What's up everybody and welcome back to the Blister podcast. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister,

and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing, plus all of our other podcasts, over

at blisterreview.com. Well, today we've got Jeremy Jones on the show.

Now, Jeremy is one of the best big mountain snowboarders of all time, and in 2007 he founded

Protect Our Winters, and then this Wednesday, September 16th, Jeremy is releasing a new film called Purple Mountains,

and you can find and watch the trailer of the film in the show notes to this episode,

or you can go to purple mountainsfilm.com.

Purple Mountains is a bit of a departure from the film starring Jeremy that many of us are familiar with,

but for reasons that I'll explain in this conversation, Purple Mountains happens to be one of my personal favorites.

And so again, you can watch for yourself the trailer for this film, and you can find it in the show notes to this episode.

Then on September 16th, you'll be able to watch the full film.

But right now, you are going to be able to enjoy my conversation with Jeremy Jones.

So, let's get to it.

Well, Jeremy Jones, how are you today and where are you today?

I am doing very well. Thanks for asking. And I am at my home in Truckee, California.

Excellent. And you've got this nice kind of beatific lighting going on right now. So I feel like angels should be singing and we should be hearing harps. Maybe they'll kick in in a little bit here. Yeah, I got the mountains. I got this nice tropical-esque tree. And yeah, a little bit of... It's nice. It's a good look. I want to start actually with the title, Purple Mountains. I think it's kind of a fitting title for this film, but how did you get there? I got there because we've realized that

there are these handful, half a dozen, say, key states that aren't dark red, aren't dark blue,

but purple, that where this election

inevitably is going to be decided. You know, and then I seen plenty of beautiful sunsets.

Actually, the first night, we were winter camping in Nevada. We were coming back late.

And the mountains actually went purple. I remember the first time I ever had that experience,

and the song, Purple Mountain's majesty,

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