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Sole Sanity Sneaker Podcast EP 1
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Nostalgia for Sneaker Era
00:00:15
Speaker
You wanna get a fit check? So I don't know y'all can see me in this camera. I got the Nike Shox BB4s with my Vistar shirt.
00:00:28
Speaker
He's not wearing BB4s on this, but we're gonna ignore that. And then I got the, you know, kind of throwback 90s jogger suit. Shout out Foot Locker all that stuff.
00:00:40
Speaker
Yeah, them horns. That's the ones that he wore in the dunk contest. No? ah Maybe. if I don't want lie.
The Resale Price Problem
00:00:49
Speaker
I want to say yes, but then I want to say no. I want to say the one that he wore. This might be a picture of it. Yeah, that's... Okay, yeah, I thought that No, it's not the one. It's not the same one. It's red and red, though. He had a few shoes. I mean, not all of them were the greatest looking. um There's a couple colors of these that I want, like Home and Away.
00:01:11
Speaker
And there's ah there's a China Dreams one of these. And it has like it kind of looks like the Skyline that just came out. But it's all across this. And the box is similar. But like I said, everything just costs too much because it's in the wrong people's hands. and And I just can't justify paying for it.
00:01:26
Speaker
I really like this shoe because... I'm a big Vance Carter fan as well. um But a if I had a dollar for every time somebody would come into the store and ask if we sold Nike shocks, yeah and it's ridiculous. So we we these were on sale when the last shocks really came back, you know the TL, the like running ones, the lower ones. Those came back. We had all white and all black.
00:01:55
Speaker
and they were they were selling very well and they were priced at like 160 and they were still selling very well but these were on sale for like 50 something dollars and nobody wanted them but they wanted these new ones somebody must have wore i can't think of like pop culture at the time who who was big or who was wearing stuff like that but somebody must have wore them and then around the time that they uh they did the stussy yeah yeah yeah so yeah that really brought i forgot yeah about that collab i like the um like the light bone ones or whatever that they made.
00:02:26
Speaker
Just cause you can see a little bit more of the details in it, but yeah.
Fashion Trends Evolution
00:02:33
Speaker
Fit check for me. a I'll stand up, I guess. Nothing crazy today. Black cat fours. Big jeans. Big jeans. Dreamville, shout out Dreamville. Dreamville, stay like the Warriors. Yeah, I've been buying a lot of baggy jeans lately, which if you would have told my, if I would have told myself in high school that I'd be wearing baggy jeans now.
00:02:56
Speaker
about None of them damn skinny jeans I can't fit now. nope Nope. I never was able to fit the skinny jeans anyway. Like, my like my thigh is just way like way bigger than my, like, this. And it's bigger than my waist needs to be. So, I need a 28 or a 29 or a 30.
00:03:11
Speaker
But none of them fit. So, yeah I needed to wear this kind of style stuff anyway. But, yeah. if if Shit. I knew what I knew now. No joggers. I'm not buying anything with a cuff. Unless it's, like, one of the, you know, the loose circle cuffs. But not the...
00:03:24
Speaker
i can still do the um the nike sweats that come out i can still do those with the little with the cuff and i still rather than be straight if i would be like but yeah if i would told myself back in high school that i'd be wearing baggy jeans now but i kind of like them though like especially with fours like i know this might be basic but with fours and like i had a pair of ones on um i have ah I bought a black pair, bought a brown pair, and then just got these recently.
00:03:55
Speaker
Which I think I'll be cool on them, on the baggy jeans right now. Because I was still buying the cargos, but they were still um i kind of slim fit. So like I would have cargos and like a pair of Jordan 1s on, and they would like sit on top of the Jordan 1s, and I was still giving me skinny jeans type of vibes. um So I was like, let me just get some of these and have that little baggy look, but like I said, I kinda embraced it a little bit, little hypebeast in me, took over and getting the baggy jeans, but nothing crazy today.
00:04:32
Speaker
I didn't wear these in a long time. I wore them
00:04:38
Speaker
back in football season, NFL season. I had these black jeans on. in a Dolphins jersey with the dolphins a black Dolphins fitted hat.
00:04:51
Speaker
Because I was working on a Sunday and they were playing, so I had the whole fit on. But after that, I hadn't, I've been wanting to bust them out, but They'd just be chilling most of the time. I wore mine around this time last year, so it's probably time to break them out again so they don't fucking fall apart. it it was like I went to get approved for something at the bank, so i went ahead and I had a tucked in and everything, so I was like, yeah, go with the professional look, but I don't wear dress
Sneakers in Weddings: Yay or Nay?
