About this Episode

In episode #003, The Sickening Siberia Supper, Josh has an ego trip about how good he was at hiding from kids in cars. Alex actually thinks “ollie, ollie, oxenfree” was a cool game to play… And countless Siberian babushki had to deep clean their fur coats because Jacob did WHAT?! You might need your wetnaps for this one.

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Episode Links

• Regatta Park in Lincoln City, OR, and its epic wooden playground fort structures.
• Claggett Creek Park in Keizer, OR. The scene of many a cross country practice run, as well as, interestingly enough, a high school environmental science class creek restoration project!
• ROSTIC’S. According to Reuters, “Fried chicken is always good business.” (or something like that.)
• Ресторан Mexico. Unfortunately, perhaps too many people suffered from food poisoning here, for it seems the restaurant has since closed. Once located here, you can still see the beginning of the underground entrance beneath À La Mode. Here is a picture of the entrance, “a la” Jacob.
• Maslenitsa (Мaсленица).
• Marshrutka (маршру́тка). According to the Wikipedia entry, “[R]iders nearer the driver are responsible for handing up the other passengers’ fares and passing back change.” …That’s “passing back change” Jacob… NOT partially digested Mexican seafood…
• Rough location of the now-infamous babushka throw up incident…

Transcript

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[00:00:00] This Week on Another Brother

[00:00:24] Another Brother Theme Song

[00:00:44] Stewnerds Segment

Josh: I have 2 really early memories about night games that I think I think I keep bringing up like, “This was formative in my life”, but this was like really formative in my life. I was thinking about as I was walking over Alex’s house to record this.

Jacob: In the night time.

Josh: It’s night. We’ve all got families and lives, so we do this after dark. And I was just embracing the darkness, and the night And I- The thought occurred to me as I was prepping for this episode that I feel as comfortable outside at night as I do in the daytime. And I think it’s because of all the times of us just embracing being out at night. Do you guys remember our fathers-and-sons campouts with dad?

Alex: Sure.

Jacob: A little. I I was quite a bit younger, I think. I don’t have as many memories.

Josh: There was one camp that our Ward went to pretty frequently, can’t remember what it’s called, it had the Adirondacks out there. I just remember a couple times we’d play capture the flag at night. And so you had all the all the Adirondacks scattered around. You had some fire pits. You had a big a covered building area. It’s in the middle of the Oregon forest, so there’s trees everywhere. And tents because not everyone slept in an Adirondack.

Alex: But When when Josh said “our Ward”, he means our local congregation of churchgoers. That’s yeah. That’s terminology from our church for the people we actually go to church with.

Jacob: Yay verily.

Josh: Yeah. Yay verily. And, “so say we all”. And every summer, we’d hold this father-and-sons camp out.

Alex: Sometimes in the fall. But, yeah, every year.

Josh: Every year, I should say, yeah, every year. And I think that is the earliest that I can remember playing these sorts of night games. As a kid.

Alex: One of my earliest memories playing this kind of game, I can’t tell in my memory which one of these is earlier. Grandma Robison or Grandma Stewart.

Jacob: I don’t know where this is going…

Alex: I have memories playing. I think we just called it oxenfree. At grandma’s house.

Jacob: — Which grandma?

Josh: — which grandma?

Alex: Yep. Sorry. Grandma Robison at night in the summer — .

Jacob: Outside

Alex: Under the orange sodium lamp streetlight glow, “ollie, ollie, ollie, oxenfree”.

Jacob: Oh, in the in the lot that a house still hasn’t been built on across the street?

Alex: No.

Jacob: No? Just in her yard.

Alex: I mean, maybe people were hiding over there too, but

Josh: This sounds familiar…

Alex: But then also at Grandma Stewart’s at Devil’s Lake Park [Alex meant Regatta Park, in Lincoln City]. I doubt we were supposed to be able to be in the park after dark. Most parks close at dark. But we would have one person this this park had, like, one of those giant wooden castle like play structures. And so we would have someone with a flashlight in a tower and everyone else had to get to the bottom of that tower without being spotted by the person with the flashlight.

