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DRE. 0.6.1. a source of

0:31

fiber is not a

0:33

bad euphemism for pooping.

1:10

is an absolute delight to be back

1:13

here in this city, in this state,

1:15

for another show. Sorry about that. Kelly's

1:17

saying she's tucking in the baby

1:19

and it's going well, great, awesome.

1:21

Thank you all so much for

1:23

coming out to the show. Give

1:25

yourselves our applause for making it

1:28

out tonight. Second time I'm performing

1:30

here. Last time I was here, I

1:32

had marketed it as the DC show

1:34

because it was like a rescheduling of

1:37

that and everything. So to make it

1:39

up. to Virginia, because I knew I

1:41

was in Virginia, not really DC. I

1:43

dressed as the state flag of Virginia.

1:45

What I've done tonight is the flip,

1:47

because I'm not going to this one,

1:50

all's the being of Virginia. So instead,

1:52

I've got the white pants, red shirt

1:54

to be the DC flag, but also

1:56

for him. This is just going to

1:58

be for the podcast people. and unless

2:00

someone took a really long flight,

2:02

the Vienna and Austrian flags are

2:04

also red and white. So to

2:06

flip it over to that, I

2:08

have now done the opposite of

2:10

last show. We've gone full circle

2:13

and we're here for the Vienna

2:15

Virginia Show round two, and I'm

2:17

very excited about this show because

2:19

these chapters are covering are very

2:21

fun and spicy. And I think

2:23

we should get into the fun

2:25

and into the spice. So please

2:27

help me, welcome to the stage

2:29

our guest for this show, someone

2:31

who I would very much describe

2:33

as fun and spicy. Please make

2:35

some noise for Johnny Vralic Steve!

2:37

Hello, hello. Thank you. Fun and

2:39

spicy. Fun and spicy. No one's

2:42

ever called this spicy before. How's

2:44

it going, bud? It's great. Someone

2:46

on the wall back there in

2:48

Sharpie wrote, don't sweat the petty

2:50

things, just pet the sweaty things.

2:52

And I have no earthly idea

2:54

what that means. Words to live

2:56

by question? Perhaps words to not

2:58

live? Maybe, maybe not. I have

3:00

realized that we forgot to tell

3:02

the people to put a small

3:04

table between us to rest my

3:06

laptop. If anyone working here could

3:08

quickly do that, that would be

3:11

awesome. If not, I will put

3:13

my laptop on my lap like

3:15

the name suggests. Now, before we

3:17

get into these chapters here, we're

3:19

going to be doing the second

3:21

half of Chapter 17, and I

3:23

think all the way through 20,

3:25

which is going to be really

3:27

fun. Oh my God, I know,

3:29

right? They're short, but we're going

3:31

to try to make it work.

3:33

Real quick, couple things at the

3:35

top. The last time we did

3:37

a live show was the first

3:40

two chapters in New York. I

3:42

off-handedly guessed that Hazel was a

3:44

child of Hades, which I feel

3:46

very proud about now. Oh, thank

3:48

you so much. Oh, yeah. Give

3:50

it up to Keegan! If somebody

3:52

from the staff could drop $300

3:54

in my laugh. in that chapter

3:56

you had the thing when Reina

3:58

said that she did know who

4:00

Percy was and then Percy just

4:02

did his instinctual thing of like,

4:04

that's not true. Like now that

4:06

makes sense given what I've read.

4:09

And that also explains why she

4:11

like made like a choking noise

4:13

when she heard Percy's name. This

4:15

is the world of I was

4:17

doing the production work on Sherry's

4:19

edit for chapters wanted to as

4:21

I was prepping for this show

4:23

and I was like all the

4:25

timing. It's all working and Johnny

4:27

is the yes. So we're gonna

4:29

continue. with our coverage of Chapter

4:31

17, so where we last left

4:33

our heroes. We had Hazel rowing

4:35

on a boat to an island,

4:38

and then a raven was like,

4:40

Tenites, the night! So. We

4:42

learn that 50 yards from shore

4:44

is where the bird landed. So

4:46

Hazel uses this as self-motivation to

4:48

push herself to the island. She

4:50

arrives and she follows the path

4:52

that her and her mom have

4:54

carved over the months. So clearly,

4:57

been here a couple of times,

4:59

the island is full of natural

5:01

dangers like bears and magical dangers

5:03

like humanoid spirits. So super fun

5:05

good vibes all around. She approaches

5:07

a tunnel that she calls the

5:09

entrance to the heart of the

5:11

earth. It is a warm and

5:13

very earthy place inside. So this

5:15

reeks of Gia. Yeah. Reeks of

5:17

Gia. Reeks of Gia. It's like

5:19

a bad perfume. Yeah. Reeks of

5:21

Gia. Are you wearing reeks of

5:23

G? Oh my God, is that

5:26

reeks of G? Yes. So she

5:28

describes this place as the size

5:30

of a large church cathedral and

5:32

she says it's like the St.

5:34

Louis Cathedral in New Orleans. I

5:36

was like, yeah, St. Louis. And

5:38

then it was like in New

5:40

Orleans and I was like, rats.

5:42

Context, John is from St. Louis.

5:44

And then it was like in

5:46

New Orleans and I was like

5:48

rats. Context, John is from St.

5:50

Louis. But I was actually near

5:52

that cathedral. to her concert. A

5:55

couple more at the one of

5:57

the live show. It was a

5:59

raucous, you'll hear on the fire.

6:01

So the walls are covered in

6:03

glowing moss and hazel can hear

6:05

just. some sound that sounds like

6:07

a heartbeat, which just never good,

6:09

never like, oh, fun. Like, no,

6:11

the walls are thumping, not great.

6:13

And she- Just you wait, this

6:15

book series, oh my. Ooh. She

6:17

believes that this place is alive,

6:19

and she believes that Gia wants

6:21

to consume her identity. Hazel can

6:24

hear her whisper, you all belong

6:26

to me, surrender, return to the

6:28

earth. And Hazel thinks, now. And

6:30

she then sees her mom standing

6:32

over the pit, which I believe

6:34

at this point was just established.

6:36

I didn't know that there was

6:38

a pit, but the way narrators

6:40

was like, oh yeah, my mom's

6:42

over the pit. And I'm like,

6:44

hold on, what pit? We haven't

6:46

met a pit. Yeah. You don't

6:48

know about the pit? I don't

6:50

know about the pit. I don't,

6:53

I don't know the pit in

6:55

high school. I. didn't do much

6:57

of the hanging out in high

6:59

school. I left like 45 minutes

7:01

to drive away from high school,

7:03

so I usually just had to

7:05

like go home after high school.

7:07

Yeah, yeah, the pit was a

7:09

lot closer to the school. Hazel,

7:11

as the narrator, notes that her

7:13

mom looks much older, even though

7:15

they've only been here for about

7:17

six months. Her mother snaps out

7:19

of it for a bit to

7:22

warn that it's too late and

7:24

then asks what she's done. You're

7:26

like, what have I done? What

7:28

have I done to you? Hazel.

7:30

And now it is for sure

7:32

established that not only is there

7:34

a pit, but there is something

7:36

inside the pit. So I wrote

7:38

them in notes. I bet this

7:40

will be Alcyonius. And lo and

7:42

behold, we will see. How confident

7:44

are you in that pronunciation? Alcyonius.

7:46

Because I was not when I

7:48

was rereading this to be clear.

7:51

I feel like that in the

7:53

most recent Dr. Moya episode, she

7:55

said it like that. Anyone fact

7:57

check? Yeah, got some nods. Great.

7:59

Good enough for me? If I

8:01

learn months from now that it's

8:03

been wrong, whatever, it'll be fun.

8:05

People like when I get stuff

8:07

wrong. Dr. Moya, great palcyonus. Nice,

8:09

well done. Well done. Naredor Hazel

8:11

says that they've been coming here

8:13

for months about four to five

8:15

times per week at the request

8:17

of The Voice. Hazel would beg

8:20

and beg and not hit Fox

8:22

TV show. Turned around the voice.

8:24

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She has a

8:26

big mask on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

8:28

That's a different show. That's the

8:30

masked singer. Singer. Ryan C. C.

8:32

Cows. Yeah. Yes. Beautiful. All right.

8:34

Hazel would beg and plead. But

8:36

the voice lowercase T. No, I

8:38

think they do capitalize. Anyway, she

8:40

would beg and plead. No, I

8:42

think they do capitalize. Anyway, she

8:44

would beg and plead, but the

8:46

voice would not relinquish control. The

8:49

voice demanded that Hazel bring valuables

8:51

from the earth. And for her

8:53

to quote, bring my most valuable

8:55

possession to me. And again, I'm

8:57

thinking this really feels like Alcyonious.

8:59

Puddle. Eventually, a spire emerges and

9:01

slowly progresses each day with hazel's

9:03

focus. And I was like, hmm,

9:05

spire, I know what this is

9:07

cooking up. And at this particular-

9:09

Wait, what's a cooking up? Oh,

9:11

it's cooking up a giant. At

9:13

this particular visit, it is now

9:15

two stories high. Hazel can't see

9:18

it, but can tell that a

9:20

body made of silver and gold

9:22

is forming with oil for blood

9:24

and diamonds for a heart. And

9:26

based on the tiny little descriptions

9:28

of Elsie owners that we've gotten,

9:30

this feels very much like him.

9:32

And this body is almost ready

9:34

to wake. Hazel's mom apologizes. Hazel

9:36

wants to say that Sari isn't

9:38

good enough for all she's done

9:40

to her, but can't force the

9:42

anger out. She consoles her mother

9:44

and asks what she can do

9:47

to stop it. Alsionius kind of

9:49

sounds like a CEO of Exxon

9:51

or something. Albertsius. Yeah, yeah, Albertsionius.

9:53

Yeah, with oil for his blood

9:55

and silver for his body. Yeah,

9:57

yeah. Just because of the name.

9:59

Oh, that too. Alsiona. Oil for

10:01

blood and a giant. Hazle's mom

10:03

says it's too late, otherwise the

10:05

voice wouldn't have stopped her control.

10:07

Hazle asks if she's gone, mom

10:09

says no, and there is one

10:11

last thing that she asks for,

10:13

but it requires her free will.

10:16

Narrator Hazle then says, quote, Hazle

10:18

didn't like the sound of that,

10:20

and I said, yeah, because it's

10:22

gonna be you. Hazel says

10:24

that they should leave because the

10:26

thing in the spire looks ready

10:28

to hatch and her mom with a

10:30

rare loving and concerned look in

10:32

her eyes says soon and goes

10:34

on to explain that Pluto warned her

10:37

that her wish was dangerous. Hazel

10:39

asks what? wish and her mom says

10:41

that it was for all of

10:43

the wealth under the earth and

10:45

she tried summoning him with a gregary

10:47

spell on a whim and it

10:50

worked he then wooed her calling

10:52

her brave and beautiful and I kind

10:54

of like that Pluto gets summoned

10:56

and then like it just happened to

10:58

work you would think he'd be

11:00

angry like who summoned me here

11:02

but he just shows up and he's

11:05

like oh I didn't know that

11:07

even. Look at me, you're going to

11:09

look like what is... Mmm, you

11:11

are brave and beautiful. When Hizle

11:13

was born, he granted her any wish

11:15

that she desired, and she said

11:17

that she wanted all the riches

11:19

that he had, and he warned. More

11:22

wishes. More wishes. Gotta be more

11:24

wishes. He warned that the greedier the

11:26

wish, the greater the sorrow, but

11:28

the mother insisted and she wanted

11:30

to live like a queen, but then

11:32

hazel got the curse. So hazel

11:34

becomes emotional. Her mom says that

11:36

this is how Gia got to her.

11:39

She was mad at Pluto, her,

11:41

but not herself. But, sorry, hold on,

11:43

what am I saying here? Okay,

11:45

while you're figuring this out. Yeah.

11:47

I can't hear the word spire. We

11:49

both lived in Houston, Texas, and

11:51

I can't hear the word spire

11:53

without thinking about spire, which was a

11:56

club in Houston, Texas, in an

11:58

old church. and it was the worst

12:00

place in the world. I'm so

12:02

glad I never went here. Where

12:04

was this place? It was downtown in

12:06

this like old former church and

12:08

it was still totally decked out

12:11

like a church, but it was a

12:13

club and it was called Spire.

