today i'm going to show you guys the most valuable pair of sneakers in my shoe collection
i have been collecting sneakers for over 15 years now and have owned well over a thousand
pairs of shoes throughout the years and now that i'm on youtube a lot of people ask me
dj what are your most expensive shoes as some of you know i'm from oregon so typically people
see oregon duck pes and they think these are my most valuable shoes but guess what they're not
neither are my air jordan 6 uncpes or my swarovski crystal nike dunk sbs that i wore to my wedding
some people may think it's the rae island 12s my first ever pe in my collection or the off-white
chicago one this is a ten thousand dollar shoe and some people even think it's the red october that i
wore to my college graduation but guess what these ain't it either so that was just a small glimpse
of what is inside my sneaker collection but if you didn't know by now my name is dj and this is
the dna show on this channel i love talking about sneakers and helping people grow their collections
and turning that hobby into a full-time hustle so if you haven't already consider subscribing
and joining the fam we're on the road to a million subscribers and you could be the next
one to get us there as most of the dna fam knows we always talk about the history first before we
crack open the box and show the shoes so you know what that means let's take it back to 2013 when i
first purchased this shoe i'll never forget this time because i had just moved from boston i was
going to college out there playing football and i decided to transfer to foothill college in the bay
to play one juco season and then go get a d1 scholarship i have moved out there to live
with my friends and we were all some of the best athletes on the team so we literally did
everything together to hold each other to a higher standard so that way we could all advance to go to
get d1 scholarships and i'm sure at this point in the video you're probably asking me the question
dj why are you telling me about this i'm trying to give you guys a little bit of context to let
you guys know where i was at in life and how the shoe came about and then hopefully you can see why
the shoe shot up so much in value so during that time we had a lot of sneakers releasing and jordan
brand honestly wasn't doing their thing there were a lot of terrible releases good color ways but the
quality just wasn't there this was the era of nike basketball doing his thing with kobe lebron and kd
and especially with the penny hardaways that were popping up on the scene a lot of dope colorways so
hopefully that gives you a little bit more context of me and the sneakers that were coming out during
that era and obviously everything that you saw through the photos that i popped up now this pair
of shoes in particular oh my gosh i can't believe how much these things are worth it's crazy to this
day to even think about it and i'm excited to open up this box because i've never shown you
guys these shoes before and i've never been able to tell my story about how i got these shoes and
all the other stuff so now it's time to crack this box open so as you can see right here you have it
all over nike sportswear box there's no label on it because this was actually an older sample box
so it just has some scribbling on here and i use this as a replacement box because i ended
up getting rid of the box of these when i first got them because i used to actually wear these
and then these things went up crazy in value and i'm gonna tell you why as you can see we have the
box open let's look at the shoes this right here is a triple black nike zoom revis trainer now
i'm sure a lot of you are very confused on how this could be the most valuable sneaker in my
collection i'm gonna tell you like i said earlier 2013 was a transitional year for me pursuing my
d1 scholarship coming from a high level d2 school out in boston i'll never forget when i moved back
home from boston for a split second just to pack my stuff up to move to cali i went to the nike
employee store and i picked up this pair of shoes right here retail on them was like 130 bucks or
something like that and i ended up getting them at the es so that means they were only like 60 bucks
or something i don't remember exactly what the price was but that doesn't even matter right now
as soon as i got this shoe i put these on my feet and i was wearing these every single day i used to
train in them i used to wear them for leisure i just love this shoe i low-key should have bought
two pairs of them shortly after purchasing these i moved down to the bay and i wore these to practice
every single day on my way to the gym and then obviously not at practice on the field but walking
to the field and then coming from the locker room and everything like that so why does any of this
even matter today is may 28th and on this day was the day that i was wearing these shoes when
i almost lost my life now i'm gonna tell you guys this story based off of what i remember
and what the doctors told me after the accident it was another ordinary day and we were on our way to
football practice like typical you know me running late making my pb j had to hop in the car because
everybody else is waiting for me and it's time to go like i said earlier i was living at my friend's
house when i moved to the bay so all five of us rode together every single day to practice during
this time i was still running my business selling shoes online going to class playing football and i
remember taking a phone call as we left the house so i was on the phone for the majority time of the
ride and no i was not the driver i was in the back passenger seat of the car i'll never forget being
on the phone with my friends over at dunk exchange for all my ogs out there going to dunk exchange
used to be really really fun and it used to be really popping as well so i was booking my table
making sure i was set for the following month because i had planned on setting up a booth and i
was on the phone with them making sure everything was a okay and paid for as we were in the middle
of the conversation a car was coming from the right side we were merging over from the left
side on the fast lane because we're getting close to our exit and i remember seeing the car really
really close to me right here and i immediately just dropped the phone grabbed the handle and i
said oh sh from that point the whole screen went black i don't remember anything for at least a few
months of my life and at this point i'm going to tell you guys stories from things that were told
to me based off of what happened the driver of the car that i was in didn't see the car on the
right it must have been in a blind spot and it was a complete accident so he overcompensated
back to the left which didn't cause the suv that we were in to teeter-totter because it
was overcompensating which turned to will after the car teeter-tottered it then rolled down the
freeway flipping about five to seven times it was a single car accident and he didn't hit the
car on the side of him as he tried to veer away from him as the car was tumbling down the freeway
my friend in the seat behind the driver's seat didn't have a seat belt on and he flew through
the sunroof and was over a hundred feet away from the car after the car stopped flipping later i was
