*PATREON PREVIEW* Revenge of the Nerds

Summary

Throwing Fits – PATREON PREVIEW Revenge of the Nerds
February 27, 2026

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Episode Overview

In this Patreon preview episode of "Throwing Fits," hosts Lawrence Schwarzman and James Harris return for their weekly locker room-style banter focused on fashion, personal stories, and the pop culture zeitgeist. The episode’s loose theme is a "Revenge of the Nerds" vibe, with discussions on nerd culture, personal grail hunting, sneaker releases, travel nightmares, and the politics of style. As always, the boys sprinkle in their signature irreverent humor and candid reflections, giving listeners an insider's glimpse into their week.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Introducing “Lantis”—Country Boys & Swedish Timber

• Lawrence kicks things off by riffing on the Swedish term “Lantis,” meaning "country boy," and how it relates to their guest (Colin Lantis) and the current fashion landscape.
  • [01:14] Lawrence: “I use the Internet to look it up…Country boy. Shout out all my fellow country boysman countrymen.”
• They joke about being country boys at heart while referencing Swedish rapper Young Lean and their mutual fashion influences.

2. Fit Check: Collabs, Timberlands & the “Grail” Mentality

• James launches the week’s fit check by flexing his “brand spanking new, our legacy workshop Timberlands,” a standout sneaker collab they dub "collab of the year."
  • [01:58] James: “Shout out all my country boys. Today we have on the brand spanking new, our legacy workshop Timberlands laced up straight to feet collab of the year for all my fellow respectful white boys.”
• Discussion of fit details, lacing techniques, and a humorous comparison between classic Timberlands and new, more luxurious versions.
  • [02:29] James: “Not to glaze but Vibram soul horn. We leather comfy, supple, very, very good. Hence straight to foot. My, my butters are straight retired, bro.”
• The conversation turns to non-compete contracts in fashion, with jokes about brand loyalty and rumors.
  • [03:12] James: “Oh, oh no, no, I'm allowed to work.”
• Lawrence details a travel nightmare that ends with his Jean Erica jeans getting gum stuck on them, a scenario that sparks a broader conversation about clothing mishaps and care hacks.
  • [04:24] Lawrence: “I had sat in someone's chewed gum at some point and only noticed it at like 8am…So actually fuck, I should buy. My generic genes are currently in my freezer and have been for like 24 hours.”

3. Fashion Mishaps & Care Rituals

• The hosts debate gum removal techniques—freezing versus the “ocean soak”—and share their raw denim journeys.
  • [05:33] James: “Have you considered an ocean soak to remove the gum as well?”

4. Personal Grail Talking: Cop or Drop?

• Lawrence narrates his own pursuit of a “grail” piece—a Stein jacket with mouton lining, discussing the magnetic pull of certain fashion items and the dread of “grail sniping” (when someone else snaps up your coveted piece).
  • [07:14] Lawrence: “Well, Lawrence sniped a grail of mine…so I was like, damn. You know what? I kind of miss the feeling. I forget the feeling of like, cop in your…cop in a grail.”
• They riff on the psychology of “grail sniping,” “John Ruiners,” and what makes an item truly desirable.
  • [08:44] Lawrence: “Having someone grill snipe you. You're kind of like, oh, like maybe I shouldn't sleep on my grails.”
  • [09:09] James: “You've moved…You've elev. Beyond…You're enlightened beyond the John Ruiner. Not going to let anyone ruin your time.”

5. Retail Therapy and CHCM Haul

• Lawrence shares his shopping experience at NYC menswear mainstay CHCM, reflecting on the shop's unique energy, historic status, and the lure of in-store exclusives.
  • [11:01] James: “Oh, so you got. You did a little haul.”
  • [11:12] Lawrence: “Like a brown micro check. So good, so tasty. I want to wear it, but I didn't want to do a full CHCM day. But I don't see hcm. It's like there's something in the air there.”
• They praise CHCM as the true OG of NYC's refined menswear scene, discussing how it maintains credibility despite being surrounded by more mainstream or hype-driven retail spaces.
  • [11:28] James: “They've been doing it the longest. They did it. They were first. Like, let's, let's call this first and the best.”
  • [11:43] Lawrence: “And you know how you all live in the city, you know how you know it's good, is that it is directly next to Zero Bond…and the fucking bozos that spend time at Zero Bond are right there…But they have not ruined CHCM by becoming like…just the dogs going through the revolving door day after day.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [03:33] James: “Actually we have a lot of—We have a lot of as six.” (Playful confusion over clothing brand names.)
• [05:07] James: “That is a huge fear of mine. Like sitting in a subway seat…walking around with like a shitty style stain on my butt…” (Paranoia about public transit fashion mishaps.)
• [07:42] Lawrence: “Financially speaking, tariffs are down, the economy's roaring back…dow was over 50,000 points.” (Snarky reference to economic optimism.)
• [11:43] Lawrence: “You know how you know it's good? It is directly next to Zero Bond, and the fucking bozos that spend time at Zero Bond are right there…But they have not ruined CHCM…” (Intersection of exclusivity and authenticity in NYC fashion.)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [01:00] — Swedish “Lantis,” country boy bit; show’s theme and humor set
• [01:58] — Fit check spotlight: our legacy workshop Timberlands
• [04:24] — Travel nightmare: gum on jeans, freezer remedy
• [07:14] — “Grail sniping” and the psychology of fashion acquisition
• [11:00] — Reflection on CHCM as New York’s menswear OG

