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Speaker 2: Cory Booker bursus bladder, America's economy experiments with S and M.
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Speaker 1: Let's get into the headline, shall we.
Speaker 2: Let's kick things off with that big Supreme Court racing whiskey.
Speaker 1: We've all.
Speaker 2: We've all been following closely ever since everyone started telling
Speaker 2: us how important it was for reasons we tried really
Speaker 2: hard to understand, but ultimately ended up just taking their
Speaker 2: word for it. Well, last night, despite Elon Musk putting
Speaker 2: twenty five million dollars to back the conservative, the liberal
Speaker 2: judge won the race.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: Fuck yeah, suck at Elon. Now you only have three
Speaker 2: hundred and forty billion dollars.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna buy with that? Dumbass?
Speaker 2: And here's something we haven't said in a while. A
Speaker 2: second good thing happened for Democrats?
Speaker 1: Update the history books.
Speaker 5: Last night, Democratic Senator Corey Booker concluded the longest speech
Speaker 5: in Senate history, clocking in at twenty five hours and
Speaker 5: five minutes.
Speaker 6: He was protesting what he called a crisis brought on
Speaker 6: by the Trump administration's policies.
Speaker 3: I don't know how to solve this.
Speaker 1: I don't know how to stop us from going down
Speaker 1: this road.
Speaker 7: But I know who does have the power, the people
Speaker 7: of the United States of America.
Speaker 2: What an amazing day for Corey Booker. Not so great
Speaker 2: for the c SPAN cameraman who missed the birth of
Speaker 2: his first child and kindergarten graduation.
Speaker 1: It was a long speech, and.
Speaker 2: Booker not only set a new record, he broke the
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty seven record held by segregationalist strom Thurman, A
Speaker 2: man so racist we never even talk about how weird
Speaker 2: of a first name Strom is.
Speaker 1: Is that short for strom Bolly? What the hell's going
Speaker 1: on here?
Speaker 2: You never want a huge racist at the top of
Speaker 2: the record books. If, like the world record for eating
Speaker 2: the biggest burrito was held by Hitler, someone should probably
Speaker 2: beat that sooner rather than later.
Speaker 1: And the amazing thing is.
Speaker 2: That Booker didn't just get up there and read from Wikipedia.
Speaker 2: He stayed focused on condemning the Trump administration's assault on
Speaker 2: working people in the rule of law. So you can
Speaker 2: imagine that when he was done, the media had a
Speaker 2: lot of questions for him about these serious issues.
Speaker 1: Does he get any bathroom breaks? Did he have a
Speaker 1: bathroom break? No sitting and no bathroom break. You couldn't
Speaker 1: take a bathroom break. How did you not have to
Speaker 1: use the restroom for twenty five hours?
Speaker 2: Were you wearing anything that Letill allowed you did not
Speaker 2: have to go to the bathroom for twenty five hours?
Speaker 8: Senator, Senator, Senator, Senator peepe, Senator A'll follow up, poo poo.
Speaker 8: This is why our country is in the shape that
Speaker 8: it's in. The media won't talk about the substance of
Speaker 8: his speech. They'd rather talk about how he held it
Speaker 8: in for so long.
Speaker 2: No one cares about that, but just out of curiosity,
Speaker 2: how how did he do it?
Speaker 7: My strategy was to stop eating. I think I stopped
Speaker 7: eating on Friday, and then to stop drinking the night
Speaker 7: before I started on Monday. And that had its benefits
Speaker 7: and it had its really downsides.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: The downside is that he was hungry the whole time.
Speaker 2: But the benefit is that he can go straight from
Speaker 2: the centate floor to his colonoscopy.
Speaker 1: So that's about us. But that is pretty amazing. That's
Speaker 1: pretty much.
Speaker 2: He didn't eat for three days, although he is a vegan,
Speaker 2: so that's not much of a sacrifice, you know. Oh no,
Speaker 2: a weekend without tempe. Well, let's move on, because while
Speaker 2: Democrats were congratulating themselves for their bladder control, Donald Trump
Speaker 2: was shitting out a new holiday, a big.
