'The Lightning Thief' Ch. 12-16 | Percy Jackson

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Hey, I'm Derek.
And I'm Noah, And you're

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listening to the penultimate
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Surprise, OK Penultimate episode
of covering Percy Jackson and

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Lightning.
There you go.

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Chapters 12 through 16, when we
decided to do which chapters we

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were doing to split it into four
parts to carry us like the

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Tunnel of Love to the show, we
did not know that these

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particular chapters would have
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We got your back story, we got
your side quests, we got your

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talking animals, we've got
everything.

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There's so much so if we miss
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Yes, exactly.
All right, so massive spoiler

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warning, we are one episode away
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lot of you know, plot details
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chapters and come back.
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians,
The Lightning Thief, chapters 12

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through 16.
Chapter 12 is called We Get

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Advice From a Poodle as Night
Falls, Grover tells the tale of

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Pan's disappearance.
Percy has a pit premonition and

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a pink Poodle will pay for.
Passage.

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If you're watching this, which I
hope you are, Derek has been

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really trying to be mindful of
his blossoms.

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Because you know, when you push
air into the microphone, it

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doesn't sound great.
And so.

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Not to use another one, but I'm
on 100% panicked.

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I don't think I got a noise on
that one.

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I'm going to say you did a great
job.

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OK, that was really scary.
So this chapter, it's fairly

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short.
The only purpose of this chapter

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is so we can get some back story
with Grover a little bit, but

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it's like a transition chapter
almost.

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And then there's a poodle that
just, yeah, has no bearing on

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anything right now, and it helps
them get to their next place.

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So yeah, when we last left our
heroes, they had just killed

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Medusa and they sent a package
of her head to Mount Olympus.

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What I really liked about these
chapters in general was that

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that Grover back story, and we
got to know Grover a little

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more.
And Grover, we see how conscious

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he is of the environment and of
the natural world.

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And I really, I I I realized I
remembered it was a it was a

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reminder of why I love the
character so much.

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He's a great character.
You know, whenever you have to

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make these characters that are
going to be the titular

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characters or the protagonist
carry a series, you have to

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really get them for you to care
about them.

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And I think what I like that
Rick did in these books is that

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we're like halfway through this
book and we still don't know

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really anything about these
people that Percy is on this

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quest with.
So we really are in that point

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of view of him.
And I like that we're getting a

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little snippets.
We know that Grover wanted to be

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a seeker.
He supposedly failed in his last

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one.
We'll find out a little bit

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about that later.
But we in this particular

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chapter, we find out more about
what exactly a Seeker is and

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what it means.
So the Gods of the Wilds and

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disappeared.
And so when the humans found out

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that Pan disappeared or died,
the humans were like, oh, OK,

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bye.
We're just going to pollute the

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Earth, right?
So Rick really does a lot of

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themes and these chapters coming
up where it's like consumerism,

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humans being awful and terrible,
which we are, we destroy our

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planet.
But the whole thing of a Seder

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becoming a Seeker is to find
Pan, and to do that you have to

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excel in a quest.
And he hasn't yet.

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He hasn't passed his exam,
essentially to be a seeker to

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find Pan.
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And we, we get a little hint
here about the timeline of

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Grover and Annabeth and things
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And so Percy says, wait a
minute, your first keeper job

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was five years ago.
Annabeth has been at camp five

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years.
She wasn't.

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I mean, your first assignment
that went wrong.

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End of sentence.
End of sentence and we're not

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going to mention it and.
Until 3 chapters from now.

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Right.
And that does come into play.

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And I really like when it's
talked about because I feel like

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our characters had to go through
some of this again to really

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open up.
Because remember, one of the

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things that the Oracle told
Percy is that he's going to be

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betrayed, somebody close to him.
So I feel like Percy isn't

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really giving much to these
people and they start giving

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more to him so that he's going
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some way.
Also, he's 12, so there's.

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Also that to remember,
absolutely a lot of pressure is

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being put on these kids.
Okay, they're 12 years old.

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I know that they're half gone,
but there's still 12.

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Yeah.
I also think that we see here

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that each of our main characters
has something other than the

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quest that they're trying to go
for in their lives or just in

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this particular point in time.
And we even see, you know, so

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Grover kind of confides all this
stuff, and Percy and Percy just

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flat out says to Grover, look,
I'm going to be honest with you,

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I actually don't care about the
master bolt.

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My whole thing is that I'm just
trying to get to the underworld

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to save my mom.
Which is fair.

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Yeah, so I'm going to be on this
journey with you.

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That's great.
If I get the master bolt, cool.

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But really, my mom got exploded
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Also, why would he care?
Like, he didn't even know about

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this stuff, not like a month
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If he if there's a chance that
his mom is still going to be

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alive, the only good person and
the person that was there to

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raise him, Poseidon, of course
he's going to try to do that.

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And I think that they understand
that because if they were to

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have a relationship like that
with a parent or somebody, they

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would do the same thing.
And I think there's also

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something to be said about both
Percy and Annabeth.

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I'm trying not to hit the.
Piece.

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I'm sorry, I didn't mean to
laugh.

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I'm trying so hard.
You're good.

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Nobody.
No, nobody.

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Pay attention.
To him, stop looking at me.

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Is that those two characters,
I'm not saying their names

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again.
They both have this sort of

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deadbeat dad complex, right?
Going on.

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I mean it just so happens that
Anna Betts is mortal and Percy's

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is Poseidon.
I don't know how to do it.

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You're good.
You're.

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Too much.
But they sort of have this thing

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where there is one parent that
they really look up to, and in

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this case Percy, it's his mother
and he wants to save her,

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whereas Annabeth is always
looking to Athena for her

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approval.
So again, they she's.

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Kind of like not helped out a
lot.

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Well, I mean, that's really the
saddest thing for Annabeth,

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right?
Is Percy at least had his mom,

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who was there to take care of
him and make sure he was OK.

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Neither of Annabeth's parents
want anything to do with her.

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Right, right.
So in this chapter, this

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conversation, I mean the
conversation we're having about

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their parents and everything,
it's going to keep happening in

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this book because it's a huge
part of this series as a whole.

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In this chapter, chapter 12,
there's two more things I want

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to mention.
So Annabeth thinks that there's

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something weird about the quest,
like all the monsters seem to be

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holding back.
And she recalled with the

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Furies, they weren't asking
where is he, they were asking

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where is it.
So what is everybody looking

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for?
I think we can put two and two

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together, saying, I think
they're also looking for the

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master bolt.
So if 80s does have the Master

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Bolt, why would he then be
sending Furies and Monsters to

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look for it?
So I think there's somebody

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that's doing something else.
Someone's pulling some tricks,

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OK, and trying to pass the blame
on other people or gods or

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whatever.
The only other thing I want to

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mention because Percy has a lot
of visions and dreams throughout

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this book and the series, just
like God's like to do and some

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of those that are more powerful
or in higher number or lower

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number cabins can do.
And in this one, essentially

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he's at he's at the edge of a
chasm, and he hears a voice, and

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the voice is a creature of some
sort.

