13. PJTC Debrief

We find hilarity in wild junked automatonation and Morn the unexpected Loss of a worthy member of the hunt. Too soon.

The Sons of Apollo Love You!!

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SPEAKER_04 0:00

Um there is oh yeah yeah wait oh Bianca and it's so early you know we're just getting to know it.

SPEAKER_06 0:51

Yeah oh my gosh, it hurts and to think to think I mean of course Percy would have loved for it to be him. Yeah you can't always bet on that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_07 1:07

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_06 1:08

That's the way it goes. That was the thick boy. Yeah, what an adventure that chapter was.

SPEAKER_07 1:14

Yeah, the junkyard of the gods. Yeah, junkyard of the gods.

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Bianca.

SPEAKER_06 1:21

And goodness. And to think that she took that little trinket for her bro, bro. The only statue he didn't have. So Percy better get it back to Nico. Yeah. But dang. That was wild.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

Yes.

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Good times. Good times back in action. Chapter 13. The Thalus. Oh my gosh. Beware of Thalos or a prototype of Thalus.

SPEAKER_07 2:01

Prototype Thalus. Proto-Talus. Defective Proto-Talus.

SPEAKER_06 2:04

Proto-Talatete.

SPEAKER_07 2:06

Wow.

SPEAKER_06 2:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 2:08

Yeah, so okay, yeah. So we start out with the boar.

SPEAKER_06 2:12

Yeah, we're on the boar.

SPEAKER_07 2:13

We're on the boar ride. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 2:15

Galloping on a boar. Doesn't sound like the most comfortable thing to do, especially considering the sheer vastness of this thing.

SPEAKER_07 2:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 2:24

Imagining the straddle that you'd be in.

SPEAKER_07 2:26

Yeah, it's quite the stance, yeah. Tailboard smashed.

SPEAKER_06 2:31

Yeah, the smashables. But this boar seemed to be uh like ripping through time and space.

SPEAKER_07 2:39

Yeah, because they started on the boar in New Mexico, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_06 2:44

Yeah, yeah. I'm pretty sure that's where Yes, that's where you drink the coffee. Yeah, that's where he has the yeah, exactly. So that's where we get the little taste of fun.

SPEAKER_07 2:53

So he pretty much rolls them all the way into uh, I mean, as we find out pretty quick, Arizona.

SPEAKER_06 3:02

Gila claw.

SPEAKER_07 3:03

Gila claw, which must be made up place. I don't think I've ever heard of Gila Claw.

SPEAKER_06 3:07

Yeah, I'm not familiar. I'm not familiar. Because we're Arizona boys. Yeah. I feel like we've mentioned it before. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 3:14

But it must be because I I think all the places it's mentioned in the book This Far are real places. So there must be Gila Claw, Arizona.

SPEAKER_06 3:22

Yeah, we'll have to look it up.

SPEAKER_07 3:23

Yeah. Get out there, see that Rickety town.

SPEAKER_06 3:27

But yeah, it looks like Rickety Creek. But it does seem like because there was that little swing twist where or maybe it was the snap of the gods, how they just all of a sudden appeared in the junkyard. Which almost made me feel like was that whole town a mystery? But yeah, we'll have to look it up. A little further research. Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 3:48

He'll claw.

SPEAKER_06 3:50

Because we know how the gods can be.

SPEAKER_07 3:52

Yeah. But yeah, so it takes them into the desert, and then it's pretty much getting a drink and a little Swaro cactus snack, chewing on Saro cactuses.

SPEAKER_06 4:04

That would be intense. Yeah, it's in things. Yes, it's. And are there some like uh peccaries or javelina that eat cacti?

SPEAKER_07 4:13

Is it? I would imagine so.

SPEAKER_06 4:15

But that would those spines.

SPEAKER_07 4:17

Yeah, I wonder if they work around the spines, but this ancient boy must just be like nothing.

SPEAKER_06 4:22

It's like Peach Fa's food. His maw is impenetrable.

SPEAKER_07 4:27

Yeah. So yeah, it's it eating, and then Grover's like, yo, we should this is a stab. Yeah, exactly. He's gonna we need to get out of here.

SPEAKER_06 4:35

Because Grover knows he's in cahoots with boars and stuff.

SPEAKER_08 4:38

The gift, the gift, it's the gift. It's the gift. Speaking to the gift.

SPEAKER_07 4:45

So yeah, they all get off, and then he finishes eating, and then boom, he's off. He just takes off east. Back where he came from.

SPEAKER_06 4:54

Yeah, it seems like the boar is more attracted to the mountains, which makes sense. There's more ample foraging. Yeah. Whatever the boar wants, he can exercise in the in the mountains.

SPEAKER_07 5:07

Mushrooms vessel.

SPEAKER_06 5:08

Boars love mushrooms.

SPEAKER_07 5:09

So but yeah, now they're in this kind of podunk town, it looks like. Barely even a town. Too small to be a town. Cluster of buildings.

SPEAKER_06 5:19

Yeah, we've seen a few of those in our travels.

SPEAKER_07 5:22

Bordered up house, taco shop that is not opened, and a white stucco post office. That's a classic. That's a classic.

SPEAKER_06 5:32

Gotta love a little territorial style.

SPEAKER_07 5:34

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_06 5:35

We do big and stucco at her.

SPEAKER_07 5:37

Very flat. And uh then they see these hills that turn out to be piles of scrap metal. It turns out they're in or that it is a junkyard.

SPEAKER_06 5:49

Yeah, it just goes on forever. It looks like it's deep little junkyard, like yeah, in in nowhere, and some towns do exist that way.

SPEAKER_07 5:59

Yeah, I feel like I definitely have seen some like rogue junkyards driving through the back roads of Arizona.

SPEAKER_06 6:05

Totally.

SPEAKER_07 6:06

Just like a lot of junk.

