*PATREON PREVIEW* Niche Starf**king

Summary

Throwing Fits: PATREON PREVIEW Niche Starf**king

Date: May 22, 2026
Hosts: Lawrence Lawson & James Harris

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Episode Overview

In this Patreon preview, Lawrence ("Raw Hem Head Honcho") and James ("Plaid Prince") catch up on personal stories, wedding shenanigans, the latest in their evolving fashion routines, and riff on pop culture and New York sports heartbreak. The episode is light, irreverent, and packed with authentic banter, often drifting between niche menswear details and the quirks of millennial adulthood.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Fit Check Ritual

[01:24-04:11]

• Lawrence debuts shorts for the first time on the pod this year, specifically raw hem shorts from Colbo with "a textured, kind of burlapy, natural fiber" vibe.
• Sock discourse: Lawrence experiments with a sock height inspired by James (“ankle crew” or “quarter crew” instead of ballerina leg warmers).
• Sneaker choice: “Murdered out Margiela Gats.”
• Shirt layering: Hanes beater under a Carter Young denim work shirt. Carter Young gets a shoutout for their made-to-measure suits, including a recent wedding fit.
• Accessories: Small Talk Studio hat, Skims underwear, sunglasses (brand not specified), and a Rolex Sea Dweller 16600 watch.
• Notable Quote:
  • Lawrence: “I’m experimenting with a new James Harris style sock height.” [01:27]
  • James: “Bold fashion maverick.” [02:08]
  • Lawrence (re: shorts): “They’re wide, so they’re easy. They’re breezy. They feature a raw hem.” [03:03]

2. Wedding Stories, Bad Jokes, and Sports Fandom

[04:26-09:39]

• James recounts giving a speech at his friend Chris’s wedding, including some questionable jokes and literary wordplay that may have flown over some guests’ heads.
• Discussion of the bride’s background: “a from the south and a prolific reader.”
• Elliot Page reference as a pun that may or may not have landed:
  • James: “I don’t know if that Elliot page reference really landed with both the libs and non libs at the wedding.” [05:09]
• The perils of referencing pop culture: Lawrence and James discuss the importance of reading the room with jokes about trans people and how intent can be misunderstood.
• Jets heartbreak: Chris, a lifelong Jets fan, laughs hardest at Aaron Rodgers’ brief, tragic tenure (injury after just two plays).
• Notable Quote:
  • James: “My boy Chris, big Jets fan, born in Long Island—my condolences, Chris.” [05:44]
  • Lawrence: “I thought we were gonna go butt fumble,” referencing infamous Jets moments. [06:06]

3. Fandom Fumble—ChatGPT Writes a Wedding Speech

[07:42-08:58]

• At Chris’s wedding, a bridal family member delivers a Buffalo Bills-themed speech, assuming the groom is a fan because of a single Bills game visit.
• The speech was “punched up” by ChatGPT, leading to confusion among the Jets/Giants-heavy crowd.
• James: “This whole speech, we’re just like, what the hell is going on here?” [08:55]
• Takeaway: Tech doesn’t quite substitute for knowing your audience.

4. Nicotine Habits and Wedding Etiquette

[09:06-09:32]

• Chris manages to go “Zinless” (no nicotine pouches) for the ceremony, with James acting as the ceremonial tin-bearer.
• “He came up to me approximately four seconds after getting married. He goes, ‘Daddy needs his medicine.’” [09:24]
• Rite of passage: No tins allowed in the wedding fit, to avoid “immediate divorce.”

5. Watch Talk & Menswear Observations

[09:40-12:29]

• Rolex Sea Dweller 16600 features a brief, half-serious breakdown ("What's the lug? What's the crown? ...The crown is the crown. Ironically, it's the crown of Rolex." [10:11])
• Streetwear invasion into the watch world: the AP x Swatch release.
• Lawrence almost buys a Knicks-colorway AP Swatch as a “bag charm” for his partner Jenna (a Knicks convert and former Spurs organization member).
• Market watch: secondary prices dropping. “I was not drunk enough…to spend $1,400.” [11:31]
• James suggests that the main audience for the AP Swatch (“nouveau riche girly pop…into her bag charms”) doesn’t even want it: “Yeah, these are bad.” [12:15]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• James on black vs. white socks: “White socks with black sneakers. Anything in there, you're just like whatever. I guess.” [02:20]
• Lawrence, dryly: “If they made leg muscle milk, I would be first online.” [03:34]
• James, joking about misreading sports references: "The whole speech is about the Bills. And we’re like, what the f***?" [08:25]
• Lawrence, on buying questionable “fun” watches: "Now that I'm sober and of, you know, stable and clear mind, I think this is a very stupid purchase, which is saying a lot coming from the king of them." [11:56]

