His name is 'Brock', for the record. I suspect the writers might have agreed with you in the end, because they never reused the Transmuter. But the genre of stories that you can tell with it is roughly limited to what it is in the episode where it appears anyway. It's about seeing things from someon...

I thought about analyzing this episode point by point earlier, and still might, but I spent a lot of time commenting on Jay and Zoe in this post and don't want to make it longer right now. Just one quick comment on Vincent's voice - he sounds a lot like Tucker Chandler. I don't think it could be him...

While it's fair to say that 'she wasn't a very good friend to him' in some of the earliest episodes (which is incidentally around the same time period that most of the Emily hostility popped up on the forum), I don't think this holds true for long, and if we count material from outside the radio sho...

On Connie: I don't have as many comments to make about this section, except that it gives an interesting look at how even small actions can make a big difference. It's almost frightening the kind of impact that someone can have, viewed through that lens. It isn't hit on explicitly here, but it is co...

On Connie My interest is piqued. For the visitor in the forest, I was glad that they were able to get the same actor back, after all these years; I recognized his voice almost instantly. It's interesting to hear them broach that subject so plainly with Mrs. Randolph, stated in the way that fans have...

Notes through the listen: 1. Jules is in close enough contact with Connie to voluntarily tell her on the phone everything about where she is and what she's doing. 2. Buck is now so opposed to churches and church groups that he refuses to be in the same restaurant as one. (The cognitive dissonance of...

This is one of the more fun recent-ish episodes to listen to, probably because of the accusation stories, which are exaggerated and self-serving in the same sense as "Two Sides to Every Story", and sometimes reflect the speaker's habits or cluelessness like in "Mandy's Debut" (Ry...

(I don't know if these overlap with other people's episodes, but these are my takes.) Whit's Flop We find out that while Whit can make advanced computers and virtual reality machines, a photo copier is too much for him. The Life of the Party Whit figures that it's easier to give away free ice cream ...

With the second part of this pair of episodes airing today, I think that—in my opinion—this has been one of the best episodes we've received in the past 5 years or so. I completely agree. Here are some miscellaneous notes: I have a hutch that Connie was watching the same movie she was listening to ...

First off, how is a band supposed to stay together if its members are always fighting? They need to do some team building activities. From my understanding of pop band dynamics, that's really not that unusual. You have at least one strong personality who thinks they're a creative genius, and they w...

I agree with the point that Jules' intentions aren't usually focused on harming others. I feel another major thing that keeps Jules a pitiful, rather than a villainous, figure is that she isn't an initiator. Even when she is technically motivating some bad action, as often happened with Buck, her r...

I return because the Soda Shop is the best and most mainstream place to discuss any part of Adventures in Odyssey, in an organized and time-insensitive manner, with fans of the show. The Town of Odyssey doesn't necessarily consist of fans of the show. AIO Club comments are never organized. Facebook ...

Here's a few disorganized thoughts on this and on Jules, split into several sections. * * * What's curious about the assessment of Jules is that she is being judged by a different standard than at least one other character. You say that you dislike her because of her poor choices and criminal activ...

From their release via Facebook: BIG NEWS: We’re saying goodbye to CDs in the spring of 2026 and going fully digital. That means longer storylines for your favorite characters. Less waiting between multi-part stories. More flexibility for fun, one-off episodes. But what about downloads? Will there s...

Does anyone know any reliable way of purchasing back issues for Clubhouse magazine? Some of my old ones have been lost or damaged, and I'd love to be able to fill in gaps. Some of the features have made it into later compilations (like "Degrees of Kelvin", which is now in its own complete ...

I've been uninvested in the "Jules' band" arc. In fact, this is the first episode I've listened to that featured it, although it is alluded to in the Buck two-parter. In full honesty, the reason why I haven't before is because I pictured it as being stories about ungodly people doing ungod...

General episode observations: • Jay's status as a noncombatant has been reinforced in this episode, given that his leading motivation here is avoiding being beaten up. • The loss could not have been the worst in Odyssey history: Odyssey lost 63-2, against Connellsville in "Easy Money". • ...

If I remember the episode correctly, Mr. Gottlieb ("No Stupid Questions") used to get coffee at Whit's End. From a practical angle, I imagine with such a large building and so many things to maintain, there's a lot of work to do, and it can't hurt to have extra time to prep for when things...

I was a little surprised to see there was no topic for this one. Abigail Geiger looks like the show's troubleshooter; when there's an arc that has ongoing issues, she's brought in to fix it. I don't know if this is intentional, or is a side effect of her specialty, which seems to be writing episodes...

When I read the above post, I honestly thought it was some sort of joke, but after I listened to the podcast, it made more sense. Curiously, there was a ToO topic within the last couple of years that actually seemed to predict something like this, based on the use of a computer-generated voice (CGV)...