*SUBSTACK PREVIEW* Redacted Shoutouts

Summary

Throwing Fits – SUBSTACK PREVIEW Redacted Shoutouts

Date: September 12, 2025
Hosts: James Harris and Lawrence Lossem

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Episode Overview

In this Substack preview episode, James and Lawrence kick off with their signature blend of irreverence and insider fashion banter. The duo navigates "male zeitgeist" topics including Fashion Week, the resurgence of vintage Gap denim, the peculiarities of paper-thin vintage tees, and the quirks of niche plastic-surgery algorithms, peppered with playful self-deprecation and competitiveness. Seasoned with shouts and gripes about brands and friends, this episode encapsulates the authentic Throwing Fits energy.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Fit Check & Fashion Breakdown

Begins: 01:17

• Lawrence’s Fit:

  • Second Layer boots, Manresa socks
  • Our Legacy digi-print “third cut” denim—discussion on the pronunciation and meaning of “trompe l’oeil” (“deceives the eye” – 01:51)
  • Colbo polo (52% cotton, 48% silk), Small Talk hat, Thistles shades
  • Hill City underwear (“RIP like Charlie Kirk”), Violet licorice Zyn pouch

• James’s Fit:

  • King Unknown, Our Legacy “cab slipper” (sport mode)
  • Random Amazon socks
  • Vintage Gap relaxed fit jeans (“Gap is having a moment”—06:04)
  • Vintage Farside t-shirt (“paper thin” key—06:36)
  • Our Legacy sunglasses

Notable banter over the definition and usage of "paper thin" when describing vintage tees, and why heavy-weight T-shirts are preferable if you have, as they put it, "puffy nipples."

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2. Fashion Week (and Fashion Life)

Timestamp: 03:04

• James’ perspective: “My whole week is fashion. My whole life is Fashion Week.”
  (03:04)

• Both discuss stepping out for events, supporting industry friends like Noah Johnson at the High SOB Relaunch.

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3. K-pop and the Cat’s Eye Girl Group

Begins: 04:06

• Conversation about the rise of the K-pop group "Cat’s Eye" (mixed-race, American-based girl group crafted “man-made” with intentional diverse casting).
• Lawrence: “They nailed it. I love them. I'm not a big K pop guy, but K pop Demon Hunters is Fire.” (05:23)
• Credits the influence of Scooter Braun and "Chairman Bang" (Bang Si-hyuk, the Hybe chairman).
• Acknowledgment of Umberto Leon as the group’s creative director.

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4. Vintage Gap Resurgence

Timestamp: 05:53

• James and Lawrence banter over the labels and cuts of 90s Gap—relaxed fit vs. wide.
• “Gap is having a moment, bro. Shout out Calvin.” (06:04)
• They encourage listeners to “buy low” on eBay before the prices rise.

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5. Paper Thin Tees as a Vintage Search Term

Begins: 06:36

• "Paper thin" now a keyword on secondhand marketplaces, thanks to TikTok trends and NYC scenes like Dimes Square.

• James: “Kids came up to [Sam Copple] and they're like, bro, where'd you get the paper thin tee? …That's now, like, the search term people use…” (08:27)

• Lawrence on his preference: “I like a heavier tee, personally. Paper thin for me, does not jive.” (08:43)

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6. Plastic Surgery Algorithms and Real Guys’ Problems

Begins: 08:55

• Joking about “boob jobs” and surgery for puffy nipples.
  “You know, it's funny. I was getting served… the surgery that puffifies the nipples.” (08:57)
• A mix of banter and genuine curiosity about “gynaecomastia” and surgical recovery times.
• Lawrence: “I think a lot of Jews, maybe Ashkenazi Jews have them, and not…” (09:34)

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7. Brand Shoutouts, Beef, and Craving Recognition

Begins: 07:09 & 07:46

• Lawrence laments that Antonio from 18 East hasn’t named anything after him.
  • “Why don't we have anything named after us?” (07:09)
  • “I would love something named after me. I'm just gonna say it right now, publicly.” (07:26)
• James retorts: “Let’s just make this all about you.”
• Friendly ribbing about who gets brand perks and who has legitimate shoutout rights.

