The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour

Jeffrey Bahlo & Christopher Anousis

It's not a competition. (Yes it is) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 1d ago

    S08E02 Not enough walkin and talkin for the Sorkin

    THE SOCIAL NETWORK: Reviewed! I think if our listeners want to stand on our shoulders and call themselves tall they have a right to give it a try. But there's no requirement that we enjoy being here listening to people lie. You have part of our attention--the minimum amount needed. The rest of our attention is back at the offices of the Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour where our employees and us are doing things that no one in this fanbase are intellectually or creatively capable of doing. Okay I am so so so sorry, it was just a rib - we just had to access our inner Zuckerberg for a bit! He's a pretty funny character, no? Oh wait, HE'S REAL??? WHAT THE??? Additionally, we implore you to forgive the very rough and ready version of the opening scene in our cold open. I’m sure there will be more cover versions of scenes when we launch the Patreon but, for now, the priority was to just shake some of the cobwebs off and get into the acting of it all. Feel the space, you know? And yeah, lots of flubs are part of that lol. But then hey, don’t worry, its not all Inside The Actors Studio up in this bitch. We squeeze a 30 second game in there and all and then boom, we’re on to the reviewing! We are reviewing the Ringer's no. 1 favourite movie of the twentieth century! Directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. All things we have a lot of feelings about. We put the most feelings into reviewers of any review podcast. That is the bit you pay for, isn't it? Well, you don’t really pay for it, at present. But hey, we have something more important than advertisers … we’re … cool. Watch The Social Network on Apple TV, I guess, if you have to … God I miss DVDs: https://tv.apple.com/gb/movie/the-social-network/umc.cmc.36jj4rzu3eh9jk7uhicvr4vhb Listen to the audio commentary here and pretend you’re just watching the DVD! Featuring THE SORK, Eisenberg, Garfield and the unmentionable one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WImbQ7EUags Watch some bonus features all put together on the YouTubes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAmg_GiR4aM Watch this fun video that illustrates some of the greatness of the movie from Via Cinema: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlKEMpvvK-k Garfield watches back *that scene*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk2ZB06vPjE The good folks at the Ringer REALLY like the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T88Y6iLDBno Read the script here: https://indiegroundfilms.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/social-network-the.pdf Check out our e-mail: cccappraisalhour@gmail.com Check out our Twitter: twitter.com/cccappraisalpod Check out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhour Check out our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cccahour Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When one of us got one score and then the other one got their score … it was a whole thing on today’s episode. Very fun score-reveals so far this season, come to think of it! Ooh, we should have a term for them. Guess-shots and score-goals? Listen bro, I don’t know, I need to be done with these show notes and go to bed d’you know what I mean!? SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK: please picture us finishing recording next week’s episode and then waiting with some level of dread for it to go live, just waiting to see if you specifically have listened to it … just waiting … over and over refreshing our website: cccappraisalhour.show. You get what I’m getting at! Like, reviewing, sure … we’ll review the thing! Also we’ll talk more magic tricks the week after. You get it. The Thing! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    S08E02 Not enough walkin and talkin for the Sorkin

  2. Oct 22

    S08E01 We have to sometimes cover our tracks and watch stuff that is relevant to the things that we like

    HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER SEASON 2 EPISODE 9: Reviewed! Well well well. Three seasons left until the acrimonious divorce I have been given plenty of notice about. (At least that’s something?) Time to lock in and … keep winning, I guess?? Whatever will be will be, I guess. When we were just a little pod, we asked our audience, what will we be? Will we post clips? Will we have a Patreon? Here’s what y’all said … to us: QUE SERA SERA! You can tell AI ain’t writing this shit, right? Right. That’s right folks! We’ve been out here doing podcasts in secret like we’re Robin Sparkles but now it is time to let loose and share the secret with the world. WE ARE A PODCAST! AND WE REVIEW PROPER RANDOM STUFF! WHAT RANDOM HIJINKS THESE MILLENNIALS ARE UP TO! We’ve spent seven seasons not insisting you like and subscribe but that is all about to change … any minute now. Today’s episode is reviewing How I Met Your Mother and is lovingly (and bitterly) dedicated to Aaron Khaliq. How I Met Aaron Khaliq. That would be a better show than this one. With apologies to Kitty for spoiling Project Hail Mary. Don’t forget Christopher’s golden rule: voicenote us a pitch and you’ll probably make the show! This is the episode: https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/play/c5c2cebf-2087-431a-9bca-c138ea3be143 See this is from ROLLING STONE AUSTRALIA like what do you want from me: https://au.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-lists/100-best-tv-episodes-of-all-time-list-66326/how-i-met-your-mother-slap-bet-season-2-episode-9-66383/ Ok but here it is on regular Rolling Stone: THE Rolling Stone, you could call it, I guess. Of note, on IMDB one episode of this show is rated higher. But anyway, yeah. Here we are on this list. Rolling Stone, I fell in love with you because of Almost Famous but we’re on thin ice now: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-tv-episodes-of-all-time-1235090945/how-i-met-your-mother-slap-bet-season-2-episode-9-1235091277/ Here is Josh Radnor making me sad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfEfKVyEOwM&pp=ygULam9zaCByYWRub3I%3D The now-expired Friends immersive experience no one went to with me. Now I’m more sad: https://london.friendstheexperience.com/ The trailer for YOU SEE EVERYTHING but WE CAN’T SEE ANYTHING, RELEASE IT IN THE UK YOU COWARDS NATHAN FIELDER AND LANCE OPPENHEIM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvW_N5p1q44 Here are Christopher’s fave conduits to some culture via tech, the TWIT peeps, talking about Elizabeth Holmes and her trial … from five years ago! Woah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEVQy260ZkA A good sesh: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/videos/c86xjn97ve2o Check out our e-mail: cccappraisalhour@gmail.com Check out our Twitter: twitter.com/cccappraisalpod Check out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhour Check out our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cccahour Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher did his press conference explaining the shocking decision-making behind his controversial “anticipation guess”, one of the wackier anticipation guesses in nearly 200 episodes worth of guessing stuff. Hoping for the sake of competition that some new advisors or consultants come on to the board for my counterpart with some fresh ideas for this new season. SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WImbQ7EUags Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    S08E01 We have to sometimes cover our tracks and watch stuff that is relevant to the things that we like

