Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

Hiya.

So, Benny has really blossomed this term.

You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.

Oh, that's not quite what I meant.

It's free to sell on there?

Free to sell?

Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.

You sold my guitar?

Shall we talk about Benning?

When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.

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Welcome to Science Talk, the more or less weekly podcast of Scientific American, posted on March 2nd, 2011. I've been informed that on the last

couple of episodes, I said 2010. I'm still writing in 1943 on my checks. I'm Steve Murski.

So on the last episode, when it was ending, I said I'd be back in a few hours. That was many days ago.

So before we get to the science, well, there's some science involved here, so I thought you might

be interested to know why there's been such a delay between the last episode and this one,

which is basically the second part of that episode. Well, I was all set to roll this one out last Friday when I woke up in the

morning to raw sewage backing up into the house. That's a situation that must be dealt with

immediately. So we did a little investigation and we found that the entire pipe leading out to the

main city sewer line had to be replaced,

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