The Donner Party

Brittany takes Sydni on a snowy, stomach-churning trip through one of history’s most infamous road trips gone wrong: the Donner Party. Along the way, we roast Lansford Hastings — the human embodiment of a “you have died of dysentery” screen — and wonder how The Oregon Trail video game somehow made all this sound like quirky pioneer fun. Spoiler: it was not fun. It was dumb, deadly, and messy enough to make even us say, “maybe I’ll just stay home.