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The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS05E12 There is a human between me and the imagesAMERICAN DAD THE BITCHING RACE and YOU SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: Reviewed! Welcome to another edition of the show you love to listen to! We get into all the things today! Manic cold opens during which hyper pre-show-production-meeting energy seamlessly works itself into the introduction to the show. Games that last thirty seconds and revolve around doing the You monologue to explain the conceit of the show. Then we review the things we’re here to review, you see. Ah newbie, you’re being very taken care of in these here shownotes today. So Christopher review...2025-05-081h 08
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS05E11 Man said 'crambling'EULOGY: BLACK MIRROR SEASON 7 EPISODE 4 and BENNY BLANCO INTERVIEWED BY DANIEL WALL 2: Reviewed! Welcome to the show of shows party people! Let’s get down and boogie with the show notes. Let’s really BOOGIE, you know!? Let’s link to the content. Let’s see where we’re at with the scores. Let’s joke around a bit. Let’s give you some behind the scenes insight. And let’s set up next week’s show. You know how it goes. One new wrinkle: we kinda … didn’t … spoil the tv show episode we review this week. For once? So …...2025-05-011h 02
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS05E10 Christopher's achilles heelSONG EXPLODER EPISODE 3 FEATURING R.E.M’S LOSING MY RELIGION and PHILY BOWDEN’S BERLIN MARATHON VIDEO THE RACE THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING: Reviewed! Hey podcast lovers! It’s time to play the game. Are you ready? It’s CCCAH mania brother, and it’s running wild on you! Are you catching our drift? It’s Wrestlemania week, or at least, the aftermath of Mania week. The week after the week before. And on our dormant YouTube channel (youtube.com/@cccappraisalhour) we live streamed the first episode of our WWE PLE podcast The Cultural Mania Content Predictions Ha...2025-04-241h 08
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS05E09 No putting anything in the show titleEVERYBODY’S LIVE EPISODE 5 and POLYANNA: Reviewed! Welcome everyone, welcome! For the pod that’s got more pod content than you can shake a stick at! That’s right. We’ve got OUR content (the pod itself), we’ve got the content we’re REVIEWING (ooh la la), we’ve got the game bit where we guess each other’s scores and so on (wait, you’ve lost me) and it’s honestly just a lot. But also, it’s like the bear said in that story: mmm it’s just right or whatever … and then they fell off the roof and...2025-04-1752 min
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS05E08 I Think People Are Dropping Off, I Think People Are LeavingNEW YORK TIMES POPCAST INTERVIEW WITH BON IVER and ADOLESCENCE EPISODE 1: Reviewed! Welcome to another edition of the show. One of us is training for a marathon, taking tumbles while dedicatedly consuming the content required for him to keep the podcast going! While the other one doesn’t even log into Strava to give him kudos. Shameful really. Oh well. At least he’s winning the series so far! So far! What is going on so far anyway? SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE (UNDETERMINED IF YOU DON’T LIKE #POINTSFORDRAWS BUT IF YOU ARE...2025-04-101h 05
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS05E07 The quickest guy to echo the bravo to him, and add on the meONE FAST MOVE OR I’M GONE and DOECHII’S NPR TINY DESK CONCERT: Reviewed! Are there new listeners out there and if so how would I explain, put across or teach them what an hour of our verses are really about in an arbitrary character limit of 4000 characters? That’s right. Beat poetry introducing the show notes, the pod, all of it! Christopher Anousis met Jack Kerouac again for the first time in 2 decades (maybe, roughly?) but Jack’s spirit has been hovering over the podcast since its inception. Because whether we’re on the ro...2025-04-031h 01
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS05E06 If you're two thirds of the way out, you're in itENVY BY CONTRAPOINTS and KENDRICK LAMAR’S SUPERBOWL HALF TIME SHOW: Reviewed! Ok team, let’s climb out of the crater and/or swimming pool, dry ourselves off and/or detoxify our chakras and really get down to business. The business of podcasting. Because without you receiving it and listening to it, this would not be a “podcast” we would literally just be having a convo like in space lol. How old fashioned lol, just a conversation that goes fully unrecorded. Lost to the annals of time and the fragile architecture of our memories. And really, if two du...2025-03-271h 06
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS05E05 Shout Out MukbangsMASCULINITY AND MISINFORMATION and SILICON VALLEY S01 E01: Reviewed! SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE Jeffrey: 3 Christopher: 2We’ve heard you for years. Like three or four or seven - however many years we’ve been prattling on for. 5 or 10 seasons worth of this shit. We’ve heard you in your droves. In the non-existent comment section of our amazing website https://cccappraisalhour.show or on our thriving (under construction, potentially!) Discord. You have been telling us to: GET POLITICAL! SO FINE, WE FINALLY WILL!! SORT OF. It’s the CCCAH...2025-03-201h 01
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS05E04 Pitching movies will only get you a 3 and above on certain, special weeks where like you're at the right level of relaxation, your schedule allows it ...EDTV and INVENTING ANNA SEASON 1 EPISODE 6: Reviewed! YO! Podcast FREAKS! Let’s get freaky and let’s get poddy. I am so sorry. I think I am getting show notes brain rot. You know how it goes. Anyhoodles, the show! The show these here shownotes done be referring to, ya see! Ya hear!? We’re reviewing EDtv today, which is pleasantly surprising (pleasantville) and an episode of Inventing Anna. I can’t believe it’s already episode 4 of our fifth season. That is kind of crazy. You know what else is crazy? The SHEER CONSIS...2025-03-131h 08
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS05E03 Joshua trees aren’t actually trees, they’re succulentsVEEP SERIES 2 EPISODE 9 and INGRID GOES WEST: Reviewed! We’re out here one-take jake-ing this shit! That’s right, we recorded this podcast in one single take. No second takes. No take back-sies. Unlike any other podcast you have ever heard before … or, hold on … exactly like most every other podcast you have ever heard before. Huh. Oh well. We’ll find our gimmick at some point. Our niche. Our unique selling point. And I’m sure we’ll then brag about it on our website which you can find here: https://cccappraisalhour.show so yeah, stay tuned I gu...2025-03-061h 09
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS05E02 I was scrolling through punishmentsIMPRACTICAL JOKERS SEASON 5 EPISODE 11 and THE TRUMAN SHOW: Reviewed! Hey hey listener gang, it’s podcast time. We’re here and we did it and we’re live and we’re rocking and we’re rolling. You up? What’s up? What’s good? What are you doing? Oh, listening to the pod I see? Well you’re doing it amazingly stylishly, we must say. Are you multi-tasking? What are you multi-tasking doing? You listening to this while you should be on a Microsoft Teams meeting? Classic behaviour from our newest listeners. Well, this goes out to you.2025-02-2758 min
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS05E01 Dave Chappell RoanGRAMMYS 2025 and DENIAL IS A RIVER BY DOECHII: Reviewed! Welcome pod lovers. pod haters and pod tolerators! Yo yo yo, what’s good, what’s good? I’m sure loads is good to be fair to you. You’re …. (*drumroll*) … HERE, aren’t you!? Woo hoo! Season 5. This is the season Monica and Chandler sneaked around behind every one’s backs so you know what that means right … no neither do we, that’s not a workable analogy for us right now. We’re a two man podcast. But we do like special guests. We can’t wait for more. It could...2025-02-201h 14
