1. PJBL Debrief

The sons are back babyyyyy!!! Empousa espousa empousayyyy!!! Percy can't seem to catch a break as we dive headlong into the wild world of Demibloodery!!!

The Sons of Apollo Love You!!

Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:58

That's my Percy. That's the Percy cut.

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That's the Percy I know. That's the Jackson cut. That's the Jackson cut.

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Damn.

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Peabody. Dang, and push hat.

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And push hat.

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Little amputeck.

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You got two and push.

SPEAKER_06 1:22

You were getting changed by two and push. And Rachel Elizabeth Dare. What the double dare? Dare to dare?

SPEAKER_02 1:32

Like page three.

SPEAKER_06 1:36

Yeah. Dump it right in. The foreshadowing was real towards the end of that book. Because I remember I was talking, like, why is it why is why are we talking so much about Skirl and then sure as Shin. Dumpity do. And of course, for her to get just come on with this Annabeth Rachel, unfortunate.

SPEAKER_02 1:58

Oh, dude, terrible. Yeah, the met her before. You know her? She's kind of cute. She's kind of cute, huh?

SPEAKER_03 2:10

I've never even thought of her like that.

SPEAKER_06 2:13

I've never thought about that. Well, here we are. Here we are. Here we are. Yeah, maybe. Here we are.

SPEAKER_02 2:27

We're back in it. Book four. And the chosen. Yeah, let's see. The la when we finished, uh, it was like a month ago. So we're in uh May, end of May 2025, right now.

SPEAKER_06 2:42

Mm-hmm. The Toy De Foy.

SPEAKER_02 2:43

The Toy De Foy, yeah, the end of night. We're beginning the labyrinth. And we ended Titan's Curse like a month ago. Was the recording, right?

SPEAKER_06 2:54

Yeah, when we finished the book. Right before we went to Illinois. Those final little thick. Yeah, the last. We had our real chunky debrief. Yeah. And that took a few. Which is always so juicy though. We live for the debrief.

SPEAKER_02 3:08

Live for the debrief. Which I did want to say to you just for context, which this is also on me. I've got to publish more, but we only have book one and the first three chapters of book two published right now. But we have recorded all of book three and are now starting four. So things are in the pipeline.

SPEAKER_06 3:29

Yeah, exactly. We got a thick pipeline for you, boys.

SPEAKER_02 3:32

We got a thick pipeline. By the time this one gets published, we'll probably be maybe even nearing the end of the series.

SPEAKER_06 3:44

Yeah. It's interesting to think about how the timelines. And that's how, you know, even the best, like post-production, baby. Yeah. There's so much that goes into that's why I'm just so grateful for all the work that you put in into the post-production. Yeah, yeah, well, we are we are blessed, but it is it's cool to just have all the nuggets loaded.

SPEAKER_02 4:06

And then you were bringing out uh that we essentially did two books last year, right? Mm-hmm in 2024.

SPEAKER_06 4:13

Yeah. It was a good year. It was a good year.

SPEAKER_02 4:16

It was a very good year.

SPEAKER_06 4:18

Man, every time we get down to it, it's heaven on earth.

SPEAKER_02 4:22

It is.

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Basking in source and ruminating on the source afterwards with our devout listeners. Us being the most devout. Yes. Fellow Persides, like we find them out there. They are. They are Persides are living and breathing amongst us. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a tribute. A little bit of tribute.

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A little bit of tribute.

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Yeah. So chapter Mother French and one.

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Chapter 1, a Battle of Cheerleading Squad. That you do, Percy. Yeah, he really does. That you do. These Impusai.

SPEAKER_06 4:58

Yeah, these easy.

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First time seeing these Imputai.

SPEAKER_06 5:00

Yeah, there's quite the form they take. Yeah. Yeah, Proclanical?

SPEAKER_02 5:07

Yeah, I'm curious to I wonder if we're gonna see more of uh Kelly. Is she actually died?

SPEAKER_06 5:13

Or what the Yeah, exactly, because she burst into slosions. Slint Slogons. Yeah, that was an odd because she didn't, it was not a cloud of dust, it was an all-encompassing flame.

SPEAKER_02 5:26

Yeah. Burned the fucking school.

SPEAKER_06 5:29

Yeah, exactly. I hope everybody's okay. I hope Bluefish. Yeah, bluefish. He's got a water barrier around it. Yeah. He's an aqua creature. He's an aqua night. He's aquatic in nature.

SPEAKER_02 5:42

He's a per se. He just don't even know yet. So, but yeah, we start. Okay, so. He's at the start of summer break, June. Going to this new school, good high school.

