- I'm bear grylls, former special forces soldier,
Everest mountaineer, and survivalist.
All my life, I've sought out
The most extreme challenges out there.
It's often been a battle.
But along the way, I've shared life-saving survival skills.
It could save your life.
But this is not that show.
- Oh, my lord, oh, my lord, oh, my lord.
- [gags] - [grunts]
- Must search through poop.
- Every day, I meet people
Who think they could do it better.
- It doesn't look that hard. - I know I can do it.
- Really grinds my gears when people go on survival shows
And tap out.
I can't do it.
- The truth is, most people wouldn't survive in the wild.
They'd die.
So I've re-created some of my craziest survival situations
To see who can get off the couch
And prove they've got what it takes.
Five will enter, but only one will proudly claim
That "I survived bear grylls."
[all cheering]
[bear roars]
[dramatic music]
[snake hissing, clicking]
- All right, everyone, I need you all to be really quiet.
And I want to feel the energy for what's about to be said.
- Ok.
- Today, one of you will be winning $10,000!
[all cheering] - it's gonna be me.
- With that being said, I want to introduce to you
The ultimate authority on survival,
And outdoor activity,
And he signs my checks, mr. Bear grylls!
- ♪ you are my angel ♪
- What's up, bear?
- ♪ save me tonight ♪
- Hey, bear! - Whoo!
- Guys, welcome to "I survived bear grylls."
This is gonna be a day like none other for you.
You're all here because you think you've got
What it takes to survive bear-style.
I'm here to tell you be prepared,
Because survival hurts and survival stinks.
- Let me translate this for you.
This is gonna suck a lot.
[laughter]
- Today, we have five rookie survivalists--
- Six, if you include me.
- Battling it out in challenges that
Are gonna test four things--
Physicality, adaptability, grit, and guts.
Each of my four challenges takes place
In a unique terrain.
One contestant is gonna be eliminated from every round,
And the winner gets $10,000.
- There are so many easier ways to win 10 grand.
[laughter]
- Let's meet our survivalists.
You're a percussionist, aren't you, eric?
- That's right.
- Yeah, I love taking risks, but not too much risk.
- Well, you risked it wearing a suit today, that's for sure.
- Whitney, you're a phd.
- Yes, it's actually-- - so you've got the brains.
- Almost dr. Whitney, bear.
Thank you. - Almost doctor.
- Oh, you better let them know. - Yes.
- Respect. [laughter]
So how's that gonna translate for what you need today,
Do you think?
- Well, I'm resourceful.
I think on my feet.
- Well, you're gonna need all of those things
In the four challenges ahead.
- [chuckles]
- James, you're a breakdancer? - Mm-hmm.
- So you've got the physicality.
- Yeah, bear, you can call me jimmy, man.
- Jimmy, ok. - I'm your friend now,
So you can call me jimmy.
My name is jimmy.
I'm from the inland empire, california,
And I'm a professional b-boy or breakdancer.
Breaking was recently added to the olympics,
And I'm training for 2024.
It's a lot of hard work, training for the olympics,
But all that energy, I'm gonna bring to this competition.
I'm gonna show all my crew mates
And the whole breaking community
Another side of me today.
- If I was to hit you with some of this--
- Uh-oh.
- Oh, oh.
- Can you follow that? - You got it. You got it.
- I've got some line-dancing moves.
You don't want to see those. - [laughs]
- I don't think this is line dancing.
This is jogging in place.
[laughter]
- Mackenzie, you're also a dancer.
- I am, yes.
My name is mackenzie.
I am from boston, massachusetts.
And I am a former nba and nfl dancer.
I would absolutely love to stick it to my boyfriend.
He'll say things like, what would you do without me?
I don't even know how you first survived without me.
Of course, it's playful.
But today is my shot to prove to everyone
That I can definitely be a badass.
- Looking forward to seeing what you can do.
- Yes. - And, salvatore,
You have some outdoor experience, but not for a while.
Is that right? - I ran college cross country.
- Wow.
- We were running, like, 16 miles through the woods,
Through trails.
- I tell you, that is a discipline.
You're gonna need all of that today and more.
And as you guys know, fire in the wild changes everything.
Because knowing how to start and control fire
Can literally mean the difference
Between life and death.
[gritty music]
Today's first challenge is called
Feces from another species.
Here's how it works.
As you can see and smell, each of you
Have your own pile of animal dung in front of you
With a smoke bomb hanging just above.
- Oh, [bleep]. - That's a lot of crap.
- Literally. [laughter]
- Many indigenous people around the world
Will make fire with animal dung.
They dry it out, and they use that as tinder.
- No way.
- You're gonna be using a fire steel
And a pile of dung to see who can build an old-fashioned
Poop fire the fastest.
- Oh, my gosh.
- But first, we're gonna play some
"I survived bear grylls" trivia.
[upbeat music]
I'll ask a series of questions.
And when you get the correct answer,
You'll get to steal a handful of dung
From another player's pile.
