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BEAR (loudly): This season on Running Wild
(muffled) we're taking it up a level.

(dramatic music)

(thud)
(laughing)

(muffled) Look at the fear in these eyes.

BEAR: I'm teaching my celebrity
guests essential survival skills...

-Hit it.
(Anthony yells)

BEAR: ...that they'll have to master.
(Anthony screams victoriously)

-BEAR: That is your life.
-NATALIE: Yeah.

-What if I...?
-Take that hand off, it's gone. (whistles)

Great.

BEAR: Then they need to prove...
(Simu yelps)

All the way, all the way, all the way.
(Simu gasps and yells)

-BEAR: ...that they can live up to...
-Ashton, push.

(Ashton breathes heavily and yells)

BEAR:
Running Wild: The Challenge.

(ominous music)

ROB: I'm here in the High Plains,
pretty remote area of the Sierras.

It's totally hot, about 120.

But last time we were together,
we were in Iceland in January.

It was like the planet Hoth, for all you
Star Wars friends out there.

Yeah! Get some! (yells)

BEAR: This is Rob Riggle, and
as you might be able to tell,

he's a bit of a comedian.

Best known for his hilarious
performances in hit TV shows...

Chiefs! Chiefs! Chiefs!

BEAR: ...and blockbuster films.

(Bradley groans and screams)
(electrifying sounds)

Right in the ****! That was beautiful.

Really feel the heat. I'm getting ready to
do a role where I play a mountain man.

The movie is set in 1815,
so it's perfect training.

I figured this is gonna be great.

It's like a crash course, like a boot
camp in mountain man training.

BEAR:
In the early 1800s,

mountain men were scattered
across the American wilderness.

Most of them were fur trappers,
skilled in hunting,

and experts in the craft of survival.

As the fur trade began to collapse in the
1840s, many became guides and scouts.

Riggle has asked me to train him

to play one of these intrepid
mountain men in an upcoming film.

He's also had some big
changes in his personal life,

so it's the perfect time to get
Riggle out of his comfort zone

and bring him back into the wild.
(helicopter)

(dramatic music)

(muffled) Below me is the Great Basin
Desert. An incredibly inhospitable place.

High, dry, unforgiving.

And in the end it's going
to be up to Rob Riggle

to get us out of this place in one piece.

I don't think that's supposed to be there.

That doesn't belong.
Let's go check it out.

We're in the desert, so I'm always
keeping an eye out for snakes.

(grunt) A note for me.

"Hey, Rob, welcome back
to Running Wild.

On this one, the goal will be
to train you up

so you're good to go
for your mountain man movie.

Here's some rope. Learn a bowline.
Your life will depend on it."

You didn't need to write that last
sentence there, Bear. (laughs)

Well, let's make sure
we get it right, huh?

Okay. A canteen and a lantern.

Of course we have the rope,
which I have to learn how to tie.

Well, I better get busy on this.
Bowline. Life depends on it! (chuckles)

So I got a little loop, I'm gonna
bring this through. Got it.

Then I'm going to do this.

God, that...

This is "knot" working.
Just some gallows humor.

(dramatic music)

(yelling) Yeah! Alright. Here we go, Bear!

(chuckles, muffled) How you doing,
buddy? Good to see you.

(muffled) Hi. Nice to see you,
my friend. You doing okay?

I'm doing alright. Thank you
for this, by the way.

-Yeah. It's cool, isn't it? Yeah.
-This is original 18-something.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that, you look the part.
That's it. Come on, then, come with me.

ROB: Alright. We're doing the
helicopter thing right out of the gate.

-Classic Bear.
-BEAR: Here you go.

-Welcome back to Running Wild!
-ROB: Yeah! (whoops)

Okay, so where we're going the
choppers not going to land.

We're going to hover at
about 40 or 50 foot.

I'm going to deploy my rope,
I'm going to go first.

You've rappeled before,
I've done it with you.

Yes.

Then once I'm on the ground,
I'll give you the thumbs up,

deploy your rope, lower yourself down,
never take that hand off the rope.

ROB:
Yes!

-You're on your own safety on this one.
-Ah ****.

Never take that hand off the rope.

(Rob whoops)

Okay, I'm going first.

ROB:
Panicked at the last second.

(tense music)

(grunting) Whoa!

BEAR: When you come down,
you got to go real steady.

(Rob grunts)

BEAR:
Keep going. Keep going.

(Rob whoops)
BEAR: Good job.

-ROB: Oh, boy. (laughs) Alright.
-Well, it's never boring.

-ROB: No, never boring.
-BEAR: Oh, wow.

ROB: Oh, we're back, baby.
It's happening. It's on.