SPEAKER_06 5:56

I love that first paragraph where it's like the last thing I wanted to do on my summer break was blow up another school. Just foreshadows it right out of the day.

SPEAKER_02 6:07

Like as plain as it can be. Just went right over my head when we read that. Oh, you meant that literally. Yeah. About to blow up the school.

SPEAKER_06 6:17

Yeah, let's blow it up, baby. Yeah. Welcome to good. Welcome to good. Now good bath.

SPEAKER_02 6:23

Good bath.

SPEAKER_06 6:25

That's a good bath.

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That's a good bath.

SPEAKER_06 6:27

Yeah, so it looks like it's kind of a ritzy joint, you know. You got BMWs, nice cars parked out front. A nice brown stone building.

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Yeah.

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And uh from the jump, he's like, I wonder how long it's gonna take me to get kicked in.

SPEAKER_02 6:42

Yeah.

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Perfections.

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And mom, of course, she's sounding nervous.

SPEAKER_06 6:47

Mm-hmm.

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Because she knows how school goes with this.

SPEAKER_06 6:50

Yeah, exactly. Don't destroy it. Yeah, don't just try not to destroy it.

SPEAKER_02 6:56

Yeah. And yeah, brings up that this is Paul's school, so yeah, this is Poblofist talks about how he had kind of gotten uh convinced good high school to accept Percy, even though he's been kicked out of so many schools.

SPEAKER_06 7:10

Yeah. And um he kind of seems like a ritzy guy.

SPEAKER_02 7:14

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_06 7:14

With his little leather jacket, little something pass.

SPEAKER_02 7:17

He's cool. I like him.

SPEAKER_06 7:18

He's got a cool coup.

SPEAKER_02 7:19

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 7:20

And you know, an English teacher, he's he's composed in linguistics.

SPEAKER_02 7:24

Right. And especially after having to deal with Ugliano.

SPEAKER_06 7:29

Yes.

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Just like such a breath of fresh air. It's like, oh, thank God Sally's got a seems like a good man.

SPEAKER_06 7:37

Yeah, a good man in Blofus.

SPEAKER_02 7:39

Time will tell, but thus far it seems like a s kind of sound-minded.

SPEAKER_06 7:44

Yeah. And somebody who just makes Sally happy. Yeah. And that's a good spot to start. Exactly. He really does. Yeah. And but it is kind of we have this little thing like hey mom, you haven't told Blofus about the Roughest, about the truth behind the veil.

SPEAKER_02 8:03

Right. About what's who I really am.

SPEAKER_06 8:05

Yeah. What it means to be demi-blooded.

SPEAKER_02 8:08

And it seems like they'd probably had this talk, like, you know, that she was supposed to tell it, like tell Paul, like, hey, this is who Percy really is. Because he was even saying, like, he was trying to tell Paul when Paul was getting him in, like, this probably isn't a good idea. Like, you probably don't want me at your school.

SPEAKER_06 8:25

Yeah.

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And so I think he wanted to, you know, be pretty transparent about like, yo, I'm a demi blood. Crazy shit happens when I'm around. Just so you know, Polly boy.

SPEAKER_06 8:34

Yeah. But Sally's like, oh, I think we should just maybe wait.

SPEAKER_02 8:39

Yeah.

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So what we don't scare him away. But you know, it's just it seems like uh Paris is letting Sally kind of take the lead. Right.

SPEAKER_02 8:49

And she's just kind of like, she's trying to be classic, positive Sally. Like, hey, just it's orientation, just go. It's gonna be fine. It's gonna be great.

SPEAKER_06 8:58

Yeah. And then talking about this date. Got your date. You got that. Well, it's not a date. It's not a date, Mom. Not a date. It's just Annabeth and a movie. And just the two of us. And the bundalini. And the bundalinis.

SPEAKER_02 9:21

So but yeah, with that, she sends she sends him inside. He gets out of the car. And then that's when he sees Blowfist greeting this red-headed, frizzy haired girl maroon shirt.

SPEAKER_06 9:36

Yeah. It's like, oh god. Because it doesn't maybe say it right from the jump, but it's like from what any persect fresh off the other book will remember who a frizzy head, red-headed wearing maroon. Stead-bedded, yeah, no doubt.

SPEAKER_02 9:52

So he's like, yo, mom, you gotta go. I gotta find a different way to get into the school. And she's like, Yeah, you know, there's this place down the block to the right. Why? And she's like, he's just like, I gotta go.

SPEAKER_06 10:04

He just zips right up. And what it looks like, he does kind of make it into the side entrance.

SPEAKER_02 10:10

Mm-hmm. Sneaks in. We got the cheerleaders.

