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multiple miracles in between all that

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The very lucky split-second things that I'm lucky that he was lucky to make it to the United States

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I'm lucky to be around it's a big it's a gratitude thing. So

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Legacy for my parents and I'm giving back to the Jewish community

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That's amazing

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So goodbye October 1943 the house was dark and quiet

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Irvin stepped into his parents bedroom knowing that despite the early morning hour his father would want to say goodbye

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A part of him wanted to just leave not face him not see once more the creeping fear that day by day had etched itself

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Deeper into his father's face. So the now his fright was unmistakable

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It's a powerful book

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What a powerful message

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vision I

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Yeah, I look forward to seeing you continue to move this forward

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It's it's super important that we as a world move towards love

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That's my belief. I'm gonna project that belief on people. They wonder not that's the one that I I will project

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So this is a this is fantastic and I can't wait to learn more about it. Thank you for being here today

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I'm really happy that you tuned in to vision pros live

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I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward

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This is gonna get more and more fun. We'll have more and more engagement as well

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We'll invite people to participate in the show and thank you for giving us your time and attention

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Have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a vision pro yourself