Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube Vin of The Chimera joins us this week for one of the best Apple-sodes that ever did Apple. I mean, it’s enough just to have an Apple family-centric episode, but to get li’l Applejack and teen Macintosh? AND MACINTOSH WON’T STOP TALKING?! Six seasons into this venture, the writers decided to go have some serious fun with the Apples and Filthy Rich, and it all comes together in this episode. We review “Where the Apple Lies” on this episode of Macintosh &a...
Jan 23, 20200•Season 6Ep. 146
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube 4-time repeat guest James Anderson joins us this week to examine some pony hijinks through the eyes of three very different horsepectives. Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack are embarking on a fun jaunt in the sea, but when they get back, they’re no longer on speaking terms. And if that’s not bad enough, each has a different story about what went wrong on the sea, with some unique embellishments. It’s up to Twilight and Spike to get to the truth of the m...
Jan 22, 20200•Season 6Ep. 145
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube Eddie Louise Parker of Sage and Savant joins us this week for a very special Starlight Glimmer episode. Special in the sense that she’s about to unleash some Amelia Bedelia-level hijinks in Twilight’s castle. Twilight’s impressed with her new student’s magical abilities (duh) but when it comes to friendship lessons, Starlight has some work to do. And of course, she makes the absolute best decision by brainwashing her friends to make their lesson time th...
Jan 16, 20200•Season 6Ep. 144
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube Diva pony correspondent, sister extraordinaire, and podcast raconteur Whitney Nelsen joins us for a trip to the glitziest party place in Equestria, Las Pegasus. And if we’re going to a loud, raucous, the two ponies we definitely need to send are…Applejack and Fluttershy?! This episode has no right to work as well as it does, but it’s ridiculously funny in the BEST way, not least because of two familiar con ponies returning to make Applejack wanna throw ...
Jan 15, 20200•Ep. 143
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube The Cutie Mark Crusaders have a new and potentially impossible case - find a cutie mark…for a griffon. Gabby is an adorable and extremely excited griffon who saw the power of friendship when Pinkie and Dash visited Griffonstone. But the reputation of the Crusaders has preceded them, and Gabby’s been led to believe the CMC’s are miracle workers. Still, Scootaloo is determined to find a way to help Gabby and try and find that special purpose for a very sp...
Jan 08, 20200•Season 6Ep. 142
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube Angel Andrews, the creator of To Have and To Hold and voice actor extraordinaire, is with us to talk about an adorable pony sports episode! Applejack’s getting trained up to take down her loudmouth cousin Braeburn at Ponyville’s hottest sport, buckball. But when Dash and AJ start looking for a unicorn, they suddenly realize Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy are absolute buckball stars in the making. And if you think having the two most competitive ponies traint...
Jan 03, 20200•Season 6Ep. 141
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube We’re joined by repeat guest Sam Turley of Fate and the Fablemaidens this week for an episode we’ve been so excited for. It’s a Discord episode, so already you know you’re in for a nice dose of chaos magic. Then you add Big Mac and Spike to the mix for a “guys’ night” that, all in all, seems fairly innocuous as such things go. But what’s the special secret to this episode? It’s Ogres & Oubliettes, a nice little fantasy tabletop RPG that makes this e...
Dec 31, 20190•Season 6Ep. 140
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube Rachel Rauch, creator of the upcoming Medusa Gorgon’s Academy, is with us this week to share some big feels as Spike makes a new friend that tests the limits of the Friendship Kingdom. The writers take a bit of a sledgehammer to an issue that could use a little more fine chiseling, but nevertheless, this episode is a major turning point in the series and asks really tough questions about how you stand up for your friends, no matter how risky that may se...
Dec 29, 20190•Season 6Ep. 139
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube Claudia Elvidge, creator of The Beacon and Soulborn City, joins us this week to talk about maybe the creepiest ponysode we’ve covered yet. In retrospect, it’s mostly cute and hilarious, but the animators really went all out in creating some truly messed up effects and styling for these prank cookie zomponies. Rainbow Dash may never prank again after the horror she’s subjected to, but on the other hand, how do you stop a pony from randomly pranking other...
Dec 27, 20190•Season 6Ep. 138
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube We’re joined this week by a very special guest, Lucy, the Apple Bloom to our Sweet Apple Acres here at Mac & Maud HQ, because it’s a Cutie Mark Crusaders episode! Or at least, it should be, but when the Crusaders ask their grown-up counterparts to help with a derby racer challenge, they start to take over the whole shebang. Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Apple Bloom all have different ideas of how they want to race, and their sister ponies have shove...
