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I'm watching Lumberjack billionaire.

I'm tuning in.

I hate billionaires, but Lumberjack billionaire, I might be okay, my guess. What's good. Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of the newest Olympian. My name is Meg Schuber. I'm the titular Newest Olympian. I am a grown man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid.

I read them as an adult because I was determining if this was a book series that society had been sleeping on.

I said yes. And now I'm seeing if society has been sleeping on the Heroes of Olympus series.

And I am not on this quest alone. I'm joined by a special guest, someone who's new to the podcast, but someone that I've known for a little bit, happy to finally have them on. They are a entertainment journalist and a writer for the direct. It's Jillian Blum. Jillian, how's it going? It's great. It's great to be here. Hi, thank you for having me. I'm really, really excited. Yeah, I'm excited to have you. I've been reading these books since I I was 10, so I'm really excited to get to talk about them with them reading them for the first time. I love to do that. No, it's good. It's good. I'm very excited to do it. And we had connected initially at that New York Comic-Con way back, I guess almost like a year ago at this point, which is wild. And then we keep bumping into each other at these various Percy Jackson events, which is very fun. So I know your passion is there. So I'm excited to discuss these two chapters, these very fun chapters of the Los

You're with you. But before we get into those, you alluded to. But what's your history with all of the

Percy Jackson books, but then also specifically Heroes of Olympus? I started the Percy Jackson books in

fourth grade. We had a Greek Myths Unit.

A couple friends had told me to read them, and I knew that I would like them as soon as we

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