*PATREON PREVIEW* French Locker Room Talk

Summary

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Throwing Fits – PATREON PREVIEW French Locker Room Talk

Date: May 29, 2026
Hosts: James & Lawrence

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Episode Overview

In this Patreon preview, James checks in from the sweltering French countryside while Lawrence is posted up in Santa Monica, LA. The guys riff on the chaos of recording internationally, mismatched energy levels, and the ups and downs of travel, all with their signature irreverent, self-deprecating humor. This episode is a candid look at the "glamour" of podding on the road, both of their current fits, heatwave horror stories, and a taste of life away from the NYC fashion grind.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Recording From Afar: Technical Chaos Abroad

• Setting the Scene:
  • James is in rural France, sweating in a chateau, while Lawrence is in Santa Monica, up early for the pod.
  • Both poke fun at their lack of technical prowess, referencing previous audio disasters on the pod (like the Matt McCormick episode).
• AI vs. Human Editing:
  • They tried using AI to fix audio but ended up with “invented language,” ultimately hiring a Lithuanian freelancer instead.
  • Quote:

    “We tried that and it spit out absolute nonsense and invented language.” — James [00:55]

2. West Coast vs. French Countryside

• Lawrence on Being in LA:
  • Staying in Santa Monica, with a detour from Venice Beach.
  • Jokes about being surrounded by the “thirty person UGG design team on a company off-site.”
  • Quote:

    “It’s me, Marcus Allen, and like the thirty person UGG design team on a company off site, it’s fire.” — Lawrence [03:15]

• James’ Chateau Life:
  • In a chateau called "Chateau de Ra" (mispronounced as “Rose”).
  • No AC in the middle of a record-breaking heatwave.
  • Jokes about modern problems: “living off Coca Zero and red wine.”
  • Quote:

    “It is one thousand degrees in this chateau… The chateau I'm in is called Chateau de Ra but I keep going ‘Rose’.” — James [04:34]

3. What Are You Wearing?! Classic Fit Checks

• Lawrence’s Fit:
  • Vintage T.Rex tee, Our Legacy Workshop x Dickies, Uniqlo socks, and UGG Classic Minis.
• James’ Fit:
  • CP Company, ASICS, Amazon socks, Our Legacy bathing suit, ultra-thin vintage t-shirt, chapeau from The Broken Arm, and “freeballin’” in the suit due to the heat.
• Watch Struggles:
  • James’ watch strap is falling apart, and he recounts a real “watch guy” telling him “Don’t show that to people.”
  • Quote:

    “Don’t flex the strap made of ball sack, not a good look.” — Lawrence [06:49]

4. Heatwave Meltdown

• French Weather:
  • James describes the heat in detail—top-floor turret room traps the warmth, making sleep impossible.
  • Paris and London are in the midst of historic highs, with Brits “melting.”
  • Quote:

    “It was the hottest two days in a row on record… The Brits are melting.” — Lawrence [07:20]

• Life Hacks:
  • Surviving on Coca Zero and red wine, losing sleep, and wearing the thinnest clothes possible.

5. International Podding Logistics & Travel Woes

• Google Maps Misadventures:
  • James shares his struggle getting to the countryside, feeling rushed, and worrying about his Cadillac EV’s low battery.
  • Quote:

    “Google Maps sent me to, I don’t know where…like inbred-ass France.” — James [08:17]

• Charging Woes:
  • Jokes about plugging his car in with his phone charger.

6. France Without the Fashion Scene

• Non-Fashion Week Paris:
  • James enjoys being in Paris and the countryside without the typical fashion crowds and events (“no Scarr’s Pizza … no stop-and-chats”).
  • Emphasizes how different Paris feels without the Fashion Week rush.
  • Quote:

    “Basically, vacation…you’re not on a business trip, right? That’s why it’s great, you’re traveling…” — Lawrence [10:50]

7. Cultural Sidebars & Oddball Facts

• Red Wine & Coke:
  • Discussion about mixing red wine and Coca-Cola—a classic Spanish concoction (kalimotxo), not French.
  • Ric Flair’s “red wine and red Italian car bomb” as a reference.
• Subtle Shtick:
  • Jokes about pod sponsorship (“This shitty podcast has been sponsored by Israel.”) and tongue-in-cheek apologies for technical hiccups.
  • Dry humor about being a “company man” for UGG in LA.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On AI Fails:

  “It spit out absolute nonsense and invented language.” — James [00:55]

• On Watch Flexes:

  “Don’t flex the strap made of ball sack, not a good look.” — Lawrence [06:49]

• On Heat Wave Survival:

  “I’m free ballin’ in the bathing suit, it is hot as shit here dude.” — James [06:54]

• On Melting Brits:

  “It was the hottest two days in a row on record… The Brits are melting.” — Lawrence [07:20]

• On Travel Panic:

