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that is it I

think it's on

Wheels that's

insane it's like something out of the

Thunderbirds Are You L how you doing

I love this welome to North

Wales love it and here if you need a

hand there you go look like like a pro

like a

pro you ready yeah hold on to your

trousers here we

go on an amphibious vehicle of the coast

of Northwest Wales I was on route to

Bear Grill's Private Island

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and that's it you've arrived on

the the adventurer and TV presenter had

invited me to spend time with him

getting to know the man behind the globe

trotting Wilderness surviving myth are

we standing no we're sitting I can love

it yeah just lie down this is awesome

this is so good but this is own natur

welcome to my world so did you finish

never give up of course you're so kind

oh yeah that reminds me I want to have

it where are my copies of I want to have

that cuz actually I'm so touched you

I've read the [ __ ] out of them if you'll

Parton my French down there I read this

sh I'm so overprepared I'm so

overprepared

serious tell me when we're

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ready

so it's a little bit of a climb but it's

good I was reading you do half an hour

of cardio running around what running

around the island well I'll show you

I'll show you where it go look here you

go so the run up and down the hill is

deceptively hard because it goes on

quite a long time but uh have my pullup

bar down

here okay be careful watch yourself

coming ACR is there a pull-up bar there

here you go there's the pull-up bar oh

jeez well you actually would do pull-ups

on there how do you get down there well

I so Scamper down Scamper down this

bit I mean it's it's nice when it's a

day like this it's when it's uh it's

when it's slippery and wet and pouring

the rain but yeah this is a pull up

bar I come and help you oh jeez you fall

down there in your brown

bread how often do you get on the

pull-up every day do you every day yeah

I've done every day I have the words

ringing in my ear of Foreign Legion

Sergeant who used to go a man who can't

lift his own body weight is dead weight

and I've always remember that I you just

doing well he was American in the

Foreign Legion man he an angry

American how many do you do 25 I can do

you do well in prison yeah yeah thank

you that's what they do all day in

prison yeah yeah I mean hopefully it

never happens

yeah okay let's bring you back across

here Without You Without The Rock

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collapsing Bear Grills is TV's

International survival

Superstar take your T-shirt and then

just pee on it try and capture as much

of that fluids as you can with a

multitude of successful death defying

formats where he sometimes takes

celebrities and Statesmen out into the

extreme wild now why wouldn't the bear

finish this cycle well because this

looks like a nice looking piece of fish

and often eats disgusting

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food he is a global Mega brand with

businesses and endorsements that play

off his rugged TV Persona Master smell

of fear survival's all about keeping

your cool but Bears also had the odd

stumble and moment of

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controversy at his private island where

