Pete Ballmer and Sam Fischer are roommates living in San Francisco as well as product managers. Every Friday, Pete and Sam get together to have a beer and trash talk some bad products they've encountered. Typically, product-oriented conversations can be dry/lame/technical and we don't like that at all; Pete is a comedian and Sam is a generally jovial guy and we both do our best to keep the chatter loose and fun. Some digital, some analog, no bad prod is safe on the pod! Come hang out with us!
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Listeners of Bad Products that love the show mention:We're back folks!!! This time we tackle night products, ie products that you use or interact with under the cover of darkness. Some goodies in here! Listen!DM products you wanna hear discussed to @badproductspodcast on instagram
A lot of products are small, especially with the way things are going with friggin technology these days! This ep we talk about how Sam can't read, and also about all the large products that we don't care for! It's avant-garde, it's fun, enjoy!
Hopefully, you're someone who has subscribed to this podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or whatever insane platform that isn't one of those that you use to listen to this and you got a... REMINDER about the great Bad Products podcast! We're talking about reminders as a product experience, notable the ones that suck. We get technical, non-technical and avant-garde here and it is a ride for the ages.
Do you hate ads? If not, what the fuck is wrong with you? Don't listen to this if that's the vibe you have going, but otherwise it's fun! We talk shit about the many formats of ads we're all constantly force fed and discuss what makes them good vs bad, it's a hoot!
Some sporty product boys we are on this one! I don't wanna spoil the surprise of what products we talk about but one of them rhymes with Etchers Apeups.
You guys know the like, little things you keep on your shelf or get given as a gift and then never use? They too are products! And a number of them are not great, hence us doing an episode about them! I won't spoil the fun anymore just go listen!
In this banger of a season opener, Pete and Sam announce the winner of the season 1 finale Bad Products tournament and talk through bad products in the category of transportation! New format same us, get into it!
Hot off a roaring first season, the boys drop in for a quick bonus episode prior to the hotly anticipated kickoff of season 2, and we talk about some relevant prod's here! Everyone hates daylight savings and the metaverse and we talk about why!
Hooo boy folks we made it! This is the season 1 finale of Bad Products, we take all the bad products we've talked about in the last 15 episodes and pit them against one another to determine what the worst product of them all is! But we haven't yet determined that, and will be asking the listeners to determine the winner! Vote on the matchup from the quarterfinals here (https://forms.gle/Co6NA3TRw7LjMPPD7), we'll announce the winner next week! Also don't fret, we'll be back with season 2 soon enough!
We were in New York for this and it's kinda a part of the episode! But if you don't care about any of that fret not, we tear automated voice help systems, bike seats and fancy ketchup limb from friggin limb!!!Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @badproductspodcast, DM us there if you have a bad product you want to hear discussed!
Sorry we've been gone for a sec! But we have returned with a darn vengeance! We talk through the products of animals, the entirety of the process of using a TV remote/on-TV buttons, and the fallacy that is adhesives. Enjoy!
I'll be darned if we did not have a good time doing this one! Bad Products from listeners Alexis/Daniel, Betty and Spencer that we could not wait to talk about! Also we discuss some plans we have for fun future episodes that you might enjoy to learn about.Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @badproductspodcast
Wow we are really getting cooking on Bad Products! We were planning to do 4 products but only got through 2 because we were having so much fun! First half is pretty fun approachable physical product chatter, we get kinda in the weeds in terms of product talk in the second half so there's something for everyone! Subscribe, and follow us on instagram and tiktok @badproductspodcast and DM us with bad product suggestions!
Folks, we have a banger on our hands! We were only able to get through two bad products because we had so much to complain about, we talk about autocorrect, which we've decided is kinda the original bad product, and Pete tells a harrowing story of United Airlines delivering bad product after bad product when trying to come home from a wedding.Follow us on instagram and tiktok @badproductspodcast, DM us bad product suggestions or bad autocorrect experiences.
This was fun! Boxed Water courtesy of listeners Keven and Danielle, Time courtesy of listener Wyatt. We shout out Oat Milk as a great product at the start of this so if anyone knows an oat milk company that wants to sponsor us, feel free to let them know about us. We have a new audio setup that Sam is excited about so hope it sounds nice and everyone likes it.Follow us on Instagram and Tiktok @badproductspodcast, if you have a suggestion for a bad product DM us on IG!
We skewer the fat cats at Big Hotel for not getting with the frickin program and offering super expensive, not good amenities for way too much. Also new theme song made by listener Jordan Thewlis! If we get a better one we might replace it but we like it for now. Follow us on instagram and tiktok @badproductspodcast, DM us if you have a suggestion for a bad product that you want to hear discussed!
This is a special one! In the lightning round, Pete and Sam each come with 5 bad products to discuss each, with a limit of 2 minutes for each BP. These are lesser/more straightforward BP's relative to normal, but that doesn't mean they cant be as devilishly infuriating as one of the previously discussed big dog BPs. Enjoy! Follow us on Instagram @badproductspod, TikTok @badproductspodcast, if you have Bad Products you want to hear discussed on the podcast DM them to us on Instagram.
We gotta long one today! We had a blast here, recorded outside in Arizona with bad products suggested by listeners Aresh, Lorel, and Jordan! Follow us on instagram @badproductspodcast, if you have suggestions for bad products you want to hear us talk about DM us there!
Hey, another episode! We talk about the above things mentioned in the title, it's funny how public bathrooms try to fight the uphill battle against bathrooms being gross and fail to win that battle. Check it out for yourself! We like this episode.Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-products/id1560418226Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Z3ipP6MuJ3SEk1BJA1WlaFollow us on Instagram @badproductspodcast
The boys get chatty on this one! Is that something? I feel like I'd want to listen to an episode where the boys get chatty on one, idk. We actually recorded this one in front of people, but you'd have no way of knowing that because they stayed respectfully quiet.Follow the podcast on instagram @badproductspodcast, follow Pete @peteballmer
Are you a consumer of chili (from the can)? Do you shave using non-disposable razors? Have you ever thrown a bird scooter into the ocean? If the answer to any of those is yes, you're gonna like this episode, we go deep on a few thangs and do lots of pondering and chatting, enjoy!
Episode 3 baybay! This was a killer 'sode, we use all of these products a lot and really get on a roll with all of them. Description for these episodes are all gonna be pretty redundant until we get some sponsors or something lol.
We haaaaaate bluetooth. There are a lot of things that are real bad about it and we pull no punches on this banger of an ep.
Pete and Sam get into it on this loose, goofy first episode! We talk about the things in the title, Sam's audio sounds a bit distant on this one but we fix that in future episodes