The lads follow a trail of corruption and intrigue as they return to Odyssey to dig up a scoop on the greatest calamity facing the youth of today: the ethics of middle-school journalism. Topics include the true meaning of free speech, the importance of school newspaper competitions, and the right-wing radicalization of Lucy Cunningham-Schultz. Plus, an interview with Harm Venhuizen (@HarmVenhuizen), the outgoing editor-in-chief of the Calvin University student paper Chimes (@CalvinCh...
2022-05-04 14:20:23 +0000 UTC
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Hi patrons!
We want to give you some exclusive bobus content every once in a while, so we mainlined some propaganda. Whose Children Are They? is a “documentary” that was created to persuade conservative parents to homeschool their children and/or pressure local public school teachers into leaving the union. We paid for this thing on streaming (lol) and took a two hour shotgun blast of poorly constructed bad faith talking points directly to the face.
We would not...
2022-04-29 22:29:55 +0000 UTC
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You’ve probably seen a lot of clips recently of the ongoing culture war coming to a flashpoint in school board meetings across the country. To learn how the reactionary right is using these conflicts to push for increased school privatization, Josh (@boshj) sat down with Wendy Lecker and Nicole Ciullo from the Education Law Center, a Newark-based organization that defends public schools and advocates in the courts for educational equity.
This forty-minute interview covers topics such ...
2022-04-29 22:28:01 +0000 UTC
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The lads throw on their bad hair pieces and fine Italian suits as they, along with special guest Michael Kupperman (@Mkupperman), gaze into the gaping maw of the much-maligned Bob Hoskins and Denzel Washington buddy-cop/ghost/crime-thriller/“comedy”: Heart Condition. Topics include mid-budget 90s studio movies, Denzel Washington’s comedy chops, and the rot at the diseased heart of the supposed end of history.
Michael Kupperman’s Patreon:
2022-04-27 11:01:01 +0000 UTC
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It’s D.A.R.E.’s worst nightmare as the lads, along with renowned cannabis lawyer Stefan Borst-Censullo (@Stefan_BC), reach new highs and tackle the devil’s weed in the 1936 propaganda film Reefer Madness. Topics include the racist history of narcotics crackdowns, the current state of marijuana law in the United States, and the circular madness of the war on drugs.
TWOAPW Patreon:
2022-04-20 11:01:02 +0000 UTC
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The lads and special guest Lev Novak (@LevNovak) do battle with the Imagination Station as Adventures in Odyssey tackles its two toughest topics yet: death and also those three guys that visited Jesus that one time. Topics include the gifts of the magi, the preposterousness of hell, and the seemingly unkillable deity known as John Avery Whittaker.
Episodes Discussed:
176,177 - The Star, parts 1&...
2022-04-13 11:00:05 +0000 UTC
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My name is Alan Wake. I’m a writer. Three podcasters and their friend, Jack Horton Gilbert, played through my story and talked about it for three hours. What followed was wild and dark and weird, even by my standards. Stephen King once said, “My wife and kids won’t touch a pizza with anchovies on it. But I like anchovies.“* I think about that all the time.
Jack’s Monologue:
2022-04-06 11:00:07 +0000 UTC
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You Asked! We answered! Plus some discussion at the end about upcoming work. It's really unbelievable to see we have 100 patrons (actually 110 at the time of this posting) and we are so grateful for all of you. hope you enjoy our little AMA.
2022-04-02 11:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Saddle up your horses as the lads, along with Rosey Armstrong (Hans Gruber and the Die Hards, Los Kurados), slap on their Crosses of Gold and dive headlong into the varied and wild world of Contemporary Christian Music (CCM). Topics include what makes Christian music Christian music, the importance of artistic integrity in an industry seemingly designed to destroy it, and the rampaging sexiness of Michael W. Smith.
Rosey’s Playlist:
2022-03-30 11:00:06 +0000 UTC
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NOTE: THIS EPISODE HAS NOW BEEN RECORDED! We plan to release it this weekend. With that said, feel free to add additional comments/questions and we might address them in a future AMA!
Hello to patrons new and old! Last night we surpassed the momentous and auspicious milestone of 100 subscribers here on Patreon. To commemorate this, we're going to record a patron-only Q&A mini-podcast, which we'll release within the next few d...
