*SUBSTACK PREVIEW* Gorillas in the Booth

Summary

Throwing Fits Podcast Episode Summary: Gorillas in the Booth

Release Date: February 18, 2025
Podcast: Throwing Fits
Episode Title: SUBSTACK PREVIEW Gorillas in the Booth

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Episode Overview

In this engaging episode of Throwing Fits, hosts James Harris and Lawrence Lossman delve into a variety of topics ranging from personal adventures and fashion choices to dining experiences and Valentine's Day plans. Tapping into their unique humor and candid conversations, they navigate the complexities of modern masculinity with their signature blend of wit and authenticity.

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Introductions and Episode Highlights ([01:00] - [03:19])

The episode kicks off with James Harris introducing his co-hosts, Call Mahinas and Lawrence Lossman, humorously dubbing himself the "gorilla goon." Harris outlines the main topics for the episode, including his recent trip to Uganda, his debut on Runway, and an upcoming dinner episode featuring "Jimmy Heavy." He playfully warns listeners who dislike Jimmy to tune out, setting a lighthearted tone for the discussion.

James Harris:
"Throw, gang. We are joined by Call Mahinas with a list because he's in that pleather. Lawrence Lossman. Get it. And myself, the gorilla goon, James Harris." ([01:00])

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Fitness and Fashion: The Fit Check Segment ([03:19] - [05:03])

Transitioning into their signature "fit check" segment, Harris and Lossman engage in a detailed discussion about their workout attire, emphasizing the importance of quality base layers. They delve into the benefits of merino wool thermals, highlighting their durability and moisture-wicking properties.

Lawrence Lossman:
"Fucking John Mayer style. These satisfy running merino wool or merino cloud waffle. Thermals are bought more. No." ([02:11])

James Harris:
"These are very expensive. It's a cloud merino wool, which is what I wore when I went into the jungle." ([02:54])

The hosts share personal anecdotes about maintaining their gear, with Harris mentioning Patagonia's influence on his choices.

James Harris:
"Because when I was prepping for the trip and he's like, yo, should get this like Marino wool. You can wear it a bunch of times. You can sweat in it. It's not going to smell." ([03:19])

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Clothing and Style Discussions ([05:28] - [08:25])

Post-ad break, the conversation shifts back to fashion as Lawrence Lossman and James Harris continue discussing their attire. They exchange playful banter about brand preferences and the longevity of their wardrobe pieces, showcasing their distinct styles.

Lawrence Lossman:
"I have the OL for all the activewear slash podcasters out there." ([04:22])

James Harris:
"I'm wearing student Nicholson paraboot Michaels. Potentially shoe of the year last year if we had that category in the '50s." ([06:06])

The duo goes into detail about specific brands and items, such as Vintage Carhartt pants and Fruit of the Loom hoodies, illustrating their commitment to both comfort and style.

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Dining Experiences and Food Discussions ([08:25] - [11:25])

The hosts transition to discussing their dining adventures, focusing on the popular trend of "triple dippers" and their preferences for different restaurant chains.

Lawrence Lossman:
"I'm a Chili's apologist. It's definitely better than Applebee's. I just want bottomless chips and salsa, dude." ([10:12])

They critique the commercialization of food trends and share humorous insights into their dining habits, highlighting their divergent tastes.

James Harris:
"The way that they talk about it, it's like the color of the shirt, it makes me want the triple dipper." ([08:10])

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Valentine’s Day Plans and The Snail Incident ([11:25] - End)

Towards the end of the episode, Harris and Lossman recount their Valentine's Day plans orchestrated by Jenna, leading to an unexpected and humorous encounter at a popular local restaurant, "The Snail."

Lawrence Lossman:
"We just showed up and foolishly, I guess, walked to the matrimony. We're like, hey, yeah, we'll put our name in for four." ([11:28])

They narrate the chaos of arriving without a reservation and the long waitlist, offering listeners a relatable and entertaining story about last-minute planning and social dynamics.

