18 | The Lightning Thief Ch. 21 w/ Kelly Schubert
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The people have clamored for her appearance, and now she makes her TNO debut! Mike's wife Kelly joins as guest to cover the villain reveal, a new Mike prediction, and the rest of the penultimate chapter of The Lightning Thief! Topics include: Throm, re-records, turbulence, LaGuardia Airport, Amii Stewart, Rock Lobster, New Orleans, Batman Begins, Grand Central Terminal, Hera’s seat, Ozone smell, Beach Dad Poseidon, Lake Minnetonka, Uranus, Utility French, health insurance, Poseidon’s complexity, Teardrops on my Paperback, return to sender, and more! Thanks to our sponsor, Athletic Greens! Visit athleticgreens.com/newestolympian for 1 year of vitamin D and 5 free travel packs! — 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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• Editor: Sherry Guo
• Music: Bettina Campomanes and Brandon Grugle
• 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 | Continue |
| 0:02.0 | Continue. Continue. What's good. |
| 0:05.0 | Thank you for tuning in to another episode of The Newest Olympian. |
| 0:30.2 | My name is Mike Schumer. |
| 0:33.1 | I'm the titular newest Olympian, and I am on a journey to determine if Percy |
| 0:34.0 | Jackson and the Olympians is a book series that we've all been sleeping on as a society. But I am |
| 0:38.3 | not on this journey alone, though I am a 29-year-old man who has never read them before. I am joined |
| 0:44.4 | by a 29-year-old woman who has never read them before, but now has finished the entire series because she |
| 0:48.8 | couldn't be bothered to try to wait for the podcast but I also don't blame her. It's my wife and |
| 0:55.2 | the love of my life Kelly Beckman Schubert. Kelly, how's it going? Good. Hi. All right. Just a super |
| 0:59.6 | normal way to start the episode. Oh, wait, hold on. Was I supposed to say something other than hi? |
| 1:08.6 | No, but just the ways... Hi! |
| 1:14.3 | Hello! |
| 1:16.4 | Good! I'm a human! |
| 1:16.9 | We are here today to discuss Chapter 21 of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief. |
| 1:20.6 | I usually ask guests what their history with the Percy Jackson fandom and book series is. |
| 1:25.8 | I already know the answer, but for the folks at home that might not know, what's your history with Percy Jackson? |
| 1:31.6 | Yeah, my history is really quick. |
| 1:36.2 | I started reading them about a month ago, maybe two months ago, and I just finished reading them like a week ago. I'm now attempting to lap |
| 1:38.2 | Mike so I'm rereading one right now. So you've read the first five. You've not done any of the |
| 1:46.8 | spin-off stuff, but we did order the spin-off stuff that I probably won't be reading for another |
| 1:51.9 | at least two years maybe at the rate that I'm going. |
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