I was really torn today.

I have been working non-stop all day.

It’s 533 as I start this I’d like to be out of my home office by that time And my rule is if I don’t feel like doing an episode don’t do an episode But I know that I typically don’t do episodes on Fridays just because how my schedule works and that Monday was President’s Day So I didn’t do an episode then I was like, I don’t know if I want to go that many days without an episode It’s like who cares.

It’s just my listeners and they’ll get it Like if there’s no episode there’s no episode they move on with their lives If you don’t feel like making an episode don’t but then I thought I’m thinking about this so much I think I do Care about making an episode So I guess I should and I am as evidenced by this the intro to this very episode that you’re listening to right now Your Daily Lex Last week I was telling stories from college And I got multiple pieces of good feedback I mentioned Tony by name because he wrote to me and said that he was enjoying it But you know now I’m keeping it going because more people have indicated to me that they like the college story So here’s another college story.

It’s probably gonna be short one since I only partially want to be doing this episode So I Hosted a radio show in college at first my buddy Eli and I his last name was also Friedman And I’m sure I’ve talked about this to some degrees on the show But he and I joined another show that already existed this would have been 98 to 99 and that show was called Audio terrorism, I Wasn’t our show we didn’t name it But yeah, not good.

And I mean the show was fun.

It was on from I think 12 to 1 a.m.

And At some point that would be in late 2001 we decided to change the name of the show and we did Because that name no longer felt good at all and it became called the men’s room I mean that I still don’t think really holds up, but that’s what the show was called And the men’s room was a fun podcast with me and Eli we refer to ourselves as a freedmen he spelled Friedman differently for me, but still with two E’s, but we made it work and Before the name change actually it was the summer after my freshman year I was staying on campus or staying near campus and working on at Brandeis that summer The radio station brass at the time was like, hey, can you keep doing your talk show during the summer?

I was like sure and like well, we’d love if you could do a little bit longer Could you do 12 to 2 and I’m like, oh my god, not really.

We don’t we can’t really do that You know, what about 12 to 3?

And I was like, there’s no way I’m doing 3 hours.

So they agreed on 12 to 2 a.m.

For the summer Even though it was one hour during the school year And then here’s what would happen Eli would keep no showing once a week for our show Eli is now a rabbi But yeah, he would not come because he would get busy or be you know, he lived not too far away He lived in Newton, Massachusetts, and he would stay there And have his own things going on that summer.

So then I’d be doing a talk show solo I guess was good practice for this but doing a talk show for that long solo takes some work, especially if you’re not playing music And there was one time where I was hosting the show and I would encourage people to call in But they wouldn’t always call in, you know, it’s if they feel like it are people listening was a small campus radio station, whatever I was complaining about a goatee that I had grown I was very frequently growing goatees at Brandeis at college because it was a way to spend less time shaving, right?

Shave your cheeks and some of the neck but then leave a little goatee thing.

It’ll get longer and longer But I only had my a Liferick razor and then in college a friend of mine taught me how to use my friend Jake taught me how to use a regular razor like a Mach 3 or something and Those are fine for keeping your stubble and shaving it off But they’re not good once you have a thing grown because that hair is too long and it would it feels like it’s ripping it off your face to do that and that’s what I was complaining about like you want to trim it down and then Use your regular razor, but I had no such thing.

I had no trimmer at the time and so What I would eventually do whenever I grew out that goatee was Deal with tremendous pain when I was finally shaving it off.

It’s it would suck.

It was horrible it was like truly horrible as I just ripping hair on your face over and over it was terrible a Person calls in and it’s a listener and she’s like you should use nair.

I was like, that sounds great.

What a great idea I don’t have any she’s like I have nair I was like great You know where Brandeis is come to the radio station and this complete stranger to me who did not even go to Brandeis But lived locally in Waltham, Massachusetts Did exactly that I?

I Have to put on a song when she arrives at the radio station so I can let her in Because you have to go to the door and physically open it to let the person and whatever she brings in there Put the nair on my face live on the radio and then wipe it off later And it did leave a bunch of you know, kind of rashy whatever on my skin, but it didn’t hurt and it got the beard off So thanks to that person whose name I forgot we did not maintain a friendship.

We did not fall in love She was a lovely, you know girl.

She was roughly my age But you know, we did the nair It was exciting My face was now clean-shaven and rashy and I gave her her nair back and she went on her way Man, oh man, but that’s that’s one of my that’s one of my radio station stories my talk show stories That’s all I got for you right now.

Hope you’re having a wonderful Tuesday.

That feels like a Monday and we’ll talk soon Lex