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Kick Talk Vol 2 with Morgan Jones
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We are back with another Kick Talk, Hass brings 3 pairs and Morgan brings 3 pairs. We talk about the color MAIZE, we also talk about him being in a zoom call with Ronnie Feig. Expand a little bit more on TikTok sneaker creators. How one is banned from being on this podcast. Morgan also just proves his Aime Leon Dore knowledge and his love for Teddy Santis.
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Socials: @morgan.a.jones & @morgans_sneaker_room
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Transcript
Introduction & Social Media Success
00:00:10
Speaker
What's good, y'all? Welcome back to My First Kicks. I am your host, Haas, and this is episode 87. And if you've seen by the name of this title, it's time. It's time for Kick Talks, and this is Kick Talk volume two. So we had to bring my boy back. We had to bring former guest, Ronnie Feige's favorite son.
00:00:35
Speaker
Morgan's back, y'all. After his episode, had a large consistency of people who'd loved your episode. And I think now I gave you like 10,000 TikTok followers, right?
00:00:51
Speaker
something like that, man, I'm getting out there. We're trying to hit, we're trying to hit 20, 20,000. I say trying is like, we're just still doing the same thing and just, it'll get there eventually. Yeah. I mean, listen, by the time this comes out, which is coming out this week, same week, uh, you have been the face on
00:01:11
Speaker
Sneaker Freaker for a whole week. I've been on there, yep. And before that, nice kicks. Nice kicks, yep. Old friends, old friends of mine. Yeah, and you were in a Zoom meeting. It was just you and Ronnie Fi. Me and like 300 of our closest friends. And did you get to say, man, I really enjoy those salmon toes, man. Man, I got stage fright.
00:01:40
Speaker
I got, I got stage fright bro. I didn't say anything. All these people were asking these questions and I was just like, I'm just happy to be here. Oh man. What did they give? Did they, they let you speak? Cause I thought it was like, um, like a seminar type of format. Well, there was a, there was a Q and a part at the end. Um,
00:01:59
Speaker
And, you know, people were asking like, well, where do you get your design process and all this other stuff? And I don't really care about that. I wanted to know if I was going to get the San Mateo gelite fives for free or not. That's what I was there for.
00:02:12
Speaker
And we did not get them for free.
Sneaker Networking & Opportunities
00:02:15
Speaker
We got early access to both pairs to purchase. I bought the salmon toes. And then I was like, I really don't like the leather backs. And then I ended up paying resell for the leather back later on down the line. I don't know how you do it, but like, I mean, that's really dope. I don't know how you ended up in there. Was this off the strength of the TikTok? No. So this was back in November. This was back in November. So I was probably like,
00:02:43
Speaker
10, 15 days into the 365 days of sneakers. So 365 days of sneakers ends on October 31st. So I was probably 10, 15 days in and they put out a post that said, if you have the salmon toe gel at three or the leatherbacks, post a picture of them and then comment like your email and all this other stuff. And then they reached out to us, we had to send a video
00:03:12
Speaker
uh, with us showing the salmon toes or mother backs. And, um, I did that and then they sent us a zoom link. I took
Content Creation & Social Media Strategies
00:03:22
Speaker
off work that day. Cause it was like a Thursday, like 10 AM. Um, so I took off work and sat there and listened to him talk for a little while. Um, he sounds very serious. He's a very serious guy. Uh,
00:03:41
Speaker
And, you know, that is what it is. But it was, it was a pretty good experience is what I actually forgot about until I, until I posted that, that TikTok, however long ago, a week ago or whatever. Right. Yeah. I mean, my, my algorithm is just messed up on there. So like, I'm getting a lot of your old stuff. Like, I know you've probably seen and go through like me, just like, you'll see, like, why did he like a video from April? I'm cool with that. I'm cool with that.
00:04:10
Speaker
I get those likes, man. I mean, you know, this episode is specifically for, you know, we come back, shoot the shit with me, and we talk about kicks that we think people should check up on, you know? But let's get all the plugs out the way, you know? So let people know how they can find you.
00:04:27
Speaker
Yeah, you can find me on TikTok for sure. That's really the main place, Morgan's sneaker room. I'm doing 365 days of sneakers where you should be on day 300, but I'm really on day like 297 because I'm not posting every day. Mental health is important. Of course. You can't do that. 365 days is a long time.
00:04:50
Speaker
So I'm trying to figure out a way to wrap that up. I've been kind of brainstorming how to do that. You can also find me on Instagram. So my personal Instagram is morgan.a.jones. And then I've got an Instagram with my collection, which is Morgan's sneaker room. And then I've started putting my TikToks on Instagram as well. That's Morgan's sneaker club.
00:05:17
Speaker
is something different, see how I can make that a thing going forward. So yeah. Yeah, I guess I'll plug myself as well. I mean, who is Haas on all social media, except on Twitter, who underscore is underscore Haas, because somebody will not relinquish the goddamn who is Haas.
00:05:36
Speaker
Like it's literally just a person with one follower and following one person. So I messaged that one person to see if I could be like, yo, do you know who this person is? And then they were like, no. And then the person was just like, oh, they're following me. And I was like, yeah, that's how it ended. I'm like, so upset. I'm like, Twitter just helped me.
