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Sole Sanity Sneaker Podcast EP 7 TRAVIS UTOPIA AIR FORCE ONES SCAM PPG DUNKS TYRONE BIGGUMS AND MORE
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Introduction & Outfit Discussion
00:00:15
Speaker
What's up, everybody? Welcome to another episode of Soul Sanity Sneaker Podcast. Episode number seven. I'm Elah. This is Spence. Welcome. Back at it again. Yeah, back at it again. Back at it like Crack Addict.
00:00:31
Speaker
I think you already said that, but I guess that's true. That's going be your catchphrase. Okay. Yeah. You want to go with the catchphrase? Nah, bro. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You to okay Yeah. So, uh, geez.
00:00:47
Speaker
So, uh, it's just a blue Jordan t-shirt with the UNC toe
Sneaker Routines & Soul Sanity Merch
00:00:54
Speaker
ones. Um, first time, not first time wearing them, but this is the first time I've worn a shoe twice within the black first month of it coming out in a long time. Uh, I really couldn't decide what to wear. I just knew I wanted to wear these shoes. I was hoping to play basketball after this, but somebody's folding. Oh, Um, so this is what I came up with.
00:01:15
Speaker
So I got the, the classic black, um, soil sanity tee on with these like pistachio carpenter baggy pants. And then the old, trusty dusties today nothing too crazy just you know the everydayers yeah that is your butt my black foam for you you know i wore them the other day even though the uh the air bubble pop they just they're not the same but once i clean those up maybe i'll have a new everyday shoe yeah that'll go with everything literally that new mountain shirt down there with the um topograph is cool um as you can see soul sanity is moving up in the world we have some nice new amenities over here um
00:01:56
Speaker
I kind of got gypped on this, though.
Sneaker Purchases & Powerpuff Girl Dunks
00:01:58
Speaker
but ah you know Go shop your merch. Yeah, shop Soul Sanity. Got your black tee and your blue hoodie on this display. Not quite the same. but um You want to show us what you your latest cop?
00:02:12
Speaker
Yeah, I'll get into it. Just a little recent purchase from yesterday. um Just an older SB. These don't really have a name to it like we had talked about, but it's got like a You said a top hat. I said a traffic cone slash ah what's it what i mean candy corn. I guess it could be a ah cone, but like the base is so circular, and then like the rest of it is circular. like yeah It looks like a top hat of like some crazy Halloween character, and there's bubbles in the background. Yeah, don't
00:02:49
Speaker
It didn't really have a name to it. Even when I looked it up on goat, didn't have a name. It just said black, brown, yellow, gold SB from 2011. So him for a decent deal.
00:03:01
Speaker
Um, decent deal, decent deal compared to what market is and everything like that. So, um, yeah, just a little, little come up. Nothing too crazy. Nothing too crazy.
00:03:14
Speaker
Nice brown. Go with the, uh, the soul Sandy Brown tea. Yeah. Um, you know that' um That might be a fit on here. I got something coming in next week's shipment you might enjoy. A little sneak peek.
00:03:29
Speaker
so Speaking of Dunks, they released the new looks of the Powerpuff Girl Dunks. and It's the side panel view of all of them. going to look at them just so I can you know give but give your input on it.
00:03:43
Speaker
Just save it.
00:03:46
Speaker
Because you was about to tell me how you felt about them off camera. Yeah, yeah. Well, let me go to, was it on Nice Cakes? Yeah, it was on Nice Because I had all three of them. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:03:58
Speaker
duoooo yeah My bad. So, um I mean, they're they're all nice um still. Like, I still would want to get all three of these. um But in comparison to the mock-up, which I know it's a mock-up and I should have got my hopes up for the mock-up, whatever. I do think that they could have been better and they they still could change and they still could be better. um But as of right now, a little bit disappointed in what they could have been.
00:04:30
Speaker
um but i'm not too mad at it i still want all of them yeah and i'm still excited to see the friends and family one that i won't be able to get i was about to say this also could be like some type of like sample at first and then um just to see how people react or like you know just doing materials how different colors would look and everything like that so this might not be like you said the final product or anything so yeah i see i yeah they um They're still really nice, though. The blue has a lot of um nice details on the back and on the side. And the back tab on all of them is still going to be pretty cool if we get what we're supposed to get. You know, i'm not one for bright colors usually, but out of this three, the pink one's actually probably my favorite.
