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Okay, we're halfway through, and they have not gone on the quest. So what is getting cut?

And then my next note is, oh, the whole quest.

Okay. what is getting cut? And then my next note is, oh,st Olympian. My name is Mike Schubert. I'm the titular Newst Olympian. I'm a 32-year-old man. First time I've said that one,

recent birthday boy, who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid. I read them as an adult. And then I did a bunch of other stuff like reading spin-off books and watching the TV show. And now I'm watching the musical. I'm on this big quest to determine if the world has been sleeping on the Percy Jackson series. And I'm here with a very special guest to not only discuss Act 2 of the Lightning Thief musical, but also the phenomenon that was the social media of the Lightning Thief Musical. What better person to talk to

than mix Thief themselves, writer, social media director, and Tony Award winning theater producer,

Ashley Latimer. Ashley, how's it going? Good. How are you? Happy deleted birthday.

Thank you. Thank you. Truly, I was not doing that as a fishing of compliment. It was just,

I realized I say my age in the intro sometimes. And it is now March. Thank you. I appreciate that.

But I'm so excited to have you back on the podcast for an incredibly relevant episode,

since this is, you know, a lot of the way that Percy Jackson folks know of your existence. Before we get into any of that, though, because you're a repeat guest, we get to ask the repeat guest question. Oh, great. Which cabin would you be sorted into? I don't know if you've taken any of the official or unofficial quizzes or if there's just one that feels true to you. I go back and forth on this a lot. Where I have landed of late is I think that I would be in the Hermes cabin because I think I would be really good at being part of the like, you don't know where you belong yet, probably. Welcome committee. I love that. I love that a lot. As someone who majored in engineering and now does this as a full-time job, I'm very pro.

You don't have to figure your life out kind of thing.

I'm all for that.

Before we get into discussing Act 2, I did want to talk about your work doing the social media management for the Lightning Thief, which I obviously don't regret not being a Percy Jackson fan earlier because it has allowed me to have one of the coolest jobs ever.

But I do wish that I could have been like in the mix of this because it sounds right up my alley from things that I've read about.

And I think there's no better summation of it than the social media section on the Ryordan Wiki page about the Lightning Thie musical.

Oh, I have not seen this.

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