00:05:54
Speaker
I just want my name right and and yeah follow the podcast my first kicks pod on Twitter and the gram My first kicks is the tick-tock handle I've been trying to get active on there and be as active as Morgan, but You know, I see muscle stuff, bro. You're getting me you're getting I'll try it, you know, I mean after after almost starting beef with HK smash, you know, I was just like man going I
00:06:22
Speaker
Look, what I've learned is you can't respond to every opinion, bro. You can't respond to every opinion because beef is liable to get started. Yeah. I mean, currently you're beefing with Flex Luther for previous guests. It's not a beef though, man. It's a beef. I'm clearly better. And I hope he listens to this. I'm clearly better.
00:06:49
Speaker
Listen, he's he's so I had him on the podcast and after I was telling him like, you know, we should you should definitely just tap into being the villain. Yeah. On the tick tock. And and I guess he bit down on that because that his recent post, I was just like, this is what I'm talking about.
00:07:09
Speaker
I was like, you're going straight for the big gun. You're going straight at Brian Ware. Let's go. Yeah. Which I do not like. I do not like him. And I'll go on record. I don't have like a blacklist of people. Yeah. But I've actually spoken to him before on Clubhouse Early Days. Yeah. When I was starting this podcast. And I asked him the question that I ask everybody every week. And he gave me such a lame answer that I was like, this dude, he's never going to be. He's not allowed.
00:07:36
Speaker
What was it? Do you want to know what happened? I do actually. So I asked him, I literally, I do, you know, I'm plug machine. Like if you're ever around me, like one day we'll meet up and hit up like a sneaker con or something. Like I'm the plug machine. Like I'm just like, yo man, I do a podcast.
00:07:54
Speaker
And so I get pulled up to the
Sneaker Releases & Industry Trends
00:07:56
Speaker
stage on Clubhouse and it's, Raschourenator presented this thing and I started, and I became actually like cool with the people from Raschourenator on Clubhouse. So instantly when they saw me pull up for the, for this talk with Brian Ware, they pulled me up and they were like, yo, you know, Haas, you've asked good questions, come up and ask good questions, ask question. So I asked him, what's your first kicks? My man goes,
00:08:21
Speaker
And the story behind, I was like, oh, what's your first kicks? And the story behind your first kicks, my man goes, oh, I just, you know, I just kind of went on StockX and I bought whatever was, you know, hype right now. And I just made a TikTok video and the TikTok video went crazy. And that was it. This is a face, man. I think he got a check next to his name too, bro. He does. Yeah, he does.
00:08:44
Speaker
Which is crazy to me. And it's funny because he talked about how what he was first doing was soda videos. He was getting thousands and thousands of views just by making soda stream videos.
00:09:02
Speaker
And then all of a sudden, because he had the idea, which is just, I don't know, maybe it was an idea or maybe he saw somebody do it, which was to buy the floaty thingy, you know, the shoe floater thing. Oh, yeah. The one that. Yeah, I know. Yeah. So he presented the same way as the soda videos and he did was buy a high pair of kicks.
00:09:25
Speaker
put them on the thing, like as like, oh, this is the display. And then that video went a million, a million follows or whatever off of that. It's crazy. That's nuts. And you're, you're over here going through your entire collection. You got a whole room. You, you, you got, you got, you spent so much money on sneakers and I can't hate though, man. I can't hate because like my, I feel like my type of content, it, it brings a more, um,
00:09:54
Speaker
or brings a base that's like willing to learn. And I think we have much more valuable discussions in the comments and stuff like that, because there's people who are interested in the same things I am. No, I'm not gonna, I mean, I'm sure he doesn't even know I exist. No, I'm a thousand percent sure he doesn't even remember this. He's got no clue, got no clue who I am. Cause I imagine he hits me up and is just like, yo bro, I want to jump in the pockets. And I have to be like, all right, listen to that.
00:10:23
Speaker
I don't have a blacklist, but you're on it, bro. I don't want to say anything that'll mess up anybody's opinion of anybody. I just don't enjoy his content, man. It seems very...
00:10:41
Speaker
It seems like he's fishing for likes and views, you know what I mean? And, you know, I like authenticity. So, that's just me. But yeah, I mean, it's crazy. And I applaud Flex for just being like straight up. And I was just like, but he did that video of being like, where's my 50, 55,000? I was like, this man is it?
00:11:08
Speaker
This is what we like to see. This is it. This is it. This is what I like. Oh, man. But you want to jump into these kicks, man? You want to talk about? I'll go first. I'll talk about. All right, man. Like.
00:11:24
Speaker
So, I mean, we've seen the first iteration of the Tom Sacks. What is it called? I was going to call them boring. The Nike craft. Yeah. General purpose shoe. And now we're getting another call away and.
00:11:43
Speaker
And what I'm hyped about is that because so, all right, I'm going to get because you're not you're we don't have a group chat. But I feel like we should we should have a group chat like me, you and a bunch of other people. But so I've been telling people and I've been posting on it on Twitter. I was just like, listen, if I get.
00:11:59
Speaker
this general purpose shoe, I'm donating like all my beaters, every single beater that I have, like I'll donate all of that. And I just want this shoe to be the shoe I wear every single day. Like, or like, like if I'm not, like if I don't feel like flex, not flexing, if I don't feel like whatever, like I, this is the shoe I want to put on, right?
