Robby Hoffman

But all the kids were rich there.

Rich Jews for the first time.

I hesitate to say gifted, but I was clever.

But how did you get, how did they pick you?

So when we moved to Canada, we moved in the middle of the year.

It was this big thing.

But my grandfather was taking us around to schools that would let us start and not lose half a year of school, basically, because then we would all have failed.

You're eight, nine?

Yeah.

So we go to this little Jewish private school.

Well, we went to a lot of schools.

There was public schools.

There was this school.

And I went with me and three of my brothers.

I have a brother a year older, a brother two years older, and a brother three years older.

So I'm like in this cluster of boys, which checks out.

And the four of us went for this interview with my grandfather, and it was like middle of the winter.

And my brothers, and so we're with the principal, we're with, my grandfather's like, you know, this is a unique situation.

My daughter and her 10 children have just arrived and we have to, you know, get them in school and dah, dah, dah.

And my brothers got into a fight.