00:05:18
Speaker
shoes. The only time I've ever Since I've been able to control my own shoes, I have a pair of those shoes from my brother's wedding. But even that wasn't my idea. Like, I was to wear Jordans.
00:05:29
Speaker
But obviously was a groomsman, so I couldn't, you know. For sure. listen' survive Yeah, I was going to do, have like a pair of, i have a brown pair of Chelsea boots and a black pair of Chelsea boots. But even at that, the pants that I wear are still going over the Chelsea boot.
00:05:45
Speaker
So it's... it's over it so it's still but there's no there's no laces it's nothing like that it's just a slip on slip on slip off thing i have tims and i have wallabies but i mean i consider wallabies like uh sneakers for real um so i mean i guess you can count my tims but that's really about it what do you count your clarts right here yeah yeah um i count those as sneakers um have bekin size i guess that that does And Birkenstocks and Toms, whatever, more of those are so long. But I consider all of that stuff to be sneakers because of the type of stuff going to wear or to anyway.
00:06:21
Speaker
But I mean, even for prom or graduation, I got busted. Yeah, I still wore sneakers. My ah Uncle John, he got married.
00:06:33
Speaker
oh He was actually the first one I've seen. i probably I'm sure there was somebody else that had probably done it before. And then now that I see it all over TikTok and Instagram and everything. But my uncle John worked at, he worked at Foot Action in Greensboro for like, this might be wrong, but I wanna say like 10, 11 years or something like that.
00:06:57
Speaker
um But he was the first one I seen get married. They had dress shoes on during the the ceremony and everything like that. And then the reception All his homeboys were all sneaker heads.
00:07:11
Speaker
They all had like, um, like grails at the time. Like black cement threes that look brand new. Um, yeah. Uh, you know, just, they were all wearing stuff that they liked, but it was like older stuff. So like there was a pair of older forces a guy had on.
00:07:30
Speaker
Oh my God. Uh, John's going to kill me. Cause I don't remember what he had on at the time. Yeah. I want to say Black Cement 3s, but i I don't want to say that was it.
00:07:42
Speaker
It might have been Brett 11s. Or it might have been an 11. But even at that point, I'm not even confident on it. I want to get married and then probably either Space Jams or I really like A-Max 1s. Yeah, I think i think the usually the elevens are more of a popular wedding shoe because you still have the patent leather and the dressy look and everything to it as a dress shoe, but yeah, I don't know.
00:08:13
Speaker
I mean, it's cool, but don't think I would wear an 11-iron. I don't know what I would wear, honestly. I don't think you're like, what's going for that? What? think y'all wear dress shoes. I don't think you get that. Nah, we already got nothing green. Okay. It's in writing. Okay, I was about to say, you need to get that in writing. Nah, I'm changing. I'm changing. I'm not wearing the dress shoes all the time.
00:08:32
Speaker
Now, what shoes it'll be, Ain't no telling. Because she can't do heels, so she'll wear the heels for the first bit. but Yeah, she was like, okay, that's cool. You can change. She's probably going to change too. so Honestly, I'll probably stick to one of like the OG colors of the Air Max 1.
00:08:52
Speaker
like There's a black one, so like if I can do that white black one, that'd cool. If I can get one of these big bubbles that's numbered that just came out, that would be cool. It just came out Anthracite. not technically OG, but it does have the big bubble.
00:09:05
Speaker
If I can get my hands on that for a decent price, now...
Navigating Sneaker Trading Platforms
00:09:10
Speaker
get married but they should last until then so I think it also depends on what color way yeah so that's that's also why I don't want to do the OG air max because it's red and then the space jam is blue don't want to commit to either one of those like like primary colors for like such a big event you know don't want my gruns to wear red or blue even even the black with the blue bow tie I don't think I'm umm down for that either uh my favorite color is purple i don't know what shoe i would wear i'm not wearing barclays to my wedding unfortunately not the barclays would be lit though the cbs the barclays would be lit the 94s my brother's wedding was all gray yeah if we could have got something like the barclays like the cool gray barclays or like those cool gray threes or something like that i would be real clean yeah obviously that's an expensive habit though like you know for all your groomsmen and stuff for you sure i think that's why i'm just gonna be like
00:10:04
Speaker
I'm gonna wear this and then afterwards y'all can wear whatever. During the ceremony we'll do the dress shoes and do all the fancy pictures. But when we get out there and we turn it up and having a good time, y'all can change into whatever. We probably would have done that. My brother's wedding was completely outside at Weiss parents house and it rained. So we had to put up a tent that day and like it but like it basically flooded.
