BRAT BY CHARLI XCX and THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR: Reviewed!
Our favourite listener! Where have you been all our lives!? Have you been on the waiting list for entry, just hanging out in the podcast waiting room for days? Well (much like some of the London Swiftie contingent who were saved by waiting list e-mails this week) your number has been called. You’re up! It’s CCCAH time baby, the bratty pod of the hot summer! So strap in for the heatwave! And/or take your top off! Totally your call on that one. But like, read the room. Aaaand … let’s start the show!
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar directed by Wes Anderson can be watched here: https://www.netflix.com/watch/81388090
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (and other stories) written by Roald Dahl can actually be read here: https://bobcarp.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dahl_roald_the_wonderful_story_of_henry_sugar_anbookfi-org.pdf
And now for the wonderful story of the brat-adjacent content consumed this week. It requires us to go all the way behind the scenes. Once upon a time … dear listener/reader, a tick was sent. A message that is, with the title of something, followed by a tick. In this case, it looked like this.
Brat ✅
The first of many sent between Christopher and Jeffrey. Every subsequent listen would garner another tick in a new message. “Brat ✅ ✅” and “Brat ✅ ✅ ✅” and so on, until they had listened to the album about a dozen times between them. And communicated as much.
The way it usually works is, dear listener/reader: one co-host sends the other co-host a tick emoji when content has been consumed; whether that’s the pitched content or other content relevant to our relationship. Ticks are our thing. Oh look, I’ve watched this. Oh hey, I’ve listened to this for a fourth time. Can you believe it, I read a book! And so on. And this is also how we keep track of when we’re ready to pod: when both pitches have been consumed!
So anyway, for the 1st time in recorded pod history, one host actually couldn’t bring himself to send all the ticks. There was officially TOO MUCH. He felt the other co host’s withering glances and shit talk. So rather than annotate each link (as per usual) in today’s shownotes, I (and I think you can guess who I am this point lol this is like a bloody Roald Dahl story) am simply going to provide a list of naked hyperlinks of brat-adjacent content consumed below. Peruse at your discretion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKPBq_j4buQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oweheOiX8h8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTN94tTm7XM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q3K6FPzY18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJW-VvmRKsE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZ1L_0QLjw
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0bm93qc
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09wx00t
https://tapenotes.co.uk/project/tn138-charli-xcx-george-daniel-a-g-cook
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/charli-xcx-interview-2024
https://fashionmagazine.com/style/trends/charli-xcx-brat-summer/
Fr. What a roll out. We’re just scratching the surface with this list of highlights. There’s only so much we can put here tbh, there is a character limit to show notes. Signing off, we’ve been the CCCAH. And we sincerely hope you’re enjoying your brat summer … girl.
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SPOILERS BELOW FOR NEXT WEEK’S CONTENT:
CHRISTOPHER’S pitch for JEFFREY:
https://genius.com/albums/Justin-timberlake/Everything-i-thought-it-was
JEFFREY’S pitch for CHRISTOPHER:
https://films.nationalgeographic.com/fire-of-love
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