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.

All right, I've got a question for you gear 30 dorks out there.

Many of us will pour over product reviews of skis or bikes or splitboards or trail running

gear.

So why is it that when it comes to our sunglasses or goggles, we often just grab whatever is cheap or whatever we think looks cool?

And I do maintain that there are a lot of us who do either go for cheap or cool looking when it comes to eyewear.

So consider this episode The Pool Break for some more comes to eyewear. So consider this episode the pool break for some more

conversations about optics here at Blister. And our guest today, Joel Bo's CEO, Dave Cruthers,

is going to give you a whole lot to think about and perhaps reconsider from whether or not

you ought to be purchasing polarized lenses

given the activities you actually participate in to clarifying whether the proper term is photochromic

or photochromatic.

This is an important one.

And then we talk about some of the real-world practical, palpable differences that exist among different types of lenses.

First of all, we officially launched our Open Mic series on Blister.

And if you read my introduction to the series, well, then you know that the first installment

of Open Mic was written by Angel Collinson.

That went up on our website on Tuesday, and if you have not checked it out, Angel does

what Angel always does, which is just impressed with her particular brand of thoughtfulness,

and it is a terrific piece that every single one of you listening to this needs to read.

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