Because the goal is to set off that smoke bomb
With your fire, you want your poo pile
As tall as possible.
After all the questions have been read,
The last one to make their fire and set off
That smoke bomb gets eliminated.
- Oh, gosh.
There's a mountain of poop in front of me.
It's wet.
It smells absolutely horrible, and it's right in your face.
- Bear, you don't have, like, a pooper scooper or nothing?
[laughter] - you ready?
- Ready. - Yeah.
- First up...
A blue whale or is it a whale shark?
Write down your answers.
- I'm finished.
- Ok, you ready?
Hold them up.
So far, so good.
Blue whale, biggest poos in the world.
- Yes.
- Everyone has got it right, which means that each of you
Can select one other pile of poop
To go and raid with a double handful,
Scoop it, bring it back to your pile.
Salvatore, you go first.
- Oh. - Be careful, sal.
Be careful who you mess with.
No, you're not.
- I'm sorry. - No, you're not.
- Oh, he's grabbing a lot. - No, you're not.
- Savage. - Dang.
- [laughs] - it's the first one.
It's the first one.
It's tricky because you take somebody's poop,
They're gonna come take yours.
- Doctor, come and do your worst.
- Look him in the eyes while you do it.
- Hey, sal.
My strategy was revenge.
Whoever came for me, I was coming for them.
- Ok, jimmy.
- Whoever's poop was taller, I'm grabbing that,
And I'm putting it on mine.
- Eric, get those cufflinks in there.
- He got big hands, too.
- He's getting you back, jimmy.
- Go for it, mackenzie. - Oh, yeah, eric.
- With the plié. - Can you do that?
- Yeah. - Ah!
- This is actually my poop position.
- [laughs]
- Are you ready for question number two?
- Number two. - Ready.
- The poop from nightingales, which is a small bird,
Is used for what treatment-- facials or hair replacement?
Oh. - Oh, yeah.
I can use a hair replacement, I'll tell you that much.
- 50-50 chance, guys. - Ok, here we go.
Hold them up.
- Ooh.
- All of you are right, apart from whitney.
- Oh, my god.
- The answer is facials. - Ooh!
Jimmy, first up.
Take your steal.
- Oh, no.
- Ooh, he just devastated your pile.
- Next up, eric.
- I mean, come on.
- He's got a percussionist grip.
- Mackenzie, go for it.
- ♪ coming to get you ♪
- Oh!
- Oh, let him know, mackenzie.
- Anyone else kind of scared of mackenzie?
- Salvatore.
- I'm taking the hat off for this.
- Golly.
- I like the way he runs his hands through his hair.
- I do not.
- My sort of guy. I love it.
- Oh, like that? - Oh.
- Oh, my goodness. - Yeah, all right.
- It's wet. - Ugh.
- Ok, last question.
This is your last chance to build up your pile.
Which big-eared african animal
Has poop with the most water content?
Is it a giraffe, a rhinoceros, or an elephant?
[whimsical music]
- You drank elephant poop.
Like, you drank the juice.
- Pretty disgusting, but it could save your life.
- Oh, sorry.
- Ok, let's see your answers.
The correct answer is
The highest water content is in elephant dung.
- Yes! - Hey!
- Salvatore, you are the only one that got this wrong.
- He put the question mark next to giraffe.
- I knew it was wrong. - Giraffe?
[laughter] - ok, whitney, go for it.
- I want my poop. - Oh, she gripping it.
- No. - Ooh.
- Damn, whitney.
- Ok, mackenzie, go for it.
- This is totally outside of my comfort zone.
I don't even want to describe how I smell.
But, you know, I can wash this off.
- You're welcome.
- Ew! Oh, my god, mackenzie!
- Oh, my lord. Oh, my lord.
- Put it all up on your chest. - No.
- Oh, my lord. Oh, my lord.
- Are you sure you're not from cleveland?
- [gags] [laughter]
- It's in your hair. - Ugh. It's everywhere.
- Ok, jimmy, go for it.
- All right, I should go for her, but--
- Please, no, no.
- I'm sorry, bro.
- This is what happens in the wild.
Predators always pick on what they see as weakness.
- I got a question wrong, so I felt like
Some people were picking on me a little bit there,
Taking my poop.
- Good survival tip--if you're in the water with sharks,
Don't panic.
Swim strong with confidence.
- My pile is restored.
- Eric, go for it.
- My strategy is proximity.
- Are you kidding me? Ah!
- He has totally decimated her pile.
- Strong word, bear.
- Oh.
I felt like my pile was getting reduced there.
Eric swooped in and saved the day.
- Ah!
- [coughs]
- I think whitney is about to puke.
Oh! - [retches]
- We are through the questions.
So you now have your final pile of dungs.
Now, it's about lighting the tinder.
I'm gonna give each of you equal amount of this moss.
You're gonna put your pile on the top of that dung,
Aim the sparks into it.
- Whoo!
