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Nick (: 00:01

What up, what up, welcome back to the Sneaker History Podcast. It's that time of year, we got the final best of 2023, but we gotta do it in our own way, man. We can't be doing the same old, same old list. No offense to Mike, check out his list on his YouTube channel. But you know, we gotta go with the My Starting Five-style draft, and shout out to Roet for bringing the idea to the table this year, so.

He's already run through the list. We're gonna run through this pretty quickly so you can get back to whatever it is you're doing during the holiday season. But Rohit how are we going through this draft?

Mike (: 00:33

Ha ha ha!

ROHEEZY (: 00:37

It is a traditional snake draft, much the way we always do our starting fives. The order for today, if I remember correctly, was Nick 1, Robbie 2, myself 3, and Mike with the back to back lethal weapon spot as we call it.

Mike (: 00:38

is a traditional snake draft, much the way we always do our starting fives. The order for today, if I remember correctly, was Nick won, Robbie too, myself three, and Mike with the back to back, legal weapons spot as we call it.

Nick (: 00:52

Nice, nice. Alright, I'm gonna start out probably with a shoe that not a single person would put on their list. I don't know, maybe. I had like the old nostalgia going this year with the Wizards Jordan 3.

Mike (: 00:58

Ha ha

ROHEEZY (: 01:07

Hmm.

Mike (: 01:07

Okay, didn't say, left turn on me there.

Nick (: 01:09

My last 2000, 2001 True Blues like shit out, you know, so I had to do it this way. I'd rather have the gold on there than the red, so that's my choice for number one.

ROHEEZY (: 01:21

My hot take prediction for this draft, I think we're going to see a lot of Jordan 3s.

Robbie (: 01:28

Well, with that said, I'm going to pick a Jordan 3 with my second pick. Before I get to that though, I got to note my beautiful Hogwarts sweatshirt that I'm going to wear pretty much in every episode for the next year. Thank you Reebok for sending this. I'm a huge Harry Potter fan and to get good Harry Potter merch that isn't bad, there's bad cotton t-shirts out there. This is good stuff. So get some if you can.

Mike (: 01:30

Ah

Nick (: 01:32

Ha ha ha.

Robbie (: 01:54

My first pick though is the re-imagined Jordan 3. Just the white.

ROHEEZY (: 01:59

You mudblood!

Nick (: 02:00

Ha ha!

Mike (: 02:01

You mother- That sounded like he came from the soul when he said that it hurtful. Ha ha ha!

ROHEEZY (: 02:04

Nah, nah, I apologize, I'm not trying to be a magician racist. Anyway, continue, Robbie.

Robbie (: 02:10

Rowan had his coffee tonight. We're on, it's the white cement three, the reimagined three. It's in self-reflection, one of the few Jordans I've never had in like OG colorways. And now that I have that one and another shoe on my list, I can't think of too many OG colorways I've never had in really covet. Like the white cement's always been that shoe for me. To finally have a pair means I've only worn them once, since I've owned them. So that's.

That's what it means. I was happy to get them, but I've worn them literally, I think one time since I got them, so.

Mike (: 02:40

I'm sorry.

Mike (: 02:44

I walk around just holding them and like I just love you shoe and just

Robbie (: 02:46

No, actually I put them in the box so I wouldn't boy band anybody. So I'll bring them out in like a year and a half. But I'm very, very happy to have them.

ROHEEZY (: 02:55

I like it. It's a quality purchase. I mean, a quality wear as opposed to a quantity wear.

Mike (: 02:55

Nice.

Robbie (: 03:00

It's still the most beautiful Jordan to release in all year. Probably it's, I love gorgeous.

ROHEEZY (: 03:03

Perfect.

Mike (: 03:04

I'm right there with you, that is the best to release.

ROHEEZY (: 03:07

So I will continue the trend of what will probably be the three round. I will go with the Jordan 3 J Balvin edition.

Mike (: 03:13

Oh, the Mennonene Sunset or somewhere, whatever it is. That's the E in Sunset. Thank you for taking that from Vinny Chase and now making that the most.

ROHEEZY (: 03:16

Meta-E and Sunset, thank you for taking that from Vinny Chase and now making that the most memorable Colombian location in pop culture history in the last couple of years.

