0:00

Look around. You can find

0:02

cars like these on Auto

0:04

Trader. New cars, used cars,

0:07

electric cars, maybe even flying

0:09

cars. Okay, no flying cars,

0:11

but as soon as they

0:14

get invented, they'll

0:16

be on Auto Trader. Just

0:18

you wait. Auto Trader. When

0:21

Piper is overcoming... I want

0:23

to say when Hazel's

0:25

overcoming Gwen. prophecy

0:53

has finally been completed. What was

0:56

supposed to be the spring 2020

0:58

tour ha ha ha has finally

1:00

come true four and a half

1:02

years later. We're here in New

1:04

Orleans for a live show and

1:06

I'm so stoked to be here.

1:08

Y'all ready for a fun double

1:10

bill show tonight. Awesome. Now a

1:13

couple of quick things at the

1:15

top. First I know that we started

1:17

at 745 and was billed at 730.

1:19

I am a big nerd. I wanted

1:21

to start right at 730, but I've

1:23

been told that New Orleans is a

1:25

late town. So I followed the direction

1:27

of the people at this fine venue

1:29

and said, fun, we'll start at 745.

1:32

But just in case, I wasn't being

1:34

some hotshot, like, oh, we're going to

1:36

start 50 minutes. No. Every other place

1:39

I perform, it's like, we will start

1:41

right at the advertised time. Also, second

1:43

note, any time I say anything with

1:45

an oh, just no, I am audibly

1:48

saying it with E-A-U-X, because I understand

1:50

where I am, so this is the

1:52

T&O show, where we cover the PJO

1:55

books, and we're gonna go and have

1:57

a fun time. So, with all that

1:59

clear. up. We should get into our first

2:01

act which is TNO and we will be

2:04

covering a good chunk of fun chapters and

2:06

I want to make sure we get through

2:08

them because the ending is spicy. So let's

2:11

bring on our guest for this show. It

2:13

is someone who was born in this fine

2:15

state. Please make some noise for my wife

2:17

Kelly Schubert! Hello. How's it going? Good. You're

2:20

excited? Yeah, very excited. Are you more excited

2:22

for this show or for the event that

2:24

you have going on tomorrow evening? I am

2:27

equally excited. I'm sure other folks are aware.

2:29

We are here because of Taylor Swift. So

2:31

I am very excited to be her

2:33

opening act for the city just a day

2:35

early. We're also here for my aunt. Who's

2:38

not here? Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I desperately

2:40

want to see a live show. I desperately

2:42

want to see a live show. So as

2:45

soon as we got tickets to Taylor Swift,

2:47

I was like, let's make a live show.

2:49

Let's make it happen. I forgot. It's a

2:51

school night. She's a teacher. Well, and even

2:54

it was like, let's do the show. It's

2:56

730. We'll do it on the little bit

2:58

of the earlier side. We didn't factor in

3:01

that she lives in that she lives in

3:03

Baton Rouge in Baton Rouge, in that she

3:05

lives in Baton Rouge, in Baton Rouge, which

3:07

lives, which lives, which lives, which she lives,

3:10

which she lives, which she lives, which lives,

3:12

which lives, which lives, which lives, which lives,

3:14

which lives, which lives, which lives, which lives,

3:17

which lives, But we still hung out with

3:19

her and had a great time. So that's

3:21

okay. And you know what? She hasn't read

3:24

these books. She would have been confused anyway.

3:26

So you know what? It's probably okay. It's

3:28

probably okay. So what we're going to be

3:30

doing is we're going to be finishing up

3:33

chapter 10 and then doing chapters 11 and

3:35

12 of The son of Neptune the conclusion

3:37

of the first frank chunk of the books

3:40

So I'm very excited to get into this

3:42

who you have been a guest so many

3:44

times, but you have not been a guest

3:46

for a new guest question which is if

3:49

you had a riptide So you've got something

3:51

that turns from one Anaman object into another

3:53

that's a little bit bigger than a pen,

3:56

what would your riptide be? What object? And

3:58

then what bigger object? I have answered this

4:00

question. Oh, you have? OK. Who's the one

4:02

on the podcast episode? But I don't remember

4:05

my answer. OK, say it. Say it. So

4:07

I'll come up with a new one. OK,

4:09

what would you have? I think we had

4:12

said my wedding runs and that each ring

4:14

could be something else. I like whoever here

4:16

thinks that's a really smart idea. Yeah, I

4:18

think it was your idea, actually. What would

4:21

it turn into? Not a one, something I

4:23

won. A plate full of benez. A plate

4:25

full of benez. And a floor C ticket

4:28

to Taylor Swift. There you go. Perfect. Yeah,

4:30

and then you can go wherever when she

4:32

does. Just an eternal front row. To wherever

4:35

she is. Like she's at the DMV. You're

4:37

there in the front row. Yeah. So we're

4:39

going to continue. Now where we last left

4:41

our heroes. Our heroes. It was the middle

4:44

of Chapter 10. We had a flashback going

4:46

on where Frank was given his stick. of

4:48

life or death or both, but what I

4:51

wrote in my notes just at the very

4:53

beginning of this, I'm always now trying to

4:55

think more of the great prophecy, and I

4:57

know there's something about an oath in a

5:00

final breath. I'm worried about Frank making his

5:02

way out of the series, just because his

5:04

whole thing is like, well, if this stick

5:07

burns, I die. It's like, hmm, Frank might

5:09

die. But... I'm wondering if the final breath

5:11

would be frank. Like if someone's got to

5:13

die, it could be guy who seems

5:15

like he's going to die quite easily. I

5:18

don't know. I'm not going to look at

5:20

anybody's face, but we're going to continue. Now,

5:22

the... We get back from this flashback and

5:25

Frank is now, it's still like a flashback,

5:27

but it's not as flashback as the other

5:29

flashback. Time makes sense, but the ceremony of

5:31

the funeral for his mother was all a

5:34

blur to Frank. Later that evening, as prophesied,

5:36

the wolves arrive and then he dresses in

5:38

his warmest clothes, packs his bow in his

5:41

quiver and he has a travel pack and

5:43

in his travel pack, he's got his mother's

5:45

sacrifice metal that was given to him and

5:48

he's got that. stick, which is wrapped in

5:50

three layers of cloth inside his coat pocket

5:52

next to his heart, which feels very safe.

5:54

He's trying to make sure this thing's going

5:57

to be OK. He went to the wolf

5:59

house and then ended up in camp. where

6:01

he spoke to Rayna in private. Frank asked

6:04

for forgiveness, just like his grandmother told him

6:06

to, asked for forgiveness of your great-grandfather's actions.

6:08

Even though he doesn't know what they are,

6:10

he still apologizes for them. Rayna allows him

6:13

to join the legion, never explains what his

6:15

great-grandfather did, and Frank can tell that she

6:17

knew what was up. and he can tell

6:20

that it was bad, but she's also not

6:22

saying it. So Reina then just says that

6:24

she will judge him based on his own

6:26

merits, not on the actions of someone related

6:29

to him, which I think is nice. The

6:31

more I get to know, Reina, the more

6:33

I like her. At first you seem to

6:36

think that she's gonna be kind of like

6:38

the Clarice type where she's like kind of

6:40

a, you know, curmudgeon and gruff, but I

6:42

actually think she's a strong. Can't say much.

6:45

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So then Frank is

6:47

the narrator in response to this saying he'll

6:49

be judged on his merits. Narrator Frank says,

6:52

unfortunately, Frank didn't have any merits. Frank didn't

6:54

have any merits. Frank, come on, don't be

6:56

so hard on yourself. You seem like a

6:58

great guy. Now, during his first month of

7:01

Cam Jupiter, he had various clumsy goofs that

7:03

were embarrassing. He even messed up his favorite

7:05

job, which is carrying for Hannibal the elephant,

7:08

which... No, maybe it's a thing. I do

7:10

think it's funny. And this just gets to

7:12

one of my core fears, which is feeding

7:15

one of my friends' pets something that they

7:17

can't eat. So I just never feed any

7:19

of my friends' pets anything. I've said this

7:21

on a topic I'm pretty sure. But once

7:24

I learned, dogs couldn't eat grapes. I was

7:26

like, I'm out. I'm pretty sure. But once

7:28

I learned dogs, I'm pretty sure. Too risky.

7:31

Too risky. Too risky. Now every day he

7:33

wondered if Reina regretted letting him join and

7:35

he also would wonder every day is my

7:37

stick going to catch fire and am I

7:40

going to die? So just super normal vibes

7:42

for Frank on a day-to-day basis and we're

7:44

now back from the second tier of flashback.

7:47

to the current present tense where Frank is

7:49

walking with Hazel and Percy to the war

7:51

games. And he thinks about his stick, thinks

7:53

about Juno arriving at camp, and he wonders,

7:56

hmm, since Juno's here, does that mean

7:58

my fate is gonna come? And I was

8:00

like, Frank, I don't know, man. I don't

8:02

know, man. I don't know, man. I don't

8:05

know, I don't know, man. I don't know,

8:07

if you're gonna die, right? I don't know,

8:09

man. I don't know if you're gonna die,

8:11

right. I don't know, I don't know, I

8:14

don't know, man. I don't know, I don't

8:16

know, I don't know, I don't know, I

8:18

don't know, I don't know, I don't know,

8:21

I don't know, I don't know, man. I

8:23

don't know, I don't know, I don't know,

8:25

I don't know, I don't know, I don't

8:28

know, I don't know, We'll just see how

8:30

this chapter ends, or how Chapter 12 ends.

8:32

But at this point, I was trying to

8:34

run the math of who could his dad

8:37

be. Gotta be a dad, so we can't

8:39

have someone like Demeter or anyone like that.

8:41

And then I'm figuring, like, not gonna be

8:43

Zeus, not gonna be Hades, not gonna be

8:46

Poseidon. And that would just leave, what, Hephaestus,

8:48

Apollo. and Airy slash Mars, but like, Hephesus

8:50

we got Leo, not gonna be that. Apollo

8:52

would have been a thought, but because he's

8:55

so insistent on Apollo's my dad, I'm like,

8:57

there's no way your dad's Apollo, Frank, I'm

8:59

so sorry. So I think that like process

9:01

of elimination, it basically just leaves Mars. I

9:03

guess her means, but like, we already had

9:05

Luke, so just to me, I'm trying to

9:07

do, what's Rick writing? It's going to be

9:09

a godly parent that we haven't really gotten

9:11

to know yet. The closest we have is

9:13

Clarice, but like, I don't know, she hasn't

9:16

done anything in The Lost Hero. So like,

9:18

I don't think Clarice is going to be

9:20

a major player here. So my guess was Mars. I

9:22

know that you already know the answer to this.

9:24

You've read far enough, but... Did you have any

9:26

inkling? That was not my way of thinking about

9:28

it when I was reading it? My way was

9:30

read faster, read faster, read faster, read

9:32

faster, read faster, read faster, read faster.

9:34

And I was like looking at his

9:36

skills, and I was thinking I was

9:38

like, is there any other archery god?

