The Gear Patrol Podcast is our weekly roundtable discussion focused on products, their stories, and the culture surrounding them.
This week we welcome a very special guest. Casey Johnston joins to talk about her Substack newsletter, 'She's a Beast,' the home gym she's set up in her Brooklyn backyard, and what's important for people to understand about fitness and lifting weights. Then we debate the merits of Amazon's new Halo View fitness tracker hardware and fitness and nutrition subscription services. Lastly, we end with a discussion of the Rivian R1T, glowing reviews of which have been flooding the web this week, and why it's such a mic-drop moment in the automotive space.
Show Notes:
Episode Navigation:
05:02 – Casey Johnston, author of She's a Beast
34:37 – Amazon Halo View, Halo Fitness, and Halo Nutrition
47:03 – Reactions to... Reviews of the Rivian R1T
Featured and Related:
- She's a Beast: a Swole Woman's Newsletter
- Casey Johnston on Twitter
- Casey Johnston on Instagram
- Archive of "Ask a Swole Woman" Column – VICE
- Recent She's a Beast newsletters:
- Everything Amazon Announced at Today's Big Hardware Event – Gear Patrol
- Amazon reveals Halo Fitness and Halo Nutrition programs for Halo subscribers – Tech Crunch
- Amazon announces new wearable and services to try to make you fitter – The Verge
- Do Fitness Trackers Actually Help You Get Fit? What the Science Says – Men's Journal
- Science Says Fitness Trackers Don't Work. Wear One Anyway – WIRED
- Should I buy a fitness tracker? – Tech Radar
- Amazon's New Fitness Tracker Is Basically a Fitbit – Gizmodo
- Amazon Halo View vs. Fitbit Inspire 2: How the new fitness band stacks up against Fitbit's affordable tracker – CNET
- Amazon's Halo Fitness service could give Apple Fitness Plus some competition – CNET
- Amazon's biggest innovation is being cheap – Engadget
- Leaked Documents Show How Amazon’s Astro Robot Tracks Everything You Do – Motherboard/VICE
- The Rivian R1T Is Everything You Hoped It Would Be – Gear Patrol
- Rivian R1T Launch Edition driven: Full-electric pickup hits the trail (video) – Roadshow
- 2022 Rivian R1T first drive review: Electric pickup tackles the trail – Roadshow
- First drive: Rivian delivers the electric truck we’ve been waiting for – TechCrunch
- The Rivian R1T Proves That the Perfect Off-Roader Is Electric – Road & Track
- Rivian is coming. Here’s why it matters – E&E News
- Electric Pickup Trucks Are Coming: Who will buy them? – KBB
- Automakers Are Going All In on Electric Pickups. Will Anyone Buy Them? – TIME
- Automakers embrace electric vehicles. But what about buyers? – AP
- Rivian files to go public at up to a reported $80 billion valuation – The Verge
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