Speaker 1: What's going on, guys. Welcome to another episode of Legit Check. Um,
Speaker 1: this is your boy yeasybus to your host, and today
Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about something that you know a
Speaker 1: lot of people are asking, and that is what is
Speaker 1: the Sneaker of the Year. So we're getting towards the
Speaker 1: end of the year. It's um mid December right now,
Speaker 1: so there's not a whole lot of releases left. But
Speaker 1: I'm here with my friend Andre Lustina ak Croatian style
Speaker 1: from Project Blitz, and you know, we're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: about kind of like our you know, top ten or
Speaker 1: at least like some of the sneakers that we think
Speaker 1: should be contenders for this year, and kind of getting
Speaker 1: my opinion and picking his brain and what he thinks. So, um, great,
Speaker 1: go ahead, introduce yourself. What's up, guys, How you doing.
Speaker 1: So he's been on the show once before, so you know,
Speaker 1: but still explain. Thanks for welcoming me back, Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: Um wow, I guess Sneaker of the Year, right. Um.
Speaker 1: You know it's always hard because I guess it's kind
Speaker 1: of like the the Emmys and and all that. You know,
Speaker 1: it's usually kind of the bigger films come out at
Speaker 1: the end of the season, and then they're kind of
Speaker 1: like more impactful, I guess, and something that's came out,
Speaker 1: you know, during the beginning of the year. I don't know, man, recently,
Speaker 1: it's I think the clot guys did a really good
Speaker 1: job with the Air Force ones. I mean, obviously the
Speaker 1: black ones because they have the fragment collab and the
Speaker 1: red underneath and whatnot. But the blue is like such
Speaker 1: a crisp color. Came out pretty amazing. So just I
Speaker 1: guess having those back to back along with the Jordans
Speaker 1: one coming out, you know, it's you know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of hard to not have those guys in the running
Speaker 1: for it. But I would definitely, I guess if you
Speaker 1: had to pick one of those, is probably the definitely
Speaker 1: the Black Forces. Yeah. Those are fire fire, Yeah absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1: And you know you can get your pair over product Blitz. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you actually can get it at projects dot com. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, you gotta. We're gonna have a couple of
Speaker 1: shameless plugs in here. But so, I mean, the problem
Speaker 1: I think with the sneaker over the year is the
Speaker 1: fact that it's so subjective, you know, I think as
Speaker 1: a whole we can definitely probably come up with ten
Speaker 1: sneakers that we believe were some of the best releases
Speaker 1: this year. But I have a feeling that, you know,
Speaker 1: our list will probably only be you know, maybe we'll
Speaker 1: have like three or four pairs on there, you know,
Speaker 1: So I just have I have a list of a
Speaker 1: few sneakers that I feel like, you know, should be
Speaker 1: up there. The biotext just came out, Um right, the
Speaker 1: biotext just came out. What do you think that that's
Speaker 1: something that's you know, it's not personally no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I I don't think that, uh, that they'll ever measure
Speaker 1: up to the original one. Yeah, I don't think that
Speaker 1: the timing was the best time for it. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: feel like, um, you know, they should have waited a
Speaker 1: little bit. I mean, we just started that whole dunk
Speaker 1: craze right like this year. So you know, as long
Speaker 1: as everyone knows where it all started, right started at
Speaker 1: a complex con with the ramp and and that we
Speaker 1: built Blitz and Diamond showcase s bs when nobody wanted
Speaker 1: to touch it, nobody wanted to talk about it. Um.
Speaker 1: Kyrie was out there doing his his Reagun collab or
Speaker 1: his reagun um motif on his signature shoe and uh
Speaker 1: he had Wally g Zy Travis Mustard Rocky like everyone
Speaker 1: wearing sbs. But it was really like Travis's popularity that
Speaker 1: that blew that the dunks like way out. You know,
Speaker 1: it's now like another planet again. It's people are like
Speaker 1: gravitating to it. Um, but it's still just starting to
Speaker 1: get there, right, Yeah, absolutely, and there's no core to it.
Speaker 1: So you know, to bring back something that was like
Speaker 1: an a kind of iconic Japanese co j p um
Speaker 1: color way For those who don't know, co JP was
Speaker 1: Ceo dot JP kind of like it was Nike dot com.
Speaker 1: It was Nike dot Ceo dot JP Japan, and so
Speaker 1: all those color ways that were Japan only were called
Speaker 1: co j p So that's what we call them, um,
Speaker 1: you know back in the late nineties, early two thousand's
Speaker 1: and so um yeah, if it's it's uh it's a
Speaker 1: little bit too quick. I think people were kind of
Speaker 1: jumping the gun. They're trying to catch a trend and
Speaker 1: and uh, I think they could have came out with
Speaker 1: some newer stuff and then brought back the nostalgia. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like a wasted release. At least you have
Speaker 1: to bring it back with those same materials because the
Speaker 1: last time they try to do it it kind of
Speaker 1: it just wasn't the same. Yeah, totally, totally, And I
Speaker 1: wouldn't even want to include that as like a top
Speaker 1: sneaker of the year because it was a retro right,
Speaker 1: you know, in that sense. And also like a lot
Speaker 1: of people are complaining that the new subs aren't just
Speaker 1: are made the way that they used to be. But
Speaker 1: the Viocene is it's a dunk right or is it
Speaker 1: an s B. Well, no, it's a it's just a
Speaker 1: dunk dunklow pro. So it doesn't have a prob, it
Speaker 1: doesn't have the fat tongue. Um no, yeah, but they
Speaker 1: also had probs with fat tongues. They don't get a
Speaker 1: twisted there's there's there's a lot of different layers to it.
Speaker 1: So it's dunklow like for example, we're talking about lows
Speaker 1: for now, right, So dunklow pros, dunklob pro b, dunklow
Speaker 1: pro SP right, okay, And so the sp was the
Speaker 1: actual like skateboarding line, but then probs were at skate
Speaker 1: shops along with Jordan's ones, so you had two thousand
Speaker 1: one bread ones, royal ones, um metallic silver, and the
Speaker 1: white navy silver ones were like on a shelf, along
Speaker 1: with a few like dunk Low colors like um the
Speaker 1: Lightnings and uh they call like the unatmost it was
Speaker 1: like their grip tape series, so they would have these
Speaker 1: uh you know ats at certain like skate shops before
Speaker 1: the s B era right before, so you know. And
Speaker 1: then in Japan they also had dunk Low pros, and
Speaker 1: then they had Dunklow probe vs with fat tongues and
Speaker 1: without fat tongues. So I mean it's it's not always
Speaker 1: the fat tongue doesn't always designate what the letters dang there.
Speaker 1: It's like an onion. It's like there's like so many
Speaker 1: different layers to it. But but sorry, I mean interrupt.
Speaker 1: But actually what you need to know is why the
Speaker 1: nickname is what it is. Is not because the shoe
Speaker 1: is called biotech because it's rainbow. Biotech is actually the
Speaker 1: purple color mhm, right, So on the box and the
Speaker 1: color it says biotech, but biotech is found on like
Speaker 1: a trainer one. It's like purple and yellow. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: it's the purple color that's called biotech. Okay, interesting. Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of like, um, like with the easies,
Speaker 1: like the Pirate Black, like the box said p R
Speaker 1: I b okay, so people started calling it the Pirate Black,
Speaker 1: right right, So so that the nickname kind of came
Speaker 1: just from one of the colors, just from the box. Okay,
Speaker 1: what is that color? Way actually on the easiest is
Speaker 1: it pirate black or what is it supposed to be?
Speaker 1: I don't even know what pirate black means? What's p
Speaker 1: I R black black? I have no idea. Is that
Speaker 1: paros from like Poland any Polish listeners out there, and
Speaker 1: maybe you could help. I don't think parogus are are black.
Speaker 1: I think they're white. So I don't think it's that one.
