Am I the only one thinking that that first shoe Nike wanted to be his pro shoe looked better than his actual pro shoe?
This episode was quite boring right?
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I really liked that Savier pro shoe sample they showed.
I was into the Nike Janoski at the time but I’m not sure I’d get a pair now.
No Staba this time? Weird they’d drag him out for the Nuge episode, about not getting on a team then make him a no show about sponsoring Mr Shoe on his shoe company!?
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Maybe they realised no one wanted to hear from Staba again? Can’t say I do too much.
Just a bit suspect by his absence in this one. I still feel like there was more to the Nuge story so he had to make an appearance.
Yes you are, I thought the first design looked awful and boring.
I’ve never actually skated or worn a Janoski as not my thing but they’re a good looking shoe.
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It was boring but looked like a skate shoe, something that would do the job.
I always thought Janoski’s shoe looked very bourgeois.
Got half way through - shoe business.
Gotta wonder whether nike invested in this episode.
Seems like a nice dude though but meh
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Most things nowadays seem to be people just wanting to remind us that they did something, something they deem remembering even though they have been absent for many years since.
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wtf was Burnett on about at the end?!
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I liked how they spelt Beebel
Not sure. That was pretty weird indeed.
Didn’t seem aimed at anyone. Just rich miserable people in general.
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Making an episode so heavily built around hinting about how rich he is with out giving any info about how much it might be, seems like a massive troll on the viewer.
I’d only expect to know how much he was making until he’d parted ways with Nike, I remember rumours about how much they paid P-Rod but I don’t think it officially came out. Talking of P-Rod, I’m not surprised he conceded in this that he left all the designing to designers, it explains how he pretty much only had one decent model come out.
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Enough to see his porcelain manicure artist every week apparently.
This isn’t very surprising to me. Epicly Later’d never went that deep into things, plus money has always been a big taboo in skateboarding, especially since the big corporations got in.
Yeah just don’t talk about it then. Easy really. Concentrate on his skate career, with a slight mention of having a successful shoe.
“He’s rich!”
“Oh, Ive heard he’s rich!”
“Oh he is living the rich dream…”
“Money can give you happiness…”
Yeah but he didn’t even really have a career, did he? He was a rookie, turned pro and basically stopped producing footage as soon as he got the Golden Ticket ahem that shoe. We’ve pretty much seen the same switch slappy crooks clip once a year for over a decade and nothing else. Maybe a tre flip every other leap year. Fuck, I mean Gino probably filmed more shit than him since 2010.
I always thought he would have had a much more interesting career skate-wise if he hadn’t gotten that shoe.
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Not sure you can really play the milking it card with him as he’s just had so many parts, his three for Habitat are utter classics. If anything I think people are just distracted by the shoe.
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