The Newest Olympian

In this bonus episode, Mike shares footage from (and the story behind) the Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 Press Junket he did the night before the World Premiere in Los Angeles!

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Johnny is back and we're here to talk about the second ep of the second season of Percy Jackson! Topics include: Ms. Dimple, Timothy Simons, audiobook, On Top of Spaghetti, New Jersey, Lincoln-Douglass debates, Lorem Ipsum, Encyclopedia Brown, Hades boons, 12 Ways to Deflect a Conversation and Not Actually Give an Answer to Anybody, Holes, See Gee Eye, Beer Bike, The Bronte Sisters, Wuthering Heights, Barbarian, The Houston Rodeo, Love on Top, media inconsistencies, the wedding dress, fast food,Subway Takes, eyebrow work, John Cena, and more!

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Fresh off of attending the WORLD PREMIERE of Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 in Los Angeles, Mike and Kelly hop on the mic to break down the first episode of the Sea of Monsters SEAson of the PJO TV show! Topics include: premiere pastries, Jason Mantzoukas, changed things, gross teenage boys, cereal, coin metaphor, Daniel Diemer, New York Nitpicking, Trans Icon Blackjack, pegasus galloping physics, Smash Mouth, visiting set, The Consenting Song, and more!

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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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WELL, FOLKS! IT FINALLY HAPPENED! We got Uncle Rick on the pod! Please enjoy this bonus episode which features a few “if I ever get Uncle Rick on the podcast…” questions! Full video version available on Spotify and YouTube, and stay tuned for more Season 2 interviews. 

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Did you honestly think I could do an episode about a set of chapters where Percy CAN SEE WHY LUKE REBELLED and NOT get the folks from Monster Donut on as guests? The choice was obvious, and the result was a lovely episode! Topics include: Nightcrawler, hydra math, Futarama, bards, Alan Menken, New Game+, Munchkins from Hell, Monster Donuts, cereal, justified hatred, kids liking theater, tourists in NYC, Beastie Boys, Coke/Pepsi divide, Whiplash, bardic inspiration, The Colloseum, Hades the video game, Luke, the power of theater, cyclops heckling, twisting thumbs, Sky High, and more!

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TNO? More like "TEENAGE, YO!" with the return of Niharika to the podcast! We cover some captivating chapters towards the end of the third Heroes of Olympus book, while also going on some tangents that truly make me (Mike) feel like a fossil. Topics include: YA formulas, Tim Burton, Noah, dogs, Norway, Field of Dreams, niches, lifeguard tips, brooches, YouTube vocabulary, Hillary Duff, Norwegian, localizations, Poseidon’s Junior Sea Scouts, Cassandra Claire, The Hunger Games prequels, the monster economy, dance muscles, Wicked, theater kids, Baldur’s Gate 3, Wonderbread, ingredients, hot fudge oil slicks, and more!

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J'Neia makes her glorious return to cover the final Leo chapter and the start of the last Piper chapter set from The Mark of Athena! Topics include: horoscopes, tattoos, petty Nemesis, outlet plugs, Casper the Friendly Ghost, dances, Soulja Boy, hazing, Twilight, Kpop Demon Hunters, death predictions, Nico being shadowy, Spirit Airlines, New Girl, auspicious, Jerkules, Burn Centers in the U.S., vampires, and more!

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Mike is joined by Morgan aka Imaginmatrix once again, this time to cover the Leo chapters that immediately follow the recent, dramatic Annabeth chapters, THAT ARE STILL SO CAPTIVATING. Topics include: Dafne Keen, Houston drivers, idk my BFF Jill, funy commercials, people acting off, Pizza Zizza, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, The Parthenon, All Da Ladies Love Leo, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Twin Sisters, rhythmic learning, lawyers, public transit, The Wu Tang Clan, Adam West, and more!

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The Michael tag-team is back in action, this time for my first ever performance in Kansas City, MO! These chapters of MoA cover Annabeth’s build up to her big battle, and thankfully we have sadness expert, Michael Hollis, for the wallowing in despair chapter. Topics include: Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift, missing train prats, DEADalus, Arachne & Ariadne, into/onto, Larrys, BAH and GAH, capstones, WHEE, ambrosia effectiveness, First Aid, basketball courts, pitch, Sue Bird, Uncharted, worst fears, Hamilton, naming trucks, reading chaos, KCMO BBQ, and more!

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Hello! This is an off-week for TNO, but I didn't want to leave you with NOTHING, so here's a little bonus episode that has info about our upcoming live show in Sant Monica, the charity we're supporting this break, and what the podcast will look like when the TV show returns in December. Finally, I end this episode with a preview of a recent Patreon bonus episode! I've started a series where I go through old TNO Reddit posts that were marked as spoilers at the time but are now safe for me to read. You can listen to...

You know I couldn’t do a show in St. Louis without bringing Kirkwood’s own, Johnny Frohlichstein! We break down 2.5 chapters of the third Heroes of Olympus book, dive deep into the local cuisine, and get Johnny’s mom involved in the show as well. Topics include: Imo’s, Lord of the Rings, turbulence, Imposter Syndrome, being a kid, The Trolley Problem, Ertha Kitt, Holes, Chess Capital USA, Dr. Seuss, murder mystery parties, the Kelly Schubert Gelato Approach, Mississippi River Sushi, credit card details, Italian food, Audrey Hepburn wallpaper, Gregory Peck, Vine, Provel cheese, Jergen Klopp, the MetroLink, cyborgs...

[Ch. 31 stopping point is after an unexpected liquid fills the boat] Sherry is back with the some Mark of Athena chapters she called dibs on many moons ago (a-Guo?), and I can clearly see why! Topics include: scheduling chaos, multi-hyphenates, Halloween costume ideas, multitasking, Webkins & Neopets, gin, 12-season athlete, Mrs. Woodman, spilt vs. spilled, comparative anxiety, The Princess Diaries, dolphins, New Jersey, Mo Willems’ Pigeon, Caldecott Tunnel, BAH, Branson Reese, accidental dunking, tutting, improv, and more!

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Sequoia Simone AKA the co-creator of our new podcast, Professional Talkers, makes her glorious return to TNO to discuss our heroes meeting THE HERO in Heroes of Olympus Book 3! Topics include: Jeremy Bearemy, podcast logistics, Salt Lake City, Coney Island, Snakes by the Ocean, Mayor of Tangent Town, tromping, The Avril Lavigne Theory, Canadian Thanksgiving, Cornucopia, mosquitos, image conjurers, reading, The Princess Switch 9, “…but the music slaps,” T-Pain, water activities, IT’S OVER, lady bulls, Reddit, veal, lab-grown beef, fightin’ good, and more!

