(Y)2K AMA: submit your questions
Added 2025-01-18 00:11:19 +0000 UTC***UPDATE: SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED! We will be releasing the recorded AMA very soon.***
How auspicious and appropriate that the very same week we discussed the turn of the millennium we also hit 2,000 paid Patreon subscribers! That's way more than the last time we did one of these, and a lot has changed since then, so we're fielding your questions yet again. Ask us anything and we will answer your questions on a Patreon-exclusive bobus episode soon.
Please submit your questions in the comments below this post, or if you'd like to hear your own voice read the question out, you can call the hotline at (347) 857-9523 and leave a message (KEEP IT BRIEF PLEASE). Once we've gotten enough submissions, we'll update this post to note when submissions are closed.
Finally, as is tradition, a poll for engagement:
What was your favorite episode of the past few weeks?
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Is there any Christian media (or Christian adjacent media) that resonated with you when you first encountered it that now you find gross or have complicated feelings about? Like, I really loved the sci-fi novel, The Sparrow, when I first read it. However, after learning about the author and her intent with the book (pro Columbus propaganda) I kinda feel as if what I liked about the book was just me projecting better ideas onto it.
-Think of Something Better
2025-01-26 17:00:21 +0000 UTCWill Eleanor Janega ever guest on this show or has her anti-Voltaire stance made her persona non grata?
James Cézanne-Taipale
2025-01-24 17:03:03 +0000 UTCAdditionally, can any of you hit the WHYYYYYY in Gethsemane from JC Superstar
howl's moving pictures by rush
2025-01-24 13:29:00 +0000 UTCGo-to karaoke songs?
howl's moving pictures by rush
2025-01-24 13:24:48 +0000 UTCBrian (and AJ,so far): favorite MASH episode, or generally series highlights?
Ninon
2025-01-24 04:19:55 +0000 UTCAny chance we have more coverage of albums coming up? Loved the DC Talk episode, would be fun to hear you talk about the random conservatism in lots of "secular" pop and rap
seedmunch
2025-01-23 23:24:21 +0000 UTCIt seems like Josh can read an entire book in between episodes. How fast can he read and how did he learn to do that? Also, what happened to Avril Lavigne?
Trevor Seyfried
2025-01-23 21:42:12 +0000 UTCWhat video game companion character would you want following you around in real life?
Jakob Lichtenfeld
2025-01-23 21:37:21 +0000 UTCDo you have a process for deciding what an episode's interstitial is going to be? And how far in advance are or were the Whit's Endless Summer interstitials mapped out?
Magpie
2025-01-23 20:58:55 +0000 UTCIs there a Broadway play you'd like to do an episode on but due to some sort of circumstance it is unlikely to ever be done?
Cariad Keigher
2025-01-23 20:52:00 +0000 UTCAre there any topics that you at one point had wanted to cover, but decided against for whatever reason as the pod developed?
Leigh Seward
2025-01-23 20:43:10 +0000 UTCTaking bits too far is one of the core components of the pod, but what bit do you guys think you didn't take far enough? What bit would you like to spin off into its own media franchise?
Jorg2 - Chemistry is praxis
2025-01-23 20:39:03 +0000 UTCYou have unlimited money to put on an existing play or musical on Bway: what show are you doing, and whats the pitch?
Ninon
2025-01-23 18:31:21 +0000 UTCFor Josh (and the others if you have an answer ready): favourite NY subway line and rolling stock type? For all of you: what age were you when you first took a train in regular service (so excluding things like the train at Disneyland or airport people movers), and have you ever done so regularly outside the NY subway?
Max Johansson
2025-01-22 14:33:31 +0000 UTCHow does Brian decide which episodes to cover for Whit's Endless Summer?
Wyatt Yankus
2025-01-22 12:03:13 +0000 UTCAt what moment in your lives did you realise you were in fact living in the worst of all possible worlds? A recent-ish episode I really enjoyed was Silent Hill 2 despite not having played the game. Ayesha was a fantastic guest and the whole episode felt very personal. Also, with your theatrical backgrounds I would love to see you cover the 2022 fmv driven video game Immortality.
Michael S
2025-01-21 20:58:35 +0000 UTCI know there was a Fancy Movie Time episode on Mulholland Drive, but I'd wonder if the three of you have any thoughts about David Lynch and his filmography, in light of his recent passing.
Felix
2025-01-19 21:31:40 +0000 UTChave any of you seen the off broadway show teeth and if so, what were your thoughts on it. It dealt with a lot about evangelicals..
Izzy Gil
2025-01-19 17:47:35 +0000 UTCFor all the boys first off love the show it allows me to look across the pond and get a little bit enlightened on what the fuck is going on over there. Secondly seeing as American pro wrestling is a fairly significant artifiact of culture that has kept the problem that we are dealing with today in the public consciousness when they otherwise wouldn't have, firstly do you enjoy it? Also do you have a favourite wrestler of the past or present from any promotion?
Josephine
2025-01-19 11:48:39 +0000 UTCAs an ex evangelical I love the episodes where you do the big hit Christian novels. Did any of you ever encounter the mark of the lion series? Me and my friends were obsessed with it when I was a teenager but looking back it had many problematic themes: https://www.amazon.com.au/Mark-Lion-F-Rivers/dp/0842339523
Emma
2025-01-19 05:06:28 +0000 UTCThis is probably a very boring question, but do you each have a dream episode and guest combo (achievable or not)? I think one of mine would be an episode on Walt Disney and/or specifically Disneyland, with Jenny Nicholson as a guest. That's some "decline of a modern empire" shit right there!
