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Off The Record: What Your Shoes Say About You as a Person

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0:00 [Music] welcome back everybody to Mike Mike Mike mik a great episode of the careful boys where today we've got Bart we've got Nick wo we got Steve we got Jo look at the guns bro hey you got some you got they're going dude that's a big that's a bazooka we're working it baby dude and we've got me thank you thank you anybody else see your bicep see this gu is too big man you guys put me in between Jared and Mike the other day I can't do this right here see start with him start with him oh ████ damn oh ████ oh yeah I'm not going I'm not going Emoji that's like the Emoji I'm not going real gun I know but you just had Jared and Michael they're

0:51 little PR I got a water gun dude that's still nice dude that's pretty good we're working give us two more years okay I don't have B BPS but I lift more than you how do you know prove it I bench a lot sick I believe you Joe Joe's a powerful guy he's a he's a tyrannical dictator Anthony versus Joe LIF Theon let's do that dude we going do entire athleticism Fitness track Let's do let's do a JK athletic challeng Olympics I want to do that I curl 50s ████ he does though he does though bro look at those buys I don't doubt it ████ I can roll 50 I'm good at Halo top right here is inspired by my boy Mike all right I see you've been doing even though you didn't do it today which I'm a little bit sad but you've been doing ████ new shoes every day I was doing new shoes every

1:41 day was what is new shoes every day so I I've been into shoes my whole life new you have 365 days worth of shoes no but I do have a lot and I feel bad because uh I grew up like middle middle class middle lower class but my dad was pretty strict so like hey you buy these shoes ████ take care of them and I do like that yeah and he' maybe buy me a couple pairs but when I was real young you'd buy me one pair a year you know so I have like this stuck in mentality to not like crease them not ████ them up and it's not cuz of the Jordan ████ and I don't buy crazy expensive stuff but it's just I feel bad making my ████ dirty yeah so I have this huge collection I never wear so I'm like how do I force myself to wear them and I was doing a new shoe a day but then I travel oh okay so you got to take your shoes when I travel I put on Paws cuz I was on a 10day trip I'm not bringing 10 pairs yeah I'm not Britney Spear girls do they

2:32 do they really do they're also smaller though that's true and when I'm so I'm at home yeah I'm doing it I I'll pick it back up Monday okay yeah do you have a whole bedroom of just shoes I have a pretty big walk-in closet and like half the wall of shoes wow wow got to estimate how many shoes you had that's why I was trying to do this day thing 30 probably like 50 have you seen Patrick mahomes's closet yeah some of those guys are my God have you seen Caro Anthony's closet some they literally like a museum if you're sponsored by Jord you have a museum I probably got like 20 shoes but I only wear one pair see I get myself caught up in that yeah and I'll wear like four pairs on rotation I've got I maybe got 30 yeah might have 30 to 50 I'm probably like 15 I don't got the woo on one baby I don't even have special shoes I just don't wear it yeah yeah I ain't got the woo ones all right so now we got a shoe connoisseur here yeah all right a shoe Somali like the

3:23 sneakers I like them but I also like I'm I'm so stupid and weird sometimes that like I'll get like bunch of that shoes and then I'll just still be a Chinese boy and stick to like the basic simple thing I just put on every day that's what I'm saying I wear SAS every day that's what I'm saying it's just easier matches a bunch of ████ indoor soccer shoes I got random ████ that I think is going to flex and there's nothing I'm going to do with it same and I don't do anything I go to work like I and I work at my gym I wear sandals yes okay so because our connoisseur is here what types of shoes say something about a person yeah what does it say they're are a lot of like very specifics let's start with Crocs like even stereotypes Crocs nowadays are just so generic hey you're almost you're almost you're almost a Bas ████ almost what's the water everyone's

