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Ben
Okay. All right, Scott. Let’s – let’s play it straight because I think we’re recording now. I just heard the button click.
Scott
Play it straight? What do you mean?
Ben
Well, you know, none of – none of the usual high jinx we get up to -
Scott
Oh.
Ben
- pre-recording.
Scott
Okay. Got it.
Ben
So let me take off this silly hat.
Scott
Clean up your language.
Ben
And clean up my language. You know, I do love a curse – a curse word. Well, welcome back to High Speed Stuff. Right? And – and here we are. I’m me, Ben. And you’re you, and you’re Scott.
Scott
That’s right. As usual.
Ben
That sounded like there were three people. I’m sorry. I messed that up.
Scott
It sounded good.
Ben
Okay. Cool. We’ll just go with it.
Scott
Yeah. Yeah. Fine. Yeah.
Ben
We’ll just go with it. So today, I was actually very excited because for our listeners there, Scott showed me a video. And this is not unusual. Oftentimes, Scott, you’ll – you’ll stumble across something and I’ll – I’ll get an emailing with something like, “You should check this out.”
Scott
Yeah. I do this all the time. I get real excited about the videos, the – the recent crop of racing videos. I love them.
Ben
Oh, yeah.
Scott
Yeah. They’re awesome.
Ben
And – and to take up the cause with you, I have always found those incredibly fascinating. Some of them are a little bit scary and one of those, in particular, to be quite honest with you – well, what’s the most eloquent way I can say this? It freaked me out. I don’t wanna be in that car.
Scott
It freaked you – freaked you out? Really?
Ben
Yes. We are talking about Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.
Scott
Oh, yeah.
Ben
What is that?
Scott
Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, all right. It’s a competition – it’s actually the second oldest automobile race in the United States. I don’t know if you knew that or not. And I think – I’m guessing here – I believe the Indianapolis 500 is the oldest -
Ben
Oh, okay.