Claire V. Watkins

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479 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 12 Sep

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Life in the Mojave Desert / Director of ‘The Uprising’ · 12 Sep 2026 podcast

He had heard fr uh about the murders, but at that point people had been kind of like

gossiping or alluding to them.

I I think he was

just like getting, you know, a very, very hard reality check and realizing that um this was not

The like loving paternal guru that he thought he had.

You know, my grandma met my dad first the night before.

He was a bartender and she had gone out to the bar, and I think she told my mom something like

There's a really cute bartender out there.

He was in some cult, but he's really cute and you should go and like chat him up.

And my mom did that.

And uh my understanding is they talked about it right away.

I think everybody in town pretty much knew.

But she was okay with it.

Yeah, I think she understood that people make mistakes and can be lost.

I mean, she definitely m like made her share of mistakes.

I think some of this was that

eventually they got involved in like twelve step recovery, you know, where you

part of the medicine from recovering from addiction is to be honest.

So I think they had a pretty profound philosophical and spiritual tradition that was helping them navigate the complexities of what I mean that's just being a human.

Yeah.

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