Jordan Jonas Had a Run In with a Bear in Russia

When we were doing that project trying to get guys to stop drinking out in Siberia, we had a little hunting cabin and we were based at that and I woke up one morning and we had a stupid dog that just barked at everything and I just hear the dog go rararararararararar and I was like, I was probably a squirrel. So I got up and I didn't get up, I let it bark and then my buddy got up like an hour later and went out to brush his teeth and came running back in, he's like, dude, there's a bear out there. So I went up, jumped up, looked out and a bear had killed a moose, like less than 100, we could have watched the whole thing if I would have just woke up right away, but it came, killed a moose right next to our cabin. When we came out, it saw us and took off running and we were like, oh man. So we walked over there like, geez, a whole warm moose still here. So we like cut it up, hauled it back to our camp. Stole it from the bear. Stole it from the bear. Did the bear come back? Oh yeah. Like three days later, like we were in our shelter and sure enough that one dog just came running in and hit under the bed and the other one started like out there barking like, rah, rah, rah, rah. And so we grabbed the SKS and go out there and it felt like, like, have you seen the ghost in the darkness? Yeah. That's what it reminded me of because it's like all this tall brush and you just hear like, you know, the dog's barking over here and so I'm like, oh man, the bear's over here. And then over here you hear a, oh crap, it's over here. You know, like, and then all of a sudden we're like, man, we're kind of in this tall brush, like better. But I like was like, well, I got my camera. So I handed the gun to this dude and he's just like, I figured he knew what he was doing. A bad choice. But I got my camera. He got the gun. And then again, we're looking at where the dog's barking and the bear like pops up right here and stands up. It's like, and dude just took off running with the gun. And I had recently. Camera? Yeah, like with my camera, I had recently had a knee surgery that's like, I wasn't running out of there. So I just like stood there and back in the brush. And then dude comes back like a full, you know, almost a minute later, I was just like there. Give me that gun, pussy. He's like, my knees are shaking. I was like, dude, you got a gun. Don't run. And just as I said that, it stood up again and he's like, dude, you just sounded like Vietnam. And it's like, he shot the bear and he shot it. So you guys want to be eating it? Well, I was with they were all a Venki people and we ate the heart, but they don't eat it. They have like a whole ritual when they shoot a bear. It's like the because they're so wormy up there, you can eat them in like a serious situation. But what they would like, they like cut the head off and put the eyes under a rock because they didn't want the spirit to see where, where, who got it. So they put the other parts of it in the river so that it floats down to like a different village so that the bear thinks those are the people that all these weird, weird little things. But in general, because there's so so much trick and no, some stuff, they don't eat the brown bear up there. But although you can, if you boil the heck out of it. Yeah, or just cook it over 160. Right. I guess I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. My friend, we got a trick and no says, oh, did he? Steve, vanilla. Oh, yeah. You know, yeah, he got it. He was so the whole crew got it and they even got a shirt. Isn't that mild trick and no, this crew? Is it as it did they get rid of it? I imagine it just goes away, but it's always in your body. So somebody ate him some day, they would get trick and no says. Oh, interesting. Yeah. But he said it felt like his muscles like you could feel the little the little parasite worms. Yeah. Burrowing your muscle. So everything is in pain. Yeah. Your whole body and then eventually it just goes away. Oh, yeah. OK. Well, it goes away. Fucking worms just living in your body. You get used to it. It's creepy, man, because when you I haven't experienced this, but I know that some people who eat bear have cut open the bear and seen the worms literally crawling underneath the skin. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, you could see him even on the bear that bear. Yeah. Yeah. You'd see him in there. They're like, yeah, it's pretty gnarly. So you guys ate the heart only. That's it. The heart to me, I did see him a little bit of a waste, but yeah, that's just I was kind of doing a winning Rome, you know. Yeah, that's one of those things, right? Like if you insult them and say fuckers, I don't know what you're doing. Tradition of things they were doing. So you're out there making bear barbecue. Yeah. You're going to bring the ghosts. Yeah, totally. That's how big was the bear? It was a brown bear, big old brown bear. I mean, it wasn't an old one. It was probably it's hard to say, but it was a full grown foot. And yeah, somewhere I put up a picture of the hide. But anyway, yeah, yeah, it was a big bear. I don't I don't actually know what I did with that video, which is very sad. But so you guys you ate the moose, you ate the heart of the bear. And how do they do that? They just slice that up. Yeah, just sliced it up, fried it up. And then, yeah, there's a lot of bear stories out there. You're constantly. I can only imagine constantly interacting with them when you're always in the woods like that. Well, and happy people, the guy was talking about losing his favorite hunting dog to. Yeah, yeah, that happens that the way they do dogs over there, they think you're interesting because they have a different dog for every type of animal. So if you got like a dog that's really good at treating birds and you got a dog that's good at going after bears and you got a dog that's good at sable, you know, like you just keep raising dogs until you get one that likes to go after what you need it to go where they get their dogs from. It's just like this event, you breed of dog. I don't know. Just random look like just like either white mutts. Yeah. Mutt looking things. They're not very big, but they're not small. There's average coyote sized dogs and they usually white or red or spotted. What do they feed them? Just mush like this like oat and mush stuff they buy in the village. Not very good food, but then the the dogs like try to fend for themselves and stuff, catch mice and things. It's like they're like not an envy. Well, the dogs seem pretty happy, but they also like, you know, you go out in super cold weather and this dog will have melted a big hole in the snow and it gets snowed on top of it and it like pops up out of this hole. That's how they sleep. Yeah, they just sleep outside. They're tough dogs. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And they're eating just mush. Yeah, they're just eating mush and like certain scraps and stuff. But yeah, not an enviable diet they have. They're usually kind of thin, but but they don't know any better. Yeah, they don't know any better. They like it. They seem happy running around free. Like that incredible animal. Yeah. Yeah. Super cool.