Month: November 2021

What’s good everyone? We hope you’re doing well, and getting ready for the holiday season. We’re thankful for many things, especially making it to 20 episodes!!! Our health. Our good spirits. Our friends & family, and of course all of you!

We started out tonight’s episode, discussing our recent trips. Joe & the fam went to Julian for the day, which is a nice little getaway up in the mountains just North of San Diego, known for their apple orchards. Had some beers. Ate some pies. Enjoyed the fresh air. Bill and Tintin did a quick drive up to Monterey for the weekend. Visited Alvarado Brewing. Ate some great food. Enjoyed the local scenery on the wharf, and in the busy waters. Visited Carmel by the Sea, and then took the most amazing road trip back down the California coast on Hwy 1. Lots of pics on their IG!

Shared our drinks. Everyone had something new and exciting to share. Well…maybe not Eddie’s Miami Cola Bang!

This weeks drops include the Vault x Ray Barbee x Leica camera collab. The USPS collection. The Vault x END x MASTERMIND WORLD “cap” collection, and lastly the Supreme “Barbed Wire or Tribal” Vans, which led to a tangent about bad tattoos and Pam Anderson and “Barbed Wire”.

House of Vans Mexico City is opening soon, which looks amazing. Rose Anvil tears down the new UltraRange MTE-3. You gotta watch that video.

Pickups are a little light this week, and only Eddie had his Super7 Milo from The Descendents Reaction figure to show off. This led to another tangent about Dragon Ball Z, Toonami, Funimation, and Cowboy Bebop.

Bill gave us a small and a little confusing update on The Sopranos. You may want to skip over this dreadful part lol. Somehow got to talking about Tennessee and moonshine, and how ironic it is, that there’s dry counties all over the place there. We discuss the Thanksgiving plans we don’t have, and we end the episode with a little bit of discussion on the Dune series. Apparently Eddie and Bill need to catch up, so Joey can talk about it with us!

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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. 

Welcome everyone! Tonight we got right into some drink talk, and what we were drinking. Bill gets shitty like a Real Housewife when he drinks wine. For this week, he’s switching it up from a craft beer, to a pre-mixed Old Fashioned from Trader Joe’s. Only available during the holidays, so check it out if it’s your thing! We all love Trader Joe’s. Somehow got on a tangent about air fryers and instapots, and all the things we can cook in them. Joe had a DHIPA from North Park Brewing. Eddie had a solid Peach Mango Bang energy drink, and he’s having a hard time trying to find some new flavors, so hook him up Bang! Supply chains are all fucked up right now.

First release topic was the Sk8-Hi GORE-TEX MTE-3. Then we recapped the Supreme x Tiffany release. Shocker…Palace shipped their recent collab in a polybag. T&C Surf Designs are back for a third collab with Vans, and it’s a nice one. Panda Mei has teamed up with Vans China on a cool blind box toy release of a few Letterhead characters, and we got a good look of them via Emily Ma (@myttttt)’s IG. That got us talking about other classic vinyl toy brands like Kid Robot, which then got us on a topic about their highly sought after Air Max 1’s.  That transitioned into talks about other grail Air Maxes, and the huge runner sneakers culture in the UK. Y’all kids weren’t there!

We discussed the top 10 Most Stupidly Expensive Sneakers, since we were light on other news.

For show & tell this week, Bill shared the Vans Family Loteria board game that was an exclusive to the Vans Family app, and he also came up on a pair of vintage 90’s Made In USA Authentics in olive green.  Eddie surprised us with a cool sample camo baseball jersey he had made up for The Authentic Era. It didn’t turn out quite as expected, so he will be looking for a new manufacturer to try again. We said no more ordering off of the Wish app, lol. Just kidding.

Don’t forget, Vans Checkerboard Day is Thursday 11/18. Get out there and create something! Help out your community. Get involved.

You can drop in for the live Twitch stream, every Tuesday (10PM CDT / 8PM PDT), or 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. 

We’re back for another week of nonsense, mostly centered around all things Vans, but sometimes not! Started off with a little bit of talk about work. Shared what we were drinking. Talked about our love for bad tv shows. Riveting stuff.

Offspring update!  We finally got the rest of our coasters, thanks to the homie Graham Cheeseman over at Vans UK. We hate that it came to reaching out to him, but all things are right in the world again. Bill updated us on where he was at with The Sopranos.

Just before that, we discussed the recent House of Vans book, “If These Walls Could Talk”, exclusive to the Vans Family. While on the topic of recent pickups, Joe picked up the black Vans x SE Racing PK Ripper for retail, off of a buddy. Jealous hatred could be felt all around. Discussed the Supreme x Tiffany news, and then went on a tangent about some recent NHL controversy, that involved a name being removed from the Stanley Cup.

This weeks releases include the very colorful Tierra Whack collab.  The Museum of Contemporary Art is back with a 2^nd release, featuring some Los Angeles local artists. Size? UK drops an Anaheim Factory Authentic 44 DX in a Needlework motif.

Eddie picked up a few new shoes, including the rare Syndicate x Luke Meier Zero Lo “S” in Golden Brown. That got us talking about the other Luke Meier shoes, including the Supreme shock-dropped Navy pair, which then got us on the topic of older Supreme Vans releases.

Ended up somehow talking about Crypto and NFT’s.  Us old heads just don’t buy into it. It just feels like everyone’s being finessed out of their money, for nothing tangible. Boring, we know!

You can drop in for the live Twitch stream, every Tuesday (10PM CDT / 8PM PDT), or 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. 

What’s up folks! We had a slight delay with the start but Joey and Bill held it down until Eddie was able to join us. The convo had a laid back vibe with us talking over the background music. Started off sharing our drinks, as usual and then got right into the releases.

First up, the BAPE x Vans release, and our slight disappointment in how the collection turned out. We were expecting more, and we got much less, in terms of design, options, accessories, etc. First tangent was about Eddie’s new game Red Dead Redemption, and his recent Vision 3060ti video card purchase. Back on topic, we talk about the Palace “Mushrooms” Skate Sk8-Hi. You’d have thought these were a Supreme release. Bill stumbled across the Vault x Geoff McFetridge collection via Notre’s webstore. Interesting.

Our Offspring saga continues. We reached out, and they apologized for not including the ceramic coasters with the shoes, and sent out a package in record time, EXCEPT there was only 1 set of coasters in the box! We’re starting to think that they just hate us.

Got on another tangent about the HBO classic, The Sopranos, that Bill has finally started watching. The guys are excited to hear that, and will be asking for weekly updates.

Recent pickups from Bill include a few sale items from Wish in Atlanta, as well as some Notre navy blue Old Skools copped from eBay. Can’t forget the Beams x Crocs that came in from END. Eddie received another shipment from his Japan proxy, including a few older Vans Japan collabs, as well as a WTAPS Chukka in tan. Joey wants everyone to keep a lookout for some 2000’s era Vans for him. Cab 4’s, and other chunky classics from that period of his youth. Sz 11.5 preferably! That’s about it for this week!

You can drop in for the live Twitch stream, every Tuesday (10PM CDT / 8PM PDT), or 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.