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The Newest Olympian

110 | Percy Jackson and the Olympians S1E3 w/ Dr. Steven Parra

The Newest Olympian

Mike Schubert

Arts, Tv & Film, Percy Jackson, Tv Reviews, Pjo, Literature, Nerdy, Riordanverse, Comedy, Books

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

THE DOCTOR IS IN AND SO IS MEDUSA. Steven and Schubes break down the funniest and most diverting-from-the-book episode of the new Percy Jackson Disney+ series yet! Topics include: Return the Slab, book deviations, Gladiola, PJ stinkers, Port Authority Bus Terminal, Consensus, BIGOOF, Tostitos, sympathetic Medusa, statue strategy, Medusa changes, Aryan’s acting, tape dispenser, elevators, Arthur’s Theme, needle drops, and more!

 

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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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1:00.9

Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of the newest Olympian.

1:03.7

My name is Mike Schubert.

1:04.5

I'm the titular Newst Olympian.

1:06.1

I'm a grown man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid, but read them as an adult, then podcasted a lot about

1:11.0

them, then started to watch the TV show adaptation of the Percy Jackson books and is now

1:17.3

covering those on this podcast to determine if this is a book series and I guess now just

1:22.0

overall series that society has been sleeping on. I hope this TV show makes society wake up

1:27.2

and to help in the waking up

1:28.4

process, I am joined by a very special guest because I'm never on this journey alone. I'm joined

1:32.4

by someone who you have heard many a times across the podcast and enjoyed his presence very much so.

1:38.1

Please welcome Dr. Stephen Parra. Dr. Stephen Parra. How's it going?

1:43.2

It's going good. God, Sophia is interesting to see to hear that on the podcast. Yeah, this is the first time we've done it in a non-live show setting, where we set it at the Philly Show and a lot of people in the comments were like, oh my God, it's Dr. Mara. So now we get to do that again. How fun. I know, right? God, just so much time has passed. time has passed. We've waited so long for the show, me, the longest out of anyone. But we're here to cover episode three of the show, which was very good, and I would say the funniest one yet. Oh, yeah. Which is really fun. Obviously, we're just going to keep it to this episode, but I did want to clarify something that we had both joked about separately, but when we were talking about

2:21.8

episodes one and two, we talked about the first time we see who we assume is chronos, and we

2:26.9

learned that we had both made Return the Slav! Courage the Cardly Dog jokes when seeing it,

2:33.3

which just had to get that in the podcast to make sure that we Oh, yeah. It was a Pavlovian response, just this in the distance, this dark shadowy figure. With some sort of light. Right. Yeah. Yeah, I still remember Clear as day because we didn't have Cartoon Network as kids. So I believe the first time I saw that episode, my sister and I were watching it, like,

2:51.4

in a hotel room or something, maybe one of the times we were road tripping on a family trip.

2:56.2

And I just remember being terrified. Terrified by Return the Slap. I'm still amazed with the

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