Yesterday’s episode had audio hiccups, and thank you to the many of you who reached out to let me know.

It’s embarrassing.

I don’t know what caused the audio hiccups.

In fact, I don’t know if right now I’m getting audio hiccups.

I’m going to check after I record the intro, before I record the rest of the episode.

The weirdest thing about the audio hiccups is that in Logic, the app I use for recording episodes, it shows the full audio waveform, but in playback, you hear those cutouts.

So I don’t know if it’s a software issue, a hardware issue, or what.

I don’t know if the issue is with my Mac or with my microphone.

I’ve heard it with two different microphones, so it’s probably with the Mac or with the software.

Typically, I can fix it with a restart, but I’d love to be able to fix it without a restart, because restarting is just the worst, right?

Restarting, ugh.

Anyway, it’s Tuesday.

It’s January 27th, and I have no idea what my topic will be, but we’ll find out after this, which is not just me starting the next part of the episode, which it usually is.

It’s me going back and listening to this intro to see, does the audio work properly?

We’ll find out.

All right, I’ve now identified it’s a software issue.

I don’t know exactly the crux of the software issue, but I’m going to work on fixing it.

So in this episode, wherever you hear me suddenly get a little bit quieter or weirder sounding, that’s where the dropouts were, but I figured out a way to make it not drop out there.

So good stuff.

More nerdiness than anybody really needs in this.

So yeah, as you know, I’m all done with the play.

When I did Same Time Next Year, I learned that the author, Bernard Slate, had also written a sequel, Same Time Another Year, which is a stupid name since the show covers 25 years the first time around, and another 25 years the second time around.

The sequel is so bad.

The play is so bad.

It makes the characters less likable.

It adds a bunch of stupid subplots and other stuff.

It’s so bad.

So I had to consider it non-canonical.

I probably shouldn’t have read it while I was rehearsing the show, but I was at least good at separating it and being like, nope, that is not who George, my character, is or becomes, because it was terrible.

And it’s just so funny to me to write a play as a sequel, which already seems like a fairly uncommon thing to do, but then make it terrible.

It did get me thinking about sequels, where sometimes you see a sequel and they totally, in my opinion at least, get confused about what it was people liked the first time around.

I think that a classic example of this is the Pitch Perfect movie series, where in the sequels they glommed on to, oh, we did all these things in the first movie, which was a hit, so let’s do all those things again.

But not all of them were what made the first one great.

So I don’t know.

Movie creators, writers, people who make sequels, don’t be dumb.

And I’m going to share a controversial sequel opinion of mine, which is this.

First of all, I think the best film trilogy ever to exist is Back to the Future.

Sorry, Godfather, deal with it.

And I think the best of the three Godfather movies is Nope.

Well, the best of the three Godfather movies is probably the first one.

But the best of the three Back to the Future movies is the second one.

Most people don’t think that.

Most people love the first one.

I recently was talking to somebody who loved the third one, which is also crazy talk.

I mean, I love all three, but the third one is not the best.

I love the second one.

I understand why people don’t.

But what I love about the second one is twofold.

The first is that they spend time in the future, and that’s very exciting.

And the second is, man, oh, man, I just love that they revisited scenes from the first movie and that you got to see two Marty McFly’s or whatever.

Like, I thought that was just so brilliant.

Like, here we are reliving the first movie, which I already loved, and now we’re adding to it and there’s stuff that’s happening that we didn’t even know was happening when we saw the first one.

Man, loved it.

I just think Back to the Future 2 is the best Back to the Future.

Anyway, that’s all I have for today.

It is January 27th, and as you may or may not know, 27 is my favorite number.

So I guess that’s a good luck omen of some sort.

Or it’s not.

I don’t know.

But man, so much work left to do for me today.

So this is all you get.

Goodbye and happy Tuesday.

Lex.