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Sole Sanity Sneaker Podcast EP 8 MAMBA DAY RANKING TOP 8 KOBES, UNBOXING 8/29 BURGUNDY 5'S
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Introduction to Episode 8 and Mamba Day
00:00:13
Speaker
all right uh welcome back to soul sanity sneaker podcast episode eight you know for mamba day today is august 24th i don't know when this will come out but this is very coincidence that it episode eight on 824 yeah it was meant to happen for sure so um today we got a it's a mamba themed episode um so we brought some mamba themed shoes uh all of these are eli's by the way uh I don't have any Kobe's.
Eli's Mamba Sneaker Collection
00:00:44
Speaker
I have finally...
00:00:47
Speaker
oh
00:00:51
Speaker
What am I trying to say? You finally... I finally have a made the table. Usually most of the the shoes are yours. yeah um So now they have... I had the ah the Dion's that one day. Yeah, you brought the but um the Diamond Turf. yeah Other than that, um usually they're mostly Spence, but now...
00:01:10
Speaker
All three of these are mine, so here we go. You want to ah step over to the the panel and show us your fit? Yeah, I can do that.
00:01:19
Speaker
Fit check today. Back up. Back up? Yeah,
Host's Kobe Tribute Outfit
00:01:23
Speaker
there you go. Common Hype shorts, eggplant foam, vintage Nike tee with Kobe on the back.
00:01:30
Speaker
Common Hype? Yeah. Traitor. You know. Traitor. Arizona boys. Yeah.
00:01:38
Speaker
Better hope they don't see this. I'm sorry. I wear these all the time. They'll be fine. Alright, so um unreleased. So Sandy hoodie. No full zip. Whatever. So Sandy shorts. And I have these.
00:01:52
Speaker
The Flint 12s on because it's one of the only Jordans I have that Kobe played in. And I got my Slash socks on because that's what he was wearing as well. Yeah. I have True Blues which is another shoe I have that Kobe wore, but ah those are cooked. know we talked about like if I was going wear the Kobes or actually wear something purple or Kobe themed today, but it makes sense to wear this Kobe tee and then have all the shoes out.
00:02:21
Speaker
so um I wish I had some of the other ones that he played in, like all the PEs. um like The 7s are clean. The threes the 8s. They made the 3 and 8 a pack. I don't know why the Seven's not included.
00:02:36
Speaker
but And the three, if you try to get the three individually because people don't really like eight, it's the three is... Ungodly expensive. I think they're ungodly expensive anyway. Yeah, they are. If you get the whole pack, or they're ungodly expensive. But if you try to get solely the three and separate the pack, you're paying it dumb check for it.
00:02:58
Speaker
Obviously, everybody knows what the Grinch's are. the The Christmas shoe that Kobe wore. um Probably the most popular Kobe. Definitely the most popular Kobe, which is why i left it off of my list. For
Kobe Bryant's Brand Transition
00:03:11
Speaker
sure.
00:03:11
Speaker
um And it's number one on my list. um And then during his sneaker free agency from Adidas to Nike, he was experimenting with other brands.
00:03:24
Speaker
um This is when you've probably seen him most in like the Jordan brand stuff. um But there's a picture of him. him and AI had a good relationship. So obviously this is why the, the yellow toe question is now a thing.
00:03:39
Speaker
Um, and then this is my personal Kobe eight from like 2012. It's a size seven youth, little um, little Hooper.
00:03:49
Speaker
Um, But I think these are the mine grays or something like that. um This shoe has a very special place in my heart because it was between this shoe and the first retro I ever bought for my birthday money, which was the Jordan 9 photo blues with the white bottoms. Ended up buying the Jordan 9s, being my first retro I ever owned.
00:04:12
Speaker
And then my birthday in October, Christmas time came around, and then my family got me these because they could tell like I was in the store. Like, very highly considering, like, having a hard time. If I could have bought both at the time, i would have bought both. but yeah um So this shoe obviously holds a special place in my heart as sneaker memories and then obviously just Kobe in general and what he means to the shoe game as well.
