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• Filming began the day we recorded this—June 2!
• Becky says she saw some of the test shots, and Annabeth looks great.
• According to Knight Edge Media, Simon Chin has been cast in a minor role, so we speculate about who he could be.
• Some of the Percy Jackson crew worked on another show called The Old Man, which will stream on Hulu.
• Kristen gets up on her soapbox for a moment about shows related to drugs.
• Don’t worry, we get back to the Percy Jackson-related fare pretty quickly with Aryan Simhadri’s upcoming project, Trevor: The Musical, which will stream on Disney+.
• Have you read the highlights from Rick Riordan and Daniel José Older’s Instagram Live over on Read Riordan?
• HUGE congratulations to Graci Kim for hitting the NYT bestelling paperbacks list for The Last Fallen Star.

• We’re trying to fit in as many fancasts as we can before they do an official announcement! (Edit: We failed.)
• We’re still rooting for Melissa Ponzio as Sally Jackson, but we’ve got a few contenders as far as warm motherly figures go.
• Karen really struggled with finding someone for Gabe, but after a moment’s hesitation, the floodgates opened for Kristen.
• Both of us have trouble imagining what Nancy Bobafit looks like, but Karen had the idea to do a bit of stunt casting for this role. What do you think?
• Mrs. Dodds needs to be that ancient, sinister math teacher whose classroom you never want to visit.
• The only problem is that everyone in Hollywood is beautiful!
• If there’s one thing for sure, Chiron needs to be able to pull off tweed.
• Karen can’t take credit, but we know the perfect person to play Mr. D.
• But Kristen’s pick is also pretty fantastic.
• Somehow, we both managed to pick the same person for Clarisse.
• But, like, SHE WOULD BE PERFECT.
• Okay, Karen’s pick for Luke is a little different, but hear her out!
• Kristen’s pick looks a lot like how we picture Luke, though.
• Medusa could be another great role for some stunt casting, and we agree she should be played by an actress with super curly hair.
• Last but certainly not least, we’ve got Charon.
• He’s canonically a Black man, so we’d want to see them stick with an actor who can fill that role, but we’ve got some alternatives, too.
• Check out our Percy Jackson and the Olympians casting page!

• It’s time to talk about Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth chapter 5!
• Kristen felt the need to clarify what Nico uses to raise the dead.
• We’re already up to Prophecy Count #18!
• Uhhh, Luke is a little too powerful right now.
• And Kelli remains super creepy.
• How does this whole fountain thing work?
• What does it mean that Nico is looking for a second opinion?
• We get to meet THE Theseus.
• Why did the fountain image glow so brightly??
• Percy needs to go eat a Happy Meal RIGHT NOW.
• Thank goodness Chiron doesn’t trust Quintus either.
• Now it’s time for Battle of the Labyrinth chapter 6.
• Is this opening scene about Roman gods and architecture a hint to Heroes of Olympus?
• How do you pronounce Janus?
• Shout out to Buffy episode 2×06!
• What are Janus’ pronouns??
• Is everyone else afraid of Hera? If not, you should be.
• Why did Annabeth rush through her wish!?
• What does Percy know!?
• Grover is probably glad Tyson is around after all.
• And Annabeth really needs to stop telling the Labyrinth everything on her mind.