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8. Product Placement Roundup

Sprinkled throughout

• Zyn pouches, Hydroflask, Topo Chico, Dr. Pepper (“DP”).
• Lawrence: “Stay hydrated, folks.” (02:38)
• James shares he’s back on Dr. Pepper due to convenience: “I was running a little late. I didn't want to go all the way to the coffee shop...so I just went to the bodega right here.” (10:28)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Fashion & Lifestyle:
  “It's fashion life, bro. My whole week is fashion. My whole life is Fashion Week.”
  — James Harris (03:04)

• On the Paper Thin Tee Trend:
  “That's now, like the search term people use on ebay… for the paper thin, like it's so worn down that it's almost, like, heathered.”
  — James Harris (08:27)

• On Heavy vs. Thin Tees:
  “I like a heavier tee, personally. Paper thin for me does not jive.”
  — Lawrence Lossem (08:43)

• On Brand Recognition:
  “I would love something named after me. I'm just gonna say it right now, publicly.”
  — Lawrence Lossem (07:26)

• Friendly Roasting:
  “Why don't we…Let's just make this all about you. Let's just do that. You shout out, take 18 east, and make it about me.”
  — James Harris (07:36)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Fit Check: 01:17–03:00
• Fashion Week Banter: 03:04–03:22
• K-pop Girl Group Chat: 04:06–05:43
• Vintage Gap Discussion: 05:53–06:24
• Paper Thin Tees: 06:36–08:55
• Plastic Surgery Jokes: 08:55–10:08
• Shoutouts & Gripes: 07:09–07:57
• Lawrence and James's Brand Opinions: Throughout, especially 06:04, 07:09, 07:26

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Overall Tone

Playful, fashion-nerdy, self-aware, and unapologetically male. The duo riff with the kind of insidery humor and honesty that fans expect, balancing hot takes with nostalgia, and never missing a chance to roast themselves or each other.

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Transcript

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[James Harris]

Throw gang. We are joined by his K. Moving silence like knitwear. Lawrence Lossem and myself, the paper thin prince, James Harris. Welcome to the weekly running at the.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Boys with today's full episode on Bill 1 www.ThrowingFits.com.

[James Harris]

Before we get into sipping martinis with Stanley Tucci and Usher, Accidental Bronson. Lawrence getting fat, shamed by a celebrity and copying Jeffrey Epstein's closet, let's get into a fit check.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Okay, James, today I'm wearing second layer boots. Manresa socks, our legacy digiprint third cut denim. Is that the.

[James Harris]

The trompe L?

[Lawrence Lossem]

Yeah. Is that how it's pronounced?

[James Harris]

What?

[Lawrence Lossem]

Trump?

[James Harris]

Yeah. Yeah. Speak French. What is that French for It's painted to look like something that it isn't like.

[Lawrence Lossem]

I understand. That's the. That's what it translates to. That's what I'm asking.

[James Harris]

What's the literal translation?

[Lawrence Lossem]

Yes.

[James Harris]

Well, first I gotta figure out how to spell the trouble.

[Lawrence Lossem]

There's an apostrophe somewhere.

[James Harris]

Deceives the eye.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Donald Trump.

[James Harris]

You. I deceiver.

[Lawrence Lossem]

He's dead. Okay. You learn something new every day, folks. The underwear? No. Why would I do that?

[James Harris]

I don't know, man. I think you're. You're having a rough one.

[Lawrence Lossem]

PM I did fucking blast a dart. I found. I found a lucid.

[James Harris]

You.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Big night.

[James Harris]

Blasted one of the two bathrooms that I very much avoided. Okay. What do you. What do you. What do you.

[Lawrence Lossem]

I didn't take A poop.

[James Harris]

Really? What are you doing in there?

[Lawrence Lossem]

Just getting myself together. The polo is colbo. It is a 50 Polo. 52 cotton, 48 silk.

[James Harris]

Nice.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Great Polo. They had a small talk.

[James Harris]

No beater.

[Lawrence Lossem]

No beater.

[James Harris]

Nice. It's.

[Lawrence Lossem]

You know what it is. Like this in the shade. I'm dressed perfectly in the sun. Not so much the beater. I was like, that's just gonna make me hotter.

[James Harris]

Yeah.

[Lawrence Lossem]

And I'm not really sweating, so no beater. Shades are.

[James Harris]

What's the hat? What's the hat?

[Lawrence Lossem]

I said small talk. You can.

[James Harris]

I can read it. Yeah.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Shades are thistles. I got a little dirty water.

[James Harris]

Yeah. Just one. If Larry's sipping the dirty. You know, last night was a mess.

[Lawrence Lossem]

It was a Netflix original, bro. It's Fashion Week. Are we gonna talk about Fashion Week at all?

[James Harris]

It's fashion life, bro. My whole week is fashion. My whole life is Fashion Week.

[Lawrence Lossem]

I was impressed to see you out.

[James Harris]

Why?

[Lawrence Lossem]

Because I feel like you avoid that kind of stuff.

[James Harris]

Supporting my friends.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Are we gonna talk about that?

[James Harris]

The high SOB Relaunch and Noah Johnson being putting together the greatest magazine of all time. His words. His. His words. Yeah, we'll talk about.

[Lawrence Lossem]

I had some constructive criticism for him.

[James Harris]

Cool.

[Lawrence Lossem]

But we.

[James Harris]

I mean, no, no. Let's finish the fit check. Or your drink check. You're drinking a dirty water.