That was a great pickup, great
ride in, and Bear was great,

'cause he reminded me don't let go with
this hand, now I can't unclench it,

so I got to live with this now.
This is me forever.

BEAR: Okay, Rob, we're
heading down, lead the way.

ROB:
Okay.

BEAR: So, from here, we got
quite a journey ahead of us.

Seven miles doesn't sound a lot.
But the thing is it can take a few hours,

just going a few hundred meters
amongst this sort of terrain.

Heat of the day already, lead on, Rob.

Rob, though, former US Marine,
done Running Wild before.

This one, I really want
to push him, you know,

he said he's preparing for a big
movie role as a mountain man.

So, consider this, Rob, your training.

From where we've landed, our
extraction point is seven miles due west.

Throughout this journey, Riggle will
be faced by survival challenges.

His first test will be at a
massive descent into a gorge.

We'll then crisscross a whitewater
river on the canyon floor

and make our way to camp
at an old mining ruin.

On day two, we'll take his training
to the toughest terrain yet.

Let's see if we can get
Riggle mountain ready.

I mean, this terrain is
more like Afghanistan.

ROB: It really is. Rocks, sand,
big cliffs, big drop-offs.

Yeah. It's about as inhospitable
as you could, as you could want.

-BEAR: How long were you in Afghanistan?
-2001, 2002 was the timeframe.

BEAR: Yeah. I mean, we share
a common link, don't we?

You, obviously, with the US Marine Corps,
me with the Royal Marine Commandos.

How many years did you do
with the USMC in total?

-23 total.
-You know, that's a long time.

Nine years active duty,
14 in the reserves.

That's amazing.

And I joined when I was 19,
I retired in 2013.

-And what rank are you?
-Lieutenant Colonel.

-BEAR: Awesome.
-Yeah.

-Well, respect to you.
-Right back at you.

BEAR:
And for your service. Come on.

ROB:
Alright.

BEAR: I got to get out of
the habit of going in front.

I'm the donkey, I'm carrying
the ropes, you lead.

(Rob laughs)

Alright, looks like we're
hitting a drop-off here.

BEAR: Yeah, yeah. I think we
just got to keep moving until we...

ROB:
Until we can't move.

BEAR:
Yeah, and then we will figure out a plan.

Alright. We'll just work our way
down these rocks, I guess.

BEAR:
Yeah, yeah.

-Oh, listen to that water.
-Yeah. Well, that's our first good sign.

That is.

BEAR: Can't quite see it yet.
Let's get right to the edge.

(dramatic sting)

ROB:
Oh, my gosh. That's dramatic.

BEAR: This is where the scrambling
stops and the climbing begins.

ROB: Yeah. I mean, this is a
gorgeous view, but getting there.

(laughs) Yeah.

If there's one thing a mountain man needs
to learn, it's how to tie a proper knot.

Rob's first test is to anchor our ropes

for a 200-foot descent down a sheer
rock face using a bowline knot.

So, I guess this is where first
mountain man lesson comes in.

So, you need to find
somewhere to tie it to.

-ROB: Okay.
-BEAR: And then I'd use that bowline knot.

I think it's the number one knot.

It's the most versatile knot.
You can do everything with it.

ROB: Yeah, maybe wind it through some
of these rocks. Okay. So, I got this end.

BEAR: Yup. That's a classic
rock thread, that's pretty good.

We're not gonna move that.

-Yeah.
-You know?

-Okay, so then we need to tie the bowline.
-ROB: Okay.

BEAR: To make a bowline, use a length of
rope to create a loop at one end.

Then, bring the other end
through the loop,

then take that same end around the other
end of rope and back through the loop.

To finish it, you pull on the end
of the rope, securing the loops.

It's a fundamental survival knot,
(Rob sighs)

but one wrong turn, and it can be deadly.

-ROB: Yeah, bowline. It goes...
-BEAR: We're dead. (laughs)

ROB: We're dead. Okay.
That's one way we die.

Come on, here we go. You got it.

ROB: Alright. Yeah, no, I was
just gonna say. Let me do it.

Alright, coming out of the hole.
That's a rabbit. Here's a tree.

Got to go around the back of the tree,
then he's got to go back through the hole.

I don't know, is that right?

BEAR: And just remember the
person who sets the belay...

-...tests it.
-Tests the belay.

BEAR:
Looks like you're going first.

So, let's get, do we need
any rope protection on this?

That's running pretty nicely
down here. Well done.

ROB: I did my best bowline, and it's
really cool that Bear's trusting me

and letting me take the reins
on some of the decision-making.

Okay. So, same routine. That hand
now never comes off there, okay?

