Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Firescape cast.

I'm Mike Maharty, your host, as always.

Here with Dan Reichert.

Hello.

And Mary Kish.

Yay! I make an effort to sound more excited when I announce you. I can correct men. I can fix them. There was like 65 episodes where I sounded pretty down. Really? About it. Yeah, I don't know. 65 might be exaggerating. But we're back. First time in a while, well, I mean, I guess for listeners,

it's not, but we recorded the last episode a bit early before Mary went off on her. Another gallivant trip across Europe. God knows what she's doing over there. It was 2021. We recorded the last

episode. So we're a little more caught up now. Nothing's happened. Everything's fine in L.A. I hear. Um, no one got shot in the face with a firework. Biden's healthy and president still. Do you have all your teeth? Can I see them? I thought they were gone. I thought they, uh, I honestly, when I was on the ground, I thought I was going to take my hand off and see all my teeth on the ground. But they all stayed in place. And outside of just some bruising throughout the inner

lip and chin, I survived. Yeah, for the audience that doesn't Venn diagram with giant bomb,

Dan got quite literally hit in the face with a confetti cannon explosion and made it to like

the front page of Reddit uh in the process.

I had friends be like, didn't this guy was this? I had more than one friend message me saying, isn't this the guy that married you? Don't, who is this idiot? You can't blame me for this. I was the victim here. All right. In what world? I mean, who walks into a firework? I didn't think my friend was about to turn a howitzer of a confetti cannon into my

fucking face.

So there's like a walk me through the science here.

Is there a hard part in the confetti?

Well, a lot of people had a lot to say about what happened.

As a result, I learned how these works.

So it is a bunch of compressed

nitrogen at the bottom of a tube. And this is not one of the tiny little party popper things that you

buy at Target. This was like a big ass tube. And yeah, you twisted and it like somehow lets the

compressed nitrogen do something with the air. I don't know. Chemistry happens. And then there is

no physical projectile.

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