Four, three, two, one.

We are live with Alan Dershowitz, who has been, you know, in so many famous cases over the decades.

Really appreciate him spending time with us this evening.

All of his links are in the description if you want to support his important work.

And before we get into some of these cases, Alan, huge thank you for coming on.

And the viewers would like to know a little bit about, you know,

what got you into this profession in the first place?

I was born to be a lawyer.

I was always arguing with everybody.

Yeshiva Elementary School, Jewish Elementary School,

I argued with my rabbis.

In fact, I'm writing my next book, this is my 60,

I don't know, third, fourth, fourth book. It's called, it ain't necessarily so my guide to how to live

the life of a skeptic. And so I've always been argumentative. I've always been a skeptic.

I've never accepted things just because somebody said them. And so I've always been argumentative. I've always been a skeptic. I've never accepted things just because somebody said them.

And so being a lawyer was a natural thing for me. And I grew up poor. And so for me, a lawyer meant, you know, defending people who are charged in crime.

They never wanted to be a corporate lawyer or a money lawyer or an estate lawyer or anything like that.

I always just wanted to be a criminal defense lawyer.

And was that a career that your parents encouraged?

Were they of similar professions?

No, my parents were not educated.

My father didn't graduate high school.

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