James Harris:
"People have been here since 3:30 waiting in the snow for us to open at 5. That's insane, because they don't take reservations." ([11:48])

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Closing Thoughts

The episode concludes with the hosts reflecting on their experiences, blending humor with genuine reflections on friendship and the challenges of organizing social outings. Their candid conversations provide a window into their personalities, making the episode both entertaining and insightful for listeners.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• James Harris:
  "It's the four wheels that get you." ([05:35])

• Lawrence Lossman:
  "I'm a Chili's apologist. It's definitely better than Applebee's." ([10:12])

• James Harris:
  "We're the only podcast that matters." ([05:58])

• Lawrence Lossman:
  "The wait list is done. It's closed." ([11:33])

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Final Notes

This episode of Throwing Fits offers a blend of humor, personal anecdotes, and relatable discussions that resonate with listeners navigating similar experiences. Whether it's debating the merits of merino wool or recounting the trials of securing a dinner reservation, Harris and Lossman deliver content that's both entertaining and insightful.

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Transcript

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[James Harris]

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[James Harris]

Throw, gang. We are joined by call Mahinas with a list because he's in that pleather. Lawrence Lossman. Get it. And myself, the gorilla goon, James Harris. Welcome to weekly running of the Boys with today's full episode only available on www.thrillfits.com.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Yeah, I get it. Pleasure.

[James Harris]

Before we get into. I forgot to write this out. My trip to Uganda.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Yeah, dude.

[James Harris]

Also my Runway debut. And also my dinner is this Jimmy Heavy episode. If you're a Jimmy hater, tune out right now.

[Lawrence Lossman]

You have so much going on, dude. I mean, I have. I have lots of movies. I have a lot. I have of questions to ask. I have my own dining experiences to share. And I don't know, maybe we could. I mean, I did go to a movie screening.

[James Harris]

Oh, sick. How was your weekend? Oh, wait. Before we get into all that, let's get into a fit check.

[Lawrence Lossman]

No housekeeping this week, right?

[James Harris]

No.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Okay. Should I start? You want to go?

[James Harris]

You always start. Go ahead.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Do I always start?

[James Harris]

Yeah.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Oh, okay.

[James Harris]

That's why the lead image of the rec center is always like a thermal or like a. A wife beater, some thready socks.

[Lawrence Lossman]

I am wearing a thermal today. Let's go inside out. Fucking John Mayer style. These satisfy running merino wool or merino cloud waffle. Thermals are bought more. No.

[James Harris]

Oh, I own one.

[Lawrence Lossman]

I own one. I wash. Disgusting.

[James Harris]

Okay.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Yeah. They're incredible, dude.

[James Harris]

Can you see your nips through them?

[Lawrence Lossman]

Can I see my nips through them?

[James Harris]

Can the audience your nips through them? No, I don't think so. Take the. Take the pleather.

[Lawrence Lossman]

I'm not.

[James Harris]

If you're so confident, I'm not gonna.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Well, I think I said think, dude. I'm not gonna flash nip dude, though I guess that's what you pay for anyway.

[James Harris]

But you said you're not gonna flash it. What are the odds? What are the odds?

[Lawrence Lossman]

If there's a 1% chance. If there's a 1% chance, I'm not doing it. You have this too. Isn't it like. It's incredible. I think there's a cashmere in it or something.

[James Harris]

No, no, no.

[Lawrence Lossman]

I have the tag. Do you keep the tag on your satisfy running or do you rip them off? I don't remember.

[James Harris]

I'll look it up real quick.

[Lawrence Lossman]

I tried to keep it on for as long as I could and then just like slowly it kind of it became, you know, shirt detritus, I believe is the term. Wow.

[James Harris]

They're very expensive. It's. I think it's a cloud merino wool, which is what I wore when I went into the jungle.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Oh. As like a base layer. Yeah, it's. Listen, dude, I know, honestly, you don't.

[James Harris]

Have to wash it because, like, shout out the guy at Patagonia who's definitely the stinky boy in school.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Yeah.

[James Harris]

Because when I was prepping for the trip and he's like, yo, should get this like Marino wool. You can wear it a bunch of times. You can sweat in it. It's not going to smell. It's. It's a deodorizing naturally. It's moisture wicking through the natural propensities of the wool. And he's like, yeah, I wear this to the gym like three times a week and I don't smell. I'm like, are you sure, dude?

[Lawrence Lossman]

Yeah, you might be nose blind.

[James Harris]

You might be this. You might be the stinky kid.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Yeah, they are expensive. They're worth every penny that we both.

[James Harris]

Have the OL for all the activewear slash podcasters out there.

[Lawrence Lossman]

We have the OL collab with the cool Yang Yang for the home team. But I. You can just buy the from satisfy and it worth every penny, guys. Okay, let's go.

[James Harris]

How do you know it's worth every penny?

[Lawrence Lossman]

I know how much they cost.

[James Harris]

You do know how much?

