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The Complex Sneakers Podcast

What Were the Best Sneakers of 2021?

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Complex

Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 68 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 trio is guestless as they discuss the best sneakers of 2021. In this last episode of the year, the co-hosts explain the rationale behind Complex's choices for the top-ten sneakers of the year and run through the whole list. They also add in a few of their personal favorites that deviate from the list. At the top of the show, Joe and Brendan recall their recent trips and Welty gives a brief update on superintendent duties.

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0:00.0

What's up, everybody? It's Joel Puma. You were listening. You were watching the Complex

0:05.8

Sneakers podcast as always. I'm with my guys. First to my right, Mr. Matt Welty. It's

0:11.3

like the first mile of a marathon today, right? Yeah, you guys got a busy day. But I'm

0:16.0

glad that you got a new haircut for it. Look, that's a different hairstyle. That's a

0:19.8

different one. That's a different one than you're used to. A lot of hair comments always

0:24.8

week to week about you, but that's a different hairstyle.

0:27.3

Right, in the YouTube comments. But Welty, isn't that a little different? Yeah, I went

0:31.2

high in tight. I went in a skin fade. I went in a, it'd been about two years, but finally

0:37.2

made a trip back to see the Russian barber. Looks different. Looks good. Sorry. Looks

0:43.5

different. Looks good. To my left, of course, Mr. Brendan Dunn. Here I am. How you doing?

0:48.6

I'm all right. I feel like it's been a long time since we had just the three of us. Is

0:51.2

that right? Yes, it's been weeks and weeks. I know, I know people like that. I like, I

0:55.6

like, we'll bring other people in, but we're just going to hang out today. We're just going

0:58.5

to chop it up amongst ourselves. Exactly. That's what we do best, right? Also, I feel like

1:02.9

on one hand, I don't want to be redundant, you know, and like, there's a lot of episodes

1:06.4

we're at the top. We're like, Oh, it's a busy day. But you know what, that's just our

1:09.1

lives. That's what we got. It's reality. That's what you guys got to, that's what we all

1:13.6

got to realize. So busy day, every day is busy. You guys have, you guys got a lot going

1:18.0

on today. Yeah, I just got back from a trip to Mexico. So, you know, it was a good time.

1:22.6

We both got back from trips. I was Mexico. We got to talk about both of these trips. You

1:26.2

go first. Mexico was a good time. I was down there for the House of Vans opening. Okay.

1:31.6

Talk to Steve Vandoren for a while, ran around in tacos. You know, my Spanish is not as

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