11. PJBL Debrief

The sons plunge into the deep cracks and crevices and see just how much pressure Percy can take before he gon pop!!

The Sons of Apollo Love You!!

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SPEAKER_02 0:41

What the curse is really nice and then pop into the sky.

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To think that it went down into the lava first and then comet. Because he's taken some spills before. Yeah. I mean, from the arch to Scylla.

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Right, Scylla.

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To now this. Percy gonna pop.

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Dude, he's gonna pop out a volcano. He's gonna pop out volcanoes? That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

Dang, those telcaheans did not know who they were messing with. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Pop to rap to nonsense.

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Pop to rap.

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The gods be with them.

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Truly.

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And with Annabeth as well, too. With all of us, we're kind of the cliffhangers of cliffhangers, we're getting left on right now.

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Right, because everyone's kind of split up right now. Yeah, we're gonna have to do that.

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We kind of don't know where everyone is. Holy Macatone. Chapter 11 leaves us on the Rick Hanger Katier.

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And I mean it's been on the Look a look. Yeah, because even at the end of chapter 10, we just made it past the Sphinx. Ran past it. And you know, it was uh like chasing after them. And so yeah, they're just like on the run, and then the run never the run ain't stopping.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Yeah, exactly. The run ain't stopping. Out of the furnace.

SPEAKER_02 2:23

When do these demiglubs get a quick breath?

SPEAKER_01 2:26

Oh, I know it, right? Not in the labyrinth, baby. Not in the labyrinth. It'll keep you guessing around every month. And that is the truth, is uh what chapter 11. I set myself on fire out of the furnace into the fireplace.

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Into the fireboy.

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Into the la. But here we are, yeah. What um December 8th? December 8th.

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We've got ourselves a Monday 45 at 4 44 p.m.

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44 p.m.

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We just hit it.

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Welcome to the Ooh, 444.

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444, anyone.

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Magical times amongst us.

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At your door.

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Uh-huh. Poseidon be with us on.

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Poseidon be with us.

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Four? The four oceans? I wonder if four is associated with the sea.

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Right?

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Uh the gods. The gods. The gods shine upon us. The gods shine upon us here in Phoenix. Uh-huh.

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Arizona.

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Life is good. And here we are, just well, it's nice and cool actually right now. December.

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I know. It's nice and nice and chill, Bill.

SPEAKER_01 3:31

Mm-hmm. But yeah, to bring us here like this. This chapter kind of opens because yeah, like you were saying, we just escaped the the Sphinx. The Sphinx. Because we're just chasing this clitter-clattering spider.

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Yeah, the spider.

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Mm-hmm. And it kind of just opens up like we thought we'd lost this sphinx.

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Which we got the spider from uh not Garyan, but Garyon's henchman.

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Euryship. Euryship. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Son of Aries.

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It was like a one-time use coin that turned into this metal spider that now we've been chasing. Yeah.

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We got caught up with the Sphinx, but now here we are. We thought we lost it, but it looks like it's literally up against this door, just clinkity clanking its little knob against this door. It's got that classic Etta symbol. Yes, which we know is if you had to from book one. I was just listening to that. Oh, okay. Yeah. It was on that side. Oh yeah, in the The Tunnel of Love. The Tunnel of Love. Hold on, baby. Speaking of the Tunnel of Love. What a chapter we had here. I know we'll get to it in a little bit. Oh yeah. Abeth?

SPEAKER_02 4:38

A Beth. From Tunnel of Love to Here. Here we full circle.

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Something about Hephaestus. Hephestis. Hephaestus is sparks romance with you.

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Yeah. He's the real heart thrive behind Aphrodite.

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Yeah, that's the truth. Because you wish, yeah. I mean, Aphrodite be shopping it around, but I guess it really is the brands.

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The brands.

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Brains are keeping on a lot.

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Um, but yeah, we got Hephaestus symbols, so they're like, alright, let's go. We're ready to go.

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Yeah, we're all a little bit tepidatious, but Tyson's just like excited about it. Let's turn the door and walk ourselves in. It's kind of like a mechanics garage that we're dealing with.

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Kind of what we would expect of a lot of like mechanical, interesting, like amalgamations of creatures and bronze automatons.