SPEAKER_06 10:14

Yeah, yeah. And even a little more foreshadowing, like, how bad is my look? Could it get any worse? It's like, oh, it's gonna get worse, guys. Don't you sweat. But yeah, they do. He sees the the cheerleaders kind of, they're almost just like greeting, waiting for it.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

Yeah, we got a blondie with blue eyes, and we got an African American with dark curly hair. Can't really read their names, they're stitched on their outfits, but they're welcome, welcome, welcoming them.

SPEAKER_06 10:45

Kind of with that almost fake tone. Yeah. It's like welcome the god. Hey, welcome the god. A little bit of superiority in their grace, because they're definitely honey bunneries, as we are to find out, no doubt.

SPEAKER_02 11:02

The black girl comes up close, he's able to see that her name's Kelly.

SPEAKER_06 11:06

Yeah, she has that interesting scent, like roses and freshly washed horses. Horses. Interesting. Okay. But it's kind of nice, and he's already.

SPEAKER_02 11:16

Which I guess maybe makes sense from the goatleg.

SPEAKER_01 11:20

Freshly washed. Goatleg. Goatleg. It's the goatleg this.

SPEAKER_06 11:25

Oh you hit Caterick?

SPEAKER_02 11:29

And uh, but yeah, they asked his name. He says it's personally called him fish. I don't remember that term for freshmen.

SPEAKER_06 11:35

Yeah, fish. Fish. Hey, what's up, fish? Flopping around like a fish. Yeah. This is a little freshy. I'm trying to remember different fresh, fresh frosh Frosh.

SPEAKER_02 11:49

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 11:51

But they yeah, they kind of hear the name. It's like Percy Jackson, we've been waiting for you. Which Percy automatically was like his instinct is telling him freaking grab my sword and start slashing, dog. But then Blowfist kind of shows up, cuts the tension, which is nice. Which was kind of needed.

SPEAKER_02 12:11

So then the cheerleaders back off. Oh, that's when he kind of like bumps into Kelly's thine. He's like just claiming.

SPEAKER_06 12:20

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 12:21

Yeah, it looks like a regular leg. He uh heads down the hall towards Paul, and Paul welcomes him. Cheerleaders disappeared, and Percy's just like scary.

SPEAKER_06 12:34

Shaking, yeah. Paul is even saying, like, bro, you look shook up.

SPEAKER_02 12:39

Yeah. But Paul's essentially like, listen, dude, it's all gonna be good. Yeah. We got a lot of kids like you here.

SPEAKER_06 12:45

Teachers are HD and dyslexia. Yeah. You know, those kind of people.

SPEAKER_02 12:49

Of course, Purse is like, ugh, I wish those were my only two problems.

SPEAKER_06 12:53

Uh, if only, if only. But Oh, it'd be half blood.

SPEAKER_02 12:57

Yeah. But Paul's just trying to help. He looks down the hall, and that's when he sees Rachel.

SPEAKER_06 13:02

Oh my gosh. Red haired girl. And he's just praying to Almighty, like, please don't see me. Don't. But of course she does. Yep. And he's even still trying to get out of there, like, what the Where's the RJ?

SPEAKER_01 13:15

Gym, what? Oh, okay. Bye.

SPEAKER_06 13:18

So gets to the gym, it looks like. Mm-hmm. And then it's kind of just packed. Yeah. You know, to the roof. It's like a pep rally.

SPEAKER_02 13:25

Pep rally, yeah. Let's go. Let's get pep rally. Kids in the bleachers. We got the marching band. Um classic. Older kids, bibbity bop, teachers. Yeah, it's a good like orientation first day. I used to love those, the games.

SPEAKER_06 13:40

Oh, totally. When you're already starting to see the hierarchy of like where the Ku Klids, where the Drew kids.

SPEAKER_02 13:46

Yeah.

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Mm-hmm.

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Um.

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And they got the freshman welcoming sign.

SPEAKER_02 13:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 13:52

It's it's about as cheesy as it gets. It's a block of cheddar.

SPEAKER_02 13:55

But yeah, so yeah, they all get seated, band stops playing. Um, guy comes and starts talking, but that's when Rachel grabs him on the shoulders. What are you doing here?

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What in the world?

SPEAKER_02 14:08

That's when we finally get her name, Rachel Elizabeth Dare. Confirmation.

SPEAKER_06 14:12

That's the lady.

SPEAKER_02 14:14

And so she's like, Yeah, and you're Percy, whatever. Percy didn't get your full name last time when you tried to kill me.

SPEAKER_01 14:21

Uh-huh. So my goodness.

