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Peter Sagal

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  1. “I know. I know. But yes, she was a Kershon bomb. She was a German Jew, and she apparently was connected to the, I only have the vaguest notions to the socialist politics of the 1920s. Her parents were into that. But she married a nice man named Simon Malkin, who turned out not to be a very nice man. And cheesed out, ran off with a fluzy of some kind, and disappeared from the earth. My father, who's still with us at the age of 82, has spent some time trying to track him down and has never did. So for all I know, he has half siblings somewhere in the world, and I have cousins, but no one will ever know. It was very strange. I ran into somebody who was a cousin who I hadn't met for years, and he had a picture. I'd never seen a picture of this guy. My actual paternal grandfather. And it was freaky because I looked just like him.”

    2018-09-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 271 — Peter Sagal · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “For all I know, my grandfather was in the same boat as yours. Literally, I come from almost entirely Russian Jewish stock who all came over to various ports of call, Boston, Philadelphia, one through Ellis Island. My paternal grandmother's Family was German Jewish, right? And I will understand the story is they all got here in the 19th century and looked down their fairly large noses at the newly arrived Russians who they thought.”

    2018-09-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 271 — Peter Sagal · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Oh, absolutely. I mean, I could talk to you basically. I don't remember anything I've done, but I can remember pretty much everywhere I've eaten.”

    2018-09-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 271 — Peter Sagal · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Really, see, I knew that you grew up in what was the name Stuverson. Stuyvesantown, yeah. I heard the stories, yeah. I used to see it on our occasional visits into the city”

    2018-09-24 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 271 — Peter Sagal · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source