This episode of Your Daily Lex is brought to you by All Souls Lost, the new book from Dan Morin.

Out today, as you listen to this episode, you get to meet his character Mike Lucifer, a spiritual consultant who is helping a new client whose boyfriend has been possessed by a demon.

I’ve read about two pages and I already like it, so you should start too.

I will finish it in like two months because that’s the speed I read at because I read at night and fall asleep and that’s the story of my life.

Anyway, I promised follow up from yesterday about my weekend.

It’s Tuesday.

You should already know about my weekend by now, but I haven’t given you the full weekend story.

So let’s do it.

Go buy Dan’s book, Your Daily Lex.

So the other thing I did this past weekend was take Liam to Six Flags.

Liam loves roller coasters.

Man, man, oh man, does Liam love roller coasters.

Of course, when he was very little, he was afraid and then he got into them.

He started liking them so much that on, I think it’s our first album, we have a song about roller coasters.

It’s called Roller Coasters.

A fun fact with that song, just a tangent off my story right away, is when we were editing roller coasters, we were copying and pasting some stuff, moving some vocals around, some harmony vocals from Liam and I put it in the wrong place and it became like an echo and we really liked it.

We were like, oh man, we should have thought of that on our own.

So now we always try to find happy accidents when making songs.

But when Liam echoes roller coasters on the song Roller Coasters by Liam and Lex, it initially happened by mistake.

But anyway, Liam loves roller coasters and he constantly wants to go to Six Flags.

We typically have at least three, sometimes five season passes depending on when my family wants them in a given summer.

But you know, it’s been getting colder and we’ve been pretty busy.

So although Liam keeps asking, hey, can we go back to Six Flags?

The answer has been no, especially because Lauren’s been doing a show.

She’s been doing a Hunchback of Notre Dame, which takes basically 27 hours a day, 15 days a week.

So Liam’s like, well, can’t you just take me, Dad?

That’s me.

I’m Dad.

And my policy, which he knows, is no, I don’t go to Six Flags by myself, you know, with Liam.

I need a Lauren or somebody else with me who knows Six Flags because I just don’t feel like I ever really wrapped my mind around Six Flags.

I can go to Disney World.

I can go to Disneyland.

I could go to Disneyland Paris and figure that out.

I can use their map and use my brain and figure it out and know how to navigate.

But Six Flags, even though it’s much smaller, always felt overwhelming to me.

But Liam’s like, look, I’ve gone a million times now, so I can be the navigator and we can just go and we’ll figure it out.

And so I said, fine, let’s do that.

So on Sunday, he and I went.

We were originally going to get there for a 10 o’clock opening until I realized it didn’t open until 11 that day.

So we got there around 1030, 1040.

We were among the very first people in the park and we rushed to Nitro.

Nitro, the ride he wants to go on first, the roller coaster he wants to go on first, and it’s closed.

So we go over to the Jersey Devil and it’s closed.

We go back to Nitro and it’s still closed, but Jersey Devil’s now open, so we get on a bunch of things.

He did something like 10 or 12 rides that day.

He did a couple roller coasters that I can’t do if it’s just the two of us because Six Flags has this thing where at some roller coasters, you can take stuff out of your pockets and leave them in bins and hope that people won’t steal them.

But some, they don’t even let you come in with anything in your pockets.

If they see you have keys or a phone or anything, they won’t let you in the line because of how crazy the coasters are, I guess, I don’t know.

And you can rent lockers, but I certainly wasn’t going to do that.

We’d never do that because the lockers are a scam, but so, you know, one person from your party has to stay back and so I’m like, Liam, you can do these.

So eventually he did a couple of those.

I think he did Jersey Devil twice in a row because there were absolutely no lines on Sunday and he did one other one that I don’t remember where you can’t take anything with you while I waited.

The rest we did all together and, you know, I used to not like roller coasters and I was growing up, as a college-aged kid, I started to get into roller coasters a bit and I don’t like wooden roller coasters.

That’s the other one he did by himself, a wooden roller coaster, because one time I hurt my back on a wooden roller coaster and I’ve never gone on one again.

I don’t like them as much as he does and I was very, and he knows this, but I was transparent with him about it.

I’m like, man, you know, when I was on like roller coaster number six, I’m like, I don’t know how many more I have in me, but you can keep going on as many as you want until we have to go.

And we get to our very last one of the day and it’s one where you stand and it crushed me a little bit in a manly or not manly way.

And it also, that’s one that battered my head around a bit and it battered Liam’s head around a bit.

And he had, yeah, Sunday was the day when Liam wanted to sit in the back of every roller coaster.

He thought that’d be the most fun option, a different kind of ride.

And I think that one, he concluded he made a mistake riding in the back because he’s ridden on that roller coaster before and had no problems, but in the back, we were really getting jostled quite a bit.

I don’t know how different it is from other seats.

Maybe it was just a bad ride that day, who knows?

Maybe it was just the weight distribution of that car, that particular cycle, I don’t know.

But then we were done.

We also did a couple other kinds of rides, including one drop tower.

I forget what it’s called at Six Flags, but it’s apparently the tallest drop tower ride in the world.

And it just wasn’t that good.

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror and Disney’s similar rides that have been rechristened from that name, they go down and then up again and then down, and you get multiple drops.

This one is just like, you go up really, really high, and then it’s one drop, and then it’s done.

And it’s like, okay, but I didn’t get enough free fall time.

Six Flags, I didn’t get enough free fall time, story of my life.

Anyway, now I have updated you in full on my weekend, so I guess we can get to the week.

Bye Dan’s Book.

Goodbye.