November 22, 2017: Happy 30th Birthday, Adventures in Odyssey! Hop in the Imagination Station and travel 30 years back to the recording of the first episode: "Whit’s Flop"

The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast

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🗓️ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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"Whit’s Flop" first aired November 21, 1987. Sound designer Bob Luttrell and host Chris Anthony were there on that special day. Hear their memories of recording the very first episodes.

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0:00.0	Hi, Odyssey Podcast listeners, I'm Bob, producer of the Adventures in Odyssey Club.
0:08.9	And I'm Jesse Editor of Focus on the Family Club House Magazine.
0:12.0	Today is a milestone.
0:13.8	Ah, post-a-bar in the cafeteria.
0:16.0	Even bigger.
0:17.0	It's a huge, great, big, enormous milestone.
0:19.8	A bigger than rigatoni?
0:21.4	Believe it or not, yes.
0:22.6	Because 30 years ago yesterday was the first airing of the first Odyssey episode on the
0:27.7	radio.
0:28.9	So today is the anniversary of the day after Witzflop aired.
0:33.5	Yes.
0:34.5	The day after, Odyssey launched and the world changed forever.
0:37.5	Oh, wow.
0:38.5	Imagine being there, you know, way back at the beginning recording that first episode.
0:41.8	I don't know if you can imagine, Jesse, today we get to hear from the host of Adventures
0:45.3	in Odyssey, Chris Anthony, and Odyssey Sound Designer and Voice Actor, Bob LaTrell.
0:49.9	They were both there in the beginning.
0:51.8	They were both there on the day that Witzflop was recording.
0:54.8	And they were both there the day after.
0:57.8	Exactly.
0:58.7	Let's hear about that historic time, 30 years, and a day ago.
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