Blister Speaker Series: Jeremy Jones
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4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
One of the greatest big-mountain snowboarders of all time came to Western Colorado University for another installment of our Blister Speaker Series. But Jeremy isn’t simply one of the best to ever ride a board; by founding Protect Our Winters, Jeremy has had a massive impact on the broader snowsports world, and is working to address one of the biggest issues of our time: climate change. So we talked to Jeremy about filming, snowboarding, founding POW, the ‘outdoor state’; and more.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- When were you last in the Gunnison Valley? (3:56)
- Relevance today of Jeremy’s film, Purple Mountains (6:41)
- Size of the ‘Outdoor State’? (8:30)
- Starting Protect Our Winters (10:34)
- How has the mission of POW stayed the same or evolved? (16:55)
- The road not taken (20:39)
- Social media attacks (22:35)
- How much are you snowboarding these days? (24:50)
- Clarify POW’s position on Individual Behavior vs Policy & Voting (28:07)
- Will individual behavior ultimately move the needle? (32:59)
- Hilaree Nelson (36:58)
- Have you talked to a legislator who made you reconsider a position? (40:47)
- Pessimism and the Future (42:40)
- Scariest moment snowboarding? (46:07)
- How does POW decide which objectives to tackle? (49:05)
- Are you seeing funding coming in to support climate action? (50:16)
- How do you feel about ‘carbon neutrality’? (52:48)
- How to convince officials to care about climate action if they are funded by parties against it? (55:26)
- How were you thinking about climate while filming Art of Flight? (58:12)
- Climate Leadership: federal government vs small communities (1:00:18)
- Upcoming elections (1:01:55)
- What's your favorite place to snowboard? (1:03:04)
- Jeremy’s new book The Art of Shralpinism: Lessons from the Mountains (1:04:06)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Blister podcast on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:17.0 | Last week, we had Jeremy Jones in the Gunnison Valley of Colorado for another event in our |
| 0:24.2 | Blister speaker series at Western Colorado University, and the event actually doubled not only as a |
| 0:32.1 | blister speaker series event, but it kicked off Protect Our Winter's Shop Talks tour, where Jeremy is going to be going |
| 0:40.4 | to four different campuses in four different states, to talk about the upcoming midterm elections, |
| 0:46.8 | and to encourage students to vote, and to get clear on which of the candidates running for office are earnest about being good stewards of our air, our water, and our land. |
| 1:00.2 | And so in this conversation with one of the greatest snowboarders of all time, I wanted actually to use this occasion to help clarify some things about the organization |
| 1:14.9 | that Jeremy started, Protect Our Winters, because as you'll hear me say, I encounter a number |
| 1:22.9 | of people who still seem to be a bit unclear about exactly what the mission of Protect Our Winners is |
| 1:31.0 | and what exactly the organization does. And so who better to try to get clear on these things |
| 1:37.9 | than the founder himself. And so we kicked off our evening at Western by first showing two films. |
| 1:46.0 | One, we showed some scenes from Jeremy's Purple Mountains film. |
| 1:50.0 | We talk about that in our conversation. |
| 1:52.4 | And we also showed a message from Jeremy talking about the midterm elections. |
| 1:58.2 | Then Jeremy got into our wide-ranging conversation that then got to be more |
| 2:04.4 | wide-ranging when we opened it up to audience questions. And then we ended the evening by having |
| 2:12.1 | Jeremy read a passage from his brand new book. So you'll learn more about that in this conversation, too. |
| 2:20.8 | Now, just before we get started, and since you might have noticed, winter is coming soon, |
| 2:28.2 | I wanted to tell you about a special offer that we have for any listener to this podcast or anyone in our |
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