- And you'll have fire.
- Whoa, whoa.
- On my mark, you're gonna race out the front,
Get that tinder on it, get it ignited.
First four to get the fire going and those
Smoke bombs ignited go through.
The last one is going home.
- I've actually started my own fire before by cutting off
My weave and setting it on fire because I needed something dry
And everything was wet.
- Ready--
- That's about as much experience
With fire that I have.
- Set, poop time.
♪ ♪
- Ready, set, poop time.
- Whoo! - I can do this.
I can do this.
- Come on, guys. You got it.
- Let's go, spooky. Come on.
- What the--
- We're always sitting there in front of the tv like,
We could do this. We could survive.
I worked in construction.
I've worked a bunch of odd physical jobs.
And it's like--
Come on, come on.
You got a flint stick and you couldn't light a fire?
- Oh, oh, we got 'em.
- Shoot, eric's good.
- You can just smell it right now.
- Ok, eric, your smoke bomb is alight.
You have survived.
The rest of you, you're fighting
To get this fire going.
- This is so hard. Oh!
- I have no idea what I'm doing.
- My [bleep] is not lighting.
You never connect poop with lighting a fire.
I never thought those things would go hand-in-hand.
- Get it.
- James, you've got fire going.
We're waiting for that smoke.
- Right here, baby. We did it.
That's right, bear.
- James is safe.
It's between mackenzie, salvatore, and whitney.
Only two of you will survive.
There's 10 grand at stake.
- I cannot get it lit. - Come on, guys.
You got this. Let's go.
- I have a really strong inner voice,
And I don't think he'll let me give up that easy.
You better not run your hands through your hair again,
I'll tell you that.
[gritty music]
- Got it.
- Salvatore, you've pulled it out of the bag.
You've got a fire going. Wait for the smoke bomb.
- You did it.
Come on. Let's go, whitney.
Come on. Let's go, kenzie. Come on.
- Dang, that smoke, though.
- It's between mackenzie now and whitney.
- I can't get it to light!
- Only one of the two remaining is gonna survive.
- You got this.
- Whitney has got fire going.
- Is it going? Is it going?
It's going! It's going! It's going! It's going!
- And, whitney, you have survived.
- Good job.
- Dang, I really lost first.
- We love you, mackenzie.
- No, let me--
I'll stay here until midnight trying.
Give me the option, bear, please.
I need to prove that I can at least do this.
To be a loser and covered in poop, not a good combo.
- I thought you were gonna go all the way with this one.
- Me, too.
- You got the attitude-- - I do.
- The determination. You were smart.
- Thank you.
Obviously, I didn't make it past the first challenge.
However, I am definitely feeling accomplished
Because I went for it.
I gave it my all.
And I know now that I need to go home
And practice using a splint?
Flint?
- Well done. - Good luck, you guys.
- Good job, mackenzie. - You "dung" all you could do.
[laughter] - sure did.
All righty, guys, I got to go prove it
To my boyfriend another way.
- Guys, was that a sex joke?
- You four survivors, you're going through.
Well done.
But this day is only just beginning.
Follow me. - Let's go.
Yo, this is just the beginning. - Yeah, baby.
- I suggest you grab a jacket and a scarf
Because it's about to get snowy.
♪ ♪
- [laughs] - let's go!
- Ok, guys, you made it through to the next challenge.
- Oh, my god, what is this?
- For this, you're gonna need grit, heart, perseverance.
♪ ♪
- Ooh. - Ooh! Oh, my god.
- As you guys know, I've spent a lot of my time
Both in the heat, but also in the cold.
And I remember once being stranded in the arctic circle
In winter, a huge, frothing,
Frozen ice river in front of me.
I can't say enough just how careful you've got
To be with water this cold.
Only way of getting across without getting everything
Soaked was to strip down, get all my gear into
A waterproof pack, and swim that river.
- You guys big skinny dippers?
[owl hooting]
- This is where we take it up a notch.
Strip down to your skivvies.
- [laughs] - down to your underwear.
- Remember that time I said this was gonna suck?
Oh, this gon' suck. - All right.
- Shoes, socks, trousers, shirts, even the cowboy hat.
- ♪ I tell myself, look away ♪
♪ because I got my baby waiting at home for me ♪
♪ I tell myself, look away ♪
♪ if I keep checking her, trouble will come find me ♪
[funky music]
[wind whooshing]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- So, for this one, each of these pools
Are filled with ice-cold water.
On my cue, you're gonna get into those icy tanks.
There's no sugarcoating it.
You start to get cold, things go south fast
In terms of physicality, your ability to use your hands,
Your ability to think clearly.
You're about to be pushed to your limits in this icy water.
- When bear told us we would have to get in the ice,
I was completely freaked out.
I had a bad experience crossing a frozen river before.
All my clothes got soaked, and I ended up
Having to ride 11 miles in the snow
With my clothes fully wet.
Time to overcome that fear.
