Hi. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the Fire Escape cast. I'm back. It's Mike.

Aw, you're not, Benny. I know. I stopped doing my North Jersey Italian-American accent.

Were you confused when you loaded up last week's episode and heard your own voice?

Yeah, who's this gruff and tough dude that you guys replaced me with? Oh, we just took a recording of you from a previous episode. It did sound a lot like me. Yeah, yeah, it was you. Yeah. It sounded very good. Thank you. Thank you. It was fun to listen to the Firescape cast, not being on it. It was fun to be a fan. I mean, I always like it, but it was fun to listen to it not having been on it.

It's weird to be a fan. I mean, I always like it, but it's fun to listen to it, not having been on it's weird to call the podcast you're on, be a fan of it. I like it. Big fan of the Fire Escape cast. I'm a fan of Dan Reddard's Twitch channel. I'm a huge fan. Yeah, you guys are both wearing your official Fire Escape swag shirts. They look so nice. What's the quality like? Tell me with

no bias. It is a nice soft shirt. This is the type of shirt I like. I enjoy this. It's got a nice

navy blue going on there. I didn't get the banana con yellow or whatever it was. Banana cream.

I know some people did. It looks great. It's all the ones on Twitter, but yeah, I like the old navy blue here. I got the dark. It's supposed to be black, but it looks kind of navy on this screen. I got the crew neck sweatshirt. Amanda got the crew neck. It's like the same color as the, like, I don't know what you want to go and indigo oh nice yeah they're

nice yeah comfortable I probably they don't they don't have a tie-dye one I should have it

I bet it's been delivered but I am not at my house as you might notice from the sewing machine

behind me I am at my mom's house for the next week. Do you know how to sew?

I do not, but she used to always hem my clothes when I was growing up. So it's pretty surreal to

be back here and see it again. Is sewing just sticking two pieces of clothes together or like two

sheets? And is that how you make a dress is you take a couple sheets

and you sew them together and make it skinnier at the top and that's a dress? Yeah, I mean, that's a very simplified way of looking at it. I've just never known. You see people doing this stuff and you know the ticket, tick, tick, like I've seen it happen in movies, but I just have no idea the mechanics involved. If you think it's neat, you should really see sewing in slow motion because the machines

are fucking wild. There's two threads, one in the needle, and then one actually below, and it hooks

the thread below. And that way the needle just goes down into the clothing and soes like really

fast like tuk tick tick tick tick and it's and it's because there's two pieces of thread somehow

being hooked back and forth it's crazy but haven't those been around since like madman times

like aren't those sewing machines like really old possibly before mad men times yes it's been a long time

it's a really cool's a really cool innovation.

I never really got into sewing,

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