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Shoebag!! Where’s the Line on Copying Designs? Are Wedge Soles the Devil or God Himself? And More!

What's clickin'?? That's right Ben and Ticho are back with another SHOOOEBAG episode, in which we answer all of your listener questions, including: What are ... Read More...

Nick Horween and Phil Kalas Forcibly Take Over the Shoecast, And Turn the Whole Thing Right Around on Us

We've had both Nick Horween (the one from Horween Leather) and Phil Kalas (formerly of Horween, now making some of the best wallets, belts, and more over at Ash... Read More...

Unsung House’s Grant Gustafson is Doing Some of the Coolest Repair, Customization, and Bootmaking in the Game

Unsung House is a wonderfully rare shoe repair shop. After a half decade learning the trade in a more “standard” cobbler setting, brothers Grant and Isaac Gustafson opened Unsung in a literal old house in Nashville, to focus on impeccable higher-end ... Read More...

How Jack Millington Started England’s First New Tannery in a Century on His Parent’s Goat Farm

For anyone who's ever thought of quitting their job to make leather and boots, here's the secret: just first make sure your parents own a goat farm in the Briti... Read More...

Easy Moc’s Greg Cordeiro on Re-Growing the Maine Handsewn Moccasin Tradition—and Big Shoe Biz vs Niche

Greg Cordeiro is our kind of shoe nerd. And the dude has been around. After getting his start as an intern at Puma before shifting over to design work for Ti... Read More...

The Shoecast is BACK for Season 7! With Brooklyn’s Own Bespoke Shoemaker Francis Waplinger.

After being trained in the shoemaking arts by some of the all-time greats—including Italian master Roberto Ugolini and US shoemaking gravitational center Marcell Mrsan—Francis Waplinger found himself making shoes in a barn. Nobody said bespoke shoema... Read More...

Dress Shoes Deep Dive! What Makes a Fantastic Dress Shoe? Plus Recs at All Price Points.

Occasionally we discuss boots on this podcast, but that doesn't mean we don't love and appreciate a great dress shoe as well. In the FINAL episode of Season ... Read More...

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How to Win the Stitchdown Patina Thunderdome

SHOOOOOOOOERADIO! That's right, everyone's favorite drive-time terrestrial radio show about boots and shoes is BACK to tell you exactly how to win over $30k in ... Read More...

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Black Boots: Boring or Essential? Ben & Ticho’s Biggest Boot Regrets. Plus: How YOU Can Help Cobblers.

You know, when you have a history of publicly claiming to not be a black-boot lover and then you have a podcast co-host who can even more publicly prove that you are a black-boot lover...well, you need to make a Shoecast out of it I suppose. On ye... Read More...

Talking Vintage Inspiration, Shoe Saunas, Beaver Fur, and More With Yuketen Visionary Yuki Matsuda

Yuki Matsuda is an absolute gem of a man. If there's someone more relentlessly excited to design and make and just talk shoes after more than three decades in t... Read More...