Mike (: 03:25

Hahaha

Nick (: 03:26

Right. I mean that's a great choice if so I gotta say that the reimagined three also perfect shoe I did get a pair. I haven't worn the Justin Timberlake's the last one whatever the just whatever the last one was that came out So like I can't really say that it's like my favorite. That's why I skipped it Jay Bolvin's though if I would have hit on them even at the crazy price they were at They'd probably be on my list. It's a really beautiful shoe Yeah

Mike (: 03:29

It was fantastic.

Mike (: 03:43

Yeah.

Mike (: 03:51

It's a great shoe. Like it's not too much. It hits a couple of the right places so I think it's a fantastic pickup. Alright, well I'm going to zig while everyone's zagged the 3s. My first pick I had to take it off the board. No one else will, at least I don't think they will. But it's the Saucony and J-Tips Gridazura 2000. J-Tips first shoe is what they call it. Fantastic shoe. I love just the prints,

Mike (: 04:21

what's totally different from everything else we got this year. So easy, my number one.

Nick (: 04:26

Good choice.

ROHEEZY (: 04:26

And then Mike, what is your back to back pick?

Mike (: 04:29

Oh yeah, I forgot I got to do that. My number two is going to be Dornbecker Zoom vomero 5. Love that orange shoe. Mudblood, are we going to do that again? No, dude, I love that shoe. Dude, it's a great shoe. I mean, great minds think alike.

ROHEEZY (: 04:41

You son of a- Golly, Mike! Nah. Dammit, Mike!

Nick (: 04:42

I'm proud of you!

ROHEEZY (: 04:51

It's... no, it is a fantastic shoe. I'm very passionate about the Doernbecher cause. And to me, that is the one Vamero 5 that warrants the hype that entire silhouette has been getting this entire year.

Mike (: 05:04

fantastically true.

Nick (: 05:06

Yeah, that's a good shoe.

ROHEEZY (: 05:07

It is a good shoe and it's hard to follow that one up, but I think I will try to go and be as petty as I possibly can. So my next shoe will be... I'll go with the A6 X-Men Cyclops Edition.

Mike (: 05:21

Okay, I forgot about those honestly

Nick (: 05:24

Nah, that's... I feel like that's like the best release. The way that was released was one of the best releases of the year by far. Like, we all... we all... we... Yes. I feel like we were all just like... all of us just like nerding out with that whole entire release. Yeah. The cards. Yep.

Mike (: 05:31

Mm-hmm. Yeah, most definitely. Hahaha! There it is!

ROHEEZY (: 05:32

Yes.

Robbie (: 05:35

Da-da-da-da-da-da-da

ROHEEZY (: 05:39

Talk to us, Professor Xavier.

Mike (: 05:43

It was amazing, dude. The card box, everything.

ROHEEZY (: 05:45

Dan-a-jana-dan-a-dan-a-dan-a-da

Mike (: 05:50

Oh

ROHEEZY (: 05:51

There are days where I feel I'm the Professor X to Robbie's Magneto or vice versa. I can't tell.

Robbie (: 05:57

I said what I said audience, I just said it telepathically. I forgot that shoe released until I saw it all over our Discord members ranking their top 10, that KithXMen stuff. A lot of people wanted it to put all of them on there and that's also okay. My second one here, I'm gonna have to go with the reverse Grinch Kobe 6, that's not a, yeah, not a hot take. I'm really happy I have that shoe, so.

Nick (: 05:58

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Mike (: 05:59

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Mike (: 06:23

I'm really happy I had that chicken. Lucky guy.

Robbie (: 06:27

I'm very excited to get those. I also saw a post from Vanessa Bryant that said there's three times more of these than there's been any other Kobe. Honestly, it feels like it. They've never seen any other Kobe release where in the early access, like five of us hit. And that's just, it was crazy. So I think there are gonna be a lot of pairs out there. This is a double upper for me though. So I'm gonna try to get all the, yeah.

Mike (: 06:34

There he is.

Nick (: 06:47

Yeah.

Mike (: 06:55

Yeah

Nick (: 06:56

The only downside to the Kobe, like to that shoe is that even if they release like 50 billion of them, Mike and I would somehow not hit at all. Like...

ROHEEZY (: 07:05

Look, uh, I would join you. I would turn into the Grinch.

Mike (: 07:05

Story of our life. Yeah, those five people that hit were not us guys. It's not us at all.

Nick (: 07:12

Yeah.

ROHEEZY (: 07:13

It's not us and it's all of Mike's kids and it's my daughter and Cam for Nick. So yeah, that's bad.