2022-03-24 18:50:21 +0000 UTC
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Nate Bethea aka @inthesedeserts (What a Hell of a Way To Die, Trashfuture) returns to Odyssey (and the podcast!) as he and the lads tackle the real problems facing a divided America: insecticide, new highways, and bigotry against “citters”. Topics include the environmental activism of the early 90's, Pearl Harbor, and the benefits of having an American legend graffiti your door.
Episodes discussed:
#128 - One Bad Apple
#129 - Not One of Us
#175 - East Wind...
2022-03-23 11:01:02 +0000 UTC
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The lads, along with special guest Matt Barbot (@BarbotRobot), have rockets in their pockets as they rumble with Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner’s 2021 adaptation of the musical theater classic: West Side Story. They discuss the complicated legacy of the original musical, the pitfalls of adaptation, and the importance of producing new work in an industry obsessed with refurbishing the old.
Frijoles by Matt Barbot:
2022-03-16 11:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Bust out your ring lights and twenty dollar phone clamps because this week the lads dive headlong into the world of influencers with the hit (?) reality shows Netflix’s Hype House and Hulu’s The D’Amelio Show. Topics include the emptiness of influencer culture, the pressures of being the most famous teenager in the world, and the arduous but necessary work of differentiating the person from their persona.
Josh’s video:
2022-03-09 12:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Here’s the link to our new video about TikTok and influencer culture. It goes live at 2pm ET today and we’re using the YouTube Premiere feature so that you can watch and react to it right as it drops. We hope you enjoy it.
2022-03-09 07:22:14 +0000 UTC
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Hi all,
You might remember the rough cut we put out on here a couple months back of the first 15 minutes of our next YouTube video. Big news: we finally finished it.
The final title is No More Hype – Why TikTok Influencers Matter and we're scheduling it for release at 2pm ET on Wednesday, March 9 on our YouTube channel. If you want to be n...
2022-03-07 06:50:47 +0000 UTC
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The lads face down the dastardly Dr. Regis Blackgaard as they once again return to Odyssey for a dizzying foray into the world of forgiveness and electronic stores. Topics include Midwestern social mores, the nature of revenge, and the importance of unionizing in a world full of John Avery Whittakers.
Episodes discussed:
#155 & #156: Waylaid in the Windy City, Parts 1 and 2
#159 The Homecoming
#160 A Rathbone of Contention
For further Context, check out TWOAPW episod...
2022-03-02 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Hello patrons!
At the end of January, we announced that we'd be trialing a weekly release schedule for the podcast. Now that we're at the end of February, we've gotten great reception about this schedule, and we've seen considerably more interest and new listeners as a result.
As such, we'll continue releasing the podcast on a weekly schedule from here on out. And in order to sustain this schedule, we're simplifying the pricing structure
2022-02-26 19:01:38 +0000 UTC
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If you’ve been listening to our show for a while, you might remember our Whit’s Endless Summer episode with Nate Bethea about patriotism and The Troops. This week we went on his show to talk about the relationship between evangelicalism and the military, as well as how that relationship manifests in popular culture.
Check it out: https://soundcloud.com/hellofa...
2022-02-24 08:06:35 +0000 UTC
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Things get WILD as the lads, along with special guest Anne Huston (General Manager of Caveat), strap on their Gibson Flying V/EB-0 1961 Bass guitars and dive headlong into the Loony Tunes madness and shocking poignancy of Kazuya Tsurumaki and Yōji Enokido’s hit anime: FLCL. Topics include the horrific comedy of puberty, Japan’s complicated relationship with the West, and the serenity that comes with no thots, only robots.
Caveat:
2022-02-23 12:00:06 +0000 UTC
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The lads make their long-awaited return to Odyssey as they bring special guest Nate Lamagna (@vrunt) along for some wacky adventures in dealing with the second coming of Christ, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the realization that your best friends’ dad has debilitating alcoholism! Topics include the business of rapture-mongering, the parallels between AiO and The Simpsons, and one of the strangest episodes of Odyssey ever as Dr. James Dobson comes to town.
EPISODES ...
2022-02-16 12:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Special guest Trevor Beaulieu (Champagne Sharks) joins the lads as they solve a pretty boilerplate case and then dress up in fancy disguises for a negligible amount of screen-time to discuss the immensely popular and massively overlooked (by white people) Dick Wolf procedural: New York Undercover. They discuss the Network Wars of the mid-90s, the brilliant music and outdated storylines of Undercover, and the procedural empire of Richard D. Wolf.
