Your boys here on the Cccappraisalhour.show love films. So we are so happy to review one as it’s been a hot minute since we reviewed one. And speaking of minutes. Time is ticking podcast listeners! It’s always ticking away, the countdown is always at hand. Time is always speeding up, we’re ever-approaching the big moment and then it’s finally here whether you like it or not, the time will finally come and … BOOM! The CCCAH review of tick, tick … BOOM! drops. Oh yeah! You’ve been waiting (have you?! How??) and it’s finally here! 

We are ticking and we are booming up a storm and we are the podcast that, apparently, gives you TWELVE SEPARATE NUMBERS to consider on a weekly basis. That’s right! Three guesses apiece (six total) and three scores apiece (another six total)! The wildest maths! It occurred to us during the episode and we laughed a lot. We hope you laugh a lot too. At us, with us, whatever. Even if you, like us, struggle to convey to newbies how fun the concept of our podcast is. 

Today you loyal listeners will be blessed with a cold open chock full of 30 second game goodness and all! So you know we’re on it from the jump! Enjoy, sickos!

Watch tick tick … BOOM! Here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81149184

This is a really fun feature on the making of the film on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fe4P7_SbWs

The BBC has a fun article on the making of the film: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59323479

Richard brody has many thoughts about the film. All very interesting. But unfortunately for those more inclined to bias and defending the Garfield no matter what (where are you Amelia!?) he’s not been invited to the Andrew Garfield Appreciation Hub and clearly he’s not working for the Andrew Garfield Appreciation Hour podcast: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/tick-tick-boom-reviewed-the-hole-at-the-center-of-lin-manuel-mirandas-movie-musical-adaptation

In this clip from the Late Show with David Letterman, our hero Norm Macdonald discusses kickboxing, Pump Friction and (as mentioned on the pod) The Theatre! The NMAH is back baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wnKYVhyraA

Doesn’t The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened look like such a fun time? What a title. Concept. Everything. Inject it. Stephen Sondheim-guy status incoming, with docs like this floating about, I’m telling ya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Worst_Thing_That_Ever_Could_Have_Happened

Ok but let’s all chill about becoming Sondheim-guys, yeah, let’s chill the fuck out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N6Egb8Bnko

Let’s all look up Jonathan Larson and learn about him please, enough Sondheim nonsense (how good was the portrayal of Bradley Whitford though … and I say that as someone who doesn’t really know if he’s doing an impersonation as such or not): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Larson

An article on how tick, tick … BOOM! Changed the course of Broadways future https://broadwaydirect.com/how-jonathan-larsons-tick-tick-boom-changed-the-course-of-broadways-future/

An article on how much of Jonathan Larson's tick, … BOOM! is true: https://www.whatsonstage.com/news/how-much-of-jonathan-larsons-tick-tick-boom-is-true_55385/

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK: https://xtramagazine.com/culture/rupauls-drag-race-season-18-episode-15-recap-all-ru-all-the-time-281483

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Welcome to the show friends. It’s the cccappraisalhour.show show! We continue our mission, our chosen mission in this podcast plane of existence: to live up to the website that bears our name. Today we’ll be reviewing a talent show cum reality show sort of deal. The new Simon Cowell show. Who knows why? Oh yeah, because Christopher pitched it. That’s why. Let the record show. 

But more importantly: HAPPY SUMMER! It’s Summer now in Not Great Britain in the year 2026. And we refuse to go back to the cold, dark days of the NOT SUMMER times. You can hear it in our voices in this episode. We’re happy campers. Happy as Larry! Larry Sanders, star of the It’s Garry Shandling Show! But yeah, I hope you are happy and enjoying some sun while listening to us today. Perhaps sipping on a craft beer (?) or a nice Jubel (!)! 

We appreciate you very much for tuning into the show on a weekly basis. You’re the reason we’re still doing this. Yep, you. Hi Jonny! Lol. 

In a quick sidebar, please note that our album review show is A REAL THING but might be more of s SOMETIMES show rather than a STRICTLY MONTHLY endeavour. Stevie Wonder we’re gonna make you proud baby. Can someone read this portion of the show notes out loud to him? Thank you. 

Watch the first episode of The Next Act here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81933892

Read this very interesting review of the show here: https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/celebrity/article/simon-cowell-the-next-act-netflix-l2mn9tswt

Referencing the butterfly effect, here is your tweet of the week: https://x.com/chainedtosel/status/2040834924354175120

Watch this BBC documentary about boybands because lowest of keys Chistopher could have (SHOULD have?!) just pitched this and we all know it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m0023h94/boybands-forever

Hey guys, did you know there is a new Strokes song. Well we reviewed the Meet Me In The Bathroom documentary once upon a time so that is my excuse for talking about that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgaLAliC3-8

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Chat GPT covered for me while I had to let Loui out to poop. That’s crazy, do I … do I kind of gotta hand it to Chat GPT now for having my back like that? Damn. I hate AI but that moment from Chris’ girl Chat GPT right there … that was almost … human. Damn. 

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It’s the cccappraisalhour.show show baby! Welcome back to the podcast. Season seven going strong. We are the off-point accumulation show and this week I can assure you, for two stalwart Saturday Night Live fans … there will be a veritable feast of off points on offer. Because that’s right, we still surprise each other! We’ll both be absolute stalwarts of UK based SNL US viewership for years and years and then the time comes to review an episode and dissect it sketch by sketch (gosh we sound like a fun duo don’t we? Lol) and we’ll find ourselves disagreeing on all sorts! And surprised at what we’re disagreeing on, best of all! A fun and off-point filled episode of nitpicking sketch comedy, just like we like. 

I still can’t believe SNL UK exists. Let me stress that. 2026 is a dream. Maybe life ended in 2020 and this is all just a fever dream. Would be a relief in some regards lol. Also mum gave this episode her seal of approval with the classic double whammy: laughing several times during the cold open (while I was quickly explaining the history of SNL) and the opening of the monologue but asleep before the end of the monologue. Classic.

Watch the first (and best so far!) episode of SNL UK here: https://www.nowtv.com/watch/playback/vod/_/A5EK5anvvYyjizcsfwDTN

Read this behind the scenes account chronicling the pre-production process for the first episode of SNL UK: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/ng-interactive/2026/mar/15/saturday-night-live-uk-cast-interview-sky-one

Read this pretty good review of SNL UK episode 1: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/saturday-night-live-uk-sky-one-review/

Read this middling review of SNL UK episode 1: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/mar/22/saturday-night-live-uk-review-it-didnt-fail-and-it-could-have-been-a-lot-worse

Read this bad review of SNL UK episode 1: https://deadline.com/2026/03/snl-uk-lorne-michaels-breaking-baz-commentary-1236762440/

Watch the GOOD FOLKS at the Saturday Night Live Network discussing the first episode of SNL UK on their Aftershow programme, featuring Jon Schneider, Frankie Durkin & Bill Kenney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQiyoYwkQDc

Watch the By The Numbers programme from the GREAT GUYS at the Saturday Night Live Network, featuring Mike Murray and Jon Schneider. We thought OUR awesome stats came with (theoretical) infographics, these guys with their awesome stats have (actual) infographics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHpRbw5gK-s

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher decided I wasn’t amused by the shy baby sketch because I took personal offense. Does my guy think I identify with the … shy … baby? Like one of the least shy dudes (I would think!) he knows? Listener, you know that feeling when you turn to one of your best mates in the world and you’re like “bro have you met me???” 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT SEASON: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81933892

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It’s another edition of the cccappraisalhour.show show! Season 7 episode 1. 

And boy does Season 7 begin with a bang! Not quite Chandler-just-proposed levels but still. For those of you who are not new to this but TRUE TO THIS (yep we’re still doing all the stuff, as per) we are carrying on how we left off. Season 6 was the first win (in a while, sources tell me) for Christopher and that means he has officially won the prize. That’s right. THE PRIZE. Only took us six seasons of our podcast (and 40 seasons plus of watching SNL) to create a prize but here it is, in all its glory:

The winner of each season gets to write a monologue that the other *has* to read out at the start of the new season.

How very Michael Che and Colin Jost of us, eh? Glad we came up with it just in time for me to lose and bear the brunt of it. *rolling eyes emoji* well anyhoo, it dominates the cold open so don’t skip it. And then we’ll get to the thirty second game ok and everything is kosher ok, relax!

If you want to follow along with the script provided, you can read Christopher’s writing here:

“Christopher - Firstly I want to congratulate you on your Season 6 Win. You navigated some questionable pitches as well as a HOST of specials over the festive period. But you stuck with it and were rewarded with your first win since season one. 

While I apologise for pitching a magazine, you now have a new love for the art. You entered the world of K pop demon hunters, had your first dose of peep show and hung out with some easy riders. You provided me with a glimpse of what happens when you combine heist and magic, what happens when the whole world becomes aliens (we think) and made me fall in love with scrubs again. We managed all of this without touching on the old boring Norm macdonald, or American late night, or any of that stuff I’m WAY TOO OBSESSED with. 

Needless to say. The friendship is still here. So. . .with that said. . . let’s start the show.”

And as ever. Start the show, we did. 

Watch One Shot with Ed Sheeran here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/82123114

Watch the trailer that caught Christopher’s eye and inspired his pitch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjO8XACCpiQ

Watch the making of One Shot with Ed Sheeran here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J49t-rLedKo

Watch Ed Sheeran cheering on a runner here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYVpByu9nNs

Read Peter Bradshaw’s review of One Shot with Ed Sheeran for the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/16/one-shot-with-ed-sheeran-review-philip-barantini

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher balked at the idea of me not understanding what “this pub pours a good pint” means. Listen, I guess I’m just not an alcoholic beverage connoisseur like that. Some liquid in a glass seems to be doable at all the spots, no? Good think I don’t review pubs like @brew.ding I suppose. Shout out.  

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT SEASON: https://www.nowtv.com/watch/playback/vod/_/A5EK5anvvYyjizcsfwDTN (as expected … but no correctly-guessed-the-pitch points cos I have guessed a fair few of his and honestly that’s enough now lol) 

Also we haven’t quite figured out how to tally up Expected Off Points (XOP) but we’re working on it.  

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We finished our ramble, now we’re gonna go to the thing. Hey podcast fans. It’s that time of the year again. We did it and we’re here for the hundredth bloody time and hey well wouldn’t you know it, another season finale has rolled around. We have so much to discuss. And perhaps we have finally stumbled on a format of the show … half an hour talking about God knows what and then a rushed latter half of the episode squeezing in a review of the ONE THING we’re reviewing! If this is the way we’re going we’ll be down to reviewing HALF A THING by next season. 

But anyway, hey, the end of season 6 of the Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour is all about the end of Season 15 of E.R. It was always gonna be this way, wasn’t it? Some of us knew from the first episode, it was just so easy to tell. (this is a joke about how out of the box a pitch this was, I hope you’re getting it … but since so many of our pitches are out of the box, the real random pitch would be a … predictable one … right? Really makes ya think …) 

Here is one link to an E.R. episode before a bunch of links to a bunch of other random stuff we mentioned today: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80236389

Ok one more about the E.R. finale but that is your LOT: https://www.eonline.com/news/1028683/how-a-real-life-tragedy-and-a-returning-star-helped-er-sign-off-secrets-about-the-full-circle-series-finale-you-probably-forgot

Taste London will serve you thematically appropriate food while you enjoy a movie. Go enjoy: https://tastefilm.co.uk/

Cory doctorow is back on TWIT which is good but he’s talking about how bad everything is getting, which is bad. But you’d rather hear about it from the good guy than from a bad guy, right? Good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPuXG1OMZ7c

Jack white talking about stuff, as we talked about: https://www.musicradar.com/artists/singers-songwriters/i-didnt-say-that-i-think-her-music-was-boring-or-whatever-click-bait-the-net-is-trying-to-scrape-together-jack-white-puts-the-record-straight-about-taylor-swift

The “low key” Kenan sketch from SNL. The second my SNL ticks make a comeback, just watch my guy start catching up again (he says, knowing full well my guy will now make a concerted effort not to take this bait lolol oh what a funny pair we make eh): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_ARFIw-V6o

The UK edition of Saturday Night Live is days away from premiering and I am scared for my life. Why are you doing this to me, the UK and Tina Fey??? Whyyyyy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy57xqrx3zno

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT SEASON: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80236389

It’s been six great seasons and a whole bunch of specials! Looking forward to more! SEVEN seasons and a m̶o̶v̶i̶e̶ Patreon, anyone … ? *big eyes emoji* But hey, before we dream big once more, let’s enjoy how far we’ve come:

SIX SEASONS OF THE CCCAH ✅

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It’s Album Club *wine glasses clink sound*. That’s right, Albums ONLY Club. No things that are not albums! And this is episode 1. How many episodes of albums only club will there be? Well how many months in a year are there? So that many, in 2026! In theory. Well, minus two, because we’re starting in March. Why do you make me explain things in such a long-winded way?  

Anyway, we’re so happy to debut a new spin off show and we’re so happy to tell you it is completely free of charge … this month *big eyes emoji* 

Albums Only Club will be a new monthly series in which we review an ALBUM! Christopher’s pitch starts us off with The Parlour by Picture Parlour. Picture Parlour are a 5 piece indie rock band formed by Katherine Parlou and Ella Risi and this is their debut album, released in 2024. It’s time to get your 14-15 listens in, with all ticks sent through either in text message form to the whatsapp group or discord (existence status tbh) and we’ll catch up on your scores later. Will we guess your scores though? We’re not sure, we’re doing actual scores and guesses a bit differently for this series. We’re doing out of ten and averages. You can calculate the average mean number from a set of data by adding up the numbers and then dividing by how many numbers there are. Don’t tell us we don’t cover everything on our show(s)!  

Listen to the album on streaming here: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-parlour/1831977424

Buy the album from the band’s website here: https://shop.pictureparlour.co.uk/

Read about the band on their Wikipedia page here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Parlour

The DIY article that Christopher said turned him on to Picture Parlour: https://diymag.com/interview/picture-parlour-the-parlour-november-2025

Buy tickets to the Hackney Oslo show here: https://www.oslohackney.com/events/picture-parlour/

OUR COLLECTIVE CCCAAH/AAACH score: seven out of ten 

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Christopher’s guess for the year of my next pitch: 2006

The actual year for my next pitch: 1970 

Spoiler below for next month’s album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC7JF-okbsA

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The boys are back in town! Jeffrey and Christopher or J.D and Turk!? BOTH of course because it’s Thursday and you know what that means. We only have one question for you dear listener: what kind of day has it been? For us it’s been a good one because we’re talking all things SCRUBS! What are the nature of these “all things”? Well we start with the fact that we’re OGs. Old heads. We grew up on this shit. You know how it goes. And now it’s back! Which is crazy. We talk about how the finale of the initial run (2009) arguably aged worse than the pilot (2001) and how it all brings back beautiful memories of the sitcom-shaped-hole-in-our-hearts (©) being filled in our youth and young manhood by the seemingly immortal Bill Lawrence. We even talk about the finale of the truncated spin-off-esque season 9. Or we at least “mention it” if not “talk about it” lol. 

We interrupt each other a bit. Roast our beautiful and beloved website creator for daring to go on holiday towards the climax of season 6 (we’ll text you scores soon @JVD_Games) and then get back to roasting each other. Do we fit the 30 second game into the cold open? Do we let the Brit Awards cold open chat run rampant into the rest of the episode? So many questions. Mainly tangents do not get resolved (as per) but we’ll definitely get to the guesses and the scores and someone winning an episode. We’re close to the end of the season after all. Another season finale. Is this the very end of the CCCAH as we speak? Or will we be empowered by the newly revived Scrubs to NEVER DIE!? I’d love for it to keep going but who knows, you know? I stand outside the podcast studio watching a big screen showing me my CCCAH fantasies for the future after a long day of podcasting. It's never good to live in the past too long. As for the future, thanks to Scrubs, it didn't seem so scary anymore. It could be whatever I want it to be... Who's to say this isn't what happens? And who's to say my fantasies won't come true just this once? 

Watch Rosalía, Björk, Harry Styles and others (even Jack Whitehall) performing at the Brits: https://www.youtube.com/@brits

Here is the man Christopher referred to as a “a really good version of The 1975” talking to Zane Lowe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTA637pJ63Y

Here is Matt Healy of The 1975 (who are a really good version of The 1975) being awesome in conversation with that same interviewer (two can play at this game; I love a Matt Healy shownotes feature, cheers mate!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3ZHGfcENuk

A Reddit thread on the issue with streaming the original music Scrubs has: https://www.reddit.com/r/Scrubs/comments/1gm8u60/sometimes_it_just_isnt_the_same_without_the/

The first 2 episodes of the new season of Scrubs: https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/browse/entity-14a72768-5dcb-4adb-83d6-25af66c5b5e2

A review from the Guardian’s Stuart Heritage: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/feb/26/scrubs-review-daft-gags-volcanic-fury-medical-sitcom

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When we talked about Scrubs. And then Christopher remembered us watching a specific episode together for the first time, as kids round his place, and this remembering (of us watching a season finale cliffhanger type moment) triggered my own remembering. But then he changed his mind and decided he remembered it differently actually and I had actually seen the episode before and was rewatching it with him (in the memory) in order to watch him to see his reaction to the plot twist and I was like (in the present) “… oh”. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80236389

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Ok so here we are. We’re doing it again. Another episode. Another episode of the podcast. A podcast destined for a live show at The Rivoli: 

It’s that show you know talking about that other show you know. Both little modest operations just made with LOVE - WE ARE SHARING THE LOVE! THE CCCAH HEARTS NTBTS! At least in theory, the fact that they did it all in a DIY fashion for the love of the game. Whether we actually loved it or not is not a pre-determined given … ok, have I projected too much that we both really enjoyed it? SPOILERS! EPISODE SPOILERS! NIRVANA THE BAND THE SHOW THE WEB SERIES SPOILERS ALSO! So many spoilers. Welcome to the spoiler podcast, that is basically our deal.

Ok anyway, want to hear us reviewing a whole ass WEB SERIES TEN EPISODES LONG?? Excluding the bonus eleventh episode which is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED?? (Shout out the Buena Vista Social Club!!) Of course you do! 

Here is the web series. We watched the DVD versions, not the Web versions or DVD commentaries … yet! Haha! But yes you can toggle between the different versions so easily. A handy sidebar illustrating the differences between the DVD versions and Web versions for the majority of the episodes is some especially juicy stuff for the real heads! From not knowing anything about nirvana the band the show to being real heads, eh (*Canadian style “eh”) we love it: https://nirvannathebandthe.show/episodes/ 

Watch Matt Johnson roast some mid reviews of BlackBerry! My guy has Letterboxd thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S_zwmYZLU0

Watch Matt and Jay talk about how not to get sued and outline their creative rules. Genuinely illuminating lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbegN2RG_bc

Metallica were the stars of our cold open! I look forward to our full season reviewing every Sphere show live in Vegas … at the Sphere as the opening act for Metallica each subsequent night orrr … ? Matt Johnson won’t let us get sued Christopher, don’t worry: https://pitchfork.com/news/metallica-confirm-life-burns-faster-residency-at-sphere/

A YouTube link to Matt’s first film, featuring some nirvana the band the show stuff) called The Dirties, from 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNgXth2koIk

Shout out Born Ruffians, they’re still going and they’re still ROCKING AND THEY EVEN HAVE A PATREON IMAGINE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9sIOybnWNE

THE TRAILER FOR THE MOVIE UP TO YOU WHETHER YOU WATCH IT MAN IDK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2K9ccMREOI

Tweet of the week/tweet that made me so mad/shut up: https://x.com/Srirachachau/status/2021259082129457516

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher made himself smile and said “I’m glad I can still make you laugh after all these years” like what the hell what is this rom com bullshit? Oh wait, we’re literally nirvana the band, yep. The cultural content consumption appraisal hour the show. Will we be a web series by next week? Guessing by how packed the shared calendars are looking (we actually haven’t done that but imagine hahaha) I’ll spoil this for y’all: NOT BY NEXT WEEK NO lol. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/tv/a70501357/scrubs-season-10-revival-episode-schedule/ (the link calls it season 10 yayyyyyyyyyy)

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Well hello there podcast listener. The story of our journey to become YouTubers (???) starts in 2023. We were post-covid and had chatted about starting a podcast for years. Two middle aged dudes (excuse me?) talking to each other and just sending their chats out there into the ether on a consistently (RIP week 2) weekly basis for years and years, at this point. If you think about it, it doesn’t make any sense. It’s clearly not serving any functional purpose. So why do so many podcasts in the UK have one of these (*points at co-host) and have you ever actually asked yourself … what’s all that about? 

Anyway, how are you today? What kind of day has it been? And how did you feel about the thirty second game not featuring in the cold open? We certainly weren’t sure. Or Jeffrey claiming back the rights to the “let’s start the show” this week. Christopher has threatened to wrest the reigns back and reclaim the “let’s start the show” revolution for his own purposes next week. The suspense is thrilling, if not barely worth a mention. But hey, we chatted about it. So you have to hear about it. And we got to a thirty second game eventually! 

Real talk though, what are your thoughts on cold opens? 2 and a half minutes to 3 minutes is the window, no? But yeah, why are we talking about literally the most trivial matters possible in this week’s show notes? Well let’s just say that we (much like the YouTube algorithm) have been Chris Spargo pilled. Let the rest of the shownotes show this, for the record, by simply being a series of relevant YouTube titles with their associated links without any further commentary. Enjoy.  

Why do UK supermarkets have clock towers?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NHv6owsCvw

How I suddenly became a YouTuber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MKQNejUkA4

What does ℮ mean?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tD2bEzihY8

Why does the UK have colour-coded milk?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kTD5HgJDjg

What happens if you sell multipack items separately?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz90SQGmQR8

I just want to show you some weird stones: https://youtu.be/CpuRgqIRwR8?si=hy6QRp07dDPgis-G

Why are these signs intentionally vague?: https://youtu.be/IayST598Vxo?si=TnXdwAqN7bYq_rCr

Do you really need to pre-heat the oven?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6csz21Ad0U

What happened to 24-hour supermarkets?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTWD7qULzA4

Crosshatch Lane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwPKXWgXOF4

Tweet of the week: https://x.com/aaronrift/status/2023425524840927337

The Grocer article featuring Chris Spargo: https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/comment-and-opinion/chris-spargo-youtube-documentarian-solves-mundane-mysteries/702205.article

Dailymail article featuring Chris Spargo quotes: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14762923/why-supermarkets-clock-tower-RONAN-OREILLY.html

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Christopher’s story about his name being referenced in a social media post. That shit was crazy. Did you guys hear that? I am still processing all that. Also Christopher had to choose between three pitches this week based on run times alone. That was some fun further gamification of the … games we play. Here are the three run times he chose between:

1 hour 28 minutes 

2 hours 22 minutes 

3 hours 30 minutes 

Wild. Ok so how do we end these shownotes? Grabbing our crisps and dropping some and looking around a bit? Hey who cares about endings, who here needs a beginning, middle and end when you can just spam MIDDLE energy? Look ma, I’m MIDMAXXING. 

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We finally did it (we’re here) and we’re going from a pilot to a finale in the course of a handful of episodes. Season six truly is a season of wonders. And spoilers. It’s not just episode spoilers today, it’s whole show spoilers. Details spoilers. Quote spoilers. Character arc spoilers. Relationship spoilers. Will they won’t they … they did or did not spoilers! So yeah. It might be gibberish if you have never Newsroom’d. If you would like to Newsroom … maybe go listen to us reviewing the pilot and see if it tickles your fancy. Or if you’re ambivalent but enjoy hearing friends really (hurriedly) go into the weeds discussing the series finale of a show they have just finished watching … then great, we’re happy to have you! *shuffles papers*

Watch the finale of The Newsroom by going on to eBay and buying Season 3 of The Newsroom like I did dammit: ebay.co.uk 

Shout out Hasan Mutlluuz on Dailymotion (you’ll have to do some scrolling and/or searching to find it but hey): https://www.dailymotion.com/hasanmutlluuz

Let’s listen to the actual greatest podcast in the world … roast Aaron Sorkin for 8 hours straight. That is right. As mentioned on our podcast (an up and coming podcast) they roast him good, hot diggety damn. But hey … it is my contention that if your art is just so damn unique to you that your corpus can be roasted for nearly 8 hours straight across various works … then surely … you have a singular-ass style! And surely this is what we should all be striving for. To be the most ourselves possible. But yes, let’s lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsYg97XM_6s

Ok now that we have the roasting out of the way and the critical temperature has been balanced out here … let’s watch Aaron Sorkin talking to David Brooks about CHARACTER. David Brooks is well into CHARACTER and as such, a pretty good conversation is had: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eucVNYQNGAs

Richard Lawson wrote a review of the series finale for Vanity Fair, which is well worth a read: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/12/the-newsroom-series-finale

The Atlantic (before it was bad) explained to us the real life incident from 1998 that inspired “Operation Genoa” in the show: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/08/the-news-vs-i-the-newsroom-i-was-there-a-real-genoa-report-yes-in-1998/278795/

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher started banging on about how it is an indictment of this sixth season’s #REVIEW1THING format that we don’t roll into the order of who guesses and scores first that smoothly (like has he heard heard our run ups to a thirty second game) … bro I literally don’t know what you’re talking about, who cares about the order!? OUR SCORES ARE LOCKED IN! I literally don’t know what you’re talking about when you bang on about this. Christopher, you came down here, insulted my format and demanded to know why we didn't prepare a better one. Let me add this to the conversation. For two years I've been listening to people like you say they can't believe no one's been prosecuted for these Wall Street crimes and after two years I'm still fuzzy on what crime was committed and who should be prosecuted for it. You're a podcast host who gets to spend an hour on one subject. And I'm at least an average consumer of news, and you have failed to get me to understand what you've called the most important story of the last ten years. So, after you get done telling me how badly we did *our* job last night, you may want to do an internal investigation of your own work.

