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How would I direct this episode?

I'd have just no plans whatsoever.

I'd find the most interesting people to be like,

"hey, where should we go?"

And just do it that way.

I wouldn't even... I wouldn't look on the internet.

Wouldn't internet.

Damn chance.

The road is freedom.

Until you're followed by all these cameras.

Did we lose half our crew? Should we pull over?

Hell no!

You're one of those, like, those directors.

That tries to, like, mind-people.

But it's the people behind the scenes.

Whose hard work makes each journey possible.

Look at these ass trying to figure this out.

That's the show right there.

So I'm reuniting with my crew to relive our crazy adventures.

Yo, let's go, he's bleeding, like, he needs stitches, yeah.

And share some unseen stories.

And that's why we're banned from japan,

Because of kyle.

As we pull back the curtain.

On what it takes to survive "ride."

Peeper.

You little peeper!

- Yeah! - Alright, hit it!

Here we go!

Yeah, baby.

- Can you hear me? - Yes.

It's good to see everybody

I kind of miss all... all your faces.

I hope we're back on the road soon.

It's always a blast.

It's called "ride with Norman reedus."

But it's amazing how many people.

That we need to film this television show.

It's like a motorcycle traveling circus.

And Norman is the ringleader.

Another day with Norman reedus.

This is the man.

It's such a tight knit crew.

Who on the crew do you guys, like, bitch about it?

You. Besides me.

We all travel together.

- How far are we going? - We're eating meals together.

We're riding together. We're stopping together.

And Norman feels part of that crew.

My sound guy's phone just went off.

My phone's off. I'm a professional.

I've never lost your gloves.

With those sexy eyes he can get away with murder.

All the love on this crew.

All right. How does this work?

We're going to go through some memorable scenes.

And also talk about some things that happened behind the scenes.

We're going to make the best of it.

We'll pretend we're some place fun.

We shoot "ride" during norman's hiatus.

From "the walking dead,".

And that lands in the dead of winter.

Yeah, there's a point yesterday where I could not feel my feet.

Weather is a huge problem on "ride."

Basically, if it's not sunny and warm, it's miserable.

So we pick locations that are usually southern states.

Or other warmer climes around the world.

We've been really lucky that for the most part,

We have been able to stay on motorcycles.

And maintain our ride.

We're out in the country, it looks like.

We wanted to go to japan, it's a place that

Norman has strong connections to and has amazing riding culture.

We're going to go to this mountain town.

And there's hot springs.

And difficult thing about a mountain town.

- Is it could snow at any time. - Yeah, this is beautiful here.

Well, it snowed literally the day.

That we were going to go up there.

Show runner is shorthand for "everything is my problem."

We woke up and had about.

A foot of snow on the ground, unexpected.

We could ride in a lot of different.

Weather scenarios on the show.

But one thing we can't do is ride in snow.

Not going to fall.

It's the curse of the ride, you can't ride motorcycles.

That's the show. It's the title of the show.

What are we going to do?

Today in hakone, we got snowed out.

Now we're in some mini mall somewhere getting pelted.

With snowballs.

By my delinquent friend Ryan over there.

I've learned from watching you!

That exploded...

Right in the balls!

First shot. My god.

Literally, the road we're supposed to drive on is closed.

And we can't get anywhere.

Norman doesn't tend to freak out about whether.

I think he kind of likes it.

When something unexpected happens.

- Got it! - There you go!

But we had to pivot big time.

We had to get Norman and Ryan an suv,

And they got in their suv.

And we drove 'em to get to this racetrack.

To go drifting in the snow.

Are you kidding me?!

We're gonna die!

This looks really dangerous.

Yes.

Yeah, but it's good weather to drift today!

This is good weather for this?

Really? Well, there you go.

It's funny because it was like a sweet accident,

Because it was icy, snowy.

These guys were slipping all over.

It was like the best drifting conditions ever.

Whoa! What?! What?!

Sorry if I break your car, you seem like a really nice guy.

Norman driving that car around,

I can't believe you didn't total it.

I think I came close.

He tried as hard as he could, for sure.

Stop, stop, stop!

I don't want to die. Come on!

I'm not going to kill you, bro!

The whole plan for the day had to change,

But that's what we do.

There's a problem, we always.

Somehow find the perfect solution.

Dude, your teacher just bailed.

So on the show, we've had...

Where are we right now?

Right now we're in Aden... Excuse me, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Norman and Melissa are very good friends.