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The doctor is back in and we've got more of the third Heroes of Olympus book to cover! Also, being on brand as Dr. Steven Parra, we go on a doctor tangent this episode! Topics include: dream messages, Goblet of Fire, the Athena Parthenos, relationship overanalyzing, scrubs, Mediterranean landscapes, Barcelona, Duane Reade, softball optimism, Tyson’s Peanut Butter Adventure, Jason vibes, stormy, Disney, About the Author, and more!

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We've got another TNO guesting debut for you, this time it's Wil Williams of Hug House Productions! Wil and Mike share their thoughts on two chapters from Mark of Athena, as well as some Old People takes. Topics include: washing linens, the Arizona heat, Nest, European rules, crawfish, SHRIMPZILLA, The Wu-Tang Clan, Old Man Takes, Super Smash Bros., Mythbusters, A Bad Case of the Stripes, reverb, live podcasts, Terminator, The Gruffalo, boxed brownie mix, and more!

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We've got a new guest for a new episode of The Newest Olympian! Paul Cailoa from the That Aged Well podcast makes his TNO debut to discuss 2 chapters of Mark of Athena and go down many delight tangents with the Mayor of Tangent Town, Mike Schubert. Topics include: Escapism, Civil War, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, whipped cream, trains, ghost-writing billionaires, eating before bed, international food, Blue’s Clues, Australian hikes, old school actors, Lithgow, last names, flirting game, and more!

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Hello! Making a little bonus episode because i always feel terrible when folks comment "I didn't know this was a thing!" days after something like a stream or a show happens. SO JUST IN CASE YOU HAVE SOMEHOW MISSED IT, here's all the info about the live show and livestream we are doing on September 13, 2025 where I will cover the ending of The Mark of Athena (and live read/live react to whatever THAT MOMENT is) with Sequoia Simone and Dr. Steven Parra (ft. Sherry Guo and Robert Gaymer running Q&A)!

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Kelly sits down with Mike in the Auxiliary Schubio to cover these three chapters that they covered live in Salt Lake City at a live show where the audio was unable to be recorded! Topics include: audio recording struggles, local nerds, gray streaks, ATPT, Taylor Swift, blonde jokes, tea time, display desserts, My Cousin Vinny, The Bachelor, Luke hater hats, pigeon doctors, King Arthur, sarcasm, Spider-Man, doing voices, Amateur Listeners, and more!

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Hello! We're off this week for the Labor Day + 5-Monday month combo, but I've still got a fun bonus ep headed your way! In the intro, I'll discuss TNO's upcoming show in Manchester, UK on September 19, 2025 and the charity we're supporting this time before diving into our feed drop for the first ep of me and Sequoia's new podcast, Professional Talkers! Also at the midroll break I'll chat to you about the upcoming TNO livestream with Sequoia, Dr. Steven, Sherry, and Robert AND the TNO Bookmark promotion that ends September 1!

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Mal from Demigod Debut makes her TNO debut to cover some Mark of Athena chapters, but more importantly to yell about the New York Yankees and New York Metro Transit Authority. Topics include: ankees vs. Astros, The Savannah Bananas, fish tubes, the Houston Zoo, Zuckerberg, koi & goldfish, Chuck Norris, The Market of Athena, the C in Schubert, step-taking, stair code, leadership styles, Pirate Style, Kindle version, TV captions, history class, the 6, and more!

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Robert from The Dam Meme Page is back to cover more Mark of Athena, and he uses his expertise to explain a scene that caused many heated discussions in the PJO fandom! Topics include: Teething, categorized reels, glass floors, CN Tower, Chicago Ferris Bueler stuff, BBC Sherlock, Mission Impossible, fanning, Love & Basketball, prom, Legolas & Gimli, Atlanta, accents, LeBron lying, international cash, completing the book, one-Kate-y, Monster Donut: corporate sponsors, Freeze Team, and more!

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After juuuust missing the cut to be a part of Tourope in 2023, Zürich finally has its day in the TNO sun, as it was the host of this live show cover more of the Mark of Athena! Schubes is joined by The Menace Sisters, making their debut as guests on The Newest Olympian! Topics include: Swiss food, Horse Girls, Yzma, concussion protocols, team medic, The Book of Annabeth, Umbridge, American eagles, LOTR eagles, Delta, food consumption, mountains, Piper’s blade visions, ouija boards, the Fast and the Furious, The Little One cameo, All Star by Smashmouth, saying the tit...

Schubes is joined in Canada, this time Montreal aka Montréal, by TNO's Designated Canadian, Genna Buck, to dissect some Piper chapters of Mark of Athena! Topics include: two languages, spicy all-dressed chips, Barrett’s Privateers, Born in the U.S.A., Katy/Tris, Limitless, hockey, drowning, Mr. D’s wardrobe, Ka-dropped-this, seasickness, sickness food, Jason’s poker face, Wishbone, lighting, Air Canada, Kansas/Saskatchewan, temperatures, bagels, Survivor, weightlifting, transportation, Sk8r Boi, butter tarts, poutine, PWHL, Wifeswap, book covers, and more!

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The 2025 Midwest Tour comes to its conclusion in Cleveland, the hometown of this episode’s guest, Eric Hamilton Schneider! Come listen to us break down the Narcissus chapters of Mark of Athena! Topics include: the Masons, Thailand, Leo’s priorities, changing visuals, home gyms, Echo, posture, deadlifts, Jungkook, YouTube, internet rest stops, J-Hope, Paramore, fancams, turning into a flower, modern nutrition, Dom Teretto, Statler & Waldorf, schizzle, Taco Bell, Mark Ruffalo, Wikipedia, bronze weight, soda genders, Muppet Pride & Prejudice, boy band roles, and more!

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The tour continues as does our coverage of The Mark of Athena! Eric Schneider is back on stage with Mike to break down the next installment of The Heroes of Olympus series in front of a lively crowd in Ohio! Topics include: the Rust Belt, Thomas the Tank Engine, identity theft, Hell in a Cell, HOODSLAM, hair color tropes, Anchorman, Midwest vs. Northeast, The Home Depot, Antelope Island, bit characters, listing, DirecTV, Roman Strike Force, Blobs, Maserati cars, calcium carbonate, Dippin’ Dots, Gotye, Dune, Nomar Garciaparra, Leo & Hedge, brain rot, baby books, basketball commercials, life hacks, arcade games, and mo...

ASMR Mike is here with an update episode that will be deleted in 2 days time! It's all about Mike's new podcast, Professional Talkers, and the podcast premier picnic party for it this Sunday in Central Park!

