Bear Grylls Battles For Survival Against Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

oh yeah, unusual, the first thing that hits from here is your eyeball, that's a bad sign. Whoa, hey, what's going on everyone at the first week banquet? I'm Shawn Evans and you're watching the hottest

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, it's the show with interesting questions and even hotter

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. and today we're joined by Bear Grylls, a best-selling adventure author and host of several hit shows, including Running Wild with Bear Grylls, which returns for its July 25 premiere on National Geographic today through the man who celebrated his journey through live scorpions and a yak eyeball try your luck with the

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of death

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grylls

welcome to the show hey it's good to be with you a little apprehensive when they picked him up that was like, oh, cut the air, yeah, yeah, but don't worry yet, I know you are an adventurous eater, how do you handle

spicy

food?

It's probably not brilliant this kind of similar dynamic we have about running wild, really in the sense that you know what you're doing, I'm the elaborate newbie but I'm ready to go yeah and look, we also have

spicy

beef first just for you Bear Grylls yeah, thanks, I don't know, I love it, I love beef, yeah, this is great, this is new to me, um Yeah, I mean, that's how I eat a good steak, a little bit of something spicy, but I'm definitely staying on this side, not today, although that's so good, so running wild is not essentially a talk show, but there's no denying that you get these very.

Real moments with your celebrity guests that you would never see on a late night talk show. How do you intellectualize how these extreme environments open people up and maybe make them more relatable? You watch a talk show. It's always an act, isn't it someone's? I have three minutes to be funny and tell some kind of big story or whatever and I always struggle with that because it never feels real, you know, and I think, like you know, you go out with someone, a friend, you walk on a trail and you already know. If you're involved in the outdoors for a while, you have conversations that are much more real and running well is just an extreme version of that, you know, I think after you've faced some fears and gotten to know them. we trust each other people open up that's why I always say I think the wild is the star of the show it really does my job for me the double lock yeah hmm so good one is really good the steak the kind of tropical atmosphere with Well, my wife said you're going to be terrible on that show, you hate really spicy things and I'm probably not very good with really spicy things, but it's dreamy here, it's very nice, you can notice something here.

Don't wipe my eye or scratch my balls, scratch your balls after you've been playing with the bomb, right, you might not live to tell about it, yeah, okay, I'm done, so I understand Will Ferrell legitimately struggled afterward of eating a caribou's eye and I've heard Deion Sanders tell his story of clinging to the rock wall of the mesa a thousand feet up when you think about the celebrities who have impressed you most with the size of their adventurous insect . Are there any names that stand out? Know? Guests arrive and want the whole nine yards. You know, they say, "Give it, give it your all," and there's a little part of me that always says, "Be careful what you wish for because the wild again tends to do it anyway.

You know someone is." It's unpredictable, you're going to have bad weather or higher water levels than you and you always have to improvise a little bit, so for Will Ferrell, I mean, I will always be indebted and love that man. You know he was our first guest. We took it to the Arctic. You know, in those days we went for days and days. You know it's much shorter and narrower now, and you know we've learned the opposite. If you break people, you don't get anything from them after a while. while, but we didn't know that at this stage, Will was in the background and still to this day, if I watch him, he says, firstly, people still talk to you about that show and secondly, because it was the harder for me.

I have done it once in my life and it goes well, you are a truly incredible man standing on the shoulders of giants that we all

bear

. Will Ferrell is one of them for me. Wow, someone put a lot of sauce on this one. This is like marinating, we think. You wanted the full 12 yards. Did I ever order the full 12 yards? Hmm, getting a little more impactful, yeah, this one, so you lure him in with the first two and then cover the third. You guys will have a fancy pattern for this to hit you. a false sense of security and then bring it saving the milk, yeah here we go, so in 2019, a mountaineer near the persia mall posted a viral photo of a climber jam at the top of mount everest, how does that compare? photo with your memories of being one? one of the youngest people to climb the summit when you did it in 1988, yes that photo was amazing, nims is a good friend of mine.

