*SUBSTACK PREVIEW* It’s Just Them

Summary

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Throwing Fits – SUBSTACK PREVIEW: “It’s Just Them”

Episode Date: September 5, 2025
Hosts: Lawrence Schlossman & James Harris
Main Theme:
A rambling, irreverent deep-dive into the hosts’ current fascinations, personal style, and the rituals of male adulthood, delivered with trademark banter and tongue-in-cheek commentary on menswear, lifestyle, and subcultural zeitgeist.

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Episode Overview

In this preview episode, Lawrence and James, the duo behind “Throwing Fits,” settle in for a freewheeling conversation—no guests, just “the boys”—riffing on celebrity passings (RIP Giorgio Armani), their personal “fit checks,” the perils of powerful nicotine pouches, and the nuances of men’s pants (specifically, linen vs blended fabrics). The episode is equal parts clothing dissection, lifestyle confessional, and self-deprecating humor, all unfolding in the inimitable Throwing Fits style.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Celebrating Giorgio Armani and an Oasis Report

• The episode kicks off with a nod to the passing of fashion icon Giorgio Armani; Lawrence dubs him “la Capra Italiana, the Italian goat” (02:01).
• Lawrence mentions seeing Oasis live, promising a full report (“Does anyone know that this guy loves Oasis?”) (00:00), but the discussion quickly pivots to clothing.

2. Detailed “Fit Checks”—Outfits and Origin Stories

Lawrence’s Fit:

• Footwear: Vintage Gucci slides
• Shorts: Vintage Nike tennis shorts (“From eBay.com...still very, very cheap.”) (01:24)
• Shirt: Vintage Armani Jeans (“Because today we are honoring la Capra Italiana, the Italian goat.”) (02:01)
• Accessories: Rolly on the wrist, wedding ring, pinky ring, Brady Brand boxer briefs, Thistle sunglasses
• Shares injury stories (“I got...Remember when I was hit by a car?...That actually was a bike accident from when I was younger.”) (00:41)

James’ Fit:

• Boots: Studio Nicholson “Power Boot” (“Busting them out for fall weatherish...”) (05:31)
• Pants: “A kind of guys” cotton-linen blend (“They kind of have this like Sashiko...super hella wrinkled just because of the linen.”) (06:01)
• Shirt: Pen
• Hat: Guadala Arts (“...only wearing because I’m hiding a gigantic pimple...Mount Aetna for four days now.”) (08:33)
• Socks: Random Amazon brand
• Shares laundry woes & pant wrinkling (“100% linen pants...they get like too wrinkly in all the wrong places. They get right around your...your ass and your dick.”) (07:01)

3. Personal Health & Mishaps

• Lawrence jokes about spending “a lot of time on his knees,” riffing on aging, injuries, and physical vulnerabilities. (00:51)
• Running joke: “My guy spends a lot of time on his knees.” (00:49)

4. “Bags” (Nicotine Pouches) Escalation

• The duo debates increasing strength in nicotine pouches, reacting in horror to a listener’s 48mg variety (“It’s a weapon of lip destruction, dude.”) (03:33)
• [Memorable moment] “That’s double what almost killed me on mic.” —James (05:00)
• Shoutout to “Ultimate Zinman Chris,” who took the challenge and survived.

5. Linen vs. Linen Blends in Menswear

• Pros and cons of pure linen vs blends:
  • Lawrence: “I have a Giorgio Armani vintage linen suit...I wore a lot more linen in, like you know, peak hashtag menswear days. Definitely less now.” (06:36)
  • James: “100% linen pants...look like you’re just wearing a dumpy-ass diaper.” (07:11)
• Consensus: Go for blends to minimize unflattering wrinkles.
• Lawrence’s tip: “A cotton blend for a sweater...It’s warm but you get that cross breeze, can penetrate. Pause.” (06:38)

6. Language and Brand Deep Dives

• “A kind of guys” is discussed for both its etymology and cheekiness as a brand/label.
  • “An external form, appearance or manner of presentation, typically concealing the true nature of something.” —James, quoting guises’ dictionary definition (08:21)
• Endless puns around names, brands, and personal style choices.

7. Adult Acne, Grooming, and Accutane

• James reveals hiding a pimple under his hat (“...been on the verge of erupting like Mount Aetna for four days now.”) (09:04)

• Discussion on post-sports acne, the pitfalls of sweat, and shower routines.

