Unwise Girls

The Son of Neptune, ch. 25 to 28 On this week's episode of Unwise Girls, we talk teaser trailers, Frank's first step into entering the pickup artist community, the differences between Percy and Jason's amnesia, blind jokes, CGI strawberries, Jojo type scenes, anti-food truck propaganda, what situations make it okay to just kill a normal guy, the saddest way this book could end, and the tragic loss...

The Son of Neptune, ch. 21 to 24 (cw: we tell detailed stories about wasp encounters in this one) This week's episode of Unwise Girls is very special - it's Jane's birthday!!!! Yayyy!!!!! To celebrate, we talk all about the knowledge contained in silly little beverages, Frank going through entirely silent character arcs along with really obvious gender dysphoria, probably the least interesting god...

The Son of Neptune, ch. 17 to 20 On this week's Unwise Girls, we cover one of the most chilling chapters yet... heh, well... see, okay, so it's Alaska, right? So it's cold. But also, Rick Riordan's really dealing in horror elements, so it's like a bit of a pun. You get it? You get it! Anyway, we talk about how it's easier for children's authors to go hard in flashbacks, metaphors always having to...

The Son of Neptune, ch. 13 to 16 This week on Unwise Girls, we talk about the lore behind our cover art, cringefail Carthage, Grover entering his down-and-out era, who Percy's best friend is nowadays, the second coming of Sea of Monsters, Rick's video game habit, long-awaited camp intrigue, Octavi Anpora, Zeus getting his groove back, Nico being able to stare at ghosts and Percy being able to star...

The Son of Neptune, ch. 9 to 12 This week, on a very special episode of Unwise Girls, we have an in-depth conversation about those who died to protect our (checks notes) profit motive? Huh! Well, we also talk about the Byzantine Empire, Furious Frank Zhang and his fleeting little life, Rick's foray into Italian studies, proxy wars, one of our favorite gods coming out of retirement, suburban Juno,...

The Son of Neptune, ch. 5 to 8 So like, this week on Unwise Girls we definitely do try our best to talk about Hazel Levesque - who we do genuinely totally dig as a character! But it's so hard. It's so hard. Anyway, this week we discuss what's in the Kool-Aid, Camp Jupiter seeming weirdly good for Nico, how strange and exciting it is to finally see Percy from someone else's perspective, poor little...

The Son of Neptune, ch. 1 to 4 ...to get more stupider!!!! This week, all roads lead to New Rome, and the Unwise Girls dive through these opening chapters chronologically to really key in on what works and what doesn't. We discuss how comfortably Percy's voice is returned to, the real problem with hippies, a variety of comedy men, the Kane Chronicles crossover we actually want to happen, the famou...

The Lost Hero, ch. 52 to 56 This week, on the long anticipated finale of The Lost Hero, Jane gets musical, Piper finally self-actualizes, the episodic nature of podcasting changes our reading experience, our grand quest for the series is outlined, Jason fully falls into his role as JRPG protagonist, Leo gets a tier of his own, and... oh, it.. okay. Fine. We might as well have to go through another...

The Lost Hero, ch. 47 to 51 This week on Unwise Girls, our three part Lost Hero Finale Bonanza continues with a special five chapter episode as we get real into the weeds on what the worst power a demigod could get would be, poisoning yourself against a book, Jason remembering (and not just that he can fly!), what we learn when we talk about Clovis, bigger and cooler giants, the racist authors we...

The Lost Hero, ch. 41 to 46 This week on Unwise Girls, we begin our Lost Hero Three Part Finale Bonanza with a special six chapter episode where we discuss Jason apparently not being able to fly and somehow still getting W's over Percy, get annoyed at twists for ten year olds, rationalize the mist's rationalization powers, microexpress powerfully, attempt to stave off the creeping Kane Chronicles...

The Lost Hero, ch. 37 to 40 This week on Unwise Girls, Jacqueline and Jane have a pretty good time as Aeolus realizes the suffering is, in fact, never ending, the final puzzle piece is finally put into place, Jason somehow turns into a good, rounded character just through us talking about him enough, the Rick Riordan and John Green crossover grows ever closer, Aphrodite breaks down both prophecies...

The Lost Hero, ch. 33 to 36 On this most special of weeks, the Unwise Girls talk about Leo getting all hot and bothered, Piper getting cold and unburdened, and Jason getting sistered at sort of a neutral temperature. We also talk about how you can translate the awfulness of Zeus into a children's book, recycling plot beats, retcons that make various degrees of sense, and Chiron's secret archenemy....

The Lost Hero, ch. 29 to 32 Bzzt... Bzzt... Have we tuned into the right station? This is Unwise Girls, and we're trying to deliver an unbiased message to anyone still surviving in the long days of The Lost Hero. Will you listen? If so, find out how Leo's brain is fucked (and we love him for it), the best ways to not technically murder people, the sad fate of Festus, which shady organization Hepha...