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Welcome to another episode of that show we do. You know the one. We do it every bloody week of our lives. You did it, you’re here and all that good stuff. You know all our catchphrases. We’ve got “you did it, you’re here”, as mentioned … what else … well, never mind, the thing is, with six seasons in the bag, we are definitely the kind of show that theoretically *could* have lots of catchphrases. And in the end, isn’t that what really matters? 

No, not really, we need actual catchphrases? Who are you to demand such things of us? We give you an hour worth of content every week. Christopher moaning about how we have to long stuff out in the #ReviewOneThing era?? Bro, we had to long things out before. The whole podcast is just us longing everything out, get with the (long!) programme!

Anyhoodles, today we’re joining Alison and her meaningless life in this week’s episode. We have a helluva time talking all Kevin Can Fuck Himself. Yep, that’s right. These are explicit as fuck shownotes where we can just write out that blasphemous word. No caving to network censors here. But yeah. Who among us cannot relate to the idea that life can be both a frivolous little sitcom and a heavy-as-fuck melodrama? Well, this show doesn’t think seeing life in such a binary black and white kind of way is a bit too on the nose at all, in fact, this show thinks that is perfect! Are we on to a winner? Well surely someone has to win this episode? Or are we simply moving our streak obsession from a-streak-of-specials to a-streak-of-draws? 

Kindly pay attention to the programme and all your questions will be answered. Probably.

Watch the pilot of Kevin Can F*** Himself here … when you buy the DVD, psych!: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kevin-Can-Himself-Season/dp/B09FC86K6W

Valerie Armstrong (creator of the show) talks about creating the show with Rolling Stone: https://variety.com/2021/tv/features/kevin-can-fk-himself-valerie-armstrong-worldbuilding-interview-1234975353/

Annie Murphy (star of the show) talks about being star of the show here: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/annie-murphy-kevin-can-f-himself-interview-1179519/

Christopher is troubled knowing I am on the precipice of finishing a full show, which he pitched an episode of back in the day … so here’s a clue for him: https://tenor.com/bCQEM.gif

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Welcome back to the shownotes, shownotes fans! Are you ready to hear us discussing yet another biographical documentary? Another musical biographical documentary, no less! Of course you are! Mister Christopher is wearing his big boy pants this week and telling Mister Jeffrey exactly who is pitching the thirty second game and Jeffrey is in awe of these levels of confidence and self belief and he believes in his friend so he’s like “yeah ok man”. I know it’s missing that crucial CCCAH ingredient we love so much, an essential part of any CCCAH stew is … the boys trying to think back to the last episode and recall what they were reviewing and who pitched a thirty second game! But hey … don’t worry, I don’t think we’ve ditched that forever. 

But hey, let’s enjoy this week for what it is! We’re still happy new year-ing (Christopher grimacing every time I say or type those words at this point hahaha) up a storm for our last January episode of 2026.  

So, rambling introductions aside (we like those around here, can’t you tell) this episode is all about a new David Bowie documentary. I think we agree on how to pronounce Boiwe, so that’s good. But what isn’t good is how scant our knowledge is of the Starman’s discography. But then again, does this allow for a bit more enjoyment and novelty for us when watching this documentary, as opposed to when we watched It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley last week with such geeky knowledge of Jeff Buckley informing our view of every talking head’s anecdote and musical choice of the director. We shall see. In this episode. Will we come out of it bigger Bowie fans? More Bowie-curious? Will one of us decide to do a reverse-chronological Bowie-deep-dive while the other feels ready to at least give a few more songs, if not an album at some point (shout out Black Star, always) a try? We shall see. Will we ever review albums on this podcast again? Oh boy, on that one … we really *will* see soon. Hopefully. Six seasons and a patreon, six seasons and patreon. We can’t give everything away. 

You can watch David Bowie Final Act here. Channel 4 baby. We love you so much: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/bowie-the-final-act

Lets read Lazarus by as it covers the same ground as the film and is apparently very good: https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Lazarus-The-Second-Coming-of-David-Bowie/Alexander-Larman/9781917923446

Let’s watch the Jeremy Paxman interview in full, as I did right before we recorded! As Goldie said, it might be one of his best ever interviews. And yes, Bowie did so many interviews over the years that might be just as high praise as calling one of his albums his best ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiK7s_0tGsg

You can read an interview with the director of the film Jonathan Stiasny on the Independent here: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/david-bowie-final-act-documentary-blackstar-b2893850.html

You can watch the performance of Life On Mars at Glastonbury 2000 that the film highlights here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJB24LVx6fw

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: The bit where Christopher was like “wait do we keep calling it Starman … I think the song is actually called Life On Mars”. Lol good catch. 

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Hey podcast fans! And Jeff Buckley fans. We insist you all be both. You can’t be one without the other. Do you understand? Can you compute that?? What is your major malfunction numbnuts?? Ok, good, you agree?? Good. Well then. You did it and you’re here … you’re here in the world of Jeff Buckley fandom. We love that for you and we love that for us and WE LOVE THAT! WELCOME! 

Okay. Sorry about all that. I didn’t mean to get so angry like Jeff Buckley singing Eternal Life, I meant to be loving and tender like Jeff Buckley singing Everybody Here Wants You. Come back to us and let us make it up to you like Jeff Buckley signing Lover You Should've Come Over And now we can pay tribute to the goat Jeff Buckley like Jeff Buckley paid tribute to the goat Leonard Cohen singing Hallelujah. 

It's a CCCAH rite of passage. Hearing the boys talk about Buckley. Finally. We love him so, you know. And we have done for decades. But hey, that doesn't necessarily mean we'll love the film ... so stay tuned. Stick around. Anyone could win this one. But mainly me, I think I'd like to win this one.

The official website for the film It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley. Love the comma there, always love a well placed comma in a title: https://www.magpictures.com/jeffbuckley/

Watch the documentary in High Wycombe like Christopher advised hehe: https://www.odeon.co.uk/films/it---s-never-over--jeff-buckley/HO00008314/?cinema=915

Or watch it in Soho with an Amy Berg Q&A like I advised hehe: https://www.curzon.com/films/it-s-never-over-jeff-buckley/HO00006758/

The Director’s Club Substack reviews the film here: https://directorsclub.substack.com/p/neverover

The absolutely awesome music journalist and interviewer Kyle Meredith talked to the director Amy Beg about the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgcdoOA_TeA

Check out the work of Merri Cyr (whose book “A Wished For Song” we reference and the photographer whose archive provides the bulk of extra material for this film): https://www.merricyr.com/

Give Merri’s beautiful Tumblr a scroll … and see all the sick limited edition merch we have missed out on from years gone by: https://www.tumblr.com/merricyr

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: The bit when my microphone cut out and then we both looked at each other realising the whole hour recording was potentially about to go to waste … and we were just like … ok whatever, let’s wrap this bad boy up hahahaha so listen out to a very air-sucked-out-of-the-room vibe for the last couple of the minutes of the pod … and questionable audio on my end lol. 

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You did it, you’re here, you’re live without fear. Or you live without fear. Both. Let’s say you do both. Just like us. Here on this show. The triple C. The A to the H. Where we appraise for an hour. Where the culture flows freely and well because we are artists and the content is consumed and disseminated because we live in a capitalist society. 

We continue to discuss art every week, whether it makes us lol (comedy) or weep (tragedy) or anything in between (probably a magazine). And as much as we continue to discuss things … we never really get to any definitive conclusions, with our most favourite finds anyway, now do we? As Alyson Stanfield said “The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you”. Wow Alyson. You must have listened to us blathering on about stuff we like. Thank you for listening. 

Anyway this week we (the boys) are discussing another stand up comedy. It’s called Rory Scovel Live Without Fear. It’s about a man called Rory … living without fear or something. This one is a hybrid of a thing. A half special half documentary, and it lives for free on YouTube. Which all the other platforms should sit up and take a bit of notice of … hear that, stupid platforms that cost a lot … FREE! 

We love stand up comedy. And funny things. And laughing. Will Rory join our hall of fame of comedians we will one day see live? Our definitive answer is, of course, as always … perhaps! 

Watch Rory Scovel Live Without Fear here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvXhCayQXkc

Watch Rory Scovel with my favourite opening twenty seconds of any late night stand up segment ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtxnPZ_na6A&t

Watch Rory Scovel talk to Mike Birbiglia about telling the truth on stage and doing abstract painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APHjfXRnNa4

Watch Rory Scovel talk to Mike Birbiglia again but this time about his creative process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei6i8mVagmc

Watch part 1 of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedian documentary from 2002. A kind soul uploaded it to YouTube in parts so you can watch the whole thing if you know how to be cool and use YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmeytp9I4rI

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: All the lols and lmaos ofc. 

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It’s a Stranger Things finale special! We simply had to do it. Because we share a lot of things in common with Stranger Things. Ultimately, across years and years of episodes … our show is also a show about growing up. A real coming-of-age story, if you will. Just don’t ask for a numerical value of said age. And also … despite all manner of tangents and unexplored B-stories, the true meaning of both Stranger Things and the Cultural Content Consumption Hour is obviously: friendship. Awwww. So there. Eat that, haters. 

Do we have any fun for you in the show notes today or what? Firstly, we have joined the internet discourse just saying all the things about the Duffer brothers. ALL THE THINGS. Well not all the things. The internet is on a mad one, as ever. We’re barely saying some of the things. Scratching the surface of some of the things. But good, we deserve our say also. On this day of all days, a week after the finale dropped … and, the day after secret episode was supposed to drop: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrk83qt

Hahaha remember when there was supposed to be a secret album after The King of Limbs? Lol. 

And also, we got to get into our feels! Love a series finale! Love some zeitgeist! And after literal *years* of hosting a cultural review show together, we love suddenly talking about the last episode of a show that we have both watched the entirety of that we have somehow never talked about before!

Welcome to … *the last special* … for now? TO BE CONTINUED!

Variety’s chat with the Duffer brothers sheds some light: https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/stranger-things-finale-is-eleven-alive-vecna-killed-rock-spinoff-1236621528/

Finn Wolfhard directed a George Harrison video. That’s 1 more song by a Beatle he’s directed a video for than any of us have so fair play mate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0d_P11B6Tg

The My Mom’s Basement boys talk about the Stranger Things with more of a vibes and details approach as opposed to our vibes, some whimsy and more vibes one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZDPGV8V3vg

Taskmaster announcement vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OP6DuihCnk

Kumail is sad about Eternals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x19a62o1Co&t=10s

Tweet of the week via Ryan Satin: https://x.com/ryansatin/status/2007219967687831706

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher went in on Jonathan Byers. He called him “wet” lol. If Christopher had been a character in fictional Hawkins and given Jonathan that kind of guff on the show, he basically would have been the high school bully! Winona Ryder would have kicked his ass!! We can dream, I guess.  

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We have been on the craziest run of specials and we have been having a hell of a time. But this is the crown jewel. This is the grandest stage of ‘em all of podcast specials. It’s The Year That Wasn’t Awards … again! The 3rd annual YTWAs! Also known as the FOMOs! That’s right. We’re fomosexuals. And this is our pride parade! 

Mainly we’ll all remember this episode as the episode where Christopher took some convincing (pre-pod) and roasting (during the pod) that this is in fact our third awards show rather than our second. Big lols folks. Big ones. Do you reading this recall our first two? Of course you do, you’re a seasoned and longtime shownotes reader … *big eyes emoji*. 

Once again there will be 4 awards, each in 3 different overarching categories: movies, music and gigs/events. Do you have any winners of your own personal YTAs you’d like to share? Have a gander at our socials below and I’m almost sure you’ll get a shout out in a future ep. Happy new year, both to those of you who are new to this, and to those of you who are true to this! Six seasons and a Patreon gang. See you soon. 

THE YTW in MOVIES

Movie you wish had been made

Movie you wish you had seen

Movie you wish we had seen together (‘we’ being your pod co-host, “partner” or bestie … not the Pluribus kind of ‘we’ haha) 

Movie/celebrity story you wish had happened

THE YTW in MUSIC

Musical artist you wish had released an album

Musical artists you wish had collaborated on an album

Musical artist you wish had written a book

Musical artist you wish made a triumphant comeback

And THE YTW in GIGS/EVENTS

Gig you wish had happened this year

Gig you wish you had attended

Gig you wish we had attended together (again, the nice we!)

Story in entertainment you wish had happened

And finally, one CP (Cultural Prediction) and one CR (Cultural Resolution). 

If you were expecting to find the tweet of the week here I can only apologise. That was the tweet of the week last year when we recorded. But now it’s the new year when you’re hearing this. So it got lost in the space time continuum or something. 

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher checked out beingcharliekaufman.com and low key remembered that this exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMMEkZdCPT4

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That’s right. We did it again. You thought we had said our piece. Music and movies. The two … things! All the bases covered. Goodnight and God bless. Good bye and good luck. But no! Of course not! Of course “no”! Because the trifecta requires trifecta-completion. Wouldn’t exactly be a trifecta without a third thing, now would it!? I hear you saying “you never claimed this would be a trifecta” from the outset but hey, hey there, hey now … shush our beautiful and darling listener. We have some listing to do. It is time to make our famous top 5 list. We are bringing the power of both of these minds together to assemble a co-signed top 5 Christmas-themed tv show episodes ever. 

Will next year be tv adverts or will next year be the beginning of a every-three-years-we-will-circle-back and revisit movies, songs and now tv-show-episodes in that order? Only time will tell. Listen, the main thing is, Santa did you a solid. No one has to know there were serious discussions about having a Christmas break for the first time this year. In that same way that all the kiddos out there don’t need to know the reality that Santa and his elves nearly call it off every single year! How could they not!? It is the biggest faff ever, all this Christmas stuff. But no, we don’t need to know all that. We’ll just enjoy our Christmas presents. And we hope you enjoy our list today. And we look forward to you lambasting us for missing out on this or that! 

The last two years we used TimeOut to centre our picks around and to give us some context. But this year, we got in bed with IMDB. And we’re ok with it. The list is wild and the public who vote in them are even wilder but hey. We stan OGs: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls053785135/

We also referred to Netflix telling us things: https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/christmas-tv-episodes-on-netflix

Reddit tried to get involved and all: https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1pbcwk5/which_shows_have_the_best_christmas/

Wait WHO ARE TV LINE: https://www.tvline.com/2050353/best-christmas-sitcom-episodes/

But ok, let’s get on with it … if you’re ok with our top 5 being spoiled … check out our picks here via a veritable five-day advent calendar of random links!

At number 1: https://www.avclub.com/the-simpsons-marge-be-not-proud-1798180074

At number 2: https://www.livesinabox.com/friends/season2/209towpd.htm

At number 3: https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/community-season-2-episode-11-review-abeds-uncontrollable-christmas/

At number 4: https://archive.org/details/a-charlie-brown-christmas_202312

At number 5: https://nerdist.com/article/a-look-back-at-the-simpsons-roasting-on-an-open-fire/

The best Simpsons Christmas episodes are ranked here (thanks Collider): https://collider.com/the-simpsons-best-christmas-episodes-ranked/

Community’s Christmas episodes are ranked here (you again, eh Collider!? What are you like): 

https://collider.com/community-christmas-episodes-ranked/

The best Friends Christmas episodes are ranked here (COLLIDER!): https://collider.com/best-friends-christmas-episodes-imdb/

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So your boys saw The Dung Beatles live! It’s been quite a year and you have very much made the nice list having tuned in for all manner of episodes, whether they be regular or special. So your stocking stuffer this year … is as much a surprise to you (the receivers) as it is to us (the givers)! A review show of one of the premier Beatles tribute bands in the UK: The Dung Beatles. Follow along with the episode and see the set list below; one Christmas cracker to whoever can tell us where exactly in the sequence of songs played Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon fitted in. With one missing song for you the dear listener to step up and help us out with, the set list was captured perfectly and performed beautifully too. The CCCAH Surprise Christmas show is here. If you want it. 

The Dung Beatles’ gorgeous little website can be found here: https://www.thedungbeatles.co.uk/

Are we all getting tickets to the Revolver anniversary show in October? Of course we are and see you there. In fact, see you in the group chat we’ll obviously make a week or two before the thing: https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/the-dung-beatles-60th-anniversary-of-revolver/aylesbury-waterside-theatre/

Here are all the other gigs taking place at the Waterside Theatre in Aylesbury. Which is your fave? I like the look of The Divine Comedy to be honest. Maybe some theatre. Maybe Marillion if they weren’t so damn expensive: https://www.atgtickets.com/venues/aylesbury-waterside-theatre/

As discussed, even at Watersmeet in Rickmansworth, the amount of tribute bands on the docket is a veritable future-fomos list of acts to behold: https://www.watersmeet.co.uk/live-shows

Here is the BBC talking about which bands began as tribute bands and cover bands: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/38rJrt2ZVRlXCzXCZbBGTlH/ten-huge-bands-who-started-out-as-tribute-or-covers-acts

Dung Beatles St. Mary’s Church December set list: 

1) I Should Have Known Better 

2) Tell Me Why 

3) I Feel Fine

4) Misery

5) Help

6) You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away

7) I Need You

8) You’re Gonna Lose That Girl

9) I’ve Just Seen A Face

10) Norwegian Wood

11) I’m Only Sleeping

12) Here There and Everywhere 

13) Hello Goodbye 

14) Two Of Us

15) Across The Universe

16) Every Night by Paul McCartney

17) Imagine by John Lennon 

18) Band On The Run by Paul McCartney

19) Here Comes The Sun

20) While My Guitar Gently Weeps 

INTERMISSION

21) Live and Let Die by Paul McCartney

22) Got My Mind Set On You by George Harrison

23) Act Naturally 

24) The Word

25) If I Needed Someone

26) Taxman

27) Eleanor Rigby

28) Paperback Writer 

29) Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

30) With A Little Help From My Friends

31) Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

32) Oh Darlin’

33) I’ve Got A Feeling

34) Helter Skelter 

35) Get Back

36) She Loves You

37) I Want To Hold Your Hand

38) A Hard Day’s Night

39) Can’t Do That

40) I Saw Her Standing There

ENCORE

41) Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End

42) Hey Jude

Thank you for a beautiful show boys. And for loving what you do. It truly comes across. More of this energy in 2026 and beyond! Off pod and on.

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Well, we still haven’t sold our souls to hit monkeys! And our Patreon era beckons. But for now … it’s Christmas time! Can you believe it’s back already!? I for one certainly cannot. And yet here we are. And on your podcast advent-calendar, there are barely any left episodes left until your favourite time of the year: a Christmas special and a Fomo awards. Yay! It’s beginning to look a lot like podcast Christmas! Enjoy all these episodes that are free and not paywalled while it’s still Season 6 and #REVIEW1THING and you can! 

Today we get into all of it. It’s another banner day for results and fans of WHO ACTUALLY WON THE EPISODE so stay tuned until the very end, even if you find all the pre-finding-out-the-result chat absolute nonsense and irrelevant. 

Vince Gilligan has returned to television. Much like Mozart once returned to music and Shakespeare once returned to the theatre. If the internet (and Christopher!) are to be believed! He is back with a show about … well … something. I’m sure our in-episode synopsising while suffice! Completely unassisted by AI. That’s right folks. This show was made by humans. 

Watch the Pluribus pilot here: https://tv.apple.com/gb/show/pluribus/umc.cmc.37axgovs2yozlyh3c2cmwzlza

Tweet of the week (Bob is begging for a live special in 2026 and I am here to oblige tbh): https://x.com/bobdylan/status/1989034016033628651

Oh no! Pluribus does in fact have its own podcast!! WELP!!! I guess I will not actually be enjoying the rest of this show hahahahahahaha: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pluribus-the-official-podcast/id1846198705

The good people of Reddit who are interested in screenwriting were talking about the pilot here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/1ous7ze/what_makes_the_pluribus_pilot_so_special/

This is the character Carol from Pluribus doing her own (kayfabe!) Reddit AMA. Amazing concept and very fun execution, if you’re up for really diving in: https://www.reddit.com/r/tvPlus/comments/1p1lnf4/im_carol_sturka_author_of_bloodsong_of_wycaro_ask/

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Long live years of discovering new music and new things, in every which way! Welcome to a podcast reviewing a magazine full of reviews! We will finally reach peak meta when Mojo reviews us reviewing them. There will be a day, mark my words. Until then, I suppose we’ll just carry on reviewing things that review things without being reviewed by those things in return necessarily. Sigh. Maybe if we exclusively review things from decades gone by we will eventually get noticed by them. Or rather, twenty years after the podcast ends, but leaves in its wake a slew of pale imitations that take over the podcasting landscape. 

But really, we are really happy magazines are still around. Please continue to stay around. Even if your super in-depth nature made it tricky for our rinky dink podcast to cover every inch of the coverage you provided us (especially since one of us had a hard out on the record today … hi!) we are still very much grateful for your existence. As we are wont to do, let’s talk about you. 

Mojo lives here on what the kids call a “website”: https://www.mojo4music.com/

You can consider subscribing to Mojo here. Join us in becoming readers of things over scrollers of things, preferably with a nice coffee and in your book nook: https://www.mojo4music.com/subscription/

This is the magazine we’re reviewing this week. Order a copy. Read the second half and join us on a future Patreon special (along with a special where I watch the correct episode of Drag Race! We will call them the REVENGE OF THE CONTENT SPECIALS) where we cover all the things we didn’t get round to today, from Terry Reid and Bob Dylan/the free CD to The Who and all the reviews: https://www.mojo4music.com/magazine/latest-issues/mojo-384-november-2025-bob-dylan/

Think Floyd still exist! Woo hoo: https://www.thinkfloyd.net/gigs

We discussed Tim Burgess and his work with The Charlatans and having referenced enjoying a Charlatans performance about two decades ago, I’ve decided, I am done with dismissing them. He seems awesome and the MOJO interview was great. I’m gonna try them out and start with this super early single that Tim talks about making it to No. 12 in the charts the same week Oasis with Some Might Say and Blur with Country House battled for No. 1 and brought their battle for Britpop supremacy to a climax. I will be embarking on this journey (as with most journeys, to be fair) off-pod, so don’t worry Christopher … maybe worry, we’ll see … (p.s. PLEASE PITCH THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blqPQP7RPXw

We almost talked about Terry Reid! Here he is singing his song Without Expression live on The Old Whistle Test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwa7KgVuypk

Say Hello Wave Goodybe by Soft Cell (most famously covered by David Gray on White Ladder): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exdCiRPvmpU

This is the song Spiritual by Spain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf96yZ4wW2A

This is the song Spiritual by Spain, as covered by Johnny Cash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URr40jjgT7U

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IT'S THE HOUR AND A HALF SPECIAL BABY! The one we've all been waiting for. Well. We did it and we were there. We previewed it for you. We reviewed it for you. Radiohead at the 02 in 2025. This is really happening, happening. We talk you through all the things, all of them. The history, the back stories and all assorted lore drops galore. 

Radiohead are playing their first live shows in 7 years this year. And as they are our favourite band, we had to be there. And as we are your favourite podcast, we had to talk about it for you. Let’s link you up to some stuff. 

Check out Reddit for all Radiohead related news because that is how fan communities work in the modern age whether you like it or find it a bit annoying to navigate: https://www.reddit.com/r/radiohead/

The one Radiohead interview the boys did for this tour: https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/radiohead-tour-2025-interview-israel-fn0bmdzl8

Steven Hyden (an awesome rock and roll journalist I like the work of and who has written a whole book about Radiohead) wrote this article. The “article I needed” as Christopher put it: https://stevenhyden.substack.com/p/following-radioheads-weird-era-tour

Steven Hyden also talked about it all on his podcast: https://uproxx.com/indie/indiecast-radiohead-tour/

The Oasis article that was referenced: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/oasis-reunion-tour-essay-positive-masculinity-1235460198/

This is Colin Greenwood talking to Adam Buxton on the Adam Buxton podcast. Adam is on 256 episodes you know. Damn, fair play. Colin was ostensibly promoting his photography book “How To Disappear” (you know the book he signed for me when I met him at Rough Trade East and we talked about the 93 Feet East Radiohead gig I attended back in 2008; surely the CCCAH extended universe recalls me droning on and on about this … on or off-pod) but ended up talking a lot about Radiohead and low-key soft launching the 2025 tour news. The podcast wasn’t published until after the news dropped but still, I think it technically counts as the first public utterance confirming the tour that occurred outside the confines of Radiohead HQ: https://www.adam-buxton.co.uk/podcasts/82dyw29p3may2fa-dwb79-eycgn-fahgj-8yxba-c6hde-7lne6-5kthd-7a97e

This is Colin Greenwood talking to Brian Hiatt of Rolling Stone, also talking about his book, but then also fielding Radiohead questions in a much different manner to the Adam Buxton interview. An equally awesome interview, just a different vibe: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/colin-greenwood-interview-book-radiohead-reunion-tour-1235213867/

This is Colin Greenwood’s book, you should buy it if you like owning nice things: https://howtodisappearbook.com/

Of all the dozens and dozens of core texts, historical ephemera and other Radiohead-related media your boys have grown up poring over and studying over the years, I wanted to list one to close out these here shownotes. Because maybe someone has gone from Radiohead-ambivalent to Radiohead-curious by listening to us be nerds for an hour and a half. So this was one Christopher sent me right after the right concert. One that I must have watched twenty times about twenty years ago. Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcfI82NQGwQ

Also linking to The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth Of All Time as I still remember Christopher buying it so we could watch it together in his house around two decades ago and I have always wanted to rewatch it so just take this as a note-to-self lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEzMFeOCnss

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You did it, you’re magic! That’s right! The third Now You See Me (aka Now You See Three aka Now You Don’t See Me So What Is It Exactly You’re Seeing Then) has come out this week so of course your boys are out here IN PODCAST LAND reviewing the first Now You See Me. It is pretty much ONLY SPOILERS. It is another Spoiler Special. We spoil the film early and then we continue to spoil specific scenes, big reveals, the whole shebang. Depending on where you’re at with the Now You See Me trilogy, proceed accordingly.

