Hello and welcome to episode 136 of the Thinking Elsap podcast in Los Angeles.

I'm Nathan Fox with me in Vienna, Virginia is Ben Olson. Ben, what's the latest?

What is the latest?

Well, I'll tell you this, the grass is now growing in our backyard, so it's a new job that's been put on the list.

I'm assuming you've got the boys mowing the lawn.

That is helpful, but it won't happen without a little encouragement.

So it's one more thing to keep in mind now.

But hey, it's good.

Spring is here.

You give them like, you pay them for tasks.

Do you give them an allowance?

It's all mixed up in gray.

We need to figure out how to make a clear bright line rule between what are expected tasks and what are paid tasks and it's all very messy. You know, personally, I would just say everything is unpaid since they have free room and

board, you know?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sometimes we get, sometimes they get in arguments with their

brothers about, you know, whose thing is this thing and is it my thing or is it his

thing and sometimes that when I get fed up I'm just like

Look dude. It's ultimately my thing

at some point you can trace the purchase back to me so I will just take this and we'll deal with it later. Sounds like a good plan.

Today on the show we're going to talk about a bunch of different stuff answering emails

as normal, but we have a PSA to put out about how

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