Speaker 1: But no, I mean, um, what was interesting because I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure that the original Pirate Black said p R
Speaker 1: I and then b l K and then I think
Speaker 1: that's the ones that rereleased just said BLK and b okay.
Speaker 1: I think I'm I'm not entirely sure. I am easy
Speaker 1: bust I should probably know who the answered that question.
Speaker 1: But yeah, but that's interesting. So but regardless, like I always,
Speaker 1: I am so confused between s b S and dunks
Speaker 1: like I got flamed one time because I called something
Speaker 1: as a b when it was actually a dunk, even
Speaker 1: though the same shoe, but there's so many different like
Speaker 1: layers to it. I always thought it was just the
Speaker 1: tongue because like the skateboarding shoe should have the fat
Speaker 1: tongue right right, and then the dunk doesn't like the
Speaker 1: original biotegue that that's like a really like flimsy tongue, right,
Speaker 1: it's not a fat tongue. So I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, how old are you when those came out?
Speaker 1: Ship when they come out, uh to like two thousand
Speaker 1: one two two, so I was four, yeah, exactly five yeah.
Speaker 1: So I mean if it's the same thing like you
Speaker 1: know when I was growing up, you know the Jordan Ones.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you what was on the Jordan's two box.
Speaker 1: I knew it was a maid in Italy box, but
Speaker 1: it was like a kid, like a small little boy,
Speaker 1: like like you were doing during the s B time.
Speaker 1: So when people are out there like, oh, claiming there
Speaker 1: were this and that and all that, it's like, no,
Speaker 1: like and that's what I like about you. You're authentic
Speaker 1: because you know you're you're absolutely real about it like,
Speaker 1: you know, I can't recall it because it wasn't from
Speaker 1: my time, you know what I mean. Other people will
Speaker 1: sit there and they try to hammer you and knock
Speaker 1: you down for it and whatnot, and you know that's
Speaker 1: it's just the paradox of of this whole like sneaker world,
Speaker 1: there's always someone trying to knock you down, I know,
Speaker 1: for you know, especially if you're not absolutely certain. Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's almost like annoying because people
Speaker 1: are like, oh, wait, you don't know exactly when the
Speaker 1: Supreme Teacher came out, and it's like, no, I know
Speaker 1: that around the time it came out, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of like with um with the Easies. Um. I was
Speaker 1: just um in one of the other episodes, I was
Speaker 1: talking about like what time Easies came out. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure it's two like a two sixteen, like right and there.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you an exact date, but that's kind
Speaker 1: of like the time, you know, it's more so about
Speaker 1: like the era. I think it's more about like that
Speaker 1: time in fashion than anything. No, yeah, absolute um so yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean even even like s B I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: sit here and pretend like I've been collecting as B
Speaker 1: since I was three years old, because I definitely wasn't
Speaker 1: um Whenever anybody asked me, I always tell you this.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you're the one who really got me into it,
Speaker 1: because the first time I saw him, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're just like bulky skater shoes. Like I didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't really know like the backstory behind them. And I
Speaker 1: and I think that the problem is with like sneaker
Speaker 1: culture these days. And a lot of people just asked,
Speaker 1: like they say, how much are these? And and I
Speaker 1: used to do that too, Like I remember I was
Speaker 1: probably the first or second time at the warehouse, Like
Speaker 1: I went into the vaul and I just saw some
Speaker 1: s bs. I'm like, oh, how much are these? Like
Speaker 1: you know, just out of curiosity, and I'm like why
Speaker 1: are they in here? Because I was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: think these are whatever, and you're like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: these are like ten thousand dollars and I was like what,
Speaker 1: like why And then you started explaining like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: because it came out during this time and this artist
Speaker 1: did it and there's only this many pairs and whatever whatever,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, well that makes sense. That there's
Speaker 1: a school story behind it. So I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: hanging out around you and like people who have been
Speaker 1: in the game way longer than I have, like obviously,
Speaker 1: because I'm not going to pretend like I'm an o
Speaker 1: G because by no means am I at all. Like
Speaker 1: I've literally been into sneakers for five years more and
Speaker 1: more like into the actual story behind the shoe and
Speaker 1: the concept, which I love. And that's kind of like
Speaker 1: why I love SBS because they have a concept behind
Speaker 1: pretty much every shoe, right, Like there's a story, whereas
Speaker 1: with like there's a lot of Jordan's that might not
Speaker 1: necessarily have a story, you know, like shattered Backboards, like
Speaker 1: one of my favorite Jordan's, they have a story like
Speaker 1: it was based on the jersey that Michael Jordan was
Speaker 1: wearing during an expedition game, right, So like that I
Speaker 1: think is super dope. But there's certain color ways that
Speaker 1: just look cool but they don't have any substance behind them,
Speaker 1: and I think like that's where I kind of like,
Speaker 1: that's my take on Seekers. But I'm not gonna sit
Speaker 1: here and pretend like I know everything, and because I don't,
Speaker 1: I'm learning every day, Like every time I, you know,
Speaker 1: hang out with you or I'm at the warehouse or
Speaker 1: something like, I always find something I'm like, oh what
Speaker 1: is this? Either you or one of the guys that
Speaker 1: told me, oh is this this? And this? I'm like, wow,
Speaker 1: that's really really cool. It's interesting, um the way kind
Speaker 1: of like things have shifted, you know, the year has
Speaker 1: been an interesting year, and as bees, I feel like
Speaker 1: one as for sure should be on the list. Though,
Speaker 1: what do you think for the top ten? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I mean what what did as Be come out this year?
Speaker 1: I mean, well, the Halloween dunk was Oh yeah, that's right,
Speaker 1: that was really cool. I actually really like that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I would not put that as you know,
Speaker 1: for U for Sneaker of the Year. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's I mean, it's cool. It's kind of cool, Like
Speaker 1: I guess, it's something no one expected anything to happen,
Speaker 1: So it was great to see that that people are
Speaker 1: actually like driving to get something that was a little
Speaker 1: bit different that people from the stores and the brand
Speaker 1: didn't necessarily expect it to happen. So that was just
Speaker 1: something that's quinde of cool and organic that came from
Speaker 1: like energy created um from some some dunks from the past,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, absolute um? But um, what else do
Speaker 1: you think is UH? Is a good one from UH
Speaker 1: this year? Well before before I dive into like other
Speaker 1: other silhouettes and stuff, I was gonna ask your opinion
Speaker 1: on this because I feel like you would probably have
Speaker 1: some input. Like have you seen the new ray guns
Speaker 1: they're coming out on It looks exactly like the two
Speaker 1: original ray guns, like the black and the white version. Um,
Speaker 1: but it's like Tide instead of the orange and yellow.
Speaker 1: It's like a Tide orange and yellow. Here, I'll show
Speaker 1: you right now just so you get an idea. It
Speaker 1: was kind of cool to me is the fact that
Speaker 1: the sp team like adopted the the Nike basketball a
Speaker 1: ray gun campaign for that. Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah
Speaker 1: didn't didn't Kyrie have Like no, no, no, this is
Speaker 1: way before the mid two thousand's, okay, because Kyrie definitely
Speaker 1: had a had to shoe and I'm saying he he
Speaker 1: liked SP so he took the took that ray gun
Speaker 1: motif and put it on his shoe. Okay. I see.
Speaker 1: So what this one is. This one is commemorating and
Speaker 1: paying homage to the SB pioneer Sandy Bowdecker, So I
Speaker 1: guess that's why they're coming out. Do you think that
Speaker 1: should be a contender in the race for Sneaker of
Speaker 1: the Year or is that or is that kind of
Speaker 1: like another You know that in a way it's a
Speaker 1: retro in a way, it's not a lot of people
Speaker 1: are saying that they're just gonna paint over the tight
Speaker 1: eye and just make it look like a regular ray gun.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, do you think it's it's up
Speaker 1: there or do you think it's still too retro? Kind
Speaker 1: of No, I mean it's still pretty much like retro,
Speaker 1: I would say, you know, yeah, so in my opinion,
Speaker 1: a few of the sneakers of the year, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean we we could, we could have like a
Speaker 1: retro on there. You know, it's but kind of like
Speaker 1: it has to be like a good retro. But definitely
Speaker 1: in terms of like new silhouettes. I know this is
Speaker 1: a shoot I've seen you wear like a million times.
