172 | The Son of Neptune Ch. 40–42 w/ Sequoia Simone
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Sequoia Simone, the co-creator of the upcoming podcast Professional Talkers (of which Mike is the other co-creator!), returns to TNO and is ready to cover the next leg in our team's Alaska expedition! Topics include: holiday gifts, the Northern Lights, titles, waking hours, cruise ships, quicksand, paleontology, touring, muskeg, Muskrat Love, curbing dogs, deconstructed mimosas, beignets, Yzma, Yo Mama, Christopher Walken, trapsing, Barenaked Ladies, and more!
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— 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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| 0:29.8 | Every time I do that, Zoom has the whole thing that's like, not hearing anything, turn up the volume. |
| 0:33.9 | I don't be like, not, I know what I'm doing. Shut up and stop raising your |
| 0:37.8 | presence. I'm the boss. I'm in charge here. No, I don't want an AI companion. I never need it. I don't want it. I don't want that. I would pay these companies more money. Any monthly service, I'd pay a dollar more a month for all of them. They'd be like, never ask me if I want AI. I hate clicking X every three days, please. |
| 0:36.5 | Get it out of you. |
| 0:37.4 | Exactly. |
| 0:37.7 | Get it. a dollar more a month for all of them, they'd be like, never ask me if I want AI. I hate clicking |
| 0:54.7 | X every three days. Please, get it out of here. Get it out of here. I don't want Gemini to |
| 1:00.3 | summarize my email. I don't want Gemini to tell me that the best way to clean up the audio is to |
| 1:06.5 | make sure I boil it for 17 minutes so that it comes out al dente. No. |
| 1:13.1 | I never want that, ever. |
| 1:14.8 | We didn't ask for that. |
| 1:15.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.6 | Oh. |
| 1:17.8 | Welcome to the longest cold open of the New Sillumption. |
| 1:18.8 | Sherry, put this in the beginning. |
| 1:23.8 | People are going to be listening to it like, how long of that? |
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