Shall we do a 54321 to sync?

This is my favorite part for the whole thing.

Five, four, three, two, one. What's good. Thank you so much for tuning into another episode of the Newst Olympian. My name is Mike Schubert. 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. I'm on a quest to determine if this is a book series that we as a society have been sleeping on, and I'm not on this quest alone. I am joined this week by The Best Man in My Wedding, a very silly human being. It's Johnny Frolicstein. Johnny, how's it going?

Hello. It's been Frolickstein.

Johnny, how's it going? Hello. It's been a stressful couple weeks of work, and I'm really excited

for at least the next hour to sit here and be a silly human being with you. That sounds lovely.

It does sound lovely. This is an interesting thing where, for T&O purposes, this is the first time we haven't been in the studio recording an episode.

And this is also interesting because I'm currently in Seattle, Washington, after doing all of my India slash Maldives travels.

I'm in Seattle because I had a Potter-Els Live show, and now I'm kicking it with Brandon Gruegel.

So still very nice audio setup here. And you are at your home in Undisclosed location in New York. Exactly. I got to say, doing this in the studio is a lot more fun than doing this all the way across the country from each other. It's a lot more fun to be able to, like, you know, hang out afterwards. Right, but it's okay because being here and doing it this

way is better than not doing it at all. And you called dibs on these chapters very, very early,

which I allow you to do. It is a privilege that only you and Stephen Parra get on TNO once per

book, Call Your Shot, status. And then we're going to end every single book with

Kelly being on for the final chapters, which I think is very fun.

I don't know why you picked this.

And even after reading it, I don't know why you picked this.

Maybe you just enjoyed the vibes.

But are we going to come to a certain point?

Or what's up here?

So here's the thing is I read this book pretty much in one sitting when

you started on c of monsters and i already read it it was it was a reread sure and i remember

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