9:40

Or like, something along those lines. And

9:43

we would just be Artemis. Right, but

9:45

we have all these minor gods and goddesses

9:47

now. So I thought it was going to

9:49

be a minor god. I didn't see. Oh,

9:51

that would have been a fun twist. Yeah, I

9:54

didn't see any aries or Mars in

9:56

him at all personality wise, because what

9:58

we've met so far. is Clarice, right?

10:00

And you've met Ari's, and that doesn't

10:03

seem like Frank's five at all. And

10:05

so I'm thinking, I'm like, yeah, it's

10:07

not going to be Apollo, you're pushing

10:09

this a little bit too hard. But

10:11

we met the, like, hypnosis. Oh, my

10:13

boy, Clovis? I love Clovis. I hope

10:15

he's one of the seven. Yeah. We've

10:17

met some. So that's what I was

10:20

thinking. Okay. You know, I'm excited to

10:22

learn about a minor god. That'll be

10:24

cool to have them on the quest.

10:26

We'll just have to see. The other

10:28

thing I was thinking is his mom

10:30

was in a war. And as the

10:32

chapters go on, he does seem quite

10:34

competent when it comes to war. When

10:37

it comes to war, it does seem

10:39

quite competent when it comes to war.

10:41

So, anyway, now once they leave camp,

10:43

the fifth cohort forms in two lines

10:45

behind Dakota and Gwen, they're centurions, and

10:47

they approach the field of Mars, which

10:49

is the flattest part of the valley

10:51

at Camp Jupiter. And the land has

10:54

clearly been through some battles, and the

10:56

land has clearly been through some battles.

10:58

There's like craters and former trenches and

11:00

a bunch of stuff. It's like the

11:02

iron bar like thing that goes down.

11:04

You know when you're playing Medieval Madness,

11:06

the pinball game, and you have to

11:09

hit the thing first. First, it's the

11:11

portcose. It's the gate, basically. The interesting

11:13

thing was, I read this, and I

11:15

was like, I know I know that

11:17

word. I don't know why I know

11:19

that word, and I don't know what

11:21

that word means. You know it from

11:23

Taskmaster. That's how I know it. So

11:26

in addition to the portcullis, there's guard

11:28

towers, water canons, and quote, scorpion ballastay.

11:30

Now that didn't come up in Taskmaster,

11:32

so I had to Google it. Scorpion

11:34

ballastay, or I had to Google it,

11:36

like 12 times as large. So that's

11:38

pretty cool. And then Hazel comments that

11:40

their opponents did a good job today.

11:43

because he cannot believe that unlike Rome.

11:45

This was built in a day. They

11:47

built this whole fortress in one day.

11:49

Hazel explains that Legionnaires are trained to

11:51

build, and they could break down and

11:53

rebuild the entire camp and put it

11:55

in a new location if they needed

11:57

to. She says it would take three

12:00

to four days because New Rome wasn't

12:02

building a day. But it can be

12:04

done. Now Percy asks if they do

12:06

this every single day, and Hazel goes,

12:08

no, no, no, no. We have a

12:10

rotating selection of trainings like death ball,

12:12

which is paint ball with acid and

12:14

fireballs. Okay, there's also charity races, there's

12:17

gladiator competitions, and then there's war games.

12:19

So they have a cycling of cool

12:21

sounding training exercises. Cool sounding. Yeah, cool

12:23

if you're a... Cool if you're a

12:25

child reading this book. If you're in

12:27

your 30s reading, you're like, oh, their

12:29

knees must have hurt so much. This

12:31

is harder for me than I thought

12:34

it was going to be. I'm in

12:36

the middle of reading Trials of Apollo,

12:38

and I just went back and read

12:40

these chapters before we talked about it,

12:42

and I keep wanting to talk about

12:44

Trials of Apollo now. This is so

12:46

much more difficult for me than I

12:49

thought it was going to be. continue.

12:51

Cool. Yeah, this is your first live

12:53

show in a while, so this is

12:55

a new experience. This is your first

12:57

show since you were too pregnant to

12:59

perform. That's true. So you're a little,

13:01

you're knocking off the rust. Well, I

13:03

also wasn't reading Trials of Apollo the

13:06

last time that I was talking about.

13:08

Heroes of Olympus. So now all I

13:10

want to do is talk to you

13:12

about Trials of Apollo. Well, if you

13:14

want to talk to Kelly about Trials

13:16

of Apollo, we do have a section

13:18

of the discord dedicated to it dedicated

13:20

to it. other past guests of the

13:23

podcast and they had not gotten to

13:25

as far as she was in trials

13:27

of Apollo. She was like, I got

13:29

to talk about this when someone I'm

13:31

going to explode. So we set up

13:33

a channel on the discord for Kelly

13:35

so that she can talk to friends.

13:37

Mike was like, get on the discord.

13:40

I was like, get on the discord.

13:42

And he's like, get on the discord.

13:44

I was like, how do I find

13:46

the people? And he's like, get on

13:48

the discord. I was like, There's a

13:50

whole pets channel with pictures. of people's

13:52

pets. Yeah, we don't have a pet,

13:54

so I can't really do that. I

13:57

know you can look at other people's

13:59

pets. Oh, that's the joy. Exactly, our

14:01

preferred method of pet ownership, not having

14:03

them, but appreciating other people's pets. And

14:05

then we don't have to do any

14:07

of the work. Anyway, Percy Jackson, so

14:09

Hazel tells Percy that inside the fortress,

14:12

we've got the first and second cohorts,

14:14

they are going to hide their banners.

14:16

And the objective is for the other

14:18

cohorts to go in and capture them.

14:20

like capture the flag. He's gonna knock

14:22

their socks off. Frank says that it's

14:24

harder than it sounds because they must

14:26

dodge the outer defenses, fight their way

14:29

through the inner defenses, find the banners,

14:31

conquer the guards, and do all of

14:33

this while preventing their own people and

14:35

their own banners from being taken. And

14:37

on top of all of that, the

14:39

other three cohorts are vying for the

14:41

banners, so they have a similar objective,

14:43

but they're not all on the same

14:46

team. Like they're all. trying to help

14:48

each other out at the end of

14:50

the day, each of the three attacking

14:52

cohorts want to be the one to

14:54

get the banners. And I think this

14:56

is very fun, and I think this

14:58

is a cool thing that Camp Halfwood

15:00

could start trying, like mix it up

15:03

a little bit, you know? Maybe without

15:05

the violent death. Yeah. Yeah, as we'll

15:07

see, I feel like they could maybe

15:09

tone it down a little, but... I

15:11

do at least like the complexities of

15:13

there's multiple teams, there's different situations going

15:15

on. I feel like Annabeth would thrive

15:17

in this kind of environment. Oh yes.

15:20

And she would plan so much like

15:22

if she was on the attacking, she

15:24

would also have some sort of plan

15:26

to screw over the other cohorts so

15:28

that they can't get the banners. Yeah,

15:30

it'd be fun. Frank explains, quote, the

15:32

cohort that captures the banners gets all

15:34

the glory. And then Percy asks, why

15:37

do you do this? Quote, do you

15:39

guys spend a lot of time laying

15:41

siege to fortified cities? Percy is perfect

15:43

at asking questions. He's so fun. Hazel

15:45

answers teamwork, quick thinking, tactics, battle skills.

15:47

You'd be surprised, well, you can learn

15:49

in the war games. And as someone

15:52

who's very pro sports teach kids important

15:54

life lessons, I'm all about this. I

15:56

genuinely think that my love of basketball

15:58

has made me better the best out

16:00

of people. Yeah, even so much of

16:02

like my college classes. I don't use

16:04

a lot of that in my day-to-day

16:06

work, but it helps in like forming

16:09

critical thinking, problem-solving, working with a team,

16:11

being creative. Not being a jerk. I

16:13

think that's a number one thing I

16:15

learned of college, like how to be

16:17

nice and not be rude and learn

16:19

about different walks of life humans. That

16:21

was the huge a thing. Not that

16:23

I was like a big jerk before.

16:26

So the cohorts then form ranks, the

16:28

attacking centurions gather for a team meeting.

16:30

Reina is flying above on Skippy as

16:32

referee, which is fun. And the only

16:34

person in the camp who's not playing

16:36

is Niko, who's 100 yards away in

16:38

an observation tower with a pair of

16:40

binoculars. And in my eyes, they're one

16:43

of those fancy binoculars, like on a

16:45

stick that you wear the opera. You're

16:47

leaning in like you're going to ask

16:49

the question. It's Skippio. It's. You're just

16:51

reading so fast trying to get to

16:53

the Who's Frank's Dad? Oh yeah, who's

16:55

a? It's a, it's a, it's a,

16:57

it's a Scorpio Shore. I've heard that

17:00

before. No, it's Skippio. And it's Skippie

17:02

as a nickname. I can't wait for

17:04

Skippian Blackjack to start dating. Now. Frank

17:06

checks Percy's armor. And to his astonishment,

17:08

Percy has fastened everything 100% correctly. And

17:10

Frank thinks, ah, Percy's probably done this

17:12

before. And Percy responds, I don't know,

17:14

maybe? Oh, you sweet summer children. Percy's

17:17

done this so many times. The only

17:19

thing that's so many times. The only

17:21

thing that is not standard about Percy's

17:23

get-up is riptide, which narrative Frank notes

17:25

has a leaf-shaped blade, which I don't

17:27

remember them ever saying ever saying that

17:29

before. was like, yo, I've established this

17:32

in five books, trust me. So that's

17:34

at least my first recollection of it

17:36

being described that way. And the sword

17:38

makes Frank uneasy. He is clearly visibly

17:40

uneasy because Percy asks, it's okay if

17:42

we use a robot weapons, right? And

17:44

Frank says, yes, he's just never seen

17:46

a weapon like that before. Percy then

17:49

asks, what happens if I heard someone?

17:51

And Frank says that the medics heal

17:53

them with nectar, ambrosia, and... unicorn draft.

17:55

Yeah, there's unicorns around. A new potion

17:57

has entered the chat. Is it better?

17:59

Is it worse? Does it make you

18:01

taste or remember or feel some sort

18:03

of feeling? I want to know, unicorn

18:06

draft. Hmm, it's so fun. And Hazel

18:08

tells Percy that no one dies, but

18:10

then adds, well, not usually. And if

18:12

they do, and then Frank chimes in

18:14

with a vitelious impersonation, quote, their wimps.

18:16

Back in my day, we died all

18:18

the time, we died all the time,

18:20

and we died all the time, and

18:23

we died all the time, and we

18:25

died all the time, and we died

18:27

all the time, and we liked it.

18:29

So Hazel laughs and tells Percy to

18:31

stick with them and everything will be

18:33

okay. The most likely outcome is that

18:35

cohort five gets used like chess pawns

18:38

just to soften up the defenses so

18:40

that cohorts three and four can swoop

18:42

in. And that's even if they can

18:44

manage breaking in. It's like Hazel, come

18:46

on, Percy's on the T. You guys

18:48

are gonna be just fine. So Horn's

18:50

Blow, Dakota and Gwen returned with the

18:53

plan. And first Dakota takes a swig

18:55

of Koolade and then he says that

18:57

their plan is... to be used as

18:59

the people who are going to try

19:01

to soften the defenses at the gate.

