192 | The Mark of Athena Ch. 23–24 w/ Wil Williams
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
We've got another TNO guesting debut for you, this time it's Wil Williams of Hug House Productions! Wil and Mike share their thoughts on two chapters from Mark of Athena, as well as some Old People takes. Topics include: washing linens, the Arizona heat, Nest, European rules, crawfish, SHRIMPZILLA, The Wu-Tang Clan, Old Man Takes, Super Smash Bros., Mythbusters, A Bad Case of the Stripes, reverb, live podcasts, Terminator, The Gruffalo, boxed brownie mix, and more!
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| 0:30.3 | So he says that it's camp. And then Sherry, if you don't find sonar noises from a royalty for your |
| 0:36.4 | website, I can do it. What's good? |
| 1:00.3 | Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of the Neust Olympian. |
| 1:03.3 | My name is Mike Schubert. |
| 1:04.1 | I'm the titular Newst Olympian. |
| 1:05.5 | I am a 33-year-old man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid. |
| 1:08.6 | I read them as an adult because I was determining 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'm joined today by a very special guest, someone that I've known in the podcasting world for many a years. But this is their TNO debut. I am forever grateful to the podcasting comment that they made once on their podcast about |
| 1:28.7 | potterless, where they said, you know what show has sneaky good editing, potterless, and it made |
| 1:32.8 | my life. It's Will Williams, the CEO of Hug House Productions, Will. How's it going? |
| 1:37.4 | It's going so well. And also, I was right. It was great editing. Thank you. There are certainly |
| 1:42.5 | people who understand the amount of work that the power of me and Sherry on this podcast put into making it sound really good. |
| 1:50.0 | Not as many people, I think, recognize it. |
| 1:52.4 | And I think the point you were making when talking about Potter is like, this is a silly little goofy show, but it's actually incredibly well edited. |
| 1:58.4 | Whereas there's some other silly goofy podcast out there where |
| 2:01.1 | there's coughs and sneezes and XLR cables rumbling and it's terrible. But I am a perfectionist, |
| 2:09.1 | and I can't stand for that. And it shows and it pays off. Yes. And the way it really pays off |
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