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The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Matt From Corporate on Resellers, Backdooring, and Fair Sneaker Releases”

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Complex

Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 71 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 Matt Tomamichel, who owns the Ohio-based sneaker boutique Corporate. Tomamichel discusses the realities of the sneaker business—from convincing a brand to let you sell their shoes to being put on credit hold by Nike to why backdooring happens. Also Tomamichel talks about how to make sneaker releases fair and hints at an upcoming Corporate sneaker collab.

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0:00.0

What's up everybody it's Joel Puma you were listening you were watching the

0:04.6

Complex Sneakers podcast as always I'm joined by my two friends my two co-hosts

0:08.8

first off to my right Mr. Matt Welty cold rainy day miserable weather miserable

0:15.8

weather left the jacket on inside because that's how bad it is out him

0:21.3

my left hat down low I love this weather you really yeah Mr. Brendan Donne

0:30.0

always ready for any conditions all conditions I was waiting for the all the

0:35.7

Pacific Northwest isms just a world you can imagine them yeah fill in the blank

0:40.4

so home yeah I was I was showing a little bit of restraint but yeah you're

0:44.2

you're exactly right that's where my where my love for these kind of clients

0:48.3

comes from this is normal for you I'm right at home okay what's the go-to

0:53.1

rain shoe for me yeah actually this is an embarrassing thing to even confront

0:58.7

but it's the type of thing I think about a lot where it's raining and you're

1:03.2

like oh what sneakers am I gonna wear and then you realize you don't really

1:05.9

have a go-to one even though you have hundreds of pairs of sneakers and you

1:09.9

don't have the right one for just a little bit of rain but I'm well I don't

1:15.2

want to get ahead of it but we could should we talk about the shoes are

1:17.2

rain now or yeah oh quick I mean well because he asked and it's raining go

1:22.2

for it this has been one that I will wear in the rain from time to time the

1:25.7

Iraq Adidas ZX 8000 because I have some Gore-Tex layering on it oh you're good

1:30.5

you're prepared yeah I got the membrane on there so I'm ready to go

1:33.8

scuba diving if need be in the memory I like this we usually don't do this

1:40.3

this early but why not thunder force for me a little hat tip to our guest who's

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