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Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

#466: Generation Decks

Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast

Wizards of the Coast

Duels Of The Planeswalkers, Magic The Gathering, Games, Mark Rosewater, Ccg, Leisure, Mtg, Game Design

4.7801 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

For the first time, I review a book. Okay, it's a book about the history of Magic.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know what that means. It's time to drive to work.

0:05.0

And I dropped my son off at camp.

0:08.0

Okay, so today I'm going to do something for the first time, I think. I'm going to do a book review.

0:13.0

So recently, I was on vacation. And so I had time to read a book.

0:18.0

I actually, so there's a guy named Titus Chalk wrote a book called Generation Next,

0:26.0

which was about the history of magic.

0:28.6

Now there was one other, Titus has written one another book called So You Wear a Cape,

0:33.2

which I'll admit I've not read.

0:35.9

At some point I'm sure I will, but I've not read yet.

0:38.6

There also was another book written a while ago called Johnny Magic and the Card Shark Kids

0:43.5

by guy named David Kushner.

0:46.9

Maybe at some point I will review that book.

0:48.9

I actually have read that book, and I was actually more involved with helping him get data on that book.

0:56.2

So let me start before I get into my book giving a few caveats.

1:00.9

One is, here's what I think happened.

1:04.2

I think Titus contacted me about interviewing me for this book.

1:08.1

And whenever I get an interview request, I love doing interviews, so I'm always

1:12.1

like, fine, but I always pass it along to our PR department because everything has to be okay

1:16.8

by our PR department. I never ended up interviewing with Titus. I have no idea what happened.

1:21.7

I basically passed it along because I said, this sounds great, and then it never got back to me.

1:25.6

So I don't know who dropped the ball. I don't, you know, we, uh,

1:29.6

we had a big switch over some of our PR people in the last couple years. Maybe it had, I don't

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