0:00

Oh, are you frozen? Oh, shoot.

0:02

You look frozen. Yeah. Do some

0:04

for some you've ever seen. You've

0:06

never seen anything else. Or

0:09

seen. Thank

0:30

you so much for tuning

0:32

in to another episode of

0:34

The New Stelimpian. My name

0:36

is Mike Schuber. I'm the

0:38

titular New Stelimpian. I'm a

0:40

32-year-old man who never read

0:42

the Percy Jackson books as

0:44

a kid, but I read

0:46

them as an adult because

0:49

I was on a quest

0:51

to determine if it was

0:53

a book series that society

0:55

had been sleeping on. I

0:57

said yes, and now I'm

0:59

checking in. the podcast. Yes, hey,

1:01

it's Sherry Guo, Sherry, how's it going?

1:03

Good, I'm still, you know, soaking in

1:05

the feeling of being on stage

1:07

last week because this episode will

1:09

be the one directly following that

1:11

and, you know, it feels great

1:13

to have fans. Yeah, look, the people

1:16

love Sherry and I can't blame the

1:18

people because you're fantastic and whether it's

1:20

editing stuff or running the merch table

1:22

or doing the Q&A at the live

1:24

show, you're killing it on all fronts.

1:26

So I'm very excited to have you

1:29

on for these chapters, which you call

1:31

Dib's on many, many moons ago and

1:33

I was confused as to why and

1:35

I think I know why now you've

1:37

picked them. And if it's the reason

1:39

I think it is, it's... Perfect, but

1:41

I think we should wait until my

1:44

actual guess, but I'm pretty sure I know

1:46

why you have chosen these. These are my

1:48

favorite chapters in this book, because I don't

1:50

know, for me, the second book just

1:52

wasn't that memorable compared to the rest

1:54

for the series. Oh, interesting. Same with

1:57

the first series, like in both series,

1:59

the second book is just... kind of

2:01

like, eh, for me? But he's chapter

2:03

specifically. I'm like. obsessed with this one

2:05

character. Oh, so it's actually

2:08

about the chapters. There's one

2:10

particular line that I thought was the

2:12

reason why you picked it. There is one

2:14

particular line. But it's also the

2:16

characters. Also the chapters. Yeah, okay.

2:19

Also the chapters. I believe if

2:21

we have the time, we'll be

2:23

covering chapters 21 through 24. So

2:25

the full four Frank gauntlet. We'll

2:27

see if we can get through

2:29

it, but they're short enough that

2:31

I think we can make it

2:33

happen. you had a riptide that

2:35

was an inanimate object that turned

2:37

into a different inanimate object since

2:39

we are just humans and not

2:41

demigods, what would your more practical

2:43

riptide be? It would either be a hair tie or

2:45

claw clip. Smart. It would be one of those that

2:47

turns into my film camera because it's so heavy and

2:50

annoying to lug around whenever I want to like... take

2:52

a picture I never have it with me and then

2:54

when I carry it around I forget I have it

2:56

but if I could just you know transform something into

2:58

it I wouldn't have to lug this thing around because

3:00

it kind of is annoying to like lug a camera

3:03

around it like hits your hip and then your bag

3:05

is heavy for no reason and then like you have

3:07

to be careful with a water bottle in case something

3:09

spills so yeah it'd be my film camera. I

3:11

totally get this because I used to

3:13

have a big clunky clunky camera. I

3:16

used to have like a canon 60D

3:18

from when I did YouTube videos in

3:20

high school and those were really big

3:22

and thick, especially because I bought it

3:24

in like 2013. And I would bring

3:27

it on Hikes. And I would bring

3:29

it in like 2013. And I would

3:31

bring it on hikes when I was

3:33

in Seattle and it was so heavy.

3:35

But I was like, when I get

3:38

to the top of the hike and

3:40

then. It's just one of those things

3:42

where it's like, I don't think it could

3:44

ever capture it. Meanwhile, I brought it on

3:46

like every hike. I went hiking like every

3:48

weekend when it was in rainy season. Now

3:50

I have a Sony that's a lot smaller.

3:53

So that's a lot lighter to bring around.

3:55

But I also recently acquired my dad's old

3:57

film camera. He's got this old menolta from

3:59

the 80s. Mine is my parents from

4:01

the 90s. Hell yeah, see, so

4:04

it was in my closet. And

4:06

I was like, what's in this

4:09

bag? Like, that was in my

4:11

childhood closet. My parents are now

4:13

using for storage. And he's like,

4:16

oh, it's this old camera. And

4:18

I was like, what? So now

4:20

I have it. I know I

4:23

have it. I know nothing about

4:25

film camera stuff. But I've bothered

4:27

a friend who. showed me how to do

4:29

it. The one thing I didn't pay attention

4:32

to was how to load the film,

4:34

so the second role I ever shot because

4:36

my friend loaded the first roll for me,

4:38

I didn't load it correctly, so I

4:40

brought you to the shop and I'm like, wait

4:43

a minute. Yeah. It didn't take any

4:45

pictures. Shout out to my friend Wendy who did

4:47

let me know. Lesson learned. Yeah, look,

4:49

you live in You Learn and I'm

4:51

hopeful that the lessons that I received

4:53

from my bud allowed me to not

4:55

make any mistakes. Let's get into these

4:57

chapters of The Heroes of Olympus second

4:59

installment, The Son of Neptune, which I

5:01

have found to be quite memorable. So

5:03

I'm surprised that you're saying it didn't

5:05

stand out. But I do know that

5:07

like the later books are such bangers

5:09

that maybe that's why. Well, my history

5:11

with the years of Olympus is like.

5:13

questionable okay I never read the full

5:15

series all the way through like when

5:17

they were coming out I read up

5:20

through half of Mark of Athena gave

5:22

up because I was like I can't

5:24

wait every year because I read the

5:26

first series all at once and something

5:28

about the son of Neptune in

5:30

particular I think it might have been

5:32

the year came out was just like the

5:34

worst year of my life of seventh

5:36

grade the worst year of my life

5:38

of seventh grade the worst year of

5:41

every brutal like worst year ever but Yeah,

5:43

the books couldn't even get me through. That's

5:45

when I fell into my dance mom's phase.

5:47

And something about this book, I think it

5:49

was because of all the Roman stuff. I

5:51

was just like, I'm not learning this new

5:53

vocabulary. Why is everything in italics? I don't

5:55

care for this. And it was just too

5:57

difficult with the vocabulary. And then last night,

5:59

I like. skimmed the chapters between the ones

6:01

I just finished editing and then these because

6:03

we're at a weird phase where you're so

6:06

ahead that I'm not caught up. Uh-huh. Yeah.

6:08

Even though usually I am, way more

6:10

than like the listeners are. Right. And

6:12

there are a lot of good jokes

6:14

in this book that I just

6:16

simply do not remember from when

6:18

I was a kid. It's funny.

6:21

The humor has come back. Percy,

6:23

as the narrator, obviously funny. Obviously

6:25

funny. Obviously funny. Frank, even has

6:27

some jokes and stuff. Hazel from

6:29

time to time. We've got three

6:31

people with comedic. We're recording this

6:34

on December 11th. Like especially when

6:36

we're doing the live shows it.

6:38

It's a very different situation of

6:40

like here's what recovering and It's

6:42

far ahead for more the podcast

6:44

is for anyone that is confused I

6:47

always post it on Instagram like the

6:49

week of the show But also what

6:51

was funny is like I finally just

6:53

posted this week We posted the episode

6:55

where you get the Niko reveal and

6:57

people are like I'm so excited. You're

7:00

finally the Niko's hazel's brother for years

7:02

now at this point like But That's

7:04

just the nature of how the recordings

7:06

have gone, and we are going to

7:08

continue on and begin this episode with

7:10

Chapter 21, which is called Frank, which

7:13

we of course we will retital by

7:15

the end. When we last left our

7:17

heroes, ding dongs were being thrown at

7:19

monster armies that then departed. So they're

7:21

deciding, okay, maybe we should go into

7:23

this store because our good friend Percy

7:26

looks like he is going to die.

7:28

So this chapter opens with quote, Frank

7:30

hated ding dongs, he hated snakes, and

7:32

he hated his life, not necessarily in

7:34

that order. End. It's been a minute

7:37

since Frank has been narrating. We've got

7:39

a touch base with our friend Frank

7:41

here. We've got a lot to unpack

7:44

because first and foremost, how

7:46

can you hate ding dongs? They're

7:48

delicious. What's wrong with you? I've

7:50

actually never had any hostess snacks.

7:52

Oh, I was never a big

7:55

hostess snack guy because growing up

7:57

in New Jersey, I always had

7:59

crimpits. I don't know if crimpits or

8:01

drakes. I think those might be tasty

8:03

cakes. Yeah, I think crimpits was the

8:05

big one I had. Crimpits are tasty

8:08

cakes. These all sound like made up

8:10

words to me. It's also the Northeast

8:12

regional. I feel like tasty cake is

8:14

very Philly Pennsylvania inspired and being in

8:16

Central Jersey, you get a lot of

8:18

that. So Butterscotch crimpits are tasty cakes.

8:20

almost every day at snack time at

8:23

my K-8 school, which was awesome. Drake's,

8:25

they do yodels, which I think is

8:27

one of their more popular ones, they

8:29

do devil dogs, they do little crumb

8:31

cakes, but those are the ones that

8:34

I was more familiar with. I was

8:36

never a big... Hostess, because what even

8:38

is hostess? Hostess is like Twinkies? All

8:41

I know is Twinkies. I don't know

8:43

that I've ever had a Twinkie.

