Sons of Apollo
A reading of the Percy Jackson books written by Rick Riordan with exhilarating debriefs after each chapter.
Read by Panther Prakash and Dante Musa, the Sons of Apollo
Sons of Apollo
10. PJBL Debrief
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We get our sauce Sayyonce on with Nico and the gang! the ghost king and his sippy jive asss tries to but in but our lost sister has some juiceyy insight.
The Sons of Apollo Love You!!
Oh my goodness. Damn out.
SPEAKER_02Or the gatekeeper. The Sphinx. Dude, that Sphinx is crazy.
SPEAKER_07Seeing the Sphinx in action?
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Swipin'?
SPEAKER_02Swiping? Stainless steel? Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Stainless steel clout? Clout.
SPEAKER_02The clout. Oh lala. Yeah. And dang to think. So, like the Sphinx is a breed? Because or is this just the one Sphinx? Is this the very Sphinx that attacked Tyson?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, that attacked Tyson. I don't think so. Okay. I think it's just like a, yeah, exactly. I think I'm not sure. A species of monster.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Dang. Well, don't mess with these sphinx. This is a.
SPEAKER_07A bet bold is brat.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, bold as blindaz.
SPEAKER_07Bold as brindaz.
SPEAKER_02Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_07She just did not care at all. She's like, nah, this insults my intelligence.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I will not answer trivia questions. I am a daughter of Athena. That is bold. And I mean, it just bodes on her. She knows she's rolling with some cool cats. Right. Because that is both. I mean, look at the bones. The bones speak for themselves. They speak for themselves. But we're looking good. And Grover? Perks of Grove. Perks of Grove. Little. And that's all. Dude, pencils. Mm-hmm. He uh he steps in when he needs to step in. He saved the clan countless times.
SPEAKER_05Countless times. Yeah. We can do that.
SPEAKER_02Those little reed pipes. Yeah. Mm-hmm. That was a thick boy. A lot of different things occurred there. A lot happened. Chapter 10. Remember the name.
SPEAKER_07Remember the name. Yeah, where did it, sir? Oh my god. 163 to 186. 20 papa.
SPEAKER_0223 papa. Mm-hmm. But yeah, and that's where it starts. We play the game show of death. We play the game show. Because that's really where it like picks us up is Bianca. We're about to do a summonsing.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02But yeah, yeah, like we were talking, we're gonna start doing our little timestamp. So here we are. The day before Thanksgiving. Yeah. Wednesday. The 20. The 26th? The 26th.
SPEAKER_07November 26th. November 26th, 2026. 2025.
SPEAKER_02What a life we live. What a life we live. It's so good to be doing it.
SPEAKER_07I'm Panther.
SPEAKER_02Dante.
SPEAKER_07Welcome to Sons of Apollo.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, welcome. Checking back in.
SPEAKER_06Checking back in. Alright.
SPEAKER_02Let's do it. We play the game show of death. And we life is a game show.
SPEAKER_07Life is a game show. So much.
SPEAKER_02We keep it delivering.
SPEAKER_07So yeah, it leaves off in nine with uh Gary. They finished the whole Gary scenario. Now, you know, Nico wants to summon Bianca.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. That's the nine. He's been trying to do it for a couple weeks now. Yeah. And that's uh Percy just has this notion that he's like, yo, I think that I've been led to you by this lady, Bianca, so let's try it again. Right. Let's try summoning. So yeah, it just opens us up. We're doing it by this like 20-foot trench next to where a septic tank is about to be put down. Happy flush disposal cover. It's uh because this is some darkness, yo. We got the full moon brewing. Nico's even talking about Minos already. But yeah, he pours this root beer, tosses the barbecue into the pit.
SPEAKER_07Seems like he's just in process. Just chanting and is just trying to summon.
SPEAKER_02Mm-hmm. He's done it before. And it's wild how, like, once he starts summoning, everything just like goes still.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_02That bone chill creep. Oh my gosh. And the Stygian ice whistle? Dude, the Stygian ice whistle. I had kind of forgotten about that little Quantus.
SPEAKER_01Quandi? I'm pretty sure it's Quantus. Yeah. Okay, what's going on with the Stygians?
SPEAKER_02But uh Stygians.
SPEAKER_07Stygians. It is. Yeah, because did Quinty give that to him at the beginning of this book?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I think like right before he went on his little mission. Okay. Because it calls the hellhound. Yeah. Calls Mrs. Oler. We love our Mrs. Oulair. We do. It comes in at a good time, hopefully.
SPEAKER_07But yeah, so we got kind of like everything's getting colder, there's mist happening. And then we start to see like the mist forming into like these human forms. Yeah. And they're all going towards like the pool that Nico's filled to like try to drink from it.
SPEAKER_02They're trying to drink from the floor.
SPEAKER_07One of them gets through, and that's when Nico's like, stop him. Only Bianca's supposed to drink from that. Um and so Peirce tries to stop them with Riptide. Um, but Homeboy already made it to the juice. Yeah, drank of it.
SPEAKER_02And lo and behold, High Yankun. And it's like, what are you doing, Minos? Yeah. You know.
SPEAKER_01My apologies, Master. Simply patched. I could not help myself from the lipping laptop.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, so yeah, he's just taking advantage of the situation is what it looks like.
SPEAKER_07And yeah, he's really going on like he's going right off the bat about like, hey, you keep doing it, Master.