And the idea to road trip through Scotland came up.

While they were on the set of "the walking dead."

I was like, you should... You should be on "ride,".

And you go, "you know what'd be a great idea",

Is to go to Scotland, because I... I have relatives.

Buried on this cliff near the ocean...

And I was like, "that's what we'll do."

Melissa did a lot to get ready for that trip.

She tried to find out.

As much as she could about her family history.

And then also she learned to ride.

So you took your... you took your lesson?

I did, and I worked really hard to get my motorcycle license.

But when we got there, there was some of.

The most Scottish weather you can imagine.

Whoo!

Yeah! This is summer?

Is that what I heard?

We just couldn't have them on motorcycles.

- It was too dangerous. - Now, here we are.

Except the weather's very... yeah.

And I'm... I'm a new rider.

It was a safety decision and everybody's involved.

The no decision was made.

That we should put these two in a vehicle.

You guys just think you can do like.

That kind of conversation?

- Yeah. - I don't know, Norman.

It's cold.

My job is to make sure you have a tv show at the end of the day,

We found these super cool cameras.

That were, you know, high definition,

To mount into the cars, and it was just a different feel.

All right, this is going to be a good trip!

That's when we got to see norman's driving skills.

In Scotland, and let's just say they weren't great.

Did I hit something? Yes!

What was it? The curb.

This is where... this is where I lose a mirror, ready?

No! Clip, clip, whoa, that was close!

I'm not a good driver anyways.

I mean, it was it was definitely slightly dangerous for sure.

- Yeah. - Exactly.

But it actually provided a wonderful, um,

Twist on our show, which is always about two people bonding.

How you feel?

I'm starting to feel a little overwhelmed.

Yeah. So your relatives were right here.

Looking at that ocean.

This is your roots right here, girl.

It wasn't even noticeable that they weren't on motorcycles,

It was, your eyes were firmly focused.

On the journey that they were making together.

You ready? Not really.

It's gonna be great.

As a travel show,

Via motorcycle,

Norman is out in the world,

That means exposed to the elements...

Rain, heat, all of that.

It really doesn't stop the train.

It might slow it down. But we are going.

The Hawaii episode in season two had weather challenges.

Wait, is this when we're coming down the mountain.

And I wanted the van to block the wind?

That was nuts.

God. My god, are you kidding me?

Holy, the wind in Hawaii.

When we rode the big island,

And norman's co-rider was Patrick hoelck,

Who is a very good friend of norman's for many years,

Going to want to try soy sauce, if that's what you do.

Think it's just an egg, a burger, rice, and gravy.

Yeah.

Wow, this is unreal.

Hawaii is so unique.

Because the roads and the terrain are so different.

Than any other place we've been.

- Where are we? - Look at that sunset, man!

My god. Yeah, it's so beautiful.

One of the most severe bits of weather.

We ever had, it was almost impossible to see on camera.

- Whoa, what the?! - Yeah, that's a real gust.

When we were riding in volcanoes national park,

We quickly realized we weren't in ideal riding conditions.

Wow, holy.

I feel like a sail on sailboat right now.

Blow you ride off this cliff.

Winds must have been 70 miles an hour.

Never felt anything like it outside of a hurricane.

- Getting a little real! - This is nuts, man.

While he's riding, I have communication with him.

Norman started shouting at me to move the van to cover them.

Can the van go in the left lane and block this wind?

Slow down with the van so we can use it to get through.

I debated on whether or not we should just stop.

In the middle of the road.

Lizzie, how much further.

Yo, I'm stopping, this is crazy.

Our safety coordinator decided the safest thing to do.

Was to continue until we were in a safe place to pull over.

Yeah, it's... let's do it.

There's only one way out.

My job is... the ultimate thing.

Is to keep everybody safe.

And I'm like, come on, you can do it.

And they did not want to ride it and I can't blame them.

It was really, really rough.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. I can't do this.

Greg, I'm gonna throw you under the bus.

I heard you over the mic call me a total wimp.

Or a wuss or something like that.

No, no, I never... I wouldn't have said that.

You're actually a really good rider, but...

Yeah, yeah, I heard it. I heard it.

Whoo! That was crazy!

Honestly, I thought I was going to flip over.

Yeah, for sure.

He was super shaken up.

I'm still kind of like

I don't think I've ever seen Norman more scared.

- That was real. - Traumatic.

I'm just going to do whatever you say, yeah.

Nah, whatever you want,

Whatever you want. Record that, actually.

