207 | Percy Jackson and the Olympians S2E5 w/ Seaweed Brain Podcast
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
It's the most Percabeth ep of the season so far, so I had to bring in the Percabeth experts, Carter and Erica from Seaweed Brain! Topics include: PhDs, editing & directing, episode structure, filming, foley work, extras, easter egg names, the wedding carriage, guinea pig audio, #TrustTheProcess, weaponizing therapy, theaters, MoviePass, The Shape of Water, pomegranate juice, Madeline Miller, Avatar the Last Airbender, podcasting cabinets, #TeamPolyphemus, Annabeth’s art, hurdy gurdy, Beauty Inside, and more!
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| 0:28.6 | I'm glad you're pro because I'm anti-newgirl. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm not saying I'm pro-Newgirl. |
| 0:32.6 | Sorry, sorry. |
| 0:32.9 | I am pro-A-Cin-Winsterat. |
| 0:35.0 | I have Zoe National Trauma. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm a girl with bangs and classes. |
| 1:01.3 | Welcome to. What's good? Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of The New Still Olympian. My name is Mike Schuber. I'm the titular Newst Olympian. I'm a grown man |
| 1:04.4 | who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid. I read them as an adult because I was on a quest to |
| 1:07.8 | determine if society had been sleeping on the series. I said yes. And now I'm seeing if society's been sleeping on the TV show. I don't think people are sleeping on it because my normy norm friends are talking to me about Percy Jackson. So I think we're doing well. But I am now joined for this episode by the perfect set of guests. This is what seems to be at least so far, because I've only seen through episode five, seems to be the most |
| 1:29.8 | per sebeth of the episodes. |
| 1:31.1 | So I had to bring on the Persebeth, the premonid field experts of Persebeth. |
| 1:36.7 | It is Erica and Carter from Seweed Brain. Folks, how's it going? |
| 1:39.7 | Hello, good morning. |
| 1:41.5 | I love appearing on someone else's podcast as a guest and also have like a hot mug of tea in my hands and be covered in a podcast blanket because I feel like a visiting expert. |
| 1:50.7 | Yes. |
| 1:51.2 | Professor of Persebeth Studies from the University of Ryarden, from the Ryardenversity. |
| 1:56.3 | Ryardiniversity. That's great. Well done. We should make merch. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, the PhD and the P stands for Percy. |
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