But none of the adults around me read Percy Jackson, so none of them knew what I was talking about. They werest Olympian. My name is Mike Schuber. I'm the titular Newst Olympian. I'm a grown man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid, but I'm reading them now in a quest to determine if this is a book series that we've all been sleeping on, but I'm not on this quest alone. I'm joined today by a familiar face, voice, editing prowess. It's someone that if you listen to the credits of the News Olympian, or if you just Listen to the News Olympian, you would know her, but you don't know her because if an editor does their job well, it inherently means you can't tell they've done anything. It is the editor of the newest Olympian, Sherry Guo. Sherry, how's it going? Hi, Mike. It's going great. I'm enjoying New York. Unfortunately, I leave tomorrow, but yeah, it's been good.

I'm glad you're here. We are in person in the studio making it happen, and you get the joy of being able to edit yourself afterwards.

A fun benchmark that every podcaster must overcome. And I think, honestly, has turned me into a better podcaster and better public speaker is when I would edit early episodes

of my podcasts, I would hear myself and say, stop saying like so much. Why are you so annoying?

Why do you do this? So I think it's turned me into a better person because there's no one more

annoying than yourself that you're editing. Yeah, I had to do a podcasting project for my winter quarter

at school. And when I was editing the first round, the amount of times I said like, it was between

every other word. So I just rewrote my entire script, cutting out all the likes, and then read it as

if I was talking to someone, so I wouldn't sound ridiculous. And it ended up cutting out 30 seconds of my entire project. That'll do it. That'll do it. No, it's good. Speaking of annoying things, now that we have you on the pod, what is the most annoying thing that I still do? Is there anything in the process like, oh, Mike, again, am I doing anything that's that one makes your life hard or two would make me sound funny?

I'm putting myself on blast, basically.

I guess it would just be when you mix up names and I leave audio notes. Gosh, yes. Because sometimes I can't tell if they're purposeful or if they were accidental. Because usually your guests will correct you, but then other times they don't. Yeah. I never share them because I feel like it is a private thing and it's usually too late for me to ask you like, hey, is it okay if I put this on Patreon? And I think it's shown your comfort level with the show is like early on in editing. You would say, oh, Mike, I think, I think when you said Poseidon here, you meant Percy, but you might just want to check. And now it's like, hey, Mike, you said this. My favorite, though, is, which has happened a couple of different times, me learning, I've been saying a word wrong, my whole life,

because you are better at language and you point things out. I think I talked about this on the show,

but until you pointed out that I've been saying weary and wary as

just weary the whole time and not knowing there's two for words, I very much appreciate you

coming in and correcting things. And then also when you interject and tell stories, because what's

important and why I thought it would be very nice to have you on the show is that you're another

Gen Z voice that the people need to hear. And I appreciate every now and then

when you've checked in as Gen Z vibe check that I get to hear, which is very much appreciated.

But that all aside, what is your history with the Percy Jackson books?

So my history with the Percy Jackson books is actually related to Harry Potter because I have

a younger sister. She's a year younger than me. And when she was in third grade and I was in fourth grade, she came home from the Scholastic Book Fair with a Harry Potter box set. Oh, cool. And then she was like, yeah, I'm going to read the Harry Potter books. So then I, as the older sibling, who always accused her of copying me, could not be the Harry Potter sibling. So I decided to read Percy Jackson instead. But yeah,

I liked Greek mythology and then I just got really absorbed into the books because I really

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