Bear Grylls has battled everything from wild animals and mortiferous snakes to raging rivers, dumbo jungles, and sheer cliff faces, but it’s a variegated kind of rencontre fighting for survival versus some hot sauces.

Armed with just a pocketknife and fork, Bear recently went head-to-head with Hot Ones host Sean Evans. The show sees Evans interviewing guests as they eat increasingly increasingly spicy wings. As his vision watered like a jungle downpour, Bear fought his way through Sean’s questions, giving some answers as meaty as a yak’s eyeball.

Here are our favorite quotes from the episode:

On who impressed him on Running Wild: Will Ferrell, I midpoint I will unchangingly be indebted and love that man. He was our first overly guest. We took him to the Arctic – in those days, we’d go for days and days. Now it’s much shorter and tighter, and we’ve learned otherwise. If you ‘break’ people, you don’t get anything out of them without a while. But we didn’t know that at this stage, so Will was in at the deep end…

Still to this day if I see him, he goes “first of all, people still talk to me well-nigh that show” and “secondly it was the hardest thing I’ve overly washed-up in my life”.

On eating unprepossessing testicles: They’re all pretty terrible – and there have been a few testicles over the years. The worst testicle was the goat’s testicle in the Sahara, that this Berber tribesman had cut off. I saw the goat earlier – it was quite a small goat and I thought, ‘this is going to be ok’, until I saw the size of the testicle and I thought, ‘that is out of all proportion.’ … I thought I’d try and swallow considering I didn’t want to zest into this massive testicle, that was just going to get ugly. So I tried to swallow this thing and it got halfway down, but it’s too big, so I threw it up. Now I have a mouthful, and then I bit down, and I got testicle sack, sperm and vomit in my mouth. But I didn’t want to be rude so I tried to hold it there, and then sooner got it down. That was a bad day, yeah.

On the greatest venture typesetting of all time: Unbroken, an incredible story by Louis Zamperini. They made it into a film. The typesetting is insane. He was an American soldier in the Second World War. His plane crashed in the Pacific and it ended up stuff one of the longest survival life raft stories in history, whilst stuff strafed by Japanese enemy watercraft and shark attacks.

Most of them died, a couple sooner made it, you finally make it onto this island. But the island was one of the most horrific Japanese Prisoner of War camps, and his journey was only just beginning. He survived Nagasaki, nuclear bombs, the transport ships from hell… The story is amazing. He was wrenched in so many ways succeeding but he found healing and he found a faith in his life and a unconfined family and he set up his wondrous youth programs. A true hero.

On bad timing to have diarrhea: Halfway up a waddle face, I had that on a big cliff. I’d eaten a dodgy snake the day before. Anyway, I was halfway up this waddle squatter and I felt it coming, and when it comes, there’s nowhere to nowhere to hide. I said to the camera guy, “look turn the camera off, this ain’t waiting for no one”.

I had one hand up, one hand on the rock, the other trying to get my trousers down. I did the merchantry into self-ruling air, the hairdo underneath going “argh”….I sooner got sorted, I am holding on and I tie my trousers and I squint over there, and there’s cameras all shimmer still. I thought, there’s nothing sacred!

On earning scars and venture injuries: My when wrecking – I tapped my when in three places – was a life-changing journey for me. A freefall wrecking jump went wrong, I spent the weightier part of a year in and out of unwashed rehabilitation, struggling to be worldly-wise to reach a bathroom, strapped up in braces.

My when never lets me forget it and I think the thing that’s not letting me forget is that number one, don’t be an idiot, you only get it wrong once. Be smart, and unchangingly be grateful for life. There’s been so many times I should have died and I’m still going and I’m so grateful of that. Life is a unconfined privilege and I think that’s what the pain in the when unchangingly reminds me of, every day.

On his translating helping fans survive: Oh there’ve been some good stories. Unconfined ones like snowboarders getting lost, and a few drinking urine. Kids falling through the ice, there’ve been some pretty hardcore serious incidents of that and then kids have been wondrous and remembered something. You know, fall through the ice, you’re not going to remember complicated difficult things, but simple things like, ‘turn virtually and go when out the way you came, rather than panicking’.

Simple things – like rolling in the snow. Snow can swizzle the water off you, obviously dry snow is going to take the water away. It’s the water ultimately, with wind chill, it’s gonna make you cold. Unconfined stories like that I love, I love hearing them. We get them the whole time. I never tire of it, there are so many heroes out there.

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