Reviewing the Reviewer: Luke Koppa

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BLISTER

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

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Today we are launching a new series called, “Reviewing the Reviewer,” and the idea is pretty simple: we’ll be asking 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 will be scoring each of our reviewers’ answers to come up with a review grade for each of them.

I sat down with Luke in Blister HQ and asked him about where he grew up and what he was into as a kid; his gear preferences and what gear he is most picky about and least picky about and why; then ON3P Skis founder, Scott Andrus, wrote in with a number of questions for Luke; and I also asked Luke things like: who his favorite BLISTER reviewer is, and I got him to rank his siblings from most favorite to least favorite, before wrapping up with some questions about Luke’s favorite books, music, and movies.

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TOPICS & TIMES:

Random Review: Orange Vanilla Coke (5:52)
Luke’s Background (7:02)
How did you first get connected with BLISTER? (19:05)
What are you ski preferences? (22:30)
Who is your favorite reviewer at BLISTER? (25:13)
What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done? (26:32)
What are you better at than Sam Shaheen? (37:07)
What gear are you most & least picky about? (38:11)
Questions from ON3P’s Scott Andrus (43:07)
Rank your siblings from favorite to least favorite (50:07)
Top 3 favorite books, movies, and musicians (52:29)
Give us a random review (1:03:19)
What’s the best question I haven’t asked you? (1:04:32)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth,
0:10.8	the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at
0:15.7	blisterreview.com. Today, we're launching a new series on Gear 30 called Reviewing the Reviewer, and the idea
0:25.4	here is pretty simple.
0:27.1	We'll be asking various blister reviewers questions about their backgrounds and gear preferences
0:32.7	to give you a more complete picture of the people behind our reviews.
0:37.3	And since we like to rank and review
0:38.7	things around here, we are going to be scoring each of our reviewers' answers to come up with
0:44.3	a review grade for each of them. That last part, that rating our reviewers part, was actually
0:50.8	Luke Kappa's idea, though when he came up with that, I think he had no idea
0:55.3	that we were going to make him go first.
0:58.2	So that kind of feels like poetic justice.
1:01.4	Anyway, I sat down with Luke in Blister HQ yesterday, and I interrogated him about where
1:07.2	he grew up and what he was into as a kid.
1:10.1	I asked him about his gear preferences
1:12.0	and what gear he is most picky about and least picky about and why. Then we asked Luke a number of
1:18.3	guest questions that came in from Owen 3P founder, Scott Andrus. Those are good. And then among other
1:25.4	things, I asked Luke who his favorite blister reviewer is,
1:29.3	and I actually got him to rank his siblings from most favorite to least favorite. That was
1:35.9	kind of amazing. And we even talk about Luke's favorite books, music, and movies. Now, one caveat.
1:42.9	We do at the end of the episode tally up the scores of Luke's
1:45.9	answers and then basically assign a grade to like, I don't know, his whole personhood or something.
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