Right.

I've rappelled a couple times; never this
high and never in this much heat,

and never when I had to tie the knot,
so a lot of firsts here today.

-Okay. Go for it.
-Alright. Phew. Here we go.

You got to get it right, especially when
your life is on the line! Hello?!

BEAR: Nice, wide stance
gives you that stability.

ROB:
Okay.

(suspenseful music)

BEAR: Time to trust the
Riggle knot. How's it looking?

ROB: Looks good.

BEAR: Okay, Riggle. Here we go.
Yeah, that's a long way down.

Just that moment when it's just (laughs)
about to drop off the vertical bit.

Looking good, Riggle.

Oh, please, bowline. Please,
hold on just a little longer.

(dramatic sting)

That scares me.

(yelps) Oh, God!
(crumbling)

(exhales)

-(yelps) Oh, God!
-BEAR: You okay?

ROB:
Oh, my God.

(exhales) I'm gonna probably start
screaming here any second.

BEAR:
Okay, Riggle, lean back, trust that rope.

ROB: Alright.

Oh, my God.

Already fatigued.

(victorious music)

A little burn. Got a little hot,
but it was all good.

BEAR: Well done, Rob. First time tying
off an anchor point, good job him.

(energetic music)

ROB: Oh, snap. Here comes Bear.
Really, really sweet.

Really good, I'm not gonna lie.

He just came down fast with
purpose, like he's on a mission.

I came down much slower,
much more controlled.

Almost like a butterfly with sore feet.

BEAR:
Good job, Riggle. We survived.

ROB: You made that look easy.
You just came down so fast.

BEAR:
I saw you tie the bowline.

I didn't want to be on that rope for long,
you know. Good job, though.

Oh, my God.

BEAR:
That's a proper vertical drop, isn't it?

ROB: Yes. It makes you
appreciate the knot-tying.

-BEAR: Yeah.
-For me to take someone like Rob

and trust my life to his anchors
and to his knots and his belays

is a step into the unknown for me.

I'm really proud of him because
going over that as the pioneer,

as the first guy, is scary.
Rob has that great forward mentality,

and it's so key in survival,
so key in mountain man spirit.

A little hydrate, old school that is.

-ROB: This is an old school canteen.
-(laughs) Yeah.

Got a little kick to it. I feel like
a real mountain man with this.

BEAR (laughs): Yeah. The
mountain man is emerging. I love it.

But doing this role, that's a departure.

-ROB: It is.
-And it's not a comedy one?

ROB: No, it's not a comedy role.
Normally, I play comedic jerks.

And I play 'em pretty well, which I
don't know what that says about me.

(laughs)

But I mean, it's fun to do the
thing that's your sweet spot,

because that's, you know, you know
you can do it and it's fun to do.

But everybody wants to be challenged.
You have to have variety in life.

It's interesting, when I read the script,

I don't know if I've ever met anybody like
this guy who could be that cold-hearted.

It'll be fun to show some new colors.
That's what every actor wants to do.

So I'm excited.

BEAR: And do you like that, variety more
than the security? Where do you lie on it?

ROB: No, listen, I probably err
on the side of security.

It's the conservative side of me, I guess.

I like to know that I'm working, that the
mortgage is paid, that the kids are good.

That I've got money for
them to go to school,

however, I don't think you
can just live like that.

-BEAR: Yeah.
-I think you have to have the other,

you have to have some variety, so.

Good for you, though.
Because most people, as you say,

they sit in that kind of comfort zone even
if it's not necessarily challenging them.

And it's so true. I think back
to the first time I ever did standup.

-Yeah.
-That was the most terrifying thing

-I've ever done in my life, next to that.
-In the officer's mess of the Commandos,

etched into wood, it says,
"Comfortable with uncertainty."

-You know, you got to be adaptable.
-ROB: Yes.

BEAR: Come on, we're gonna push on.
Okay, going this way, you lead on!

ROB:
Alright.

BEAR: Okay. Rob, check this out. You
know these, don't you? Stinging nettles.

-We have loads of this in the UK.
-Really?

But if you touch the head,
you get a nasty kind of sting on this.

ROB:
Wow.

BEAR: So just watch your arms
as we move through here.

ROB:
Okay. Good to know.

(energetic music)

BEAR: Look, there's the river,
Rob. River crossing time.

ROB:
Okay.

BEAR: Any mountain man worth his
salt is skilled at crossing a river.

It's time Riggle got his feet wet.

Have you ever done a
fast-flowing river crossing like this?

-No.
-BEAR: Okay.

It looks benign, but as soon as
you get whitewater like this,

-it's gonna be a lot of pressure.
-Yeah.