Speaker 5: Day for the country.
Speaker 6: President Trump calling it Liberation Day.
Speaker 1: Liberation Day, liberation Day. The world is watching, right, Liberation Day.
Speaker 2: That sounds like the fake holiday your friends make up
Speaker 2: after you get dumped. You know, no man, no man
Speaker 2: who needs that beautiful, smart, independently wealthy woman in your
Speaker 2: life when you.
Speaker 1: Could die alone. This is your liberation Day, bro, But actually,
Speaker 1: what is it for our breaking news?
Speaker 6: Just moments ago, President Trump announcing widespread what he calls
Speaker 6: reciprocal tariffs at least ten percent on practically all goods
Speaker 6: coming into the United States.
Speaker 9: My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day. April second, twenty
Speaker 9: twenty five. Will forever be remembered as today American industry
Speaker 9: was reborn the day America's destiny was reclaimed.
Speaker 2: Okay, so liberation Day is just the day that Trump
Speaker 2: announced new tariffs. I kind of doubt this day we
Speaker 2: remembered for all of history. But if you give me
Speaker 2: a day off from work, you can call whatever you want.
Speaker 2: To be honest with you, now you might be thinking,
Speaker 2: what am I even being liberated from the ability to
Speaker 2: afford goods and services?
Speaker 1: Yes, but what Trump.
Speaker 2: Is hoping happens is that businesses moved back to America.
Speaker 2: But until then, Republicans are preparing Americans for the inevitable
Speaker 2: rocky road ahead. I feel like in some ways in
Speaker 2: the economy, this is kind of like a kitchen remodel
Speaker 2: or a bathroom model.
Speaker 10: There's a bit of a mess at the beginning, but
Speaker 10: everybody has a long term look of where we're headed.
Speaker 10: I mean, if you're going to remodel your house to
Speaker 10: make it better in the end, it's going to be
Speaker 10: really annoying in the short term when your house is
Speaker 10: getting remodeled and there's drywall desk everywhere and there's workers.
Speaker 1: In your living room.
Speaker 10: The reality is that remodel has got to happen in
Speaker 10: order to make things stronger. And more stable in.
Speaker 1: The back end. Great, it's like a home remodel.
Speaker 2: I feel much better about tariffs now that you compare
Speaker 2: it to something famous for costing people way more than
Speaker 2: they ever expected.
Speaker 1: Nobody, nobody likes.
Speaker 2: A remodel, and they especially don't like the people in
Speaker 2: charge of the remodel. Even the homeowners who hire Jesus
Speaker 2: to be their carpenter hated him. Is he seriously going
Speaker 2: out for another walk on water? I'm gonna kill that guy.
Speaker 2: But look, guys, whether you like it or not, Republicans
Speaker 2: don't want to hear your bitching because we all knew
Speaker 2: this was coming. It's gonna be a rocky road, and
Speaker 2: Trump is a bit of that.
Speaker 6: Trump has acknowledge that there will be some minor inflationary
Speaker 6: aspect of that.
Speaker 2: As he begins to realign the economy to put America first.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows, and when they voted in November of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four, they knew that's what they were voting for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, voters.
Speaker 2: You can belly ache all you want, but we all
Speaker 2: knew what we were voting for.
Speaker 1: Trump was very honest during the campaign.
Speaker 2: That tariffs would drive prices higher, right, right.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 6: You want to impose a ten percent tariff on all
Speaker 6: goods coming into the US, how will you ensure that
Speaker 6: that doesn't drive prices even higher?
Speaker 9: Not going to drive them higher?
Speaker 7: Do you believe Americans can afford higher prices because of tariffs?
Speaker 3: They're not going to have higher prices?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, technically he said prices wouldn't go up, but
Speaker 2: in his defense, he.
Speaker 1: Was lying, and you should have known that. So that's
Speaker 1: on you.
