117 | Percy Jackson TV Season 1 Overall Thoughts w/ Rowan Ellis & Kyle Bandujo
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Mike is joined by someone who has never consumed any PJO content (Rowan Ellis) and someone who has only seen the second movie and has a 10-year-old who watched the show (Kyle Bandujo) to cover the full spectrum of audience and break down all things Season 1 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians! Topics include: the second movie, Professional Percy Jackson Watchers, improv knowledge, narcs, delayed gratification, kids programming, Parks and Recreation, Back to the Future, book context, Black Sails storytelling, John Wick’s suit, Will Ferrell, The Onion, kids reading books, Pixar, 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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— 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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| 0:30.0 | I mean, if it gets renewed, it still has been renewed at the time of recording this. |
| 0:33.6 | Jokes on you past Mike. It's Mike from after you recorded this end now. Season 2, Versa Jackson |
| 0:37.4 | has been announced. |
| 0:38.1 | You love to see it! What's good? |
| 1:00.7 | Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of the New Steel Olympian. |
| 1:03.6 | My name is Mike Schubert. |
| 1:04.5 | I'm the titular Newst Olympian. |
| 1:05.9 | I'm a grown man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid. |
| 1:08.1 | I read them as an adult to determine if it was a book series that society has been sleeping on. I said yes. Then I covered some other stuff. And most recently I covered the TV show and hopefully society is waking up to it. I'm on a quest to see if society's been sleeping on the entire series and the whole universe now. And I'm on this quest joined by two folks this time. We are trying to cover all of |
| 1:28.3 | our bases of different types of people that have watched the show, just to do a big, |
| 1:32.6 | wonderful discussion. So let's meet our guests. First, we have someone who you may have heard |
| 1:37.4 | on big screen sports or on an episode of meddling adults in the past. It is Kyle Banduho. |
| 1:43.6 | Kyle, how's it going? It's going good. |
| 1:45.7 | You also have heard me if you attended the San Antonio Live show, which hasn't hit the feed yet. |
| 1:51.0 | Oh my goodness. That right. We are in the weird world where this is technically your first |
| 1:55.7 | appearance on the newest Olympian, but it is your second time that we've done something together. |
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