4:13 drinking uh G has Tumbl the Stanley yeah Stanley Tumbl yeah if you got a Stanley and that those are sick I don't even oh the the old school V what you that's I got fired from Zoomies those are lesbian sandals dude those Crocs are kind of hot you don't like Crocs in general I I'm actually an anti Croc are those Crocs those are croc these are Crocs my boy really they're Croc clogs I think if you go I have Crocs but these are Barts can I say something Crocs to me are the most comfortable most functional shoe I do like clogs clogs are coming back in a lot of forms and I do like a little clog game like the clog B Birkenstocks sometimes they're my feet I have very flat feet and Crocs are the only shoes that give me no pain no Arch pain yeah they're the only one even like flat shoes what about some Vans or I even got the Vivo be flets yeah I would get planter fasciitis

5:04 like a ████ mother but my Crocs only things that don't ████ me up that sucks we're not talking science here we just want to talk stereotypes and judgment yeah I think at thiss are so popular they are they're kind of basic bit Air Force Ones yeah those That's a classic it depends on what you rock it with though cuz there's people that rock it as if they have completely out of touch with fashion and there's people that rock like they're bringing it back and they know how to rock it Air Force Ones is my all-time favorite shoe but my feet are too ████ wide so they CH you know what you want to try you might want to try a Croc no I do skater shoes actually try a Croc just try a Croc just try a Croc and the kids make fun of me a lot too you like New Balance New Balance one's hot and then two like super comfy if you got a wide foot I got a pretty wide foot what do you think about people

5:54 that wear reok I was sponsored by rebok for a long time and sadly yeah they're from a fitness Point uh from both from both fashionably they have like some Club C's which are kind of like a Vans looking thing but in 2023 is yeah the club Seas though the club Seas you could wear uh they literally look like a van or like a Soma what do you think of kids kids are probably on the come up what are clean I have those those are like their SAS you're old school B boy yeah yeah it foreshadowed me getting with Hannah cuz there's a British flag on this ████ those are clean W that's love that's love the cool thing about of for 5 years yeah I have a pair of those rock those are clean yeah the Air Force Ones came back but growing up like the Air Force One was like the gangster ████ that's why I love it I grew up playing basketball and whatever but I I never wore Air Force Ones I couldn't afford

6:44 them there's lines you don't cross you know and that was one of them I never crossed what about black Air Force One yeah that's it so I was even wearing like even within Jordan right there's like the famous 23s 1 to 23 each year he played and then now they have 38 or some ████ what do you think what do you think about people that wear New Balance I'm a huge New Balance guy I wear a lot of like Dad shoes running shoes are obviously what's in fashion so a lot of guys wearing New Balance but even like within each Jordan number there's almost like stereotypes like I was wearing the Jordan eight the other day which aren't as popular and I had a really cool collab version I'm wearing around undefeated ones yeah and everyone in my gyms call me like the thug Stompers and like the all this stuff and I was like dude like I get it you know people will love wearing these yeah yeah Timberlands are like a huge people love wearing those hokas the ████ bro hocas is that a Chinese shoe I don't know hok is a running shoe that's turned pretty

7:35 lifestyle High fashiony cuz of the dad in The Last 3 years the most functional Niche shoe has now become the street wear casual shoe which I felt like that was the Asian Aunt shoe yeah or the N Sho all over people are floating off the like I ran my first marathon with those and they were Marathon shoes and then now they have a whole lifestyle division with like tan tone colors it's seen these are comfy they do look cool a lot of it's honestly because of Kanye Kanye kind of made the dad Sho super cool right all Yeezys are basically New Age dad shoes you know what's crazy you know our ████ shooting tactical Solomon shoes Solomon are making a street where huge W Solomon yeah isn't that crazy they're hug there were our tactical Republican right proud bright shoe and now the most what that hand doing watch

8:26 that hand the most liberal ████ are wearing them to be fashion heart ████ rightwing like straight up Workman ████ and then all these liberal hipsters are wearing it car heart's got work in progress car Whip and that's just like the high fashioned street but it's crazy that like proud racist stuff is now being adopted by liberals there's Nazi ████ you know Sho boss Hugo Boss ad whatever gu Black Rifle Coffee Company my buddy founded that thing and now Joe Rogan's wearing he's a super liberal and ████ but the Liberals don't accept they don't claim them the Liberals don't claim them Hollywood dude straight Libs all right what what else what other stereotypical dunks oh yeah what about panda dunks Panda dunks are like like the low hanging fruit that you have fash how come people hate them so much yeah what they're so common it's cuz they became