As we will similarly answer and respond to all mysteries and questions though, the real magic on the CCCAH this week is, as ever … the magic of … friendship. N’aww.  

Listener, once upon a time … Boaz Yakin and Edward Ricourt came up with a story. Then Ed Solomon, Boaz Yakin and Edward Ricourt wrote a screenplay. And finally Louis Leterrier directed a film. That film, ladies and gentlemen? Now You See Me. Then about twelve years later I watched it on Dailymotion while Christopher went to the movies to see the third film on the big screen and then your boys did a podcast covering it all. Bada bing bada boom, abracadabra son!  

You know what, just read the film’s Wikipedia instead of watching the film fuck it lol (if we didn’t do enough spoiling and plot talk for ya): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_You_See_Me_(film)

Jesse Eisenberg spoke about the new film Now You See Me Now You Don’t on Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Fallon found what Jesse Eisenberg was talking about very entertaining tbh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkXz_-paavg

For Roger Ebert dot com, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky gave “Now You See Me” 3 stars (out of 4) and the film was listed as a “Thriller”: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/now-you-see-me-2013

For Roger Ebert dot com, Matt Zoller Seitz gave “Now You See Me 2” 2 stars (out of 4) and the film was listed as “Crime”: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/now-you-see-me-2-2016

For Roger Ebert dot com, Matt Zoller Seits gave “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” 2 and a half stars (out of 4) and the film was listed as “Action”: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/now-you-see-me-3-now-you-dont-film-review-2025

First tweet of the week: https://x.com/politicalmath/status/1989916297040466104 

Second tweet of the week: https://x.com/FilmUpdates/status/1990100408111698128

Quote tweet of the week (which is a tweet quote-tweeting the aforementioned second tweet of the week): https://x.com/holdenfordfocus/status/1990196081939095575

Third tweet of the week: https://x.com/themichaelcaine/status/1954212537974628665

Fourth tweet of the week: https://x.com/themichaelcaine/status/1950575825708859891

Fifth tweet of the week: https://x.com/IhabHassane/status/1950581150012919915

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Remember when you were gassed about The Traitors? Well good, that means you’re ready for our episode CHOCK FULL OF SPOILERS! Because, you guessed it, we’re late to the party baby! And almost fashionably so, with my fresh haircut and Christopher’s new slicked back look (the curtains have been tamed today folks! Future patreon video-viewers get it) we’re out here being FAITHFUL to our listeners. One episode a week. And this one is a bit … special.

The Celebrity Traitors was a national phenomenon. So a week after it all ended, we’re here to hash it out. We love hashing things out! And this week it’s all things this first UK season of The Celebrity Traitors … but more specifically the finale, as both of us are fully aware of throughout the duration of the episode! Ahem. Like every roundtable, this episode is an emotional rollercoaster. I’m just hoping no one gets banished and we’re back to normal next week! 

Watch the finale of The Celebrity Traitors here on iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002ltcc/the-celebrity-traitors-series-1-9-finale

Watch the finale of The Celebrity Traitors Uncloaked here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002lvf9/the-celebrity-traitors-uncloaked-series-1-9-finale

Watch a fun clip of all the cast reacting to the final roundtable here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWROjyBYUv0

Apologies there is no supercut yet, on behalf of the BBC. But for now, I give you my favourite clip of a faithful reacting to who the traitors are from the big dog/national treasure himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMbk3SR4eqU

Watch Richard Osman and Marina Hyde of The Rest is Entertainment reacting to the finale here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW3O-czTJTY

Remember when I first tried to pitch the finale and got the timings all wrong … : https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/a69070062/the-celebrity-traitors-finale-date/

Check out these amazing Traitors-related stats and updates though: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/the-celebrity-traitors-viewers-so-far-finale-date-confirmed

Check out these thoughts on the darker side of the show and why that appeals to us here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg42rjjv4zo

Tweet of the week … from a few weeks back … shout out Noel getting the bag on Bake Off but making a bit more sense on Buzzcocks … which we’re all okay with being back and around still … yep, that sums up the feelings lol: https://x.com/therealnoelyg/status/1976403704518685022

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We miss having guests on! Where are you at, future guests!? We hope you’re getting your pitches, scores and guesses ready. There are so many off-points to … accumulate (right Christopher?) and … archive (right Jonny?) so someone can … win the whole show at the end of time? Me, hopefully. Anyway lol we can’t wait to have you on. You, that’s right you. If you can prove you’ve read this far into the end of the show notes you are automatically invited on to the podcast as a special guest. Screenshot this portion of the shownotes and send it to us and we’ll organise the episode. First one to do it gets an episode! Hahahaha … if someone reminds us of this many years from now that will be even funnier to be fair.

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Now you hear my brand spanking new and expensive recording equipment … now you don’t! Crying emojis for days. 

This is like a comprehensive Aaron Sorkin episode, we cover everything. Well, in a very CCCAH way we cover everything. We comprehensively cover everything related to our feelings about Aaron Sorkin … in relation to this pilot, primarily. But we could not get round to my feelings on A Few Good Men or The West Wing in full or Christopher’s feelings on Moneyball or Molly’s Game in full. But like all good things with the CCCAH … we may or may not get round to them eventually. It is entirely at the discretion of the pitcher. Whoever has the pitching ball or throwing object in their adjudicated and cordoned-off area of pitching.  

Don’t piss me off with your BBCs and Sky Atlantics and HBOs and Chat GPTs, just buy a thing for fucks sake. The extras (including the audio commentary referred to in the episode today and does not seem to be hiding anywhere online as a little audio file) are a thing to behold: https://hmv.com/store/film-tv/blu-ray/the-newsroom-the-complete-series

You can watch Aaron Sorkin’s first foray into television “Sports Night” in full on YouTube! The whole damn show is here in a nice and handy playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqXXN2_wcRIfIGD_tbwmhvr8WnDEE4zNS

You can watch the theme song of The Big Bang Theory here just like I did … something something everything everywhere sitcom characters on a couch, good. That was the gist of it. For what the show is, it didn’t suck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQjF0-T45dQ

You can watch, listen to and otherwise enjoy the theme song of The Newsroom here. I enjoyed it just fine. Christopher almost docked it a FULL ON POINT might be his hottest take of all time if he’d stuck to that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yulGicUzS4

Strictly theme song baby: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_YIfXw77yQ

Speaking of, here is some juicy Strictly goss: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/strictly-come-dancing-tess-daly-holly-willoughby-b2858011.html

The Guardian Review of Lily Allen’s new album is here. Is it more about music or David Harbour? Let’s all find out together and give it a read and maybe even listen to the album (that’s right, even if it continues to go unpitched): https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/24/lily-allen-west-end-girl-a-gobsmacking-autopsy-of-marital-betrayal

Jeff Daniels spoke about how much his speech in the opening scene of The Newsroom saved his career: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/jeff-daniels-hbo-newsroom-speech-saved-career-1235033615/

Read the speech here: https://speakola.com/movie/jeff-daniels-sorkin-newsroom-2012

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher said “that could be a lie, I’m just saying it for “effect” like it “could” be you know hahaha! And of course the confusion between Integrated Development Environment and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Acronyms can be tricky man. We know all about that here on the CCCAH!

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Welcome to the show, fans of off-points and points-off alike! You’ll never believe what we have in store for you today! Yet another edition of The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour! Another #REVIEW1THING edition. Season six. The most controversial of seasons. Famously, most podcasts last an average of six seasons before … joining up with Patreon and absolutely blowing up! So get excited now and stay excited, for the countdown to season 7 has well and truly begun. 

What will Season 7 look like in the newest of new eras do you reckon? Let’s speculate in the shownotes. No one reads them so why not. Could it be a continuation of #REVIEW1THING that those who are NEW to the show clearly adore? Or a return to the classic #REVIEW2THINGS format that those who are TRUE to the franchise have been inexplicably missing? Or even a new fangled format no one could even predict. that those in a prospective future audience of millions (made up of those who are both NEW to us AND TRUE to us) would love!? Well, suffice to say, with all these spinning plates … it's hard to see a smooth journey to season 27 episode 3. But hey, that’s funny - that’s *exactly* where South Park got to for this episode we’re reviewing today. So stop worrying about the long term future of your favourite podcast and enjoy this current episode. Happy Halloween.  

Watch this episode of South Park here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/South-Park-Season-27/dp/B0FJFKZZTZ

Josh Rosenberg wrote a really fun review of this episode for Esquire: https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/tv/a65869536/south-park-season-27-episode-3-recap/

The boys over on the Blind Wave YouTube channel react to this episode in live time to the cool tune of 75k views … yep, we at HQ with our more considered post-game punditry, talking points and takes are being squeezed out by the LIVE REACTIONS BODY POLITIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVglttUOieQ

The post-show discussion on the official South Park Reddit is thriving. So is the review-discourse around this episode! From YouTube and establishment magazines to reddit and unheralded podcasts such as ourselves. We are privileged to be smack dab in the middle of the zeitgeist: https://www.reddit.com/r/southpark/comments/1mvxpho/season_27_episode_3_sickofancy_post_episode/

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When we thought we were done and the next pitch had been so carefully coordinated with diaries/schedules … only for one of us (who do you reckon?) to realise in the nick of time (quick, the ending theme just started!) that The Traitors (spoiler!!) might require a whole special instead. And so we pivot, literally interrupting the end theme to do so. Oh well. Not like we’re lacking for pitches. And not like we haven’t been trying (and failing? Failing better?) to improv together since a fabled journey to New York for improv classes about 20 years ago. Maybe the lesson here is … there are no accidents. No fuck ups even, pardon my language. Like jazz! As Miles Davis said: "It's not the note you play that's the wrong note—it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong." Maybe ... without the botched initial pitch ... we never would have thought we owed you a FULL Traitors special? Starting to think this "botch" might have been planned all along ...

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You did it and you’re here you c**kmunchers! We are so happy to have you. It’s Thursday, you know what that means. If you’re in England, we hope you are getting through the day with all the rain and winds in one piece with us providing some fun audio content in your headphones. And if you’re not in England, I hope you’re laughing at us for moaning about the weather as per usual lol.

Here is our tweet of the week for some weather-based, yellow warning flavoured context: https://x.com/MetMattTaylor/status/1980858284442636386

Today we’re reviewing the pilot of the show Peep Show. As with most things these days, this pilot premiered on the television over twenty years ago. For fucks sake. We are somehow maintaining our stance of: we are not becoming a Celebrity Traitors recap podcast. That’s right. It’s twenty year old sitcoms for your boys! But don’t worry, we’ll spoil the whole thing and recap every moment for you. That’s right: Chris is doing notes, Chris is doing notes, everybody quiet cos Chris is doing notes! And then we’ll do a sidebar on the Traitors and also spoil that shit for ya hahahah new catchphrase just dropped: The CCCAH Spoils Everything! 

So Peep Show. You can watch the pilot here on Netflix (sorry Channel 4, RIP): https://www.netflix.com/watch/70216232

The audio commentary by David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Jesse Amstrong and Sam Bain can be found here. This is a link to the first video out of three but you will find parts two and three on the YouTube channel/in the related videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbxgoH_CMK4

This is the aforementioned four lads discussing the show last year live on the BFI stage. This event should have won all the Fomo Awards last year … how do those work again? Gotta start prepping for the 2025 edition from now haha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwO1HP7ZS-c

There is (because of course there is) a fun recap podcast for Peep Show with the great name Podcast Secrets of the Pharoahs and this is their episode recapping the pilot: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s1-ep1-warring-factions/id1445150030?i=1000424868838

There are so many articles about the legacy of Peep Show that have been published in the last few years especially. A lot of cultural appraisals of the show, which we of course appreciate. This is a personal fave of mine. It’s an oral appraisal, of sorts! Love an oral appraisal (of sorts): https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/sep/18/the-scripts-were-the-funniest-things-id-ever-read-the-stars-of-peep-show-look-back-20-years-later

Watch Jeffrey’s preferred post Traitors fare here, with Ed Gamble and Uncloaked on iPlayer here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002kksc/the-celebrity-traitors-uncloaked

Watch Christopher’s preferred post Traitors fare here, with Richard Osman and Marina Hyde and The Rest Is Entertainment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDnaqQesFHI

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Or HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND NEARLY REVIEW … THE CONCEPT OF TURNING ON THE RADIO FOR A BIT? 

Well well well dear listeners and future Patreon and/or YouTube subscribers. You who visit our website cccappraisalhour.show on a weekly basis and continue to draft an e-mail to us at cccappraisalhour@gmail.com waiting for the day when you’re ready to say “long time first time” and holler at your boys. You’re in for a treat! 

Today is an episode about what it is in 2025 to discover new art, new music. Much like an important philosophical thesis on the nature of art in the context of the age of consumerism, we boil it down to a few cogent conclusions: understanding yourself is key. With this said, occasionally pushing yourself into unfamiliar or uncomfortable territory is key for growth. A lifelong (and sometimes annoying!) friend who won’t shut up about trying something new is a fun way to engage with life and the aforementioned pushing yourself and is certainly much better than AI. And finally: sometimes turn on the radio. But hey, this episode is also just us chatting absolute bollocks as per. Enjoy. 

Huw Stephens is a DJ and on the 1st of October presented an edition of his show on BBC Radio 6, featuring an interview with Kieran Hebden and William Tyler. As of the posting of this podcast, there are 15 more days during which you can listen to it on BBC Sounds too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002jvbz

Here is another show by Huw Stephens (available for 14 more days) featuring Robert Plant’s edition of “The Lyrics That Floored Me” and Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War” as mentioned on our show today: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002jv7w

A fun interview with Huw Stephens talking about music discovery can be listened to here: https://byta.com/howwelisten/podcast/a-conversation-about-music-discovery/

Kieran Hebden and William Tyler’s album 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s can be listened to here: https://music.apple.com/us/album/41-longfield-street-late-80s/1809421971

As it was the first song that prompted the opening of the Shazam app and one that both your intrepid co-hosts enjoyed, it is definitely worth a link in the ol’ shownotes! This is "Stitches” by HAAi (feeling like Huw Stephens now, introducing them like this lol maybe the CCCAH should be more of a radio show …): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOENoX1c0VI

As I can’t seem to stop bringing up his chat with Ezra Klein, let me update the Kyle Chayka references with a talk he gave at the Verbier Art Summit earlier this year covering all the topics! You know the ones, our favourite ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3rOZwmih7U&t=16s 

Watch the first episode of the Celebrity Traitors here. It seems like this is the year we’re all watching together, finally: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002kk0d/the-celebrity-traitors-series-1-episode-1

Watch the first episode of Strictly here too! I’m telling you! Might as well: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002k7dp/strictly-come-dancing-series-23-week-1

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: As we were enjoying yet another morning recording like the true professionals we are, we waited for the sun to come up and for it to get less dark but it turns out no … it was just a miserable day! Is that a metaphor for anything? Dunno. 

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Welcome welcome film fans! Fans of movies about making movies! Are you also fans of documentaries about making movies? I know some of you are even fans of podcasts about making podcasts (shout out our K-Pop Demon Hunters episode lol, iykyk) because I am. Listening to them anyway, not recording them necessarily lol. 

This week we are watching a documentary based on a book by Peter Biskind. We all discuss many other things. Tangents and sidebars galore. Even the Culturally Current Cold AND HOT takes you’ve all come to adore, squeezing the 30 second game out of the cold open in this case. We have everything you need to know about the new Taylor album on tap too, because we’re being timely as ever (outside of the main thing we’re reviewing of course). So much CINEMA_Martin_Scorsese.Gif this season, am I right? We love to see it. You love to listen to it. Let’s start the show. 

Watch Easy Riders, Raging Bulls here on YouTube for FREE FREE FREE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqVzFEeMVOQ

Watch the additional footage from Easy Riders, Raging Bulls here, ALSO FREE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiimIw1DXA8

Hey, let’s look at the state of current cinema now! RedLetterMedia are here to bum us out with their video entitled “Original Movies in 2025 Oops, All Flops!”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Jwv40MkiY

This is a Guardian article covering the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia that we speak about, although the writer Seth Simons doesn’t know about my great idea to get Aaron Sorkin to make a movie about it (omg who is going to be the comedian that actually ends up changing their mind about it in real life and making a big song and dance of changing their mind about it, thus becoming the de-facto hero of the Sorkin film): https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/sep/30/riyadh-comedy-festival-saudi-arabia

This is the famous clip of Preston from the Ordinary Boys being very roasted by Simon Amstell on Never Mind The Buzzcocks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UewCI6dtHss

Watch Sean Penn telling Jimmy Kimmel (much to Christopher’s bewilderment) about Putin and some other things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0eQJ9sodxY

Speaking of The Dung Beatles, here is a list of the best Beatles tribute bands, written in 2022. Hopefully next time, Dung lads: https://www.protributebands.com/the-top-15-best-beatles-tribute-bands/

Here is our tweet of the week! It made Christopher laugh. Shout out Charli XCX and Taylor, just … calm down a bit lol: https://x.com/seethewestwme/status/1973742585064919151

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: The bit where Christopher pitched something … I still don’t understand … how do we score it the- … never mind. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002jvbz (maybe) 

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It’s Thursday morning, you know what that means! It means it’s showtime baby. Let’s start the show. The show that reviews one thing. And only one thing, ever, really. And what is that one thing, ever, really? OUR OWN SELVES, REALLY, AND OUR FRIENDSHIP! As Cat Burns taught me on the Jamie Laing podcast: all relationships are but mirrors anyway. And isn’t that all that art is anyway? A process of reviewing YOUR SELF or YOUR OWN THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS on a certain subject or in certain scenarios etc etc. Sure, whatever, anyway, this isn’t the thirty second game. These are the show notes. Let’s get show-notey. It’s a podcast about a tv show about making movies *movie mogul voice*! What an opening paragraph this is. For the true to this rather than the new to this, I would think. 

So what is that one thing we're reviewing today? Today it is Seth Rogen's new show The Studio. Another pilot special. Season 6. The season of pilots. That makes sense. And it's the season of current stuff, to be fair. It has been a rip roaring start to the new era, don't you think? Nothing but pilots. It's like pilot season here on the CCCAH. Pitch us your pilot if you're working on something, we'll probably review it at this rate.

Watch the pilot of The Studio here: https://tv.apple.com/gb/episode/the-promotion/umc.cmc.4bbsfho86xgztc6to6vhma3ny?showId=umc.cmc.7518algxc4lsoobtsx30dqb52

Watch Seth Rogen accepting an Emmy for Lead Actor In A Comedy Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeKIeinqrQ0

Watch Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg accepting Emmys for Directing For A Comedy Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y__4-LJCD54

Listen to Seth Rogen talking to Sam Frogoso about The Studio here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2BtM0unZx3UqZbjDGX4U2E?si=826f2bd347164322

One of the best interviewers in the game, Howard Stern, talks to Seth Rogen about all sorts really: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uF_s7EHmCA

Here is a guardian review of The Studio: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/26/the-studio-review-seth-rogens-hollywood-satire-is-fast-furious-and-beautifully-fun

Here is our tweet of the week: https://x.com/MissSassbox/status/1968761277339038064

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: More Jonny shout outs! Shout out JVD Games! We’re going off the rails with all the stats. Check some of the out at cccappraisalhour.show 

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Our BRITISH PODCAST is reviewing AMERICAN MOVIE today! And it’s not just any American Movie … it’s THE American Movie directed by Chris Smith and released in 1999. One of the 1,000 Greatest Movies Ever Made according to the New York Times. Will we one day feature in the 1,000 Greatest Podcasts Ever Made? Or will the chronicling of our rise and fall as a podcast empire on an award winning podcast called WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CHRISTOPHER AND JEFFREY be the podcast that features on the New York Times list? Seems slightly more likely lol. Ooh maybe we should make that podcast ourselves! A parody radio-drama type thing. Like Serial but instead of important, it will be stupendously stupid. Yes, that sounds like us.  

Anyway, we are really getting into the weeds of the Review One Thing MID-SEASON … as we as a podcast-lovin’-community transition from summer (say it ain’t so, summer don’t go!) to Autumn. Just as good a time to be listening to (and producing) podcasts! So whether Review 1 Thing devolves into a Review 8 things carnival or solidifies into a concisely formatted and guest-friendly operation that rivals Off Menu, let’s enjoy Season 6 in all it’s unique glory while it is here. 

You can watch American Movie here on the best place on the internet: https://archive.org/details/american-movie-1999

The audio commentary track by Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank, Chris Smith and Sarah Price can be listened to here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D00sgYLVUM4

Mark Borchardt’s original horror short 'Coven' (shout out Northwest Productions) can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXdjDJb9rxI

Listen to our faves (thanks again Jonny!) on the Nextlander podcast talk us through their thoughts on both American Movie and Coven: https://audioboom.com/posts/8708313-american-movie-1999-and-coven-1997

A recent interview with Mark Borchardt can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWU2qFBV92c

Welcome to the new and improved Blue Sky section of the show notes … I’m not sure it will last (much like Blue Sky lol) but let’s give it a try.

Christopher Anousis lives here on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/anousis.bsky.social

Jeffrey Bahlo lives here on Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/autoheartrecord.bsky.social

Great. That went great. Anyway, moving swiftly on.

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: The bit when we finally crystallised what off points mean in terms of their accumulation and how many you need to accrue before you can hand off the silver ball of pitching and what happens when the golden ball of pitching is resplendently archived on the website https://cccappraisalhour.show … obviously, duh! A thoroughly unique points system finally sorted jeez, only took us six seasons. How does that sound, Jonny?  

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Studio-Season-1/dp/B0DRW6NKFP

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Good morning CCCAH fans! It is the hour and the hour is upon us. It is time to culturally consume and then to appraise content. It is a ritual, six seasons in, really. And as we amend the ritual to stay current and up to date with the times (#Review1Thing is thriving) we ask you to join us and watch along! Let’s slay queens, let’s eat that, let’s smash it and let’s start the show.

How are we feeling about #Review1Thing so far anyway, show fans? Anyone feeling completely vindicated yet? Speaking of complete (strong, no?) vindication: stay tuned to see what Christopher is gloating about in the show title lol. 

So has anyone ever heard of a show called The Office? Damn, that’s wild. Neither have we. Sounds boring. Well a quarter of a century since (that’s right, you read that right) Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s mockumentary first aired on the BBC, the legacy and the lineage continues with yet another Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant produced vehicle. And still, as usual, my main question is: wait, do these lads even talk to each other anymore!? Crying emojis. Four of them, even. 

This week we are reviewing season 1 episode 1 of The Paper. 

You can watch the pilot episode of The Paper here: https://www.nowtv.com/watch/the-paper/iYEQZ1vXy2NqAm8tAkLyQh/seasons/1/episodes/pilot-episode-1/A5EK5anvvYyjnA4xnKagN

You can watch Greg Daneisl, creator of the new show The Paper, talk to his friend Conan O’Brien on the popular podcast Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend about all sorts of things but mainly his life and career and their friendship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f0cyQzOK-A

Here is Mike Schur (co-creator of and showrunner for Parks and Recreation) who was last year commenting on the new Office spin off, which was at that point untitled: https://nypost.com/2024/11/20/entertainment/mike-schur-reacts-to-office-reboot-mose-schrute-reprisal/

You can read a Guardian review of the first season of The Paper by Hannah J Davies here (not the nicest): https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/05/domhnall-gleeson-the-paper-review-us-office-spinoff-dunder-mifflin

You can read a BBC review of the first season of The Paper by Caryn James here (slightly nicer): https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20250902-the-paper-review

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When we got Radiohead tickets. Off pod. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: 

https://archive.org/details/american-movie-1999

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WARNING: WE SPOIL THE WHOLE MOVIE! 

But besides that, it’s a chill episode. It warms up as it goes, maybe starts off more chill than usual lol but it definitely gets warmer as we get going. Much like the movie we review. And much like friendships in general. 

Now the question this week, really, is: are you really ready for the #ReviewOneThing era to begin in earnest? Well stay tuned then lol because we’re almost there. We’re still finding our groove, sure, finding our feet as it were. But we’re getting there. Week to week diving more and more deeply into the art we criticise and love in equal measure. 