Jacob: I completely forgot about this.

Alex: It was so fun.

Josh: I still have no memory of this.

Jacob: No?

Josh: Yeah.

Jacob: Okay. Sometimes, we’re gonna have to talk about memories from grandma and grandpa’s while they were living on the coast because Yeah. I was pretty young. I don’t remember a whole lot, but, anyway, this does sound very familiar to you.

Alex: Yeah. It was super fun. Like, during the day, we played follow the leader as we climbed on the outside-

Jacob: Yeah.

Josh: I remember that.

Alex: -of the structure, like bad kids, except the adults were playing with us. So, like, not our fault. But then at night, we’d give someone a flashlight. They’d go into something like a tower and try to spot everybody as they would sneaky sneak.

Josh: I I I love the park, the bark chips. I remember all that, but man. Yeah. I I must have been too young.

Jacob: It- okay. I I have an image in my mind. It’s the the big old fatty rectangular with, like, a flashlight with a handle that takes the, like, the big D cell batteries, like, 4 of those.

Alex: Like 4 or 6 of those

Jacob: Yeah. That’s just what I have in my mind of someone swinging that around trying to catch people as they’re running.

Alex: Yeah, I think so.

Josh: Awesome. Do you got one, Jacob?

Jacob: Yeah. So mine actually, back to Josh, How many people do you remember actually playing? On the father and son campouts, I mean.

Josh: Yeah.

Jacob: Were all the dads getting in there? Was it just the sons? I don’t I honestly don’t remember playing capture the flag.

Alex: I don’t remember any night games from father and son campouts.

Josh: I remember yeah. Like, the majority of dads would play

Jacob: Awesome

Josh: and kids. It was amazing. And it was like, kinda like we did later on at McNary for track- capture the flag. So we’d have like this middle line that went down the center of this entire camping area. And, yeah, you just sneak and just try to stay covered and and go get the the other flag on each side and bring it over to the other point, kind of like Halo capture the flag. But, oh, man. This is this is interesting. So I remember things I I have to believe that you guys did those because

Alex: Probably. Yeah.

Josh: I remember doing it like multiple times. But you don’t remember it.

Alex: I can’t conjure any memory of it.

Jacob: This is why I love this. We all have different gaps. In in the memories —

Josh: What had the most impact. You know?

Alex: For me, though, with the night games, it really went crazy when we became “youths” and we could, like, leave the house after dark. And we were, like, playing commando throughout the entire town.

Jacob: Oh baby, Yes.

Alex: Or there was also my twelfth birthday. We went camping for my birthday. Yeah it was just night games.

Josh: Epic. Yeah.

Jacob: All of us? Or did dad just, like, take you in your friends?

Josh: I was there.

Alex: Yeah. Josh was there. I doubt you were there because you would have been

Jacob: Yeah I don’t think.

Alex: 7?

Jacob: 7. Yeah.

Josh: Well, So I didn’t camp out with you guys.

Jacob: And Liz would’ve been a baby.

Alex: Oh, you didn’t? Okay.

Josh: I I probably went home maybe with mom and then brought back out during the day.

Alex: That was a fun party.

Jacob: But Yes. Commandos was so good. That was so much fun.

Josh: Who wants to describe commandos?

Jacob: You can take it Alex because I’m gonna describe it. For me, there’s another one that’s even more-

Alex: Sardines?

Jacob: No. It’s it’s similar to Sardines, but it’s even bigger and even more important for me, so you take commandos.

Alex: So I didn’t actually get to play a whole lot of commandos, unfortunately. I think that blew up around the time I was getting ready to leave the house.

Jacob: Yeah. I only have a couple memories of you being with us.

Alex: But if I remember correctly, there’s, like, 1 maybe even 2 parties in their car.

