Hello and welcome to episode 191 of the Thinking Elsat podcast in Vienna, Virginia. This is Ben Olson. With me is

Nathan Fox in Los Angeles. How's it going? Yeah man. Fine. We're sorry to the listeners. We're both suffering from allergies on our respective coasts.

Yeah. So that's going to be a stuffy sounding show.

Well, I was kind of blaming my upbringing this morning because it was I don't get allergies

but I've been getting them here in Virginia and I was like I wonder if it's because I grew up in

California in like the desert but you have them there so I guess it doesn't matter.

Yeah I mean we're having like the super bloom here in in California you know we got a

pretty big rain year.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, that's what they call it.

Because we, you know, we go through droughts, right?

We have a feaster famine with the rain. And it rained kind of a lot this winter and so it's beautiful I mean just everywhere in California is blooming

like everything is blooming everywhere.

So like, you know, my hike that I go up into Griffith Park right here,

it's like five foot high grass, you know, all,

it just full bloom, grass and flowers and shit so it's like yeah I mean I shouldn't

be any surprise that I'm getting hammered yeah well speaking of blooming I mean this

happens I guess every year in Virginia but because it rains so much out here but I can't see

my neighbors anymore like just two weeks ago I can see them all and now because it's just

a jungle between you and them? Yeah, it's crazy.

But, um, yeah, no, it's.

Are the kids getting it too?

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