*SUBSTACK PREVIEW* Talk the Talk, Walk the Chalk

Summary

Throwing Fits Podcast: Episode Preview – Talk the Talk, Walk the Chalk Release Date: April 1, 2025

In this engaging episode of "Throwing Fits," hosts James Harris and Lawrence Wasman navigate the complexities of modern masculinity with their trademark humor and candid discussions. Titled "Talk the Talk, Walk the Chalk," the episode delves into topics ranging from personal style and household responsibilities to the challenges of finding quality coffee shops, all while maintaining a lighthearted and relatable tone.

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1. Opening Banter and Fit Check ([01:00] - [11:23])

The episode kicks off with a playful exchange between James and Lawrence as they introduce themselves and set the stage for the day's discussions. This segment, dubbed the "fit check," serves as both a comedic and insightful look into their personal styles.

• Outfit Details:

  • Lawrence: "I am wearing collapsible heel Gucci sleds. The socks are Asics." ([01:34])
  • James: "The jeans are Orally Hard Twist denims. The T-shirt is vintage Guy Alve." ([08:09])

• Notable Quotes:

  • Lawrence: "Socks are fucking nice, dude." ([01:47])
  • James: "I'm wearing a beautiful soft flannel that has become my go-to around the house during the cool winter days." ([06:48])

2. Navigating Household Chores ([03:00] - [06:17])

Transitioning from fashion, the hosts delve into the often humorous dynamics of household chores, shedding light on their personal experiences and the division of labor at home.

• Laundry Duties:

  • Lawrence: "I handle all the accounts... and sometimes, I make the bed and walk the dog." ([03:44])
  • James: "You just walled in your own filth. We'll talk about it." ([04:02])

• Cleaning Challenges:

  • Lawrence: "I make the effort to clean, but my wife always says I did a bad job." ([04:17])
  • James: "Doing the dishes is an everyday, necessary task." ([03:18])

• Notable Quotes:

  • Lawrence: "I didn't do it over the weekend. Sometimes Jenna throws the laundry in, and I'm like, 'Laundry boy taps in.'" ([03:37])
  • James: "I feel like that's just like an everyday, necessary task." ([03:18])

3. Coffee Shops and Local Hangouts ([09:34] - [11:23])

A significant portion of the episode is dedicated to discussing local coffee shops, highlighting the hosts' preferences and frustrations with the available options.

• Quality and Preferences:

  • Lawrence: "I feel like there's not a ton of good coffee shops by our office. Am I bugging?" ([09:35])
  • James: "The last time you had Greg's coffee?" ([10:53])

• Personal Loyalties:

  • Lawrence: "I'm a Gregular dude. For all intents and purposes, I'm a Gregul." ([10:53])
  • James: "I'm a Gregular dude... I'm a Gregul." ([10:53])

• Notable Quotes:

  • Lawrence: "I didn't get... I just feel like this is the one place there's not a ton of options." ([10:28])
  • James: "It just sucked." ([07:07])

4. Fashion Trends and Personal Style ([07:04] - [09:34])

Beyond their immediate outfits, James and Lawrence explore broader fashion trends anticipated for 2025, blending their unique perspectives with humor.

• Trend Predictions:

  • Lawrence: "This is soft, baby." ([07:17])
  • James: "The jeans are Orally Hard Twist denims... one of the things where we have sung the praise of orally for a minute." ([08:19])

• Notable Quotes:

  • Lawrence: "This doesn't affect you. The shirt is Venn space... I look like I'm going yachting." ([02:19])
  • James: "Spriglaire with western snaps on the cuff too." ([08:02])

5. Humorous Interludes and Relatable Insights

Throughout the episode, the hosts intersperse their discussions with humorous anecdotes and relatable observations, making the conversation both entertaining and insightful.

• Emergency Room Visit:

  • James: "I've been in the emergency room for five hours." ([07:07])
  • Lawrence: "Yeah, everything's fine. Don't worry about it." ([07:10])

• Recycling Skepticism:

  • Lawrence: "What you're building isn't recycling like people claim. That's a scop." ([05:44])

• Notable Quotes:

  • Lawrence: "I didn't do it intentionally. I'm trying my hardest to clean the coffee table, but it's not good enough, apparently." ([04:23])
  • James: "These have been one of my most worn jeans in a very long time." ([09:00])

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Conclusion

In "Talk the Talk, Walk the Chalk," James Harris and Lawrence Wasman deliver a blend of humor, honesty, and camaraderie as they navigate everyday topics that resonate with their audience. From dissecting personal styles and managing household chores to critiquing local coffee establishments, the hosts provide a relatable and entertaining portrayal of modern male experiences. Their dynamic interaction and witty exchanges ensure that listeners are both amused and engaged throughout the episode.

