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We don't know the details yet.
Now he has a board of peace, plus Gavin Newsom and Al Gore embarrassing themselves in the backdrop.
Somebody who doesn't embarrass themselves ever, especially on camera, is Mike Tobin. Mike, welcome back. Good to see you, pal. Why are you limping? What's with the crutches?
What happened? I broke my leg. How'd you do it? Walking the dog. Really?
Just slipped on the ice. I did that dance you do when you slipped on the ice, and it ended poorly.
So, and especially you're a gymnast, right? I mean, I should be the one breaking my leg on the ice. That's how it happened. And yeah, the break is at the top of the fibula, and then I've got a specialist who keeps putting me back together. And he took one look at the x-ray and says, Is your ankle hurt worse?
And I say, Yeah, it does. And there's all kinds of ankle damage, so they had to sink a plate and some screws in there. Wow, and when did this happen? Just before Christmas and I had the surgery a week ago. And did you know it was broken right away?
Oh, yeah. Yeah. My dog did, but he was jumping on me. He thought, hey, we're rolling on the ground now. Right.
And did you were able to get home? Yeah, I was. Actually, I was up on a mountain path and I was able to self-rescue, limp my way down and call my wife. Do you even take your dog on the mountain? Yeah, yeah, sure.
He loves it up there. All right. I want to talk about Mount Everest, but I also like to get your impression from Chicago. You just fresh off covering ice over in Chicago, and now you see the mayhem in Minneapolis and even in Maine now.
So I was there when Renee Goode was shot. And I think I broke that story. I was the first one on the air with it.
So you were actually watching this whole thing trending. Watching it meltdown, if you will. And they it started reaching conclusions right away. Immediately went to the conclusion that it was an unjustified shooting. And then, everyone, you see all the video, and people reach their conclusions that they reach the conclusions they want.
Right. All the parts of it. What did you think?
Well, you see the cl car very clearly lunge toward that agent. And Jacob Fry. You hear it now.
Now you hear him get hit. Right. And Jacob Fry wanted to minimize the injuries to the ICE agent. But when you hear that, so the car made contact.
So he got hit by that car. It's not his job to judge how hard he's going to get hit by that car. But the organization of people who are harassing ICE, cutting them off, boxing them in, she was part of that. There's no doubt about it. She took training, right?
And if you go back to when Border Patrol was in Chicago, Superintendent Larry Snelling was telling people that someone is going to get shot. if you keep making these aggressive maneuvers with their cars.
So he's not the oracle. He just saw something that was obvious. And the one thing that this is what Joe Rogan said, and you had a little bit in the very open, cut 43. After that woman was shot, I think unfortunately.
Well, everything's unfortunate about it, right? But one of the one of the real problems is now ICE are villains. And now people are looking at them like murderous military people that are on the streets of our city, and they're masked up, which is also a problem, right? Because if you get arrested by a cop, you're allowed to ask the cop, what is your name and badge number? And you could film that cop.
If you get arrested by an ICE agent, you have no such right. They're wearing a mask, they don't have to tell you sh. That's a problem. That's a problem on our city streets, right? Because you could also pretend to be an ICE agent.
You could pretend to be a cop, so I don't know. Your thought about that point. In terms of the sentiment, do you think the sentiment is pervasive in these major cities that ICE are bad?
Well, the people who come out, they've already made their conclusion when they come out. And as it relates to the masks, I can't tell you how many protesters I've seen with masks on shouting at the agents to take your mask off. And the reason they cover their faces so no one figures out who they are and they don't have any consequences afterwards. Same motivation for the ICE agents. They get doxxed all the time.
So that's been out in public for a long time. Right. So how do you see this ending in Minneapolis, for example? For example, what is it like on the streets of Chicago now? It has calmed down in Chicago.
It still flares up from time to time. Immigration enforcement didn't leave Chicago, but certainly the Border Patrol guys, when they come in, they stir up a lot of controversy every time. All right. So tell me about this special on One Nation, on Fox Nation. We're really proud of this, and it's unlike anything I've ever done at Fox News.
I haven't done long format before. The way you write, the way you deliver is all different, and the pictures really carry this thing. When you get up high, it's something. And obviously, not all of you are going to go to Everest, and you can see it, and you can see what it's like. Why do you want to do it?
Not so much the special, but actually the mission. Why climb? You know, I got to tell you, my dad checked out at 92 years old. And after he served in World War II, he raised seven kids. He succeeded in business, he failed in business.
And before he died, He told me it happens fast. And the things you want to do, the things you've been thinking about, I'm almost 60 years old, do them. You're running out of time. Life happens fast. Right.
