Hey, happy leap day and happy new Lex Friedman album day to those who celebrate Which I suppose includes me because I’m certainly celebrating that.

I have a new album out.

We have so much to discuss Let’s get right to it Your Daily Lex First of all, I want to give a shout out to my kids.

They don’t listen to this podcast at least not regularly But I’m very impressed with all of them and in different ways and for different reasons The the one I was thinking about when I started that sentence was a Sierra who is 15 and who’s in the play The musical is cool.

She’s in Shrek and You know the rehearsals go crazy so Sierra gets up for school at 540 or something like that and leaves the house by 620 and That has been coming home from school at 9 45 10 p.m.

Because he stay after school for rehearsals and then you know, it’s tech week now for Shrek So it’s really just tons of rehearsal time because the show starts tonight as I record this And then you know does it all again the next day and Sierra doesn’t complain about it part of that is my rule is you can’t complain about it or else I want you to do all those things but She really has trained herself to not get miserable and she’s like, yeah, I’m tired like it’s it’s tiring But when she wakes up she’s got some energy and then she gets more tired as the day progresses and the show starts and I Guess you get that adrenaline burst So kudos to her.

I’m impressed By that energy and by you know, she got great grades and she’s happy man being happy and tired That is a real skill Anyway, I am excited because I have a new album out today and I’m always careful about how much I go into these things Well, that’s not I’m not careful about it.

I go into these things on this show because it’s my show I get to do what I want, but I worry sometimes like hey do people not care about my other things Do they just want five minutes of my talking about whatever but it’s my podcast.

So I make the rules Anyway, I have this new album out.

It’s called a sentiment.

That’s almost true.

Some of you listeners helped name it It’s available wherever you listen to music if you go to Lex Friedman comm sentiment I’ll get you links to Apple music Spotify Amazon music.

You can find it elsewhere, too.

There’s a music video.

We’ll get to that tomorrow But yeah, I was gonna spend a couple days telling you about the album probably roughly 12 days Maybe longer if I forget one day But I’ll play you I guess the full song.

I’ve gotten feedback that people really like when I share the whole song I think the flip side the downside to my sharing the full song is that you you monsters just listen to it on the podcast and The dope body listening to it on music platforms.

I wouldn’t mind if you listen to it on music platforms I’m just saying it’s fine Streaming it there helps.

I don’t know something.

I earned tons of pennies Anyway, the first song is called ready or not It started as a song called robot or not that I wrote for our mutual friend that’s yours in mind Jason Snell and for his podcast robot or not that he does with John Siracusa and I really liked one of my robot or not themes because I wrote many and I was like, you know This is a good song.

This could be a whole song and like what sounds like robot or not?

Basically, I was parodying myself and I came up with ready or not and I guess it’s a song about It’s in theory.

It’s a song about whether you know, the the singer’s love interest is Requiting if she’s interested back, but it’s mostly in my mind about the internet, right?

It’s about the different ways we used to communicate with people I guess Anyway, here is ready or not again if you want to check out the new album It’s whatever music streaming service you lose you search for me and it’s gonna say did you mean the other guy and you’re gonna say?

No, I’m in him or you can just search for a sentiment.

That’s almost true Or like I said get direct links at Lex Friedman comm slash sentiment.

Here’s the lead-off song on the new album ready or not Ready or not By the way, I think that’s a funny way to start an album with a track called ready or not like ready or not Here comes the album.

I’m so clever you guys ready or not.

So did you text me or not?

Should I answer or?

Should I not do you feel me or not like me really or not?

Are we doing this or are we not?

Do you like what I’ve got?

Do you dig me a lot do I still have a shot or do I simply not will you text me?

Have you left me or were we never?

really real Ignore my DM.

So I’ll carpe diem cuz I hate feeling how I feel How I feel Ready or not.

So do you get me or not?

Will you text me soon?

Or will you not is my evening a buster?

Should I shake off the rust?

Is it a Wi-Fi?

Problem or one of trust.

Do you like who I am?

Did you mark me as spam?

Do I still have a shot or do I simply not will you text me or?

Have you left me or were we never really we Among my regrets is that Facebook request, which I assume you didn’t see Probably It’s true Undeniably, I married Unreliably will you ever reply to me?

Ready or not.

So will you let me or not?

I could make you happy or I could not Will you answer or not?

Take a chance or just not.

I know my Desperation isn’t hot.

Should I turn off my phone?

Well, I live life alone Do I still have a shot or do I simply not will you text me or just regret me?

Have I left your memory?

I Love meeting you.

So now I’m subtweeting you since I think we’re meant to be Are it we?

Ready or not.

So did you text me or not?

Will you answer or will you not?

Lex