Guys: With Bryan Quinby - Guys: Episode 22 - Hypebeasts With Tony Boswell, Tom Sexton and Stefan Heck

Episode Date: July 11, 2023

Chris is camping so, in order to have a representative from Vancouver I had Stefan heck (Blocked Party and Go Off Kings) come on and cohost a round table discussion about Hypebeasts from 3 guys who have had their very own hypebeast phase We looked into bots, the supreme charcoal grill, talked about our own stupidly expensive outfits and some reviews of hypebeast stores, and finally we talked about the bape knockoffs on Amazon Tony Boswell is at twitter.com/wordisbond https://www.patreon.com/miniondeathcult and twitch.tv/wordisbond and he is a great guy and you should check his stuff out Tom Sexton is at twitter.com/thetrillbillies https://www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty/ Stefan Heck is at twitter.com/boring_as_heck https://www.twitch.tv/gooffkings and patreon.com/blockedparty

so chris isn't here so i'm gonna say welcome to guys a podcast about guys that's a podcast about guys. That's a medium level of enthusiasm. Chris has been yelling at me about my non-enthusiastic welcome to guys, a podcast about guys. So I do a really enthusiastic one on the Yelp guys episode, and he yells at me for that. So we are recording this. Chris is not here, but I have my Vancouver quotient here. It's all handled. I got Stephan Heck here from Blocked Party and the Go-Off Kings.

What's up, Stefan? Hi, Brian. Thanks for having me. I live very close to Chris also as well. I know. He's out in the woods. He's out camping somewhere. It's like, and I think we're trying to get him on Blocked Party this week

for like a hangout episode too, but he's away obviously. But I'm very happy to be here uh i'm i'm very excited for the subject matter of this episode and congrats no flubs right off the top i know well yeah i i mean i won't flub because i did i did i'm not doing audio on this one okay uh the horror guys that i'll bring in the other guests too we got two more guests but one of them's late but we got tony boswell from minion death cult here too what's up tony hey tony showing also very excited to uh talk about one of my favorite demographics you know yeah tony has so we are talking about hypebeast this week. And Tony has been with me. Tony, you were with me when the genesis of me becoming a hypebeast happened.

Yeah, yeah. We were in California. We were in L.A. We were on Fairfax. And we were walking. And I saw somebody compliment another person on their clothes and i said i gotta get i gotta get clothes that people compliment on the street you wanted a stranger to talk about your clothes that was that was the whole okay and as soon as i saw it i got home and i was like

where do you buy this stuff stock x which by the way if you're listening to this show, don't buy shit off of StockX. I bought so much shit off of StockX. I probably spent, and this is, I'm making, I was making half the money I make now. Literally one half of the money. And I was spending way, people think my Lego habit is like this out of hand like thing if they had seen my clothes habit when i was doing the hype stuff when i was broke like now i could do the hypey stuff it wouldn't even be a big deal because i'll never buy anything off of stock x again i'd rather buy something fake you know what i mean they make it too easy they make it too easy to buy stuff off i guess i bought a pair of i bought a pair of Crocs for $115 on accident on SockX.

I mean, they were the Soleil Bomberi ones, so they're sick. And that's actually not a bad price for them. But again, I didn't mean to do it. I was just browsing my size and then it said, congratulations. And I was like, I don't't have $150 for Crocs right now what do they look like what do their Crocs look like because Crocs are cool I like Crocs

they're the soleil bomb area ones they're designed after like they look like a thumbprint kind of you usually see them in like really bright colors but I got the black ones can I show you guys my Crocs can I grab my Crocs as long as we get to see all the ones. Can I show you guys my Crocs? Can I grab my Crocs? As long as we get to see all the additions.

I want to show you guys my Crocs, too. Okay. Those look nice. Those look good. I'll get my Crocs. I forget what you call them. The beans with a J, I think. That thing John told me about. Gimlets.

I should know what these are uh gibbets gibbets yeah i gotta see it now i know you have some gibbets on there one sec i'll be right back i looked at some gibbets because i was thinking about getting crocs too had them in my hand tried them on i tried them on tony and i hated how they felt i was gonna go crocs i was gonna go what were you wearing socks yes i i i pretty much can't i can't wear my my crocs barefoot that's crazy i go between i go between my crocs and my and my birkenstocks oh that's those are those are sick and then i have the, look, this one you guys will like as a hypebeast thing. It's the Anti-Crock Croc Club.

There's so much irony happening there. And then this is the Atlanta Thrashers logo. Basically, on Block Party we got like, we did a contest for people to send us the worst gibbets they could find. I think the one we settled on was it was like a white claw but with donald trump on it and it was so bad i forget

exactly what it was but we had a lot of really shitty ones uh and those are like the two best ones we got and so i just keep them on my crocs and you guys are right i wear crocs with socks all the time like that's the way yeah It's not the way that I do things. I tried them on and I hated them. Really? Because I found out from John about those gibbets things or whatever they are. And I was looking them up and they had fentanyl ones and heroin ones and stuff like that. I was like, that would make me look cool as hell. Someone sent us a Narcan one, I think is one of those we got yeah so that's that's legitimately cool it was pretty

sick yeah yeah and uh people know this uh that listen to guys plus and i think i even posted it online that chris was making fun of me and i i want to bring this up early in this in in the episode because people think that's that hype beast means just buying supreme stuff yeah but in reality you can generally do it pretty cheap if you're into vintage stuff and you're willing to go chase down bootleg shirts like because that's the thing like chris was making fun of me because i have a t-shirt that has deadpool smoking a joint sitting on sitting on top of a nike sign it says just hit it and that's like my coolest shirt that i own yeah and it was 20 bucks it was great i mean that's the thing though is like because the thing about the hypebeast is you can't do the cheap

things you can't do the vintage things you have to even if you get a good deal on it you can't let people even know that oh i know because everything is like status everything is like that's all it's all that matters like i mean i'm the kind of person like oh you like my shirt let me tell you about the sale that i found it on yeah found it on such sale but if you're a hype beast you're like oh I paid aftermarket bro I hey I tell people I was I I tell people what I paid for shirts and these dumb motherfuckers I got so mad I bought all these at this palace shirt that was 250 bucks I was so excited to put this shirt on yeah all right and i put it on and i probably put it on like i probably wore it like 15 times before anybody said hey that's a cool

shirt and i immediately was like that's a waste of money i don't need i should be that's a cool shirt every three to four times i wear it yeah you got to remember you started that at that mentality in los angeles and now you're wearing a palace shirt which is a niche company a niche skateboard company that happens to be a very hype beast company because of the collaborations in like columbus yeah like it's not your fault that you know that you played yourself by being too cool if you wear that in toronto cool yeah you're in toronto this weekend brian uh where in toronto i bet you you'll get some well i guess you're going to a wrestling thing so but i i don't know i mean

i think i think people will compliment you there's a good skate scene in toronto so you'll get you'll get you'll get big ups you'll get props yeah i will say i mean i told you which store to go to as well i know producer dan's gonna be there he can he can he can help you around is this your first time out of the country i know yeah basically i went to winter when i was like 11 or something like that but so it would be a lie if i said yes it's my first time out of the country but yeah as an adult as an adult as an adult yeah and i just want to say this right now early in the episode i am eyeing a supreme coleman charcoal grill right now that i am truly thinking about buying okay you should eye the supreme stickers instead i have the coleman grills separately yeah that's a good idea i think no the coleman grill is like a table time right

now you i feel like you guys aren't seeing this but i feel like coleman grills are already red right look at this i'm looking at the coleman grill here this is is it the one that's 100 oh it's like a hibachi type thing yeah it's 99 retail that's why i feel like i have to buy it 99 fucking retail dude that does look pretty cool to be honest i know that's pretty tight it does look sick yeah well i went looking around for hypebeast they are incredibly uninteresting to read on red Reddit or any of that stuff. And I'm going to tell you why. Because 99% of what goes on on Reddit with the Hypebeast is they post like 10 pictures of a shirt.

