I'm pulling away for the curb because they dropped off my son at college. We all know what that

means. It's time for another drive to work. Okay, today is an emotional one. So my dad, Gene

Rosewater, recently died. And this is a tribute podcast to him.

I'm going to share magic-related stories with my dad since this is a magic podcast.

But a lot of sort of, there's a lot of my dad in me and there's a lot of things that got me to where I was in magic that I owed my dad.

So I'm just going to share a bunch of stories today.

We'll see if I can do this without getting too emotional.

No promises.

Okay, so let's go back to the very beginning, which is my dad was a great fan of games.

And he introduced me to games at a very young age,

and I became a gamer at a very young age.

I really loved games.

And so probably the first contribution to Magic

was just imbueing in me a love of games.

Flash forward.

So in the summer of 1993, even before that, at the time I was in Hollywood, I was trying to make it as a writer.

I had a little bit of success.

I wrote a Morsan.

But anyway, I was sort of in between things. And writing is a very solitary profession. So I decided that I wanted to get a

part-time job just to get out and interact with people. It was more about just getting out of my

house. I mean, I got paid, but it was more about getting in my house my house than anything i mean i got paid but it was more about

getting in my house than anything else i chose to go work at a game store because i love games

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