00:10:31
Speaker
It was bad. So I'm glad I didn't wear anything important. I also have my Black Spirit guys which is a big like I feel like that could be a good dress show. They came with like cream And tan laces which is really hard so if I could like I mean I don't know do something black pants tan jacket black shirt, you know tan shirt black jacket You know it's fine to hesitant now, but I mean trusty dusty. Yeah, I've been on there like you know funny that hasit tim no but i mean i don't know trust dusty yeah yeah i' been on there like crazy
00:11:02
Speaker
we're We're pretty new to trade block, but I jumped on it a couple weeks ago. I've done two trades so far. I got one coming in the today, I got one coming bed tomorrow. I'm probably gonna jump off just because I don't buy shoes to trade them. And you know I'll come out of retirement if I change my mind on something that I did buy. I feel like I'm starting to feel iffy about these wash banks.
00:11:27
Speaker
but Yeah, i'm not I'm not a big seller. I'm not a big trader. I had it for a little bit, but then my homie Cam was telling me about it was like, you know, I'm trying to get orange lobsters and couple other things too. And he was like, just see what's on there, what's on there. And then I, it was a little bit, the format seemed a little bit tough trying to figure it out or whatever, like trying to find stuff.
00:11:55
Speaker
You have to be real specific on like the search bar on looking for things. um But yeah, there's a, I've been on there a couple of days now. They don't have all the shoes that I would like them to have, like those uptempos I'm trying to get rid of they don't have those on there.
00:12:10
Speaker
Anybody who sees this, I'm selling like three or four pairs of shoes. I need to get rid of them as soon as possible so i can get the rest of these shoes that come out in May. So please hit me up. Nine and a half. Most of them are dead stock.
00:12:22
Speaker
But yeah, those uptempos aren't on there. So it's that I can't really like. it was what it was he's selling up tempos uh black and brown and pink up tempos um last night's day colors um panda highs worn twice women's um red tab not the black tab uh pure platinum high done they're just white and gray um They might be that's great. They come out with so many gray. 9 1⁄2 never worn and then I just sold that um Fly East. 9 1⁄2 ones I guess because nobody was going to buy from it from me.
00:13:05
Speaker
Nobody that I know that wears a 9 1⁄2 in the shoes that aren't like Jordans or like you know basketball shoes. It's kind hard to move stuff like that. If wanted to sell anything on that thing, I don't think I could ever. Well, I mean, the Joe Fresh goods are probably the easiest to somewhere. Yeah, but all the other... All the regular stuff?
00:13:23
Speaker
what What other do you have right here? is all the five seven I see 574's. I have that that's the 5740's, the weird ones that we sell at Hibbit. I got pair of those. I got a bunch, all the turn boxes and 550's.
00:13:38
Speaker
um I might not have too much trouble selling those but they're probably just not worth what I paid anymore. And I have basic colors like I got the white and red and the white and blue. yeah um Those just, those are sitting in stores now. You know, i wish I would have didn't get the Carolina blue one. i didn't get the Syracuse one where they were like big.
00:13:59
Speaker
had like the red one. that' from Yeah, I was at the Statesville store and they had a white and orange pair of my size and I should have got them then. But I was like, I wasn't trying to commit to it at the time. But then when the other store got The red, black, and white ones, I was like, yeah, I could wear more red than I can with the orange, but I wish I would've got the orange looking back now. The orange ones look good.
00:14:23
Speaker
I want all of the ALD, the I'm in the M-D-York, I all of those, like the Tannish ones, but they also cost too much to like, you know. I end up getting the Tannish Hates issue, but the ALD or the Are they green?
00:14:44
Speaker
green The brown and the brown, green and like black laces one. The homie Dijon got give me for him for a steal because he had him.
00:14:56
Speaker
yours on now He wears a nine. But he didn't know that. If he would known that, he would have got the ALDs in an eight and a half.