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I was told the intro to Mark of Athena was intense. In these chapters, I learned why! Come listen as I'm joined by Eric Schneider, co-creator of The Last and the Curious, live on stage in Chicago not only to cover these chapters, but also to do a live-reading of the end of Ch. 4! Topics include: Open Midwest, Culver’s, Casey’s, audiobook changes, failed moves, forgiving a boyfriend, Avengers: Endgame, international travel, secret twins, Mark of Athena, peaceful vessels, Fast & Furious, office dogs, New Rome TAs, food fights, Star Wars, pauldrons, Latin, The Lizzie McGuire Movie, the audiobook, drag...

THE MARK OF ATHENA ERA HAS BEGUN! To kick things off, Johnny joins Schubes live on stage in Des Moines, Iowa in front a of a PACKED crowd to cover the intro of the third book in the Heroes of Olympus series! Topics include: Field of Dreams, Des Moines chat, mid 2000s hip-hop, Dublin Step, neutral clothing, boundaries, Chuck-A-Puck, emo girl, anniversaries, stomachaches, Remember the Titans, iPod video, Lipstick Jungle, CatDog, vulnerability corner, tattoos, enthusiasm, The Random 7, Fast & Furious, Pride & Prejudice, Rice University buildings, card games, The Midwest, snoring strategies, NIL sponsors, Shrek, film franchises, bachelor/bachelorette parties, and...

The always-lovely Kelly Schubert stays up past her bedtime to make her triumphant return to the podcast so we can conclude our coverage of The Demigod Diaries! This short story was written by Rick Riordan's son, Haley, which is so freaking cool. Topics include: Board-form concrete, Rice University, DOCTORS, NY geography, Misery, slamming phones, lucid dreaming, teenage boys, coffeeshop puns, The Pour is Java, Mysterio, lawnmower Roombas, and more!

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T-N-O. 1-8-0. Sher-ry Guo. IT'S TIME. Our lovely editor is also our lovely guest for this episode, as we break down the third stories in the Demigod Diaries! Topics include: Cupola balconies, curtain walls, Facebook Official, self-charmspeak, productive procrastination, Iron Man, cleaning solutions, Taco Claus, mahogany, #grindlife, wine service, egg nog, RETURN OF CRISPY CHEESE N WEINERS, Psych, Baguette, fandom boundaries, Club Penguin, New Jersey, mandated fun, The Hokey Pokey, two-stepping, and more!

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Liam Crowley, entertainment journalist and host, returns to TNO to cover the second story in The Demigod Diaries! Topics include: REAL ID, narration, The Great Lawn, olive pizza, combo holidays, cleats, fashion trends, hernias, network TV, PJO TV production, 420, EOD, Gandalf, Loki, D-list gods, Chekov, the High Line, claw games, The Fairly Oddparents, the second movie, NY monuments, timelines, teenage relationships, garbage plates, Spider-Man, and more!

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Who else could be the guests for this episode other than the #1 Luke stans, the Monster Donut duo? Emily and Phoebe join to discuss the earliest chronological PJO story yet! Topics include: midnight releases, AI, signatures, curlicue, Pepsi, golf, going commando, Scooby Doo, whodunnit, hyenas, Luke + Thalia, greeting kisses, crushes, prophecies, math tests, Goosebumps, ACAB Luke, and more!

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Our coverage of a book has ended, meaning it's time for Dr. Moiya to provide answers to all the times Mike went "DR. MOIYA!?" across the Son of Neptune episodes! Topics include: the word biannual, Xena, The Karpoi, 4 AM, bull-horned centaurs, Periclymenus (SPELLING?), the Amazons, Bellerofon, killing your brother, appendices, French food, Battle of Carrhae, war strategies, Mars vs. Ares, basketball gods, ogres and starch, The Yule Lads, gryphons, and more!

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*very Europe (the band) voice* It's the final! The Son of Neptune! Episode of! The Newest Olympian!

Mike is joined by TWO lovely goofballs on stage in Milwaukee, WI to break down the ending of Heroes of Olympus Book 2! Topics include: Art Smart’s Dart Mart (and Juggling Emporium), Tuna, world’s colliding, Queen Hylla Twice Killa, branding, cleaning strategies, Kintsugi, Frank’s tone, teen dating, Dune 2, Jason’s room, glue guys, obstinate headstrong girls, The Art of War, Dear Evan Hansen, love triangles, Sammy Valdez, Kingdom Hearts, marching in, speech and debate, verbal spit takes, BCC, Sherlock...

Johnny is back to kick off the 2025 Midwest Tour with Mike and bring us ever closer to the conclusion of Heroes of Olympus Book 2! Topics include: Jucy Lucy, giants vs. Giants, loons, Wilt Chamberlain, Mr. Brightside, towels, Game of Thrones, checked bags, upside the head, MUSTER, whistles, GEICO commercials, bibs, eagles, Space Jam, 300, Count Chocula, Rocky IV, ice fishing, tornado sirens, high school fights, Under The Sea, mongeese, dolphins, Sailor Moon, The Timberwolves, Game of Thrones, Gray Duck, Minnesota Laser Loon, state fairs, DnD, hockey, casts, Midwest town names, and more!

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Hello! Just a little update to say 1) We're coming to Zürich for a TNO show on May 25th, 2025 2) Ep 175 might be slightly delayed due to my travel to Switzerland 3) New US tour dates were announced and 4) New content coming to the Patreon shop soon!

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The bus buddies are back, as Alyssa from Breakfast in Beauclair returns to TNO to break down Frank chapters, highlighting how she relates to his cultural experiences! Topics include: Leap Day, mangoes, Asian-American heritage, waiting, SNL, Waffle House, TV remotes, pockets, Animorphs, Norman Osborne, Pirates Of the Caribbean, tech aging, “WELCOME TO CANADA, IDIOT.”, trash-talk, Frank’s confidence, and more!

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We're off this week, but instead of leaving you with nothing to listen to, I proudly present the first episode of my new Fast & Furious podcast I co-created with Eric Hamilton Schneider, The Last and the Curious! If you like what you hear from this first episode and want to hear the rest of the podcast, you can access all 13 episodes completely ad-free at thelastandthecurio.us for just $5! We've been working on this pod since 2023 and are incredibly proud of the result, so we hope you enjoy it. Thanks for listening, and see you next week with more Heroes...

Joel Rochester aka fictionalfates makes his long-awaited return to TNO to dive into some Son of Neptune chapters where the real hero is trash talk. Topics include: electric cars, peak horse girl, nautical miles, Arion One, nickering, Goel Rochester, boss fights, expand/expound, glistening, DnD, life’s fairness, Alcyoneus’ perfection, Rule of Threes, synergistic moment, trash talk, black olives, and more!

