Rachael Burks on Skiing, Shakespeare, Sweatpants, & More
BLISTER Podcast
BLISTER
4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Fact: we all need to strive to be more like Rachael Burks. Rachael is known for skiing burly lines and her signature backflip, but she is also known for her boundless enthusiasm — and in this conversation, that enthusiasm is on full display. Rachael and Jonathan Ellsworth discuss skiing and Shakespeare; her spot-on impression of Julian Carr; podiuming in a comp on rental skis; her best ski season ever; her abiding love of sweatpants, Star Wars, fantasy novels, Red Bull Rampage, and more.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Oxford, Shakespeare, & Dirty Sandwiches (2:53)
- Breaking into the ski industry (9:30)
- Learning to backflip with Julian Carr (17:10)
- Competing on rental skis (19:56)
- Rachael’s best ski season ever (23:42)
- GREENland Expedition (26:52)
- Fantasy & Star Wars & Sparkles (32:10)
- Why Rachael loves Red Bull Rampage (44:10)
- More books & music (49:32)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Blister podcast, a program dedicated to interesting people, the great outdoors, and a bunch of other stuff we like. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:19.0 | Today's conversation is so good that it calls for four different introductions. |
| 0:25.3 | And so, introduction number one, when I had Angel Collinson on the podcast a while back, |
| 0:31.4 | I asked her who else she thought I needed to talk with, and without missing a beat, she said, Rachel Burke's hands down. |
| 0:40.1 | And now after my conversation with Rachel, I 100% get it. |
| 0:45.6 | Introduction number two. |
| 0:47.5 | My conversation with today's guest is one of the most fun conversations I have ever had. |
| 0:53.8 | Introduction number three. We all need to do everything we |
| 0:58.0 | possibly can to be more like Rachel Burks. And introduction number four, some people make you want to go |
| 1:06.0 | skiing really, really badly. Rachel Burks is one of those people. |
| 1:12.0 | Rachel is a big mountain skier who is known for skiing burly lines and her signature backflip, |
| 1:18.2 | but she is also known for her boundless and infectious enthusiasm, and rest assured, |
| 1:24.5 | her enthusiasm is on full- on display in this conversation. |
| 1:29.3 | Rachel and I pack a whole lot into this discussion, and it was incredibly fun to talk to her |
| 1:34.5 | about not just skiing, but also our mutual love of Shakespeare, her being bribed with |
| 1:40.9 | barbecue sandwiches to go skiing as a kid, her fantastic impression of Julian |
| 1:48.5 | Carr, we talk about her competing in a comp at Crested Butte on rental skis, and we get into |
| 1:55.6 | her abiding loves of sweatpants, Star Wars, fantasy novels, Red Bull Rampage, and more. Now, we've got one |
| 2:04.4 | other note here. This conversation is going to begin in kind of a funny way, because before |
| 2:10.5 | Rachel and I started our official on the record conversation, she and I were discussing a few |
| 2:16.0 | topics that I wanted to cover, and we had kind of |
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