THE BOYS MAKE A MIXTAPE TO CELEBRATE FIVE SEASONS! 

It’s another heatwave special! It’s another in-between-seasons special! It’s a music special! Is this the most special special we’ve ever special’d? The definitive answer is: YES or at least MAYBE or like at least TOP 5! 

Today we will be making a playlist for you in live time. Oh what a treat for your ears. Does it get any better? You will listen to us look back through EVERY MUSICAL PITCH WE HAVE MADE DURING THE EXISTENCE OF OUR SHOW THUS FAR and we will thoroughly examine all the options on all the albums/singles we have reviewed over the years. You will learn so much. It is basically a masterclass in the art of making a mixtape. Up there with one of the great scenes in all of cinematic history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzQwbRdh5Ts

It will end up as a cassette and/or compilation CD by the time season 6 is done and the Patreon is up and running and the merch has a top 10 selling items page, just you WAIT! But back to today’s show. It is a special-podcast-episode concept birthed by Christopher Anousis and executive produced by Jonathan Mortemore and then I sort of showed up at the end there to chat some shit about some songs.

The playlist (for the mixtape) on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2qdkPjVsjoeil45ChYxuqC?si=3433c6d088fa4664

The playlist (for the mixtape) on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/the-cccah-seasons-1-5-mixtape/pl.u-1172oHEKEkx

The playlist (for the expanded version of the mixtape) on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7iUpsx5OrJ0vGaLziSucKU?si=4ea8ea59390f41c0

The playlist (for the expanded version of the mixtape) on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/the-cccah-seasons-1-5-mixtape-expanded-edition-bonus/pl.u-aZbjDsMRMK9

APOLOGIA NUMBRERO UNO: Sorry Ali/Glass Animals. When we boiled down our picks to the 26 picks, we left you off. Despite having just agreed on the inclusion after much debate. This was an oversight. Hence the last-minute addition of an expanded edition. Lol. 

APOLOGIA NUMERO DUO: To the genre of jazz, we apologise for not being in that headspace right now. You’re better than that. We’re better than that. We’ll see you at some point during seasons 6-10 and hey, maybe we’ll become a jazz band instead of a podcast we’ll end up loving you so much. Doodly doo bop doo skiddly boo boppadee dooo bahhhh … Christopher, do you want to go see Brubeck plays Brubeck or nah sonnnn: https://unionchapel.org.uk/whats-on/brubeck-plays-brubeck

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Before we started recording Christopher told some amazing stories about Ozzy Osbourne’s funeral, his review of the movie Uncut Gems, his love of the new South Park episodes and his theory behind why I do probably have a microphone stand even though I don’t think I do. This man wants all the gold to be off-pod sometimes, I don’t know what to tell you. https://unionchapel.org.uk/whats-on/brubeck-plays-brubeck

Do check out the socials for all the reference points you need, including JVD_Games branded spreadsheets (that I took screenshots of hehehe) outlining the songs we are choosing from: https://www.instagram.com/cccahour

Once we were active on Twitter too, can you fuckin believe that shit lol: twitter.com/cccappraisalpod

But no for real, e-mail us! E-mail is still just a cool thing we do, right? Musk didn’t buy it or anything, right: cccappraisalhour@gmail.com

Also hi YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhour

1 more beautiful season of cccappraisalhour/show down.

The people can’t wait for a new one.

He can’t wait. 

I can’t wait. 

Now it’s time to level up. 

Gang gang.

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GREEN MAN FESTIVAL PLAYLIST BY JEFFREY BAHLO and HAPPY GILMORE 2: Reviewed!

Ok season 5 fans. We’re finally wrapping this shit up. Season 5 has been a controversial time, we’re not going to lie to you. We’re not going to front. Even more than in previous seasons … it’s been a shit show. But here we are. It’s the end of the season. Fucking finally. Let’s go. We’re reviewing a playlist festival. The fact that this playlist got made and pitched is such a feat of investment and generosity, almost as kudos-worthy as the surprise reveal that will cap off this, the final episode of season 5. And yeah, a movie also; the number one movie on Netflix so that is as basic-ass a pitch as we’ve ever seen. Ok, so … WTF ARE THE SCORES:

Jeffrey ahead by 1.

We think.

So if Christopher wins today. A draw.

If Jeffrey wins. A Jeffrey win.

And if the boys draw. A Jeffrey win.

STAKES! A dead rubber, low key … with A BIT OF LIFE LEFT IN THE OL’ GIRL! 

Check the cccappraisalhour.show for the accurate info and tune back into the podcast show notes next season for more accurate scorekeeping. We are going to get the good people at the cccah and the good people at the cccappraisalhour.show at the table to sit together, break bread and resolve their issues. Next year will be the year. Hashtag one thing. Hashtag one Patreon. Hashtag one pod. Five letters, one pod, uh uh: CCCAH! 

Here is the official website for the 2025 Green Man Festival: https://www.greenman.net/

Here is the playlist for Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1hD2l3VqTw17kyGYz5lexo?si=ee08888befc344bf

Here is the playlist for Apple: https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/the-cccah-playlist-for-green-man-festival-2025/pl.u-e9dbKIvZvMP

Watch Happy Gilmore 2 here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81696722

BFFs Josh Richards and Bri Chickenfry interviewed the stars of Happy Gilmore 2, Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen and Christopher McDonald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVG0YRSRa5s

Mat and Ceri are two best friends who review the entire filmography of Adam Sandler! Their podcast is called the So Sandlerous Pod! I_knew it_Chandler_Friends.gif: https://open.spotify.com/show/2neDn6KZfEwAPss5FLcFGW?si=324b8e6c3d85411e

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: The screen sharing lol. 

