13 | The Lightning Thief Ch. 16 w/ Alyssa Esteban
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Alyssa Esteban, creator of Breakfast in Beauclair, joins the pod and brings loads of notes to the table! If you were craving a nerdy episode, prepare to be satisfied. Topics include: accessible design, Papyrus, Foursquare, audiobook narrators, Denver, Newark, It’s Always Sunny, Italian mannerisms, Fruit Ninja, okapi, Arachne, friendship, dank bad, straitjackets, Ludo Bagman, Dave & Buster’s, Bagman Blinders, The Simpsons, Jersey Shore, D-A-R-R-I-N, hate listeners, and more! Thanks to our sponsor: Imperfect Foods - get 20% off your first 3 orders with code “TNO” at imperfectfoods.com Local Forecast - Elevator by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com/ Creative Commons — CC BY 3.0 I https://goo.gl/Yibru5 — Find The Newest Olympian Online — • Website: https://thenewestolympian.com • Patreon: https://thenewestolympian.com/patreon • Twitter: https://twitter.com/newestolympian • Instagram: https://instagram.com/newestolympian • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/newestolympian • Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thenewestolympian — 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 — 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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| 0:30.1 | Of arachne? Or arachne? And you can also just be like, apologies for what I do for every time |
| 0:36.4 | I say word. I'm like, sorry if I don't know. |
| 0:37.9 | I'm not greets. What's good? Thanks for tuning in to another episode of The Newest Olympian. My name is |
| 1:04.0 | Mike Schubert. I'm the titular newest Olympian. I'm a grown man who never read the Percy |
| 1:07.4 | Jackson series as a kid. I'm now reading it as an adult. I'm on a quest to |
| 1:11.6 | determine if Percy Jackson and the Olympians is the YA series that we've all been sleeping on. And I'm not on this quest alone. I am joined in person in the studio by the creator and host of Breakfast in Boclair, the executive producer of lengthy tangent, the researcher for modern muckraker, and a longtime friend of mine, Alyssa Esteban. |
| 1:09.3 | Alyssa, how's it going? |
| 1:10.4 | Hey, it's gone well. |
| 1:11.3 | How are you, Ships? producer of lengthy tangent, the researcher for Modern Muckraker, and a longtime friend of mine, |
| 1:28.1 | Alyssa, Estabon. |
| 1:28.8 | Alyssa, how's it going? |
| 1:29.9 | Hey, it's going well. How are you, sheaps? |
| 1:31.5 | I'm doing very well. You were on an interesting journey with Percy Jackson in that you had not read it before I started the show, and then you were like, oh, maybe I'll read it. And then you devoured all of it, yes? A little bit backwards, but my sister is about five years younger than me. So when she was reading them as a middle schooler, I got my hands in them as a high schooler. So it was a little bit out of the age range for Percy Jackson, but I got to read the first five books, the Percy Jackson series then. Didn't really touch them, thought about them, you know, a little bit here and there. But it wasn't |
| 2:00.9 | until, you know, you started the newest Olympian that between episodes one and three of the |
| 2:07.1 | newest Olympian, I finished all five Percy Jackson books and all five Heroes of Blalbembus books. |
| 2:12.6 | So it was a lot. So for everybody on Twitter and Instagram and social, who was just like, oh my God, I |
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