Nick (: 07:18

Yeah, exactly.

Robbie (: 07:19

So I gotta put this out there though. I wanted to put the penny two Atlantic blue as my second pick, cause that's my first real shoe I've ever had in my life. But the fact that it's $200, I couldn't put it on the list. That's the literal price made me scoff. So.

Mike (: 07:19

Yeah. I have a love for my kids to hit.

Nick (: 07:35

Yeah, that's a great point.

Mike (: 07:37

In three weeks, it'll be on sale. It's sitting everywhere right now, so just give it a...

Robbie (: 07:39

It would be my sneaker. Yeah, it better be. Talk to me at 140 and we're talking. But 200, Uncle Phil's smoking.

Mike (: 07:43

I'll let it be 138.50.

Nick (: 07:44

Yeah, yep.

ROHEEZY (: 07:45

if they're nice.

Nick (: 07:47

We could actually do a whole list on if the price was right. Best shoe of the year. Mike's like, my list is a hundred shoes.

Mike (: 07:52

Man, I'm made for that list. Let's do that. I'm the cheapest Let's go we could do it all day long

Nick (: 08:00

Alright so I've got next up right so I'm gonna go a little bit off. There's a sitting everywhere you should get a pair.

Mike (: 08:10

Ah! I love that shoot!

Nick (: 08:11

I know it's a the mac and rome or the mac attack zoom vapor I just feel like I wanted the mac attack but this is going to be a way more comfortable shoe it makes more sense for me to spend the money on this than to buy the older shoes I feel like the old man right now because like even wearing dunks and Jordans it's just like give me something cushiony and way more way more comfortable so that's my second pick going down

Mike (: 08:18

So cool.

Mike (: 08:35

Ha ha ha!

Nick (: 08:40

the path that you guys all know that I was born on. Tobacco, Reebok Question. This is a shout out to Reebok for sending me these. But this is one of the only original colorways that I did not get from the Reebok line back in the late 90s, early 2000s. So for me personally, it's just a bucket list shoe, even though I haven't worn it yet, because it's just not, it's too clean. Like I don't want to mess it up.

Mike (: 08:45

Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

ROHEEZY (: 08:58

Oh wow.

Nick (: 09:10

No.

Mike (: 09:11

the same boat. I keep looking at mine like I want to wear them and like not yet, not yet.

Robbie (: 09:17

Do those have the cracks on them or is that another one?

Mike (: 09:19

Yeah, no, those have the cracks on the toe. It's like a, they call it the salted caramel, the true colors, they call it tobacco, but that's the color code they use, which I'm like, oh, so nice.

Nick (: 09:20

Nah, it's the cracks. It's like the gum and the...

Robbie (: 09:22

Yeah.

Nick (: 09:28

Yeah.

ROHEEZY (: 09:31

guys.

Robbie (: 09:31

So Nick, do you have your back to back one then?

Nick (: 09:34

That's my back to back. Because of the... The Mac attacks.

Robbie (: 09:36

Okay.

Okay, you're right. It was okay for my next one Let's actually let's keep it Reeboks. I have them right here actually. I miss the take action Club C These puppies have a really cool smoke vector. It looks like there's smoke on them, which if you know me, I find that cool but um there's a QR code on the inside where you can scan it and you can get to the take action website and

ROHEEZY (: 09:51

Ooh.

Mike (: 10:00

Hahaha

Robbie (: 10:06

either pledge money or find stuff in your area you can do to help take action in your local community. That's very powerful. It's this really cool smoke inside also. But I just love the Club C, and it looks like a very normal ass Club C, but then you have this really cool circle logo on the tongue and just the smoke accents. And of course, the take action here. But these are the great kind of shoes to wear like any.

college girl can just beat the hell out of these and they can take a lickin' man. These in Air Force Ones get worn by college kids all over because this leather, I could go in the rain and jump in mud and then it's wipe this off and I'm fine. So, brownie points for being clean and like less than $150.

Mike (: 10:53

Nice.

ROHEEZY (: 10:53

and charitable donations and giving your time up to worthy causes. Can't beat that shoe.

Robbie (: 10:58

Yeah, just simple stuff, man. It looks a little different, but not too different.

Mike (: 10:59

Everything.

ROHEEZY (: 11:03

I think I'm up next, and with my third overall pick, I will go with the Warito's Dunks. Just still kind of sad that I did not end up with a pair, and maybe if I don't hit on the reverse Grinches, I'll put that money towards a pair of Warito dunks.

