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33 - Actually, it's About Ethics in Middle School Journalism [Whit's Endless Summer #13]

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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 C...

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BOBUS - Whose Children Are They Anyway

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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 ...

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SPECIAL INTERVIEW: Wendy Lecker and Nicole Ciullo of the Education Law Center

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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...

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32 - Denzel Washington's Worst Movie (feat. Michael Kupperman)

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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, D...

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31 - Reefer Madness (feat. Stefan Borst-Censullo)

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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 ...

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30 - Whit Fucking Dies (feat. Lev Novak) [Whit's Endless Summer #12]

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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 ...

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29 - Alan Wake (feat. Jack Gilbert)

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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 anchovie...

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BOBUS - 100 subscriber AMA

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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.

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28 - Video Redeemed the Radio Star (feat. Rosey Armstrong)

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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...

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100! Ask us anything!

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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 ...

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27 - Whit Owns the Libs (feat. Nate Bethea) [Whit's Endless Summer #11]

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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, Pea...

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26 - West Side Story (feat. Matt Barbot)

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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 impor...

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25 - TikTok Killed the Video Star

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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 te...

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No More Hype: TikTok Influencers and Why They Matter

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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.

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We're releasing the influencers video this week

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 o...

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24 - Richard Dichard Redemption [Whit's Endless Summer #10]

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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...

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We're simplifying our pricing

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 co...

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We went on What A Hell of a Way to Die!

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. ...

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23 - FLCL (feat. Anne Huston)

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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 pu...

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22 - Whit vs. The Fundies (feat. Nate Lamagna) [Whit's Endless Summer #9]

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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...

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21 - New York Undercover (feat. Trevor Beaulieu)

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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 Ne...

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Dark Souls Super Secret Cut Audio (BOBUS CONTENT)

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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...

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Plans for February + Patron Poll

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 t...

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20 - The Long Dark Souls of the Soul (feat. Trevor Strunk)

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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 ...

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An announcement + cool stuff coming up in February

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 s...

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19 - The Coriolanus Effect (feat. Josh Sawyer)

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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 s...

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18 - Pokémon (feat. Ashleigh Stoneman)

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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 nigh...

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Sneak Peek at Our Next Video!

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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-d...

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17 - Dreaming of a Whit Christmas [Whit's Endless Summer #8]

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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:
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16 - Odyssey Salutes the Troops! (feat. Nate Bethea) [Whit's Endless Summer #7]

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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 Twitt...

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