Dec 20, 20190•Season 6Ep. 137
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube Y’all ready for a Daring-Do convention, because we sure are! We’ve been excited about this episode for a while, not just because of the pony-con link. We also have the best pony guest star of all time, the only person fan enough to go toe-to-toe with Rainbow Dash - Patton Oswalt. This episode has sarcasm, nerd rage, adventure, sight gags - everything you’d ever want from a convention-centric episode. It’s one of the most fun ponysodes in the entire-seri...
Dec 12, 20190•Season 6Ep. 136
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube CONTENT WARNING: We discuss issues of racism and poor representation in this episode. Morgan Nuncio of The Red Deathfor another of the occasionally not great, kind of bad, really problematic episodes of My Little Pony that comes up from time to time. We love this show but it sometimes tries to tread into territory it’s not really equipped to talk about. Like food from non-white cultures, or appropriating cultural identities, or even just treating people...
Dec 05, 20190•Season 6Ep. 135
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube Max Jenkins of Living in the Stacks and Welcome to the Bone Era joins us for an episode featuring our Best Pony, Fluttershy! Flutter’s gone home to visit her parents with Dash, but it turns out an unexpected guest is swinging by - Zephyr Breeze. Zephyr is, without a doubt, the most self-obsessed, self-centered stallion we’ve ever met, and Fluttershy is NOT. HERE. FOR. IT. Who knew Fluttershy was able to be this assertive and defensive? It’s amazing, and...
Nov 27, 20190•Season 6Ep. 134
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube Kent Blue of the Roll to Play Network is our guest this week for a trip to the Ponyville Day Spa! At least, Rarity thinks it’s some downtime with Applejack, until AJ runs late because she can’t get away from her chores. Once they’re able to pin a date down, with the help of everyone’s favorite rule follower, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack and Rarity are ready for a glorious steam. Except there’s no steam, so Applejack’s got to figure out what the problem i...
Nov 25, 20190•Season 6Ep. 133
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube Kate Harlow joins us this week for the most cartoony, clever, fun Rarity-centric episode ever. It’s a simple enough premise - Rarity’s opening her new Manehattan location and needs some help; hijinks inevitably emerge. But then there’s a newspaper reporter in a café and everypony’s giving interviews, and then we get DJ Pon-3 and raccoons and super deep callbacks, and suddenly we realize this isn’t our usual ponysode. Get wacky with us as we review “The ...
Nov 21, 20190•Season 6Ep. 132
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube It’s Hearth’s Warming Eve again in Ponyville, and Sarah from Little Realms joins us this week to talk about the season’s big musical episode! Starlight Glimmer’s not feeling the holidays too much, so Twilight brings out her favorite Hearth’s Warming story as Spike enjoys a nice mug of cocoa. For us, though, it’s all about the amazing songs and the delightful, adorable Victorian design for everypony. This might just be one of the prettiest and well-craft...
Nov 14, 20190•Season 6Ep. 131
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube We were not prepared for a Rainbow Dash episode to be an early contender for best of the season, but this week’s episode might be a great candidate. Dash gets to live her dream with the Wonderbolts, then gets an unfortunate nickname, and HILARITY ENSUES. Watch as Rainbow Dash gives us the biggest smile known to ponydom, creating a classic gif we use almost constantly! Listen as Macintosh does his best to perform Dash doing her best to perform the rest o...
Nov 07, 20190•Season 6Ep. 130
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube This week the Great and Powerful Specs joins us to talk about the return of one of Twilight Sparkle’s greatest nemeses: Trixie Lulamoon. That’s right, everyone’s favorite scheming, con artist, sleight-of-hand trickster Trixie is back, and this time…she’s humble and penitent? In fact, when Starlight gets Twilight’s assignment to make a new friend, it takes a pony who understands being shunned and ostracized (for not the worst reasons) to make a deeper co...
Oct 31, 20190•Season 6Ep. 129
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube It’s a Spike episode, and we’re joined by Jake from Snickles about everything dragons! It’s been a while since we visited the Dragon Kingdom, and we’ve got a great reason as Spike’s been summoned by the Dragon King, which involves bright glowing and a slight itching/burning sensation. More importantly, though, Spike’s not interested in competing to take over the kingdom like the other dragons, but has to join in after he hears the dragons’ plans to take...
Oct 24, 20190•Season 6Ep. 128
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube This week we catch up with the Cutie Mark Crusaders post-cutie marks! Despite a lot of swooning over their shiny new flank decorations, the Crusaders are a little perplexed about what comes next for them. While Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo find some new activities to try on their own, Apple Bloom has a…just checking our notes…ah, yes, FULL-ON EXISTENTIAL CRISIS. For a few minutes, Apple Bloom rapidly descends into darkness before realizing her purpose mi...
