How Dad Shoes Became So Cool

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Complex

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In this episode the co-hosts dissect why there’s been a recent boom in performance running models from Asics, New Balance and other brands. They also talk about the origin of the “Cool Dad Shoe” boom of 2017-2018. Elsewhere in the episode, Dunne, Welty and JLP talk about the upcoming Terror Squad Air Force 1s and compare the project to the Tiffany & Co x Nike Air Force 1. Finally the crew comments on Hoka and On’s rise in the market.

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? It's Joe Lapland. You were listening. You were watching the Complex
0:05.4	Sneakers podcast. As always, I'm with my two friends, my two co-hosts to my right, Mr.
0:09.5	Matt Welty. It feels like it's Monday, but it's Wednesday. It is. Well, it's like yesterday
0:17.6	was for July. Yep. Or a little out of schedule. He always announces the day that it is, even
0:23.0	though it's actually the actual day that people are listening to this. Yeah, we're a little
0:26.0	transparency. Yes. To my left, the world traveler. Hi, Mr. Brennan Dunn. Yes, hello. How
0:33.6	you doing? I'm okay. I'm in London right now. Yes. He will be in London when this post
0:38.2	is just like a hologram yourself. Yes. No, I'm trying to keep the people aware. It's
0:45.3	Friday. It's Tuesday. It's Wednesday. We're here. We're there. Yeah. Like you said, transparency.
0:50.5	Absolutely. How was the birthday celebration? Oh, it was good. Thank you. Yeah. A little
0:55.9	more lively than the impromptu one we had on set. There was common together in the minutes
1:00.9	when people realized that we tried. We should have gotten a cookie cake instead. You know,
1:05.1	I hate the cookie cake. No, he likes donuts. I do. I do. But we don't need to talk about
1:09.2	me anymore. What are we doing? We could talk about me. That's it. A minute in. No more
1:13.3	from Jack. No more about Brennan Dunn. What have we got going on since we haven't been
1:17.8	together in the last 48 hours? Yeah, recorded this one super early. I was at the beach over
1:23.4	the weekend. Another one of those situations, like I described being in a music festival recently,
1:27.8	where the rain was was hovering overhead. And I feel like this is one of the curses of being
1:33.8	someone who's super into sneakers is that other people will go to events like that or environments
1:40.4	where you know, things might get a little bit dicey toward your feet and they don't worry about
1:45.2	it or don't think about it, but you ruined your day literally. Yeah, you like plan your day around,
1:49.8	you know, whether or not your shoes are appropriate for a setting or not. Hey, I love that. You know,
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