Speaker 1: I know, I know you really like these shoes that
Speaker 1: and I know you're really into the brand itself, Like
Speaker 1: you're wearing Saki pants right now, the Sakai and waffles, well,
Speaker 1: and maybe the Sakai of the Blazers. Yeah, what do
Speaker 1: you think do you think that that should be a
Speaker 1: contender for sure? Yeah, I mean, honestly, I'll just let
Speaker 1: it out. I kind of wanted to save that one,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's I would say, honestly, the Waffles and
Speaker 1: the Blazers are the uh would probably be right up
Speaker 1: there as far as because they just took the whole
Speaker 1: silhouette and mixed it up and made it you know,
Speaker 1: they deconstructed, but constructed so like the it's like two
Speaker 1: shoes in one, both of them. And I thought that
Speaker 1: that was like pretty amazing. The colors were amazing as well,
Speaker 1: and uh, the Blazer I thought was actually just as
Speaker 1: well constructed as the Waffle. But I think the Waffle
Speaker 1: came in at a good time where people are looking
Speaker 1: for another like retro model to come back out with
Speaker 1: because the waffles weren't always necessarily that popular. They were
Speaker 1: always really cheap. Even when Fragment made one, it kind
Speaker 1: of like fizzled out, But I don't think these would
Speaker 1: ever fizzle out. And I think, uh, it was pretty
Speaker 1: amazing to see that that took a shift. If you
Speaker 1: if we talk about demographics like the for example, the
Speaker 1: Chinese market so normally either be wearing Yeasies, Jordan's ones
Speaker 1: or whatever is like or Travis Obviously we're gonna be
Speaker 1: mentioning Travis Scott's should be mentioned for us the year um. However,
Speaker 1: when you if you talk about like a total shift,
Speaker 1: whereas you now saw that same demographic globally all jumping
Speaker 1: on like the waffles. Like when I'm you know, I
Speaker 1: travel a lot between Europe, Um, North America, Asia predominantly
Speaker 1: just walking through there and going on, I just I
Speaker 1: noticed what people are wearing, and it was like you
Speaker 1: still see a lot of like Russians and Arab guys
Speaker 1: still like really holding down uh yeasies. And then but
Speaker 1: when you see like the Chinese demographic, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you see like this big you know, you start seeing
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of like the Travis Jordan's
Speaker 1: and especially like the Sakai waffles. And you can see
Speaker 1: that with the prices going up and the sizes that
Speaker 1: are you know, you know, it's like that smaller range
Speaker 1: like eight through nine that are like you know, higher
Speaker 1: than the other ones. And that's from that that demographic,
Speaker 1: and it's it's pretty interesting to see it. And that's
Speaker 1: really powerful that they made something so um, you know,
Speaker 1: like a culture shifting or like style shifting. People are
Speaker 1: like stepping away from what they're normally and adding that
Speaker 1: to their rotation. I mean, because I wore him a
Speaker 1: ton like I love him myself, I think they're pretty amazing.
Speaker 1: Do you like the undercover waffles too, or just the skis?
Speaker 1: I mean those are those are different? So they were
Speaker 1: they considered waffles? They were, right, Well, well, the the
Speaker 1: Sakai is the LD waffle and then undercovers, Uh we're
Speaker 1: called Daybreak daybreak, yes, okay, okay, so it's still considered
Speaker 1: a waffle because of the soul, right, yeah, what it is? Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not a I'm not a pro at it. I've
Speaker 1: been around of warrem before, but I mean I'm not
Speaker 1: a pro to know why what's an LD? What is
Speaker 1: actually like a waffle racer? But it's kind of the
Speaker 1: combination of those two and that's why there's a double
Speaker 1: tongue and whatnot, so it's kind of like a mixture. Definitely. Um,
Speaker 1: the Blazer, I think it was it was just itself,
Speaker 1: but there's different versions of the Blazer and it kind
Speaker 1: of just made it simple. But I really like the soul,
Speaker 1: how they made it look like a bunch of like
Speaker 1: layers on the back of it. That it was great. No,
Speaker 1: it's it's a dope shoe. I really like him. I
Speaker 1: love the Blazers, actually like those a little bit more personally.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think what what they did was sick. Um. Well, here,
Speaker 1: let's let's go through a couple of shoes that came
Speaker 1: out this year that maybe we forgot about. Um, Like,
Speaker 1: for example, at the beginning of the year, the Nike
Speaker 1: and Staple dunk uh the and the Pigeon. What do
Speaker 1: you think about that? Do you think that do you
Speaker 1: think that should be up there? Or is that something
Speaker 1: that's kind of like I thought it was a cool color.
Speaker 1: But and I like how the the outsold was like
Speaker 1: the newspaper of like the breaking news of you know,
Speaker 1: being that there was like a riot after the first
Speaker 1: Staple Pigeon. What do you think do you think of that?
Speaker 1: That's a contender? I totally forgot that she even came
Speaker 1: out this year, to be honest, So I don't know
Speaker 1: if it should be just because of that, But what
Speaker 1: do you think? Um? You know, I liked it. I
Speaker 1: thought it was pretty cool. Um, I think it could
Speaker 1: have possibly done a little bit more with it. I
Speaker 1: personally like the impact of the Black Pigeon because that
Speaker 1: was like an actual like second too, the original one
Speaker 1: that came out and uh and was cool and it
Speaker 1: became a little bit elusive in the beginning and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and I thought that that created a lot more energy
Speaker 1: to it. Yeah. Um, I'm not so familiar with like
Speaker 1: the Legit six and everything. I think they launched it
Speaker 1: on the network um um platform, and I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if it was anything wider anymore, you know, any other
Speaker 1: release with it or whatnot. But uh, I guess you
Speaker 1: could kind of put it up there. But I don't
Speaker 1: think it created as much noise as the Black One did.
Speaker 1: That's not so um. Yeah, if you look at in
Speaker 1: terms of that, I mean, obviously you can't have sneak
Speaker 1: or the year or not make any noise, right absolutely absolutely. Well, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: let let's move on. Let's see someone else. Um. Like,
Speaker 1: for example, the another show that came out that I
Speaker 1: totally forgot about. It was at the top of the
Speaker 1: year too, in February, was the Nike off White Airmax ninety.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that show. It was the
Speaker 1: orange and the black color way. No, it was great.
Speaker 1: I don't think that it didn't really make that much
Speaker 1: of a wave of huh No it did. I No,
Speaker 1: I think it did. But I mean it's just a
Speaker 1: secondary two color ways to the original one that came out, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so there's nothing, nothing really different from from the other ones, right,
Speaker 1: so you don't think it's it's probably not up there.
Speaker 1: That's probably like an honorable mention, right, you know, no, absolutely,
Speaker 1: It just it really bummed me out that this year
Speaker 1: there was no in my opinion, and like, and there's
Speaker 1: probably no ideata shoes on that are gonna be on
Speaker 1: this list. Actually, what about the Glow in the Dark
Speaker 1: three fifties? Okay, well yeah, absolutely, okay, so that definitely
Speaker 1: kind of yeah, absolutely, So anyways, I was wondering, like, okay,
Speaker 1: when are we going to have the glow of dark um,
Speaker 1: you know, three fifties, because we had the seven fifties
Speaker 1: right with the glow Dark Soul, and so you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of natural like waiting for for that to happen.
Speaker 1: What I didn't like, honestly, is like the splitting of
Speaker 1: of reflective and non reflective Um, it's a bit weird, right.