19:03

So of course all of cohort five

19:05

just groans and Gwen tries to be

19:07

optimistic saying that it might work this

19:10

time. And narrative Frank says leave it

19:12

to Gwen to be the optimist. Everybody

19:14

liked her because she took care of

19:16

her people and tried to keep their

19:18

spirits up. She could even control Dakota

19:20

during his hyperactive bug juice fits. And

19:22

I'm so glad that bug juice has

19:24

come back into play because you will

19:26

hear this. this coming Monday in episode

19:28

150 of the New Olympian. But in the

19:30

end of The Lost Hero, when Piper is overcoming

19:32

Drew to be the head of the Aphrodite cabin,

19:35

they say the Drew gets Bug Juice red in

19:37

the face. So on the recording, Stephen, I was

19:39

like, is that recording it in Stephen? I was

19:41

like, is that a phrase? It was like, I've

19:43

never heard this before. And it's like a drink.

19:45

Has anyone here had Bug Juice? Okay, lots of

19:47

people nodding people nodding. So it's the thing from

19:49

the thing from the thing from the thing from

19:51

the thing from the thing from the thing from

19:53

the thing from the thing from the thing from

19:55

the thing from the sugar eat children's drink that

19:57

children shouldn't be drinking because it's like pure sugar

19:59

comes in like this plastic like pop-top. bottles

20:01

with the little tiny caps on

20:03

top. Stephen and I did a

20:05

5-minute and 37-second tangent going through

20:07

the Bug Juice website because it's

20:09

ridiculous. It's absurd. There's merch. It's

20:11

nuts. But Sherry sent me back

20:13

to edit. And in the edit,

20:15

she said, Mike, there's stuff on

20:17

the website that you missed. So

20:19

now I'm here to tell you

20:21

the things that I missed on

20:23

the Bug Juice website have. games

20:25

and activities section which goes to

20:27

a bug juice coloring book. There's

20:29

a new category of bug juice

20:31

merchandise called special items and one

20:33

subset of the special items are

20:35

regenerate and never never give up

20:37

items which are of course lacrosse

20:39

branded items. So it's bug juice

20:41

lacrosse equipment and then also the

20:43

about us page on Bug Juice's

20:45

website only says number one children's

20:47

drink nationwide. There's also a reading

20:49

list with kids books that they

20:51

recommend on the website Can't recommend

20:53

enough you all go to the

20:55

bug juice website Is Percy Jackson

20:57

one of the recommended kids books?

20:59

Oh, Sherry, let me know. We

21:02

will have to find out. But

21:04

yes, Bug Juice. It's come up

21:06

a second time. I gotta see

21:08

if they'll sponsor the show at

21:10

this point, because it's ridiculous. Now,

21:12

if I ever truly get to

21:14

interview Uncle Rick, we're talking about

21:16

Bug Juice for 12 minutes. Like,

21:18

the whole thing, I mean, like,

21:20

you get a 20-minute interview with

21:22

a record, and for 20 minutes

21:24

about Bug Juice and nothing else.

21:26

drinks bug juice sometimes. And Gwen

21:28

can help him out when he's

21:30

drinking too much bug juice and

21:32

becomes hyperactive. Was there anything else

21:34

in this quote? No. Gwen orders

21:36

the first line to go with

21:38

Dakota. They are set to lock

21:40

shield and advance toward the gates

21:42

in a turtle formation. She tells

21:44

the second line, which is the

21:46

line that Frank is in, but

21:48

she orders the 17 people from

21:50

some dude named Bobby. There's a

21:52

Bobby, from Bobby over, to control

21:54

the elephant and scaling ladders. and

21:56

Percy to just do whatever and

21:58

show Percy the ropes and keep

22:00

him alive. You fool, Percy's gonna

22:02

do all the cool stuff. She

22:04

ends her orders with quote, if

22:06

anybody gets over the wall first,

22:08

I'll make sure you get the

22:10

mural crown. Victory for the fifth.

22:12

And I wrote, oh, what's the

22:14

mural crown? Thankfully, Percy, in two

22:16

sentences, will ask, what's the mural

22:18

crown? Cohort 5 in response to

22:20

the victory cheer, gives a half-hearted

22:22

cheer in response. What's the mural

22:24

crown? I'm so thankful for Percy.

22:26

He's such a good narrator slash

22:28

person to have, because he asks

22:30

all the important questions that I

22:32

want to know all the time.

22:34

I love it. It's like me

22:36

watching a movie. Oh no! But

22:38

what about X, Y, and Z?

22:40

Two sentences later, answer my question.

22:42

It's like they can hear me.

22:44

I know, gosh, gosh. The amount

22:46

of times you asked a question,

22:48

I go, I don't know, Kelly,

22:50

they'll probably tell us. When you

22:52

watch a movie, you just get

22:54

a little notebook and then just

22:56

write down your questions. I won't

22:58

be done writing the question before

23:00

the answer will go. Frank

23:03

explains that the mural crown is a

23:05

military medal. It is a significant honor

23:07

for whoever breaches the enemy fortress first.

23:09

Frank says no one in the fifth

23:11

cohort has one because they're usually burning

23:13

or drowning before they can even get

23:16

to the fort. Frank tells Percy about

23:18

the water canons hoping that Percy can

23:20

control them like he controlled the river

23:22

since they utilize a pump system connected

23:24

to the aqueduct. Hazel thinks Frank is

23:26

a genius for that idea. wall sneaking

23:28

up there. The fifth cohort won't be

23:30

attacking there. The defenses will be weak.

23:33

The people on top won't think that

23:35

three people are a legitimate threat. It's

23:37

the perfect situation. Percy asks, how are

23:39

you going to sneak up? And Frank

23:41

asks, Hazel, if she can do, quote,

23:43

that thing again, like she's Lauren Hill.

23:45

And she, hey, and she hits him,

23:48

like, in the shoulder and says that

23:50

he promised not to tell anyone. And

23:52

Frank is instantly filled with a regret.

23:54

He got lost in the moment and

23:56

he's a big old crush on hisel

23:58

so he doesn't want to embarrass her.

24:00

Hazel mutters that it's fine and then

24:02

explains to Percy that Frank is referring

24:05

to the trenches. Many tunnels are collapsed

24:07

or buried, but many of them are

24:09

still passable. Hazel can find them and

24:11

use them and collapse them if need

24:13

be. And Percy goes, oh yeah, you

24:15

did that to slow down the gorgens

24:17

in the beginning. I'd totally forgotten about

24:19

this. So this is cool. It seems

24:22

like in general she kind of has

24:24

like control of the earth. And that's

24:26

I think a fun revelation with Haiti

24:28

slash Haiti's slash Pluto. different powers than

24:30

what Neutel has. Yeah, I do like

24:32

it a lot. Frank nods in approval

24:34

and says, cool, I told you Pluto

24:36

was cool, he's the god of everything

24:39

under the earth. Hisel can find caves,

24:41

tunnels, trap doors, and then hisel goes,

24:43

and it was our secret, and I

24:45

don't get... Why she's so embarrassed by

24:47

this? Maybe because she's afraid people will

24:49

learn about her other powers. And we've

24:51

clearly seen that the like precious gemstone

24:54

thing is bad because it curses people

24:56

and can hurt them and stuff. So

24:58

maybe that's what it is. But like

25:00

one, your powers are cool. Why are

25:02

you embarrassed by them? And two, Percy's

25:04

definitely one of you guys. Like he's

25:06

in the cohort. He's a part of

25:08

this island of misfit toys of campers.

25:11

Like come on through. Tell Percy what

25:13

you can do. Tell Percy what you

25:15

can do. They met today. So I

25:17

guess I guess but like come on

25:19

that was like six chapters ago There's

25:21

something about how hazel said that the

25:23

campers treat her and you go a

25:25

little bit different because they're wary of

25:28

the god of death is what they

25:30

see right to do slash Haiti's yeah,

25:32

but what if they rebrand Pluto as

25:34

the god of the cool earth stuff?

25:36

Right. He's the ground guy. I imagine

25:38

she doesn't want to like draw attention

25:40

to her parentage That's my that's was

25:42

my read on it. I think it

25:45

makes sense. So Frank blushes and says

25:47

that if they can just get close,

25:49

Percy, then continue saying, I can try

25:51

to get the canons, but what comes

25:53

next? And Frank checks his quiver and

25:55

thinks about how he's never gotten to

25:57

use his special arrows. He hopes that

26:00

he can use them tonight to put

26:02

on a shot. for Apollo Wall, and

26:04

then Frank says, quote, the rest is

26:06

up to me. Let's go. So Frank,

26:08

also a cool action hero. That's the

26:10

end of Chapter 10, which I have

26:12

retitled to Burning Up for Good Maybe.

26:14

Any time I can make a Jonas

26:17

Brothers thing for one of these chapter

26:19

retitals, I'll do it. I definitely did

26:21

a burning up in the first one.

26:23

Do you have a retital of Chapter

26:25

10? It's because of the stick. I've

26:27

forgotten what the beginning of Chapter 10

26:29

was. It's like a mostly flashback to

26:31

the funeral. He's breaking all the porcelain,

26:34

the fine china of his grandmother in

26:36

the fancy, fancy mansion, and then it's

26:38

what we've described here. He gets the

26:40

stick of life slash death. Bug Juice

26:42

101? I don't know. Great. Nailed it.

26:44

Wonderful. All right. So now if you're

26:46

listening to the podcast, we'll take our

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midroll break The Son of Fortune. And

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if you're here live. We'll just keep

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and welcome to the Mid-World Break Shubio Edition

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those updates first. A reminder that we had

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some items that were on the merch store

27:05

that sold out pretty quickly, notably the TNO

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beads, for the first five book episodes of

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TNO and then the Heroes of the Heroes

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of TNO and then the Heroes of Olympus

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restocked and we still have both of those

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in stock in addition to pins and stickers

27:21

and stickers. is currently in production. But if

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merch before, it goes out of stock. Because

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there are some things like there's only 20

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or so of the pigeon pins left, only

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20 or so of the Trident pins left,

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and I'm not making more of those. I

27:37

think with T&O I want to just keep

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trying to make more of those. I think

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with T&O I want to just keep trying

27:44

to make new stuff. I think with T&O

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we've got three shows in February we've got

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will probably be stuff in the late 20s,

28:23

early 30s, something in that ballpark, but I

28:25

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28:27

what I always do is I make some

28:29

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28:32

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28:36

Hey, here are the chapters that we're covering.

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New Stallimpian. Okay,

31:10

chapter 11, it's super short, but let's get

31:12

into it. It's called Frank, we'll re-title it.

31:14

It begins with, quote, Frank had never felt

31:16

so sure of anything, which made him nervous.

