Bert Kreischer

video rental and go to the midnight movies called classics and and foreign films and have a world onto my own that that my mom and dad would i i have no idea what they would have thought if they knew the things that i was like watching and reading and like staying up till two in the morning to watch crazy la punk rock cable access wild politics on there and

it all made sense in like, cause I was really into this beatnik thing.

And then my parents had all these records.

So on top of all this stuff I was bringing in, there was Moe's Allison records and Jimmy Reed records and Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.

I mean, I had like all, my parents had like maybe almost 300 records, which was a lot for the average kind of family, you know?

So luckily the suburbs, as horrible as it was,

It was also like I was teasing, but it was the real Petri dish for like, I have to, which is dyslexic thing was good.

I could kind of cocoon myself into my interest and keep the regular,

uh now we're talking about therapy but he was more he he was yeah he he wasn't really a therapist i guess he was a

a head shrinker.

But I was a horrible student.

But when I went to him, we really hit it off, and he really straightened some shit out for me about, okay, first off, your mom and dad, they have no idea what the fuck's going on with you.

Your school, not every kid is, you know, you could do it, but he was like, blah, blah, blah.

He answered a lot of stuff that as a young, angry adolescent, I was confused about.

Yeah.

Why don't nice girls like me?

Big number one.

But he arranged a Bennington College in Vermont at the time had the cutting edge American literature.

People were coming out of that school and novel, you know, and a lot of famous American novelists.

And that was my first interest.