Jason and Mitch Contest

Well, it's been a while since the contest started and I got........*drumroll*.........1 WHOLE ENTRY!  *clapping* *clapping* *clapping*.  I confess, I'm a little sad, I was thinking I'd get more entries, but I didn't, so the latest instalment of Jason and Mitch: Secret Agents has been written by Capeng from the Soda Shop.  *clapping*

The Adventures in Odyssey Blogcast Review

The Adventures in Odyssey Blogcast is an amazing podcast.  Austin, and his sister, Natasha have been hosting the podcast for over 3 years!  And almost 50 episodes!  When their 45th episode came out, many fans were very sad.  It was their very last episode.  They made it about 3 and a half hours long.  They did album reviews, interviews, and even a mini radio drama called Skye Weldon and the Crazy Cactus Caper.  Anyway, their show had a good run over the last 3 years.  Let's get to the review now.  Their show is unique.  That's a fact.  Most of their episodes would do AIO episode reviews and album reviews.  I really liked how both of them would give a rating of the episode at the end.  It's funny to hear them argue over whether the episode was good or not.  In some podcasts they did interviews with actors, producers, and even other fan podcasts.  I'd have to say that they're podcast is one of my favourite AIO podcasts ever.  The only con of the podcast is......wellllll.............Austin's never-stopping rambling.  HA HA!

The sound quality of their podcast:  10/10

The interviews: 9/10

The episode reviews: 9/10

 The mini audio dramas: 8/10

The last episode: 10/10

The overall awesomeness: 9.5/10

I congratulate you on the long run of your podcast Austin and Natasha, and thanks for being one of the best AIO podcasts ever.

If anybody wants to check out the AIO Blog and listen to their podcast, here is the link: http://aio-blog.blogspot.com/

The Soda Shop 1 Year Anniversary

Well, tomorrow the Soda Shop message board is turning a year old also meaning that I'll have been a member for a year.  There'll be a big party on the ToO message boards😞. Which is dumb since they're not turning a year old.   BRING BACK THE CHAT BOX, SS!  Anyway, everybody remember to get their Jason and Mitch contest submission in as soon as possible 😃

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLOG!!

Ok, I admit it.....I forgot my own blogs birthday.  *sigh* a whole month has gone by and I forgot all about it.  Well, it's official....

The Unofficial Adventures in Odyssey Blog is now 1 year and 1 month old!  Yay!!  Don't worry, blog, I won't forget your birthday next year.

Now for some stats:

Comments: 108

Posts: 59

Followers: 6

Current Pageviews (at the time I'm writing this): 5339

138 Google searches "unofficial aio blog"

Countries who have viewed by blog:
United States
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Ukraine
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France
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By the way everyone, don't forget to send in your entries for the Jason and Mitch contest.  I've gotten a couple of entries that are very well done.  If you don't know about the Jason and Mitch contest you can read about it here:

http://unofficialaioblog.blogspot.ca/2013/03/jason-and-mitch-secret-agents-contest.html

Jason and Mitch: Secret Agents: THE CONTEST!

At the end of instalment 8 of Jason and Mitch: SA, Jason, Mitch, Monty, and Jared begin planning to pull of the ultimate scheme.  Monty is going pretend that Jason, Mitch, and Jared are his prisoners, then he is going to turn them over to the Whisperer.  Why would they pull of a crazy stunt like this, you ask?  Well, while they are captured by the Whisperer they are going to find a way to infiltrate the most secret part of his base, steal his files, arrest him, then escape.  And you......yes you.....are going to help Jason and Mitch and Jared pull this off.  How?  Weeeeelllll.........

Write an exciting conclusion to instalment 8.  All ages can participate.  Send your finished instalment to either.....
A. My email: noahrobertson111@gmail.com
or
B. Private Message me on the Soda Shop Message Boards (http://odysseyscoop.com/forum/index.php)
or
C.  I prefer you use A or B, but if you must you can post your instalment as a blog comment.

