Stop Hating Yourself

The Smashing Pumpkins wrote two versions of a single song after Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness and released them as part of the highly acclaimed soundtrack for the terrible film Batman and Robin. The first version, a high-energy rock anthem,  won a grammy, and the second, a more downbeat electronica version with different verses but the same chorus, was mostly ignored. This remained the caseuntil it was used in an early trailer for another poorly received superhero flick, Zach Snyder's The Watchmen. At the time the use of a remixed version of a traditional rock song well known as a part of a similarly traditional caped crusader film signaled the deconstruction of the genre that many expected in Snyder's interpretation of the well-loved graphic novel by Alan Moore. The movie struggled with audiences, but the song saw a resurgence of sales of the song, prompting the Pumpkins to bring it back into rotation on their tour that year. In this episode, the boys discuss the end of the podcast, the beginning

Better late than never, the boys talk Valentine's Day gifts and politics. Carl is proud of one of his accomplishments but gets hung up on being prideful. External validation comes up briefly. 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 still can't seem to take care of himself. Seriously, go to the doctor. Catfish takes control of at least a portion of his medication regimen with positive results. They discuss sleep, and no one is better off. 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

Back from a short hiatus, the boys catch up on personal stuff. Then they discuss current events. And get mad.  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

Recorded live at the 2020 Tucson Fringe Fest!  Were you there? (The answer is “No,” because I’ve seen the numbers) This special episode focuses on [getting better at accepting] compliments. The boys finally learn what their friends said they were good at.  An audience is nearby.  And apparently, the recording picked up a local radio station in the background. Sorry! 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 flies solo on this short ep. See, he's sick and didn't want to get the fish sick. But he isn't so good at boundaries to not record something! Bonus: he used the wrong input so the volume had to be cranked up a lot.  Stop Hating Yourself will be recording LIVE at the Tucson Fringe Festival on January 11, 2020, at 3 PM at the Temple of Music and Arts Cabaret Theater. Details at tucsonfringe.org Catch a 2-minute preview at Cafe Passe Thursday, January 8th at about 7 pm (ish).  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 and Catfish list their top tens to ring in the new year! Kinda. And Catfish grills Carl on how he's feeling about his upcoming milestone of a birthday.  Stop Hating Yourself will be recording LIVE at the Tucson Fringe Festival on January 11, 2020, at 3 PM at the Temple of Music and Arts Cabaret Theater. Details at tucsonfringe.org Catch a 2-minute preview at Cafe Passe Thursday, January 8th at about 7 pm (ish). 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 Sponsorships: off for this episode

Carl and Catfish distract themselves from the holidays with a discussion of purpose. On purpose. Porpoise. Stop Hating Yourself will be recording LIVE at the Tucson Fringe Festival on January 11, 2020 at 3 PM at the Temple of Music and Arts Cabaret Theater. Details at tucsonfringe.org Catch a 2 minute preview at Cafe Passe Thursday, January 8th at about 7 pm (ish). 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 talk about experts. No, that's insincere. The boys rant about how prolific supposed experts are on the internet. Remember, Carl and Catfish are NOT EXPERTS and make no claims of expertise in anything. This allows them to rant without being hypocritical. Also, some discussion of people talking about people they knew who killed themselves. Sorry about that. Stop Hating Yourself will be recording LIVE at the Tucson Fringe Festival on January 11, 2020 at 3 PM at the Temple of Music and Arts Cabaret Theater. Details at tucsonfringe.org 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 discuss what they consider to be a good session of therapy after Carl has a pretty good one. Also, affirmations! Stop Hating Yourself will be recording LIVE at the Tucson Fringe Festival on January 11, 2020 at 3 PM at the Temple of Music and Arts Cabaret Theater. Details at tucsonfringe.org 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 episode almost didn't happen, and what occurred is the only thing they really talk about. Also obligation and mothers and whatnot. 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 doesn't get the episode up on time, and Catfish forgives him. Wait, that didn't happen in the episode, it happened well after. OK, they actually talk about mucking through the past while looking through old belongings and keepsakes. Much is learned then forgotten.  It's MOVEMBER! Support men's health (both mental and otherwise) or join the effort as part of the Stop Hating Yourself team at movember.stophatredofcasting.com 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 do a solid mustache check-in. We learn the family secret to Baruni patriarchal approval. Finally, Catfish digs up the 22 ways to truly be a man.  It's MOVEMBER! Support men's health (both mental and otherwise) or join the effort as part of the Stop Hating Yourself team at movember.stophatredofcasting.com 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 stumbles on another article and forces Catfish to listen to him talk about it. Also, Carl's wrist is better! And Catfish forgoes.... something. What you might ask? Listen to find out! The article discussed can be found here.  It's MOVEMBER! Support men's health (both mental and otherwise) or join the effort as part of the Stop Hating Yourself team at movember.stophatredofcasting.com 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

Thanks to advertising revenue and podcast supporters, the boys go to a RAGE ROOM and report back to listeners. Having worked out all their issues they quit podcasting forever and ascend to nirvana or something. Right, that happens... It's MOVEMBER! Support men's health (both mental and otherwise) or join the effort as part of the Stop Hating Yourself team at movember.stophatredofcasting.com 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 comes to realize he is jealous of other people's abilities to enjoy holidays. Catfish enjoys Halloween no matter how much he denies it. The word "spoopy" is discussed.  Hey! The boys want to go to a "RAGE ROOM" next weekend and report back on how much rage they acquire. So they activated the Patreon knockoff option on the site! Donate some $$ to getting them maximum quantity of breakable items! Link beloooooow! (is that spoopy?) 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 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stophatingcast/support

Said, Catfish, take it slow and it'll work itself out fine All we need is just a little patience Said, Bad Batch, make it slow and we'll come together fine All we need is just a little patience The boys talk about that and there's some other BS torn apart too! All on this week's episode of Stop Hating Yourself! 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 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/stophatingcast/support

The boys are back in the studio! Sad pad, back again. Check it to wreck it, let's begin. The boys catch up, bemoan their particular situations, and discuss their non-podcast social interaction in a dark room watching... Jokester!  Carl has too many opinions, Catfish not so much. See if you agree with their hot takes! Also, they agree that the other BS is bad, but not for the same reasons.  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, one of the boys is stuck on the roof while the other is stuck in the booth.  Which is to say, Catfish is flying so high, but solo. You know how these things go: Catfish stumbles into some situation in which he's unsure what to do and inevitably does either too little or too much.  Today's episode is a short one recorded by Catfish on his phone.  The sound is not good, but maybe worse than last week's car episode?  You can't answer that question until you listen to both episodes.  I don't make the rules. 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 an audiographically catastrophic episode, the boys answer a viewer question about rumination while driving back from their trip to Portland. Carl successfully uses a noise reduction algorithm twice! to isolate their voices. Then an amplification algorithm is used to bring up the volume. Twice! The result is... listenable? 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