 For whatever reason, it sounded like a great job to me and from that day on, I knew I wanted to go to the DC area, work in public policy, and do research. My name is Brent Scorup. I'm a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center. I was a teenager, middle school, maybe early high school. I was watching Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and there was a very good contestant on the show, and Regis Philbin asked the contestant what he did for a living, and he said he worked at a think tank, and I remember where it was, what he did, but he described writing white papers and policy ideas and promoting those. For whatever reason, it sounded like a great job to me, and from that day on, I knew I wanted to go to the DC area, work in public policy, and do research, do think tank research, and that's set me on my path. I was just happy to watch that Who Wants to Be a Millionaire episode. In college, I was a psychology major, cognitive science, doing lab work. One of my friends on the wrestling team was taking business classes and econ classes, and he was assigned to the road to serfdom by F.A. Hayek to read, and something about it intrigued me. I saw his book and started reading it, and it was eye-opening for me. Looking back, it's some of a plammical book, this idea that we're headed inevitably to serfdom under socialism, but it was an exciting book. It got me interested in F.A. Hayek and free market economics, and I actually changed my major. I became an econ major after that, and started reading a lot more economics books, started reading blogs, Mars Revolution, and F.A. Hayek, and that eventually brought me to the DC policy point.