I doubt I will receive many entries.  Once I have received some entries I will open a poll both on the Soda Shop and here on my blog and people can vote for which instalment they think is best.  The winner's instalment shall be featured on my Jason and Mitch page and 2nd and 3rd places will be posted on my main blog page.

This contest starts..........NOW!

Life

British Columbia.   Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain,......until Summer....and Summer is almost here......and it is beautiful out my window.  Once Summer comes we'll have the longest streak of sunny warm days, and.....no school.  Meaning, I WILL BE ABLE TO POST ON MY BLOG MORE!!  YAY!  Everybody cheer!!  *crickets*  Time for some updates:

Well, as you may have noticed, I updated Jason and Mitch: Secret Agents.

I have reached my 100th comment on my blog.

I am once again the Soda Shop's #1 poster.  (http://odysseyscoop.com/forum/index.php)

Keep praying for Dave Arnold who went into surgery a few days ago.

All Odyssey videos and a few books are being rereleased with new covers.

The Actor's Favourite's album art has been released. I would post a picture......but my image uploader is having some minor tech problems that I will get sorted out.

The Adventures in Odyssey Facebook page has over 20,000 likes.

Aaaaaaaaaand....................I have a Jason and Mitch contest coming up.  I will post the rules in a few minutes in my next blog post.   Until then.......

Soli Deo Gloria

I'M STILL HERE

Most of you have been wondering why I haven't posted in a while....well, there hasn't been much to post about, but I'm still here and will be updating my blog soon.  I've also posted a new Jason and Mitch segment.

Nathan Hoobler a Star Wars fan?

Recently this picture was found on the internet:

As soon as I saw that I just thought, "That's Nathan Hoobler!"

Does anyone else think it's Nathan?

Here's a pic of Nathan:

Remember

okay, this is non-AIO and I should have had it up like 5 days ago, but here it is anyway.  Never forget. 9-11-01.  I made it out of lego.

AIO is now on iTunes

Well, I've been waiting for 5 years for this.  A few Adventures in Odyssey albums are now on iTunes for around $18.  Not all albums are up yet, but should be soon.  I have also added a survey to my blog. Please take it since I would love to get feedback.

Solei Deo Gloria!
Until next time, see ya.

Interview with Garrett Vandenburg

1. What is it like doing the Ceiling Fan?

Well, it's really been a huge kick-starter on my life to get going on making stuff. Before The Ceiling Fan, I hadn't really worked on a lot of media, but because I started working on the show, I learned how to do so many things by necessity. I've now begun to be able to use those skills on other projects and they've been opening up a lot of doors in my life to do lots of new things.  Working on the show has been really great, and I consider it one of the best things to happen to me. I've met so many great people through the show, and have made some incredible friends. From a listening standpoint, it has taken away a little of the fun though. I can't enjoy the episodes the same way as I could before when they're released, because I'm generally too busy listening for mistakes and thinking of what we could have done better. We're constantly trying to improve the show, and we hope that the as we continue to do so, the fans can continue enjoy the show more and more.

2. What's your favourite episode that you wrote?

I actually haven't written that many episodes, but my favorite episode to write so far, was the one I wrote with Kevin recently "A Day in the Life of Phil Jinkus". I feel like it was a really funny episode, and because it was a story inside of another story, it gave us a lot of leeway to have a some fun with the plot. We did some really crazy stuff, and I got to play a new character! I also had a lot of fun writing the first episode of the Intern Aaron series. Originally, me and Loren were going to write the whole thing ourselves, but in the end, Kevin wanted to take it a little bit of a different direction, so me and him re-wrote a bunch of it. 3. What is the most fun part, easy part, and hard part of doing the Ceiling Fan?

I really love writing music for the show, and that can often be the hardest part too. Sometimes I get an idea for a song, or a background score, and I can spend hours trying to figure out what it needs to make it sound complete and actually work for the show. Sometimes I just have to trash the whole thing and start from scratch again. The easiest part it probably editing tracks. I never really found it to be a very hard job. It takes a lot of time, but it's not too hard once you know what you're doing. Or maybe I'm wrong, and I don't know what I'm doing at all, so I think i'ts easier than it is. haha.