told after the car stopped flipping i hopped out of the car and i went to walk down the freeway
and i collapsed and fell in the middle of the freeway with my head like this and my eyes rolled
to the back of my head during this whole process i was wearing this pair of sneakers right here
after the car stopped flipping and i got out of the car i only had one shoe on my feet i don't
know how it happened but my left foot got really messed up and my shoe must have came off during
that process and it looked like i stuck my foot in a blender my other shoe and cell phone was
somewhere on the freeway and it was actually crazy because they found my cell phone and they brought
it to the hospital to me a couple days later and that is something that i do remember now
at least i think i remember it because i remember them telling me about that over and over again
like you was looking for your phone and so many people were calling you and all this stuff but
anyways back to the story so i collapsed on the freeway i'm covered in blood all over my face
my eyebrow is cut open my ears split at the top end and i have three big gashes in my back one
of our football coaches was also on his way to practice and he was on the same freeway
because that's naturally where you go to get to the school he ended up actually being just
behind us on the freeway without even knowing and when he saw the accident he realized it was all
of his players on the freeway so he hopped out of the car to make sure that we were all okay
and that the ambulance was coming soon by the time that the ambulance got there they found that
me and the guy that flew out of the sunroof had some of the most damage and we had to be rushed
to the hospital immediately obviously everybody in the accident did have to go to the hospital
but we had different traumas and because of our brain injuries and the things that happened to us
we were separated and all at different hospitals so i end up at the hospital i'm really bad i have
short-term memory loss i can't do anything i can't function i'm basically like a vegetable
my parents immediately fly out as soon as they hear about the accident and they're sitting in
there with me at the hospital hoping that i'll be okay i needed help with literally everything
i needed help going to the bathroom i needed help brushing my teeth
i needed help with everything and my parents my parents were there for me
and i love them and i thank them
and i love them and i thank them so much
for always being there for me
this is why this is why i've had a hard time making this video
that's why i had a hard time making this video because i wanted to tell this story
about these parachutes right here every time i look at this pair of shoes no matter how much
the value is of all these shoes in my room all this stuff i have all this stuff i have
it doesn't matter it does not matter some of the cheapest shoes in my collection mean the most to
me and i'm thankful that i can tell this story that i can show you my favorite pair of shoes
the shoes that i don't care about the dollar value it doesn't matter there's more to all this stuff
and it sucks sometimes seeing this hype and all this stuff and i get
it i love this stuff too i love sneakers so much
but when i think about my favorite shoes it's about it's about the sentimental value
it's about what this issues mean to me and all these shoes have their own meanings some may be
less than others it can be a small story it can be a big story it could be a short story it could be
a long story it doesn't matter they all got their meanings their other values i'm trying my hardest
to tell this story as best as i can at the end of the day this is the most valuable sneaker in my
collection everyone lived from the car accident there was a car accident in the same exact spot
months after ours and everyone passed away from the accident similar same exact accident
i'm thankful for everybody that has been with me along this process that know about my story
that remember that day so many people calling me showing up at my parents house making sure i was
okay through my recovery process all my friends and family i appreciate y'all y'all know that
when i try to tell everybody as much as i can
i try to tell y'all so i'm sorry this is me this is who i am i love shoes yes but i love my family
and i love them being here for me and taking care of me and making sure that i got both of my shoes
back because one of them could have been missing and the story wouldn't have been as sweet so i'm
just this is it if you guys want to hear more about the story the recovery process my mental
my physical health all of it let me know i was in a very very bad place that i made it through
i couldn't read or write i couldn't write a sentence they wanted me to try to
finish college right after the accident and i was in the hospital i couldn't even
complete a whole sentence let alone write a paragraph i was struggling i was struggling
i was definitely struggling i went through a lot of phases when people say oh they don't know about
why i sold so many shoes why i saw so many shoes not just for the houses there was times
where i sold the shoes because i didn't want to care about anything anymore but the shoes
the shoes were something that i was i liked it was fun i made money from it it was a it was
literally my hobby turned into my hustle just like the program that i have it's the hobby to hustle
it's what all came through me this is me this is all me i love this stuff i have a great time
i don't know what else to say at this point i feel like we're getting to the end of the video
i got to clean myself up and get right y'all know i'm happy i'm thankful
you say i bring you guys so much joy in these videos because i have so much fun doing this stuff
every year i want to make a video about this may 28th let me speak on it real quick
also another shoe that i love
rose red to me i call them rose red because my grandma she's my motivation this is a whole
another story right here but the reason why i say that is because may 28th is on the back of
this shoe as well and after i recovered from the car accident this was a pair of shoes that i wore
every single day to be comfortable in my recovery and represent the day and me and the other guy
that got in the car accident that had the bad brain injury and everything he lived and
he made it through and we worked hard together me and him we motivated each other and we both
had a pair of shoes just like this we both made a pair with the may 28 on the back and we wore them
every day together when we reunited so this is a whole another story i'll get into this one later
and hopefully i can get him on the channel if he comes on the channel it would be dope to tell this
story if you guys want to see that drop a comment down below i'll try to get a story for you guys
about us and him and our recovery and our mental health and everything i'm thankful i appreciate
it may 28th is like my birthday all over again it's a day that i celebrate life it's the day
that i say thank you today is that day i made sure i wanted to post this video today so this is me my
name is dj oh man oh this is great this is great i said i was going to do this i told him i want to
do this i'm giving y'all me this is me so my name is dj i'm signing out i got to go i'm going peace
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