And that really resonated with you. Yeah. And so, is this the first example of you taking on life this way? No, I think I've always been doing it. Look at this job.
I got on this job because I wanted the adventure. I've never. You're in the middle of it. Every time we go to you, it's never typical, right? It's never like a magazine shoot and spring breakers.
You got with Mike Tobin. I like the adventure, but sometimes I feel like a wineout drowning in Cabernet.
So here is Mike Tobin. You're with, you want to prepare this? You said, you're preparing to go up with Adrian Ballinger. Right. So, how did you, is there anything I should know before I roll the clip?
I don't know which clip you're going to roll, but let's listen together then. All right. Cut 56.
So Alpenglow and I in 2012 developed what we call the rapid ascent system. We simulate altitude reduced oxygen environments at home and by people spending six to eight weeks in those tents sleeping at night, we can reduce the length of an Everest expedition from 65 to 70 days to down to around 30 to 35 days. Over time, the eight hours or so that we spend sleeping in the tents allows our red blood cells to get used to the amount of oxygen that we'll be breathing here at altitude so that you can be more efficient and safe in the mountains. It doesn't make it easier, but it makes it more attainable for more people who have busy lives.
Well, what that does is that there's a pump that feeds the tent and it increases the nitrogen in the air and crowds out the oxygen and tricks your body to think that you're at altitude.
So you start kicking out more red blood cells. And then when we arrive, we go pretty quickly up to 17,000 feet. And to give you an idea, the tallest Colorado peak is 14,000 feet.
So we're higher than any place you can get in the lower 48, just starting to climb. Are you pulling your, because I haven't had a chance to see it yet. I was on location yesterday. Are you going up a path or are you actually doing things like where you're using your upper body and pulling yourself up cliffs? There's a lot of vertical.
Whenever you do a big mountain, there will be vertical obstacles. A big one is right at the beginning, the North Coal. And if you go back, this is the route that George Mallory climbed, the guy who said I'll climb Everest because it's there. And ultimately, he perished on the mountain. But that was his route.
And the North Coal, you start out with a difficult problem. In the first, I think the second or third time that the Mallory team attempted it, they lost 19 guys on the North Call.
So that's almost pure vertical when you're going up the ice on the North Coal. I want you to hear more. Here's Mike Tobin and other climbers as they make the third step on the summit, to the summit, Cub 57. Once I had cleared the second step, I knew the third step was not as difficult an obstacle. All the fear, all the anxiety that I had for a month laying in camp.
Am I tough enough? Am I good enough? Is this going to work out? I looked at the summit cone and I said, I got this. After we got to the last rocky part and you're just on the snow slope, it kind of started to hit me like, wow, this is happening.
Once I got above the third step and you could see the summit, I knew this was going to happen. I've dreamed of turning the corner and seeing the north face of Everest for 10 years now.
So bring us you want to bring some color to that. Why did you think the third the third step is easier? Yeah, the third step is easier. The second step, also when it goes back to the George Mallory team, Conrad Anker, a famous climber, thinks that the Mallory Irvine team never made it past the second step. No one really knows where they disappeared on the mountain.
But the second step is the hardest. It does have ladders in there now. And once I was over, I've been reading about this since before I was a reporter. And so I knew about all the obstacles. And once I cleared the second step, that's when I turned to Piso Sherpa.
And I said something too vulgar for your radio show, but it meant I got it. Who's with you? I was with just Piso Sherpa at that point. He and I kind of broke ahead of the other climbers. And who's your shooter?
The shooter, there was a collection of guys on the mountain, particularly a guy named Griffin Mims shot a lot of what you see in this special. While you're climbing, how much of you as a producer, reporter, and how much of you as just flat out climber? Are you thinking to yourself, okay, I'm going to need a shot here. I'm going to need this shot. Are you thinking like that or are you just thinking about doing the mountain?
I was thinking about that, but there's a lot of time when all you can do is climb.
So it's unfortunate because I do think that some of the best shots were missed. But what are you going to do? Right. Right. Griffin shot a lot.
A guy named Griffin Mims, who uh worked for Alpen Glow, he shot a lot of it. Uh the guys on the team shot a lot of it. One guy named uh Tico Morales uh had his phone out on Summit Day quite a bit. And uh the pictures are really dramatic. Right.
And how do you feel now having done it? You know, I think I'm still the same guy. I don't know. You kind of talk with some athletes who win a championship and they say, All right, now it's Tuesday. Let's move forward.
