Perception Issues

Ian Cook

Annabel & Ian have Perception Issues, like everyone else. Here they try to make sense of this media/content/nonsense laden world.

  1. Aug 11

    Shit Name, Decent Show

    The post-Pitt emotional hangover is real. Plus: a Bill Lawrence TV quiz, the case for and against letting kids watch Alien, a brush turkey nesting mound on the Greenway, and why everything in the eighties is a lot more hardcore. Mentioned in this episode: John Maus — live music attended that eveningSydney FC — Clara featured on their InstagramMuttley — Wacky RacesThe Pitt season 2Rooster Scrubs Shrinking Ted Lasso Spin City Rush Hour Cougar Town Bad Monkey Bosch — long-avoided showPerry Mason — Apple TV remake, avoidedMatthew Rhys — The Americans, couldn't remember his nameJack Rooke / Big Boys — three series, highly recommendedBait — Riz Ahmed, Patrick Stewart voice episode discussedThe Jim Henson Storyteller — 1987-1989, John HurtAlienAliensPredator: Badlands — watched on a plane, enjoyedPrey — previous Predator film, also recommendedAn American Werewolf in London — childhood viewingRobocop — childhood viewingThe Goonies — rewatched recentlyIndiana Jones — mentioned as problematicPercy Jackson — kids won't watch itJunior Vets — kids' current viewingOperation Ouch — kids' current viewingPet Stars — kids' current viewingGiants of the Deep Blue — Nat Geo orca documentarySupersized Sharks — referenced againGreeking Out — podcast the kids are listening toJason and the Argonauts — classic film, attempted with the kidsNeighbours — childhood TVNewsround — childhood TVBlue Peter — Tracy Island mentionedHome and Away — childhood TVMr. Freeze — childhood ice lollyThe Barbarians (not Twin Barbarians) — childhood VHS memory

    Shit Name, Decent Show

  2. Jun 25

    Can't Control the Birds in the Sky

    A crash course in Pierre Bourdieu, two very different time travel films, and the ER theme tune composed in fifteen minutes. Plus: The Magic Faraway Tree holds up, a record player in an Airbnb reminds everyone why physical media matters, and Emile Mosseri deserves your full attention. Mentioned in this episode: Maisonrickie / Rickie Ho — Instagram/YouTube creator Pierre Bourdieu — Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste Nara Smith — Instagram/TikTok creator Derek Guy — menswear writer on Twitter/X Philosophize This — podcast Ortega y Gasset — philosopher Folding Ideas — YouTube channel, flat earthers/QAnon video and cryptocurrency video Battleship Potemkin (1925, Eisenstein) Grease — Film musical Calamity Jane — Film musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers — Film musical Nirvana the Band the Show the Movie — highly recommended Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice — (not recommended Andrew W.K. — She Is Beautiful The Pit — TV show, season 2 ER — theme tune, composed by James Newton Howard Kajillionaire (2020, Miranda July) — Emile Mosseri score Emile Mosseri — composer Last Black Man in San Francisco — Emile Mosseri score Minari — Emile Mosseri score Glenn Powell - capybara man Practical Magic 2 — trailer Magic Faraway Tree - Film Paddington the Musical — Original Cast Recording The Female Quotient — social media account Supersized Sharks — Nat Geo Kids, full episode on YouTube

    Can't Control the Birds in the Sky

  3. Jun 24

    Better the Devil You Know

    Churchill's off the banknote, the British public are outraged in Benidorm, and nobody can remember what he actually did in the war. Plus: Pub Choir is stressful in the best possible way, Riz Ahmed might be James Bond, and a Manchester band named after a song by a band called Women. Mentioned in this episode: eBird — bird listing appiNaturalist — nature identification appNo Doubt — reunion showsHop (2011 film) — Easter movie with James MarsdenHoppers — Not at all about EasterThe Magic Faraway Tree — 2026 filmBait — TV show, created by and starring Riz Ahmed and Guz KhanParadise — TV show, Hulu/Disney+, season twoTitus Andronicus — Shakespeare playUpstart Crow — TV showHamnet — film The Good Weekend QuizInternational Banknote Society — websiteBermuda $5 note — banknote of the yearBank of England — re: wildlife banknote announcementBrits in Benidorm aren't happy Churchill's being taken off banknotesPub Choir — Astrid JorgensenBetter the Devil You Know — Kylie Minogue - Pub Choir CoverWestside Cowboys — link to BandcampShaking Hand — Manchester band, Bandcamp, track Mantras specificallyWomen — the band Shaking Hand take influence fromVictory Land — New York bandGeese

    Better the Devil You Know

  4. Apr 30

    Listers

    A documentary about competitive bird watching turns out to be one of the best things on YouTube. Plus: the Criterion Channel recommends feel-good films, a small Iranian boy tries to return a notebook, fiction gets a bad reputation, and nobody can remember the plot of Slaughterhouse-Five. Mentioned in this episode: Listers — documentary, free on YouTubeeBird appMerlin appThe Criterion ChannelTampopo (1985, Juzo Itami) Where is the Friend's House? (1987, Abbas Kiarostami)The Rest is EntertainmentWolf Hall — Hilary Mantel,Dark Matter — Blake CrouchSlaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut, novel and graphic novelThe Maniac — Benjamin LabatutWhen We Cease to Understand the World — Benjamin LabatutExhalations — Ted ChiangStories of Your Life and Others — Ted ChiangVictory Land — the New York band recommended Image used in episode art by Bettina Arrigoni, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

    Listers

  5. Apr 8

    Lunchbox Anxiety

    The tyranny of the sandwich, a brief history of Marmite, and the nineteen twenties rebrand that absolutely nobody asked for. Plus: Vegemite gets a verdict, Kim Gordon gets a recommendation, and crumpets get completely forgotten the moment someone walks through their front door 🫠 In this episode: ⁠Lunchbox Envy podcast⁠OH!Bento exhibition⁠Lunchables (now Lunchers!)MarmiteVegemiteGentleman's RelishKim Gordon — PLAY MELondon Belongs to Me — Norman Collins

    Lunchbox Anxiety

  6. Mar 27

    Hello again

    We're back? After a short, five-year hiatus, Perception Issues returns with a brief reintroduction — covering crochet axolotls, the surprisingly brilliant green screen tech Disney invented in the sixties and then lost, and the eternal struggle of spelling onomatopoeia. Mentioned in this episode: Corridor Crew look at Disney's Prism Sodium Vapor Process

    Hello again

  7. 05/13/2020

    #13 - Walking and Talking during lockdown

    Annabel and Ian return in these trying times with a new mobile format. Sort of. With COVID19 doing its thing around the world, A+I use their bi-weekly stroll for coffee (exercise) to talk about the pandemic, comfort in Youtube coffee and Scifi, and potentially filling a Succession-sized hole.

    #13 - Walking and Talking during lockdown

  8. 08/21/2019

    #12 - Nostalgia

    Is Nostalgia good or bad? Has it become too powerful? Why are we obsessed with what was? When is a remake a worthy remake? Annabel mostly asks questions that neither Ian nor Annabel can answer. One thing we can agree on, Nostalgia has some serious Perception Issues. Show Notes: That Brighton man who doesn't wear modern clothing: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-sussex-48757020/the-brighton-tailor-whose-identity-became-his-business Bladerunner 2049 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCcx85zbxz4

    #12 - Nostalgia
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Annabel & Ian have Perception Issues, like everyone else. Here they try to make sense of this media/content/nonsense laden world.

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  • Creator
    Ian Cook
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2026
  • Episodes
    18
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Ian Cook
  • Show Website
    Perception Issues