I'm pulling on a driveway.

We all know what that means.

It's time another.

Drive to work.

Okay.

So today's podcast got inspired by a comment I saw online.

Somebody was talking about, why doesn't magic stay to its high fantasy traditional roots?

And so my article of my article, my podcast today is talking about why magic has always

stretched its boundaries, that that's been a defining quality for magic from the very

beginning.

So today I'm going to put on my history hat, and we're going to talk a little bit about stretching boundaries that I, my contention is that magic has been about stretching the boundaries of fantasy from day one.

And that is what we're going to talk about today.

So we're going to do a little bit of history lesson.

Okay, so we're going to start by going back all the way to 1993, which is Alpha.

So Richard Garfield makes Alpha.

And obviously, Alpha was very influenced by a lot of traditional fantasy influences.

There's definitely traces of Tolkien,

of Dungeons and Dragons, of Greek mythology,

a lot of the things that have become to be traditional fantasy

very much influenced it.

That you can see, you know, there are, you know, elves and

white knights and like all, all the things that you would, like, dwarves and the things that

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