9:16 so common dunks got really cool because they started doing a ████ ton of collabs like when we were in high school and so they did really cool collabs and they're like kind of the rare boy sneaker then they come out with the black and white and black and White's always fashionable everyone buys them and then they just keep you know Nikes making cash so they just keep revamping and revamping so everyone wears dunks it's like uh you know the term try hard Mr Halo would know the term try hard I don't know that term so try hard is just like a so if you wear dunks you're kind of a tryhard yeah kind of like it's like it's poser I guess would be another term kind of like I'm into fashion but I'm not and so you're not actually culture vulture I got white dunks with the black swish that's it and I only wore them once to go eat and then for some reason I just can't compel myself to put them on because I just see so many people wearing dunks and I'm like you to wear the play they're they're kind of like a wider based air oh I like that and

10:07 they're skate shoe yeah they're a skate shoe actually like they're wide super basic and they're very comfortable they look kind of like Air Force but wide because it's uh skate Sho kids when I went to V Beach a bunch and I was wearing skate shoes cuz my feet are wide like what airw walks or something Genesis uh I was wearing Osiris no the dks okay yeah yeah or DC DC thank you and then these kids come up I'm not cool these kids come up to me and they're like they're like do you skate and I'm like no and they're why you wear a skate shoes and they all like like high I'm like yeah that's a good point hello my stinky viewers now I know what you're thinking why you just call me Stinky well today's video is brought to you by Lumi and if you're out there in the holidays sweating from stress oh no I don't want to go to my family gathering because they're going to smell me and go

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13:29 the you go scientifically proven I ████ doubt that in Nick's world you go Rainbow sandals every dude that chokes dudes out walking necklace they're choking everybody out no but I think that yeah I'm not saying Jiu-Jitsu guys got Style but every Jiu-Jitsu dude's rocking rainbow sandals really a lot I got the Hawaiian ones the olaa same idea I like those oh if you go like local brand yeah that works I like those ones those are the best flip flops cuz they ████ they've lasted me forever how about Redwing boots red wi boots that's ████ gangster what about La lights yeah yeah the light heels Jack while you're at it righty you know what's really you know it's a popular shoe I see a lot of ladies wear is ████ uh Blazers yo yeah Blazers got crazy old Tik Tok just cuz it's flat kids get wrecked for wearing Shacks huh yeah for sure do

14:19 you guys remember Tony Hawks brand the bones one that was such a cool it was like a wannabe Converse and it was like a high top and it was called like Bones and ████ and then the logo was a ████ bone guy going like this out bone bird I remember his logo I think so yeah he had high tops it was like Converse it was so cool but I couldn't find it in my size Tony Hawk killing again hey what shoe is something that you ████ like oh I love these these are I don't like my my Jordan eights cuz they're rare like and then the other thing like all these kids are like just getting into sneakers and I'm a little bit of a gatekeeper like I just don't like culture vultures just like like what you like what's culture vulture like trying to beer not even trying to be black like if you're going to like Jordans you should like no basketball yeah like watch Jordan play or or you can just like no I like these sneakers but just be straight up about it so like Tik Tok kids will just wear

15:10 like only Jordan 1es or only Jordan 3's and think everything else is stupid so then I kind of like all the other ones cuz all these kids Jordan Ones are pretty dope though yeah Jordan Ones are like a dunk they're just so kids right now they be wearing ████ vintage shirts and ████ they and I'll be like oh ████ you like train spotting and they're like what is that and I'm like that's on your shirt it's a movie uh you don't know what it is they're like nah I like the design right where the beauty and vintage stuff is that you can wear stuff that we grew up actually enying so I buy a Star Wars shirt cuz it's the best movie ever and you wear a star war shirt I've always felt intimidated by Jordan 3s which one are Jordan 3 uh I so I'm impartial one I think they're one of the best Silhouettes and two they came out the year I was born what is a silhouette uh like just a little you know like a regular silhouette like silhouette of a sneaker okay what is that oh yeah yeah those are cool yeah they're just I just don't think I think they're cool for me i' seen those no Anthony would crush