Josh: Uh-huh.

Alex: There’s a point A and a point B that everyone else has to get from and then to, without being spotted by the people in the cars. And so you’ve got crazy people like my brothers going through strangers’ backyards.

Jacob: I have a footnote there, one brother. That was Josh. I would- I did not participate in trespassing.

Josh: Okay. Here’s footnote number 2. I never went into anyone’s backyard.

Alex: Okay.

Jacob: that’s fair.

Josh: I hid really well in front yards and under bushes and cars and things.

Jacob: Okay. I I definitely would do that as well. Front yards, bushes, that’s fair game.

Josh: The only person going in backyards that I know of was Tyler. Probably Adam.

Jacob: Definitely Adam.

Josh: Yeah. Yeah. Tyler had a ghillie suit though for crying out loud.

Alex: Oh Tyler.

Jacob: Yeah. So it’s basically tag across an entire city —

Alex: Hide and see kinda tag.

Jacob: –yeah, with 2 cars. And they’d have 1 or 2 spotters within the car.

Alex: Yeah. This would this would have been a perfect game for the 1957 Chevy Impala that dad says Grandpa Stewart had because it was a decommissioned cop car. So it had that spotlight in the shotgun position That would have been perfect.

Josh: Yeah. Instead, you know, the- each car would bring, like, flashlights with them and the non drivers would try to spot with the flashlight, and and just drove very, very slowly.

Alex: Probably freaking a lot of residents of this city out. Am I about to get shot up?

Jacob: I do have a distinct memory. I think this was the time when you were playing with us, Alex. You can correct me if you don’t remember this at all. I think Josh is well. I think the 3 of us, maybe 1 other, we were running through Claggett Creek Park. And let’s see. We were coming from man, I don’t even know where point A to B would have been for us to be crossing through Claggett Creek Park

Alex: Seriously.

Jacob: But-

Josh: Start at Kennedy?

Jacob: Maybe McNary.

Alex: Oh, McNary, that would make some sense.

Jacob: Or to the church?

Josh: Oh, yeah. That can make sense too.

Jacob: So running through the field from the direction of McNary to the church, and that northwest parking lot, 1 of the cars comes and pulls in. And we see them driving and come. We see them turning into the parking lot and we all just drop to the ground and, like, just hug it as tightly as we can. And then, like, the head beams are just rolling straight over us. Like, you can see them passing through the grass, through the the wetness on it, and and over top of us. And we’re just as still as as silent as can be. They didn’t see us, and they just turned around, kept on driving.

Josh: I I have vague memories of this. Yeah. But I feel like those sorts of moments were so common in frequency. In that game. Yeah. You know, 1 time, I remember being under the, like, the hedge row bush, in front of this guy’s front door, when he opens the front door, and he’s like, Well, because the car the car was coming up. And so I’m like, I gotta hide somewhere. That was the closest obstacle with some sort of concealment. And So I had, like, slid under there, crawled up in the bark dust, and the car drives by really slow, and the guy comes out of the front door. He’s all angry, you know, like you alluded to, like, “what are you kids doing?” And I thought he knew I was there, but he was yelling at the car. Full of kids. And they’re like, I I think they were pretty sure that they knew I was there. But now they’re getting, you know, Attention from the the homeowner. And so they just kept driving. And as soon as he went in and closed the door, I was like, you know, I split. So fun.

Jacob: Yeah. That did make me think of 1 more thing. I just I’ll fess up now. You guys don’t know if you were ever in this situation. Would you ever you’re hiding car drives by, they stop because they think they spotted you-

Josh: Throw a rock.

Jacob: No. No. They’ll shout out, “hey, person behind this bush” or something like that. But they couldn’t say your name. So I would I would always just stay. I just sit as long as I could until, like, to test okay, how sure are you that I’m here? Because you don’t know who it is. You can’t call me by name. And if they would eventually just drive off, I I would send it out if I could.