  “Google Maps sent me to…I don’t know where…like inbred-ass France.” — James [08:17]

• On International Jet Set:

  “Premiere hosts on VRBO deliver quality vacation rental stays…” — James [11:26]
  (immediately derailed by sponsor interruptions)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [00:30-02:34] – Technical blunders, AI editing woes, and audio drama
• [02:53-04:34] – Locales: Lawrence in Santa Monica with UGG team; James in the French countryside
• [04:08-06:54] – Bedtime fit checks, watch talk, and sweaty chateau agony
• [06:54-08:48] – Surviving the French heat wave, failing to sleep, historical weather context
• [08:17-09:03] – Travel chaos: Google Maps and a dying Cadillac battery
• [09:03-10:29] – Scenic French wine country, Paris without Fashion Week crowds
• [09:57-10:20] – Red wine and Coke, and European beverage trivia
• [10:29-11:00] – How Paris feels without the fashion/clout gauntlet

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Tone & Style

The episode is freewheeling, irreverent, and peppered with inside jokes—true to the podcast’s ethos as “two grown dirtbags just tryna navigate the zeitgeist.” The language is casual, sometimes raunchy, and always self-aware. Even mundane travel gripes become comic fodder thanks to the hosts’ chemistry.

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For listeners: This episode is a vibe check for international podding, more about the (mis)adventures of travel and weather than fashion discourse—full of behind-the-scenes banter and travel anecdotes that remind you why you love (or hate) the dirtbag approach.

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Transcript

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[James]

welcome to throwing fits i don't know how the intro normally goes normally i can read it but i am in france yes you are another weekly running of the boys with today's full episode

[Lawrence]

only available on www dot throngfits dot

[James]

com dot fl wow what's up lawrence

[Lawrence]

i hope this i hope this sounds better than the matt mccormick episode yo

[James]

apologies for the matt mccormick episode our bad yes we are a full time podcast that still encounters audio issues from time to time and somebody somebody suggested using ai to fix the audio we tried that and it spit out absolute nonsense and invented language so i found a lithuanian on this website called upwork where you basically just like can hire freelancers and paid him a little bit of money to try and do the best he could and that's what we

[Lawrence]

got yeah when listening listening to the ai one when like i think you played like the first like twenty seconds for me i'm like oh my god this sounds amazing ai is the future i need to i need to catch up and then it's just like literally invented language like it wasn't even i don't even know like what is what is the point of that like who would you who would use that which is gibberish

[James]

wwe they made an ai video and they did the voiceover that's just like reading the script and they can't pronounce wwe which obviously is said you know in the script like a thousand times and so they just go wee wee wee yeah basically what i sound like in france yeah either either

[Lawrence]

you want the wii version of throne fits or you get the tin can version but apologies either way because that is one thousand percent our fault probably my fault too since like i'm the default engineer when when we're in the studio which is like i am not even remotely qualified to be but yeah we lost james

[James]

doctor doctor dreidel

[Lawrence]

yeah basically this this shitty podcast has been sponsored by israel

[James]

just just that one

[Lawrence]

episode apac got her back for the matt mccormick one sorry yeah bro they're

[James]

paying us billions of dollars for post all right lawrence is in los angeles

[Lawrence]

yeah i'm in santa monica dude i've never stayed out here it's like the

[James]

sticks oh we're on the west side

[Lawrence]

had the option of staying in venice beach or santa monica and i picked venice beach but then something happened where that wasn't available so now i'm in santa monica and everywhere i think it filled up presumably okay it's it's it's

[James]

me it's me hotel stuff it's me

[Lawrence]

marcus allen and like the thirty person ugg design team on a company off site it's fire sick right now what's

[James]

up do they do they do you have to wear uggs the whole time

[Lawrence]

no but i brought my brought my classic minis and i and i wore them just because i'm a company man you know but i'm not wearing them in bed right now this is i'm

[James]

party throwing fit stuff i don't think

[Lawrence]

so maybe no pod shorts for the gym baby oh yeah yeah i saw

[James]

the selfie hell yeah or not vacay sorry work trip all right so you're in la it's seven am i'm in the french countryside where it's four pm how's the weather i'm surrounded by dude what hot we're gonna get into it

[Lawrence]

okay all right gotcha we're gonna get

[James]

into it okay yes we're throwing fits has gone international what the is going on what are you wearing in bed

[Lawrence]

little boy this this sloppy little boy is wearing a a vintage t rex t shirt i am wearing our legacy our legacy workshop dickies the socks are uniqlo and my ugg classic minis are right by the door when i immediately slam this laptop boot factory what about you james

[James]

on the fear cp company a six amazon socks a bathing suit our legacy bathing suit and the thinnest t shirt i could find some vintage piece from fantasy explosion because it is one thousand degrees in this chateau yo the chateau i'm in is called chateau de ra but i keep going rose

