Caitlin Green: No Ropes, No Regrets, No Problem! - January 26, 2026
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Broadcasting from the intersection of chaos and more chaos. The Last Show with David Cooper. Imagine you climb a hundred and one story skyscraper, break a bunch of records, but so much messed up stuff is happening in the world right now. Nobody cares. Well, that is exactly what happened with Alex Honnold. And we're going to do the Lord's work describing a man who ascended to the heavens, at least almost. Here with Caitlin Green, a media personality who is the co-host of the Jan Arden Podcast. Caitlin, a joy it is having you on the show.
As someone who thinks that climbing really high things seems stupid, I'm kind of satisfied that this isn't landing for people just amidst the barrage of world news we have right now.
Yeah, it's like, oh, who cares? You just climbed a building. Come on, give the guy a little credit. He's human Spider-Man.
He's incredible. I just, when I hear about the number of frozen dead bodies on the side of Mount Everest, I just go, I think we should call it.
What record did Alex Honnold achieve by climbing a skyscraper?
I think we should just call it a day.
Yeah, I saw like a topographical map, like an old bird's eye view map of where all the bodies are of all the people over the years in Everest, and it's horrific. Why would you want to do that? You'd have to walk by these frozen bodies. It's too difficult to remove them. They're just there. I'm totally on a tangent, but why? Why?
No, it's true. And it's the same way that I feel about Alex Honnold. It's the same way I feel about hot air balloon rides. It's the same way I feel about a lot of things that if something bad happens to you, everyone goes, yeah, well, fair enough. So why are you doing it? If no one cares that you die while you're doing it. And some people, me kind of actually go, what an idiot.
I got an audio clip, which I think sets the scene for this guy. I think perfectly. It's literally six seconds. You sent it to me this morning. I love it. This is him being interviewed after the achievement. The highest free solo climb of a building, I think is what that was. That's right. Alex Honnold has made history again. Sick.
It's just exactly what you would expect of someone who's addicted to free climbing. They seem like they have the mentality sort of like surfer adjacent. Just like very unusual. I would maybe think could have like some spectrum stuff going on.
Cause it's so, I guess it's so funny to me that he just got up there and was like sick. And that was it. Yeah. No ropes, no safety net. It's gotta be nuts.
What insights do Caitlin and the host share about Alex Honnold's climbing mentality?
Uh, you mentioned something about his wife at the commercial break, how you're maybe low key fascinated by her or at least their relationship.
She's the one I want the documentary on, truthfully, because he had... So he had a documentary in 2018 that I watched and really enjoyed called Free Solo. And I am making fun of him, but he is endlessly impressive. The stuff that he's doing, like you put it, he is human Spider-Man. So I don't want to take away from that. It's crazy. But I think what's crazier is being married to this person, building a life with them, having two children with him, which they now do. And in the documentary, she is... very concerned about his safety on multiple occasions brought to tears. Like it's really putting her under a lot of stress because he climbed a mountain called El Capitan, which is like, essentially it's just, it's just a rock face.
It is a, it is a rock face and he goes up it with like one little meager rope and you fully expect that you could be watching someone die. And he, she does this all the time and she watches him prepare to do this she knows in advance that he's going to be doing this she knows the day of like trying to check in with his team to see if he's still alive and he just keeps doing this even though they have now got two children so he does this this is the stunt he just did where he climbed the 101 story building in taipei he did it for netflix it's being live streamed so she could now and her kids could now have footage of her husband live stream dying I come to find out he's only paid in the mid six figures for this.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:06–1:03
2
What record did Alex Honnold achieve by climbing a skyscraper?
1:03–2:27
3
What insights do Caitlin and the host share about Alex Honnold's climbing mentality?
2:27–8:29
4
How does Alex Honnold's wife cope with his dangerous climbing lifestyle?
8:29–18:02
Speakers
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