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He can't really see it, and it's
as if it's using him to pull

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himself out or itself out of the
chasm.

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Luckily he wakes up to Grover
holding a poodle, but that begs

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the question of if it wasn't
Hades and it wasn't a God that

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he can readily know, who was in
this chasm, trying to use him as

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like an anchor to get out, which
will be later.

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Says Help me rise, boy.
Bring me the bolts.

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Strike a blow against the
treacherous gods.

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If you're if you're listening to
this on audiobook, it's very

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much the narrator.
I should know their name is

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narrating it like it's for kids.
So anytime there's a monster or

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like somebody that's bad, it's
so hammed up, but it kind of

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makes him smile because exactly
how you did it and that's how

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the narrator did it.
Is the good, good.

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I'm like OK.
If it weren't for my plosives, I

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would have a future in
audiobook.

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Yeah, you still can.
Darn the luck. 2024 ABO

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Audiobook So Gladiola is the
pink poodle.

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Yes.
Has nothing to do with anything

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except that Grover can talk to
it and ran away from a rich

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family.
There's a $200 reward and

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they're like, we have no money.
We can use that to get to where

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we're going end of Chapter 12.
That's that's why I love Grover,

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OK?
If it weren't for Grover, they

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wouldn't be able to continue on
their journey.

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That little Underwood boy so
good.

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Yes, and that little pink poodle
is like Hey Grove.

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And they came together.
But on to Chapter 13, which is

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called I Plunge to My Death.
Playing tourist leads Percy to

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the top of the Ark, where he
meets Echidna, who exclaims Call

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me Mother.
So great.

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Yeah, that's it.
So is that RuPaul?

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Yes.
So they kind of go on a detour

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here, which I don't know.
If you're on a quest and you

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know that monsters are following
you, I would never think to

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maybe go sightseeing.
You know, but like the way

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Annabeth puts it out there, they
have a layover.

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It's three hours, which I do
agree.

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I think they're too young to
understand that that's not any

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time at all to like leave and
come back.

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But so they want to go to the
Saint Louis Arch, and she wants

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to be an architect.
So why not see something that

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she likes?
I do like the conversation of

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them being like, you want to be
an architect.

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Like how?
What does that have to do with

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like, Athena and everything?
And she tells them not only are

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we we're supposed to build like
my God, my mother also wants us

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to build things, not just
destroy them.

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And I like that about Annabeth,
like she is, I think, an

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amalgamation of a lot of good
traits.

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She's strong, she's determined,
she's super smart.

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She's not afraid to speak her
mind, and so take that.

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Yeah, she's not afraid to go on
a little excursion to do some

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sightseeing.
But like the Saint Louis Arch,

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I've been there.
It's fine.

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I.
Haven't been there.

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Is the elevator scary?
When we went, we weren't allowed

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to go up.
Oh, so I will never know.

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Maybe it's better at the top.
I just got to see it from.

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Oh my God.
Hello.

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I'm just putting this together.
I literally did what they're

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doing.
I took a train to Colorado that

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went through there.
I was with my grandparents to go

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and we stopped.
Is this a normal thing?

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Maybe that is.
I'm going to text my grandma

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after this maybe.
Why did we do this?

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Maybe.
Maybe that is just the Amtrak

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route.
It has to stop at Saint Louis

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Louis.
So.

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So that way everybody could see
the arch exactly.

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They force you to go see the
arch, and it's always just the

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right amount of time to go see
the arch and then come back.

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Oh.
My God.

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Clang, clang, clang with the
trolley.

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But OK, so before we get to the
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important part that happens.
The travelling to Saint Louis is

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Annabeth's back story, so we get
to know a little bit more about

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her.
I know I was complaining in the

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last episode that I want to know
more, and the only way that

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we'll actually find out about
any of the stuff is if it's told

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to Percy and Annabeth decides to
tell him some of that

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information.
One of the things that I love

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about this book is the Annabeth
and Percy relationship, or how a

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lot of fans like to call it
Persa.

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Beth and I like that.
How Rick handles their

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relationship is that, like,
they're so young, so they're

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figuring themselves out, they're
figuring out their family drama

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bullshit, and they're also
figuring out how they fit

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together.
So it's not an immediate thing

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of like they're going to kiss.
It takes books for it to, like,

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finally pay off, but it's just
so sweet.

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And it's these moments, and
there's one in the tunnel of

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love that are like the titular
Persebeth moments.

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But so in this one, her story is
really sad.

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And it's kind of it.
It's reminiscent, and I hate to

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put it this way, but of kind of
like, you know, like an orphan

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dropped off on a thing with
people that don't like them.

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It's very, you know, it's the,
it's the Harry Potter thing,

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right?
She has that kind of story where

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she was dropped off in like a
golden cradle and an

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inconvenient time for her
father, and he just wanted

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nothing to do with her.
He got married, had kids, still

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wanted nothing to do with her
stepmom.

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Yeah, there's always an evil
stepmother, too.

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It's very Cinderella.
It's it's those architects,

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right?
It's like you need these things

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for like that relatable thing.
Like, we all know what that

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means, but like, for Annabeth,
that's really sad.

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And like, no wonder she decided
to run away from all of that.

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You know, I think there's
something to say about Annabeth

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and how strong she actually is
and the fact that as a 7 year

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old, she knew that she had to
leave, she couldn't stay there.

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And also, I think she says
something along the lines of the

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the stepmother didn't feel safe
with her there because the

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monsters kept coming.
Which fair, but also, like,

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figure out how to protect your
stepchild.

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Like when you marry somebody
that has kids, you're as you

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have to care for them as if
they're your own.

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That's kind of the agreement
with that.

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If you can't do that.
Stop it.

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OK, so things we're learning
about parents in this book.

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OK, they all.
Suck.

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They all suck.
Yeah, God parents, they just

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drop you off and they say see
you never step.

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Parents are the worst.
And really, that's about it.

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They are cause smelly Gabe also
that's.

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What I'm saying Yeah, that's
what.

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I'm saying I I some of the later
on we'll get the whole

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confrontation between Poseidon
and Percy.

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But, like, it is an interesting
dynamic, right?

