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I don't know if you guys do

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this in Maths class over there. Thank

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you, I appreciate that very much. I

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didn't want you to be confused.

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Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode

0:32

of The New Stelumpian. My name is Mike Schuber. I'm

0:34

the titular New Stelimpian. I'm a 32-year-old man who never

0:36

read the Percy Jackson books as a kid. I read

0:38

them as an adult because I was determining if it was

0:40

a book series that society has been sleeping on. I said

0:42

yes, and now I'm seeing if society has also been sleeping

0:44

on the heroes of Olympus books, which would be uncomfortable. Those

0:47

books are very long. But... We are here for another

0:49

episode to continue our coverage. And I am not on

0:51

this journey alone. I'm joined by a very special guest,

0:53

someone who has been a long time coming on this

0:55

podcast. I'm very excited to have them on. You might

0:57

know them from the work that we've done together on,

0:59

or her work that we've done together on, or her

1:01

incredible voice overwork, in wonderful podcasts, such as Wooden

1:03

Overcoats, or the new sensation sweeping the internet nations

1:05

Tiny Angry Witch. It's Beth Here Beth Here Beth

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1:15

Beth, Beth, Beth, Beth, Beth, Beth, Beth, Beth, Beth, Beth,

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Beth, Beth, I'm so stoked as well.

1:19

I wanted to have you on that

1:21

ever since I did the TNO show

1:23

in London when I didn't even know

1:25

that you were reading the books and

1:27

then you were in attendance and it

1:29

was a lovely fun time and we

1:31

had a good time at the show

1:33

and good time hanging afterwards and then

1:35

hanging out the next day and then

1:38

hanging afterwards and I'm glad that we

1:40

can hang out the show and then

1:42

hanging afterwards and then hanging out the

1:44

next day and I'm glad that we

1:46

can finally. So I never read the Percy

1:48

Jackson books as a kid, imagine that. I

1:50

was really into fantasy, I read a lot

1:53

of Tolkien books, a lot of Lord of

1:55

Rings type stuff, and Philip Pullman books, but

1:57

I completely missed these, I think, partly going...

1:59

to University at the wrong time, but

2:02

they were on my radar. I was

2:04

really aware of them. And then through

2:06

meeting you, I was like, brilliant, I

2:08

have an excuse to actually read these

2:10

for the first time. So I started

2:12

reading the first series last year, maybe

2:14

the year before, not sure anymore, but

2:17

it feels a bit like last year,

2:19

maybe last year, maybe it was the

2:21

before, and I had such a great

2:23

time listening to TNO. Then I thought

2:25

I'm going to commit to reading these

2:27

books for the rest of time. when

2:29

we started working together on 20 to

2:31

midnight the D&D stream that we do,

2:34

that you started listening to T&O and

2:36

I started listening to Winover Coast and

2:38

I was like, oh my gosh, this

2:40

is great. So, I'm very excited to

2:42

cover these. There's some chunky chapters, so

2:44

I think we should just get right

2:46

into these two Percy chapters. Chapter 13

2:49

is called Percy, and we will, of

2:51

course, re-title it by the end for

2:53

a new fun name, but where we

2:55

last left our heroes, Frank Zhang just

2:57

got claimed by Mars as his son,

2:59

which is wild and dramatic and does

3:01

not make Percy happy. Are you not

3:04

happy about that? I thought it was

3:06

very fun. I thought it was very

3:08

fun. I did not see it coming.

3:10

Did you see it coming? I did

3:12

see it coming. It was funny because

3:14

it started as just like a process

3:16

of elimination type guess of just like,

3:19

well, he needs to have a god

3:21

as a dad. And there's only a

3:23

certain few that can work and there's

3:25

only a certain few that we actually

3:27

haven't really seen a child of. So

3:29

I kind of saw it coming, but

3:31

not necessarily in that way. And I'm

3:33

very excited about. how it's going to

3:36

develop. It's very exciting. Now before we

3:38

get into anything, I did just write

3:40

in my notes in all caps before,

3:42

I guess sometime in between doing the

3:44

last episode recording and then doing this

3:46

episode. I just wrote my notes in

3:48

all caps. Rayna is going to end

3:51

up with Leo in all caps. And

3:53

it's going to end up with Leo

3:55

in all caps. Rayna is going to

3:57

end up with, and Leo is going

3:59

to end up with. It could be

4:01

fun if he ends up with Rina.

4:03

It might be weird because we don't

4:06

know what's going on with Rina and

4:08

Jason, racing, but clearly there's something going

4:10

on there. I don't know if Leo's

4:12

was gonna feel weird about dating Jason's

4:14

question mark X, question mark question mark,

4:16

question mark, question mark, question mark, question

4:18

mark, but if I had to just

4:21

make a wild bold out of nowhere

4:23

prediction, I'm just going to throw that's

4:25

exciting. Okay, okay, let's see. Now, this

4:27

chapter begins with quote, Percy slept like

4:29

a Medusa victim, which is to say,

4:31

like a rock. And I got to

4:33

live in a world where Rick just

4:36

wrote the first thing, and then some

4:38

editor was like, you should probably explain

4:40

the joke. Because it just feels like

4:42

that second part of the sentence is

4:44

not necessary. Obviously, maybe because it's a

4:46

kid's book, they're like, you have to

4:48

clarify. But I don't know. This just

4:50

feels like someone telling him, you got

4:53

to add this. You got to add

4:55

this. So it is the first time

4:57

that Percy has slept in a safe

4:59

and comfortable bed, since he cannot remember.

5:01

And of course, Percy had dreams, but

5:03

they were all blurs, which is very

5:05

convenient for us, for the plot, so

5:08

that Percy doesn't know too much of

5:10

what's happening. Absolutely. Exciting dream time, though.

5:12

I know, it's been a minute. The

5:14

first Blurry dream is that of a

5:16

fawn. In quotation marks running up to

5:18

Percy, and Percy saying, oh, I don't

5:20

have any change, I don't have any

5:23

change, man tells Bursi to stay put

5:25

as they are in route to finding

5:27

him and they believe that Tyson is

5:29

the closest to him. So this is

5:31

where they've been the whole time explaining

5:33

why they weren't in the last book

5:35

and, oh, the prospect of Grover and

5:38

Tyson showing up at the end of

5:40

this book, most likely, is very exciting

5:42

to me. I was so exciting to

5:44

be hearing from all our old friends,

5:46

but the stay put thing you're just

5:48

like, he's just got assigned on a

5:50

quest, ah, I want. The timing couldn't

5:53

be worse or more dramatic. but also

5:55

perfect. But yes, I literally wrote my

5:57

notes. So funny for him to say

5:59

stay put just as they are about

6:01

to leave. It is perfect work from

6:03

Kyron for plot managing purposes or really

6:05

from Rick Ryordan. Just he knows what

6:07

he's doing. He's crafting. It's like when

6:10

Gabriel Arbina, our friend, scripts things and

6:12

it makes it so it just like

6:14

destroys your heart and you start crying

6:16

like Rick knows what he's doing. He's

6:18

making the most anxiety inducing situation possible,

6:20

but it makes it so far. Now,

6:22

the next dream blur is Annabith running

6:25

alongside him and reaching out her hand

6:27

while saying that they couldn't see him

6:29

for months on end, but now they

6:31

can. And this makes Percy remember that

6:33

Juno said he'd been slumbering for months

6:35

but is now awake. I'm wondering if

6:37

the slumbering is literal or if it

6:40

was figurative or exactly what the time

6:42

difference between the start of the lost

6:44

hero and the start if the son

6:46

of Neptune was, it would be fun

6:48

if we get like the full timeline,

6:50

timeline, but yeah, I wonder what's a

6:52

foot here. months and what is that

6:55

like it feels very I don't know

6:57

it feels very Zelda to just be

6:59

in stasis sort of waiting to go.

7:01

Feels very Zelda feels very kingdom hearts

7:03

chain of memories which is when SORA's

7:05

in like a basically like freezing sleeping

7:07

coma sort of thing and then they

7:10

use his memories to do stuff they

7:12

look memories memories we're getting more connections

7:14

between kingdom hearts and Percy Jackson it's

7:16

just all over the place. Percy asks

7:18

Annabeth are you real? and he gets

7:20

supremely nervous because he wants it to

7:22

be true so badly. And I think

7:24

that this is very sweet and it

7:27

made me a little emotional. She also

7:29

tells him to stay put because Tyson's

7:31

job of finding him will be made

7:33

easier and I'm thinking, okay, Tyson, Cyclops,

7:35

and Poseidon, maybe it's because Percy's close

7:37

to a coast, perhaps that's why he's

7:39

the closest and it does make me

7:42

think that. if they do go on

7:44

this quest which I feel like at

7:46

this point when I was reading that

7:48

they're gonna do I don't see Percy

7:50

being like later dudes and just chilling

7:52

back and then every third narration cycle

7:54

is him being like so I was

7:57

a camp just waiting for Tyson so

7:59

if they're going to Alaska Alaska's got

8:01

lot of water around it. I feel

8:03

like Tyson's probably traveling by water, so

8:05

I think it'll be okay. And my

8:07

prediction here, another bull just like swing,

8:09

is I feel like Tyson will join

8:12

in Alaska at like a climactic battle

8:14

moment when it appears that all hope

8:16

is lost. They're fighting this big bad

8:18

who we come to learn over the

8:20

course of these two chapters and it's

8:22

not going well. And then Tyson comes

8:24

in with a big old fist or

8:27

throw something. Like I just could see

8:29

that being the entrance of Tyson and

8:31

I think it would be very cool.

8:33

Awesome, no comment. The trap door intact.

8:35

We've got one across the pond and

8:37

it's still working, but it's not activated.

8:39

So then Percy sees a vision that

8:41

is vaguely described by the narrator, but

8:44

it is definitely Leo building the Argo

8:46

2. So glad to know that that

8:48

is progressing. And then he sees an

8:50

image that is definitely a flashback of

8:52

Percy's fight with Ares from the Lightning

8:54

Thief. And then he has a vision

8:56

of Gia, where he's seeing her face

8:59

in the field of Mars. And then

9:01

she and her sleepy voice creepiness goes,

9:03

quote, so this is the demigod who

9:05

destroyed my son Cronos. You don't look

9:07

like much, Percy Jackson, but you're valuable

9:09

to me. Come north, meet Alcyonus, do

9:11

you know how to pronounce this one?

9:14

I really don't. I was something you

9:16

did. more common thing people would say

9:18

is like Alcyonius but if that's the

9:20

Roman name like I'm so used to

9:22

taking line in high school and sees

9:24

or hard C's at least what my

9:26

Latin professors told me is that you

9:29

would say like Alkyonius but I can

9:31

ask Dr. Moyus and people can correct

9:33

me. Let's just see if Google has

9:35

the thing sometimes they've the answer Alcyonius

9:37

question. Mark. Pronunciation. All right, it's like

9:39

one of those how-to-pronounce, and I never

9:41

trust those. This one's rated four out

9:44

of five, though. Let's see. Let's see

9:46

what it says. They're saying Alcyonius. I'm

9:48

guessing that would be the accepted thing,

9:50

but I'll figure it out. So we'll

9:52

call him Alcyonius for this. episode and

9:54

we'll see how it goes in the

9:56

future. Gia continues. Juno can play her

9:58

little games with Greeks and Romans but

10:01

in the end you will be my

10:03

pawn, you'll be the key to the

10:05

gods defeat and I'm thinking yeah right

10:07

loser this is now what Percy's gonna

10:09

do. I couldn't think of like an

10:11

exact example but this does feel like

10:13

this is sometimes a classic villain thing

10:16

where they intentionally try to bring the

10:18

hero along. in hopes that they will

10:20

turn, but then actually brings the hero

10:22

closer to defeating them. I couldn't remember

10:24

if this was something from a different

10:26

media or was I just thinking of

10:28

them like kind of doing this with

10:31

Jason? Yeah. Knowing someone in thinking they're

10:33

going to turn your side and of

10:35

course they won't. Yeah, yeah, I think

10:37

that's a thing. It feels like a

10:39

thing. I don't know if there's like

10:41

a name for it, but whatever it

10:43

is, I think that's going to happen.

