Scruffy Lamp with adidas Spezial’s Gary Aspden

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🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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This episode is made possible by C.P. Company in celebration of their 50th anniversary. Check out all their collaborations and special products: https://50.cpcompany.com

Oi! This week, the lads are kicking off their UK tour with none other than brand consultant and chief curator of adidas Spezial, Gary Aspden. Gary was kind enough to host his new mates in his hometown and site of C.P. Company’s CINQUANTA exhibition, Darwen, Lancashire for a chat about what to wear to the pub, sneakerheads vs. sneaker culture, fixing what’s broken, honoring football fans and casuals, adidas Spezial’s cult following, why working with C.P. Company just makes sense, achieving hometown hero status, being a cool dad, British style icons, his personal archive, all time grails, Northern slang and much more on this begrudgingly charmed episode of The Only Podcast That Matters™.

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0:00.0	This is Jon and Hill and you're listening to the only podcast that matters.
0:19.0	Vrogan, we are joined by the Adidas Admiral, native of Darwin and author of On the Origin of Speziol,
0:24.5	the trainer Titan, the CREP Kaiser, the Don Dada of Bedstock, Roger of Reference, the archive king,
0:30.0	the matchmaking Mara, Trabs from Elads, the Gumsoul Geeser, the King of Casuals, the
0:34.7	asset house head honcho, founder of Brain Consulting Agency Darwin Design and Chief Curator of Adidas
0:40.5	Speziol, Gary Aspen, Gary, how are you?
0:42.5	I'm doing pretty good. I'm a little bit worried about the King of Casuals tightly.
0:46.5	Oh, no, no. There's a lot of people better qualified for that style than I am.
0:51.5	Who is your King of Casuals if you had to annoy someone?
0:55.5	A guy called Derek Turnbull from Blackburn. We're just ingering eggs, right?
1:00.5	What's Derek up to now? What's Derek up to?
1:02.5	Derek Turnbull, I think works, fitting people's alarms at their houses because he's an expert in security.
1:08.5	He was in head-to-tock CP company.
1:10.5	He was at the private view last night and I actually introduced him to Paul Harvey and that was quite an interesting conversation here.
1:18.5	He was the first person I saw wearing the Millie jacket back in the, probably around 1989,
1:25.5	which he'd procured on one of his many, many trips over to Switzerland.
1:30.5	A massive act of adjoining.
1:32.5	A massive, of acquiring things.
1:34.5	Yeah, well, it got to a stage in the early 90s where if you were under the age of 25 and you had a Blackburn passport
1:40.5	and you were coming into Manchester airport from Switzerland, you were getting pulled over because it was such a big subculture here.
1:47.5	A working class kid's traveling to Switzerland, Austria and Germany, basically for Adidas trainers and designer called
1:57.5	Just to hunt down the johns.
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