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150 - The Worst of All Possible Parties (WAPP): The 150th Episode Spectacular LIVE from Colorado Springs

The lads make their long-awaited pilgrimage to the rotten heart of the evangelical project, Focus on the Family headquarters in Colorado Springs, CO, to cover the 1000th episode celebration of Adventures in Odyssey. Topics include the horrific vibes, Adventures in Odyssey trading cards, and what it means to watch a corpse of an organization come together to celebrate their own slow, inevitable demise.

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we made it

today we went to the immersive event. so many children. so many dads wearing oakleys. so much pent up anger. nevertheless we persist

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Announcement Real final FINAL real final REAL

So very sorry for spamming your notifications. We finally figured out how to make pictures that move, and synchronize them with sound. this is going to change the world. Here's the scoop on the live show this week, what you'll miss if you stay home, and what you won't miss either way. Some fun stuff will be up for sale, and we got a charity auction going on for some one-of-a-kind pieces.

Get your tickets now: 2024-08-01 02:27:40 +0000 UTC View Post

149 - A.I.: Artificial Intelleugence (feat. Juniper) [Whit’s Endless Summer 37]

OUR LIVE SHOW IN COLORADO SPRINGS IS THIS WEEKEND, SUNDAY, AUGUST 4. CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR TICKETS!

Juniper (Western Kabuki) visits the lads in Odyssey for further adventures in escape rooms, game nights, and bidding farewell to a beloved Odyssian through the power of deepfakes. Topics include Jigsaw middle ...

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Fancy Movie Time #19: Margaret (2011)

On this episode of Fancy Movie Time with Brian and A.J., the lads grab their original iPods and throw themselves headlong into the teenage wasteland of the mid-aughts as they cover Kenneth Lonergan's long-delayed coming-of-age film: Margaret. Do the truthful script and magnificent performances make this a Fancy Feast? Or does the lengthy runtime and novelistic ambitions make it a Failure to Fancy? One thing's for sure: Matthew Broderick sure can slurp down a juice box.

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Ladscast 23 - The Frogs

Lots of live performances going on these days. Hail bacchus!

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148 - Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden (feat. Data Transfer)

Audrey and Korla (Data Transfer) take the lads on a trip to the post-cyberpocalypse as they cover Tales of Game’s infamous free-to-play sequel to a certain Michael Jordan/Looney Tunes mashup: Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden. Topics include the game’s overt racism, forum culture in the mid-2000s, and the lessons to be learned from a game where Charles Barkley destroys half of New York with a Chaos Dunk.

2024-07-24 06:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post

147 - Chrono Trigger (feat. Anime Sickos)

Tom and Joe (Anime Sickos) throw the lads in the Epoch and hop through time as they cover Square’s landmark 1995 RPG: Chrono Trigger. Topics include the thrill of flame tornados, the anxieties of action time battle, and the importance of camaraderie in the face of an apocalyptic DJ from space.

LIVE SHOW TICKETS AVAILABLE...

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low key (too dark) saturday night stream

Tonight on Twitch, Josh is streaming THE BLACK PARADE, a new fan mission for THIEF (released in November 2023) that is basically a brand new game in and of itself. This shit is too dark. Come say hey.

https://www.twitch.tv/boshj

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146 - Shrimp Jesus and the Death of Facebook

The lads made this episode with their own hands! 😊 Why do episodes like this never get likes? 😢💔 AmenAmenAmen. 🙏🇺🇸 It is our birthday and nobody wished us one. So excited to begin our cake journey. 🎂 Did you notice when it left you? Why don’t you see these anymore? Gone too soon! ✝️ The joy, the bursts of pleasure, the camaraderie? She did good work, we’re so proud of her! 🤩 This is a place of ghosts. King Charles visited Sudan to feed the hungry children! 🫅...

