Hot Couch Guys | Chapo Trap House | Episode 241 CLIP

Felix describes a powerful, universal phenomenon: the Hot Couch Guy.
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[@trevbezos]

I know felix is a good podcaster because he says everything i would say

[@thomaswenglinski]

i read this comment right as felix said that line and for a moment my soul left my body

[@Trashcom1917]

Yo if they let me podcast drunk I'm not saying I'd tell everyone to kill themselves but I would for a lot of these guys I can tell they suck

[@conner6417]

I saw this before Felix said that and it filled me with rage.

[@dansaunders1655]

@@conner6417 I saw this after felix said it and I now feel an overwhelming sense of calm

[@fartpimpson3843]

I saw this but can't read so I'm ambivalent to it all

[@eggbaron3968]

one of the hot couch guys i knew back in the day started carrying a claw-shaped knife on a chain around his neck and would very defensively explain, when asked about it, that "it's the sharpest knife they make"

[@mellowsign]

Jack H Definitely a spyderco. The hot couch guys I know spend hundreds of dollars on knives and weed, but literally nothing else.

[@bedelian]

Jesus fucking Christ I have this exact memory, verbatim

[@kyleleehufnagel]

This is what made me a Chapo Fan. It was like “oh no, these people know me. These people ARE me.”

[@FroggyCrimes]

This bit just reeks of my childhood lol Very "thanks I hate it" vibe from this vid.

[@thebargainbin6020]

Yeah

[@crestonb5432]

The DVD Menu for me was the Halo 3 start screen.

[@iliketorock21]

Holy fuck lmaaooo

[@Raxfyr]

24 hour party people for me

[@LeoSkyro]

FIFA 11 start screen for me

[@R0S3inC0NCR33T]

black ops zombies. not the main menu, the game. afk, dying over and over for like six hours

[@soiboisixtnine8848]

this was the bit that made me fall in love with chapo. i've lived half my life on a hot couch.

[@Marshydarshy]

It's also really good entryism to cum town, imo

[@nachomanrandysauvage8257]

Yes, this was also my gateway to both Chapo and Cum Town. My two current mainstays.

[@joeyg8971]

After years of being stuck in the embassy, Jullian Assange has become a hot couch guy

[@billyscenic5610]

Biden wants Assange on his couch.

[@airex12]

4-player Halo on the smallest TV you’ve ever seen, smoking dirt hash with needlessly fancy rolling papers. Man that was the life.

[@JK-420]

Yo fuck zig zags dawg

[@tonycampbell1424]

Original Super Smash Brothers while ripping a quarter of mids through a hookah, but yeah. The specifics may vary, but the broad strokes are universal.

[@coreygolpheneee]

The expensive wrap terrible weed guy is Definitely related

[@493HZ]

Melee for me but yes 😂​@@tonycampbell1424

[@theinternet1424]

That guy's story about the actual hot couch guy camping trip just proves that wise old adage - You can get the hot couch guy out of the hot couch, but you can't get the hot couch out of the hot couch guy.

[@CervantesVI]

I am also part of the "Dumb as Shit, but Don't Want Homeless People to Die" caucus.

[@quester09]

and those vertical blinds make that clacking sound...

[@rcrztt]

Goddamn your comment made my skin crawl before I'd even fully processed it

[@isaacjones6323]

Like 4 of them have fallen down, one is all twisted backwards

[@atelerix969]

I moved to a new apartment that has vertical blinds and between that and my leather recliner I got for free I feel like a truly hot couch guy

[@tonycampbell1424]

@@atelerix969 How's the hot couch, a year later?

[@RamHarpBird]

I have definitely woken up Hot Couch style with Chapo youtube videos still playing as my DVD menu...

[@zerodollarbird]

Dude, same. Hot couch has also been my backseat.

[@RasCaelestis]

The real hot couches were the friends we made along the way.

[@r.h.f.6073]

This description is uncomfortably similar to my university experience. Some of my friends were poor and some were ridiculously rich but even the ones with luxury apartments managed to emenate the hot couch vibe.

[@elbowjuice2627]

It transcends class.

[@vantahawk2834]

I feel like Kyle Kulinski and his friend Corin would be Hot Couch Guys.