It's recording.

The most difficult part of a ride.

Is when things did not go as planned.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

You okay, brother?

I wanna see that footage, though... what?!

It's to the credit of the crew.

That you would never know that,

But things would go wrong all the time.

Hey, the truck is on fire!

Medical emergency, we got a little bee sting here.

"Ride" is a dangerous, dangerous show.

Everyone who works on "ride" has a sense of adventure.

And an appetite for chaos.

Make sure we're going to keep it safe today.

It's the crew's tenacity.

And the teamwork that's helped us evolve.

How's this work? I'm a city boy.

Where we could take the show into a new territory.

Here we go!

Barcelona! Right? Bar- "tha" -lona.

When we're filming internationally,

The problems, they're just harder to solve.

You know, we don't have the... always have.

The resources that we're used to.

It's not as easy as just running down the street.

And picking something up.

"Por favor," something, something.

"Start"!

"Beavis and butt-head go to Spain."

"Fire, fire, fire."

When Jeffrey dean Morgan arrived in Barcelona,

He did not have his motorcycle license with him.

That was a huge problem for us.

We have the license verification and they won't send it.

- Really? - We couldn't get hold of it.

And he wasn't going to be able to ride.

I think it would be great to have a couple of options.

We considered putting him on norman's motorcycle.

So he'd ride on the back of mine?

That was what our options were coming down to at the time,

Which like, that was a conversation I really.

Didn't want to have with you or him.

I would have thought it was funny.

I don't think Jeff would have liked that much.

We thought maybe he's driving a convertible next to Norman.

And we can still mic them.

And they can have a conversation.

And then, like, finally, like, in the 11th hour,

It was like, "everybody be ready,

This is what's happening."

Is he going to just show up right here?

We found out that day.

That we could put Jeffrey dean Morgan.

On a 125cc scooter.

You are adorable.

Am I not adorable?

In Europe, legally, you're allowed to be.

On this little mini bike with no license.

- It's teeny cute. - I got it here in Barcelona.

- It's a scooter? - I call it a "booter."

It's half bike, half scooter.

Which was really fortunate for all of us.

Because you could have him on the road on a bike with Norman.

How about your bike for this trip?

For this trip?

The booter. My bike's cooler.

Are you saying there's something wrong with my bike?

And just seeing it parked next to your bike?

It is just so funny. It's like a little kid bike.

Yeah. And then I got him in my ear like,

Come on, I came out, you know.

Do I look like a giant riding a little baby motorcycle?

It's very European!

He wasn't happy with it, Norman was pissed,

But they made it work on camera.

I was a little worried when you pulled up.

Now I'm 100 percent pro-booter.

I think negan should drive a booter on the show.

I'm going to make this thing a thing.

Together... The booter's going to be a thing.

They made fun of it and they made fun with it.

- Come on, booter! - I'm going.

It's like a tiger!

I'm getting the most out of every gear, man!

Just wanting to suck it up.

Booter!

99! Please do 100!

Please... wow, wow!

Yeah, I'm tucking in my freaking elbows!

You look hysterical all crouched down on that little thing!

- What's that? - Come on!

Go, go, go, go, go!

113!

I don't think we can move on from talking about Spain.

Without addressing the Beatlemania fandom.

They were definitely, like,

So much more passionate than... than any other...

They were nice, but they were just like.

Thank you!

This is working out well.

Yeah.

I mean, like, it's going to happen,

Like, I don't think we can stop...

No, no, no, we can't stop.

Spain was when I realized that

Norman was an international superstar.

Up on top. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

We realized very quickly.

That the fan situation we were dealing with.

Was very different to anything else we had experienced before.

Hell, look at all the people, man,

Keep your helmet on.

They possibly can't recognize us.

Everybody recognizes you even with a helmet on.

The problem we had was that we would get to a location,

Word would get out, that Norman and Jeffrey dean Morgan.

Were there, and hordes of people would show up.

This is a bad idea.

The crew was certainly not used.

To this level of kind of rabid fandom.

- I love you so much! - You're so sweet.

A couple times, it's like, all right, Norman, we just got.

To get out of the scene because there's like 100 people outside.

Like real life zombies, real life zombies coming at us.

And he's like, don't worry, I got you.

Come on, everybody!

I know a good shot when I see it,

I'm like, "get in the background!"

Keep going... go, go, go!

Keep going. Keep going.

He's been doing this for a long time,

And a lot of us are much more worried than he is.