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Fancy Movie Time #18: Mon Oncle (1958) and Playtime (1967)

On this special double-feaster episode of Fancy Movie Time with Brian and A.J., the Fancy Lads find themselves in the charming French village/terrifying modernist hellscape that is the world of Jacques Tati in what many consider to be his two masterpieces: Mon Oncle (1958) and Playtime (1967). Does his sense of playfulness and incredible attention to detail make these films a Fancy Feast? Or does their somewhat lugubrious pacing make them a Failure to Fancy? On...

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145 - Dragon Ball Z (feat. Alex Ptak)

Alex Ptak (Quorators) and the lads check their power levels and slap each other silly as they cover the finale of the Frieza arc of Akira Toriyama’s seminal 90’s anime: Dragon Ball Z. Topics include the complex logistics of wishes, the gorgeous design of the characters, and the eternal popularity of a ripped protagonist who can eat and eat and eat and never, EVER get full.

2024-07-03 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post

We went on Well There's Your Problem

Howdy friends,

This week we went on Well There's Your Problem, a podcast about engineering disasters with slides co-hosted by friend of the show November Kelly, to talk about just how bad the current state of the American theatre has gotten. If you enjoy listening to our episodes where we talk about theatre and/or things that are broken, this should be right up your alley.

This one's a premium ep, so we've linked the preview above. If you want access to the wh...

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Josh is streaming for a bit

Hi folks! We're looking to get the TWOAPW stream back up and running soon. Until then, Josh is doing some testing on his own personal channel by streaming the new release of RIVEN. Come through and say hi!

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Ladscast 22 - Package Deal

Brian gets a little surprise, and then we spend the rest of the hour NOT talking about the debate. we just don't want to. Instead, we talk about The Magic School Bus.

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144 - Dr. Dobson’s “Wooton Hears a Woo(ton)!” [Whit’s Endless Summer 36]

In preparation for their pilgrimage to Colorado Springs, Colorado, the lads take a gander at what the heck’s been going on in Odyssey in recent years and finally meet everybody’s favorite mail-delivering Odyssian: Wooton Bassett. Topics include the zombification of Odyssey, Focus on the Family’s financial troubles, and sheer terror of watching your childhood hero become a sentient garden gnome.

2024-06-26 06:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

Our (almost) complete back catalogue is now on YouTube

Google Podcasts is dead (RIP) and Google has decided that YouTube is the way of the future, so we have navigated their slightly abstruse RSS uploader to get our public podcast back catalogue on YouTube.

We've had to merge these synced episodes with our previously manually uploaded content and there's still like 10 episodes missing; hopefully we'll be able to get that fixed wi...

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BOBUS AMA 4 - You've got Questions, We've got... something

Welcome all listeners, old and new, to our 2024 AMA, where we answer all (many) of your burning questions!

August live show tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-worst-of-all-possible-worlds-live-in-colorado-springs-tickets-928138165237

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Tickets for the Colorado Springs live show are on sale now

Hi patrons,

Hope you're enjoying the Prager episode. Alongside that, we're excited to announce that our Colorado Springs live show is now on sale!

We'll be performing on Sunday, August 4 at La Burla Bee, a queer-friendly cabaret space downtown. Doors are at 6:30pm and the show will start at 7pm. Tickets are $25 in advance (plus the Eventbrite fee) and $30 on...

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143 - Dennis Prager’s For Goodness Sake (feat. Tall Bart)

Tall Bart (@verytallbart) joins the lads for another dip into the Prager Pool as they interrogate the painful sketch comedy and baby-brained moralizing of Dennis Prager’s educational video series: For Goodness Sake. Topics include Prager’s unique rhetorical style, the bafflingly high-profile cast, and how David Zucker, Trey Parker, and Matt Stone had their hand in helping Dennis Pr...

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Questions for Our Third AMA

UPDATE: This has been recorded! We'll be posting the full AMA on Thursday, June 20.

Hey everybody!

