*SUBSTACK PREVIEW* Cooked in Miami - Throwing Fits

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Podcast Summary: Throwing Fits – Cooked in Miami Release Date: January 21, 2025

In the "Cooked in Miami" episode of Throwing Fits, hosts James Harris and Lawrence Rossman, also known as the 510 Mafia, delve into a lively discussion about their personal lives, local Miami happenings, and the quirks of navigating the vibrant Miami scene. This detailed summary captures the essence of their conversations, enriched with notable quotes and timestamps to provide a comprehensive overview.

1. Introduction and Fit Check [00:30 - 00:45]

The episode kicks off with James Harris and Lawrence Rossman introducing themselves and setting the stage for the day's discussions.

Lawrence Rossman shares his outfit for the day:

"I have on Patagonia baggies and then a bootleg $15 Juicy J Stay Fly music video T-shirt that I got from Redbubble."
[01:02]

James Harris responds:

"I still have mine from Fashion Bros days."
[01:24]

Their light-hearted exchange showcases their casual and humorous rapport, setting a relaxed tone for the episode.

2. Event Planning: Birthday and Inauguration [02:18 - 03:20]

The conversation shifts to their upcoming plans, balancing personal celebrations with significant events.

James Harris prioritizes:

"Jenna's birthday, obviously."
[02:58]

James elaborates on the importance of the inauguration amidst their plans:

"Then inauguration. And then just for the reverberations of it all."
[03:10]

Lawrence Rossman adds a humorous twist to the itinerary:

"We're all the both couples going to watch the college football national championship at a sports bar. So, yeah, it might actually be the worst birthday ever for Joe."
[02:25]

This segment highlights their attempt to juggle personal milestones with broader societal events, all infused with their characteristic humor.

3. Discussion on Miami's Brightline [03:20 - 05:26]

A significant portion of the episode focuses on Brightline, Miami's light rail system, sparking a candid discussion about its practicality and safety.

Lawrence points out the challenges:

"I think you could get there in two hours. It's going to be a fucking movie here."
[03:20]

James Harris raises concerns about the system's effectiveness and safety:

"It costs like a billion dollars to make and like no one uses it. It costs. It's mad expensive to ride and it kills like 30 people a year."
[04:04]

Lawrence shares his experiences:

"Everyone's driving a rented supercar that they got for the day to seem like the man."
[04:28]

The hosts express frustration over the high costs, low usage, and safety issues associated with Brightline, emphasizing the disconnect between investment and practicality.

4. Fashion and Lifestyle [06:38 - 08:39]

After a brief advertisement break, the conversation resumes with a focus on personal style and lifestyle choices.

Lawrence humorously describes his attire:

"I'm fucking lean and mean. Just chilling in bed, doing my work before I go celebrate everything but my wife."
[06:49]

James Harris details his casual wear:

"Throwing Fitzpod shorts and paint boxers and a Graziano Y. Gutierrez T-shirt and an Orly mohair long sleeve polo."
[07:46]

They discuss the durability of accessories, with Lawrence mentioning the decline in quality of his chrome ring after vacation:

"I wore it in the water and like the quality of the ring severely decreased over the 10 days that I was on vacation."
[07:12]

This segment highlights their laid-back approach to fashion and the practical challenges of maintaining style while enjoying active lifestyles.

5. Miami's Food Scene and European Franchises [08:39 - 10:14]

The hosts delve into Miami's burgeoning food scene, noting the proliferation of European franchises and the local adaptations.

Lawrence comments on restaurant naming trends:

"The Dominican sushi hookah bar is named after DJ Tiesto Cafe Wildfire. That's just a tribute to a Swedish guy, right?"
[08:58]

James observes the replication of popular franchises from other cities:

"This is true. This is just like a general trend in food and hospitality. But everything is like. Just like New York or LA."
[09:35]

They highlight the challenges of establishing unique local identities amidst the influx of established brands, reflecting on Miami's role as a melting pot for diverse culinary influences.

6. Local Experiences and Anecdotes [10:14 - 11:37]

Wrapping up the episode, James and Lawrence share amusing anecdotes about their interactions and experiences in Miami.

Lawrence recounts an encounter outside a bar:

"The guy trying to rent me a McLaren last night outside of the bar was like. I was like, oh, I don't drive. I'm from New York."
[10:48]

James Harris teases Lawrence about the situation:

"Were you wearing, like a clown suit or something?"
[11:18]

Lawrence clarifies:

"No, I was dressed fairly low key for Larry, even."
[11:21]

Their exchange underscores the humorous side of Miami's vibrant nightlife and the sometimes bizarre interactions that come with it.

