The Aaron Maldonado Interview with Throwing Fits

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🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Our interview with Aaron Maldonado is authentic. Aaron—the founder and and creative director of Brigade—left his pregnant wife alone to make the most of his pod debut on drunk driving a fixie to Montauk, upper number barely legal Jordans, what it's like to live with pants autism, putting flags on jawnz is a cheat code, starting a brand with $500 in pizza delivery tips and making sure he had budget for business cards, Brigade is a family business and that family is about to get bigger, his shadow agency that will make any brand's wildest dreams come true, original ideas coming from within, the cottage industry of ripping off independent designers including himself, streetwear with a hard R, tourists vs. purists, Brigade's 10 year anniversary brick factory, delivering bad news with a smile on your face, how New York City became a brand, Kith's global dominance, the streetwear media machine in 2026, and much more on Aaron Maldonado's interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

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0:00.0	So you're running out of closet space.
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0:13.0	whether it's that mini bag that can't even fit your phone, or those boots you never fully broke in.
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0:22.7	so you can just sit back, get paid, and make room for things that actually feel like you.
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0:41.3	Plus, right now, you can get an extra $100 to shop when you sell for the first time.
0:46.5	Make room for what feels like you!
0:48.5	Go to the realreel.com to start selling and get your extra $100 to keep shopping at the realreel.com.
0:54.6	That's the real real.com. Terms apply.
0:59.8	Our guest this week has stood alongside Giants and went big pharma mode how he got the streets
1:04.4	pillboxed. The soon to be dad, congrats on the sex, might be the most and maybe last
1:09.3	tasteful dude in streetwear and his brand might be the most underrated and slept on label out there. He left his extremely pregnant wife to come rip a pod with the boys. So hopefully his kid doesn't want to pop out in the next hour and a half. Here to talk Puerto Rico maxing to get his design stolen by cornballs. And when he used to deliver pizzas, founder and created director, Brigade, Aaron, Maldonado.
1:28.1	Aaron, how are you?
1:28.8	I'm amazing.
1:29.5	That was, I didn't know what to expect that that was pretty sick. Thanks. Yeah, I'm definitely. You're welcome. I'm definitely saving that somewhere. Sure. I'm going to watch that every morning before I get to the office. To get hype. Yeah. That should be the first thing that your son is exposed.
1:42.9	Oh shit.
1:43.5	Should I not say the gender?
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