They say LC, which means legit check. And then everybody in the thing is like, oh, that's real or oh, that's fake. And this is like a crisis to me now because i spent time on the stock x subreddit and found out like all kinds of stories about stock x like approving approving stuff that was fake like for real that they sent in knowing it was fake and they approved it and shit like that and i'm just like oh, oh, no. So, I mean, it's all probably counterfeit. 90% of everything that everybody's wearing has to be counterfeit. Tom's here.

Tom Sexton. Hey, what's up? Hey, Tom. What's happening? Sorry for being tardy. Oh, hey. Tom is also a real reason. I saw him wear cool shirts when we were on tour

and then was told how much they cost and i said i gotta get into something like that with the shirts that cost a lot of money i need that i try it's a white trash thing for real it is like a thing where it's like if a thing is 250 and you have it you feel like god damn i i a 250 The thing I use to celebrate The fact that I'm making more money When I was in California was that I bought a whole Bape outfit a pair of shorts And a shirt

And I know Chris loves Bape too he's a huge Bape head Yeah Tom is not a Bape head Supreme for Tom Right Formerly yeah I've kind of Moved on to greener pastures yeah i got some news for you guys i do have some news for you let's get this started here let's read some content here i got something for tom that i think i think you'll find pretty interesting

and that is uh google reviews of undefeated in las Okay. Yeah, my former place of employment, briefly. Eight seconds. IMSOL Houston gave it one star and said, came all the way from Houston, Texas to shop here. And honestly, it was an extremely disappointing experience. First of all, don't travel across state lines to go to an Undefeated. What an insult to houston too like there's there's somebody who owns a little shop in houston that's reading this like what

the fuck man like i'm right i'm right here yeah yeah there has to be tons of shit in houston right you got uh screwed up uh records and tapes yeah you know what i mean you can go get the big uh flat bill that says screwed up click on the front. That's way cooler than anything you get. Undefeated. Well, this guy said asking them to grab a size for you was like pulling teeth. I took it upon myself to

remove a pair of shorts off the rack to compare sizing and was immediately asked to hang them back up. What an inconvenience for you to have to do your job, fellas. I love guys that get mad like that. That's like my favorite mad at a retail worker. It's something I've learned since I started doing this is that like 99% of

the time, if the retail worker had said, just keep doing what you're doing and enjoy yourself, then they wouldn't freak out, but they will absolutely lose their fucking mind if somebody says, don't take that off the shelf. Put that thing back. You've got to fold

that shirt again, dude. He goes, I wish I could rate it zero stars, but I'm sure it wouldn't matter to them anyways. There's plenty of other places to spend your money in Vegas. He's pretty mad mike famously yes that's true one of their things for sure yeah has anyone else like has anyone else like worked retail i

used to run a skate shop and it was like work like work retail no i've never done it because i've never been able to be hired at a place that sells things that cost more than like 40 the closest i got was i i worked at a plumbing wholesale warehouse for years and i was like like front of house sort of dealing with like the plumbers which is fine yeah because the plumbers know what the fuck they're talking about but when like a homeowner would come in and they were clearly trying to not hire a plumber and do it for as cheap as possible. I mean, that would just be a disaster. But I guess that's not really, that's as close to retail.

Well, there's a really nice- And then when they put the Supreme box logo on the quarter-inch pot nipples, you know, they were right up the corner. Yeah. There is the thing, there is that new Hypebeast toilet. It's not like a Supreme thing, but I see it as a Hypebeast toilet,

the one that you get I get advertised a bunch. It's the square one with the lights on it. Have you seen this new fancy toilet? I'll get you a picture of a fancy toilet because I get it. I love a fancy toilet. Oh, it's a good toilet,

but it's like a Toto toilet. You can't go wrong with Toto. What is that toilet It's a What is it What is the Kohler It's a Kohler Okay yeah

It's a fancy Kohler K-O-H-L-E-R I'm gonna find this fucking toilet for everybody Cause it's like in a It's like It's like limited edition It dude I think I found it

Here we go Here I'm gonna give you guys the fancy toilet tour here. I don't have the picture of it bathed in light, in blue light. Okay. But this is the basic idea right here. Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

I don't know if they have a bidet that hooks up to that nicely And smoothly It has one Okay cool cool is it heated Uh yes Okay cool then we're rocking then we're good It's a $5,000 toilet Jesus Christ

Those are the ones that also I've seen them before Where you walk up to them and the lid opens very slowly Automatically I can't have a slow opening. Oh, that's bad. What if you didn't flush? There's a chance they weren't going to see it anyways. It might have just stayed down,

and then it dramatically reveals. Oh, here's a picture of the real toilet. Here's the picture of the toilet that I always see in ads. Because I was like, I want to get this toilet if I move. There it is. that's the toilet polar smart toilet promises a fully immersive experience yeah i guess i want my toilet to be immersive if you like does that it means you shit in it what does that mean i just toilet oh my god thanks to the many lighting and audio enhancements so what kind of audio enhancements we're talking very

curious about that doesn't do a white noise to like mute your shit noises that would be it has built-in surround sound speakers ambient mood lighting and amazon alexa voice controls i mean that's too that's too much you can get it for nine grand in black though you can get the black one in nine grand the black one i don't know why we're talking about the white one now the other thing this this does have and i've sat on a toilet like this before it has the heated seat which is legitimately so nice to have on a toilet it's amazing yeah i'm gonna be honest with you guys i don't think i've ever sat on a toilet of any consequence. We got to change that.

I don't like a hot seat, though. I don't like a heated seat. But that's because my experience with heated seats is going in after my kid and sitting down on the still warm toilet. That'd throw me off, too. Mike Vegas says you're on the bidet train yet Tom well I used one one time

at a nice hotel I was at and I thought that was pretty pleasant but I've not pulled the trigger for my home setup use it in the comfort of your own home where you can shamelessly just let it run for like three minutes you'll love it it feels great oh man I guarantee it well I looked at Nike talk Nike talk and there was a question there about if Bape is still cool.

And this guy says, if I'm not mistaken, Bape was in style many, many, many moons ago in a city I like to call New York. Did I hop on the Bape wagon then? No, because I have my own sense of style, and I wear different brands. The one i like the most is polo so that's right i kind of like the idea shops and low heads i kind of respect the low heads only because like like mostly they started as like stealing from like nordstrom and stuff like that which is extremely cool no matter how you like you slice whatever you think about polo clothes

it's very cool to steal polo clothes what's interesting because i was on nike talk and the the most shocking thing in the other brand's thread was people trying to get their hands on some fucking under armor shoes and then i i was like hype beast is dead it's over if they're buying under armor the whole thing's over i don't want anything to do with it anymore yeah so uh i went to supreme clothing's reddit and they have an incense stick out i don't know if you guys uh know about the new incense stick that just dropped and it says what a crap basically unusable if you don't want to clean your surface every time i'm going to show you the i have a self-cleaning incense burner

well it yeah here it is here's your incense burner um so they're mad about that oh i see okay but it seems like they don't know that that not all incense is uniform either and that it's possible that the incense burner isn't crooked that the incense is crooked you know what i'm saying so people start replying roy batty says yeah you're to burn hundreds of incense sticks and lab test this thing, bro. Put it on a metal tray and go about your business. So that guy's okay with it, really. Yeah, yeah. And then TheEpicness666 said, you think companies...

