202 | The Mark of Athena Ch. 49–52 w/ Dr. Steven Parra & Sequoia Simone (LIVE in Providence!)
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 124 minutes
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Summary
It's the final book episode about The Mark of Athena, AND I LIVE READ THAT PART ON STAGE! It was a true party, with Steven and Sequoia joining me as guests and Sherry and Robert running the Q&A! Topics include: predictions, Rhode Island, New York Systems, Hades II, Roman numerals, knees, Spider-Man, dinosaurs, improv brain, Katie Ledecky, cringe, WiFi, geometry, Spider-Goddess, Glenn Burke, I Am Legend, Miss Congeniality, Kingdom Hearts, conversation pits, scrounging, Professional Talkers, The Sims, Coffee Milk, chaotic duos, The Master of Subtlety, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:04.2 | Doing things a little bit differently today, |
| 0:06.8 | nodder of the stream. |
| 0:08.0 | So great to see everybody. |
| 0:09.7 | For those that don't know what I look like, |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Dr. Stephen Parra. |
| 0:16.6 | And I'm sure you're all curious to know. |
| 0:18.8 | My thoughts, views, and opinions are mine and mine alone tonight. |
| 0:22.8 | But the following are those of Mike Schubert. |
| 0:26.5 | I, Mike Schubert, am writing this at 2.31 a.m. |
| 0:30.0 | These are normal working hours. |
| 0:31.2 | What do you mean? |
| 0:32.3 | On September 12th, 2025. |
| 0:34.9 | Later today, I will begin reading the chapters we're recovering in this show. I have a guess as to |
| 0:40.0 | what the big moment is to come, and I'm having Stephen announce it to you all so you can get your |
| 0:44.6 | reactions out of your system. I'm doing this before I take the stage, and that we don't have to |
| 0:52.6 | deal with any trap doors. |
| 1:01.6 | When you hear this, I will be in the green room with headphones on, listening to Dean Martin to drown out any noise. |
| 1:11.6 | My guess is that Percy Jackson and Annabeth are captured and brought to Gia, the heroes of one on the end of every book so far. So my guess for the big shocking ending is that they don't this time. |
| 1:15.6 | Would I have guessed this had I not known the ending was shocking? |
| 1:18.6 | Probably not. |
| 1:20.6 | If I'm right and therefore not shocked and this ruined what you hope my reaction would be, |
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