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Sequoia Simone, the co-creator of the upcoming podcast Professional Talkers (of which Mike is the other co-creator!), returns to TNO and is ready to cover the next leg in our team's Alaska expedition! Topics include: holiday gifts, the Northern Lights, titles, waking hours, cruise ships, quicksand, paleontology, touring, muskeg, Muskrat Love, curbing dogs, deconstructed mimosas, beignets, Yzma, Yo Mama, Christopher Walken, trapsing, Barenaked Ladies, and more!

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Kelly Schubert is back on the pod and back in her hometown to discuss more Son of Neptune chapters live on stage with Mike! The trio is ready to eat breakfast and fight monsters, and they're all out of breakfast. Topics include: The Houston Rodeo, flattened pennies, Texas 4000, turbulence, losing things, rough air, Rice University, “Sure.”, ellipsis, Mufasa, Wicked, air fresheners, revisiting hometowns, ACME, breakfast for dinner, reindeer sausage, 24, cutting things close, all aboard, payphone calls to mom, Alaska, shed hunting, rumps, Coca-Cola, children’s books, Bug Juice lore, Taqueria Ruby, late night food, trades, niche classes, and more!

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Johnny is back, this time live on stage with Schubes in Richmond, VA (definitely not Quantico, VA) for some juicy Heroes of Olympus Book 2 chapters, where Frank FINALLY learns the details of the Zhang family gift! Topics include: Oatmeal Creme Pies, chess, Quantico, LotR fun facts, Wicked, three-pointers, dolt, Reverse Shrek, Crazy Rich Asians, Muhammad Ali, Frank’s clothing, fun facts, Jeopardy!, state mammals, VR, roofs, AWOOGA, Troy Bolton, George McFly, car romantics, Das Racist, Running Flip Charades, talk-singing, disco fries, WWJD, Internet personalities, engineering, and more!

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Baltimore's own Sherry Guo makes her TNO live show guesting debut in her hometown to break down some more Frank chapters of The Son of Neptune! Topics include: The Super Bowl, lactose, Maryland, horses, camping, Canadians, jealousy, sprat, Gray’s theatrics, Wicked, Kendrick, spelling bees, The Baltimore Colts, 4DX, Mars vibes, car sickness, Pokémon, Guo, Schitt’s Creek, Severance, Wikipedia, Google, kid/punk, Clocky, BUG JUICE ADVENTURE, apostrophes, The Luka Trade, hot animals, and more!

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Erin and Manasa from Camp Half-Pod are back, this time to cover some more chapters of Son of Neptune! I thought we would talk about all the Seattle shenanigans our trio gets up to, but OPE it's a warehouse adventure! Topics include: ahopping locally, ceremonial cabins, babies, aspects, gw, Gulman, The Berenstain Bears, horse girl tropes, The winter soldier, Lady Whistledown, Amazon Dash, adult friendships, mischievously, pecans, e-readers, reading on the beach, Downtown Seattle, rollercoaster, Beecher’s, Seattle Supersonics, friendship bracelets, and more!

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When in Connecticut, you gotta get the Connecticut-born podcasters on the show! Emily and Phoebe from Monster Donut return to cover some more chapters from The Son of Neptune! ALSO THERE IS A SPECIAL GUEST FOR THE Q&A!Topics include: Amazon’s disruption, Inter-CT rivalries, Dark Connecticut, Claire’s, Jane Austen (North Anger Abby?), corny jokes, Charon’s range, Jason Stratham, British English, Cerberos, Team Hazel’s Mom, Bushnell, high school crushes, Detective Nico di Angelo, Supernatural, The Mirror of the Erised, Seattle, Ship of Theseus, sample sales, self-help books, Hylla, prepositions, The Dark Knight Rises, Room on the Broo...

Robert from The Dam Meme Page is back and we are here with some INTENSE chapters covering our Son of Neptune trio in Portland! Topics include: tap water, limited-use items, fast friends, fast enemies, strange names, The Mist, Central Park, Percy’s vendettas, macrobiotic beef jerky, Portland’s crunchiness, improv pun games, Hades heat system, extreme foods, The Powerpuff Girls, cornucopia of bad takes, The Monty Hall Problem, quintessential PJ, reading with the pod, monkey paws, Portland, Baja Blast, Squid Game, Dr. Strange, and more!

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While you all meet our new guest, Niharika, our team in these Son of Neptune chapters meets Phineas! Topics include: Norway, the new MUNCH museum, next steps, “metrosexual”, water powers, phantom sensations, the Mercator Projection, suggestions, solstices, perfect timing, glaciers, flat tops, Polartech, beef jerky, pan fried ice cream, wool smells, dude bags, Toy Story, pigeons, and more!

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Sherry returns as guest with a set of chapters she called dibs on far in advance, for good reason! We cover 4 fun Frank chapters as we follow along our team's continuing journey in The Son of Neptune! Topics include: film cameras, Florida, Dance Moms, recording timelines, snack time, trading, Butterscotch Krimpets, birth certificates, being ripped, languages, goosing, ROFL, Galaxy Quest, Business Daddy, fad diets, lactose, crediting, Mambo #5, shapeshifting, Teen Miss Dance of New Jersey, Missy Elliot, Pylos, MLMs, Chamber of Secrets, Willow Smith, Danse Macabre, and more!

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Holy schist does this episode SLAP. We're back in Vienna, VA in front of another hyped crowd, this time covering chapter of the Son of Neptune where our heroes have to deal with a whole lot of schist! Topics include: Austria, Fun & Spicy, Reeks of Gia, The Pit, The Masked Singer, Albert C. Onious, Spire, trap door fever, the Lad of Poseidon, PhD in Weird, Pokémon, parkour, pounamu, schist, Stevia, Catan, MySpace, Chex Mix, Hey Arnold!, Putties, Fleetwood Mac, Party Foul Ponies, The Castro, Hostess, the plight if wheat, instruments, the Cabinet, sorghum, baseball, Commodore Crunch, basketball, toasted r...

Steven and Schubes are back in Doylestown* in front of a fun crowd to cover a good chunk of the second book in the Heroes of Olympus series! Topics include: Wawa, Chekov’s jelly beans, ring sliding, Pikachu, Percy Jackson and the Gaggle of Mercenaries, pirates, the quiet car, Babe Ruth, airport dads, directions, the BART, McFlurries, SEPTA, Dark Percy, Kingdom Hearts, Admiral Crunch, NPCs, Blake Shelton, The Voice, Amish Country, trap door installations, High School Musical 3, Joel Embiid, mascots, Backyard Baseball, and more.