Sentimental Sneaker Stories
00:04:38
Speaker
These are my man's AAU shoes. My man used to be a hooper back in the day. Back in the day. Not no more. I ain't a hooper now. You can come to to the right. Come to the Y. 30 minutes to stretch before. Easy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We got time.
00:04:52
Speaker
I get there early and anyway. I need to warm up. I want to speak on the the Kobe free agency, like the the sneaker free agency. um There was a lot of – he wore a lot of different stuff at a lot of different times. I mean, it seems like most of the times he played against Jordan, he was wearing Jordans. Right. um We've seen him in we've seen him in twelve s He wore threes in all-star game.
00:05:14
Speaker
I want to say, obviously, all the PEs. um He wore, there's a yellow toe, there's a purple toe, there's even a black one. It's like white and black, and then there's a black and gold one that he wore. He's seen in the, he wears a Converse weapon.
00:05:31
Speaker
Obviously, he wears a lot of Adidas when he was with Adidas, but even before he got Kobe's, he was getting a lot of like, Like them building him up, you know. The crazy eights. Yeah, and the EQT or whatever.
00:05:43
Speaker
um He's just been in a lot of shoes. Yeah. Which is something you don't necessarily see from a lot of like signature players. I was about say for a top tier athlete of a sport like that, um that and what was I going to say? He was wearing forms. He wore forms in 2000 and he wore the top tens, which is something I just would not think to hoop in. Yeah. I think the reason that I...
00:06:03
Speaker
bought the laser orange threes. Um, this pair right here is because it's the closest thing to to that cobep to the Kobe P that he was wearing, like in the famous picture of him picking Jordan up and everything.
00:06:16
Speaker
Obviously don't have the purple, but that's just kind of what reminded me of as well. Yeah. So, wanna do So we're going to do, ah we started, we were debating a top five or a top 10 of our favorite Kobe's. And then we decided to go with eight, obviously for an obvious reason. We could have done 24. Yeah. 24 total. I don't think I can, we don't need, it we don't need an hour long. yeah so I struggled enough to get eight um just because I don't want to be a fake fan and I'm not going to pick anything that I don't actually like enjoy. Right. For sure.
00:06:51
Speaker
So, You want to go first? Yeah. You want to do one and then? No, you run your whole one. I don't think we have any of the same ones. Okay. So number one being the Kobe 6 Grinch, which is what he wore on Christmas Day.
00:07:06
Speaker
Like we said, the most popular Kobe. I think um I like this one, but not enough to put it on my list. I do want to mention the reverse Grinch because that one's clean. That one's going to be really popular too. like I want to say I like it now.
00:07:20
Speaker
But I just know that it's going to an everywhere shoe. I was going to put the reverse Grinch on the list, but I replaced it with a different red Kobe as well, but it's a little bit lower. I know once it releases, it's going to get the same yeah hype treatment as the Grinch. For sure. um Number two, the Kobe 7 Shark, which is um I wore in middle school because that was actually my middle school basketball team's colors.
00:07:47
Speaker
um You said all the Kobys back in the day. You know, I was i was with it. um ah True to this, not new to this, as you would say. I'm not going to say my other – I'm not going say the other thing that I said last Yeah, we'll save it for another one.
00:08:03
Speaker
And then number three, the Kobe 6 breast cancer, which is the all pink ones. um obviously Nike always does like a breast cancer one. um Is he going for a bag? Yeah.
00:08:13
Speaker
We just looked for that used pair on Goat and it was like a cooked pair for a thousand easy. So um number four is a Kobe four, the Hyper Jade.
00:08:24
Speaker
Obviously I just picked this one because it's Miami Dolphins colors. So when we talked about something that Kobe's that you could wear for the rest of your life, I'd wear these to all the games and everything. So I'd wear this.
00:08:38
Speaker
The Kobe 8 Mine Gray next up, which is this one. I just put this on the list. It's not my favorite colorway, but just sentimental-wise, it's on here.