SPEAKER_08I'm just here to protect you from these so-called heroes.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah, he's just talking trash right out the gate.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, because he does he obviously it seems like he doesn't want Purse and Crew to succeed.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Well, it's like his nefariousness has been open since I mean you can smell the deceit on this motherfudge. Truly. And uh, but yeah, obviously he's pushing this one thing. He's been pushing this whole soul for a soul thing.
SPEAKER_05Right.
SPEAKER_02Obviously. But I mean, Nico's kind of pissed at him right now. Like, you are messing with the ritual. Get on. Get on. But yeah, he's just trashing these sons of Apollo. Yeah. Or sons of Poseidon.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, Sons of Poseidon.
SPEAKER_02Sons of Apollo.
SPEAKER_01Keep the Sons of Apollo out of it. Yeah, I take this as an offense as well. Yeah, we're cousins, okay?
SPEAKER_07Um, but yeah, and so you're talking about, oh yeah, you got the whole rundown, which he gives that callback. I heard, I understand you once killed my Minotaur with your bare hands. Ooh. Back callback to book one.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, one of Percy's first feats. His first kill. Yeah. Well, I guess Mrs. Dots.
SPEAKER_07Oh, technically, yeah. I guess Minotaur would have been his first, like, what was it, his like token or trophy that he got when he took the horn? Or when he took the horn, the minotaur's horn with him. Spoils of war. Spoil, yeah, spoil of war. Cool.
SPEAKER_02Mm-hmm. Him in his little cabin with his Minotaur horn. Yeah. He's come a long way. Come a long way since he's like, uh, now I see you. Yeah. Makes me sick.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, and he's just all the spirits are getting extra like jittery too around them. He's really pushing this, like, yo, Daedless don't care about you. Can't trust him. Um, he's guilty of murder. Um interesting notions, which become which is like, oh, that's a false claim. Is it?
SPEAKER_02Kundung.
SPEAKER_07Kundalini.
SPEAKER_02Uh. But he's like saying you guys are holding back Nico. You know, you're partial, like you're deterring him from his goal, kind of a thing. And he's what, he's trying to talk this up? I would make him a lord.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_02But Nico's pissed at him right now. He's not really hearing it.
SPEAKER_07Keeps telling him to shut up. Um, then he's talking about how like, yo, I'm gonna turn your minds to madness like I did the others. Chris Rodriguez is Rodriguez anymore.
SPEAKER_02Oh my gosh, that's messed up. And what is this? My maze is my property? Yeah, not Daedalus's, interesting. Uh-huh. But yeah, it's it's interesting to see how, like, really against this so-called ghost. I mean, buddy, he's really because he kind of knows he's like, I'm annoyed with this ghost, he's following me around. Uh, you know, he's a crappy friend, but he's kind of a friend. Kind of resourceful, yeah.
SPEAKER_07And yeah, but it seems like he can't really do anything. Like, you know, at the end of the day, Nico's like, yo, shut the whoop up.
SPEAKER_03And he's like, as you wish, but just remind you, don't trust these heroes.
SPEAKER_07Oh.
SPEAKER_03Okay, I'm shutting up. I won't say anything else.
SPEAKER_07Oh. But then that's when you know, he really calls for Bianca. Yeah. Um, or Nico's really calling for Bianca, and that's when we start to see like almost this silvery light moving through the trees.
SPEAKER_02Bianca. I and Nico's kind of like surprised. Club. Club. And it's interesting, she greets Percy. Yes. Out the gate. Dang.
SPEAKER_07Out the gate. She looks just like her old self, still in her hunter's outfit with the silver, the silver nines. She's looking out. She's a green beret, too.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. She's a cadet, yeah.
SPEAKER_07She's a cadet. Cadet in the stars. Of course, Percy's feeling horrible because you know, like last time he saw her was when she was going up into that automaton, and he was just like searching through the remains for her.
SPEAKER_02So it's definitely kind of bringing up, stirring up a lot of that sadness.
SPEAKER_07So he's apologizing. She says, You don't gotta apologize. Then of course, Nico's like, No!
SPEAKER_01Bianca!
SPEAKER_02Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_07And so she finally greets him, but almost like reluctantly. Yeah, and he's like, Yo, why didn't you answer me?
SPEAKER_02I was hoping that you would just give up on trying to summon any boy.
SPEAKER_07That's raw.
SPEAKER_02Ouch.
SPEAKER_07He's heard, of course, like, how could you say that?
SPEAKER_05And she's basically like, dude, Percy's right, you can't do this.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, really on Percy's side.
SPEAKER_07And uh, he's of course fighting it, but she's essentially saying, like, yo, you know, you're child of Hades, it's our fatal flaw to hold grudges.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, grudges are dangerous. You gotta forgive. He's saying he will never forgive. So, I mean, classic punk rock Nico.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but yeah, she's really pushing.
SPEAKER_07Um, and then talking about how, like, she was like, I'm the one that let Nico see what you were up to so that he could help him.
SPEAKER_02That Iris message herself, and that is like really cutting Nico to the core. Helping him and not me.
SPEAKER_05Contacting him like when you could when she could have contacted Nico instead.
SPEAKER_02Oh my gosh. And then she's really getting on this like, yo, it's not Perse that you're mad at, it's me. Yeah, because I became a hunter because I chose this life for me and left you. So, you know, you really have to just stop blaming Percy. This will be your doom, boy. And then even Annabeth is getting in, like, yo, Kronos is rising and he's gonna twist you to his of course, Nico.
SPEAKER_01I don't care about sister back.
