It's a bit midlife crisis, divorced at, like, but I'm reading them now 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 not just an American society, but a global society. And because of that, my guest who is on this journey with me for this episode is someone from the UK. She's a poet. She's an author.

She's an all-around wonderful human being.

It's Doddy, James.

Dotty, how's it going? Hi. It's going well. How are you? I'm doing very well. I know that you have had a very fun morning, my time, day, your time. Yeah. But a fun magical dentist-related adventure that has delayed this recording so many times, but it's finally happening.

Here we go. But a fun magical dentist-related adventure that has delayed this recording so many times, but it's finally happening.

Here we go, baby.

Here we go.

How did you get into the PGO series and start reading the books?

I got into the PGO series and started reading the books in a very similar way that you did because you started doing this podcast.

And I was like, wow, I need to read these. And I listened along. And then, yeah, and then here we are. Amazing. I am flattered and honored. I don't know if you are the first guest to be on because. No, I guess Alyssa Esabon did this as well. But it warms my heart to have inspired you to read the books,

and then you plow through them so quickly that you've read all of them. Have you gone on to the sequel series, or did you just read the main five? So I have not read all of them yet. Okay. I'm on maybe the end of the fourth one. Okay. So I think I'm only a book ahead from here. That is okay. That's all good. You finish the book. You know what lies ahead. No spoilers will be shared. None. And these two chapters are incredibly, incredibly spicy. So I think we should just get right into them. Let's do it. Great. So chapter four is called Thalia Torches New England. And as an avid Boston sports hater, I support this.

Does England have any ill will towards America having New England? Is that any sort of

thing that you think is silly? I think it's silly, but even in England, we have like

towns that are the same name, but like in the south and the north

I've recently discovered because I live in Brighton there's also another Brighton up north which I

recently found out about interesting I would like to think it was silly I think a lot of people

in England do kind of rip on the fact that there's like a new this and a new jersey and like a new everything. But I don't think we're as self-aware about it as we should be because we do it too. Okay. Good, good, good. As someone from New Jersey, though, I must say that that is not silly at all and it's very good and wonderful and perfect. But New England, terrible, horrible,

the worst sports teams imaginable. Brilliant. So my actual guess for what this title meant before reading the chapter is that Thalia, would use some sort of intense power move with Aegis

the Shield to defeat a monster? I could not have been more wrong if I tried. Yep.

Pretty bro.

Quite.

So Dawn is approaching where we last left our heroes.

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