Horror Stories From Working in Sneaker Stores

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Complex

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Ever seen someone try to return a pair of fake sneakers at Foot Locker? Or witnessed sneaker theft in real time? On the latest episode of the Complex Sneakers Show, cohosts Matt Welty and Joe La Puma relive their past lives as sneaker salesmen with tales of avoiding district managers, showing up late, and wage theft lawsuits. Also in the episode: Brendan Dunne’s report on the Adidas Yeezy release plan pause, the purported Lil Yachty x Nike collab, the sneaker scene in the UK, and a lot of Nike Air Max Plus/TN talk.

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0:00.0	What's up everybody? It's Joel Puma. You were listening. You were watching the complex sneaker show to my right.
0:08.0	My guy, Mr. Matt Welty are here to my left. Hello. He's here too. Hi. My camera says look at though. What?
0:16.8	Wow, I leave the country for a few days. Look what they how they did me.
0:21.0	Trinidad. This is real behind the scenes stuff. Or are you Joel Puma's?
0:25.0	It's okay. I'll share with my brother is labeled as Trinidad, but yeah, just that's your camera right?
0:30.0	Don't worry. I'm focused. Don't worry. I'm focused. You don't have to switch it. I'm just playing.
0:34.7	Yeah, you heard if you hear if you heard it closely, the tape peeling is changing it out. Thank you, Octavia. Thank you.
0:41.6	How we doing? I'm here in all white all gray. A lot of a lot of commotion about really?
0:47.6	People care that much about your office really, Joe. That's what it is. Yeah, in the office a few people. I'm not lying.
0:53.2	There was it was controversy. No controversy, but people noticed people. Oh, you're in all white.
0:58.2	I got a few slack messages. I got a few in-person
1:02.5	inquiries, but we're here. We're here, but we've been away. You've even traveled a little bit. Can you speak about it?
1:07.8	I'll show off the jet. Then I'll breeze to the beaches.
1:10.8	Blue Yankee fitted.
1:13.4	Yeah, there we go. There we go. Yeah, I was in England for the past few days on some business and
1:20.4	you know, was soaking up the culture there. Yeah, you had your one tens on? I didn't. I had my TNs.
1:26.3	Yes. Yes. And there was a lot of TNs. Yes. And there was a lot of Air Max 95s everywhere. A couple of big, big JOP shoes.
1:35.7	Everywhere we went, I bought two pairs of TNs, the blue, a cold wall TNs. Wait, wait, wait, you brought them.
1:45.6	I brought them. I heard Bob. I'm sorry. Yes. No, my bad. Sometimes, you know, also Jellig.
1:50.6	But you and Michael Jordan missed a couple shots. Exactly. Miss a few layups. But
1:56.7	black, a cold wall as I wore the whole, the whole trip. And then out there, I'll thank them later.
2:04.2	They know who they are. I got, um, my first pair of Pada Barcelona TNs. Yeah, you got to.
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