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The Rich Roll Podcast
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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..
RISE Podcast
"honnold" Discussed on RISE Podcast
"Version of reach talk. Enjoy. Okay, so here's the story, I promise. I'm gonna wrap all this up in a beautiful little package for you guys. In 1954 in 1953, a man named Roger Bannister ran the mile in under a minute. Here's why that matters. Until 1953 in the history of the world, we never had recorded evidence that a human being could run the mile in under a minute. People thought it wasn't possible. So Roger Bannister works on it, figures it out, runs a mile in under a minute. So from the beginning of time to 1953, no recorded documentation of anybody doing this. Within 6 months of Roger Bannister running the mile in under a minute, it was something like, well, does it have that information? 50 people, 60 people, 1000 people, a million. I don't remember the number. But basically, all these other people did it. Nobody believes something's possible until somebody proves that it's possible, like Alex honnold free soloing el cap or this guy seeing the other man climb 14 peaks and going, hey, maybe I could do it and maybe I could do it in less time. All of that to say, I love watching documentaries like this because it's so inspiring to see what humans are capable of. And it doesn't mean that you're going to run out and decide to climb a bunch of mountains, but it may just inspire you to do something that you don't currently believe that you can do. Watch these documentaries. I know you're going to love them. But here's something I learned watching 14 peaks. The inspiration, the beauty, the shots, the mountains, whatever. Did you know? That if you're climbing Everest, if at any point, you're all or climbing up the side of a snowy mountain and you can't keep going, they leave you to die. When you are in the mountains..
Out of Bounds Podcast
"honnold" Discussed on Out of Bounds Podcast
"I guess I just wonder how people don't know the road map. So do you think it's valuable? Now that you have the experience, right? You can say, I don't need an agent. I kind of understand the business. But do you think it's valuable for people to have an agent early on? Does it depend on the person? Is it? It depends on the person. It depends on if you want to take the initiative and step up and be like, yeah, I'm going to represent myself. And I'm going to manage myself and I have good organizational skills. Good people skills. I feel good about negotiating. And maintaining that friendship and not letting it tarnish your relationship. There's a lot that goes with that right. And I always said that I didn't go to school after high school, which I have taken some college courses, but I really went to the school of life, and it might sound cliche, but I learned a lot about being a brand running your own business. Yeah, I don't know. Figuring it out. And so yeah, I think a lot I learned from having an agent and watching how they did stuff. And then also figuring out my worth through what they were getting. And then drawing from that. But I take that back to some extent because all of my best contracts, I've negotiated myself. Yeah, I figured that out on my own. And it's not easy, but yeah it takes experience. It takes asking people too. That's a huge thing. To be fair, I'm an open book, and a lot of women have reached out to me and she's like, hey, can we just call and talk about this for a minute? I'm like, yeah, let's chat about it. No one else is going to tell you the stuff. There isn't a perfect road map every athlete has a different road map. So that's why it is hard to even pin that down. We've all like Alex honnold made it to success in a totally different way than Tanner hall, then whoever, you know, there's just different different maps to go, I guess. But yeah, I think asking and being a learner and not a knower is probably a pretty key to sum it up. To make it real succinct, be a learner not a knower. Yeah, right? Ask and talk about it. I think talking about the money, that's one of the things that's starting to happen a little more, and I feel like that's super important. Like people need to know that like, oh, you're making money and this company's only sending me product. That's one of the things that I think this industry has done for a long time, that doesn't sit that well with me that often, especially with the younger athletes. It's like you can't just take advantage of somebody because they're good and they're young and just send them a bunch of product. And it's also like negotiating is really fucking hard. I have a hard time with it too. It's like when I go and I try to get a new contract for the show I'm like, am I asking for too much by asking for too little on my shooting myself on the fourth road? I don't know what anything's worth. I have no and on the other side of it, it's like the brand knows what everybody's worth. They know what they're paying every single person, right? So they've got that. Totally. I don't know on one hand, you're like an agent kind of gives you some validation for what you can get. Like, oh, my agent could get that, so I can get that. But at the same time, I think you're probably able to get that for yourself. If you just believe that you're worth that, right?.