00:08:49
Speaker
um The Kobe 6 All-Star. That's the red one. the red one, yeah which is going to take the place of the the reverse Grinch. I just like this one more because it's just red and black.
00:09:02
Speaker
um And then, obviously, he wore them in the All-Star game. That one is clean. So I would choose that one over the reverse Grinch. um
00:09:13
Speaker
I put the same shoe twice.
00:09:17
Speaker
One, two, three, four, five, six. Yeah, I put the same shoe twice. but Okay. eli lacking okay ah Now we have the Kobe 8 Mamba Curials. Yeah, those are clean.
00:09:33
Speaker
I wore Mercurials when I played soccer. And I just thought it was a cool conversion of showing Kobe's passion for the, for soccer. So they did the Kobe and the, the cleat together.
00:09:44
Speaker
Um, so I liked that as well. And I've always wanted them and I never was able to get them. Um, that it's a really cool concept and a cool colorway. Um, I'll probably never own it because they're just stupid expensive, but it's, it's definitely a dope concept.
00:09:59
Speaker
And then I guess I'll just go off the top of the head right now off the dome. Um, I think you have these on your list. He's copying me now. No, you don't. You don't have them. okay um I'll do the Kobe 6 Dark Knight.
00:10:16
Speaker
that The black and blue one? The black with the blue. That one's tough. No, no, no. Sorry. Take it back. Okay. um Sorry, Batman. The Kobe 6. I can't remember the name. It's white with blue and purple.
00:10:30
Speaker
don't know the name of that one. It was a dude that I used to play your basketball with in high school. He had them. And I always wanted them. um It's kind of like Charlotte Hornets colors, maybe. um Any other time?
00:10:46
Speaker
Fastest. Yeah. You said white. It's like white, blue, maybe purple. I don't know.
00:10:58
Speaker
Is it that one? like that Yeah. Okay, it's the draft day. right so So, yeah, it's like a Charlotte Hornets colorway, I guess you could say. Yeah, yeah I would take that one. Final answer?
00:11:12
Speaker
Yeah, I'll take that final answer.
Top Eight Kobe Sneakers Discussion
00:11:14
Speaker
So we treated this list as a not necessarily a top eight ranked in any order, but as if we had to pick eight Kobe's to be our rotation for the rest of our lives, these would be the eight shoes that we picked. If we got that endless amount of money yeah to just afford all these. weeks Whatever personal reason. Right.
00:11:32
Speaker
um so i'm gonna start mine um and sorry to all the kobe stands or whatever i don't have anything lower than five and i don't have anything higher than 10 which there's only one higher than 10 still um so i'm gonna start with the kobe 5 bruce lee this one's obviously super popular as well but that one's it's super clean and i would love to own this um the yellow and black is super like super cool to wear and the the little stripes on the back yes the I feel like the the Bruce Lee's, like, I feel like there was maybe one or two other Bruce Lee versions as well, maybe. um
00:12:12
Speaker
But I feel like every Kobe, like, Bruce Lee colorway that came out always did well. Yeah. And it was always popular. And it's just a cool commemoration with the colors into Bruce Lee as well. Yeah, and i don't want to sound like a hypocrite, because I know this one's just as popular as this one, but they really killed this one for me. i haven't seen as many people with the the Bruce Lee's. Right. Yeah.
00:12:31
Speaker
The next one is the Kobe five hall of fame, the undefeated one that I just literally just took l on. I tried for my man's are all the other ones. And then I realized that the gold ones were on there and I was like, yeah, sorry, I gotta go for these myself. Yes.
00:12:44
Speaker
Like, well, I think I told you like today that if those SBS that I bought last episode, the guy's store that I went to, he had these in my size um at one point. So if he still had those,
00:12:58
Speaker
the Kobe's would have came to the, to the crib instead of the SB's for sure. Yeah. but Um, and then the Kobe six, uh, the prelude, the blue, yellow, like, you know, um, that one's really clean. It's got like a, like a springtime, like vibe. Yeah. you know Yeah. I like the whole, I like the whole prelude pack.
