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Hello,

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hello,

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sweet.

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Is it going? It's going good. Yes,

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I asked you at the perfect opportune

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moment when you were farthest away in

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your hands were the most full of

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items. But hello Doylestown! Okay, so who's

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here that has never listened to the

2:12

podcast and is like dragged along by

2:14

someone? Okay, cool, sweet, so. In a

2:16

very early episode of the show, they

2:18

gave us the longitude and the latitude

2:20

of the Bermuda Triangle, and I mistyped

2:22

it in my notes. And what I

2:25

got was Doylestown, Pennsylvania. So I said,

2:27

if I ever do shows in Philly,

2:29

I will call it Doyles Town. And

2:31

here we are. It has led to

2:33

confusion where multiple people were saying, oh

2:35

yeah, your show tonight's right outside of

2:37

Philly, right? I'm like, no, no, no,

2:39

it's like, in Philly proper. It's like,

2:41

10 minutes away from the Amtrak Station,

2:43

from the Amtrak Station. It is quite

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from the Amtrak Station. It is quite

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close, it is quite close, I promise,

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I promise, I promise, I promise, I

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promise, I promise, I promise, I promise,

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I promise. glad everyone made it despite

2:56

any potential confusion. I'm also very excited

2:58

that, who's at the Philly show last

3:00

year? Yeah, at that other venue, where

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it was so hot, it was so

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warm, people were fanning themselves like southern

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bells, and myself included, I'm glad we

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don't have to do that, not only

3:10

because I don't have to sweat on

3:13

stage, but it also allows me to

3:15

wear the Wawa sweater, which I was

3:17

very excited. I did bring a change

3:19

of clothes, like just in case it

3:21

was not going to be cold enough,

3:23

but it is cold enough so I

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can rep my favorite convenience store. Stephen,

3:27

how many Wawa did you pass on

3:29

the drive over to? I don't know,

3:31

but I learned very thoroughly from all

3:33

the billboards that Wawa now has pizza.

3:36

I love Wawa with all my heart.

3:38

I will defend many things from Wawa.

3:40

I do not think I will be

3:42

getting Wawa pizza. As much as I

3:44

love Wawa and their chocolate milk, which,

3:46

God, God, it's so good. God, it's

3:48

so good. So many good things from

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Wawa, I may or may not badger

3:52

you into having to stop by one

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on the drive home. We gotta get

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gas, so I guess we're going. Yes!

3:59

We're gonna get chocolate milk, and we're

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gonna get, it's like, my favorite thing

4:03

about Wawa chocolate milk, it's like, oh,

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you can get the one size, you

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can get the next size, it's like

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for three cents more, you can get

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half a gallon, like obviously, obviously, obviously,

4:13

I could talk about Wawa for two

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hours, but you all purchase tickets for

4:17

me to me to me to me

4:19

to me to talk about books for

4:21

me to talk about books for me

4:24

to talk about books, so I. I

4:26

guess I will do that instead. Now,

4:28

what we're gonna be talking about today

4:30

is at least chapters 15 and 16

4:32

of the Sun of Neptune, possibly chapter

4:34

17, depending on how quickly we get

4:36

through things. But where we last left

4:38

our heroes, the quest was getting ready.

4:40

to begin, and Percy was about to

4:42

go on a private chat with Rayna

4:44

after the big Senate meeting, and that

4:47

is where we leave off. So, chapter

4:49

15 is called Percy. Obviously, we will

4:51

re-title it by the time we get

4:53

to the end of it, but this

4:55

chapter opens with quote, Percy was glad

4:57

Rittide returned to his pocket judging from

4:59

Rayna's expression. He thought he might need

5:01

to defend himself, and thank goodness. You

5:03

all are well aware that I get

5:05

so stressed. Whenever Riptide is not back,

5:07

and I just am so delighted that

5:10

this chapter opened with it, don't worry,

5:12

he's good, the pen is in the

5:14

pocket. Fell very happy. Good thing to

5:16

start off. Good thing to read yesterday

5:18

morning in prep. It was a nice

5:20

change of pace from existential threat. Okay,

5:22

I promise her down, I promise her

5:24

down, I promise her down. Reina enters

5:26

the room at a huff, and she

5:28

is followed by her metal dogs. Percy

5:30

is sitting in one of the prey

5:33

tour chairs that he really wanted to

5:35

sit in last time, but he did

5:37

decide to sit in this time. And

5:39

he's worried that he shouldn't be there,

5:41

so when she gets in, he starts

5:43

to get up like, oh, I'm so

5:45

sorry. And he's like, no, no, no,

5:47

stay seated, because we have a lot

5:49

to discuss. But seriously, Percy, if you're

5:51

gonna react that way. Oh, that is

5:53

a lot of effort if you're gonna,

5:55

maybe he thought she was gonna take

5:58

a longer time between. He was like,

6:00

I've got enough time to sit and

6:02

relax before she comes back. So, maybe

6:04

that was that. So she slams her

6:06

dagger down on the table and it

6:08

makes the bowl of jelly beans jostle

6:10

around. And now this is the second

6:12

time where these jelly beans have been

6:14

referenced, but not explained. And, spoiler alert

6:16

for the rest of this chapter. They

6:18

don't get explained. If these are like

6:21

I don't know man, I'm I feel

6:23

like they're checkoffs jelly beans But like

6:25

are they just jelly beans on a

6:27

table? That's wild who just has jelly?

6:29

on a table. I don't know, Dumboldor?

6:31

I guess, but yeah, no, yeah, yeah,

6:33

but they're like fun jelly beans. I

6:35

don't know, jelly beans on a table

6:37

is a wild vibe unless you're like

6:39

a 95 year old grandma, but... Rain

6:41

has got them, she jostles them around

6:44

by slamming her dagger down, and she

6:46

is upset at the whole Senate meeting.

6:48

And she's specifically upset at Octavian for

6:50

getting into his whole talking spiel and

6:52

just generally being himself. Percy says quote

6:54

you're a warrior Octavian is a talker

6:56

put him in front of the Senate

6:58

and suddenly he becomes the powerful one

7:00

and She tells Percy that he's smarter

7:02

than he looks and he says gee

7:04

thanks which is correct Because she is

7:07

telling him you look like an idiot.

7:09

I don't understand like I don't know

7:11

maybe it's a weird attempted compliment like

7:13

you don't look like a nerd, but

7:15

like that's also a mean thing to

7:17

say I don't really know, but I

7:19

have noticed like through these early chapters,

7:21

that Rick has kind of made a

7:23

point for other people to point out,

7:25

like, hey, you're kind of smart. Yeah.

7:27

It is fun to like slowly see

7:29

people who don't know Percy, learn Percy,

7:32

and that is a nice revelation for

7:34

them, and it's also just a nice

7:36

change of pace for us, because obviously

7:38

we know Percy, but these people, they

7:40

don't. After saying gee thanks, he says

7:42

that he hears that Octavian is trying

7:44

to be elected Praetor if the camp

7:46

even survives this battle. And Rana uses

7:48

this comment as a nice segue into

7:50

discussing how Percy can fit into the

7:52

whole thing and saving them from the

7:55

looming battle. Rana says, quote, but before

7:57

I place the fate of Camp Jupiter

7:59

in your hands, we need to get

8:01

a few things straight. And then she

8:03

puts her ring on the table and

8:05

points to the inscription on it. what

8:07

that means and he guesses that it's

8:09

the symbol of her mother the war

8:11

goddess and then his narrator Percy he

8:13

can't remember what the war goddess his

8:15

name is he says quote something like

8:18

baloney or salami and thank goodness this

8:20

was an internal thought because right afterwards

8:22

Rayna responds, Balona, yes, B-L-L-O-N-A, Balona, yes.

8:24

It's just very good comedic writing from

8:26

Rick to have the internal monologue of

8:28

like, what's it, like Baloney? And then

8:30

the person be like, you are correct.

8:32

It's like, all right, because he didn't

8:34

actually guess them out last so good.

8:36

I think Rick, in this whole book,

8:38

is really doing well, but like, specifically

8:41

with the Percy chapters, comedic knowledge of

8:43

writing. It's just like as like a

8:45

nerd of it in terms of doing

8:47

like improv and descriptive stuff and all

8:49

that like obviously like when something is

8:51

funny it's just funny but I feel

8:53

like the specific like me just being

8:55

like I see what he's doing there

8:57

like I understand the science of this

8:59

joke he's really cooking and I like

9:01

it a lot. And it's fun that

9:04

you say cooking because I've noticed for

9:06

so many of these they're all food

9:08

puns. Mmm. Like you have you have

9:10

You have a feast for tuna? Yeah,

9:12

and there is a good amount of

9:14

food fun's going on. That's true, that's

9:16

true. Rayna is surprised that Percy, one,

9:18

doesn't know where he has seen this

9:20

ring before, and two, who she is,

9:22

and three, who her sister Hila, H-Y-L-L-A,

9:24

I'll have to ask Dr. Moith, this

9:26

is anything, but I think it's just

9:29

like a name, Hilla is, and I

9:31

also don't know these people. So maybe

9:33

this is what Percy was up to

9:35

before the book began. Maybe this was

9:37

no, this is what the sea of

9:39

monsters. Okay, Hila showed up. I don't

9:41

know about Hila. Yeah, because I didn't

9:43

bother to Google that. I think we

9:45

start to learn like what's going on

9:47

right. But I did. I think we

9:49

start to learn like what's going on

9:52

right. But I did Google. But I

9:54

did Google. But do you think I

9:56

would bring that up? I cannot. I

9:58

got burned by, thankfully it was like

10:00

after I'd already learned it, but like,

10:02

I'm pretty sure if you Google George

10:04

Weasley, I think, or no, Fred dies.

10:06

Sp boilerly. I think when you Google

10:08

Fred Weasley, like. it's enough soon enough

10:10

on like the description like that Google

10:12

auto populates that it's like Fred Weasley

10:15

who died in the Battle of Hogwarts

10:17

like why is that the first thing

10:19

said about him so yeah I I

10:21

just can I can never Google anything

10:23

as I'm terrified but I at least

10:25

at this point in reading was wondering

10:27

like who's this what's going on I'm

10:29

confused and then we learn a little

10:31

bit more as the chapters go on

10:33

yeah I did check okay and Like

10:35

Rick spoke about this on sort of

10:38

Q&A, and he's like, she was there

10:40

the way Nico was in the Lotus

10:42

Cotell and Casino, what we see in

10:44

the first book. But we didn't have

10:46

a thing where we met Reina or

10:48

Hila or like they were, like they

10:50

were there, but it wasn't like, hello,

10:52

this is my assistant Reina, etc. Not

10:54

for Reina, I couldn't tell you Hill,

10:56

I didn't check. But I feel like

10:58

I would have. picked up on a

11:00

unique name like that, or either of

11:03

their names, honestly. So to me, it

11:05

was new, but we'll get a little

11:07

bit as it goes. So Rayna tells

11:09

him that it would have been four

11:11

years ago, and then Percy instinctively says,

11:13

before you came to camp. And Rayna

11:15

is surprised that he knew this, but

11:17

Percy is surprised that he knew this,

11:19

but Percy explains, well, you have four

11:21

very large stripes on your arms, and

11:23

each stripe for a year at his

11:26

memories. She says that she was a

11:28

little girl and attendant among many at

11:30

the spa. And she says that he

11:32

spoke with her sister just before he

11:34

and Annabith destroyed their home. So my

11:36

guess at this point was, okay, spa

11:38

book two, Circe's Island? Like it's the

11:40

only thing that I could think of.

11:42

And then narrator Percy says, quote, Percy

11:44

tried to remember, he really did. For

11:46

some reason, Annabeth and he had visited

11:49

a spa and decided to destroy it

11:51

and decided to destroy it. So I

11:53

like that Percy's not even questioning the

11:55

manicure, but he is saying like I

11:57

would never stand for a bad one.

11:59

Standards, I like it. But yeah, at

12:01

this point it fell to me, Searcy's

12:03

Island-esque, and then as this. goes on

12:05

we'll see another clue that makes me

12:07

think it's that but I still don't

12:09

think we like met them directly but

12:12

especially if you're saying then you go

12:14

yeah you know it's like that makes

12:16

sense here's weird for me because this

12:18

is the first time I'm coming through

12:20

these books with you where I am

12:22

no further ahead than you are what

12:24

a fun situation I am just spitballing

12:26

here but yeah to me it seemed

12:28

screaming sea of monsters yes yes yes

12:30

yes Percy says that he truly does

12:32

not know what happened, and he cites

12:34

your dogs who chew up people who

12:37

lie are currently not chewing me up.

