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Hi Odyssey fans, I'm Jesse Editor of Focus on the Family Clubhouse Magazine.

And I'm Bob, producer of the Adventures in Odyssey Club. Welcome to the official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast.

Coming up on the podcast, we're taking a deep dive into the recent episode, The Christmas Bells.

This episode has gotten a lot of fans talking about the story, the music, and especially about a revelation at the end of the episode.

Which means that it's time once again to issue a huge, spoiler warning.

If you haven't heard the Christmas bells, stop listening to this podcast and listen to it now.

It's available in the club as a download and on CD, or you can listen free for the next few days at Adventures in Odyssey.com.

And if you're still fumbling for the stop button, we'll give you a second before we do any spoilers.

They're gone, right Bob?

Oh, I've got plenty of warning. But one last one, if you're still listening and you haven't heard the Christmas bells, well, you're about to hear that episode discussed in spoiler-erific detail.

So let's get right into it. Here's the team behind the episode, writer-director Phil Lawler, sound designer Nathan Jones, and composer John Campbell.

Welcome, gentlemen.

Hello, Addy. How you doing, boys?

It's great having everybody together. But Phil, I do want to start with you.

So if you look at history, there are literally millions of stories that you could tell in Odyssey.

So how did you come across the story of Longfellow, and why did you decide that that would make a good one to tell?

Well, you come across story ideas in a variety of ways.

Everything that I read in the newspapers or online or watch on television, or if I'm just driving around, writers are kind of like people who kind of have antennae all over them.

They're looking for good stories. They're always looking for something good to tell to explore and story-wise.

And I was just literally just perusing the internet one day, and I came across the story of Longfellow.

I always liked Longfellow's poetry. I really liked the Neil Diamond song, Longfellow's Cerenade. That's a wonderful song.

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