Key Takeaways:

• Relatable Content: The discussion on household responsibilities and personal shortcomings strikes a chord with many listeners navigating similar dynamics.
• Humorous Approach: The hosts' ability to infuse humor into mundane topics keeps the conversation lively and enjoyable.
• Fashion Insights: Their candid talk about personal style and fashion trends offers both laughs and thoughtful commentary on evolving male fashion.

Notable Quotes:

• Lawrence Wasman: "Socks are fucking nice, dude." ([01:47])
• James Harris: "I am wearing a beautiful soft flannel that has become my go-to around the house during the cool winter days." ([06:48])
• Lawrence Wasman: "I'm a Gregular dude. For all intents and purposes, I'm a Gregul." ([10:53])

This episode exemplifies the essence of "Throwing Fits," combining humor with genuine discussions that reflect the challenges and quirks of modern manhood.

Transcript

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[James Harris]

We are joined by the tonal titan Lawrence Wasman and myself. He puts the anal in flannel. James Harris. Welcome to the weekly run at the Boys. Is that what anal sounds like to you?

[Lawrence Wasman]

Well, I just think of butt and I go to fart or poop.

[James Harris]

Oh, well.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Today's full episode Only available on www.thrillfits.com. it is a beautiful day in the greatest city on earth.

[James Harris]

Before we get into the weather report, before we get into developing sandwiches, doing a fitting for your dream suit, and going from married life to bachelor lifestyle just for a weekend. Just as a treat, Just a little bit. Let's get to a fit check.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Yeah. Okay. I will start on my feet. I am wearing collapsible heel Gucci sleds. The socks are asics. The average sock that you'd wear with.

[James Harris]

Gucci loafers, obviously, little high, low.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Yeah, well, I don't know. A6. Socks are fucking nice, dude.

[James Harris]

They're a little too thin for my taste.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Want a day like today, a beautiful day. I don't want. I don't want a hefty sock, you know?

[James Harris]

All right.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Okay. Shout out all of our friends at Asics. Shout out. Ryan. The creamy jeans are our legacy workshop. The belt is maximum. Henry. The pleaser is Hanes. The kind of tonal shirt. I had a even more tonal thing going on and I had to change. I was like, I look like I'm going yachting. Yeah. Kind of like a God. This doesn't affect you.

[James Harris]

A scientific graphic of a penis in a textbook.

[Lawrence Wasman]

This is not like In a. Even if, you know.

[James Harris]

Fleshy man. Fleshy.

[Lawrence Wasman]

I was. It's not abrasive to the eye necessarily. I think it's soothing. Is this. That's my not soothing you right now, Jimbo. I'll take that as a no. The shirt is Venn space. The hat is small talk studio with my. It's a pink little berry. Hit a top of the cream. Fit the rollies on the wrist. The wedding is on fingy. The wife's on pinky. The chromos, on the other hand, the boxers are Brady brand. Because I need to do laundry. That was not part of my bachelor weekend.

[James Harris]

You didn't, like.

[Lawrence Wasman]

No chores were accomplished whatsoever. Yeah.

[James Harris]

You just, well, walled in your own filth. We'll talk about it. We'll talk about it.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Is doing the dishes and putting the dishes away a chore?

[James Harris]

I feel like that's just like an everyday, necessary task.

[Lawrence Wasman]

What is a chore if not an everyday task completed?

[James Harris]

I guess it's not an errand. It's. I guess it's a chore.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Chore.

[James Harris]

Doing the dishes.

[Lawrence Wasman]

All errands are chores, but not all chores are errands.

[James Harris]

What chores do you take care of in your household?

[Lawrence Wasman]

Is like walking the dog a chore?

[James Harris]

Yeah.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Okay. Boom, right there. I am the dog walker. I used to. This is actually funny. I don't think I've ever said this on pod for a while. I had a nickname at home in my household. What? And that nickname was Laundry Boy. His laundry boy did all the laundry. What else do I make? The bed.

[James Harris]

Which he don't do the laundry anymore.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Well, I didn't do it over the weekend sometimes. A lot of times, Jenna, like, when she is lucky enough to work from home, she'll, like, throw the shit in and she'll be like, I'm in the middle of something. Can you, like, move the laundry? Get the laundry. So then laundry boy taps in. Okay.