You meet an amazing high altitude climber, but you know, I think you have to keep going. the times and you know, part of me thinks it's amazing, you know, and the people were much younger and crying and limbless and you know, and I would never want to take anything away from those guys because at the end of the day you have to turn it up, You know the weather forecast has improved, the equipment has improved, and the oxygen has become much lighter. You know why so many people would die. So you're so slow. You carry so much weight.

Those progressions are great. Don't stand in the way of progress, so I look back on those times, very lucky to have had the opportunity to do it and grateful to have gotten away with what others hunt at that stage, and always grateful for friendships with geysers . Without them, this one is also green, which makes me suspicious, I'm definitely getting into more difficult territory. Your eyes are watery if your eyes are watery. I'm dead. I'm trying to appear calm. You know, thank you. Almost like you would in your To show, you know I'm trying to be that support system.

I loved it when Gordon Gordon was such a good episode, so funny, wasn't it lovely to go with you? We will never forget that here in the studio I felt much more bored. I guess I'm sorry. Off the top of your head and without thinking too much about it, what would you say is the greatest adventure novel of all time? It's an interesting, unbroken, incredible story. You know, Louis Vampirini turned it into a movie that lost so much. really because the book is crazy, you know he was an American soldier, World War II, his plane crashed in the Pacific ended in one of the longest

survival

lives of our stories in history while he was strafed by Japanese planes, You know, shark attacks and enemy planes. most of them died, a couple finally made it and you think you finally made it to this island, but the island was one of the most horrible Japanese prisoner of war camps and their journey was just beginning and they survived the nuclear bombs of Nagasaki, I mean, you know.

Transport ships from hell. You know, his story is incredible. Afterwards he was broken in many ways, but he found healing and he found a faith in his life and a great family, and he created these amazing youth programs, and um, a true hero. I'm getting into the milk, we're halfway there, you know it's bad when there's a devil on a horse, we're at that point in the world, the grim reaper, yeah, they start threatening you through marketing trying not to put it on your lips, smart, okay, bear. In the meantime, we have a recurring segment on our show called Explain That Graham, where we do a deep dive on our guest Instagram, we pull up interesting images that need more context, so we'll upload the image here on the monitor, just tell us. the greatest story I love this quote of yours life should not be a trip to the grave with the intention of showing up in an attractive and well-preserved body do you have an injury or scar that has more meaning to you? yeah, but I have a private one I'm going to keep it private um I think you know my back my back accident you know breaking my back in three places was a life changing trip you know it's a fruitful accident the jump went wrong I had the most part of a year in and out of army rehab struggling to get to the bathroom.

You know, it's just strapped down with braces and my back never lets me forget it and I think what it doesn't let me forget is number one. Don't be an idiot, you're only wrong once, be smart and always be grateful for life, you know, because I should have died so many times and I'm still going and I'm so grateful. That's great for that, whether it's sitting around eating like crazy, you know, stuff with you or whatever, life is a great privilege and uh, and I think that's what the pain in my back always reminds me of every day.

I'm really enjoying this, yes, the track is. On the scale of how spicy it is, there's a lot of chilies in the background, I'm hanging there, I can see it trying to pace myself, the determination, I see it, come on, never give up, let's get the workout that it is. All of this has led to this, so apart from obvious exceptions like David Attenborough, there aren't many people who have been making TV in remote areas of the world long enough to see the effects of climate change. Are there any obvious changes you've noticed? In your decades of doing thought-provoking expeditions, climate change is undeniable and the other thing about climate change is that it always affects the vulnerable, you know, in terms not just in terms of wildlife, which I've seen some horrible consequences of climate change. and you know the animals and you know when you see 50 elephants fighting in a mud hole with so much mud that you know for hundreds of years there has been total conflict and you see these elephants starving and that's it, it's hard not to be affected, but the other side of the coin is that climate change affects vulnerable people, coastal communities, the poorest people in the world, sea level rise, extreme droughts, extreme rainfall, flash floods, you know, and that It is the only thing we all share on the same planet. and I come from the position that if you love something, you protect it and uh, and this is how I see climate change oh wow, I just found the knife and fork, yeah, yeah, this is for you, wow, it's that a bomb is worse, much worse, yes.