Outside Podcast
"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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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
"honnold" Discussed on Outside Podcast
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Seeking Wisdom
"honnold" Discussed on Seeking Wisdom
"Does and free climbing means that he climbs the sides of cliffs on mountainsides with no ropes. It is crazy right. And so when i first heard of alex i knew that i had to figure out a way to interview him and i got to do that at in. Two thousand nineteen at hyper growth boston. 'cause we talk about everything about free so and how you train. How the film was made why he lives in las vegas of all places and his foundation that he said up called the handled foundation which a lot of the work that he does goes to the proceeds go to ronald foundations and so many things that he does including his own personal social media habits. All right let me know what you thought of this episode. Alex donald mind-blowing episode so fortunate to spend time with him don't forget six only rating shouted out to our donald piece. We're in boston at the wang theater. Second nightclub it's got this music blasting if you don't hear that and we're getting ready it's eight. Am yeah that's the thing that makes a real barely had breakfast. And there's like club music and tons of people with glow sticks very high energy. Do you have breakfast. Yeah yeah yeah. I always do breakfast most important today. Really yeah scott actually Yeah it totally depends on where am doing. I had breakfast. But i've been up since four thirty jet lag site china's some sort of on an unusual program. It's crazy so you're coming back from a tour of promoting your movie free so low right in china. What were you doing. Just in beijing doing crafts for two days. It was just Yeah it was just the film premiere and tons of I don't really know. Honestly that's kind of the the the beauty. The interest of traveling. Asia's you just never have any idea what's happening. Just people telling me what to do with no real sense of why. I'm doing it or who's asking what's happening continuing that here. Yeah exactly exactly. This is definitely more surreal scene than than anything in beijing. That is funny. It's crazy you're going to be speaking today. At hyper growth young. What are you going to be speaking about today. I'm going to be talking a bit about my whole journey reselling gap. He's probably fair to assume that a lot of people here have seen the film but go a little bit deeper into some of the backstory and just the process. You know the things that the film doesn't cover well when you watch this film. What's the feeling you've got like the rest of us. No definitely not. When i watched the film. It's like flipping through a scrapbook like it helps me remember all the actual things that happen. You know. it's obviously i mean. The film is is incredible but the mostly for me. It just reminds me of all things because the film is ninety minutes long and it was shot over two years. I mean there's a lot a lot of life happened in that time you see you on the the film were there are really air is in the film. I mean you know it's all it's all. True documentary is all very thin. So there's nothing wrong with it but it's more adjoussou omissions. But not like not is just edited. I mean it's just ninety minutes instead of you know. I mean the the final climb in the film is twenty minutes long and it's incredible as beautifully shot as you know i i love washing it but actual climate four hours and i remember the whole thing. So we'll let you do want to do the movie like such a solo part of the reason that the movie was just because it it made it easier to work on the project. Sorta counter-intuitively bend the thing is. There's a lot of work involved in working on that. A lot of just toil carrying rope coiling arrives managing and so by doing a film and then my friends were busy. Getting paid to help me on my project so excuse for yeah and it's kind of a cover also in a way because if i was up there repelling down the same section of vocab over and over working on it anybody's he'd be like oh he's obviously parents sola it but because we were filming was actually more like oh. We're working on his nat. Go project if you be like oh cool. They're like. Oh maybe the shooting. A history of the south i wall which is the section of the wall i was on or it's like you know. Or maybe they're shooting because occasionally go. We're shooting from national parks. Recapping for najia sort of faye. You know true but not statistically yeah but so it gave a lot of flexibility it just kind of made sense. The people like the people on the cast actually filming where the actor friends of yours you. Yeah i've ever on the crew. Were close friends of mine. That i've climbed with over the years that i've been friends with for many years. Yeah i mean like jimmy chan the co-director we've traveled together twelve years or something so yeah i think so. I think i've known him since. You don't seven piney. We're both on the north face team on expeditions. All over like we've gone already together. We spent a lot of time together. Yeah how many years have you been professionally climbing since two thousand seven okay. That's quite a journey and so all of them are real primers. Yeah so a couple of the couple of the crew members were sort of verite film maker. So jimmy's wife tribe mazzarelli early in the director of the film co-director so she brought more of the verite background to it with She's not a climber but she's a gifted filmmaker and then she brought her team members people that she'd worked with in the past who were a little bit more focused on on the baroness but yeah basically anything is. After two years of all together you wind up being pretty good friends with friends out of me and no one me. Two years is a long time somebody that they'd be married and you got married during no no no number number