Hi all, sorry there's no behind closed doors at the moment, there isn't even any football

behind closed doors, but we have got a new podcast for you, all about what I call trainers,

but cooler people than me, call them sneakers, it's called Soulful, spell, S-O-L-E-F-U-L.

See what we've done there?

It's about the biggest brands and most famous shoes of all time and it features interviews

with the people who made them famous.

First up is Stan Smith, take a listen.

Yo, welcome to Soulful, this is the podcast that reveals everything you've ever wanted

to know about sneakers, crepes, trainers, whatever you refer to them at.

I'm hosted by myself, Kish Kash and the good homie Jason Coles.

Today we're not only going to be talking about one of the most love sneakers of all time,

we're going to be talking to the man, him, Stealth, Stan Smith.

Well when I started wearing the shoe, I kept looking down when I was returning serve at

my face and I kept saying, this is really weird to have my face looking back at me and

I played a lot of players and what I, my point was I really felt that it wasn't proper

for a player to beat me wearing my shoe.

She leaned over one time since I'm getting pretty good signing shoes.

I said, you know, I've been doing it for about 50 years but you are doing a good job.

So at the end of the evening the people sort of parted and this lady walked up and it

was Madonna.

She put her left shoe on the table and it was a pretty good effort because she's not

you know 32 years old anymore and she's not very tall either and I said that's a great

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