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He's really into that automaton style.

SPEAKER_02 5:31

Yeah, he's all about the automatons. That one cherry made a full flame.

SPEAKER_01 5:36

Oh my gosh. That's crazy. Fear the work of Faphausis. Fear the work. He's a pla he's a powerful individual.

SPEAKER_02 5:43

Everything's kind of like mismatched as far as the tools.

SPEAKER_01 5:46

That is kind of funny how it's like the little pieces drawn out, but they're all misplaced and everything. Like, why even have the things drawn out? Yeah. I'm sure it looked good eons ago.

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Yeah.

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He's chilling underneath a 98 Toyota Corolla.

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Dude, that's a nice vehicle.

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It's to be uh, it stands the test of time, that Japanese machinery. Yeah. But we can just kind of like see some legs sticking out, and we see this bronze clickety-clackety, the telltale sign of rickety tacky himself.

SPEAKER_02 6:17

He's got the one metal leg, the one leg and the metal brace. And the spider goes right to him. And then we got the voice of Hephaestus.

SPEAKER_01 6:27

Yeah. It was kind of fun finding that nice. Yeah, exactly. Because he's a gold, he's to be honored. Yeah. So there's got to be a little reality. But I was almost even trying to make my voice sound a little bit like Yeah, a little grimy.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

I kind of figured I was like, all right, it's someone that like Euristian jives with. And Euristian was kind of like a no nonsense.

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Kind of country, but almost a little more country legality. Yeah. It was fun. It was fun. Festus is a cool cat.

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He's a cool cat.

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And it even says that, like, oh, we thought that he'd cleaned up on Olympus. Because he's looking rough around the earth. Rough and it kind of describes this guy, bearded, malformed.

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Yeah, very quasimor.

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He's got that quasi vibe.

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Which love to all quasi-modus.

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Yeah, exactly. Exactly. We are all beautiful in the eyes of God. Exactly. This is the truth.

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But yeah, it's just the classic, like, yeah, what we would expect of the one that was thrown down Olympus by his mother.

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Exactly, which is an interesting point. He hits on. Yeah. How dare yeah, no. Interesting scenarios.

SPEAKER_02 7:44

Oh, he's got the cool like beard and the mustache that's like smoking and yeah, that was kind of a cool vibe.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

That just like permanent sizzling beard with that nice coo scalp. He's not to be trifled with. And he's kind of seems a little bit like ineffectual about these cats at first. It's like, who the heck are you? Did I build you? Yeah. Then why do I even care about you? You look poorly built, some half bloods, whatever you are. And then uh it's like he reminds him that, hey, we've met. Right. Remember that time up on the thing where you guys were all standing around judging my whether I would live or die? He's like, uh, you're lost in the sea of eons.

SPEAKER_02 8:25

Yeah, he's like, if I didn't kill you then, then you must be alright.

SPEAKER_01 8:31

He does kind of have a little bit of a soft side for Cyclops, apparently.

SPEAKER_02 8:36

Seems like he doesn't really like the Satyrs. He kind of was like, Satyr.

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Washes them off. But yeah, no, we got love for Cyclops. He seems kind of like he's in a little bit of a hurry. He's like, let me get back to my Corolla. And Abeth kind of just comes right out with it, like sad, we're here because they dail us. We need to find him. Tell us. And he's like even laughing, like, why would you seek out that scoundrel?

SPEAKER_02 9:01

Right.

SPEAKER_01 9:02

And I mean, I wonder if it's because I mean, he's made some cool things, he's done some dirty deeds now that we know. But dayteless. But it's like we gotta find him. We got some secrets to discover in this lab rock. Shut it down. It's ultimately like we gotta get to him before the bad boys do. And that's what's kind of interesting. She doesn't really mention like this Titan war that's looming. Right. But uh he's helping us out.

SPEAKER_02 9:26

But yeah, he's like, uh, he thinks it's a waste of time. Um we have this whole nine where he like builds this silver and bronze falcon.

SPEAKER_01 9:36

Oh, that was cool. Pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 9:37

Yeah, the little thing flies around the room, little falcon automaton.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

He's surprisingly nimble with his hands, this Hephaestus character.

