Alex Zharov

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122 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard 15 Mar

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This American Life · 628: In the Shadow of the City · 15 Mar 2026 podcast

All my excitement has fled away and I got very cold.

So I was like shaking, you know, shivering and no help at all.

So I'm like, wow, this is gonna get really bad.

I was very hungry and I was very thirsty.

And I found limes.

I tried to open them up, but they tasted so nasty.

I didn't even think about eating them.

There was no source of food other than the ducks.

Ah yes, the ducks.

You'll want to hear about the ducks.

I wasn't going to get rescued in the next hour or two.

I had a plan to kill a bunch of ducks to get some warm blood to warm myself.

So to drink some blood and to cut them open and use them to warm myself.

I had this strange idea about using them as slippers.

After that, I even had this psychedelic idea of floating on the ducks, making a raft out of the ducks.

Imagine a man with strings attached to the ducks floating on the water.

So it's like this duck rider, you know?

Totally normal for a Russian hiker to go and pick up a duck.

Not just to kill it, but to eat it.

Oh, um... You just go after it with a stick.

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