Mike (: 11:08

I'm just still kind of sad that I did not end up with a parent.

Robbie (: 11:17

Very nice.

Mike (: 11:18

nice alright I guess it's my turn again number three I guess I'm jumping out Reebok realm with you guys because I can never get these Nike Kobe's I like to explore the other PEs floating around from other brands so with that being said

Nick (: 11:20

Good choice.

ROHEEZY (: 11:22

Michael?

Mike (: 11:34

Antrophore in the Free Agency colorway. This is such a clean shoe. You get to wear this one as well because it's so white. I am just petrified I'm going to destroy it. But this one is just, again, one of those historical pieces that I feel like...

you know, Kobe fans out there should definitely take a look at, you know, this is something nice and different to add to your collection. But that is going to be my number three. My number four is going to be another comfy shoe. That's going to be the Action Bronson New Balance Boclava 990 V6. Freaking fantastic shoe. I mean, it's just way too much money for me to buy because people lost their mind with it. So super nice. I think it came out super early. So I feel like people kind of forgot about it because it came out super early in the year, but got to look back at it if you, if you had.

Robbie (: 12:20

Prices are still crazy on that. I was looking at my slides.

Mike (: 12:21

Dude, it's like 300 bucks, I'm like I'm not buying that. Bro, again. $100 less, you're right.

Robbie (: 12:24

It's not that bad. They retail 200.

Robbie (: 12:30

That's not too bad.

ROHEEZY (: 12:31

more.

w favorite Twitter account of: 2023

Replace the Kobe as the go-to shoe for a lot of NBA players if various media outlets are to be believed. Give me the Sabrina one in all of its iterations.

Mike (: 13:09

Nice. That one deserves to be there. I didn't even think about it.

Robbie (: 13:11

I saw that one from a mile away. I knew it was gonna come somewhere. I didn't know when it was gonna come, but I knew it was coming. No from you. I think someone could have stole it, but if it was still on the board, I figured it would be a good pickup.

Nick (: 13:12

Great choice. Yep.

ROHEEZY (: 13:15

Is it from me or from the group? Yeah.

Nick (: 13:25

I think the only reason, it was on my big list, but the only reason I didn't end up putting it on a top 5, top 10, because I didn't buy a pair, mainly because I couldn't decide on what color I liked the most to buy. And yeah, like, yeah. Like that's the color way I would probably, I would make something very similar to what you made too. Like it just looked, that's beautiful to me. So I just haven't pulled the trigger.

ROHEEZY (: 13:38

Why don't you make a pair? Because this is single-handedly making Nike buy you great again, to borrow a popular political phrase.

Mike (: 13:40

Hahaha! Oh there you go, that was sweet!

I'm not good at political praise.

Mike (: 13:54

I feel a little mamba-curial action on that one.

Nick (: 13:55

I start? Yeah. Yep.

ROHEEZY (: 13:57

I'm Mercurio, Brett the Hitman Heart. The excellence of execution truly makes me feel like I was the best there is, best there was, best there ever will be.

Nick (: 14:05

Ha ha ha!

Mike (: 14:06

I like it.

ROHEEZY (: 14:09

Roberto, what do you got?

Robbie (: 14:09

Um, yeah, my fourth pick, I'm gonna go with the new balance 1700 with the Kith Toronto store. I've worn those at least once a week since getting them. And I still firmly believe that you can admit like new balances aren't all that. That they're not all that, but they are darn good. I mean, I will say.

ROHEEZY (: 14:19

Oh

Mike (: 14:19

Oh, nice.

Nick (: 14:30

Hahaha!

Mike (: 14:32

It's okay to like him. It's okay, Robbie. It's alright. Come on.

Robbie (: 14:35

No, I mean, and what's funny is I've like actually spent more of my own money on new balances than Nike in the past calendar year, like straight up probably has spent more money on new balances. But it's trying different models. They're very nice, but just the 1700 at first was way too tight, but wearing it for about a month, at least once a week for a month, they have now loosened up. They're fantastic. It's the marshmallow colorway. I got both of them though, the red one.

Mike (: 14:45

Hahaha

Robbie (: 15:04

and the marshmallow. But the red one I'm keeping on ice for a while, but the marshmallow gets get a lot of play.

ROHEEZY (: 15:10

Oh Canada, Robbie is standing on guard for D.

