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The Rich Roll Podcast
"alex honnold" Discussed on The Rich Roll Podcast
"Everyone. As many of you know, ten days ago on Monday, September 26th, one of the world's most accomplished ski mountaineers and adventure athletes, Hillary Nelson, tragically passed away while descending mount menace in Nepal after summiting the 26,781 foot mountain with her partner, Jim Morrison. She was 49. It's a tragic loss for her family, of course, for Jim. For her two kids, she leaves behind for the adventure community whose massive outpouring of support has been the one heartwarming silver lining amidst such a grease stricken event. Also for the town of Telluride that she called home. And for the countless women athletes for whom she was an extraordinary inspiration, a mentor and a role model. For those new to Hillary, she really was one of the greatest to ever do it. And absolute giants. And she did it at the highest level for decades. Summiting, exploring skiing, some of the most exotic and treacherous mountain ranges on earth, including being the first woman to climb both Everest and its 8000 meter neighbor lazy in a 24 hour period. And also being the first person to ski down all 5 of the Mongolian altus holy peaks. Unlike many of my Friends and past podcast gas, people like Conrad anker, Jimmy chin, Lindsey dyer, Alex honnold, and others, I didn't know Hillary well, but I did know her. Back in 2018, I spent the better part of a day with her. She came to my house, we did a podcast. She met my family. We hung out, and I gave her a ride to the other side of town. You know, essentially enough time to leave me like so many fairly grease stricken by her loss and wanting to honor her life and her legacy. And the best way that I know how to do that is to rerelease that 2018 conversation. In my original introduction to that episode, I wrote quote, this is an incredible conversation about fear, risk, resilience, adventure, and potential. It's about balancing the pull of adventure against Hillary's responsibility as a single mom to two boys. She was single at the time. And it's about the allure of the outdoors. But mostly, this is an exchange about the virtues of placing yourself outside your comfort zone and what that can teach us about potential the preciousness of life, and what it means to be truly alive. Of course, this now leaves us asking, what is acceptable risk? Well, Hillary had her own calculation for this. And she understood and appreciated the risk that she incurred better than any of us can possibly imagine. And in the end, I think it's fair to say that she truly was alive. Truly alive. And she pursued her life with this laudable vigor to the absolute fullest. And well, of course, we lost her way too soon. Her legacy, her influence, those things prevail. And I think much can still be learned from someone who so fully embraced all of it because none of us are promised a tomorrow. So this is for you, Hillary. Rest in power. All right, let's do it. Okay, let me tell you what it is. I don't know, what do you want to talk about? I don't know. I got lots of stuff I want to talk about. We can talk about whatever you want to talk about. I'm just delighted to be in your presence. Super nice to meet you. Thanks for having me. Yeah, welcome to Los Angeles. Yeah. I guess the first time. Yeah, I know. It's right. We
Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"alex honnold" Discussed on Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"A good point to decide that. Got it. Right. It depends on the dynamic of your crew. The age thing is big, 'cause the first couple bachelor parties. For our group, it's just right out of central casting. You know, Vegas, Vegas, Vegas, loser town, you know? Because he decide where you're going, is he like, we're going to New Orleans, or are you like, hey, I'd like to go here. And then he's like, all right, we'll figure it out. And where's the money come from? Is the bachelor not supposed to ever pay for anything? It's not supposed to pay for it. Pay for anything. Okay, this is all new to me. I mean, I can tell you from my scene, we had a couple of Vegas ones, and then by the time I got married, my basket party, we were kind of all sort of Vegas out and partied out at that point. And I was just like, hey I want to be on a Lake somewhere like water, kind of a lone house. I invited myself, didn't show up, ouch. And it was awesome because we were all kind of on the same page, but I was the one basically dictating whatever I wanted. I didn't say, hey, I want this house on this place or whatever. I was like, hey, maybe somewhere in Maine on a Lake secluded best man went out, found it, did it, and then we all kind of got on the same page. And I think that's probably what you should do. I will say, though, to this guy, there are weddings aren't always about the people that are getting married. Like I learned that I've been in my wedding. My dad wanted to stag so bad and I had no interest in having a stag whatsoever, but I did it because my dad wanted to do it. I know this is a little bit of a different situation. You don't want to just rage with some of these guys because you don't feel like you have uncommon with them, but maybe there's a bet that both worlds thing where you can go somewhere cool, but you don't have to do all the dumb events that they want to do that you don't have to. Like maybe you could split up into two parties because sometimes ambassador parties, there are camps of people that want to get weird and other people that kind of want to just chill. So maybe there's a best of both worlds situation where you can kind of find a middle ground there. Yeah, I think the best way to do it, go to the one guy that's kind of putting it together. You know, this is what I want to do. This is what I don't want to do. You guys are third in your 30s now, so I think that's to your advantage. And again, as we say this all out, it sucks that any of this has to happen. But I think the best way of looking at it is the same rules apply. You just go, hey, I don't want to be, I don't want to be the guy that ends up at the strip club, and it's like some sort of thing that's funny because I'm not laughing. Right. And if a guy wants you in your friend group, it's like, no, no, this is what we're doing. The fuck that guy, you know? And if those guys wanted to sit if they want to go and get weird on their own, then they are also allowed to do that. They don't want to sleep. Don't sleep. Yeah. You get shown the hammock, dude. Fine. Fuck what they're doing. Final question about bachelor parties. How close to the wedding is it? So are people doing all this crazy shit like a night before? What? I'm just kidding. Oh, okay. Although I think maybe once or twice, I think it has happened. I saw something, I've seen guys have kind of like multiple things and I'm not. That's very rare, very rare. But I know how much I should share here, but I remember there was a night before situation. That sounds crazy. And let's take the hangover. He was like, he was, he was basically taking it to the deadline of the vows, is my point. And guys were like, he was in rough shape. No, he was like, I'm not married yet, and we were like, what? The fuck are you doing? And he's like, I'm not we were just like, I don't know if that's my guy. He just kept saying it. It's like everything's okay. I'm not married yet. We were just like, guys were like, what is going on? Like he's getting married tomorrow. I don't agree. Over under 6 months on that one. I'm not going to add anything else to it. Okay. All right. Because they know it's going to happen is that I'm going to have, I'm going to have college guys be texts asking, wait a minute. And it isn't any of those guys. It's a completely like unnamed moon satellite. Satellites. It's this orbit that is so detached from the core of whatever. It comes in every like 70 something years. That's a comet is the best way to describe the guy because it was like, wait, I'd heard about this guy and he was kind of this legendary guy and then some dudes were like, would you know that he's in town? And I was like, yeah, yeah, and then it just was guys, guys were guys that didn't know or shook up the next day. So outside of outside of the Halley's Comet bachelor party, like, how is it? Because it's months before, really? Yeah, wow, 'cause it was kind of a fucking pain in the ass getting myself together for this wedding that got canceled. In 2020. And then it's like to then also have to get yourself somewhere else, like a month or two before. It's like, weddings are expensive, huh? To go to even. Kyle, are you still not invited to a.
Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"alex honnold" Discussed on Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"Haven't really had to yet. We'll see, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if it all changes a little bit, but at the same time, I wouldn't be that surprised if it doesn't. I don't know. Because a lot of those sort of conversations as assessments of risk and have to do with how much you want to do a specific plan, like how much it means to you to pursue specific goals. And right now I don't have any of those specific goals like that. I'm working on all kinds of different climbing things, but they're safe right now. They're more like personal projects, the different kinds. And we'll just we'll just see. What's the best part about being famous now since this? What's the coolest story that you've had? Well, coolest or I mean the best part is obviously just being able to make a living relatively easily. Getting corporate speaking offers and things like that and being able to support the family and still go climb full time and basically like that's for sure the best part. People often ask, you know, when there's like a line of people like take photos or something, they're like, oh, do you hate this? And I'm like, no, I'd much rather do this than might be laying brick or something. Because taking I don't have any education, I don't have any other real prospects. I'd much rather be taking photos of people than having to work a real job. To me, that's a total no brainer. I'm like, this is way better than actually working. Yeah, because when, you know, it's not like if you're a baseball player, we could just Google how much you're making and everything. I always thought that was really funny that the one kid when you spoke to the high school was like, how much money do you have? You know, I thought it was like a very normal question and you answered it in a perfect way. You were like, oh, comparable with a dentist. Yeah, that was before the film came out. Yeah, that's what I was able to kind of put that one together. All right, and part of that, too, is that Alex honnold, the soloist VR documentary, which basically, if free solo wasn't intense enough for you, we have a chance to really enter this world. So you can you tell us about now the tech and what you've put into this as this has launched this month. Yeah, so the VR experience is just basically like watching a film like free solo, but in VR. So it's just so in 360 video. I mean, you can watch the climbing, but you can also turn around and look at the mountains, look at the scenery, look up, look down. I mean, the 360 audio, I think. I mean, there are a lot of things that make you feel a lot more dense. You're just there, you're on the side of the cliff watching. But the audience is one of them. Did you get to watch the actual experience have you gotten to see it? No, it's totally mind-blowing. So there's a scene in it when I'm climbing, I'm selling this face. And I pull off a Little Rock like a Little Rock breaks up, which is not that crazy, but toss it down. And in 360, you watch it for a second. You track it going downward, and then you kind of lose it because this is tiny little sim. And then you look back at the climbing and then 6 seconds later, you hear a rock hit the ground and you're like, wow, when you look down again, you're like, jeez. And then it gives you a sense of scale in a way that normal film just doesn't. And so you just, it's through Oculus TV, and then I guess as far as all the different ways that somebody could go ahead and consume their interested in and throw things you need to Oculus headset and then it's free in the Oculus App Store or whatever. It's like free on Oculus TV app or something. So basically if you own an Oculus, which is the goggles, then the content is free. That's crazy. It's part of a meta way to sort of drive consumers documents, I think. Which, you know, for better or for worse, I don't know if I support the whole metaverse and all that kind of stuff. You know what I don't know how I feel about VR generally and whatever else, but I will say that when you watch this in GR, it'll blow your mind. It's like totally insane. So, you know, from a personal perspective, I was like, you know, I'm doing a project that I can show my family. I mean, it really gives a better sense of what's going on. While I'm sewing, then anything else I've ever done. You know, I mean, and actually, and this is a good example. I mean, so we've just been talking about free solo the film, and you guys have a lot of questions about the risk and the danger and the mitigating all that kind of stuff. The thing that I love about the VR experience is that it gives a much better glimpse of the positive side of resolving because you're able to turn around and look at the scenery not stop and you're like, these are the most beautiful places on earth, this shot and the goal of meissen in the Alps, I gave you some of the most beautiful mountains in Europe..
Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"alex honnold" Discussed on Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"Breakdown work that he does. Thanks has always been appreciated. Thank you, Ryan. Mountain climber, Alex honnold. So it's been a maybe I guess a couple of years now since it feels like the world, everybody in the world knows who you are. How's your life changed since the movie? It depends, not that much obviously a little higher profile, but I'm still doing all the same things. As you probably the biggest change has been just a couple weeks ago, my wife ranch had a daughter. So that feels like a change. That has nothing to do with the movie. Well, that is a pretty big change. And when I told a few friends that I was having yawn, they were like, oh, did you see you just had a kid, which I think kind of plays into your story and everything. So what's that been like? You know, I don't know, I think our daughter is pretty mellow, but it still feels like a lot of effort to raise an infant, you know? Yeah, I don't know. It's an ongoing process for the next very long time. When my group first started having kids a couple of guys did something funny, I'll never forget. They were like, I almost feel like I need to write a letter to my parents as sort of apologize. Yeah, I will say it all seems harder than we expected. I'm like, well, I can't believe everybody does this. So you know what I also really liked is. This is funny for me because I feel like in a way you're just so functional in the movie, which I think is probably a reflection of your decision making. You're just a pragmatist. You're like, okay, yes, this is how I see the world. And this is kind of so it could feel cold at times. Which I think is what makes you great at what you do, did you get any sense of that? Or you're like, well, hey, I'm pretty used to me. I've been hanging out with myself for a long time now. All right, I prefer to think of it as directness. Clarity, call it clarity. I'm very clear in my thinking in my decision making. But yeah, I mean, I've certainly heard a lot of what you just said over the years. For various girlfriends and things or other friends, but yeah, I think it all makes sense. When I watched you in the alpinist on the Mark Andre Doc, it was funny, 'cause 5 minutes in because this is all that happens. And as I was prepping for this, I'm like, well, how do I ask him about all the stuff that he's just sick of talking about? Because everybody has this fascination, like no ropes. And I've seen you in some of the interviews. You're like, yeah, no ropes. You got it. And you tell the director, I think, in the Netflix Doc, you're like, that's just a dumb question. Like, why are you even asking this? And as you've understood it because it's your world, do you think more people have started to kind of understand because of the success of the movie, at least if they disagree, but they understand your motivations better. Definitely.
Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"alex honnold" Discussed on Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"12th of the grizzlies, or out of Kansas, abaji, 13th Atlanta, and then walker Kessler the big guy there from auburn transfer to UNC going 14 of the hornets. It's way early here. How confident do you feel about that group still being in that lottery flirting with lottery area? I'm not the biggest Johnny Davis fan. Wow. He's cool. He's a cool prospect, but I prefer all the other guys that you mentioned so hand Eason abaji. Those guys are just tough play hard, multi positional defenders. I think this year's draft class is filled with guys like that. Who can just contribute to winning and play their role and play out at a high level with Davis? I mean, there's a lot to like there too. Don't get me wrong. He also brings down a defensively too. What is it? I'm sorry, I mean, just give me more on why you're not as big on him. It's just the perimeter jump shot. With guards who haven't proven they can shoot with any consistency, I have some concerns there. With what he could turn into as a shooter. But maybe over the course of time it gets better. Like other guys do, it's not like he's a piss poor free throw shooter. He shoots in the high 70s. So there's a chance he turns into something he brings it as a rebounder. He brings it on the boards. He brings it on defense. He's the type of guy who even post up, you know, he could be used to different positions on offense. So there's a lot to like. But I think there's less certainty with what you want them to be, whereas with sohan with Eason with aji. There's a lot of confidence with who they are. And with walker Kessler, the other guy you mentioned, I have no confidence. He played the worst game of his life for auburn. And that last game was, I don't think he played a single good possession. But he was great all season. So how much do we factor in that he played like this abhorrent, ugly game, and his potential last college appearance versus, hey, he was actually really good all year and an important room protector for this team that people were scared to drive to the rim to face him because he's so long, so big and so skilled around the rim. So I don't know, it's tough to balance that out. But also walker Kessler just from a, he just kind of bores me compared to some of these other prospects, but we're talking about whether I'm in or out on them. Yeah, it looks like all the gigli guys took a bit of a hit, at least on this mock. Is there one gigli guy you like? Like significantly more than others. I mean, is it Daniels? I love Jaden hardy. I still love Jaden hardy despite some of his struggles because I think he got better. He got better over the course of the G league season. His scoring efficiency improved, his feel improved, decision making improved, even as the defense got a little bit better. Hardy, hardy, I think he's with Chris Haines this week. He called himself the best prospect in the draft, and you liked that confidence, but also if I'm drafting hardy in the lottery where I have him ranked, I have a 25 on the mock draft to the grizzlies. If you're drafting him high, I'd want to find out, does this guy have the understanding that you're not going to get utilized like the number one guy in the draft? And that your role was going to be more insignificant early in your career and you're going to have to be patient and grow. But the personality aspects is where a lot of those guys, their fate is going to be determined. Yeah, look, I get it being confident. It's not white, I told Chad for that he should have gone number one. I was like, okay. He.
Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"alex honnold" Discussed on Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"I guess on the mock part of this is kind of some fit a little bit. The blazers at 7, you have dame, you have Simon's, maybe you're not drafting bathroom. The pacers at 6, you have brogden there. You just traded for Halliburton. I could see the argument for golf or a guard there. TJ Warren. You guys TJ Warren, blocking Keegan Murray's minutes. So I mean, they have a lot of guys on that team. Where it's maybe not about need, it's just about BPA. I don't know. Now that I bring up BPA, I'm curious, what are you talking to teams Ryan? What kind of feedback do you get in terms of the taking the best player available versus factoring in need? Well, I've always said that the NFL, like you can tell by the way up, right? So I guess you would be out of the way. I just want to double check that. I think you make mistakes big time when you drive for a need in basketball. NFL, they do it all the time. I mean, the need driven picks, even in the first round. It's incredible. How often it's a need driven. Basketball, I think that's where you make big mistakes. I mean, unless it's like Chris Paul and gear three. Derek rose were available. Then maybe you go, okay. We actually can't do this. I think there are rare extremes. There's no absolutes. But if I'm looking at if I'm looking at like, I don't know, I would just go back to your mock here. If I'm the pacers and I'm thinking like, all right, Keegan Murray's 22 and math runs two years younger than him, I guess. We can get on the months here. I just think you make a huge mistake when you go need for basketball, because it's kind of like back to the chat thing. It's other teams that'll make mistakes where they go, well, we knew we were going to be taking on way more risk because it's about trying to get somebody that breaks through and can carry your basketball team. So maybe we'll take a flyer on a guy that's way lower floor because we think it's a chance of being more impactful than going, oh cool, we drafted somebody who's going to be a rotation guy, you know, maybe 5 through 9 on a roster at some point and you guys are going to pay playing the league, you know, 6, 8 years and get paid and the second contract all this kind of stuff. But I mean, does that really make us better? Do we really put ourselves in a position to improve ourselves? And so I don't know, I'm not a big need guy unless it's really, really extreme. We're two guys are completely in each other's way. I think the way the way it was framed to me a couple of years ago that made sense is neat and drafting for a need might be about breaking a tie breaker. If there's a handful of prospects where it's so close between them, you're factoring in need to say, oh, well, what's our philosophy? What are our potential opportunities in the near future with transactions? What is our coach want? What's that system look like? In terms of need, I think, I think all of that does kind of loop into how you end up ranking these players and who you consider the actual best player with who you are and what your team is and what you already have. But ultimately, I don't think you're going to draft a player who is clearly a worse prospect talent wise than someone who is clearly a better prospect, talent wise, and less it's so close. That's when you factor a need versus like you said with the NFL. Teams do do that based specifically off of me. That doesn't happen much in the NBA. But I think need does matter. It does factor into how you end up ranking these guys, which is why it's so tough. It's so tough to rank with a general board. Because for some teams, Chet won't be number one. For others, he will be. He's not a no brainer guy. So to review his Chet one to Houston, jabari two to Detroit, Jade and ivy three to Orlando fours Paolo to OKC, AJ Griffin number 5 to Sacramento, 6 would be Keegan Murray to the pacers, Jalen Durham, 7 out of Memphis to Portland, and then we mentioned Mather in 9 to the Knicks. So I skipped over somebody here who's become the mystery man out of Kentucky, who's also sort of out of Canada. And that shade on sharp. If you watch any of his AAU stuff, you get why, I don't know, I've seen him rank number three going into this class. I've seen him rank number one. Other places have build him on his Wikipedia page. It says that he was number one by ESPN 24/7 and rivals, but then there's other times I've seen him ranked as the number three guy. He never played, didn't play for Kentucky. I watch a Cal pressure the other day, where he was like, if he's going to go in the top three, I'll tell him to go, but they're hinting that he's going to come back to play at Kentucky. He is an incredibly impressive 6 5 perimeter guy with a ton of game, aggressive as hell, there's a lot to really like about him from the AAU part of this. Some teams love him, but we haven't seen him play basketball now for a long time. I have a hard time believing I know what your Intel is that he's not going to end up going in the draft here because we're talking about at least the top ten pick, but what do you have on him? And my impression is he'll go to the draft. We don't know that for certain yet, but my impression is he'll be in the 2022 draft. And with him, I wonder if he's the type of guy who, when teams see him up close with workouts, that's where his stock is going to be really, truly determined because right now all we're going off of is Intel based off what we heard or some people have seen from out of Kentucky. And also from everything that happened before college, playing AU playing in high school and the improvement that we just talked about improvement with bathroom and the guys like Jordan Poole with the shade and sharp, he goes from an unranked prospect to 6 6 go to scoring type who has every move in the book from the perimeter who can defend who's a willing passer. He checks all these boxes of the type of player above the rim. You know he's a great athlete. He can finish with touch he just checks all these boxes of somebody who can be your leading guy of a franchise because of his scoring ability and his ability to do everything else. It's just he's kind of a mystery box. Because we didn't see him compared to all of these other guys and we've seen this story play out before. Jaden hardy goes to the G league. Hardy more of that scoring type as well, who shows sprinkles of some other stuff. He plays in the G league, struggles, some people don't even have him ranked in the lottery anymore when he was a top 5 guy entering this last season. So it could have all fallen apart for sharp had he played at Kentucky. But it also could have really established him as the clear number one, number two, number three guy. Like he was out of high school. All right, how confident are you in this group between sohan ten to Portland, Johnny Davis 11 to the wizards, east and LSU.
Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"alex honnold" Discussed on Dual Threat with Ryen Russillo
"Jimmy Butler what's the deal, man? I'm gonna give you the full timeline of Jimmy Butler's career, try to make sense of his fourth stop. Also, Kevin O'Connor has mock draft out. It's up on the ringer. We're gonna go over all the lottery picks. And a special guest from the documentary free solo and some new work that's out there. Mountain climber, Alex honnold, on that documentary that changed his life, the sport, and some other stuff as well. So fired up about that and life advice. Let's talk about your number one seed Miami Heat. Why not, right? Because we saw the turmoil on the bench. We'll run through this. Originally I was going to do kind of an east breakdown because it actually gets pretty interesting when you start looking at some of the east records and how they do against the west. And even though we feel like the east is better and it is better. There's stuff that I'll just use next week. I think I'll do it next week because as I was going through it, I was like, wait, do we really know what's going to happen? By the way, we don't. All right? But the heat of your one seat, and every time you look at the standards you're like, there's still a one seat and it's a team that defends like crazy that I really like that if missed big time chunks of the season from their three best players. And we have to take them seriously, but then I'm like, wait, if I like Miami's defense so much, then why wouldn't I just go ahead and pick Boston? And we can do the Boston thing when we get into the east as well as they just are stomping teams and just put it on Utah like that too. And I still think you toss it team. But really last night in the NBA world and what this open is about today is Jimmy Butler. So in the third quarter Golden State goes in the 19 O run, Miami has a timeout, Brian windhorst said there was a specific close out that butler didn't get to. I mean, shocker weren't march late March and a vet didn't get out on the closeout. And spall and butler get into it. Now you can see whatever happened where butler's back is to us to the video footage that we saw from a fan and apparently the Miami Heat broadcast ignored all of this shocker. So as we see spo and butler going back and forth at one point, whatever butler says, spo, you can read his lips as back to him. He's like, you want me to fucking fight you? Kyle Lowry's like, I'm out. PJ Tucker makes a face where he's kind of like, what just happened? And then he's kind of back to whatever he's doing, but you Donna has been there for two decades. It's not having it. And gets into it with butler's like, I'll beat your ass. I'll beat your ass, all right? In butler didn't seem to want a ton of that. Despite, I think we'd all agree, but there's a tough guy too. But then we get a different angle from above where it just keeps going. And this is the part that's a little weird, all right? It's weird in that there seem to be one player that was kind of holding butler back, but it felt like the rest of the team was cool going at butler, and then he slammed his clipboard down and kept going, and then I thought the best part of it was that butler and spoke, even the times where it looked like it was kind of like, do you really want some of this? Which is not usually the best look for your team, but in the moment, as I say, all the time, we're not always the best at trying to figure out what it actually means because it could mean everything it could mean nothing. I don't know what it means at this point. But I thought it was kind of crazy that it kept going and it didn't seem like any of the teammates really cared. It felt like they had schools reside. And then they kind of came to a head at the end where they were very close to each other and they were animated and kind of talking out the whole point. All right? So did the heat culture die last night. Not if you ask heat cultures because this is only going to make them stronger, right? Tracks in the foundation, probably not. Like I said, I think a lot of this stuff happens. But last night was aggressive. So it comes down to two camps. If you're a heat fan, awesome. This is great. This is exactly how we're built different. If you want the heat to lose and you think they're overrated, then you think this is part of the app. And we don't have that answer right now. But really this becomes a Jimmy Butler story and the Jimmy Butler timeline. So let's revisit because it is a long one, and it is to be nice. I edited this to try to like, hey, I'm not going to bring up every single time Jimmy Butler got mad at somebody because you know what? As I was digging through it this morning, it's a very long list. But Jimmy Butler should be appreciated. Yes, I did like him coming out of the draft. He scored 2.6 points per game in 42 games, his rookie year. He played 8 minutes per game. All right, as a 22 year old rookie, Jimmy Butler's playing 8 minutes a game. His second year he starts 2082 games scores 8 and a half months per game..
