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!
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