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS04E24 The glancing will get youTHE SIMPSONS SEASON 32 EPISODE 10 and VALLEY OF THE DOLLS: Reviewed! This podcast is for moms and their wine and a cosy throw blanket and a candle that smells like a pine tree or hot apples. If you’re not any of those things, scram before the next one starts! But no, ahem, for real: welcome to the podcast! It’s been a whole ass … um … *checks notes* … a single week as usual. Right. Don’t know why it felt so much longer! Anyhoo, let’s crack on. This week we are doing a regular ass finale. No specials. No...2025-02-0658 min
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS00E13 CINEMA CLUB: A lot of Unnecessary ButtcheekHow does it feel? To be here with us. Listening to the podcast. Like a complete unknown. Like a rolling stone. Spoiler: it feels fine. Oh and another spoiler: this episode is FULL OF SPOILERS! Lol. Our bad. James Mangold did it and he’s here! It’s been a long time in the making but our next live special is finally here. Another edition in the award-winning and critically-acclaimed HANG OUT WITH THE BOYS DURING A DAY OUT IN LONDON series after you accompanied us to the 02 to see The Black Keys the year before last...2025-01-2358 min
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS04E20 A Good-Looking Man Who’s Jacked Gets Older Ladies To Be HornyTHE HOLDOVERS and HOT FROSTY: Reviewed! Welcome to your boxing day edition of the Triple C to the A to the H! We especially enjoy hanging out with you over the holiday season. We need our you-time and you need our us-time too, don’t you? So this just works out a treat for all parties involved really. This week we’re living in this timeline in which we’re like hey … the Christmas songs special circa 2024 was a TREAT … but what about CHRISTMAS MOVIES!? Let’s talk about them still. Watch Hot Fros...2024-12-261h 01
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS00E11 The Second Annual Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour Christmas Special SpectacularWhat are the Top 5 Christmas Songs of all time!? It’s time to find out, on: IT’S THE SECOND ANNUAL CCCAHCSS (Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour Christmas Special Spectacular)!!! A happy holidays and very merry Christmas to all of our listeners. We just had to get into the spirit of the season in the only way we know how - by doubling down on the gift we created through improvisation last year, except, with a new musical spin! We’ll have to leave reassessing our Top 5 Christmas Movies list for another week, year or podcast! Sorry i...2024-12-191h 06
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS04E19 Hey! Hey! Hey!THE LOST RIOTS and LEFT BY THE HOPE OF THE STATES: Reviewed! We Ves Y Sufres. This is a Hope of the States live special is what it is, really. But it’s also the 19th episode of Season 4 of the show. It’s also a pre-Christmas-special special Christmas episode. It is one of the last episodes of 2024. It is the first episode for which the new website is LIVE AND READY TO ROCK AND ROLL: https://www.cccappraisalhour.show/Shout out JVD Games, creator of games and websites (such as ours): https://jonny...2024-12-121h 12
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS04E16 You can't judge all people by their adjacents! THE GREATEST NIGHT IN POP and CUNK ON CHRISTMAS: Reviewed! Jeffrey Bahlo, Bruce Springsteen, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Quincy Jones, Bob Geldof, Lionel Ritchie, Michael Jackson, Willy Nelson, Bette Middler, Cindy Lauper, Tina Turner, Paul Simon … no Prince, sure … but hey, we even have Huey Lewis and Christopher Anousis! These are just some of the names featured in today’s show. You’re so lucky! Welcome to the greatest morning in podcasting! That’s right, because it’s Thursday the 14th of November. And in another timeline, your boys just witnessed the magic of B...2024-11-141h 00
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS04E15 Fingers and hayROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS BY BOB DYLAN and GLADIATOR: Reviewed! This is Sparta!! Wait, I mean, Rome! Wait, I mean, the CCCAH! You know the hour. The Cultural Content Appraisal one. But hey, much like Rome, The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour™ is one of the most important ancient civilizations(?) Out of the many important ancient civilizations out there. You know the ones. Anyway, I bet y’all are right tuckered out from all the news and current affairs. So many newspapers, so little time eh? If it’s not one current affair, it’s another. The apoca...2024-11-0759 min
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS04E13 So, you’re in the nineties, and it’s a vibe.THE FACULTY and THE WRESTLING ROAD DIARIES: Reviewed! It’s the spoiler show about spoiling things. Docs, films, things. “Content.” Death. Welcome to the thing. The five-letter-acronym show. Which five letters? Who knows? A bunch of Cs, that is for damn sure. We’ve got some tech chat. We try to load videos and live react to them but we can’t get that going off the jump. We go on tangents. We take minutes upon minutes upon minutes to introduce a 30 second game designed to gently introduce new viewers to the show in a succinct fashion. Ho...2024-10-241h 06
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS04E11 Mount RushmariesWILL AND HARPER and SILVER SIDE UP BY NICKELBACK: Reviewed! Well done! You made it through another hard week filled with rough days at work and the sniffles coming at you from all angles, be they from bunged up colleagues or flu-fanboy family members. We know you need your weekly dose of the CCCAH to get through the week so here you are. Let’s hoard some lemsip and podcasts and hibernate. We will you in the new year or next week or whenever (disbanding orrr … ?) of course but first, Will and Harper and Silver Side Up ge...2024-10-101h 02
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS04E10 Let in the normies!BACK TO BLACK and HIS THREE DAUGHTERS: Reviewed! Ok folks. It’s a spoiler special. Spoiler: all our episodes are spoiler specials. Except for this one moment on this show when we tip toe up to the edge of a spoiler, peer over and then back up like that Homer Simpson gif. That’s a first. Anyway. “Homer” is our word of the day on today’s show. It’s the motherfucking C times three to the A and H, see! Netflix baby. We’re sponsored by them but in our contract we asked not to be paid. We’re...2024-10-031h 00
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS04E09 Circle BackTHE BEAR SEASON 1 EPISODE 7 and SETH AND KEVIN HART GO DAY DRINKING: Reviewed! Yes chefs! Hi listeners and viewers. Every second counts. So we hope you enjoy all 3656 seconds of this brand new episode of the Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour. Even though we are reviewing tiny 17-18 minute artefacts of televisual content, it is not a mini episode. A true hour, true to form, true to our title. But ok, CORNER! Let’s cut the crap and just get to BARE (get it) links today because everything you like is but a tre...2024-09-261h 00
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS04E08 Parka Man: directed by Todd PhillipsJOKER and OASIS SUPERSONIC: Reviewed! Welcome to the podcast you hate to love and love to hate. After SEVEN DAYS OFF we have reunited and we are back. The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised. Unless we finally sort our YouTube channel of course … https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhourSupersonic, the documentary about Oasis, can be watched in its entirety on YouTube. As God intended, in a VHS-deprived so called "society" such as ours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...2024-09-191h 10
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS04E07 In a room with both Lee Mack and Bradley WhitfordTHE 1% CLUB S03 E04 and MIDDLEDITCH AND SCHWARTZ S01 E01: Reviewed! Welcome welcome, come one, come all! What have you done this week? We hope you’ve had a good one. We have been very busy. Podcasting, of course, for one. We haven’t had a week off for coming up to nearly one hundred episodes. One hundred episodes of pure, unfiltered content. We know you appreciate it because it is all for you. Every whirlwind minute of it. Thank you for all the love on social media. In the coming weeks, we will try to sift...2024-09-121h 02
