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Bad Products
by Pete Ballmer
Join Comedian Pete Ballmer and Product Manager Sam Fischer as they sit down to trash talk the Bad Products that we all use all the time!
Episodes
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Wifi, Baths, Two Pronged Outlets and other stuff
Wifi should function like a utility, outlets should all have the same number of prongs, and baths suck. Opinions like these and others are present on this week's episode of Bad Products. Listen to it. Follow @peteballmer on Instagram. Enjoy your life.
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Logging in, Southwest Airlines, Organic Food, Fire Alarms and more!
After an inexcusably long hiatus, Bad Products is back in the sack. Why do we have to log in to everything? Can Southwest Airlines just stop being like that? Why doesn't organic food make a better sales pitch for itself? All these questions and more are answered in today's episode, enjoy! Follow...
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Night Products
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
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Big Products
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!
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Reminders
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…
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Advertisements
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!
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Sports and Exercise
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.
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Knick Knacks and Gadgets
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!
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Transportation
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!
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*Bonus EP!!* Daylight Savings and the Metaverse
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!
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Season 1 Finale - Bad Products Tournament
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...
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Live from New York! Automated Voice Help Systems, Bike Seats, Non-Heinz Ketchup
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...
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Animal Products, The TV Remote Experience, Couch Cracks, Adhesives
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!
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Non-Assigned Wedding Seating, Clothing Tags, Nail Clippers and Fruit Stickers!
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...
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Bread Bag Sealing Technology and Notifications/The General Problem with Digital Products
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…
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Autocorrect and United Basic Economy (slash United Airlines in general)
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...
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Printers, Boxed Water and Time
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…
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Electric Stoves and Hotels
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...
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LIGHTNING ROUND EPISODE #1
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...
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Live from Sedona! Keys, Hard Taco Shells, Shoelaces, Blinds
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!
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Lightbulbs, Public Bathroom Stuff and more
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:...
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Tupperware, Software Updates, Venmo Global Feed
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...
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Can opening technology, locked display cases, list sorting and more!
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!
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Face ID, Cereal Boxes, Ketchup Packets
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.
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The Bluetooth Episode
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.
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Laundry Detergent Cup, Passwords, Milk Cartons, Receipts
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
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How many episodes does Bad Products have?
Bad Products currently has 26 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
What is Bad Products about?
Join Comedian Pete Ballmer and Product Manager Sam Fischer as they sit down to trash talk the Bad Products that we all use all the time!
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Bad Products has 26 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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Bad Products is created and hosted by Pete Ballmer.
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