Something Can't Be Everything

Everything Is Stories

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4.8 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Robin Baker dreamed of becoming a Hollywood starlet. As a teenager in the 60s, she became a Whisky a Go Go dancer, socializing with famous actors and musicians. After meeting and marrying Jim Baker, a World War II veteran, restaurant owner, and spiritual leader in Los Angeles, Robin’s life took a different path. With her husband, she established the Source Family, a commune with over 140 members. But when Jim changed his name to Father Yod and adopted strange rules for the commune, Robin’s role in the family changed forever. Produced by Garrett Crowe, Mike Martinez, and Tyler Wray. Music by Filthy Huns. Transcripts are available at everythingisstories.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The truth of matter was, stories were everything and everything was stories.
0:06.0	Everybody told stories.
0:08.0	It was a way of seeing who they were in the world.
0:11.0	It was their understanding of themselves.
0:18.0	And I have letters that I wrote to him on the original store stationery, and I have letters that came back from him.
0:29.6	So there's a ton of this stuff.
0:33.6	The only possession I own of my dead husband is this piece of his skull and a part of a robe that I made for him.
0:41.3	It says 999. If you turned it over, it would say 666.
0:46.3	It was something I made and I have it somewhere in my bedroom there.
0:51.3	Part of my husband's skull is in this pouch.
0:56.0	Yeah, hold on his second here.
0:59.0	I haven't looked at this and all, since I did a burial service with the military and
1:05.0	well it's wrapped up in a little piece of purple velvet because purple is the color of royalty. To me, my husband
1:12.9	was almost like a royal god at one point. And then I put it in this special little
1:21.5	pouch. It's red and white with little orange tabs where you pull it together, you close it together.
1:28.3	Very old, 60-ish.
1:30.3	Let me put this piece of bone away.
1:41.3	Okay. All right. Whoop. Don't want to lose what's left of his skull.
2:03.3	My name is Robin Baker.
2:09.0	We're sitting here in Scottsdale, Arizona, first day of 2015.
2:16.2	Growing up in California in the 50s was a very interesting time to say the least.
2:18.4	There was the good and the bad and the ugly, basically from our whole so-called society.
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