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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

And people are like, those shoes are amazing. And Jesse Owens was like, it's kind of me. But yeah, sure. The shoes are great. But I'm also a vastly superior athlete to the rest of these chumps out here.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Oh, man. Slapped his little stash right off that lip.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Oh, man. Slapped his little stash right off that lip.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Oh, man. Slapped his little stash right off that lip.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Yeah. So just like in the United States and actually in countries all over the world, the war effort was it's not like they were just like, all right, we have a few companies that manufacture military needs for our military and that's going to be good enough. It's like, no, we need to really co-opt kind of any manufacturing that we want to. to go toward the war effort.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Yeah. So just like in the United States and actually in countries all over the world, the war effort was it's not like they were just like, all right, we have a few companies that manufacture military needs for our military and that's going to be good enough. It's like, no, we need to really co-opt kind of any manufacturing that we want to. to go toward the war effort.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Yeah. So just like in the United States and actually in countries all over the world, the war effort was it's not like they were just like, all right, we have a few companies that manufacture military needs for our military and that's going to be good enough. It's like, no, we need to really co-opt kind of any manufacturing that we want to. to go toward the war effort.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

And certainly Germany did that along with the U.S. and kind of everyone else. And everything from Hugo Boss to Lufthansa to these little shoemakers in this small town in Bavaria.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

And certainly Germany did that along with the U.S. and kind of everyone else. And everything from Hugo Boss to Lufthansa to these little shoemakers in this small town in Bavaria.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

And certainly Germany did that along with the U.S. and kind of everyone else. And everything from Hugo Boss to Lufthansa to these little shoemakers in this small town in Bavaria.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Yeah, it's December 1943 is when they kind of made the full switch in these little, you know, German ladies who were sewing shoes the week before were now manufacturing German bazookas. The good news is by this time โ€“ because these things were really effective actually. And had they been โ€“ Had they been brought into the war sooner, things might have really changed.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Yeah, it's December 1943 is when they kind of made the full switch in these little, you know, German ladies who were sewing shoes the week before were now manufacturing German bazookas. The good news is by this time โ€“ because these things were really effective actually. And had they been โ€“ Had they been brought into the war sooner, things might have really changed.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Yeah, it's December 1943 is when they kind of made the full switch in these little, you know, German ladies who were sewing shoes the week before were now manufacturing German bazookas. The good news is by this time โ€“ because these things were really effective actually. And had they been โ€“ Had they been brought into the war sooner, things might have really changed.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

But thankfully, by this time, even though they were doing the job, it was too late. The tides had turned and the Allies were steaming toward victory. And even though they started pumping out these bazookas, it was sort of too little too late.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

But thankfully, by this time, even though they were doing the job, it was too late. The tides had turned and the Allies were steaming toward victory. And even though they started pumping out these bazookas, it was sort of too little too late.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

But thankfully, by this time, even though they were doing the job, it was too late. The tides had turned and the Allies were steaming toward victory. And even though they started pumping out these bazookas, it was sort of too little too late.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Not until just now.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Not until just now.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

Not until just now.

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Selects: Adidas v. Puma: A Sibling Rivalry

All right. That's a great setup. Thank you. That's only part one into what is a very interesting story. Yeah. So we're going to take a little break, and we'll come back and talk about what went wrong with these two brothers right after this.