Hello, everyone, welcome to episode three of the Fire Escape cast. I'm Mike Mahardi, your host,

as always, and I'm here with a couple of friends, Daniel Reichert. Hi, you're getting a little cocky

with your, as always. Yep. And so we're three in. We're three episodes in, man. I'm very comfortable.

Things can change. We're all part of the LLC. We can vote a two to one tomorrow. We have equal ownership. This host throne is very comfortable. I love sitting here. That's Mary Kish. Hi. You didn't call me, you called him Daniel. Do I get... Isn't Mary Kish your full name? Mariel. Mariel Kish. I've never noticed how close Mary Kish is to Marrakesh

before

like the place

I thought of that

and when I was playing Hitman I used to think of that when I would see that level yeah yeah yeah that's my full name the marvelous Ms. Marial Kish Dan I have a bone to pick with you are you being a douchebag on Duo Lingo on purpose.

What do you mean?

You high-five me when I drop down into like worse.

I did. being a douchebag on duo lingo on purpose what do you mean you high five me when i dropped down into like worsely no i just uh every once in a while I always says the thing I've got like two friends on there it's like you and bonk yeah my friend Sean and any time it says like oh Mike did a flippy flop I'm just like congrats I don't know. I don't know. Like, I don't know what that means.

You were doing it on purpose because I was sitting next to Amanda and it's like,

Dan Reichert high-fived you for joining the Diamond League.

I was like, oh, that's nice. And then it's like, Dan Reichert high-fived you for dropping down to the Obsidian League. I was like, how can't he just? Oh, no, then that's duolingo being a douche because I only do that when it prompts me. I'm not like going to your profile and be like ha ha you know it said like do you want to

grab Mike yeah yeah good you've, it said like, hey, do you want to can grab Mike? You've got a good streak going. What are you learning Spanish? Uh, yeah, I've done the dual and the thing. This is like my third go round on it. I feel like I get to a certain point where it gets to be a lot and I fall off, but I want to push through, but I can read most Spanish at this point. Yeah, you're... What's your streak?

100, something. I mean, like 150 or something now, I think. That's good. I remember Bianca's uncle at Christmas was saying he like had 400 day streak or something. Oh, yeah. It's pretty impressive. We should get them on the podcast. Mm-hmm.

That'd be great. Mary, do you, do you, do you, do, you, do you learn any languages or? I'm terrible at learning languages. I took two years of Spanish and I really suffered through it and I took a year of Latin, which was a mistake. I really suffered through that. Did you take Latin for the SATs? I took Latin because I didn't want to take a third year of Spanish because I was failing. Oh. Well, okay, so Latin, because I did a little bit of Latin back in, like, junior high. And, like, I think it's really interesting because you do a little Latin and you start knowing, like, prefixes and suffixes and all that stuff. And you can kind of see where a lot of English words come from. But are people running around in 2021 speaking Latin?

Nobody speaks Latin. It's a dead language, but it does have a lot of root words that are very

useful for learning almost any other language because, you know, it's kind of foundational.

It's not money and stuff. Yeah, it's not super helpful. I didn't retain a lot of it. I think that's,

I know everybody probably can learn it. I just think that I don't have a very functional

language learning brain and I suffer, like brute memorization of anything like that. So it was

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