Speaker 1: I don't like it because you're you're making people consumers
Speaker 1: choose between two different um models. Now, forgive me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong or not. Was there too non Was there
Speaker 1: a non reflective been a reflective gloom and dark Easy?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think there was only one
Speaker 1: of those, I think, but all these other colors came
Speaker 1: out with two versions, and I think that that like
Speaker 1: just alienates people because most kids, I mean, why would
Speaker 1: you want to have a non reflective one if you
Speaker 1: had an option? Would anyone actually say, hey, actually, you
Speaker 1: know what, skip the reflective, let me take the one
Speaker 1: that doesn't reflect. Why people are gonna walk around with
Speaker 1: their flashlights checking if people's shoes reflective or not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's like, okay, let me let me keep
Speaker 1: the reflective on, right, It's like that didn't make Really,
Speaker 1: that didn't make sense to me. The reflective ones are
Speaker 1: way more limited and they go for like almost three
Speaker 1: times as much. Yeah, I know. So they made it
Speaker 1: so like all these people are gonna go out and
Speaker 1: try to get those, and then the other people are
Speaker 1: gonna have more affordable pair for the same looking thing.
Speaker 1: I guess it's weird. I don't. I don't really like
Speaker 1: that because you know, if you ask me, it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't even want one without the reflect. If there's
Speaker 1: something else with something better on it, I want to
Speaker 1: go get that. Of course, of course you want to
Speaker 1: bear Bones Beamer, or you want to get one with
Speaker 1: m package and everything on it. Yeah, of course, So
Speaker 1: if you had the option, you're paying the same amount, right, Yeah, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: I love the glow in the dark. I mean it's
Speaker 1: cool that it was a green. It was like a
Speaker 1: very flashy shoe. I feel like that's definitely a V
Speaker 1: two that held its value like a lot more than
Speaker 1: the other ones. So I definitely feel like that's definitely
Speaker 1: up there as well. Um, but just I mean, let's
Speaker 1: take a look at another a few pairs, because there
Speaker 1: was a lot that came out this year, um that
Speaker 1: I totally forgot about. Like, what do you think about
Speaker 1: the yeah unc patent Jordan's once? Do you think that
Speaker 1: those should be up there? Or not? Really? Really? Which
Speaker 1: you're talking about the Fearless One? No? No, the UF
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's so it's women's, wasn't it. I Mean
Speaker 1: they don't even make them in my size, So it sucks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, but it's like, uh, it's it's not like
Speaker 1: the Unions Jordan ones. You know Unions Jordan once there
Speaker 1: was a concept to it you don't even know, and
Speaker 1: the story is great, but you don't like, we're not
Speaker 1: even talking about a story here. We're just talking about
Speaker 1: like a color exactly. It's been done before, exactly. You know,
Speaker 1: why would we even put that it totally? I don't think. So, Okay,
Speaker 1: if you if you want to keep it on on yourine,
Speaker 1: that's great, but I think we should take that thing off. Well.
Speaker 1: Mostly I'm not gonna put any shoe on the list
Speaker 1: that I don't have, because I feel like that would
Speaker 1: be kind of hypocritical for me to say, like I
Speaker 1: really like the shoe and this is my top ten
Speaker 1: and I didn't get it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: At least that's in my opinion. But I mean that
Speaker 1: so that shoe I couldn't even get because it doesn't
Speaker 1: come in my size. Um. But okay, well let's move on.
Speaker 1: So what do you think about the UM like the
Speaker 1: adapt nikes, like the ones that are the cell placing ones,
Speaker 1: like they came out with a UM like a like
Speaker 1: a basketball version. Yeah, so I guess it came out
Speaker 1: of February. Wow, time goes by fast. That's crazy. Well
Speaker 1: they did do this new, newer version, I guess yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm only accustomed to the version that came out, um,
Speaker 1: the Hyper and that I think that was last year.
Speaker 1: What do you what do you think about the basketball version?
Speaker 1: Because they did that. They did an airmag color way,
Speaker 1: which was pretty cool. Did you see that? Yeah? I did.
Speaker 1: I did see that out. Um do you think that
Speaker 1: that's even up there or is you know? Because it
Speaker 1: is a new concept. I didn't really like this, the
Speaker 1: same thing that they did like last year. Is anyone
Speaker 1: even talk about it? Do you see anyone where? But
Speaker 1: those ones are hideous in my opinion, I thought those
Speaker 1: were super rug which one the hyper adapts? No? I
Speaker 1: think they were cool. Really? Do we even had like
Speaker 1: Beyonce put one on and she bought the black one? Really? Yeah, dude,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I thought those were trash. That was
Speaker 1: just me. I thought they were cool. I mean for
Speaker 1: the concept of it whatever, But I mean it wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna be iconic and something that's gonna like forever. Well.
Speaker 1: I always thought that when that shoe came out, it
Speaker 1: would be iconic because of the air Mag because air
Speaker 1: Mag is so iconic for being the self lacing thing
Speaker 1: in the movie. And they finally released self lacing one.
Speaker 1: Um last year or the year before. Okay, so a
Speaker 1: couple of years. Wow, time time movest my fast. Um,
Speaker 1: what do you think about the air Max ninety Mars landing?
Speaker 1: What do you think about that show? Um? It was
Speaker 1: a great follow up to the uh, you know, the Lunar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: air Max ninety, but didn't really make a way of No,
Speaker 1: it didn't. Yeah, I remember a lot of people are
Speaker 1: actually asking me about them, and then they came out
Speaker 1: and one really cared. I mean think I think people
Speaker 1: really cared at first. But the problem, and I think
Speaker 1: we mentioned this on the last time I was on
Speaker 1: the show, is like, guys, everyone listening out there, you
Speaker 1: need to have your own sense of style, not just
Speaker 1: because it's hyped and how much it's going for. So
Speaker 1: it's not going for over retail. I don't want it.
Speaker 1: Like I know there's a lot of you out there
Speaker 1: that are they're going out and it's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it doesn't go for ship, so I don't want it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not what it's about, totally, totally. It's really it's
Speaker 1: not about like how much it is or how much
Speaker 1: you you know, you're like flipping it for. It's about
Speaker 1: like you wearing it with what you want to wear
Speaker 1: it with, and how you how you like rocket, how
Speaker 1: you style it and whatnot. That's that's what it's about.
Speaker 1: Or the way you collect it, you like the way
Speaker 1: it looks, not not just because of like how much
Speaker 1: it's worth. I definitely have bought a few shoes this
Speaker 1: year that on on the real resale side don't go
Speaker 1: for anything, and I don't care because I like them up.
Speaker 1: I mean I have, I have those. I mean I
Speaker 1: haven't worn them yet. But there's a lot of shoes
Speaker 1: that haven't warn you. I haven't way too many. I
Speaker 1: gotta you got like, yeah, I know, I'm about to
Speaker 1: do a closet cell soon something like that. We'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll see if that can come in coming soon. Let's
Speaker 1: see it. Well okay, well, let's let's let's move on
Speaker 1: the supreme air uh tail wind fours? What do you
Speaker 1: think about those? I'm not even gonna comment. Well, I
Speaker 1: mean a lot of people don't like tail winds. But
Speaker 1: I think I think it's cool. Uh, Like the tail
Speaker 1: winds are dope. So it was a cool like air
Speaker 1: Max series. Um Sneaker of the Year. No, okay, definitely
Speaker 1: not Okay, well, let's there's no point in talking about them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you think about them? The walk the dog
Speaker 1: like the dog Walkers this year? Okay, so we're talking
Speaker 1: about like as a newer s BS. I thought that
Speaker 1: was cool. Yeah, that was a good That was a
Speaker 1: good concept. It kind of like plays something into the
Speaker 1: past of the whole thing. Yeah, that was that was
Speaker 1: definitely like a good job done. Um. I love the
Speaker 1: love the details about that shoe. How like the the
Speaker 1: extra lay set was in a doggie bag and then
Speaker 1: like the bottom of the soul there's like a brown
Speaker 1: patch as if like you stepped in like dogshit yea,
Speaker 1: which which I thought was like a really cool concept. No. Absolutely, Um,
Speaker 1: I forgot those came out this year too. But do
Speaker 1: you think that those who have like as a big
Speaker 1: of an impact as like the you know, other four
Speaker 1: twenty sneakers or not really? Well, I think those will
Speaker 1: have an impact later because I think as as a
Speaker 1: Dunk regains popularity again, they will be those that are
Speaker 1: going to be looking for them like a year from
Speaker 1: now and then people are gonna start talking about again.
