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Unplanned Sneaker Scouting At Nordstrom Rack, Variety Of Brands & observation
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Feb 19, 2025
Saturday evening I took my son to a birthday party and had two hours to blow. So I decided to visit the nearby Nordstrom Rack for an impromptu sneaker scouting. I have become almost uninterested in doing any scouting in the local mall stores because of the redundancy of their shelves. Nike always dominates 3/4 of their inventory with the same styles of shoes in various colors. So the mall’s scouting has become extremely tasteless and boring. But with places like Nordstrom Rack, one is more likely to come face to face with gems because of the variety of brands represented. I went from isle to isle, scanned the shelves and whatever caught my eyes made it to the video. Brands included were brooks, Sperry , Nike ( of course ), Adidas, Vans , Gucci, Avis, ON, Prada, Crocs and more. In the video I also discuss how brands munch off and copy one another. Crocs are extremely on demand now and Nordstrom Rack was filled with crocs/ clogs prototypes from other major brands. Be sure to check out my observations at the end.
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what's going on man this is type
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frommasterkicks.com
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and i came here by nostrum rock wanted
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to see
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what i could find as far as like james
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and stuff
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so i'll start with the big sizes and
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then we'll see what we get
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all right all the big footers out there
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got some kyries my goodness this is a
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size 18
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price is 79.97
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kyrie they got some new balances
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these are the uh i'm not sure what model
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is this
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i know it's a size 18
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then we got some 574s gigantic
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my goodness i'm gonna go to
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i saw some other things check out these
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brooks
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ravel three and it looks like some
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christmas shoes
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because the snow patterns on it
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snowflakes
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it's pretty nice chewy i think the price
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is
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52 48. pretty good shoe
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it looks really light look at these
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veins oh my goodness this is a
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nice looking shoe what the name of these
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are let me check the name
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i don't know what model this is oh man
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they look great got a camo pattern
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it's a converse built
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i think so all your cushioning comes
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from the insoles
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good shoe let's check out these gucci's
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i don't care much for these oh boy
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looks interesting there's nothing
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attractive really
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wow we got the old look today they're
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400
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let's see the price 449 oh my goodness
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there's another one here let's check
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this one out
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we got some kind of snake full snake
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skin pattern
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old looking midsole it's kind of look
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dirty but it's not really dead
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it's just how they made it look like and
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this is to also
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it's four four hundred dollars
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there's more in the bottom i don't know
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what the effect is huh trunks will
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drill to some kind of leather i mean
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these are let me see the price
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629 and you gotta be kidding me
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see this is the same that's on top
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this is a pretty nice avia brain it's
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built with some kind of tumble like
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material
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and uh textile in liner reforming it
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pretty light shoe it looks good good for
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walking
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memory foam why you got this memory foam
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in it it's only 24
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dollars now this is a good shoe to get
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for those that like to work
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nice shoe
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because it's all weather empty veins
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plush leather flush liner there cushion
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your
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ankle and it's also really cozy this is
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good for the winner
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and the shoot costs about 49.97
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nice landscapes high sperry
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man love these camouflage upper
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canvas straight top side that's
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a memory foam good looking shoe
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it's only 5.49 that's a little too high
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solely for your stick
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neon green highlight
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blue stripes white soft leather
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textiles there you go
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49 and itself it's a little too high
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one strike is i've never seen this shoe
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before they're called a valentino
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garbani
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299 for this man the material is just
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incredible
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nice suede
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but for 2.99 there's some kind of
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spikes on the midsole 299
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i've never seen this brand before this
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shows you how little we know
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me i know that little i know maybe you
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know better than i do
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gosh also got some on
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running shoes now this is one of the
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best frames
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ever if you don't know about this brand
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you better grab this man these are on
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cloud venture it's an incredible i'm
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actually working on right now
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i'm wearing the cloud stratus this is an
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incredible shoe right
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the metoo technology is incredible
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this is my second pair
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well
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it's an incredible brain very
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highly um ventilated and
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they meet so the technology cushioning
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is incredible
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like i said i'm wearing them i'm wearing
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the cloth striders now
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these are very very comfortable trucks
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are in so adidas have their own
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version of cracks right next to the
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actual
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train look at this adidas is pretty much
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binding they got different
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models it looks like a shelter it's
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actually pretty cool
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how much of them let me see the price
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you can't see the price on it
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it's very suitable interesting
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that's it so they put it right next to
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us
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like i say a lot of people are wearing
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crocs now so clogs
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wow that's some adidas
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superstar is distance several years ago
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these
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were selling like pancakes now they kind
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of died
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so they got around how much 49 that's
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too much
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way too much sperry
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also has their own version of that now
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cracks look at it
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let's put it up let's see how much is it
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going for
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the price 39.97
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these people are crazy man
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there's some nmds on a clearance rack
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and these are
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64 hours they're still too high prime
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needs this is a really plush material
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and they've got another bed here
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i don't know where these are the multi
