My Daily Walk – Happy Accidents

My Daily Walk is a podcast with a Hollywood producer who records a podcast when he goes for a walk. Happy Accidents, I know happy accidents, what I’m defining as happy accidents happen all day, every day to every one of us, all day, every day to one one of us. People call them coincidences.

$2, that’s all it cost. $2. What, you may ask? Louisiana. No, not the state … Well, yes, the entire state of Louisiana cost only $2. No, actually it was the Louisiana Purchase. That included not just Louisiana, but, I don’t know, seven to 10 entire states, or the territory that became states. $2.

Good morning and welcome to my daily walk, the daily topical half-hour podcast by some Hollywood guy, some anonymous Hollywood guy who wanders around talking about anything and everything, except the things he’s contractually obligated to conceal. Yeah, I’m still working on that line. It’s long. It’s cumbersome. Maybe I need to break it into a couple sentences or, I don’t know. We’ll see. Welcome, anyway, to my daily walk and that intro.

All right. One of the features I want to, a sudden silence in vehicle engines, one of the features I do want to, well, maybe I am contemplating initiating on this podcast is “name that engine.” It would take probably quite a while to get enough listenership to attract those few experts in engine sounds. And they’re out there. There are people, I think I’ve mentioned this in the past, but people that could identify automobile engines. That one actually should be pretty easy for a lot of people if you heard it clearly. Okay. Already on a tangent, already lost. No.

So that topical intro actually just occurred to me within minutes before heading out on today’s recording session. But I want to review this week, and some observations and some ideas I’m having. And if you’re tuning out already, I don’t blame you because I sound like I’m distracted and meandering, but such is life with an extemporaneous daily podcast that goes completely unedited. I don’t even listen back to these. I don’t play them back and say, “Ooh.” I’m recording them, putting them out there unedited, trusting the words coming out of my mouth, whether they’re interesting or not, at least they’re not implicating me, or I’m not violating any of the contracts that I am beholden to.

So I’ve been thinking, and the first two podcasts this week, yesterday and Monday, were a little bit rambling even though I did stick to a topic, kind of a similar topic for both of them. Monday was about the meanings of words, how do words acquire meaning, how they enter the dictionary? How can you actually destroy the meaning of a word or render it obsolete, or irrelevant, or non-applicable? Sorry. And then yesterday, Tuesday, talked about … What did I talk about yesterday? Oh, well, what I just said. I blended Monday and Tuesday together, and let’s move on.

So today, today’s topic is happy accidents. We’ll get to that in a minute. But tomorrow I’m going to talk … And thinking about it, I think tomorrow’s topic will actually become a weekly theme. Maybe it’ll Thematic Thursdays and it’ll stay on a theme every Thursday. And maybe I’ll do that with each day of the week, probably. I think that’s a good idea. But I will remain topical, but I can do categories of topics, I suppose, on different days of the week.

And, oh, as we get into this, if listenership actually does happen, other than mom, so right now I’m talking to mom, if she’s the only one listening, mom, email me with any questions you may have. But I would like this to be a dialogue. Maybe that’s what I’ll do. I’ll do … Well,