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It's like, do they want to have
a relationship with all of these

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kids they keep making, but they
can't because there's that whole

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thing of, like, you're not
supposed to be having kids.

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So there's like that line drawn.
But like, how much of that do

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they actually want to break or
not break because they've been

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doing it forever?
Oh yeah, they're.

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Just making kids.
And I mean, come on,

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contraception is a thing.
Even for gods.

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Get a godly condom.
OK?

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I'm sure, I'm sure they exist.
If they can create, you know,

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little creatures, they can.
They can create condoms as well.

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It's.
Ridiculous.

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So the arch happens.
Yes, they are the.

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Battle at the top of you, they
get up there, and then of

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course, Percy gets separated
from Grover and Annabeth and

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they're like, I'll see you on
the way down.

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Why?
No, we can't do that.

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No, no, come on.
We shouldn't even be on this

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little trip And then we.
I'm sorry, you just don't go.

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You just everybody out of the
elevator.

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We go down together.
Yeah, yeah, but of course it

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goes down and it's closing and
the Rangers like, blah blah

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blah.
So he gets stuck in an elevator

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with the Ranger, which I don't
know why there's a Ranger for

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the arch.
National Monument.

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Rangers.
I didn't know they had Rangers.

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National parks.
Yeah, but monuments?

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Whatever.
And there's an older woman with

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her Chihuahua and a little
family.

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OK, I do want to just point out
that I did not like the

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description of this woman.
Oh, it's great.

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Because she is a big fat lady.
And and, he writes, she had

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beady eyes, pointy coffee
stained teeth, a floppy denim

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hat and a denim dress that
bulged so much she looked like a

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blue Jean Blimp.
Did they?

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I just feel like it is not very
sensitive to its differing body

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types and I didn't like that in
her.

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It's like she's so disgusting
because she's fat.

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Yeah, well, that's true.
I mean, he has good descriptions

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of people that have like
different types of descriptions,

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but when it comes to the
monsters, I feel like he just

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let it all fly and he's like, I
don't care.

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We got that sexy minotaur and
now we have this.

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I don't know what we're doing
here at.

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Least he gave us that.
OK, listen to our first.

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Episode for that description.
That's true.

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So OK, so come to find out that
this woman is a kidnap who is

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like the mother of monsters and
everything and her little

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Chihuahua is a fire breathing
chimera.

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I cannot wait for this in the
show.

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I feel like it's going to be so
cool because also like I feel

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like in this series, if I'm
remembering correctly the few

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things I remembered, there's
quite a few fights in elevators

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and like small closed in areas
which I'm a fan of ever since

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Captain America be all those
hydra agents in an elevator.

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I'm sold on them.
But I'm really excited for this,

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just to have that, like close
quarters.

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There's pedestrians there,
there's mortals that have a

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missed.
So I wonder what it's showing is

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happening.
And then also you have a chimera

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in there and this crazy woman
like, so cool.

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I can't wait to see the
Chihuahua transforms the

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chimera.
This tiny little Chihuahua

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that's going to become this
giant, what is it?

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Lion serpent creature.
So I have the description here,

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just because I like chimeras, I
think there's such a cool

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creature in mythology.
It says the head of a lion with

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a blood caked mane, the body and
hooves of a giant goat and a

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serpent for a tail.
A 10 foot long diamondback

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growing right out of its shaggy
head?

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That is insane.
I like that.

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The next detail is the
rhinestone.

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Dog collar still hung around its
neck and the plate sized dog tag

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was now easy to read.
Chimera rabid fire breathing

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poisonous.
If found, please call Tartarus

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Ext 954.
So good.

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So the Chimera makes a big hole
in the side of the thing, so

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it's good you can see the edge.
There's a river you can see out

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of it.
Percy.

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He loses Riptide out of the
hole, of course, which we know

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it's supposed to come back, but
like, he knows that it's not

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going to be right away.
So I would really like to know

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the like duration that it takes
for it to summon back because

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that should be key to know like
he needs to.

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Figure this out.
Need a stopwatch moment and and

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also just the distance matter.
So if it goes X amount of miles

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does that equate into some sort
of time?

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What is the formula?
I need to know.

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X equals what?
I don't know. 2 Whatever that

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means 2.
You guys, everybody designs like

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2.
Yeah, so.

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So Echidna is taunting him this
whole time as well.

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You have a chimera there, you
have mortals there.

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And she's taunting him like
they're not attacking right

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away.
He did get bit by the the snake,

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so he has venom in him and she's
like, you're not going to do it.

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You're not going to do it.
Watch.

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Is your dad going to save you or
you going to do it?

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He ends up doing it and as he's
falling down he praise to his

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father essentially, and turns
out he's fine.

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We can.
He just cushions right into the

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water.
Even though it should have been

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like a cement block, like he
could have splatted all over the

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place, it cushions and and holds
him like a baby.

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Right.
And that's the end of Chapter

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13.
All right, so 14 is titled I

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Become A Known Fugitive, A
wading water Woman waves Percy

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Santa Monica's Way.
Oh wow.

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WS hardly any PS.
So one detail that happened in

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the previous chapter is that he
keeps saying stuff about him

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being wanted and everything.
And I believe it was in the last

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chapter where I think smelly
Gabe now has a bounty out on

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him.
And also we find out that I

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think we had questioned like
what does The Mist show mortals?

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And Riptide was a bat.
So, like, I just love the thing

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of like this crazy kid is
terrorizing people with a bat

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across the country.
That's the thing I love that

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it's national news as well.
This 12 year old made national

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news.
His horrible stepfather has news

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articles and, you know, online
videos and Gabe is just on the

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warpath to just try and make
some money or whatever he's

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trying to do.
He's a Jackass, that's what he

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is.
Yeah, he wants he basically

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wants Sally home to, like, make
him dinner or something.

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Horrible.
So in these next three chapters,

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Percy finds out that he has,
like, more powers and abilities

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because of his lineage.
So when he's in water, it's like

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he's dry.
Like, he touches his clothes,

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he's dry.
He picks up a piece of paper in

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there and a lighter, and he can
light the piece of paper.

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Everything becomes dry in water,
which I think is so freaking

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cool that it's not just Oh yeah,
he can breathe underwater and

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swim Morel.
It's like, Oh no, he can like,

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produce fire as well.
It's really cool.

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I like that.
But he gets a little water

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visitor.
Yeah, Nyad, I believe.

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And and she's just like, you
must go to Santa Monica.

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Don't trust the gifts.
Oh.

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What gifts?
Hmm.

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What gifts?
Who gave him gifts?

450
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,960
No one talks straightforward.
Everything's a Riddle.