This week is another movie week here on the progrum. The Four Seasons was written and directed by Alan Alda in 1981 and Tina Fey always meant for us to go back and discover it when she adapted it for her new series, right!? Right? And who among you are actually doing the work and doing your homework? That’s right, barely any of you! So of course we will do it for you. Of course we follow up the Cat Burns reviewing episode (super trendy singer) with this shit, right? Could we BE being any more triple-C AH, right now or what!?

Sit back and relax and don’t come to the shownotes for the scores, check out the website for the scores at cccappraisalhour.show 

You can find The Four Seasons (1981) here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Four-Seasons-Alan-Alda/dp/B01MS6EYM3

You can watch the first episode of Tina Fey’s new show The Four Seasons here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81775533

I can’t decide if the I Watched An Old Movie Reddit page makes me happy or sad. You decide for me, thanks: https://www.reddit.com/r/iwatchedanoldmovie/comments/1kz6d5u/the_four_seasons_1981/

Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, famous movie reviewers, talked about The Four Seasons in an episode of their television show talking movies from back i nthe 1980s. Check out the first seven minutes of said episode here: https://siskelebert.org/?p=7409

Nathan Rabin, famous movie reviewer, wrote a review about The Four Seaons here: https://thedissolve.com/features/forgotbusters/544-the-agonizing-dullness-of-alan-aldas-the-four-seas/

Janet Maslin, famous movie review, wrote a review of The Four Seasons here: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/22/movies/four-seasons-a-hymn-to-ordinariness.html

Special and profound show-notes-only edition of Tweet of the week: https://x.com/hrdjenniesayin/status/1965391512357007405

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When we really tried to talk about the amazingness of the one other time we had a double-homer draw episode and I still don’t think we conveyed it with the appropriate amount of awe. We were more aww shucks and we should have been more shock and awe, you know!? 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: 

https://www.nowtv.com/watch/the-paper/iYEQZ1vXy2NqAm8tAkLyQh/seasons/1/episodes/pilot-episode-1/A5EK5anvvYyjnA4xnKagN

Enjoy the competition because then again everything is. 

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Listen Cat Burns ok (a “you did it, you’re here” to you and yours) I know you’re wicked and you’re doing your thing. And the lack of capital letters is your intentional choice as a gen z artist and I respect that. But we here at the cccah and in the cccahc do things a little differently, ok? We capitalise EVERY piece of art we’re reviewing in the first line of the shownotes. It’s just the deal, ok? It’s to catch the eye and be clear and just, yeah … forgive us ok? In every other reference in this show note (and the show itself, no matter how begrudgingly) we will refer to the lack of capitals you have consciously chosen in your debut album title. I am curious. Will this continue throughout what I hope is a long and fruitful career? Or will it flame out, like so many gen z innovations seem to do? Only time will tell. 

We hope you enjoy today/s episode that answers the question so many loyal listeners have been asking for ages, namely, whether we have ever before had a (*POTENTIAL SPOILERS TO FOLLOW IN COMPLETING THIS RHETORICAL QUESTION*) draw episode consisting of two homers? Damn that’s wild. 

Listen to early twenties by Cat Burns here: https://music.apple.com/us/album/early-twenties/1735981910

Watch Cat Burns on Jamie Laing’s podcast Great Company here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FSYbwZysS0

Read this Pitchfork review of early twenties by Cat Burns here: https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/14/cat-burns-early-twenties-review-go

Read this article about the state of music criticism by Kelefa Sanneh for the New Yorker here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/01/how-music-criticism-lost-its-edge

Check out all the amazing statistics you can shake a stick at (and boy did we shake sticks at certain statistics in particular on today’s broadcast) on one of the top 5 websites Jonny Mortemore has ever made: cccappraisalhour.show 

Special and profound show-notes-only edition of Tweet of the week: https://x.com/PhilosophyOnX/status/1963409433020829825

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher almost admitted to giving something a 0 in our 1-5 score system but then refused to admit what for but then admitted it was a joke but then also maybe it wasn’t. Good stuff. Also Christopher refusing to go viral and specify who sucked at All Points East. Lame. We’re ready for beef man, we’re six seasons deep. Let's go. Off Menu podcast, where you attttttt???

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: 

https://tv.apple.com/gb/movie/the-four-seasons/umc.cmc.3th1kj6a2ld0swlnprt80t0c0

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Please skip to 12 minutes 26 seconds if you would like to skip some opening Taylor-Swift-related-faff and get right into us addressing the elephant in the room. Sure. You’re tight for time.

Additionally. Please skip to 23 minutes and 29 seconds in if you don’t necessarily want to sit in our own so-how-are-we-going-to-do-this-season pre-production meeting and would instead like to just hear us review K Pop Demon Hunters. We get you.

Welcome to Season 6 Episode 2 of The CCCAH! Or to be exact, EPISODE 2 OF THE NEW ERA/NEW LOOK/EXPERIMENTAL SEASON OF THE CCCAH! We’re out here doing things a little differently this season. But you can keep track of it all in the same place as always, the best place on the increasingly shitty internet. Our website: cccappraisalhour.show 

The scores so far this season are:

Jeff: 1 

Chris: 0

1-0. Well well well. Let’s shut up shop. Let's park the bus lads. Let’s call it a season! We have a winner! Hahahahaha … and other assorted banter etc. 

Ok but as we’re sure you’ll want to dive into all the K Pop Demon Hunters content you can shake a stick at after you listen to us talk about it … we’ll provide some handy links for you below.

Watch the film K Pop Demon Hunters here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81498621

Listen to the soundtrack for the film K Pop Demon Hunters here: https://music.apple.com/us/album/kpop-demon-hunters-soundtrack-from-the-netflix-film/1820264137

I am so sad Roger Ebert isn’t alive to review K Pop Demon Hunters lol. But at least we can read this review by Brian Tallerico featured on a website bearing his name: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-film-review-2025

Here is an article by Julie Yoonnyung Lee for the BBC chronicling how the film became a phenomenon: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20250715-the-animated-k-pop-film-that-swept-the-world

The Director of K Pop Demon Hunters Maggie Kang was interviewed by the good people at 

Asian A.V. Club and shared insightful gems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waniLC_iFHA

Here is an article about the impending nuptials of Taylor Swift and the Kelce brother that was in Happy Gilmore 2 @killatrav that is like “yayyy”: https://people.com/taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-engagement-is-a-millenial-win-11799024

And here is an article about the impending nuptials of Taylor Swift and the Kelce brother that was in Happy Gilmore 2 @killatrav that is like “yay but moreso … whyyy thooo”: https://www.vogue.com/article/personally-invested-in-taylor-swift-and-travis-kelces-engagement

Special show-notes-only edition of Tweet of the week: https://x.com/Cam_Oflage/status/1960392502776877560

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When we both thought the other one was type type typing away in the background but it was actually the sound of the RAIN … wow … we are really a rock and roll podcast if ever I’ve seen one. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S #REVIEW1THING CONTENT: 

https://open.spotify.com/album/0rnW4hH24v4j16wUbeR5Tn

And just one more time because it always bears repeating: https://www.dazn.com/en-GB/news/wrestling/what-does-kayfabe-mean-explaining-some-of-pro-wrestlings-most-confusing-phrases/1gqcwi9kk37jj19shuqqt8k9sl

Which reminds me of a close 2nd place special show-notes-only edition of Tweet of the week: https://x.com/Autoheartrecord/status/1960379524387832000

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Welcome to Season 6 of the Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour! It’s been five seasons in the making. All this lead up to #ReviewOneThing and we’re kicking it all off with … a CLASSIC #ReviewTwoThings Thing! Kneecap and Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. Two of the best new (new-ish) movies the pod has covered in a while. That’s right, spoiler: IT’S A HIGH SCORING EPISODE FOLKS! 

We also spoil both movies. And that’s a SPOILER lol. So strap in for a 30-second-game-less (had to briefly review Green Man 2025, so there is all the summer fest coverage you could shake a stick at right there) cold open and a healthy dose of how-political-are-we-going-to-get-probably-not-very discourse. Also more merch ideas. Your boys in american football helmets, anyone? 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON: 0-0! 

FUCKIN NAILED IT! 

Hahahaha. Ok that was fun. What else? 

The website *almost* got a shout out. I recall starting to say it but not getting my words out. Here is the website link in full: cccappraisalhour.show

A future, mystery birthday gift also got a shout out. Bex gets a shout out. Jonny gets a shout out. Kitty recommended Wallace and Gromit months ago and got a well deserved shout out. Friendship gets a shout out. What more could you possibly need? You did it already, you’re here already, jeez. 

Watch Kneecap here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kneecap/dp/B0DGT5M8N1

Watch the boys talking to Politics Joe here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V-YS0DbEHQ

Listen to the director of Kneecap Rich Peppiatt being interviewed here b the awesomely named The Last Video Store podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0EUSyixtbPY6QrkaDDBJIL?si=eb1790a5271c4d65

Read all about ‘Helen from Wales’ and the story behind her livestreaming Kneecap’s set: https://metro.co.uk/2025/06/29/live-streamed-kneecaps-glastonbury-set-bbc-wouldnt-23534673/

Watch Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0022179/wallace-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl

Watch Nick Park talk and Merlin Crossingham talk about Vengeance Most Fowl here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60o3PjKCZ7s

Watch animators react to Wallace and Gromit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epLe0CIWKW0

Read a review of Vengeance Most Fowl from the Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/oct/27/wallace-and-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl-review

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Christopher replying to my essay in the google doc. It was sweet. Because, as Wallace said, and I will quote him one final time today lol … “I can live without inventing … but I can’t live without … me best pal!” I think in our case podcasting is “inventing”. Love that for us. 

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

We’ll see you next week for a very SPECIAL episode ;) 

Next week’s first ever #Review1Thing pitch for the show: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81498621

And don’t forget your name it means nothing and your age it means less: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y2FuDY6Q4M

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THE BOYS MAKE A MIXTAPE TO CELEBRATE FIVE SEASONS! 

It’s another heatwave special! It’s another in-between-seasons special! It’s a music special! Is this the most special special we’ve ever special’d? The definitive answer is: YES or at least MAYBE or like at least TOP 5! 

Today we will be making a playlist for you in live time. Oh what a treat for your ears. Does it get any better? You will listen to us look back through EVERY MUSICAL PITCH WE HAVE MADE DURING THE EXISTENCE OF OUR SHOW THUS FAR and we will thoroughly examine all the options on all the albums/singles we have reviewed over the years. You will learn so much. It is basically a masterclass in the art of making a mixtape. Up there with one of the great scenes in all of cinematic history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzQwbRdh5Ts

It will end up as a cassette and/or compilation CD by the time season 6 is done and the Patreon is up and running and the merch has a top 10 selling items page, just you WAIT! But back to today’s show. It is a special-podcast-episode concept birthed by Christopher Anousis and executive produced by Jonathan Mortemore and then I sort of showed up at the end there to chat some shit about some songs.

The playlist (for the mixtape) on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qdkPjVsjoeil45ChYxuqC?si=3433c6d088fa4664

The playlist (for the mixtape) on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/the-cccah-seasons-1-5-mixtape/pl.u-1172oHEKEkx

The playlist (for the expanded version of the mixtape) on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7iUpsx5OrJ0vGaLziSucKU?si=4ea8ea59390f41c0

The playlist (for the expanded version of the mixtape) on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/the-cccah-seasons-1-5-mixtape-expanded-edition-bonus/pl.u-aZbjDsMRMK9

APOLOGIA NUMBRERO UNO: Sorry Ali/Glass Animals. When we boiled down our picks to the 26 picks, we left you off. Despite having just agreed on the inclusion after much debate. This was an oversight. Hence the last-minute addition of an expanded edition. Lol. 

APOLOGIA NUMERO DUO: To the genre of jazz, we apologise for not being in that headspace right now. You’re better than that. We’re better than that. We’ll see you at some point during seasons 6-10 and hey, maybe we’ll become a jazz band instead of a podcast we’ll end up loving you so much. Doodly doo bop doo skiddly boo boppadee dooo bahhhh … Christopher, do you want to go see Brubeck plays Brubeck or nah sonnnn: https://unionchapel.org.uk/whats-on/brubeck-plays-brubeck

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Before we started recording Christopher told some amazing stories about Ozzy Osbourne’s funeral, his review of the movie Uncut Gems, his love of the new South Park episodes and his theory behind why I do probably have a microphone stand even though I don’t think I do. This man wants all the gold to be off-pod sometimes, I don’t know what to tell you. https://unionchapel.org.uk/whats-on/brubeck-plays-brubeck

Do check out the socials for all the reference points you need, including JVD_Games branded spreadsheets (that I took screenshots of hehehe) outlining the songs we are choosing from: https://www.instagram.com/cccahour

Once we were active on Twitter too, can you fuckin believe that shit lol: twitter.com/cccappraisalpod

But no for real, e-mail us! E-mail is still just a cool thing we do, right? Musk didn’t buy it or anything, right: cccappraisalhour@gmail.com

Also hi YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhour

1 more beautiful season of cccappraisalhour/show down.

The people can’t wait for a new one.

He can’t wait. 

I can’t wait. 

Now it’s time to level up. 

Gang gang.

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Ok season 5 fans. We’re finally wrapping this shit up. Season 5 has been a controversial time, we’re not going to lie to you. We’re not going to front. Even more than in previous seasons … it’s been a shit show. But here we are. It’s the end of the season. Fucking finally. Let’s go. We’re reviewing a playlist festival. The fact that this playlist got made and pitched is such a feat of investment and generosity, almost as kudos-worthy as the surprise reveal that will cap off this, the final episode of season 5. And yeah, a movie also; the number one movie on Netflix so that is as basic-ass a pitch as we’ve ever seen. Ok, so … WTF ARE THE SCORES:

Jeffrey ahead by 1.

We think.

So if Christopher wins today. A draw.

If Jeffrey wins. A Jeffrey win.

And if the boys draw. A Jeffrey win.

STAKES! A dead rubber, low key … with A BIT OF LIFE LEFT IN THE OL’ GIRL! 

Check the cccappraisalhour.show for the accurate info and tune back into the podcast show notes next season for more accurate scorekeeping. We are going to get the good people at the cccah and the good people at the cccappraisalhour.show at the table to sit together, break bread and resolve their issues. Next year will be the year. Hashtag one thing. Hashtag one Patreon. Hashtag one pod. Five letters, one pod, uh uh: CCCAH! 

Here is the official website for the 2025 Green Man Festival: https://www.greenman.net/

Here is the playlist for Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1hD2l3VqTw17kyGYz5lexo?si=ee08888befc344bf

Here is the playlist for Apple: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/the-cccah-playlist-for-green-man-festival-2025/pl.u-e9dbKIvZvMP

Watch Happy Gilmore 2 here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81696722

BFFs Josh Richards and Bri Chickenfry interviewed the stars of Happy Gilmore 2, Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen and Christopher McDonald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVG0YRSRa5s

Mat and Ceri are two best friends who review the entire filmography of Adam Sandler! Their podcast is called the So Sandlerous Pod! I_knew it_Chandler_Friends.gif: https://open.spotify.com/show/2neDn6KZfEwAPss5FLcFGW?si=324b8e6c3d85411e

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: The screen sharing lol. 

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

We’ll see you next week for a very SPECIAL episode ;) 

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Hey there podcast fanatics! It’s time to listen to another episode of the cccappraisalhour.show

Incorrect lineal scoreline for this season says the scores are:

Jeffrey: 12

Christopher: 12

But we know that's wrong. Christopher and Jonny insist I am ahead. I am the only one saying I'm not ahead. 2025 is the weirdest year on record in so many different ways I can't deal.

Anyway.

We all know a 24th episode of a season when we see one, right? It’s giving … finale. End of an era. There is a season turn turn turn etc. But hey … maybe season 5 isn’t quite over yet … ? 

STAY TUNED AND LISTEN TO THE EPISODE BECAUSE THERE MIGHT BE MORE TO COME YET DURING THIS OVERLY LONG FIFTH SEASON OF OURS!

Hey! Is that my first ever CCCAH episode spoiler in the shownotes, kind of spoiling the insane SWERVE you will experience at the end of the episode? Well maybe. Thankfully no one reads the show notes! Hehe. And even if they did, I don’t mind. Spoilers are fun. They are inevitable. There is actually an art to riding out spoilers, engaging with them without letting them dampen your experience. And if Christopher does mind … I don’t mind that either lol; he’s used to my flagrant abuse of our spoiler/ticking rules over the years now so. He’ll live. 

Anyway, speaking of spoilers, might as well mention: we defo spoil Ricky Stanicky. You’ll live also lol!! 

Now let’s talk about watching things and laughing at things and laughing *with* each other about things and what we learned along the way (Nanette) and the mindless fun we had that also has value somehow (the Ricky one). 

Watch Nanette here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80233611

Read Hannah Gadsby talking about Nanette here: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/may/31/hannah-gadsby-you-dont-do-a-show-like-nanette-without-a-tough-shell

Read a review of Nanette by Matilda Douglas-Henry here: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/08/01/who-is-nanette/

Watch Ricky Stanicky here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ricky-Stanicky-Zac-Efron/dp/B0CQD4TGD7

Read a review of Ricky Stanicky here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/movies/ricky-stanicky-review.html

Watch interviews with the director and stars of Ricky Stanicky from the YouTube channel “The Nerds of Color” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF-GOCfCz5A

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: I continue to hold my new microphone perfectly. I only need to be told once or twice to not just lean my entire face on it when I’m having a bit of a posture-break. For the most part we’ve got placement strictly on the centre of the ol’ mouth line. And an inch from the mouth. So very Gary Neville-chic of me. 

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81696722

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1hD2l3VqTw17kyGYz5lexo?si=b97136712cbb4814

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Hello hello podcast people! This is another edition of your favourite podcast, The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour. This week we’ll be reviewing all sorts of shit. But mainly sitcoms. American sitcoms. One super old one in its first flush of life and one super new one in it’s seventeenth bloody season. So it’s all kinds of contrasts on the show this week. 

More contrasts include one tall host and one short host. Not that you can hear this on this (currently!) audio-only programme. One of us wants to have sidebars and tangents and do bits. The other one means business and wants to do the show we have promised the people we will do. One of us wants to believe the scores that are true. The other one wants to also believe those, after he learns that these scores put him slightly ahead lol. But really, only one of us wants to win the show. The other is happy just to have a show. Who is who? Actually I don’t even know anymore. But I’m sure that at this point we’re both actually kinda n’aww [insert a Zach Braff monologue regarding something life affirming over some indie rock here]. 

Now for one final time (PLEASE???) let's see the continuity of the UNOFFICIAL AND VERY WRONG SCORES:

Jeffrey: 11

Christopher: 12

Right? Every one see those. Well ... refer to Jonny's IMPARTIAL WEBSITE cccappraisalhour.show for some scores that have not been corrupted by dark money and podcasting polititcs!

You can watch the first ever episode It’s Gary Shandling’s Show here: https://archive.org/details/its-garry-shandlings-show-complete-ish/Its.Garry.Shandlings.Show.101.mp4

You can read Den of Geek’s review of the first ever episode of It’s Gary Shandling’s Show here, immediately referencing Brecht: https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/its-garry-shandlings-show-season-one-dvd-review/

You can listen to Judd Apatow talk about Gary Shandling here. He’s actually talking about his documentary The Zen Diaries of Gary Shandling but hey, same thing: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/11/778130375/after-comic-garry-shandlings-death-judd-apatow-found-zen-in-his-diaries

You can watch the first episode of season seventeen of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9mn4oa

You can read the AV Club review of this episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia here: https://www.avclub.com/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-season-17-episode-1-and-2-recap

You can check out this interview with Charlie Day regarding all the crossover episodes of it all here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-season-17-charlie-day-interview-1236309803/

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Jeffrey was innocently asking if the It’s Always Sunny crew had ever been cancelled before and … let’s just say … he tried to respond to my question lol. 

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ricky-Stanicky-Zac-Efron/dp/B0CQD4TGD7

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80233611

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Welcome to the podcast every body! This week we have quite an episode for you. It's full of content. When culture is reviewed, that is content. The culture itself, I find it tricky calling 'content'. But here we are, you know? It's all content. All the content goes in the content-hole for the content-delivery to the content-consumers. But here we are. We are the last line of defence between the content-construction form of capitalism that is threatening to wipe all the art out from all of our lives and our meek and tiny souls ... craving connection ... soul ... however you define a soul. I define it as something you can redeem on a weekly basis by tuning in to the latest episode of The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour. L. F. G.

So, what are the scores so far? We actually get to the bottom of the controversy in today's episode but before we reach some sort of confrontational end-point ... I will continue to pay tribute to my FULLY WRONG-ASS SCORES AAAAAGGGHHHHH:

Jeffrey: 10:

Christopher: 12

Season 1 Episode 6 of Home Movies (entitled Director's Cut) can be watched here: https://dn720006.ca.archive.org/0/items/home-movies/Season%201/Home.Movies-S01e06.Director%27s.Cut-6.mp4

You can read an interview with the creator of Home Movies (and Bob's Burgers) Loren Bouchard here: https://www.gq.com/story/loren-bouchard-on-the-legacy-of-home-movies-20-years-later

You can read a review of this episode of Home Movies here from the questionable people at Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/home_movies/s01/e06

Season 2 Episode 6 (entitled Mother Redcap) of Jonathan Creek can be watched here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02zy1bn/jonathan-creek-series-2-6-mother-redcap

You can read a super old-school interview with Alan Davies about playing Jonathan Creek on a very old-school looking BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/jonathancreek/interviews/davies/

You can read a review for the entire second season from a blogspot account called The Passing Tramp because you're over it with the Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritics of the world and simply need some niche shit now (welcome to the CCCAH btw): https://thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/2012/05/by-light-of-television-jonathan-creek.html

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher did his top 5 drinks rankings and the internet blew up from the viral ramifications. Sumo sold out at all the ... breweries ... ? I don't know.

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/tv-series/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/season-17

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER: https://archive.org/details/its-garry-shandlings-show-complete-ish

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Wimbledon is nearly over already! It’s like mid-July. Out of bloody nowhere. What is actually happening. Christopher has seen Lana Del Rey twelve times and has all the merch and is now in Italy and Jeffrey is doing these shownotes in his boxers the night before the episode goes live, as per usual. What a time. We’ll look back on these days one day. Definitely. Maybe. Wink. Truly though, word play, puns and references aside … these are the days of our lives. 

And this is the website of our lives: cccappraisalhour.show

For real though, listen up! We’ve got more heatwave specials for you! Coming off our #Viral moment when Christopher mistook Will Smith (not that one) for Will Smith (that one) we’ve returned for a third bite at the single-song-review cherry. First there was Raye, then there was Doechii and now there is … Bob Dylan (again)! That is a weird list. Only on the CCCAH! 

Next up we have a sitcom. Could you get any more CCCAH than Kate Hudson starring in a Mindy Kaling sitcom and your boys being like “UH YES PLEASE” and the internet being like “UMMM” but your boys are still like “NOPE TOO LATE, YES PLEASE!”

So, what are the scores so far? No one believes these are the real scores but here they are any way hahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahaha:

Jeffrey: 9

Christopher: 12

Listen to Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan here: https://open.spotify.com/track/6Vcwr9tb3ZLO63F8DL8cqu?si=d767d9eddffa4d9e

Read the lyrics to Tangled Up In Blue here: https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tangled-blue/

Polyphonic made a video deciphering Tangled Up In Blue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4VwQXoyodk

Watch Season 1 Episode 1 of Running Point here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81488468

Read Lucy Mangan’s review of Season 1 of Running Point for The Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/feb/27/running-point-review-youll-be-desperate-for-kate-hudsons-basketball-comedy-to-end

Watch this interview with Kate Hudson and Mindy Kaling! It’s barely got 6k views. Those are some CCCAH numbers right there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kqfyl5uAxc

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Jeffrey was babysitting Loui while recording and instead of causing a ruckus asking for food or wanting to go outside … Loui simply … slept in Jeffrey’s lap like a good boy. You’re welcome, podcast listeners who literally don’t need this context. 

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02zy1bn/jonathan-creek-series-2-6-mother-redcap

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER: https://archive.org/details/home-movies/Season+1/Home.Movies-S01e06.Director's.Cut-6.m4v

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I cannot wait for this episode. It’s so freaking good. Starring your favourite triple c a h faves: Christopher Anousis and Jeffrey Bahlo. One is a vegan Greek. The other is an Arab with a duck walk. What could possibly go wrong!? *womp womp*

Anyway, how does this heatwave find you? We’ve got a heatwave special for your listening pleasure. We want to be a part of your routine not only surviving, but thriving. Skin care: on point. Hydration: on point. Nutrition: on point. Hygiene: on point. Podcast listening: press play on the latest episode of the cultural content consumption appraisal hour and we’re on point af playa! 

