Throwing Fits

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. On our new weekly mini ep, we’re fucking around and getting silly with the GD MFing Boyz, recapping and breaking down this week’s guest pod and touching on a variety of things we might have missed or simply must know more about, including but not limited to: how many hats is the right amount of hats to  pack, should you drink the tap water in Los Angeles, and is jiu-jitsu poised to be the next rock climbing?

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Our interview with Alex/2Tone has been a long time coming. Alex—co-founder and creative director of Born x Raised and host of the Powerful Truth Angels podcast—was kind enough to move his naptime to host us in his office and finally pod while we were in Los Angeles on Paul Thomas Anderson messing up his SEO, his world-renowned calves, sometimes you just wanna be a walking gray pantone, fat kid trauma, dessert amnesia, shopping by happenstance, how to power nap 101, what a creative director actually does, the sad shark mindset, a shoebox full of cash and a dream, proudly claiming streetwear and a free history lesson, Spanto lives, an unstoppable force and immovable object coming together to make music, hats with animals ears vs. big ass brims, Born x Raised’s annual Sadie Hawkins winter formal is New Year’s Eve for women in LA and Alex has been crunching the numbers on attendee hookups, if you don’t get in line for the photo booth were you even there, moments of clarity, jiu-jitsu and the power of saying yes because you don’t know shit, wabi-sabi hair routines, his podcast’s future, credit score hell, depression as a luxury and much more on Alex/2Tone’s interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack.   To self-improve and self-discover in LA. This week, Jimmy and Larry are coming to you live from the Palihotel in Hollywood to recap 67% of our trip to the beautiful city of Los Angeles, including but not limited to: our NYC style 17th anniversary party at Mohawk General Store, spreading the Orion Beer gospel, Friendo won the smashburger wars, did you know it's LA Fashion Week, menswear's "biggest" night, when it comes to emergency vehicles LA drivers literally start moving different, Lawrence hits The Grove and embeds himself in Gen Alpha shopping and eating habits, two very different fight night experiences, why Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson is the worst representation of straight culture that can only be combated with the 8 pillars of gay culture which James is kind enough to relay, rizz strategy and techniques from a 60-year-old Irishman, Zillowing the house party, buccal face massages, a scene report from Camp Flog Gnaw, Crumbl controversies, the hottest new bar is The Silverlake Lounge, dialing in your In-N-Out order, how we've softened on LA as we've aged and much more.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. On our new weekly mini ep, we’re fucking around and getting silly with the GD MFing Boyz, recapping and breaking down this week’s guest pod and touching on a variety of things we might have missed or simply must know more about, including but not limited to: are you a low-top hiker or approach shoe kinda guy, smoking on that shit that makes you smack yourself in the face, and fact-checking various zoological claims.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Our interview with Maxo Kream is personable. Maxo—whose new album Personification is out this Friday, November 15th—admittedly came through extremely high to spit bars about not matching your Evisu denim, high-end belts, becoming a watch nerd and rappers ruining their timepieces, his underrated sneaker game, million dollar grillz, giving bongs as gifts, he’s honest about ruining his Trackhawk engine, bartering for features back in the day, switching between his multiple personas, whether or not he inspired Ye’s Bully album cover, all the unreleased music he has with his buddy Tyler, The Creator who has been known to take a joke too far, having an ear for Travis Scott beats, Texas rap’s literal and figurative big boy moment, being the strip club mayor, the perfect answer for how to have the perfect H-Town day, bagging southern belles, going from selling weed to becoming a cannabis entrepreneur, teaching us and the audience at home a lot about animals, and much more on Maxo Kream’s interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Interfaith podcasting. This week, Jimmy and Larry are inviting all of Los Angeles to our party at Mohawk General Store—this Thursday, November 14th, from 6-9pm—before breaking down Japanese beer supremacy, welcome back SahBabii, the fat shoelaces renaissance, what double knotting says about you, putting a bow on James in-store private label reportage, LVMH luxury ventures invests in Our Legacy so now what plus some exclusive quotes from OL’s own and friend of the show Jockum Hallin, an investment portfolio review, software vs. hardware, Aaron Levine launching his own brand, the eternal battle that menswear nerds have raged against prices inspires a metaphor from Lawrence, best practices and various takeaways from the inaugural Instagram Menswear Forum 2024, a Q&A with IG fashion boss Eva Chen and some bonus insight into Mark Zuckerberg’s glow up, reviewing Meta’s NYC cafeteria offerings, Kith finds its sense of humor with their Mike Tyson collab only adding to their case for brand of the year whether you like it or not and much more.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. On our new weekly mini ep, we’re fucking around and getting silly with the GD MFing Boyz, recapping and breaking down this week’s guest pod and touching on a variety of things we might have missed or simply must know more about, including but not limited to: are we living in a post-grail world, do we own any legitimate heirlooms, and what pieces from our closet would we consider future vintage?

