I'm I'm I'm The I'm The I'm I'm I'm I'm the I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Fire Escape cast. It is August 16th, Monday night. Dan, do the Monday me thing.

It's not Monday? Do Monday night.

Wait, what? I do a Monday night?

In the trailer, remember. I do. Okay, I don't remember anything. I'm guessing, I'm guessing it's like a Monday Monday. Is it like that? Is it like that is verbatim what you did in the trailer. Yeah. Well, it's the same word twice. You guys don't go back and listen to the trailer all the time. I thought you guys were cool. I talk in to microphones for like 14 hours a day. You're so cool. You're so popular. I just sit in this chair in Connecticut all day. And then I sleep. And then I get up and I sit in this chair and talking to microphones for another 14 now. It's why you get confused.

Your leather thrown. There's no way it's actual leather. This is from Bob's discount furniture. If it has the word discount in it, it's made of newspaper for sure.

Mike, you've sat on this couch. It's actually pretty comfortable for Bob's discount furniture. I've sat on it and at your previous apartment, I slept on it. That's right. Reclined in the chair to sleep. That was not that comfortable. But it wasn't bad. But no, we've leveled up to the nice inflatable bed that you sleep on here now. Yes. you made sure to mention that you set me up on an inflatable bed quite a lot on the last stream I was on with you. It's a nice inflatable bed. When I got him to lose the title in Smashy Vet, he kept, he just kept saying, I give you a nice inflatable bed and you come here and you take my belt away,

even though I gave you a nice inflatable bed we use. We're going to Jersey this weekend and we're going to use that inflatable bed. That's good enough for us. It's good enough for our guess. It's a wonderful inflatable bed. Yeah, you're coming to mind. That's all I wanted to hear. I'm Mike Hardy, by the way.

That's Dan Reichert, Mary Kish.

You don't know us by now.

Here we are.

Welcome.

Yeah, you're, we're, uh, we're doing a, like a birthday thing two months after your birthday. Hey, for the record, it's not a birthday thing. I actually told Bob like, don't make it seem like it's a birthday thing because that's weird that my birthday's in June and we're doing this thing in August. Birthday. Birthday. Birthday. Two months after. I bet she told them and they make an announcement for birthday boys at these events. Oh, geez. We're going to medieval times for those listening. By the time this air is that we will have gone, so I hope our night won. But yes, getting a bunch of friends in the area, including Mr. Mahardi, to all meet up. I'm very much looking forward to seeing everyone in person. To Bonk's, no, I was going to say, to Bonk's credit, she has stressed several times. She's like, it's not really a birthday thing. It's just an excuse to meet up.

I'm the one pushing the birthday and narrative where Dan can't have just a birthday or birth week.

He needs a birth quarter. God damn. We'll be hanging out again in a month.

It's my birthday quarter. Let's go to medieval times. It's my fiscal birthday year.

It makes zero sense. Mike, I'm asking you not to tell the knights or the kings or queens that it is my birthday. Let them know it's no one's birthday. Which is code for tell them it's my birthday. I'm too shy to ask. No. It's true. Yeah. Did they give you a case? Don't tell anyone that it's his birthday. I didn't wink. We have a video

podcast. They can't see me winking. Listen, there are no people that go to the medieval times when it's

not a birthday in their party. Especially ones that are almost 40. It's practically required.

It's like everyone who goes, there is an

expectation that someone in that group is having a birthday and that's why you're there.

There'll be none the wiser this time. It's going to happen. It was a huge turning point in my life

where I, like, I don't know, a decade ago when I became comfortable enough going places alone,

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