01x06 - Episode 6

[bunniefuu]

[dramatic music playing]

I'm Bear Grylls, and the outdoors
and adventure has been my life.

Let's go!

And a faith in Christ
is a light through it all.

My job has led me to take
some of the world's greatest icons

on adventures into the wild,

from presidents to Hollywood sensations.

The TV phenomenon The Chosen
is in many ways

a story of the greatest adventure
of all time.

Follow me.

What better way to get to know the people

behind this Bible story
than bring them out here

into this great wilderness
for an expedition of their own.

Welcome to The Chosen in the Wild.

[dramatic music playing]

{\an8}[inspirational music playing]

Don't get bumpy.

This is pretty cool.

My name is Jonathan Roumie. I play Jesus

in the TV series The Chosen.

I'm here to have a once-in-a-lifetime
adventure with Bear Grylls.

I think this is it.

This is where we're supposed to be.

There's a cabin over here.
That looks cozy.

[theme music plays]

[Bear] The Chosen is a historical drama

based on the life and times
of Jesus Christ.

-Well, let's eat!
-[crowd cheering]

Originally a completely
crowd-funded project,

the show has grown
into a global phenomenon.

Building towards a total of seven seasons,

it has so far been translated
into over 100 languages.

Keep your eyes on me.

And at the heart of it all
is Jonathan Roumie…

Wing and a prayer.

…who's deeply relatable portrayal
of the son of God

has won the show
hundreds of millions of devoted fans.

Trying to bring the humanity
and divinity of Christ

to audiences in a way that's authentic,
and they're impacted by it,

I just do my best to stay out of the way.

[theme music fades out]

[suspenseful music playing]

-[Jonathan] Hello, Bear?
-[knocking]

Hello?

Hello?

Bear?

Not black bears or brown bears.
Like Bear Grylls, Bear.

I only wanna see one kind
of bear up here. That's it.

When Bear asked me
to come out on an adventure,

my first thought was,

what am I gonna have to eat?

[dramatic music playing]

Below me are the great Adirondacks.

This vast wilderness
of thousands of lakes,

mighty peaks, and then super dense forest.

Jesus spent a lot of his life walking
along the shores of a lake,

so Jonathan is gonna like this.

He'd better be ready.

[Bear] I've spent much of my life
with Jesus by my side,

but now I'm taking a journey
with Jonathan,

the man responsible for depicting

one of the most iconic
and revered figures in history.

And I know that nothing makes
a person open up more

than the wild.

I've never been
on an adventure like this before.

Go big or go home.

[helicopter blades whirring]

Oh. Sounds like a helicopter.

Of course he's gonna make
an entrance like this.

Ah.

Hey, buddy. How are ya?

-Doing all right?
-Yeah, you?

[triumphant music playing]

One parachute.

-You're good.
-Parachute?

[Bear] With just one day to reach
the extraction point,

we're taking a shortcut…

-Welcome to Chosen In The Wild.
-What the…

…and parachuting into over
a million acres of rugged backcountry.

[dramatic music playing]

-One minute, Jonathan.
-All right.

It's gonna be epic.

There's nothing like your first jump.

I think you're amazing.

Super brave, you know.

It's really scary, so well done.

I'm jumping out of a helicopter.

Why? 'Cause he said so. I don't know.

[Bear] 9,000 feet.



[Bear] Once we reach 10,000 feet,
it's time to jump.

We got you. We got you.

You ready? Three, two, one, let's go.

[Jonathan shouting]

Oh!

[dramatic music playing]

[Jonathan] Oh, man!

[wind whistling]

-[Jonathan] Whoo!
-How you feeling, brother?

-Oh, my gosh. Oh, man.
-Welcome to the sky, my man.

Whoa. That's intense.

[Bear] Jonathan's chute is open!

The man can fly! Come on!

[dramatic music playing]

-[Jonathan] Oh, boy.
-Yes, sir.

Whoo!

Whoo!

Whoa!

[Jonathan] That's crazy, man.

Thank you, Jesus.

-Nice job, brother.
-Whoo!

[laughing]

-You all right?
-Yeah, man. How you doing?

I'm great.

We made it!

-Oh, wow. Well done.
-[laughs]

-Respect.
-What the heck happened, man?

-What was that?
-What was the scary bit?

It's the exit.
Kind of is intense, isn't it?