SPEAKER_06 6:07

It's cool. They'd be piling up stuff.

SPEAKER_07 6:10

Be cool to spend like a week in a junkyard. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 6:13

Rummaging. Foraging, yeah, exactly. Just like a boar.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

Yeah. Go a little slower than that.

SPEAKER_07 6:22

So, but yeah, they're like, all right, we gotta figure out where we gotta go next.

SPEAKER_06 6:30

Yeah, Grover does this kind of interesting jig with his pipes.

SPEAKER_07 6:35

Yeah, a bit of a search spell. Yeah, exactly. But not like one that I feel like we've seen before yet. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 6:41

Just with the acorns, it's like he plays his pipes, he puts down the stones. Acorns. Oh, is it the acorns? Okay.

SPEAKER_07 6:52

Yeah, five acorns.

SPEAKER_06 6:54

Okay, acorns in the pipe. And he's kind of concerned by what he sees, eh?

SPEAKER_07 7:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 7:01

Five nuts. So that's them. Zoe is commenting that maybe Percy is the deformed acorn. Uh but uh Grover's saying that like the acorns are saying there's troublehead.

SPEAKER_07 7:15

Yeah, there's a cluster of them that shows trouble.

SPEAKER_06 7:20

He's not smelling monsters per se, but he does see like the acorns are pointing that they have to go to the junkyard.

SPEAKER_07 7:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 7:30

And uh with the sunlight almost gone, they kind of all agree maybe we'll do this in the morning.

SPEAKER_07 7:36

Oh yeah, because they camp. They all tried in the morning, they didn't want to do it, which is smart.

SPEAKER_06 7:41

Yeah. Smart idea. It makes sense. It makes sense.

SPEAKER_07 7:44

For demi blood, especially.

SPEAKER_06 7:46

Mm-hmm. Work in the sun.

SPEAKER_07 7:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 7:50

So this is a brand new foreign land, you know, and if they don't have to, they still got a little bit of time. They made good headway on the board.

SPEAKER_07 7:57

Right. So they bust out these sleeping bags. Uh it's kind of cool, those backpacks they have. Yeah, they're like little uh what would that be? Like a magic, one of those magic bags.

SPEAKER_06 8:08

Yeah, it's got like an engorgement charm.

SPEAKER_07 8:10

Yeah, an engorgement charm. Yeah, what's that from?

SPEAKER_06 8:13

Uh Hermione would cast that bag she had in the in the seventh book.

SPEAKER_07 8:20

Love it.

SPEAKER_06 8:20

Yeah, magic. Magic spans many realms. It does. But yeah, Zoe and Bianca have these. They got uh little sleeping bags for everybody, little bed rolls. And we were kind of thinking, like, oh yeah, even their bows and quivers, they seem to just kind of appear a la carte. Like when you need it, it's there for you.

SPEAKER_07 8:40

And then gone when you don't. Which is pretty cool.

SPEAKER_06 8:43

Yeah. You kind of wonder about those things. So you know, Percy's got that for his pen. We see that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_07 8:50

Magic, bam, right, it happens. So yeah, nights getting cold. They start a campfire, Thalia zaps, a pile of wood. That was kind of cool. Yeah, whatever.

SPEAKER_06 9:00

I was like, oh, the uh perks of uh you know, because you have your Percy perks, but it's like you got your little zoo. Yeah, zoo perks, perks of the jeets. So she's got some flames going, yeah. So it's like it's about as comfy as you can be in the rundown ghost town in the middle of No Way Bend O'Crane.

SPEAKER_07 9:24

We're talking about stars.

SPEAKER_06 9:25

Oh, a little stargazing.

SPEAKER_07 9:27

I'm sure the stargazing is great out there because not much light pollution. But then Zoe's even saying, like, oh, this is nothing. So back in the old days, oh yeah, whole constellations have disappeared because of human light pollution. That's an idea. It's like, whoa, I wonder, like, maybe even like 500 or a thousand years ago.

SPEAKER_06 9:48

Totally.

SPEAKER_07 9:48

If like there are constellations that you could have seen back then that you can't see now, just because there's like even out in the middle of nowhere, there's still some degree of light pollution. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 10:02

Because with like the stratosphere and the bending of light and everything through the mini layers before you get to the stars to space.

SPEAKER_07 10:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 10:12

Zoe, the old days.

SPEAKER_07 10:14

The old days. So then we get into like a little tate between Zoe and Thalia.

SPEAKER_06 10:22

Which is always think you're not human.

SPEAKER_07 10:24

Yeah, you talk like you're not human.

SPEAKER_06 10:26

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_07 10:27

And he's like, Well, I care for the wild places. What about you? What about the what about thee? Of course, Thalia's like, yeah, not they.

SPEAKER_06 10:42

And then that whole but you use you for the beginning of a sentence. And for the end. When I was kind of reading that, I was almost like, did that even keep come out right? But just keep cruising along here. Know thou, know thee, just you. And it is interesting to think, you know, back then you did have the different. What would that be? Like a pronoun or something? Is you a pronoun? I'm not a grammatical scholar. Scholar. I do not scholar in these sense.

SPEAKER_07 11:19

But yeah.

SPEAKER_06 11:23

Zoe's, of course, frustrated about it. It's changing too often. This language. What is she like? Probably like a thousand years. Zoe Nightshade, man.

SPEAKER_07 11:35

Yeah. Then we kind of get into some talks about Pan. Oh. Exactly. Grover's really stuck on, like, of course, this is the first hint that they've even had Pan thousands of years.

SPEAKER_08 11:47

And so he's like, maybe if it was maybe it's the coffee. I was drinking the coffee, and then Pan showed up. Maybe if I drink more coffee.

SPEAKER_01 11:57

He's just like, yeah. Thinking about Grover Jack Jeff on coffee in New Mexico.