Speaker 1: So they didn't necessarily make the impact this year, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they'll make an impact in another year and won't
Speaker 1: be able to contend for it. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: it's kind of like you know someone that's out there,
Speaker 1: he's a rookie, yeah, but nobody starts talking to his
Speaker 1: like sophomore like year or something like that, and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: he can't be up for Rookie of the Year because
Speaker 1: he was on a hot team didn't much playing time.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like that. Let's if you look
Speaker 1: at in that that kind of reference. Do you enjoy
Speaker 1: analogies like separt truly? Yeah? I love analogy Okay, So
Speaker 1: moving on, um uh okay, well, obviously the Travis squad
Speaker 1: Jordan one, Yeah, I know, I mean, you might as
Speaker 1: well just get into it. Okay, we might as well
Speaker 1: get into it. Okay. So the one highs you got,
Speaker 1: the one lows you have, the sixes I mean, and
Speaker 1: the forces you could have a trifecta right there. So
Speaker 1: do you think out of so do you think between
Speaker 1: the Air Force ones, the six is the one highs
Speaker 1: and the one lows. Do you think all four should
Speaker 1: make it in the top ten? Yes, yes, yes, Wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: why why do you say that number one? Obviously the
Speaker 1: ones I think are the most highs one most popular
Speaker 1: one out of it without it, that could definitely be
Speaker 1: the one that supersedes all of them. The low nobody
Speaker 1: touches Jordan one knows, he went and did it and
Speaker 1: made Jordan people wanting to wear Jordan one lows. Right, absolutely,
Speaker 1: the six, the six hasn't had popularity in a long
Speaker 1: time since. Yeah, I used to wear the black infreds
Speaker 1: all the time, right, you know people are wearing that six.
Speaker 1: And actually that's a great color way too, by the way,
Speaker 1: and has a little stash pocket on it as well,
Speaker 1: utility pocket whatever you want to call it. And then
Speaker 1: the air Force is you know, some people are saying, oh,
Speaker 1: there's too much on it, this and that, but I
Speaker 1: think the colors are amazing and it's it's something cool,
Speaker 1: and it's just it's different from the other ones. So
Speaker 1: if you look at like one two, I mean No. One,
Speaker 1: and then the second one being the one low, and
Speaker 1: then the six, you're like a completely different concept color,
Speaker 1: and then you go into the Air Force one is
Speaker 1: completely different than what was done on the either of
Speaker 1: the ones. So that being said, there's such a good
Speaker 1: um transition between all of them that they all have
Speaker 1: to be up there. The fact that it's all him
Speaker 1: obviously probably makes them more popular than what they normally
Speaker 1: would be. Absolutely somebody else did it, however, mean that's
Speaker 1: you see people you go to camp Um, you go
Speaker 1: to sneaker Con and you see everyone wearing them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you should go look on every vendor table, Travis Shoes,
Speaker 1: Travis Shoes, Sikai Waffles, Um, Sakai Blazers, some off Wit,
Speaker 1: Jordan ones, Yeah, some off Whites. I don't even see
Speaker 1: the the some of the original off Whites on it.
Speaker 1: Some people have like the Jordan ones up there for
Speaker 1: some craziest number. And that's it. Everyone has exact exactly
Speaker 1: the same thing at every single like spot. Those are
Speaker 1: like the top pieces there because everybody wants exactly and
Speaker 1: then those are the the easies that are thrown in
Speaker 1: in the middle of it. So would you say that
Speaker 1: kind of like, so far your top ten would include
Speaker 1: those four shoes, Sakai Blazers. I mean Sikai waffles. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: it would it be both both color ways that came out. Well,
Speaker 1: wait know there's four came out. Four came out this year, right,
Speaker 1: so it's the red and blue. There was actually five.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right. It's a green yellow. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: blue red yellow, and then the black and the black
Speaker 1: and the white one and then the magenta green. Which
Speaker 1: one do you think was the best out of all
Speaker 1: of those, because I mean, you probably wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: have all five, because then that's your whole list, your
Speaker 1: top ten pretty much. It's tough. I'm not gonna pick
Speaker 1: one of the monotone colors, even though they're dope, um,
Speaker 1: because that's very easy to do and like anyone can
Speaker 1: get away with it. Um. I'd have to say the
Speaker 1: I like the green. Oh wow, it's just so hard.
Speaker 1: The first two colors. I mean, maybe the green yellow orange.
Speaker 1: It's just like it's a real good take on the
Speaker 1: original one, and so is the red blue yellow. But
Speaker 1: I think I'm just a little bit different. I want
Speaker 1: to get that. I would choose that one over all
Speaker 1: the other ones for sure. So so so far you
Speaker 1: would have um all four travises and then the Sikai Blazers.
Speaker 1: I mean, I keep saying that Skai waffles. So one
Speaker 1: of them who you said, the green, right, okay, and
Speaker 1: I'd put in I'd put in one of the blazers
Speaker 1: as well, one of the blazers. Yeah, okay, for sure,
Speaker 1: Um which blazer then in that case? Oh, the the
Speaker 1: first color, the yellow, yellow, navy red, one with the
Speaker 1: with the with the blue with it. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah those ones were dope. Um, a lot of people
Speaker 1: kind of I feel like those shoes kind of grew
Speaker 1: on people, you know at first, I know, but you
Speaker 1: really like them, you know, I know, they kind of
Speaker 1: they picked up like right after. They're huge. Man, Like
Speaker 1: I I have one pair, and I literally whenever I
Speaker 1: look at my foot, I feel like I'm wearing a
Speaker 1: size at thirteen. I'm at eleven and I'm like, holy
Speaker 1: sh it, Like he's look giant because they have to
Speaker 1: have like how many souls, like three or four like
Speaker 1: wrapped around. It's just the layers on the back that
Speaker 1: you know, has that look that effect on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're dope, don't get me wrong. Well, what do you
Speaker 1: think about something like for example, like the because kind
Speaker 1: of piggybacking off Travis is lows. Um And I I've
Speaker 1: spoken about this before too, Like I think Jordan one
Speaker 1: lows are hideous across the board. I think they look terrible.
Speaker 1: But I think what Travis did with the with lows
Speaker 1: not even like remove his name, um, and let's and
Speaker 1: remove the color way. But the actual shape of the
Speaker 1: Jordan one low is different because Travis made it geared
Speaker 1: more towards like every day where right, rather than for basketball.
Speaker 1: So like if you look at older Jordan one knows
Speaker 1: like a shouttered backboard low or like a bread low
Speaker 1: or whatever, Um, they look totally different, Like the heel
Speaker 1: is super bulky and like big, which is probably meant
Speaker 1: for basketball, right. Whereas if you look at one of
Speaker 1: those Jordan one lows versus like a Travis or Eric Costin,
Speaker 1: for example, they look different. So do you like? And
Speaker 1: like I said, I thought, I think Jordan one lows
Speaker 1: are hideous, but I like the Travis. I like the
Speaker 1: Eric Costin because of the way that it's shaped. So
Speaker 1: what do you think you mean? Like the differences in it? Differences?