00:05:12
Speaker
The pink one looks the closest to the mock-up, so I understand why you feel that way. I'm glad they all have black midsole, so I don't have to worry about any white on any of these. um But yeah, I'm still holding out hope that, uh, we get something a little bit closer for sure.
Adidas vs. Nike Collaborations
00:05:27
Speaker
But, which I think the black makes sense because of like their, their outfits and then like the eyes and the cartoons and everything like that. So yeah, still a, definitely cool shoe.
00:05:36
Speaker
Um, and they should all come with like skin, like their skin color. That'd be cool. Yeah. That'd be hard. ta in there yeah Um, so speaking of collapse, um,
00:05:48
Speaker
the what homerson homer simpson is it a stance myth yeah it's a stance myth but it's just literally like the white with the like a classic white and green stance myth but on the back of it's got the the homer simpson meme that we all know um i like i think it's cool it's just something different um adidas is trying to still fight their fight their way back um but like we talked about even Outside of, yeah, they've had cool collabs um besides the Ivy Park issue and, you know, that not selling or whatever. Like, other than that, I mean, they got something with Bad Bunny, I think. Like, this one would be kind of cool to have just something different for people that either don't like Simpsons or they do and like the meme or whatever. Just something different. I thought it was funny and just a cool little concept they had going on. So this might be a hot take.
00:06:41
Speaker
Um, but I personally think that Adidas does a better job at like the, not necessarily celebrity collaborations or anybody real, but as far as like TV shows and, and just culture, uh,
00:07:04
Speaker
collaborations I think they do a good job. I think they do a better job than Nike. And I think a lot of the smaller brands do a better job than Nike. But it's probably because Nike has to pass it through so many people. and Copyright yeah and everything like that. And it's just like, I mean, this is probably harder to get out some ideas because you have to show it to more people. right Whereas, you know, Asics had this Naruto collaboration come out a couple, like last year, two years ago. And they probably like they were willing to bank on somebody's small idea. Whereas Nike, like you can't even get your small idea to the person that and needs to get to, to get you out. You got to go through somebody to get through somebody to get through somebody. Exactly. So you're, it might be a great idea, but it just might never make it out. Right. Um, and I think Adidas has been doing a good job about that. Like the tally, um, was it a campus? Yeah. Campus 80 tally was really nice. Um,
00:07:56
Speaker
I mean, it just has a lot of features, you know, where I feel like we don't get a lot of the yeah of the Nike stuff except their own, like, like the 420 shoe is always, which Tally was a 420 shoe, but the 420 shoe is always a good, like, material and has extras and stuff, but it's not necessarily, like, that's not a collaboration. I wouldn't say that. For sure. I just feel like with Nike, you have to be, like, top tier, top tier of your game to even, like,
00:08:25
Speaker
for them to reach out or, um in their eyes, you have to be like either the up and coming guy or the top tier guy at the moment. So
Kyrie Irving & Mischief's Marketing
00:08:35
Speaker
they can capitalize off that. But with Adidas and everything like that, you're going to get your, trying to figure how say it. Well, it's easy to say like towards basketball, like they have LeBron, they have Katie, they have Devin book, or they have like all these guys, but Adidas has Trey young.
00:08:55
Speaker
Um, Donovan Mitchell. Donovan Mitchell. Like they have these up and coming guys that are superstars now. But, you know, once Katie and LeBron, like all these guys retire.
00:09:06
Speaker
Yeah. Nike will still, you know, have those lifelong contracts. But like it seems like Adidas really does like the guys that are up and coming in future wise. So, yeah, maybe it's a long term investment. But, yeah, um like you said, even with like the smaller collapse, the details are always crazy.
00:09:25
Speaker
um well um Nike can't sign everybody right um which is why people like like the Amine New Balance like he's not he maybe Nike pitched him something but it wasn't enough you know saying Nike can't sign everybody and pay them what they need to whereas Adidas may be giving out higher contracts to less people because you know they can do that but Nike, at Nike just has too many people, you know, that's another one coming out this month. Does that mean any i balances whenever, that was going to be clean. Um, got my text alerts up. You did. so Yeah.
00:10:01
Speaker
Yeah. I need, I need it. it I need some money too. So if y'all want to, um, free me, free me of my hat collection, I'm a, I got reasonable prices. The hat collection, the soul sanity merch, anything, anything to take, to get the shoe money. We, we need it.
