S07E14 Goop

S07E14 Goop

DEAR ENGLAND EPISODE 1: Reviewed!  We need a period of calm. It’s Thursday the 16th of July. You know what that means. That means England. Dear, sweet England of ours ... either world cup finalists once again. Or they’re absolute trash traitors who should be ashamed of themselves!!! Lol joking! But yes, we are recording in limbo. Betwixt and between world cup semi finals and finals. Once more unto the breach my dear friends type shit. Potentially the last ever episode (full stop!?) of the CCCAH covering the beautiful game! Well for the haters out there, I’m sure you’re delighted. But for those of you who have enjoyed this mini-run of tangentially football-related eps (which we could put into a little specialised playlist … a mini-series, if you will!) we hope you enjoy this one and give the show a chance and all. Let’s all band together for 1 last team talk, eh lads and lasses? Lions and lionesses. Let’s walk up to the penalty spot (everything is penalties, lowest of keys) and when we get there to press play on this episode let’s turn around and remember … whether this episode sucks … or is great … we’re all doing this together. That’s right. You’re hearing me correctly. This podcast is THE FAULT OF ALL OF US! Goddamn. Ok maybe that was no Christopher-in-the-thirty-second-game-in-the-eight-minute-cold-open-that-actually-had-stoppage-time but still … I think I Southgated the shit out of that.  Watch episode 1 of Dear England here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002qkv1/dear-england-series-1-episode-1 Watch Gareth Southgate’s new documentary “Changing The Game for Young Men” which is probably better and more important than all the fictionalising plays and shows around the England run he stewarded, as great as those runs were: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002xk5y/gareth-southgate-changing-the-game-for-young-men Read this Guardian review of the show (Christopher did!) here: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/24/dear-england-review-joseph-fienness-gareth-southgate-is-a-total-caricature-on-tv Read this Guardian review of the play (Jeffrey did!) here: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/jun/20/dear-england-review-touching-funny-retelling-of-gareth-southgates-quiet-revolution AI Will Smith eating spaghetti! I am quite upset with my co-host for bringing this to my attention. I can be chronically online but had somehow, mercifully, missed this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbWe5k4fFWE Dele Alli speaking to Gary Neville. We might have already linked to this when we reviewed The Overlap back in the day but today it came up rather organically so we’re linking to it again. Ok? Because mental health is important. Deal with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyDL9EUIdy0 This is the trailer for the film about Roy Keane having a barney with his coach. There should be a whole series of these. A film where Roy Keane argues with Alex Ferguson. A film where Roy Keane argues with his bestie Ian Wright. A film where Roy Keane argues with the milkman. Come on Irish cinema, get your head in the game man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtau1ro7unE 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 refused to reveal his pitch for next week. The post-world-cup-final episode. My guy just refused and refused. No easter eggs, (he hasn’t last done that since season 1, according to him!? Need a website specifically to refute that shit) no hints, no nothing. And then we he did reveal it at the end … before the swerve … he got your boy SCURRREEDDD out here in the southernmost regions of Harrow. Might not recover from it tbh. But well played, I guess.  SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK: https://ok.ru/video/14498393688692 ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

S07E13 Good diagrams on whiteboards

BLACKBERRY: Reviewed!  Welcome to the show of shows! It’s Thursday the 9th of July so of course we’ll be live-reacting to the Egypt vs Argentina game from Tuesday the 7th of July and discussing a bit of England vs Mexico from Sunday the 5th of July! When you really deep it, we as a podcast are all things to all people. A football recap ramble, a half-hearted improvisatory game show, an excuse for two friends to catch up, and most importantly your one-stop shop to find out what is culturally relevant in our culturally fragmented wasteland that is the world we live in online and irl in 2026 … from two absolute hipster! Whether that’s a new album or a movie from 70 years ago!  And as they say in this very film we review today “men will no longer commute, they will communicate!” You’re darn tootin’! We don’t even commute to do the pod or maintain the friendship, at this point. It’s all just communication. It’s all just like those humans sat in their do-it-all-entertainment-set-up chairs at the end of Wall-E!  This week we are reviewing BlackBerry, a film directed by Matt Johnson in the year of our lord 2023. We have come such a long way since the year of the start-up-series 2022 (WeCrashed and Super Pumped) but now it is time to really talk about BlackBerry. Like, the time has come. The origin of the smartphone. The Canadian claim to fame! This is a special ep really, when you think about it, the CCCCAH! The quadruple C! The Canadian Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour! We are also officially a Matt Johnson podcast now, so that’s good.  Watch the movie on DailyMotion because you are cool like that: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9z6yq4 Watch this really focused Matt Johnson (the Jim Balsillie version of Matt Johnson) interview with QTV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okb33-IJh50 Watch this really fun Matt Johnson (the Doug Fregin version of Matt Johnson) interview with Stavros Halkias: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S8jbyExVPY Watch this really informative Matt Johnson (the Mike Lazaridis version of Matt Johnson) interview with Joel Talks About Movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoZOa9xjM1g&t=14s The Guardian review of BlackBerry: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/08/blackberry-review-smartphone-buy-opic-is-a-wild-ride Mark Kermode’s review of BlackBerry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lT0firll4 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 brought up how Penélope Cruz hasn’t aged a day. Hey man. No arguments here.  SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002qkv1/dear-england-series-1-episode-1 ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