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We’ll see you next week for a very SPECIAL episode ;) 

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Hey there podcast fanatics! It’s time to listen to another episode of the cccappraisalhour.show

Incorrect lineal scoreline for this season says the scores are:

Jeffrey: 12

Christopher: 12

But we know that's wrong. Christopher and Jonny insist I am ahead. I am the only one saying I'm not ahead. 2025 is the weirdest year on record in so many different ways I can't deal.

Anyway.

We all know a 24th episode of a season when we see one, right? It’s giving … finale. End of an era. There is a season turn turn turn etc. But hey … maybe season 5 isn’t quite over yet … ? 

STAY TUNED AND LISTEN TO THE EPISODE BECAUSE THERE MIGHT BE MORE TO COME YET DURING THIS OVERLY LONG FIFTH SEASON OF OURS!

Hey! Is that my first ever CCCAH episode spoiler in the shownotes, kind of spoiling the insane SWERVE you will experience at the end of the episode? Well maybe. Thankfully no one reads the show notes! Hehe. And even if they did, I don’t mind. Spoilers are fun. They are inevitable. There is actually an art to riding out spoilers, engaging with them without letting them dampen your experience. And if Christopher does mind … I don’t mind that either lol; he’s used to my flagrant abuse of our spoiler/ticking rules over the years now so. He’ll live. 

Anyway, speaking of spoilers, might as well mention: we defo spoil Ricky Stanicky. You’ll live also lol!! 

Now let’s talk about watching things and laughing at things and laughing *with* each other about things and what we learned along the way (Nanette) and the mindless fun we had that also has value somehow (the Ricky one). 

Watch Nanette here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80233611

Read Hannah Gadsby talking about Nanette here: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/may/31/hannah-gadsby-you-dont-do-a-show-like-nanette-without-a-tough-shell

Read a review of Nanette by Matilda Douglas-Henry here: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/08/01/who-is-nanette/

Watch Ricky Stanicky here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ricky-Stanicky-Zac-Efron/dp/B0CQD4TGD7

Read a review of Ricky Stanicky here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/movies/ricky-stanicky-review.html

Watch interviews with the director and stars of Ricky Stanicky from the YouTube channel “The Nerds of Color” here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF-GOCfCz5A

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: I continue to hold my new microphone perfectly. I only need to be told once or twice to not just lean my entire face on it when I’m having a bit of a posture-break. For the most part we’ve got placement strictly on the centre of the ol’ mouth line. And an inch from the mouth. So very Gary Neville-chic of me. 

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81696722

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1hD2l3VqTw17kyGYz5lexo?si=b97136712cbb4814

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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 it’s seventeenth bloody season. So it’s all kinds of contrasts on the show this week. 

More contrasts include one tall host and one short host. Not that you can hear this on this (currently!) audio-only programme. One of us wants to have sidebars and tangents and do bits. The other one means business and wants to do the show we have promised the people we will do. One of us wants to believe the scores that are true. The other one wants to also believe those, after he learns that these scores put him slightly ahead lol. But really, only one of us wants to win the show. The other is happy just to have a show. Who is who? Actually I don’t even know anymore. But I’m sure that at this point we’re both actually kinda n’aww [insert a Zach Braff monologue regarding something life affirming over some indie rock here]. 

Now for one final time (PLEASE???) let's see the continuity of the UNOFFICIAL AND VERY WRONG SCORES:

Jeffrey: 11

Christopher: 12

Right? Every one see those. Well ... refer to Jonny's IMPARTIAL WEBSITE cccappraisalhour.show for some scores that have not been corrupted by dark money and podcasting polititcs!

You can watch the first ever episode It’s Gary Shandling’s Show here: https://archive.org/details/its-garry-shandlings-show-complete-ish/Its.Garry.Shandlings.Show.101.mp4

You can read Den of Geek’s review of the first ever episode of It’s Gary Shandling’s Show here, immediately referencing Brecht: https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/its-garry-shandlings-show-season-one-dvd-review/

You can listen to Judd Apatow talk about Gary Shandling here. He’s actually talking about his documentary The Zen Diaries of Gary Shandling but hey, same thing: https://www.npr.org/2019/11/11/778130375/after-comic-garry-shandlings-death-judd-apatow-found-zen-in-his-diaries

You can watch the first episode of season seventeen of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9mn4oa

You can read the AV Club review of this episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia here: https://www.avclub.com/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-season-17-episode-1-and-2-recap

You can check out this interview with Charlie Day regarding all the crossover episodes of it all here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-season-17-charlie-day-interview-1236309803/

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Jeffrey was innocently asking if the It’s Always Sunny crew had ever been cancelled before and … let’s just say … he tried to respond to my question lol. 

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ricky-Stanicky-Zac-Efron/dp/B0CQD4TGD7

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80233611

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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 content-consumers. But here we are. We are the last line of defence between the content-construction form of capitalism that is threatening to wipe all the art out from all of our lives and our meek and tiny souls ... craving connection ... soul ... however you define a soul. I define it as something you can redeem on a weekly basis by tuning in to the latest episode of The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour. L. F. G.