[Lawrence]

no i appreciate is there is there a yeah i was gonna say i feel like that's on the french is there any ac in the chateau

[James]

no there is not okay oh i got the watch you yo the dual time settings it's actually useful oh you you it's actually useful i'm like oh i can't it's what's nine six oh it's

[Lawrence]

three yeah it that's what it was

[James]

made to do dude that's bro one's on perry one's on new york la so i know what time you're on

[Lawrence]

the xeno was made for worldly gentleman of leisure actually working did you get your new strap bro look at this

[James]

strap falling apart here bro what it

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[Lawrence]

it's worse than when i last saw i was talking to

[James]

watch guy yesterday he's like yo that what i was talking like a i was talking like a real watch guy and he's like yeah it's gotten worse he's like yo that's sick and i was like yeah but it's a piece of look at this strap he's like honestly don't show that to people i'm like yo look at this strap bro

[Lawrence]

yeah don't don't flex the strap made of ball ball sack not a good

[James]

look yeah and then on the shop my chapeau is from my chapeau is from the broken arm nice yeah i wore french store merch to the to the french countryside nice and oh there's no hanes boxers because i'm free ball in the bathing suit it is hot as here dude it paris was i was in paris for a little bit yeah talk about it heat wave it's like literally in the news it's like people are dying and oh i saw that i think london had it worse

[Lawrence]

that it's the it was the hottest two days in a row on record it was like ninety four point five degrees fahrenheit and then ninety five the other day the brits are melting i

[James]

hope our pale i hope our pale alcoholic homies are doing all right no chance and the bro so it's like heat wave heat wave here no ac

[Lawrence]

are you sleeping at all at the

[James]

top of a i'm at like the top of a well i've only been in one night and i cannot sleep well i'm at like the top of a turret so like all the heat gets trapped up here yeah hold on

[Lawrence]

that's a that's an action bronson bar i'm sweltering at the top of a turret dude you're a mess bro he's

[James]

like enslave the saxons or whatever you're

[Lawrence]

normally i would describe you like the fifteen hundreds yeah i would normally describe you as like a calm cool collected guy when you hopped on zoom you were more discombobulated than i'd ever seen you in my entire life

[James]

terrible yeah it gets better dude it's like you know i'm pretty like type pretty type a when it comes to like you know like punctuality and timing and yeah everything's like so it goes google maps sent me to i don't know where the they sent me to like the the sticks like in bread ass france okay so i'm like rushing over here my cadillac shout out cadillac for the electric lyric is on it's in low power mode it's under twenty i don't know what i'm gonna charge it wait

[Lawrence]

wait do you have enough juice population abounds do you have enough juice to get back to society

[James]

there's a there's a charge if bro i'll just i'll just plug in my converter that was good that's my iphone charger damn dude

[Lawrence]

i would i mean like i guess

[James]

plug the caddy into the

[Lawrence]

i would i would think that like you would have planned this better but i feel like you'll be fine ultimately there's no

[James]

way to plan there's it's too hot there's nothing like there's no ac there is it's just too hot i mean it's beautiful like look look out the window i mean gorgeous i'm in sancerre which is you know amazing wine country

[Lawrence]

i mean your vid your vid is a little fried so like apology to the audience but yeah it looks like it looked like a very blurry screensaver outside of your window in a good

[James]

way that's what it is yeah because you're on that it's because you're on that maui wowie dog you're on that that santa monica kush no dude i'm all right what are you talking about so fit check yeah oh you know what i forgot to fill my water so i'm gonna be all dehydrated there's no water anywhere here i'm just living off coca zero and red wine oh

[Lawrence]

nice you mix them you do that that's like a thing remember the all

[James]

right let's talk about this okay mixing

[Lawrence]

red wine and coke that's a thing that's like a thing that people do no no i'm serious isn't that like a european specialty i'm not even kidding

[James]

in in spain in spain oh okay got it they do that in spain but i was thinking of i was i was thinking of ric flair with

[Lawrence]

his red wine and red italian car bomb classic yeah

[James]

well i'm here for a wedding but i was lucky enough to spend a few days in paris last weekend basically yeah got here to the countryside yesterday paris is amazing as usual it's also great to be here not during faction week when you can actually just like go to a place and not run into twenty five people and do like the stop and chats

[Lawrence]

yeah because it's like basically vacation i know you're working but like you're not on a business trip right like that's why it's great you're traveling well i'm

[James]

not here while i'm not here while everyone on orchard street while they when

[Lawrence]

they port everyone over from new york to paris in june right yeah yeah

[James]

i have not i've not had any scars pizza this week in paris which is rare yeah normally yeah normally being at a fashion week means you're eating scars and drinking wine on colbo's diamond and going to high snob aperitivo and

[Lawrence]

whatever yeah which isn't bad like we wouldn't complain about that but this is a different type of trip sure yeah

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