12:39

So I think we're good, yeah? And

12:41

she says that she believes him, but

12:43

she says that not everyone at camp

12:45

trusts him. She reveals him. And she

12:47

says that not everyone at camp trusts

12:49

him. She reveals that Octavian thinks that

12:51

he was a spy sent by Gia

12:53

to learn their weaknesses and distracts. Goes...

12:55

What old legends? And then... She explains

12:57

that some people believe the Greek demigods

13:00

still exist, and they follow the older

13:02

forms of the Olympians. And the legends

13:04

tell tales of battles between Greek and

13:06

Roman demigods as recently as the American

13:08

Civil War. She has no proof that

13:10

this happened. The layers, if they know

13:12

something, they're not telling anyone. But Octavian,

13:14

however, believes and thinks that the Greeks

13:16

are plotting their downfall and working alongside

13:18

Gia. And Octavian sucks. All my homies

13:20

hate him. And... I am a homey,

13:23

I hate him. Yeah. Just proving time

13:25

and time again, this dude is the

13:27

worst. Percy asks if this is what

13:29

she believes, which I think is a

13:31

nice response for him to be like,

13:33

whatever, this guy, but what it, do

13:35

you believe this? And she says that

13:37

she thinks that Percy came from somewhere,

13:39

but she's not necessarily sure of where.

13:41

She recognizes Percy's importance and how dangerous

13:43

he is, because she saw everything that

13:46

he's done in his like couple of

13:48

hours at camp. And she's also not

13:50

ignorant to the fact that two gods

13:52

have taken special interest in him, so

13:54

she doesn't think that Percy's going to

13:56

be the one to fight against Olympus.

13:58

or Rome feels like they have a

14:00

vested interest and a bit of a

14:02

trust in him. She thinks that it's

14:04

possible that the God sent Percy as

14:06

a test of her judgment, but her

14:09

belief is that Percy's here to make

14:11

up for the loss of Jason. So

14:13

I think Reina, who I'm liking more

14:15

and more as the chapters go on,

14:17

I feel like she's got a very

14:19

level head and she's doing a good

14:21

job of like not getting caught up

14:23

in any sort of emotion, whether that's

14:25

her personal emotion or the overall just

14:27

like panic level of the camp, feels

14:29

like she's thinking about things logically and

14:31

reasoning them through. And I think that's

14:34

good to have in the prior tour.

14:36

Oh, definitely. And for someone having to

14:38

shoulder all that responsibility by herself for

14:40

like eight months. doing a really admirable

14:42

job of it. Right, especially because she's

14:44

a teenager. Yeah, like that's super not

14:46

easy. My gosh, like I had a

14:48

hard enough time just doing my homework.

14:50

I gotta run a camp? Yeah, yeah,

14:52

I know it. Percy thinks as to

14:54

how this guy Jason gets brought up

14:57

all the time at camp and it's

14:59

very reminiscent of Jason in the last

15:01

year where he's like, wow, they sure

15:03

do talk about this Percy guy a

15:05

lot. So I thought that was pretty

15:07

funny. And then Percy asks Reina if

15:09

they were an item based on how

15:11

she speaks of him. So Percy just

15:13

plowing through, never afraid to ask a

15:15

bit of a touchy question. and I

15:17

was very, very relieved at her answer.

15:20

She says, quote, we might have been

15:22

given time. Pray tours work closely together.

15:24

It's common for them to become romantically

15:26

involved, but Jason was only prey to

15:28

her for a few months before he

15:30

disappeared. Ever since then, Octavian has been

15:32

pestering me, agitating for new elections. I've

15:34

resisted. I need a partner in power,

15:36

but I'd prefer someone like Jason, a

15:38

warrior, a warrior, a warrior, not a

15:40

schemer. and I do feel like Reina

15:43

is level-headed enough to be chill with

15:45

it. Like she might still be sad,

15:47

she might still be hurt. But if

15:49

Jason comes back and says, I've had

15:51

this wonderful adventure with this girl and

15:53

I really like her, I'm so sorry

15:55

to my maybe, I guess, kind of

15:57

we would maybe in the future date

15:59

girlfriend. Like, it's such low stakes that

16:01

I feel like even if Reina is

16:03

saddened, she will understand. and the situation,

16:05

so I feel like there's not gonna

16:08

be a lot of her feelings, which

16:10

makes me feel happy. Oh my gosh,

16:12

I can just say like, I don't

16:14

know. I mean, I mean, I mean

16:16

it. We didn't even have to install

16:18

the trap door. You're just, you're just

16:20

good. You're good. You're good. You're good.

16:22

You're just good. You're just good. But

16:24

I, yeah, ultimately, I don't think she's

16:26

going to think this is some sort

16:28

of grand betrayal if you shows up

16:31

with Piper. So I think it's going

16:33

to think this is some sort of

16:35

grand betrayal if you shows up with

16:37

Piper if you show. For me, it

16:39

is my literal job. Percy says nothing.

16:41

And then it dawns on him that

16:43

this was a silent invitation talking about

16:45

Praetor and all this kind of stuff.

16:47

So he goes, oh, you mean, oh.

16:49

Right? She's like, hey, it could happen

16:51

for us too. Yeah. And by doing

16:54

that, it also kind of puts a

16:56

little thing of like, hmm, Octavian pestering

16:58

for it. Like, that's kind of a

17:00

weird vibe too of like, I don't

17:02

know, makes it, like, he's already, like,

17:04

he's already, like, he's already terrible. Like,

17:06

he's already terrible, and terrible, too, of

17:08

like, I don't know, makes, like, like,

17:10

he's already, like, like, like he's, like,

17:12

like he's, like he's, like he's, like,

17:14

like he's, like, like, like, like, like,

17:17

like, like he's, like, like, like, like,

17:19

like, like, like, like, like, like, like,

17:21

like, like, like, like, like, like, like,

17:23

like, like, like, like, like, like, like,

17:25

like, like, like, like, like, like, he's,

17:27

Yeah, yeah, no. God, he's really creepy.

17:29

Yeah, I didn't, I didn't feel good

17:31

about that one. No, I don't feel

17:33

good about him at all, but we

17:35

can at least all have a unified

17:37

hatred of one character and we can

17:39

all bond. But Reina says that she

17:42

thinks the gods sent Percy to help

17:44

her. She doesn't understand his arrival any

17:46

more than she did four years ago,

17:48

but she thinks it's some sort of

17:50

repayment. Percy destroyed her home once, and

17:52

now he is here to save her

17:54

new home. She states that she holds

17:56

no grudges for Percy, even though her

17:58

sister still does. She says that fate

18:00

brought her to Camp Jupiter, and things

18:02

have gone pretty well for her ever

18:05

since she's gotten here, her only request

18:07

is that Percy will work with her

18:09

work with her to better the camp

18:11

going forward. So again. I like her

18:13

as the leader of Camp Jupiter. She's

18:15

a good egg. Percy agrees to help,

18:17

but suggests that someone with more camp

18:19

Jupiter experience would make a better prey

18:21

tour. Hey, Hazel and Frank are going

18:23

on the quest with me. Maybe they

18:25

could be a little bit better. At

18:28

this point in my notes, I wrote,

18:30

yeah, the vibes of this, where you

18:32

are maybe gonna date rain, just makes

18:34

the already awkward, even more awkward, because

18:36

it's not just like, hello person who's

18:38

been a camp for a day. Would

18:40

you like to run the camp soon,

18:42

the camp soon, and... element. But in

18:44

response to the proposal of Frank or

18:46

Hazel, Reina says that no one's going

18:48

to follow a child of Pluto and

18:51

Frank is too inexperienced and if people

18:53

found out about his tattered family history

18:55

that would be bad and risking that

18:57

is too high of a risk. And

18:59

then Percy goes, what, what family history?

19:01

I'm so sorry what? And then Reina

19:03

goes, the point is Percy! Ah! Chiron

19:05

got to her! Coast to coast! He's

19:07

so good! The point is, Percy, you

19:09

are the real power of this quest.

19:11

You are a seasoned veteran. I've seen

19:13

what you can do. Just completely zagging

19:16

over the question. Gosh, gosh, well done.

19:18

But like ultimately, yeah, it's more fun

19:20

if we learn about this later, but

19:22

also, ah! She says that a son

19:24

of Neptune wouldn't be her top choice,

19:26

but she thinks that he can save

19:28

the legion and then the proprietorship would

19:30

easily be his if he wanted it.

19:32

She says that the two of them

19:34

together could expand from power, raise an

19:36

army, find the doors of death, and

19:39

defeat Gia. And then she says, you

19:41

would find me a very helpful, dot,

19:43

dot, dot, dot, friend. Which

19:45

is a weird thing to say narrative

19:47

person says quote she said that word

19:49

like it could have several meanings and

19:51

he could pick which one and I'm

19:53

just thinking of the like what do

19:55

you mean by that gift because like

19:57

what does she mean by that I

19:59

don't know if she is uptight enough

20:01

where she could just be like we

20:03

could be friends but Also, she has

20:05

talked about the relationship things. She's like,

20:07

oh, we could be friends. Like, what

20:09

do you mean by that? All of

20:11

that? All of them? It also had

20:13

the weird vibe of like, we would

20:16

make a good dot, dot, dot friend

20:18

would be like, and, you know, inherently,

20:20

I would be a. enemy you wouldn't

20:22

want like I you you know we'd

20:24

be good friends we'd be bad enemies

20:26

like is she kind of black man

20:28

enforcing him like you should totally pick

20:30

this I don't think that's the vibe

20:32

but like there's enough interpretations of the

20:34

sentence or I'm like Rayna what is

20:36

going on she's desperate man that is

20:38

true that many ways that is Percy

20:40

says that he's flattered, but he has

20:42

a girlfriend, and he doesn't want power

20:44

or a pre-torship. And I'm wondering at

20:46

this point, like, okay, so Percy's clearly

20:48

gone on to the whole, like, she

20:50

might be seeing the relationship thing, like,

20:52

and is this him being presumptuous or

20:54

no? Like, is he being like, oh,

20:56

yeah, well, no, I already got a

20:59

girlfriend? She's like, I was not talking

21:01

about that Percy, Percy, at all. Like

21:03

this happened to me one time when

21:05

I was living in California, I like

21:07

gave a girl a ride home after

21:09

a party because like her place was

21:11

on the way home to mine. And

21:13

then it was like late at night,

21:15

and she was like, oh, like, you

21:17

still got to drive all the way

21:19

back to the east bay, like, do

21:21

you just want to crash in my

21:23

place? And the way she asked it,

21:25

I was like, oh, like, you still

21:27

got to drive all the way back

21:29

to the east bay, like, do you

21:31

just want to just want to crash

21:33

in my place? Percy's a pretty intuitive

21:35

guy. I think they spent a lot

21:37

of time. Not at all. He was

21:39

missing that signs all the time. He

21:42

thought he was cooking. It's like, oh,

21:44

clearly I'm spitting game. But she doesn't

21:46

know I'm taking it. She's like, no,

21:48

we just have a couch that you

21:50

could sleep on. Sorry, I'm better now.

21:52

Arena is surprised. And she says that

21:54

a man turning down power is not

21:56

very Roman of him. And I wrote,

21:58

well. She says that she must choose

22:00

a new partner before the invasion in

22:02

four days. And Percy is her preferred

22:04

choice, but if he doesn't come back,

22:06

or if he refuses, she may be

22:08

stuck. with Octavian, which I don't like,

22:10

and I feel like she could pick

22:12

anyone else, and it would be a

22:14

better option. And I was wondering, was

22:16

she sneakily trying to say that Octavian

22:18

is the backup plan to try and

22:20

guilt trip Percy into saying, yes, well,

22:22

I guess we'll just have to be

22:25

stuck with the worst person at camp,

22:27

if you don't accept, you know, you

22:29

don't want to be friends? What does

22:31

it mean? Her reasoning is that things

22:33

at camp are worse than they seem.

22:35

So Percy asks. How bad are they?

22:37

And Reina digs her nails into the

22:39

table, which I think tells the story

22:41

enough. And she says that she's withheld

22:43

the information from the Senate to avoid

22:45

mass panic across the camp. She has

22:47

asked Octavian not to share all of

22:49

the auguries. Apparently he has seen a

22:51

large army led by a giant marching

22:53

south towards them. And Percy asks, is

22:55

it Alsionius? And Reina doesn't think so,

22:57

because why would someone who is invulnerable

22:59

as long as they remain in Alaska?

23:01

Not remain in Alaska. So she thinks

23:03

it's someone else. So Percy responds, great.

23:05

So we've got two giants to one.

