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Episode 241 - Hot Couch Nation feat. Stavros Halkias & Matt V. Brady
🕑 Added 2018-08-30 04:19:33 +0000 UTC We celebrate our coronation as New York Times Best Sellers by inviting our friend Stavvybaby to finally enter the Trap. We talk a bunch of dumb shit about video games and a Certain Kind of archetypal American Dirtbag. Also, Stav shares a remarkable family story from the old country, Greece. Oh, and Matt V. Brady returns to give us an update about Australia's very own dirtbag culture: their Politics! Folks...Come See Us on Our Tour:
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Yairo Martis
Love that Stavvybaby
Steve Ercolino Jr.
Zion vvjbau nyu d. Inns
Less Than Clever
I have close friends still living the hot couch lifestyle in their late 20's. I visit them a couple times a year just for the nostalgia
David Sacks
48:37 - 49:51 should be the preview on the Soundcloud page. I thought this was actually beautifully stated.
Michael Benedetto
There was a band in Pittsburgh around 05'-09' or so named Ninjas Who Met God. Definitely a hot couch band.
Egg Moron
This hot couch conversation is why Trump won
Karl Germ
holy shit, when Stav does his Baltimore Guy impersonation to promote the live show, he sounds exactly like a hot couch guy I know. He was the fat kid in high school that everyone loved because he was fat but probably would have hated if he wasn't, his whole house was a hot couch room, he had a month of being "straight edge" because he was a huge wrestling fan and CM Punk was a big deal at the time so he tried to not be a stoner or drink and drew Xs on his hands and shit...he started doing amateur wrestling despite being incredibly unathletic, he was a juggalo and started basically an ICP Tribute Band/knock off. holy fucking shit
Rory Mullan
make this one free kings - hot couch riff is legendary and stav fits so well. one of the best chapo eps ever
Nathan Barton
Realized last night that every chef on kitchen nightmares is a hot couch guy
Jonny confuse by corndog
Love this episode and everything about it. Stazzy's story about his Grandfather was amazing!
Katherine Merrell
Wall to wall carpeting with hella gross stains all over it
Jon Lyons
Great goddamn episode. I haven't laughed this hard at Chapo since I first started listening to you guys. I dated a hot couch girl for a while. She had a pair of lizards and like no furniture (except for the couch) and her friend was always there getting drunk in the kitchen for some reason.
Ryan Fellhauer
the hot couch guy I know: compliments or critiques everyone on how loud their piss stream is
S.L.
Someone upthread posted a YouTube link to that part of the podcast; runs 23 minutes: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2YEx_BazM&feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2YEx_BazM&feature=youtu.be</a>
Richard E. Thiemann
This is an impassioned plea; please unlock this episode on the regular Chapo feed. I am from Central Illinois River Valley, and our spirit animal of adolescent transition from a boy in the garden to a man in the forest, is a synthetic leather piece of furniture. And it's cool to the touch when you pass out, but uncomfortably warm when you wake up. I need to share this religious experience with others.
BJ
That Chomsky impersonation was amazing😂😂
what
you got the joke.
Mitchell Burns
Holy shit I had that same hatchetman hockey jersey. Black with red hatchetman and yellow stripes on the sleeves.
Robert Logan
I've been with the hot couch and the hot couches have been with me. See you in 25 years
Fairest Booler
Hot couch talk may be the best thing I've heard all year
Robert Nelson
We're gonna talk about something serious with serious guests today *spends 30 minutes talking about hot couches*
Derek
Stav is a plague on the ears.
ggmacd
<a href="https://youtu.be/hJ2YEx_BazM" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/hJ2YEx_BazM</a>
ggmacd
Hot Couch is a cultural touchstone.
Kevin
This is a great episode -- one of your best ever.
Starry Pr1nce
Holy shit this is a top ten episode
S.L.
I've seen this flare up off-and-on pretty much since the earliest moments of Cum Town & CTH. I'm a dude (though a somewhat old one now), so I can relate to the boys wanting/needing to get together occasionally to joke & trash talk, and collectively deal with dude shit in humorous ways. Shit talking various social/racial/gender groups has been Nick's shtick since I first "met" him as Nicole Mullen on Twitter and at Thought Catalog - "fun mom" and "teacher at a retarded school" - though I don't know much about Adam or Stav (I unsubscribed from CT early on, mostly because my non-woke brain missed so many of the references, and having multiple browser tabs open to Urbandictionary, KnowYourMemes, & Wikipedia was a tedious effort). IOW being problematic is part of the CT #Brand, which is understandably an issue for people who like CTH but not CT, and flares up due to the long and close relationships between some of the hosts in both podcasts. [Amber clearly loves the CT boys (and the feeling is mutual), but some of her young pals in the feminist Brooklyn literati strongly part company from her on this.] ~~~~ On a related matter, I'm curious as to whether any women who are in relationships with hardcore Cum Town fans find that the fandom "leaks" into their real life interactions. Women who run into this (assuming it happens at all) would most likely discuss it in the closed "girl chat" rooms where they can vent safely. In any event, it seems to this old guy that asking in first or second dates about podcast (and other media) preferences is a good idea, if this is important to you.