00:13:18
Speaker
I would like to have all of them, but obviously that, good look yeah, it costs a lot of money to have it. Um, Same thing with the like the Kobe 1 undefeated pack. like The purple camo, the the other camo, the red camo, yellow camo. light Those would all just be super sick to have. but it's I mean, the whole undefeated, all of the Kobys, like the fours. If you were to buy all like five or six colorways of undefeated, you'd be just out of some money. That'd be down bad. Yeah.
00:13:47
Speaker
but And so, Kobe with the eight. um Clean, classic. um honestly, another pair I would love to have. yeah I'd probably actually play basketball in these.
00:13:59
Speaker
A lot of these Kobe's would be hard to wear, like, casually. Yeah, for sure. I mean, we're so we're getting into a time where people wear but basketball shoes casually still.
00:14:10
Speaker
um But I just don't, like, like other than this colorway of the Kobe 6 and maybe the reverse Grinch, I don't think I could wear a Kobe 6 casually. Yeah. Just because of the shape of the shoe and all.
00:14:20
Speaker
um I mean, unless I'm going to, like, watch a basketball game or something, you know, and I feel like it's a little bit different. I think even with me, like at the store when I'm wearing them, I'm like, I'm like, you know, I'm not in seventh grade, eighth grade anymore. So I'm like,
00:14:36
Speaker
what do I wear this with? You know what I mean? Do I wear it with pants? Do I wear it with shorts? You know? um I wear sweatpants with just about everything. So it's probably what we get. Yeah. So, but like I said, just it's, it's tough. Cause we're not in seventh, eighth grade anymore. Can't just put on khaki shorts and, and Kobe's in the polo and just we're run crazy on them. You know what mean? So,
00:14:59
Speaker
um I got the Kobe 8 Venice in here. and So that's my second Kobe 8 of the the list. This one's also got that same kind of like um bright blue. Yeah. yeah um and i And I enjoy the the way the colors like kind of not mix, but fade into each other. You know, it just it's a good looking shoe. um Can't wait to maybe ever add this. Yeah, that was that's a good one as well. I feel like the Kobe 8 really all,
00:15:27
Speaker
I'm not to say of them because I'm sure there's some that are questionable. But like the Kobe colorways, usually you can bank on a good one somewhere with somebody. I'm not necessarily a fan of the one that just came out.
00:15:43
Speaker
The all-white one? But we know how I feel about all-white yeah no one's just like It's like the antithesis of my like existence. well then And then that and you know the opportunity was a aroused to me to buy them.
00:15:57
Speaker
Um, and then I was like, no, cause one, it's an all white shoe. So, um, and then we just have other things coming out. So yeah, just Kobe's the all white ones just had to, you know, had to get the boot right now. Yeah. Y'all pray for me this week that they the Charles Barkley's did come out this week. So, um, and we'll come out yeah on the 25th on sneakers out too. So that's tomorrow. So pray for me for these unions and the new balance and the,
00:16:25
Speaker
Charles Barkley's and the fives and the just, just, just pray for it. My social status, it comes out tomorrow too. Just pray for you. Pray for your deal. Pockets hurting. Hurting.
00:16:36
Speaker
All right. Next one. I actually own this one. Unlike Eli, i'm I'm not Mr. Kobe, man. I've not, I don't have that many. So the Kobe 10 blackout, it's like all purple with the black at the bottom.
00:16:48
Speaker
I've wore the, like, as much as you can actually wear a basketball shoe, These are my PE shoes. These are my hoop shoes. These are my everything. I probably went to track practice on these at some point.
00:16:59
Speaker
But like I literally put a hole through the insole to the bottom of the shoe like they were unwearable at some point. um But I love them. They're probably like my favorite athletic shoes of all time. I'll have to send you a picture or video next time I'm at my dad's house because I have a pair in the same description that you just gave. um But they're a pair of LeBron 10s, and the bubble is, like, off, and the soles are off. And my dad's just as bad as those and my dad's like, why are you and not getting rid of these? And I'm like, because, like, the LeBron ten you know, i got to give him the whole story. And I'm like,
00:17:37
Speaker
So when I hooped in, like, when I played outside, and, yeah, I'll have to send you a video. They're smoked. LeBron 10, very underrated silhouette. And, let's see, this one is one that I almost owned, but my parents hate me and shoes, so that just didn't go my way. The Kobe 9 Low Independence Day.
