*SUBSTACK PREVIEW* Geeked off a Chinese Bean

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.

1 Nov 202434min

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.

29 Okt 202411min

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.

24 Okt 20245min

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™.

23 Okt 20241h 38min

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.

22 Okt 202419min

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.

17 Okt 20245min

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™.

16 Okt 20241h 42min

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.

15 Okt 202410min