- Because this is my camp, we always turn the dial up.
- Oh, gosh. - Ice-cold water is hard.
But remember, whenever I've had to cross frozen rivers,
I had to protect my dry clothing in that pack.
So you're gonna have to be holding the weight
Of a backpack above your head.
Jordan, grab me a couple of buckets.
- A couple of buckets?
- It's full of fish. - Oh, it's full of fish.
- In each of these bucket is rotting fish--
- Rotting?
- That weighs about 20 pounds,
Which is the weight of an adventure backpack
If you're out in the arctic.
- We could just grill that up and eat that
While they doing what they doing.
- That's our barbecue while you guys are in there.
- Ugh. Whew. - Yeah, there's a smell there.
- You need to hold your bucket of fish above your head.
The first person that can no longer
Hold the fish above their head or endure the ice cold,
Drop the bucket, get out of the tank,
And you're gonna be eliminated.
- Oh, gosh.
- Eric, you got low body fat.
This is gonna be challenging for you.
- I'll just keep moving. I'll keep moving. [laughs]
- Salvatore, tell me about your tattoos.
- My two greatest fears in the world
Are death and women, so yeah. [laughter]
My name is sal, but my friends call me "spooky."
I'm from connecticut, and I'm a musician.
I'm here to prove that I can survive bear grylls
To my friends back home.
You know, I sing my heart out.
I learn new chords.
The forest is just a new chord for me to learn.
[radical guitar riff]
- Whitney, how are you feeling for this?
- I'm a texan now, but I was born in alaska.
So I'm used to the cold.
Hi, I'm whitney from dallas, texas.
And I'm a manager of diversity, equity,
And inclusion at a corporation.
People underestimate me all the time.
I might be small in stature,
But I'm known for my intellect.
And I'm very hardworking.
You think I can't do it? Let me show you what I can do.
I'm bringing black girl magic to the woods.
It's here.
- Ok, you ready for this?
- Whoo!
- Oh. - Whew.
- Ready, set,
Ice time.
[dramatic music]
- Ooh. - Oh, baby.
Stepping into that tub of ice water shocks you.
- Ooh, there's fish on my feet.
Within seconds, I could feel my chest tightening up.
- Ooh.
- When I say go, you submerge and the bucket goes up.
1, 2, 3, bucket up, go.
Shoulders under, whitney, or you're gone.
Keep those arms straight, all of you.
- You think you've been in cold water,
But when you're in it and you have to stay in it,
That's when you really feel the burn.
- Ok, we're gonna ratchet this up a little bit more.
- What? - Oh, boy.
[gritty music]
- The first person that can no longer
Hold the fish above their head, you're gonna be eliminated.
- [echoing groan]
- We're gonna ratchet this up a little bit more.
- What?
- Everybody is gonna submerge their head.
The arms still have to stay straight.
We're looking for a full dunk and out.
- Head? - Are you ready--
- Yeah.
- Set, dunk.
[percussive music]
♪ ♪
- Ooh, jesus. - Oh, my god.
- Keep those arms straight.
Give me one. You do those two.
- Bear! - Rotting fish.
- Ah!
- Give me some fish, baby. - Oh.
- No. [all groaning]
- Bear, this is not my real hair.
It smells like fish in here.
- You didn't have to tell us.
- [laughs]
Getting a fishy smell out of my weave
Is gonna be very, very difficult,
So I was very shocked.
This weave's days are numbered.
Absolutely. [laughs]
- More rotting fish.
- Oh, no.
- We're at one minute.
- Oh, it just got real.
- That's it?
- That's it, one minute?
- That's it.
- Oh, wait, I got something, bear.
I know what's gonna turn it up.
- Keep those arms straight, salvatore.
- Yes, sir.
Bear is--I know he was in the military,
And it started to show the more--
The more we go through some real navy seal [bleep],
I'll tell you that.
- Keep those arms straight.
- Some fish sticks!
- Ooh. - Yeah!
- That's one of my favorite foods.
Can I have a bite? - Yeah!
- Are they done? Can I have a bite?
Thank you. Whoa.
- I would spit it back out. Spit that out.
Yeah, there you go. Don't eat that.
- Some people say that time can't slow down.
They've never been in an ice bath.
- Oh.
Oh, the fish stick is gonna go in my mouth.
- [laughs]
- I just tried to be as manly as possible.
- Ugh.
- Eric, keep those arms straight.
You're a drummer.
You should have strong shoulders.
- Yeah, right?
My name is eric, and I'm from salt lake city, utah.
On weekdays, I'm a classical musician.
But on the weekends, I'm an adrenaline junkie.
Whoa, there's lots of spiders.
It's a violinist that said that, oh,
I saw you went on this hike.
I'm surprised you didn't die.
- [laughs]
- I want to prove that a classical musician
Can also survive bear grylls.
- This is all about mind over matter.
Above everything, it's a state of mind.
And getting into that zen state
Is what you need.