BEAR: Lean into it, nice tripod, wide
stance, leaning forward against the flow.

-Yeah? Let's find a stick.
-Yeah.

ROB:
There's one.

BEAR: When you're traveling
down a canyon like this,

there's quite a lot of crossing back
and forward across these rivers.

We just reached a point where on our
side it was just vertical wall, no path.

Problem is the water is getting deeper
now, the pace of the flow is stronger,

and you just need to be careful;
people drown super quickly.

So, we want to try and cross this river
efficiently, but above all, safely.

Work your way across.

-You want me to go first?
-BEAR: Yeah.

Solid Riggle tripod.

-ROB: Ah. Oh, boy.
-BEAR: Lean into it, lean in.

That's it. There you go.

-ROB: I'm planting.
-BEAR: There you go, there you go.

You're alright, Rob.
You're not gonna fall in.

-ROB: I'm planting.
-BEAR: Okay. That's it, there you go.

-So, last push, Rob.
-ROB: Woo, okay.

-BEAR: You happy getting out there?
-Yeah, I think I got it.

BEAR:
Here we go.

(dramatic music)

-ROB: Real fast.
-BEAR: Good job!

-Alright.
-BEAR: You're the leader. Take us away.

You're moving like a mountain man now.

(laughs) Yeah,
light of foot with confidence.

-BEAR: You can take that either way.
-ROB: Yeah. (laughs)

-ROB: What is that?
-BEAR: Oh, wow. Yeah. Old mine.

These canyons, back in 18-whatever,

they were panning for gold
all the way down here.

-I mean, this is a classic panning river.
-Yeah. Wow.

BEAR: Once it got panned out,
then they started mining.

Mountain men were the earliest
guides for miners heading west.

With the gold rush, which began in 1848,

over 300,000 people came to
California in search of riches.

Hundreds of mines were formed in that
time, but when the gold went dry,

they were abandoned as quickly
as they were established,

leaving behind remnants that
can still be found to this day.

ROB:
Okay, I'm up.

BEAR: It's not just mountain
man, it's man mountain.

(Rob sighs)
BEAR: Good job.

(Rob groans)

-BEAR: Oh, wow. Look at this.
-ROB: This is awesome.

-BEAR: We're gonna need a bit of light.
-ROB: Yeah. That is dark down there.

BEAR: Have you got that
lantern in your backpack?

ROB:
Yeah.

BEAR: This is the perfect
place to teach Riggle

the mountain man skill of scavenging.

When you're trying to survive in the wild,
you have to use what you can find.

An important warning: You do not
want to search in abandoned mines.

They can be highly dangerous.

-There we go.
-ROB: Yeah.

-BEAR: Got it. (laughs)
-ROB: Nice work.

BEAR: Okay. Let's go and check
this thing out. Come on, Riggle.

-ROB: Okay. What is that?
-BEAR: Is that a snake?

-ROB: No. It's an old hose.
-BEAR: Here we go. Spiders.

-Oh, look. See that?
-ROB: Yeah. What is that? Grasshopper?

-BEAR: Yeah, it's a cricket.
-ROB: It's a cricket.

There you go. Well, it
wasn't a totally wasted journey.

-No. That's a...
-There are crickets in here. That's good.

-Yeah. That's a...
-You ever eaten crickets?

I haven't.

(laughs) Okay. Way to eat
crickets, grab the head,

twist, pull, and you see
all the guts come out.

(quietly) Oh, my God.

BEAR: That's all the nasty bit,
there's a lot of pus.

-ROB (groans): Oh. For God's sake.
-BEAR: And then you're left with that.

The legs can be a bit chunky.

ROB: Bear being Bear, managed
to find himself some crickets.

Oh, yeah, that's interesting,
let's keep moving.

Nope, Bear's hungry, so guess
what. We're eating crickets.

Wait, there's another one?

Oh, that's too many.

Chow down, it's cricket time.

BEAR:
Okay, this one's got your name on it.

Nope.

-Twist the head.
-No.

-BEAR: Pull.
-ROB: No.

ROB: What am I supposed
to do with this? Seriously.

-Am I supposed to put this in my mouth?
-Yeah.

-And eat it?
-Yeah, protein.

BEAR:
That's proper mountain man food.

ROB: Yeah. No, you're right.
You're right, yeah. Cheers.

A little zing?

Nope.

(groans)
(chuckles)

(grunts, strained)
That's the stuff.

BEAR: Okay. This way. If we spot anything
else on the way out, we'll take it.

ROB:
It tasted terrible.

It tasted like a cricket would
taste when you rip its head off

and smush its body
into your mouth.