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS04E06 Prince invented Twin PeaksPURPLE RAIN and BANDO STONE AND THE NEW WORLD BY CHILDISH GAMBINO: Reviewed!CCCAH hive, wake up! It’s time to get down with the podcast for a music spectacular. A music special that crosses all kinds of media from a film to … an album also, I suppose. Yes, I suppose it’s just the two kinds of things. But they are pretty cool kinds of things. Two of our faves, if anything. Music is the best. And when we talk about it on the pod, we are in our element. Join us. If you dare. 2024-09-051h 01
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS04E05 We like ornate knobsTRAP and SOLAR OPPOSITES SEASON 3 EPISODE 3: Reviewed! Are you ready for your weekly dose of the CCCAH? Because I sure as hell am. Do you ever have the feeling like you haven’t heard us talking for weeks and weeks? Because we do not have that feeling, what the hell are you talking about? We deliver you an episode a week without fail. It’s actually quite crazy. Let’s talk a movie called Trap and an episode of a show called Solar Opposites. M. Night Shyamalan talks about making movies for American Masters...2024-08-291h 02
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS04E04 This is super ideal which is double idealTAYLOR SWIFT THE ERAS TOUR and NO NAME BY JACK WHITE: Reviewed! Welcome to the CCCAH, where we talk scepticism of technology while using technology! We hope your headphones aren’t snapping, crackling and popping. Because we need you on board for the ride. You’re our ride or die. Taylor has just yesterday performed the last show of her record breaking Wembley show. And Jack has just started picking up some of the best reviews of his career. So let’s get timely and current with a brand spanking new, multimedia music special. With your boys. T...2024-08-221h 06
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS04E03 Surveying the wildernessEARLY DAZE BY NEIL YOUNG and I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS: Reviewed! Welcome to another episode of the Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour! We review culture properly here ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages … with lots of tangents along the way! This week we’re reviewing a film that came out during the pandemic by the auteur Charlie Kaufman, based on a novel by Iain Reid. Kaufman is a secret show fave making his debut on the podcast today. And yes, I have decided that we will be using the terminology that so...2024-08-151h 04
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS04E02 I thought we weren’t hurling the inflammatoriesSPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY and FRESH MEAT PILOT: Reviewed! Let’s go cultural content consumption appraisal hour heads! One of us has a pilot episode of a sitcom from over ten years ago on the menu and the other has a near two-and-a-half-hour performance from a rock and roll legend from a few years ago to feast on. We have a lot of feelings about these things. Let’s get into our feelings. Let’s unpack them. Let’s analyse and assess our relationship with culture via these works. Let’s get up to speed with t...2024-08-081h 07
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS04E01 I have performance coach visions and to me the work isn’t overSOME KIND OF MONSTER and THE FIRE WITHIN: Reviewed! Season 4 is here! The cold open is a hoot and a holler. It’s part 1 in a tale entitled: TECHNICAL AMBITIONS BRING TECHNICAL ISSUES. It will conclude next week. Maybe. Cliffhanger? Who knows. The main technical concern for you, our dear listener, is that you have a show to listen to. Thankfully. For yet another week in a row. And that’s all that matters isn’t it? Unless you’re James Hetfield and in your feelings about other stuff on the Black album. Anyway. Some Kin...2024-08-011h 09
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E24 A campy blend of horror and humourM3GAN and ENGLAND VS HOLLAND IN THE EUROS 2024 SEMI-FINAL: Reviewed! Welcome to the CCCAH and a season finale for the ages! Or, hey, just another dopamine hit for your week! We’re covering the football today! Is it a soft launch of the sports pod? Or a thinly-veiled attempt at Southgate-propaganda in the immediate aftermath of the resignation that broke the hearts of a generation? Oh, and there’s also a movie we have to talk about. A campy blend of something and something else. or something. So let’s go! It’s time for culturall...2024-07-181h 06
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E23 Going up to the ‘5’ in the clubTHE WIZ and THE LIVE DAILY SHOW FROM JUNE THE 27TH 2024: Reviewed!Well well well, England football fans. Is it coming home, or isn’t it? In today’s episode we will either be time travelling forwards to reveal all or reminiscing on all the glory thus far … or something in between? Basically, this is a podcast that takes place in time and space; in a specific time and in a specific place: Thursday morning and localised entirely in your headphones. We do this for you, our favourite listener. Enjoy. This is the Wikiped...2024-07-111h 07
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E22 Disclaimer: We don't know Justin TimberlakeEVERYTHING I THOUGHT IT WAS BY JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE and FIRE OF LOVE: Reviewed! Hey show fans! Welcome to the show! A perfect place for a fan of the show. And here in the show notes, let's dig deep into the media being reviewed. The art, the artefacts, and the critical moss that has gathered around and upon them. It’s another in-person edition of the show. So hold tight for lots of LAUGHTER and TABLE SLAPPING and LOUDNESS. A good time was had. But at what cost? Were lines crossed, onlookers offended, takes too scorching for the...2024-07-041h 09
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E21 Unnecessary ResentmentBRAT BY CHARLI XCX and THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR: Reviewed! Our favourite listener! Where have you been all our lives!? Have you been on the waiting list for entry, just hanging out in the podcast waiting room for days? Well (much like some of the London Swiftie contingent who were saved by waiting list e-mails this week) your number has been called. You’re up! It’s CCCAH time baby, the bratty pod of the hot summer! So strap in for the heatwave! And/or take your top off! Totally your call on that one...2024-06-271h 02
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E20 Stew in the juices of the contentTHE ERIC ANDRE SHOW SEASON 6 EPISODE 1 and ALL STARS 7 SNATCH GAME: Reviewed! Welcome to the show! The show of shows! It’s like, what if the critical culture critiquing popular culture was slowly morphing into the highest quality culture on offer … yes … that low-key sounds like the thesis of our show. Hey, we might not actualise it on an episode-by-episode basis but hey … we out here! Kings of consistency. Your Thursday morning sweethearts. And this week, we’re offering up our unique and idiosyncratic tastes once more. A very “please like my unique niche of entertainment more than I l...2024-06-2059 min
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E19 Fresh out the podcast bakerySTICK TO FOOTBALL EPISODE 16 FEATURING FRANK LAMPARD and THE SIMPSONS IS GOOD AGAIN BY SUPER EYEPATCH WOLF: Reviewed!The podcast taking over everything (...)-ification continues. Around the world, for sure … CULTURALLY! But more importantly for you right now, dear listener-turned-reader: here on the CCCAH. Let’s get super online this week. Move over boomer corner, it’s time for the millennials to get cosy on the platform they find to be the most comfortable fit for them: YouTube.Here’s Frank Lampard on The Overlap channel’s series Stick To Football, episode 16: https://www.youtub...2024-06-131h 02