[gentle music]
[exhales]
- Mmm.
- Where you forget about the cold,
You forget about the fatigue.
You're in it to win it.
- Look at--look at whitney.
She's in it.
- Yeah, whitney is crushing it.
She's on my left.
I was like, what?
Perfectly straight.
- She's in it.
[harp trilling]
- You got no other option apart from enduring.
You've just got to dig deep.
Above everything, it's a state of mind.
♪ ♪
- My biggest strength is my intellect,
My ability to use my mind, my ability to lead with my mind.
And that's what I did.
- Once you start getting over three, four,
Sometimes five minutes,
You can't even feel your fingers or your hands.
And the fear starts to come in because you know
You're on a fast downward spiral.
You've just got to dig deep.
- Yeah, I--I--I know what you're talking about.
I drank a slurpee too fast one time,
And I just had to sit and figure out,
Am I gonna finish this episode, or do I just stop and go to bed?
And I--I stuck it out.
It had a cliffhanger, though.
I couldn't make it to the next one.
[laughter]
- Listen, you lean on jordan.
Humor, cheerfulness, and adversity,
As the commandos call it. - Yeah.
- That carries you through so much.
Keep the jokes coming, jordan.
You give jimmy one, I'll give whitney one.
- Ok.
Oh, my gosh, you're gonna love this one, ok.
So there was a bear, and then the bear walked up to the rat.
And the bear was like, I'm a bear.
And then--and then the rat was like,
And I'm the co-host. [laughs]
- I was like, no, I'm not having it right now.
Like, any other time, the jokes is cool,
But right now I'm, like, trying to focus.
- I was the rat in that situation.
- Ok. - You were the--
- Ok. - No one--ok.
- Whitney? - What's up?
- How do you kill a circus?
- Um... - Go for the juggler.
- Ah, ha, ha, ha, that was a good one.
- Bah! And I tell you what, if the ice water and the fish
Doesn't kill you, the jokes will.
You ready for the dunk number two?
- Another dunk?
[dramatic music]
- ♪ killing time ♪
- Down we go.
- ♪ there's sunshine in my mind ♪
- Eric, those arms.
- Eric, it's ok. You did really good.
You can stop now.
- [laughs]
- Who's gonna be the first to call it?
- ♪ killing time ♪
- Under we go, all the way.
[playful pop music]
- [sighs]
- Add a couple of fish.
Start with the big ones.
- It was the mental, for sure.
I had to think about who I'm doing it for,
My family and my friends that are looking up to me at home.
It's just overcoming the fear.
- You guys are doing well.
- Bear is pushing us pretty hard,
And I had to just really focus on staying strong
And telling myself that I was very strong.
- 30 minutes.
It should be beginning to get hard.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
We're gonna start really ratcheting up the weight now.
The weight you're carrying is about to double.
I told you this wouldn't be easy.
Any one of you can drop out at any time.
The first person who drops the bucket is eliminated.
[bucket rattles]
- Ah!
[dramatic music]
- It should be beginning to get hard.
The weight you're carrying is about to double.
Eric, you need to get those arms up straight.
Bucket has got to touch my hand.
There you go.
That's the survival spirit.
- Ooh.
- We're gonna start adding that weight.
Two.
- Ooh.
- Two.
- My shoulders hurt a bit.
My hands are still a little tingly.
Bear, every time he threw a fish in,
You could--you felt it.
- Now for the fish sticks.
- Fish sticks!
Fish sticks! Fish sticks!
- Handful of fish sticks. - Fish sticks!
- Here you go. Small handful.
Big handful.
Down we go.
1, 2, 3.
- Uh-oh, uh-oh. Bear, we got a--
A struggler, we got a struggler.
We got a struggler.
[tense music]
- We're done.
Guys, put your buckets down.
You three have survived your previous hell, survivors.
There's always a casualty in the wild.
Eric, you were digging deep there.
You took that to the limit.
- I was still really confident going into this challenge,
But, I don't know, for some reason,
I just couldn't hold that bucket.
Holding the bucket for me was more difficult
Than actually just being in the ice-cold water.
- Getting safety team, paramedics.
Help these guys out, get them warm.
Some of them are close to hypothermic.
- Overcoming this, I feel like, for me,
Probably gonna be the hardest challenge out of all of them.
Bring it on, bear. Let's do this.
- Respect to all of you.
It's hard to describe to people at home
The reality of how debilitating,
How quickly that reduces people.
- [chuckles] - so well done.
And, eric, there's always got to be one.
Nobody can fault your effort. You gave it your all.
You should go home with your head held high.
Well, for all of your band buddies,
They should be proud of you. You done well.
Respect.
- Going out in the second challenge
Was tough, especially after doing so well
In the first challenge.
I wanted to show that I'm a orchestra musician
Who does a lot of different things.
I do have a different perspective
After doing this about what it takes to survive in the wild.
- For the rest of you, you're still smiling,
You're still standing.
But this day is only just getting going.