The exit's intense. It's like,
"Oh, we're going? I'm out.

I'm in the clouds. I'm out."

-Well done.
-Yeah, that's, uh…

-Your first jump's a big…
-Yeah!

And very few people get to do it
out of a chopper like that.

-That's amazing.
-It was all happening. Respect.

He is now a member
of the Blue Sky Club forever.

You never see the world in the same way.

[laughs] I immediately thought,
what was I thinking?

My brain's still scrambled,
if you haven't guessed.

But it's all a little bit scrambled
right now.

But, yeah, it felt really, really cool.

[laughs]

[suspenseful music playing]

Okay, so once we're
in the trees, Jonathan…

-Yeah.
-…that's it.

Last bit of our bearings before we go.

Sun behind us.

That's our direction to travel
once we're amongst the trees.

Gets harder to navigate then.

[Jonathan] Okay.

-So this is west.
-[Bear] This is west, yeah.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Bear] Jonathan wants to go big
on this journey,

so I've chosen this challenging route.

To reach our extraction point,
we must navigate our way

{\an8}through the untamed forest,

{\an8}ascend a vertical rock face,

{\an8}before rappelling back down
and crossing a remote lake.

{\an8}It's a journey that will require
strength, stamina and faith.

[dramatic music playing]

So where were you brought up?

Uh, New York City,
in the suburbs of, uh, Long Island.

What were you like as a kid?

Mostly quiet.

I could, um,

occupy myself for hours,

playing with my GI Joes

and Star Wars and just create scenes and…

Kind of like directing, you know…

-Yeah.
-…my action figures

-and being, uh, an awkward artist kid.
-Yeah.

Where were your parents from?

My parents are immigrants.

My, uh, mother is from Ireland.

-Yeah.
-And my father's from Egypt.

-He sought a better life.
-He's from Egypt?

He's from Cairo.
Yeah, he left his country,

learned the language, got a job,

brought his family over,
put himself through school.

He's, um…
He's a pretty amazing guy, my dad.

-Yeah.
-Yeah. He did a lot.

[dramatic music playing]

Do you know birch bark, Jonathan?

-Yeah.
-This stuff is great.

-For fire?
-For fire, yeah.

Let's take some of this.

It feels a bit wet,
but it's actually resinous, this.

-Resin?
-Yeah.

Does resin burn?

Yep, sure does.
Like pine resin, silver birch.

These are nature's fire-lighters.

-That's actually nature's match.
-Really?

Right there, yeah. Talking of which…

-Box of matches.
-Box of matches.

When I say box of matches…

One match.

One match is all it needs.

In fact, actually,
to make this a proper journey…

[match snaps]

…we'll just take it at that.

That's all we've got to make fire. Okay?

You know, I don't know

that one match is… enough?

Maybe have a backup match?

A little bit more.

-Oh, wow. Look at that.
-Oh!

What is that?

Well, this is the sort of thing
that lives off

all of this dead wood:

the back end of a staghorn beetle.

-You ever had a staghorn beetle?
-No.

What are you doing?

-[chuckles] Okay.
-Here, try a bit of that.

-Get outta here.
-I'll have the wings.

-Get outta here! [laughs]
-It's fine. Totally fine.

-Come on, man.
-Look.

What are you doing? Don't eat that.

Go on, try it.

Beautiful.

It's one of the things
I didn't want to do was eat bugs.

-You've never eaten bugs?
-No, I've never eaten bugs.

I sometimes
kind of forget that with people.

I've spent so much of my life
eating grubs and bugs,

I see that as, like, nature's snack.

[playful music playing]

[Jonathan] So awful.

[chuckles]

And congratulations. First bug.

First parachute jump. First bug.

It wasn't-- It won't chew.
It just keeps-- It's still crunchy.

Well, swig it down.
Get the water to swill it.

[Bear chuckles] Is that better?

Yeah, it's great.

Thanks.

I ate a bug. I didn't want to eat a bug.

I ate a bug.

I thought maybe it was like…

like a fake bug.

It wasn't fake bug.

It was a real bug.

You've got a glint in your eye now.
Come on!

Yeah, come on! It's great.

-Okay, keep moving.
-[laughs]

[birds chirping]

Let's get up here. We'll take five.

Have a little drink.