Conclusion

In "Cooked in Miami," Throwing Fits offers an engaging glimpse into the hosts' lives as they navigate personal celebrations, critique local infrastructure, and explore Miami's dynamic cultural landscape. Their candid humor and relatable conversations make the episode both entertaining and insightful for listeners.

Notable Quotes:

James Harris on Brightline's cost and safety:

"It costs like a billion dollars to make and like no one uses it. It costs. It's mad expensive to ride and it kills like 30 people a year."
[04:04]
Lawrence Rossman on dressing casually:

"I'm fucking lean and mean. Just chilling in bed, doing my work before I go celebrate everything but my wife."
[06:49]
James Harris on Miami's food franchises:

"But everything is like. Just like a general trend in food and hospitality. But everything is like. Just like New York or LA."
[09:35]

This episode encapsulates the essence of Throwing Fits, blending humor with genuine discussions about everyday challenges and experiences in Miami.

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James Harris
Throw gang. We are joined by the 510 mafia, Lawrence Rossman and myself, the mohair Madman, James Harris. Welcome to the weekly run of the Boys live from our humble abodes with today's full episode only available on www.ThrowingFits.com.
[00:42]
Lawrence Rossman
5, 5, 10 and a half.
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James Harris
Oh, sorry.
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Lawrence Rossman
Yeah.
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James Harris
Right. You know, Yarn Mafia, the land of absolute truthiness. Before we get into hair transplant inspo, a GQ fashioned super bowl and guys hitting on your wife, which I can't wait to hear about.
[01:01]
Lawrence Rossman
Yeah.
[01:01]
James Harris
Let's get into a fit check.
[01:03]
Lawrence Rossman
I'll start because I'm not really wearing much. I have on. I have on Patagonia baggies and then a bootleg $15 juicy j stay fly music video T shirt that I got from Redbubble. I got one for me and one for my friend Joe. I'm staying at.
[01:25]
James Harris
I still have mine. And I still have mine from Fashion Bros days.
[01:29]
Lawrence Rossman
Oh really? We had these on Fashion Bros.
[01:31]
James Harris
I think just me.
[01:32]
Lawrence Rossman
Yeah. Either way, supreme put one out and.
[01:35]
James Harris
We like made it like a fake trend or whatever.
[01:37]
Lawrence Rossman
Yeah, yeah. Which is honestly like an awesome move by spring. But yeah. So I got fake ones matching for me and Joe as a housewarming gift and then for Libby, his wife, we got. We got both Emily Candle as as well. But we're gonna. The whole point was there is a Dominican sushi hookah bar that's right down the street from Words. Yeah, exactly. Right down the street from their beautiful new Miami apartment. And they were nice. I'm not going to say the address or the building. It's in Edgewater. I'll say that. Can I say that? Yeah. We're going to go to happy hour at the Dominican sushi hookah bar. So I got us the matching shirts.
[02:14]
James Harris
On your wife's birthday.
[02:16]
Lawrence Rossman
Yeah.
[02:18]
James Harris
Wait, really?
[02:19]
Lawrence Rossman
Yeah, I didn't think about that. Yeah, we're going today. No, but like that's before we then.
[02:23]
James Harris
Today being your wife's birthday.
[02:26]
Lawrence Rossman
Actually, you know what? We're doing that and then we're all the both couples going to watch the college football national championship at a sports bar. So, yeah, it might actually be the worst birthday ever for Joe.
[02:37]
James Harris
A lady can dream of just having a magical 21st birthday.
[02:42]
Lawrence Rossman
Okay. In terms of you, James Harris and all the things that are happening today, rank these in importance from most important to least important. Janice, birthday, Martin Luther King day, the college football national championship and inauguration day. What's the most important to you?
[02:58]
James Harris
Jenna's birthday, obviously.
[03:00]
Lawrence Rossman
Wow. Well done.
[03:01]
James Harris
Then mlk, which stands for Milady Kenner, which is, you know, JK Jenner.
[03:09]
Lawrence Rossman
Right.
[03:10]
James Harris
Then inauguration. And then just for the. Because you voted reverberations of it all. I mean, you're in Miami to celebrate the inauguration, right? We looked at first and foremost while.
