CatSounds with Brian Macaulay

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CatSounds is the Podcast for the person who has everything already, except this podcast.

Brian Macaulay

  • Mar 3, 2021 LATEST EPISODE
  • every other week NEW EPISODES
  • 38m AVG DURATION
  • 16 EPISODES


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21: Regrettable Interview with my brother, @ShawnMacaulay

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2021 22:27


Okay so, in this episode, we talk to my older brother, @ShawnMacaulay. This one really slid off the rails quickly, and it's unfortunate that I allowed this to happen because it's pretty ugly.

20: Don’t Tell Mom, Clifford is Dead

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2021 52:10


Okay this one is mostly a high-level and thoughtful critique of Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) and Clifford (1994) and then, if you can hang in that long, I'll tell you which people in society are the wrong people that need to be put on an island and not fed.

19 The Little Things and Tenet are both terrible

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2021 46:50


The Little Things, now on HBOMax, and Tenet, now rentable, are both garbage movies and probably you should see what kind of over-the-counter drugs local middle school kids are using, in pursuit of something that would be a better use of your money than these two recent crap-fests from Warner Bros.

18: MadCat Adventures in Journalism and Alcoholism

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 4, 2021 45:12


This week we'll cover all of best topics: mental asylums, dating, race, alcoholism, and much more.

17 Depictions of Grooming

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2020 1:11


Around the turn of the century, TV achieved an unprecedented greatness with shows like the Sopranos. But in recent years, these prestige television offerings have really begun to falter, so we go on for a while with a fairly academic discussion of these issues and then BAM! It's a hard and fast review of FX's A Teacher

16: Some Cats Just Want to Watch the World Burn

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2020 59:36


This week, buckle up. We're going to talk about WarnerMedia's big HBOMax play, Christopher Nolan, Wonder Woman 1984, the shockwave cascading through the film industry now, and yeah, we saved some time at the end to cover how much your incompetent leaders in Washington have failed you during a national crisis.

FIXED(again)—15: A Tiger, by the Tale

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2020 47:51


This week, we take a deep dive into my objections about recently-deposed New Yorker staff writer Jeffrey Toobin, and why I no longer watch CNN. It's not our best episode, but we do also explore the career of Law Professor Alan Dershowitz and it almost gets interesting but then stops short of that mark.

Special: Race update for non-political-junkies

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2020 36:25


On tonight's installment of the CatSounds podcast, I'll breakdown what I expect, what I see as unlikely, and what I expect in the long term. If you don't want to stay glued to the TV but want 35 minutes of me talking about who's about to president, this is the podcast for you.

13: On My Tenth Life

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2020 37:41


This week—it's just me. Telling you how I am. It's an update from the furthest reaches of the darkest corners of the outer banks of myself. But also, some commentary on 38 Special's 1981 hit "Hold on Loosely," and, naturally, to Jeffrey Toobin's more recent incidence of holding on, though whether tightly or loosely remains, sadly unknown.

#12: She’s All Cat

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2020 55:54


This week we take a deep dive into Miramax's recent announcement that they're preparing a–sigh–remake of 1999's She's All That.

#11: Multi-Level-Meowrketing

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2020 30:43


A big deep dive into the scammy world of MULTI LEVEL MARKETING, with various insight from my lifetime of astute observating PLUS Garden Grove's Phat Bui has a new commercial, and it's a winner.

#10: Schrödinger? I hardly know ‘er

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2020 36:18


This week we confront the confounding philosophical dilemma of personal identity over time, with references to the work of Dr. David Kyle Johnson and some discussion of time travel movies like Shane Carruth's Primer (2004) but also some digs at George Lucas.

#9: Nine Lives? Some Pun About Nine Lives

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2020 30:58


First, a good long rant about the current coronavironment, then it's back to 1992 for some blathering on about Robert Altman's The Player.

#8: True Tales of Hollywood Fat-Cats

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2020 33:02


This week—we check in with HBO Max where things are feeling a little drawn out, then it’s back to 1995 as we relive the classic teen comedy “Angus,” which terminates in me telling a true Hollywood story about my prior career as an intern on Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show, where I once had an unforgettable […]

CatSounds #7: The Unboxing of The President

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2020 42:23


On this week’s big important show: Biden and Trump are locked in a race to the bottom, but Biden sinks faster. Cancel culture continues constraining consumable content. And that’s really it. There’s not more show than that. Slate.com’s roundup of things that are being scrubbed from public consumption for being “problematic.” The racist, unscientific, and […]

CatSounds Episode 2: Your Mom’s a Streaming Service

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2020 36:32


This week, I'll learn you everything you need to know about: 1) Scenes from the class struggle in my apartment; 2) Third Party Candidate update; 3) HBO MAX: a streaming service you may not even get if you pay for it; and 4) Albums you may have missed: Art Garfunkel's Breakaway.

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