The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour

Welcome to another edition of SHOW NOTES, featuring a podcast episode. Today we’re being gossip girls (xoxo) and visiting party gator purgatory with Temps. Let’s get podcasty.  PARTY GATOR PURGATORY by Temps, on bandcamp, Mr. Acaster’s favourite music platform: https://tempsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/party-gator-purgatory Another shout out to Tape Notes, one of our favourite podcasts. John Kenn...

Welcome to the appraisal hour for all those who are inclined to consume cultural content. We are looking forward to the day that this very podcast features in another cultural criticism podcast but, alas, that day is not yet here. For now, let’s get into another television show spectacular. It’s a Christopher special (a mid-season stand alone episode) and a Jeffrey special (a pilot episode) as you...

Welcome to the shownotes, cultural content consumption appraisal hour hungry podcast people! Hmm. No, that won’t do as the catch-all term for our fans and/or listeners, will it? “The hungry podcast people” sounds like a Teletubbies adjacent Children’s show from the nineties. Anyway, we’ll figure it out. Check out our website: cccappraisalhour.show. And check out our podcast! Oh, you’re doing that...

The gang gets the it’s always chatty on the cultural content consumption appraisal hour blues! Let’s get down and dirty and bluesy and be outright chatterboxes about it all, folks! Today we are reviewing things!! And one of those things is a podcast. How quaint, right!? And the other thing is a music documentary. Classic CCCAH.  Odds and ends shout from the jump, it’s actually Martin Scorsese...

Shiny new season. Same old shownotes. The show notes you have come to know and love. Welcome back to the cultural content consumption appraisal hour you superstar (that is what you are). It’s Season 2. And forget the much ballyhooed controversy of last week, you (yes, you reading this!) are the real winner of the first season … for making it through that episode and still being here with us! Let’s...

We’ve got ourselves a freaking WEBSITE y’all! CCCAH, welcome to whatever century this is: cccappraisalhour.show. It is the website of our dreams. And now yours too. Find everything you need (including spreadsheets!) to understand this episode (and the show in general!) on the website.  So today is the big one. The one that (we decided a few weeks ago) this has all been building towards all ye...

Welcome welcome, everyone, welcome! It’s another edition of your SHOW NOTES™. As a companion piece, you can also enjoy the accompanying podcast full of audio goodness. Two friends chatting it right up. Reviewing stuff … etc (see The 30 Second Game ™ for further details). All jokes aside … I legitimately don’t think a human exists who has read every edition of these SHOW NOTES. Even if we include t...

Welcome to the most special special we’ve ever special’d!  Your boys went to see The Black Keys live in London at the 02 on Wednesday June the 21st of 2023 baby! Christopher for the second time, Jeffrey for the first time. The first time as a squad! This one has been a long time coming. A pre-podcast promise. Gig club. We have gone to many a gig together in our time, but this is the first one...

Welcome to another music episode! When Jeffrey pitched a short film to Christopher (a companion piece to the new boygenius record) did you think he would listen to the album five or six times through, before getting to the short film? And when Christopher pitched the latest Taylor Swift album, did you think this would lead to Jeffrey talking a whole lot (again) about The 1975? Tune in for all the...

Spoilers up the wazoo! Jeffrey and Christopher come in hot from the cinema to talk all things Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse! We like a good special episode around here. After a lot of heated debate on WhatsApp (other messaging platforms are available) we have decided on what exactly constitutes a special episode: we have to experience the art in question together. Experience it together, revie...

Spoilers! The WWDC 2023. You know what it stands for, we don’t have to take up valuable show-note space outlining all of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYkq9Rgoj8E&t=1s Referenced on the podcast, this excerpted footage from an early Apple Keynote presentation by Steve Jobs was from 1983 and not 1984. Although George Orwell’s 1984 does come up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISoWKxKyWhQ...

Spoilers for all you people that weren't quite sure what a podcast is, we get into the nitty gritty. Specifically, the 99% Invisible podcast where Jeffrey gives his takes on Episode 522: The Comrades. Christopher got to watch, again, 'Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé'. Will Christopher continue his winning streak!? Only one way to find out... Show notes for the show-offs and the notable among our aud...

Spoiler Alert! Christopher #watchedonething so Jeffrey has to recount almost the entirety of the 2019 movie 'Yesterday'. Luckily, Christopher got to listen to the 2002 debut album 'The Big Come Up' by The Black Keys. Who won!? Welcome to the show notes, you cultural content consumption appraisal hour mega head!  Stay tuned for more activity on the social media! And if no one e-mails back to y...