Mike (: 15:10

Nice. Rob you're so good.

Robbie (: 15:12

Yeah, the Canada red.

Nick (: 15:16

Alright, number four pick. I'm going chunky, old school skate shoe, the S, Muska's pocket. So this is like one of the first shoes that I can remember having a stash pocket. I never got these as a kid. I actually have some like beat up crumbled circus from Muska.

Mike (: 15:18

Alright.

ROHEEZY (: 15:23

Oh, with the pocket and the tongue?

Mike (: 15:25

Dang, the OG stash pocket? No, it's kangaroos, nevermind.

Nick (: 15:41

This was like one of those definitely needed to get it when it came back out. It's not quite true to the original, but it's definitely nostalgic enough to make my list at number four. So a little bit of a plot twist. My favorite shoe that probably nobody ever talked about. So you know the Y2K runner thing is a big deal and it's all those like silver-y shoes that pop off.

ROHEEZY (: 16:09

Soon.

Nick (: 16:10

ProGrid Omni 9 with traditional suede and mesh. So this has got kind of the vibe of those Y2K shoes without all the shininess. This is definitely one of my favorite pickups. Kind of a green and light burgundy gray. So first one I've seen that they actually use more retro-y materials on that Y2K style. So...

Mike (: 16:11

Get on me. Yeah.

Mike (: 16:37

I'm not really assuming everything feels amazing on that shoe. Yeah, I can already make that assumption. It's awesome.

Nick (: 16:39

It's so good, man. Like for the money, like I think we got them for fairly cheap. I think we paid 60 or 70 a pair or something. So like the quality on it is like up there with some of the New Balance stuff that I wish I would have gotten. So nice alternative pickup for me. So that's yeah. So that's my fifth and final.

ROHEEZY (: 16:59

Hashtag playup prices, if you know you know.

Mike (: 16:59

Nice. You know you know.

ROHEEZY (: 17:06

Robbie.

Mike (: 17:06

Nah, we got a sixth man coming around, don't you say? Fifth and final. Coming off the bench. Haha.

Robbie (: 17:06

Nice. Yeah, they're fixed. You know, I'm gonna go with a really random cut. It's the Packer on running Cloud Vista. Cloud Vista is the shoe, but it's a Jade Rabbit for the Lunar New Year. It's like all white with a little bit of Jade underlay and some gold trim. The Vista's an extremely comfortable shoe.

Nick (: 17:08

I'm ready for that. I'm ready for that.

Robbie (: 17:36

But they're just like super clean and white. And just, if you look up Jade Rabbit Cloud Vista, they're fire. So, and it's worthy of the fifth spot. Round it out my ear. I like Jade colored stuff, right? And who doesn't like Jade colored shoes? So, yeah, right? No, those are on the list. Those are on my hit list.

Nick (: 17:47

Absolutely are.

Mike (: 17:47

nice.

Mike (: 17:51

Nice, nice, nice.

Mike (: 17:55

Gotta get you those Jordan 5s, man. We're gonna get them to you eventually.

Nick (: 17:57

Ha ha ha!

Mike (: 18:01

You hit the list there?

ROHEEZY (: 18:03

Perfect. With my fifth overall pick, I will go with the Run the Jewels 3 Dunk High with the pony hair.

Nick (: 18:12

Good pick. I think people forgot about that. Yeah.

Mike (: 18:14

You know what I thought it would be a sooner pick for you. I did actually. I keep eyeing them. They're on my hit list as well but I just hadn't gone back to doing anything about it. Very nice. Bees like that. Alright. Well my number five pick. I felt bad like Nick was all prepared. Has to smell stuff for the camera. I'm like let me try to be as good as he is. But my number five is gonna be the Adidas Crazy Infinity 2.5. Just

Nick (: 18:23

Yep.

ROHEEZY (: 18:24

It bees like that sometimes.

Nick (: 18:33

Ha ha ha!

Nick (: 18:40

Mmm. Yeah.

ROHEEZY (: 18:40

I was waiting.

Mike (: 18:43

I know people aren't big into like the performance basketball stuff, but this was just Reebok cooked up something that was.