That's a cool name, by the way. I will say this. The Hypebeast names have been the best names I've found. I'm doing the Vince McMahon reaction to that name and seeing the epicness and sitting back and then falling off my chair when you get to 666. They have the best names of all the

names, but I've only looked at total dorks up until now. Here's the thing, too. You still are. You're just wearing expensive shirts. Yeah. But I'm one. And Tom has been one.

And Tony has been one. And Steppenby's stuff. So we're allowed to be mean to them. Yeah, absolutely. Bloody Sofa said, why would you bother when none of them were supposed to make it out of their packaging? So he's like, don't take that shit out. Why are you burning incense? Are the hot base guys still like, is this their retirement plan?

A lot of them, like, are they stashing? Oh, like the sneaker guys, sort of? Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah. I find them like, they're the same to me, right? Like, they're the same. They fall in the same umbrella. I started looking into backdoor. I find them like they're the same to me, right? Like they're the same. Yeah. They fall in the same umbrella. Yeah. I started looking into backdoor.

I don't know if you guys know what backdoor connections are in the hypebeast world, but that is, you know, a guy that works at the shoe store, you pay that guy a subscription fee. Like one guy said he pays his guy a thousand dollars a month and then he goes there and he gets his pick of all the new drops because the guy works at the store and can hook them up and i was like that might actually be a business no i was doing that in like 2007 yeah we would what you would do is you would you would tell because they would have like cities would have releases because i was a big sb Cause I was a big SB guy.

I was a big SB guy in 2006. I was like, till like, you know, a little bit later. And you would, they would have regional releases. So what you would do is you tell the home,

you're, Hey, I'll buy you, I'll buy you two pairs. You buy me four more shipping my way. And that's how it went, you know? And so,

yeah, that, that, that's like, that's like the, that's been going on forever. And it's been like ruined. You see that you see the kid that whose mom worked for nike uh some kid got caught whose mom worked for nike had like four storage sheds full of of nike that that people

couldn't find because he was getting straight from his mom who worked in corporate i do remember that i do she got fired it made nike it's the reason why they had to like try to revamp the sneakers app and they're doing more production is this basically this one kid which kind of bit them in the ass right because now they're sitting on all these like unmovable air jordans because that moment from a few years ago is kind of past right yeah and also like he was buying he was buying everything was that was that was speculation because there's so much speculation in the shoe game. Yeah. I think the sneakers specifically –

Some of them have been taken back too. Yeah. Sneakers specifically seems to be more of the investment sort of thing than shirts or pants or whatever. Here it is. Nike PP's son uses mom's credit card to backdoor and resell shoes. Then the audacity to put entrepreneur in his instagram bio hey where's your life where's your life i mean he's a scammer right that's what

entrepreneurs are basically right good point yeah and hebert a nike employee of 25 years who most recently served as vp overseeing its north american business left the company on monday according to an internal email viewed by Complex. We thank Ann for her more than 25 years with Nike and wish her well. Nike also put Ann Hebert made the decision to resign. Hebert's leaving Nike comes day after a publication of Bloomberg Business Week piece focused on her son, a 19-year-old sneaker reseller named Joe. The piece mentions a credit card Joe used for his reselling business, West Coast Streetwear, that was registered in Ann's name.

The reseller insisted to the story's author that his personal connection to a Nike exec not be written about in the piece and cut off communication after it was brought up. Got lost in the sauce, bro. You don't do a story on yourself if that's how you're doing your business man you can't do that you imagine having like a four hundred thousand dollar a year gig that your shithead kid like knocks you out of because you start something called west coast sneakers emporium or whatever listen to this part ann hebert purview at nike included included its sneakers app a destination for

coveted product because yeah whenever i see people talking about the sneakers app online it's it's just them complaining about it they never yeah i have a reddit guy that is so mad at it uh i i'll i'll get it right here because it is the worst. Yeah, I mean, I'm learning about bots. Like, okay, here it is. Here it is. Chief Assassin 38. Another cool name. Another incredible name, yeah.

He's like talking about chiefing, right? Like smoking weed? Or maybe he's the chief of assassins, too. Let's not rule that out. Fuck sneakers. Fuck you backdooring ass little bitches fucking the game up i'm done have it you see he's going to shit every drop is nothing but bots and people get nothing but l's i think this was it for me done with sneakers completely that's why they've turned to under Armour. I think that's true.

So I'm on the Livestock website right now, which is a Canadian sort of like, I would say it's like a streetwear store, like a hype-y store. I've told Brian he needs to go there when he's in Toronto this weekend. I got this hat there, this sweater there. I love it. It's great. But one thing I've noticed,

and this is maybe the last couple of years, but the big shoe brands at these places are like Salomon or like uh like asics merrill like all these kind of outdoorsy or yeah yeah yeah so i think i think that's a good point tom i think maybe because of that people are just like we gotta try something else here you know well this is this this kid that got in trouble his mom got in trouble listen to this shit. The Bloomberg Businessweek story sparked outrage online where commenters questioned whether the young Hebert was gaining

unfair access to limited edition sneakers with the help of his mother. Some brought up the six pairs of rare Nike mags which sell for $12,000. For people that don't know what that is, those are the shoes from back to the 12

six six of them he had six that's 12 individuals that's insane they're the shoes from back to the future and they do the like fastening like like that That shoe also, when they brought that out, they were auctioning those off to raise money for Parkinson's disease, for Michael J. Fox. That means that this little bastard took six pairs, and they were selling

for like $20,000, $30,000, $40,000 to pop. Now, Parkinson's research to flip for his own benefit you can't have six pairs you're telling yourself like that's a tip that you floss too much your gums will bleed you you can't let anyone know you have six pairs yeah yeah like keep selling them whatever you can't let anyone know it's like goodfellas after the airport heist when they show up wearing like a fur coat

yeah i knew those shoes were like insanely rare and and you basically can't even buy them you know the the mags because nobody wants to sell them because they're so cool uh adam the hut 84 responded and said yeah i don't know I mean, they're all so good. Yep. No one ever wins on sneakers. It's totally fucked, and Nike sucks. Nike doesn't care who their shoes go to, just that they sell out.

Fuck Nike. Fuck Nike so fucking much. And then if that's what it takes to get them to say, fuck Nike, then that's not a bad thing. Because, I mean, don't get me wrong. I'm a consumer. I have plenty of Nikeike but it's still fuck nike they're still like objectively evil company yeah yeah and also like i don't try to buy many shoes anymore because i'm you know a punk ass vegan and um but every once in a while there's a pair of shoes that

fits my criteria and i try to win them and i can't win them and i only try like four or five times a year and i still can't win it so yeah I'm also like Fucking for those reasons too Tony go for the Asics they're great Yeah the Asics are sick and they have all the recycled materials Yeah Well I found this today on One of the recent Supreme drops had

A Kurt Cobain sweater It is Not something I would wear I'm going to share it with everybody In here It's not something i would wear i'm gonna share it with everybody in here um it's not something i would wear but okay uh that's it it's a it's kind of just it's ugly as yeah it's not great and i was reading the comments for that and i i got uh i don't understand the purest so somebody was like kurt probably wouldn't like it to know that they put his face on a 400 sweater like somebody

mentioned that and i said i think that might be true i mean probably dream said i don't understand a purist hate about this sweater it's a cool piece but fun nonetheless and they don't know much about kurt because otherwise they wouldn't say that he'd ate it he became less anti-capitalist at some point and i i don't know when yeah when like right before he blew his own head off i mean get more anti-capitalist than that you know yeah you know who's not using the iphone i don't think he did either by the way just for people listening maybe he said like sometimes i don't mind capitalism maybe but you you know he goes I don't see those people hating the Kurt shit we see in every Walmart and whatnot. It's stupid, LOL.

