The Best Back to School Sneakers, Then and Now
The Complex Sneakers Podcast
Complex
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🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 70 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 talk about back to school sneakers, reminisce on the shoes that were popular when they were in high school, and break down how bad RTV requests are when you work in footwear retail. They also leak some exciting Nike shoes that aren’t releasing until 2023. Elsewhere, Joe hits some serious buckets at Got Sole, Welty hits a personal best in the gym, and Brendan reflects on his Hood to Coast run.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everybody? It's Jolup. When you were listening, you were watching the Complex |
| 0:05.2 | Sneakers podcast. As always, I'm with my two guys first off to my right, Mr. Matt Welty. |
| 0:09.8 | I feel like we've all reconnected somehow after adventures, but not really. I don't know why. |
| 0:14.4 | Ah, I don't think I had one. My man to the left did. Lady in the Gramps. |
| 0:18.7 | Well, you sound like that. 10 years run in champions. I don't know if that's true, but that's what we're saying. |
| 0:22.7 | That's what we're saying. He had another gold medal performance at, um, |
| 0:26.0 | good to coach. I love that. Lady in the Gramps. I've been studying. I'm trying out. |
| 0:30.7 | I'm going to try out on the team. It's a very competitive team, Jolup. I don't know if I could. |
| 0:35.4 | We're not that fast, but Mr. Brennan done to my left. That's why. That's why. I don't know. |
| 0:41.1 | I don't know how fragile I feel on some leaks, too. Okay. |
| 0:44.9 | It's a summer. Yeah, I was going to say gold medal red nose. Yeah, exactly. Okay, |
| 0:52.0 | you bring me up and you bring me down. Um, this is one of the rare moments where you know, |
| 0:57.2 | a lot of times I'll be like, Oh, if you're listening to the, to the audio, go to the YouTube. |
| 1:01.1 | So you can see if you're watching the YouTube turn it off so you can't see my blistered red face. |
| 1:05.4 | I don't think it looks. I was scorched. I was scorched out there in the seaside beach. For |
| 1:09.7 | people don't know, this is the Hood to Coast relay, 199 miles from the mother of all relays. |
| 1:14.3 | You're right. It's a 10. How, how does it work? There's like 12 people on the team, two vans, |
| 1:20.0 | tackle in three legs. Does it go overnight? Oh, yeah. And you all run one leg. Each person runs three legs. |
| 1:26.8 | You were the anger. Oh, yeah, I was. So you ended. You crossed the fit. It wasn't. And then I hopped |
| 1:30.8 | right in the Pacific Ocean. The land where I come from. You said it's like five miles or something |
| 1:35.8 | like that. Each leg on average, maybe, maybe five or six. Yeah. So I think I ran 17 miles over |
| 1:41.3 | the course of three legs. And then we beat our time from last year. Okay. That's a PB in that. |
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