The Day's Dumpster Fire
A small little podcast where your hosts, Kara and Ed, look at historical and not so historical cases where we don't celebrate humanity's success but its most fantastic failures. There are always lessons to be learned in failure and humanity has run amuck with fool proof plans that immediately go sideways and fall apart shortly after executing those plans. Join us as we scour the "human-verse" in search for the most poignant, and often hilarious, failures and try to pull out what can be learned from these failures.
The Day's Dumpster Fire
Donner, Party of 90! Fire Part 2 - Episode 53
Check it out! Kara, Deja, and Ed got the second part of Donner, Party of 90! published for the world to listen to. In this episode, Kara continues the discussion into the famous (and very... taboo) Donner Party where 90 men, women, and children ventured out west in 1846 to make a new life in California. However, after being informed about a supposed "short cut" the party got stuck in winter weather west of what we know to be Reno, Nevada. With no hope of discovery let alone rescue, the Donner party hunkers down to ride out the winter and hopefully there will be enough people alive to actually rescue when the snow melts.
In this episode, Kara tells the story of the Party of Forlorn Hope, which consisted of 15 men, women, and children that attempted to crawl their way out from the Donner party to try and get help. However, this group got stuck in what was suppose to be a two week adventure ballooned into 33 days! Instead of finding someone to help them, it seemed as though they only found death, and he took a huge toll on the party. As a result, the Party of Forlorn Hope had to make impossible decision and commit unfathomable act to survive when people were dying around them!
If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, check it out here: Donner, Party of 90! Fire -Episode 52.
If you want to see previous episodes that Kara, Deja, and Ed have done over the years, check it out here. You can also see Kara's artwork that is inspired by the podcast topics at www.thedaysdumpsterfire.com
Lastly, be sure to email the gang here at The Day's Dumpster Fire at thedaysdumpsterfire@gmail.com and provide suggestions for future episode ideas or even trashcan fire!
Stay tuned because your favorite hot messes are working on Part 3 and Ed has a banger of a pallet cleanser coming up shortly!
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