16 | The Lightning Thief Ch. 19A w/ Steven Parra
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
One of Mike's groomsmen, a huge nerd, and a passionate PJO fan, Steven Parra, grabs the guest torch and heads towards the House of Hades with us in The Lightning Thief! Topics include: Hades gaming pals, Texas hurricanes, mafia, stalactites, indistinct radio chatter, improv troupes, opera hecklers, HEB tortillas, Finding Nemo, Big Grover Energy, Frozen, pumpkin spice powers, J. Jonah Jameson, PPP loans, Stanley Tucci, margarita machines, evil showers, 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 • 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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• 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 | I'm trying to think about if I can tell you this. |
| 0:03.7 | No, it's not a sport to tell you Percy ages over time. |
| 0:07.1 | No, not at all. |
| 0:08.1 | I would assume he'd ask you. What's good. |
| 0:30.2 | Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of The Newest Olympian. |
| 0:33.2 | My name is Mike Schubert. |
| 0:34.2 | I am the titular newest Olympian. |
| 0:35.9 | I am a 29-year-old man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid. I'm reading them now for the very first time to see if this is a book series that we as a society have been sleeping on. But I'm not on this quest alone. I am joined by one of my bestest buds in the whole wide world, someone who is a groomsman in my wedding and we've spent many years nerding out about many things but now we get to |
| 0:37.5 | also nerd out about |
| 0:55.0 | many things. But now we get to also nerd out about Percy Jackson, which makes me very excited. |
| 0:59.8 | It's Stephen, how's it going? Hey, Mike, it's awesome. I can't tell you how excited I am to be here |
| 1:05.2 | today. From the moment you said you wanted to do this podcast, I was getting excited for this |
| 1:09.7 | moment of the book. And then when you |
| 1:11.0 | asked me to pick whatever chapters I wanted to be here, I was like, oh, wait, I could just do these |
| 1:15.4 | chapters with Mike. Yeah. And it's even better. Well, you were the first of my friends that I knew |
| 1:22.2 | had read the books. I learned that you read these books before I knew Johnny read them. So I gave you the same treatment that I gave Johnny with Potterless, which was, hey, you get to call dibs on whatever chapter you want. |
| 1:34.3 | Because I think it's very fun to talk with people that I have a great emotional connection with about a very emotional part of the book. |
| 1:40.6 | And you very humbly were like, is it too much if I take chapters 19 and 20 because |
| 1:45.8 | they're the two best ones? And I said, no, that is exactly what I wanted you to do. So this |
| 1:51.0 | episode we'll be talking about chapter 19 as much as we can because there's so much that |
| 1:55.3 | happens in it, we might run out of time. But yeah, these are two incredibly action-packed chapters that we'll be talking about |
| 2:02.1 | over these next episodes. But before we get into them, what is your history with Percy Jackson? |
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