00:10:17
Speaker
Um, That, and then also, i know this isn't on the list, but I've just seen it. don't know if you've seen it, but the video's leaking out of Kyrie playing in the summer leagues and the Drew leagues and everything like that. Yeah, that's why I'm getting a dunk. And they're saying people are like, they've never seen him have this type of activity in a Nike shoe before. It's all because the ants was giving him superpowers and whatever. So I just thought I'd bring that up. People get so hyped.
00:10:44
Speaker
he He had a dunk during the season. um right after he went to uh like he got traded yeah um and it was it's just so overhyped the dude was like you know like i don't know i i know people that are under five um i mean under five eight that can dunk like it's just not that big of a deal um but i don't know the media loves kairi irving and the kids love kairi irving they love kairi besides the point i'm not gonna say anything like we're and we're not a we're not a sports but We're not a sports podcast. Y'all got it. I'm not worried about it.
Slide Popularity & Design
00:11:16
Speaker
Y'all got it.
00:11:18
Speaker
On to the next. yeah The ah mischief medical slots. um So the the first thing I have to point out is similar to what I said about their big yellow boots. I just think the marketing on them was just like interesting. Like what was she doing on a picnic? Yeah. like like With all the dogs. and Yeah. Like.
00:11:40
Speaker
It just didn't make no sense. like You didn't like shoot it in like a hospital scene or a doctor's office or anything like that. she's I guess they're trying to make it seem like it's casual. like People are about to really wear these. but it's like like people are right you know People that aren't into it or don't know like Mischief, like you know people are really going to think you have an injury probably. yeah ah it's just It's crazy.
00:12:07
Speaker
um What I think is interesting is that they they were on the whole boot wave and then they did these where they and they might do it still, but they could have come out with this in a higher one and it would have been literally like a boot. yeah um But I guess that would have like hindered people. They wouldn't have been able to walk. guess they had to go to the slides.
00:12:28
Speaker
if i if i If I break my ankle or my foot, get me the mischief. Yeah, you got a pair waiting at home if anything happens to you. right If they do some like accessories or something, some crutches or something, you know,
00:12:40
Speaker
ah be cool. Mischief is going crazy right now. Mischief wrap bandages. That'd be cool. They're definitely dabbling in everything. Yeah. there i mean I mean, the slots slides are popular right now. Right.
00:12:54
Speaker
the i mean there's more easy slides coming out that the nike calm slide just came out like so slides are just like you know they were big up yeah there i mean they're and they're selling i mean it's just the way it is i mean the easy slides keep coming out with different colorways that people are liking i know they just came out with that like slate gray and that's like a big one and um Yeah, people just are buying slides right now. Just, I mean, um that and it's summertime and back to school. Like, people are just, slides are going crazy
Upcoming Sneaker Releases
00:13:28
Speaker
right now. And then Nike comes out with the comm slide and then this new slide. The mule. With the mule with the the strap on the back and kind of like a.
00:13:38
Speaker
calm slide with a little croc effect to it, I guess. like That's why I think it's weird that they call it a mule because it has like a croc back and like all of the other mules are like shoes but just have like a you know, like Yeah. You just slip your foot in. So that's what I was going to say. Nike, I'm a little... I like the shoe. I like the green color. It's nice. Yeah, the green color was probably the best one. um But why didn't we give us like... And we saw that the clog posits are coming back, so they know how to do it. Right. So what like what happened? What was the disconnect? Now, I'm not mad at it. I'm probably still going to get some of these. i don't like the slide, but I do like the mule. Right. But like why why do I need the strap? going to see the strap is removable.
00:14:21
Speaker
The... Mule kind of reminds me of like i am like a Nike version of Birkenstock without like, if you were to take the back off of it, and yeah that's what it kind of, like yeah Nike's version of that. The Boston, that's the Birkenstock Mule, yeah the Boston. I really want some of those.
00:14:38
Speaker
And the if the Nike ones are cheaper, rob i get the Nike ones first. But unfortunately, that strap is just like... right i don't I don't wear Crocs, you know? like Yeah. And I didn't even think about that until you said that, but it's it's so Croc-like. Yeah, I don't wear i don't wear my Crocs other than, like, around the house. And I'm not a big slide person other than i my up-tempo slides that i that I've been wearing. The up-tempo stomper slides. stomper slides.