23:08

which is just like last book we

23:10

had in cell lettuce whose name I

23:12

know how to say because yesterday morning

23:14

Dr. Moya and I did our recording

23:16

so I know how to say his

23:18

name now after however many episodes we

23:20

did they had to deal with in

23:22

cell lettuce and porphyrione so maybe it's

23:24

the same kind of thing here where

23:26

we have Alcyonius and then we've got

23:28

someone else I don't know you don't

23:30

know either so let you move on!

23:32

Reina says that Lupah and the wolves

23:34

are trying to slow them down, but

23:36

it won't be enough. And she's confident

23:38

that this evil army will arrive by

23:40

the Feast of Fortuda at the latest.

23:42

And Percy gets especially worried because he's

23:44

seeing Lupah in her pack fight. And

23:46

he's thinking, okay, if they're having trouble

23:48

fending off this enemy, that is very

23:51

bad news for us, the demigots. Reina

23:53

can see the concern on Percy's face.

23:55

So she says, yes, it's bad, but

23:57

not hopeless, but not hopeless. I promise

23:59

I promise forever if we're recording this

24:01

November 7th, it's so hard to function.

24:03

She adds that if Percy, Hazel, and

24:05

Frank return the eagle and release death

24:07

so the enemies can actually stay dead,

24:09

they have a chance. And she then

24:11

says that there's one more possibility. And

24:13

then she slides the ring across the

24:15

table very dramatically. I thought this was

24:17

cool, but like, I've never really tried

24:19

to slide a ring. I guess if

24:21

it's just like a normal, like a

24:23

normal, like perfectly round ring, like my

24:25

wedding ring, that would be fine. rice

24:27

class ring. Like if I tried to

24:29

slide this because the top is heavier, it would

24:32

like jumble around. So either she slides it across

24:34

and it looks really cool, or she slides into

24:36

goes, like, blah, blah, blah, blah, it falls off

24:38

the table. And what seems more teenage to you?

24:40

But it's, but it's, but it's more teenage to

24:42

you. But it's, but it's Rena, but it's more

24:45

teenage to you. But it's, but it's, more teenage

24:47

to you. I mean, but it's, but it's, it's,

24:49

it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, more teenage, it's, it's,

24:51

it's, it's, it's, more teenage, it's, it's, it's, it's,

24:53

more teenage, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,

24:55

it's, more teenage, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,

24:57

more Seattle. I'm asking you for a favor which

25:00

may also help you. Find my sister

25:02

Hila, Hila, however you say her name.

25:04

And I literally on the train when

25:06

I was reading this today in the

25:08

wonderful Amtrak ride I took, I literally

25:10

looked like the Pikachu meme. Like I

25:13

was just like Seattle, another place where

25:15

I've lived, Rick, thank you so much.

25:17

Like it's so nice. I'm very excited

25:19

for the book that happens in Central

25:21

Jersey. Anyone from Central Jersey, come to

25:23

the show. What's good, we exist! So

25:26

I was very excited at the Seattle

25:28

thing. I don't know exactly where they're

25:30

going to go, but I am going

25:32

to nerd out and be insufferable to

25:34

98% of the podcast listeners when they're

25:37

like, stop talking about West Seattle, we

25:39

don't care. And I'm like, butt! Al-keye

25:41

Beach! So I'm so stoked about it.

25:43

Percy checks that the request from Rayna

25:45

is for Percy to visit her sister

25:47

who hates him and Rayna admits, yes,

25:50

she would love to kill you, but

25:52

if you give her this ring from

25:54

me as a token for me, she

25:56

may help. And Percy goes, may? Perfect

25:58

response, absolutely perfect response. Rana says, look,

26:00

I cannot speak for her. And then

26:02

she looks off into the middle distance

26:04

and says, I haven't spoken to her

26:07

in weeks. Percy guesses that the mission

26:09

is to check in on her and

26:11

ensure that she's all right. And Rana

26:13

says partially, but the other angle is

26:15

that her sister could also help on

26:17

Percy's quest. And Percy asks, oh, is

26:19

Hilla gonna send some sort of help?

26:21

And then Rana doesn't answer. keeping it

26:23

vague. But she looks desperate for anything

26:25

that will save the camp and Percy

26:27

can see this pain in her eyes

26:29

so he commits to finding her. He

26:31

asks where to look. Reyna says, just

26:33

go to Seattle, they're gonna find you,

26:35

which is beautifully ominous. Percy then takes

26:37

the ring and adds it to his

26:39

necklace which now has all the beads

26:41

and his pro-batio little tag and now

26:43

this ring. And then he says, wish

26:46

me luck. And Reyna says, fight well,

26:48

Percy and thank you. Super sweet. It

26:50

is super sweet. You know, it's interesting

26:52

for me because it sounds like she

26:54

keeps saying like force. She has like

26:56

forces. So my think is she's trying

26:58

to like have a helms like a

27:00

riders of row and helms deep sort

27:02

of thing happening. Yeah, I don't really

27:04

once again I don't know because it

27:06

was so vague and Percy said will

27:08

she send help to like what I

27:10

thought Percy was asking is does she

27:12

have some sort of reinforcements that can

27:14

help? That's what I'm thinking right, but

27:16

because she didn't answer and because Percy

27:18

is asking this I wonder if she's

27:20

gonna have like some sort of like

27:22

some sort of like some other sorts

27:25

or like a Gaggle of mercenaries or

27:27

whatever, but Percy Jackson and the Gaggle

27:29

of mercenaries, but I feel like that's

27:31

the misdirect and there's going to be

27:33

something else where she, I don't know,

27:35

because Cersey's whole thing is guinea pigs.

27:37

True, but also like, she's, you know,

27:39

witch, potion and all that kind of

27:41

stuff, or I guess, more like magical,

27:43

yeah, she does potion stuff too, like

27:45

she's not, but they both do potions,

27:47

but she's got magical remedies and stuff

27:49

like that, so I wonder if like,

27:51

like, like, she's, she's, she's, under surcy

27:53

so she knows some stuff so like

27:55

maybe the help is like oh drink

27:57

this potion and you know it's increase

27:59

your movement speed by 15 meters and

28:01

you get three extra attacks and a

28:04

bonus action etc etc etc etc etc

28:06

etc or maybe it's like an army

28:08

of guinea pigs oh oh that'd be

28:10

so fun that'd be really fun yeah

28:12

I kind of want that to be

28:14

the answer I think that'd be very

28:16

cool Percy can tell that Rayna needs

28:18

some alone time to regain her composure,

28:20

so he heads out, but he can't

28:22

stop himself from turning around before he

28:24

leaves out the door and asking, uh,

28:26

when I destroyed where you lived, what

28:28

happened? Yeah, what did I do? How

28:30

did I do that? The dogs growl,

28:32

Rayna silences them, and then explains that

28:34

Percy destroyed the power of their mistress.

28:36

He freed prisoners who took revenge on

28:38

everyone who lived on the island. So

28:40

my question. Is that referring to the

28:42

guinea pig dudes? The pirates. The pirates,

28:45

like, because it was not just the

28:47

guinea pigs, right? Because Annabeth had like

28:49

magical candy, right? They're like brought them

28:51

back, like, did she have like magically

28:53

Jujubies or something? Vitins, thank you. Right,

28:55

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, from Hermes's back,

28:57

cool. So yeah, didn't she like pour

28:59

like more than she needed in? And

29:01

then they kind of left, so I

29:03

guess this all happened off- Yeah. If

29:05

I recall Blackbeard might have been involved,

29:07

but it's been all, okay, I'm getting

29:09

nods, okay, I was right, yes, yes,

29:11

yes, yes. So that would be my

29:13

guess as to what happens. This feels

29:15

very much like next time around when

29:17

we're in Seattle, like we'll get the

29:19

full story, so I'm not like sweating

29:21

it too much, but that's what I

29:24

think is the situation. So it at

29:26

least made me feel good of when

29:28

I was reading the cells, I was

29:30

like, I didn't forget the Sea of

29:32

the Sea of monsters, the Sea of

29:34

monsters, the Sea of monsters, the Sea

29:36

of monsters, And by we, I mean,

29:38

my brain. Reina says it was tough,

29:40

but they survived, and it's probably for

29:42

the best that they are away from

29:44

their old home anyway. But Percy apologizes

29:46

nonetheless, and Reina goes, an apology. Not

29:48

very Roman at all, Percy Jackson. It's

29:50

like, you are so close to getting

29:52

it, Reina. You are right there. Everybody

29:54

else, with a different sword. It's one

29:56

of those, like, yes, obviously, we know,

29:58

but yeah, he fights different. Doesn't he

30:00

call all the gods, by the Greek

30:03

names? Like, come on. The ghosts are

30:05

calling him Greek, I don't know why.

30:07

He keeps calling Mars, Ares, what's the

30:09

deal? Why does he keep putting Taziki

30:11

sauce on all of his food? He

30:13

won't stop talking about olive oil, yeah,

30:15

like, come on. Geez. He has that

30:17

blue eye thing on his Kiche. She

30:19

then says, you'd make an interesting prayer

30:21

tour. I hope you'll think about my

30:23

offer, so interesting way to end the

30:25

chapter, which I have retitled, Turn Down,

30:27

period. For what? Thank you. Thank you.

30:29

I was really proud of that one

30:31

on the Amtrak. Did a little silent

30:33

fist bump to myself as the person

30:35

next to me in the quiet car

30:37

continued their 48-minute phone conversation. sat next

30:39

to her because she was the only

30:42

person on the train with a n95

30:44

and I was like, you're my kind

30:46

of girl. And then she talked on

30:48

the phone for more than half of

30:50

the ride in the quiet car. Unforgivable.

30:52

Anyway, what would you re-title Chapter 15?

30:54

So you want to be friends? Great.

30:56

Cool. Beautiful. Let's continue on. We'll do

30:58

Chapter 16 or at least part of

31:00

it before intermission. So Chapter 16. Also

31:02

called Percy. But we will re-tittle. Lunch

31:04

felt like a funeral party. Everybody ate.

31:06

People talked in hushed tones. Nobody seemed

31:08

particularly happy. The other campers kept glancing

31:10

over at Percy like he was the

31:12

corpse of honor. And I was just

31:14

imagining it, like I know this is

31:16

not what the point of this is,

31:18

but I'm imagining people at a funeral

31:21

eating and then looking over at that

31:23

casket with disdain, like, oh my God.

31:25

Poor guy. Never liked him anyway. But

31:27

also, I've been to a few funerals.

31:29

Usually. Usually don't eat in the same

31:31

room as the... That's why they're so

31:33

upset. Yeah, scary. Oh my God. Why

31:35

do you why he's looking at me?

31:37

Yeah, it's like the Mona Lisa. Yeah,

31:39

but the Another thing that I think

31:41

is funny is just like, I don't

31:43

understand how the people at this camp.

31:45

See? Percy Jackson and the other two

31:47

who also held their own in the

31:49

war games. See the three of them

31:51

absolutely dominate the war games and then

31:53

get sent on the quest and they're

31:55

like, oh, cohort five ruins everything. They're

31:57

not gonna be able to do anything.

31:59

He made every water cannon explode. Hazel

32:02

tunneled underground. They wrote an elephant into

32:04

the thing and destroyed everything. And they're

32:06

like, these guys can't do anything. What

32:08

are you talking about? Were you not

32:10

all there? Wait, everyone was there. I

32:12

don't. So you're all right there. You're

32:14

right there. I don't get, yeah, right,

32:16

yes. Jason was also there too, he's

32:18

good, like, God, they're all chord five,

32:20

here they go again, like, ah, ridiculous,

32:22

geeks and geeks. And Greeks, so. Reina

32:24

then gives a quick speech of good

32:26

luck. Octavian gives these grave omens from

32:28

a beanie baby and says that hard

32:30

times are ahead, but the camp will

32:32

be saved by an unexpected hero. And

32:34

the narrator perceived then says whose initials

32:36

were probably Octavian. Those are not initials.

32:38

That's just a name. But also here's

32:41

another, like, Babe Ruth pointing to Centerfield

32:43

calling shot moment. Babe Ruth was a

32:45

baseball player. He liked to call his

32:47

shots. Yeah, he did it. He did

32:49

it at one time. But my big

32:51

point here is that the unexpected hero

32:53

is going to be Tyson. Because I

32:55

think Tyson's showing up. They've already referenced,

32:57

like, Tyson's on his way. Don't leave.

32:59

So it feels like, initially I was

33:01

thinking, like, oh, Tyson water, maybe he'll

33:03

find his way up to Alaska. But

33:05

if Tyson's whole thing is like coming

33:07

to Camp Jupiter, I could see Fisa

33:09

Fortuna battles coming around and then Tyson

33:11

just as like a like a big

33:13

punch when it seems like a big

33:15

punch when it seems like things like

33:17

things like things like things like things

33:20

like things like things like things like

33:22

things are bad. We'll just have to

33:24

see. I hope so. I'm Tyson. I

33:26

hope he comes, it feels like he's

33:28

coming back, it's just a matter of

33:30

when. Will he show up in Alaska?