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colors
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this is uh mesh material
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the other one actually wasn't priming it
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was just some kind of new box like
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materials
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i'm sorry about that these are also
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64. a little too expensive
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it's funny because i didn't plan on
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actually going to any store doing any
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kind of scouting
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because i took my son to a birthday
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party and i decided to just go to a
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nursing rock so just some nice
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observations a lot of different
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um brains represented i didn't want to
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just stick to like nike shoes because
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that's all everybody does
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so i wanted to see a little bit of a
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variety of brains so they have a lot of
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stuff in there but
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for nordstrom rack i mean i feel like
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the prices are a little too
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too much man too high some of the shoes
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they are like some veins you can find
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those vans for like 20
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24 25 and 30 dollars on zoomies or
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even uh what you call the other players
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journeys manage selling those for like
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45 49 50
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that's just too much that's observation
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number one number two
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uh the gucci shoes are too pricey i mean
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i see what they're trying to do with it
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they make the shoe looks like it's a
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little old to kind of add that kind of
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feel to it like
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advantage but six hundred dollars for
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those shoes
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i don't think it's worth it i mean i've
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felt the material it's not like it's
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premium material i felt it i touched it
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i'm like man
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i mean that's a little pricey and for
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for not some rack to even have that i'm
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kind of like surprised they have those
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in there
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but they're too pricey you know so i'm
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not going to be the one to get no good
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shoes on the prada shoes that's just too
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much it's out of my league i don't have
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that kind of money and then the next
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observation is
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there's so many other brands there like
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if yeah
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if you are here however you want to say
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they got some good shoes man and on
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as far as like comfort and functionality
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if yeah i would say avia and then on is
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probably the best brand i mean for me
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i can't wear no nike shoes anymore i i
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mean i'm sticking with on
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on sneakers man they are so comfortable
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and i'm just
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i just love it so there's a lot of
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variety so people need to stop
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complaining about nike shoes and stuff
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like that
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if you really want if you can't get any
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more nike shoes
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get any other brand there's so many
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options there i mean i showed you like
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our little i know about brains because
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i saw that valentino garavani i didn't
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even know they existed
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but again they were too pricey but
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there's a lot of different brands
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you can't just stick to one brand and
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complain about how
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nike is not making enough shoes listen
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there's a lot of variety there so if you
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complain that's because
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you're stuck up and you're narrow-minded
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and you don't you don't really want
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you want the shoes for the hype you're
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not really looking for a good quality
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comfortable
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and good-looking shoe that you're just
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doing it for the hype and the next thing
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i saw is
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you can see what a lot of brains they
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just copy each other copycat like
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now uh crocs are in pretty much because
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i i went everywhere you go you see kids
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like yankees they wear cracks so
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now adidas is now like they created
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their own version of the cracks
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you saw what what i showed you in the
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picture which is funny because people
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always complain about
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uh bootleggers and and how they're
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trying to create all these knockoffs
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i mean brands do it all the time adidas
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just showed you and sperry is doing the
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same thing so it's not like it's
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it's something that just a particular
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set of people are doing even
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big giant brains the copy and the munch
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of somebody else's success so
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it is nothing new under the sun so those
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are just my observation for today you
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know i just wanted to just do that
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because i'm kind of sick and tired of
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like looking at every time like jordan
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retros and stuff so
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i just wanted to see a variety of
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different brands so there's a lot to see
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you know i just wanted to
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i didn't plan on it i like doing things
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like this but i don't i don't
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it wasn't a plane thing i just went out
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and i just picked my phone up
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and i just started just filming so i
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would love
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again don't complain about brains if you
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don't if you can't get no jordan retros
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there's so many other brands that you
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can get so i would encourage you to just
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do that instead of just sticking to just
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one set of shoes you know you you
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actually you can save more money those
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heavier shoes were incredible brooks got
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a
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nice shoe i mean there's so many other
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brains so
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stop complaining and just go and get
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something else like you got to be a
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smart buyer
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and then as we get older we need to like
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start thinking even you don't even have
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to be older like
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even a young person you got to make some
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better choices when it comes to like
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these brains
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what are you looking for comfort are you
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looking for status what are you looking
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for in the shoe
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it will inform how you spend your money
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if you're looking for status if you're
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looking for
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to fit in then of course you're going to
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complain but if you just want a good
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quality shoe
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there's so many other options there and
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stop complaining alright that's all i
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wanted to say today have a wonderful day
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i'll see you next time
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thank you
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