There’s a genre of YouTube video I sometimes get sucked into and it’s basically extremely talented musicians either doing things on Omegle, which is like a random video chatting service where you get paired with random people, or doing it even in person.

And so there’s sometimes there’s a couple really talented pianists who will have their piano there and they’re ready to go and somebody will, you know, request a song and they can just start playing it for them.

Or if they don’t know the song, it’s even more remarkable because they’ll listen to the song on their iPhone for a minute and then they can just play it by ear.

Incredible.

I look at those people and I’m like, I could never do that.

That is a talent I don’t have.

But there’s another guy like on YouTube who’s named Harry Mack and he does freestyle raps.

He does freestyle raps.

He has the people he’s talking to on Omegle just give him random words and he starts rapping and he incorporates their words into his freestyle raps.

And it’s not just like he hits a rhyme with their word.

He like really dives deep on it.

I saw one recently where the word involved Chewbacca and he had like 97 Star Wars references and he’s using metaphors and similar.

It’s crazy.

When I watch the piano guys, I’m like, I could never do that.

When I watch Harry Mack, I’m like, I wish I could do that.

I can’t do it.

I can’t do what he does.

I can’t do it the way that he does.

But I’m thinking, what if I did Your Daily Likes where I attempted to do some freestyle rapping over some free beat that I found.

So I’m going to try after the theme song.

Who knows how it’s going to go.

My guess is it’s going to go poorly.

It’s certainly not going to go nearly as well as he does it, but I thought it could be fun to try and I’m just going to go live to tape and whatever happens happens.

I posted on Mastodon to see if I could get him to give me any ideas for things to talk about on today’s episode.

So if anything comes in, I’ll use that to inspire me.

Post theme song.

Your Daily Likes.

Okay.

I spent 12 seconds on this beat.

So there’s a rapper named Harry Mack.

Is he impressive?

As a matter of fact, I feel a lot of jealousy when I see his act because I’m like, man, how does he do that?

I put out a call on Mastodon and I hope that you don’t think my mind is gone, but nobody gave me any replies.

So I guess I had a surmise that I’ll use a different way to get my material, my source and have no fear.

I’ll find a way to get some words myself and I’ll take them like they’re top shelf.

So I’m using a site that randomly gives me words.

Have some anxiety.

I have some nerves.

The first word it gave is genuine.

That’s a word that I must begin to think about what’s genuine.

That’s when I need to start to find a rhyme, but my genuine desire is to try to find fire-ish rhymes that I can use and provide.

I want to really sound genuine.

I want to make you think that I can make this mind that I’m not just out of my mind, but I’m going to press the button again and we’ll see what word comes up right then.

It’s a word that is fumble and I hope I don’t stumble or bumble or trip or lose a step.

I got to keep this going.

I can’t stop yet, but fumble is a thing that you do in football and I got to have it all.

Football, of course, the American variant, not the European kind.

That’s a scary one because I don’t know how to really kick it well.

I can’t get through the net.

I play like hell, so I don’t really like that form of soccer.

I don’t even need the locker where I could put my jersey or uniform.

That’s really cuneiform to me, by which I mean it’s not English.

It’s something I need to extinguish because I feel no fire in my heart.

Football, don’t start.

I just want the American version and if that makes you want to crumble, at least I still found another rhyme for fumble.

Now, I want to intimate without getting too intimate.

That’s the next word and so I’m now attempting rhyming it, but I think I lost my flow a little bit, so let’s get this more intimate.

I’m getting close into your ear.

These are the rhymes that you need to hear.

I press the button again, so now I’ve got to rhyme more talk, but this one is easy because I’ll take you on a walk.

That’s the word.

It’s walk.

It’s like a palm and nod and now let your head start to nod and you can be like, man, he’s keeping the beat.

He’s rhyming while talking about walking with your feet.

That’s a magical feat, I guess, like David Blaine or Christopher Guest.

Well, one of those is a magician.

One of them is not, but that was the word that came, so that’s what I got.

A magician makes the things appear and I’m doing the same, so have no fear.

That’s the words that, again, you’ll get to hear and hopefully it brings good cheer.

I press the button again and another word to unfurl.

The word I got this time, like a hair or a winter sport, is curl.

My buddy Jason Stella does curling a lot in his home in California.

Boy, I don’t know what I’m gonna rhyme now.

I should warn you that I’m not sure much about curling.

I know there is that stone.

You are on the ice.

You don’t wear skates.

The stone does get thrown.

Then you slide down on the ice.

You sweep with the broom.

You want to get it into the space and get the room for your stone to score the points and knock the other teams away.

I’m not a curling expert.

I only watch it every four years.

When the Olympics is showing it, yeah, they’ll get some of my cheers because like, hey, curling, that’s a fun thing to watch.

I don’t really understand it and I have watched it at the Olympics, although I’ve never planned it.

I think it’s time for another word.

I gotta get it faster.

Harry Mack, he is the master.

I press the button and I got create, which is what I’m doing, and I’ll celebrate that I’m not doing great, but I’m not doing terribly.

Oh boy, it’s not unbearably bad for you to listen to, I hope, and if that isn’t true, then I’m sorry.

I won’t do this again real soon, but hey, I’m over the moon because I survived.

Boy, that was hard.

Lex.