33:32

Will he show up at the very

33:34

end to kind of usher in the

33:36

plot of the third book? Many things

33:38

are at play. The campers then go

33:40

off for their afternoon classes, which all

33:42

sound cool because it's like fighting people

33:44

and playing paintball with ghosts. And I

33:46

was like, damn, why did I have

33:48

to take multi variable calculus? I don't

33:50

know, but they also did Latin. I

33:52

saw that. Very excited about that. So

33:54

then Percy, hazel and Frank go to

33:56

pack. Percy cleans up his backpack and

33:59

he keeps most of his bargain mart

34:01

supplies in there. He's got an extra

34:03

purple shirt and jeans. He's got nectar,

34:05

ambrosia, snacks, money, and camping supplies. And

34:07

he also has a scroll of introduction

34:09

from Rayna and the Senate, which he

34:11

can show to any retired legionaire along

34:13

the way, and they will help the

34:15

team. He leaves his orange shirt on

34:17

his bunk shirt on his bunk and

34:19

then says, I'll be back. But he

34:21

was really thinking about Annabith and his

34:23

old life. And then Percy continues, I'm

34:25

not leaving for good, but I have

34:27

to help these guys. They took me

34:29

in, they deserve to survive, which I

34:31

think is very sweet. And I think

34:33

that's a sentiment that I can understand.

34:35

Like I am fiercely loyal when I

34:38

first meet someone that I first meet

34:40

someone that I really like and trust.

34:42

So I think that this is cool,

34:44

that right away is like, yeah, these

34:46

people are good to me, I want

34:48

to be good to me, I want

34:50

to be good to be good to

34:52

be good to them. Yeah, I want

34:54

to be good to them. I want

34:56

to be good to be good to

34:58

be good to them. I want to

35:00

be good to be good to them.

35:02

I want to be good to them.

35:04

I want to be good to be

35:06

good to be good to be good

35:08

to be good to be good to

35:10

them. Yeah, it's really touching and it's

35:12

also great to see that it's like

35:14

without all of his memories, Percy is

35:16

still Percy. Right, and this is what

35:19

gives me a lot of confidence. I

35:21

think I said this in an earlier

35:23

episode, but people were worried like, oh,

35:25

when Jason gets his memories back, is

35:27

he gonna be a different person? I

35:29

think this is kind of like proof

35:31

of concept that if he is still

35:33

Percy, then Jason before memory wipe was

35:35

also a good dude. So we've got

35:37

two good dudes. in this exchange, I'm

35:39

very excited about this. Then Percy is

35:41

the narrator says, quote, the t-shirt didn't

35:43

answer, thankfully. So good, so good. So

35:45

one of the roommates, Bobby, and I

35:47

was like, Bobby! He got referenced at

35:49

the end of the last year, Bobby!

35:51

Yeah, hi, Bobby! Who I very correctly

35:53

predicted was not going to be one

35:55

of the seven, or at least it

35:58

would be a wild come up if

36:00

he was. Bobby gives them a ride

36:02

to the border on Hannibal, the elephant,

36:04

and Percy looks out over the camp

36:06

and he takes in its beauty and

36:08

he thinks about how. it's just another

36:10

normal day here at Camp Jupiter, but

36:12

then he looks out onto the horizon

36:14

and storm clouds are gathering as they

36:16

always do in these books before the

36:18

big terrible thing happens. So do you

36:20

think like as he's leaving, is he

36:22

wonder if like the camp looks suspiciously

36:24

like Long Island despite being on the

36:26

West Coast? What do you mean? Like...

36:28

Oh, sorry. This would be setting up

36:30

a really diverse... Oh, a reverse of

36:32

how they always film Camp Halfwood in

36:34

Vancouver? Yes. Because it's like even in

36:37

the movie and the show. Well, yeah.

36:39

I mean, they filmed in Canada. The

36:41

tax breaks were filming there. They're just

36:43

so good. I just have to insist

36:45

if we ever get to a live-action

36:47

camp cheaper. They must film the camp

36:49

on Long Island. It only makes sense.

36:51

They had. That would be so good.

36:53

That would be so good. Yeah, he

36:55

looks out, thinks about all of this,

36:57

and then he understands why Rana wants

36:59

so badly to protect this safe haven

37:01

for demigods, young, and old. He thinks

37:03

about sharing this place with Annabeth, and

37:05

I just wrote my notes, she's never

37:07

gonna go for that. There's no Annabeth?

37:09

Chase is gonna be like, yeah, let's

37:11

settle down in this college town and

37:13

never leave? No, dude. No way, she's

37:16

gotta go build buildings and stuff, come

37:18

on, bro. Bobby drops them off, and

37:20

then terminus asks them for IDs. And

37:22

Percy thought that he only guarded the

37:24

city, and he says, glad to see

37:26

you too, Mr. Rule Flouter. Normally, yes,

37:28

I guard the city, but for international

37:30

departures, I like to provide extra security

37:32

at the camp borders. You really should

37:34

have allowed two hours before your planned

37:36

departure time, you know, but we'll have

37:38

to make do. Now, come over here,

37:40

so I can pat you down. So

37:42

I can pat you down. First, I

37:44

was like international. But also, you know

37:46

who would love terminus? My dad, Joel

37:48

P. Schuber. Oh, he loves getting to

37:50

the airport early. Who loves it. And

37:52

I do too. But I love getting

37:55

to the airport. Like, I tried to

37:57

arrive an hour before boarding. I feel

37:59

like that is early and safe, but

38:01

not ridiculous. Especially because I have TSA

38:03

pre-check. Like, pretty chill. Hour before boarding

38:05

is usually like an hour and a

38:07

half, hour and four minutes before the

38:09

flight. You're usually. in good hands, you're

38:11

gonna be fine, you're gonna have enough

38:13

time to like swing by even a

38:15

lounge, if you've lounge access, get some

38:17

food, and then like boom, you're good

38:19

to go. But my dad wants to

38:21

get there like, when does the airport

38:23

open? Like he wants to get up

38:25

so early, so early. So I think

38:27

Joel would absolutely love Terminus. I also

38:29

have TSA pre-check. It's good. It's good.

38:31

So he says he wants to do

38:33

this pat-down, so Percy then goes, but

38:36

you don't have, uh, sure. And then

38:38

narrative, Percy says, Terminus conducted a rigorous

38:40

mental pat-down. And I just wrote my

38:42

notes here. Rick is cooking with gas.

38:44

Like, he's just doing, this book is

38:46

so fun, and he's doing so well

38:48

writing the whole thing, but specifically when

38:50

it's narrative, Percy chapters, they're just really

38:52

fun. He's really hitting it, it, it's

38:54

just great. Yeah. opening up this book

38:56

and it was just like, the minute

38:58

Percy was back, it was like I

39:00

was amongst old friends wrapped in a

39:02

cozy blanket. It was just really nice

39:04

to have him back. Yeah, I think

39:06

in this conversation we also said, we

39:08

didn't realize how much we missed Percy

39:10

until he came back. Like the whole

39:12

time I was reading The Lost Hero's

39:15

like, it's good, like, I don't know

39:17

why people don't like it so much.

39:19

And then I read like five pages,

39:21

five words of Percy. And I was

39:23

like, oh, oh, right. Right. Right. I

39:25

totally get it, of course. So yeah,

39:27

I totally understand. Terminus asks if he

39:29

has anything to declare, and Percy says,

39:31

I declare that this is stupid. Never

39:33

change, mercy! Terminus gets offended, and he

39:35

checks their IDs. He asks if Hazel

39:37

has any precious medals to declare, she

39:39

says no. And then he goes, well,

39:41

last time. And then she goes, no!

39:43

And then after checking Frank and complementing

39:45

his haircut, which means his haircut probably

39:47

sucks, Terminus asks him if he needs

39:49

directions. And like every white man over

39:51

the age of 45, after Frank says

39:54

no, he gives the directions anyway. Look,

39:56

Joel loves to do this. People that

39:58

used to be like, I used to

40:00

my engineering company love to do this.

40:02

They would always love to be like,

40:04

oh, here's how you should get to

40:06

the airport. It'd be like, Google knows

40:08

better than you. And they're like, oh,

40:10

you should do this. Be like, no,

40:12

I should not. No, I should not.

40:14

Kevin, I'm not going to do that.

40:16

And then eventually I just started like

40:18

nodding and we're like, oh, yeah, that

40:20

sounds good. And I just feel like,

40:22

all right, Google, where are we going?

40:24

I don't think Kevin listens to the

40:26

podcast, so I think I'm okay. So

40:28

he instructs them of what BART route

40:30

to take, shadow to the BART getting

40:33

mentioned, Percy is surprised that they don't

40:35

have a magical BART train of sorts.

40:37

And I don't know where he's getting

40:39

this, it's not like they have a

40:41

magical Long Island railroad train for Camp

40:43

Halfblood, so I don't understand this standard

40:45

that he's set for them. I mean,

40:47

I think he's just like, I don't

40:49

have any memories, Terminus then says, magic

40:51

trains, you'll be wanting your own security

40:53

lane and a pass to the executive

40:55

lounge next. Which I love that the

40:57

airport jokes just like keep coming and

40:59

coming. Just travel safely and watch out

41:01

for polyboats or Polybities? Polybities is how

41:03

they say it later on. Watch out

41:05

for Polybities. Talk about scoff laws. Bah!

41:07

I wish I could throttle him with

41:09

my bare hands. Terminus is great. I'm

41:12

a big fan. I need Terminus and

41:14

Coach Hedge and Vitalious to just all

41:16

have a conversation. It would be so

41:18

great. Thankfully, Percy goes, who? And Terminus

41:20

does not answer. He just warns for

41:22

them to be careful of him. So

41:24

then they get forced beyond the boundary

41:26

of the camp. And when they look

41:28

back, the camp appears to be missing.

41:30

Very camp half blood, strawberry fields, sort

41:32

of thing. And Percy then asks Frank

41:34

and Hazel if they know who he

41:36

was talking about. I love Percy's dedication

41:38

to leaving no stone unturned. And Hazel

41:40

says, she's never heard of Polybities, and

41:42

the book explains that she sounds it

41:44

out, Po-Lib-O-T's, because she was sounding it

41:46

out, and I was like, could we

41:48

do this for every character? Can Hazel

41:50

always say people's names? I would personally

41:53

love to have this around, so that

41:55

I don't have to record 50 episodes

41:57

of a podcast, and then Dr. Moyi

41:59

would be like, you're saying it wrong.

42:01

So much easier. So Frank says, sounds

42:03

Greek. Percy goes, that narrows it down.

42:05

Percy's already being very sassy and I'm

42:07

here for it. Percy says that they

42:09

should get moving because they are now

42:11

on the radar of every monster within

42:13

five miles just because of their smell

42:15

alone. And then Percy states that they

42:17

arrived at the Alameda docks after two

42:19

hours. And I was thinking two hours.

42:21

And then I wanted to Google Maps

42:23

and it is like a long walk

42:25

to go from where they are to

42:27

like the first part station so it

42:29

doesn't have making sense. But. before we

42:32

get into like this whole travel and

42:34

how this all goes, we will take

42:36

our break for intermission. Ooh! But if

42:38

you are listening to the podcast after

42:40

the fact, we will take our break

42:42

for our middle break, the Son of

42:44

Fortune. So let's all say it, right?

