168 | The Son of Neptune Ch. 31–32 w/ Manasa Acharya & Erin Moynihan
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Erin and Manasa from Camp Half-Pod are back, this time to cover some more chapters of Son of Neptune! I thought we would talk about all the Seattle shenanigans our trio gets up to, but OPE it's a warehouse adventure! Topics include: ahopping locally, ceremonial cabins, babies, aspects, gw, Gulman, The Berenstain Bears, horse girl tropes, The winter soldier, Lady Whistledown, Amazon Dash, adult friendships, mischievously, pecans, e-readers, reading on the beach, Downtown Seattle, rollercoaster, Beecher’s, Seattle Supersonics, friendship bracelets, and more!
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| 0:30.0 | Even though Guy, Gia. You don't have to do the bad pronunciation that we do here. It's okay. |
| 0:35.8 | You can do it every one. I'm just committing to the bit until I die. What's good? |
| 1:00.2 | Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of the News Olympian. |
| 1:02.9 | My name is Mike Schumer. |
| 1:03.7 | I'm the titular Newst Olympian. |
| 1:05.1 | I'm a 32-year-old man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid. |
| 1:07.9 | 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. And now I'm seeing if society has also been sleeping on the Heroes of Olympus series. And I am joined today by two special guests who you've heard on the podcast before. But we had to get them back for the Seattle chapters. Obviously, it is Aaron and Manessa from Camp Halfbod. Folks, how's it going? |
| 1:29.7 | It's going fine. |
| 1:30.4 | Hello. |
| 1:33.8 | I'm so stuck to have you both back. |
| 1:40.4 | It's funny because I feel like you called dibs on these chapters roughly 17 to 18 years ago. And at the time, I was like, that is such a specific chapter set to request. And I was |
| 1:47.8 | just like, okay, no questions asked. You know, everyone has their favorite sections. So I just |
| 1:51.8 | marked it in my spreadsheet many moons ago. And then as I read the beginning of the son of Neptune, |
| 1:57.2 | and there was hints of them going towards the Pacific Northwest. I was like, ah, I see, I see. |
| 2:03.3 | And then the way scheduling kind of worked out, I felt bad because you had originally said anything |
| 2:08.1 | from 30 to 32 and just how it worked with recordings and live shows. We did chapter 30 two days |
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