- I draw on my skills as a long-distance runner, really.
Just being able to dial in like that and really focus
Is something that I've been used to doing.
I think I have to tap into more tactical moves here
To get through this.
[gritty music]
- Get your mud boots on. We're going to the swamp.
- Oh, it's about to get swampy.
♪ ♪
- [snoring]
- Ok, out of your tents, guys.
Nap time is over. - [laughs]
- Jordan, we're done with the honey.
- Sorry, honey. [laughter]
- There has been bear sightings in the area.
What?
- Oh, you said "bear sightings."
[laughter] [bear groans]
- One of the most important things,
When you're operating in bear territory,
Is being aware of where you're leaving your gear.
Many times, I've had to make a shelter up in the trees,
Get myself, my gear, my food off the ground.
So the challenge here for you rookies
Is to see if you can secure your gear out of reach
Of any hungry, angry bears.
[bear growls] - oh, god.
- Here's how this challenge works.
You've each got four items around your area.
You've got to go to the back of your stand
And you've got to climb up the angled branch,
Hook that item with a carabiner.
And just for good measure,
Jordan has smeared it all in honey.
And as we know, bears like honey.
- That is true.
- So the last person to get all four items
Hanging on those eyelets and back in the tent
Is, sadly, going home.
Ok, guys, on your marks,
Get set, go for it.
Go, go, go.
You've gotta focus now.
- There you go.
- Hey.
- Calm in the storm. - Oh, my god, it's so sticky.
[laughs] - welcome to the wild.
Don't look down, team.
Always looking up.
- Oh, my gosh, he went underneath.
- Well done. You're moving well, jimmy.
- I wanted to get rid of the heavier items first.
So the first thing I did right away was get rid of the tv.
My family really believes in me,
And I really want to show them that I can do it.
- There you go. [bell dinging]
You can tell who is the pole dancers.
- Ah! I can't get up.
- You got this.
You just gotta push like a rocket ship.
- Oh, god.
- I think the only doubter that I can do this is me.
I just got to push through it.
But the honey with this fabric was just--
It was hell.
I was just like a fly trap.
- Oh. [bell dinging]
There you go.
- Whitney, you haven't even got one high up yet.
- I've got nothing.
- So you better get going.
- Jimmy racing forward.
[bell dinging] two items are up.
- To my dance community back home,
Get ready to see another side of me.
- Salvatore, two items are up.
Come on, whitney.
You've got to work faster.
- I need a little bit more muscle mass in me, you know?
I've got a pretty muscly brain,
But I got to do the same thing with the body.
I'm here to inspire young black girls and black women
Who are just like me.
And that's what I kept thinking about
When I was shimmying myself up this log.
And now those little girls can look at me and say,
If she can do it, I can do it, too.
- I know what can help.
♪ deck the wood with boughs of honey ♪
- Oh, god. - Ugh.
- Come on, whitney.
- I don't know how to do this, bear.
- There's a chance whitney is at her whit's end.
- That is good. - I heard that.
- [laughs] - sorry.
- You're doing great. Keep pushing.
- This is hot and sticky.
It's gnarly, you know?
Whitney has got one on. [bell dinging]
- Oh, my gosh.
- Salvatore and jimmy have two.
- Oh.
- Jimmy, you got one more to get.
Come on. Well done, whitney.
You're moving well.
Zone in now on this.
- Done, done. - We got one. High five.
- Jimmy, you are safe. - There you go.
- Whoo!
I did it! I did it! But it's not over, you know?
I win this 10,000, I'm gonna be able to pay
For a lot of things.
It costs a lot of money to go to the olympic qualifiers.
- Whitney, you can do this. - There you go!
- Come on. Don't you be beat by him.
Let's see who's gonna survive.
It's gonna be close.
You better go fast, salvatore.
Get it in.
So who's joining jimmy in the final challenge?
- [grunts]
[gritty music]
[hawk shrieks]
- You got one more to get. Everything is sticky.
You're under time pressure.
Welcome to the wild.
Let's see who's gonna survive.
It's gonna be close.
You better go fast, salvatore.
- Come on, whitney. - Can he do it?
[bell dinging] guys, we've got a winner.
Salvatore, you are safe.
Great job.
Whitney, oh, my god.
- Oh. That was crazy!
I came here to really prove to little black girls
That there's no-- there's nothing we can't do.
We can get a phd. We can live in the wild.
I came here today, and I did that.
And it was one of the most rewarding experiences
I've probably had in my 30 years.
[laughs]
- Well done, you. Respect, respect.
- Hope I schooled y'all a little bit.
[laughs]
- Salvatore, you had a few moments.
- I tried to do the lighter items first.
I thought that would be better,
But I should have done the heavier ones first.
It was down to me and whitney, and I was burning out.
I was--she scared the hell out of me over there.
And looking forward, I'm just--
I have to think with my head more here.
- Jimmy, you-- you smashed that.
- Yeah. [laughs] - how was that for you?