[James Harris]

Laundry boy back.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Yeah.

[James Harris]

The sunglasses are to move the fudgeing clothes around the baby poopy washing machine. That's all you do. You make the bed and you walk the dog. You clean. You cook.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Yeah, well, we don't. We don't cook. The cleaning is interesting because, like, I make the.

[James Harris]

You don't clean.

[Lawrence Wasman]

I make the effort. And then she's always like, you did a bad job. So she then has to do it again.

[James Harris]

You know that intentionally, though?

[Lawrence Wasman]

No, that's. And that's a famous Louis CK bit that he then equates to why his wife gives him terrible hand jobs. But no I don't. I'm not intentionally doing a bad job. I'm trying my hardest to clean the coffee table, but it's not good enough, apparently.

[James Harris]

Sounds familiar.

[Lawrence Wasman]

The hydro flask is full of the lorry.

[James Harris]

Are you done with your chores? So you clean. You do a terrible job cleaning. You make the bed and you walk the dog.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Dishes. What other. What other chores are there? What, like, what are household chores?

[James Harris]

Vacuuming, cleaning, tidying up.

[Lawrence Wasman]

No, I'm not. I have a. I have a. You know, obviously there's guys with a ton of clothes. Like my. Our office. The second bedroom is a disaster.

[James Harris]

Doing the home accounting.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Yeah, I handle all the. I handle all the account.

[James Harris]

Watering the plants.

[Lawrence Wasman]

We. We don't have one plant. I did water, actually. You know, it's funny. I watered that snake plant, but snake plants don't take a ton of care. You know, it's easy to. They're easy to keep alive. Yeah. What am I missing? What are other chores?

[James Harris]

I don't know. I feel like there's a lot.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Well, this is the. This is the general upkeep.

[James Harris]

This is grocery shopping. Well, you don't cook.

[Lawrence Wasman]

No, don't. We don't do grocery.

[James Harris]

Takes out the garbage.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Oh, I do. I do.

[James Harris]

Oh, nice.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Garbage.

[James Harris]

You recycle. You don't recycle.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Yeah, we recycle. There's recycling in the building. I don't. But, like, is that just optics? Like, does. Does the building actually recycle?

[James Harris]

I don't know. I don't know.

[Lawrence Wasman]

What you're building isn't recycling like people claim. That's a scop.

[James Harris]

Eh?

[Lawrence Wasman]

I want. I do it to feel good. Like, I'm not going to not go through the effort of. I got to separate, you know, the.

[James Harris]

My boy West Wilson, he hasn't been. He was been traveling so long that he stopped recycling. He feels bad about it.

[Lawrence Wasman]

He put that on social media.

[James Harris]

No, that was on Confessional Summer House.

[Lawrence Wasman]

I'm not. I'm not. Yo. I'm not up to date. I couldn't watch cuz Jen was out of town. No spoilers. Damn, dude. He didn't recycle. Anyway, I hope you're recycling at home, if not just to feel better about yourself. Yeah, I mean, that's basically all the chores and all the. The fit check for me.

[James Harris]

Okay.

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[James Harris]

Up top. I am wearing a beautiful soft flannel that has become my go to round the house during the cool winter days. But now that it is a. It's not hot out. A beautiful day. It still requires kind of like, you know, you can layer if you want.

[Lawrence Wasman]

This is perfect. This is. What is it? 72?

[James Harris]

I don't know. I've been in the emergency room for five hours.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Yeah, everything's fine. Don't worry about it.

[James Harris]

Yeah, everything's good. Don't worry about it. It just sucked. I'm wearing this soft what?

[Lawrence Wasman]

72.

[James Harris]

There you go.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Nailed it, baby.

[James Harris]

Flannel shirt from TDR. The homies out in the UK. The inline label of COVID torn garb store inline label. One of the best. Had talked about that or talked to them for that story. I love it. And yo, remember Lawrence, what did I say that the trends for 2025, you.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Said that they were yellow, red grunge and a fourth one that we were going to figure out.

[James Harris]

I think this kind of fits in that like soft grunge where I'm not like doing like Eddie Vedder cosplay. No, but just like, you know, nice color combination in the flame hand. Super.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Oh, that is soft, baby. I like that. It's a zipper shirt.

[James Harris]

Love that.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Love that.

[James Harris]

It's a zipper shirt.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Yeah, that's a.

[James Harris]

And yeah, it's just like the perfect.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Spriglaire with western snaps on the cuff too.

[James Harris]

Absolutely.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Okay.