00:12:22
Speaker
So I tried really hard for the gray silver pair because that shoe is it. That shoe definitely was like it can go with anything. All right. And so I was so amped. So I tried both times, struck out both times. I even I even added Tom Sacks on LinkedIn and I asked him, can I get a pair?
00:12:44
Speaker
You knew he was going to see your message. Yeah. And I was like messaging on the comments. I was like, listen, man, I really want these. Like, can you like just
Nostalgia & Storytelling in Sneaker Culture
00:12:54
Speaker
like, come on, one size 13, just put it in the shop. I'll come through and I'll pick it up, man. I'm living in New York. Like hook me up. And so he obviously that just went by the wayside. He probably didn't see it. And so now we're getting a new colorway, which is the archive colorway, which I'm trying to figure out why are they picking that color as the as the
00:13:14
Speaker
the shoe color, but it looks more like a like a Maize golden rod color. Maize. You're right. Maize, right? No, it's Maize, man. Maize. All right. I say Maize, yo. You might be wrong, bro. It's Maize, man. Because Maize is in Spanish. Maize is corn. So it's like corn is yellow. Yellow is. You know what I'm saying?
00:13:40
Speaker
but I live in Indiana, so it's maze. Listen, listen, man. I'm right. I'm right, all right? I'm right. I believe you. I'm right. I'm just going to say that because I've been called, I've been, I have a pair of Iowas and on there it says M-A-I-Z-E, my ease, man. Come on. When two vows go walking, the first one does the talking.
00:14:11
Speaker
You didn't learn that growing up? No, no. I didn't learn that growing up. I did not learn that growing up. That was hilarious. I need that. Because all I remember, I always remember I before E except after Y. Except after C. Except after C. That's what it is. Yeah. I before E except after C.
00:14:29
Speaker
All right, you got it. So maybe it is Mays. We'll give it up. We'll see. Let's see what this episode drops. We're just going to have a war. So is it like with TikToks? So is it Mays or is it, I mean, is it Mays or is it Mais? Let's talk about it. Yeah. I'm with it.
00:14:51
Speaker
Oh man. But yeah, so yeah, this shoe is coming out. Maze colorway, archive colorway, whatever. I'm hyped for it. And I think what I find interesting about this shoe is that they're taking the approach of just, we're just going to flood the market like an easy. They're just going to flood the market. But the thing is, people are buying it.
00:15:18
Speaker
What's really weird about it is that resellers are buying the shoe and it's still like 400, resell on it is crazy. And I'm just like, yo, off the strength of just a Tom, like Tom Sachs, like the, this shoe is just like the markup on it on resell is just crazy. So yeah, I mean, I don't know. I don't know if this is in your, your, your view, but yeah, it's me.
00:15:41
Speaker
Yeah, it is. I like the first color way. I didn't even know that these are coming out. I was looking at them while you were talking. But I like them. I didn't know about them, though. I do see a lot of people comment about the overshoe, the Tom Sacks overshoe. They want to see if I have that. And out of all the shoes, why is that the one you guys want to see?
00:16:06
Speaker
But my first shoe is the New Balance 9060. Now I know Joe Fresh Goods has already, he's already released a couple of colorways. They've been, there's been a sea salt colorway, but New Balance is releasing like their, not heritage, but their
00:16:28
Speaker
you know, their general release colorways, the grays and the navies. That's something that I'm looking forward to. I've noticed that a lot of my purchases lately have been in that gray or those quintessential new balance colorways. So I'm really excited for those.
00:16:47
Speaker
He's got that bulky bottom, bro. I love, man, I love a thick midsole. I love a thick midsole. 990 V2s is one of my favorite sneakers because of the chunky midsole.
00:17:00
Speaker
So yeah, and I have one of the Joe Fresh Goods colorways too, so. Are you a fan of the Joe Fresh Goods, like his color palette for his things? Cause they're, they're pretty much the same color palettes across everything that he does. Like it's like a, what is it? Like a pink, like a pink. He's got some like muted, like muted green, muted blues and greens. And yeah. Um, if I could ever get my hands on the nine, nine twos, um,
00:17:30
Speaker
I might think about retiring, but you know, I'll think about it, but the thought will go away quickly. Just for some JFGs, 992s. Bro, they're incredible. They're incredible. And then he pulls out, he's like, oh, you know what? I'm gonna make a 1600 or whatever, 1800. And then he's like, I'm back in it. I'm back in the game.
00:17:55
Speaker
Man, I my next shoe I so we're probably gonna spend a little bit on this. Yeah, it's the Nike I'm a manir and Nike airships which were limited to 2,300 pairs They dropped on Friday this past Friday. Your boy was broke. I've been broke this whole entire week I texted did I text you I was like something drop
00:18:17
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Andre 3000. I was like trying to get this Andre 3000 shirt that dropped on Thursday. Um, and I was just like, but, but it was front of mind, but then I was like, man, I'm so broken. When you're broke, you just kind of just like anything that you want. It just starts going down. But like, you just be like, all right, I still gotta eat. I still, I still kind of want to go out on Saturday. Like,
00:18:39
Speaker
So I'm like, am I gonna get this shirt? And then on top of that, I was talking to my friends and they were telling me like, oh yeah, resale on the 2X is crazy on that 3000 shirt. So, I mean.