Josh: Oh yeah. You start a game of Commandos, and you are committed. Good. You you are not removing me unless you can identify me.

Alex: Yeah. I mean, I thought that was the rule.

Jacob: That’s true. You do that’s right. You had to call names out specifically. That does ring a bell.

Josh: But there’s some Some of these kids that played with us would, like, be more willing to stop for whatever reason and join the car crew, you know.

Jacob: Chumps.

Josh: Yeah. Weak.

Alex: I hope you’re all listening you idiots.

Josh: I had another younger memory, we were at- it was my first snipe hunt. Oh. Remember that at sun valley?

Jacob: Sun River.

Alex: Sun River Resort.

Josh: Yeah. Sun River Resort. It was us, our family, the Currys, and the Naylors.

Alex: The Naylors. Yeah.

Josh: And Doug, And all the other dads, so all the dads and all the kids, went out at night because Doug promised us this really cool Snipe hunt that, like, none of us had heard of. Maybe you did Alex. Maybe Michael did. And I I gotta tell you, though. I was completely bamboozled. I thought this thing was for real. And it just it was so much fun.

Alex: I smelled week-old fish coming off of this thing pretty hard.

Josh: He convinced me, and I was looking in bushes and looking over at the other bushes and looking up the tree, and so I don’t know if I necessarily considered that at night game. But we were- it was gamey, and it was at night, and it did- It was just 1 more positive experience at night with a bunch of friends. Having a good time. And, yeah, it’s great. Yeah.

Alex: But why why do we love these things so much?

Jacob: Adventure. I don’t know.

Alex: Yeah. I think that’s all I can come up with, but that just seems kinda weak. Like

Jacob: No.

Alex: Why why do we love adventure? You know, what?

Jacob: It’s such a, like, compelling thing from deep inside. I don’t know. Right?

Josh: Yeah. It is. Yeah. I couldn’t tell you.

Alex: But Like, I wanna go play right now. I I know. I am mad that I can’t go play right now.

Jacob: Yeah. For real.

Josh: Suit up!

Alex: I still have 1 piece of my Turkey hunting cammo that I used while paintballing somewhere.

Josh: So I do think about this. And I’m like, man, am I just destined to sunset now. Am I too old to do all these things I enjoy doing, but We’re not. Because kids are gonna get to that age pretty soon where they’re gonna wanna go airsofting, paintballing.

Alex: And we’re gonna kick their butts!

Josh: It is gonna be embarrassing.

Jacob: Embarrassing for whom?

Josh: For somebody. But embarrassment will be had. But, yeah, I Right. I’m still drawn to it. I love that stuff.

Jacob: Well, eventually I’ll get to this story of-

Josh: String me along here.

Jacob: Matt- no. Matt and I I mean, this is recent. Right? This was last summer. Matt and I going up the the ridge right here in town. get up to the ridge line and and not getting home until 3 AM. Like, we started at 7 PM, got home at 3 AM. It was a 100 percent night exploration adventure. Half the trail, we hadn’t even- more than half. We hadn’t even been on before. It’s like Yeah. We’re definitely not too old.

Josh: Yeah. A little- maybe a little too crazy though.

[00:16:15] Storytime Segment

Soundbite: Hey, kids, do you know what time it is? Storytime!

Jacob: So as you guys know, I spent 2 years in Russia. Not just Russia, but-

Josh: Finland.

*Russian*

Jacob: 2 years specifically in Siberia. A considerable amount of that time was in the third largest city in Russia, which believe it or not is in Siberia. Novosibirsk. it’s it’s technically the capital of Siberia. So that’s where this story takes place. K? So for those of you out there, this was on a proselyting church mission.

Alex: Yeah.

Jacob: And in the on these missions, all 3 of us served 1. On these missions, we have a bunch of, like, meetings and trainings and things like that. So on this particular day, this was near the end of my mission. I’d been there for, man, 22 months already probably.