SPEAKER_02Mm-hmm. But I mean, she's saying, like, you do not bring me back. Yeah, don't try to bring me back. Right. Oh, yeah, and this is it's really hidden. And then, but what all of a sudden these ghosts are kind of starting to stir, because it's not good to have like you can't be meddling with this kind of stuff.
SPEAKER_07Yes, and that's what Bianca kind of gets at is like, yeah, you need to let the dead return back to the underworld. Because all this shiz that you're doing right now is attracting Kronos and bringing attention to all of us here right now. So you gotta like let it go. Forgive, you know. And then yeah, Nico's trying to protest, but she's just like starts to go away. Goodbye, Nico. I love you. Remember what I said.
SPEAKER_02Dang. So that probably did not go the way Nico was playing. No, poor. She is gosh. And it seems like, yeah, all these different things. Yeah, Nico. We keep him in our prayers, keep him in the light.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, he's on a he's on a journey right now. Yeah, exactly. He's not on a journey.
SPEAKER_02And so now we're just left with nothing but the full moon and its old cricky crickle. And uh, so we kind of decide like we ain't traveling tonight. There's no need to go back into the labyrinth quite yet. So let's crash out in Gray's Garyans. Yeah. This is kind of a cool little spot. You're shwanky, dude. You know, get some couches. Yeah. That's a pretty good look for a demiblood who at least. Yeah. But we have this dream. The dream. Take us to Mount Tam. Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_07And pretty much that building that was like halfway built last time that purse was there, which I'm assuming we're referring to the whole uh confrontation with Atlas.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Um, General Atlas. Oh, yeah, when we were first starting to see it, it was just kind of like a starting to form, yeah. Form, yeah.
SPEAKER_07You could see some pillars and some were like up, but it was kind of like not really done. But looks like that building is a lot more solid, got a lot more accoutrement. Oh, the building.
SPEAKER_02Looks like a proper venue. Proper. Oh, yeah, exactly. Yeah. That's some nasty black marble.
SPEAKER_04Nasty.
SPEAKER_02Deadly.
SPEAKER_07Stormy, it's looking crazy. We got Lucky Boy.
SPEAKER_02Dressed for battle. Yeah, battle ready. Uh Dracon A. No sword though. That's interesting. What happened to Backbiter? Did it maybe like empty scabbard? Did it go flying or something when he fell off that cliff? Maybe. Goodness. Hanging out with some Draconay.
SPEAKER_07Then we got Kelly. Impusha. Looking. Looking. She's looking like an Impuhe.
SPEAKER_02Oh, nasty. She's always trying to seduce Luke up in here. Right. And that's what's interesting, like how she saw Percy before. Yes. Okay.
SPEAKER_07And so Percy's like kind of like expecting that to happen, but it seems like she doesn't notice it.
SPEAKER_02So talking about a little visitor we got, and then the freaking compe. Herself. Dude, what a beast. Oh my gosh. The nastiness. Yeah, with like the morphing belly. Yeah. And the like linguini legs that she just. Linguini legs. Boom blah, boom blau.
SPEAKER_01Boom blau.
SPEAKER_02Oh my gosh. Yeah, that voice you did for her. Because it was like how, you know, she speaks in that archaic tongue, but like goes in your mind. Mm-hmm. Bulls into it.
SPEAKER_07I come to serve give me revenge into this one. Kunda Kroonda? I'll have him dead. No one escapes me. Who's she talking about?
SPEAKER_02Well, I think I mean. We're talking about person. Yeah, person the gang.
SPEAKER_07Because when were they when did they escape Tompei Live?
SPEAKER_02This was uh on San Francisco on Alcatraz.
SPEAKER_07Oh, okay. In this book?
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Okay, yes. Because they went through that was when they uh teamed up with the hundred-handed one.
SPEAKER_08Uh yes.
SPEAKER_02God be with Briares. Briares, yeah. Yeah, so many lost souls in the maze.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Goodness. Compe is pissed. Compe wants to join the army. And uh dang. Lucas go go ahead and be like, okay, I'll give you Ariadne's thing. She's got the string. She got the thring, Ariadne. She got the thrink. And I mean, she's down, it just she's still pissed. Yeah. She goes pounding away, but now we know she got the thrink. And uh, I mean, too chaotic, too powerful. She's an ancient monster. And then what Kelly's just always on her little use the power. And Luke, what we're we're trying to get this over with. Yeah. We're trying to just invade camp.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, she's really goading him, just like, oh, you you know, you're afraid to destroy your old camp. You haven't second thoughts. I think she's essentially trying to just like break him down, like, alright, well, you know, if you can't do the job, that would be unfortunate. Someone else would have to do it for you. Uh-huh. You know, whatever. Soon quinking. Someone else would have to take the top spot. I'd hate to see a handsome head on a spike for you. Yeah. Spike if you fail.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, what's that interesting? Like, you're not having second thoughts about your special part. Mm-hmm. I know my duty is like, yeah, this special part, his connection, the Kranas.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, nasty.
SPEAKER_02Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_07Um. But yeah, and then that's when he's just like, yo, don't you have something else to do? And she's like, Oh, I'm supposed to be, you know, bringing despair to our eavesdropping enemies, which I'm doing right now. Dude's so clean. Oh my gosh. And that's when she just looks at him and then sh. So it's like, oh, she saw him the whole time.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_07And now he's in like a it's inception.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Dream within a dream. Dream shift is. It's interesting because uh did the last time he just startled up to think he's shifting. We've seen some dream shifts from Paris before. But how Kelly herself swinked around. So now what we're we're back with Day Adlas.
