178 | The Demigod Diaries: The Diary of Luke Castellan w/ Phoebe Corde & Emily Garber
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Who else could be the guests for this episode other than the #1 Luke stans, the Monster Donut duo? Emily and Phoebe join to discuss the earliest chronological PJO story yet! Topics include: midnight releases, AI, signatures, curlicue, Pepsi, golf, going commando, Scooby Doo, whodunnit, hyenas, Luke + Thalia, greeting kisses, crushes, prophecies, math tests, Goosebumps, ACAB Luke, and more!
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| 0:30.0 | Sorry, I'm getting really weird audio all of a sudden from you, Mike. |
| 0:32.9 | Oh, no. Really? Is it weird for you? Yeah. |
| 0:36.7 | Yeah. I'm going. I'm like you. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm going to plug in back. |
| 0:39.3 | Uh, What's good? |
| 1:00.3 | Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of The Newest Olympian. |
| 1:03.3 | My name is Mike Schumer. |
| 1:04.1 | I'm the titular newest Olympian. |
| 1:05.4 | I'm a 33-year-old man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid. |
| 1:08.1 | 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 going beyond to see if the whole Riordan verse is being slept on. I guess this is kind of a Heroes of Olympus episode, but also kind of a PJO episode. And also just a good awareness episode because there's plenty of people who have read all the books that are like, what are the Demigod Diaries? So here we are kicking off the Demigod Diaries. And there's no better |
| 1:32.9 | duo to have cover the first story because I opened the first page and I saw that the first story |
| 1:38.7 | was called The Diary of Luke Costello. And so I immediately fired off a text message to our two guests. |
| 1:43.5 | The biggest Luke stands that I know of and I think the biggest Luke stands on Earth. It's the co-hosts of the Monster Donut podcast, Emily and Phoebe. How's it going? Hello. It's going well. Thank you. Thank you so much for having us here for this one. Thank you. I don't know if we can claim Vegas Luth stands. I don't know. |
| 2:03.1 | I do. Who's number one? Yeah, I was going to say, who's more, Charlie himself? I'm sure. |
| 2:09.2 | Actually, it's Phoebe, though. It's Phoebe on Tumblr.com. |
| 2:11.8 | When I opened this book for the first time when it first came out, I remember opening it to that first |
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