Speaker 2: But you know what, Yeah, some people at Fox News
Speaker 2: would like to know why you're so obsessed with your
Speaker 2: money in the first place.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 6: There are some things more important than money, And the
Speaker 6: president's trying to tell Americans.
Speaker 1: You know, there may be a little suffering going on here.
Speaker 2: It's a little volatile right now, but people have been
Speaker 2: very happy and very enthusiastic since the administration was inaugurated.
Speaker 7: Look, I wouldn't watch the stock market every hour every day.
Speaker 1: I really hope that somehow the average person out there
Speaker 1: can separate themselves in their mindset from Wall Street. You know,
Speaker 1: don't let don't get fooled by what's happening on the
Speaker 1: stock market.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, making money isn't everything. Take it from the
Speaker 2: guy hosting the show called Making Money. Why or well,
Speaker 2: why would you think that making money was something this
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Speaker 2: the screen and the wall and the other wall. Life
Speaker 2: isn't about making Oh also another one on that same wall.
Speaker 1: But look, I get what these guys are saying.
Speaker 2: In the long run, these tariffs will make America more prosperous,
Speaker 2: even if in the short run you'll personally will lose
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Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll find out what's inside Trunk's brain,
Speaker 1: don't all? Welcome back to the Daily Show. The human brain.
Speaker 2: It's a three pound massive tissue that can comprehend the
Speaker 2: vastness of our universe. And remember the lyrics to that
Speaker 2: bare naked lady song Chick It at China the Chinese Chicken.
Speaker 2: I don't even like that song for you brain, and
Speaker 2: no brain holds within it more mysteries than that of
Speaker 2: American president and catch up fueled sex machine Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: As fate would have it, the thoughts that dwell inside
Speaker 2: that brain now affect everyone on earth, So.
Speaker 1: Why not try to understand how it works?
Speaker 2: Come with me on a magical scientific voyage in our
Speaker 2: new segment.
Speaker 12: Donald Trump's very, very large a brain.
Speaker 1: A lot of thoughts have been occupying excellent.
Speaker 2: A lot of thoughts have been occupying Trump's mind lately,
Speaker 2: invading Greenland, boobs, taking over the Panama Canal boobs, selling teslas,
Speaker 2: and of course putting tariffs on boobs. It's a beautiful,
Speaker 2: horny mental tapestry. But recently, one mysterious word has been
Speaker 2: stuck in Trump's brain.
Speaker 12: I went on the border, and I went on groceries.
Speaker 12: It's very simple word, groceries. Like almost you know, who
Speaker 12: uses the word I started using the word the groceries.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, groceries.
Speaker 2: I mean, who uses that word except everybody all the time.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump found the word fascinating, and this was not
Speaker 2: just a fleeting thought. His brain has been contemplating the
Speaker 2: word groceries for a while.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 13: You know, more people tell me about groceries, the word grocery.
Speaker 13: I've heard it more in the last year than any
Speaker 13: other word. I think everyone tells me about the word groceries.
Speaker 3: You know, you hear the word groceries.
Speaker 12: You say, really, But I get more complaints about groceries.
Speaker 13: Beautiful but simple word groceries. Serve my groceries, please, sir,
Speaker 13: my groceries.
Speaker 1: What now?
Speaker 2: Based on that, you might think that Trump has never
Speaker 2: heard the word groceries until the twenty twenty four campaign
Speaker 2: and just thought this must be a new slang word.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: He was probably like Barren, what's groceries?
Speaker 7: Is that?
Speaker 1: Like riz?
Speaker 2: But if you tunnel deeper into Trump's brain, you find
Speaker 2: out that he's heard the word before, just not in
Speaker 2: a long time.
Speaker 13: The cost of groceries a word that I used a
Speaker 13: lot of the Campaign's like an old fashioned word. But
Speaker 13: it's a beautiful word, very descriptive word.
Speaker 9: They say, My groceries is so much more.
Speaker 1: Have you know? The term is just like an old
Speaker 1: term and.
Speaker 3: It's a beautiful Groceries a term I used to use.