12:15

And again, as you can imagine, it

12:17

was not a place that someone

12:19

who's never been called spicy spends

12:21

a lot of time. So here's what

12:24

happened. This is how she got

12:26

to her. Her mom was mad at

12:28

Pluto and she was clouded by

12:30

bitterness and she just admits that

12:32

all of this was foolish. Hazel asks,

12:34

okay, how can we stop her?

12:36

And Gia's voice says that her

12:38

eldest child rises and cannot be stopped.

12:41

So she says that there's only

12:43

one thing left to do. Hazel screams

12:45

that she won't help her anymore.

12:47

Gia says that she doesn't need

12:49

her help anymore. And she says that

12:51

she was only brought here to

12:53

incentivize her mother, which I thought,

12:55

hmm, okay, what is this like last

12:58

final wish thing? And now I'm

13:00

thinking, alright, maybe not sacrificing Hazel, but

13:02

maybe her mom's sacrificing herself. That's

13:04

what it seems like. The mom

13:06

apologizes and explains that Gia said that

13:08

she would let Hazel live if

13:10

and then Hazel finishes the thought.

13:12

Gia chimes in to say that Alcyonius

13:15

will form an army and attack

13:17

Olympus while the gods are divided fighting

13:19

the mortal world war. And I

13:21

was like, oh, right, we're still

13:23

doing that whole thing. And at least

13:25

it made me feel better because

13:27

it got revisited a couple of chapters

13:30

ago. And I was like, do

13:32

we really need the World War

13:34

thing? Like, I don't like having to

13:36

think about like Demi Gottes and

13:38

stuff like, so I am. up

13:40

to it, I was like, I thought

13:43

we had very conveniently just not

13:45

paid attention to this being the justification

13:47

for World War II. The gods

13:49

must be plenty distracted these days.

13:51

Sad. Yeah, we'll just move it on.

13:53

Gia makes images of Nazi armies

13:55

and Japanese bombing appear on the

13:57

wall and I was like, okay, Pluto,

14:00

what if you just didn't choose

14:02

that side? Is this so, but I

14:04

don't want to get bogged down.

14:06

But it feels like, hmm, maybe,

14:08

I don't regard this. I like that

14:10

she made it appear on the

14:12

wall though, like Gia's just projecting

14:14

a history channel TV show of World

14:17

War II, yeah. Gia blames all

14:19

of this on. the wish of Hazel's

14:21

mom, and her mom calls for

14:23

Hazel to leave quickly, to honor

14:25

the deal which Hazel knows Gia will

14:27

keep. Hazel doesn't want to live

14:29

knowing that she played a part

14:31

in the world ending, so she decides

14:34

that she's going to flip the

14:36

script. She focuses her power and calls

14:38

on Pluto to make all of

14:40

the riches possible rise, and the

14:42

pool of oil bubbles wildly. Gia tries

14:44

to stop her, saying that they'll

14:46

both die, so she will will just

14:49

be giving away her life for

14:51

nothing. And Hazel's like, yeah, I

14:53

get that. That's why I'm doing what

14:55

I'm doing. I'm well ahead of

14:57

you, Miss Gia. Hazel nearly falters

14:59

when she recalls the time that Pluto

15:02

told her a descendant of Neptune

15:04

would end her curse and also him

15:06

saying that she may find a

15:08

horse of her own. And I

15:10

was like, ah, right, the horse from

15:12

earlier. But I also like that

15:14

she's thinking of like, oh. Pluto

15:16

said that there's this thing that might

15:19

save the curse in me and

15:21

also I make it a cool horse.

15:23

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do I want

15:25

to die? Horse girls. Horse girls.

15:27

Classic. I would love to catch on

15:29

that horse that I've been promised.

15:31

She thinks about how she would

15:33

never see Sam again and her life

15:36

will have been 13 rough years

15:38

and then that's it. A sad ending

15:40

on top of just a tough

15:42

time. Her mom looks at her

15:44

with pride and says that she, Hazel,

15:46

was her gift. And she, her

15:48

mom, was foolish for thinking that

15:50

she needed anything else. I just want

15:53

to tell you right now, my

15:55

trap door is like sagging with the

15:57

weight of the spoilers inside of

15:59

me right now. It is unbelievable

16:01

the level of spoilers inside me right

16:03

now. I'm glad that we're going

16:05

to be able to do the other

16:08

chapters in this live show. Otherwise,

16:10

it's just like, Mike talks about

16:12

things that are going to be resolved.

16:14

Yeah. Johnny goes, hello Virginia. Yeah.

16:16

I'm like, I think I have

16:18

a fever right now. So she kisses

16:21

Hazel and embraces her and Hazel

16:23

has the instinctual feeling that this will

16:25

work. It will halt Gia's plan

16:27

since they will die, but they

16:29

won't die as sacrifices. And that clearly

16:31

was a key part of this

16:33

whole situation. She, as the narrator,

16:35

says, quote, their souls would go to

16:38

the underworld and Alcyonius would not

16:40

rise at least not yet. And I

16:42

was like, oh, you're right about

16:44

that. Hazel uses her last bit

16:46

of energy to bring in even more

16:48

jewels at high speeds. Gia tries

16:50

to stop them, saying that this

16:52

will only delay his rise and asks

16:55

if throwing their lives away for

16:57

that is really worth it. And then

16:59

we get from the narrator, Hazel

17:01

gave her an answer. And Hazel

17:03

thinks how, oh yeah, that raven who

17:05

kept ominously saying tonight's the night?

17:07

Right. Yeah. And the chapter ends with

17:10

quote, the fissure exploded, the roof

17:12

crumbled, hazel sank into her mother's

17:14

arms, into the darkness, as oil filled

17:16

her lungs, and the island collapsed

17:18

into the bay. That ravens over

17:20

there singing, I got a feeling. It's

17:22

a very emotional, tough, dramatic chapter,

17:24

and it was definitely a gut punch,

17:27

but at least we know like,

17:29

all right, well, hazel does come

17:31

back and everything. But like, it's tough

17:33

at age 13 to pull that

17:35

off, wild, like not only. having

17:37

the understanding of how to thwart the

17:40

plan, but to be okay with

17:42

the situation enough to be like, yeah,

17:44

this is it for me, but

17:46

I know it's for the greater

17:48

good. Very awesome. It was also like

17:50

very beautiful writing from Uncle Rick

17:52

in this chapter. I don't know,

17:54

like I was rereading this earlier and

17:57

just like getting chilled. I think

17:59

this chapter is like some of his

18:01

best work broadly. Yeah, it was

18:03

really nice. I felt very captivated

18:05

when I read it. I save the

18:07

world by setting up a Swarovski

18:09

jewelry store. Sure. Now let's get

18:11

into Chapter 18. It's also called Hazel.

18:14

We will also re title it.

18:16

So Frank wakes Hazel backup because remember.

18:18

She was blacked out while all

18:20

of this was going down. And

18:22

it's perfectly timed. Chiron has taught Frank

18:24

well. It is night. They are

18:26

out of the boat. She sees that

18:29

they're on a coast near a

18:31

lighthouse. She asks, where are we?

18:33

And Frank informs her that they are

18:35

in Mendocino. They're 150 miles north

18:37

of the Golden Gate Bridge. And

18:39

Hazel is shocked that she's been out

18:41

for so long. Then Percy kneels

18:43

beside her checking for a fever, says

18:46

that they couldn't wake her. And

18:48

after enough time, they decided to

18:50

bring her to shore to try and

18:52

fix her to try and fix

18:54

her seasickness. during battle would be

18:56

bad, decides that she does not want

18:59

to withhold the truth from them

19:01

any longer. And I love when everyone's

19:03

honest with each other, so this

19:05

makes me very happy as I'm

19:07

invested in their friendship. Yeah, Hazel's doing

19:09

great right now. Especially now that

19:11

we know what she's carrying around.

19:13

Extremely team hazel at this point. Yeah,

19:16

great. Very high opinion of her

19:18

from the start, and it only goes

19:20

up and up enough. Yep. She

19:22

explains that they are blackouts, which

19:24

she has from time to time, Ah

19:26

Wugga, ah Wugga, indeed. And he

19:28

asks if it's medical and why

19:30

he hasn't noticed before. I like that

19:33

Frank's instinct is, oh no, like,

19:35

I'm trying to be a good friend

19:37

to you, and I also think

19:39

you're really cute and stuff. I

19:41

was going to say, is that feeling

19:43

in your tummy that you feel

19:45

right now medical? He's worried and I

19:48

think Frank has good instincts here.

19:50

He seems like a really good

19:52

dude. So he asks this, but Hazel

19:54

says, no, no, don't worry. I've

19:56

been very good about hiding this

19:58

up until now, kind of hard to

20:00

hide it when you're on a

20:02

very small boat and there's no way

20:05

to kind of dip out of

20:07

the situation. Yeah, I don't know

20:09

why they thought it was seasickness. being

20:11

the son of Poseidon. Maybe he

20:13

just thinks, like, seasickness just wrecks

20:15

every. else and he's like, well, this

20:17

will never happen to me. I

20:20

guess this is what happens when people

20:22

are not the child of Poseidon

20:24

slash Neptune. It's just like, oh,

20:26

wow. I've heard about Seesignis. I had

20:28

no idea it was this back.

20:30

Wow. You kept saying Poseidon and

20:32

I was like, yeah, that's why this

20:35

book is entitled the son of

20:37

Poseidon. Yeah, child, but like. The spawn

20:39

of Poseidon is so dramatic. That's

20:41

the naughty fanfick version. I googled

20:43

synonym for son. Google says similar words,

20:45

son. Oh, here's the other ones.

20:47

Sorry, male child. Hold you. The

20:49

male child of Poseidon. The boy of

20:52

Poseidon. The boy. The descendant, the

20:54

descendant of Poseidon. The offspring, the last

20:56

one, this will be the retitling,

20:58

The Lad of Poseidon. Someone did

21:00

tell me on Instagram that in one

21:02

of the translations, I think it's

21:04

the Portuguese edition of the PJO books,

21:07

because they're doing the new covers

21:09

and stuff, and it says like,

21:11

half boy, half god, all hero one,

21:13

I think the international editions. And

21:15

someone was messaging me, I think

21:17

they're from Brazil, that I am not

21:19

the expert here, since I did

21:21

by accident think that they said. for

21:24

thank you, which is not Portuguese,

21:26

for thank you. But what this

21:28

person commented and told me is that

21:30

Portugal, Portuguese is like very prim

21:32

and proper. And the particular word

21:34

that they used for boy and half

21:36

boy, half god, all hero is

21:38

apparently more directly, at least in Brazil,

21:41

translating to lad. So it's half

21:43

lad, have god. Yeah. Yeah, that's

21:45

right. That's right. Anyway, Percy Jackson. So

21:47

let's see, was this all from

21:49

getting startled in a good way?

21:51

Wow, what a tangent. So, Hazel says,

21:54

she's been good about hiding this

21:56

up until now. She says that it's

21:58

not medical, but it is a

22:00

side effect from her past, according

22:02

to Nico. Hazel then sees an intense

22:04

expression in Percy's eyes, but can't

22:06

really make it out. And this is

22:09

clearly, Percy being like, how do

22:11

I know this guy? I love

22:13

the person who's always trying to figure

22:15

this out. He asks, where did

22:17

Nico find you? Exactly. Yeah, yeah,

22:19

yeah. Hazel gets worried because she is

22:21

afraid that discussing the past will

22:23

cause another blackout, but she soldiers on

22:26

because being honest with her team

22:28

is important to her and that

22:30

is a really good instinct. I like

22:32

this really good group dynamics. It

22:34

is refreshing. I like this really

22:36

good group dynamics. It is refreshing. I

22:38

understand that this is kind of

22:40

like the plot of the first book,

22:43

but with Piper not being able

22:45

to be forthright and Jason just

22:47

not knowing anything. And Leo, I guess

22:49

being a good sport, but like

22:51

mainly Piper having to keep a

22:53

secret. tough situation, all that. It's so

22:55

nice to have a team that's

22:57

just like super open and honest with

23:00

each other, it's very nice for

23:02

me to read. No more secrets,

23:04

that's it. They're not gonna keep any

23:06

more secrets from each other, the

23:08

whole series. Oh, come on. You're

23:10

good, you're good, you're in the clear.

23:13

Hazel asks if she can have

23:15

a drink of water before getting into

23:17

it because she's feeling a little

23:19

dehydrated and Percy realizes, oh, I

23:21

left my supplies on the boat and

23:23

he offers to go grab them.

