Joel Kim Booster

My parents sent me to public school when I was a junior in high school.

Very quickly came out of the closet, drank for the first time, smoked weed for the first time, shoplifted for the first time, hooked up with a guy for the first time within the first month of going to public school.

that all happened.

Because you can't keep a kid under lock and key for 16 years and then give them an ounce of freedom and not expect him to sort of explode.

And so I was out for a full year at school.

And then going into my senior year, my parents read my journal, they found out all of the things that I had been doing in the year previously.

And it was a real tumultuous moment for our family.

And it just sort of ended in me moving out and calling their bluff because they didn't kick me out.

But it was very much a

If you're going to live the way we want you to live or you can't stay here.

And I said, OK, fuck it, I'll leave.

And so I I left and didn't talk to them again until college and have not taken a dime of my parents money since I was 17, which is now the cornerstone of my personality, because everything I have, I made myself without any help.

Well, with help.

I mean, that's that's that's without help for my family.

I had plenty of help.

There are plenty of people, you know, along the way who helped me out and I and I owe them a debt of gratitude.

But, you know, like I said, like I was not somebody who was coming up in the comedy scene who could afford to be a dog walker as their day job because my parents were paying my rent.

It's mostly that.

It's mostly that.

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