The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour

IT'S GARRY SHANDLING'S SHOW SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 and IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA SEASON 17 EPISODE 1: Reviewed! 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...

HOME MOVIES SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 and JONATHAN CREEK SEASON 2 EPISODE 6: Reviewed! 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 co...

TANGLED UP IN BLUE BY BOB DYLAN and RUNNING POINT SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: Reviewed!  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...

EVERYONE SAYS I LOVE YOU and SLOW HORSES SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: Reviewed!  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 li...

NOT GOING OUT SEASON 14 EPISODE 4 and ALLY MCBEAL SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: Reviewed! 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 epis...

OUTNUMBERED SEASON 5 EPISODE 6 and ABBOTT ELEMENTARY SEASON 4 EPISODE 9: Reviewed!  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 spe...

FLY YELLOW MOON BY FYFE DANGERFIELD and FUNNY PEOPLE: Reviewed!  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...

OKJA and MAHASHMASHANA BY FATHER JOHN MISTY: Reviewed! 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 u...

NEON GENESIS EVANGELION S01 E01 and WALL-E: Reviewed!  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, despairin...

O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU and MISSION IMPOSSIBLE DEAD RECKONING PART ONE (for the second time!): Reviewed! 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 co...

SEVENTH SEAL and TASKMASTER SEASON 19 EPISODE 1: Reviewed!  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 (th...

AMERICAN DAD THE BITCHING RACE and YOU SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: Reviewed!  Welcome to another edition of the show you love to listen to! We get into all the things today! Manic cold opens during which hyper pre-show-production-meeting energy seamlessly works itself into the introduction to the show. Games that last thirty seconds and revolve around doing the You monologue to explain the conceit of...

EULOGY: BLACK MIRROR SEASON 7 EPISODE 4 and BENNY BLANCO INTERVIEWED BY DANIEL WALL 2: Reviewed!  Welcome to the show of shows party people! Let’s get down and boogie with the show notes. Let’s really BOOGIE, you know!? Let’s link to the content. Let’s see where we’re at with the scores. Let’s joke around a bit. Let’s give you some behind the scenes insight. And let’s set up next week’s show....

SONG EXPLODER EPISODE 3 FEATURING R.E.M’S LOSING MY RELIGION and PHILY BOWDEN’S BERLIN MARATHON VIDEO THE RACE THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING: Reviewed!   Hey podcast lovers! It’s time to play the game. Are you ready? It’s CCCAH mania brother, and it’s running wild on you! Are you catching our drift? It’s Wrestlemania week, or at least, the aftermath of Mania week. The week after the week befor...

EVERYBODY’S LIVE EPISODE 5 and POLYANNA: Reviewed!  Welcome everyone, welcome! For the pod that’s got more pod content than you can shake a stick at! That’s right. We’ve got OUR content (the pod itself), we’ve got the content we’re REVIEWING (ooh la la), we’ve got the game bit where we guess each other’s scores and so on (wait, you’ve lost me) and it’s honestly just a lot. But also, it’s like...

NEW YORK TIMES POPCAST INTERVIEW WITH BON IVER and ADOLESCENCE EPISODE 1: Reviewed!  Welcome to another edition of the show. One of us is training for a marathon, taking tumbles while dedicatedly consuming the content required for him to keep the podcast going! While the other one doesn’t even log into Strava to give him kudos. Shameful really. Oh well. At least he’s winning the series so far...

ONE FAST MOVE OR I’M GONE and DOECHII’S NPR TINY DESK CONCERT: Reviewed!  Are there new listeners out there and if so how would I explain, put across or teach them what an hour of our verses are really about in an arbitrary character limit of 4000 characters?  That’s right. Beat poetry introducing the show notes, the pod, all of it! Christopher Anousis met Jack Kerouac again for the firs...

ENVY BY CONTRAPOINTS and KENDRICK LAMAR’S SUPERBOWL HALF TIME SHOW: Reviewed!  Ok team, let’s climb out of the crater and/or swimming pool, dry ourselves off and/or detoxify our chakras and really get down to business. The business of podcasting. Because without you receiving it and listening to it, this would not be a “podcast” we would literally just be having a convo like in space lol. How...

MASCULINITY AND MISINFORMATION and SILICON VALLEY S01 E01: Reviewed!  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 o...

EDTV and INVENTING ANNA SEASON 1 EPISODE 6: Reviewed!  YO! Podcast FREAKS! Let’s get freaky and let’s get poddy. I am so sorry. I think I am getting show notes brain rot. You know how it goes. Anyhoodles, the show! The show these here shownotes done be referring to, ya see! Ya hear!? We’re reviewing EDtv today, which is pleasantly surprising (pleasantville) and an episode of Inventing Anna. I...

VEEP SERIES 2 EPISODE 9 and INGRID GOES WEST: Reviewed!  We’re out here one-take jake-ing this shit! That’s right, we recorded this podcast in one single take. No second takes. No take back-sies. Unlike any other podcast you have ever heard before … or, hold on … exactly like most every other podcast you have ever heard before. Huh. Oh well. We’ll find our gimmick at some point. Our niche. Ou...

IMPRACTICAL JOKERS SEASON 5 EPISODE 11 and THE TRUMAN SHOW: Reviewed!  Hey hey listener gang, it’s podcast time. We’re here and we did it and we’re live and we’re rocking and we’re rolling. You up? What’s up? What’s good? What are you doing? Oh, listening to the pod I see? Well you’re doing it amazingly stylishly, we must say. Are you multi-tasking? What are you multi-tasking doing? You liste...

GRAMMYS 2025 and DENIAL IS A RIVER BY DOECHII: Reviewed!  Welcome pod lovers. pod haters and pod tolerators! Yo yo yo, what’s good, what’s good? I’m sure loads is good to be fair to you. You’re …. (*drumroll*) … HERE, aren’t you!? Woo hoo! Season 5. This is the season Monica and Chandler sneaked around behind every one’s backs so you know what that means right … no neither do we, that’s not a...

I Love You So F***ing Much by Glass Animals: Reviewed!  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 debu...

THE SIMPSONS SEASON 32 EPISODE 10 and VALLEY OF THE DOLLS: Reviewed!  This podcast is for moms and their wine and a cosy throw blanket and a candle that smells like a pine tree or hot apples. If you’re not any of those things, scram before the next one starts! But no, ahem, for real: welcome to the podcast! It’s been a whole ass … um … *checks notes* … a single week as usual. Right. Don’t kno...