Throwing Fits

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. As always, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. This week, the Fab 5 are reconvening to debate, discuss and crown their personal favorite jawnz, timeline takeovers, brands, collabs, trends, sneakers, footwear, movies, TV shows, musical artists, best-dressed celebs, bozos and GOATs of the year that was. We’ve never been so back.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. The champagne of chairs. This week, Jimmy and Larry are breaking down our new Rosewood Workshirts—dropping this Thursday, December 19th, on Substack for paid subscribers complete with a launch event at Colbo for everyone that night from 6-9pm, and opening up to the general public the next day on December 20th—before getting into new chair ASMR courtesy of our generous friends at MillerKnoll, Inc., the etymology of great coats and drawers, toes get squarer, tomorrow’s very special return of the Fab 5 plus Fitties week on deck, faux pas and high-powered linking and building at the fanciest soirée we’ve ever had the pleasure of attending, a swanky hotel bar festive holiday review, evil burgers, the politics of a SNL afterparty, when bringing a buttplug to a white elephant goes wrong, the duality of gift giving, Santa’s spreadsheet, dads in mfpen, moms discovering SHEIN, this round of fashion designer musical chairs is thankfully over, TikTok is definitely getting banned 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: more pod lore unlocked thanks to both of our time spent at summer camp, continuing breaking down industries filled with creepy guys, and remembering the Raf Simons days.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Our interview with Youngmi Mayer is getting hairy. Youngmi—comedian and author of the new memoir I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying—hit the stu for a little therapy session on wearing one dress while on tour and only owning three outfits and one pair of shoes, vaping on the airplane, her new memoir and the idiom that inspired both the title and one of her first jokes, finding comedy amongst the trauma and tragedy, immigrant inferiority complexes, Korean stereotypes for white people, parenting do’s and don’ts, the easiest book sale of all time, being early on the Luigi Mangione thirst, when Asian politeness meets white supremacy and when they’ve had enough, answering the age-old what are you vs. how are you questions, K-pop as a negative export, Korean skincare 101, dating in NYC and a very thorough rundown of all the worst types of guys, haters needing to hate better, brokenness as a cruising altitude and much more on Youngmi Mayer’s interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Shooters shoot. This week, Jimmy and Larry are sharing more details about next week’s seasonal soiree—Thursday, December 19th at Colbo from 6-9pm in celebration of the holidays and our new cut & sew workshirt—before diving into all the emerging details about Luigi Mangione aka the suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin from his choices in firearms and fashion to books and fastfood, it’s open season on social media once you get arrested, James begrudgingly reveals his Spotify Wrapped and eats his way through the Atlanta airport to great disappointment while Lawrence cooks up a tasty Swedish MTM suit with Saman Amel to great excitement, overdressing to eat wings and watch football at Buffalo Wild Wings, fallout and takeaways from The New York Times’ Guinness trend piece 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: the pod’s own internal pizza debates rage on, what’s your hot sauce rotation looking like, and some very special date night fail lore.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Our interview with Chris Hansell is thin, crispy and juicy. Chris—founder of Chrissy’s Pizza—was kind enough to come through on one of his days off to cook up with us on black metal, murdered out fits, kitchen appropriate footwear, making the kind of pizza you and your father would love, the full pies no slices mindset, spending 5 years researching and developing what many people are calling the best pizza in NYC, how Action Bronson and a few other folks changed his life, actually living Kitchen Confidential, made to order pizza line math, getting a 8.2 from Dave Portnoy at the absolute worst time, choosing frozen pizza based on mood, today’s fetishization of chefs and kitchen staff, a litany of pizza takes straight from the sauce boss’ mouth that deal with everything from pineapple and ranch to pepperoni and accoutrement, the diy nature of hardcore as it applies to running a pizza business, the glory days of old school Pizza Hut and Domino’s before they changed their recipe, holiday treats, getting slices on a first date and much more on Chris Hansell’s interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.  

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. It’s bigger than sports. This week, Jimmy and Larry have another quick save the date for NYC-based Throw Gang—Thursday, December 19th—before battling sickness to get into whether you have legal ground to sue your boy for wearing the same jeans as you, advancements in turtleneck technology, fyi we will be wearing jackets inside for the foreseeable future, getting shredded after taking a month off from drinking and how to dive back in properly, eulogizing Vanderpump Rules and all our favorite moments and characters from the game changing reality television show, the many regrettable quotes of John Rocker, how we approached Black Friday plus some recent cops and cops that never were, Hunter Biden free, our own tales of senioritis, world history lessons, has Jacob Elordi ushered in the post-beard era, reviewing Gladiator II and Conclave, James is taking a day trip to Atlanta to achieve Delta Diamond Medallion Status while Lawrence is getting a custom suit made, a quick run-through of the many words of the year and much more, like the question on everybody’s mind: Is Dr. Dillamond the drip king of Oz?

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 in LA and podding extra chill hangout style from a hotel bed with our pal Michael Martin-del-Campo aka Mikey to talk everything from suits and cinema to gambling and guns so you can take your ass into the weekend in style.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. We gon’ be alright. This week, Jimmy and Larry are finally back in NYC, getting into the swing of things on the challenge of buying used shoes, remember espadrilles, the latest slate of emerging Japanese brands, a cardigan state of the union, Swedish jeans, falling victim and/or falling in love with a viral stunt jawn, Lawrence got tattoos and played pool while James went shopping, this week’s Friday Fiasco wraps up our extremely cute LA bed chronicles, guns and crossbows, steak frites in the Delta One lounge, how Matt Groening tips, flying with Nav aka the first brown boy to get it poppin’, does ComplexCon/CactusCon prove hypebeasts are back or that they never left, some initial thoughts on Kendrick Lamar’s GNX, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days plus a bunch of romcom talk, what we’re looking forward to the most about Thanksgiving and 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: 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.