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• Check out what Percy & Co. are doing this summer.
• Kristen had the perfect Father’s Day present for Percy to give to Poseidon.
• Next up, Read Riordan makes us feel old.
• We wish the Pride month post had been brought back.
• Let’s go through Rick’s June 28 blog post!
• It’s nice to hear how excited Rick is for the show.
• If you want to hear us geek out about the production stage the show will be using, you’re in luck!
• Not only is this awesome in terms of technological advancements, it’s also amazing for practical reasons (like the actors envisioning the environment around them).
• Here’s the Mandalorian BTS video we discussed.
• We’re wholly unprepared for how realistic the backgrounds are going to be.
• Let’s learn a little bit about game engine technology.
• There are so many benefits to using this kind of technology.
• Should we do a bigger, more in-depth episode about this technology?

• We love this movie!
• But it’s interesting seeing it through a different lens.
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  Hercules is a very colorful movie (probably for the kids, but we loved it too).
• Don’t watch this movie for an accurate account of Greek culture/history/mythology.
• We know why they had to Disney-fy this story.
• Did they do a role reversal between Hades and Zeus?
• They used roughly the same story and same players but made the heroes and villains much clearer.
• Justice for the cyclopes!
• We need the cast of Percy Jackson to watch this movie and give us reactions as their characters.
• Did you know anything about Philoctetes from myth? Because we definitely didn’t.
• Does it make sense that they turned him into a satyr?
• Now it’s time to get into Hercules’ tragic story.
• Did you catch all the references to the 12 Labors?
• At least the movie gives Meg a better role.
• Why isn’t Meg considered a princess!?
• How is Hercules usually portrayed in pop culture?
• Are there any bad representations of Hercules?
• Percy Jackson is one of the few that makes him more human and failable.
• This isn’t out of malice; it seems there are some very good reasons for this.
• We only touched the surface of Hercules’ myths—we didn’t even talk about the 12 Labors!
• What do you say to us revisiting this movie and talking about ALL the differences?
• And what about doing a Deep Dive into Hercules’ story from mythology?

• It’s time to get back to Battle of the Labyrinth chapter 11.
• Do we like Hephaestus as a god?
• How long until we see Grover and Tyson again?
• Does Annabeth have a belly button?
• We figured out why the telkhines sounded so familiar.
• We’re so bad at pronunciation!
• What do we think about Percabeth’s first kiss?
• Is Percy OP if he can’t control his powers?
• Will he ever use that whistle?
• Now let’s get into Battle of the Labyrinth chapter 12.
• This chapter was necessary after everything Percy had just gone through.
• What do we think of Calypso? Did she have a good introduction?
• We’ll be curious to see her pop up again later.
• She and Percy have a very nuanced conversation about loyalty and good vs. evil.
• Hephaestus doesn’t pressure Percy to make a certain decision, and we appreciate that.
• Where is Annabeth right now? Where’s Rachel Elizabeth Dare?
• Rick was doing what ifs before we were!
• If the gods just communicated more, they would have fewer problems.

• Megan wrote in to ask us about dedicated episodes for each of the Rick Riordan Presents book.
• We also gave you a little insight into what we have coming up!