8:45

Oh, they do the donuts. I've

8:47

never had a Twinkie, but one

8:49

time we almost got stopped at,

8:52

well we did get stopped at

8:54

the airport because my mom forgot

8:56

to take out sunscreen in her

8:58

carry-on and it was like a

9:00

giant bottle. But at security, someone

9:03

had left a Twinkie for

9:05

some reason. So ding dongs are, as we

9:07

explained in the last show, thing. They're just kind of

9:09

like cupcakey filled with cream sort of things. But yeah,

9:11

I was never a big host of sky, but what

9:13

I did love, Little Debbie's, that is my weakness. Oh

9:16

wait, is that little, no, the Muffins are like so

9:18

many things. Little Debbie's is like so many things.

9:20

Yeah, the, Little Debbie's are the oatmeal cakes.

9:22

Oatmeal cream pies, they have so many, cosmic

9:24

brownies, those I, those I had, I had,

9:26

I had, I had, I had, I had,

9:28

all the buddies, I had, I had, I

9:30

had, I had, I had, I had, I

9:32

had, I had, I had, I had, I

9:34

had, I had, The thing with Little Debbie's

9:36

is that my parents would never get them

9:38

for me as a kid because they were

9:40

unhealthy. Somehow Butter Scratch Crimpits. I only ever

9:42

got them from trading. Yes, yes, Butter Scatch

9:44

Crimpits were deemed okay. But Little Debbie's was

9:46

too unhealthy. Star Crunch, so I would always

9:48

be trading. And the good thing about

9:50

Butter Scatch Crimpits were deemed okay. But

9:53

Little Debbie's was too unhealthy. Star Crunch,

9:55

Star Crunch, so I would still be

9:57

able to get them when I am.

10:00

on tour and I go grocery shopping

10:02

because I'm an adult and I can

10:04

buy my own thing now and when

10:06

I go to grocery stores at non-New

10:08

York places and it's pretty cheap I

10:11

will snag a box of oatmeal cream

10:13

pies or nutty buddies or whatever and

10:15

it's it's a good time it's a

10:17

good time I'm living my childhood I

10:20

did not have as an adult when

10:22

I'm like I can go to the

10:24

grocery store and I can pay three dollars

10:26

for this. I can buy my own snacks. They

10:28

ought to make sure I'm okay. Katie did it

10:31

too much. Anyway, this is a Percy Jackson podcast.

10:33

So I don't know how it doesn't like

10:35

ding dogs. So Frank continues, he says that

10:38

he wishes he could just pass out like

10:40

hazel and be transported to another time, like

10:42

a time when his dad wasn't Mars. And

10:44

he's still hung up about this, we're learning.

10:47

I mean, I would be too. Yeah, I mean, Ares

10:49

is not a good dad. No, and we got to

10:51

see if when he's Mars, he's a little

10:53

bit better. I feel like he had better

10:55

vibes in the brief Mars introduction that we

10:58

had as opposed to Ares, but still kind

11:00

of that same sort of that same sort

11:02

of a punk attitude. So I can see

11:04

why he's not stoked about it, but I

11:07

do feel like Frank could maybe give

11:09

him a chance a little bit more.

11:11

I don't know. Yeah, I don't know.

11:13

But I definitely am not a fan

11:15

of Harry's vibe in general. So I

11:17

don't think I'll ever warm up to

11:19

him. But maybe Frank will. I can't

11:21

say anything. Thank you. Traptor intact. It

11:23

just feels like Frank is a passive.

11:26

Like he's a lover, not a fighter.

11:28

So I think he doesn't want to

11:30

be how it develops. He doesn't like

11:32

being reminded of this with the spear.

11:34

He doesn't want to use it. He

11:36

thinks Mars is a moron for calling

11:38

it a real man's weapon. So he

11:40

thinks I'll just be using my bow

11:42

from here on out. Ha ha! We'll

11:45

see how that goes. Frank. He wonders

11:47

if there's a DNA test that he

11:49

can take because maybe there was a mix

11:51

up at the godly nursery, which I think

11:53

is a funny joke and it does make

11:55

me think of the episode of the episode

11:57

when I was talking about how Piper got

11:59

her name. and they were talking about

12:01

grandpa, Tom, coming up with the

12:03

name and Trisson and all that.

12:05

And I was making reference because

12:07

I had just recently. gone through

12:09

the delivery process of a baby

12:12

and going through the delivery room

12:14

and the hospital and everything. And

12:16

then many people pointed out, I

12:18

don't think it was a traditional

12:20

birth, Mike. I don't think Aphrodite

12:22

was in the ER. Certainly not.

12:24

Yeah, it's a good point. She

12:26

just snapped her fingers and then

12:28

Piper appeared. Baby, here, come up with

12:30

a name. But like still, like they

12:32

would have to go to some sort

12:34

of... place to get her birth. That's

12:36

got to be a wild conversation. How

12:38

do you take the spawn of a

12:40

goddess and get her her birth certificate

12:43

and everything? Like that's got to be

12:45

wild. I get, you know, some file

12:47

folder somewhere. He's just like writing

12:49

them. You would hope that like

12:51

Hermes comes through with the delivery

12:53

of a birth certificate that works

12:55

for whatever state they are in

12:57

because that would cause so many

12:59

problems if Piper didn't have a

13:01

proper birth certificate. You need those

13:03

for so many things in America.

13:05

So many things. So many things. But

13:08

also, can't you just lie that

13:10

a birth certificate is yours? There's no

13:12

picture on them. That's what I've never

13:14

understood about the IDs in the

13:16

US. They're all just like cards

13:18

with letters and words and numbers. But

13:21

I guess they have the particular

13:23

seals and imprints and signatures and

13:25

stuff on them that I think they

13:27

would be very hard to forge. Like it

13:29

would be hard to get the particular paper,

13:31

the card stock, the seal, like all that

13:33

kind of stuff. Yes, there's no photo with

13:35

it. Look, I'm no counterfeiter, but you know,

13:37

I don't know how you go about getting

13:39

all those sorts of things, but maybe it

13:41

is easier than others because you don't need

13:43

the photo. I don't know. Driver's license stuff,

13:45

that seems impossible because I've gotten a new

13:47

driver's license and like the amount of detail

13:49

that is in that to make it fake.

13:51

I don't know how college kids are doing

13:53

it these days to get fake IDs because

13:55

there's so much going on with those IDs

13:57

now, which I guess are like much more.

14:00

rampant in terms of trying to fake,

14:02

which is why they're probably so much

14:04

harder to fake. So Frank cannot believe that

14:06

his mom would get involved with Ares,

14:09

and I at least wrote my notes.

14:11

Oh, Frank being ripped makes more sense

14:13

now than his dad is Ares slash

14:15

Mars. Then Frank recalls his grandmother saying

14:17

that his mom was a born warrior,

14:20

and thus her courting a god wasn't

14:22

surprising, especially given their family history of

14:24

princes and heroes. But Frank thinks that

14:26

he cannot be either, as he is

14:28

just a lactose intolerant cluts who couldn't

14:31

even save his friend from being kidnapped

14:33

by a bunch of wheat. He doesn't

14:35

even want to be proud of his

14:37

new medals, as he feels like he

14:39

only got them because Mars pressured Rayna

14:41

into giving them to him. And I

14:43

disagree. I feel like Frank earned these.

14:46

He really showed his prowess. Yes, he

14:48

put the team on his back. It was

14:50

his idea for Percy to use his

14:52

water powers. Right. And for Hazel to

14:54

tunnel stuff. I feel like he earned

14:56

those fair and square. So don't

14:58

sell yourself short, Frank. He finds

15:00

it hard to believe that his

15:03

friends have not ditched him yet,

15:05

as Percy clearly hates Mars, and

15:07

Hazel keeps looking at him like

15:09

she's afraid that he'll quote, turn

15:11

into a muscle-bound freak. And I

15:13

wrote, in my notes, does Frank

15:15

not know that he's jacked? And

15:17

then literally the next line from

15:19

narrative Frank is, quote, Frank looked

15:21

down at his body, correction, even

15:23

more of a muscle-bound freak, with

15:25

more an attachment. So he's like, I'm

15:28

jacked, but not in a... between muscular

15:30

and so muscular you worry about someone's personality.

15:32

Like if you're too ripped you got

15:34

to think like oh all this person

15:36

does is go to the gym and

15:39

pound supplements. Maybe they don't have a

15:41

personality to match it. So I kind

15:43

of get what he's getting at. But

15:45

Hazel clearly likes you so. I mean yeah

15:47

dude like don't. You know they're teenagers they

15:50

can't read signals. Not that I

15:52

can either. But you know who can

15:54

these days? No one, no one.

15:56

So he thinks that he might

15:58

just stay in a... Alaska to

16:00

avoid the God that he's supposed to

16:02

return home to. He thinks of his

16:04

grandma saying that Jang men don't whine.

16:06

Multiple people wrote in to let me

16:08

know that it's not Zhang, it's Jang,

16:10

it's Jang, almost like a J and

16:12

then a Long A. Do you have

16:14

experience more in pronouncing this last name? Is

16:17

that more correct? Yes. However, with the caveat

16:19

that my Mandarin is pretty bad. Okay. I

16:21

can understand it, but like speaking it, like

16:23

I can hear the sounds in my head.

16:26

The mouth doesn't want to make the sounds

16:28

anymore. Sure. However, I feel like it's like

16:30

the same thing with like when people pronounce

16:32

like other European names in English I've just

16:34

always defaulted to Zhang because I feel like

16:37

it sounds a little bit weird to be

16:39

like speaking in English and then

16:41

like accent you know like how

16:43

people sometimes insist something quasant and

16:45

I'm like we're in yes please call

16:47

it a croissant. This is how I

16:49

felt when I was going to Australia

16:52

and on tour they were telling me

16:54

that I shouldn't call the city Melbourne

16:56

I should call it like Melbourne almost

16:58

like it's spelled in Australia and I

17:00

was like this sounds like I'm doing

17:02

a caricature I guess in a different

17:04

language it makes more sense if you're

17:06

doing it's doing it authentically actual other

17:08

language. But when it's English, like it

17:11

would be like if I was talking

17:13

about London, they're like, oh, no, no,

17:15

you shouldn't say London. You should say like

17:17

London. Like, yeah. Like, I'm not gonna become

17:19

British halfway through the sentence. Exactly.

