Can We Save the Cat?

The Birthday Party is almost here! In this mini-episode, Bryan takes a few minutes to discuss the upcoming birthday party and where you can watch it. The episode is happening Sunday, October 10th at 5pm EST. You can watch it at twitch.tv/canwesavepod. Be sure you are following us on Twitter or Instagram and are subscribed to the podcast to be eligible for giveaways! See you Sunday!

It's our second of two very special 'hiatus' episodes and this time things. get. WILD. On this week's episode, Andrew J. Brandt (@writerbrandt) joins Bryan (@bredacted42) and Dani (@dani_hanks) and the group has a REALLY hard time keeping it together when discussing a pitch about a rich billionaire CEO (let's call him...Shmeffrey Shmezos) and one warehouse worker (let's call her Claire) have to team up and work together in order to make it home from Ama...I mean, Shamazon's final frontier...space.

When their rocket crashes on the moon and they have to wait for rescue, Jeffrey Bezos and a minimum-wage assembly line worker must figure out how to survive using only Amazon packages that the general public has chosen for a promotional unboxing in space.

Welcome back everybody! In our first episode back from hiatus, the writer's room of Bryan (@bredacted42), Dani (@dani_hanks), and Justin (@justineugene) discuss Hey Arnold! characters, on-the-run nuns (it's not Sister Act!), and a mid-thirties, stuck-in-a-rut shmuck who is forced to look after three kids all from different backgrounds when his friends are stuck overseas.

Not My Kids is a comedy for the whole family. Eugene, a software engineer and kid at heart, is nervous about taking care of his godchildren for the weekend while his “adult friends” go on vacation overseas. But when the three sets of parents get stuck in a natural disaster, he's stuck with their three kids… indefinitely.

Aaaand we're back! Well, almost. Get an update on what we have been up to, what we have in store over the next few weeks, and what is coming up in the future in this exciting sneak peek at Season Two with host, Bryan Hays.

After 49 episode, it's finally here! The season finale of Can We Save the Cat? is upon us and in this very special episode, the group of Bryan, Dani, and Justin take it upon themselves to whittle their previously pitched episodes from 36 down to 1. Listen along as the group torments, laments, and whines their way to an eventually winner! 

Thanks for listening, enjoy, and catch us in a few weeks for the start of Season Two!

Originally Recorded on 07-11-2021

It's our last true episode of the season and the gang has taken it upon themselves to do something they have never done before! Okay, they've done it 48 other times but this time they are ACTUALLY saving the cat with a special episode all about cat-themed pitches. Join along as the group discuss which food's texture turns them off, Justin has a full circle moment, and we wrap up Season One of Can We Save the Cat? with a definitive YES.

Fluffy: Mayor of Dogtown is a hiss-terical animated children’s TV show. Every episode, the pawsome citizens of Dogtown face fur-midable day-to-day obstacles with the help of their mayor, the one and only cat, who solves everything with one purr-suasive word: meow.

Follow us at @canwesavepod, @justineugene, @officialdanihanks, @bredacted42!

Originally Recorded on 07-11-2021

Where in the world is...our con artist on the run? In this week's episode, the group discuss big changes on the horizon, the POG world championships, and a con artist who eludes the "love" of her life in favor of the next big score.

CONditional Love is a one hour mystery dramedy series where a lovestruck man goes on an international search for his ex-wife, a con-artist who stole his money and broke his heart. Every episode, with the help of his quirky best friend, he meets a victim she’s conned before. Will learning her past help him reach her in the present?

Originally Recorded on 06-27-2021

Get ready for a wild ride filled with twists, turns, and tons of running around in circles! On this week's episode, special guest Sydney Clara Brafman joins the podcast to discuss her pitch about a serial killer who "falls in love" with the girl next door. Don't worry, on the way there is plenty of talk about ranch dressing taste tests, who has the WORST pitch this week, and video game storytelling. Enjoy!

Sydney Clara Brafman is a filmmaker whose films have screened around the world. She is considered one of 110 filmmakers who represent the future of film, media and entertainment, according to Variety Magazine. When she's not making movies, she's passionately hating cocoa, removing stage blood stains from her clothing, and enjoying cats on the street.
 
You can watch her movies at @squibfilms/@tinyterrors films (insta) / @squibfilms/@tinyterrorsfilm (Twitter), listen to her talk about movies on her podcast @talkyhorror (Twitter/insta), and watch her play video games on twitch at http://sailorspooky.tv (direct link) @sailorspooky.tv (insta)/@sailorspoooky (Twitter)

Unit 187 is a dark RomCom limited series. While cleaning out her dead father’s storage unit, a young woman falls in love with an enigmatic woman who rents the unit next door. But little does she know, this “horror film production designer” is actually a serial killer.

Weird title, great episode. The group welcomes writer & director Tiffany Albright to the podcast and discuss Justin's uncanny ability to pull pitches out of nowhere, one-armed massage therapist Aaron Soertaert, and a woman who is found in the woods with no recollection of how she got there. Buckle up because this one gets VERY wild!

Tahquamenon Falls is a limited series psychological thriller. After a heartbreaking miscarriage, a wannabe mother takes a weekend in the woods with her partner and friends and is found weeks later stranded in the ashes of what was once a cabin, badly burned and alone with a newborn baby. When she can’t explain the weekend’s events, her father, the town sheriff, must investigate what happened and where the baby came from.

Tiffany Albright is a writer, director, and producer from North Carolina. Her work centers female and queer voices, and explores identity, sexuality, and class in genre spaces. Her short films have screened at festivals across the country, her feature screenplay “Shroud” was a Second Rounder in the 2020 Austin Film Festival, and she's currently in post-production on her first feature film, a psychological horror movie called Rat, which was written and shot entirely during lockdown.

IG: tiffany.a.albright

Twitter: @Tffny_Albrght

Ratthemovie.com

In this episode, the group try really hard to guess Justin's pitch, discuss fashion and the modern-day worker, and a pitch where a woman on the run from the law cozies up with a suburban family.

When an escaped convict gets mistaken as a suburban mom’s long-lost sister, she decides to embrace this new identity as “Miss Martha,” a first grade teacher from ancestry.com, with the help of the family’s rebellious teenage daughter. But, when an opportunity arises to steal some expensive heirlooms, will our con choose to stay with the family she’s always wanted, or do old habits die hard?

Originally Recorded on 06-06-2021