[Lawrence Lossman]

It's in the rec center. It's been in the rec center now.

[James Harris]

€190. Yeah, you pay €190.

[Lawrence Lossman]

What's the conversion rate?

[James Harris]

It's probably like 210, 215. You would pay. You'd pay 250.

[Lawrence Lossman]

They have the like eggplant, like purple that's fire. Has a nice little pop. That again, it's just like what sets us apart from like a thermal you could buy on Amazon or ebay. Right? Like it's some of the. The g. Like the garment dyed colors. I think there's a brown. There's good. Anyway, this isn't a pl. Pay me to say this. I'm just saying I love this. It is a great base layer on the feet I have on hip Parib Michaels. The socks are Shiro. The pants are vintage Carhartt double knees. The pleather shirt is our legacy. The hat is small talk studio. The rollies on the wrist. The wedding ring is on the fingy. The wifey is on the pinky. The chrome is on the other hand. The sunglasses are the sun buddies. The underwear is supreme Hanes and I have a hydro flask full of the Lower east side's finest.

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[James Harris]

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[Lawrence Lossman]

Speaking of Lower east side's finest, James Harris, one half of the only podcast that matters. What are you wearing today?

[James Harris]

I'm wearing student Nicholson paraboot Michaels.

[Lawrence Lossman]

God damn it.

[James Harris]

Potentially shoe of the year last year if we had that category in the 50s. But I will say this Student Nicholson for sure. Fitties nominee, brand of the year. Happy 15 to Nick. Yeah, Felix and Amandem. The socks are, I don't know, just some like cold weather socks. I forget what the company is. The pantalones are daytime novella. The T shirt is a vintage oakley tee from 194 local here in New York. The full zip hoodie.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Yeah, welcome is.

[James Harris]

Well, I've had this for, I don't know, seven years now.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Welcome to me.

[James Harris]

Yeah, I picked this up at Blue Blue Japan which or sorry, the store Okura, which is like the retail hub of all the Blue Blue Japan Mother nature. I think that's what like the umbrella brand is brands. So it's actually a fruit of the loom. It's actually a Fruit of the Loom hoodie.

[Lawrence Lossman]

But they just died.

[James Harris]

They just. Indigo died.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Oh, sick.

[James Harris]

Yeah.

[Lawrence Lossman]

What's the upcharge to buy an indigo dyed Fruit of the Looms full zip hoodie?

[James Harris]

Listen, I think I bought this because it's probably the cheapest thing in Blue boot Japan. I definitely sorte price low to high. The store low to high.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Wait, you say this was 10 years ago?

[James Harris]

A. A long time ago? Like seven, eight years ago.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Damn, bro.

[James Harris]

This is like, you know, when like, Indigo was the bro.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Indigo, I think, is always the Indigo.

[James Harris]

Is always the. But this is like when. Yo, yo, yo, they. Indigo died. A fruit of the hoodie?

[Lawrence Lossman]

Yeah, bro. They make that Indigo.

[James Harris]

What else.

[Lawrence Lossman]

What was your. What are your panties?

[James Harris]

Bga. Bga Hanes boxers doing a triple sipper. Topo Coffee Lawyer. Site's finest.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Is this like. Like what? Like girl. What do they call it? Girl beverages. When, like, a chick at her desk has like a diet Coke. A match.

[James Harris]

That's a brunch. They do like a. A, A, you know, mimosa, coffee, water.

[Lawrence Lossman]

You're doing a triple bevy, triple sipper. Triple.

[James Harris]

A chili sipple, triple sip.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Oh, I get it. You ever have one of those chili triple dippers?

[James Harris]

Nope.

[Lawrence Lossman]

They're all over my for you page and they look. I don't know, man. It doesn't really seem that appealing to me.

[James Harris]

Really? Yeah.

[Lawrence Lossman]

I mean, I'm. I'm the resident fat ass and. And I know we both like junk food, but like, yeah, I don't know, like a mozzarella stick that you can like, get in, like, hickory sweet sticky barbecue. Like, what are we doing here, people?

[James Harris]

I don't know. I mean, those. Those four or five or six Mancunian legends that we talk about with. What will he cook? They are the only one. Like, when they are like, oh, my God, it's plush, it's heavy. When. And they're doing a cheese pull. That's like me to you. And it's just like synthetic, disgusting, like orange cheese. The way that they talk about it, it's like the color of the shirt, it makes me want the triple dipper. I don't know.

