The Very Last GRC Review

I got my Green Ring Conspiracy album in the mail about 1/2 a month ago. I am so pleased about the way it looks on the shelf next to album 52. But the two disappointments to me were on the inside.

• #1. The episode names. I haven't heard anyone else say anything about this but the Green Ring Conspiracy part 1, part 2, etc. sounds very boring and makes them hard to distinguish which one is which.

• #2 The look of the cds- Aside from a different title, the cds look the same as the ones from album 52, and that's okay for one album or maybe two, but I hope they don't plan on making all them so plain and unoriginal from now on.

  Now I will share my thoughts on the last section of the GRC episodes. Thought that wasn't coming didn't you? But, NO! Slow and steady wins the race, or at least finishes it.
  So I will be doing this in a simple, short, and easy way.

• Jay- In the last part especially Jay easily turned into my favorite kid character. I love how, in this album he has become more of a good guy bully in contrast to Rodney in album #25.

• Stiletto- Jason is the stiletto! I really didn't expect that and I have to say, the first time listening through it I didn't recognize his voice at all. Now that I know it is him I can easily tell, but the first time I was still for some reason obliviously thinking Richard Maxwell.

• Penny- Penny's weird version of Christianity was confirmed as they were trying to find God in art. I'm glad Connie didn't have to learn this lesson again after "Bad Company." I am looking forward to hear Penny getting set straight next fall.

  Now that was probably the last Green Ring Conspiracy review that we will hear, so I hope you enjoyed it!AIO news and such is really boring in the summer, Nothing but a few podcasts and Avery Awards. I hope it starts picking up soon!

Duggars Go To FOTF

Last week I was privileged to be in a hotel, while the Focus on the Family-19 Kids and Counting episode aired. We don't have any TV channels at home but of course we had it their. It was fun to watch since my family had gone several years before, when I was Twelve.

  Unfortunately we went at exactly the wrong time we were their in July and the special 20th anniversary celebration was in August, my parents talked about going back, but it was just too much money. If only we would have gone a few months later I could have meet Katie Leigh, Will Ryan, and Paul Herlinger before he died. I still haven't quite gotten over that.

  They did all of the same stuff we did, they went to the Garden of the Gods, the Royal Gorge, and of course we went to Focus on the Family. We recorded and AIO episode of our own, went down Wooton's slide and all that fun stuff. But it is sad to say that I did not try a WOD-FAM-CHOC-SOD, something about chocolate soda sounds kind of weird to me.

  You can still see the episode if you want to buy it here. So yeah I liked it a lot and if you ever get the chance definitely go visit Whit's End. It's not quite what I think the real (or imaginary) one is like, but you could never really get Whit behind the counter.

Episode Titles

I apologize for not blogging for so long, something has been up with this website and I have not been able to log in. Now I finally got in and I'm on vacation and will be for another week. It is hard to type on my mom's lap top that we brought along so I won't type my review at the moment, but the good news is that I have started to relisten to the episodes and take notes on them.

  I just got a chance to look on the Odyssey scoop, and I see that the official episode titles have been released for album 54.
 

691: Wooton Knows Best

692: A Penny Saved

693: The Amazing Loser

694: Anger Mismanagement

695: Forgiving, More or Less

696: You're Two Kind

697: A Penny Earned

698: Never for Nothing

699: Emily, the Genius

700: How to Sink a Sub

701: Unbecoming Jay

702: Childish Things

  I do wonder if it is a consistence that two of the titles have the word of perhaps the name Penny in them. I thought that they were going to take a brake from the story lines introduced in The Green Ring Conspiracy. It would be nice to be able to find out what is going to happen in the Wooton/Penny story in the fall rather than waiting until next spring.

  Three weeks ago I ordered the actual Green Ring conspiracy album. I wasn't in such a hurry to get it this time since I can still listen to it any time, but I really needed to buy it to have a complete collection.

  I hope every one is having an excellent summer so far!

Green Ring Art Conte$t

Finally there is a new contest at the Whit's End website. You get to design your own Odyssey dollar. You simply need to go to www.whitsend.org and print a copy of a odyssey dollar and design it however you want. The best part of the whole thing is the prize. The prize is a signed copy of the yet to be released album 54! I do believe that this one is worth entering!

"The Green Ring Conspiracy" Review - Parts 4,5,6 and 7

 I know that these are long over due but here they finally are anyway. And I am not sure if the next episodes will come any sooner than the previous four since I am starting to wrap up the school year.

We heard Monty's voice for the first time since he was a kid and appeared in album 7. I was curious, wondering what his voice would sound like. I didn't know if the would be able to get Chad Reisser to act for them after all these years, but they did and I love it. You can listen to a podcast interview with Chad Reisser here.
 
  Katrina is back for the first time since album 49 in 2007. It was good to hear from her again. I think she is a very important part in Odyssey. She is interviewing Buck for the job at Whit's End and she is starting to get suspicious when Buck is unclear about his past. She meets Mr Skint Bucks guardian behind the hall of mirrors at the carnival. And she gets even more suspicious.

   

  Detective Polehaus is starting to believe Monty and Mr.Whittaker and almost Wally Haggler more than he does Agent Tanner although he is careful not to trust anyone completely. But he does find it especially suspicious that Agent Tanner came to Odyssey impossibly fast and also without any backup.

  When Monty and Whit went to the dock at Trickle Lake where Monty met Mr. Skint the find a backpack and inside the backpack there is a CD with hearts drawn all over it. They met up with Detective Polehaus at the dock and the three of them went to Whit's house to find out what is on the disk. They find that it is a poster for the carnival which lets them know that Mr.Skint (or the mystery man as they call him) has something to do with the carnival. It also leads them to Penny Wise who drew the poster.
 
  Penny and Wooton drawn together by each of their eccentric personalities become fast friends while it leaves Connie watching on the sidelines. Personally I would really like for Wooton to remain single he is just not the kind of character who would do good being married and I think the writers will see that. But I especially wouldn't want him to marry someone who is vague about her Christianity and just might be in on the counterfeiting ring. Nor do I specifically care for her all around personality.

  Matthew has taken the phone that he and Nelson found from Hagglers junk yard to Whits end and Eugene is helping him find the password so he can return it to it's rightful owner. But he still doesn't know that that is the phone that Whit, Monty and Detective Polehaus would love to get their hands on because it has information that could be useful.
  Emily and Buck are looking for the same phone and Jay accidentally gives it away that Matthew has it. And as Jay says you shouldn't trust Buck. And why not? Because he is not to be trusted.

  Monty is again missing. And Whit finally starts to turn all of the ongoing problems to God where they rightfully belong.