[gentle music playing]

So tell me about
when you first moved to LA.

That must've been a big decision.

Yeah, it was not one that I took lightly.

-I started in voice-over for animation.
-So how old were you?

Uh, I was 24.

-Yeah.
-Yeah. So I kind of…

How old were you
when you got the role of Jesus?

Forty-four.

Forty-four. I mean, that's…

That's what's called
a 20-year overnight success.

That's right. It was literally,
to the year, 20 years later.

So what was your life like
for those 20 years?

Did you have times
where you were really broke?

I struggled for a long time.

I started doing other things
to-to make money.

I started to drive ride-share,

painting houses,
working for catering companies.

Stuff that I'd never done before.

-Mmm.
-It was all really humbling.

What was the toughest moment,
do you think?

[melancholic music playing]

I woke up one morning.

I was literally out of food.
My credit cards were cut off,

and all of the side jobs
that I had been working at the time

in the last two or three weeks
just stopped.

Couldn't believe
where my life had ended up.

I had no idea why God
would bring me all this way,

all this time,

twenty years of… of trying to figure out

where I'm supposed to fit in,

just to bring me to this point here.

-That's a lonely place, isn't it?
-Yeah.

Yeah. And so I just…

was just forced to my knees at that point.

And that's when I just…
surrendered everything.

"God, you gotta show me
a way out of this." And…

here we go.

Okay, let's see what happens.

And then when I booked The Chosen,

that was three months,
about three months after that,

that moment.

Did you at that stage have
any idea what it would become?

No. No. I mean,

as we were filming it, it was…

it was clear there was something
special about the project,

and it felt…

"Anointed" is the only word
that makes sense to me.

What it's doing
for so many people in the world,

and what it's done just for me
in my own journey, um, of faith

has just been extraordinary
and nothing short of divine.

Mmm. And I suspect Jesus would be
pretty proud of how you're doing.

-I hope so.
-Yeah.

-[chuckles]
-I feel that. [chuckles]

Thanks, man.

-I appreciate that.
-Shall we keep going?

-Push on?
-Let's push on.

Ever onwards.

[suspenseful music playing]

[birds chirping]

[Bear] So from here,
the terrain gets a little steeper.

Then you see how the light changes now.

[Jonathan] Mmm.

So when I say we're following the sun,
so now it gets harder.

It just gets…
These forests become so dense.

[Bear] Jonathan's next challenge
will take us

closer to the summit of this peak.

[birds chirping]

Okay. So this is what we've got
to get up and over, Jonathan.

[dramatic music playing]

-Over this?
-Yeah.

Oh. How do we do that?

Well, I know there's a hunter's trail
somewhere here,

and I've asked our team to leave
a rope from the top.

So we've just gotta find this
hunter's trail. We're looking for a rope.

[Bear] This vast wilderness
is a popular hunting spot

for deer, bear and turkey.

And over the centuries,
hunters have left their mark.

[dramatic music playing]

-Oh, there we go.
-Oh.

These old iron bolts all the way up.

Thing is, you're never quite sure
how solid those are.

So I've got this rope here.

We're gonna use that
climbing tool in your backpack.

We put it on,

flick that down, attach that to us,

and then as we go up, it won't pull down.

-That'll hold you?
-Yes.

If I go first,
you'll kind of see how it works.

-Sure.
-And then…

And then you can follow up.

Hunters would bang these iron bolts
into cliff faces like this.

They'd often leave ropes as well,
and they'd use that

just for when they're bringing game,

whatever they've hunted,
bringing it back to where they live.

But even with a modern climbing tool,
it's physical, it's hard work.

If you've never done it before,

it definitely takes
a little getting used to.

So this is gonna be definitely
challenging for Jonathan.

Just means we don't have to
depend on all of these.

You don't know how long
they've been in there.

Yeah.

I don't understand how that works,
because I look at it,

and it's supposed to hold your weight,

and you can just shuttle up that rope,

but it just doesn't seem possible.

But then again, nothing I've done today
has seemed physically possible,

and then I've done 'em,
so I guess I just trust the process.

[Bear] This granite cliff face
is close to a hundred feet high.

So then once your feet
are on the wall like this,

I can push up and then pull with that,

then I go up a little bit.

So I can push it higher.

Push up,

pull down.

-Yeah?
-Yeah.

-And this is what I mean. Look at that.
-Oh.

