11 | The Lightning Thief Ch. 13B w/ Johnny Frohlichstein
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
THE BOYS ARE BACK AND THE GOOFS ARE HERE. Johnny Frohlichstein (@johnnyfrohl) returns as he and Schubes make their way through more of Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief. Topics include: Architectural Correspondent Kelly Schubert, G.O.A.T. Boy, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, curved elevators, Lewis & Clark, history class, museum pronunciation, Yankee Stadium, The City Museum, therapy monkeys, denim hats, Wolfgang Suck, progress bars, 1-800-TARTARUS, Vance Joy, The Avett Brothers, Malort Corner, aquavit, St. Louis style Halloween, and more! Thanks to our sponsor: Realm - listen to Orphan Black: The Next Chapter at realm.fm — Find The Newest Olympian Online — • Website: https://thenewestolympian.com • Patreon: https://thenewestolympian.com/patreon • Twitter: https://twitter.com/newestolympian • Instagram: https://instagram.com/newestolympian • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/newestolympian • Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thenewestolympian — Production — • Creator, Host, Producer, Social Media, Web Design: Mike Schubert (https://schub.es) • Editor: Sherry Guo • Music: Bettina Campomanes and Brandon Grugle • Art: Jessica E. Boyd — About The Show — Is Percy Jackson the book series we should’ve been reading all along? Join Mike Schubert as he reads through the books 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 Greek mythology. 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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• Creator, Host, Producer, Social Media, Web Design: Mike Schubert
• Editor: Sherry Guo
• Music: Bettina Campomanes and Brandon Grugle
• Art: Jessica E. Boyd
— About The Show —
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 | And fans join as riptide gets quieter. Oh, yes. This is when it turns into like the horror |
| 0:34.2 | movie thing. Whatever the lyrics are ripped off. What's good? Thank you for tuning into another episode of The Newest Olympian. My name is Mike Schuber. I am the titular newest Olympian. I never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid, but I'm doing so now as a 29-year-old man to see if it's a YA |
| 1:11.2 | series that we've all been sleeping on. But I'm not going on this quest alone. I am joined in person again in the studio by Johnny Frolexstein. Johnny, how's it going? It's going really well. Happy to be back. I'm glad to have you back. Actually, unlike other times when we do back-to-back stuff time has actually passed. |
| 1:08.6 | Wow. |
| 1:08.9 | Whoa, this is multiple days |
| 1:10.8 | later. It's not just a back-to-back |
| 1:12.5 | recording thing. We've grown in between those times. I don't know if anything monumental has happened. We had a good breakfast this morning. I went on like, you know, one of those Silicon Valley retreats where they, you know, do you like do a bunch of chanting and stuff, and now I'm a new person. That's what I did in the last three days. |
| 1:44.9 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:45.0 | Mm-hmm. |
| 1:45.1 | Both of our baseball teams got eliminated from the wild cards in each league, respectively. We don't have to talk about that. We're going to talk enough about St. Louis. We don't have to remind me of the baseball team that exists there. Sad. So we have the rest of chapter 13 to discuss. |
| 1:43.6 | Where we last left our team, Annabeth revealed she would like to be an architect, |
| 1:47.0 | and now where we last left our team, Annabeth revealed |
| 2:02.4 | she would like to be an architect. And now where we pick it up is Percy laughing and making |
| 2:06.1 | fun of her for it. Percy laughs and says, you, an architect? And narrator Percy says, I don't |
| 2:11.3 | know why, but I found it funny. Just the idea of Annabeth trying to sit quietly and draw all day. |
| 2:16.9 | And this brings us to an important segment that I want to do. I'm going to call my architect wife Kelly and see if this is what architects do all day. So let's see if she picks up the phone. Hello? What's up? Question. Johnny and I are recording an episode of the New Sillimpean right now. Say hi, Johnny. Hi. Can I ask you an |
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