- 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!
- [retches]
- 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.
- 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 recreated 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."
[cheering]
[creature growls]
[upbeat music]
- Folks, welcome to the wildest game show on earth.
What we do is we take five contestants
To face danger, impending doom,
And risk their lives for the money!
[cheering]
And it's all for the man who literally takes
The very best of the very worst
That mother nature has to offer.
So do me a favor.
Start clapping right now for the host, mr. Bear grylls.
- ♪ this is how it's done ♪
- Jordan, we're out of tp.
- You gotta use your hand.
- Hold on. Hold on.
[toilet flushing]
- Bear grylls!
- ♪ this is how it's done ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Morning, chief. She's done.
- No, I don't-- I don't want that.
[cheering]
- Probably the worst way to introduce a show,
Come out of the crapper.
- ♪ this is how it's done ♪
Welcome. It's gonna be a fun day.
- Thank you.
- It's also gonna be a hard day.
I'm not gonna sugarcoat it.
I've created four incredible environments,
Each featuring a challenge
That's inspired by one of my adventures
That's gonna test your survival skills.
Five of you now, and one of you is gonna be $10,000 richer.
- That's me.
- Well, words are words, actions are actions.
It's up to you guys to prove it.
So I hope you're prepared. There is opportunity here.
Jonathan, you're obviously an mma fighter.
Strong, you're physical.
But have you got the mental side of a survivor?
- Absolutely, when it comes to that,
You've got to adapt to your opponent
And everything that he's throwing at you.
- This isn't so different.
- It's always the soft-spoken people.
Hey, hey, I don't-- I don't want no trouble.
I don't-- I don't want no--
[grunts] [laughter]
- Roca, you're here for a specific reason.
- Yes, I'm here for redemption.
My name is roca.
I'm from myrtle beach, south carolina,
And I am a teacher.
My group of buddies and I
Have a camping trip that we go on.
It was my turn to plan it, and I picked
A cow field with a bunch of thousands of cows in it,
And I need to prove to them I can handle
A survivor situation. - Why was that embarrassing?
- Because the cows came through while we were sleeping.
They won't even invite me on camping trips anymore,
So I need to get back in their good graces.
- The wild is a great place to find redemption.
- Absolutely. Thank you.
- Shonda... - Yes.
- Retired firefighter.
- I'm the oldest one out here,
So I got to come out here and show the young people
A little shame. - Sean, dance instructor.
- That's right.
- Tell me why you're here today.
- My mom, she's sick with crohn's.
So I'm here to show my mom that if I can fight
And survive bear grylls, you can definitely
Fight and survive crohn's. - Good for you.
Good for you. Well, cheering you on.
- Thank you.
- Michaela, I saw some costume underneath there.
Show me a little bit of that.
- This is not planned at all, so I'm shocked.
[dramatic music]
I'm an archer.
I do have experience, you know, posing,
Not actually shooting. - What do they call that?
Is it cosplay or something? What is that?
- Yes, so I'm a professional cosplayer and gamer.
- I'm gonna call you, with this outfit,
Michaela everdeen.
- Oh, ok, I'll take that.
- This challenge is about being calm under pressure.
Behind me is a target.
You're gonna have a bow and arrow.
[energetic rock music]
Closest to the bull is safe from elimination.
The rest of you are then gonna have
To take a shot of urine. Urine.
[voice grows deeper] urine.
- Mm.
- Ugh. - Uh-uh.
- I don't think so, mike. - No.
- No, uh-uh. - Nah, that ain't for me.
- Are those the cups we peed in?
- Those are the cups you peed in.
- I knew it. I knew it.
I knew it all the time.
- But we've got more than just your own urine.
We've got some horse urine.
- Horse urine? - Some pig urine.
- I'd like to compare the taste.
- It's like a wine tasting.
- Each round, the person who's closest
To the bull survives
And then is safe for the rest of the challenge.
Everyone else is gonna have to take that shot glass of pee.
Just like in the wild, the key to your survival
Is staying hydrated.
Drinking the shot glass of pee
Is your only access to the next round
Of the challenge.
Eventually, there'll just be two of you remaining.
Person who's furthest from the bull
Is gonna be going home. Clear?
- Clear as my pee. - [laughs]
[dramatic music]
- Ok, you can take the caps off.
Drinking urine is something
I've had to do, sadly, many times
In the name of survival.
I'm all for cocktails, but snake innards
And pee is not high on my list. Ugh.
But remember, hydrated, clear pee
Isn't pure waste product. It can be drunk.
It can help you to hydrate and to stay alive.
Shonda, you're gonna be first up on the bow.
- Me? - In you go.
- Ooh. - Oh!
- There's your mark. - You talked all that smack.
You're up.
- There you go, shonda. - Go, shonda.
- Oh. - You've got it, girl.
- Oh! - All right!
[cheers and applause]
- Ok, shonda! - Ok!
- Ok, shonda! - Not bad at all.
- I've got a lot of people on my back.
I'm representing the older women.
I'm representing the women in the fire department.
I'm representing aunties, grandmas, cousins.
I'm representing all y'all.
