I’m on an open zoom call right now Waiting for my co-host Brian Warren to join the call so we can record an episode of our podcast Sorkin in it about the films of Aaron Sorkin, but because he hasn’t joined yet I was like, hey, I could use this time to start an episode of your daily Lex at some point He’ll pop on and wonder what the hell is happening And then he’ll quickly figure it out and then lots of stop recording the your daily Lex so that I can start recording the Sorkin In a podcast, but at least this way I’ve gotten things started right and that’s good.

So good is good I Alluded very briefly yesterday to the fact that my dog Cody recently had surgery we had noted that he had some odd behaviors and Upon multiple examinations the vet concluded that Cody has or had Bladder stones and so he had some surgery to remove those bladder stones There was one big stone and a couple smaller stones all of which have now been tested and have turned out to be fine And he’s given a slew of different medications And when they gave me the prescription they even gave me medicines that weren’t his that were like barbiturates of some sort which I gave back But he’s got to wear an outfit to prevent him from licking his stitches And it’s the thing where you can either put the dog in a giant cone Or you can have him wear this thing and the outfit that we have for him is incredibly degrading it’s like pink and white and ridiculous looking and he hates it and If you ever seen a video of a dog wearing shoes or who ever put your own dog in shoes like when a dog steps while wearing shoes the dog with each step is attempting to step out of his shoes and Looks ridiculous Cody sometimes well at first Cody wasn’t walking at all in part because he was sore from surgery and drugged up But even the next day or two as he was recovering he refused to walk in this outfit most of the time So we take it off to take him outside for obvious reasons and if you can’t figure out those reasons draw a picture but He would walk around happily when the thing was off, but then we put it back on He would like be very motionless and now after a few days, he’s realized yeah, I can still move but he walks insanely He walks like he’s trying to step out of that outfit or something or like All right, maybe his legs going to fall off while he’s walking in it’s got fun It’s it is amazing to me how we have to treat pets and babies because they can’t communicate with us and it’s like remarkable that we’re really we have to grasp at straws and and Figure out what’s going on because they can’t just freaking tell us which would make it a lot easier So all I’m saying is can’t we get our pets to tell us what the hell’s going on?

Hey Brian’s joined my zoom.

So because Brian has joined the zoom I’m gonna pause this your daily Lex recording do my episode with Brian and then I’ll come back and finish this episode No time has elapsed for you But an hour has elapsed for me and indeed Brian and I recorded Sorkin and at this time an episode about the movie The Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix if you haven’t seen the movie The Trial of the Chicago 7 I Super encourage you to check it out because it’s great a lovely joyous film Maybe joyous isn’t the right word, but a great movie Brian and I were also discussing what should our next project be because we only have one Aaron Sorkin movie left Which is a being the Ricardos Brian’s been warned by various folks that they are sorry that he has to see being the Ricardos I’ve already seen that movie and liked it.

So shoe on that public But more on that I guess when we watch that movie and record the podcast episode about it Anyway, it’s a performance heavy weekend for the Friedman family Sierra has a dance recital Liam has a rock shop show and Lex that’s me.

I have a comedy sports match is the official vernacular.

We don’t call those shows this one.

I’m not on stage I’m the voice.

I’m the guy on the microphone to the back of the room making funny and And sharing the score now one of the things you have to do when you’re the voice So comedy sports is is comedy improv played as a competitive sport.

It’s not comedy about sports And there are fouls that the ref who runs the the match can throw one of those fouls is the groaner foul You can get a flag if you make a joke that is too dad jokey or too punny as you can imagine This is sometimes a challenge for me But when you’re the voice when the ref is explaining that foul to the audience at the beginning They throw to the rat to to the voice and say hey voice Can you please give an example of one of those jokes and here’s what I’m thinking of sharing Which maybe I’ve already said on this podcast and I remember but when I need to give an example of a joke that could cause The groaner foul it’ll be a conversation with Mario where Mario’s before the judge or the judge says Mario I’m gonna order you to pay a hundred thousand dollars Mario says nothing and the judge says it’s a fine Mario and Mario says no, it’s a not I love that joke Anyway, happy Friday Lex