31:18

Nothing he planned ever went right. He always

31:21

managed to break, ruin, burn, sit on, or

31:23

knock over something important, yet he knew this

31:25

strategy would work. And I feel like it'll

31:27

work in the end, but it's gonna be

31:29

like a, oh, just how we drew it

31:31

up, kind of thing. That's my guess. That's

31:33

my guess. That's my guess. But. We'll see

31:35

how it shakes out. Oh, I know. Yeah,

31:38

I know. I know. I know. I've read

31:40

it. So Hazel finds a tunnel so quickly

31:42

and such a perfect tunnel that Frank wonders

31:44

if she can create tunnels at will, and

31:46

it's not actually the way she has described

31:48

the power to him. They inch along by

31:50

the light of Riptide, and they hear the

31:53

battle raging raging overhead. Frank checks to make

31:55

sure that his piece of wood is okay,

31:57

and this would be me. the plane before

31:59

we leave the thing that is the big

32:01

sign that's like if you leave you can't

32:03

come back like I do that all the

32:05

time if I had a stick that if

32:08

something happened to it I would die you

32:10

know what I do every 30 seconds check

32:12

the stick you remember the five minutes I

32:14

had the wedding ring in my pocket when

32:16

I was proposing to you I was fiddling

32:18

in my pocket the entirety of that time

32:20

I couldn't handle this I'd be a mess

32:23

So I sympathize with my boy Frank here. No,

32:25

perfect assessment of yourself by yourself, I agree.

32:27

He'd be a mess. Yeah, I mean, even

32:29

when I'm wearing like this necklace, I'm like,

32:31

it's still here, right? It didn't fall off.

32:34

narrative Frank says, quote, bad Frank. He chided

32:36

himself. Fire is the F word. Don't think

32:38

about it. Fire is the F word. Not

32:40

somebody. Hazel tells the boys that there's an

32:42

opening ahead and it would place them 10

32:45

feet from the eastern wall. And I wrote,

32:47

how does she know this? And then Percy

32:49

immediately goes, how do you know this? She

32:51

says that she's unsure, but she knows. Frank

32:53

asks if tunneling under the wall would be

32:56

possible. And Hazel says no, because the defense

32:58

engineers were smart and built the castle atop

33:00

old foundations that go down into the bedrock.

33:02

And I love that Rick always blocks out

33:04

the well actually type moments. Like, I wonder

33:07

if he has someone that is like trying

33:09

to snark. their way through the books on

33:11

his editing team so they can be like

33:13

oh you're right I need to make shortcut

33:16

he just feels like he thwarts all the

33:18

things that would be an annoying thread on

33:20

read it to be like oh why didn't

33:22

they just do this so like he's always

33:25

squashing them I really respect it

33:27

this is the third time I've thought about

33:29

it finally just gonna say it so then

33:31

Lord of the Rings sure go for it

33:33

you're amongst nerds gone it's a third time

33:36

I thought about Lord of the Rings since

33:38

we've started the 24th October

33:40

the 24th. Just do, you're amongst nerds.

33:42

There's a day that Gandoff shows up

33:45

in Rivendale when Froteau wakes up. And

33:47

he says, 10 o'clock in the morning

33:49

on October the 24th. And I think

33:51

you're in an entirely different world, but

33:53

you still have the same months as

33:55

we do on Earth. That's funny. That's

33:57

also the nerdiest version of, it's October

33:59

24th. growing up my best friend's birthday

34:01

is October 24th. So we were always just

34:03

like, so first, second, they're going by the

34:06

light of Riptide right now, I'm reading, they're

34:08

in Moria, they're going by the light of

34:10

the staff. The third one, they do the

34:13

exact same thing in Lord of the Rings,

34:15

at the Council of the Ring. Everybody loves

34:17

to be like, oh, why didn't they fly

34:19

on the eagles? Why didn't Tom Bob, but

34:22

they'll take care of it. In the book,

34:24

in the council, they tell you all of,

34:26

it's the longest chapter, and they tell you

34:28

all of the reasons why this is the

34:31

only thing they can get. I guess in

34:33

Tolkien's case, it would be, don't send me

34:35

a telegram. Exactly. And they tell you every

34:38

reason why this is the only way that

34:40

it could have been. And I love it.

34:42

I love it here, too. But I just

34:44

hadn't pre-plored at the ranks, because it's the

34:47

other book I'm in the middle of the

34:49

middle of reading, I'm in the middle of

34:51

reading, so. You're allowed to bring. You're allowed

34:53

to bring. Do I just turn this into

34:56

a Lord of the Rings show? No, because

34:58

we have to get through these chapters, and

35:00

then in act two, we have to do

35:02

Potter. Should that be a Lord of the

35:05

Frank show? We can poll the audience at

35:07

intermission. So, anyway, Percy Jackson. Frank trips over

35:09

something and crouches down. Hazel warns him not

35:12

to touch it. Frank asks, is this a

35:14

hunk of silvers? It looks like a giant

35:16

Hershey's kiss. And Hazel corrects him that it's

35:18

Platinum that it's Platinum that it's Platinum. Frank

35:21

is confused, but it doesn't question it, so

35:23

I realize, oh, hazel isn't told him, ooh,

35:25

interesting. The platinum does sink back into the

35:27

ground, so Frank asks how she knew this

35:30

would happen, and she says that she'll explain

35:32

later. So they emerged just where Hazel said

35:34

they would, 10 feet away. And the turtle

35:37

formation grews to their left, and they were

35:39

just getting rocked by all of the various

35:41

defenses. The third and fourth cohorts are not

35:43

advancing, they're just laughing at the misfortune of

35:46

the misfortune of cohort five. Frank becomes furious.

35:48

He decides to shake things up and grabs

35:50

a heavy special arrow. Percy asks, what's that

35:52

thing? A grappling hook? And Frank says that

35:55

it's a hydra arrow, which makes me think

35:57

that it'll do something where it splits into

35:59

multiple heads. And we'll see. Frank asks Percy

36:01

if he can knock out the cannons, and

36:04

then a defender notices the three of them

36:06

and kind of chuckles at them. Frank says

36:08

that Percy should try to take down those

36:11

cannons, and that would be a great time

36:13

to do. So the defenders then swing one

36:15

of them towards the three of them and

36:17

then goes open wide losers, which is great.

36:20

But then the cannon explodes because of Percy!

36:22

Kids are sent flying. They are saved by

36:24

flying eagles. Very Lord of the rings. More

36:26

of the cannons explode down the pipeline. The

36:29

turtle team drops the formation and just watches

36:31

in awe. And I just wrote, see you

36:33

bulls, come on! narrative Frank then says, quote,

36:35

Frank shot his arrow. It streaked upward, carrying

36:38

its glittering rope. When it reached the top,

36:40

the metal point fractured into a dozen lines

36:42

that lashed out and wrapped around anything they

36:45

could find. Parts of the wall, a scorpion.

36:47

a broken water cannon, and a couple of

36:49

defending campers who yelped and found themselves slammed

36:51

against the battlements as anchors from the main

36:54

rope handholds extended at two foot intervals making

36:56

a ladder. Feels like a very cool arrow.

36:58

I like it! Frank then yells, goes, go!

37:00

But Percy tells him to go first, since

37:03

this is his party that he's leading. And

37:05

Frank gets up halfway before the defenders come

37:07

to and sound the alarm. He has to

37:10

yell for the turtle team to get back

37:12

into the action, because they're still just like

37:14

staring you dismay. And he's like, come on,

37:16

go, go, go, go, get to it! So

37:19

they finally get back to focusing on the

37:21

three defenders at the top of him. is

37:23

latter. Narrator Frank then says, quote, one good

37:25

thing about being big clumsy and clad in

37:28

metal. Frank was like a heavy armored bowling

37:30

ball and he just thrusts himself at the

37:32

group and just knocks them all aside. Then

37:34

he uses his peeloom and arrows. He defeats

37:37

some of the defenders. Then Hazel shows up

37:39

and Percy shows up and Percy goes fun

37:41

and they defeat the rest of them. Hannibal

37:44

busts through the gates and the fifth cohort

37:46

follows behind him and the hand-to-hand fighting begins.

37:48

The third and then join in, join in.

37:50

And his look goes a little late, which

37:53

I love. I love her sass. Frank says

37:55

that they can't let them get the banner.

37:57

Percy agrees. No, those are hours. And I

37:59

love how intense Percy is here. And then

38:02

narrator Frank ends the chapter with quote, No

38:04

more talk was necessary. They moved like a

38:06

team, as if the three of them had

38:09

been working together for years, they rushed down

38:11

the interior steps and into the enemy base.

38:13

And I love when this moment happens. This

38:15

happened in The Lost Hero, when they were

38:18

fighting, at the top of Mount Diablo, when

38:20

the three of them just like figure it

38:22

all out, and they don't have to say

38:24

anything. It's been quite quick, only 11 chapters

38:27

for our trio to get to that point,

38:29

but I love it. And I'm very excited.

38:31

Do you have a retitling? I like that

38:33

one. Great. I said go with it. Cool.

38:36

So now we've got it. Or maybe, you

38:38

know. You're going to go forward with a

38:40

break. God tell you it. All right, let's

38:43

go on. Chapter 12. Also go with Frank.

38:45

We'll rename it. So the first line starts

38:47

off great. After that, the battle was mayhem.

38:49

Amazing. So Frank, Hazel, and Percy, make their

38:52

way through tearing apart the first and second

38:54

cohorts who are shocked at the notion of

38:56

the battle even making its way into the

38:58

fortress here. A major factor in the chaos

39:01

is Percy Jackson wrecking shop. And narrator Frank

39:03

describes it in such a cool way. and

39:05

whirling through the defender's ranks in a completely

39:08

unorthodox style, rolling under their feet, slashing with

39:10

his sword instead of stabbing like a Roman

39:12

wood, whacking campers with the flat of his

39:14

blade, and generally causing mass panic. Octavian screamed

39:17

in a shrill voice, maybe ordering the first

39:19

cohort to stand their ground, maybe trying to

39:21

sing soprano, but Percy put a stop to

39:23

it. He somersaulted over a line of shield

39:26

and slammed the butt of a sword into

39:28

Octavian's helmet. The centurion collapsed like a sock

39:30

puppet. It's so cool. It's so cool. It's

39:32

great to hear someone else describe it and

39:35

read from overly sarcastic productions has mentioned on

39:37

the pot a couple of times that her

39:39

favorite thing about the Heroes of the Olympics

39:42

series is getting to hear other people describe

39:44

Percy Jackson being a badass and this is

39:46

so cool. This is kind of like the

39:48

first true inside. I guess we got a

39:51

little bit of it with the river. People

39:53

are just so confused that it was like

39:55

he could control the water? What's going on?

39:57

Like this we get to just see someone.

40:00

describing beat for beat the stuff that he's

40:02

doing and it's very cool. It's very well

40:04

written, it's very good. The other really cool

40:07

thing about it is that I hate Octavian,

40:09

all my homeies hate Octavian, so it's very

40:11

nice for him to get hit in the

40:13

face by the butt of Percy's sword. Love

40:16

that. Riptide, butt attack, A-plus. Frank fires off

40:18

some arrows until he has none left. Narrator

40:20

Frank noting that they are blunt arrows that

40:22

won't hurt anyone, so Frank, a good dude.

40:25

He breaks his peeloom over the head of

40:27

a defender, so he has to use his

40:29

glottieuse now, and Hazel then gets on Hannibal's

40:31

back, charges towards the center, and yells, let's

40:34

go slowpokes, or get in losers, we're going

40:36

shopping. Narrator Frank then says, God's of Olympus,

40:38

she's beautiful, Frank thought. So getting a little

40:41

of the old hub-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a which is the center

40:43

of the fortress. basically unguarded. No defenders thought

40:45

that the fight would get here. Hannibal bursts

40:47

through the door and it reveals that the

40:50

standard bearers of the first and second cohort

40:52

are in a room playing mytho magic. A

40:54

plus. A plus. It's so funny. The flags

40:56

are just propped up against the wall, which

40:59

is also hilarious as a visual. Yeah. Like,

41:01

yeah. They're not doing anything. The standard bearers

41:03

fall out of their chairs when Hannibal enters.