17:21

So yeah, but at the same time, I do find

17:23

it interesting. And this is just like me only knowing one

17:25

language and not even learning anything besides Latin, which I

17:27

took in high school. But I do find it fun

17:29

when people who speak who speak. Spanish and English and they

17:32

don't have any sort of accent when they speak English.

17:34

It is fun when they're, you know, saying like, oh yeah,

17:36

you know, I was visiting my relatives down in Buenos

17:38

Aires and it's like, you mean Buenos Aires? Like, you

17:40

know, talking about like, oh yeah, talking about like, oh yeah,

17:42

I visited my family down in Colombia. It's like, you

17:44

mean Colombia? It's hard because it's like, you're right. There

17:46

is like the way it is more said in English, but

17:48

it is more said in English, but it is more

17:50

said in English, but it's less said in English, but it's less

17:52

said in English, but it's less said in English, but it's less said

17:54

in English, but it's less said in English, but it's less said, but

17:57

it's less said, but it's less said, but it's less, but it's less,

17:59

but it's less, but it's, hard so I get it. I'm no

18:01

authority on this because I just Anglicanize

18:03

everything but that's also because the tones

18:05

in Mandarin are really hard. That's what

18:07

I've heard. I have never been able

18:09

to distinguish very well between the second

18:11

and third. Luckily my last name is

18:13

neither of those but even still I

18:16

pronounce my own last name wrong so

18:18

much. It's quite embarrassing but also I'm

18:20

like they're hard like it's really hard

18:22

to hear them. I do not envy my

18:24

friends who have to speak languages like this

18:26

where it's just like... your English brain cannot

18:28

tell your throat and mouth what to do.

18:31

I had a roommate who was Pakistani and

18:33

his name is Omar, but like the way

18:35

you actually say Omar, like he'd said it

18:37

and to me the closest I can get

18:39

is saying like, Umer, but like I know

18:42

that's not correct and he was my roommate

18:44

for an entire year and like every couple

18:46

of days I'd be like, is this right?

18:48

And he's like, no. I just tried so

18:50

hard. It's tough, it's tough. At a certain

18:53

point, I'm like, please stop trying.

18:55

Like, it's okay to mispronounce it.

18:57

I mispronounce my own name. I

19:00

will not be offended. Because in

19:02

elementary school, they tried so hard,

19:04

but not that hard because they

19:06

tried really hard in English. Gotcha.

19:09

Like, they weren't trying to pronounce

19:11

it at Mandarin. They were just like,

19:13

Guo, Guo. And I was like, I

19:15

don't care. Just say, Guo. But I

19:18

don't think I have the tone. Like I

19:20

don't think there was tone in that. It's

19:22

like G-W-U-H I feel like is the best

19:24

way to organize it. But like, I just

19:26

can't do the tones right. Okay, cool. This

19:28

makes me feel better about sticking to grow.

19:30

Anyway, let's. Talk about person James. Frank thinks

19:33

of his grandmother saying that jong men don't

19:35

whine. Frank realizes that she's right. He has

19:37

a job to do and currently the next

19:40

step in that job is to get to

19:42

the store. Great transition Frank. Let's get into

19:44

what's happening. So they get very close. They

19:46

don't see any of the snakes from before

19:49

when Pilipides took them out of his hair,

19:51

but then he hears a hiss. And Frank

19:53

yells for the other two to go and

19:55

he fires an arrow that he thought was

19:58

an explosive arrow that it's just a a

20:00

flare, a flare arrow, a flare-o, and

20:02

it does still allow him to see

20:04

what the snake looks like. The snake

20:06

looks at it as it goes by,

20:08

and Frank can tell that this snake

20:11

is about the size of his arm

20:13

with a mane made out of spiky

20:15

white fins, so feels very terrifying. Also

20:17

kind of cute though. Yeah, we're, yeah, I

20:19

can see it. I can see a little

20:22

blushy. A little lion, it's only the

20:24

size of your arm? You know, Frank, he's

20:26

buff, so is it thick. How tall is

20:28

Frank? I don't know if we have Frank's

20:30

height, so yeah, it could be cute, but

20:33

also could be terrifying. Small scary thing as

20:35

we get into later in these chapters can

20:37

be more terrifying than big scary thing. Yeah.

20:39

This snake focuses its gaze on Frank and

20:42

inches towards him. Grass dies around the snake,

20:44

wherever it touches, which I think is a

20:46

cool effect. And then Frank hears the other

20:48

two heroes reach the steps of the store

20:50

and the snake begins to shoot out fire,

20:53

making him worry about his stick that's

20:55

keeping him alive and cannot catch fire.

20:57

Otherwise he might die. The snake jumps

20:59

at him. He only has enough time

21:01

to swing his bow at it. He

21:04

can't notch a whole arrow, but it

21:06

does work. And Frank is feeling very

21:08

proud and... Until he realizes that his

21:10

bow is disintegrating. So tick tock, it's

21:13

spear a clock. He hears all three

21:15

snakes hiss and anger, and then he

21:17

joins the others at the store, and

21:19

he sees the snake torching the hillside,

21:22

but keeping a distance from the store

21:24

itself. Frank says that they're never going

21:26

to make it out of here so

21:28

hazel suggests that they go inside and

21:31

the door says rainbow organic foods and

21:33

lifestyle so my thought initially is okay

21:35

this is going to be like a

21:38

whole foods of sorts you've got your

21:40

big bulk nuts and grains and stuff

21:42

and that's basically exactly what's described when

21:44

they go inside but it also has

21:47

trinkets things like crystals and all sorts

21:49

of more hippie-dippy stuff like that yes

21:51

very west coast totally very granole

21:54

crunchy vibes very Berkeley bowl

21:56

coated they go inside the

21:58

lights turn on flute begins

22:00

to play and one thing that

22:02

gets described there's merchandise like they

22:05

have clothes and Frank as the

22:07

narrator describes a tinkerbell type dress

22:09

that is gauzy but with a

22:12

zee did he mean gaudy gauzy

22:14

is that a thing I feel like it

22:16

is like there's a certain fabric

22:18

that looks kind of like mummy

22:20

Oh, okay. Because all I could

22:22

think of was literal gauze, but

22:25

yes, gauzy, and now there's a

22:27

bunch of like fabrics of it,

22:29

it just means like, as you're

22:32

telling. I feel like very, you

22:34

know, like hippie to be

22:36

homemade natural stuff. Like a

22:38

thinner than linen, like if you

22:40

have a linen shirt kind of

22:42

vibe, like if you have a

22:44

linen shirt kind of vibe. Yeah.

22:46

And then you try to think literal

22:49

gau. So, Percy is looking rough.

22:51

He asks to sit down and

22:53

maybe for some water. Yeah, can

22:55

we get the son of Neptune

22:57

water, please? A girl then pops

23:00

up from behind granola bins and

23:02

asks if they need help. Frank

23:04

is obviously scared, and he's so

23:06

scared that he knocks over a

23:08

fountain of Neptune. He tries to

23:11

clean up the mess and almost

23:13

goose's, the girl with his spear

23:15

is gooseing a term for cutting

23:17

someone? I don't know. Goosing is

23:19

a verb that means to poke between

23:22

the buttocks with an upward thrust. Ah,

23:24

I guess that's part of the

23:26

process in carving a goose. So,

23:28

okay, that could have been scary.

23:30

That's new. That's new. Look how

23:32

much we're learning. Look at that.

23:34

Thank you, Uncle Rick. Also, this

23:36

is so funny that... image of

23:38

like just a decapitated Neptune rolling

23:41

next to a very ill Percy.

23:43

So funny. Percy must be like,

23:45

what's happening? Dad? Right. Hazel looks

23:47

mortified. Percy looks sick as

23:49

he now gazes upon the

23:51

statue of his recently decapitated

23:54

father. He's finally experiencing

23:56

seasickness. Yeah. I mean, that

23:58

was the joke earlier, right? or did we

24:00

make that joke? I think you made

24:03

it some stage. I made some sort

24:05

of seasickness joke. Or no, it was

24:07

just how they could believe that hazel

24:09

would be this seasick, this person's ever

24:12

experienced it. So yeah, he's like land

24:14

sick. This is his version of seasickness.

24:16

Now this girl claps her hands and

24:18

the broken statute. just turns into mist.

24:21

She ensures Frank that it's okay because

24:23

the statues bum her out anyway since

24:25

they're so grumpy looking. And as Frank

24:27

describes her, she basically has the vibes

24:30

of a college-aged hiker girl, which very

24:32

Pacific Northwest, I can certainly understand, relate,

24:34

and I can... envision exactly what she

24:36

looks like. I've met this person. Oh

24:39

yes, oh 100% and her shirt on

24:41

it says R-O-F-L for rainbow organic foods

24:43

and lifestyles and I did not pick

24:45

up on that being the acronym when

24:48

it first was written on the door.

24:50

Rick making a raffle joke. Way to

24:52

go. It had to be intentional. Oh

24:54

I mean given the later joke that comes

24:56

that I cannot believe he actually

24:58

made, it's certainly intentional and I'm

25:01

pulling out now my copy of

25:03

the son of Neptune paper back

25:05

to see exactly what this book

25:07

came out, but I want to

25:09

say it's like 2011. Yeah, text

25:11

copyright 2011. I mean, yeah, Raffle

25:13

2011. Mm-hmm. Yeah, dude, like that's

25:15

the time. That is the time

25:17

for a Raffle joke to come

25:19

through. So she looks young, but

25:22

she has white frizy hair. Frank

25:24

tries to focus on speaking, but

25:26

struggles to do so because her irises

25:28

keep changing color. So of course at

25:30

first I'm thinking, hmm, is this iris

25:32

straight up. Frank apologizes for destroying the

25:34

fountains. The hiker girl says it's all

25:36

good and that the demigods are welcome

25:38

to browse as all demigods are. She

25:41

says monsters just want to use the

25:43

bathroom and not buy anything. But demigots

25:45

might actually get stuff. Her eyes flash

25:47

with lightning and then Frank locks eyes

25:49

with hazel to make sure that he

25:51

didn't just imagine this and yes, seems

25:53

like she also picked up on this.