00:18:53
Speaker
It wasn't, it wasn't for me. It wasn't for me. Maybe there's a restock coming, but it wasn't for me. Look, I bet that there will be a reseller who needs his light bill paid, man. I'll have me. That'll be yours. Yep. I'll pay Con Edison. Let me know. Looking to make you feel better. I got two, um, two XLs. So I got, I got two shirts. Um, I got one for both of us. So, uh, Oh, I thought you were about to offer me the other shirt.
Sneaker Collecting Motivation & Iconic Designs
00:19:22
Speaker
No, I got one in gray and one in white. Wow. Wow. I hope I hope you spill pizza sauce on one of those goddamn shirts. If I do, I just wear the other way. But yeah, so these I'm on many airships, Nike airships came out. I got into a lengthy conversation with Russ Bankston about the airship, about
00:19:50
Speaker
companies re-releasing and re-retroing and bringing shoes back just to, I guess, move the needle, right? Which is interesting. I think it's just that nobody cares about the airship. They just know that it's Jordan's first shoe before, like he only wore it for like six months or whatever. And then all of a sudden now they're trying to pump all this
00:20:16
Speaker
story into this shoe that only was around for six months. Right. And I find it interesting because I think it's just it we got into this big back and forth about like I just think people we're going to always keep buying sneakers as long as it means something to somebody. Right. Right. So like if Nike's like, yo, we got the airships, there is going to be somebody who remembers the airship and thinks, oh, I need to get this because
00:20:44
Speaker
of that one time when i was a kid and i couldn't get it and i feel like everybody and i feel like that's always the first step and to be in a sneaker head or be a whatever sneaker enthusiasts a person in the sneakers is that you have this moment in your life where you couldn't get something and it's mostly about sneakers because you only so there's a lot of people who only get one pair a year growing up and now you've got your own money
00:21:08
Speaker
And you also don't want your kids to feel the same way or whatever about that. So you're going to jump in and be like, oh, this shoe is getting re-retroed. This shoe is coming back out again. You're going to go for it. Of course, Nike is going to leech on that and get that. You know what I mean? Right, exactly. And you never know what models people are going to gravitate towards, right?
00:21:29
Speaker
There are new people getting in the sneakers every single day and it might be the airship that gets people interested in sneakers. You just never know what people are really looking for. For me, for example, for me, it's Air Max 120.
00:21:49
Speaker
It's an ugly shoe. It's an outlet special shoe. You love ugly shoes, man. We used to talk about this earlier. I do. I do like ugly shoes. It's a sneaker that I will wear for an entire week straight. That could be somebody else's airship.
00:22:10
Speaker
But the Ammanir pair, and those are straight, they went with a different palette, they went with a different colorway, right? Like it's white and blue. Yeah, white and blue. I think what I do enjoy about this shoe is that they're numbered and the story behind it. Like, Ammanir is definitely the best at bringing a story to a shoe and it make it relatable to many people.
00:22:33
Speaker
And then they sell that, that connection. I think selling that connection is very dope because before it's always been like, oh, you know, this was that time that Jordan did that that that or like with Virgil, it's like this is Virgil's take on the 10, the top 10 shoes that Nike has had. And so I think I'm a manure, I'm a manure's take on making it family related, making it reminiscent of like, you know, well, I mean,
00:22:59
Speaker
James Whittaker group, if you want to say, their way
Conclusion & Listener Engagement
00:23:04
Speaker
of making their collaborations more about a moment of time or a connection with family or what it was like, your upbringing, I think they do it right because it's a story that everybody can relate to and relating through
00:23:21
Speaker
you know, a shoe who, I mean, to be honest, I think this is maybe the only pair I would actually have bought, right? Not the pack that they released with the one, the Chicago, was it? No, it was like a white, it was a white and red one and the airship in white and red as well. I wouldn't have bought that. I didn't even blink twice when those drop. Then there's, I think there was an orange pair that dropped as well.
00:23:44
Speaker
And, but this was like, yeah, I was like, they, they randomly was like, yo, we're dropping these and there's only 2,300 pairs. And I was like, this is fire. Yes. The bank account did not think it was fire. So I did. I was just like, maybe, maybe if they go down in price, I'll cop. So yeah, light bills, man. Those light bills sneak up on people. I'm telling you, I'm telling you, light bills sneak up on people. Keep the lights on. Oh, you can keep your feet fresh. Right.
00:24:12
Speaker
All right, man, what's your next view? So my next one is, so we're discussing, it's kind of like the Jay Electronica album of, even though the Jay Electronica album did eventually come out, the Jay Electronica album of Sneakers, it is the New Balance 990B6, of course, in the gray colorway or Castle Rock colorway.
00:24:35
Speaker
But we've been, I think they announced it at the end of last year for 2022. And I know that it's August, almost September. It'll probably be September when this comes out, right?
00:24:51
Speaker
but I haven't seen it yet. I haven't gotten any updates since July, but I'm really excited for this shoe. I love the midsole that we were talking about earlier with the 9060. I love the chunky midsole. I love the shape of it. Teddy Santas designed it. Big ALD fan have been for a very long time. So not one of these, you know, new adopters to the brand. That's so Teddy Santas created ALD. Yeah. Teddy Santas. Yeah.