SPEAKER_08 12:03

Yeah, just waiting, like, Pan, you come and make and drink the coffee.

SPEAKER_07 12:09

And then, of course, uh Percy's trying to be like, Yeah, man, I mean, you know, that really was pin. Do you think you just maybe really want that to be pin? Grover's very convinced. It was definitely pin. It was just presents.

SPEAKER_08 12:24

It's gotta be the coffee in New Mexico. I'm gonna go back to New Mexico and drink a lot of coffee.

SPEAKER_06 12:31

The best lead we've gotten in 2,000 years. That's the truth, though. You gotta go with what works. Yeah. Superstition, nothing wrong with that. Right.

SPEAKER_07 12:44

But then, yeah, we gotta switch over, right? Dahlia. Uh quick subject change. What about these zombies? We gotta get rid of these zombies.

SPEAKER_06 12:55

And uh what that little comment about like, hey Bianca, how are you vaporizing zombies?

SPEAKER_07 13:01

Yeah, exactly. So they're trying to figure that out. Maybe it's something special about the knife. Yeah. Zoe's like, listen, it's the same knife, celestial bronze.

SPEAKER_06 13:09

Yeah. Maybe you stab them in a certain spot. Maybe there's like you gotta do a certain jig, maybe it's gotta be from the right angle.

SPEAKER_07 13:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 13:18

But you can kind of tell Zoe's like or uh Bianca's a little uncomfortable about the tension on it. Yeah. So Zoe's kind of changing subject. Like, we'll find it. But we gotta plan out this next move.

SPEAKER_07 13:31

Yeah. We gotta go, we gotta go west. Uh gotta find a find a road.

SPEAKER_06 13:39

Kind of says maybe we should go to Las Vegas.

SPEAKER_07 13:42

Oh, yes. And that's when the Vegas thing comes up. Bianca kind of freaks out.

SPEAKER_08 13:47

No, no, not Vegas. What happens in Vegas, too?

SPEAKER_07 13:50

And of course, Pearce is like already feeling because he, you know, they had their time at the Lotus Hotel and Casino. Totally. So him and Grover are like, not Vegas. And uh, so then yeah, Bianca freaks out. Zoe's like, what's going on? And uh that's when Bianca kind of comes out like, yo, when we were like Nico and I, when we were doing that whole traveling thing, like we stared there for a while. Just seems like there's some kind of she can't really remember, but some bad memories. And then that's when Purse is like, twant twant twant.

SPEAKER_06 14:26

I think I just came in that hotel that she was potentially the Lotus Hotel Casino.

SPEAKER_08 14:33

She's like how did you know that?

SPEAKER_06 14:37

Yeah, and I feel like we were because we had talked about this before in past times, like if they have any little side references to them running into the crossing pads, yeah. And don't think they did.

SPEAKER_07 14:50

Yeah, because I'm trying to remember the people that they ran into at the Lotus Hotel Casino. I don't remember anyone that would really like maybe qualify as Bianca and Nico. There's that one guy that was like from the 70s or whatever. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Totally did totally flow down, Franz. Love and peace, bro. Lotus. So yeah, they started getting into this, like, you know, yeah, this this Lotus Casino Castali's like, what's this Lotus Casino? You know, Grover's like, it's this place, me, Grover, A Beth. You're in there, time moves fast. We were there for an hour and it was we came out and it was five days later. Five days. Like, whoa, and so then Bianca's like, that's incredibly possible. And so Percy's really trying to figure out like, so you guys got out. Like, who you said someone took you out. Who came and took you out?

SPEAKER_06 15:46

Yeah, how the wickle just didn't.

SPEAKER_08 15:48

I shouldn't be like, please, I don't, I don't want to no, don't know about it.

SPEAKER_06 15:53

I just know I could have yeah, because when she ultimately just said, like, somebody just came, yeah, and then they got out.

SPEAKER_07 16:01

Yeah. And so then Zoe's kind of like, I think Zoe kind of like gets on the nine, like, wait, how I think the question comes out ultimately in everyone's mind, like, how old are you, Bianca?

SPEAKER_06 16:15

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_07 16:16

So then Zoe's like, all right, so you said when you went back to DC, like it had changed. There was a subway there that wasn't there before.

SPEAKER_06 16:25

Exactly.

SPEAKER_07 16:26

And so, you know, she kind of hits it with the like, who's the president, right?

SPEAKER_06 16:31

Who was the yeah, who's the current president? And then who's the president before?

SPEAKER_07 16:36

And so she like says the correct name of the current president, but then the president before, she's like, Oh, yeah, it's FDR. Roosevelt. And I was like, Whoa, girl, that was. And it's like, whoa. So then just as she's starting to take that in, like, okay, I'm not, I'm not that old. Oh yeah, Dolly is the one that's like, yo, it's okay, you guys are safe.

SPEAKER_06 17:09

Yeah, exactly. Um, Dolly was a tree for many years. Right. I mean, not super long, not 70 years, but she got a taste of it.

SPEAKER_07 17:17

Yeah, you know. And then Percy is still really pushing for this, like, yo, who was it? Who who took you out? How could you escape? That's crazy. Who? Who was it? Exactly. But before they could answer, toom toom twom.

SPEAKER_06 17:29

Glam tum twelve headlights. Limo's pulling up. Yeah. Because what at first they're thinking, like, oh, it's it's not Apollo, because it doesn't sound like him and it's night.

SPEAKER_07 17:41

Right.

SPEAKER_06 17:42

And it is, yeah, a pimped out, deadly white limousine. So yeah, and then sliding in.

SPEAKER_07 17:49

Boom, doors open, sword at Percy's throat.

SPEAKER_00 17:53

Sleep.

SPEAKER_01 17:55

Welcome to the Thunder Zone.

