*SUBSTACK PREVIEW* Between Angels and Insects

Summary

Podcast Summary: Throwing Fits
Episode: SUBSTACK PREVIEW Between Angels and Insects
Release Date: January 14, 2025

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Introduction

In this episode of Throwing Fits, host Lawrence Schlossman and co-host James Harris dive into a variety of topics ranging from fashion and food to health and lifestyle. The conversation is casual and engaging, reflecting their humorous take on navigating the male zeitgeist. Skipping over commercial interruptions, the hosts focus on providing relatable content for their listeners.

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Fit Check: Fashion Insights

The episode opens with a detailed discussion of their current outfits, aptly titled the "fit check." Both hosts showcase their personal styles, highlighting specific brands and collaborations.

• James Harris' Outfit:

  • Sneakers: CP Company Adidas Spezial sneaker spizzle.
  • Socks: Cam Hicks Hicks brand slouch socks.
  • Jeans: JW Anderson APC Collab jeans.

  James remarks at [00:56]:
  “These jeans, these JW Anderson APC Collab jeans, while wonderful, I love them, are not the thickest denim that I own. So I'm getting a little extra warmth for the shins.”

• Lawrence Schlossman's Outfit:

  • Sweater: J. Crew roll neck sweater.
  • Hat: Jacreux Comme des Garçons homme.
  • Sunglasses: Celine.
  • Wristwear: Rollies.
  • Footwear: Clark's X Throwing Fits wallies.

  Lawrence shares at [04:50]:
  “Another collab that should be run back this year.”

The hosts express a desire for certain collaborations to return, emphasizing their appreciation for unique and quality fashion pieces. Lawrence highlights his preference for practical warmth over trendy heat tech apparel.

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Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Wars

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing the infamous "chicken sandwich wars," specifically focusing on Popeyes and its competitors.

• Discussion Highlights:

  • Popeyes Popularity:
    Lawrence states at [02:03]:
    “I've been eating a lot of Popeyes... it's fantastic.”

  • Menu Changes:
    James notes at [02:47]:
    “They removed dirty rice from the menu. Why? I don't know.”

  • Authenticity and Legacy:
    Lawrence emphasizes at [02:28]:
    “If you came to the Popeyes trenches... you're not a real one.”

The hosts lament the removal of beloved menu items like dirty rice, debating its impact on Popeyes' legacy. They also touch upon the competitive nature of fast-food chains in maintaining consumer interest through innovative offerings.

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Heat Tech: Comfort vs. Functionality

The conversation shifts to apparel technology, specifically the use of heat tech in clothing.

• James on Heat Tech Usage:
  At [01:21], James mentions:
  “These are cuz these jeans... I love them, are not the thickest denim that I own. So I'm getting a little extra warmth for the shins.”

  At [03:09], James elaborates:
  “So when you're talking about, like, heat tech, like leggings or whatever, like, you wear them over your underwear or. They are.”

• Lawrence’s Take on Heat Tech:
  At [01:28], Lawrence clarifies:
  “But it's heat tech. It doesn't. It doesn't. When you're in a warm environment, it doesn't keep you hot. It cools you. It like really reads.”

The hosts discuss the practicality of heat tech clothing, debating its effectiveness in various environments. Lawrence praises the technology for its balanced thermal properties, while James shares his personal discomfort with overly technical fabrics.

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Fashion Brands and Collaborations

Further delving into fashion, the hosts discuss their favorite brands and recent collaborations, expressing a preference for authentic and innovative partnerships over mainstream luxury brands.

• Favorite Collaborations:
  Lawrence shares at [07:07]:
  “We are going to move away from like the Balenciagas and the Guccis and more to like the brands that we actually find interesting and are actually doing interesting things.”

  At [07:32], Lawrence continues:
  “316 making top 5 MF pen cracking top 10. 18 scratching top 10 stofa being on the list. Studio Nicholson, bro, it's got to be in there.”

• Brand Recommendations:
  James adds at [07:44]:
  “Great brand.”

The discussion highlights the hosts' support for emerging and niche brands that offer meaningful contributions to the fashion industry. They advocate for quality and creativity over the ostentation of established luxury houses.

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Health and Processed Foods

Transitioning to health topics, Lawrence expresses concerns over ultra-processed foods, sparking a discussion on modern dietary challenges.

• Concerns About Ultra-Processed Foods:
  Lawrence states at [09:45]:
  “I read a scary article about ultra processed foods.”