23:25

He doesn't want to be a bother,

23:28

so he thinks, look, I'll just

23:30

go myself, it's all good. And

23:32

I'm just screaming like, don't split up,

23:34

don't split up, not the most

23:36

competent fighter, like. Not to be

23:38

like Sen Frank, but like Sen Frank.

23:40

You're like, yeah, well for sure,

23:42

for sure. And it's like, she just

23:45

passed out. Like, we are very

23:47

vulnerable right now. And there's always

23:49

baddies on the prowl in this world.

23:51

And I get baddies on the

23:53

prowl-wise, but like, maybe we all,

23:55

there's no true, like, yes, there's a

23:57

deadline, but like, we can. all

23:59

walk together to get the stuff and

24:02

come back. Like it's late. We

24:04

don't know exactly where we are.

24:06

Like, come on, let's all go to

24:08

the boat together. So Percy says,

24:10

I don't want to be a

24:12

bother. Frank doesn't want Percy to get

24:14

caught in danger, but Percy thinks,

24:16

I'll be OK. And I was like,

24:19

yeah, you'll be OK, Percy. You're

24:21

Percy Jackson, are they gonna be

24:23

okay? I'm not so sure. But isn't

24:25

he also, didn't he also notice

24:27

them kind of holding hands and

24:29

that's why he was like, I'll give

24:32

you a two-space? Oh no, no,

24:34

no, you could, no, you guys go,

24:36

I'll be good. You just go,

24:38

you're chill, don't worry, yeah, that

24:40

was probably. Yeah, that was probably. Well

24:42

because without his memory, he's perfectly,

24:44

exactly, exactly. Yeah. So he finds a

24:47

way to get out of the

24:49

situation so that they can get

24:51

closer. But Frank doesn't want to get

24:53

caught in danger, but he's going

24:55

to be OK. And then he

24:57

tells Frank, just keep an eye out,

24:59

because this place gives him bad

25:01

vibes. Yet he leaves anyway. Come on,

25:04

man. Good lad. There's a good

25:06

lad. He leaves and I just

25:08

wrote my notes. Okay, a monster is

25:10

definitely coming, not just because Percy's

25:12

left, but also like, it's been

25:14

enough chapters where we haven't got like

25:16

our first big fight yet. So

25:18

it's gonna come through. But before that,

25:21

there'll probably be some exposition conversation

25:23

if I was a betting man.

25:25

Now once they're alone, Frank seems to

25:27

only just now realize that they're

25:29

still holding hands. They've been holding

25:31

hands this whole time, but he lets

25:33

go and clears his throat and

25:35

says, oh, I'm sorry. Frank tells Hazel

25:38

that he thinks he understands her

25:40

blackouts and where she comes from.

25:42

And Hazel asks if he really does,

25:44

she's getting a bit nervous, like

25:46

you really think you know, Frank says

25:49

that she's not like other girls.

25:51

You party. She's a neighbor. Yeah.

25:53

Yeah. Yeah. But clarifies that she's different

25:55

not in a bad way, but

25:57

in a good way. She likes

25:59

the Smiths. I did kind of. She's

26:01

a manic-pixie dream girl. He says

26:03

it's the way that she talks. It's

26:06

the things that surprise her. It

26:08

seems like her life happened in

26:10

the past, like she was born in

26:12

a different time. And he asks,

26:14

I just love it. It seems

26:16

like you come from a different era.

26:18

You talk about things differently. Did

26:20

you come from the underworld? Yeah. Zero

26:23

to 100 real quick and hey

26:25

Frank gets it right on the

26:27

money and I like that Hazel's reaction

26:29

is that she is just so

26:31

relieved so relieved that she is

26:33

brought to tears not of sadness but

26:35

of just pure relief of oh

26:37

my god Thank goodness that I don't

26:40

have to keep this in anymore.

26:42

It's been such a stressful situation

26:44

I like Frank enough I trust Frank

26:46

enough like we can just talk

26:48

about this and Hazel is just

26:50

so good in these chapters like just

26:52

such a champion of handling all

26:54

these different things and not being caught

26:57

up in perception, I just really

26:59

like her a lot. This is

27:01

kind of like though, when your middle

27:03

school girlfriend figures out that you're

27:05

going to break up with her and

27:08

you're like, thank goodness, I don't

27:10

have to do it. Did this

27:12

happen to you? For sure. Because I

27:14

was obvious. I was not coy

27:16

about the fact that I was

27:18

not feeling it. See, I was always

27:20

on the receiving end, so I

27:22

never... Did you ever figure it out?

27:25

Did you ever give it? It

27:27

all worked out. We all know

27:29

where it ended. We're good. Everything's okay.

27:31

We're all well aware. But, yeah.

27:33

Okay. No, look, I'll just have

27:35

to take your word for it. So

27:37

Hazel is feeling good about this.

27:39

Not only did Frank speak the truth,

27:42

but he didn't look terrified while

27:44

he didn't. And that's because Frank

27:46

also has a wild backstory. And she

27:48

begins to say something, but Frank

27:50

stops her. She's stammering a little

27:52

bit. He stops her and says that

27:54

they'll figure it out and they

27:56

will keep her alive. And I really

27:59

like that. Somehow, Hazel tells Frank

28:01

that she doesn't deserve a friend

28:03

like him because he doesn't know what

28:05

she's done. And he tells her

28:07

to stop. and he insists that

28:09

she's great and that he's got secrets

28:11

of his own and he's about

28:13

to get into those secrets when chiron

28:16

fires an arrow through the plot

28:18

Frank notices that the wind around

28:20

them has stopped but the grass around

28:22

them continues to move and this

28:24

obviously reeks of earthly god of the

28:26

chiron's working with gea you know

28:29

So the ground is moving, you

28:31

know, these blades of grass are still

28:33

moving. Hazel then sees dark shapes

28:35

in the corner of her eye,

28:37

and she sees these dark shapes moving

28:39

through a field. Frank yells out

28:41

for Hazel and tries to grab her

28:44

arm, but he's not fast enough.

28:46

He gets knocked backwards, and then

28:48

a force, quote, like a grassy hurricane,

28:50

wraps around Hazel and drags her

28:52

into the field. If only we

28:54

had the best fighter of the group

28:56

in the fold right now. he

28:58

wasn't trying to be a bro. The

29:01

thing that I would love, and

29:03

maybe this will show up in,

29:05

I know there's like the demigod diaries

29:07

or something, I think it takes

29:09

place in between like this book

29:11

and the next book or the previous

29:13

one, whatever it is, release order,

29:15

I'm gonna, release order, I'm gonna, release

29:18

order, I'm gonna do it, in

29:20

between like this book and the

29:22

next book or the previous one, whatever

29:24

it is, release order, I'm gonna,

29:26

And he's just, he's just like pacing

29:28

like, meeko, go, meeko, meeko, meeko.

29:30

What's going on? And then he

29:32

comes back and is like, I know

29:35

I left them right here. What's

29:37

happening? Yeah. Or he's in, they're

29:39

in like Marinish, right? He's out like

29:41

one of the state parks and

29:43

he put a quarter in the thing

29:45

so he could look at the

29:47

sea. You know? But that is

29:50

the end of Chapter 18, which I,

29:52

just because they said like a

29:54

grassy hurricane, I wanted to retital

29:56

it, a hurricane of Hakorandas to throw

29:58

to in Kanto. would you re

30:00

title Chapter 18? I don't know,

30:02

like Frank becomes a man or

30:04

something pulling hands. Yeah, sounds good. So

30:07

now we'll get into Chapter 19, which

30:09

is also called Hazel. Now Chapter

30:11

19 begins with quote, Hazel was

30:13

an expert on weird. She'd seen

30:15

her mother possessed by an earth

30:17

goddess. She created a giant out

30:19

of gold. She destroyed an island,

30:21

died, and came back from the

30:23

underworld, but getting kidnapped by a

30:25

field of grass. That was new.

30:27

Uncle Rick is cooking. He is

30:29

cooking. But that's like also way

30:31

less weird than those other things.

30:33

Creating a giant out of gold

30:35

is way weirder than anything could

30:37

have. Let's rank them. Let's rank

30:39

them. Let's rank them. Just buy an

30:42

Earth Goddess? That's pretty high. Okay, I

30:44

guess six out of ten. Okay,

30:46

and then Giant out of gold.

30:48

That's ten to me. Okay, that's

30:50

the highest. That is very weird.

30:52

Destroyed an island. That feels like

30:54

the lowest. That's not weird. That's

30:57

not weird. You can do that

30:59

with TNT. The least weird. We

31:01

all die. Yeah, yeah. Everyone's least

31:03

weird. In fact, that's like people

31:05

saying I'm so weird. I love

31:07

Harry Potter. came back from the

31:09

underworld. Pretty weird. That's pretty weird.

31:11

Is that more weird than creating

31:14

a giant out of gold? Yes. Oh.

31:16

The whole thing is like, Hades doesn't

31:18

want to do that. So I think

31:20

that might be actually, nah, because some

31:22

people do that. So maybe that's. How

31:24

many people have created a giant out

31:27

of gold? I mean, so far just

31:29

the one, I guess. Hera did it

31:31

out of her pure being. Anep essence.

31:33

Yeah. So maybe that's like up at

31:35

the like up at the top. But

31:38

yeah, you're right. On this tier list,

31:40

Kidnap by Field of Grass is probably

31:42

right above a right above. Destroying

31:44

an island. Destroying an island. Third

31:46

from the bottom. She does just

31:49

say that was new. She doesn't

31:51

say that was the weirdest. Yeah.

31:53

She's an expert on weird. She

31:55

has a PhD and weird. Yeah.

31:57

This is from a different subset.

31:59

Yeah. she's never studied new before. Just

32:02

weird. So she feels like, one,

32:04

she's in a funnel cloud of

32:06

plants. Two, like she's crowdsurfing, but

32:08

the fans are grass, and they

32:10

aren't adoring fans. A big reason

32:12

why she feels that way is

32:14

because the plants are cutting her

32:16

up while this is happening. So

32:18

at first, I was like, okay,

32:20

it doesn't sound too bad. And

32:22

then she said they're cutting her

32:24

a lot. And I was like,

32:26

okay, we've reached this sucks territory.

32:28

I don't know, like, I was

32:30

always skeptical as a child of,

32:32

like, the grass Pokemon could really

32:35

do anything, you know? And now,

32:37

reading this, I'm like, okay, maybe,

32:39

maybe if it's sharp grass, I

32:41

guess. Some of the attacks are

32:43

still cool in the Pokemon, but

32:45

at least for me, I'm old

32:47

enough to wear my first Pokemon

32:49

game as on Game Boy Color,

32:51

and you have, like, like, the

32:53

little, like, like, eight, 16-bit, whatever

32:55

it, whatever it is, graphics, graphics,

32:57

and like, like, like, and you

32:59

do like flame thrower or fire

33:01

blast and charge. And then you

33:03

do like flame thrower, or whatever.

33:05

And then you do like whatever

33:07

the leaf one is from Venus.

33:10

Solar beam. It's just like, well

33:12

not solar beam looks cool because

33:14

it's like blah, but there's like

33:16

a big leaf one like maybe

33:18

razor leaf and it's just like

33:20

tiny little leaves. Yeah. Okay. Anyway,

33:22

Percy Jackson, she can tell that

33:24

she's moving quickly. She tried to

33:26

focus on riches below the ground

33:28

to throw off the plants, but

33:30

nothing comes. And just as she's

33:32

losing hope, she feels a cold

33:34

spot past beneath her. She focuses

33:36

on it. She's able to unearth

33:38

whatever it is, and then she

33:40

goes flying into the air. But

33:42

thankfully, she has done combat training,

33:44

falling from giant eagles. So there

33:47

are some cool things happening at

33:49

Camp Jupiter. I understand

33:51

that there's cool stuff happening at Camp

33:53

Half Blood. They got a lava rock

33:55

climbing situation. That's very fun. But basically

33:58

skydiving practice jumping off of fl- That

34:00

rips. That's pretty cool. I mean, I

34:02

guess there is like a right way

34:05

to fall. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and

34:07

she proves it because she uses this

34:09

training and then she falls off and

34:12

then does the thing where you like

34:14

land and summer salt roll and it's

34:16

clutch because she was 20 feet in

34:19

the air. So she does that so

34:21

that she doesn't get injured. I can

34:23

only imagine that she yells park court

34:25

while she does it. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

34:28

yeah. She then draws her sword and

34:30

sees a giant rock splitting the waves

34:32

of grass. And she realizes that she

34:35

formed it and rushes atop it. The

34:37

grass hisses in anger and she yells,

34:39

Can't grow on this, can you? Now

34:42

go away, you bunch of weeds? It's

34:44

great. It's great. Couldn't have said I

34:46

better myself. Now the voice slash voices

34:49

coming from the grass say, schist, big

34:51

pile of schist. And narrator Hazel says,

34:53

quote, a nun at St. Agnes Academy

34:56

once washed Hazel's mouth with lie soap

34:58

for saying something very similar, so she

35:00

wasn't sure how to respond. And at

35:03

first, because it was such like a

35:05

comedic sounding thing, I was like, is

35:07

the grass not evil? Is the grass

35:09

just misunderstood? We'll learn more about the

35:12

grass. Now the kidnappers emerge and at

35:14

first hazel thinks that they look like

35:16

cupid babies, but as they get closer,

35:19

she sees that they are much more

35:21

sinister. Quote, they were the size of

35:23

toddlers with rolls of baby fat, but

35:26

their skin had a strange greenish hue,

35:28

as if chlorophyll ran through their veins.