00:15:07
Speaker
So he had him. And were talking one day about new balances and everything at work. And then He was like, yeah, i hit on these ALDs on the raffle.
00:15:18
Speaker
I wore them one time. They're just too big for me. Like, I can feel them flopping. I'm like, all right. So let me see them. So he sends me a picture, brings them the box, everything. I'm like, tells me the price. I was like, yeah, I'll take them.
00:15:31
Speaker
So got him off his hands for that. And it wasn't even a shoe. I was all like, I liked it. I had it on my want list, but it wasn't like a top priority thing. And it was just like, he had it and can't pass up sometimes. Yeah, you know, especially him being a homie, like, yeah and he needed some red at the time, and he wasn't going wear them, so i was like, yeah, I'll take them.
00:15:52
Speaker
That ALD 650, it's all the way on the right. I really, I need to wear it because six fifty days are starting to come out and be more readily available. if I probably got those a year ago and haven't worn them just because they're like, it's just like, it's that green that's on that box, and it's It's just hard to like, you know, really get it off with the log that's the six fifty is the five fifty but just a
00:16:18
Speaker
I've been into it like Joe Fresh Goods has been wearing them for like two years and you couldn't get them and then I'm in the other way. Dior did a Doré whatever, did a collab and was able to get one. That one when you into the raffle, charges your card.
00:16:36
Speaker
So i' I entered for four of them, 150 apiece. I'm glad I won one, they have to turn my money. you know Right, that's crazy.
00:16:48
Speaker
But that's that's a good thing though, you know, that I like raffle styles that deter resellers or bots or whatever, you know what I'm
Critiquing Resale Culture
00:16:57
Speaker
saying? Because even if you charge somebody a dollar per raffle entry, like you'll you'll kill so many people. Yeah, for sure.
00:17:03
Speaker
It gives people to actually want to shoot a chance. I've been telling Nike for so long, I'm sure it's on my Twitter somewhere from a long time ago, i will write an essay. for every shoe that comes out right promise and however many pages you need me to like if you just guarantee me the shoe at retail i'm gonna pay the price like i just don't want to have to like jump through any hoops other than that you saying like i'll jump through any hoops to get it from nike i don't have to jump through any hoops to get it from aftermarket like that's not i'm not looking to purchase from anybody else other than you nike Let me get my, yeah, take my money straight. Come on, man. Take my money. Get my essay.
00:17:37
Speaker
have, I promise it's not going to be the same. i thought you were going to say I'm writing an essay every time on how to stop these resellers. Oh, i can I could go crazy. love I have a twitter huge issue. Twitter fingers would be going dummy on them. um Yeah, I have a huge issue. And anybody that knows me knows that I tried my hand in reselling in like 2018 19.
00:18:02
Speaker
But I mean, it didn't work. And not even for the the fact that I couldn't make any money or anything like that. I got off my Travis Highs or whatever for some stupid low price at the time. But like as a collector, I feel like however many shoes i have in this room, I could have double because I paid double for so many of the shoes in this room.
00:18:21
Speaker
And it's just a math thing. like come on like It really feels like you're abusing people when you like you go and you you see these people who this whole wall is lost and founds. Well shit, the shoe's not even out yet. yeah Where did you get any of these? Right.
00:18:35
Speaker
So that's that's what's frustrating to me. And like, people don't want to work with you, you know. If, you know, I don't hate anybody's hustle, but I go to work every day.
00:18:45
Speaker
I mean, you know, you can too.
00:18:49
Speaker
Pretty sure. Not any, I'm not adding anybody out there, you know. I'm cool with a lot y'all. Um. Not adding anybody. That's just your personal... Yeah, it's just my personal feelings, you know, and I'm friends with a lot of resellers, but this it's because of my job.
00:19:02
Speaker
And, you know, I kind of get, I have to utilize other people to to get where I'm at. Not trying to be a user, but I'm saying, like, you know, you got use the people that you know. Yeah, you have to. I probably wouldn't have a lot of these issues that if I hadn't met the reseller.
00:19:17
Speaker
But I think if the whole thing stopped, if everybody only bought what they wanted to buy, everybody would be able to get what they want. you know if If I stay in my lane and don't buy anything that I don't want, there's going to be more access to the people that do want. Like the the Charles Barkley thing, that shit eats me alive. There's no reason I shouldn't have the four Charles Barkleys I want because I've never seen anybody wear any of them.