  At [10:20], James asks:
  “But like being one of them, obviously. Yes.”

• Types of Processed Foods Discussed:

  • Soda and Preservatives:
    Lawrence mentions at [10:25]:
    “And like all the preservatives and the gummy. The gums and the. The chemical modulations.”

  • Processed Meats:
    James clarifies at [10:30]:
    “So are there plastics in soda?”
    Lawrence responds at [10:38]:
    “Yeah, like fake swamis and fake salon...”

The hosts critique the prevalence of unhealthy processed foods in modern diets, emphasizing the importance of mindful eating and the dangers of additives and preservatives. They share personal anecdotes about adjusting their diets to incorporate healthier choices.

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Closing Remarks

As the episode wraps up, Lawrence and James briefly touch upon their upcoming plans and personal endeavors, maintaining the podcast's signature blend of humor and candid conversation.

• James on Personal Goals:
  At [11:11], James shares:
  “No, dude, I'm about to be a weapon. That's the plan. Okay. That's the goal.”

• Health Journey Tease:
  Lawrence hints at James’ health transformation at [11:00]:
  “I can't wait for your RP Lawrence's health journey. One week.”

The hosts sign off after completing their "fit check" and drink discussion, leaving listeners anticipating future episodes filled with similar engaging topics.

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Notable Quotes

• Lawrence Schlossman ([02:28]):
  “If you came to the Popeyes trenches... you're not a real one.”

• James Harris ([05:24]):
  “T-shirt is part of the winter sale.”

• Lawrence Schlossman ([07:07]):
  “...we are going to move away from like the Balenciagas and the Guccis and more to like the brands that we actually find interesting and are actually doing interesting things.”

• James Harris ([11:11]):
  “I'm gonna make myself a weapon. That's the plan. Okay. That's the goal.”

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Conclusion

This episode of Throwing Fits offers a blend of fashion discussions, fast-food debates, and health conversations, all delivered with the hosts' characteristic wit and camaraderie. Whether you're a fashion enthusiast, a fast-food aficionado, or someone interested in health trends, Lawrence and James provide insightful and entertaining perspectives that resonate with a broad audience.

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Connect with Throwing Fits

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Transcript

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[Lawrence Schlossman]

CT mobile.com/gang we are joined by the Roll Neck Raja, Lawrence Schlossman and myself.

[James Harris]

Shorty.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Must be a sweater cut. She gave the whole crew neck. James Harris. Welcome to the weekly running of the boys with today's flip.

[James Harris]

So it Only available on www.ThrowingFits.com all right, Lawrence.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Now before we get into supporting the LA homies, Larry going sober. Lots of discuss there. And the death of Tick tock. Let's get into a fit check.

[James Harris]

Okay. Should I start?

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Yeah, please.

[James Harris]

All right, I have on CP company Adidas Spezial sneaker spizzle. The socks are Cam Hicks Hicks brand slouch socks. The jeans are hyped up. They are hyped up for warmth. These are cuz these jeans, these JW Anderson APC Collab jeans, while wonderful, I love them, are not the thickest denim that I own. So I'm getting a little extra warmth for the shins.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

You're not doing heat tech?

[James Harris]

I don't. I. I'm not a he tech guy.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Really?

[James Harris]

That puts me over the threshold of then I'm uncomfortable.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

But it's heat tech. It doesn't. It doesn't. When you're in a warm environment, it doesn't keep you hot. It cools you. It like really reads.

[James Harris]

Yeah, it's that advanced technology.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Yes, it is that good. My I yo uniquely. If you're listening, I need more heat tech. My one pair MVP of last winter. This winter it's already kind of, you know, Spider man holding onto the subway train or Kevin Durant or Jimmy Butler at the end of the playoffs or Popeyes kitchen worker after the. The sandwich dropped a lot of beams. Which by the way, those sandwiches still hit. Had one this weekend.

[James Harris]

When's the last time you had a Popeyes chicken sandwich?

[Lawrence Schlossman]

This past Weekend.

[James Harris]

I've been eating a lot of Popeyes, which we'll. We'll talk about, but, you know, I don't know. Well, we could talk. I don't normally get the chicken sandwich when I order Popeyes, but it is. Yeah, it's fantastic.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Yeah, it's. I mean, it doesn't travel well. Right.

[James Harris]

I think the only argument now that. Not that anyone said it fell off, but because they started by having such a banger, starting the chicken sandwich wars. Now people are like, well, is the jolly be chicken sand actually, like, better or.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Well, I'll say this. If you came to the Popeyes trenches, if you came to Popeyes via the chicken sandwich trenches, you're not a og. You're not a real one.