SPEAKER_07Dayless running big tower. He is your past.
SPEAKER_02Oh my gosh. What is he making this?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, he's working on something.
SPEAKER_02Overlooking the ocean. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_07Looks older. Um, he's yeah. Cursing. There's a boy calling out for uncle, Nip Perdix.
SPEAKER_02Now there's a little new Perdicx on saying.
SPEAKER_07You got a new Perdicx? Little Perdicx.
SPEAKER_01Perdix. It looks like Perdix is kind of a bright little sprout. He really is, yeah.
SPEAKER_07He's bright-eyed bushytailed, done with your projects. Uh talking about like, he's like, oh yeah, they're easy. And he's like, what? You mean like learning how to pump water uphill without a pump? Yeah, move.
SPEAKER_01He's like, oh yeah, check this out, Pops. I got my lips. Check this out. And he's showing it off to the king. Oh goodness. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_07The whole, like, yeah, the king said, I might even be smarter than you.
SPEAKER_02Diatalus does not like that statement. That hits like a hot coal.
SPEAKER_07Hot coal. But yeah, this kid is just like naive. Maybe he's just running his mouth.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, what Daisy is like, oh, when I die, you take my place. Yeah. Oh, I've just been. Oh, what is this stuff about?
SPEAKER_07Really getting deep here. Like, this whole notion of like, oh, you know, like what is the, you know, if you could capture the soul, the animus, and put it into another body, theoretically, couldn't you live on forever?
SPEAKER_02Uh-huh. You know. Because we've done this with other automatons and stuff. Right. Why not do it with the human spirit? And he's like, things are impossible. Uh and he's saying, what?
SPEAKER_01A little bit of magic. Magic. Get a little magic in there.
SPEAKER_02Magic. Uh-huh. And what? He's even like, yeah, I made some notes about magic and stuff. Oh my gosh. A thick scroll. He is not having it though. He's like, when you're older, you'll see. Yeah. Uh huh. We'll see how old he becomes. Oh my gosh. And what he's like asking about his joints swelling out. Right. What is this astr what is an astrolab?
SPEAKER_07An astrolabe is uh I think it's kinda like uh it is like a sphere that you put a light on the inside, but it has um I'm gonna look right now. But I think it has like, you know, holes on it to depict the constellations. So in a dark room you can like use an astrolabe to as like a map for the star. Star map, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Dang. Little Perdix is such a bright I mean he just wants to help. He's got an innocent little heart, but he is really pissing our diatalists off without really I mean he's just not picking up on it. He's just a boy.
SPEAKER_07Oh, it consists of okay. Instrument formerly used to make astronomical measurements typically of altitudes of celestial bodies and a navigation for calculating latitude. It consists of a disc with an edge marked in degrees and a pivoted pointer.
SPEAKER_02Okay, almost like one of those sun discs type things that like to deduce stars distances from each other.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_02For maybe constellations, you use that kind of stuff.
SPEAKER_07Okay, continue.
SPEAKER_02And uh so now we're kind of getting into this. He's like, get out of here, Perdicks. He's Perdicks is just like dandling along, playing along with this bronze beetle on the edge of this tower.
SPEAKER_07And uh rim right up to the just up to the boy's knees, which is like that's a very low rim.
SPEAKER_02And we've got some strong wind. Yep. Low rim, strong wind.
SPEAKER_07Purse is trying to tell him to move back, but his voice doesn't work, of course. And Perdicx throws this beetle up, it's flying away, he's having a great old time. And Daedless is just back there just simmering. Smarter than me, eh?
SPEAKER_01You take my place, and then Purdix comes like, ha, didn't you your son die from these wings that one time? Dude, Perdix, you fool.
SPEAKER_07I wonder if Perdicx is where we get the word perdition. Uh who what is uh per what is perdition? Perdition is like doom or you know, it's like uh Road to Perdition.
SPEAKER_02The road to perdition. Uh perdix. He's been per dished from the start. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_07Playing with state of eternal punishment and damnation.
SPEAKER_02Oh, damnation? Yeah. It could make sense.
SPEAKER_07But uh, yeah, perdicts, you fool. Talking about like, yeah, did you?
SPEAKER_08Yeah, but it failed, right? And your son died, right?
SPEAKER_01Crazy. I could probably make some wings that would actually work. Yeah. You think I could?
SPEAKER_07It's like, uh, verdicts.
SPEAKER_01What does he say? I would like to fly. I would make my own wings. Yeah. Blindle crin. Blending crin.
SPEAKER_02And then all of a sudden, Janet's just like, why don't you choose, Mister? And then what? It looks like Diatus makes his choice. He throws the bronze beetle. Yeah, he's like, catch.
SPEAKER_01Hey, Burdox, catch.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01Bronze Beetle, wee! Wee! Play catch with Uncle Cole. Oh, playing catch on a cliff.
SPEAKER_03That throw's too long, but I can I can do it. I can do it.
SPEAKER_08Over the edge. Wind caught.
SPEAKER_02Oh my gosh. And now he's just straight hanging by the cliff. Yeah. And what how it says Dale is his face is a mask.
SPEAKER_07Just doesn't move from his spot. Um just standing back down in the tower, like, go on, Birdie.
SPEAKER_08Make your own wings. Be quick about it, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Oh my god.
SPEAKER_02Dang. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_07And then that's when we get this like the come down.
SPEAKER_02Oh dang.
SPEAKER_07Talk about a come down.
