122 | The Lightning Thief Musical Act 1 w/ Morgan Danielle
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
PJO superfan & cosplayer, Morgan Danielle (@imaginmatrix), joins Mike this week to discuss the first act of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical! Morgan saw the touring production, her partner was in a local production, and she's listened to the soundtrack countless times. Topics include: recess, AOL, slime tutorials, library cards, Peter and the Starcatcher, musical textbook songs, Scorpius Malfoy, “SWORD!”, Luke & Annabeth, toilet paper guns, changing lines, 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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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 | Who's Ms. Karen? Just like a random woman is there? I'm like, where did she come from? Did the miss just |
| 0:34.4 | pluck a random woman walking by and like put her there as a kid. I read them as an adult to determine if they have been slept on by society. I said yes. |
| 1:11.2 | And now I'm doing all the other stuff about the first five books before I get into Heroes of Olympus. |
| 1:16.5 | And one of those major things is the Lightning Thief Musical. I'm never on this quest alone. |
| 1:21.1 | And joining me today is someone who you might know from various P.J.O. Social Media's, it's |
| 1:26.3 | Morgan, Danielle, aka Imagine Matrix. Morgan, how's it going? |
| 1:29.7 | It's going great. I'm so excited to be here. I am excited to have you as well. It has been a long time |
| 1:35.2 | coming. I'm glad we're finally making the crossover happen. And what better context to be having |
| 1:40.1 | the crossover than to discuss the Percy Jackson Lightning Thief musical, which is a fun one, and I enjoyed it. And I'm excited to see if we can get through covering all of it in what episode. I think we might be able to. Maybe. We might be able. Well, we'll see how it goes. But before we get into breaking it down, just so the folks at home understand, what is your background with the Percy Jackson fandom? When did you |
| 2:01.3 | start reading the books, etc.? Okay, I'm going to try and do like a truncated version of this. |
| 2:06.5 | Yeah, we do have a musical to discuss. Exactly, yeah. So it is 2005. School year just started. I am |
| 2:14.7 | nine years oldish, yeah, because it's 2005, so I'm in like third grade. And I could not read in |
| 2:21.9 | first grade. And I spent all of first grade, like working really hard to read because all I wanted to |
| 2:27.7 | do was read the chapter books that didn't have pictures because I just loved the idea of that. |
| 2:31.6 | My dad read me like Lord of the Rings. So I was just like focused on that. |
| 2:36.7 | And by second grade, I was reading at a college level. |
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