Joe Spector
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From Uzbekistan.
Uzbekistan.
Former or current separate country at this point.
Yep.
What was Uzbekistan like?
You know, it's Muslim majority, but I would say secular.
And everyone got along, I thought, quite well.
And we're Jewish.
And I actually didn't even know Jews and Muslims are supposed to not get along when we went to each other's weddings.
There's lots of...
Shared history and similarity.
Yeah, so it was, you know, we, you know, I mean, I had a good childhood.
We left everything behind because my dad was almost thrown into a labor camp for having an illegal book, which is just like a regular, I'm sure it's probably maybe a book on your shelf.
What book was it?
It's called Exodus by Leon Uris.
No!
No way.
Yeah.
And it's just a book about- Yeah, it was huge in the 70s.
Yeah.