I'm not going to lie to you, I appreciate the fact that you're h

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t, I'm struggling with this a little bit, come on bear, come on, come on bear, you got it, you got a bear, you got a fire there. Come on, it's like it's an antidote, yeah, I've never heard this analogy before, but I'm all yours, you know, we're in jungles all the time, lots of snakes, in fact, one of our guys has been bitten by a horrible snake and that's another history. I'll send you the photo of Steve's foot after that snake. Yes, I have to see Steve.

It's fantastic, but this is some hot chick poison that's getting me close. water team well here we go there we go I really feel the need to scratch my balls no yeah I appreciate it I appreciate it yeah like diving into that like secret service from the other side of the table okay so there's a question recurring that I've asked about the hottest ones before to anyone who can give a credible answer and I think we can add you to the list along with Padma Lakshmi and Andrew Zimmern of all the animal testicles you've ever eaten in your life, which ones do you think?

They would have the best chance of becoming a main menu item if people gave them a chance, well first of all, none of them because they are all pretty terrible and there have been a few trial schools over the years, you know, I mean the worst testicle was the goat testicle in the sahara that this berber tries when he got cut and I saw the goat before and it was a pretty small goat I thought this was going to be okay until I saw the size of the testicles and I thought that's way out of proportion anyway i tried to eat this thing uh i thought about trying to swallow it because i didn't want to bite into this huge testicle that was going to get ugly so i tried to swallow this thing and it stayed halfway down but it was too big , so I threw it up now with a bite and then I bit it, so now I have tesco bags of sperm and vomit in my mouth you know, but I didn't want to be rude so I tried to hold it there and then I finally got it, yeah , that was a bad day, yeah, wow, suddenly I'm getting a lot of boost from a buildup of eight, this is the cumulative effect, yeah, yeah, I'm getting it, well, wait until and I haven't even done the wait until Once the bomb drops there is no turning back, there is no turning back, we are in this before we make the bomb dead.

Is there anything sensible you want to ask me? Because surely the answers can help us a little. Listen, I don't know if you've followed me so far, but nothing I'm asking is sensible. Do you know if. Is unusual. The first thing that catches your eye from here is your eyeball. That's a bad sign. Wow, mother's love. yeah, wow, yeah, come on, team, never give up, drink the milk, make more milk, we should, yeah, maybe the revenge is over, like so many, there are so many guests we've had, there have been so many moments of raw terror and raw, this is revenge.

It's a long time, I've got a lot of mafia running, ohfriends, watching this, loving mother, this is long overdue, yes, yes, in all your years of filming, what would you say was the most inopportune time to experience diarrhea halfway up a rock wall? I had that on a big cliff and I had eaten a dodgy snake the day before and um wow and anyway I was halfway up this rock face and um and I felt it coming, you know, and like you know, when it comes you can There's nowhere to know where to hide and I said the cameraman said look, turn. camera off this ain't waiting for no one you know 'cause I had a hand up here on this thing you know one hour on the road and the other trying to get my pants down, I did the outdoor business, you know, the gear underneath oh no and uh and I told him to tell the camera to turn it off and they finally sorted me out and you know, grabbing and tying my train look over there and there are cameras all flashing you still know there's nothing sacred oh wow I know no but the other thing I've learned on this journey with you respect respect for you you know it's good for you I mean you do this day in and day out you know I'm a bombshell virgin and that's probably going to be a unique, one-of-a-kind relationship that you know is good for you wow, wow, there's nothing better, right?

