Visit to the Texas State Fair in Young Whit and the Shell Game
The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Executive producer and author Dave Arnold previews Young Whit and the Shell Game, the sixth book in the Young Whit series. Hear how this stand-alone adventure expands Whit’s world, connects to lessons he’ll carry into adulthood, and offers a glimpse of what’s ahead for the series. Plus: A preview of “Value of a Buck, Part 1”
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| 0:44.5 | Hello, Auditon. Hello Odyssey fans, I'm Bob, producer of the Adventures in Odyssey Club. |
| 0:47.4 | And I'm Jesse with Focus on the Family Clubhouse magazine. |
| 0:50.5 | Welcome to the official Adventures in Odyssey podcast. |
| 0:54.5 | Today we're talking with the executive producer and author Dave Arnold about the latest Adventures in Odyssey novel. Young Witt in the Shell Game releases November 4th. This is the sixth |
| 1:00.1 | book in the Young Witt series, and it follows John Avery Whitaker to Texas for a summer adventure |
| 1:05.1 | that tests his faith and challenges his heart. We'll hear how Dave approached writing this |
| 1:09.8 | story solo for the first time, |
| 1:11.8 | the meaning behind that title, and how the events of the book connect to Witt's Life and Odyssey. |
| 1:16.8 | Let's hear from Dave. |
| 1:24.5 | Dave, great to have you back in the studio with us. |
| 1:26.5 | Thank you, Bob, and Jesse. Well, let's start with your writing process. When you're about to begin a new book, not just for our own edification, but maybe for some writers out there who are trying to figure out how to break things down. What are the first steps you take to create a solid foundation for what you know is coming later? Yeah, well, some of it for me starts with the research because this is a |
| 1:44.8 | period story, right? We know what year Witt was born. We know when he was this age. And so this |
| 1:51.2 | story and pretty much all of the stories that we've written thus far are all chronological in |
| 1:56.9 | Young Witt's time frame in his age. So the first five books were basically starting when he was just a tail end of nine through 10. |
| 2:06.4 | And this one starts at the tail end of 10 in that summer months. |
| 2:11.3 | So what was going on in those summer months? |
| 2:14.0 | I do a lot of research on that. |
| 2:15.8 | I also look back into the history that we've |
| 2:18.5 | created for WIT in the audio series. If there's any tie-ins there that I need to do. And then once I've |
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