Scott tracks down a notorious fugitive jewel thief while Hooch gets obsessed with a squeaky toy.
This episode is all about Scott Turner (Josh Peck) trying to live up to expectations and be like the cool kids i.e.Trent (Matt Hamilton) and his T-squad, As his partner, Jessica Baxter (Carra Patterson) time in the field is ending soon with her due date getting closer by the day. Scott takes the opportunity to convince Trent to take him along to track down an elusive cat burglar Krista St. Jean (Elysia Rotaru). She was spotted a the Axiom Hotel in downtown San Francisco, it looks like she is preparing for a jewelry heist of some sort. Scott trying to impress the boys and prove Hooch’s worth to them has them ending up somewhere or someplace they’re not supposed to be.
(I would like to issue a Spoiler Warning beyond this point)
After getting the pillowcase from St. James’ room, it is now up to Hooch to use his nose to track her scent, He does pick up the fugitive’s scent and begins to head in the same direction of the trade show. However, after going around in a circle Hooch stops tracking, when Turner asked Hooch to continue it lead use to a pet shop where he got his new squeaky toy.
In what seems to be another unsuccessful attempt to track St. James Trent sidelining the two frustrating Turner. So in order to help Hooch become the best K9, he can become enlist the help of Erica () this includes rigorous tracking training with Hooch in the hopes he can better his ability to follow a scent to a culprit. Of course, obvious Erica & Turner flirting is occurring simultaneously.
After Baxter comments that Hooch went be fooled by an imposter, referring to the squeaky toys. That had Scott think about why Hooch would lose St. James when she was just reported being seen in the area he concluded that Krista had to be using a decoy to get the law of her trial. She accomplished this by paying people to wear her clothing in order to sway the scent tracking. Scott realizes that Hooch has been correct this entire time. He’s been following the correct scent consistently but it was hard to pinpoint one person when their scent was in every direction.
Hooch tracking the scent of Krista St. James image via Disney
Eventually, Turner, Hooch, and Baxter work together to find the suspect attempting to steal the jewelry before it even made it to the Golden State Trade Show, during the shoot-out St. James high-tails it out of there with a hefty lump sum of stolen goods. As Turner and Hooch are right behind, when using the squeaky toy as a decoy Turner is able to apprehend St. James.
Yet, without fail, Trent is there (in a helicopter, no less) to take full credit for the suspect being taken into custody, even though the entirety of the credit should be given to Turner
While he may not have the professional win, a personal win comes in the form of Brooke (Becca Tobin). His ex has moved work locations and is now working in the same building as Turner. Keep in mind that Turner has been obsessed with Brooke for years since their break-up. Things were looking peachy keen for the Erica & Turner relationship, but with this new addition, it looks like a love triangle is forming.
You recently did an unboxing with a package courtesy of Adidas LA, and they were sneakers with a constructed upper made from one of Kareem’sLakers jerseys, After looking at the comment section many people love your unboxing and currently seating at 23.8k followers on Instagram I’m sure brands are reaching out on a daily for your influence.
So what is the next big collaboration for Janelle?
Honestly, I have no idea… I just try to go with the flow and whatever is presented to me is whats meant to be. I got into shoes not for all these collaboration and deals, I just ginuely starting doing stuff I liked to do and then those brands deals and collaborations end up coming. So I’m just going to continue to do what i’ve done this whole time and do what I need to do.
Your clothing line Hours. officially launched back in November, however, the tag has been one you’ve used on Twitter prior to the creation of Hours.
So can you tell me how did the vision to turn a Twitter hashtag into an entire brand that have all of your followers buzzing?
So during the first couple months of quaritine everyone was locked in the house, we couldn’t do anything, couldn’t go anywhere, and i’m a very sexually person. i’m very open about my sexuality and sex in general so I would always post these sexual post i’d have on my phone or whatever i saw on Instagram and i would put #Hours. Hours is basically afterhours, after 10:30pm /11 o’clock, it’s baby making hours. So before i went to sleep I would post whatever nasty stuff I saw and put #Hours. Then one of my friends was like “Yo you should really market this, you should really brand this.” Around my birthday last year… I put some basic stuff out, the big thing was the grey sweatpants. So basically the brand is minimalistic livestyle brand simply thing you can use when you going to your appaointments.