[James Harris]

Of course, if you.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

You weren't there during the tender days, during the onset of their honey mustard. Red beans and rice. Oo, God damn.

[James Harris]

They removed red beans and rice from the menu.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

What?

[James Harris]

Super. Or super sorry. They removed dirty rice from the menu. Why? I don't know. And people are complaining about it because. And I know this again because I've been ordering Popeyes and. And complaining about it and investigating the side. Red beans and rice still on the menu. Fantastic side. All their sides are great. But yeah, dirty rice, which was maybe my favorite side. They removed it. Damn, bro. I know. That was a banger. Whatever.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Sucks. Fries still bang. All right, what are we talking about?

[James Harris]

Heat tech.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Yeah.

[James Harris]

So. So with heat tech, you keeps it.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Warm when you're cold and doesn't keep you hot when you're warm.

[James Harris]

So when you're talking about, like, heat tech, like leggings or whatever, like, you wear them over your underwear or. They are.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

I wear them over my underwear so that I gross. So that I don't have to wash them.

[James Harris]

Right, right.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

When I'm done wearing them.

[James Harris]

What's the. Is the normal procedure, you'd wear them as your underg?

[Lawrence Schlossman]

I think so.

[James Harris]

Okay.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

I think so. Because they have, like, the dick hole.

[James Harris]

Oh.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

And they look. And they're pretty tight, like, you know.

[James Harris]

Tech with the dick holes. Well, I guess even if you're wearing it. Even if you're wearing it like you're doing it over your jaws. You got to pee through both, right?

[Lawrence Schlossman]

No, I just pull down. We've been.

[James Harris]

Right, right, right.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

We go over the fence, not through.

[James Harris]

Right. Sorry. All I know is running through walls. Okay, moving on up. The roll neck sweater is J. Crew. The hat is Jacreux comme des garcon homme.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

The real or fake?

[James Harris]

What? The hat is real. Oh, wow. CDG the down the CDGH the coat is Emporia Armani. Our legacy workshop collab back when they.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Used to make good collabs.

[James Harris]

Yeah, I really, really, really hope they run that back this year. Fingers crossed. That'd be sick, dude. The sunglasses are Celine. The rollies on the wrist. The wedding ring is on the thingy. The wifey's on the pinky. The chrome is on the other hand. And I had a Fuji apple pear Celsius. I have my super intense deep freeze slim zins and I have a hydro flask full of green points. Nope. Lower east sides finest James.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Nice. Wow. All right. On the feet I'm wearing Clark's X throwing Fitz wallies.

[James Harris]

Another collab that should be run back this year.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Another club that should be running back this year. I will say this. I didn't realize this, but the wallaby. Maybe not a deep winter shoe.

[James Harris]

In what regard?

[Lawrence Schlossman]

When you're stomping the pave the cold, cold pavement. My feet were cold. Oh.

[James Harris]

Oh. It's not about attraction thing because the crepe that too.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

But I'm not wearing he tech socks. I'm wearing lusso socks. Usually thick enough. Pause. But yeah. My my. The dogs were were a bit chilly on the on the trek over here. The pants are orally hard twist brown denim it brown jeans hard twist. The shirt underneath is throwing fits Sig.

[James Harris]

T. Oh, hell yeah.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Very underrated.

[James Harris]

One of the most incredibly underrated and the the fruit de mar plateau de fruit demar.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

People people. Low key. Love that. I don't think this. I don't think this got enough recognition for that.

[James Harris]

Was a banger for the execution. Maybe one of your best of a guy. For a guy who has a lot of good ideas, that might be one of your best.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Maybe it's like sig stolen valor. I don't know. Whatever you spok.

[James Harris]

Blasted art. You've been known to blast a Capri. I think Capris are on there.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Perfect amount of sig.

[James Harris]

Yeah.

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[Lawrence Schlossman]

Early ct mobile.com the crew neck sweater, not a mock neck is Studio Nicholson Shout out to Mandem I think Studio Nicholson maybe deserves a place on Fitty's best brand of the year.

[James Harris]

Yeah, I think that, I think they.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Should have been on this past year and I think that as we collectively agree that we're going to move away from like the Balenciagas and the Guccis and more to like the brands that we actually find interesting and are actually doing interesting things, not just playing musical trades with credit directors. You know, the evidence being that our legacy won brand a year two years in a row. Shout out Yokum for texting me this morning. He was late listening to the 50s, but finally gave it a listen. He's like oh, gave me, you know, the crying face, happy emoji.

