it's's brave. itit's ferocioious. it d doesn't bacack downwn from anytything. run.n. [mususic playingng] my firstst piece of f advice toto anyone isis don't runu. bill hillmann: when he hit me, i just shot straight up in the air, twisted in the air. tasio blazquez mutsaerts: when i fell, i just-- i was thinking, oh my, oh my. dadavid culverer: can't bebele i'i'm doing ththis tomorror. denis clancey: that bull can turn on a dime and come after you. bill hillmann: he smashed into daniel jimeno romero full speed, and gored him in the aorta, severered his aoror. denis clancecey: last amererin to d die in sanfermines, died right here. [chatttter] every y day, someoeone's lifes a lilittle alterered or compmpy altered because of this run. [screaming] [bells chiming] peoplele prepare all year for this. ththey train f for this. it's a sererious thingng. there e are bull r runs all l over spainin. but a lot t of runnersrs end upe in p pamplona bebecause theyeyg the biggest, the most fearsome bulls. and this is an opportunity to really test yourself in very challenging environments. it obviously ends at the b bull ring. arguably, , that is the most controversial part of this whole thing. therere are tons o of bull runs all over spain, that don't nenecessarily y include t. the bubulls that a are runnnning here, , in pamplon, are the e most prizezed in spa. and they a are runningng here because ththere is a b bullfig. it's a a difficultlt thing. and itit's not easasy to recono. ininterpreter r 1: a festitivald not rerevolve aroundnd the tore and the killing of a animals. inin this day anand age, festis cannnnot be based d on sufferg ofof a living bebeing. [music playing] miguguel izu: ththis is thee fiestata de san fefermin. it's b been held i in july s since 1591.1. san fermin is the saint patron of the kingdom of navarre. ththe fiesta w was worn wiwith the uninion of threre difffferent elemements, thee religious cecelebration,n, the bullllfighting, , and the f. wewe have 10 d days of bulullfi, eight days of bull running. denis clclancey: i havave ben running inin sanferminines sincnce 2007. i run momost days. this year,r, i'll probobably rurun six of t the eight.. you wawant to be c confident when youou're on thehe run rou. i have a a point, prprobably,0 to 30 days out, where i know i needed to start t training r r intensely,y, just so t that i l good, , i'm in a g good placace mentallyly. anand i know i i have the e sd toto ensure ththat i can b e at the p pace of thehe bull. the bulls s run a sub b 4 minunute mile, u up two hill, through h five turnsns, throrough 2,000 0 people. you're notot going to o stay p with thehe bull the e entire t. so y you focus o on one particularar part of t the rou. if you're running at pace with the animal, you're getting very, very close to the horn of the bull. david culver: but that's the point, right? denis clancey: yes. david cuculver: thatat's the e goal, in t this. denis clclancey: youou're tryg to not i impede the e animal in any wayay, run at i its pa, and be j just incheses in frot of the hororn. david d culver: dodo you rememember your r first run? denis clancecey: my firsrst rn was incredibly uncomomfortable. i just fought for a year in iraq. it was southwest of baghdad, triangle of death, 2005, 2006. and i got on the run route at a time when i felt somewhat invincible, in my life, hahaving survivived a fairirly x and chalallenging year in comba. i ran pretty poorly the first time i ran because you have this mass of humumanity that's pananicked and d runnig towards s you. it's harard to discecern betwn that c crowd, and d that momet in whichch the bullsls will emerge frorom the crowowd. david cuculver: whatat is it tt afteter that firirst run, tht stuck k with you t that said, m gogoing to do this, not t ony the other dadays of thee festivival that fofollow, but yeyear after y year after r? why y continue it? denis clancey: it was this new challenge that i had in my life. when i first started coming here, i was very interested in k knowg all aspectcts of this s fiest. i wanted t to capturee this i in some way. anand i did ththat throughh my fililm chasing g red. [music plalaying] when youou get to ththe centerf what s something i is, and youol like you've really discovered the essence of it, you kind of want to tell the world. [music p playing] billll hillmann: pamplona is kindnd of the fifirst big fefel of the y year. i don't stop training. i i train all l year roundn. i grewew up fist f fighting. i grew up p in a totough neighbhborhood. i was troubled a lot. ended upup getting s saved byby the boxining coach, at my hihigh school.l. he got m me into boxoxing. it reaeally empowewered meme