What's next? Yeah, yeah, that's how you feel.
Okay.
Well, maybe you see the show, you'll feel different. Yeah, and I hope I inspire some other people. I hope, certainly, hope to encourage people to support their veterans' organizations, Mission 22 and a Chicago organization called Light the Line, supporting wellness of first responders. That sort of evolved during the climb, but I'd really like to make sure that the stunt I did on top of the mountain isn't hollow. Got it.
I want to find out more about that in a second. You have some more time? You bet. All right. A couple more minutes with Mike Tobin before we go.
And at the bottom of the arrow, we talk about what the president's doing overseas. He's already had his. You know, his mission of peace, his peace council has been named. We're a lot of them there. 36 were signed on, and 20 showed up in person.
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Over 500,000 new listings every month based on average new for sale and rental listings, February 2024 through January 2025. Fox News is a big part of who I am, so I haul the flag up, take a photo moment at that point. On the summit, Mike did 22 push-ups in recognition of the number of veteran suicides reported every day. Really, what I wanted to communicate is that we were so deep in the death zone. I'd really like to reach a troubled first responder or veteran and just communicate the message that someone cares enough to take the time to do that.
And so that's what the 22 push-ups were all about. That is so cool. And that's part of the foundation that you're raising money for, right? Right. Well, raising money now for Renovation 22.
And there's a Chicago organization called Light the Line, which was dedicated to the memory of Ella French, a Chicago police officer killed in the line of duty. And we did the premiere the other night in Chicago, and Carlos Yanez showed up. And he was with Ella French the night she was killed and shot, I think, four times. One of the bullets went through his eye, and he survived, and he's now dedicated himself to. The wellness of his fellow officers.
And a wonderful woman named Betsy Shepard put that whole event together.
So, Mike, you get to the summit and you did 20, you get to the top and you do 22 push-ups right there. But can you tell me the feeling you had? The feeling I had was that I overcommitted. I started doing the push-ups. I don't know if I can make 22.
Yeah, they weren't, maybe they weren't the tidiest push-ups you ever see, but I got all 22. And the world record, I found out later, is 31.
So, what made, what was it like going up with an expert like Adrian? kind of comforting. You know, when you're with a guy who removes some of the doubts, because he's climbed it without oxygen, only about 400 people have ever climbed Everest without oxygen, and 200 of them are Sherpa. And so Adrian has he's an expert. He knows the mountains.
So working with someone like him and the preacclimatization removes some of the doubt. You still think you're going to die most of the time. You look at camp and you're like, that's it. Tomorrow I'm dying. Right.
You came across a body. About four bodies on the way to the summit. And they still can't get. They're using drones now to get some of the bodies that are up there, but it's still too much. And having been up there, I understand there's no way you could go up there.
Do they know who they are, their families? They know who some of them are. And a lot of them because they know that this person disappeared on the climb. The guy who's at the second step is known as Green Boots. And they're unraveling the mystery of who he is.
They think he was an Indian climber who disappeared on Summit Daybeck in the 1996 disaster.
So can you picture what it was like to be the first one to climb Mount Amherst? That would be something. It's different, though, because the amount of doubts you have on a roof that's already been climbed. If you haven't climbed it before, if no one's climbed it before, you don't really know what's ahead of you.
So those guys, yeah, I'll never match that kind of courage.
So I want to talk about Chicago before we go. I did not know this. I mean, we had the same thing with the Jets and Giants. Giants, they're going to move, they're going to sell. New England Patriots are going to move to Connecticut.
It's to get a better deal, perhaps. Do you think the Bears is a chance the Bears might be leaving Chicago? You know, I don't have evidence to support this, but I say, no way, it's never going to happen. They're not going to be the Gary Bears. But Governor Braun, right away, as soon as he saw Chink in the armor, said, come on.
Come to Indiana, those guys, a professional sports team brings a host of jobs with them, down to the restaurants, to the parking guys. And you think about the mayor of Chicago saying that he wants to support minorities and wants to support poor people. What's the one thing a poor guy needs? It's a job. Yeah.
I know. Fight for those jobs.
So he says, I don't want to put money into a stadium. But usually, cooperation, there's a cooperative situation. You strike a deal. Right. They talk about moving to Arlington, which is a suburb of Chicago.
It's not going to happen. I just believe it's not going to happen. They're the Chicago Bears. They had a great season, by the way. Unbelievable.
And what a quarterback. I don't know if there's anybody with a more promising future than Caleb Williams. It's awesome. And you talk about people who have heart attacks, shoveling snow. Not that.
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