[@loganphillips5935]

He’s either hot couch guy and tries to hide it, or stopped by a hot couch once and romanticized it

[@zanemarshall2938]

Its the Austin Powers Main Menu on repeat and no matter what you have acid reflux and you cant get properly drunk when you hang there

[@masonkerr8359]

Class Consciousness in the making

[@MrMatthewcroley]

My main hot couch guy got high off his mom's ambien back before people really knew that was possible (talking like 03-04), and gave me the screenplay of fight club to read

[@0megadwarf]

i have had this exact experience at my friend's divorced dad's house in high school

[@zachflame123]

me too. Same setup. You'd drift off into sleep at 4 in the morning with the blue glow of the TV screen washing over the room

[@TheDudeSmashTrash]

This is an old segment but one of their best ever

[@erikbarrett85]

They never have toilet paper

[@williamstewart3774]

this made me so mad.ever since ive splurged on good toilet paper and now bidets

[@tonycampbell1424]

Hot couch guy wall poster thread: Scarface Fight Club Stolen street signs

[@grapeapetape9132]

Dude, looking back, my dad was a fucking hot couch guy. DVD menu, smoking indoors, unclean glassware, shitty day drinking, shitty desk chair thing, actual Hot Couch. Jesus Christ, it’s in my DNA

[@ManiacalViolet]

This was my life 2006-2009 🤣😭 The only thing missing was the Mario Kart, the adderall, and psychotic breaks.

[@tonycampbell1424]

Same, man. Except I definitely didn't have pets, and my hot couch was the nastiest bed ever. Like, bare salvage mattress with unwashed hand me down blankets. Oh, and I definitely fucked. How, looking back, I cannot imagine. But I never got more laid than in my hot couch guy phase.

[@campfortson4387]

So you lived like Judah Friedlander on 30 Rock?

[@syd5380]

Bonus points if the hot couch guy somehow obtained a wheelchair that proceeded to become a permanent fixture in the "living room"

[@0ptimuscrime]

My guy had a hot hammock

[@FroggyCrimes]

This is some hard ass nostalgia right here. Nostalgia that makes me hate myself lol.

[@ctoconnor1732]

this perfectly describes my dad. i was raised on a hot couch

[@JVeezy109]

This was far too accurate, like 150%, of far too many people I've met as a denizen, born and raised, of the area between Akron and Cleveland, Ohio. Omg this had me in fucking tears. The best part is that every detail applies to a different hot couch guy I've met, they described the Ur-Hot-Couch-Guy

[@SASardonic]

SCP 7634: The Hot Couch

[@MasterOfDestructionX]

When the Chapos look into the void they realize they are staring into the mirrors of the universe. *stares into mirror CHAPO stares back* We are all hotcouch guys. But on a serious note my brother is a hella hot couch guy and im just a warm couch guy.

[@Duterasemis]

Hot Couch Guys have a place in society, too. Honestly, if for some bizarre reason you needed to get your hands on crystal meth on short notice, who among the people you know would you go to? Is there any doubt in your mind, or did the words "crystal meth" immediately make you think of a Hot Couch Guy you know? Don't lie.

[@zerodollarbird]

My Hot Couch Guy is a coke man.

[@tonycampbell1424]

In my experience, hot couch guy can always get weed, but it's often dirt weed. He claims he can lay hands on any drug known to humanity (I'm so plugged in, bro), but can only actually get adderall and mushrooms--and almost never when you want them.

[@inktoxicant]

Stav's laugh is a blessing on this earth

[@jemimallah2591]

absolutely

[@thepwningeggnog]

Wtf why is this so accurate

[@IndieGinge]

Alienation, drug abuse, and the monolith of American culture. This country is the fucking same everywhere you go, so people experiencing the same alienation with the same wages and attitudes are going to react the same way.

[@oscarstrokosz2986]

Their bedrooms would always be the biggest rooms in the whole house for some reason

[@throwbackblackcat]

My Hot Couch Guy saw my sketchbook in college and went “Dude, your shit’s legit, you should draw hentai!” I wish I’d listened to him...

[@fluidthought42]

Be the change you want to see

[@wesfulgham5742]

My DVD menu was Smoking Aces

[@crlyhdedfnck]

Someone needs to make an art installation of Hot Couch.

[@llary]

I lived on a hot couch in LA for a year in my teens. Overpriced student apartment with 2 bedrooms, 4 gay Japanese guys and a flamboyant Spanish dude. I was too cheap to get my own room so I slept in the living room. Looking back I'm not sure if those were good times or extremely depressing. Somewhere in between I guess.

[@robertdougherty349]

The couch is hot due to the constantly decaying human skin, and cheetoh dust caught in the cushions.

