What's up everybody? It's Joel Puma. You were listening. You were watching the complex sneakers podcast as always. I'm with my two guys first off to my right. Mr. Matt Welpty almost the end of the year, but we're still here giving you still here to my left dressed in all black.

Size the shoes Mr. Brendan done. I think this is the last episode of the year, right? It is the last episode of the year. We're still rolling on full size run. I think the full size run season finale will be next week, but yeah, we're going away for a few weeks here on the complex sneakers podcast.

We'll be back soon enough. That's it. It's been a year guys got to take a couple weeks off here in there. Yeah, holiday season. Make sure you guys binge some episodes that you may have missed. That's what's great about the holiday season. Hopefully you have some days off from work. Hopefully we would be nice. Hopefully you go back through the archive. You guys in the holiday spirit. I did some Christmas shopping this weekend. I think I have almost all of my Christmas shopping done. Yeah, bought a book of poetry, bought a blender. Maybe I shouldn't. Maybe the people in my life, I'm getting these things.

Listen to this. I don't know. Okay. I gotta be careful. How are you all on the Christmas? Not good, but I'll I do last minute, but you have ideas. Yeah, I have ideas. I have ideas. And I started making the conversations, but I'm a little late this year, but I'll do it. I'll be there. Well, I need to go make some things happen. But definitely, I feel like I'm in the Christmas spirit this year. Really? Yeah. I don't know. I think I know I know I've mentioned it many times.

On this show, but big fan of Macy's on 34th Street. Did you go to it? Yeah, I mean, I go all the time. Oh, I didn't know that. I go all the time because it's right next to the train station back to Jersey. But I feel like that's one of the quintessential New York City Christmas places. You walk past and see the window display. Yeah. Go in. You know, you see all the Christmas decorations. Yeah. You watching what Sean Evans. He has a great view of the Macy's parade. Always eating you. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

I don't know if I've ever been to the Macy's at Christmas time. I'm I've not shopped there many times before in my life. And in terms of, you know, being in the Christmas spirit around the building. Are you doing any like gingerbread house making? Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, you're super I have I have not done that. But I have, you know, an ice cream social or how about this? Um, the ice cream in December in Jersey. Yeah, sure. With the little on Christmas. What I want to see you do with the apartment building is decorate the windows. You know the fake snow stuff. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We're kind of like spray it on. You know,

I don't have to put the fake candles in the window. Yeah, what, um, what decorations have you done for the building since you're in the Christmas spirit? That's an excellent question. Yeah, I was just wondering. Yeah, I have it. Come on. What little tinsel maybe? Come on. What? You don't put any decorations up. But I'm still in the Christmas spirit was cranking a big cookies for the tenants was cranking Christmas music all weekend. Okay. Such as such as some that can call some frosty.

Snowman. Did you build a snowman? I mean, there wasn't any snow. No snow just yet. Yeah, Christmas music, you know, in my family, there's one song. I have like a few. My cousin, the donkey. Yeah. So my cousin is Dominic. My uncle, Dom OG, everyone knows, but, you know, one little sore spot. Um, Womanties Dominic, the donkey, the Italian Christmas donkey. They don't talk about this last year. They don't sound familiar. They don't like it. They don't like it. But that's the song that, you know, sometimes won't, you know,

Christmas Eve or whatever they try to, they try to play at my uncle and my cousin. Not because you have a donkey. You guys asked me for Christmas this year. Um, peace. Uh, what's this? Um, finally, some peace in my life. Yeah. Yeah.

So you some self peace on it. What's on your list, Joe? To be honest, candles. I love candles. Yeah, some diptych. Yeah, I like. I'll drop a little, I'll drop a little, um, a little wish list. No, you're going to give you guys a cheat. I'm going to give you guys a cheat code. Oh, right now. The teak wood candle from Bath and Body Works. Not diptych. Nothing crazy. Fancy. I'm already out. It's

best smelling, best smelling candle. What's the most you've spent on a candle? Um, probably a hundred dollars. Can't relate. I did more. I did more, but I have more. How much? I bought one of those big, uh, yeah, you had the big diptych. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You had the, the G easy joint. Um, I had, whatever it's called, I still have it. It's like, I haven't lit it yet. Let me, let me say this. One of the funny things about working in digital media is you get emails.

All the time for people, especially on the holiday time, saying, oh, we'd love for you to include this on your gift guide. If you're working on any gift. Yeah, um, we never really do gift guides like that. But I have to say growing up as a kid in magazines. I would always love a spread like that. A gift. About things. Things to buy complex. You should do it though. Yeah, and the pages. And it was always like the illus snowboard. Like, uh, yeah, a nice empty three player. Yeah, exactly.

The rally was really good at putting those pages together on the website. We did that for years. Really even as recent as maybe like three years ago. Really. Oh, wow. We did. We did a bunch of gift guides. We had like a collective one for the website. I remember having to pick out like a bunch. Like, it was always like the same, uh, sneaker stuff, you know, what's the point of sneaker of the Christmas season?

Putting us on the. Yeah, go, go, go.

Yeah, I would put that on, especially because it's a kind of a Santa colored sneaker. Yeah, we'll get to that.

Crinkle slide down the city chimney. Exactly. Just on the page. Just like design with like it being crooked. Yeah, Christmas is almost here.

And New Year's right after any big plans for New Year's. No, probably small shindig. Are you traveling?

I am. Okay. Anywhere exotic. Unfortunately, no. I appreciate the question because as you know, I'm a man who will pop out to an exotic look. Maybe it's a little winter. You change the climate.

I thought so too, but there were other forces in my life that determined that it was not going to be the case. Okay.

And we'll keep it at that. Well, so you're traveling going to see my folks. New Hampshire. Yep. Help them shovel some snow.

Actually snowed there yesterday. You're going to be shoveling when you're up there. Are they got a snow blower?

We I have to shovel the deck. Uh, but my dad has a snow blower driveway. What about the roof? I mean, you don't shovel the roof.

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