00:19:42
Speaker
i I understand if I take an L on the loss of balance. I understand. I'm going to see 10 of those tomorrow. you know Or Pandas. like it's It's cool. I'm not even mad about that. I'm mad about Air Max's selling out.
00:19:53
Speaker
I shouldn't have to get on sneakers and enter a draw for an Air Max. I shouldn't have to do that for a Charles Buckley. I shouldn't have to do that for any anything about you anything on this side. should be able to get it.
00:20:03
Speaker
I have both of the OG Air Max Plus except for the blue one. And I can't get the blue one because it's $400. You know what I'm saying? I can't justify paying that when I got both of these on discount from FroLocker for like $80 a piece, maybe.
00:20:18
Speaker
You know? And it's just frustrating. Now they are a $10.50. A little bit big. everything over here is a fucking $10.50. Hey.
00:20:31
Speaker
But yeah, this two bread fours, tour fours. This one, okay?
00:20:44
Speaker
Nobody said lost and founds.
00:20:47
Speaker
You
00:20:53
Speaker
were the only one that said that. Man, well, I mean, I'm thinking about practicality. like not Not even if you're getting in the ring, but it's just like getting just being there in general. like With Brad Forrest, with Toro Forrest, I'm looking at my feet at all times like,
00:21:10
Speaker
Well, see, that's why I didn't want to do the UNC ones. Exactly. That shit primarily white. I was like, mean, like, if I want to go get a beer, somebody knock into me.
00:21:21
Speaker
Done. It's going to be a WWE match for real then. You got the patent? Nope. I had them. That's a, I mean, shit indestructible, I'm trying to tell you. And I got them on the doozy too. Me too. I don't know how late they came.
00:21:37
Speaker
Um... I went to the G concert, jumping up and down, shit getting spilled all over them.
00:21:46
Speaker
Yeah, I thought, when I seen you wear them, I was like, yeah, that'd be a good one to have. But yeah, I got rid of my pair.
00:21:58
Speaker
It was in the, that was one of the shoes that was in the trade for the off-lights. Oh, damn. Yeah. Well, I guess I can't even add it up. Yeah, so. That and Tucci's coming on tour.
00:22:13
Speaker
So I might try to get like two hoodies. Pay for two hoodies and then if he's got meet and greet then I'll just give him two of them. Because his like, his homeboy runs a like a sneaker page. His like best friend, like his right hand man.
00:22:32
Speaker
He runs a sneaker page so he'll... I guess like the shoes that him and Tussie buy, like, they'll wear them one or two times. And then they just put on this page and they'll sell them to get some money back.
00:22:44
Speaker
But, so, I'll get, like, the black and red one. And then, like, the UNC colorway one. I would feel like a composer. don't really know Tussie's socks.
00:22:56
Speaker
I I'll pull up. I'll be like, hey, bro.
00:23:00
Speaker
Fuck with me. Fuck with me and my guy. Um. You could wear your fours with the UNC 4s, I don't know how much you care about it. Yeah, I thought about that too. I've been thinking about doing a ah crazy trade.
00:23:18
Speaker
On trade block?
00:23:21
Speaker
With the fours? Yeah. There's a dude that wants the Purple Canyons.
00:23:30
Speaker
Um, and he has Travis Scott for us. The bluons? Yeah. So, was about doing purple canyons and UNC for us.
00:23:40
Speaker
For that. they used? Yeah. I might have to add some cash on top though. But, even if I do that, I mean, I'm losing a blue shoe, but and i'm getting a blue shoe back. And I have hella other UNC colorway shoes.
00:23:56
Speaker
I need the purple ones though. I can't have them. I have a screenshot between me and my uncle where I have I was working at a restaurant I have a screenshot of StockX from like 2019 when they first came out and I was like yeah I'm gonna get these next check and they were like $350 fast forward later $1,200 I'm like I'll go into that i'll go into that in a second but there's just the reason I can't fuck with them I mean we all know those people like
00:24:29
Speaker
that just you see a person wear it and don't want to wear it no more. Like person beat it up or I mean just that person's swag make you not want to wear that like not want have that shoe anymore. For sure.