Speaker 1: In my opinion, it looks like a different shoe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, um, I mean, I like the fact that
Speaker 1: they cut the you know, and they made the low
Speaker 1: top versions of all of those, but they should have
Speaker 1: made it consistent, like the costing and the I mean,
Speaker 1: I agree with you on that side, but yeah, it
Speaker 1: doesn't I don't. Still I don't think it kills me
Speaker 1: to see the other ones. I think they're still great, um,
Speaker 1: you know, summer shoes and whatnot. Really, I was never
Speaker 1: I was never a fan. Never a fan. I mean honestly, like, yo,
Speaker 1: you can go take take one of those, uh, take
Speaker 1: one of those Jordan one lows and you can dust
Speaker 1: them in the club. But because you sometimes if you
Speaker 1: wear the right pants, it's gonna look like you're wearing
Speaker 1: the highs anyway. And I think that's a lot of
Speaker 1: the kids are like they're like busting those out anyway.
Speaker 1: And they're good for me to have like a decoy
Speaker 1: at a club, because when you have like some chicks
Speaker 1: spilling spilling her drink and the cranberry and all that ship,
Speaker 1: you know, like bumping into you, it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's listeners out there that have that problem.
Speaker 1: You're like, dude, you just want to just knock about drink. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: totally totally, but I mean still, man, I just never
Speaker 1: felt like like the construction and like the actual like
Speaker 1: material on the shoe was the same, you know. But
Speaker 1: that's just me. But do you think an air costs
Speaker 1: and can make it make it into the top ten
Speaker 1: then like one of them, like the unc color way
Speaker 1: or the original. As much as I like, uh, what
Speaker 1: what Eric has done for like Nike, I think it's amazing,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that that that the shoe is
Speaker 1: still made enough impact to like put it on his
Speaker 1: like sneaker of the Year yet. I'm pretty sure, like
Speaker 1: you know, definitely will have something something soon. But um yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean obviously it's just it hasn't created like that
Speaker 1: type of like impact. But the cool thing is that
Speaker 1: it's actually bringing the whole Jordan vibe back to um
Speaker 1: cores skateboarding because it definitely existed um in the eighties.
Speaker 1: Like you can see it all over the internet. You'll
Speaker 1: find old you can find old Thrasher magazines, all kinds
Speaker 1: of skate magazines. And I was no, I was no
Speaker 1: like skater growing up at all whatsoever. However, I do
Speaker 1: know about it. I was around it. I've seen Tony
Speaker 1: hawk skate. I've seen, like you know, I've watched people skate.
Speaker 1: I have friends that were skaters, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: you're just seeing like that old nostalgia of all the
Speaker 1: all the skaters, like skating in the pools and stuff
Speaker 1: with with Jordan Ones was like crazy with duct tape
Speaker 1: on them and whatnot because they cut him right, not
Speaker 1: even that like when they were just kind of like wrecked.
Speaker 1: Just put it on as like you know, like extra
Speaker 1: support or whatever because like ripping or something, you know, hilarious. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean then it's kind of hard to like even
Speaker 1: have a like full top ten, you know, because like
Speaker 1: after pretty much like the the only shoes that came out
Speaker 1: were like like a nice kicks like Adda's Ultra Boose.
Speaker 1: Have you seen that one? Yeah? I did, I did
Speaker 1: see that. I mean it's cool, it's great. I think
Speaker 1: it's cool. Yeah, it didn't really have it really didn't
Speaker 1: have a huge impact though this because there's nothing, uh,
Speaker 1: there's nothing going on on that side, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah, the lasting left is Ultra Boost and
Speaker 1: it's lost lost a lot of energy. It definitely didn't
Speaker 1: have the same impact as like the original n M
Speaker 1: D S that they did, you know. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: you had a human made like Nigo's new brand. It's
Speaker 1: been out for several years and like now like this
Speaker 1: year has actually probably been its biggest year, absolutely finally
Speaker 1: getting in the in the mainstream as it did a
Speaker 1: human made n m D. I've seen it on store shelves.
Speaker 1: The Farrell right, yeah, yeah, I mean and they did
Speaker 1: an Ultra boost too. We know it was like a
Speaker 1: Farrell Ultra Bust or whatever it's called. I can't remember,
Speaker 1: but they did. There was two. There was the Farrell
Speaker 1: the the human made n m D. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: um what was it? But it was on like they
Speaker 1: were both were Farrell's like because Pharrell has his own
Speaker 1: like ultraboose looking true and he and he had his
Speaker 1: own n m D. Oh yeah with that with that
Speaker 1: crazy soul, yeah exactly, and then they had the heart
Speaker 1: and with a human maid on that. I thought those
Speaker 1: were cool, but they definitely yeah, they sat for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you think that one of the Fearless Jordan ones
Speaker 1: deserves to be on there? Um? Honestly, Like again, the
Speaker 1: clot Jordan ones were pretty amazing. If we're talking about
Speaker 1: the whole Fearless packing in itself. I mean the blues
Speaker 1: were great. Um. Also the melodies I thought she did
Speaker 1: a yeah, the ones on the fake rolex on him, Yeah,
Speaker 1: those ones are really cool. Well I think that, um well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think out of all the Fearless ones, like my
Speaker 1: favorite was probably the unc Chicago, like the ones that
Speaker 1: were split the pattern leather, I think those are sick.
Speaker 1: But again I don't know that those actually did have
Speaker 1: somewhat of an impact. Just realized, like the Easy three
Speaker 1: eight the Alien because I was so excited to see
Speaker 1: the Easy team come out with the new shoe, Like
Speaker 1: I was so excited. I really wanted them to come
Speaker 1: out with the new silhouette, like that was gonna start
Speaker 1: making waves again and to maybe even revive the Easy
Speaker 1: brand a little bit in terms of like culture and
Speaker 1: like hype almost whatever. So the three eight I thought
Speaker 1: was really cool. I really liked it, Like genuinely, I
Speaker 1: think it's very different looking, like it's it gave me
Speaker 1: that nostalgia of like me seeing a V two for
Speaker 1: the first time, or me seeing a Easy V one
Speaker 1: for the first time, or even the Wave Runner for
Speaker 1: the first time, Like it's it's such a crazy looking,
Speaker 1: ugly quote unquote shoe that you just like are like, damn,
Speaker 1: like it's so ugly looking, but I really like it,
Speaker 1: and now everybody wants one, right, And those THO shoes
Speaker 1: actually held their value pretty well, So I almost would
Speaker 1: be okay with like adding that to a sneaker of
Speaker 1: the Year. I don't know if it would be for you,
Speaker 1: but for me at least, no, you know, for me,
Speaker 1: it has to have an impact, like the first seven hundred,
Speaker 1: the Total Wave Runner. Yeah, something like that, boom and
Speaker 1: you put you can you put it out there? But
Speaker 1: even though that just happened, I don't really I don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of people texting me like, oh dude,
Speaker 1: I need that? Can you get that? Do you have them? So?
Speaker 1: So do you think that? So okay, So let's let's
Speaker 1: break it down kind of like, because I think we
Speaker 1: agree on a lot of this stuff. So top four,
Speaker 1: So all four travises would be on the top ten.
