The Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour

FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF: Reviewed! We never have a week off at CCCAHHQ, let alone a day off! We’re out here grinding! Week in and week out. No long winded excuses and elaborate ruses needed! Just every Thursday … here for you. Audio. Pretty good. Thumbnail. Low budget. Show title. Lol. And show notes. Long. Except for that one time I forgot to do shownotes (or was it two times … three?) and Christopher texted me a sad face emoji in the morning and I was all like “sorry I was asleep” or something. Not the most well-thought out plan there. I guess … life just came at me pretty fast!You know, I think I’m gonna recommend saying this famous line from F B’s D O to the camera of your life as often as possible. In a motivational-coach manifesting mantra kind of way. Interior monologues are great but let’s all try this together shall we, something we (especially one of us!) loves doing on the programme and advocating for generally: yapping and yapping! We’re a bunch of dapper yappers here ladies and gentleme. So let’s do it … three, two, one *turns to the camera and/or microphone*: “The CCCAH moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and listen once in a while, you could miss it." Now whether you are popping your Ferris cherry with Christopher or a Day Off veteran like Jeffrey, we have to remind you of something that has almost become a guaranteed given on every episode of the podcast … this is not a safe space for spoilers! We mainly do nothing but spoil, actually, come to think of it. We’re the SPOILER PODCAST!!! We hope this can align with and compliment your media consumption diet regardless. We are happy to be another set piece in your life, if you choose to stick with us today. And whether you’re at work or skiving, we hope you are enjoying lip syncing along with your favourite podcast theme song! Watch Ferris Bueller’s Day Off here on ITV: https://www.itv.com/watch/ferris-buellers-day-off/2a5088/2a5088a0001Roger Ebert wrote a review of this film. He is becoming a shownotes regular! I’m so happy the nature of our pitches has led to this … I bet it won’t last! Hah: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/ferris-buellers-day-off-1986We are back on our extra curriculars this week too. There is a lot of optional homework and video essays, just like Jeffrey likes and Christopher feels low key ambivalent about! Let’s start with Jack Lawrence’s video “How To Live Without Regrets”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EchbDd_ijX8Next up is Schloetz’s video “Don’t Miss Out On Your Own Life”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeac9bnLTRUThen we have to get to the Cam of it all, the Cam man can, hey batter batter swing batter batter man … Cinemastix (who Christopher rates) made a video called “The moment you realize the main character is not actually the main character”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaMimdNNnAwWe also have John Hughes’ one and only audio commentary for this film. I would pay good money to watch Christopher live-react to listening to/watching this hehe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtbNhDI4j6MWe also have a video compilation of some extra features from DVD releases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao-cVG6ZsAoAnd finally we have a Josh Gad hosted video in which the cast was reunited during Covid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOaa3Znh75wCheck out our website: cccappraisalhour.showCheck out our e-mail: cccappraisalhour@gmail.comCheck out our Twitter: twitter.com/cccappraisalpodCheck out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhourCheck out our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cccahourSpecial FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher revealed the last straw for his partner … cracked me up! SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81939823