  • Lawrence: “Maybe you should carry some face wipes with you when you’re out and about, you know?” (09:32)

• Reflection on adult acne stigma:

  • Lawrence: “You just have a pimple. Adult acne, I think of an adult...with pizza face type.” (09:42)
  • “There’s pills for that.” –James (09:58)
  • Mental health and Accutane, with a darkly comic spin (“Let us know if anyone out there has Accutane. If you have thoughts of...suicidal tendencies or murderous...it gets better. You only get one pimple at a time.”) (10:04–10:14)
  • “Honestly, if you’re on the wrong side 35, and you have adult acne and you’re taking medicine that is making you have crazy thoughts...maybe it doesn’t get better. Maybe it gets worse, dude.” (10:14)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “Call me Ryan Gosling because I'm a fall guy.” –James, opening riff (00:04)
• “Moment of silence. Are you...Is your knee okay?...That's where...I got...Remember when I was hit by a car? That's the scar.” –Lawrence (00:39)
• “I love the cut...Leggy Larry’s got stems for days, got pins.” –James (01:47)
• “If those [boxers] are as comfortable as boxers, you can just double up on the Nike vintage tennis shorts.” –James (02:51)
• “My body rejected the bat...I was sweating, looked familiar and had anxiety and heart.” –Lawrence on a nicotine pouch gone wrong (03:41–03:55)
• “A kind of guise. So it's like a...a kind of cap.” –Lawrence, wordplay (08:28)
• “You just have a pimple. Adult acne, I think of...an adult with pizza face type.” –Lawrence (09:42)
• “Honestly, if you’re on the wrong side 35...and you’re taking [Accutane]...maybe it doesn't get better. Maybe it gets worse, dude.” –Lawrence (10:14)
• “It gets worse.” –James (10:28)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• 00:00-01:10: Cold open, Oasis and Armani tributes
• 01:10-02:50: Lawrence’s fit check and injury stories
• 02:50-05:24: Bags (nicotine pouch) saga and escalating listener dares
• 05:24-07:30: James’ fit check, linen vs blends, crinkling pants
• 07:30-08:44: Etymology and joke breakdown of “A kind of guys”
• 08:44-10:30: Acne, pimple woes, Accutane, and men’s grooming banter

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Tone and Takeaways

The episode is classic Throwing Fits: brash, self-aware, and steeped in the language and rituals of downtown male style. Whether teasing each other about aging bodies, debating the merits of vintage Nike shorts, deconstructing linen blends, or riffing on the absurdities of adult skincare, Lawrence and James keep it light, ironic, and inviting.

If you love menswear, irreverent humor, and inside jokes about aging dirtbags, this episode offers a quintessential slice of the Throwing Fits ethos.

Transcript

[A]

Throw Gang. We are joined by. Does anyone know that this guy loves Oasis? Lauren Schlossman, myself, call me Ryan Gosling because I'm a fall guy. James Harris. Welcome to the weekly running of the.

[B]

Boys with today's full episode Only available on www.throwing fits.com. hello. Hello. Hello, Oasis. Hello. Song's called hello.

[A]

Oh, okay.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Before we get into rip to the legend Ilor Jojo Armani seeing Oasis live. Full report there. And the latest streetwear private club hitting New York City. Let's get into a fit check. Lauren, start us off.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

What you clomping around in?

[B]

Moment of silence. Are you.

[A]

Is your knee okay?

[B]

That's where I. I got. Remember when I was hit by a car? That's the scar.

[A]

No, no, that.

[B]

Oh, that's an older scar too. This is my. You know, I've taken a lot of.

[A]

My guy spends a lot of time on his knees.

[B]

I've taken a lot of damage over the years. Self inflicted. I didn't hit myself with a car. O. I was hit by a car. That actually was a bike accident from when I was younger. It's like gravel, bro.

[A]

Stay off the bike.

[B]

I have. Dude, I know I need training wheels, dude. I'm wearing vintage Gucci sleds. The short no socks. The shorts are another pair of vintage Nike. Nike, Nike. Vintage Nike tennis shorts.

[A]

Nice.

[B]

From. From eBay.com.

[A]

Hell yeah.

[B]

Still very, very cheap. I guess my shout outs of the has no influence price whatsoever.

[A]

Demand is low.

[B]

This pair are very similar, like boxer shorts. So really comfortable, really short.

[A]

Really? Yeah. What is.

[B]

This is a 5 inch inseam.

[A]

Your.

[B]

Your denim shirt is almost covering them. This is. Is this not a 5 inch inseam?

[A]

Yeah, I mean they flare. They certainly flare.

[B]

I love the cut.

[A]

And leggy. Larry's got stems for days, got pins.

[B]

The beater. The beater is Cortez. The denim shirt is vintage Armani jeans.

[A]

Because you are bante to the funeral.

[B]

Because today we are honoring la Capra Italiana. The Italian goat.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

I hit Google Translate on the train.

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Yeah.

[B]

No hat today.