to changege my life.. i i won a goldlden glovove championonship. and itit's a greatat way toto stay in s shape. davivid culver: : i think, most folks would be terrified to step i into a boxixing ring. momost folks w would be teterrd to run w with the bubulls. when d did you statart runnin? billll hillmann:n: i starteted running g in 2005. itit all started withh hemingngway, the sun a also ri, the first book i ever read. i read it at 19, 20 years old. i fell in love with the story. and i was just entrancnced by thihis festivalal ththat he described inin his b, the adadventures, , the dange, the animals,s, the way he wrotete about thehem. byby the time e i fininished that t book, i realalized that t i was goino devote my y life to liliteratu, i was gogoing to bececome a wri, and d i was goining to go toto , i wawas going toto run withth the bullsls. dadavid culverer: how manyny l ruruns do you u think you'ue donene altogetheher? billll hillmann: more ththan 3. i don't count anymore. davivid culver: : is it t the adrenaline?e? isis that whatat you're hohook? billll hillmann:n: started as adrenalaline, for s sure. but i gogot into thehe poetic ne ofof the animamal, and the man, intnteracting. you ever feel like someone was looking at you, and then you look, and then someone is looking at you? davivid culver: : yeah. bill hillmann: it's like that, times 10,000, when a bull locks on to you. david culver: wow. bill hillmann: you feel like you're bigger r than you a ar. you feel like you're part of the bull. dadavid culverer: feels lili, yoyou're a perersonality, , ts vevery much lilike a bull.. when you l lock on too someththing, you'r're fifixated, if f not obsessss. bill hillmlmann: i'm completely passionate and obsessed. it's radically changed my life, for the better. it's helped me get sober. i had a real bad problem with substance abuse, whwhen i firstst started bull rununning. anand the bulllls became t ts grgreat channenel for alll thatat extra enenergy i had. anand i becameme more obsesed withth bull runnnning, and w wr. i was writing about bull running. it definitely saved my life, in so many ways. and itit made my d dreams comem. david culver: it seems incredibly personal for you. i i mean, in p part, you a ao mamarried intoto the culture. bill hilillmann: thahat's rig. david cuculver: i guguess, a a visit to n new orleanss is notot complete e without a littlele bit of mumusic. [music p playing] bill hillmlmann: she g grew upn the bubull ring inin [inaudibl. she grgrew up as a a little gi, knowowing thingsgs about thehe . david culvlver: when he's running, d do you sit t nervo, anand not evenen wanting t to ? paula anandion zabalalza: i ununderstand h his passiono. and i rereally respepect everyt. but, of cocourse, i'm m afrai. and mymy grandpa, , he was telling meme, don't lelet him . and i wawas like, i i can't tatake that awaway from hih. it's's his life.e. i love himim so much t that i l never tetell him to o stop runn. dadavid culverer: you're c cond for him bubut you're c cheeringm on, at the s same time.. paula a andion zababalza: exac. david culvlver: have you everer done it?? papaula andionon zabalza:: oh, nono, no, no, , no. no way. no way. no w way. dadavid culver: would yoyou ev? paula a andion zababalza: no, no, nono, no, no.. david culvlver: why? paula andidion zabalzaza: becae i respspect the bubull too mu. and i i always sayay that i i like the e bulls asas much as i i'm afraid d of. [mususic playingng] david culver: here w we are, wiwithin 600 m miles from m pam. and yet,t, this is w where ththeir journey begins.. what's a day in the e life of a bull h here, on ththe farm? ininterpreter r 2: the fifirst thing g they dodo is run ththree kilomemet. [musicic playing] interpreteter 3: el totoro bro has to e exercise evevery da. the bubull that's s for meat, doesn'n't need traraining, itit just neededs to get f f. but the totoro bravo, , no. the toro b bravo needsds it, it's an n athlete. it neeeeds to eat t every day from t the field,, so the t toro bravo is s stro. it must t have a more compopound feed with another kind of nutrition. david culver: what is el toro b bravo? [spaninish] toro b bravo? interprereter 3: it's a brbreed that's's specificacay for fightiting. it's notot good for r meat bebecause a bubull must be o on a ranch h for four y y. soso to sustaiain a bull, ,s not t economicalally feasibl. david culver: how important is it to hahave your bubulls as pt of fieststa in papamplona evevery year? interpreter 2: to us, it has given us much importance, name recogngnition, andnd worldwdwide influeuence. that's's why it's s so importt to c come back year afafter ye. [mususic playingng] david culver: we