10:46

Yeah. Now the dream shifts to where

10:48

Percy is in a larger version of

10:50

Camp Jupiter's Principia and this one is

10:52

a snowy version The floor is littered

10:54

with skeletons of Roman fighters and their

10:56

imperial gold weapons and sitting across the

10:58

room is a large shadowy figure with

11:01

golden silver skin like he's an automaton

11:03

like Rayna's dogs, and I have to

11:05

be honest This is the first time

11:07

that I really recognized that the dogs

11:09

are like fully robot dogs and not

11:11

just like a dog made of silver

11:13

and a dog of gold. Like I

11:15

was imagining like the silver surfer but

11:18

a dog and then I guess the

11:20

gold surfer but a dog and then

11:22

when they said our tomatana I was

11:24

like yeah that makes way more sense.

11:26

But it is quite strange. and awesome.

11:28

Yeah, we've not seen this before. No,

11:30

I don't know. And I don't think

11:33

that this guy is a robot. I

11:35

think he just has Metallixian. So maybe

11:37

he is more like the silver surfer,

11:39

like I was imagining the dog. I'm

11:41

intrigued to know more about him. And

11:43

I'm especially treat to know more about

11:45

him as we do learn a little

11:48

bit more about him in the chapters

11:50

because I feel like his description. metallic.

11:52

We can get into it when it's

11:54

described, but like, even this vibe, and

11:56

I don't know if the vibe is

11:58

because it's Alaska or because of him,

12:00

I don't know if they end up

12:03

even saying his powers, but like, just

12:05

in general, like, metal guy being in

12:07

Ice Town doesn't feel like, yeah, that

12:09

makes sense. So, I don't know. Now

12:11

behind him are a bunch of ruined

12:13

emblems, tattered banners, and a large golden

12:15

eagle on an iron staff. So this

12:18

is the guy we're after, he's got

12:20

the thing we're after, and we're learning

12:22

right away. This is basically the mini

12:24

boss of this book. He feels like

12:26

this book's version of, I guess, the

12:28

last book had... two because you've got

12:30

enchiladas and then also porphyryon. So I

12:32

guess he feels like this book's porphyryon

12:35

in that he is the giant. It

12:37

just seems like this is the guy

12:39

we're fighting in chapter 52 out of

12:41

58 or whatever. Now this giant bellows,

12:43

this will be fun son of Neptune.

12:45

It's been eon since I broke a

12:47

demigod of your caliber. I await you

12:50

atop the ice. So I'm guessing at

12:52

this point. Okay, this feels like Alcyonius.

12:54

Excited about this because now this is

12:56

the second giant who's like talking trash

12:58

excited to fight. Yes, I think they're

13:00

very compelling villains because they're just supremely

13:02

confident. We had this with Porphyria and

13:05

we have this now with Alcyonius. I

13:07

think it's going to be really fun

13:09

fighting these guys for the next three

13:11

and two thirds books. Percy wakes up

13:13

shivering, which is different than his trademark

13:15

thing where normally it says Percy woke

13:17

up upright. So a slight different Percy

13:20

waking effect. And the most figuratively chilling

13:22

part of the dream is not the

13:24

golden giant that he saw, but it's

13:26

the dirt woman calling him a pawn.

13:28

And narrative Percy about this says, quote,

13:30

Percy didn't play chess, but he was

13:32

pretty sure that being a pawn was

13:35

bad. They died a lot. And as

13:37

someone that plays a lot of chess,

13:39

you are correct, but also Percy, pawns

13:41

can turn into queens can turn into

13:43

queens when they get to the other

13:45

side of the other side of the

13:47

other side of the other side of

13:49

the other side of the other side

13:52

of the board. So... If she thinks

13:54

you are her pawn and then you

13:56

get all the way, then you become

13:58

the queen, then you destroy her. I

14:00

like that. That's really good. What a

14:02

great metaphor. Look, I do what I can

14:04

and I was literally playing chess in between reading

14:07

this chapter online. I love playing some online chess

14:09

and I was happy to do it and it

14:11

was funny that it came up. because I was

14:13

playing chess before reading this and then I was

14:15

like, and then of course I had to check

14:17

the games that I was playing. Because I've these

14:20

like long daily games going with my friends who

14:22

are way better than me at chess. So I

14:24

like pretty much always lose now when I'm playing

14:26

chess. But if I'm ever like close to beating

14:28

my friends who are really good, I'm like, oh

14:30

nice cool. That's awesome. I suck at chess, but

14:33

I think playing with better people must be

14:35

good for kind of kind of... developing. Definitely,

14:37

because you're always like playing to the

14:39

skill above you. And I feel like

14:41

I did this with sports, like when I'd

14:43

played tennis, like I would always play

14:45

up if I was playing someone better than

14:47

me and you kind of like sick

14:49

and guess yourself and play down, you

14:51

get nervous and cautious if you're playing someone

14:54

that you're playing down, you get nervous

14:56

and cautious if you're playing someone that

14:58

you get nervous and cautious if you're playing

15:00

someone, you're playing down, you get nervous

15:02

and cautious if you're playing a day,

15:04

or the course of... COVID lockdown like April

15:06

2020 to April 2021. I played, I did

15:08

the puzzles every single day and raised my

15:11

puzzle rating. I think they start you at

15:13

like either 500 or 1,000 and then I

15:15

got myself up to 2,000. And it's a

15:17

great way to learn. And there's a lot

15:20

of learning tools on chess.com. So if you

15:22

want to get into it, I'd recommend it,

15:24

but also you can do other things with

15:26

your time. Anyway, Bursie is even a bit

15:29

worried about some of the quote-unquote nicer parts

15:31

of his dreams, like that g-man fellow that

15:33

he saw. He wonders if that is the

15:35

person that's on the other end of his

15:38

empathy link. So, Pursie is doing a pretty

15:40

good job of piecing together the new information

15:42

that he's learning with the tiny little bits

15:45

of memory that still remain. He's very on

15:47

top of it. Yeah, I feel like he's

15:49

kind of making... Progress a little

15:51

bit faster than Jason did. He's doing

15:53

a lot better than Jason and I

15:55

don't know if it is because of

15:57

Percy individually or if it's because Hera

16:00

left more things in there or if it's

16:02

just because we know Percy and writing wise.

16:04

Yeah because like I think that's an interesting

16:06

thing is I wonder if even if I

16:09

reread the Lost Hero now or if I

16:11

reread the Lost Hero at the end of

16:13

these five books when I know more about

16:15

Jason I wonder if Me reading it more

16:17

of those hints I would be doing more

16:20

of the like oh because I feel like

16:22

anytime anything happens here With Percy we're like

16:24

oh, but yeah, we know five books worth

16:26

of information about Percy Jackson So anytime the

16:29

exact like the slightest thing is mentioned like

16:31

I don't know it could even be a

16:33

thing where Percy was like getting food at

16:35

the cafeteria and it was like there was

16:38

a bunch of jello and Percy picked the

16:40

blue one for some reason he wanted the

16:42

blue jello and we're all like oh I

16:44

guess he did have the Coke right the

16:46

Coke was blue at the cafeteria here and

16:49

he was like I don't know why I

16:51

like this but I like this yeah it's

16:53

such a minor thing that doesn't mean anything

16:55

but us reading a world like oh my

16:58

god the thing so maybe it's just because

17:00

we know more but I agree with you

17:02

my first instinct was like wow he's way

17:04

better at this than Jason Now, Percy's also

17:07

curious about this Tyson fellow and the fact

17:09

that Annabeth was insistent on him not changing

17:11

locations. So, Percy Awaken now sees Dakota putting

17:13

on a toga and other people rushing around

17:15

to get ready. Percy asks, hoping that the

17:18

answer is yes. If... Breakfast time is upon

17:20

them and Frank who's in the bunk underneath

17:22

Percy which makes me very happy that they

17:24

are a bunk bed duo. I thought it

17:27

was so great. Yeah, that's awesome. Although Frank

17:29

has the worst bunk clearly. Oh, you're a

17:31

top bunk person. For sure. Are you not?

17:33

No, I like bottom bunk because I like

17:36

when I sleep I get hot very easily

17:38

and I feel like being lowered to the

17:40

ground is cooler. Why do you prefer a

17:42

top bunk? I just... don't like the idea

17:44

of someone being above you. I don't know.

17:47

Safety risk. But then you all, I guess

17:49

you're at a falling risk, are you not?

17:51

You don't really fall there, do you, when

17:53

you get to use the ladder? So much

17:56

more fun. I think they're frozen cons. I

17:58

like bottom because it's cooler. You do get

18:00

a bit of a noise concern, where like

18:02

if the person above you like moves a...

18:05

in their sleep, you get the classic like,

18:07

quick, quick, quick, quick, quick. So, yeah, I've

18:09

never thought about being the risk of the

18:11

bed just like falling down on you, and

18:13

now I will forever worry about that if

18:16

I sleep in a bottom book. But as

18:18

a 32-year-old man, I'm not doing a lot

18:20

of bunk bed sleeping these days. No, me

18:22

neither really. It doesn't come up that much.

18:25

So Frank informs Percy that they will have

18:27

a quick breakfast followed by a Senate meeting,

18:29

and I remember a right. Mars told them

18:31

you got to have a meeting to figure

18:34

out who's going on this quest. Percy asks

18:36

if he should wear his bedsheets and Frank

18:38

chuckles and relays that Togas are only for

18:40

the senators, of which there are 10 who

18:42

are elected yearly and all of them must

18:45

be at least five year veterans of the

18:47

camp. Percy asks, okay, then why are we

18:49

invited to the meeting? And Franco's, uh, because

18:51

of the quest? And he then continues to

18:54

describe it in a tone like he's worried

18:56

that Percy might back out. But he says

18:58

that Percy and Hazel should attend, quote, I

19:00

mean, if you're willing, dot, dot, dot. And

19:02

Percy doesn't think that this is an intentional

19:05

guilt trip, but he does feel bad for

19:07

Frank, and he feels like he's in a

19:09

tough situation. He was claimed by the God

19:11

of war, which he didn't want, and he's

19:14

being thrust into this. And I just had

19:16

a quick question. I wrote my nose. Why

19:18

is Hazel there? Just because she's in contention,

19:20

Mars didn't say that she had to be

19:23

one of the three. Frank didn't say anything

19:25

about picking her, right? I had the same

19:27

point, and I was going to ask you

19:29

at the beginning of the chapter, who you

19:31

understood was on the chapter, who you understood

19:34

was on the quest, because I thought it

19:36

was clear that Frank is on the quest,

19:38

Percy's on the quest, but there's one more

19:40

spot, and we know that they're close. He

19:43

didn't pick Hazel. yet. Like I guess it's

19:45

just understood by everyone or maybe there was

19:47

like a slight time jump because we did

19:49

go straight from Mars saying do the quest

19:52

to Percy is a sleeping so I guess

19:54

there was a whole couple of hours in

19:56

between but yeah I was very confused I

19:58

didn't think that he actually chose Hazel so

20:00

I'm glad that you had a similar confusion.