[03:20]
Lawrence Rossman
You'Re there as a bit. We look to see how long of a. Like a light rail train ride it would be to Mar a Lago. I think you could get there in two hours. It's going to be a fucking movie here I thought you're going to that.
[03:30]
James Harris
Much congrats on everything that you've accomplished today. And then I guess college football championship, because I don't give a shit about not real sports. It is funny, that light rail that you talked about, it's like, cost like a billion dollars and because I was in Fort Blickerdale for ash with the big hogs, right? Bachelor party. And we were looking into taking that down to Miami to get a meal at Joe's and we're just like reading up on it and it costs like a bit like whatever, a billion dollars to make and like no one uses it. It costs. It's mad expensive to ride and it kills like 30 people a year.
[04:05]
Lawrence Rossman
Oh, damn. I've read. I've written it a few times with Jenna. Going from like my parents when they're on their snowbird shit to like Miami. And I don't remember it being. Well, it's mad. It's mad nice. But we didn't kill anyone. And I don't remember being. What's expensive? Like 100 bucks?
[04:20]
James Harris
No, like, I think more expensive than you would think. Like public transportation to be.
[04:25]
Lawrence Rossman
I don't know. I don't. I don't look. I just swipe, baby, you know. You know the vibes. I'm down here.
[04:29]
James Harris
Yeah, that's why you're fucking broke and wearing a $15 T shirt. Yeah, I think it. I think it kills like, because no one knows. Well, one, everyone on, everyone in Florida is like fucking, you know, super faded and on wild Florida drugs. But no one knows how to like walk in that state, in that region of the world. And then people are just like on the tracks and it just fucking obliterates them.
[04:50]
Lawrence Rossman
Everyone's driving a rented supercar that they got for the day to seem like the man.
[04:56]
James Harris
Bro, in seven years it killed 108 people.
[04:59]
Lawrence Rossman
That's a. Yo, that's a. This, the light rail is a, is a, is a real dangerous entity. Dude.
[05:05]
James Harris
That, the light rail heavy.
[05:07]
Lawrence Rossman
That's, that's, that's way more people than like the subway, right?
[05:12]
James Harris
Yeah. And I don't think. Are people surfing the light rail or the bright, the bright line. The bright line.
[05:17]
Lawrence Rossman
Bright line, yeah. Sorry. Yeah, the bright line. I don't know. I mean, I hope not. Sounds like it's a bright line for people who.
[05:23]
James Harris
A bright line for people who aren't that bright.
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[06:39]
James Harris
Yeah, you're down there celebrating the inauguration and your wife's birthday. Very cool. You're in bed. What else you wearing? That's it? No, that's it on the fingy. No, on the rolly.
[06:50]
Lawrence Rossman
I'm fucking. I'm fucking lean and mean. Just chilling in bed, doing. Doing my work before I go celebrate everything but my wife. Apparently now that the itinerary has been made extremely public and clear. That's my bad.
[07:02]
James Harris
It's going to read that you, my brother in Christ, you made the itinerary.
[07:05]
Lawrence Rossman
Yeah.
[07:07]
James Harris
Can't have the. Can't have the chrome on. You don't want that shit to rust in the pool, do you?
[07:13]
Lawrence Rossman
Yeah, no. You know, it's funny you say that because, like, I definitely wore it after, I guess we got it, we went on. I guess we did our, like, European, you know, fashion calendar thing. And then like, I wore it in the water and like, the quality of the ring severely, like, decreased over the 10 days that I was on vacation. So I. I think the quality of chrome silver might be dubious, now that you mention it.
[07:34]
James Harris
Yeah. So happens when you price store low to high.
[07:38]
Lawrence Rossman
That's true.
[07:38]
James Harris
You got to get yourself some rude jewelry, bro. Fit right in there down there.
[07:42]
Lawrence Rossman
Honestly, you're not wrong, dude.
[07:45]
James Harris
We're just talking about me fashion for sure.
[07:46]
Lawrence Rossman
All right. What are you wearing?
[07:47]
James Harris
