Ep. 294: If Ben Hypothetically Committed Murder
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2021
⏱️ 116 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
If you’re gonna go into a courtroom—as a defendant—you’re gonna want the most ruthless and savvy law warrior on your side. But how far would you want them to go in advocating for you? Nathan and Ben debate a hypothetical legal entanglement amidst answering listener questions. They also read listener mail about negotiating a full ride to Berkeley, choosing which law school you should pay for (hint: none of them), how to prep in a retake situation, whether to ask for accommodations (probably), and much more. The guys also try to get to the bottom of LSAC’s recent bombshell announcement that the dates of the LSAT testing year have changed, leaving a bunch of test-takers in a lurch. Read more on our website!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The following podcast uses swear words that I'm still trying to learn how to use properly. Hello and welcome to episode 294 of the Thinking Else that Podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | Today on the show we talked about a lot of things but the main thing on my mind is |
| 0:20.5 | murder. You? Ben and I had a big fight over a hypothetical that did have to do with murder. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah. But, uh, yeah, I think we've made up. I still love you, Ben. |
| 0:35.0 | Oh yeah. Oh, the love was never lost. Never. |
| 0:38.0 | Okay, good. |
| 0:40.0 | I just disagree, that's all. |
| 0:42.0 | Then we, let's's see we talked about |
| 0:44.4 | Elsack's Nafu with the what is it the the cycle the when the testing cycle begins |
| 0:52.0 | and ends yeah whether it starts |
| 0:53.4 | whether it's May 31st or sometime in August we don't yet have quite clarification |
| 0:59.5 | but we have an email from a student about that. |
| 1:03.2 | Yep. |
| 1:04.4 | And then we hit the mail bag. |
| 1:06.0 | We had questions about, or we had updates, I guess, |
| 1:10.3 | really, from people on getting scholarships and then as you will |
| 1:14.8 | going to Berkeley on a full ride after renegotiating with Berkeley and getting that |
| 1:21.4 | full ride which is amazing. |
| 1:23.0 | Yep, we had, and then we had the flip of that. |
| 1:27.0 | Some people who are making decisions right now that they should not be making because they don't have the full rides that they could get. |
| 1:37.0 | Nothing wrong with turning down all your shitty offers that you got. Be honest, like that those are bad offers if you've got bad offers you don't have to take |
| 1:47.3 | one of them you can turn them all down and reapply at the beginning of the next cycle and that's what you should do if you've got bad offers. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Nathan Fox and Ben Olson, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Nathan Fox and Ben Olson and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.