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And um Tyson loves it.

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Yeah.

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He loves Tyson, of course. All creatures love Tyson.

SPEAKER_01 9:51

Yeah, exactly. He's just got such a kind heart. Pure of heart. He's so innocent. He's got that twinkle in his eye. He makes the twinkle twinkle in your eye.

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He makes the twinkle twinkle in your eye.

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From eye to eyes.

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Hephaestus loves him. Puts a twinkle in Hepatrius' eye.

SPEAKER_01 10:07

Yeah, that's the truth. And uh he gets to talk to him about Briares too, which is an interesting one.

SPEAKER_02 10:13

And it's kind of interesting that he's kind of the one that uh Hephaestus is even almost kind of like talking to as if he's the leader of the group. It obviously seems like he respects Tyson the most because he's a Cyclops.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

This is the truth.

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Because he's like, It seems like you have something to tell me, boy. What you gotta tell me? Yeah. So then we get into this Briares thing.

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That is the truth.

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Um we met him, he said he was gonna wasn't gonna help us. Um and you know, he's like, Oh, so that bothered you.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

Um He gets into that nine of talking about like how you can't really trust even people of this old time. Briares betrayed you, how people like Hep Hera, my own mother, put a smile on your face. It's all family, it's all good, and then pitch me off Mount Olympus just because I'm a little bit ugly.

SPEAKER_02 11:08

And that's when they bring up this whole like Oh, I thought Zeus was the one that threw you down.

SPEAKER_01 11:13

Mmm. It's like, oh, of course Hera would tell you that story, make it a little bit easier on her, but the truth is, yeah, she hooked me off. Right. Just because I didn't fit that perfect image. And that's kind of you know, family. Family, of course, we all want a perfect family, but family's nasty, it's dirty sometimes. Yeah. We gotta love it for what it is.

SPEAKER_02 11:34

Yeah. It's tough. We make the best of what we can of it.

SPEAKER_01 11:38

Yeah. That's what's interesting. Hephesta says that, like, you all you can really trust is the work of your own hands. And I mean, that's why he's such a he's such a crafty man in the force. Yeah. It's interesting to see how his craft was like born from so much trial.

SPEAKER_03 11:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

The true creature of the crucible. Yeah. There it was. And we've got our hearts out. But uh, and that's the thing is like Percy wants to feel for him, but he's kind of like, hey, that a lot of your little creations have led to death and dismemberment. Right. For me and for our crew. Yeah. And then Hephaestus even sees this on his face, like, oh, you don't necessarily like me, I can see back.

SPEAKER_02 12:22

Yeah. And then he asks him, like, you know, what do you want of me? And then he goes back, like, yeah, we we're trying to find Daedalus. He kind of gives them the rundown of Luke and kind of why they need to find Daedalus first. And he just doubles down and like, this is a waste of your time. Don't look for Daedalus. And so First is like, why not? And um and yeah, he just goes to this whole notion again of trust, like you know, trusting people and how they break your trust.

SPEAKER_01 12:53

Um and yeah, and it's interesting to think what Deadlus did to Festus to break his trust. To break this trust. And he's saying, like, if you want to find Deadlass, that's an expensive favor. Right. He knows where Deadlas is then. Right. And it's like, don't go looking, and that's where it kind of gets into like, well, who's your blood then, little girl?

SPEAKER_02 13:17

Right.

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Talking about Athena, and it's interesting how Hephaestus almost has a little bit of a soft spot for her Athena, too. Right. She's crafty, you know, it makes sense. She's a builder and everything. She's she uses her mind.

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Right.

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And he's saying, like, I'll do this for you, girl, but it's gonna take a price.

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Of course, I have a favor.

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Mm-hmm. Gods always have a favor.

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Always have a favor that they need done.

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Always what they do.

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And so.

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It bets down. It's like, whatever it is, just name it. We got this shit done.

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So yeah, then he brings up this whole like kind of TV, almost like hologram, it almost seems like. Like just a huge screen and shows basically this volcano that's one of his forges. Used to be his favorite, Mount St. Helens.