- Roca, up you come. - Let's go.
Let's go.
- All right, roca, you got it. - In the red on the wood.
- You're in the white, but I think shonda is closer.
Next up, jonathan. - Ugh.
- [laughs] - here you go.
- As an mma fighter, wouldn't he
Do more damage if he just punched the hay bale?
- Let's go. - Jonathan, you're not safe.
- Just give me my shot now.
Being an mma fighter, I've been put
In high-pressure situations more times than I can count,
And I've had to push through 'em
Or get my ass beat,
So I feel like that's really gonna help me here today.
I am an amateur fighter.
When I'm competing, I am a dog.
You're going down. I might talk a little [bleep]
- Michaela, come and see if you can beat it.
- Let's go.
[ethereal choral music]
- For glory!
- My name is michaela.
I live in chattanooga, tennessee,
And I'm a professional gamer and cosplayer.
- Whoo! - Way to go.
You're in the white.
- Ooh, that's gonna be touch and go.
- No, that didn't make it?
- You're not the closest. - It's ok.
That was a good attempt, though.
- I'm here to prove to myself that I can do this.
I've watched a lot of shows like this,
And I've always thought, you know, I could do that,
Or I could push through that.
And more than anything, it is to prove
To myself that my own identity is correct.
- Compared to mine, that was great.
- Shonda, you are still in the lead.
- Hey!
- So who's gonna be safe, sean or shonda?
- I'm drinking my pee. [laughs]
- [laughs] - oh, yeah, I'm taking shots.
[dramatic music]
- Come on, sean.
[cheers and applause]
- [bleep]
- Oh, and five, six, seven, eight, and shoot.
- What a shot. - There you go.
- You are safe. - Whoo!
- What a shot. - There you go.
- Wow.
Sean, you stole that one out of the bag.
- Having that competitive mindset
As a dancer, I know how to push.
I'm a tough boy at the end of the day.
Growing up in the hood was rough,
You know, those people that always dogged me
For who I am even before I came out.
When it comes to surviving in the wilderness,
I was strong in the hood. I survived.
So I can survive out here in nature with no problem.
- Pays to be a winner. - [sighs]
- Roca, jonathan, shonda, michaela,
We're shooting the shot, your urine,
And then we're moving on to the next round.
- Whoo! - Sean, you're safe.
You can get rid of yours.
Ok, here we go. Ready?
- The whole thing? - The whole thing?
- The whole thing. - The whole thing?
- It's fine. - Drink it up.
- Two seconds. It's a one-second shot.
Here we go.
- All right. - All right, all right, ready?
Piss is piss, right? Ugh.
- Ah.
- One, two, three, down the hatch.
- [groans]
[energetic rock music]
- Roca, jonathan, and shonda, michaela,
We're shooting the shot. - Ah!
- One, two, three, down the hatch.
♪ ♪
- Like water. - [laughs]
- There was so much of it.
- There you go.
♪ ♪
- How was it? - That was not that bad.
- Yeah, I thought it tasted like piss mostly.
A description of drinking your own urine
Is a lot like what it smells like
And then also vinegar and then regret.
- I need to drink more water. I mean, I had to do like--
[clicking tongue]
- It kind of tastes like coffee and water.
- Ugh.
- Wait till you get on to the pig's urine.
[pig squealing]
Roca, first up. Here we go.
- Oh!
- I am a very competitive person.
I love people, and I love being around people,
But I also love winning a lot, and I need to win as well,
So it's like a bunch of motivation.
- Let's go, roca. - Let's go, roca.
- It's ok.
- That might be a pig urine drink.
- You shot that like you wanted to drink it.
- Jonathan. - Ugh!
- Jonathan, come on, jon.
- I want to hit the hay this time.
That last shot didn't go my way.
I just drank my pee.
Can't lose this next one. - Let's go, j.
- Ooh!
- You're closer than roca.
- Ugh! - Michaela, here we go.
You're not safe.
You're not the closest. - It's ok.
- Shonda, you got to get closer than jonathan.
- Let's go. - Let's go, shonda.
- Let's go. - Whoo!
- Yeah! - What a shot.
- Whoo! [laughs]
[cheers and applause]
- Save it for the day. Whoo!
- That's how to hit the bullseye.
We're gonna bring you some shots of pig urine.
- Ugh! - Ah!
- Whoo! - I got to hit that bullseye.
- Why did you put so much in it?
- One for you, roca. There you go.
- Thank you so much. - Yeah, yeah, we appreciate it.
- One for jonathan. - There you go.
- Thanks a lot.
- If you're wondering, the pig's name was babe.
- I deserve this. I sucked.
- The three of you still remaining,
Down the hatch. We move on.
- [groans] ok.
- One, two, three, go. - Oh, all right.
- Ugh. - Ok.
- Tastes like pork.
It's real salty. - Oh.
- It's all got to go.
Michaela, that is your access to the next level.
- If you were at the beach and jumped into the ocean
Face-first with your mouth wide open
And just all that went in, that--it was real salty.
It was gross. [grunts]
I can't lose the next one. I don't want to do this again.