he relaxes for a few weeks a year with

his wife Shara and three boys I was

hoping to reveal

all the start of your journey you had um

youd climbed Everest one of the youngest

people ever to do so you'd been in the

SAS reservists and I think you were kind

of gliding into a life of being a a

writer adventurer who who would

sometimes give talks you'd written a

book or two right and and and the TV

thing slightly blindsided you a TV

produc us to approached me out of the

blue and said uh what about we do a a

show where we drop you in difficult

places and you show us how to get out of

there and I was kind of nervous of doing

that and I think it was really confident

I kept saying I'm not a TV presenter I

don't I'm not I'm not I'm not so

articulate like that and and the more I

said that he kept going we don't want

that we we just want to follow what you

do would drop you in these places and

then eventually Shara goes well why

don't you tried and give it a go and

might be fun and and uh we went to the

Rockies and filmed our first ever show

and and uh you know it never really felt

like TV we just gunned and went you know

climbing Cliffs and jumping into the

Rapids and doing all the fun stuff I

mean I remember there was a lot of

danger in the early days there so many

narrow escapes you know bitten by snakes

caught in rappers bar you failures

Avalanches you name it in your book you

say there were 21 times you think maybe

in the early days when you um narrowly

escaped death yeah and it was it it

would H it was starting to happen all to

regularly you know the shows got to push

the boundaries and he's got to be bigger

and better and uh you know I've got

three young boys who the boys were super

young at this stage and it's like I

wasn't you know why am I doing this so

I've got my inner voice going don't be

smart make your own decision on this

make your own calls and then I've got

this sort of winnings format of a show

and that was a tension I I remember

first your programs I really loved them

they're kind of like lowkey I don't know

if comedy is the right word but there's

a sort of level of humor in seeing you

suffer and doing things that were

somewhat illustrative of survival but

were also just enjoyable as TV and a

little sort of a little kind of

gratuitous and crazy and at the time it

was new when I grew up the only survival

stuff on TV was always quite kind of

bland the thing is textbook survival is

quite boring textbook survival said

don't take any risks stay put wait for

rescue that is the correct thing to do

in an emergency don't want off your car

put that message out we could put that

message out now there you go stay put

don't take risk wait for rescue you know

but what happens if nobody's coming to

look for you and all you've got is a

broken knife and one Boot and that was

kind of the new style of shows it's not

textbook but it just might save your

life and drink your pee or not certain

circumstances maybe what are the

scenarios where drinking your pee is is

appropriate only if you're really well

hydrated and you've got you've got

limited resources of water so if you're

if you're super dehydrated and you're

peeing Brown pee drinking that is not

going to help you it's it's all quite

tenuous the same with jellyfish stings

you don't pee on jellyfish things well

there's more and more research that

comes out they say actually that's not

very good advice you know the one um the

other one I want to quickly mention

because I read about it in your book was

uh you're out in somewhere in the

Australian Outback and you you have an

Aboriginal guide who says that he wants

heard someone say in folklore that

Aboriginal women would kill snakes by

biting their heads off number one be

very suspicious of local folklore he

hadn't even said he'd done it he'd never

seen it done he' heard that maybe

someone once did it hundreds of years

ago and you're

like I'm with great buddies I'm with the

crew everyone's like bet that'd be epic

and like you get carried away the before

you know it you've got a snake in your

hand you're thinking hold on this is

suddenly Less Fun you know this suddenly

is this a good idea but um

but I remember putting that snake head

in Sumer man then you just hope when you

clamp down it's not going to open its

mouth and try and strike at the back of

your throat and you know anyway I did it

actually it worked amazingly and snapped

the snake's neck instantly I took it out

and and and we had it for for

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dinner W good size one you be bit