So, what are the scores so far? We actually get to the bottom of the controversy in today's episode but before we reach some sort of confrontational end-point ... I will continue to pay tribute to my FULLY WRONG-ASS SCORES AAAAAGGGHHHHH:

Jeffrey: 10:

Christopher: 12

Season 1 Episode 6 of Home Movies (entitled Director's Cut) can be watched here: https://dn720006.ca.archive.org/0/items/home-movies/Season%201/Home.Movies-S01e06.Director%27s.Cut-6.mp4

You can read an interview with the creator of Home Movies (and Bob's Burgers) Loren Bouchard here: https://www.gq.com/story/loren-bouchard-on-the-legacy-of-home-movies-20-years-later

You can read a review of this episode of Home Movies here from the questionable people at Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/home_movies/s01/e06

Season 2 Episode 6 (entitled Mother Redcap) of Jonathan Creek can be watched here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02zy1bn/jonathan-creek-series-2-6-mother-redcap

You can read a super old-school interview with Alan Davies about playing Jonathan Creek on a very old-school looking BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/jonathancreek/interviews/davies/

You can read a review for the entire second season from a blogspot account called The Passing Tramp because you're over it with the Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritics of the world and simply need some niche shit now (welcome to the CCCAH btw): https://thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/2012/05/by-light-of-television-jonathan-creek.html

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher did his top 5 drinks rankings and the internet blew up from the viral ramifications. Sumo sold out at all the ... breweries ... ? I don't know.

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: https://www.justwatch.com/uk/tv-series/its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia/season-17

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER: https://archive.org/details/its-garry-shandlings-show-complete-ish

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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’ll look back on these days one day. Definitely. Maybe. Wink. Truly though, word play, puns and references aside … these are the days of our lives. 

And this is the website of our lives: cccappraisalhour.show

For real though, listen up! We’ve got more heatwave specials for you! Coming off our #Viral moment when Christopher mistook Will Smith (not that one) for Will Smith (that one) we’ve returned for a third bite at the single-song-review cherry. First there was Raye, then there was Doechii and now there is … Bob Dylan (again)! That is a weird list. Only on the CCCAH! 

Next up we have a sitcom. Could you get any more CCCAH than Kate Hudson starring in a Mindy Kaling sitcom and your boys being like “UH YES PLEASE” and the internet being like “UMMM” but your boys are still like “NOPE TOO LATE, YES PLEASE!”

So, what are the scores so far? No one believes these are the real scores but here they are any way hahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahaha:

Jeffrey: 9

Christopher: 12

Listen to Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan here: https://open.spotify.com/track/6Vcwr9tb3ZLO63F8DL8cqu?si=d767d9eddffa4d9e

Read the lyrics to Tangled Up In Blue here: https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/tangled-blue/

Polyphonic made a video deciphering Tangled Up In Blue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4VwQXoyodk

Watch Season 1 Episode 1 of Running Point here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81488468

Read Lucy Mangan’s review of Season 1 of Running Point for The Guardian here: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/feb/27/running-point-review-youll-be-desperate-for-kate-hudsons-basketball-comedy-to-end

Watch this interview with Kate Hudson and Mindy Kaling! It’s barely got 6k views. Those are some CCCAH numbers right there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kqfyl5uAxc

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Jeffrey was babysitting Loui while recording and instead of causing a ruckus asking for food or wanting to go outside … Loui simply … slept in Jeffrey’s lap like a good boy. You’re welcome, podcast listeners who literally don’t need this context. 

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02zy1bn/jonathan-creek-series-2-6-mother-redcap

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER: https://archive.org/details/home-movies/Season+1/Home.Movies-S01e06.Director's.Cut-6.m4v

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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 listening pleasure. We want to be a part of your routine not only surviving, but thriving. Skin care: on point. Hydration: on point. Nutrition: on point. Hygiene: on point. Podcast listening: press play on the latest episode of the cultural content consumption appraisal hour and we’re on point af playa! 

So strap in, crank the fan on and then find another fan to cool down your sweaty back from behind. You are in the perfect physical position for premium podcast listening. Enjoy the fruits of our labour you swine. 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 8

Christopher: 12

Here is Everyone Says I Love You: https://tv.apple.com/gb/movie/everyone-says-i-love-you/umc.cmc.3lt1e4s8jnyicwy5kmldkgfq8

Here is Roger (heyyy Rogerrr) Ebert’s review of Everyone Says I Love You: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/everyone-says-i-love-you-1997

Here is a spotify playlist for the soundtrack of Everyone Says I Love You: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/28bUq0UpfvtbYjkkCGJoF3

Here is the pilot of Slow Horses: https://tv.apple.com/gb/episode/failures-contagious/umc.cmc.72legmwolm5ytctyq637r6x0?showId=umc.cmc.2szz3fdt71tl1ulnbp8utgq5o

Here is a fun review (full of spoilers - just like the CCCAH! Whatever happened to our old spoiler warnings, eh? Just can’t be fucked anymore I see. Jolly good then) of the first four seasons: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/sep/11/ive-only-just-hitched-my-wagon-to-slow-horses-but-im-loving-the-ride

This is the wikipedia for Will Smith, the writer of Slow Horses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Smith_(comedian)

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: We sang a lot during the pre-production this week. Mainly Leann Rimes, despite Christopher shouting out Whitney during the episode proper. Some of this footage might have leaked on our socials. Check out https://www.instagram.com/cccahour for the whole scoop! 

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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81488468

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKcNyMBw818

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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 episode of a British sitcom to … an old episode of an American … kinda sitcom? Ok and then what? And then it means it’s time for us to guess how the other will SCORE HIS REVIEW! Whoever comes closest will win. And then we’ll pitch new stuff for next week. Lovely jubbly. 

But speaking of winning *sigh* … if Christopher continues his streak (check cccappraisalhour.show for a full rundown of the scores with 100% accuracy … as opposed to these shownotes … which some have said have super QUESTIONABLE ACCURACY … apropos of nothing you can find our website designer Jonny Mortemore at https://sites.google.com/view/jvd-games/home) the rest of the season will be a dead rubber and a bummer. I’m just telling you Christopher. A dead rubber AND a bummer. If you keep winning. So continue to guess wisely, I guess! 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 8

Christopher: 11

Some of you may be thinking hey … but … are those scores wrong? And to those of you who would say that, I would say … chill out. It’s summer. Go look at the sky. Meditate. Eat an apple. Not the core, put it in the bin. But like, be cool. And if it’s all my fault, remember: forgiveness was voted the top virtue of all the virtues. I’m just saying. Like, every religious person voted and the count is in! 