Her Side Podcast is a show that touches on Sneakers, Music, and Sex, on all streaming platforms for podcasts with over 60 episodes. The show is hosted by Lauren Enriquez and yourself (#Jaylo)
Tell me how did this podcast come to life?
So me and Lauren were both work at a this sneaker store Magpark, honestly we kind of hit it off as soon as we started working together. We actually had a podcast before that with two other host and it just didn’t work. It was like to many cooks in the kictchen in a sense so we all parted way in good fashion, then me and Lo came together like “why dont we do one ourselves? We’re already like best friends.” At the time were working so close togther so that how it formed. We were really trying to come up with a name so one of our friend helped us with the name so we got “Her Side Podcast” which basically a women’s perspective on all things sneakers because that what I’m into and then Music which is what Lo is into. So in those two segments we just do weekly thing that’s happened in both respected communities and then we’ll have like a broader topic which is usally about sex. Living in LA and what we have to deal with… That’s basically how it formed.
The HER SIDE Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts
In what many would consider being a male-dominated community, being a female sneakerhead can be very difficult not only to do you have to keep up with the men but also other women and fight the perception that female sneakerheads only buy hyped sneakers like Nike or Jordan.
Tell me how does it feel to see women like Melody Ehsani or Aleali May bring their ideas to life in maybe the most love Jordan silhouette the Jordan 1?
Yea it kind of hard being in a male-dominated community, espeailly no i think within the past maybe two years the “popular sneaker” has definately shifted and sneakers in general have become a real mainstream thing, more than it had been and i think that were the whole hyped stuff within the past two years has came from… The Air Jordan 1’s, the Air Force’s, and Dunks right now are taking over that’s were you see the new female coming in. Well for me i can tell who has genual love for this shit and who kind of doesn’t. I can usually spot them… I don’t want to feel like the gatekeeper in this but, I just feel like you always have to be authenic even if you’re new…you can usually see when there doing it for the likes and i’ve always had that issue with brands or companies showing spotlight to these other females who are new and don’t know that long struggle a lot of us have had to be in some of these place we are in today. You (companies) need to shed light on women who really came up in this and have shown their genuien love, half the time it no how big your collection is it’s about the knowledge you have in this game because that shows alot more than the actual stuff…my knowlegde is totally bigger than the shoe that i have and that alway been my big issue.
As far as the women who’ve had a collaboration with sneakers like Melody Ehsani and Aleali May, i think it really huge i’ve been following Melody Ehsani since she was with Reebok…and now having her Jordan’s its like wow, I’ve seen where she come from and what she’s done and she always had like the most outlandish colorful sneakers which i totally love that. I love bright shoes and i love that being the highlight of myoutfit. As far as Aleali May collection I love what she’s doing in the fashion world and then crossing it over with street wear workld and sneaker world it’s really dope. I just don’t want sneaker brand to stay in one bubble because female sneakerheads are so much larger than that… because I am so much into all these fandoms and pop culture things that more me, I love sneakers like that ( Adidas x Toy Story collab) thats the kind of sneakerhead that i am. Female sneakerhead have so many differnt lanes that we can create and different audience of women and men we can pull together so i just hope they (sneaker brands/companies) stay within this bubble.
It’s no secret that your favorite Jordan is the Jordan 3, started by the Black Cement 3s because of their ability to go with literally everything. One of the best collaborations this year in my opinion was the A Ma Maniére, or “Raised by Women” colorway dedicated to James Whitaker’s Mother.
Having a women’s exclusive sneaker use to mean a sneaker with a college of feminine color tied together on one shoe but do you think sneakers companies are begging to realize that the simplistic colorways are more appealing to female sneakerheads?