SPEAKER_07 17:59

Listen, punk. And yeah, we got Homeboy Jaboy comes out. Yeah, as soon as it started describing it, it was like, oh.

SPEAKER_06 18:08

That sounds like Homeboy Jaboy. Nothing like a black leather biker's jacket with the black jean muscle shirt combination. Yeah. Combat boots to boot.

SPEAKER_07 18:21

Combat boots to boot.

SPEAKER_06 18:24

Those wraparounds. Some Aries wraparounds, like uh nothing like that description of the his eyes, just like nuclear explosions condensed.

SPEAKER_07 18:41

Yeah. And yeah, it's got that cool ability, like uh, because I think God of Wars, he's got control over all weapons. So that thing where he can just be like at ease, bing, all weapons fall to the ground.

SPEAKER_06 18:55

Yeah. Pretty cool. Because he does pretty much uh immobilize the whole crew at the snap of his finger.

SPEAKER_07 19:03

And yeah, it's just like it's a friendly meeting.

SPEAKER_06 19:06

No hub.

SPEAKER_07 19:07

He definitely would love to kill Percy, but can't do in the presence of a lady who's like, what you talking about?

SPEAKER_06 19:13

What's the lady? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 19:14

And then yeah, Thalia's one, what you talking about? What lady? And he's like, Oh, you. I heard you were back.

SPEAKER_06 19:21

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 19:22

That's the first time he's pricing Thalia post revival.

SPEAKER_06 19:25

Yeah, post-revival.

SPEAKER_07 19:29

And uh so she's like, Yeah, what you about, Aries? Yeah, who's in the car? She's like, I'm sure she wants to wants to meet the rest of you.

SPEAKER_06 19:40

He's kind of playing it close to the chest, like, you don't get to know who's in my limousine.

SPEAKER_07 19:45

Yeah. But oh yeah, he's like, but she didn't want to meet Zoe and Bianca. Yeah. It's like okay. Find out who she is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 19:54

And uh saying pretty much this is Percy's meeting. I'm here for Perse, baby.

SPEAKER_07 19:58

Yeah, go get some tacos.

SPEAKER_06 20:00

Go get some tacos.

SPEAKER_07 20:02

And uh, of course, he's got snappy powers.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

Like Grover's like, oh, the taco place is close.

SPEAKER_06 20:11

Yeah, it's like what do you know about a closed taco joint, zing? Taco zone.

SPEAKER_07 20:16

You thing, oh boy.

SPEAKER_06 20:18

It would be a kind of a fun little power, just snap your fingers, and there's a taco joint right in front of you.

SPEAKER_07 20:24

Right. So yeah, and then of course, purse is like, I got this guy.

SPEAKER_06 20:28

I can hang out with Aries. We got a history.

SPEAKER_07 20:32

Yeah. And so they all head out to the taco restaurant, and uh Aries opens the door, tells him to get inside, and then Yeah, they don't really chat, it's just like get your butt in there, punk. Yeah, mind your manners.

SPEAKER_06 20:50

She's not as forgiving Rudin.

SPEAKER_07 20:52

And then we just have the twin and down mama Aphrodite.

SPEAKER_06 21:03

This is a babe of life.

SPEAKER_07 21:12

Dude, Aphrodite is babe a lie.

SPEAKER_06 21:15

I think this is our first actual true thing with Aphrodite.

SPEAKER_07 21:19

Exactly. The red dress. And just that whole thing of like the her eyes and her smile, just like she's everything.

SPEAKER_06 21:29

Yeah, she's everything you could ever want.

SPEAKER_07 21:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 21:32

In the moment that you want it. It's like her form is a your favorite hair color, she's that.

SPEAKER_07 21:37

Your favorite eye color? That almost makes me think of like those AI like videos of like the girls dancing or whatever, where it's just like shifting. It's like oh yeah, that's what yeah.

SPEAKER_06 21:58

So Percy's on. Obviously, in the box boom blam boom blam blam blah blah boom blam blah oh yeah blah blah it's interesting how the first thing he does say though when kind of uh describing her from someone yeah looked a little bit like Annabeth.

SPEAKER_07 22:19

Abedh first Abeth anyone then tell the an actress I had to crush on okay then blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah well you could think all the hottest women you can think of she is so yeah oh we got Aphrodite welcomes him in he is smacked across the mouth speechless that was so great so what she just like puts a mirror in his face please like oh it'd be the mirror boy for Aphrodite oh my gosh yeah because she's just forward yes my lady is this good she's kind of just working on her lipstick and she kind of asks him like well why are you here perceived and uh it kind of takes him a second to even copulate almost yeah he's like come on darling you know uh because what he's trying to say I don't know why I'm here yeah still in denial like oh okay he's like we know why you're here all of us know why you're here personally yeah exactly we've known since day one I don't know what you're talking about like alright so why are you on this quest Artemis needs to be saved like oh you idiot yeah come on besides she's not even beautiful you mean you're gonna save it boring who cares about Artemis anyways he's not like no no but she's she's chasing a monster it's a really bad monster we have to find it yeah yeah we're on a monster quest merely little high boy boy I think I have a microscopic problem like listen that's why they're all here why are you here yes and then he's just like Ava is in trouble is in trouble like thank you darling I have to help her I've been having these dreams about it that's so cute oh nothing like honey dreams too he's just hitting all of Aphrodite's points yeah yeah and he's like no of course no that's not what he meant Jesus Percy of course that's what you meant yeah that's what she's all about baby that's I mean that's wild to think that now it comes out yes she's been fucking helping him all along the whole time yeah the stall brothers shirt that was an accident blackjack was an accident you think helping you get out of camp in the first place darling this is all Aphrodite's functions it's a quest for love it's a love quest so yeah so that's what exactly comes out she's like this is what this is a quest this is a love qu a quest for true love for true love darling and of course he's like well I'm I never so true come on darling you don't need to say it talks about this whole thing of Abeth almost joining the hunters which is like oh is she like maybe implying like oh she didn't join the hunters because she loved pussy it's so romantic oh god oh my goodness so and then she's just like come on put the menu down boy you know I didn't need it like fine and it does make sense that uh Aphrodite would not want anything to do with the hunters because they've abandoned love eternally boys no boys darling darling darling rest of your body agree with that decision darling and when Percy finally puts the mirror down he doesn't even realize he was holding it but his arms are all just like stamping so and she's just very much like listen this whole like Artemis monsters things F that you gotta be here for A Beth that's really why you're here that's really the goal we go see that's what's really important darling I'll leave the details to you I don't know that she is just go get it done come on we need a tragic love story it's been ages since we've had a tragic love story of course he's still like I never said anything about love what this about tragic that is powerful love conquers all darling darling always and forever this whole Helen and Paris like come on did they let anything come between them he's like isn't that what started the Trojan War don't let alone people got iced at the Trojan war yeah ask Achilles Achillean love that movie Troy oh Troy yeah it's the coolest it's the coolest oh yeah is that my that first little yeah that first can oh my gosh what does he say like something's like is this the best you have is this the best you have for me it's almost like touching on the it's not are you not insane but it's something is there no one else yeah don't F with Achilles B pits so yeah but she's like come on darling just follow your heart behind darling he's of course very much like I don't know where my heart's going I don't know where it leads me and yeah she's just loving it she loves the love thing not knowing half the fun darling it's painful isn't it come on it's great it's so cute keep it going and that's cute how it says like Aphrodite's beauty kind of comes out a little bit more when she talks about love and how much she believes in love.