Hey, Norman, what do you think about Spain?

They're very affectionate. They're very affectionate!

And passionate. There's a lot of passion here.

A lot of pretty people, a lot of passion, a lot of kisses.

The fans could almost make filming impossible at times.

Bring on the madness.

One, two, one, two, three, four.

I'm sorry that you're too popular to go in public.

Norman is recognized wherever we go.

He obviously loves his fans,

But it's a travel show.

With someone that can't really travel like a regular person.

- Hey! - What's up, buddy?

"Walking dead"!

When we landed in Uruguay, who knew how big he would be?

Nice to meet you. Can I take a picture with you?

Of course. Can we take a selfie?

Sure. This is how I tell what my hair looks like.

We had no idea what kind of following

"the walking dead" had there.

People like him? I didn't know he was so famous here.

We didn't anticipate any problem.

Wow. Is that it? It's huge.

Yeah.

Remember that car show that we wanted to see.

And we didn't really get to see it?

- Yep. - This feels like a big event.

Wow, there's a lot of cars here.

Wow, yeah, yes, this is going to be a zoo, bro.

I can't do one, I'll have to do a million.

There you go, there you go.

Need to walk, need to walk.

A lot of people know what you here.

We came out into the crowd and you could see the crowd.

I mean, like, as far as you could see people.

And everyone was like, "back to the van!"

We gotta follow security here.

Norman, I'm really sorry, but we got to go.

- This way. - We've had plenty of instances.

Where you have people trying to duck in.

Under our arms and under our legs,

And this is with a full police escort.

Thanks for having us!

That was crazy.

But when the crowds get crazy like that,

Everybody just goes into "protect Norman" mode.

It's almost like, you know, doing like getting the president.

- Out of a room. - Gotta go, gotta go!

Sorry, guys, sorry, guys...

Norman! Norman!

They're coming. They're running after.

I think you gotta run, they're like... they're...

- Yeah. - Yeah, we knew that from.

Very early on, part of shooting the show.

Was going to be interacting with norman's fans.

My god! It's Daryl!

From "the walking dead"!

Thank you so much for the work that you do,

I love it. You're really awesome.

You're awesome. Thanks.

Yeah, this is me, that's hello kitty.

Yeah, of course.

Norman is a different kind of celebrity, I think,

Because he's so open to his fans and never says no.

Let's do it... why is it so foggy?

- I don't know! - To the point where we would.

Have to sometimes kind of tell him,

You've given them the picture, you've given them the autograph,

We need you back in the scene now.

Let us film and we'll come back, okay?

You're going to get us in trouble.

He's a traveler... it's a sweet way to live your life.

All of us on the show have that in common.

That's a bit of all of our... our bond together.

I'm so tired right now. Bone tired.

And lizzie's just working us like dogs.

Yeah, she's a... she's a piledriver.

She's a taskmaster.

People think that "ride" is, like, it's easy.

"We're just going to go stay in a hotel."

And you get on a bike and you ride five minutes.

And then you sit down, you have food.

How's your neck from all that ridin' and stuff?

It's real. It hurts, yeah? Right.

But what they don't realize is that we get up super early,

We ride till the sun goes down; It's kind of a workout.

Ooh, my nuts hurt! Ass hurts.

We don't really cut corners, which has been, I think,

A shock for a lot of co-riders that there are no shortcuts.

They don't understand how hard it is to ride 400 miles.

Over three days on a motorcycle...

Like it's physically grueling.

Yo, man, riding's tough!

Riding's hard work.

- He's really beat up. - Is he?

Yeah, he's been putting bengay on his back this morning.

What, from the paddle boarding?

The horse, the paddle boarding, the motorcycle.

We go to seven or eight places a day.

And, you know, do a couple hundred miles.

And if you want to be on "ride with Norman reedus,".

You better have just run a half marathon.

- "Come on the ride." - "come on the ride, try to survive."

- You kind of torture your... - Yeah, that's...

- Just a little bit? - -Bear grylls,

You know what I mean?

Dom in costa rica was crazy.

Dude, I'm glad I get to share with you this ride,

You know what I mean, it's pretty special.

That you're doing this one with me.

Him and Norman, they go way back.

They're bros, man. You could tell.

How about a little whoop!

Looks like a "walking dead" moment.

When Norman asked him to be on the show,

He figured, "we're going to have fun!"

We're going on a ride, homes!

And then he gets there.

