[Wind whistling]
♪♪
Reedus: Talk about an apocalyptic dream --
300,000 desert acres so smooth
you can see the curvature of the Earth.
Terrain so barren, desolate,
devoid of life,
it's as if it were built for one thing --
speed.
This is "Ride," and we're in Utah.
♪♪
Should we set a speed record?
Narrator: And one of the all-time kings of speed,
Sir Malcolm Campbell, was on for a still memorable record
down one of those salt flats.
In his supercar Blue Bird,
Sir Malcolm blazed across the Utah desert
at a speed that literally melted his tire.
Yeah, it's like we're on the moon.
Reedus: Out here it's like being in another world.
I'm feeling a little lost.
Utah is the last frontier of the old Wild West,
a the place where outlaws sought refuge
and pioneers could forge their own reality...
This is cool out here.
Oh, my God. Are you kidding me?
...something my companion on this journey
knows a thing or two about.
♪♪
Yep, that's right -- Keanu Reeves.
I'm seeing Utah with Johnny Utah.
You want some coffee?Yeah.
Keanu and I have talked about going on a ride for years.
I literally have coffee.
And it's finally happening.
It's our first chance to spend real time together.
And I can tell already
that this is gonna be an epic ride.
Yeah, so the Bonneville Salt Flats --
I did a little bit of the Wikipedia.
What I read was that these two guys,
Joseph -- like, a guy who's searching --
I think it was named after, I think --
was it Joseph Bonneville?
And then they were like, "Hmm. I wonder if we can go fast?"
Right.I want to say 1903, 1913.
I'm getting all these facts wrong.
All of them are wrong.
But I just think it's funny that, like, you know,
humankind coming out here
and wondering, like, what can we --
What can we crank up just a little bit more?
"Charles." "Yes, Simon?"
"We have this car that's got a huge engine in it.
It's top of the line, new world, new thing,"
you know, before the super highways were built.
Yeah, yeah.
And then they were like, "Put the pedal down."
And then, ever since then, people have come out here
to see how fast they can go.
Yeah. I love it.Motorcycles. Cars.
Here. There's more now, and I'll give you that one.
So tell me about Arch.
We started the company in 2011,
and this is the KRGT-1.
I call it kind of metro modern.
Yeah. It's beautiful.
But how come you've never come out here to do this,
like, take your bikes out here, just see how fast they go?
I don't know if I'm, like, a speed demon.
How'd you get into motorcycles in the first place?
When I was a kid, I grew up in Toronto, Canada.
And every summer, motorcycle gangs
would come into the Yorkville.
I just remember as a little, little kid,
11-year-old, going, like, "Freedom."
It felt like freedom. It felt like alternative.
It felt like power.
You know, like, "Waah!" They'd come in.
Camaraderie, the whole thing.
And so it began.
I like that you're, like, a dude-dude.
You know, like, you're sitting on the ground,
getting filthy, drinking coffee, talking about stuff like this.
It's nice to see you on the ground.No, it's nice.
Get the opportunity to ride and hang out.
Cheers. Thank you for doing this episode.Cheers to the mud!
Thank you, Mr. Reedus.
It's a pleasure to have you, man.
Pleasure, man. Thank you for --
for the journey.
[Engines start]
♪♪
Utah is an extraordinary state.
There's no other state like it because of the culture.
Man: Utah's heritage was a bunch of pioneers
coming through the mountains and selecting this valley
said, "This is where we belong."
Utah is a place where you can just really find your own niche.
You can come here and you can make a life for yourself
in whatever it is that you want to do.
Man #2: That rebel spirit, that independent spirit,
you can see it every single day.
A lot of people come here, and they stay forever.
What's not to love, honestly?
Your bike is covered in salt.
I didn't get to the fastest this bike could go.
I think I need another couple of runs.
[Laughs]
♪ Beyond the valley of the shadow of doubt ♪
Reedus: Leaving the Bonneville Salt Flats,
we'll head east into the city founded by Brigham Young.
Making our way south,
we'll visit a world-class racing team in Summit County
before achieving peak sensory overload
in the Canyonlands National Park
and the final ride to Moab
for a celebration of motorcycles and fire...
...a three-day, 500-mile journey through the sparse
but otherworldly Utah desert.
Reeves: Whoo! Utah.
Reedus: It is pretty, isn't it?
