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Surviving the Survivor,

where we bring you the best guests in all of True Prime.

What's up, SDS Nation, and welcome to this special episode of Surviving the Survivor, the podcast that promises to bring you

the very best guests in all of true crime and sometimes we deliver America's most beloved and one of its best-selling

authors and that is what is happening today a very very special show and of course today we're also going to be speaking about

arguably one of the worst crimes ever committed against humankind so not too far off from the true crime genre and a circuitous kind of way.

I just want to say before we get cracking here, before I introduced a VIP of all VIP best guests.

Tuesdays with Morrie.

I went to Brandeis University, the same place

where Morrie Schwartz was a professor, the same school that Mitch Album attended and for years I've wanted to tell my mother's story and that book has always been

Sort of the seed the inspiration for what has now become surviving the

survivor and Mitch album who I will openly admit I harassed and hounded but he he's a mens, a gentleman and a scholar and he actually has written a blurb for the book, which is going to help us immensely.

Without further ado, let me introduce Mitch Album, born, I have to say this in Passaic, New Jersey, our home state, the best state next to maybe Michigan in Detroit. He is the middle child,

um, to Rhoda and Ira album. He's an internationally renowned

the best-selling author, a journalist, a screenwriter, a playwright,

a radio and television broadcaster, and a musician.

His books have collectively sold more than 41 million copies worldwide.

You heard that right.

41 million copies, they've been published in 51 territories in 48

languages and he's not just about writing books and making money he's also about giving back a ton. In 2006,

Mitch founded the nonprofit, Say Detroit. He also operates a home in a school in

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