Watch Episode 4 of Season 14 of Not Going Out here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002d2yt/not-going-out-series-14-4-oasis

Read Lee Mack talking about that episode here: https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/2068516/Lee-Mack-snubbed-Noel-Gallagher-Oasis

Read a review of that episode here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/not-going-out-bbc-one-series-14-review/

Watch the pilot of Ally McBeal on good old Channel 4 on the internet: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/ally-mcbeal/on-demand/25144-001

Read an oral history of the show (featuring show creator David E. Kelley and star Calista Flockhart) here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ally-mcbeal-oral-history-calista-flockhart-david-e-kelley-lucy-liu-interviews-1034516/

The TV Pilot’s License podcast talks Ally McBeal here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=4TXZGb8HKkA

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: We struggled with a hard out. As usual. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/failures-contagious/umc.cmc.72legmwolm5ytctyq637r6x0?showId=umc.cmc.2szz3fdt71tl1ulnbp8utgq5o

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOJR8Ty9Src

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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 special! Woooo and hooo = yayy and slayyy. That is how our predominantly Gen Z listenership talk, right? Anyway, what are scores saying today? These are probably wrong (please if the website cccappraisalhour.show could just save usssss that would be greeeeaat) but this where we’re at.

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 8

Christopher: 10

Please. Christopher. Stop. You’re taking this “overtaking me” thing too far now. I know you were doing it as a bit but it’s not funny anymore, it’s just hurtful 🙁

But anyway lol and lmao and back to the show! 

Watch Outnumbered Season 5 episode 6 here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03xl0zy/outnumbered-series-5-episode-6

Read a review of the Outnumbered finale here: https://cultbox.co.uk/reviews/episodes/outnumbered-s05e06-final-episode-review

Watch an interview with the cast of Outnumbered about … Outnumbered lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsboeTR5RQ8

Watch Abbott Elementary Season 4 episode 9 here: https://abc.com/episode/15584913-fa78-40cd-b0cb-0b72b2259769/playlist/pl553044961

Read a review of this special episode of Abbott Elementary here: https://www.vulture.com/article/abbott-elementary-recap-season-4-episode-9-always-sunny-at-abbott.html

Watch an interview by Amy Poehler with Quinta Brunson here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gx8aYbZTX0

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Christopher got so excited talking about Outnumbered (“family ) he healed the burst blood vessel in his eye! If you’re reading these shownotes, please call a doctor and tell them we don’t need them anymore. The power of podcasts is healing! Form a prayer circle at the listening party, party people.  

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/ally-mcbeal/on-demand/25144-001

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002d2yt/not-going-out-series-14-4-oasis 

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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, your decadent pitches for dessert. A spicy meatball of a podcast episode, if ever I’ve put a meatball in each ear before. I’m hungry. 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 8

Christopher: 9

Christopher is now in the lead. What the fucking fuck? I mean, that is, if the scores are actually accurate … that’s right … purely coincidental but I’m finally admitting that hey, maybe these scores aren’t fully accurate. Maybe STAT MAN JONNY (aka Jonny Jon Jon Jons) needs to come to the rescue and set the record straight. Stay tuned to the socials. I’m sure there will be notes app apologias incoming, addressing the controversy this fifth season that can be summed up thusly: WHAT THE HELL ARE THE SCORES?

Listen to Fly Yellow Moon by Fyfe Dangerfield here: https://soundcloud.com/fyfe-dangerfield/sets/fly-yellow-moon-1

Read a Fyfe Dangerfield interview talking through Fly Yellow Moon here: https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/tlobf-interview-fyfe-dangerfield-24178

Please take a glimpse at the legacy of Guillemots here (35611 likes · 2 talking about this): https://www.facebook.com/guillemotsmusic/

Speaking of the MTV 2 discovery that opened up a portal into a world of beautiful musical discovery, this is that first Guillemots video that inspired a young Jeffrey and Christopher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EaAYi64Rpo

Watch Funny People here (maybe, if you can figure out this whole “internet” thing): https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/funny-people

This is an excerpt from the audio commentary for Funny People, featuring Judd Apatow, Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MCv5yZQKnA

This is Judd Apatow talking about Funny People. It’s a really good interview. All his interviews about Funny People are good. All the interviews any one does about anything are good … wait, I went too far: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/120608834

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Christopher got so excited talking about Funny People (and it’s amazing third act … which come to think of it, I now think could be a cool one-act play … huh) he burst a blood vessel in his eye! If you’re reading these shownotes, please call a doctor. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://abc.com/episode/15584913-fa78-40cd-b0cb-0b72b2259769/playlist/pl553044961

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03xl0zy/outnumbered-series-5-episode-6

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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 us enjoy what we enjoy and let us enjoy what we enjoy how we enjoy it best: by reviewing it, scoring it and then guessing the other’s scores for the other thing and then numerically assessing who’s guesses were closer to the other one’s scores in order to win this episode. Speaking of.

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 8

Christopher: 8

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?! IT’S NECK AND NECK.