I want to say original, they took inspiration from the old Kobe stuff, but they brought us something different, something that was, you're not seeing from any other brand right now, great materials, awesome shoe. If you guys, I know Robbie likes the crazy one or the Kobe one, this one is probably a little bit more comfortable I think, after wearing both of them. It just looks cool. Literally this is one of the shoes I wear and people are looking at me like, well that's like, they'll sit and ask me something about it. And just an awesome design in my opinion. The crazy Infinity is my number five pick.

Nick (: 19:20

Yeah, but...

Robbie (: 19:20

Great colorway on that one too, color blocked very well.

Nick (: 19:23

Yep, 100%. That's definitely on my later pickups. I wanna find a lightly used pair of those.

Mike (: 19:23

Oh yeah, I agree with him.

ROHEEZY (: 19:23

Yep.

Mike (: 19:30

Yeah, right. Yeah, they're crazy about that price. I think like 180, I'm like, come on, just kind of come down on that one.

Nick (: 19:34

Yeah, yep. All right, Six Man, you want me to start us off with the Six Man? I'm going a little obscure, but I bought this shoe, it came out at the beginning of the year, it's the Adidas HyperTurf Adventure. So it's basically like the shoe I wore the most this year. And it's kinda like the...

Mike (: 19:39

Start us off. Dude! Click it!

ROHEEZY (: 19:40

Do it, Nick. Do it, Bloodbath!

Nick (: 19:56

You know, it's like the Solomon vibes and all those shoes that like people were into. Like I bought some Solomons. They didn't really fit well. They're kind of narrow for me. So this shoe kind of been has been like the default shoe for me all year. There's a ton of colorways of it, but that particular one with like a little bit of crazy orange pop, but like really neutral colors is my sixth man just because it's been my go to. And I got it for $30.

Mike (: 19:59

Mm-hmm.

Mike (: 20:14

Nice.

Mike (: 20:19

Nice.

ROHEEZY (: 20:19

Nice.

Robbie (: 20:20

My, that's a steal. So I mean, it's interesting. Maybe one of you two will pick it, but the Jordan 4 SB is like number one on every Discord person's list for sneaker of the year. That's another shoe I wore one time and put it away because I was hearing about it too much to put them away. It's not on my list, but that was on my brain. I thought somebody else here would pick it. My choice is the unofficial sneaker history shoe of the year.

Mike (: 20:22

Even better. Even better!

Mike (: 20:35

Sorry, did I do that?

Mike (: 20:45

No

Robbie (: 20:50

the fragment question mid. I said question, the fragment weapon mid. That was a brain fart.

Mike (: 20:55

Oh, I was like, wait, whoa, time out, where's the shoe at? I was like, why don't I have to shoe my head?

Nick (: 20:56

Yeah.

ROHEEZY (: 20:58

Hey, don't give billion dollar ideas away, Robbie.

Robbie (: 21:01

Yeah, that was a Charles Barkley moment. But no, yeah, the fragment weapons, I wear those regularly, like mine are stained. Like I've put good time in that, and you know it's a good shoe when you put quality time in it and the leather doesn't turn into a clown toe. And like, you know, you wear a Jordan one too much, turns into a clown toe on the front, or Jordan 13, clown toe on the front. A lot of clown toes, Jordan 11, clown toe. But.

Mike (: 21:12

That's beautiful.

Mike (: 21:19

Hahaha

Nick (: 21:20

Yep.

Robbie (: 21:30

These puppies, they're the answer to those questions. I said it again, it's the weapon.

Mike (: 21:34

Ah, see what you did there. See what you did there. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Nick (: 21:35

hahahaha

ROHEEZY (: 21:37

I think you're... are you trying to tell us something about the future, Robby? Is this future Robby telling us about the adventure and the mystery?

Robbie (: 21:43

future. No, I definitely mean to say weapon, but I just keep thinking questions. So

Mike (: 21:45

Well, there are boxes on the way.

Mike (: 21:50

I just thought of a fragment question color, I think that'd be super sick. Thanks for putting that in my brain. Ha ha ha.

Robbie (: 21:52

Yeah, right.

Nick (: 21:53

Yeah. Need to get Reebok to put it on there, like made by you or ID program. I don't think they have it anymore, but that would be killer.

ROHEEZY (: 22:04

So for my sixth person or six man or woman off the bench, I'm gonna go with a shoe that technically hasn't come out yet. I haven't seen it in person, but I'm just a fan of this particular young man and his brand. So I'm gonna go with everyone's favorite young black king, AKA Anthony Edwards, and give me the AE1.

Mike (: 22:23

I'll take it. I'll allow it.