- Way to go, y'all. Way to go.
- We're moving on.
First up, jonathan. Here we go.
- Oh, that's terrible.
I can only imagine you're saving the best for last, too,
So I really want to get this. - All right, j-money.
[cheers and applause]
- Not bad. That's actually not bad.
- Yeah! - That's your best shot yet.
- Ugh.
That's not good, so that's the best of the bad.
- Let's go, michaela.
[cheers and applause]
- That's better. - No.
- Way to go, michaela. - No.
- That is closer. - Ah!
- [growls] - roca, here we go.
- I don't want to look!
I still taste the pee.
- Oh! - Whoo!
- I love you, roca.
- Every time you didn't hit a bullseye,
The pit of your stomach drops out.
My story is absolutely a redemption story,
To prove to myself, to my friends,
And to my girlfriend that I can do
All the things I say I can do in spite
Of all the things I've done.
- Michaela, you are the only one that is safe.
Jordan, go and get some horse urine.
- I am so happy. [laughter]
- On your next arrow, whoever is furthest
From that bull, sadly gonna be going home.
- Here we go, tobey maguire
Let me get a little bit of "seabiscuit" out here.
- [laughs] - there you go.
There you go. - Oh, no.
Oh. All right.
- Let's do it. - Come on.
- Let's do it.
- Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
Whoo! - Oh!
He drank it like a shot.
- How was that? - How's it compare?
- [coughs] - just give him a moment.
- [belches] - oh, you burped.
- Ooh.
- That's pure vinegar. That was lively.
- It's a racehorse. - Yeah.
- [laughs]
- It's bad.
Kool-aid but from hell.
And exactly how you imagine horse pee
Would taste but worse.
- One of you two is gonna be going home.
It's up to you to make that shot when it counts.
Redeem yourself. Be cool.
Be calm. Make the shot count.
- My friends won't even invite me
On camping trips anymore. It's time to redeem myself.
- Whoo! - Wow.
That is a shot.
- Oh, wow, I got it.
- Jonathan. - Come on, jonathan.
- Get away from me, dude. - One chance.
- Gonna have to leave me alone for a second.
I have to filter this through my brain
On what just is going on right now.
Ugh. My hands are numb.
I'm shaking from shivering.
I have no archery skills, clearly.
Kind of thinking I'm screwed.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Bro, you've got to look at that one.
- Let's go! When it mattered!
- Jonathan, you are closer. - Let's go!
- Oh! - Let's go!
- That was that much different. - Wow!
- You delivered. You're safe.
You're through. - Ah, let's go!
I cannot allow that to be that close next time,
But I'm happy I survived,
Even if it is by the skin of my teeth,
A survival is a survival, and I'm just ready
For the next round.
- Roca, there's always one casualty of the wild,
As you say.
You've been a real sport to be here.
Still smiling.
Remember, you leave on a bullseye.
- Yeah.
I am very disappointed that I wasn't able
To survive bear grylls.
I wanted to prove it to myself and to my friends,
And now I've just got more work to do.
I'm gonna get a lot of phone calls
And a lot of I-told-you-so's from my friends.
They're gonna give it to me pretty hard,
But it's all right. Keeps that fire going.
- Guys, give him a big round of applause.
- All right, roca. [applause]
- Well done, roca. Good job, my friend.
- He even trotted with a smile. - We start to zone in now.
We start to get focused.
These challenges are gonna dial up
And get gnarlier fast.
You ready for this? - We're ready.
- Yes, sir. - Bring it.
- Yes, I'm ready. Let's go.
- Let's go. - Let's go!
♪ ♪
- Who needs mosquito repellent?
'cause we're headed to the swamp.
♪ ♪
- Whoo! I'm ready.
Whoo. Let's go, let's go, let's go.
- Get a little muddy. - Oh, my gosh.
- Welcome to camp bear swamp.
- What? - What?
Wow. - Ah!
[laughs] - no.
- Ah, man, it looks cold.
- My favorite place, mud, rain.
- The bug bites are on the house.
And actually, if we get a second season,
I'm putting a mosquito net in my contract.
[music slows to a halt]
- This swamp is no comedy club.
It's unforgiving, difficult to find food in.
- I mean, actually, that sounds
Very much like every comedy club.
- [laughs]
[upbeat music]
- Finding food in the wild means sometimes
You've got to get down and you've got to get dirty.
You're not always gonna have the perfect fishing rod,
But finding it is often only half the battle.
You've also got to get it back to camp to prepare it,
To cook it. Yeah? - Yeah.
- This challenge is all about that.
- Uh-oh. - Oh.
- [laughs]
- I remember once in the amazon catching a piranha.
Brilliant. Look at that.
You know, piranhas, razor sharp teeth.
I threw it in the backpack to take it back to camp.
And by the time I got back to camp,
It had gnawed its way through most of the backpack.
- All right, this is really embarrassing.
Most people's fears, you know, like spiders,
Snakes, that's all fine. I'm--I'm scared of fish.
[tense music]
- Michaela, go on.
- Oh, like, my biggest phobia is fish,
So I was just hoping it didn't have to do with that.
