WEBVTT - Episode 8 - Sneaker of the Year w/ Dre 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:04.880 What's going on, guys. Welcome to another episode of Legit Check. Um, 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:08.080 this is your boy yeasybus to your host, and today 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.319 we're gonna be talking about something that you know a 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:12.920 lot of people are asking, and that is what is 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:15.560 the Sneaker of the Year. So we're getting towards the 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.680 end of the year. It's um mid December right now, 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:22.080 so there's not a whole lot of releases left. But 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:26.120 I'm here with my friend Andre Lustina ak Croatian style 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.240 from Project Blitz, and you know, we're gonna be talking 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:32.120 about kind of like our you know, top ten or 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:33.760 at least like some of the sneakers that we think 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:37.160 should be contenders for this year, and kind of getting 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:41.560 my opinion and picking his brain and what he thinks. So, um, great, 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.559 go ahead, introduce yourself. What's up, guys, How you doing. 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.680 So he's been on the show once before, so you know, 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.400 but still explain. Thanks for welcoming me back, Yeah, of course. 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.960 Um wow, I guess Sneaker of the Year, right. Um. 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.200 You know it's always hard because I guess it's kind 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:05.040 of like the the Emmys and and all that. You know, 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.680 it's usually kind of the bigger films come out at 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.640 the end of the season, and then they're kind of 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:15.160 like more impactful, I guess, and something that's came out, 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:20.400 you know, during the beginning of the year. I don't know, man, recently, 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:22.840 it's I think the clot guys did a really good 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:27.360 job with the Air Force ones. I mean, obviously the 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:29.600 black ones because they have the fragment collab and the 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.800 red underneath and whatnot. But the blue is like such 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:36.800 a crisp color. Came out pretty amazing. So just I 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:40.240 guess having those back to back along with the Jordans 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:43.720 one coming out, you know, it's you know, it's kind 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:47.240 of hard to not have those guys in the running 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:50.440 for it. But I would definitely, I guess if you 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.640 had to pick one of those, is probably the definitely 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:58.400 the Black Forces. Yeah. Those are fire fire, Yeah absolutely yeah. 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:02.280 And you know you can get your pair over product Blitz. Yeah, 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.320 you actually can get it at projects dot com. Yeah, 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.320 that's right, you gotta. We're gonna have a couple of 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:11.040 shameless plugs in here. But so, I mean, the problem 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.560 I think with the sneaker over the year is the 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.760 fact that it's so subjective, you know, I think as 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.959 a whole we can definitely probably come up with ten 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.440 sneakers that we believe were some of the best releases 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:26.040 this year. But I have a feeling that, you know, 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.959 our list will probably only be you know, maybe we'll 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.040 have like three or four pairs on there, you know, 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.800 So I just have I have a list of a 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.240 few sneakers that I feel like, you know, should be 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:42.760 up there. The biotext just came out, Um right, the 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:44.799 biotext just came out. What do you think that that's 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:49.440 something that's you know, it's not personally no, no, no, 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:53.520 I I don't think that, uh, that they'll ever measure 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.480 up to the original one. Yeah, I don't think that 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.240 the timing was the best time for it. Yeah. I 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.200 feel like, um, you know, they should have waited a 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.880 little bit. I mean, we just started that whole dunk 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:11.560 craze right like this year. So you know, as long 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.520 as everyone knows where it all started, right started at 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.960 a complex con with the ramp and and that we 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:22.400 built Blitz and Diamond showcase s bs when nobody wanted 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:26.200 to touch it, nobody wanted to talk about it. Um. 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:30.800 Kyrie was out there doing his his Reagun collab or 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:35.200 his reagun um motif on his signature shoe and uh 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:41.560 he had Wally g Zy Travis Mustard Rocky like everyone 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:46.800 wearing sbs. But it was really like Travis's popularity that 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.920 that blew that the dunks like way out. You know, 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.360 it's now like another planet again. It's people are like 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:59.160 gravitating to it. Um, but it's still just starting to 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.320 get there, right, Yeah, absolutely, and there's no core to it. 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.760 So you know, to bring back something that was like 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.920 an a kind of iconic Japanese co j p um 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.400 color way For those who don't know, co JP was 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.520 Ceo dot JP kind of like it was Nike dot com. 