The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour

Mythic Quest Season 2 Episode 6 and Heels Season 2 Episode 6: Reviewed! 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 actu...

How does it feel? To be here with us. Listening to the podcast. Like a complete unknown. Like a rolling stone. Spoiler: it feels fine. Oh and another spoiler: this episode is FULL OF SPOILERS! Lol. Our bad. James Mangold did it and he’s here! It’s been a long time in the making but our next live special is finally here. Another edition in the award-winning and critically-acclaimed HANG OUT WI...

NEW GIRL SEASON 2 EPISODE 15 and DRUMEO: Reviewed!  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,...

MOANA and BLUE BY JONI MITCHELL: Reviewed! 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...

Welcome to the second annual CCCAH AWARDS for THE 2024 THAT WASN’T!  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...

THE HOLDOVERS and HOT FROSTY: Reviewed!  Welcome to your boxing day edition of the Triple C to the A to the H! We especially enjoy hanging out with you over the holiday season. We need our you-time and you need our us-time too, don’t you? So this just works out a treat for all parties involved really.  This week we’re living in this timeline in which we’re like hey … the Christmas songs...

What are the Top 5 Christmas Songs of all time!? It’s time to find out, on: IT’S THE SECOND ANNUAL CCCAHCSS (Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour Christmas Special Spectacular)!!!  A happy holidays and very merry Christmas to all of our listeners. We just had to get into the spirit of the season in the only way we know how - by doubling down on the gift we created through improvisation...

THE LOST RIOTS and LEFT BY THE HOPE OF THE STATES: Reviewed!  We Ves Y Sufres. This is a Hope of the States live special is what it is, really. But it’s also the 19th episode of Season 4 of the show. It’s also a pre-Christmas-special special Christmas episode. It is one of the last episodes of 2024. It is the first episode for which the new website is LIVE AND READY TO ROCK AND ROLL: https://...

100th Episode Spectacular! THE FIRST 99 EPISODES: Reviewed!  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 sh...

WOLFS and WHEN WE WERE KINGS: Reviewed!  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...

JACKPOT! and JUNIOR TASKMASTER S01 E01: Reviewed!  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...

THE GREATEST NIGHT IN POP and CUNK ON CHRISTMAS: Reviewed!  Jeffrey Bahlo, Bruce Springsteen, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Quincy Jones, Bob Geldof, Lionel Ritchie, Michael Jackson, Willy Nelson, Bette Middler, Cindy Lauper, Tina Turner, Paul Simon … no Prince, sure … but hey, we even have Huey Lewis and Christopher Anousis! These are just some of the names featured in today’s s...

ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS BY BOB DYLAN and GLADIATOR: Reviewed!  This is Sparta!! Wait, I mean, Rome! Wait, I mean, the CCCAH! You know the hour. The Cultural Content Appraisal one. But hey, much like Rome, The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour™ is one of the most important ancient civilizations(?) Out of the many important ancient civilizations out there. You know the ones. Anyway, I be...

SHADOW KINGDOM and ANDREW GARFIELD | CHICKEN SHOP DATE: Reviewed!  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? Classi...

THE FACULTY and THE WRESTLING ROAD DIARIES: Reviewed!  It’s the spoiler show about spoiling things. Docs, films, things. “Content.” Death. Welcome to the thing. The five-letter-acronym show. Which five letters? Who knows? A bunch of Cs, that is for damn sure. We’ve got some tech chat. We try to load videos and live react to them but we can’t get that going off the jump. We go on tangents. We...

CUTOUTS BY THE SMILE and THE IRON CLAW: Reviewed!  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 po...

WILL AND HARPER and SILVER SIDE UP BY NICKELBACK: Reviewed!  Well done! You made it through another hard week filled with rough days at work and the sniffles coming at you from all angles, be they from bunged up colleagues or flu-fanboy family members. We know you need your weekly dose of the CCCAH to get through the week so here you are. Let’s hoard some lemsip and podcasts and hibernate. We...

BACK TO BLACK and HIS THREE DAUGHTERS: Reviewed!  Ok folks. It’s a spoiler special. Spoiler: all our episodes are spoiler specials. Except for this one moment on this show when we tip toe up to the edge of a spoiler, peer over and then back up like that Homer Simpson gif. That’s a first. Anyway. “Homer” is our word of the day on today’s show. It’s the motherfucking C times three to the A and...

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...

JOKER and OASIS SUPERSONIC: Reviewed! Welcome to the podcast you hate to love and love to hate. After SEVEN DAYS OFF we have reunited and we are back. The guns have fallen silent. The stars have aligned. The great wait is over. Come see. It will not be televised. Unless we finally sort our YouTube channel of course … https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhour Supersonic, the documentary about Oasis...

THE 1% CLUB S03 E04 and MIDDLEDITCH AND SCHWARTZ S01 E01: Reviewed! Welcome welcome, come one, come all! What have you done this week? We hope you’ve had a good one. We have been very busy. Podcasting, of course, for one. We haven’t had a week off for coming up to nearly one hundred episodes. One hundred episodes of pure, unfiltered content. We know you appreciate it because it is all for you. Eve...

PURPLE RAIN and BANDO STONE AND THE NEW WORLD BY CHILDISH GAMBINO: Reviewed! CCCAH hive, wake up! It’s time to get down with the podcast for a music spectacular. A music special that crosses all kinds of media from a film to … an album also, I suppose. Yes, I suppose it’s just the two kinds of things. But they are pretty cool kinds of things. Two of our faves, if anything. Music is the best. And w...

TRAP and SOLAR OPPOSITES SEASON 3 EPISODE 3: Reviewed!  Are you ready for your weekly dose of the CCCAH? Because I sure as hell am. Do you ever have the feeling like you haven’t heard us talking for weeks and weeks? Because we do not have that feeling, what the hell are you talking about? We deliver you an episode a week without fail. It’s actually quite crazy. Let’s talk a movie called Trap...

TAYLOR SWIFT THE ERAS TOUR and NO NAME BY JACK WHITE: Reviewed!  Welcome to the CCCAH, where we talk scepticism of technology while using technology! We hope your headphones aren’t snapping, crackling and popping. Because we need you on board for the ride. You’re our ride or die. Taylor has just yesterday performed the last show of her record breaking Wembley show. And Jack has just started p...

EARLY DAZE BY NEIL YOUNG and I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS: Reviewed!  Welcome to another episode of the Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour! We review culture properly here ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages … with lots of tangents along the way! This week we’re reviewing a film that came out during the pandemic by the auteur Charlie Kaufman, based on a novel...