The Dark History of American Orphanhood / Kristen Martin

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5 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Journalist and cultural critic Kristen Martin joins “This Is Hell!” to talk about her new book, "The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood”, published by the Bold Type Books. Check out Kristen’s book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kristen-martin/the-sun-wont-come-out-tomorrow/9781645030348/?lens=bold-type-books Visit Kristen’s website: https://www.kristenmartin.net/ Keep TiH! free and completely listener supported by subscribing to our weekly bonus Patreon podcast or visiting thisishell.com/pages/support

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0:00.0	Let me go it now, slow it down. This is hell.
0:22.6	This is hell. Hey, so what was the music you were playing before the show started?
0:46.3	Was that new edition, Belle Biv DeVoe?
0:49.3	What was that?
0:50.3	That was the soundtrack to my life, Chuck.
0:52.3	Uh, no. That was something I heard my babysitter rock out, too, back in the day when I was like four years old.
1:00.2	So, yeah, it's a new edition.
1:01.5	I just, I thought about the other day.
1:03.1	She had it on vinyl back in the day, so.
1:05.5	That's pretty hot.
1:06.1	I can't believe I actually guessed new edition correctly.
1:08.8	I was listening to a lot of that because when I was working in a bookstore, one of the
1:13.9	cashiers who worked for us was really into a new edition like crazy.
1:19.8	I would listen to it every day.
1:21.6	This just reminds me with a babysitter back in the day.
1:23.3	She was pretty cool, but like, you know, she was just...
1:25.2	Slick Rick, too.
1:26.3	That was the other one.
1:27.1	Slick Rick. Classics. Great the other one. Slick Rick.
1:28.3	Classics. Greatest storyteller in hip-hop.
1:30.3	This is not the media.
1:32.3	This is hell if this was the media, as in the corporate legacy, mainstream, status quo, supporting, whatever you want to call it media.
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