CW: contains discussion...
2022-02-09 12:00:05 +0000 UTC
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hello everyone. hope you're having a nice start to your february. the month named after our beloved winter nymph Febru, who Zeus turned into a month because of her crimes. so, so many crimes.
It's a little piece, and usually we don't have enough cut content that's actually good, but we thought this would be nice to put up.
2022-02-06 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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It’s Josh again, back with an update and an audience poll. We’ve gotten a lot of new patrons since we made our last poll, so we’d love to hear from you.
In February, we’re gonna be changing our podcast release schedule to weekly episodes. This is basically a trial run to see if we can maintain that production schedule while balancing the show with the rest of the stuff we have going on. As before, every other week will be a preview, with the full episode availab...
2022-02-05 19:25:41 +0000 UTC
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The lads and special guest Trevor Strunk (No Cartridge, Story Mode) take up the mantle of the Chosen Undead as they attempt to link the fire by climbing the trap-filled Snake Fortress of video game culture that is Dark Souls. They discuss difficulty settings in video games, the pernicious gatekeeping of gitting gud, and what Dark Souls can teach us about surviving an apocalypse.
Trevor Strunk:
Twitter: @Hegelbon
No Cartridge:
2022-02-02 12:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone. Hope you've been well. January has been a study in contrasts, but I'm (Josh) cautiously optimistic about what the rest of the winter might look like.
So, the first thing: if you listened to the most recent episode of the podcast with Josh Sawyer, you might have noticed that we actually have now run out of space in our outro to credit all of the patrons. This is one of those "great problems to have," but we still want to make sure everyone gets credited.
As such, we're...
2022-01-25 22:02:12 +0000 UTC
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The lads and special guest Josh Sawyer (Fallout: New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity) go beard to beard with the mob as they face down one of Shakespeare’s most brutal and overlooked tragedies: Coriolanus. They discuss Ralph Fiennes’ excellent 2011 film adaptation, the dehumanizing weaponization of soldiers in an ever-expanding empire, and the uncanny horror of Chekhovian Slendermen. Was Zizek right to say that this movie is "like God's eyes in an Orthodox icon?" You...
2022-01-19 12:01:03 +0000 UTC
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The lads, along with special guest Ashleigh Stoneman (The Very Worst, The Merry Worst), venture off into the tall grass to do battle with the literal wild animal that is the Pokémon franchise. They discuss the pastoral origins of Pokémon, its literal demonization at the hands of the Christian Right, and the existential nightmare of being the very best, like no one ever was.
Ashleigh Stoneman
Twitter: @ashstoneman
The Very Worst
Apple: 2022-01-03 16:13:56 +0000 UTC
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Hey Grand Inquisitors and Panglosses!
At this, the end of another pandemic year, we thought it might be fun to show a peek behind the curtain of what we've been cooking up for the YouTube channel. This is a rough cut* of the first 15 minutes of our next video, which features our very own Josh Boerman taking a deep-dive into the world of TikTok, influencer culture, and the perils of trying to become the best impromptu speaker in the state of Michigan.
Leave any feedback o...
2021-12-31 21:38:56 +0000 UTC
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The lads knock back a few eggnogs and experience a true Christmas miracle as they cover the first actually good episode of Adventures in Odyssey: “Monty’s Christmas”. Topics include the power of empathy, Christmas angels, and the legacy of the late, great voice actor Will Ryan.
Episodes Referenced:
87: Elijah Part 1
88: Elijah Part 2
97: Monty’s Christmas
98: The Visitors
115: An Act of Mercy
Patreon:
2021-12-22 13:01:02 +0000 UTC
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The lads enlist Nate Bethea (What a Hell of a Way To Die, TRASHFUTURE) to help battle their way through some of Adventures in Odyssey’s most patriotic episodes. They discuss the cliches of war stories, the manufactured outrage around flag burning, and getting uncucked at the hands of Dr. Beans.
Nate’s Twitter: @inthesedeserts
Nate’s Podcasts:
What A Hell of a Way to Die
2021-12-08 06:31:44 +0000 UTC
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