Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Fire Escape cast. It is episode 104. I'm Mike Mahardi,

as always, here with Mary Kish. Hey, I'm here. And Dan Reichert. Hi, it's me, Dan Reichert. Metal Gear. That's close enough. That's actually not Dan Reichert. Is that why you invited me just because you needed someone else who knew about Metal Gear? I just needed someone who could do a semi-decent Dan impression. Have you done one before you try it? Oh, hey, I'm Dan Ryker! Oh, that's better than mine. Mine, mine, mine's usually like mediocre compared to that. I liked his first one when he just said, Metal Gear. Yeah. To be fair, I am, I'm impersonating Dan's wife impersonating Dan. Metal Gear.

Metal Gear farting. Metal Gear farting Mario. Cheers. Mario. Yeah. That covers it. That's Drew Scanlan. Thanks, Drew. Thanks for being here. That's me. Yes. That's Drew Scanlan. Hello, yes. A lot of people listening to the show will undoubtedly know who he is. but for those of you who might not, Drew is a former staple of the Giant Bomb staff back in the heyday of the site.

You did a lot of stuff for Giant Bomb West specifically, but you also founded ClothMap on

Patreon, did a lot of awesome videos about video games, about travel, kind of the overlap between them,

but also separately, really cool stuff.

I guess the very non-video game in tune, people might know him as blinking white guy

from the GIF.

I did ask him before the recording.

I was like, are you sick of that yet, or should I mention it?

But yes, that is Drew Scanlan.

That's me. Dan was traveling in New York this week. I did not get the chance to see him. But, yeah, it was a crazy week for everybody. Mary, people watching on the video version will notice she's not in her usual office. I probably sound different too. She short-circuited her entire electrical board at the house? Explain it one more time to me?

Okay.

So we have, we got solar panels on the roof, which is good.

It should be really helpful for the environment and our bills.

But the final step is that they have to like essentially reset all of the electricity in the house

so that they can switch it to on. And in the process of

doing that, it might have short-circuited my computer, which I usually record on. So I'm recording

from a laptop with my really sad blue Yeti mic and a Logitech webcam. So totally different setup. I probably sound

not as good. I apologize. I have to say though, and we all know this, especially anyone who's

like ever done like E3 major broadcasting, you never update your system before a major event.

You just don't. You avoid all updates. You do not reset.

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