Episode 54 - Good Ol' Shoe Snack

Mother Nature Will Kill You

Jillian tells the tale of the "lost" Lykov Family and their decades of survival in the isolated Siberian wilderness with no outside human contact, and Jillian and Haley go on many tangents on subjects such as the cordyceps fungus, gun rights, shrimp disease, and bats in the attic.

Sources:

For 40 years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of WWII, Mike Dash, Smithsonian Magazine

Lost in Time: The Incredible Story of the Lykov Family of the Siberian Wilderness, James R. Coffey, Wilderness Defined

Meet the Lykov Family That Survived Alone in the Siberian Wilderness For 42 Years, John Kuroski, All That's Interesting

Meet the Last Lykov, John Martin, Vice Magazine

Taiga, National Geographic

"Zombie" viruses are thawing in melting permafrost because of climate change, Michael Birnbaum and Ellen Francis, The Washington Post