That's why we don't depend on these.

Nice, wide stance. Just relax.

Push up, pull down,

and you'll get into a rhythm.

[dramatic music playing]

Uh, I mean, it looks great in theory.

We'll see what happens. [laughs]

Okay, Jonathan.

So if you come close to the wall

and then push that handle
right up as high as you can.

Now, then, you pull with your right hand.
That's it.

And then push with your left.

[adventurous music playing]

There you go.
It should run nice and smooth.

-Wow.
-Great.

Looking like a climber, Jonathan.
Good job.

Beautiful.

I have to get it
with the hole of this thing?

[grunts]

-Good job. All right?
-Yeah.

-It's physical, isn't it?
-Yeah. [groans]

Good job.

-You did well.
-Thank you.

Okay, so I'm gonna leave you on this one,
and then I'll send this back down again.

-Yep.
-And you do the same.

[suspenseful music playing]

[exhales sharply]

That was tougher than it looked.

There's more.

So again, it's just a little awkward,
this last bit.

You'll figure it out.

I'm just plotting
my ascent up the mountain.

Yeah.

Figuring out what boulders I'm gonna move.

[laughs]

[groans]

-Well done. You're getting your workout.
-Made it up.

Okay, you're good.

Good job.

Well done you.

Great. Well done, made it to the top.

Yeah.

[dramatic music playing]

[Bear] Look at that for a view.

-[Jonathan] Oh, my gosh.
-[Bear laughs]

My forearms are on fire.

That was awesome, though.

Well, you might know about that tomorrow.

Yeah.

I'll be like,
"I can't sign any autographs."

"No autographs!" [laughs]

Is autographs a big part of your life?

-They are now.
-Yeah.

[suspenseful music playing]

I bet you never thought in your life you'd
end up having a conversation like this.

No. This is not how
I pictured life going for me.

Do you think God sometimes

doesn't let us see too far ahead?

Oh, for certain.

Yeah. We would surely
sabotage his plans for us

if he let us see too much.

Well, this journey's been
a few steps of faith.

Amen. Yeah. [laughing]

Right from the get-go!

Okay, we're gonna keep moving.
Heading this way.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Bear] Surviving in the wild,
it's all about spotting opportunities.

Feeling the quads on that one.

Oh.

Whoa. Wait a minute.

[sinister music playing]

[Bear] Oh, yeah, here we go.

Something's had that.

Probably coyote.

Or bear. God, you can smell it.
You can smell that.

Not a lot of that left.

The last bit of meat that will rot

that you can eat is the bone marrow

or the brain or the tongue sometimes.

-Let me smell that.
-You're touching that.

-Why would you do that?
-See, that doesn't smell.

That stinks.

[playful music playing]

Let's take a bit of the tongue.
We can cook that up.

What?

No. Come on. [retches]

I can't. I can't. I can't. Nope.

Not looking, not watching that.
I can't look at that.

That's…

Well, that's better than bugs.

Is it, though?

Yeah. That doesn't smell.
Look, that's just, like, good meat.

-We'll cook that up.
-Will we?

If another predator has done
the hard work of actually k*lling it,

we can follow up as scavengers

and still get
some good nutrition off that.

I'll put it in the backpack.

Yeah. I would've just kept walking,

but Bear felt the need
to cut out its tongue.

That's what he did.

He got it on my arm.

[groans]

-[dramatic music playing]
-[eagle screeches]

[Bear] Jonathan doesn't seem
very enthusiastic

about the deer tongue,

but the good news is,

I've found something to help wash it down.

So look, this is hemlock.

Not like the hemlock plant
that can k*ll you,

but this stuff,
you make hemlock tea with it.

Really rich in vitamin C. Smells nice.

We'll boil the tongue, so that's cooked,

and then that's our protein,

drink the hemlock tea.

This is gonna be a feast.

[laughs] Feast.

[suspenseful music playing]

[screeching]

Tell you what.
Let's have a little stop here.

We're gonna try and get this fire going.

Yeah, we have some tongue
and hemlock tea, I think,

or soup we're gonna make, um…

Can't say I'm really excited about that,
but it is what it is.

It's what I signed up for. [laughs]

Definitely wanna be careful
lighting fires with all of this.

-Yeah.
-Maybe put some of these, um…

Grab that one.

