44 | The Titan’s Curse Ch. 5 w/ Erin Bark
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Well this is a podcast about books, so it’s about time we got a library technician in the mix! Erin Bark helps us hit that quota as she joins as guest for more PJO and the Titan’s Curse coverage! Topics include: PodCon, renaissance fairs, learning to drive, sibling dynamics, sassy 10-year-olds, winter skins, Snape, Mythomagic, board games, NBA2K, tough subjects, garlic, audiobook narrator issues, The Cousin Line, eating alone, Sushi Go Party, Absolutely (Story of a Girl), Stranger Things 4, Trajectory of Stink, and more! TNO LIVE: www.thenewestolympian.com/live — Find The Newest Olympian Online — • Website: www.thenewestolympian.com • Patreon: www.thenewestolympian.com/patreon • Twitter: www.twitter.com/newestolympian • Instagram: www.instagram.com/newestolympian • Facebook: www.facebook.com/newestolympian • Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/thenewestolympian • Merch: www.thenewestolympian.com/merch — Production — • Creator, Host, Producer, Social Media, Web Design: Mike Schubert (https://schub.es) • Editor: Sherry Guo • Music: Bettina Campomanes and Brandon Grugle • Art: Jessica E. Boyd — About The Show — 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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| 0:00.0 | Anyway, |
| 0:00.5 | Persia. |
| 0:00.8 | Feel free to cut that. |
| 0:01.6 | No, no, we're keeping it. |
| 0:02.4 | Hey, tangents, baby. |
| 0:03.5 | If there weren't tangents, |
| 0:04.8 | just read the book. |
| 0:05.9 | If you don't want the tangents, |
| 0:07.3 | why would you listen to A's podcast? What's good. Thank you so much for tuning into another episode of the Neust Olympian. My name is Mike Schubert. I'm the titular Newst Olympian. I'm a 30-year-old man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid, but I'm reading them now for the very first time as an adult because I'm on a quest to determine if this is a book series that we as a society have been sleeping on. But I'm not on this quest alone. Today I'm joined by library technician, partner of the great Misha Stanton and everybody's mom, Erin Bark. Aaron, how's it going? |
| 0:54.6 | Hi, Mike. How are you doing? I'm doing very well. I am excited to have you on the show. I know you are a big, big, |
| 1:14.1 | P.J.O. fan. And I'm glad that you gave me the note to say that you're everybody's mom, because I believe when I was introduced to you many moons ago at PodCon 1. I believe I was first told, oh, this is the Podmom, Erin. So I feel like my first introduction to you was, oh, this is my mother who I haven't met yet. So I feel like it's a |
| 1:18.4 | fitting introduction. Yes. I actually remembered that because we were all sitting in the back |
| 1:24.4 | of the Podcon hall at the meetup, the very first minute of podcon. |
| 1:28.7 | And I'm like, wait a minute, I hear a voice. Is that Mike Schubert? Is that the Potterless guy? And I asked Misha just to make sure. And I'm like, can I go say hi to him? And it's like, yeah, you can say hi to whoever you like. Everybody's very cool here. And I walked up to you. I'm like, hi, Mike, I really like your show. |
| 1:26.0 | I listen to Potterless all the time. |
| 1:27.2 | It's nice to meet you. |
| 1:28.1 | And you freaked out. like, everybody's very cool here. And I walked up to you. I'm like, hi, Mike, I really like your show. |
| 1:44.6 | I listen to Potterless all the time. It's nice to meet you. And you freaked out. You had never had a |
| 1:49.7 | fan come up to you before. And you're like, oh my God, I have to get a selfie with you right now. And it was so cute. |
| 1:42.7 | It was very surreal. |
| 1:43.9 | I was living in Seattle at the time, and PodCon happened to be in Seattle. |
| 1:46.7 | I'd been doing the show for a couple of months and it was a tiny little baby podcast that still had a sizable |
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