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Section Timestamps

• Fit Check: 01:24–04:11
• Wedding Stories & Sports Talk: 04:26–09:39
• Family Speech Fumble: 07:42–08:58
• Nicotine Ceremony/Afterparty: 09:06–09:32
• Watch Talk / Swatch AP: 09:40–12:29

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Summary Tone & Vibe

True to the Throwing Fits style, this preview episode riffs irreverently on fashion, friendship, and fandom. Lawrence and James banter with mock-seriousness about sock heights, luxury watches, and the everyday absurdities of modern life, peppering their casual, profane insights with references to sports heartbreak and the struggles of growing up stylish but slightly off-kilter in New York.

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Full episode available on www.ThrowingFits.com and Patreon.

Transcript

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[James Harris]

See full terms@mint mobile.com/gang we're joined by the Raw Hem head honcho, Lawrence Lawson, myself, the Plaid Prince, James Harris. Welcome to the weekly running of the Boys with today's full episode Only available on www.ThrowingFits.com. before we get into selfies with Cr Miller Drake Week, your favorite week of the year and big moves in menswear media, let's get into a fit check.

[Lawrence Lawson]

Okay.

[James Harris]

What are you wearing, Lawrence?

[Lawrence Lawson]

I'm wearing shorts for the first time on POD this year. But let's start at the foundation I have on murdered out Margiela Gats. I am experimenting with a new James Harris style sock height.

[James Harris]

So regular socks, not fucking slouchy ballerina leg warmers.

[Lawrence Lawson]

Well, regular sock, let's not fucking, you know, cast stones here. These are a ankle crew. Quarter crew.

[James Harris]

Okay.

[Lawrence Lawson]

I don't know, what do you call them?

[James Harris]

Socks.

[Lawrence Lawson]

I've had these Shiro socks for a minute. They're normally covered with pants. This is the first time that they've been exposed.

[James Harris]

Whoa. You're only covering these socks with pants?

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Yeah.

[Lawrence Lawson]

I mean I've experimented with a lot of interesting sock choices on the show.

[James Harris]

Bold fashion maverick.

[Lawrence Lawson]

For me, this is. This is actually seems more out there than it should because this is just like your standard ankle sock. But this is what I'm trying right now.

[James Harris]

Look great.

[Lawrence Lawson]

Thanks, dude.

[James Harris]

Let me White socks with black sneakers. Anything in there, you're just like whatever. I guess. You never think whatever.

[Lawrence Lawson]

No, I.

[James Harris]

You. You're dropping you, you know, you're moving like Drake, bro. Like, what does it all mean? What does it mean, man?

[Lawrence Lawson]

Yo, it's a. It's a triple entendre simile wrapped in a homophone. More on that later. Yeah, no, I hadn't thought about black shoe, white sock. I don't really wear black socks anymore. That was another phase back in the day.

[James Harris]

So I don't know.

[Lawrence Lawson]

I don't even know if I have any black socks.

[James Harris]

It's kind of racist.

[Lawrence Lawson]

Yeah, when you put it that way. Sure is. The raw hem shorts. Are new shorts short or those long?

[James Harris]

I can't tell. They're kind of both.

[Lawrence Lawson]

They're from Colbo.

[James Harris]

Yeah, here's what.

[Lawrence Lawson]

Here's what's important. They're wide, so they're easy. They're breezy. They feature a raw hem. They're like a textured, I don't know, kind of burlapy, natural fiber short as Kobos want to do.

[James Harris]

Showing off those pins. Yeah, it's not leg day, is it?

[Lawrence Lawson]

The. Honestly, bro, it doesn't matter if it is or it isn't.

[James Harris]

It's.

[Lawrence Lawson]

I. Like I said before, like, they're not changing really. It's like more.

[James Harris]

More muscle milk.

[Lawrence Lawson]

I'm just. Yeah, more fair life.

[James Harris]

I make muscle milk. That's just leg muscle milk.

[Lawrence Lawson]

If they made that, I would be the first online. I need the. That goes right to your games. Straight to your games.

