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Sam Parr's mom lost everything in the 2008 housing crash and filed for bankruptcy. He pretended to enroll in community college to satisfy her, then spent his days in a Dodge Durango editing videos instead of attending class.
Sam Parr's mom lost everything in the 2008 housing crash and filed for bankruptcy. He pretended to enroll in community college to satisfy her, then spent his days in a Dodge Durango editing videos instead of attending class.
Your mom wanted you to go to college and I guess you faked going to college. You pretended to go. What is the story?
We didn't have the kind of money to go to a real college, so it was just like a free community college. In 2008, she lost everything when the real estate collapsed and so lost all her savings and stuff. We went bankrupt and had to file for bankruptcy. She's very paranoid and to her it's like, if he doesn't get a college degree, my son's a failure. I just wasted 18 years. He's not going to be able to provide. I was like, frick, I'll go to college. I just flat out lied to her. I had no intention of actually doing it. Horrible. It was so boring. I swear the teacher was just reading out of the book and I was like, Why do I have to? I could just read the book. Like, what are we doing? Somehow I figured it out. I don't even remember. So I would go every day, go, and then I would just sit in the Dodge Durango and like edit videos and I'd film at night and I'd go home.
And would you come back and be like, school was great, Dad?
Yeah, I had a month where I made $20,000 right before the window was almost up. And then I just told my mom, I was just like, I haven't been going, I'm failing. I found a place down the road. It's $700 a month, sorry. She's like, all right.