451
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,200
You got to figure it out
yourself.

452
00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:59,120
Oh, sorry, he has a little
puzzle.

453
00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:00,720
Good luck.
My I.

454
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:02,760
Can't help you, it's.
Like no one is willing to just

455
00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:04,280
be straightforward.
No, not at all.

456
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:07,000
He gets out of the water, news
reporters are reporting that it

457
00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:08,680
was Percy Jackson, that blah
blah, blah.

458
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,360
So he's like becoming.
He's not only terrorizing people

459
00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:16,280
on buses and destroyed his
stepfather's car and everything,

460
00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:21,200
but he is also just destroying
monuments in America.

461
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,480
So it's getting worse.
Like.

462
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:25,720
This is like a federal offense.
Exactly the.

463
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,280
FBI are coming.
Yes, exactly.

464
00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,320
Poor.
Percy Yeah, so now they have to

465
00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:35,600
be on the run, but also a little
more sneakier on the run.

466
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:38,800
On to 15.
Yeah, they can't go back on that

467
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:39,440
train.
That's.

468
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,240
For sure.
So a God buys us cheeseburgers.

469
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:45,920
Wow.
A mystical call to camp reveals

470
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:49,400
trouble is brewing.
A leather laden God gives the

471
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,960
gang a side quest that leads
them into a web of despair.

472
00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:54,520
Wow.
Oh, so good.

473
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:56,440
I like that 10.
My God I.

474
00:23:56,440 --> 00:24:00,520
Love that.
So we find out that they so they

475
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:03,640
can't use like technology or
cell phones or anything 'cause

476
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:07,560
like it'd be easy for monsters
to track them I'm assuming.

477
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:09,760
Monsters own AT&T, T-Mobile and
Verizon.

478
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,360
They're all implanted in all of
those networks and they could

479
00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:13,680
just try and get like the
signal.

480
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:19,560
So they have to communicate via
Iris Messenger or I.

481
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,000
MIM.
S which I love that this was

482
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:23,520
what?
In the early 2000s?

483
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:29,800
So it's very much on brand, but
I wonder if actually there's

484
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,440
something later that I'm like,
is he going, is something going

485
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,440
to be changed to now times to
make it more relevant?

486
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,560
Because I am like who's going to
nowadays are like what?

487
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,960
Yeah, I guess the equivalent of
that would be like DM me, direct

488
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,400
message me.
To meter message.

489
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,040
But then it's not rainbows.
Yeah, so they have to use

490
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:54,520
rainbows with water or rainbows
in general to communicate with

491
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,560
people.
So they get to a car wash, they

492
00:24:56,560 --> 00:25:00,520
do the sprayer and he calls Camp
Halfwood and who picks up?

493
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,680
Of all of all people.
Luke.

494
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:05,560
That Luke.
Luke.

495
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,520
Luke.
Luke this isn't Laura like

496
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,640
Gilmore's Luke, OK?
No, He had his issues, but not

497
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,320
like Luke.
No, he just wanted to own a

498
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:20,400
diner and fall in love.
So Luke tells Percy that because

499
00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:24,800
of, and I'm assuming that kids
will just like demigods will

500
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:29,120
naturally kind of fall into like
how they're God.

501
00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:32,720
Parents are feeling like when
battle lines start to be drawn,

502
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,240
they too start to do it.
So at Camp Half Blood, there's a

503
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:40,040
lot of fights breaking out,
their sides being formed because

504
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:44,280
Zeus is pissed off that his
master bolt is taken and a lot

505
00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,800
of the gods are just like
conniving being against each

506
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,880
other and it's translating it to
camp Half Blood, not good.

507
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,120
Things aren't good at home.
No, they're fighting.

508
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,120
The kids have are running amok.
And I believe it's Aphrodite.

509
00:25:58,120 --> 00:26:02,360
Aries and Apollo are backing
Poseidon and Athena is backing

510
00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:06,480
Zeus.
So we have Annabeth's mother on

511
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:09,320
Zeus's side, and we have Percy
on the other side.

512
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,680
Very awkward for our two of our
protagonists here.

513
00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:17,600
Luke does say something where he
accuses Hades of stealing the

514
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:21,600
Master Bowl, and guessing that
Hades this and this is a new

515
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,480
magical item that's introduced
that he used his Helm of

516
00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:28,000
Darkness, which turns him into
complete darkness, invisible

517
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,960
almost just like Annabeth's cap,
but I'm sure it's like at a

518
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:35,520
higher level of invisibility,
like nobody could see him that

519
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,880
comes into play later.
Yes, I also think that Luke does

520
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,160
well.
He does a lot of seed planting,

521
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:46,160
of trying to, I don't know,
steer Percy in some wrong

522
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,040
directions here.
And he even talks about the past

523
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:50,720
again.
At this point, we don't really

524
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,600
know what happened with Enebeth
and Luke and Grover, but he

525
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,720
starts to plant these seeds in
Percy's head and he and he says

526
00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,480
something like and tell Grover
it'll be better this time.

527
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,000
Nobody will get turned into a
pine tree if he just, you know,

528
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,640
and then it goes out.
But it almost feels like he's

529
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,240
telling Percy things, very
personal, traumatic things that

530
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,120
he shouldn't be telling him.
No.

531
00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:15,240
And I think the way it's
written, I think it's safe to

532
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,520
say that there's something more
to Luke than Luke is letting on.

533
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,240
Like he's putting on a facade
almost.

534
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,160
And it is very heavy-handed in
the book.

535
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,280
Like there's more and more.
Like we just got a spirit saying

536
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,480
don't trust the gifts.
Luke gave them a bunch of gifts

537
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,760
when he left, when they left.
I'm not saying he's the only

538
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,920
person that gives them gifts,
but it's seeming very much like

539
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,120
the way it's written just for
the age group.

540
00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:41,720
It's like Luke is doing these
things like he's.

541
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,680
Almost too helpful.
Right, exactly.

542
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:50,960
And this next God that shows up.
It seems like there's a lot of

543
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:56,400
people using Percy as a pawn,
and Aries shows up when they're

544
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,200
at a diner.
Can I read his description?

545
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,080
I please do, because it's
terrifying.

546
00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:05,320
It's leather biker.
Daddy don't know, but it's

547
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,440
scary, Daddy.
It's not good, Daddy.

548
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,520
Says the guy on the bike would
have made pro wrestlers run for

549
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:11,760
Mama.
He was.

550
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,560
That's verbatim.
He was dressed in a red muscle

551
00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:19,160
shirt and black jeans and a
black leather duster with a

552
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,880
hunting knife strapped to his
thigh.