Maybe. We’re not sure. The cccappraisalhour.show website is getting dusty. Sorry guys. Our website maintenance ran away because they discovered they hadn’t been getting paid for like over a year or something. Give us time to sort it, we’ll be right on that *insert technical difficulties graphic here*

You can watch Okja here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/80091936

This is Bong Joon Ho talking about Okja: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/16/okja-director-bong-joon-ho-in-films-animals-are-either-soulmates-or-butchered

Jon Ronson, who co-wrote the script, spoke about Okja and all sorts of other stuff here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/jun/15/okja-jon-ronson-bong-joon-ho-dooho-choi-pig-movie

Purchase Mahashmashana by Father John Misty here: https://www.roughtrade.com/product/father-john-misty/mahashmashana

This is J. Tillman talking to the young men of the How Long Gone podcast about all sorts of stuff, really: https://howlonggone.com/721-father-john-misty

This is FJM talking to the good men of the Jokermen podcast, as one of our hosts is constantly shouting out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgmp275Wek0

This is Stereogum reviewing the new album: https://www.stereogum.com/2287469/father-john-misty-mahashmashana/reviews/album-of-the-week/

This is Stereogum talking about the new Big Thief album. Exciting times for the best band in the world: https://www.stereogum.com/2310342/big-thief-announce-new-album-double-infinity-hear-incomprehensible/music/

This is Seth Rogen talking to Stephen Colbert about Tom Cruise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7wLoYp40cI

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Waking up in time to record this podcast was hard. You’re lucky you got anything this week, Appraisal Hour heads! 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://drownedinsound.com/releases/15041/reviews/4138883

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://tv.apple.com/gb/movie/funny-people/umc.cmc.1ktu0mrzbn112mc5076hml865

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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, despairing pre-production meeting. We’ll still get to reviewing stuff. A wild and wacky 30 second game. We’ll still get to reviewing stuff. A tangent and laughing fit to the point of crying. We’ll still get to reviewing stuff. A barking dog and a relatively inexpensive microphone. We’ll still get to reviewing stuff. We’ll bring our guesses. The other host will bring their scores. And there, in the middle, between the guesses and the scores … a battle will be fought. And a season will be decided. 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 8

Christopher: 7

It’s another accidental special. This week is an accidental animation special. We should be animated for the video. Rotoscoped. Maybe in the future. There will probably be an animated-series adaptation of the CCCAH before a Patreon at this point, if we must level with you. 

Watch the pilot of Neon Genesis Evangelion here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81033447

Watch this video about the order in which to watch Neon Genesis Evangelion from the people at Team Geek and Team Nerd | Togami: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15PKpYTQFaA

Read a review of the first 13 episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion here: https://hoganreviews.co.uk/2024/08/26/neon-genesis-evangelion-episodes-1-13-review/

Watch Wall-E here: https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/browse/entity-280395a4-d5ef-4dd0-bd09-d91c31593d3d

Listen to the Left of the Projector podcast discuss Wall-E here: https://leftoftheprojector.com/episode/wall-e-2008-with-closetd-history-and-leftist-squidward

Read the late, great Roger Ebert’s review of Wall-E here: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/wall-e-2008#google_vignette

Read this reddit thread about the genders of Wall-E and Eve here (haha Reddit in the shownotes is jokes): https://www.reddit.com/r/agender/comments/j7oqa4/walle_and_eve_are_just_nonbinary_lesbians_change/

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Christopher sang again in the pre-show meeting! He’s always SINGING, WHY IS THIS ENERGY NOT ON THE PODCAST!?!??! 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://fatherjohnmisty.bandcamp.com/album/mahashmashana-2

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.netflix.com/watch/80091936

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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 copies at the ready. Cinema envy in the veins. Let’s get it.  

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 8

Christopher: 6

Welcome to the most caffeinated episode of the CCCAH in seasons! Today we’re doing what everyone thought we couldn’t done. We’re implementing the ghost protocol, we’re entity-ing it right up … we’re … re-pitching … what was already pitched. We are repeat-pitching. This might be the pitch that breaks a hole in the space-time-CCCAH-quantum-continuum! Dead Reckoning Part One is being reviewed again. If you would like to listen to the first time it was reviewed on this podcast (hahahahahaha if you double-bill these two eps I love you forever) check out Season 3 episode 12 here: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-cultural/s03e12-hair-doesnt-grow-on-p9c7bH0UkOM/

Or if you would like to listen to the first time we reviewed a Coen Brothers movie (Inside Llewyn Davis! DO A DOUBLE BILL OF DOUBLE BILLS!) you can check Season 2 Episode 15 out here: https://podcasts.apple.com/hk/podcast/s02e15-downing-all-these-red-bulls-about-to-go-live-on-tiktok/id1663210349?i=1000634222849

Watch O Brother Where Art Thou here (kind of lol): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brother-Where-Thou-Region-NTSC/dp/B00003CXRM

Listen to the soundtrack of O Brother Where Art Thou here: https://open.spotify.com/album/7gzX88qS3Vx2r87g5pbdfJ

The Coen Brothers and cast of "O Brother Where Art Thou” were interviewed by Charlie Rose back in the year 2000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aASy7Wcv08

Listen to No Podcast For Old Men review this film in super scholarly fashion like they put us to shame: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o-brother-where-art-thou/id1716824365?i=1000702329138

Watch Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One here (all 2 hours and 43 minutes) on Netflix … wish I had been able to watch it on Netflix! For a change! Haha: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81665878

Read about all the previous Mission Impossible references that made it into Dead Reckoning Part One: https://screencrush.com/mission-impossible-references-in-dead-reckoning/

Tom Cruise doing stunts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lsFs2615gw

This is Ryan Coogler talking about Imax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Ru62uFM0s&t=30s

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: There was some genuine calendar haggling going on in order for Christopher to give Jeffrey his mission to accept, should he choose to accept his impossible mission to accept his mission to watch Mission Impossible Final Reckoning with him, should he choose to accept that. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/browse/entity-280395a4-d5ef-4dd0-bd09-d91c31593d3d

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81033447

Do not seek the treasure. 

