195 | The Mark of Athena Ch. 29–31A w/ Sherry Guo
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
[Ch. 31 stopping point is after an unexpected liquid fills the boat] Sherry is back with the some Mark of Athena chapters she called dibs on many moons ago (a-Guo?), and I can clearly see why! Topics include: scheduling chaos, multi-hyphenates, Halloween costume ideas, multitasking, Webkins & Neopets, gin, 12-season athlete, Mrs. Woodman, spilt vs. spilled, comparative anxiety, The Princess Diaries, dolphins, New Jersey, Mo Willems’ Pigeon, Caldecott Tunnel, BAH, Branson Reese, accidental dunking, tutting, improv, and more!
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| 0:38.9 | U.K. slash Wondery. |
| 0:41.4 | Not good on the reasons. |
| 0:43.1 | My village and origin story is no one wrote articles about me. |
| 0:46.6 | You said my village and villages story. |
| 0:49.7 | A village site. |
| 0:50.5 | I'm a village site. religious side. What's good? Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of The News Olympian. My name is Mike Schuber. I'm the titular newest Olympian. I am a grown man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid. I read them as an adult because I was on a quest to determine if society had been sleeping on that book series. I said yes. And now I'm seeing if society has also been sleeping on the Heroes of Olympus series. But today I am joined by a very special guest, someone who you know from the |
| 1:32.2 | podcast. And you also, I was going to say, with the ghostly noise, you might know her as the podcast |
| 1:37.4 | ghost. Guys, haunting is my brand. Okay. That has showed up. Actually, it was a theme of a lot of my art |
| 1:41.8 | projects I did in college as well. |
| 1:47.2 | But you may have heard Sherry as the podcast, |
| 1:50.7 | goased on my new show with Sequoia Professional Talkers, |
| 1:53.4 | but you've definitely heard Sherry on this podcast, |
| 1:57.4 | and you've kind of heard the machinations behind the scenes, |
| 1:58.5 | the editing that she does. |
| 2:02.2 | It's our very own Sherry Gow. Sherry, how's it growing? It's glowing well, but how are you doing? You just got off a flight. Yes. So for the |
| 2:08.1 | context of this, if anyone is like, why does Mike's audio sound slightly more echoy? We're doing a |
| 2:13.6 | fun, chaotic thing where I have landed in St. Louis. I'm in my hotel that I'm here for |
| 2:19.3 | because I'm doing a T&O show tonight. Then I'm here for Enchanticon. Then I'm going to Kansas |
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