Leo Curtis
2025-01-18 22:29:33 +0000 UTCNostalgia critic was incredibly fun for me to listen too I find the angry internet reviewer craze incredibly fascinating
Daisy Morrigan Spade
2025-01-18 17:32:40 +0000 UTCFor AJ: As someone who grew up in an Evangelical home-schooling family, it has been fascinating to hear someone from outside that background do a sustained deep dive into things that were household names for me growing up (AIO, Frank Peretti, CS Lewis, Kirk Cameron). I am curious, what has been the broad trend from across your evangelical media exploration you have found the most surprising?
Paula Sulpice
2025-01-18 14:13:45 +0000 UTCThat works. Recently sent it on to a friend who listened to Adventures in Odyssey as a child (I didn't) and she's slowly working her way through. Had to explain the AJ plot to her though which was fun.
Peter Larkin
2025-01-18 11:09:36 +0000 UTCHard to pick a "favourite" as you've had some really good ones. Going with It's a Wonderful Life cause it was a perfectly joyful episode at a time in the year when I needed it.
Peter Larkin
2025-01-18 11:06:09 +0000 UTCAs you move further away from the AIO episodes you remember from your childhood, does that make discussion easier or more difficult? & for thouse who’ve got past MASH season 4, Trapper or BJ?
PigeonTom
2025-01-18 09:17:14 +0000 UTCWhat's the gangs favourite musicals?
Harry
2025-01-18 09:03:02 +0000 UTCIf you could add one movie to the Criterion Collection what would it be and why?
Jakob Lichtenfeld
2025-01-18 06:50:55 +0000 UTCWill there be more twoapw merch? If not, how do you recommend I put cool voltaire on my body in a semi- to largely-permanent way
Adi
2025-01-18 06:40:37 +0000 UTCWhat is each hosts "game of the year"? ( Including games not released in the year 2024 but played for the first time )
S-lappin
2025-01-18 05:49:38 +0000 UTC1. How has your life situation changed since the last Q and A? How does it compare to where you thought you'd be when graduating college? 2. Has Josh played Fallen Aces yet? Immersive Sim about murdering goons. 3. Not a question but Noah Caldwell-Gervais would be an amazing guest for a game episode!
Dergon
2025-01-18 02:33:43 +0000 UTCWhat is the editorial process for deciding what gets cut from an episode?
Henry Bish
2025-01-18 01:55:54 +0000 UTCIn the Gerbert episode, Brian made an off-hand comment about a Deathscythe gunpla. Are any of you gunpla (or any sort of modeling) enjoyers, and if so, do you have any favorite builds/kits?
Korax
2025-01-18 01:13:43 +0000 UTCOh there's no chance I'd venture into that dark pit without a guide, I meant Whit's Endless Summer. Thank you for the pointer!
David Fisher
2025-01-18 01:07:27 +0000 UTCI finally smashed enough adventures in Odyssey cassette tapes to find the golden tape. Where are the rest of Phil Loler's horcruxes?
Andrew Acebo
2025-01-18 01:05:03 +0000 UTCOnly 1 question: what IS this?
she seize my means of production til I commie
2025-01-18 00:56:18 +0000 UTCWhat's a self-indulgent episode you'd love to do but the others probably wouldn't agree to (perhaps thinking it wouldn't make a good episode or they wouldn't have anything to say)?
Evelyn Miner
2025-01-18 00:49:57 +0000 UTCFun fact: Dark Dungeons from Zombie Orpheus Entertainment, a parody of the Chick tract from the D&D satanic panic, is somehow an officially licensed adaptation of the tract because Jack Chick just offered the rights for free when contacted.
Joseph E.
2025-01-18 00:48:57 +0000 UTCFor all three of you: if you could live through the events of any episode of Adventures in Odyssey, imagination station style, which episode would you pick? And, obvious follow up, which Odyssey character would you fuck? Human adults only, AJ is not allowed to pick Tom Riley’s horse Rachel (or Leah, but nobody is gonna pick Leah lol).
Sarah Hewitt
2025-01-18 00:45:03 +0000 UTCBest advice for getting over a bad break up
Jacob Serafin
2025-01-18 00:43:29 +0000 UTCHow do you approach structuring an escape room to tie the plot and puzzles together? How do you write for a budget?
Joseph E.
2025-01-18 00:41:51 +0000 UTCFollow up question: why did I ever decide to do this?? (horse sounds)
Ethan Ness
2025-01-18 00:35:13 +0000 UTCYou step into an elevator with none other than the good Doc Dob himself. This is your chance to pitch your very own Christian Entertainment Program (CEP) and make it big in the industry. My question is, what is your elevator pitch?
Ethan Ness
2025-01-18 00:32:45 +0000 UTCif you’re talking about whit’s endless summer, we usually recommend starting with 129 blackgaard begins; the opening framing device also serves as an explanation of what the world of the show is all about. if you mean adventures in odyssey itself… don’t
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2025-01-18 00:32:04 +0000 UTCFavourite animated films?
Zipzapzop
2025-01-18 00:25:38 +0000 UTCI was 15 years old when we entered the new millennium, and I spent it with our youth group at a local theme park. We rode roller coasters and played mini golf and had a pretty groovy time. I also remember that we forced our youth pastor to tune in to a local radio station that had decided to play the Venga Boys We Like to Party for 24 hours straight heading into the new year. The van ride was probably 45 minutes long and I remember everyone being really hyped to listen to this song over and over again. That said, what are your thoughts on We Like to Party by the Venga Boys?
Myerk Lamb
2025-01-18 00:20:45 +0000 UTCThis is a question for the community: I'm interested in 'Adventures in Odyssey' but the backlog is daunting. Where should I start?
David Fisher
2025-01-18 00:20:32 +0000 UTCThis is for all 3 of you: if you were given full reign to revive a Broadway musical, what show would you revive and what are some of the choices you would make?
HollyBroWoo
2025-01-18 00:14:23 +0000 UTC
