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Sockjig Sneaker Podcast

Episode 13: All For A Drop Of Clout

Mar 3, 2021
41:01

I break down the story of West Coast Streetwear and the Bloomberg BusinessWeek Article, the backlash, privilege, conflict of interest, and try to answer maybe why he did it.

00:00 - Cold Open: Breaking Bad
00:15 - Intro
00:49 - Business Week Article on West Coast Streetwear
05:41 - Initial Reaction to Article
06:18 - Portland Business Journal Article About Growing Criticism
07:09 - Nike Employees Sounding Off on The Layoff
09:10 - Back Story of @wc_streetwear on Twitter in 2018-2020
15:30 - My Tweets and Sunday Reaction to Article
20:31 - Privilege
22:19 - Normal People Blaming WCS For SNKRS Ls
23:47 - Nike and the Conflict of Interest
28:03 - Backlash
29:01 - A Tangent About Fakes and Peeing in a Pool
31:16 - Criticism Towards Me
38:23 - Why He Did It

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