The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour

BLACKBERRY: Reviewed!  Welcome to the show of shows! It’s Thursday the 9th of July so of course we’ll be live-reacting to the Egypt vs Argentina game from Tuesday the 7th of July and discussing a bit of England vs Mexico from Sunday the 5th of July! When you really deep it, we as a podcast are all things to all people. A football recap ramble, a half-hearted improvisatory game show, an excuse...

PLAN 75 BY THE ORCHESTRA (FOR NOW): Reviewed!  We swing back from our regularly scheduled programme to as special a special as we’ve done for a while. Why so special? Oh I don’t know. Let’s just say, this one will live long in the memory in terms of its placement on the calendar. Between the 25th of June and the 2nd of July, the podcast has been enjoying the summer. And we shall leave it at t...

POWER PLAYS EPISODES 4 AND 5 BY KARIM ZIDAN AND ELIE BLEIER: Reviewed!  Week 2 of the world cup! And we’ve got another heat wave to endure. But nothing hotter than a fresh episode of the Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour! We end (perhaps?) our two-week long series on FOOTBALL (hahahahah sorry) by taking the ball up the pitch and … metaphor metaphor, something something, last week we...

RIP THE SCRIPT | NIKE FOOTBALL: Reviewed! As Karl Marx said: “podcasts are the opium of the masses”! So I hope you’re ready for your fix today, ladies and germs! Welcome to yet another episode of the Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour and that’s right, your boys are finally world cup boys once more! It’s been a long time coming. Our podcast kind of started after one of those pesky old wor...

GUY MONTGOMERY’S GUY MONT SPELLING BEE SEASON 2 EPISODE 6: Reviewed!  Today we are really CCCAHing it up! We’re reviewing another fun game show. And that is fun because, when you really think about it … we’re a fun game show also! I mean, the fun part is arguable, but in theory, that’s what we do here on the programme. So it’s like mirror images. Maybe the fourth season of the Spelling Bee wi...

THE RAMEN GIRL: Reviewed!  Roll up, roll up. To the Ramen girl initiated and the about-to-be-Ramen-girl-initiated! It’s your favourite podcast about someone who wins the review game and your favourite sport about two people who share cultural interests.  All the “it’s Thursday you know what that means” vibes you can shake a stick at on today’s episode, on this, the 4th of the 6th month o...

SERIES FINALE OF THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT: Reviewed! Come one, come all, rally round ye late night talk show fans! It’s time we close out yet another chapter of yet another long beloved institution. No no, not the long rumoured final episode of the CCCAH (which you better believe will arrive all of a sudden and without any fanfare in the run up, unlike Mr. Colbert and the final episode o...

SEASON 2 EPISODE 1 of DON’T TRUST THE B—— IN APARTMENT 23: Reviewed! Welcome to the show buddies, chums and fellow well-wishers! It’s the show we like to call the triple C, with a lil bit of the A to the H! Today we’re not trusting the B in Apartment 23. Don’t trust the C (content) in the CC (cultural consumption), to be honest with you. Don’t trust the appraisal hour bro in the cccappraisalhour.s...

RUNNER’S WORLD MAY ISSUE: Reviewed!  What we talk about when we talk about podcasting. Well. We did it gang! We’re here. At the finish line. Dead. We ran the London Marathon! Success, just about! It was all such a big deal I might make an entire Instagram post about it, who knows?! Or maybe a website. Ah why bother, could never better this one: cccappraisalhour.show!  As a podcast we hav...

MICHAEL: Reviewed! It’s a Michael special! That’s right. The movie Michael. The Michael Jackson biopic. Christopher wanted to do a A Complete Unknown but for him this time. Well you got it buddy. Maybe we didn’t get a whole movie day in town for it but still. We both watched the film (and scored it? Why lol) and then talked about it for an hour. Which is literally all we want.  I can’t believ...

SIGNED, SEALED & DELIVERED BY STEVIE WONDER: Reviewed!  Well well well. Season 6 ended. And six regular episodes passed us by. But we’re finally back baby. It’s Album Club *the sound of energy gel being sucked on*. That’s right, Albums ONLY Club. No things that are not albums! And this is episode 2. How many episodes of albums only club will there be? Well not as many as how many months i...

RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE SEASON 18 EPISODE 15: Reviewed!  We done already had ourses! Have you had yourses? Well you haven’t had your fill yet because it’s Thursday and you know what that means. It’s cccappraisalhour.show time baby! And this week it’s THE RETURN OF THE RU! That’s right. Christopher copied the *teasing run times* pitch and we elected for the hour long material. So here we are a...

tick, tick … BOOM!: Reviewed!  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 li...

SIMON COWELL THE NEXT ACT SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: Reviewed! 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...

SNL UK EPISODE 1: Reviewed!  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...

ONE SHOT WITH ED SHEERAN: Reviewed! 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 te...

E.R. SEASON 15 EPISODE 23: Reviewed!  Cccappraisalhour:show is our website! Designed by Jonny Mortemore! Special shout out and thank you for the only podcast website in the biz today that the podcast itself is trying to live up to the awesomeness of.  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 PARLOUR BY PICTURE PARLOUR: Reviewed!  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...

SCRUBS SEASON 10 EPISODES 1 AND 2: Reviewed! 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...

NIRVANA THE BAND THE SHOW THE WEB SERIES: Reviewed! 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 the...

WHY DO UK SUPERMARKETS HAVE CLOCK TOWERS BY CHRIS SPARGO: REVIEWED!  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 basi...

THE NEWSROOM SERIES FINALE SEASON 3 EPISODE 6: Reviewed! 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...

KEVIN CAN F*** HIMSELF PILOT: Reviewed! 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 theoretic...

DAVID BOWIE FINAL ACT: Reviewed! 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 con...

IT'S NEVER OVER, JEFF BUCKLEY: Reviewed! 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...