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Hello everybody. Thanks for tuning in to the podcast. As you know, my name's Ben, and I hang out with our very own, Scott Benjamin, the auto editor of How StuffWorks.com.

How do you do, Ben? How'd he do, indeed? You say that so innocently, but I have a feeling your man with a past.

What?

Perhaps a checkered one.

What do you mean?

You know, you said you've dropped a few clues that I've picked up in the context of our conversations here.

Yeah.

That let me think maybe the Scott Benjamin we know today is not the Scott Benjamin pre-how stuff works.

Interesting. What do you mean exactly?

Well, you know, first off,

I want to make it very clear that there are a lot of people listening to us, Scott, so if anything happens to me after this conversation, they know it. They know what to do. Jerry is recording this,

so this is evidence, but it just struck me, and I don't want to delve into this. Your business is your

own. I just wanted to ask you if you've ever been involved in a car chase. Definitely not.

No way. There's no chance I would ever get involved in anything like that. Seriously. I don't

think, I don't think, you know, I'm trying to put myself in any kind of situation right now in my head, just trying to think of what I'd be running from. But I don't think, I don't think I would ever, you know, try to leave a scene of an accident or if it was being pulled over for speeding or whatever it was. I don't think I would ever try to run. And you wouldn't try to chase anyone either. No, I definitely would not. Oh, no, no, no. That's not, uh, that's, uh, that's dangerous. Yeah, you want to know something crazy? Okay. Okay. Yeah. Were you about to ask me? I was going to say, what is it? Yeah. I have, I, I was in high school involved in a car chase.

Really?

Not with police.

Not with police.

No, no.

No, with a, I was, let's see, I think it was a sophomore and the person chasing me and my friends was a senior.

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