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:20.719 It was Nike dot Ceo dot JP Japan, and so 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.360 all those color ways that were Japan only were called 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:28.320 co j p So that's what we call them, um, 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.680 you know back in the late nineties, early two thousand's 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:36.520 and so um yeah, if it's it's uh it's a 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.640 little bit too quick. I think people were kind of 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:40.960 jumping the gun. They're trying to catch a trend and 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.719 and uh, I think they could have came out with 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.160 some newer stuff and then brought back the nostalgia. It's 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.520 kind of like a wasted release. At least you have 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.960 to bring it back with those same materials because the 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.160 last time they try to do it it kind of 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.480 it just wasn't the same. Yeah, totally, totally, And I 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:59.560 wouldn't even want to include that as like a top 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.560 sneaker of the year because it was a retro right, 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:05.320 you know, in that sense. And also like a lot 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.279 of people are complaining that the new subs aren't just 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.240 are made the way that they used to be. But 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:11.719 the Viocene is it's a dunk right or is it 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.760 an s B. Well, no, it's a it's just a 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.960 dunk dunklow pro. So it doesn't have a prob, it 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.880 doesn't have the fat tongue. Um no, yeah, but they 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.839 also had probs with fat tongues. They don't get a 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:28.200 twisted there's there's there's a lot of different layers to it. 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.760 So it's dunklow like for example, we're talking about lows 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:35.640 for now, right, So dunklow pros, dunklob pro b, dunklow 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:40.120 pro SP right, okay, And so the sp was the 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:44.560 actual like skateboarding line, but then probs were at skate 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:48.800 shops along with Jordan's ones, so you had two thousand 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:54.240 one bread ones, royal ones, um metallic silver, and the 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:59.159 white navy silver ones were like on a shelf, along 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.080 with a few like dunk Low colors like um the 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.839 Lightnings and uh they call like the unatmost it was 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.960 like their grip tape series, so they would have these 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.800 uh you know ats at certain like skate shops before 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:19.120 the s B era right before, so you know. And 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.479 then in Japan they also had dunk Low pros, and 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.640 then they had Dunklow probe vs with fat tongues and 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:29.760 without fat tongues. So I mean it's it's not always 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:35.000 the fat tongue doesn't always designate what the letters dang there. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:36.680 It's like an onion. It's like there's like so many 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:40.039 different layers to it. But but sorry, I mean interrupt. 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.080 But actually what you need to know is why the 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.200 nickname is what it is. Is not because the shoe 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.840 is called biotech because it's rainbow. Biotech is actually the 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:53.440 purple color mhm, right, So on the box and the 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.240 color it says biotech, but biotech is found on like 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:00.680 a trainer one. It's like purple and yellow. Yeah, so 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:05.840 it's the purple color that's called biotech. Okay, interesting. Yeah, So, 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.279 I mean it's kind of like, um, like with the easies, 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:10.240 like the Pirate Black, like the box said p R 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.080 I b okay, so people started calling it the Pirate Black, 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.160 right right, So so that the nickname kind of came 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.640 just from one of the colors, just from the box. Okay, 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:21.080 what is that color? Way actually on the easiest is 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.040 it pirate black or what is it supposed to be? 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:25.840 I don't even know what pirate black means? What's p 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.680 I R black black? I have no idea. Is that 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.080 paros from like Poland any Polish listeners out there, and 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.440 maybe you could help. I don't think parogus are are black. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.960 I think they're white. So I don't think it's that one. 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:42.800 But no, I mean, um, what was interesting because I'm 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:46.800 pretty sure that the original Pirate Black said p R 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:48.320 I and then b l K and then I think 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.200 that's the ones that rereleased just said BLK and b okay. 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.840 I think I'm I'm not entirely sure. I am easy 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:55.640 bust I should probably know who the answered that question. 0:07:56.080 --> 0:08:00.320 But yeah, but that's interesting. So but regardless, like I always, 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:02.600 I am so confused between s b S and dunks 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.000 like I got flamed one time because I called something 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:06.960 as a b when it was actually a dunk, even 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.800 though the same shoe, but there's so many different like 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:12.880 layers to it. I always thought it was just the 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.400 tongue because like the skateboarding shoe should have the fat 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:18.680 tongue right right, and then the dunk doesn't like the 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:23.640 original biotegue that that's like a really like flimsy tongue, right, 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:26.360 it's not a fat tongue. So I don't know. Well, 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.080 I mean, how old are you when those came out? 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:32.000 Ship when they come out, uh to like two thousand 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:36.280 one two two, so I was four, yeah, exactly five yeah. 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:40.040 So I mean if it's the same thing like you 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.480 know when I was growing up, you know the Jordan Ones. 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.320 I can't tell you what was on the Jordan's two box. 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.000 I knew it was a maid in Italy box, but 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.520 it was like a kid, like a small little boy, 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:53.000 like like you were doing during the s B time. 