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201 - My Big, Fat Shank Wedding [Whit’s Endless Summer 45]
Added 2025-08-06 06:00:07 +0000 UTCThe lads return once again to Odyssey for further adventures in jet-lag, cyber security, and the long awaited return of the godking of Odyssey: John Avery Whittaker. Topics include the interminable will-they/won’t-they of Eugene and Katrina, the logistics of proposing in the year 1996, and what it means to grow up in a religion that asks you to actively throw your feelings through the No-No Door.
Media Referenced in this Episode:
Adventures in Odyssey
#362: The Right Choice Part I
#363: The Right Choice Part II
#364: Home, Sweet Home
#365: Clara
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Interstitial: “Evidence #381914: Camcorder Belonging to Chester A. Chandler, Found at the Scene of the Lakeshore Lodge Incident on June 22nd, 1996" // Written by A.J. Ditty // Featuring Brian Alford as “Chester A. Chandler” // “The Chain Piano Cover” by GleesinnPiano
Comments
Last Chance Detectives isn't THAT interesting!?! You eat your words Brian! 😝
Rosey Armstrong
2025-09-18 20:46:10 +0000 UTCMy name used to be Hot Rodlyn, but then my mentor passed on the Matrix of Leadership and I became Rodynmus Prime
OfficialPunGuy
2025-09-04 11:32:10 +0000 UTCIt feels a little weird that the day I finished Whit’s Endless Summer after hearing about you from VeryTallBart is the day Dobson fucking dies. I hope the negative psychic energy I was putting out there helped lol.
Arthur Menkin
2025-08-21 16:52:45 +0000 UTCJames Dobson is dead. I feel like Paul Revere
LogalogJack
2025-08-21 15:10:10 +0000 UTCAlso coincidentally just read a fic about Katrina’s parents slamming it down big-style when Eugene stands nervously outside. You’re in my walls!!!
LogalogJack
2025-08-16 19:09:34 +0000 UTCQuick comment before the episode really starts: I’ve gone beyond dreams about Odyssey. I had a dream I was listening to a Whit’s Endless Summer episode and AJ was having a stroke while reacting to I Slap Floor. You all have infected me in the worst of all possible ways ™
LogalogJack
2025-08-16 18:23:04 +0000 UTCHa! That's a new feature. I noticed it started doing that recently
Jimmy McMillan
2025-08-16 02:02:41 +0000 UTCThere's also a something there about the guy who sees himself as very logical and rational, not ever controlled by emotion, suddenly finding himself doing crazy things and jumping to conclusions because he's never had to practice regulating himself in that way before. The lesson could easily have been "Don't trick yourself into believing your emotions can't get the best of you and and make you act like an idiot just because you're smart." Why is the jetlag excuse even there? He's acting like a jerk because he's feeling insecure because he's scared that his girlfriend will forget about him and find someone else if he's not there. And he need to trust not only the people he loves but trust that HE deserves to be loved and people aren't lying to him when they tell him they love him. But they're like "No! The lesson is don't be a pussy! Don't be annoying!"
Ronin Fredricson
2025-08-10 23:55:58 +0000 UTCThe baggage foyer is known as the concourse
Alex Anderson
2025-08-10 15:26:03 +0000 UTCHOLY SHIT did Quibi get its name from "quick bites"? I had absolutely no idea until y'all casually threw that out there.
John Benfield
2025-08-09 19:50:47 +0000 UTCThe Be More Chill sting made my vision tunnel
Noah
2025-08-09 13:12:32 +0000 UTCI did too but only my left wrist is tired. You guys got to stop bragging
Jimmy McMillan
2025-08-08 23:47:58 +0000 UTCHis buddy and the God king of the town
Jimmy McMillan
2025-08-08 23:41:23 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite things about these whit’s endless summer episodes is when the lads talk about tweaks that could have been made to the script to make it more coherent/emotionally resonant/funny. It’d be easy to just make fun of how bad it is and be done, but I love that you tease out why it’s bad not just message-wise but craft-wise. I always feel like I learn a little more about the art of telling a story from listening to you tear apart stories that are told very, very badly
Maple
2025-08-08 17:41:26 +0000 UTCI have strong memories of the Clara episode. I couldn't remember it by title but I remembered the way it made me feel. I was surprised to suddenly hear it in the back half of this episode, but I think it's one of the reasons Adventures in Odyssey stays with us recovering religious folks and adult atheists---it's very human.
Brandon Chinn
2025-08-08 16:52:24 +0000 UTCJosh's comments about that final Odyssey episode really openned up some repressed stuff from my own childhood. I also grew up in the CRC and was constantly told that anger was wrong and that I always had to forgive people no matter what. I have vivid memories of my mother punishing me for being angry at the kids who bullied me until I was suicidal. It wasn't until I was an adult that I understood that sometimes people hurt you and it is their fault and it is ok to be angry about it. I still struggle with this and it has brought me into abusive situations where i compulsively forgave people who I needed to cut from my life. This attitude is incredibly damaging and I'm glad the lads called it out for the crap it is.
