Fritz Sr. and Jr. of Seidel Tanning on the Art, Science, and Challenges of Making Leather
This time Ben sits down with two, count ‘em TWO Fritz Seidels: Fritz Jr. and Fritz Sr., who every day are continuing on the tradition of the four-generation, 79-year-old Siedel Tanning Corp in Milwauk...
11 Apr 20241h 3min
Shoe Care Essentials, How Many Boots is Too Many, Brands We Want Back...It's The Shoebag!!
Before he bolts for a very important trip to the bread store, Ticho is back in the leather-smelly homestead for perhaps our most comprehensive Shoebag episode ever, in which we discuss what shoe care ...
3 Apr 20241h 24min
Bespoke Shoemaker Sebastian Tarek on West-End Outwork and Judging the World's Greatest Shoemaking Competition
When London (by way of Australia) bespoke shoemaker Sebastian Tarek began making shoes in high school, his grandmother let him in on a little secret: he had been preceded in his journey by 18 generati...
13 Mars 202456min
Actor Adam Goldberg on His Lifelong Quest to Remake James Dean's Boots
Adam Goldberg has quite legitimately always been one of my favorite actors—and from Dazed & Confused, to the Fargo TV show, to A Beautiful Mind, he has always been EXCELLENTLY attired, right down to h...
6 Mars 20241h 12min
Tony & Tobias of Wyatt & Dad Cobblers on Building a Shoe Repair Mini-Empire
Back in 1989, Tony Wyatt and his brother Lance launched Wyatt & Dad Cobbler Company (and even trained their retired-preacher dad to do shoe repair work, so no it's not just a clever name). Thirty five...
28 Feb 20241h 3min
Goods & Services' Rory Fortune on Handwelting Sneakers, and the Shell Cordovan BIRKENCHONKS
The sneaker and welted footwear worlds are (very slowly) colliding, and Rory Fortune is smack in the middle of the two In 2019, Rory and his wife Lauren set up shop in LA's design district to open Go...
20 Feb 202454min
The (Mostly) Complete History of Boots with Bata Shoe Museum Director Elizabeth Semmelhack
In one of our favorite—and certainly the most sprawling—Shoecast episodes to date, Ben chats with Elizabeth Semmelhack, director and curator of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Canada. Which I believe...
13 Feb 20241h 25min
Sagara's Bagus Satrio on the Indonesian Bootmaking Explosion
Sagara head man Bagus Satrio is one of my favorite people in the whole bootmaking game. I absolutely love the work he and his team do—his Cordmasters need to be at or near the top of ANYONE’S best mon...
19 Jan 202446min
