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The Complex Sneakers Podcast

How Rick Williams Went From Burn Rubber to Ninja’s Sneaker Whisperer

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Complex

Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Complex Sneakers Podcast is co-hosted by Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne and Matt Welty. This week they have on Rick Williams, the co-owner of Burn Rubber. They get into the early days of the store, working with mega-gamer Ninja, and what its like to share a city with Danny Brown.

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0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again.

0:16.5

Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:27.0

What's up everybody? It's Joelapuma. You're listening to the Complex Snickers Podcast, the Christmas, the Merry Christmas Edition. As always, I have my two guys. First off, Mr.

0:31.8

Matt Welty. Happy Holidays. It's been a fun past couple hours.

0:37.0

Okay, and of course my man Brendan Dunn, he brought the energy, my other co-host didn't bring the energy but we're going to try to get him back

0:46.4

Yeah, okay, we'll get to what you have I'm letting the jingle bells ring. I'm sipping on some egg nog I'm checking to see if

0:53.2

Santa left anything special for me underneath that tree or you know however you

0:56.8

celebrate that's good what's your favorite Christmas song we got the coquito

0:59.6

flowing the egg nog for me.

1:03.0

Favorite Christmas song.

1:04.0

That's a tough one, wealthy.

1:06.0

There's a joke in my family, my Uncle Dom, so they call the Dominic, the donkey song.

1:10.6

Did you ever hear that?

1:11.4

The Italian Christmas donkey.

1:12.4

Oh, yeah. Not sure, not sure if he likes that one that much but yeah Dominic the donkey

1:16.8

I actually have multiple family members named Dom and no I'm not gonna sing it

1:21.6

but the Italian Christmas

1:23.0

Donkey. It's the holiday season Joe. It's not my thing. You would talk about me not bringing the energy and you can't even bring us some

1:28.0

yule tied spirit for this dom the donkey song? We were hitting that little oozy

1:31.6

verd pop-hunter.

1:36.7

All right. And Matthew J. Welty tried to get us to cut it off. Yeah. I think he's a little stress. What do you?

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