Hello everyone and welcome to the inaugural episode of the Fire Escape cast. You could have been anywhere in the world tonight, but you're here with us. And for that, we thank you. You sound like the anchor on like a college news station. Like you're very nervous. You're trying your best. You're trying your damnedest, but you're clearly green. No, I did that for a little bit. I was the sports guy. No one cares. Let's start with interesting stuff. Mary! Hello! Hey, yeah. What's the most interesting thing that we have going on right now? That's not Mike. Well, I think the most interesting, we started a podcast here. We just totally... That is interesting. We just hijacked Mike's entire intro.

Mike, we're going to give you the floor back.

All right, let's keep going with the intro. He wrote it down and worked really hard on it, Dan. Impress the people. Impress the folks at home, Mike. Okay, I wrote a speech. Okay, let's hear it. My fellow Americans. No, just kidding. I just want us get my JFK in there really quick.

Yeah, we started a podcast if you haven't heard the trailer on whatever, wherever you're No, just kidding. I just want us get my JFK in there really quick.

Yeah, we started a podcast if you haven't heard the trailer on whatever, wherever you're listening to the podcast. Oh, my God. Did he mean to say trailer? He said trailer. Oh, I have a question about this because this came up a lot after we recorded the trailer. How do you, I don't, I genuinely don't hear the difference between how I'm saying. Tray, tray, like a lunch tray, lur. What do I say?

Trey, Lurr. What am I saying? Traylor. You might have heard the trailer. Did you hear the trailer? So do you think it's weird how I say aliens? You say aliens like you say like Al Borland and then E.N's. Yeah it's not aliens it's like it would have the line over the A. What if, would you be pissed if I said I disagree? Piss is a really strong word. I think, I just thought I said aliens and no one in upstate New York called me out when I was growing up. Mike, you're from upstate New York and I just finished watching season one of the wire again, so I've been hearing a lot of Baltimore accents. Is it roughly the same? No. No, no, no, no. Do you not have a

Baltimore accent? No, I don't know a Baltimore accent. Does it sound like one? I don't know. It seems

vaguely East Coasty. Everyone in the wire is constantly saying trawler. Yeah, McNulty. He's always

talking about trailers. This is my unit, McNulty. Get out of my trailer. Wait, you said it right that time. I know, because I'm being someone else. I'm acting. Oh, I see. I see. It's what I'm not. It's called acting, Dan. Okay, all right. Do bubbles. Dan, do your bubbles.

You know what?

I was trying to place his accent because it's, he, it's not a Lisp. It's like a much obliged. You know, he's got like kind of like a mumble to him. Muchablaz. Yeah. Yeah. I like how he says McNutty instead of McNulty. Is this our Wire podcast? I could do that. God, I would love to.

I convinced someone recently to finally watch the Americans.

I've heard good things. Oh, you haven't watched the Americans. No, no. Very good. Yeah? Bunk has not seen The Wire. So this is her first time. It's my second time. What a wonderful thing to experience the Wire for the first time. Yeah, there's some shit at the end of season one that is just, oh, it's rough still.

Mary, we were at, what was the name of that bar?

It was in your name.

It was like Lower Knob Hill, San Francisco, me, you, and a few friends.

And we were just talking loudly, surprise at a bar late at night about what we think the best show is and that one dude

kind of kitty corner on the bar started arguing with us that we didn't say the wire or no you

had said the wire is the best show I was saying madman and the guy around the bar was like

was making fun of me for saying madmen and then the whole bar started ganging up on me I agree

with the bar and that guy and Mary.

I agree with everyone that's not you, basically. Do you not like Madman or you just think the wire's better? I got like three, I watched the first three seasons and like the first two episodes of four. And I was just like, man, this show just nothing fucking happens in the show. Like it's so well made. Everything's so well acted and directed. and it's such a,, oh, time piece and place in time or whatever. But it's just fucking boring. You just try to say period piece? I think that's the thing I was trying to say. I think so. Yeah. Look, I didn't go to film school, dork. More evidence that Dan would never appreciate Kentucky Route Zero. because the whole point of Mad Men is a slow burn of like characters.

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