SPEAKER_01 14:04

Yeah. Grover recognizes it. Apparently, he did some scouting for Pan and he was looking for Pan at that time.

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And uh then talks about how A Bet's like, oh, you said he used to be a favorite. What why is it not anymore? And this whole notion of how that's where Typhoon was trapped. Yeah, Typhon. Um it he used to be under Mount Etna, but he got for he got moved there. And uh so yeah, there's always a chance he can escape, a lot of eruptions.

SPEAKER_01 14:35

Um they're like, Alright, what do you want us to do? Yeah, are we supposed to fight Typhon? He's like, Yeah, right, you could fight Typhon. Right. No way you could take this cat. Even the gods run from Typhon. Right.

SPEAKER_02 14:51

So then he kind of goes on how like he just knows someone's been breaking into his forge and using it.

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He goes there, there's nobody there when he goes there, but he can like tell things have been tinker through.

SPEAKER_02 15:02

Right. And he sends his automatons and they just never come back. So he's like, I just want you guys to go figure out like what the forge.

SPEAKER_01 15:11

Maybe they won't notice you guys because you're not gods. Right. Yeah, right. So it's like, uh, well, how do we get there? And then Hephaestus puts his little clinkity clank spider back to work and is like, this creation will show you the way.

SPEAKER_02 15:26

Right.

SPEAKER_01 15:26

Try to stay alive, you know. My mu even my thumb thoughts can't come back. You guys are a lot more fragile.

SPEAKER_02 15:33

Yeah. Oh, kundala.

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And it's like everything's chill, and now all of a sudden we hit these trees. So we're following this spider along. We come to this spot, and then all of a sudden, Grover is just like, Yeah.

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He catches he catches the wind.

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The wind.

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He's like, I can smell it.

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I smell pan.

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And he asks Tyson, Tyson's like, Well, I can smell dirt plants.

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It's like, it's Pan! This is the plants of Pan! We know it.

SPEAKER_02 16:02

So Abe's like, Yeah, let's let's just hit it on the way back, guys. And of course, Grover's like, this is the labyrinth, girl. You've only gone. I gotta go now.

SPEAKER_01 16:13

This portal is not going to be open for long. And looking at him, it's just like everybody who loves Grover knows that this is his life's quest.

SPEAKER_00 16:21

Right.

SPEAKER_01 16:22

And especially with the pressing time matters. They were just talking a couple nights ago about like, yo, I'm uh I'm a banished manager. He's overdue. He's past his deadline. I'm gonna get my searcher's license revoked. The moment he steps back on campus. So it's like we'll split up, which is kind of a horrible idea. Just calling it like it is. Who knows if we'll ever see each other again?

SPEAKER_02 16:46

Yeah. Um but Tyson Baby agrees to go with him.

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Tyson Baby is down.

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And so they're like, All right, cool.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

And that's the truth, is we've got this empathy link. So I've got hearts for empathy. And Grover is sure that this is it.

SPEAKER_02 17:02

Yeah, and that empathy link will help uh person Grover stay in touch in case like something goes down.

SPEAKER_01 17:08

Totally. Totally.

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Um so they're like, all right. Let's do it. Grover is definitely he's feeling very positive about this, so they take off.

SPEAKER_01 17:19

It just comes out of nowhere. But I mean, we've known Grover who's been searching for this for a long time.

SPEAKER_02 17:24

So of course Abeth hates this idea, but we gotta do what we can do. Perse is confident, let's go, we gotta get after the spider, so they go. Um and then that's when the walls start getting hotter. They start to glow, they can feel the heat, they can hear like the lava essentially, like the river of metal. And um Percy's kind of lagging behind. He kind of talks about this whole like, yo, so what's Uves is talking about that Athena thing.

SPEAKER_01 17:54

Yeah, what's this Athena thing about?

SPEAKER_02 17:56

Pretty much like essentially, like, okay, so she's a main goddess, but she has kids. How does that work?

SPEAKER_01 18:03

I know how we get into this, like we're in the middle of a hot tunnel next to a river of lava.

SPEAKER_02 18:08

Yeah, and it's like uh how does how does your mother reproduce? Is what I'm trying to ask.

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And it's like Athena was born of Zeus's thought.

