I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for another drive to work.

Okay, so today's topic is about questions, answering questions in particular.

So one of my job, I have many jobs, I guess. One of the things I do, obviously, is I interact with the public.

And part of that is answering questions.

So I thought today I would use my podcast to talk about sort of how I came about answering

questions and what I've learned in the many, many years of answering questions about

how to answer questions.

Okay.

So first, a little bit of history.

So what happened was even before I came to Wizards,

I originally, for those who didn't know my history,

I started by doing the puzzle column in the duelists,

and I was very intrigued with getting interaction and talking to people.

So one of the things that I would do is I would

go on the Usenet, but the internet of the day, and there were magic, you know, there was a place

from people talk to magic. And I used to say, hey, I got a puzzle coming out, you know. Oh,

what happened was the way the puzzles used to work was I would print the puzzle in one magazine

and then I wouldn't print the answer until the next magazine.

And in the early days of the duelists, the next magazine could be as much as two months away.

So what I would do is I would go online and I'd say to people, hey, it's me.

I'm the puzzle guy. If you think you have the answer, you can email me the answer and I'll let

you know whether or not you're right. So that way, you know, that way people who had solved it,

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