  3. Oct 15

    S07E24 Go on the lam with Tim Key

    INSIDE NO. 9 SEASON 1 EPISODE 1: Reviewed! You might hear us introducing this episode as “the dead rubber” but it is anything but, really, when you think about it. The stakes are actually absolutely immense. It is the first season we formally introduce the OFF POINT CARABAO CUP and so even with the league title sewn up from time ago, that is surely a lot to play for, let alone pride and an early table setter for season 8! And imagine, just imagine if there was only one single off point in it. That would be a little dramatic now, wouldn’t it?! Just in case you’re new to this and not (yet!) true to this and found the previous paragraph baffling … WE DO SCORES around here! Scores and guesses. It's kind of our thing. Even when the introductory thirty second game doesn’t articulate that too well. Check out our website if you want to keep track of the scores and enjoy this beautiful web page in the last remaining days of its pre-infographic era: cccappraisalhour.show Today we bring you yet another pilot. Pilots never die. Finding our feet forever. It is time for Christopher Anousis and Jeffrey Bahlo to be formally introduced to the world of Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton. We have come to learn during our seven seasons that there are two types of CCCAH fan. One likes when we spend way too long getting to the point of the review because we’re taking forever with the thirty second game and talking about the weather and then suddenly we’re halfway through the episode and have to start rushing the review … and the other likes when there’s no fuss, no muss - just straight REVIEWING! And then without much time left we get excited and start chatting shit. Well, we just want to say to both camps that we see you and we are holding space for you and we endeavour to please both kinds of fans in equal measure throughout the course of the season. Or let you both down equally. One of the two. We are the world’s most consistent podcast with under one thousand listeners (give or take) and we are proud of that. We thank you for being one of the select few who joins in on all the fun with us. Just don’t jump ship when we’re getting paid by Gary Lineker to do a guest episode every week on Netflix and you think we’ve jumped the shark. See you in the funny pages, off-point fans! Watch the pilot of Inside No. 9 here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03tvm9q/inside-no-9-series-1-1-sardines Pinner players doing Shakespeare In Love! Get your tickets now: https://www.ticketsource.com/pinner-players/shakespeare-in-love/e-kkzzlo Reddit is funny: https://www.reddit.com/r/insideno9/comments/fcfv1d/i_dont_understand_sardines/ Hey, look, a treasure trove! EXTRAS! And they’re free on the internet too, due to the kind hearts of other fans. It is our nature to share really, isn’t it? If I could just share my VHS collection with you all … we could do that instead of a pod? I guess: https://www.tumblr.com/eliebluebell/748557854761467904/tlog-psychoville-and-inside-no9s-fandom This is not Romesh, this is Nish. But that is not my fault or racism, that is just that I am once again obsessed with The Celebrity Traitors! Anyway, watch Mr. Kumar take it to Mr. Gervais, Mr. Acaster style: https://youtu.be/3pIk_lvTSWI?si=hB7KGiUXwGS-Dvkz Check out our e-mail: cccappraisalhour@gmail.com Check out our Twitter: twitter.com/cccappraisalpod Check out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhour Check out our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cccahour Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher started to tell us about his malfunctioning mouse! I had his back the whole time but hey, he loves to let you guys know all the behind the scenes stuff, I guess. SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elZBsxX6SEs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    S07E24 Go on the lam with Tim Key

  4. Oct 8

    S00E28 ALBUMS ONLY CLUB I Barely Know Her by sombr

    I BARELY KNOW HER BY SOMBR: Reviewed! Between episodes 3 and 4 of our ALBUM CLUB SERIES there were 9 regular eps, as well as 1 movie special! This time out, we did an album club barely 2 episodes ago! And we’re already back in business baby. Maybe this *is* a monthly affair, we just also … miss a lot of months sometimes! Depends. However any one feels about this, it is a vibes thing. Out here in podcast land! The answer is blowing in the wind and you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows and all! Now as a special treat for shownotes fans, let me formally elucidate my brief rundown in poet’s corner of my out-of-ten ratings of the central, concrete idea/refrain/title of every song (song titles without caps, as opposed to the album title … I am paying attention!) on I Barely Know Her: crushing: good. Solid. A word doing more than one thing. A crush is a crush but *also* you are crushing my soul now. Rude. How something so nice became something so violent. We are playing with language. Fine. 8, outta the gate! 12 to 12: I guess those are the hours in a day, sure. 5. i wish i knew how to quit you: he wishes he knew how to quit her. Cute. It is hard for me to see “i” not capitalised but it is an emotive chorus refrain that he turns into the title. I will take it. 7. back to friends: does what it says on the tin, again. 6. canal street: ok, this is giving SONG. Place name. And he refers to the place name in the song. Excellent. 7. dime: I will not elaborate further on what I said on the pod. 3. undressed: Lovely. We love the metaphor that can also work literally. 8. come closer: Christopher called it filler, not me! But yeah. A very 5 title. we never dated: Kind of fun. I’m intrigued. For someone who deals with a lot of unrequited love, tell me more about this “never dating” thing. Similar to “i wish i knew how to quit you” like it is fun when you just state things Shane-o! 7. under the mat: Another metaphor that works beautifully as a metaphor and this time not quite as well literally. But still makes sense both ways in a nice, poetic way. 6.5. Averages out to a 6.25 across the album. Which feels more than fair and might reflect the 1.25 worth of Christopher’s enthusiasm we needed to get to our total album score! Listen to the album here: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/i-barely-know-her/1832087626 Even though Spotify doesn’t feature it, Apple music also features what looks like one album before this 1 … cool. Also, his hair looks less curly on this cover! Calling Christopher! Need to discuss hair: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/in-another-life/1704942257 Genius has some great coverage of all the lyrics on the album right here (“parts” or “burns” though people! “Parts” or “burns”?): https://genius.com/albums/Sombr/I-barely-know-her Christopher guessed I would pitch something from 1995 and I actually picked something from 1996 so he was only ONE YEAR OFF! Two album clubs in a row where we each guess a single year off! That’s crazy. Like I’m still winning the guess-the-year gamer or whatever but that stat right there, for consecutive-episode-respective-guesses … THAT MUST BE A RECORD! Early days for album club, I guess every stat is a “record” of sorts. But still. You’ve got to smell the roses! 10 seasons of rose-sniffin', folks. So much infographic-based fan art to celebrate such stunning stats in the years to come I’m sure. Maybe we’ll even sign some of them at our anniversary reunion shows! And for those of you who are really following through with every connective thread: yes, it does seem like Christopher fell victim to another proprietary eponym (google it, don’t chap gpt it!) cos I was not having a Berocca tablet in my drink, it was Waitrose’s Own Essential Vitamins! These are the shownotes this week people. OUR COLLECTIVE CCCAAH/AAACH score: seven and a half out of ten The most important show link: cccappraisalhour.show Spoiler below for next month’s album: Fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nlI1Mjy-uQ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    S00E28 ALBUMS ONLY CLUB I Barely Know Her by sombr