[Lawrence Lossman]

But only. But only the way that they can sell it.

[James Harris]

Yeah, the Cheesecake Factory, Chili's, Shake Shack, Publix. I think they're in Florida. Like, Orlando. They do like, their whole Disney thing. Although they flew there and I couldn't figure out how to get into Disney World.

[Lawrence Lossman]

They didn't have tickets?

[James Harris]

No, they just, like. They just like, can't just went, oh, how do we get dizzy? Wild.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Not gonna happen.

[James Harris]

Not very Heav. Yeah, they went to the Simpsons, I guess, like Universal and they had like, the Homer Simpson donut.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Okay.

[James Harris]

Oh, my gosh, it's plush.

[Lawrence Lossman]

As a Simpsons fan, is that on your bucket list?

[James Harris]

No, but those folks, those Whoppers.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Yeah.

[James Harris]

As Willie called them, definitely made me be like, like, hit the group chat. Like, yo, should we hit a triple dipper this weekend?

[Lawrence Lossman]

Are some of them also flame broiled? It's just gay guys and women, right?

[James Harris]

There's a straight guy.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Oh, there is.

[James Harris]

And. And a straight woman. And really? Two big fat lesos.

[Lawrence Lossman]

How. How big is this crew? I think it's, well, the Street Sharks.

[James Harris]

Dude, how are you defining big?

[Lawrence Lossman]

The. The amount of people in the crew.

[James Harris]

Like, total tonnage.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Total. No, like, people. How many heads?

[James Harris]

Well, Kane is new.

[Lawrence Lossman]

He was too sick recruiting.

[James Harris]

He was too sick to go on the first trip.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Okay.

[James Harris]

He's a big fat ginger. One, two, three, four. I think six.

[Lawrence Lossman]

God damn, bro. They got a starting five and a six, man.

[James Harris]

Yeah.

[Lawrence Lossman]

God. I will say, I'm a Chili's apologist. It's definitely better than Applebee's. I don't know. I haven't had Fridays recently, but yeah, if I'm at Chili's, dude, I just want bottomless chips and salsa, dude.

[James Harris]

That's it.

[Lawrence Lossman]

$1 lit and like. Yeah, yeah. A tower of lights and maybe a beer. Throwing a fucking beer tower as well. Just the Twin Towers, dude. And I'm going to knock them down.

[James Harris]

Well, look, these. These blokes and blo cats and big fat lesos and big fat gayos. That's that they call each other.

[Lawrence Lossman]

I know, I know, I'm aware.

[James Harris]

She's like, ah. Heads off by Mozzie. Hats off my Mozzie, you big fat lazo. They're doing food, right? They are so enthusiastic. They just fucking love it. I mean, the amount of ranch sauce consumed, probably like a little, I don't know, problematic. Just for their, like, internal well being.

[Lawrence Lossman]

They love their cream, bro.

[James Harris]

Versus, like, when me and you go to a fucking restaurant. Like, oh, the thing is, how's the.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Line for the Instagram? How's the fuck. Oh, like we're doing apps, bro.

[James Harris]

We fucking doing abs.

[Lawrence Lossman]

You got a triple dipper here. Yo, let me get a martini. Fucking filthy. Let me get a filthy, slutty, dirty.

[James Harris]

Slutty little martini that.

[Lawrence Lossman]

Yeah, so we're worse to the snail, which.

[James Harris]

Oh, come on. Talk about tick tock and food also.

[Lawrence Lossman]

So we. I know we talked about Valentine's Day last week, and I mentioned that Jen and I didn't really have any plans, but we did a double day Saturday night. And I'm like, oh, so, like, where are we going? She's like, oh, we're actually going to be around the corner from James's crib. The old Stew in Greenpoint. She's like, I want to take us all to the snail. Jenna was arranging the whole thing.

[James Harris]

Where did she see the snail thing?

[Lawrence Lossman]

I don't know. I didn't. I didn't ask. Honestly, what you're about to tell me about what you're about to tell me about the snail is as much as I. Despite now having, you know, been inside for two minutes, it's the most I've ever. I had no idea. So I just. We just showed up and foolishly, I guess, walked to the matrimony. We're like, hey, yeah, we'll put our name in for four. Like, we'll just grab a drink. No worries in the way. She's like, no, you don't understand. Like, the wait list is done. It's closed. People have been here since 3:30 waiting in the snow for us to open at 5. That's insane, because they don't take reservations.