Joel Kim Booster

It's insane.

And it's crazy.

And I worked.

I've had a job since I was 14 years old.

And I was doing all of that, juggling all of that as a teenager.

And it's insane.

And so I don't necessarily think I believe in the structure of education as we know it for kids today.

I don't think it's working very well.

for most kids and it's so ironic that homeschooling is even on the table because I had such a negative experience with it and I hated it and I got out by the skin of my teeth knowing how to do anything and having any sort of academic potential.

And it was a real learning curve once I was in school because I didn't know how to do homework.

I didn't know how to study for a test.

I barely knew how to write a paper.

So, yeah, it was not an easy transition.

So it's not something that I take lightly when I think about it.

i have a lot of follow-up questions do you remember the particulars of when you got the student loan paid off yeah i was um in 2019 i had just been cast in an nbc sitcom which has the distinction it was called sunnyside the distinction of being the lowest rated premiere in nbc history it was pulled off the air after three episodes which they hadn't done in like eight years like networks had stopped pulling things off the air early by the time this had happened for many many years they made a

They did.

They made a rare exception.

There's a lot of conspiracy theories around why, which I won't say on Mike.

But yeah, it was really, it was not like, it felt like a gigantic flop at the time, but I got paid a lot of money to do it.

And I paid off my loans, which is again, like something I never fathomed ever doing after paying more in rent, more in loans than rent for, you know, almost 10 years at that point.