WEBVTT - Episode 13 - From Playing Major League Baseball to Working with Art Basel 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.160 What's going on? Guys? This is easy bus to and 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:05.240 welcome to another episode of Legit Chick. Here I'm with 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:09.000 my good friend Sevrino Alvarez a k A Severino truly. 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:13.200 Now today we're gonna be talking about some very interesting topics, 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:16.279 kind of like diving into Sevrino's life. Um, as you 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:17.680 guys know, I have a lot of cool people on 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.320 the show that not necessarily are in front of the 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:24.240 camera or in front of the scenes at all time. So, uh, Severno, 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:26.200 go ahead and introduce yourself and tell us a little 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:30.320 bit about yourself. Hey, everyone, Severino Alvarez here a k 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:34.040 A Sevy or Severino truly. These guys end up calling 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:37.640 me a lot of different names, So whatever one sticks, 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:41.200 it just depends on what day of the week it is. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:43.839 well today we're gonna stick to uh Sevy just to 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.040 make things a little bit easier. Okay, cool, I'm I'm 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:50.240 with that. So. Um, I met Sevrino through a good 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.880 friend of mine, uh Drek Croatian style. I've had him 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:57.880 on the show before, and uh we've been good friends 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.120 ever since we met. Had our ups and downs, but 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.840 it has a few times that's really normal one. Okay, 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.559 So Sevy, tell us a little bit about what you do. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:10.039 How maybe you got acquainted with Dray. What's your part 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:14.840 of the fashion sneaker world. Yeah, so Dre and I 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:22.000 met at Basel in Miami through uh a big sneaker 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:26.200 critic and sneaker collector and sneaker connoisseur a k A. 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:32.720 Trinidad James t J as we know him. Um, he 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:40.720 introduced us back and I believe it was um maybe 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:48.680 and yeah, he introduced me to Dre. Um. We had 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:54.800 a very unique introduction and became friends in the next year. 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:59.400 I would say after that. UM, anyways, time me Dre, 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:06.800 what I do typically depends on who's asking, or again 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:08.680 I like to say, like it depends on what day 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:12.800 of the week. It is a lot of entrepreneurial stuff 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:22.000 that is involved, um with basically conceptual ideas that involve 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:26.600 brand development. UM. I do a lot of consulting. Uh. 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.560 There's a kid that is seventeen years old that I 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.480 live coach right now. That's kind of what I have 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:37.959 seen at what best benefit him and his creative ventures. UM. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:39.760 I wouldn't say there's a ton of brands that I 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:41.880 work with there's a few brands that I work with. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:43.839 There has been brands in the past that I don't 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.959 work with anymore clothing wise and fashion that I don't 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:52.639 work with any more that I did. But consulting advisement, 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:58.880 brand development, it's a it's kind of a very intriguing 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:03.079 and unique industry that we work in. You know, sometimes 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.960 you work on like a specific project for one brand 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:09.680 for a month and then you're done, And other times 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.520 you are working with a brand for several years and 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:18.720 it becomes kind of like a home to you. Uh yeah, 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.440 So give give us an example of, you know, one 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.760 of the cooler brands that you've worked with them maybe 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:25.840 you know, I know some of them are some of 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.600 them are a top secret. So it's okay. Yeah, there's 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:30.760 a few that probably I wouldn't be able to speak 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:36.760 about and keep my reputation. Ah, but we're not out 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.040 here to get you. You're not out here to get me. 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:41.840 That happens a lot on the on these on these podcasts. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:46.120 Sometimes not here though, Yeah, I would say right now there, 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.119 I mean, shoot, I'll sell you a really great brand. 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.680 I work with Project Blitz. Project Blitz never heard of it, 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.680 You've never heard of it. You know, if if you've 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:56.600 had dre On here, then you know what Project Bliz 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.960 is and what Project blitz es. He was the second episode. Okay, cool, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.160 so well then we don't even need to delve down 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:06.400 that hole. Uh. In the last a few months and 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:11.360 my first project was during our bassl Is Horritos. You 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.400 just did a cool little post about Horritos. But some 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.600 Mexican Sota brand. You would say, what the heck Doceta 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:21.080 and culture and sneakers have to do together? Well, yeah, 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.360 we made it happen. Yeah we did. I don't really 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:27.400 like to like generally work with any specific brand, any 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:29.480 specific industry. I kind of just like to keep the 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.840 door open and just see kind of what flows my way. 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.320 I mean, we're here in Hawaii right now as we 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:38.799 record this, making some big moves and making some big moves, 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:40.440 you know, like we were just here for the Louis 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.600 Vatton dinner. So it's difficult to say that I work 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.320 for or with Louis Batton. They have offered me a 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:52.440 position a couple of times, but the specific way that 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.440 I'm with them right now just makes more sense for 0:04:55.480 --> 0:05:00.479 me my career path. Yeah, but we're still here. You know, 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.400 we we got invited to come out here and enjoy dinner. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.440 They opened up their new store here in Waikiki, So 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.359 it was a blessing and I feel very fortunate to 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.359 come out here and celebrate with them. But that was 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.200 the new store, the one we went to. Yeah, it 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.560 was a brand of store, so it was a historic 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:21.559 basically building and foundation. Um. The inside of that store 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.760 for the last several months, i mean maybe six to 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.640 eight months, has been gutted and totally turned in because 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.400 it had two stories before, but just a lot more condensed, 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.680 not as much space throughout the whole store. They fit 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:34.880 a lot more product in the store, which I'm I'm 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.440 assuming is their goal as any brand. It's like, why 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:38.960 do we have all the space and we can't fit 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.640 our product and now they can so, but it was 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.920 it was a lout vatan before too. They just yet 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.320 so they just redid it. Yeah, they just basically redid 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.600 the store. So that's what the whole two day period 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.040 was about. You know, obviously for me and for us, 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.920 it was a lot more than that. Relationships and being 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.200 present with you know, the people that you were work 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.320 with is really important. So absolutely absolutely we had a 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.520 blast what's the beach today? You know, business and pleasure 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.440 doesn't don't always make today was one of the few exceptions, 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.520 and and and it is. It is one of the 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.960 few places that you can actually mix business and pleasure 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.400 and get with it Hawaii. So yeah, I kind of 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.480 went on a tangent with what I do. But yeah, 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.039 it just kind of depends where I need to fit 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.480 and how I can best kind of bring the most 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:28.599 value to the team. I love teamwork, I love hard work, 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:32.159 and um, I love entrepreneurship. So anything kind of within 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:36.640 that fashion art creative realm is something that I'm usually 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:40.400 interested in totally. I think that, especially these days, the 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:43.479 term entrepreneur is not what it used to be twenty 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.360 years ago. And it's kind of hard to just pinpoint 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.760 one thing that because I have a really hard time 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.640 answering the question what do you do? I really do 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.960 And it seems like you in a way don't have 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.000 an exact answer. And that's okay, because I feel like 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.280 that's kind of how things are, know, And it's like 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.960 you're saying with like a creative direction and you know, 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.279 helping brands out, like I know, I know you're involvement 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.039 with blitz obviously and know what you did with Ritos, 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.560 which is awesome, Like even me, Like, people are like, oh, 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:11.840 what do you do? And I don't want to say 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.200 influencer because I hate that word. Um, I don't want 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.040 to say YouTuber or rather say entrepreneur because there's a 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.760 lot of things I do behind the scenes that you know, 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.400 I don't put in front of a camera. But yeah, 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.640 I totally understood. So what do you what are your 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:26.920 thoughts on that? Like what do you think, like why 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:28.480 do you think that is these days? You think it's 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.600 because of the Internet. Do you think it's because of 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.000 the opportunity that the internet brings or do you think 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:35.840 it has nothing to do with the internet. There's just 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.480 a new way of culture, new way of life. Because 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.640 I don't know, did you probably when you were in 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.680 college you weren't like, Okay, I'm definitely gonna do all 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.280 of these things, you know what I mean? Because at 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.520 all because most people when they're in college, so like, yeah, 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.360 I want to be a doctor, a lawyer, a business 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.360 or a teacher or whatever. You know, So what what 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.840 what do you think is that paradigm shift that probably 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:01.360 occurred within the last decade or so yeah, So, I 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.720 mean I grew up wanting to be a major league 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.080 baseball player. My dad played major league baseball, I played 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.120 college baseball. I wanted to play major league baseball, you 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:13.440 know a little bit of pro ball, and it just 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.800 I I got burned out. But I think that the 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:21.400 competitiveness of that was something that always it was a 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.000 part of me. It didn't need need to be baseball 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.880 for me to be competitive. I think that the shift 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:31.920 happened probably when I was twenty three, um, which was 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.400 ten years ago now, so that would have been two 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.880 thousand and nine when I met when I met my wife. 