Speaker 9: It's sort of an old fashioned term, but he used
Speaker 9: to use it.
Speaker 2: WHOA, Okay, this raises more questions because groceries is not
Speaker 2: an old fashioned word. It's a word we use right
Speaker 2: now to describe groceries. Is actually no other word for it.
Speaker 2: So now, so now I'm wondering, does Donald Trump know
Speaker 2: what groceries are?
Speaker 3: Groceries? He says it big with different things in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're on the right track.
Speaker 1: Not all bags with things in them are groceries. Can
Speaker 1: you ask your brain to narrow it down a little bit?
Speaker 3: The word grocery.
Speaker 9: You know, it's sort of simple word, but it sort.
Speaker 1: Of means like everything you eat.
Speaker 2: Ah, everything you eat, so simple, so almost correct.
Speaker 1: It says everything, yet absolutely nothing. Let's keep digging.
Speaker 13: You know, such a basic term.
Speaker 9: Groceries, the groceries.
Speaker 13: They mean every single item of grocery.
Speaker 1: Every.
Speaker 2: Every single item of grocery. I have to say, I
Speaker 2: never thought of it like that. I thought groceries were
Speaker 2: merely some items of grocery, but every item of grocery.
Speaker 1: And now.
Speaker 2: And now his bulging frontal low must wrestle with the
Speaker 2: most important question of all.
Speaker 1: What in a cosmic sense are groceries?
Speaker 3: People tell me about the groceries.
Speaker 13: The groceries are groceries they used to and what they're
Speaker 13: talking about his food, Ah, last.
Speaker 2: Enlightenment, groceries are food. Food are groceries unless we forget
Speaker 2: groceries are every single item of grocery.
Speaker 1: And yet Trump's mental.
Speaker 2: Journey with groceries goes on, leaving us with more unanswered
Speaker 2: questions like has it been so long since he stepped
Speaker 2: in a grocery store that his brain was like I
Speaker 2: don't need this word anymore?
Speaker 1: Or is he just an eighty year old man?
Speaker 2: Whose brain is the tear rating before our eyes or
Speaker 2: hear me out. Maybe he's right, and nobody in America
Speaker 2: says the word groceries anymore.
Speaker 1: So we sent Grace, Kohle and Schmidt to find out.
Speaker 5: What do you call this store behind?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a grocery store.
Speaker 5: No one uses that word anymore.
Speaker 3: Right, that's what I've heard.
Speaker 5: What would you call that kind.
Speaker 1: Of store a grocery store?
Speaker 3: That word is so old.
Speaker 5: Not a single living person uses the word grocery stores
Speaker 5: except for you.
Speaker 13: Oh my god, I've been using this word for like
Speaker 13: twenty eight years.
Speaker 5: You literally sounded like, hey, kids, let's together around the
Speaker 5: big Prola.
Speaker 1: It's time to talk about groceries.
Speaker 5: Groceries is like an old fashioned term.
Speaker 10: Oh okay, like my like great great great grandma used it,
Speaker 10: and like he's.
Speaker 5: Dead, ashit.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's also when someone brings up a dead relative, it's like.
Speaker 1: Weird to api with groceries. Donald Trump says that nobody
Speaker 1: uses it.
Speaker 5: He says it's old fashioned. So Trump is a trendsetter.
Speaker 5: He doesn't want to use groceries anymore. What do you
Speaker 5: think we should call them? I don't know. It's something
Speaker 5: I have to think about. I really am blindsided by this.
Speaker 5: Who sang these lyrics? Eat that booty like groceries?
Speaker 12: You know? I don't know.
Speaker 5: Come on, you know him, you love him?
Speaker 1: I can tell you know him, you love them.
Speaker 2: The beetles, oh, the beetle, blackbird.
Speaker 5: I think and I feel like young people like us,
Speaker 5: we don't even go to stores anymore. We just get
Speaker 5: everything from the cloud, just from our apps.
Speaker 3: Food on the table, my girlfriend says, noms.
