From Odyssey to Hollywood and back again

The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Writer Charlie Richards returns to Adventures in Odyssey after 24 years. Discover how his journey from Focus on the Family to a Hollywood sitcom to “The Pond” led to the latest Club adventure, “You Dirty Rat.” Plus hear a preview of the final episodes of Album 77!

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0:00.0	Hello Odyssey, I'm Jesse, editor of Focus on the Family Club House magazine.
0:15.0	And I'm Bob, producer of the Adventures in Odyssey Club.
0:18.0	Welcome to the official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast.
0:21.0	Today we're talking to someone who took a very long hiatus from the world of
0:24.6	Odyssey 24 years in fact. Charlie Richards, writer of this month's club
0:28.8	adventure shares how his personal journey took him from focus on the family to Hollywood and back again.
0:34.4	And Charlie can also fill us in on what inspired him to bring rats into Wids and of all places.
0:41.2	I'm sure there's a long tail there. Well let's jump into that conversation. Hey there, Charlie. It's great to have you on the podcast. Welcome back to Odyssey.
0:57.0	Thank you. It's very good to be here.
0:58.6	Charlie, let's start with your origin story many years ago. You worked here at Focus on the family but not with
1:04.3	Adventures in Odyssey what were you doing then? I was originally hired to do family
1:09.4	news and focus, news program.
1:13.0	And I did that for a couple of years, but when focus on the family moved to Colorado, I moved
1:19.7	with him and I came on as a creative director.
1:23.0	Okay, and then you started writing Odyssey episodes and I think the first one was Fair Weather
1:28.5	Fans way back in 1992.
1:32.1	Tell us how you got connected with the show and kind of where the idea for that
1:36.0	episode came from.
1:37.0	Oh, that is so long ago.
1:39.0	When you say it out loud, when I was doing the work for Focus in Colorado I was working on the
1:46.1	promos for Adventures in Odyssey and some of the other things that folks put out and
1:52.2	I got to know Phil Lawler pretty well at that point.
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