112 | Percy Jackson and the Olympians S1E5 w/ Sherry Guo
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
We're now in the second half of the season and to help us break down this FANTASTIC episode we have our very own editor, Sherry Guo! Topics include: perfectionism, runtimes, questioning authority, clarinets, shoulder walking, Smelly Gabe’s fate, the mountains of Texas, the leather coat, non-diagetic music, Olivia Rodrigo, Elvis Costello, X (formerly Twitter), Annabeth’s groove, Jekyll & Hyde, tiny details, The Turbo War, bad conversations, Brunner truth, Tangent Town, Sandstorm, Pokemon, Psych, tinkerers, a rare gripe, and more!
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— 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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— Production —
• 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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| 0:29.8 | And I knew that by the end of episode four this is going to happen, and I knew by the end of episode |
| 0:33.4 | for this is going to happen, and I knew by the end of episode, and I knew when episode, I just keep hearing close. What's good. What's good? |
| 1:03.0 | Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of the Newston Olympian. |
| 1:06.0 | My name is Mike Schubert. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm the titular Newst Olympian. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm a 31-year-old man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid, |
| 1:10.9 | but I read them as an adult because I was determining if society had slept on the books. I'm pretty sure they have been. And I hope that now with this TV show, people will stop sleeping on the entire franchise. And we are covering that TV show now on this podcast. And I am joined live in person in the auxiliary Shubio, which is just a fancy way of saying, me and Kelly's bigger closet. That is not my smaller closet that I normally use for recording. It's Sherry Gow, our wonderful editor, who just had a birthday. Sherry Gow, how's it going? |
| 1:39.1 | Hello, it is going good. Don't remember when the last time I was on the podcast. It might have been before I was |
| 1:44.5 | moving to L.A. So I've now moved to New York, clearly, because we are in person. We're here in person. We are fresh off of watching the episode with the world. Everyone watched it. We got straight from watching to now recording to I will be doing all of the editing for this one. So you don't have to deal with it. it will be me. |
| 1:41.0 | I won't have to listen to my own voice this time. |
| 1:44.0 | It's also very late Tuesday night. Yeah. So it'll be fine. We'll make it work. I will do it and get this up as soon as I can on Wednesday. So let's get into discussing the episode. But before we do, actually, you're a repeat guest now. I think we've |
| 2:18.1 | asked you, have we asked you all the questions? We asked you the Nickner and Burja. We have not asked you the fatal flaw. Yes. That one I have not answered. Have you thought of that? I have. Okay. What is it? If you don't mind you're hearing it. Really bad perfectionism. Oh, wow. look at us. Yeah, I feel that. I feel that. Is that in any particular thing or just like you always want 100%? |
| 2:18.6 | Everything. I want everything to be perfect. Oh, wow, look at us. Yeah, I feel that. Is that in any particular thing or just like you always want 100%. |
| 2:36.0 | Everything. I want everything to be perfect. I love details. Don't so much care for the bigger picture, which is also a problem. But, you know, it's really the perfectionism. That's the problem. |
| 2:46.8 | Child of Athena, am I right. Yeah, I get it. I totally get it, especially, I think that's why our little combo editing power for what we do on these episodes works, where you're doing everything to make sure everything sounds perfect, you pass your edit to me, I go through and try to make sure everything is absolutely 100% perfect and our powers combine. |
| 3:04.6 | Make audio that people don't necessarily realize is great until they listen to other podcasts and they realize every other podcast is worse. So if you've ever sat next to me on a plane or a train, you've seen me with my nose like a centimeter from the screen zooming in all the way to be like, is the audio lined up perfectly? Is the audio lined up? Yeah, no, I feel that. That's me. I love, gosh, I do my best work on trains and planes and things where the Wi-Fi isn't good or there. |
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