Hi everybody this is Gad's at for the Sad Truth today I have another fantastic guess. I should introduce him as Dr. Rob Henderson because he recently

completed his PhD in psychology at Cambridge University.

Rob, how are you doing?

I'm good, Gad.

Good, it's great to be here.

How are you? Like, I'm doing great.

I want to read, so your book came out a few weeks ago.

Let me just make sure I get the full title right.

It's a memoir of your difficult childhood growing up.

Troubled a memoir of foster care, family, and social class.

And we'll get into all of that.

Maybe you can give us just a, you know, two, three,

five, as long as you want, but a quick synopsis of your journey and then we'll drill down various points that we think might be worthy of exploring further.

Yeah, sure. So, you know, the book covers my unusual and indirect path to higher education.

You mentioned I received a PhD about a little over a year ago from Cambridge.

Before that, I was at Yale.

But before entering these universities

and receiving these degrees, my life was a lot different. I was born into poverty in Los Angeles and my mother, and she became heavily addicted to drugs. I never knew who my father was and my mom and I for a time we were homeless, we lived in a car.

Eventually we settled in this slum apartment in LA and you know my mother was just not in a position to care for me and I was put into the LA County foster care System when I was three and spent the next five, just

shy of five years living in seven different foster homes.

And I detail those experiences in the book and how upsetting and destabilizing that was for me.

I was adopted into this working class family just before my eighth birthday and we settled in this kind of dusty

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