Episode 332: The Donner Party Part II - The Forlorn Hope

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🗓️ 14 September 2018

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

On the conclusion to our series on America's most famous cannibals, we cover the horrifying journey of the group known as the Forlorn Hope, the awful lengths people at the base camp went to for survival, and the murders that happened as a result of both.

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0:00.0	There's no place to escape to it.
0:03.0	This is the last talk.
0:05.0	On the left.
0:06.0	Why are you fucking all of your glades?
0:09.0	That's when the cannonball's started.
0:12.0	What was that?
0:17.0	Man, oh, man am I hungry.
0:20.0	You are.
0:21.0	You know when it comes down to it's like, because with the Donner Party, right?
0:24.0	You're eating people.
0:25.0	Right.
0:26.0	All of a sudden, they said starvation begins to occur technically seven, eight, nine days after you have eaten.
0:34.0	Sure.
0:35.0	That's when starvation starts to happen.
0:37.0	Your muscle starts getting dissolved.
0:39.0	But I'm hungry now.
0:40.0	Right.
0:41.0	And I ate like 45 minutes ago.
0:45.0	And if there was anything near me, I mean like honestly, I would just say.
0:48.0	So you're saying that you would just aggressively eat people if you were part of the Donner Party
0:52.0	with no concept of the fact that you actually look like a Harry turkey.
0:56.0	Preemptive strike.
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