Hey, welcome to the podcast. I'm Jeffrey Masters, and this is LGBTQ and A from The Advocate.

Today I'm talking to Joel Kim Booster. Joel's a stand-up comedian, a writer, an actor,

and perhaps most impressively, he's been on Grindr in every state in America.

You'll hear us talk about that, about touring the country, his comedy, dating, sex, and

Asian stereotypes. Joel says there's a piece of him that has always felt apart from the

queer community because of perceptions and expectations and stereotypes surrounding his race.

So we talk all about that.

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Thank you so much to everyone who's done that. All right, let's get to it. Without further ado,

here's Joel.

Okay, great. Let's do it. Let's do it. There's a lot of things I want to talk about.

Great. But first, I'm fascinated that you ended up in this talkative career where you're talking on stage since you were homeschooled growing up?

Yeah. I mean, I think it's probably a direct response to that. I don't, I don't actually know. It's so funny, because my entire family is very introverted. And I don't want to make the

stereotype that all homeschooled kids have bad social skills. I will say in my anecdotal experience,

it is true, though. Okay, good. I will agree completely. I'm glad that's not like wildly offensive.

I don't know if there's a study that's been done, but it is definitely.

I mean, I was involved in a lot of like homeschool church adjacent activities, and it might be,

it might be the church adjacency too, honestly.

My parents were very hands off in terms of homeschooling.

So, it's so funny. They kind of wanted to

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