- In the last last episode of the Trans-Sib challenge
we arrived in Yekaterinburg.
This might not exactly be Siberia, but we're really close.
I can smell it.
Gareth, do you smell Siberia?
(truck engine roars) Oh, ho ho ho ho!
(gun fires) (laughing)
Yes, let's go again, load it back up!
- [Woman] Yeah.
- [Mike] We were invited into his, Dimitri's Russian spa,
Russian sauna.
- [Dimitri] Banya, banya.
- [Mike] The banya, it's called a banya that's right,
not a sauna.
- Banya. - The Russian banya.
This is my first Russian banya, I don't know what to expect.
Whoo, it's hot in here.
It's not a sauna.
It's a banya, it's Russian process.
- Russian process, how to communicate,
how to purify your soul.
How to clean your body, so it is a big,
big meaning in Russian culture.
- [Mike] Well, sign us up for the entire package.
- Whoo! - A support bar.
- I am feelin' Russian!
Whoo, it's hot.
- Yeah. - It's hot.
- It's not hot, come one, this is a normal day, this pain.
(laughs) - Go for it.
Three, two, one!
- Go!
(laughing)
- Whoo!
And the temperature increases.
- Whoa! - Whoa!
- Yeah, oh my God, it burns.
- Okay, I must not-- - Oh yeah, I did it.
(laughing)
- [Dmitri] You will need a cold water
after two or three times!
- This is cold enough!
Holy shit.
Okay!
(laughing)
I've got an ice cream headache!
Back in the hot, right back in the hot!
All right, hey, so, we're learning the ins and outs
of the Russian banya.
- These can protect your hair, right.
- So we all put on these hats?
(laughing)
All right, okay.
So why do we put on the hats our head?
- Protect your mind. - Protect your blood.
- Protect the blood.
- From the blood pressure.
- Yeah. - Yes!
- [Mike] And a mask?
(laughing)
- You gotta protect it-- (laughing)
- [Mike] You look like you're up
to fly across the Atlantic Ocean!
(cheering)
Oh my God. (steam hissing)
We go from 50 Celsius to 86 Celsius.
(groans) Oh, shit!
And this says this is 80 Celsius.
- All right! - I can't touch it,
oh, it's too hot up there!
It is, it is literally hell.
It is, it feels like hell.
- Next time, what?
Being far gone.
- [Mike] Stronger man, next time.
- Next time. - Next time, be stronger, man.
(chuckling)
Oh, I can't handle the heat!
I can't handle the heat.
Oh, it burns!
- Okay, we need, maybe two or three minutes to--
(groans)
- What is this? (metal clunking)
- Don't open the door before I went.
- Okay!
(shaking) (rustling)
- In Russia, most men have take this one--
- Oh yeah, men naked.
- Yes, because I need to do something
with his ass. - Yeah, yeah.
- To--
- Yeah, get it into that butthole.
- Yes. - Yep.
- But I couldn't.
(laughing)
Oh.
(groans)
- Oh man, holy shit.
All right, I gotta bail. - You can't bail!
- I gotta bail! - It's up to 90 by now.
- Holy shit.
Holy shit.
(laughing)
- Bro.
I almost didn't make it.
I feel like I don't even know who I am right now.
There was the man that went in
and the man that's here now,
and they're completely different people.
It was so (blank)ing hot.
I have never been that hot in my entire life.
You left!
- [Gareth] Look at this, I left--
I bailed, five minutes, I bailed.
- Oh, I got leaves on me, man.
Even the guy was like, oh no, too hot!
- I had to bail, I left in five minutes.
I couldn't handle it.
I'm out of breath, I didn't even do anything,
I didn't even move my body
and I'm completely out of breath right now.
- [Dimitri] Completely Russian men.
- I am a real Russian man. - Yeah!
- That's all I wanted in this trip!
- Really Russian beer--
- Russian beer? - Uh, bear.
- Bear. (laughing)
Prepare for battle!
- This is it, the classical.
(joking singing) You're very welcome.
(breaths) That's right, breathe.
- I will, I will go. - Jump up here.
(groans)
(rustling)
There you go. (groans)
- [Mike] It's like a hot car wash, right?
- Oh man!
Oh!
(laughing) Stop that!
(laughing)
(groaning)
- [Ruben] Put legs.
- The legs are the hardest!
- [Mike] You'll be a real Russian man in no time.
- Oh, I feel a transition!
- [Mike] A real Russian, a real Russian bear.
- They're burning off the pussy in me!
(laughing)
- Get up.
- Come out. - Holy shit!
- Ruben, talk to me, how you doing?
- I'm very well, I'm very excited.
It's relaxing!
- Man, it's not relaxing, I'm dying!
- Ahh.
(leaves rustling)
Thank you, Mike, you're my hero.
- I can't do it, man! - Oh!
Thank you, Mike!
Okay, very good.
- Oh Jesus, oh Jesus.
(breathing hard)
(groaning) (laughing)
Human!
(laughing) (groaning)
- Yeah, oh! (laughing)
I am all that is man!
I gotta give a hug!
(laughing) You get a--
That, I do not chuck!
My boys!
- We're true Russian men!
(shouts) Yes!
- Yeah!
- Russian bears!
(shouting)
Boys, that was fantastic, oh!
- Ruben, get in here!
- Real life Russian.
- Yo, this trip's,
this trip is exactly everything I wanted in Russia.
- I can't feel my face.
(laughing)
- So there's this thing called a Russian walrus,
and a Russian walrus go--
I can't even speak,
I can't even see straight right now.
They go swim in the lake.
So we're gonna join the Russian walrus.
- The Wussian Walwuses are--
- Wussian Walwuses.
Ewmah Fudd.
(laughing)
And take a jump in the lake.
(energetic Russian music)
So we got the boys,
we got the boys,
and we got the lake.
And the plan is to jump in the sea with the guys.
- That, you need swim in Russia,
take off your (speaking Russian).
- Okay, all right, so, step one, skinny dip,
skinny dip with the boys.
And there they go!
- Oh my God! - Gonna just put 'em on.
(laughing) I can see it.
- Woo-hoo! - Rock and roll!
- [Mike] Rock and roll!
No, a naked back flip?
No way! - Yeah.
(shouting)
Oh, this is unreal!
- [Ruben] Is Russia, my friend!
- [Mike] Oh shit.
In the next episode, we depart for Novosibirsk,
and Krasnoyarsk on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
(warm inspirational music)
These rock towers were these magma towers.
(warm inspirational music)