35:30

corn silk. He's the least intimidating villains

35:33

ever. Babies with baby fat withering wings

35:35

and stringy bits from corn. Yeah, no.

35:37

Their faces were haggard pitted with kernels

35:40

of grain. Their eyes were solid green

35:42

and their teeth were canine fangs. The

35:44

largest then steps forward were dressed in

35:46

a yellow loin cloth and complains about

35:49

the schist blocking wheat from growing. The

35:51

others chime in that sorghum and barley

35:53

can't grow either. Now I'm realizing at

35:56

this point, oh. this is heroes of

35:58

Olympus's version of the damn snack bar.

36:00

That's right. We're just gonna say, that's

36:03

right, over and over again. And I'm

36:05

so glad that no one ruined this

36:07

for me because damn got ruined for

36:10

me like the day I launched the

36:12

podcast. Just wait till you get to

36:14

the damn part. And they say damn

36:17

a bunch of times. I'm so glad

36:19

this wasn't because it took me a

36:21

little bit and then they kept doing

36:24

it and I was so happy. And

36:26

it could have been blown for me.

36:28

while I was reading this. It was

36:30

so fun. So Hazel thinks that she

36:33

would find this all more amusing if

36:35

they weren't. Cupid piranhas, basically. She asks

36:37

if they're referring to the rock, whether

36:40

they keep saying shish, shish, shish, and

36:42

they say, yes, the green stone rock

36:44

is a shish, and I was like,

36:47

green stone, wait a second, I've got

36:49

a green stone necklace, hey, oh. So,

36:51

when I went to do a live

36:54

show in New Zealand, some fine folks,

36:56

a group of four gifted me, this

36:58

green stone, I believe it's called a

37:01

punamu? But I've talked about this thing

37:03

and had pictures of it on social

37:05

media and stuff, and I'm so glad

37:07

no one commented like, oh, fun fact

37:10

about your necklace, it's actually relevant. I

37:12

would have been like, don't spoil anything

37:14

for me, please. So smaller big, so

37:17

I do intentionally, of course, we're for

37:19

the show. So I do intentionally, of

37:21

course, we're for the show. Pretty schisty,

37:24

if you're asking me. No, this necklace

37:26

is the schist. So hazel asks, is

37:28

it valuable? And they say that natives

37:31

made jewelry of it. And it might

37:33

be valuable, but not as much as

37:35

wheat. And I was like, that's not

37:38

true. And the others. Or way more

37:40

valuable than wheat and ketone. Oh God.

37:42

Then the others chime in and they

37:44

go, or sorghum or barley, and so

37:47

on and so on and so on

37:49

and so on. Now, hazelguess is that

37:51

they are servants of Gia, and they

37:54

say that they are the carpoi. Obviously,

37:56

I have to talk to Dr. Moya

37:58

about this. They are the spirits of

38:01

the grain, and they were... wild before

38:03

human civilization became around and cultivated them

38:05

and they plan to be wild again.

38:08

Each then yells for which grain will

38:10

dominate, wheat is saying wheat, sorghum is

38:12

saying sorghum, so hazel gets that each

38:15

one is a spirit for a different

38:17

type of grain. Deeply on intimidating these

38:19

villains, I can't get over it. Now

38:22

we, the largest of them, invites Hazel

38:24

to come down so they can take

38:26

her to Gia and be rewarded. And

38:28

I love that he's like, hey, can

38:31

you just come down so we can

38:33

just do our evil bidding and we

38:35

can get our... for taking you in,

38:38

like, please help us out, come on,

38:40

don't be a jerk, don't be a

38:42

jerk, don't be rude. All of the

38:45

henchmen in this series, I don't know

38:47

if it was like this in the

38:49

original five, but all of the henchmen

38:52

in the series kind of behave that

38:54

way, where they're just like, all right,

38:56

come on, come on, come on with

38:59

me, come on with me and die

39:01

with me, and die with me. going

39:03

on. I feel like the quality of

39:05

the henchman on average in this series

39:08

is much lower so far than in

39:10

the original five. Like there's no Medusa

39:12

level here. Yeah I think we got

39:15

that with Medea. And that was really

39:17

the only big one. But I think

39:19

on the flip, we have more people

39:22

to worry about that are big bads

39:24

immediately. Like when you think about the

39:26

big bad of book two is polyphemous,

39:29

like really not that big of a

39:31

deal. Book one, it's like, okay, yeah,

39:33

you have to fight and sell it

39:36

us. And Gilattis for podcast listeners. I

39:38

think what you've got the trade-off, right?

39:40

Like the lower tier of people are

39:43

worse, but the higher, like, and that's

39:45

book one. Yeah, yeah. And now we're

39:47

getting this where it's like, we've got

39:49

to deal with Alcyonius, we might have

39:52

to deal with Gia, like, I think

39:54

you've got more. But those are like

39:56

bosses. I'm talking about like NPC. Yeah,

39:59

totally, totally. Now, the grains try to

40:01

sweeten the deal to make it more

40:03

appealing to hazel. So I don't know,

40:06

guess like Stevia steps forward. I just

40:08

thought of that now. I'm so proud

40:10

of us. They step forward and go,

40:13

they will kill you slowly. And Hazle

40:15

goes, tempting, but no thanks. And then

40:17

the wheat one steps order and goes,

40:20

I will give you wheat. And I

40:22

do like that. He is fully committed

40:24

to like, wheat is the most valuable

40:26

resource at all. Yeah, to kind of

40:29

borrow a joke like, oh, if you

40:31

break off some of this rock and

40:33

you take three of me, you can

40:36

build a city. Yeah. Yeah. Hazel wonders

40:38

how far she is from the boys,

40:40

and she sees the carpoy testing the

40:43

boundaries of what this rock can do

40:45

to them. They're scratching the stone and

40:47

seeing how much it hurts them. So

40:50

Hazel, in a louder voice, in hopes

40:52

that someone will hear her, says before

40:54

she steps down, that she would like

40:57

to know why they aren't on the

40:59

side of the gods, since Ceres or

41:01

carries, who I guess is Roman Demeter,

41:04

is an Olympian. And Barley is disgusted

41:06

at the sound of her name, groaning

41:08

about how she cultivates them and makes

41:10

them grow in rows and allows humans

41:13

to harvest them. Hazel chats them up

41:15

more, asking where Gia's army is. They

41:17

say just over the ridge, and they

41:20

also share Gia's instructions, which included capturing

41:22

Hazel alive and then then marching south

41:24

with polybities to attack the camp. And

41:27

Hazel, not only is being really good

41:29

in these chapters in terms of just

41:31

like being nice to the team and

41:34

being forthright with her past and her

41:36

secrets and stuff, but also she's got

41:38

a little bit of piper in her.

41:41

Like she's got a little bit of

41:43

piper in her. her worth a lot.

41:45

These Hazel development chapters are really, really

41:47

solid. Tricking's not even her superpower, right?

41:50

That's like literally Piper's thing. Yeah, it's

41:52

wild because in like the last batch

41:54

of chapters, I guess even from the

41:57

beginning, like, Hazel proved that she's like

41:59

very proficient. in battle. Like, Hazel is

42:01

just like rising in the competency rankings.

42:04

Like, she's like, look at all this

42:06

cool stuff that I can do. Also,

42:08

I'm 13. Like, I was not doing

42:11

anything this powerful. I'm 13. Oh, my

42:13

goodness. I was barely like figuring out

42:15

how to make my MySpace page look

42:18

cool. God. She's like a full blown

42:20

minor. Hazel. tries to learn where Alcyonius

42:22

has Thanatos chained up. Like I like,

42:25

she's like, how far can I go

42:27

with this? But wheat then kind of

42:29

hits barley to get them to stop

42:31

giving everything away. And then another yells,

42:34

multi-grain fighting is not allowed. So good.

42:36

So good. So good. Wheat says that

42:38

Hazel will never find the lair. Hazel

42:41

says she knows where it is, even

42:43

though this is a lie. She says

42:45

the island on resurrection on resurrection Bay.

42:48

She kind of blew it. She kind

42:50

of blew it. Because she had it.

42:52

She was like, I know where it

42:55

is. And then she was like, and

42:57

then she's a guest. Right. What are

42:59

you doing? Yeah. You got to at

43:02

least let them make you say, like

43:04

at least make them respond like, OK,

43:06

where? Yeah, yeah. And then she can

43:08

give the wrong answer. Right. Don't just

43:11

give the wrong answer. Yeah. So come

43:13

on. Negotiationation. But Wheat scoffs and says

43:15

that that island sank years ago. He

43:18

says that, or I guess they, out

43:20

of Wheat, says that she should know

43:22

that because Gia hates her for it,

43:25

as it made her slumber again and

43:27

delayed Alsionas is rising until, quote, the

43:29

Dark Times, which Barley identifies as the

43:32

horrible 1980s. And I was trying to

43:34

think, like, is there some sort of

43:36

bread joke to be made here? Like,

43:39

was grain worse in the 1980s? Like,

43:41

is this some sort of commentary? But

43:43

wheat ads. You don't know about the

43:45

grain commodity markets in the 80s? Nah,

43:48

I wasn't born. It wasn't alive. Wheat

43:50

ads that he remembers Hazel too, so

43:52

there is hunger for revenge all around.

43:55

Hazel is filled with dread, because she

43:57

already didn't want to go to Alaska,

43:59

but now she has to return to

44:02

Alaska with no idea. of where to

44:04

look for Thanatos. She thought that the

44:06

island either would have survived or returned,

44:09

you know, how islands come back. Well,

44:11

they did say, wasn't that guy who

44:13

was like, there hasn't been an island

44:16

there in 15? My boat would have

44:18

crashed into it. Yeah. Wheat senses these

44:20

emotions and implores her to give up.

44:23

But then hazel grips her sword and

44:25

screams, Never! If I have to destroy

44:27

you all, I will! I'm the daughter

44:29

of Pluto! And I like that she

44:32

has taken charge here. The carpoi begin

44:34

to climb the rock hissing as they

44:36

do as if the rock is burning

44:39

them. Wheat tells hazel that she will

44:41

die and feel the wrath of grain.

44:43

And again, I was like, that does

44:46

not sound that. Yeah, yeah, oh darn.

44:48

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Could be rough. Nareda

44:50

Hisel then ends the chapter with quote,

44:53

suddenly there was a whistling sound. Weets

44:55

snarl froze. He looked down at the

44:57

golden arrow that had just pierced his

45:00

chest. Then he dissolved into pieces of

45:02

Czechs mix. She's very happy. Like, Frank's

45:04

in the mix. Great. Fantastic. He's in

45:06

the Czechs mix. And very nice. Very

45:09

nice. The end of chapter 19, which

45:11

I have retitled. I feel the wrath

45:13

of Czechs. We're up just creek without

45:16

a paddle. It's just at the fan.

45:18

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45:20

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50:30

get into Chapter 20, which is

50:32

also called Hazel, but we will

50:34

re-title it. Now, this chapter opens

50:36

with quote, for a heartbeat. Hazel

50:38

was just as stunned as the

50:40

carboy. Then Frank and Percy burst

50:42

into the open and began to

50:44

massacre every source of fiber they

50:46

could find. So high, such a

50:48

good start. I was already super

50:50

stoked knowing that they had showed

50:52

up, but like, what a description

50:54

to kick things off. Oh, delicious.