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E18 Mid-Range KeyHOW TO DISCOVER YOUR OWN TASTE WITH EZRA KLEIN FEATURING KYLE CHAYKA and SOUTH PARK THE END OF OBESITY: Reviewed!Hey, welcome to the world renowned show notes! Arguably the coolest part of the entire CCCAH operation. Coming in a close but definitive second to the content of the show itself, but cemented at above the production quality, which languishes in third (wink wink nudge nudge). This week your dudes Christopher Anousis and Jeffrey Bahlo are hanging out with other talented dude duos, from Matt Stone and Trey Parker to Ezra Klein and Kyle Chayka. We...2024-06-061h 16
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E17 And... rightly so.HIT ME HARD AND HIT ME SOFT BY BILLIE EILISH and STEVE MARTIN: NOW: Reviewed! Welcome to another edition of your favourite podcast, favourite (fifth favourite at *worst* and top fives are important, you know this) listener of ours! Please bear with us while we get our shit together as a podcast operation and go on lots of (some bear-related) tangents. HIT ME HARD AND HIT ME SOFT CAN BE LISTENED TO ON A STREAMING SERVICE IF YOU THINK YOU’RE TOO COOL FOR PHYSICAL MEDIA YOU COWARDS (SHOUT OUT ALL CAPS): https://open...2024-05-301h 00
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E16 The efficient, economical, artist, model moveLET IT BE and STEVE MARTIN: THEN: Reviewed! Welcome to a nostalgia fest where we spoil the sixties (The Beatles broke up!) and seventies for you (Steve Martin retired from stand up!) That’s two decades in one episode. Fair enough the CCCAH, that’s some legendary spoiling. Even for us. Ok, we’ll do you one better and spoil the result of today’s episode too: it’s a draw. Omg, how “british soccer” of us. Ok, if you listen in spite of this, you’re a real one. A real Appraisal Hour Head. An AHH. W...2024-05-231h 09
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E15 You listen to this album and you know he’s not on XALREADY DEAD BY WILLY MASON and EVERYBODY’S IN LA PILOT: Reviewed! We’re here and we’re reviewing THE WORLD one artistic artefact at a time! And yes, Jeffrey’s audio is shocking this week. But don’t worry, we can assure you: no hosts, microphones, headphones, laptops or audio production software was harmed in the making of this programme. But hey, it’s only the midway point of season 3! Everybody’s In LA lives on Netflix (for now!): https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81742123John Mulaney talking about everybody being...2024-05-1655 min
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E14 Everything the next person says is like a revelation to meSTORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA by PJ HARVEY and THE 19TH ANNIVERSARY EPISODE OF THIS WEEK IN TECH: REVIEWED!We’re spoiling everything this week! If you believe that podcasts and albums are things that can be spoiled. And of course, if you listen to us even on the semi-reg, you know everyone at Team CCCAH believes everything can be spoiled. But here’s another spoiler for you, dearest listener: it’s a fun ep this week! The episode of Twit we are reviewing here on the Cccah is entitled “Serial Ch...2024-05-091h 09
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E13 I’ve never seen you portrayed on screen so wellTWIN PEAKS PILOT and WATCH THE SOUND WITH MARK RONSON SEASON 1 EPISODE 2: Reviewed! Time to grab a damn fine cup of coffee and tune in to the weird and wonderful world of the cultural content appraisal hour! Watch the pilot of Twin Peaks and hey … sticking with it is totally your call: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Twin-Peaks-Season-1/dp/B00ET0PGJWThe Nextlander Watchcast are watching Twin Peaks too! And hey, I’m not trying to tell you to choose them over us or anything, but boy are they a prof...2024-05-021h 04
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E12 Hair doesn’t grow on the cover of DVDsANT AND DEC’S SATURDAY NIGHT TAKEAWAY THE FINALE and MISSION IMPOSSIBLE DEAD RECKONING PART ONE: Reviewed! It’s time for your big dumb podcast hosts to talk big dumb action movies! And, in classic CCCAH fashion, it’s also time for your generationally loved hosts at the peak of their powers to talk … generationally loved hosts at the peak of their powers! Christopher and Jeffrey do Ant and Dec … so to speak! Let’s pod! Mission Impossible 7 Dead Reckoning Part 1 lives here. I’m including the “7” here because I didn’t in the all-important firs...2024-04-251h 02
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E11 I was scha’ing along with themGHOSTBUSTERS and OHIO PLAYERS BY THE BLACK KEYS: Reviewed! Fancy both spoilers to a film from 1984 and a fanboy-like lauding (review spoiler?!) of an album put out mere weeks ago all packed into the same episode of this unique and somewhat baffling podcast!? Well then, we’ve got you covered. Chock full of insights into our pre-production meetings (and previews of the eventual mini-series on Patreon that will walk you through our website saga and our controversial dealings with wordpress), in this episode we’ve got your usual line-up of: a rambling cold open...2024-04-181h 04
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E10 You remember, the Spice Girls said it.WONKA and SEX AND THE CITY: THE FINALE: Reviewed! Zero research went into this episode, and you can tell. But a lot of consumption did. It’s an eye contact special! That’s right - we recorded in person for Wrestlemania weekend. The fourth wall is broken with regards to cold opens. It’s a new era. And stay tuned for more news to come of live pods!Skip straight to the Sex and The City finale for yourself right here, if you fancy: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sex-City-Season-6/dp/B00FZFS0UM2024-04-1155 min
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E09 Let’s just throw in an odd sound here and see how it sticksSQUARING THE CIRCLE: THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS and HEELS SEASON 2 EPISODE 1: Reviewed! Spoilers galore dear listener, so be warned! Funny one to be worried about, considering today’s niche content: a cancelled wrestling-related drama and a music/art documentary. But hey, if any of you are indeed very particular about the off-the-beaten-path content you consume and the potential spoilers always hiding on the internet and lurking in podcasts such as our ramshackle operation … well, funnily enough … you sound like our kind of people! Enjoy another episode! Where can you watch season 2 of Heels? I don’t kn...2024-04-0459 min
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E08 GIG SPECIAL SEQUEL: The Lost EpisodeTHE SMILE AT ALEXANDRA PALACE 23RD MARCH: REVIEWED!What an episode this is going to be!! A new era, even. Today is the day the CCCAH finally became a real podcast. Embracing a decades old tradition of any proud podcast-shaped programming.So if it looks like a podcast episode reviewing Cheers and Travel Man and talks like a podcast episode reviewing Cheers and Travel Man and when we play it back, it sounds like a podcast episode, then ... then ... wait, exactly happened ... what even is this episode?!...2024-03-2856 min
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E07 Start decades on the fiveATLANTA SEASON 3 EPISODE 1 and NYPD BLUE SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: Reviewed! Welcome to another spoiler spectacular! Looking forward to one day doubling back around after finishing Deadwood to binge David Milch’s first foray into television with his early nineties cop show? Spoiled! Finally figuring out getting round to Donald Glover’s critically lauded Atlanta? Spoiled! I guess we have found our niche with you, dear reader (who is most likely also a: dear listener): the great spoiler lovers! From boomer corner to gen z junction, the community of spoiler fetish freaks are our people here at CCCAH HQ. W...2024-03-211h 00
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E06 If I really really like you, I do find it quite hard to finish youGHOSTS OF THE GREAT HIGHWAY BY SUN KIL MOON and the BROOKLYN 99 PILOT: Reviewed! Hi listeners! It’s been too long! Like a week or whatever, as per usual. But still. Too long. Have you missed our takes? Are you nostalgic for that time Jeffrey was so overcome by a coughing fit he pretty much hacked up a lung? Well, you’re in luck! Today we’ve got an album from the 00s and sitcom pilot from a decade ago on the docket. How sublimely CCCAH of us. If you would like to research...2024-03-141h 02
