The Donner Party with 'You're Wrong About'

American Hysteria

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Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This is a special episode I did for the podcast 'You're Wrong About' in 2022, and I wanted to finally bring it to you directly since the deep snowfalls of winter are looming on the ever-distant horizon. This is the harrowing tale of a wagon train trapped in the Sierra Nevadas in the harsh winter of 1864-1865, famously forced to cannibalize one another to stay alive, but that is only a small fraction of an almost unbelievable story. This is probably the piece of American history that fascinates me more than any other, so I'm excited to share it with you. Over the next couple months we will be real busy on tour with You're Wrong About for 'A Massive Seance' west coast live show tour, so we will be putting out some fun interview episodes before we get back to our regularly scheduled programming! GET TICKETS FOR A MASSIVE SEANCE HERE Dec 3 + 4 in Portland Dec 11 in Seattle Jan 11 in San Francisco Jan 24 in Los Angeles Thank you to You're Wrong About for allowing us to use this episode! Make sure you listen to their show if you don't already <3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, dear listeners. I just wanted to pop on and introduce this episode to you. I call it Mr. Weber's opus because the Donner Party is one of those topics that has gripped me since I learned about it as a kid.
0:22.5	And doing this episode with Your Wrong About was such a delight and really exciting for me.
0:28.3	And, you know, I'm really proud of how it turned out.
0:30.7	And we've never shared it with you.
0:32.7	And since we are entering the winter season, It just felt like the appropriate time.
0:38.8	Speaking of which, we are just about to start a West Coast live show tour with Your Wrong About in December and January.
0:47.6	In terms of American hysteria episodes while we're gone, we're going to do some fun interviews and conversations on some really interesting
0:55.3	topics. And then once we finish up this tour, we'll be back to more regularly scheduled programming,
1:02.1	as they say. If you want to come see our massive seance live show with your wrong about and with
1:07.8	The Little Lies, producer Miranda's Fleetwood Mac tribute band, then you should
1:13.2	get your tickets now for the 3rd and 4th of December in Portland, the 11th of December in Seattle,
1:20.4	January 11th in San Francisco, and January 24th in L.A. We would love to see you there. You can find the link for tickets in the episode notes.
1:30.8	This is much more than a regular podcast live show event. You'll get music, practical effects,
1:36.8	special guests, a little bit of drag and burlesque, and yes, Sarah will sing and I will get an
1:43.7	exorcism. I don't think that you're going to want to miss this.
1:48.5	But for now, please enjoy this child of mine, the episode I made with Your Wrong About on the Donner Party, one of the most fascinating chapters in all of American history.
2:03.1	Most of us don't want to commit murder.
2:05.6	That's my weird hypothesis about people.
2:21.3	Welcome to your wrong about. I'm Sarah Marshall.
2:35.7	Today we are learning about the Donner Party, and we are learning about it with Chelsea Webber Smith, host of American Hysteria, one of my favorite podcasts, and probably one of your favorite podcasts if you're a fan of this one. You just might not know that it's one of your favorite podcasts yet, but it will be. Both Chelsea's
2:41.3	show and this show are often about American folklore and the stories that we grow up kind of
2:46.9	knowing, but that may be changed completely when we learn the details. And this is one of those
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