SPEAKER_02 14:24

But yeah, they're both here for orientation. He's, you know, wondering if she lives in New York, which is like, yeah, it duh. I guess he always thought she lived around Hoover Dam, which would make sense.

SPEAKER_06 14:33

Yeah. It's kind of funny. And that whole sidebar, it's like, hey, I was not thinking about her.

SPEAKER_02 14:38

Yes. But when I did, whenever I thought about her, and I'm not saying I thought about her, okay? She was just like crossed my mind from time to time, okay?

SPEAKER_06 14:46

I just thought she lived by Hoover Dam. She was a damn damn.

SPEAKER_02 14:51

It's a damn. But um Oh yeah, so then now the cheer uh they get interrupted because now the cheerleaders have come onto the stage and talk. Guy tells them to shut up, and so Tammy starts talking.

SPEAKER_06 15:05

Kelly does the carwheel.

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That's the first time I think we find out her name is Tammy. Tammy and like Kelly. And like cut. But then that's when Rachel yelps, which I'm assuming is because she probably sees their true form.

SPEAKER_06 15:22

From the from the freaking from the get.

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She's like, yo, those girls have goat legs and vampire teeth. Yeah. Holy hickama. So, and then that's when she's straight up like Let's get out of here.

SPEAKER_06 15:34

We need to run now.

SPEAKER_02 15:35

You need to run now.

SPEAKER_06 15:36

And he's asking, but she doesn't even explain, just gets up and starts to season.

SPEAKER_02 15:42

So he hesitates, but then he kind of catches Kelly's eye, and then he's just like, oh damn.

SPEAKER_06 15:49

This little eye to eye, and he kind of knows, like, uh, it's a bad idea, but F it, I need to give it a few.

SPEAKER_02 15:55

Yeah, I gotta dip. Forget about it. Um, oh whoops. Yeah, because he basically is like, oh yeah, he remembers like Rachel has that ability that Sally has, where she's a mortal that can see through the mist. And so if she thinks something's wrong, then even if he can't see it as a demiblood, like she can definitely see it. So he dips, follows her out of the gym.

SPEAKER_06 16:18

Trust your instincts, Perse.

SPEAKER_02 16:19

They meet up in the band room, she's hiding behind the drum. So they get behind, and she's like, they didn't follow you.

SPEAKER_06 16:26

Yeah, and she looks shook from what she saw.

SPEAKER_02 16:29

So he's like, dude, what what are they? Like, what did you see? And um she's like, You wouldn't believe me. Oh, yeah, the way that he's describing her, you can tell, Percy, it seems like a little star dazzled. Her green eyes are bright with fear. She has sprinkle of freckles on her face that reminded me of Constellations. Her maroon t-shirt read, Harvard Department. The mist. The mist. The mist, though. But then that's when he kind of gets right into it. Like she's like, he's like, the mist. I know you can see through it, and she's like, What? He's like, the mist. Like it's this so he explains the mist.

SPEAKER_06 17:07

And that whole like you call me immortal, like you're not, and then it's kind of like, oh, well, the cat's almost out of the bag now. There's uh, should I even explain? Right.

SPEAKER_02 17:18

And she's like, yo, you gotta tell me, like, I need to know what this means. And he's like, yo, okay, so you know about breed gods and stuff. She admits, she starts naming off some of the monsters, and of course, Percy knows, like, do not say those names out loud. He's like, please don't say them out loud around me. Then he brings she brings up the Furies, which is like, oh god, and the sirens. And the sirens. It's like, oh no, Percy's done enough with those. Um and then he stops her, and then he basically is just like, yeah. So basically, all of that, like, that's all real. All the myths, all the gods, it's all real. Yep. She immediately just like is like, I knew it. I knew he was expecting her to be like, what my whole world. And she's like, No, dude, I've just been waiting for someone to be saying freaky shit my whole life. It's been how hard it's been. People thought I was going crazy. And so then she's like, wait, but then what does that make you? Like, actually. I'm not a monster. She's like, Yeah, okay, but you're not human.

SPEAKER_06 18:15

Half human, half blood. I'm a demi-blood. And he just says half human, half quonk, and then just like quunk quonk. Yeah. Tammy Kelly walk in. So he's still even living a little bit on the table.

SPEAKER_02 18:29

Yeah, she doesn't know that he's half gaffed.

SPEAKER_06 18:32

Mm-hmm. Half possessive.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

But yeah, that's when Tammy Kelly pop in. There you are, Pessy Jackson.

SPEAKER_06 18:39

And they can probably just smell him.

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So yeah, they shut the door.

SPEAKER_06 18:44

Yeah. Rachel is still freaking out, just like, oh my god, they're horrible.