[James Harris]

The T shirt is vintage Guy Alve. Since we have a French guest this week which we'll talk about later.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Yeah, we have Guy Harvey on the pod.

[James Harris]

The I forgot to wear belt. The jeans are orally hard twist denims.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Can I say that having worn for the first time hard twists when we were in the uk, it's a really good pair of jeans. Do they make that every season or is that like a. I mean hard twist?

[James Harris]

I feel like is going to be like the Twisted team is like a much more common thing now. They my Trebien jeans have that.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Okay. These.

[James Harris]

Yes. I know that as soon as you get those you're going to be wearing them every.

[Lawrence Wasman]

I don't think I'm getting them. Oh no, I think. Well.

[James Harris]

Oh no.

[Lawrence Wasman]

I think.

[James Harris]

Wow. He doesn't get his Free pants.

[Lawrence Wasman]

I went with the. I went with the big boy up top. No, I like the fit. Is it. I mean, I feel like the ones I wore, maybe the fit was a little different. I like, it's like a saggy butt kind of. It's a little diaper like. Or the rises.

[James Harris]

Yeah, bro. Why do you think? I've been wearing them for, like, seven years now.

[Lawrence Wasman]

That's seven years.

[James Harris]

Yeah. Come on. These have been one of my most worn johns in a very long time. And, like, one of the things where we have sung the praise of orally for a minute, and it's like. Yeah, we thought it was just, like, knits and shirting. Nope. Turns out that they do denim fire as well.

[Lawrence Wasman]

No, dude, they got that hard twist diaper butt for your ass.

[James Harris]

The socks are mana. Lisa. The shoes are alagache. The hat is still Nikki the sunglasser at Calslada. Superman. Topo Chico. A coffee from some coffee shop around the corner, and a clean canteen full of lower sides finest.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Can we talk about coffee shops real quick? I've noticed that, like, I feel like we're in the one area, not just downtown, but. Or the Lower east side, but in the city where I feel like there's not a ton of good coffee shops by our office. Am I bugging?

[James Harris]

There's literally one around the corner.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Yeah, but it's. I don't think it's particularly good.

[James Harris]

Have you had it?

[Lawrence Wasman]

No.

[James Harris]

Drink coffee.

[Lawrence Wasman]

I. I do. The last thing I got there, I got a bagel. Because they get Utopia Bagels, which are fire. But I didn't get.

[James Harris]

But I can't judge a coffee shop on its bagel offering.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Well, first of all, it's not. They're getting bagels from Utopia Bagels, one of the best bagels in the city. I think they're in Queens. I'm never really out there, so, like, obviously, this was, like. It was a nice little treat. No, I. I don't. I just. I don't know. I'm not expecting some, like, super fancy coffee shop. I just feel like this is the one place there's not a ton of options, bro.

[James Harris]

There you throw good options.

[Lawrence Wasman]

I should just say good options, but.

[James Harris]

What is a good coffee shop to you for someone that only drinks Nespresso K cups?

[Lawrence Wasman]

I. I do do love Nespresso. No, I want, like, a. A good iced coffee. I don't know.

[James Harris]

You don't. But you drink Celsius.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Look at this. Yeah.

[James Harris]

Yeah. Look how many coffee shops around us.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Yeah. And are you loyal to any of those. That's my point.

[James Harris]

Yeah, I. With the one on Cafe Vita On, I think Ludlow.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Oh, that's not the one. What's. What is it Rex? That is. Or.

[James Harris]

Yeah, that's what this is.

[Lawrence Wasman]

I don't want to. I don't want to die. How is it? Is it good? Passable?

[James Harris]

Not a coffee. Stop.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Say. And that's the thing. I guess I'm not either. I just.

[James Harris]

I don't know what the bro we hate on small business. I think you're an espresso and Starbucks guy.

[Lawrence Wasman]

Not Starbucks. I'm not a star guy. Gregory's coffee Shout out. Greg. Yeah, I'm a Gregular dude. For all intents and purposes, I'm a Gregul. If you want to drink coffee like one half of the only pockets that matters become a Gregular.

[James Harris]

When's the last time you had Greg? Greg's coffee?

[Lawrence Wasman]

Yesterday.

[James Harris]

Really?

[Lawrence Wasman]

This morning.

[James Harris]

Really?

[Lawrence Wasman]

Five minutes ago.

[James Harris]

Wow. When was last time you clean the house?

[Lawrence Wasman]

No comment.

[James Harris]

Yeah. All right. Fit check. Drink check complete. Let's get into the meat and potatoes.

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