16:01 those oh wait I don't think I could wear Jordan high top you couldn't pull those off no way so Jordan 3 some of the old school high tops are cool cuz they're kind of like uh not super high cuz when you're short high tops are rough it's meant to be worn with shorts that go down to your ankles oh I love that some jenko je what's your dream shoe you dream shoe so there's only like ████ 100 pairs but they came out with the uh the mcfli from oh yeah it's kind of like yeah it's like a Holy Grail the shoes ████ sick it cost like half a million dollars you can't get them no and they self they're self-tying right no I literally think they're like Tech like that yeah I have the other Tech ones the hyper flies I have those and same thing I don't know why the ████ I would ever wear them yeah €50,000 wait you have the do you have the back of the future shoe they called the hyperfly 50,000 what is that like 70,000 or something 7,000 a

16:53 knockoff like they they made a knockoff dude you know what shoe I loved I loved the the Kobes bro yeah all the Kobes are hot right now and it's just like especially like the later generation ones but four five 4 five 6 78 yeah I I used my favorite pair I got the Bruce Lee ones the the eights those are ████ dope I don't think Bart saw that I was going to try to find a a affordable pair and get them for Bart yeah I have the ████ slashes from I still have them bro those are like $1,000 but okay so but now you can't find any of them anywhere cuz they stopped making them right and it's just such a bummer because those were my favorite aesthetic looking shoes and they're comfy I played in those a lot what do you think about guys that wear f g I don't even know what that is yeah I don't know fash yeah it's like a dress Sho yeah that's Way Beyond me they light up like that dude those are like 1,500 bucks yeah they charge it V cuz they're self Laing it don't matter um the really

17:44 cool thing about it like my boy John gave some to his dop ex almost father-in-law ex-girlfriend's um Dad and because he's got like carpal tunnel and stuff like that so it's hard for him to tie shoelaces oh that's cool yeah so like when you think about like the purpose of it outside of just like cool fashion culture something like that and like somebody who like has a hard time tying shoelaces being able to step in the shoe and itself self lacing like ████ type type in uh Kobe Bruce Le to show Bart oh yeah I didn't know tin didn't design the first one he didn't design the first three did he start designing Jordan I think five maybe even yeah I don't know I got the 11s so working with him isn't that crazy or good then nah he sucks no he revolutionized ████ the entire thing got and on the back the I just got the U I got my boy the the all white Kobe

18:34 proos I try to get him I tried I got him for his birthday those are like the last part I really want to get uh they're coming out with the all black ones oh Mambo ones so yeah shout out to my boy Sebastian who works for me he he snagged the Mambo ones that came out they came out with the Kobe Bryant shoe for his daughter he got those I was with you I think I think we were at alphaland that early morning workout I was on my phone me and bar working out like get the my phone like this yeah and then of course my little homie gets some and I don't all what did Doc Martin say about people to you doc Mar are kind of on a dope comeback that's like I think they're sexy on I think they're sexy on they're ████ dope they're good shoe good quality sexy on dudes too I I got three pairs no they're cool sty collab boots baby that's you're going to jump somebody is good thick Souls bro thick Souls yeah if you got the right jeans and ████ yeah those are dope you're either a skin head racist or you're someone that just likes to

19:25 party that's it you can't be I'll stick to the party one then I guess you can't be a rock man or nothing the cool thing about having a bigger collection is if you don't wear them out then when things go out of style but then when they come back in you still have the sh bro I swear Jordans weren't cool like eight years ago yeah or the Kobes the Kobes that you have I had those and I just played in them yeah yeah yeah same yeah I ruined them cuz I played in them same ████ 20 years ago I had Ninja Turtle shoes and they weren't cool then and now I got told that quite a bit do they look like turtle shells cloggy looking I get Mart and ████ I got some new ████ Doc Martin deal hey what's your favorite joint right now Anthony Le what kind of shoes you I'm most excited for a shoe I've been waiting for ████ 6 months to come in the mail it's the K collab Adidas Samba Clarks they got the Clark Soul that's fire 6 months so you're into