50:56

Delicious. Delicious. Massacreing a source of

50:58

fiber is not a bad euphemism

51:00

for pooping. Sorry. Sorry, I gotta

51:02

go mess. Sorry. sources of fiber.

51:04

Yeah. It's pretty good. Hazel joins

51:06

as well and the team turns

51:08

their adversaries into piles of seeds

51:10

and cereal in no time. Wheat

51:12

begins to reform. Percy takes out

51:14

a lighter and says, try it

51:16

and I'll set this whole field

51:18

on fire. Stay dead. Stay away

51:20

from us or the grass gets

51:23

it. One

51:25

lighter in a whole field of grass,

51:27

no chance. Have you ever tried to

51:29

start a fire, Percy? No, because you're

51:31

a water person. But he is also

51:34

a teenage boy. You should know how

51:36

it works. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I

51:38

love this. And I also love that

51:41

Percy said, stay away from us, which

51:43

was similar to what Hazel had said

51:45

when she was on top of the

51:47

rock. She was like, stay away from

51:50

me. So I just like, everyone's instinct

51:52

is like, like, like, stranger, no, no

51:54

way. So fun. And Hazel then decides

51:57

that she's gonna jump in and yes

51:59

and this because she's. says, he'll do

52:01

it, he's crazy. He's great. So it

52:03

was a big improv boy. I very

52:06

much appreciate her, you know, running with

52:08

the bit. But also it reminds me

52:10

of the episode of Hey Arnold, where

52:13

he like stops the bullying by doing

52:15

the like, I'm crazy. Like, it just

52:17

starts acting all weird and hind himself

52:19

with trash cans and stuff. Yeah. Definitely

52:22

remember that episode. No, I don't, I

52:24

don't. It's okay. I mean, I'm two

52:26

years older than you, so that's like

52:29

right at that. Phineas and Ferb. What

52:31

did you watch? Hey Arnold. Oh, you

52:33

did? I just don't remember that episode.

52:35

Because you were too young. All right.

52:38

Because my brain was still making its

52:40

connections, you know. Anyway, Percy Jackson. They

52:42

stopped reforming the various grains and stuff

52:45

and their remnants are whisked away by

52:47

the wind So clearly this gambit worked

52:49

Percy extinguishes the lighter grins at hazel

52:51

and applauds her for yelling because that's

52:54

how they found her So I appreciate

52:56

that hazel. So I appreciate that hazel.

52:58

Basically was like I might as well

53:01

just yell just in case they can

53:03

hear me and they did hear her

53:05

so when I'm out yeah, I mean

53:07

these people are again like 13, they're

53:10

flying by the seat of their pants.

53:12

Yeah, well done. Percy asks how she

53:14

held them off for so long. Hazel

53:17

replies, a big pile of schist. And

53:19

Percy, as a result of the of

53:21

the fiber, whatever, right? The massacre of

53:23

fiber, yeah. And Percy, just like Hazel

53:26

did to the grains, goes, excuse me?

53:28

The first time. So there's lots of

53:30

mirror mirror mirroring between Percy and Hazel,

53:33

and I really like that. Now, Frank

53:35

is atop the rock and goes, guys,

53:37

you need to see this. And Percy

53:39

and Hazel climb up and Hazel sees

53:42

what Frank wanted them to see and

53:44

tells Percy to hide the light from

53:46

Riptide quickly. And he goes, schist and

53:49

turns it back into a pet. I

53:51

like that he's immediately gone. Like, they

53:53

have not talked about how it's funny

53:55

or whatever. He's gone from what did

53:58

you say to this is my replacement

54:00

for the S4. Just instant. Gosh, this

54:02

is another very cinematic moment to me,

54:04

like Frank being like, guys, you're gonna

54:07

wanna see this. And you can just

54:09

imagine the camera panning up over the

54:11

hill to the army. It's perfect. First

54:14

it shows the ridge and it shows

54:16

them getting up on top of it.

54:18

Then it pans. Exactly, exactly. Just keeps

54:20

going and going and going and there's

54:23

so many. Oh shit. Yeah. So they

54:25

see an army mobilizing within a ravine

54:27

and they are scarily close. several dozen

54:30

Jejanese walk by, and the fact that

54:32

they have been re-established that they're not

54:34

just like the bad guys that happened

54:36

to show up in the lost era,

54:39

but they are like, Gia's standard-issue bad

54:41

guys, I like that they are basically

54:43

her puddies from Mighty Morphine Power Rangers,

54:46

or just like, they're made of dirt,

54:48

they're the bad guys in everything, like

54:50

default villain, we're always rocking with some

54:52

of these dudes, very easy to defeat.

54:55

Hazel knew them by name and said

54:57

them by name. So Percy asks, oh,

54:59

have you fought them before? And I

55:02

like that Percy, like, that's the only

55:04

way she would know about them. Percy,

55:06

like, big fighter guy, is like, oh,

55:08

you fought them before. Yeah, really? Yeah.

55:11

It's normal for everyone to be like

55:13

me. But she says, no. She just

55:15

learned about them at camp. And she

55:18

lets us know as the narrator that

55:20

she never really enjoyed monster class. She

55:22

thought that the writings of people like

55:24

Pliny the Elder were so outlandish that

55:27

they were probably just rumors. But then

55:29

as narrator, Hazel says, quote, now a

55:31

whole army of those rumors was marching

55:34

by. Army of rumors, the band name

55:36

or something. That's great. That's the album

55:38

name, right? Rumors is an album. Rumors

55:40

is an album. It's the. Not an

55:43

army. It is the album. Yeah. Flea

55:45

would matter. So she says that the

55:47

Jedgenies fought the Argonies, and then she

55:50

points out the centauras behind them, which

55:52

confuses Percy because he thought that centauras

55:54

are supposed to be the good guys.

55:56

And Frank is very floored. He has

55:59

flabberg acid at this notion, saying, oh,

56:01

that's not what we were taught. I

56:03

came Jupiter. He then. Then describes that

56:06

centaurs are unruly and they often get

56:08

drunk and kill heroes and I'm thinking,

56:10

oh party pony's foul ponies! When I

56:12

thought of that joke on the Amtrak

56:15

today, did a little fist bump. Hazel

56:18

studies them and realizes that they

56:20

have bullhorns. And she asks if

56:22

that's normal. Frank posits that they

56:24

could be some sort of special

56:26

breed of centaurs. I will have

56:28

to ask Dr. Moya if this

56:30

is a thing or just some

56:32

little flavor text of like, it's

56:34

okay, if we kill these centaurs

56:37

later in the battle, we won't

56:39

feel bad. They have evil people

56:41

horns, man. Yeah, yeah. Percy then

56:43

notices Cyclopies and he looks. downtrodden.

56:45

An interesting note is that the

56:47

cyclopies that are here, there are

56:49

both male and female ones. So

56:51

I'm thinking, are we going to

56:53

get a return of Ma Gasket,

56:56

which I wrote as a joke,

56:58

but we will continue to cover

57:00

Chapter 20. Percy is

57:02

really bothered by this army, so much

57:04

so that Hazel notices that he's looking

57:06

and acting quite different. And she thinks

57:08

that it's got to be his memories

57:10

trying to spring back to the surface

57:13

and it's just not affecting him well.

57:15

Does he miss his brother? Oh. Oh.

57:17

So sweet. Yeah. Hazel suggests to Frank

57:19

that they get Percy back to the

57:21

water to make him feel better and

57:23

I like that this is just like

57:25

a back and forth act of like

57:27

Hazel's like the water bring her to

57:29

land up and then we gotta get

57:31

her Percy back of the water what's

57:34

the Frank thing like we gotta get

57:36

him to a pile of rubber so

57:38

we can't burn it. Yeah yeah yeah

57:40

yeah yeah. Quick to one of those

57:42

playgrounds where they chop up tires. I'd

57:44

love to go to one of those

57:46

other fun. Quick to the jiffy loop!

57:48

Yeah! They say, let's get it back

57:50

to the water. Frank thinks that that's

57:52

a great plan and adds that they

57:55

got it more in the camp about

57:57

this. But Percy, even though he's writhing

57:59

in pain, is like, Rayna already knows

58:01

about it. Sorry. Hazel feels filled with

58:03

despair because she knows that Camp Jupiter

58:05

cannot defeat this army. It's just too

58:07

large. And narrator Hazel then says, quote,

58:09

then she saw the giant. And she

58:11

describes it. He was taller than the

58:13

siege tower, 30 feet at least, with

58:15

scaly reptilian legs like a Komoto dragon

58:18

from the waist down and green blue

58:20

armor from the waist up. His breastplate

58:22

was shaped like rows of hungry monstrous

58:24

faces. Their mouths open as if demanding

58:26

food. His face was human, but his

58:28

hair was wild and green like a

58:30

moth. of seaweed as he turned his

58:32

head from side to side. Snakes dropped

58:34

from his dreadlocks. Viper dandruff, gross. I

58:36

like that. Hazel's got some jokes. His

58:39

armor reminds me of- Oh wait, Hazel

58:41

said that? I thought you were saying

58:43

that- No, no, no, no, no. Narrator,

58:45

Hazel? She's not even a professional comedian!

58:47

I know, and all him! But she's

58:49

got some jokes. I like that the

58:51

armor with the screaming mouths and stuff,

58:53

it reminds me of, I will say

58:55

this in a non-spolar way, but there's

58:57

like a particular set of armor you

59:00

can get in Balders Gate 3 that

59:02

has vibes like this, and I'm like,

59:04

yeah, cool. Reminds me of Kompi, right,

59:06

with the like heads coming out, yeah.

59:08

But also, the snakes, it's always snakes.

59:10

The evil people, it's always snakes. I

59:12

mean, did you read the Bible? I

59:14

did go to Catholic school from K-12,

59:16

so... So you know about the snakes?

59:18

I know about at least one! His

59:21

weapons are a massive trident and

59:23

weighted net and narrator hazel about

59:25

this says that she'd faced that

59:27

type of fighter in gladiator training

59:29

many times It was the trickiest

59:32

sneakiest and most evil combat style.

59:34

She knew this giant was a

59:36

super-size Retiarius Which I took Latin

59:38

in high school, but I don't

59:40

know the translation She also fought

59:42

Russell Crow and gladiator training She's

59:44

gonna be a gladiator too. Yeah,

59:46

yeah, yeah, Paul Moscow. That's right

59:48

non Russell Crow. Hazel guess it

59:50

that this is the giant that

59:52

terminus mentioned, Polybities. She can feel

59:54

his aura and has flashback feelings

59:56

to when she was in the

59:58

heart of the earth. with Alsionius.

1:00:00

It's like he has his own

1:00:02

gravitational pull, which is a very

1:00:04

cool villainous thing to have. Just

1:00:06

one of those descriptions where you

1:00:08

know what she means, but you've

1:00:10

never experienced it, but you can

1:00:12

kind of guess what it would

1:00:14

feel like. I think very well

1:00:16

crafted by Rick. She wants to

1:00:18

leave, but she has the feeling

1:00:20

that something important is about to

1:00:22

go down, so she watches a

1:00:24

bit longer and chiron fist pumps

1:00:26

in the distance. A female Cyclops

1:00:28

approaches this general of sorts and

1:00:30

begins discussing getting... food at the

1:00:32

convenience store on the top of

1:00:34

a nearby hill. Would Kiron not

1:00:36

be? upset about her watching longer

1:00:38

because she's going to get more

1:00:40

info about the plan. Oh, see

1:00:42

that's the thing. I think he's

1:00:44

just fully invested in the story

1:00:46

being good, whether it's delaying things.

1:00:48

He's just invested in a captivating

1:00:50

book. Okay, I always thought he

1:00:52

just wanted to delay and make

1:00:54

sure that we didn't find things

1:00:56

out. He understands when he needs

1:00:58

to ramp things up. Okay, okay.

1:01:00

Okay. So a group of this

1:01:02

army marches towards the store, but

1:01:04

halfway through a blinding light causes

1:01:06

the army to scream in pain

1:01:08

and disperse in chaos. One screams,

1:01:10

too pretty! Burns our eye! Narrator

1:01:12

Hazel then says, the store on

1:01:14

the hill was encased in a

1:01:16

rainbow closer and brighter than any

1:01:18

hazel had ever seen. The light

1:01:20

was anchored at the store, shooting

1:01:22

up into the heavens, bathing the

1:01:24

countryside in a weird kaleidoscopic-clytoscopic glow.

