The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour

WALL OF EYES BY THE SMILE and THE APPRENTICE SEASON 18 EPISODE 1: Reviewed!  We could have easily been a Radiohead podcast but we managed to wait it out for over a year before we finally got some Radiohead related content. And The Apprentice is back! Event (adjacent!) television! Let’s get entrepreneurial and super nerdy.  The album Wall of Eyes lives here: https://thesmile.bandcamp.com/...

COLEEN ROONEY THE REAL WAGATHA STORY EPISODE 1 and FRIENDS SEASON 9 EPISODE 19: Reviewed!  Today in the shownotes for the CCCAH, it’s all business baby. We’ve got some links to the shows and then we’ve got some socials and then we’ve got next week’s pitches. We hope you enjoy. Find the first episode of The Real Wagatha Story here and do let us know if you’re able to stop at one: https://www.d...

SALTBURN and STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION “THE INNER LIGHT”/STAR TREK DEEP SPACE NINE “THE VISITOR”: Reviewed! We go spoiler heavy as fuck today so be warned: this may impact your future first-time enjoyment of these products, if that is indeed a concern of yours. So if you’re spoiler-sensitive (shout out one of our own!) consider this your trigger warning.  Welcome to the season finale whe...

SOLAR POWER BY LORDE and EVERYONE ELSE BURNS SEASON 1 EPISODES 1 AND 2: Reviewed!  Welcome to your weekly dose of us talking to each other (and you) about things (and stuff)! And more importantly … another edition of THE SHOWNOTES! This week we have music again (finally!) and another two episodes of a television show (again!) because people need to both try new things AND give the new things...

LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND and ARMAGEDDON by RICKY GERVAIS: Reviewed! It’s CCCAH time baby! Welcome to the show! Today we’ve cooked up for you about an hour’s worth of takes, an absolute cavalcade of scores and guesses and pitches, just like you like it. This week we’re sponsored by Netflix and watching things super relevant to the year 2024, which makes a nice change. Hey, maybe we’ll be that show! M...

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE: 25TH ANNIVERSARY and WELCOME TO WREXHAM SEASON 2 EPISODES 6 and 11: Reviewed!  Welcome back to the CCCAH proper, the regularly scheduled programme, the critically acclaimed (critics gotta stick together) and the most gradually growing podcast in all of media! Shout out to the podcast! (If only the podcast would shout out the show notes! All the crying emojis!!!) Ok on wit...

Welcome to the first annual CCCAH 2023 AWARDS for THE YEAR THAT WASN’T!  It’s yet another special! Because it’s the new year and we all need and want it, right!? Especially the hosts of this show! Hah! So rather than every other pod or show devoted to lists delineating the best our culture had to offer this year, we’re getting more whimsical and fantastical here (as ever)! We are telling stor...

ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION BY MYLEY CYRUS AND SONGS FROM THE WEST COAST BY ELTON JOHN: Reviewed!  We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year! Today we’re reviewing music again. 20 year old rock and roll that makes us nostalgic for childhood Christmas and super new pop music that makes us feel both very old and very young at the same time. We cover the gamut here on the CCCAH! And while y...

What are the Top 5 Christmas Movies of all time!? It’s time to find out, on: IT’S THE FIRST 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 getting both festive AND argumentative! So as the big day...

THE LATE SHOW WITH GUEST DAVID LETTERMAN and THE DIARY OF A CEO WITH GUEST JAMES HOFFMAN: Reviewed!  Welcome to our humble show. It’s the festive season. So let’s get super-gradually festive like only the CCCAH can! Let’s pitch one thing one host is into and another thing the other host is into! And let’s look forward to next week with one (questionably so) Christmas related pitch. Let’s talk...

AUNTY DONNA’S BIG OL’ HOUSE OF FUN EPISODES 1 and 2: Reviewed!  Today we welcome back the founder of instagram.com/brew.ding Alistair Hillier! Do check out their insta as they document drinking all of the brews in the Ding, one pub at a time. Local pubs & local beers, all with RG postcodes! Oooh, yummy yum yum! That’s right team, we did it. The analytics said it all and we couldn’t go any...

SCHITT’S CREEK SEASON 2 EPISODE 3 and 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE 90s: PJ HARVEY’S SCARY MOVIES: Reviewed!  This week we have a deep episode for you, rich with insight, analysis, hot takes, cold takes, lukewarm takes, room temperature takes, frisky takes, alfresco takes, zesty takes and good ol’ fashioned chit chat. We are also hard at work at decreasing the percentage of tech-set-up-issues, in...