Victoria Vanderkloet
2025-08-08 03:53:51 +0000 UTCI literally just auditioned for Thom Babbes this past week. He's left LA now and moved to the East Coast
S H
2025-08-07 22:58:08 +0000 UTCI heard that "be more chill" melody you sneaky shits! I nearly missed it because I was holding my phone to my ear for the whole 2 hours and my arms were VERY TIRED
Josephine
2025-08-07 22:12:44 +0000 UTCI had a friend who agreed to take an experimental DNA altering drug that was supposed to make your body look more animalistic, and boy are his arms tiger-ed.......
The Cube of Orbus
2025-08-07 21:58:44 +0000 UTCWe are now squarely in the odyssey episodes I grew up with so every time there's an audio clip I get visceral reaction and could recite the lines verbatim lmao
Ciara Rhiannon
2025-08-07 16:21:35 +0000 UTCArms plural, so now we know Brian's double fisting it
Lindsey Guy
2025-08-07 13:31:44 +0000 UTCThe Winchester House chapter in Colin Dickey’s Ghostland (one of my fave books) is FASCINATING. Dickey argues that Sarah was, with her basically infinite money, an experimental architect in a time when women weren’t welcome in the field. Highly recommend.
Virginia Paine
2025-08-07 12:29:27 +0000 UTCHotel detective. Arriving. On the scene.
Michael S
2025-08-07 10:18:54 +0000 UTCYou absolutely do need to cover the terminal and bring on Alice because she flubbed using it as a bit not that long ago
ALoneLaur
2025-08-06 23:42:10 +0000 UTCI need yall to know that the patreon android app apparently autoplays the next new audio content immediately once you finish what you have queued up. So I went from a history podcast playing through my apartment speakers to "so I was jacking off the third time straight tonight..." and I know my neighbors are home. Lmao
(Wil)Liam Robinson
2025-08-06 22:03:41 +0000 UTCEven though I never knew about Adventures in Odyssey before this podcast, now I hunger for these episodes. The view into the assumptions of the evangelical mind combined with you boys riffing on these idiotic scripts is killer. I hope Whit's Endless Summer truly is endless. A purgatory from which none may escape. All in Odyssey and all who listen are drawn into the dark miasma of the cruel and tempestuous God-King John Avery Whittaker. Long may he rein with his cold, iron, child-beating hands
Michael Kearley
2025-08-06 21:47:51 +0000 UTCYes, obviously cover The Terminal.
Peter Larkin
2025-08-06 20:58:12 +0000 UTCProbably should have, but I was worried about the clip going on too long. They also do a Mandy riff in Sunset Bowlawater. If we ever cover that, maybe I'll include the lounge singer in there
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2025-08-06 20:12:44 +0000 UTCAww hell yeah, the John Avery Whitaker/Hamilton crossover we've all wanted.
Peter Larkin
2025-08-06 19:44:36 +0000 UTCCan't believe you didn't clip the "Oh Brandon, you're such a nice guy" riff from the lounge scene, which has been nesting in my brain for nigh on 20 years
Jordan Best
2025-08-06 17:38:36 +0000 UTCHobby Lobby’s Hammurabi robbing hobby mentioned
Adi
2025-08-06 17:03:32 +0000 UTCClearly Josh and AJ have never watched the investigation of the Winchester house by the GROUNDBREAKING paranormal tv show Ghost Adventures
Adi
2025-08-06 16:56:05 +0000 UTCcheck this out: boy are his arms tires
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2025-08-06 16:02:34 +0000 UTCMy only context for hotel detectives is They Might Be Giants
t o r t
2025-08-06 15:42:02 +0000 UTCI met the Michelin Man, and boy are his tires armed!
Nick Gully
2025-08-06 14:31:02 +0000 UTC*Pounds Desk* TER-MIN-AL, TER-MIN-AL, TER-MIN-AL
Nate Netzley
2025-08-06 14:13:01 +0000 UTCImagine if the mayor of your city just declared a citywide day of celebration for his buddy. Insane behaviour
Nemo
2025-08-06 13:30:58 +0000 UTCHotel detectives were private investigators kept on staff by major hotels to look into thefts, luggage swaps, people trying to sneak in or out without paying. They've almost entirely been replaced with police or uniformed private security these days, it just shows how the writers are immersed in the 1950s that they include one. Raymond Chandler liked to write about Hotel Detectives a lot, and he liked to call them "house dicks"
BarFly
2025-08-06 12:12:30 +0000 UTCTwo things: one I knew about the Winchester house because they made a movie about it, called Winchester, starring Helen Mirren as Sarah Winchester. Two: hotel detectives were effectively plain clothes security guards for hotels. They come up in noir stories sometimes, so I assume they were mainly in the 30s and 40s and have gone away since.
Michael Notkin
2025-08-06 12:04:23 +0000 UTCJust finished jacking in to this episode and boy are my arms tired 😩
Ed
2025-08-06 10:38:11 +0000 UTCThey call Maryland the Middle East in Upstate New York.
Joseph E.
2025-08-06 10:06:33 +0000 UTCTHAT BE MORE CHILL STING 👀
Saengchaen
2025-08-06 06:52:05 +0000 UTCAs someone who has worked in hotels for a decade, I wish I knew becoming Hotel Poroit was an option
Saengchaen
2025-08-06 06:48:27 +0000 UTCThat art is arresting. Truly a flash bang in my notifications. I'm so excited
D4rksh0gun
2025-08-06 06:07:51 +0000 UTC
