WEBVTT - Episode 29 - Make A Wish 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.200 What's going on? Guys. Welcome back to another episode of 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:06.120 Legit Check. I'm your host, EASYBUSTA. I'm here with a 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.799 new friend. His name is Peyton Smith. He has a 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:12.520 pretty incredible story that, um, we're gonna be talking about today. 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.360 But without further ado, why don't you introduce yourself kind 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.200 of tell us where you're from with your story, and 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:20.160 I'm sure a lot of people would love to hear 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:24.880 your amazing story. My name is Peyton Smith. I am 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:30.319 eighteen years old. I currently live in Montpelier, Vermont, which 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:36.519 is the capital of Vermont. And I have been into sneakers. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.560 I mean really, I've been in a sneakers my entire life, 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:43.320 but I really got into sneakers way back in like 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:48.159 two thousand and twelve, two thousandt I currently have sixty 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:53.520 seven pairs of sneakers, ranging from one of ones all 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:57.960 the way until all the way to regular grs. And 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.200 just a little bit about myself, I A I'm a 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:07.520 cancer kid. I was diagnosed way back in June. I 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:11.240 have been pretty much fighting cancer ever since then. I 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:14.720 am still going through treatment. I went through remission a 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.559 couple of times and it's come back a couple of times, 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.720 which is not always the greatest news. But I've been 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:24.959 pretty much fighting every day to try to get rid 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:28.840 of it and live my life to the fullest. Um, 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:34.280 I am planning. I am graduating in a couple of days, 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:39.880 which is really awesome, and I am going to go 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.319 to college, and I'm planning on going to college to 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:48.440 be a sneaker designer and work in the sneaker industry. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:53.240 And yeah, I mean, I think that's pretty much all 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:56.240 about me. So you're so, you're a senior in high 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.640 school right now. Yeah, I'm a senior in high school. Okay, So, 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.080 first and foremost, before we get started, how was it 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.800 dealing with being a senior in high school during quarantine. 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:14.240 It's it's definitely not the most easy thing ever. Um, 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.040 a lot of online classes, a lot of back and 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:21.639 forth with my teachers. Um. It's funny because right now 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:27.280 we're actually having our kitchen redone and because of my diagnosis, 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.120 I actually had a little bit of cancer in my lungs, 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.080 so my lungs are not exactly the greatest and I 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.840 couldn't breathe in all the fumes. So we actually went 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.520 down to New Hampshire. Our friend has a Lake House 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.680 down there, and we actually stayed. We stayed there pretty 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:48.240 much for the entirety of quarantine. We actually just got 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.840 back about a week and a half ago, but for 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:56.800 most of that I was staying there. And it's crazy 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.360 to go from being in a classroom setting every single 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.000 day and seeing my friends every single day to going 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.960 to pretty much online classes and zoom sessions and all 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.560 sorts of stuff like that. It's not the greatest thing, 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:16.480 especially graduating pretty much like one at a time next week, 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:18.560 and I won't get to see probably any of my 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.960 friends for a while, probably until later this summer. But yeah, 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:28.480 it's really really strange. Like the the COVID definitely took 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.200 me by surprise. But yeah, it was really interesting because 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:34.560 none of my friends because most of my friends graduated 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.360 last year. Um, so I wasn't really able to talk 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.720 to many people about like the whole like graduating experience now, 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:45.200 especially in But you know, I mean, congrats, by the way, 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.920 you know, thank you very much. You have one week left. 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.320 There's gonna be a lot more brighter and more fun 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.520 graduations that you're gonna have down the line, and much 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.480 more festivities and parties and dances and all that, so 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.080 don't don't worry too much about that. But so you 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.760 are used to the whole zoom thing, because I totally 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:07.119 am not. This is like the fourth zoom call I've done, 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:08.840 and every time I do it, I'm like, oh no, 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:12.160 I don't know what I'm doing. So, hey, you learned 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:17.159 a lesson on how to use video chatting technology. I 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:22.200 guess right, Yeah, what's crazy because actually what's funny is 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:25.719 all of my doctor appointments as well. We're on zoom sessions. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.719 So not only was I using it for school, but 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.159 I was doing virtual doctor's visits. Well for sure, man, 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.400 I mean what else, like from from being at home 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.839 for the last a few months? Um, have you caught 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:44.240 yourself browsing sneaker websites and and uh stores a little 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.600 bit more than you normally do? Because I totally have. 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:49.719 I've been super guilty of it myself. Yeah, a little bit. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:55.240 Um what, I'm so used to shopping online for sneakers, 0:04:55.320 --> 0:05:01.920 like I don't think I've probably only bought ten pairs 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.640 of shoes at at a foot locker champs, like I 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:11.120 rarely buy them in person, Like I've never funny, It's 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.080 funny because I've actually never been to a sneaker consignment shop, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.400 which is crazy. For as long as I've been into sneakers, 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.560 but I mean when I got into sneakers, I was 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.599 living in Europe, and in Europe, the only like sneaker 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.560 consignment shops are in like Germany and like in London 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.080 and all sort of stuff like that. And I was 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:35.440 living in the Netherlands at the time, and no one 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.480 there is in the sneakers. Like I'm gonna be honest, 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.200 I think the only sneaker that they were into our easys. 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:45.160 But I mean, zs are pretty much popular everywhere. Um, 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:49.640 But like I was, I was actually one of the 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:53.960 very first people to go on stock x when it 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.200 was first launched, because my friend introduced it to me. 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.560 He's like, hey, there's this there's this website. It's key Bay, 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:05.440 but like you get your sneakers verified by these professionals 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.880 and stuff like that, and I thought and I thought, 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:09.479 like that was really cool. And there was this other 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.960 it's called it was called Global Kicks. It's it doesn't 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:16.919 exist anymore, but it was a sneaker It was a 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:21.000 sneaker consignment shop in d C. And me and him 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.560 would always go on there and check like for sneakers 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.440 and stuff like that. And it's so hard to get 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:32.480 sneakers shipped to from the US to to Europe, especially 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:36.520 being a military family, because they can't, like because we 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.200 have to ship it to a special like box on 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.800 the military base, like a po box basically. And it's 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.960 really really hard because companies think like, oh, I can't 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:51.240 ship too, like internationally, I can't ship to Europe, and 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.800 you're like, no, it's actually you're actually shipping it to 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.760 a place in New York that ships it to Europe. 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.240 And for some people was kind of hard to understand. 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.000 And there's a lot of sneaker releases that I missed 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.600 out on because I was living in Europe, and for 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.520 me it was a little bit frustrating. But I've been 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:15.520 on sneaker websites, on sneaker news, on Complex on, I've 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:20.320 been watching sneaker YouTube forever. I've been watching like sneaker 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.760 reviews forever. Like I think one of the very first 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:27.160 people I started watching was Kiss And I started watching 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.840 Kais like way way back before. He has his channel 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.680 now Crew TV, and I've been watching him forever. I've 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:38.320 been watching Bowl forever. I've been watching Tony forever. You're 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:42.640 familiar with them, right, yeah. Yeah. And it's funny because 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:46.040 I've met all of them in person at sneaker cons. 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:47.520 And that's one of the reasons why I love sneaker 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:52.200 cons so much, is because like basically a nobody like me, 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.240 Um to get to meet them and interact with them 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:00.600 was like so cool. And I think one of the 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.720 best people I was I met at a sneaker Khan 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.920 was two Jays Like Two Jays was like he was 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.679 the very last person I met. He He's the most 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.920 like down to earth guy ever. He's like the nicest 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:18.400 guy ever. Um I actually lived in Las Vegas before, 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.560 and I was telling him about the military base that 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:25.240 I that my dad worked at UM while we were 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.280 in Las Vegas, and I told them, yeah, I remember, 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.600 I remember like going to the mall that your store 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.680 was in, but I never went to your store because 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.560 I never knew it existed. And he was like super kind. 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:38.240 He's like he's like he's like, man, thank you for 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:42.199 your service. Like he was just a super super nice guy. 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:46.199 And then uh and then Kais, like obviously Kais at 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.320 that time was like huge. UM, like way bigger than 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.640 everyone else. Because he was. That was before he reached 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:57.400 a million subscribers. And of course, like everyone in London 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:02.560 loved Kais because of Ari and because they're such good 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.400 friends and like the lot. No kidding. So I got 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.199 in line to meet Kais. I was waiting in that 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.360 line for two hours just to meet, just to say 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.520 hi to Kais. Dude. You know what's crazy to me 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.960 is like I always thought in Europe sneaker culture wasn't 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.960 really a thing. Um. I travel a lot because of 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.280 sneaker cons and like some other business that I'm a 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:30.400 part of, kind of behind the scenes. But yeah, um, dude, 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:35.880 it's like crazy. Certain certain countries are nuts for sneakers. 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:40.240 I've personally never been to the Netherlands. Yeah, um, but 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:45.520 Germany people are crazy for sneakers. Um uh. The UK, 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.000 so London is always insane, so people, but people in 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.240 the UK aren't really that into Jordan's is more like 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.599 air max is and stuff, and they call them and 0:09:55.640 --> 0:10:00.199 they call them like trainers over there instead of sneakers exactly. Um. 