(500) Days of Summer: reviewed!*Richard McGonagle Voiceover voice* The boys had been enjoying doing their podcast for a couple of years by the time it got to episode 17 of Season 7 … it was a close call who would win. And as they say, it’s not a competition … but then again … *zoom in to see a bead of sweat running down Christopher’s face* … everything is!IT’S MOVIE SEASON BABY! None of these are SPECIALS and yet … every episode is SPECIAL in its own way, wouldn’t you say? We hope you enjoy 2 old men doing the WAIT, THIS ACTOR WAS IN WHAT FILM game for most of today’s opening. We’ll save you the trouble of screaming … yes, we were talking about the actor Dominic Sessa. And no, we didn’t name him lol. And thankfully, we don’t like all the same bizarro shit … or else this wouldn’t be that fun a pod, now would it?I would like to declare today’s episode a not-very-safe-space for spoilers. If you would like to experience this movie free of our RAMBLING TAKES clogging up your brainwaves: it is worth an initial spoiler-free watch before rejoining the chat/giving this ep a listen. Here in the furnace of CCCAH coded fun-and-matey-banter, we hone our opinions as per. It’s like an opinion workshop sometimes, this podcast. We get into it. All of it. We hope you enjoy our tangents and manage to follow the two streams of consciousness at work. And don’t forget, for those of you considering following your dreams … what if your dream was running a greeting-card company like Vance (played by Clark Gregg). Or producing a little podcast? Don’t tell anyone you’re dreaming too big but also … don’t let anyone tell you you’re dreaming too small! Find a dream that works for you. Might be nice to dream a dream you can make come true! Keep dreaming and keep scheming! 500 days of Tom was more than enough for me but I fear 1,309 of the CCCAH might be enough for you guys too! *looks straight at the camera*  Watch 500 Days of Summer here: https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/play/00d02322-3b21-4663-ae22-c2c4a2db3f9fWatch the trailer for Tony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1MVnzd2aVcWatch the trailer for The Debut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clyzHmBx43EWatch In Defense of Tom - Video Essay - Celebrating 13 Years of (500) Days of Summer by wolf visuals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHxYKCxfOHMWatch The Problem with (500) Days of Summer by Ariana Alexis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZV12hRG848Watch 3 Interpretations of Summer by Jesse Tribble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blsTV2Wv0s8For the sake of balance, read Roger Ebert’s super favourable review here. He hated Dirty Dancing and loved this … and yet he’s still my goat!? Wtf is that about: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/500-days-of-summer-2009And here is a sweetly written reappraisal of the film written this year Arsheen Kaur Sahni for BuzzFeed (which also reminded me of the moment in the expectations vs reality party scene where the ring IS revealed, unlike the wedding scene ... I am almost sure!): https://www.buzzfeed.com/arsheenkaur44/500-days-of-summer-rewatch-reviewCredit to this Reddit thread and user @aptrapani for the comment I quoted: https://www.reddit.com/r/Moviesinthemaking/comments/1riugnb/joseph_gordonlevitt_zooey_deschanel_and_director/Check out our website: cccappraisalhour.showCheck out our e-mail: cccappraisalhour@gmail.comCheck out our Twitter: twitter.com/cccappraisalpodCheck out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhourCheck out our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cccahourSpecial FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When Christopher started complaining about the song over the end-credits and then my impression of it sparked joy in him. Probably the only time the band Mumm-Ra has sparked joy for anyone in years! Ok lol that was harsh and unnecessary but forgive me, was just trying to make Christopher laugh again! SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK: https://www.itv.com/watch/ferris-buellers-day-off/2a5088/2a5088a0001

LEGALLY BLONDE: Reviewed! Come one, come all! It’s time for the Cultural Content Consumption Appraisal Hour and our Legally Blonde era. We are finally about to be on fleek and slay and do all the things. And now, why do we have to go all the way back to our youths and 2001 to do these very 2020s things? Well, because …Legally Blonde is a core text. And we’re all about the core texts here on the CCCAH. It’s our all pink episode where we say goodbye to a long first half of the summer filled with sport and say hello to a long second half of the summer filled with fashion. We have a lot to learn there. Or at least one of us does. Keep your eyes peeled on the thumbnails for evidence of any growth in that area hehehe. We are an educational programme, really. We are here to educate you and educate ourselves. We are here to get excited by the premise for a 30 second game and then get so carried away that we forget to mention how the scores work (I feel like that tidbit of information can be quite crucial for a new listener, to be quite honest with you). We are here for sidebars that last longer than the reviews, cold open that are creeping towards a sixth of the length of a full episode and SHAPELY score-guesses and score-actuals!  At the end of the day, it’s Thursday and you know what that means. It’s a perfect day. Nothing standing in my way. On this perfect day, where nothing can go wrong. It's the perfect day. Tomorrow's gonna come too soon. I could stay forever as I am.Watch Legally Blonde on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Legally-Blonde-Robert-Luketic/dp/B0GWRN8G9ZRoger Ebert is back in the shownotes baby, fuck yeah! Now you know we here at Pod HQ are really living! Here is his review of this film from 2001: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/legally-blonde-2001Watch the World Cup half time show here if you want to jump into some last dregs of world cup discourse with us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7hIiaXBpcoThe Overlap boys talking about the world cup final and the half time show (variations on Rooney’s “it was crap” and Bahlo’s “I’m not having it”): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc64oGQYAmcA specific short from the Overlap king Keane: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QCmpGWZr7W8Watch all 8 episodes of Elle here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GXC79Q1YRead a BBC review of Elle here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yzj5m22lroWatch the YouTube channel ModernGurlz cover Legally Blonde from a style perspective, from five years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TfthSci54cWatch the YouTube channel ModernGurlz cover the new series from the Legally Blonde universe, Elle, from two weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_erH42mVIcRead some Urban Dictionary here: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=majoritivelyCheck out our website: cccappraisalhour.showCheck out our e-mail: cccappraisalhour@gmail.comCheck out our Twitter: twitter.com/cccappraisalpodCheck out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhourCheck out our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cccahourSpecial FAVE MOMENT FROM THE POD RECORD note for VIP read-the-whole-show-notes-members only: When we finally … finally … finally stopped talking about the world cup and football. It’s been a long world cup. It’s been a long … football! It’s not coming home. It’s never coming home. Where is my home? What is happening? What is a home? Football is homeless and I am heartbroken. Congratulations Spain. Viva etc.SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK: https://www.itv.com/watch/dirty-dancing/10a3659Keep dreaming and scheming! 

