What's Odyssey? With Joshua Mensah-Woode

What's Odyssey? With Joshua Mensah-Woode

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What's Odyssey? With Joshua Mensah-Woode episodes

  • TEASER- Prologue: The Destruction of Truth.

    "What is truth?" Joshua Mensah-Woode begins to unpack this loaded question in the prologue to an unrelenting new audio documentary series based on the hit show Adventures in Odyssey. Are you curious? Subscribe to the What's Odyssey Podcast to be ready for the full episode release!

    3 min
  • ANNIVERSARY EDITION- Episode 9: Interview with Donald Treply

    The What's Odyssey Podcast is back! After five long months, Joshua shares his plans for this show's future with Donald Treply, the owner and founder of AIO Writer's Block. This episode also releases on "What's Odyssey Podcast Day", one of seven days set aside to celebrate AIO Writer's Block's recent anniversary. Among all that, the hosts discuss creativity and what it means to be an AIO fan creator.


    Visit Donald Treply's website here:

    https://aiowritersblock.com

    41 min
  • Episode 8: "What's Odyssey?": From the Fans!

    During the What’s Odyssey Podcast’s season one break, Joshua looked to his Instagram followers to get one fan-suggested episode topic. Of all of them, “gaming addiction” was both the most suggested and the most responsive suggestion. So he looked into them. Video games are among the largest parts of world culture, but that may not be. a good thing for everyone. Joshua takes the controls and looks at the multiple opinions surrounding gaming in the last regular episode of the What’s Odyssey Podcast’s first season.


    The Grasp of Gaming additional resources:

    Do video games make people violent? - BBC News

    https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33960075

     

    technical-violent-games.pdf

    https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2015/08/technical-violent-games.pdf

     

    Guinness World Record for most YouTube subscribers goes to … a weird Swedish bro you’ve probably never heard of - The Washington Post

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2014/03/25/guinness-world-record-for-most-youtube-subscribers-goes-to-a-weird-swedish-bro-youve-probably-never-heard-of/

     

    Minecraft crosses 300 million copies sold as it prepares to celebrate its 15th anniversary | Windows Central

    https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/minecraft/minecraft-crosses-300-million-copies-sold-as-it-prepares-to-celebrate-its-15th-anniversary

     

    The bestselling video games of all time | Digital Trends

    https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/bestselling-games-of-all-time/

     

    The Best-Selling Video Game of Each Year, Starting From 1995: LIST

    https://www.businessinsider.com/best-selling-video-game-every-year-2018-11#2019-call-of-duty-modern-warfare-playstation-4-xbox-one-pc-25

     

    Should Kids Play Video Games? 10 Strategies for Safer Gaming

    https://www.aura.com/learn/should-kids-play-video-games

     

    The Health Effects of Video Games in Children and Adolescents - PubMed

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36587018/

     

    Number of Gamers Worldwide 2024: Demographics, Statistics, and Predictions - Financesonline.com

    https://financesonline.com/number-of-gamers-worldwide/

     

    GTA 6 Characters Guide: Main Protagonists, Leaks and more

    https://www.gtabase.com/gta-6/characters

    Video gaming audiences in the United States - Statistics & Facts | Statista

    https://www.statista.com/topics/3070/us-gamers/#topicOverview

     

    61% of Americans, or 190.6M people, play video games | ESA | VentureBeat

    https://venturebeat.com/games/61-of-americans-or-190-6m-people-play-video-games-esa/

     

    Smartphone 'addiction': Young people 'panicky' when denied mobiles

    https://www.bbc.com/news/education-50593971

     

    Gaming addiction, problematic gaming and engaged gaming – Prevalence and associated characteristics - PMC

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7744933/

     

    The health effects of too much gaming - Harvard Health

    https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-health-effects-of-too-much-gaming-2020122221645

     

    Video Game Addiction: What It Is, Symptoms & Treatment

    https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23124-video-game-addiction

     

    Addiction | Psychology Today

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/addiction

    35 min
  • Bonus: Episode 7 Bloopers!
    Things don’t always go as planned. In this bonus clip, hear all the hilarious sound bites that didn’t make the final cut of “What’s Odyssey Like for First-Time Listeners?”
    4 min
  • Episode 7: What's Odyssey Like for First-Time Listeners?

    In a new, dynamic format for the podcast, Joshua has five people listen to Adventures in Odyssey. Three of them have never heard a single second outside of this podcast. He gets their (often hilarious reactions) to Connie the Counselor, a 2017 episode entirely focused on Buck, Jules, Connie and Eugene. 


    Listen to Connie the Counselor and get a free 14-day trial of the Adventures in Odyssey Club here (not sponsored): 

    https://adventuresinodyssey.com/

    44 min
  • Episode 6: What's Odyssey to Fan Creators?
    Joshua gets more casual on the first week back on What's Odyssey in a while, with an episode interview with fellow fan creator John Tuttle III, who's helped a lot of fans in a lot of places. The two of them discuss episodes, projects, and lots more in this all-new episode of "What's Odyssey?".
    What we talked about:
    SONN: https://aiowritersblock.com/category/son-network/
    Kevin McCreary: https://saygoodnightkevin.com
    The AIO Timeline episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3czXOvWmv6Tzm5Y97GZCwD?si=ITUz1ozdSqidb6wMVdy0Iw
    Misadventures in Connellsville: https://www.aiowiki.com/wiki/Misadventures_in_Connellsville
    Michael LaFaver episode (with links): https://open.spotify.com/episode/1L3l5ZVGT3g1Z3NPxzKknA?si=yWxWvELoQDSpruWXFHdF2g
    One Grand Party: https://www.adventuresinodyssey.com/one-grand-party/
    30 min
  • Episode 5: So...What's Odyssey? (AIO Timeline Episode)

    Joshua Mensah-Woode finally unravels all there is to Adventures in Odyssey from 1987 to the present in what he hopes is a new guide for anyone interested in Odyssey, both old and new fans. He breaks down eras, sagas, and episode arcs in the complicated mid-season episode of the What’s Odyssey Podcast.


    Get a fourteen-day free trial of the Adventures in Odyssey Club to listen to every episode here (not sponsored): https://www.adventuresinodyssey.com/

    25 min
  • Episode 4: The Rydell Re-Construction
    In the fourth episode of his growing podcast, Joshua veers from social issues for a moment and looks introspectively at the Adventures in Odyssey fandom. He gets in touch with his Odyssey fan roots or, more particularly, his Rydell fan roots. After breaking down the infamous Rydell Saga, Joshua tries to break down what went wrong with what ended up as Odyssey’s biggest recent mistake. He ends the show giving it a talk with Michael LaFaver.
    The Rydell Re-Construction References:
    AIO Audio News Interviews- The Alternate Rydell Saga
    AIO Wiki Podcast with Phil Lollar- AIOWiki Podcast #29
    AIO Writer’s Block Posts- The Last Resort. (The Rydell Realizations Review) Michael’s Additional Work: https://returntogilead.com
    38 min

About What's Odyssey? With Joshua Mensah-Woode

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Join Joshua Mensah-Woode as he connects Adventures in Odyssey with real-world issues through interviews and statistics, sharing the radio drama with everyone he encounters.