00:15:05
Speaker
But other than that, i've never like, I had my Yeezy slides. I wore them four or five times and got rid of them. um Just kind of fell into the hype, and then I was like, what am I doing? I'm not a slide person. speaking of fall i fall every day every time i well i'm not full like face plan but i trip every single time i wear them like at least once or twice a day um because they're just so big yeah the front like and i can't help like maybe i'm not picking my feet up yeah but like i'm wearing slides yeah i'm not you know you're chilling yeah um on to the uh the barkleys that are coming out yeah um
00:15:39
Speaker
So there's two colors releasing this year. We already knew that the pure purple is what they're calling now, but I think they used to be called Varsity or something. The classic white colorways
Resale Value & Rarity Discussion
00:15:51
Speaker
coming back out. And it's it's slated to have a release date. That's next week, August twenty fifth which.
00:15:57
Speaker
Let's hope that that's not true because I cannot handle that. I cannot handle any more shoes coming out August. Barclays on the 25th and the 5s on the 26th, I think. mean a new boundunds No, the social status Mac attack is on the 25th as well. So you already have.
00:16:15
Speaker
And the um the ah Union 1s are coming out with sneakers out too. I guess I'm going to have to take the on the Sorry. I'm going to try for the for the unions as well.
00:16:26
Speaker
So I'll be unions, Amine, and the Maroon 5s. So August. Well, that's already $500 right there. The 5s are $225, the $240. need the hours work.
00:16:37
Speaker
two four i need all i need i need all the hours at work Yeah, facts. You can come let slide to the store real quick. give some extra. Yeah, for sure. You can be a temp. So then the classic ones, the black, purple, and white ones, and then they're also coming out with all-black ones as well. that triple black is supposed to be a December, like, kind of like her a holiday shoe. I better get this one. i don't know how I missed out on all of, like, these when they came out two three years ago.
00:17:04
Speaker
um If I see these in a resale store, I'm just going – i don't think you i don't I don't think you will, um but i mean it you know it it went to I mean, who knows? I thought that last time. yeah and they that If you look up that triple black one right now, it's gone for $450+.
00:17:24
Speaker
And so is the the black classic yeah classic black, white, and purple ones or whatever. Yeah, that's crazy. The only one that's sitting lower is the... There's two classic color like OG colorways, which is like a black and purple and a white and purple.
00:17:39
Speaker
They both have, it's like a home and away kind of effect, but um the black one and the triple black are the most expensive. They're over $450. The cool gray and the pure pure purple, the white and purple is like $250 plus. But like that that's reasonable. I understand that. Whatever. Because they're not available anymore.
Athlete Endorsements & Sneaker Culture
00:17:59
Speaker
So yeah, it goes up a little bit, but $450? Come Are the all black CB94s going to replace the all black foam posits? It'll be a you know two-day, re like, you know, every other day.
00:18:11
Speaker
You know what I'm saying? It'll probably take me a while to them for the first time. i probably didn't wear those foam posits for, like, two years plus before I them for the first time. after that, it's it was over no home barred. It's over. It was over for him. Yeah. On to some athlete Jordan brand news. um Jalen Hurts and um Aaron Judge signed to – Aaron Donald.
00:18:34
Speaker
No, it's Aaron Judge, the baseball player. Oh, you definitely said Donald. Did I say Donald? My fault. That's why wrote down Donald. My fault. I read it and was like – thought Aaron Judge was already signed to Jordan Brand. I think he was already wearing Jordan cleats like Jalen Hurts was. Okay, okay. But he officially signed the contract this week.
00:18:51
Speaker
Jalen Hurts has been wearing Jordan Clates probably since I – I don't want to say since he's got in the league, but yeah he's been wearing them for a while. I don't know if he was just wearing them. Yeah, it is. it is Aaron Judge.
00:19:04
Speaker
Yeah, you threw me off. No, I'm sorry. That's my fault. um But Jalen Hurts has always been like, a guy that I like to watch just because he wears Jordan cleats and stuff like that.