41:05

The elephant. Go flying, Percy, and Frank rush

41:08

in, they disarm the defenders, they snag the

41:10

banners, and they hop atop Hannibal. Now the

41:12

rest of the fifth cohort surrounds them, as

41:15

they leave the fort to everyone's shock and

41:17

surprise, and then Reina screams that the game

41:19

is over while fighting back laughter, which she's

41:21

got a little bit of a personality too,

41:24

so that's fun. And she calls for everyone

41:26

to assemble for honors. Now, as they regroup

41:28

in the field of Mars, Frank sees that

41:30

many people have minor injuries, but nothing incurable.

41:33

Or so he thought. Frank then slides off

41:35

of Hannibal. Everyone dog piles him and congratulations.

41:37

They're cheering him on. They're giving him compliments.

41:40

They're slapping him on the back. Frank's over

41:42

the moon. Quote, but until he... So then

41:44

someone yells, help! And two people are carrying

41:46

her out of the fortress on a stretcher.

41:49

She is looking rough. There is a peeloom

41:51

sticking out of her armor, like she's holding

41:53

it between her chest and her arm, but

41:55

there's too much blood for that to be

41:58

the case. And depending on what side of

42:00

her chest it is, that could be bad

42:02

or really bad, because her heart's on one

42:04

of those sides. So that could be devastating.

42:07

I was very worried for Gwen here. I

42:09

was a free. If you keep going. You

42:11

will see what happens when we keep going,

42:14

but I was immediately very concerned. I thought

42:16

we were going to have another Lee Fletcher

42:18

situation on our hands. Someone that we just

42:20

met dying, oh, I'm supposed to be sad.

42:23

Frank rushes over. Medics call for everyone to

42:25

give her some space so that they can

42:27

get to work. They try everything, but one

42:29

of the medics finally gets up and in

42:32

a classic cliche, looks at Rayna and shakes

42:34

his head. The camp goes silent. Hannibal nuzzles

42:36

Gwen with his trunk. Reina is furious. She

42:39

says, quote, there will be an investigation. Whoever

42:41

did this. You cost the legion a good

42:43

officer. Honorable death is one thing. But this

42:45

and just trails off. I think this is

42:48

good. Again, I think Reina is really showing

42:50

that she is a formidable leader. Yeah, maybe

42:52

she's not the most fun at parties. But

42:54

she does seem to be a good person

42:57

to be in charge of the camp. Depends

42:59

on the party. Yeah, I mean, because Frank

43:01

wonders, like, when and where this could have

43:03

happened, I would imagine that it had to

43:06

have happened inside the fortress, because if she's

43:08

flying around a top on Skippy, like, I

43:10

would imagine there's some sort of roof of

43:13

sorts, I don't know, like, I would imagine

43:15

there's some sort of roof of sorts. I

43:17

don't know if they describe it being open

43:19

air or not, maybe I'm forgetting, or they

43:22

should have more than one referee for an

43:24

one referee for a basketball game, and that's

43:26

ten people. Like maybe we should have a

43:28

second referee. I literally imagine this fortress as

43:31

Helms Deep. So it's partially open, partially closed.

43:33

I imagined it as the castle from Medieval

43:35

Madness, my favorite pinball game. So she's upset,

43:38

which I think is good. And of course

43:40

my instinct at this moment is to blame

43:42

Octavian because I hate him and I would

43:44

love to will this into existence. And we'll

43:47

see, because it becomes very interesting. Frank sees

43:49

that the P-loom shaft has markings on it,

43:51

and the markings basically read cohort one, Legion

43:53

12, and then an F. So Frank knows

43:56

that it's from the first cohort of the

43:58

12th Legion. Do you know what the F

44:00

stands for? I didn't even know that was

44:02

on there. Yeah, I think there's an F.

44:05

Like it was like C-H-T-I, so cohort one,

44:07

and then like Ligio, X-I-I-I-I, so 12, because

44:09

I was like a gliding in high school,

44:12

so I know, so I know where I

44:14

know where I know where I know where

44:16

I know where I know where I know

44:18

where I know where I know where I

44:21

know where I know where I know where

44:23

I know where I know where I'm in

44:25

high school, where I'm in high school, where

44:27

I know where I know where I'm in

44:30

high school, where I'm in high school, where

44:32

I know where I'm in high school, where

44:34

I know where I'm in high school, where

44:37

I know For sure. Well at first when

44:39

I saw that I was like, I saw

44:41

the F and I was like, Frank, but

44:43

I was like, oh no, he's go hard

44:46

five. That would be a different Roman numeral.

44:48

So. Frank can see that this has the

44:50

writing on it, he sees the point of

44:52

the weapon is sticking out of the front

44:55

of Gwen, out through her armor, meaning that

44:57

she was speared from behind. And Frank thinks

44:59

that it could have happened after the game

45:01

ended. I don't know what gives him the

45:04

inclination that that would be the case, maybe

45:06

just that she wouldn't have her guard up,

45:08

so she was like walking out and parading

45:11

out and parading out and someone went by.

45:13

But if that's the implication, that super- playing

45:15

these war games, which is basically just intense

45:17

capture the flag, and they're told like you're

45:20

not supposed to injure your friends. So that's

45:22

already bad enough to do like a true

45:24

piercing blow, but to do it as like

45:26

from behind sucker punch style, like truly a

45:29

dirty move like that, that sucks. Probably somebody

45:31

who is a really sore loser. and didn't

45:33

take it so well that they had their

45:35

castle breach. I guess so I get if

45:38

it was him I guess he would have

45:40

had to come to after being knocked out

45:42

from Percy so yes he came back and

45:45

was like crumble crumble blah but we'll see

45:47

Frank yells for Octavian which I love I

45:49

like that Frank also hates Octavian so me

45:51

and Frank on the same page narrative Frank

45:54

says cool the centurion was watching with more

45:56

interest than concern as if he were examining

45:58

one of his stupid gutted Teddy bears he

46:00

did didn't have a peeloom, so ooh, that's

46:03

pretty bad. Pretty damning evidence, I'm quite upset

46:05

here. Frank wants to strangle Octavian, but just

46:07

before he can lunge out at him, Gwen

46:10

then gasps, so she's back. So, okay, seems

46:12

like things are all right, let's see. Gwen

46:14

asks why we're staring at her, and narrative

46:16

Frank says, quote, she didn't seem to notice

46:19

the seven-foot harpoon sticking out through her chest.

46:21

So, okay, clearly she hasn't seen what's going

46:23

on. Then a medic whispers behind Frank, there's

46:25

no way. She was dead. She has to

46:28

be dead. And now I'm wondering, hmm, did

46:30

Hazel do something? Did Nico do

46:32

something? And then I wrote, oh,

46:34

or is this? The whole, no

46:36

one can die because of Gia

46:38

and Tartarus and all that going

46:40

on. No one tries to help,

46:42

but instead they're all just staring

46:44

and dismay. Frank tells Gwen not

46:46

to move, only to close her

46:49

eyes. She begins to ask why,

46:51

but Frank says, just trust me,

46:53

which is good reasoning, smart thinking

46:55

from Frank. Gwen follows his suggestion.

46:57

Frank grabs the peeloom, and a

46:59

medic goes, don't, you might, and

47:01

then hazel barks back, what, make

47:03

it worse? Fantastic. Frank has Percy

47:05

come over to help him, and

47:07

then on the count of three,

47:09

they pull it out from the

47:11

front, Isn't it a

47:13

seven-foot long spear? Right,

47:15

and I don't, like, I

47:18

need to know how many

47:20

feet are out the front,

47:22

how many feet are beyond...

47:24

It broke off? Oh, I'm

47:27

imagining it. Yes, oh, I'm

47:29

imagining it. Yes, oh, yes,

47:31

oh, yes, oh, okay, so there's,

47:33

maybe it's, oh, okay, so there's, maybe

47:36

it's, maybe it's, maybe it's, I see

47:38

what I hope. Oh yeah, it could

47:40

be way, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

47:42

wait, wait, worse. So they pull it

47:44

out. Gwen feels no pain. The bleeding

47:46

stops and the wound begins to close

47:48

on its own. Gwen says she feels

47:50

fine and is still surprised at how

47:53

worried everyone seems. Frank and Percy help

47:55

her up. Frank then shoots daggerize at

47:57

Octavian, but he thinks now deal with

47:59

him later. tells Gwen, look, there's no

48:01

easy way to say this, but you

48:03

were dead and you came back. And

48:06

of course Gwen is confused. Rena says,

48:08

good question, because Gwen is asking, like,

48:10

how did this happen? What happened? And

48:13

then Rena turns to Nico and asks

48:15

if this is some sort of Pluto-based

48:17

shenanigans. And Nico says, no, because Pluto

48:19

never lets people return from the dead.

48:22

Then, Niko gives Hazel a look that

48:24

says, stay quiet. And narrator Frank says,

48:26

quote, Frank wondered what that was about,

48:29

but he didn't have time to think

48:31

about it. Meaning we'll learn about it

48:33

next time, Frank's the narrator. And then

48:35

they hear a booming voice say, death

48:38

loses its hold. This is only the

48:40

beginning. And everybody ready's for a fight.

48:42

And Percy says, I know that voice

48:45

and is not pleased, meaning that it's

48:47

either Hades or Kronos or someone else.

48:49

And we'll see who this someone else

48:52

is. But initially I was like, ah,

48:54

is this some sort of villain? But

48:56

I was thinking more of the death

48:58

lines and not of who it ends

49:01

up being. Now a column of fire

49:03

bursts into the air in the middle

49:05

of the field. Frank's eyelashes get seared.

49:08

The campers whose clothes were wet from

49:10

the water canons are now dry. People

49:12

retreat and a huge soldier emerges from

49:14

the explosion. The soldier is 10 feet

49:17

tall and is wearing a Canadian forces

49:19

desert camo outfit. And I'm worried and

49:21

wondering at this point like, oh, this

49:24

person related to Frank, he radiated confidence

49:26

in power, his black hair. was cut

49:28

in a flat-top wedge like Frank's. His

49:30

face was angular and brutal, marked with

49:33

old knife scars. His eyes were covered

49:35

with infrared goggles that glowed from inside,

49:37

who wore a utility belt with a

49:40

side arm, a knife holster, and several

49:42

grenades in his hands was an oversized

49:44

M16 rifle. And it's funny that my

49:46

thought process, it took me a little

49:49

bit. I was like, oh, looks like

49:51

Frank, is this guy related to Frank,

49:53

is this evil grandpower, whatever? But why

49:56

is it's ten- to him and steps

49:58

forward, everyone steps back. Frank is doing

50:00

this almost against his will. He drops

50:02

to his knee, everyone follows suit, and

50:05

then this person says, that's good. Kneeling

50:07

is good. It's been a long time

50:09

since I visited Camp Jupiter. And now

50:12

I'm wondering, like, oh, is this the

50:14

great grandpa? Did he do some sort

50:16

of thing to try to like, become

50:18

a god-type being? And was that the

50:21

bad thing? Like, did he do some

50:23

sort of weird magic thing? And then

50:25

the book notes that the only person

50:28

not kneeling is Percy. And I wrote,

50:30

And then Percy goes, you're aries, what

50:32

do you want? And I was like,

50:34

oh, oh my God, I've done it,

50:37

holy crap, no way. So everyone gasps.

