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The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Langston Galloway on NBA Sneaker Deals, Camping Out, and Making His Own Shoes

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Complex

Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 77 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're joined by the NBA's Langston Galloway to talk about starting his own sneaker brand, his custom sneakers that made it to the Hall of Fame, how he used to camp out for sneakers, and how Chris Paul gave him free shoes, and more.



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0:00.0

Hey, here's a quick PSA just so you know, we actually recorded this episode last week

0:04.4

before we recorded the episode that you heard last week, so

0:07.7

the order of them is a little bit wonky and we may reference things that already happen,

0:11.9

but we just wanted to give you a heads up before you listen to this episode.

0:18.3

What's up everybody? It's Joel LaPouma. You were listening. You were watching the Complex

0:21.4

Sneakers podcast. As always, I'm joined by my two friends, my co-hosts, to my right. Mr. Matt Welty.

0:27.5

We are here early, right? Early morning, got off a couple bad takes off camera already,

0:32.7

but that's okay. I think the holdup over time. Okay, to my left, Mr. Brendan Dunn, how we doing?

0:39.5

I'm okay. I was a little late to the shoot this morning. Yeah, don't let it happen again, okay?

0:44.3

I just had to steam my shirt out. Yo, you got a Brooks Brothers? This is Jon, thank you.

0:48.9

Oh, look at it. He's more to this week. Jon, I say more that are you more the Jon guy?

0:56.0

Then him or in general. Brendan's the Jon guy. I thought it was a Tom Sacks guy.

1:01.1

Yeah, you can't make up a new guy for me to be honest. Well, I feel like if you take the

1:06.1

the Venn diagram of Tom Sacks guy in Jon guy, there's a lot of overlap in the middle on that.

1:14.9

And I'm him, you're saying? What would you say that? What would you say to the...

1:19.2

Sneaking that in. What would you say? So there's the part of the on the Venn diagram, right?

1:25.9

Tell me about the Venn diagram. So the Venn diagram you have. What is the circle? What does the

1:29.5

circle say? Tom Sacks guy. Jon guy. Okay. What parts of those things are mutually exclusive?

1:39.6

You're the one making it. What do you think? What do you think parts of the Jon guy is that

1:45.4

isn't the Tom Sacks guy and vice versa? I don't know. I don't have an answer for that.

1:52.3

To where I don't know. I don't have an answer for that. I mean, the Kionos that you were?

1:57.1

I don't know. I didn't know if there was like certain characteristics of someone who's a Tom Sacks guy

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