SPEAKER_02 18:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 18:49

And it looks like there's not even any really trying to hide.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

He asks her, like, what do they look like? Because obviously she can see, but she's just way too too. That's when Tammy starts kind of like walking towards them all to death.

SPEAKER_06 19:04

And yeah, he just starts to get into that like daze malaise haze.

SPEAKER_02 19:09

Which is really yeah, I think that's like that vampire, like, don't they have like that hypnotic gaze or something? Yeah, they just once they lock eyes, you're like, ah bite me.

SPEAKER_05 19:20

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_06 19:20

Come to me, my darling sweets.

SPEAKER_02 19:23

My darling sweets. Let me suck your blood.

SPEAKER_06 19:27

Let me drape myself a fansie, darling sweet.

SPEAKER_02 19:30

But yeah, she gets close and um she's just swaying. Rachel's trying to get him to snap out of it.

SPEAKER_06 19:38

Snap out of it. It's not doing nothing. She's holding out her pom-poms like his riptide pen a little bit. Yeah. But he's not really even lifting it. Because she's still just like, don't even think you'll need that.

SPEAKER_05 19:51

Nico, how about the kisses?

SPEAKER_06 19:54

Let me kiss me. The smell of roses and animal fur.

SPEAKER_02 19:58

Clean animal fur. Weird but intoxicating. That does sound feral.

SPEAKER_06 20:02

Uh yes. Ah, I didn't like the feral sense.

SPEAKER_02 20:06

But yeah, she's like, Rachel's like, yo, Percy, she wants to bite you. Look at her. And um, she's still distracted, she's just jealous.

SPEAKER_06 20:15

Yeah, and how like Kelly uh or Tammy asks Kelly for permission. Yes, calls her mistress. Yes, my goodness.

SPEAKER_02 20:23

Which is like, okay, and Kelly's like, go on ahead, you do just feast, feast.

SPEAKER_06 20:28

So Percy does pull the sword and it's just like, get back.

SPEAKER_02 20:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 20:32

Just trying. And just we feast on who each.

SPEAKER_02 20:37

This is uh school though.

SPEAKER_06 20:38

Uh huh.

SPEAKER_02 20:39

And then that's when she changes pale white, red eyes, teeth in the fangs. Wings, that'll be hot.

SPEAKER_06 20:49

Uh yeah, with the goat leg and the metal leg.

SPEAKER_02 20:52

Yeah, that's so weird. I wonder why that is.

SPEAKER_06 20:55

Maybe I was thinking. Whenever there's mechanics, I'm like, with a goat, maybe it's some like uh got frisky with a nyad or something. Fusion?

SPEAKER_02 21:10

Yeah, some kind of uh spirit uh Yeah, because it's like just the same way that like the Cyclops were created when Poseidon got with that one, whoever I forget.

SPEAKER_06 21:22

Mm-hmm. Just some like water spirit.

SPEAKER_02 21:25

Right. But yeah, so anyways, tumquinking. Yeah, shaggy goat's hoof is the left and right one is human leg made of bronze. Oh god. They definitely don't want to talk about the legs as soon as he starts to bring it up.

SPEAKER_06 21:42

Yeah, he tried he kind of like uh originally identifies her as a vampire.

SPEAKER_02 21:47

Yeah, a vampire with Don't mention the legs. But yeah, she starts coming up, approaching um with those pom-poms. And then that's when Kelly from the back is like, oh, vampires. Vampires are based on us. We are the Impusai. Servants of Hecate. Hecate. Hecate.

SPEAKER_06 22:07

This is a Hecat.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

Hecat. That's cool.

SPEAKER_06 22:10

Let's go, Hecat. Yeah, Hecat. Okay. So yeah, she gets she gets feral for sure with her mind.

SPEAKER_02 22:17

Interesting. Dark magic. Okay, I guess we do have their origin. Dark magic formed us from animal bronze and ghosts. And ghosts. We exist to feed on the blood of young men. Interesting. The Impuhat.

SPEAKER_06 22:29

Yeah, Impufat. And yeah, Percy is just straight like stunned, paralyzed by this Imputaz.

SPEAKER_02 22:36

Luckily, Rachel throws a snare drum at Impufa T.

SPEAKER_06 22:40

Nice.

SPEAKER_02 22:41

She bats it away. Rachel throws a xylophone. She swats that away. And now Tammy's mad. She's like, yo, I'm gonna cut your eyes, girl. Oh, you're seeing too good. She lunges. But then that's when Perse She straight through. Always knows how to move. Iced her. Done. Tammy is dead.

SPEAKER_06 23:01

Poof of poof. Rachel's coughing on the poof of poof.