50:39

Frank wants to say something to ease

50:41

the God's anger, but thankfully the God

50:44

just smiles and tells Percy that he

50:46

has spunk. He explains that Ares is

50:48

his Greek form into these folks, he

50:51

is Mars. Percy instinctually knows that they

50:53

have met and fought, and Mars says,

50:55

I fought a lot of people. But

50:57

I've definitely not fought you as Mars,

51:00

because if I had fought you as

51:02

Mars, you'd be dead. And I wrote,

51:04

no, I'm not fought you as Mars,

51:07

because if I had fought you as

51:09

Mars, you'd be dead. And I wrote,

51:11

no, I'm not fought you as Mars.

51:13

And then Mars says, the joke, too,

51:16

perfect. So he says that he comes

51:18

from Olympus with a message from Jupiter.

51:20

He says that Gwen should be dead

51:23

but isn't. Monsters are no longer returning

51:25

to Tartarus. And mortals that died long

51:27

ago are walking the earth now. And

51:29

I become increasingly worried that Leo's mom

51:32

is going to come back and create

51:34

some sort of predicament for Leo by

51:36

returning. But... I don't know. Narrator Frank

51:39

then says, quote, was it Frank's imagination?

51:41

Or did he glare at Nico Diangelo?

51:43

Oh, interesting. Mars continues that Thanatos has

51:45

been chained. And since I've played, he's

51:48

a video game. I know who Thanatos

51:50

is a video game. I know who

51:52

Thanatos is. And him being chained up?

51:55

Just feels like classic Thanatos. He'd be

51:57

into that kind of. our quest and

51:59

I wrote, ah, but what about retrieving

52:01

the eagle? We'll see that they're going

52:04

to be in the same location. Mars

52:06

says that they all can rise from

52:08

kneeling and ask if anyone has any

52:11

questions. And Rhenes says they're honored and

52:13

Octavian being a teacher's pet says they

52:15

are beyond honored. And then they basically

52:17

just ask him to further explain. They

52:20

ask, are people going to stop dying?

52:22

What's going on? And he says, not

52:24

all at once, but the barriers between

52:27

life and death will continue to weaken.

52:29

Those who know how to take advantage

52:31

of this will exploit it. Monsters are

52:34

already harder to dispatch. Soon they will

52:36

be completely impossible to kill. Some demigoths

52:38

will also be able to find their

52:40

way back from the underworld from the

52:43

underworld from the underworld. Gwen boxed up

52:45

this nickname, but that's a great nickname.

52:47

You should totally be Shishkabab. Like, Centurion

52:50

Shishkabab is a great nickname. You should

52:52

totally embrace this Gwen. Mar says that

52:54

if this continues, even mortals will fail

52:56

to die, and he shudders at that

52:59

thought. But Octavian interjects, saying that he

53:01

thinks it's a good thing. And Mar

53:03

scolds him, because carnage with no point

53:06

is horrible, and immortal enemies would be

53:08

incredibly dangerous, and then Percy finally asks

53:10

a good question, you're the god of

53:12

war. Don't you want endless fighting? And

53:15

Marz replies, Insulin, aren't you? Perhaps I

53:17

have fought you before. I'd have fought

53:19

for you to crush my enemies on...

53:22

your foot, but I don't fight without

53:24

reason. I don't want war without end.

53:26

You will discover this. You will serve

53:28

me." And Percy responds, not likely. So

53:31

Frank again worries that Mars is going

53:33

to strike Percy down. But Mars just

53:35

grins at Percy like this is good

53:38

trash talk between old buds, which I

53:40

love. I'm loving this. And Mars orders

53:42

a quest. Ah! He says, you will

53:44

go north and find Thanatos and the

53:47

land beyond the gods. You will free

53:49

him and thwart the plans of the

53:51

giants. Beware Gia. Beware her son, the

53:54

eldest giant. And then Hazel squeaks, the

53:56

land beyond the gods. And then I

53:58

wrote, oh yeah, they're going to Alaska.

54:00

Like it is going to happen. They're

54:03

doing the thing. remembers the land or

54:05

the legion lost its honor, perhaps if

54:07

the quest succeeds, and you return by

54:10

the feast of Fortuna, perhaps then your

54:12

honor will be restored. If you don't

54:14

succeed, there won't be any camp left

54:17

to return to. Rome will be overrun,

54:19

its legacy lost forever. So my advice

54:21

is, don't fail. Narrator Frank then says

54:23

that Octavian somehow managed to bow even

54:26

lower. And Octavian basically well actually is

54:28

that they need a prophecy to go

54:30

along with a quest. So Mars asks

54:33

for a pen. No one has a

54:35

pen. And he goes, there's 200 Romans

54:37

and nobody has a pen? He then

54:39

pulls out a grenade. Everyone freaks out,

54:42

but then he turns it into a

54:44

pen. And the narrator Frank says, Frank

54:46

looked at Percy with wide eyes. He

54:49

mouthed, get your sword, do grenade form.

54:51

It's so good! It's so good! Mars

54:53

then writes on a scroll and chucks

54:55

it at Octavian and says, a prophecy.

54:58

You can add it to your books

55:00

and grave it on your floor or

55:02

whatever. And then Octavian reads it. This

55:05

says, go to Alaska, find Thanatos and

55:07

free him, come back by sundown on

55:09

June 24th or die. And then Mars

55:11

says, yes, is that not clear? Octavian,

55:14

it's very, and... And Mars then pops

55:16

out another grenade and goes, yes. And

55:18

then Octave goes, the prophecy is clear,

55:21

a quest. And then it goes, good

55:23

answer, and puts it away. So good.

55:25

This dynamic is so fun. I really

55:27

enjoy Mars. Like, he's all the fun

55:30

of Ares without being a jerk, and

55:32

it's just so good. He's really, really

55:34

fun. And I'm loving. his riffing with

55:37

Percy and his take on Octavians as

55:39

far as well. Yes, because he understands,

55:41

like, Percy's a good dude, Octavian sucks,

55:43

I'll have fun, angry, witty trash talk

55:46

banter with this kid, and I'm just

55:48

gonna yell at this guy and threaten

55:50

him up with a grenade. Like, he

55:53

understands the difference, and it's really, really

55:55

good. So then, Mars remembers that he

55:57

is one more thing to do, and

55:59

he calls up Frank. And all right,

56:02

here we go, here we go. So

56:04

he has Frank come up and then

56:06

Frank kind of feels for his stick

56:09

and it just feels like it's heavier.

56:11

So clearly some sort of important moment

56:13

is going down and then Frank just

56:16

like feels like he knows what's going

56:18

on but he can't stop it. So

56:20

he steps forward against his will and

56:22

then Mars congratulates Frank on taking the

56:25

wall and then he asks who the

56:27

referee for the game was. So Reina

56:29

raises her hand and Mars asks Reina

56:32

if she saw the play, quote, that

56:34

was my kid, first over the game

56:36

for his team, unless you're blind. an

56:38

MVP play. You're not blind, are you?

56:41

And Rayna says, no, Lord Mars. And

56:43

then he says, okay, well, then he

56:45

needs the mural crown. My kid. And

56:48

then it's all right, okay, my kid.

56:50

He said my kid twice. It's pretty

56:52

clear at this point. What's going on?

56:54

And then he continues saying, Emily Zhang's

56:57

son. She was a good soldier, good

56:59

woman. This kid Frank proved his stuff

57:01

tonight. which is a gun, which I

57:04

was not anticipating. And Frank thinks he's

57:06

gonna get crushed under the weight of

57:08

the giant assault rifle, but instead it

57:10

changes midair, which I was very thankful

57:13

to see. Changes midair, becomes very thankful

57:15

to see. Changes midair, becomes smaller and

57:17

thinner, and when he catches it, it

57:20

becomes a spear, which does feel more

57:22

appropriate, more airies. I wouldn't wanna have

57:24

to root for a guy with a

57:26

gun, so this makes me very happy.

57:29

Well, Claris had a spear, too, right?

57:31

Yes. Seems to be a very Aris

57:33

Morris thing. Exactly. The spear has a

57:36

shaft of imperial gold and a point

57:38

that is strange. It's like white bone

57:40

flickering with a ghostly light, which I

57:42

thought was very intriguing. Thankfully, Mars immediately

57:45

describes it. Quote, the tip is a

57:47

dragon's tooth. You haven't learned to use

57:49

your mom's talents yet, have you? Well,

57:52

that spear will give you some breathing

57:54

room until you do. do? What are

57:56

the charges? What's his Mom's power, what's

57:59

going on? All of these things running

58:01

through my head. And Frank doesn't understand,

58:03

but Mars acts like, yep, he totally

58:05

knows what's going on. And then says,

58:08

quote, now my kid, Frank Zhang is

58:10

gonna lead the quest to free Thanatos,

58:12

unless there are any objections. So of

58:15

course, nobody objects at all. And a

58:17

bunch of people then glare at Frank

58:19

with envy jealousy, anger bitterness, all of

58:21

the above, and in classic quest form.

58:24

He is allowed to bring two companions.

58:26

One of them needs to be this

58:28

kid. and he points at Percy as

58:31

if Frank wasn't going to pick Percy.

58:33

And he says that. Quote, he's gonna

58:35

learn some respect for Mars on this

58:37

trip or die trying. As for the

58:40

second, I don't care, pick whomever you

58:42

want. Love that Mars used the right

58:44

whomever? And not just saying whoever? Wow,

58:47

astonishing. Pick whomever you want, have one

58:49

of your Senate debates, you all are

58:51

good at those. And then his image

58:53

flickers and lightning streaks across the sky,

58:56

and he says, that's my cue. Until

58:58

next time, Romans, do not disappoint me.

59:00

And then he erupts me. part nausea,

59:03

like she's finally being able to swallow

59:05

the mouse. That's how Frank the narrator

59:07

described it before. She had a mouse

59:09

in her throat. She then raises her

59:12

arm in a Roman salute and says,

59:14

Avei, Frank Chang, son of Mars, and

59:16

everyone follows suit. But Frank doesn't want

59:19

the attention. His perfect night had been

59:21

ruined. And I was like, ruin. OK.

59:23

He wanted Apollo. But like, dude, you

59:25

did get claimed. Like, you, your whole

59:28

thing, so you haven't been claimed. And

59:30

now you're upset that it's not. I

59:32

don't know. I think because he's so

59:35

anti-war. Oh, okay, that makes more sense.

59:37

He's a gentle soul. That's true. And

59:39

he isn't happy about it. Yeah, the

59:42

ending quotation for this chapter is, Mars

59:44

was his father, the god of war

59:46

was sending him to Alaska, Frank had

59:48

been handed more than a spear for

59:51

his birthday, he'd been handed a death

59:53

sentence. He'd been handed a death sentence.

