Jamie Metzl

Like how could it expand us?

in new and creative ways.

And so, yeah, I know I've been a pain in the ass for my entire life.

You got expelled after seventh grade.

I was so happy because I was in seventh grade.

There were four kids in my entire grade and two of them, and bless their hearts, they were Russian immigrants who didn't speak a word of English.

So there were two kids who spoke English and two kids who only spoke Russian.

And we were in a little trailer home.

With four people.

And it was awful.

And so when I switched schools in the beginning of eighth grade.

This sounds like a fake school.

It was so awful.

I guess it built character.

When I switched schools in eighth grade, I went from this four person school in a trailer park.

to this wonderful school, and I'll shout out if anyone's listening, from the Barstow School in Kansas City where I went in eighth grade.

And it was just this amazing school.

But I was like a feral kid because I didn't know any English.

The only thing I learned was math because one year in math in the old school, they had one of those self-timing things where you just go at your own pace.

And so in that year, I got three years ahead of everybody else.