Speaker 5: Wokeries, wokeries, tummy trees, no mouth stuffers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, use that one.
Speaker 3: It conjures some of my past experiences.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I won't ask any more questions about that.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Grace. Welcome back, Melissa, are not reading? We're
Speaker 1: joining on the show.
Speaker 4: Ope by way, Welcome back to the Dally Show.
Speaker 2: My guest that night is the first American woman to
Speaker 2: summit and descend Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen or new
Speaker 2: memoir is called enough Climbing Toward a True Self on
Speaker 2: Mount Everest.
Speaker 1: Please welcome Melissa, are not read?
Speaker 5: Thanks?
Speaker 1: WHOA? How fun is that? Oh my god?
Speaker 2: Thank you for coming, Thank you for having me, Thank
Speaker 2: you for opening up so much of your personal and
Speaker 2: professional life. In this book, you've summoned in Mount ever
Speaker 2: six different times I have. Is there like a loyalty
Speaker 2: rewards program when you go up and you get a
Speaker 2: free drink on your seventh time.
Speaker 5: It's a lot of walking uphill slowly and you all
Speaker 5: just clap for that.
Speaker 1: This is a simple question. But what is it like?
Speaker 2: I mean, the most the highest I've ever skied is
Speaker 2: at thirteen thousand feet.
Speaker 1: I couldn't breathe.
Speaker 2: I was freezing and it was like, get down to
Speaker 2: warmth as fast as I can. Camp One is at
Speaker 2: nineteen thousand feet, and Mount Eversus twenty nine thousand feet.
Speaker 1: What is it like to be up there?
Speaker 5: I mean, it's really like your experience, but everything is harder.
Speaker 1: So you had six beers with lunch right before you
Speaker 1: hit the slopes.
Speaker 5: Six beers with lunch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's but it must be.
Speaker 2: It's addicting because so many of the characters in your book,
Speaker 2: yourself included, organize their entire life around this action, and
Speaker 2: that includes letting everything else in one's life go to
Speaker 2: shit in a lot of ways.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely. I mean I think that there's this idea
Speaker 5: that when you go and you get that achievement, and
Speaker 5: you receive those accolades, you want to go back and
Speaker 5: do it again, but it also feels pretty empty. Interesting,
Speaker 5: that's a weird sort of dichotomy.
Speaker 1: Why does it feel empty? You did the thing?
Speaker 5: I mean, it's never enough.
Speaker 2: We were talking backstage, But what is it like to
Speaker 2: actually exist at elevations like that from like motor skills
Speaker 2: and sleeping and eating.
Speaker 5: You're not supposed to you know, we're not supposed to
Speaker 5: live at those very high altitudes, and it feels like
Speaker 5: you shouldn't be there. Everything is really really hard, Everything
Speaker 5: takes a long time to do, and it is pretty
Speaker 5: but you're right there. Yeah, so that's it, just below
Speaker 5: so you know what, technically that could be anybody. It
Speaker 5: literally could be just below the summit of Evers without oxygen.
Speaker 2: And do you recognize those peaks just from a picture?
Speaker 1: Like you know exactly? I do?
Speaker 5: I like to think I do, but I mean, don't
Speaker 5: give me a Top's.
Speaker 1: One of the things I love about this book.
Speaker 2: You can definitely dork out on all the climbing, but
Speaker 2: you really open up about your personal life and in
Speaker 2: particular the difficulties of your childhood.
Speaker 1: Why was that important for you? To share, and I'm
Speaker 1: glad you.
Speaker 5: Did, thank you. Yeah, it's not a book about Everest.
Speaker 5: It happens to take place on Everest. And my career
Speaker 5: on Everest has really been about achievement and standing on
Speaker 5: a summit and receiving the accolades of that. And I've
Speaker 5: always wanted to explain to people like, there's so much
Speaker 5: more and it's not all summits, and it's actually a
Speaker 5: lot of dark descent, and I wanted a chance to
Speaker 5: explain that to people, and the idea that we can
Speaker 5: be really flawed and still be deserving of achieving great things.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So often in the book you're describing your personal life
Speaker 2: and turmoil, and then you would say, and then I
Speaker 2: went to Alaska and climbed a glacier and then I
Speaker 2: biked across calf.