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Beth Eyre of Wooden Overcoats, 20toMidnight, and more, makes her TNO debut to cover some incredible pre-quest chapters of The Son of Neptune, but also to go on some GLORIOUS tangents. Topics include: maths, Reyson, Gabriel Urbina, Zelda, The Silver Surfer, chess, bunk beds, Natalie Imbruglia, black pudding, The Pomeranian Line, Julia, pant lengths, OCD, Arabella, The New York Yankees, podex, “I took Latin in senior school,” croissants, water canon up the nose guy, maths, Chewsday, Language Tangent Town, Dark Mike, Rule of Threes, “This is the Stuff of Legends,” side quests, Theseus, and more!

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Kelly makes her return to TNO, this time live in Louisiana to discuss more Frank chapters in The Son of Neptune! Topics include: TNeaux, Taylor Swift, portcullis, Medieval Madness, Trials of Apollo, Bug Juice, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Lord of the Rings, harpoon head logistics, Centurion Shishkabob, Mars vs. Ares, punch ups, Wingdings, hangry, eras, clowning, video games, Taylor Swift, and more!

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Liam Crowley of ScreenRant is back on stage in Boston alongside Mike to break down the first set of Frank narration chapters! Topics include: The back of the book, cinnamon toast, s’mores duty, runaway blenders, blinking, don’t touch signs, Frank’s grandma, Avengers: Endgame, shaving, Captain Underpants, loot, Mark Ruffalo, Vitellius cooking, Greek vs. Roman, Percy’s and Jason’s confidence, Justin Bieber, curriculums, iTunes, Thanatos, reading, Red Sox & Yankees, and more!

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Mike finally returns to Boston for a podcast live show, and he's brought Massachusetts' own Liam Crowley as the guest! They conclude the first set of Hazel chapters in front of a lovely early show crowd. Topics include: Braintree, Sonic the Hedgehog, the graphic novels, The Toilet Kids, Amtrak, refrigerators, Rice tour guide, “eating sandwiches,” the cover, claiming, abuse of power, Greek life, Drake & Josh, cheeseburgers, Fish & Chips, The Lion King, About Time, world-building, energy drinks, Indiana Jones, The Cleveland Cavaliers, Amtrak, default outfits, keyblades, and more!

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J'Neia Stewart of the upcoming Fandom Fixations Archives podcast makes her TNO return, this time for a set of Son of Neptune chapters for which she is the perfect guest: the first two Hazel narration chapters! Topics include: New Orleans, new phone who dis, weird mascots, Magic School Bus, ananas, Michael Fassbender, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, The Chiron School of Plot Protection, Snoop Dogg, All Your Base, Indigenous Americans, Texas cities, grooms, Horse Sense, WWII, gris gris, Marie Laveau, TikTok sounds, Hades confusion, Alaska, the New Orleans Saints, and more!

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Much like Hannah Montana, this episode has the best of both worlds, as it's made up of Act 2 of the 2024 Toronto live show AND a proper studio recording! Both incredible, both with our designated Canadian, Genna Buck. Topics include: Bombilo the Two-Headed Coffee Merchant, camp sorting, young alumni, acknowledgizing, Italy, East Side Mario’s, Revenge of the Nona’s, homeless tropes, Coffee Time, Jak II, haruspicy, dad powers activated, R. Kelly, CanCon, Nickelback, Pillow Pets, Octavian sux, and more!

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TNO's Designated Canadian, Genna Buck, joins Mike live on stage IN CANADA (Toronto, specifically) to break down Ch. 3 of HoO Book 2! Topics include: Black Toonies, second Ts, Greek food, The Canadian House Hippo, Elf on a Shelf, The Royal Ontario Museum, Chekhov’s jelly beans, zed, Hera’s folder management, polygraphs, cheesy dog bite, tuna enchiladas, The School of Chiron’s Plot Protection, tattoos, Wii Sports Resort, The New York Yankees, Halloween costumes, The UP Express, softball, Canadian treats, and more!

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NEW EPISODE, NEW ERA, NEW YORK! Johnny returns as he and Mike kick off TNO's coverage of the second book in the Heroes of Olympus series live in front of a raucous crowd in New York City! Sherry leads a fun Q&A as well. Topics include: the cycle, belts, the map, dry ice, Tilden Park, West Coast bagels, Jack in the Crack, floozies, Sweet Summer Child, Spidey-Sense, Dusa, Little Red Riding Hood, Crispy Cheese ’N’ Weiners, commitment to the bit, PJ comedy, Sonic Adventure 2, spon-con, tobogganing, power steering, It Follows, Haight & Ashbury, Madame Zeroni, Mad Libs, Seinfeld, Legolas, Circ...

It's that time again, this time with thrice as many mythological backgrounds! Dr. Moiya McTier returns to talk about all the Greek, Roman, and Cherokee myths featured in the first Heroes of Olympus book! Topics include: Enceladus, The Gigantomachy, Calais & Zethes, Khione, Argonaut Town, Medea, burying teeth, Lityerses, Squid Game, Lycaon, Aphrodite, the original retcon, Porphyrion, Tsul Kälû, Holes, self challenges, and more!

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In September 2023, Schubes was joined by Delia in Vienna, VA to cover one of the wildest official installments of the PJO series. Also, Sherry led quite possible the best Q&A we've ever done! Topics include: Vanna White, The Flap, Uncle Rich, middle school cafeteria pizza, Chuck E. Cheese, handwriting, Clotho, Larry the Cable Guy, Cosmo, Scholastic Book Fair, Fight Club, Samwise Gamgee, Hot Hephaestus, Renesmee, Goldilocks, owl pellets, the lyre, dunking scorpions, The Balrog, Scooby Doo, James Avery, pickle juice, LazyTown, tofu scales, The Roman Empire, funky socks, Delilah Galapagos, Mark Sherbert, bird choices, "Pride, Prejudice & Percy Jackson,"...

Kelly is here for another book conclusion, this time, The Lost Hero! It's been a wild ride and the ending of this book got me ALL SORTS OF AMPED UP. Topics include: closets, CHIRON, black and white cookies, The Cold War, World History class, election sausages, Krispy Kreme, Avengers; Endgame, trireme, Renesme, Glorfindel, theory time, loud sneezes, Latin glossaries, Gilmore Girls, nerdy trash talk, Snausages, The Cat Club, nominative determinism, nasal oranges, and more!

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Steven returns for our penultimate episode covering tThe Lost Hero! I promise we talk about the chapters, but this episode is the Bug Juice episode and you will understand what that means later. Topics include: Backpack, stethoscope stickers, true form glasses, Arthur, Mama Mia, aspects, The Fates, BUG JUICE, *NSYNC, sassy math, The New York Yankees, softball, accidental trash talk, computer rooms, ham horns, tank tops, basketball, PJO vows, and more!

