128 | The Lost Hero Ch. 5–6 w/ Dr. Steven Parra
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Many moons ago, Dr. Steven Parra called dibs on covering these chapters of The Lost Hero. With this episode, we make good on that promise. Topics include: beach reads, Apu, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, Spider-Man PS5, Nintendo 64, The Fast & The Furious, Pimp My Ride, Scott Pilgrim, Spy Kids 3, B & P, Chuck Norris, original memes, James Patterson, Stardew Valley, bugs, credit card expenses, The Matrix, hot sauce, The Great Fire of London, 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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| 0:30.1 | Sherry and I do such a good job that every other podcast sounds like which most, every other |
| 0:34.8 | podcast sounds like crap. |
| 0:37.1 | Sorry, sorry. |
| 0:38.3 | No, you're good. What's good? Thank you so much for tuning into another episode of The Newst Olympian. My name is Mike Schubert. I'm the titular Newst Olympian. I'm a 32-year-old man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid. I read them as an adult because I was determining if that was a book series that society had slept on. I said yes, and I'm figuring out if society has slept on all the other stuff in the Ryordanverse. Now we're on to Heroes of Olympus, and I'm not on this journey alone. I am joined by someone who you have heard on the podcast many times, someone that you know and love and all of his opinions are his own and they don't |
| 1:27.7 | belong to any medical institution. It's one of my home dogs. It's Stephen Parr. Doctor, sorry, Dr. |
| 1:34.8 | Stephen Parra. How's it going? Home dog, Dr. Stephen Parra. |
| 1:39.3 | Very good. Broadcasting from my own home. |
| 1:43.4 | Yes, you are truly a home dog, as we will get into in this chapter. |
| 1:48.9 | Oh, yes, exactly. |
| 1:49.6 | The cool lingo that our new narrator is utilizing. |
| 1:54.1 | Amazing, yes. |
| 1:56.0 | So I'm very excited to have you here for these two chapters, the first Leo narration chapters. |
| 2:02.6 | Now, I know this answer, but for the folks at home, what is your history with the Heroes of Olympus books? |
| 2:08.2 | Ah, well, you know, not much, to be honest. As we talked about, I'd read the original P.J.O. |
| 2:15.1 | book series quite extensively way back when I was in high school, |
| 2:18.3 | but I didn't pick up my first year of Olympus book until after I'd finished my reread of the series |
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