Josh: Out of- 22 out of 24 months.

Jacob: Right. With I suppose with the first 2 months actually in a training center in Utah. So this is really just a couple weeks before I’m coming home. It’s like I’ve I’ve been here for a long time. I know the culture. I know the language pretty well. And we have 3 days of nonstop training. I’m in leadership, so I’m training other missionaries. Usually, for these trainings, we have home cooked meals. At this time, there had just been so many events and meetings and trainings and stuff going on. At the end of this particular day, Instead of getting a home cooked meal, we went to a restaurant. Now this particular restaurant is probably 1 of a kind for Siberia. I’d be hard pressed to find any other restaurant like it in the entirety of Siberia.

Josh: What restaurants do they normally have in Siberia? What’s what’s the typical, like, food, cuisine?

Jacob: Yeah. They they don’t have many western chains especially now. Thanks, Putin.

Josh: Oh, yeah. McDonald’s just closed.

Jacob: Yeah. So when I was there, I mean, they they had a couple fast food chains. They had McDonald’s, Carl’s Junior, KFC.

Josh: Oh, KFC closed. And Starbucks.

Jacob: So KFC just got bought up and rebranded as ROSTIC’S, which is actually what it was called when I was there. Oh. Anyway

Josh: Is that Russian Sticks?

Jacob: I actually don’t know where it comes from. So they have a lot of, you know, Russian- Russian cuisine restaurants, another cuisine from other former Soviet satellite countries. Right? For some reason, we chose to go to a restaurant called “Mexico”.

Alex: Okay.

Jacob: That’s right. Mexican cuisine in Russia.

Alex: But was it though?

Jacob: Yeah. Yeah. It was.

Alex: Yeah. Yeah. Wasn’t just kind of Mexican-ish.

Josh: Yeah. I

Jacob: it’s just so funny. Like, you can’t get further away from Russia than Mexico. I I feel like if you were to look at a globe.

Josh: Anyway, I’m just picturing, like, a taco with beets in it

Alex: Or some dill. Dill. Absolutely.

Jacob: Tortilla’s made out of potato.

Josh: Yeah. Potato tortilla’s.

Alex: I do wish I Sounds good, actually.

Jacob: It does. I wish I had taken pictures of the food. I didn’t. By the way, this restaurant is actually underground. It’s kind of interesting. It’s on 1 of the the main roads in in the city, on one of the main streets in the city. And there’s just a staircase right in the middle of the sidewalk, takes you down. Weird. It’s the entire thing is covered in wood timbers.

Josh: Underground?

Jacob: Mhmm.

Josh: So is there like a sign up above?

Jacob: No.

Josh: The stairs?

Jacob: No.

Josh: So kinda so you might get the feeling that you’re, like, you’re going into subway or something, like an underground?

Jacob: Something much like that. Yes. The entrance is just like that.

Alex: And you weren’t afraid that like, someone was gonna steal, like, your liver or something?

Jacob: No. This was this was actually my second time going there. And then you you go down the stairs and above the door at the very bottom of the stairs is this big old neon sign? Ресторан Mexico. And then you go inside and, you know, there’s a lot more wood inside, all, like, Aztec styled. Lots of bright colors, you know, sombreros, stuff like that.

Josh: You know, just kinda They have a mariachi band on standby…

Jacob: I wish. A Russian Mariachi band. That would have been amazing. But I’m I’m sure there was, you know, Mexican music playing and stuff. So for some reason, I decided to order a sample platter. Generally, generally, I think the food was decent. It was okay, except there was I didn’t read it thoroughly enough apparently because there was a fish dish. Disclaimer, not a fan of seafood. So I took 1 bite and, yeah, I realized it was shrimp or something and and and put it down.

Josh: Probably from Lake Baikal. The famous shrimp of Lake Baikal.

