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Every time people would make the analogy and say, oh, it's a double-edged sword, I would always

think, that doesn't make any sense, where would the handle be? And now I'm realizing,

ah, it means a blade on each side. What's good. And welcome back to another episode of the newest Olympian. My name is Mike Schubert. I am the titular newest Olympian. I'm a 29-year-old man who never read the Percy Jackson series as a kid, and I am reading it now as a grown man to see if this is the YA series we should have been reading all along. To help me with this quest, I am not alone on today's episode to discuss chapter 10 of the lightning thief, but again, I am joined by the co-host of Tipping Pitches and a podcast producer for The Ringer. It's Bobby Wagner. Bobby, how's it going? Much like Michael Jordan, I am back, baby. You are back, baby. It's been so long since we last spoke, but in release times, it's been a whole week since people have heard us talking about Percy Jackson, unless someone is listening to this after the fact and they're just marathoning through old episodes.

Hello.

Better late than never, friend.

Some Eastern European security official is listening into the conversation live, actually, so they're getting in real time.

There's only been 10 minutes that have passed.

They are probably from Latvia because they've tracked how many mean

things I've said about, Christaps Porzingis. All right, that's enough sports references in the

first two minutes of this podcast. People are here for the YA, Mike. They are here for the YA. But hey,

this book and this chapter has basketball references. So for me to talk about an ex-player on my beloved New York

Knicks, I think tracks. Also, it's my podcast. I'm in charge. We're also going to talk about

baseball pretty soon because of a Yankees ball cap. Yes, indeed we will. But we're talking about

chapter 10, which is called, I ruin a perfectly good bus. I'm glad that we are back. We had our

one chapter tangent delay of a very to the point,

not very fun chapter title, still exciting, but not fun. This, I'm assuming they're going to

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