25:55

But then there's a voice from the

25:57

back. It addresses this girl as flu.

26:00

and tells her to bring the demigots to

26:02

the back. So I'm thinking, okay, that's Iris.

26:04

This is not Iris. She was just identified

26:06

as a different person. Frank asks, is that

26:08

really your name? And Felice says, well, my

26:10

real name is pronounced in the language of

26:12

the nebulae like this, and then just makes

26:14

a bunch of cackling thunderstorm noises, but then

26:16

says, you can call me Felice. And this

26:19

feels like in. I don't know if you've

26:21

seen the movie Galaxy Quest when they meet

26:23

the aliens and they have like a really

26:25

standard quick short name and then it's like

26:27

our name is like I think I've seen

26:29

a clip of that circulating somewhere. It's

26:31

a good one. I remember watching it

26:33

a lot in tennis camp. It's an

26:35

old reliable one and it's pretty funny.

26:37

Good good good Alan Rickman role. Good

26:39

stuff for him. So Percy Jackson then

26:42

mutters, Nipuli. Cloud Nymphs, and I like

26:44

that even in this state, he is

26:46

contributing with his innate knowledge that just

26:48

regurgitates out of his body from time

26:50

to time. Felice is very excited because

26:52

few people ever know about Cloud Nymphs,

26:54

so she then ushers them to the

26:56

back so that her boss can get

26:58

him fixed up. They go down the

27:00

produce aisle, which includes a bunch

27:03

of produce such as Lotus fruits

27:05

and pomegranates, which feels incredibly thematic

27:07

and intentional. Then, narrator Frank says,

27:09

quote, at the back of the

27:11

store behind a counter with an

27:13

old-fashioned cash register stood a middle-aged

27:16

woman with all of skin, long

27:18

black hair, rimless glasses, and a

27:20

t-shirt that read, The Goddess is

27:22

alive! She wore amber necklaces and

27:24

turquoise rings. She smelled like rose

27:26

petals. narrative Frank continues that she

27:29

looks friendly but for some reason

27:31

she has frank on the verge of

27:33

tears and then it hits him she

27:35

reminds him of his mother she introduces

27:37

herself as Iris then hazel goes not

27:40

the iris the rainbow goddess and here's

27:42

my question hazel if you knew that

27:44

iris was the rainbow goddess and there

27:46

was a magical store that had rainbows

27:49

showing up and zapping away enemies how

27:51

did you not at any point Think

27:53

or suggest I wonder if this is

27:55

Iris the rainbow goddess that is wild

27:58

to me. Also she's wearing her that

28:00

says the goddess is alive. Like come on.

28:02

All the clues were there. I get that

28:04

she's 13 and at 13 I

28:06

was not necessarily the smartest or

28:09

most astute person but come on

28:11

but that's ridiculous that she didn't

28:13

bring this up at all. Actually

28:15

no I am Hades. I get that

28:17

it's a book and we're trying to

28:19

do plot to a stuff for people

28:21

who aren't grown men reading the book

28:24

and able to immediately know this is

28:26

going to be the iris store when

28:28

you see a rainbow but Gosh, Hazel,

28:30

you think you might have brought this

28:32

up earlier. Iris says that the Rainbow

28:35

Goddessness is her official job, but

28:37

she doesn't define herself by her

28:39

corporate identity. One, based Iris, two,

28:42

this is actually a good response.

28:44

I'm trying to champion the default

28:46

question in life not being, what

28:49

do you do for work? Because

28:51

not everyone is fortunate enough to

28:53

have a job that they actually

28:55

like. myself by my corporate identity

28:58

as a way to be like,

29:00

don't ask me about my job

29:02

if you don't like your job. I'm

29:05

lucky. I like my job. But not everybody does.

29:07

But also I like the image of

29:09

Zeus being like corporate daddy. And Iris

29:11

is like, I refuse to deal with

29:13

this bureaucracy. I'm doing my own thing

29:15

with rainbows. Look, it tracks Zeus wears

29:17

a pinstripe suit. He is business dad.

29:19

Especially in this whole series. He's like,

29:21

we're not talking to our kids anymore.

29:23

It's not going to work out for

29:25

us. Business dad. Restructuring the

29:28

company? Oh God. Now it's just

29:30

succession, but with the gods. So

29:32

Ira says that in her free

29:35

time, she runs the Raffle Co-op,

29:37

and I wrote in my notes,

29:39

is Rick making a Raffle Copter

29:41

joke? And this will go one

29:43

level further, which I am floored.

29:46

There's been many questions that I

29:48

want to ask Uncle Rick if I

29:50

ever get him on the podcast. But.

29:52

Particularly some of the choices in this

29:54

book in the Heroes of Olympus series,

29:56

mainly the raffle stuff and the crispy

29:58

cheese and weeners. I might, if I

30:01

ever get to fully, truly interview him,

30:03

which TBD, if that ever happens, aside

30:05

from the little thing that we had

30:07

him on for the TV show episodes

30:10

before, if I ever truly get like

30:12

a proper interview with him, it's gonna

30:14

be deranged and unhinged, because I will

30:17

be like, crispy cheese, like, I'm gonna

30:19

have to open with crispy cheese and

30:21

weeners, I feel like. Raffle, like, were

30:23

you trying to look like a cool

30:26

dad for your son? Because I guess

30:28

his son was of the age of

30:30

liking Raffle at the time this book

30:33

came out, this book came out, this

30:35

book came out, wow, wow. Wild, wild.

30:37

Anyway, Raffle Co-op, ridiculous. She mentions that

30:39

it promotes a healthy lifestyle. Frank brings

30:42

up the ding-dong throwing and Iris corrects

30:44

that they are not ding-dongs. They are

30:46

gluten-free, no sugar-added vitamin-en-rich, soy-free, goat and

30:49

milk seaweed-based cupcake simulations. And then Felice

30:51

adds, all natural. And you know what?

30:53

Good, good. We love a junk food

30:55

that is not as bad for you

30:58

as it could be. Is it natural?

31:00

I guess they meant like a facsimile,

31:02

like I guess in the sense of

31:05

like imitation cupcake. Not just like, oh,

31:07

it's cardboard. It might taste like cardboard

31:09

with glue fresh, no sugar. It's that

31:11

holographic food from that one episode of

31:14

Spongebob or whatever. Very much giving the

31:16

energy of like 2010's vegan foodies on

31:18

their blogs. We're like, just cook everything

31:21

in water only, no salts, no seasonings.

31:23

You'll feel so much better. like a

31:25

commentary of that and especially when And

31:27

I think this might be a little

31:30

bit later. I think a later thing

31:32

is the, oh, just because something is

31:34

gluten free, it's healthy, which is like

31:36

not the case. I think there's certain

31:39

health trend kind of things that I

31:41

think now we're recognizing that just because

31:43

something is X free doesn't mean that

31:46

it's good. I was surprised that soy

31:48

free was mentioned because 2011 feels like,

31:50

oh, if something's made out of soy,

31:52

it's what he's talking about. He's Spitten.

31:55

So. And then says, cool, I stand

31:57

corrected. And then he, as the narrator

31:59

notes, that he feels as queasy as

32:02

Percy after hearing about this fake ding

32:04

dong. Iris suggests that Frank try one,

32:06

especially since he's lactose intolerant, which I

32:08

don't know how milk factors into a

32:11

ding dong, maybe in the cream, but

32:13

I feel like that they wouldn't have

32:15

genuine, like, real cream inside of a

32:18

ding dong. But also she did not

32:20

mention that they're dairy free? That's true.

32:22

Was that not there. gluten-free, no sugar-added,

32:24

vitamin and rich soy-free, goat in milk

32:27

seaweed-based. I guess maybe because, but it's...

32:29

Doesn't goat milk also have lactose? I'm

32:31

not sure. I'm fortunate enough to be

32:34

very tolerant of lactose. I just choose

32:36

not to drink lactose. I like it.

32:38

Somebody called that lactose intolerance. I call

32:40

that a choice. A voluntary choice. That

32:43

has nothing to do with my body's

32:45

ability or inability to process lactose. Frank

32:47

then asks how she knew he was

32:50

lactose intolerant and she says that she

32:52

learns a lot by being the messenger

32:54

goddess. She then says that monsters could

32:56

use healthy snacks for a change since

32:59

their diet is mostly junk food and

33:01

heroes. Percy struggles to get up and

33:03

asks if Iris will help stop the

33:06

army marching south. She explains that she

33:08

is nonviolent so she will act in

33:10

self-defense but not be drawn into attacks.

33:12

And then she says that she's been

33:15

reading about Buddhism and Taoism and hazel

33:17

brings up what we're all thinking. Uh,

33:19

aren't you a Greek goddess? Iris scolds

33:22

Hazel for putting her in a box,

33:24

stating that she will not be defined

33:26

by her past, which I think is

33:28

very funny. And there's a couple of

33:31

things in these chapters where a very

33:33

valid question is raised, and then rather

33:35

than answering it, because I think it

33:38

would get too messy, Rick just has

33:40

the character go, nah, and move on,

33:42

and I support it. Hazel then replies,

33:44

okay, could you at least help our

33:47

friend here? I think he's sick. Percy

33:49

asks if they can send an iris

33:51

message. Frank doesn't know what that is.

