Episode 84: The Power of This Podcast Will Not Be Questioned

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Laughter is the best medicine, Ben credits Melissa McCarthy’s Sean Spicer skit with adding three years to his life. He also enjoys the absurdity of a clip demanding unquestioning submission to the power of the President. Even with the real-life stress of Trump’s presidency, Ben hopes comedic therapy will yield an overall increase in his longevity. (0:40)

Ben recommends an article discussing the emergence of LawGeex, a company that built an algorithm for automatizing contract review. This review platform is just the beginning for LawGeex; over the next few years, the company is looking to “automate the entire legal world.” (3:20)

Alexis was consistently missing 4-6 Logical Reasoning questions per section. Taking advice given frequently on the Thinking LSAT Podcast, she forced herself to slow down on these problems until she thoroughly understood each one. After making this adjustment, Alexis did a Logical Reasoning section, where she finished all but the last question and only got one problem wrong. Another successful convert! (14:12)

Nisha is interested in law school but is getting frustrated with the application and admission processes. As a single mother with a career, she needs to know how to balance work, school, and her child so she asks Nathan and Ben for some clear answers. They advise her on how to prep for the LSAT, when to apply and when to wait, and how to decide which law school is the right one for her circumstances. (18:07)

A new mother writes in with a question the guys haven’t considered before—breastfeeding breaks at the LSAT. When she takes the test in June, she will still be nursing her baby and is wondering what accommodations the testing center will make for her. Ben’s wife, a certified doula and mother of four, helps this listener by talking to an LSAC rep and suggesting ways to determine her options on test day. (35:45)

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We continue working through the June 2007 LSAT with Logical Reasoning Section 3, Question 18. This flaw question turns out to be one of the trickier ones of its type, forcing the guys to discuss the answer choices in detail to find the correct one. To play at home, just download the free test; work through Section 3, Question 18; and listen in as we discuss the solution. (48:59)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 84 of the Thinking Elseat Podcast in Los Angeles.
0:14.4	I'm Nathan Fox with me in Washington, D.C.
0:17.8	Ben Olson.
0:18.5	Ben, how you been?
0:20.1	Doing great.
0:21.4	Just recently, I finally saw the Melissa McCarthy's kit on Spicer. Have you seen that?
0:28.8	I have been hearing about it but I have not seen it. Is it amusing?
0:33.0	Oh yes, it's worth its weight in gold.
0:35.0	I feel like that by the end of Trump's four years, I'll probably have lost a year of my life,
0:41.0	you know, maybe just due to his increase in pollution or his, his, I don't know,
0:48.0	whatever, he's just kind of crazy. But I think Melissa McCarthy just gave me three years back.
0:53.7	So that's a net of two.
0:55.7	So I'm up to.
0:56.8	Like it was so funny.
0:59.5	I was laughing the whole time.
1:00.7	Maybe maybe it was just late at night or something I don't know but usually I
1:05.0	watch S&L skits and you know there's a few chuckles here and there or sometimes I'll
1:10.3	say oh that was funny but if I'm verbally saying that was funny it wasn't that
1:14.9	funny you know right this was like laugh out loud from start to the very last second.
1:23.0	Wow, it was great.
1:25.0	I thought it was hilarious, but...
1:27.0	She's been on... I think didn't she come back on and do it again?
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