The Alex/2Tone Interview with Throwing Fits

Throwing Fits

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🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Our interview with Alex/2Tone has been a long time coming. Alex—co-founder and creative director of Born x Raised and host of the Powerful Truth Angels podcast—was kind enough to move his naptime to host us in his office and finally pod while we were in Los Angeles on Paul Thomas Anderson messing up his SEO, his world-renowned calves, sometimes you just wanna be a walking gray pantone, fat kid trauma, dessert amnesia, shopping by happenstance, how to power nap 101, what a creative director actually does, the sad shark mindset, a shoebox full of cash and a dream, proudly claiming streetwear and a free history lesson, Spanto lives, an unstoppable force and immovable object coming together to make music, hats with animals ears vs. big ass brims, Born x Raised’s annual Sadie Hawkins winter formal is New Year’s Eve for women in LA and Alex has been crunching the numbers on attendee hookups, if you don’t get in line for the photo booth were you even there, moments of clarity, jiu-jitsu and the power of saying yes because you don’t know shit, wabi-sabi hair routines, his podcast’s future, credit score hell, depression as a luxury and much more on Alex/2Tone’s interview with The Only Podcast That Matters™.

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0:00.0	Throw gang, we are joined by the governor graphics.
0:02.3	The jujitsu general, yeah, he a foo fighter.
0:04.4	You got poopie box.
0:05.4	He run the studie fox.
0:06.5	On the turf so you know the clothes are so fie.
0:08.4	In all these slots like Cooper in his cup runneth over.
0:10.7	Hometown hero like show Hey, Otani, he'd be making the host,
0:12.9	Hey, O'Poppy.
0:14.0	Call him Zill because he's with the homes. too put fits on that gang. Oh, you're not fucking two-tone. How about you put these two nuts in your mouth?
0:21.7	Take the foods to school come PTA because there will be drip in his swagnolia and the thread's going to get him a phantom.
0:27.3	Also, PTA is the name of his podcast.
0:29.6	Artist director, podcast, your co-founder and credit director of born and raised, Alex, how the hell are you?
0:34.8	Holy shit, the quadruple entendres.
0:36.7	I know. The magnolia. Yeah. It's a lot. The frog.
0:39.4	The swag, nollia. Holy shit. I feel like I've been fucking knighted.
0:42.4	Also, spoiler alert, if no one's ever seen any of these PTA classes.
0:45.8	Yeah. If you haven't seen Magnolia, go fuck yourself.
0:48.0	It rains frogs. Does Paul Timmy? Does Paul Simon's interesting fuck up your SEO for your podcast when people search your PTA. Yeah. That's why nobody listens, right?
0:55.2	Yeah.
0:56.1	That's what's fucking me up is that the SEO and people search PTA, they end up watching fucking punch drunk love.
1:02.5	God damn it.
1:03.5	Which is one of my favorite PTA movies.
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