Hello and

welcome to episode 140 of the Thinking Elseat Podcast in Los Angeles, I'm Nathan Fox and with me in Vienna, Virginia is Ben Olson.

Ben what's happening?

Not a whole lot last night dude. We just had like the most crazy thunderstorm, lightning storm, I guess it's the same thing. But I swear the

lightning was coming back, like coming down in my yard, my neighbor's yard.

It was weird.

I've never, I've never been that close I think to lightning before.

That sounds scary as shit, dude.

Dude, it was pretty scary actually.

I was like, you know, this is kind of like biblical stuff.

Not to get all the religious again, but I was like, this is weird.

Like I'm actually like mildly like afraid to go well definitely to go outside but

Did it hit any of your trees or anything? Well, that's what I was wondering this morning no and it didn't but I don't think it came down in my yard but

Wherever it came down it was something where I could hear like the static

I've never heard that before it was usually you hear some sort of crackle, you know, far away,

you count a second or two and you're like, oh, okay, that's how far it is and it might be close.

It might be two seconds away and that's pretty close. I think was like five seconds is like a mile or something that's what I remember as a kid but

This was I it's like I could hear it like coming up from the ground or something and it was just right outside the window.

It was insane. So, but it's kind of fun. That's wild, dude. That sounds, uh, that sounds scary.

Yeah, and then today it's like perfectly normal and sunny and nice and it's like nothing ever happened.

So I'm always, as a Californian, I'm always weirded out by all of the crazy weather that we get all across the country.

Like I saw one time I was in Denver and saw the world's giantest like thunderstorm in the middle

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