- It's to do with fish. - Ooh.
- In here are thousands of fish.
- [laughs nervously]
- [in slo-motion] thousands of fish.
[energetic rock music]
- Michaela.
- Oh, like, my biggest phobia is fish,
So I was just hoping it didn't have to do with that.
- It's to do with fish.
In here are thousands of fish.
- [laughs nervously] [laughter]
- Ok, very good.
- I'm scared of fish.
Like, they're slimy, scaly, and they--yeah.
I just don't want them touching me.
- This is a challenge. You're gonna go two at a time.
We're gonna start from over there.
I'm gonna throw a couple of fish into the swamp.
First thing is dive in, get down, chest in,
Find that fish.
Once you find your fish in the mud,
Carry on to the other side, holding your fish.
When you get across, you climb on to the atv.
You then use both the ropes to negotiate your way back to me.
They're awkward. They're difficult.
It will require balance and physicality.
If you slip off or your foot touches water,
You go back to the start of the rope.
First person to hand me that fish is safe.
The losers of both races will race again,
Head-to-head, to decide who goes home and who survives.
- We're seriously touching fish?
- Think of it like a teddy bear but if the teddy bear
Had scales, fins, and two eyes on the side of his head.
- Best survival advice he's given yet.
Think of it like a teddy bear.
Get in the pocket, deal with it.
Everybody has things they're scared of.
I have things I'm scared of. - I'm scared of bear.
[laughter]
- Survival is about doing the difficult.
- What are you scared of?
- I still find jumping out of planes really difficult.
I broke my back whilst I was in the military
In a freefall accident.
People say, "have you ever jumped again?"
"all the time" is the answer. Face the difficult stuff.
- That's right. - Yeah, that's right.
- 100%, 100%. - You can do it.
- I'm not jumping after a break--
After I break my back, I ain't jumping.
- Sean, you managed to escape
Drinking urine in the last challenge.
- Yes, yes.
- This one, though, there's no escaping.
The physicality of what you've got to do...
- Right.
- How are you gonna deal with that?
- Well, I'm a dancer.
So as a dancer, there's a lot of things
I've got to overcome physicality-wise.
So if I can do that, dance and physically overcome
All that competition and stuff,
I can definitely do this.
My mom has become like a best friend to me.
Me being here is not only just for me,
But it's for her.
If I was to win this prize money,
I definitely want to use it
And help my mom as well with medications
'cause it's hard and it's expensive.
- Jonathan, you just made it through.
So how is this different from just watching it on tv?
Now you're actually in it. You're wet.
You're faced with this stuff. - Yeah, it's a lot different.
I didn't come in here with a whole lot
Of survival experience.
I'm not going around drinking pee
And running around in the cold rain
In my shorts either, you know? [laughter]
I survived by the skin of my teeth.
I cannot allow that to be that close next time.
I've got to win these for my family--
You know what I mean, just to relieve
Some stress back home,
And I got to secure my way to the next round.
- Shonda. - Yes, sir.
- You've got zero survival experience,
But you're still here. You're through.
You're smiling. - Uh huh.
- How do you approach difficult things?
- I've saved five lives. I've delivered babies.
So if I can do that, I can survive with bear grylls.
I got confidence. - Ok, come with me.
- Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
- Ok, here we go.
We've randomly assigned the match-ups
For this challenge.
The most important thing is stay on the line.
If you're smart, you'll use that leg strength
Rather than your arm strength.
First up, sean and shonda.
Come and take your marks here.
♪ ♪
- Oh, my god. - Ok.
Ready, set, go!
Grab the fish. Get down and dirty!
On your-- - go, go!
- [in slo-motion] oh, no.
- When I grabbed my fish and put it in my mouth,
I guess my little fangs kind of went through the fish,
And the guts came in my mouth.
And the juice--and, you know, you gotta breathe and swallow.
And I think I swallowed some juice, some gut juice,
So that was nasty.
- That's it. Army crawl on your way.
Keep holding that fish. - Let's go!
- Onto the atvs.
- That's not mud on your body. That's cocoa butter.
Rub it in. - Bite the fish's head off.
- Take your time.
If you fall, you go back. Take your time.
- Careful. Careful when you step off.
Careful. Careful.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Oh! - Y'all hang on. Hang on.
- These are like some fun monkey bars.
- You drop off, you're done.
First to me is safe.
You are neck-and-neck at the moment.
- Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go.
- Keep hold of that fish. That's it.
Well done. - They're so close.
- Good job, sean. You're doing well there.
You're doing well.
- He's getting close.
- If you drop off, you go back.
- Come on, sean. - Keep going, shonda.
You've got to get under that. - Oh, come on!
- Do not drop off. - You got it.
You got it. - Do not drop off.
- Come on, shonda, you got it. A little bit to go!
♪ ♪
- You just have to be on the upper bit of the bank.
- Final push, final push. - Oh!
Come on, you've got-- you've got it.
- Do not drop off. If you drop off, you're done.
- Come on, shonda. You got it.
A little bit to go.
- Let's go, let's go. - Make it count.