SPEAKER_06 28:34

It's impossible not to feel giddy when she talked about it you know it's cute. Love inspires you know it's cute to be cute.

SPEAKER_07 28:41

Mm-hmm let's go she's yeah so but not knowing is half the fun exquisitely painful okay it's not gonna be boring have some wonderful surprises in store he's really like please don't get involved she's like oh you're so cute you're so nice you know she's break the heart of a boy as nice as you oh the truth because there is some I mean yeah I'd love to be heartbroken by daughter of Aphrodite oh yeah break my break my heart into pieces and then so yeah she's like get on darling be careful in my husband's territory don't take anything and he's like what you talking about this is Hephestis' town yeah this is Hephaestus'ville Hephasville and yeah just like that car door opens Aries pulls him out yeah and she gone Zoink he's done yeah he's very much it's over be braver punk yeah you better be lucky punk mister wants to kill Perse why don't you kill me yeah and that's pretty bold Percy Mr Why haven't you killed me to the good seems like he actually kind of likes that it seems like Aries likes he's one of those people that likes when people stand up to him because he's like ooh finally notice despise him in the listen I'd love to kill you but the thing is rumor on the street is you're about to start the biggest war in God history and I gotta profit off of that I can't I gotta keep you around for the time being yeah war is my business baby I love And Aphrodite likes you so no we can't do that.

SPEAKER_06 30:32

We gotta say real real soon I haven't forgotten my promise you're going to raise your sword to fight you will remember the wrath of Aries.

SPEAKER_07 30:41

I wonder what that'll be like maybe like the sword'll just fall out of his hands.

SPEAKER_06 30:46

Yeah maybe it'll beat him a little bit yeah exactly how will that yeah because I have a feeling Aries is not going to let that go.

SPEAKER_07 30:55

Mm-hmm and Percy does kind of fire right back just like whatever I beat you once how's that ankle doing bang bang yeah he does get him with a little zip in the ocean right he doesn't kind of like do a twirl around or something he like uses a wave does a fucking front flip pirouette lands and slings him in the ankle takes a little echo just gotcha so he's not gonna let him forget that I wouldn't either you know yeah but yeah he's like uh yeah you again Aries kind of likes the fight yeah exactly he's like I'll start some fights with you when I'm ready until then get out of my face boy lust and then just like that he snaps and everything kind of like goes back to normal yeah talker shop is get closed up again everything about it is kind of like back to dust and everyone's just standing in the middle of the road in the junkyard.

SPEAKER_06 31:55

Yeah and that's what kind of when I was I remember mentioning before like how he pretty much snaps his finger there's like a cloud of dust Percy falls to the ground he wakes up and they're just in the junkyard all of a sudden like um because what does it say the road the taco restaurant the whole town of Gila Claw was gone and they're just in the middle of the junkyard mountains of scrap metal stretched out in every direction. So it's hard to know exactly with the ghosts in the mist yeah and the tacos even but job well done and it's interesting how like that whole because there wasn't really a quest necessarily put on because you know usually when gods show up Aries or who have you they're usually either there to help in some way or try to get help.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

Right.

SPEAKER_06 32:48

But that was kind of just a visit after Daddy's just like hey darling I like what you're doing keep doing it. Keep waving that love flag darling and just so you know I already put all these things together for you so just keep going.

SPEAKER_07 33:02

Keep going.

SPEAKER_06 33:03

It's almost just like a little wind beneath Percy's brains.

SPEAKER_07 33:06

But yeah now we're in this junkyard just like they're asking about what ac about the meeting with Aphrodite which wrong with you and of course he's like he doesn't want to say anything because she basically said like you're in love with Abath and you need to go and chase love's eternal flame so he definitely doesn't want to tell that totally because he was denying that the whole time too inside like what are you talking about love?

SPEAKER_08 33:30

No one said anything about love.