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.600 So when people are out there like, oh, claiming there 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.319 were this and that and all that, it's like, no, 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.840 like and that's what I like about you. You're authentic 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.680 because you know you're you're absolutely real about it like, 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.600 you know, I can't recall it because it wasn't from 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.640 my time, you know what I mean. Other people will 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.720 sit there and they try to hammer you and knock 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:15.240 you down for it and whatnot, and you know that's 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.560 it's just the paradox of of this whole like sneaker world, 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:22.800 there's always someone trying to knock you down, I know, 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:28.280 for you know, especially if you're not absolutely certain. Yeah, yeah, definitely. 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:33.200 I mean I think it's almost like annoying because people 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.040 are like, oh, wait, you don't know exactly when the 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:36.840 Supreme Teacher came out, and it's like, no, I know 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.839 that around the time it came out, you know, kind 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.320 of like with um with the Easies. Um. I was 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.360 just um in one of the other episodes, I was 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.760 talking about like what time Easies came out. I'm pretty 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:53.160 sure it's two like a two sixteen, like right and there. 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:55.600 I can't tell you an exact date, but that's kind 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.439 of like the time, you know, it's more so about 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.800 like the era. I think it's more about like that 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.760 time in fashion than anything. No, yeah, absolute um so yeah. 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:05.400 I mean even even like s B I'm not gonna 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:06.920 sit here and pretend like I've been collecting as B 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.319 since I was three years old, because I definitely wasn't 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.439 um Whenever anybody asked me, I always tell you this. 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.480 I'm like, you're the one who really got me into it, 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.240 because the first time I saw him, I'm like, oh, 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.640 they're just like bulky skater shoes. Like I didn't I 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.880 didn't really know like the backstory behind them. And I 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.200 and I think that the problem is with like sneaker 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:24.800 culture these days. And a lot of people just asked, 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:26.440 like they say, how much are these? And and I 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.000 used to do that too, Like I remember I was 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:29.960 probably the first or second time at the warehouse, Like 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:31.360 I went into the vaul and I just saw some 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.040 s bs. I'm like, oh, how much are these? Like 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:35.439 you know, just out of curiosity, and I'm like why 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.120 are they in here? Because I was like, oh, I 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.360 think these are whatever, and you're like, yeah, you know, 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.320 these are like ten thousand dollars and I was like what, 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:46.000 like why And then you started explaining like, oh, it's 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.440 because it came out during this time and this artist 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.000 did it and there's only this many pairs and whatever whatever, 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:52.880 And I'm like, okay, well that makes sense. That there's 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.959 a school story behind it. So I feel like, you know, 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.560 hanging out around you and like people who have been 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.280 in the game way longer than I have, like obviously, 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:03.760 because I'm not going to pretend like I'm an o 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:05.920 G because by no means am I at all. Like 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.520 I've literally been into sneakers for five years more and 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.000 more like into the actual story behind the shoe and 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.000 the concept, which I love. And that's kind of like 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.760 why I love SBS because they have a concept behind 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.360 pretty much every shoe, right, Like there's a story, whereas 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.120 with like there's a lot of Jordan's that might not 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.040 necessarily have a story, you know, like shattered Backboards, like 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.040 one of my favorite Jordan's, they have a story like 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.760 it was based on the jersey that Michael Jordan was 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.760 wearing during an expedition game, right, So like that I 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.520 think is super dope. But there's certain color ways that 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.560 just look cool but they don't have any substance behind them, 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.640 and I think like that's where I kind of like, 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.600 that's my take on Seekers. But I'm not gonna sit 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.320 here and pretend like I know everything, and because I don't, 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.160 I'm learning every day, Like every time I, you know, 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:49.000 hang out with you or I'm at the warehouse or 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:50.480 something like, I always find something I'm like, oh what 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.559 is this? Either you or one of the guys that 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.120 told me, oh is this this? And this? I'm like, wow, 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.719 that's really really cool. It's interesting, um the way kind 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:00.360 of like things have shifted, you know, the year has 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.720 been an interesting year, and as bees, I feel like 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.280 one as for sure should be on the list. Though, 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.439 what do you think for the top ten? Yeah, so 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.480 I mean what what did as Be come out this year? 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:14.440 I mean, well, the Halloween dunk was Oh yeah, that's right, 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.920 that was really cool. I actually really like that. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.400 I mean I would not put that as you know, 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.120 for U for Sneaker of the Year. Yeah, I mean 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.920 it's I mean, it's cool. It's kind of cool, Like 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:30.200 I guess, it's something no one expected anything to happen, 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.920 So it was great to see that that people are 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.440 actually like driving to get something that was a little 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:40.600 bit different that people from the stores and the brand 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.679 didn't necessarily expect it to happen. So that was just 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:45.920 something that's quinde of cool and organic that came from 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:51.040 like energy created um from some some dunks from the past, 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:55.800 you know, yeah, absolute um? But um, what else do 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:59.400 you think is UH? Is a good one from UH 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:03.360 this year? Well before before I dive into like other 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.000 other silhouettes and stuff, I was gonna ask your opinion 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.280 on this because I feel like you would probably have 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:10.440 some input. Like have you seen the new ray guns 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.160 they're coming out on It looks exactly like the two 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:20.680 original ray guns, like the black and the white version. Um, 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:25.920 but it's like Tide instead of the orange and yellow. 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.240 It's like a Tide orange and yellow. Here, I'll show 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.800 you right now just so you get an idea. It 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.360 was kind of cool to me is the fact that 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:38.080 the sp team like adopted the the Nike basketball a 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.160 ray gun campaign for that. Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.000 didn't didn't Kyrie have Like no, no, no, this is 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.760 way before the mid two thousand's, okay, because Kyrie definitely 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.560 had a had to shoe and I'm saying he he 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:56.040 liked SP so he took the took that ray gun 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.720 motif and put it on his shoe. Okay. I see. 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.439 So what this one is. This one is commemorating and 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:07.880 paying homage to the SB pioneer Sandy Bowdecker, So I 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:09.520 guess that's why they're coming out. Do you think that 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.080 should be a contender in the race for Sneaker of 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.240 the Year or is that or is that kind of 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:19.040 like another You know that in a way it's a 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:20.280 retro in a way, it's not a lot of people 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.000 are saying that they're just gonna paint over the tight 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.000 eye and just make it look like a regular ray gun. 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.560 But I don't know, do you think it's it's up 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.280 there or do you think it's still too retro? Kind 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.720 of No, I mean it's still pretty much like retro, 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:37.040 I would say, you know, yeah, so in my opinion, 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.480 a few of the sneakers of the year, you know, 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.000 I mean we we could, we could have like a 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:43.520 retro on there. You know, it's but kind of like 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.040 it has to be like a good retro. But definitely 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:47.880 in terms of like new silhouettes. I know this is 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:49.880 a shoot I've seen you wear like a million times. 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.600 I know, I know you really like these shoes that 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.360 and I know you're really into the brand itself, Like 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:58.760 you're wearing Saki pants right now, the Sakai and waffles, well, 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:02.720 and maybe the Sakai of the Blazers. Yeah, what do 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:04.280 you think do you think that that should be a 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:08.840 contender for sure? Yeah, I mean, honestly, I'll just let 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.480 it out. I kind of wanted to save that one, 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:14.480 but yeah, that's I would say, honestly, the Waffles and 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:18.360 the Blazers are the uh would probably be right up 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.800 there as far as because they just took the whole 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:23.560 silhouette and mixed it up and made it you know, 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:27.920 they deconstructed, but constructed so like the it's like two 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.000 shoes in one, both of them. And I thought that 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:35.400 that was like pretty amazing. The colors were amazing as well, 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:41.160 and uh, the Blazer I thought was actually just as 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.680 well constructed as the Waffle. But I think the Waffle 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.440 came in at a good time where people are looking 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.000 for another like retro model to come back out with 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.800 because the waffles weren't always necessarily that popular. They were 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:55.520 always really cheap. Even when Fragment made one, it kind 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.920 of like fizzled out, But I don't think these would 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.080 ever fizzle out. And I think, uh, it was pretty 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:06.560 amazing to see that that took a shift. If you 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.840 if we talk about demographics like the for example, the 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:14.600 Chinese market so normally either be wearing Yeasies, Jordan's ones 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.480 or whatever is like or Travis Obviously we're gonna be 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:24.640 mentioning Travis Scott's should be mentioned for us the year um. However, 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.680 when you if you talk about like a total shift, 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:33.440 whereas you now saw that same demographic globally all jumping 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:36.400 on like the waffles. Like when I'm you know, I 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:42.400 travel a lot between Europe, Um, North America, Asia predominantly 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.240 just walking through there and going on, I just I 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:49.120 noticed what people are wearing, and it was like you 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.680 still see a lot of like Russians and Arab guys 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:56.440 still like really holding down uh yeasies. And then but 0:16:56.520 --> 0:17:01.160 when you see like the Chinese demographic, all of a sudden, 