But, you know, like, I'm gonna miss
riding motorcycles in Georgia, that's for sure.
How many months out of a year would you shoot?
Eight months, but this last season,
we did almost a year and a half solid.
♪♪
Now, I remember when I did "Matrix" 2 and 3,
that was 22 months.
It's so groundbreaking, "The Matrix."
Just kinda pick up something new every time you watch them.
They're great.
The best sci-fi has something to say about who we are
and what we are and what we're doing.
Yeah.
So much of it was just foresight into the world
that we live in now and simulation, AI.
All sorts of roads you could go down from "The Matrix"
to apply to the modern world!
Modern world!
On the highway!
[Chuckles]Into the future.
What the heck are we doing, Reedus?
What are we doing?!
What are we doing, man?
Reedus: That, I don't know.
But what we're doing now is hitting
a Salt Lake institution,
Garage on Beck...
Can I have a waffle now?
...an old auto-body shop that now serves
the best chicken and waffles in town.
Let's go to -- hey, nice to meet you.
It's where we're meeting up with a few of the locals
responsible for showing this place a good time.
Coles: Pretty cool story. I was 12 years old.
I went to Scout camp
up in the High Uintas at a Ute Reservation
because Utah's name comes from the Utes that were here.
And we set up camp, and I see this little furball.
And it's a wolf pup.
-Oh, wow. -It had a broken paw.
Oh, no.
So I raised, and she raised me,
a full timber wolf for about 16 years.
-Wow! -Wait. What?!
Yeah. Timber wolf.
What? Okay, so you have a timber wolf,
what, in your house?
You can have wild animals here.
You just have to have a license and enough land.
Was it still the hunter all the time?
Yeah, she buried her food, howled at the moon.
Wow. That's so cool.
-That's awesome. -That's awesome.
So Motos in M--
-Motos in Moab. -Yeah. What is that?
It started out just with me by myself,
kind of a lone wolf. Whenever I --
Awhooo!Yeah, that's what's on my wolf helmet.
I'll show you.You got the wolf helmet, okay.
-That's me, yeah. -All right.
Over the years, it just kept getting bigger and bigger.
I was gonna turn Moab into the Sturgis of the west.
That was the plan. Then Moab pulled the plug.
-And do you ride as well? -I do.
I, you know, create festivals
and own bars and book shows.
And what about you?
I love riding motorcycles.
And I kind of have an event where I invite people
to my house to eat curry,
and then we go for a ride together.
So you guys run this town?
At least the fun parts of this town.
We just kind of want to see
what we can get away with, you know?
Coles: I was born in Uruguay,
and an LDS missionary
married my mother and adopted me.
But in Utah I find camaraderie
'cause there's a lot of people that look different.
And through the church, it's connected us.
And both of us are here because of that.
But Utah's got something for everybody.
A lot of people just associate the church,
but there's so much more
if you love adventure,
you love the outdoors and motorcycles.
I was gonna say this -- I don't want to offend anybody,
but if you've not ridden in Utah and you have a motorcycle,
why do you even ride, bro?
All right.
Cool. Let's go for a ride. Take us places.
♪♪
We're in downtown Salt Lake.
I think there's a Mormon Council
pick-up and drop-off out here.
Dijkwel: You can tell it's Sunday
because everyone's wearing their Sunday best.
Reedus: There's a lot of people.
Do you want to ask them what's going on?
Yeah. Is this -- Is this Lollapalooza?
Welcome to Utah!
Reedus: Salt Lake City's origins
are intertwined with the LDS church.
Back in 1847, the Mormons settled here,
hoping to build a new utopia.
And their influence can be seen today in the layout of the city.
Uh, this is us. This is our window.
Wow. These hills are out of nowhere. I like it.
Yeah. And these are the avenues.
They're the oldest part of downtown Salt Lake.
It was built as a grid around the temple.
So the temple's the center of the universe.
And everything is north, south, east, west,
progressively increases in numbers.
We're gonna pop out behind the Capitol, the State Capitol.
There's the Wasatch Mountains.
Yeah. Those are great.
Yeah, it's one of the few places
where you can be 90 degrees in the valley
and then hit a snowstorm at top at 10,000 feet
at Mirror Lake Pass.
Anyone know what my favorite thing
about Salt Lake City is?
What's that?
Everything outside of Salt Lake City.
You point your bike in any direction,
and you'll find something magical.
