Greetings and salutations, adventures in Odyssey. I'm Jesse, editor of Focus on the Family Club

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

Adventures in Odyssey Podcast. Today on the podcast we're talking about the latest three-part mystery, The Rydell

Realizations.

Not to be confused with the Rydell Revelations from a few years back.

And yes, we'll be talking about all three parts of this

new adventure, so we need to issue another spoiler warning. If you haven't heard

all this adventure, pause the podcast and go listen. But if you're caught up get ready to hear from

writer director Phil Lawler and sound designer Luke Gano about the work, the

challenges, and the rewards of this adventure. Hang on I'm getting ready.

Okay I'm ready. Let's do it.

Luke Phil, welcome back to the podcast.

Hi.

Great to be here.

You know excited to talk today because I'm a big Maury fan and Phil I remember going back years ago on the podcast, you said you created Maury Ridell,

kind of like a Moriarty character from the Sherlock Home Stories to be this FOIL, right?

So can you walk us through that original idea why you wanted a character like that in

Odyssey?

Well, we had not had, since the Chairman, I suppose, a real nefarious super villain, if we can call

in that.

That was probably the initial thinking for me was, let's see if we can do do this but not somebody who's mohaha

gonna take over the world necessarily but somebody who was super smart and who

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