Mama Cat Voice | Decade of Dread #2

Wrong Station

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Enjoy 31 episodes in 31 days as Wrong Station celebrates a “Decade of Dread”. // A VOICE WHISPERS THROUGH THE TREES // SOOTHING, GENTLE, PERSISTENT // EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT "Mama Cat Voice," written and performed by Anthony Botelho. Celebrate 10 seasons of Wrong Station by subscribing to our Patreon at ⁠www.patreon.com/thewrongstation⁠. Explore brand new benefits, hundreds of hours of bonus content, and help ensure Wrong Station stays on the air for another 10 years. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at ⁠www.wrongstation.com/c-w. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This October, the wrong station celebrates a decade of dread.
0:12.0	You can read the show notes to discover terrible new ways to celebrate with us.
0:19.0	Today's episode,
0:22.7	Mamma Cat Voice,
0:25.7	is written and performed by Anthony Betel.
1:12.0	The Presidente, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I love cats.
1:13.5	Always have.
1:15.8	I don't have a cat at the moment.
1:18.8	I haven't really had a cat since I was a kid.
1:26.2	But I do a lot of volunteering at a local shelter, fostering, catch-chip release, rescues, things like that.
1:31.0	Rescues especially. I'm kind of like the shelter's secret weapon for those. I don't know what it is. I don't hear it, but apparently I do the best
1:38.1	mama cat voice out of anyone on the team. Mama cat voice? You know, a straight kitten is stuck in a car is under carriage or under a porch,
1:47.7	or it's hiding from you somewhere in an old building, and you need to get it out.
1:51.5	And to coax it, to make it feel safe, you do like a...
1:55.6	Meow!
1:56.8	Like a mama cat.
1:58.5	You know, you're telling it, it's okay, come on out. Or maybe more like,
2:04.7	get out here this instant. Probably a bit of both. I wonder about that sometimes.
2:12.7	What the kitten is actually hearing when we do that. We don't know what we're actually saying.
2:19.0	It's just taking a certain tone,
2:21.5	making a facsimile of a sound,
2:23.9	and hoping the right intent comes across.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wrong Station, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wrong Station and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.