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in person and on the go. Shopify is made for entrepreneurs like you. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup. I can't. No, actually, let me, let's redo this audio. I'm going to redo this audio because it'll be fun. So chair, you can add it and around this and everything. I'm going to redo this audio because it'll be fun. My name is Mike Schubert. I'm the titular Newst Olympian. I am a 32-year-old man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid. I read them as an adult because I was determining if it was a book series that society had slept on. I said yes, and now I'm seeing if society has been sleeping on the rest of the series. And by that I mean the sequel series, specifically Heroes of Olympus. And I am joined today by a very special guest because I'm never on this quest alone, joined by someone who you may have heard on the podcast, or you may have seen their content as

fictional fates on various social media platforms. It's Joel Rochester. Joel, how's it going?

I'm very good. I am a 24-year-old who read Percy Jackson and the rest of them as an adult,

so I'm very aware of the journey that you're embarking on. And we get into so much today and just

knowing what's in store for you, I have to be very careful with what I say today.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I feel like this one in particular is going to be a tricky one because

the earlier episodes so far of The Lost Hero have been a lot of just like me throwing stuff out there

and it's a lot of my guests going like, hmm, hmm, hmm. But I think you are in a trickier spot where

we are now in the beginning to learn stuff phase to where you have to be very careful about what

to know and what to not say. And I don't envy your position, but I think it is fun because I have really graced you.

Oh, yeah.

With some good chapters.

Oh, my goodness gracious.

You really have the dad jokes down now.

Look, dad power is here as, you know, I'm fresh off of coming from cleaning up a poopy diaper, I'm straight from that into the recording. The vibes are immaculate. Let's keep it going. Yes. So let's get the full context, though. What is your history with the Heroes of Olympus books? When did you read them? How soon after reading Percy Jackson did you read them? So I think it it was, it was a couple of months after I think I read Percy Jackson,

in between reading Pisci Jackson and Olympians and the Heroes of Olympus.

It was a little bit of time in between, so I kind of just like, dived right on into Heroes of

Olympus and was like, oh, this is interesting, because the beginning kind of like

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