Month: July 2021

First off, we’re just gonna come out and admit that we don’t know what the fuck is going on with our recordings. This week, Eddie has this weird echo. I (Bill), had to join in via my phone and airpods, so I sound different, and Joe came in crystal clear, even when he thought he was muted, lol! Sorry. We suck. We know it. This was supposed to be the “collaboration wishlist” episode, but we got majorly side tracked. We went down a rabbit hole of sorts, talking about our earliest memories of buying sneakers, mainly Nike SB, cause that’s where we came from. We also discussed more things we just don’t understand about the mainstream sneaker culture, and our own experiences at the time. Some of y’all were there as well, so enjoy a little bit of Nike talk, but remember, “This Ain’t Nike Talk!”

So, this is the last week for 31 Days of Vans, so we will have to start finding something new to open the show with. Help us come up with some topics! We discussed the Civilist Skate Sk8-Low that came out. Bill shared his recent XXL Bedwin Hoodie come-up, and pleaded that Vault stockists order more XXL’s in all the Vault apparel, cause it seems to disappear first. Eddie showed his pair of Bedwin & the Heartbreakers Multi-color Authentic. The Metallica pack came and went, and seem to have all ended up on eBay. No shocker there. Bill also shared a Vans Customs Skate Old Skool that he made, in the classic STV Navy colorway, but adding a few checkerboard graphics to it.

We gave a shop shout-out to Eddie’s home state of Tennessee’s first Vault retailer, Rooted, who carry a bunch of the high fashion labels that are known today.

Lastly, we remind you all that there will be no episode this coming Thursday, as we’ll be meeting up for a live podcast at Blends Costa Mesa, for a Waffle Heads Summit on Saturday August 7th at 3PM, featuring Clayton (@wearingwaffles), Eddie (@strictlywaffles), Bill (@djguamstyles @underthepalms), Dave (@nu_dav), and a bunch more of our homies. Please come down and chop it up with us!

You can drop in for the live Twitch stream, every Thursday (10PM CDT / 8PM PDT), or you can get caught up later on, by viewing us on our Youtube channel. Audio formats can be found on Apple podcasts, Spotify, and Anchor.

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This is the Band Collabs episode.  After a brief discussion on Ep.3 about band collabs, and just bands in general, we decided to dedicate pretty much an entire episode to some of our favorite past band collaborations with Vans, including the likes of Bad Religion, H2O, Iron Maiden, Sublime, Descendants, Public Enemy, and Bad Brains just to name a few.  We talked about Nice Kicks’ re-release of some major band collabs for Ausin, TX’s SXSW festival back in 2012, and then Vans doing it again in 2014.

We talk about the recent SE Bikes shoe release, and still want to know where the BMX bikes are at?  We’re waiting!  We’re also patiently waiting for the Bedwin & the Heartbreakers Vault collab to officially drop, even though some shops have been fucking up and releasing them early!  Also, did you know that there were only 400 pairs made of the “31 Days of Vans” Half Cab?

Finally, we tried out a new topic this episode, where we shared a few steals we came across over on Proper’s website.  We’ll try to do this more, as we come across more TAE-worthy deals.  This is a part of any great collecting community!

Don’t forget, next week we won’t be doing a Thursday stream, as we’ll be meeting up live in person, on Saturday August 7th around 3PM PDT, at Blends Costa Mesa, for a Waffleheads summit, including some of our closest Vans fam.  Expect Clayton (@wearingwaffles), Eddie (@strictlywaffles), and a bunch of others to be hanging out, and chopping it up about Vans.  There may be an exclusive reveal of an upcoming shoe as well, so who knows!  Tune in.  We may have a few goodies to hand out, as well as some tees.  Who knows!

You can drop in for the live Twitch stream, every Thursday (10PM CDT / 8PM PDT), or you can get caught up later on, by viewing us on our Youtube channel.  Audio formats can be found on Apple podcasts, Spotify, and Anchor.

All views and opinions are strictly our own, and not affiliated with anything. If we offend any of you, just know that it wasn’t personal, and we love everyone and everything. Don’t take life so seriously, and that includes us.

Tonight, we start out with a little bit of technical work. The last episodes had Bill and Joey sounding a little low, but I think we’ve figured it out!

The 31 Days of Vans Skate Half Cab was the first topic of discussion. Everyone agrees that these were awesome, and such a great surprise. We then get into some favorite picks for #31daysofvans, which transitioned into talking about band or artist collabs we’d like to see. That then led into some stories about the punk rock scene, and how sneakers tied into that. Eddie and Joey can talk an entire episode about that stuff. Then a little bit of baseball talk came up, inspired by Eddie’s Vault x Bodega x Boston Red Sox Authentics he posted for 31 Days, which then got us reminiscing about the Vault x MLB collab back in 2010.

Upcoming release talks included the Sole Classics “Carmen 2” DIY Authentic, Christopher Martin & Olivia Krause Old Skool, the Taka TH Style 47 LX, Bedwin & the Heartbreakers collection, the Dime Wayvee, and the Patta x Vans Vault collection.

We finished with a topic that Daniel Chow (akamedaniel) brought up in Strictly Waffles Facebook group, in regards to Hot Rod not carrying Vaults anymore. There was quite a bit of opinions in the thread, so we decided to speak on it, respectfully, from our personal points of view, based on our own experiences and from what others have come to us with, privately.

Lastly, we announced we will be hosting a Waffleheads meetup at Blends Costa Mesa on Saturday August 7th, in the afternoon. Expect to hang with Eddie (@strictlywaffles), Bill (@underthepalms), Clayton (@wearingwaffles), Dave (@nu_dav), Daniel (@akamedaniel), and many more of your usual Vans suspects!

You can drop in for the live Twitch stream, every Thursday (10PM CDT / 8PM PDT), or you can get caught up later on, by viewing us on our Youtube channel.

All views and opinions are strictly our own, and not affiliated with anything. If we offend any of you, just know that it wasn’t personal, and we love everyone and everything. Don’t take life so seriously, and that includes us.

We start off with a little bit of craft beer talk, and Joey’s connection to that industry. Then we dive into #31daysofvans, and feature a few cool posts, which gets us talking about some past cool releases, like the PBR Vans, and the Disney collection. New releases for the week, include the Patta Black Cats, Madhappy’s 2nd release, A$AP Rocky Mules, and a few others. Talked about the Musicians Wanted contest. Talked a little shit about SNKRS app and their Exclusive Access criteria.  Did some free promo for some ridiculous eBay sellers. Had some good interaction with the live chat stream as well. Thanks to our 14 viewers, lol!

You can drop in for the live Twitch stream, every Thursday (10PM CDT / 8PM PDT), or you can get caught up later on, by viewing us on our Youtube channel.

All views and opinions are strictly our own, and not affiliated with anything. If we offend any of you, just know that it wasn’t personal, and we love everyone and everything. Don’t take life so seriously, and that includes us.