4. Do you listen to any AIO fan podcasts or read any AIO fan blogs?

I used to follow the fan casts a little more closely than I do now, but that's only because I've gotten so much more busy recently. The WOD-FAM-OD-POD sounds pretty awesome though from what I've heard of it. The main blog I really like to read other than the Scoop is "The Changing Times". I love that guy's stuff.  He's always got the greatest articles.

5. Do you have any tips for podcasters?

I guess something for podcasters to keep in mind is that podcasts are supposed to be fun. Never let it become a chore to you. If you're just making stuff because you "have to", then you should take a break. You're not going to end up with a good podcast unless you're doing something you're actually passionate about. Sure, sometimes you need to just push through and get stuff done even when you're bored of working on it, but never let it come to the point where you don't like what you're doing anymore. If you're not enjoying yourself, your fans won't likely be enjoying themselves either.

6. Can you give us any top secret info about upcoming ceiling fan episodes?

I can tell you that the next episode (our "live" episode) will feature renegade Nathan Hoobler robots that have taken over the world under the rule of their evil leader Regis Blackbeard.

7. What was it like meeting up with Kevin McCreary to see the AIO Live Show?

It was one of the coolest experiences of my life. Kevin and I have been really close friends ever since we started working on the show together, so it was awesome to actually be able to hang out with him for a while. The fans were simply amazing. It felt so great to actually have people wanting to talk to me about the Ceiling Fan and the ScoopCast. I even got to give out a few autographs! It was fun fooling people into thinking I was famous enough to give them an autograph. Little do they know, I'm just a silly preachers kid! I'm not kidding though, we seriously have the best fans ever!  I also had the pleasure of meeting quite a few of the members from the Odyssey crew, and they were all really nice. I met up with Kimmy Robertson, who I already knew from out interview. It was really great to actually talk to her in real life. She's such a fun person! I only got to talk to Nathan a little bit, but I've concluded that he's the nicest person on the planet. I also got to meet Jonathan Crowe and his wife, who were really awesome too!  Man, there were so many great memories from that show... I can't wait to do something like that again. Well thank you for doing this interview, Garrett.  That's all folks.

Adventures in Connelsville instalment 7 preview

Here  is a preview of instalment 7 of Alex Jefferson's AIC:

Over the next couple of weeks, Maxwell spent a lot of time with Cameron Brooks, Brian Brooks, and, of course, Ed Washington. He grew to love Cameron as his own little brother, and Brian seemed to trust him more as well. He even told him about a phone call he made to his brother Hank. Ed Washington continued to counsel Maxwell on everything from The Brothers to Christianity to girls. He seemed to know a lot, and he could relate to kids like no adult Maxwell had ever met. He even acted like a kid himself sometimes.  Maxwell also spent more and more time at Whit’s End Connellsville and the Mulligan’s house than his own house, where he only had a hermit of a grandfather. One day, Maxwell was at band practice with Tony and Nick, discussing their band and other things. “How are we supposed to get a gig?” asked Tony. For the past 10 minutes, the band had been discussing gig options. “You know, Ed Washington’s son Marvin had a garage band that I heard about a while back,” said Nick. “He got a gig at a birthday party.” “Do you know anyone who’s having a birthday?” asked Maxwell. “Well, me,” Nick replied. “In just a couple of weeks, I’ll be 17! We could have a special concert in honor of me, Nick Mulligan, the hero of Connellsville. We could invite like - all of Connellsville. I’m sure the mindless city folk would come out to celebrate the most masculine teenager in town’s birthday, wouldn’t they?” Maxwell stared at Nick blankly, while Tony coughed sarcastically.

AIO Devotional Back Cover Revealed

The back cover for the new AIO devotional has been revealed.  Here is a picture:

YAY!

My new Jason and Mitch is out.  And congratulations to Freddie Jay for posting the 50th comment.  Freddie, your name has been mentioned in the latest instalment of Jason and Mitch.  Oh and congratulations to suzylou for posting such an in-depth review.