Speaker 5: It's called running away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, was that the coping strategy
Speaker 2: and mechanism.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's a really wild thing when going
Speaker 5: to some of the most deadly places in the world
Speaker 5: starts to feel more safe than just being in your
Speaker 5: regular life. And now I can say, like, that's probably
Speaker 5: not healthy. Therapy would have been cheaper. But I went
Speaker 5: to Everest.
Speaker 2: Instead, Why does climbing Mount Everest without oxygen help you
Speaker 2: find inner peace?
Speaker 1: As you describe and did it? So are you at
Speaker 1: inner piece? Now? It's probably a little bit of nerves
Speaker 1: talking to such a celebrity, but like.
Speaker 5: Are you honestly yeah?
Speaker 1: Why is that fine?
Speaker 2: It feels like climbers, high level climbers, it's never enough. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean you get you get to the top with oxygen.
Speaker 2: I can do it without oxygen, and I want to
Speaker 2: do it without oxygen, or I want to do this thing.
Speaker 2: I want to do this thing. I mean, have you
Speaker 2: achieved inner peace?
Speaker 1: The ultimate?
Speaker 5: You know, the climbing cliches abound, so bear with me here,
Speaker 5: but you know, it is a forever journey. There is
Speaker 5: no knat and tidy summit that we arrive on and
Speaker 5: we're just enough and then we just have the rest
Speaker 5: of our life. It's just kind of a continuous forever climb.
Speaker 5: And I'm on that climb and it's actually weirdly more
Speaker 5: hard and also more rewarding than climbing Everest. For sure.
Speaker 2: I was really laughing at your book when you were
Speaker 2: struggling studios, You were struggling so much with relationships with
Speaker 2: men and then you would go do this feat and
Speaker 2: I was like, it might be harder to be married
Speaker 2: than to climb.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it was for me in that era of
Speaker 5: my life. And I wrote an essay about that marriage
Speaker 5: was my Everest and it was kind of like the
Speaker 5: only honest thing I said at that time. And it
Speaker 5: felt like, oh, this is a joke and people will laugh,
Speaker 5: and then really I was like, no, it's much much
Speaker 5: harder to be married than it is to climb Everest
Speaker 5: in such an unhealed way.
Speaker 2: To live, more technical probably to climb Everest.
Speaker 1: I don't know that was.
Speaker 2: It was meant to be kind of a climbing joke.
Speaker 2: You got broken up with on camp too, Like, actually.
Speaker 5: A couple times.
Speaker 1: I got a couple time.
Speaker 5: I like to do things more than once, you know.
Speaker 2: I mean I got broken up with a bar and
Speaker 2: every time I go to the bar, I shake. But
Speaker 2: it's like every time you go to Everest, you're like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's where that happened.
Speaker 1: And we go back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we go back.
Speaker 1: I'm never standing in that tent again.
Speaker 5: We go back, we make new memories and then you
Speaker 5: take those forward.
Speaker 1: Right, explain acclamation to me.
Speaker 2: I don't understand that you go up, you hang out,
Speaker 2: then you come back down and you go back further.
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 5: It's like the silliest thing ever. You know, you have
Speaker 5: to climb almost to the summit three times just to
Speaker 5: get there once. And so you go up, let your
Speaker 5: body adjust to the altitude, then go back.
Speaker 1: Easier than marriage, honestly, Okay, sorry, keep going.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and so you just allow your body to adjust,
Speaker 5: So it takes a really long time. I was just saying,
Speaker 5: I've spent a total of a year on everest of
Speaker 5: my life, like an actual years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so cool.
Speaker 2: Talk to me a little bit about the Juniper Fund
Speaker 2: and what it is and why it's important to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I co founded a nonprofit that provides financial support,
Speaker 5: vocational training, small business grants to the families of high
Speaker 5: altitude workers, primarily SHRPA in Nepal.