553
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:26,240
He wore red wrap around shades,
and he had the cruelest, most

554
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:30,560
brutal face I'd ever seen.
Handsome, I guess, but wicked

555
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,320
with an oily black crew cut in
cheeks that were scarred from

556
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:39,000
many, many fights.
Wow, but OK, but you missed the

557
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,000
best part.
Tell me.

558
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:43,320
And it says that his motorcycle
looked like it was wrapped in

559
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,880
leather, but looked like
Caucasian skin.

560
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:53,440
Leatherface Chainsaw Massacre
Ring a bell.

561
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:56,480
Disturbing.
He also has fire for eyes.

562
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,120
Your eyes are like pools of.
Fire.

563
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,640
Oh my God, he's just so angry,
full of rage.

564
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:08,440
So after this asshole of a
waitress doesn't want to give

565
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:12,480
these obvious children starving
children food, Aries comes in

566
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:13,720
and pays her the food,
everything.

567
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,720
But it seems like when he walks
in a room, especially with

568
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:20,480
mortals, he can kind of command
the room and they show him

569
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,440
respect in a way.
But I don't know if he's like

570
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,320
necessarily fully controlling
them or if it's just like his

571
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,960
presence that does that.
He he has an effect.

572
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:33,040
It.
It reminds me of Blue Diamond

573
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,600
from Steven Universe, where when
she's around, you start crying,

574
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:38,720
right?
And you don't know why.

575
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,680
And he also has this effect
where he walks into a room and

576
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,760
you bow to him, but you also can
feel anger and resentment and

577
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:49,600
bitterness.
Like, he just emotes these

578
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,160
things into the atmosphere and
you can't help but feel them.

579
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:53,960
Right.
It it just really cool detail

580
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,560
and I like that type of
descriptions that he puts for

581
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,080
him.
And of course it's like I I like

582
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,160
that some of the stuff in this
series is like, oh, that's a

583
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:06,560
cool, unique way to like
describe a God or something.

584
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,200
And it's like, of course Aries
is going to have like human skin

585
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,400
on his.
Oh yeah.

586
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,960
So he essentially goes to the
kids and he gets some food and

587
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:20,480
he's like, look, I need you to
go and get my shield back.

588
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,360
You do that, then I'll like,
help you or whatever.

589
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,920
And of course Percy's like, no,
I don't want.

590
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,960
And because of that effect that
Aries is having, Percy is

591
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,800
becoming more like Persnickety.
I was trying to think of AP

592
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:34,680
Word.
He did it.

593
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:38,040
It's his rage is bubbling a
little bit, but they end up

594
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,640
doing it because it's like 1.
They're gods.

595
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,800
Two they can help because he has
no money.

596
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,720
What is he supposed to do?
So he tells him you have to go

597
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:51,840
to the water park and get my
shield, which sounds easy, but

598
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,200
it's not.
But he says that he was with his

599
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,280
girlfriend on a date.
We do find out that that

600
00:30:57,280 --> 00:30:59,960
girlfriend is Aphrodite.
None other than the Goddess of

601
00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:04,280
love, if you know that she's
married to Festus.

602
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,240
That causes a problem.
That causes a problem.

603
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:08,760
But I did like the detail of
them.

604
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,280
It's in the conversation as
they're going there and talking

605
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,960
about it, that Hephaestus was
thrown out of Mount Olympus, but

606
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,720
he's still married to Aphrodite.
But she still goes around his

607
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,600
back, which obviously, like, I
mean, I I do think it's funny

608
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:25,120
that Percy is like, did you
like, wait, I thought you were

609
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,000
married?
It's like, do you see how many

610
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,040
kids are?
I can't half.

611
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:30,360
Blood, I know.
It's really funny.

612
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:34,880
It's like it's like they can
cheat with mortals, but if they

613
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:36,760
cheat with each other, that's a
no no.

614
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,320
Exactly.
You don't.

615
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,000
How dare You don't.
What is it you don't?

616
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,560
Mingle.
Crap where you eat.

617
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:45,480
Or wherever you eat shit.
Where you eat, yeah.

618
00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:48,200
You don't.
You don't poop where you die.

619
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:53,920
Yeah.
So I really liked the sequence

620
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,640
and I was really upset and I
think this is another reason why

621
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,440
I did not like the first movie
is because they cut this out.

622
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,640
They cut this.
Whole thing out of Festus Aries,

623
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,040
all that was not in this in the
movie.

624
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,080
And I'm so happy that we're
finally going to get it, because

625
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,840
we've seen a still of Annabeth
and Percy in the tunnel of love.

626
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:15,680
Well, we really, I mean, that's
the beauty of a series, right?

627
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:18,640
Is that it gives us the time to
experience all these things and

628
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:20,880
let all the source material
breathe.

629
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,000
So we get to hit these beats
because you know, what is it

630
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,080
like 8 episodes?
You know?

631
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,160
So we really do kind of get to
see these fun things.

632
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,400
And this scene was really fun.
You know it.

633
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,320
I like seeing the three of them
working together.

634
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,480
You know, in these past couple
of scenes, it feels like

635
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,440
Annabeth and Grover being like,
no, you dummy, you're doing this

636
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,280
wrong, This is what's happening.
Whereas since Percy's in the

637
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,640
action with Annabeth and Grover
is like flying above them, they

638
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,640
get to work as a trio and solve.
This problem I love right before

639
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:53,600
they get into the boat that
like, they know it's the Tunnel

640
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,040
of love.
So it's that very like

641
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:58,120
adolescent trope of like they go
to the tunnel of love and fall

642
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:02,040
in love and like Grover's the
red bearing.

643
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,120
I I like that Percy is like
making him feel better for not

644
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:09,200
realizing that the smell of
monsters was actually real at

645
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:10,760
the arch.
And he's like you're the red

646
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:11,920
bearing.
You need to be up there.

647
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,120
Like you got this.
And he's like Annabeth when I go

648
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:18,080
down there with me and she's
like in there, OK?

649
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:20,600
Smooching.
Yeah, smooching.

650
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:24,840
But when they get there, not
only is the shield there, the

651
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:28,720
Aphrodite scarf is there, and
Annabeth takes it away from

652
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:30,640
Percy real quick.
And he's like, you don't you

653
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,240
can't have any of that love
magic which it will come into

654
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,520
play later.
And I love that Annabeth had the

655
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:39,600
wherewithal to be like Nope.
I love seeing how powerful these

656
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:44,040
Talisman are, and it is kind of
funny seeing Percy being the one

657
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,800
that doesn't have all this
knowledge and Grover and

658
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,720
Annabeth having to teach him
being like no, no, no, no, no,

659
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:51,640
constantly.
Yeah, don't go there, don't do

660
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:53,040
this.
They they're basically watching

661
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:54,400
a demigod baby.
Right.