okay. So just Seem yeah we what we moved in. After the first week or some- executant cars. Just move into replace. Come to stay. But that actually happened during the filming. Yeah so i met my girlfriend after we'd already started filming free solo. Yeah so i'm yes. Our entire relationship plays out you know. Yeah it's crazy yes. Yeah so what. Start all this. I just pursued declining. Yeah i mean. I've just always left on. I find since. I was ten years old. So it's like my entire life is just invested into this one pursue. Yeah yeah and then. If you're going to do what you wanna do it well. You want to be as good as you can. And so you know have put a lot of effort and over the years and what do you how do you think about that. You're next thing now. They used that you've done this. I don't know. I mean honestly. That's the hardest thing every single you know cuny do with audiences any event. I do errands like what's that sort of. I don't know it's hard think that way. Do you think like like from the outside looking at what you've done. Seems like his always pursuit of what's next. What's next how to get better to refine well. The thing is how to get better. No so i am always a how do you get better. What is the next thing. I want to work on the thing. Is that audiences when ask you. What's next they're like when he working free solar to and the reality is that there's never going to be a free solitu- there no other objectives like that in the world. There's you know it's a unique and it was a beautiful confluence of the perfect objective with the right crew. The right you know the right motivation me like it. All came together to make this incredible experience. And you know that's never going to happen again and so you hate to disappoint people with with the light while this is a unique one off. Yeah yeah watching over you know but the thing is i'm still trying to get better climbing on things. I have tons of personal projects. But they're just not ever going to be academy award winning films. They're not interesting in that way. And so I don't know it's hard to be like well. You know the rest of my life will just be back to the the quiet toil way. Yeah exactly exactly and do you have that. You consider like that was a perfect line. I mean free saw. You're pretty close to as good as it gets for me. Two years work for a big climates. Yeah and it went as well as a good hard was. It seemed like almost impossible. Even the people actually filming. It seemed like doing when you were doing climb. That's pretty difficult even having people on the wall and keep them a wall. I don't know. I mean you've spoken to jimmy as well. I mean i'm sure. He said the same thing that that they spent. You know all the time that i spent working on the climb they spend well. They spent documenting my practice for that awesome ended. They were up on the wall practicing as well and so by the time. I actually did the climb. They knew exactly what they were doing in the same way that i did. Yeah and so you know by the end. It wasn't really a challenge at all to have have all of us up there. You know we all knew exactly what to do how to do it. Which did you grow up Sacramento california good ole sack. Is there any climbing intact Not not really. Though it's it's close to the sierra nevada close like clergy seventy. I grew up camping and all that. But it's I basically just had the good fortune of climate. Jim opening near my house and i was a kid so i was able to just start climbing the climate gin and and really. That's as good a place as any to learn. This surprised when i was watching the movie that you you moved to vegas like land knowing anything about vegas. Everybody assumes that they just gambling is actually the best four season climbing in the country. There's rock all around it. There's there a lifetime supply of hard time around. Vegas and vegas really. I think makes us really the best in the country and there's climbing at all elevation so you can climb the winner. You climb the summer plans. Rainfall like every other city in the country has You know seasons where you can't clown. Yeah i would assume my colorado or like just yeah exactly. Everybody thinks says she's not really the case. And even some of the places that are considered mountain town like boulder. Colorado is the heart of finding. Yeah but the reality is when you're in boulder dr the climate twenty twenty five minutes drive up into the canyons yet and from my house in vegas you can be climbing in the same amount of time but but it's better it's crazy and you always been like a climbing area in vegas who's becoming since the nineties. Yeah actually i would say it's becoming more and more it actually so. I bought a house her three years ago. I guess and then another professional climber about hustler. A couple of years ago think the climbing community is definitely blossoming. A little bit. Yeah like. I don't think it was ever quite on the map for for high end hard climbing. And i think it's becoming more so now but was indeed a free solo bump now i mean i haven't seen we'll see the real the real bummed seeing people at the climbing gym climbing in the same shoes that i saw in the pump for like. Oh cool you took you into the gym and you bought like even though they're not designed for them they're totally different. You should be like. It's not what you should come the gym but But that's kind of what. I what i noticed any year yourself your own like make your oh now. So one of my sponsors backed on signature series harnessed talkback benefits foundation and then actually. My rogue sponsor maximum. They also make your series for of the medicine. Basically all my sponsors have kind of gone on board to to support the asia through through random product. But but i don't make anything myself. 