And he's, like, looking at the schedule, like,

"whoa, there's a lot of stuff on the schedule."

It started off, we went go kart riding.

Right? And I just wrecked him.

Yeah!

Mess me up, dude!

Talladega, baby, Talladega!

And then at one point, he fell off of a four wheeler...

Payback's a mother...!

Man down! Man down!

I started spinning around him, blowing dirt in his face.

By day three, we ended up at a biker rally.

That's so good.

All of a sudden, he taps me on the shoulder and I look over.

And he chipped his whole tooth off.

Dude!

- I just broke a tooth. - You see?

He broke his tooth.

Biting into a coconut, just broke it off.

And then I heard over the radio, does anybody have any superglue?

You got to shoot him gluing it back in.

He's going to put glue, like, regular glue?

Super glue. Boom. He's done it...

- Yeah. - I just remember running to.

The store... "Como se dice 'concrete'?"

I didn't know what we were asking for.

- Do you have the glue? - No.

- No, they don't have it here. - Okay.

Gracias.

Have to be like an emergency e.R. Special,

Dun, dun, dun, dun dun! Y'know what I mean?

I thought, we're going to have to stop shooting,

But then I realized that it's dom,

And the man just keeps going.

Whoa!

Man down! Man down!

Poor dom, we killed dom.

Happens, you know? On this show.

- Yeah. - Yeah... I can't wait.

Till we get to that episode when you got hurt.

Ooh, mr. Legum.

Not that I liked that, but that was...

No, but it was funny. Yeah.

It was not funny! It was scary as hell!

Gnarly.

So we went oystering in south Carolina.

Yeah, I feel like my shoe's gonna come off.

And it's attached to my clothes.

Mud is, like, you know, super thick,

And you step in one spot and, like, sucks you in.

Like I told you,

These things are sharp.

They'll cut you up.

That's why you got to have these gloves on, see that?

There is a way for me to record the audio.

Without getting out of the boat.

But if something goes wrong, I wanted to be with the crew.

But it was very slippery and suddenly I fall.

And I cut this part right here.

Holy.

This is from falling on them. We got...

We got to go back, okay? He cut his hand.

You okay, bro?

Feeling queasy? Yo, let's go.

He's bleeding, like, he needs stitches, yeah.

That thing, it was just flapping skin,

Just like web in the air.

A lot of blood.

How bad is it? How many stitches, do you think?

I'm not a doctor. A couple.

He had the medic bandage it up.

And tape it up real good,

And he really roughed it out.

You hear me, mike? You're gross right now.

This one is working. That's how it works?

The end of the day, we went to the hospital.

They took care of it.

And, hey, I'm here still standing.

Good thing it's the left hand, though.

And what do you think the scariest thing.

We ever did on the show was watching you up there on.

In new Zealand... that was scary.

I was scared and I was inside.

All right, this is terrifying.

Holy.

I can only imagine what you were feeling.

I was filming from inside.

On a little camera, like, wow, that's pretty high up!

So right now, Norman, we're up 192 meters.

Above the Auckland streets. Okay.

Yeah. That's like 630 feet.

I feel kind of sick.

Think I might... I might throw up.

If you don't want to be the big wimp that's like,

"no, guys, I know you guys spent three days setting this up,

But I'm not doing it."

I know I was strapped in, but I did not enjoy that at all.

This is crazy. I don't like this at all.

100%, we're done? Yeah, we're done.

Mari kart's was pretty serious.

This is definitely a first.

It was like fourteenth hour of the day.

You know, it was the pouring rain.

We're in downtown Tokyo, right?

Whoo! Hi, rain!

This is frickin'... hi! Big bus!

Am I in the lane right now?

I don't even know.

Going off roading... hit that thing.

These are all love hotels right here?

- Yeah. - It was insane.

Is this guy security in a three wheeler?

Out of the sight of the camera, a lot of people don't know.

Is we have the cone of safety.

Yeah, this is nuts.

It's quite a large caravan.

Where we can control the environment around Norman.

Animals crossing!

Safety first.

I think this is the Japanese way of getting rid of tourists.

Knock on wood, we have.

An excellent safety record on the show.

And we work very hard to keep it that way.

But accidents do happen.

And one of those instances was when we were in Kyoto.

Okay!

Someone referred us to the local university sumo team.

We thought maybe we could get Norman.

To take a lesson with them.

I've seen the ones, the sumo wrestlers on tv,

And they're huge! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

They are professional. We are only students.

And what do you call the, the outfit?