And that's exactly what Keanu and I are going to do.
See you down the road hopefully.
Hope you enjoy the rest of your trip.
We'll see JP again in the desert
at the revival of his Motos in Moab event
in a few days.
Now we venture out of the city in search of all the mystique
Utah has to offer.
Reedus: Pretty. Right, Keanu?
Reeves: Pretty spectacular.
[Horns honking]
♪♪
[Bell rings]
♪ Hey
Good morning, Norman.
Well, good morning, Keanu.
It's day two.
♪ Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh
I mean, this is beautiful.
Like, can you imagine living on that lake?
Wow. That's cool.
Humans just playing on planet Earth,
the rock in space.[Chuckles]
Man: For people who love the outdoors,
this is the place to be.
There's everything -- hockey, skiing, skating.
Anything you can imagine, you can do it here in Utah.
Man #2: Beautiful landscapes, snow-topped mountains.
There's seven major peaks that can be hiked,
ten major ski resorts that can be accessed.
I'm geeking out on the beautiful snowy mountaintop.
Woman: Utah obviously is the greatest snow on Earth.
Super epic and magical here.
-Dude, did you eat? -No.
Not even a croissant?
I have to admit, Norman,
I was counting on the breakfast this morning.
All right. Should we get some breakfast?
Yes, please. Let's go.
Reedus: We're on our way to the desert.
But first, a quick stop for the day's most important meal.
Grab a seat? Sure.
Did you play sports at all?
Does shooting pool count as a sport?
[Laughs] Yes.I played a lot of pool
and, uh, played a lot of hockey.
So you played hockey. That's cool. I didn't know that.
Yeah, yeah, I played goal.
I was a netminder, as they say.
Did you get, like, nailed all the time?
Like, it's super violent.
No, I was playing net so --
You never just did one of those...
and then pull the jersey over their head and just --
Yeah. No, no.
I did have this one game -- super intense.
And, like, it was a bit of a scrum,
and I got up and I swung,
and I punched the guy in the head.
Fight, fight, fight!Then the other players came,
and then my defensemen came in,
and then they fighting.
And it was all very exciting.
Did you ever see the movie "Youngblood"?
I was in "Youngblood."
You were in "Youngblood"?Yeah.
Man Racki's brutal, even for this league.
[French accent] That man, [bleep] an animal.
Shut up!
Yeah, man. That was my first 35-millimeter.
With Rob Lowe?
Yeah, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze. Shut up.
I played the French Canadian goalie.
No way. Dude, I gotta rewatch that [bleep]
Two Bloody Marys!
Thank you all once again for the second time!
And, uh, what was Patrick Swayze like?
He was a beautiful spirit.
So sweet.
Super committed.
Enthusiastic. Yeah.
Especially on "Point Break."
Have you ever seen "Point Break"?
Loved it, yeah.Oh, cool.
While we were filming,
he kept skydiving.
And then all the other guys started skydiving.
And so they had to tell him to stop skydiving.
Oh, 'cause he got -- he loved it too much.
He just kept going.
And Kathryn Bigelow, the director --
the righteous, amazing Kathryn Bigelow --
she was like,
"I'm just gonna take a cameraman and camera
and go up in the plane with Patrick,
and you go do your thing."
So all of that stuff that he did,
he ended up doing at the end of the film.
You can see he's, like, doing tricks
in the air and everything.Is that really him?
He was doing somersaults and everything.
Yeah. It's really him.Wow. That's so cool.
Yeah. So it's why that's in the movie.
Reedus: If you're lucky,
you cross paths with that someone who inspires you
to look inward, challenges you to be better.
And those lessons that you take with you last a lifetime.
♪♪
Reedus: Wow. This is a great road right here.
Look at that yummy turn up ahead.
I feel like I'm in a dream or something.
JP was saying the riding's great here.
That ain't no lie.
Reedus: Leaving Park City,
we've got big plans in the desert.
But before escaping town, we're making an 11-mile detour
to the mountain town of Peoa.
It's where for the last 12 years
the good folks at Rancho Luna Lobos
have been transforming underdogs into champions.
Smells like sled dogs.
Is that what we're doing?
We're gonna go see some sled dogs?
Yeah. All right.
I'm excited. It's really cool.
Reeves: Wait. So you've dog sledded.
I was in Lapland, actually, when I was dog sledding.
It was cool.
I bet it was cool.
