Hello, everyone, welcome to the second ever episode of the Fire Escape cast.

I'm Mike, that being said, Mahardi.

I'm your host, as always.

I'm here with a couple friends, Dan Reichert.

Why is Mary already laughing?

I don't know.

I think she expected you to interrupt the intro like you have.

Well, that being said.

For the trailer, for the first episode, for the social trailer. Yes trailer yes hello i expect you to interrupt it but i

also expect mike to possibly flub it he does this kind of pause right before where i feel like he's

bracing his heart and soul to say the very first sentence of the stream you can hear you can feel it

let's keep giving him constant shit so he gets really self-conscious about it.

And maybe he'll flub more and it'll be funnier.

You know what it actually kind of is? As opposed to most video game podcast, I think we have

a pretty unique intro song. So I'm always trying to match the energy of that song. And I was

like, I should be low key. But I also want to be excited because I am excited to talk to you guys. So it's a very Tom Monda, very complex musician. He's hard to get on his level. Yes. Future Prague legend, according to Guitar World magazine. Current Prague legend, according to Mike's guitar ears. Nice. You should rate for it, Mike. Oh, that'd be great. I would have that article. It's like, what's left to do with music? Let's shut it down.

Tom. Nice. You should read for it, Mike. Oh, that'd be great. I would have that article that's like, what's left to do with music? Let's shut it down. Tom Bonda's too good. Anyway, yeah, we're on our second episode. Everybody, thank you so much. We expected people to like the show. Nobody seemed like an egomaniacs, you a douchebag. Well, we knew people were going to like their podcast. No, no, no, no.

We expected a few people to come and listen, but there's so many people and have been great about it and telling us that they super enjoyed it. And it's obviously been a couple of news-filled weeks or so, I guess, especially as of this recording, it would have been last week.

We were talking to some

giant bomb friends and everything and catching up as they were leaving the site, Vinnie Caravella,

Alex Navarro, and Brad Shoemaker, and we got to catch up with them. It's just kind of,

obviously all three of us, Dan especially, have a lot that we owe to that site. Like I got

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