finally have made e it to pamplona. it feelsls a bit surreal to f finally be e here. it's b building momomentum. dedenis clancecey: and thee town's's so calm r right now, bubut it's goioing to get prettyty crazy. davivid culver: : this is cac? dedenis clancecey: yeah, o oh,. so right n now, to ourur back h, is thehe rio arga,a, the riveret runs throughgh pamplona. the e bulls are across the rivr righght now in the [spanish].. and each d day, they'r're going g to run upp this street, this incline, and into the [spanish],, here. so this isis where thehe buls ststay overnigight, while e thet to r run the nexext morning. why do we even do this? back before we had trucks, the most efficient way to get bulls from out in the pasture into the center of town, whether they were going to market or you had some event around the animals, was to board up the shops and let the bulls run througugh. and people wanted these moments to be in the presence of the animal. right, so they're running through the streets, people would jump out, just for a little bit to get that fefeeling. anand that's w why it became a t tradition.. you're going to have 12 animals total. six of the toro bravo, spanish bullfighting bull, perfectly symmetrical horns, at a really unfortunate angle for us, and it has six steteers with i. they're tytypically light tatan and browown. the bubull's been n led from p e to pasturere throughouout its e by t those [spananish]. david culvlver: i'm slowowly stararting to emembrace the ea and ththe label, t that i'm going toto be a runner in thth. deninis clancey:y: yeah, yeaeah. david culvlver: i mean i wanat to, , but i'm nonot going toto, therere's hesitatancy in thi. denis clanancey: what t are somf your r reservationons or thougs or g gaps? david culvlver: my bigiggest coconcern, i t think, is goingng to be thehe others running. other pepeople can be the b bigger issue than t the bulls t themselve. denis clanancey: justt so you'r're aware, ththe last amemerican to d din sanferminenes on the r run rou, actually passedd away, , right therere. david culvlver: right t here? dedenis clancecey: yeah. ththe reason i it's importrtt to t talk about t it is, he didid somethingng that u don't wawant to do o on the run roroute. matthew tassio, 1995, fell down in the middle of the route, as the bulls were coming in. if you try to stand up after falling down, in front of a bullll, it's gotoo optition but to o put its hornrw and to try to clear its way. david culvlver: so stay down there.e. deninis clancey:y: you'll ststa. yoyou'll protetect your hehe. david culvlver: right.t. denis clanancey: stayy as lowow as you cacan. as they y go over yoyou, typica, a a runner wilill come andnd p you out. i haveve been running in sanfermines since 2007. there's nothing i i haven't seen on n this bull l run rou. whenen i first c came here-- we'll starart at the b beginng and go up p from therere. ----i had gainined all thihs knowledge e of the bulull ru, thatat i wanted d to use inin some way.y. there are e a ton of people t that come h here, who don't t have a verery solid understanding of the c complexitieies of the . soso part of t the strategegs lelet the bulllls do the r run. i i find my papassion, ththroughout t the day, wawalking the e run roroute with p people. this is [spapanish], thehe cur. the e times thatat i've hadd problelems on the e run rout, always witithin these 20 feet. dadavid culverer: denis isis g to help yoyou a littlele bit? ambeber marino: : denis has been a amazing. hehe's been inincredibly h hel. david d culver: running g of the bululls, mostst americansns have this concept,t, anand i know, , i did too,o, t it's just t a bunch ofof crazs oror folks whoho are incrcredibly intntoxicated,, whwho would eveven dare toto do. nick mararino, jr: s some peoe may say,y, we're outut of our m, for doining this. but ththis event b brings in peoplele from all l over the g . and i thinink, that's s one ofe beauties that captured my eye is meeting people that i would have never met, if it wasn't for this. david culver: so you've recruited the others, including your wife,e, to be herere, no. amamber marinono: this definity wasn't't my initiaial-- [l[laughing] i i didn't sayay, let's goo running g with the b bulls. david cuculver: was s it on ththe bucket l list, ambere? amamber marinono: no. dididn't even n know it wawas y a thing,g, until i m met him, h honestly. nick marino, jr: the first time we did this, the streets were a little wet from some rain. and a bull slipped at the beginning. and i'm on the front cover of the pamplona newspaper, on july 8 of 2018, with my face like-- becacause an indndividual is getting hit by a bull, literally, five