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The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Our Wildest Sneaker Press Trip Tales

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Complex

Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The Complex Sneakers Podcast is co-hosted by Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne and Matt Welty. This week the guys talk about their past press trips and how it connected them to their now sneaker industry network and long friendships. Welty tells us the one interview question that made Kendrick Lamar snap at him, Joe La Puma talks meeting Michael Jordan and Brendan Dunne talks watching Ben Baller fighting to get into a VIP lounge area.

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? It's Joel Upuma. You were listening to the Complex Sneakers

0:06.3

podcast. As always I'm with my two guys who I stand with forever, Mr. Matt

0:11.8

Welty. Here we are. And of course my man Brendan Dunn, how we doing?

0:17.0

I feel good. It's been a week. It's been a lot going on. Some controversies, some starts, some cancellations. Some things we're not

0:25.0

going to talk about, some things we are going to talk about. Okay well listen the sun just

0:27.9

came out. It's been a little overcast for the past hour. I'm ready, I got good energy, I got my coffee,

0:32.4

I got my aquapona and we are

0:33.9

ready we're here there's the complex sneakers podcast we also got a book out we all

0:37.4

signed 120 copies go get that for the holiday season we also got full-size

0:41.6

run we still have episodes of that.

0:43.7

Sneaker shopping. Fourth quarter in any year is still the fourth quarter.

0:47.2

We got four more episodes, I think, of sneaker shopping.

0:49.6

So we're still rolling. Don't ever get it twisted.

0:52.8

Yeah I'm finishing signing all of those books in the process.

0:57.4

I think there's eight boxloads of them and I think I'm about...

1:01.1

I just do the little little I do the three letters

1:03.4

J. L. P and Welty how many are you through it didn't take that long though I thought it was

1:07.4

going to be a much bigger task it wasn't no I'm like I'm four bucks I think

1:11.3

there's eight I'm halfway through it's just today is insane.

1:16.7

But big time we're busy we're signing autographs.

1:18.6

What you're saying we're booked and busy?

1:20.3

You guys, wow, you guys have a lot of energy. Just keep me out of the, keep me out of the just keep me out of the keep me out of the all right

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