42:46

Pretty good. We'll all say goodbye to

42:48

the podcast people. Hello

42:51

and welcome to the Sun of Fortune Shubio

42:53

edition back in the Shubio back with some

42:55

updates about the podcast. So let's get into

42:57

those podcast updates first. I forgot to mention

42:59

this in the past couple of middle breaks

43:01

just because I was putting those together very

43:03

quickly, but I wanted to wish nothing but

43:05

the best for anyone who's affected by the

43:07

wildfires going on in LA. It is absolutely

43:09

devastating to see what was happening and the

43:11

damage and I just hope everybody is safe,

43:13

and everyone's doing okay. donate some money already

43:15

to some mutual aid funds that are helping

43:17

out folks affected by the fires. So last

43:19

time we donated to charity it was 700

43:21

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43:23

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43:26

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43:28

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43:30

do. One of those over taking a week

43:32

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43:34

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should have been later. So I just wanted

43:44

to let people know that I'm thinking of

43:46

you. I'm hoping everything's gonna be okay for

43:48

you all and I'm wishing you nothing but

43:50

the best and also using the podcast charity

43:52

funds to try and help some folks in

43:54

need. Now I do have updates merchandise wise

43:56

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43:58

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44:00

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44:06

going to get into too much detail about

44:09

them now since you can't purchase them, but

44:11

you can purchase them at the upcoming live

44:13

shows that I'm doing because I will be

44:15

bringing them to the live shows. So we've

44:17

got a bunch of shows coming up in

44:19

the near future future. We've got three in

44:21

February and if you saw I posted on

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a post it. What chapters will be covering

44:25

at those shows? So February 1st will be

44:27

in Hartford Connecticut with Emily and Phoebe for

44:29

Monster Donut We'll be covering the son of

44:31

Neptune chapters 29 and 30 then February 9th

44:33

will be in Baltimore Maryland with Baltimore's own

44:35

Sherry Gore that's a half TNO half Potter

44:37

the show will be covering chapters 32 and

44:39

33 for the TNO portion and then we'll

44:41

be doing a recap of the wild Harry

44:43

Potter iPhone game and its absurd plot for

44:45

the Potter host portion and then on February

44:47

23rd I'll be in Richmond Virginia with Johnny

44:49

Frelixine. That is another half T&O, half potter

44:52

of the show for the T&O half. We'll

44:54

be covering chapters 34 and 35 of the

44:56

Sun of Neptune and then the potteros portion

44:58

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45:00

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I missed you also dearly. Let's get

49:15

into act two, do as much as

49:18

we can do. Cool, so they were

49:20

about to go on the Bart adventure.

49:22

So what they do is they let

49:24

us know as narrator Percy is like,

49:26

oh yeah, it took us two hours

49:28

and then he takes us back to

49:31

the beginning of the trip. So he

49:33

says that there were no monster attacks

49:35

on this trip. Nobody looked at Percy

49:37

like he was a homeless wild child.

49:39

Percy, you ever been on the bar?

49:41

There's always something weirder happening on the

49:43

bar, no matter what. And fun fact,

49:46

if you're going on the bar and

49:48

you ever hear something that an elevator

49:50

is out of service, it means someone

49:52

pooped in the elevator. So yeah, it's

49:54

like when the McFlary machine is down.

49:56

It doesn't, no, people don't poop in

49:59

the McFlary machine. They lie to

50:01

you and they say that McFlary machine isn't working

50:03

when really it's just they've already cleaned it But

50:05

I think they like pass some law like nationally

50:08

to like make it to where there was something

50:10

I feel like I saw on social media that

50:12

was like McFlary machines there can like people can

50:14

decide for their own now Okay,

50:27

so for anyone that couldn't hear, McDonald's used

50:29

to not be able to fix their own

50:31

machines, they had to get someone else to

50:33

do it, there was a monopoly, but now

50:35

McDonald's can fix their own machines.

50:38

Yay! One corporation, but here's a revolution!

50:40

Extend right to repair it to the public!

50:42

Yeah, power to the people! Let me get

50:44

in there with a wrench if I want

50:46

one! I don't know what I'm doing, I

50:49

just need icebread! So. Frank has his spear,

50:51

his bow, and his quiver in a ski

50:53

bag. And Hazel has her cavalry sword wrapped

50:55

in her bedroll and slung over her back.

50:57

So to the untrained eye, they just look

51:00

like a bunch of high schoolers going on

51:02

an overnight trip. Quote, they walked to Rockridge

51:04

Station, bought their tickets with mortal money, and

51:06

hopped on the bar train. Now I. wrote,

51:08

the walk alone to Rock Ridge Station is

51:11

about two hours. Like it is not,

51:13

you can't just, it's not just like,

51:15

oh yeah, they walked to the station.

51:17

They went on a hike to the

51:20

station, like it is hard. There's like

51:22

a big highway and hills, like it

51:24

is not an easy route. So they,

51:26

well Percy did pack snacks. That's true.

51:28

So he is fine. But also Rock

51:31

Ridge Station is fun because that's one

51:33

of the ones that I would use

51:35

quite a bit. It's like in Oakland.

51:37

in Oakland and their good alameda, people

51:40

in the Bay Area know what's going on,

51:42

everyone else is like, please stop talking about

51:44

this narrative versus. How does the BART compare

51:46

to the New York City subway system? It

51:48

is nice and that it goes very far. It's

51:51

obviously worse, like it's no question, way worse,

51:53

but it's like definitely better than other cities

51:55

that I've lived. The main issue that I

51:57

have with the BART is that it doesn't

51:59

run. 24 hours that sucks and like

52:01

the whole thing is like oh we

52:03

repair it overnight so that it doesn't

52:05

have delays and stuff I'm like yeah

52:07

but also I don't have to like

52:10

leave the bar at 11 37 p.m.

52:12

if I'm out doing stuff so that

52:14

was annoying of having to like catch

52:16

the last part home whereas New York

52:18

is just like the worst case scenarios

52:20

you're like oh I gotta wait 30

52:22

minutes for a G train or whatever

52:24

but like at least a train is

52:26

coming. Do you guys even have trains

52:28

in Philly? Oh nice, good, thank you.

52:30

I was gonna say, you're saying septa

52:33

like it's good, but I don't know

52:35

that it is. Its name is septa.

52:37

They're going straight tomorrow? Power to the

52:39

people, let's go! Cool, awesome. Anyway, septa...

52:41

Every time they say septa, it just

52:43

sounds like septic, and it just can't...

52:45

If you sound like crap, how good

52:47

can you be? Nared of Percy says,

52:49

they got off in Oakland, they had

52:51

to walk through some rough neighborhoods, but

52:53

nobody bothered them. Whenever the local gang

52:56

members came close enough to look in

52:58

Percy's eyes, they quickly veered away. He'd

53:00

perfected his wolf stare over the last

53:02

few months, a look that said, however

53:04

bad you think you are, I'm worse.

53:06

After strangling sea monsters and running over

53:08

Gorgens in a police car, Percy wasn't

53:10

scared of gangs. Pretty much nothing in

53:12

the mortal world scared him anymore. Scared

53:14

him anymore. Now. I did live in

53:16

the Berkeley Oakland area for about seven

53:19

months. I personally walked many places, never

53:21

ran into a gang. So I think

53:23

this might be like old guy writing

53:25

a book about Oakland. Because at least

53:27

to my knowledge, that's not like a

53:29

huge concern of just like walking around

53:31

this part. Like sure, there definitely are

53:33

some rough neighborhoods. But it's not like

53:35

you're walking behind you're like, oh no,

53:37

gang violence. Like you're just transferring trains?

53:39

Like, I got us. All right, man.

53:42

How close do you see the craziness

53:44

in your eyes? That's how you really

53:46

get someone to not mess with you.

53:48

So when they arrive at the docks,

53:50

Percy looks out onto the bay and

53:52

he's excited because they're going to be

53:54

in his father's domain. So they're just

53:56

going to have advantage over any foe

53:58

that comes across them. And he starts

54:00

skin. the boats for a tri-reme or

54:02

the boat from his dreams that he

54:05

saw, the orgo-to judgment day, Leo's working

54:07

on. Nothing jumps out to him. So

54:09

he asks Hazel and Frank if they

54:11

know what they're looking for. And Hazel

54:13

says, I didn't even know we had

54:15

a Navy. And then Frank points out

54:17

something and goes, oh, you don't think?

54:19

And it is a tiny little dinky

54:21

covered in a purple tarp with SBQR.

54:23

And I just wrote, oh no, not

54:25

a tongue in cheek Navy. It makes

54:28

sense. The Romans were land people I

54:30

should have known. I should have known.

54:32

That when they said you love the

54:34

full Roman Navy, Roman Navy, they meant.

54:36

One boat. It's just a metal rowboat.

54:38

It doesn't even have oars. A fun

54:40

note is that Percy unties the knots

54:42

with ease. So I'll have to keep

54:44

that stored away for way in the

54:46

future when I start doing the silly

54:48

like improvised live shows like I did

54:51

with Potter List stuff. Like if I

54:53

do Percy Jackson Survivor, Percy's gonna be

54:55

elite at the challenges because they always

54:57

have to untie knots in Survivor. They're

54:59

always untying knots. So he's good at

55:01

that. That's fun. A little nautical power

55:03

for him. And the paint on this

55:05

boat is faded, but the name Pax

55:07

is visible. Since I took Latin in

55:09

high school, this means peace. And there

55:11

are eyes painted on the boat, and

55:14

they're at sea level, so it looks

55:16

like the boat's about to go to

55:18

sleep. The boat has two benches on

55:20

the inside, a thing of steel wool,

55:22

a cooler, frayed rope, and a plastic

55:24

bag filled with empty coke floating in

55:26

scummy water. So fun, seems like a

55:28

cool vessel. Frank says, behold, the mighty

55:30

Roman Navy, which is great. Hazel thinks

55:32

that this has to be a mistake

55:34

because this thing is just a piece

55:37

of junk. And then Percy thinks of

55:39

Octavian laughing at them, but he decides

55:41

not to let it get to him.

55:43

Percy having a very mature approach to

55:45

the Octavian. conundrum. And the reason that

55:47

Percy is not worried is because at

55:49

the end of the day, Pax is

55:51

a boat and his dad is the

55:53

god of the sea. So how bad

55:55

can things really be? He points at

55:57

the steel wall and it scrubs the

56:00

boat clean. He points at the rope

56:02

and the boat. unties itself from the

56:04

dock and he's not worried about the

56:06

lack of oars because he can tell

56:08

that he'll be able to control it.

56:10

He can just feel like this boot

56:12

is ready for him to tell it

56:14

where to go. He then just says

56:16

this will do hop in and Frank

56:18

and Hazel are shocked but they do

56:20

climb in. Hazel looks extra nervous which

56:23

we will soon understand why. Then, the

56:25

sleepy Gia voice enters Percy's brain, and

56:27

the boat begins to rock. They're already

56:29

out on the waters at this point.

56:31

And she says that Juno was right

56:33

and that Percy would have been safe

56:35

if he stayed in Camp Jupiter. But

56:37

then, she says, quote, now it's too

56:39

late. You chose pain and misery. You're

56:41

part of my plan now. My important

56:43

little pawn. And I refuse to believe

56:46

that Percy is going to go along

56:48

and be her little pawn unless she

56:50

does some uncontrollable. He couldn't defeat it.

56:52

over him sort of thing like Riku

56:54

in kingdom hearts where we have like

56:56

dark Percy and then he's got to

56:58

fight Jason like I don't think Percy

57:00

is going to be tricked into doing

57:02

anything I think if anything happens it's

57:04

going to be some sort of situation

57:06

where it's like some magical power that

57:09

he had no chance of beating has

57:11

possessed him into being an evil version

57:13

of himself. So unless she's doing that

57:15

I don't think he's gonna be her

57:17

little pawn but that's just me. Where

57:19

are you at, since you also don't

57:21

know? I also don't know, but now

57:23

you're just making me think, like, is

57:25

there going to be a nobody version

57:27

of Percy running around? So when you

57:29

lose X and X, when you lose

57:32

your soul in kingdom hearts, your body

57:34

becomes heartless and your soul becomes a

57:36

no body? Because you have no, no

57:38

body? God, now it's just been too

57:40

long. I think, I think that's, ugh.

57:42

Gosh, kingdom hearts. You become one and

57:44

then the other. Uh-huh. There's like, there's

57:46

one for each. When the thing happens,

57:48

it creates one of each. Yeah, it's

57:50

got, the games are so good, but

57:52

now I haven't played in like a

57:55

year or so, that memory is just

57:57

gone. Gosh. There's a bunch of YouTube

57:59

videos that'll help you out. And they're

58:01

all seven hours long, so. But it's

58:03

all critical information. and information that he

58:05

growled, get off my ship, but I

58:07

feel like it was definitely, get off

58:09

my ship. And Frank goes, what? And

58:11

Percy replies, nothing. Let's see what this

58:13

robot can do. And I feel like,

58:15

given the description of the robot, it's

58:18

very small, I feel like Frank definitely

58:20

heard you say, get off my ship.

58:22

It does say in the narration that

58:24

he growled, get off my ship, but

58:26

I feel like it was definitely enough

58:28

where Frank was like, huh? And I

58:30

think it's funny, obviously just with Percy

58:32

hearing things and no one else hearing

58:34

things. It's funny that he didn't describe

58:36

it. Percy was just like, ah, they

58:38

probably didn't hear me like, I don't

58:41

know, this feels like a small boat.

58:43

Yeah. narrative Percy then ends the chapter

58:45

by saying, quote, he turned the boat

58:47

to the north and in no time

58:49

they were speeding along at 15 knots,

58:51

which that could mean anything. I have

58:53

no idea what that means. That could

58:55

be really fast, that could be really

58:57

slow. I couldn't tell you anything about

58:59

it. Does anyone, is 15 knots fast?