20:03

Absolutely. were all just supposed to believe it,

20:05

but I was thinking that they were going

20:07

to get to the Senate meeting and that

20:09

he was going to want to pick Hazel

20:12

and it was going to be more of

20:14

a dramatic discussion. There's other drama that comes

20:16

up instead, but I was fully anticipating that

20:18

going into this meeting. So when they kind

20:21

of fast-forwarded it to be like, oh yeah,

20:23

he's already picked Hazel. I was like, whoa,

20:25

wait, hold on, has he? Did I miss

20:27

this? I'm reading the same book, right? I

20:29

thought other people are going to put themselves

20:32

forward, it's going to be like a whole

20:34

thing. Yeah, Octavian's going to make a big

20:36

deal, like I thought that was going to

20:38

be a thing of everyone trying to get

20:41

up there, but okay, so he's picked Hazel,

20:43

I was confused, glad we're on the same

20:45

page. Percy is feeling good about how well

20:47

the three of them worked together as a

20:50

team. Percy is feeling good about how the

20:52

three of them worked together as a team.

20:54

Dream Visitors also said, stay put multiple times,

20:56

every time using the phrasing of stay put.

20:58

And that means that much like Natalie and

21:01

Bruglia, he's torn. So he doesn't know. Okay,

21:03

I'm glad. This is one of those like,

21:05

I love that song. This is one of

21:07

those like, I love that song, I love

21:10

that song, but I don't know if anyone

21:12

knows the artist of it, because was she

21:14

only have wonder. I don't. Percy gets ready

21:16

the whole time he's thinking about Annabeth and

21:19

how if he just stayed here he could

21:21

get his old life back so he is

21:23

clearly flip-flopping like a pancake good thing he's

21:25

at breakfast so he's at breakfast and then

21:27

he hears everyone mumbling around him and much

21:30

like to-pock all eyes are on him he

21:32

overhears quote two gods in one day and

21:34

then he hears someone else say un-Roman fighting

21:36

and then he hears a third go water

21:39

cannon up my nose I love this guy.

21:41

There are some great one-liners in this chapter.

21:43

This chapter has a lot of good one-liners,

21:45

but yes, Water Up My Nose Guy, very

21:48

fun. I love a rule of thirds joke

21:50

from Uncle Rick. This felt like Rick wrote

21:52

this chapter after taking an improv class, and

21:54

I will get into the fundamentals of it

21:56

as it continues. But yes, this initial line

21:59

was very funny. So narrative Percy

22:01

then says quote he was too hungry

22:03

to care He filled up on pancakes

22:05

eggs bacon waffles apples and several glasses

22:07

of orange juice He probably would have

22:09

eaten more But Reina announced that the

22:11

Senate would now convene in the city

22:13

and all the folks in Togas got

22:15

up to leave and I've never related

22:18

more if anyone's ever seen me at

22:20

a breakfast buffet You know I will

22:22

eat until something makes me stop eating

22:24

whether that's the buffet is closed or

22:26

we need to leave I can put

22:28

down some serious food when it comes

22:30

to breakfast when it comes to breakfast

22:32

especially if it's free serious food when

22:34

Oh my good golly gosh. This is

22:36

a great breakfast list. Yes, okay. I

22:38

mean, I was going to say, this

22:40

is very like American breakfast. Were you

22:42

upset that there was no... beans and

22:44

black pudding and roasted tomatoes. Oh, you're

22:47

not a black pudding fan. Oh, I'm

22:49

a vegetarian. Oh, okay. I can get

22:51

on board with the general idea of

22:53

bacon at breakfast. I just think it's

22:55

very wholesome to see him eating all

22:57

the cool stuff. Yeah. When you are

22:59

reading this, as a Brit, did you

23:01

feel like, oh, because if like if

23:03

there was a book where they were

23:05

in London and it was like, he

23:07

had beans and toast, I would have

23:09

been like, oh, so classic, The apples,

23:11

I was a bit like, yes, let

23:13

me healthy, that's nice. It is, I

23:16

guess. And I'm not, maybe this is

23:18

me, maybe I'm like slightly allergic to

23:20

apples and I don't recognize it, but

23:22

I feel like apples, if I eat

23:24

them in the morning, it doesn't sit

23:26

well in my stomach. This also happens

23:28

if I drink apple juice just like

23:30

straight up. That also could be because

23:32

apple juice has loads of sugar in

23:34

it and maybe that's just like my

23:36

stomach being like no thank you but

23:38

apples at breakfast to me I thought

23:40

was interesting to me it doesn't scream

23:43

like a Brexit food more traditional but

23:45

I guess he has a glass of

23:47

orange juice I would think would be

23:49

like oranges it seems breakfasty like melon

23:51

of sorts like cantillope or cantillope less

23:53

cool little sister honeydew even grapes but

23:55

apples at the thing that you grab

23:57

to go from the breakfast buffet after

23:59

breakfast is ended. But I guess if

24:01

you are to continental breakfast, the most

24:03

common things are apples and oranges and

24:05

bananas. But I just feel like that's

24:07

because they're the most. travel-friendly fruit to

24:09

bring, because you can just eat it

24:12

with one hand and then toss away

24:14

the core? Yeah. Okay, we're aligned. When

24:16

I saw apples, I was like, apples,

24:18

hmm. I feel like he's just grabbing

24:20

everything he can. Smart, a smart play.

24:22

Now, Vitalius pops up near our team

24:24

and says, Bonafortuna, you three! Ah, Senate

24:26

meetings. I remember the one when Caesar

24:28

was assassinated. Why, the amount of blood

24:30

on his toga, I'm all in on

24:32

Vitalius. He's just this book. He's just

24:34

this book. Good, okay. He's just this

24:36

book. He's just this book's Coach Hedge.

24:38

But I love Coach Hedge, and I'm

24:41

all in on Vital. about this meeting.

24:43

It's so fine. I love Vitalius. I

24:45

need Vitalius and Coach Hedge to meet.

24:47

Oh my goodness, it would be so

24:49

wonderful. I am missing Coach Hedge. That's

24:51

another thing is Vitalius is making me

24:53

feel okay in that we're getting Coach

24:55

Hedge vibes and same thing, I'm missing

24:57

Coach Hedge as well. Brana and Octavian

24:59

lead the group of senators, they lead

25:01

our team, and also Niko Diangelo to

25:03

this meeting. So Niko is still finding

25:05

a way to show up. Niko is

25:07

wearing a black toga because of course,

25:10

and he's chatting with Gwen, who narrative

25:12

Percy describes as, quote, looked a little

25:14

pale, but surprisingly good, considering she'd been

25:16

dead the night before. Uncle Rick

25:18

is absolutely in his bag when Percy's the

25:20

narrator. Like he's just cooking with gas when

25:22

Percy narrates. He really isn't. It feels kind

25:25

of great to have Percy back. It's just,

25:27

it's great, it's great, it's very good. Yeah,

25:29

I think this is a common thing among

25:31

people reading these books, especially people like me,

25:33

you, and my friend Stephen, who are all

25:36

reading these now and reading them older, where

25:38

I was reading. Percy chapters again and this

25:40

is how I feel too and I think

25:42

it makes sense because when I was reading

25:44

the Lost Hero I was like what's wrong

25:47

with the Lost Hero guys this book is

25:49

fun it's great and now I'm reading this

25:51

book and I'm like okay yeah like this

25:53

is not to diss the Lost Hero but

25:55

like This is way better. It's just a

25:58

bit extra, isn't it? Just a little bit

26:00

more. And like sure, it's the nostalgia kick

26:02

of it, but just, yeah, Rick is just...

26:04

So good when Percy's the narrator, and it

26:06

makes me really excited to get to, and

26:09

maybe there's not one, but it makes me

26:11

excited for if there will be a future

26:13

Percy is only the narrator book, I don't

26:15

know if that would be Trials of Apollo,

26:17

I don't know if that would be Trials

26:20

of Apollo, I don't know if that would

26:22

be these new books, the new trilogy that

26:24

they're writing with Chalice of the Gods, that

26:26

I believe takes place between, here's Olympus of

26:28

Apollo, and I'm not sure, no one tell

26:31

me, no one tell me, I don't, I

26:33

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

26:35

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

26:37

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

26:39

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

26:42

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

26:44

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

26:46

Whenever there's another book where it's just Percy

26:48

narrating, I'll be very happy. Not that I

26:50

don't like the other narrators, but I just

26:53

feel like after doing five books of it,

26:55

Rick knows exactly how to be amazing as

26:57

Percy as the narrator. It's just so fun.

26:59

He's just so fun. Nico waves at Percy

27:01

and then resumes his conversation, making Percy feel

27:04

almost a hundred percent certain that Nico is

27:06

avoiding him. What is with Nico? I know,

27:08

gosh, it's such a mystery, I love it,

27:10

it's so fun. Now many senators are fidgeting

27:12

with their togas, making Percy feel glad that

27:15

he's in his, quote, normal purple shirt and

27:17

jeans, and it just feels so wrong. It

27:19

just feels so wrong for him to be

27:21

in the different colors, sure. Percy asks how

27:23

ancient Romans could move in Togas. Hazel explains

27:26

that they were only for formal events. They're

27:28

kind of like tuxedos. And then Hazel checks

27:30

to make sure that Percy didn't bring any

27:32

weapons. And Percy, who was incapable of not

27:34

having a weapon in his pocket at all

27:37

times, asks, uh, why are we not supposed

27:39

to? So many, so many. She says that

27:41

weapons are forbidden past the... Hommerian line, which

27:43

of course, auto-correct on my notes I've tried

27:45

to change to the Pomeranian line. That's exactly

27:48

what I read the first time. I was

27:50

like, what? It's a bunch of expensive rearbred

27:52

dogs. Thankfully, Percy immediately asks, what's that? And

27:54

Frank answers that it is the city limits,

27:56

and it's a safe zone where legions cannot

27:59

pass. No weapons can go past, so that

28:01

meetings don't get bloody. And Percy's, oh, like

28:03

Caesar's assassination. happened in months. And Percy hopes

28:05

that's a joke. And I'm wondering, is it

28:07

a joke? Because he didn't tell us the

28:10

tone. So it could be Frank making a

28:12

very funny joke if it's a joke. Or

28:14

it could be Frank saying something that is

28:16

very unintentionally scary. Yep, just straight up, could

28:18

be. Mm-hmm. Now as they approach the city,

28:21

Percy appreciates its beauty and then Percy can

28:23

tell that they've reached the city limits as

28:25

everyone slows down near a marble statue of

28:27

a muscular man with curly hair, no arms,

28:29

in a grumpy expression. He's just a bust.

28:32

And he orders the campers to form a

28:34

single file line and present their IDs. And

28:36

I'm thinking, oh no, we're back at the

28:38

TSA pre-check vibes of Easy Death from the

28:40

Under the Under the City. all around its

28:43

border and the IDs are the tattoos. We

28:45

learn also from just a description of narrator

28:47

Percy that cohort three has a senator named

28:49

Hank who is apparently wearing cool shoes because

28:51

this statue compliments his cool shoes. The statute

28:54

then stops Percy, hazel addresses him as terminus

28:56

and introduces him to Percy and Percy to

28:58

him, identifying him as the god of boundaries.

29:00

And that would make sense, especially given the

29:02

name Terminus. We can all guess exactly what

29:05

that kind of means, the end, the boundary.

29:07

And he is okay with Percy's probatio necklace

29:09

as an ID, but he is not okay

29:11

with the weapon in his pocket. So I'm

29:13

wondering, okay, what's going to happen? Like, is

29:16

it going to vanish out of vanish out

29:18

of there? And is going to be a

29:20

whole dramatic out of a whole dramatic situation?

29:22

But Terminus tells Percy to leave it on

29:24

a tray and calls over his assistant. A

29:27

six-year-old girl named Julia! I love Julia! She's

29:29

my new favorite character in the whole series.