Spoiler! Who'd have guessed it!?!? Christopher has opinions about the new Ed Sheeran album 'Subtract' ... meanwhile... Jeffrey gives a lovely review of 'Still: A Michael J Fox Movie. Who wins!? Did Christopher cheat!? Find out by pressing play! Oh boy did we do some talking on this episode! Might be a record breaker, in that regard. If you live up to your superfan status and count exactly how many...

Christopher and Jeffrey jump into the Spoiler-Verse! Christopher talks all things 'Baby J' in John Mulaney's new Netflix special and could Jeffrey become a 'Marvel guy' following his experience with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Find out who wins by pressing play now! Did you enjoy the two sentence intro above? We really and truly honestly hope so. We hope you would score these show notes in...

Jeffrey and Christopher throw shade and spoil two cult classics. Jeffrey walks the ball rooms with the 1990 documentary 'Paris is Burning' while Christopher dances around the fallout following the 1978 Martin Scorsese concert film about The Band, 'The Last Waltz'. Well here we are with another episode, still reviewing two things a pop! More bang for your buck, really. Enjoy how we continue our ama...

Consider the naughties spoiled in this music documentary special! Christopher feels old reviewing the 2022 Meet Me In the Bathroom documentary about the indie scene in New York during the early 2000s. Jeffrey, on the other hand, goes to the late 80s to learn about the making of Michael Jackson's Bad album via the 2012 Spike Lee documentary Bad 25. Hello fellow moon, how are you today? No, this is...

Jeffrey and Christopher have done their spoiler research in this musical interview review show! Christopher listened to 'The 1975's' 2022 album ‘Being Funny In A Foreign Language’ while Jeffrey watched Jake Gyllenhall eat hot wings in the season 20 finale of Hot Ones! Hi there, I’m the show notes. It’s nice to meet you. Do you come here often?  A special note for those who like to read the ar...

Spoilers!? What Spoilers!?! Christopher spends some time on YouTube watching Norm Macdonald while Jeffrey dives into TV show about a movie making movies. How meta of him. Look at you! You’re such a good podcast listener, deep in the often-referenced podcast notes. Only the realest of the real hang out here! Explicit content today, by the way. We’re very passionate about cultural criticism, you see...

We park and bark spoilers at you in this highbrow episode where Christopher gives his review and scores for Jonah Hill's 'Stutz' and Jeffrey does all of the research before spilling his thoughts on Lana Del Rey's 2012 debut album 'Born to Die'. Welcome welcome and roll up, roll up - it’s a very high brow edition of the cultural something something podcast this week. A film about therapy and the th...

Welcome back to your regularly scheduled programming of #ReviewTwoThings (for now)! Somehow Jeffrey manages to spoil the Apprentice, again, in this episode where Christopher reviews 'Future Me Hates Me' by The Beths, and Jeffrey tells us how cartoons should be structured , in his review of American Dad, Season 3 Episode 7, Of Ice and Men. Also, we are very excited to announce the who-will-be-the-f...

Finally, the elephant in the room spills the tea on Matthew Perry's, Friends, Lovers, and The Big Terrible Thing. Consider this loose end tied up in this bonus special for all you OG fans out there. We have both been long standing Friends fans and Matthew Perry stans. All that is put to the test on today's episode. What will the verdict be, what will the scores be and who, in true cultural content...

We're firing (lol) Apprentice spoilers at you via Jeffrey's pointed (see what I did there) review of the season 17 'Interviews' episode while Christopher has a very strange relationship with the Red Hot Chilli Peppers album 'Return of the Dream Canteen'. Also, holler at your boys and email us at cccappraisalhour@gmail.com. We want responses to our show defining question: so either write in with th...

Selective spoiler outrage in this show where Christopher shares his adjacent takes on Chris Rock's new Netflix Special 'Selective Outrage' and Jeffrey goes into the detail and the documentaries.... and the music videos of 'Back to the future'. Someone must win! Show notes show notes show notes. Shout out to liner notes for records. But these are show notes. Jeffrey enjoyed seeing Roxane Gay in con...

Christopher spoils stand up comedy by repeating stand up comedy in his review of Norm Macdonald's 2011 'Me doing stand up' and Jeffrey goes full 'white trash' in his review of Season 10 Episode 4 of 'It's always sunny in Philadelphia'. I really hope somebody wins this week! Jeffrey had a lovely time watching Romeo and Julie at the National Theatre! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMgOq0Rh61k Jeffr...