1:01:26

Som I only thought here. Goddess

1:01:28

in the Rainbow, this has got

1:01:30

to be an IRA situation. Oh,

1:01:33

I thought it was going to

1:01:35

be like a pride thing. We're

1:01:37

in the Bay Area, right? We

1:01:39

are in the Bay. That's what

1:01:41

I mean. That's what I mean.

1:01:43

There's rainbows everywhere there. This convenience

1:01:45

store was in the Castro district.

1:01:47

Lady Cyclops tries to hit the

1:01:49

Rainbow with her club and her

1:01:51

whole body begins to steam. And

1:01:53

while steaming, she starts screaming, quote,

1:01:55

horrible goddess, give us, give us

1:01:57

snacks. Which I feel from time

1:01:59

to time. Some giants. They have

1:02:01

the same effect. Others throw things

1:02:03

and they all just burn in

1:02:05

various flames of pretty different colors.

1:02:07

So the giant leader, Polybites, halts

1:02:09

them so that they stop wasting

1:02:11

all of their supplies, and then

1:02:13

he steps forward and demands that

1:02:15

the goddess emerge and surrender. But

1:02:17

there's no answer. So then he

1:02:19

demands again, and a small dark

1:02:21

object emerges, and Polybities thinks that

1:02:23

it's a grenade, and he yells

1:02:25

it as such, and everybody hits

1:02:27

the deck, but it turns out

1:02:29

just to be a ding-a-dong. Again,

1:02:31

in keeping with the, you know,

1:02:33

Barry, a queer theme, this is

1:02:35

just continuing. Ding dong, this one.

1:02:38

So we get a hostess mention,

1:02:40

pretty fun. This has got

1:02:42

to be one of those top,

1:02:45

like, for all of the international

1:02:47

translations. I don't know that

1:02:49

hostess is international beyond, like, Twinkies?

1:02:52

So I wonder if in other

1:02:54

countries, if instead of a

1:02:56

ding dong, it says something else,

1:02:58

like in the Dutch one, is

1:03:01

like, oh, a group vaffle.

1:03:03

Wait, what do they look like?

1:03:05

They're like, the chocolatey disks with

1:03:08

like white cream in the

1:03:10

middle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:03:12

At first I was thinking of

1:03:14

a... What's the, the, is

1:03:16

it, Rollo? Or what's the... Oh,

1:03:19

oh, thank you of like the,

1:03:21

the rolled up ones. Yeah,

1:03:23

yeah. And then I could get

1:03:26

into all the tasty cake stuff,

1:03:28

like, and the drakes, we

1:03:30

could get, and the crimpits, we

1:03:32

could go down a whole rabbit

1:03:35

hole of snacks here, but

1:03:37

ding dong is funny, and it's

1:03:39

also the funniest word, so well

1:03:42

chosen by Uncle Rick. Yeah,

1:03:44

I want to see the Dutch

1:03:46

version of. So turns out to

1:03:48

be a ding dong. Polybities

1:03:50

is offended at the ding dong

1:03:53

and throws it back like he's

1:03:55

in the outfield of a

1:03:57

baseball game and the away team,

1:04:00

the visiting team at a home

1:04:02

run, he chucks it back

1:04:04

onto the field. So in sports

1:04:06

sometimes, the lady Cyclops thinks that

1:04:09

they should attack in retaliation,

1:04:11

but Polybities shoots this idea down

1:04:13

because they are already running. and

1:04:16

Alsionius wants them to attack

1:04:18

this camp in four days' time.

1:04:20

He says that they cannot be

1:04:22

bogged down dealing with minor

1:04:24

goddesses. So if it wasn't painfully

1:04:27

obvious enough that this is Iris,

1:04:29

it's Iris, very clearly here,

1:04:31

unless there's some other minor goddess

1:04:34

rainbow person that I am missing.

1:04:36

Minor goddess, yeah. Pretty good.

1:04:38

Now, much to my delight. Ma

1:04:40

Gasket has returned. I'm so excited.

1:04:43

Ma Gasket was so much

1:04:45

fun as a henchman in the

1:04:47

last book. So for Ma Gasket

1:04:50

to make a reappearance, I

1:04:52

think is fantastic. I'm all about

1:04:54

it. So Ma Gasket is back.

1:04:56

She says that she wants

1:04:58

vengeance against the orange and purple

1:05:01

ones who destroyed her home. And

1:05:03

she did this out loud

1:05:05

and also referred to Leo, Jason,

1:05:08

and Piper, by name. And that

1:05:10

could prove to be very

1:05:12

spicy. if our team heard this,

1:05:15

and guess what? They did. And

1:05:17

I'm glad that she did

1:05:19

this. And I also think it's

1:05:21

kind of funny that Hazel immediately

1:05:24

is just like, this is

1:05:26

our Jason. No one on earth.

1:05:28

No one else's name, Jason. That's

1:05:31

not a common name at

1:05:33

all. Yeah, I mean, she grew

1:05:35

up in the 40s, right? Not

1:05:37

a lot of Jason's back

1:05:39

then. Ooh, ooh, all right, we

1:05:42

got it. Jason, first name, popularity.

1:05:44

Let's see, Jason, popularity for

1:05:46

the name Jason. Whoa, okay, in

1:05:49

1940.008 percent. It reached its peak

1:05:51

in 1974, 3.359 percent, and

1:05:53

then... What? One every 25 babies

1:05:55

was named Jason? I believe in

1:05:58

the United States. Oh, it's

1:06:00

got this website. I didn't use

1:06:02

this one when we were picking

1:06:05

out. for our little one

1:06:07

and I was making sure that

1:06:09

she wasn't also going to be

1:06:11

a Michael where her first

1:06:13

name was just an underscore. But

1:06:16

they've got all these different countries.

1:06:18

It did well in Australia,

1:06:20

not very jisin, not very popular

1:06:23

in Brazil, later blooming in Canada

1:06:25

than in Australia. This could

1:06:27

be the whole podcast. Johnny, just.

1:06:29

It's just one star reviews. Yeah,

1:06:32

I'm turning off the whole

1:06:34

world to this podcast. It dipped

1:06:36

its lowest in 1990 and started

1:06:39

to research throughout the 90s

1:06:41

and then it has trailed off

1:06:43

ever since. So thank you. Oh.

1:06:45

But now it's like Jason,

1:06:47

like J-A-Y-S-I-N- Yeah, J-A-Y-S-I-N- Yeah, J-J-S-I-S-I-N-

1:06:51

But I do like that Magasket has

1:06:53

done this. It's fun for plot purposes,

1:06:55

but it is just kind of funny

1:06:58

that you just got to instantly think

1:07:00

if you're Hazel, this is the one

1:07:02

guy that I know named Jason. So

1:07:05

Hazel becomes very excited at the prospect

1:07:07

of not only Jason getting named dropped,

1:07:09

but the fact that Magasket is complaining

1:07:12

about being defeated by Jason. That makes

1:07:14

her think, oh. he might still be

1:07:16

alive. That's good. So Jason might still

1:07:18

be out there. Frank agrees and then

1:07:21

asks if those other names ring any

1:07:23

bells. Hazel says that she hasn't heard

1:07:25

them before. Percy is too sick to

1:07:28

answer, but he doesn't show any signs

1:07:30

of recognition, according to narrator Hazel. I

1:07:32

don't know how you would rive in

1:07:35

pain and then also be like, hmm?

1:07:37

I feel like, you know, yeah. Orange!

1:07:39

I know that color orange because the

1:07:41

shirts, right? No, so he doesn't say

1:07:44

it hazel. Oh, okay, okay. But that

1:07:46

would be very funny if he's like,

1:07:48

remember guys, I had that orange shirt.

1:07:51

Yeah, yeah. The letters had faded, right?

1:07:53

Remember, am I an orange one? Yeah.

1:07:55

But Hazel thinks that the orange of

1:07:58

the orange and purple ones is probably

1:08:00

relevant to Percy since he arrived a

1:08:02

camp in a tattered orange shirt. Similar

1:08:04

to Jason, no other orange in the

1:08:07

world. People don't just wear orange. I

1:08:09

mean, I think for her specifically was

1:08:11

the combo of like purple and orange

1:08:14

ones. We were a purple hue who

1:08:16

wore orange. But yeah, it is kind

1:08:18

of funny. Like, no one wears orange

1:08:21

shirts. Polybides then sniffs about and states

1:08:23

that he smells the sea god and

1:08:25

Magasket thinks he's being thick because they're

1:08:27

near the ocean. So of course he

1:08:30

smells the sea god, but he says,

1:08:32

no, no, no, I think it's more

1:08:34

than just that. And he adds for

1:08:37

the reader that might not know, he

1:08:39

was born to destroy Neptune. So that

1:08:41

makes his hair and... the seaweed vibes,

1:08:44

like it makes that make sense that

1:08:46

we've seen that all of these giants

1:08:48

have a particular God that they're trying

1:08:50

to defeat, his is Neptune. So... Which

1:08:53

God would you try to defeat? Ooh,

1:08:55

like who would I be the thwarting

1:08:57

of? I mean, I guess the thing

1:09:00

is they still kind of mimic that

1:09:02

person, so it's not necessarily like an

1:09:04

opposite. So if I was picking... I

1:09:07

guess I might be the same thing

1:09:09

because I've decided that my cabin if

1:09:11

I was in... Camp Half Blood would

1:09:13

be presiding. So I guess I would

1:09:16

be a conquering of Neptune as well.

1:09:18

What about you? I don't know, I

1:09:20

didn't think this far ahead. I'm going

1:09:23

to go with the opposite approach and

1:09:25

say, Aries, because I'm a lover, not

1:09:27

a lover, not a fighter. There you

1:09:30

go. Nice, nice. Magasket asks, if they

1:09:32

plan to march forward or to sniff

1:09:34

the air. So Polypsies, then snarls and

1:09:36

decides, OK. No, no, no, no, no.

1:09:39

Nothing to see here. Or like, Percy

1:09:41

would grown really loudly. And then it

1:09:43

would be totally very tense. Right when

1:09:46

they started to move, Percy. I could

1:09:48

feel that this was going to be

1:09:50

the end of the chapter. And I

1:09:53

was like, OK, like, this could be

1:09:55

one of those we end with. And

1:09:57

then Polymides saw us. So like, it

1:09:59

could have been real bad news, especially

1:10:02

with. So you're basically being out of

1:10:04

commission. So I was genuinely scared when

1:10:06

this took place. Well, when I read

1:10:09

that part, I was just like, we're

1:10:11

really taking order from my gasket now?

1:10:13

Like, are she? Yeah. I didn't realize

1:10:16

she was like, where's the pants around

1:10:18

here? At least she's higher ranking. Maybe

1:10:20

like, she's the leader of the cyclopies

1:10:22

and, you know, he's like, overall, but

1:10:25

she's like the head of that division

1:10:27

of that division. There's one. What's higher

1:10:29

than Captain? There's one higher crunch.

1:10:32

There's one higher crunch. Is

1:10:34

it Admiral? What's higher than Captain?

1:10:36

Admiral, thank you. Great, cool. Yes.

1:10:38

I heard like four different words on

1:10:40

it. Someone said a lot. And I

1:10:42

didn't know so out of Captain Crunches.

1:10:45

Now he's got an up his game.

1:10:47

Pending on workers here. Stop focusing on

1:10:49

cereal and get your ships in

1:10:51

order. So. Palibities snarls and says

1:10:53

that they will march. Before leaving,

1:10:55

however, he pulls three snakes from

1:10:58

his hair, and they are larger

1:11:00

than most of the other ones

1:11:02

that have been in his hair,

1:11:04

and they have white marks around

1:11:06

their necks, and he bellows, a

1:11:08

gift goddess, my name, Palibities, means

1:11:10

many to feed. Here are some

1:11:13

hungry mouths for you. See if

1:11:15

your store gets many customers with

1:11:17

these centuries outside. So, very interesting.

1:11:19

We'll see how this shakes out.