Speaker 2: And these are essential what's the word workers helpers? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean teammates during this it's.
Speaker 5: The infrastructure, you know, it's a human infra structure of
Speaker 5: real people whose job it is to make climbing everes possible.
Speaker 5: And they don't have an amazing support system when things
Speaker 5: go wrong, and so our nonprofit provides as much support
Speaker 5: as we possibly can to the families when something happens.
Speaker 1: And things go wrong, things go wrong, I mean, you've.
Speaker 2: Experienced and seen the absolute worst. I mean, one of
Speaker 2: the more harrowing descriptions early in the book is when
Speaker 2: people are climbing up there's bodies that get left there
Speaker 2: because maybe even the families of the climbers want them
Speaker 2: to stay there or you can't recover them. And then
Speaker 2: you've I mean, yeah, it's really moving to read, but
Speaker 2: also you've seen some shit.
Speaker 5: I've seen some shit of there for sure. It's yeah,
Speaker 5: it's not theoretical.
Speaker 1: And still easier than marriage.
Speaker 5: Honestly. It says probably something about people who climb a
Speaker 5: high altitude and pass frozen bodies and then act like
Speaker 5: that's normal. Later like not normal. It's really really weird
Speaker 5: and it's not normal.
Speaker 2: I kind of love that achievement competitive mindset, and I
Speaker 2: have to admit that when I was reading that, I
Speaker 2: was like, I wonder if a college tennis player.
Speaker 1: Could have what it takes. Do we have what it takes?
Speaker 2: Like, does this audience to some some of it more
Speaker 2: than others have what it takes to actually do that?
Speaker 5: It depends on how hard your childhood was really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, do we have to.
Speaker 5: Have a traumatic It's really helpful to have pretty hard upbringing,
Speaker 5: because you know, then you feel like you deserve to suffer,
Speaker 5: and you're probably more willing to do it.
Speaker 1: Do you.
Speaker 2: Would you wish for a less dramatic traumatic childhood?
Speaker 5: You know? Very honestly.
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 5: I think that everything that happens prepares you for what's
Speaker 5: coming next. And I wouldn't have survived some of the
Speaker 5: things that came next if I didn't start out the
Speaker 5: way that I did.
Speaker 2: What would you say to younger Melissa about romantic relationships
Speaker 2: with men?
Speaker 5: Don't, Carl, Just don't.
Speaker 2: It's a treat for me to get to talk to
Speaker 2: such a world lass athlete, an achiever. And I would
Speaker 2: be remiss if I didn't ask you for a life hack,
Speaker 2: something that you do that's helped you that we could
Speaker 2: all steal from you. Does anything come to mind? It
Speaker 2: can be climbing, it can be anything related. What's I
Speaker 2: love getting in the mindset of someone that's done what
Speaker 2: you've done.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I think one of the things that's been the
Speaker 5: most helpful in my life and help me survive in
Speaker 5: so many different scenarios. Is this really lack of rigidity
Speaker 5: towards things? So I try to continuously be flexible, willing
Speaker 5: to change, pretty focused, but not rigid.
Speaker 2: That's awesome, and that's very hard. Now I have a
Speaker 2: follow up. I always like the tree in the wind.
Speaker 2: The trees move with the wind.
Speaker 5: They don't feel like this does not favor the rigid.
Speaker 2: Right, Medically, you're also trained medically. You talk about being
Speaker 2: called into emergencies. What should we know medically? What's one
Speaker 2: thing I should know medically? All the time?
Speaker 5: You're gonna die?
Speaker 1: Okay it is? How is that a life hat?
Speaker 5: It's just important you know again, acknowledge focus, but don't
Speaker 5: be so rigid, right, I love that.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much writing this book.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: I'm not available on our Melissa. I'm not reading day
Speaker 1: quick bait. We write back there to that. That's myself
Speaker 1: for tonight, not here. It is your moment of out.
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