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The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Jeff Staple Talks the Pigeon Dunk, Warren Lotas, and Turning Down Nike

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Complex

Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 86 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 are joined by Jeff Staple, a sneaker and streetwear designer who has worked with Nike, New Balance, Tag Heuer, and whose brand is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Staple talks about his legendary Nike Pigeon Dunk SB, turning down a job offer from Nike, the current NFT space as it relates to sneakers, and more. Also the cohosts talk about StockX vs Nike and how tough it will be to get the Louis Vuitton Air Force 1.

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody? It's Joe from Complex. You were listening. You were watching the Complex

0:05.8

sneakers podcast. As always, I'm with my two guys, my two friends. First off, Mr. Matt

0:10.9

Welty. Here we are. Brought the legs out today. Yeah. 80 degrees in New York City.

0:15.1

Skies out, thighs out. Okay. Didn't waste a second to my left grinning from ear to ear

0:20.6

as usual. It's either an innocent grin or a mischievous grin. No. Okay. Mr. regular

0:28.4

grin. All right. Just a regular grin. You never know how we doing. I feel all right.

0:32.9

What's going on, guys? Some things are going on, but when you listen to this, it may feel

0:36.5

like they're going on in the past. Yes. We're a little low. Let's just do this PSA.

0:40.5

Okay. We've been recording a lot of these episodes before the fact and holding them

0:44.2

because we've had some great guests lined up. So if you hear us talk about certain stuff

0:47.5

this week, no, we recorded this a week in advance or 10 days in advance or something.

0:51.8

And we'll talk here about some stuff we missed on past episodes because we had to, you

0:55.4

know, it's, it's been a lot going on. Yep. By the way, one thing I want to mention that

1:01.0

we missed, and this is even further back than this is our co-host, Matt Welty's birthday.

1:05.6

Exactly. Matt Welty kept his birthday on the low, told us after, told us after, said

1:10.8

it got too crazy. I get it. The birthday wishes, you know, global superstar. That's what

1:14.9

happens. But sometimes, you know, you like a little bit of peace and quiet on the day

1:20.1

and that's not a shatter. You're not the type to repost every IG story wishing you

1:26.0

a happy birthday. No, I just like kind of, it's like if it's your, if it's your one day,

1:29.8

yeah, you know, talk to the, for your birthday, you don't need to do a whole social media

1:33.3

campaign. No, you know, it's like talk to the, thanks, talk to the few people close to

1:39.1

you. Like it's like the people, you know, that are going to know or whatever they are going

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