00:24:42
Speaker
But there were some Air Max ones that came out in like 2019. It was around the time I started working at Philucker. They you might remember them but they came out and they got scrapped immediately. They had a American flag on it, but it had 13 stars. It was based on like a Vincent Ross, what whatever. But basically, everybody was like, oh, no, this is like, this is not okay. Like, you can't do this. This is like, this is basically a Confederate shoe, blah, blah, blah. And it got scrapped. But Finish Line released them early, and some other store released them early. And I was...
00:25:20
Speaker
I missed out on being able to get them on those sites. Right. And they were $140 at the time. But then they were only, like, $200 in stock eggs. They were only, like, $200 in goat. The next week, once they got scrapped, $20. $20 bands.
00:25:37
Speaker
And then they're not that you can't even buy them on those sites anymore. Like, they took them off of all those sites because, like, they're not supposed to be distributed. So it's just like a... if you know you know the type dealer like if you know somebody then it's but it's it's crazy because they didn't even make it to the release date finish line released them early like before they were supposed to so like it was crazy yeah that is that would have been my grail like i probably i i want to say i wouldn't sold it obviously uh with 20 grand in your hand you might feel different but i want to say wouldn't have sold it that would be my grail like 20 grand would have been 20 grand is crazy
00:26:15
Speaker
But I try not to think about it like that. I really do more of this. I was thinking about that on the way over here like when I had these on like and they were sitting everywhere. was like these and the the what the fours and like the neon 95 fours like. That would take the neon.
00:26:35
Speaker
because they went discount. Yeah. Because they were 225 when they came out, wasn't paying that. could have gotten one discount. Yeah. There was definitely somebody had, I vividly remember a guy returning a pair to the store my size and me being like, I could get these on discount.
00:26:54
Speaker
And then I was like, like you said, 225. I was like, ah especially at that time when these were going on sale. uh what the fours were going on sale uh there was like another ugly four that it was out was like the pale citron or something like that like a mainly white shoe but it had like like black with white splatter on it had like an infrared color on pinkish yeah yeah and they sat and they were bad and the quality was bad and i i mean those shoes went down to like 99 dollars And I was seeing that and i was like, dude, I'm not paying $225 for a neon four.
00:27:38
Speaker
And then 2020 hit and it was like. Four. Everywhere. Yeah. And it was like, I mean, even with these, like, I didn't pay the amount of money that the market is now, thank God.
00:27:52
Speaker
But like, just knowing that I could have got them for.
00:27:59
Speaker
100 bucks, maybe like I got mine on discount But another fours are regret getting the winterized fours when was sale like But yeah those
00:28:09
Speaker
but another sure fors our regret getting the winner as fors when i'll sail like to my nine i dollars like a yeah and discount for that the blue with the red yeah those are those are hard and i don't see them anymore that's like that's the cool part about it but yeah those I don't know what was up with everybody sleeping on the the whole black hat thing.
Post-2020 Sneaker Trend Shifts
00:28:31
Speaker
It's like a crazy story when think about it. Because I mean in high school like everybody was like yo like you know like I got fours are cool and then they just came back out right after I got out high school. We couldn't even sell them like we couldn't we didn't even sell out that day.
00:28:45
Speaker
They sat like pretty hard. I mean obviously I got mine first day. I wasn't I don't know. I guess I was thinking differently, but I'm not bad at kind of sub of like, you know, especially for a discount. But i mean, obviously i had no idea that going like it is now.
00:28:59
Speaker
And I was just thinking like on the way over here, if there was some way we could go back in time and just, you know, tell myself or tell my pops and be like, yo, like we have to buy all of these, just like the money aspect of it.
00:29:14
Speaker
Just be like, yo, we have to buy all these and buy all the but the fours and just sit on them for two years. Because that was, what was this? This was 2019? on Or 2020. Or right before the lockdown happened.
00:29:27
Speaker
And just being like, bro, we have to buy all these. There was a dude came my store this week. He said was working at Athlete's Foot in 1984 when Jordan Wells came out. And he said that they went down to $15 and they still couldn't sell them. That's ridiculous.
00:29:43
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Well, you've probably seen it, but like on Instagram, they have the, uh, like the throwback commercials that are on there and it's like a Dick's sporting goods commercial. And it was like, Aaron Jordan ones are on sale for $54.99 or something like that. You're like, what?
