South Beach Sessions - Jacob Soboroff
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What personal experience influenced Jacob Soboroff's journey into journalism?
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Welcome to South Beach Sessions. We do it out here on the West Coast to get the most interesting people. Jacob Soboroff, I'm sorry I'm doing this with the circle, but he represents a lot of the things that I'm interested in, not just journalism that he does for MSNOW, formerly MSNBC. The book he's written about the destruction of his childhood home and how he ties it to climate change. You guys know I'm interested in climate change. And the very important work you're doing, fact-gathering, in what is the border war situation. where you have more information than most, and it's information that's a bit personal to me because I don't understand what's happening in America. I don't understand what's happening in America either, so maybe we'll figure it out.
So thank you for joining us, and we'll talk about your book in a second. It had to be a very personal, emotional thing to see your childhood home destroyed in the Palisades fires and then to decide to explore the depths of all of that emotion. So I look forward to talking about the book, which comes out soon, and I will tell you the title in a moment because I don't want to read my notes right now. And the title of the book is a little bit – it's a bit depressing because it's not just the great LA fires but it's impending disasters that are on the horizon everywhere. I'll do it for you. Firestorm, the great Los Angeles fires and America's new age of disaster.
How did the Palisades fire impact Jacob's childhood home and community?
But I will say – and we'll talk about it in a little bit. And thank you so much for inviting me to do this. I've wanted to do this for a long time and spend time with you. I think it's so cool what you're doing. I love that you're interested in all of this stuff. But I do think that the story of the fires, as much as it is a story about climate change and about the politics of the moment and really awful, awful stuff that took place in L.A. a year ago. It's a story about people and it's a story about hope and it's a story about optimism. So it won't all be depressing. So people should stay tuned to the end of our conversation. What? I also imagine that it probably represents in some ways your entire journey through journalism and all of the things that you have learned and this moment in America that seems so perilous with attacks from all sides that go from the border to fire, natural disasters and disasters of our own making.
Yeah, there was a guy who was an icon in public television here in Los Angeles when I was growing up. His name was Huell Hauser. And he probably did thousands of episodes of a local public television show called California's Gold.
What connections does Jacob draw between climate change and the fires in Los Angeles?
And he had a couple other sort of offshoot shows. And what Huell always did – and it inspired me to get into this line of work – was treat every person in every place he went, no matter the circumstance. And he was a jovial sort of quirky guy with the utmost respect. And it might have been, I mean, there's some, you should look up the clips or see the Simpson spoof of him, but it might be a dog eating an avocado or it might be female firefighting inmates learning how to put down a fire as they were incarcerated. But this man taught me about, not only about journalism, but about connecting with other people. And that's the beautiful thing about my job is that I get to do that every day, no matter the circumstance, no matter where I am.
And so, yeah, of course, I always look for hope and optimism and interpersonal connections about growth and about ourselves and everything I do. And that's the best part of this job, hands down, no question. Well, explain to me, because you clearly love it, but can you explain to me how it is that you got into it? Where were the starting points on you following this as a career path? I grew up here in L.A. and I was like I was a theater kid. And so I loved I loved performing and sort of being out front. I was a horrible student, but I did have parents who were involved in civic life here in L.A.
How does Jacob Soboroff describe his transition from theater to journalism?
And so I was around politics and I was love politics and I love the news.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What personal experience influenced Jacob Soboroff's journey into journalism?
0:04–1:40
2
How did the Palisades fire impact Jacob's childhood home and community?
1:40–2:38
3
What connections does Jacob draw between climate change and the fires in Los Angeles?
2:38–3:53
4
How does Jacob Soboroff describe his transition from theater to journalism?
3:53–4:59
5
What insights does Jacob provide about the role of journalists during crises?
4:59–5:33
6
How does Jacob address the issue of family separation during the Trump administration?
5:33–6:23
7
What themes of hope and resilience emerge from Jacob's experiences?
6:23–7:35
8
What lessons does Jacob Soboroff hope readers will take from his book, 'Firestorm'?
7:35–1:18:32
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