*PATREON PREVIEW* Barking for Print

Summary

Throwing Fits – PATREON PREVIEW Barking for Print

Release Date: July 8, 2026
Hosts: Jimmy and Larry

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Episode Overview

This midweek "boys only" episode finds co-hosts Jimmy and Larry bouncing through fashion debates, personal style, and New York menswear retail gossip—while reflecting on how the tables turn when they themselves become the subject of media coverage. The conversation revolves around footwear and sock-pairing controversies, why certain basics rule their wardrobes, small menswear brand recommendations, and the pleasures (and pitfalls) of opinionated style commentary.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Deconstructing the Fit: Socks, Loafers & Shorts

(00:30–04:22)

• The hosts recap the experience of getting their own style dissected, referencing their recent feature with Chantal Fernandez from The Cut.

  • Larry: “Since we got the rare—we got the lens turned on us at the end there.” (00:55)

• Discussion of the black loafer/white sock trend, especially with shorts.

  • Larry: The key is that his white socks are actually off-white, which feels more tasteful. He draws issue with the combo when shorts enter the equation, bemoaning becoming a cliché:
    “I don't care if you're… you're wearing the white socks and black loafers is only when we introduce fucking shorts into the mix. And to be honest, dude, it's bothered me enough where I'm kind of the crying nerd in the middle of the par...” (01:54)
  • Jimmy and Larry refer to the meme-ification of these style tropes, acknowledging that what used to be nuanced now gets reduced to joke formats.

• They admit to being early “haters” on certain aesthetics and embrace their early adopter role—whether positive or negative.

  • Jimmy: “Sometimes the hate is too early, you know, and what we say, we're never wrong, we're only early... Glad you could be with us. Come on in. The water’s fine.” (03:04–03:17)

2. Sock Color Evolution & Style Nuances

(03:39–04:22)

• Jimmy shares his shift to all-grey socks (“Great. Neutral. Yeah. Instead of white.” (03:39)), listing an array of shades for versatility, much to Larry’s amusement.

  • Jimmy: “I got dark gray. I got light gray. I got charcoal. I got anthra—anthracite. I got slate.”
  • Larry: “Anthrac. Such a good… I got gunmetal. Gunmetal. Metal Gear Solid. I got smoke.” (03:51)

• Reference to advice against grey t-shirts (because of sweat stains), but agreement that grey socks are practical and under-the-radar.

3. Brand Talk: Jeanerica & Garment Care

(04:45–07:08)

• Larry mentions his Jeanerica jeans and shorts, and both discuss how they are underappreciated but supremely wearable.

  • Larry: “My favorite fatigues I’ve ever owned. Like, they just—there’s… Is anyone talking about them besides us?” (06:17)

• Jimmy laments the ruination of a rare Jeanerica tee in Paris—destroyed by a rusty hotel iron. Larry advises on the perils of using unfamiliar irons abroad:

  • Jimmy: “So I'm ironing it. I'm just like, yo, what the—so there's now just—it looks like...I tie-dyed it with feces.” (05:51)
  • Larry: “Yeah, you got to always check your hotel irons. And a lot of times I'll use…a thin towel.” (05:56–06:08)

• Jimmy discusses his effort to get Jeanerica a bigger retail presence in NYC, hinting at future developments:

  • Jimmy: "Maybe in spring 2027, they'll have a bigger presence here in New York City, as I did facilitate a linkage..." (06:27)

4. The NYC Menswear Retail Ecosystem

(06:53–07:21)

• Discussion turns to La Garçonne and its stock; debate over whether it's worth visiting for menswear.
  • Larry: “And look at the five pieces of clothing in La Garçonne? No, not usually.”
  • Jimmy: “No. La Garçonne is stocked to the gills… for when they have a sale—it was like rack city.” (07:05–07:17)

5. Underwear & Laundry Habits

(07:26–08:03)

• Larry pokes fun at himself for wearing Our Legacy boxers often, due to laundry cycles and recording days.

  • Jimmy: “It's always laundry day with you. What's going on?” (07:31)

• Larry’s idiosyncratic take on shirt laundering: polos get washed, but dress shirts worn with undershirts are “good for a couple wears.”

