Free Speech & Thoreau's 'Walking' w/ Mountain Gazette’s Mike Rogge (Blister Book Club)
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan & Mountain Gazette editor, Mike Rogge, offer some thoughts on the current state of free speech, then discuss Thoreau’s great essay, “Walking,” and the new Mountain Gazette anthology, Print Ain’t Dead.
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Thoreau’s “Walking” (37:24)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Blister Podcast on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything. |
| 0:11.0 | We're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:16.7 | Today, Mountain Gazette owner and editor Mike Rog, is here to talk with me about the current |
| 0:23.6 | state of free speech. And then we get into our next installment of our Blister Book Club, and we are |
| 0:30.7 | going to be discussing today Thoreau's great essay, Walking. And then finally, as a bit of a bonus, Mike also gives us a preview of the new |
| 0:40.7 | Mountain Gazette anthology called Print Ain't Dead. Okay, now a couple of notes here. Next |
| 0:47.5 | month for our Blister Book Club, Blister reviewer Paul Forward and I are going to be discussing |
| 0:53.7 | one of Paul's favorite books about |
| 0:55.8 | Alaska, and that would be John McPhee's coming into the country. So get your hands on that book |
| 1:02.7 | and start reading, and then Paul and I will be discussing the book on October 22nd here on the |
| 1:09.4 | Blister podcast. |
| 1:17.3 | Okay, for those of you who pre-ordered the print edition of our brand new Winter Buyers Guide, |
| 1:23.0 | well, those have shipped from the printer, and we know that many of you have already received your print copy. |
| 1:24.5 | So we hope you are enjoying the guide, and for those of you who would still like to get a copy, you can still order a copy. So we hope you are enjoying the guide. And for those of you who would still like to get a |
| 1:29.1 | copy, you can still order a copy while supplies last, or you can become a Blister Plus member where you |
| 1:36.7 | get a copy of the print edition of the guide for free. You just have to pay the shipping. And of course, |
| 1:42.8 | Blister Plus members all get the digital edition of our new guide. |
| 1:48.1 | That just comes with a Blister Plus membership. |
| 1:52.1 | Now, speaking of the digital edition of the guide, that is going to be going live this week, |
| 1:58.6 | probably in just a couple of days. |
| 2:04.2 | So keep an eye on your inbox for an email from us saying that the digital edition is live. And speaking of your inbox, if you are a |
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