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

[@kyleleehufnagel]

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

[@ZimmyFox]

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

[@thebargainbin6020]

Yeah

[@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

[@joeyg8971]

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

[@billyscenic5610]

Biden wants Assange on his couch.

[@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

[@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?

[@CervantesVI]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@djobokuwali4316]

Felix is a walking miracle, who, from the depths of the Bro-zone, managed to transcend and explain it to befuddled betas everywhere

[@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.

[@masonkerr8359]

Class Consciousness in the making

[@webranger1]

#1 Hot couch guy poster is Johnny Depp in fear and loathing, or the Fight club poster lol.

[@aquanecromancer5776]

I have the Steadman drawing of Thompson and Gonzo in the car together on my wall rn. Hot couch guy 'til the day I die.

[@jacknapier5188]

The Pink Floyd "back catalogue" poster.

[@garywalker2874]

I have both of these posters plus the drawing Aqua Necromancer mentioned. My couch is SEARING.

[@ChewyThomson]

Or that poster of the two chicks kissing in bed.

[@gaiusjuliuspleaser]

It tends to be Tony Montana and his little friend around where I live.

[@ProbablyJules]

I just woke up naked face down on my couch. It's 3:33 am 18 degrees and raining yet my whole front is on fire, and this is hell and it's being described back to me by youtube algorithm.

[@RasCaelestis]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@nickbooze9766]

The Hot Couch, what a universal experience.

[@aegisfate117]

A human experience

[@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

[@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

[@0ptimuscrime]

My hot couch guy had a rule about the garbage: you have to stack it up in the bin and the person who knocks the pile over has to empty it.

[@Yuglyoshi]

my hot couch roommate had a gamecube with two gunk-filled knock-off controllers, and the only games were smash bros and a simpsons game. he stacked empty bottles of wine in the corner of the room as a point of pride. he had a canoe paddle standing up behind the couch despite not owning a canoe. his ancient road bike was always parked in the center of the room. apart from the couch, there was only one other seat in the room, but it was always covered in random coats and two ten-pound dumbbells

[@ChewyThomson]

The hot couch guy house when I was in first year were some friends of friends who lived in a shitty town house in the run down part of town. The four dudes who lived there all worked at the same Taco Bell full time and were all like 24. I drank with them a few times and it always ended with someone vomiting in the bushes next to the house or else the cops showing up. This was before HDTVs so they had this one massive rear projection TV that they all chipped in and bought on sale because none of them could ever afford it alone. There was this super dodgy stoner guy named Rodent who lived on their couch and never paid rent. One day, they all came home after work, there was a big crack in the TV screen and Rodent had a big band-aid on his head and no one ever actually found out what happened. It was a strange place.

[@fuuuursure]

the absolute horror

[@austinbrown5964]

His name was Rodent?

[@FirstnameLastname-kn5sw]

Not the first guy to try and headbutt Doctor Phil. Not the last.

[@ChewyThomson]

@@austinbrown5964 No one knew his real name. As far as I could tell, no one even knew how he ended up living on the couch.

[@captainnovolin]

the only people I knew that owned a rear projection TV in the 2000s were households where everybody above the age of 15 smoked

[@jacknapier5188]

There's no lock on the bathroom door: It's just a passage knob.

[@loganphillips5935]

Curtain for me

[@paulfroelich1024]

Waking up in front of a case of 80% finished Keystone Lights, place smells like bongwater, DVD menu blaring, dog dead asleep. This hits hard.

[@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

[@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.

[@ctoconnor1732]

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

[@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

[@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

[@ZimmyFox]

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

[@inktoxicant]

Stav's laugh is a blessing on this earth

[@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.

[@SASardonic]

SCP 7634: The Hot Couch

[@MacaroniDemon]

The hot couch guy would just bring out a gun and say some shit like “I’m more a katana guy but this is my back-up”

[@PatchyOhCanada]

They forgot the beer cans full of cigarette butts where you had to shake the can when finding your beer to make sure it wasn't an ash tray

[@tonycampbell1424]

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

[@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

[@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

[@jokerraton8183]

The modern day dvd menu is the roku sidescrolling screensaver

[@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

[@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.

[@fttw4401]

The bro yelling and Stewie 'boy chicka wow'-ing on the Family Guy DVD menu.

[@SophisticatedBanjo]

Scenes from a Canadian Prairie hot couch: An unfinished basement with wood paneled walls. A beanbag chair, perpetually leaking, despite several duct tape patches. An electric guitar, coated in dust, with one broken string and severely out of tune, which the owner has been "learning to shred" on, and "wants to start a band", yet the guitar hasn't moved in 3 years. A bag of sunflower seeds being passed around indoors. The victory screen for Mario Kart 64 "Battle Mode" running in the background on a shitty CRT TV. A 24-pack of Pilsner beside the couch, from which cans are drank at room temperature, because it's a hassle to load the beer into the fridge.

[@haydenpantinary4855]

The winter Winnipeg freezing unfinished basement with wet cement floors, a bucket bong that has never had the water changed, it’s a basement but there’s still somehow a draft as if a window is open. Playing COD black ops split screen with one other dude and bots set to easy endlessly which is only stopped because TMZ comes on.

[@JordonVirtue]

Half and half wisers and cokes from coffee mugs only.