And then Repulsive Reporter 621 said, I don't know how I feel about putting on a sweater with another man's face. It's gay to wear a sweater with a guy on it? There's Kurt Cobain's sweater. Pause. there's cricone bane sweater pause just like going around being so like like weird and homophobic that you end up only wearing wnba jerseys because it's like a jason says the shit this shit's proof you guys will pay for anything with the supreme logo on it in 2023 still why to add 1771 said first of all i'm not even able to see the supreme logo besides the inside tag which is normal for every brand second of all this piece just looks fire great knitting with a fancy pattern i love the hall the hallmark of a of a hot beast guys he

doesn't refer to something as a hat or a shirt or a sweater it's a piece yeah that's a red flag for sure that's also like a weed guy thing too i feel like right yeah talking about bongs or something yeah fire calling it saying something is just like i don't know why this piece is just fire he said stop all this hate just because you don't like it imagine everyone here would go through your wardrobe and tell you after every piece that shit because it's just got a logo on it so i don't know you could look through my stuff i mean most of it is shit but i got some pretty nice it's the two-edged sword of the hot beast thing it's like part of what they're attracted to is like the knowing like you see another guy that's wearing this like sort of arcane brand that's like cool or like

kind of under the radar and you know it's like a you know you you you dress in cool street wear for the male gaze let's be clear about oh yeah because women do not give a shit about women don't care about the shit at all at all my girlfriend fucking hates this hat so much more than anything in the world and it's just like a gray hat. Turtle Hermit 54 said, never thought this brand would steep this low. What's next? A Red Hot Chili Peppers collab? Come on now.

Noah did that. Who did? Noah? Did they do a play on the Noah logo and the Red Hot Chili Peppers logo I think so yeah I think they did That makes sense That was weird

They did a Mother's Milk skateboard That's so embarrassing The Red Hot Chili Peppers is one I just can't I can't abide That could be one I feel like that Hypebeast could sort of like Appropriate like ironically too right To be like this man sucks But like that Hypebeast could sort of like Appropriate like ironically too Right to be like this band Sucks but like that's why we're wearing it

The joke forever though about Hypebeast And like pop culture like Consuming like the joke was always The there's an old video Of when Supreme did a Morrissey release And there's A line around the block And they're asking everybody about their favorite Morrissey songs

And no one has an answer. Right, right, yeah. And that's kind of the whole. Because, yeah, it is. And that's kind of when I got on my little high horse and was like, I'm fucking over this shit. This is stupid. It's not pure anymore. I never was.

I'm a fucking idiot. They've been putting dumb shit on those. I mean, like, Tom, you sent me. I still wear this shirt all the time The white velvet underground shirt Yeah yeah The box logo is very discreet So yeah but I think people

Just think I'm also just wearing a Velvet underground shirt I don't think They know it's a supreme shirt which is Let down for me but you also like Velvet underground I do Could tell them what the albums and the songs are. I could actually tell them a bunch of Velvet Underground songs. That's a big family band in this house.

Everybody likes them. But I found a guy named Blazendary on Twitter, or on YouTube, and he did a video called, it's a very funny name, Turning a School nerd into a hype beast okay i want to say so i i replied to this and i was like so like this is an attack on me i think this is why you're having me on the episode and i realized right after i i replied to that literally like 10 seconds before that someone else was like, are you going to have Stefan on for this episode? Do you know Blazendary?

I don't know. Okay. So, Robbie, I'm not going to play the video because it's not very interesting to listen to. It's just literally a guy with his friend. His friend shows up in khakis and a gray shirt. He's like, this is not hype. We got to help you out. This guy's got a 4.8 grade point average, which doesn't exist.

I don't know where he got that, but I thought I would read that the fit is also horrible. It's like a Supreme Christmas sweater and a pair of MNML track pants. Not very cool. Robbie Palermo 114 said, I love what he said at the end about expressing yourself and how it doesn't change who you are. I relate to this hell well, because I love my chains and jewelry, but people just assume I'm trying to be cool. It's shit how society is like this now, man. I love how we're kind of like conservatives

in that we long for this pure time when things were like right. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's like the Hot Beasts community. It's kind of like that era Tony described, when uh reselling was almost like a cool little hustle and not just like an obnoxious like you know i like this guy though saying like i you know i don't wear the jewelry for like other people and it's pretty lame that people look down on

me for wearing jewelry um who's doing it who's looking down Who's looking down on you for wearing jewelry? He just says, I love my chains and jewelry, but people just assume I'm trying to be cool. It's shit how society is like this now. All the time, I'm like, oh man, that's a cool chain. He's like, it's not what it's about,

man. Not what I do, man. Not what I do it, man. Not why I play. No, thank you. This is a guy, and I found this on a recent episode of Guys Plus. We were looking at Bear Grylls TV shows, and you noticed that there were a ton of... So Bear Grylls TV shows. And you notice that there were a ton of, so Bear Grylls has a show where he takes celebrities out and they try to,

you know, live in a wild or whatever. And there was just a bunch of people in the reviews, giving it five stars and then saying, I think it would be cool if you took like a regular person out in the wild, like me or something like there was just a ton of that so this blazendary this guy this keegan says blazendary i'm not writing this to get a comment or get anything from you parentheses a comment would be cool though but i gotta say i think you truly seem

like a cool and good person regardless of how much clothes jewelry and money you have it's great how you give so much in return towards your friends fans and family that's a good quality to have and show young kids not just always not to always get then give it's fun watching these turning a fan into a hype beast videos because you let the fan pick what they like and not persuade them into something else so keep up the good work man man. Stay true to you. P.S. If you're interested in following me, I, my Instagram is, it gives us Instagram. This is, this is, this is where like, cause I'm, I'm sure, I feel like Tom can relate to this. I feel like part of being like,

part of being in SF was like, you know, you kind of respect your homies and like that, but most of it was like, Hey, like most of it was like hating like most of it was like my shit's tight your shit's whatever i can wear the same shirt you're wearing i'm gonna wear it a little bit different it's gonna be better you're definitely like i come from like the hate was so strong that if i was on a message board i'm like we got motherfuckers named keegan in here now fuck this is played out keegan keegan cares about this shirt i don't care about this shirt. That's how petty it was.

And now he's like, this is wonderful. We're spreading love. We're doing great things. It's not for everybody. That was the whole point. It was like, you were supposed to be different. Now it's like, no, everyone do it. Everyone go wear the same outfit.

It's actually interesting that you bring that up because I always think that about people who work at restaurants. that you bring that up because i always think that about people who work at restaurants they're they're the only good restaurant in town is the restaurant they work at and all the rest of them are shit and they're evil and they have the worst hiring practices and the food suck my sister's a chef a sous chef at a really okay okay so real restaurants like yeah it's a very nice place it's like a rooftop kind of place and uh that's fine but anytime we say we went to a restaurant she's like i heard some bad stuff about them and the food's like actually not real good and they're generally just ripping us off so it's like and i've noticed that about hypebeast too where it's like if they don't get something in a drop,

that thing is shit. You know what I mean? Like, that's what it seems to be. This guy says, Andre Evil Ronte said, wow, if I had a best friend like you, Blazendary, I would be blessed. And a person then Lulu Lovett 9960 says, to be honest, flexing your intelligence is better than flexing your clothes and shoes. So I think so. Wow. I'm like a sapiosexual hype beast. This guy says, I have mad respect for people who don't feel the need to wear brands like Supreme, etc. And I wish I was one, but I'm not.

I like my brand. I love that guy. He's a loyalist. I know what's good. It's like when you smoke and one of your friends quits smoking. You're like, fuck! I admire you for doing that, and I really want to do that,

but I'm also going to go outside and smoke. God, you know, honestly, I probably would buy some Supreme Marlboros. I'd buy that pack. That would make its way onto the mantle. Better if they were Winston's, though. You know, because that's more...

