Reviewing the Reviewer: Jonathan Ellsworth

GEAR:30

BLISTER

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

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

This episode is the 2nd installment of our “Reviewing the Reviewer” series, where 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.

Today, it’s the founder of Blister’s turn. So you’re going to be hearing about Jonathan Ellsworth’s life, including being charged by a bear; nearly burning his house down; teaching philosophy; his favorite gear in the world; and of course, the things he’s better at than Sam Shaheen.

And we are also putting up a video of this conversation here and on our YouTube channel, so if you want to watch Sam Shaheen in full payback mode, or watch Luke Koppa putting up his dukes, go check it out.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Random Review: Babybel Cheese (3:38)
Jonathan’s Background (6:15)
Why did you start BLISTER? (18:15)
Who’s your favorite reviewer? (25.48)
What’s the most interesting thing that’s ever happened to you? (28:03)
Who’s your favorite skier? (32:17)
What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done? (37:52)
What are you better at than Sam Shaheen? (42:03)
What gear are you most & least picky about? (44:55)
How many times have you almost died? (52:05)
What are your ski preferences? (54:27)
Dream podcast guest? (57:41)
Top 3 favorite books, movies, and musicians (1:01:25)
What’s the best question we haven’t asked you? (1:04:40)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:11.1	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing
0:15.9	and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.
0:20.7	Today we are running the second installment of our Reviewing the Reviewer series, where we ask
0:27.1	various blister reviewers questions about their backgrounds and their gear preferences to give
0:32.5	you a more complete picture of the people behind our reviews.
0:37.2	And since we like to rank and review things around here, we also score each of our
0:42.8	reviewers' answers to come up with a review grade for each of them.
0:47.9	And today, unfortunately, it's my turn.
0:50.6	And this is entirely because Sam Shaheen was adamant that I had to go next.
0:56.3	Honestly, I didn't really understand initially why Sam was so insistent about this,
1:01.2	but the closer the day came to recording this conversation in Blister HQ, the more sense it
1:06.8	started to make. Anyway, in this episode, you're going to be hearing more about my life,
1:12.3	which includes being charged by a bear, nearly burning my house down, teaching philosophy,
1:18.5	my favorite gear in the world, and of course the things that I'm better at than Sam Shaheen.
1:24.9	And we are also putting up a video of this conversation on our website and on our
1:29.4	YouTube channel. So if you want to watch Sam Shaheen in full payback mode or watch Lou Kappa
1:36.3	putting up his dukes to fight bears, go check that out. We also posted this week a video of
1:42.2	my conversation with Jay Ski's founder Jason Leventhal,
1:45.6	so you might also want to go take a look at that one too.
1:49.7	All right, I think I've stalled long enough.
1:52.6	Here we go.
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