214 | The House of Hades Ch. 7–9 w/ Meghan Fitzmartin (LIVE in Los Angeles!)
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Meghan Fitzmartin, creator of the Mary Sue comic book series, returns to TNO and joins Schubes live on stage in front of a lively and lovely L.A. crowd to break down more of the fourth book in the Heroes of Olympus series! Topics include: Los Angeles, Rick Riordan, Instagram bios, stressful reading, the Grand Canyon, K-Pop Demon Hunters, Space Jam, the Phlegethon, The Lion King, evil icebergs, Captain Planet, Jumanji, fang hole, relating to Leo, “Everyone’s Going Through It,” handwaving, Eartha Kitt, body movement, h8 queen, gravity’s stats, British tea, friend blocking, required reading, dramatic hair changes, animation styles, Avatar, Pocahontas 2, K-Pop Demon Hunters, Had3s, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | A few, a few, a few, a few, a few hundred yards. |
| 0:05.0 | A few hundred yards. |
| 0:06.0 | One of the All right. |
| 0:29.0 | Maybe. |
| 0:30.5 | Los Angeles, California, what is good? |
| 0:43.1 | It is a delight to be here in your lovely city, in your lovely state. |
| 0:47.9 | Today I went to Santa Monica Pier at one point, and I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt on December 1st, and I was like, oh, that's why people live here. |
| 0:52.2 | Oh, I get it, I get it. It's been a wild day. You may or may not have |
| 0:57.0 | seen on Instagram.com slash newest Olympian that I did press today for the Percy Jackson TV |
| 1:04.4 | show. Me and the pod squad are in town. Phoebe and Emily are here somewhere in the crowd from |
| 1:10.8 | Monsdona. |
| 1:11.4 | And we got to interview people from the cast and also this young upstart author named Rick Ryordan. |
| 1:21.1 | And it was wild. |
| 1:23.3 | It was absolutely wild. |
| 1:24.4 | You will see all of the clips that I post as soon as it comes out, but I don't want to spoil too much of it. |
| 1:30.1 | But I will just say that the interview started with him complimenting the trans icon blackjack t-shirt that we just put up. |
| 1:40.5 | And for my career arc to go from leaving one fandom because the author is so transphobic |
| 1:47.4 | to interviewing the author of the other book to go, I love trans icon blackjack. |
| 1:53.0 | Direct quote from Nick Ryordan. |
| 1:55.5 | It's a pretty good 180 that I found myself in. |
| 1:58.6 | But we've got other things to discuss. |
| 2:00.4 | We've got to talk about the House of Hades chapters because, oh man, they are, I say spicy a lot, and I don't mean it in the book talk sense, which I've learned is a different word of spicy. I just mean like, interesting. But these are literally spicy. They talk about actual spicy things. So in order to have that discussion, though, |
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