hi i'm barbara this is dave all right thank you very much for having me on your program
it's very kind of you glad to see you're well yeah i'm well and thanks for coming thank you
so we have these voicemail messages no it feels like a podcast uh we have these voicemail messages
let's see if this you know who has a podcast is that joe rogan oh yeah that's that's huge yeah
we don't millions and millions of people yes how is your podcast doing no i don't have a podcast
okay let's see here we go hey barbara can you ask mr beast if he likes dave's glasses
i don't know what that means now i know mr beast he's like uh we're co-workers we we work for
youtube and so does mr beast right and i don't think mr beast knows me or knows about my glasses
i'm not sure by the way is this the the show where we're taking nothing but climbing questions
no that's i think that's another show no the i was told that north face
are we live on the internet now no we're not live thanks to the thanks to the folks
at north face for setting this up for us let me just reading one of the questions
no we're not getting questions now there's a question about going up the nose of el cap
okay so today we're taking we're live on the internet today and we're taking
uh all your questions about climbing go ahead no we're not lying we're listening to messages okay
the next one happy belated birthday dave hey dave how do you stay so fit at 75
i don't know what the man's talking about he says you look fit and do you have chinese it
was the same guy who had the other question now they all sound the same but i don't think it is
the same guy okay we're taking all your climbing questions today uh i just want to come again yep
i have done some ice climbing i don't uh enjoy it but i have uh i and i know i don't free solo
what's the most scared or frightened you ever were during a taping of a show it was my first and
second attempt of the shark fin meru because the weather turned we had some bad weather information
and we were running out of food and we were stuck and it's the only time you ever really feel alive
when you're in a situation like that and we had to make a decision are we going to
weather the storm and summit when it broke or just try to get down and as you know most of
the trouble comes on the descent so i i won't lie to you we did not summit meru but that's the most
frightening i've ever been thank you and thanks to the folks at the north face for making this happen
let's hear this one hi barbara this is josh from crystal springs mississippi
i have a question is that really dave's beard or is it just an elaborate makeup job thank you it's
phony it's prosthetic uh do you remember the guy at the hair club for men uh what was his name
his son cy sperling jr does face work and uh he contacted me when the show went off the air
and he said uh look you can go one of two ways facelift uh botox that kind of thing and i said
no thanks and he said i'm glad to hear you say that why don't you come in we're working on a
thing where we uh take the hair very similar in dna to human hair as hamster hair and we we can
transplant put hamster hair plugs in your face and i said whoo and and uh anyway we tried it
thanks thank my thanks to si sperling jr and to the why would you look at the
you just it's compatibly uh genetically it's compatible really
hey barbara big fan of you and dave in a whole show i was wondering if we can have the true
behind-the-scenes story of the legendary joaquin phoenix interview from you
what did you guys know before what didn't you guys know before what did they know before there's a
lot of rumors going on the internet and i love to hear from you take care first of all there
are no rumors there are no rumors going on and joaquin phoenix uh gosh i enjoyed that so much
when he came on and he pretended that he was uh uh involved in hip-hop and and was going to
turn his career all to music and and instead of working as an actor fine actor uh a nice
guy was always a lot of fun to have on the show and he and i uh went up the dawn wall together
out in yosemite and uh that was fun a lot of bolts i don't i think we put in maybe 160 bolts and we
got up in four days but quite a climber so that was that the question i don't think so let's hear
what the next one is hi barbara gaines big fan of your show it's the same man every time or dave
if you ever have him back on the show i would like to know dave uh how did you spend your birthday
and what is the greatest part about being an old guy well uh i'll take the last part
first the great thing about being an old man is whenever i uh summit uh i break records for being
the oldest man up and uh i i've got my focus now pretty much on the himalaya in that area
so anytime i go up one congratulations i'm now the oldest man up my birthday tacos tacos and tacos
is there any better birthday really than tacos no yep that's the end of the questions thank goodness
i just want to say thank you to the folks at the north face for setting this up let's see
oh i get this a lot yeah how do you go to the bathroom when you're on a ledge
look you don't google it somewhere i'm not going to get into that
sure all right so that's the end of it no i don't live in my van anymore
i do consider myself not not one of the originals but yes i am a dirt bag and camp four at yosemite
if you get a chance to go there it's like it's mecca take it from me wait did you say you're a
dirt bag yes yeah oh that's one of my climbing buddies now so again i keep reading these
this is so silly tommy caldwell and i have done some climbing in south america he's great
lost his uh thumb you know but he can still yeah no i do like i still go to the climbing gyms
and it's like people say to me what are you doing here and i say well
what are you doing here sure climber like you yeah uh i think that's it for today okay well
thanks again to the folks at the the north face this has been fun this has been weird