33:54

Iris can tell that Juno is up

33:56

to some shenanigans then, if we've got

33:58

mixing up, going to everyone, Greek and

34:00

Roman people, yep, yep, yep. Fleecy and

34:03

Iris then exchange looks. Iris sprays a

34:05

vial around Percy's face quote to balance

34:07

his chakra and then she explains an

34:10

iris message to the Romans and She

34:12

asks fleecy to set one up stunning

34:14

that of all the granola hippie jokes

34:16

that get made in this section Not

34:19

a single yoga joke that was wild

34:21

to me wild Iris then winks at

34:23

Frank and tells him to keep it

34:26

on the down low, but Fleecy handles

34:28

most of the messages these days because

34:30

she's adept and Iris simply doesn't have

34:32

the time. It also messes up her

34:34

wah. And Frank asks what I'm wondering,

34:36

what is a wah, but Iris does

34:38

not answer. And I love this as

34:40

the classic delegate, but don't tell that

34:42

I'm the one. It's like how Hans

34:45

Zimmer doesn't actually do all of the

34:47

music when it says Hans Zimmer the

34:49

composer on him. It's actually a really

34:51

unfair thing. It's like the entire orchestra

34:53

or whatever. But because he's in charge

34:55

of it, it's just credited to him,

34:57

even though there's like 50 people. It's

34:59

like Jeff Coons. He doesn't do any work.

35:01

Who's he? Oh, he makes those giant like metal

35:03

balloon animal sculptures. Oh, okay. Yeah, he doesn't make any

35:05

of his work. He's just like the head of creative

35:08

and he comes up with the ideas, but he has

35:10

a whole team of like hundreds of like hundreds of

35:12

artists who get no credit who get no credit. And

35:14

I'm, and, and I'm Jeff Coons, his number one, his

35:16

number one, his number one, Hater. Also gross to

35:18

not credit I love crediting that's why I always

35:21

have the credits at the end where credit everyone

35:23

who does anything like everyone deserves credit so I

35:25

credit the live show I like give height to

35:27

all the people behind it like there needs to

35:29

be more crediting of people making things possible podcasting

35:32

is getting better at it which makes me happy

35:34

like a lot of those like big budget podcast

35:36

are finally saying who produces and edits and researches

35:38

and does all the other stuff that goes into

35:41

it makes me very happy but yeah we need

35:43

to get better accrediting. Movie credit's already a million

35:45

years long. Why not list everybody who's composing the

35:47

music and doing work besides just Hans Zimmer?

35:49

Come on! So yeah, anyway, Percy Jackson. Iris

35:51

does not answer. Instead, she instructs Fleecy to

35:54

take Percy and hazel to the back and

35:56

to feed them and to set up the

35:58

messages. She identifies Percy's ailment. as memory sickness,

36:00

sparked by him meeting Polybities and being

36:03

a son of Neptune. Iris then says,

36:05

Fleasy, give him a cup of green

36:07

tea with organic honey and wheat germ

36:09

and some of my medicinal powder number

36:11

five. It being number five, I could

36:14

only think of, this is medicinal

36:16

powder number five. This is medicinal powder

36:18

number five. He's last, what about Frank?

36:20

Like she's studying Frank and says, oh,

36:22

don't worry. Frank and I have a

36:24

lot to talk about. And that's the

36:26

end of chapter 21, which I have

36:28

retitled. have a retitling of chapter 21.

36:30

I have We Meet the World's Most

36:33

Dedicated Vegan Influencer. I also was trying

36:35

to make a raffle joke and I

36:37

couldn't come up with a good. I'm trying

36:39

to do like I accidentally raffle at the

36:42

raffle but I couldn't get a good

36:44

acronym for raffle that wasn't very clunky.

36:46

Or it could be like a forward word

36:48

title that is ROFL. So like running. The

36:50

closest thing I could come up

36:52

with was. ruining obnoxious function layouts.

36:55

That's good, because they talk about

36:57

that happening. It feels a little clunky,

36:59

I don't know. No, I like that.

37:01

That's a good one. What's another, because

37:03

it's like, like retail-oriented, retail-oriented friend liaison?

37:06

Like we're meeting a new friend in

37:08

a store, something like that. RFL, but

37:10

a sense or something else. All right,

37:13

we're going to take a break here

37:15

for the Sun of Fortune, and then

37:17

we will come back to do as

37:19

many more chapters of this as time

37:21

allows. Hello

37:24

and welcome to the Sun of Ford

37:26

Tune. Technically Shubio edition in terms of

37:28

recording, but ideally Baltimore edition in terms

37:30

of uploading this and recording this on

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Saturday before leaving for our Sunday Baltimore

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37:36

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37:38

on Sunday before the show. So at

37:40

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37:42

so that I don't have to work

37:44

on the train ride home instead. Hopefully

37:46

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37:48

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for some updates. So let's give you

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We're going to be covering chapters

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35 and 36th of the Center

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41:43

22. It's called Frank. We'll reticle it.

41:45

It starts with, quote, Frank would have

41:47

preferred to go with his friends, even

41:50

if it meant he had to endure

41:52

green tea with wheat germ. Classic. Uncle

41:54

Rick, getting in those hippie jokes. No,

41:56

instead, Iris leads him to a cafe

41:58

table and says the She knows how

42:01

he feels. And that she imagines

42:03

that the half-burned stick in his

42:05

pocket gets heavier every day. And

42:07

Frank basically goes, what? How did you

42:09

know? She states again that she knows

42:11

things, especially since she was Juno's messenger

42:13

for ages. She knows why she gave

42:16

Frank a reprieve. Frank asks what he

42:18

mean reprieve and brings out the stick.

42:20

Iris explains that Juno saved Frank for

42:22

a reason to fit into her great

42:24

plan. She says that he would have

42:26

died if not for her as he

42:29

was born with too many gifts. And

42:31

quote, that sort of power tends to

42:33

burn out a mortal life. So very

42:35

intrigued about Frank's backstory here. Frank doesn't

42:37

think he has any gifts, let alone

42:39

too many. Iris tells him that's not true.

42:42

And then she makes a tiny rainbow appear

42:44

with the wave of her hand. It's

42:46

a vision of him playing in his grandmother's

42:48

backyard at age four. In the past, he wanders

42:51

towards the woods and is confronted by a

42:53

grizzly bear. Frank's memory of this was so

42:55

hazy that he questioned whether or not it

42:57

actually happened, but now that he sees this

42:59

happening, he goes, oh, okay, that must be

43:01

real. Then, Frank's mom, who was in the

43:03

attic previously, puts herself between Frank and the

43:05

bear who was staring at Frank and narrator

43:07

Frank notes there's no way that she could

43:09

have gotten there fast enough. It feels impossible.

43:11

So maybe there is some magic afoot. I'm

43:14

wondering if she has some sort of magic

43:16

powers to her? Is Frank Godley on more

43:18

than one side? Is that what we're talking

43:20

about here with the multiple gifts? We will

43:22

just have to see. Frank's mom tells Frank

43:24

to go inside the house, he does,

43:26

and when he turns around, he sees

43:28

that the bear is gone. He asks

43:30

what happened, and his mom replies, Mama

43:32

Bear just needed directions. And at this

43:34

point, I'm wondering, is Frank part bear

43:36

or something? What's going on here? Is

43:38

this a relative? What's happening? So the

43:40

scene then changes to Frank at age

43:42

six. He's resting in his mother's lap,

43:44

even though he's quite big to do

43:46

that. She is telling him stories about

43:48

heroes and quote, pretending that they're all

43:50

related to Frank. She then tells the

43:52

tale of Ju-Fue, who searched for

43:55

the elixir of life, and

43:57

says that he was Frank's

44:00

great-great-great-great-great-great. grandfather. Then tells him the

44:02

tale of Sung-Gwo. This is, I thought

44:04

this is why you fit this chapter.

44:06

It was, but it's also, I

44:08

love the Raffle Copter stuff. It's

44:11

so funny. Two reasons. My last

44:13

name and a teenage boy joke.

44:15

Yeah, when I read this as

44:18

a kid, I was like, oh

44:20

my god, am I related to

44:22

Frank? Am I really a

44:24

demicaw? I love it. But

44:26

also, Frank's Canadian, I was

44:29

like, I'm not Canadian though, so I

44:31

don't know. But as a kid, I

44:33

was like, yes. I've been named dropped.

44:35

Oh, I love it. So yes. I've

44:38

been named dropped. Oh, I love it.

44:40

So yes. Tell them the tale of

44:42

Sung Goo. said that Sunguo was the

44:44

strongest dragon of them all, which is

44:47

how he could beat them. Now I'm

44:49

wondering, is Frank Part Dragon? What's going

44:51

on here? She continues that his oldest

44:53

ancestor that they know of was the

44:56

Prince of Pylus, who fought Hercules and

44:58

lost, but put up a good fight.

45:00

She compares it to fighting a swarm

45:02

of bees, and now I'm wondering, is

45:04

Frank Part B? What's happening? Narr says,

45:07

quote, the comment made no sense to

45:09

Frank. Then or now, his ancestor had

45:11

been a beekeeper. Great. Current Frank thinks

45:13

that he hasn't thought about these stories

45:16

in years and seeing his mom makes

45:18

him want to go back to this

45:20

time. Flashbrack Frank asks his mom

45:22

where his family is from. Is it

45:24

Pylos or Rome or China or Canada?

45:26

And she answers Li Tian and reminds

45:29

Frank that he has a special gift

45:31

and he can be anything. So now

45:33

because of all the other things, we've

45:35

got bear dragon bees, I actually have

45:37

more of a refined guess. Is Frank

45:39

some sort of shape shifter? Like when

45:41

you wild shape in Dungeons and Dragons

45:43

or Baldersgate 3, like does he have

45:45

some sort of ability where he can

45:47

turn into... creatures of other sorts? Is

45:49

he like Ben Ten? Is he an

45:51

animal? Is there some sort of thing where

45:53

Frank can turn into other beings? Obviously you

45:55

can't say anything because the trap door has

45:58

got to stay intact. And if you... fall

46:00

down the trap or who's gonna edit

46:02

the podcast? Me? Oh no, it takes

46:04

so much time. The Rainbow then dissolves.

