In this episode:

• Alex is a bonafide fire builder and cake wrangler. Call her for all of your birthday needs.
• AJ, the birthday queen, reflects on her prior year being a boring one
• What does boring mean for someone used to chaos? 
• Dive bar shenanigans
• What environments do we feel comfortable in based on authenticity, prior trauma, etc.? 
• Alex and AJ navigate the same environments very differently
• AJ has the satisfaction of a perfectly landed joke to cap off her birthday celebration