Speaker 1: One Sakai Blazer, one Sakai Waffle. So that's six shoes. Um,
Speaker 1: the Glow in the Dark, easy, would you say? And
Speaker 1: then so that's seven and then um, what else? What
Speaker 1: else you think is up there? So the clod air
Speaker 1: Force one the Clow Air Force one. But would you
Speaker 1: would you say that the Cloud Air Force one and
Speaker 1: the clot Fragment Air Force one should be considered two
Speaker 1: different sneakers entirely or do you think they're kind of
Speaker 1: like under the sand umbrella, just two different color ways,
Speaker 1: you know, they're kind of the same. You have to
Speaker 1: you have to pick the black over the you have
Speaker 1: to pick the black over the blue because just because
Speaker 1: of the fragment collaboration total is very unexpected and the
Speaker 1: fact that you can, you know, um expose the logo underneath,
Speaker 1: you know, I was actually bummed. I wish they they
Speaker 1: put like the fragment logo, like the little lightning bolts
Speaker 1: on the on the top because like you know, um,
Speaker 1: like right on the toe box is where the fragment
Speaker 1: logo is underneath the silk or whatever it is. They
Speaker 1: should have put the logo on the top in my opinion,
Speaker 1: just very subtly because all black shoot. It would have
Speaker 1: been really cool. Or they should have put the fragment
Speaker 1: logo like on the on the heel, kind of like
Speaker 1: it is on the Jordan's um, and then it would
Speaker 1: have been cool to kind of peel that off and
Speaker 1: see it underneath maybe you know what I mean, But
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's just my opinion. I think those
Speaker 1: shoes are fire. And I was talking about it on
Speaker 1: another episode about how like the Air Force. I think,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, air Forces next year are gonna be
Speaker 1: like the thing, kind of like how its bees this here,
Speaker 1: We're like the thing. And I think slowly people are
Speaker 1: gonna start getting an air Forces. Um, people are gonna
Speaker 1: start noticing, prices are gonna go up and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I think it's a great way
Speaker 1: to like kind of kickstart like the Air Force hype,
Speaker 1: you know. Okay, So yeah, I think that's a super
Speaker 1: up to do we have that on there? That's number seven,
Speaker 1: that's eight, not not in any order, that's that's eight.
Speaker 1: So what else? Uh? Nine? Um? What else could we
Speaker 1: have here? Um? Are we talking we're gonna add that
Speaker 1: off White Duncan there? Yeah? So definitely absolutely, And you
Speaker 1: know I was saving something for you mention it, okay,
Speaker 1: but you know obviously something that's very impactful. Okay do
Speaker 1: you r Jordan One? Oh wow? Okay, yeah, definitely had
Speaker 1: to throw that on. Is that is that singer? Are
Speaker 1: we going to call it that me being like around
Speaker 1: there with the brands too, like uh in fashion weeks
Speaker 1: and all that, like we're working with them for me.
Speaker 1: Any time that that those worlds collide, it just brings
Speaker 1: me back to the days when I used to walk
Speaker 1: into like a Louis Bitton or a door and you know,
Speaker 1: I was always into fashion, but I was wearing like
Speaker 1: dunks and Jordan's with like heady salmon, uh do you
Speaker 1: or you know, um, like hoodies and the jeans right
Speaker 1: like when he created door Home for Dior, it was
Speaker 1: it was incredible and then immediately that was like my
Speaker 1: favorite designer. So people used to look at your shoes
Speaker 1: and if you're not wearing a like a dress shoe
Speaker 1: or a leather soul shoe, they would kind of not
Speaker 1: help you. It's gonna take you seriously, like okay, you're
Speaker 1: not coming in, You're not going to be buying anything.
Speaker 1: So Jordan's now everything changed. Now It's like if you
Speaker 1: look way cooler, like in this street where and in
Speaker 1: this street look, but if you look just a certain
Speaker 1: way and you stand out, they're gonna they're gonna flock
Speaker 1: to you like like flies on ship, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Exactly. But uh, and so now when you
Speaker 1: see that the big houses are doing stuff like it
Speaker 1: like Louis Bitton did with Supreme and do yours doing
Speaker 1: with Jordan Brand, for me, that's like, uh, that's incredible,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, absolutely, um Dad has to be up
Speaker 1: there because of like the impact that that's creating and
Speaker 1: it's going to create. I think a couple of those
Speaker 1: already were sold for over ten dollars crazy, So I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, for me, it's incredible. I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hit up everyone I know it you or no matter what,
Speaker 1: I don't care, sales associate, janitor or whatever, trying to
Speaker 1: get my hands on a pair of those because honestly, um,
Speaker 1: I think the detail on that show was so cool.
Speaker 1: Like a lot of people don't know that the tongue
Speaker 1: has like the door monogram them on it, but it's white,
Speaker 1: white on white, so it's like harder to see. And
Speaker 1: they paid like really close attention to all the details,
Speaker 1: like really good leather, really good materials, like and like
Speaker 1: the tongue obviously has that design and then the air
Speaker 1: duor instead of air Jordan Like, this is really cool shoe.
Speaker 1: But okay, I'll I think we should add it to
Speaker 1: this year only because like a lot of people are
Speaker 1: already wearing them, like Travis and like Kim Jones obviously,
Speaker 1: and like whoever else got him. Um but okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think that's a pretty good list. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I would probably only swap out like a couple of
Speaker 1: shoes in my opinion, Like I would probably swap out
Speaker 1: the Sikkai Waffles for probably like the the Easy three eight,
Speaker 1: because I just, I just it's honestly a shoe that
Speaker 1: I don't own, Like I don't I don't have the Waffles.
Speaker 1: I've seen you wear them a lot. I obviously I
Speaker 1: don't want to get them too, because you harass me
Speaker 1: for the rest of my life when I wore them first, dude,
Speaker 1: come on, and I'm just I'm just kidding. But honestly,
Speaker 1: like I tried them on and I didn't I didn't
Speaker 1: think they were that comfortable, and I wasn't like in
Speaker 1: love with them. You know, I didn't like love that shoe,
Speaker 1: but I know I definitely respect that like the influence
Speaker 1: it had. You know, I see a lot of like
Speaker 1: people are wearing them, obviously, So in my opinion, I
Speaker 1: just I needed to have another. I just needed to
Speaker 1: have another easy on there, you know, being easyBus to
Speaker 1: you know, you know what I mean. Um yeah, but
Speaker 1: otherwise I completely agree. I didn't even think about the
Speaker 1: Door Jordan, because that kind of was like a shoe
Speaker 1: that I felt like was more. But I guess now
Speaker 1: it's when it's making the huge impact is just gonna
Speaker 1: come out like general release like quote unquote obviously. So
Speaker 1: just to break it down, we got the four Travis
Speaker 1: is Um, Sakai Blazer, Sakai Waffle, so that's six, the
Speaker 1: clot air Force one so that's seven, George Jordan's eight
Speaker 1: off wait dunks nine, is there anything else that I'm missing?
Speaker 1: And the Glen the Dark Easy there we go. So
Speaker 1: that's ten. So that that's obviously not in any particular order.
Speaker 1: But if you could, if you could give me like
Speaker 1: a top three, I would tell you right now, go ahead,
Speaker 1: Um you would probably be the the Jordan's six okay, third,
Speaker 1: third okay, second, the Sakai Waffle okay in first, the
Speaker 1: Jordan one High Travis Okay, yeah, I mean all because
Speaker 1: of you know, the the Jordan one High was just
Speaker 1: it was big energy, the everything around it was huge.
Speaker 1: It looked amazing. The colors, it's a play on his
Speaker 1: you know, his his favorite color was the Jordan three
Speaker 1: um white mocha. Yeah, you flipped that and put it
Speaker 1: onto a Jordan one different stuff to it. Um, the
Speaker 1: backwards swish obviously he's the big swish as well. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know. The it was so impactful. It changed, it
Speaker 1: changed everything and just set him up for the rest
Speaker 1: of these next collapse to be successful. Um. Second, obviously,
Speaker 1: the like I said, the Sakai Waffle. Yeah, if that Jordan,
Speaker 1: if that Jordan one high had never happened, then the
Speaker 1: Sikai would be obviously number one. Because I'm trying to
Speaker 1: be unbiased. The one I like to wear the most
Speaker 1: is definitely like the Sakai Waffle. Absolutely, but the Jordan
Speaker 1: could just because like everyone is wearing that thing. You
Speaker 1: go to any any show, they're gonna pop on the
Speaker 1: travises be oh yeah, here you go, right, pink las
Speaker 1: and a brown lace on the on the other side.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, So that's that's the only reason why.
Speaker 1: And then obviously the six I thought was like a
Speaker 1: great concept altogether, and it was a great follow up.