  5. Oct 1

    S07E23 There’s a couple of things, you’ve spoken a lot

    THE REAL ROONEYS EPISODE 1: Reviewed! Welcome to the podcast everybody! We have a doozy for you today! Is that how it’s spelled? Doozy. Doozie. Lumie. Loomie. I don’t know. Everything has a spelling, at the end of the day, which is quite funny. But some words have even MORE of a spelling. Words like “schadenfreude”! Which, believe it or not, we will get into on today’s show. Because it is (pinch, punch, the first of the month and no returns!) Thursday October the 1st 2026 and you know what that means! Its CCCAH day! And its everyone lambast Manchester City day too, apparently so, as the legendary Penny Lane in Almost Famous once said: “it’s all happening”! It really is. Season 7. Episode 23. Lets f*****g go. Lock in. Everyone get your fingers hovering above your “let’s start the show” buttons! Anyway, I can’t believe we’re doing this episode but we are and now that it is in your ears I hope you are as happy with it as I am. The beauty of the show really. Something (potentially, who knows, no spoilers, lol, etc) that I may not have necessarily looked forward to THE MOST EVER becomes a podcast I VERY MUCH LOOKED FORWARD TO and now I am here like yeah ok … much like The Real Rooneys Season 1 Episode 1 … Season 7 Episode 23 of the Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour is … something that exists, I suppose. Yes. Now let’s get pissed! Ok now listen. I’m going to be real with you. Links are my favourite. Resources. New places to look and learn, path ways and connections. From one web page to another just like from one piece of art to another. That is how this show works. The vast and intuitive and soulful map of inspiration. But yeah so, today, um … I’m not really sure what to do about the links? Like … what else is there to say? We have you covered on the podcast itself, really and truly. We get into all of the minutiae (joint runner up with “parlay” as word of the day) of it all, from the guilty charges of Manchester City to the accents of the Rooney clan! I didn’t mention though, one errant observation: at some point Coleen said “believing in meself” and the subtitles showed “believing in myself” - that is scouse erasure! Please sort it out Disney plus! Or, as Rooney suggested, give me my money back! Watch the first episode of The Real Rooneys here: https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/play/5e111cb9-806a-4494-b5b8-9e6e0a2fd011 This is the website for Primark: https://www.primark.com/en-gb I like these pyjama bottoms even though Coleen didn’t design them … but they do have pockets so maybe … Wayne? Noooo … but on the other hand … : https://www.primark.com/en-gb/p/the-simpsons-homer-cuffed-pyjama-bottoms-grey-991183366706 This is the website for Match of the Day (I miss Gary Lineker … maybe I should watch The Rest Is Football more you know): https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b007t9y1/match-of-the-day Coleen’s best looks (okay low key slay for me for finding this): https://www.hellomagazine.com/hfm/500546/coleen-rooney-best-fashion-moments-of-all-time/ And this racing stripe I feel is pretty sharp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG6iG2cQrzI Check out our website: cccappraisalhour.show Check out our e-mail: cccappraisalhour@gmail.com Check out our Twitter: twitter.com/cccappraisalpod Check out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhour Check out our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cccahour Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When we tried to get to the bottom of the doghouse manual. I am honestly none the wiser. Like it FEELS like a cute joke but I just don’t understand … he’s ON his third book of the doghouse manual. Are you writing them? Because, stop then. Or reading them? In which case, also, stop!? Stop buying them! You’re keeping them in business! Surely the first manual was more than enough?? I don’t understand, Wazzzzaaaa!! SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03tvm9q/inside-no-9-series-1-1-sardines Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    S07E23 There’s a couple of things, you’ve spoken a lot