662
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:58,800
And we find out that one of
Annabeth's weaknesses is

663
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:00,880
spiders.
Yes, because her.

664
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:05,400
Because her mother Athena and
all of her children are cursed

665
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:10,639
to always have any spider within
with around them always come to

666
00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:12,679
them.
Yes, there's the myth of Arachne

667
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,920
that plays into this.
And you know, Athena and Arachne

668
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:19,199
had about together.
And so Arachne was kind of it

669
00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:23,199
was a spider woman.
I've read a young adult novel

670
00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:26,080
this year called Spin that was a
retelling of that myth.

671
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:30,639
That was really good, and it
paints Athena as the worst, as

672
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,600
the gods kind of were a lot of
the time.

673
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,320
So highly recommended.
It was very good.

674
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,120
I think it depends on what, like
myth you're reading.

675
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,320
And that's how bad they are, you
know what I mean?

676
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,440
It's like, Oh yeah, this one is
great and I love them.

677
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,760
Like if you read Cersei by
Madeline Miller, it's like she's

678
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,719
the protagonist and everything,
but it's like she's not great

679
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:48,719
the whole way.
No.

680
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:50,880
The whole time.
So this is fun.

681
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,000
This is why retellings of myths,
or like finding which stories

682
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,800
you like is good because you
could hate that God, but another

683
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:01,040
story, you could love them.
But either way, all the children

684
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,960
of Athena don't like spiders, so
Annabeth is pretty much, like,

685
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,880
useless in this situation.
They trip a wire, there's a

686
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,440
pretty much like a spider web
being built, and there's cameras

687
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,280
on them.
The whole thing is being live

688
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,560
streamed because it's told to
them it's a.

689
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,480
Reality show.
Because this is a Festus trying

690
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:24,040
to embarrass his wife in Aries,
catching him in the ACT again

691
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,920
with a golden net.
So Percy uses his water powers.

692
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,480
They get out of it, they got the
shield, they go back.

693
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:36,040
That brings us to Chapter 16.
Called We Take a Zebra to Vegas.

694
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:39,720
The last chapter, yes.
A free ride to Cali turns into a

695
00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:42,880
rescue mission.
Percy, Annabeth and Grover find

696
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:47,440
out that what happens in Vegas
really does stay in Vegas.

697
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:54,600
Nice.
So they they go to Aries and

698
00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:55,920
they're like, we got your
shield.

699
00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:00,480
So he gives them fresh clothes,
$20.

700
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,120
And some drachma $20.
That's it.

701
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,360
That's all you need.
They almost died.

702
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,560
They were almost embarrassed on
live Olympian TV.

703
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,400
They kind of were.
And luckily they got out of it

704
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,000
and he also gives them double
stuff Oreos.

705
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,000
And also a blue backpack.
That's right.

706
00:36:17,240 --> 00:36:19,960
It's very important.
The double stuff Oreos stuck out

707
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:21,360
to me because I would have loved
that.

708
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:27,360
So there's this argument between
Percy and Aries, and Percy is,

709
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,680
you know, he's at his all time,
like not wanting to deal with

710
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:32,200
this guy.
He's like, you knew this was a

711
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,120
trap and you sent me there to do
it.

712
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,680
And Aries could have done it.
He just don't want to get

713
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,160
embarrassed.
And so that's why he made Percy

714
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:41,120
do it, right?
And so he pretty much tells him

715
00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:44,000
the information that he wanted.
He's like, your mom's not dead.

716
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,880
Which is like, yeah, OK.
I think we even knew that as

717
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:49,640
readers like up to this point,
it's like, thanks Aries.

718
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:51,560
But I do think the interesting
thing is that he says she's.

719
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:56,040
Being kept right, right more,
you have to have hostages.

720
00:36:56,240 --> 00:37:00,120
Ay, yay, yay, Not my mother.
Yeah, so they find out that

721
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,360
their transport is one of the
worst transports ever and it's

722
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:09,520
called kindness, international,
humane, zoo, transport, warning

723
00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:13,480
live wild animals.
And in here when they go into

724
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:18,680
this freight or carrier or
transportation thing, they see

725
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:24,240
these not really humanely taking
care of animals.

726
00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:28,360
There's an albino lion, a zebra,
and some antelope all mixed up.

727
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,960
Yes, it's like, why would the
turnips go to the lion?

728
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:34,360
Like, yeah, and the zebra has I.
Think gum in its mane and the

729
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:37,440
antelope has a balloon tied to
its antler.

730
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:40,480
This is over the hill.
Yeah, it's it's not a good

731
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:41,920
scene.
It's definitely a trigger

732
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,080
warning.
Well, and of course also Grover.

733
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,520
Is pissed off about that.
Yes, he can talk to animals.

734
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,960
And we also find out that Percy
can talk to horses and a zebra

735
00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:54,720
is close enough to all checked
out in my book.

736
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,400
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, I I.

737
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:02,720
I think this situation is
interesting for them to be put

738
00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:07,440
in because it's like it's
showing that like again, Grover

739
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,840
is put with this thing that's
happening because nobody's been

740
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,960
able to find Pan.
And so, like, this is driving

741
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,240
his quest a little more.
But it also effects Grover a

742
00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:20,600
little more than it affects
Annabeth and Percy, because it's

743
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:26,000
he's connected to them in this
transportation thing the way,

744
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:31,080
yeah, from hell on the way to
wherever they're going, we get

745
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:35,760
more information about is it
it's a dream, right?

746
00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:38,240
Or is it?
Well, they they're.

747
00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:41,880
Having a conversation and we
finally get the missing pieces

748
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,720
of the puzzle about Talia and
the pine tree.

749
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,760
And it's that Annabeth and Luke
are the ones that made it to

750
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,480
camp safely when she got turned
into the pine tree.

751
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:51,840
Right.
So Grover.

752
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,480
Was enabled because Grover was
supposed to help Talia, right?

753
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:56,880
And then Luke and Annabeth
showed up with them.

754
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,080
They got in safely, but Talia
was the one that really

755
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,320
protected him.
So that's technically why he

756
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:04,880
failed, right?
Yes, he didn't succeed, but then

757
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,440
he does have a dream.
Right, and it it's written.

758
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,520
I looked over at the desk at the
next desk and saw a girl sitting

759
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,040
there, also wearing a straight
jacket.

760
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,400
She was my age, with unruly
black punk style hair, dark

761
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,400
eyeliner around her, stormy
green eyes, and freckles across

762
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,680
her nose.
Somehow I knew who she was.