SPEAKER_02Dude, talk about every asha or react. Athena herself is a that's interesting. And I'm I mean, it makes sense like tactics and battle and wisdom and justice. Justice, it all kind of falls within the Adalus. He's kind of swinging a little bit of fashion, too.
SPEAKER_07Well, and it's also interesting because it seems like technically it seems like Purdix and uh Daedless are half-blood brothers. Because doesn't it say that um uh because he Daedalus says, I've always honored you, mother. I have sacrificed I've so I don't know if he's just calling her like mother as a title or like actually mother, which would make sense.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Yeah. And then for him to be demiblooded.
SPEAKER_07And then how she talks about yet the boy had my blessing as well, and you've killed him for that, you must pay.
SPEAKER_02Um the blessing.
SPEAKER_07I guess maybe just the blessing.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Either bl and it is interesting to think. I mean, they demi-bloods were definitely being happening back then all the time, too. I could totally see Daedless being that.
SPEAKER_07But yeah, Daedalus is just whining and complaining about all he's gone through.
SPEAKER_01This isn't right. I'm an old man.
SPEAKER_02And it's like now you'll pay, and you'll pay for ever old man.
SPEAKER_07And then he just collapses, and that's when he first wakes up.
SPEAKER_02Oh my gosh, yeah. And it's like he Durhy Durk.
SPEAKER_07Durhy Durk?
SPEAKER_02We don't know Ir he dirt. But he's definitely in agony. Right. And then Blink, Rink, Grover is awake. It's what, 2:30 something in the morning? We're just hanging out watching tube on a couch. Yeah. Sleepover style.
SPEAKER_07And yeah, and then that's when Grove tells him that it's been seven days since they've left camp. It's June 13th. Quindleden.
SPEAKER_02Dang, how time moves faster in the lab. It's like a different Dementon in there.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. And he even brings up that one instance when person Abeth went to the maze, how it felt like hours. Uh or they thought it they were only in there for a couple of minutes. But for Grover and everyone, they were like lost for hours.
SPEAKER_02That's correct, correct.
SPEAKER_07Or it was an hour, sorry. So then it's like, okay.
SPEAKER_02And then it's like, oh, the deadline, because the Cloven Elders.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Uh what's his name? Grover has that deadline with them to produce something of some evidence. Yeah, exactly. That his search has not been absolutely fruitless.
SPEAKER_02And it's like, come on, this is a thousand-year-old mystery.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, dude, people have been doing this, have been searching for him for so long. So give Grove a break, dude.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. He's gotten closer than anyone. He can hear the whispers. He can hear the whispers, yeah. Let him follow him. Yeah. The gift. How many gifts is he saying?
SPEAKER_07But yeah, pretty much he's he's done. Like the time he's passed his deadline. So once he goes back, his license will be revoked.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_07So it's kind of all or nothing right now. He's gotta it the only way he can, you know, squinkle out of not losing his license if he's he is if he can come back with something.
SPEAKER_02This is the truth. He's dead man walking, dead man walking. Might as well crump.
SPEAKER_07So Percy's like, yo, we'll be fine. We're gonna talk to them. We're gonna make him give you more time. Bada boo. It's not gonna work. He's just gotta find pants.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Grover's so cute.
SPEAKER_01How he's like, I just wish I could be more like you, Percy. What I like the animals. You're just I love you so much.
SPEAKER_02And he's really, I mean, Groz is really dogging on himself. Yeah. Percy obviously building him up all the time. Like, yo, you're a hero, go boy. You're the best.
SPEAKER_07Right. We're gonna figure out something. He's talking about how he feels like June. He's can't face Juniper if he fails.
SPEAKER_02He is a champion, though. I mean, he falls asleep feeling kind of blue still, but it's all good. We're gonna make this happen. We got each other.
SPEAKER_07So yeah, next morning we go down to the cattle guard, they're saying bye. They're trying to get Nico to come with. But Nico's just like he is sulken but dulk and looks like he's just extra large hoodie.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. But that's kind of nice how uh our boy saying, like, you can hang out with it.
SPEAKER_07Eurishan, yeah, he's like, yeah, he's fine here. He can chill. Um and yeah, Abat just trying to, you know, remind look, Bianca just wants you to be okay. Yeah. But yeah. He takes off, goes back up to the ranch house. Um, and yeah, Eurishan's like, yo, he's gonna be fine. Because Abat's like, I don't want him talking to Minos again.
SPEAKER_02That's the truth. Yeah, no, Minos. He's an evil seat, like that evil whisper, you know.
SPEAKER_07But yeah, Eurishan's like, yo, he'll be fine here. I'll take care of him.
SPEAKER_02I got his back. You don't need to worry about this now.
SPEAKER_07So and now we're like, yo, so what are you gonna do, man? And he's all like, I'm done with this whole like cattle, badella galagum. I'm gonna make soybean patties, and uh, what do you say? Oh, he befriend the flesh eating, make sign on for the next rodeo. Flesh eating horses interesting.
SPEAKER_02It's like good luck with that. Oh my god. And then he says, like, I reckon you're trying to get on to the Atlas's workshop now. They're like, Yeah, can you Abe's like, yo, could you help us? And then that's when he's like, Oh, maybe not her, but I could tell you where Hephaestus is. Right. Because maybe Hephaestus would know about that. And that's the thing is Hera was talking about Hephaestus a little bit too.
SPEAKER_07And that's when he gives him this like disc on a necklace, right? Is that a necklace?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_07And uh it's got like this little depression in the middle, like a thumbprint.