[James Harris]

But steroids.

[Lawrence Lawson]

Yeah, I'm just injecting my calves. If.

[James Harris]

Inject.

[Lawrence Lawson]

A lot of.

[James Harris]

A lot of health talk on this podcast recently because Lawrence on his health journey, if you inject steroids and you just like, like, are the steroids local or do they affect everything?

[Lawrence Lawson]

I don't think it's a. It's a localized steroid. I'm pretty. I'm pretty sure, though, there is the steroid that used to be the cream. I thought it was like, what? It was like a cream that you could rub on it. I thought that was a thing like the cream and the clear. Maybe I'm mixing my up. This is like Barry. Barry Bonds era baseball.

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[Lawrence Lawson]

Anyway, if you catch me with slathered up thighs and calves, it's a steroid. The beater is Hanes. The denim overshirt work shirt with some western details is Carter Young. The hat.

[James Harris]

New collection.

[Lawrence Lawson]

New collection.

[James Harris]

By the way, just shout out Carter Young. My boy Chris looked phenomenal in his made to measure Carter Young suit for his wedding. Again, go check. Go do that program. If you're in the need of a Suit for made to measure, 1500 bucks plus the cost of fabric.

[Lawrence Lawson]

Couple questions. One, how did your throwing fit style intro go for Chris's wedding?

[James Harris]

I kind of. You can't really hear because I'm like on the mic. I think I got some laughs mainly around the D's. Nuts. I don't think that the bride, who is a from the south and who's a prolific reader, I don't think that the line call her Elliot. How she's turning these pages. Did I mentioned. Did I say that was.

[Lawrence Lawson]

That's an original. We went through a lot of options. That was not mentioned.

[James Harris]

Okay. Yeah. I don't know if that Elliot page reference really landed with both the libs and the non libs at the wedding.

[Lawrence Lawson]

I. I think it was nice that you made a literary attempt for the voracious reader though. So I see where your heart, your heart was in the right place.

[James Harris]

I mean, also, like, you don't turn a transgender person. I mean, like, come on, they're born that way. Yeah, well, they're not born that way on the inside.

[Lawrence Lawson]

That's what I meant.

[James Harris]

Yo. There was an amazing. I'm not putting anyone blast because we're all anonymous here, but speak for yourself. My boy Chris, big Jets fan, born in Long Island.

[Lawrence Lawson]

My condolences, Chris.

[James Harris]

Yeah, absolutely. And so, yeah, like, you know, roots for the jets every year, like, whatever. The funniest, one of the hardest I've ever seen him laugh was when Vinnie. Not Mark Sanchez. No, Aaron

[Lawrence Lawson]

Rogers.

[James Harris]

Rogers. Took to the field and it was supposed to be like the big, you know, big, big moment for the jets. And then two plays in just tears.

[Lawrence Lawson]

His Achilles thought, we're gonna go butt fumble. But yeah, there's so many to choose from in terms of like soul crushing moments.

[James Harris]

Yeah. Incredible stuff.

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[James Harris]

So lifelong jets fan and a member of the bridal family gives a speech where they started referencing all these bills stuff. All this bill stuff.

[Lawrence Lawson]

Okay.

[James Harris]

And I'm like, we're like, you know, my friends are looking around like, wait, what? No. And you know, we're all like kind of.

[Libsyn Ads Host]

Yeah.

[James Harris]

When it's when times are tough for the, for the jets and the Giants, which is all the time we have been. And we have some Bills fans in our crew, so it's fun to root for the Bills. I'm anti Josh Allen now. I'm anti the Bills. Like, yo, you had your shot. You squandered all the goodwill that you built up. It's over.

[Lawrence Lawson]

No longer America's team.

[James Harris]

Yeah. You know what Josh Allen can't do? Win a conference game.

[Lawrence Lawson]

Yeah. Okay.

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[James Harris]

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[Lawrence Lawson]

That that's yeah, the conference championship for.

[James Harris]

Yeah. So though, but the whole speech is about the Bills. And we're like, what the is the. And the guy did tell me because I was like kind of corralling the, like, the speech people. I was like, he's like, don't worry. I, I, I, I punched it into chat GBT to get some some punch ups.

[Lawrence Lawson]

Oh, no.

[James Harris]

I was like, did chat GBT up. Basically the that side of the family is once told that the groom went to a Bills game with like, his boys. And so they just, soon they just assumed that he yeah. With Pinterest, they just assumed he was a big Bills fan.

