No one asked for it, but we talked about KAREN, the twisted Adventures in Odyssey episode about child cancer and death. And we’re pretty damn funny about it. Well, except the part where Percy realizes his mortality and cries. But that’s just a bonus. Also, we play Pigeon and Parsnip Trivia! Get your own bottle of Barefoot Wine and join us as we wade through our experiences of grief and loss as well as our plans for future cocaine use.

Discussion topics include:

-Who is Chris?

-Psalm 23 is GAY

-Parsnip is gay for Donna Barclay

-The Sadness Stick

-Odyssey incest

-Percy’s dream about the episode

-Who our dogs are voting for

-Percy’s Senior Citizen Party Buss

-When church works

-Percy makes his will

Resources discussed:

-“It’s OK That You’re Not OK” by Megan Devine

-“God’s Problem” by Bart Ehrman

-“Airfield” by Enter Shikari

EEK! LOOK OUT! It’s time to wrap up our Halloween spooker with THE CASE OF THE SECRET ROOM, PART 2. In today’s episode, a bunch of characters stand around explaining things to each other, and we sit around explaining it to you. But we’re funny. And we get mad at the Adventures in Odyssey staff and Focus on the Family. Don’t you want to join us?!

Discussion topics include:

-Barefoot wine

-The Iran-Iraq War

-Timothy Center sexy calendar

-Locktober 365

-Whit is biracial

-The definition of FDIC

-Orphans

-The FAILING Odyssey Times

-Gay cruising in McAlister Park

-Whit has fought in every war

-Bring back fat Whit

-$25,000 in pennies will cover up the smell of the dead body in your basement

Pull out your weighted blankets and comfort items because it’s time to get SPOOKY! This week, we’re leaping headfirst into THE CASE OF THE SECRET ROOM, PART 1, Adventures in Odyssey’s first scary episode. There’s a literal corpse in Whit’s End, and Whit is going to investigate no matter how much the police ask him not to. And, of course, we have to talk about … “Whhhhittakeeerrrrrr.”

Discussion topics include:

-Tom’s grandniece is racist

-Pro mystery music, anti clue noises

-Pigeon and Whit goon over libraries together

-Marc Brown’s “Arthur”

-Old-timey newspapers

-Bank-robbing 101, according to Pigeon

-Portugal is the mastermind behind everything

-What makes Adventures in Odyssey so scary

Recommendations:

-“Howards End” by EM Forster

-“White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa” by Susan Williams

-“The Battle for Algiers (1966)”

YAR, MATEYS! In honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day, we’re tearing to shreds Adventures in Odyssey’s awful episode celebrating colonialism: COLUMBUS: THE GRAND VOYAGE. The historical inaccuracy is as offensive as it is hysterically stupid, and Pigeon — our resident history degree holder — has the receipts. Join us on our own grand voyage through all the white Christian supremacist baloney that is this episode.

Discussion topics include:

-3-2-1 Penguins

-Phil Lollar’s war against fun

-Lawrence Hodges is canonically closeted

-Lesbian Queen Isabella at Christian school

-Isabella and Ferdinand were UGGOS!

-Pigeon and Percy nerd out further on Spanish history (sorry)

-Whit storyboarding child abuse for the Imagination Station

-Third-layer God!

Works Cited:

-Stephen Morillo - Frameworks of World History, Volume One: to 1550 (2014)

-George Brown Tindall & David Emory Shi - America: A Narrative History, Vol. 1 (2013)

-Lynn Hunt, Thomas Martin, Barbara Rosenwein, & Bonnie Smith

- The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, Volume I: to 1740 (2010)

-David E. Shi & Holly A. Mayer - For the Record: A Documentary History of America, Volume 1: From First Contact through Reconstruction (2013)

-Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca - Chronicles of the Narváez Expedition

-Katharine J. Lualdi - Sources of The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, Volume 1: to 1750 (2012)

It’s our first episode post-Novacom! We go back in time about 400 episodes to scoop up the iconic Eugene/Bernard/Connie episode, SUSPICIOUS MINDS! Also, a new Whit just dropped, and he did a porno in drag one time. No, but like, really. It’s a true story. Listen to the episode to hear about it.

Discussion topics include:

-Evangelicals, Anglicans, and Catholics — oh, god!

-Computer use in the 1990s

-The sacred Midwest ritual of Spoons

-Latvian independence

-Idris, King of Libya

-How does trust work?

-Chaos queen Bernard Walton

-Fun facts about electrocution!

Join us as we loosen our corsets and look back on the adventure that was the Novacom Saga! We play some Novacom trivia, retrace the steps that brought us to this horrible place, and talk about where we’re going next.

Discussion topics include:

-Walmart brand Imagination Stations

-What would’ve made us have more compassion for Whit?

-Parsnip yelled at Pigeon in the grocery store

-Dating on Hinge

-If you kill Chris, you have to take her job

-Monica is the new Tasha

-Where were the investigative journalists?

-The kids discover the Novabox is making people buy Fizzy Cola, Greasly Chips, and birdhouses

-Stepping barefoot on peanuts

Holy moly, we made it through the entire Novacom saga! Today, we’re wrapping it up with EXIT, and my god is Pigeon in a snit about this one. To be fair, not a single bit of the episode makes any sense, and it’s a very unsatisfying conclusion to a 28-episode saga. Enjoy, bitches!

Discussion topics include:

-Drag names

-RuPaul’s connection to Andromeda

-Mitch and Connie’s new kink

-Give us that applesauce!

-T-9 texting will save the world

-Recidivism rates in Campbell County

-“Radical Acceptance” by Tara Brach (it’ll help with this episode)

-Connie’s WAP

-Proof that the writers are horny for Monica Stone

Oh, girl! We are so close to the end of Novacom. Today, we’ve got EXACTLY AS PLANNED, the penultimate episode of the saga! And if the plan was to piss us off, then the writers of Adventures in Odyssey achieved that goal.

Discussion topics include:

-9/11

-Prayer stats

-Mrs. Bennet is the anxious queen we need

-IHeart Radio is the new Andromeda

-We are football girlies

-Mr. Charles’ berserker mode

-Daisy-chaining radio towers

-You can’t use fiction to teach about prayer

-What we do now in place of praying to God