Barack Obama Will Battle the Alaskan Wilderness on a Future Episode of 'Running Wild With Bear Grylls'

President Barack Obama will join Bear Grylls in Alaska, becoming the first sitting president to do anything with Bear Grylls.

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Where does one go near the end of a presidential victory lap? In the last chapter of President Barack Obama's historic run, same-sex marriage became beautifully known as simply "marriage." Climate change is finally getting some actual federal attention. Prison reform will finally find its way into the mainstream conversation when VICE airs its Obama-assisted documentary on the subject. Miley Cyrus is releasing free music about smoking legal weed.Kanye West is even considering his own presidential options. In short, everything is beautiful and life is endlessly magical.

Thankfully, Obama has a few more items on the presidential to-do list:

President Obama will tape an episode of "Running Wild with Bear Grylls" while in Alaska, to air later this year, NBC says.

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) August 31, 2015

Wait. What? Explain.

Some further details from NBC on Obama's appearance on "Running Wild with Bear Grylls" pic.twitter.com/1bKc2r0tSY

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) August 31, 2015

Alaska seems like a serendipitous choice for this encounter, as Obama recently announced the renaming of Mount McKinley to Denali, its original name given by Alaskan Natives before America did that thing it does so well: renaming things after presidents. Shooting for this very special episode of Running Wildwill take place on Tuesday in the Kenai Mountains, according to the White House.

The world, though certainly as beautiful and magical as previously mentioned, is also undeniably fond of witnessing people ingest their own urine. In fact, one could even say that Bear Grylls has built an entire empire on top of that desire. So it's really no surprise that someone went Zero to Petition real fucking quick and made this ridiculousness:

Is that you, Trump? Or just one of your urine enthusiast supporters?

 

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