The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour

SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY and FRESH MEAT PILOT: Reviewed!  Let’s go cultural content consumption appraisal hour heads! One of us has a pilot episode of a sitcom from over ten years ago on the menu and the other has a near two-and-a-half-hour performance from a rock and roll legend from a few years ago to feast on.  We have a lot of feelings about these things. Let’s get into our feelings....

SOME KIND OF MONSTER and THE FIRE WITHIN: Reviewed!  Season 4 is here! The cold open is a hoot and a holler. It’s part 1 in a tale entitled: TECHNICAL AMBITIONS BRING TECHNICAL ISSUES. It will conclude next week. Maybe. Cliffhanger? Who knows. The main technical concern for you, our dear listener, is that you have a show to listen to. Thankfully. For yet another week in a row. And that’s all...

LOOK AT YOU BY TAYLOR TOMLINSON: Reviewed!  We love our lols here so it’s your lucky day CCCAH heads, your favourite time of year! When Brew.ding sends a representative to methodically rehearse a cold open with us and record a podcast reviewing a comedy special pitched seasons ago! We weren’t even doing cold opens back when it was pitched!  Who knows what the show even was back then!? We...

M3GAN and ENGLAND VS HOLLAND IN THE EUROS 2024 SEMI-FINAL: Reviewed!  Welcome to the CCCAH and a season finale for the ages! Or, hey, just another dopamine hit for your week! We’re covering the football today! Is it a soft launch of the sports pod? Or a thinly-veiled attempt at Southgate-propaganda in the immediate aftermath of the resignation that broke the hearts of a generation? Oh, and th...

THE WIZ and THE LIVE DAILY SHOW FROM JUNE THE 27TH 2024: Reviewed! Well well well, England football fans. Is it coming home, or isn’t it? In today’s episode we will either be time travelling forwards to reveal all or reminiscing on all the glory thus far … or something in between? Basically, this is a podcast that takes place in time and space; in a specific time and in a specific place: Thursday...

EVERYTHING I THOUGHT IT WAS BY JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE and FIRE OF LOVE: Reviewed!  Hey show fans! Welcome to the show! A perfect place for a fan of the show. And here in the show notes, let's dig deep into the media being reviewed. The art, the artefacts, and the critical moss that has gathered around and upon them. It’s another in-person edition of the show. So hold tight for lots of LAUGHTER and...

BRAT BY CHARLI XCX and THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR: Reviewed!  Our favourite listener! Where have you been all our lives!? Have you been on the waiting list for entry, just hanging out in the podcast waiting room for days? Well (much like some of the London Swiftie contingent who were saved by waiting list e-mails this week) your number has been called. You’re up! It’s CCCAH time baby,...

THE ERIC ANDRE SHOW SEASON 6 EPISODE 1 and ALL STARS 7 SNATCH GAME: Reviewed!  Welcome to the show! The show of shows! It’s like, what if the critical culture critiquing popular culture was slowly morphing into the highest quality culture on offer … yes … that low-key sounds like the thesis of our show. Hey, we might not actualise it on an episode-by-episode basis but hey … we out here! Kings...

STICK TO FOOTBALL EPISODE 16 FEATURING FRANK LAMPARD and THE SIMPSONS IS GOOD AGAIN BY SUPER EYEPATCH WOLF: Reviewed! The podcast taking over everything (...)-ification continues. Around the world, for sure … CULTURALLY! But more importantly for you right now, dear listener-turned-reader: here on the CCCAH. Let’s get super online this week. Move over boomer corner, it’s time for the millennials to...

HOW TO DISCOVER YOUR OWN TASTE WITH EZRA KLEIN FEATURING KYLE CHAYKA and SOUTH PARK THE END OF OBESITY: Reviewed! Hey, welcome to the world renowned show notes! Arguably the coolest part of the entire CCCAH operation. Coming in a close but definitive second to the content of the show itself, but cemented at above the production quality, which languishes in third (wink wink nudge nudge). This week...

HIT ME HARD AND HIT ME SOFT BY BILLIE EILISH and STEVE MARTIN: NOW: Reviewed!  Welcome to another edition of your favourite podcast, favourite (fifth favourite at *worst* and top fives are important, you know this) listener of ours! Please bear with us while we get our shit together as a podcast operation and go on lots of (some bear-related) tangents.  HIT ME HARD AND HIT ME SOFT CAN BE...

LET IT BE and STEVE MARTIN: THEN: Reviewed!  Welcome to a nostalgia fest where we spoil the sixties (The Beatles broke up!) and seventies for you (Steve Martin retired from stand up!) That’s two decades in one episode. Fair enough the CCCAH, that’s some legendary spoiling. Even for us. Ok, we’ll do you one better and spoil the result of today’s episode too: it’s a draw. Omg, how “british socc...

ALREADY DEAD BY WILLY MASON and EVERYBODY’S IN LA PILOT: Reviewed!  We’re here and we’re reviewing THE WORLD one artistic artefact at a time! And yes, Jeffrey’s audio is shocking this week. But don’t worry, we can assure you: no hosts, microphones, headphones, laptops or audio production software was harmed in the making of this programme. But hey, it’s only the midway point of season 3!&nbsp...

STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA by PJ HARVEY and THE 19TH ANNIVERSARY EPISODE OF THIS WEEK IN TECH: REVIEWED! We’re spoiling everything this week! If you believe that podcasts and albums are things that can be spoiled. And of course, if you listen to us even on the semi-reg, you know everyone at Team CCCAH believes everything can be spoiled. But here’s another spoiler for you, dearest...

TWIN PEAKS PILOT and WATCH THE SOUND WITH MARK RONSON SEASON 1 EPISODE 2: Reviewed!  Time to grab a damn fine cup of coffee and tune in to the weird and wonderful world of the cultural content appraisal hour!  Watch the pilot of Twin Peaks and hey … sticking with it is totally your call: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Twin-Peaks-Season-1/dp/B00ET0PGJW The Nextlander Watchcast are watching Twin...

ANT AND DEC’S SATURDAY NIGHT TAKEAWAY THE FINALE and MISSION IMPOSSIBLE DEAD RECKONING PART ONE: Reviewed!  It’s time for your big dumb podcast hosts to talk big dumb action movies! And, in classic CCCAH fashion, it’s also time for your generationally loved hosts at the peak of their powers to talk … generationally loved hosts at the peak of their powers! Christopher and Jeffrey do Ant and De...

GHOSTBUSTERS and OHIO PLAYERS BY THE BLACK KEYS: Reviewed!  Fancy both spoilers to a film from 1984 and a fanboy-like lauding (review spoiler?!) of an album put out mere weeks ago all packed into the same episode of this unique and somewhat baffling podcast!? Well then, we’ve got you covered.  Chock full of insights into our pre-production meetings (and previews of the eventual mini-seri...

WONKA and SEX AND THE CITY: THE FINALE: Reviewed!  Zero research went into this episode, and you can tell. But a lot of consumption did. It’s an eye contact special! That’s right - we recorded in person for Wrestlemania weekend. The fourth wall is broken with regards to cold opens. It’s a new era. And stay tuned for more news to come of live pods! Skip straight to the Sex and The City finale...

SQUARING THE CIRCLE: THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS and HEELS SEASON 2 EPISODE 1: Reviewed!  Spoilers galore dear listener, so be warned! Funny one to be worried about, considering today’s niche content: a cancelled wrestling-related drama and a music/art documentary. But hey, if any of you are indeed very particular about the off-the-beaten-path content you consume and the potential spoilers always...

THE SMILE AT ALEXANDRA PALACE 23RD MARCH: REVIEWED! What an episode this is going to be!! A new era, even. Today is the day the CCCAH finally became a real podcast. Embracing a decades old tradition of any proud podcast-shaped programming. So if it looks like a podcast episode reviewing Cheers and Travel Man and talks like a podcast episode reviewing Cheers and Travel Man and when we play it back,...

ATLANTA SEASON 3 EPISODE 1 and NYPD BLUE SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: Reviewed!  Welcome to another spoiler spectacular! Looking forward to one day doubling back around after finishing Deadwood to binge David Milch’s first foray into television with his early nineties cop show? Spoiled! Finally figuring out getting round to Donald Glover’s critically lauded Atlanta? Spoiled! I guess we have found our...

GHOSTS OF THE GREAT HIGHWAY BY SUN KIL MOON and the BROOKLYN 99 PILOT: Reviewed!  Hi listeners! It’s been too long! Like a week or whatever, as per usual. But still. Too long. Have you missed our takes? Are you nostalgic for that time Jeffrey was so overcome by a coughing fit he pretty much hacked up a lung? Well, you’re in luck! Today we’ve got an album from the 00s and sitcom pilot from a d...

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG and JOE LYCETT VS SEWAGE: Reviewed!  Welcome to a brand new episode of the Triple C(AH) and it’s a brand new era: we’ve got our first ever sponsor! Stay tuned for more information on the wonderful Brew.ding and the cool things they do over there. We may (or may not) be the kind of show that excels at a cold open, but dammit we’re gonna nail these ad reads! It’s 2024 an...

THE 66TH ANNUAL GRAMMYS and WHERE I’M MEANT TO BE BY EZRA COLLECTIVE: Reviewed! It’s time to get musical! First, with actual music. Recorded music. And then, with a self-congratulatory ceremony in which music occasionally features! Live music! La la laaaaaa etc.  The Grammys were almost a month ago so even the hottest of takes are nothing but embers by now. But your boys are here with so...

MAN LIKE MOBEEN SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 and GRAHAM NORTON SEASON 31 EPISODE 9: Reviewed! An iPlayer special! Boy do we love the iPlayer. The British Broadcasting Corporation. Apologies international listeners. Wait, no, you apologise to us!! Flood our social media with international requests and we’d be all over whatever you pitch, this is on you!  For real THOUGH, we do need to branch out. But fo...