And let me just really quick, Where are you going? Taking a lap around the studio How far he has caught. We're going to be. What's good. Thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of The Newest Olympian. My name is Mike Schubert. I'm the titular newest 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 on a quest to determine if this is a book series that we as a society have been sleeping on. But I'm not on this quest alone. I'm joined again for the final book episode of Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters by my wife, Kelly Beckman Schubert, Kelly,

how's it going? I'm good. And happy Proof Day to everybody. What is Proof Day? Proof

is the name of the new album by BTS that just came out yesterday as of recording this on June 11th.

So everybody should go and give it a listen. It's an anthology album. So if you're not

familiar with BTS, it's kind of like their greatest hits album. And you can kind of just

see what they're about. Also, they have a couple of new songs on there. And it's amazing.

They're not paying you to say this. I wish they were. It's a great little ad read. They don't,

they don't need me to pay me to say. I think they are pretty well established.

They're set.

They're good to go. We're here in the studio. Here in this dude. Recording in person. Recording in person. Ready to close out the sea of monsters. Close out the sea of monsters. How do you feel? I feel great. Great. Shall we get right into it? Let's get into it. Cool. So where we last left our heroes, Percy read a very interesting letter from his dad that said,

brace yourself.

So it's the next morning and everyone is hyped for the race, but everyone is also on edge

at the possibility of another attack from demon birds.

And I think that that's very funny. Yes, very funny. Also, I noted, because I listened to the whole book recently, that they thought they were pigeons first time around. And so I'd like to clear the pigeons' names. Pigeons are awesome. We're a very pro-pigeon podcast here. Pro-pigeon. It's very well-established. Pro-pigeon, anti-Siegel on the Neust Olympian.

They're the worst bird. Pigeons are the best. Pigeons are the best bird. Pigeons are the best. They're ubiquitous. Everywhere, everywhere we go. India, Thailand, Italy. Everybody's got pigeons. And what we have to say about Indian pigeons. I want to tell the story of what

happened to Sal, our friend who we were celebrating his wedding with his now wife Priya, and we

hung out in India a couple of days after the wedding with them at this very nice resort in Goa.

And there was this bird that just kept making the same noise over and over and over again the entire three days we were here. So eventually, Sal asked a person working at the resort, what animal? Or did you do you do you? What is making that noise? Yeah. He just said, what is making that noise? And the guy turns to Sal and goes, sir, those are birds. And then has a big ear to ear smile on. Just an

absolute troll job. And then he got a book of Indian birds and gave it to Sal. And we very

nerdily read this book by the pool. And they had a whole section of pigeons. And there were some

really cool Indian pigeons. There were some really cool Indian pigeons.

There was some really cool Indian pigeons. The bird making the noise was not a pigeon.

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