The Truth Behind Reselling Sneakers In 2025

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Complex

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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On the final episode of 2025 of the Complex Sneakers Podcast, co-hosts Joe La Puma, Matt Welty, and Upscale Vandal are joined by sneaker reseller Sole Street, Andre Arias, to talk about the current state of sneaker resale, if resellers are down bad, and the glory days of reselling sneakers. They also talk about Jeff Staple throwing fake Pigeon Dunks on a traffic light, Jerry Lorenzo leaving Adidas, and the Air Jordan 14s coming back.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody, buddy? It's Joe Lupo. You were listening. You're watching the Complex Sneakers podcast. As always, I'm joined by my two co-hosts, my two friends, to my right.
0:13.8	Brain early. Mr. Matt Welty. Ripping a Red Bull. Oh, wow. Still worked out. That's what's in your cup? Yeah. Okay. I may need one.
0:21.3	I went out last night.
0:22.3	I went out last night.
0:23.3	In a town?
0:24.1	Yeah.
0:24.6	Whoa.
0:39.3	To my left. Mr. Upscale Vandal? I'm switching. I got the well-tee special one with the caffeine. Okay. You got to go for it. All right. full of surprises today some sneaker news to get to what do we have on the docket today? We have Jeff Staples throwing a sketchy pair of pigeons up on a wire. Okay. I mean, we talk, I got to talk about Fear of God and Adidas. Yeah, ARIA's breaking news. Splitting, splitting ways. Absolutely. And of course, we have a big guest today. We've been talking about resale culture from kind of afar, but we have someone to break
0:57.8	it down who is actually a reseller who's been doing this for years and years.
1:01.5	And of course, this episode is brought to you by the Lego Group, build together, race together
1:05.3	with the Lego Group's range of racing vehicles.
1:08.8	The last episode of 2025 for the podcast for the podcast yep wow what a year flew by flew by
1:16.1	what a year you think this year flew by well my year's not over unfortunately i'll be out there
1:23.0	this weekend still selling ass no no, no, I can't.
1:28.8	I got another shoot.
1:30.8	I got another shoot.
1:32.1	So my year isn't over yet, but flew by.
1:35.5	No, it didn't fly by.
1:38.1	I don't know.
1:38.7	I'm trying to think.
1:39.5	I feel like the second half flew by for me.
1:41.5	First half of the year was slow grind and then second half of the year it was like
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