

Throwing Fits
Throwing Fits
Two grown dirtbags just tryna navigate the male zeitgeist. If you have any money you want to give us or any constructive criticism you'd like us to 360 degree tomahawk slam dunk into the trash can please email us: throwingfitspod@gmail.com.
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Nov 21, 2023 • 11min
*PATREON PREVIEW* Panic! at the Polo
All killer no filler. This week, Jimmy and Larry are keeping it a stack on some cooking inspo for your headtop, the Zyns talking to you like the Green Goblin’s mask, another week another Japanese innovation but this time of the war machine variety, hawks vs. doves, getting on your knees for hiking boots, how do you actually wear a vest, A$AP Bullwinkle returns, an interesting dynamic emerges on set with JB in the director’s chair, having a full-blown panic attack while shopping in person for the first time in ages, build-a-fit workshop, when your star doesn’t burn brightest at the function, James tries to join #watchtok, sleeping through your alarm but still cooking the OL x Emporio Armani drop plus our personal hauls, some much-needed glove R&D, reporting back after descending to the 9th circle of content creator hell with a multitude of hard-earned learnings, the worst drink of all time, Saltburn, ranking the entire Alien franchise, Lawrence gets straight to some all time on-screen fits expressly for zood purposes only, Sir Ridley Scott, Napoleon’s various complexes and much more. For more Throwing Fits, check us out on Patreon: www.patreon.com/throwingfits.

Nov 16, 2023 • 4min
*PATREON PREVIEW* The Afters with AJ Tracey
On our new weekly lightning round mini ep with with AJ Tracey, we’re fucking around with Spurs winning the league, locking in a Drake feature, getting your hair done by white people vs. eating food cooked by white people, swithching harilines with Harry Kane, wearing a Chelsea kit for any amount of time whatsoever, breakfast beans for every meal, Simon Cowell, stereotypical American accents, earnestly going on Love Island, Austin Powers catchphrases, moving to Nebraska, King Charles, shrinking a foot and much more. For more Throwing Fits, check us out on Patreon: www.patreon.com/throwingfits.

Nov 15, 2023 • 1h 11min
Fit For Purpose with AJ Tracey
This week’s interview with AJ Tracey is live and direct. AJ, esteemed grime rapper, rolled through deep while in town to spit bars on how to get free chains from your jeweler, his recent trip to Japan, making the Kapital store rounds, your girl interrupting you while playing video games to ask you about her fit, making music with American vs. British homies, what we can expect from his next project, that white boy Alex bodying his Thiago Silva verse with Dave at Glastonbury and its subsequent effect on race relations, why Nas is his goat, Adele is a real one, Skepta can do it all from designing clothes to making a banger beat from scratch in less than 30 minutes, posh London personal style, 2023 state of the roadman uniform union, global drillers, rating how our fits would play with the mandem, how hard he’s gonna go if Spurs win the league, his favorite football kit of all time, teaching us cool new slang and we repay the favor by explaining some things about the USA that still confound him, his undying love for Linkin Park and that one time he blew meeting Chester Bennington, shit nearly going down in Nebraska, how to properly chat up a bird, the sheer amount of money he spends on FIFA packs and much more on this full fry-up episode of The Only Podcast That Matters™. For more Throwing Fits, check us out on Patreon: www.patreon.com/throwingfits.

Nov 14, 2023 • 10min
*PATREON PREVIEW* Podmaxxing
Warning: this episode contains some explicit language. This week, Jimmy and Larry are touching road on men’s shapewear, James explains the girlie brand hierarchy, the rush and thrill of sharing a real ass jawnz enthusiast moment with your wife, Our Legacy Work Shop x Emporio Armani aka collab of the year plus our favorite picks and a little zooded history lesson, looksmaxxing and starvemaxxing, Lawrence vs. The New York Times rages on thanks to an absolutely unexpected and preposterous cameo on The Daily, the mandem pulling up a bit too deep, stolen iPhone chargers, community managers are the new weed carriers, kufi flow team, a spice trader and chechen militant walk into an open bar, the right amount of shots for a grown man, piss-poor attempts at rizzing up rapper thots, we now know Nigo but at what cost to Throwing Fits’ reputation, Mr. Viral, absolutely crushing creative black tie at friends of the show Jian and Janice’s wedding and much more. For more Throwing Fits, check us out on Patreon: www.patreon.com/throwingfits.

Nov 9, 2023 • 6min
*PATREON PREVIEW* The Afters with Jon Caramanica
On our new weekly lightning round mini ep with with Jon Caramanica, we’re fucking around with never seeing live music again, fruits and veggies, dressing like Bloody Osiris, waking up at 7am, airplane headphones, Larry’s hairline, Jesus is King, Laffy Taffy, Amiri jeans, Papoose style fitteds, Drake’s IG caption prose, firing Joe Coscarelli, Kanye West, shrinking a foot and much more. For more Throwing Fits, check us out on Patreon: www.patreon.com/throwingfits.

