Homework, known for being graded, famous for being from teachers.

Nobody thinks much about it, so let's have some fun.

Let's find out why homework is secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey there, folks. Welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.

My name is Alex Schmidt and I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden.

Katie.

Yes.

What is your relationship to or opinion of homework?

Boo, down with homework, man.

Stupid stuff that only nerds do.

Am I right up top?

Before we started rolling, Katie did tell me to eat her shorts and said cowabunga a lot.

Right, man.

I was very surprised by this rude behavior.

Don't have a bovine, Alex.

Don't you have one.

Is that an impression of Bart Simpson, but also it's you who knows a lot about biology and animals?

I'm Bart Simpson.

Skateboards. Cut in class. No, I was a good student. I always did my homework. It makes sense to a certain extent. Like, I think it makes sense to have

homework to prolong the learning for kids to be able to sit down with concepts and stuff. I think there is a point

at which the amount of homework becomes excessive and kids also need like unstructured time.

And it's good to have involvement from the parents if they have time. But when it becomes too much,

then I think that it's also

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