And Orius lands in the swimming pool, which causes the zombie kids to say The Newest Olympian. My name is Mike Schuber. I'm the titular Newst Olympian. I'm a 30-year-old man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid,

but I'm reading them now as an adult to determine if this is a book series that we've all been sleeping on.

And I'm not on this quest alone. I am back, joined again by our editor, someone who makes this show possible and makes the show as good as it is without her.

This would be a worse podcast and a much more stressful

experience for me making it. It's Sherry Gow Sherry. How's it going? Hi, Mike. It's going great.

As we mentioned last episode, you are now remote Sherry so everyone can pick their favorite version

of our recordings as we've done one in person and now one remotely via the power of the internet.

Yes, I'm back in Chicago.

Yes, I heard your flight experience was not the most fun given that your airplane didn't

have a gate, but clearly they found one for you because you're making it happen.

Yes.

I also appreciate you recording out of what appears to be like a study room or something in school.

And I think it would be very fun if a classmate or a teacher or someone came in and was very confused.

Because during my college years, I was still making YouTube videos and vines and stuff.

And boy, oh boy, did I try to make stuff across campus and hope that no one would ever see me and know what I was doing. I actually had to kick someone out of here because I'd booked the room and someone else was just in here. So that was a little awkward, but we're all good now. Good. That's great. I'm glad that they have been kicked out. It's for a very important cause. and I think you were well within your rights to kick them out. And speaking of

kicking, I say we kick things off and finish up chapter 9 and do all of chapter 10 so we can

see what's going on in the Sea of Monster, sound good? Yeah, let's get right to it. Fantastic. So where we last

left our heroes, we had Luke talking with our team, and he was about to go into some big villainous monologue spiel of sorts.

And here we go.

So Luke first tries to small talk Percy, who immediately just right off the bat, wastes no time and accuses Luke of poisoning Thalius tree.

And much like the sketch from, I think you should leave, the car one,

oh my God, he admitted it. Luke immediately admits to doing it, which I did not see coming at all.

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