This is episode 917 of this podcast.

It just hit me.

That means I have made 916 episodes of this podcast before today.

Obviously I took some lengthy breaks in doing the podcast over different years, but that is crazy.

That number of episodes of anything is a lot of episodes.

It helps that the show is only five minutes long, but good Lord, my first episode of this show was September 6th, 2002.

Yeah, that’s a really long time ago.

I used to do longer descriptions and then I very quickly started doing short descriptions of each episode, but I have been doing this show for a really long time.

Initially it didn’t have a musical, a lyrical theme song.

It just had a, uh, what do you call it?

It had like, um, an instrumental theme song.

And then, um, I had a couple of different theme songs, one that my buddy Seth wrote for me.

And then eventually I landed on this one is what felt like the right theme song for the show.

Your Daily Lex.

I don’t know, like 917 episodes.

It just really feels like a lot of episodes, I guess, because it is a lot of episodes.

Uh, and it’s just kind of blown my mind, um, that I’ve done so many of them.

Um, again, it helps that it’s daily, but that’s, it’s a lot, no matter what, no matter what it’s counts as a lot of episodes.

And it’s just, it’s kind of blown my mind.

I’m kind of rattled.

Uh, not that 917 is a specific kind of milestone, like I guess a thousand, uh, in just a few months time, that’ll be a really significant milestone, but I, I don’t know.

It’s really kind of fascinating to me.

Uh, I’m now realizing as I look at the history that there’s something weird going on.

Maybe I haven’t done as many episodes as I think.

Wow.

This whole episode, this whole conceit could be crazy because it looks like when I go into history of the show, uh, when I go to the back catalog, um, a whole lot of episodes are duplicated.

So many episodes appear twice, uh, a bug in my feed that I’ll have to fix.

So I have done far fewer.

Let’s see when the doubling stops.

Oh, okay.

It’s not.

So roughly, and this is rough, but roughly 296 episodes, uh, well, 296 is roughly 148 episodes are doubled, which still means, okay.

It still means I’ve done more than 800 episodes.

It’s still a lot of episodes, but now this podcast, this particular episode, I would say is not currently a highlight of the genre because it’s me talking about episodes and their quantity and then being confused.

So I can see now that I have a bug to fix with your daily likes, uh, the feed shows duplicates for the first hundred odd episodes, but that’s fine.

But still it’s a lot.

It’s a lot.

What have we learned over the course of this podcast?

Primarily that some people will listen to anything.

And by some people, I mean you, dear listener, but no, I’m so grateful.

I love when people listen.

I love that people listen.

I love when people talk to me about what they hear and share their feedback.

As you might have sensed from me diving into the episode count, I wasn’t exactly sure what to make today’s episode about.

Uh, I, uh, I think in part because I don’t work at a job job and instead of work for myself, because I don’t work at a job job and instead of work for myself, I have maybe fewer hilarious work stories to share.

Uh, I have plenty of fun life stories to share, but some of them get a little bit dicey as I’ve alluded to in somewhat recent episodes, uh, where you don’t want to talk about people who might stumble across the show.

Um, so I will say simply this, I had a rehearsal for elf last night and I was grateful to have a friend or two in the, in the show because early days, you don’t really befriend the cast.

Like there’s been no introductions of the cast to each other.

So I’ve picked up some names, I’ve said hello to some people, but I don’t know a lot of folks because when you’re deep in the learning, uh, part, there’s not a lot of time to socialize.

Once, once people have everything mastered and it’s more like running the show, there’s plenty of backstage time to, to develop more friendship stuff, whatever.

But, uh, having a couple of friends in the show, like the guy who was striking monster when I didn’t have a new cue, he and I could share not just knowing glances, but also back channel texts during, uh, what I would call a less than ideal rehearsal last night.

And sometimes that’s how they’re going to be, right?

When you’re learning a show, when you’re learning the music for a show, especially it can be a bit of a slog.

It can be a bit of a nightmare.

And, uh, yesterday was both a wow.

Well, I have a rehearsal looking tonight, so I’m hoping it’ll be a more joyous, but here’s the thing as less than thrilling as last night’s rehearsal was on the way home.

I was motivated to stop at a burger King where I got an order of fries and a milkshake and I regret nothing.

Lex.