So strap in, crank the fan on and then find another fan to cool down your sweaty back from behind. You are in the perfect physical position for premium podcast listening. Enjoy the fruits of our labour you swine. 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 8

Christopher: 12

Here is Everyone Says I Love You: https://tv.apple.com/gb/movie/everyone-says-i-love-you/umc.cmc.3lt1e4s8jnyicwy5kmldkgfq8

Here is Roger (heyyy Rogerrr) Ebert’s review of Everyone Says I Love You: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/everyone-says-i-love-you-1997

Here is a spotify playlist for the soundtrack of Everyone Says I Love You: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/28bUq0UpfvtbYjkkCGJoF3

Here is the pilot of Slow Horses: https://tv.apple.com/gb/episode/failures-contagious/umc.cmc.72legmwolm5ytctyq637r6x0?showId=umc.cmc.2szz3fdt71tl1ulnbp8utgq5o

Here is a fun review (full of spoilers - just like the CCCAH! Whatever happened to our old spoiler warnings, eh? Just can’t be fucked anymore I see. Jolly good then) of the first four seasons: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/sep/11/ive-only-just-hitched-my-wagon-to-slow-horses-but-im-loving-the-ride

This is the wikipedia for Will Smith, the writer of Slow Horses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Smith_(comedian)

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: We sang a lot during the pre-production this week. Mainly Leann Rimes, despite Christopher shouting out Whitney during the episode proper. Some of this footage might have leaked on our socials. Check out https://www.instagram.com/cccahour for the whole scoop! 

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CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81488468

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKcNyMBw818

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It’s podcast Thursday boys and girls! You know what that means!? It means it’s time for us to do a thirty second game (inspired by one of the pitches) introducing the podcast to the new to this and the true to this. Then it means it’s time for us to review the culture we consumed this past week, ranging from a new episode of a British sitcom to … an old episode of an American … kinda sitcom? Ok and then what? And then it means it’s time for us to guess how the other will SCORE HIS REVIEW! Whoever comes closest will win. And then we’ll pitch new stuff for next week. Lovely jubbly. 

But speaking of winning *sigh* … if Christopher continues his streak (check cccappraisalhour.show for a full rundown of the scores with 100% accuracy … as opposed to these shownotes … which some have said have super QUESTIONABLE ACCURACY … apropos of nothing you can find our website designer Jonny Mortemore at https://sites.google.com/view/jvd-games/home) the rest of the season will be a dead rubber and a bummer. I’m just telling you Christopher. A dead rubber AND a bummer. If you keep winning. So continue to guess wisely, I guess! 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 8

Christopher: 11

Some of you may be thinking hey … but … are those scores wrong? And to those of you who would say that, I would say … chill out. It’s summer. Go look at the sky. Meditate. Eat an apple. Not the core, put it in the bin. But like, be cool. And if it’s all my fault, remember: forgiveness was voted the top virtue of all the virtues. I’m just saying. Like, every religious person voted and the count is in! 

Watch Episode 4 of Season 14 of Not Going Out here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002d2yt/not-going-out-series-14-4-oasis

Read Lee Mack talking about that episode here: https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/2068516/Lee-Mack-snubbed-Noel-Gallagher-Oasis

Read a review of that episode here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/not-going-out-bbc-one-series-14-review/

Watch the pilot of Ally McBeal on good old Channel 4 on the internet: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/ally-mcbeal/on-demand/25144-001

Read an oral history of the show (featuring show creator David E. Kelley and star Calista Flockhart) here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ally-mcbeal-oral-history-calista-flockhart-david-e-kelley-lucy-liu-interviews-1034516/

The TV Pilot’s License podcast talks Ally McBeal here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=4TXZGb8HKkA

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: We struggled with a hard out. As usual. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/failures-contagious/umc.cmc.72legmwolm5ytctyq637r6x0?showId=umc.cmc.2szz3fdt71tl1ulnbp8utgq5o

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOJR8Ty9Src

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What are we doing this week? Honestly. God Only Knows. Shout out Brian Wilson. Rest In Peace.

But anyway, neither of us were on top of our culturally current cold (AND HOT!) takes enough to pitch a Beach Boys album in tribute this week. Nope, that’s right, instead, we’ve got yet another accidental TV shows special! Woooo and hooo = yayy and slayyy. That is how our predominantly Gen Z listenership talk, right? Anyway, what are scores saying today? These are probably wrong (please if the website cccappraisalhour.show could just save usssss that would be greeeeaat) but this where we’re at.

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 8

Christopher: 10

Please. Christopher. Stop. You’re taking this “overtaking me” thing too far now. I know you were doing it as a bit but it’s not funny anymore, it’s just hurtful 🙁

But anyway lol and lmao and back to the show! 

Watch Outnumbered Season 5 episode 6 here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03xl0zy/outnumbered-series-5-episode-6

Read a review of the Outnumbered finale here: https://cultbox.co.uk/reviews/episodes/outnumbered-s05e06-final-episode-review

Watch an interview with the cast of Outnumbered about … Outnumbered lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsboeTR5RQ8

Watch Abbott Elementary Season 4 episode 9 here: https://abc.com/episode/15584913-fa78-40cd-b0cb-0b72b2259769/playlist/pl553044961

Read a review of this special episode of Abbott Elementary here: https://www.vulture.com/article/abbott-elementary-recap-season-4-episode-9-always-sunny-at-abbott.html

Watch an interview by Amy Poehler with Quinta Brunson here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gx8aYbZTX0

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Christopher got so excited talking about Outnumbered (“family ) he healed the burst blood vessel in his eye! If you’re reading these shownotes, please call a doctor and tell them we don’t need them anymore. The power of podcasts is healing! Form a prayer circle at the listening party, party people.  

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/ally-mcbeal/on-demand/25144-001

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002d2yt/not-going-out-series-14-4-oasis 

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HEY! You know the CCCAH??? That’s us baby. Doing it like we do. Every week. Thursday morning. You can’t keep a good podcast down ladies and gentlemen. So here we are. Let’s get REVIEWY. We’ve got all your fave dishes cooked up in the kitchen: your scores and guesses omelette. Your thirty second game hors d'oeuvres. And of course, your decadent pitches for dessert. A spicy meatball of a podcast episode, if ever I’ve put a meatball in each ear before. I’m hungry. 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 8

Christopher: 9

Christopher is now in the lead. What the fucking fuck? I mean, that is, if the scores are actually accurate … that’s right … purely coincidental but I’m finally admitting that hey, maybe these scores aren’t fully accurate. Maybe STAT MAN JONNY (aka Jonny Jon Jon Jons) needs to come to the rescue and set the record straight. Stay tuned to the socials. I’m sure there will be notes app apologias incoming, addressing the controversy this fifth season that can be summed up thusly: WHAT THE HELL ARE THE SCORES?

Listen to Fly Yellow Moon by Fyfe Dangerfield here: https://soundcloud.com/fyfe-dangerfield/sets/fly-yellow-moon-1

Read a Fyfe Dangerfield interview talking through Fly Yellow Moon here: https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/tlobf-interview-fyfe-dangerfield-24178

Please take a glimpse at the legacy of Guillemots here (35611 likes · 2 talking about this): https://www.facebook.com/guillemotsmusic/

Speaking of the MTV 2 discovery that opened up a portal into a world of beautiful musical discovery, this is that first Guillemots video that inspired a young Jeffrey and Christopher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EaAYi64Rpo

Watch Funny People here (maybe, if you can figure out this whole “internet” thing): https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/funny-people

This is an excerpt from the audio commentary for Funny People, featuring Judd Apatow, Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MCv5yZQKnA

This is Judd Apatow talking about Funny People. It’s a really good interview. All his interviews about Funny People are good. All the interviews any one does about anything are good … wait, I went too far: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/120608834

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Christopher got so excited talking about Funny People (and it’s amazing third act … which come to think of it, I now think could be a cool one-act play … huh) he burst a blood vessel in his eye! If you’re reading these shownotes, please call a doctor. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://abc.com/episode/15584913-fa78-40cd-b0cb-0b72b2259769/playlist/pl553044961

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03xl0zy/outnumbered-series-5-episode-6

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It’s a banger this morning ladies and gentleman. It’s the platonic ideal of the Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour. A movie and an album. These are the best things in life. Like wine tasting to drunks. Or football to hooligans. Movies and music to the cultural content consumption appraisal hour hosts is just fucking the best. So let us enjoy what we enjoy and let us enjoy what we enjoy how we enjoy it best: by reviewing it, scoring it and then guessing the other’s scores for the other thing and then numerically assessing who’s guesses were closer to the other one’s scores in order to win this episode. Speaking of.

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 8

Christopher: 8

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?! IT’S NECK AND NECK.

Maybe. We’re not sure. The cccappraisalhour.show website is getting dusty. Sorry guys. Our website maintenance ran away because they discovered they hadn’t been getting paid for like over a year or something. Give us time to sort it, we’ll be right on that *insert technical difficulties graphic here*

You can watch Okja here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80091936

This is Bong Joon Ho talking about Okja: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/16/okja-director-bong-joon-ho-in-films-animals-are-either-soulmates-or-butchered

Jon Ronson, who co-wrote the script, spoke about Okja and all sorts of other stuff here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/15/okja-jon-ronson-bong-joon-ho-dooho-choi-pig-movie

Purchase Mahashmashana by Father John Misty here: https://www.roughtrade.com/product/father-john-misty/mahashmashana

This is J. Tillman talking to the young men of the How Long Gone podcast about all sorts of stuff, really: https://howlonggone.com/721-father-john-misty

This is FJM talking to the good men of the Jokermen podcast, as one of our hosts is constantly shouting out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgmp275Wek0

This is Stereogum reviewing the new album: https://www.stereogum.com/2287469/father-john-misty-mahashmashana/reviews/album-of-the-week/

This is Stereogum talking about the new Big Thief album. Exciting times for the best band in the world: https://www.stereogum.com/2310342/big-thief-announce-new-album-double-infinity-hear-incomprehensible/music/

This is Seth Rogen talking to Stephen Colbert about Tom Cruise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7wLoYp40cI

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Waking up in time to record this podcast was hard. You’re lucky you got anything this week, Appraisal Hour heads! 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://drownedinsound.com/releases/15041/reviews/4138883

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://tv.apple.com/gb/movie/funny-people/umc.cmc.1ktu0mrzbn112mc5076hml865

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Welcome to the podcast of all podcasts. The podcast version of the website: cccappraisalhour.show

The original cultural content consumption appraisal hour is an hourly broadcast during which nothing can throw Christopher or Jeffrey off their game. Their eyes are on the prize. And their ears are full of your cheers. A low energy, despairing pre-production meeting. We’ll still get to reviewing stuff. A wild and wacky 30 second game. We’ll still get to reviewing stuff. A tangent and laughing fit to the point of crying. We’ll still get to reviewing stuff. A barking dog and a relatively inexpensive microphone. We’ll still get to reviewing stuff. We’ll bring our guesses. The other host will bring their scores. And there, in the middle, between the guesses and the scores … a battle will be fought. And a season will be decided. 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 8

Christopher: 7

It’s another accidental special. This week is an accidental animation special. We should be animated for the video. Rotoscoped. Maybe in the future. There will probably be an animated-series adaptation of the CCCAH before a Patreon at this point, if we must level with you. 

Watch the pilot of Neon Genesis Evangelion here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81033447

Watch this video about the order in which to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion from the people at Team Geek and Team Nerd | Togami: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15PKpYTQFaA

Read a review of the first 13 episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion here: https://hoganreviews.co.uk/2024/08/26/neon-genesis-evangelion-episodes-1-13-review/

Watch Wall-E here: https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/browse/entity-280395a4-d5ef-4dd0-bd09-d91c31593d3d

Listen to the Left of the Projector podcast discuss Wall-E here: https://leftoftheprojector.com/episode/wall-e-2008-with-closetd-history-and-leftist-squidward

Read the late, great Roger Ebert’s review of Wall-E here: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/wall-e-2008#google_vignette

Read this reddit thread about the genders of Wall-E and Eve here (haha Reddit in the shownotes is jokes): https://www.reddit.com/r/agender/comments/j7oqa4/walle_and_eve_are_just_nonbinary_lesbians_change/

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Christopher sang again in the pre-show meeting! He’s always SINGING, WHY IS THIS ENERGY NOT ON THE PODCAST!?!??! 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://fatherjohnmisty.bandcamp.com/album/mahashmashana-2

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.netflix.com/watch/80091936

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Ok, let’s get all our ducks in a row here. It is time for the paterfamilias of cultural review podcasts to come home, round up the kids and remarry the wife! Because today we’re reviewing serious business. Movies. Popcorn or otherwise. Our 5th (utter guess lol) ACCIDENTAL MOVIE SPECIAL. Vhs copies at the ready. Cinema envy in the veins. Let’s get it.  

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 8

Christopher: 6

Welcome to the most caffeinated episode of the CCCAH in seasons! Today we’re doing what everyone thought we couldn’t done. We’re implementing the ghost protocol, we’re entity-ing it right up … we’re … re-pitching … what was already pitched. We are repeat-pitching. This might be the pitch that breaks a hole in the space-time-CCCAH-quantum-continuum! Dead Reckoning Part One is being reviewed again. If you would like to listen to the first time it was reviewed on this podcast (hahahahahaha if you double-bill these two eps I love you forever) check out Season 3 episode 12 here: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-cultural/s03e12-hair-doesnt-grow-on-p9c7bH0UkOM/

Or if you would like to listen to the first time we reviewed a Coen Brothers movie (Inside Llewyn Davis! DO A DOUBLE BILL OF DOUBLE BILLS!) you can check Season 2 Episode 15 out here: https://podcasts.apple.com/hk/podcast/s02e15-downing-all-these-red-bulls-about-to-go-live-on-tiktok/id1663210349?i=1000634222849

Watch O Brother Where Art Thou here (kind of lol): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brother-Where-Thou-Region-NTSC/dp/B00003CXRM

Listen to the soundtrack of O Brother Where Art Thou here: https://open.spotify.com/album/7gzX88qS3Vx2r87g5pbdfJ

The Coen Brothers and cast of "O Brother Where Art Thou” were interviewed by Charlie Rose back in the year 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASy7Wcv08

Listen to No Podcast For Old Men review this film in super scholarly fashion like they put us to shame: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o-brother-where-art-thou/id1716824365?i=1000702329138

Watch Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One here (all 2 hours and 43 minutes) on Netflix … wish I had been able to watch it on Netflix! For a change! Haha: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81665878

Read about all the previous Mission Impossible references that made it into Dead Reckoning Part One: https://screencrush.com/mission-impossible-references-in-dead-reckoning/

Tom Cruise doing stunts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lsFs2615gw

This is Ryan Coogler talking about Imax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Ru62uFM0s&t=30s

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: There was some genuine calendar haggling going on in order for Christopher to give Jeffrey his mission to accept, should he choose to accept his impossible mission to accept his mission to watch Mission Impossible Final Reckoning with him, should he choose to accept that. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/browse/entity-280395a4-d5ef-4dd0-bd09-d91c31593d3d

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81033447

Do not seek the treasure. 

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It’s time to review things! We love reviewing things. We love talking about things. Bullying each other into being fans of things we’re fans of (success rate there is … interesting). The usual CCCAH malarkey. And hey, did we break the record??? Did we once again break the new OLDEST THING and NEWEST THING and BIGGEST DIFFERENTIAL (there might be a catchier title with which to refer to that) record??? Hopefully the good people at JVD Games will let us know! Maybe we’ll try and catch a corporate big-wig style dinner with them as soon as another pod recording is in the bag. See you at the meet and greets! 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 8

Christopher: 6

You can watch The Seventh Seal on BFI Player … to paraphrase Christopher Anousis (host of the CCCAH) “free trial woo” or whatever it is he said: https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-the-seventh-seal-1957-online

Melvyn Bragg hosted his 1000th episode of the famous radio show/podcast In Our Time (in the CCCAH’s dreams!) and he and his esteemed guests discussed The Seventh Seal because of course they did: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qmkx

You can watch this video essay by Peter Cowie on The Seventh Seal here on this treasure trove known as YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6vNqAIq9t4

Even in the ‘50s, artists knew the real gold is in the behind-the-scenes “content”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsOcnUbjuEg

Episode 1 of Season 19 of Taskmaster can be watched here: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/taskmaster/on-demand/75957-001

Want to follow along watching Taskmaster with someone reviewing every episode? Of course you do! Like lol you’re listening to this kind of show you know! So, you can read Jack Bernhardt on Medium, for one: https://jackbern23.medium.com/taskmaster-series-19-episode-1-the-stats-round-up-6ca0c68ecd9f

Or you could read Myles McNutt on Substack! One quote from his review of this episode that lines up with our thoughts would be “There’s not a bad season of Taskmaster, but just how good it is hinges on the mix of contestants—the best seasons have somebody who’s hopelessly terrible at all the tasks”: https://substack.com/home/post/p-162775890

Personally I find Taskmaster’s attempt to copy the cccappraisalhour.show website in both style and format in super poor taste. Plagiarism is not a good look GREG (and/or little Alex Horne): https://taskmaster.info/season.php?id=76

Is it Taskmaster’s birthday: https://taskmaster.tv/taskmasters-birthday/

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: In our pre-production meeting Christopher was banging on about having crazy dreams he was going to tell me about but then he never told me about them. Did I dream this?!

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mission-Impossible-Dead-Reckoning-Part/dp/B0CBN6XL8D

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://tv.apple.com/gb/movie/o-brother-where-art-thou/umc.cmc.3vmofz00i7y5m00861o6waay8

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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 reviews American Dad. And then Jeff guesses what his scores will be. And then we see how close Jeffrey was. And then Jeffrey reviews You. Christopher guesses what his scores will be. And then we see how close Christopher was. Who is the winner, who was CLOSEST? All these answers (and more!) will be revealed!

What is this more we speak of? Simply LISTEN TO THE SHOW loves. We’ve got it all. 

Debates around trash! What is it? What does it mean? Is it a pejorative or is it actually a term of endearment? Can one man’s “hey this is trash, yuck” be another man’s … also trash but “I like this trash, this is MY trash!”? 

The top 3 cartoons to fall asleep to are also discussed, from American Dad and Solar Opposites to Rick and Morty and The Cleveland Show. 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 7

Christopher: 6

Watch American Dad here on ITV X (sure, it might not include a link to the episode we review … but don’t worry about that, apparently it’s confusing which *season* this episode even belongs to): https://www.itv.com/watch/american-dad/2a4263

Read a Den of Geek review of the episode here: https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/american-dad-season-14-episode-16-review-the-bitchin-race/

Read the wiki entry for the episode here: https://americandad.fandom.com/wiki/The_Bitchin%27_Race

Apparently this man named Don Thai Theerathada voiced the Thai interrogator in American Dad so (lol) we’ll let it slide … this time: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1596656/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t10

Watch the pilot of You here on Netflix where you can also watch the finale, as of this week. Hey … maybe that will get pitched at some point? Who knows. One of us knows (sooner or later one of must know!) One of us who is on the show knows. But not the one writing this, the one reading it … sitting in the office, scrolling on his phone, yes, YOU (I’m stalking you, boo or whatever): https://www.netflix.com/watch/80212201

Read a Den of Geek review of the episode here: https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/you-episode-1-review-pilot/

Read the wiki entry for the episode here: https://you.fandom.com/wiki/Pilot

M3GAN 2.0 trailer! Christopher asked so here, go nuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYLHdEzsk1s

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher changed everything and unprecedentedly … requested a second go at the 30 second game. It was great don’t get me wrong but … pandora’s box, you heard of it? D’you know what I mean? You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube! Other cliches! 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/taskmaster/on-demand/75957-001

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-the-seventh-seal-1957-online

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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 … no spoiler warning. Wow. We wilding. 

This week we’re coming off that London marathon we’ve been chatting about (oh you know the one, the one that just broke the record for the most finishers at 55,000!) where one of us ran and the other one of us cheered him on. Sometimes in life you are the runner and sometimes you are the cheerleader. Good friendships are about being both, I suppose. Omg check us out. FRIENDSHIP WISDOM FOR DAYS. And speaking of checking us out, check out our new instagram. You know that new sound you’re looking for? Well, listen to this: instagram.com/cccahour

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 6

Christopher: 6

A tight race this season! But we all know how the next bit goes, don’t we? Time for a favourite to emerge, I say! 

This is Season 7 Episode 2 of Black Mirror, entitled “Eulogy”: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81716300

This is a good article covering the critical reception to Eulogy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20250411-black-mirror-season-sevens-most-devastating-episode-ever

This is a very, very good interview regarding the episode: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/paul-giamatti-charlie-brooker-black-mirror-eulogy-interview-1235311964/

This is Benny Blanco’s second interview with Daniel Wall (the one we review): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q12XDphPJL0

This is Benny Blanco’s first interview with Daniel Wall (the one we don’t review): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vh_DgaHySc

This is a YouTube short of Benny Blanco being interviewed by Daniel Wall (from the second interview, the one we reviewed): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JuQpEGno0bQ

Ok so this is a bit inside baseball … but let’s do what we do best and make it a bit of OUTSIDE BASEBALL. We recorded the first episode of a new WWE PLE predictions podcast entitled “The Cultural Mania Content Predictions Half Hour Ep 1” and this first episode is called “The Gang Does Wrestlemania 41 Predictions”. It is a week old and mouldy but hey … it’s free on YouTube! Who knows where future episodes might live …: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qySPFrQV4Lo 

Check out our website: cccappraisalhour.show

Check out our Twitter: twitter.com/cccappraisalpod

E-mail us: cccappraisalhour@gmail.com  

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When trying to set up the camera angle that didn’t cause problematic glare, the technical adjustments were made with way more swearing than regular CCCAH listeners are used to. Trust me. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.netflix.com/watch/80212201

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/the-bitchin-race/umc.cmc.20w9uf3pfnong8b12hb789tus?showId=umc.cmc.1u0xxsxtxksrbejfvg85h3lxb

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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 Half Hour. This first episode was live streamed on YouTube but if it continues … who knows? So check this out while you can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qySPFrQV4Lo

But hey, mania is over. So let’s start the regularly scheduled show. SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 6

Christopher: 5

We’re reviewing some fun stuff today so strap in. We’re going to the alt rock 90s scene and the 2025 London marathon so just that classic, forever-time-travelling feeling you get on the CCCAH. We hope you don’t suffer from vertigo or one of any number of other ailments related to being in two different points of time simultaneously! Like throwing up. I would throw up. 

Anyway, let’s get to the stuff. The main stuff is: everyone wish Christopher luck on his upcoming London marathon this weekend. Wish him luck and give him kudos on Strava: https://strava.app.link/GsqLvr4iOSb

We’ll see you for another episode post-marathon next week! When you really think about it, all our episodes are pre-marathon or post-marathon … for some marathon or another. Some episodes are just faster getting to the pain than others, I suppose.  

Song Exploder episode 3 on R.E.M’s “Losing My Religion”: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81025976

Here is the latest interview R.E.M interview. They are such a wholesome foursome … just sweetly talking about how they’ll never properly reunite as a band … I’m not crying, you’re crying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATHHACcw3Q4

As mentioned on the pod, here is a Stereogum story covering Michael Shannon and how his R.E.M tribute shows have led to some amazing things: https://www.stereogum.com/2298651/r-e-m-reunite-again-watch-them-play-pretty-persuasion-with-michael-shannon-jason-narducy/news/

Philly Bowden’s vlog (like most vlogs on the ol’ YouTube) has a title with specific intentions that relies on ALL CAPS at points so let me just copy and paste it for ya right here. The Race That Changed EVERYTHING - The Berlin Marathon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYKXaF2GfJQ

Phily Bowden is one of many people (do you know any) who has days to go until she runs the London Marathon! How exciting. This is a YouTube short about that, if you’re familiar with the format (we are): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2cq8Uo0MkXo

The London Marathon owners are not on Twitter! This feels low key relevant? https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/apr/23/london-marathon-organisers-boycott-x-over-descent-into-gutter-under-elon-musk

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Before we started recording, Christopher got out his guitar and played Losing My Religion while I sat there. You know like when you’re at a party and someone gets the acoustic guitar out and … yeah. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q12XDphPJL0

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81716300

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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 tragically became paralysed from the waist down. 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE (TBC IF YOU DON’T LIKE #POINTSFORDRAWS BUT IF YOU ARE OK WITH #POINTSFORDRAWS YOU’RE MY BESTIE): 

Jeffrey: 6

Christopher: 4

Stay tuned for news about the first annual CCCAH bazaar! That’s right folks. We’re skipping over Patreon and going straight to a BAZAAR. Everyone can go on rides and sell their wares and somehow it’s to do with the podcast, is the idea. Sounds sick to me. For now though, enjoy this historic episode of the show: this episode has both the oldest pitch and the newest pitch! From 1960 to barely one week ago.