1:11:21

the Buttiz? But yeah. I don't

1:11:23

know. Look, I didn't take Greek

1:11:25

in high school. Wait, did you

1:11:28

take a language? Yeah, but when

1:11:30

they took the names, they just

1:11:32

kind of stole them from the

1:11:34

Greek ones. Yeah, yeah, anyway. I

1:11:36

think the Giants are Greek names

1:11:38

or anything. Well, yeah, right. But

1:11:40

the Latin ones, I feel like he's, hmm.

1:11:42

I'll ask Dr. Moya. But I think they're Greek

1:11:45

because it is a lot of like copying like

1:11:47

it's not necessarily like the goddess where there's like

1:11:49

aries and Mars like I think it's they took

1:11:51

like the Greek myth right right right copy paste

1:11:54

yeah they copy paste and they were just like

1:11:56

oh we can't change this one just yeah just

1:11:58

leave it just leave it yeah So he

1:12:00

leaves these snakes, the armies then leave,

1:12:02

and the rainbow shuts off. And I

1:12:04

did just imagine like a lamp like

1:12:06

noise happening when it does. Frank then

1:12:09

goes, that was different. New, it was

1:12:11

new. It wasn't weird. It was new.

1:12:13

Percy Shudders and Hazel knows that he

1:12:15

needs help of some sort, so I'm

1:12:17

screaming to my book, go to the

1:12:19

store, go to the store. It's more

1:12:21

fun than going to the water. She

1:12:23

thinks that they should go to the

1:12:26

water, but it's far, the carboy may

1:12:28

return and reform, and it's getting really

1:12:30

dark. She doesn't love the idea of

1:12:32

journeying to the boat in the middle

1:12:34

of the night, so she suggests that

1:12:36

they go to the store and they

1:12:38

seek the help of whatever minor goddess

1:12:40

of the rainbow happens to be inside.

1:12:43

And or drag queen. Frank worries about

1:12:45

the snakes and the burning rainbow, which

1:12:47

makes me think, I don't know enough

1:12:49

about Iris, but it seems like Iris

1:12:51

could be, maybe like a Greek-only one,

1:12:53

kind of like how we have a

1:12:55

Roman-only one where they have like a...

1:12:57

goddess of war so maybe there is

1:13:00

no Roman rainbow goddess so maybe this

1:13:02

is like a new thing for him

1:13:04

but he doesn't seem to like pick

1:13:06

up on the clue of rainbow so

1:13:08

he's just worried about the burning rainbow

1:13:10

Percy then starts to shake like he

1:13:12

has hypothermia hazel says that they got

1:13:14

a try and then Frank says quote

1:13:16

well any goddess who throws a ding

1:13:19

dong at a giant can't be all

1:13:21

bad let's go I like that Frank

1:13:23

recognizes the comedic move of potentially Iris

1:13:25

to throw a singular ding dong to

1:13:27

feed an army. He's got good comedic

1:13:29

chops here. There's been good comedic chops

1:13:31

throughout this whole chapter and the chapter's

1:13:33

leading up to it as well. It's

1:13:36

been a real good run and that

1:13:38

is the end of chapter 20 which

1:13:40

I have retitled ding dong ditch. There's

1:13:42

a ding dong. They're in the ravine.

1:13:44

They leave. I got nothing. Ding-dong dishes.

1:13:46

Yeah, it's perfect. That is the end

1:13:48

of this portion of the episode. If

1:13:50

you're listening after the fact, we'll take

1:13:53

a quick break and then we'll get

1:13:55

back into the Q&A. So let's again

1:13:57

say goodbye to the podcast people. Hey,

1:14:01

it's Mike from the future here again

1:14:03

just with a couple of notes about

1:14:05

this episode And then afterwards we're going

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1:14:15

I tried to do for patrons where

1:14:18

I've been putting cameras on tripods and

1:14:20

stuff and filming some of the live

1:14:22

shows. The file got corrupted. I don't

1:14:24

know what happened. I shared all these

1:14:26

different fixes. Nothing worked. So Ricky's hard

1:14:28

work, which you'll hear me thank him

1:14:30

at the end of the episode. It

1:14:32

unfortunately didn't end up panning out. I

1:14:34

don't unfortunately, didn't end up panning out.

1:14:36

I don't know what happened. I don't

1:14:38

know what happened. I'm really, didn't end

1:14:40

up panning out. I don't know. I

1:14:42

don't know what happened. I'm really, panning

1:14:44

out. I don't know what happened. I'm

1:14:47

really, I'm really, I'm really, I don't

1:14:49

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

1:14:51

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

1:14:53

I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I

1:14:55

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

1:14:57

I'm, I'm, I'm, You got to check

1:14:59

it out. But there's a question where

1:15:01

someone asks me to come up with

1:15:03

PJO drag names. And I have a

1:15:05

really hard time coming up with ones

1:15:07

that are all ages appropriate because it

1:15:09

was an all-ages show and I didn't

1:15:11

want to fill the ears of innocent

1:15:13

children with smuts. So I have put

1:15:16

a post on the Tina of patron

1:15:18

of all of the really dirty ones

1:15:20

that were... filtering through my brain on

1:15:22

stage at the time. So if you

1:15:24

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it up for Sherry everybody. Your

1:17:11

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in the corner, over there, by

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the pillar. I just looked around

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and he was texting Kelly. He

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simply can't stop. She's putting the

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baby down. I'm making sure everything

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is going on the game with

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my small child. Kelly's been an

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absolute champ to facilitate all of

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this. But anyway, have podcaster, have

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dad, full hero, nerd. But yes,

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let's get into as much Q&A.

1:17:41

We got time for like a

1:17:43

bunch. So let's do a bunch.

1:17:45

The first one is not a

1:17:47

question. It's just an explanation of

1:17:50

the plight of wheat in the

1:17:52

1980s. Great, great, good, good, good.

1:17:54

Very important. Who is this from?

1:17:56

Who is this from? I just

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wanted to let you know that

1:18:01

in the 1980s the wheat industry

1:18:03

was impacted by a grain embargo

1:18:06

imposed by President Carter. The US

1:18:08

used food as a weapon against

1:18:10

the USSR. Oh, damn. Look at

1:18:12

much learning we've done tonight. Wow,

1:18:15

awesome. Okay, thank you Bethany. Bethany,

1:18:17

how'd you know? The first question

1:18:19

is from Robert and Sam. I

1:18:21

believe it's one of their birthdays.

1:18:24

Both! You've done it! Congratulations, every

1:18:26

birthday! So the question is, if

1:18:28

the PJO and HRO characters played

1:18:31

instruments, what would they play? Oh,

1:18:33

if they played instruments. Also, Sam

1:18:35

plays saxophone and Robert sings. Nice,

1:18:37

cool. I would say, Percy feels

1:18:40

like a drums guy. For sure.

1:18:42

Feels like a drums guy. I

1:18:44

feel like Grover would probably play

1:18:46

the re- Oh my God. Harmonica?

1:18:49

I feel it. Sorry, what did

1:18:51

you say? Harmonica? Harmonica? Oh yeah,

1:18:53

that's good if we're picking like

1:18:56

a more normal instrument. Michael you

1:18:58

feels like the liar? Let's see.

1:19:00

Clarice feels like guitar, just like

1:19:02

a very distorted guitar. Negro feels

1:19:05

like guitar as well, maybe bass,

1:19:07

because it's like all, oh no,

1:19:09

Fari is a basis for you.

1:19:11

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was playing

1:19:14

bass. Negro could just be the

1:19:16

lead singer in an emo band.

1:19:18

Yeah, yeah, like Gerard Way. I

1:19:21

was just gonna say Gerard Way.

1:19:23

Let's see, any H-O-O folk? Oh,

1:19:25

Jason plays in acoustic, an acoustic-acoustic,

1:19:27

because he's an American. Leo does

1:19:30

the non-drum set percussion, like everything

1:19:32

from like the triangle to the

1:19:34

tambourine to them. Yeah, yeah, exactly,

1:19:36

exactly. Yeah, the drum pads, yeah,

1:19:39

yeah. Piper, I mean Piper is

1:19:41

probably a singer as well, because

1:19:43

they talk about like her having

1:19:46

like the most powerful voice. And

1:19:48

of that play clarinet, because Kelly

1:19:50

plays the clarinet. I like that,

1:19:52

I'll roll that, Kelly would be

1:19:55

very happy about that. Yeah, a

1:19:57

lot of good options, a lot

1:19:59

of good options. And then this

1:20:01

question. is a good follow-up from

1:20:04

Maria. If the Boys of H-O-O

1:20:06

formed a boy band, what would

1:20:08

their boy band be? Oh, the

1:20:11

Boys of H-O-O. Okay, so that

1:20:13

means so far we've got Percy,

1:20:15

Jason, Nico, Frank. Armies of rumors?

1:20:17

Leo, Leo, Leo, sorry, and Leo.

1:20:22

Leo's gonna be the producer. He's

1:20:24

doing all that behind the scene.

1:20:26

Okay, so those boys are forming

1:20:29

a boy band. Did you say

1:20:31

something while everyone was yelling at

1:20:33

me that I forgot about? Yeah,

1:20:35

I said army rumors. Army was

1:20:37

the aforementioned band name. Yeah, man.

1:20:40

I kind of, it's something like

1:20:42

about how it's surprising that they

1:20:44

are teenage demigods and they've still

1:20:46

made it. Like some sort of

1:20:49

reference of like, I don't know,

1:20:51

like happy to be here. Why

1:20:53

are we here? Why are we

1:20:55

here? Why are we here? Yeah.

1:20:57

The first album is I never

1:21:00

wanted to be a Debbie. Yeah,

1:21:02

yeah. It's good, that's good, that's

1:21:04

good. Yeah, some sort of thing

1:21:06

in that regard. There were several

1:21:09

questions of very similar veins, but

1:21:11

this one had a good subject

1:21:13

line. Let's build a cabinet in

1:21:15

Virginia, not from IKEA. Okay. Since

1:21:17

we're in DC, if Rick Ryarden

1:21:20

was president, which PJO slash HRO

1:21:22

characters would be in his cabinet?

1:21:24

And for what departments? OK. Let's

1:21:26

see. Annabeth. That was from Maddie

1:21:28

and Nina and others. So let's

1:21:31

say, Annabeth, Secretary of Defense, right?

1:21:33

Planning, Athena, like war, but brains

1:21:35

and stuff. Hazel, Secretary of the

1:21:37

Treasury. That's good. That's good. I

1:21:40

guess I could go a couple

1:21:42

different directions for like director of

1:21:44

transportation because isn't like Hermes the

1:21:46

god of travelers and stuff? No,

1:21:48

we have Apollo with like the

1:21:51

car and no, I feel like

1:21:53

Luke is probably transportation. Oh God,

1:21:55

I know. Fine. And then... We

1:21:57

went from Pete Buttage to Luke.

1:22:01

Wild. These people all get that

1:22:03

here because they're all in the

1:22:05

belt way. EPA could be Percy

1:22:07

because of like saving the oceans

1:22:10

and stuff. And then FDA would

1:22:12

be Katie Gardner because of Demeter,

1:22:14

food grain and all that kind

1:22:16

of stuff. Oh, Grover Secretary of

1:22:19

the Interior, obviously. Because that's like

1:22:21

the parks and stuff. Yeah, I

1:22:23

like that. Let's see. Education. Uh,

1:22:25

Chiron, I guess? Linda McMahon. Who?

1:22:27

That's a Linda McMahon. State. Secretary

1:22:30

of State. Also, Annabel? Yeah. You

1:22:32

might be very busy, Anna Beth.

1:22:34

You're one of the few very

1:22:36

competent folks. Yeah. It feels like

1:22:39

we got a pretty robust cabinet

1:22:41

there. This one's from Yawel. Nice.

1:22:43

Cool. If you had to rename

1:22:45

other villains to similar sounding foods,

1:22:48

Allah, enchiladas, what would you name

1:22:50

them? Okay, so we're changing villain

1:22:52

names to sound like foods because

1:22:54

we've given up on pronunciations. Okay,

1:22:56

let's see, who are some Alcyonius?

1:22:59

What does Alcyonius sound like? Alfredo?

1:23:01

Polybities would be like, gosh, that's

1:23:03

tough. Palipities. Palenta. Good, good, good.

1:23:05

You guys are better at this

1:23:08

than me. Let's see, who is

1:23:10

Porphyryon could be like pork. Pork

1:23:12

loin or something, pork loin. And

1:23:14

then who are some other ones?