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Summary Tone & Style

Throughout, Lawrence and James maintain their signature unfiltered, self-deprecating tone, with quick-witted banter and fashion deep cuts. The episode feels like a hangout with friends who trade industry gossip, poke fun at themselves, and reveal their neurotic side—all while navigating the ever-evolving world of menswear and “nerd revenge.”

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This episode encapsulates why Throwing Fits resonates with style-minded listeners: it’s as much about humor, community, and inside jokes as it is about actual clothing. If you’re after a blend of grail talk, city stories, and sly commentary on fashion culture, “Revenge of the Nerds” delivers.

Transcript

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[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Throw gang. We are joined by Colin Lantis because he got the Swedish timber on Lawrence Schwarzman, myself, the mutant madman James Harris. Welcome to the weekly run of the Boys with today's flexibility Only available on www.ThrowingFits.com.

[James Harris]

who or what is Lantis?

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

It's a country. Country boy in Swedish.

[James Harris]

How do you know that?

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Because I. I use the Internet to look it up.

[James Harris]

Google Translate.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Country boy.

[James Harris]

Yeah.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Shout out all my fellow country boysman countrymen.

[James Harris]

We're all about the.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Yo. I'm listening to young Lean sipping. Sipping what?

[James Harris]

Sipping.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Sipping Lean with my Lantis.

[James Harris]

Yo. Young Lean doer.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Yeah, Jonathan.

[James Harris]

Jonathan Lean doer.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

It's not atl, it's lan. The I forgot to go and do not disturb.

[James Harris]

Okay. What's up, dude? What are we talking?

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Get into homoeroticism on a cruise ship. Tyler the creator Trolling J. Press and Mark Zuckerberg becoming a fashion bro. Get to a fit check starting with these stompers, baby.

[James Harris]

Yeah. Shout out all my country boys. Today we have on the brand spanking new, our legacy workshop Timberlands laced up straight to feet collab of the year for all my fellow respectful white boys.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

You think they. How do you. How do you think they wear their timber Timberlands in their six inch boots in Sweden?

[James Harris]

Well, based on the photo shoot, it seems that them shits are choked like a school. Yeah.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Full nelson.

[James Harris]

The tap out not to. Not to.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

My boy shins are tapping out not

[James Harris]

to glaze but Vibram soul horn. We leather comfy, supple, very very good. Hence straight to foot. My, my butters are straight retired, bro. What?

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Oh, retired.

[James Harris]

I mean listen, because these compared to these, they're a little special needs.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Because they outclass them or because you choke them into the ground?

[James Harris]

They've been completely and utterly outclassed.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Nice.

[James Harris]

Love a classic 6 inch butter yadda. Whatever. These are far superior. And by the way, this is like if you know, you know Tim, you

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

know you allowed to wear Timberlands.

[James Harris]

What do you mean? Why would I not be allowed to wear Timberland?

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

I don't know, you got to speculate more. Or maybe you're like in bed with a competitor. There's.

[James Harris]

Oh, oh no, no, I'm allowed to work.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Okay, okay, okay.

[James Harris]

Oh, we, we went. We redline the non compete bro. Don't even worry.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

What's up with the sockioli?

[James Harris]

The socks are scenes. Honestly, great call out but no, we'

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

the just looking out for you. Thanks bro. Someone's got. Someone's got to imagine you're like oh. And then we had to do the re record with be barefoot on the show.

[James Harris]

Actually we have a lot of. We have a lot of as six.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

We have a lot of as six.

[James Harris]

Yeah. The Jean Erica fatigues are on the hindquarters. The.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Are these new or.

[James Harris]

These are the same standbys. I love these. These are great.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

He's got a generic package. Oo, love it.