Is there -- is there anything you haven't done?
Not really.
[Both chuckle]
-All right. -Let's see some puppies.
Yeah! Let's see some puppies.
Hey, I'm Norman. Hey. How are you?
I'm Dana. Nice to meet you.
-Fernando. Nice to meet you. -And I'm Dana.
-Hi, Dana. -Nice to meet you.
Reedus: So you guys rescue puppies here, right? We do.
We're like a rescue and rehabilitation.
We do a lot of -- this is kind of like
what we'd want to be a sanctuary for animals and for dogs,
and we use dog sledding as a form of therapy.
But this is mainly about every dog living their best life
and every human getting to live their best life
while they're here as well.
How'd you guys get into this?
Fernando: I've been racing since I was a kid.
I grew up just up the road in Park City.
And when Dana and I got married, I asked her,
I was like, "What would you think about rescuing dogs
and living in the middle of nowhere?"
[Laughs] You know? She was like, "Sign me up."
This is like heaven.
Awesome. Okay. We'll take you this way.
Reedus: Oh, my God. You guys are cute. Hi, buddy.
-Good girls. -Hi. Hi. How are ya?
-Welcome to the ranch. -Wow. They're so cute.
About 55 acres. Everything you see here,
my husband I have built together.
We are about 85% rescue.
Majority of those were surrendered over
or dropped off on our doorstep.
So we believe in being dog listeners,
not dog whisperers.
And it's our job to figure out what it is
that they want to teach us through their journey.
I think this one is teaching me to take a nap.
Who's the fastest?
The fastest dog in our entire kennel is Nickel.
She's an Alaskan husky mixed with a greyhound.
They actually have a higher red blood cell count,
so they process oxygen better.
So it's kind of like a natural superpower.
They can just have that extra energy boost.
What's this guy who's super friendly?
Lily. This is Lily.
She's a Pyrenees-Malamute mix.
Lily needs a Tic Tac.
-[Laughing] She does. -She does.
You need a Tic Tac.
This is Nanuk.
Nanuk is a high-content Canadian gray wolf
timber wolf-Malamute mix, so she's 85% wolf.
The wolf hybrids are actually becoming a really big problem.
People see shows that have all these awesome-looking
wolf hybrids, and they want one.
And they don't realize they're not exactly dogs.
They have a very high prey drive.
I would never bring a little dog out here with her.
They'd probably be lunch.
But the main reason is that they can be alpha over you,
which is pretty dangerous.
That word was "prey drive"?
-Prey drive. -Yeah.
This one over here next to my head is the one that's --
that might eat me, yeah.
So do they get to run around, like, out here?
They do. We'll load up and we'll go for a ride.
Fernando: This is one of the main reasons we keep them fit.
So they're not pulling any weight.
We just create some tension.
So they literally think they're pulling us up this hill.
-Oh, really? -Yeah.
So just feel free to cheer them on as we're going.
They love that.You got this!
[Laughs] Yeah, they love it.
Ready!
[Whistles]
Good job, guys!
It's funny how quiet they get, right, when they tick.Yeah.
Reeves: Will you teach commands from here?
That's exactly what we do.
Oh, gee, gee, gee, gee, gee Oh!
Wow. That's good.
Haw-haw-haw! Oh, so good!
There we go!Great job!
Back on trail. Find the trail, baby.
That's my girl!
Oh, so good!
Reeves: Is that sound that you made for the correction,
the "haw-haw"?Yeah.
Is that a traditional sledding sound?
Yeah. "Haw"'s left, "gee" is right.
It actually came from the mining days up with --
the prospectors in Alaska used it
for their mules in California,
but when they went up to Alaska, you know,
you could only use wagons for so long.
So when they had to depend on the sled dogs,
they taught their lead dogs the same commands.
Good girl.
Oh, you guys are so strong.
This is them pulling us right now, a Jeep.
-Really? -Yeah.
Reedus: Utah has always been a place
where people come to do things their own way.
And up in these hills, Fernando and Dana
have found the place to follow their dreams...
Thank you, guys. That was really cool.
-Oh, you're so welcome. -Yeah. That was really awesome.
Oh, I'm so glad that y'all could come out and join us.
Reedus: ...providing love and coaching to create
a most unconventional champion dog-sledding team.
Reeves: How lovely were those people?
Reedus: Yeah, they were great.