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Our interview with Kathleen Sorbara is future vintage. Kathleen—the owner and founder of Sorbara’s, formerly known as Chickee’s—took a much-deserved mental health break with us after a very busy month to open up about the aesthetic exchange between couples, hitting the reset button on an already successful business and why, her beautiful new store, the many micro-neighborhoods of Williamsburg, TF playing our little part in the prosperity of her men’s business, men vs. women shoppers, nerds be price matching, how her curation stays ahead of the curve plus some vintage trend predictions and analysis, dressing as your body changes over time, New York’s descent into vintage hell, estate sales are cooked, the many benefits of the fellas keeping a sexy home and much more on Kathleen Sorbara’s interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Charged up off those Beijing batteries. This week, Jimmy and Larry have a little save the date for all our Los Angelenos next week before running through sleeve length math, James reviews his new Rier fleece, proper quarter-zip croppage, marathon signs and voting stickers, Lawrence got hit by a car but cheated death and still made his dinner reservation, flying too close to the sun with flow team Instagram Stories bits, Zyn gets its big New York Times trend piece and we evaluate where it currently stands against cigarettes and vapes in 2024, Big Tobacco doesn’t care about the culture war, A.P.C.’s Jean Touitou dropped his own wine, where non-alcoholic beverages meet millennial olive oil, Young Thug is finally free and much more.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Welcome to another semi-regular episode with friends both new and old, codename: Friday Fiasco. This Week, Jimmy and Larry are coming to you live from Notre in Chicago thanks to our good friends at Levi's, hitting the stage with Global Senior Director, Collaborations and Customization Design of Levi’s, Leo Gamboa, to talk everything from how an actually good collaboration comes together and the gold mine that is vintage denim to fact-checking some old denimhead tricks and his dark sneaker competition history so you can take your ass into the weekend in style.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Permission granted. This week, Jimmy and Larry are back from their Midwest work getaway to talk when wearing transparent lenses goes wrong, basketball player storytime, a wonderful interaction with an unlikely fan, more patented plane movie reviews, going cheeks out at the urinal, a scene report from the Midwest Society of Orthodontists Conference 2024 Annual Session, the Karen paradigm, should you eat a Chicago dog or turkey club before a live show, everything that went down at our live show with Levi’s at Notre, aging someone based on their dance moves, there are meals and then there is Avec, there’s nothing better than a city full of guys, we both independently went to the Catskills for the weekend and came back with a variety of recs and observations and stories, Timothée Chalamet pandering at his own look-alike contest and what that can teach us about NYC celebrities, Leonardo DiCaprio shops at bode now so once again we’re never wrong just early, Ex-Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries was arrested for sex-trafficking which opens up a podcast pandora’s box and much more.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. On our new weekly mini ep, we’re fucking around and getting silly with the GD MFing Boyz, recapping and breaking down this week’s guest pod and touching on a variety of things we might have missed or simply must know more about, including but not limited to: an extensive history of us hurting people’s feelings, how to talk shit 101, and whether or not we are now officially part of the fashion industrial complex.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Our interview with Thom Bettridge is leaving no stone unturned. Thom—the new editor-in-chief of i-D Magazine—spent his Friday with us to get to the bottom of how a mountain of a man dresses for picking up his kids at school, first day of work fits, pitches and press releases, the cultural movements that define our time, a magazine taking as long to make as the time you’ve got, identifying and navigating the pitfalls of modern day media, who out there is doing things right, a Mount Rushmore of magazines, what a legacy media guy thinks of the Substackaissance, what the hell is going on with menswear media in 2024, how he converted readers into shoppers back at SSENSE, tales from the styling trenches, a litany of fashion dad takes and much more on Thom Bettridge’s interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Through the fire, to the limit, to the pod. This week, Jimmy and Larry are getting everyone in the Midwest ready for our live pod in Chicago—this Thursday, October 24th, 6:30-9pm at Notre—before getting gracious about our pants drop, the highs and lows of music supervision, advancements in pants printing technology, Harrison Ford publicly disavows an all-time zood which leads to a heady discussion about living in a post-zood board world and what might if not already replaced it, private consumption as public perception, Larry’s apartment flooded but no jawnz were harmed, what Jason Segel thinks of our acting chops, the perfect press dinner has been achieved, reviewing the land, sea and air offerings at Torrisi, a Major Food Group history lesson, black tie intel fake news at the Armani gala, Chaka Khan’s still got it after all these years, could you pull a Trump and effectively work a shift at McDonald’s, Auralee keeps collabing this time with Tekla plus a little preview of James’ interview with designer Ryota Iwai and much more.