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The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Aleali May Talks Her Air Jordan Journey

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Complex

Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The Complex Sneakers Podcast is co-hosted by Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne and Matt Welty. This week the guys speak to Aleali May, the second woman to design an Air Jordan and the first woman to ever design a Jordan 1. Aleali takes us back to the beginning of her career, shares the moment she met Michael Jordan, gives an early sneak peak of her upcoming Air Jordan sneaker release and so much more.

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0:00.0

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination, not a car in the world, as you simply lean back.

0:17.0

And before you know it, you're there.

0:20.0

This is how travel should feel, and on our trains, it does.

0:25.0

Avanti West Coast, feel good, travel.

0:34.0

What's up, everybody? It's Joel LaPouma.

0:36.0

Are you listening to the Complex Sneakers podcast?

0:38.0

As always, I'm with my guys. First off, Mr. Matt Welty.

0:41.0

It's a spicy one today.

0:43.0

You could see he's already excited.

0:45.0

And we got a chuckle from my other co-host, Mr. Brendan Dunn.

0:49.0

Just happy to be here. How's everybody feeling?

0:51.0

Man, has it been a week already? And it's only Tuesday.

0:54.0

You guys are going to hear this Friday morning, but it's only Tuesday. I feel like it is Friday.

0:58.0

And what a week it's been. I don't know where we want to start.

1:02.0

I know where we want to start, where we're going to start.

1:04.0

A big, big new story and sneakers and Dunn.

1:08.0

I was talking to you over the weekend and we saw this thing bubbling up and bubbling up.

1:13.0

And I shot an episode with Lil Nas X Thursday.

1:17.0

And then during the weekend, you had an investigative report,

1:23.0

not an interview, an interview.

1:25.0

Yeah, so Joe, the funny thing about this thing was both you and I had our content locked and ready to go.

1:30.0

I had interviewed the people at Mischief last week about the Satan Sneakers before they leaked online.

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