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Morgan aka Imaginmatrix returns to TNO, this time for a standard book episode about some battle chapters of The Lost Hero! CLIMACTIC MOMENTS AHEAD, STRAP IN! Topics include: fallen heroes, compliments, fall clothes, Denver weather, Greek hospitality, GOP Khione, Minthara, attractive villains, wind horses, Legolas, Charmspeak’s limits, teamwork dynamics, steeds, Queen of the Beans, Lincoln Douglass debates, and more!

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Reporter Gillian Blum (@GillianBlum) makes her TNO debut to break down the chapters of The Lost Hero that precede the big battle! Topics include: Spider-Man 3, Table of Contents, Jack London, school assigned books, naps, linked friends, mufflers, Beauty Queen, movie plans, Lumberjack Billionaire, The Knights of Ren, narration tones, Hera hatred, Snape, lady, Star Wars pronouns, cow puns, ballpoint hammers, West Side Story, Frozen, Hollywood Horror Nights, and more!

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Get ready for DOUBLE THE NORMAL DOSAGE OF CHAPTERS with Mike and Michael from our live show in Atlanta! With pristine audio and a killer crowd to go along with the juicy drama of the chapters, this ep truly has it all. Topics include: SIx Flags, Brad, Big Waterbed, interviewing Rick, destroying Cleveland, ma’am, Rocky IV, the science of lightning, 2-key turn system, Muhammed Ali, improvised bullhorns, Caldecott Tunnel, Air Traffic Control, Parent Trauma Corner, fabric flavors, Burning Man, Kleenex grammar, Mr. Pibb, Carmen San Diego, Riddlestown, Weird Al, The Alphabet Song, The Olympics, Camp Green Lake, and mo...

September is a 5-Monday month, so I'm taking the week off, but I've still got a little something for your ears this week! First, I share the details from our most recent charity donation, second I give a September Patreon round up, and finally I've got a clip from the most recent bonus episode posted on the Patreon. Fun stuff all around!

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Michael Hollis is back to cover some more chapters of The Lost Hero, this time live with Schubes in Tennessee, and this time we've got ACTION PACKED... ACTION. Topics include: plane troubles, time jumps, Magnum P.I., Chuy’s, Fern Gully, basketball hoops, The Olympics, Ray Gun, Dormamu, glowing teeth, Shaq, Power Rangers, toddlers, pantomime, T’Challa, BAMF clouds, alive dads, black and white cookies, the full spectrum of the Michaels, and more!

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Pod & Prejudice's Becca makes her TNO debut to talk about some chapters of The Lost Hero in what certainly will become a landmark episode of the podcast in this Heroes of Olympus era. You'll see (hear) why. Topics include: tabletop Jane Austen, Tumblr spoilers, Gilbert Godfried, blow driers, negative riz, game, Mist direction, entrances/exits, Gia, sneezing, Wizards of Waverly Place, chunky belts, The Mask, server pens, Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods & Heroes, tour guides, Chaz, and more!

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Our very own editor, Sherry Guo, called dibs on these chapters many moons in advance AND FOR GOOD REASON! These chapters absolutely slaps, as does this episode. Enjoy another edition of TN-Guo! Topics include: Sherry’s setup, claw clips, 0.5s, Thalia spin-off, crying babies, Doodle Jump, auras, skibidi, agreeing in conversations, Bojack Horseman, plastic surgery, bad gifts, The Westher Channel, anti-oracle Aeolus, windy fingers, predictions, and more!

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Emerging from the background of the podcast into the foreground, TNO editor Sherry Guo makes her HoO guesting debut to cover some Leo chapters that definitely focus on Leo! Topics include: babyproofing, Ramune, Codenames, Phoebe lore, overthinking messaging, cat calls, resume gaps, landlords, business emails, important jackets, adult Gushers, tents, hiking, Pike’s Peak, purple mountains, secondary powers, phone storage, and more!

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Live from the Easy Bay, Mike is joined by TNO newcomer, Kevin McKain, to break down some Bay Area-relevant chapters of The Lost Hero! Topics include: C.R.E.A.M., Shams and Woj, gentrification, Gatorade, Buzz Lightyear, spin the bottle, tofu, Cherokee backgrounds, spelling last names, Planet of the Snakes, The Great Emu War, double meanings, Infamous, coaching strategies, fancy words, trash talk strategies, charmweaking, Beowulf, the Olympics, Tom & Jerry, ice cream, knockout, Kermit the Frog, HOODSLAM, and more!

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Erica Ito of Seaweed Brain makes her TNO return and HoO-era debut to continue our coverage of The Lost Hero! She also gives her thoughts on the dynamic of the new trio, which includes some valid critiques! Topics include: revisiting stories, Mad-Eye Moody, Buzz Lightyear, team dynamics, time optimism, Google Map walk times, reads, softball, honk-shoo, Omaha, billionaires, strategic trash talk, Pokemon battles, Neo, interviews, NBA Street Vol. 2, and more!

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Overly Sarcastic Productions' Red, has a reputation for hating the Heroes of Olympus books. Thankfully, that reputation is misguided since it all stems from one joke in one video. Red's a fan (though offers great critiques) and is here to break down some Leo chapters! Topics include: dodging spoilers, tabula rosa, The Anead, vague titles, inner monologues, sneezing, Heracles, Lae’zel, third person omniscient, 20 Questions, HUDs, Kevin Durant, compartmentalization, Santa, Inside Out, Danny Phantom, traditional values, modern mythological retellings, Aphrodite vs. Venus, Wheel of Fortune, Mii Channel music, fall damage, and more!

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Schubes and Nathan take the stage in Vancouver once again, this time to cover some chapters of The Lost Hero where drama is brewing! In classic fashion, we end the show with a rap battle, this time improvised! Topics include: Northern Washington, Smirnoff Ice, Baja Blast, Riz, Orbitz, game recognize game, Hill Tam, visual eyy-ds, department store shopping, opossums, DW, Chicago’s metro system, retellings of myths, being remembered, Sum by David Eagleman, Willis Reed, negotiation, blood fountains, Comedy Central Roasts, swole bros, Mortal Kombat, diamond mining commentary, Bonesaw, 4DX, dishwashing logistics, graveyards, Nandor, Katie Ledecky, The Beatles, shopping hu...