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:38.760 But it wasn't like I just kind of like came 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.120 into fashion, you know, like I wasn't wearing Louis Baton 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:46.360 and and visam around and stuff like nowadays. But I 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:49.199 was still with it, you know, like I knew what 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.760 was going on. You know, my mom grew up sewing, 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:57.120 so like again, it wasn't like I was some outstanding 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:01.240 outspoken fashion critic or des miner or whatever you may 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.200 have it. But at a younger age, I was more 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:12.560 aware of what went in to design, pattern making, sewing, styling, 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.079 you know, kind of have a foundation in the creative 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.920 realm of fashion, art, et cetera. Because I mean they 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:23.040 all blend together. They always have. Nowadays with technology, it 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:27.640 just seems so much more streamlined together. The paradigm shift 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.080 probably happened in oh nine as far as when like 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:34.760 I'm playing baseball too, Oh wow, I'm gonna really start styling. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:38.080 People that made it further in baseball or other athletes 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.160 are some artists from the Southeast, you know, because my 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.800 dad played for the Braves in Atlanta, grew up with 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.800 a lot of hip hop artists, which is a story 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:49.400 in and of itself. But uh, yeah, I just started 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.439 using the other talents that I had outside of baseball, 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:57.200 like my networking and you know, my style. I always 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.320 came to and left the park with something for shan. 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:04.600 So when I stopped playing baseball, it didn't. It never 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:06.800 stop where people are always asking me like, Yo, where'd 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.480 you get that seavy? Or Yo, where'd you get those shoes? 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:14.960 Or how did you get that so? Um yeah, So 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.360 would you say, um, maybe your want for something that's 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:23.040 like exclusive came from almost the competitiveness from baseball or 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.240 do you think it's always something just you've you've been into. 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:30.280 I think exclusivity was something that I always enjoyed because 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.800 my dad played pro ball. It wasn't something that I 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.360 like gloated in. It started a long time ago, man 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:41.080 like beanie babies, baseball cards. I mean, I remember literally 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.480 selling my baseball car collection. And it's not like I 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.160 sold like, oh yeah, here's just a normal collection. It 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.640 was like I had the baseball back cards and the 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.160 jersey cards and the autograph cars and like the rookie cards, 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:57.960 and it just became like having the collection was always 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:02.600 something that was important to me. Uh. It's cycled through 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.800 so many different things, but something that actually always remained 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:10.120 constant was the wardrobe. Like and when I say remained constant, 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.840 I had cool shoes the whole time. But one year 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.720 I love paintball, so I had all the coolest paintball 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.200 guns and all the gear and the new mask and 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.000 the new goggles, and you know, I might not have 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:26.280 had the newest game system, but I still have the 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:29.199 coolest shoes and the coolest fits to me. And then 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:33.240 the next year I'd probably be all into cars, so 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.400 i'd you know, like whatever with the car, and I 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.520 wouldn't have paintball gear anymore, but I'd still have the 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.200 shoes and the fits that I needed, you know, for school. 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.200 So I guess once I kind of became a little 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.360 bit more successful and had a little bit more opportunity, 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.240 the wardrobe is continue to grow. And that's what I 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.400 remained kind of consistent with, was like, I'm going to 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.920 continue to grow my image. So where do you think 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:01.960 you got an inspiration for like wanting to you know, 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.280 collect sneakers and have like a cool or did you 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.360 ever have like an inspiration to collect sneakers or that 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.640 something more recent? Do you think back then it was 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.319 just more so like oh, these shoes looked dope with 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:15.440 this outfit, rather than like, oh, I'm wearing Jordan's or whatever. 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.160 I think my mom always dressed me nice and it 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.920 made me passion and about making my keeping myself clean, 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.920 you know, like but wasn't But do you think it 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:29.040 was more like when you say clean, was that more 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:32.040 like just like white teas and like polos with skinny 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.079 jeans or just something that it wasn't necessarily any look, 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.320 it was just basically when I say clean, it was like, 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.080 I feel like my image has always been important. It 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.480 wasn't like I'm trying to create a facade of who 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:46.439 I'm not. It's trying to represent myself in the best way, 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.200 which is like totally different. You can look at it 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.079 totally different ways, but it's all the same thing. It's 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.440 like when somebody gets all dressed up and all done 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.280 up and clean and smells get a nice like somebody like, oh, 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.840 they're just making a facade, and then other people like, no, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.840 they're just like making the best representation of themselves. Like 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.960 I look at it is. We're all out here, we're 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:09.680 all imperfect people. But the best image you can present 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.760 yourself with is always