  6. Sep 24

    S07E22 A Cup of Ambition or a Trophy of Ambition?

    9 TO 5: Reviewed! Tomorrow is Dolly Day! That’s right. Friday the 25th of September. And we’re honouring her spirit today by reviewing the movie 9 to 5: https://www.netflix.com/watch/60010717 What a wonderful spirit the star of the movie and singer/writer of the song had. What a life well lived. If only she had known that her posthumous legacy would include AN EP OF THE CCCAH. Jeez. A crowning achievement up there with the Imagination Library and Dollyland! We’re honouring all sorts of stuff today, really. The 80s. The workspace. Big mainstream comedies. Riding the middle hour wave. You know. We do all your favourite pod bits. Long diatribes about what other awards are on offer if you have lost the regular season! And of course … another week without any kind of infographic. We could make an infographic with just that stat. At this point: 194 episodes and no infographics! But hey, let’s figure out what other made-up shit Christopher could play for, eh? How are them off-points looking? And hey, you know what they say? Friendship is a kind of payment. So pay up big boy! And golly, some weeks you pay more than other weeks … stay tuned for what Christopher has pitched for next week’s episode. Payback is personal! I just hope we stay more Wayne and Coleen and this doesn’t become all Coleen and Rebekah, you know what I mean? Watch the good people at the Legacy podcast discuss the legacy of Dolly Parton. Afua says she’ll make an exception in this case for Dolly and thinks she probably won’t say that again: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/its-dolly-partons-world-and-were-living-in-it/id1711362652?i=1000791030249 Watch Dolly's set at Glasto 2014 here. It is kind of essential viewing for any performer of any kind. In the opposite way to how 9 To 5 is a how-to guide for how to be a good boss: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04d8xv8/glastonbury-dolly-parton Watch this fantastic doc about Dolly (featuring her pals Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin!) on iPlayer called Here I Am: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000crhq/dolly-parton-here-i-am The Fonda/Tomlin/Parton triumvirate was not the only trio Dolly was part of. She was also a sister of song, and the other sisters included Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris. A wonderful documentary (also on iPlayer) about how these three titans of music came together and narrated by everybody’s favourite sister of song, K.T Tunstall: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b081sx50/sisters-in-country-dolly-linda-and-emmylou Listen to this NPR tribute to the cultural impact of the song 9 to 5: https://www.npr.org/2026/08/25/nx-s1-5944399/a-look-back-at-9-to-5-dolly-partons-working-womens-anthem An NPR podcast called Planet Money also covered the super interesting story of the making of the film and it is a lovely little listen. If only I found money more interesting, I might be all over this podcast: https://www.npr.org/2026/08/30/nx-s1-5948176/dolly-partons-9-to-5-the-true-story-behind-the-anthem-bonus Shout out to love and shout out to the love that introduced me to this song and shout out to what love is like: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/love-is-like-a-butterfly/826763176 Check out our socials: cccappraisalhour.show & cccappraisalhour@gmail.com & twitter.com/cccappraisalpod & https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhour & https://www.instagram.com/cccahour Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: HE CAN’T RECORD THE PODCAST ANYMORE, HE’S GOT A TIE IN HIS MOUTH! Also, when Christopher wasn’t sure what I was on about with the 30 second game so he asked for me to clarify it and that was fair. You know like when you are just here and you are just trying to galvanise the girls in the office. Oh and after 7 seasons strong (ten seasons and we out!) we have the ingredients for winning a season: bants-focus equals regular-season trophy wins. I’m sure Sir Alex and Mou said the same. SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM-mr3cTNRg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    S07E22 A Cup of Ambition or a Trophy of Ambition?