SPEAKER_02 23:05

She's covered in poof.

SPEAKER_06 23:06

He kind of explains, yeah, monsters do that, girl. Sorry about that.

SPEAKER_02 23:10

Now Kelly's pissed. He's like, you just killed my trainee.

SPEAKER_06 23:12

Oh, she's turning into Ampooch.

SPEAKER_02 23:15

Ampoo time.

SPEAKER_06 23:16

And then she says, I am Shinya Ampoochash. Shunya and Poof Han. No hero is best of me in a thousand years, fool. You're overdue, girl. Tink! You ain't never seen a bow and lad man.

SPEAKER_03 23:30

But she's fast. She's dodging.

SPEAKER_06 23:32

Yeah. The dance.

SPEAKER_03 23:34

Yeah, things are being thrown around. Rachel's scrambling.

SPEAKER_06 23:39

She's almost like shape shifting in her things. Like sometimes a demon, sometimes a cheerleader.

SPEAKER_03 23:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 23:45

All over the place. Oh. And then that's when she's saying this thing like, You're pretty little camp in flames. Your friends made slaves to the Lord of Time. There's nothing you can do to stop it. Getting a little prophetic. Like, what do we have to do? Yeah, swim squam.

SPEAKER_02 24:05

Which I mean, we always knew that Camp Half-Blood was in danger from Kronos, but now it seems like it's just like, oh, people we don't even know about are talking about it. Like all the monsters know that Camp Half-Blood is the target.

SPEAKER_06 24:18

Oh, totally.

SPEAKER_02 24:20

Yeah, that's concerning.

SPEAKER_06 24:21

There's a gathering of evils.

SPEAKER_02 24:23

But yeah, then it sounds like a tour group is outside approaching, man's talking, and so then that's when this in Putha is like, oh, we're gonna have company. And then this kind of weird kind of plan starts formulating. She throws the tube at him, the duck. Um seems like the people in the hall hear that, and then Percy starts shouting like or uh Kelly starts shouting Yeah, like why did you throw that?

SPEAKER_01 24:50

Percy, why did you throw that?

SPEAKER_06 24:52

Yeah, creating a frame. Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_02 24:55

Dastardly, and then she starts picking up more shit and throwing it around.

SPEAKER_06 24:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:59

And so he's saying, Stop it. No, you stop it. And then Kelly straight runs to the door and it's like time to greet our visitors.

SPEAKER_06 25:08

He tries to kill her, but before he can make it, yeah, she like turns and turns into a cowering stance.

SPEAKER_02 25:14

Yeah, like flings open the doors. We got Paul Blofus and all a bunch of freshmen. They're all shocked to see the scene of Percy with a sword standing above Kelly, cowering. No, dude, please! And then, but he's already mid-slash and boom!

SPEAKER_06 25:33

But then she explodes.

SPEAKER_02 25:35

It's like she pre-explodes.

SPEAKER_06 25:37

Pre-explosions.

SPEAKER_02 25:39

Before he could even hit her. A little pre.

SPEAKER_06 25:42

Nothing like a pre-explosion, perfectly timed, erupts into flames and kind of and straight explosion, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:51

Like flames engulf the doorway.

SPEAKER_06 25:53

Flames engulfed.

SPEAKER_03 25:54

Paul's like, dude, Percy, what have you done? Kids are screaming, ceiling sprinklers are going up. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 26:00

Rachel's like, you gotta get out of here. And he's like, Dog, yeah, you're right. Things are burning. He's gotta go. Pretty much like since mortals can't see through the mist, all they're gonna see is the scene of Percy attacking this girl, and somehow their brains are gonna formulate it into him being a terrorist.

SPEAKER_06 26:20

Yeah. So Percy's on the lamb again. Again, jumps out the window. 15 pages in, and Percy's a known fugitive.

SPEAKER_02 26:27

Yes. Part for the course. We're part for the course.

SPEAKER_06 26:31

Yeah, I'd say we're all that's like a birdie right there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:36

So, but yeah, he jumps out into the alley and right into Abeth. Oh nice. She's laughing, she's happy.

SPEAKER_06 26:43

A little seaweed brain. Right off the bat. Just wash me. Don't sound like a clean. Wash me clean, baby girl. Wash me, baptize me in that gaze, lover. Oh my gosh. So beautiful. Just wearing the t-shirt, little camp shirt.

SPEAKER_03 26:59

Yeah, he's got a beat nervous.

SPEAKER_06 27:04

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 27:05

They can have a cool afternoon. And then Rachel comes out covered in dust.

SPEAKER_02 27:10

Percy, wait up. Ah. It's like Abet's just like, uh That's a kink in the ring.

