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It is time to believe your worries outside and laugh
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with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along with
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Tredy Trenholm and Raj Sharma. In a weekend that was
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filled with tons, tons of newsworthy content, I'm choosing positivity
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today and that is pre solo star Alec Honald successfully
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climbed to tiepay one pH one on Saturday, and he
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did it an hour less than what he originally thought
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he would be able to do it. Uh So I'd
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like to thank him for offering a brief distraction through
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a weekend there was very foggy, and also for delivering
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on some cut wrenching video get I just I couldn't
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watch it all. Oh got the videos and the stuff
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that dropped from Netflix. I didn't even bother trying to
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watch it on Netflix, because one was by the time
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that thing started airing, and by the time he may
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or may not have gotten to the top, I would
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have been asleep. I'm in a different time zone. But
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I did watch plenty of eclipse and just seeing the
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backdrop of the Earth beneath him as he scaled that
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skyscraper with no ropes, no tethers, no safety equipment, no harness,
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and no parachute. I thought, at the very least that
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man would have a parachute on his back just in case. Nope,
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it was just him, his shoes and a chalk bag.
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I actually watched it.
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Oh how at.
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Times I had to turn away, and then.
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Mad of I asked this real quick? Is it bad
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to say that I would have an easier time watching
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him fall off that tower and hit the ground than
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just watching him climb it.
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Only reason it's just quicker. Yeah, but no, it was. Yeah.
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It was gut wrenching at times, just at different angles
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and everything else. And the thing that really is they
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were allowing people on certain levels. So you know, he's
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climbing up this building and all of a sudden you've
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got a throng of people taking pictures and everything else.
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I'm like, is that really the best idea? Yeah?
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That doesn't seem nice. It's like, if you're going to
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do that, you know that sign they put up in
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places no flash photography. Can we can we enforce that, please?
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Because let's not blind the man climbing sixteen hundred feet
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in the air.
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Well, and then then you looked. You know, there were
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sometimes where all of a sudden, you know, a gust
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of wind and his shirt would go one way, and
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you're like, oh.
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But there's also one moment where he well, when he
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was climbing, like he adjusted his legs so he could
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get back into his like lean back and to get
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to his chalk. Oh, I had this color They have
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color commentary going on. They're like, oh, no, I'm like,
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let's not do that.
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Look. I don't take my heart very often, but I
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really think they should have had me do the color
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commentary on that because I saw that clip where it's
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just his right leg hanging on the way that we
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did monkey bars in elementary school on the playground. Yeah,
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that's exactly right, And I would have just thrown up
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right then. I mean it would have been the greatest,
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most terrible color commentary in the history of broadcasting, but
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it would have been authentic.
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But when he got to the top, did anybody notice,
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Like when he was like yay and everybody's cheering, where
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do you go?
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There's that's an important question. And my wife said the
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same thing. He's like, so how how does he get down? Like,
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I don't know, jump like.
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They So they had a harness up there for him
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that he could put on and then basically repel down
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to the first which, like the the there was an
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observation deck, not like at the base of the of
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the a spire or whatever you want to call it,
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at the top of the building. So but yeah, I
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wanted the same thing. I'm like, hell the fuck does
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he get down.
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Back the way you came?
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Bro?
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Yeah, just to me, like I just know me, Like
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I wouldn't have thought it out. I would have gotten
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to the top and be like, yeah, fuck.
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I do I've forgotten something.
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The down part, oh man, that's.
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The part they never think about. That's the part that
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people never think about when they go hiking. You're like, oh,
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I went on this beautiful up going on this beautiful hike.
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It's going to be four miles to get to this
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beautiful overlook and blah blah. And I'm the person that
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asked how long is that going to take you? And
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how are you getting back? Because like you go, the
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idea is supposed to be that you calm back, have
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you thought that far ahead?
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Well, it's like I think it's like eighty five or
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ninety percent of people that dian everest it's on the
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way down.
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It's they're spent by the time they get to the top.
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They hadn't thought about the return trip. You need to
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plan for these things.
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That's why the sherpas get their money up top. So
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I'll get you back down. Can we cash this out
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right now?
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Yeah, you're gonna venmo me as we hit the you
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the top. And I thought the same thing seeing all
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the different clips, all the different video on social media
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of him making this climb up this skyscraper, the type
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one oh one, and when he gets to the very
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tippy top, as he's holding that little antenna thing whatever
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it is at the very top. My also sort of like,
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oh no, what if morbidity crept in, which is what
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a great accomplishment, but what happened? But just imagine if
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he just happened to get hit by a bird. It
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is look at the great uma.
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I can't tell you how much money I would pay
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to see that happen. I know.
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That's why I said my morbidity, and also because my
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dark humor would be like that'd be really really like yes.
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And then just a fucking goose flies in the face.
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Oh sorry.
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And then.
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And then he was talking about how much he got
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paid for it, and he's like, it's not near enough.