Everybody’s Live Season 1 Episode 5 entitled “Getting Fired” can be watched here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81969139?trackId=268410292

This is NPR reviewing Everybody’s Live: https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5324637/john-mulaney-netflix-late-night-everybodys-live-with-john-mulaney

This is Siobhan Brier Aguilar’s video “What Anna Marie Tendler Did (Not) Write About John Mulaney”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGBNq5FufmM

Pollyanna can be watched here: https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/browse/entity-aaee1541-e5b3-4875-9196-4621ff65703e

Pollyanna was reviewed by Honey We Made A Disney Podcast. We truly live in the golden age of YouTube reviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ZtV_3cLp4

Pollyanna was also reviewed by the Deep In The Plus podcast. The golden age of YouTube reviews has jumped the shark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Y0jLw-5AxRk

BeReal is back in the shownotes (Jeff edition): https://bere.al/jefflemonade

BeReal is back in the shownotes (Chris edition): https://bere.al/christopheranousis

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: At some point either Frank or Bruno (the cats Christopher was looking after) walked past Christopher’s computer and we almost both got thrown off but instead we did not. We cracked on. Like professionals. Podcast professionals. Damn it. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYKXaF2GfJQ

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81025976

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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 OK WITH #POINTSFORDRAWS WE ARE COOL): 

Jeffrey: 5

Christopher: 3

Justin Vernon spoke to Popcast and boy do I hope Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarell don’t listen to the CCCAH and start throwing shade about not being able to tell the difference between our London-boy voices, geezer: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bon-iver-interview-how-justin-vernon-got-happy-it-took/id120315823?i=1000700888956

Everything is peaceful love but everything is also loving the Sable EP which was the first few songs from the new album and didn’t include the new single “Everything Is Peaceful Love”! Justin told us the story behind these three songs, so we listened:

https://open.spotify.com/album/2Cwxsws0uZcu61gliYLOEm?si=Bekjcy0lTn6d7bBTltVVZA

Justin Vernon was also interviewed by Amanda Petrusich late last year and that was a very good conversation. Lowest of keys, maybe I should have pitched this one lol: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/bon-iver-is-searching-for-the-truth

One person on Reddit sort of gets my weird (oh the woes of the parasocial superfan!) takeaways from some aspects of this album roll out: https://www.reddit.com/r/boniver/comments/1jqmbgj/anyone_else_confused_by_the_ethos_of_the_new_album/

Adolescence Episode 1 can be watched here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81763204

The Newsagents did a good interview with the writer of Adolescence. The clickbaity title they use that is just so cringe is “Creator Jack Thorne REVEALS The DEEP TRUTH Behind 'Adolescence'!” like lol goodness me, calm down lads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBvC_-XaTTc

Stephen Graham did an interview with the SAG-AFTRA Foundation about Adolescence and it was super insightful! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B5DXCR-344

From incel experts like William Costello to psychologists like Dr. Kirk Honda live reacting to scenes, every one has a take on Adolescence! Some (like the aforementioned!) are more insightful than others. Considering the first wave of praise has, inevitably, given rise to waves of backlash, let’s include at least one *slightly* more critical bit of content for balance. Here are the Bring Your Own Blockbuster boys describing how “almost” perfect the series is. Not going to lie, my algorithm has been hassling me for days to check out this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=212t6jrbBoE

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When I pitched my thirty second game this week I had just come up with the idea a few minutes before. And as I was rambling on, I was doing the maths live. That’s right. Equating each season of our pod so far with a Bon Iver album. Very luckily, the vibes were correct, and season 5 equated with SABLE, fABLE. The real highlight was Christopher finally getting what I was going for about 45 minutes later haha.  

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://archive.org/details/pollyanna-1960_202205

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.netflix.com/title/81912996

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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 road or not, aren’t we always on the road to *appreciation*? Eh? See what I did there … the one other person who kind of reads these! (Hi Christopher *waving hand emoji* hehehe)

Not only do we have Jack (who passed away in 1969) but we also have Doechii on the podcast today! She has been doing so much press for her mixtape so she couldn’t wrap that up without dropping by ol’ CCCAH HQ!

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE

Jeffrey: 4

Christopher: 3

Learn about One Fast Move Or I’m Gone here! And then do your own research in terms of actually finding a place to watch it. Because, once again, we had to rely on an old VHS this week … : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1217282/

Zigzag Bugs And 'A Sea Like God' are just two of the things discussed in this NPR article covering the documentary with director Curt Worden: https://www.npr.org/2009/10/20/113938373/zigzag-bugs-and-a-sea-like-god-kerouacs-big-sur

Benjamin Gibbard And Jay Farrar wrote and recorded the soundtrack for the documentary and spoke to NPR about it: https://www.npr.org/2009/10/23/114095203/gibbard-and-farrar-take-on-kerouacs-big-sur

Ben and Jay also spoke to Huffington Post. Can’t just be an NPR fest today d’you know what I mean: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/one-fast-move-or-im-gone_b_328194

As hard as the documentary is to find "One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Music From Kerouac's Big Sur" is on the streaming platforms: https://open.spotify.com/album/3Lki97wGb11VOTrjCEAgCj?si=Uz2mDKNpQyCotcz7ZLWKVg

Also read the book! https://shop.penguin.co.uk/products/big-sur-great-kerouac-series

Also watch the film adaptation! https://tv.apple.com/ca/movie/big-sur/umc.cmc.2zuyytqhk3ef0tl2f1hyp8q0t

Doechii’s Tiny Desk Concert can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-91vymvIH0c

Nardwuar vs. Doechii can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bjFEMRgOz8

A jazz musician reacting to Doechii’s Tiny Desk Concert can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f7ie7WuxG4

Doechii dissects "Alligator Bites Never Heal" in a super cool long-form interview (Dissect’s first full-length video interview pod drop! What a word combo!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jml_NyEN3Rk

Dissect is also YouTube Shorting about Easter Eggs in Doechii’s Tiny Desk: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/joSpiKCzZFY

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher made fun of the notion of a pilgrimage I made to Birmingham to see the original scroll of On The Road in an exhibition! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/dec/02/jack-kerouac-road-birmingham I was just thinking about this after we recorded the pod, chuckling to myself, as I enjoyed my daily pilgrimage to the top of Harrow on the Hill and the spot of Byron’s youth: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8510831-Lines-Written-Beneath-An-Elm-In-The-Churchyard-Of-Harrow-On-The-H-by-George-Gordon-Byron

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81763204

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBvC_-XaTTc

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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 dudes have a convo in the woods when no one is around to hear it (or hear it as a podcast later on a Thursday morning for example) … did it even happen? 

Also, shout out the tree that defo fell whether you heard it or not! Now let’s start the show, check out the scores so far this season and list some useful links. 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE

Jeffrey: 4

Christopher: 2

Envy by Contrapoints can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPhrTOg1RUk

Here is Hasanabi reacting to Envy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNwBlXCepSk

Hasan Piker also interviewed Contrapoints (aka Natalie Wynn) for episode 6 of his short-lived podcast Agit Prop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teGyINp-qRs

Contrapoints talked about internet fascism with Offline podcast a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7yco_wZvPk

Kendrick Lamar's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show can be watched here on YouTube thank you Apple Music and YouTube, thank you ALL THE PLATFORMS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDorKy-13ak

The NFL’s official video showing how Kendrick Lamar’s EPIC Super Bowl Halftime Show was designed & built in 8 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdMakZ4Tz-s&t=530s

This is comedian Josh Johnson schooling us all on why Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl Halftime Show is America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgKsG6NZSIo

Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show in audio form: https://open.spotify.com/album/2Q9sOmcZFz7IsoVyF8G3s4

Hey have you heard that Drake’s lawyers claim that “millions of people” think Drake is literally a pedophile because of “Not Like Us”: https://www.stereogum.com/2301289/millions-of-people-think-drake-is-a-literally-a-pedophile-because-of-not-like-us-drakes-lawyers-claim/news/

We were happy to have you today. We hope we can shine a light on corners of God’s internet that you might not have noticed before, kind of like we do for each other sometimes! It’s funny how one man’s “fitness influencer morning routines are going viral” is another man’s “dances to Doechii’s anxiety are going viral”! Which might be your collective “ … what?” 

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher reminisced about last week’s fun episode and said this episode was not giving the same “good episode” vibes LOL give this episode a chance, host of the episode!!! We're literally in the middle of recording it!! I have used the word literally at least twice in these shownotes. Correctly, but still. I hang my head in shame. Literally (low key).

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-91vymvIH0c

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1217282/

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SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE

Jeffrey: 3

Christopher: 2

We’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 does politics episode. You know. Culturally-adjacent politics. And then we’re also talking about the pilot of some show, you know, classic. Playing the hits. The CCCAH reviewing the pilot of a comedy drama is like Radiohead playing a song off The Bends innit. 

ANYWAY! E-mail us if you align exactly with our politics at cccappraisalhour@gmail.com and we’ll become besties forever. And shout out Bex for e-mailing us to continue the “binging” discourse, please join in with that and send us your definitions. Is binging in the eye of the beholder? It is of the utmost important that we get to the bottom of this. I am sure we will arrive at a working definition everyone in the CCCAH community can agree upon before Radiohead tours again. We’ll see. 

Here is the episode of Pod Save The UK featuring Jimmy The Giant on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/masculinity-and-misinformation-how-jimmythegiant/id1683411536?i=1000686987026

Here is that same episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8yy-h0puy0

Here is Jimmy The Giant’s viral video “How I Escaped The Alt Right Pipeline” on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OygHnodf0XM

Here is Jimmy The Giant talking to Gary Stevenson, a video you will feel naturally compelled to find if you watch Jimmy’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCqfr91vFws

Here is Jimmy The Giant talking to the “Joe Rogan of the Left” (haha iykyk) Hasan Piker. HasanAbi rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INes5uMsDsI&t

Here is HasanAbi reacting to the video in real time, right before having Jimmy hop on the stream to chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDiSsSpst_A

Hey, remember when culture was cool and HBO was HBO and not Max!? Anyway, here is the pilot of Silicon Valley: https://www.hbo.com/silicon-valley/season-1/1-minimum-viable-product

Hey, do you want to read the draft script for the pilot of Silicon Valley?? No? Fair enough. Well, here is the link anyway: https://www.tv-calling.com/scripts/TV_Comedies/Silicon_Valley_1x01.pdf

Here is a Reddit thread on the pilot of Silicon Valley: https://www.reddit.com/r/SiliconValleyHBO/comments/22cuni/silicon_valley_1x01_pilot_episode_discussion/

Here was the link I sent to Christopher in our most magical of cold opens: https://ra.co/news/82380

Here is John Leckie talking to Tape Op. Certain people on this podcast need to put some respect on this man’s name. I look forward to paying good money for the both of us to attend “An Evening With John Leckie” in the near future: https://tapeop.com/interviews/42/john-leckie/

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When I accurately identified Pod Save The UK as Christopher’s Gogglebox equivalent for current affairs and Christopher didn’t hear me. Also, when Christopher revealed he had no idea about what was happening with Blake Lively. Honestly, man needs to listen to some cultural podcasts or something idk. 

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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 CONSISTENCY with which we hit you up with these weekly episodes. It’s actually low key astonishing. I don’t mean to overly pat ourselves on the back here with the ol’ Barry H but … if our hard work has inspired one rogue cultural insurgent to create a whole website at cccappraisalhour.show for us (CHEERS! @Jvd_games on BlueSky!) well … why can’t another one of you pop up and sort out the remaining podcast infrastructure for us, YouTube and Patreon and all!?!? Hahahaha but seriously cccappraisalhour@gmail.com we look forward to hearing from our super talented fans. And yes, if you refuse to do this for you … we will do it ourselves. Out of SPITE! Sometimes you need spite to motivate you, it’s true. 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE

Jeffrey: 2

Christopher: 1

EDtv can be watched here on Amazon because of course, Amazon Amazon Amazon for the love of: https://www.amazon.co.uk/EDtv-Ron-Howard/dp/B00MAPBWFA

EDtv was once reviewed by the goat film critic and it is an honour to feature him here in these here shownotes. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Roger Ebert: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/edtv-1999

Film Obsessive wrote up a really great feature on EDtv, 25 years later: https://filmobsessive.com/film/film-features/film25yl/edtv-relevant-as-ever-25-years-later/

Inventing Anna Season 1 Episode 6 (Friends In Low Places) can be watched here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81215414

Inventing Anna has a podcast because literally nothing can exist without an accompanying podcast in the year of our lord 2025: https://open.spotify.com/show/7mP6eUGHS9YcDMTfAfYGvB?si=26d93c407ddc49ae

Fangirlish wrote up a very interesting and fangirly review of Inventing Anna Season 1 Episode 6 here: https://fangirlish.com/2022/02/16/inventing-anna-episode-6-review-what-happens-in-marrakesh/

As mentioned in an unprecedented moment of TANGENTIAL CONVERSING … this is Ezra Edelman talking to Pablo Torre about his banned Prince documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X93Y4ECBCeA

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher was reviewing EDtv and saying something very articulate and eloquent about how there was some point in that third act of EDtv when he was like “what’s happening now?” and then went on to describe the phone getting picked up and how he started googling other things and then he was suddenly like “how old is Elizabeth Hurley now?” That all popped me tbh. You can hear the lols in audio form tbf to you!

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.hbo.com/silicon-valley/season-1/1-minimum-viable-product

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8yy-h0puy0

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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 guess. 

But until then, we’re still out here doing the damn thing. The important thing. The only thing. Engaging in culture by talking about it. Reviewing cultural artefacts like the cultural experts and weirdos we are. Enjoy our thoughts. It is not content. It is a conversation we are having. A game we are playing. Feel free to review it. And thus, the circle of life goes on. 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE

Jeffrey: 1

Christopher: 1

A tight race! 

Watch the episode of Veep entitled “Running” which is Episode 9 of Season 2: https://www.sky.com/watch/title/series/869f67ff-063b-48d0-a8ed-8b603d952f60/veep/episodes/season-2/episode-9

Let’s check in on Reddit! It’s been a while. What are the people saying about this episode: https://www.reddit.com/r/Veep/comments/1ghgux/discussion_thread_for_veep_s02e09_running/

The A.V. Club used to be the coolest website man. Episodes of telly being reviewed on the reg. You had to be there, honestly. Or you can go there now I suppose, same difference: https://www.avclub.com/veep-running-1798177120

Ingrid Goes West can be watched on Amazon, if you’re lame (because of the platform, not the movie): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ingrid-Goes-West-Aubrey-Plaza/dp/B07BB5TDC8

The Guardian review by Peter Bradshaw calls Ingrid Goes West “horribly watchable” which sounds pretty fun. YouTube channel goals: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/15/ingrid-goes-west-review-aubrey-plaza-elizabeth-olsen-instagram

Matt Spicer directed Ingrid Goes West and I think that after watching the film, the first thing you will want to do is … find him on Instagram! Hahahahaha but no for real here is his instagram. We hope he makes more movies soon tbh: https://www.instagram.com/hellomattspicer/

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher implored you all to e-mail us at cccappraisalhour@gmail.com but refused to give you our e-mail address which is cccappraisalhour@gmail.com and yeah … ahem … cccappraisalhour@gmail.com. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81215414

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/edtv/umc.cmc.6uqkg7k065ya56kmlq53uda9v

One day we’ll remember to put everything in the show notes that we said we would put in the show notes. One beautiful day soon. And yes, I said “we”. Because there is no “I” in “team”!

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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.

The rest of you, what are you up to? Podcast listening, show note reading and … website browsing https://cccappraisalhour.show? All the while e-mailing us at cccappraisalhour@gmail.com!?? Wow, you’re really covering all the bases. We appreciate you for that. Never will someone have been so darn prepped for the Appraisal Hour fall merch line, the 2026 patreon and the 2030 podcast network.  

Your appraisal hour boys are stoked to be bringing you some stonking reviews today. A classic film from the late 90s. The best era. Chock full of SPOILERS, SPOILERS and MORE SPOILERS. And then some sort of prank show episode from a few years ago.

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE

Jeffrey: 1

Christopher: 0

Watch The Truman Show here (and fuck Amazon honestly): https://www.bilibili.tv/en/video/2048196615

The Truman Show is something fun to type into YouTube. You will be greeted by an array of fascinating thumbnails for video essays. I recommend this one, from the channel MakeBetterMedia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAX9qWiJxvU

A very special and cool stand-alone feature (known as Tru Talk) with some deleted scenes also lives on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM5H4AH5oFI

This is a special podcast all about The Truman Show (also known as Tru-Talk) that I enjoyed tremendously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jJ20e5FaHU

Watch Impractical Jokers Season 5 Episode 11: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/impractical-jokers/on-demand/75747-011

Read about Impractical Jokers Season 5 Episode 11: https://impracticaljokers.fandom.com/wiki/Whose_Phone_Is_Ringing%3F

Read about Impractical Jokers and scroll through some punishments: https://www.cbr.com/impractical-jokers-episodes-ranked/

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: “Sad times in Trumont high” you know. Also, Christopher offended at the notion he has ever not been plugged into the comings and goings at Old Trafford. And the bit where I quoted the Radiohead song “Just” and Christopher didn’t notice. I do it to myself, I do (and that’s why it really hurts).

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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 be you. Please know that if you are reading these sentences then it surely WILL be you in the not too distant future. 

Just drop us a line at cccappraisalhour@gmail.com and we’ll see you soon. We might have to interview you and get a few references first, but that’s all a formality really. And thanks again to Alistair for featuring on another special last week. We will sort out what all those convoluted scores meant on our award winning website https://www.cccappraisalhour.show at some point soon. 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE

Jeffrey: 0

Christopher: 0

Gentlemen, start your engines! The race begins. What else do they say at the start of races? I don’t know, no one pitched Drive to Survive … 

The 67th edition of The Grammys is hard to locate, depending on which country you live in. So hey, idk man, find it yourself. Or just read the Wikipedia, as I’m sure Christopher was tempted to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67th_Annual_Grammy_Awards

The New York Times’ Popcast previewed the Grammys and that preview lives here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4zPhdjAkqU

Popcast reviewed the Grammys and that review lives here (let’s showcase another platform, change it up): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-we-still-think-the-grammys-are-good-now/id120315823?i=1000689060054

Stereogum did a laudable job of lauding the Grammys: https://www.stereogum.com/2295418/in-a-world-thats-gone-to-shit-somehow-the-grammys-were-good/columns/sounding-board/

A supercut of Taylor Swift having a great time at the Grammys lives here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqRJv5Hyqk4

If we had to choose one representative clip to showcase this year’s Grammys let’s go for Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock performing Bluesette and We Are The World (*pop*) and that clip lives here (shout out the greatest night in *pop*): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzVcr6bar9U

We should also show you that Doechii performing Denial Is A River and Catfish at the Grammys (for the Best New Artist segment) lives here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyoLUYKn5Kk

Doechii’s new mixtape “Alligator Bites Never Heal” (featuring Denial Is A River) lives here: https://music.apple.com/us/album/alligator-bites-never-heal/1763934442

Doechii talking to Genius about Denial Is A River is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J53Z9WPc9fE

Doechii performing Denial Is A River on Colbert lives here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggg45-e4oj0

Doechii’s official video for Denial Is A River lives here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0cdbR5ognY

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher said “good for you!” after Jeffrey’s impassioned attempt to cement the CCCAH tradition of watching the Grammys every year as good for US! We also had a lot of expectations going into this week’s pitches. More than usual! So enjoy imagining an episode in another timeline in which we’re reviewing the 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live and either Her or Ed TV next week!

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Hey shownotes fans! We so appreciate you not getting a life and keeping plugged in to your weekly dose of SHOW NOTES (*the crowd goes wild)! It just gets better and better doesn’t it? Every week. It’s like how the Grammys just goes from strength to strength every year! Well, I don’t know, allegedly … don’t mean to spoil the season 5 debut episode coming to your feeds next week. 

Now let’s talk about the sound quality quickly. Heads up. In parts … it’s bad. Internet was a bit dodge. You know them ones. You know how it goes. Get over it, it’s fine really. You listened to worse in the 90s, d’you know what I mean? Hopped up on drugs, playing pogs and drinking Irn-Bru or whatever. 

So what are we doing here today anyway? It’s another special! Yes, you lucky listener you! And we’ve done you one better than us prancing around town with our hi-tech equipment … we’ve got our third musketeer involved. The Big E to our Xavier and Kofi! It’s another Ali special baby!

Many years and/or seasons ago, he pitched us an album. I think. It’s still a bit blurry tbh. But let’s assume he did. How kind and considerate of him (well he is the co-founder of the fictional band The Antibodies after all) knowing we love music round these parts. And you know what else we love? Eventually getting around to said music! Listening to the music. Eventually sending four ticks through each (a “tick” looks like this: “I Love You So F***ing Much ✅“) in a message via WhatsApp to signify each full listen of said album. So great. It’s like a regular CCCAH episode except, instead of reviewing the pitched content the following week, we do it nearly a year later. 

Here is the album we review on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5i6LJyHq9wxLSecf0N2Iuw?si=kkbNqyCVTOiW_Ib9J9VMQQ 

Oh you know, the great platform that has nothing wrong with it … just leaving this link here amongst all the fun and hijinks for no reason hehe *cough* check out this link *cough*: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/30/mood-machine-liz-pelly-book-review

Ok so back to Glass Animals. Here is Heat Waves live from Dreamland in Margate on a Covid tonight show: https://youtu.be/NRwz8c1jha8?si=thxaRqkLYEXhG1nM

Lost in the ocean here is a Glass Animals song they played on the side of a canyon, I’m told: https://youtu.be/fYo2q-ZK1qw?si=80OYCBDhSO_Tn_qM

Show pony was another song they played on the side of a canyon, to the best of my understanding: https://youtu.be/IBmfAxKmIJc?si=sbCOGpQ11On9RWOB

Here is the single Pitchfork review that was mentioned, of the previous album Dreamland: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/glass-animals-dreamland/

A very interesting roundtable review of the album from the Atwood Magazine Staff: https://atwoodmagazine.com/ilysfm-glass-animals-i-love-you-so-fing-music-album-review/

Alexis Petridis gave the album two stars for the Guardian. Two stars out of what though … five, yep, five: https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/18/glass-animals-i-love-you-so-fing-much-review

Go to Ali’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brew.ding

Go to our website: https://www.cccappraisalhour.show/

Go away x

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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 nothing. We’ve spoiled you. New and old listeners alike! Just accept what you’re given please. The usual format. Hashtag review two things. As was decided in that contentious season finale lo those many seasons ago. So what awaits you today? No frills … and minimal thrills! 

SCORES SO FAR ARE Jeff: 10 wins and 3 Homers and Chris: 6 wins and 1 perfect. Jeffrey wins Season 4. Lifts trophy etc. So yes. Today’s ep is a dead rubber. But hey, that’s ok. We’ve still got thirty second games for the NEW amongst you and reviews, guesses, scores and pitches for the TRUE amongst you. 

There will be no links to today’s reviewed content or next week’s pitched content. It’s either on Disney plus or on a VHS at a carboot sale at this point. 2025 is a dumpster fire. Check out my 30 second game answer for more context. 

Taylor Tomlinson talking about Better Man, which Christopher talked about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXL4zdo289A

Robbie Williams talking to Taylor Tomlinson about how she talked about Better Man, which Christopher talked about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaofNC-HLvc

For some of you this will be an introduction to FEMINISM IN FILM and a super important test you should all start checking out more and just reflecting on generally: https://bechdeltest.com/

Zoe Williams writes about “Feminism, but not as we know it” on the 50th anniversary of the novel Valley of the Dolls: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/18/50-years-valley-of-the-dolls-jacqueline-susann

This Simpsons episode we review has its own Wikipedia page! Why? I don’t know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Springfield_Summer_Christmas_for_Christmas

Why is the NME (.com) doing a recap of a Simpsons episode? I don’t know: https://www.nme.com/reviews/tv-recaps/the-simpsons-season-32-episode-10-recap-its-a-christmas-miracle-2904346

Den of Geek have quite the review of the episode of the Simpsons we review today. Very minimal harping on about the golden age (for a change, after all the jaded #THE GREAT SIMPSONS COMPLETE-A-THON talk): https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-simpsons-season-32-episode-10-review-a-springfield-summer-christmas-for-christmas/

Apologies if audio goes tits up for a hot second or 2. As much we can talk over each other at the best of times, there are at least 2 instances of it happening so overtly today it is a JOKE haha due to the fact that we lose connection and keep talking and vamping until the connection returns. First listener to correctly clip these moments out and send to cccappraisalhour@gmail.com wins the first bit of merch we put out, due for late 2026. 

I actually manually went through all 3 pages of the Season 4 section of our website, tallying up the scores for the season, by revealing the winner for each individual episode. But turns out all I had to do was look at the beautiful stats page. So good. You can find it all on THE BEST WEBSITE ©: https://www.cccappraisalhour.show/

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Quite possibly the funniest pitch-off in the history of the show. One of us will still be laughing about this one many years from now … until the Grammys next year! MUAHAHAHWAHAHAHAHAUAHAUWAAHAHA etc.

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A “NO MORE SPECIALS” SPECIAL! Hahahaha, get it? But no for real, we probably won’t go too long without another special … wouldn’t be very special of us if we dropped them completely, now would it?! 

Oh but wait … there’s more … I pitched Season 2 Episode 6 of a show I like (and have pitched before) and wait … are you actually telling me … Christopher pitched Season 2 Episode 6 of a show *he* likes (and has pitched before) … oh ok it must be Season 2 Episode 6 of our … wait … it’s SEASON 4 EPISODE 23 OF THE CULTURAL CONTENT CONSUMPTION APPRAISAL HOUR!?!? What???? Oh mate. This makes no sense. This podcast makes no sense. Nothing makes sense. A special Season 2 Episode 6 review show on Season 4 Episode 23 of the CCCAH. Ok I suppose it isn’t super catchy but I guess we have to go with it. TV shows are our bread and butter I suppose. Let’s start the “let’s start the show” machine! Love a good season something episode something. 