First to me is safe.
You drop off, you're done. - A little bit more to go.
- Oh! - Sean, back we go.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- I was right there, which caused me
To take my foot off, thinking that I'm there.
And it was a big mistake.
- Done. - Ah!
- Ok, sean.
- Great job, guys. - Good work.
Good work. - Wow.
- Who won? - You won.
[upbeat music]
- I won?
♪ I made it, I made it, I made it, I made it ♪
[laughs]
- Sean, so close, my friend.
For you two, learn, do not get complacent.
He was one foot from the end. - Yeah.
- Ok, next up,
Michaela, jonathan,
Take your places. Here are your fish.
[energetic rock music]
- That's the biggest fear, it's fish.
And it's touching fish specifically.
- Michaela, here's your fish. Jonathan.
♪ ♪
Ready, set, go.
- ♪ I'm a wild one ♪
- [yelps] - down the brassier.
- For me to get out there and just jam a fish
Down my bra, wow, I'm impressed with myself.
- Put nemo in your pockets.
- Michaela, there you go. - You gotta go!
- Jonathan with the early lead,
He's showing that competitive spirit.
Remember, this is mind over matter.
Michaela, do not lose that fish.
Be careful getting on the rope.
- Ah! - Ooh.
Think of it like the "tomb raider."
- Jonathan is delivering a much better performance
From that last challenge.
Efficient, steady, controlled movement.
You drop off, you drop off, you go back to the beginning.
- Who'd you train with? Chuck liddell? Oh, my gosh.
♪ ♪
- Finish it strong.
Up a bit. Give me the fish.
Job done. Michaela, bring me that fish.
- You can't grab it for me, right?
That'd be weird? - No, I can't.
I'm not grabbing down there. There you go.
Pick it up, pass it to me. - This is a wild brassier fish.
- Oh, my gosh, I hate this so much.
- Oh, yeah. - [shrieks]
- It was, like, just as bad as I expected.
Yeah, they're disgusting, but it wasn't alive,
So, you know, and I didn't put it in my mouth, that--
Ooh, I don't think I could have done that.
- The good news is you faced a phobia.
The bad news is... - I have to do it again.
- Jonathan beat you. You, good job.
Fast... - Appreciate it.
- Efficient, determined, laser-focused.
- I thought this challenge would be all about physicality,
And I am just-- that's just what I do
On a day-to-day basis. I go to the gym. I swim.
You know, I go do kickboxing, mma.
You know, this is just what I do.
And I knew, like, this would be my time to shine.
- This is down now
To michaela and sean.
Last of you two to finish
Is gonna be going home.
Come and take your places.
Here is your fish.
- Where'd it go?
- There is your fish.
Ready, set, go!
♪ ♪
Keep your eye on where it is. - Find that fish.
Do a fish call. [vocalizing]
- Ah! Oh.
♪ ♪
- Oh, there you go. - Crawl.
- Sean, have you got the fish?
Feel around wide. - There you go.
There you go.
- It's $10,000, y'all.
- Well done, michaela.
Careful getting on the rope. Careful.
- Ooh! Ooh.
- Get your feet up, sean. That's it.
- There you go, sean.
- Michaela, great technique. Calm and efficient.
- Where's that fish?
It's on my chest. It's on my chest.
- You've got it, sean. Keep going, sean.
You can make this up.
- Oh, my god.
- Remember, you've got to finish this strong.
Do not be slipping back in.
There you go, sean. Keep moving.
Get your feet up.
- There you go, sean. - Give me the fish.
I need the fish in my hand. - [groans]
- Get it out, get it out. Done.
- Oh! - Wow.
- Good job, michaela.
- Herculean effort. Oh, my god.
- Hercules, hercules. - Oh, my god.
- I fought a good fight. - Yes, you did.
- You really did, yeah.
I see a clear survivor spirit in you.
Never give up, man. - Thank you.
- Keep that spirit. - Thank you.
- Thanks for being part of it.
- Today, I came to inspire my mom,
And I definitely can say that I did that.
She's gonna see that I conquered a lot of things
That people may not think that I could.
I fought hard just so that she can see
That I fought to the end,
She can continue fighting day by day.
This is an experience that I'll never forget.
- Well done, my friend. Give him a big hand, guys.
[cheers and applause]
- Michaela, you faced the fish.
You survived the fish.
Welcome to what happens in the wild.
When you face difficult stuff,
You come through difficult stuff,
But you've got to move towards it.
- I'm excited to make it through to another challenge,
And not just any challenge.
This was, like, literally the biggest fear
I had talked about, so I was so shocked
That I--yeah, I physically could even do that.
The fear of how mad I would be at myself if I didn't do it
Somehow outweighed one of my biggest phobias.
- You two, you both worked hard.
You, like, laser focus.
Bring even more of that.
Up the intensity as we go to the next challenge.
- Absolutely. - You ready for this?
- Yes. Ok.
- Come on, let's go. - [laughs]
♪ ♪
- From fish in the mud to freezing in the snow,
Bundle up.
We're goin' to the tundra.