46:06

Frank says that he doesn't understand. Iris

46:08

says that his mom nailed it on

46:10

the head. He can be anything. And

46:13

that really lends itself to. Sheepshifting.

46:15

However, whenever I hear the phrase, you

46:17

can be anything, I think of this one

46:19

dance mom's episode, where Abby Lee Miller pits

46:21

the two girls Maddie and Chloe against each

46:23

other with the same solo, and the songs

46:25

called You Can Be Anything, but the way

46:27

she pitches the names of the solos are

46:29

Be Anything and You Can You Can. And

46:31

then when you see the dances on stage,

46:33

the song goes You Can Be Anything. And

46:36

that's where my brain goes. Okay. Don't know why.

46:38

I don't know much about dance moms. That's where George or Sibaw got her

46:40

start though, right? Yeah. Okay. That's like the one thing I know about it.

46:42

I had a big dance moms phase, and for some reason, a lot of

46:44

those episodes are just burned into my brain. Yeah, for me, it's more of

46:46

I did dance. I felt the wrath of dance moms, because I did

46:48

like a boy's hip-hop-hop group. My sister was in this like very

46:50

competitive, like very competitive, like very competitive, like, like,

46:52

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

46:54

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

46:56

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

46:58

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

47:00

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

47:03

dance academy in New Jersey that like competed at

47:05

all these competitions and stuff like super intense kind

47:07

of stuff. My sister went on to minor in

47:09

dance in college so like a legit program. They

47:11

opened up a all-boys hip-hop class for basically all

47:13

of the girls dancers, brothers and stuff like that.

47:15

There were some boys in the company but like

47:17

not many and I joined the hip-hop thing and

47:19

then in my second year they took me and

47:21

two other guys like the best three dancers

47:23

from it and we did a trio and

47:25

like doing a trio or a solo or

47:27

a duo or a smaller group as opposed

47:29

to just like the big thing was like

47:31

a huge deal and the dancer moms got

47:33

so mad that they picked the boys just

47:35

because they're boys which is definitely why we

47:37

got chosen but we were also very good

47:39

and we did a routine to Missy Elliott's

47:41

gossip. That was a whole plot in dance

47:43

moms. I mean like I remember like getting

47:45

dirty looks like getting dirty looks from gross

47:47

women. 40 year old women shooting me dirty

47:49

looks and saying things about me behind my

47:51

back that I could hear because they were

47:53

so mad about this. I was 11 years

47:55

old. I had no decision making in this.

47:57

That's a whole thing. I was like I didn't

47:59

do this, like I was just, I'm

48:02

sorry for being good. But then there

48:04

was like even more drama because we

48:06

competed in a competition at a competition

48:08

called Teen Miss Dance of New Jersey,

48:11

which was great. And we absolutely nailed

48:13

our performance and there was this duo

48:15

of performance and there was this duo

48:17

of girls that did a thing to

48:20

me in my shadow and one was

48:22

dressed in black and one was dressed

48:24

in white and the whole things were

48:26

like rooting for them to kick. our

48:29

ass in the solo duo trio, trio,

48:31

I think maybe like small groups, maybe like

48:33

duo and trios, whatever it was, they were

48:35

all like rooting for them to like make

48:37

us look bad. And then we ended up

48:40

winning a gold medal, a team, a dance

48:42

of New Jersey and not them. It was

48:44

wild. And like, there was so much drama

48:47

that happened just because like me and my

48:49

two friends happened to be good at dance.

48:51

It was ridiculous. I do have the

48:53

video of one of our performances. I'll

48:55

have to post that at some point. Also

48:57

I remember our teacher Christina explicitly saying when

48:59

we were doing the dance you are not

49:01

allowed to look up the lyrics of Missy

49:04

Elliott's gossip folks because we did it to

49:06

like a clean one and I remember at

49:08

one point suggesting like oh should I look

49:10

at the lyrics because a lot of our

49:12

moves were like when she says this you

49:14

do this when she says this you do

49:16

this and she was like you are not

49:18

allowed to look up the lyrics. What I find

49:20

really funny about clean edits of songs is that

49:22

in today's day and age what kid is just

49:25

going to follow in an instant you can just

49:27

find the lyrics. Also sometimes they don't even try

49:29

when they record a clean version. They just like

49:31

say the first syllable and it's like, what are

49:33

we really covering up here? It was definitely

49:35

better in the past, especially because, like,

49:38

A, you had to, like, really go

49:40

on the internet to, like, search up

49:42

the dirty lyrics. And, like, I don't

49:44

know, my parents, like, checked my internet

49:46

history when I was, you know, using

49:48

the big family computer in fifth grade.

49:51

They would, like, make sure I wasn't

49:53

getting into trouble. And then the other

49:55

thing is, because streaming wasn't really a

49:57

thing, you would have to buy the explicit

49:59

version. parents are probably buying it, they're

50:01

buying the clean version. Unless you have

50:04

like an iTunes gift card or something

50:06

and your parents let you like go

50:08

wild with it, which they did. So

50:10

they never like checked, but I guess

50:12

I was just such a like goody

50:15

goody two shoes kid that I always

50:17

bought the clean versions. Like if your

50:19

parents are paying for the clean version,

50:21

you're not going to like go out

50:23

of your way to spend 99 cents

50:26

on the explicit version. Come on. I

50:28

remember when one of the Taylor Swift albums

50:30

came out, for some reason the default one

50:32

on Spotify played the clean one, and it

50:34

happened for a lot of people. So for

50:37

a while, I was like, I thought this

50:39

album was explicit. I'm not hearing a single

50:41

swear word. And then I realized I listened

50:43

to the whole thing, the clean version. I

50:45

was like, oh, well that makes sense. But

50:47

then on Twitter, everyone's like, did

50:49

anyone else get showed only the clean

50:52

version? What's happening here? Wild times. Anyway,

50:54

Percy Jackson. So, narrator Frank, about where

50:56

even were we? Oh, being anything. Narrator

50:58

Frank says, quote, it sounded like one

51:00

of those stupid things parents say to

51:02

boost your self-esteem. A worn-out slogan that

51:04

could be printed on Iris' t-shirts, right

51:06

along with The Goddesses Alive, and by

51:08

other cars and magic carpet. But the

51:10

way Iris said it, it sounded like

51:12

a challenge. Frank insists that he cannot

51:14

be anything because he has no skills.

51:16

And Iris asks him, yeah, okay, what

51:18

have you tried? Because you tried being

51:20

an archer, which you're not a descendant

51:22

of, and you're pretty good at that. So

51:24

why don't you just try more stuff? She

51:26

says that Hazel and Percy are stretched between

51:29

Greek and Roman worlds, but Frank has stretched

51:31

more than either of them. So his mother's

51:33

whole thing about his family being from all

51:35

over could be legit. She explains that

51:37

his family is ancient with blood of Pylos on

51:39

his mother's side, and then his dad is literally

51:42

Mars. And now at this point, I got asked

51:44

Dr. Moy about Pylos, because that feels very interesting

51:46

with the Prince of Pylos and the Organos and

51:48

all that. Iris thinks that it's obvious why Juno

51:50

wants Frank is one of the seven, but she

51:52

asks, what do you want, Frank, and Frank says

51:55

that he has no choice. He's the son of

51:57

the war god, so he's got to go on

51:59

this quest. out that he says that he

52:01

has to not that he wants to and

52:03

she likens it to her history she was

52:05

everyone's errand girl she grew tired of it

52:07

but eventually she started raffle and now she

52:09

is free she suggests that Frank let go

52:12

even if he cannot escape fate and he

52:14

adds that his wooden stick will burn at

52:16

some point and she foresees that he will

52:18

be holding it when it happens my thought

52:20

on the percentage chance that Frank gets out

52:22

of this series alive is very low. I

52:24

do not think he's got a good shot.

52:26

Someone is gonna die with a final breath

52:28

and then foes are gonna bear arms to

52:30

the doors of death. More and more with

52:33

each chapter I worry that Frank is going

52:35

to die. So I don't know, we'll have

52:37

to see. She says that this makes Frank's

52:39

life more precious and she encourages him not

52:41

to simply become the man his family expects.

52:43

She calls for him to forge his own

52:46

path. Narrator Frank says, quote, Frank

52:48

thought about that. The idea was

52:50

thrilling. Reject the gods, his destiny,

52:52

his dad. He didn't want to

52:54

be a war god's son. His

52:56

mother had died in a war.

52:58

Frank had lost everything thanks to

53:00

a war. Mars clearly didn't know

53:02

the first thing about him. Frank

53:04

didn't want to be a hero.

53:06

Which feels very Percy Jackson coded.

53:08

He asks Iris, why are you

53:10

telling me this? And asks if

53:12

she wants him, not what others

53:14

want of him. She says that

53:16

serving others for five millennia did

53:19

her some harm. No one gave

53:21

her a secret animal No one

53:23

makes temples for her. So she

53:26

blazed her own trail and created

53:28

the co-op and she offers for

53:30

Frank to stay with them and

53:32

become a Raffle copter No way

53:35

become a Raffle copter Rick. That's

53:37

nothing Because Frank even asks, a

53:39

what now? And then she just

53:42

goes, the point is, you have

53:44

options. It's not, it's like, I

53:46

guess because it's close enough to

53:48

co-op, but like, come on. This is

53:50

giving huge MLM energy. Oh yeah,

53:53

okay. Like join my vegan

53:55

influencer cults. Reject your

53:57

path. Choose your own. We'll go down.

54:00

and rainbows. You'll recruit more.

54:02

We constrain more demigods

54:04

from the murderous path of

54:06

being a hero. Oh my gosh, yeah.

54:08

The other thing that's wild is Raffle

54:11

Copter, like Iris is thousands of

54:13

years old. How does she know

54:15

Raffle Copter lingo? I guess maybe

54:17

she's the messenger goddess, so she

54:19

took fascination in the phrases kids

54:21

are using these days? I don't

54:24

know. Wild to me. Wild to

54:26

me. Anyway. She asks Frank if freeing

54:28

Thanatos will be good for him and

54:30

his family and his friends. This causes

54:33

Frank to remember that his grandmother had

54:35

said she has an appointment with death.