So, look, here's a good tip to see
whether wood's good to burn.

If you break it, and it sounds
like the crackle of a fire,

it's good, it's dry.

That's got nice fire crackle.

-[Jonathan] Yeah.
-That's gonna be good.

But if it's green, it's full of moisture,
it isn't gonna burn.

-Yeah.
-So we've got the birch bark.

Lots of little strips.

[Bear] The key to a successful fire
is preparation.

And we've got all of this stuff
we'll put on top of it.

We want to protect it as much
as possible from the wind as well.

Where is the wind coming from?

-Straight on you…
-This way.

Straight up the ravine. Okay.

So we'll huddle around this way,
protect it with our bodies,

and then light it.

Okay, remember, one go. [laughs]

No screw-ups. This is it.

Let's just have a look at the match.

[Jonathan] It's so tiny.

This is like you, down to your last dime
when you were in LA.

-That's right.
-You've got one shot.

-Surrender, Jonathan.
-I'd surrender.

Lord, give me this match right now!

Okay, let's do it. Don't burn your finger.

Okay.

[gentle music playing]

Yeah, look at that. Boom.

Boom, we are away.

Well done. Come on, simple as that.

-We're getting the tongue on.
-[groans]

Put that there.

Okay, we'll let that do its thing.

Did you always have
a faith in your life from…

Yeah, I was baptized as a… as a baby…

-Yeah.
-…and, uh, raised with the faith,

and it set for me a really great example

-of trusting in a higher power…
-Yeah.

…and knowing that there's more

than what we see in this world.

What did you try and…

What part of Jesus did you try

and bring to how you were
gonna portray him?

'Cause it's such a thing
to have to walk in

to trying to… trying to play the Almighty.

I mean, that's a tough gig.

I think having the opportunity
to be able to portray his humanity

in a way that has
never been shown before--

going to weddings,
you know, enjoying himself,

having some wine and laughing and dancing.

[laughing]

As a Christian,
if you believe he was fully human,

God made flesh, right?
Then he has to experience

the gamut of emotions.

-Doubt. Fear.
-Doubt. Fear.

-Anxiety. Frustration. Anger.
-Mmm.

Joy. Happiness.

Giddiness. Silliness.

He went through all of it.

-That gets lost, doesn't it? It gets lost.
-Longing.

Yeah. Yeah.

What do you think it was that drew

regular, ordinary,

flawed people to him?

His charisma and attraction
to who they were.

His ability to see their hearts,

knowing that people were… were suffering,

and that they needed a savior,

and they needed someone
to tell them… the truth.

That's a beautiful thing.

You've got so close to his character.

Mmm.

What attracts you to him?

I think the mystery of him.

The infinite amount

of love and tenderness he has,

despite all of my flaws,

and that no matter
how terribly I screw up,

knowing that I can still approach him

with an honest heart, trying to do better.

Yeah.

[fire crackling]

-Shall we try the tongue?
-No.

[Bear chuckles]

I'm gonna just cut this up
a little bit as well.

There you go. Have a bit of that.

It's not bread and wine,
but it's next best thing.

Here's to you, Jonathan.

Love and blessings, my friend.

Love and blessings. Oh, wow.

That will toughen up your jaw muscles.

[laughing]

-Try a bit of the…
-Oh, no.

…hemlock needles fermented in the…

I won't lie to you, it's not great.

[chuckles]

[playful music playing]

Final thing I want to ask you:
How do you stay grounded in your life?

Apart from having to sit on the floor
and drink stinking water.

By remembering that
none of this is about me.

Yeah.

None of the success
of the show is about me.

Playing Jesus has kind of been
a tutorial in celebrity.

What I mean by that is that,
when I'm meeting people,

I want to try to have

the same kind of patience

and compassion that Christ did,

because that's
what we're all called to do.

And how are you doing when you're
trying to be as patient? [laughs]

It's every day.
Every day I need forgiveness.

-A work in progress.
-Always a work in progress.

I was gonna say, it's like,
it is a big weight for you, you know?

It really is, however you dress it up.

Have you managed to find
moments of happiness

as well along that journey?

This is one of 'em.

This is a good reminder to…

for the need to stop and to take time
and really soak in the experience…

-of all of it.
-Mmm.

Of the successes and the failures.

Yeah, bring on the failures.