what I thought to be one 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.040 of the most important things. You know. Basically what you're 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.520 saying is like you're always into certain things and you'd 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:21.000 always kind of like need the best of the best 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.880 and be able to kind of like what you're saying about, 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:25.880 like the paintball stuff and like the car stuff in 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.839 the cards. Where did that? But you said you always 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.640 looked fresh, um, no matter what you did, So what 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:36.040 do you um? Where do you think? Like the whole 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.840 sneaker collecting side kind of came in obviously, you know 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:40.920 it's an easy bust to podcast, so you know, we 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:42.920 gotta talk a little bit about sneaker. Yeah, for sure, 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:44.800 we got to what do you think was your first 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.520 kind of like shoe? You're like, damn, like this is it? 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:50.199 You know, I love the sneaker and I have to 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.200 get every color or every model or whatever. Like what 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:54.640 what do you think that that was your first one? 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.199 I mean because I know, like just to give you 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:01.160 guys context, um, so you know, like whatever I see him, 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.160 he's either wearing some crazy off whites or some exclusive 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:08.560 Air Forces or Supprise or whatever it might be, or 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.520 literally just a black fair Vans. So fat, what do 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.959 you think? What do you think was facts on the vans? 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.200 Is what I mean? Yeah, And what do you think 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:19.760 was kind of like what made you get into everything? 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:21.520 Was Vans always your thing and then you kind of 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.760 branched out in the sneakers or I mean, I think 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.040 it's a lot of things, you know, like one thing 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.360 that I don't get here get brought up and maybe 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.760 it's just me and I'll just call myself out, like 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.960 it's fun having things other people don't have. Sometimes it's 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:37.480 a talking point. It's it's it's not being a jerk, 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.560 but it's it's it's being like, you know what, man, like, Yo, 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:42.280 did you hear about these? Yeah, I heard about him. 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:43.840 I couldn't get him, you know, I got a cool pair, 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.000 like come check him out, Like, nothing wrong being It's 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:47.760 being the guy that has the piece that your friends 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:51.800 want to see, you know. Um, nothing wrong with I mean, 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:55.040 but style is obviously the epicenter of why I was 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:59.520 doing it. Air Force ones, air Max ones, Jordan's wants 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.160 to A to three. I've grown on me, but air 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:07.040 Air Jordan fours when I was younger, we're like that 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.960 la criminal lacrim. Now when I look at myself, I 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.320 just looked so boxy on me and I and I 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.080 and I don't dismiss that I love that shoe. But yeah, 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:20.120 like air Force ones, air Max ones, there's some shoes 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:21.600 from back in the day. I mean when I say 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.080 my first shoe, uh well, for one of the questions 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.720 that you asked, I would probably like, I mean, one 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.160 of the first ones that possed into my mind is 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.960 literally air Force one white, air Force one white low, 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:36.360 air Force one white, which is like, wow, that's pretty basic, 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.280 but hey, there it is. I'm not gonna I'm not 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.280 even on the front, Like that was my two of 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:44.880 my go toos somewhat accessible to get to still clean. 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:51.240 It mattered, it was relevant with like multiple audiences were 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:55.240 like you passed with the like Crokey. I mean, I 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.280 grew up in the Southeast. I grew up in South Carolina, 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.960 So it's like passed with the guys in the in 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.880 the sorority girls to an extent, but you still passed 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.160 with like the streets a little bit like where you 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.960 could be relevant on not both there's like a line 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.280 draw on the sand, but like on every side, there's 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.320 multiple sides. I would say, like a heater that I 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:18.160 had back in the day was like I mean there 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.160 was an air Max one that was pink and gray 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.080 that Clock came out with way back. I mean this 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:28.880 was a long time ago and early two thousand's I 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.520 was one of my big heaters back in the day. 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.080 There's probably a Jordans four back in the day, like 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.440 a couple of jordan fours that I had that were fire. 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:39.200 I never had like the eminem or anything we can 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.120 I'm like, I can't. I can't stand out and say 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.240 that I had like the four like car Heart or 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.280 Encore or anything crazy like that. But there was a 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.040 couple of drones that I had maybe the lightning cool gray, 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.120 the original cool gray. You know, I'm an old man 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:57.840 now though now though, so it's kind of like when 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.320 I look back, it's like the things that stick to me, 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:06.120 or like just your typical air Force ones and your 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:09.960 standard air Max ones too, man as we're just two 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:13.520 silhouettes that I always vibed with really well totally. I 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:17.320 think air Force ones, like ever since they came out, 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.439 have been a staple and like sneakers, and you know 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.160 a lot of people are are saying that they came back. 