The Academy Podcast

The boys are back, Dear Listener. Season Two. Fully-caffeinated, no-ethanol, high octane action. A wandering, nay, meandering romp through 80's action flix (with a hot take or two for good measure) and, in a world gone mad with division, we talk the creeds that unify the Church. All in all, not a bad restart of your dose of accessible pretention.  Send us Fan Mail

Hear directly from the tens of listeners of The Academy Podcast in this our second teaser for season 2. You will not be disappointed. Feel the excitement. The first episode of the second season will premiere this Friday, so be on the lookout. Email the show at theacademypodcastok@gmail.com to suggest topics or tell us how great/awful we are. We'll accept both extremes and everything in betwee...

The Academy Podcast is coming back for season 2! If this teaser doesn't get you pumped up, then you're probably a normal person. Email questions or topics to theacademypodcastok@gmail.com Send us Fan Mail

Oliver Twist From the Novel by Charles Dickens Copyright 1979, Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.  "Produced by special arrangement with Pioneer Drama Service, Inc., Denver, Colorado" Adapted by Joellen Bland  For those who loved the classic Charles Dickens story, enjoy again all of the fascinating characters from this exciting story:  the Artful Dodger, Fagin, the menacing Bill Sikes and the k...

In this, our final episode of season one, we long for re-runs, start a radio station and offer a meta-podcast reflection on starting a podcast. Look for various updates over the summer and we'll see you in the Fall. Feel free to keep emailing us at TheAcademyPodcastOK@gmail.com and let us know how you're doing. We love getting your emails and we will read any we receive when we start sea...

In this, our final episode of The Bunker Tapes, we step outside of the bunker, blink at the sunlight and look to see the real world again. Sort of anyway. We talk about the need for good endings ('prolepsis' is the accessibly pretentious word we learned on the word of the day calendar), Josh talks Weird Al and Back to the Future 3 and we get into some solid email action.  Dear listener,...

It's a nostalgia hodge podge of nonsense. The guys talk first books, vhs rentals and a mustachioed mullet hero.  We want to hear from you, Dear Listener. Email us all your questions, thoughts, and any other such nonsense as you see fit. We appreciate your support. TheAcademyPodcastOK@gmail.com Send us Fan Mail

In this, part two of episode 5, we get an 'email' from 'Chaz Wolfman' and listen to a 'phone call' from the 'same' and we wonder about Eric's mental health.  We want to hear from you, Dear Listener. Email us your bunker stories, random thoughts, questions, gripes, or any other nonsense you see fit. Our email address is TheAcademyPodcastOK@gmail.com. Use...

Episode 5 Part 1 of The Bunker Tapes has us talking with one, Alison Thompson, grammar teacher extraordinaire about what it looks like to teach in the grammar stage at the Academy and reflect on her time as a mom of one of our graduates. We'd love to hear from you.  Email us at TheAcademyPodcastOK@gmail.com. Send us Fan Mail

More Bunker Tape madness. A somber (but not serious), reflective podcast. Dialing down some ( some , I said) of the regular nonsense, we wonder at the grace bestowed in the events of Holy Week as we look and long for that much needed hope in the Resurrection. We want to hear from you. Now's your chance to regale our audience of tens of listeners with your comments, thoughts, bunker stories, o...

Introducing a new way of delivering your weekly-ish dose of accessibly pretentious nonsense. We call these The Lyceum Conversations. For these slight diversions from our regularly scheduled program, we invite scholars of the finest order to help us makes sense of the world and possibility bring the podcast a modicum of respectability. In this, our first Lyceum Conversation, Dr Esther Meek helps us...

Tapping into our accessible pretension, we talk about logic and it's role in classical ed, we offer a TP PSA and we offer you, Dear Listener, a life-changing new song to chime in our email segment.  Speaking of which, email us your bunker stories or any other nonsense to TheAcademyPodcastOK@gmail.com . We'd love to hear from you. Send us Fan Mail

The guys are back in the bunker to bring you the highly demanded ravings of quarantined classical educators. We'll discuss a number of things, important and (mostly) otherwise, and a new email segment joins the stable of nonsense.  We want to hear your bunker stories and anything else you have going on in this exciting quarantine.  Email the show at TheAcademyPodcastOK@gmail.com.  Send us Fan...

We're back on the air. From their cozy quarantined quarters, Eric, Nathan and Josh remotely renew the accessibly pretentious shenanigans of The Academy Podcast. Unplugged 90's grunge, toilette paper and rolling thunder await the intrepid listener. Email us your bunker stories and any other questions at theacademypodcastok@gmail.com.  Send us Fan Mail

In our bourgeiest episode to date, we chase the white whale with Andrew Black, and can Eric pull it together long enough to get us a chance to meet the real(?) Chaz Wolfman? Send us Fan Mail

In this episode, you'll get your accessibly pretentious nonsense fix: Eric introduces a new segment that goes really well, we talk mimetics and the power of heroes and Josh doubles down, despite all the threats. Send us Fan Mail

We're back. In this disjointed-as-ever-post-break-cobweb-cleaning episode, Eric offers a scrapple update, Nathan drops a likely spoiler and Josh offers a hot take on an over-rated cultural moment. Send us Fan Mail

For the dozen or so of you still listening, thanks and Merry Christmas. We've rewarded your diligence (or lack of better things to do?) with some genuine, grade-A Christmas nonsense in this, our third episode. Among other things, Eric helps Nathan and Josh discover new things in Christmas food traditions, Josh welcomes Ann Risch (our first guest!) who introduces us to a favorite poet and Nath...

We warned you. We tried to anyway. You just wouldn't take heed. You listened to this madness and only encouraged him. Well, Them . Eric, Nathan and Josh. This time you'll find talk of Advent, Lessons and Carols, Christmas kitsch and plenty more nonsense. Who knows, we might get ourselves down to tens of people flocking to listen. You can find us on all your favorite podcast platforms. Se...

Maybe we shouldn't have. Maybe we shouldn't have given Nathan Carr a microphone and 32 minutes to talk into it. Maybe Josh Spears shouldn't have been there to egg him on. But we did. We let them make the first Academy podcast (the first of many for the literally dozens of listeners sure to follow). A podcast best summarized as 'How did we get here?' Nate and Josh puzzle ov...