Nathan is back, live shows are back, good times all around! Nathan makes his for Heroes of Olympus appearance on TNO to cover some Jason chapters that have us both guessing! Topics include: free food, Sia, Twoniper, Barbenheimer, accents, WWE, alone with thoughts, concussion protocols, enchiladas, Nick at Nite, The Birdcage, Grand Theft Auto, Slimer, Root Rooter, cyclones, The Bean/Cloudgate, Flight of the Navigator, Beacon Plumbing, crowntain, Chicago, One Direction, tofu, the 7th hero, Ghost Rider, Carly Rae Jepsen, zip codes, life advice, career advice, potato forms, and more!

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Robert from TheDamMemePage makes their TNO debut to cover these HEATED Leo Chapters from Book 1 of the Heroes of Olympus series! Topics include: NY Comic Con, communal bathrooms, timelines, teens, The Lion King, GOAT debates, Cinderella, mechs, Samba Interactive TV, The Midwest, Commander Toolbelt, Ragnarok, Kill Bill, The Simpsons, and more!

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The Monster Donut duo is back on The Newest Olympian, this time making their Heroes of Olympus debut to cover some dream-filled Piper chapters! Topics include: DeviantArt, Tumblr, making decisions, emails, French: a vibe, action figures, Latin choices, direct feedback, The Lone Ranger, the 2010s, Denmark, Piper Girls, AI, Greek pronunciations, Sutro Tower, The Pussycat Dolls, Jurrasic World, rap battles, falling out of beds, skydiving & bunjee jumping, fear, Bag of Holding, nougat, The Empire State Building, falling like a cat, Plain White Tees, and more!

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Liam T. Crowley of Comicbook is back on TNO, this time to cover some book chapters, specifically the icy confrontation in The Lost Hero! Topics include: a spandex-centric life, birds of prey, everyday charmspeak, The Berenstain Bears, travel hair product, too much sauce, L"Equippe, accents, Three Body Problem, Fliptide, trademarks, Carnival, Devil in the White City, impromptu mirrors, and more!

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A new guest enters the TNO mix, and it's our newly appointed Designated Canadian, Genna Buck! Not only does she share her Canadian expertise to discuss these chapters, but she joins Mike to talk about the non-Canadian parts too! Hooray! Topics include: tube TVs, Quebecois, old slang, color theory, Baldur’s Gate III, collecting, The Beastie Boys, thought processes, Le Château Frontenac, Quebec winters, call men fiesty, privately intense people, TMI, Celine Dion, Letterkenny, Arctic Monkeys, personal style, language diversity, suitcase collabs, FB pokes, Baldur's Gate, pizzagetti, Montreal bagels, and more!

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Alyssa Esteban (Breakfast in Beauclair, Pecurliar Radio) returns to TNO for her HoO-era debut to discuss some chapters narrated by Piper, the namesake of her dog! Topics include: The Witcher, pickleball, sports, puppy adoption, Aphrodite campers, waking up, MySpace, puka shells, A Bug's LIfe, 2004-2006, Inuyasha, Ru Paul's Olympics, Tim Gunn, parents’ ages, seatwarmers, and more!

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Joel Rochester aka fictionalfates is back on TNO, this time to cover some very juicy Jason chapters that move the plot along significantly while still raising loads of questions. Topics include: comma usage, animal confrontations, quest ranking, tendrils, Jumani, Steven Wright, Shakira, furniture assembly, color statues, incorrect home design, K-drama, Photo Booth, BBM, Snapchat, Chiron Jr., Jane Eyre, Sarah Plain and Tall, Bluey, Google Maps, anti-Zeus sentiment, Jason Derulo, The Real Housewive of Olympus, and more!

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J'Neia Stewart (@TheLady_Artemis) is back on TNO to walk Mike through these Leo chapters of the Lost Hero that give us insight to his past and his future! BIG THEORY TIME AHEAD. Topics include: The Fast and the Furious, Fenti, Parenting 101, snake morality, The Purge, The Incredibles, steampunk playpens, speed pees, Houston Police, North Houston, Hot Ones, Hulk pants, Ghosts, Styx water, Clarence the Dragon, Low, and more!

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Sequoia Simone from Fanatical Fics and But Make it Scary returns to TNO to continue our coverage of The Lost Hero and, in typical fashion, happens to be here for some TRULY IMPACTFUL CHAPTERS. Topics include: being liked, Big Sur, sharks & paparazzi, surfing, sandwiches, Bonne Mamman, stupid rich money, Larry the Cable Guy, PDAs, JD Power & Associates, corruption, Monty Python, infomercials, Justin Timberlake, The Great Salt Lake, karaoke, making new friends, 2 Great 2 Prophecy, Catholic priests, Justin Bieber, coin flips, and more!

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Johnny, who has recently been devouring the Heroes of Olympus books and chatting about them with Kelly, can now finally talk to Mike about them! We cover two spicy chapters in this one and go on loads of lovely tangents. Topics include: Breaking Bad, eyeliner, yada yada, Chiron’s style, vines, Latin, infinity +1, Fliptide, journaling, Podcast Museum, overnight sleeping situations, New York Snob Corner, attentiveness at work, no camera Zoom, helming, and more!

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Many moons ago, Dr. Steven Parra called dibs on covering these chapters of The Lost Hero. With this episode, we make good on that promise. Topics include: beach reads, Apu, Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, Spider-Man PS5, Nintendo 64, The Fast & The Furious, Pimp My Ride, Scott Pilgrim, Spy Kids 3, B & P, Chuck Norris, original memes, James Patterson, Stardew Valley, bugs, credit card expenses, The Matrix, hot sauce, The Great Fire of London, and more!

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Kelly is here with Mike to pick up TNO's coverage of Heroes of Olympus by discussing The Lost Hero Ch. 4, which features Piper's Camp Half-Blood tour! Topics include: being famous, third grade lessons, vests, omega, Dune 2: Twone, The Bright Sessions, NYC homes, Romos, OOF, 7th grade relationships, SmartBoards, Calculus BC, Walker Corner, High School Musical, famous architects, Silena’s legacy, Apollo Creed, Stephen King, Spider-Man, Egyptian Rat Screw, the custody of Jin, and more!

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Charlie Bushnell (Luke Castellan in the Percy Jackson Disney+ series) chats with Schubes about his role in the show, sharing loads of behind the scenes info and discussing his love for the PJO books! Topics include: Acting cool, keeping the twist secret, Luke’s changing looks, boat shoes, Backbiter’s name, milkshakes, Neapolitan, dapping, new characters, 0.5x lens, the Met premiere, name pronunciations, scar stories, Zach Woods, and more!

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Schubes is joined by Heroes of Olympus superfan, Walker Scobell, to discuss the third chapter of The Lost Hero! You might also recognize Walker from his role as Percy Jackson in Percy Jackson and the Olympians on Disney+. Whether you know him or not, it’s a fun episode! Topics include: skiing jackets, minor gods, Leo theories, Star Trek movies, Beastie Boys, The Lightning Thief Round, donut collars, Mario Kart, Mythomagic cards, tapping shoulders, pigeons, spies, social media situations, and more!

