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Discover why there's more to imagine when you listen at audible.com slash episode of the newest Olympian. My name is Mike Schumer. I'm the titular Newst Olympian. I'm a grown man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid, but I read them as an adult because I was on a quest to determine if society had been sleeping on the series. And I said yes. And now I'm seeing if society is currently sleeping on the ongoing Percy Jackson and the Olympians television program.

I'm here with a bonus episode to cover some of the things that I was able to do while covering the show as an official distinguished member of the press.

So if you have followed the News Olympian on Instagram or some of the other social media accounts I've been posting to.

You may have seen many clips from the press junkets that I did with the show. I was fortunate enough to have my press application accepted and I was able to fly up to Los Angeles to do

in-person press junkets. It's the first time I've ever done an in-person junket before.

For season one, I did some digital stuff, but I got to go out to

Los Angeles and do some face-to-face interviews with a bunch of folks from the cast and the crew. So with

this bonus episode, I kind of wanted to explain what that experience was like and then also put the

interview clips in as well. So some of these clips you may be familiar with because I

used the video versions of them as reels and other social media content, but there's also some

answers in here that I have not posted on social media yet. So if you want some new exclusive

things, stay tuned. Before I continue on, I want to give a shout out to my intern right now,

Jackson, who has been helping me make these reels, absolutely crucial help, given that there's so many things to do with the show going on from recording episodes to getting the episode breakdown episodes out and all that, to putting these bonus episodes together. So huge shout out to Jackson for making all of that possible. If you are a new listener of the New Sampian, first off,

welcome. Hello, thank you so much for not only listening to the podcast, but deciding to

listen to a bonus episode. That's great. If you're here just for the interview content and you

don't want to hear about my experience doing the press junket stuff, completely valid, go to the show

notes in the bottom because I will put some sort of information thing of interview

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