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Then there were three. - [laughs]
- It's gonna get ever harder. I warned you.
Ok, two big mountain killers. - The abominable snowman...
- [laughs] - and bigfoot.
- Not those two, but avalanches...
- Whoa! - And whiteouts.
Both are scary.
I've been caught in an avalanche before
In northern canada...
[avalanche roaring]
Buried in hundreds of tons of snow,
And it happens very fast.
People die because of suffocation.
They breathe in a lot of powder snow,
And that then compacts solid like concrete around you.
And while you're getting trapped,
It's very easy to then lose the gear and your backpack.
- I mean, I've always appreciated bear,
But to think he's been in an actual avalanche,
That's terrifying.
- If you are lucky enough to get out,
The way you do it is to dig up, praying you're not too deep,
And you're gonna be able to punch out into the open air.
Scary.
On this challenge, we're gonna simulate both
An avalanche and a whiteout.
- Not at the same time? - At the same time.
- [laughs]
- You guys are gonna be buried alive.
You're gonna be buried in a simulated ice coffin,
Covered in snow and in drywall.
While you are buried by the avalanche,
You lost four items from your backpack.
- Of course, because when I think
Of a nice family game show,
I think of facing one of mankind's worst fears,
Being buried alive. Whoa!
No one dies on "jeopardy!"
- This isn't "jeopardy!"
[laughter]
You're gonna have your feet strapped together.
You're also gonna have goggles on
With tiny little pinpricks, simulating being buried
And trapped by the avalanche.
On my signal, you're gonna fight
And punch your way out of that coffin.
Once you're out of it, untie your legs.
Then, you've got to find your skis,
Put them on, and then you gotta move
In those skis and try and retrieve
Your four lost items that you've lost
In the avalanche: First aid kit,
Net, a pan, and a can of mountain dew.
First person to get that can of mountain dew into the cooler
Gets to enjoy the mountain dew throne.
- Yeah! Whoo!
- This throne is definitely a sign of your badass status
And all-round survivability.
- Fit for a king. - I want to sit there so bad.
- And this throne is like a reward
To have a drink between challenges.
Whoever's next in gets to join them
On the throne. Whoever is last is going home.
Let's get you in position.
- Yeah, I'm kind of scared.
- [grunts] - oh, my god.
- What's happening?
Are we supposed to see out of the goggles?
- Ok, so we've got the net, got the mountain dew,
The first-aid, the pan.
Each of you are buried in the ice coffins.
Are you alive? - Yes.
- I'm still kicking.
Me and the cold don't mix.
You know, I don't like the cold,
But I'm pretty confident at this point.
- What's happening?
I'm not a fan of confined spaces,
But, like, now that I've conquered my biggest fear,
The sky's the limit now really.
- Are you ready? - Yes.
- Ready, set, go.
- [grunting] - ah!
- There you go. You're breaking through.
- Ready, set, go.
Punch your way through.
You need to work fast.
Avalanches, they're terrifying, and they're difficult.
Jonathan, how are you doing?
- Oh, no, I'm stuck in an avalanche.
The drywall, it's actually pretty hard to get through.
With the goggles with the little holes in them,
You couldn't see anything.
- Like dr. Frankenstein. He's alive!
[spooky music]
Alive! Alive!
- I can't give up.
- Ah!
- I'm seeing the hand of shonda.
Shonda, fight your way out.
- As a firefighter, I'm used to being
In a situation where I don't know
Where the backdoor is or the front door,
So I feel good. I can do this.
- Jonathan, good job.
You're breaking through.
[energetic rock music]
- All right, jonathan's out of his box.
- I didn't use no fighter skills getting out of there.
The only fighter skill was fight to survive
And get out of this damn ice coffin.
- Get those skis on, jonathan.
- [groans] I can't give up.
- Michaela, you can do it.
[dramatic music]
- I did not expect the drywall to fight back.
[coughing]
Don't open your mouth, guys.
It was just in my ear, and I was just eating it.
I decided to go on my stomach
And just, like, kid tantrum it with my legs.
- Jonathan, you got your skis on.
Good, get moving.
♪ ♪
That was hard because I'm used to having a tool in my hand.
Well, I had on the little gloves,
But that wasn't like firefighter gloves.
- There you go. Get that pan.
- I'm seeing a hand of shonda. - Pan.
- There you go.
- Pan. - Ooh, I'm dying.
- Oh, oh, oh, oh, - I need a medical kit.
- I got you, champ. - Oh, you got it.
- Uh, net, net.
Goggles we had on, it was exactly as advertised.
You can't see anything.
- Shonda, fight your way out.
Avalanches, they're terrifying, and they're difficult.
You can do it. - Oh, hell, yeah.
Found my dew. Found my dew.
- Michaela, you are out.
- Damn, what the hell do the nets look like?
Oh, there it is.
- Shonda, fight to get your way out.
You're gonna have to work fast to keep up.
- All right.
When I got out, it felt like birth.
[laughs]
Like, I just came into the world,
Like I got air, you know, I can breathe.
♪ ♪
- There you go. There you go.
- Dew. - There you go.
- The mountain dew's got to go in the cooler.