SPEAKER_07 33:32

Come on darling we all know we all know about that so of course Zoe's like be careful of her she's led many people astray totally of course the hunters would hate Aphrodite absolutely because she likes boys anyone that likes boys must be dead in the brains yes exactly so how dare you taste boys so and of course it seems like Grover because the empathetic link can kind of feel like and so he's like ah let's change the subject how do we get out of here Zoe's like we gotta go west that's where it is how do you know that's west she's like listen you idiots Ursa Major it's over there it's always in the north oh okay that's good to know Zoe can read her must be West and it's like oh I guess I should pay more attention to Ursa Major Mad respect to the Ursa Major it's like oh yeah that the bear thing yeah Zoe's talking about the bear being a worthy opponent she fought Ursa Major that's cool I'd like to hear some stories of Zoe.

SPEAKER_06 34:42

But then Grover kind of like broken guys kind of talking about like what these huge mounds of junk really are there's like these piles of metal like almost like scrap treasure. You know like bronze heads broken horses human statues golden trinkets but then also kind of mixed in refrigerators computer monitors car parts it's a very it's quite a mix but Bianca calls out that like some of it really is gold.

SPEAKER_07 35:17

Right and we got some three treasures and yeah Thalia's like yo don't touch anything like Percy said because this is the junkyard of the Gats of the goats some pretty serious rover of course wants to chew on all the metals finds a cool crown.

SPEAKER_06 35:35

Yeah he took a bite of the crown which even from the beginning I was like boy what you do exactly which could be the reason why this Thalos even chased them down and didn't stop in the first place. Yeah in the first place it could be Grovey from square one. Bianca finds that little like it's like a hunter's bow yeah that swinks down into a little crescent moon hair clip there. It's like Percy's just like Percy's thorg.

SPEAKER_07 36:02

But so cool it's like leave it girl right it's like uh oh yeah anything it's here for a reason anything thrown away in this junkyard must stay it's defective or cursed cursed interesting leave it so it's yeah Thalia is very uncomfortable Bianca puts the hair clip down yeah Percy's kind of just making jokes like oh you think you're gonna get attacked by a refrigerator we gotta get through here this is some weird schnizzled right Thali's like let's just get it going right so they're going through picking through they're using Ursa Major to keep themselves going west it's interesting Percy's kind of mentioning like oh you and Zoe are starting to agree with each other between Thali and Zoe. Oh yeah it's kind of fun um and yeah they're going through they're just kind of going through the junk he finds a cool electric guitar finds broken tree made out of metal with golden birds that had flapping wings yeah just some little like uh because talking about like Hephaestus's junkyard it makes sense some like mechanical delights and then yeah they see the edge of the junkyard half a mile and then they think pretty much they're like oh we made it or they think they did and then they see that like huge hill it's like a mesa they see something looking like a mesa length of a football about as high as goalposts which is like okay it's sizable they see these thick metal they get closer they see its toes yeah it looks like toes and so stalia's like listen let's go around far around this thing he's like yo just the road's right there let's just climb over this big metal mesa top and then ping grover throws like a one of stone or something at it throws it at the toes it's hollow yeah exactly and uh yeah so of course they're like Grover you idiot let's go let's go over again let us go around so they start to go around definitely is weird these ten toes just they really do look like feet yeah and it's like what is going on here and uh so they get onto the highway they make pretty much thinks they make it out it's like make the goods twing twink twing twink they hear the whole crunching turnaround and tallow springs to life yeah those ten toes impossibly tall skyscraper with legs and arms he's got a deformed face was it the left side of his face yeah partially melted so rusty he's got the words wash me written on it's always a little clown in right there gotta love it gotta love it so yeah we got Thalos one of his fastest creation but then they're like oh can't be the real thalos it's too small to think it's too small maybe it's prototypic prototallus yeah protothalus okay it's protothalus defective model did not like the word defective so the monster starts rushing him pulls out his sword crank what was it a hundred feet long yeah exactly hundred feet long easy getting hit with it getting hit with the battleship so it's not even cutting you as much as just smashing yeah so is like someone took something look at Percy it's not me look at Bianca she doesn't say anything but he can kind of see a guilty look in the mouthing we kind of know before they can yeah it's too bad to really point fingers now we got a huge Thallos is running towards us a rover they all run um but its steps are so huge that it's like yeah you can't really run from this yeah you can't outdistance this thing they kind of pull the Nini and Lion Badayan and split up go in all these different directions and everything giant swings his sword pulling out his little uh pipes yeah or what yeah the giant swings his sword and hits the electric lines and it's already creating all these sparks and shit Zoe shooting arrows that's not really gonna do anything no way Grover's climbing a mountain of metal Bianca and Percy are next to each other hiding and he's like yo you took something I know it's no I didn't he is really doubling down you need to give it back yeah he thinks it's the bow but she's like it's not the bow it's not the bow what did you take before she can answer boom foot comes crashing down they get out of the way just in time Grover calls out he plays a melody on his pipes which causes the power line to kind of come to life and pretty much like snake around Thallus's leg. Um he hit a squiggly I'll keep it going so it snakes around Thallus's leg and uh pretty much zaps him thallus turns around goes towards Grover which gives Bianca and purse a couple more seconds so again purse is like come on you gotta get rid of whatever it is you took she reluctantly pulls out this little figurine it was for Nico the only statue he didn't have so cute so cute completing his myth of magic she's crying he's like how can you be thinking of myth of magic so she he says throw it down she puts it down hoping that the thalas is gonna stop but thalas is not stopped thalos doesn't give two rips about what was taken which kind of makes me think that maybe it was Grover's eatings because like it's in Grover's belly of anything yeah that's in his belly it's not going anywhere yeah maybe even the fact that they even touched any of the treasures you know yeah can't be playing with it can't be desecrating things in the goats right junkyard right but yeah this giant comes last missile stabs into tried to stab a Grover um but misses him uh but the scrap metal made an able okay so yeah Grover disappears onto the scrap metal Thalia yells she shoots a lightning bolt hits the monster in his knee which causes him to buckle yeah stutters him up a little bit yeah he seems to be struggling at this point so it's like you can't really defeat him you can slow him down right and that's kind of what we're realizing is like he's slow and you can kind of move around him.