careful doing this so you don't get

bitten yourself in the

process way to do it is quickly in and

out so the neck's

broken Bear's fast and loose survival

style one him Legions of

fans turning him into a household name

and TV fixture stop talking your

M but there were also a few critics of

his treatment of

animals I'm going to jump but before I

do I want to check the waters deepen

enough and of his teaching of techniques

that some fellow survival experts

declared Reckless no hesitation we just

go for

it in 2007 newspapers reported that his

shows had been economical with the truth

in order to heighten the drama I can

they're showing you how to survive the

hard way all I'm taking with me is a

water bottle a cup and a flint for

making

fire I was curious about his attitude to

all the

controversy you talk a little bit about

feeling bruised by criticism isms

obviously there was a high-profile set

of Articles alleging fakery it was

definitely sort of hurtful when you you

know there was one sumwhere was a whole

bunch sort of negative articles and it

was the first time I'd really had been

in the newspapers and it was all pretty

nasty and I was like oh I knew this was

a bad idea doing a public kind of job so

and I was also kind of defensive I felt

for the crew my first reaction was I

want to take these journalists out and

get them to trog around the jungles and

the swamps and the deserts with us and

and see it but you know it it's fine

it's going to come with the territory a

little bit they were saying you he he

says he's oh I'm going to stay here

overnight but actually he stays in a

hotel or he says these are wild animals

but maybe they're not as wild as he says

I mean it's like the premise of the

program really was oh am I going to get

out of here alive but you know you're

not going to starve to death because

You' got a team around you yeah and

that's and we you know and at the time

what they then did was added a

disclaimer at the front going you know

survival situations are presented to

bear you know to show you what you do so

it was it was sort of even clearer that

this isn't like you know one man on his

own you know unlikely to make it out but

let's see if you can you know this is

we're making a a survival entertainment

show and at the time it was it was hard

in fact one of our boys the other day

found some YouTube clip and uh and it's

a me going across some volcano and super

dangerous and I'm going you'll be super

careful on this really careful cross in

these just cuz you don't know what's

solid and what's Hollow

underneath and then somebody's obviously

gone back and found this exact place in

the middle of this volcano

here it's a rift and then it turns out

the rift ends and there just like you

could just walk yeah so so our boys go

look at this look at this one and you

can see in the distance and cars going

along the road I've seen that it's on

Tik Tok I think my response to the boys

was they built that road last

year and you know there were a ton of

things like that some is unfair some is

justifiable you know some I look bad and

made mistakes but you know what you got

to just try and keep doing your job as

well as you can and and way you've made

mistakes own it and and and just you

know that's kind of it I think isn't

it your taste for the extreme right

clearly there's a part me that wants to

psychoanalyze that and figure out what

what is it in him that craves that you

know that term adrenaline junkie I mean

have you ever stopped to think about

what part of you craves that that sort

of a

rush yeah there a sort of Primal part

that I kind of I know I'm okay in those

moments and I struggle with so many

other things in life but I know that

when we're in that jungle and the rain's

coming down it's all going wrong you

know I kind of thrive in those moments

and there's a little part of me that

kind of keeps pulling me back to those

also that I've learned over the years

how to deal with fear and I know that to

keep that edge I got to keep doing the

difficult stuff it's not that I kind of

want the adrenaline I don't want to

Decay you know nothing in nature stands

still it's either decaying or it's

getting stronger and I kind of I I

approach life like that you know that's

why I keep training it's why I keep

trying to do the difficult things to

keep that inner muscle kind of pumping

and going strong and it's the only real

way I know how to do it I

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think so this is where we train can I

