Wow, the 1001st episode of Your Daily Lex.

I thought this day would never come. Your Daily Lex. Okay, I kid, I kid.

I assumed that this day would come when I recorded the 1000th episode yesterday. Thanks to those of you who wrote me in various ways to tell me about how and why you listen and when you started listening. That was the thing I didn’t ask for, but a couple of you shared and that was pretty fun to see. I got emails, I got posts on various social media networks.

It was cool. So yeah, thanks.

It’s exciting to hear how and why people listen to the show. I’m not going to go too deep into this topic yet, but I did find out pretty recently, by which I mean earlier today, that I’m almost certainly going to finally appear on one of my top favorite podcasts. You know, one that I’m not directly connected to. So that’s exciting.

That’ll leave, at that point, if that happens, just one podcast left on my bucket list that I really want to get to appear on at some point.

So we’ll see. And what your guesses are may or may not be right.

I will confirm or deny nothing for the time being. But it was exciting.

So there you go. I have had so many video calls today that I started to lose my voice a little bit, so that was fun. And I also, I don’t know, I got to flex some muscles that I don’t always flex.

This is not about my fitness journey.

This is metaphorical muscle, which is the only kind of muscle I associate with myself, despite the fact that I now have physical muscles.

Anyway, look, I made it about physical muscles. So leaving my incredibly well-defined abs out of this. I really enjoy when I get to do video editing.

I really enjoy when I get to do music and sound editing, and I haven’t, I’ve got to finish my album.

And it’s really, I think part of my hang up on doing that is that it’s so much easier for Liam to compose than it is for me.

And so like when I see how much it’s a challenge for me and how simple it is for him, I think that discourages me for no reason, which is not blaming him.

It’s blaming me.

I got to get better about doing it.

I got to just do it.

Because even though it’s harder for me, I can still do it.

I can’t do it as easily as he does, but I can still do it.

I got to do it.

But anyway, I was doing some video editing today for a couple different projects, and that’s really fun.

It’s also fun when I don’t know how to do a thing, and I’m like, clearly Final Cut Pro has a way to do this, and then I can Google how to do it and learn in seconds, because it can do the things that I want.

So, I don’t know.

I really enjoy getting to flex that muscle, because I think I’m actually pretty good at the video editing side of things.

I just never do it.

Can you tell when I press record and have no topics in mind?

This is one of those times.

I’m sorry.

It’s okay.

Everything’s going to be fine.

The director of the show I just did, the director of the play, Same Time Next Year, reached out to me yesterday.

He is currently directing at a different theater, a nice theater, a production of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Now, you may recall I once shared a story on this very podcast about the one time I felt I truly bombed an audition.

It was at the theater where this director is doing Jesus Christ Superstar.

I’m getting offered a role in the show at that theater, at the theater where I have never redeemed myself.

I’ve never performed in that theater.

I’ve auditioned at it once and did horribly.

And here I was being offered a role without having to audition, but I declined for a couple reasons.

One, it’s not my kind of role.

He wants me to be one of Jesus’ apostles, which I would say is not the part I was born to play.

Two, I just frankly don’t love doing ensemble-style roles, which is what that would be.

There’s nothing wrong with them.

There’s people who love them.

My wife is one of those people.

She would always love a lead if there’s a good role for her, but she’s also always happy to be in the ensemble because she loves being in a show.

I prefer big roles not because of the ego specifically of, oh, I want to be the star, as much as I like to feel like I’m making good use of my time.

And listen, the ensemble can be in a lot of stuff.

The ensemble can have a lot of stage time, but I also feel like I have so much wasted time when I’m in the ensemble.

Even the best-run rehearsals waste some of your time when you’re in the ensemble because they’ve got so many things going on and so many people to take care of.

When you’re a core lead, they do a better job of maximizing your time, which I appreciate.

But at any rate, I don’t care for the show either.

I don’t want to learn all the songs and dancing for that show because I don’t care about Jesus Christ Superstar.

And not because of Jesus, by the way.

I got no beef with Jesus.

Great Jew, in my opinion.

Gone too soon.

But just not a show that I have any special affinity for, and I’m really trying to be disciplined about not doing shows that I don’t feel specific affinity for.

You got to have some affinity.

I don’t need infinity affinity, but I need some affinity.

You feeling me?

Anyway, I don’t know what just happened to me.

I think I lost my mind.

I hope you’re having a wonderful February 19th.

More soon, my dear friends.

Lex.