Claire Donald
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Always a little scary when you go back to your childhood notebooks and it's like death.
Truly a lot of death stuff.
Yeah, well, Tess, that didn't actually come out of nowhere.
Her dad was very depressed.
Her mom was the one that was more vocal and would, like, tell Joan and her brother Jim all of these stories.
And one of the stories was how their family arrived in California.
Her family traveled with the Donner Party.
To California.
Stop it right now.
What are the odds?
No, that's what I'm saying.
Guys, listen to our Donner Party episode.
It's one of our best OG episodes ever.
Like, you will laugh the entire... Were we high for that episode?
We were not.
No?
We felt like it, maybe.
Which, yes, the Donner Party is an episode about cannibalism, but we did laugh.
Of course, because you have to find the humor in the darkest things.
The darkest things.