Ancestors. Thank you. I'll start that over. Okay. So, as an American, if you have ancestors, if you have any connection to another country, another culture. If you can get a passport, it can be really advantageous for your career. So obviously for myself, you know, my father being Jewish and still having relatives who live in Israel currently, that it was an easy connection, you know. And I have teammates. Diana Ross's father was born in Italy. She has an Italian passport. Um, so I know it's it's interesting when I tell this to people, kind of like outside of basketball circles, it seems a little odd. But in our world, it's like very normal. There's I can name, like off the top of my head, like 10 to 20 players that have passports has a second passport. Um, so yeah. So that's kind of how, how it all came about. And it was cool because what I found was in this effort to create an opportunity, my basketball career, I was able to learn a lot about a culture that I probably wouldn't have, you know, tapped into prior. Um, like I said, I grew up going to, you know, different Passover dinners and things of that nature. but it was just the surface there. So now I really got to I mean, so part of it was I made Aliya. So part of it was being just immersed and live, basically living there for a little bit. And it was it was one of the best experiences. Um, just to kind of, I don't know, people have like this whole different image of what Israel is and how it is and what it's about. And yes, there are, you know, military people all over and they have guns and yes, you have to walk through a metal detector pretty much everywhere you go, whether it's the bank or the mall or restaurant. And I think people see that and it scares them. But there's so much more. I mean, going to Jerusalem was an amazing experience. I've been now like 2 or 3 times, um, because every time I went, I was with like a different teammate or a different friend. So I was like, we got to take the tour, let's go. Um, so I did that tour a couple times, went to the Dead Sea. I never got to go to Eilat, which is kind of like, I'm a I'm bummed about that because I heard it's beautiful down there. Um, but yeah, I spent most of my time, in Tel Aviv. Gorgeous. You know. And just, I don't know, there's so much culture, and I've made some friends there that are lifelong friends. And so it was really cool. So like I said, what was a basketball? 100% a basketball thing? Um, you know, I really got to that's where I really started getting a lot of the paperwork because obviously, you know, as you know, I'm not saying you don't know. A lot of it is people believe, you know, the Jewish religion kind of what passes through your mom's side, your mom's side. It was my dad's side. So. But because I had his mother's papers, we were kind of able to to to use it in that regard. Um, so I got to get in touch with my whole dad's side of the family, the family tree. I learned all about it. Um, so, yeah, it was cool. It was just a really it was an awesome experience. And now, um, I haven't been able to go back just because of life. So the last time I was there, it was probably maybe like seven years ago, but in like a 2 to 3 year span, I was there like twice a year, 2 or 3 times a year. Yeah, because it's not it's really not far. Moscow to Tel Aviv is a direct flight. It's like four hours. It's not far at all. Yeah. So it was it was it was cool.
