July 26, 2023

97 - Whit Fucking Dies (For Real This Time) (feat. The Socialist Shelf) [Whit’s Endless Summer 26]

Jacob Dallas-Main and Joss Olson (The Socialist Shelf) join the lads in Odyssey for adventures in Hollywood self-absorption and saying goodbye to the god-king of Odyssey himself: John Avery Whittaker. Topics include using art to exact petty revenges, the moral dubiousness of post-mortem performances, and the long, illustrious career of the original Whit: Hal Smith.

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Media Referenced in this Episode:

  • Adventures in Odyssey

  • #278 “The Fifth House on the Left, Part 1”

  • #279 “The Fifth House on the Left, Part 2"

  • #280 “Gone…”

  • #281 “…But Not Forgotten”

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Commercial: “Big Bargain Bill’s Used Car Barn”

Comments (32)

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Wyatt Kunzelman · October 19, 2026

These interstitials truly are incredible. I'm hooked on the Lorne Lagorium saga

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SaraELW · August 18, 2026

The general revelation of a semi-nude truck 😂

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It's-Mees · March 14, 2026

Hearing the proto ytp technology to pilot whit's corpse around like a marionette was super fucking grim

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Mister Joshua · December 6, 2025

Not gonna lie, the music que for the earthquake made me think we were about to spin into a Final Fantasy Tactics fight.

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AMWOI · August 10, 2025

I feel like this podcast is deprogramming latent shit in my brain.

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Ellie Yeoman · July 9, 2025

Bernard's whole conversation with that child was already creepy, but I fucking HAAAATTTE that he went into her BEDROOM (・_・;)

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Holley A · March 10, 2025

when stepdad started playing i literally jumped out of my chair #missyouultramark

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J · June 3, 2024

Also, speaking of semi-nude trucks, the modern-day remake of Bernard and Eugene's road trip should make the car a Cybertruck

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J · June 3, 2024

I think the real moral of the Hollywood story is that if you're a neglectful parent then weird evangelicals might spirit your kids away like fey creatures

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Noblese Oblahaj · April 13, 2024

Big Bargain Bill's, home of challenge pissing

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Caroline · August 23, 2026

fuck you, odyssey!

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Ray of F---ing Sunshine · January 6, 2024

I am here for the Gerald R Ford International Airport appreciation. Two terminals, three restaurants, 15 minutes in TSA 👌😩

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Förfäders spår · October 2, 2023

Alan Young being the voice of Scrooge made me realise just how similar Whit is to Scrooge, except in a world where everyone just thinks Scrooge is good and cool and has no flaws whatsoever

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Nathan Woods · August 11, 2023

For some reason this episode cuts off at the 56 minute mark for me?

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The Worst of All Possible Worlds · August 12, 2023

can't replicate this on our end. try redownloading it?

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Elizabeth Power · August 1, 2023

“Good enough for a US president!” You mean the one that was assassinated at the Pan-American exposition in Buffalo? Nice.

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Skrank Morley · July 31, 2023

Nothing sells AI Brian more than than the utter silence

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Fruitless · July 30, 2023

You guys were talking about how the AiO writers not knowing any references outside the 1950s made me want to point out a reference I think you guys missed. Smith-Hammer Films is almost certainly a reference to the British horror production company Hammer Film Productions which was the big company churning out a lot of edgy, transgressive B movies… in the late 1950s lol. They wanted to reference something adjacent to Roger Corman or whatever but all they knew was the 1950s version of that

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Uncle Jam Wants You · July 30, 2023

I messaged you guys about an episode suggestion. hope you consider it

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BrianAlflordIsGoodActually · July 28, 2023

Hip Hobson is the rapper alias of James Dobson

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Sylvie · July 28, 2023

The old Whit is dead; the new Whit struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.

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The Worst of All Possible Worlds · July 30, 2023

september, 1994. tom riley is master of odyssey. only jack allen stands before him. airports are now battlefields

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Grouchiest Marxiest · July 26, 2023

Also you missed pointing out the (probably unintentional) coding of the unrequited gay Tom Riley has for Whit

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Grouchiest Marxiest · July 26, 2023

The lads do a bad ben episode when

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Zipzapzop · July 26, 2023

Wes craven was actually raised fundamentalist and one of the reasons it’s so fucked up is because he had never seen a horror movie so he thought this was just what all horror was

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Dergon · July 26, 2023

Scratching "TVLand Reference" off my Weird Conservative Childhood bingo sheet.

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Workers' Lit · July 26, 2023

Banger

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Teague Strekal · July 26, 2023

Whit at the airport was 100% this bit... https://youtu.be/5xbyJGM1iUY

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howl's moving pictures by rush · July 26, 2023

I'm SO ready for more of the Lorne bits, probably the most surprising parts of the show

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Ciara Rhiannon · July 26, 2023

I've been eagerly awaiting the episode where you guys cover Bible Man since I started listening to this podcast 🤞

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Jimmy McMillan · July 27, 2023

I haven't been eagerly awaiting a bible man episode but I'll start today. That would make for great episode

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By Tove! · July 26, 2023

Oh, I completely agree with Brian. The Bishop's Wife is terrible. It's like "what if Miracle on 34th St was Catholic propaganda?"