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. On our new weekly mini ep, we’re fucking around and getting silly with the GD MFing Boyz, recapping and breaking down this week’s guest pod and touching on a variety of things we might have missed or simply must know more about, including but not limited to: both of us getting dressed like Throwing Fits has a rec soccer team, Umbro is so hot right now, and why we haven’t started using affiliate links.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Our interview with Jaeki Cho is righteous. Jaeki—co-founder of Righteous Eats—came through to chow down with us on his altruistic content creation goals, what’s next for Righteous Eats since they’ve been a bit quiet, the fucked up sneaker game politics from his time as a retailer, that signature deep ass voice of his, how food content creation is actually analogous to rapping and hooping, the gift and the curse of restaurant TikTok virality, content payola, the crucial distinction of reviews vs. highlights, buying attention for cheap and selling it for more, owning your audience, his favorite food personalities, that NY Mag photoshoot from hell we all were in, hospitality hostility, trusting the elderly, comfort food, fruit and soup marathon fuel, the cultural exchange of old Jewish and young Korean men, why sodium is king, the Queens Bermuda Triangle and much more on Jaeki Cho’s interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Not exactly trousers, certainly not jeans, they're pants. This week, Jimmy and Larry are walking everyone through Throwing Fits’ first foray into perfecting pants—dropping this Thursday, October 17th on Substack for paid subscribers and opening up to the general public the next day on October 18th—before performing gold medal mental gymnastic routines on an upcoming Chicago save the date, Sorbara's beautiful new store, oil massages and jacuzzis, are lines bad or good and who should you invite to your event, why Kith 101 for Auralee actually makes sense, if Engineered Garments x J.Crew proves EG is underrated and overlooked, and what can both collabs tell us about each other, Shohei Ohtani’s swaglessness is actually good, an extensive review of the new Chicken Big Mac, another quick scene report from the outlets, Bally’s hidden treasure, a hilarious dream about the future of the podcast and much more.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Welcome to another semi-regular episode with friends both new and old, codename: Friday Fiasco. This Week, Jimmy and Larry are coming to you live from Starcow Paris in celebration of Champion’s Pinnacle footwear launch, hitting the stage with creative director of Fursac and the co-founder and fashion director of L’Etiquette magazine, Gauthier Borsarello, to talk everything from global men’s style and his many vintage obsessions to the perfect Parisian day and some French slang so you can take your ass into the weekend in style.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. On our new weekly mini ep, we’re fucking around and getting silly with the GD MFing Boyz, recapping and breaking down this week’s guest pod and touching on a variety of things we might have missed or simply must know more about, including but not limited to: our run-ins with A$AP mob throughout the years, determining who has more bangers between Rocky and Ferg, and saluting a fellow fit pic perfectionist.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Our interview with Ferg is on a new level. Ferg—whose new album Darold is coming soon—came through to bless us like the hood pope he is and pontificate on cowboy boots, interpolation vs. biting, copping gold in India, finding inspiration in Florence with his aunt, his most personal project to date, all types of Ferg fan service, the new and improved zen and philosophical version of himself, what we can all learn from DMX, making family albums, shooting the shit with A$AP Yams, the crowd performing his bangers for him, advice from Timbaland, Ferg’s other verticals like making fine art and designing clothing, a litany of health and wellness advice from a guy who gets fly to hang out at the juice bar and drinks structured water, Harlem and its official uptown gear getting its flowers, denouncing our proclamation that he is the kindest rapper even if we’ve loved him ever since we interviewed him way back when on Fashion Bros!, reuniting with his dog Krash and much more on Ferg’s interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.