Outside Podcast
"alex honnold" Discussed on Outside Podcast
"Cedar about this. And he gets a little metaphysical when my first free ascents was the first ascent of this thing called the psychedelic wall on the sentinel. Which is this really beautiful. Formation you seventy valley and i was planning with this guy jose pereira. Who's this very cosmic guy. And i remember. I was kind of frustrated. 'cause i was like there's this five thirteen pitch. I just couldn't quite get it. I was like what should i do to get stronger. And and jose was like the universe will train you if you have a goal and you just keep working towards the goal. The opportunities to get stronger will provide themselves. I'm not sure if. I told i think the university of trains you but i do actually think there's no replacement for actually lots of time spent on real rock developing your skills and your craft and that's a big part of training that's more and more overlooked in in modern climbing. You're seeing a lot of these climbers who are very. They're very strong but they're kinda crappy. Rock climbers in all reality right. But if you were just like to stick them in front of some random rock and some nine one place there's like a very solid chance. They wouldn't be able to get up. They don't have to craft right. They don't have like the the years of just like climbing a slab in an overhanging hang loose rock and assault and granite and limestone in like more of just like a real dedication to the craft of rock climbing in other words connell and cedar are just absolutely enormous nerds about climbing they geek out over the composition of the rock like all time amazing rock the grip of a good hold wanted to light and we angle of a wall crazy did we. This might be one of the best. Never done so far is in trouble if you want to be in the sport for a long time and especially if you wanna do dangerous adventurous styles of climbing. You actually have to really love what you're doing and the love has to be greater than the fear and i think that is true for cedar in alex. The love will get you through a lot. It will motivate you to set big goals to plan the trip to get to the base of the climb. But when you're halfway up a thousand foot wall without a rope. The ability crack a joke to distract from the thought of falling to. Your death doesn't hurt either about experience you'd land on tower down there so we find. Oh yeah. have you just like a hard paragliding motive really for me. He's not just to claim it to make you feel the handled impatience like time ago. So you better accelerate. I'm gonna sit on your head saying this is where the wreck rock climber and wants to just go get a beer but first glory being able to have a sense of humor about really grim situations is. I think an underrated skill in the climbing. Even if you're on a rope it's often scary going rock climbing and so to be able to joke. Just make light of your situation. I think is part of the armor that you can fortify yourself with to allow you to continue to do what you do without thinking too deeply about it. Which brings us to another important component of ronald and cedars bond talking shit. The way that they talk about each other is often at first in like sort of on flattering sarcastic terms the ultimate climbing. Dickhead tunnel. what. God didn't give you in talent and gave you in confidence the way that i think good guy. Friends speak about each other where they often have to disparage each other first and foremost before they can say something sweet but they definitely do get sweet eventually. The cedar definitely represents the generation of real adventure climbers selfless part to it with donald wine to see his buddy send. It's less about doing the rats stuff than just doing stuff with your with your buddies. Sometimes i think which is cool. But he's he's always sites he's motivated. He's ready for adventures. Can often lead things that. I don't want to lead. You know he's a. He's into the sort of unpleasant side of climbing. So if it's like a mossy wet off with your like oh perfect. Cedars got all hyper analytical hyper goal oriented person who's extremely intelligent and extremely capable of making his way towards whatever goalie sets for himself that same time. Maybe he just learned this from hanging out with me so much but over time he's gotten like to have a decent sense of humor at least a five out of five out of ten the bond that ronald and cedar have what allows them to poke fun at the other guys weaknesses while also having real affection for him all. That is only possible because of what they've gone through together through many brutal expeditions trial by fire. It's very intense experiences together. Really either destroys a friendship or solidifies friendship. And and in this case. I think that it's really solidify the friendship move years. My father in law has the same that before you marry somebody. You should spend a week on a sailing boat together. And i think expedition with with clinton partners is very much the same. It's just such an intense experience. He pretty quickly whether or not you actually fronts. So that's what it takes to be the climbing partner. The adventure buddy. The training motivator the suffer companion and friend of a professional climber a lack of fear a willingness to suffer an undying love for the adventurous soul of the sport. And most of all a sense of humor about the whole enterprise. At least that's the tangible stuff that you can quantify and label but like any relationship. The reality is a little harder to name a good partner. I think more than more than anything. It's just good chemistry right. It's it's just somebody that motivates you to be better and that gives you that space to be better and that you like being around all this audio will be pretty. Awesome for the podcast. Oh man you. Have you say anything inappropriate have yet. Just do she. This episode was produced by merrin larsen and written by merrin laursen. Andrew bishara andrew interviewed alex donald and cedar right. The piece was edited by me. Michael roberts music by robbie carbon. If you want more climbing in your podcasts you can check out andrews show. It's called the run out. You can watch suffer fest one in two on video. This episode is brought to you by bosh. E-bikes systems baker of outstanding motors displays. An rechargeable batteries that works seamlessly with the most reputable electric bike brands in the world. Learn more at bosh dot com. That's b. o. S. c. h. Dot com male side. Podcast is made possible by the support of our outside. Plus members learn more enjoin at outside online dot com slash outside p. l. u. s. outside podcast listeners. Get twenty five percent off an outside plus membership with a coupon code outside pod. That's outside pod all lower case..
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"alex honnold" Discussed on Outside Podcast
"Fact that got them through multiple expeditions including one to antarctica in two thousand seventeen got the basis of three pysche little tower and it was snowing and it's antarctica and it was pretty grim as you get a badge and i was like i just don't want to climate. It and i was slightly resentful. The fact that i often get roped into expeditions and then because i'm typically stronger leader. I just wind up having to do all the things. I don't really want to do because i have new better at them. And on this particular instance. I was like i just refuse to this tower house. Like you're the one that proposed this expedition. Like if you were to climb things in order that you'd better let us like shirt no problem and he racked up and lead the whole thing. Which meant that. I got to stay completely comfortable. totally warm. And cedar is up there on the scraping. Snow off the ledges and getting all gripped and super scared. It is one of those times i was like. Wow you know. We got the summit. This really cool feature on a day that otherwise would have just been considered a bad weather day. I guess because he was willing to just you know make it happen to me. That's a good partner when you can take up the slack for the other partner on on the days where matters cedars strong mental game is a big reason why he's able to pull off today's climb at red rock especially after not climbing once in the last six weeks because he was in columbia pursuing his newfound love of paragliding. I haven't lined in a month and a half. I've just been like sitting in my paragliding. Harness like basically like human veal is exaggerating a bit. He's been running and training with a hang board a tool that helps build finger and arm strength but he's not in great shape. Which means that by agreeing to do this. He's essentially signed himself up for a whole lot of suffering. This is the second major component of their partnership. When alex needs to call someone who he knows can just go to the most inhospitable places and be a reliable partner. he's gonna call cedar and vice versa. Which is to say yes. Hanalei and cedar are climbing partners. But they're also suffered buddies as is evident in suffer fest one and two films that document the pair as they trudged through weeks long bike tours various objectives and california and then in the four corners when they shot summer fest one in two thousand thirteen. Neither had ever done a serious bike tour before once or legs. He'll love and all the aches and pains. Go away i'll be like. Oh you know it was fine. We did it and then and then we'll be stupid enough to do something like this against them. They did the next summer. They biked even further through the desert. Southwest summoning forty five towers some of which gave cedar the chance to put his boss. Boss moniker to the test desert. Alpine should be thirty. Four and five rented suffering in. This sense is about more than just having a high pain tolerance. It's about being just stubborn enough to keep going no matter how badly you want to quit. Cedars biggest impact on my climbing has probably been facilitating certain sorts of adventures. That i never would have had otherwise just thinking of the summer fest trips together and our expedition artika and some other trips. We've been on there. Some of the more formative moments in my climbing and they're really big experiences for me and they wouldn't have been possible without having motivated partner. Who's pushing just as hard to make those trips happen. We'll be right back at the top of the episode. We learned about bosh. E-bikes systems why they are the leading supplier of motors displays in rechargeable batteries for the most reputable electric bike brains in the world. And now we're gonna hear about frozen yogurt. Have a geek battle with though grass bailey and pomegranate Please an with noted sir topic. 