Episode Review: More Like Alicia

More Like Alicia: Through Thick and Thin 30#

 I stumbled across this episode again the other day whilst browsing through some older albums from (as The Old Judge likes to say-) "The Herlinger Era". Of course, I had to give it another listening since I hadn't listened to it in quite a long while. And now I've decided maybe I'd do a review...

  While More Like Alicia is definitely not one of what I would consider one of Marshal Younger's better writings- but it is still a good, wholesome episode. Hitting soundly and simply on the subject that nearly every being struggles with, at least in one point of life or another- Satisfaction With Who You Are; Choosing Good Influences 

  Heather finds herself lab partners with Alicia, the most popular girl in the school. Alicia is confident, sure of herself- always the center of attention. And, as Heather said when talking to Mr. Whittaker::

   "The newspaper staff did a poll a few weeks ago. Alicia won the awards for prettiest, most intelligent, most athletic and most likely to ride in a parade float."

   Seeking Alicia's friendship- Heather watches her every move and action- hoping to become more like her...even risking her relationship with Julie, her best friend, to become more like Alicia. But sometimes we discover that the people we find ourselves admiring and desiring to be like...aren't always quite what we want for ourselves afterall. Heather learns this after having the opportunity to be Alicia for an entire evening!

  Overall- I thoroughly enjoyed this episode...as I can somewhat relate it to my life at times.
 Anyways, in rating- I'll give this episode 3/5. As a side note, I must add that I was rather impressed with the actress portraying Alicia...she did a fabulous job at capturing the attitude and snobbish air of the character. The monotone voice of the biology teacher I found rather irritating though.  The episode seemed a little more childish, but could be focused to any age, really.

Hope you enjoyed my rather quick review- if you haven't listened to this episode yet- then go do so...and if you have, then please- share your thoughts.


Suzy-Lou♥

One more to go....

I've got 49 comments.  One more to go until 50.  You are all making this blog a huge success.  Whoever makes the 50th comment...well...lets just say I have something special in store for them.

Album 56 out for download

Album 56 is available for download.

http://family.christianbook.com/Christi ... vent=ESRCG

The names of the episodes are

The Perfect Church I The Perfect Church II Great Expectations For Three Dollars More The Bible Network Happy Hunting The Holy Hoopster The Lost Riddle Groundhog Jay Home Again I Home Again II Push the Red Button

Free Episode from Album 56

A free episode from album 56 has been released for a limited time only.  The title is Happy Hunting.  If you want to hear it click on the link below:

http://odysseyscoop.com/blog/2012/07/30/preview-the-grand-design/

The conspiracy has ended.

"I have hovered over this board for ages waiting to make my move.  I finally found a way in.  The board needed improvement and I love power!" said Jason, the new runner of the Campbell County MB.  That's what he said, but it's not true.  It turns out that the whole thing was set up.  Jason taking over the message board was all planned out by Bren himself.  Here is what Bren had to say,

"One unique thing about this board are the story arcs that take place.  Things happen on the board such as Regis Blackaard  coming back, R.M. taking over the board, etc.  Usually the bad guys are up to no good, and the members of CC are supposed to jump in and help foil their plans.  Often there are clues and codes to be found, and everyone works together to figure out what to do."

So I congratulate you Bren for coming up with such an awesomely planned scheme.  I'm glad Jason didn't really take over the board.

The Campbell County MB Conspiracy

Just a few nights ago Jason took over the Campbell County Message Boards.  He demoted everyone from their admin or mod status (even Bren) and only promoted EPPD.  Jason states he will make the CC "a better place".  Nobody knows how he got this admin status, but know he is getting revenge.  I'll keep you posted.  Jason's changed the whole board.  The color and the logo. He even has evil smiley faces all over the place.  And he has banned brownies.  We must fight back for our message board.  FIGHT BACK!!  this is not a joke.  Jason has seriously taken over the CC MB.  Here is the new logo:

Jason, if you are reading this then stop this treachery.  Give the message board back.  You will be stopped.  I thought you liked AIO.  A real AIO lover would never do anything as evil as this.  So Jason, I mean it STOP