They were really great.Really.
I like people that find out their calling, you know?
It's kind of inspiring.
Just the mission and their mentality,
the life lessons.
The discipline,
the communication with the animals,
like, it's so cool, and how much they care.
You know, there's danger everywhere,
but there's lessons everywhere. Yeah.
Reedus: We leave the snowcapped mountains behind
and go back in time
as we venture into the vast, mysterious Utah desert.
♪♪
Reedus: When you do movies, do you do, like, trainers
and do the whole thing?
Reeves: If it's an action film, definitely.
Norman, I'm like a dinosaur.
[Both laugh]
I don't have any, like, modern recovery methods.
Like, I had a big fight scene with --
a knife fight with Ryan Hurst.
Really, really big guy but not --
you know, it wasn't like "John Wick" action.
That's crazy.
Yeah, physically, the films are very intense.
But I enjoy that, too. I love fake fighting.
I love the ballet, the dance.
Violence is always so intense, right?
It means so much. It's like fight for your life.
Fight for something. Fight to protect.
Yeah.
♪♪
Reedus: Who is this guy? Hello, Mr. Lumberjack.
Reeves: It's coal mining.
Wow, look at this little town.
Starting to get hungry.
Mmm.
Maybe an ice cream.Ooh, let's go.
Yeah. Those roads were beautiful, really pretty.
Ice cream, hot dogs, floats.
♪♪
-You want vanilla? -Yeah.
In a cone. Can I do it in a cone?
-How was your ride? -Amazing.
Good. It's a beautiful area.
Reedus: Super pretty, yeah.
This whole town's so cute.
Yeah. It's an old mining town.
Wow.Helper was an old --
the push car that helped the trains.
Oh, yeah? Oh, cool.
Yeah. There's a lot of, like, speakeasies.
Reeves: It looks like a movie set.
-It really does. -Yeah.
They've done a great job restoring it.
-I bet. Cool. -It's a cool place to live.
-Thank you so much. -Thank you.
Reedus: Wild West mining towns aren't supposed to exist anymore,
especially not like this.
Across this country I've seen so many old industrial centers
that are struggling to survive,
communities that progress left behind.
So being out here and finding this restored Main Street,
I've gotta find out what's going on.
Wow.
-Welcome to Helper. -Yeah.
Gary: You guys on a little road trip, huh?
Yeah, came up from Salt Lake City.
Beautiful ride. Twisting road.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -Wahh!
[Laughs] That hour ride is --
you know, up through the canyon is just the best.
Reedus: There's a lot of cool history here.
-Americana. -Yeah.
This slowly turned into more of a museum
type of get-up than a real garage.
Malarie: A lot of times people stumble in here,
and it's so fun. People are just like, "Whoa!
What is this place? What's going on?"It is fun.
These are both 1957 Corvettes.
You done any restoration?
Yeah, so it was pretty extensive.
We got it so it's streetable.
I mean, you can drive it and drive it hard.
Ooh, that smell. Look at that.
I can smell. I love that smell.
It smells like my dad. Yeah.
Malarie: It's a true barn find.
It sat in a barn for over 50 years.
These are great.
Gary: We just got this the other day.
It was all original,
but a couple items are still original paint.
It feels like a bicycle.
It does feel like a little -- like a leprechaun.
Right. It's crazy that they rode these in the war.
Like, my dad wrenched on these.
He was stationed in Australia at the end of the war.
And I remember him telling me they were taking
all these things and dumping them in the ocean.
He the reason you started --
Well, absolutely. I mean, as a little kid, yeah.
I mean, I just grew up around it.
He's really into preservation and, you know,
old, historic things, so now this work has transformed
from restoring bikes and cars
to this town and just bringing it back to life.
Gary: Coming through here for a ride, saw the town.
It was pretty dilapidated, you know,
so my mind was just going 100 miles an hour
because everything was unoccupied almost.
So I was just like, "Wow, man.
This could be cool to make the whole town how it was,"
because as it's being discovered,
you don't want just developers coming in
and taking a quick, easy --
Yeah. To make a buck.
You've done a great job. You've done a lot with it.
I love these buildings.
There's almost like a David Lynchie thing
going on, too, which is cool.
You're just in your own world out here.
It sounds like the town itself
wants to remain something,
and they've picked you to keep it like that way.
♪♪
Reeves: We're meeting some pretty good folks,
spiritual people, you know, manifesting in their way.
