Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Fire Escape cast.

It is a rare daytime recording, as you can kind of see, if you're watching our video

version, light streaming in. I'm drinking coffee instead of... I got a coffee! Instead of beer or whiskey. This is so different for us to all be drinking coffee instead of booze. It's like seeing your teacher at the grocery store. It's very out of context. I think we're going to make up for the booze part in the coming week, though. We'll be all right. Yeah, you two are making the trip out to East Coast. Well, I do. I did not right now. Maybe by the time we're talking about video games. Yeah, you two are flying, you two and Jake are flying out here in a few days. We're recording. It has been, we'll talk about what we've all been up to, mainly you two, but it's been busy for basically all four of us here at Fire Escape the last two and a half, well, I mean, the last year really, but especially the last two weeks, hence our Tuesday publishing, if you're used to our Monday as we apologize. But a lot of people have Monday off anyway here in America at least, so. I mean, it wasn't just me and Mary and Jake.

I mean, we had you on the couch and Jake.

All four of us were on the Giant Bomb couch. Oh, yeah. True. I was there. I was drinking wine, as usual. Yeah. It was fun. I was there. You're quiet. You're quieter than normal. Yes, Snowbike Mike was there. It's great to meet him.

Mitch,

Mitch had no shoes on.

I got to see his feet finally.

I met. Snowbike Mike was there. It was great to meet him. Mitch had no shoes on.

I got to see his feet finally.

I've been asking him for years.

Oh, yeah.

Mary was next to Mike during the part.

Who could forget?

Yeah, so for, I'm assuming everybody knows,

but for those who don't know,

Giant Bomb did their perennial couch at Summer Games Fest, the not E3, but the new E3 event. I believe it was called Giant Bomb at night. I have the mug. Look at that. Isn't that crazy? I mean, aside from when I was there, how did everything go? Because it seemed fun. Oh, my God. It was so good. Honestly, it felt after like, you know, I've been doing E3 for a long time, but doing the Giant Bomb Couches since 2011 before I worked there. And it just felt so good to like, I kept thinking that like I left the industry for three years and somehow never missed a couch, you know, like I, I, because the pandemic and everything, and now we're back. Oh, yeah, 21. We didn't have anything. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, for anyone who saw it, like Jeff Grubb did an incredible job putting the couches together and hosting and Jan keeping everything together and everyone from like fandom with Emma and Bailey. And it was just, it was, honestly, it was amazing.

It was just,

uh,

the green room situation was great. Tons of people just hanging out, having a good time. Uh, it was, uh, man, it felt great. And, and Mary having you in there was awesome. That, that particular couch that we had with me, you, Manati, snow bike,

and Hardy, of course.

That was a highlight for me.

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