SPEAKER_06 43:02

Yeah it's not sustainable but it's working.

SPEAKER_07 43:05

But he goes to stomp again and that's when Percy sees on his foot there's this hole zinc and on it says for maintenance only so he's like got this crazy idea tells Bianca about the maintenance hatch and he says I'm gonna try to get inside and she's like you're crazy you're gonna get crushed he's like I just got the time it right it's okay and she's like no I'm gonna go and he's like no you can't do this you're new you're gonna die she's like it's my fault she picks up the statue and says just get this to Nico if anything happens to me tell him I'm sorry. He's like Bianca no but she's out takes off and uh so she's going in to try to get inside um Thalia has his attention uh Bianca's next to the giant's foot so that's where it's kind of talking like it's

SPEAKER_06 44:00

Moving slow if you're close to it. Yeah. You know, it just covers so much span because it's so massive.

SPEAKER_07 44:06

Yeah. So Bianca's like, get it to raise its foot. So Zoe shoots an arrow at the face, oh, right into his nostril. And uh he yells at it, or Percy yells at it, goes to stab his big toe. The metal, the magic blade cut a gash in the bronze. Bummer. So yeah, now Thalus is pissed. He raises his foot to stomp, which is perfect. He doesn't see if Bianca makes it in. Percy just turns and runs, hopes that he makes it in. Uh the foot barely misses him, and he gets smashed into a refrigerator.

SPEAKER_06 44:46

So that's how it would almost have to, just thinking about the physics behind it, like you're holding on to the bottom of the foot as it raises, you'd have to climb up under, open it, slink in before the foot comes crashing down.

SPEAKER_07 45:00

Or I think what she was trying to do was line it up so that she could be right at the manhole so that when it comes down, she's just boom right in the just kind of like crack.

SPEAKER_06 45:12

Oh, because a manhole is like a it's already a hole. Yeah. There's already a hole there. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 45:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 45:17

Because without a manhole cover, it's just an oh, yeah. Because I was thinking to myself, like, dang, this thing's got a cover. Like, you gotta that would be some time like mission impossible type stuff. It's still some mission impossible stuff, but so it looks like Bianca made it in, or hopefully at this point.

SPEAKER_07 45:35

So yeah, he gets hit into the refrigerator. Grover pulls himself out of the pot. Yeah, tries to pipe another power line to hit Pipital Pipoop thigh. Monster turns around. Um Grover pretty much passes out because he's used up too much magic.

SPEAKER_06 45:56

He does his last little dance and he's done.

SPEAKER_07 45:58

So Thalia and Perse try to run towards him. Yeah, the monster goes to smash his sword. Frozen. Frozen and 10. And then he kind of like kind of like starts to almost like move around and like dance.

SPEAKER_06 46:16

Yeah, exactly. Moving his doing the funky chicken.

SPEAKER_07 46:19

Yeah. And then smashes his own face.

SPEAKER_06 46:22

Yeah. Boom, bada bada bum.

SPEAKER_07 46:25

So then, of course, Percy's like, all right, Bianca made it.

SPEAKER_06 46:28

Go, Bianca, go, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 46:29

They're like, what? She's inside that's crazy. And then it's just like kind of going around, staggering. Yeah. Dahlia, Percy grab Grover, they run to the highway. Zoe's already ahead of them. How's Bianca gonna get out? We don't know. This giant smashes his face again, drops his sword, and then he kind of like goes towards the power lines.

SPEAKER_06 46:52

Yeah, look out, but it's too late. It's too late to step away from the power lines.

SPEAKER_07 46:56

He snares the power lines with his ankle and then just zaps him. Of course, it's like Percy's like, dude, I hope there's some kind of insulation. We all hope there's some kind of insulation in there because we have no idea what's going on. And Bianca's in there, and uh yeah, then his right hand falls off, his left hand starts coming loose, so then he kind of goes into this mat, like just running, as like his body's just falling apart. Pretty much piece by piece, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 47:29

Top to bottom, head chess, torso, everything just into a big pile of beautifully spread out.

SPEAKER_07 47:37

And yeah, it just seems like it kind of just happens so fast. Like he's he's all dismantled, they're looking for Bianca till sunrise.

SPEAKER_06 47:46

Totally.

SPEAKER_07 47:47

And can't find it. They're all crying. And he's like, Listen, like the lights out now, we can like let's keep searching. She's gotta be here. Yeah, and that's when Grover's like, dude, this we're not gonna find her. Yeah, and he's like, What do you mean? Because he's like, This it happened the way it's supposed to.

SPEAKER_08 48:04

Yes, the way it's supposed to happen.

SPEAKER_07 48:06

It's like, what do you mean? And then Grover's like, dude, the prophecy. Prophecy.

SPEAKER_08 48:12

One shall be lost in the land without Ray in the land.

SPEAKER_07 48:15

Which is like, no, that hits two.

SPEAKER_06 48:19

Oh yeah. One shall be lost. Yeah, because what the final here we were in the desert, and Bianca D'Angelo was gone. Straight lost.

SPEAKER_07 48:31

Yeah, it seems kind of like it seems too fast.

SPEAKER_06 48:35

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_07 48:37

Hopefully, there's something else. I don't know. I mean, at least like, don't give up till you find the baddie.

SPEAKER_06 48:43

Yeah, exactly. No baddie, just straight dissipated.

SPEAKER_07 48:47

Yeah, how?

SPEAKER_06 48:49

Because you know, it's like that was probably a lot of scraps and everything.

SPEAKER_07 48:54

Even the electricity, it's like okay, so maybe electricity, but that wouldn't vaporize somewhere.

