Building “School of Hard Knocks”: Friendship, Sound Design, and New Faces

The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Writer Evan David and sound designer Zach Schneider reveal how they brought “School of Hard Knocks” to life. Evan shares the challenge of transforming Clubhouse Magazine’s Tori Mori into an Odyssey character and weaving her into Olivia and Zoe’s storylines. Meanwhile, Zach pulls back the curtain on crafting the polished, dynamic sound of Mapleton Prep.

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0:00.0	Happy New Year Odyssey fans. Welcome to 2025. I'm Bob, producer of the Adventures in Odyssey Club.
0:16.1	And I'm Jesse with Focus on the Family Clubhouse magazine. Welcome to the official Adventures and Odyssey podcast.
0:22.5	So, Bob, how were your holidays? Well, Christmas was a little low key. I mean, this year, we had most of our family in town around Thanksgiving because we have to share our daughter and her husband with the other side of the family. So we didn't get them at Christmas time, but we did our son here and we just had a really good time together. How about you?
0:41.9	Well, this was a really special Christmas in our family because I have a very close family member who's battling cancer. And so we were able to get together and sing Christmas
0:48.2	carols and, you know, he leads on the guitar like he always did. And it was just, it was a really sweet
0:53.9	special time for us. I'm glad you
0:55.3	had that time together. Yeah. Well, on the podcast, we're kicking off the year with a look at this
0:59.4	month's club adventure, School of Hard Knocks. Yep. Let's chat with writer Evan David and
1:04.0	sound designer, Zach Schneider.
1:13.2	Guys, welcome to the podcast.
1:14.9	Good to have here in the studio with us.
1:16.4	Yeah, thanks for inviting us. Indeed.
1:17.1	Let's start with you, Evan.
1:18.1	You know, this episode is a bit of a departure for you.
1:21.0	Your first show, Extended Cut, was about movie fans kind of invading Odyssey.
1:25.7	And, of course, the upcoming Picture Day plot has a fantastical snowday type feel to it.
1:31.3	By comparison, School of Hard Knocks is a more traditional slice of life story.
1:35.2	So where did the idea for this episode come from?
1:37.5	And what made you want to tell it?
1:39.0	Well, thank you for using the word departure, even though I don't think that we can use that word as if only written like
1:44.6	three episodes.
1:45.7	That's your only one is aired so far.
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