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E05 That's aggressive, but I enjoy it. SONIC THE HEDGEHOG and JOE LYCETT VS SEWAGE: Reviewed! Welcome to a brand new episode of the Triple C(AH) and it’s a brand new era: we’ve got our first ever sponsor! Stay tuned for more information on the wonderful Brew.ding and the cool things they do over there. We may (or may not) be the kind of show that excels at a cold open, but dammit we’re gonna nail these ad reads! It’s 2024 and we’re all growed up. You can watch Sonic (classified as an Action/Fantasy movie...2024-03-071h 13
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E04 The bit where she just cried into the microphoneTHE 66TH ANNUAL GRAMMYS and WHERE I’M MEANT TO BE BY EZRA COLLECTIVE: Reviewed!It’s time to get musical! First, with actual music. Recorded music. And then, with a self-congratulatory ceremony in which music occasionally features! Live music! La la laaaaaa etc. The Grammys were almost a month ago so even the hottest of takes are nothing but embers by now. But your boys are here with some gasoline and some lighter fluid and getting shit going again. The hot take corporate bigwigs are furious but we’re out here throwing around t...2024-02-291h 11
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E03 No fax, all cap, all the time. MAN LIKE MOBEEN SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 and GRAHAM NORTON SEASON 31 EPISODE 9: Reviewed!An iPlayer special! Boy do we love the iPlayer. The British Broadcasting Corporation. Apologies international listeners. Wait, no, you apologise to us!! Flood our social media with international requests and we’d be all over whatever you pitch, this is on you! For real THOUGH, we do need to branch out. But for today’s episode, let’s appreciate home. The United States of Britain, or whatever it is we call this weird island. Let’s start with the THIRTY FIRS...2024-02-2258 min
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E02 I can do a thing, let’s make the thing I do into the main thing.WALL OF EYES BY THE SMILE and THE APPRENTICE SEASON 18 EPISODE 1: Reviewed! We could have easily been a Radiohead podcast but we managed to wait it out for over a year before we finally got some Radiohead related content. And The Apprentice is back! Event (adjacent!) television! Let’s get entrepreneurial and super nerdy. The album Wall of Eyes lives here: https://thesmile.bandcamp.com/album/wall-of-eyesThe video for Wall of Eyes lives here. Shout out PTA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsqqjOxEuAgThe video for...2024-02-151h 02
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS03E01 I wasn’t getting regional about itCOLEEN ROONEY THE REAL WAGATHA STORY EPISODE 1 and FRIENDS SEASON 9 EPISODE 19: Reviewed! Today in the shownotes for the CCCAH, it’s all business baby. We’ve got some links to the shows and then we’ve got some socials and then we’ve got next week’s pitches. We hope you enjoy.Find the first episode of The Real Wagatha Story here and do let us know if you’re able to stop at one: https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/series/coleen-rooney-the-real-wagatha-story/dbko8SML1qB8Find “The One With Rachel’s Dream” (along w...2024-02-081h 01
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E24 Prime and dineSALTBURN and STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION “THE INNER LIGHT”/STAR TREK DEEP SPACE NINE “THE VISITOR”: Reviewed! We go spoiler heavy as fuck today so be warned: this may impact your future first-time enjoyment of these products, if that is indeed a concern of yours. So if you’re spoiler-sensitive (shout out one of our own!) consider this your trigger warning. Welcome to the season finale where the fact that it’s our finale is barely remarked upon. No bells and no whistles ladies and gentlemen, just like you like it. We’ve done enough specials this y...2024-02-0159 min
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E23 Cover your mouth when you yawn because that’s how the devil gets inSOLAR POWER BY LORDE and EVERYONE ELSE BURNS SEASON 1 EPISODES 1 AND 2: Reviewed! Welcome to your weekly dose of us talking to each other (and you) about things (and stuff)! And more importantly … another edition of THE SHOWNOTES! This week we have music again (finally!) and another two episodes of a television show (again!) because people need to both try new things AND give the new things they try second chances a few years later … yes. Let’s get to these guesses, scores, REASONS (that’s a new one) and pitches! As ever, it’s a stacked show and it...2024-01-2556 min
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E22 Some of the high points were midLEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND and ARMAGEDDON by RICKY GERVAIS: Reviewed!It’s CCCAH time baby! Welcome to the show! Today we’ve cooked up for you about an hour’s worth of takes, an absolute cavalcade of scores and guesses and pitches, just like you like it. This week we’re sponsored by Netflix and watching things super relevant to the year 2024, which makes a nice change. Hey, maybe we’ll be that show! Maybe we’ll continue what we do in this episode: trying to get involved (or actively trying to avoid getting involved, I forget which...2024-01-181h 01
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E20 Peak middle-aged EltonENDLESS SUMMER VACATION BY MYLEY CYRUS AND SONGS FROM THE WEST COAST BY ELTON JOHN: Reviewed! We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year! Today we’re reviewing music again. 20 year old rock and roll that makes us nostalgic for childhood Christmas and super new pop music that makes us feel both very old and very young at the same time. We cover the gamut here on the CCCAH! And while you all rest after your Christmas dinners, we hope you’ve left just a little room for the delicacies we cook up here...2023-12-281h 04
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E19 The 'contentification' of low-key moments THE LATE SHOW WITH GUEST DAVID LETTERMAN and THE DIARY OF A CEO WITH GUEST JAMES HOFFMAN: Reviewed! Welcome to our humble show. It’s the festive season. So let’s get super-gradually festive like only the CCCAH can! Let’s pitch one thing one host is into and another thing the other host is into! And let’s look forward to next week with one (questionably so) Christmas related pitch. Let’s talk about it.The former, 33 year host of the Late Show David Letterman returns to The Late Show almost nine years after...2023-12-141h 04
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E18 I felt unprepared for a podcast where I was going to find out stuffSCHITT’S CREEK SEASON 2 EPISODE 3 and 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE 90s: PJ HARVEY’S SCARY MOVIES: Reviewed! This week we have a deep episode for you, rich with insight, analysis, hot takes, cold takes, lukewarm takes, room temperature takes, frisky takes, alfresco takes, zesty takes and good ol’ fashioned chit chat. We are also hard at work at decreasing the percentage of tech-set-up-issues, internet-connection-issues or I-CAN’T-HEAR-YOU-RIGHT-NOW chat. As of our last AGM, we are currently down to 8.5% of this contaminating your regularly scheduled podcast-y goodness. Bear with us. We appreciate your patience, frustration and patronage. T...2023-11-3055 min
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E17 Beatles in 2023 still putting out earworms, good for them.THE ONE SHOW NOVEMBER 1ST EPISODE (new Beatles song special) and TASKMASTER SEASON 16 EPISODE 6: Reviewed!Please enjoy (and don’t destroy!) how little faff there is now: our reviewed content features in the first sentence! What a newsworthy update!! A congratulations to all those working long hours at CCCAH HQ to pull this off. It’s never been more convenient to handily find the episode you need now! Eyes are lighting up around the podverse as all of your podcast feeds light up, we’re sure! First things first, a corporate disclaimer from the CCC...2023-11-231h 08
