I was thinking today about what it takes to decide to have a daily podcast or really to do any kind of solo podcast where it’s just you.

And I think that both of those things, a podcast where it’s just you and a daily podcast where it’s just you.

They speak to some level of ego, I guess, right?

Like, oh, I have enough to say or I’m interesting or funny or clever enough, insightful enough that people want to listen to it all the time.

But it’s also not just that because I am often self-conscious isn’t the exact right term, but it’s in the right wheelhouse.

I think a lot about this podcast when I’m recording it, when I’m getting ready to record it, when I’ve published it, because I want to make sure it’s interesting, right?

The point is not just to put out something every day.

The point is to put out something people want to listen to each day.

And so there’s some pressure to be interesting there.

And I worry sometimes about, is it interesting enough?

And I think about Howard Stern has a whole bunch of sidekicks, a crew.

Rush Limbaugh, may he rest in hell.

He would do his show solo, I guess.

And then he’d have phone calls, but just talking without anybody to bounce stuff off is a weird skill.

And I think that part of the way I do it is responding to myself.

If that makes sense to me, it does.

I think I kind of just did it there, although it was a little forced.

But so I think that my co-host is also me.

So anyway, that was my thought.

We’re going to talk about falling again.

So get ready.

But theme song is Your Daily Lex.

So as you probably know, if you listen regularly, although a good friend of the show told me recently that he dips in and out of episodes, so maybe he doesn’t know.

But as you may know, I’ve been working on my fall in misery where I’m trying to get out of bed.

And one of the important things is when I’m trying to get out of this bed and my body’s vastly injured, the goal isn’t to fall, right?

The goal that the character Paul has is to slide himself out of the bed without getting hurt, without getting more hurt because he’s already pretty hurt.

So the first thing is you can’t like the plan can’t be the fall.

The plan is to kind of ease my way out.

And then the problem is I fall.

And again, I’m sliding out on the left side.

My right arm is in a sling.

And the goal is, as I’m starting to try to slide out of the bed, I hurt my my right shoulder, get some pain.

So I reach for it and then I flip over over my left side.

So if you can visualize that, like I’m falling to the left, I reach for my right side and I fall to the left and spin all the way over, crashing on that same allegedly dislocated right shoulder.

That was working OK.

I mean, I got a little injured doing that scene over and over again.

But when I did it once a day, it was really fine, like no scrapes, no bumps, no bruises.

It was it was very easy.

Bruises only on the day when I had to do it over and over again.

And then they built the set and the bed was really high.

The bed is really high for a couple reasons.

One, it’s high up so the audience can see you better.

And then they had also canted the bed.

So like my my torso is up even higher, but the bed was comically high at our first rehearsal with the set high enough that when the woman playing my nurse slash kidnapper Annie would stand at the bed, I was still taller.

My head was higher than her head.

So they’ve lowered the bed a bit.

But before they lowered the bed, when I was trying to, you know, thinking about that scene, I was like, I cannot fall out of this bed.

Like and the director saw right away.

There was no way I was going to fall out of that bed.

Like, I think that one practice would send me to the hospital where I’d fall out of that bed the way it was.

And he’s like, yeah, let’s not do that fall that way.

Why don’t we try one where you’re kind of just sliding out of the bed on your feet?

You’re hoping that your legs will support you and then they collapse.

So I go for it.

And I, you know, we try that where I’m sliding out.

And then, of course, my legs are in reality fine.

So it’s pretty easy to then just collapse.

But I felt it felt much faker to me.

It felt like it didn’t look scary.

It felt like it looked like an actor pretending that his legs didn’t work.

So he fell down where the fall could look accidental.

Like my dream was always they’d say, wow, did you really hurt yourself on that fall?

Like, are you OK?

And that’s the goal for me is people think that it’s actually painful.

So, you know, when the bed was insanely high, I did this, you know, goofy.

Let me try to have my legs support me and then fall.

And the director was like, no, that still looks good.

It plays.

Whatever.

So last night, the bed had been shortened.

And I’m looking at him like with the bed at this height, I think I can fall out of it the original way.

And the director’s like, you know, you don’t have to.

You can you can we can still do the leg thing.

This is too high.

The leg thing works.

I’m like, I don’t like I feel like the leg thing looks more controlled and the falling thing looks not controlled, even when it is controlled, which I believe to be better.

And he’s like, no, if you just don’t feel like I don’t want to get hurt.

So when time comes for that scene, it’s one of those scenes where you’re an actor alone on stage.

And in this case, you’re an actor, as I guess is maybe often the case with an actor alone on stage.

If you’re not monologuing, there’s no dialogue, right?

It’s, you know, some grunts of pain and some some face, some facial expressions and determination.

I’m going to do this, whatever.

And, you know, Paul and Lex were feeling some of the same thing.

It’s like, I want to be OK as I get out of this bed.

I wasn’t terrified because it was, like I said, significantly lower, about a foot lower than it had been the day before.

And I’m thinking about what it’s going to look like.

And, you know, as I’m getting closer to doing it, like I’m inching my way and the character is inching his way over and I’m inching my way over and I’m getting ready to fall, inching.

And then I see, you know, it’s still a bigger fall than when I was doing it from the cot, but it looked reasonable.

I felt like I could do it, but it was certainly trickier.

And finding that move where I’m checking my right shoulder.

So I’m like you’re leaning your body left over right on that shoulder.

And then while you’re doing that, then you have to flip all the way over, like fall over your left side and spin around.

And I do it.

And my co-star, the producer and the director all go almost in unison, oh shit, while I scream in pain.

And my friends, it was just acting.

It was totally fine.

I was very proud.

So I did that fall.

It was not painful.

It looked good.

It’s not to say it won’t ever be painful, but it is, it is a reasonable fall.

I felt good about it, but man, the dream came true.

Everybody thought I was actually hurt and I was not.

So way to go me.

Happy Friday.

Happy weekend.