[James Harris]

That's awesome.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Well deserved again. And then yeah, 316 making top 5 MF pen cracking top 10. 18 scratching top 10 stofa being on the list. Studio Nicholson, bro, it's got to be in there. It's got to be in the conversation.

[James Harris]

Great brand.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Expensive though.

[James Harris]

But yeah, no doubt.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Winter sale happening right now.

[James Harris]

Oh really?

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Yeah. Purchase a little T shirt for myself.

[James Harris]

A T shirt? What makes it a winter. Is it a winter T shirt? Like it's a knit?

[Lawrence Schlossman]

It's a T shirt. Oh.

[James Harris]

But it's part of the winter sale.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Yeah.

[James Harris]

What's special about it? Anything? Any details or is it just like a color?

[Lawrence Schlossman]

I wanted sand.

[James Harris]

Oh, okay, nice. A little off white, a little crew.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

You got to think about how it's going to pair with like the greens and the browns and the grays. It's sand.

[James Harris]

As a guy who does a lot of button ups and button downs open, I could see where you why you'd want like a wide array of like different neutrals to pair with all of your.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Under the knits, under the split collars, etc. Bing bang, bada bing, bada boom. The hat is vintage from Fantasy Explosion. The gloves. Because I'll be biking home because It's a balmy 44 degrees today. Here in New York City are our legache. Emporio Armani. As is the jacket our legacy. Emporio Armani. Really, really cropped.

[James Harris]

Yeah. What is that?

[Lawrence Schlossman]

The Astro.

[James Harris]

Is it called something like.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

It has. It has like a spacey name?

[James Harris]

Yeah, I'm not sure they. I mean, I think that's the collab.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

That collabor the century.

[James Harris]

I think between us, we own every piece. Literally. I really. I really do.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

That is not true at all.

[James Harris]

Ah, it was a. Oh, we don't have the beret.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

It was a big collab.

[James Harris]

Yeah, but.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

And I lost my half. Zip. Herringbone. In the strip club.

[James Harris]

You love losing a. You're not often in the strip club, but when you are what I am, you're gonna lose a shirt.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

I love donating clothes, bro. I donate them to La Wildfire victims and donate them to sex workers.

[James Harris]

Yeah, yeah, of course. Panties.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Panties are hanes. The sunnies are echos. Lata. I think that's it. Oh, and sipping on a clean canteen of the lower side's finest tap water. Oh, exactly. Through. And I'm off that dp.

[James Harris]

For real, for good.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

I read a scary article about ultra processed foods.

[James Harris]

So what was so scary about it? I mean, besides like maybe the obvious stuff, which is that it's bad for you.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Yeah, just like that. I think they're whatever the current science which. Blah, blah, blah. Science is subjective. We all know that facts are subjective as the science of this pursuit of objectivity. But you can't remove the subjective nature of humans doing their own investigations is like the current academia is like, yeah, it's ultra processed foods, but only some of them soda.

[James Harris]

But like being one of them, obviously. Yes.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

And like all the preservatives and the gummy. The gums and the. The chemical modulations.

[James Harris]

Microplastics.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Sure.

[James Harris]

So are there plastics in soda?

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Probably soda and pros and processed meat. So I'm also going to be off that.

[James Harris]

Jersey Michaels processed meat meaning like cold cuts with nitrates and things like that.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Yeah, like fake swamis and fake salon. Not like the. That Giuseppe's hanging in a cave for 24 months. The. That New Jersey Michaels is throwing on your sub over the shredded.

[James Harris]

Damn, I hate to. To, you know, throw.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

You're new to this health journey, bro.

[James Harris]

I really am.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

I learned a lot.

[James Harris]

I, I listen, I hope I've learned a lot in the past week. Yeah. As is you're gonna.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

I can't wait for your RP Lawrence's health journey. One week.

[James Harris]

No, dude, I'm about to be a.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

January 6th to January 13th, 2025.

[James Harris]

You know, I mean, we are both about to go on vacation. But you don't understand, dude. I'm gonna make myself a weapon.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

Okay.

[James Harris]

That's the plan. Okay. That's the goal.

[Lawrence Schlossman]

We're gonna get into it. I guess that's it. Yeah. Fit check, drink check complete. Okay.

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