What's up everybody? It's Joe Lupuma. You were listening. You were watching the Complex Sneakers podcast. As always, I'm joined by my one co-host today.

Not a friend, but just a co-host. And a friend. To my right, Mr. Matt Welty. We're here. There's only two of us.

Mr. Upscale Vandal isandal is sick last episode he powered through

but peek behind the curtain we're shooting two episodes this week we have a very special guest

yeah you may you may have you figured this one out okay what are we we being little homers to

the guest the guest pulled up no these are just great shoes and i feel like you You figured this one out? Okay. What are we, are we being a little homer's tip?

The guest pulled up. No, these are just great shoes and I feel like you got to wear them if you got good shoes. You got a lot of compliments on a video I did about the Jordan 4, Black Cats. A lot of people were commenting about these shoes. The hand-me-downs, Joe Fresh Goods, New Balance. You wore them two days in a row. What does that tell you?

You like the shoes.

Okay.

Wow. Hand me downs, Joe Fresh Goods, new balance? You wore him two days in a row. What does that tell you? You like the shoes. Okay. Wow, groundbreaking stuff. But upscale Vandal sending him our best wishes. He's a little sick. He will be back for the next episode. Yes. All right, sneaker. Look at us. Let's see. Is this a tryout? If we could do it, what are you? You are, okay, who are you? Are you like my, um, Guillermo if I'm Jimmy Kimmel or what? I feel like we're like the odd couple where it's like two people that are going to argue with each other. Or maybe agree on stuff, but there's going to be a little. Do we do that in real life? Yes. Yeah, sometimes I have to, right?

We were in a, I remember we were in a meeting a couple weeks ago. We were arguing it out about something. What I say? No, but the looks on everyone else faces around us. Oh, yes. I love that. They were like. Yes. They thought that we would be, you were going to like not fight, but they weren't used to people talking to each other like that That meeting I love that meeting and I was like after it. I was like you know that like that's just how the relationship is but you're like I don't want to do this You're like well I want to do the video and you're like well I don't care and I'm like well I'm gonna stand on it anyways and everyone else is just us. I know. There's like eight people in the room and I felt like no. I was like just so you know, like this is just a normal occurrence. But yeah, I actually like meetings like that, especially when you know that neither side is going to get offended. Yeah. But listen, two person podcasts, not really though. We have Joe Fresh Goods on the podcast. I'm excited about this. It's also a friend of ours too, so we actually do have two friends here today. Yeah, the two-seat setup, though, feels a little. Feels a little close. Yeah. Feels like we need a, it feels like we need a table between us, like Rogan style or something. We need something. We may not be fully prepared if this you know yeah for this iteration but let's get to some sneaker news where do you want

to start off with well you had a big night so this so like we said we're shooting this a week in

advance but we're talking about yes the week prior yes You had a big night this week. Yes. Tuesday night. Yeah. Tuesday night. Must be nice. You know what they say? Like I've only sat courtside a couple times, but they say you're on the wood. Okay? Yeah. So Tuesday night. Like a trip a referee? I could have, but I didn't. Come on. No Larry David, Shaquille O'Neal moment here. But Tuesday night, Kith City Edition, Ronnie designed the court. Yeah. Me and Ronnie sat court side and... First look. Eyeball emojis. Yes, first look. Very obscure. I'm being cagey with the information. I'm going to just say it at the top. I'm being KG with the information. You gonna just say it at the top i'm being cagey with the information you had some sneakers on feet i did air max air max 95 kith you saw it you saw it so i really like the shoe i'm bias i can admit that off the top but everyone has has a bias. Who cares? I think they look really good.

They would actually match with this alpha right now. Are you trying to send a message? I don't know. But yeah, they look really good. They look even better in person. There's also some Easter eggs that you can't. I can't say it. Yes. But all I'm going to tell you people, and this is being very vague, if you saw the other

side of that chew, all the people hating it on the internet would just go.

Oh, wow.

Do we got to zoom in on that?

Be like the koala.

Wow.

But yeah, it was very cool.

Like, it felt like, you know, it kind of felt like a first look debut. And you're the Air Max 95 guy. Yeah. But it was, it was cool to sit court side, John Moran. Also, me and Ronnie were talking about it. John Moran's Jha Threes look really good on court. Yeah. And he also like, I think he painted the A on it for the MSG edition.

But like we were talking about it, those shoes look really, really good.

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