- Hi, I'm Tam with Funny or Die
and I'm here with Alex Honnold
who is a really incredible person.
He free-solo climbed El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
How are you?
- I'm good, how are you?
- I'm good.
He has a movie out now called Free Solo.
Are people confusing it with Star Wars?
- I'm not sure.
Yeah, probably.
- Well, it's not related.
Do you like climbing?
- Yes, I like climbing very much.
- What do you do if you have to, like, poop or pee?
- You just have to go.
- During El Capitan, did you?
- Yeah, I peed a bunch all over the route.
- I guess for pooping, it's a little harder.
- For pooping, you can basically do the same thing,
but it's just because there's so many other climbers
on the same cliff, you have to make sure
you're not destroying the route for others.
I mean, basically then - Oh my!
- it's sort of like a human impact thing.
- That's insane to think about.
It's just like slipping 'cause you just stepped
on the last climber's turd.
- No, that fully happens.
- Do you wipe?
- I mean, ideally, but then you don't always something
so you use little rocks and things.
- He wipes his ass with rocks, guys.
- That's how you build toughness,
that's how you build character.
It's better than nothing.
- Because you've established yourself
as the world expert in not falling,
we're gonna show you some YouTube clips
of people falling or not falling,
and I want you to guess what you think is gonna happen.
Do you know who Paula Abdul is?
- No, but I've heard the name.
- She did a music video in the '80s with a cat,
that they danced.
- Looking at the height of those heels,
she's surely gonna fall.
She's very limber, but she has too high heels.
I think she's gonna fall.
- Alright, let's check this out.
Oh!
(laughs)
- So let's see if this Justin Bieber video is also in heels
because that would explain why he falls down.
- Oh, oh, get ready for this one.
- I've heard of him at least, I know what his deal is.
- What is it?
- Oh, he's a singer.
(laughs)
Why's he wearing a skirt?
(laughs)
- It's a long shirt.
Ah.
Ooh.
- Ooh.
- Iggy Azalea.
- Yeah, she's getting down.
Bending, bending, oh wow.
(laughs)
Oh, did she just step off the edge of the stage, too?
- I would be so embarrassed.
What if that happened to you while you're climbing,
like such a little thing?
- Well I just can't imag--
Well, I mean, it's not really just a little thing
to walk backward off the edge of a cliff.
- I fell on my first day of high school.
I was a freshman and I tumbled down the hill
and just, like, rolled,
and that's, like, what I was known for in high school.
It sucked.
- Yeah, that sucks, yeah.
(laughs)
- Have you ever dropped your phone into your toilet?
- I have never dropped a phone, no.
Though I have had my phone knocked off a cliff.
- Really?
- Yeah, my partner just turned around
and hit it out of my hands.
It was very sad.
- Were you mad at him?
- Yeah, it was my mother, actually.
I was upset with her.
I just didn't wanna say my mother so I just said my partner,
but then you asked so I was like, yeah, it was my mother.
(laughs)
- Look, this is a picture of sexy Garfield.
- That is horrendous.
(laughs)
- I just heard someone say
this is one of the greatest human achievements of all time.
- [Alex] Uh,
that might be hyperbole.
- [Tam] I don't know.
In your opinion, what's the greatest human achievement?
- [Alex] Going to the moon comes to mind.
Sailing the open ocean.
Things like that.
- What about more simple stuff
like the people that invented rocks?
- I don't think anyone invented rocks.
(laughs)
- What surgeries have you had?
- I don't think I've any real surgeries.
I've had my wisdom teeth taken out,
does that count? - Oh really?
- Yeah.
- Are teeth bone?
- Yeah.
- Oh.
On that note, check out Free Solo.
It's in theaters nationwide.
I loved it and you will, too.
And this is Alex Honnold and he is amazing.
- Thanks, I appreciate that.
- Bye, guys.
Thank you.
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