This one? Yeah, yeah.

Mawashi. Mawa... yeah, I'm not gonna washy,

You better washy.

Norman was definitely worried.

About how he'd be looking in the, the sumo outfit.

It looks so uncomfortable, just like the ultimate wedgie.

They're doing the rehearsals or whatever,

And he's like in this position.

And I was like

"kyle wants to do this!"

Who is the the best one here?

Me. You?

Yeah, yeah. You want to have a little competition?

My best man against you? Me and...

Yeah. Let me pick... let me pick someone.

I'm I have a champion in mind.

Kyle... And you.

All right, I won't let you down.

You got this, buddy, you got this, you got this,

You got this! Let's go!

I'm already, like, super pumped, ready to go.

Trying not to show it.

Full speed.

I'm the pusher, right? Yeah.

Wrong sport.

You took off like you were the center at the super bowl.

Kyle headbutts the man right in the mouth.

The kid did not know what hit him.

You're bleeding. Okay, okay.

Your teeth are bleeding.

Think you knocked his tooth out.

We felt so bad, he did not expect.

To get clobbered by... by kyle.

You okay?

Okay, okay.

I feel so bad.

No, dude.

And that's why we're banned from japan, 'cause of kyle.

Are you okay? Okay, okay, no problem.

It probably happens a lot in this sport,

I would imagine.

A little bit dangerous. Little bit dangerous, yeah.

- How do you like it? - I love japan!

We did back to back episodes in japan.

I think everybody had had an amazing time,

But we were just dragging.

Our last day, one of our stops was nara park,

Which is a pretty popular touristy spot.

And we're going to see deer, is that right?

Yes. Many... so many deers.

It's getting late, you know, it's going to take us.

An hour just to arrive there.

Why are we going to go see deer? I mean,

This is such a silly thing to do with a bunch of motorcycle guys.

That's nuts, can we just, like, walk over there or what?

Yeah.

That is bananas.

Then we got there and it was a really great experience.

Just walked up and kissed the lens.

You plan things, but you never know.

What's going to really happen.

And that's a lot of the fun of.

Getting through our day. Bow? Bow, yeah.

We had a little fun, but we were buying rice cakes.

And then we would just put them in somebody's back pocket.

That helped lighten the day a little bit.

Was one of those moments that uplifts the spirits.

Of the whole crew at the end of the day.

It was a real moment of zen.

- Big rocks. - "Ride" is a way for Norman.

To experience life in a way.

That he normally wouldn't.

Yeah, it's so beautiful.

Our producers do an amazing job.

Of mapping out a road trip,

And we're authentic in that way.

How's your trip been so far?

It's good, I'm hot. We're on the equator.

Frying... I'm a piece of bacon.

Uruguay was a really magical place.

You can see from here.

That's where we're headed?

- Wow. - We always try to find things.

That are exciting and visual in any location.

Sand boarding was something we'd never done before.

We tried it on the scout, we had a good time.

And we thought it's going to be a great end to the episode.

Hey!

Cabo polonio was not on our original plan,

And then we heard about this really cool place,

Cabo polonio is like one of the most magical places in Uruguay.

It's like a tiny town next to the beach,

Kind of bohemian, hippie place,

That's like in the past, you know?

Often happens on the show, plans change.

At the last minute, we decided that.

We were going to end the episode in cabo polonio.

And not do the sand boarding.

I'm excited to see this hippie town.

Yeah, me too.

How far is town?

45 kilometers from here.

I don't know what kilometers mean.

My production manager brain kicked in and it was like,

This is going to screw up our whole schedule.

Wow. Look at this place.

Yeah. What is this joint?

Feel like we're in the middle of nowhere.

We are, actually.

Like any best laid plans, but hopefully something great.

Comes of it and we haven't just made.

A bad spontaneous decision.

Look where we're at, we're at some...

Like tmz tour bus thing,

In a mad max movie.

We're jumping on!

Logistically, so hard to get out there,

We couldn't bring the motorcycles.

Does this look safe to you?

We're gonna hit a pothole and go...

We're all gonna be like, "whoop".

Yeah, I know, right? This is a very tippy.

You drive in like these Russian six wheel drive vehicles.

For miles in two foot deep sand.

He's speedin' up, hold on, boys!

Don'tcha know? Don'tcha know?

Ooh, hi!

Ooh, that's...

My god, are you okay?

I thought you're going over.

But we ended up in this perfect place,

It was just meant to be.