try and do this yeah yeah go oh I'm

holding it the wrong way around I you're

doing great oh that's not going to

happen is

it oh hang on that's a

lot no that's me that was a joke I

wasn't no that's not going to happen

maybe it is no maybe maybe it is maybe

it is no maybe never give up never give

up never

give oh look at him man Mountain Man

Mountain there you go it's good strength

should I drop it yeah forward forward

yeah here we go there you go well done

well

done oh that was a hell of a workout

that's going to take a few days

something went something

went I read last night you're quite a

cook I would describe it is enthusiastic

yeah but I love cooking like massive

things of steak and

liver and uh with honey and a whole

bunch of eggs you can't be having that

every night steak every night yeah twice

a day yeah but I don't have a lot of

vegetables a lot of fruit vegetables I

always think well let's I always think

if you're a in nature you're a broccoli

growing in the ground how do you defend

yourself you haven't got claws you

haven't got right you know you have all

these things that don't want you to eat

it defense

chemicals I think you may have just made

your statement that's going to get you

cancelled bear bear in mind I was also

vegan for a long time I wrote a book on

how I thought it was great but my health

Rel tanked did it and

um and I certainly couldn't do 25

pull-ups most Orthodox nutritionists

would Advocate eating five vegetables a

day I listen to that and it goes in

while I go I question

it one

word lentils

terrible terrible for you I used to have

I used to break wind all the time I

haven't broken wind in years now yeah

you say that like breaking wind's a bad

thing I don't think breaking wind is a

great thing no I don't I think it's a

sign your gut's not very happy if you're

if you're farting all day I don't think

I don't think that's a happy place for

your gut this is your office you who we

go ngu right so here see about the only

place on the island that has cell

reception is here yeah and I have and

then the dogs can sit with me so do you

what do you you you make a couple of

calls and be like yeah do my call do my

emails do much stuff I've written a ton

of books in here really yeah I mean it's

like you know what is an office an

office is in here and in here really

isn't it nowadays I mean I suppose so

yeah and um suppose that to remind me to

keep going and then

this what does that say my soul it does

restore again which for me sums up what

the island is a real restoring place is

it a Biblical quote I think so isn't it

somewhere in there probably I know I

think so yeah bear in mind this gets a

lot of use cuz it's normally like

rain um and uh yeah you know where to

find me book an appointment and that's

it there's there's not like a mansion on

the other side of the island that's the

dwelling is it bear that's your dwelling

what are you what are you saying I'm

saying it's quite not small but it's

winningly down to Earth get out of that

Lou it's winningly down to earth what

with the broom mhm yeah and the hot tub

and the hot tub yeah the uh the 200 quid

inflatable hot tub winner Jesus well we

on some kind of chickens chickens having

a humility contest that's a paradox

yeah there is there another level below

no that's it what are you saying I'm

saying that's it that's the house what

what does it sound what does it sound

like I'm saying my favorite line is

going to for the whole thing is going to

be like is there a hidden mansion

somewhere actually what happens once you

leave the

whole Thunderbirds remember that did you

want to come and say hello

sh my

love Lou hi sh hi Lou hi sorry for

invading your Island that's okay that's

okay this is the most glamorous part of

nice to meet you hi I I'm reading be's

two autobiographies and many of the

things that I think you as a family uh

grapple with or deal with or just part

of your lives are very familiar like

which fit well so many things but a big

part of it is uh me going away a lot so

that that that sort of tension which

exists in a lot of relationships when he

used to come and go a lot when they were

younger was quite tricky but if he goes

away for like a few weeks at a time it

sort of easier it's the coming and going

which was the hard one and I think it's

always harder coming back you know where

cuz you as as the person who's left

behind with the children you get into

your routine don't you and then they

come back and then they just mess the

whole thing up yeah I think it's doable

I think over six months I think is

really tough when you hear of people you

know I always think when people go go P

you sh he's away so much I go he's not

in the Army he's not you know he's not

going on tour to S of Afghanistan in

those day you know it's it's his choice

it's our choice and he's not going away

for months and months on end so it's

it's okay how did you meet the two of

you and we were staying with a friend in

Scotland a whole group of us and he was

one of the people there 10 boys 10 girls

and he was about to go off to Everest

well it was a terrible time to fall in

love you know right before going away

for 3 months but then I remember yeah

you lived in the next door Street and we

raced each other back from Scotland it

was about 8 9:00 got home had a bath got

into my pajamas and everything and then

he turned up at the door that evening

and he said can I take you out for

dinner I went oh gosh you know you're so

sweet but I'm I'm not just give me a

minute I'm not dress rest I'll get and

he went no no no just come just put a

coat over you and then got to the

restaurant and they took my coat off and

I was remember I was wearing white

pajamas I was bit of self-conscious I

went oh okay um I thought she's a keeper

she's gone out for her first date in her

pajamas you know you can't hide true

beauty that was a great moment what did

you see in bear that you

liked um he he just had a really great

sense of fun he was quite mysterious

which I thought was quite attractive he

was quite evasive when I asked questions

he sort of wouldn't really answer me

properly which I found quite intriguing

you know life wasn't going to be boring

so there's always going to be something

to do and something to be you know to

have fun and positive can do at yeah

completely I mean slightly tunnel

visioned which can be quite exhausting

but yeah just never going to live in a

normal place you know just always going

to do some everything so slightly

different

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Lu nice in Devon bear Grill's annual

gone wild Festival was

underway a weekend of familyfriendly

activities music and heavy

Weaponry oh wow you got a little sight

and everything got range of about 800 M

squeeze squeeze good luck yeah later

on are you doing the documentary for be

Wills yes I am yeah when is he coming be

Wills uh I think in an hour or so why I

really want to meet him I love I love

him my mot never give up just like is it

is it yeah high five wa that was loud

nice the highlight of the weekend was an

appearance from the man himself to

spread a little

Stardust thanks so much take care have

fun guys you nice to see you for me it

was a chance to see bear in his public

facing role okay we're going this way

amidst a crush of adoring

fans on your T-shirt buddy

right thanks so much everyone

i' got to stay

with came here from India oh really he's

come all the way from India no way to be

at the festival are you serious let's a

photo

for why am I in

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it for the festival finale bear would be

appearing on the main stage to deliver

an inspirational

message this is it this is it big

moment can I give you that one don't

lose

hope water I'd love say yeah would you

might Lou would you like a glass of

water no no I'm fine thank you thank you

do

you are you one of these people who

likes going on stage in front of you um

it's a love hate thing what about about

you hate it no you don't I promise you

I've really struggled with it which part

of it just the um even this sort of

thing I struggle I sometimes wish I was

an an and could just watch it just watch

it all cuz I'd love this for me is

heaven just loads of families and kids

but I I struggle with all the I struggle

with the eyes you know kind everyone

looking really struggl and it's actually

got worse over the years why I don't

know I think in the early days who was

like gosh was you know now I

don't anyway slightly ironic slightly

ironic

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conversation what's the fear what do you