With the red branding, it'd probably be like the full strength. No filters. Or on the filter what i found interesting was i then found blazendary's um subreddit and there's only subreddit or like their their profile the fan subreddit like where people can go blazendary has a million followers right or million subscribers so i find it and i look at it and there's only like five posts on there but the very top post says uh do not buy from blaze and dairy on whatnot he sold me three fake travis scott hoodies and during the time he sold it to me he unloaded

hundreds of hoodies on average like 150 bucks he made so much money off fakes now he's selling designer stuff seriously be careful so that's so funny because i feel like that sort of happened when the last time i was on guys was to talk about like the autograph guys the sports memorabilia guys and there was the guy who got ripped off for like tens of thousands of dollars buying jerseys with fake autographs on them so it seems like that yes it this this happens uh with any any guys episode where they're like collecting something or buying something i feel like someone's always getting scammed or ripped off i love yeah well and and it's because of their so we'll go on to this next thing that i actually discovered so if you go on on Amazon and you type bape, things come up.

Okay. And we 100% know. Thanks, you can't unsee. Well, we 100% know you're not getting bape on Amazon. No, I don't think so. No. 100% fucking impossible. So I'm going to show you guys this.

It is what's supposed to be a babe hoodie. It costs $27. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, no. It's $27. Just wanted to see if it was real or similar

to the real brand, but noticeably isn't. If you're familiar with the actual brand bathing ape, you'd be able to tell the difference easily. Wait, they bought it. Yeah. The reasoning was I wanted to see if this was fake. Yeah.

See if it came close. I mean, a $27 gamble. That's kind of, that's if it, cause what if it is a really good bootleg? I guess that's true. You're opening a bootleg shoes for like $45 and being That's kind of, that's if it, cause what if it is a really good bootleg? I guess that's true. I've been seeing these dudes opening up bootleg shoes for like $45 and being,

Oh, these look pretty good. That's true. I do always think of DB's famous bootleg where he got the Jordans where the, the Jordan logo had an ass crack on it. And now that picture will just be reposted on Reddit. Like once every two months where it's someone pretending that they bought it themselves.

And it was, it's like in DB's car. It's very funny that also that DB sent me his instructions on how to buy reps. Yeah. When I said I was doing this episode, I got a bunch of texts from DB like, here's how you steal this. Here's how you rep. Nice. So they said you'd be better to if you're familiar with the actual brand bathing said uh you'd be better to uh if you're familiar with the actual brand bathing ape you'd be able to tell the difference easily if you're not a person

who's in the name brand clothing you'd like it yeah but you could get something better if you're not in his name yeah you're getting that you're getting that like obnoxious sweater for a reason i know the hoodie itself runs small that's vape though anybody wears vape no that shit runs japanese japanese company um not too thick more so the right amount of thickness so that's kind of nice okay you don't hear about that the material isn't cotton like the actual brand not sure what to call it that's interesting it's still a hoodie right i don't know i i can't figure out what it could be don't get me wrong it's a nice hoodie i just wanted to test the waters and see what it'll look like so then the next review uh from mama bear just killed me two stars irregular size regular size purchased for you don't say what purchased for my nephew and the cuffs on the

did not have any elastic that's such a nephew purchase too the cool the cool aunt or uncle being like hey i know i know you're something of a hype beast I know you like Supreme And then not knowing where to get it And just going on Amazon Which is like the only place they know where to get stuff Going on Amazon and typing Bape because it comes up if you type Bape

So some guys like I want a Bape hoodie and they're like Oh okay I'll go Because I remember when i found out that you can't just go to the store and buy a supreme shirt i was fucking shocked by it i was like what they don't want to sell me a shirt like what's going on they kind of flirted with pack sun for half a second if you remember and stussy had like 10 years where they basically became a mall brand before they kind of came back to what they are now and kind of back, you know,

cool again. Essentials did it too. They went to PacSun because I bought an Essentials shirt. Essentials was never cool. Well, that's not what I've seen. Okay. Sorry to burst your bubble.

It's like one of my friends who does basically all their design. They're not cool. They were never cool. It's a one of my friends who does basically all the design. They're not cool. They were never cool. It's a Jenner company. They were never ever cool. Oh, jeez. I thought it was cool. I'd rather wear a

shocker blank over an essentials blank. Montrez Tolbert said slight disappointment, but it was spelled I-G-H-T. I like that standard. Montrez Tolbert said slight disappointment, but it was I. It's about IGHT. I like that standard. I do too.

Material is thin. It runs small, and the color is slightly off. I ordered purple, but it came out violet, which, by the way, not sure what the difference between purple and violet. Pinker? Okay. When you get a purple crayon it says violet purple is violet it's yeah i ordered multiple shades of purple on it like one of them should be violet yeah it is funny that he said i ordered purple but it came out violet like you know a pink purple

had to give it to my sister i'm not i'm not wearing that gay shit, man. That's funny because, like, Bape was totally one of those companies when they came out at a time where, like, it was okay and cool to wear pink. You were wearing pink. Yeah, that was their camera on in the pink, you know, all this.

Yeah, Kanye. Yeah, Kanye in the pink polo, yeah. Well, I do have a happy story here from Chris Homer, have you seen Do you know Banging on My Chest, dude? Do you know Banging on My Chest? No Oh, is that the eight guy that goes around like

Beating up kids in Supreme? Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, he's like Banging on My Chest, fuck Supreme And he goes and bullies the little nerds that are in line in Supreme and steals their five panels and tells them to take the Supreme off. Look, I'm a big guy. I'm sorry.

I should have sent it to you, but I just need you to know that he exists. And that guy is Brian Quinn. I'm a big guy. Crystal says, here's a happy one. Five stars loves it my son absolutely loves this and i love that it was much cheaper than the actual brand unlike some of unlike some of the other lookalikes this one had the same tags patches and texture uh in parentheses it says a lot of the other knockoffs are a silky material instead of heavy cloth. It fit exactly as advertised and did not have the weird chemical smell that some clothing does that comes from. See, we've got conflicting reports on the same product.

I've washed and dried it three times already and no shrinking or fading. She may have accidentally got a real one. It must be wild to wash and dry a nice hoodie like that three times. I had a babe hoodie, like the all over print. Like when I saw Lil Wayne in the, you know, Hustler music video, I was like, man, I got to get that. I'm like 18 or something like that. And I got it.

Yeah, the full zip. And I got it from this place, Pondon, which was like an early, like what do you call it? It was like this outfit in Japan that would sell to the American audience on eBay. Yeah. And I'd saved up my shekels all summer and paid $688 for the red, the one he wore in Hustler Music.

And there's still a picture of it somewhere. But the sucky part about it was where it was so like inked up when you washed it you couldn't wash that with nothing else man you're getting ran all over every day like two or three washes later it looked a little not as crispy as the hustler yeah i fucking the worst feeling in the world is washing one of my cool shirts yeah shirt i have if i fucking sweat in that thing i'm like fuck that's watch number four yeah i'm supposed to deal with this do not h hoffman says do not buy from them made in china crap do not buy bought because my son really wanted to try but when it came it was super cheap

quality and way too big it was 26 yeah you can't get mad at a 26 shirt ever you can't find a blank hoodie for that it's funny because my well now i'm gonna blow your mind tony because i was just at my dad's house the other day and he was telling me he was i said something about a shirt i i bought that was like 40 or something and he was like yeah i don't spend more than nine dollars on any of my clothes and i was like where the fuck do you get clothes for nine dollars and he's like costco and then when i said that's crazy that you only spend nine dollars on your clothes because you know they'll fall apart he was like i used to buy suits back when i was your age and i was like i don't buy suits i don't buy suits anymore you know what's funny about that is it's comes it the hypebeast thing is so amazing that right now like

people are talking about um uh kirkland kirkland yeah kirkland is like a high-end brand like that yeah they did they just really it's like a running hat that people are excited about They just released a running hat that people are excited about. That is fucked up, man. We've got to have some standards. The Kirkland print crew neck sweater? Hard.