[James Harris]

Springstop, yo. Although. Yes, I gotta do the same actually.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Real quick. Yes. We're gonna get into the travel nightmare of how we got home midweek. But the last adding insult to injury, putting salt in the wound. I got home at like midnight Tuesday night and woke up Wednesday and I go, I just like, you know, stripped down and like gotten right into bed. I was so tired and I go to pick up my jeans off my Jean Erica jeans off the floor. I had sat in someone's chewed gum at some point and only noticed it at like 8am Wednesday morning, bro. So actually fuck, I should buy. My generic genes are currently in my freezer and have been for like 24 hours.

[James Harris]

Is that how you remove gum that

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

you freeze it and you just like scrape it off with a spoon?

[James Harris]

Damn, dude. Where like where on your.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Right on the ass or like right on the.

[James Harris]

On the butthole?

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Honestly, it kind of like sealed the pocket is like right on the pocket edge.

[James Harris]

Yeah.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

So kind of like shut my pocket. So it's like a natural chewed button.

[James Harris]

Okay. Yeah, natural. A human chewed.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Chewed closure People are disgusting.

[James Harris]

Yes, that. Cuz that means that someone literally put spit, gum or gum fell out into

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

a seat somewhere between Miami, Atlanta and LaGuardia.

[James Harris]

What flavor gum?

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Minty.

[James Harris]

Okay.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Could be like a blue minty.

[James Harris]

That is a. A huge fear of mine. Like sitting in a subway seat, but, like, maybe not paying attention and thinking you're sitting in something and then being like, am I walking around with like a shitty style stain on my butt that everyone's like, look at this. Doesn't know how to wipe his ass.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

It's satin gum.

[James Harris]

Yeah. All right. Prayers up for your Jean Erica jeans.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Yeah, I'll take them out.

[James Harris]

That's so gross, dude.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

I feel like a menswear bro. Put my jeans in the freezer.

[James Harris]

Have you considered an ocean soak to remove the gum as well?

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

I never did any of that.

[James Harris]

Right.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

I mean, anything.

[James Harris]

You were never really a raw denim.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

I mean, kind of like. That's not true. Really?

[James Harris]

You had raw Ross demons.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Okay, sure. Sick whiskeys. All right, what else?

[James Harris]

The beaters, Cortez. The shirt is another our legacy collab. This is with CP Co. The cap, the chapeau is Austria. The sunglasses are thistles, and the underwear are skims. James.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

And you got the crow on the pinky.

[James Harris]

Oh, you know, I got. Well, today's not a crow day for me. Today's just a chrome day.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Well, in your previous chrome, on the other hand, what your initial assumption of crow was. But we'll get into it. Crowski.

[James Harris]

What's up?

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

My Kroski Salmon rears up there, socks, Orly pants, Fantasy explosion tee underneath the studio Nicholson sweater, and then a fat neck. Oh.

[James Harris]

Oh, yeah, you just dropped. You just kicked. Yeah, let's talk about it.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

You.

[James Harris]

You. You got a grail. Grail.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

I don't know what came over me. When we last recorded on Wednesday last week, Right. Wrapped up here, hit, stop record, took one more piss, walked out. Something just threw me. Like, something. Honestly, like gravitational pull? No, something just compelled. Compelled me. Compulsion. I just had this, like, magnetic draw to chcm. I was like, you know what? I don't know if I'm gonna. It might have been. I don't know. When do we talk about you buying that Stussy hoodie? Does that come out yet?

[James Harris]

Oh, in the afters. I think it was after next week's episode, so.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Well, Lawrence sniped a grail of mine, so.

[James Harris]

A grail?

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

That used to be a grail.

[James Harris]

Oh, I guess you. You sought that out, right? Because it had sold out at the time.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

I. Yeah, it Took me like a year and a half to. To pull trig on it.

[James Harris]

Damn. So honestly, your beef is with Stucy for just being like, let's re. Enter this into population.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

I don't have any beef. But anyway, I got grail sniped, so I was like, damn. You know what? I kind of miss the feeling. I forget the feeling of like, cop in your Cop and a grail. And it's been a good start to the year.

[James Harris]

Sure.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

So financially speaking, tariffs are down, the economy's roaring back.

[James Harris]

Yeah. The dow was over 50,000 points.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Everyone on my plane home. Plane ride home was watching State of the Union. I'm watching Vanderpump.

[James Harris]

It's. Hey, it's good to know where your priorities lie.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Yeah, I actually, I was finishing Social Network.

