Have you missed me like I missed you?

I hope so, because I have missed you.

Happy 2026.

I hope your new year is off to a great start.

I haven’t recorded an episode in days and days, but I have been keeping a note full of topics that I can’t wait to discuss.

So I’m going to go open that document while you hear the theme song, pick one, and we’ll dive in.

Your Daily Lex Next July, Lauren and I are going with another couple, the same couple we went to Italy with this past summer.

We’re going to Norway and Sweden with them.

And I did a bunch of trip planning, just like I did last time.

And I wanted Lauren to review it, because I wanted to know if there were things she didn’t like or things she thought looked too hectic.

I like Lauren to double-check some of my navigation, because I usually say, like, hey, we can go from this place to this place.

And I’m pretty good at using maps, but Lauren’s better.

And Lauren kept not doing it.

And so we were out with some friends, and Lauren said, hey, or the trip came up, and I said, hey, Lauren, have you done any looking at that document yet?

And she’s like, no.

And I’m like, it’s really been a while.

She’s like, I don’t know, remind me.

I’m like, OK, I’m going to send you a reminder now.

And so I said to my phone, and there’s going to be profanity that follows, so cover your ears if profanity bothers you.

And so I said to S, I’m going to call it S from now on.

But so I, you know, Lauren is in my contacts as wife.

Really, Lauren is in my contacts as spouse.

So I can even say, I messaged my husband.

But if I say to S, I messaged wife, that’s the number one way I write to Lauren, primarily to avoid that kind of Lori issue that I did run into.

So I’ll say, I messaged wife or text wife.

And this woman I worked with at Scripps, Weiss, would every once in a while do a thing like get a message from me being like, can you get more cereal?

Or is the laundry machine available?

And she would have no idea what I was talking about.

And eventually I had to just change her last name in my phone to simply W, because it was too annoying.

One time, Arnie Niecamp, whom you may know of as the creator and co-host of Hello from the Magic Tavern, a very funny guy from Jackbox Games, great guy.

And I’ve worked with him for a long time and considered him a friend for a long time.

He got a text from me saying, look out your window.

Now I hadn’t spoken to Arnie in a couple of months when he got that text.

He lives in Chicago.

I don’t.

And I imagine the text was somewhat disturbing.

I had attempted to send it via S to Ani when we were on a cruise ship together and I was on the balcony looking through into Ani’s room from the balcony.

So I was attempting to get Ani’s attention by saying, look out your window.

And instead it went to Arnie.

And that was funny.

So anyway, my point is that boy can S make things funny.

I’ve talked about this on other shows before, but there was one time when I had to, I use reminders a lot and I never set reminders by hand.

I always use S to set those reminders.

And I was reminding myself while I was still a mid-roll that I had to set up time with Dr.

Phil and I had to set up time with Scott Aukerman.

So I was like, I’m making an appointment for me to remember.

Actually, what I said was I had a reminder for me to make an appointment with Dr.

Phil and with Scott Aukerman.

And S misinterpreted that command and set a meeting with the three of us.

So it’s me, comedian Scott Aukerman and piece of crap Dr.

Phil all in one meeting and they had no context for why that meeting would exist, nor should that meeting exist.

And it was very awkward.

Scott understood right away what had happened and laughed about it.

Dr.

Phil was very confused and wanted a phone call to understand what had happened.

That’s just the kind of piece of garbage he is.

Anyway, Happy New Year.

One of so many topics I’ve written down since I haven’t done an episode in so long.

And enjoy the rest of your 5th of January.

Lex