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Yeah, I believe. I believe. The quote that he gave
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was it was an embarrassing amount. And when I first
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saw that headline, I thought that he was like, Oh
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my god, people are going to pay me like this
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embarrassingly large amount of money to climb this tower. And
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turns out it was the opposite. He hasn't come out
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and said how much he got paid.
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He did.
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Not according to the last thing I saw, how much
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did you see he got paid?
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He didn't say the exact number, but mid six figures.
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Okay, that was one report I had heard. According to
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this story on the New York Post published on the
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twenty sixth, he said it was an embarrassing amount, but
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not in the high dollar amount. He was basically saying
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that it wasn't very much. But near the end of
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the article, I'm fascinated by what he said about the
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pay for it, because let's see where did it go?
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Just as did either one of y'all actually watch Free Solo? No, okay,
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something people need to realize about him and what I
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say of people that questioned about like whether he has
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aspergers or not his father did, he is very like
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the whole one of the things about Free Solo is
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like he it's kind of covers the beginning relationship with
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his wife, and she talks about how he doesn't even
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really know how to express like no one in his
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family ever said I love you.
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So he's Indian, after me Indian.
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She literally had to teach him how to like process emotion.
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So I don't know if people realize that. So that
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makes me if he said embarrassing amount, it could go
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either way for him because at one point in his life,
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you know, I mean, he's made a very good living
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doing this. But yeah, the whole thing about Free Solo
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is it's I mean, he at the time it started,
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he was living in a van. Yeah, by his own choice.
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He said he would have done it with no paycheck.
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And this is the part that's fascinating to me because
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he's kind of throwing shade at how much Netflix paid
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him to climb the skyscraper by comparing it to no
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name major League Baseball players who will make one hundred
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and seventy million dollars on one contract. He's a known
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person and didn't make any work close to that for
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this one climb. That being said, he does say that
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it was in the mid six figures. He also said
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that regardless of the payday, he would have gladly completed
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the death defying feat for free as long as the
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building gave him permission. He said, if there was no
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TV program and the building gave me permission to go
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do the thing, I would I would do the thing
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because I know I can, and it'd be amazing. So
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while he's great at climbing, he sucks it negotiating.
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Well the other thing. So after we watched that, Brandy
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and I went back and watch Free Solo and then
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you realize, like that building was easy compared to what
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he does in the in the documentary, which is El Capitan,
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which is three thousand feet and it's rock. I mean,
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it's like, you know, they're looking at you know, it's like, oh,
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I have to go here and hook my thumb and
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index finger and hang on and then do a karate
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kick over here to this. I mean, whereas that building
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is all basically uniform in its you know, structure and
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everything else, So not near as hard as doing El Capitan.
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Yeah, I saw one person put it into wonderful perspective,
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which is for people that were taking like people that
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were taking bets that he would fall off the skyscraper
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clearly have no idea, no perspective on how difficult to
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climb El Capy ten is, because, like you said, Trey,
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that's a thirty seven hundred sheer foot cliff. No, no, sorry,
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that's different one. He's best known for his ropeless record
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setting ascent of Yosemite's El Capy ten, and in twenty
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twenty two, he became the first to scale a three
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thy seven hundred and fifty foot sheer cliff in Greenland
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with climber Hazel Finley. So climbing. So the person put
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in respected by saying he climbed El Capy ten with
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no ropes, no harnesses, no nothing. This is easy by comparison.
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And when I saw the video that one of his
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friends had taken, he had told to meet me on
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the eighty ninth floor, and that's one of the videos
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you see of all these people inside with their cell
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phones going like, oh my god, look at this crazy
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white guy, and you see him, it really does almost
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look like this building was built for him to climb.
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It's like your hands here, hand here, like herefoot here, McMahon.
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And then the most astonishing thing might be that he
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made it look easy. And it makes sense. It's like
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when you're used to, you know, going up sheer cliffs.
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A building with footholds that and handholds that have an
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inch of something to grab onto is a lot by comparison.
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And then seeing all the people in the building watching
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him do this is one thing. But his wife was
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on the sixtieth floor watching him, and I couldn't help
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but wonder perhaps maybe in his mind when he sees
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her as he's halfway up this building, does the thought
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cross his mind of oh no, what did I do?
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Did I forget something? Did I forget to take out
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the trash? Oh? God, am I in trouble? Please don't
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get mad at me in front of everybody.
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I would just love for her to swing the window
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open and be like Life Insurance, cash.
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It in, bitch, I'm just getting a brand new van.
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And then every time he would reach a certain level,
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like he would just stand on the ledge and then
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turn around like l Duncan was hosting it. And then
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it was seth Rawlins shameless Netflix. You know WWE plug
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head because they asked yo seth Rawlins. Obviously they didn't
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know him or anything else. He was just there to
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because they got a lot of money invested in WWE.
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But I mean he would just turn around. He's standing
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on just the ledge a turnaround, looked down. Oh yeah,
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I could see you guys, hey, because he had obviously
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had an ear pce in and they're talking to him. No,
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that's that's where I would have been, like, you know,
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get all the way up there and then turn around.
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Oh yeah, I'm the guy that even if even if
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by some sheer miracle like I would have had to