Oct 17, 20190•Season 6Ep. 127
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube It’s a very, very special this week as Lindsey Nelsen of Historical Hotties joins us for not just a Pinkie-sode, not just a Rarity-sode, but a Maud Pie EPISODE. Maud is getting her rocktorate (yes, we are giggling like children) in Manehattan, and Pinkie’s headed out to share her “PSSD” with Maud - Pie Sister Swap Day! Rarity’s tagging along to look for a new storefront for her business, but when Pinkie enlists her to find an amazing gift for Maud, Rari...
Oct 10, 20190•Season 6Ep. 126
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube We’re back for part two of our premiere, and damn did things escalate quickly. It was all fun and games with the wild alicorn baby until THE CRYSTAL HEART GOT SHATTERED. Now, it’s a race against time to figure out how to fuse the heart back together or perish in a freak snowstorm. But with little to no clues, it’s going to take a certain special somepony to find a spell powerful enough to restore the Crystal Heart. Meanwhile, Starlight Glimmer’s feeling...
Oct 03, 20190•Season 6Ep. 125
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon YouTube Macintosh & Maud is back for Season 6! And what a season 6 this will be - lots of guests, tons of great ponies, and a whole lot of episodes that Macintosh & Maud aren’t as familiar with. We’re kicking off season one with a two-parter that starts off celebrating a new royal baby and Twilight planning Starlight Glimmer’s first friendship lesson. And while seeing a new royal baby is exciting, Starlight is definitely concerned about trying to reconn...
Oct 03, 20190•Season 6Ep. 124
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon Season 5 is finished, which means it's time for a summer wrap-up! We've got our favorite Mane 6 episodes, our best and worst of the season, and, of course, the best RandoPony™ of Season 5. Plus we chat about our experience at BronyCon 2019 and the amazing things we learned there! It's one final walk around Ponyville before we gear up for Season 6. Enjoy everyone! Check out our merchandise at our new Teepublic store! We've got lots of fun designs to choose from ...
Aug 29, 20190•Season 5Ep. 123
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon In the course of making these seasons, we tend to find a lot of joy, laughter, and silliness from this show, but on occasion it hits right at our hearts. This finale, though, hits so close and with such depth, that it might just be one of the best episodes of this show. To take a villain, a pony that Twilight cannot defeat, and instead try to help her rediscover the magic of friendship, just cuts through whatever cynicism and coldness you might feel about frien...
Aug 22, 20190•Season 5Ep. 122
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon It's the first part of our season finale as Twilight Sparkle goes hoof to hoof with her greatest nemesis yet: Starlight Glimmer. Our whole season comes full circle as Twilight has to contend with somepony being even more magical than her. How much more magical? Let's just say somepony found Star Swirl the Bearded's secret time travel spell and we're about to mess with the timelines. Enjoy the first of our two-episode season finale as we watch "The Cutie Re-Mark...
Aug 22, 20190•Season 5Ep. 121
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon We're joined by the amazing Whitney and Lindsey Nelsen (Historical Hotties! Myth Takes!) to talk about the glammest pony pop star we've ever had on this show: Countess Coloratura. Turns out, though, that Applejack knows her from her days at Camp Friendship - as Rara. Thus begins a battle between Rara's manager, Svengallop, and Applejack's memories of her shy, quiet friend. In the process, Applejack might just help a good friend reconnect with her past and find ...
Aug 15, 20190•Season 5Ep. 120
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon Twilight finally gets the chance to set off on a Cutie Map adventure, this time to the Smokey Mountains! Fluttershy’s getting called along as well, which she’s not terribly keen on, even though she puts her best hoof forward. Twilight’s in for a bit of a shock, though - her friendship playbook might not be the solution to a long-standing war of words, hay, and produce between two rival families. The Smokeys are supposed to be one of the most beautiful places in...
Aug 08, 20190•Season 5Ep. 119
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon You know you've been waiting for this moment, all you pony friends! We're finally reviewing My Little Pony: Equestria Girls! We're not as excited by this first movie as what's to come from the films and franchise, but your friends Macintosh & Maud still have a whole lot of fun recapping this first movie in a full-on franchise changer. Come join us for the fun, and then stay tuned for more exciting pony (and person) content from us soon! Check out our mercha...
Aug 06, 20190•Ep. 118
Find us at: iTunes Spotify Patreon Our pony guru Jon (Gumbie Cat Networks) joins us to talk all things Discord this week as our favorite chaos demon turns the tables on Twilight Sparkle! Everypony's got inside jokes with Discord, and Twilight makes some absolutely terrible assumptions about why. Friendship means trust and understanding and Twilight…well, Twilight doesn't have a whole lot of either. Join us for wonderful Discord shenanigans this week as we review "What About Discord?" Check out o...
Aug 02, 20190•Season 5Ep. 117