BEAR:
Heading on down.

(trepidatious music)

BEAR: This is probably where
the old mining community,

-you know, you got all these remnants...
-ROB: Yeah.

BEAR: ...it's where they
probably lived or stored stuff.

So somewhere around here
is gonna be good to make camp.

-Okay.
-BEAR: We got some old manmade structures,

or something we can use.
Oh, wow. Check this out.

There's lots of wood
as well we can use.

What do you reckon?

I'm thinking right in here, you could
clear some space on both sides.

BEAR:
Yeah.

Part of Rob's mountain man training is
I'm gonna let him figure out the shelter.

-There's loads around here.
-I'm gonna go and get some water,

-I'm going to go down to the river.
-Alright.

BEAR: At the end of the day,
we want a simple shelter,

something that's gonna
keep us dry if it rains

and keep us warm when it's cold.

ROB: First thing I want to do
is make our bedding nice.

So, I'm gonna get some of
these rocks out of here.

Then I'm gonna get some boards.

Alright. This will be good. A lot of the
TV shows I work on have hotels,

sometimes they even have room service.
(grunts) Tonight's gonna be different.

Tonight we're gonna be under the stars
and under the bars. Phew. Perfect!

Still pretty murky, this water.
I've learned, if in doubt, filter it.

So, I'm gonna filter the water
through my sock.

Fill that up.

There you go. That's now coming out much
cleaner. Probably doesn't smell so good.

But it's gonna at least gonna filter
out all the sand and the mud.

And then just take one of these little
chlorine purity tabs, drop it in.

And then leave that, give it a shake,
and leave it, and that'd be good to drink.

ROB: There, that's good. Alright,
everybody, welcome to Running Wild: Cribs.

(chuckles) Rob Riggle here.
Hey, come on inside. Check out my crib.

As you can see, we put brush
on top what's already here,

which is an old mining shaft skeleton.

It's all rusted out, but the rust
gives it that antique rustic look

that a lot of people are paying
top dollar for in Manhattan.

Alright. Yup. Yeah. It's a little
tricky getting in, and I'm in.

See what's going on over there?
It's gonna be the kitchen area.

You can see it's got good
ventilation, solarium,

some bedding here, that's natural
bedding. That's the backyard, garage.

Alright. That's it for Bear Grylls
Running Wild: Cribs Edition.

We are home sweet home.

(Rob grunts)
-How you getting on, Rob?

ROB: Good. It's warm, it's safe.
-Actually, Rob did a pretty good job.

Cleared some of the boulders and
put some planks on it to lie on.

Got some brushwood on top
of these kind of iron hoops.

Not roomy, but cozy.

Yeah. It's gonna be fine.
Okay. You ready to eat?

Yes. We eat here?

-Yeah.
-ROB: Fantastic.

-I think we've deserved some dinner.
-Yes, I would agree.

BEAR: When we were in Iceland,
didn't we have a moose head?

-Oh, we had a reindeer head, yes.
-BEAR: Okay, so cheek or eyeball?

ROB: I'll take cheek. Alright.

BEAR:
Yeah, I got the rum end of that deal.

BEAR:
Payback time. We're not gonna have a fire.

Which means what we're eating is raw.

But the good news is it's pickled.

Is that good news? I don't know.

BEAR: Okay. So (laughs) don't worry. That
yellow is not urine. That's a pickle.

Wow. What is that?

-BEAR: Rocky Mountain oysters.
-Oh, geez. (laughs)

-BEAR: The testicles of a fine bull.
-ROB: Oh, no. Really?

You didn't have to.
You didn't have to.

BEAR: You wanted a full mountain man
training, this is definitely part of it.

Come on.

Proper mountain man food.
Testicles are great survival food.

Full of protein,
full of energy, nutritious.

Just don't expect it to taste very nice,
especially cold and pickled.

-Oh, God. Why?
-BEAR (laughs): Ultimate survival food.

BEAR:
The good news is the bull was well hung,

and he had two of them.
(Rob laughs)

So, unlike the grasshoppers,
we're not gonna go hungry.

-No.
-But here's to you.

ROB:
Here's to you. I'll never forget this.

BEAR (laughs):
Yeah.

Oh, wow.

It's like a old testicle that's
been soaked in pickle juice,

what it tastes like to me.
What does it taste like to you?

Truly terrible.

ROB: I will say, though,
not as bad as I anticipated.

Davy Crockett, he probably
had a few bull's testicles.

He probably did, but he
probably didn't advertise it.

You know, he probably did it, did what he
had to do in the mountains, we all do.

Yeah.