[Lawrence Lossem]

The underwear is Hill City RIP Like Charlie Kirk. The Zinn is violet licorice. And I think that's everything. And I gotta get some water here. Lower east side's finest. Stay hydrated, folks.

[James Harris]

All right. I'm wearing my King unknown. Our legacy. I think they're called a cab slipper. They do have a classical heel. But we're going sport.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Oh, they do.

[James Harris]

Yeah.

[Lawrence Lossem]

That's cool. Drop the top.

[James Harris]

Now we're going sport. Mode. The socks are a random brand from Amazon. There we go. The jeans are vintage Gap.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Really?

[James Harris]

I'm on the cat's eye shit, bro.

[Lawrence Lossem]

I love them, dude.

[James Harris]

My milk dick bring.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Gnarly.

[James Harris]

They're like.

[Lawrence Lossem]

They're hot.

[James Harris]

There's like nine of them and they're all hot. You know, like it's mixed. It's not AI, but it's like a completely man made girl band.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Aren't all of them man made?

[James Harris]

Yeah, I guess so. What's his name? Scooter braun.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Okay.

[James Harris]

And Mr. Bang, I think is his name. I'm pretty sure it's Chairman Bang. He's like the head of like, K Pop.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Wait, his name is Bang?

[James Harris]

Yeah.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Is that Korean for something? Like TR Is French.

[James Harris]

Or something like Bong John.

[Lawrence Lossem]

John who?

[James Harris]

No, I don't know who invented.

[Lawrence Lossem]

I know. Friend of the show. Umberto Leon is their creative director.

[James Harris]

That's right.

[Lawrence Lossem]

They are awesome. I love that. It's. Aren't they the first ever mixed race K pop girl band?

[James Harris]

Well, they're America. They're all like quote unquote American or they're not. Yeah, they were like, all right. Yeah, like a South Asian. We need East Asian. We need a Latina. We need like a white girl. We need a black girl. Like, that's kind of how Scooter Braun and I'm genius. Pretty sure this guy goes by Chairman Bang. Is name is Bangy Hook. The chairman of Hybe.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Chairman of the Bang, bro. I love that.

[James Harris]

Chairman Bang. Yeah. They put it together there and they had like a. It was all a audition process. Was it show just like solicited applications like TV show all over the world. That. That was the TV show. And in that show is like. Okay, now you are like the group.

[Lawrence Lossem]

They nailed it. I love them. I'm not like a big K pop guy, but K pop Demon Hunters is Fire, by the way, that rocked. Of the best movies of the year, in my opinion. But they are cat's eye. I'm. I'm a fan. I'm on the Gap ad. No, dude, I was rocking out to Gnarly before all y' all jumped on the bandwagon with the dances in the Gap ad. What year are they from? These?

[James Harris]

I'm not sure. I seen the 90s. The cut is wide. No, the cut is.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Let me see. Stand up. Do a twirl for daddy.

[James Harris]

Can you read this label?

[Lawrence Lossem]

Maybe.

[James Harris]

Let's see what is like the cut.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Say it doesn't. Hold on. Yeah, it's Gap. Relaxed fit.

[James Harris]

Relaxed fit.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Yeah.

[James Harris]

I have wide, which are like legit from Gap. Yeah, yeah.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Gap is having a moment, bro. Shout out Calvin.

[James Harris]

Yeah, shout out Calvin. Shout out all the homies at Gap. Shout out the Gap Malbin Golf collaboration.

[Lawrence Lossem]

No.

[James Harris]

Or whatever.

[Lawrence Lossem]

No, no.

[James Harris]

I co to the tournament for.

[Lawrence Lossem]

That has nothing to do with me. No shout outs for me.

[James Harris]

Okay. Yeah. Vintage Captain is gas and really cheap on ebay. Really cheap. Yeah.

[Lawrence Lossem]

I don't think anyone wants it. Right?

[James Harris]

Get out. Get on. Buy low. Buy low. Get on the train now.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Relax.

[James Harris]

Fit the shirt. Also vintage, weirdly is the far side. It's paper thin. It's a paper thin key.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Can you explain this?

[James Harris]

Which I guess is like. So I ran into our guy cutie pie Sam Copple at the Literary Sport Pop up. Which, if you're in New York, go hit that. If you're. If you either are into running or want to be convinced to get into running or being active or being in shape, go to the literary sport. Pop up. It's fire.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Isn't there a tea named after you?

[James Harris]

It's just the James tea. It's not named after, oh, the James, But I do.

[Lawrence Lossem]

But you wear it.

[James Harris]

Own it. Yeah. And I wore it to. I played tennis in it for two and a half hours and it stood up. Merino wool, cotton blend.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Can I complain about something real quick?

[James Harris]

Yeah.