00:29:58
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Yeah. I mean, people didn't like ones for a really long time. mean, it, it, it, everything goes in cycles. Um, but I mean, even when we were in high school,
00:30:08
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People weren't wearing ones, like, pretty much at all. You could go into, I remember going to finish line and seeing, like, Shadow Ones on the wall and, like, this other black and gray one. It might be, like, a fear-type pack, but nobody would, like, people weren't even, like, when you go into, like, even the high school days, like, 2015, 2016, it was, like, you could go in there and see the Jordan 1 lows, like, the ones that everybody loves now with the Nike Air Tag.
00:30:38
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shadow like Shadow Royals, Breds, and it was like, nobody was wearing them. They were going on discount too. And it was just like all of a sudden, like a couple years later, it's like now everybody wants them. Same thing with dunks. I mean, but dunks probably went on the under the radar even more because they weren't regular stores. They weren't in skate shops and everything. And then it just it seems like they stopped making like the non-SB dunks for a while until like 2018 or 2019.
00:31:03
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The first one I remember coming back out was like the the plum. It's like purple and red. It was the first of the ugly dunkling pack. and All that came back. But after that, I mean, it went crazy.
00:31:15
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That's my buddy Travis Scott. That way Travis said, I'm going to start wearing SBs. All right, but everybody's going to wear them. Nike has to be seating him because he he wore last year this tennis shoe, like a literal tennis shoe. It's called a back attack.
00:31:32
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And it's coming back out this year now because obviously everybody saw it and they wanted it again. And now he he just wore one like a couple weeks ago. Yeah, when he performed. With the reverse switch. Yeah. I'm OK. I don't need the reverse switch or whatever, but I want the OGs pretty bad.
00:31:48
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I remember Cam sending me the picture of like him wearing them on the stage and it was like, you know, Travis has got his own Mac attack coming or whatever like that.
00:31:59
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And it was like, yeah, he's about to do. make this blow up again too? I really don't think that it's him, but I could just be being a hater. I really think somebody at Nike is like, yo, like we're going to pay you to wear of this.
00:32:14
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And I mean, it's probably like that with a lot of celebrities, but nobody has the effect that he does, which is weird. um I just don't see him as the most influential person ever. i feel like it's people with like actual swag.
00:32:28
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Like, if i had to choose between A$AP Rocky and Travis Scott, I'm gonna choose A$AP Rocky. Just, like, from a complete aesthetic, like, standpoint, like, I feel like he just hasn't here.
00:32:40
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He was the one in, like, mean, even when he raps, like, when we were, which we keep going back to, like, how I was in high school, like, that's when he was big. Or, I mean, A$AP's still big, but he doesn't drop as much music anymore. But, like, he was the one that was,
00:32:55
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Where like the Rick Owens and the high fashion brands and everything like that before kind of everybody else was. Which was like, was super cool. And then he'd rap about it.
00:33:07
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But dude, I don't know. the I mean, I like Travis. I like Travis's music. I went to a concert. He's not my favorite, but these kids, they love him.
00:33:19
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Like everything that he does and way he's a part of. the PS5 or the PS4 collab and the mochas and the reverse swoosh, Jordan 1 Lowe's, I mean, everything he touches.
Influence of Celebrity Endorsements
00:33:32
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McDonald's.
00:33:33
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Now, don't get me wrong. I have the whole McDonald's thing. I have a, I guess it's a rolling trail. but um I you know have multiple Travis things. have Travis shoes. I'm not like, if they look cool, I'm going to buy them regardless. It has nothing to do with him. I just think that like theyre like Nike could have picked a better, like,
00:33:52
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icon but I mean they they did it and it's good for business for him or whatever um he's doing I mean he has the even like I mean, he he did like the SE trainers, like he did them two colorways. I mean, those don't really. The trainers aren't bad. I think the Air Max was bright. Not the ones, but the 270 React. Yeah. Those are bright as well. I mean, i don't think he has anything to do with any of the designs. No. Somebody went on full-size run and and talked about it with his friends.
00:34:23
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He's talking about Chase B. Yeah. Chase B is like his DJ and his right hand man. Yeah. And they were saying that they invented the backwards spoof, which is just not true at all.
00:34:34
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Even if you date back to like the 2010s, like LeBron had that. Backwards spoof. In the 90s, like I think Dennis Rodman's shoe had it. Yeah. Like there's just just been plenty of backwards spoof. There's a video. Yeah. There's a video going around of Rodman at like a sneaker convention. And he's like, he looks at the camera he's like, yo, Travis, like,
00:34:54
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This is mine first. And it's like... I want some some of the Denys Rhymen shoes. The Netostrux are really cool. saw a custom of the whole front of the shoe. It had its like air colors on it. It was dope. I wish I could get that done. But the Netostrux are too expensive for me to think about buying them. I'll just wait for retro. Can't take $400 or something like that.