59:01

Not really, hmm. It is a dingy.

59:04

Yeah, 15, nah, let's Google it. 15

59:06

knots, two miles per hour, dada, dada,

59:08

17.2 miles per hour. Yes, ma. It

59:11

means walking, I guess. Yeah, I mean,

59:13

not, but not sprinting if you're fast

59:15

enough. Yeah, that's, that's okay. It's gonna

59:18

take a while to get to Seattle.

59:20

Yeah, it's gonna take a bit, but

59:22

we'll have to see. But yes, they

59:24

are going in 15 knots, which means

59:26

something, and they're heading for the Golden

59:29

Gate Bridge. So that is the end

59:31

of chapter 16, which I've retitled, we

59:33

control the Navy, because at the beginning,

59:35

you would think that's impressive, that's impressive.

59:37

Do you have a retitling? I have

59:40

a similar one. Just like, I become

59:42

supreme ruler of the Roman Navy. Of

59:44

the Roman Navy. Oh yeah, what's like

59:46

the highest level of Navy? Like. Probably

59:48

Commodore? Captain? Admiral? Admiral? Admiral's the guest.

59:51

Let's see. The admiral. Yes. Okay. So,

59:53

let's get into a. as much of

59:55

Chapter 17 as we can do. Chapter

59:57

17 is called Hazel. We will re-title

59:59

it, but we're not gonna finish this

1:00:02

chapter on the stage, so you'll have

1:00:04

to wait for the future. Everyone at

1:00:06

the show is gonna have to wait

1:00:08

like months. So. The beginning of this

1:00:10

chapter is, quote, hazel hated boats. Uh,

1:00:13

yeah, we figured. So she says that

1:00:15

she hates boats. She hates boats because

1:00:17

she gets seasick so easily that she

1:00:19

calls it sea plague. She's hidden this

1:00:21

from Percy out of fear of messing

1:00:24

up the quest, but she thinks back

1:00:26

to her life in Alaska with her

1:00:28

mom. No roads. All trains and boats.

1:00:30

And this is exactly how I live

1:00:32

my life in New York City. No

1:00:35

roads. Just subways and ferries. But also,

1:00:37

Hazel, please tell us about Alaska. I

1:00:39

really hope you tell us about Alaska

1:00:41

is what I wrote here. And thankfully,

1:00:43

that's the rest of the chapter to

1:00:46

my knowledge. So, yeah. She was hoping

1:00:48

that her condition of seasickness would have

1:00:50

improved since returning from the dead, but

1:00:52

nope, still sucks, not good at being

1:00:54

on a boat, especially in such a

1:00:57

small boat. Now she is woozy by

1:00:59

the time they pass the San Francisco

1:01:01

and Barcadero peers, which is like, that's

1:01:03

a good enough distance. It's not like

1:01:05

they got a little bit, and then

1:01:08

she was like, whoa, but still, she's

1:01:10

not far. They've not escaped the Bay

1:01:12

Area, and they're trying to go to

1:01:14

Seattle. So they've got quite a ways

1:01:16

away. They pass lounging sea lions, which

1:01:19

is very accurate, that is what they

1:01:21

do up there, and Hazel. I meant

1:01:23

to look this up, but I don't

1:01:25

remember. Pretty sure, Nureaus is his name.

1:01:27

There's nods, there's nods, right. Awesome, look

1:01:30

at me go, I can remember things,

1:01:32

we! So he then points a bony

1:01:34

finger at Percy and mouth something that

1:01:36

looks like, don't even think about it.

1:01:38

Hazel asks, what's up with this? And

1:01:41

Percy, knows that he's been here before

1:01:43

on a rescue mission for Annabeth, but

1:01:45

that is it. Frank asks if this

1:01:47

was on his was on his way

1:01:49

to camp Jupiter, to settle her stomach.

1:01:52

thinking happy thoughts like winning the war

1:01:54

games and writing Hannibal and Frank suddenly

1:01:56

becoming a leader and she opened this

1:01:58

book with like I don't have any

1:02:00

feelings for Frank and then immediately has

1:02:03

very obvious feelings for Frank. narrator Hazel

1:02:05

says quote he'd looked like a different

1:02:07

person when he'd scaled the walls calling

1:02:09

on the fifth cohort to attack the

1:02:11

way he'd swept the defenders off the

1:02:14

battlements hazel had never seen him like

1:02:16

that before she'd been so proud to

1:02:18

pin the centurion's badge to his shirt

1:02:20

like okay yeah this took one chapter

1:02:22

cool yeah alright hazel cool she then

1:02:25

maybe they can be friends oh yeah

1:02:27

or Friends. Dot, dot, dot, dot. Friends.

1:02:29

She then thinks of Nico, who had

1:02:31

wished her luck before they left. She

1:02:33

was hoping that he would stay at

1:02:36

camp long enough to defend from the

1:02:38

impending battle, but he said that he

1:02:40

was leaving as well. He had to

1:02:42

go for the underworld to help out

1:02:44

Pluto. His reasoning is that Pluto needs

1:02:47

all the help that he can get,

1:02:49

because the fields of punishment look like

1:02:51

a prison riot. The theories are having

1:02:53

trouble keeping order, and he's also going

1:02:55

to try and track some of the

1:02:58

escaping. finding the doors of death. So

1:03:00

I think that's good. Could be very

1:03:02

useful for their Thanatos related mission. So

1:03:04

I at least, like I understand why

1:03:06

Hazle isn't want him to leave, but

1:03:09

for me and the quest, I think

1:03:11

he's more useful for our trio here

1:03:13

than he is just like being in

1:03:15

NBC and just like walking in a

1:03:17

square pattern for four days until the

1:03:20

feast of Fista Fortuna. You know what

1:03:22

also be useful? I'd be telling all

1:03:24

of his friends where the hell Percy

1:03:26

is. Yeah, but... There must be a

1:03:28

reason, but... I mean, I would believe

1:03:31

the reason is like, it's prophecy related

1:03:33

stuff, right? It's just like, this is

1:03:35

how it has to happen, we gotta

1:03:37

make it work. Like, we need Percy

1:03:39

to be like Jason, get fully entrenched,

1:03:42

and fully fall in love with Camp

1:03:44

Jupiter, and then be like, ha ha

1:03:46

ha. Like, Niko, Niko understands that, like,

1:03:48

like, you gotta keep the plan to

1:03:50

be a tough situation. for you and

1:03:53

Negro tells her not to worry because

1:03:55

he's adept at staying hidden. He tells

1:03:57

her to watch herself especially as she

1:03:59

approaches Alaska quote I'm not sure if

1:04:01

it'll make the Blackouts better or worse.

1:04:04

And I wrote The Blackouts! And soon

1:04:06

we learn about the Blackouts. Hazel laughs

1:04:08

at the notion that this quest will

1:04:10

be anything but horrible for her. And

1:04:12

Hazel tells Nico that if they free

1:04:15

Thanatos, she may never see him again

1:04:17

because surely Thanatos would send her back

1:04:19

to the underworld. And I feel like

1:04:21

it's possible, but maybe not. But then

1:04:23

I got worried, oh no, because of

1:04:26

the great prophecy. There's the whole oath

1:04:28

to keep with a final breath sort

1:04:30

of the final breath sort of thing.

1:04:32

we learned with his stick of doom

1:04:34

is that he might die very easily.

1:04:37

But now hazel also might die very

1:04:39

easily. So we have two new people

1:04:41

introduced, but very quickly established, like, don't

1:04:43

know how long they're gonna last. So

1:04:45

I don't feel good about either of

1:04:48

them making it out of this series.

1:04:50

I mean, they're all demigods. So they've

1:04:52

all got a pretty high. That is

1:04:54

also true. That is also true. And

1:04:56

I guess that does bring to question

1:04:59

because I've been trying to. with there

1:05:01

being two people that might die, like

1:05:03

maybe it makes the selection process easier

1:05:05

if there's... One less but I don't

1:05:07

know less option problem is at least

1:05:10

for me There's too many Greek people

1:05:12

that are in contention for me because

1:05:14

we already know it's gonna be leo

1:05:16

and Piper and then we would assume

1:05:18

Percy and Annabeth But like that's already

1:05:21

more than half being Greek. What is

1:05:23

Nico? I feel like he could be

1:05:25

the nice like middle ground of the

1:05:27

seven, but then like we only need

1:05:29

three Greeks. So like does Annabeth not

1:05:32

count like that feels weird person? Like

1:05:34

I don't know like I So narrator

1:05:36

Hazel then says, Nico took her hand.

1:05:38

His fingers were so pale, it was

1:05:40

hard to believe that Hazel and he

1:05:43

shared the same godly father. This is

1:05:45

cool. I like the establishing of children

1:05:47

of the same parent can look wildly

1:05:49

different. That's fun. Makes it easier for

1:05:51

casting purposes in the Prince of Jackson

1:05:54

TV. So I don't know if Rick

1:05:56

was thinking, like, maybe one day. He

1:05:58

tells her that he wanted to give

1:06:00

her a chance at Elysium. He says

1:06:02

it was the best he could do

1:06:05

for her, but now he wishes there

1:06:07

was another way because he doesn't want

1:06:09

to lose his sister. So with this,

1:06:11

is he saying there's not going to

1:06:14

be a way to bring you back

1:06:16

to life? Because Elysium, you have to

1:06:18

live like three good lives. Right? I

1:06:20

love the blessed. Oh. she's not supposed

1:06:22

to live for much longer so he's

1:06:25

like oh you haven't lived like long

1:06:27

enough of a life to earn elisium?

1:06:29

I guess I'm just wondering why he's

1:06:31

like oh I wanted to give you

1:06:33

the chance like like it's a foregone

1:06:36

conclusion that it won't happen. My impression

1:06:38

once again having I only gotten up

1:06:40

to the end of this chapter right

1:06:42

was that when she was in the

1:06:44

underworld prior because she had been dead

1:06:47

correct that she wasn't in elisium yes

1:06:49

so I think he was just saying

1:06:51

that like this time you might get

1:06:53

it Oh, okay. Oh, I've done this

1:06:55

to give you a shot at Lee.

1:06:58

Okay, so it's I wanted to do

1:07:00

this. That's why I have done it.

1:07:02

Not, oh, damn, you are gonna die

1:07:04

soon. I wanted to do this. Okay,

1:07:06

got you. It's like, you're back. You're

1:07:09

gonna die soon. I wanted to do

1:07:11

this. Okay, got you. It's like, you're

1:07:13

like, to do this. Okay, got you.

1:07:15

It's like, you're like, you're back. You're

1:07:17

back, because you're back, because I wanted

1:07:20

to give you're back, because I wanted

1:07:22

to give you're back, because I wanted

1:07:24

to give you're back, because I wanted

1:07:26

to give you're back, because I wanted

1:07:28

to give you're back, because I wanted

1:07:31

to give you're back, because I wanted

1:07:33

to give you're back, because I wanted

1:07:35

to give you're back, because I wanted

1:07:37

to give you're back, because I wanted

1:07:39

to give you're back, because I wanted

1:07:42

to give you're back, because I Then

1:07:44

he says that he doesn't want to

1:07:46

lose his sister. He doesn't say again,

1:07:48

but Hazel knows that he's thinking it.

1:07:50

He knows there is an implied again.

1:07:53

And now for a change, Hazel is

1:07:55

not jealous of Bianca, as she normally

1:07:57

is. Instead, she just wishes that she

1:07:59

could have had more time at camp

1:08:01

with Nico and all of her friends.

1:08:04

And she also doesn't want to die

1:08:06

a second time. Doesn't sound fun. I

1:08:08

don't think I'd want to do it

1:08:10

twice, so I get it. ski bag

1:08:12

is across his lap like he's on

1:08:15

an amusement ride which makes or think

1:08:17

of a time that Sammy brought her

1:08:19

to a Mardi Gras carnival, but she

1:08:21

shoves this memory away because she doesn't

1:08:23

want to risk a blackout. And now

1:08:26

I'm realizing, okay, clearly it seems like

1:08:28

if she thinks too much about her

1:08:30

past, she will black out, which of

1:08:32

course is bad, even though it would

1:08:34

tell us stuff about her backstory. But

1:08:37

of course, it's very bad. And we

1:08:39

don't want this to happen to hazel

1:08:41

too much. Frank asks if she's okay,

1:08:43

because she looks a little woozy. She

1:08:45

says that it's seasickness and explains that

1:08:48

she didn't think it would be so

1:08:50

bad. Frank pouts as if it's his

1:08:52

fault, which is something I can relate

1:08:54

to, like, even if something's not my

1:08:56

fault, but it feels like my fault,

1:08:59

like if something's not my fault, but

1:09:01

it feels like my trip, like if

1:09:03

I was going somewhere with Kelly, and

1:09:05

it was more of a me thing

1:09:07

like, I totally got this. He feels

1:09:10

bad like it's still his fault. He

1:09:12

rummages around in his bag. He says

1:09:14

that he's nectar and crackers. He wishes

1:09:16

that he had his grandmother's ginger because

1:09:18

that always works. Hazel smiles and says

1:09:21

that it's all good, but she appreciates

1:09:23

the effort. And he tries to pull

1:09:25

out a saltine, but it snaps in

1:09:27

his fingers and does goes all over

1:09:29

the place. And Hazel laughs and immediately

1:09:32

apologizes for laughing. And he says, no

1:09:34

problem. Guess you don't want that one.

