Pigeon finally liked an episode of Adventures in Odyssey! That’s because we’re covering Plan B, Part 2: Collision Course, the 14th episode (and halfway point!) of the Novacom story arc. Hold onto your jockstraps, girlies, because this one is where it gets dark and devastating. 

Discussion topics include:

-Our experience representing Team USA in soccer at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City

-A plane crash outside Snip’s bedroom door or something?

-The dripping sexual tension between Joanne Allen and Millie Shanks

-Sense and Sensibility, starring Emma Thompson!

-You literally can’t do anything wrong once you become a Christian

-A public apology from Percy regarding horse dinners

-The mating practices of British homosexuals

Wait, what’s that? Can you hear it in the distance? They’re wedding bells! Eugene and Katrina get married in PLAN B, PART 1: MISSING IN ACTION, the 13th episode of Adventures in Odyssey’s Novacom saga! And we are FREAKING OUT ABOUT IT! 

Discussion topics include:

-We will NEVER forget Marshall Younger

-Our dream Adventures in Odyssey tattoos

-Eugene and Katrina’s first time

-Rock music is evil, but these guitars SLAYYYYYY

-The Twilight saga, of course

-Accidental raptures

-”Dude, you’re getting a Dell”

-A brief history of the Chicago Memorial Hospital

-The Great Mouse Detective

-Jason Whittaker made Percy gay

This week, it’s all about Mitch’s smokin' hot feet as we dive into SECRETS, the 12th episode of Adventures in Odyssey’s Novacom Saga. Oh, also, Connie is trying to figure out if she can trust Mitch. We talk a bit about tennis, so naturally, Percy gets us super sidetracked multiple times (though not necessarily about tennis).

Discussion topics include:

-The staple gun to the scroty eppy of King of Queens

-Relationship advice from your favorite mentally ill poddy friends

-Whit is the problem in Connie’s relationship with Mitch

-Sending dick pics in the early days of the war on terror

-How many dick pics can you put in an envelope before it becomes a package?

-How our mothers found out we were sexually active

-The real thorn in Paul’s side

In GRAND OPENING, PART 2, Snip and Pigeon SWOON over Mitch, and Percy and Snip FREAK OUT over Mr. Charles. Pigeon spends most of the episode judging Snip and Percy.
Discussion topics include:
-Laura and Barbara Bush scissoring together
-Horse dinner?
-How to have fun while bowling without losing your self-respect
-Mitch plans the best dates
-There is nothing more romantic than salami
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Whit and Mary scissor — er, I mean, they share a pair of scissors to cut the ribbon at Whit’s End Connellsville in the opening scene of GRAND OPENING, PART 1. AREM comes back (also, he's a Latino musician!), we find Mitch's first-ever flaw, and we get to meet Larry (the human, not the cucumber).

Discussion topics include:

-9/11

-The Ceaucescu dictatorship of Romania

-We still hate Mary

-Does the Imagination Station even require imagination…?

-Non-binary people have defeated sexuality

-The queer armor of God

We’re back from our unannounced, unexpected, and unnoticed mental health hiatus (we got sad). It’s time to get into album 37 with STRANGE BOY IN A STRANGE LAND! Mandy and Sarah are on a camping trip, but their trip gets interrupted when they stumble upon the previously missing Jared, Odyssey’s gay Alex Jones. We learn a bit about Andromeda — and as a result, Percy and Snip relive some childhood trauma while Pigeon tries to figure out what is going on.

Discussion topics include:

-9/11

-What to Do If Your Childhood Friend Ends Up Living in the Forest Because He’s in the Witness Protection Program: A Trauma-Informed Guide for Millennials and Those Who Love Them

-Holocaust denialism isn’t that cool tbh

-Gay camping

-Probably some other stuff, idk, Percy was getting really sleepy while writing the show notes

We weirdly and genuinely liked a few different scenes of BREAKING POINT, the last episode of Album 36: Danger Signals. Whit’s End is criminally understaffed, Wooton sweeps us off our feet, Mary is “aggressively anti-child,” and we have a wonderful conversation about crafting good apologies, dealing with guilt after participating in harmful evangelical systems, and knowing when to take responsibility and when to have self-compassion.

Discussion topics include:

-9/11

-Tim Lambesis and Spencer Chamberlain’s sin struggles

-Eating the cupcake wrapper is good for the environment

-Everyone used to be a child (mind blown)

-Whit’s End After Dark

-Why are the British so difficult to please sexually?

-Wooton is canonically asexual

Is this the most racist episode of Adventures in Odyssey? Well, we don’t really know, but it was bad enough that we had to bring on a special guest (Panda!) to help us discuss CHAINS. Whit stalks and kidnaps a pair of children after he demolishes their home for his own financial gain, Mary says a bunch things that get her shipped off to Cancelvania, and we learn that the Adventures in Odyssey writers have apparently never met a person of color.

Discussion topics include:

-9/11

-Catholics are weird

-Going to church after a sleepover

-The Edwin Blackgaard of substitute teachers

-Ruth’s incredible blowjobs

-Sucking toes vs. sucking dick

-Pigeon’s cream dream

-Mission trip madness

-Light-up pocket protectors

It’s time for Part 2 of our accidentally but unavoidably long eppy about GREEN EYES AND YELLOW TULIPS. Whit bumbles his way into a protest that turns violent, Joanne is craving the hot tea about Connie and Mitch, and this conservative evangelical organization is going to try to teach us about not judging others (?).

Discussion topics include:

-Jan. 6

-Should non-Christians have civil rights?

-Meg Ryan’s secret kink

-The exchange rate between abortions and broken windows

-Wasabi vs. Listerine Strips as lubricants

-BIRD TALK

-Tips to avoid carpal tunnel during your me-time

-Connie Kendall is infinitely better than Susan Boyle

-What if a tiny bird taught Shakespeare?

-Fallopian tubes

-How to responsibly make out while driving

Books mentioned but not recommended:

Hangman’s Curse by Frank Peretti

The Left Behind Series (for adults and kids)

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers

Today, we’ve got Part 1 of an absurdly long conversation about GREEN EYES AND YELLOW TULIPS, the fifth episode of the Novacom saga. We get to meet Mitch, our bisexual king; Whit and Bart Rathbone have unresolved tension from their unforeseen previous sexual liaison; and in the last 30 minutes, we have a funny and really heartfelt conversation that’s a bit out of character for us.

Discussion topics include:

-9/11

-Reclaiming the comfort of Bible stories without the religious baggage

-Various shades of yellow

-Magnanimity with our parents

-Erotic games with Listerine strips

-Bird ambulances

-Jan. 6

-How many denominations can we name?

Books mentioned and recommended:

-The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances Fitzgerald

-The Way We Never Were: American Families And The Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz

-The works of Bart Ehrman