Jacob: I’ll have to look into that. Actually, there probably are shrimp in Baikal. So we eat dinner, you know, fun, decent meal. And we head off to another meeting where we’re we’re teaching a friend of ours. We go to the church building, have our meeting. We get, like, halfway through this meeting with him, and all of a sudden, like, my stomach just starts churning and bubbling.

Josh: Okay. I think I think I might have heard this. That sounds familiar.

Jacob: It’s a good one. And just the more time passes on, the more uncomfortable I become, like, I start getting hot. And just, like, sweating. And I I I turned to my companion. You served together in in in pairs and companionships. And I’m like, oh, Elder oh, it was probably Elder Sperry. Like, Elder Sperry, I’m just I’m dying here. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’m feeling so sick. I I need to get home. I need to leave and get out of here. So we we wrap up the meeting as quickly as we can, and we walk to the bus station. And Novosibirsk is a pretty big city. Right? 1 and a half million people.

Alex: Oh, wow.

Jacob: Yeah. Yeah. In the middle of Siberia, you you’d never guess. Right?

Alex: No.

Jacob: It’s fairly sprawling, covers a large square mileage or whatever.

Josh: They do kilometers over there.

Jacob: Square kilometerage. So we get to the bus stop, and we’re waiting for a bus. All the while, you know, I’m just starting to feel more and more sick. Anyway, a couple of buses pass. I I don’t know what was going on. This was, like, a Saturday, Friday night. Again, December, and just, like, all of these buses were just jam packed. Like, no more room to get on.

Josh: Are these- you’re at a bus stop? Yeah. Are these, like, American bus stops? Like, just a little tiny little covered thing or a little sign in the road?

Jacob: Yeah. They- a little glass-

Alex: Was Maslenitsa (Мaсленица) happening.

Jacob: No. Good try.

Alex: Okay.

Josh: How how cold was it? If it’s December, it’s December. It’s Siberia at, like, you’re standing outside at a bus stop.

Alex: You’re gonna fill your pants with ice cubes.

Josh: You’re probably sweating buckets of ice cubes.

Jacob: It’s probably at least negative 25 Celsius. Negative. Negative. 25 to 30. I’m gonna guess negative 15 Fahrenheit.

Alex: Pretty close. Negative 13.

Josh: Snap.

Jacob: Nailed it. 1 more fun fact while we’re on the topic. Negative 20 Celsius is the point at which the inside of your nose starts to freeze. So that was like-

Josh: Depending on the thickness of your nostril.

Alex: And the humidity of the air.

Josh: Your mileage might vary. Your kilometerage might vary.

Jacob: That was my onboard thermometer for when we were walking out and about. Well, my nose was freezing. I knew, okay, it’s negative 28.

Josh: What does that even feel like? Like What does that even feel like?

Jacob: I’ll just let you imagine instead of describing it. Okay. So eventually, you know, we’re at the at the bus stop. Finally, we have something roll up that we can get on to. And I’d say something rather than a bus because it was a Russian marshrutka (маршру́тка), which is like a Mercedes sprinter van. 1 of these big vans. They hold 12 to 15 people depending on how many you wanna jam onto the benches. Now this thing was still so full that when we got on, we were standing. There’s not room for us to sit. And this is, like, a 30 to 40 minute drive to our to our apartment.

Josh: Just because of all the stops or you’re really that spread out?

Jacob: Both. Yeah. And so, you know, we’re the last ones to get on. So I’m standing, like, right in the door. Hey, you know, sprinter vans are pretty tall. I think this one was specifically a sprinter. So it was much taller than the law of the other marshrutki. But I still had, like, to hunch a little bit. I couldn’t have my head. Even as sure as I am, I couldn’t stand up all the way. And every time we came to a stop and someone had to get out, there I am, flinging the door open, getting off, people get on, and I’m getting back on. So we go through I don’t know how many stops like this. Me getting off, Getting back on. Getting off, getting back on.

