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GEAR:30

Reviewing the Reviewer: Eric Freson

GEAR:30

BLISTER

Snow, Snowboarding, Arts, Skiing, Gear, Outdoors, Design, Bike, Sports, Technology

4.9 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In our “Reviewing the Reviewer” series, we ask various BLISTER reviewers questions about their backgrounds and gear preferences to give you a more complete picture of the people behind our reviews. And since we like to rank & review things around here, we also give a score to each of our reviewers’ answers, then come up with a cumulative review grade for each of them. 

In the hot seat today is mountain bike and ski reviewer, Eric Freson, and Luke Koppa and I recently subjected Eric to our regular gauntlet of reviewing the reviewer questions, but we also threw in a few questions specifically for Eric, including, How many times have you broken your neck? The story behind his co-founding the freeride team at Western Colorado University? And, of course, we ask him about a couple of Freson-isms, like “torksmash” and “smoking rocks.” 

You can also watch the video of our conversation on our Blister YouTube Channel. 

TOPICS & TIMES:

  • Eric’s background (3:26)
  • What sports did you play growing up? (7:50)
  • Broken Neck? (16:30)
  • How did you first get connected with Blister? (25:35)
  • Eric’s bike & ski preferences (33:15)
  • Who is your favorite reviewer at Blister? (42:50)
  • Who is your favorite pro biker & skier? (45:00)
  • What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done? (49:22)
  • What are you better at than Sam Shaheen? (53:55)
  • What gear are you most & least picky about? (54:40)
  • Top 3 favorite books, movies, and musicians (1:00:09)
  • Give us a random review (1:05:03)
  • What’s the best question I haven’t asked you? (1:10:22)

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth,

0:12.6

the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at

0:18.2

blisterreview.com.

0:28.9

Today we are running another installment of our Reviewing the Reviewer series, where we ask various blister reviewers, questions about their backgrounds and gear preferences to give you

0:34.7

a more complete picture of the people behind our reviews.

0:39.4

And since we like to rank and review things around here, we will be scoring each of our

0:45.2

reviewers' answers to come up with a definitive grade of their personhood.

0:51.4

Now, in the hot seat today is Eric Friesen, who is one of the few people at

0:56.4

Blister who reviews both bike equipment and ski gear for us. And speaking of bikes, you should

1:03.8

definitely check out episode number 22 of our Bikes and Big Ideas podcast, which was Eric's Blister podcast network debut, and it was one hell

1:14.9

of a debut. Eric was definitely the MVP of that episode. So go check that out over on our

1:22.4

Bikes and Big Ideas podcast. But this particular conversation that you are about to hear took place recently

1:31.0

in Blister headquarters where Luke Kappa and I subjected Eric to our regular gauntlet of reviewing

1:38.0

the reviewer questions, but we also threw in a few new questions specifically tailored for

1:44.1

Eric, including,

1:46.2

How many times have you broken your neck?

1:49.3

We asked him about the story behind his co-founding of the Free Ride team at Western Colorado

1:55.7

University.

1:57.4

And of course, we ask him about a couple Freesenisms, like Tork Smash and Smoking Rocks.

2:05.4

And no, smoking rocks doesn't mean what you think it means.

2:10.8

That said, I should probably point out that this episode does touch on a few mature topics,

2:17.2

and by mature, I definitely mean

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