1:09:36

Guess you don't. Percy's not paying attention

1:09:38

at all, which is very funny, because

1:09:40

I'm imagining this boat is very small.

1:09:43

So this whole thing is happening, and

1:09:45

Percy's just like staring out onto the

1:09:47

coast. So they pass Stinson Beach and

1:09:49

he points inland at a single mountain

1:09:51

and says that looks familiar and it's

1:09:54

got to be Mount Tam and the

1:09:56

very next line of the book is

1:09:58

Frank going Mount Tam Frank says that

1:10:00

kids of camp talk about it all

1:10:02

the time because there was a big

1:10:05

battle on the summit at the old

1:10:07

Titan base and Percy asks if either

1:10:09

of them were there and Hazel says

1:10:11

no, but Jason told her about it

1:10:13

Quote, the legion destroyed the enemy's palace

1:10:16

and about a million monsters. Jason had

1:10:18

to battle Creos, hand-to-hand combat with a

1:10:20

Titan, if you can imagine. And then

1:10:22

Percy mutters, I can imagine. He's so

1:10:24

intense. But I think it's actually funny

1:10:27

and an interesting way for us to

1:10:29

learn about Percy because we always think

1:10:31

of him as this light-hearted, jovial guy

1:10:33

and he's cracking all these jokes and

1:10:35

blah blah blah. But when you take

1:10:38

a step back, you realize a lot

1:10:40

of that stuff that he's doing is.

1:10:42

when he is the narrator. So if

1:10:44

you try to think of Percy Jackson

1:10:46

without all of his narrator jokes, which

1:10:49

is kind of I guess like Percy

1:10:51

Jackson on the TV show, like when

1:10:53

he doesn't have all of these jokes,

1:10:55

you think like, this guy's like kind

1:10:57

of serious. So I wonder if you

1:11:00

know, Percy might have said this, but

1:11:02

also if it was a narrator, Percy,

1:11:04

all right? So Hazel isn't really. sure

1:11:06

what he means by this, but she

1:11:08

does think that Percy reminds her of

1:11:11

Jason. And I appreciate that Rick is

1:11:13

not denying that the similarities exist between

1:11:15

them, because they are similar, but they

1:11:17

also have their differences. Narrator, here's all

1:11:19

says, quote, they had the same aura

1:11:22

of quiet power plus a kind of

1:11:24

sadness, like they'd seen their destiny and

1:11:26

knew it was only a matter of

1:11:28

time before they met a monster they

1:11:30

couldn't beat. And hazel thinks to herself

1:11:33

that she understands the feeling that she

1:11:35

understands the And then she watches the

1:11:37

sunset and thinks that she is less

1:11:39

than a week to live. She believes

1:11:41

that her journey ends by the feast

1:11:44

of Fortuna, whether the quest is successful

1:11:46

or not. At this point, I was

1:11:48

thinking, okay, are you laying hints? Am

1:11:50

I forgetting something? Like, is it just,

1:11:52

I guess the doors of death thing?

1:11:55

Like, she's just thinking, like, doors of

1:11:57

death is gonna happen. We're gonna free

1:11:59

Thanato, like, I know okay cool she

1:12:01

starts thinking about her first death and

1:12:03

the time leading up to it and

1:12:06

before she can stop herself she blacks

1:12:08

out and I was like oh no

1:12:10

hazel are you sure you're just on

1:12:12

a bow with safe people No, don't,

1:12:14

no, don't blackout, no! So, we get

1:12:17

this flashback in the past. The rental

1:12:19

house that they had in Alaska is

1:12:21

a clapboard box suspended on pilings over

1:12:23

the bay. I don't know what a

1:12:25

clapboard box is, but I feel like

1:12:28

the word clapboard box, like, paints the

1:12:30

scene well enough. So they're on a

1:12:32

box suspended on pilings over the bay.

1:12:34

Everything shakes when the train from anchorage

1:12:36

passes by. Hazle falls asleep to the

1:12:39

sound of water, lapping against the rocks

1:12:41

beneath the floorboard. So it seems like

1:12:43

not an ideal situation. Victorian home that

1:12:45

they're living in. It also is just

1:12:47

one room. It's got a hot plate

1:12:50

and an ice box for a kitchen

1:12:52

and then a corner of the room

1:12:54

is curtained off for hazels, bedroom and

1:12:56

quotation marks. So this would cost $5,000

1:12:58

a month in New York City. She's

1:13:01

got a mattress, she's got a storage

1:13:03

chest, and she's pinned up drawings and

1:13:05

old photos on the walls, but it

1:13:07

just makes her homesickness even worse. Her

1:13:09

mom is not home often. She doesn't

1:13:12

go by Queen Mary anymore. Instead, she

1:13:14

is Marie, the hired help. She cooks

1:13:16

and cleans, at a diner nearby for

1:13:18

fishermen, railroad workers, and sometimes Navy officers.

1:13:20

And she would return smelling of pine

1:13:23

saw in fried fish, which is definitely

1:13:25

something. Levesquette, Levesque, Levesque? Levesque? Levesque? Levesque?

1:13:27

That's like the audiobook said on. Then

1:13:29

we're rolling with that. Because they said,

1:13:31

Gia, so sure, they can't get anything

1:13:34

wrong. At night Marie, Levesque would transform

1:13:36

the voice, capital T. Capital V took

1:13:38

over, giving Hazel orders, putting her to

1:13:40

work on their horrible project. Naredo Hazel

1:13:42

says that winter was the worst time

1:13:45

of year, because the voice. And now

1:13:47

I'm realizing. That's I've watched zero minutes

1:13:49

of the voice, but I just know

1:13:51

they turn around dramatically So stoop dogs

1:13:53

on this season. It's pretty great. Oh

1:13:56

man now am I gonna have to

1:13:58

watch? Do they have wrappers or is

1:14:00

he trying to give singing advice? No,

1:14:02

he's giving like production advice Okay, they

1:14:04

should have a wrapping season. That would

1:14:07

be pretty cool. That would be pretty

1:14:09

good. I'd be into that. I'm gonna

1:14:11

call NBC? ABC? Fox? Which channel is

1:14:13

it on? I think NBC? NBC? All

1:14:15

right. Yeah. I'm gonna call up Robert?

1:14:18

NBC. Hello. I have an idea. So

1:14:20

Winter's the worst because the voice is

1:14:22

on television. The voice is in season

1:14:24

and it will linger around for longer

1:14:26

due to the constant darkness. Hazel is

1:14:29

delighted. When summer comes around, because the

1:14:31

sun is up all the time, so

1:14:33

she spends as much time in the

1:14:35

sun as she can, she would stay

1:14:37

away from home as much as possible.

1:14:40

But she wouldn't walk around town, because

1:14:42

it's too small of a town. Rumors

1:14:44

have already been spread by kids, and

1:14:46

it's infiltrated the whole town. And it's

1:14:48

already been spread by kids, and it's

1:14:51

infiltrated the whole town. They believe her

1:14:53

to be the child of a witch

1:14:55

who lives and rocks, what are we

1:14:57

doing here? Are you throwing bottles and

1:14:59

rocks at her also? Like, that might

1:15:02

just be old school racist. Oh, you're

1:15:04

right, because we're in the past and

1:15:06

she's black. Yes. Never mind, that makes

1:15:08

all of this make way more sense.

1:15:10

Thank you. Hazel would think about how

1:15:13

she could easily make their lives hell

1:15:15

because there's so much gold in the

1:15:17

hills, but she doesn't do it because

1:15:19

honestly, she can't blame them. So she

1:15:21

explained she would spend her days walking

1:15:24

the walking the hills. She attracted ravens

1:15:26

and that is certainly an ominous vibe.

1:15:28

She would go on these huge climbs

1:15:30

and drink water from snow melt waterfalls.

1:15:32

And she would think of her father

1:15:35

occasionally, wishing that he could come back

1:15:37

to save her mother from The Voice

1:15:39

and Gwen Stephanie. I've seen zero episodes,

1:15:41

but I know enough to get by.

1:15:43

She's also on this season. Oh, look,

1:15:46

I know key things. Isn't Robin Thicks

1:15:48

stupid ass on the show, too? No,

1:15:50

that's the mass singer. What are we

1:15:52

doing? Why does he have a job?

1:15:54

Why is he employed? He wasn't even

1:15:57

the best part of blurt like it.

1:15:59

Anyway, anyway. She would

1:16:01

wonder. If the ravens worked for him,

1:16:03

but then would think about how Pluto

1:16:05

said that this land was outside of

1:16:08

the God's domain and he couldn't protect

1:16:10

her there. Sometimes her memories of her

1:16:12

old life would feel so distant it

1:16:14

was like radio programs of Roosevelt discussing

1:16:16

the war. And sometimes the locals would

1:16:19

talk about the Japanese fighting in Alaskan

1:16:21

outer lands, but that felt even farther

1:16:23

away than her current predicament predicament. Now

1:16:25

one day in the middle of the

1:16:28

summer, she was out later than normal,

1:16:30

and she's following a horse. And it

1:16:32

looks like... the one that she had

1:16:34

written on her final day in New

1:16:37

Orleans with Sammy. She wonders if it's

1:16:39

the same horse. But she thinks, nah,

1:16:41

surely it can't be. And it was

1:16:43

eating something on the path and part

1:16:45

of her thinks that it may have

1:16:48

been one of these gold nuggets that

1:16:50

she would leave in her footsteps. She

1:16:52

calls out to the horse and approaches

1:16:54

it, but if she gets very close

1:16:57

to it, it runs away. And it

1:16:59

seems to be too well groomed to

1:17:01

be a stray horse. I know nothing

1:17:03

about horses, but I was like, yeah,

1:17:05

hazel, you're correct, sure. I fully believe

1:17:08

you. She then spent the rest of

1:17:10

the day trying to catch this horse.

1:17:12

And she lost track of time, which

1:17:14

is easy to do because of the

1:17:17

sun being up all of the time.

1:17:19

There was a point in the day

1:17:21

in which she stopped to get a

1:17:23

drink of water, and she thought that

1:17:25

it was 3 p.m. by the position

1:17:28

of the sun. Which is... a lot.

1:17:30

So she immediately freaks out of, oh

1:17:32

my gosh, I'm going to be in

1:17:34

so much trouble. So then she asks

1:17:37

the horse, are you trying to get

1:17:39

me in trouble? And then the horse

1:17:41

winnies. And I was like, hmm, hmm.

1:17:43

But then it, quote, sped away in

1:17:46

a blur of black and tan faster

1:17:48

than forked lightning, almost too quick for

1:17:50

her eyes to register. Hazel didn't understand

1:17:52

how, but the horse was definitely gone.

1:17:54

And I'm wondering, looking at the crowd

1:17:57

but I need tempest to come back

1:17:59

so that tempest can start dating Black

1:18:01

Jack so I am invested in the

1:18:03

return of tempest so that we can

1:18:06

have the relationship with blackjack. But what

1:18:08

would tempest blackjack baby be named? Blackjack

1:18:10

tempest twister? Like it's a, like, because

1:18:12

don't the sky get really dark when

1:18:14

you have? I think so. A hurricane

1:18:17

of sorts? I got some nods. I

1:18:19

don't know if they know where I

1:18:21

know, but I guess I get it,

1:18:23

right? Did I guess it? Did they

1:18:26

get together and they have a child?

1:18:28

Okay. Wild. All right,

1:18:30

cool. Well, I guess everybody, did you guys

1:18:32

have to go to the Amish country for

1:18:34

field trips, too? Or is that just me

1:18:37

in Central Jersey? Oh, you live there? Oh,

1:18:39

okay, cool. Did you ride a horse? Did

1:18:41

you ride a horse? Was there horse parking

1:18:43

outside? No. Okay, cool. Did you ride a

1:18:46

horse? Was there horse parking outside? No. Okay,

1:18:48

was there horse parking, was there horse parking

1:18:50

outside? And they turned Buzzled order and gave

1:18:52

us and gave us. And gave us. And

1:18:55

gave us. I feel the kinship. Anyway, everyone

1:18:57

knows things about horse. I know nothing. I'm

1:18:59

just from Texas. Oh, okay. Yeah, I don't

1:19:01

know. I'm from Central Jersey where we make

1:19:04

fun of Boy Scouts for being Dewebs. Then

1:19:06

I moved to Texas and I tried to

1:19:08

make a joke about the Boy Scouts being

1:19:10

Dewebs and every single person in my high

1:19:13

school was an Eagle Scout and I was

1:19:15

like, oh no, am I the weird one?