  7. Sep 17

    S00E27 ALBUMS ONLY CLUB Hounds of Love by Kate Bush

    HOUNDS OF LOVE BY KATE BUSH: Reviewed! If only could … make a deal with POD! I’d get him to swap our places. Cos then you’d have Christopher on the thumbnails and shownotes and Jeffrey on the production end! Hahahaha! Trust me, Christopher could whip up a pic and some words but Jeffrey might struggle with conjuring the pristine audio experience Christopher likes to cook up in the kitchen for all of y’all week in and week out, even when some of the ingredients he gets are not ideal … this week’s recording notwithstanding! Wink wink nudge nudge. But back to what we’re doing today. ALBUM CLUB IS BACK BABY! And we have arrived at our Kate Bush season. Kate Bush is announcing the end of Summer. Kate Bush is announcing the beginning of Autumn. Kate Bush is announcing … the beginning of our Kate Bush era!! Well, at least for one of us … ! We may not always collectively adore and connect with every album we study on album club (because truly, whether we accumulate 8 listens or 20+ plus, we are out here in our real lives studying! While we tidy the house or go for runs, but still!!) but we will always try to learn something from what we listen to. Which is kind of the journey we’re on with this podcast generally. Learning and growing in good company. The dream! And hey, sometimes we can get stuck in a rut and sometimes we’ll enjoy a massive eye and mind-opening moment. Such is life. But with music in particular, we just love the album form. We grew up with it and refuse to let it die. And so to whoever’s album we are listening to, we guarantee we will give it ample time and the special kind of precious attention that musicians can (hopefully!) still muster in our attention-starved and algorithmically ruled world.    Now Kate is famously a world class yearner and today so are we folks. We yearn for a beautiful spin-off show that we release monthly … no … quarterly/seasonally … no biannually … basis! With like the BEST audio too. That will clearly be in the Patreon era. Imagine just handing that over for free lol. For now, in the low stakes back-end of Season 7 … let’s just stick to album clubs being an EVERY NOW AND AGAIN affair. Listen to the album here: https://www.katebush.com/hounds-of-love/ Read the Hounds of Love portion of Rough Trade’s Kate Bush album rankings: https://blog.roughtrade.com/ranked-kate-bush-greatest-albums/ Buy and then read Dr. Leah Kardos’ beautiful 33 ⅓ book on Hounds of Love: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/kate-bushs-hounds-of-love-9798765107010/ Listen to Leah Kardos talk about her book on the Kate Bush fan podcast (God I love fan podcasts! Sometimes the idea of them rather than the pods themselves … but this one is a good one!): https://open.spotify.com/episode/18tnNuE9vDZNsYrbvERnXg?si=40f91f7926a04a70 Watch the definitive (for now!) 2012 BBC documentary on Kate Bush: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4sLwt8mhZs The Bandsplain episode on Kate Bush was my guiding light as I gingerly made my first steps into such hallowed ground as this fandom; I loved every minute spent in the company of Yasi Salek and Ann Powers: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6SRyjaLZMrzFwH6ibPVumA Oasis are back! Christopher brought it up. I don’t know why lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ztxXwX788Y   I guessed Christopher would pitch something from 2025 and he actually picked something from 2026 so I am only ONE YEAR OFF! Whatever weird new version of an Album Club specific off-points game I’m getting going here I simply must be winning haha!  OUR COLLECTIVE CCCAAH/AAACH score: eight and a half out of ten  Check out our website: cccappraisalhour.show Check out our e-mail: cccappraisalhour@gmail.com Check out our Twitter: twitter.com/cccappraisalpod Check out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhour Check out our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cccahour Spoiler below for next month’s album: Fun https://www.reddit.com/r/travisandtaylor/comments/1syfg0f/this_quote_really_irks_me_why_is_waiting_for_men/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    S00E27 ALBUMS ONLY CLUB Hounds of Love by Kate Bush