SPEAKER_03 27:16

Interesting.

SPEAKER_06 27:17

That's a kink in the ring.

SPEAKER_03 27:18

And then she sees it. Abeth notices that everything's on fire, and she's like, dude, what did you do, Percy? And who the whoop is this?

SPEAKER_06 27:26

Percy tries to Annabeth, Rachel, Rachel, Annabeth.

SPEAKER_03 27:30

She's a friend, I guess.

SPEAKER_06 27:32

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 27:33

What else do you call her?

SPEAKER_06 27:35

Yeah, because and that's the truth, is like back-to-back life or death situations.

SPEAKER_02 27:39

Yes. The only two times they've ever hung out have been life or death situations.

SPEAKER_06 27:43

So it's like you're pretty bonded, yeah. Uh-huh. So she's like. You still owe me an explanation, Percy.

SPEAKER_03 27:52

Yep, we got police sirens.

SPEAKER_06 27:54

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 27:55

Abeth, like, yo, Percy, we need to go.

SPEAKER_06 27:57

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 27:58

And Rachel's like, yo, I want to know more. I want to know about more about Half Bloods, Monsters, God.

SPEAKER_02 28:03

Writes her number on Percy's arm.

SPEAKER_06 28:07

Abeth, you owe me that. Oh no. Who is this kind of cute girl that now you owe things to that are numbers on your arm. Percy.

SPEAKER_03 28:19

God. So she's, and she literally says, You're going to call me and explain. Okay? You owe me that.

SPEAKER_06 28:24

Now, but Rachel does say, I'll make up a story, which is kind of like, okay. Which is cool.

SPEAKER_03 28:28

She's in the cover for just Percy, you go. So she runs back towards the school. Abeth is just like dumbfounded, like fucking idiot Percy.

SPEAKER_06 28:39

And turns and just starts running.

SPEAKER_03 28:41

And so he's running after her, like they were in Pussai and cheerleaders, and you know, they're gonna burn camp. She's like, you told a mortal girl about half blood.

SPEAKER_06 28:53

Oh my. Like, yo, she can see through the mist. And you've met this girl before.

SPEAKER_03 28:58

Oh, yeah. He's like, she recognized me from the Hoover Dam. So what? You've met her before? Oh, last winter. Uh-huh. And then she's like, she's kind of cute.

SPEAKER_06 29:08

Oh my. He's like, uh she she's got him pinned right now.

SPEAKER_03 29:15

Yeah. And he's like, yo, I'll I'll figure this out. I'll deal with the school. It's gonna be fine, I promise.

SPEAKER_06 29:20

And she's like Yeah, won't even look at Percy.

SPEAKER_02 29:23

Guess our afternoon is off. Oh no. Get you out of here now that the police will be circling.

SPEAKER_06 29:28

Oh no, not the afternoon.

SPEAKER_02 29:30

Oh god. And then we just got the school in flames, in smoke.

SPEAKER_06 29:35

And then this like prophetic demon shape.

SPEAKER_02 29:38

You got red eyes?

SPEAKER_06 29:40

Yeah, red eye, cloud eye, omen. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 29:44

And then he's remembering what she had said. Yes. Your pretty little camp in flames. Your friends made slaves to the Lord of Time. He's like, yeah, we gotta go to Camp Half Blood, ASERP.

SPEAKER_06 29:59

And just like that, it leaves us. Chapter one. My gosh. Wow. What a whirlwind.

SPEAKER_02 30:06

What a whirlwind. Don't even know what scenario we're in now. Obviously, our big concern is still Kronos the Lord Thought. He's still the drum that keeps marching out.

SPEAKER_06 30:20

Yeah. He is the big bad that's yet.

SPEAKER_02 30:22

But how is he like what? I guess I guess the question is like what means is he gonna use in this book? Like he used, you know, in the Sea of Monsters, he had his whole naval plan working, and then in Titan's Curse, well uh obviously in Lightning Thief he had his whole Lightning Thief plan at work, then Sea of Monsters, then in Titan's Curse, he was working uh what was the big bad of Titan's Curse?

SPEAKER_06 30:53

Oh, the general Yeah, the general his mouvements, his mouvements, yeah, and the whole Bessie Yes the Ophiator lore.

SPEAKER_02 31:05

Ophiotor lore.

SPEAKER_06 31:07

So now we've kind of got Mount Borth that is.

SPEAKER_02 31:12

Oh yes, this building.

SPEAKER_06 31:14

And you know, Kronos is still sarcophagous. Luke fell off the cliff.

SPEAKER_02 31:19

Right.

SPEAKER_06 31:19

But he's reforming.

