The Apple Vision Pro went on sale today, Apple’s headset that lets you, I don’t know, do stuff with a headset on.

And it looks cool, and I was watching some of Apple’s new videos, they’re like, look at all these cool things you can do while you’re wearing it, and they look cool.

And I still don’t want one.

I mean, to say I don’t want one is weird, because like, if I had a bajillion dollars, would I buy one?

Sure, why not?

But it’s not like an issue of, I can’t afford a Vision Pro.

If I could buy the Vision Pro, I just, it really feels to me like a thing that ends up being not used a lot more than it’s used.

You know, I watch a lot of TV or movies on my iPad, so that I can very quickly pause and be engaged with folks in my house or whatever.

Or, you know, I’m watching Fitz and Spurts in between doing other things.

And Vision Pro does not seem well-equipped for those use cases.

And the productivity apps, such as they are, that are available for Vision Pro, like, it does not seem like a device where I want to actually do my email.

I don’t need my web browsers in space.

Anyway, I’m not buying a Vision Pro, and that’s weird for me, because I think it looks cool, and I also know for sure I don’t want one.

So there you have it.

You know what I do want, though?

An episode of this show.

I want to talk briefly about breaking things.

I should note, by the way, it’s yet another snow day.

Everybody’s home, except I get to work.

I’m taking this five minutes to record this episode, and then back to work again.

But I want to talk about breaking.

You know, I do a lot of improv, as you probably know.

And you never want to break on stage, right?

Even if you find something funny, even if you yourself are being funny, you don’t want to break and laugh on stage.

Carol Burnett, I almost pronounced her name right, Carol Burnett and her crew, they liked breaking on stage.

And then you’ve got your Jimmy Fallon, who’s kind of famed for breaking all the time on SNL.

But breaking as an indulgence to get the cheap laughs, I don’t like.

And this is, by the way, definitely not to say that I don’t break.

I do break.

There’s a couple of performers who almost always make me break when I’m on stage with them, and who I certainly try to make break myself.

But it’s not, you know, my goal is to do the thing right.

And so I really think about how can I make sure my head is in the game?

How can I be really in this moment and focused and not be breaking, not be laughing?

Because I don’t want that to happen, right?

I want to be in the moment, be rich in the zone of the show.

So, anywho, I was at a rehearsal last night for Misery, and there’s a moment where I’m pretty angry at Annie.

She has done me wrong, and Annie is my captor, I guess you could say at this point.

And, I mean, she always is, but I don’t always know.

But so, I’m being held captive by Annie, and I’m really pissed off at her.

And I’m being pretty rude to her, justifiably, I think.

And then she says, you know, the sheriff was here today.

And I don’t have a line, but I have a reaction.

Like, that gets me.

That gets my attention.

And Annie says something like, hmm, like, ah, that got you.

And the woman playing Annie is great.

And her name is Pam, the actress.

And Pam does a, you know, is very faithful to the script.

She’s getting closer and closer to being off book, and will correct herself any time she misspeaks a line.

But she was adding some kind of a vocalization to that line.

She’s like, like, well, mm-mm-mm, that got you.

And something about that vocalization cracked me up.

So, I’m really laughing.

And, like, my breaking, of course, makes Pam break.

And we’re laughing, like, really hard now.

And it’s not that funny, but that moment was funny.

Like, well, mm-mm-mm, that got you.

And it just, because there’s so much tension in the show.

Like, I don’t know, there’s just, we’re rehearsing, and it cracked me up so hard.

And I’m like, I am barely able to breathe, and I’m laughing so hard I’m crying.

So, we try again.

And now, like, there’s all this tension and anticipation around those lines.

And now, I’m laughing really hard.

She’s laughing really hard.

And there’s only two other people here, the stage manager and the director.

And they’re both laughing.

And we try really hard to go.

And it’s the kind of thing where, like, you can hear, like, people’s words are squeezed.

Like, they’re holding themselves together, trying to really get their words out.

And instead, they burst into laughter again, because they’re holding it in so tight.

And then, somebody loses it.

And then, everybody loses it.

And, like, just straight tears streaming down my face, laughing so hard at not that funny of a line.

Like, probably not really, I mean, a cute line, maybe.

Like, a smile line, but not a funny line.

So, then, I’m super in my head.

I’m like, I have to get serious on this.

I have to not be laughing.

I have to be laser-focused.

And be super into character and thinking about difficult things.

And now, I can do it.

And now, I’m focused.

And here we go.

Bust out laughing again.

Just bust out laughing.

Incredible.

So, we did eventually get through it.

But it was hard.

It was probably at least a 10-minute delay of my laughing my fool head off, along with others.

Had I been laughing alone, that would have been even worse.

But I’m definitely nervous.

I don’t want to break all the time.

And now, I’m afraid of that scene.

I’m afraid that every time we get there, I will remember how funny it was at that time and laugh all over again.

Anyway, it’s the weekend.

But you’ve already heard that song from Liam and Lex.

You’ve also already heard a clip from 7-8.

Liam’s song about songs being written in 7-8.

So, here is the next track.

It’s called In A Brainstorm.

It’s about brainstorming ideas for a song.

We wrote it while we were surprised, brainstorming ideas for a song.

So, here’s your clip from In A Brainstorm.

Have a wonderful weekend, and we’ll talk again soon.

There are no bad ideas in a brainstorm.

So, let’s just shout out more ideas.

We could write about headaches or a second song about steaks.

Or maybe about quesadillas.

We once thought of camp as a topic.

But that’s a song we didn’t write.

We didn’t write about school.

Lex.