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E16 One of those generalisations that's completely fairWelcome to a very special show in which we review an episode of Gogglebox and RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.It’s a fun episode, if we do say so ourselves; recorded live and in person! The third episode was recorded in the Southern region of Harrow. But we do need to address some controversy that arose during the record that necessitates inserting an apology statement into the show notes. We’ll be right back. JEFFREY’S APOLOGY STATEMENT: Spoiler… I somehow watched the wrong episode. I actually can’t believe it. I don’t know wh...2023-11-161h 15
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E15 Downing all these red bulls about to go live on tiktokWelcome to “Inside The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour” by Christopher Anousis and Jeffrey Bahlo, a stupendously ambitious concept album … that ended up as a regular ass podcast episode. Pete Townshend’s “Lifehouse” eat your heart out, am I right!? Anyway, what are we on about today?! The answer to that question this week is: so much! Too much! I’m gonna fill these notes to the brim with links, like back in the day when my partner in crime would tell me my notes exceeded the allotted space of our podcast hosting provider! So allow me to be brief...2023-11-091h 00
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E14 Tell me more Dave Van Ronk!It’s the shownotes show, down here in the shownotes! That’s right, pause your precious little podcast and peek down below. There’s gold in them there hills, and the hills are the shownotes, ladies and germs. So what are we blathering on about today? K-Pop explainers and late night talk show hosts doing a podcast. Sounds about right. K-Pop Explained, on the Netflix player machine: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80216753This is the video for Shine by the K-Pop group Pentagon, described by one of our hosts as “pure joy”: https://www.youtube...2023-11-021h 03
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS00E05 BEX SPECIAL: Take bad ju ju seriouslyOh you lucky, lucky listeners. We have a very special episode for you this week. We would like to introduce you to Bex! It’s Christopher’s sister, who sent her guest pitch in last week. That’s right, a two minute long voicenote pitch (and a blood relation to one of the hosts) *will* get you on the show immediately. So this week, Christopher travelled all the way to Dubai (purely for this special podcast, surely?) to get her to guest-host today’s episode. And guest-host she did! A great time was had by all. And make...2023-10-261h 18
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E13 Glen! Protect your boy!Are you ready for another edition of the cultural content consumption hour show notes? Of course you are. And oh my goodness me, have you stayed here beyond the first few sentences? We appreciate you more than you know. More than you know because it’s unlikely you’re still here, deep in the heart of sentence 5. Well, oh well. We go on. And compared to the audio edition, boy are we enjoying the relative quiet here. Shout out Loui! Spoiler time: David Beckham was a big deal in the 1990s! And still is to this day...2023-10-191h 18
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E12 Laughed. Laughed a bit.Omg lol so here's the full strength show notes not at all hastily whipped (or quipped?) up for the very polished product that is our humble podcast. Welcome welcome. Disclaimer: tangents and spoilers lie within.Season 4 Episode 18 of Frasier ("Ham Radio") on Channel 4: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/frasier/on-demand/24639-018The script for the masterpiece sitcom episode that is Ham Radio for the freaks out there (I love you): https://www.kacl780.net/frasier/transcripts/season_4/episode_18/ham_radio.htmlCheers on Channel 4 (will I or...2023-10-1259 min
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E11 Mary Poppins: Rise of the TerminatorsYou’re used to us at this point but we spoil everything in this episode. Whether it’s all the minutiae of Hamilton or an intense (and brief!) overview of Don’t Worry Darling, nothing escapes our spoiler-y wrath! Be forewarned! Oh and here’s a shownotes spoiler for any of you who aren’t familiar with how we do around here … the show notes below are a plentiful and bountiful bouquet of internet trinkets and hyperlinks! Enjoy: This is the musical Hamilton: https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/movies/hamilton/3uPmBHWlO6HJThis is where you...2023-10-051h 01
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E10 ... he marries PhoebeIt is time to address the controversy. Yes, once again, we’re dealing with two sitcom show episodes, so let us be very clear. We’re spoiling. We are the bearers of bad news if spoilers are bad news to you. These episodes are spoilerific. More than usual! So here is our olive branch of a disclaimer, if you will, a permission slip for all of our favourite podcast people out there: you are excused from today’s episode if you feel we are @ing you with spoilers at this stage. We fully understand, sympathise and relate if either Ted La...2023-09-281h 07
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E09 Don’t fall in love with bands kids, it will only break your heart.Welcome to shownotes city, population you. We hope you enjoy your stay. For more information about this information and more content about this content, check out our website. It’s a great website in the making: https://cccappraisalhour.show/Buy High Violet by The National on Bandcamp. Great website: https://thenational.bandcamp.com/album/high-violetA new interview with Aaron Dessner (guitarist and composer in The National) upon the release of their new album (released a few days ago!) called Laugh Track. As always, he is so awesome on the subject of making mu...2023-09-211h 08
The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E08 HmmOh Lorde, it’s been tough around here trying to fall in love with art on a schedule! But hey. We’ve got a job, and we’re here to do it. And if the job is being your favourite podcast … well, call us employees of the month! Lol … *cut to scenes of us “quiet quitting” mere months later* Ok, let’s get to the good stuff! Let’s Listen to Melodrama by Lorde, via YouTube, for a change. An official playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvm6B0LWgqu9pWrYmmC-6ETs7yDcfHyl9Now this is a bit...2023-09-141h 07The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E07 Can’t be bothered for the admin of dopingYou’re here for sportswashing chat and Jordan Henderson slander, correct? The “sport is actually an artistic and cultural endeavour podcast” is here and … ok, no, wait, come back! That was just lip service for Alex, our lost brother who hasn’t consumed us for a while. Top tip, if you want to tailor our content: rather than engage with our (limited) social media presence … just reach out to us personally and let us know you are no longer listening. In the classic British tradition of: complaining and moaning. Then, most likely, we will come crawling back to you with whateve...2023-09-071h 10The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E06 Lip-syncing in a crowdDear listener, NO, DON’T STOP LISTENING TO THE POD! It’s your boys Christopher and Jeffrey, as per, I swear. It’s just that, we’ll … the voices of one of the members is compromised. But don’t worry. It’s him. It’s giving Phoebe with her sexy singing voice when she gets a cold in Season 3 of Friends. And we’re soldiering on like the brave podcast soldiers we are. So here, have some vaguely thoughtful content, it’s good for you! Watch Anvil. Here’s the link. Just a standard link one would easily find https...2023-08-3158 minThe Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E05 Podcasting with consent / Under the weather with FOMOWelcome to another edition of SHOW NOTES, featuring a podcast episode. Today we’re being gossip girls (xoxo) and visiting party gator purgatory with Temps. Let’s get podcasty. PARTY GATOR PURGATORY by Temps, on bandcamp, Mr. Acaster’s favourite