-Very true. -Really good humans.
Reedus: We've got a long stretch of road.
It's kind of like "My Own Private Idaho."
I do know that road.
Wow. Uh... how do I do this?
♪♪
Look how sophisticated you are with your knife and fork.
Well, there's many ways to skin the cat.
[Chuckles]
Sophisticated. Not sophisticated.
Knife and fork.
My hands covered in butter.
♪♪
Whoo! Good morning!
It's nice out here.Yeah, it is.
♪ I left my girl miles away
Reedus: Day three.
We're headed into Utah's Holey Land Region.
That's "Holey" with an "e,"
named for all of its arches and unique rock structures.
Leaving Emery County, we're on a 60-mile shot southeast
until reaching Canyonlands National Park,
a 227,000-acre wonderland
of sweeping vistas and sandstone
carved out by the Colorado River.
Narrator: Utah is often referred to
as the center of scenic America, and justly so.
From one end of the state to the other
are national and state parks and monuments.
Utah very much cares about its land
and preserving it for the future.
And we have a very, very large amount of public land here.
Five national parks, so we call it The Mighty 5.
We have Canyonlands, Arches National Park,
Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, and Capitol Reef.
The most insanely beautiful places in the world.
Reeves: I wonder if this used to be the bottom of an ocean?
Reedus: Yeah, right?
♪♪
It just looks like one giant sculpture everywhere you look.
As I'm getting older,
I'm finding myself thinking about geology.
Really?
So, like, looking at all these rocks and the stratifications,
what shaped it, how did that happen?
I like -- I like listening to the inner workings
of your mind.
Danger everywhere.
All right. Here it is -- Canyonlands National Park.
♪♪
Reedus: There's real history in these rocks.
Back in the '50s, miners scoured this land for uranium
as America's appetite for atomic energy grew
and Cold War fears heightened.
And when this place was the Wild West,
Butch Cassidy used this inhospitable terrain to hide out
and avoid the law after his outlaw crew's legendary heists.
This looks like it just cracked open.
"Human activities have changed the face of Canyonlands.
The roads and seismic lines you see below were constructed
in the '50s in a search for uranium and oil.
Full biological recovery will take many years
in this arid environment."
So this tells us the impact of man on it.
But where's the knowledge of, like,
what the heck is going on here?
What bore out this?
Well, right here you can see a giant alien handprint
that went down into the ground.
-Absolutely. -Great.
-Okay. -So that happened.
Where is that?So aliens came down,
dug their tunnels underneath us
for uranium to build super space weapons.
So that we know. Yeah.
So then somehow we've made a pact with them,
and now they're living underground.Yeah.
And we're like, "What do we do with this?
Let's just make some money and charge some tickets."
Yeah. This is all part of concealing the master plan.
-Yeah. -The truth.
Hold on. One second. Might be Captain Kirk.
How'd you even get a -- How did you even get a call?[Cellphone ringing]
Do you have, like, a super phone?
He has a super phone.
Hi. I'm on a mountain with Keanu.
We were discovering alien life forms that are --
Don't tell them because then they'll connect to --
Oh, [bleep], no, no, no. Delete this call. Hang up.
Delete this number. I could be --
I think I'm being watched.
Quick. They -- They have a gun.
Okay. Bye. We figured it out, dude.
I mean, I don't know. I don't know about that.
Reedus: Come on. Who are you gonna believe,
me and Keanu or the so-called experts
who claim this was all caused by erosion?
That's exactly what I thought.
♪♪
Reeves: Welcome to Moab.
Wow. It is really peaceful and pretty up here.
Look at this. Oh, my God.
Moab has always been kind of a hidden gem.
It is these rock formations out of sandstone.
Iconic red rocks and structures and hoodoos and things.
Landscape that looks almost like Mars.
Man: You can't help but just look around in awe
at what you're seeing, and it almost doesn't look real.
Reedus: We're in the homestretch.
It's the final 32-mile ride
to the outskirts of Arches National Park
for a motorcycle bash in the desert.
This is intense.
Oh, my God.
Are you kidding me?
These roads!
[Laughs]
Oh, look at this turn. Oh, my God.
Go to the outside this turn right here.
Third gear, fourth gear, top, [indistinct],
outside, coming in.
Whoa!
Reedus: Picturing you having sex
and having -- having this kind of dialogue.