- I mean, like I said, this is, like, what I'm good at,
Upper body strength.
And breaking helps a lot with that.
It felt like it was really, really simple, you know?
So now we're covered in poop.
We're covered in fish.
And we're covered in honey.
So I smell weird, but that's what I came here for.
My family really believes in me,
And I really want to show them that I can do it--
That if you put your mind to anything,
You can make it happen.
- And now you two get down to the pointy end.
$10,000 will be in one of your hands.
Follow me. - Let's do it!
- Come on. - Whoo!
- I hope you brought your appetite
'cause we're headed to the forest.
[gritty music]
- And just two remain.
Jimmy, salvatore, welcome to the finale.
- Thank you.
- This is where things get a little gnarly.
Salvatore, you have reconnected a little bit,
I feel, with your adventure self.
- I did. I did.
I think I got a little bit down to earth today.
- How are you feeling, the fact you've made the final?
- I'm feeling very proud of myself.
I'm a little wiped, but I know
I gotta wrap it up and get it done.
I'm feeling pretty tapped into my country roots
Right about now.
Every time.
I really feel like I tapped into something
I thought I had lost.
It wasn't easy, but I'm gonna make it through
This next one, too.
You have my word on that.
- Finish strong. - Thank you.
- Jimmy? - Hello.
- A lot of your breakdancing buddies,
They might not know about this wilder side of you.
Is that right? - Yeah, that's true, definitely.
They're gonna be real shocked and surprised
When they see all the challenges that I did today.
But I'm hoping that I make them proud.
- He's trying to say you can bust a move
Without even busting a move-- deep.
- There you go, jordan. That's what I'm talking about.
Jordan gets it.
- And why is this important to you?
- Doing this right here is showing me that I can do it,
And I'm capable.
I'm competing to be in the olympics for breaking.
It's a financial and physical commitment.
So I want to prove that I can be great at something else.
But, also, I'm inspired.
I'm very inspired.
I'm always ready for the next challenge,
And I want to go further.
- It's always there.
The fire inside, it's always there.
Sometimes it's a little ember. But it's always there.
- Yeah. - Here we go.
Close your eyes.
Put your hands out because I'm about to share
With you one of my favorite wilderness snacks.
There you go.
Feel it in your hands.
- I feel it. - Uh-huh.
- Open your eyes.
Ok, have a little munch of this.
- Hmm, that's not too bad.
- Grubs, one of the most nutritious food
For the survivor. - Mm-hmm.
- So many times in the jungle,
You know, you're not finding big game.
You've got to be a scavenger.
You know, we can ratchet it up a little bit
To things like, you know, water bugs.
These things are full of some really nasty, like,
Yellow pus and juice, but great energy.
- [chuckles] - uh-huh.
- All these bugs and grubs, most of them
Have more protein than beef or steak.
[wondrous music]
So are you ready for this?
- Yeah.
- This one I call grub-a-dub grub.
You're gonna love it.
- I don't know if they're gonna love it.
- Behind you are some tree trunks.
On those tree trunks are a whole array of different bugs.
- Oh, [bleep].
- You got scorpions, tarantulas,
Water bugs, beetles, and cicadas.
- Whoa. - Oh, [bleep].
- Your task is to sprint back and locate ten specific bugs,
Bring them back to your tray one bug at a time--
One cicada, two beetles, two tarantulas, two scorpions,
Three water bugs.
[laughter]
- Honestly, that's not that bad,
Really, if you think about it.
- You're not gonna be using your hands.
You're gonna be using your mouths.
- Ten trips back and forth to the trees.
And once you've collected ten bugs in your mouth,
Brought them back, put them on the tray,
I'll confirm the counts, and then you can proceed.
- When you say "proceed," you're saying--
- Proceed to eat all the bugs.
- Ugh. - Oh, hell nah.
- The person that gets them all down first wins the money.
- Let's go, bro. - Let's do it.
- And the money is sat waiting for you right here.
- Oh!
- Only the winner gets to put their hand inside that
And retrieve that cash.
- Ah!
[tense music]
- [laughs] I'd just quit. I'd just quit.
- You hate snakes?
- That one got his head up right there.
It's ready to-- - he's ready to go.
- [laughs] I don't know, man.
- Jordan?
- I'm back here.
- On your marks,
Get set, grub time.
- On your marks, get set, grub time.
[dramatic music]
- I'm not scared about bugs or anything like that,
But picking them off the tree was really, really tough.
- Oh.
- Be efficient. - Oh, my god.
- First scorpion is back on the tray.
Salvatore, one cicada.
- Should we get a belt for salvatore?
He's sagging right now.
- I could really use $10,000, let me tell you.
I'm a starving artist in los angeles.
It's--it's pricey out there.
It would just go towards helping me survive
In the city, and that's a whole
'nother challenge in itself.
- There's a scorpion. [upbeat music]
- ♪ you know I'm not one to wait ♪
- Salvatore, tarantula.
