SYSK Selects: How the Donner Party Worked

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 22 June 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Did they or didn't they? There is plenty of written evidence that the ill-fated Donner Party resorted to cannibalism - except there are no bones. Learn the details of one of the worst disasters of the early West in this classic episode of Stuff You Should Know.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.8	Hey there friends, it's me Josh and this week I've selected for,
0:35.9	that's why SK Selects, our episode on the Donner Party, which was pretty grim.
0:41.3	I mean we all know about the Donner Party, but once you start to learn the details of the whole thing,
0:46.2	it's pretty grim.
0:48.4	Anyway, I guess I would say enjoy this normally,
0:52.0	but yeah okay, go ahead, enjoy this episode in a grim way.
0:57.2	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
1:07.0	Hey and welcome to the podcast on Josh Clark.
1:09.9	It's me as always, it's Charles W. Chuck Bryant,
1:13.0	and that makes this stuff you should know.
1:18.0	How you doing? I'm fine.
1:19.5	Good. How are you doing?
1:20.7	I'm great dude. I watched PBS today at work, which is always fun when you get to watch TV via the computer.
1:29.7	Can't work. Yeah, it's too much of a job.
1:31.7	Get paid for it.
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