Merry Christmas. I'm Will Kane, and this is Wilcane Country. For Christmas Day, we're bringing you a best-of show, some of the strongest discussions and interviews we had this year. If you've got a few minutes to listen, we got something solid for you. Here we go. He is the author of a new book, The Greatest Story Ever Told. You know him, of course, from Manverse Wild and many other shows. He's noted adventure, Bear Grills, and he's in our New York City studios, and he joins us now. What's up, Bear? Hey, how are you doing? Nice to be with you. Nice to be with you as well. By the way, I didn't know that. Patricia in the comment section says she just found out last month about your religious devotion. I didn't know that either. And I mean, that's not your fault, nor is it ours, because you've been famous for other reasons,

your military service, your adventurers and your television shows.

But I think with your new book, that's something all of us are learning about you, Bear.

Yeah, I think faith has always been just a quiet, empowering part of my life through my military time,

through many expeditions, through all the TV journey and all the survival stuff and my own family life it's just uh i never feel particularly

kind of religious as such but uh i learned long ago that to quietly bow the knee bend the knee

and ask for help every day and say sorry for things and

say thank you is a really good way to start the day. I always used to see my grandfather do that.

I remember him. He was six foot six giant of a man and yet even as an old man I just remember him

kneeling down beside his bed every night.

And I don't know, I love that.

I think faith is a beautiful thing to have in life.

And also a humble thing to have.

You know, I think a lifetime of adventures taught me

that on my own, I'm not strong.

You know, everyone thinks they're strong in the wild until they're not.

And then on your own, I don't think you're ever truly empowered.

So I look at it as like part of the arsenal of survival for life, you know,

with physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

So that light has been a beautiful thing in my life and it continues.

I'm curious, is there a moment, either in your service or in your adventures, where that need to

call on him, to call on something higher, was most profound? Most days.

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