[@productive_citizen]

I used to hang out at a house down the street from me which was absolutely this hot couch house. 2010-2012, the TV always had either a shitty ass movie or a Halo or Skate game, somehow always a 24 pack of coors light despite everyone being broke, we'd go outside every 15 minutes to smoke Marlboro 27's, homie had 2 snakes and like 3 dogs but one died because someone put lemonade vodka in it's water bowl and it literally got so sick it vomited itself to death but no one ever owned up to it, I was the only person who hung out there that had a job except for one dude who lost his job at gamestop because he stayed up until 11am playing minecraft on the xbox 360 and missed his shift for the 6th time, one dude who always walked barefoot and his feet looked like if you left a steak out in the sun for a week, and one dude stayed there for a month and gave everyone scabies. Very specific image for me

[@IronViking88]

Every hot couch guy has a shitty band or even just one specific shitty song that "got me through some tough times man"

[@7omA]

BUT THE EXOTIC BIRDS STORY

[@trashteamracing8262]

My hot couch house had three couches in the living room. I almost moved into that house, but the lock to the door was busted and their pitbull used that room specifically as a bathroom. No amount of carpet shampooing got rid of the smell, and nobody seemed concerned about fixing the lock. I wonder where they all are now. I don't miss it, but I miss the DVD menus, though.

[@daveyblueberry8927]

I grow up in the Cincinnati, Dayton Ohio aria, This is extremely accurate.

[@keishpie1]

Yooo fellow Dayton native!

[@tonycampbell1424]

Same in Canton, my dude.

[@TheHappiestGoth]

Hot couch guy inevitably reproduces with hot Cheeto girl and you always see them walking together with a stroller and GIANT styrofoam soda cups on their way home from picking up cigarettes at the 7-11.

[@tonycampbell1424]

Exquisite

[@zbjames4194]

We would watch Viva La Bam on MTV2 for like 8 hours straight smoking bong and listening to Alice In Chains

[@homeygfunkoffacherryfruitl4971]

Yooo, the good ol days of watching Viva La Bam with the homies and having a fat chief session. Good times.

[@cow_tools_]

Ah shit. I moved into a new apartment a few months ago, and it has such a comfortable couch I've fallen asleep on it so much with something like Chapo or Slavoj Zizek playing in the background. And now I hear this. Where am I in my life.

[@tonycampbell1424]

How's the hot couch, my dude?

[@chazblank2717]

My couch guy is currently in a weird committed relationship with his ex’s mother taking care of the sisters… he just posted his graduation from the police academy 😂

[@walterxbenjamin]

It also makes so much sense that cinephile Will needs the DVD menu to access this feeling.

[@debrasue2793]

never been a cinephile or a partyhouse person but through high school and college i fell asleep to the first 5 minutes of a lot of movies that i never watched the rest of, more often than not on a couch or non-bed piece of furniture.

[@ellie3910]

Stavros does a weekly podcast with a Hot Couch Guy.

[@DrCrabnuts]

As a hot couch veteran, I approve

[@juliakatherine5077]

Scarface is the ultimate hot couch guy poster

[@ST-kr7hz]

That shit is a whole vibe . Hot couch energy

[@victrosia]

Oh god my father is a hot couch guy

[@ohbluescouser6267]

Metaphysical hot couch, what a great bit....is it bad that i know multiple people like this...

[@thrownstair]

I think I knew a hot couch girl.

[@ellagage1256]

Hot couch boy to girl

[@nickolaiproblem]

@@ellagage1256 based

[@cronizle]

The dragon fighting commercial got me. Had dozens of conversations with other Marines about whether they joined or fight dragons or knights on giant chest boards.

[@dethmunky86]

You guys just described growing up in Florida.

[@KhanjoOfEthiopia]

we all have a little hot couch guy in us, never thought of it like this, but shit is real

[@stevenwall2010]

24:00 god damn, Stav just described my political views perfectly.

[@debra-sue]

i miss amber 😔

[@theradhatter4100]

These guys know my soul.

[@stuartp2006]

To be clear, the couch is hot, not the guy.

[@JDesch]

I feel called out because I didn't really get it and I have a friend who literally posts on /r/neoliberal

[@litarogers3984]

Holy shit.... My dad is a hot couch guy!

[@prolepatrol3233]

This is the funniest shit I’ve heard in a minute!!! 😂🤣🤣

[@ohbluescouser6267]

Brad pitt in true romance.....ultimate hot couch guy

[@ST-kr7hz]

It's sad and hilarious how I can relate to 100% of this.

[@christophermartin1785]

Christ, I think I owned that exact model of couch used in the thumbnail. Heat aside, it was the perfect napping couch - no hard edges.

[@oldneon]

Disappointed in the lack of gbs aka gravity bongs in this discussion.

[@tylerscherer57]

Personally attacked.

[@Eboyd1100]

this is artful

[@PookieDaExzile]

Sweet Baby Stav on the track wit the tags for these nerd ass bits.

[@TheSethcast]

Which "Running Scared" is Felix talking about? The 06 one or the 80s one? I wanna watch it and find the DVD lol

[@JK-420]

06 for sure

[@TheSethcast]

@@JK-420 Actually watched it for the first time like last week. Not great!

[@hangingthief]

Literally me!

