Alex Honnold

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2,584 appearances 6 recordings 5 series first heard Sep 2025 last heard 14 Aug

Alex Honnold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Like I'm a middle class suburban kid.

Nobody in my family is athletic.

I just, after 20 years of climbing five days a week and being really freaking scared, I respond differently than an average person.

And there was tons of emotional turmoil throughout it.

Periods where you're just like, I'm trying so hard and I'm just like not as good as I want to be.

You know, I was like living in a car.

I had like a couple hundred bucks a month for 10 years.

Like that's challenging, but you just can't master a craft overnight.

I mean, how deep do you want to go?

Just be like, all right.

But, yeah, certainly there's an imprint from my parents, my upbringing.

I mean, they had a very fraught relationship.

They eventually got divorced, but they stayed together for the kids.

And it was a whole, like, you know, say a tense home life because neither of them really liked each other.

And then my mom is very driven, very –

you know, high performing.

And my dad was hard to say.

I mean, I think my dad was deeply depressed basically the whole time I knew him because he was in this relationship, you know, it's hard to tell.

He wasn't living his best life.

And then sadly, after they got divorced, he was, he was much happier, but then he died.

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