So many people fear it.

They never tackle anything big
because of the failures.

My failures-to-successes ratio

-is, like, high, you know?
-Yeah.

-They're like the scars. They're the…
-That's right.

You know? [chuckles]

-That's the proof of the work.
-Proof of the work?

"Show your work." "You're looking at it."

Yeah, and it's not pretty! [laughs]

Well, I think the Bible,
and I'm sure there's somewhere

where it said, "There was no
physical beauty in Jesus."

-Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was one of…
-Isn't that something?

It was one of the prophecies, yeah.
I think it was Isaiah.

[laughs] Do you take that?

I'm like, well, you know, let's just…

You know, beauty is in the eye
of the beholder, sir.

Let's just slow that down a bit.

[dramatic music playing]

[Bear] It's time to push on
to the final leg of our journey,

and I'm gonna put Jonathan's
climbing skills

to the test once again.

Okay, this is gonna be our way down.

Really?

[crows cawing]

Have you ever rappelled before?

-Not like this.
-Okay. I'll go first.

I'll get you tied in
so you're ready to go.

-Okay.
-The main thing with this--

-Never let go of that rope.
-Never let go of the rope.

Even if you slip, fall, bang your head,
you keep that hand…

-Yeah.
-…locked.

Got it.

[suspenseful music playing]

Okay, So we've reached a point
where we need to be heading down.

It is pretty sheer.
Probably about 80 or 90-foot,

so it's definitely quite scary
going over the edge.

Okay, we'll secure the rope around here.

This is technically probably not

the textbook climbing knot

you'd use for rappelling,

but some people's, like,
brains don't work very well

with like threading
different types of knots.

And also, I think when you're
adrenalized and a little bit scared,

trying to remember things is really hard.

-But you will never forget this.
-Okay.

-It's called a no-knot.
-No-knot.

Because you literally
don't even have to tie it.

All you do, you take it,

seven times, one, two, three…

five, even, like, six, like that.

You know, that's not going anywhere.

That's it? You just wind it
around the tree? That's it?

Yeah, done.

I mean, you could probably
get away with it even less.

Don't do that. Don't make it less.
Why are you making it less?

-I mean, that's four.
-What…

Try it with four.
Let's see where it slips.

I don't think I should set
a precedent here.

That's not moving.

-He's right.
-Three. Put all your weight on.

Come on. Stop unwinding…
Stop unwinding it, man!

It's starting to go now,
but basically if we do seven,

it's definitely not going anywhere.

It's a biblical number.
I'm very comfortable with seven.

Okay, seven. No knot.
You'll never forget it.

We're rappelling off this.
Okay, here we go.

Good Lord, have mercy. Okay.

[Bear] Before we start the descent…

Go.

…I've spotted something special

that might help Jonathan
with this next challenge.

Look, Jonathan, you see these ones?

All of these growing
just in this crack here?

-Mmm.
-These are winter greens.

Winter greens?

And this is what
Native Americans would use

as, like, a settler of nerves.

-Really?
-When they were scared, chew this.

And, uh, it's like nature's courage.

-Really?
-Yeah. Good time on this today.

-We should probably chew some of those.
-Yeah.

So, look, you can even do it like…

I mean, they'd make tea
out of it and everything,

but you can even just, like, take a bit…

chew it, and then put it like tobacco
just in your… in your lip.

Oh. It is like wintergreen.

-Yeah.
-Like the gum.

But unlike the gum,
this is gonna settle your nerves

and give you a bit of
nature's courage before the cliff.

[dramatic music playing]

[Jonathan] Should I be nervous?

Well, I think a little bit of nerves
is always good before going off…

-Healthy.
-…a 90-foot vertical drop.

With a no-knot.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Bear] Okay.

Never take your hand,
this hand, off that rope.

So lean back and just trust it.

-Yeah?
-Okay.

The scary bit
is always going over the edge.

[Jonathan] What in the world?

That's far down.

It's that point of commitment,
once you go over.

Then it's pretty frightening.

But once you're kind of into it
and you think about what you're doing,

then the nerves often settle.

So he's just got to get over the edge.

[Jonathan] I'm rappelling
down a sheer cliff.

I don't know how that's gonna go,
but I'm gonna trust it's gonna go well.

'Cause I still have
two seasons to film, so…

[dramatic music playing]

Okay, Jonathan, looking good. Well done.

