Show Basics
	The Ceiling Fan is not an Odyssey fan podcast, but a show about a kid who does an Odyssey fan podcast.
	The show's unique spin on Adventures in Odyssey is unlike any other podcast, with unconventional—and even hilarious—interviews with the cast and crew of AIO.
	The Ceiling Fan's first podcast debuted on August 4, 2008.
	The very first podcast was recorded in Nathan Hoobler's basement. Nathan has written and directed episodes for Adventures in Odyssey.
	One of the voices in the interview in Podcast 5 was Josh Shepherd, former product marketing guy for Adventures in Odyssey.
	Loren Crisp joined the team after sending in a parody of The Ceiling Fan, in which he played all the voices.
	If you search for "Biggest Odyssey Fan" on Google, the Ceiling fan is not the first thing you'll see, surprisingly. Poor Ethan.
	The Ceiling Fan was given a 4 1/2 out of 5 stars review on Edgy Podcast Reviews, a podcast that reviews other podcasts in terms of quality, interest, and all-around entertainment.
	Our very own Ethan Daniels has actually made a cameo on the Official Plugged In Podcast before! He appears about 13 minutes in during the December 22, 2010 edition.
Characters
	Ethan Daniels is actually voiced by an adult.
	Ethan usually drink his coffee with 11 packets of sugar.
	Phil Jinkus didn't appear on the show until episode 7. Needless to say, every podcast host needs a great sidekick.
	Ethan Daniels has a crush on Katie Leigh, voice of Connie Kendall on Adventures in Odyssey.
	Phil Jinkus' favorite holiday is Valentine's Day.
	The character of Phil Jinkus is the voice of reason to co-host Ethan Daniels, who doesn't seem to have the best logic at times.
	The concept of Phil Jinkus was first developed by Mark Jones and Kevin McCreary in the back row of their Political Science class in college. This is also where many of the earlier episodes were written. See, college was good for something!
	Over the years, the characters of The Ceiling Fan have developed in personality and become more familiar to the actors. Consequently, so have their voices.
	Intern Aaron's name was originally going to be intern 'Jared', but it was changed to 'Aaron' to fit the Little Drummer Boy parody better.
Season 1
	The first few episodes of Season 1 feature a lower-pitched Ethan Daniels voice. As the series progresses, voice actor Kevin McCreary refined Ethan's character and personality, much like that of Adventures in Odyssey actor Will Ryan's development of Eugene Meltsner.
	Even though Charlie Roth and Kevin created the show together, Charlie was only involved in the very first episode (apart from the interview he was featured in Episode 13)
	Our special behind-the-scenes interview with Katie Leigh, voice of Connie Kendall, was over an hour long, which had to be cut down to about 10 minutes.
	Episode 16, the show's first attempt at a video podcast, was filmed in North Greenville University's news room and in Kevin's dorm room.
	Up until Episode 23, every episode summary started with the title "the very (number of episode) episode." We have re-written our episode summaries since our early days.
Season 2
	The Road Trip Series to Find Odyssey was inspired by The Odyssey Scoop fan site's exhaustive and intriguing Where Odyssey Is Not feature.
	Freezy the Snow Boy wasn't originally from the world of The Ceiling Fan. Long before Kevin had begun working on this wonderful podcast, he used to make silly recordings all the time to show his friends, family, and even some enemies! These recordings featured a variety of characters from Kevin's imagination such as "R. U. Chicken", "Freezy the Snow Boy", and others. These are available in the Early Recordings with Kevin podcast.
	In the fall of 2010, Garrett wrote up a longer and more elaborate Halloween episode. The episode was recorded and produced, but in the end we decided that the episode was a bit too controversial. We scrapped the script and re-wrote something that we thought was a bit more Odyssey fan friendly.
	In Episode 21, James is being introduced to Phil for the first time and he offers him something to drink. This line is funny because, in fact, Phil is calling in on the phone. Originally in the script, Phil was actually supposed to be in the room. Unfortunately, Mark wasn't able to access his normal recording equipment and had to record on his laptop for this episode. When Kevin got the voice track for the episode, he obviously wasn't satisfied with the quality. Instead of trying to work with the track to try to make it sound better, he decided to just put the whole thing through a filter to make it sound like he was on the phone and change some of Ethan's lines.
	Sometimes when an actor is not available to do a last minute change to a line, we have someone who IS available try to do an impression of that actor so we can fill in the line. (For example the 'oomph' of Harlow Doyle in Episode 31, part 2, and the 'Hey Ethan!' from Phil in Episode 38 were both done by Loren Crisp). In Episode 34 we had Loren perform all of the lines for 'Regis Blackbeard'.
	The official Ceiling Fan website wasn't launched until sometime during Season 2. We used our 6 Intern James segments and Episode 23 to build up excitement for the official reveal. This is when we also released our first illustrations of main characters Ethan Daniels and Phil Jinkus.
Season 3
	Plans for a band trip started way back during Season 2 when Phil sent Ethan a song to apologize quitting the show.
	Even though M'kalister Park isn't a real band, a lot of the team is currently, or has been in bands in the past. Kevin used to be part of a heavy metal band (he was the screamer/singer, and he even played a bit of guitar). Mark Jones has been involved in a few different bands (he plays the trumpet and guitar, and a few others, as well as produces music for quite a few bands). Garrett currently tours the U.S. and Canada with his family, both playing music and acting as missionaries in a ministry called New Generation Ministry. He plays just about any instrument you can think of.
	During Season 3, there were several scenes that we wrote just for fun, knowing that there was no way we'd ever want to use them in an episode. A few of them actually got recorded!
	Originally, actor Dave madden was considered to do a cameo to play the part of Phil's uncle Bernie, but as we realized that we were going to be using this character throughout the season, we knew it would be too much to ask. Fortunately, Justin was there to take the role and has really brought the character to life.
	The news reporter 'Daniel Withe' was named simply because on the script, we didn't actually know which reporter we were going to use. The character in the script was simply labeled WETH (Who Ever The Heck we end up using). When it came time to record, we got to the scene and realized we still hadn't figured out a name. So with a little creativity, we re-arranged the letters a bit and ended up with a new character named 'Daniel Withe'.
	During Season 3, we ended up writing quite a few songs: some pretty good and some, not so great. Fortunately, there were other songs to choose from, so we didn't have to use the not-so-great ones. Unfortunately, we ended up not having time to use some of the good ones, too. However, all of those other songs are still stashed away deep in The Ceiling Fan files. Who knows? Maybe some day we'll have M'kalister park do a few more shows, or come out with a new album? You never know what could happen on The Ceiling Fan. Heck, we don't even know what's going to happen half of the time!
Other
	Even though Mark, Kevin, and Justin are the only ones who have met in real life, we have had a few close calls in the past. Garrett visited Colorado Springs and took a tour of Focus on the Family without even knowing that Kevin lived there, or that he would be working with him eventually. An even funnier incident happened with Loren and Mark, in which Loren went to an Apple store in South Carolina and took a picture of himself on one of the phones on display. Just a few days later, Mark happened to be in the same store, and to his utter surprise, discovered Loren on the background of the phone! See the image
	Originally, Kevin wanted someone else to play all the voices. Because of time restraints, he had to play Ethan's voice instead.
	Sometimes when we're writing songs, we get a little carried away. Here are some of the results.

As you can see, much effort, planning and laughing goes into the creation of each episode of The Ceiling Fan podcast!

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