Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at

blisterreview.com.

Okay, today we've got Matt Manzer back on Gear 30 to once again dive deep into the topic of ski boots.

Now, as you'll hear, our original intention for this conversation was to primarily just stick to talking about Atomics' very interesting new boot and their new

professional series. But apparently Matt and I just can't help ourselves. And so this ended up

turning into part five of our very deep dive on ski boot series. And you can check out the show notes to this episode

to find the links to parts one through four, which you will definitely want to listen to if

only because Matt and I didn't break out the whiskey for those other episodes.

And on that note, I should probably say that, you know, if you're feeling kind of cranky

or you're just in a bad mood, or maybe you just kind of generally hate fun, maybe skip this

episode till you're in a better mood.

But for the rest of you, get ready for a conversation about tongue volume and heel pockets.

And we do talk a lot about Lou Kappa's feet.

And we also talk about how plug boots are not a thing.

And there's a whole lot more.

And so, all in all, despite some jokes, this is another good one, ladies and gentlemen.

Now, today's episode of Gear 30

is presented by Black Sheep Sports, which is our Blister Recommended shop located in Munich, Germany.

And we wanted to give Black Sheep a special shout out today because Germany is still in a lockdown, which means that Black

Sheep services are being necessarily limited. Now, Sebastian and his crew are allowed to

hand out products, but customers are not currently allowed in the shop. and that makes things exceptionally difficult when,

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