I’ve been spending more time in Logic than usual recently, I guess, for a couple different reasons which I’ll explain shortly.

Logic if you’re not familiar is an audio editing app, an audio production app, from Apple.

And I use it to record this very podcast, and to do other things, which is the whole point.

Anyway, I’m Lel Friedman.

Your Daily Lex.

Now, if you were listening very carefully at the end of my pre-theme song intro, you might have heard me say that I’m Lel Friedman, which of course I’m not.

I’m Lex Friedman.

No, I’m not that either.

I’m Lex Friedman.

But I said I’m Lel Friedman because of an issue I complained about in various places on the internet today, which is for the, I think, third time for this issue to recur, my Mac has started replacing Lex, if I type the word Lex, with Lel.

That’s L-E with a capital L.

I’m only doing it in one app, and extremely frustrating, because it keeps auto-correcting my name with Lel, L-E, capital L.

And that’s not ideal.

I was complaining about it with some folks in the Incomparable Staff Slack, the Incomparable Host Slack, I don’t know what to call it.

The Incomparable Contributors Slack, there you go.

And based on some tips from folks there, I did a couple extra testing things, and eventually saw that there was some kind of collision happening of two different potential auto-correcting functionalities, one that’s built into macOS, and one that was my third-party app, Atext, that I use for various other text corrections.

None of it really makes sense, because my Mac is set to correct Lex with Lex, but I only created that the first time that this Lex for Lel substitution started happening.

And it didn’t even solve the problem.

The only way I’ve ever solved the problem before is by restarting.

So something happens in a specific app, my email app, where it gets confused and starts auto-correcting wrong.

And boy, it is pretty funny when you want to type your own name and it corrects it to something wrong.

But like I said, it’s fixed now, so fine.

But anyway, I’ve been using Logic a lot.

One is I’m hard at work on my new album with Liam.

One is I’m hard at work on my own new album.

And the other thing, besides this podcast, is that I’ve been recording my dialogue for Elf.

That’s a way to learn it.

That’s like a cheat code.

Just the process of recording my dialogue helps learn it, and then I also, I record the other people’s lines.

So it’s like, here is my line, here’s your queue line, here’s my next line, and then here’s another queue line.

And for whatever reason, I use that weird, high-pitched, quieter voice to do the other person’s line, and then my own voice to do my line, and then I listen to it in the car or other times.

And I’m using that to learn my lines.

And it’s actually working okay.

I’ve not done it this way before, but I just tried it for fun, and it’s been going pretty well.

So I’ve been doing that in Logic.

And then, like I said, I’ve been working on a couple different new albums.

Apple very recently updated Logic with some cool mastering functionality to better get your final mix done of stuff.

And I’ve been very pleased with how that works.

And I’ve been debating if I wanted to do this, and I’ve decided I do want to do this.

I’m going to share with you a song from my forthcoming album.

It might not sound exactly like this when it hits the album, but here is a preview for you.

The song is called Another Magician.

It is based on the true story.

I was in the cast of Avenue Q.

We were going out to a post-rehearsal dinner, snacks, whatever, at probably like an Applebee’s-esque restaurant.

And one thing I like to do at restaurants like that with a group of people is I’ll take my knife and make it disappear.

And when I was thinking about doing that magic trick, it turned out there was another magician in the cast, and he was already doing a trick at the table, so I couldn’t do it.

Because you can’t have two magicians at the same table, it’s sacrilege.

But anyway, I thus wrote a song called Another Magician, which you get to hear a preview of now.

I was excited to go to this restaurant, it’s a sentiment that’s almost true.

I like to break the ice or score a wow, and I know just what I’ll do.

I’ll get the table’s attention and say, hey, this knife seems kind of weird.

Then while they’re watching me hold it, they’ll suddenly see it’s disappeared.

But there’s another magician.

He’s at the same table performing sleights, yeah, there’s another magician.

Guess I won’t show off my tricks tonight, cause there’s another magician.

He’s got a good French drop, that’s quite clear, yeah, there’s another magician.

Which one of us could disappear?

I was ready to make your ring vanish, I’d have thrown it right across the room.

I palm a penny, toss that instead, you see it fly, and then kaboom! There’s a deck of cards in my pocket and your three of clubs would end up under your plate.

There were just three tricks I planned, but it appears I’m just too late.

Cause there’s another magician.

At the same table performing sleights, there’s another magician.

Guess I won’t show off my tricks tonight, cause there’s another magician.

He’s got a good false shuffle, that’s quite clear, yeah, there’s another magician.

Which one of us could disappear?

Disappear.

Disappear.

This guy’s flashing his double lift, but still ooh and ah, you cry.

He took my shtick, he got there first, so now I’m just another guy.

I’m not a juggler, I don’t tell jokes, so I resent this guy’s intrusion.

I like to be the surprise magic man, I guess he was all an illusion.

Cause there’s another magician.

He’s at the same table performing sleights, yeah, there’s another magician.

Guess I won’t show off my tricks tonight, cause there’s another magician.

He’s got a good back palm, that’s quite clear, yeah, there’s another magician.

Which one of us could disappear?

Disappear.

Disappear.

Lex.