I’ve told you a bit about this fiddler that three of us are in, Lauren, me, and Sierra, and my uncertainties about it.

It’s been challenging.

At times, each of us has convinced the other to stay in the show.

There’s nothing against the people involved, at least not that I’m going to say publicly, but it is a challenging process.

And yesterday morning, Sierra came to me and was like, I really want to quit the show.

And I said, I’m doing the show in large part because you’re doing the show, and I want to do a show with you.

And she’s like, I know, but I want to quit.

Now, Lauren has the biggest female role in the show.

And were I in her shoes, I would keep doing the show.

And because she’s going to keep doing the show, I’m going to keep doing the show.

But so, Sierra did.

We did give her permission to leave the show because it’s still more than two months away.

Then I get to rehearsal yesterday.

Lauren wasn’t there, which I’ll explain.

And the handouts with somebody else has also left the show.

So I remain very, very curious about what will happen with this fiddler.

We’ll see.

Lauren, meanwhile, was in Boston.

Lauren had agreed to take Ani to Boston, which was going to be my trip.

We were doing Accepted Students Day at both Emerson and Brandeis.

And I was supposed to take Ani to those things.

But Lauren realized that I would miss rehearsal this past Sunday.

And she’s like, hey, if I take Ani, then I can miss rehearsal instead.

So Lauren was like, I’d rather do 10 hours of driving and all this stuff than go to that one rehearsal.

Plus, this was a way for Lauren to see Emerson, which she had never seen, and to visit Brandeis, where she hasn’t been in many years.

And the conclusion of all that was Ani is making the decision to go to the Emerson Honors College.

And that’s very exciting.

Anyway, here’s the show.

Your daily Lex.

I glossed over one thing, which was that this whole past weekend, while Ani and Lauren were visiting colleges, I was feeling a lot of feelings.

I’m feeling some real sadness about Ani going to college and about all the things I haven’t yet taught my kids and all the time I haven’t yet spent with them and the reality that it’s quite possible that Ani could never live here again.

And whenever I say that, people are like, oh, no, this is 2025.

Like, your kids are going to come home and live with you.

Maybe, but also maybe not.

And it just breaks my little heart.

What are we doing?

What are we doing with these lives of ours?

I had Liam sleep over in my room since Lauren was away.

Sierra and I spent a bunch of time together, mostly with my driving Sierra places.

But yeah, rough weekend, man.

I didn’t like this whole college visit thing.

I can’t believe we’re here.

And Ani has a friend who’s a week older, but because lives one town over, she has a different age cutoff.

So she’s already well into her first year of college.

And like, I can’t even imagine if it was already here.

Crazy.

Just can’t.

Wow.

Just blow my mind.

Anyway, as you know all too well, we’ve been going through the album Blueprint by Liam and Lex.

Last week, you heard the album’s sole instrumental track, which was called Pi, initially, the symbol.

And then it was called 3.14159.

It was not called Pi the Word, but that’s what this song is today.

This is the song that the instrumental from Friday was meant to be, but instead became this one.

This is the only song that features live drums on the album.

Liam and I got the joy of recording drums, setting up his whole drum kit.

We both agreed the cymbals ring out a little bit too much.

It’s a material question.

It’s fine.

But I love his drumming on this track.

I love this track.

I think this track is really fun and weird and jazzy.

He and I take turns singing on it.

It’s a lot of fun.

It’s about the number, P.I.

This is the Pi section of the album.

And I hope you enjoy Pi from the album Blueprint by Liam and Lex.

I’m gonna list a million digits of Pi.

I swear this is true, it isn’t no lie.

It’s a million digits of Pi.

3.14159.

Wow, I’m already tired.

I thought I’d list a million digits, but my songwriter, he’s fired.

He’s gotta go.

Oh yeah.

I can’t list every digit of Pi.

Please don’t bother asking me why.

It’s too complicated to dive right in it.

But the digits of Pi are kind of infinite.

I won’t list a million digits of Pi.

Would you want me to?

So then why?

Would it take so long?

You can cry.

3.14159.

And on and on and on.

I thought I’d list a million digits.

Perhaps my mind was gone.

I can’t list every digit of Pi.

Please don’t bother asking me why.

It’s too complicated to dive right in it.

But the digits of Pi are kind of infinite.

Pi is the ratio of the circle’s circumference to that circle’s diameter.

In other words, if you’re doing some math, Pi is an important parameter.

I can’t list every digit of Pi.

Please don’t bother asking me why.

It’s too complicated to dive right in it.

But the digits of Pi are kind of infinite.

I can’t list every digit of Pi.

Please don’t bother asking me why.

It’s too complicated to dive right in it.

But the digits of Pi are kind of infinite.

Oh, baby.

In every inch.

I think I want some pie.

Two quick fun facts.

Number one, we sent that song to Liam’s drum teacher after we finished recording it and mixing it.

And he complimented the drums.

He complimented our drum engineering recording.

And he knows nothing about my music taste.

He’s like, it kind of reminded me of They Might Be Giants song.

So I was very excited.

Also, the very last line of that song, I think I want some pie, is a reference to the next track, which we’ll talk about tomorrow.

Lex.