00:25:22
Speaker
I thought Teddy Santos was something else, another person, and then ALD was their own person. I thought there was a person literally named Ame Leon-Dor, and he was like, I'ma run a little bit in Kif, and now I feel like I'm out of the loop at this point. Just to be clear, this isn't your city. All this happened in the city that you live in. That's all I'm saying. Yes, exactly.
00:25:46
Speaker
The door part of Amelion door, right? So Teddy, his first name is Theodore, right? So it comes from the door, like Theodore, the door comes from the Theodore. Um, I may is just,
00:26:02
Speaker
I don't know what it means. It's just a French word and it's a very basic French word. And then so the the Leon is it just means lion. So it's a may random French word Leon, which is lion and then door for Theodore Teddy Santas. OK, so it's just gibberish. It's just a lot. It's a lot.
00:26:28
Speaker
So yeah, so Teddy Santas, he is the I believe his creative director over at New Balance now. Yeah, that's wild. It is wild. I'm open my own design. Spot, and then I'm a be like, yeah, I'm a dude. I'm a I'm a make models for freaking New Balance on top. Yeah, it's crazy. But I mean, it's funny because I think I was listening to or I saw a clip from Throwing Fitz talking about how Teddy Santas like revived
00:26:58
Speaker
uh new balance as well with those new models like is the p550 yeah and like was the protection pack also him too no that was uh i think it was a japanese creator and i was a japanese creator i mean it definitely had to start somewhere you know but i think it's just i think they're definitely on the uptrend and they have been for a while but
00:27:22
Speaker
I'm still not buying a bear. I will tell you, I saw a comment. It might have been on one of my comments that said that Supreme is greater than ALD.
00:27:39
Speaker
And it's so interesting how far we've swung as far as our opinions, or not our opinions, but like the community's opinions. Because my first beef on TikTok was with C-Roy. I don't know if you saw any of that stuff, but it was back in. You did? Okay. So my first beef was with him and he says something about Supreme being dead.
00:28:05
Speaker
And I said, uh, we're not going to take advice from people who got Steve Harvey mustaches. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, then he responded critiquing my outfits. Um, and I got flame pretty bad, but like, that's kind of what I was looking for. Like I want that energy. But anyway, so now people are saying that ALD is worse than Supreme, which
00:28:32
Speaker
I don't even put them in the same category for real. No, yeah. I think it's like to me, ALD is like early Kith because Kith was always just doing like small logos and like very like it was like it wasn't like hiding in plain sight, but it was like top tier quality. Not top tier. I would say actually I would say it is mid tier quality.
00:28:55
Speaker
for a decent price while ALD is taking that same approach. I think they're also still doing the exuberant, but it's mostly just like a fashion house in terms of just like, we're using these colorways, we're using these patterns and we're just mixing it to make New York chic a little bit more up class is what I take ALD for. Yeah. Did you see their Yankees brace?
00:29:24
Speaker
I saw the Mets one because I'm a Mets fan. You're a Mets fan. Did you cop one? No.
00:29:33
Speaker
I have one AOD hat, because I really like their hat, their meds hat, because it's stitch. It's not like a patch. It's not like the thick new era. Yeah, it's a chain stitch, right? It's a chain stitch. And I like the way it looked. The suede was super soft. So I went to Philly last week. That's why I'm broke. And so I wore that hat out there. And it was just like I was the only one, and it felt like,
00:30:00
Speaker
I was just like a little bit of higher class in Philadelphia with that hat. So I only get I only get Yankees hats. I'm not even a baseball fan. I can't stand baseball. I think is the most boring sport on planet Earth.
00:30:17
Speaker
I always get Yankees hats because like it's what Jay-Z said yet, right? Like made the Yankees hat more famous than the Yankees did. Yeah. No. So yeah, I'm a big Yankees hat guy. I mean, you you you used Jay Electronica's Jay-Z album as a as a through line to get into this conversation. So yeah, I see. I see where you're going. So is that is that? Do you have any more Teddy Santas praise? You want me to move on?
00:30:47
Speaker
I mean, so I did buy the 990 V2 from his heritage collection, a lot of dark blues and light blues. I got that today. Tennis business has been booming, so I got those today. But Teddy Sanchez has always got a special place in my heart right next to Ronnie Feige.
00:31:09
Speaker
Man, one day, one day, I'm I'm hopefully if I can get, you know, how crazy would it be if I was able to get one or the other on this podcast and then I'll have you jump in and talk some shit with us. Look, I'm not going to lie, it might be the worst podcast you ever do because I will be so quiet, bro, like.
00:31:30
Speaker
I will not be talking, I'll be so starstruck. I just want, yeah, I think I'll be like, don't worry, don't worry, Morgan's gonna join us, but he's gonna be on mute the entire time. Why's he breathing so hard?
00:31:44
Speaker
Oh, man. Yeah. So yeah, I'm going to jump into my last shoe. Yeah. This is a shoe I've been trying to buy for the past four or five years or something like that when they dropped in twenty seventeen. Did they drop in twenty seventeen?
00:32:00
Speaker
Yes, they did. The Nike Air Zoom Spirit on 16 Stash edition. Stash is one of the dopest collaborators in the graffiti collaborators that Nike was able to do like shoes with. And I remember always wanting just the Air Max 95. Not the Air Max 90s. No, no, no, the 95s that he did. The Air Force One.