What's a politically correct word for man, go ahead, human, yeah, humanoid and it's not funny, it's not funny at all, but after the last one. a little bit better, yeah, although that hurt the teeth, right, they were all very different, I mean, it's a new experience trying to hurt the teeth, you know, you would never call that, you know, if you're a viewer watching this at home. you think about hot things, mouth, you know, lips, for something that hurts your teeth, different level, so I imagine there have been times in your life when fans will approach you on the street to tell you how something they saw you do on television actually saved them from a potentially deadly real life situation what's the story that stands out when you think about those stranded and lost stories you've heard from fans over the years um well oh they're being a great piece of good stories, you know? you know, the big ones are like snowballs that get lost and you know, some of them drink urine ah, you know, kids falling through the ice, there have been some pretty serious incidents because of that and then the kids have been amazing and they remembered something and that's it.

You know, falling through the ice. You're not going to remember complicated, difficult things, but simple things like turning around and going back the way you came instead of panicking and trying to figure out simple things, rolling in the snow, you know, so the snow can absorb the water. , You know? obviously dry snow will take away your water, it's water, ultimately your windshields will make you cold. Great stories like that, I love it, I love hearing it, we get it all the time and we never get tired of so many heroes out there, my huge wow. I'm not entirely sure where we go from here, so this is the last dab, we call it the last dab because it's tradition around here to put a little more on the last wing or the last stake, but nowadays such a mistake is such. lip licking bug, it's been a day of scoops, yeah I think we should do a scoop here in the 10 wing with the dab, yeah I understand you brought some snacks and you're not the only one we had the Same idea here, an ally that comes from Bugaboo, you are not the only one.

It's okay with the bug plug here. It's good, it's good. I mean, I was always taught to never show up to a party empty-handed, so you're very kind, thank you very much. I bought a little gift for you, yeah, so we should, I bought some worms here, come on, there, you go, you got that, all these go because he's the one, we got some worms here, so, here we go, so yeah , have. the worms, I'll have your, I'll take your worms, I'll just do a little bit of both types, these are, these aren't, oh, they're worms, yeah, yeah, well, they're larvae, you know, they look like they've been marinating. something's already good, allie seasons over here oh, that's not a dab, that's a marinade, yeah, yeah, be careful, wait, let's continue with this, so that's a dab, here we go, cheers, hey, It's been a privilege if we don't get out of the The other end of this experience was worth it, it's been an honor, brother, it's been an honor, here we go, this is for you, for you, um, okay, there's a reason why the one you save for last, yes, yes, but I don't imagine you have many recurring ones. guests, you know we have a handful, but we probably have similar problems.

Similar things happen. It's a lot of fun, isn't it? There is as much as when I was reading your book. Everything that hit me. Everything was like. I said: Yes, yes. I've never felt more seen than reading the same type of challenges and then the same type of effects that you have when doing your show where you open up to people or yes, you have this celebrity thing that is by definition unattainable, but there is no artifice, there's nowhere to hide in the wild and there's nowhere to hide with hot sauce yeah well I love that and you make connections when you say you go through scary hot stuff again you know you're gonna make some connections, but um, but yeah, you've done an amazing job?

You know, good for you, but no, like you were saying, there probably aren't many recurring guests, we have some wild card ones, we have satan coming back a couple of times and a few other times, but yeah, mostly it's like an experience, it's like the hot ones, it's incredibly epic, but we finish from the beginning, we finish, you know, and it's a bit like the second day I'm running while they're going better, this is incredible and it blows my mind, we're out. of never wanting to see you again but you know what Bear Grylls we saw the challenge we accepted it and we climbed to the top of Mount Scoville and now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you this camera this camera this camera let the people what you're going through in your life oh wow I gotta do it I like to enjoy it so then plug in the show you'll figure it out you'll figure it out yeah hey for me it's more important than plugging in anything I know it's just um I love it.

It has been a great privilege to do it with you and I am honored that you read the book first of all. You are so kind. It would be a good complement. Never give up. running one running while that's why we're here is like brain fog running a new season now amazing guest wow that's epic that's a treat in fact I'd classify it as a household hazard yeah yeah I think that goes along with the bleach. you know, the sulfuric acid, the machetes, the axes that you know you don't need in your house, you don't have it anyway, so much fun, so much fun, hey what's going on, hot fans, we brought the heat to the hallway from the freezer with our hot boneless chicken. bites and used sales records and all our wildest expectations, so what did we do?

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