  • Larry: “Polos, get washed. A dress shirt worn with a beater… I'd get a couple wears in there because, you know, I don’t sweat.” (07:47–08:03)
  • Memorable Larry quip: “Cool as a motherfucking cucumber. And I have no BO.” (08:03)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Jimmy: “Sometimes the hate is too early, you know, and what we say, we're never wrong, we're only early.” (03:04)
• Larry: “I don't want to be a statistic…What am I, Fat Joe in a throwback? In a fitted? Where I’m like matching too much stuff? Oh, man, it's a lot.” (02:37)
• Jimmy: “So I'm ironing it. I'm just like, yo, what the—so there's now just—it looks like...I tie-dyed it with feces.” (05:51)
• Larry: “Cool as a motherfucking cucumber. And I have no BO.” (08:03)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:30–01:39 | Start of fit check, and inside jokes about being the subject of a media profile
• 01:39–03:09 | Sock/loafer/shorts controversy and early adopter hater status
• 03:09–04:22 | Rotation of sock colors and neutral basics
• 04:45–07:08 | Jeanerica jeans/shorts/tees review and garment care horror story
• 07:08–07:21 | NYC retailer La Garçonne discussion
• 07:26–08:03 | Underwear, laundry, and shirt washing philosophy

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Tone & Vibe

Laid back, irreverent, and characteristically self-mocking, Jimmy and Larry blend deep menswear nerdiness with meta-commentary about influence and inside baseball fashion talk—never missing an opportunity to recycle their own running jokes.

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For those who haven't listened:
This episode is a quintessential “boys only” Throwing Fits dispatch, perfect for those who want candid banter on micro-trends, strong product opinions, and a cheeky window into the fashion podcast’s cult-favorite hosts.

Transcript

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[Jimmy]

Welcome to another midweek, boys. Only around and getting silly with Jimmy Larry after a feature.

[Larry]

Yo.

[Jimmy]

Last time was a feature in the Cut. Features writer Chantal Fernandez of the Cut. God damn, that was a long one. Touch on all good. Before we get into all that, we want to talk about dissect and bisect. Lawrence, what are you wearing? Let's.

[Larry]

Let's run that back. Since we got the rare. We got the lens turned on us at the end there.

[Jimmy]

Yeah, you love that. No, I'm just thinking I tried to watch Tenant on the plane only because, like, I knew he was gonna put me to sleep three times, which it did. So I'm just like, oh, how do

[Larry]

we run it back? No, no, I, I don't with whether it's talking about ourselves, I obviously enjoy that. It's the fit. We did the fit check at the end. Oh, that's what I mean. Specifically. So for those of you who didn't make it that far or only listen to Jimmy and Larry the row eel soft loafers, the socks are socks with three S's, I believe.

[Jimmy]

What do you, what do you. What do you think of this whole black loafer, white sock?

[Larry]

Well, the reason I like my socks. Socks is because.

[Jimmy]

Yo, shout out Nagi. Yeah, Nat. I've been. I'm saying it wrong the whole time. It's actually Nagi. Not Nagi. It's my guy. Yeah, that's my Monami.

[Larry]

Trying to remember the other socks guy too, because I met him as well at an after.

[Jimmy]

Terrible, terrible.

[Larry]

I think it might have been. Yeah. A year ago to the day at Prize Fest. The reason I like the white socks is because to me, to my eyes, these are off white. They're not like stark, you know, white. And I'll say that if you're wearing pants, I don't care if you're. You're wearing the white socks and black loafers is only when we introduce fucking shorts into the mix. And to be honest, dude, it's bothered me enough where I'm kind of the crying nerd in the middle of the par.

[Jimmy]

What is that? Like a.

[Larry]

What do you call that graph?

[Jimmy]

That's parallelogram.

[Larry]

Parallelogram.

[Jimmy]

Parabola.

[Larry]

Parabola. Parabola. Yeah. The middle of the parabola where, like, I'm like, been going sockless.

[Jimmy]

No.

[Larry]

With shorts. Yeah, I know, dude, because I don't want to be a statistic. And yeah, I have my little primary pops as well. But then I'm like. Then I'm like, what am I, Fat Joe in a throwback? In a fitted. Where I'm like, matching. Too much stuff. Oh, man, it's a lot.

[Jimmy]

Well, my thing is that we.

[Larry]

Another point, I'm sure. I mean, we.

[Jimmy]

We've been hating on the. The black loafer white sock cohort for a minute now, and it's like the people that are. Sometimes. Sometimes the hate is too early, you know, and what we say, we're never wrong. We're only early. That applies for both, like, things we're positive about and things that were negative about.

[Larry]

So everything.

[Jimmy]

Their hate, the hate came to people like, yo, why you hating? Yeah, bro. Welcome to the hater dome. Glad you could be with us.

[Larry]

Welcome, brother.

[Jimmy]

Glad you could be with us. Come on in. The water's fine. And, yeah, so I guess this whole debate now, and you know, it's. It's. It's in indicative of, like, the weather turning and. And you have just these, like, basic big short bros. Black loafers, white sock crew. But this is why I recently. Not recently, like a few years ago, I pivoted to all gray socks.

[Larry]

Great. Neutral. Yeah. Instead of white.

[Jimmy]

I agree with shorts and. And pants.

[Larry]

Yeah.

[Jimmy]

So various colors are growing. I got dark gray. I got light gray. I got charcoal. I got anthra. Anthracite. I got slate.

