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Hey, it's Buck Sexton, and you're listening to The Carol Markowitz Show on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Podcast Network.

Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show.

This is not going to be a political show.

It was important to me that this show be on bigger topics and

not just news of the day. But the news right now is extremely personal to me and so I have to say

something about it. On Saturday morning, Israel was attacked. I'm sure you've seen the horrifying

videos and stories. I'm not you've seen the horrifying videos and stories.

I'm not going to go over any of that. I've barely slept since Saturday. The images, they

really stay on my mind. We're just getting to know each other on this podcast, so I wanted

to tell you a little bit more about myself.

I mentioned last episode that I was born in the Soviet Union. I'm Jewish, and that's actually

how my family was able to get out. I won't go into the whole history, but I do enjoy noting

that my family owes their freedom to President Gerald Ford. He negotiated for

Jews to be let out of the Soviet Union because we were being persecuted for our religion.

We couldn't hold various jobs, live in certain places, and so on. I feel like people sometimes don't understand that Judaism is a religion, yes, but we are also a

people.

That's why I can take a DNA test and find out that I'm Jewish, but you can't similarly

take a DNA test for other faiths and find out that you're Catholic or Muslim or something.

So in the Soviet Union, we were Jews as our nationality.

That's what it said on our papers.

It wasn't like you could convert out of it.

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