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AT LONG LAST, THE HEROES OF OLYMPUS ERA OF THE NEWEST OLYMPIAN HAS BEGUN! Schubes and Michael Hollis take to the stage in Charlotte, NC to break down the first two chapters of The Lost Hero to ponder everyone's favorite question, "WHO THE H*CK IS JASON?!" Topics include: snowboarding jackets, narrators, eye color, height, Holes, spit-wad, special boys, Dallas Cowboys, The Lizzie McGuire, Draco Malfoy, Chekov’s baseball bat, The Grand Canyon, nightmares, K-dramas, cupcake, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, the god of rubber, smoke physics, Brickface, Butch McManliness, summoning, Disney World, Meddling Adults, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Dara Ó Bri...

To complete our coverage of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Schubes chats with Joe Tracz, who wrote the book for the musical! They also talk about Joe’s work on the Disney+ series. Topics include: Border’s, book vs. lyrics, songs capturing ideas, The Godfather, the (heathen) Shuberts, more toilet paper, Joe Trash: Private Eye, rough magic, R&D, expanding the cast, the Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket, Consensus, “you up?” texts, the Council of Cloven Elders, Josh the pit scorpion, Puffs, #BlameZeus, future changes, and more!

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Mx. Thief themself, Ashlee Latimer, returns to The Newest Olympian to detail the work she did running the @LTMusical social accounts before breaking down Act 2 of The Lightning Thief Musical with Schubes! Topics include: figuring your life out, RiordanWiki, Mx. Thief, emergency dresses, The New York Times, grammar snobs, High School Musical, earworms, Percabeth, bonus songs, quick changes, pronunciations, Perky Jackson, Josh Groban, sassy Elvis, Green Day, doof Poseidon, and more!

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PJO superfan & cosplayer, Morgan Danielle (@imaginmatrix), joins Mike this week to discuss the first act of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical! Morgan saw the touring production, her partner was in a local production, and she's listened to the soundtrack countless times. Topics include: recess, AOL, slime tutorials, library cards, Peter and the Starcatcher, musical textbook songs, Scorpius Malfoy, “SWORD!”, Luke & Annabeth, toilet paper guns, changing lines, and more!

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We're sliding into TNO Musical Month with an interview with Percy Jackson from the Off-Broadway, US Tour, and Broadway runs of The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical! Actor Chris McCarrell talks about his personal history in the role as well as the history of the entire musical. Topics include: TheaterWorks USA ,getting slapped, sounding like a kid, differences of theater, the Treacherous Waters of Broadway, playing young, The Shape of Water, Chess (the musical), being cool, cast recording, theater from the heart, pedaling the toilet, Stephen Brackett, mementos, costumes, Chameleon Stage, and more!

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To the most garbage part of this garbage film, Mike brought on his sister Meghan (non-PJO reader) and his wife Kelly (new PJO superfan) to break it all down! Topics include: a gaggle of guys, digestion monsters, Finding Nemo, latitude & longitude powers, Disney’s Hercules, Sahara, Super Carlin Bros., pine branches, Circe, Gringotts, Chris Columbus, It’s a Small World, The Little Mermaid, googley eye, Tom & Jerry, gatling crossbow, Voldemort, Dora the Explorer, talking Riptide, acquired taste, Cyclopes, enemies to lovers, Clafleece, Michael’s, Moana, Annabelle’s Wish, Broadway, Tyson, Buccee’s, breakfast cereal, Hillary Duff, mermaids, mood rings, and more!<...

The Boerne, TX Boys (Dr. Steven Parra & Kyle Bandujo) join Mike live in San Antonio to cover the best part and then the beginning of the descent into awfulness from the second Percy Jackson and the Olympians film adaptation! Topics include: Oscars & Razzies, health insurance, Maria Menounos, anti-government Grover, Peter Parker, “wait, really?”, Nathan Fillion, character assassination, Firefly, Monsters Inc., Scary Guy, Austin Butler, xylem and phloem, Back to the Future, budget cuts, chess, Super Mario Bros., Torchy’s, breakfast tacos, polite eye contact, and more!

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Well now that we've finished covering a great TV show, let's palette cleanse with a trash movie! Thankfully, the beginning third is actually not terrible? TNO newcomer Michael Harle takes the stage with longtime favorite Kelly Schubert and Mike (who's fine, I guess) live in Austin, TX to break it down. Topics include: Christmas fits, snooty snoots, titles, multiple Es, BASE!, Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, Clarisse, Annabeth’s personality, vuvuzelas, Stanley Tucci, Ted Lasso, unfinished adaptations, The Demigod Files, imposter syndrome, Shinda Rhymes, orange juice, Jungkook, Muppets 3D, Palpatine, Himbo Tyson, Stanley Tucci, Larry Bird, HEB, Tussin, legal matters, pa...

SURPRISE! BONUS EP! I was fortunate enough to speak with Percy Jackson and the Olympians showrunner, Jon Steinberg, about the show being picked up for Season 2 and all things Season 1! Most importantly, we talk about him establishing the Knicks being in the NBA Finals in this universe. Topics include: Season 2 announcement, Tyson, Becky’s involvement, global feedback, keeping fans on their toes, Percy Jackson cover band, flashbacks, the pancake flip, The New York Knickerbockers, The Wut Tang Clan, Rick’s cameo, other Jon Steinbergs, kids aging, timelessness, Joe Tracz, and more!

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Mike is joined by someone who has never consumed any PJO content (Rowan Ellis) and someone who has only seen the second movie and has a 10-year-old who watched the show (Kyle Bandujo) to cover the full spectrum of audience and break down all things Season 1 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians! Topics include: the second movie, Professional Percy Jackson Watchers, improv knowledge, narcs, delayed gratification, kids programming, Parks and Recreation, Back to the Future, book context, Black Sails storytelling, John Wick’s suit, Will Ferrell, The Onion, kids reading books, Pixar, and more!

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TNO's coverage of the Percy Jackson TV show is almost complete, and I am delighted to present this episode which mostly features an interview with staff writer, Daphne Olive! We talk all aspects of writing the full season. Then, this ep ends with the S1E8 questions I had for director Jet Wilkinson! Topics include: Black Sails, Dan & Jon, fostering communities, the PJO fandom, Greek Mythology, writer’s rooms, The King Must Die, tv show terminology, black belts, idea generation, tangent town, Big Ideas Person, Wu-Tang Name Generator, Glynn Turman, damp, Lord of the Rings, caring for the fans, Br...