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Mid drive motor systems work synergistically with the bike skiers so they are extremely efficient and can take you so much farther on a single charge. Brains like drek k. Annandale turn electra in canyon. choose bosh e-bikes systems because they are reliable and make all kinds of e bikes from gravel to hybrid to road lighter. Easier to handle and fund run. Find a bosh e by dealer near you and learn. Why sony riders trust bosh to help them stay fit save money and reduce their carbon footprint at bosh hyphen e. bike dot com. That's b. o. S. c. h. hyphen e. bike dot com. Yeah with like a move. I say but you're not gonna like just cleaned know dog okay. Cool making sure another strong element and cedar. Right and alex hans friendship is their desire to stay true to the wild adventurous roots of rock climbing. Even as it's become a mainstream sport that's now part of the olympics which is somewhat ironic considering the large role that climbing gyms played in honolulu early development as an athlete. I'm sort of first. Generation climbers that grew up in a climate gyms. Obviously i climate slightly higher standard than folks before me and now i'm very much seeing the next generation of kids coming out of the gym. You're just like wow. It's a whole different standard again. But at heart they're both yosemite climbers which means that they also know that there's no replacement for going outside. Modern rock climbing has its roots in classical albinism. And i do think there's something to be said for still having connections to the mountains or the greater environment large it make sense to go out into the world and experience nature. you know. it's funny the modern competition climbing. You could win the olympics as rock climber and have never actually touched real rock which i hate to sound old school bound like that doesn't make me a little bit sad to think that the best climber in the world could have never touched actual rock. I mean i think it's important to get outside and actually remember the real connection to the world around us in the gym. You can increase your forearm strength. You can train your finger. Tendons to hold your entire body weight you can get your feet used to be in crammed into tight sweaty shoes. But you can't feel the wind or the exposure or the texture of real rock under your hands and against the rubber of your shoes. Ask.
Outside Podcast
"alex honnold" Discussed on Outside Podcast
"From outside magazine. This is the outside. Podcast feeder frantically cuts. Wait knowing that each step could be his last. This is the sound of alex hamad. The world's most famous rock climber doing what he loves. Most shit heckling is good friend cedar right. I am afraid of dying. Alex is unsympathetic to his plight. The two of them are at the base of thousand foot wall of sandstone in red rock national conservation area. Just outside of las vegas on a chilly spring morning. Cedar is also a professional climber but he hasn't climbed in a month and a half today. Ronald has dragged him out to scale this wall and several others not surprisingly. Because this is alex hahn they won't be using any rooms permanent fresh north looking death right in the i wanna be. I wanna go home amateur. Ronald cedar which is what they call. Each other might seem like an unusual pair old is in his physical prime and sharply analytical. Cedar is far from being in the best shape of his career. And a bit of a goofball. So what are they doing here about two free solo about five thousand feet of sandstone together. What makes people horse so different. Choose each other to engage in one of the most high risk outdoor sports. Well you'd be surprised outside. Pau gas producer. Merrin larson is here to explain. What makes climbing oddest couple tick. Donald and cedar with a decade age gap between them. Come from two different. Generations of climbers seed earned his place in the world of big wall climbing at camp for the infamous hang out for climbers and yosemite as one of the hard climbing dirt bagging stone monkeys who populated the valley in the late nineties and early two thousands. He since traveled widely completing big wall. First ascents on all seven continents are described cedar as a old school professional climber who has spent his years adventuring around the world putting up new routes a bit of a character or if i was feeling ungenerous i could call him. The world's weakest professional climber in terms of pure physical rock climbing stirring on old meanwhile is a very strong climber. He grew up in climbing gyms before venturing out onto real rock and eventually becoming a superstar. Thanks to the oscar. Winning documentary free solo about his mission to become the first person to climb you seventies el capitan without a rope. His fame is well earned. According to journalists and climber andrew bisher at who wrote about hanalei and cedars partnership for outside magazine's summer twenty twenty one issue. Alex donald is the best free solo. Rock climber ever to lift and his accomplishments in this realm. I think will not be matched anytime in my lifetime. I'm pretty confident. That cedar describes ronald a bit differently. I mean he's a motherfucker so sometimes he'll just be this like dude like what's your problem kind of attitude and you're like well. My problem is that. I wanna put in a piece before i do it. Looks like some really overhanging hard climbing. Climbing is a sport belt on partnership and perhaps its most basic forms. It involves two people connected by a rope literally putting their lives in each other's fans but huddled specialty. Free soloing involves neither a rope nor blair. Ronald is in a league of his own. The master of a discipline that has alone baked into the name. He is mentally and physically capable of feats that no other climber would consider this along with his hyper analytical sometimes uncompromising approach to the sport means that in addition to climbing alone. He's also often a loner. Alex no big deal. Ronald is sort of a moniker has been attached to him and he does have that attitude where everything is easy and he doesn't really understand that people struggle in ways that he doesn't he's just on such a different plane that he really doesn't understand mediocrity which share makes you wonder why he'd call on cedar to join him for an elite day of soloing. It'll be a really fun almost like a roller coaster ride through the canyons. Where you up and over a bunch of the the peaks and get climb some of the really good climbing routes this is not how cedar describes today's objective. I just turned forty six and ronald throughout the idea dude. You should do the birthday challenge. Like i've got this crazy ridge diverse thing lined up and it's going to be a big day out covering a bunch of iconic train in red rocks and we're gonna sold at all and i was like. Oh it sounds kind of heinous their differences. Don't end there. Ronald doesn't drink. Trains constantly and his favorite foods are bell peppers which he eats like apples and raspberries. He looks as if he was chiseled from marble. Michelangelo cedar on the other hand looks more like the ninja turtle of the same name cow with a distinctive chest out elbows back gate. That's the result of compressed spine. He says that if ronald's body is a temple his brewery and they turn out to be surprisingly well suited to each other for one thing. They share a seemingly unnatural lack of fear. If you saw free solo you were likely sweating in your seat watching ronald shimmy up el capitan without a rope but on screen ronald is calm and collected confident in his abilities and unfazed by the thousands of feet of open air between him and the ground. Cedar has never climbed at ronald's level. But he's a strong soloist to. He would spend entire seasons living in josh vitry. In the nineties he would routinely free solo thirty pitches a day. He also prospers on rock that would make other climbers quake in their rubber soled shoes. His real skill is that he can get up just about any kind of rock 'n equality of any style anywhere in the world and so his nickname is the boss boss choices. A word climbers use to describe rock. That's of low quality so like breaks in your hand the kind of rock that no one really wants to climb and cedars the the boss of that style. This mastery has come from years and years of putting himself in extremely uncomfortable situations training like exposure. When you've been exposed to something really heinous gnarly donelly something that would seem really heinous gnarly. If someone else does just seems like a fun day out to you and that experience shows up on the wallet rock both donald and cedar already in fifteen minutes they cover the i nine hundred feet of five eight climbing. An advanced beginner level grade blazing past climbers. Who are working on sending their very first multi pitch routes they chat casually the whole way catching up on life sharing stories and reading about how good the climbing is. It's really good. Yeah cedar might be one of the only people with less fear on a rockwall than alexander a.