00:17:59
Speaker
um I, like, I don't know if I hit on a raffle, then all it had to do was pay for it or what, but I vividly remember, like, having the opportunity to purchase them and just not being able to, because my parents didn't want me to, I think I ended up getting the blackout afterwards, like a couple months later, um, because they wouldn't let me get this one.
00:18:20
Speaker
And I was probably like crying. Right. Um, but I do like regret not being able to get this one. Um, this one, this was, this is one I think about all the time and it's one of the better independence day, um, collabs. Like I agree.
00:18:38
Speaker
That was around a time when they wouldn't let me get to Lance Mountains either. it it was It was tough on the boy. Yeah, bad time. Tough on the boy. Not what a time to be alive. And my last one, I don't know if this counts to you guys.
00:18:52
Speaker
The flight Hirachi, um because you it's not his, but it maybe should have been. he wore it. I'm going count it. If I had to rank these things, that might be my number one.
00:19:04
Speaker
I need those two, by the way, so pray for me again. And then I have an honorable mention, which is the 2K4 Hirachi, which I know was going to be his if there wasn't the like troublesome social social climate climate
Debate on Best Basketball Shoes
00:19:20
Speaker
for him at the time. Things going on. Yeah. um Off the basketball court. um Some people would say, i don't obviously know this personally, but some people would say that the 2K4 Hirachi is like the best hoop and shoot all the time.
00:19:34
Speaker
so It's a good one. That's what... I'm not some people, though. I'm like yeah i was going to say, maybe we're we're a little bit younger than those people. Yeah. So, we would say more of Kobe 8s, Hyper Dunks, like we had talked dun about. Hyper Dunks will get honorable mention if I had to do a top five. So, um might be a little bit different. um But before that, obviously, with that being his shoe at the time, people were saying that the 2K4s are the best hoop shoe.
00:20:02
Speaker
Performance? Yeah. Yeah. I'll get back to you on that. I'll give i'll give us a ah give it some thought. Okay. For sure. um So, ah we have an unboxing for you guys today. Jeez. I was able to get these early.
00:20:18
Speaker
And keep in mind, the boy brought my size. Coincidentally. I brought our size. Coincidentally. You know, me and Eli happen to be similar sizing.
00:20:29
Speaker
So, obviously, these are the... Do they have a name besides Burgundy Fives? I think it's just Burgundy. burundy gar Burgundy Fives.
00:20:40
Speaker
um So, this is this is a good one. We've been talking about this one all year. um I've definitely been talking about this one all year. um Excuse the slight color differential, but...
00:20:53
Speaker
You know where to purchase your Soul Sanity gear to match your fives. Yeah. um Or to match whatever you got. and it match I mean, the blue on the bottom matches the shorts, too. I mean, come on. This one this one looks a little pre-aged. It's got a little bit of yellowing in there. It does. um But i' I'm not hating.
00:21:10
Speaker
I still want them. I still need them. Yeah. This one is going to retail at $225,000. So look for that 240 after tax unless you got a plug somewhere These will not last two weeks for any of my hippie guys out there. So don't get your hopes up. They won't um and Everybody that says that um They don't have things that match this color Yeah, don't don't don't bring that up. We got something for you. Don't bring that to me. We got something for you We will have personal beef.
00:21:39
Speaker
We got something for you, but this one is super clean the the last time it came out was in 2006 and Um, there's, there's a little bit of differences as far as like material and color on this one to the last one, but they did a pretty good job.
00:21:52
Speaker
Um, and I think a lot of people are still going to get them. The only thing that I am really not a fan of is the box. Yeah. And we had talked about this, what, yesterday or the day before maybe? Yeah. This looks like a PSG box. Yeah. Like.
