165 | The Son of Neptune Ch. 25–26 w/ Niharika Bhattacharya
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
While you all meet our new guest, Niharika, our team in these Son of Neptune chapters meets Phineas! Topics include: Norway, the new MUNCH museum, next steps, “metrosexual”, water powers, phantom sensations, the Mercator Projection, suggestions, solstices, perfect timing, glaciers, flat tops, Polartech, beef jerky, pan fried ice cream, wool smells, dude bags, Toy Story, pigeons, and more!
TNO Live in Richmond on 2/23 and more: www.thenewestolympian.com/live
Niharika's podcast w/ Mike: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4jN5IAsA30M3c7Tgt9rsaq?si=WSeTDfV4T1e6iklc9R_EtQ
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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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| 0:29.8 | I have friends who call me butter chicken. Mildly offensive. They'll talk about my dad and |
| 0:33.5 | they'll be like, oh, we're so excited to meet Mr. Butter Chicken. That sounds way worse. |
| 0:36.7 | That's really bad. |
| 0:37.8 | That's horrible. What's good? Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of the Neust Olympian. My name |
| 1:03.5 | Mike Schubert. I'm the titular Newst Olympian. I am a 32-year-old man who never read the |
| 1:07.5 | Percy Jackson books as a kid, but I read them as an adult because I was on a quest to determine if it was a book series that society had been sleeping on. I said yes, |
| 1:14.6 | and now I'm seeing if society has also been sleeping on the Heroes of Olympus series. And I am |
| 1:19.1 | joined today by a very special guest, someone who I believe might be young enough to be |
| 1:24.5 | checking off the gen alpha category. Is that correct? No, absolutely not. |
| 1:29.4 | No, okay. I have no idea on generations. I'm like the last year of Gen Z, if you ask people of my age, |
| 1:35.3 | but like within the last section of Gen Z where we kind of cross into Gen Alpha and we know |
| 1:39.3 | gen Alpha's pretty well. So I know all the slang that you're confused by. I know most of that. |
| 1:45.0 | Perfect. Well, yes, that voice that you're hearing is from our guest. And our guest is a 15-year-old from Norway. It's Niharika Batacharya. |
| 1:54.3 | Nihara. How's it going? It's going very good. It's going very good. I'm very excited to be here today. |
| 1:59.5 | I'm excited to have you here. We did a bit of a podcast project for a Percy Jackson thing that you were doing. And it went so well. Yeah. Hey, look. I'm very excited to show it to people, you know, all the kids in my school and tell them, I'm on a famous podcast. And they'll go, who is this man? |
| 2:16.6 | They will. They will. But I will say, you don't need to know. This is my thing. Beautiful. I'm happy. And I'm happy to have you on the show. Now, obviously, I would say that your name doesn't sound traditionally Norwegian. And this is a podcast. No. So I don't even know the answer to this. The listeners obviously don't know the answer to this because they're meeting you. But how did you end up in Norway, given that you are of Indian descent? |
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