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🗓️ 29 May 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Have you heard about the Donner Party? The intrepid pioneers who took a terrible shortcut in the 1860's and ended up snowed under in the Sierra Nevadas and then they ate each other? Well FORGET what you know, because it's all wrong! Maybe. Mostly. This week we have the pioneering professional podcast fan Lauren Passell here to 'splain all about what really happened to the Donner Party. Were they really starving when they started chomping down on each other's legs? Or were they just kind of wacked out and bored? This ep has it all - history, true crime, extreme gross-out humor, very polite arguing, book club recommendations, everything!
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0:00.0 | The I used to have a podcast, called Podcast Podcast, and it was about the podcast. |
0:22.0 | Really? Not too many people want to... and it was about the podcast. I know what? |
0:24.0 | Not too many people want to listen to that. |
0:26.0 | So I shut it down and that's kind of why I started the newsletter. |
0:29.0 | But I would love, I daydream about having my own. |
0:32.0 | And actually like it's baby steps like first I |
0:35.6 | daydream I'm like I call into every whenever they're like call us in and leave a comment |
0:39.7 | I'm like I've been on everything. |
0:42.5 | Then like, set two, I mean, oh my God, do you want my fullest? |
0:46.8 | Oh, I've called into the Daily Psychgeist, I've called into, |
0:49.5 | oh, I was on desk sex and money. |
0:53.8 | It's like a hobby, It's like it's sick. |
0:55.4 | So then the next step I think is I like to be, |
0:58.5 | I would love to be on podcast. |
1:00.5 | I love podcasts. |
1:02.3 | So then maybe after that I can have my own but yeah I feel like okay |
1:05.9 | now you're building up like a fan base of pass heads and then they'll |
1:14.0 | they'll switch out their talk is a pleasure pleasure. |
1:16.0 | That's so nice. |
1:18.0 | It's a dream come true for me to have guests who give a shit. |
1:22.0 | I give it shit. I give too much. I give way too much of a shit. |
1:25.0 | way too much of a shit. I talk about the daughter party so like so much so I'm |
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