Thank God nobody will
ever see this, right? (laughs)

So, dinner tonight was unusual, some
would say. I say it was awesome.

Bull ****. Rocky Mountain
oysters. We had testicles.

And they were soaked in pickle
juice. And they were delicious.

-You want some water? It's been filtered.
-Yeah.

And I stuck a little chlorine tab,

so it'll taste a bit chloriney,
but it's good to go.

Smooth, it's good.

It still tasted like river water to me.
Although he said it was clean,

it had a hint of that classic moss,
dirty sock taste that we all love.

Alright. Yeah. Put that back on.

So that was refreshing. It was cold.
I'll give you that. It was cold.

Anything still on your bucket list?

Well, honestly the bull
testicle was right up there,

-so that's a big check in the, in the box.
-(indistinct, laughs)

Jumping out of a plane,
because it's scary.

Well, you must've done
lots of that in the...

ROB:
I had not done that.

And I don't necessarily want to,
but it's hanging over my head.

23 years in the Marines,
you managed to avoid that one.

Yeah, I managed to
dodge it for a long time.

-I think you'd love it.
-You know, that's what everybody says.

And all I can envision
is the door going up.

Yeah, that's a bad moment.

ROB: And then someone would have
to shove me out, I think, at that point.

Other than that, I've been
so blessed, so blessed

to do the things I've wanted
to do in this life.

-BEAR: Yeah.
-Yeah.

Is it nice for you to be away
from the rat race for a little bit?

It's always great to be away from it.
Recharge your batteries, you know.

And you've had an especially tough
year, haven't you, this year?

ROB: Yeah. Going through a lot
of personal stuff, divorce.

I'll be honest, it's nothing
I ever envisioned.

It's nothing I ever wanted,
but I'm not naïve.

When you realize the situation
can't be rectified,

no matter what you try to do,
you got to move on.

Was there a point where you realized,
hold on, this is irretrievable.

ROB:
I stayed in it, 'cause I always believe.

I'm optimistic always.
I always think there's a way.

She had to divorce me,
I wasn't going to quit.

I accepted it, I didn't, you know,
I wasn't trying to fight it.

And it was a sad day, but it was also a
day that was, you know, maybe necessary.

BEAR: Very tough. How do you
chat to your children about it?

-I just let them know the door's open.
-Was that a hard one?

Make conversation something
that shouldn't be feared.

-Yeah.
-ROB: And just get them engaging.

I think when you're
in those storms of, you know,

relationships and breakdowns,
it must feel all-consuming.

Yeah. And I think you just said it,

storms, that's a great analogy.
That's what it is, it's a storm.

-BEAR: Yeah.
-And it passes.

Yeah.

ROB: And then each day it gets easier.
What do I know? (laughs)

You're gonna come
through it, that's what I know.

Optimism carries people
through hell and back.

-Yeah.
-BEAR: I think since I last saw Rob,

so much has happened that
hasn't been easy in his life,

and he's kind of right
in the heart of the storm,

and family breakdowns are
incredibly painful and hard.

But what I do know is he's an
optimist and he's full of love,

and you can see that
written all over his face,

and Rob has got a good heart,
and that's gonna carry him far.

(laughs) It's like two old men
getting in, stiff, sore, tired.

I got one final test that I want
to do with Rob tomorrow,

final bit of his mountain man training.
And then if he gets through that,

I got a little surprise for him.

ROB:
Bear, you want to hear a nighttime story?

BEAR:
Yeah.

ROB: This one is called
"The Hell Hounds of El Dorado Canyon."

(creepy music)

True story.

Back in the day when this canyon,
El Dorado-- not far from here, actually--

they used to guard their
mines with hounds.

Well, when the miners moved on,
they left them to fend for themselves.

Some say they turned on each other.

No one walks around
these canyons at night.

Some people don't know
what happened to them.

(creepy sounds)

Attack and mauled,
mostly likely, to death.

Apparently, you can still hear the hounds.
(heavy panting)

If you hear panting, like a dog
breathing very heavily,

that's it, game over.

It's just a couple miles from here.
True story. Bear? What do you--

Works every time.

BEAR: Say adios to our shelter.
We're on the move.

ROB (grunts):
Alright.

BEAR: Yesterday, I put Riggle through
the paces of becoming a mountain man.

He's got to go back through the hole.
I don't know, is that right?

I'm planting.

BEAR: He learned that it takes
self-reliance and true grit to survive.

Proper mountain man food.

ROB: Tonight we're gonna be under
the stars and under the bars. Phew.

BEAR: He's gonna need everything
he learned yesterday,

'cause today we're gonna take
Riggle's training up a level

and face off in the ultimate
mountain man challenge.

