Barack Obama ‘Running Wild’ in Alaska

Obama featured on Grylls’ “Running Wild” show and the episode focussed on Alaska.

Watch the full NBC episode below and savor this moment in Obama’s presidency, where he’s pretty much over the Oval Office.

Bear was a former special air service trooper who pushes celebrities like New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and actress Kate Winslet “beyond their limits”.

Grylls said the short trip showed an intimate and fun side of the commander-in-chief, despite the presence of snipers on the surrounding hills.

“I’ve seen some of the things that Bear eats, so hopefully he’s got something you might see on a plate”, Obama said on the show. Bear’s a mediocre cook, but the fact that we ate something recognizable was encouraging.

It was “an Obama seldom seen on television”, said The Guardian.

“We had a good conversation about, ‘You tell me, what is it with you and pee?’ You know, ‘Why [are you] known for this?’ And he wanted to understand the science again behind it”, recalled Grylls, according to Huffington Post. “Bringing two of the most prominent and world famous personalities makes Running Wild with Bear Grylls and Barack Obama an unprecedented experience for Indian viewers”. “He could have just left that out”.

[The White House] approached us, saying would we consider taking the president on an adventure to Alaska.

“Every once in a while if I do something unexpected the phrase we use is “the bear is loose” so to be with Bear in the woods, it doesn’t get any better than that”, the President said.

The film was hatched when Obama reached out to the adventurer to ask him if they could explore the Alaskan wilderness together.

Clearly smitten, Grylls, an evangelical Christian, ended their outing with a riverside prayer calling on God to bless the president’s work.

“I hope we did something that really put a smile on his face that lasted for a while”, Grylls said.