What's Odyssey? With Joshua Mensah-Woode

Joshua gets cozy and celebrates the 12th day of Christmas with something most appropriate: an AIO Christmas episode ranking! Follow along and see if you agree or disagree!

"What is truth?" Joshua Mensah-Woode begins to unpack this loaded question in the prologue to an unrelenting new audio documentary series based on the hit show Adventures in Odyssey. Are you curious? Subscribe to the What's Odyssey Podcast to be ready for the full episode release!

This summer, the What's Odyssey Podcast is returning! Hear the trailer for the Adventures in Odyssey podcast you'll need to listen to!

The What's Odyssey Podcast is back! After five long months, Joshua shares his plans for this show's future with Donald Treply, the owner and founder of AIO Writer's Block. This episode also releases on "What's Odyssey Podcast Day", one of seven days set aside to celebrate AIO Writer's Block's recent anniversary. Among all that, the hosts discuss creativity and what it means to be an AIO fan creato...

During the What’s Odyssey Podcast’s season one break, Joshua looked to his Instagram followers to get one fan-suggested episode topic. Of all of them, “gaming addiction” was both the most suggested and the most responsive suggestion. So he looked into them. Video games are among the largest parts of world culture, but that may not be. a good thing for everyone. Joshua takes the controls and looks...

Things don’t always go as planned. In this bonus clip, hear all the hilarious sound bites that didn’t make the final cut of “What’s Odyssey Like for First-Time Listeners?”

In a new, dynamic format for the podcast, Joshua has five people listen to Adventures in Odyssey. Three of them have never heard a single second outside of this podcast. He gets their (often hilarious reactions) to Connie the Counselor, a 2017 episode entirely focused on Buck, Jules, Connie and Eugene.  Listen to Connie the Counselor and get a free 14-day trial of the Adventures in Odyssey Club he...

Joshua gets more casual on the first week back on What's Odyssey in a while, with an episode interview with fellow fan creator John Tuttle III, who's helped a lot of fans in a lot of places. The two of them discuss episodes, projects, and lots more in this all-new episode of "What's Odyssey?". What we talked about: SONN: https://aiowritersblock.com/category/son-network/ Kevin McCreary: https://say...

Joshua Mensah-Woode finally unravels all there is to Adventures in Odyssey from 1987 to the present in what he hopes is a new guide for anyone interested in Odyssey, both old and new fans. He breaks down eras, sagas, and episode arcs in the complicated mid-season episode of the What’s Odyssey Podcast. Get a fourteen-day free trial of the Adventures in Odyssey Club to listen to every episode here (...

In the fourth episode of his growing podcast, Joshua veers from social issues for a moment and looks introspectively at the Adventures in Odyssey fandom. He gets in touch with his Odyssey fan roots or, more particularly, his Rydell fan roots. After breaking down the infamous Rydell Saga, Joshua tries to break down what went wrong with what ended up as Odyssey’s biggest recent mistake. He ends the...

After spotlighting Adventures in Odyssey's takes on education and homeschooling, Joshua gets personal as he pulls Adventures in Odyssey episodes from two different AIO eras. He unveils the stereotypes behind the pastor's kid experience, then wonders how there could be a trend of questioning faith. He then proceeds to talk about the pastor’s kid experience, both the challenging and rewardin...

A Christian radio drama that used to be found in Chick-fil-A Kid’s Meals is for homeschoolers, isn't it? Joshua doesn’t think so. In the second episode of the What’s Odyssey Podcast, he lays down the benefits of homeschooling, how it relates to Odyssey, and how it’s been under attack in the last twenty years. He caps it off with a discussion with Eleasha Tuttle, a graduating homeschooler, about th...

In the What's Odyssey Podcast's debut episode, Joshua introduces his audience to Adventures in Odyssey. Then, he takes one of its earlier episodes, Cousin Albert, and relays it to a reading crisis that has only gotten worse over the past three decades. Afterward, he talks with middle and high-schoolers to garner their…unique viewpoints. References: Main Article: https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/201917...