Here is a review of Mythic Quest from the good people at Gamer Rant: https://gamerant.com/mythic-quest-season-2-episode-6-review/

Here is another review of Mythic Quest from the (arguably) even better people at Decider (and what a headline this review has, hoooo weeee): https://decider.com/2021/06/04/mythic-quest-season-2-episode-6-backstory-review/

Here is an interview with the makers of Mythic Quest discussing Season 2 of the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLYliMStLgg

Here is a review of Heels from the fantastic people at my favourite podcast, The Ringer Wrestling Show, which includes an interview with Peter Segal (director of Heels): https://open.spotify.com/episode/7xkSdCbKx7UODdNKDm9KQW?si=e2864091c2234d42

Here is a review of Heels from the fine people at Vulture: https://www.vulture.com/article/heels-recap-season-2-episode-6-appearances.html

Here is an interview with Peter Segal (also a film director with many good film stories) from the good Michael Rosenbaum of the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E96cVlGp7MM 

Ok that’s it. That’s the show. I think we remembered how to do a non-special. It’s basically #ReviewTwoThings right? Pitching. Scoring. Guessing. Well, you’ve heard every edition of the 30 second game, you get the drill, right? Now as Season 5 approaches, can we get any more specials in? Haha. Maybe you know. If you have any ideas for a special we could do, e-mail us at: cccappraisalhour@gmail.com

Our website was not designed by AI (unless @JVD_Games is AI) : https://cccappraisalhour.show/

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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. 

Now we’re all watching the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown together. As a big ol’ appraisal hour family. Can you believe it? Can you believe that, from Jeffrey’s consternation at the casting and Christopher’s trolling-accentuated enthusiasm a year or so ago, and up to the recent role reversal, and all the way to right outside the doors of the world famous Leicester Square Odeon, ready to rock and/or roll. 

Don’t forget the recent Rough and Rowdy Ways review episode, which was basically an excuse for reviewing seeing him live together for the first time!

And not only does the story cover the last year or so, ladies and gentlemen. Inside this episode, we are spiritually echoing the real beginning of the story, way back when *title card with dramatic sound effect on a black screen: early 2000s* little Jeffrey and little Christopher (they were once the same height you know … when Jeffrey was 15 and Christopher was 7 maybe lol) were first getting back into Bob Dylan. Watching No Direction Home on terrestrial television. Learning how to fingerpick on the guitar and play Girl From The North Country. Texting each other on the ol’ Nokia 3210s you know. 

Honestly. We do it all on this episode! The Chiltern line … the Metropolitan line … near Regent’s Park … a random coffee shop Kyle Chayka would write reams and reams of material on … that’s about it really. Enjoy. Watch the movie. Listen to the episode. Consume the content you consume mindfully. Process creatively. Win the nobel prize. Don’t attend the ceremony. Peace. 

Visit Kafi on Cleveland Street in London. I recommend the Iced Vanilla Oak something something: https://www.kaficafe.com/

Some experts weigh in on the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/21/bob-dylan-experts-rate-a-complete-unknown-chalamet-joan-baez

Definitely Dylan, much like us, are a Bob Dylan podcast. And, much like us, the team reviews A Complete Unknown:

https://www.definitelydylan.com/podcasts/2024/12/24/a-complete-unknown-with-michael-glover-smith

Definitely Dylan, unlike us, reviewed A Complete Unknown for a second time! Hey … we can dream … : https://www.definitelydylan.com/listen/2025/1/8/a-complete-unknown-ii-with-rebecca-slaman-and-britt-eisnor

Rolling Stone have talked to the makers of the movie extensively and it’s all really fun: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/bob-dylan-biopic-james-mangold-exclusive-trailer-1235065964/

Little White Lies also reviewed it, using the CCCAH review scale (copycats): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-complete-unknown-wolf-man-inside-llewyn-davis-2013/id1229775456?i=1000684363672

Our website is the best thing on the internet since Bob Dylan joined TikTok: https://cccappraisalhour.show/

E-mail us and tell us to take it easy with the shownotes, I beg: cccappraisalhour@gmail.com

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Welcome to that show about that thing! What more do you want from us? A weekly episode? Like, one fresh new one every week? Bruv, we’ve been giving you that for nigh on two years now! 100+ episodes. Some SPECIAL episodes, even and … some … less special! But hey, that’s how it goes. This week on the show we’re getting cool and hip. You know, if you’re into sitcoms from the 2010s or 63 year old drummers for legendary rock and roll bands listening to emo songs from 2005 for the first time. You know. Those kinds of young, cool and hip things. Emojis. Friendship bracelets. Insta reels with insta captions. Those mini heaters they sell because it’s been cold. 

New Girl (including the episode we watch entitled "Cooler) can be watched … on the internet? Like, I’m sure: http://realitypoint.com/

New Girl’s best episodes (a pitch-inspiring article!) are ranked here: https://variety.com/lists/new-girl-best-episodes-ranked/prince-2/

Chad Smith Hears 30 Seconds To Mars For The First Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMBRjo33cUE

Michael Jackson's Drummer Jonathan Moffett Performs "Smooth Criminal": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRM2Gn9nU7Q

Metal Drummer Tears Up reacting to Jonathan Moffett (Michael Jackson): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOF4guA6nrw

Jazz Drummer Hears Korn For The First Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0YTGI_-Puw

There was on an SNL sketch that was cut for time. Starring John Mulaney. So of course, just like they hoped and dreamed, it goes right in the CCCAH shownotes: 

Speaking of SNL. Christopher asked if there are YouTubers who react to SNL sketches. To that, I would like to say: yes. And to that yes I would like to say: look at these British dudes who aren’t your Appraisal hour boys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2woeGm8rzg

And to the follow-up question “well is that it then?” I would answer with a resounding “no” but then I would draw the line there as you can search things up on YouTube yourself, really (also this lot have a way cooler opening catchphrase than us and it’s actually not fair lol): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsA5EILUSYI

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It feels novel to do two episodes that are not SPECIAL EPISODES consecutively. I don’t know how I feel about it. Oh well, we’ll see. Cos all I … reallllyyy wannnaa dooooo … is baby: https://www.cineworld.co.uk/films/a-complete-unknown/ho00012350#/

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All I really, really want our pod … to do … is to be listened to by me and you too! Well, mainly just you. I’d rather do my shift in the kitchen and then peace out, d’you know what I mean? Y'all eat though, you enjoy.  

We are finally back to our regularly scheduled programming. Can you believe it? All the specials and all the spectaculars behind us for good. Or something. The awards shows. The state of the pod podcast retrospective spectacular special, remember that one. The quiz finale, that one time. That time we invented an elaborate podcast as a hoax in order to hoodwink Christopher into reading a book. That was a good one. And it worked! I think? Eventually. And that was the end of that hoax … right? Hoaxes famously always end smoothly, I feel like. Anyway, what do we do in the show notes when we’re not doing specials? Oh yeah, the shownotes! It’s like the podcast but a book *about* the podcast. A literary companion, so to speak. Well, welcome ... to it.  

We’ve kinda gotta get out of here now, we’re running out of character limit after all that preamble. How very CCCAH of us heheh. And if the shownotes today have nothing but links to Joni Mitchell because featuring her led to a few enthusiastic and festive weeks of reenaging with her beautiful work for at least one of your hosts well, hey … you’re welcome!  

As we quoted on the pod, Cameron Crowe interviewed Joni about Blue a few years ago: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2021-06-20/joni-mitchell-cameron-crowe-50th-anniversary-blue

As archived on one of the cooler websites on Beyoncé's internet, The Uncool.com, you can check out an older interview Cameron Crowe did with Joni from a few years back: http://www.theuncool.com/journalism/rs296-joni-mitchell/

OK no sign of Reese Witherspoon here but still: https://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=5753

Maya Hawke spoke about Blue for the My Favourite Albums podcast with Jeremy Dylan: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2SLVlStYx4xYDbCywTtD67?si=63a7ec817b4f4c06

The Legend BBC Radio 4 Podcast Legend chronicles the story of Joni Mitchell across 6 episodes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001rypt/episodes/player

Even the internet’s busiest music nerd Anthony Fantano of The Needle Drop reviewed Blue last year it’s like even though the album is like nearly 45 years old allllll the cool kids just can’t stop talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nrhIaEEDPw

The amazing music critic Ann K Powers spoke at the Kennedy Center about her new book entitled Traveling On The Path of Joni Mitchell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RnPpHQhgHg

Buy the book! Come on: https://www.pagesofhackney.co.uk/webshop/product/travelling-on-the-path-of-joni-mitchell-ann-powers/

Great and one, two, three, here’s Moana: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000crhx/moana

My bad, I didn’t mean to be rude. Moana 2 is also at the cinema right now: https://www.cineworld.co.uk/films/moana-2/ho00011335#/

Please visit our website it’s actually so good it’s kind of eerie and … suspicious: https://cccappraisalhour.show/

Please e-mail us like e-mail us whatever like remember when e-mail was the only thing, use it like that. Like a message in a bottle. Any fucking thing. You could e-mail us “hey can I be on the pod next week” and we’ll probably be like “yeah” or you could say “review The Traitors” and we’d do a whole episode for you. You could probably buy the podcast off us for a tenner. Or hey, just say hey: cccappraisalhour@gmail.com

P.s. The Year That Wasn’t Awards aren’t over, let alone all the future fomo we have to look forward to, FOMO IS NEVER OVER! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34966650/

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It’s yet another special! Because it’s another new year and we all need and want another awards show, right!? Right! We did it again, we’re here again and it’s The Year That Wasn’t Awards … again! The 2nd annual YTWAs! Or, like the Academy Awards are fondly known as the Oscars, some fondly refer to these as: the FOMOs!

It’s time for another round of telling stories, dreaming and debating about: the things we did not do! The things we wished we had done. The things we wish had happened! Yes, let’s enter another new year with even more helpings of melancholy, regret and recrimination! But more importantly: with creativity and appreciation. Because, as we discovered last year, even missing out on something you yearned to experience … is an experience in and of itself! Right!? Well, we certainly make what we missed out into on whole new experience by just chatting endlessly about it all and creating this episode. Thank God for this podcast! I look forward to this episode every year. Because a fomo shared is a fomo impaired. Am I right or am I right, ladies and gentlemen!  

No competition today, no guesses and no scores. But perhaps this is the last PURE YTWA show, before you (our adoring public) begin voting on the ultimate winner between Jeffrey’s pick and Christopher’s pick in thefuture. Podcast goals for the patreon-shaped 2030s or just a struggle to leave even one single episode of this show winner-less? Only time will tell. 

We are presenting four awards each in three different overarching categories: movies, music and gigs/events. Check out the list of awards below and let us know if you have any winners of your own for any of these categories! We love you and are truly surprised and humbled you spend some of your government-mandated podcast time with us. Happy new year and see you next week when we’ll be (like all of us) back on our same old bullshit:

THE YTW in MOVIES

Movie you wish had been made

Movie you wish you had seen

Movie you wish we had seen together

Movie/celebrity story you wish had happened

THE YTW in MUSIC

Musical artist you wish had released an album

Musical artists you wish had collaborated on an album

Musical artist you wish had written a book

Musical artist you wish made a triumphant comeback

And THE YTW in GIGS/EVENTS

Gig you wish had happened this year

Gig you wish you had attended

Gig you wish we had attended together

Story in entertainment you wish had happened

Prediction

Resolution

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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 Frosty. Don’t act like you’re too cool for this shit, it’s Christmas for fucks sake. Let’s get cheesy. And if it gets pitched on our podcast, we all have to - … well … I guess, technically, only the person who the film was pitched to absolutely HAS to watch it. Haha. Joke’s on him I guess, right!? … RIGHT?? … (spoiler, maybe it isn’t actually, imagine): https://www.netflix.com/watch/81764579

Ok now read some smart stuff about Hot Frosty and the hallmark movie phenomenon and feel smart about the fact that you spent time watching ninety minutes of filmed air with actors in it: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/arts/christmas-movies-hallmark-lohan.html

Hot Air made Jack King of GQ cry, read all about it: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/hot-frosty-review

Kayleigh Dray of Stylist wrote about how Hot Frosty is actually the profound one and the haters are the shallow drips (have you pressed play yet?): https://www.stylist.co.uk/entertainment/film/hot-frosty-review/938700

Watch The Holdovers for Christmas, a great film based at Christmas that is also (still) a Christmas film: https://www.amazon.com/Holdovers-Paul-Giamatti/dp/B0CJRGWVC6

Empire reviewed The Holdovers and gave it five stars. Little White Lies like “hey why aren’t we in the shownotes” and I’m like “pipe down Little White Lies, Empire is the OG!”: https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/the-holdovers/

Alexander Payne (the director of The Holdovers) spoke to the Directors UK podcast and they had a very good conversation: https://directors.uk.com/news/podcast-in-conversation-alexander-payne-on-the-holdovers

David Hemingson (the writer of The Holdovers) spoke to the Script Apart podcast and they also had a very good conversation: https://www.scriptapart.com/episodes/episode-91-the-holdovers-david-hemingson-interview

We’ll see you in 2025 for our 2nd annual New Year’s special. God we love doing this podcast. We love the podcast, we do! We love the podcast, we do! We love the podcast, we do, ohhhh, podcast we love youuu!! 

Website: https://cccappraisalhour.show/

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/movies/moana/70GoJHflgHH9

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvR7Dkg4NQU

Sign up to the mailing list! It’s very exclusive. You have to do some digging to find it. But trust us, we need you to sign up. Because who knows what the Christmas of 2024 doth wrought and what the new year of 2025 will bring! Hey maybe e-mail us about it at cccappraisalhour@gmail.com and we’ll reply with the secret code or the secret map pdf to find it or whatever.

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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 if any of our listeners took any of our “we’ll do this again next year” claims regarding another movie-specific Top 5 seriously. That’s on you. 

Last year, for our Top 5 Christmas Movies episode, we relied on TimeOut. This year, we relied upon them once more. In this instance, Jeffrey and Christopher did not particularly love the TimeOut list of Top 50 Best Christmas Songs of All Time. Maybe because it was put together in 2024. That is just far too fresh and new for these geriatric millennials: https://www.timeout.com/music/best-christmas-songs

We also stole a glance at Spotify’s Topsify playlist for the top 100 Christmas Songs. It was equally baffling, honestly. I kind of don’t know what is going on with anything anymore: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5OP7itTh52BMfZS1DJrdlv

The internet seems to have scraped the SNL “Baby It’s Cold Outside” sketch starring Jimmy Fallon and Cecily Strong, that we talked about on today’s episode, from all official accounts … but much like Jeffrey trying to get his “Baby It’s Cold Outside” hot takes off while Christopher struggles to take the heat … we will not be silenced! Also we found it on Facebook of all places lol I never expected Facebook to show up in the shownotes. Maybe one day we’ll watch The Social Network, I guess. Fuck you Mark Zuckerberg: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2323626974632377

Shout out Aylesbury’s primo shopping centre and the Santa’s Grotto (that should arguably rely a little more on the more classic carol songbook of Christmas songs): https://friarssquareshopping.com/

The super famous clip of Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing “Little Drummer Boy” needs to be included here because Christopher blanked me when I mentioned it and more importantly I’m starting to realise we may have created quite possibly the least classic top 5 Christmas songs list of all time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpXMy5GalI

We look forward to THE MOST ENGAGEMENT since the last Christmas special for this podcast. Apparently one of the hosts has already live streamed the recording of this episode live on YouTube!? No idea why. So surely there is a lot of discourse already discoursing. See you in the comments, chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1qmuvHq6r8

A merry JXMas, by the way! Shout out an honourable mention pick courtesy of Mariah Carey, Christopher and friend-of-the-pod James: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qlhz3Sp5OrE

And a Happy HBG holidays! Shout out an unmentioned honourable mention pick, courtesy of Jeffrey, the Mortemore bros and Rage Against The Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRjiSfEffgI

Now, this is Christmas, this is the bit where I say “Merry Christmas” and he says “Merry Christmas” so … Merry Christmas: https://cccappraisalhour.show/

We are looking forward to getting back to our regularly scheduled programming of pitching, scoring and guessing as we ring in the new year with you and our weekly episodes. As an obscure band from the 2010s called the Heartbeat Generation (how did they manage two references!? Your cheque is in the mail lol) once put it: “it’s always been time to begin and it always will be time to begin”: https://open.spotify.com/track/3kHCUpJXcuWr95umwVW8pN?si=e10251e8a76a4c78 

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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://jonnymortemore.github.io.

Ok so … this is two childhood friends discussing one of their favourite bands. We’re unleashed here. This could be the start of a whole Hope of the States series. This could be the start of a whole HOPE OF THE STATES PODCAST! EUREKA! But no ok wait, let’s just breathe for a moment shall we … for now, it’s just … an episode. One single (HOW DARE WE) episode. Coinciding with the afterglow of our attendance of their London reunion show 18 years since they last played here, we review their two albums. They only made 2 albums. This podcast is a time capsule if ever I’ve seen one. I don’t know how I’m going to go another week of my life without talking about Hope of the States ever again. I can guarantee that (even though we kinda cover their entire album-discography in this episode) this won’t be the last time you hear us mention them, that’s for damn sure. Brian Eno famously said “the first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band.” I think a similar inspirational energy emanated from the first 6 year run of HOTS. Well, I hope that despite the scant listens we garner here at CCCAH HQ every week … every one who listens to this episode, starts listening to Hope of the States ... and starts their own podcast! 

Here is the tweet of the week: https://twitter.com/anousis/status/1865177203849269735

Here are THE LOST RIOTS: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/205131330531

Here is LEFT: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266375676150

Here is LONG WAITS IN A & E: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvtqwlZdDWg

Here is the Hope of the States website: https://www.hopeofthestates.co.uk/

Here is Sam Herlihy and James Ramsden’s podcast: https://thekitchenisonfire.libsyn.com/

Here is Sam Herlihy on a podcast called The Stage Left Podcast (awesome) from way back in 2016: https://www.thestageleftpodcast.com/copy-of-page-2

Here is Sam Herlihy on a podcast called The Boys In The Band (excellent listen) from the year of Covid, 2020: https://podtail.com/en/podcast/the-boys-in-the-band-podcast/36-hope-of-the-states-sam-herlihy-on-epic-albums-a/

Here is Sam Herlihy on a podcast called Time for Heroes (very good stuff) from February of this year: https://shows.acast.com/time-for-heroes/episodes/sam-herlihy-hope-of-the-states

Here is Sam Herlihy in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/25/hope-of-the-states-sam-herlihy-reunion-long-waits

Here is Sam Herlihy in the NME: https://www.nme.com/news/music/hope-of-the-states-reunion-tour-new-album-interview-3772668

Here is some fucking cool footage from the December 6th Tuffnel Park Dome gig your boys were so joyously present for (shout out Mandy for the great front row footage, and the glowsticks too!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3pYXUUNAag

Corrections: Their wikipedia correctly states that they were initially active from 2000-2006, not 2000-2004. 

Allusions were made to a “beef” between the frontman of the band Sam Herlihy and guitarist for the band Anthony Theaker. Anthony is not presently playing in the band. 

Please listen to Hope of the States. All hum always.

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Friends. Fans. Fellow well-wishers. We made it. It’s episode 100. Also known as: the last ever episode. Jokes lol probably not but hey, if you want us to get real right here in the shownotes (like we always do!) we currently have nothing else in the can. Nothing else in the bank. This is it. This is what we’ve got. We’ve shot our shot. 

But there is a high likelihood we’ll return better than ever next week because HEY WE HAVE A WEBSITE NOW: https://www.cccappraisalhour.show/ by the time you read this it might not be LIVE live but trust us, it’s there and it’s COOL. In the coming weeks, the show notes will mainly consist of plugging it. The podcast will become a mere promotional arm of the website, to be honest. 

We would like to dedicate this week’s episode to Jonny Mortemore for designing our aforementioned beautiful website and for creating the special quiz we enjoy on today’s 100th episode spectacular! A podcast couldn’t ask for a better friend. Check out his work at JVD Games and play some of his games, they’re awesome: https://jonnymortemore.github.io.

And huge thanks to our Brew.Ding main man, Alistair Hillier. If we need another interlocutor, a raconteur, an additional host to SUPER host your humble hosts, the people demand Ali step in between your boys and call it down the middle. We are grateful to him for his vibe, it’s just very vibey and chill. On and off pod. If you’re a listener to the pod and have yet to check out https://www.instagram.com/brew.ding/ then what are you even doing, really?

And hey, I guess, for old time’s sake … why not … here are our other socials that we are not very sociable on:  

https://bere.al/christopheranousis

https://bere.al/jefflemonade

https://www.instagram.com/jeffbahlo/

https://twitter.com/cccappraisalpod

cccappraisalhour@gmail.com

We hope to see you soon. Maybe next week, even! Just need to close our eyes and feel that energy from you all, you know? The hope of our mates :)  

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These are the podcasts of our lives. This one is for the connoisseurs. The sickos. The shownotes sweethearts. That’s right. Episode 100 is nearly here. Perhaps we’ll then lock off the first 100 episodes behind a huge ass paywall. Or we’ll just end the pod. Or we’ll plod along week to week. These are all genuine options on the table! But for now, let’s start the show. Cold open. Did it. Here. Guess. Score. Pitch. Cry. Lol.

Hey, do you have some time? 

Ok, should we get some podcasts? 

Sure. 

Where?

Wolfs can be watched here: https://tv.apple.com/gb/movie/wolfs/umc.cmc.c3xhu25rw4jxxxzq4oio6snu

Some scorching takes regarding the release strategy for Wolfs can be read here: https://screenrant.com/wolfs-streaming-release-theatrical-limited-irritating/

The Little White Lies review has made it onto another edition of your favourite podcast’s favourite shownotes! Who knew? We did, that’s who: https://lwlies.com/reviews/wolfs/

When We Were Kings can be watched here: https://archive.org/details/when-we-were-kings

Read the wikipedia page for When We Were Kings and educate yourself. Are you watching it yet? I am going to do the unprecedented and grant you permission to bail on the shownotes for the movie this week - run! Don’t walk! To go and watch When We Were Kings! (Or yeah just check out the wikipedia lazy bones! I mean, my bad, if you’re reading the shownotes of a podcast you ain’t lazy at all, you are THOROUGH): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We_Were_Kings

Here is the immersive experience I mentioned! If it ever comes back, you all should throw money at it and go. You don’t get the dulcet tones of Norman Mailer and George Plimpton but you do get a lot of innocent frivolity, role playing and hooplah. And if there are three things we could do more with in this world, it is innocent frivolity, role playing and hooplah: https://rumbleinthejunglerematch.com/

Here is Charli xcx enjoying some “Mean Cute” moments with the Please Don’t Destroy boys over there on our favourite 50 year long running variety show Saturday Night Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyID_6Pd8u0

Here is Charli’s monologue (Christopher can you just watch this and text me a tick emoji and at least one another reaction emoji please, Jesus Christ, cheers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioKhmGbVWSk

Ok let’s do one last week of some classic links to other places, shall we. I look at all the lonely platforms: 

https://bere.al/christopheranousis

https://bere.al/jefflemonade

https://www.instagram.com/jeffbahlo/

https://cccappraisalhour.show/

https://twitter.com/cccappraisalpod

cccappraisalhour@gmail.com

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

HOPE OF THE STATES 

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Well hey there CCCAH freaks. We love you and your freaky ways you know. Always checking out the pod. Always deep in the shownotes. We love that from you. Another delicious slice of content that is in fact all about processing content more consciously, rigorously, artistically even - and with a friend by your side! You are also a friend by our side you know. N’awww c’mere you, sidle on up next to ol’ Uncle Christopher and Uncle Jeffrey! We’re talking Junior Taskmaster and Jackpot! this week. Tenuous grammatications and creative collaborations. Spoilers? Kinda I mean, I don’t know anymore. What isn’t a spoiler? That might be the easier question at this point. Deary me. 

The first episode of the first season of Junior Taskmaster lives here. There is now more than one episode. Rejoice. But start with the first episode still: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/junior-taskmaster/on-demand/75590-003

Here is your database of all things Taskmastery you hear your distractible hosts enjoying on today’s show: https://taskmaster.info/

Where is Dave? Is everything cool with Dave? The TV Channel I mean. Let’s check in with the Dave website. It now seems to be called U&Dave. I don’t know how to feel about that. How do you feel about that? How do we feel about that? You and I. Lol: https://u.co.uk/channel/dave

Rose Matafeo doing some stand up on Conan. This won’t be her last time in the shownotes, no, surely not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j1WO6BVIdA

JACKPOT! can be watched here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jackpot-Paul-Feig/dp/B0D1J68B8F

John Cena and Awkwafina doing some press together for WIRED’s YouTube channel like the delightful double act they now are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7TMg7QsWOg

When I went on a mad one confusing Awkwafina (the comedian and star of Jackpot!) and Akinfenwa (former football player for teams such as FK Atlantas and Faversham Town F.C.) it reminded me of this infamous clip of David Letterman from that one time he hosted the Oscars … my bad lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-BJTE56I14

Danny Jones doing an advert for preventative hair loss treatment MANUAL can be watched here. If you’re all caught up on some of the new season of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! and you’re jonesing (hehe) for some more Danny Jones content .. who isn’t!? Am I right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgfrOVlLKc0

Oh yes and the ending where the money has changed our main characters and they’re now assholes who want mega yachts and dolphin sandwiches reminded me of a tweet. So yes, it’s back. Courtesy of @Merman_Melville from Jan 24, 2019, we proudly present to you this week’s tweet of the week: “Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day” https://x.com/Merman_Melville/status/1088527693757349888

We hope you enjoyed today’s show. And stay tuned for a special free gift if you have enjoyed 98 episodes of the show so far. That’s right … a regular ass 99th episode. Free of charge. All things being equal. And fair in love and war etc. That will be with you soon. Reviewing stuff, I’m sure. Good old pod, eh?

