Episode 241 - Hot Couch Nation feat. Stavros Halkias & Matt V. Brady
Added 2018-08-30 04:19:33 +0000 UTCWe 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...
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Love that Stavvybaby
Yairo Martis
2020-09-06 22:06:36 +0000 UTCZion vvjbau nyu d. Inns
Steve Ercolino Jr.
2019-07-03 17:53:55 +0000 UTCI 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
Less Than Clever
2018-09-11 22:57:55 +0000 UTC48:37 - 49:51 should be the preview on the Soundcloud page. I thought this was actually beautifully stated.
David Sacks
2018-09-10 04:17:50 +0000 UTCThere was a band in Pittsburgh around 05'-09' or so named Ninjas Who Met God. Definitely a hot couch band.
Michael Benedetto
2018-09-07 18:49:36 +0000 UTCThis hot couch conversation is why Trump won
Egg Moron
2018-09-06 09:45:52 +0000 UTCholy 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
Karl Germ
2018-09-05 17:48:43 +0000 UTCmake this one free kings - hot couch riff is legendary and stav fits so well. one of the best chapo eps ever
Rory Mullan
2018-09-05 11:49:18 +0000 UTCRealized last night that every chef on kitchen nightmares is a hot couch guy
Nathan Barton
2018-09-04 14:22:18 +0000 UTCLove this episode and everything about it. Stazzy's story about his Grandfather was amazing!
Jonny confuse by corndog
2018-09-03 15:39:11 +0000 UTCWall to wall carpeting with hella gross stains all over it
Katherine Merrell
2018-09-03 12:44:11 +0000 UTCGreat 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.
Jon Lyons
2018-09-03 07:47:51 +0000 UTCthe hot couch guy I know: compliments or critiques everyone on how loud their piss stream is
Ryan Fellhauer
2018-09-02 22:56:42 +0000 UTCSomeone 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>
S.L.
2018-09-02 18:28:22 +0000 UTCThis 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.
Richard E. Thiemann
2018-09-02 16:54:37 +0000 UTCThat Chomsky impersonation was amazing😂😂
BJ
2018-09-02 13:37:59 +0000 UTCyou got the joke.
what
2018-09-02 03:40:50 +0000 UTCHoly shit I had that same hatchetman hockey jersey. Black with red hatchetman and yellow stripes on the sleeves.
Mitchell Burns
2018-09-01 22:57:10 +0000 UTCI've been with the hot couch and the hot couches have been with me. See you in 25 years
Robert Logan
2018-09-01 17:35:04 +0000 UTCHot couch talk may be the best thing I've heard all year
Fairest Booler
2018-09-01 06:08:06 +0000 UTCWe're gonna talk about something serious with serious guests today *spends 30 minutes talking about hot couches*
Robert Nelson
2018-09-01 01:03:21 +0000 UTCStav is a plague on the ears.
Derek
2018-08-31 22:04:07 +0000 UTC<a href="https://youtu.be/hJ2YEx_BazM" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/hJ2YEx_BazM</a>
ggmacd
2018-08-31 18:33:29 +0000 UTCHot Couch is a cultural touchstone.
ggmacd
2018-08-31 17:45:02 +0000 UTCThis is a great episode -- one of your best ever.
Kevin
2018-08-31 17:29:31 +0000 UTCHoly shit this is a top ten episode
Starry Pr1nce
2018-08-31 17:07:23 +0000 UTCI'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.
S.L.
2018-08-31 15:42:55 +0000 UTCamber take me to Cannery Row!
Bob K Ross
2018-08-31 15:03:40 +0000 UTCEveryone talking about the Hot Couch Revelation but do not fucking sleep on the impeccable Baltimore Ralph
selectbutton dot net
2018-08-31 11:57:01 +0000 UTCLol my hot couch guys also called their place the Traphouse. DVD music was the lobby music from Modern Warfare 2.
Yung Pattawan
2018-08-31 11:38:50 +0000 UTCoh 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.
calvin kilby
2018-08-31 09:36:50 +0000 UTCI don't know if I would call them equal but Cum Town is like if Mad TV was still going in 2018.
Chris B
2018-08-31 07:48:39 +0000 UTCGoddamn. 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.
