When I'm taking a break from screens, I make sure I have other activities on hand.

And my favorite activity is reading an issue of Brio magazine from Focus on the Family.

It's perfect for teen girls and full of fun quizzes, tips on fashion and beauty, and articles from a biblical worldview.

Check out what Brio has to offer, including past issues.

When you visit, focus on thefamily.com slash growing faith. That's focus on thefamily.com

slash growing faith.

Howdy Odyssey? I'm Bob. And I'm Jesse. Welcome to the official Adventures in Odyssey podcast.

Album 80, rewritten, has finished airing. So it's time for one of our favorite podcast traditions.

Jesse and I step out of the host chairs and hand the podcast over to the team.

Traditions are meant to be repeated and changed. This time, it's not the usual team.

Right. It's not the writers this round. It's the people who make Odyssey sound like Odyssey.

Today's Q&A is with the production team, the sound designers behind the episodes.

Listeners called in with questions about how the sounds are created, how scenes are layered together,

and how these guys pulled off some of the biggest and smallest moments in recent episodes.

All right, Odyssey Sound Designers, take it away.

Thanks, Bob. And before we go through introductions, let's hear that first question from Carissa, who lives in Hartford, Connecticut.

How many people does it take to do sound design and what are their jobs?

That's a good question, Carissa. Let's just go through and kind of explain what our jobs are first.

So my name is Christopher Deal, the production manager for the sound design team of Adventures

and Odyssey. The boss of all of us. What does the production manager do, Chris? I sit around and I drink

coffee and put my feet up on the desk. Oh, sounds fun. And listens to the shows and says, do it better.

And I actually produce shows here and there.

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