29:31

She plays a hiding game with Terminus where

29:33

she stands behind him and stuff out of

29:35

his peripheral vision. adorable. Then she holds out

29:38

a tray that has knives, a corkscrew, an

29:40

oversized container of suntan lotion, and a water

29:42

bottle. So yes, this is a TSA pre-check,

29:44

airport security joke from Rick Ryorded. I love

29:46

it! Terminus says that Julia is a professional,

29:49

so no need for Percy to worry. He

29:51

can get his weapon on the way out,

29:53

and I'm thinking again, is it going to

29:55

stay? And Julia sounds out the word professional,

29:57

like she's been learning it at practice? Look

30:00

at you, she's so cute. And this is

30:02

especially tugged at my heartstrings because I am

30:04

now the proud father of an adorable little

30:06

baby girl. And we recently took her on

30:08

a little Halloween adventure. We're recording this on

30:11

November 1st. And we took her on a

30:13

little pumpkin patch Halloween adventure in the city

30:15

of New York. And it was so fun

30:17

and cute. And she got a pumpkin, which

30:19

of course she tried to eat. But the

30:22

pumpkin is as big as her heads. That

30:24

didn't work out. It was very fun and

30:26

adorable. So to then go home that night

30:28

and read about a tiny little six year

30:30

old girl, I can't wait till she's six.

30:33

And she plays hide and seek with me.

30:35

Oh, so cute. So then this guy lays

30:37

down some rules for Percy. And I just

30:39

wrote, I like this guy, like he's fun,

30:41

he's to the point, he's not being like

30:44

overly grouchy or anything. He then tries to

30:46

point something out to Percy. And Percy has

30:48

to remind Terminus, I can't see where you're

30:50

pointing. You have no hands. And he then

30:52

gets a little upset and responds, a smart

30:55

ally, eh? Well, Mr. Rule Flower, right down

30:57

there in the forum, truly a point for

30:59

me, please. And after this, I was like,

31:01

I like this guy a lot. He's cool.

31:03

He's really fun. I'm a big fan of

31:06

Terminus. she points to the general store and

31:08

terminus explains that Percy needs to get a

31:10

tape measure so that he can make his

31:12

pants one inch above his ankles which fashion

31:14

wise do not do that that is too

31:17

high depending on the type of pants you

31:19

want to usually have it like meet your

31:21

ankles an inch above that is a wild

31:23

look unless you're rocking like cropped pants like

31:25

an intentionally like short and baggy sort of

31:28

look like Gen Z folks enjoy these days

31:30

but Inch above your ankle, I was just

31:32

from a fashion perspective, I was appalled. Too

31:34

high. Hazel, much like Frank talking to Vitali,

31:36

goes, thank you terminus, we need to get

31:39

going. And they're just going to ignore this

31:41

guy, which feels good since he has no

31:43

idea how to properly tailor pants. He lets

31:45

them pass but he calls out for Hazel

31:47

to only walk on the right side of

31:50

the road and to move a rock too

31:52

much just to the left because it's out

31:54

of place. Hazel does. Prisey asks if this

31:56

guy's always like this and she says no

31:58

because he's normally more obsessive compulsive. And I

32:01

will be honest, I do not know much

32:03

about... obsessive compulsive tendencies, OCD, I don't know

32:05

that, so I don't know if these are

32:07

like legit things. I know OCD usually gets

32:09

misrepresented in media, like I think the stereotypical

32:12

thing is that it's like the whole like,

32:14

oh I gotta you know, touch my pockets

32:16

three times before I leave a room, and

32:18

I just personally have like never met someone

32:20

with an actual case of OCD or learned

32:23

about it, so for me I need to

32:25

learn more if people want to email in,

32:27

I'm happy to learn more, or I'm happy

32:29

to learn more. I've known a couple of

32:31

people with, I think everybody's different and I

32:34

don't know an enormous about, I felt in

32:36

a way that this was a little bit

32:38

of a sort of slightly of its time

32:40

portrayal of sort of somebody just being very

32:42

finicity about certain things, but also I think

32:45

in a way we've sort of got past

32:47

that a little bit with portrayals of OCD,

32:49

but also this is a finiccady guy who

32:51

is very strict about things and... I feel

32:53

like I saw what they're reacting to. Right,

32:56

I was reading this and I was wondering

32:58

the same thing. Is this a dated sort

33:00

of thing of like this guy's just particular

33:02

as opposed to OCD? Just the classic thing

33:04

like I feel like all of the people

33:07

our parents age love to just say like

33:09

oh I'm so OCD because I put the

33:11

silverware in the drawer. It's like no that's

33:13

where the silverware goes. So yeah, anyone who

33:15

knows more about this, feel free to shoot

33:18

an email to the T&O Gmail. Because I

33:20

would love to the T&O Gmail to the

33:22

T&O Gmail. Terminus inhabits each boundary stone around

33:24

the city. He's the last line of defense.

33:26

And Hazel says that he's not so bad,

33:29

but he recommends staying on his good side,

33:31

otherwise he'll punish you by making you measure

33:33

blades of grass, which does not feel like

33:35

a fun punishment. Percy asks about Julia, hazel

33:37

smiles and calls her acuity, which is accurate,

33:40

and she explains that her parents live in

33:42

the city. And I'm just imagining, I don't

33:44

know if you play Baldur's Gate 3, but

33:46

I'm just imagining Arabella from Baldur's Gate 3.

33:48

She's this tiny little girl who you have

33:51

to like save along and has like some

33:53

powers and stuff. And I'm just imagining her

33:55

as Julia. She's got horns. So she's like

33:57

a hornless version of Arabellas what's what's in

33:59

my brain. So they get. near the forum

34:02

and Percy is shocked to see so many

34:04

people including college-aged kids, older couples, babies and

34:06

in general just normal city hustle and bustle.

34:08

Percy checks that everyone here is a demigod

34:10

and he says that yes they are either demigods

34:13

or the descendants of demigods and repeats that this

34:15

is a good place to safely raise a family

34:17

and I think this is a really fun addition

34:19

to the lore. I think it just makes an

34:21

interesting wrinkle for our characters and it's just this

34:24

new thing of you know do they keep. fighting

34:26

off monsters in the world, or do they kind

34:28

of take, not necessarily the easy way out, but

34:30

like the safe route of do we just kind

34:33

of stay here in this city and chill? It's

34:35

a fun thing for our characters to process as

34:37

they get older. I think it's such an interesting

34:39

development in this book because I

34:42

feel like in the Percy Jackson books

34:44

first time out, it was kind of

34:46

more of a demigos don't actually grow

34:48

up that often vibes, so they don't

34:50

really have to plan futures and having

34:52

this sort of fantasy of fantasy of

34:54

him and Annabeth. hanging out and having

34:56

a nice relatively peaceful life is a

34:58

sort of interesting thing to be dangled

35:00

as a possibility at this point. Right.

35:02

I also think it can be a

35:04

fun metaphor for kids reading these books

35:06

of how it can be scary to

35:08

go out into the world, whether that's

35:10

scary to go out into the world,

35:12

whether that's after high school, and you're

35:14

going to go out into the world,

35:17

whether that's after high school, and you're

35:19

going to a nice little, and try

35:21

out new adventures, which I would recommend

35:23

to people, because I think just getting

35:25

out and traveling and learning more about

35:27

the world and other people is awesome.

35:29

But you know, teach their own, but it at least brings this

35:31

sort of metaphor in for kids reading, like, you can have this

35:33

sort of life and you can have this other sort of life

35:35

and you can have this other sort of life. And I'm intrigued

35:38

to see as the people in these books get older, like, is

35:40

it going to come up in trials of Apollo? Like, is it's

35:42

going to be some sort of a sort of person and if

35:44

person and I mean and I mean and I'm trying to try

35:46

to try to figure out? Interesting. So Hazel

35:48

adds that two to three hundred people live

35:51

here and serve as advisors and army reserves

35:53

if need be, but mostly they just live

35:55

their lives. Now of course Percy wonders about

35:57

a future here with Hanabeth. A child includes...

36:00

But he snaps out of it

36:02

because he knows this place isn't

36:04

where he truly belongs. He's also

36:06

worried about the impending attack that

36:08

Juno mentioned, especially he is worried

36:10

that Gia will be involved in

36:12

this. He thinks of Mars' warning,

36:14

that failing the quest means the

36:16

quest means the warning, that failing

36:18

the quest means the quest means

36:21

the camp will be destroyed, and

36:23

this. He thinks of Mars' warning,

36:25

that failing the quest means the

36:27

camp will be destroyed, Hazel and

36:29

Frank inside. So here we go.

36:31

Ivory Title Chapter 13, Riptide doesn't

36:33

clear security. Oh, that's nice. I

36:35

like that very much. I said,

36:37

I push my luck with the

36:39

God of boundaries. Oh, fun. Yeah,

36:42

it's a very, it's a very

36:44

fun. I like the Riptide one.

36:46

So we're gonna take our break

36:48

here for The Son of Fortune,

36:50

and then we will return to

36:52

get into Chapter 14. Hello

36:56

and welcome to The Sun of Fortune from arguably

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the most ridiculous location I will ever do a

37:00

mid-roll break from ever. Yes, I've come to you

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37:04

I have a quite long flight that I'm on

37:06

and also that quite long flight was delayed by

37:09

many hours because of some snow in New York

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City. So I'm trying to finish up the episode

37:13

on the plane because now I'm going to land

37:15

really late at night and I want to get

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order to do that. We've had to record the

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video break here and then put it on the

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that it sounds like you're on the phone in

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up on the new celebrity and you're looking for

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some of the contents, you can listen to one

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of the other pockets and you listen to, listen

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to one of the other pockets that you make,

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you listen to one of the other pockets that

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you make, you, and you know, and you, and

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you know, and you know, and you know, and

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you know, and you, and you know, and you

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know, and you know, and you know, and you

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and you know, and you know, and you know,

39:00

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39:02

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39:04

and you know, and you know, and you know,

39:07

and you know, and cat litter and cat toys.

39:09

Some of them won't be read by me. Those

39:11

are inserted locally. I did confirm with my ad

39:13

people that we did get the gambling walker switched

39:15

on for whatever reason. It wasn't one of the

39:17

block categories. And that is funny with the books.

39:19

So I think all the sketchy stuff is now

39:22

officially blocked. But if you're a singer and picture,

39:24

you don't hear any of those in certain ads

39:26

anyway. But if you aren't, you might hear them

39:28

in your Friday's native native language. Do something? And

39:35

we're back. We're here Chapter 14, which

39:37

is also called Percy, but we will

39:39

re-title it. It opens with, quote, the

39:42

Senate House Interior looked like a high

39:44

school lecture hall. And I think we

39:46

found the least exciting opening line of

39:48

a Heroes of Olympus chapter. So many

39:50

good opening lines, but yeah. And then,

39:53

I get what they're doing, and this

39:55

is exactly where it picked up. But

39:57

like, nothing fun, no little joke at

39:59

all. We're just straight to business. Fine.

40:01

Now, it does paint the visual. The

40:04

visual. see like I could see very

40:06

clear in my mind the you know

40:08

the semicircle two-tiered sort of thing and

40:10

narrative Percy lets us know that one

40:13

seat has a small velvet package on

40:15

it and don't worry about check all

40:17

this package it will be addressed later.

40:19

The campers take the front row of

40:21

the semi circle veterans and folks from

40:24

the town and ghosts take the top

40:26

row and then we get this description

40:28

quote Octavian stood in front with a

40:30

beanie baby lion just in case anyone

40:32

needed to consult. Well should. Absolutely. I

40:35

think he's such a good baddy antagonist,

40:37

whatever he is, I hate him. I

40:39

hate him so much with his beanie

40:41

babies. Yes, he is perfectly written by

40:44

Rick Reardon just to be supremely hateable.