[Lawrence Lossem]

You know, Antonio at 18 east, names close after, like, all the homies, like G and trousers or whatever. Why don't we have anything named after us?

[James Harris]

Well, we got that with 4s.

[Lawrence Lossem]

We did. Maybe only you did.

[James Harris]

No, you. There is a Lawrence cargo trouser, and I think they offered to you. And he said, no, thank you.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Yeah, I'm gonna need to take my name off the cargo trousers, Angelo. Well, I know Antonio listens. I would love something named after me. I'm just gonna say it right now, publicly.

[James Harris]

Okay.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Just complaining a little bit.

[James Harris]

Why don't we. Why don't. Let's just make this all about you. Let's just do that. You shout out, take 18 east and make it about me.

[Lawrence Lossem]

If you can shout out your golf, I can shout out my complain.

[James Harris]

I shout out gap, bro.

[Lawrence Lossem]

You shout out malin, bro. They ain't paying you now.

[James Harris]

Yeah, that's true. Okay, I redacted shout out. It's a one time. They got a one time shout out. It was a one time bag. One time shout out.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Redacted shout outs.

[James Harris]

What else? The sunglasses are our legacy.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Paper thin. You didn't explain.

[James Harris]

Oh, sorry. So Sam, Cutie pie, Sam Copple.

[Lawrence Lossem]

And image.

[James Harris]

And image was like, yeah, so I mean, he wears shredded T shirts all the time. And he's like, yes. You know, I was like, you know, doing my dime square rounds. And these, like, kids came up to me and they're like, bro, where'd you get the paper thin tea? And he's like. He's like, it's just like, vintage, like. But they're like, any first, I think these, like, tick tock kids said paper thin so many times. Like, why do you keep saying paper thin?

[Lawrence Lossem]

That's the truth.

[James Harris]

That's now, like the search term people use on ebay. Depop, grill, whatever for the paper thin. Like, it's so, like. It is so, like, worn down that it's almost like heathered, which I I have a few vintages like that. And I don't really know if I like the heathered look of it.

[Lawrence Lossem]

I like a heavier tea, personally. Paper thin for me, does not. Does not jive.

[James Harris]

Oh, because it.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Yeah.

[James Harris]

Puffy nipples.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Yeah. We don't want that. We don't. We don't want that. We don't want that. Heavy teeth. Beefy Haynes. Beefy. So paper thin is the thing.

[James Harris]

Would you ever get a boob job?

[Lawrence Lossem]

You know, it's funny. I was getting served. Honestly.

[James Harris]

Fake tits.

[Lawrence Lossem]

No, no, no. The surgery that. The Puffifies the nipples. What is it called? Gyno or something?

[James Harris]

I don't. Gyno is vaginal, I believe.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Hold on. Puffy. Yeah. I mean, that's what it is. Yeah. I think I. I would want it, but, like, I don't know what the recovery is, like, you know? And I don't want to do that. Oh, here you go.

[James Harris]

What's it called?

[Lawrence Lossem]

Look at that.

[James Harris]

Don't read it.

[Lawrence Lossem]

I don't know how to pronounce that. Giant come Asia surgery. Yeah, I need that.

[James Harris]

You have a hormonal imbalance.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Maybe. I think it's genetic. And I think a lot of Jews, maybe Ashkenazi Jews have them, and not.

[James Harris]

In this political climate, buddy.

[Lawrence Lossem]

And I've seen guys you, like, wear. You have to wear, like, some type of. You get the surgery outpatient and you wear, like, a girdle or something.

[James Harris]

Three months until you're cleared for all activity. Like, what? Well, four to six weeks, you return to more normal exercise. We don't do that. Anyway, so, like, it's for gym bros.

[Lawrence Lossem]

That, like, work out really hard, Right? And that's the one thing stopping them from having the perfect physique, right? Fluffy nips for three weeks.

[James Harris]

You can't work out chest, so you would. Yeah, that'd be tough.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Why are we talking about this?

[James Harris]

I don't know. Paper thin teas, anyway. Paper thin. Wearing that. Paper thin. Far side.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Midvale School of the Gifted.

[James Harris]

What?

[Lawrence Lossem]

Midvale School of the Gifted. I have that, too. We both have this.

[James Harris]

Yeah. Port Tanger, our legacy shade. Sipping on a dp, A Tobo chico and a hydro flask of L side's finest.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Yo. You're back on dps?

[James Harris]

Well, I was running a little late. I didn't want to go all the way to the coffee shop. Oh. So I just went to the bodega right here.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Is it hitting diffy?

[James Harris]

It feels good.

[Lawrence Lossem]

Yeah.

[James Harris]

Feels good.

[Lawrence Lossem]

You missed it.

[James Harris]

Yeah.

[Lawrence Lossem]

It's like the dart, though. The dart made me feel worse.

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