#491: Being Spokesperson
Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast
Wizards of the Coast
4.7 • 801 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know what that means. |
| 0:03.0 | It's time another drive to work and drop my daughter off to college. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, not a college class. She's still senior. |
| 0:09.0 | But nonetheless, to college. |
| 0:12.0 | Okay, so today I'm going to talk about a role that I fill being spokesperson. |
| 0:20.0 | I've talked about it tangently, but today I'm going to talk about sort of how I became |
| 0:25.1 | spokesperson and then what my roles and responsibilities. What do I do? What is, what is being |
| 0:29.3 | spokesperson entail? Okay. So our story starts back in 1994. Um, actually it starts back in |
| 0:37.4 | 1993, I guess. So magic comes out in the summer of |
| 0:39.9 | 1993. Actually, I guess, or the story starts in 1994. Summer comes out in 1993. So in |
| 0:46.3 | 1994, I get involved with Wizards for the first time through the duelist, making the magic |
| 0:51.8 | puzzles. This is how I started. Okay, so at the time, so the internet, as we know it, began back in the 60s, I think. |
| 1:02.2 | Well, originally it was a military-based thing, and then eventually it moved to colleges, |
| 1:07.5 | became a science thing, and moved to colleges. |
| 1:10.1 | But it wasn't really until the 90s that there was any sort of practical application of the |
| 1:15.6 | internet outside of like colleges. |
| 1:18.5 | And the earliest form of it, this is before there was a visual interface before the web |
| 1:23.8 | existed. |
| 1:25.6 | And the thing at the time was called Usenet. |
| 1:28.6 | And they were bulletin boards. |
| 1:29.8 | They were text bulletin boards. |
| 1:32.1 | Now, the thing that was exciting about them was, you know, in my youth, it was hard to find |
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