SPEAKER_02That's interesting to think Hephaestus showing up there from time to time, inspecting the animals and kind of looking over stuff, getting ideas for his automatons, which is like that makes sense.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, and pretty much like as a thank you for something, he gave uh Eurushun that disc pretty much said, like if you press it, it'll lead you to my forages, but you can only use it once.
SPEAKER_02So and uh that's kind of swanky that he just gives it to Abex.
SPEAKER_07I know, she's surprised about it too.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I ain't going to the forges. I'm I'm an old farmer guy now. So what we push it and it slinks into spider. Spider in a palm. Always freaking out, Abe. You know how much not cool with that is not cool with that.
SPEAKER_06She freaks, spider scuttles off.
SPEAKER_07Um Eurishan's kind of embarrassed about it, but like the spider's running off and it's goes down into the cattle guard and disappears, and so then they're like, Alright, well, we gotta go. They say bye.
SPEAKER_02Zippity bop.
SPEAKER_07Tyson pulls off the cattle guard hole and then they jump back into the maze.
SPEAKER_02Just like that, just like that. So they're running after it. Um spider is erratic gangadic. Erratic gang. And that is the truth. In the dark, it's hard to see that thing. And I mean, Tyson and Grover both have very good hearings. Yep. Thank you. They're kind of just sonar, using sonar to find this thing.
SPEAKER_05So yeah, they're going through, everyone's keeping each other safe. There's a bunch of crazy drops.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we can come into this thing with like an abyss.
SPEAKER_07And then that's when you get to the swinging part. Oh my gosh, that's swinging.
SPEAKER_03It was like, oh yeah, monkey bars.
SPEAKER_07Cool, I got it. Just swings right across, no issue with like however far the drop would be.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_07Everyone else runs, goes after her, makes it across.
SPEAKER_02Kind of perks of being a demiblood. Yeah. Like, who cares demi bloods be rocking monkey bars? Like, pretty much.
SPEAKER_07They could be scared shitless, but they're like, we could do it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_07So yeah, they make it across, and then this is when they get into this, like uh oh yeah, this room of like pencils broken in half. Interesting.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, that was kind of random. Just a bunch of pencils. Yeah, and then they come into the uses a little bit later. Right. Where the pencils come from. Or you know what? They might be the pencils from like writing uh tests. Maybe because then some pencils appear.
SPEAKER_07But all of them were broken in half. Pencils. Pencils.
SPEAKER_02The mysteries.
SPEAKER_07And then we come into this bigger room with skeletons on the floor. All bleached white, kind of in different stages of decay.
SPEAKER_02Uh, that's the inky rinky.
SPEAKER_07And then that's when we get this manstial. Zimtiow. The fjunts.
SPEAKER_02We the sphinx. Sphinx is kind of a it's a sphinxy kind of a word to say, you know?
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_02Found myself kind of almost getting tripped out.
SPEAKER_01Sphinx. Sphinx.
SPEAKER_02Oh my gosh. Yeah, the sphinx. So it's pretty much just like a lion with the head of a hunted body. Yeah. And uh a lot of makeup on.
SPEAKER_07Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_02Kind of interesting.
SPEAKER_07And um, and then of course, Tyson is terrified of Sphinx because he's been slashed by a Sphinx back in his days in New York.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Still has the scars on his back to prove it. It's interesting. We have like these spotlights blazing, and we see the mechanical spider kind of like slink in behind the Sphinx.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it disappears behind his paws. Um, so then they all go after it, but then that's when these bars come down blocking off before and behind them.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. And what is this dais? Like the Sphinx is on like a podium of sorts? Yeah, dais.
SPEAKER_07Uh I think it's like uh yeah, it's like a raised platform, like where King's Throne would be, would be on a diet.
SPEAKER_02Oh, okay. Little mini stage. So it's interesting how the Sphinx's face goes from like roaring monster to welcome to the game show. Hi Hella, huh? Answer that riddle. Fabulous prizes, it looks like that's the thing.
SPEAKER_07Lights go off, loudspeakers, uh, canned applause. She's talking about there's prizes, and pretty much like if they pass the test, then they get to go through. If they fail, she gets to eat them. Abeth, of course, is like, yo, I got this. Totally. Um, and no one's gonna argue with that. No, no.
SPEAKER_02And uh if anybody's built for this test, it is a bayoff.
SPEAKER_07Exactly. So she goes forward um to the podium, pushes off, looks like a girl in a school uniform skeleton that must have failed the test previously.
SPEAKER_02Oh gosh. Um how are people just stumbling? It seems like so many people are on this game show. It's like everybody's trying to hang out with a fiesta. One of this is on a Fiesta's TV show. Uh-huh. TV channel for the Frank.
SPEAKER_07But yeah, welcomes her by name, which is interesting that yeah, knows her. And um, so she's like, yo, give me the riddle, and she breaks. It's like, oh, we had to raise the standards from the old days.
SPEAKER_02Oh my gosh. You know, you gotta show canned applause they got going on, too.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. So but anyway, she's like, Alright, fine, let's do it. I'm ready. Drum roast, we got questions. What's the capital Bulgaria? Yeah, these questions are so random.
SPEAKER_02They're hitting us with she hits it.
SPEAKER_07Sophia tries to say something else, A butt does, but then she just gets cut off with uh the Sphinx saying she's correct and the applause going off.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, this thing about marking the thing with the number two pencil.
SPEAKER_07Right.
SPEAKER_02And how there's like this little what the the answer sheet and the pencil just kind of appear in her hand.