I've noticed merch, weird, unexpected merch of restaurants and department stores and stuff has really had a moment in the last little bit. I have a shirt that just says Sony on it from a brand called beautiful and then on the back it has i guess there was a contest in like the 80s to redo the sony logo and it has like all the alternate logos on the back and i think it looks sick but literally the front of the shirt it just

says sony on it right and it was like 80 so like that rules, right? I kind of want that. It's pretty sick. Yeah. Here's an Amazon review that I like that is one star. And Nicole says, do not buy. I paid $30 plus for this jacket and arrived with a broken zipper. Oh, that sucks. Send it back.

You can send it back, right? They only refunded me $10 and I had to pay to Send it back. You can send it back, right? Well, they only refunded me $10, and I had to pay to ship it back. Sounds like an Amazon problem. Horrible, horrible product. No. Actually, no. You know how when you go on Prime and some stuff isn't Prime? Yeah.

They don't really tell you who you're buying shit from unless it's got the Prime logo on it. So I found myself buying. I'm not going to buy a fucking $26 Bape knockoff. That's just not. I know that's not real because I'm very smart. I got some reviews of the Supreme store in New York. Anderson said an atmospheric tourist spot, but terrible retail store,

which is true. Anybody who's been to a Supreme store or, yeah, I mean, the babe store was, they were really nice to me, but I was like, Oh,

the only guy there, you know, it was just me. So they were like, Oh, you know, Hey, I'll help you.

Um, but, the supreme score store is a new york staple that represents both the skate culture and the influence on the streetwear culture the building and brand itself is something that many like to debate and conflict about in the art world debate and conflict and con using conflict as a verb is such a good like stupid guy move i have found that a lot of these reviews are stupid smart guys yeah which i that's the best kind of guy in the world yeah if there was a this show could literally do a 10-part series on stupid guys that think they're smart because i just love them and i collect them um just love them and I collect them.

I call them pieces. But personally, I can both appreciate the impact Supreme has had, but also complain about some of the laziness displayed sometimes. The store usually has at least a short line when you're visiting no matter day with a security guard at the door. Upon

entering the store features an array of products and articles of clothing pieces. This guy doesn't say pieces. Does he? He's a pieces guy. The layout of the store is nothing to write home about. I've never gone to a store and been like,

I like the way you put the stuff on the shelf. Honestly, I have, and it was the Supreme store. I'm going to be real. put the stuff on yeah i mean honestly i have and it was the supreme store yeah like you know i'm gonna be real like i i've never been in york one but like the la location well the old one i haven't been to the new location yet but like nice it looked it looks great it looks like a cool like weed store in vancouver where they have like pneumatic tubes on the ceiling where they'll like shoot stuff up on the back that you ordered at the front

and stuff. It's all concrete and very minimalist. This is pretty cool, but then I'll also go to a shitty weed store. It's the same thing. It's all the same stuff. You think they ever hook a bong up to one end of those pneumatic tubes? And shoot the smoke?

They have to. They had to, right? They had to, yeah. Shotgun each other through through the medic tube the employees here don't do anything they don't say hello to people they pick and choose who they'll be helpful towards otherwise you'll have to hint down an employee to get a product for you well that's that's famously like by design though right like this like their whole like marketing thing was like skateboarders are dickheads so like our service has to be shit they're kind of like the dick's last resort of like uh yeah you know well here's a review it's a four star from karsten or five star from karsten

he says supreme gets a bad rap but he spells rap w-r-a-p um so sir this is this is stupid smart guy you're gonna love this if you're a stupid smart guy fan you're gonna fucking love and i'm a big fan because i i was posting all the kevin o'leary replies the past couple days oh yeah that's just like a gold mine of stupid smart guys they're they you're right they're the funniest guys online i think they're so well service is always a pivotal topic for every store in place everywhere and that's because it is held down to singular employees and their everyday decisions that affect every experience and in my multiple trips to the store i've encountered multiple different types of service qualities this guy he hasn't said anything nothing nothing you have to expect that on a busy day

drop day parentheses thursday that the long line will have a better chance of producing problems than on a quiet tuesday or wednesday when all hyped items have officially sold out security guards in my experience have been incredibly well-mannered and appropriate as long as the customer is behaving the way they are supposed to. I have had full-length conversations with guards around the store talking about the brand and just small talk in general. Once inside, Supreme cannot be beat in accommodation. So that's nice. Due to internal changes, you are no longer rushed while in the store looking, but the selection is often so small that it should not take long.

Cashiers are friendly if you are as should be expected. For those who visit the store in search of a box, logos, or items purely made to resale, they may be less gracious. No matter what, this once little skate shop is still in many ways a small skate shop run by skaters off of a busy and frantic Lafayette Street. And owned by the people that did 9-11. Considering James Jebbia started the brand as a place for young skaters in the New York City area To find affordable clothes It has definitely changed

It's path However a lot of things That part's not true Affordable clothes That's never been part of skateboarding Skateboarding clothes have always been very expensive None of that's true Yeah

Skateboarding clothes are like the most expensive I remember getting I didn't skate growing up none of that's true yeah they bought skateboarding clothes are like the most expensive i remember getting like i didn't skate growing up but i remember getting like dc shoes or something and like they were not cheap no yeah well yeah when i was a kid we would order from uh what was it cc uh ccs yeah ccs and like i'll get all the hookups and toy machine and birdhouse that I was, you know, I skated, but I was not by any means a good skater, but you used to be able to get dunks through CCS.

Yeah. Good dunks through CCS. Yeah. Yeah. But that shit was never, none of that shit was ever cheap. Those were like $44 t-shirts in an era when that was like a lot of money for a t-shirt.

Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, fashion is, it's like, you got like two choices if you're into fashion and i think this is something we've all come to is like you can really work really fucking hard to find stuff you could go to the thrift store and dig through shit or if you're like me you just you just buy whatever whatever they're charging for

you like that's there's two ways to do it i don't want to put the effort in i don't either i don't want to go to thrift stores and dig through stuff ever ever i just i can't i don't even know what's good at those places i'd rather some guy go through them and then sell me the shirt he bought for fucking six dollars for 85 someone was already at your thrift store at six in the morning and got anything that's worth getting oh yeah yeah that's what my daughter's always like she got she likes to go thrifting but she's just like i don't expect to ever find like some diamond in the rough like a yeah like an old band tour t-shirt or something like that she's like that's not it's not gonna fucking be there especially like if i i told her once i was like maybe you should drive out to like out of town and go through a thrift store they'll probably

have some shops and she's like nobody out there wears the stuff so why would they have it there too and i was like that's a fair point you so you got to go to the bins at the distribution center. Yeah. Like it's wild. Yeah. He goes, it has defiantly changed its path. However,

a lot of things have in fact stayed the same security may have been added, but the quote exclusive feeling of the company has never faltered. And while Supreme has become widely open to streetwear culture, it stays true to its skating paths. I have personally bought three skateboards, two sets of Supreme, and now he's bragging.

What do you, X, independent trucks, a set of Supreme spitfire wheels. The performance on each of these things is exceptional and also not unreasonably priced with a skateboard coming in at $40. And it has nothing to do with Supreme.

