Sneaker History Podcast - Sneakers, Sneaker Culture and the Business of Footwear

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Latest episodes

• Kader Sylla Built a Skate Shoe for Twenty Stairs | Coffee Time Kicks

  September 29, 2026 · 26 min

  What does it mean to have your own signature sneaker? For adidas Skateboarding pro Kader Sylla, it's a trip. Kader joins Mike Guillory on Coffee Time Kicks to break down his adidas signature skate shoe, from the first conversations to the…

• Why a Footwear Designer Started Making Knives

  September 27, 2026 · 1 hr 35 min

  Rick Maderis has spent more than twenty years inside adidas, Nike, Jordan Brand and Curry Brand, working on the graphics, color and storytelling that rarely get a name attached. Now he runs Burnside Knives in Portland, and you can see the…

• The Air Jordan 41... "You Never Really Finish an Air Jordan, You Just Run Out of Time" - Jason Mayden

  August 27, 2026 · 40 min

  Jason Mayden walked into Jordan Brand in 2001 as its first design intern. He designed the Air Jordan 2009 and the Jordan CP3.II, left in 2014 to build his own companies, and came back a decade later to run design for the entire brand. This…

• The Photographer Ronnie Fieg Gifted a 1-of-36 Air Max 95 | Chef Doomy

  July 27, 2026 · 53 min

  Mike is flying solo for another Coffee Time Kicks episode, and he brought a good one. He sits down with photographer and content creator Adham Abousalem, better known as Chef Doomy, for an honest conversation about building a craft instead…

• The Most Complete Michael Jordan Collection Is In The Last Place You'd Look

  July 20, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

  Josh De Vaney lives in Perth, Western Australia, about as far from the center of sneaker and basketball culture as you can get, and he has quietly built one of the most complete collections of Michael Jordan toys and figurines on the…

• Inside Saucony's Collab Playbook with Jason Faustino, Sr. Director of Energy

  July 13, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

  Mike runs a solo Coffee Time Kicks episode and sits down with a friend of the show, Jason Faustino, Senior Director of Energy at Saucony. Fresh off the brand's Paris preview, Jason breaks down how Saucony builds its creative world: why…

• From Dallas to the World: Jared Moody's Sneaker Photography Journey

  June 23, 2026 · 37 min

  Mike is back with another Coffee Time Kicks episode, and this one is for anybody who has ever looked at a sneaker photo and wondered how someone made a shoe feel alive. Jared Moody is the photo manager at Sneaker Politics, a contract…

• The Whole Squad Is Back: World Cup, Skechers, and the State of Sneaker Culture

  June 22, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

  The whole crew is back. Nick, Robbie, Mike, and Rohit reunite for a full-panel episode of the Sneaker History Podcast, and it feels exactly like catching up with friends who happen to know more about shoes than most people you know. They…