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:03.880 you see like this big you know, you start seeing 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:07.320 a lot of a lot of like the Travis Jordan's 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.320 and especially like the Sakai waffles. And you can see 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.439 that with the prices going up and the sizes that 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:15.720 are you know, you know, it's like that smaller range 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:20.040 like eight through nine that are like you know, higher 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.600 than the other ones. And that's from that that demographic, 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.520 and it's it's pretty interesting to see it. And that's 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:30.080 really powerful that they made something so um, you know, 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.560 like a culture shifting or like style shifting. People are 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.199 like stepping away from what they're normally and adding that 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:40.679 to their rotation. I mean, because I wore him a 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:44.000 ton like I love him myself, I think they're pretty amazing. 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.000 Do you like the undercover waffles too, or just the skis? 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.160 I mean those are those are different? So they were 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:54.800 they considered waffles? They were, right, Well, well, the the 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:59.960 Sakai is the LD waffle and then undercovers, Uh we're 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.480 called Daybreak daybreak, yes, okay, okay, so it's still considered 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:07.359 a waffle because of the soul, right, yeah, what it is? Okay, Yeah, 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.360 I'm not a I'm not a pro at it. I've 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:14.280 been around of warrem before, but I mean I'm not 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:16.920 a pro to know why what's an LD? What is 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:19.439 actually like a waffle racer? But it's kind of the 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:22.480 combination of those two and that's why there's a double 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:26.760 tongue and whatnot, so it's kind of like a mixture. Definitely. Um, 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.840 the Blazer, I think it was it was just itself, 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:31.760 but there's different versions of the Blazer and it kind 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:33.880 of just made it simple. But I really like the soul, 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.159 how they made it look like a bunch of like 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.320 layers on the back of it. That it was great. No, 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.159 it's it's a dope shoe. I really like him. I 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.440 love the Blazers, actually like those a little bit more personally. 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:49.359 But yeah, I think what what they did was sick. Um. Well, here, 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:50.879 let's let's go through a couple of shoes that came 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.600 out this year that maybe we forgot about. Um, Like, 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.399 for example, at the beginning of the year, the Nike 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.919 and Staple dunk uh the and the Pigeon. What do 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.720 you think about that? Do you think that do you 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:05.480 think that should be up there? Or is that something 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.440 that's kind of like I thought it was a cool color. 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.320 But and I like how the the outsold was like 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:15.240 the newspaper of like the breaking news of you know, 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.400 being that there was like a riot after the first 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:22.000 Staple Pigeon. What do you think do you think of that? 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:24.080 That's a contender? I totally forgot that she even came 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:25.480 out this year, to be honest, So I don't know 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.720 if it should be just because of that, But what 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:30.199 do you think? Um? You know, I liked it. I 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:33.880 thought it was pretty cool. Um, I think it could 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:36.080 have possibly done a little bit more with it. I 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:40.439 personally like the impact of the Black Pigeon because that 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:44.800 was like an actual like second too, the original one 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.320 that came out and uh and was cool and it 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.159 became a little bit elusive in the beginning and whatnot, 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.479 and I thought that that created a lot more energy 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:58.000 to it. Yeah. Um, I'm not so familiar with like 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:01.399 the Legit six and everything. I think they launched it 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:07.320 on the network um um platform, and I'm not sure 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:10.200 if it was anything wider anymore, you know, any other 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:12.920 release with it or whatnot. But uh, I guess you 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:14.440 could kind of put it up there. But I don't 0:20:14.440 --> 0:20:18.200 think it created as much noise as the Black One did. 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.720 That's not so um. Yeah, if you look at in 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:24.119 terms of that, I mean, obviously you can't have sneak 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:28.720 or the year or not make any noise, right absolutely absolutely. Well, Okay, well, 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:31.240 let let's move on. Let's see someone else. Um. Like, 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:33.920 for example, the another show that came out that I 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:35.440 totally forgot about. It was at the top of the 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:40.520 year too, in February, was the Nike off White Airmax ninety. 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:44.080 What do you think about that show. It was the 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:46.359 orange and the black color way. No, it was great. 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:49.320 I don't think that it didn't really make that much 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:51.639 of a wave of huh No it did. I No, 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.320 I think it did. But I mean it's just a 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:58.720 secondary two color ways to the original one that came out, right, Yeah, 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:02.640 so there's nothing, nothing really different from from the other ones, right, 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.399 so you don't think it's it's probably not up there. 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:09.240 That's probably like an honorable mention, right, you know, no, absolutely, 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:11.280 It just it really bummed me out that this year 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:14.280