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Mind, yeah.

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It's a mind child.

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It's mind child.

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Mind child.

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Brain child, literally.

SPEAKER_01 18:23

Yeah, it's a brain child, literally.

SPEAKER_02 18:25

And how that's like literally how she, I guess, like reproduces, is like she admires the brain of the man who she's reproducing with, and then what? Just like literally thinks them into existence. Yeah. Athena does it, right?

SPEAKER_01 18:46

Mm-hmm. It is the divine thought of Athena and the mortal ingenuity of our father that comes together.

SPEAKER_02 18:55

And then all of a sudden So we're supposed to be a gift, a blessing from Athena on the man she favors. So it's almost like Athena kind of like creates the child as a boon, so to speak, to the man.

SPEAKER_01 19:06

Yeah. Just like because it's got a little bit of you. I can only imagine Athena coming in and like sequestering the man's part of the biological creation. And then just delivering it up. Yeah. That's wild, Athena. That's cool. That would be interesting to have such a crafty, wonderful relationship with the goddess, and you know, you never get hot and heavy necessarily.

SPEAKER_02 19:31

But you make a child.

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But you make a child. Divine. It's a it's an immaculate conception.

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So yeah. Of course, Percy wants to talk more, but she's like, yo, man, we gotta get this spider. You want me to like really get into the details here?

SPEAKER_01 19:44

It's like, you know, I kind of don't. So they speed off.

SPEAKER_02 19:49

Um, the roar gets louder, and then yeah, they kind of spill into this huge open area.

SPEAKER_01 19:56

It's this huge cavern the size of a Super Bowl stadium. And there's the forge. Yeah, that's the forge because the little spider just curls up into a ball. It's crazy, there's like no floor. They're on the rim of just the inside of a huge volcano. It's just a pit of lava. Down on our.

SPEAKER_02 20:29

Seem to be like some kind of shapes, you know, people or something up there.

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It's creatures.

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So, of course, we gotta like try to sneak up on them. Um, and then that's when Abe But's like, oh, I got this.

SPEAKER_01 20:42

Yeah, I live for the sneak. No discussions about it. We're splitting up again.

SPEAKER_02 20:48

Invisibility takes off, and like Percy can't even call after her because of course, like, he's not trying to alert anything.

SPEAKER_01 20:54

So totally he's like, all right. It's kind of like I'm just left here, Senator Stevens.

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Senator Stevens.

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He's kind of looking back at the tunnel, missing Grover and Tyson.

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Right.

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Twiddling his did a little bit.

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Talking about how bad the heat is. Um but he keeps moving.

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Yeah, he's gotta do something. He knows he can't just sit around with his thumbs up, his thumbs.

SPEAKER_02 21:15

So yeah, he gets up to this metal cart that's kind of like got a bunch of stuff in it, and a tarp over it. He's about to go around when he hears voices, and so he like panics, jumps in. Um Bring it in.

SPEAKER_01 21:31

That's so funny, like a classic bit of just like he's under the neath the cheesecart.

SPEAKER_02 21:36

Yeah. Yeah, he's like laying in the cheesecart, getting dragged along to his destination.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

Oh my god.

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Um celestial bronze, they're pulling.

SPEAKER_01 21:46

He's chilling amongst the bronze. He's getting pulled out. He can hear that, like, they're kind of going into this little corridor type tunnel, and then it opens up into this other scenario. There's even more talking, all these chattering voices. It doesn't necessarily sound human, almost like a seal. Yeah, sealed dog. It was fun doing these voices. This was kind of a funny setup. And uh it's like we have this now video that we're gonna be getting.

SPEAKER_02 22:12

It's almost like we're in a classroom. Because yeah, this voice is now instructing these two people that are pulling the cart with purse, set it in the back. Young younglings attend the film, no questions for time afterwards, and then this film starts to play pretty much about like the growing monster and all the changes your young body will go through as you grow into monsterhood.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

It's almost like sex ed for monster.

SPEAKER_02 22:38

Yeah, it's so wild.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

Oh my gosh. Yeah, what just fangs will get stronger as you desire to devour human beings, you'll see there are things different. Flipper hygiene, the nine to nine. Percy's kind of just sitting there, like waiting it out, like, okay.