Just lean back and trust the rope.

Okay. Just another day.

[Bear] That no-knot
is holding beautifully.

Don't remind me!

[dramatic music playing]

[Bear] That's it. Keep it coming.
Well done.

-[Bear] Great.
-What is happening?

-[Jonathan] Dang.
-Yeah. Nice.

-Whoa.
-How was that?

-Great. It was awesome.
-Great!

[chuckles]

Very cool.

Oh, man. It looked pretty steep, and…

and then as I go over the edge,
I'm like, "No, it is very steep."

It's a long way down
if I, uh… if I were to fall.

-Does that feel all right?
-Yeah.

Yeah. Proud of you.
It's pretty scary going over the edge.

[triumphant music playing]

[birds chirping]

So this is what's gonna take us
to our extraction point…

-What?
-…over the lake here.

What? This looks like
it was made 300 years ago.

So much of Jesus's life

was spent with friends
by the lake or on the lake,

so it kind of feels
a fitting end to this journey.

Okay. You grab that side.

You know, this whole Adirondack region

is full of thousands of these lakes.

Cold water, though. You would not
want to swim across these.

You would not last long.

This is the old-style canoe
that they used to use

to hunt and to ferry supplies around here.

Beautifully made.

[gentle music playing]

-You ready?
-Yeah, let's go.

Okay. Good balance.
We don't want to be going in.

Sorry. Excuse my backside in your face!

[gentle music playing]

So what are your big dreams
for the future,

if you had to kind of look
beyond The Chosen?

Have you got big goals
or things you really wanna do?

Yeah, I'd love to do,
as far as, like, work,

I'd love to do a Western.

Really? Yeah, that'd be fun.

That's gonna mess with people,
suddenly seeing you be in a Western.

But in a great way. I mean, why not?

I don't have to do much with
the hair and beard, I think, so…

-Yeah, that's true.
-It's an easy transition.

Well, you deserve so much
good stuff ahead, my friend.

Thank you, brother.

Before we get at it,
I feel we should pray.

-I would love that. Yeah.
-Shall we do that?

I thank you, Lord.
I thank you, Lord, for Bear.

I thank you for all that you've allowed us

to experience together today.

Protect him, and protect his family.

[Bear] Mmm.

Amen.

Well, for all your superpowers,
you can't navigate with your eyes closed.

[laughs]

-We've just been going in circles.
-You know why?

I'm trying to get the wind here,

and you're just sitting here
doing nothing.

-You're sitting here…
-We're going that way.

We're going this way? Oh.

-I'll paddle.
-I've been trying to get us that way.

Well, that's where we came from.

[playful music playing]

-♪ Teamwork ♪
-Now we got it.

-♪ What's gonna work? ♪
-Now we got it.

♪ Teamwork ♪

Teamwork makes the dream work, baby.

[Bear] We are almost there,
but I've got one final surprise.

I have a feeling he's gonna love this.

[inspirational music playing]

-Give a pull.
-[helicopter blades whirring]

[flare fires, hisses]

You know, Jonathan, in many ways,
has the world's hardest job.

He's trying to play
the role of the Almighty.

None of us can live up to that benchmark.

Okay, this is gonna be our way outta here.

[Jonathan] Really?

But what I've learned is that
he is a gentle soul

with a warm, kind, loving,
determined spirit.

And he shines light, he shines love.

You know what?

I've made a really lovely friend.

-Okay, Jonathan?
-Yeah?

-Ready?
-Yeah.

-One, two, three.
-Whoa!

-We're out of here.
-Whoa! See ya!

-See ya!
-See ya!

[dramatic music playing]

Bear, I just want to say thank you
so much for the opportunity

to get to… to go on this journey with you.

Crazy! [laughs]

I think of you as my brother,
and I'm grateful for you.

God bless you.

[laughing]

Well done, my friend. Well done to you.

-What an epic, fun journey.
-[Jonathan laughs]

[both whoop]

Unbelievable!

Yeah, well, I… [chuckles]

I did say,
"Let's go big or go home," and uh…

and we went big,
and we went bigger than big.

And now it's time to go home.
[laughs] 'Cause I'm exhausted.

Chosen in the Wild, with Jonathan Roumie.

This one I'll never forget.

Amazing.

Unbelievable!