music platform: https://tempsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/party-gator-purgatoryAnother shout out to Tape Notes, one of our favourite podcasts. John Kennedy is one of the best hosts/DJs/interviewers of our generation and each episode is a little treasure trove for a true music fan, so dig into this episode in which he intervi...2023-08-241h 01The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS02E04 Cereal Time & SitcomsWelcome to the appraisal hour for all those who are inclined to consume cultural content. We are looking forward to the day that this very podcast features in another cultural criticism podcast but, alas, that day is not yet here. For now, let’s get into another television show spectacular. It’s a Christopher special (a mid-season stand alone episode) and a Jeffrey special (a pilot episode) as you have come to know and love (or at least tolerate and listen to a third of an episode of). Watch the pilot of Sex And The City (from...2023-08-1750 minThe Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS00E04 RETROSPECTIVE CLUB: Season 1 State of the PodWe’ve got ourselves a freaking WEBSITE y’all! CCCAH, welcome to whatever century this is: cccappraisalhour.show. It is the website of our dreams. And now yours too. Find everything you need (including spreadsheets!) to understand this episode (and the show in general!) on the website. So today is the big one. The one that (we decided a few weeks ago) this has all been building towards all year long. The showdown. Forget your WWE and UFC, this is the showdown of the summer. It’s competition time. Christopher vs Jeffrey. Not just to crown a winne...2023-07-201h 50The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS00E03 GIG CLUB: Sneaky slippery people skillsWelcome to the most special special we’ve ever special’d! Your boys went to see The Black Keys live in London at the 02 on Wednesday June the 21st of 2023 baby! Christopher for the second time, Jeffrey for the first time. The first time as a squad! This one has been a long time coming. A pre-podcast promise. Gig club. We have gone to many a gig together in our time, but this is the first one we have had in the era of the pod. Happy to have you all (all both of you, lol) along...2023-07-0642 minThe Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E23 JackCuriousWelcome to another music episode! When Jeffrey pitched a short film to Christopher (a companion piece to the new boygenius record) did you think he would listen to the album five or six times through, before getting to the short film? And when Christopher pitched the latest Taylor Swift album, did you think this would lead to Jeffrey talking a whole lot (again) about The 1975? Tune in for all the answers.First and foremost, shout out to the Rocket Podcast. Again. Just, in general. We love us some accelerated geek conversation (clearly, have you heard us...2023-06-291h 07The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS00E02 MOVIE CLUB: Dune? Djune? June? Dune?Spoilers up the wazoo! Jeffrey and Christopher come in hot from the cinema to talk all things Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse!We like a good special episode around here. After a lot of heated debate on WhatsApp (other messaging platforms are available) we have decided on what exactly constitutes a special episode: we have to experience the art in question together. Experience it together, review it together. A lot of togetherness here. At the movies. At the gig. At the comedy show. At the ... whatever. Reading the same book (we don't have to do that one...2023-06-221h 09The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E21 Appreciating and living day to day with podcastsSpoilers for all you people that weren't quite sure what a podcast is, we get into the nitty gritty. Specifically, the 99% Invisible podcast where Jeffrey gives his takes on Episode 522: The Comrades. Christopher got to watch, again, 'Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé'. Will Christopher continue his winning streak!? Only one way to find out...Show notes for the show-offs and the notable among our audience!Someone should run this ultra because they listened to our podcast about a podcast about it. Lol: https://www.comrades.com/Said podcast. Super s...2023-06-081h 14The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E20 Grab my consumer surfboardSpoiler Alert! Christopher #watchedonething so Jeffrey has to recount almost the entirety of the 2019 movie 'Yesterday'. Luckily, Christopher got to listen to the 2002 debut album 'The Big Come Up' by The Black Keys. Who won!?Welcome to the show notes, you cultural content consumption appraisal hour mega head! Stay tuned for more activity on the social media! And if no one e-mails back to you when you do e-mail us at cccappraisalhour@gmail.com, please register your complaint with our online team; they work diligently 24/7, dealing with all manner of customer service issues a...2023-06-011h 03The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E19 Listener, I hope you have your scores locked inSpoiler! Who'd have guessed it!?!? Christopher has opinions about the new Ed Sheeran album 'Subtract' ... meanwhile... Jeffrey gives a lovely review of 'Still: A Michael J Fox Movie. Who wins!? Did Christopher cheat!? Find out by pressing play!Oh boy did we do some talking on this episode! Might be a record breaker, in that regard. If you live up to your superfan status and count exactly how many words are said in this episode, hit us up at cccappraisalhour@gmail.com and let your boys know. Still, a Michael J Fox movie!! A...2023-05-251h 15The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E18 He's up to 'very' on at least 2 or 3 of the boxes!Christopher and Jeffrey jump into the Spoiler-Verse! Christopher talks all things 'Baby J' in John Mulaney's new Netflix special and could Jeffrey become a 'Marvel guy' following his experience with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Find out who wins by pressing play now!Did you enjoy the two sentence intro above? We really and truly honestly hope so. We hope you would score these show notes in general 5, 5 and 5 across the board. Regardless of which host worked on which portion of the show notes … some mysteries should be left unsolved, as they say (do they though?) or wh...2023-05-181h 00The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E17 He's a big velour humanJeffrey and Christopher throw shade and spoil two cult classics. Jeffrey walks the ball rooms with the 1990 documentary 'Paris is Burning' while Christopher dances around the fallout following the 1978 Martin Scorsese concert film about The Band, 'The Last Waltz'.Well here we are with another episode, still reviewing two things a pop! More bang for your buck, really. Enjoy how we continue our amazing streak of not being super contentious, not nailing intros, not being cancelled due to not being famous enough despite the heat seeking missiles that are our takes and falling apart in the...2023-05-111h 05The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E16 Pending, dormant, status unknownConsider the naughties spoiled in this music documentary special! Christopher feels old reviewing the 2022 Meet Me In the Bathroom documentary about the indie scene in New York during the early 2000s. Jeffrey, on the other hand, goes to the late 80s to learn about the making of Michael Jackson's Bad album via the 2012 Spike Lee documentary Bad 25.Hello fellow moon, how are you today? No, this is not the name of the new, 2023 album from Big Thief, it’s just how Christopher is greeting you all today! Please follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/cccappraisalpod an...2023-05-041h 13The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E15 Subverting the app ecosystemJeffrey and Christopher have done their spoiler research in this musical interview review show! Christopher listened to 'The 1975's' 2022 album ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’ while Jeffrey watched Jake Gyllenhall eat hot wings in the season 20 finale of Hot Ones!Hi there, I’m the show notes. It’s nice to