This is the town, guys.

Wow, that's it? Yeah.

That's the whole thing?

- How many people live here? - 50.

- 50? - The whole year, whole year.

A lot of restaurants, a lot of handcrafted stuff.

What a cool spot.

Like, I could come here and live for a month and...

- It's a good way to live. - Yeah.

It's really one of the more magical days.

- Of shooting on the show. - This is my favorite spot.

That you guys have taking us to.

Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, yeah.

For sure. This is the coolest thing ever.

That sleepy beach town encapsulated.

What is great about Uruguay,

And it was a much more fitting conclusion.

For that episode.

Cute. We're cute.

All right, guys, that's a wrap, thank you!

Whoo!

It would be awesome if we could make a travel show.

That is purely spontaneous.

The first thing we're going to do is we're going to do.

It's basically one hour drive to a town called jasper.

Yes, it's planned, but we try to create a space.

For spontaneity within that.

Where are we going today? What are we doing?

Well, we're going to go visit my hometown, jasper, man.

We had been trying to get

Michael rooker on the show for years.

Is that where you grew up, jasper?

That's where I grew up. Yeah.

- Nice. - And we figured we would ride around,

See some of the places in his hometown.

And then just go on our way.

We'll just do drive-bys.

Yeah, we'll just do drive-bys.

And we'll talk as we're driving by, that kind of thing?

Exactly. Yep. Okay.

This is great, Dixon brothers on the freeway!

- Yeah, baby! - For weeks before our ride.

In Alabama, we had been asking rooker to put us in touch with.

- His family there. - This is the park

I used to play at!

And we never talked to anyone from his family.

This is the street my,

My cousins and my aunts lived on.

That's my cousin right there, cleaning the grass.

Are you serious? That's your cousin?

Yeah. Should we stop by, say hi?

Yeah. Let's go back and say hi.

Wait, was it really unplanned, though?

I mean, there was no tip off?

Yeah. He was literally saying, "yeah,

My cousin lives... there she is!"

It was like so perfect. It was amazing.

She has no idea you're here?

She has no idea that we're here!

This is going to be great. This is going to be great!

We gotta turn around, Lizzie.

To turn around and go back to see something,

- We can't just stop. - At this point,

We have an advanced crew that already went.

To the next location... We have two motorcycles,

We have a safety motorcycle, we have three minivans,

- A cargo van... - Lizzie, we'll meet you there.

And then all of a sudden over the radio,

I heard, "we're turning around!"

So we got like ten vehicles that we have to stop.

It's a whole process.

Nothin', what you doin'?

God, don't film me!

Too late! Too late! Too late.

They're filmin' you!

People down here are a little bit camera shy, y'all.

That's my cousin Georgie. She don't like cameras.

It's always a hassle when we make an unplanned stop.

Because you don't know if it's going to work out.

We don't know if it's going to be worthwhile,

- And we take a risk. - Michael!

We can film in here!

- What's up?! - This is great.

She didn't want to be on camera in the beginning.

She was hiding behind rooker.

- Come her. - Damn!

- Do not get me... - Stop being so shy.

What's... what's this one's name?

- We just bum rushed you. - I know, I feel bad...

- We did! - To your house like this.

And then like ten minutes later,

Like, she was talking up a storm.

It was so obvious that they were blood relatives.

Yeah -totally.

For sure. For sure.

Norman, she didn't make any butter beans.

Because you didn't let me know!

I want you to look at all these messages

I sent him, and he didn't respond!

There's a whole bunch of messages to you.

I don't respond to messages.

Where are you going to got some butter beans and cornbread,

- As you hadda! - In this instance,

The risk very much paid off.

Girl, you are a mean messy, filthy girl.

I can be!

Come here, chicken! Hi, little chicken!

Hi, little Florida chicken.

Can you tell us about the chicken?

Where did that even come from?

It kind of came out of nowhere.

We were supposed to go to ziplining,

And we thought it would be a great idea.

If we could wear some sort of big furry costume,

Partly for warmth, partly because it would be fun,

And partly...

We want to be johnny Knoxville, I think.

It was about nine o'clock at night.

And Norman sent me a text.

"I'll do the zipline tomorrow, but I want a chicken suit."

We're out in the middle of new Mexico.

We don't know where everything is.

So I hop in a van and I'm racing around.

For all these different shops,

And I just hit the jackpot.

- Very sexy. - Little feathers going up.

My nose.

A lot of things going on in my crotch right now.

