I'm not pulling out of my driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time for another drive to work at Hotel Edition.

So I'm at San Diego Comic-Con, and tomorrow's my panel, and I realize I have some podcast to do,

but I'm not driving to work.

I'm at a convention.

So I will do one here.

Okay, so today's topic is bends and breaks.

This was recommended by my, for my blog. So today I'm going to talk all about what are bends,

what are breaks, why do we do bends, why shouldn't we do breaks? Why do breaks happen? I will talk all about it.

Okay, so to start with, I guess the first thing, before we get into Benton breaks,

let's do a little bit of a recap on what the color pie, like, why the color pie exists

to understand sort of the point of the color pie.

I did do a whole podcast on the color pie, so this is a shortened version of it.

If you enjoy this little snippet on the color pie, you can go listen to a longer version of it.

Essentially, the color pie exists because Richard Garfield had to solve a problem.

So he was making a trading card game, and the key to a

trading card game is you pick and choose what pieces you use. So Richard had a problem that he called

the queen problem. So the idea is if you were playing chess and you could just pick your pieces,

why wouldn't you pick one king and 15 queens?

Why would you ever play a rook or a knight or a pawn?

Why would you pick, like, if there are stronger pieces, why wouldn't you always play the stronger pieces?

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