Nov 8, 2023 • 3h 34min
Grind Harder with Jon Caramanica
This week’s interview with Jon Caramanica is a marathon we’re sprinting all the way through. Jon, our old pal and The New York Times pop music critic, finally made his highly-anticipated TF debut to go deep on sober drink champs, voice activated plausible deniability, Virgil LV grails, vamp hours, screen time, new music discovery on TikTok, vintage shopping across this great nation, big soda talk, misunderstanding the critical mind, what’s up with his Kanye book and some recent necessary rethinking and pivoting, Ye drip check 2K23, an off the cuff and unprepared peek into his best music of the year, getting vertigo in the Las Vegas Sphere, where music is headed next year, how Popcast Deluxe is going, numbies going dumbski at Fanelli, advice from Throwing Fits Creative Agency LLC, snack recon, the best and worst things about podding with his bestie and friend of the show Joe Coscarelli, when will the Critical Shopper return plus some shopping memories, is NYC retail so back, spending 2 years imbedded in the ALD trenches, menswear thought leaders, ethics preventing becoming boys with your subjects and even just getting a free meal, his new One Step Ahead column and its inaugural subject Been Slackin, personal style going deeper not wider, an impromptu rundown of his shopping list, how hoarding and taking risks changes with age, the jawnz he’ll never part with Throwing Fits Friends & Family Bazaar be damned, 100 T-shirt rotations, his wild ‘90s grooming or lack thereof phase, an extremely sincere conversation on dating and making friends as an adult, why he’s not abusing his privilege of commenting on Drake’s IG, making less money than us and much more on this instant classic episode of The Only Podcast That Matters™. For more Throwing Fits, check us out on Patreon: www.patreon.com/throwingfits.

Nov 7, 2023 • 11min
*PATREON PREVIEW* That’s Fire Bro
Seriously, that’s so fire, bro. This week, Jimmy and Larry are slinging cig tees and going through as many Elf Bar flavors as they can stomach, the joy of a black teen complimenting your sneakers, an extensive hands on review of Skims men, the sorest loser on the court, the pros and cons of the New York City Marathon plus the audio marathon we ran ourselves on tomorrow’s interview, when looking for an excuse to darty goes wrong, the Apple store as the gates of hell, the worst TikTok man on the street interview of all time emerges, the Nolita bros are coming for Brooklyn, gut reactions to the new Gucci menswear, the Throwing Fits guide to evening wear and some in real time wedding tux R&D, books and salads, Wales Bonner Samba season returns, why does Prada x Adidas by Jerry Lorenzo exist and much more. For more Throwing Fits, check us out on Patreon: www.patreon.com/throwingfits.

Nov 2, 2023 • 12min
*PATREON PREVIEW* The Afters with Sneeze Magazine’s Bradley Carbone
On our new weekly lightning round mini ep with with Bradley Carbone, we’re diving into a bunch of stories too hot for the free feed and fucking around with your wife becoming a Sneeze girl, wheelchair accessibility, Vlone rims, Wheelchair Jimmy, walking again, peace in the Middle East, only eating Carbone for the rest of your life, socializing at clout chasing brand activations, scrubbing your Google results, streetwear art, Ronnie Feig, Marc Ecko, shrinking a foot and much more. For more Throwing Fits, check us out on Patreon: www.patreon.com/throwingfits.

Nov 1, 2023 • 2h 17min
The Reckoning 2K24 with Sneeze Magazine’s Bradley Carbone
Heads are rolling on this week’s interview with the managing editor of Sneeze Magazine Bradley Carbone. Bradley was kind enough to host us in his beautiful apartment to give us some perspective on being the self-proclaimed Larry Flynt of streetwear, how much a tricked out wheelchair actually costs, literally heavy chain acknowledgments, helping spearhead the designer sneaker era at Adidas, spicy rigatoni nepo babies, the comfortable restraint of staying in the industry shadows, why anyone would still make a print magazine in 2023, tracking down Iggy Pop in Miami, Virgil Abloh’s propensity to never stop going in, Sneeze’s backpage babes, how to collab on sneakers, fashion’s agency middle man scam, getting fits off while wheelchair bound, micro and macro trend forecasting from a goated mind, Spanto memories and what made him so special, 5am vs. 10am conversations, the idea of downtown and checking in with some former and future legends, reflecting on the freak accident that changed his life, parallel timelines, nearly hitting the NYC media triple crown featuring a delicious Afters tease, the best and worst things about marrying an Italian, email strategies for different nationalities and much more on this insightful and ingenious episode of The Only Podcast That Matters™. For more Throwing Fits, check us out on Patreon: www.patreon.com/throwingfits.

Oct 31, 2023 • 10min
*PATREON PREVIEW* Hate The Game
We are merely players. This week, Jimmy and Larry are going in on their favorite ugly sneakers of the moment, Japanese construction worker pants, your parents’ cultural illiteracy, who is the funniest rapper, rocking with Michael Jackson in spite of the worst BAPE collaboration since the last worst BAPE collaboration, James gets his meat tenderized in the middle of the park, Kylie Jenner’s new clothing line vs. the return of the queen Phoebe Philo, is fake leather actually fire, objectifying the faces of Skims Mens and the boys being bullish on the bulge, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s must follow IG, the is NBA back aka tunnel fits season is here and why it represents everything wrong with our world, breaking down this week’s guest’s return to menswear prediction, Kanye is exposed once again but do we still smell a comeback in the air, Taylor Swift stays disrupting everything even one of our photoshoots, contrary to popular belief the Bravo Boyz are back in the building plus some bonus hot gossip straight from the sandwich shop, Lawrence ends his night by getting drive-by hazed, god bless the kids menu for adults and much more. For more Throwing Fits, check us out on Patreon: www.patreon.com/throwingfits.