[@FirstnameLastname-kn5sw]

This all seems very familiar. 07:15 HOLY SHIT

[@polywags]

Lol! the amount of my life spent in that house..

[@fede2]

Do not understand the concept. Is the guy hot or the couch?

[@alistairpage-mcgill2723]

the couch. Took me a while to catch their drift too

[@aprilk141]

Couch is hot. Hot couch guys get leather couches cuz their cool, but the they have their friends pass out on it and you wake up in a fever covered in sweat and slink out at five am.

[@coreygolpheneee]

How High? The connisuers half baked

[@theoldanarchist]

I wish I had a dollar for every time Stavros says "respect" and/or "100%."

[@LarryPokeTrainer]

i feel like i dont quite relate to the terms used yet i completely understand the imagery and atmosphere ascribed to the hot couch guys with my own experiences

[@No.0.o.0]

the I heart huckabees dvd menu haunts me

[@VincentTroia]

how am i not myself

[@croisaor2308]

This is so great.

[@kingbertron420]

this was literally my highschool experience

[@olliegray7068]

My hot couch guy would break down cigarettes and smoke the tobacco out of his bong

[@GrahamBarth]

Italian leather so~fa.

[@redacted6969]

As a gay I can't relate

[@Yor_gamma_ix_bae]

HOT COUCH GUY MUAHHAAHA

[@mrTacroy]

stav keeps zeroing in the food aspect of the hot couch lifestyle.

[@jemimallah2591]

as someone said in the comments to another youtube, stavs IQ seems to jump 50 points whenever people start talking about food

[@coreygolphenee9633]

A felix nick star cokecast would end the world

[@rolandk73]

Oh my God I'm a hot couch girl

[@nickolaiproblem]

Cool describe your hot couch existence

[@biddyfox]

was the fan ON when he pissed in it???

[@Dayglodaydreams]

Trevor and Corey man. Gettin' it from Rickey.

[@Micho55]

7:10 what'd Amber describe it as?

[@fafo867]

who doesnt cry when their cat dies?

[@AlbinoAxolotl1993]

Anyone think there's an overlap between neckbeards and the hot couch guys?

[@baileyanderson6824]

I know a neckbeard who graduated to hot couch guy

[@AlbinoAxolotl1993]

@@baileyanderson6824 Did he have a big sword collection?

[@jacksonhodge8142]

My girlfriends dad has a hot couch. Had to block him but I hope he’s doing well.

[@timothybell5698]

I draw on my walls and listen to Insane Clown Posse. I also study behavioural neuroscience and... A LOT of other shit. What's funny is my interests developed because I wanted to be the world's greatest artist or some shit. I'm over that now, at least, and I say that artists are just cultural scientists who have no fucking clue what they're doing. But then, that itself is reductive, it's why the very concept of 'art' is of interest to cultural scientists. If I'm trying to distinguish between what's 'good' or what has 'artistic merit' then I'm going to say A Tribe Called Quest is good, but ICP have artistic merit. What's the distinction? Well, the very concept of artistic merit is subject to intersubjective judgment, surprisingly, this varies quite a bit depending on the medium. In music, especially within the context of 80s and 90s rap, ICP are the outsiders, in every respect of the word. Outsiders to the macroculture, outsiders to the subculture. As it turns out 'art' has a lot to do with narcissism and cults of personality. I think that's why it can be so nebulous, why so many critics "get it wrong" after so many years have passed, because literally every artist is often motivated by the same forces of mindless self indulgence (hey, those guys are the best kinds of artists, outsiders and totally self-aware, hence the name of their band, I assume) that motivate most humans, with some exceptions (Diogenes of Sinope, Baruch Spinoza, et alia). Insane Clown Posse were, and are, great. They fell to the same folly that most of these rock stars do, but their culture was dead on. It attracted a certain type, and then once those white trash people were within the inner layers, they had a lot of useful songs to help rehabilitate them.

[@timothybell5698]

I could easily be convinced 90% of hip-hop feuds are performative, just to highlight the nature of publicity in a subtle, "artistic", way.

[@tonycampbell1424]

Not gonna lie, I hate ICP and everyone I've ever met who liked them was pure, irredeemable scum. The type with like 17 kids who goes on a Crack binge with the rent money and gets evicted every nine months or so.

[@BigBennKlingon]

I love how CTH equates "getting their shit together" with voting. Man, they always seem to find a way to deflate a good bit.

[@jonfreeman81]

Their sharp eyed social commentary always comes back to the Very Important Lesson, which is that we really need socialism.

[@TheKaffinated]

Are Hot Couch Guys a bunch of ppl with un-diagnosed ADHD?

[@XkidXuglyX]

Amber is a hot couch gal, it all makes sense