And Percy gives him a big high five because he's a man.

I can't hug him.

We're boys. What's good. Thank you so much for tuning into another episode of the newest Olympian. My name is Mike Schumer. 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 for the very first time as an adult because I'm on a quest to determine if this is a book series that we've all been sleeping on as a society and I'm not on this quest alone.

I am joined in person again by a wonderful, I would easily say, and no one would argue fan fever guest, Stephen Parra,

one of my best friends in the whole world, someone who I say, I love you too on the phone, someone who I had a fun night last night with, and I will hang out with later today. All things are great. Stephen Parra, how's it going? Great. That was a long intro. Thank you, though. Well deserved. Are you on the podcast because we have plans nearby where the studio is this afternoon and we're already going to hang out anyway?

Maybe.

Yes.

Are you on the podcast because the Stephen Pard of episodes perform better statistically than every other one?

No, but am I angry about it?

Also no.

The people love you, man. The list of numbers when you're on are always higher consistently. All right. Let's do it. We are here to kick off the third book in the Percy Jackson

series, which is called The Titans Curse. Now, we've already asked you about your background with

Percy Jackson and all that stuff, but specifically book three, are there any book three feelings you have? Do you have a ranking of the main five books in the series? Do you like this one? Is this one more eh in your eyes? Oh, this one is far from this. This might be the top one. Really? Okay. Okay. I think Sherry said, no. I was talking to show her the other day and I feel like she said this one, but maybe she said Battle of the Labyrinth. I think she said Battle of the Labyrinth. Yeah, for me, it's like those two are really, really high up there for me. There's a lot to love in this book. There's a lot to love in the next one. Yeah, I really like this book. I mean, I just, yeah, it's great. I'm glad. I think the most fun thing about asking people what their favorite book is in the P.J.O. series is I have not seen a consistent answer at all.

I feel like it is very evenly divided amongst the five books, which book is everyone's favorite, which gives me very high hopes for the whole series.

Now, we are here to discuss all of chapter one, maybe chapter two, because chapter one is 17 pages, so it's a chunky chapter.

And when I was getting ready to read this, I was thinking, okay, book two ended with the thali reveal.

I wouldn't be surprised if book three is a let's just pick up where we left off kind of situation.

Then I was reading my very legal PDF on an airplane.

And for anyone concerned, I also did buy the books.

I just use the PDF because when I'm traveling, it is a lot easier to use that to take notes as opposed to be crammed on an airplane seat or a train seat

or a bus seat with a book and a laptop and all this stuff. What if I don't have a whole desk in

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