00:35:17
Speaker
that's how mean i could if i had the funds would pay 400 dollars for whatever was a billionaire but at the current level i am now if i want to continue to collect as many sneakers as i already have then i'm gonna have to know how to pocket watch yeah yeah for sure but um i feel like even like like wiz khalifa has better so like his swag is different but it's always been his like even like just out I think anybody would have been would have been a better choice. i mean And Ace of Rocky has like i but a Reebok collab or something like that.
00:35:50
Speaker
Yeah, he's it's... I can't remember who it is. it's It might be with Reebok. I just think somebody could have done better.
00:36:04
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It's just something about Travis. theres just when When the Astroworld thing happened... no that's That was a big album, don't get me wrong. Yeah. But when that album came out, it was like, and then Nike was like, okay, here you go. And then PlayStation was like, here you There's something up with that brown concept that people are really like grabbing onto.
00:36:27
Speaker
But I feel like, don't know, Frank Ocean could do like cool stuff. Him him getting an orange set of... like you know they made 12 Jordans and they made all of them orange because of the channel orange album or so something like that tell the creator already has something but i feel like his swag is better than you know he wears what he wants to i feel like i feel like it means something because he's not like dressed up like I mean ah now these people could have stylists or whatever right but like as far as we know like I'm pretty sure I know Travis guy is not like yeah give me the Mac text turn this swoosh backwards um and like yeah I'm gonna wear to this concert they're probably like yeah here you can choose from these three we're gonna like you know we're bringing back this older style or whatever and I mean it's working so I can't you know smart marketing
00:37:16
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They're bringing back the Mac attacks, and I guess if that came from Travis Scott, then I'm i'm thankful. because Yeah, I mean, he did all the SBs.
00:37:30
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They tried it with the trainers. Trainers are still going to move because of the old heads. but I like the blue one. The purple one is okay.
00:37:40
Speaker
I just like the model though. I really like the model. I have a Halloween edition one. It's it's really cool. and I got it on go. I think it's missing the top of the box, but it has bloodstains and Dracula fangs. It's really cool. i just like I like stuff with a theme like that anyway.
00:37:59
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so i mean If I can get the trainers at a good price, which I've seen with them for $120, then grab them. i' a grappled Everybody loves the brown right now. Just, I mean, just because of the whole Travis thing, too. Like, even, like, in the regular stores, I mean, Nike's pushing brown, brown, brown, brown gray, brown.
00:38:19
Speaker
tan olive green like i mean we're going in the summertime and they're still like brown shorts and brown tees and that that brown uh tan swirly thing i don't yeah but i mean it's is' hard but i mean they they're ignoring the like oh it's time for summer in exchange for like let's ride the wave which i mean if that's gonna make you money i understand um i'm true to like i don't want to be a sellout and that's probably not rich or famous so
00:38:50
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Stubborn old me. is you
00:38:58
Speaker
Honestly, I might put these on trade block. um People sleep on these. I haven't worn them, and they're just probably too big for me to wear. I've seen somebody wear these the other day at the store. The hype on these was so big when they came out. um Like the cone and all the other like crazy colorways of these. And nobody ever wears 98s.
00:39:17
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Yeah, I like 98s, though. And and then yeah, they don't come out very much. They don't come they don't come out very often. there's yeah There's a pair of 98s I think I have on my goat.
00:39:28
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want list is it orange no i don't know the cone one is really really popular i don't know which one it is i'll have to find it um well um that's episode one i'm not sure how we sound uh right now this is a pretty test run um elizabeth can't stay on and record so we had we had camera problems yeah microphone problems Phone problems.
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Light problems.
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00:40:09
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We'll try to do it every week. um Schedules are changing. I work, with you know, we work in retail. So it's just, you know, we'll get it out as soon as we can. You know, we'll try to collaborate our schedules. But You know, the Winston people don't want come work. Hype one people don't want to come to work. You know what I'm saying?
00:40:27
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You know, it is. Everybody want to work today, right? It is what it is. You know, that's just one that's just what a what comes of being a manager, unfortunately. For sure. We'll see y'all next week. Peace.