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The Sarah Fraser Show

#216 Rob Scheer Part 1

The Sarah Fraser Show

Sarah Fraser

Entertainment News, Comedy, Tv & Film, News

4.11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Rob Scheer gained national fame when a video of his difficult childhood growing up in foster care was shared by the website Upworthy.com. Viewed more than 20 million times Rob has appeared on Ellen, The Today Show, and many more. Rob survived everything from physical abuse, sexual abuse, to the death of his parents and many siblings. For the first time Rob goes into more detail than ever before on how he survived and overcame his unimaginable childhood.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Perhaps, all right, all right, hey we go.

0:05.0

Perhaps you remember this video that you hear every day, hey phrase.

0:13.0

What's the phrase that you hear every day, hey phrase?

0:17.0

Perhaps you remember this video that went viral with over 20 million views?

0:21.6

I was the youngest of 10 kids.

0:24.6

One of the memories was our biological father holding a gun to our head and saying,

0:29.6

which kid do you want to shoot first?

0:31.6

And they would laugh.

0:32.6

So the abuse was bad.

0:34.6

It was bad.

0:35.6

Not only physical, but sexual abuse. Then my parents died.

0:39.3

That's the voice of Rob Shear, who you may have seen on Ellen or on that upworthy video.

0:45.0

Rob impacted the nation when he came out and told his story of incredible sexual abuse

0:50.1

and then being sort of lost in the foster care system until he was 18.

0:54.6

Rob also started comfort cases, which is an organization in Maryland,

0:58.7

but works with states nationwide.

1:01.2

And Comfort Cases is literally a case that kids can carry a suitcase, a duffel bag.

1:05.9

So when they go from foster care, perhaps back to their biological parents are forever home, they're

1:12.3

not carrying their stuff in a trash bag because, believe it or not, that was happening up until

1:16.5

very recently. So Rob has been on these shows, but he's never talked in depth about the incredible

1:22.5

abuse that he experienced and then overcame. And that's why he's doing this three-part series with me on

1:28.2

the Hayfresh podcast. I am honored to call Rob a friend and I hope his story of true tragedy

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