40:46

I think Rick is very good at

40:48

making you instantly like people we're supposed

40:50

to like and instantly hate people you're

40:52

supposed to hate. And I despise this

40:55

guy. I hate this guy more than

40:57

Luke. But at least look like kind

40:59

of had a point with his stuff

41:01

like he at least had some okay

41:03

ideas This dude just sucks like I'm

41:06

sure we'll learn his motivations later But

41:08

it seems like his motivations is I'm

41:10

a terrible person And I would love

41:12

to abuse power for selfish means and

41:15

that's really all it seems like we'll

41:17

get on but this chapter if you

41:19

didn't hate Octavian going into this chapter

41:21

the goal of chapter 14 is you

41:23

should hate this guy? So, Rayna gets

41:26

up and says that this is an

41:28

emergency meeting, and because it is, they're

41:30

not going to insist on formalities, and

41:32

this causes it goes to y'all, I

41:35

love formalities! And this guy, so good.

41:37

So good. She stares him down, superb.

41:39

She explains that they aren't here to

41:41

debate the quest, nor Frank's choice of

41:43

champions. And this is again where we're

41:46

made notes in all caps. Has he

41:48

officially picked hazel yet, or is it

41:50

just understood? or just rolling with it.

41:52

Hank, our guy who has... canonically cool

41:54

shoes is myth that all three people

41:57

going on the quest are from cohort

41:59

five says it's not fair then the

42:01

guy next to him says that it's

42:03

not a good idea because the fifth

42:06

cohort sucks and they'll screw it up

42:08

and then narrator Percy describes an awesome

42:10

situation quote Dakota got up so fast

42:12

he spilled cool aid from his flask

42:14

quote we were plenty good last night

42:17

when we whipped your polex Larry now

42:19

this is great on multiple fronts one

42:21

I love trash talk to defend someone's

42:23

honor like this is something I would

42:25

definitely do. It's something I did very

42:28

recently at the Yankees game. So I

42:30

went to the Yankees playing the World

42:32

Series. We tragically lost. No one talked

42:34

to me about it for a million

42:37

years. But one of the games at

42:39

Game 5 that I was at. There

42:41

was a situation where our pitcher was

42:43

pitching. One of the games at Game

42:45

5 that I was at, there was

42:48

a situation where our pitcher was pitching

42:50

in a high situation, and there was

42:52

a situation where our pitcher was pitching

42:54

on. because he had been performing poorly.

42:56

And I'm sitting here thinking, like, why

42:59

are you saying anything good or positive

43:01

about someone on the other team, implying

43:03

that our pitcher is not going to

43:05

strike him out? So then our pitcher

43:08

did strike him out. So I leaned

43:10

up and in that guy, he's here,

43:12

I said, dude, get out, let's go.

43:14

Because why are you saying, why are

43:16

you putting any negative energy towards our

43:19

team? What are you doing? We're all

43:21

rooting for the Yankees. So I'm the

43:23

Latin word for but. Oh, it's so

43:25

good. I actually did. Take Latin in

43:27

senior school, but I had never come

43:30

across this and I had to look

43:32

it up and it was great the

43:34

definition I will be fully honest I

43:36

also did not know this one I

43:39

did know from taking land in high

43:41

school some of the other words for

43:43

like naughty words like that glottium can

43:45

also mean something else and the word

43:47

for sheath like I knew that kind

43:50

of stuff and we would make those

43:52

jokes in high school and stuff but

43:54

we never knew po decks and I

43:56

did have to look it up it's

43:58

either the butt or other parts near

44:01

the butt Latin word and that just

44:03

made me very happy and it's just

44:05

so fun that like my entire career

44:07

had been coming to this moment where

44:10

after years and years of saying it

44:12

took London High School we're finally getting

44:14

to chapters where Latin is relevant and

44:16

we're all learning the Latin word for

44:18

but and it's just perfect and it's

44:21

just destiny really when you think about

44:23

it. on your poetics. On your poetics.

44:25

Rana comes to Code it down and

44:27

says that they should leave Larry's poetics

44:29

out of this. Great. Like, Rana doing

44:32

stuff like this. It's like, okay, so

44:34

she's like, she's kind of funny. Like,

44:36

yes, she's straight laced, but she's got

44:38

a little bit of a sense of

44:41

humor. I kind of, she's, she's straight

44:43

laced, but she's got a little bit

44:45

of a sense of humor. I kind

44:47

of, she's, she's, she's, she's got a

44:49

little bit, she's got a little bit,

44:52

she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's,

44:54

she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's,

44:56

she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's,

44:58

she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's, she's,

45:00

she's, she's, she since Frank is only

45:03

a probatio. And quests must be led

45:05

by a Santurion-ranked person or hire. And

45:07

Regano silences this ghost named Cato and

45:09

says in order to obey the wishes

45:12

of Mars Ultor, they must make some

45:14

adjustments. Like, Reina's great. She's adapting. She

45:16

is someone who understands that she's like

45:18

gotta run the ship. But she also

45:20

understands that. You gotta navigate the waves

45:23

of the ship and you gotta roll

45:25

with the punches and I think that's

45:27

good. She claps her hands and then

45:29

Octavian comes forward. He puts down his

45:31

knife and grabs the velvet package from

45:34

the chair. He calls Frank forward and

45:36

bestows upon him the mural crown and

45:38

I wrote, oh right, the mural crown.

45:40

It's a badge shaped like a laurel

45:43

wreath and I know that they told

45:45

us that shaped like a laurel wreath

45:47

and I know that they told us

45:49

that it was a metal but I

45:51

was still imagining he promotes rank two

45:54

centurion and he, Octavian, says that it

45:56

was the request of Rayna. So I'm

45:58

glad that Rayna did this. Now another

46:00

bet. comes along with this, it's a

46:02

bronze crescent. And I know that this

46:05

is probably just like the shape crescent,

46:07

but I'm imagining the food crescent. Like

46:09

I'm imagining that it is a bronze

46:11

crescent badge. I think that's very funny.

46:14

And it makes me want to make

46:16

like a tino pin of like a

46:18

bronze crescent for being a centurion. But

46:20

he's got this batch now, people are

46:22

very upset at this, and you hear

46:25

people yelling from the crowd, he's still

46:27

a probi! Impossible! And then third person

46:29

goes, watercanted up my nose! Yes! So

46:31

glad that watercanted up my nose guy

46:33

made it to the meeting. Still that.

46:36

Be still my improv comedy heart, Uncle

46:38

Rick with a callback in the rule

46:40

of threes! Oh, Rick! So good, so

46:42

good. Octavian silences the crowd and defends

46:45

Reina's choice because if the rules state

46:47

that a quest leader must be at

46:49

least a centurion or higher, and Marr

46:51

said that Frank must lead the quest,

46:53

then Frank has to be a centurion.

46:56

And this felt very much like when

46:58

I did geometry proofs. I don't know

47:00

if you guys do this in maths.

47:02

Thank you. I appreciate that very much.

47:04

I didn't want you to be confused.

47:07

But when we have geometry class, there's

47:09

a whole thing of proofs where you

47:11

prove things like the transitive property or

47:13

things like that where you just like

47:16

kind of have, it's basically like turning

47:18

down like, well, if A equals this

47:20

and B equals that, blah, blah, blah,

47:22

blah, thus, you know, this. And then

47:24

I think we would even write QED.

47:27

It was hard because I didn't take

47:29

straight up geometry my freshman year. I

47:31

did like a hybrid thing where the

47:33

first semester was algebra and then the

47:35

second semester was geometry so they like

47:38

really condensed it and I feel like

47:40

we did proofs but it wasn't like

47:42

as much as some of the classes

47:44

who did like just geometry for the

47:47

full year. My high school goofed and

47:49

they didn't place me in like the

47:51

highest level math course and I like

47:53

blew that math course out of the

47:55

water. out of my depth having dropped

47:58

maths at 14. Okay, well, some people

48:00

will understand what I'm talking about. But

48:02

don't worry, I love math. I'm not

48:04

all out here doing geometry on a

48:07

daily basis, but you know, narrative, Percy,

48:09

then says, quote, suddenly Percy understood what

48:11

an effective speaker Octavian was. He sounded

48:13

reasonable and supportive, but his expression was

48:15

pain. He carefully crafted his words to

48:18

put all the responsibility on Rana. Octavian

48:20

had been the one in charge, things

48:22

would have been done more sensibly. But

48:24

alas, he had no choice but to

48:26

support Rayna, because Octavian was a loyal

48:29

Roman soldier. And I wrote my notes,

48:31

this guy is dangerous. This is someone

48:33

you don't want to mess with. And

48:35

the next line in the book is,

48:38

quote, for the first time, Percy realized

48:40

this scrawny, funny looking scarecrow of a

48:42

kid might be a dangerous enemy. And

48:44

this keeps happening where my thoughts will

48:46

line up exactly with the narrators, the

48:49

narrators, the narrators. Well written by Rick,

48:51

it clearly paints the message of the

48:53

type of person this guy is. And

48:55

I'm glad that Percy recognizes that this

48:57

is someone who's very dangerous because of

49:00

his oration skills. Yeah, he's not just

49:02

malicious. He's super sneaky and it is

49:04

encouraging that Percy at least knows that

49:06

that's what we're up against. Right. And

49:09

it's a sneaky thing where, you know,

49:11

Percy is very perceptive and he can

49:13

see this, but other people might get

49:15

fooled. when you can't just say like

49:17

obviously this is lying like you you

49:20

obviously there's something more nefarious at foot

49:22

and maybe I'm feeling this because we're

49:24

recording this on November 1st and our

49:26

election over here is coming soon and

49:28

we certainly have politicians that like to

49:31

do these sorts of things and they

49:33

trick Unfortunately high numbers of people. I

49:35

am nervous as hell. It's so soon,

49:37

Mike, it's so soon. It's so soon.

49:40

And this episode comes out afterwards. So,

49:42

uh-oh, uh-oh. It's either a relief or

49:44

maybe podcasts are illegal now, because as

49:46

much as one party loves to say

49:48

they're all pro-free speech, they love trying

49:51

to shut down stuff. We'll see how-

49:53

That goes, future Mike doing the production

49:55

work on this, maybe you're like, ha

49:57

ha, yay. And also maybe you're like,

49:59

oh no. Maybe you've already moved to

50:02

Finland. Wouldn't be lying if I said,

50:04

Kelly and I have looked into New

50:06

Zealand immigration policy. Interesting. Well, I got

50:08

everything crossed for you guys. Anyway, Berzi

50:11

Jackson. Now Reina picks up on this

50:13

crap from Octavian 2 and she is

50:15

visibly upset in the face so thankfully

50:17

she understands that this guy sucks. She

50:19

goes on to explain that there is

50:22

an opening for Centurion quote as one

50:24

of our officers also a senator has

50:26

decided to step down. Now here's my

50:28

question. They're using a lot of these

50:30

words that feel a little bit interchangeable

50:33

such as Centurion officer and senator. Now,

50:35

I'm very confused about what the difference

50:37

is here, but Beth, you're from the

50:39

UK. Is this like England, Great Britain,

50:42

in the UK, where they all sound

50:44

similar, but they're not all the same?

50:46

What's going on here? What's going on

50:48

here? Um, I don't know. I feel

50:50

like the centurions seem to be like

50:53

each of the houses. They don't call

50:55

them houses? The cohorts. Right. The cohorts

50:57

each have two centurians. and I think

50:59

in the real romanness of at all

51:01

a centurion would be in charge of

51:04

a hundred people right but it's different

51:06

at the camp because the houses aren't

51:08

divided into hundreds they're divided into smaller

51:10

numbers and so on and then we've

51:13

got the Senate made up of senators

51:15

and I think they are ten people

51:17

who I don't know if they are

51:19

get centurines as well I feel like

51:21

they are very different things but I

51:24

don't know if at camp they are

51:26

able to hold both offices. Yeah okay

51:28

so I've just tried to Google Google

51:30

Google Google it. on the Ryodin wiki

51:32

and I'm trying to not look very

51:35

far at things, but it just does

51:37

say like from the little description and

51:39

I'm not going to click it because

51:41

I'm afraid I'll like open the actual

51:44

page and then it'll be like, oh,

51:46

you know, when Grover dies, you know,

51:48

so this says that Centurion is a

51:50

professional officer in the Roman army. They're

51:52

the Roman equivalent of head counselors at

51:55

Camp Halfblood and are able to act

51:57

as senators. Centurion and officer feel very

51:59

similar. I guess a senator would just

52:01

be anyone who's accepted at the Senate

52:03

meeting. So I guess like the ghosts

52:06

would be a senator, but not necessarily

52:08

a centurion. I don't know how you

52:10

would be an officer, but not a

52:12

centurion. Those feel like those might be?