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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 (there might be a catchier title with which to refer to that) record??? Hopefully the good people at JVD Games will let us know! Maybe we’ll try and catch a corporate big-wig style dinner with them as soon as another pod recording is in the bag. See you at the meet and greets! 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 8

Christopher: 6

You can watch The Seventh Seal on BFI Player … to paraphrase Christopher Anousis (host of the CCCAH) “free trial woo” or whatever it is he said: https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-the-seventh-seal-1957-online

Melvyn Bragg hosted his 1000th episode of the famous radio show/podcast In Our Time (in the CCCAH’s dreams!) and he and his esteemed guests discussed The Seventh Seal because of course they did: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qmkx

You can watch this video essay by Peter Cowie on The Seventh Seal here on this treasure trove known as YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6vNqAIq9t4

Even in the ‘50s, artists knew the real gold is in the behind-the-scenes “content”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsOcnUbjuEg

Episode 1 of Season 19 of Taskmaster can be watched here: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/taskmaster/on-demand/75957-001

Want to follow along watching Taskmaster with someone reviewing every episode? Of course you do! Like lol you’re listening to this kind of show you know! So, you can read Jack Bernhardt on Medium, for one: https://jackbern23.medium.com/taskmaster-series-19-episode-1-the-stats-round-up-6ca0c68ecd9f

Or you could read Myles McNutt on Substack! One quote from his review of this episode that lines up with our thoughts would be “There’s not a bad season of Taskmaster, but just how good it is hinges on the mix of contestants—the best seasons have somebody who’s hopelessly terrible at all the tasks”: https://substack.com/home/post/p-162775890

Personally I find Taskmaster’s attempt to copy the cccappraisalhour.show website in both style and format in super poor taste. Plagiarism is not a good look GREG (and/or little Alex Horne): https://taskmaster.info/season.php?id=76

Is it Taskmaster’s birthday: https://taskmaster.tv/taskmasters-birthday/

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: In our pre-production meeting Christopher was banging on about having crazy dreams he was going to tell me about but then he never told me about them. Did I dream this?!

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mission-Impossible-Dead-Reckoning-Part/dp/B0CBN6XL8D

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://tv.apple.com/gb/movie/o-brother-where-art-thou/umc.cmc.3vmofz00i7y5m00861o6waay8

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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 the show. 

Then we review the things we’re here to review, you see. Ah newbie, you’re being very taken care of in these here shownotes today. So Christopher reviews American Dad. And then Jeff guesses what his scores will be. And then we see how close Jeffrey was. And then Jeffrey reviews You. Christopher guesses what his scores will be. And then we see how close Christopher was. Who is the winner, who was CLOSEST? All these answers (and more!) will be revealed!

What is this more we speak of? Simply LISTEN TO THE SHOW loves. We’ve got it all. 

Debates around trash! What is it? What does it mean? Is it a pejorative or is it actually a term of endearment? Can one man’s “hey this is trash, yuck” be another man’s … also trash but “I like this trash, this is MY trash!”? 

The top 3 cartoons to fall asleep to are also discussed, from American Dad and Solar Opposites to Rick and Morty and The Cleveland Show. 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 7

Christopher: 6

Watch American Dad here on ITV X (sure, it might not include a link to the episode we review … but don’t worry about that, apparently it’s confusing which *season* this episode even belongs to): https://www.itv.com/watch/american-dad/2a4263

Read a Den of Geek review of the episode here: https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/american-dad-season-14-episode-16-review-the-bitchin-race/

Read the wiki entry for the episode here: https://americandad.fandom.com/wiki/The_Bitchin%27_Race

Apparently this man named Don Thai Theerathada voiced the Thai interrogator in American Dad so (lol) we’ll let it slide … this time: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1596656/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t10

Watch the pilot of You here on Netflix where you can also watch the finale, as of this week. Hey … maybe that will get pitched at some point? Who knows. One of us knows (sooner or later one of must know!) One of us who is on the show knows. But not the one writing this, the one reading it … sitting in the office, scrolling on his phone, yes, YOU (I’m stalking you, boo or whatever): https://www.netflix.com/watch/80212201

Read a Den of Geek review of the episode here: https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/you-episode-1-review-pilot/

Read the wiki entry for the episode here: https://you.fandom.com/wiki/Pilot

M3GAN 2.0 trailer! Christopher asked so here, go nuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYLHdEzsk1s

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher changed everything and unprecedentedly … requested a second go at the 30 second game. It was great don’t get me wrong but … pandora’s box, you heard of it? D’you know what I mean? You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube! Other cliches! 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/taskmaster/on-demand/75957-001

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-the-seventh-seal-1957-online

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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. You know how it goes. One new wrinkle: we kinda … didn’t … spoil the tv show episode we review this week. For once? So … no spoiler warning. Wow. We wilding. 

This week we’re coming off that London marathon we’ve been chatting about (oh you know the one, the one that just broke the record for the most finishers at 55,000!) where one of us ran and the other one of us cheered him on. Sometimes in life you are the runner and sometimes you are the cheerleader. Good friendships are about being both, I suppose. Omg check us out. FRIENDSHIP WISDOM FOR DAYS. And speaking of checking us out, check out our new instagram. You know that new sound you’re looking for? Well, listen to this: instagram.com/cccahour

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 6

Christopher: 6

A tight race this season! But we all know how the next bit goes, don’t we? Time for a favourite to emerge, I say! 

