144 - Dr. Dobson’s “Wooton Hears a Woo(ton)!” [Whit’s Endless Summer 36]

penny played by fucking lucy. or is that someone doing an impression of lucy

I loved Wooten as a kid. And then some 20 years later I ended up having a coworker who was A LOT like him, lol. He was a super weird guy but we got along really well. He also introduced me to a couple of good leftist podcasts, hahaha

I was just listening to this. And unless Wooten was what they called a “casual” at the time there’s no way the post office would’ve fired him for wasting time on the street. Especially before the scanners had GPS. I’ve heard so many crazy stories from old time regular carriers and the shit they could get away with 20-30 years ago

As someone who grew up in a small, heavily Christian town in Ohio, the 11pm curfew and arrest thing is real. We used to have to run and hide from the cops to go buy snacks at the gas station after 11

love that y'all pulled a knowledge fight and accidentally made yourselves subject matter experts on a niche corner of cursed right wing media

Oh don't you "Badum dum" the war and peace joke that's a good one. Also, my home town has a 10pm curfew. I have been in the back of a police car more for curfew than any other "crime" I "committed".

AJ is the whimsically theatrical one (he says things like tumtum) Brian is the righteously indignant theatrical one (Sometimes it's a bit) Josh is the chill one Easy peasy!

So what we’re learning is that not only is there a specific role to be filled for autism at Whit’s End but there’s severe discourse over who is the superior autistic dude. Love it. Whit forbid the show outlives Jess Harnell too, I shudder to think what the autism void will be filled with next.

He be heatin' on my dome til I wet bulb

Any one else listen to Jungle Jam & Friends growing up? I always listened right after odyssey and preferred it, even though it was the b-tier show at the time.

The Timothy Center absolutely sounds like something FFotF named after a dead child with leukemia who really liked Odyssey which i would assume is now used to spread the word that gender ideology is poisoning our children. On a separate note I’m very interested in hearing the homophobia and transphobia in the later episodes, if only to see how low they stoop to propagate their ideology.

Is the live show going to be live-streamed like the last one

Out of morbid curiosity, I looked up other things that Paul McCusker has written post Odyssey. I can’t find any clips of anything, but he has Saint Francis,Joan of arc, and Saint Patrick. he also made versions of a Christmas Carol, Les Miserables, little women, and (gasp!) The screw tape letters! I would love to see if any of these are actually good because I like other versions of some of these things I would be morbidly intrigued to see if the McCusker version is terrible.

This Wooton character comes in scabbing in place of Eugene and the 1st thing he does in the story is scab at Whits End. Did Nick miss his shift because he's irresponsible? Or was he doing a labor action because he could no longer stand by and watch Whit poison kids with farmer Toms shitty produce?

Love to hear that new adventures in odyssey has the same storytelling style as seventies doctor who

It's wild listening to Lucy from Twin Peaks interact with Louis from Ghostbusters. A crossover only possible through the grace of God.

Penny is going to make a cult that ends with a standoff with the ATF.

missed opportunity in the interstitial to say “15 is the correct number of lettuce”

If the teaaboo was still writing for them Wooton would definitely have a son called Bertie by now.

Now we’re getting into the Odyssey stuff my parents used to get for us from the public library. oh boy….

When I was pretty young I used to get cassettes with audio dramas from chicfila instead of a toy in their happy meal equivalent. I remember two of the stories vaguely. One was about Bigfoot just generally I guess and ends with a “maybe Sasquatch is real after all” sort of moment. The other was about Genghis Khan killing his pet hawk for knocking water out of his hand but then realizing that the bird was trying to warn him about a snake’s corpse that was poisoning the lake he was drawing the water from. Since I started listening to y’all’s coverage of AiO I’ve been wondering if those tapes were part of the series, either of those ring a bell?

the more i think about it, the post conversion group think, sedation, and order sounds less like a cult and more like a pod people situation. im picturing whit or connie handing eugene or wooton a strange flower after they say the magic words to convert

Wooton Bassett (now Royal Wooton Bassett) is absolutely a real place in the UK https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Wootton_Bassett It is a shit hole (source: me. I lived near there briefly)

Is Wooten a quirked up white boy

you guys really made the heat dome palpable in that intro. I could feel the heat so powerfully that I smelled burnt toast and half of me went limp

Uh wasn't Wooton Basset the guy who was working on South Africa's chemical weapon program?

It’s never been clearer to me that Odyssey was a sundown town.

The Timothy Center is where they create and refine Timothys. That's where Timothy Chalamet came from.

"Wooton! Wooton! Wooton's all around!"

Oh I am SO stoked for this ep. I LOVE wooton. I haven't been familiar with his character in many many (many) years, but I adored wooton so much as a kid that in the 4th grade, I sent adventures in odyssey a letter gushing about how much I loved him, and largely I asked for advice on how to handle an argument I was having with a friend. I didn't have adults in my life I felt like I could trust, but goddamn did I trust Wooton Basset 🫡 I don't have it anymore, hut his reply was something along the lines of, "hi Noah, I'm so glad you find so much joy in Wooton! I love playing Wooton, too. As for your friend conflict, talk to a trusted adult" etc etc. such a special memory lol

a few random things. I dont know how exactly to parse the idea that the slow paced, inefficient government mail job creates a better, more personal service compared to the highly profitable, free market solution. I assume they just didn't think about it. Also, the combo of Connie not being allowed to feel her emotions/anxieties with Whit saying that "we either believe we are in god's hands, or we don't". i hate that. its bad. That being anxious or needing to feel our emotions is somehow a moral failing. very bad for a little anxious boy. i mean for connie. Lastly, this ep really skewed my Endless Summer graph.

Wooten sounds a little bit like the Scooter the catch-a-ride guy from Borderlands

That cold open was mesmerizing.

For a moment I thought Jeff Lewis from The Guild went on Odyssey, and I’m very glad he didn’t (assuming he didn’t)

Jess Harnell is also the most “voice actor” looking mf I’ve ever seen

did some exploring in the adventures in odyssey fan social circle of that blog and all i can say is that it's crazy for someone to participate in tumblr and still remain a christian heterosexual

Hey they renamed the Underground! I used to get drinks with my boss there Make sure you go to the Rabbit Hole for drinks around the block! That place is sick.

Gonna level with you guys, Josh is the only one I can consistently pick out.