I think it is, one thing I like that Yeezy have done is that they’ve created gender netural colorways across the board in all of the sneakers they’ve dropped and it’s in unisex sizes so it makes it easier for it to appeal to both men and women, That exacly what those 3’s did, they appealed to both men and women even though they were a women’s sneaker and for women at that. So obviusly it appealed to more men because it wasn’t extremely feminate and obviusly for the women it wasn’t the pinks it wasn’t the purples, it wasn’t the pasels or these crazy materials, animals prints or whatever we’ve been getting. it was just straight to the point anyone could wear them but, that shoe being a womens sneaker it just put it over the top. if it came out as a mens sneaker I don’t think it would have done as well.
This time last year the world was asked to be put on pause, but due to injustice committed against George Floyd and Briana Taylor and so many others, communities filled with people of different races and creeds came together to demand justice in peaceful protest around the globe. After taking a deep dive into your social media accounts I found took a peaceful ride with “ Ride for Black Lives” as a demonstration for justice.
Can you talk to me about the experience of and emotion you felt riding your bike around a 13-14 mile loop to spread the peaceful message of love and unity?
It was new to me, I mean riding a bike isn’t new but I haven’t rode a bike in years. I think bike riding became a big thing because it was the only thing that let us go outside in a sense so I ended up getting a new bike. So I saw that he was doing this ride, I think our first ride was about 30 miles, oh my God i was so sore but it was honestly so cool I saw alot of people that i knew in the sneaker world and different people in general. I went with my brother and it was a different experince obvisly there were alot of Colored people (people of color) out there and even non-colored people as well and it was us coming together…It was a whole group of people and you don’t feel this pressure to bike as fast like the fastest person out there. You’re really just chilling, vibing with people, people like playing there music it’s a really cool community activity that we were able to do together. I haven’t been in some time, I dont know if I can do 30 miles again but, i defintaly still love being on my bike it wasone of my best purchases I made in the past year and a half.
Tonight will be a night where young men’s basketball dreams are realized, as they will be drafted into the NBA. We’ve given our readers thoughts on how tonight’s draft will end once the dust settles, but we wanted to go one step further and see how the draft would go if these fictional basketball players were on the board from some of our beloved moves.
Before we get starts there is one rule to what characters are not eligible to be included in Sneaker Reporter’s Fictional Mock Draft, and that is if the player is from a basketball movie based on real-life players, for example, any players from Disney’s Glory Road seeing that this movie was based off the improbable run of Texas Western College (now known as University of Texas at El Paso or UTEP) to win NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship.
So let’s get started…
1. Detroit – Neon Boudreaux, Blue Chips
2. Houston – Moses Guthrie, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
3. Cleveland – Jesus Shuttlesworth, He Got Game
4. Toronto – Butch McRea, Blue Chips
5. Orlando – Ty Crane, Coach Carter
6. Oklahoma City – Will Smith, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
7. Golden State (from Minnesota)- Erick Scott, High Flying Bird
8. Orlando (from Chicago) – Rick Roe, Blue Chips
9. Sacramento – Terron Forte, Amateur
10. New Orleans – Junior Battle, Coach Carter
11. Charlotte – Saleh, The Air Up There
12. San Antonio – Clarence Withers aka Coffee Black, Semi-Pro
13. Indiana – Jimmy Chitwood, Hoosiers
14. Golden State – Marcus Stokes, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
15. Washington – Steve Urkel, Family Matters
16. Oklahoma City (from Boston) – Kenyon Stone, Coach Carter
17. Memphis – Odin James, ‘O’
18. Oklahoma City (from Miami via the LA Clippers, Philadelphia, and Phoenix) – Brian, Thunderstruck
19. New York –Stacey Patton, Eddie (1996)
20. Atlanta – Cam Calloway, Survivor’s Remorse
21. New York (from Dallas) – Kyle Lee Watson, Above The Rim
22. Los Angeles Lakers – Quincy McCall, Love & Basketball
23. Houston (from Portland) – Scott McKnight, Just Wright
24. Houston (from Milwaukee) – Lonnie Dukes, He Got Game
25. LA Clippers – Calvin Cambridge, Like Mike
26. Denver – Billy Hoyle, White Men Can’t Jump
27. Brooklyn- Sidney Deane, White Men Can’t Jump
28. Philadelphia- Kenny Taylor, The 6th Man
29. Phoenix – Todd Anderson, The Cookout
30. Utah – Lewis Scott, Celtic Pride
The making of this list was really fun to create let’s not forget in only a few hours from the resetting of the schedule, and certain trade scenarios will be growing into reality in the coming hours leading up to tonight’s draft. Cade Cunningham is the prominent selection at No. 1 in a lot of people’s top projections, but from picks two and below, that’s where it can get a little tricky. There’s no certainty over what can, or will happen during one of the NBA’s most unpredictable nights.
