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What's good? Thank you so much for tuning into this bonus episode of the newest Olympian. My name is

Mike Schuber. I'm the titular newest Olympian. Normally on this podcast,

I'm making my way through the Percy Jackson series to see if society has been sleeping on it,

but this is an off week for the podcast that happens every now and then every 60 days or so. Usually it's on a month that has five Mondays, and we take one of the Mondays off twice a year. It doesn't happen on a five Monday month, though. And this is one of those two times, but it's been about 60 days.

Gonna take a little bit of a break. I was just on of those two times, but it's been about 60 days,

going to take a little bit of a break. I was just on tour. It was a whole heck of a lot of work.

This allows me to catch up on other podcasting stuff, but I didn't want to leave you with nothing in the feed this week. So I'm very happy and I'm very excited and I'm very proud of what we made, but I'm so stoked you get to listen to the first episode of a new podcast that I co-created

with my buddy Eric Hamilton Schneider called The Last and the Curious. It is about the Fast and the Furious movies. So here's the story I had never watched a single second of a Fast and Furious film before making the show. And my buddy Eric Hamilton Schneider, who was just with me on this tour for most of the stops and he's been on the show a bunch in the past. He's a super fan of the Fast and Furious movies. So when we were doing tour stuff for T&O and Potterless two years ago in 2023, we did the beginnings of this podcast. We would watch a Fast and Furious movie and then go to his recording room and record our thoughts. We did that for the first four movies. We watched them together in person. Then we finished the franchise remotely, but we would still watch the movies in the morning and then immediately hop on the mic around lunchtime. And it was super fun and we did it for every single Fast and Furious movie. You can listen to this full completed podcast right now. You can go to the website that we set up for it,

The Last and the Curious, but it's the Last and the Curio.com.us. Or you can go to the TNO Patreon shop. So if you go to the T&O Patreon, which you can access at the newslampian.com slash Patreon, you can go to the shop section, and then you can get the podcast. You get it for just five bucks. It's completely ad-free,

and you get all 13 episodes. There's some bonus stuff. We basically do a predictions episode in the

beginning where I predict what I think might happen in the series, and I lay forth all of the

information that I know from just like seeing trailers as a human that's been alive in the 2000s and

2010s. And then at the end of it, we do a big ranking episode where we rank all the different things like the best characters or best cars or best stunts, best races, all these sorts of things. So you'll get all of those episodes all at once. There's no ads in them at all. We decided to go with the just pay a flat price and then not have to deal with any sort of advertising route. It's just a new method and a new model that we wanted to try. It's something that I think

could be fun if I wanted to make limited series podcasts about stuff that I'm passionate about or

passionate about exploring for the very first time, but it's not something that I can really do

for an ongoing regular basis. So this is the first episode of The Last and the Curious where we actually talked about a movie. This episode covers the first movie, The Fast and the Furious. So that's what you're about to hear. And if you like what you hear and you want to keep on listening to the rest of it, head on over to the last in the curio.com. Or go to the Tino Patreon shop. The link goes to that link. And then for five bucks,

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