The Lost Hero, ch. 25 to 28 This week the Unwise Girls talk about a nicely done do-over, the logistics of vegan tacos, how scary it is to be seen, Jane's gender, Jason's greatest mortal enemy, Jupiter's bad dadditude, probably other things that start with J, anti-union action, bodega etymologies, and Rick Riordan bravely averting doing feminist reanalysis of classical literature. Come back next we...

The Lost Hero, ch. 21 to 24 This episode is mainly just about a really cool fight and everything else is pretty much tangential, but I'll give you the rundown anyway. This week, the Unwise Girls talk about Leo rising to the call of main charactership, Cyclops cladistics, relatable Piper feet moments, the Sea of Monsters returning with a vengeance, Jason faking friendship til he makes it, what the...

The Lost Hero, ch. 17 to 20 This week on Unwise Girls - cough, cough... sorry, someone's a bit sick in the studio today! Regardless, this week the Unwise Girls pick over the bones of some pretty threadbare chapters to talk about the best pickup lines, a poor recreation of a PJO hit scene, the Kane Chronicles again somehow, Chiron's youtube channel also again somehow, Popeye Piper, the charisma vac...

Episode Notes The Lost Hero, ch. 13 to 16 This week the newly networked Unwise Girls suffer from the Curse of Hypnos as we - a Jacqueline fresh off a week of sleep deprivation and nonstop driving and a Jane in the midst of a 2AM fugue state - try the best we damn well can to speak coherently on some pretty good chapters of The Lost Hero. We talk about Rome lore, the settler-colonial mindset and ho...

The Lost Hero, ch. 9 to 12 On this week's episode of Unwise Girls, we start off by discussing the racist backlash to Leah Jeffries being cast as Annabeth and Rick Riordan's responses. Afterwards, we talk about the world's most intriguing dad, everything fake about Piper McLean, predictable satyr bits, the world's most evil aunts, Camp Half-Blood's relationship to war, and a spicy Kane Chronicles c...

The Lost Hero, ch. 5 to 8 This week, the Unwise Girls round out the main cast of The Lost Hero by finally reading some chapters from Leo's perspective. We talk about his character's relatively unimpressive showing compared to how great everything else at Hephaestus cabin is, historical disasters Rick might be saving for later, Percy's infidelity, Chiron's trick, Jason's secret origin, and genetic...

The Lost Hero, ch. 1 to 4 Huh? The Camp Half-Blood Chronicles? Sorry, I don't remember it... But I guess if you say I do a podcast about it, I should at least give these notes a read. Okay, so apparently, the Unwise Girls this week finally start on the Heroes of Olympus - and it rocks!! We get into how this book uses multi-character perspective versus how it was done in the Kane Chronicles, mean g...

The Lightning Thief musical After an unfortunate week off due to horrible computer breakage, the glitz and glamor of the stage come to bear on Unwise Girls! Before we dive into the depths of Heroes of Olympus, we take a refresher on where we came from and talk all about the magic of stagecraft, the portrayal of our most favoritest alcoholic, Percy's toilet paper telekinesis, some simple but effect...

The Kane Chronicles retrospective Hey everyone, editor and host Jacqueline here for a little bit of realtalk. Do you know what happens to you when you die? Well, I guess it's a bit of a complicated topic, but this week, we're the arbiters of life and death as we judge the souls of The Red Pyramid, The Throne of Fire, and The Serpent's Shadow ... after a bit of discussion about some PJO TV show new...

The Serpent's Shadow, ch. 20 to 22 It's #GroverWeek, so let's celebrate our favorite satyr boy by talking about our favorite #AuthenticGroverMoments! Remember when Grover defeated Apophis, then did a bunch of kissing after abdicating the power of Pharaoh to his uncle? Sure you do! This week, we talk about the last chapters of The Serpent's Shadow and discuss forgotten ice gods, the strange alterna...

(cw: discussion of lynching imagery from 37:00 to 37:50) The Serpent's Shadow, ch. 16 to 19 This week, there were no mishaps before recording that made us have to improvise. It's all scripted. Don't worry! Believe me. Anyway, on this episode of Unwise Girls, Carter has a sexuality crisis, Sadie doesn't know which pronouns to use for her boyfriends, Zia gets jacked, Apophis gets revolutionary, and...

The Serpent's Shadow, ch. 12 to 15 It's a brand new episode of Unwise Girls, and this time we're - well, actually, we still like it. Hooray! Join us this week as we talk about the meanest possible prank to pull on a thirteen year old girl, Carter's cringefail life, swamp foot, our dreams for the Netflix adaptation, doomsday preppers, and some of the series' most harrowing action scenes.  Come...