SPEAKER_02 22:56

So yeah, now this teacher is like kind of asking the class questions, asking us what the proper name of their kind is. They say sea demons. This is not correct, telkeines. Telkehines is the correct term.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

It's interesting how Percy kind of just stumbles along this nine to nine of like, okay, discovering pretty much all the intel that he needed to bring back to Hephaestus. And exactly like we serve Kronos, Zeus is evil. Right. How apparently they made the Triton for Poseidon, uh-huh, but then did some maybe scandalous things. He didn't, it's because they didn't, what, Zeus just didn't trust them?

SPEAKER_02 23:36

Yeah. It doesn't exactly does it get Zeus threw them into Tartarus and uh and then pretty much switched over to the Cyclopes, is what it sounds like.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

Just said, like, oh, we got us a new forgemen now. We got new workers.

SPEAKER_02 23:52

Right. And so their whole purpose is revenge. Like they came back from Tartarus for revenge.

SPEAKER_01 23:58

They're joining up in the Titan War, and they're almost gonna be like the Forgemen. They're gonna create the weapons.

SPEAKER_02 24:03

Yeah, they're gonna create the new weapons for the Titan arm.

SPEAKER_01 24:05

Yeah. And if they these guys made the Trident for Poseidon, these guys could be bad to the bone. These sealed dogs not to be messed with.

SPEAKER_02 24:14

And then now we see the purpose why the celestial bronze was brought in, because he's like, Alright, there's some scraps in the back, kids. Get to working, let's see what you can make.

SPEAKER_01 24:22

Yeah, let's start swinging some hammers.

SPEAKER_02 24:24

Of course, first is in there like so what?

SPEAKER_01 24:31

They kind of just like they throw it off and then we kind of get their first look at them.

SPEAKER_02 24:36

They're kind of like these dog faces.

SPEAKER_01 24:38

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 24:39

But like almost like seal bodies with like kind of flipper hand claw hands, human-like hands. It's like a weird, he says, like a mix of a Doverman Pincher, sea lion, and a kid.

SPEAKER_01 24:54

So something to look at, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_02 24:57

They kind of like start to rush him, but then he slashes real tight, gets real confident, back off.

SPEAKER_01 25:04

Yeah, exactly. Stand down, man.

SPEAKER_02 25:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

He and he really knows he's like, there's a lot of these seals. I kind of gotta feign it a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 25:11

Right, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

He jumps in with his funny nine about vaporizing celestial blonde bron or like for what celestial bronze will do to a monster in almost a tutorial style.

SPEAKER_02 25:22

Yeah, tutorial style.

SPEAKER_01 25:24

New lesson, class.

SPEAKER_02 25:25

New lesson. Uh they kind of back up, he tells him class dismiss, and he makes a mad dash for it, but of course they chase after him.

SPEAKER_01 25:32

Oh, of course, of course.

SPEAKER_02 25:34

And so, but they can't run super well. He tries to runs out the door.

SPEAKER_01 25:38

Yeah, he's able to kind of slam a door. He's on the run. He knows like Annabeth is just somewhere invisible. He doesn't know what to really do, so he just calls out.

SPEAKER_02 25:47

Yeah, yo, A. He's riding towards the center of the lava lake. Calls out Abeth. She clamps his hand, and he's pretty much like, yo, of course, she's always there for us, you know. Of course.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

He pretty much just like yanks her Yankee camp. Yeah, yankee camp.

SPEAKER_02 26:04

Yo, we in trouble, girl. Like, we gotta keep coming.

SPEAKER_01 26:07

We gotta do something.

SPEAKER_02 26:09

Gives them the rundown of the monster orientation class, tells them what, tells her what they are. Of course, she knows what they are. Oh, telkahines! Oh, of course. I should have known. I should have known.

SPEAKER_01 26:19

And they look over this little perch down at this thing that they're making. They can see some other telkahines standing around this like cauldron.

SPEAKER_02 26:28

And uh they're like fully grown ones, and they seem to be kind of like making something. Oh, yeah, they got a hot piece of metal that they're working with.

SPEAKER_01 26:36

They're saying, like, oh, the blade is almost complete. We have to cool it in blood.

