I’m back home after a weekend away in Richmond, Virginia.

Let’s talk about it, because that’s what we do on this podcast.

Talk about stuff that, you know, I live.

♪ Your Daily Lex ♪ Okay, so yeah, I went to Richmond, Virginia for a comedy sports tournament, the Sweet Tea Tournament in Richmond.

A lot of fun, good times.

Drove with my pal, Scott.

I’ve known Scott for many years now because we did improv together in a group that really hasn’t done anything in a bit called Death by Improv.

It’s kind of living up to its name, if you will.

And then he and I have done comedy sports together here in Jersey for a while.

So Scott and I did the long drive, and Scott had warned me ahead of time that, you know, he’s not always chatty, and so I should be prepared to monologue a lot.

And I was like, oh great, I’ll do a five-hour, I’ll do a five-hour Your Daily Lex.

And turned out we just, you know, conversed, and it was great.

Got to see my pal, Casey Liss, on Friday morning, I guess.

We drove Thursday, got there Friday.

That’s right.

So Friday, I had breakfast with Casey.

And then Scott and I didn’t have a ton of plans with our Virginian compatriots until later in the day.

So we decided to go to an escape room, just the two of us.

And we felt the pressure.

Doing an escape room has adjusted to some, but we crushed it.

We had something like 11 minutes to spare defusing the bomb.

And what I enjoyed most about this escape room was it had some mechanics I hadn’t done before, including using foam rocks to knock down planters that we couldn’t reach, which revealed a code.

That was a lot of fun.

Now, because this event came together a bit last minute, the Richmond hadn’t been short, Richmond Comedy Sports hadn’t been sure they were going to do this, and then decided that indeed they were, we were going either way.

Even if they didn’t do the full tournament, we were just going to go and, you know, do a regular comedy sports match, which is staged as a competitive comedy sporting event, hence the name.

We were going to go and field a Jersey-only team against Richmond.

But instead, there was this full-on tournament.

Because it was last minute, they didn’t have a ton of plans.

And I decided I was going to step up a little bit to be the guy to solidify plans, a role I’m not always comfortable with.

Listen, I don’t mind organizing my friends or family or whatever, but there’s a lot of people who I was meeting for the first time, and I didn’t want to be that guy, in quotes.

But, you know, Friday night, we have a match, and then we’re talking about what we’ll do the next day.

We go out to a late meal afterwards.

And yeah, we can do this thing, or this thing, or this thing, and yeah, let’s figure it out tomorrow.

And I’m like, I’d love to figure out some stuff now.

I didn’t do it obnoxiously, but I was like, what if we made a plan to do Hotel Green Saturday at 11, and got enough agreement that we could do that?

Hotel Green was really cool, which is why I’m bringing it up.

It was a former hotel that had been turned into a full-on indoor miniature golf course.

And it’s like, it’s got a bit of a, not a haunted mansion vibe, but a creepy vibe, like intentionally.

There’s some weird stuff.

You can look through some peepholes and windows into some mildly disturbing dioramas that really look incredibly well done, like realistic style.

In one room, there’s a mirror over the bathroom sink, but the mirror’s really a TV, so your reflection doesn’t appear, even though it otherwise is reflecting everything you can see.

Another room, a TV functions as a window to an alleged apartment across the way.

But you’re going through the hotel, and so they’re putting greens on a carpet that looks like, you know, here’s a bathhouse tile, or here’s a bathroom tile, or here’s the paneling or carpet of a hotel room, and you golf through the thing.

That was great.

It was very fun.

It was cool.

Got to hang out with a bunch of comedy sports people, and, you know, perhaps most importantly, I won the miniature golf.

So it was good.

Then, of course, there were the comedy sports matches.

Three matches in two days.

I had a match Friday night, and then back-to-back matches on Saturday.

And, boy, it was a lot of fun.

One of my favorite things was a moment where you had to do some guessing, because some improv games involve guessing, and I couldn’t figure out what clue was being given until finally I realized, in a clue being given with no words, just gibberish and mime, that the clue being given was Dua Lipa.

So I was proud of figuring that out.

But really, just fun matches.

It’s nice.

You know, comedy sports is a pretty big, thriving cult-like community.

Did I say cult-like?

And, because I meant to.

But it’s nice to get to meet more people from that world, and hopefully we’ll continue to do that.

Anyway, here it is, a brand new week.

July 17th is the day.

So let’s hope every July, I don’t know where I’m going with this.

Anyway, have a great week.

It’s Monday.

Lots more to talk about, including my night with a ghost, not in that indoor golfing area.

Yeah, more soon.

Lex.

Lex.