59:55

as a birthday gift. Do you have

59:58

a retitling of chapter 12? I have

1:00:00

a retitling of your titling. Sure, yeah,

1:00:02

improve it. I'll take a punch up.

1:00:04

I'm open to feedback. Can I get

1:00:07

a gift receipt for this birthday present?

1:00:09

I love it. I love it. Frank.

1:00:11

I am your father. Oh, there were

1:00:14

always a classic, always a classic. But

1:00:16

yeah, I mean, we're at a point,

1:00:18

Frank has now been claimed. We have

1:00:20

a very interesting situation on our hands,

1:00:23

not just that he's been claimed, but

1:00:25

yes, he's been claimed by someone different

1:00:27

than he thought, and we finally get

1:00:30

a child of Ares that we like.

1:00:32

Or at least I liked Clarice's growth,

1:00:34

and then everyone knows my thoughts on

1:00:36

book five, but now I get to

1:00:39

a root for a child of Ares.

1:00:41

I don't think Piper seems like your

1:00:43

classic Aphrodite kids, so I think if

1:00:46

we're having people be a little bit

1:00:48

different than the stereotypical traditional way you

1:00:50

would think of them, I think that

1:00:52

it's a good thing. I agree. Yeah,

1:00:55

so that is the end of Chapter

1:00:57

12, and that is the end of

1:00:59

this episode of the newest Olympian. Oh,

1:01:02

and it's the end of Act 1.

1:01:04

Oh! Now if you're listening to the

1:01:06

podcast at home, we'll probably do Q&A

1:01:08

after another break, so let's say goodbye

1:01:11

to the podcast. Hey,

1:01:16

it's Mike here. Just one more break where

1:01:18

we're going to insert some ads before we

1:01:20

get to the Q&A, which is very fun.

1:01:22

Also, just a couple of notes about this

1:01:24

episode in particular. One, at one point in

1:01:26

the episode, I am surprised that there is

1:01:29

a camper named Bobby. At the time of

1:01:31

recording this, I had forgotten that Bobby was

1:01:33

one of the names that was named dropped.

1:01:35

by Jason when he had his, oh I

1:01:37

remember some names moment at the end of

1:01:39

The Lost Hero. So apologies for my surprise

1:01:41

at Bobby. I have recalled you Bobby. It

1:01:43

just took me doing the production work on

1:01:45

that episode to remember, oh right, there is

1:01:48

a Bobby. So Bobby did come back. So

1:01:50

I'm aware of Bobby's existence. The other thing,

1:01:52

at the end of this episode, I'm going

1:01:54

to mention something about Roto Ruder. That is

1:01:56

because when we were doing this live show,

1:01:58

the bath... were not working and it was

1:02:00

like up until the last minute where they

1:02:02

had people like legitimately doing plumbing repairs and

1:02:05

stuff and it was this whole thing of

1:02:07

like are we gonna have to move the

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show or are we gonna have to tell

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they come wild stuff I will go to

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get in. So this one is

1:03:04

from Corinne. Corinne says, hi Mike,

1:03:06

long time listener, and so excited

1:03:08

to be here. Super important question.

1:03:10

What is that? Oh, okay. F.

1:03:13

Marykill. There was like a smudge on

1:03:15

my laptop, like a little fleck, and

1:03:17

it went over the F and it

1:03:19

made it look like a very strange

1:03:21

emoji. And I was like, what is

1:03:23

this winging? Let's say kiss

1:03:25

Mary kill to keep it all

1:03:28

ages. Kiss Mary kill because it

1:03:30

is Percy Jackson people. But it's

1:03:32

all horses. Tempest, Skippy, and Blackjack.

1:03:34

Tempest is the wind horse

1:03:37

that Jason rides at the end

1:03:39

of the Lost Hero. Skippy is

1:03:41

Skippio, and Blackjack is Blackjack. So.

1:03:43

You gotta kiss Mary Kill. I am gonna marry

1:03:45

Blackjack because I wanna spend the rest of my

1:03:48

life with him if I'm in this magical horse

1:03:50

situation. I gotta stick with Blackjack for life. If

1:03:52

there's one that I'm just gonna kiss, I feel

1:03:54

like I'm gonna go with Tempest just because it

1:03:56

feels like the most like, ooh, what does it

1:03:59

mean? The wind horse? And then Scipio, like,

1:04:01

seems prim and proper, but also just

1:04:03

feels like deep down, I feel like

1:04:05

Scipio's gonna be very snooty, like, oh,

1:04:08

hello, it's me. I just feel like

1:04:10

they will not be any fun. Even

1:04:12

though they have a fun nickname, I

1:04:14

feel like they're not gonna be as

1:04:16

much fun. How about you? I don't

1:04:19

know if I'll spoil more character development.

1:04:21

Okay. Okay. then you can just decline.

1:04:23

I've got my answers though. Oh, oh.

1:04:25

They're different from yours. Do you want

1:04:28

to, here, how about I'll close my

1:04:30

eyes and you like mouth it to

1:04:32

the crowd? Yeah. Fun, okay, cool. Alrighty,

1:04:34

this one is from JayJ. Jay Jay

1:04:37

says, hi Mike, I was at the

1:04:39

Austin live show last year, so thank

1:04:41

you for cutting down six hours of

1:04:43

driving time to four. We're getting closer!

1:04:46

My question is, we all know that

1:04:48

Jason gets grumpy when he's hungry and

1:04:50

you said you shut down. I personally

1:04:52

turned into dot, dot, which, because this

1:04:55

is in all ages podcast, what do

1:04:57

you think our trio would be like

1:04:59

when they get to Hungary? Are we

1:05:01

talking about the new trio? Okay, nutrient.

1:05:04

So we've got Percy, Frank, and Hazel.

1:05:06

When they get too hungry, what are

1:05:08

they gonna be like? I would feel

1:05:10

like Frank would somehow become even clumsier.

1:05:13

Like he would start stumbling even more.

1:05:15

I don't know if he gets lightheaded

1:05:17

or like his vision like goes bad

1:05:19

or whatever, but I feel like his

1:05:22

clumsiness would be elevated. I feel like

1:05:24

Percy might be similar to me where

1:05:26

he's just like very focused on like,

1:05:28

where's the food, where's the food, and

1:05:31

then. angry just like kind of like

1:05:33

like short with people and snippy because

1:05:35

we've seen her I wouldn't say like

1:05:37

lose her temper but like you know

1:05:40

she got mad at Frank for giving

1:05:42

away the secret she's kind of like

1:05:44

short when things get stressful I could

1:05:46

see her just being like very like

1:05:49

and like terse what about you for

1:05:51

our new trio I think Percy would

1:05:53

be angry oh okay he's getting more

1:05:55

grumpy but I agree with you that

1:05:58

Frank would be more clumsy. And I

1:06:00

think Hazel would be sleepy. Oh, I

1:06:02

don't know why, but she'd be sleepy.

1:06:04

Then also, the email continues, P.S. Kelly,

1:06:06

I'm also rereading Lord of the Rings

1:06:09

and having an amazing time. Lovely. Jay,

1:06:11

Jane's email, Mill, Cool, and The Rings,

1:06:13

Lord of the Rings, and having an

1:06:15

amazing time. Lovely. Jay, Jane's email, cool,

1:06:18

Mill, cool, and Green, I tried to

1:06:20

do as much as I can. I

1:06:22

had a yellow sweater, but it. Oh,

1:06:24

and the subject line also called New

1:06:27

Orleans Bug Juice Headquarters, which clearly it

1:06:29

is since everyone in the crowd was

1:06:31

like, yes, I've drank Bug Juice before

1:06:33

and I love it. It's my favorite

1:06:36

beverage. Okay, this one is from Emma.

1:06:38

Emma says, hey, Mike and Kelly, so

1:06:40

excited y'all are here. Sarah and I

1:06:42

were here. Sarah and I were here.

1:06:45

Sarah and I were wondering. What errors

1:06:47

y' y'all are going as to the

1:06:49

concert tomorrow? Yeah, it was fun. that

1:06:51

it does have like your full-fledged chemical

1:06:54

engineering situation from Louisiana State University. Tigers.

1:06:56

So. First off, I am not attending

1:06:58

the concert tomorrow. Not because I don't

1:07:00

want to go, but because there was

1:07:03

only one spare ticket from Kelly's friends.

1:07:05

Otherwise I would. Both times this happened

1:07:07

where you went in New York and

1:07:09

there was like a group of six

1:07:12

set and that was like a group

1:07:14

of six set and that was like

1:07:16

the max you could get when it

1:07:18

was three set and that was like

1:07:21

the max you could get when it

1:07:23

was pre-sales, right? to see your second

1:07:25

favorite artists. So I went the first

1:07:27

time and then some of my friends

1:07:30

who live in Texas, when they released

1:07:32

the tickets for New Orleans, got a

1:07:34

pre-sale code for, were very excited, but

1:07:36

they all work, like client-facing jobs or

1:07:39

with patients all day, and none of

1:07:41

them could do the pre-sale, and they'd

1:07:43

finally made the pre-sale, but couldn't do

1:07:45

it. And I was like, I work

1:07:47

from home, I'm free at that time.

1:07:50

Tell me what kind of tickets you

1:07:52

want, what your price limit, what your

1:07:54

price limit is. I'll figure it out

1:07:56

and I'll get them. I got them

1:07:59

for them and then that night they're

1:08:01

like, do you want to be our

1:08:03

fourth? And I was like, yes, I

1:08:05

want to be the fourth. Oh, so

1:08:08

you got four and you're the fourth.

1:08:10

Yeah, but I was never supposed to

1:08:12

go. Right, right, right, right. Gotcha. Otherwise

1:08:14

we would have planned and I would

1:08:17

have gone too, because I do love

1:08:19

Taylor Swift. What era would you be?

1:08:21

And I was reputation. Clowning? Clowning for

1:08:23

you? You mean clamoring? Clowning. Clowning. Clowning.

1:08:26

You're clowning? Clowning. As in, we all

1:08:28

think it's going to be tomorrow. Oh.

1:08:30

And it's probably not going to be

1:08:32

tomorrow. I do think it's going to

1:08:35

be tomorrow. Every couple of weeks I

1:08:37

look right. There's a new theory out.

1:08:39

Well, but also every couple of weeks,

1:08:41

like anything happens 13 times. That means.

1:08:44

And honestly, I've leave every single theory.

1:08:46

You fall for every single one. I'm

1:08:48

like, oh yeah, it's definitely an... The

1:08:50

chief scored 13 points last week, yeah.

1:08:53

It's going to be tomorrow. My only

1:08:55

evidence. I'll be there. Oh, okay. Yeah,

1:08:57

yeah. So she's like, Kelly Schubert, you

1:08:59

dressed as a reputation. But I'm not

1:09:02

tomorrow. I was, I was when I

1:09:04

went to New York. Yeah, just wrap

1:09:06

you up and I'm sure they will.

1:09:08

Snake tights and a little gold snake

1:09:11

wrapped in my hair. Can you have,

1:09:13

you know? And I had a little

1:09:15

snake like hair pin and like belt

1:09:17

clip. Did you have snake earrings? No.