20:16 sneakers how come you they work slowly yeah they probably liter put air even one time I have to dance you don't wear him here though he made you want me to wear here I want to see we want to see him in purpose have a comedian shoe how come we never brought us any air sessiones I think a comedian shoe would just be a shoe with the toe open and it's exposed that'd be sick openable I was trying to buy some air sessiones I couldn't find any yeah those are sick yeah those do you guys have a dream shoe right now oh those are cool yeah those are fire that's kith Clark and Adidas cab yeah looks like an Adidas shoe I don't care I don't care whatever we're just trying to represent ourselves you know we're trying think SE you're doing it with woo we respect it we always give you props yeah I love that woo but mine's all one

21:07 of one ████ you guys is all ████ Normy ass ████ but it's like one of 500 that's not Normy is it one of 500 no but a few the M probably are the funny thing about like the shoe scene it's it's only it only impresses other people in it and then people that aren't in it they're like what the ████ is that they're haters I'm not hating I feel like even just being in LA like remember the off FES where they have all these crazy tags and ████ on the side people like what the ████ you didn't take the tag off I I actually like shoes so I I actually yeah it's fun I like it more La people are into it than even NorCal like s like a lot of people aren't really into it now more so but growing up not a lot of people are into sneakers I always thought NorCal was like sneaker head Central especially like Oakland and San Francisco but a lot of that dude when I was in high school the all they wore is Vans got my Vans on but they look like sneakers always stand by Vans yeah Vans

21:58 right yeah you can't miss my parents are so cheap that growing up I was taught not to like brand things because we can't afford them but then once I get older I'm like wait the brand s███'s way ████ better you guys were just lying to me so I didn't want them but they're way better like I got Steve madens like for dress shoes and like change your life my my feet used to get cut up at weddings and ████ and now it's like who cares it's all good but I didn't know but have you seen the 7-Eleven Crocs though that's what I aspire to get there are some Crocs the guy who basically put Crocs on he was uh he just left Supreme he was Supreme's creative director I can't even if crazy hair yeah even if I remembered his name I probably couldn't say about the echos the echo clog ones those ones the one that kind of look like Kanye he makes them now yeah yeah yeah but he was like the first one to do a collab with them in like 2017 to set CR off uh or Emory

22:51 Emory founded by oh no the best shoe hands down it's the most functional shoe you guys are all wrong you're wrong yeah it might be TR I'm a real gamer dude you don't have a right to even ████ you know what I like about Crocs though you can cross streams and then it protects your feet from the rocks and then when you get out of the stream the water just comes out yeah bro where I live we have roads sometimes you go on a hike dude they don't wear like hiking boots you're going to soak your hiking boots in the Stream hopefully my boots are made for that ████ it's called hiking boots I why woulding Crocs with holes in it kind of like a Croc but it's like more of a sport shoe and I was in them I was letting my feet in the water it felt so nice dude I was walking in rocks streams dirt you're Slip Sliding around in the Crocs like with your sweaty feet too no dude no ████ way you like Tas I like teas I like teas I'd rather go there

23:41 than Croc probably you're wrong though sand you're wrong mys are for old ladies get them dude get them get them they I don't have a foot fetish but I like shoes on women Sho I wear I wear 13 I'm going to get you a size 13 Croc and you have to wear it you go socks and a Croc I go socks I go no socks I do ████ ankle sock the more Clowny it might get though yeah they look great mattero he's 6'4 he he won't look like n dude hey it doesn't cut your feet it cuts my feet up when I wear with no socks SC me once you get a pair of Crocs you're going to get so much puss dude it's puss bro yeah so much pretty down I need more these chicks away from talk about Crocs you guys are all wrong Crocs are the best I love [Laughter] ████

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