Speaker 1: UM on a different, completely different silhouette and brought a
Speaker 1: lot of energy to the back to you know, the
Speaker 1: other Jordan models. So so you think two nine was
Speaker 1: like really like Travis is here? Oh yeah, like hands down, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: Well if you say like on and on like musically
Speaker 1: and and like style wise and everything else, like it's
Speaker 1: definitely like his ear. Would you would you take any
Speaker 1: sort of even like a little bit of credit for
Speaker 1: having any sort of impact on maybe his style from
Speaker 1: him visiting the warehouse and you know, the s B
Speaker 1: craze and like kind of like being into like Japanese
Speaker 1: like designers and stuff like that. Would you take any
Speaker 1: credit for it at all? Or do you think that
Speaker 1: that's kind of like, you know, obviously there's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with it. I mean maybe maybe in some some ways,
Speaker 1: like coming hanging out with us has like impacted uh colors,
Speaker 1: ideas whatnot. But he has like a good core of
Speaker 1: of everyone around him to chase b easy, you know,
Speaker 1: and he has like a great creative mind as well.
Speaker 1: But I mean, for sure, I think you know, when
Speaker 1: you're you're asked like, oh, what are those what are
Speaker 1: you wearing? Things like that, like yeah, of course, absolutely,
Speaker 1: there's there's always there's always uh, you know, I think
Speaker 1: even ask him like, of course you have to get
Speaker 1: into You get inspired by by thinking something someone's like wearing,
Speaker 1: like a sweater you're wearing, I'm like, oh hey, what
Speaker 1: is that or something like that. Totally, there's always there's
Speaker 1: always some sort of situation. But I was never like
Speaker 1: sitting down there and actually dictating anything totally totally. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's you definitely get inspiration from your friends
Speaker 1: or people who who you look up to, and also
Speaker 1: people who you think have cool, cool style. Obviously, you know,
Speaker 1: me hanging out with you a lot, I definitely feel
Speaker 1: like my fashion has changed a little bit. And you know,
Speaker 1: every time I go somewhere with you, I always get
Speaker 1: you know, people walk up to and they say some
Speaker 1: ridiculous stuff about your opfite. So where were we in
Speaker 1: the Houston when when somebody was like, oh, your drip
Speaker 1: is magnificent. Oh yeah that was that was hilarious. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, it's funny. You get you get stopped by
Speaker 1: guys all the time. I think, no girls though, I
Speaker 1: mean they stopped me for something else. But yeah, there's
Speaker 1: there's always like jokes about how like, um, when you
Speaker 1: go to a club, if you're wearing like streetwear and stuff, like,
Speaker 1: only dudes are gonna notice you anyway. So so you know, uh,
Speaker 1: but I feel like girls there there's fashion is totally different,
Speaker 1: you know, completely different. It's the same thing. What do
Speaker 1: you think girls get paid money for persons to impress dudes? Yeah, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: yeah that's true. You know, I never thought about it
Speaker 1: that way. I mean maybe if I've seen some of
Speaker 1: those persons at like or at a in a store
Speaker 1: or whatnot, Like I don't know the difference between it
Speaker 1: a only knows what or mes like Kelly and uh
Speaker 1: is right, yeah, but working into Kelly. But but like
Speaker 1: you know, I can notice like okay, wow, like this
Speaker 1: girl has got that, but it's not gonna be the
Speaker 1: determining factor whether it's the same thing. And it's the
Speaker 1: same thing, you known't come up be like yo, I
Speaker 1: like your wait where was that? I was going to
Speaker 1: Whole I and I was like Russian the airport and
Speaker 1: this girl was like, man, I love your fit, like
Speaker 1: your stylish, like you're just working at the t s
Speaker 1: A thing. It was kind of it was cool. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think I think all in all that's
Speaker 1: like a great I think it's a great list. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of most people probably agree, Like maybe
Speaker 1: there's only a few substitutes here and there. My top
Speaker 1: three would probably be that's tough. My my top three
Speaker 1: will probably be all travises. I would say probably for
Speaker 1: me to be one the one highs um, the UM sixes,
Speaker 1: and then the air Forces. I love the air Forces.
Speaker 1: I think they're so dope. And you know there's special connection,
Speaker 1: uh for me with the Air Forces that I can't
Speaker 1: really talk about because I'm not very public with everything
Speaker 1: about me, but I just think it's so cool. Like
Speaker 1: the design on itself is it's dope. Even the box
Speaker 1: is sick, Like have you seen the box with like
Speaker 1: the window where it says like cactus jack and so dope.
Speaker 1: Like I loved how much like attention was paid to
Speaker 1: that shoe and like the different materials and like how
Speaker 1: different it looks. Like I really like that shoe a lot.
Speaker 1: So I guess that would be my top three UM
Speaker 1: of this year. And like the six so I mean
Speaker 1: obviously the one. You know, it's obvious like that's I
Speaker 1: have seven pairs of that shoe. Like unfortunately, I literally
Speaker 1: have seven pairs of that shoe. So so the second
Speaker 1: shoe definitely for me was the was the sick Oh
Speaker 1: you know, so the seven pairs, So yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: the one was I have one personal pair that I
Speaker 1: wear like all the time and I love it. I
Speaker 1: think it's such a dope sneaker and I completely beat them. Um,
Speaker 1: and the six was really dope to me because of um,
Speaker 1: because of the color, like green is my favorite color.
Speaker 1: Army green definitely is like one of the shades that
Speaker 1: I love the most, and I never really was into it.
Speaker 1: And also I really liked the glow in the dark
Speaker 1: feature of that shoe, which I thought was dope, like
Speaker 1: kind of like an ode to Kanye almost like with
Speaker 1: the easy easy twos and the easy ones. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that that would be my top three. You know, even
Speaker 1: though I feel like people are go, you're just a
Speaker 1: high beast, like Okay, no that there' are just three
Speaker 1: shoes that just really made a huge impact this year
Speaker 1: and they deserve that title. No, No, I mean I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not disagreeing with you at all. I think
Speaker 1: I think it's important. Um, it's gonna be interesting to
Speaker 1: see like when the when the dunks come out to
Speaker 1: see if they really have like a big impact. You
Speaker 1: know what I mean, because I have a feeling that
Speaker 1: when they come out, they're either gonna go for like
Speaker 1: thousands and everyone's gonna be obsessed with them and like
Speaker 1: that's the only shoe we're gonna see people wearing a
Speaker 1: sinkercons or they're really gonna people are gonna get over them.
Speaker 1: What do you think? Do you think they're gonna be
Speaker 1: like as impactful as like some of the other shoes
Speaker 1: we have on the list, or do you think it's
Speaker 1: going to be more so like what else? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I think they'll be impactful. Do you think
Speaker 1: do you think you're a little bit biased? Because because
Speaker 1: if how much your love SBS and for tura um no,
Speaker 1: I generally think that they're they're probably gonna be like impactful,
Speaker 1: I hope. So I think that green color ways, don't
Speaker 1: I love that? The cool thing about it is that
Speaker 1: they actually did something different to the whole Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, with that extra lace doing it
Speaker 1: going around. Yeah, so it just added to it. It's
Speaker 1: not like they just took the color, change the materials
Speaker 1: a little bit and kept everything the same, like this
Speaker 1: actually was added function to it that's different, you know, absolutely, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's a dope. Shoot. Even the box is
Speaker 1: sick like the all chrome box. But I'm bummed they're
Speaker 1: not going to release the blue and the orange color ways,
Speaker 1: you know, the ones with the fl on him. It's
Speaker 1: only going to be the green, um, the red and
Speaker 1: then the yellow with the other two are supposed to
Speaker 1: be friends and family only. Maybe we can try to
Speaker 1: get our hands on those. Yeah, I know you don't
Speaker 1: have to make a call. Yeah, yeah, I know you
Speaker 1: can get them. I'm kind of like s O L
Speaker 1: but um, but anyway, Yeah, I think if if if
Speaker 1: you're listening and you disagree or you feel like there
Speaker 1: should have been, um, some other shoes on the list,
Speaker 1: please let me know. Shoot me a d M, shoot
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