The Donner Party's Descent Into Cannibalism

Softcore History

Improv, Comedy, History

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The Donner-Reed Party was a group of American pioneers who migrated west to California in a wagon train and slowly tumbled into madness after months of mishaps, moronic moves, and murder. After a "shortcut" added weeks to their journey, the group ran out of food, supplies, transportation and turned to cannibalism to survive a brutal winter in the Sierra Nevadas. Subscribe to the Softcore History Patreon for hundreds of hours of extra history content including listener history questions, history movie watch-alongs, and weekly bonus episodes.Head to FACTORMEALS.com/softcore50 and use code softcore50 to get 50% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Soft Core History.
0:08.0	Welcome back to Soft Core History. Welcome back to Soft Core History.
0:10.0	I'm your host for the week, Dan Regester.
0:11.0	And I'm joined as always by Rob Fox and Jake Goldman.
0:14.4	What is up, boys?
0:15.4	Whoo!
0:16.4	I'm fucking lit!
0:19.4	I, that was me bringing the energy.
0:21.4	I'm probably halfway through my life based on U.S. life expectancy for men.
0:26.8	Did you get that stat today and just you've been pondering it?
0:30.4	Well, it was my birthday yesterday.
0:32.2	Was it really? Yeah. Oh my god some 38 yeah I never texted them I didn't I
0:37.2	forgot your birthday man I'm sorry yeah it's a little too late for us to
0:41.2	add it to the kind of address it at this point.
0:43.2	I threw half my life. I'm halfway to 76. I'm 77th the lifespan.
0:48.1	You think we're going to make it to 75? I feel really bad. I forgot your birthday.
0:51.6	So I'm half, look what I'm half, it's half over. I would say like four fifths over. It's half, I mean. No genetically I'm good to go. All my grandparents lived in their 90s.
1:04.0	So you're like not even halfway then, but I feel like just statistically I'm halfway.
1:09.0	Hmm. What does that do for you?
1:11.0	I just feel sad. Well according to Ross... What does that do for you?
1:13.0	I just feel sad.
1:14.0	Well, according to Ross's doctor,
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