I was also there for three nights, but okay, on my feet, I'm wearing lusso cloud slippies. Because we are in my home. Welcome to longtime listeners and watchers of the podcast. You haven't been my home since April 2024. Welcome back. Welcome back on the Cock wants back. Throwing Fitzpod shorts and paint boxers, then a Graziano y. Gutierrez T shirt and a Orly mohair long sleeve polo. And that's it. No. And sip it on a hydro flask of Greenpoint's finest.
[08:26]
Lawrence Rossman
You mentioned.
[08:27]
James Harris
The water's so much better here than Ori's side, by the way.
[08:30]
Lawrence Rossman
Oh, you mean. Oh, and in Greenpoint. Yeah.
[08:33]
James Harris
Really taste the super fun.
[08:35]
Lawrence Rossman
I have some. I have some Miami Tap also in the exact same hydro flask. Let me do a little taste.
[08:39]
James Harris
I'm not a fan of Miami Tap. Miami tap is kind of. Kind of ass, I assume.
[08:43]
Lawrence Rossman
Yeah. Not great.
[08:43]
James Harris
Like, there's just like horrendous chemicals leaching into the water.
[08:49]
Lawrence Rossman
Yeah, it's all.
[08:51]
James Harris
And like ass run off, possibly from just like raw sewage. Yeah, no bass notes of ass. When you're sipping on Miami Tap, it's.
[08:58]
Lawrence Rossman
Not particularly good, but you saying Graziano E. Gutierrez made me remember the funniest thing about the Dominican sushi hookah bar is that it's named after DJ ties, though. It's called El Tiesto Cafe Wildfire So they. That's just a tribute to a Swedish guy, right?
[09:17]
James Harris
I think that's a vici. But I don't know. A lot of. A lot of restaurants Miami just have people's names in the title.
[09:23]
Lawrence Rossman
Yeah, they're mad literal. Sorry, I'm just.
[09:26]
James Harris
Are you looking this up?
[09:27]
Lawrence Rossman
Fiesta nationality. Tiesto is Dutch. Okay. Okay, got it.
[09:35]
James Harris
Same.
[09:36]
Lawrence Rossman
Yeah. Honestly, a white European. Okay. Yeah.
[09:39]
James Harris
Yeah. I feel like every rest in Miami is like sushi by Jun Takahashi.
[09:47]
Lawrence Rossman
Honestly, dude, there'd be. There's some big franchise opportunities down here for fashionism, everything.
[09:52]
James Harris
I mean, this is true. This is just like a general trend in. A general trend in food and hospitality. But everything is like. Just like New York or la. IP just ported over to Miami, Carbone being an obvious one. But, like, there's a. There's a wolf mother's. Roberta's. There's a fucking Joe's mother. Yeah, Wolf mother from la. Jean George is putting up some residences.
[10:15]
Lawrence Rossman
I know we passed by them last night. I don't think they're built yet. No, it's been like. I think they were saying it's. They've been building it for, like, five years. I mean, every skyscraper here has been built. There's, like, been in the process of being built for a decade. It's ridiculous. Anyway. No, you're. You're. You're absolutely right. The IP franchising is like. That's the thing. It's the cottage industry. 100%. Yeah.
[10:38]
James Harris
I mean, I think it's because a lot of people moved from New York, L.A. to Miami to take. To lean into the chaos and tax less and crypto ness of it, all.
[10:48]
Lawrence Rossman
Right.
[10:49]
James Harris
In the warm weather, you know?
[10:51]
Lawrence Rossman
Yeah. The guy trying to rent me McLaren last night outside of the bar was like. I was like, oh, I don't drive. I'm from New York. And he was, like, fucking hammered right now.
[11:01]
James Harris
Was he telling Randall McLaren to drive home that night?
[11:04]
Lawrence Rossman
No, this is just like, they literally park the fleet outside of the bar and just clearly are looking for, like, the most pathetic guy. Hello. Hey. Hand up. That's me. And be like, yo, you definitely want this. You think this is cool, and this will get you pussy. But he.
[11:18]
James Harris
Were you wearing, like a. Were you wearing, like a. A clown suit or something?
[11:21]
Lawrence Rossman
No, I was. I was dressed fairly low key for Larry, even, but he was like, oh, I'm also from New York. So I was like, there you go. He's a transplant.
[11:31]
James Harris
Oh, hey, I'm also Jewish. Oh, you're just like me, bro.
[11:35]
Lawrence Rossman
Yeah. Anyway, I did not rent the McLaren.
[11:38]
James Harris
Why not? How much was it?
[11:39]
Lawrence Rossman
I don't do. I didn't even ask. But he, I mean, he followed. He's like, yo, yo, what's your Instagram? You know, if you have a locked.
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