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.040 But you know, for the most part, like, for example, 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.920 I had this kind of like interesting story. Um, I 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:11.480 was in Poland for whatever god forsaken reason, and it 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:15.880 was right when the N M D O G s dropped. 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.320 But like you remember like the black and M d's 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:22.120 with the blue in the red, So they were going 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.880 for like fifts at the time, and then they restopped 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.520 and then I think they came out like uh, and 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:29.400 then they were going for like four or five. This 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:30.920 is when like N M d s were like everybody 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.480 was obsessed with them, and these were like the hottest shoe. 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.400 I remember, like they just dropped in this local store. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.719 Literally I just walked in and they were sitting on 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:40.840 the shelf. It in my head, I'm like, I'm like, dude, 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:42.200 this is like a hundred dollar shoe that goes for 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.120 fives back home, Like what is it doing on the shelf? 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.960 I was so confused, and then I really thought about it. 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:53.840 But in Poland they used a currency called lati, which 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.800 so it's like four to one, so four's lot is 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:00.400 one dollar. And then also in Poland, every think they're 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:06.040 so cheap like food, water, groceries, like like the expenses 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.280 they're super cheap. You can get like a super nice 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:13.600 apartment for like a month. And then then I realized 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:17.880 that the median pay like the average salary in Poland 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.360 was I think like two thousand's lotty a month, so 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:24.559 so that's like five a month, which is nothing like 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.080 if you really think about it. But but the way 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:30.520 they live is so so like easy and cheap that 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:32.880 for them, they're able to do it. But then I 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:34.840 thought about it, and I'm like, these sneakers are sitting 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.439 on the shelf, but they cost like I think they 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.199 were like one fifty, so one fifty times four, it 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.960 was like six hundreds of lotti or whatever, so that's 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.640 that's literally like over a fourth of their pay. So 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.959 I thought about it, and I'm like, maybe people aren't 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:52.880 buying them because they're already too expensive. And also people 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:54.800 there don't really care about sneakers, Like there were a 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.280 few kids in the store, but but dude, I saw 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:58.920 them and I'm like wow, and I was like, oh, 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.599 how many can I buy? So I ended up I 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:05.200 ended up buying three, one for myself, um, and then 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.080 one for a friend and another one I think I 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.040 just kept. But it's insane that the sneaker culture is 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.920 a lot bigger than well most people think where where 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.480 else have you lived? So I mean, obviously thank you 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.800 for your service and your parents and Yeah, this incredible, man. 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:20.839 I always have so much respect for that. Yeah, I 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:24.920 really appreciate. It's definitely not been easy, especially I've been 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:30.920 to I think seven different schools now and uh so 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.280 I'll just go through. I'll just go through the list. Um, 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:38.120 all right, I kind of like kind of foreshadowing for later. 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.160 So actually my sneaker that I made, I don't know 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:42.679 if you saw it at all, but it has all 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.680 the places I lived laser engraved into the side. But so, 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.640 I was born in Oklahoma City, and then after that 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.600 we moved to Germany. And what's cool is at that 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:54.960 time when I when I was living, when I was 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.880 born in Oklahoma and we were living in Germany. Next, 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.920 both my parents were actually the military, and my mom 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.719 and my dad actually met through the military or through 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.760 the Air Force actually. Um they met in Oklahoma and 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:12.199 then they had me, and then after that they moved 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.760 we moved to Germany. And what's funny is my mom 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.720 actually worked on a different base than my dad, so 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:24.080 and so, and then my brother was born in Germany, 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:26.800 which was around he was born, and he was born 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.120 in two thousand six. I was born in two thousand two. 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.440 But after Germany, I lived, we lived, We moved to 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:37.360 Italy and lived in Italy for three years, and then 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:41.839 after Italy, I moved to Pennsylvania and we lived in 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.800 Pennsylvania for a year. And then after Pennsylvania, we moved 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:48.800 to d C. And I went to school in Virginia, 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.680 and then after Virginia we moved to Las Vegas, and 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:56.840 then after Las Vegas we moved to the Netherlands, and 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.960 then after the Netherlands lived here to where a current 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:04.800 me and which is in Vermont. Wow. Mr International, Yeah, 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.120 that's pretty effective for me been Oliver and I've been 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:14.600 to almost almost every single country in Europe. Wow. Man, 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.920 that that that's pretty incredible. And shout out to your parents, 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.160 Like I said, thank you for your guys