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The Enormocast: a climbing podcast

Episode 28: Alex Honnold- Calmer Than You Are

The Enormocast: a climbing podcast

Chris Kalous

Sports, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Wilderness

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2013

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 28, I bag with one clean shot, a perfectly healthy free-range Honnold. Alex sits down in a clean, well-lit place to expound on his life in the glare of the klieg lights . He tells us what it was like to lock eyes with the beautiful and mysterious Lara Logan, what it was …

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0:00.0

Hey there, normal cast listeners. Have you ever wondered how that bedraggled, sallow hunched over

0:06.6

dude you see crawling from his tent every morning, manages to magically send 514 by day's end and look

0:12.7

like a stud doing it? Well, first of all, he doesn't have a real job. But second, he uses artificial

0:18.6

stimulants, aka caffeine. Now, I can't guarantee that drinking Defiant Bean coffee will turn you into a 514 climber or make you more attractive.

0:27.6

But it will make you feel better about the fact that you're probably never going to climb 514.

0:32.6

And thrusting a steamy cup of Defiant Bean in your tentmate's hand early in the morning will shroud

0:38.4

you in a rosy glow. Oh, you're such a good friend. I wish my boyfriend did stuff like this for me,

0:44.9

but he doesn't even like to climb. Hmm. So if you want to fill every day with limitless

0:51.0

possibilities, at least in your mind, then head over to defiant bean.com

0:55.7

and order some fresh roasted, responsibly sourced coffee beans from friend of the show

1:01.2

and climber Jeff Hollenbaugh.

1:03.7

When you enter Enormo at checkout, you get a discount and the Anormo cask gets a couple

1:08.2

bucks too.

1:09.9

So once again, that's defiant bean.com.

1:13.1

Entry Normo at checkout.

1:15.5

Listen, uh, uh, where are you playing in town?

1:17.8

Are you playing here?

1:18.6

What are you doing the, uh, Normo dome, whatever it is.

1:21.6

It's terrific.

1:22.1

Oh, yeah, a big place.

1:23.1

That's a big place.

1:24.9

You sold that $20,000.

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