00:32:29
Speaker
The Air Force One, man. The Stash Air Force Ones are like, they're like a shoe that if I can just have it in my possession, that might be, all right, I'm good for like 10 years type of. 10 years? 10 years, like that's like, yeah. I think I would take a 10 year hiatus if I had a pair of Stash Air Force Ones.
00:32:53
Speaker
I mean, they're going for a G right now on, um, on stock X and my size. How much you like me? This is only number two. This is only, uh, it's only number two.
00:33:10
Speaker
Oh, man. I mean, listen, this is the whole reason I started this thing is to have you on more. That's why I'm trying to. OK. OK. I'm with you. So. But yeah, you know, the staff spirit ons, they immediately hit the outlets and people were paying like 60 bucks. And I was so jealous, so jealous that year. I was I was like walking on the street like all.
00:33:33
Speaker
Those are the stash spirit ons. And I'm like, and people be like, yeah, I mean, there were I just bought them for like 60 dollars at the outlets. I remember rushing to the outlets to try to cop this freaking shoe. Right. And not being able to. So now I and OK, so this is also on top of this. And I don't know if you relate to this. But so there's a price point for me to have this shoe. And I refuse to pay over it because they hit the outlets. Yeah. And that is one hundred dollars if I'm.
00:34:04
Speaker
Because I've ever talked to a bunch of people about this, I'm like, yeah, I really want the stash beard on blah, blah, blah. And they're like, yeah, they're on GOAT for like 160. I'm like, I'm not paying more than $100. Right. So yeah, so yeah. No, I'm the same way. I'm the same way. Even if I really want the shoe, I'm not paying over the set price in my mind what they're worth.
00:34:23
Speaker
So, yeah, I'm way too 100 percent. I mean, this show is so dope, though. And I've I've heard who people who because during that year, I wasn't that year that the Olympic ones came out with all the flags around it. I believe so. Right. I know what you're talking about. And they also had a. No, no, go ahead. They also had a was the other model they had with the same the same color way.
00:34:47
Speaker
It had a different model that came out. I think it was like an Air Max, wasn't it? I think so. It might have been a 90. No. Was it an Air Max 1? Yeah, I think it might have been an Air Max 1, I think. And they also did like a Pada, like a Pada or Para. Yeah.
00:35:09
Speaker
had a spirit on that came out that year as well, because they were really pushing that model. Oh, that was a para. There was a para spirit. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. And I remember seeing a lot of people with these two. And they were just saying like, yeah, this is the one of the most comfortable shoes that Nike put out. So. I was just like, oh, I need to get these stash ones. Yeah, it's never happened so. And it was Air Max one. It was Air Max one that they that they put out.
00:35:40
Speaker
I mean, I don't know if you I don't know if you fuck with stash that much, but I used to go to his store recon and on the first volume of this, I talked about the recon dunk that I wanted. I don't know if you remember got Stingray on it, no such so.
00:35:59
Speaker
So it's a black and look it up. It's the recon. No, it's the north. If you look up north and no and no RT dunk high, you'll pull up, you'll pull it up. And it's it's done by recon, which is which was a store in the Lower East Side that was around.
00:36:19
Speaker
And so that was like two blocks away from Supreme, where Supreme used to be. So I would, me and my boys in college, I would walk around and we had like a loop. You'd hit up Supreme, you hit up Supreme, you hit up clientele, and then we'd walk towards the area known as Greenwich Village, you know, because you're a big fan of the Pope of Greenwich Village.
00:36:49
Speaker
I don't know if you've ever seen that movie. No. You should check it out one day. And so you would walk towards where if you're walking to Days Quality Meets, you'd have to pass North Recon. And that was Stash's store. All his art was in there. You remember the Stash Air Force Ones, the highs with the caps, the paint caps print all over it? Yes.
00:37:16
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, they had like cuz he was like that was there that was North recon's print so they would have it on tons of stuff and I was fired so like I got really obsessed with going to that store and then they I didn't know that they had a dunk until after and they had it just like on display so
00:37:33
Speaker
I got obsessed with that shoot trying to find it for lower than 400 or something dollars, right? Talk about it on last week's episode. I show my former co-host a link to a GOAT posting. And I was like, all right, cool. When I get money, I'ma cop them, right? Finally get money. I go to the post. It's gone.
00:37:54
Speaker
It was like only $127. So I was like, oh, I'll totally do it. I've been waiting forever for these damn shoes. And they're not, they weren't my size. Their size 12. So I would have to be in there with no, no, uh, no, uh, insults. No, like the church socks. Yeah, exactly. Um, and so I send it, I send it to him, whatever. And then I go and I'm like, yo.
00:38:16
Speaker
Yo, damn it, I struck out on the shoes, whatever. And he's like, what do you mean? And I was just like, oh, yeah, I mean, I can't get them. They're gone. And he sends me a video. He sends me a video. This motherfucker has a video of him opening the box. And in the box is the shoe. I was so tight. I was so tight. Bro, does he live in New York? No, he lives in L.A.
00:38:44
Speaker
I would have booked a flight. I would have booked a flight. So he's actually he's given he's sending them to me. So he did it just for the joke. I was like, this dude is so funny. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, that's why I mean, I wanted to talk about stash. I wanted to tell you the story and talk about the stash period on. So, yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, that that lore, that's the stuff that I like about sneakers.