[A]

Is that out of respect for senor Interesting.

[B]

I didn't think about it that way. Maybe that was like a latent result of me paying my respects. My own kind of moment of silence. Just showing off the fucking dome. I don't know.

[A]

He's not a hat guy.

[B]

What's up?

[A]

He's not a hat guy.

[B]

No, he. He and I similar hairlines. Granted, he was 91, 38 for the record. But. But yeah. Shout out. Shout out. The Goat rolly on the wrist. Wedding ring on the fingy wifey on the pinky chrome on the other hand. Oh, the boxers are Brady boxers. Boxer briefs. Excuse me. The undies are Brady brand.

[A]

Now you can do. If those are as comfortable as boxers. You can just double up on the Nike vintage tennis shorts. Just go boxers under the shorts.

[B]

And I just need a vintage pair of tearaways on top of that. Just fucking get it going, dude. Yeah. Let's see what else. Thistle sunglasses. I have a hydro flask full of Lower east sides finest, and I believe that is it.

[A]

What about you then? What's the zen?

[B]

This is violet licorice.

[A]

Oh, I have an Update on the 24mg.

[B]

Bags 6 and A. Yo, by the way, a dude. I can't remember. What's this now? I'm embarrassed. Homie sent me a picture of bags. 48 milligrams. Holy. Yeah.

[A]

Gotta get our hands on those.

[B]

Dude. No.

[A]

Please, no.

[B]

It's a weapon of lip destruction, dude.

[A]

Pause. So I gave them. I re gifted. Since you rejected my gift. I re gifted.

[B]

My body rejected the bat.

[A]

Did he throw up afterwards?

[B]

No.

[A]

You like you ch. You transformed you physically. And like I was internally transformed.

[B]

I was up, dude.

[A]

Yeah, you had like the. Like the jaw was swinging. You were like. You had like some sort of drip going on. You were like. It was crazy.

[B]

Something familiar. So I. I was sweating, looked familiar and had anxiety and heart. Yeah, dude.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah, dude.

[B]

It was tough, dude. It's a lot. Anyway, what did Chris think?

[A]

Said they were good. He's like, like, it's kind of that. Lord, just like spit this out.

[B]

All right, well, I'm not denying that.

[A]

He had one at dinner.

[B]

In between courses.

[A]

No, I think between. We kind of had like, like two. It wasn't a bang bang, but it was like a light meal here. Second light meal here. I think between.

[B]

Let's get Chris a 48 bagger and let's see how he does.

[A]

Dude, can you buy them? Look it up. Okay.

[B]

Bags with the Z.48. Like 48 milligram. And then that might not even be the most milligram bags. I'm not. I'm not seeing it.

[A]

Nico bags net.

[B]

Oh, here you go. Yeah, here you go, Nick. A team Nicotine gr.

[A]

You want to say nice kicks. They got Nicko kick.

[B]

Damn, dude. Yeah.

[A]

I wonder if there's a higher star hookah.com too.

[B]

I love a five star hookah.

[A]

This is.

[B]

I mean, dude, 48. 48 is cr. That's double what almost Killed me on Mike.

[A]

Oh, it sounds kind of. I don't know.

[B]

Oh, all right, whatever. Anyway, shout out to Chris. I guess you got problems, dog. I don't know what to say. I'm. I like for me to be shocked and or appalled. Yeah. Like you got to really go hard. So shout out to Ultimate Zinman. Chris. I hope you're alive, dog.

[A]

I think he's doing good. All right. Should I fit check?

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

You want to throw to me? I did.

[B]

I said what are you wearing? And then we got into bags.

[A]

I'm wearing studio Nicholson power boot. Busting them out for. It's kind of like fall weatherish.

[B]

Yeah. Do you only wear par Boot Michaels when it's when you can feel that crisp in the air?

[A]

I think so. Okay. The socks are just random Amazon brand. The pantalones are left over from summer because we are in second summer a kind of guys. Oh, aog. Wow. Dude, haven't heard ACOG and Young.

[B]

Jeez, I haven't heard that name in years. They're like, they're like crinkly.

[A]

Yeah, I. I wash them. They're. They kind of have this like Sashiko. They're. They're. It's like a cotton linen blend. They kind of have like a Searsucker Sashiko texture to them. And I washed them and they got like super hella wrinkled just because of the linen. I tried to follow the laundry instructions, wash them inside out, but these are my go to's. When I was in Greece, like I had to wear pants. Greece hot.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And I mean get yourself boys, get yourself a nice pair of cotton linen blend.

[B]

Cuz linen linen pants you want to blend.

[A]

Do you fuck with like pure linen pants?

[B]

I have. Have a Giorgio Armani vintage linen suit.