services, and 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.720 it's and amazing. I have so much respect for anybody 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.720 who's in the military. I have a few of my 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.080 friends who who have had to move a bunch of 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:32.160 times too, yeah because of the military. But yeah, respect man, 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.480 And yeah, I know I've have so much respect for 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.120 them as well. I mean like they literally go through 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.080 like they move like heaven and Earth to literally like 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:43.960 do so much for this country and like what's crazy 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.840 is like they for as like much as they do, 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.760 Like it just seems like for them and they just 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.640 like brush it off, like oh, that's a big deal, 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.040 Like it's just it's just my job, Like I do 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:57.360 this every I do this every day. But my mom 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.920 is actually not like active duty anymore. She's in the reserves. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.760 My dad right now, he works, Um, he works at 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:06.480 a at a university. So he works at it's it's 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:10.360 called Norwich University, and he's uh, so you're gonna find 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:14.120 this absolutely insane. But in all of Vermont, there's only 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:18.480 one sneaker store. Really, yeah, there's only one sneaker store 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:23.680 and it's uh and it's a chance in uh in Burlington. Wait, 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:26.160 so it's so it's a chance. It's not even like 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:30.520 a cosignment store, there's no Yeah, there's only one. It's 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:37.200 just a chance. That's yeah, I think so. I don't 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.640 know if it's just true or not, but I think 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:44.440 there's this guy who's opening a consignment store like in 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:49.200 that area, and um, not very popular at all. Like 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:53.320 I haven't really heard anything about it since then, but 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:57.200 I think that that that's going to be a consignment store. 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:02.400 But that's crazy. Yeah, I had no idea. Yeah, dude, 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.960 I mean whenever this, um, you know, quarantine is over 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.080 and everyone's like safe and everything. Dude, Like, I love 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:12.040 to have you come out to l A. I'll book 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.560 you a flight and I'll take you around to Melrose 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:16.560 and fair Fax. Have you ever heard of Project Blitz? 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.480 Oh yeah I have. Yeah, I'll bring you to bring 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.560 you by the warehouse, give you little friends and family 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:26.360 tour its. It's pretty insane. Actually, I saw your video 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.680 that you did when you tried like on like all 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:34.280 the most expensive stuff like the like the LV jacket 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:40.360 or and then you had and then outfit video. Yeah 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:44.720 yeah yeah, Like I love what's the the guy that 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.800 owns Project what Creation Style? Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, I 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.840 think he's like so hilarious And I've seen so many 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:59.280 videos like he has the the signed Kobe Eates um 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.840 and like has like have you ever heard of the 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:09.480 of the documentary Sneaker Heads of course? Yeah? I love 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:15.000 That's like my favorite documentary of all time. Um, and 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.440 I just like love it because it's like because not 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:19.520 only does it say like does it tell you like 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.720 sneeker history and like where the term sneaker came from 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.400 and like how Adidas was like the very first company 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:28.800 to like make like love their sneakers and like, but 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.560 I also love how it talks about like sneakers nowadays. 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:36.440 It talks about the Dornbacker program and talks about um 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:42.240 like sneaker violence, um, which I I totally remember sneaker violence. 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.760 Like that's something I totally remember, which is crazy that 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:50.119 like it's like it's still kind of happens today. But 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:57.240 I like, I haven't seen a sneaker fight since and 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:01.320 there's so many online raffles that yeah, like like I mean, 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.640 it does make me like kind of upset. Like I mean, 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.480 like I'm not promoting like sneaker violence at all, but 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.359 it is kind of entertaining to see like two people 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.760 fighting over a pair of like Jordan's love and breads 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.280 and like punching each other. I mean I kind of 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.320 draw the line at like shooting each other for sneakers. 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:20.800 I think that's kind I think that's like massively stupid. Um. 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:24.359 I mean, but yeah, like that's like my favorite documentary 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.720 of all time. Yeah, So I have a quick question. Uh, 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.600 and this is a question for you, And so I'm 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.680 only asking this question because I know if I don't 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.240 ask it now, I'll forget later. And so I know, 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:38.560 like you're famous for wearing like the mask and being 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:41.880 and being like the mask guy. How is it having 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:44.720 like COVID like every and like you have to require 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.520 a mask everywhere? Is it easy? Is it like easy 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.439 since you always wear a mask, or it's it like 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.960 is it like weird or well, honestly, Um, so I 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.520 only wear my mask when I'm like filming or if 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.320 I'm at like an event or something. And trust me, dude, 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:02.560 it is not easy to wear it for seven hours 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.960 straight at a sneaker con Um, I'm always super happy 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:07.800 to like take it off and just like be me. 