00:39:08
Speaker
And I'm not super familiar with with stash at all. Right. So does he have like a crazy following in like New York and I don't know. I don't think so because he got his name. I think he I mean, because I.
00:39:24
Speaker
Are you familiar with like future like the graffiti graffiti collaborators early early on? No, so I know Futura. I know Futura. I mean, but I'm learning them. I'm learning about them way after the fact. Yeah. As it's just not in our every day. Yeah. No, like.
00:39:44
Speaker
I'm from Indiana, man. I know about corn, maize. I know about soybeans. So that's the stuff that I know about, but I really have to do, I feel like I have to do a lot of research to
00:40:00
Speaker
to kind of keep up sometimes, you know? I mean, like, yeah, in the younger days of, like, SB, because I'm a big SB guy, they recruited a couple graffiti artists, because skate culture and graffiti did go hand in hand during that time, because there's a lot of, in the 90s, a lot of music was, like, a lot of hip-hop, and the circles there were all just meshin'.
00:40:22
Speaker
because underground hip-hop and skateboarding and graffiti all just like collided and became like a thing. So they recruited Stash, Futura, and then there's somebody else that slipped in my mind, but they did an artist pack and that's the start. Like literally that's the start of Meggy as B because you have the Zoo York pack
00:40:44
Speaker
Um, then you have Futura has his own colorway. Yeah. Stash has his, has his little thingies with like the 95s and stuff like that. And it's just the art, that artist pack was just wild. And you gotta just, yeah. I mean, I say, cause I, I grew up on hip hop and, and, um, like I was obsessed with and still am obsessed with graffiti. So like when that, when I was like, Oh snap sneakers graffiti, I was like, eh, I got to learn everything about this. And that's how it goes. All right.
00:41:12
Speaker
I heard you used to be an artist, man. You used to be a graffiti artist. I mean, I didn't used to be. I wasn't very good. I wasn't very good, but I always have markers on me. Yeah. So yeah, we don't have anything to graffiti out here in Indy, man.
00:41:30
Speaker
I mean, you got some corn. Yeah, for sure. So you ready for my last pair? Yeah, man. So my last pair, this pair dropped in 2013. Believe it or not, it's an A6, right? It's an A6 Gelite 3. It's the St. Alfred pair. Travis Scott's favorite, favorite brand.
00:41:53
Speaker
I would first of all, I would cash out on every single pair that I have. That'll be the first thing I did. I'll probably drive my car off a cliff if that ever happened. If I ever see Travis Scott wearing a pair of gel i3s, I would
00:42:11
Speaker
It would be over. Yeah, man. I remember when these dropped. I love these, because this is around the same time as the Ronnie Feige ASICS collaboration. And then all of a sudden, ASICS was the hot thing at that moment. Like, it was crazy. But yeah, as you were saying, these are the... Morgan's talking about the ASICS Gel Light 3s, the St. Alfred edition. They're like the olive birch colorway, fire and fire.
00:42:41
Speaker
Yeah. I love the suede on them. Um, it looks very, uh, I don't know, succulent to describe it. Um, and then give me, give me the, give me the barbecue sauce. These look succulent right here. I gotta pull a little barbecue sauce on this and they've got a gum soul, which is like another incredible feature plus the yellow, the yellow midsole. Um, it's a pair that's like, it looks very premium, but the prices are very,
00:43:11
Speaker
very premium to us, not a shoe that I want to necessarily spend $400 on. And I probably won't, you know? But like I said, somebody's light bill becomes due or, you know, rent becomes due. I'll be happy to take them off of somebody's hands.
00:43:29
Speaker
I mean, hopefully somebody, you know, is listening and it hooks you up, you know. Yeah, for sure. Right. That's what I really like about these type of episodes, because people are looking at it and they probably look at their collection and be like, oh, you know what? I could I can actually hook them up. And then you get it for a good price. So, you know, if you listen to find me. Exactly. Man's everywhere. I think. Yeah. So I didn't know anything about St. Alfred and these drop because
00:43:55
Speaker
Like I said, Ronnie Feig introduced me into the jail light, the jail light and and all of the interest, everybody. Yeah. And so like I was like, yo, these are crazy. I remember trying to get them because was it the early days of concept?
00:44:11
Speaker
Might have been like concept just started opening a store in New York City during that year. I want to say. Yeah. Oh, nah. No, no, no. This is the year after. And St. Alfred did that red pair. You remember the red. I've got the red for the six hundred. You're talking about the new balance. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I got the red pair. Yeah.
00:44:29
Speaker
And I didn't know where else I can get St. Alfred. So, but these dropped and I was like, yo, cause I'm a sucker for good suede. Like, you find a pair with like great suede. Like, I'm like, yeah, give me, I'll take it. I don't care. Give me the suede, bro.
