Throwing Fits

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. It’s not clocking to you that we’re standing on business, is it? This week, Jimmy and Larry want to thank everyone for buying shorts for a good cause, set your calendar alerts because we’re doing a live pod at ThriftCon this weekend—Saturday, June 21st—jeans that are definitely jeans, when the brand doubles as your zodiac sign, Très Bien’s sale is not to be trifled with, did we finally learn how to pronounce Port Tanger, we’re not saying we convinced John C. Reilly to join Instagram but maybe we did, Tennis has officially gone full streetwear thanks to Supreme x Yonex and Kith x Wilson so how did we get here and what does it mean, are there any hobbies left that are immune to collabs, Lawrence had a wonderful time dining at Eddie Huang’s new pop-up restaurant Gazebo, Asian fusion is so back which is good because it rules, James mingles with the fairer sex at Paige DeSorbo’s Daphne launch, pajama drama, welcome to Jamaica where the Red Stripe is frosty and the fire is slapped, it’s WW3 so make sure you hit up the gay orgy bomb shelter, explaining why Quentin Tarantino and Caitlyn Jenner are in Israel, England is magic, buying stock in a new TikTok guy, revising our assessment of Justin Bieber’s mental health 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: spilling coffee everywhere right before John C. Reilly arrived, being an audience of two while Isaac Hindin-Miller does his thing live, and sweating like two whores in church. 

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Our interview with John C. Reilly is romantic. John—Oscar-nominated actor and Grammy-nominated musician whose new album What’s Not to Love is out Friday, June 13th—was kind enough to swing by the stu while he was in town to talk EGOTs, researching and developing new suit technology, custom shirt vaults in Los Angeles, shopping for rare hats in London, he ain’t got no stylist, his swaggy sons, the art of clowning and his former (RIP) collection of clown paintings, Mister Romantic’s guide to romance, a rapid fire game of all the legendary directors he’s worked with, Joaquin Phoenix and Will Ferrell are great hangs, getting Step Brothers lines yelled at him in the airport, the great cereal heist of his youth and much more on John C. Reilly's interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. This is the Carter so hold onto your teenage fodder. This week, James and Lawrence are reflecting on our new favorite pants and knitwear, proto menswear grails, tactical boots even protestors and cops can agree on, ordering a Waymo so you can torch on demand, getting political thanks to our podcast with the people’s champ Zohran Mamdani, some folks were big mad but others finally decided it was time to learn how to vote, what technically constitutes an endorsement, last minute logistical chaos, explaining slang and bars to high-powered comms folks, turns out Joe Rogans of the left don’t have to be capital J journalists, teasing another legend hitting your ears this week, Lawrence breaks down the Dieworkwear Twitter situation, Turnstile rocked Under the K Bridge, Lil Wayne bombed at MSG, Tha Carter VI just might be the worst album of all time, see your legends while you can but also at the right time, Roland Garros delivered a classic and we’re all Carlos Alcaraz and Coco Gauff guys now, what actually happened to Sabalenka’s boyfriend, James has some ideas on how to make baseball games more fun 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: our official tipping stances for a variety of scenarios, memories of HBA’s golden years, and that one time James made his own streetwear line.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Our interview with Zohran Mamdani is relentless. Zohran—a politician running to be the next mayor of New York City—took time out of his extremely busy schedule to check in with us on the first suit he ever bought from an illegal street fair, reviewing the gametape from the first debate and the bars he left in the chamber, hilarious and pointed criticism of Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams, addressing NYC’s affordability crisis plus we have some policy recommendations for him, he’s not hiding a child, his coalition is a movement that will accept you with open arms, a quick game of choice rank voting some of the city’s most iconic nuisances, assuming he wins will he stay in Queens or post up in Gracie Mansion, if he drops an inshallah you already know he’s punting, a certain opponent’s rumored nipple piercings and confirmed campaign finance missteps, knowing the difference between lecturing and listening is how you bring voters back into the tent, so-called radical ideas are actually necessary and achievable and he can back it up despite the criticisms of his lack of experience, a fair weather Knicks fan state of the union, as a rapper himself what MCs he thinks might make good mayors, our mutual friend Heems actually got him into politics, what his filmmaker mother thinks of his social media, even if you’re running for office and you have no free time you still have the dulcet tones of Rae Sremmurd, unwinding with the other Mark Walberg on Temptation Island and much more on Zohran Memdani’s interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Our interview with Ian Isiah is everything. Ian—former creative director of Hood By Air, music director at Telfar, and musician—came through for a big one on piercing peer pressure, Demna standing on the shoulders of giants, finally making gay music, the fellas need to learn strategies, influence vs. inspiration vs. identity, vagina facial prosthetics, nothing fazing New Yorkers, homophobia in hip-hop, explaining the concept of doing your big one, songs getting shorter, genre hopping with his collaborators, looking back on the HBA days and its current hyper relevance, how cis-hetero bros can respectfully occupy queer fashion spaces, his current role at Telfar, flipping off the establishment, GHE20G0TH1K club nights, collective corporate insecurity, how did they do at this year’s Met Gala, prison workouts, becoming shy as you age gracefully, growing up in the church and hair salons where emotional outrage meets art, enlightened straights, working at Urban Outfitters turned him into a white hipster and much more on Ian Isiah's interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. This is culturally inappropriate. This week, Jimmy and Larry are a day late, but never a holler short on if this is indeed the last summer of silver technical runners, big shorts or da white jeans fo today, when are expensive sunglasses worth it, James hit the links for some content hosting, CC Sabathia is a tank and a legend who if you play your cards right might consider you a good guy, golfers and influencers mix like oil and water, keep the caddies in your thoughts and prayers, checking in with Jesse Solomon and Carl Radke aka the twin towers of Summer House plus some final thoughts and rumors as this season wraps up, stay away from Ja Rule when he steps up to the tee box, rap boomers rejoice The Clipse have returned and we are bullish, rap’s generational divide, label politics attempted to bungle everything as per usual, Matthew Williams is back with a new eponymous brand and a poem but will this work unlike Alyx and his tenure at Givenchy, product first designers, are we on the precipice of a broems and broetry boom, Jonathan Anderson got every job at Dior but will he break under the pressure of designing 18 collections a year, were you ever a Sies Marjan guy, please bear with Lawrence as he processes extreme bird trauma, the old school sitcom is alive and well thanks to Adults and Overcompensating, the Mountainhead heat check was a brick and much more.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Substack. Rest in peace to all the soldiers that died in the service, however it’s unclear what happens to the cervix. This week, Jimmy and Larry are both back from their Memorial Day weekend getaways to recap dead horses, beer bottle opener jawnz, an oft-debated 2 Chainz lyric, Kirkland Signature beverages, how do you take your hotdog, meeting Abraham Lincoln at the airport, spending the entire day at the beach with your bathing suit ripped at the ass seam, god made Larry to be an uncle, beach town gossip is undefeated, HEYDUDEs vs. Clarks Wallabees, the cottage industry of money laundering is alive and well in Grand Cayman, James went to Palm Heights and the influencers were right it’s amazing, gauging your vacation in terms of wetness, meet Omar the Turkish masseur who will change your life, maybe we should all become treatment guys on vacation, put some respect on Carribean food, manifesting abundance on your phone’s lock screen, Mambo Italiano karaoke night, be careful because every crew has that one British guy, The New York Times Magazine wrote about the male friendship epidemic so we react accordingly and sincerely with our own advice and lived experience, is the polo agenda real, how we each are approaching the classic menswear staple this summer including a little DIY experiment 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: our own dubious forays into the realm of styling, faking it ’til you make it, and the sheer power of making stories.