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:10.399 It's funny because all these theories came out of like 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:13.760 people saying that I knew about coronavirus before it happened 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:16.080 and that I just didn't tell everyone that's why I 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:19.160 wore a mask. Um, and like all these like super 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.240 funny theories, Like some people think I don't have a mouth. Uh, 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.800 some people think I'm like extremely ugly, have like super 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:31.560 disfigured face, like all these like crazy crazy theories. Um, 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:34.760 but it's funny now because of coronavirus. I guess I'm 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:37.879 kind of used to the mask thing. I definitely don't 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:42.399 prefer wearing it, contrary to what people believe. But um, 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.840 but yeah, so it's I'm kind of used to it. 0:19:44.880 --> 0:19:47.320 I guess I just thought it. I just thought that 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.119 would be a funny question to ask. Yeah, d of 0:19:50.160 --> 0:19:51.919 course a lot of people have actually asked me that 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:55.480 recently because of because of the whole quarantine thing. Yeah, 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:57.320 that's pretty funny. Yeah, because I would think you'd be 0:19:57.359 --> 0:19:59.640 like easier because you like, do you do you get 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.760 like used to it after a while or Yeah, sometimes 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:05.360 sometimes I forget I'm wearing it. Um. The only thing 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.159 that really bothers me is if my facial hair is 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.080 a little bit longer, like if I have a beard 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:13.080 in at one point it will start sweating and that's 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:17.080 really unable. But otherwise, like I'm I'm pretty used to it. 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:21.600 I've definitely gotten used to speaking on camera and being 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:23.520 in public with the mask on, so I have to 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:26.840 talk a little bit louder than I normally do because 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:30.520 it's not easy to understand if you're not speaking a 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:33.840 little bit louder with like a little bit louder tone. 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:36.320 I'm used to it, for sure, let's put it that way. 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.000 I only ask because I have to wear a mask 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:41.520 all the time because I'm going to the hospital like 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:44.560 all the time, and they were and of course they 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.680 require it there. Yeah, we do you need any cloth masks? 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:52.080 Do you have some of those? Uh? My mom ordered 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:55.040 most of the time, like since they give you free 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:57.879 masks anyway at the when you check in and they 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:01.000 like do the screening and stuff. Yeah, uh they usually 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:03.480 we don't usually like bring in a mask just because 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:07.960 like they're going to give us one anyway. Okay, but um, 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:12.320 but yeah, my mom ordered like from this one random 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:16.280 lady on Facebook that was making and she ordered a couple. Okay, 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:19.000 well send me after we're done to send me your 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:22.600 address and I'll shipt you some of these. Awesome, thank you, 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.600 No no problem. I barely have any left. It's crazy. 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:28.960 I printed so many at the beginning of the year 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:31.520 and then yeah, you know, obviously it's like it's been 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:36.360 a big part of my March since like two thousand seventeen, 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:38.840 so like the last three years. Yeah, and you know, 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:43.119 people know me for like the mask or whatever, so um, 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:44.440 you know, it was always a big part of my March. 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:46.560 And the coronavirus hit and I saw all these people 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:51.080 started ordering it. And uh kind of decided that, you know, 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:54.600 with my platform, and you know everybody's because they're not cheap. 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:57.239 They're twenty bucks because it is merch at the end 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:01.280 of the day, you know. But every single um order 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:04.200 I've gotten since like the beginning of of quarantine, which 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:07.919 is in March or whenever it happened, I've donate all 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:12.080 the money. So I literally only have like fifteen left. 0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:15.480 I'll save I'll save something for you. I actually took 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:17.399 him off the site because I just want to have 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:21.440 a few just for friends and family. But yeah, it's 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:24.600 been cool. I'm happy to give him back to the community, 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:26.399 you know. I al we trying to give back as 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:29.600 much as I can because I'm so thankful to be totally. 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:32.560 I totally understand. It's funny because I actually donate to 0:22:32.640 --> 0:22:35.679 a lot of like pediatric cancer things all the time. 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:38.600 Like even if the money goes back to me like 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:40.840 at the end of the day, like I don't know, 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:44.040 to me, like it's kind of sad sometimes, like when 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:46.840 you go into the hospital and like see all these kids, 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:51.240 like for me, like being eighteen, being like being diagnosed 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:54.080 when I was basically sixteen, it's kind of weird. Like 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:58.920 being an adult now and while still going through cancer treatment. Yeah, 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:02.160 keep fighting, dude, I know it's hard sometimes, but keep planning. 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:05.040 You'll you'll get through it, you know what I mean. Yeah, 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:08.040 I really really appreciate that of course. And you you've 0:23:08.040 --> 0:23:10.920 had some pretty you know, incredible experiences and dude, I mean, 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:14.119 I'm I've been entertained this whole time, Like I I 0:23:14.200 --> 0:23:15.720