Hello and

welcome to episode 145 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast in Los Angeles.

I'm Nathan Fox and today's episode is going to be a bit different because I am flying solo

today as Ben Olson is taking a much needed vacation at the beach somewhere in the Mediterranean.

No, just kidding, he's on the Atlantic somewhere and Ben is recharging his batteries.

So today you're stuck with just me.

Today on the show, basically I am going to read a whole bunch of emails and that's great because we have a huge agenda that we have to get through and all y'all have been waiting patiently to hear your

emails and questions on the show.

Unfortunately, you're only going to get my perspective and I'll just do the best I can. Ben can correct everything I say that's wrong when

he returns to the show next time. We currently have 554 members in the Thinking Elseat Podcast group on Facebook. and I just want to give a shout out

podcast group on Facebook.

And I just want to give a shout out to Analisa Palmer

for setting up that group which now has properly blown up and I'm sure it will continue to blow up.

So yeah, go to Facebook.com slash thinking else at and join our group.

We have 19 patrons on Patreon who are donating now 107 dollars every month. We really appreciate that. We pay about a thousand dollars a month to run the show and you know you don't need to feel

sorry for us because we are professional else at teachers and we get brutally

overpaid for what we do but we do appreciate people chipping in to help us to run the show.

We've kind of a funny email this week from a listener who was super irritated that we keep saying patrons at the top of the show.

And yes, that is a bit of an inside joke.

I don't remember where that came from, but we understand the proper pronunciation of patrons.

But if you support us on Patreon, you are going to forever be called a patron, and we really appreciate our patrons.

You can email the show anytime.

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