A fun question mark, so a fun aspect of this podcast is that I never look at how many listeners it has.

It’s not on a regular podcast host, they don’t have any easy access to stats.

Yesterday on a whim, before I published that episode, I put in a little redirect on the file so that I could see how many people were downloading the show and all that.

And I was surprised by the number of people listening to my ramblings here on Your Daily Lex.

And I said to some friends, you know what, I think I have to step up the quality of the show.

If that many people are listening to my daily ramblings, I should make this show great.

I mean, you’re already listening, so I guess you like it, but I always wanted to try hard.

I want to make this show something I’m proud of, but I want to be even prouder.

I want to make you proud.

I just, I love you.

What I’m trying to say is, will you marry me, dear podcast?

No, what I’m trying to say is, that’s a lot of people and you deserve greatness.

So here’s another potentially great episode.

I say potentially, because who the hell knows what I’m going to say over the next four minutes.

All I know for sure is we’re going to hear a theme song.

♪ Your Daily Lex ♪ So as you may recall from earlier this week, on Monday I had pretty up and down internet, intermittent, ugly, bad internet.

I said pretty and ugly, that’s fine.

Anyway, I had bad internet.

Tuesday it was still a little bad, but Monday I scheduled an appointment, which they couldn’t make until Wednesday.

They were implying that it was on my end.

It was very clearly not on my end.

It was very clearly on their end, but I scheduled the appointment so somebody would come out and fix whatever was going wrong with them.

And now they’re coming today, but the internet has been fine today.

So when the guy shows up, which is supposed to be any second now, in fact, I assume I will interrupt this recording to talk to him.

I’m going to say, hey, here’s the whole deal.

The internet was really bad Monday.

It was a less bad Tuesday.

It’s been fine so far today.

They were implying something on my end.

It’s clearly not, but I wanted somebody to come out.

Basically, I’m going to say exactly what I just said to you.

I like how I said I want to up-level this podcast.

And then I basically said the same thing to you with no gap twice in a row, like the same 10 second phrase.

Anyway, but I don’t feel bad about having to come out.

He’s getting paid either way.

And there was a problem.

It wasn’t my fault.

Now I hear him.

So I’m going to pause and we’ll be back in, well, for you, seconds with more of your daily life.

So for me, probably half an hour.

See that no time went by for you, but plenty of time went by for me.

He’s currently working outside after doing some diagnostic work inside.

And the guy was very friendly.

I have a movie posters hanging up in my basement and we discussed some of the movies he hasn’t seen or even heard of that thing you do.

And I recommended it given that he liked most of the other movies that were on my wall.

My Cousin Vinny, Inside Out, Nodding Hill, et cetera.

The American President.

So, you know, he had some fun equipment that he was getting.

And I told him as he was walking in, like, look exactly what I’d said to you ahead of time.

I said all the things I said I was going to say.

I’m not going to make you listen to me say it a third time.

And it’s like, no, you’re probably right.

We’ll take a look.

And he was pleased with the results of his tests inside and said everything looked great.

And then he said, when he was all finished doing, you know, about 20, 30 minutes of testing inside, he just said, you know, I’m going to go outside and freshen your connections.

I was like, what does that mean?

He’s like, I’m going to replace some of the hardware, you know, like with the coaxial connections, whatever else, just put in new ones.

And he said that actually does stuff.

So how about that?

Refreshing weathered connections, I guess, outside.

So we’ll see.

But he, it’s fun when you have a technician who comes to the house who is conversational.

I don’t know, like there’s some times where you can have somebody who’s working on something in the house and you just leave them be.

But when it’s somebody who’s doing something that I’m like interested in or would like to see like what they do, I’ll watch them.

So not like watching like a hawk, like I was just hanging out in the basement while he was doing his thing.

So we had this conversation, it was fun, it was nice.

And then he asked what I did.

And usually I just say I’m a consultant, but in this case I said I work in podcasting, which isn’t untrue, but isn’t incredibly true.

And I really, really got worried for a second because he goes, oh, are you?

And I really thought he was going to wonder if I was the other Lex, but instead he just said, oh, like do you host any?

And I’m like, oh, I do host some, but that’s not where I really earn my living.

But then he wanted to know about all the podcasts I have.

And I mentioned that I do one every day.

I didn’t tell him the name.

So I doubt that he’s listening, but James, if you are listening, you did a great job with Optimum today.

I’m assuming at this moment I’m offline while you’re doing your thing outside.

But I’m assuming that in a few minutes you’re going to have everything fixed and we’ll be back up to speed.

So thank you, you did good service and you should watch the movie, That Thing You Do, which is Tom Hanks’ directorial debut.

If I can make a recommendation in his writing debut, if I can make a recommendation, watch the original Director’s Cut, which I, to be candid, have never seen.

But the next time I do a rewatch of that movie, I’m going to watch the Director’s Cut because there’s whole excise plot lines that I’m excited to see.

Anyway, happy Wednesday, everybody.

Lex.

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