I feel I feel if I'm honest I feel I'm

not as good as sometimes not as Brave or

strong or great as created a brand

you're a superhero and that's what kids

being honest that's what that's what

want to hear that you know this for me

takes more courage and and it you

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know thank you guys wow what a what an

amazing amazing and beautiful site

honestly for me it's a privilege to be

among

you so we've got loads of families here

and kids that look up to you hugely

what's your message for them as

potential adventurers of the Next

Generation oh

I well message for young people gosh I

would say uh first of all life's scary

you need to be you're going to need to

be brave at times courage is quiet

courage is facing the difficult stuff

but number one is courage you got you

you got to you got to find it it's in

here number two kindness it's no good

reaching the top of your mountains

becoming the boss becoming whatever your

goals are if

you're not kind to people and then

finally have that never give up Spirit

you know it conquers everything when

you're in those difficult times going

through the

storms you got to Keo have that never

give up spirit so courage

kindness never give

up I was struck by bear sense of his own

short comings a man of Adventure who

grappled with the gap between his view

of himself and how he was seen by his

admirers thanks guys we'll see you at

the music later as well I'll be around

Take

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Care Bear's taste for the Wilderness was

something he learned as a child on

Expeditions with his dad a royal marine

and conservative

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MP mom was a secretary and later a