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"alex honnold" Discussed on Outside Podcast
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The Lead
"alex honnold" Discussed on The Lead
"He's only twenty competitors for men and women twenty on each side and they represent twenty the best climbers that world so really all of them are bringing something special to the games. And i'm just like to see how it plays out. Because i think a lot of it has to do with the day of like how the competition goes. 'cause it's incredibly hot humid in tokyo And i think those conditions will be challenging for the competitors and then some of it's just you know see who has good day. Who's peaking see. Who feels i mean You know it's been interesting with a year delay because kobe to see who's You know obviously all. The competitors have worked hard throughout the year. But it's just hard to know because everybody qualified two years ago and then now after two years of service latian. We'll see where they are. I don't know it's exciting. Well thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us alex. I'm really looking forward to watching event over the next few days. Snow to harm to you. It's it's too bad that it's airing from one. Am to five am or something. But but i'm still very excited to watch. You can hear alex on climbing gold wherever you get your podcasts from wondering in the athletic i'm tiffany ozinsky. Thanks for listening to hear more of the lead. You can follow us on amazon music. Spotify and apple podcasts or to listen to us on your alexa enabled device. Just say alexa. Play the lead podcast in nineteen. Oh four the olympics came to america for the first time but before the games arrived. A fierce battle raged over which city would host them. Hi i'm lindsey. Graham the host of wondering show american history tellers. We take you to the events.
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"alex honnold" Discussed on The Lead
"Will be an analyst for nbc when the climbing competition goes down. And we're talking to you before the competition got underway on tuesday now. The way climbing works in the olympics is not like climbing free soloing l. Copy times and there are three disciplines. There's lead bouldering and speeds. Can you explain the differences between those three. And how exactly does the competition actually work. Okay so and this is a legacy of of of how common was allowed into the olympics. Basie climbing was brought in his new sport but it was only given one medal and so the international federation of sport climbing chose to combine all the disciplines of climbing into one medal. That's why they combine the three different formats into one competition. And so the way breaks down is that you have speed coming. I where people basically race up a fifteen meter wall so forty five foot wall because medal available both out of the blocks in about the same time of both quakes middlesex. Both at the same time. That again is bassani. Takes record is little over five seconds so it's incredibly fast sprint up this wall and then they have bouldering which is relatively small wall. You know say up to twelve or fifteen feet but incredibly hard physically and also incredibly demanding and very tricky route setting so it's basically like you're five minutes to solve a problem to figure out how you climb up these very difficult boulders and there's a whole scoring component to that as well and then the rest of it and then you have the lead section and lead climbing is what most people think of as climbing is basically as high as you can't up the wall you have a rope you clip into bolts as you go so it's all safe. It's all protected but it's incredibly hard and the higher you get the more likely to win. Basically and then the final score is multiplied result of your three scores in each discipline so this disciplines all sound very different..
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"alex honnold" Discussed on The Lead
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"alex honnold" Discussed on The Lead
"In tokyo including surfing and skateboarding and this week. We're adding one more to that list. As we see the first olympic appearance of sport climbing is about an awful lot of action three pretty savage fold could seize just beginning to show you showing you just how much effort is going in today for donald the expert climber from the academy award winning documentary free zillow joins us to break down. How climbing when from outsider to insider at the olympics and the incredible demands that will be placed on the athletes this week in tokyo to be an olympic rock climber. You have to have the lettuces and of of an elite gymnast really represents just the highest degree of athleticism climbing has ever seen basically from wondering in the athletic. I'm tiffany ozinsky. It's tuesday august third and this is the lead. It felt like something was happening. There is something about the emotion and the past. Because this isn't a story. Be the athlete. It stays with you. So alex many people will know you from the incredible documentary free solo where you became the first person to free. Climb el capitan. So what have you been up to since then basically just climbing fulltime i. Actually i just got home from a month long climbing. Sort of it's hard to call an expedition. Susan the alps in france assault very very civilized but basically on climbing trip coming mountains in the alps and the dole nights. I mean basically since presold. I've i've still just been climbing fulltime. But it's just not as a widely known as the film itself..
