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

Okay, so today I'm going to talk about one of my hobbies and how I've applied a lot of lessons I've learned from that hobby to magic design.

So the hobby is party throwing.

So my wife and I, Laura, my wife, we have been together since 96. So we've

been together a long time. And one of the things we learned very early on is that both of us

enjoyed throwing parties. I, for example, have a lot of training in game making, puzzle making.

Laura really enjoys cooking. And anyway, we discovered the overlap of our skills was we are

well, well skilled, if you will, to throw parties.

And so one of the things we do is there's a number of parties we throw every year.

So the biggest party we throw every year is called the holiday cookie party.

It is something we do always in December.

At the core of it is there's cookie decorating. So we make, there's this

sugar cookies that I really like that we make. And then people can come and decorate them. And

there's always a contest at the end to see who wins for the thing. And also, we do a live game

show at the holiday cookie party.

And as I will explain, there are also a lot of other games and stuff we do.

Anyway, the holiday cookie party, I think this year is our 23rd annual holiday cookie party,

so we don't goof around.

And then the next biggest party we throw is on 4th of July, which when I record this

is tomorrow.

I'm recording this the day before 4th of July.

And the 4th of July is a barbecue, a potluck barbecue.

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