S00E23 ALBUMS ONLY CLUB Plan 75 By The Orchestra (For Now)

PLAN 75 BY THE ORCHESTRA (FOR NOW): Reviewed!  We swing back from our regularly scheduled programme to as special a special as we’ve done for a while. Why so special? Oh I don’t know. Let’s just say, this one will live long in the memory in terms of its placement on the calendar. Between the 25th of June and the 2nd of July, the podcast has been enjoying the summer. And we shall leave it at that.   It’s Thursday and you know what that means. But there is also a very specific and intricate mathematical formula for you to know that it means it’s a special episode rather than a regular one. Because so far it’s more often than quarterly and less often than monthly, and so it almost might seem like these pop up in your feed at random! But no. Trust us. There is both a rhyme and a reason to it. And the best bit is it’s not determined by an algorithm of any kind. It’s pure, unadulterated, intuitive and organic … vibes.  This week the podcast is reviewing the first EP by a new band called The Orchestra (For Now). Albums Only Club (we see you Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and we’re coming for your acronym!) is back for it’s third edition. Strap in music lovers because sometimes … you even get a break from the yapping and get to just listen to the music! Or … even during those moments, one of us is singing along to the music and making an ass of themselves. Something.  This is the original article from the CCCAH-approved publication DIY magazine (a magazine that, if you subscribed to it, would basically be providing you with clues and/or spoilers as to Christopher’s Albums Only Club pitches hehe) that got Christopher interested in the band: https://diymag.com/interview/the-orchestra-for-now-plan-76-november-2025 And this is the band’s first interview with DIY: https://diymag.com/interview/get-to-know-the-orchestra-for-now Hope of The States were referenced on this episode, so you might as well check out our Hope of The States special! Christopher found The Orchestra (For Now) to be a mix of them and Two Gallants: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s04e19-hey-hey-hey/id1663210349?i=1000680099449   Two Gallants! Where are you!? I miss you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AWCRkcCKm8 Watch the YouTuber Knightscast Reactions listen to the EP in real time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZfiSJPXeIA&t=1s Listen to Plan 75 on streaming here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3Tgh3kQIVqmsRTWW2QDe48?si=1tvRB6UXQqG5ksWtxVW-bQ OUR COLLECTIVE CCCAAH/AAACH score: seven 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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Mayfield_(Stranger_Things) ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

