Reviewing the News w/ Cody Townsend (September 2025)
BLISTER Podcast
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4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Cody and Jonathan discuss Andrzej Bargiel’s ski descent of Everest; the return of the FIFTY+ project; the life of Jane Goodall; Outside Inc’s firing of Wes Siler; and Lincoln Knowles’ response to our last RTN conversation. Plus, they rate your takes and share what they’ve been reading & watching.
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TOPICS & TIMES:
New BLISTER+ Members (0:24)
The FIFTY+ is Back (1:40)
Fantasy Football updates (9:30)
Jane Goodall (11:24)
Andrzej Bargiel Skis Everest (16:53)
Fear in Media / Outside Fires Wes Siler (30:33)
Lincoln Knowles Calls Out Cody (45:19)
Rate My Take: On Reinhold Messner (59:50)
What We’re Reading & Watching (1:13:55)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to the Blister Podcast on the Blister Podcast Network. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, |
| 0:08.7 | and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:16.6 | Today, Cody Townsend is back to review with me some of the outdoors-related news of this past |
| 0:23.1 | month. |
| 0:24.2 | And as is our tradition here, we want to first welcome a few of our newest Blister Plus members, |
| 0:30.4 | and that includes Merritt in Carmel Valley, California, Zoe in Glacier, Washington, |
| 0:42.2 | Nicholas in Missoula, Montana, Alex in Northbrook, Illinois, |
| 0:50.1 | Juan in Cortez, Colorado, Forest in East Sound, Washington, Jesus in Tommel, Texas, and finally for today, Luke Kappa, our managing editor here at Blister, he just renewed his membership because I get Blister Plus for everyone on our team. |
| 1:01.6 | And it's been really cool hearing about more ski shops and bike shops doing the same for their teams. |
| 1:09.1 | So folks, if you want to know why everyone from Sexy Luke to, |
| 1:13.9 | well, Jesus is becoming a Blister Plus member, then just click the Blister Plus link in the show |
| 1:20.6 | notes of this episode. And now let's talk to the guy who, according to Rotten Tomatoes, |
| 1:26.6 | at least, is 85% of people's favorite skier, Cody Townsend. |
| 1:34.3 | Here we go. |
| 1:40.0 | Well, Cody, here we are once again to review some news, and I think it is fitting, if we're |
| 1:48.2 | talking about ski news, to talk about the fact that you just dropped season two, episode |
| 1:56.5 | one of the 50 plus project. |
| 1:59.9 | Yeah, I did. |
| 2:01.0 | Kind of almost consider it like season one. |
| 2:03.6 | Kind of like last year is sort of like pilot season. |
| 2:07.9 | Season zero? |
| 2:09.2 | Yeah, season zero. |
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