[A]

Of course you do.

[B]

What else do I have? I wore a lot more linen in like the you know, peak hashtag menswear days. Definitely less now. I. You're right. I mean I guess a cotton linen blend. You know I really like a cotton blend for a sweater. Like a. Like a. Whether it's like a roll neck or like just like a nice. Because then you know you get that. Get it's warm but. But like you get that fucking breeze that cross breeze can. Can penetrate. Pause.

[A]

Linen pants. They like 100% linen pants. They get like too wrinkly in all the wrong places. They get right around, right around your.

[B]

Your. Your ass and your dick.

[A]

And your dick. So it looks like you're just wearing a dumpy ass diaper.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Or you have like Weird fucking ass marks. Like you're a 91 year old Italian guy.

[B]

Yeah, I want to say that.

[A]

Cheeks. Oh, no, that's. I'm thinking. I'm thinking Roberto Cavalli. His yacht picks. Chuck, put that up right here. Put that photo up right here, Chuck.

[B]

When. When he's just getting hosed down by.

[A]

Bay by his 28 year old equestrian model. GF.

[B]

Yeah, go ahead and google those and have them on deck for when he drives.

[A]

Put it right here.

[B]

Is he dead?

[A]

No. Put it right here, Chuck.

[B]

I know he did that last week. He didn't put anything there because I was. I was like, wait a second. And I went back and I was like, oh no, he didn't. Which I don't think he has to. Okay, maybe he's not listening.

[A]

Yeah. So kind of guys. Cop from Qua. My first ACOG purchase.

[B]

I just. They. It's good. Yeah. Where people love them. Where are they from? I don't know.

[A]

These are made in Italy. I think. They're Italian.

[B]

A kind of guys.

[A]

I mean, I know. What kind of guys.

[B]

We're two kind of guys. Yeah. What kind of guys are we? What is guys means what? G, U I S E. Right.

[A]

I think it's like a. Not a charade, but like kind of like a disguise or like a. Like a. Like a. Like a faint. Like a. Like a juke.

[B]

Let's see.

[A]

Or deke.

[B]

An external form, appearance or manner of presentation, typically concealing the true nature of something. Yeah, there you go.

[A]

Okay, I kind of said that, right?

[B]

A kind of guy. So it's like a. A kind of cap. It's a kind of cap.

[A]

Yeah. But they're pants.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

The shirt is pen. The hat is Guadala Arts. Captain Guadala. I'm only wearing because I'm hiding a gigantic pimple in the middle of my forehead. It's not.

[B]

How did. Did you. Were you with.

[A]

It's a zit.

[B]

Were you. Were you with it?

[A]

Huh?

[B]

Were you like with it? And that's why. Not me, like, did you. Oh, no.

[A]

What do you mean?

[B]

I know like, you know how you can pop a pimple, make it worse, you know?

[A]

Yeah. So I'm trying not to pop this one, but it's like been on the verge of like erupting like Mount Aetna for four days now.

[B]

Just because you've been spending so much time and you know, outside either playing tennis or at the US Open and getting sweaty and.

[A]

No, I feel like that would actually be good for adult acne. Really spending time Outside in the sun.

[B]

Oh, I guess so. The vitamin D. But I just mean like, the sweat is usually is bad for pores.

[A]

No. Yeah, but I clean it. I shower afterwards.

[B]

What I'm just saying is maybe you should carry.

[A]

You're not shower after. Do you work out? You still hitting the.

[B]

I'm not. I'm not working out currently, but after. I do work out. I do in fact shower. I'm just saying maybe you should carry some like, face wipes with you when you're out and about, you know?

[A]

Nah. Nah. All right.

[B]

Just a thought. Get well soon, buddy.

[A]

Yeah. Adult acne. What the. And I can't put like a star face in the middle of my forehead.

[B]

Well, you don't have acne, okay? Adult. You just have a pimple. Adult acne. I think of like an adult that's like up up with pizza face type.

[A]

Yeah, damn.

[B]

Yeah, sorry. For anyone at home who has adult acne, we. We feel you, brother.

[A]

There's pills for that.

[B]

Yeah, Accutane. Right, but isn't that like, crazy for your mentals?

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

Let us know if anyone out there has Accutane. If you have thoughts of. If you have suicidal tendencies or murderous.

[A]

Thoughts, etc, it gets better. You only get one pimple at a time.

[B]

Honestly, if you're on the wrong side 35, and you're. You have a dull acne and you're taking medicine that is making you have crazy thoughts. Maybe it doesn't get better. Maybe it gets worse, dude. I don't know.

[A]

It gets worse.

[B]

Is that the title? It gets worse?

[A]

Maybe.