Hey,

Welcome back.

It's episode 50 fucking something.

We're here with the fires.

We're here with the fire escape cast.

Hey. What is this? Hey, all you beautiful. What are you doing? You're beautiful little babies. Daddy's home and he's got a podcast. It's Mike. That's Mary. That's Dan. Daddy's home. You're the youngest person on this show. Daddy's home. He's going to tuck you in. Stop doing weird stuff. You prompted me.

It's too much too soon.

I've taken 17 improv classes.

I will never kill a joke.

I would love to see you an improv troupe.

I've never taken an improv class or done improv because it's never funny.

If it's people that are good.

Yeah. If people that are good, it can be pretty good. The problem is, is that a lot of people are bad at it. Oh, the large majority are terrible at it. Like 95 plus percent, definitely terrible. But the good ones are very impressive. Abby would argue that she's good at it, and I think she is. She's been in some good stuff. Abby's actually, it was funny. I saw that. Yeah, I saw her improv group, too. I was there with you. I liked it because they, like, were weird as fuck right away. And I was like, okay, I'm into it. I'm on their wavelength. And it was good. Yeah. Yeah, I liked it. Yeah. But I've seen... Every once in a while in L.A., I've done an improv, not a course, but like seen improv. Sure. And they're not always bad. There's a couple in Portland that I think are tougher, a little rougher on the edges. I think if you're going to go to improv, maybe you're going to find more talent in the L.A. area than you would in, like, rural spaces. What did Harold? You go to UCB in L.A. Like, the UCB theater there was pretty good. That was Harold Ramos, his quote, Portland's where comedy goes to die. Is it? No, I made that up. And see. Weird person. Fake quote. It's like, I don't know. It's going to say Robert Zemachus. Zemeckis? Zemeckis. Zemachus. Robert. Zemich. Oh, speaking to which, you film snob up there, Mike Maharty,

I heard,

I heard from Bonk that last week he got a little intellectual with his Kansas City boy. You were here. No, I wasn't here. Yes, you were. No, wait. He had a Kansas Cityan. Yeah, you had Chris planned. He's a smart guy. Oh, right, different person. We talked about you as if you were here.

What do we get?

I got intellectual or we did collectively?

I heard the chat. Chris planned. He's a smart guy. Oh, right. Different person. We talked about you as if you were here. What do you mean? What did we get? I got intellectual or we did.

Yeah. I heard the chat was uncharacteristically intellectual for this podcast. And I'm here to fix that. Yeah. You're just bringing us down every week. Other week.

I brought up multiple times that without you, I was like, I'm unprepared for how highbrow this chat is getting. And I don't, I cannot chime in. Okay. Do you remember that? That was shortly before Chris Plant did a vampire impersonation about a guy kicking him out of a car in a Brooklyn bridge during a hurricane. So I think it got pretty lowbrow as well. That's from some Fitzgerald novel or something, I'm sure. That's the thing. Everything. And he knows the date and he knows who made it. And then they were like, they were like, who was Don Quixote's best friend? And I was like the windmill. We're like, Mary. And Fire Scapecast is back. Don Quixote. It's those snobby Kansas City boys.

You can't trust them. Don Quixote. Did you just change it to Don Quixoteo? You're just shooting syllables into it. It's Don Quixote. I just like that Dan's back. Thank you. Am I a stupid buffer? Am I good stupid buffer? Yeah. I can maintain my second place trophy as not the dumbest. We should take an IQ test. We should all take an IQ test. I don't want to know. I think there's a legit, I think for shoot, I think there's a chance I could win that thing. Yeah, but IQ tests are bullshit. That's like being good at trivia. It doesn't mean anything.

But it's a nice number. And if I had the highest one, I could gloat. We could also do a spelling bee, which we have done before. And you've won. But if we did an egg cooking competition, you would lose. That's not all sorts of pieces. Make an omelette. Let's measure our dicks. Wait a second

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