SPEAKER_06 48:59

Yeah, exactly. Gotta be something left. She's a demiblood, right? We know this much, so yeah. It is very sad though. She, and it's almost like she knew something, you know, give in the toy, look out for my brother, tell him I'm sorry, and then just disappears into it. I mean, she pulled it off, she zips up that uh tallows real quick and easy. Yeah, but yeah, yeah. Still a lot of like, I feel like so many unanswered questions. I feel so unresolved with Bianca. But uh here we are, so we're on the other side of the junkyard. We're still heading west. We picked up some cool advice from Afrode. Yeah, and because we're headed to San Francisco right now, San Francisco and Bianca.

SPEAKER_07 49:51

Narius or something. Yeah, I think it's Aeroleus.

SPEAKER_06 49:55

Aerolian? Aerolean, something. I think Narius actually sounds kind of right. So they know kind of who and where. And they know when they gotta get there. But unfortunately, now we're with without Bianca.

SPEAKER_07 50:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 50:10

So Zoe's kind of a little bit teamed up on now. She's the only huntress on the on the thing, on the prowl. But uh.

SPEAKER_07 50:21

The only other girl she's got in deck is Thalia who hates her.

SPEAKER_06 50:24

Yeah, exactly. But they're starting to get along a little bit.

SPEAKER_07 50:26

They're starting to agree on some points.

SPEAKER_06 50:28

Yeah, they can agree.

SPEAKER_07 50:29

At least in the junkyard, they were.

SPEAKER_06 50:30

Uh-huh. It seems like they can almost like agree to disagree with Percy.

SPEAKER_07 50:35

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 50:37

They both know that whatever he's saying is incorrect or cavity.

SPEAKER_07 50:43

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

SPEAKER_06 50:45

Uh-huh. Yes, indeed. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 50:48

And the mission for love. Now we know it's a quest for love. Yeah. Aphrodite's had a hand in it this whole time, and she'll probably keep having a hand in it.

SPEAKER_06 50:57

Yeah. You're cute. I would say, which uh bodes more and more on the revolving question. Are Abeth and Percy meant to be?

SPEAKER_07 51:09

Pete. We're getting some answers at the time.

SPEAKER_06 51:12

Yeah, Aphrodite thinks so at this point. Quest for true love, darling.

SPEAKER_07 51:18

Tragic. It's gonna be wonderful. Tragiclebs.

SPEAKER_06 51:23

That was beautiful. Alright, Pete. Bianca for the time being. Yeah. We may hope because you'll know nothing.

SPEAKER_07 51:35

No, no.

SPEAKER_06 51:35

But Bianca. So many mysteries. But yeah, and that whole 70 years thing. So that means Nico. I wonder if Nico knows really what was going on. We might find out some more about like just even this how the ripple did they just end up not in the Lotus Hotel after being there for so long. You know, five days is an hour. If they were there for like two months, that could be, you know. We don't need to do the calculations on this for. But how did they get out of there? Many mysteries, but onward and upward. Yeah. We're like we were saying, we're definitely past the halfway point now. I think we looked, we got uh 14 coming up. So that leaves six chapters. Because it goes all the way to 20, I think. Conquinkin. Conquinkin, the titan's curse.

SPEAKER_07 52:34

Will we find out what the titan's curse is by the instance?

SPEAKER_06 52:38

Yes. Hopefully.

SPEAKER_07 52:41

Yeah, because we found out who the lightning thief was.

SPEAKER_06 52:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 52:45

We went to the Sea of Monsters.

SPEAKER_06 52:47

We definitely knew what the Sea of Monsters was.

SPEAKER_07 52:50

Which is the Titan? What is their curse?

SPEAKER_06 52:52

Yeah, what is this Titan's curse? It wouldn't, I mean. Because what we were cursed. Maybe that object that no, that couldn't be the because you know how Zoe was saying, oh, these objects could be cursed. We have we said the word cursed in this chapter.

SPEAKER_07 53:11

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_06 53:12

But I don't think that that toy would have been the Titan's curse. Yeah. So I'm gonna say that we're still sniffing out this Titan's curse.

SPEAKER_07 53:20

Yes. The General, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 53:23

The General.

SPEAKER_07 53:25

The only Titans I know of right now is uh the Titan Lord, uh Cronos.

SPEAKER_06 53:33

The crooked one.

SPEAKER_07 53:34

And I don't know if we know if the general is a Titan yet.

SPEAKER_06 53:38

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_07 53:39

We know he's pretty tough. We know he's got paws. We know he's some kind of divine being.

SPEAKER_06 53:44

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_07 53:46

Uh have we even been given his name?

SPEAKER_06 53:48

We just know the general. And that he knows Zoe. And you know, he know he knows some things. We know he's deeply connected, but I don't know if we do know for certain.

SPEAKER_07 54:00

Yeah, I don't know if we've been given a name. I thought we were given a name in that one. But I don't know. We'll see.

SPEAKER_06 54:10

Many things to be discovered.

SPEAKER_07 54:11

Many things to be discovered.

SPEAKER_06 54:14

Well, we got some good times ahead of us.

SPEAKER_01 54:17

The general the stoic one.

SPEAKER_07 54:25

Dr. Thorne. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 54:29

Slippery dippery.

SPEAKER_06 54:31

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_07 54:32

Anyways.

SPEAKER_06 54:34

Well, good times though. Chapter 14. And we just keep on carusing. What was that chapter called that that we just The Junkyard of the Gods? Yeah, so that was pretty clear. We know we explored the junkyard of the Gods. Because I know sometimes those chapters are like, oh, what are we even getting in? Yeah. Um that was a thick one, like we were saying before. It was a nice, uh it was a healthy dose of person.

SPEAKER_07 55:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 55:06

Good times in the neighborhood. Good times in the neighborhood.

SPEAKER_07 55:11

All right, well, let's see in chapter 14.

SPEAKER_05 55:53

Wait.