Hello, everyone back to the 30th episode of Fire Escape cast, featured prominently on Stranger Things Season 4. It's the best podcast in the world. I'm Mike Mahardi. That's Dan Reichert. Hi. That's Mary Kish. Do you think we can get your fart that you had right before you started this episode? That wasn't real. To be in the intro music so that we can... I'm drinking clown shoes beer. It makes me fart sometimes. Yeah, same here. If you haven't had clown shoes, ask about it at your local watering hole. Go up to any place of business. It doesn't have to be a bar. Just go up to any place of business around you and say, I need clown shoes, please. They will know what you're talking about. Last year, last episode, we yelled at Jeff Bezos on behalf of clown shoes. This week we're telling people it makes you fart. I don't think this is what they wanted out of the partnership. We'll find out. It's not clown shoes. It makes you fart. It's all beer. I mean, imagine them giving you like an email being like, please don't mention us anymore.

My dad used to joke, this is a classic dad joke, that Speedo paid him $50 a year every year to not

wear their product.

And I feel like we could probably do that too with products and be like, we won't mention

you when we threatened to like, you know, harm executives and the president.

Chateau the feet gives me $1 million every month to not drink their wine.

I'm sure people love the ad placement just top of the episode.

It's a really good intro.

People love it when people are talking about partnerships and getting paid for things.

People love it.

They get furious about, I don't understand the anger over Skip 30 seconds. Skip 30 seconds. They're still talking about it. We should insert an ad every 60 seconds. We should do more ads, yeah. That'd be great. Yeah. How's it going? Dan, you just got home like two hours from traveling. I was in the air. I was flying around. I was flying next to Devin, Fire Escape fan. I saw that. What a cool experience. How did that happen? Did he recognize you? Or did you recognize that he was listening to Fire Escape on his phone? No, it was like, it was like maybe an hour, 45 minutes or something like that, and on the flight. And they were doing the drink service thing. And I'd just been playing vampire survivors the entire time on the flight and a lady comes by and and i go like oh yeah i'll take a let me get an ipa and uh as soon as the she gave me it and walked past the guy just turns to me devon and he shows me his phone and points at it and i was like holy shit and he was like oh yeah heard that yeah, I heard that voice. And I thought like, oh, that sounds familiar.

Like I listened to you for three hours here and you're sitting next to me. And then just asked about the steam deck and stuff. And, yeah, he was a delight. That's so cool. That's a very, that's a really good experience. And I'm glad that you met someone so nice. It's very rare when somebody recognizes me.

It happens maybe once a year.

But when it does, I want to be popping out of the bush. And it's always Mike scaring the shit

out of me and trying to kill me. I don't think it's recognizing someone when you've known them for years.

I think it's just running into them. Hi. I know you. This is my house.

I'm just hanging from a parachute from a tree. Hi, Mary. I was just hanging around. Can you point me to

Normandy? It's D-Day today. The episode goes up. That's my D-Day joke. Oh, it is D-Day. Yeah.

I watched that Private Ryan recently. You watched Private Ryan? Yeah, that D-Day seemed unpleasant. Seemed not. It didn't seem fun. No, like a lot of different shades of unpleasant. And that movie was good. Yeah. You watched the Blu-ray? Yeah, about the 4-K one, yeah. Yeah. Amanda was just telling me she hasn't seen it all the way through in a long time. Oh, really? Yeah. Holds up. Speaking of movies, I hadn't seen it a long time. Last Thursday, we re-watched the original Top Gun. Not a great movie anymore. Doesn't hold up really well. I almost fell asleep during. It was actually pretty boring. The new one, Top Gun Maverick, holy fucking shit. Yep. I saw that. Fuck my. Fuck me up. It was, man, that I just love the, I guess, I won't do super spoilers here, but just the idea that like they established early on,

like here's the mission and they show you this ace combat ass like, oh, we got to fly under these SAM sites, then we got to do this crazy climb here, and then we got to do a flip over here. And you got to go under two minutes and 30 seconds. And John Hamm being a dick and be like, well, we can't do it under four. And then fucking that part we're maverick. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

I want to spoil it,

but holy shit,

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