1:23:17

If I couldn't read Ma Gasky,

1:23:19

that would be, that would be

1:23:21

tough. Like, I don't know. Marinera,

1:23:23

I don't know. Any other, what

1:23:25

are some other? Can I like

1:23:28

one for Kronos? Kronos. Kronos, just

1:23:30

could be. Kronut, that's good. Kronos,

1:23:32

Kronos, yeah. What is a Kronut?

1:23:34

Is it a crawler donut? No,

1:23:37

like a croissant donut. Yeah. Cruller

1:23:39

donut is just a cruller. Yeah,

1:23:41

that's just a type of donut.

1:23:43

I used to think they were

1:23:46

the same thing. What's up? I

1:23:48

used to think they were the

1:23:50

same thing. That a cruller and

1:23:52

a cruller and a croneer or

1:23:54

a cruller in a donut? A

1:23:57

cruller and a croneer or a

1:23:59

crueller in a donut. A cruller

1:24:01

and a crone. Gessing and giving

1:24:03

up on pronunciation names. This one's

1:24:06

from Lisa, drag names for the

1:24:08

characters so far. Drag names for

1:24:10

the new characters. Okay, drag names

1:24:12

is not necessarily strong. But it's

1:24:14

mostly just like puns and then

1:24:17

usually kind of like a play

1:24:19

on either like something risque or

1:24:21

being fabulous, right? Okay. So, let's

1:24:23

see. I don't wanna say it.

1:24:26

Yeah, we gotta keep the hard

1:24:28

thing is we gotta keep it.

1:24:30

All ages. Man, damn, that's a

1:24:32

really good pipe room, but it's

1:24:35

not all ages. I have a

1:24:37

really good Leo one, but it's

1:24:39

maybe all ages. I don't know

1:24:41

what kids are allowed these days.

1:24:43

So hard. Brestes. Brestes. Brestes, instead

1:24:46

of festes. Okay, okay, that's all

1:24:48

right. It's so hard. God, I

1:24:50

can only think of really dirty

1:24:52

ones. This is a problem. A

1:24:55

problem. Gason. Yeah, look, I said

1:24:57

that was possible. It was in

1:24:59

there. Oh, God. Can't wait to

1:25:01

hear all these later. Under 18

1:25:04

here right now. Yeah, ah, damn.

1:25:06

OK, all right. No, I'm not

1:25:08

going to do it. I'm not

1:25:10

going to do it. I don't

1:25:12

know if this is a good

1:25:15

drag name, but Nico rhymes with

1:25:17

Pico, so just Pico de Guio.

1:25:19

Cool, love it. We'll take it.

1:25:21

No, you're thinking of the food

1:25:24

question. If I think it will

1:25:26

come back, if I think it's

1:25:28

more we can come back to

1:25:30

it, but for now it is

1:25:33

all just gross. And I can't,

1:25:35

I don't want to do that

1:25:37

and make everything hard for all

1:25:39

of the parents with their children

1:25:41

in the car. This is from

1:25:44

Katie who wrote them. for over

1:25:46

an hour to be here. Oh,

1:25:48

dedication. Thank you so much. A

1:25:50

shout out to you. Who came

1:25:53

from like, who came from like

1:25:55

far away? Yeah, cool. Thank you

1:25:57

all so much. I appreciate it.

1:25:59

Okay, that's super far. That's as

1:26:02

far as it can be. That's

1:26:04

quite far. Dedication. But no, keep

1:26:06

in mind, you may have seen

1:26:08

me announced. In the email said

1:26:10

they came from Spain? I might

1:26:13

as well go. But for folks

1:26:15

that came around from like nearby

1:26:17

American cities and stuff, we do

1:26:19

have a Baltimore and a Richmond

1:26:22

show coming up in the near

1:26:24

future. So keep that in mind

1:26:26

for future nearby area stuff. But

1:26:28

shout out for coming on the

1:26:30

metro for a long time. Yeah,

1:26:33

cool. And now do you feel,

1:26:35

now how do you feel about

1:26:37

bragging about that? Someone else took

1:26:39

the metro from Germany. And the

1:26:42

question is, how would you rank

1:26:44

the grain spirits from most to

1:26:46

least intimidating? Ooh, okay. So the

1:26:48

only ones that were really like

1:26:51

named, it was barley, sorghum, and

1:26:53

wheat, right? Wheat? Wheat? Yeah. Wheat?

1:26:55

I feel like... Stevia? Stevia, yeah,

1:26:57

I was in. I think we

1:26:59

would go for most intimidating just

1:27:02

because he seemed to be the

1:27:04

most put together. I would put

1:27:06

Barley at the least intimidating because

1:27:08

Barley was the one that was

1:27:11

like giving up all of the

1:27:13

plot twist stuff and I would

1:27:15

put sorghum in the middle partially

1:27:17

because I don't think they did

1:27:20

anything and partially because like, let's

1:27:22

be honest, I don't really know

1:27:24

what sorghum is. That's what I

1:27:26

was going to say it's the

1:27:28

most intimidating because I don't know

1:27:31

what it is. Sorghum is a

1:27:33

cereal grain that is used in

1:27:35

many ways, including as animal feed

1:27:37

in baking and brewing and as

1:27:40

a meat extender. It is a

1:27:42

large and stout grass that grows

1:27:44

up to 2.4 meters, 7.9 feet

1:27:46

tall. It has large bushy flower

1:27:49

heads or panicles that provide an

1:27:51

edible starchy grain with up to

1:27:53

3,000 seeds in each flower head.

1:27:55

It grows in warm climates worldwide

1:27:57

for food and forage. Sorghum is

1:28:00

native to Africa with many cultivated

1:28:02

forms. It's also called broom corn?

1:28:04

So I'm still putting that in

1:28:06

the middle. Purely just based on

1:28:09

the spirits. Sorghum seems to just

1:28:11

be like standard issue. Wasn't screaming,

1:28:13

wasn't giving away the goods. That's

1:28:15

how I feel. What's your ranking?

1:28:18

I mean sorghum is most intimidating

1:28:20

because I don't know what it

1:28:22

is. Sorghum is also what I

1:28:24

get when I eat too many

1:28:26

gummy gummy bears. Oh,

1:28:29

okay. Mr. D's drag name

1:28:32

is Mr. D, but it's

1:28:34

spelled like mystery. But it's

1:28:36

like with why. So it's

1:28:39

like Mr. D instead of

1:28:41

mystery. There's a heavy double

1:28:44

on Chandra there. It's at

1:28:46

least not. It's at least

1:28:49

not bad. Like the other

1:28:51

ones that I thought of.

1:28:54

Anyway, questions. This question is from Ethan

1:28:57

and Emma, whose subject line is you're

1:28:59

the schist. Oh, nice. Good, good, good,

1:29:01

good, good. We saw you in Doylestown

1:29:04

and are so happy to see you

1:29:06

in our hometown now. We'd like to

1:29:08

know if each of our H-O-O characters

1:29:10

played for an MLB team, which team

1:29:13

would they play for and what would

1:29:15

their walk-up music be? That's very good.

1:29:17

Okay. So MLB is Major League Baseball.

1:29:20

And baseball is. Okay, so Pj-O-N-H-O character

1:29:22

is playing. Okay, Percy has to play,

1:29:24

Annabeth obviously playing for the New York

1:29:27

Yankees. Her walkup music would be? Oh,

1:29:29

it would be independent women by Destiny's

1:29:31

Childs. Percy? Mariners. Oh, okay. Okay, and

1:29:33

then his walkup music would just be,

1:29:36

I like, I feel like it would

1:29:38

just pick like very like. goofy things

1:29:40

like he'd walk up to like baby

1:29:43

shark and the crazy frog song. Yeah,

1:29:45

yeah, stuff like that. Grover obviously is

1:29:47

gonna walk up to Hillary Duff, So

1:29:50

Yesterday or the Jesse McCartney song, Beautiful

1:29:52

Soul. What team is he gonna play

1:29:54

for? What's like the most? I've been

1:29:56

thinking about that. The most naturey. Maybe

1:29:59

one of the birds. Maybe like the

1:30:01

Cardinals. Yeah, not the Orioles, even though

1:30:03

they're just down the road. Let's see.

1:30:06

Leo, but there's not really any like.

1:30:08

Houston, Astros. The Astros. Oh, okay, yeah.

1:30:10

All right, sure. His walk-up music would

1:30:13

be. Maybe he doesn't seem like country

1:30:15

feels like more of like oh, he

1:30:17

would walk up to low rider because

1:30:19

he's like it's about cars Yeah, yeah

1:30:22

This is a fun question. I like

1:30:24

this Jason. Oh, he would okay. Who's

1:30:26

the most American? The Nationals? Yeah, like

1:30:29

it's the Nationals, but that's not the

1:30:31

most American MLB team. It might be

1:30:33

the Red Sox. The Red Sox? No,

1:30:36

let's give them the Nationals because it's

1:30:38

American and we're in the hometown. We'll

1:30:40

just give it to that. And then...

1:30:42

What about Piper? Wait, hold on, what

1:30:45

song is Jason walking up to? Oh,

1:30:47

he's born in the USA. The Star

1:30:49

Single Fanger. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't want

1:30:52

to be an American idiot. Let's see.

1:30:54

No, no, he would never. No, he

1:30:56

would never. He loves America too much.

1:30:59

Piper, let's see, Piper, who's the most

1:31:01

fabulous? The Dodgers, I guess? And then

1:31:03

her walk-up music would be, I don't

1:31:06

know, like, some like power ballad, like

1:31:08

Adele or a Taylor Swift song or

1:31:10

something like that. Let's put Luke on

1:31:12

the Red Sox because I hate them.

1:31:15

Any other baseball stuff coming to mind?

1:31:17

What would Luke's walk-up song be? Oh,

1:31:19

all of the brat, the whole album.

1:31:22

Good. And then obviously all of the

1:31:24

children of Guy would play for the

1:31:26

San Francisco Giants. Naturally, very nice. That's

1:31:29

right there. Nicko, who's the moodiest. The

1:31:31

Pirates? The Pirates, Pittsburgh Pirates. Yeah, and

1:31:33

it's just all MCR. Yeah, I was

1:31:35

gonna say, it's the entirety of Welcome

1:31:38

to the Black Parade. He's like, you

1:31:40

must play the full album. You have

1:31:42

to listen to the full album before

1:31:45

I can swing. Yeah. I love that

1:31:47

album so much. I don't know if

1:31:49

you knew that about me, I love

1:31:52

it so much. This is good. I

1:31:54

like this. I feel like we've checked

1:31:56

a lot of... Oh, hazel, hazel. The

1:31:58

diamondbacks, thank you. That is the correct

1:32:01

answer. That's very good. That's very good.

1:32:03

Walk of music for hazel. It has

1:32:05

to be old. One more time? Oh

1:32:08

yeah, it's got to be. Yeah, yeah,

1:32:10

like. It looks like a polka. Like

1:32:12

it's like a, yeah, it's like a

1:32:15

live recording of, oh, when the Saints

1:32:17

come marching in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:32:19

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, walking like, yeah. Yeah,

1:32:21

yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh,

1:32:24

yeah. That's great. Okay, that's a super

1:32:26

phone, but let's keep on going. We

1:32:28

got time. This question is from Andrea

1:32:31

or Andrea or Andrea. Oh, from the

1:32:33

patron. Great, from the patron. Great, love

1:32:35

it. Cool, thank you so much. It's

1:32:38

a collaborative question from the table. Oh,

1:32:40

the whole table teamed up. Look at

1:32:42

this. Congratulations table over here. I like

1:32:44

what we have different table teams. We

1:32:47

have this table team all coming together,

1:32:49

and then there's table that's sitting with

1:32:51

Johnny's mom over there. Great vibes. The

1:32:54

vibes here. Electric. My mom made friends

1:32:56

with the whole table from what I

1:32:58

understand. Yeah, Johnny's Bob was gonna come

1:33:01

back to the green room to hang

1:33:03

out this before the show, but she

1:33:05

was like, I made friends with all

1:33:07

the people sitting near me. So the

1:33:10

question is, if the main TNO characters

1:33:12

were Pokemon gym leaders, what types would

1:33:14

their gyms be? And who would their

1:33:17

star Pokemon be? Okay. I can only

1:33:19

do the original 151 because I'm a

1:33:21

purest. Jason Pikachu God. Yeah, he has

1:33:24

to I mean it works for lightning

1:33:26

and being you know straight down the

1:33:28

middle Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep,

1:33:30

yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep,

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