54:37

He thinks Thanatos being chained up would

54:39

keep her alive. He also thinks that

54:42

Hazel would be able to stick around.

54:44

And then he thinks that he might

54:46

even be taken by Thanatos, since all

54:49

that keeps him from death is a

54:51

half-burn stick. So Iris I'm wondering at

54:53

this point, is she being? Slightly evil?

54:55

that was kind of pushed out by

54:58

the Olympians, so maybe she is not necessarily

55:00

on the, yeah, you gotta save Olympus train

55:02

of thought. Frank imagines life as a raffle

55:04

copter, thinking of his mom telling him that

55:06

he can be anything, but then he thinks

55:08

that he cannot be so selfish. He says,

55:10

quote, I have to go, it's my job.

55:12

How Roman of him! How Roman of him

55:14

indeed! I resize and says that she figured

55:17

he would choose that path. She says that

55:19

she will at least help him find Thanatos.

55:21

Frank asks if she knows where the giants

55:23

are hiding him. And she says no, because

55:25

of the whole Alaska God thing. But she

55:27

knows of someone who would know the sea

55:29

or Phineas, who is blind but can see

55:31

the past present in future. Frank... feels like

55:33

there's a story about this guy

55:35

that he's heard. Iris confirms and

55:38

says that in the past he

55:40

committed horrible crimes and used his

55:42

gift of sight for evil. Jupiter

55:44

sent the harpies to plague him

55:46

and she begins to say that

55:48

the Argonauts, including his father, the

55:50

Prince of Pylos, drove away the

55:52

harpies in exchange for Phinease's help.

55:54

She states that Frank must learn

55:57

of Phineas's gift and story on

55:59

his own. She makes Frank promise not

56:01

to kill the harpies. If they still

56:03

plague Phineas, she wants Frank to win

56:05

his help by some other means because

56:07

the harpies are not evil and they

56:10

are in fact her sisters, which surprises

56:12

Frank. And Iris says, I know, I

56:14

don't look old enough to be the

56:16

harpies sister, but it's true. Great. It's

56:18

all that like vegan skin care and

56:20

stuff she's doing. You know, deagifying.

56:22

Yeah. It's working! She adds that

56:24

there's more trouble. If he plans

56:26

to leave, he must defeat the

56:28

Baselisks on the hill. She explains

56:31

that Baselisk means little crown, which

56:33

she says is, quote, a cute

56:35

name for something that is not

56:37

very cute. She would prefer that

56:39

is not very cute. She would

56:41

prefer that they not very cute.

56:43

She would prefer that they not

56:45

die since they're living creatures, so

56:47

I'm thinking, okay, you can be

56:49

anything, turning to a giant weasel. But

56:51

Frank rep... fresh out of weasles, which is

56:53

great. Iris says that he'll have to use

56:55

his father's gift then. Frank asks how to

56:58

use the spear. Iris says that he must

57:00

learn on his own because she cannot advocate

57:02

violence. And in a very interesting turn, she

57:04

sends Frank off to battle while she tends

57:06

to hazel and Percy. I didn't think that

57:09

he would get sent off alone to do

57:11

it. I thought it would be, you know,

57:13

they're all leaving, but he kind of has

57:15

to lead the charge. So. She says you go

57:17

do this I'll worry about them then says cool.

57:19

I hope fleecy found the right medicinal herbs the

57:22

last time we had to mix up Well, I

57:24

don't think those heroes wanted to be daisies. I'm

57:26

sorry what? Iris gives a final piece of

57:28

advice since his destiny is to

57:30

die holding the stick he could

57:32

give it to someone that he

57:35

trusts? Frank asks if she's offering

57:37

to do so, and she says,

57:39

oh, no, no, no, no, no,

57:41

no, not me. It would get

57:43

lost with all my other trinkets.

57:46

She suggests a demigod friend close

57:48

to his heart. So obviously that's

57:50

hazel narrative, Frank confirms. Hazel, Frank,

57:52

confirms. Hazel, thought immediately. There was

57:54

no one. Frank, thought immediately. There

57:57

was. Hazel, Frank, Frank, close to

57:59

his own. is not going to think

58:01

worse of you because of this. She's

58:03

got a wild history. Yeah, dude, she's

58:05

lucky to be here at all. Come

58:08

on, man. Frank puts the stick away

58:10

and thanks Iris. She squeezes his hand

58:12

and tells him not to lose hope.

58:14

She says that rainbows always stand for

58:16

hope. Frank says that he'd rather have

58:19

a few weasles than picks up his

58:21

spear and marches towards the Basilics to

58:23

face them. So I have retitled Chapter

58:25

22. I stare at a bear. Oh. I have a sincere

58:27

one and I have a funny one.

58:30

The sincere one is somewhere over the

58:32

rainbow, bluebirds fly, and so can I. Great,

58:34

love it. And then a vegan cult attempts

58:36

to recruit me. Chapter 23 begins with

58:38

Frank missed his bow. He wants to

58:41

just shoot the snakes with exploding arrows,

58:43

easy-peezy, but, quote, unfortunately, a quiver full

58:45

of arrows wouldn't do Frank much good

58:47

if he couldn't shoot them. Yeah, dude,

58:50

you kind of need a bow. He

58:52

also doesn't know where the snakes are

58:54

because they stopped spewing fire once he

58:56

stepped outside. He in general just doesn't

58:59

like close range combat because he feels

59:01

like he is slow and bulky. Yeah,

59:03

I did okay in the war games,

59:05

but this is not a game. thinks that

59:07

he would like to be good with a

59:09

spear, immune to poison, and immune to fire.

59:11

But the spear still feels wrong in his

59:13

hand, so he doesn't think that his request

59:15

was answered. He thinks back to the stories

59:17

that his mother told him about the heroes

59:20

who battled Hercules, and he struggles to grasp

59:22

one, how he could come from that line,

59:24

and two, how his family went from Greece

59:26

to the Roman Empire to China to Canada.

59:28

He begins to wonder about the Prince of

59:30

Pylos, whatever his great-grandfather Shen Lund did, and

59:32

whatever his family powers could be. Quote, the

59:34

gift has never kept our family safe. His

59:36

grandmother once told him. And Frank thinks,

59:38

that's very reassuring right now. First you

59:40

give me this, you know, life stick. And now

59:42

you're telling me, your gift won't save you anyway.

59:44

Uh-huh. And if anything, it's more of a death

59:47

stick, really. Yeah. It's not a good gift to

59:49

receive. So yeah, not a good gift. His other

59:51

gift isn't good. Terrible. So he inches downhill through

59:53

the smoke that has billowed up because of all

59:55

of the burning smoke that has billowed up because

59:57

of all of the burning grass and grass and

59:59

stuff. a burst of flame. He thinks

1:00:01

about throwing a spear, but then he

1:00:03

realizes, I would then be weaponless. So

1:00:05

instead he proceeds closer. He wishes that

1:00:08

he had the Gorgen's blood vials, but

1:00:10

they're in the boat, of course they

1:00:12

are. But then he thinks, that doesn't

1:00:14

matter, because one, do they even work

1:00:16

on Basilisk venom? Two, would I even

1:00:18

pick the right vial? And three, would

1:00:21

I even have the time to do

1:00:23

it? Because my bow disintegrated very disintegrated

1:00:25

very quickly very quickly. Soon he finds

1:00:27

himself face to face with a basilisk

1:00:29

and he thinks how he thought they

1:00:32

were going to be giant dragon-like monsters

1:00:34

obviously before seeing them But he thought

1:00:36

basilisk meant this big monster that can

1:00:38

petrify you. Yes, he did. He read

1:00:41

the Chamber of Secrets He's like that

1:00:43

was the second book. I'm in the

1:00:45

second book But then he thinks

1:00:47

further about it and he thinks

1:00:50

man if they were bigger. I

1:00:52

think I would be less scared

1:00:54

of them something being so small

1:00:57

and quick is hard to hit

1:00:59

and he then is confronted by

1:01:01

this snake, it stares at him,

1:01:03

but it's yellow eyes, and Frank

1:01:06

wonders why hasn't it attacked yet.

1:01:08

His spear feels cold and heavy,

1:01:10

and the dragon-toothed tip begins to

1:01:13

point downwards, seemingly on its own.

1:01:15

Frank tells it to stop, and

1:01:17

then he notices it to stop,

1:01:20

and then he notices the

1:01:22

other two slithering towards. It's called Frank.

1:01:24

It begins with, quote, Frank swept his

1:01:27

spear back and forth. Just like he's

1:01:29

willow Smith. Stay back, he yells. But

1:01:31

he notes as the narrator that his

1:01:34

voice sounded squeaky. He continues. I've got,

1:01:36

um, amazing powers and stuff. Well, you

1:01:38

tell him, Frank, yeah. Narrator Frank then

1:01:41

says, the Basilisk's hissed in a three-part

1:01:43

harmony. Maybe they were laughing. Very good.

1:01:45

And then what's very interesting is the

1:01:48

tip of his spear is at the

1:01:50

point where it's almost too heavy to

1:01:52

lift, like it's trying to go into the

1:01:54

ground. This sparks Frank to remember that the

1:01:56

tip is a dragon's tooth and there's some

1:01:58

story about planting dragon's teeth. to grow monsters.

1:02:00

And yes, we have seen this in

1:02:03

the Titans Curse. And we've also talked

1:02:05

about this, I think, in the most

1:02:07

recent Dr. Moya episode. So definitely a

1:02:09

thing that I was clued into, the

1:02:11

Snake Circle hymn, which Frank thinks is

1:02:14

either them hesitating or being dumbfounded because

1:02:16

of how thick Frank is being. Frank

1:02:18

decides to thrust the spear into the

1:02:20

ground and he hears a crack. And

1:02:23

when he pulls it out, the tip

1:02:25

is gone, leaving him just with a

1:02:27

golden stick. He's upset, but come on,

1:02:29

man, this definitely means it's working.