The Supreme has nothing to do with the independent trucks still being some of the best trucks ever. Spitfire wheels will be the greatest wheels. It has nothing to do with Supreme. I promise you that. I don't know who does their boards anymore, but still. Huh? You say the Saudis own Supreme? No. Who was the guy? to do with Supreme. I promise you that. I don't know who does their boards anymore, but still. You say the Saudis own Supreme?

No, who was the guy? It's not Vanity Fair. It's the other one. It's some big umbrella company. It's not Vanity Fair. It's the other one. Yeah, they've switched hands. VF Corporation. Yeah, VF Corporation.

They own Supreme, right? I think so, yeah. Okay. But they're under the Connie Nass umbrella. Yeah. Okay. Why don't they just start selling them at Target now? It doesn't even make sense to do the exclusive thing anymore.

You know? It's over. I guess because you can go to Target and buy a Savage. The Savage box logo is my favorite shit in the world. A company called Savage just made a Supreme shirt that used the entire Supreme logo. And you'll see guys wearing that all over. Alfonso Silva said of the Supreme store, time was 6.53 on a Friday, 4.19. 9.11? He does. Alfonso Silva said of the Supreme store time was six 53 on a Friday for nine. Nine 11.

He does. He feels very nine 11 ish. Yeah. They said they closed at 7. PM. As I walked to what I presumed was the line. I was like, wow,

is that the line to get in? The security guard rudely said, no, the store's closed for the night. I reminded him it was six 55. Now. Oh my God, god dude just fucking go home you're not you're not built for this place no no you can't survive it man

there aren't guys too soft to buy from supreme this is one of the vibe is part of it for sure like getting vibe is like part of any skate shop or shoe store or whatever. Like, yeah, getting vibe is... Yeah, you chill, dude. He goes, and now that the store closes in five minutes, he just literally didn't listen to me and said the store's closed. You guys either need to get better security or change the hours of operations. The five minutes was more than enough for me to get my stuff and leave.

Despicable security guards. Never again. I'll stick to trying to get your new release items on Thursday before all the bots get them. Parentheses impossible. You have, how haven't y'all banned box? I didn't love this. So I checked out the babe store That I bought my shit from

In LA In Beverly Hills, West Hollywood I think is actually where it's at People make fun of me Because Chris keeps it saying He's been to LA more than me or whatever But he's not here And I'm the biggest LA guy

I've been in LA with you And you're pretty LA We got pretty LA on Fairfax one time And you're pretty LA Thank you I'm so excited to see Vancouver Brian later this year I'm excited too That's going to be so sick

It's going to be great It's going to be a good time This location is well organized Attentive management and customer staff To include the security that mitigate in and out traffic of the store i purchased two t-shirts the staff member did a great job folding and placing my garments and individualized bait plastic bag to preserve the quality of the shirt sadly no stickers were included with purchase or military discounts so

it's hitting them with the military oh my god ask me for the military discount at super that's so good so all this camouflage but no no military discount interesting yeah something i've learned because i read a lot of reviews and stuff is that guys will ask for their military discount like every guy i ever knew that was in the military like they would kind of goof on the idea of saying do i get a military discount but they would also ask for the military discount i went to denny's with a guy one time he was like that i used to that i grew up with and he was like it's so silly people People will just ask for,

you know, military discounts asked to be treated special everywhere. And then the way waitress comes up and he was like, yeah, I'm in the military and showed her his ID and got 15% off on his meal. And I was like, well, dude, you're doing it too. Mike Maddox, Mike Maddox went to Bape and he said very disappointing for Bape Very small store and customer service Doesn't exist Asked to speak to a manager Oh no

You're not allowed to buy this stuff If you ask for a manager The manager would rather die Than talk to you Or help you They're not going to fix anything. You got to know what you're fucking doing. People are so used to walking into a store

and be like, I don't know what I'm doing. And somebody expecting people to help them. And that works fine if you're at an electronics store or something like that. They'll rip you off, but they'll help you by telling you the most expensive thing they can possibly

fucking tell you but you can't do that at these stores you can't just go in there but oh no what what do you think my son would like so good and i think they have this idea that they they think that they need them but like these companies they're they're already sold out of everything it's fine they don't They don't need you. They do. And it is insane to ask for the manager at the Babe store. That's awesome. This is what the Babe store did, and this is incredible.

Well, I guess he didn't want to talk because he never came out to see me. I bought it. Not often I side with management. Yeah, I'm going to give them this one though. Yeah. So funny guys at a babe store asking for the manager and the manager's like, I ain't fucking going out there. I bought an Apple air pod case.

He didn't ask what kind I had or anything. Come to find out it's smaller than my case and they won't refund me my money. Thanks on you dog. Here's where it gets sad i love i love one star reviews that start to then get in their feelings thanks babe for nothing but disappointment in this store no one ever asked if i needed help and there was another customer who came up after me but they decided to help him instead we'll never return here ever just get my stuff online because employees were not helpful at all um max went gave it two stars showed up at 5 30 when the store closes at six security guard told

me that the two people already waiting in line would be the last to go in i explained i was traveling from out of state i lied first of all this guy's lying. I know. He did not come in from out of state. And he goes, Wait, so this is the Los Angeles store? Yeah, this is the Los Angeles store. So what he's insinuating is he's like made the three and a half hour drive from Vegas to go to Bay of the Nations. Yes. He flew.

He took the plane. It's cheaper that way. You can fly out for a bit. He made me show him my ID. I like the security guard in this case when the guy's like, I'm from Brown State. He's like, show me your ID then, bitch. Before allowing me to wait to go into the store.

He literally recommended I go to the New York store instead. Hell yeah. For most of our customers, this isn't a problem. They can just go to New York. I don't know. That's the clientele we serve here. They can just go to New York. Baller shit. Don't worry about it. After I got in there,

he let about 20 more people in. No idea what's up with that, but it seemed the security guard decides whether or not you're worthy of spending your money based on the way you look. They had lots of pieces from drops that had sold out online, which was the only redeeming part of the experience. Customer service was obscenely low. And then I got obscenely.

It's terrible. OK, and here's the last Sergio went to the babe store. This store has terrible customer service. I mean, you go in there, and it's a pretty small store, so you expect these workers to ask if you need help, but they never assist you. There is literally like four or five workers standing behind the little counter where the two cash registers are, and, I mean, they're overcrowded right there. And, yeah, I've had better customer service at stores like Forever 21 and American Apparel.

No shit. No shit, dude. I've had better customer service at stores like Forever 21 and American Apparel. No shit. No shit, dude. I think it is very fun to think about. I mean, this guy's probably from like people that are from like Ohio or like something like that. He's treating it like a normal store. I know. It almost feels like they've never been to a record store which is the exact same vibe like you can't just go in there you they don't care if you leave

they sell 300 dollars walk in they're short they sell 300 shorts they don't care they don't uh and i mean this is babe we're this is a great line i go back here i've had better customer service at stores like forever 21 and american apparel and i mean this is bape we're talking about a high designer brand you would expect the customer service to be so good but it's not not to the race card, but I used to go in there. No. Also, I love when they say not to play the race card, and then the next thing you do is play the race card.

With Bates, though, where is this going? Get out curious. I got to ask. Is this Sergio? He said, I'm a Mexican that the Bates workers didn't want to help me because they thought I didn't have money to afford it, but reading these reviews,

I think the workers are just terrible with anyone of all races. Yeah, yeah. So what I just said was completely pointless. You're in L.A., dog. What are you talking about? I love this, too. In a city called Los Angeles Yeah

Yeah Babe should clean house And definitely hire some employees Who really love their job And not just stand around and give people bad faces So there was a great There was a great one that I didn't get to That the guy said

he was mad because they were smoking weed outside of one of these stores. It's like, dude, you're in fucking Los Angeles. I was using a vape pipe. That's what I was doing. We're here for it.

