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0:00Today's topic, two recent and surprising times, I was nervous. Your daily... Lex. Okay, something about the way I said that pre-themed song intro sounded very newscaster to my ears. So let's hear it again. I'm literally gonna copy and paste how I introduced this episode. So you can maybe already notice, but it really sounded like classic TV news anchor on the local news, especially. Here we go. Today's topic, two recent and surprising times, I was nervous. I'm literally laughing at myself as I played it back. More on that story at 11. So here are two times as I was nervous. One was last night. Rehearsal. And it was funny because we were gonna be rehearsing act two, which is the one with all the shenanigans. We're gonna be doing lots of nonsense, lots of craziness, lots of kooky stuff. Plus, there's, you know, the first half of the act has a bunch of dialogue. I got a lot of dialogue in that act. I have a lot of dialogue in that one in that too.

1:00And then my act three is pretty easy. But I was especially nervous about all the physical stuff because I just, I don't know how to memorize it. I don't know how to work on memorizing it. So I was just trusting that my body would still know what to do. And I was saying, gosh, I'm genuinely nervous. I'm not usually nervous at rehearsal. And everybody else in the cast on my side of the stage because there's a girl with this start stage right. I was like, yeah, no, I'm totally nervous. Like I don't know if it's the script or the director or what? It's a little bit of everything. And I was saying this to Lauren on the way home. She starts stage life. And she said, oh my God, we had exactly the same conversation on stage life. So it's good to know that everybody was nervous, but I'm not usually nervous before rehearsal. rehearsal was for rehearsing. You can mess up at rehearsal. And it's okay. But we're all nervous about it, which is fine. It went pretty well as it turns out. I feel much better now. That was the thing one. Thing two was today I had my first ever Lex on Tech live zoom. When I was launching Lex on Tech, I had no business model. I thought maybe one day I'll do sponsorships, but for now I'll just put up ads for my own apps. And I did that. And instantly, like within hours or less of launching,

2:00somebody was like, hey, are you gonna have membership so we can support you? I was like, okay, I'll work on that. So I did. And people joined, which was very flattering, honestly, very kind and thoughtful and made me feel good. But so now you have members. And when I was launching the membership, I was like, what should I include? And so I was looking at, during Fireball, which doesn't really do memberships. I looked at cocky.org, I looked at six colors. And I was looking at how different people do memberships. I was like, I can do a podcast, just for members. I can do full-text RSS feeds. I can do a membership discord. And then I was like, Jason and Dan do some member zooms on six colors. And people seemed to really like that. And I was like, I don't know if I need people to join. I'll probably post this zoom thing and nobody will show up, but whatever. I can make it a perk. And it's been a month since I launched and I said, I would do one a month. So I was like, it's time to do the zoom. And we did it. And a bunch of people came. It was fun. But I was nervous going into it because I was like, I don't know what this is gonna be. If it's just one or two people, that could be fine. But it could also be a little bit awkward. If it's everybody, how do you keep it sane and coherent?

3:03Do I need an agenda or not? And I decided I'm an improviser. I can just go in. I don't need a true agenda. And I would have a couple topics in my mind, the two topics that I had where if people had article suggestions and if anybody's dealing with the same problem I do, which is I have app icon blindness in my doc on my max sometimes. And the conversations that, like meaning often, I can't find the zoom I got. Even though it says zoom on it. And I know roughly where it is in my doc. Like I just, I'm blind to it for some reason. And I got some cool ideas and suggestions for people in the conversation that I think will turn into articles. But it was great. It was a lot of fun. The conversation never fall turned. The only time that the conversation had any pause was like, by the way, if anybody has any article ideas, feel free to share them. And it was like crickets. And I was like, ah, so that's like my job. I have to come up with the articles and you read that fair. But it was funny to me too. I like to observe my own nervousness sometimes because like these are, okay, this sounds a little bit hokey. So forgive me for it. But I was like, these are your biggest fans, right? These are the people who like you so much that they pay to support your site. And they're showing up because you're hosting a zoom. It's probably the least intimidating audience.

4:04The one you should least feel nervous about being in front of. And yet there I was feeling angsty and nervous. But one great. I stopped feeling nervous about two minutes in. Top's. So that was fun. Anyway, what a week and a half coming up. I've got rehearsal tonight. It's Thursday, it's not the weekend. I got rehearsal again Friday. I got rehearsal again Saturday. I got a comedy sports show Saturday night. And it's not at our regular theater. We're doing it for a private event that's a party with a couple hundred people. So that'll be awesome. I love doing mic improv. I don't know if it sounds a little bit silly. But you have a microphone on doing improv. Like all of your lines get heard. Like your sides and your funny, whatever's can all get picked up. But there's something cool about it. And then Sunday I'm doing that Sherlock show, which if you remember, everybody else has a script. And I don't, I gotta go in and be Sherlock and solve mysteries and be funny while I don't have a script. And I'm looking forward to that too. Action pack weekend. I'm gonna be missing an Eagles game during that improv show. So thank you for your thoughts at this difficult time. Anyway, that's my day. Hope you're having a great start to your October. And here's a thought starter thought, not a thought leader.

5:06That's me. I'm a thought leader. Here's a conversation starter. I know some people had Halloween decorations up mid September. I have some theming and some of my apps, spoiler alert. I don't have it starting until around like October 20th or 21st. Is that too late for Halloween the evening or anything that seems just right? I'm curious for your take. Let me know somewhere. Goodbye. Lex.