00:22:07
Speaker
I could see that for sure. Um, when I, go to buy a pair of fives, oops um I'm looking for either a box like this with the the classic the longer lid or give me a box that are like this yeah that like matches the Still the longer lid, but it could have been this gray and had the you know whatever. The Burnley Jumpman, maybe. But why do we have a regular box? This this bothers me. yeah
00:22:38
Speaker
But I'm a stan.
00:22:41
Speaker
He's an OG. Yeah, like, even the even the Green Bean box is better than that. Yeah. You know, like, um this is a problem. For sure. Or, like, even what I said, like, even if they wouldve done' even if they did this box, like, do all burgundy with, like, the Silver Jumpman or... I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. In my opinion, when I look at this box from the front, from the back, from the side, whatever...
00:23:10
Speaker
um this looks like a PSG4 box. You know I'm saying? if If you had to just guess what shoe was in the box because it just doesn't have um like the fives thing. And forgive me if I'm wrong, but this is the only five I know that doesn't have that box.
00:23:27
Speaker
Please comment if, you know, you know something other than that. I would say so. i would say that's probably right. I can't think of any off the top of my head. I certainly don't have any that don't have that box, so.
00:23:40
Speaker
Jordan brand. What are you doing? You know, it has this box. What? Raging bull fives, the all Brown one, the all Brown box. Oh, it's not a, it's like this.
00:23:52
Speaker
I just remembered. I have, I feel some type of way about that one too, because that one was supposed to be a pack anyway. So, you know, I got a problem there and the quality on that one was shit. So, uh,
00:24:04
Speaker
He's getting amped up. Jordan Brand just needs to, you know, hire me for quality control. Not necessarily quality control. I don't need to check the shoes all the time, but there's certain details that I feel like people don't.
00:24:18
Speaker
It's just an attention to detail thing. And I have that. And a lot of people just aren't paying attention to that. You know, if we're going bring back the OGs, bring back the OGs all the way. Yeah. You know, and and like I said, they didn't even have to give me a special box.
00:24:31
Speaker
have been cool with just the black box. Right. You know? But it is what it is. i would be curious to go back and see what the 2006 had. It probably is just a black and red one. I think it was just like the... Or like at that point, was it the black with like the silver Jumpman? Like that oh yeah old school box? I think... Don't you... Yeah, I got a few of those.
00:24:51
Speaker
They're at the top. Like this one? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it was... I could be wrong. I think it was something like this, but...
00:25:03
Speaker
I don't have any old vibes, so won't be able to tell you, but I do know somebody who does. And his Laneys are around this time. Yeah. so I feel like they're they come in this So it's like this older box with black with the silver on it.
00:25:15
Speaker
um This is just an older box that they used to do back in the day. I want to say it was like this. But I could be wrong. um I'm sure we've seen a video on social media where is a there's there's the comparison of the old pair and the new pair.
Sneaker Exit Event Announcement
00:25:30
Speaker
Again, we will be at the sneaker exit on September 17th, Sunday, September 17th, 12 to 7. We'll be there early for anybody getting in early.
00:25:42
Speaker
Me, the whole set Soul Sanity team, Eli, Zach might even be there. um Everybody there. So. come get your merch, come chop it up. Yeah. Come subscribe. Yeah. yeah but we'll be Follow the page giveaway at some point. Giveaways. Um, could include some clothes, could include some shoes, maybe some, we got some stuff. Still, still got things in the works, maybe. So who knows? We're all, we're on the way up.
00:26:08
Speaker
Yeah. Um, that was episode eight of so Sandy sneaker podcast. Um, we appreciate you tuning in, um, like comment, and subscribe. We need all of the support. All of it. Um,
00:26:19
Speaker
Grab you a pair shorts, two for 50 or one for 30. I got other at the at the black shorts too still available. We should have some official photo shoot pics coming up later today for these. So you guys stay tuned.
00:26:33
Speaker
Let's go. right. Let's
00:26:49
Speaker
Love, love.