00:19:15
Speaker
i know in the Superbowl he was wearing, um he always wears like this Jordan 11 cleat with his Jersey. I think for the first half he was wearing for the Superbowl, he was wearing like a Jordan one cleat and then he superstitious. So he switched to the Jordan 11, which I could be wrong on that. He could have done another design, but I know there's him and then there's a couple other guys that,
00:19:40
Speaker
wear like the Jordan football cleats and stuff like that. So I always keep up with them. And like, you can see it when somebody is wearing like a Jordan one or whatever like that, at least for our eyes. Cause I feel like for us as sneaker heads, we always make look down and then look at the person. yeah So um even walking in public here like this kind of, um and then Aaron judge signing the baseball Jordan brand deal as well, which a couple of guys do it.
00:20:09
Speaker
There's a guy I follow Instagram. His name is Jeremy Gunther. I don't think he's in the league anymore, but he used to be like the best um sneaker collection in the MLB, and amo being he was a pitcher.
00:20:22
Speaker
So like everybody's looking at his feet and everything like that. So he had like custom Jordan clades in his collection, which is crazy. Yeah. But it's cool to me how Jordan Brand is obviously exceeding out of basketball and people are still wearing these models in other sports and stuff like that. so i think I'm not so sure about the Hurts, but the – looking at the Donald Aaron judge yeah it'll be cool to see judge like get like a shoe and not and I just have custom Jordan cleats or anything but have like a Jordan shoe right just because it I feel like it'll be like a trainer style or like a Bo Jackson type just because it's a you know it's baseball right so it would be cool to get something for him and I feel like it's gonna be bulky anyway because that dude's a yeah he's a big yeah he's a big guy there's a freaking nature Um, and it would just be cool to get like a non basketball Jordan shoe, right? Like the nine, you know, if if we get something that's down that alley, that would be great. Yeah. Um, and I would be happy to wear something that's connected to, uh, judges. Yeah. If he could do like, um, if he could do like a Jordan nine, but on the back, it's like 44 instead of yeah you know what I mean? But, um, I mean, a Yankee colored Jordan nine would be like, yeah, that would be crazy.
00:21:38
Speaker
Um, Even if they did like a little pinstripe or. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're already. We're going. Jordan brand. but Get us on the team. Get us on the team, man. We're trying to. I pay y'all bills, right? yeah You see.
00:21:51
Speaker
You see how I'm coming. Yeah. oh We're getting Jordan brand. So Sandy collab. I mean, come on. We're with it. Yeah. um Just want a small percentage. Yeah.
00:22:02
Speaker
On to the. um onto I just showed you this before where um the University of Kentucky is the first college to an actual Kobe school.
00:22:15
Speaker
kobe school um So I thought this was cool. They were talking about how Kobe and Calipari's relationship was. um AD obviously went to Kentucky. D-Book went to Kentucky. So I'm sure that helps as well, being big Kobe guys. I honestly didn't think it was going Kentucky at first. I thought it would have been Duke because allegedly the rumor has it that oh Kobe would have went to Duke or Carolina. Obviously, he can't go to – or they wouldn't have done the Kobe thing at Carolina.
00:22:47
Speaker
But I would have thought it might have been Duke because Coach K being the Team USA coach and stuff like that. But Kentucky makes complete sense as well. um I think it's cool that they're doing like something for the foundation.
00:23:01
Speaker
um and just It finally seems like, i know we've talked about this a bunch of times, but they're trying to make Kobe's more accessible for everybody. don't know if you've seen on the sneakers app, but they have the all-white ones.
00:23:15
Speaker
men's grade school and baby sizes the halo with the t-shirt and everything like that. So it's like there seems like they're pushing the full brand at at full force right now. So hopefully we get what we asked for. This is probably a good step in the right direction. It's definitely going to get players um more apt to like obviously like that's going to help Kentucky sign people. Yeah, and i'm sorry for sure. um Now these big name basketball players are not only going there.
00:23:45
Speaker
To get Kobe's, yeah. But Kobe is a big name of basketball, so, like, this is only going to help. Every little
University Sponsorships & Benefits
00:23:52
Speaker
bit helps. um But the PEs are going to be crazy.
00:23:56
Speaker
um I just can't even keep up. They're going have, like, you know, like, they'll probably have access to whatever Kobe won through or whatever. Yeah. like and what it Like, in a blue or white or white and blue color scheme, which is going to be cool with, like, what – Wildcats logo. so Yeah. The home and the away.