ROHEEZY (: 22:26

Just, I'm here to support, I wanna get in the ground floor with that guy. Just something about him. Like the cut of his jib, as Upper Class Whites once told me about myself. So, there you go.

Mike (: 22:32

hahahaha

Mike (: 22:38

well i can follow that up alright fantastic alright so my six man i finally put a jordan on that list i guess but it's one that got hate when people saw pictures but when you saw the movie you understood the beauty behind it and that's going to be the across the spider verse jordan one this is an amazing show i will never have a chicago one until people really hate jordan ones i can just walk in the store and buy it i will gladly take this in this place because

When you see the movie, you see why the shoe looks like this, it all makes sense and I'm glad I got it without people charging me $500 for it.

ROHEEZY (: 23:16

I'm surprised it lasted this long. I could have sworn that would have been somebody's number one or number two pick.

Robbie (: 23:17

email.

Nick (: 23:18

Yeah.

Mike (: 23:20

Hahaha

Robbie (: 23:21

I see pairs of those in stores still and it's just never in my size. So they always have like two, they have like a 10 and like a seven. Motherfucker. Yeah.

Nick (: 23:26

Yeah.

Mike (: 23:26

Really?

Nick (: 23:30

Yeah.

Mike (: 23:30

I might have to just say, buy me another 10, bro. It's like, seven views. Hahaha! I love this shoe, man.

ROHEEZY (: 23:30

Really? Because all I see is like seven youth and eighteen.

Robbie (: 23:34

No, I've seen some bigger sizes, but never my size.

Nick (: 23:39

Yep. Yeah, that's a good choice. I think, I mean, we don't really need to go back over the list unless you guys want to. Okay.

Mike (: 23:48

I'm good. I think we should.

ROHEEZY (: 23:49

I think we should just because we were chatting about this in our previous podcast But we're all of a certain age now where we're listening to a podcast and then our mind drifts away and then you're like, wait a minute What did I just listen to? So I've got to rewind the last five minutes. So why not? Let's give us that recap

Mike (: 24:01

Where am I?

Nick (: 24:01

Good point, good point. Alright, I went with the Jordan 3 Wizards, the Mac Attack Zoom Vapor, the Tobacco Rebot Question, the S Chad Muska, the Soccony Omni ProGrid Omni 9, and the Adidas HyperTurf Adventure.

Mike (: 24:22

Nice.

Robbie (: 24:23

solid. I have the reimagined Jordan 3, the Kobe 6 Reverse Grinch, the Reebok Take Action Club C, the Kith New Balance 1700, the Packer On Cloud Vista, Jade Rabbit, and the Converse Fragment Weapon Mid.

ROHEEZY (: 24:50

aka the answer, or the question.

Mike (: 24:51

Ha ha

Robbie (: 24:52

Yeah.

ROHEEZY (: 24:55

I've got the J Balvin III, I've got the A6 X-Men collab with Kith, I've got Dunk Orido's, I've got the Sabrina One, and the Run the Jewels III High, and the sixth person off the bench is the soon-to-be-released Anthony Edwards Adidas AE-1.

Mike (: 25:08

solid again. Alright my number one was the J-Tips and Salkin and he grew to zero two thousand. Number two was a Doran Becker Zoom from Merrill five. Number three where's my number three I lost it somewhere. Oh the answer four in the

Free Agency Callaway, number four was the Action Bronson New Balance 990V6 Baklava, number five was the Adidas Crazy Infinity 2.5 or 003, whatever nomenclature you need on it, and my sixth man off the bench was the Across the Spider-Verse or Next Chapter Jordan 1.

Nick (: 25:43

All good choices. If you're still listening, hop in the Discord and let us, hey, people's mind wander. I, yeah, anyway, hop in the Discord, let us know what your top sneakers of 2023 are. We've got a bunch of lists in there. There's a lot of back and forth. It's a fun time for everybody. And yeah, make sure you follow us on all the platforms at Sneaker History, and we appreciate you rocking with us. We'll catch you next time. Peace.

ROHEEZY (: 25:47

Why wouldn't they be?

Mike (: 25:50

You better still be listening.

Robbie (: 26:10

Peace.

Mike (: 26:11

See ya!

ROHEEZY (: 26:12

Follow me on OnlyFans at the Calcutta Clown Toe.

Mike (: 26:16

Oh, interesting. Interesting.

Nick (: 26:16

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