The hypebeasts are for everybody before we go. I spent a lot of money on this shit wish i could look up how much i spent on stock x to to really i don't think you want to know ryan i don't know well it's like when i looked up legos everybody's heard the story of when i had been into legos for like three months and then i went and stuck put all of this is why i made i wasn't making any money i went to a site called rebrickable where you can put in all your sets and then it tells you different ways to mix them up to make new things and i did that three months after i started and it said i'd spent over four thousand

dollars on legos and i was like i don't want to know anymore just don't yeah the solution to that it's the same thing with me and like i mean clothes and like and like hockey cards too is like i don't tell me i know the solution is for me to stop doing this but i just don't i don't want to know that's my solution to this so then i can keep doing it let me ask ollie all this what's the most expensive thing that you've ever bought in this realm that you will admit in front of thousands of people well i the latest thing i bought was just like vape shorts and a vape shirt but the most expensive thing previous to this yeah was a vape adidas shirt that was the vape like uh camouflage and

it had the adidas symbol on the front it's a fucking really cool shirt. And I ordered it. And it was, I think it was like $290. I didn't tell my wife at all. I was like, I got this shirt coming in the mail. It was expensive. And she doesn't ever want to hear. If I say something's expensive, she's like, okay. Like, just don't tell me anything about how much that costs. And I paid almost $300 for it.

And it got here. It was too small. Then you learned about the japanese sizing and i wore it anyway and my little tummy would stick out when i was wearing it and it was just like i i ended up giving it away to a friend and and he's smaller and he wears it but yeah that shirt that that shirt and that's i went to the babe store i was like can i try one of these shirts on and she said no and i was like fuck this is okay i guess i'll buy it but i don't know i was like getting all nervous about it but yeah what'd you get tom what was yours i think it's a toss-up uh between i actually got uh the livestock arcteryics jacket that's like khaki and navy

the place you mentioned stephan yeah i got that i think i paid like 800 for that oh yeah yeah yeah which is i mean just even the regular shit is up there but yeah i got on that shit for half a second promptly sold it like two months later i i do i i had said a few years ago when we were touring i i we were in atlanta and i was like you were with us tom but we were in atlanta and i had got in my mind that i wanted a louis vuitton t-shirt yeah and i just didn't have any money like none i'm talking like one of those times where there's like 30 in the bank but i'm like how expensive could a louis vuitton t-shirt be you know when i saw it i it broke my heart so much because i really wanted to own that

oh go ahead tony yeah what what i'll say is i like maybe not the most expensive What I'll say is maybe not the most expensive because I haven't bought things like a Brooklyn Machine Works bicycle frame type thing. But the most over retail, I've ever paid. I paid $750 for the De La Soul Lowe's in 2010. In 2010. Which in today's mind. At the time I had, I had when, when shoes were happening at that moment from like 2007 to like 2009,

10, I had all the shoes. I had everything you could think of. Like all like the, all the, all the grails. I had all those. I had the Tiffanyiffany's i had the heineken's i had some paris i had everything right um i didn't have the de la solos and that was the one i wanted and i paid way way over retail for that but i think that shoe now i don't know probably that's pretty good now for the de la solos can you sell them do you have them still

oh those are gone i i i paid my rent for like a year just flipping shoes around that around then yeah and step around then i just got rid of all my shoes stefan before i ask you how much the thing you bought is do you know that they have monopoly basketball trading cards yes i do and they're they're pretty popular because they're not like insanely expensive basketball cards are so overpriced at this point i know listening to you and yeah talking when when jess anytime jesse's on the show or you're on the show i'm like i don't know how they got you i don't know how they got you into basketball cards but well i'm into hockey cards now which are still expensive but not as crazy expensive but in terms of the most expensive like clothing thing i don't know if this is most expensive but i did buy a pair of um there's the adidas like 4d like future craft shoes where they have like it's like the 3d

printed like kind of like crosshatch pattern at the back and it's like very like uh like lighter than air kind of thing and i think when they first came out they were like 350 or 400 like canadian which is yeah 400 canadians like 325 us or something but it's like man you spend that much on a pair of like running shoes and like i wore them a lot so that's you know and i still do wear them but it's just like god i just feel like bad about it i do feel like i'm hacking the earth all week i've been thinking like well i'll be in toronto and good exchange rate i might be able to get something and i know it's not going to happen. No, Toronto is still quite an expensive city.

Yeah. But I keep thinking like, wow, it's going to be so cheap for me. So I want you to go buy all the big score. Champagne poppy merch and just be a real big drink. Oh, I can't. I'm not. That's the OVO. Yeah.

I'm not an OVO guy, but I am still, to let everybody know, I am hovering on buy it now on the Supreme Grill still. Ryan, I think you should do it. I think you should do it. What are the dimensions of that? Bring it up again. Let's see. I don't know where the – see it, Tom? It's pretty nice.

Yeah. Yeah, I should buy that shouldn't I I want you to go buy The Supreme Like the little Coleman motorbike They came out with I think it was tight Yeah Has anyone bought like a ridiculous

Supreme item Cause I want a couple ridiculous Supreme items I had the Supreme U-lock back in the day oh wow I had that and that was like probably the most like I actually used it um and I had a box cutter those are the most like obscure things did anybody buy the brick which I feel like was a troll I'm so mad I'm so mad that exists, but yeah, that thing's amazing. Yeah, I just saw this cheetah that they had that came out recently, and they sold it retail for $400. And it's ugly as shit.

It's a piece of home decor thing. It's like a ceramic cheetah. Oh, okay, okay. Kind of big. It's hideous. And people were complaining because it doesn't say Supreme on it. I think the classic stupid hype-y thing to buy is the bear brick.

Like the Lego-style teddy bears. I feel like, Brian, you're getting close to getting one of those. Or the Kaz. I've never bought the Kaz stuff. I don't even quite know what it is But they did a collaboration with

Uniqlo and that's kind of one of those Like well I'm not into it If you're doing Uniqlo collab No Uniqlo's tight It's cheap though Like everybody would know I'm wearing a $20 shirt But it's Japanese though so it's cool But everybody would know I'm not wearing a $400

T-shirt if I wore Uni you. And that would be embarrassing. As you know, you can get Tom on the Trillbillies at the Trillbillies on Twitter at Tom Sexton. He's my buddy. Tony from Minion Death Cult at Word is Bond on Twitter. Minion Death Cult's a great show. And you're probably going to hear a lot more Tony on this show as the days go on. And Stefan Heck from Blocked Party,

my Vancouver buddy, my co-host for this episode. And the Go Off Kings. Boring as heck on Twitter. Thank you, Stefan, for coming in here and doing this with me. I think Stefan's dead.

I think he got logged out. Oh, here, here. I got it. I was backstage, I think. Yeah, thank you, Stephan, for doing this show. My browser crashed for some reason. Yeah, no, thank you for having me. This was great.

Totally cool. And we'll see you guys next week with, I don't fucking know. Oh, wait. I can probably give you some sort of a clue. It's either reptile guys as pets, not guys that are reptiles. Yeah. Let's be clear. We're not spreading

anti-Semitic tropes. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're looking at prog rock guys, I think, next week. Reptile as a pet guys after that. So maybe mix that up a little bit. Prog rock guys are going to be very funny to me because I like making fun of nerds and we'll see.

Probably a nice overlap there too. Yeah. I'll go to patreon.com slash murder X, Brian and sign up me and Chris do guys plus and twitch.tv slash murder X, Brian, uh, me and Chris do shows on Sundays and Tony, what's your Twitch?

It's word is bond. Yeah. Go to Tony. He's a sweet? It's WordIsBond. Go to Tony's Twitch. He's a sweet, good guy. All right. Goodbye.