Fire Escape Cast #40

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Fire Escape Cast #40

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191 minutes

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Oct 24, 2022

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Minn Max's Ben Hanson joins the Fire Escape crew in Mary's absence to talk about Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, reminisce about the early days of Game Informer's video work, and argue about the definition of a condiment.

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Oct 24, 2022

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Dan Ryckert, Mary Kish, and Mike Mahardy can’t shut down bars while talking about video games like they used to, so they created Fire Escape to keep those chats going from across the country. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fireescape/support

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