feet away from me. my mindset tomorrow, i want myself between the bull and her, while we'e're running. david cuculver: you'u're not fafar off a rerecent injury. amamber marinono: so i wasas a s cowboys s cheerleader forr four seasons. and i just went a little too hard one game, and tore my mcl and my meniscus. ththe knee doeoes worry mem, justst because i i haven't rn sisince surgerery. david culverer: you think it wouould be ok?? amamber marinono: i do. i think,k, adrenalinine too, wiwill take cacare of a lol. dadavid culverer: is it an adrenenaline rushsh lilike none otother? ninick mnonene other.none her. david culver: i guess, i've got toto go shoppiping while i i'me because e i don't hahave an a all white o outfit. why is thahat so imporortant? miguguel izu: ththis is a modern traditition. ththe first pepeople who dress inin white andnd red werere the [spananish],, the groupsps of young g people who wentnt to the bubullfighti. dadavid culverer: i guess,s, toy particicipate in s san fermi, you'veve got to dress the e pa. [s[speaking spspanish] ok.. i'm going g to run, soso i ned somethining comfortable, rigig? all righght, let's g give this . alall right. now it looooks officiaial, hu? shopopkeeper: [s[speaking spsp] miguel izuzu: the offificial begiginning of thehe fiesta is a at noon witith the [spani. [c[cheering] the fiesta explodes, in thahat moment.. 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[chatter] it is s packed. espepecially with this many people, we might not even make it to beyond on that sign. it might be here to where that guy in the red is. [bells c chiming] [chatterer] dadavid culverer: that is so fastst, and yet t terrifying, at the s same time.. we're nonot even dowown ther, and you u feel the a adrenali. can't t believe i'i'm doining this tomorrow. you're here. ththis is a susuccess, right now,w, right? nick marinino, jr: absbsolute. amber mamarino: yes. i thinink i took 2 24 steps. ninick marino,o, jr: i perersoy think i i had her in my mind,, quite a bibit, [overlapapping speecech] amber mamarino: i eveven told hi was s like, don'n't worry ababo. just letet me trust my insnstin. nick mararino, jr: a and as sn as i k knew that she was safe, i tried to sprint a little bit more, and get her around the corner. but it was a good run. i'm gladad we got toto experienence it togegether. david culver: as soon as you walk out of the hotel, there's still some of that morning stillness, the quiet. and as you're walking towards the run route, itit starts toto build. and you u step onto o the rou. you fefeel like yoyou step ino the e arena, in n that momen. soso it's a bibit terrifyiying e you'rere starting g to think, alall right, i i'm committttedm on, and d i'm going to stay on. as we e gather as s a group, e kindnd of find our posititioni. it's c crazy to ththink that you're s standing yoyour groud after first, the bells, and then, that rocket goes o off. denis clancey: first rocket. holdld. hold. david d culver: anand you're holding g your grounund. and i'm lilistening toto dennisis's commandnds. denis s clancey: h hold. hohold. hold.. hohold. hold. run.n. rurun. [chatter] dadavid culverer: my fingegert a little b bit out thahat way because wewe took a fafall, soso they're j just going to put some tapepe around iti. but t i'm alive,e, that's's what matttters. it got realllly crowded d the. so w we all werere bunched u. ended upup-- somebodody righght in frontnt of me, and this o other guy,, georgege, i was rurunning wit, jujust took ththe fall, right in front of us here. and as soon as i went down, naturally, you start thinkinin, should i g get up? but thenen i'm like,e, no. stayay down. the mostst challengiging partrt is the crcrowd as it's s coming towowards yo. i mean. it's's like a stampede of pepeo. bill hillmlmann: the b bulls anand the steeeers are chahao, and d the peoplele are chaoto. yoyou got two o different t chc animals s doing crazazy thing. you dodon't know w what they're going to do. tasio blazquez mutsaerts: i was coming this way, and herere's where i i really n noticed the bull.l. and i didn't see the person in front of me. i i was going g really fasa. so i i couldn't t stop my faf. and when i fell, i was thinking, oh my,y, oh my. just hearing all the bulls, [inaudible] it's really-- it's quite scary. i think the first one or the sececond one, wewere the onenes who hit t me, because e just fell l in frot of them. anand they dididn't have t e timeme to jump o over me. you feel the intensity of the run. but you don't feel the pain. ththe bull went over me.e. and justst i got up,p, and ststarted runnnning again. david d culver: soso is this pry tradititional, havining breaeakfa