- Put it in the middle.
There you go.
There you go, jonathan! Jonathan is safe.
- Let's go!
- Jonathan, enjoy that throne. - Here you go.
- Thank you, thank you. - You need help opening it?
You good? There you go.
Yeah. Use them teeth.
- This challenge was definitely more physically difficult
Than what I expected, but I think it's game time.
I'm doing this for my family.
Being in an avalanche is not for me.
I don't want to be in one.
This is as close as I want to get to that.
That's for sure. [chuckles]
- Michaela, shonda, this is between you two.
You need to recover your items.
- Push, push, push, push, push.
You guys are neck-and-neck right now.
How bad do you want it? - Yeah, I can't see.
- My foot is--ow, dude. Ah!
- Uh-oh. - One ski is bust.
You've got to improvise. You've got to keep going.
- Let's go, let's go, let's go.
That's two, that's two. - Shonda, that's two items.
- There's your net. You passed one, though.
- Michaela, you've left two behind.
- I can't see anything.
I can't even see anything, anyway,
So I could only see sort of shapes.
- There's your net. - Ah.
- Shonda, you already picked up the first three items.
This is your last one.
- There you go. - Oh, you're in, you're in.
- Push, push, push, push, push.
How bad do you want it?
- The mountain dew's got to go in the cooler.
- Put it-- put it right there in the--
Put it right there in the middle.
There you go.
- Oh. - There you go.
- Good game, guys. - Whoo!
- Oh, boy. - [bleep]
- Wow, that was hard.
- I came here to prove something
To my old co-workers at the fire department
Who was always second-guessing me.
Making it to the last two and knocking off three people,
I feel like I'm the [bleep]
[laughs]
- Dang.
- I think you, michaela,
Have faced two of your fears today.
You faced the fish.
You face the avalanche and confined spaces.
- A new fear. [laughs]
- Heart is everything, and you've shown so much heart.
- I came. I gave it my all.
But unfortunately, this time,
I was not able to survive bear grylls.
But I did accomplish all three challenges,
So I'm proud of that, especially the fish one
Because I was scared, but there was never
A question of whether I'm gonna do it or not.
So to be able to do that,
I feel, like, really unstoppable.
- Guys, I think michaela--
- All right, michaela! - Congratulations.
- Whoo! - Thank you.
- Well done. - Hell of a competitor.
- True survivor spirit. Good for you.
- Thanks.
- You two, now we're getting serious.
You're in the final. Come with me.
[energetic rock music]
- Oh, you'd better drink up
Because we are headed to the desert.
♪ ♪
[applause] whoo!
- The last two, the final. - Yup.
We're in the finals, baby.
We're here. We're here.
- And I know for both of you, you're, in a way,
Kind of rookie survivalists.
Jonathan, you've gone through so much today,
Shown your real fighting spirit.
- I've given it hell. - Who are you really here for?
- My family.
So I'm here for my wife, my son.
I'm here on the end,
Like I told them I was gonna be,
And I'm gonna bring it home for them.
- You have some emotion in your face.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. - Tell me about it.
- Paycheck to paycheck stuff, you know?
It's gonna relieve a lot of stress for us,
You know, if I-- if I can pull this off, so...
I've been kind of-- yeah, kind of heavy
On the family for a while, so we'll see.
- Why would you pat him?
Everybody knows when you pat, it makes the tears come.
She's like, "yeah, yo, you got this."
And I feel like-- - [laughs]
This experience has been wild so far,
And I still have one more thing to go.
$10,000 doesn't seem like a lot of money,
But it would be something to us.
It would be life-changing. It really would.
- Shonda, who are you really here for?
- My boys and my husband.
I'm here to prove to them that just because you're retired,
That don't mean you old,
You've got to go sit in a rocking chair.
Hell, I'm up here with an mma fighter.
- If this is retirement, watch out, world.
- That's right. - Good for you.
- [laughs] - good for you.
- My boy still say, "mom, you old."
Making it to the last two and knocking off three people,
They are like 20 some years younger
Than me, that is so surreal.
I could pop my collar because they're at home,
And I'm still here.
- One of the most important things for the survivor
Is knowing how to get out of there.
- Right.
- To be rescued, you've got to be spotted.
You can use mirrors to reflect the sun to aeroplanes.
- You can beatbox.
[beat boxing]
- This is what I have to deal with all day, every--
[laughter]
You know what one of the oldest forms
Of communication between people was?
Smoke signals. - Oh, my god.
- Smoke signals means "I need rescue."
But sometimes, you're in environments--
Like we've had today. We've had a lot of rain.
Making a fire is hard.
But an even harder place to make fires,
When you're in the swamps.
How do you do it?
Behind you is our very own camp bear mini swamp,
Full of brown, muddy, thick, gloopy
Swamp water.
Buried in that is a small, watertight case,
Secured with the mother of all knots.
Inside that case is a fire steel
And some dry tinder.
First half, you've got to get in,
You've got to locate it, untie that knot,
And then use three logs to create a tripod in the swamp.
That's where you're gonna build your fire.