  8. Sep 10

    S07E21 A huge cultural event that our show properly just shrugged its shoulders at

    THE THICK OF IT PILOT: Reviewed!  Another hour full of all sorts of shit. Two guys saying things to each other and/or at each other. Folding iPhones and all sorts. Siri tries to butt in, as she often does. The cold open gets sweary. Very a guy just watched the pilot of The Thick Of It and Malcolm Tucker is his new spirit animal. We both give main character energy on this episode because we’re both very excited about the 21 year old pilot of The Thick Of It. Politics has outpaced satire by the year 2026 and AI is days away from killing us all (see the tweet of the week for more) but hey, until then let us reminisce about the halcyon days of the 2000s when an announcement about how there is no announcement could theoretically be your downfall as a public figure. Not nearly as many sidebars or side quests to speak of on today’s episode so I guess we’re sneaking them all into the shownotes hehe.  We might sometimes argue and annoy each other but hey, we don’t chat shit about each other nearly as much as the characters on The Thick Of It do! And at least we’re here for you and each other each and every week. With our very different personalities. We’re very differently flavoured douchebags but yes douchebags nonetheless. *Your* douchebags.   But yes. As S07 winds down (and, potentially, the competitive stakes!) we are back in our bog standard era. No more footie, movies or the 80s! Pilot season. Pilots forever. Pilots always. We low key can’t wait to bail on this podcast and finally definitively end it all and break up the podcast … just so we can do another pilot of something else and start this whole shit back up again! Lets gooo! Now speaking of lets go and lets start the show and how we did it and we’re here … are you in or not? Let's get into the thick of it! Stay in the loop!  Watch the pilot of The The Thick Of It for goodness sake, you weirdly endearing listeners of ours: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074rc0/the-thick-of-it-series-1-episode-1 Watch ArmandoIanucci (one word) describe the process behind the making of an episode of The Thick Of It, its a rip of a feature from the DVDs and is so cool! Although after describing the difference between the improvised scene and the more by-the-book scene, the scenes shown back to back do not seem super different lol. But still: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNXPdMzCohI Check out the script samples mentioned by Ianucci that one of said DVD discs would have (once upon a time) easily allowed you to download in PDF form: https://archive.org/details/shooting_202305 Watch the Youtuber Loomer discuss why this great show was ended by stupid modern politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkBacy0hhTY Here is a programme Armando Ianucci and Stewart Lee did together since Lee came up but I haven’t been brave enough to pitch him. Strong Message Here is a guide to the use and abuse of political language. How fitting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHuty-Umlec A Malcolm Tucker compendium, for those in the know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjKHPv7b3fQ Tweet of the week: https://x.com/hilbertspaess/status/2097476196791709843 Lol boring: https://www.youtube.com/live/39BalPDuTo0 Check out our website: cccappraisalhour.show Check out our e-mail: cccappraisalhour@gmail.com Check out our Twitter: twitter.com/cccappraisalpod Check out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhour Check out our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cccahour Special FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher claimed that The Thick Of It was very Veep-ish but the record was quickly corrected that Veep is in fact very Thick Of It-ish! We hope you heard the correction @JVD_Games. Order we watched it in be damned, order it was created in for chronological tracking of influence and inspiration all the way!  Maybe one day all the Bones & chilling w/partners (whether in the 2000s, 2010s or 2020s) will make it to the pod, we'll see: https://www.netflix.com/watch/70154029 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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