Scott and Hooch babysit a diplomat’s daughter and wind up saving the Olympic Committee.
As you can tell from the title this episode is a reference to the 2013 film ‘A Good Day To Die Hard’ but it pays homage to the original film of this franchise Die Hard with its overt references to it. the plot itself sees Scott (Josh Peck) as the only one who happened to escape the hostage situation because he was asked to babysit the daughter of one of the committed members. So no being accounted for when the attack happens allows him to take the terrors out one by with the help of Hooch.
(Well I’m getting ahead of myself let go back to the begging of this episode, first, I would like to issue a Spoiler Warning)
The Olympic Committee is in town for a couple of days, and with chatter about threats, the Marshals will be helping the SFPD with security. The rumored attack was said to happen at City hall, the A-team/T-squad was comprised of Trent Havelock (Matt Hamilton) and his loyal flunkies would secure City Hall and stop any would-be attackers. While the B-team of Baxter (Carra Patterson), Xavier (Brandon Jay McLaren), Scott, and Hooch were task with stay back at the hotel.
While performing the sweep of the hotel prior to moving to City Hall Hooch make a commotion when pushing a lunch table into the hotel’s water fountain to get a ribeye steak, this action attracts the attention of Kaya (Grace Sunar), the daughter of the head of the International Olympic Committee. Turner and Hooch are then assigned to babysit Kaya after she takes a liking to Hooch.
Jessica Baxter explaining to Scott why they’re on the B-Team; Image via Disney
While they’re engaged in a tea party, a team of Russian criminals invade the hotel they are in and take several people hostage, including Baxter and Xavier, with the intent to abduct Kaya for ransom. It is up to Scott to protect Kaya and apprehend the criminals.
This concept sets up the referrance to Die Hard which was mentioned earlier including bloody footprints, a guest appearance by Reginald VelJohnson, and Turner saying “Yippee, Kaya’s in trouble, Hooch”. As Turner does save the day thanks to Hooch giving the mastermind of the attack kissy face it is bittersweet to see Trent take all the credit seeing as he was at City Hall during the attack.
This episode was a classic story where our hero gets placed into a mission of some sort that completely goes against what they want because it is looked at as degrading and their talents should be used else were just to ultimately being the real hero in the end.
Chief Mendez (Anthony Ruivivar) giving Scott the assignment to babysit Kaya
As established in the first episode the overarching mystery continues to be the allure of the series.The case that Laura Turner (Lyndsy Fonseca) believes Scott Turner Sr. was working on before his passing intensifying. Scott has been so desperate to believe there was no suspicious activity surrounding his father’s death that he’s been dismissive of Laura’s quest for answers.As Scott and Laura continue to dig into their dad’s last case and find evidence that there may have been foul play involved.
To release alongside the Air Jordan 1 Low, Nike will also be releasing a special edition Air Huarache in celebration of “SNKRS Day” exclusively in Europe on August 8th.
Nike Air Huarache “SNKRS Day” Style Code: DM9092-700 Release Date: August 8, 2021 Price: TBA
This Nike Air Huarache features a Black neoprene bootie with White on the leather overlays, heel pull, and midsole. A Yellow toes highlighted with suede leopard print overlays. A Red lace cages with 8.8.21 (SNKRS Day) printed on the medial side along with “SNKRS Got ‘Em” branded insoles similar to it’s Air Jordan 1 couterpart, all seating atop a Black rubber outsole.
Look for the Nike Air Huarache “SNKRS Day” to release on August 8th exclusively in Europe on the SNKRS app.
Hooch tracking the scent of Krista St. James image via Disney
