What's up everybody? It's Joe Lupo. You were listening. You were watching the Complex

Sneakers podcast. Looking a little different. I'm not with my guys in studio. I'm kind of in this

60 minutes confessional vibe, but of course straight to my left on screen. Mr. Matt Welty.

We're here. And to my right, Mr.

Upscale Vandal, my two friends, how we doing? We're going to hold you down. We're going to hold

you down in town while you going, my G. It looks like you're somewhere real expensive. I ain't

going to lie. The background's looking way, way out of our budget. Must be nice. No, I think this

was Dave Matthews presidential suite

actually for real we were gonna do it out of studio and then dame matthews was like oh i got some

extra room but here we are you know uh fourth quarter brings a lot of travel so we had to do this

one remote but we have a big guest today. I'm pumped.

Wasn't missing this one.

Yeah, for sure.

What do we got today on the docket?

I saw some sneaker videos from store owners go viral.

Matt Welty commenting did 140 characters and made news on the state of reselling culture.

Going viral.

Conversation, conversation that keeps coming up that won't go away. But yeah, I think, you know, do you want to start with that viral video? A lot of people had takes on it, the store owner being like the sneaker resale shops died overnight or the sneaker market died overnight. Yeah, I mean, it's really funny. funny it just like it's this odd thing where it takes me back where I, it was a reminder that I totally forgot that for the past like 10 years of my life, people knew me as the person

who asked people if they resold sneakers.

And then I had a comment on the resale game.

You know, we've talked endlessly, endlessly I feel like about these fly-by-night

resale shops I know Joe you've had to visit some ones in the past and you're like some are

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