00:44:46
Speaker
I think that's one of the materials that like I if I if I'm looking at a shoe and I hold it in my hand and it has a great sway like a soft or a suede that like kind of like the knee pons the bait knee pons Yeah threes like where you it's like rough, but they I don't know if you know this about this shoe They have a tutorial on the shoe that you're not gonna look up and it and it adjusts it changes the way that suede feels and
00:45:13
Speaker
I did not know that. I got the shoe. Yeah, I have the shoe. Yeah, it's a good pair. And so, yeah, I mean, suede is definitely one of those materials I'm always just like, give me, give me. Yeah, I'm not going to lie. So when I got out the military, I thought that I would be settling down in the Pacific Northwest, Portland, Seattle, something like that. But.
00:45:35
Speaker
The reason I haven't is because of the rain and it doesn't go well with suede. So my suede sneakers are the reason why I'm in Indiana. It doesn't rain a whole lot out here. But you're like, give me the most driest spot. I mean, exactly.
00:45:54
Speaker
Oh man. I think, yeah, listen, if you're able to get these, I applaud you. Uh, because these prices are just crazy right now. 600, go 600 to two grand for repair. Like that's wild. Yeah, it is a, it's insane. I mean, and they've been insane for years. So it's not like they just now became like, you know, super coveted or anything. I'm going to look on eBay and see what they have.
00:46:23
Speaker
But the Gelite 3 is definitely, I mean, we have to admit that Ronnie Feig is really the guy who brought it to the forefront. And I said earlier, I said in one of my latest TikToks, I got the complex sneaker of the yearbook, right?
00:46:44
Speaker
Um, and you go to 1990 is one of my issues with complex and they listed the gel light three as an honorable mention for the sneaker of the year in 1990. But like, I don't think anybody cared about the gel light three at that point, you know? Yeah. I mean,
00:47:04
Speaker
Hopefully, I mean, I'm not going to, we never know what's what happens next. We never know what's going to happen in the future. So I'm not going to be like, I didn't pick up that book, but I didn't pick it up for a reason. So, Hey, look, I, if complex ever hears this, I do have the book. I spent my own money on it. And I listened to all your content and all that other stuff, you know? So, you know, if you ever want to work with the kid,
00:47:27
Speaker
Yeah, I got lots of complex followers on on here, but I think it's just like that book was definitely one of those books where it's like you can't it's just the the idea of like we need to have a sneaker of the year like you know what I mean like
00:47:44
Speaker
It's like everybody's taste is different. You can't just be like, now we have a book based on what we decided are the sneakers that you must have had copped during this entire year. But it's a panel. They use a panel of a bunch of people, you know what I mean? So that's gotta represent everybody's taste. Obviously. I do like when they go back and review their old sneakers of the year and it's like how far off they were.
00:48:12
Speaker
I mean, listen, shout out to Welty, shout out to Brandon Dunn, shout out to Joe Lapuma.
00:48:21
Speaker
We're here for you. Right. Exactly. Put us on the show. Yes. Yes. Get us on the show. Yeah. I mean, I mean, listen, everybody's listening. Hopefully you check out the sneakers that we mentioned. And if you have any pairs that you think we should check out, you know, tag us at us. Use the my use the hashtag. My first kicks. Make a talk about it. Tag Morgan. Tag me. Tell us.
00:48:48
Speaker
I don't know that you didn't like saying Alfred or I don't know saying Alfred kidnapped your family. I don't know. Just tell us something. But I appreciate you jumping on Morgan. You know, I appreciate you reaching out to me down. You will be back. Yeah, you will be back a lot. So for sure. Make sure you start.
00:49:06
Speaker
the writing list of like, all right, these three, now these three. It's easy. I've always got, I've always got a long list of sneakers I want. I start, when that list starts dwindling down, I start getting stressed out. I start feeling like I need to, you know, buy stuff, you know? I feel you. I feel you. I've been, I've been doing this method on GOAT where I do, I look up for all shoes under retail. Um,
00:49:31
Speaker
And my size and then I just like, all right, cool. When I get some money, I'm going to get these from to that, like, because everything is down. Everything is like low as hell. And so I'm like, all right, cool. I didn't get these in 2011. Now I'm again. And like for like 50 bucks and feels great. Yeah. I'm going to start doing that because it sounds like a good it sounds like a good idea. I will say during the course of this podcast, my low ball offer for those union ACG mocks did get declined without a
00:50:01
Speaker
Without a counter offer. So sad Yeah, sad sad day cuz I remember remember when I messaged you about those diamond Gel gel. Yes. Yeah that dude He just I kept I was just like I'm not like he kept so what the dude was doing was I under I was I was low ball and I was just like hundred like I was like 110 I think max and the guy whoever's they them were
00:50:27
Speaker
We're, we're, we're declining it. And then the, the, um, the listing would just keep going. And, and, and he was just relisted again. So I would just keep doing the same bid, uh, low ball offer. And he was just never take it with, but nobody's buying them, bro. Like let, let them go. Right. No money or you can get this money. So I did, I was, I will be transparent. Um, the listing is for one 15. Um,
00:50:53
Speaker
And I did offer 65 because I'm really trying to headcrack this Sunday evening.
00:51:02
Speaker
Lord willing, maybe he'll come back around. Yeah, I'm going to message him and say, you know, we got to do a little bit of work. So come on, come up off of them. Right. Exactly. Oh, man. But, you know, thanks for jumping on and you know what we say to everybody each week. Wear your kicks. I don't know if you want to you want to say your follow you for the most. Yeah. Follow me for the most for follow the most diverse sneaker collection on TikTok, man.