SPEAKER_02 26:41

To fuse the metals.

SPEAKER_01 26:42

They're fusing metals, they're blood fusion? Anyone dastardly? Blood fusion. And so And these guys created the greatest of weapons, so now maybe they're trying to create some uh some other Titan weapons, you know. Exactly. Some dastardly things. Abel said the telkehenes betrayed the gods, they were practicing dark magic.

SPEAKER_02 27:04

Right. They don't know exactly how, but Zeus banished them totally. Okay, so we gotta get out of here. The classroom door explodes, and all these telcahinias are running after them. Yeah, they're like, Alright. He tells her to put the cap back on, tells her to skedaddle, he runs. Um, she, of course, is like, no, it's stupid, but he's like, yo, I got this, just go.

SPEAKER_01 27:25

Yeah. And so we don't have an option. There's too many. And this is when we get she comes out of nowhere with the blind block.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

And is this the first Mac Ronald's on the Ronald?

SPEAKER_01 27:36

Really might be the first time we have lip to lip lip the beak. Oh my Coney.

SPEAKER_02 27:43

Damn.

SPEAKER_01 27:45

That is a big step. That's a big step in the overarching question.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

Yeah, that is like a five-pound weight on the side of Is R Percy and A Bathman.

SPEAKER_01 27:58

That's a big. I think so. It's a lot of weight on the side. The whole thing is like he and a classic little seaweed brain.

SPEAKER_02 28:06

Be careful, seaweed brain.

SPEAKER_01 28:08

Oh my gosh. Boundalini.

SPEAKER_02 28:11

Boundalini.

SPEAKER_01 28:13

It almost just leaves him stunned for a second.

SPEAKER_02 28:15

It's just a stupid, like uh turkey club. But of course, now this whole class of Chelkehina is coming after him, so he's got a skedaddle. He runs to the middle platform, drops down.

SPEAKER_01 28:32

Like a crescent moon blade. Like a scythe light. These guys are dastard. We don't really have much time though, because we're getting chased down.

SPEAKER_02 28:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

Oh my gosh. They just know that he's a sea.

SPEAKER_02 28:41

They cover all the exits and they got him pat, you know, got him trapped. Oh yeah. They're like, we can smell the sea in his blood.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

Oh, that's nasty.

SPEAKER_02 28:50

So he's, you know, he's ready to strike him down, but they're like, yo, there's nothing you can do. The rest of us are gonna get you.

SPEAKER_01 28:56

Oh my gosh. We're coming for you, bro.

SPEAKER_02 28:58

Your father betrayed us. Poseidon betrayed us? He took our gifts and said nothing as we were cast into the pit. I guess that is the dream that. He took the trident and then let Zeus just ice.

SPEAKER_01 29:09

Sorry, Charlie. Go to the pit. So, what's he supposed to do? He doesn't really have a plan, is the truth. He's like, I told Abel, I'd figure out something, but what the rickle dickle am I gonna do? He's really kind of almost meeting, like, I think I'm on toast. I'm toast.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

That's when he starts to feel like the burning in his pockets.

SPEAKER_01 29:29

The whistle. The whittle. But uh, he's kind of like, I still don't know. I don't want to have to, and who knows? I mean, in this point, it's like, what option did he have? But before he can even make up their mind, they forgot to be able to do it. They're hucking lava at you. Hucking lava at your boy.

SPEAKER_02 29:47

That's crazy. It's like burning his hands, goes across his chest.

unknown 29:51

Ah!

SPEAKER_02 29:53

But it seems like he's not like fully getting iced.

SPEAKER_01 29:57

And so it just feels kind of warm at first. It's not fully, fully burning it. Father's nature protects him. Apparently, he's got a little bit of heat impervision.

SPEAKER_02 30:07

Heat resistance, yeah. Water, water layer.

SPEAKER_01 30:11

And that's the whole thing. The sea exists within him. You can't quench.

SPEAKER_02 30:16

And they're like, Yeah, you're hard to burn, but you're not impossible. So they just keep hugging lava.

SPEAKER_01 30:21

They are burying.