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[James Harris]

So this whole speech, we're just like, what the hell is going on here?

[Lawrence Lawson]

Damn. So they, so they've so he fumbled the fandom. No Wrong.

[James Harris]

Bad New York sports team.

[Lawrence Lawson]

Wow, that's rough. Final question about Chris's wedding.

[James Harris]

Do.

[Lawrence Lawson]

Do we know if he was able to abstain and go Zinless for the ceremony?

[James Harris]

Yeah, I had to hold on to his tin, right?

[Lawrence Lawson]

Yeah.

[James Harris]

Because he also was not allowed to have a tin showing in the pocket or he would have been immediately divorced.

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[James Harris]

So I had to hold on to his tin, and then he came up to me approximately four seconds after getting married. He goes, daddy needs his medicine.

[Lawrence Lawson]

Where's the tin bearer? I must have my little treat.

[James Harris]

And with this tin.

[Lawrence Lawson]

Yeah. Beautiful stuff. To Chris and his beautiful bride. And go Bills.

[James Harris]

It's your year.

[Lawrence Lawson]

It's your year. Josh, the underwear. I think I'm still going. The underwear is skims and the sunglasses are sun.

[James Harris]

What's the hat? I think it says right on there.

[Lawrence Lawson]

I thought I said the hat was small talk studio. But either way, there you go.

[James Harris]

What's the watch, bro? What do you. What do you wrist in there?

[Lawrence Lawson]

Just a little Rolex sea dweller. 16, 600. Nothing crazy.

[James Harris]

What's the lug on that Bad. What's the lug? What are the lugs?

[Lawrence Lawson]

Hey, what's the lug.

[James Harris]

What's the crown? We.

[Lawrence Lawson]

The crown is the crown. Ironically, is the crown. The crown of Rolex.

[James Harris]

Ah. What's like the bezel?

[Lawrence Lawson]

All right, Point to the bezel.

[James Harris]

This.

[Lawrence Lawson]

All right.

[James Harris]

That is.

[Lawrence Lawson]

All right.

[James Harris]

Y' all got two bezels.

[Lawrence Lawson]

Okay.

[James Harris]

Yo, speak. We talked about the AP Swatch, but like, oh, my God, dude, streetwear's back. It's entered the watch world.

[Lawrence Lawson]

I was. This is rare now for me. It's funny. Brings up. But I got like a little. I was a little fucked up, and

[James Harris]

I was like, you don't got to qualify it.

[Lawrence Lawson]

No, but you bought one. No, no, no. I was like, oh, this will be like a stupid fun bag charm for Jenna especially, because with Nick's fever going crazy right now, maybe we'll talk about it.

[James Harris]

Oh, she's a Knicks fan now there.

[Lawrence Lawson]

Well, it's a. Nick, It's a Knicks household. Because of me. She has been converted. Because how can you not love this team and love the. The emotions they bring out of the city? And that's.

[James Harris]

The Celtics are out.

[Lawrence Lawson]

And then. No. And then obviously, because she was a member of the spurs organization and is a two time NBA championship winner, we're also a Spurs household. And we're. We're coming. We're coming to an immovable force versus an unstoppable object I think is maybe the Phrase. But it's about to come to a head in my house. Well, let's pause.

[James Harris]

So what does that do with the Swatch ap?

[Lawrence Lawson]

So I looked at the. Because there's a Nick's colorway, there is a blue. And I was like, how much can these be? This will be a stupid bag charm for Jenna. And I was not drunk enough, I'm happy to admit, to spend. I think it was at the time $1400. So I think they did move or they're still moving. Prices are dropping dramatically. But what's no longer right.

[James Harris]

So they're, they're, they're just releasing them like on the swatch.come store.

[Lawrence Lawson]

I mean that not. No, I mean that's the plan. Maybe in the future. But like I'm getting a lot of conflicting information. I'm not actually. Now that I'm sober and of, you know, stable and clear mind, I'm, I think this is a very stupid purchase, which is saying a lot coming from the king of them.

[James Harris]

Your last strong purchase was the Aaron Levine Zara hoodies.

[Lawrence Lawson]

No beanies. Yeah, yeah. Though it's funny because this shit is kind of so bad that like the Target demo, which is like a nouveau riche girly pop who is into her bag charms, was like, yeah, these are bad.

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