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-1Watch 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-menRead 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-tvRead 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-revolutionAI 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=vbWe5k4fFWEDele 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=LyDL9EUIdy0This 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=xtau1ro7unECheck out our website: cccappraisalhour.showCheck out our e-mail: cccappraisalhour@gmail.comCheck out our Twitter: twitter.com/cccappraisalpodCheck out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhourCheck out our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cccahourSpecial 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

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/x9z6yq4Watch this really focused Matt Johnson (the Jim Balsillie version of Matt Johnson) interview with QTV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okb33-IJh50Watch this really fun Matt Johnson (the Doug Fregin version of Matt Johnson) interview with Stavros Halkias: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S8jbyExVPYWatch 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=14sThe Guardian review of BlackBerry: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oct/08/blackberry-review-smartphone-buy-opic-is-a-wild-rideMark Kermode’s review of BlackBerry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-lT0firll4Check out our website: cccappraisalhour.showCheck out our e-mail: cccappraisalhour@gmail.comCheck out our Twitter: twitter.com/cccappraisalpodCheck out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhourCheck out our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cccahourSpecial 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

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-2025And this is the band’s first interview with DIY: https://diymag.com/interview/get-to-know-the-orchestra-for-nowHope 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=2AWCRkcCKm8Watch the YouTuber Knightscast Reactions listen to the EP in real time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZfiSJPXeIA&t=1sListen to Plan 75 on streaming here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3Tgh3kQIVqmsRTWW2QDe48?si=1tvRB6UXQqG5ksWtxVW-bQOUR COLLECTIVE CCCAAH/AAACH score: seven and a half out of ten Check out our website: cccappraisalhour.showCheck out our e-mail: cccappraisalhour@gmail.comCheck out our Twitter: twitter.com/cccappraisalpodCheck out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhourCheck out our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cccahourSpoiler below for next month’s album: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Mayfield_(Stranger_Things)

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-migrantsEpisode 5 of Power Plays is entitled “The Power of Football”: https://www.sportspolitika.news/p/fifa-world-cup-sports-politics-power-saudi-morocco-trump-infantinoHere 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=Ehh3nUwHwJgThe 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-extraA Guardian article on the Conifa Cup, the alternative world cup: https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2018/jun/09/the-alternative-world-cupOn 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=MrJAWPeWUyII 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=3v4xAAsxw3cCheck out our website: cccappraisalhour.showCheck out our e-mail: cccappraisalhour@gmail.comCheck out our Twitter: twitter.com/cccappraisalpodCheck out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhourCheck out our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cccahourSpecial 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

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_1sWatch 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=343sKeep 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.htmlRead 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-4912739Check out our website: cccappraisalhour.showCheck out our e-mail: cccappraisalhour@gmail.comCheck out our Twitter: twitter.com/cccappraisalpodCheck out our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cccappraisalhourCheck out our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cccahourSpecial 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