"and he has great-grandchildren this is my probably fourth cousins, third cousins, depending how many generations down and these are cousins of mine who live in Israel"

"We are not known for our athletic and physical gifts we're not known for our lack of physical gifts and athletic ability maybe in some very small circles in my high school or some of my Rebbea may know me for that but that's not where we're known from in America"

"But in Israel, Natan Beshefkin is actually quite famous because he won the show called Survivor which you may be familiar with it's a show that ran in America was extremely popular in North America"

"who our family is connected to and very close with who decided for a host of reasons for a different episode to use our last name as his pen name it's not a good thing its not a good pen name because we really know all living Beshefkins but one of the cousins who i really found out in a more interesting way they may have mentioned this before is when i was at passport control on my way into israel and the woman who was checking my passport looked at my name david beshefkin and looked at me and looked back at the passport and was looking at me like i was a celebrity i assure you it was not because she knew who i was this is way before 1840 and i don't think this woman at passport control knew who i was i don't think this woman at passport control in israel was an 1840 listener instead she looked at me and said beshefkin and right away i could see the name was familiar to her and she looked at me and says atamu}"