211 | Mythology in The Mark of Athena w/ Dr. Moiya McTier
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Our return to Heroes of Olympus book coverage on The Newest Olympian features the return of our myth expert, Dr. Moiya McTier! She's here to tie a bow on our Mark of Athena era by answering all the questions I asked to the ether while covering this book. Topics include: doctor vibes, not being wrong, Nemesis, Tyche, Zeus & Hera, Echo, Hades II, Narcissus, Nicolas Cage, Phorcys, Sea World, leveling up, ichthyocentaurs, Shrimpzilla, scolopendra, Eurystheus, Electreon, Achelous, Deianira, Chrysaor’s crew, flood myths, Turtle Island, and more!
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| 1:01.0 | Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of The Newest Olympian. |
| 1:04.4 | My name is Mike Schuber. |
| 1:05.2 | I'm the titular Newst Olympian. |
| 1:06.6 | I'm a 33-year-old man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid, but I read them as an adult because I have been on a quest to determine if society has been sleeping on the entire series. I said society has been sleeping on the main series. Now I'm doing the sequel series. When you're listening to this episode, we will have just finished our conclusion of the second season of the television series, but now we're back to talk about myths from the third book in the sequel series. And of course, we are joined by the person whose name I scream out into the ether every time the myth thing comes up that confuses me. It's Dr. Moia McTeer. Dr. Moia, how's it going? Hi, Mike. I'm so happy to be here as a 30-year-old woman who did read the Percy Jackson books and loved them as a kid. |
| 1:45.3 | Yes. I love it. I love it. And I was saying this before the call, but I'm taking this call from the office of my in-laws, who are both PhDs. So I feel like I'm as close to doctor as possible right now in the room of two doctors talking to a doctor. The doctor |
| 2:03.0 | vibes are swirling around. The vibes are good. Those vibes are swirling for context. We're |
| 2:07.2 | recording this one on December 10th, which means that the Percy Jackson TV show, the first two |
| 2:10.8 | episodes of season two, have just dropped. So it's this interesting thing where I have just begun |
| 2:16.3 | like this new interstitial era of covering the TV show on the pod, but we got to get this recording in so that once the TV show's over, it's like, hey, remember the myths from that book we just read before we get into the House of Hades? |
| 2:28.2 | So I had sent you over the list of the myths that we got to talk about, and you did reply, good list. |
| 2:33.5 | So I'm excited for |
| 2:35.1 | what we are going to discuss. I think we should get right into it unless there's, oh, wait, no, |
| 2:40.0 | I got to ask you some returning guest questions. I feel like I've asked you some but not all. |
| 2:44.6 | Have I asked you and you're allowed to pass on this one, your fatal flaw? |
| 2:47.9 | Oh, you haven't. Oh, no. |
| 2:51.4 | Okay. |
| 2:51.7 | You can, if it's too real, you can say, no thank you, Mike. |
| 2:56.0 | No, I think I will do a lot to not be wrong. |
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