763
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,360
She was Talia.
Daughter of Zeus, I mean.

764
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:30,120
Hell, yeah, Yeah.
So Talia, if she's showing up in

765
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:33,920
his dream and it's also said, I
believe Grover, there's a Grover

766
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:35,720
that said it.
Or Luke, somebody had told them

767
00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:41,240
that Talia and Percy are the
most powerful ones to come to

768
00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:43,640
camp or to be in existence for a
while.

769
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,880
I mean, she's a daughter of
Zeus, he's a sign of a sign.

770
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:48,560
And we saw how empty their
cabins are.

771
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:52,640
So for them to have kids, they
are like the most powerful out

772
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,000
of all of them.
The Chosen 1 quotes.

773
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:57,600
I put that in quotes.
For people that.

774
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,760
Can't see what I'm doing.
So that's an interesting part of

775
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:04,440
the puzzle, right?
It's so Annabeth has some guilt

776
00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:08,040
there with Talia, and Grover has
so much guilt because the thing

777
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,640
he was supposed to safely
transport her there, he couldn't

778
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:14,640
do that.
But luckily Luke and Annabeth

779
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,000
got there, you know?
But that's also why Annabeth and

780
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:18,800
Luke have that connection as
well.

781
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:20,120
But they both came there at the
same time.

782
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:21,360
They were on that journey
together.

783
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:22,480
Exactly.
Yep.

784
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:26,520
We also get another.
Thing here where Percy, sort of

785
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:32,280
in his dream, crosses over into,
I don't know, being we don't

786
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:33,680
know who it is.
Right.

787
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:37,800
I think I remember who it is.
I'm not going to say, but this

788
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:42,440
God, which we can tell is
talking to somebody, right?

789
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,160
And there's this whole
conversation of like, you know,

790
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,320
they're talking, they're being
sneaky, whatever.

791
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:50,000
And the God notices that Percy
is there.

792
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,800
So it's not like Percy is having
just dreams.

793
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:58,160
He's actually transporting
himself to those situations and

794
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,760
that God was able to notice it,
which is terrifying because

795
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:03,440
Percy didn't know he was doing
it.

796
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:06,520
He thought they were dreams.
Yeah, so someone.

797
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:11,360
Named the crooked one is there
and he he has his mom.

798
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:16,120
But it is interesting that Percy
has his power to be in another

799
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,840
place while he's sleeping.
He's a high level demigod.

800
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:21,720
Apparently so.
Yeah, so they end up.

801
00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:23,600
Letting, of course, all these
animals go.

802
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,040
They switched their foods back
prior to that, so they got to

803
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:29,120
have a good meal.
But they stopped in Vegas.

804
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:34,200
Las Yes, of all places.
Oh my God, Katy.

805
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,000
Perry, They were so close.
They.

806
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,600
Stopped in Vegas.
Sin City, baby.

807
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:44,800
And they.
End up at the Lotus casino or

808
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:46,320
arcade, whatever you want to
call it.

809
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,800
I do think it's really
interesting that like and I

810
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,080
didn't get the sense, I mean
I'm, I think there might have

811
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:52,960
been a line or so.
So when they go into this

812
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,520
casino, it like has everything a
kid could want.

813
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:59,640
It has all this food, it has all
these games, everything that you

814
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:01,520
can want.
And I couldn't remember in the

815
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:05,160
book and I I guess I missed it
of it actually being a casino.

816
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:09,960
I know they say casino in the
name, but like in the movie they

817
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:12,960
hammed up like it was just a
casino.

818
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:15,640
It was like sexy.
It was dancing, it was all this

819
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,040
stuff.
But in the book, it's very much

820
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:19,880
like arcade games and video
games.

821
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:21,400
Adabeth is basically playing The
Sims.

822
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,920
Yeah, she's playing Roller
Coaster Tycoon.

823
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:27,040
Yes, SIM.
City SIM City, yeah, she's just

824
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,400
building buildings, yeah.
She loves being an architect so

825
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:30,840
much.
Yeah, it's called the Lotus

826
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:35,120
Hotel and Casino, but I almost
think it it becomes whatever

827
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:36,920
will tempt you the most to stay
there.

828
00:42:37,240 --> 00:42:40,480
So maybe if an adult went in
there, it would be slot machines

829
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,480
and blackjack.
Well, they did say the.

830
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,240
Room was on the 4th thousandth
floor.

831
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:46,680
Plenty of room for.
That's a lot.

832
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:48,240
Yeah.
Plenty of, yeah.

833
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:50,200
I mean, what like?
What is?

834
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:54,000
Isn't it like Mount Olympus is
on the 600th floor of the Empire

835
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,200
State Building?
So this is more Yeah, or is.

836
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,280
It I feel like they're lying.
They could be lying.

837
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,560
They just make it sound fancy.
So yeah, they're fancy.

838
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:05,200
So essentially what this place?
Is if you ever really read the

839
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:08,080
Odyssey, there's a part of it,
the Lotus Eaters.

840
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,640
And essentially what that does
is it makes you forget all

841
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:15,040
concept of time and everything
and you just like chill and

842
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:16,840
you're OK with everything and
you die.

843
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,760
So that's what's happening here
in this casino is that there's

844
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,280
stuff being pumped into the
vents, which we can assume is

845
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:27,400
like some type of Lotus gas in a
way.

846
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,560
And they're there and they're
like, we'll just have fun, it'll

847
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,800
be fine.
They only had seven days.

848
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:35,000
Mama.
They're on a time frame.

849
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,080
They.
Had a week, OK.

850
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:42,360
I love that Percy figured it out
by somebody Groovy saying

851
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,000
groovy, he said.
I'm wearing bell bottoms.

852
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:46,880
Man, but so this is what brings
me to.

853
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:52,000
Like, it's going to be 2023 when
this comes out as a show.

854
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:57,720
What are they going to say for
Percy to know that it was so,

855
00:43:57,720 --> 00:43:59,800
like, what did we say in the
90s?

856
00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:04,280
What did I say?
In the 90s, like I feel like

857
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:08,360
they would say like like tubular
in the 90s.

858
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:11,160
I don't know.
I was.

859
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,360
Five, OK.
So let's say this isn't the.

860
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:17,000
Future And it's like, what would
they say that we say like, are

861
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,440
they going to dab and they're
going to be like, this is no, Oh

862
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:23,760
yeah, they'll be like.
He'll be like TTYL this is lit.

863
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:27,040
This is lit such a biter.
Man, this is dope.

864
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,160
Dope that.
I think I nailed it.