This is Season 7 Episode 2 of Black Mirror, entitled “Eulogy”: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81716300

This is a good article covering the critical reception to Eulogy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20250411-black-mirror-season-sevens-most-devastating-episode-ever

This is a very, very good interview regarding the episode: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/paul-giamatti-charlie-brooker-black-mirror-eulogy-interview-1235311964/

This is Benny Blanco’s second interview with Daniel Wall (the one we review): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q12XDphPJL0

This is Benny Blanco’s first interview with Daniel Wall (the one we don’t review): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vh_DgaHySc

This is a YouTube short of Benny Blanco being interviewed by Daniel Wall (from the second interview, the one we reviewed): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JuQpEGno0bQ

Ok so this is a bit inside baseball … but let’s do what we do best and make it a bit of OUTSIDE BASEBALL. We recorded the first episode of a new WWE PLE predictions podcast entitled “The Cultural Mania Content Predictions Half Hour Ep 1” and this first episode is called “The Gang Does Wrestlemania 41 Predictions”. It is a week old and mouldy but hey … it’s free on YouTube! Who knows where future episodes might live …: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qySPFrQV4Lo 

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Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When trying to set up the camera angle that didn’t cause problematic glare, the technical adjustments were made with way more swearing than regular CCCAH listeners are used to. Trust me. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.netflix.com/watch/80212201

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://tv.apple.com/us/episode/the-bitchin-race/umc.cmc.20w9uf3pfnong8b12hb789tus?showId=umc.cmc.1u0xxsxtxksrbejfvg85h3lxb

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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 before. And on our dormant YouTube channel (youtube.com/@cccappraisalhour) we live streamed the first episode of our WWE PLE podcast The Cultural Mania Content Predictions Half Hour. This first episode was live streamed on YouTube but if it continues … who knows? So check this out while you can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qySPFrQV4Lo

But hey, mania is over. So let’s start the regularly scheduled show. SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE: 

Jeffrey: 6

Christopher: 5

We’re reviewing some fun stuff today so strap in. We’re going to the alt rock 90s scene and the 2025 London marathon so just that classic, forever-time-travelling feeling you get on the CCCAH. We hope you don’t suffer from vertigo or one of any number of other ailments related to being in two different points of time simultaneously! Like throwing up. I would throw up. 

Anyway, let’s get to the stuff. The main stuff is: everyone wish Christopher luck on his upcoming London marathon this weekend. Wish him luck and give him kudos on Strava: https://strava.app.link/GsqLvr4iOSb

We’ll see you for another episode post-marathon next week! When you really think about it, all our episodes are pre-marathon or post-marathon … for some marathon or another. Some episodes are just faster getting to the pain than others, I suppose.  

Song Exploder episode 3 on R.E.M’s “Losing My Religion”: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81025976

Here is the latest interview R.E.M interview. They are such a wholesome foursome … just sweetly talking about how they’ll never properly reunite as a band … I’m not crying, you’re crying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATHHACcw3Q4

As mentioned on the pod, here is a Stereogum story covering Michael Shannon and how his R.E.M tribute shows have led to some amazing things: https://www.stereogum.com/2298651/r-e-m-reunite-again-watch-them-play-pretty-persuasion-with-michael-shannon-jason-narducy/news/

Philly Bowden’s vlog (like most vlogs on the ol’ YouTube) has a title with specific intentions that relies on ALL CAPS at points so let me just copy and paste it for ya right here. The Race That Changed EVERYTHING - The Berlin Marathon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYKXaF2GfJQ

Phily Bowden is one of many people (do you know any) who has days to go until she runs the London Marathon! How exciting. This is a YouTube short about that, if you’re familiar with the format (we are): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2cq8Uo0MkXo

The London Marathon owners are not on Twitter! This feels low key relevant? https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/apr/23/london-marathon-organisers-boycott-x-over-descent-into-gutter-under-elon-musk

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: Before we started recording, Christopher got out his guitar and played Losing My Religion while I sat there. You know like when you’re at a party and someone gets the acoustic guitar out and … yeah. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q12XDphPJL0

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81716300

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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 the bear said in that story: mmm it’s just right or whatever … and then they fell off the roof and tragically became paralysed from the waist down. 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE (TBC IF YOU DON’T LIKE #POINTSFORDRAWS BUT IF YOU ARE OK WITH #POINTSFORDRAWS YOU’RE MY BESTIE): 

Jeffrey: 6

Christopher: 4

Stay tuned for news about the first annual CCCAH bazaar! That’s right folks. We’re skipping over Patreon and going straight to a BAZAAR. Everyone can go on rides and sell their wares and somehow it’s to do with the podcast, is the idea. Sounds sick to me. For now though, enjoy this historic episode of the show: this episode has both the oldest pitch and the newest pitch! From 1960 to barely one week ago.

Everybody’s Live Season 1 Episode 5 entitled “Getting Fired” can be watched here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81969139?trackId=268410292

This is NPR reviewing Everybody’s Live: https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5324637/john-mulaney-netflix-late-night-everybodys-live-with-john-mulaney

This is Siobhan Brier Aguilar’s video “What Anna Marie Tendler Did (Not) Write About John Mulaney”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGBNq5FufmM

Pollyanna can be watched here: https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/browse/entity-aaee1541-e5b3-4875-9196-4621ff65703e

Pollyanna was reviewed by Honey We Made A Disney Podcast. We truly live in the golden age of YouTube reviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ZtV_3cLp4

Pollyanna was also reviewed by the Deep In The Plus podcast. The golden age of YouTube reviews has jumped the shark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Y0jLw-5AxRk

BeReal is back in the shownotes (Jeff edition): https://bere.al/jefflemonade

BeReal is back in the shownotes (Chris edition): https://bere.al/christopheranousis

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: At some point either Frank or Bruno (the cats Christopher was looking after) walked past Christopher’s computer and we almost both got thrown off but instead we did not. We cracked on. Like professionals. Podcast professionals. Damn it. 