THE ONE SHOW NOVEMBER 1ST EPISODE (new Beatles song special) and TASKMASTER SEASON 16 EPISODE 6: Reviewed! Please enjoy (and don’t destroy!) how little faff there is now: our reviewed content features in the first sentence! What a newsworthy update!! A congratulations to all those working long hours at CCCAH HQ to pull this off. It’s never been more convenient to handily find the episode you need...

Welcome to a very special show in which we review an episode of Gogglebox and RuPaul’s Drag Race UK. It’s a fun episode, if we do say so ourselves; recorded live and in person! The third episode was recorded in the Southern region of Harrow. But we do need to address some controversy that arose during the record that necessitates inserting an apology statement into the show notes. We’ll be right b...

Welcome to “Inside The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour” by Christopher Anousis and Jeffrey Bahlo, a stupendously ambitious concept album … that ended up as a regular ass podcast episode. Pete Townshend’s “Lifehouse” eat your heart out, am I right!? Anyway, what are we on about today?!   The answer to that question this week is: so much! Too much! I’m gonna fill these notes to...

It’s the shownotes show, down here in the shownotes! That’s right, pause your precious little podcast and peek down below. There’s gold in them there hills, and the hills are the shownotes, ladies and germs. So what are we blathering on about today? K-Pop explainers and late night talk show hosts doing a podcast. Sounds about right.  K-Pop Explained, on the Netflix player machine: https://www...

Oh you lucky, lucky listeners. We have a very special episode for you this week. We would like to introduce you to Bex! It’s Christopher’s sister, who sent her guest pitch in last week. That’s right, a two minute long voicenote pitch (and a blood relation to one of the hosts) *will* get you on the show immediately.  So this week, Christopher travelled all the way to Dubai (purely for this spe...

Are you ready for another edition of the cultural content consumption hour show notes? Of course you are. And oh my goodness me, have you stayed here beyond the first few sentences? We appreciate you more than you know. More than you know because it’s unlikely you’re still here, deep in the heart of sentence 5. Well, oh well. We go on. And compared to the audio edition, boy are we enjoying the rel...

Omg lol so here's the full strength show notes not at all hastily whipped (or quipped?) up for the very polished product that is our humble podcast. Welcome welcome. Disclaimer: tangents and spoilers lie within. Season 4 Episode 18 of Frasier ("Ham Radio") on Channel 4: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/frasier/on-demand/24639-018 The script for the masterpiece sitcom episode that is Ham Radio f...

You’re used to us at this point but we spoil everything in this episode. Whether it’s all the minutiae of Hamilton or an intense (and brief!) overview of Don’t Worry Darling, nothing escapes our spoiler-y wrath! Be forewarned! Oh and here’s a shownotes spoiler for any of you who aren’t familiar with how we do around here … the show notes below are a plentiful and bountiful bouquet of internet trin...

It is time to address the controversy. Yes, once again, we’re dealing with two sitcom show episodes, so let us be very clear. We’re spoiling. We are the bearers of bad news if spoilers are bad news to you. These episodes are spoilerific. More than usual! So here is our olive branch of a disclaimer, if you will, a permission slip for all of our favourite podcast people out there: you are excused fr...

Welcome to shownotes city, population you. We hope you enjoy your stay. For more information about this information and more content about this content, check out our website. It’s a great website in the making: https://cccappraisalhour.show/ Buy High Violet by The National on Bandcamp. Great website: https://thenational.bandcamp.com/album/high-violet A new interview with Aaron Dessner (guitarist...

Oh Lorde, it’s been tough around here trying to fall in love with art on a schedule! But hey. We’ve got a job, and we’re here to do it. And if the job is being your favourite podcast … well, call us employees of the month! Lol … *cut to scenes of us “quiet quitting” mere months later*  Ok, let’s get to the good stuff! Let’s Listen to Melodrama by Lorde, via YouTube, for a change. An official...

You’re here for sportswashing chat and Jordan Henderson slander, correct? The “sport is actually an artistic and cultural endeavour podcast” is here and … ok, no, wait, come back! That was just lip service for Alex, our lost brother who hasn’t consumed us for a while. Top tip, if you want to tailor our content: rather than engage with our (limited) social media presence … just reach out to us pers...

Dear listener, NO, DON’T STOP LISTENING TO THE POD! It’s your boys Christopher and Jeffrey, as per, I swear. It’s just that, we’ll … the voices of one of the members is compromised. But don’t worry. It’s him. It’s giving Phoebe with her sexy singing voice when she gets a cold in Season 3 of Friends. And we’re soldiering on like the brave podcast soldiers we are. So here, have some vaguely thoughtf...