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:25.160 I just, you know, a few minutes ago, actually did 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.920 say they came back. They never really left in a way. 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:31.200 But now I feel like it's becoming more and more 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.240 of like a normal thing, you know. But it's funny 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.200 because I used to watch, you know, celebrities talk about 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:38.159 their sneakers and they were always like, yeah, I have 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.800 I have air Force ones. I wear them one time 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.160 and I throw them away, which is the funniest thing ever. 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.640 And it's like the biggest like lex ever because the yeah, 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:48.880 we're in a hundred dollar shoe once and tossed away 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.639 and I have another hundred pairs, but yeah, and they 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.159 never really left. And it's such a timeless shoe. And 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.800 I'm willingly to put my money on the on the 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.920 on this next statement, Like hear me out, guys, their 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.480 forces are gonna be the next big thing next year, 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.400 as bees or the thing this year, and like they're 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.679 gonna kind of slowly start dying out probably with the 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.680 next year. They're never gonna die out. Like the expensive 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.280 ones are still gonna be expensive, but um and really 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.080 hard to get. But I have a feeling that air 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:18.520 forces are just gonna skyrocket next year. Everyone's gonna be 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.440 going crazy for force. Yeah, I agree. Well, so it's 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:25.040 just you know, it's just a shoe that's it's like 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:26.960 it's back like it never left, you know what I mean. 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.280 But um, in a way, it's really gonna explode next year. 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.280 In my opinion, at least, I could be wrong. I've 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.960 I've actually been saying that to some mutual friends of ours. 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:41.160 I feel like Jordans ones been going crazy. I don't 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.719 think they'll ever die off necessarily, but I feel like 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.920 one the first, second, and third place shoe silhouette contenders 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.359 always switched up every now and then, and you know 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.199 you've got the Jordan once and now you got the 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.440 s B craze going for a little bit, for sure. 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.639 The Air Force one's gonna kick in. I'm curious to 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.920 see what what silhouette it goes US two after that. 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:03.080 But I would agree with you. I would think that 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:07.440 Air Forces is something that is going to come very 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:11.760 very hard culturally as far as cultural significance in the 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:16.320 next year. Yeah. No, absolutely, I think if we if 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:17.960 we really broke it down, though, I think from two 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:23.399 thousand fifteen two seventeen, it was all Easy. Everything was 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:27.600 Easy Easy three. I mean there was some sneakers in there. 0:19:27.880 --> 0:19:30.800 There was some sneakers in there, but like, but you 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.520 didn't hear about any of the sneakers. You didn't hear 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:38.840 about really anything anything Nike much. I mean Easy controlled 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.399 the media like and and I And I'm not saying 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:44.720 that like literal, I'm just saying it, like you didn't 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:49.280 really hear much outside of the Easy releases, and you 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:54.600 didn't hear because they're outside of the market, being totally 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:58.840 just crazy uneasies, That's what I'm saying. I think two 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.679 and seventeen was really just like Kanye, that's it. Like 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:04.960 I I the only thing I wore was Adidas during 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:09.160 those three years. I never had worn Adidas previous I 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:11.119 honestly don't think I've ever owned a pair of Adidas 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:13.440 sneakers previous to that. I was always a die hard 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:16.879 Kanye fan, and you know, still I am, by the way, 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.320 but now it's like all Travis Scott and you know, 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:23.560 Jordan's like that's pretty much it. You know, like now 0:20:24.119 --> 0:20:26.800 people are seeing easy releases every now and then, they're 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.600 just so kind of selling out, but they're not as 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:31.120 crazy as they used to be. I think two dozen 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:34.160 fIF two thousand seven teens with for sure yeasies, maybe 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.200 it went from three fifty v ones to seven fifties 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:41.800 to uh, seven hundreds and then I would say no, 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:43.919 I wouldn't even say seven hundred. I'd say V twos. 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:46.080 We're kind of like to take over. But now I 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:47.840 feel like people are kind of getting over him. So 0:20:47.880 --> 0:20:49.520 what do you think was like two thousand eighteen and 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:51.720 two nineteen, like what was the shoe of the year 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:54.320 this year? A lot of people were saying, gosh, I 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:58.399 mean the reinsurgence that that Jordan's Nike Brain came. I 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:01.000 mean there were so many ones that came out the Union, 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:04.679 Jordan's I mean the off whites. We can't forget those. 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:07.600 You know, there's a lot of opinions about it, but 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:10.480 a lot of people were saying the last year, the 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:14.720 sneaker of the year was the Union Jordan one. Everyone 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:17.879 was rooting for that guy. And I mean, honestly, for me, 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:20.200