Newsradio 700 WLW
"alex honnold" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
"Rocky last battle. 40 minutes ago, We talked to Marty Brennaman about the late great Hank Aaron. No, that's that stands out in my mind because I saw I was watching that game on television when he tied the record and then I saw the next game when he hit the To break the record. Home Run Inn in Atlanta, so I will always remember that, but we're talking about the greatest sports. In your mind the greatest sports feed of all time. 749 7800 the big £1.700 on a TNT and you know different generations. There's going to be something that means. Something to you that you witnessed. And you'll never forget it. I think for me, I mean, look, there's a ton, but I think Cal Ripken's record of 2632 games played the BB Lou Gehrig's record by 500 games. To me. I know the day and age were you know, I don't know. It's just I think athletes are less willing to, you know, to just play through stuff. And why would you the money so I don't know. It's just something I think and You know, kind of sad along the same lines of Brett Farve as the most consecutive NFL game started 297 like some like that, so I think those air Ones that are impressive. And I don't see him getting broken at any time. Soon. If not ever before we get into your record breaking stories. How about Janan? Erlanger? Jen? What do you have? It's just never gonna myself for a minute. But back in 1973. I was a kid of 13 years old and my Hank was going through this trying to break the record. I wrote him a letter as I've done throughout my life, and I got a got a new water back from him. It was a type written letter, but he signed it. It's got the brains. He's got the brains letterhead on it, and I'll just read you one of the lines, he says, very heartwarming to know that you were in my corner. I'll always be grateful for the interest you have shown in me. And it goes on upstairs on appreciate your warm witches and you're sentimental. Your settlement of brutality means more to me than you know, Um, you know, like I said, I grew up in the seventies are just turned 60 last year when I heard of his passing. I knew I had the letter and I came up here and one of the bedrooms in my house and I found a letter from Take care. Not right Throughout the years, I've written Bob House them. Not right. Nick Wagner on doll that but decided I had from, um Hank Aaron was what I'll never forget. Mom and I were actually after game 1974. I was 14 at that point, and then Hank hit the home run and the game was stopped. Everybody in the audience. Anybody in the crowd swept up my dear mother. He's still with me at the age of 19. Who I think she was saying that she kept thinking that we could be the hammer on the beat up. But that was also Marty Brennaman. First, a little thing with the lead and something that I will never forget. And I can this letter that I have. It's just something that Nowadays we have social media. I'm active on it, too. But you know, that's that's great that descends. Thank you. That's something to hang on to write their name, hair personal letter from home. Let's talk to Frankie about greatest sports feet in your lifetime. Frankie. What do you think, Eddie? A Rocky, I think scoring a lot of basketball. A lot of points are a lot of goals and all that's great. But if if you're talking sports feed, it's gotta be life and death. And to me. It's Alex Honnold Climate L cop without any ropes. No, I think I said that a couple weeks ago that that is the single Greatest athletic achievement ever. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you said if you you know, if you miss you die. It's not like you miss you, You know, But what did Frankie do? You remember? Do you do recall either one of you guys recall the name of that documentary about him doing that? Because that called free soloing every story solo. Yeah, if you've never seen that make a point to watch it because it's very I mean, you know, charge up, but it will scare the hell I'm watching three times. And I still get nervous watching it. Yeah. I mean, if you've seen that you can also watch the behind the scenes of that making that movie and that's all his friends filming it. I mean, they have to be there day in and day out watching this guy, possibly One of their best friends possibly die trying to do this crazy thing, and I think it's one thing to like, score a lot of points, but he's done something that people are afraid to try to do. Yeah, well, one of them and thanks, Frankie. I mean, That really is like I said, if you haven't seen that movie, watch it and you will be blown away on Belay the absolute insanity of what that guy did. A Gregan Crittenton. What's going on, Greg? I'll just driving down the road talking to people. Okay, give greatest sports feet in your life but in my life Yep. My life the greatest sports feed in my life. I scored the winning run on this. Be like not home. Work in 1974 was created. Ice wasn't against William Thomas Funeral, Huh? Yeah, he took Willie Deep. Yeah, but now I think I remember the 1980 hockey team USA Hockey team's a bunch of kids and beat a bunch of professional Russian hockey player. That was That was great. Now that that wasn't I guarantee that's that's one for everybody. Again. That's the year you were born..
Progressive Talk 1350 AM
"alex honnold" Discussed on Progressive Talk 1350 AM
"Doing a screening and have we had captured carbon dioxide of the audience with her approval, of course. And I wasn't actually at the screening. I just saw this year to capture and I know knew exactly where the crimes were where he abandoned his climbs. As the audience watched Alex Honnold attempt to climb El Capitan. Their bodies responded to the suspense there, breathing changed, and thanks to the carbon dioxide sensors in her theater, Poppy had a map of the audiences emotional experience. It's this power of the audiences on that journey and experiencing it with the filmmakers, and it's pretty exciting to see that engagement in the theater and have that history But our breath isn't our only tell. There's an increasing number of ways machines are becoming able to read us even how hard with thinking in thermal cameras you can track you can look at dynamics of blood flow to no stress levels and engagement. Just in the infrared signatures. You can understand card debt load. You can then look a micro expressions Ah, facial recognition to get past. Not just if I'm feigning emotion, but really the authenticity of what I'm experiencing. That gives us a lot of insight about how hard my brain is working. And how engaged I am way haven't changed this humans. What's changed this ubiquity of sensors and the capacity of sensors and the cost? Just 15 years ago, the cost of Ah typical device would be about maybe 20 $25,000. Now you're looking at those devices, not even having to be close up for pennies. Dollars integrated into every parish smart glasses going.
Pat Walsh
Emily Harrington is first woman to free climb Golden Gate route on Yosemite's El Capitan in one day
"Herring to becoming the first woman to free climb El Capitan in a single day. She's a professional rock climber Emily Harrington. Made history when she scaled the 3000 FT Granite wall of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan in under 24 hours. There's someone who could care less about the election going on. She's like I have other things on my mind. And she is a five time US national champion. I guess in rock climbing. I don't know. Racing for this climb just a year earlier that hospitalized her And a 1 30 said 10 36 against it was To begin our ascent. 21 hours, 30 minutes 51 seconds later. Herrington reached the top of El Capitan, making her fourth Her the fourth person. The first woman to ever climb a ll Capitan in 24 hours. Says NBC Nunally Harrington has literally climbed her way to the top The 34 year old rock climber, becoming the first woman ever to free climb the famed golden Gate root of El Capitan. Doing it in under 24 hours in order to free climbed el cap in a day you have to cut corner for me. It was just about balancing what types of risk I was willing to take in orderto sacrifice. My safety for seed head wound from a bad fall during the climb almost prevented her from completing it. There was a part of me that didn't want to Going, But there was this other part of me that just knew that I could do it and I deserved. I owed it to myself to try again. Carrington pushed through, making her way up nearly 3000 Ft of El Cap, one of the biggest, most iconic walls known the world over for its sheer size and difficulty. Harrington is only the fourth person ever to free climb the Golden Gate route in a single day. Using just her hands to grip ridges, sin his dimes and ropes only as a safety measure not to aid the climb. I feel like anybody could conceivably die on any given day Sport of rock climbing, made popular in the documentary Free Solo, which followed Alex Honnold as he successfully attempted the first free solo climb of El Capitan. Scaling the vertical rock face without any protection from a fall and scary honestly, a big part of the appeal is to be in this position that should be totally scary should be crazy, but to feel super comfortable. Honnold, a longtime friend and climbing partner of Harrington accompanied her on the first two thirds of her historic climb. Her fiance, Adrian Ballenger, joined her for the final section, climbing much of the sheer rock in the dark of the night, ultimately achieving what she calls an impossible dream, setting a new record and scaling her way to new Heights. Amazing. Wow. NBC News that report.