Episode 1312: Bear Grylls Takes Jesus Into the Wild, Spider-Man Breaks Every Record and Our Lolla Recap

This week, adventurer Bear Grylls joins us to tell us about The Chosen in the Wild, his new Prime Video series debuting Sunday. He takes the cast into Utah canyons and the Great Basin Desert, and tells us what Jonathan Roumie is actually like off camera.

We also have Emily’s recap of a memorable Lollapalooza this past weekend, Spider-Man: Brand New Day making U.S. box office history, and movie theaters having a record-setting comeback. We also get into the professor who found a way to catch students using AI on exams, and Arizona State announcing a new degree that’s getting a lot of ridicule, but Jesse thinks is a great idea. And we tell the tale of Katy Perry getting stuck in a human-sized inflatable water bottle at a recent concert.

This week’s question of the week: what's a random habit you picked up that's genuinely improved your life? Drop your answer in the comments or @ us. We're reading them on next week's episode.

Highlights:

01:25 — A father-sons weekend in New York

03:22 — The Devil Wears Prada 2, reviewed from the runway

05:44 — Lollapalooza recap: Grant Park is enormous

07:15 — The case for wheels on your feet

11:47 — Lorde, Olivia Dean and a very wet weekend

14:54 — The rain delay, a canceled set and The Neighbourhood's missing instruments

18:34 — Lolla fashion: vintage NBA jerseys and brat crop tops

20:29 — Charli xcx, "Rock Music" and what artists owe their fans