SPEAKER_07Maybe that's what all the broken pencils are from.
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_02Because if it's like ha half of a pencil, maybe if you're holding the pencil and the pencil always breaks from when you get pounced on.
SPEAKER_05I don't know.
SPEAKER_07Pencil vests is But yeah, she's talking about the instructions, make sure uh just classic. Oh yeah, make sure to fill in the bubble because the machine won't be able to read it. Getting a little callback to the what were those tests we used to do?
SPEAKER_06ITBS tests and stuff in elementary school.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, just kind of like not necessarily placement, but it was like the aims test or something.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, and you had to fill in the bubbles like perfectly because they went into those machines. Yeah, like a read.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, what are we getting tests? Don't dust me.
SPEAKER_03Don't dust me. Don't dust me.
SPEAKER_02So looks like we got this whole machine thing going on. And it's interesting how it had that Greek letter eta. So this is it almost would appear to be the gateway to if you get here. Yeah, to if you fish, if you feel okay.
SPEAKER_04Maybe he designed it whole things to keep the keep idiots out.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you gotta be kind of smart to get here. Kind of smart to get in the festidich.
SPEAKER_04You gotta have a basic level of intelligence.
SPEAKER_02Well, we have Abeth like feeling insulted almost. Yeah. Like, what about this whole four legs in the morning that riddles, some of these old riddles that Hephaestus used to or the Sphinx used to have.
SPEAKER_07And she's like, exactly, you already know the answer.
SPEAKER_05That's why we had to change the questions.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_05Goes on to the next question: what's the square root of 16? Abeth answers four, tries to say something else, but it's cut off.
SPEAKER_02Just cut off about the emancipation proclamation.
SPEAKER_07Right into the next question. Abraham Lincoln, cut off. Um, goes into the next one, and that's when Abeth is like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
SPEAKER_02She's really going off.
SPEAKER_07And everyone's like, yo, Abeth, just down, girl. Even me, I'm like, dude, girl, like you're getting everything right.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, you're doing this well. You were built for this.
SPEAKER_07But then that's when she's basically like, yo, these aren't even like proper riddles. They're not like good questions. A good riddle is supposed to make you think. Um, and that's when like the sphinx is like, thinking, what are you talking about? Thinking.
SPEAKER_01That's ridiculous. Why are we worried about thinking about it?
SPEAKER_02Oh.
SPEAKER_07And that's when Abe's like, this test is stupid. I'm not gonna do it. I'm not doing it. It's an insult to my intelligence. As a daughter of Athena, I won't answer these questions.
SPEAKER_02And then we got uh Grover coming in, like, you know, maybe just finish first and then complain afterwards. But she's d like dying on this dais of I'm a daughter of Athena. I will not be insulted. And I mean, it's the truth that the pride may be getting us killed. Sphinx is a pissed, but we kind of just what she says, if you won't pass, then you'll fail, and it's time to be beaten. Let's get down to business. Bears my claws and comes leaping in. It's interesting how Tyson himself, the pure bravery, he really does love Abeth. He's got a yeah, I mean he's got the whole squad's back on his shoulders if he needs to.
SPEAKER_07Taggles the Sphinx into the pile of bones, gives Abeth time to get out, pulls out her knife. Tyson's shredded up. Uh uh, Riptight is pulled out, and then that's when Persia's like, yo, go principle. Because she's after you.
SPEAKER_02And the Sphinx proves us right by like pretty much charging right.
SPEAKER_07It's just going right for her. And so then, sure enough, she goes in Vizzy, escapes the clause. Um and then that's when the Sphinx turns on Tyson and Pearse, goes after them. Um and Tyson throws the machine, the grading machine, at Sphinx.
SPEAKER_02He's a heavy hitter. Tyson is a strong plus her hairbone. That really pisses her off. She loves that.
SPEAKER_01I can't be exemplary without my test bars.
SPEAKER_07Grading machine. Oh my goodness. And so then that's when uh the bars actually lift from the exits and they make a mad dash through. Pretty much hoping that Abeth is there because of course they can't see her. They make it through and then the bars come back down. Um, and then they're calling for Abeth. Luckily, she's right next to them, and then they just keep keep moving, running down the tunnel.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it is interesting how like what uh was it something to do with the machine? Like how the bars just swink, yeah, open up all of a sudden.
SPEAKER_07Must have been.
SPEAKER_02We ain't going question is the same.
SPEAKER_07Because I'm assuming that machine, like, once they put the test in, if they get all 20, then it's like chink chink, you pass to chink, bars lifted. So then Tyson's just like test passed.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly. I'll give it the nine to nine.
SPEAKER_06I'll give it the old Cyclops hack jab.
SPEAKER_02Uh and then that's when cause what uh now Sphinxy is kind of chasing 'em. Little Grover on the pipettes. Anybody? Scarp it'll dirp it'll do makes the uh the Pencils enliven and grabbing the Sphinx.
SPEAKER_07Pretty much, yeah, locking her down, giving them enough time to make it through right before the bars close. So yeah, they're running, they can hear her yelling behind, but looks like they're safe.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly. Roar the Sphinx. She complained about all the tests she would have to grade by hand. What a goofy carrot is gotta love the little testing lady.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Oh, the exams. You can't test the Temi blood. I know. Yeah, so it seems like okay, we're uh we're really touching close to a festus.
SPEAKER_01It's gonna be interesting to see what's cracking with.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. Cause have we, I mean, outside of maybe in the councils, have we seen if we're gonna be able to do I don't think we've ever seen you had a one-on-one with Hepheestus yet.
