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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 20: Dream of Golden Butter
    Apr 22 2026

    We begin this journey into the heart of the 52nd Academy Awards by going through a brief overview of what was happening during the latter part of the 1970's. Ben then takes us on a descent through the thick overgrowth of the Vietnam jungle, and Kit takes us on a well needed and timely bicycle tour around Bloomington Indiana. Go Hoosiers! The films in this episode are...

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    Apocalypse Now

    Breaking Away

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    55 mins
  • Episode 19: He does Have a Heart
    Apr 8 2026

    We wrap up our look into the 20th Academy Awards but not before we have a chance to check our pulse as we encounter the high strangeness surrounding Christmas. Afterward Ben and Kit encounter the antisemitism of 1947... not sure much has changed since then but maybe there is something to be learned from our last two nominees. Our following films are...

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    The Bishop's Wife

    Crossfire

    Gentleman's Agreement

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    Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit those notification buttons 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 feeds or email us to let us know what you think of the films we are watching. Remember we are all part of the captive audience...

    https://x.com/theacapodcast

    https://www.instagram.com/theacapodcast

    theacapodcast@gmail.com

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Episode 18: Topo Gigio
    Mar 25 2026

    Welcome back to our regularly scheduled programing! In this episode Ben and Kit kick off the 20th Academy Awards. We start by getting into the well dressed and smokey post war cinema mindset before spending Christmas at Macy's. Then we hop the pond to take in the Dickens tale of a boy named Pip. The following films in this episode are...

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    Miracle on 34th Street

    Great Expectations

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    Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit those notification buttons 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 feeds or email us to let us know what you think of the films we are watching. Remember we are all part of the captive audience...

    https://x.com/theacapodcast

    https://www.instagram.com/theacapodcast

    theacapodcast@gmail.com

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    1 hr
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