Be very careful when you're eating tarantula
Unless it's been cooked
'cause they have hairs on their legs
Called urticating hairs.
♪ ♪
- ♪ whoo, whoo ♪
♪ ma-ma-ma ♪
- Oh, that's the nasty one. That's a water bug.
They're big and medieval.
♪ ♪
- Jimmy, you have six.
- [mumbles]
- Oh, boy, this is nature's "smorgabord."
- Say what?
♪ ♪
Make sure you get the right number of the bugs.
- Three water bugs.
- ♪ we in the same place ♪
♪ same thing, I'll do it better ♪
♪ yeah, I'll do it better ♪
- 10 bugs, $10,000.
That's $1,000 a bug.
- 10 grand at stake here.
- [spits] - what are you missing?
- Scorpions. Oh, there you are, buddy.
♪ ♪
- You just need a scorpion?
- I think so.
- Well, go ahead and be the scorpion king.
- I think I got everything.
- Ok, jimmy, you are good to eat.
- Scorpion, scorpion, scorpion?
Oh.
- A little extra bit of bear mace.
- Yeah.
- Just to spice it up for you.
Salvatore, you need to move. - All right.
Let's go.
[upbeat music]
- I think I have them all.
- Oh, it's so crunchy and dry.
- So it's kind of like popcorn?
- Ok, go. - Slow and consistent.
It's hard to, like, want to swallow this whole thing.
- Are you getting juices?
- Uh-huh, I'm getting juices, for sure.
- Ok, don't talk with your mouth full.
- Mm-hmm.
- You're now eating a lot of protein,
A lot of bugs, all in one go. - [coughing]
- After eating all this protein,
Make sure you want to get down, do your pushups.
'cause that's when the workout is settled,
Once the protein is in your body.
- These are hard to swallow, yo.
The bugs were crunchy and sharp,
And they kept getting caught.
And all their little antennas, and legs, and shells, like,
The wings and stuff were getting caught in your teeth
And in your throat, and it was like--
Nah, it wasn't cool. [laughs]
- That is not a lobster, my friend.
That is one mean scorpion.
- I don't know how bear does that
All the time while he's out there,
But that's why he's a legend.
- You need to go fast, salvatore.
$10,000 on the line.
You've got to finish strong.
- Bear wouldn't need $10,000 to do this.
He would do this for free.
- Yep, yep.
- Crunch, munch, consume, swallow.
- Crunch. - That is hard to swallow.
- Mm-hmm. - The bugs, honestly,
They tasted like eating the tail
Off a shrimp or something like that.
They were really hard to get down.
I really felt like I could have given up
At a couple points in there today.
And I think, bear, he really wanted to push us
To do our best and not give up.
Oh, my god. - Chew, swallow, get 'em down.
- Hey, did we get the poison out of the scorpions first?
- What?
- You need to go fast, salvatore.
There is gonna be only one winner.
Two in one. Salvatore going big.
Could it be a comeback?
- I made a little scorpion sandwich there.
[scorpion crunches]
- I'm surprised ain't nobody thrown up yet.
Like, how you not throw-- it's a bug.
- Both on the last bug.
You got a tarantula.
You got a water bug.
You got to munch them. You got to chew them.
You got to swallow.
Then we need a clean mouth.
Hold it down. - Come on.
You got this. - Jimmy?
- Ah.
- By half a second.
Oh, my god.
Oh, wow, that was tight.
- Bro, that was--
[laughs]
- Salvatore, you have earned all of our respect.
- Neck-and-neck, dude.
- I mean, my pockets are a little bit light,
Which I'm not too happy about.
But I really think that this experience taught me a lot.
And I'm confident in saying that
I could survive in the wild.
Bear, after today, I am inspired
To write a legendary folk song about you, man.
I'll get started on it tonight. [laughs]
- Jimmy, what a competitor you've been.
- Yeah, he had me all the way to the end, man.
- But just remember, it's not quite over.
- Mm. - Still one thing remains.
- Uh-huh. - Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
- Come with me, jimmy.
- Can I stand by salvatore?
- You can see the money. [snakes hissing]
Don't upset my babies.
- You got this. - You got it.
- Reach in and grab it.
[dramatic music]
There you go. [cheers and applause]
- Well done.
- Thank you, guys.
Thank you, bear.
- Jimmy, super proud of you, my friend.
- It's surreal to actually be here
And to have done what I just did today.
I had always dreamed about meeting bear,
And he believes in me, so it's really great, you know?
I think I earned his respect today.
- Here we go. There it goes.
- Oh, the snake.
- You better, like, bring it around and--
- See, now that's just-- [laughter]
Yeah, that's just-- that's just, yeah.
[laughter]
- I have a chance to use this money
To sponsor myself for the 2024 breaking olympics.
Whoo! I survived bear grylls.
- I'm bear grylls, and we're gonna see
Who survives next time.
But until then, stay wild.
[all cheering]