SPEAKER_02 31:21

Right. At least we're pretty sure that he like we didn't see everyone was assuming that he's dead, but it's like no.

SPEAKER_06 31:28

We know he's not dead. I think even uh pops someone said yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:32

Yeah, when she ran into the city, besides, no, he's not dead.

SPEAKER_06 31:35

Yeah, he's like, you know.

SPEAKER_02 31:36

He's like, Dow was there.

SPEAKER_06 31:37

He's like, no, freaking Annabeth knew too. Yeah. Just like how you knew I wasn't dead. I knew T. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:50

Well, maybe Abeth will get a little taste of uh jealousy in this one. Mm-hmm. If things go on with Rachel. Yeah. You know, a few more moments and she'll be like, Okay, why you keep talking about that Rachel.

SPEAKER_06 32:03

Yeah, it's like, why do you keep talking about that? Well, I love Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_03 32:08

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_06 32:08

It doesn't feel so good. Taste of your own manathone.

SPEAKER_04 32:12

It does it.

SPEAKER_06 32:13

Yeah. And I feel like I do remember this like little nugget of Clarice being like wounded. She went on this mission.

SPEAKER_02 32:22

And we still don't know. Like at the end of it, she was like pretty like when they got together at the end, she was like banged up, or was she not even there?

SPEAKER_06 32:31

She was kind of around and we saw that she was banged up.

SPEAKER_02 32:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 32:36

But we didn't really get any necessarily real answer out of it.

SPEAKER_02 32:41

Because I think the last time we even saw Clarice was in Sea of Monsters. I don't think did we even see her really in time?

SPEAKER_06 32:47

Yeah, I think she came in at the very end with like a little whisper that she had just gotten back from a quest, and she was rubbing. Yeah, she had like a scar.

SPEAKER_02 32:57

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 32:58

And it was like, oh yeah, I went on this other, uh huh. Oh, I found out who uh Bouqua. And then it just whipped it out. We didn't get any real deep dig. Yeah. And now we obviously know like Nico has gone full of rogue.

SPEAKER_02 33:13

Oh yeah, he's gone full of rogue, full of shadow.

SPEAKER_06 33:16

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 33:16

Shadow code. What was it like?

SPEAKER_05 33:33

Oh no, go.

SPEAKER_02 33:49

Like create just like Nico on his knees, just like just some metal in the background.

SPEAKER_06 33:58

Wips out like a demonic base and just oh, that'd be so sick.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

That's like his weapon to like summon the underworld powers is just like a base forms in his hands. Oh, dude, I can't wait. I hope we see more of Nico.

SPEAKER_06 34:22

Yeah. I mean, I just hope he's okay.

SPEAKER_02 34:25

Exactly. Yeah, I know they're gonna have a lot of work to do, him and Percy. Just as far as like mending. You can get Nika to talk to him again. Oh.

SPEAKER_06 34:38

They'll have to, yeah. And because he is just so powerful, you know, and he's in just like this chaotic state. Chaotic spot, you know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:52

Yeah, he's in deep mourning.

SPEAKER_06 34:55

Yeah, so. And to think we're just already dropped into we got a disaster, but it does, it's I'm just even if we're kind of on a rocks, I know Abeth and Percy, you know, they care about each other and more than just they'll get over this little spat. Yeah. We're gonna get past this spat. Yeah. And just, yeah, we need to get to Camp Hathlove. We need to figure out what's coming down. But so many just dump us right into the flames. Boom. I remember, I mean, in true fashion, from the jump, he delivers page turnings to you.

SPEAKER_02 35:41

The first chapter you just in. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 35:45

He'll he'll set you up as we go along. He'll explain as we go, but he's just like Rick. Thank you, Rick.

SPEAKER_02 35:59

Uncle Rick.

SPEAKER_06 36:00

Yeah. And thank you for keeping the uh the pages consistent across editions.

SPEAKER_02 36:06

Yes. Oh, yeah, exactly. Because we're rocking two separate editions right now.

SPEAKER_06 36:12

And two pages going two for two. It's just always Yeah, it's always clean.

SPEAKER_02 36:16

I love it when they stay consistent over editions.

SPEAKER_06 36:20

He there.

SPEAKER_02 36:21

He there.

SPEAKER_06 36:22

It's proper source. Well, onward and upward, man. Chapter two. Chapter two. PJBL. PJBL.

SPEAKER_02 36:36

B B L B B Let's give Camp Half Blood a B B L B B. PJ B B L. L F G P B B L.

SPEAKER_05 36:54

P J B L.

SPEAKER_02 36:56

Percy's about to get a BBL. He's about hacking cakes.

unknown 37:08

Hell yeah.