S07E12 It’s a balancing act between surviving and being nice

POWER PLAYS EPISODES 4 AND 5 BY KARIM ZIDAN AND ELIE BLEIER: Reviewed!  Week 2 of the world cup! And we’ve got another heat wave to endure. But nothing hotter than a fresh episode of the Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour! We end (perhaps?) our two-week long series on FOOTBALL (hahahahah sorry) by taking the ball up the pitch and … metaphor metaphor, something something, last week we did the Nike ads and this week we’re doing two episodes from a five-episode podcast series, what more do you want from me!? All the magical metaphors as per? Lads. Lasses. There is a heatwave on, okay? It’s not a joke. It’s funny but it’s not a joke. Christopher, you were sick of the weather as an object of smalltalk? Well here you go mate, it’s not small anymore, it’s the number 1 item on the NEWS! But hey, the morning newspapers are old by the time you’re commuting home from work. Could never be us. We mix the contemporary (how did that not fit into the title!?) with the timeless, the rough with the smooth, the maximalist with the minimalist, the … Christopher with the Jeffrey, you could say. And so this week a serious discussion had to be had, truth be told. Can you ever separate the art from the artist? Well if it’s as tricky as it is to separate the Christopher from the Jeffrey then good luck with that!  Episode 4 of Power Plays is entitled “The Story of Qatar's World Cup Whistleblower”: https://www.sportspolitika.news/p/qatar-world-cup-abdullah-ibhais-sports-politics-football-migrants Episode 5 of Power Plays is entitled “The Power of Football”: https://www.sportspolitika.news/p/fifa-world-cup-sports-politics-power-saudi-morocco-trump-infantino Here is Maher Mezahi talking to Tim Vickery and Dotun Adebayo of the Brazilian Shirt Name Podcast (formerly the world football phone in on the BBC) about Egypt’s playing identity. Check out the rest of their content asap, it’s informative, insightful and delightful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehh3nUwHwJg The Guardian Football Weekly podcast’s special episode on gambling (which radicalised my young and impressionable mind): https://www.theguardian.com/football/audio/2021/jul/22/from-the-archive-footballs-relationship-with-gambling-football-weekly-extra A Guardian article on the Conifa Cup, the alternative world cup: https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2018/jun/09/the-alternative-world-cup On the Men In Blazers podcast, Scott Galloway showed up to discuss “How The World Cup Does What the UN Can't”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrJAWPeWUyI I discovered the work of Karim Zidan in the realm of MMA. Here is an interview with him and Morning Kombat’s Luke Thomas discussing that sport, its relationship with Saudi Arabia and the problems therein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v4xAAsxw3c 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 I finally got to quote Hasan Piker on the pod for the first time. Allow me to do so again here, in full: “There’s always a healthy flow of migrant workers that will come to the US that will work for pennies on the fucking dollar to make ends meat to work in slave-like conditions because they’re desperate. Why are they desperate? Because we’ve destroyed their countries. We’ve manipulated their finances, destroyed their economy, extracted their natural resources. We’ve kept them down and underdeveloped by design to create this chaos and then they’re desperate enough to come here and we don’t allow them to get the proper paperwork so our capital owners can justify paying them nothing” SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9z6yq4 ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

S07E11 If Louise and Jamie Redknapp get divorced in a forest and no one is there to see it or hear it . .

RIP THE SCRIPT | NIKE FOOTBALL: Reviewed! As Karl Marx said: “podcasts are the opium of the masses”! So I hope you’re ready for your fix today, ladies and germs! Welcome to yet another episode of the Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour and that’s right, your boys are finally world cup boys once more! It’s been a long time coming. Our podcast kind of started after one of those pesky old world cup tournaments. And then we lived through a Euros, shout out. One game even got reviewed on the podcast because of course it did.  And now here we are. On the precipice of all the glory and/or tragedy. Which do you prefer listener? I think one doesn’t taste quite the same without the other, to be honest with you. But hey. What do I know? I’m just a guy. A guy who will never and has never used AI to write these shownotes. What the fuck do you take me for? I will bash these show notes out with a chisel until the day of our final episode. I’ll tell you when I’ll give up my battle against AI. When it’s AI England vs AI Croatia in the group stages. Until then, you and your mate Claude and GPT and Perplexity can all fuck off and let me live! Humanity will survive you! And the beautiful game will survive the awful politics! Separate the art and the artist! Wait this might be more material linked to next week’s episode, hold that thought! Hehehe …  So anyway. Today’s episode. Rather than a 6 minute reaction video reacting to a 6 minute ad (classic YouTube), we have an HOUR AND SIX MINUTE AUDIO PODCAST reacting to a 6 minute ad (classic CCCAH!)  And on today’s episode, if you want to have it explained why old videos look really bad in new videos and why that doesn’t necessarily mean they looked that bad originally … then look no further, this will be the podcast for you. If you want to know what the notable reaction to Harry Maguire not being included in the squad was, then this is the podcast for you. If you want to know if Bruno and Roy Keane made up … well, this isn’t the podcast for you and neither is The Overlap! Lol.  Also we should have been more confident when we were um RECALLING the previous night’s England game score haha. We’ll take it!  Watch the 2026 World Cup Nike Ad entitled Rip The Script here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyZ1WIua_1s Watch the compilation video entitled “FIFA World Cup - Evolution (1998-2022)” uploaded by YouTube user Gunspell_football here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEXGnYDkVQk&t=343s Keep track of all the names in the ad via Yahoo Sports: https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/inside-nikes-world-cup-commercial-heres-every-celebrity-cameo-in-viral-ad-with-kim-kardashian-more-171409534.html Read this Athletic article covering the Nike ad by Eduardo Tansley: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7335278/2026/06/05/nike-2026-world-cup-advert/ Read this article about Nike’s biggest soccer push in years here: https://boardroom.tv/helena-thornton-nike-making-rip-the-script-world-cup-commercial/ We will include no links that clear up the Jamie/Louise situation but here is a very important clarification re: Phil Neville and coffee: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/row-zed/phil-neville-made-first-cup-4912739 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 I was struggling for the name of the lower part of the ship and Christopher suggested “hull”. Thank you Christopher. I don’t know what I’d do without you.   SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/power-plays/id1896697557 ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.