Hello and welcome to episode 249 of the Thinking El-Sat podcast in Los Angeles.

I'm Nathan Fox with me in Vienna, Virginia is Ben Olson.

Ben, how you doing? Doing good man. We just had a serious lightning storm last night.

I thought that my house was going to get hit.

Oh no. Yeah. Any trees that got destroyed or fires or anything?

No, but trees are down in my yard because did I tell you that a huge limb fell in my backyard?

I don't know. I don't think so.

No, it was huge. I mean, it would definitely kill anyone if they had been under it and it landed right in my yard which I'm looking at right now but anyways and that kind of like wig me out a little bit because I was like these my kids are always playing back there and we had just been playing kickball the night before. So I called some tree folks and they came in and they took down some other limbs and then while we were going around the yard they were like you got a bunch of

poplars for anyone who knows anything about trees and a lot of these are dead

and they're going to be problematic. So I just took out like four or five trees.

It was expensive, but yeah, then we had the storm.

They finished yesterday and then the storm came in.

I mean it was loud.

I was waiting for the power to go out.

I think that trees right around here were hit, but I was glad that we got rid of all the

weak ones because the storm was pretty bad.

Well, good timing sounds like to get those trees out of there.

Yeah, glad you and the kids are safe.

Today on the show, we have questions from listeners a bunch of news updates. The first

question on the agenda is does protesting affect law school admission. We have a news item about the L-SAT flex actually

starting on Sundays. Also, L-SAC is refunding people if you need a hotel room for the flex.

So if you'd like a vacation paid for by the Law School Admission Council and you're

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