021 - Justifying the Upgrade: Adventures in Overthinking Stuff
Hosts Bruce and Ben explore the humorous and obsessive world of gear upgrades, discussing the balance between research and overthinking when purchasing items like tents, knives, and blazers.
10 Jun 2025
020 Fit for Anything: The High Twist $3K Clothing Gauntlet
Hosts Bruce and Ben embark on a $3,000 clothing challenge, meticulously selecting items from suits to shoes, debating quality versus quantity, and sharing real-world shopping strategies for building a versatile wardrobe.
20 May 2025
019 - Beat the Heat: Rain Jackets, Linen, and the Eternal Search for the Right Shorts
We kick things off with the obligatory “what are you wearing?” and a little weather envy—rainy and gray in Boulder, humid and sauna-like in Austin. From there, we tumble into our usual rabbit hole of summer travel style, comparing notes on everything from rain jackets that refuse to age, to linen shirts that are better engineered than some spacecraft. We argue (passionately) about shorts, try to figure out why every technical piece looks too pristine out of the box, and share some trade secrets for scoring sales and coping with the wild world of international sizing.
Along the way, we diagnose the retail experiences of every outdoor brand store we know (spoiler: if you’ve ever been lost in a Montbell, it’s not just you), share our grievances with Boulder’s Patagonia monoculture, and demonstrate proper Leica battery changes—because who doesn’t want to feel like John Wick on vacation? Naturally, we close it all out with hot takes on approach shoes, unsolicited life advice on field snorkeling, and a solemn promise to deliver more style, more rants, and more questionable summer shopping choices next week.
Apparel & Footwear:
Levi’s 501 Jeans
Triple Aught Design Overland Shirt (French twill)
Filson Short Lined Tin Cloth Cruiser
Vollebak Planet Earth Lightweight Jacket (discontinued)
Amundsen Sports Ditch Hiker Collection
Amundsen Traveler Collection – Linen
Lady White & Co. T-Shirts
Drake’s Chinos
Patagonia Baggies Shorts
Outlier New Way Shorts
Outlier Injected Linen Pants
Outlier Dreamweight T-shirt
Outlier Ramie/Three Bar Cap
Sunspel Riviera Polo
Fjällräven
Stiksen Hats
Hard Graft Shoes
Astroflex Penny Loafer Mocha Flex
Crockett & Jones Harvard II Loafer
Nike City 1 (C1TY)
Nike Trail/ACG/Mountain Fly
North Face Cliff Approach Shoe
Danner x Huckberry N45
Vans
Observer Collection (Hat)
Fingers Crossed Socks
ROTOTO Socks
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Apple Podcasts (US)
4.3 / 5
9 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
5 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 33 / 100
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Social presence
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YouTube
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Engagement
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