[Larry]

Anthrac. Such a good. I got gunmetal. Gunmetal. Metal Gear Solid. I got smoke. Was it Corey Stokes who said no? No ever. Never. No ever. Never. Great T shirts. Was that him? A million years ago.

[Jimmy]

Yeah.

[Larry]

Sweat stains.

[Jimmy]

Like, you look like you just came from the gym.

[Larry]

But gray socks, I think it's a neutral. It plays. But then it's like. For a while there, I felt like black socks was a thing. Like, I remember when I only wear black socks for a while and like, that also seemingly got cooked. And I'm. I think I'm at the point where I'm like, it's just socks.

[Jimmy]

But, you know, it's not just socks, brother.

[Commercial Announcer]

Or.

[Larry]

Or also. And maybe we have spilled some audio over this, but I'm kind of like, what we kind of addressed. With Chantal, certain things can be just addressed with a meme and we can move on. Right. And this might be one of those things where it's like, here's the joke. We were just doubling down on what we said.

[Jimmy]

Yeah. No, it's. But it's more just like, yo. We were like, yo, we hated on this early.

[Larry]

Yeah, Yo, I hated on this first. Yeah, the first hater. The jeans are Jean Erica. The Polo is Lacoste. The.

[Jimmy]

How many generic jeans you own?

[Larry]

I have a pair. I have a pair.

[Jimmy]

How many pair. Generica pants do you own?

[Larry]

Three.

[Jimmy]

They're so good.

[Larry]

And I have shorts. I've. I have. I have jorts from Generica, but, like, they're in a. Like a dusty sand, so they're kind of like not shorts.

[Jimmy]

The same. We the same jorts.

[Larry]

Fuck.

[Jimmy]

Because I have those jeans. The Mirage.

[Larry]

Oh, I think I have the shorts version. Maybe I do too. All right, that's another one. Very cool list.

[Jimmy]

Very cool. Yo, you know what I want to say is that they make a great T shirt. Oh, just the ringer tea. Oh, yeah. I was very upset in shallots at the dry cleaners. Now I had like, this, like, off white T shirt from them. Love the fit of it. I have to have to size up. And I go to iron it in Paris and the iron had rust on it. No, I didn't see that. And so I'm ironing it. I'm just like, yo, what the.

[Larry]

So.

[Jimmy]

So there's now just. It's like a. Looks like. Like a. I tie. Dyed it with feces.

[Larry]

Yeah, the. What I would always tell you is, yeah, you got to always check your hotel irons. And a lot of times I'll use. Because this happens once and then it'll never happen again. But you use like a.

[Jimmy]

Like a thin towel.

[Larry]

Yeah, I'm sorry. I pray for the dry cleaners, dude.

[Jimmy]

All good, I think. Jesse Hudnut. If. If the dry cleaner can't do it, the. The nut man's got me.

[Larry]

Yeah. Gene. Erica. Gene is in the name. But great teas. My favorite fatigues that I've ever owned. Like, they just. There's. Is anyone talking about them besides us?

[Jimmy]

No, but I did. You're welcome, people. Maybe in spring 2027, they'll have a bigger presence here in New York City, as I did facilitate a linkage that hopefully will result in some Generica stockist New York City locations going up by

[Larry]

at least one phenomenal. Well, that's more than they have currently. You're we're not.

[Jimmy]

I think they're at La Garcon.

[Larry]

Oh, really?

[Jimmy]

Oh, well, I think so.

[Larry]

Classy cosign.

[Jimmy]

Yeah, but like you really want to go to West Rebecca, Dude, I.

[Larry]

And. And look at the five pieces of clothing in La Garcon. No, not usually.

[Jimmy]

No. Lagers on is stock to the gills.

[Larry]

The men's.

[Jimmy]

Yeah. Really? For when they. When they have a sale going on. Yeah, it's packed.

[Larry]

When they have a. Why is it stocked when there's a sale?

[Jimmy]

Just cuz like everything just trotted all the inventory.

[Commercial Announcer]

I don't know.

[Jimmy]

I mean, the last time I was there, there was a sale going on. It was like racks. It was like rack city.

[Larry]

Oh, did you like copable stuff?

[Jimmy]

No, no.

[Larry]

The boxers are our legacy workshop.

[Jimmy]

It's always laundry day with you. What's going on?

[Larry]

Not always. It's just the way that we record

[Jimmy]

last like three out of six pods. You've been wearing boxers because it's laundry day?

[Larry]

Pretty sure when we were doing all those zooms, I still had my best stuff.

[Jimmy]

Because you don't wash your shirts, which is weird to me.

[Larry]

No, I do. Polos, get washed. A dress shirt worn with a beater. Those. I wouldn't run it a whole season without getting a dry cleaned or professionally laundered. But yeah, I'll get a couple wears in there because you know, I don't sweat.

[Jimmy]

Dude.

[Larry]

Cool as a motherfucking cucumber. And I have no bo.

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