Jeff Grant

and that was my childhood right that was my childhood that was what it was we were one exit away from jones beach and we would go to the beach almost every day either by by skiff because it was right across the bay and we were it was it was not it was no character building whatsoever none well as i said it does not seem like long island like that doesn't i don't

Well, imagine Steven Spielberg from E.T.

Right.

That neighborhood in E.T., but like the kids are on mescaline.

That would basically be.

This is what growing up in Long Island was like.

And just, you know, having the first inkling or the first money that anybody ever really had, but not enough money that we could actually go to private schools and things like that.

But I was one of those kids who was like a smart kid in all the AP classes.

But I hung out with my friends in the parking lot.

And it was hard to navigate those two things because, you know, the kids in the AP classes were the kids who were in my classes when I was like in...

elementary school and junior high school we all knew each other from from the neighborhood but i was hanging out in the parking lot and the crazy thing is is that the smart kids wanted to hang out with the kids in the parking lot not the other way around right and so i was kind of like they're the key to be able to go hang out in the parking lot with the cool kids so are you always getting good grades

I got good grades until the kind of like the lifestyle and the drugs kind of like prevented me from doing a lot of things.

And also there was so much disharmony at home.

You know, my parents were splitting up and my brother and sister were having their own problems.

And

And I could really not.

Can I curse on this?

Yeah, I guess.

Well, I really could keep my shit together.

I was the easy kid of all the three siblings, but I was not getting good grades because I was drinking and drugging mostly and hanging out with this crowd, but I was getting very high test scores, high SAT scores, all of that stuff.