Wish me luck, man.

And then I get up there and the wind's kicking like this.

- Windy out there! - -Windy as!

It is dangerous when there's really high winds?

- It is. - I'm thinking, like,

This is, like, the worst idea ever, all of a sudden.

You're going to be a scrambled egg at the bottom, bro.

Full speed, buddy, full speed!

Whoo!

Flying down that mountain on the zip line was crazy.

Yellow feathers flying everywhere on the way down.

Wow!

That was crazy.

- That was awesome. - Yeah, buddy, good job.

Chicken was a funny little joke.

And then all of a sudden it became a part of the show.

We got the idea to put it in every episode.

We had this thing where it's like, okay, who on the...

Who on the crew is going to wear the chicken this time?

The only way you can get away with this kind of stuff.

Is if the star of the show is also the executive producer.

- That helps. - Who all was chickens here?

- One, two... - Very proudly, as well.

I got to do the chicken in California,

Hiding in a vineyard.

I was lucky enough to be the chicken.

On lowcountry with Dave chappelle.

I roller skated at cascade in it.

I was a driving chicken.

It just was a funny thing, like, to randomly be,

"my god, there's the chicken."

- Got a bunch of weirdos out here. - Welcome to the desert.

That suit has been all over the world.

- Quack-quack! - Quack-quack, quack-quack.

A lot of people have been in that chicken suit.

And it doesn't smell good.

It's almost like a rite of passage.

Now, like, if you come into the crew.

Like you're gonna have to put the chicken suit on.

To be part of the family, so...

Hey... Love you.

Norman loves his crew.

And he loves for his crew to be a part of the action.

Faker!

He wants everyone to have as much fun as he's having.

Hey, eat this, I'm serious, it's delicious.

It's... it's crazy good.

I love that about him and I love it about the show.

Try this one... this... this.

Yeah! Yeah!

Look at those little mini dirt bikes.

Come on, you wanna race?

When we did mini bikes in costa rica,

Norman just, you know, told everybody, "hop on, let's go!"

Okay, this is what we're going to do...

So instead of just me and dom, we're going to have.

- The crew jump in. - Think it was kinda unplanned.

But Norman was just like, you know, we're all here,

When's the... when's the next time we're gonna be able.

- To do something like this? - This is our sound team.

They'll be racing the camera crew.

Just be aware we have some amateurs on the track here.

So don't be rippin' around as fast as you can.

Anyone gets hurt, I'm gonna be really pissed at you.

- Copy that. - Copy that, mom.

We're all set, here we go, let's ride!

Blah!

Yeah! Someone ran over my foot already.

Whoa!

I just remember seeing Greg and Jamie.

Looking so good out there,

Like straight motocross, like,

They got their legs out on the turns...

Catchin' air, like

I'm like grandma out there, just trying not to fall.

Jordan almost just lost it.

I... I saw most of our... Most of our crew eat...

Eat dirt around me, just bang, bang, bang, bang all around me.

You know, you're the only one who didn't go down.

There's a reason why my nickname is crash.

Bring it in here, big boy!

Yeah!

Whoo!

I think it's because we move like a family.

Through these towns, it's a cooler thing to show.

Everybody bouncing around, doing all these crazy things.

I like when we do things like that.

It was fun, right? Good. Good, good, good.

That's like some team bond film it.

Someone had to film it, yeah.

You're next... I'll do the camera, you do it next.

Okay.

There's no other job that's better.

I've had half a cup of coffee. Everybody watch out.

People say it all the time, but, man,

Try to beat working on "ride."

I like this, what's this about, what's this...

What's this mean? What's this, like...

Everyone looked out for each other,

Everybody had each other's backs,

Everybody was working towards the same common goal.

Of making a great show.

This is terrifying.

- You're the worst. - I loved it.

- Really? - And it was fun.

Norman, what do you think?

I think you should do it...

That way.

It's a one in a million, we've been all super lucky.

And we got to do that together.

I'm the king of the world!

I'll give you a smack to wake up.

Smack to wake up? Yeah.

"Ride" is about traveling.

"Ride" is about and going places and doing things,

And I'm hoping that... that we can do that again real soon.

- How you feelin'? - Thanks.

It was fun.

Yeah, I love you all,

You filthy animals.

I hope we're back on the road soon.

- Cheers. - Cheers!

"Ride"!

Well, you guys all stay safe, take care.

- Night, all! - Bye!

- Bye, Norman! - Bye, guys!