Claire Donald

That's so scary.

So scary.

Like just so dark.

Truly, when you get to the point where you're like, yeah, I'm going to do whatever you're doing, whatever drug.

with like a crib next to you you might want to check yourself and that's all we need to say for the rest of this episode go to the bathroom like my god bring it back to just a classic line in the bathroom yeah like what what's wrong with that you know if it ain't broke don't fix it jesus christ yeah there were just drugs everywhere like again it is the 60s yeah

So when she's living in Los Angeles, this magazine that she was writing for was in New York.

So she was reporting on a lot of stuff that they weren't seeing.

Because again, we have to put ourselves back in this time.

We don't have social media.

You can't see what's going on in the world everywhere.

So she gets assigned to do a piece on Haight-Ashbury.

Ah, love.

Back when Haight was cool.

Well, exactly.

So everyone is saying this is the heart of the counterculture movement and

Free love.

And so Joan gets assigned to go do a piece there and she gets there and realizes quickly that this is not what that is.

This is not free love and like everything's all good.

These are kids who have lost faith in everything that they were supposed to believe in.

These are runaways.