Elliot S.
2018-08-31 07:44:37 +0000 UTCI 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.
Russell Hopkinson
2018-08-31 06:40:55 +0000 UTCloose ep and i loved it... Stavy is charmer :)
Tom Halliday
2018-08-31 04:32:07 +0000 UTCThe 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
Salvatore
2018-08-31 02:48:53 +0000 UTCI am listening to this on a fake black leather couch i bought at Ashley's Furniture. Fuck man
Sean McDonnell
2018-08-31 02:48:39 +0000 UTCHave 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.
m w b
2018-08-31 02:46:32 +0000 UTCHell yeah bitch
Tier 69 operator
2018-08-31 02:19:37 +0000 UTCi dont get the references because i don't follow the bad podcast but "aspiring school shooter" sounds about right
BJ
2018-08-31 01:20:51 +0000 UTCAs 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.
Michael Davies
2018-08-31 01:13:47 +0000 UTCunlock this, the world needs to hear it
Em
2018-08-31 01:07:28 +0000 UTCregs dealers
Jake Zydek
2018-08-31 01:05:31 +0000 UTCAlso you've changed your display name from your full name to you initials which I think makes you technically mad and nude.
Chris B
2018-08-31 00:27:27 +0000 UTCPeanut oil
CDK
2018-08-31 00:11:27 +0000 UTCThis is going to become a “hot couch guy” survivor’s message board.
Hellohellohellllo
2018-08-31 00:00:20 +0000 UTCFaaaava beans?
George Probert
2018-08-30 23:26:39 +0000 UTCRelatable. One of the funniest episodes
Son of Samsung
2018-08-30 22:50:33 +0000 UTCMy 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.
The Cucksplainer
2018-08-30 22:15:19 +0000 UTCI love dumb guys that think they're smart. They just do a side eyes retweet and go "oh yeah?" and think they're witty.
Chris B
2018-08-30 22:12:42 +0000 UTC^good example of what constitutes a cumtown “joke.”
BJ
2018-08-30 21:54:28 +0000 UTCJust merge with Cumtown already
Tristan
2018-08-30 21:52:02 +0000 UTCGoing to voice my majority opinion that you are a hand wringing bitch that doesn't get jokes.
Chris B
2018-08-30 21:27:19 +0000 UTCRelease an exclusive version of the audiobook with Stav laughing at every joke.
no
2018-08-30 21:13:52 +0000 UTCCum Town is just a show about fucking your dad chill
JB
2018-08-30 21:08:35 +0000 UTCI listened to this before bed and ended up tossing and turning, having feverish hot couch dreams, and spells of anxiety.
Seth Panousis
2018-08-30 20:33:36 +0000 UTCsamesies
walthamsandwich
2018-08-30 20:31:49 +0000 UTCsame, 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
spacerainbow000
2018-08-30 20:15:21 +0000 UTCGroundbreaking, eye opening, a tour de force
Tom Driver
2018-08-30 19:57:58 +0000 UTCThis was an all time ep. fantastic
Dylan Jones
2018-08-30 19:38:38 +0000 UTCI 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.
BureaucracyNow
2018-08-30 18:57:36 +0000 UTCKnew 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
Quentin Roberts
2018-08-30 18:12:53 +0000 UTCJESUS. The Hot Couch/Steinbeck analogy is so fucking spot on.
carly
2018-08-30 17:32:06 +0000 UTCOh my God what a good episode
Daniel Schepper
2018-08-30 16:57:45 +0000 UTCSo many hot couches in my life. That was good. Unbelievably accurate imagery. Also been on a hot couch camping trip.
Trevor Ewen
2018-08-30 16:28:59 +0000 UTCThank you!
Brent Miller
2018-08-30 16:06:11 +0000 UTCMore Stavros please!! 😍😍😍😍
boycrusher
2018-08-30 15:52:51 +0000 UTC“But were the people that gave you democracy and philosophy!”
Spencer horne
2018-08-30 15:41:44 +0000 UTCHoly 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.
Brad Devine
2018-08-30 15:19:34 +0000 UTCjust voicing my minority greywolf opinion that cumtown is garbage and i wish you guys werent associated with it
BJ
2018-08-30 15:10:15 +0000 UTCWe 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.