Inside that waterproof case is also a paracord.
Use those to secure your fire platform.
Next, use this kindling to get your fire going,
And then you add the leaves.
It's the leaves that create the smoke.
The winner is the person when I'm seeing
Proper smoke signals coming off that.
One of you is gonna finish this $10,000 richer.
- Yes. - Sounds good to me.
- That's it. - I have to win this.
I'm sick of being wet, cold, miserable.
This is mine. This is mine today.
- Ready to get that fire going?
- I think I'm doing the damn thing.
And I've got one more to beat out.
- Oh, hell yeah. That's right.
For the bear grylls, honey, for that money.
- Ready, set, signal for rescue.
Here we go.
- Whoo! - Ready to get that fire going?
- Yes, we are. - Yup, yup, ready to get warm.
- Ready, set, signal for rescue.
Here we go.
[dramatic music]
- You want to get in there. Yeah, yeah.
Oh, there you go.
- Jonathan, you've retrieved the waterproof box.
You're now gonna untie that knot.
Work fast.
Shonda, you've got it. Get out.
You're now wet.
You protect that box.
Do not be getting it wet.
Trying to operate with cold fingers is hard.
You need to get that knot untied, shonda.
- It's like a double-knotted shoestring.
- Jonathan, you've got that box open.
Now to get the tripod.
How are you doing with that knot, shonda?
Talk to me. - Coming loose, coming loose.
♪ ♪
- Jonathan is strong.
You hear him picking up his-- [grunting]
- You need to get that knot untied, shonda.
- Yeah, I got it, I got it.
- Untie it. - There you go.
- I've got it.
- Trying to operate with cold fingers is hard.
Jonathan, tripod is assembled.
You're now retrieving your paracord
And your fire platform.
You need to secure it up, above, out of the water.
- There you go. - There you go.
Time to get your tripod made.
Careful of it, shonda.
- Is the water cold, by the way?
- Yeah, it's freezing. - Oh, it is cold?
Ok, I'm just asking.
- You're in the swamp. The water's cold.
You're losing the light.
Everything is fighting against you.
Welcome to survival.
Under pressure, being able to deliver,
Just like in the ring.
Spread it out.
You want a really good, secure base.
You do not want that collapsing on you.
- Get that and then the christmas lights.
- [laughs] christmas lights.
- What is it?
That just looks like something you put around the tree.
- I'm glad you guys are laughing it up
And having a great time out there.
That's great.
- Everything is conspiring against you, including jordan.
- [laughs] what?
I'm not conspiring against him.
[laughs mischievously]
- Shonda is just quietly working.
She's ready to go soon.
Great thing of survival is to remember,
Good enough is good enough.
It doesn't have to be perfect.
You need to get that striker right in it.
- Come on, shonda. Jonathan is moving.
- I know. I'm coming.
- Let's go, shonda. Come on now.
- Don't blow it out. Cone on, shonda.
You need to get a fire going.
Your hope is that his fire goes out.
- Fire's getting a little low over there.
Make it hot, like a swimsuit model.
- Starting to take shape, jonathan.
This only ends when I'm seeing proper plumes of smoke.
Build up that fire.
♪ ♪
Guys, we have smoke.
We are done!
- Whoo! - [screams]
Thank you, bear, thank you. - I'm proud of you, my friend.
Oh, my goodness. What an effort.
- My purpose was to make jonathan,
My son, proud.
As soon as I let him know,
I know he's gonna be super excited.
I had him in the back of my head the whole time,
You know, and they helped me push through it.
- Congratulations, brother. - Thank you.
- The truth is, as a fire lady,
You're not meant to be good at starting fires.
- I know. I'm not.
I was in it for the 50-and-up girls,
The grandmas.
I didn't win, but, you know, I got second place.
You know, in my heart, I won. [laughs]
- There's something over there for this guy.
- Oh, snap. - Oh, snap.
- There it is. - $10,000.
- We've got one other little surprise for you.
[bright music]
- Hello? - Is that jessica?
- Hi, yes.
- Jessica, it's bear grylls here.
I'm stood here in the dark with your husband.
- Oh, my god! Ok!
- Not only, as you know, is he an incredible human being...
- Yes.
- But he's also gone and won it.
- Oh, my god!
- And you and your family are $10,000 richer,
And he's truly earned the right to say
That he survived bear grylls.
Jonathan, say hello to jessica. - Hey, babe.
- You go, baby. - [chuckles]
- You deserve it. - We deserve it, babe.
- Yes. - That's the man of the year!
- Oh, god. Oh, dear.
- Oh, my gosh, jesus. - [chuckles]
- Jessica, we're all gone here. [laughter]
We're all gone.
Jonathan's struggling to get words out.
I'm gone-- luckily jordan's in one--
- Yeah, yeah. - No, he's gone as well.
- I just--my god. - We're all gone.
- Yeah. - He said, "we did it."
Ah! Ah!
- Yeah, we were all gone at that point.
- [laughs] - oh, my god.
- I went through hell today, but I survived bear grylls.
- I'm bear grylls.
Until next time, guys, stay wild.
[cheering]