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BONUS: Jesse Interviews Rob Henderson About His Book At The Village Underground

Blocked and Reported

Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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As a bonus to BARPod listeners, here’s the audio of a February 20 live event at the Village Underground where Jesse interviewed Rob Henderson about his book Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, which you should definitely buy. Enjoy!



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0:00.0

Hello, it's me a slightly sick but COVID negative Jesse Single. You're about to hear audio from an event I did with Rob Henderson on February 20th, which was the day his excellent debut book, Troubled, a memoir of Foster Care Family and Social Class came out.

0:15.6

You should buy it, link in the show notes.

0:17.7

If you don't know who Rob Henderson is, you definitely should, so keep listening.

0:21.1

This is 100% bonus content. Premium subscribers, you'll have more

0:24.5

exclusive stuff in your feed featuring me and Katie in the days to come.

0:28.8

Non- Premium subscribers head on over to Blockreported.org to join our movement. Thank you everyone

0:35.1

hope you enjoyed the interview. Hello everybody. I'm Jesse Single, I'm a writer and podcaster, and I'm very pleased to be here tonight with Rob Henderson. Rob is the author of Trouble, the memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class,

1:00.0

once described as self-made by the New York Times,

1:03.6

can I also call you self-made?

1:05.0

Yes.

1:06.2

Once described as self-made by the New York Times

1:08.3

and by Jesse Single, he grew up in foster homes

1:11.0

in California, served in the US Air Force, and received the BS from Yale and a PhD in Psychology

1:16.0

from the University of Cambridge.

1:18.0

Rob's writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal of the Boston Globe,

1:21.5

among other outlets, and most importantly, his

1:23.8

sub-stack newsletter is sent out each week to more than 50,000 subscribers.

1:27.7

A little bit jealous. I highly recommend that sub-stack which is called Rob Henderson's newsletter.

1:35.0

This is the only time tonight I will accuse Rob of not being creative.

1:40.0

So I'll try to be brief. are here because Troubled is out today.

1:45.0

I am very honored to help Rob launch it. I was very honored to help Rob launch it. I was very excited when I found out about this book.

1:56.1

I write and think and talk about the culture wars and there's been a series as some of you may have know may know. There's been a series of

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