Russian coworker, a January kayak rescue, and the pope in Bondurant
Impression talk drifts into a coworker's stories of working with Russians and kayaking near Chernobyl. A host recounts following a man whose kayak fell off his truck in January Iowa — the old canoe bore Russian lettering reading 'follow me to freedom,' the driver's father's escape story — and how he was led to Bondurant, where crowds believed the pope was in town. He begs Nathaniel to act like the pope and give them advice; Nathaniel's terse papal blessing: 'thank you for the canoe.'
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