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And at this point is where we're going to end the episode.

I know. I know we're at time, but... Do we have to? What's good?

Thank you so much for tuning in to 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 for the 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. But I'm not on this quest alone. I am joined by someone very near and dear to my heart, someone who was a past sweetmate of mine in college, someone who shared the stage with me as Oberon while I was Tom Snout, aka The Wall. It's Michael Hollis. Michael, how is it going? It's going pretty good. How you doing? I'm doing well. I'm doing well now that I get to talk to you about these books because it's been too long since we've talked. I need more excuses to talk to you. And I'm glad that we have this excuse to talk about these

books. And you called dibs on this chapter. I think when I was still making book one episodes. I think this is the... Oh, yeah. I was like when I first heard about this podcast. Yeah. So I'm hoping we can get through as much of chapter 12 as we can get to you. So you can have the reveal of why you chose these chapters, but I can see, uh, it felt very Michael Holissy.

I totally, I totally see it.

I'm about as a vibe.

It's on brand.

Yeah. reveal of why you chose these chapters. But I could see, it felt very Michael Holissy. I totally,

I totally see it. Good. I'm about it has a vibe. It's on brand. Yeah, it's certainly a on-brand vibe. As far as your history with the books, because I don't even know your history with the Prissy Jackson books, how'd you get into them? When did you start reading them, all that good stuff? Yeah, being a 30-year-old man who did read the books, but I read it really fast.

I don't remember

if it was like summer or winter break. It was one of the two. I think it, yeah, I was just on one

of the breaks and sorry to Uncle Rick, it was on some super legal website that somebody had posted

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