Bob K Ross
amber take me to Cannery Row!
selectbutton dot net
Everyone talking about the Hot Couch Revelation but do not fucking sleep on the impeccable Baltimore Ralph
Yung Pattawan
Lol my hot couch guys also called their place the Traphouse. DVD music was the lobby music from Modern Warfare 2.
calvin kilby
oh man i had a really cool hot couch guy i hung out with in my early 20's who i used to get fucked up with and shoot out street lights from his apartment with an air rifle. his place was fucking miserable but at least he always had weed. good times.
Chris B
I don't know if I would call them equal but Cum Town is like if Mad TV was still going in 2018.
Elliot S.
Goddamn. This brought me back to 2003. A TV was on the floor next to a mattress where games were played on the PS2. D&D games took until 3am to actually get started. Djarum Blacks were smoked religiously. Nickelback and Disturbed were saying things that were agreed upon at the time. Flash forward to 2007. Wake up in the bedroom of hot couch girl. The DVD menu is for Lucky Number Slevin with the movie on auto-play. The movie has probably played three times through the night and I’ve woken up to random parts at various points backward and forward in the movie. To this day I don’t know what the movie is about.
Russell Hopkinson
I loved the hot couch guy theory, it really resonates across the ages. The hot couch guy in my late teens/early twenties in eighties Perth, Australia was an identical twin of a guy I played in a metal band with. Instead of a DVD menu on the TV it was usually a VHS of hellraiser or a Romero movie paused on some extremely violent bit. Of course HCG had elaborate theories on those bits.
Tom Halliday
loose ep and i loved it... Stavy is charmer :)
Salvatore
The part about the captains chair got me cuz one of my hot couch guys in college actually referred to his shitty swivel chair as the captains chair
Sean McDonnell
I am listening to this on a fake black leather couch i bought at Ashley's Furniture. Fuck man
m w b
Have you considered the fact that no one is going to force you to listen to it and whether or not Chapo is "associated with it" has absolutely no impact on your life whatsoever? It's okay to not like things that other people like.
Tier 69 operator
Hell yeah bitch
BJ
i dont get the references because i don't follow the bad podcast but "aspiring school shooter" sounds about right
Michael Davies
As an Australian living in Ohio, your comparison is dead wrong. Australia is what would happen if the Marines invaded Florida and the US shipped all its non-violent offenders there.
Em
unlock this, the world needs to hear it
Jake Zydek
regs dealers
Chris B
Also you've changed your display name from your full name to you initials which I think makes you technically mad and nude.
CDK
Peanut oil
Hellohellohellllo
This is going to become a “hot couch guy” survivor’s message board.
George Probert
Faaaava beans?
Son of Samsung
Relatable. One of the funniest episodes
The Cucksplainer
My hot couch guy passed away a few years ago. One time, when we were underaged, all our friends came out to shoot off fireworks in a public park. The cops showed up and we all ran back to his apartment. It was a hot couch room of twelve people.
Chris B
I love dumb guys that think they're smart. They just do a side eyes retweet and go "oh yeah?" and think they're witty.
BJ
^good example of what constitutes a cumtown “joke.”
Tristan
Just merge with Cumtown already
Chris B
Going to voice my majority opinion that you are a hand wringing bitch that doesn't get jokes.
no
Release an exclusive version of the audiobook with Stav laughing at every joke.
JB
Cum Town is just a show about fucking your dad chill
Seth Panousis
I listened to this before bed and ended up tossing and turning, having feverish hot couch dreams, and spells of anxiety.
walthamsandwich
samesies
spacerainbow000
same, I listened to one cumtown episode to see what it was like and it just wasn't funny, then they dropped 'tranny' in a non-joke context and I noped out
Tom Driver
Groundbreaking, eye opening, a tour de force
Dylan Jones
This was an all time ep. fantastic
BureaucracyNow
I can’t believe how good of an observation hot couch is. I feel like I’m in shock at how much it describes so many sad yet hopeful times in my life from 2008-2013. So fucking good.