[@JordonVirtue]

Vintage Vinyl go on chapo

[@tonycampbell1424]

@@JordonVirtue This . . . Cannot be a thing

[@wesfulgham5742]

My DVD menu was Smoking Aces

[@usernameuser5573]

Sunlight coming through the haze No gaps in the blind To let it inside The bed is unmade Some music still plays TV, yeah it's always on A flicker on the screen A movie actress screams I'm basking in the shit flowing out of it

[@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.

[@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.

[@7omA]

BUT THE EXOTIC BIRDS STORY

[@robertdougherty349]

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

[@mynamehappy]

I've had multiple hot couch guys in my life but probably the wildest was the one who lived in a metal garden shed. There was surprisingly a lot of space inside that thing. He later upgraded to an unfinished garage, then the final form was us renting a ghetto apartment together, I actually had that thing decked out really nice for the first year until it devolved into full on hot couch status. That lasted about 3 years until he quit paying his part of the rent and we got evicted. I managed to get my shit together after that and went back to college.

[@tonycampbell1424]

So . . . You were a hot couch guy for three years? I did like, three or so. It happens.

[@mynamehappy]

@@tonycampbell1424 Oh yeah. That apartment was definitely hot couch status. Glad I got my life together.

[@tonycampbell1424]

@@mynamehappy Grats, bruh. I personally never fully shook hot couch mentality, but I did get my shit somewhat together. Kinda nice to have a fridge that both works and has food in it rather than just being the storage container for the croquet set.

[@AlexBissonnette]

Just starting to realize I was a hot couch guy.

[@AliBaba-hl9qi]

Using dinner plates and drink glasses as ashtrays also happens in this house

[@juliakatherine5077]

Scarface is the ultimate hot couch guy poster

[@crlyhdedfnck]

Someone needs to make an art installation of Hot Couch.

[@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.

[@DrCrabnuts]

As a hot couch veteran, I approve

[@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"

[@ST-kr7hz]

That shit is a whole vibe . Hot couch energy

[@thisisaformality]

I feel so left out when I listen to this because, while they paint a very vivid picture, I’ve never experienced a hot couch

[@manysnakes]

You must have grown up with money

[@aquanecromancer5776]

Not even a hot faux-leather car seat?

[@jacobpritchard3390]

@@owowowdhxbxgakwlcybwxsimcwx honestly I'm English, and my old mate from my hometown was definitely a hot couch guy

[@1OSfan17]

@@manysnakes nah man. Moneyed hot couch guys are just different. They have the bankroll to get delivery frequently and do dumb shit they see online that never gets cleaned up and usually go awry, leading to weird neckbeard nests.

[@bigburd875]

Felix describes my life for 20 minutes

[@tewodrosii2875]

This was my life from 2008 to roughly 2016. Now I basically live like Vergil but talk like Matt. My cousin from Ontario heard this bit and was like "...so basically they're real life Ricky from trailer Park boys?"

[@milobrosamer272]

i live my life with the motivating fear of becoming ricky

[@tewodrosii2875]

@@milobrosamer272 my dad was like ricky turned Julian. my godfather, his best friend, is basically the same but slightly more ricky

[@user-yn3mz3le1t]

My hot couch guy story is the somewhat hazy memory of being day drunk at these guys house who had a chinchilla. Which was like cowering in the corner of its cage as these guys blasted Dave Matthew’s Band. And when I told them I didn’t really know the songs that well the one guy started singing along and lecturing me about how I needed to “get into them”

[@debrasue2793]

the one facet that i didn't hear anyone mention is waking up to the dvd menu music sounding different because your brain had tuned out certain parts of it from hearing the same 20 seconds of music on loop for 9 hours. i think that's one of the key components is the repetitive drone that proves extremely disorienting when you wake up.

[@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?

[@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.

[@RIP_Greedo]

This is such a real thing. Uncanny.

[@victrosia]

Oh god my father is a hot couch guy

[@anenemystand5582]

My bestfriend was definitely a hot couch guy for a while. He had a ton of knives like an unreasonable amount of knives

[@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.

[@dethmunky86]

You guys just described growing up in Florida.

[@ohbluescouser6267]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@nr01337]

I was an HCG AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA.

[@MxArgent]

I'm too antisocial to have ever met a hot couch guy in school or on the job, but I did have a hot couch cousin as a kid. He's gotten his life together to a surprising degree.

[@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.

[@connortouchton1223]

Vaush is a hot couch guy

[@RB939393]

Not really

[@comingupooo]

Vaush is appropriating Hot Couch Guy culture.

[@KhanjoOfEthiopia]

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

[@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

[@litarogers3984]

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

[@williamwestmoreland4069]

Who's on a hot couch right now after 4th of July

[@prolepatrol3233]

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

[@Eboyd1100]

this is artful

[@thrownstair]

I think I knew a hot couch girl.

[@ellagage1256]

Hot couch boy to girl

[@nickolaiproblem]

@@ellagage1256 based

[@croisaor2308]

This is so great.

[@thebargainbin6020]

Stav really drove this whole segment and I’ve always been proud of him for it

[@stevenwall2010]

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

[@ST-kr7hz]

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

[@mimikyuliker946]

You somehow perfectly described my brother

[@Doctor_Subtilis]

Literally me!

[@theradhatter4100]

These guys know my soul.

[@kingbertron420]

this was literally my highschool experience

[@Gunman610]

"Not Hot Couch Guys, but #1 with Hot Couch Guys"

[@JDesch]

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