Hey 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 over at blisterreview.com.

Well, for our last Blister podcast episode of 2020, we've got Cody Townsend back on to review the news and

talk about chess and savants and skier savants. And then just a heads up, we do have a spoiler

alert in here for the Queen's Gambit, but we tell you in the episode when we are going to

start talking about the ending of the Queen's Gambit, and we will also have included in

the show notes to this episode, the timestamps, so you can see when you should stop listening

and then when it's safe to come back and keep listening to our

conversation. So check out the timestamps for that, and then no endings shall be spoiled.

Cody and I are also going to be talking about his new film, The Mountain Why, which you should

definitely check out over on Cody's YouTube channel.

And if you aren't sure how to type the name Cody Townsend into YouTube, then just click

on the link that we will also have in the show notes to this episode.

And just before we get going here, I want to make sure that you are aware of the conversation

I had with Sage

Caterbury Alosa over on our Bikes and Big Ideas podcast channel where I talked to Sage about

biking and the similarities he sees between mountain biking and skiing and there was a whole bunch more

and it's Sage talking about biking and skiing.

I mean, come on. So you can check out that great conversation over on our Bikes and Big Ideas podcast.

And now, let's go ahead and start reviewing the news with Cody Townsend, and we're going to

get going here with some opinions of Cody's that,

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