Quentin Roberts
Knew my own group of hot couch guys once. They actually called their giant, dirt-cheap trackhome the Traphouse. The walls were smeared with indigo from overcrowded parties. Strangers slept in the living room well into the afternoon. It never got to the DVD menu screen because the residents seemed to sleep in shifts so someone would always be playing FIFA. AMA
carly
JESUS. The Hot Couch/Steinbeck analogy is so fucking spot on.
Daniel Schepper
Oh my God what a good episode
Trevor Ewen
So many hot couches in my life. That was good. Unbelievably accurate imagery. Also been on a hot couch camping trip.
Brent Miller
Thank you!
boycrusher
More Stavros please!! 😍😍😍😍
Spencer horne
“But were the people that gave you democracy and philosophy!”
Brad Devine
Holy shit I was just taken back to a hot room where a NIN dvd is blaring and there’s a cage with 2 sugar gliders in it. I thought I had successfully blocked that out.
BJ
just voicing my minority greywolf opinion that cumtown is garbage and i wish you guys werent associated with it
Chris McCarthy
We need a Chapo-Cum Town full crossover: a 9 man panel, plus maybe guests like Ian Fidance, Seth Dickfield, Jay Reno, Andre from Andre’s Steakhouse, Adomian’s Gorka, and Cumeatsioner Gordon all commenting on the news of the day.
Well aged meme
Personal Computer Computer
David Murray
Big dick warrior episode
Coursergamrat69
Will was mostly right about the “spill the beans” moment. Mmkay Coppins had some tweets about how the Trump people had been shopping a story about Heidi Cruz having a major depressive episode outside of their home in the early 2000’s. I believe they spun to the calling her ugly, and the media went with the story because they didn’t want to do the depression story. My GF’s dad has gone full Q, but I remember him saying that they thought that Heidi’s episode was related to infidelity on the part of Tedward with a clerk in his office. Again, he has gone full Q, so take this with a grain of salt.
VYM
bring stav in more often I love that guy
Elise
Ted Cruz: All I see when I hear that name is that video clip of him eating a booger off his upper lip. Can’t unsee that.
S.L.
That's apparently the earliest (1927) known recording of Misirlou <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6qGy3RtwY;" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW6qGy3RtwY;</a> it's amazing what Dick Dale did with that thirty-five years later (1962) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3h9p_c5-M" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y3h9p_c5-M</a> [though apparently that song has been reworked frequently, before and after 1927 (I'm getting all this from Wikipedia; I'm def not a music expert)]. That's what Stav was talking about starting at 1:02:30, offering that 1927 Misirlou version as an example of what Greek chopped & screwed* music sounded like (*<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopped_and_screwed" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopped_and_screwed).</a> ~~ What a fun episode!
Axel Hansson Art
my local hot couch guy: skipped vocational school to play wow, beat his dad with a two-by-four for when he tried to take his computer and the first time he had sex he used a dog poop bag because he didnt have a condom
nathaniel newland
Chapo’s cum house.
Tvvvv
If there is a pet, the poop has not been picked up
Tvvvv
There is a shared copy of the game or the 48 laws of power in the apartment
Tvvvv
The posters are put up with electrical or duct tape
Tvvvv
Hot couch guys have both worked at blockbuster and Best Buy
mrakobesiye
"like a victim of Hannibal Lector who has been mutilated but left alive as a show of contempt"
Tommer_man
I second this
Charles Wild
Look up Joh Bjelke-Petersen for the inside take on the kind of guy Peter Dutton is
gamerunknown
Didn't you feature the Smash Brothers on the last episode?
gamerunknown
I've laughed out loud for 3 minutes so far, good job gang
Dmthompson360
This is a real feel good ep 👍🏻
Brent Miller
I'm gonna need that song at the end of this episode.
Les Doodis
Surprisingly tolerable, mostly because he laughed every few minutes instead of seconds. Greece story was great.
SF
i've waited so long for this moment x
Ben Poop
faaaaaaaaava beans
Star BeLit
“Sleeping on a hot couch should be the new kissing babies.” 😂
Dan
Jesus it’s Stavros
Anthony Perry
Actually though
Chris McCarthy
Hell yeah, dude
Reverend Carter
memphis is americas hot couch
Alan
hell yea dude
Jammy Cooks
I've waited so long to hear my boy Stav in the trap
Reverend Carter
dirtbag guy always sold mid
Les Doodis
The laugh that can make any podcast unlistenable.
Chris Cortezi
Stav’s laugh makes him second in command no matter what podcast he’s on
Tvvvv
A cupcake and a candy bar
Jake White
Cant wait to hear 1:08:59 of Stav cackling
Tvvvv
STAV AND MATT! I am cumming
Chris Cortezi
Oh fuck my boipussy!!!!
jwhy23
ooohhh hell yes dude