Alex: And you’re in, like, a shirt and tie. So did people just think you were some kind of weird transit authority person?

Jacob: Well, no. So again-

Josh: He’s the door man.

Jacob: This is December. So I’ve got my big old coat on, scarf, nice warm hat.

Alex: Sure. Yeah.

Jacob: So And I’m just feeling absolutely awful. I am as sick as sick as you can be. I’ll cut to the chase. I 100 percent got food poisoning from Mexico. Mexico, the restaurant.

Josh: In Siberia.

Jacob: In Siberia. Since I strongly dislike seafood this whole time, I have blamed it on that fish or shrimp taco that I accidentally ate. So we get to the bus stop before our bus stop. Alright?

Alex: So close.

Jacob: We’re, like, a 2 minute ride from home.

Josh: That must’ve been an uncomfortable walk.

Jacob: I hopped back on, shut the door, payeechley, we start driving again. So there I am on Russian transit, when I start blowing chunks.

Alex: Oh No.

Jacob: What’s my immediate reaction? Beanie off the head, in front of the mouth to try and catch it all. In reality what happens, waterfall throw up cascading everywhere. I I I had to go back to the email I sent mom and dad the week after this happened. I threw up twice. So I threw up everywhere, and then probably a couple seconds waited, and I threw up again. This was awful. So, again, I’m at the front. There’s at at the very front behind the driver and the passenger seat, there’s a bench. Facing back towards the rest of the van.

Alex: Oh, no.

Jacob: There is a row of babushki (ба́бушки). Russian grandma’s. All in their head to toe fur coats. In Russia, like fur coats are- That’s how you survive the winter. And these things, you you’ll save up a couple years to get a really nice 1. You like mink fur, or just really premium. They were splattered so bad. Everyone on board just starts freaking out, losing their minds. They everyone’s yelling like, oh my gosh. He threw up. The driver turns, “what the heck is going on back there?” Pulls over immediately, I fling the door open and just hop out as quick as I can.

Josh: This guy’s about to beat you up. The babushki are about to beat you up.

Jacob: So we just start walking. I don’t know. We get, like, 20, 30 feet away, grab some snow and just rub it all over ourselves, and I turn back Wait.

Josh: Wait. All over “yourselves”? Did you get your companion?

Jacob: Of course I- like, he was standing directly in front of me. He bared the- he bared the brunt of it. And the really sad thing- He had a pretty nice it’s called a a dublanka. It’s this really nice soft, like, sheep leather on the outside and super warm sheep wool on the inside. They’re pretty expensive. And, I mean, it was caked in my barf.

Josh: Okay. So now I’m picturing you facing him and then behind him is the babushki.

Jacob: Yes. Yes.

Josh: And so just from the sheer velocity, hitting him in the chest, splattering out back behind him, and just spraying these poor old ladies.

Jacob: Everyone. So the good news, he he he took the coat to go get cleaned. Another missionary and an older woman who was serving on a mission there with us, and she managed to get it all out. She got it completely cleaned.

Alex: Wow.

Jacob: Yeah. So anyway, we were rubbing snow on ourselves. Trying to get this off of us for the 3, 4 minute walk we have to get to our apartment.

Josh: In negative 13 degree Fahrenheit weather. And no beanie on anymore.

Jacob: No beanie on anymore. I do have it still, though.

Josh: GROSS

Josh and Alex: BROOOOO

Jacob: I turn back and look at the marshrutka. Same thing. Everyone else on board is on the sidewalk rubbing snow all over their fur coats. The driver has this- I don’t know where he got- this apparently, he stores water on onboard. He’s got his big jug of water. Like, he’s like, just chucking all over the entire thing trying to wash the interior down, and we just- we walked home. And- I was, like, dead for 3, 4 days after that, it was the worst food poisoning I have ever had.

Alex: Jeez. Well, don’t try to eat Mexican fish in Russia.

[00:31:44] Another Brother Outro