Okay, let me clarify something I did not invent podcasting Your Daily Lex So yesterday I was talking about how many episodes there were of this show and I couldn’t believe it and I was looking back to see when the earliest episode of the show was and I Concluded during the recording of the episode that mistakes were being made that there were some errors First let it be known that I did some incredible incredibly nerdy work Yesterday to fix things here’s the basic issue the podcast has lived in more than one place it’s lived on my own server and then it moved over to micro blog and The RSS feed is compiled by a script that checks every five minutes to see if I publish a new episode of your daily Lex since there’s no consistent time when they get published and My biggest fear since there are hundreds of episodes of the show is My biggest fear as relates to your daily Lex in its RSS feed My biggest real role is is aliens But my fear is marking a bunch of very old episodes as new So that was that’s always been my concern So I have to do some magic of merging two different RSS feeds into one to make sure that the canonical link The GUID if you know what that means that it doesn’t change And so there was a slight bug that had gotten introduced in that thing Plus there was one episode that had been marked with a very old date.

So to clarify some things Number one the first episode of this show was December 26th 2013 It was the debut episode of the show and I talked about what the podcast was going to be and I shared how I spent My Christmas so that was fun This episode is number 625 yesterday I thought I was on episode 917 and then eventually I realized I was not this episode is number 625 and I feel pretty good about that number I might even start putting the number back in the file name in the in the episode title, but I might not who knows It’s just more work But anyway, I want to clarify.

I did not podcast back in 2001 or 2002 whatever I said I made some fixes without everybody downloading all the episodes all over again, which is wonderful and This we’re in the 600s, which is still a lot 624 episodes Given that I started effect.

Let’s call it 2014 right because I started December 26th So let’s say I started just 2014 and let’s say that it’s the end of 2023.

Okay, if we posit those two things both of which we know are wrong, but are acceptable statements.

Well, that’s nine years and if we divide 625 by 9 that I mean you can maybe do some of that math your head.

I’ve basically done a roughly 69 point four four four four four episodes per year of this show nice However, we know that that’s not exactly accurate.

I mean it is accurate It is the correct average, but it’s because of some massive gaps, right?

Like I did a handful of episodes Between I Started doing episodes pretty regularly again, May 4th 2022.

I did zero episodes in 2021 I did one episode in 2020 And then before that I was doing daily episodes in 2019 So we’ve been on a pretty good kick because since May 5th 2022, I’ve been doing it just about every weekday I’ve missed you know a handful.

So it’s pretty good pretty good if you consider Podcasting frequently good.

Everybody loves it self-referential episode, right?

We love it when the episode of the podcast is about the podcast.

That’s really good Anyway, I have noticed that my my topics document has run dry Actually, my topics document is full of talk of topics.

It’s full of documents my topics document, which is called My topics document which is called YDL in notes has Hundreds literally of episodes topics and I use the checkbox setting thing in Apple Notes and they’re all checked.

So I Welcome your topics.

Otherwise, I’m gonna for brainstorm.

So on my own the only one I’ll revisit is running I have been running typically every other day But not not a hundred percent of every other day.

So I’ve been writing two to three days a week and it’s been good and I went from Hating running to tolerating running and I still think that the runners high is an entire and complete fantasy But I can run and not die, which is good I was talking with my pal Jason Snell and a couple other pals on a slack about running and like we’re all doing the thing We’re running and you know, I can run for an extended period of time and not feel miserable and I had a really weird thing last night where as I was Thinking about today thinking about my morning.

I was thinking.

Oh, it’s gonna be a running day on Thursday And I was looking forward to it, it’s like oh my gosh, I can’t wait I’m looking forward to running and that’s just crazy talk.

So anyway, I Guess I’m Usain Bolt over here.

I don’t know.

Happy Thursday.

This is episode four million point two Lex