1:02:31

He considers bringing out his death

1:02:33

stick because if he's gonna die,

1:02:35

he might as well go out

1:02:38

in a blaze of glory and

1:02:40

save his friends by taking the

1:02:42

basilics with him. The ground rumbles,

1:02:44

dirt scatters about, and then a

1:02:46

skeletal hand bursts through the ground.

1:02:48

legitimately turns into one of those

1:02:50

dudes from the Titans curse. Camo

1:02:52

gear, gray, translucent, goopy skin and

1:02:54

everything. It then turns to Frank

1:02:57

and because it's like a see-through

1:02:59

head, you just see the skull

1:03:01

grinning, I guess, grin in quotation

1:03:03

marks at Frank, and then it

1:03:05

just kind of waits and Frank

1:03:07

realizes, oh. It's waiting for orders. So

1:03:09

then Frank goes, kill the basilisks, not

1:03:11

me, which is a great thing to

1:03:14

add. The skeleton then strangles one snake

1:03:16

despite it burning its gelatinous gray flesh,

1:03:18

and then another snake lunges, but Frank

1:03:21

is able to bash it with the

1:03:23

butt of his spear, and then the

1:03:25

third snake spews fire at the skeleton

1:03:27

warrior, but he just proceeds through it

1:03:30

and crushes it under his boot. Frank

1:03:32

then turns to the remaining snake, the

1:03:34

one that he bashed, and sees that

1:03:36

his spear is steaming but not dissolving.

1:03:39

Narrator Frank says, quote, the skeleton warrior's right

1:03:41

foot and hand were slowly dissolving from poison.

1:03:43

His head was on fire, but otherwise he

1:03:45

looked pretty good. And I like that narrator

1:03:48

Frank has some jokes. He's got some humor

1:03:50

too, which makes me very happy. Especially when

1:03:52

he's like in the middle of a fight.

1:03:54

Yeah, he's good. He's able to recognize the

1:03:56

humor in the situation in the situation in

1:03:58

the situation in the situation. one of its

1:04:00

own ribs and throws it at the

1:04:02

snake and paling it into the ground,

1:04:05

which is intense, and to make things

1:04:07

even more intense, it marches over to

1:04:09

the snake, pulls the rib out, and

1:04:11

then uses it to cut off the

1:04:13

head of the snake, and then to

1:04:15

make it even more intense, he goes

1:04:17

to the other two snakes and decapitates

1:04:19

them for good measure, and then he

1:04:21

kicks all of their ashy pile of

1:04:24

former bodies about, and Frank realizes, oh

1:04:26

yeah, he's trying to make it so

1:04:28

that either they can't reform, Oh, more

1:04:30

common. They're like, oh, some of our

1:04:32

friends died and they like, they're

1:04:34

away. I thought this, Frank explicitly

1:04:37

says he remembers the Gorgens, they

1:04:39

got in the river and they

1:04:41

couldn't reform. So I think that's

1:04:43

what it is. But I also

1:04:46

do like it being a warning

1:04:48

of like, everyone stay away. I

1:04:50

guess in case Politbities threw more

1:04:52

snakes out of his hair on

1:04:54

the way out, like, just in

1:04:57

case they need backup. I was

1:04:59

guessing that the skeleton was just

1:05:01

going to salute at him and

1:05:03

that's exactly what the skeleton does.

1:05:05

It salutes and then it begins

1:05:08

to crumble and sink back into

1:05:10

the ground, but then Frank goes,

1:05:12

wait, I don't even know what

1:05:14

to call you. Tooth man? Bones?

1:05:17

Gray? And the narrator, Frank says,

1:05:19

quote, as its face disappeared beneath

1:05:21

the dirt, the warrior seemed to

1:05:23

grin at his skeletal spear, but

1:05:25

a new tooth is reef. warming.

1:05:28

He then remembers that Mars said

1:05:30

you get three charges out of

1:05:32

it. So use it wisely. So clearly

1:05:34

he can use this cool new spear

1:05:37

version of dance macabre from Baldersky 3

1:05:39

slash D and D. He can use

1:05:41

that two more times and summon a

1:05:43

monster. It's a spell where you can

1:05:46

make four zombies fight for you. Frank

1:05:48

heard. Thank you for explaining. I'm almost

1:05:50

done with the game and I'm like

1:05:52

really invested now. Frank then hears footsteps

1:05:55

behind him. Percy and Hazel run into

1:05:57

the clearing. Percy looking better except that

1:05:59

he is carrying a. quote,

1:06:01

tie-died man satchel from Raffle.

1:06:03

Definitely not his style. Does

1:06:06

satchel get to the point

1:06:08

where we need a man

1:06:10

satchel and a woman satchel?

1:06:12

I thought a satchel is just

1:06:14

a satchel. I feel like this

1:06:16

was also around the time when

1:06:18

they were like, you know, men

1:06:21

can have bags too, but it has

1:06:23

to have man on it. Like, you

1:06:25

know, body wash for men. Yeah, this

1:06:27

is definitely the arrow when dove care

1:06:29

for men. So, on Ironically of their

1:06:31

deodorant is very good and I still

1:06:33

use it. But now it's called like,

1:06:35

Dove Men Plus Care because now we

1:06:38

can be sensitive men who care about

1:06:40

ourselves. Now men are allowed to be

1:06:42

skin care. Yeah, now we can. It's

1:06:44

okay. Yeah, gosh, we don't just rub

1:06:46

dirt on our face. So Percy also

1:06:48

is riptide, hazel's got her spathadrawn, hazel

1:06:50

asks Frank if he's okay, and then

1:06:53

Percy looks all around for enemies and

1:06:55

explains that Iris said that Frank was

1:06:57

out here battling the Basilics by himself,

1:06:59

and they were like, quote, what? So

1:07:01

we came as fast as we could.

1:07:03

He asks, what happened, Frank? She says,

1:07:05

I'm not sure. Hazel then goes to

1:07:07

the dirt near where Gray had formed

1:07:10

and then went away, and she senses

1:07:12

death. She says that either her brother

1:07:14

has been here or dot, dot, dot,

1:07:16

the basilisks are dead, and then Percy

1:07:18

stares in awe at Frank. Surprised that

1:07:20

he could have killed them all and

1:07:22

asks him you killed them all Frank

1:07:25

does a big And then narrator Frank

1:07:27

says go he already felt like enough

1:07:29

of a misfit without trying to explain

1:07:31

his new undead minion Three charges Frank

1:07:33

could call in gray twice more But

1:07:35

he'd sense malevolence in the skeleton. It

1:07:37

was no pet. It was a vicious

1:07:40

undead killing force barely controlled by the power

1:07:42

of Mars Frank got the feeling it would do

1:07:44

what he said but if his friends happened to

1:07:46

be in the line of fire oh well So

1:07:48

that's a very interesting thing. It's like it's like

1:07:50

when you have a charzard but you don't have

1:07:52

enough badges to control it like you gotta really

1:07:54

be careful. So Frank thinks okay if I do

1:07:56

this I gotta be quick with the directions I

1:07:58

gotta make sure I'm very clear and it's doesn't

1:08:00

hurt my friends. He then thinks to

1:08:02

how Mars told him that the spear

1:08:05

would give him a bit of breathing

1:08:07

room until he learned how to use

1:08:09

his mother's talents. So now I'm very

1:08:11

intrigued to see what his mother's talents

1:08:13

are. Frank is now thinking, all right,

1:08:16

I only got two more charges of

1:08:18

this thing, so I got to learn

1:08:20

my mother's skills fast. And then he

1:08:22

grumbles, thinks a lot, dad. And then

1:08:25

his will goes, what? I like someone

1:08:27

finally hearing here for once, is nice.

1:08:29

than asks Frank if he's okay.

1:08:31

And we conclude the chapter with

1:08:33

quote, I'll explain later, he said,

1:08:35

right now, there's a blind man

1:08:37

in Portland, we've got to see.

1:08:40

Yes! That's the end of Chapter

1:08:42

34. Very, very good. Very, very

1:08:44

good. Do you have a retitling

1:08:46

of Chapter 24? I have

1:08:48

a couple. None of them, I

1:08:50

feel like, are that good, but

1:08:53

I kind of like Dragon Tales.

1:08:55

Oh, just big. But also,

1:08:57

I love Dragon Tales the

1:09:00

show, so. Yeah. But also,

1:09:02

bones versus basilisks. Oh, that's

1:09:04

good. I have gone with

1:09:07

a twist on Greek

1:09:09

mythology and called it, I meet the

1:09:11

Gray Brother. and I guess in the future,

1:09:13

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Kid, Kid, Kid, Kid, and review on whatever podcasting

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app you're using. Truly, all of these things help.

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I really appreciate anyone who has done it in

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the past, and I also appreciate anyone who will

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do it in the future. But I'm just so

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thankful that you tuned into this episode, and I

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hope you tuned into our next episode, where we

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will be covering chapters 25 and 26 with a

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new guest to the show, Niharika Batacharya. But until

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then, we'll see you later. Everyone

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else is going, it's me Asymarmic. So here in the

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Shubio, I have a stack of, it's not post-it notes,

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but it looks like a post-it notes stack, but the

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notes aren't sticky. I really like this because I like

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to take little notes, but not necessarily stick them on

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stuff. This one is one that I've had for many,

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but not necessarily stick them on stuff. This one is

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one that I've had for many, many years, and I've

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had for, I like to take little notes, but not

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necessarily stick them, but not necessarily stick them, but not

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necessarily stick them, but not necessarily stick them, but not

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necessarily stick them, but, but, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've,

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I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've,

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I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've, I've through

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it, like it's a deck of cards

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or something in front

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of the microphone.

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Thank you so much

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for listening.