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

Okay, so I just got back from a trip with my daughter, Rachel. We went to BroadwayCon,

which a lot of you might not even know is a thing. So Rachel is now at school. She's into college,

and she's studying theater.

And if you've listened to my podcast, you know in previous years that she and I went to something called VidCon, which was a convention all about video makers, YouTube stars and stuff.

And this year we switched it up.

This year we went to BroadwayCon.

So one of the things I enjoy, and I've done podcast on our VidCon trips,

is I like going to other conventions and seeing what I can learn about a completely different topic about magic.

Because one of the things that I find very interesting is conventions tend to be built around groups with an interest.

And there's a lot of parallels between communities and the magic community.

You know, the people that are very invested in something, they act similarly in a lot of ways.

And so one of the cool things about going to a convention is sort of what can I learn for my job

from seeing a different group of people who care about a different thing how they function

and how does that group interact with its fans and stuff so that that is always interesting

to me to learn um okay so a little background before I get into the actual convention itself is

I've always been a bit of fan of Broadway, of musicals, of plays in high school,

and that's not just high school.

In, I think it was fifth grade, fourth grade, I played the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz.

I played Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.

Anyway, I did a lot of theater from being a young kid.

I actually, when I was, during my junior years and high school years,

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