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYKXaF2GfJQ

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81025976

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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! So far! What is going on so far anyway? 

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE (UNDETERMINED IF YOU DON’T LIKE #POINTSFORDRAWS BUT IF YOU ARE OK WITH #POINTSFORDRAWS WE ARE COOL): 

Jeffrey: 5

Christopher: 3

Justin Vernon spoke to Popcast and boy do I hope Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarell don’t listen to the CCCAH and start throwing shade about not being able to tell the difference between our London-boy voices, geezer: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bon-iver-interview-how-justin-vernon-got-happy-it-took/id120315823?i=1000700888956

Everything is peaceful love but everything is also loving the Sable EP which was the first few songs from the new album and didn’t include the new single “Everything Is Peaceful Love”! Justin told us the story behind these three songs, so we listened:

https://open.spotify.com/album/2Cwxsws0uZcu61gliYLOEm?si=Bekjcy0lTn6d7bBTltVVZA

Justin Vernon was also interviewed by Amanda Petrusich late last year and that was a very good conversation. Lowest of keys, maybe I should have pitched this one lol: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/bon-iver-is-searching-for-the-truth

One person on Reddit sort of gets my weird (oh the woes of the parasocial superfan!) takeaways from some aspects of this album roll out: https://www.reddit.com/r/boniver/comments/1jqmbgj/anyone_else_confused_by_the_ethos_of_the_new_album/

Adolescence Episode 1 can be watched here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81763204

The Newsagents did a good interview with the writer of Adolescence. The clickbaity title they use that is just so cringe is “Creator Jack Thorne REVEALS The DEEP TRUTH Behind 'Adolescence'!” like lol goodness me, calm down lads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBvC_-XaTTc

Stephen Graham did an interview with the SAG-AFTRA Foundation about Adolescence and it was super insightful! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B5DXCR-344

From incel experts like William Costello to psychologists like Dr. Kirk Honda live reacting to scenes, every one has a take on Adolescence! Some (like the aforementioned!) are more insightful than others. Considering the first wave of praise has, inevitably, given rise to waves of backlash, let’s include at least one *slightly* more critical bit of content for balance. Here are the Bring Your Own Blockbuster boys describing how “almost” perfect the series is. Not going to lie, my algorithm has been hassling me for days to check out this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=212t6jrbBoE

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When I pitched my thirty second game this week I had just come up with the idea a few minutes before. And as I was rambling on, I was doing the maths live. That’s right. Equating each season of our pod so far with a Bon Iver album. Very luckily, the vibes were correct, and season 5 equated with SABLE, fABLE. The real highlight was Christopher finally getting what I was going for about 45 minutes later haha.  

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://archive.org/details/pollyanna-1960_202205

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.netflix.com/title/81912996

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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 first time in 2 decades (maybe, roughly?) but Jack’s spirit has been hovering over the podcast since its inception. Because whether we’re on the road or not, aren’t we always on the road to *appreciation*? Eh? See what I did there … the one other person who kind of reads these! (Hi Christopher *waving hand emoji* hehehe)

Not only do we have Jack (who passed away in 1969) but we also have Doechii on the podcast today! She has been doing so much press for her mixtape so she couldn’t wrap that up without dropping by ol’ CCCAH HQ!

SCORES SO FAR THIS SEASON ARE

Jeffrey: 4

Christopher: 3

Learn about One Fast Move Or I’m Gone here! And then do your own research in terms of actually finding a place to watch it. Because, once again, we had to rely on an old VHS this week … : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1217282/

Zigzag Bugs And 'A Sea Like God' are just two of the things discussed in this NPR article covering the documentary with director Curt Worden: https://www.npr.org/2009/10/20/113938373/zigzag-bugs-and-a-sea-like-god-kerouacs-big-sur

Benjamin Gibbard And Jay Farrar wrote and recorded the soundtrack for the documentary and spoke to NPR about it: https://www.npr.org/2009/10/23/114095203/gibbard-and-farrar-take-on-kerouacs-big-sur

Ben and Jay also spoke to Huffington Post. Can’t just be an NPR fest today d’you know what I mean: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/one-fast-move-or-im-gone_b_328194

As hard as the documentary is to find "One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Music From Kerouac's Big Sur" is on the streaming platforms: https://open.spotify.com/album/3Lki97wGb11VOTrjCEAgCj?si=Uz2mDKNpQyCotcz7ZLWKVg

Also read the book! https://shop.penguin.co.uk/products/big-sur-great-kerouac-series

Also watch the film adaptation! https://tv.apple.com/ca/movie/big-sur/umc.cmc.2zuyytqhk3ef0tl2f1hyp8q0t

Doechii’s Tiny Desk Concert can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-91vymvIH0c

Nardwuar vs. Doechii can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bjFEMRgOz8

A jazz musician reacting to Doechii’s Tiny Desk Concert can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f7ie7WuxG4

Doechii dissects "Alligator Bites Never Heal" in a super cool long-form interview (Dissect’s first full-length video interview pod drop! What a word combo!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jml_NyEN3Rk

Dissect is also YouTube Shorting about Easter Eggs in Doechii’s Tiny Desk: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/joSpiKCzZFY

Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher made fun of the notion of a pilgrimage I made to Birmingham to see the original scroll of On The Road in an exhibition! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/dec/02/jack-kerouac-road-birmingham I was just thinking about this after we recorded the pod, chuckling to myself, as I enjoyed my daily pilgrimage to the top of Harrow on the Hill and the spot of Byron’s youth: https://allpoetry.com/poem/8510831-Lines-Written-Beneath-An-Elm-In-The-Churchyard-Of-Harrow-On-The-H-by-George-Gordon-Byron

SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT: 

CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY: 

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81763204

JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBvC_-XaTTc

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