Welcome to episode number 30 of Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth,

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

blisterreview.com. A wise man once wrote, All that glitters is not gold. Well, actually, Shakespeare wrote that

all that glisters is not gold, but several hundred years later, not too many of us are probably

using the word glister when hanging out around the water cooler. Though maybe we should try to get

glister back into the vernacular, so bonus points to you this

week if you find ways to sneak Glister into your conversation on the skin track or chairlift.

Anyway, point is, and this is a point that we've been making since day one at Blister, you can still

find and read our original manifesto on the website, that while it's easy to get

transfixed by all the shiny new stuff, sometimes that shiny new stuff really doesn't work.

So yesterday I talked with Paul Forward, Sam Shaheen, and Lou Kappa to discuss some of the

most disappointing and or not dialed products we've tested.

And though we tried our best to keep a real downer vibe throughout the whole conversation,

there are moments where we couldn't help ourselves,

and we do let slip a little talk about some gear that we actually think is fantastic.

But anyway, the theme today is about some of the recent not great, terrifying, and or

curse-inducing gear that we've tested. And you should let us know in the show notes to this

episode if you yourself have some all-time favorite worst of gear winners. All right then,

buckle up and here we go. Well, I am here talking with Paul

Forward, Sam Shaheen, and Luke Kappa in, I don't know, this might be one of our Grimmer

podcasts because we're here today to talk about some of the products that have come out that we have been

pretty disappointed in because not everything is always an A-plus or a home run.

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