"Ooh, look at this right here.
I'm gonna drop down to fourth.
I'm gonna turn in. I'm gonna feel out this.
I'm gonna get a little acceleration.
It's gonna go down that way."
Just open.
Just wide open right here.
Full throttle right in there.
Full throttle, full gas.[Laughs]
And then right here, just like, bang! Downshift!
-Oh, Yeah! -[Laughs]
All right. Colorado River.
Narrator: The Colorado flows south through Utah and Arizona.
Much of this region is dry wasteland,
and the river itself is normally shallow.
Yet man has made this river of great value.
Reeves: ♪ Riding along the Colorado ♪
Reedus: Wow. Everywhere you look is just awesome.
You ever done that thing where you get on an inner tube
and you just roll down a river?
Pretty great. You get sunburned [bleep]
Other than that, it's awesome.
Beat the heat on the water.
That's a great idea.Let's do it.
Reedus: The Colorado is a playground for water adventurers,
attracting millions to its banks every year.
So that's just what we're going to do.
Oof! Okay.
Ah!
We'll strip naked.
I broke my zipper.Oh, no.
I'm gonna have to do the break with a paper clip.
Did you break it?
Here, you want me to undo it? We can rig this.
I don't know how, but we're gonna do it.
Oh, my God. Look. A piece of wire.
This is perfect.Where do you want to cut?
Just cut it here for -- thank you.
Look at that. Done. Thanks.
Bomb. Let's get wet.
What's up, boat people? I'm Norman. Hi.
-Annie. Nice to meet you. -Nice to meet you.
-Hi. What's your name? -Cassidy.
Reeves: Cassidy, you're all in shorts.
-Yes. -Should I put shorts on?
Um, so I guess it's entirely up to you.
Okay, let's see what we have in our bag of tricks.
Yeah.
Reedus: This beats a river tube every time.
Reeves: I think we look like tourists.
What do you mean? I'm a local. What are you talking about?
Cassidy: Have you guys been on the Colorado River before?
-I have not. -No.
No? Welcome.
We've traded up for a ride on a jet boat.
You know, like Jet Ski the size of a boat.
♪ Yeah, yeah, come on, come on ♪
♪ Give me rock 'n' roll
[Squeals and laughter]
Ah!
Reedus: Yeah, we're playing tourists.
Can you blame us?
[Annie screams and laughs]
♪ Lose control
So refreshing.
That was nice.
So the river starts up in Rocky Mountain National Park,
meets up with the Green River,
and then goes down into the Grand Canyon and then Lake Mead.
And then it pretty much almost dries up in Yuma, Arizona.
Oh, whoa.
And never makes it to the ocean?
So it used to go all the way to the Sea of Cortez.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
Reedus: The mighty Colorado --
the lifeline of the American Southwest,
twisting and slicing through 1,500 miles
of deserts and mesas.
It provides water for nearly 40 million people,
from Tucson to Los Angeles.
Are you native Utah -- Utanians?
So we are.
And so we grew up in Salt Lake together,
actually went to the same junior high, same high school.
Oh!
Moved down to Moab about 20 years ago
to work on the river 'cause it's amazing.
♪ Dee-dee-dee, doo-doo-doo-doo-doo ♪
Yeah. [Laughs]
♪ Doo-doo-doo-doo
And we were just gonna do one season here.
And then 20 years later, here we are
'cause it's awesome!
Reedus: She's right. This place is pretty awesome.
But rising temperatures, drought, and years of overuse
mean immediate action is needed to keep the water flowing.
And it's my hope that, in 20 years' time,
Annie and Cassidy will still be out on Colorado,
soaking tourists and showing them a good time.
♪♪
Is this all a giant simulation? Is this all really happening?
That I can't answer.
But it's already acknowledged that consciousness,
the human brain, already has to tell a story
to make this real.
I just want to make a left-hand turn
and meet the Norman that can grow chest hair.
Wait. What?
[Both laugh]
Reedus, thank you for bringing me to Utah.
Thank you for doing the show, brother.
Heading to Motos in Moab.
Sounds like a good day, Reedus.
Reedus: We're meeting back up with event organizer JP Coles.
Three days ago, he took us around
Utah's biggest metropolis.
Oh, wow. What's going on here? What's up, buddy?
-What's up? -Good to see you again, man.
-Good to see you, man. -Yeah.