865
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:30,640
There you go.
Yeah, this is.

866
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,080
Flipping dope, but I love.
That he puts it together.

867
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,360
Because he's like, wait a
second, what year is it from the

868
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:37,840
70s?
And then he finds out that all

869
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:40,800
these people have been there.
They never left, and they don't

870
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,080
age, so they just kind of or
they're forever just stuck

871
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:44,800
forever.
Yeah.

872
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:46,480
So when?
Percy finally gets.

873
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:50,400
His companions to wake up and
get out of it.

874
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:55,200
They only have one day, one day,
five days.

875
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,280
They were in there five days.
Let you know.

876
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:03,160
At first I will say that I did.
I was like I was like Annabeth 5

877
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,280
days of SIM City.
But then I thought about myself

878
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:08,840
in quarantine and how I played
Animal Crossing.

879
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,640
Oh my God, I'm like looking for
turnips.

880
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:13,960
I'm flying islands.
I'm trying to get the highest

881
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,640
bound balance when a new patch.
Or expansion comes out for World

882
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,320
of Warcraft.
I am in this office.

883
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,360
Yeah, forever.
I don't see you.

884
00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,600
At during the week I don't see
you at night and on the weekends

885
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:26,760
I don't see you at all.
No.

886
00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:29,480
Goodbye.
I'm like.

887
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:31,760
Let's get dinner.
We got to record this podcast

888
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:32,600
and then I'm.
Going to go play?

889
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:33,920
Exactly, yeah.
And he's.

890
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:37,720
Playing and editing at the same
time very special, so I get.

891
00:45:37,720 --> 00:45:39,280
It.
But I like this.

892
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:40,880
I like this twist.
Of course they had to do it

893
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:42,760
right.
It's like he had to speed it up

894
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,760
and set cause a week to get
there is not that long.

895
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,680
So he had to leisurely.
He had to raise the stakes, and

896
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:52,880
they only have a day.
But there is something peculiar.

897
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:55,960
When they went up to the room
and changed and everything,

898
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:59,760
Hersey specifically threw out
the backpack that Ares gave him,

899
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,160
'cause he's like, when we leave,
I'll just get another one,

900
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,840
which, I don't know why you
wouldn't just, like, take the

901
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:08,240
one you have, but whatever.
When he gets out of the hotel,

902
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,440
he has it on him and he's like,
I'm pretty sure.

903
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:14,480
So it's like you lost five days,
but somehow the backpack is

904
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:17,080
still with you.
It's Dora the Explorer.

905
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:20,160
Don't trust the gifts.
That you are given.

906
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:24,040
So now he has gifts from Luke.
He has gifts from Kyron.

907
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,960
He has gifts from Aries.
This kid.

908
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,480
He's getting so many messages.
He's getting messages from

909
00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:35,120
rainbows.
He's getting messages from water

910
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:37,000
nymphs.
He's getting messages from

911
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,400
voices in his sleep.
He doesn't know what to do

912
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:43,560
anymore, like what he is.
Mummy lady, the Oracle.

913
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:51,680
There you go, Mummy lady.
So next week is our last read

914
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,560
through for this book.
We're going to finish it and

915
00:46:54,560 --> 00:46:59,080
then we have some very exciting
things with Percy Jackson.

916
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:02,280
There's been some developments,
there's been some cool things

917
00:47:02,280 --> 00:47:05,320
that happened.
So keep a lookout for those.

918
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:10,280
I'm winking very heavily, Very
exciting stuff.

919
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:13,320
So we are going to finish the
book and then shortly after that

920
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,920
the show premieres.
I'm so excited.

921
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:17,400
Yeah, I'm really excited.
I can't wait I.

922
00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:20,320
Can't wait to dig into the show.
I'm really enjoying rereading

923
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,840
this and I kind of can't wait to
do the little.

924
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:24,920
This is what happened in the
book and this is what happened

925
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:26,280
in the show.
And this is how they changed and

926
00:47:26,280 --> 00:47:29,000
this is how they modernized it.
And I also think that there's

927
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:32,000
just, you know, the, I guess how
old was I?

928
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:33,920
Probably like 18 when I first
read these books.

929
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,000
There's the 18 year old inside
of me.

930
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,000
That's just like really excited
for a true adaptation of this

931
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:40,480
book.
Very excited.

932
00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:46,640
What we'll do next time before
we start the episode, we're

933
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:49,480
going to take the quiz to find
out what cabin we're in.

934
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,120
And you guys do it too.
So take the quiz.

935
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:54,720
It's on BuzzFeed.
It's like the first one that you

936
00:47:54,720 --> 00:47:57,840
search when you do it and let us
know what you get.

937
00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:59,040
Yeah, I want to know.
Let us know.

938
00:47:59,040 --> 00:47:59,840
And.
Then you'll know, would any of

939
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:00,880
us be?
Bunking together.

940
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:03,080
Fun.
I don't.

941
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,320
I wonder who I'm going to get.
I'm probably going to get

942
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,360
somebody I don't want.
I hope.

943
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:10,480
I hope I get.
Someone fancy?

944
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,120
I want to be Aphrodite.
Oh well.

945
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:17,160
Pretty.
You are.

946
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:19,320
You're pretty.
Am I?

947
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,240
Pretty all right.
So we.

948
00:48:21,240 --> 00:48:23,440
Have tons of questions with
Percy Jackson.

949
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:25,800
How is it going to end?
Who has the Master Bowl?

950
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:28,280
Who's pulling on the strings?
Which gifts can we trust?

951
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:29,680
Yeah.
We have a lot.

952
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:33,320
The conclusion next week, I hope
those of you that are reading

953
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:37,680
along, I did get a message that
somebody was reading the book a

954
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,360
book before and they wanted to
like finish that book before

955
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:43,280
they started this.
And today they started reading

956
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:45,560
Percy Jackson so they can catch
up on the episodes.

957
00:48:46,240 --> 00:48:47,720
So that makes me very happy.
Me too.

958
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:51,160
And I know that, like down below
in Spotify, we ask questions.

959
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,240
And on the first episode, I was
like, when did you first read

960
00:48:53,240 --> 00:48:55,560
Percy Jackson?
And I believe her name was

961
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,080
Sarah.
She put last week because of the

962
00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:00,360
podcast.
So it's like that just makes us

963
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:03,760
happy, you know, just sharing
this type of stuff, especially

964
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:05,160
with people have never read it
before.

965
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:07,440
So hope you guys are having fun.
It's a lot of fun.

966
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,120
Yeah, I'm excited.
All right, next week.

967
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:11,480
Yeah, next week.
Goodbye.