Okay, Rob. This is a perfect place for
another key mountain man skill for you.

Oh, yeah.

BEAR: Okay, so, key skill is
camouflage, concealment,

you use it for tracking,
you use it for hunting.

It's something you will
have done a bunch of,

-I'm sure, in the Marine Corps.
-Yeah.

BEAR: So, when you said to me
last night, you said,

"I've never skydived when
I was with the Marines."

-Yes, I never got to.
-BEAR: I did make a call on the radio,

and there is a possibility
for us doing one together.

Yeah, I thought I got away with one there.

Just the thought of it is like...

ROB: Yeah, it's terrifying.
It's a terrifying thought.

But how about this,
how about a challenge, okay?

So, we'll do like a stalking
lane, like a jungle lane.

You know when you have to,
kind of stealth up on your target?

Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

-I'll go five minutes down there.
-ROB: Okay.

-You go like 20 meters that way.
-ROB: Okay.

BEAR: If you can get within
bow-striking distance of me

without being spotted, I'll let
you off going skydiving.

If I spot you, we're going jumping.

(groans) Oh, okay. High stakes.
(Bear laughs)

BEAR:
We've reached the final test

in Rob's mountain man training:
concealment and tracking.

I'll be setting up
a lookout point downriver.

Riggle's mission is to use
the natural features

of the landscape to escape and evade being
spotted while advancing his position.

He'll need to get to within 50
feet of me without being spotted

in order to be victorious
and avoid skydiving.

-I'll take you up on this.
-BEAR: You better be good.

If you don't want to jump out of a
plane, you just got to stay hidden.

Okay.

BEAR:
Okay. These you'll know, rangefinder.

Oh, yeah.

So, that you look through
this, press the thing.

-ROB: Yup.
-BEAR: And it sounds out a laser,

-and that will give you how far I am away.
-Okay, perfect.

-BEAR: So, you can use that on me.
-Okay.

-I've got a set of binos.
-Okay.

BEAR: Give me five minutes,
I'm going that way.

Alright.

ROB:
Well, if time permitted, strategy-wise,

I'd probably try to find a reed
I could breathe through

and just float down the river,
about a foot or two under the water,

and then spring up
and grab him by the legs!

But I don't know how to do any of that,

so what I'm gonna probably do
is find a path to Bear,

but I got to move slow, because if
you move fast, it does catch the eye.

So, we may be here until nightfall.

(dramatic music)

Alright. I don't know if
any of this is gonna work.

At this point, I'm just
trying to cover myself.

The stakes are high, so we're going to try
to camouflage ourselves as best we can.

(loudly) I reckon this
is a pretty good spot.

I've got a great clear visibility
all the way up this canyon.

He's got some good cover
to use as well here.

If he's smart, he'll use
that bit of dead ground

behind those boulders, but the
wind is blowing down this way.

I'm gonna smell Riggle.

Ready to give him the signal.
(whistles)

Alright. I got to move
low and slow. Low and slow.

Okay. The game is on.

(tense music)

ROB:
Alright. I see him.

Let's see if the colonel's
still got his skills.

So far, I can't see him. Good effort, Rob.

These are skills
every mountain man needed.

Especially historically if
they were gonna stay hidden

from any foe or stay hidden
from any prey.

The thing is you let your guard down for
one minute and, you know, you get caught.

ROB (quietly): I got to be close.
I just got to get out of this.

There's a lot to get out of.

Oh, ****. This is that stuff
he told me to be aware of,

that's gonna burn
and scratch my skin.

It's already happening. It's not good.

BEAR: Those bushes are definitely
moving much more suddenly now.

It's just whether that's the
wind or whether that's Riggle.

ROB:
It still burns.

Crying out loud. It's a lot to get out of.
I'm a dead man. There's no way.

I don't want to jump out of a plane.
I don't want to jump out of a plane.

BEAR:
Is that him?

BEAR (hushed): Riggle's
definitely gonna have to watch out

for the stinging nettles.

ROB: Damn it. Oh, my God.
There's no way. Oh, rats.

BEAR:
Come on, Riggle, where are you?

What's my motivation? I don't want to
jump out of a plane. Here we go.

He's right over there.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, baby.

-BEAR: He's actually pretty well hidden.
-ROB: I can see him. Alright.

BEAR (laughs): I've just clocked him.
He just poked his head up.

(whistles)
ROB: Oh, no. Damn. He saw me.

BEAR:
So busted. (laughs) Good effort, Rob.

(Rob grunts)

Well, first off, respect,
mate, where it's due,

because I didn't see you
at all until that last bit.