52:15

interchangeable unless like there is an officer

52:17

type position before you are upgraded to

52:19

centurion. But if I had to guess,

52:21

I think centurion would be the highest

52:23

one. Like a centurion is the highest

52:26

of the officers and then a senator

52:28

is just anyone who is at the

52:30

Senate meetings? Yes, I think you're right

52:32

that maybe there is an in-between level

52:34

because they're saying it's strange for Frank

52:37

to have gone from. basically nothing to

52:39

centurion implying it can usually rise up

52:41

through something else. Yeah, so I guess

52:43

I would need an example of someone

52:46

at the camp who is an officer

52:48

but not a centurion. Yeah. And the

52:50

more we say the word centurion, I

52:52

don't know if I'm supposed to say

52:54

centurion or like centurion, like it's always

52:57

hard with how much do you ch-

52:59

the T and centurion and centurion? This

53:01

is one of those words like zone

53:03

where if you say it just sounds

53:05

like it doesn't exist anymore. It just

53:08

sounds like it doesn't exist. I feel

53:10

like in British English you do more

53:12

of the like ch for teas don't

53:14

you I'm trying to think of another

53:17

example of this. Oh like Tuesday don't

53:19

you guys say like Tuesday? Yeah and

53:21

I find it really weird that you

53:23

say Tuesday and when I narrate audio

53:25

books I am told to say Zeus.

53:28

Uh, we don't go that proper. That's

53:30

a very proper. We go more of

53:32

like Zeus, like it's Z-O-O-O-S, kind of,

53:34

but not Zeus sounds a bit rigid.

53:36

It's like Dr. Seuss, but with a

53:39

Z. Like that's kind of how we

53:41

more say it. Like no one calls

53:43

it like, oh yes, the places you

53:45

will go by Dr. Seuss. But yeah,

53:48

what a tune. Oh, like musical tunes?

53:50

Oh, you mean tunes? Oh, wait, okay,

53:52

wait, what are you saying, like, tunes?

53:54

What's a tune? Well, a song, a

53:56

tune. Oh, okay, but we would, yeah,

53:59

but we would say, tune. Oh, gosh.

54:01

Oh, I could... Would you? I would

54:03

say, like, a tune. I know, we

54:05

don't really throw the CH instead of

54:07

a T. I also, what's the thing,

54:10

you guys throw like F's instead of

54:12

T'H's, right? Like it'll be, I'm trying

54:14

to think like, I don't know if

54:16

we do that. This is becoming Beth

54:19

and Mike's international nightmare. I know, oh

54:21

I, but I could do this for

54:23

years. If I think of one, I'll

54:25

say it, but I feel like there's

54:27

a thing where you'll like. say Fs

54:30

in words that actually have T-Hs instead

54:32

of them. There are some UK accents

54:34

that don't really have T-H, my partner

54:36

David, famously can't really say T-Hs, so

54:39

even Beth becomes Beth. Oh Beth, yes,

54:41

that, okay, got it. I'm looking for

54:43

example, it's literally your name. So yeah,

54:45

like, they'll be like, oh Beth, yeah.

54:47

Oh. Oh my gosh. Anyway, this has

54:50

been language tangent town with Mike and

54:52

Beth, but anyway, Persie. So Reina reveals

54:54

that this is Gwen who is stepping

54:56

down. Gwen is going to retire into

54:58

the city and attend college after 10

55:01

years of service in the Legion and

55:03

Percy. And I as well just can't

55:05

blame her for this. Totally makes sense.

55:07

Rina says that she has the right

55:10

to replace officers as prior to her.

55:12

Yesterday was also pretty unusual, which is

55:14

a very good point from Reina. She

55:16

asks for Frank's ID. He gives his

55:18

probatio necklace over to Octavian, who asks

55:21

for his arm. He raises Frank's arm

55:23

up to the sky, and says we

55:25

accept Frank's son of the sky, and

55:27

says we accept Frank's son of Mars,

55:29

to the 12th, Legion, Fulminata, for his

55:32

first year of service. Do you pledge

55:34

your life to the Senate and people

55:36

of Rome? And Frank tries to say

55:38

I do, but he stumblesles this third

55:41

and repeats it. Great. I really, very

55:43

hard to this. An excellent answer. All

55:45

you have to do is say two

55:47

words and you mess him up. I

55:49

love Frank so much. He's great. I'm

55:52

big fan, big fan. The senators then

55:54

chant SBQR, fireplaces his arm, and Frank

55:56

gives a look of fear. but then

55:58

his new tattoo shows up and it

56:00

says SBQR, it's got an image of

56:03

cross spears and one stripe. Octavian says

56:05

that Frank can sit down and he

56:07

gives another, this wasn't my call, look

56:09

to the crowd and I especially don't

56:12

like Octavian because Octavian would be me.

56:14

if I were a piece of crap.

56:16

Because I can a thousand percent do

56:18

these sorts of things. And if I'm

56:20

in a situation where I'm upset, you're

56:23

gonna be like, I will do these

56:25

sorts of things where I have a

56:27

very expressive face, so I can very

56:29

much say one thing and say another

56:31

with my face, whether it's using tones,

56:34

I can use that. Like, if I

56:36

was a terrible person, I would be

56:38

Octavian. So I especially hate him because

56:40

I could see myself becoming this if

56:43

I was not good. This is Dark

56:45

Mike is Octavian. You have to use

56:47

your powers for good. I will, I

56:49

will, I promise. I'll use it for

56:51

talking about podcasts and stuff, not for

56:54

telling people one thing and meeting another.

56:56

But I think that's especially why I

56:58

don't like this guy, because I can

57:00

kind of see myself falling into this

57:02

if I was mean. Now, once Frank

57:05

sits next to Percy, Percy immediately asks,

57:07

did it hurt? Classic, Percy, love this.

57:09

But also, maybe this is just because

57:11

I'm 32, but when someone asks, did

57:14

it hurt, my brain immediately wants to

57:16

go, when you fell from heaven? Oh,

57:18

wow. Just the terrible gross pick-up line.

57:20

The old ones are the old ones.

57:22

But he was talking about the tattoo.

57:25

Frank says, yeah, it hurt a ton,

57:27

which I think is great. his shirt

57:29

so cute so adorable and narrative Percy

57:31

then says quote Percy smiled he'd only

57:33

known Frank for a day but he

57:36

felt proud of him too quote you

57:38

deserve it man he said well you

57:40

did last night natural leadership and I

57:42

like this I like Percy and Frank's

57:45

friendship a lot I think it's great

57:47

yeah they're awesome Frank says that becoming

57:49

a centurion is just a step too

57:51

far and then we learn as they're

57:53

talking that the meeting kept going and

57:56

they weren't paying attention. Octavian hits him

57:58

with a centurion jang. Did you hear

58:00

the question? Which is, I roll-inducing and

58:02

also terror-inducing. This is my biggest fear.

58:04

Just makes me have flashbacks to school

58:07

when you weren't paying attention to an

58:09

important me. Ah, just gross, gross. Oh,

58:11

yeah, this was making me squirm all

58:13

about. Oh, really? I imagine you could

58:16

always talk your way out of those

58:18

situations. I feel like it could, like,

58:20

when I was in school, I just,

58:22

I just, caught doing it. It just

58:24

made me so nervous because you know

58:27

I just want to be a good

58:29

little rule follower boy but I also

58:31

want to make a snarky little joke

58:33

to my friend sitting next to me.

58:35

So this one just like really hit

58:38

me hard. I would have hated that

58:40

too. I was so lawful at school

58:42

so didn't want to be caught up.

58:44

No not at all. Frank obviously has

58:47

no idea what's going on and then

58:49

Octavian gives a look of see told

58:51

you told you to the crowd before

58:53

repeating in an incredibly condescending tone like

58:55

he's speaking to a three year old.

58:58

asking if Frank has a plan for

59:00

the quest or if he even knows

59:02

where they're going. And Frank goes, um,

59:04

meaning he doesn't, but then Hazel steps

59:06

in to back him up and says,

59:09

weren't you listening last night, Octavian? Mars

59:11

was pretty clear. We're going to the

59:13

land beyond the gods. Alaska. So thank

59:15

goodness for Hazel, great stuff from her.

59:18

The senators are nervous, some of the

59:20

ghosts vanish, the metal dogs whimper, and

59:22

then we learn that Senator Larry, which

59:24

is just a fun name of like,

59:26

oh yes, it's me, Senator Larry. It

59:29

really is. So Senator Larry stands up

59:31

and says that he knows this is

59:33

Mars's order, but it's a terrible idea

59:35

because Alaska is cursed and swarming with

59:37

monsters since it's out of the God's

59:40

control. He reminds the crowd that no

59:42

demigod has come back alive since, and

59:44

then Percy jumps in to say, since

59:46

you lost your eagle. And then narrative,

59:49

Percy says, Larry was so startled, he

59:51

fell back on his poetics. Rick Reordan,

59:53

rule of three's, third butt joke, making

59:55

sure that all the but joke, just...

59:57

Yes, I'm covering so on form, so

1:00:00

on form. a comedic perspective. Rick is

1:00:02

just killing it, I'm loving it. Percy

1:00:04

then continues, look, I know I'm new

1:00:06

here, I know you guys don't

1:00:08

like to mention that massacre in

1:00:10

the 1980s, and then someone goes,

1:00:12

he mentioned it! Which, that's gotta

1:00:14

be the, I love formalities thing, right?

1:00:17

I mean... just mentioned the big massacre but

1:00:19

it is so funny this guy just being

1:00:21

like he mentioned it I love it

1:00:23

so fun so fun just really really

1:00:25

good Percy just continues but don't you

1:00:27

get it the fifth cohort led that

1:00:29

expedition we failed and I love that

1:00:31

Percy says we like he loved that

1:00:33

Percy says we like he's already he's

1:00:35

been on the team for a day

1:00:38

and he's already saying we great we

1:00:40

failed and we have to be responsible

1:00:42

for making things right that's why Mars

1:00:44

is sending us sending us this giant

1:00:46

the God and all your old equipment,

1:00:48

he's mustering his armies and sending them

1:00:50

south to attack this camp. So, Percy,

1:00:52

doing a good job. Absolutely, he's getting

1:00:54

people inside, he's using Wii, he has her artory

1:00:56

skills and I love that. He does, he

1:00:58

does. Octavian accuses Percy of knowing too

1:01:00

much about the enemy's plans and it

1:01:02

is so antithetical to who Percy is

1:01:05

to be accused of being a spy

1:01:07

basically that he almost doesn't know how

1:01:09

to handle this insult. He wants to

1:01:11

rage on Octavian, but he recognizes that

1:01:13

this is bait, and he instead takes

1:01:15

a deep breath and calmly states that

1:01:17

they are going to travel to Alaska,

1:01:19

confront the son of Gia, and bring

1:01:22

back the eagle and unchained Thanatos. And

1:01:24

I am so proud of Percy Jackson

1:01:26

for not taking the bait. And this

1:01:28

is something I can totally relate to. The

1:01:30

times that I get the most upset are

1:01:32

when people accuse me of something that is

1:01:34

just so untrue to who I am as

1:01:37

a person. doing something like trying to be

1:01:39

nefarious and all that, like that's when I

1:01:41

get the most upset and I can completely

1:01:43

relate to Percy. Yeah, it's just so far

1:01:45

away, but I'm very proud that he doesn't rise

1:01:47

to it. Very mature of him. Now he checks

1:01:49

with Hazel that the name Thanitus was correct and

1:01:52

Hazel says that's the Greek name, the Roman name

1:01:54

is Letus, but when it comes to death, they're

1:01:56

fine with him being Greek, which I think is

1:01:58

funny like, nah, we're not ever got... to translate

1:02:00

that. We're going to leave him as

1:02:02

than it is. Octavian doesn't believe that

1:02:04

they can complete this quest before the

1:02:06

Feast of Fortuna on the 24th, since

1:02:08

it's already the 20th. And, uh, have

1:02:10

you never had a Percy Jackson book,

1:02:12

my guy? This is a perfect timeline.