SPEAKER_07Mm-hmm. We did in the show, but Yeah. Kunta. Kunta Le.
SPEAKER_02Bunta Run. So yeah, but I mean, what a journey that took us. Yeah. Because we started uh Okay, because yeah, we were out of the labyrinth. We did spend some time at Triple G Ranch.
SPEAKER_07Right.
SPEAKER_02But now we got a little bit more, and it's always just nice to be in the labyrinth, but following something. Right. That's how you gotta work in the labyrinth, is actually have like, oh, this is the directive. Right. Otherwise, you get lost in the in the fold.
SPEAKER_01In the sible sauce.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and the sible sauce is simmering in the labyrinth. But they're starting to figure it out. It's wild. I mean, timelines of timelines. I believe in Grover.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02So many different things we were hitting on. And love and light to Nico always.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_02This triple XL little hunting jacket. Hopefully he can, you know, get along with your reason a little bit. Right. Hang out with some horses. It'll be equine therapy. Equine therapy. Well, yeah, what a ride. Chapter 10. The thickness.
SPEAKER_07The thickness.
SPEAKER_02And now we're just in there. We're just trying to find. I mean, I wonder if next we're gonna be seeing a festus. Hopefully we ran through the right tunnel.
SPEAKER_08Right.
SPEAKER_02Oh, what an upward. I mean that's boy. Let's go see this board, yeah. I'm sure Tyson will get out of a kick out of him. I mean, forge to forge. Yeah. I'm sure a lot of uh cyclopes hang out with your and they're both a little bit unsightly.
unknownUh-huh.
SPEAKER_02Match born, bread, and heaven. Born in the forge.
SPEAKER_07In the forge, forge in here. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Forge and beyond.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I mean, maybe like uh yeah, through the cyclops and the forges. And beside him always been connected.
SPEAKER_02It's a cycloptic connection. It's a cycle optic connection. It's a family affair.
SPEAKER_06Well, yeah, chapter 11. We'll see you there. I think that's officially we are halfway. So this is a 20-chapter popper dapper.
SPEAKER_02That was a thick dapper.
SPEAKER_07This is a 20-chapter popper dapper.
SPEAKER_06So we are halfway.
SPEAKER_02It's just got a lot of those thick boys, too. Thick boys, yeah. Because this I think is the longest book to date.
SPEAKER_07I think so, yeah. I think you're correct. The Labyrinth.
SPEAKER_02So much lore. So much lore. So much lore. So many deep dreams. Deep dreams. Those dreams are crazy.
SPEAKER_08You devil, dude. For real.
SPEAKER_02How dare you? Ah. Murder, indeed. Yeah, exactly. Murder indeed. I wonder if we'll uh we'll be seeing him collapse in agony.
SPEAKER_04Right.
SPEAKER_02Felt agony. Agony is not always the end.
SPEAKER_03Right.
SPEAKER_02It's just the beginning sometimes for that.
SPEAKER_07Now and she said you would pay now and forever. Forever.
SPEAKER_02That was interesting how he s uh snatched those little scrolls. Yeah. Right before. Automatons. Automatons. Dad's he's freaky. He's he's because I thought I always thought it was cool, kind of innocent, like trying to help his son. And I mean, it's rough what happened to Icarus, no doubt. And no doubt, little Perdicks. Perdicx?
SPEAKER_01Freaking Perdicks.
SPEAKER_02Tricks, Perdicks? Pritz Gritz Perdicks? He's a little sprightly boy. I mean, everybody can be a tin tall tin.
SPEAKER_07Young boy is a you know proud little fuck.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_07This is how they are, you know?
SPEAKER_02And he's got a part of life.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. He's actually smart. So I think that's like a even like a lesson on humility. You know, like uh, yeah, just the notion of like age doesn't really determine age and experience, you know, don't really determine like intelligence or everyone has access to creativity at any point.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly. What the scrolls say experience is overrated.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, usually by old men who nod wisely and speak stupidly.
SPEAKER_02Daedalus! Mm-hmm. Daedalus. Be open to new ideas. Come on, boy. Come on, Purdue. Come on.
SPEAKER_07Poor Burdus.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_07Long live Verdicts. Oh Frenched up.
SPEAKER_03Frenched up, man.
SPEAKER_02Uh-huh. And I mean, we're trying to find Daedalus' workshop. At least the worship. It's gonna be a while to see what this workshop is. Yeah. But I believe in us right now. I mean, a lot of different things. Like now we got this whole pan thing on the line. Because like the one deadline that we were working with, uh, now we've missed the deadline. Right. So it has to. So now it's just all hail married to our labyrinth. Yeah. Until until it breaks. You know. Oh, Susanna, won't you cry for me?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I'm crying. I'm crying down here. I'm crying real hard, Susanna.
SPEAKER_02Powerful. Powerful of other peoples, man. Yeah, halfway through. Interesting. We'll find ourselves in Luke.
SPEAKER_07What's going on? What deal did he make with the devil?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_07What part does he have to play?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, what is this special?
SPEAKER_07Sounds dastardly. Sounds like he's gotta he's gonna have to betray something.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_07As if he hasn't betrayed enough.
SPEAKER_02Mm-hmm. He's already, yeah, exactly. He's we're like withered but powerful. What is yeah, exactly. What is this exchange? We lost it off. And I hate to ever think it's too late. But for that, boy. May the goods be with us. Into the 11th, we see at the four dish, baby. See at the four.