15 | The Lightning Thief Ch. 18 w/ Lauren Shippen
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The Bright Session's Lauren Shippen (@laurenshippen) returns to talk about the next chapter in Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief! Since we didn't talk about Hades the video game last week and the team goes to the underworld in this episode, YOU BETCHA WE TALK ABOUT HADES. Topics include: title ambiguity, Pumpernickel Pictures, Capitol Records, the Eye of Sauron, Valencia Blvd., rugs, tortoise shell shades, Tower of Terror, Pirates of the Caribbean, Barry Manilow, The Jersey Turnpike, Kansas shade, Rocky Road, unfazed, RPGs, The Lion King, jambalaya, and more! — 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 (https://schub.es) • 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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• Editor: Sherry Guo
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• 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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| 0:00.0 | Keene is it Keening? Is that? |
| 0:01.9 | Keening, yeah. |
| 0:03.5 | Or is that an auto-correct thing? |
| 0:04.8 | No, that's correct. |
| 0:05.9 | Keening? |
| 0:06.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:06.7 | Okay, I don't have before, but I'm reading 29-year-old man who has never read the |
| 0:37.8 | Percy Jackson books before, but I'm reading them now for the first time as an adult to see if |
| 0:43.4 | this is a book series that we've all just been sleeping on as a society. I'm not on this quest alone, |
| 0:49.2 | though. I'm joined again by our guest from last episode. You know her, you love her. You may have listened to her |
| 0:56.4 | her wonderful podcasts made with a typical artists such as The Bright Sessions, or you've read one of |
| 1:01.2 | her three books. It's Lauren Shippin' Lauren. How's it going? It's going so good. I'm so |
| 1:06.5 | excited to be talking about more Percy Jackson. Yes, it has been so long since we last spoke |
| 1:12.1 | about Percy Jackson. So a whole five minutes. Literal minutes have passed, but the listeners |
| 1:17.5 | have had to wait a full week, so I think we make them wait no longer. And we continue our journey |
| 1:23.7 | by covering chapter 18, which is called Annabeth Does Obedience School. I just wrote, |
| 1:28.0 | well, I have no idea what the heck this is about or what's about to happen. Cool. It's perfectly |
| 1:32.0 | phrased where you don't know if she's going to be teaching something obedience or if she's |
| 1:38.9 | a student in obedience school. I love the ambiguity. The choice of does So powerful here. Yes. It's doing so much work. So they're at DOA records on Valencia Boulevard. What's Valencia Boulevard like? Is this a sketchy street or just a notable one? I'm going to be honest, I'm not sure that's a real street in West Hollywood. Whoa! Uncle Rick, no! I was like expecting it to be on sunset because like sunset is where a lot of the music clubs are. |
| 2:18.3 | There are a couple of studios there. There might be a Valencia Boulevard, but like it's not a significant street if it exists, because it's certainly one that I never encountered it in my eight years living there. So I'm, I'm a little skeptical that it's real. All right. I have Googled Valencia Boulevard and Los Angeles. Oh, there's apparently a business called Pumpernickel Pictures, which is a |
| 2:23.3 | portrait studio on Valencia Boulevard. I have to see where this is. It says it's near College of the |
| 2:28.3 | Kenyons. Oh, it's in Santa Clarita? That's not Los Angeles at all. Yeah. Uncle Rick. Yeah, I don't think it's a real |
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