1:02:14

We're going to be just fine. We're

1:02:16

going to be just fine. We're going

1:02:18

to be just fine. He asks if

1:02:20

they even know who this son of

1:02:22

Gia is. And Hazel. And that's what

1:02:24

I'm saying before, like metal skin, but

1:02:26

seeming like ice guy feels almost like

1:02:28

not the perfect fit. But I'm intrigued.

1:02:30

It also could just be a figurative

1:02:32

chill. It also could be snowy and

1:02:34

about because he's in Alaska. It might

1:02:36

not be that this guy has ice

1:02:38

powers. But I was thinking ice giant

1:02:40

initially. Yeah, I think we're getting a

1:02:43

lot of kind of cold and person

1:02:45

waking up shivering, which is unusual. Whether

1:02:47

it's due with Alaska, something's up. Exactly.

1:02:49

Rain asks Hazel if she knows this

1:02:51

because she's a daughter of Pluto. And

1:02:53

then Niko stands up and Percy basically

1:02:55

thinks, oh right, Niko, yeah, I forgot

1:02:57

about that guy. And I was like,

1:02:59

yeah, I forgot who's at this meeting

1:03:01

too. He very politely asks if he

1:03:03

can interject and he explains that their

1:03:05

father taught them a bit about the

1:03:07

giants, how each of them was made

1:03:09

to oppose a specific Olympian. He says

1:03:11

that Porphyryon is the anti Jupiter and

1:03:13

the king of the king of the

1:03:15

king of the giant, but Alcyonius is

1:03:17

the eldest giant, but Alcyonius is the

1:03:19

eldest giant, but Als, but Alsionius is

1:03:21

the eldest, and... the Thanatos connection is

1:03:23

even more interesting now. Reina doesn't love

1:03:25

how familiar he sounds with this giant.

1:03:27

Niko continues and explains the god and

1:03:29

demigod requirement to defeat them, which we

1:03:31

all know. Dakota thinks that this will

1:03:33

never happen since he didn't read the

1:03:35

lost hero. Niko states that it did

1:03:37

happen in the first giant war. He

1:03:39

worries that it might not be able

1:03:41

to happen again though with Alcyonius because

1:03:43

he was impossible to kill as long

1:03:45

as he stayed in the place that

1:03:47

he was born. And Niko's worried that

1:03:49

if he was reborn in Alaska and

1:03:51

then Hazle finishes our 1980s expedition was

1:03:53

doomed to fail. There's also just fun

1:03:55

notes. The first time I've ever seen

1:03:57

1980s written out in words, because it

1:03:59

was like 19 in dash 80s, as

1:04:01

opposed to one nine eight zero S.

1:04:03

And I thought that was just a

1:04:05

fun, I just, I don't think I've

1:04:07

ever seen a decade written out in

1:04:10

full word form before. So I just

1:04:12

thought it was interesting. So in my

1:04:14

copy, it's not like that. It's one

1:04:16

nine eight zero with a little S.

1:04:18

Absolutely. Oh, you've got the English, the,

1:04:20

is the cover a spoiler? Should I

1:04:22

not see it? I mean, I think

1:04:24

it's fine. Okay, you're covering whatever's at

1:04:26

the top, but okay. Oh, interesting. It

1:04:28

says this is the stuff of legends.

1:04:30

Does it say half boy, half got

1:04:32

all hero? I guess not, because it's

1:04:34

not the previous series. So is the

1:04:36

heroes of almost one. This is the

1:04:38

stuff of legends. Is that on every

1:04:40

book? Because that's kind of rough. I

1:04:42

think so. It's a guardian quote, but

1:04:44

it just seems so random and vague.

1:04:46

I kind of hate it. Oh man.

1:04:48

I haven't done it yet. I should

1:04:50

do it soon. Normally do like the

1:04:52

Patreon bonus episodes where I like look

1:04:54

at all of the covers and stuff.

1:04:56

So I have not delved into what

1:04:58

do the British covers of the British

1:05:00

covers. So I have not delved into

1:05:02

what do the British covers of the

1:05:04

Here's of Olympus books look like. But

1:05:06

the new so the new international covers

1:05:08

are really cool though like they've been

1:05:10

redoing the covers for the Percy Jackson

1:05:12

books and the new one slap like

1:05:14

that purple and lime green lightning thief

1:05:16

all I recently just saw that and

1:05:18

I bulk bought these and then I

1:05:20

was like oh but they're pretty bought

1:05:22

these and I was like oh but

1:05:24

they're pretty ones right and I've never

1:05:26

been like a buy a book because

1:05:28

the cover of it is pretty guy

1:05:30

but those books made me second guess

1:05:32

it I wonder if they'll make like

1:05:35

poster versions of those like poster versions

1:05:37

of those covers because then I would

1:05:39

put them up in put them up

1:05:41

in put them up in put them

1:05:43

up in the They're really nice. Yeah.

1:05:45

Anyway, this Percy Jackson. So we get

1:05:47

more unrest from the crowd. We get

1:05:49

The Quest is impossible. We're doomed. And

1:05:51

then more cool aid. Smart. Zag on

1:05:53

them. can't do water cannon for a

1:05:55

third time. You gotta make it unsuspecting.

1:05:57

So perfect. God, it feels like Rick

1:05:59

took an improv 101 class. Like, it's

1:06:01

just the fundamentals of comedy in these

1:06:03

two chapters. I was so excited as

1:06:05

a comedy director. I also love that

1:06:07

we've got a ghost saying we're doomed.

1:06:09

It's like, what can happen to you?

1:06:11

You're already dead. That's a really good

1:06:13

point. Raina silences the crowd and says

1:06:15

that if Mars gave the quest, then

1:06:17

it is feasible. She says that this

1:06:19

team must go to safe Thanatos, and

1:06:21

if they get the... And then she

1:06:23

asks Percy, you do have a plan.

1:06:25

And Percy thinks about how he wants

1:06:27

to probably step forth and say, no,

1:06:29

I do not. But he sees the

1:06:31

look of fear in the crowd's faces,

1:06:33

so he doesn't do that. Instead, he

1:06:35

says, first I got fear in the

1:06:37

crowd's faces, so he doesn't do that.

1:06:39

Instead, he says, first I got to

1:06:41

understand something. He turns to Nico and

1:06:43

says that he's confused, because they thought

1:06:45

that they make fun of it in

1:06:47

Haiti's the video game. And Niko explains

1:06:49

that Pluto is the god of the

1:06:51

underworld, not death. Thanatosis is the god

1:06:53

of death, like Pluto's lieutenant. He makes

1:06:55

sure that souls go to the afterlife

1:06:57

and that they stay there. And then

1:06:59

he continues by saying, quote, he's like,

1:07:02

well, imagine life and death are two

1:07:04

different countries. Everybody would like to be

1:07:06

in life, right? So there's a guarded

1:07:08

border to keep people from crossing back

1:07:10

over without permission. But it's a big

1:07:12

border with lots of holes in the

1:07:14

fence. Pluto tries to seal up the

1:07:16

breeches, but new ones keep popping up

1:07:18

all the all the time. That's why

1:07:20

he depends on Thanatos, who's like the

1:07:22

border patrol, the police. You had me

1:07:24

until the end there. You had me

1:07:26

until the end. And I know that

1:07:28

in 2012 or whenever this book was

1:07:30

read, it was a different time. But

1:07:32

now border patrol and police, very coded

1:07:34

to be different. I'm going to just

1:07:36

ignore this and continue to envision Thanatos

1:07:38

as the moody, extremely attractive, punk, emobile,

1:07:40

from Haiti's the video game. Yes, okay.

1:07:42

Did you also play Haiti's a video

1:07:44

game too? Okay, so nothing about it.

1:07:46

I have. It's very good. Can't get

1:07:48

it yet, but I love pages of

1:07:50

video game, and we've got a couple

1:07:52

of Hedges video game characters right on

1:07:54

this page. Do you mean you can't

1:07:56

get it yet, like physically, or just

1:07:58

like you're not in a point where

1:08:00

you can play? Because it is available

1:08:02

on Mac now, if that was your

1:08:04

point where you can't, because you're not

1:08:06

in a point where you can play?

1:08:08

Because it is available on Mac now?

1:08:10

Because you're not in a point where

1:08:12

you're not in a point where you're

1:08:14

not in a point where you're not

1:08:16

in a point where you're not in

1:08:18

a point where you're not in a

1:08:20

point where you're not in a point

1:08:22

where you're not in a point where

1:08:24

you're not in a point where you're

1:08:27

not in a point where you're not

1:08:29

in a point where you're not in

1:08:31

a point where you're not in a

1:08:33

point where you're not in a point

1:08:35

where you're not in a point where

1:08:37

you're not in a point where I

1:08:39

don't necessarily usually have very clear images

1:08:41

of characters. My characters are usually more

1:08:43

of like vague, nondescript, just kind of

1:08:45

like what they're describing. So like when

1:08:47

it's like is exactly described someone's hairstyle,

1:08:49

like I will imagine that, but like

1:08:51

a face to me is usually more

1:08:53

like not necessarily sharply defined. But every

1:08:55

time they're saying Thanatos, I'm just imagining

1:08:57

the guy from 80s the video game

1:08:59

like he's clear as he's exact that

1:09:01

image chained up. So I think that's

1:09:03

a fun like thing going on in

1:09:05

my brain when I'm reading in my

1:09:07

brain when I'm reading when I'm reading

1:09:09

these books. So, as much of a

1:09:11

joke I want to make about like

1:09:13

bordered patrol and police, like, this does

1:09:15

make sense, and Niko does paint a

1:09:17

very clear picture here, so I get

1:09:19

it. Percy then says, quote, Thanatos catches

1:09:21

souls and deports them back to the

1:09:23

underworld, and Niko confirms, but... says, yeah,

1:09:25

he's chained up now. Frank, who has

1:09:27

spoken very little for someone who's supposed

1:09:29

to be leading this quest, asks, how

1:09:31

does one chain up death? And I

1:09:33

wrote, oh, oh, Sesifis did it, and

1:09:35

Niko says that it's been done before,

1:09:37

citing Sesifis. He also says that it's

1:09:39

been done before, citing Sesifis. He also

1:09:41

says that Hercules wrestled him to the

1:09:43

ground, which I don't know if Hercules

1:09:45

wrestled him to the dead. And also,

1:09:47

He turns to Gwen and says, no

1:09:49

offense. So funny. Oh, that's so good.

1:09:51

Poor Gwen. She's going to be fine.

1:09:54

She's going to go to college. It's

1:09:56

going to be all right. She's going

1:09:58

to open a bakery. She'll make croissants.

