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paid in context to how impressive the feat was.
Honnold collected mid-six figures for putting his life on the line for Netflix, according to reports, which is a lot of money until you compare it to the over $90 million Jake Paul collected for getting his face rocked in his Netflix bout with Anthony Joshua.
Neil, I'm never complaining about my fifth floor walk-up ever again.
Lock in.
The best take I saw that this was a low risk but high consequence activity.
High consequence because if you mess up, you fall and die.
But low risk because of his skill and preparation.
So the odds of me falling when climbing that, 100%.
The odds of
Alex falling is closer to 1%.
And that was the take that every climber had.
This wasn't even close to El Capitan.
Normies were like, holy moly, this is the most impressive thing I've ever seen in my life.
And then people were kind of posting some clips from Free Solo once again and going, you guys don't even understand.
Like this was a one in the difficulty scale compared to a 10 for El Capitan.
So it really was kind of a walk in the park, as crazy as that says.
That might be to say, but for Alex Honnold, like he's just built different.
Yeah, let's start with the Fed.
The Fed definitely is pausing their interest rate cutting cycle because the main uncertainty right now is not actually policy, but how Jerome Powell is going to defend Fed independence amongst all this pressure on the Fed right now.
So that's probably the biggest drama from this latest Fed meeting.