meet you. Do you come here often? A special note for those who like to read the articles we often link to. Firstly, I love you. Secondly, they seem to be linking to a lot of sites (Vanity Fair, Vulture) that only offe...2023-04-2757 minThe Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E14 It’s clever, but not in a way that you need to be smartSpoilers!? What Spoilers!?! Christopher spends some time on YouTube watching Norm Macdonald while Jeffrey dives into TV show about a movie making movies. How meta of him.Look at you! You’re such a good podcast listener, deep in the often-referenced podcast notes. Only the realest of the real hang out here! Explicit content today, by the way. We’re very passionate about cultural criticism, you see. For starters, the whole Norm Macdonald video is here for your viewing pleasure. A compilation video of Norm’s four appearances on Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Sho...2023-04-2000 minThe Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E13 The thing, if you're trying to observe something, the whole nature of that changes because it's now being observed so it knows it's being observed, whatever you're trying to observeWe park and bark spoilers at you in this highbrow episode where Christopher gives his review and scores for Jonah Hill's 'Stutz' and Jeffrey does all of the research before spilling his thoughts on Lana Del Rey's 2012 debut album 'Born to Die'. Welcome welcome and roll up, roll up - it’s a very high brow edition of the cultural something something podcast this week. A film about therapy and the therapeutic concepts of the renowned Dr. Phil Stutz and a look at the debut album by the most controversial and singular artist of the last de...2023-04-131h 00The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E12 You son of a bitch, The BethsWelcome back to your regularly scheduled programming of #ReviewTwoThings (for now)! Somehow Jeffrey manages to spoil the Apprentice, again, in this episode where Christopher reviews 'Future Me Hates Me' by The Beths, and Jeffrey tells us how cartoons should be structured, in his review of American Dad, Season 3 Episode 7, Of Ice and Men.Also, we are very excited to announce the who-will-be-the-first-listener-to-email-us-at-cccappraisalhour@gmail.com competition. To win, simply be the first listener to email us at cccappraisalhour@gmail.com. Good luck! Listen to The Beths. Be converted to the cult of Beths fandom. Fi...2023-04-061h 08The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E11 Paint by numbersWe're firing (lol) Apprentice spoilers at you via Jeffrey's pointed (see what I did there) review of the season 17 'Interviews' episode while Christopher has a very strange relationship with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers album 'Return of the Dream Canteen'.Also, holler at your boys and email us at cccappraisalhour@gmail.com. We want responses to our show defining question: so either write in with the words REVIEW TWO THINGS or REVIEW ONE THING.Additionally, we want other emails! More emails! Slide into our DMs! We want your takes in response to our...2023-03-231h 08The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E10 Dressed down suits and hair and glassesSelective spoiler outrage in this show where Christopher shares his adjacent takes on Chris Rock's new Netflix Special 'Selective Outrage' and Jeffrey goes into the detail and the documentaries.... and the music videos of 'Back to the future'. Someone must win!Show notes show notes show notes. Shout out to liner notes for records. But these are show notes.Jeffrey enjoyed seeing Roxane Gay in conversation with Afua Hirch at the Women of the World festival at Southbank Centre. And this is the article on Chris Rock’s new special that he heard a...2023-03-161h 04The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E09 Christopher, the child, at a birthday partyChristopher spoils stand up comedy by repeating stand up comedy in his review of Norm Macdonald's 2011 'Me doing stand up' and Jeffrey goes full 'white trash' in his review of Season 10 Episode 4 of 'It's always sunny in Philadelphia'. I really hope somebody wins this week!Jeffrey had a lovely time watching Romeo and Julie at the National Theatre! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMgOq0Rh61kJeffrey also spoke about feeling a way about The Whale, and Christopher has actually emerged spoiler free for it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D30...2023-03-091h 03The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E08 Get the podcast police!Call the spoiler police, not the podcast police! Christopher reviews a very old but very well known Arctic Monkeys album 'Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not' and Jeffrey ventures gingerly into the MCU with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1.Join us. You're here. Christopher finished Season 2 of White Lotus! Jeffrey didn’t let him get into too deep a review, to avoid spoilers. But rest assured, we still got a rough idea of how he felt about it … https://gfycat.com/dazzlinginformalgavialAn enthusiastic cinematic shout out! BABY...2023-03-0259 minThe Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E07 What we talk about when we don’t talk about Chris PrattIt's spoiler time baby! Jeffrey and Christopher may or may not agree on the self titled album by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros or the pilot of Bob's Burgers, but can they agree if there is a winner? Bobs Burgers - TV Trailer - Season 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDcOfvVVyzEStream and watch full episodes on Disney Plus, if you have Disney Plus! Give in to temptation … like Christopher said he might! https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/series/bobs-burgers/4CjR6DOjbiCMAs they are no longer currently operational, th...2023-02-231h 04The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E06 This is so in the weeds, this is literally my s***Spoilers Ahoy! Yep, I said it, and I'm going with it. Jeffrey provides his views on the new 'schmaltzy' Bill Lawrence series 'Shrinking', while Christopher is still confused by 'Nathan for you', or is he? Most importantly though, does anyone win? ... Episode 6 Links/NotesStream the main event for Christopher to review (a clip from the pilot):Nathan For You - Interview With a Seven-Year-Old https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2rgzsO-AMMStream the main event for Jeffrey to review (the Season 1 trailer and an interview C...2023-02-161h 09The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E05 They deliver the lines, but it's just not funnySpoilers incoming! ... wait... can you spoil music? Possibly. Maybe. Either way, Jeffrey and Christopher have takes on Metallica's 'Hardwired... to self-destruct' and Big Thief's, beautiful, 'Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You', in this music (slightly over an hour) spectacular!Notes/links for episode 5:Stream/buy the main event for Christopher to review:Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You https://bigthief.ffm.to/dnwmibiy.oweStream/buy the main event for Jeffrey to review: HARDWIRED...TO SELF-DESTRUCT https://w...2023-02-091h 04The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E04 PyrotechnicsMore spoiler heavy reviews as Jeffrey tries to deconstruct and understand Michael Jackson's 'Moonwalker' while Christopher has opinions on Darren Aronofky's 'The Wrestler'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-02-0259 minThe Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E03 He's 'quite' on all the boxesSpoilers ahead! Jeffrey and Christopher finally get to play the game properly (it's not a competition, I swear) when they review an episode of the TV show 'Mythic Quest' S01E05 and the movie Punch-Drunk Love by Paul Thomas Anderson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-01-2659 minThe Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal HourS01E02 The thing just wouldn't endJeffrey and Christopher review the movie 'Smile' and Matthew Perry's 'Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-01-1942 min