1:10:00

It'll be great. They'll look just like

1:10:02

the metals. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nico says

1:10:04

that it's more complicated than that. And

1:10:06

then Octavian rolls his eyes. Rinaina ignores

1:10:08

Octavian being a little jerk. and guesses

1:10:10

that Nico is referring to the doors

1:10:12

of death, which is in the prophecy

1:10:14

of the seven, which sparked the failed

1:10:16

Alaska expedition. And then Cato, that goes

1:10:18

from before, goes, we all know how

1:10:20

that turned out. So good. Kind of

1:10:22

like Cato. And then there's lots of

1:10:24

ghostly grumbling, but then Nico makes a

1:10:26

shush sign, putting his finger over his

1:10:28

lips, and they all go silent, but

1:10:30

they go silent against their will, like

1:10:32

their mouths were glued or glued were

1:10:34

glued together. Nice. Nice. Then narrative, Percy

1:10:36

says, quote, Percy wished he had that

1:10:38

power over certain living people, like Octavian,

1:10:40

for instance. Very good. Very, very, very,

1:10:42

very good. Niko says that Thanatos is

1:10:44

only part of the solution. The other,

1:10:46

the doors of death, is a concept

1:10:48

that even he doesn't fully grasp. Says

1:10:50

there's many ways into the underworld, like

1:10:52

the river sticks, the dwarforpheus, dwarfius, and

1:10:54

smaller escape routes will be easier to

1:10:56

use with Thanatos chained up. in the

1:10:58

knot, it will be for evil folks.

1:11:00

The doors of death are the personal

1:11:02

doors of Thanatos, and only he is

1:11:04

supposed to know their location, which changes

1:11:06

over time. His understanding is that the

1:11:08

doors have been forced open, and Gia's

1:11:10

minions are controlling them. Percy guesses that

1:11:12

this means that Gia can control who

1:11:14

comes back from the dead, and Nico

1:11:16

confirms, and I'm wondering, is Gwen secretly

1:11:18

some sort of nefarious choice? Or was

1:11:21

this just someone who like slipped through

1:11:23

the cracks of Gia and was just...

1:11:25

done so that we don't have to

1:11:27

worry about the death of Gwen and

1:11:29

it's a way for people to learn

1:11:31

more about the doors of death thing.

1:11:33

That's what I'm thinking it is. I'm

1:11:35

probably just over thinking it here. But

1:11:37

there's now a non-zero chance that Gia

1:11:39

was like, ah, Gwen, you will turn

1:11:41

over to my side. So, Nico says

1:11:43

that Gia can pick and choose to

1:11:45

let out the biggest and the badest

1:11:47

and rescuing Thanatos means that he can

1:11:49

catch souls and send them back. The

1:11:51

monsters will behave as they normally did

1:11:53

as they'll just keep coming back. Frank

1:11:55

asks since Thanatos knows where the doors

1:11:57

are, can't he just retake them over

1:11:59

once he's freed? Niko says that he's

1:12:01

no match for Gia. Instead, that would

1:12:03

require a massive quest. and an army

1:12:05

of the best demigods, and that sounds

1:12:07

like book five to me. And I'm

1:12:09

wondering, are we really going to save

1:12:11

Thanatos in book two? And then he's

1:12:13

just going to like not do anything

1:12:15

for two books. I'm no, no. I'm

1:12:17

intrigued to see like how he fits

1:12:19

into the bigger picture of the whole

1:12:21

five book series as opposed to just

1:12:23

this individual book. Rayna recounts the foes

1:12:25

bear arm to the doors of death

1:12:27

line from the prophecy and the prophecy.

1:12:29

And Reyna says that if they kick

1:12:31

off the ancient prophecy, they don't have

1:12:33

the bodies to have an army there

1:12:35

and an army protecting camp. So Percy

1:12:37

tries to sound as confident as possible

1:12:39

to quell the rising tension in the

1:12:41

room, and he says that they must

1:12:43

free Thanatos first. He recounts that Mars

1:12:46

said that only three were needed for

1:12:48

the quest, so they'll tackle that. The

1:12:50

rest can stay back and defend, and

1:12:52

the doors of death can be worried

1:12:54

about later. Frank says that yeah that

1:12:56

sounds like enough for one week and

1:12:58

then Octavian says so you do have

1:13:00

a plan and Percy looks at the

1:13:02

team and says we go to Alaska

1:13:04

as fast as possible and then hazel

1:13:06

ads and we improvise and Frank concludes

1:13:08

a lot so. Pretty good. And they

1:13:10

already are improvising together. So this is

1:13:12

very positive. Yes, it's good. Narrative Percy

1:13:14

then says, quote, Reyna studied them. She

1:13:16

looked like she was mentally writing her

1:13:18

own obituary. Very good. Reyna says it's

1:13:20

good enough and all that's left is

1:13:22

voting on what resources to provide. And

1:13:24

Octavian interjects here in Percy Motors. Oh,

1:13:26

great. Here it comes. Fantastic. Octavian says

1:13:28

the two gods have warned about an

1:13:30

attack coming in four days, so spreading

1:13:32

out the resources is a bad idea.

1:13:34

Then he says, which I thought this

1:13:36

guy was a jerk, but I didn't

1:13:38

know who's going to stoop this low.

1:13:40

He says that Mars perhaps chose these

1:13:42

three, the least likely candidates for this

1:13:44

quest, because they're likely candidates for this

1:13:46

quest because they are expendable, thinking Mars

1:13:48

is playing some sort of long game.

1:13:50

He says they should keep the resources

1:13:52

at camp because that's where the battle

1:13:54

will be won. thinking the three of

1:13:56

them have become a very convincing no

1:13:58

one believed in us and no one

1:14:00

like this and the cars are against

1:14:02

us case. I'd said earlier that it

1:14:04

didn't really feel believable that Percy was

1:14:06

unlike to camp just from like jealousy

1:14:08

and stuff but like it does genuinely

1:14:10

feel like for lots of different reasons

1:14:13

people don't like these three and they

1:14:15

don't like what's happening with the quest

1:14:17

and they're not confident in it and

1:14:19

I feel like it's very convincing but

1:14:21

Octavian what a jerk oh yeah it's

1:14:23

so horrible oh don't like it all

1:14:25

really not a fan but That means

1:14:27

he's a perfectly crafted villain. So Frank

1:14:29

then gets up to fight Octavian, but

1:14:31

Percy stops him and just yells, fine,

1:14:33

no problem, and says that all they

1:14:35

really need is transportation and something that

1:14:37

won't travel by land. And yeah, we

1:14:39

got to get in the water, baby,

1:14:41

come on, let's get in that water.

1:14:43

Octavian scoffs, would you like us to

1:14:45

charter in an airplane? And I wrote,

1:14:47

no, he hates the sky. And then

1:14:49

Percy says, No, air travel. I have

1:14:51

a feeling that would be bad too.

1:14:53

But a boat. Can you at least

1:14:55

give us a boat? And then Hazel

1:14:57

moans and Percy looks at her, but

1:14:59

then she mouths fine. I'm fine. So

1:15:01

we'll learn about this in a couple

1:15:03

of chapters. And then Octavian says, a

1:15:05

boat. The son of Neptune wants a

1:15:07

boat. Sea travel has never been the

1:15:09

Roman. But he isn't much of a

1:15:11

Roman. And Rayna kind of. puts him

1:15:13

in his place a little bit saying

1:15:15

that Percy's not asking for much and

1:15:17

giving them nothing is very but then

1:15:19

Octavian interrupts to say traditional says that

1:15:21

they should see if these three can

1:15:23

survive without any help like true Romans

1:15:25

this guy is really like ramping up

1:15:27

this suck factor a lot he really

1:15:29

sucks luckily Rayna is that to rein

1:15:31

him in a little bit well done

1:15:33

well done well done the crowd gross

1:15:35

restless Rayna says that they'll put it

1:15:38

to a vote Quote, senators, the motion

1:15:40

is as follows, the question will go

1:15:42

to Alaska. The Senate shall provide full

1:15:44

access to the Roman Navy, docked at

1:15:46

Alameda. No other aid will be forthcoming.

1:15:48

The three adventurers will survive or fail

1:15:50

on their own merits, all in favor.

1:15:52

And thank goodness, every senator votes all

1:15:54

in favor. And thank goodness, every senator

1:15:56

votes yes. So the motion passes. Raina

1:15:58

excuses the team, since the Senate has

1:16:00

other matters to discuss, but then asks

1:16:02

Octavian for a word. And I was

1:16:04

pretty much toast. And Frank says that

1:16:06

he wouldn't fault them for backing out

1:16:08

now. But Hazel replies, are you kidding?

1:16:10

And pulls Century Duty for the rest

1:16:12

of the week, which is great and

1:16:14

cute and adorable. Frank smiles, then turns

1:16:16

to Percy. Percy thinks about the dreams

1:16:18

telling him to stay. But then he

1:16:20

imagines Gieshing that he screwed either way.

1:16:22

So then narrative Percy says, quote, Percy

1:16:24

made a sign of out. After the

1:16:26

Feast of Fortuna, he would find Anabith.

1:16:28

But for now, he had to act.

1:16:30

He couldn't let Gia win. And I

1:16:32

love him. I knew he was going

1:16:34

to do this, but I love him

1:16:36

for doing it. He's a true hero

1:16:38

through and through, and he can't just

1:16:40

let it go. It's like me playing

1:16:42

an RPG. I got to do all

1:16:44

the side quests. I have to help

1:16:46

everyone. Even if it's like, I will

1:16:48

find your cat. And I will save

1:16:50

it. I love that he is not

1:16:52

taking the selfish approach. He's going to

1:16:54

help the team and try to save

1:16:56

the camp. Yeah, he's such a team

1:16:58

player. I really think they're a very

1:17:00

strong three already. It's great. They are.

1:17:02

I feel really great about this three.

1:17:05

Percy says that he's in and adds

1:17:07

that seeing the Roman Navy will be

1:17:09

a cool bonus. And then Octavian calls

1:17:11

after them and jogs to catch up.

1:17:13

Percy goes, what do you want? Octavian

1:17:15

smiles and says, already decided I'm your

1:17:17

enemy? Yes, yes, it's quite clear. It

1:17:19

is quite clear. Frank calls him a

1:17:21

backstabbing, and I thought he was going

1:17:23

to say, backstabbing, hold him back, very

1:17:25

NDA fight-esque. And Octavian says that this

1:17:27

is unfitting behavior of a centurion, which,

1:17:29

okay, just a big fart noise over

1:17:31

here. Like, he sucks. And he explains

1:17:33

that he is here because Reina has

1:17:35

a message for Percy. He wants him

1:17:37

to meet her in the Principia without

1:17:39

his quote, lackies here, gross, disgusting, so

1:17:41

rude. He says that she'll meet him

1:17:43

there after the Senate meeting, so this

1:17:45

is gonna be what the next two

1:17:47

chapters are, I'm guessing. That was the

1:17:49

last time I ever saw him. Good

1:17:51

looking, goodbye, Percy Jackson. He sucks so

1:17:53

much. I love it. I love how

1:17:55

much he sucks. He's perfectly hateable. He's

1:17:57

very much like, who's the freaking guy

1:17:59

that you fight. with the ball in

1:18:01

Hades video anymore. Theseus. Theseus. You have

1:18:03

it with the constant taunting and what

1:18:05

you really like the minor talks. He

1:18:07

seems like a decent guy and there's

1:18:09

just this jerk. He's so perfectly hateable.

1:18:11

Octavian is so deliciously hateable. He's perfectly crafted.

1:18:14

I love how much I hate him. And

1:18:16

that is the end of Chapter 14, which

1:18:18

I have retitled, We Win an Election. Oh,

1:18:20

very good. Again, maybe inspired by the current

1:18:23

events going on. But I just thought that

1:18:25

was a good, like, misdirect of what was

1:18:27

going on. Do you have a retitling of

1:18:29

Chapter 14? I went for the Senate condemners

1:18:31

to almost certain death. Oh, that's very

1:18:34

fun. That's good, especially because the ending of

1:18:36

Frank's last chapter was that he was given

1:18:38

a death sentence. So to play on that

1:18:40

is very, very fun. Cool, well, that's the

1:18:42

end of this chapter, it's the end of

1:18:44

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1:18:48

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1:18:51

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