345: Their Plane Crashed & For 73 Days They Did The Unthinkable To Survive...

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Intro 0:00
Who Were the Uruguayan Rugby Team? 10:26
The Doomed Flight Begins 13:58
The Crash 22:20
Trying to Survive the First Night 27:36
The ingenious Way They Stayed alive 49:32
Deciding to Eat the Bodies 54:46
The First Expedition Attempt 1:04:33
Avalanche 1:13:21
The Second Expedition Attempt 1:20:12
The Third, and Final, Expedition 1:31:14
Enter, Sergio Catalan 1:35:08
Ave Maria 1:38:59
Controversy and Communication 1:43:48
Where Are They Now? 1:49:05
Final Thoughts & Outro 1:56:19

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0:00.0	Hey, what is up, everybody?
0:17.3	And welcome back to Mile Higher podcast, episode 3004'm your host kendall i'm josh and we are
0:24.8	joined today jenelle's not joining us today because this topic it's a little much for her so i told her
0:30.3	it'd be in the best interest of her mental health to sit this one out and so tom decided that he
0:35.7	would join us we love having tom i know you guys having Tom. And of course we have the wonderful Ian.
0:40.8	What's up, guys. Guys, I am so excited for this episode. I think...
0:45.9	What shocks me. I know. I'm shocked too because this is, this was like freaky for me at first. But I have been so engulfed in this story, so inspired over the last
0:56.6	couple weeks that I think this might be my favorite episode we've ever done potentially
1:01.1	because I have moved. I'm a changed person. I'm never going to complain about shit again,
1:05.4	especially not being cold because I've never actually been cold. I've realized after reading
1:09.3	this book. And I'm so tired of hearing you complain about being cold. I'll be honest. Because I'm cold all the time, but now I really need to me? I'm so cold. I'm always like, I have to suffer. And I must say, since we started learning about this, those complaints have gone down. Because I'm like, I feel like a little bitch complaining about being cold. I've literally never been cold in my life. It's only 55 degrees, 60 degrees. That's not too bad. Okay. So here, here's the thing. I have some rules when it comes to the type of true crime or like any type of
1:45.6	coverage I will do. And I normally, I will not do anything that involves cannibalism. It freaks me out so
1:51.0	bad. So I was really not into the idea of doing this at first. But Josh and I got into the show
1:57.2	Yellow Jackets, which I'm sure a lot of you have seen. It's very popular right now.
2:01.8	It's an excellent show. Absolutely loved it. But I had to know if it was, you know,
2:07.2	based on something. Loosely inspired. Yeah. It is very, very loosely inspired by what we're
2:13.1	talking about today, which is the Crest Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, also known as the Alive
2:19.3	Story.
2:20.2	There's several books that have been done on this, an older movie.
2:24.1	There's a newer movie now that came out in 2023.
2:26.7	It's on Netflix.
2:27.9	You guys should watch it.
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