Camp Half-Pod: A Percy Jackson Podcast

We’re at the meat of this story – Nico, Will, and Hazel find out what’s been going on with the Court of the Dead. The mythics are being judged for being different. Erin is judging the plot of this book. The Court of the Dead hates change, and charges Asterion and our girl Hazel with Crimes. Manasa gives us some lore on Bloody Mary. Hazel is taken away by the Court and Nico has some really sad dreams. Then, we get to see where Hazel and the monsters have all been taken to. Manasa gives us a deep dive on the Griffin, and Erin thinks about Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer again, for some reason. 
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The campers all band together to come up with a plan to capture whoever is taking the mythics. Erin and Manasa get distracted talking about Barbie Fairtyopia. Erin’s dogs are playing so much during this episode that we didn’t bother to edit them out. They are a part of this. We deep dive on Laverna for a moment. Hazel, Nico, and Will head to downtown San Francisco to go to court. It's time for Riordanverse SVU (dun-dun). Then, Erin tells Manasa all about the myths the Karpos are based on, one of which is quite sad! Potatoes are the fruit of the earth. <3

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Erin and Manasa begin their Percy Jackson podcasting by debriefing the Big Animorphs News, naturally (perchance… a new podcast idea??? Stay tuned). Will there now be explicit Animorphs references in the Disney+ PJO adaptation? Crossover musical episode? Just kidding (unless…). Erin points out that the plot of this book is just like Halloweentown 3, Halloweentown High. The mythics have a hard time fitting in with the demigods. We find some more plot holes. They learn about some mysterious threats plaguing the mythics and Nico. And then… the mythics start to disappear. First Arielle, then Quinoa. Then, Manasa gives us a deep dive on the Empousa, our favorite hot weird-legged woman. 
PS - there were some funny bloopers edited out this episode. It was a bit of an editing beast to fix. Please enjoy the snippet at the end after the outro ;)
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Erin starts off with pretending like she never was weird about the Minotaur. She’s gaslighting herself. We wonder if this is the same story as The Sun and the Star but with lower stakes. The mythics struggle to fit in at Camp Jupiter. Mr. D provides some telehealth therapy. Then, we are joined via audio messages by a listener Chloe, who gives us a super thorough deep dive on the Minotaur’s name. Erin provides our Minotaur Deep Dive (naturally) and spends a lot of time discussing the labyrinth and the minotaur in pop culture. We love to see it!
Episode References:
Monstrous Women Podcast Pasiphae Episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Xc8cV3h4TofRJJX5Q1mK9?si=CpXdnVKxS-Kdgns-nBwSJg 
Article about the Minotaur and violence: https://lithub.com/the-beast-inside-what-the-myth-of-the-minotaur-reveals-about-human-nature/ 
Reverse Minotaur: https://deciphermedia.tv/assets/imgs/misc/reverse_minotaur.png 
Minotauromachy: https://aestheticrealism.org/terrain-gallery/art-history-criticism/chaim-koppelman-on-picassos-minotauromachy/

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We're back!!!! Finally, we tackle Court of the Dead, the sequel to The Sun and the Star. We have a lot of questions. First of all, who gave Mr. D a license to practice therapy??? Also, why is he suddenly nice? The premise of this book is juicy and hilarious, and we get to meet this new version of the Minotaur, or should we say, Asterion. Erin doesn't find him as hot now that he's a good guy. We don't need to talk about what that says about her. Manasa gives us a lesson on Cacodemons, which are, naturally, much weirder in Greek mythology than Rick leads on.

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