00:24:14
Speaker
I mean, it's like, like for me, it's like, i always said that if I was to ever play basketball, you know, I would go to Carolina just because of the, the Jordan PEs and they get boxes all the time and stuff like that. So just as a sneaker head, I would go to Carolina just for that.
00:24:29
Speaker
I wouldn't even have to play. I just, I'd be on the team just to i think have the cool gear. I think I would rather have access to, like, if I went to Duke and they were going to let me get any basketball shoes I wanted, you know, I feel like I have, like, yeah, you might have one through 23 to go through. Right. You might not go up to 23, but right I can get phone posits. I can get Barclays. I can get Hyperdunks. I can get KDs. I can get LeBron. You know I'm saying? I can do whatever I want.
00:24:55
Speaker
um It might not end up being 20 styles, but, you know, like, I don't know. i feel like I have more of a repertoire. For sure. So I would definitely choose a Nike branded school over Duke. I mean, over Carolina, um especially if I was going to get to pick like shoes like for sure like that. And we don't know that the ins and outs of how that goes or if they just show up and they have boxes of stuff. I mean, if you discuss it, I'm sure that like if you go to the right place and you discuss it and that school is high enough with Nike, like I was about to say, yeah, you know, if you're a top tier guy going into a top tier school and you're like, listen, I'm just a big shoe fanatic, you know, like I want this, I want this, like, and if it's and if it it's not like this, then I might have to reconsider, you know, and just kind of put that on the line.
00:25:44
Speaker
um but I know my homie who played D1 basketball for a smaller D1, they were sponsored by Adidas, and at the beginning of the season, they got um two game shoes and a practice shoe. Now, that's a small D1, and they got three pairs of shoes.
00:26:01
Speaker
um Now, he's at a D2, but it's sponsored by Nike. They only get one practice, one play shoe. And then obviously if you want to wear whatever you want to wear, then that's coming out of your own pocket.
00:26:13
Speaker
So um when I'm sure there's different tiers to everything. When I was at UNCW, they gave us a practice shoe and we had ah meat spikes.
00:26:24
Speaker
um Now we we were sponsored by Adidas. They didn't give us ultra boost or Yeezys or anything, but they gave us some pretty cheap Adidas, but we did get a practice shoe and a, you could say a game shoe. Right. If you wanted to wear something else, you can. I don't think they were that strict as long as they're the meet. You wore the the ones the ones. They don't even have to be the ones they gave you. As long as it's like, yeah, that brand. Yeah, I got you. um I think at one point, even so, though, like they wanted, i wore pennies to one of our meets and I don't think that they they were like,
00:26:58
Speaker
I don't think they made me change, but I got weird looks because they want all of us to look the same. Yeah. And I wasn't wearing like, I don't know, some of the people on the team just didn't have that much swag. And so they're wearing the practice shoes like as walk around, like we're traveling, you know, the bus. Like, yeah.
00:27:13
Speaker
To me as an athlete and growing up, like seeing like, you know, your favorite players get on the bus and like not. like big players like Team USA or whatever, you know, like this is the time where they wear whatever, yeah you know, so I have on my warm-up and my pennies, you know. Yeah, I'm wearing Nike and Adidas, but, like, I'm wearing a shoe that I wanted to wear um because it's what I had at the time. They were new, and nobody else is, like, caring, and I'm like, this is weird. Yeah.
00:27:40
Speaker
So I don't think they paid too much attention to it, but they definitely, like, looked at me weird for not being in, like, the code. Yeah, I was going to say that, and, like, you know, nowadays, like, what they call like the NBA, like the tunnel fits are so like high up and like what people are wearing to the actual game and, and just what they wear, like comfort wise, or if it's, you know, in the trend right now or whatever, but tunnel fits. And like you said, just growing up and seeing people getting on on the bus with whatever they wanted to wear at the time. So it makes complete sense for sure.
00:28:14
Speaker
Yeah, it was the blue penny ones. I remember vividly and I don't understand why i don't have them anymore because I sold them like an idiot, probably like
Travis Scott’s Utopia Air Force Ones Critique
00:28:23
Speaker
50 bucks. I know exactly who has them and I know that anytime I sell him a shoe that I give him like the ultra deal because it's something I don't want anymore.