'cause i just i'm not. I'm an unsurprising. All your big year guy. I'm not like way into it. I was like. I don't have strong opinions. I can use whatever that led to the huddle foundation like starting it. I mean that was just yes foundation sports solar projects now and And i mean. I guess i i started in two thousand twelve. I guess because. I was just looking for something useful to do you know i was starting to earn more than i needed to live with my band and i just felt like i should be contributing somewhere. Yeah and so. Yeah and actually. That's been the one great thing about free solo taken off crazy way because the film the foundation is has really thrived the last year. That's awesome which Yeah which is great because you. Don't what motivates you to keep doing this like what you're telling me to some extent yeah You know it's not like the quality of my life all by being more famous like like honestly every time i fly. Now it's actually so the last four or five as step off the plane. I'm like shell nice headphones during a haggard. You're sleeping like the very first version sees like are you the free solo guy. And you're like oh man. Come on like you're in the men's room. And the like come on mentioning. That might be my biggest. Beavis people stop in the men's room. Yeah it's kind of like when you're when you're working out in a gym or something you're sort of like You know you're not supposed to do something in the weight room. Let people finish their says like the like. You have a timer going. You got a bunch of weight hanging off you and you're like doing stuff and you're sort of like. Is this the time like you got a job right now and be like old hat in vegas now or do people still stop you in that community. it's more anywhere that i spent time routinely as way more joe. Yes so like my old. Jim in sacramento. My job in vegas are definitely a lot more relaxed. But it's funny because people will start climbing vegas like someone new to the gym and they'll be like. Oh my god. What are you doing here. This incredible and i'm like this is my home jam. Cover four train your all the time and they're like well. It's my first time and i'm psyched and that's cool. I mean i'm totally into that. You know and. I like the enthusiasm. Newcomers like it's great that you know it's good for the sport. It's it's all great but you know it just yet ground down a little bit. You're like it's not. It doesn't like make life any better by nation is thriving and i'm able to actually like a couple of weeks ago. That project the reporting in detroit and was hoping with his this translation on on the home there. And when you meet the homeowners when you see the projects when you see all the good income that i mean it is pretty satisfying sort of like. Oh it's worth having all the weirdos during you like us autographing. What are the best things that one of my favorite things like in the movie just watching you and other videos is how much focus you put on training right because like for most people seem like they would just see the end result and it just seems like magic like you are just whatever like you can just like spider man climbed things but like you feel watching youtube video and they'd have to just walk up to a cliff and climate. How do you know where to go. And your walks. I find it a hundred times before practice. Different two years not member as the moves. And i'm trained and yet i know i know it's funny because climbing is i mean well you know you have been climbing. There's just no. It's not easy to be a good climber like there's just they're no real short guys like you just. It's just hard and so young. Put a lot of work into it's crazy. How do people Keep keep up with you online I mean i'm on all the social media lab one southside alex okay but But it's funny. Because i've been i've been racing all the apps off my phone and then i installing stream like once we got like maybe post something that racy app again consol just a bit too much time and not no no. I think i've just been a little too public last year. A little like you know. I think one of the things. We're social as you have to want to share some of yourself. And i think when you're doing too much sharing to begin with like i don't i don't need to like post more you know. I'm trying to struggle with that from every once in a while. Just like doing the same deleting all those apps yeah. They're trying to see how i can go with them whether it's like twitter instagram. Whatever then i add them back then. I removing them. I had movement stuff like that. And i feel like for what we do. Obviously like we do a lot on social media. And i do a lot on social media but i feel like if it wasn't for this like i would just be like gone or this i mean that's that's the thing to me you know because i'm trying to promote the film. I'm kinda you know. Be good for my sponsors. Or i'm trying to promote my nation or share the things that i care about sharing environmental. She's public lands and she's the opposite the things that matter to me. You know like i. I appreciate having the platform and having having a way to share ideas but at the same time. We're like sometimes you just want to sit by yourself in a closet. Not not there so thank you for doing this..
The Lead
"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.
The Lead
"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..
The Lead
"honnold" Discussed on The Lead
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The Lead
"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..
Progressive Talk 1350 AM
"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.
WBZ Morning News
3 Americans Die in Shabab Attack on Kenyan Base
"Attack in Kenya on a key military base used by U. S. counter terror forces three American DOD personnel were killed when al Shabab extremists overran the installation CBS's Elaine Korry Honnold tells us the attack was on the mend a bear feel shared by U. S. and Kenyan forces smoke rose from an air strip and the fighting continued for hours officials say US and Kenyan troops repel the assault and killed the five attackers was the al Qaeda linked groups first Jack against US forces in that East African