106 | THE UNCLE RICK EMAILS w/ Melissa Anelli & Meghan Fitzmartin
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Finally, we have reached Rick Riordan's greatest writing: his scathing emails to the production team behind the film version of The Lightning Thief. First, Melissa joins to cover the movie's history and reception. Then, Meghan hops aboard to dissect the emails themselves. Topics include: Benjamin Sniddlegrass, Christmas With the Franks, Twilight, Cheaper by the Baker’s Dozen, “Read another book,” The Last of Us, Taylor Swift, Pride & Prejudice, The Hunger Games, sus recommendations, spaced out ellipses, #PettinessWins, Twilight, Megan Thee Email, Eragon, The Hunger Games, spit take, The Riordan Cut, Oxford commas, Macguffins, Beetleborgs, and more!
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Has the Percy Jackson series been slept on by society? Join Mike Schubert as he journeys through the Riordanverse for the first time with the help of longtime PJO fans to cover the plot, take stabs at what happens next, and nerd out over the Greek mythology throughout. Whether you're looking for an excuse to finally read these books, or want to re-read an old favorite with a digital book club, grab your blue chocolate chip cookies and listen along. New episodes release on Mondays wherever you get your podcasts!
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| 0:30.1 | Headiness wins. Everyone stays petty. It wins. |
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| 1:00.0 | Thank you so much for tuning into another episode of the Newston Olympian. |
| 1:03.0 | My name is Mike Schuber. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm the titular Newst Olympian. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm a 31-year-old man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid, but I did read them as an adult. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm done with the main books. I'm going to eventually get to the Percy Jackson books as a kid, but I did read them as an adult. I'm done |
| 1:10.8 | with the main books. I'm going to eventually get to the other sequel books and stuff. But in the |
| 1:15.7 | meantime, tackling all sorts of PJO spin-off things. And if you've been listening to the pod, you know |
| 1:21.5 | that I just covered the bad movie, the Lightning Thief adaptation, two-parter, where we just ripped it to |
| 1:27.4 | shreds. But if we're in the spirit of ripping it to shreds, we have to talk about Rick Roy Orden ripping it to shreds. So to help us discuss that, we're having a fun two-part episode here. The first part, our first guest is someone that you may know as the head of Leaky Khan, Broadway con, someone from Potter cast and Roll 9 in 3 quarters. |
| 1:44.7 | Overall, great person. It's Melissa Aneli. Melissa, how's it going? |
| 1:44.5 | Nice to talk to you again. I love coming back to your shows. It's always a delight to have you, whether it's Harry Potter stuff in the Potterless days or Percy Jackson stuff when we had you on TNO. now we've got you back to discuss, I would say, something that's truly in your wheelhouse, |
| 2:01.5 | which is, you know, people dealing've got you back to discuss, I would say something that's truly in your wheelhouse, |
| 2:06.7 | which is, you know, people dealing with frustrating situations and, you know, being funny about it. |
| 2:10.0 | People dealing with frustrating situations is my job title. |
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