[James Harris]

Hell yeah.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Let's get. Let's get the freaking nerd. And five stars. Yeah, man. So I go to chcm. I wasn't sure if I was going to pull the trigger, but I put on this stein jacket with the mouton lining, which is don't worry, PETA. It's sheep or lamb, but it's like processed to feel soft as shit is.

[James Harris]

Yeah, but it's still. It's still an animal. Oh, very soft.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Yeah, but it's just they don't kill the animal for the fur. They just shave it off.

[James Harris]

Correct me if I'm wrong, this is one that you had been eyeing and you had tried on. I believe it was sent to a group chat at one point. What had stopped you before the sticker shock?

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

That also, this is not a knock on you, but having someone grill snipe you. You're kind of like, oh, like maybe I shouldn't sleep on my grails.

[James Harris]

Oh, right.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

And yes, honestly, this was like a low frequency fear of mine that was playing in the background. I had. I had told someone that I. I wouldn't classify him as a grail sniper because we don't really have the same swag. But like, I feel like this guy could have like copped for copying sake. A John Ruiner, not a John Runer. I don't have John Ruiners, okay?

[James Harris]

Oh, really?

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

John Ruiners? I doubt grill snipers.

[James Harris]

You've moved. You've. You've elev. Beyond. You're. You're enlightened beyond the. The John Ruiner. Not going to let anyone ruin your time. But someone sniping your grail, it's your

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

competitor, I guess what it is that my form. Maybe I do have John Ru out there, but my former John Ruhle are swag has div or their swag has diverged because they're. They're like this. Right. So occasionally I'm like a rudderless. I'm straight and true. They're a snake. Not like that. But you know, they're like a lazy river.

[James Harris]

Yeah. Just a rudderless.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

A swagless homies. Right. Twice a. I don't know how. It depends on how frequently you switch up. Anyway, so I was like, yo, I don't want to sleep on this. Oh, also I had been searching on this. This is what it was. I've been searching on the CH website. Just like refreshing. Refreshing. Because I thought it was. I thought this is a fall winter 26. Yeah. So I was like, is it going to go on sale as like spring summer comes in? Sure. Turns out this is spring summer. So it's not going to go on sale.

[James Harris]

No.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

And the size small. Sold out online. So I was like, let me go see just in case they have some, you know, maybe inventory in store. They didn't. It was sold out. But medium is a medium. The homie Ade was there and long time guy. He first we first or I first learned with him when he was an intern at bpmw. Yeah, I don't know if you guys overlapped.

[James Harris]

I'm familiar with Ade. I don't know if we ever work together.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

We kind of bonded over like, yo, look how far we've come. Like you were packing like original penguin polos in the fashion closet of BMW. Now you're sweet to's right hand man. He put me onto ChTM's in house line. It's small right now, but for spring summer they're doing like a full. A much more built out offering. And it's. I think the head of design there is Peter from PA yeah, RIP to pa. I put on one of their shirts. I was just like, yo, instantly, just like, I'm taking this.

[James Harris]

Oh, so you got. You did a little haul.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Well, the first was the shirt. I was like, yo, I'm. I'm getting this no matter what. I got to think about the stein. But the CHCM shirt was perfect fit, perfect weight.

[James Harris]

Hell yeah.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Like a brown micro check. So good, so tasty. I want to wear it, but I didn't want to do a full CHCM day. But I don't see hcm. It's like there's something in the air there.

[James Harris]

They're the original.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

It's not just the delicious incense that they're burning or the tasteful jazz that they're playing.

[James Harris]

They've been doing it the longest. They did it. They were first. Like, let's, let's call this first and the best. Yeah. I mean, whether or not like you put any stock in longevity or the idea of someone or something being the og, but if you do, it's. It is chcm. No one can deny that.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

And you know how you all live in the city, you know how you know it's good, is that it is directly next to Zero Bond. And the fucking bozos. Yeah. That spend time at Zero Bond are right there. They have proximity going for them. But they have not ruined CHCM by becoming like, you know, just, just the dogs going through the revolving door day after day.

[James Harris]

I wonder if they're going to the Bolioli store across the street. Probably the Bolioli flagship.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Probably. Or what's the fucking Italian one across the street? Luisa Verona or whatever.

[James Harris]

Luis of Viaroma.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Which is still good. Yeah, they have great brands, but you know, that's like a lot of acne.

[James Harris]

Yeah, that's more of like an Eric Adams style retail experience versus the chcm descending into this glorious, tasteful kind of basement.

[Lawrence Schwarzman]

Like, what the fuck is that? It's not Chrome or the Row. I don't want it.

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