2 | The Lightning Thief Ch. 3-4 w/ Jackson Bird
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Jackson Bird (Sorted, Kottke Ride Home) returns to chat more with Schubes about the beginning of The Lightning Thief! Topics include: Percy Jackson and the Pension Plan, Santa Claus, smelly cigars, George Costanza, fancy NY friends, The Little Mermaid, Greekseltongue, Mr. Tumnus, channelling anger, toreadors, Paddington 2, and more!
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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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— 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 —
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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| 0:29.7 | His dad is Poseidon, right? Like his dad is a thousand percent Poseidon. He set sail across the |
| 0:34.7 | Atlantic Ocean and never came back because he's the god of the newest Olympian. |
| 1:03.8 | My name is Mike Schubert. |
| 1:04.9 | I am the titular newest Olympian. |
| 1:07.1 | I never read or knew basically anything about the Percy Jackson series before starting |
| 1:11.7 | this podcast. And now I'm going through the series a couple chapters at a time. We are here joined again |
| 1:16.2 | by the author of Sordid, the host of the cocky ride home. Jacksonberg, Jackson, how is it going? |
| 1:21.9 | Going very well. I still feel like it's very appropriate for me to be here because of my name. |
| 1:26.6 | It's like, Jackson, |
| 1:27.8 | author of Sordid, person who is named Jackson. The guests will exclusively be people with Jackson or |
| 1:35.0 | Percy in their name. No one else is allowed on the show. Yeah, it's going to be tough. You have like |
| 1:40.7 | Percy the pig. You can have him on. Yeah. Thankfully, Jackson's a common enough last name where I could probably get a crop of people. I think you could do it. I believe in you. I'll try my darn this, but we'll see. We'll see. Or maybe this will just be a two-episode podcast. It won't be. Don't worry. We're going to make a million episodes. There's so many things. There's like five books to start in this, |
| 1:44.7 | but then there's like, |
| 1:45.5 | I don't even know how many spin-offs he's done. million episodes. There's so many things. There's like five books to start in this, but then there's |
| 2:02.7 | like, I don't even know how many spin-offs he's done. Like, I can't even keep track of them. Yeah, |
| 2:06.7 | this could go for a long time. You might have just signed on for life. As someone who this hopefully |
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