Stop Hating Yourself

The boys, upon request, talk about death again. Carl cries. A lot. Catfish declares that Carl's perspective on death is reminiscent of "The Tale of the Three Brothers" from The Deathly Hallows. Carl points out that despite his love for Harry Potter, it was heavily cribbed from Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea, but while Potter went to trope-y endings, Le Guin pushed boundaries.  Also, Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics beat Rowling to the Death punch. Catfish loses his place in the argument, and it all falls apart. #onbrand

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In this week's reminder that the boys still need to work on hating themselves, Catfish shares some articles his phone decided he needed to read. He also complains about the weather. Carl shares his three years too late discovery of "Shitposting" which has brought him back to Facebook. Yay?

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 Live from The Sad Pad, it’s an issues-plagued episode of the Stop Hating Yourself podcast!  That would be technical issues which were experienced during recording as opposed to the cuckoo brain issues that are typically present in every episode.

Congratulations to the winner of our name-our-podcast-studio contest!  The winner will be notified via certified fourth-rate mail--please be sure to respond and include money for postage so that we can send you a prize.  In this episode, Catfish pitches some ideas that he thinks will help improve the podcast.  Carl, against his own intuition, listens to the ‘fish.

Carl is very sorry about the audio issues. If you make it all the way through this mess of an episode, you may find a few spots where it seems like the "conversation" jumps ahead about 10 to 15 seconds. Carl says that’s on him. The rest of this episode? That is squarely on the ‘fish. For that, Carl does not apologize.  There is a bit of sincerity at the end. Maybe it will be worth it?

(Probably not)

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B-B-B-B-B-BONUS! Happy US Independence Day! In an episode that starts as a sincere attempt to consider patriotism, the boys throw random "America" songs at each other with not quite enough commentary to allow for sponsorship. Fireworks!

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As the second arbitrary season begins of the Stop Hating Yourself Podcast, Carl and Catfish catch up on all the joy and sorrow of the last month or so. The boys discuss why sleep is better than meditation (it isn't [it is]) and the impact of the presence, absence, and timing of birthday cards. 

Finally, in a hail of gunshot-esque drum rolls, the competition for naming rights to the new studio is settled!

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The second in a season-ending three-parter! The deflector dish  discharge has no effect on the Borg cube; Locutus reveals that the Borg  had prepared for the attack using Picard's knowledge. The Borg cube  continues at warp speed towards Earth, with the crippled Enterprise unable to follow. But really, the boys are still ripping through the fishbowl as a  sendoff to Season 1 of the podcast.

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The first in a season-ending three-parter! The Starship Enterprise responds to a distress call from a Federation colony and arrives to discover the colony gone. The Federation suspect the Borg—cybernetic humanoids that assimilate individuals into their hive mind. Or, more likely, the boys blast through the remaining topics in the fishbowl as a sendoff to Season 1 of the podcast.

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Catfish discovers he has a secret admirer! Don't worry, it doesn't work out in his favor. Carl doesn't cuss out a three-legged dog for ruining his sleep. All that and bad acronyms!

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Back from hiatus and recording in the new podcast studio, the boys ramble on about Game of Thrones. At one point Catfish reminds Carl that this week is the podcastiversary. They do nothing special with this fact.

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