SPEAKER_02 30:22

He's just like consumed, he's crumpling. And then that's when he remembers, yeah, that nine of like, ah, deny it.

SPEAKER_01 30:30

The water is within me. It is within me. He knows he's like, I need the sea. He feels that telltale tug, bird, burster.

SPEAKER_02 30:40

And yeah, he just like babushka.

SPEAKER_01 30:42

This is the crazy, crazy, just like that.

SPEAKER_02 30:45

That's crazy. And yeah, he essentially summons the sea from within him. He calls to it and it comes out. And yeah, he just pretty much is caught up in this tidal wave that smash like flies up, smashes straight down into the lava, which creates a steam boom. Which then, like, so I'm imagining like he's covered in like, you know, this whole body of water as it hits, so that he like doesn't even touch the lava before it shoots him straight into the air.

SPEAKER_01 31:25

Straight up.

SPEAKER_02 31:26

Right out the volcano.

SPEAKER_01 31:27

He is the wave. He is the way. How this could ever be recreated visually. I can't.

SPEAKER_02 31:33

Dude, yeah, how are they gonna do that? That was gonna be crazy. Boom da!

SPEAKER_01 31:40

That's uh and that's the what's crazy, is just like the magic of riptide, because I mean he just drops riptide. There is no battle without this ultra. This is like the he wants to super saying Poseidon style.

SPEAKER_03 31:55

Right.

SPEAKER_01 31:55

Called on the powers. And that's I mean, the cli cliffhanger of Criffhangers, of rift hangers. It just leaves us with Percy flying into the sky, arching, getting to that point where like, oh, if Zeus knew, I would be iced. So he's up there in the skirt. Up there. Icarus. He goes full Icarus and is just dude.

SPEAKER_02 32:21

This is the most intense persplosion that we've had thus far. Like you were saying earlier. Like you had the other ones that were all like, whoa, like Scylla, and the other one, uh what was the other one you were talking about?

SPEAKER_01 32:36

When uh what in the in the when he fell out of the St. Louis.

SPEAKER_02 32:42

Oh yeah, out of the arch. Yeah, boom blada. Yeah, but this is a straight, like kinetic explosion blowing. I mean, I guess we did have like the ship that exploded when he got silly and he was like falling back towards it, which then like boom knocked him out. But yeah, and volcano shooting you out.

SPEAKER_01 33:04

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 33:05

That's kundalini.

SPEAKER_01 33:08

Blasted by the kundal.

SPEAKER_02 33:09

Blasted by the kundal.

SPEAKER_01 33:11

Nothing could stop Paris, though.

SPEAKER_02 33:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:13

Oh my goodness gracious. And yeah, I mean, so and we don't even know where he's headed. Labyrinth, cundabyrinth. Yeah, like is he out of the labyrinth now? Oh, yeah, I mean he's blasted out of the stratosphere. He went full blown like uh Johnny Flaying.

SPEAKER_02 33:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:34

So, and it's just like who knows where it's gonna pick us up right now.

SPEAKER_03 33:38

Right.

SPEAKER_01 33:39

Because you know, in the Sea of Monsters one, we know we're with hopefully within the sea. And the St. Louis are just like, okay, he's gonna probably fall towards the river. But now it's just like we're gonna blasted to another planet. Yeah, where are we now? God be with us. Yeah, but I mean there's a hot there's a hot nine on pen.

SPEAKER_02 34:01

Yes, exactly. Hot nine on pen. So we'll see where chapter 12 picks up. Yeah, exactly. Because we gotta pick up where I mean we just have all the loose ends right now. So many loose ends. Where are Tyson and Grober? Where is Abeth? And where the what is Percy right now?

SPEAKER_01 34:20

Chapter 11 was a ride in three quarters. True information. And the kiss. And the kiss is true. Like when you think about it. This kiss, this is kiss. Percy's like going through all of it, but still just like dazed from that kiss.

SPEAKER_02 34:37

At least I'll die. I haven't kissed Aven.

SPEAKER_01 34:40

It happened. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:45

He's gonna pop, baby.

SPEAKER_01 34:52

Okay, all right. Well, chapter 12, and upward, yeah. There's a chapter. We're gonna start the twelve.