Alex Honnold Free-Climbs the Taipei 101 Skyscraper
The Sports Junkies
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | all right we're glad you made it in safely there in dc in the studio at least you got out of the house dude i'm kind of desperate to get out of the house yeah yesterday just yesterday sucked man it really did and it's one because i want i wanted to get out of the house and just go walk around the neighborhood or just walk my dog but the sleep was so bad it was annoying |
| 0:21.6 | oh yeah it was just terrible and my dog didn't want to be out there |
| 0:24.4 | so I just I just stayed inside the whole day |
| 0:26.4 | yeah all right well maybe you stayed inside |
| 0:29.1 | Saturday night too when skyscraper live |
| 0:32.3 | was on Netflix I watched the entire thing |
| 0:35.2 | it featured I don't know how you did that dude it was hard was hard to watch. Alex Honnold. I had to tune in and tune out. Yeah, it was hard to watch, believe me. So Alex Honnold is the star, obviously. Former Junct's guest. We had him in the studio. I don't know how many years ago that was, but it was right around. When Free Solo came out. They were promoting it. |
| 0:54.5 | He was not a household name at that point. |
| 0:56.7 | Like I remember when we were told Alex Honnold is coming. |
| 1:01.2 | We were like, who? |
| 1:02.1 | He's a professional climber. |
| 1:03.7 | He's going to climb half dome with no ropes. |
| 1:06.3 | I mean, we didn't have any file on him. |
| 1:09.2 | Didn't know anything about him. |
| 1:10.2 | But now he's become like a household name. |
| 1:13.1 | Like he's a famous dude. |
| 1:14.4 | And he climbed Taipei Tower over the weekend, which is 1670 feet high with no ropes live on Netflix. |
| 1:27.0 | It's like one of the top five tallest buildings in the world, at least top 10, something like that. |
| 1:32.1 | Right. |
| 1:33.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.1 | And just incredible. |
| 1:37.0 | People, you know, have been, a lot of the climbing guys have been chiming in for those of us that are neophytes. |
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