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CTH is a podcast, the subreddit was originally about it but quickly became its own thing. The podcast is your typical Brooklyn leftist hot couch thing where you get a bit of theory mixed in with a lot of jokes and parasocial relationships.
A long running joke is that the subreddit/Hexbear is actually a Citations Needed fanclub, because it's a much a better podcast.
Bout to become a blowback fanclub up in here
Chapo, blowback, trueanon this forum actually is just some kind of book club for podcasts
Personally I only listen to podcasts that read myths and legends and I've been here ages
got any recommendations?
Norse Mythology: The Unofficial Guide is a good one about the Norse myths. I just started it but the guy behind it does a good job explaining the stories and offering insights based on what information we have.
The greatest bit of irony is that in an attempt to explain the podcast, you used a super deep reference to the hot couch gag, almost like the in-jokes are completely involuntary for us at this point.
So much of the language we use starts from the podcast. I think there's the listener elite that start using the terms then others just pick it up. No matter the distance to the podcast, the new terms leak through.
From the same episode you also have the college camping trip and Stav's grandpa, the greek failson bird collector. Definitely one of my most relistened to episodes.
Do you know what # it is? I don't think I heard the other two stories.
Its from 241 "Hot Couch Nation". Here's the story about Stav's grandfather