Hello and welcome to episode 242 of the Thinking Elsat podcast in Vienna, Virginia.

This is Ben Olson.

With me is Nathan Fox in Los Angeles?

Yep, LA.

There's nowhere to go, right?

No.

Nope, there's the walk around the neighborhood, which I've been doing daily.

And yeah, that's it.

My big exciting thing last night was that I ordered what I thought was delivery and then it

didn't show up for like an hour and then I double checked and it turns out that I

had ordered takeout. Oh yeah I did the same thing two weeks ago.

Yeah.

So then I was like, oh, disaster.

Oh, no, this is horrible.

And then I had, because, you know, normally Friday night in LA, like, you don't want to drive somewhere to go pick something up and yeah

but instead it was like a literally five minute drive right into Hollywood I had to like drive across parts of Hollywood that

just would have been a disaster on any other you know normal Friday night and

instead it was just like cruise right over there pick it up cruise back home no problem it's such a weird world have you been driving around at all I want to drive around just to like look at stuff yeah no I love it. I mean I guess we can't can't expect it to stay like this forever but boy yeah I mean you know the DC area it's it's got its own traffic woes and it's just like oh I can go over to this

store and get this thing it's not like I'm going out a lot but when I do it's always clear it's great yeah but I did the same thing with

Chipotle I ordered food and I I just was thinking in my head you know drop off or

whatever they would deliver it and then it was like pickup

was their default I guess and I was watching a move with the kids and they're like I was like

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