HEY WOULD YOU LIKE A PROPER WEBSITE INSTEAD OF OUR JANKY SOCIAL LINKS!? GREAT, SEE YOU SOON! 

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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 Bob Dylan live last night. In this recording, we will be talking about it as if it’s in the future. All the timelines, eh? As the great man himself once said (speaking about his song “Tangled Up In Blue”): “You’ve got yesterday, today and tomorrow all in the same room, and there’s very little you can’t imagine not happening”. Indeed Bob. Indeed. But hey, Bob man, let’s talk about a song you very likely don’t remember that you sang on: We Are The World. And let’s talk about the documentary about that song. And let’s talk about Christmas. With fictionalised, mockumentary hosts. Let’s do it all. Let’s start the show.

If you want to keep living in the 80s (and specifically, during The Greatest Night in Pop ©) just keep this on a loop on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81720500

Read more about it (always be reading more about it): https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780399511721/World-Breskin-David-McCall-Cheryl-0399511725/plp

Be one of the 175 million people to watch this video of We Are The World being performed live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AjkUyX0rVw

Here is Cunk on Christmas! Merry soft-launch of Christmas to all ye merry folk: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b086kfhw/cunk-on-christmas

Philomena Cunk also wrote about Christmas in her delightfully idiosyncratic way for the Guardian (This article is more than 7 years old): https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/dec/20/philomena-cunk-guide-to-christmas-food

Some of the best lines from Cunk on Christmas: https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfilm/cunk-on-christmas-15-hilarious-philomena-cunk-quotes-about-santa-jesus-and-eastenders-a3423966.html

Should we be feeling fomo for this or nah? Be real with me! You know, so to speak: https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=cunk-on-life-preview-qanda

Social links: 

https://bsky.app/ (ok we hear you, give us a second)

https://bere.al/christopheranousis

https://bere.al/jefflemonade

https://www.instagram.com/jeffbahlo/

https://cccappraisalhour.show/

https://twitter.com/cccappraisalpod

cccappraisalhour@gmail.com

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jackpot-Paul-Feig/dp/B0D1J68B8F

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/junior-taskmaster/on-demand/75590-003

The mothers of podcasters are now breaking news to the podcasters with podcast-related news! Who would have thunk it: 

https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/band-aid-announces-40th-anniversary-edition-of-do-they-know-its-christmas

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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 apocalypse is nigh etc, we’ve all been there, done that and are waiting on the t-shirt (and other assorted merch). But right now there are important things we need to discuss here on the show of shows. The pod of pods. The most fan-backed and yet Patreon-less podcast to ever approach 100 episodes.

Wolfman Jack play Rough and Rowdy Ways: https://www.bobdylan.com/albums/rough-and-rowdy-ways/

The cover of Rough and Rowdy ways can be marvelled at and understood more thoroughly here: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/how-a-56-year-old-photo-wound-up-on-the-cover-of-bob-dylans-upcoming-lp-997105/

Laura Tenschert of the wonderful Definitely Dylan pod prepped you good and proper for Rough and Rowdy ways after I Contain Multitudes and Murder Most Foul had come out, back in the heady days of 2020: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Cc4HwMi8do88CMP7C2jh5?si=7e1a8555fc6745a8

Bob Dylan spoke to Douglas Brinkley about Murder Most Foul because sometimes in this world cool people talk to cool people about cool stuff d’you know what I mean (see a selective few episodes of this podcast for further examples of this phenomenon): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/arts/music/bob-dylan-rough-and-rowdy-ways.html

Gladiator can be watched here. I’ll tell you this much about the ITV app: I did enjoy the ad breaks. Lengthy. Like watching on old terrestrial tv. Time to put a brew on. Go for a walk. Go to the loo. Call your loved ones and have a quick natter. But no, the lack of a quick rewind-ten-seconds button or something similar continues to infuriate also: https://www.itv.com/watch/gladiator/1a7758

The audio commentary for the extended cut of Gladiator can be listened to here, featuring Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO6ik4J3h0w

The audio commentary for the theatrical cut features Ridley Scott, John Mathieson (director of photography) and Pietro Scalia (editor): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiUxjg7OUn4

Oh the wonders of watching all these people react to watching the end of Gladiator for the first time. Maybe if we can find some younger hosts to take over from us, they’ll start pitching cool shit like this instead of movies. Who watches “movies” these days anyways? Oh right, the people in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXjywLg4EXk

Gladiator 2 trailer is here. See you on the special: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts0N8swyWFI

Social links: 

https://www.duolingo.com/profile/canousis

https://bere.al/christopheranousis

https://bere.al/jefflemonade

https://www.instagram.com/jeffbahlo/

https://cccappraisalhour.show/

https://twitter.com/cccappraisalpod

cccappraisalhour@gmail.com

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81720500

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b086kfhw/cunk-on-christmas

Well that’s it. See you in four years. Or just go watch The Apprentice, try to continue to understand humanity through art and keep your head in the fucking game. Make content art again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvPRxy9kmSg

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Gonna need a goddamn Patreon just to include the Director’s Cut of these here shownotes. (This is not a joke … or a drill!) Anyway, welcome to the 2nd edition of “HEY we’re out here consuming the wrong stuff” hahahaha no but for real, do you remember that time Jeffrey watched the wrong episode of Drag Race or something? Classic CCCAH banter. Anyway, back to today. Your boys are on a date for the 30 second game. Finally! No time for banter, there are too many links to post this week!

So anyway, back to the banter. I guess Bob Dylan has finally arrived here on the pod, eh? And now I have the unenviable task of having to whittle down how many links I can include here. I am hitting the character-limit wall once more, I’ll tell you that much. We should be fine actually. We didn’t really talk about Bob Dylan or review Shadow Kingdom tbh because it’s too much - you get how it’s too much, right? This is too much for me even writing about it here. The “perfect chocolate Christmas birthday object almost becomes intimidatingly off-putting in my clumsy hands” theory. I felt like this when A Moon Shaped Pool came out and all (shout out your bingo cards!) and for years struggled with getting around to watching Shadow Kingdom, ever since the heady days of the pandemic! 

We talked about whether we consumed the correct Shadow Kingdom media and why that was confusing. This chat is more about being confused about what a thing is. Why we thought a thing was something it wasn’t. When and how we thought those things. Yesterday, today and tomorrow all in the same room. It’s more of a Bob Dylan song than a podcast. Anyway, here is Shadow Kingdom, super easy to find on the iPlayer haha: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001t5bk/bob-dylan-shadow-kingdom

Shadow Kingdom is a film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Kingdom:_The_Early_Songs_of_Bob_Dylan

And you can listen to it on Spotify too (as some of us have already done): https://open.spotify.com/album/1bp23TX5hrEDSDykAaTCkE?si=vJZaEIS9TJyyDa_3RsOh4Q

Tim Pierce talks about his DREAM of tracking LIVE with Bob Dylan becoming REAL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-WhIIgzca4

Alan Light and Jeff Slate are interviewed on The Paul Leslie Hour and shed so much wisdom on Shadow Kingdom it’s actually too much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MwhrvMAkpc

CCCCAH meet Jokermen. Like The Flinstones meets The Jetsons out here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bob-dylan-shadow-kingdom-with-tyler-wilcox-james-adams/id1519299517?i=1000529311145

ANDREW GARFIELD MET AMELIA DIMOLDENBERG FOR THE THIRD TIME AND WENT ON CHICKEN SHOP DATE KLAXON: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFS5vxYlfY8

Andrew Garfield met Amelia Dimoldenberg for the 1st time, once upon a time: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HB3myyxUUds

Andrew Garfield met Amelia Dimoldenberg for the 2nd time, once upon another time: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/K2qNHyB08FY

A dating expert reacts to ANDREW GARFIELD + AMELIA DIMOLDENBERG because of course he does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtpvi0hAuRM

Andrew is his charming self on the Happy Sad Confused podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYWvTY_iD3k

Amelia is her charming self on our undisputed (*disputed) favourite US late night talk show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elGEh69j2jA

So wait, hold on, do these show notes even exist when I’m not looking at them? It’s a great question. The answer is blowing in the wind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_permanence

See you next time, fans of high quality journalism! https://www.nme.com/news/film/paul-mescal-didnt-contact-russell-crowe-to-ask-about-gladiator-i-wouldnt-know-what-to-say-3803253

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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. Honestly, it’s a very straightforward ship we’ve got running over here. Smooth sailin’. Ship shape. Shape up. Shape up and ship out. Anyway, shut the fuck up. Enjoy the show. 

You can enjoy reading all about The Wrestling Road Diaries here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2299573/

You can enjoy even more reading-related fun regarding The Wrestling Road Diaries here. Letterboxd. Welcome to the shownotes baby: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-wrestling-road-diaries/

You can purchase The Wrestling Road Diaries (like a true fan of the one true sport would do) here: https://coltmerch.com/product/the-wrestling-road-diaries/

Colt Cabana himself uploaded all the Wrestling Road Diaries extras on YouTube for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4kKgTLxxk

You can watch The Faculty here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Faculty-Clea-Duvall/dp/B00G4WIZQE

The Guardian spared like a paragraphs or two on The Faculty in 2020. During the early days of the pandemic? Huh … because I guess … that was the movie we all needed then? Or … something: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jun/04/the-faculty-teen-angst-budding-high-school-romance-and-evil-alien-parasites

If you look up The Faculty in your podcast feed you will find so many reviews it is actually scary. The new horror film of the 2020s will be about how hard it is to escape the content matrix: each new piece of anything spawning so many more pieces of content, each new layer of fresh content more trivial than the last … wait, what were we talking about? I don’t remember. Anyway, here is the Fish Jelly Film Reviews reviewing The Faculty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF6c3JWItOU

P.s. Join in the great haircut debate here: https://www.resetera.com/threads/can-we-discuss-josh-hartnetts-hair-in-the-faculty.779324/

This is the cold open to this past weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live that your boys live react to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur7KlIYh8rM

Social links: 

https://bere.al/jefflemonade

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https://www.instagram.com/jeffbahlo/

https://cccappraisalhour.show/

https://twitter.com/cccappraisalpod

cccappraisalhour@gmail.com

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFS5vxYlfY8

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001t5bk/bob-dylan-shadow-kingdom

See you (and Buck Meek) next week: https://uproxx.com/indie/buck-meek-interview-haunted-mountain/

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Ding dong, the spoilercast is here! Featuring a special guest (our 1st house doorbell finally makes an appearance on the show!) today we will be cutting out all the bad bits and clawing out a victorious (we recorded it, hurrah!) podcast from the jaws of defeat (not finding the time to consume the content and then get together to record the pod!). I find it to be a good episode. I find it to be a good opening, even though it was the first (completists, can you confirm? Surely that's not right??) time the opening was interrupted. I thought it was a good (if not manic and exhausted) opening in general, even though a 2nd attempt at starting the podcast was suggested. It's just 2 Radiohead fans trying to talk about *how* to talk about a new Smile album that has just come out and then trying to talk about wrestling by talking about a wrestling movie. It's not rocket science. It's just that pitching stuff the other person wants to consume and enjoy will *also* annoy them. So get your Radiohead around that one! And enjoy (said the way Christopher says "and take care" haha)!

Find a copy of Cutouts by The Smile here: https://shop.xlrecordings.com/release/469975-the-smile-cutouts?lang=en_GB

Matt Everitt interviewed the secret sauce of The Smile, drummer Tom Skinner, for BBC Radio 6. It seems to be the main (only?) audio interview the band have done for this new album. It’s a beautiful conversation, especially when Tom talks about bringing his more improvisatory musical foundations to the group. And really interesting thoughts about the songs Foreign Spies, Don’t Get Me Started, The Slip and Eyes and Mouth. When he mentions how his being influenced by Radiohead seemed to naturally evolve into being involved with them musically, try not to die of jealousy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPCcAPYNpxM

Jonny Greenwood did an e-mail interview with the NME. Confirming that a) Radiohead got together to play again and b) there are no other Radiohead-related plans at the minute: https://www.nme.com/news/music/jonny-greenwood-interview-the-smile-cutouts-radiohead-return-3801554

Don’t kid yourself with all the love for The Smile. We miss you Radiohead. Let’s watch the most recent interview with Colin Greenwood, who is touring with Nick Cave and putting out a new book. Hey, maybe we’ll see him at a book signing sometime soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPCcAPYNpxM

Find a copy of The Iron Claw here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Iron-Claw-Sean-Durkin/dp/B0CV7V27RY

The Von Erich family are inducted into the WWE hall of fame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp3W2GzFXis

Jeremy Allen White talked to Seth Meyers about The Iron Claw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6EJWhpFmac

The Masked Man Show (best wrestling pod in the game) talked to Jeremy Alen White and Zac Efron about The Iron Claw here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/zac-efron-and-jeremy-allen-white-join-to-talk-the/id1211025769?i=1000638991383

We apologise for how many times we mixed up the names of the Von Erich brothers on the show. We apologise to Kevin, Kerry and David. As a token of our apology, please enjoy the work of the Kevin’s kids on All Elite Wrestling. If you decide to continue to watch professional wrestling after this, in what seems to be the post-Danielson era, then hey … enjoy.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxRwDl7eaz4

This is the Saturday Night Live sketch about Jennifer Coolidge starring Dana Carvey, Ariana Grande and Chloe Fineman we talked about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKm9Qev_-mw

Social link: 

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And don’t forget. If you fight for your dreams, your dreams will fight for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeHywpK_gXI

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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 get the CCCAH review treatment! A nostalgic childhood album shout and a brand new shiny documentary on Netflix. I guess this episode answers the perennially evocative, grammatically questionable question: where the good times gone? They’re right here Chad. All the stupid fun and all the shit we’ve done indeed. 

You can listen to Silver Side Up (in full! What a world 2024 is eh) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd3l0ss4cz8

You can watch the YouTube channel Rocked cover the album Silver Side Up for their “Regretting The Past” series. It is not merely the vicious and withering takedown you might expect, but a well thought through and produced review! Also, due credit to the channel for coining the phrase “triage of suckage” when referring to Creed, Limp Bizkit and Nickelback. I am sure this phrase will have increasing cultural cachet in the years to come: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Df4LHiSo8

JC Rock and Metal Reviews reviewed Silver Side Up in a very pleasant way but also (intentionally?) made a crazy thumbnail I would like to continue to discuss as the days (and years) go on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECKge5_f_YM

My new favourite YouTuber is Mosquito Crucifixion and I consider this review as definitive a guide to the album as it gets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGx9UXgSZsQ

You can be charmed by Will and Harper here on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81760197

Terry Gross of NPR makes her debut on the CCCAH shownotes?! The best interviewer in the game. A true OG. Here she is talking to Will Ferrell and Harper Steele: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/07/nx-s1-5140106/will-ferrell-harper-steele-transition-road-trip

Will and Harper also spoke to the New York Times, in another fantastic interview. Your humble host is starting to think he should have just pitched all these accompanying press materials in tandem with the documentary because some of these just knock it out of the park: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/07/magazine/will-ferrell-harper-steele-interview.html

Director Josh Greenbaum spoke to the awesome IndieWire Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. Technical yet heartfelt chats: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ZZd3pmdiySCSfrl6bYYnG?si=22259a8c83a248e4

Little White Lies cast their little aspersions here. And hmmm that scoring system sure does seem familiar. Funny that: https://lwlies.com/reviews/will-and-harper/

Social links: 

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https://cccappraisalhour.show/

https://twitter.com/cccappraisalpod

cccappraisalhour@gmail.com

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://a24films.com/films/the-iron-claw

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://shop.xlrecordings.com/release/469975-the-smile-cutouts?lang=en_GB

We’ll see you next time folks! We have a Tom McRae gig to catch. It might seem impossible but some things aren’t for podcasts or even podcast specials. They’re just for us. Your boys. But obviously we’ll try and do a Tom McRae special at some point too lol please don’t get it twisted. Just not tonight. We’re tired xo

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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 crushing it. Thanks Netflix! Because apparently, movies ending up on one of the various platforms is exactly the same as how movies used to come out on videotape back in the day (???) So let’s review a musical biopic and a slow burning drama. Let’s diversify our cultural palates, as always and as ever. Let’s broaden and/or expand our horizons. Let’s circle back to circling back. 

Watch His Three Daughters on Netflix. Maybe one day it will feature in your Netflix Unwrapped: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81733310

Azazel Jacobs spoke to Marc Maron for the WTF podcast (not for this movie, but still) and maybe now we’ve recorded this episode, we’ll be able to listen to it: https://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1213-azazel-jacobs

Azazel Jacobs spoke to the Script Apart podcast all about His Three Daughters and we cannot wait to tap in: https://www.scriptapart.com/episodes/his-three-daughters-azazel-jacobs-interview

This looks like a fun interview with the actresses from His Three Daughters (the thumbnail for which drove one of your co-hosts mad with kayfabe related preciousness! Take it as a compliment Azazel): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=208jgkViWUw

Watch Back To Black on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81776705

Listen to the soundtrack for Back To Black on the Apple Music platform (mix it up!) and save yourself the trouble of multi-tasking watching the movie and continuously pressing the button for your Shazam app: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/back-to-black-songs-from-the-original-motion-picture/1738069752

When Amy Winehouse won the Grammy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0q3Re5ksVg

The documentary Amy on DVD: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334595384243

Social links: 

https://bere.al/jefflemonade

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https://www.instagram.com/jeffbahlo/

https://cccappraisalhour.show/

https://twitter.com/cccappraisalpod

cccappraisalhour@gmail.com

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd3l0ss4cz8

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81760197

Christopher, I got us tickets for Hamlet Hail To The Thief on Saturday June the 21st. See you then. You’re welcome. 

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THE 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 tree that has many, many branches. 

The Bear Season 1 Episode 7 called Review can be found here on Disney Plus. You just have to navigate this website, click a few buttons etc: https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/series/the-bear/52m6nx7HoP5F

Vulture talks about the episode Review here: https://www.vulture.com/article/how-the-bear-shot-episode-7-one-take.html

Chris Storer, the creator of The Bear, featured on the Blamo podcast here. If you like cool fucking shit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24-WoVZiUu8

Courtney Storer, culinary producer for The Bear, spoke to Radio Cherry Bombe about food … if you like FOOD and FOOD CHAT: https://cherrybombe.com/blogs/radio-cherry-bombe/courtney-storer-the-bear

Chis and Courtney Storer were on the Air Jordan food podcast. If you like fun podcasts where cool people talk about cool stuff … of course you do, look at what show you’re listening to right now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bear-with-chris-courtney-storer/id1437334078?i=1000569289215

Here is Seth Meyers day drinking with Kevin Hart. It’s not a competition but then again everything is, so of course they end up playing some games. Do they get legitimately drunk or not? I will let you decide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nmjAmQOk-8

Here is Kevin Hart talking to a host who isn’t Seth Meyers. He has talked to all of them to be fair, so let’s choose someone … hmm, ok, how about … Stephen Colbert, from about a month ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGEM-rZRD90

For the benefit of some of the CCCAH who weren’t in the know, here is a bit of a recap of when Kevin Hart briefly fell out of public favour. Not trying to relitigate it (cancel the CCCAH for featuring Kevin Hart!) and not trying not to relitigate it, but it is interesting for the context of his career arc: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-57528258

Here is Seth Meyers less drunkenly talking to his old friends Will Ferrell and Harper Steele about their favourite failed SNL sketch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUlqgqtd-CA

Tweet of the week is back! I hope I can just copy and paste it here without getting distracted ... uh oh, I got distracted. Better ask myself: what is the psychological discomfort I am avoiding right now? Life changing question: https://x.com/screenrotpod/status/1836837125964378608

Social links: 

https://bere.al/jefflemonade

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https://www.instagram.com/jeffbahlo/

https://cccappraisalhour.show/

https://twitter.com/cccappraisalpod

cccappraisalhour@gmail.com

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81776705

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81733310

It’s the end of September. Which basically means it’s Christmas. Can you believe it? Anyway, come back next week. Hopefully time will have slowed down by then, or maybe it will have done a nice little U-Turn. Maybe it will be Brat summer again! Oh Brat Summer. We hardly knew ye. RIP. Tweet of the week 2: https://x.com/charli_xcx/status/1830695037925237025

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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/@cccappraisalhour

Supersonic, 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=kYsMK_vnA2c

Here is a version with Italian subtitles, for those of us with killer Duolingo streaks which sometimes triggers newbies into chastising us for not knowing our new, chosen language yet … learning a language is hard! But hey. O mangi questa minestra o salti dalla finestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NQq8H0tnJw

The Rolling Stone Now podcast reacted to the news of the reunion and they did a bang up job, if you ask me. Shout out Brian Hiatt: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/inside-the-oasis-reunion/id1078431985?i=1000667983713

Noel is hilarious (Oasis videos commentary highlights): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfNqyjZcleI

Liam is hilarious (Jonathan Ross appearances highlights): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRUk4g0rusA

Joker (directed by Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin Phoenix) can be watched here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Joker-Joaquin-Phoenix/dp/B07YP8JS6J

The trailer for the new Joker film can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OKAwz2MsJs

Joaquin Phoenix spoke to Vanity Fair a fair few years ago! What a fascinating interview and profile. What a fascinating guy. Arthur Fleck on the other hand, well, that is another story entirely …: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/10/joaquin-phoenix-cover-story

The Blank Check boys Griffin and David also chatted about Joker. Much like us. But with scathing tones mostly untethered and encouraged: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/joker/id981330533?i=1000453291773

Little White Lies reviewed Joker! With the classic CCCAH scale, though they might not call it that (if you’re looking for more devil’s advocate when it comes to Joker, you could do worse than tuning in to this week’s episode of the CCCAH): https://lwlies.com/reviews/joker/

Social links: 

https://bere.al/jefflemonade

https://www.instagram.com/jeffbahlo/

https://cccappraisalhour.show/

https://twitter.com/cccappraisalpod

cccappraisalhour@gmail.com

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nmjAmQOk-8

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Review_(The_Bear)

Is Brat summer officially over? Are we still your Brat summer faves? Well, listen, if so: we love that for us. We are going to carry on and we are going to journey into the bleakest of midwinters together. As a dysfunctional podcast-affiliated community, which is the best you can hope for when it comes to communal spaces in the hellscape that is 2024: digitally clinging to each other in the cold and broken wreckage we still call "society" here in Britain. Personally, I think a Patreon would right all these wrongs. But hey. You wouldn’t get it. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a family and a football team to indulge. I’ll see you somewhere down the road. It’s been a fuckin’ pleasure. 

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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 through all the compliments and praise. And that’s just from one co-host to the other! Now let's start the show.

Watch episode 1 of Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz prancing around and improvising. They call it “Middleditch and Schwartz” which is just classic. Instead of being creative with the names, just use the surnames. We see you, Tommy and Benny boy! The episode is entitled “Parking Lot Wedding” because that is exactly the scenario that the boys spontaneously bring to life: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81140289

This is an article on how these two funny men might be the saviours of improv comedy. Oh, that is a shame. I thought it could be us. Anousis and Bahlo. Or Bahlo and Anousis. Or probably not, we’re just a podcast without a Patreon mate, dream on. Anyway, Jesse David Fox is good at writing about culture so give him a read: https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/middleditch-schwartz-netflix-comedy-specials.html

This is an article about improv being back in New York. Which is interesting because improv in New York is low-key the genesis of our pod. Our endeavours. Our project. Our collaborations. Our relationship. The pod. But anyway, yeah, back to the point. Improv New York in 2024:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/arts/improv-comedy-new-york-return.html

This is Season 3 Episode 4 of The 1% Club, aired on the tenth of August. It is on the ITV X app. I think that is what it’s called. So yeah … good luck with that hahaha: https://www.itv.com/watch/the-1percent-club/10a0593/10a0593a0025

Lee Mack talks to Richard Herring on his podcast (which is called Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre podcast) about the 1% Club and getting older. Those are definitely two things you want to hear from Lee Mack about, so fair play to whoever had the idea to clip this bit out. Clipping out bits is an art form: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBRVsmGOsso

Lee Mack confirms he won’t be doing Not Doing Out in 2024. So that is big news. Colin Greenwood recently announced Radiohead rehearsed together again, so maybe that will put a smile back on the face of anyone who is sad to read this article: https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/celebs-tv/itv-1-club-star-lee-9223666

We bloody well hope this wasn’t a bang average episode of our show. But hey. If it was, you know what? That is still pretty good. 

(In terms of the audio levels)

(For one of us)

(Oh hey did anyone notice we briefly uploaded this episode a bit earlier in the week accidentally? Hahaha rock and roll podcasting, what are you gonna do!?)

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https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhour

https://bere.al/jefflemonade

https://www.instagram.com/jeffbahlo/

https://cccappraisalhour.show/

https://twitter.com/cccappraisalpod

cccappraisalhour@gmail.com

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_(2019_film)

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5213534/

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