Month: August 2021

We start off tonight’s episode with Bill spilling half his Belching Beaver x Deftones “Phantom Bride” IPA while opening it, which sparked a quick discussion about everyone’s favorite Deftones song, while Bill cleaned up his spill. Then a quick discussion on what hats we were wearing.

Shoe releases for this week include the wild and out of left field, Vault Boot Skoot LX, and we give our “Old Head” opinions on it. Blends and Born-Free are back again for 2021, but the details are still vague. Blends posted up a teaser, then took it down, then put up another one. Rumors are that it’s the same shoe as last year, but we will know soon. We went down the list of past Born-Free Vans. The SE Bikes collab release was a little messy, and needed to be addressed.

Following up with last week’s collaboration episode, and our wish to see a The Hundreds shoe, Eddie reached out to Bobby Hundreds, and we got a surprising, and definitely not expected response in regards to that. Basically, we’ll probably never see a Vans x TH shoe. We talk about Tony Hawk’s new edgy collab with Liquid Death, as well as his Vert Alert skate jam in Utah.

More Old Head talk, but we assure you that “This Ain’t Nike Talk”. We are confused about eBay’s TopStar sneaker buying program, and we want answers! Bill had a conference call with the Vans Family team, and wasn’t allowed to say much, but did confirm that there will be another #31DAYSOFVANS shoe for next year. We talk about our wishes of possibly a Vans-hosted gathering for the wrap-up as well. That segued nicely into a topic about Vans accessories and merch, and Bill shared a few of his pieces, including the latest Vans Fam luggage tag, the vintage Vans POGS, a Vans x Civilist espresso cup and saucer, and an unreleased Greg Hunt promo postcard book from Vans Syndicate. Whether they were from the Vans Family program, through friends and family, officially released, or not. We will make this a regular recurring topic. We’ve been collecting this shit for years.

Lastly, we give a shout-out to our boy Scotty D, and his episode of “Meet the Vans Fam” with Clayton @wearingwaffles. We learned a lot of stuff we never knew about Scotty, and we’ve been friends for over 10 years lol. We also give major props to Clayton, for doing something original, and staying authentic. He definitely passes the vibe check and is invited to the cook-out!

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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’s episode was fun.  Started out with a little bit of new releases, including the Vault x Aries collection, and how wild that pack is.  Other releases discussed were the Hockey Andrew Allen Authentic Hi’s, the Thalia Surf “20^th Anniversary” Collection, and the latest Vault VLT shoe to come out, the Dream Leather Sk8-Hi Reissue VLT LX.  We’re also anticipating the Vans x SE Bikes to be dropping next week, but be prepared to fork out $1k for them!

We give Henry (The Other Side of the Pillow) a shout-out, for having Jason Mamoa (Aquaman) stop into his shop, where he picked up a few vintage pairs for him and his family.  Pretty cool stuff right there.  That segued into Bill sharing his most recent pickup, and perhaps one of his holiest grails, a pair of vintage Made In USA Vans Breakers.  He has always wanted a pair, but figured they were already such a niche shoe, that he’d never come across them for sale.  Well that luck changed last week, when he found a seller from Texas, who had a sz5.5 up on eBay.  After a little bit of pleading, and begging, a deal was struck.  Such an amazing find.  He talked about buying an ad cut-out off of eBay back when he first started OTWS of the Vans Breakers, just because of how cool it was, that Vans made shoes for breakdancing.  He can probably frame it now, along with the shoes!

We finally got to discussing collabs, and some of the brands we’d like to see in the future.  Brands that just seem to be a no-brainer to us.  We surprised each other, with Eddie’s first pick, which was also on both Joey and Bill’s list, of The Hundreds.  Why hasn’t this collab happened yet?  For Bill’s next pick, he chose SoCal Burger institution, In-N-Out.  They need to put down those silly knock-off slip-ons they currently sell, and get with the other SoCal staple, Vans, for a proper collection.  It needs to be sold in the In-N-Out store, as well as online, and it needs to always be in stock.  Done deal.  Joey, picked another SoCal heavy hitter brand, BornxRaised.  They’re probably the brand that is most tapped into SoCal street/hood culture right now.  Vans could use a little boost in that scene right now.  Get all these kids away from the types of sneakers that are taking their lives, and teach them a little thing about being authentic, and forging your own path.  Bill, then had a vague idea, for a collab with something car culture related.  It could be from any genre.  Hot Rods, Lowriders, Imports, etc.  SoCal is rich with car culture, and most car trends start here.  Vans has worked with Mooneyes since their early days, so something along those lines, but perhaps with another speed shop, or parts brand.  Heck, maybe even an organization like NHRA or NASCAR?  Eddie finished off our collab wishlist with one that we should’ve all had on our lists…KAWS!  Yes, Kaws has lent his artwork to Vans before, for The Simpsons project, but perhaps something fresh and independent.  The signature XX’s or a Companion character perhaps?  Chompers!  Or, something entirely new!  Either way, that one would be epic.

That’s about it folks.  Thanks for listening to us ramble on and rant!

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’s episode starts off with a little bit of explaining to do.  Let’s just say, things didn’t go exactly as planned for this past Saturday’s Wafflehead Summit at Blends Costa Mesa.  Although Eddie had made it out to SoCal safely, he had a little bit of a health scare shortly after arriving, and we thought he was having a nice “trip” while staying at an AirBNB out in the local San Diego mountains, lol.  We discuss what he missed out on.  Joey is now officially a dad, and we welcomed Joey and Kay’s new baby girl, Isabella Jo into the world and on to our podcast for a few seconds.  She was a little milk wasted, so she had to run.  Talked a little bit about Clayton’s SoCal visit, which is sort of what this was all about from the start.  Bill got to tag along with him, on his tour around Vans HQ, thanks to Steve Van Doren’s right hand man, “NEWKON”.  It was fun just seeing Clayton take it all in, in amazement.

This week’s Vans releases include the Vault x FDMTL pack, the Vault x JJJJound OG Sk8-Mid LX, the Kids of Immigrants Old Skool, and finally the upcoming Sneakersnstuff OG Authentic LX.

We derailed our Vans talk, as we normally do, to talk about more sneaker bullshit in the mainstream “culture”, mainly the deadly shooting at the Shoe Palace store on Melrose, in Los Angeles, over a damn Jordan 1 raffle.  We wonder what or if there is a solution to all this stuff?  Would a deeper love for the brand and the core collecting culture make a difference?  Everything just seems to be a transaction these days.  That led us to another topic about Copdate, and their entire program.  Paying money to boost your chances at being picked?  There’s just so many side hustles out there, figuring out how to make money off of everyone.

We jump back into some Vans talk, to talk, well…about fake Vans?  Mainly some “OFF-WHITE” customs on eBay.  Not much to say there, but we did notice the seller has them signed up for the eBay authentication services, and Joey was seriously entertaining the idea of buying them, to see what their results will be.

We closed our convo, by sending off Bill’s cousin Mike, who sadly passed away last week at the age of 29.  He will live on in our hearts and minds as a chill and cool dude, who was always fun to be around.  We’ll miss you man!

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.