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The Academy’s Captive Audience

The Academy’s Captive Audience

By: Kitrick Callis Benjamin Allen
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Welcome one and all to The Academy’s Captive Audience! Here your hosts Ben and Kit will delve into the award winning and rightfully nominated films since the creation of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. Our goal is to create an audio record of these films. Our reactions, thoughts, and overall experience will be here as a guide post to navigate all those films you may have never heard of and always wondered why they won. Without any further ado, Let’s roll that film!Copyright 2025 All rights reserved. Art
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  • Episode 14: How Do You Pronounce Bagel Again?
    Dec 3 2025

    Get ready for some massive movie insight as Kit and Ben take you through the 29th Academy Awards. With a collective runtime of 14 hours and 34 Minutes across the five nominees, this year the wonders of the silver screen showcase deep questions on war, prosperity, kingship, the Almighty, and well... the best way to travel the globe without an airplane. In this episode we cover the following films...

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    Friendly Persuasion

    The Ten Commandments

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Episode 13: The Big Con
    Nov 19 2025

    In this episode Ben and Kit travel across Sweden in a yellow deuce coupe to place a sure fire wager at an underground establishment. The odds were indeed in our favor, however we would like to remind the listener that despite what you may hear, we are not a fantasy football themed podcast. To round out our visit to the 46th Academy Awards we discuss the following films...

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    Viskningar Och Rop (Cries and Whispers)

    American Grafitti

    The Sting

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    If you enjoy what you've heard, please share this episode with a friend or two and leave us a comment that you've done so!

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Episode 12: Say a Prayer...
    Nov 5 2025

    We begin our journey into the 46th Academy Awards. Before we set the stage Kit plays a word search game with Ben to recover the name of his favorite drink. After he eventually figures it out we take you through a brief overview of the time period followed by two of the nominees from this year.

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    A Touch of Class

    The Exorcist

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    And here is the link to the episode of Cultish that was mentioned in this episode.

    https://thecultishshow.com/podcast/the-exorcist-review?rq=the%20exorcist

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    Don't forget to like, follow, subscribe, and hit that notification bell for future episodes!

    If you enjoy what you've heard, please share this episode with a friend or two and leave us a comment that you've done so!

    Also follow us at our social media feed to interact with us and let us know what you think of the films we are watching. Remember we are all part of the captive audience...

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    1 hr and 4 mins
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