Stop Hating Yourself

The boys speak of forgiveness, and of plumbing, and of figurative worst nightmares. Totally one topic, unified in coherent conversation and worthy of your listening. Also, I've got this sandbox in Florida... Like!  Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on Instagramand Twitter and of course Facebook. Don't forget to visit  www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your  most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS to stophatingcast@gmail.com

The boys are back with exciting viewer mail!  A listener asks what the boys' worst nightmares are, which results in debate over literal versus figurative nightmares. This ep includes, but is not limited to, the literal ones.  Also, Catfish is told his work is a "sarcasm free environment" and it goes over really well. Like!  Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on Instagram and Twitter and of course Facebook. Don't forget to visit  www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your  most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS to stophatingcast@gmail.com

This week marks National Suicide Awareness Week and Tuesday is World Suicide Prevention Day. The boys had an event but they won't be able to make it that evening, but you should go! Details in the episode. Also, after a reasonably silly conversation about their upcoming trip to Portland, the buys dig deeeeeeep into some stuff about suicide. It gets rough. Enjoy! Carl and Catfish will be performing at Rose City Comic Con on Friday, September 13th at 6:30 pm in Room 3 of the Portland Convention Center. Come watch as they improvise things unrelated to the podcast! Like!  Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on Instagramand Twitter and of course Facebook. Don't forget to visit  www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your  most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS to stophatingcast@gmail.com

Carl's back! End of episode description. What?  I have to keep going? Well, this is bullsh--Catfish was greatly victimized this week, and not only by his fellow podcast host's absence. The story drags on, though Catfish REPEATEDLY asks if he as to keep telling it, as do his [justifiable] complaints about recording alone last week.  And then some fears are mentioned at the end. Episode Topics, who needs 'em? Carl and Catfish will be performing at Rose City Comic Con on Friday, September 13th at 6:30 pm in Room 3 of the Oregon Convention Center. Come watch as they improvise things unrelated to the podcast! Like!  Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on Instagramand Twitter and of course Facebook. Don't forget to visit  www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your  most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS to stophatingcast@gmail.com

This week's episode is a totally normal episode.  Nothing out of the ordinary to see here!  No, sir, just the standard hijinks.  There's the opening and a check-in and then some listener questions are answered.  And does this run-of-the-mill episode end with an affirmation?  Probably!  Just par for the course, as we say here in the business.  And by "we," I definitely mean the typical "we." Carl and Catfish will be performing at Rose City Comic Con on Friday, September 13th at 6:30 pm in Room 3 of the Oregon Convention Center. Come watch as they improvise things unrelated to the podcast! Like!  Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on Instagram and Twitter and of course Facebook. Don't forget to visit  www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your  most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS to stophatingcast@gmail.com

Carl meanders into an article that not only names the overthinking issues he's always dealt with but proposes to solve them in 5 steps. He practices on Catfish to see if it works before diving in himself. Listen as the boys solve their issues and never have to record again! Carl and Catfish will be performing at Rose City Comic Con on Friday, September 13th at 6:30 pm in Room 3 of the Oregon Convention Center. Come watch as they improvise things unrelated to the podcast! Like!  Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on Instagram and Twitter and of course Facebook. Don't forget to visit  www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your  most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS to stophatingcast@gmail.com 

In this episode, our podcast personalities discover they have them. Personalities, that is.  Then they discover the concept of difference, and war is born upon this earth. Or, Catfish reads from work printouts for about 40-50 minutes while Carl drifts in and out of consciousness. Take the True Colors personality test somewhere online if maybe you take the time to search for it and, by happenstance, end up on the same web page we did when we Binged it!  What, [Carl’s] not going to do it for you.  Carl and Catfish will be performing at Rose City Comic Con on Friday, September 13th at 6:30 pm in Room 3 of the Oregon Convention Center. Come watch as they improvise things unrelated to the podcast! Like!  Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on Instagram and Twitter and of course Facebook. Don't forget to visit  www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your  most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS to stophatingcast@gmail.com 

This week, Catfish asks for some therapist etiquette advice from  Carl. Carl uses this opportunity to avoid helping and start a new  segment. Plus, a new segment! Carl and Catfish will be performing at Rose City Comic Con on Friday, September 13th at 6:30 pm in Room 3 of the Oregon Convention Center. Come watch as they improvise things unrelated to the podcast! Like!  Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on Instagram and Twitter and of course Facebook. Don't forget to visit  www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your  most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS to stophatingcast@gmail.com 

Catfish has a crucial question for Carl about reaching out to old  friends on social media. Carl takes this opportunity to tell a lot of  irrelevant old stories that stick out in his mind. The thoughtful  listener or podcast recapper will pay attention to these seemingly  non-sequitur breadcrumbs as they may be seeds for future plotlines  should the podcast get renewed for a fifth season. Also, Catfish admits  to having friends. On tape. We got evidence! *There was a band called jet set music and they had an album called jet  set radio, but they reached an agreement for the xbox game because it  had 'future' in its name.  Like!  Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on Instagram and Twitter and of course Facebook. Don't forget to visit  www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your  most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS to stophatingcast@gmail.com 

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  Like!  Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on Instagram and Twitter and of course Facebook. Don't forget to visit  www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your  most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS to stophatingcast@gmail.com 

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?  Like!  Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on Instagram and Twitter and of course Facebook. Don't forget to visit  www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your  most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS to stophatingcast@gmail.com 

 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 wo

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! Like!  Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on  Instagram and Twitter and of course Facebook  at www.facebook.com/stophatingcast/ Don't forget  to www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your  most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS  to stophatingcast@gmail.com

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! Like!  Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on  Instagram and Twitter and of course Facebook at www.facebook.com/stophatingcast Don't forget  to stop by www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS  to stophatingcast@gmail.com

The Enterprise-D is docked at Earth Station McKinley, undergoing repairs and refitting following its battle with the Borg. The episode follows the interactions of three members of the crew with their family members.* *The writing team initially looked to extend the Borg-based "The Best of Both Worlds" into a trilogy, but executive producer Rick Berman turned down the idea. So Michael Piller sought to have a plot in which Picard could address the effects of Borg assimilation. Having run the Star Trek: TNG season-ending bit so far into the ground, the boys blow through mad topics to wrap up the season.  Like! Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on Instagram and Twitter and of course Facebook at www.facebook.com/stophatingcast/ Don't forget to www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS to stophatingcast@gmail.com

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. Like!  Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast  on   Instagram and Twitter and of course Facebook  at www.facebook.com/stophatingcast/ Don't forget  to www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your  most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS  to stophatingcast@gmail.com

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. Like!  Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on   Instagram and Twitter and of course Facebook at www.facebook.com/stophatingcast/ Don't forget to www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS to stophatingcast@gmail.com

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! Like! Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on  Instagram and Twitter and of course Facebook  at www.facebook.com/stophatingcast/ Don't forget  to www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your most  beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS  to stophatingcast@gmail.com

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. Like! Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on Instagram and Twitter and of course Facebook at www.facebook.com/stophatingcast/ Don't forget to www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS to stophatingcast@gmail.com

In this hiatus ep, the boys chat over new technology that allows them to be a bit further apart than usual. Then we toss you in to our Rose City Comic Con live improvised D and D session! Check it out now! Like! Subscribe! Rate! Comment! Tell your friends! @stophatingcast on Instagram and Twitter and of course Facebook at www.facebook.com/stophatingcast/ Don't forget to www.stophatredofcasting.com while you are at it. Send your most beloved/reviled affirmations or some other BS to stophatingcast@gmail.com