Chris McCarthy
2018-08-30 15:06:25 +0000 UTCPersonal Computer Computer
Well aged meme
2018-08-30 14:20:03 +0000 UTCBig dick warrior episode
David Murray
2018-08-30 13:28:51 +0000 UTCWill 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.
Coursergamrat69
2018-08-30 13:23:07 +0000 UTCbring stav in more often I love that guy
VYM
2018-08-30 12:31:37 +0000 UTCTed 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.
Elise
2018-08-30 12:15:19 +0000 UTCThat'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!
S.L.
2018-08-30 11:16:05 +0000 UTCmy 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
Axel Hansson Art
2018-08-30 10:41:31 +0000 UTCChapo’s cum house.
nathaniel newland
2018-08-30 09:51:59 +0000 UTCIf there is a pet, the poop has not been picked up
Tvvvv
2018-08-30 09:48:04 +0000 UTCThere is a shared copy of the game or the 48 laws of power in the apartment
Tvvvv
2018-08-30 09:43:35 +0000 UTCThe posters are put up with electrical or duct tape
Tvvvv
2018-08-30 09:42:09 +0000 UTCHot couch guys have both worked at blockbuster and Best Buy
Tvvvv
2018-08-30 09:41:36 +0000 UTC"like a victim of Hannibal Lector who has been mutilated but left alive as a show of contempt"
mrakobesiye
2018-08-30 09:17:10 +0000 UTCI second this
Tommer_man
2018-08-30 08:50:41 +0000 UTCLook up Joh Bjelke-Petersen for the inside take on the kind of guy Peter Dutton is
Charles Wild
2018-08-30 08:25:37 +0000 UTCDidn't you feature the Smash Brothers on the last episode?
gamerunknown
2018-08-30 07:50:44 +0000 UTCI've laughed out loud for 3 minutes so far, good job gang
gamerunknown
2018-08-30 07:45:15 +0000 UTCThis is a real feel good ep 👍🏻
Dmthompson360
2018-08-30 07:26:05 +0000 UTCI'm gonna need that song at the end of this episode.
Brent Miller
2018-08-30 06:47:50 +0000 UTCSurprisingly tolerable, mostly because he laughed every few minutes instead of seconds. Greece story was great.
Les Doodis
2018-08-30 06:32:28 +0000 UTCi've waited so long for this moment x
SF
2018-08-30 06:27:24 +0000 UTCfaaaaaaaaava beans
Ben Poop
2018-08-30 06:23:19 +0000 UTC“Sleeping on a hot couch should be the new kissing babies.” 😂
Star BeLit
2018-08-30 06:18:35 +0000 UTCJesus it’s Stavros
Dan
2018-08-30 06:11:51 +0000 UTCActually though
Anthony Perry
2018-08-30 05:39:15 +0000 UTCHell yeah, dude
Chris McCarthy
2018-08-30 05:24:23 +0000 UTCmemphis is americas hot couch
Reverend Carter
2018-08-30 05:13:11 +0000 UTChell yea dude
Alan
2018-08-30 05:08:56 +0000 UTCI've waited so long to hear my boy Stav in the trap
Jammy Cooks
2018-08-30 05:08:31 +0000 UTCdirtbag guy always sold mid
Reverend Carter
2018-08-30 05:06:20 +0000 UTCThe laugh that can make any podcast unlistenable.
Les Doodis
2018-08-30 04:55:11 +0000 UTCStav’s laugh makes him second in command no matter what podcast he’s on
Chris Cortezi
2018-08-30 04:27:00 +0000 UTCA cupcake and a candy bar
Tvvvv
2018-08-30 04:25:19 +0000 UTCCant wait to hear 1:08:59 of Stav cackling
Jake White
2018-08-30 04:24:55 +0000 UTCSTAV AND MATT! I am cumming
Tvvvv
2018-08-30 04:24:22 +0000 UTCOh fuck my boipussy!!!!
Chris Cortezi
2018-08-30 04:23:03 +0000 UTCooohhh hell yes dude
jwhy23
2018-08-30 04:22:43 +0000 UTC