00:28:30
Speaker
But what was I thinking? Like, yeah,
00:28:36
Speaker
kicking myself on that one. um Well, so I forgot to talk about these shoes up here earlier. um This is obviously a CB94, and I picked this because we talked about the pure purple pure purple coming out and the triple black.
00:28:49
Speaker
And I picked this one because it's a similar color concept to this, like like a Barclay Air Force One. and the Travis Air Force One. There's been a lot of scrutiny on those. I'll have to hit up my mans and see if it's actually true, but apparently people have been receiving their boxes, and their the color code is the same as the all-white Air Force One.
00:29:13
Speaker
And I don't know if this is a troll. I didn't do enough research on it. Like I said, going my mans up because he got a pair. um But if if this is true, and they're just stamping this black brown... print onto the shoe then i'm i'm really gonna be disappointed shaking my head this is crazy shaking my head they gave drake this this whole you know like yeah it was in the soul and everything and that and i mean the drake one i mean the quality you can tell the difference in the quality and the inside and you got your little um letters to where you can spell stuff out and everything like that so the details on the drakes are a whole lot better but nike you
00:29:51
Speaker
I'm shaking my head at this. If this is actually true, where you just take an all white ones that you had and you're just stamping utopia on it, you're. And it's just crazy because they were already like people were already talking about the shoe being a poor design and it's cheap and like, oh, you could have done so much better. And then you do this.
00:30:10
Speaker
Yeah, that's crazy. um And especially with the Travis Air Force ones that have came out in the past. Like, yeah. And how much detail they had and how cool they were. And now you're just taking an all-white one and just doing this. But I don't know if they've seen, like, what the Drake Air Force One did. So they were like, oh, we can kind of get off with this. And wasn't it 142? Oh, I don't know. It was a little bit more than, like, a regular retail. I don't, like, maybe it was rushed, you know, and they were like, oh, um okay, Utopia's coming out. Let's get a shoe out, you know, and they didn't plan it.
Air Force Ones Marketing Strategies
00:30:41
Speaker
Um, so this is what happened. I would, I would be curious to see that, like, is the shoe, they have yellow laces like the rest of the forces, you know, or, uh, are they even giving him like an all white Air Force One, you know, i would really be curious to see that. Are you getting all white are you the off-white forces? Yeah, like, am I, um,
00:31:01
Speaker
what's weird about stuff like this is like the people that come into my store and this is just in my town local knowledge the people that come into my store and buy air force ones all the time aren't the people that would buy a utopia air force one so From a Nike standpoint, like, how are they selling?
00:31:20
Speaker
I didn't think they would sell enough of Travis or Drake Air Force Ones. Maybe the Supreme ones. I could see my clientele coming in and getting that. But I don't see them buying a Drake one or the Utopia one just because, like, you know. you're Just the regular all-whites are so popular. yeah So, like, I don't even know how they're branding it that way, like, to where they're really selling this many of those White Force Ones.
00:31:43
Speaker
I don't understand it. Shaking my head, shaking my head on you, Nike. The stamp is crazy. They just said, get it out. Sell them. Yeah.
Episode Closing & Future Plans
00:31:52
Speaker
We're going to take a all white for us, put a stamp on I want to say it was $140 for real.
00:31:56
Speaker
So the fact that you're charging $31 for a stamp is great business move, but damn. like a Cutthroat. Come on, bro. Y'all are killing me.
00:32:08
Speaker
So we'll probably still do two more episodes before we're at the sneaker exit. But we will be there. That's September 17th, Sunday, 12 to 7.
00:32:19
Speaker
um Get your passes. We'll be there early. Charlotte. Yeah. 7-0. Boom. You know, we'll be there with the new setup. There'll be new stuff. I have some more stuff coming in before then. so Yes, sir. Stay tuned. And if you don't already, follow, like, subscribe, all of that. We need it. Buy the merch. Yeah.
00:32:39
Speaker
but You don't even have to buy anything. Subscribe first. Eli plans to, you know, Eli and I plan to do ah a giveaway at a certain amount of followers. So obviously stay tuned for that. Going crazy. We got things lined up. Yeah. Comment.
00:32:53
Speaker
You know, we'll we'll hit you back. Same things. and Some things are in the works, maybe. Yeah. you know Yeah. We'll see. Behind the scenes. Promising. All right, y'all. That was episode seven. I'm Spence.
00:33:05
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E-Doug.
00:33:20
Speaker
Love, love.