As soon as I popped my head,
I was like, "Oh, God, I'm dead."

My stalking challenge went better
than I thought it was going to go.

I got a lot closer than I thought I was,

but a plant that he showed us
earlier started to really burn.

Well, all I'm gonna say
is, we're going skydiving.

Okay.

BEAR: Even though Riggle wasn't
unable to sneak up on me,

he's still gonna make a great mountain
man in his movie, but a deal's a deal.

And with Rob taking on
his first serious movie role

and working through such a major
upset in his personal life,

it's the perfect time for him
to officially embrace

being out of his comfort zone,

because that's where the real
growth always happens.

Like a ballerina, Rob. (laughs)

(helicopter)

Okay, Rob. So, we got the chopper inbound.

Okay. So just pop that
and just throw it down there.

We can see you. We're ready
whenever you guys are.

-PILOT (on radio): Okay. Coming in.
-(loudly) Come on. Come with me.

(dramatic music)

Okay. Meet my buddy.
He's gonna jump with you, okay?

All you got to do is when
I say jump, just jump.

-(loudly) Are we doing this now?
-Yeah.

Really?

BEAR:
And then if we survive this,

I've got a surprise in the end
you're going to love.

(Rob groans)

So where we're going, we're going above
15,000 feet. We've got some oxygen here.

BEAR:
Keep breathing that.

(inhaling)

BEAR:
We're above 15,000 feet.

Colonel Riggle, ready for duty.

You're gonna love it. Just remember,
ready, set, then you go.

Relax and enjoy it.

ROB:
Oh, no, no. ****.

Oh, please. Oh, God.

Oh, Lord!

-BEAR: Ready, set...
-ROB: Whoa.

(wind whistling)

ROB:
Whoa, ****. Oh, God! Whoa!

(epic music)

Oh, ****. Whoa!

(laughs) Oh, man, oh, man, oh, man.

BEAR:
Well done, Rob. Smashed it. Oh, man.

That look of terror on your face in
the door, that one I'll never forget.

You're amazing, Colonel Riggle.
Smashed it.

ROB:
It's amazing. It's breathtaking.

BEAR:
Here we go.

SKYDIVER:
Keep your legs up, legs up, legs up,

legs up, legs, up, legs up.

(smash)
(grunts)

BEAR:
Oh, that's no good.

(Rob groans)

-SKYDIVER: You okay?
-ROB: Yeah.

(Skydiver whoops)
ROB: We're alive.

(chuckles) Well, that was the scariest
thing I've ever done in my life,

and probably one of the more satisfying
things I've ever done in my life.

-Oh, legend. What a legend. Look at you.
-ROB: Oh.

It is terrifying and wonderful. I don't
know how you balance those two things.

How you jam terrifying and wonderful
into a sandwich, but that's what it is.

BEAR: I'm proud of you.
-Oh, thanks, man. Appreciate it.

BEAR:
I've got one final surprise for you.

You remember the end of our trip in
Iceland and you kind of gave me

that United States Marine Corps medal?

We have a tradition in the US Military
where we give coins, challenge coins.

So, this is my personal coin,
and I want you to have it.

-And I want to say thank you, man.
-Amazing, thank you so much.

-Sir, thank you.
-That's an honor.

(Rob laughs)

Called up a few favors and they said,
"Hey, for Colonel Riggle, come on."

Any chance I get to visit with the
Marines, I take it, because I love them.

So, I don't know, this is shaping up to be
like one of the best days of my life.

BEAR:
You might know Colonel Riggle.

Retired, 23-year service
for the US Marine Corps.

That's right.

Sir, I'd like to present you with this
coin from the commanding officer,

Marines and Sailors of Mountain
Warfare Training Center.

-For your successful mission with Bear.
-Thank you.

ROB (laughs): Much appreciated,
certainly. Appreciate that.

It's really cool. I'm overjoyed. I
conquered a major fear of mine.

I'm alive to tell about it. All in all,
I'm ready for this movie.

I couldn't be happier,
and I'm optimistic as always.

I don't know about you,
but this brings back memories.

(laughs) I was just about to say.

BEAR: Long journeys, trying to have
a pee off the back of these.

(Rob laughs)

Rob Riggle is a friend, and I look
at what he's been through

over the last, you know, year or so,
and life hasn't been easy,

he's definitely been through some storms,
but what I've learned through all of this,

is that despite that, his spirit and
his optimism is shining bright,

and, you know, his love for
his kids and his zest for life.

I think what I'll say is,

"Rob, this storm will definitely
pass, and you've got this."

And as for the mountain man training,
well, come on, smashed it.

Davy Crockett, eat your heart out.

(victorious music)