-Nice to see you. -Take us somewhere.
-[Laughs] -Let's go. Let's see your spot.
Reedus: Today he'll show off the pop-up city he created
at the bottom of a canyon.
Welcome to the Red Desert, gentlemen.
This is all carved by water, the mighty Colorado,
and wind.
The wind comes in, it turns, and it cuts arches.
So eventually that will be an arch.
Mother nature is an artist,
and here sandstone is her canvas.
For 10,000 years, mankind has basked in Moab's magnificence,
from natives to missionaries to outlaws and pioneers...
Welcome to my tribe.
What?
Wow.
...and today, for one magical weekend a year,
motorcycle riders.
Welcome to the Thunderdome. What's up, everybody?
♪♪
This is too cool.
How's it going? This is too awesome.
♪♪
With a mission of bringing people together
while living in the now,
not to mention a healthy dose of fire,
Motos in Moab has earned its reputation
as the motorcycle Burning Man.
♪ And the smell is vile
♪ You better stash yourself
♪ The wolf man lurks around
-How'd you find this place? -Wolf's gotta hunt.
Yeah, but how did you find this and find this
and find this and find those and find her and find this
and find that dog?
Uh, tribes.
Yeah. Just word of mouth, huh?
-Tribes. -Very cool.
Wow. This is crazy.
I might not leave, actually.
This is cuckoo.
Where's Keanu?
He's over there getting coffee.
You want some coffee?
-Yeah. -Let's go get some coffee.
All right. So there's a lot of things.
You were asking me before what was surprising.
-Yeah. -What have I found surprising?
Yeah. We just found it.
So we come into this spectacular, amazing place
and they had Duke Caboom,
who's the character I played in "Toy Story 4."
Shut up. What?
So that's surprising.
We actually got something for you to sign, too.
What?!
This kid has been a huge "Walking Dead" fan
from the beginning.
-Since I was like 10 or 12. -Honestly.
Should I make it to you, or...?
-Oh, man, do it. Yeah. -Spell your name for me.
Archer, A-R-C-H-E-R.
-Makes sense. -Yeah. Makes sense.
[Laughter]
That's my bike I rode on.
I don't. Is this the -- the replica of my bike?
So I rode this in the show forever.
Put a little crossbow on the back.
[Engine revs]
-Yeah. -What?
What?
-Sounds all right. -That sounds really good.
Sounds really good.
Very cool.Oh, my God.
That's a good little desert scoot.
Hey, there's sushi underground right here.
-Come on. -No. Dead serious.
Reedus: Are you really that surprised?
It's as if nothing and everything
is suddenly normal all at the same time.
What's going on? Who are you?
I'm John.
I'd shake you, but you're... Yeah.
...you're obviously working with fresh fish.
It makes no sense whatsoever,
but somehow you know it's going to be perfect.
Dude.
John: I can get you something a little different.
I mean, what's going on right now?
Sushi underground in the desert in Moab.
Is your mind blown yet?
Yeah. All day every day. Mind blown.
-What's your name? -I'm Maggie.
Reedus: What happens here tonight?
Maggie: People have tents. They get crazy.
There's gonna be lots of riding and good music.
Important.And lots of blowtorches.
Also lots of fire, so...
-Wow. -...I hope you're not flammable.
I might be flammable.
♪♪
[Cheering]
Yeah!
♪♪
Reedus: In Utah, I've discovered people don't wait for life to happen.
They get out and live it.
It's a place where improbable ideas
create new worlds.
And for a state that's all about ingenuity,
couldn't script a more perfect ending,
and I'm happy to have shared it all with Keanu.
Look at what you're helping people be a part of, you know?Yeah.
Not only an amazing place in nature that is inspiring,
awe-inspiring, and beautiful...[Cheering in distance]
...but, you know, the people and being together
and playing with their craft, playing with, you know, food,
with each other, with humor, with life, sharing spirit,
I think that's what places like this
and with, you know, really, like, creators like you --
thank you for including us in your life.
-Thank you. -It's a real pleasure.
Thank you so much.
♪ You better stash yourself,
♪ The wolf man lurks around
♪♪
Reedus: When's the next one of these you do?
Same time next year.
Same time next year? I'll be back.
I want to come back.
Reedus: And why not? As long as Keanu comes with me
'cause these have been three mind-altering days,
even if they've all just been a simulation all along.
♪♪