homemaker in a family that was

traditional Upper

Crust after eaten he dropped out of

University deciding he'd rather qualify

as a civilian for the

SAS then age 23 came the successful

Everest Ascent we're already in what

they call um the death zone which

doesn't exactly Inspire one with

confidence pray for safe yeah up and

down and then home and then families and

stuff

behind it all was a formative early

experience you were sent away to

boarding school aged 8 must have been

very difficult for me it wasn't a choice

and it was much more a culture of like

you're left you don't go home for you

know how however long we'll see you at

we'll see you in you know four weeks

time because that's just what people did

who were of that class I I I don't know

I wasn't involved in the decision for me

it was like you're going to boarding

school and I really struggled with it I

struggle being away from home do you

remember that moment do you remember the

day I do I remember really well being

dropped off and I remember seeing my mom

and dad boiling their eyes out driving

away and I remember thinking I couldn't

figure out what part of nature thinks

this is a good idea you know I'm crying

they're crying you know I'm not seeing

you for a long time it's so young isn't

it I've a seven-year-old I just can't

imagine yeah sending him off yeah it was

definitely a trickier time for me and I

don't think I dealt with it particularly

well I think you sort of develop

survival sort of mechanisms to deal with

the you know upset and would deal with

fear and there were definitely sort of

bullies at some of the schools I went to

and you know again I don't want over egg

that sort I was it wasn't terrible or

terrible it had def moments and um and I

think looking back I was too young to be

able to deal with that sort of fear and

actually ironically I remember

eventually at the end of of SAS

selection you go through this resistance

to interrogation phase you know you're

there naked curled up in a blanket

shivering and at the end of it when it's

finally finished they put you with a

psychiatrist and you have a chat and he

goes it's all over and how was it and

and what are you feeling and I said it's

weird because I haven't felt that sort

of feeling of raw fear and vulnerability

since I went to prep school age age

whatever and I thought he would he would

sort of laugh or whatever and he goes I

can't tell you how many times I've heard

that from people going through this

process when you say you you said you

don't think you dealt with it

particularly well what do you mean well

I think you internalize a lot of your

way of dealing with fear and it's why I

became quite shy especially in those

years I I definitely went into myself a

lot more and was hiding away and you'd

see people being bullied or or you know

ever the eyes came onto me it was like

oh you know hide go escape and I think

those are survival mechanisms that you

shouldn't have to be learning aged eight

or 10 and and I think it's why it took

me a long time to develop the confidence

that not always hiding away did you ever

talk to your parents about it about like

why did you do that or just to yeah I

think a little bit I mean my dad then

died you know when I was pretty young

after school and I never really got the

chance to ask him that but you know the

the thing is he was the most lovely dad

cozy kind loving and same with my mom

and I think it was you know I've got to

understand that was for them as well um

and I think genuine there's a whole

generation of of our our age and and

older and before that would just thought

that was a that was how you made a man I

have the sense that you're um you're

very close to your both your parents you

you had adventures with your dad but

also that your mom um occasionally

resented you going off with your dad is

that is that what it was when you're

young it's so hard to to know what's

going on always my mom's a me you know

she's amazing she's a true she's a

character yeah and I think as she gets

older I'm sort of gentler with her

eccentricities that growing up was

sometimes harder it sounds like at times

it was it it was really difficult yeah

she's quite she's quite she's quite

unusual my mom and she and she had some

definitely some you know mental health

issues going on but I think Dad shielded

us a little bit maybe from that I think

he definitely shielded my sister and me

a bit from

you know some of my mom's more unusual

sort of episodes there there were quite

a few

eccentricities um and most of them super

harmless and wonderful I'm nervous to

saying too much about that cuz I think

also as my mom's got

older she's softened so much she's been

an amazing mother you know she she

really has she take you to see self

American motivational well those I'm

always grateful for those times that

weren't her eccentricities yeah I mean

she would take us that was part of her

Brilliance and her genius is she age 15

16 she'd take us to

motivational conventions you can do you

got who would it be Tony Robbins yeah

yeah I did so we've really got Tony

Robbins to thank for Bear Grills but we

went to a whole bunch of them and they

were I was always like this huh any

other ones Zig Ziggler Zig Zig Zigler

who was I looked back on now and was a

legend he was like a business Guru he

was all about whatever the mind man can

conceive and believe it can achieve or

something like that and I was like wow

you know and it was also aware of

stinking thinking stinking thinking yeah

exactly and I always say that still to

this day to my family you know it's like

I don't call it an alarm clock I call it

an opportunity clock you know and it's a

family joke but I don't want to be woken

up alarmed you know I want an

opportunity I'm always you know and a

lot of those old phrases that I have for

for me go back to those days but my

education was all about learn the verbs

learn Latin do your maass learn and I

wasn't very good at that and Sunday at

15 to be told that the real life skills

are about building great teams pick the

path Les trodden never give up be kind

along the way face your fears it was

like that I can get an A in cuz I can I

can you know go for this yeah and so I

really have my mom too thank for those

sort of times you know she's dealt with

the fact that she's had to be on her own

for the last 20 years without without

you know my dad as well and how did your

dad die out of out of the blue one day

you know he he was he had a pacemaker

fitted cuz they needed for the pacemaker

and I remember going down for the

operation and I saw him come around and

I said it's all great dadam well done

you you know smashed it it's it's going

to be great he was discharged and um and

he woke up the next morning set up in

bed and my mom was there just bringing

him say to eat and he's went done done I

never never never woke

up I look back and I so many things I

wish I'd said to him of like what a

wonderful dad had been for so many years

and you

know um wish I said Thank you

more

um you know but I do believe you know I

I believe I feel his presence still to

this

day

you are you seem to speak more openly

now about faith I'm less I'm less

nervous to be able to tell the truth you

know of what of things that have helped

me in my life and I'm not particularly

churchy I'm not very religious like that

but um my Christian faith is it's in

here and uh do you literally start the

day on your knees you to the bed with a

prayer I try to yeah I find it starts a

day

remind me of my place in the world and

say thank you and say sorry for things

I've messed up and ask for a bit of

strength for the day ahead job done and

then stand up and do my exercises and uh

those are two anchors in my

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life

off in South London bear was making a

flying visit to a local Scout

Troop bear is the chief Scout for the

whole of the UK a role he's very proud

of they're going to be so excited what's

the routine you go in there razzled

Dazzle them well I'm not sure there

much

like have you ever done crate stacking

Lou

no oh jeez it's already quite wobbly

okay Lou you need to focus on the crates

not the

Rope oh God God help me what's happening

Lou you just think you could be like in

America with some what crazy clue clut

clan people having a great time yeah I

know I'd be more

relaxed last

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one

after proving my Scout metal I got a

chance to see bear among his young

prodiges I think you all know who bear

is how many of you have seen him on

TV so sweet I think you ate a placenta

one time with a

celebrity on YouTube I saw it on YouTube

let's just get this right I didn't eat a

celebrities

placenta and how did it taste the

placenta once you cooked it it was

probably all right was it I you know

it's all a blur it's all a blur of bad

sort of you know I've learned basically

if you try and cook anything and burn it

over a fire long enough it all tastes

basically like a badly cooked Scout

sausage I remember you uh slept in a in

a camel well that was an interesting one

I remember sleeping there and the head

of the camel was like here and because I

was on quite strong antimalarial drugs

at the time one of the side effects is

gives you pretty wacky dreams and I

remember waking the night thinking the

camels come alive and the whiskers were

like sort of brushing my cheek and I was

hallucinating all sorts of weird things

but it worked and we survived the night

so yeah live to fight another

day one more shift Frank let's go he

kick away across town bear was making a

second stop off in his role as an

honorary colonel in the Royal Marines

are you getting through it yeah yeah

it's going well sir yeah yeah well done

oh good job well stick with it Bear's

love of the military is well

known there you go welcome to the brw

Marines Lou gosh you don't need to be

here do you I mean in terms of you've

got busy schedule like what is it why is

it important to you to be here well I I

I love it it's the same with the scouts

it's that sense of amazing incredible

unsung heroes who give so much who are

so dedicated I mean they are a few

families in the world that really have

my heart and the Marine the raw Marines

I think is truly unique every day every

session I spend with them you know and

it's only every now and guess you know

once a month maybe but it's a real

genuine privilege and something I love

and I never take for

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granted amidst the discipline and

