198 | The Mark of Athena Ch. 37–39 w/ Morgan Danielle
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
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🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Mike is joined by Morgan aka Imaginmatrix once again, this time to cover the Leo chapters that immediately follow the recent, dramatic Annabeth chapters, THAT ARE STILL SO CAPTIVATING. Topics include: Dafne Keen, Houston drivers, idk my BFF Jill, funy commercials, people acting off, Pizza Zizza, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, The Parthenon, All Da Ladies Love Leo, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Twin Sisters, rhythmic learning, lawyers, public transit, The Wu Tang Clan, Adam West, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Real quick, I did think of a better title for Chapter 39. So, Sherry, you can edit this back. So let's pretend I did this at when you said yours. I'm just be cleaner that way. I'm What's good. |
| 0:31.7 | Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of the newest Olympian. |
| 0:34.6 | My name is Mike Schumer. |
| 0:35.4 | I'm the titular newest Olympian. |
| 0:36.8 | I'm a 33-year-old 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 it was a book series that society had been sleeping on the Heroes of Olympus books. But I am never on this quest alone. And today is no exception. I am joined by a very special guest, someone who has been on |
| 0:55.6 | the podcast a couple of times, but now is here for a very fun set of chapters in Mark of Athena. |
| 1:00.7 | You may know her as Imagine Matrix. You may know her from her cosplay, her writing, her TTRPG |
| 1:06.8 | enthusiasm. It's Morgan, how's it going? It's going good. How are you? I'm doing |
| 1:12.7 | very well. I am excited to cover these chapters. We are getting into the more intense sections of |
| 1:19.9 | the book and I'm noticing a trend now in the Heroes of Olympus books. I think this probably |
| 1:25.0 | happened in the Percy Jackson ones as well. I'd have to like look at the |
| 1:28.1 | stats of TNO. But what happened for sure in the first two heroes of Olympus books is that as the |
| 1:35.4 | books go on, the chapters get a little shorter. And it seems like Rick is trying to, at least in this one, |
| 1:44.1 | because there's so many narrators, this is the time |
| 1:46.2 | it's felt the most intentional of like, okay, we got to get over to this narrator instead kind of thing. |
| 1:51.5 | And for these chapters in particular, at least on my very legal PDF, the third chapter that we're |
| 1:57.2 | discussing today is like two PDF pages, which is not a lot. Yeah, I think it was like |
| 2:05.2 | 10 minutes or less on the audiobook. And I listened at two times speed. So I got through in like |
| 2:11.6 | four or five minutes. I was like, that was really sure. Right. It's something that I appreciate because when I was doing all of the scheduling stuff for these episodes, |
| 2:23.9 | originally the plan was that I was going to do the Mark of Athena ending thing at the Pittsburgh show at the end of September. |
| 2:31.8 | And then the Pittsburgh venue said, we're not going to let you stream the show, which is very |
| 2:36.0 | foolish of them. |
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