Better Luck Tonight! After Rain Delay, Alex Honnold To Climb Skyscraper Without Ropes LIVE on Netflix
Amy & T.J.
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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
With just minutes to go, Netflix and Alex Honnold made the decision to postpone his scheduled and heavily promoted ‘Skyscraper Live’ event Friday night. So this evening, we will all be holding our collective breaths and watching as the 40 year old Free Solo climber takes on one of the tallest buildings in the world, without ropes, in front of the world. While there will be a 10 second delay for the live broadcast, the stakes are high, one wrong move may mean the difference between life and death.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.6 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:15.6 | It is Saturday, January 24th, and we hope to hop on this morning and tell you about the triumphant climb |
| 0:23.4 | with no ropes up one of the tallest buildings in the world by Alex Honnell, a superstar |
| 0:29.5 | climber who had his live event scheduled to be live streamed on Netflix last night, but we can't |
| 0:37.1 | tell you about his successful climb because |
| 0:39.5 | the climb didn't happen. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs, yes, this was |
| 0:43.3 | supposed to be a triumphant morning, but sure enough, they had to cancel the sucker last night. |
| 0:48.0 | And if you're climbing a building, a glass building without ropes, you probably don't want |
| 0:52.2 | it to be moist. |
| 0:53.7 | It's so funny, I blame you. |
| 0:55.4 | I blame you for the delay. You actually were praying to the gods that there would be rain or |
| 1:01.4 | weather or something that prevented Alex Hunnold from attempting this feat. You didn't want it |
| 1:07.4 | to happen. And you got your wish. Well, I was not yet. I was praying for a cancellation, not a postponement. Yes, folks. Last night you all have been seeing the story and it's one that's really fascinating, captivating and absolutely terrifying. Alex Honnell, his plan, last night, Netflix, been promoting this thing for a while. It was supposed to be at 8 o'clock Eastern last night, Robs. He was going to climb one of the tallest buildings in the world with no ropes live on TV. Yes. So we actually had to be at, well, we chose to be at a wonderful play that my daughter produced and it was supposed to get over at 8. So you had your phone ready with Netflix in hand. Starting at like 7.15, 7.30. |
| 1:46.1 | We were looking. |
| 1:47.0 | So it was supposed to happen at 8. |
| 1:48.0 | And so you're looking and you're looking and you keep refreshing and you're paying attention to what's happening on stage, but I can see you refreshing. |
| 1:54.4 | And when the play ends right at 8, you look at me and you say, Robes, it's scheduled for Saturday. |
| 2:00.1 | And I had a panic and i said no |
| 2:02.5 | saturday in taipei friday night in new york and you're like robes look and all we saw was |
| 2:08.1 | alex hundled you know climbing taipei 101 saturday 8 p m eastern time and i panicked i thought oh my god |
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