tradition I reflected on the

old-fashioned virtues bear seem to

embody and how they sat alongside Bears

more human

qualities the question I was going to

ask asking what's the key to

understanding bear that would have been

an embarrassing here we go he's off he

doesn't like hearing himself talked

about and be

noticed he's

gone did I embarrass him no he's just

he's you know he's not making up he is

humble and um he doesn't like the

spotlight you know come have a good look

at this good with a good way good way to

finish your visit here here we go so

that's the Commando Spirit carriage

determination and the unselfishness so

simple old old Valu but you know what

the young guys come from regular

backgrounds diverse backgrounds all over

the world and they come and they get

unified by this kind of sense of

Commando

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Spirit one place I'd love to show you

the Cliffs at the other end I would love

it okay we're going this way why are we

going this way cuz it's fun it's just we

never go this

way okay watch

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yourself isn't that

lovely is this safe for me to do this

yeah

wow yeah that's something else so could

you just go down and bathe if you were

to just have like a beach day on the

island would you do it down there this

VI or from the jetty very nice okay okay

we're going this way

so this is our Cliff jump on the island

Lou would you jump that yeah I have

jumped and how was it I wouldn't do this

again I've done it once took me a week

to recover really yeah well we're not

doing that be careful you got to be

careful anyway another good fun place on

the

island Lou sits down for our interview

you goes I'm just so well prepared it's

ridiculous I'm so over resed I said I've

read the [ __ ] out of your books

there's a lot of books I thought it was

a bit cheeky say he's written 90 books

and some of them were coloring books

just cuz you got a first I'm calling a

coloring book A book can't we get the

numbers up a bit what about the coloring

books the sticker books put those in

there well they are in there yeah

exactly guilty as chars in that

g you're huge like not just in the UK

and and America but you've got this

almost unique quality among Western

presenters that you've managed to create

a brand that goes across uh India and

China how how important is it to you to

build the business and to kind of create

a um well to make a lot of money apart

from anything else I think um money's

never been the number one motivator but

it's easy to say that once you kind of

have have earned a bit um in the early

days it was a big motivator you know I

thought you know when we did that first

show was like this is great I've earned

more from doing that than you know you

know touring around the women's

institutes doing the doing those early

talks but you know I'm not a flash car

sort of person you know you're a parach

guy apparently I spent a lot of money on

parach boats and parachutes parachutes

and paragliders and outboard engines but

you know what there could be worse

things is your main business making TV

or TV earns the most you know but money

Fame Glory that's never going to satisfy

It's never enough for people it's like I

see it all the time chatting to these

Stars you know and they they know it

often as well but it's it's a it's a

hole that can never be filled and

therefore don't chase that stuff do what

you really love follow what you really

love and and it might work out and you

might end up successful you might end up

famous you might end up rich you might

not doesn't matter those things are the

dressing I don't know if people are

ready to hear that from

multi-millionaire Bear Grills well

that's that's a fair sounds a little bit

Hollow it's a fair it's a fair point and

and with a global Mega brand yeah it's a

fair point but it but the thing is it is

the truth and it is what I've I've

learned from it but you know I think for

me though the focus is especially with

the young family is like go and do the

work do the main thing keep the main

thing the main thing do the programs

take these people into the wild but

otherwise I'm really happy I'm at my

happiest when I'm with the family

together hanging out you know before you

guys arrived I ran down the hill with

Huckleberry dived in the sea you

know happy happy

place who what that's someone delivering

the

groceries in delivery

pizza can you sign for the

package oh my knee Lou's done his leg's

long

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gone so Lou before we leave not yet big

swim I mean it's end of day yeah little

cold wind in the air but and the sea is

looking a bit more well compared to when

you

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arrived guys you're looking at the

scouts crate stacking

champ you ready here we go 3 3 2 2 1

here we go

woohoo

wo where is

he cheers stay safe never give up stay

safe never give up I got it live a life

of

adventure dream big if you dream it you

can achieve it

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