We got a LOT of new patrons this week (in what we're unfortunately referring to as "The Gerbert Bump" or "The Gerbump") so we thought it was time for a long overdue AMA bobus episode! If you've got a question for us, go ahead and comment on the post below and we might just answer it when we record later this week....

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142 - Gerbert (feat. Devon and Trinket)

Devon and Trinket (Traditional Scrench) join the lads for some adventures in Christian puppetry as they dive into the rich tapestry of Bible stories and malevolent paint brush gods that is: Gerbert. Topics include UK children’s programming, the militarism of evangelical ideology, and the dangers of giving tuppence to birds.

Devon: Twitter // 2024-06-12 06:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post

141 - Team America: World Police (feat. Stephen Stout)

Stephen Stout (Puffs) and the lads hop into their red, white, and blue helicopters and completely obliterate France as they cover Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s 2004 fraught satire of the War on Terror: Team America: World Police. Topics include Parker and Stone’s origins, the film’s overwhelming racism, and what a movie so steeped in the post-9/11 hysteria of the early 2000s means twenty years after its release.

Stephen Stout2024-06-05 06:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post

140 - Doki Doki Literature Club! (feat. Anne Huston)

Anne Huston (Caveat NYC) joins Brian and Josh in getting bombarded by the twee writing, adorable anime girls, and abject existential terror of Team Salvato's 2017 dating sim/horror cult hit Doki Doki Literature Club! Along the way they talk about the appeal of fanworks, the perils of adolescence, and the mortifying ordeal of being known by a fictitious character inside a computer game.

Anne Huston is the General Manager at 2024-05-29 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Ladscast 21 - Echoes of the Eye

It's another DLC episode of Ladscast! This month, we jump into the ring-shaped river flowing around The Stranger and get into the very ambitious expansion of the already ambitious Outer Wilds.

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All the Lorne Lagorium Interstitials in One Place

Hey everybody!

Some of you were asking for the compilation of all the Lorne Lagorium interstitials so, just posting the link again for everybody to go check them out if they so choose!

Also, if you haven't yet, please check out Episode #129 - Blackgaard Begins (feat. Devon) and #134 - The Dutch Knight (feat. Trevor Strunk)! The newest episode is the finale of a trilogy and having the context of the first two will hopefully make your listening...

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139 - The Dutch Knight Rises (feat. Scott Benson) [Whit’s Endless Summer #35]

Scott Benson (Night in the Woods) returns once again to Odyssey as he and the lads finally wrap up their three-part coverage of the many spy-games, double-crosses, and hastily wedged in Christian morals of the epic, twelve-part Adventures in Odyssey saga: Darkness Before Dawn. Topics include the wiki-centric writing, the benefits of pirate mutiny, and what it means to grow up believing that certain souls are beyond redemption.

Sco...

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this week’s episode

is gonna be about 4 hours long. we’re wrapping up the darkness before dawn saga and going big, so we wanted to let you know ahead of time to clear your calendar. please pray for us in our time of need as we edit this motherfucker, and don’t forget to tell your friends about our show

-cv

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138 - Baby Reindeer

The lads grab their iFoNeS and spam your inbox as they dive headlong into the nightmarish world of stalking and stand up comedy that is Richard Gadd’s hit 2024 Netflix series: Baby Reindeer. Topics include the show’s origins as autobiography, the incredible performances, and what, if anything, artists owe their real-life subjects in a world addicted to true crime.

CW: Frank discussions of sexual assault and stalking.

Media R...

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Epiphabee

Hey everybody!
Another musical episode, another tune from the vault of the Dr. Samuel Bultch, D.D.S. archive. As Sondheim and Bultch were working on their one and only collaboration, a jazz musical called "What's the Buzz?" that was unfortunately lost to time, many of Sondheim's old songs were refashioned to potentially fit into what he referred to as "the ultimate Sondheim experience" and "the greatest American musical ever made" and "like Anyone Can Whistle, but with bees." Thi...

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