1:19:17

And I was. How many people emailed you

1:19:19

about you about the fact that most Texansons

1:19:22

call Soda Coke? Uh, wait, is this in

1:19:24

reference to... I know you like did like

1:19:26

a whole thing on that. Why, so I,

1:19:28

here's the wild thing is I did the

1:19:30

show in Georgia. There was a heated debate

1:19:33

at the Georgia live show of if people

1:19:35

in Georgia call all soda coke. People at

1:19:37

the live show call all soda coke. People

1:19:39

at the live show call all soda coke.

1:19:42

People at the live show call all soda

1:19:44

coke. People at the live show call all

1:19:46

soda coke. People at. to me after the

1:19:48

show and said this is not a thing.

1:19:51

And then people emailed their like, I don't

1:19:53

know what that person was talking about. We

1:19:55

definitely do do. I'm like, I feel like

1:19:57

the city of Atlanta or the state of

1:20:00

Georgia needs to settle this and then get

1:20:02

back to me because no one knows what's

1:20:04

going on. So why are you angry at

1:20:06

me? Please leave me out of this. No,

1:20:09

but I was, it's a, it's a very

1:20:11

Texas thing though. It is definitely a Texas

1:20:13

thing to do because I came to deal

1:20:15

with it when I worked a popular secret

1:20:18

kitchen. Yeah. It was the first time I

1:20:20

experienced it and I was like, this is

1:20:22

absurd. Why would you choose to choose to

1:20:24

do this? Whatever type of coke you want?

1:20:26

What's that? Dr. Pepper's not a type of

1:20:29

coke. It's a different, okay, we have

1:20:31

to talk about the book. So I

1:20:33

hope this is tempest quite a bit.

1:20:35

Anyway, Percy Jackson. Now in addition to

1:20:37

my theory of this maybe being tempest,

1:20:39

or at least a magical horse and

1:20:41

not a regular horse, is that there

1:20:43

is a bit of steam on the

1:20:45

ground where the horse was. So it

1:20:47

seems like some sort of magical element

1:20:49

is afoot. Then Hazel hears the train

1:20:51

whistle again, so she rushes home to

1:20:53

avoid being in even more trouble. But

1:20:55

when she gets home, her mother's not

1:20:57

there. And at first, she feels relieved.

1:21:00

And when it said at first, I

1:21:02

was like, ah, that means she's about

1:21:04

to feel worried. Context clues, reading comprehension.

1:21:06

Then immediately she sees the wreckage of

1:21:08

the house. Her curtain is down, her

1:21:10

chest is open, her clothes have been

1:21:12

tossed all about, her mattress is torn

1:21:14

up, her gifted color pencils are all

1:21:16

broken, the one thing she had from

1:21:18

her dad destroyed, and there is a

1:21:20

note on the wall written in not

1:21:22

her mother's handwriting that says, wicked girl,

1:21:24

I'm waiting at the island, don't disappoint

1:21:26

me. So I'm guessing the voice when

1:21:28

it possesses her, it also has different

1:21:30

handwriting. Like that's also the vibe,

1:21:32

I guess. What is handwriting if

1:21:34

not your written voice? So that

1:21:36

happens, I know deep, right? Yeah.

1:21:38

So I'm at least assuming at

1:21:40

this point, like, okay, this feels like

1:21:42

the voice possessing her mom, not like

1:21:45

a third person has come in and

1:21:47

been like, I've got your mom on

1:21:49

the island back. Yeah, that would be

1:21:52

a complex story at that point. Yeah,

1:21:54

like a new person. We've met yet.

1:21:56

So then hazel after seeing this

1:21:58

just thinks I. I don't want

1:22:00

to go, but I know that I

1:22:03

have to go, especially because apparently they

1:22:05

are almost done with the task. According

1:22:07

to The Voice, which feels very much

1:22:09

like, I don't know, like Missouri in

1:22:11

Baldur's get-through, it's like, just one more

1:22:14

thing, and I promise I'll let Will

1:22:16

free, like any sort of evil person

1:22:18

that has someone as the person doing

1:22:20

their bidding, they're always one thing away,

1:22:22

like, like, there's no ever getting out.

1:22:25

So I don't know if that's a

1:22:27

reputable source for them almost being done

1:22:29

with the task, but at least Hazel

1:22:31

is thinking maybe if we can just

1:22:33

help her finish the task, she'll set

1:22:36

my mom free. So I did finish

1:22:38

this chapter, so I'm going to just

1:22:40

not say anything. There you go. Yeah,

1:22:42

yeah. I read a little bit more,

1:22:44

but then got to a certain point

1:22:47

where I was like, we're not going

1:22:49

to get to this in the live

1:22:51

show, so I won't go any further.

1:22:53

So yeah, yeah, full disclosure. I've not

1:22:55

completely finished Chapter 17, so we'll just

1:22:58

keep on. Now I am ahead of

1:23:00

you again. The balance is back. The

1:23:02

table sector. So Hazel took the rowboat

1:23:04

and sailed out amongst chunks of ice

1:23:06

that are there, even though it's the

1:23:09

summer, because it is still Alaska. She

1:23:11

gets to this Black Sand Beach Island,

1:23:13

and narrator Hazel says, quote, if the

1:23:15

island had a name, she didn't know

1:23:17

it. Once, Hazel had a name, she

1:23:20

didn't know it. Once, Hazel had made

1:23:22

the mistake of asking the townsfolk, but

1:23:24

they had stared at her like she

1:23:26

was crazy. And he says that he

1:23:28

would have ran in. to this island.

1:23:31

So very interesting situation of what's going

1:23:33

on here. Do we have a Calypso's

1:23:35

island? Like it exists in a different

1:23:37

realm sort of thing. It just feels

1:23:39

like something magic is afoot. So she

1:23:42

gets to the island and then a

1:23:44

raven lands on her boat as she

1:23:46

pulls in, again, ominous vibe, and its

1:23:48

eyes gleam with intelligence. And the good

1:23:50

thing about this is it makes what

1:23:53

happens next less startling for her. It

1:23:55

speaks. And it says, tonight, the last

1:23:57

night. And she asks, are you my

1:23:59

dad. Are you my dad? And then

1:24:01

it goes. the last night tonight and

1:24:04

I like the reverse and it could

1:24:06

only make me think of the song

1:24:08

from high school musical three Was it

1:24:10

a night of our lives where it's

1:24:12

like, tonight, the night, on the night

1:24:15

of nights, two nights, getting ready, getting

1:24:17

ready, which Kelly and I sing every

1:24:19

single time we're getting ready, especially now

1:24:21

that we have a daughter that we're

1:24:23

getting ready, so it's like, all right,

1:24:26

little one, time, to get ready, so

1:24:28

it's like, all right, little one, time

1:24:30

to get ready. And then we're like

1:24:32

trying to go with the last night,

1:24:34

tonight. Then narrator hazel has this line,

1:24:37

which we will end this section of

1:24:39

the episode in the show with quote

1:24:41

The last night hazel told herself she

1:24:43

decided to take it as a promise

1:24:45

No matter what she tells me. I

1:24:48

will make this the last night Don't

1:24:50

done dramatic cliffhanger. So that is where

1:24:52

we will end this portion of the

1:24:54

episode if you're listening afterwards. We'll take

1:24:57

another quick break and then we'll get

1:24:59

into the Q&A Hey,

1:25:01

it's Mike here just with one more break because

1:25:03

this is a longer episode I do have two

1:25:06

notes here before we get into the Q&A though

1:25:08

first you may have heard me say that the

1:25:10

thing That hazel says to the bird is are

1:25:12

you my dad? I think it was actually a

1:25:14

miswriting in my notes I think I thought that

1:25:16

it said are you my dad, but upon rereading

1:25:19

it and I hope I saved this properly in

1:25:21

the next episode when we pick up from this

1:25:23

upon reread it says are you from my dad

1:25:25

which makes more sense but are you my dad

1:25:27

is way funnier but that was the issue there

1:25:29

now speaking of issues there will be a point

1:25:32

towards the very very very end of this episode

1:25:34

like the last question of Q&A where the audio

1:25:36

distinctly switches in quality I don't know what happened

1:25:38

with the recording but it kind of stopped short

1:25:40

thankfully I was filming the show in the video

1:25:42

version of this is up on patron for all

1:25:45

teen you know patrons and Sharon I took the

1:25:47

audio from that which I took the audio from

1:25:49

that which that in for the very ending portion.

1:25:51

So that is the audio switch. You'll hear that

1:25:53

change. But now you're going to hear some more

1:25:55

ads and then we'll get into the Q&A a

1:25:58

very fun Q&A. Lots of fun conversations, many of

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them about Wawa. This episode of The New Olympian

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what, around this time of year. And you're probably

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Sherry's mom says that she likes that the litter

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issue to fix that issue today. Let's

1:27:43

get into Q&A! So this is from

1:27:45

Ritchie. Subject line is 109876ers, which is

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the best song of any sports team,

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like no doubt 100% after the Sixers

1:27:51

win a game. It's the song where

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they go. One, two, three, four, five,

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sixers. Ten. It's so good. It's so

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good. I love it so much. So,

1:28:00

Richie says, for those who need the

1:28:02

ketchup, can you give an Eola style

1:28:04

out-of-breath news anchor recap of the Heroes

1:28:06

of Olympus series so far? Oh, so

1:28:08

like really quickly in case people are

1:28:11

like knock on up with the podcast.

1:28:13

Okay. I guess, spoiler alert? Question mark?

1:28:15

All right. We meet a new friend

1:28:17

Jason and everyone goes who the hell

1:28:19

is Jason and he's on a bus

1:28:21

with his friends Leo and Piper who

1:28:23

he definitely feels like he knows But

1:28:25

then soon it's established that he doesn't

1:28:28

actually know them in the memories are

1:28:30

fake They get attacked by wind spirits

1:28:32

called venti in Las Vegas. They go

1:28:34

to like a Grand Canyon, they go

1:28:36

to like a school for trouble kids,

1:28:38

think camp Green Lake from holes. So

1:28:40

they go there and then there's a

1:28:42

big attack and then there's Coach Hedge

1:28:45

who is like their coach who we

1:28:47

learn is like their actual Sator Protector,

1:28:49

and then he gets basically sacrifices himself

1:28:51

in the windspheres, take him away, then

1:28:53

Annabeth and this guy Butch is the

1:28:55

son of virus, they take them over

1:28:57

to camp half blood, then a camp

1:28:59

half a car, like Jason, you should

1:29:02

be dead. for a second. Jason calls

1:29:04

him. Jason calls him Vulcan, which is

1:29:06

the first clue that Jason's got like

1:29:08

Roman background and stuff. Then we get

1:29:10

a visit of Hera in the mix,

1:29:12

but it's Juno Hera to Jason. And

1:29:14

then basically we learn that like Hera's

1:29:17

been captured by some sort of evil

1:29:19

meaning. And then we also learn that

1:29:21

Piper's dad, who's a famous movie star,

1:29:23

has been held captive by this evil

1:29:25

giant called enchaladas. And then they have

1:29:27

to go on this big quest to

1:29:29

try and save Hera. So they go

1:29:31

up and visit. like wind gods in

1:29:34

Montreal or no in Quebec City and

1:29:36

then they go into the Chicago area

1:29:38

and they have to deal with Medea

1:29:40

and then they go to Montana and

1:29:42

they have to deal or no Omaha

1:29:44

Nebraska and they have to deal with

1:29:46

King Midas and then they go to

1:29:48

Colorado and they meet up with our

1:29:51

good Palthalia and Lake Aon this like

1:29:53

evil wolf guy then they go to

1:29:55

Aolis King of the winds who's like

1:29:57

in this mountain above this like Pike's

1:29:59

Peak in Colorado, then turns out that

1:30:01

he's actually compromised by the evil person,

1:30:03

then they have to go to California,

1:30:06

where they have to fight off the

1:30:08

Ice Princess, who is with the wind

1:30:10

people, they fight her off, then they

1:30:12

have to fight, or no, just kidding,

1:30:14

they go to Mount Diablo, which I

1:30:16

predicted earlier, they go to Mount Diabolo,

1:30:18

they fight off in Jaladas, they save

1:30:20