1:09:20

It was fun. But. Couldn't put all

1:09:22

that in my suitcase again. Space. Child

1:09:24

things. So I'm wearing a red dress.

1:09:26

So we'll go with red. And then

1:09:28

you're wearing your PTSD jacket. I'll wear

1:09:31

my jacket too. Yeah. So, close. Musically

1:09:33

themed enough. It's like when I wear

1:09:35

a Knicks jersey to a different sporting

1:09:37

event. I'm like, man, it's close and

1:09:40

have music. We all love a good

1:09:42

sport, don't we? Yeah. Okay. Now, if

1:09:44

we've got to go dressed up as

1:09:46

Percy Jackson characters as Percy Jackson characters

1:09:49

or Harry Potter characters or Harry Potter

1:09:51

characters for Halloween, what would, what would,

1:09:53

what would you. I've long said that

1:09:55

I would dress up as Supreme Lord

1:09:58

of the Bathroom, but I would like

1:10:00

have like a toilet seat crown and

1:10:02

like a scepter that looks like a

1:10:04

toilet wand and you know ruffles made

1:10:07

out of toilet paper and stuff like

1:10:09

that. If I actually had to go

1:10:11

as like an actual character, maybe I

1:10:13

could do like compi or something and

1:10:16

put a bunch of stuffed animals around

1:10:18

my waist to be the like beasts

1:10:20

that come out and stuff like that.

1:10:22

I think one of the best Harry

1:10:25

Potter baby costumes is the mandrake And

1:10:27

then we don't do it. Yeah, like

1:10:29

even what are we doing for we're

1:10:31

not doing anything in the carrier dresses

1:10:34

a mandrake and then and then I

1:10:36

could go as Professor Sprow. Exactly. Yeah,

1:10:38

yeah, that'd be fun. We're not going

1:10:40

to do that because it's a whole

1:10:43

lot of effort. We're not going to

1:10:45

do that because it's a whole lot

1:10:47

of effort. We're not going to do

1:10:49

it. We're not doing anything intense for

1:10:52

her Halloween costume this year. No, we

1:10:54

happen to have a four pack of

1:10:56

Pixar Pixar onesies. So she'll be one

1:10:58

of the two characters. She'll be, well,

1:11:01

spike up her hair and she'll be

1:11:03

Jack Jack, Jack, done, Jack, wheee, easy,

1:11:05

yeah. Okay, this one is from Tegan.

1:11:07

Tegan says, hey Mike, slither or not

1:11:09

racist. I've been fans for you. Thank

1:11:12

you for clarifying. I've been fan for

1:11:14

years. And I'm strict to finally. We'll

1:11:16

see a live show here. My question

1:11:18

is, what Hawords houses. Would our new

1:11:21

trio belong to. Okay. So the new

1:11:23

squad of Son of Neptune, Hogworth's houses.

1:11:25

Percy feels like a griffendor, because he's

1:11:27

the main character, he's the most important.

1:11:30

In Hazel? Oh, Frank, okay, Frank? It

1:11:32

has Hufflepuff energy for sure. And then

1:11:34

Hazel, it has Hufflepuff energy for sure.

1:11:36

And then Hazel, I guess, because of

1:11:39

the Hades element of it all, could

1:11:41

be like the good slitherin for once.

1:11:43

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Grover loved Hillary

1:11:45

Duff. True. And that book was written

1:11:48

in like a pre-tailorswift, is Taylor Swift

1:11:50

era. I feel like he's gonna be

1:11:52

all about it. I just, and he's

1:11:54

gonna love Evermore, right? That's the forest

1:11:57

one, yeah? Yeah. Exactly. I only say

1:11:59

Percy because. He should like

1:12:01

Taylor Swift so you say that so Annabith

1:12:03

like like you have to you must you

1:12:05

must appreciate her Yeah, I don't have a

1:12:08

you don't have a reason other than that

1:12:10

he's he needs to it would be in

1:12:12

his best interest be like a fun unexpected

1:12:14

character development for him to be a massive

1:12:16

swiftly on the side. Yeah, yeah, I like

1:12:19

it people get very surprised when I post

1:12:21

Taylor Smith things and they're like you've like

1:12:23

you've like Taylor Swift. It's like obviously of

1:12:25

course. My brain is from Tannerer Tanner says,

1:12:28

my question is, if you had to newest

1:12:30

Olympian a video game, meaning play a game

1:12:32

for the first time you slept on as

1:12:34

a kid, what game would that be? Sorry,

1:12:36

it can't be Kingdom Hearts. Yeah, I mean,

1:12:39

that would be the closest thing to it

1:12:41

since I made my whole adult life. So

1:12:43

yeah, is there like a big video game

1:12:45

that I've never played that. And I mean,

1:12:47

that would be the closest thing to it

1:12:50

since I made my whole adult life. So

1:12:52

yeah, is there like a big video game

1:12:54

that I've, a big video game that I've,

1:12:56

like, a big video game, like, like, like,

1:12:58

like, like, like, like, like, like, like, a,

1:13:01

a, a, a, a, like, a, a, a,

1:13:03

like, a, a, a, a, a, a, a,

1:13:05

a, a, a, a, like, a, a, a,

1:13:07

a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a,

1:13:10

a, like Jack and Daxter and all that

1:13:12

kind of stuff. So I feel like that

1:13:14

wouldn't make logical sense. I've also never played

1:13:16

any of the God of War games and

1:13:18

everyone now that I'm doing the news Olympian

1:13:21

says that I should play the God of

1:13:23

War games because it does all the mythology.

1:13:25

So that could be another one. If I

1:13:27

could like, the eternal Sunshine of this mine,

1:13:29

if I could wipe that and do it

1:13:32

all from the beginning, I would pick the

1:13:34

Tony Hawk franchise because I love those games

1:13:36

and they're perfect and they're so good. period

1:13:38

out of anything that has ever been written.

1:13:40

And I would love to like relive that

1:13:43

from the very first time because I absolutely

1:13:45

adore those games and I think they're fantastic

1:13:47

and perfect and everyone should play them. What

1:13:49

about you? If you're going to do a

1:13:52

thing about you playing a video game for

1:13:54

the first time. There's a lot of video

1:13:56

games I haven't played. But what would you

1:13:58

want to do? I mean, you just embarked

1:14:00

on Crash Bandicoot. That's true. And you keep

1:14:03

wanting me to play Zelda. You would freaking

1:14:05

love at least the new Nintendo switch ones

1:14:07

the breath of the wild I feel like

1:14:09

you would love those you keep saying that

1:14:11

it's possible it is possible Time is at

1:14:14

a premium right now. And you only have

1:14:16

time to play the video games that you

1:14:18

know, which is crash team racing all of

1:14:20

the time. Catamari Damashi. Catamari Damashi. The occasional

1:14:22

stray because it's about a cat. Sometimes you

1:14:25

get back into your little house of untitled

1:14:27

goose game. Every now and then. And then

1:14:29

you play a lot of Harry Potter, Harorgords

1:14:31

mystery on your phone. If you'll play with

1:14:34

me, Overcooked. Overcooked. Thousands of hours of overcooked.

1:14:36

It's good, but it is repetitive. Email continues.

1:14:38

Thanks for coming to New Orleans. Been a

1:14:40

listener since Potter. So thanks for showing some

1:14:42

love to our city and enjoy T-Swift. I

1:14:45

also had to go to a different city.

1:14:47

I also had to go to a different

1:14:49

city to get tickets. Where did you end

1:14:51

up going? Denver. Okay. Ooh, fun. Yeah. I

1:14:53

know a lot of people went to other

1:14:56

cities because this is her first time coming

1:14:58

to New Orleans. That's wild that's wild. How

1:15:00

long ago was the Denver show? Oh, so

1:15:02

you're like Kelly, where you get to like

1:15:05

see all the new stuff. Are you going

1:15:07

again? Ah. Yeah. Well, sorry to make it

1:15:09

not sound cool. But Kelly's having a fun

1:15:11

time where she got like, you went before

1:15:13

she even started dating Travis Kelsey. Oh my

1:15:16

God, a whole different tale. Yeah, it was

1:15:18

over a year ago. Who was she dating

1:15:20

in that time? It wasn't when she was

1:15:22

dating. It wasn't when she was dating Madahili.

1:15:24

Disgusting, disgusting. I think she had like a

1:15:27

week before the New York show, it came

1:15:29

out that she was dating him and I

1:15:31

was like, it's going to ruin all of

1:15:33

the love songs for me. It didn't ruin

1:15:35

all the love songs, but I was a

1:15:38

little annoyed. Well, now you're getting the experience

1:15:40

where you will get the new tortured poet

1:15:42

songs and I'll get to wonder what the

1:15:44

studio. Anyway, there's more theories. Is there actually

1:15:47

a theory right now about? She hasn't changed,

1:15:49

keeps changing her outfits. Okay. And she hasn't

1:15:51

changed her reputation outfit until the shows in

1:15:53

Miami last weekend. So because she wore a

1:15:55

different thing in Miami. When she comes to

1:15:58

New Orleans, she's going, sup y'all, rep TV's

1:16:00

coming out. Okay, great, perfect. Well, on that

1:16:02

fantastic note, we can end the show. Give

1:16:04

it up to yourselves or make it out

1:16:06

to the show. Thank you so much for

1:16:09

coming. Give it up to Kelly for being

1:16:11

an incredible guest. Give it up to Rachel

1:16:13

for running the merch table, which you can

1:16:15

still visit on her way out. And give

1:16:17

it up to everyone here at Big Couch,

1:16:20

Scott and Kerry and everyone running in the

1:16:22

whole run in the whole show. They tried

1:16:24

up until the final minute to get the

1:16:26

toilets to work too, so there was all

1:16:29

like the roto-ruder people are here and everything.

1:16:31

It was a whole ordeal, so they put

1:16:33

in a lot of effort to make this.

1:16:35

I'm so glad we got to make the

1:16:37

show happen. Finally, after four and a half

1:16:40

years of wanting to do it, we made

1:16:42

it happen. I'm so stoked. And this was

1:16:44

an absolute delight. So I'm so glad we

1:16:46

got to do this fun, double bill show.

1:16:48

Thank you all so much for coming out.

1:16:51

And ooh, I gotta do the double sign

1:16:53

off thing because I forgot to end intermission

1:16:55

with it. So as they say, when they're

1:16:57

having a fun time eating Benyze and Gumboey

1:16:59

sausage and everything, as they say in the

1:17:02

words of World of Harry Potter, very Potter,

1:17:04

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1:17:06

do another New Orleans show because why not

1:17:08

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everyone, it's me, it's me, ASMarmic. So

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in the Shubute here, I have a

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box from a package for something that

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the ASMarmic segment for this episode. So

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I have to rip off like this

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those like circular pieces of clear tape.

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Also if you're hearing noise in the

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with a very loud toy, even though

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I started doing the midroll break and

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stuff while she was taking a nap.

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It appears as if the nap is

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over. Okay, I have taken the thing

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out of the cardboard box, I've dropped

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the cardboard box, and then here's a

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little ziploc bag. that has the

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Awesome. Well, well, you so that, awesome.

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