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The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Debating This Summer's Biggest Sneaker

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Complex

Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Complex Sneakers Podcast is co-hosted by Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne, and Matt Welty. In this week’s episode, it’s just the three guys debating their pick for the sneaker of the summer for 2021. Dunne makes a case for Nike Dunks, as a whole, being his choice, while Joe brings up why the Travis Scott Jordan 1s were a force to be reckoned with. Welty sides with Dunne, but zooms in on Virgil Abloh’s the 50 project. Joe Freshgood’s New Balances and more are discussed this week, too.


EPISODE CHAPTERS / TIME STAMPS:

00:00 - Start of show. 

05:00 - JLP talks WWE smackdown event and the wrestling outfits he saw. 

10:00 - Brendan Dunne talks traveling for college football games and the flight hookup he got. 

15:00 - Welty talks a BIG package he got that got caught in customs. 

18:27 - Joe introduces the Sneaker Giveaway of the Week. 

26:00 - Topic of the week, this summer's biggest sneaker! 

30:00 - Welty lets out his frustrations about the "Un-Tiffany" dunk. 

35:33 - Welty talks New Balance 550 possibly being the sneaker of the summer??

40:00 - Brendan talks Lightning Jordan 4s, possibly his sneaker of the summer. 

45:00 - JLP talks about what he wore a lot this summer. 

50:00 - Welty talks his certified choice for biggest sneaker moment of the summer.

55:00 - Brendan talks about his StockX resell failure. 

1:00:00 - JLP talks his Slam City Dunks falling apart on Sneaker Shopping shoot. 

1:03:21 - End of episode. 


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0:00.0

What's up, everybody? It's Joe LaPouma. You were listening. You were watching the complex

0:06.3

sneakers podcast. As always with my guy, Mr. Matt Welty, feel like a thousand things

0:10.8

have transpired since we've shot this last. Right? Yeah. A lot has happened in the last

0:15.1

eight minutes, including, including a call from premium, which is always interesting.

0:19.9

And my man back from his alma mater. Yeah. Well, from the game. I wasn't. Oh, you didn't

0:25.1

go. Oh, from the game. He went. We were on the road, baby. We were on the road, but

0:29.5

he still held it down. We felt cozy though. I felt right at home. I felt right at home.

0:34.4

They call it the horseshoe. I was the shoe man and the shoe stadium took a shot in the

0:39.4

Instagram caption. I saw the lightings on Brenda Dunn is back in New York. And Oregon

0:44.8

is back. Oregon is back. Big upset. Back on top. Big upset. Number four right now.

0:49.6

Safe to say it's the return of the quack. I love that. I love that. Oregon football at Ohio

0:56.2

state this past weekend. Your boy was in the building. I was all over Columbus. And

1:00.1

you know what guys? We get a lot of love in Columbus. Do we? Yeah. A lot of fans of

1:04.0

the complex sneakers podcast out there. A lot of full size run fans. Shout out to my

1:07.2

guy Max who saw me in the streets. I hope you make it to Oregon. Went to Deante Johnson's

1:13.1

place. Soul classics. Oh, yeah. Shout out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of places up in down

1:19.0

high street. The heat archive. I think was another one of them. But yeah, we got a lot

1:22.8

of fans out there. So once we get this nationwide tour popping off nationwide, I saw the nationwide

1:27.3

building in Columbus. We're stopping in Columbus. What would you eat in Ohio? Oh, my goodness.

1:32.2

I'm serious about this. Um, I definitely feel like I need to go on like a salad cleanse

1:37.9

for a good four or five days because I have to hefty, hefty, uh, meats. Yeah. Being

1:42.3

in Columbus, Ohio, it was a lot of burgers, a lot of grilled food, a lot of fried food.

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