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)